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Some cool stuff coming here: https://athletechnews.com/apple-watchos-26-public-beta-fitness-upgrades/?utm_source=Athletech Media Group LLC&utm_campaign=929c7ecf86-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_09_01_11_00_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-717047a094-604853391

TIL that the UK won the 2023 SpoGomi world cup. (and that "SpoGomi" is competitive litter picking.)
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/26/japanese-competitive-litter-picking-spogomi-sport-thrives-in-u…

Insight-HXMT Spectral and Timing Studies of a Giant Outburst in RX J0440.9 4431
Prahlad R. Epili, Wei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18676 https://arxiv.o…

Insight-HXMT Spectral and Timing Studies of a Giant Outburst in RX J0440.9+4431
The Be/X-ray binary pulsar RX J0440.9+4431 underwent a giant outburst in late 2022 and lasted three months. The Insight-HXMT has observed this source at several instances of the entire outburst in 2022-2023. We used these bright outburst observations of the pulsar to study its X-ray spectral and timing variability. The pulse profiles obtained at similar luminosity during the progress and declining phases of the outburst show a similar shape behavior.With the increase in source luminosity, the c…

from my link log —
There is no software maintenance.
https://henrikwarne.com/2023/01/07/there-is-no-software-maintenance/
saved 2023-01-08

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in Deutschland mit Stand vom 26.07.2025.
Zählung der Anlagen mit Inbetriebnahmedatum. Der aktuelle Betriebsstatus wird nicht berücksichtigt.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erster Versuch einer #Datenanalyse

The starvation of Gaza, announced by the Israeli government since October 2023.
Front page of Dutch newspaper @trouw.nl today.

‘This is not a warning.
Famine has already arrived in Gaza. It is not a metaphor, nor is it a prediction. It is daily.
…
Noor, my eldest sister Tasneem’s daughter, is three; she was born on May 11, 2021. My sister’s son, Ezz Aldin, was born on December 25, 2023 – in the early months of the war.
One morning, Tasneem walked into our space carrying them in her arms. I looked at her and asked the question that wouldn’t leave my mind: “Tasneem, do Noor and Ezz Aldin unders…

‘Did you eat today?’: Voices of Gaza speak of starvation and survival
‘We are starved by the Israeli occupation,’ says Taqwa al-Wawi in Gaza, where all she thinks about is how hungry she is.

Figures from a new T&E UK report: public charging prices have gone up (and not come down), shaping the perception of expensive public #EV charging.
And: in some areas public charging points are out of order longer than in others

Seeking Joy
#MellowMusic #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2023/seeking-joy-n

Seeking Joy #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Record marine heat waves in 2023 covered 96% of oceans, lasted four times longer than average #ocean

Record marine heat waves in 2023 covered 96% of oceans, lasted four times longer than average
Heat waves aren't just getting worse on land, the majority of the world's oceans are experiencing record-breaking temperatures too. These marine heat waves are getting longer, more intense and reaching farther than ever before. In particular, 2023's marine heat waves (MHWs) exhibited the longest duration, widest extents, and highest intensities on record—and 2024 wasn't any better.

Podcast : La Secte OKC : ils racontent leur vie dans la secte bouddhiste belge
Presque 15 ans d'écart entre nos deux protagonistes et pourtant tellement de point commun quoi qu'en dise "l'évolution de l'éducation des enfants" selon la OKC
https://

I had reason to break out my very brief tutorial on styling links and buttons today:
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/08/styling-links-and-buttons.html
I wrote it because I’ve encountered many devs who use the wrong element claiming they can’t style …

Styling Links and Buttons
I made a tutorial for styling links and buttons, something which many developers have struggled with (resulting in links used as buttons and buttons used as links). I have embedded it on this page, but if you are coming in with your RSS reader you can visit the tutorial directly…

Meanwhile in Alaska...
Too much moose meat was factor in plane crash that killed Alaska lawmaker’s husband | Alaska | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/25/2023-plane-crash-killed-alaska-congresswomans-husband…

The NFL's one and only HBCU draft pick won't soon forget where he comes from https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45787483/baltimore-ravens-draft-pick-carson-vinson-hbcu-background

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

Von Verein #KlimaschutzSchweiz
🧵 👇
Schluss mit versteckten Emissionen, fordern wir JETZT #Transparenz!
Wusstest du, dass #TEMU im Jahr 2023 weltweit rund 2 Millionen Tonnen an Pakete…

from my link log —
The story of titanium.
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/the-story-of-titanium
saved 2023-11-24

The Story of Titanium
The earth contains a lot of titanium - it’s the ninth most abundant element in the earth’s crust.

I've just returned from a brisk training ride. It takes 45 minutes and is fairly flat. T-shirt says never to underestimate an old man with a bicycle.
#roadbike

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
27 M tonnes. Dutch NIOZ scientists found that nanoplastics (<1 μm) are not only widespread, but equivalent to the mass of macro & microplastics! Polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polystyrene (PS) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) #plastics don't just float on th…

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.07.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1051084 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Männerfeindliche Straftaten jenseits der linken, rechten, ausländischen oder religiösen Ideologie habe von 2023 bis 2024 um 300 Prozent (!) zugenommen.
(Vier Fälle statt zuvor einen!)
Quelle: Factsheet BKA zu politlisch motivierter Hasskriminalität.
https://www.

Fagin's Theorem for Semiring Turing Machines
Guillermo Badia, Manfred Droste, Thomas Eiter, Rafael Kiesel, Carles Noguera, Erik Paul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18375 https:/…

Fagin's Theorem for Semiring Turing Machines
In recent years, quantitative complexity over semirings has been intensively investigated. An important problem in this context is to connect computational complexity with logical expressiveness. In this paper we improve on the model of \emph{Semiring Turing Machines} (distinct from so called weighted Turing machines) introduced by Eiter \& Kiesel (Semiring Reasoning Frameworks in AI and Their Computational Complexity, \emph{J. Artif. Intell. Res.}, 2023). Our central result is a Fagin-style th…

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 409 nodes and 8557 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

Exact and approximate maximin share allocations in multi-graphs
George Christodoulou, Symeon Mastrakoulis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20317 https://

Exact and approximate maximin share allocations in multi-graphs
We study the problem of (approximate) maximin share (MMS) allocation of indivisible items among a set of agents. We focus on the graphical valuation model, previously studied by Christodolou, Fiat, Koutsoupias, and Sgouritsa ("Fair allocation in graphs", EC 2023), where the input is given by a graph where edges correspond to items, and vertices correspond to agents. An edge may have non-zero marginal value only for its incident vertices. We study additive, XOS and subadditive valuations and we …

Raiders claim DT Keondre Coburn https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-claim-keondre-coburn-dt-nfl-waivers-2025-training-camp-transactions

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

( \(2^{nd}\) announcement)
The #Springer Problem Book for the Indiana College Mathematics Competition (2001-2023) is now available in a (slightly less expensive) softcover format! This book, edited by me, J. Gash, R. Gillman, and @… , can be used by stu…

The Indiana College Mathematics Competition (2001⁠–2023)
This book gathers problems based on over twenty years of the Indiana College Mathematics Competition, a contest for teams of undergraduates.

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.07.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

Apple says its design team will report to Tim Cook after Jeff Williams retires; Williams was overseeing the team following Evans Hankey's departure in 2023 (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/07/08/apple-design-team-tim-cook/

Apple design team to start reporting directly to Tim Cook later this year - 9to5Mac
Apple today announced that COO Jeff Williams will retire later this year, with Sabih Khan set to assume the COO...

Raiders claim DT Keondre Coburn https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-claim-keondre-coburn-dt-nfl-waivers-2025-training-camp-transactions

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.06.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Sometimes they come back: pulsations in A 0538-66 at 69 ms rediscovered with NICER
Lorenzo Ducci, Sandro Mereghetti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16420 https:…

Sometimes they come back: pulsations in A 0538-66 at 69 ms rediscovered with NICER
We report on NICER X-ray observations of the Be X-ray binary A 0538-66 located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Fast pulsations (69 ms) in this source were discovered in 1980 during a bright outburst in which it reached a luminosity of ~8E38 erg/s, but were never reobserved since then. We clearly detected the pulsations at P=69.3055 +/- 0.0005 ms with a pulsed fraction of ~20% during a short time interval (~11 minutes) on 2023 January 9, when A 0538-66 had a luminosity of ~8E36 erg/s (0.3-10 keV)…

Liebe Community von #NFDI4Culture ,
ab heute ist die Registrierung für unser ➡️ 5. #CultureCommunityPlenary eröffnet.
Wir laden Euch vom 24. bis 26. September 2025 nach #Mainz ein, …

Kernel Learning for Mean-Variance Trading Strategies
Owen Futter, Nicola Muca Cirone, Blanka Horvath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10701 https://

Kernel Learning for Mean-Variance Trading Strategies
In this article, we develop a kernel-based framework for constructing dynamic, pathdependent trading strategies under a mean-variance optimisation criterion. Building on the theoretical results of (Muca Cirone and Salvi, 2025), we parameterise trading strategies as functions in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS), enabling a flexible and non-Markovian approach to optimal portfolio problems. We compare this with the signature-based framework of (Futter, Horvath, Wiese, 2023) and demonstrat…

Sources: Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel have bought out investors in their media company, Tucker Carlson Network; the two had raised $15M for TCN in 2023 (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/13/tucker-carlson-investors

Scoop: Tucker Carlson buys out investors in his media company
The deal gives the founders complete independence and total control of the company.

Seeking Joy #NowPlaying #nowplaying #originalmusic #streaming

Seeking Joy #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

From this year on, ESWC will be under the umbrella of SWSA, the Semantic Web Science Association, to secure financial sustainability for the upcoming years after its previous supporting organisation STI was dissolved in 2023. Basics about the transition are given by Elena Simperl, president of SWSA.
https://swsa.semanticweb.org/

Fermi-GBM Observations of GRB 230307A: An Exceptionally Bright Long-Duration Gamma-ray Burst with an Associated Kilonova
S. Dalessi, P. Veres, C. M. Hui, S. Bala, S. Lesage, M. S. Briggs, A. Goldstein, E. Burns, C. A. Wilson-Hodge, C. Fletcher, O. J. Roberts, P. N. Bhat, E. Bissaldi, W. H. Cleveland, M. M. Giles, M. Godwin, R. Hamburg, B. A. Hristov, D. Kocevski, B. Mailyan, C. Malacaria, O. Mukherjee, L. Scotton, A. von Kienlin, J. Wood

Fermi-GBM Observations of GRB 230307A: An Exceptionally Bright Long-Duration Gamma-ray Burst with an Associated Kilonova
On March 7th, 2023 the \textit{Fermi} Gamma-ray Burst Monitor observed the second highest fluence gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever, GRB~230307A. With a duration beyond 100~s, GRB~230307A contains a multitude of rapidly-varying peaks, and was so bright it caused instrumental effects in the GBM detectors. The high fluence of this burst, (6.02 $\pm$ 0.02)$\times$10$^{-3}$ erg cm$^{-2}$, prompted rapid follow-up across the electro magnetic spectrum including the discovery of an associated kilonova. GRB~2…

Ich empfehle gerne noch mal Thomas Hettches „Sinkende Sterne“ von 2023. Neben aller anderen Grossartigkeit zeigt er sehr treffend, was im Wallis passiert, wenn es sich durch Naturgewalt teilt — erst Verkehrswege, dann Gesellschaft. Quasi an den immer noch vorhandenen „natürlichen“ Bruchstellen. In anderen Gegenden sicher ähnlich möglich, aber das ist schon sehr Wallis, meinem Empfinden nach
#ThomasHettche

The NetMob25 Dataset: A High-resolution Multi-layered View of Individual Mobility in Greater Paris Region
Alexandre Chasse, Anne J. Kouam, Aline C. Viana, Razvan Stanica, Wellington V. Lobato, Geymerson Ramos, Geoffrey Deperle, Abdelmounaim Bouroudi, Suzanne Bussod, Fernando Molano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05903

The NetMob25 Dataset: A High-resolution Multi-layered View of Individual Mobility in Greater Paris Region
High-quality mobility data remains scarce despite growing interest from researchers and urban stakeholders in understanding individual-level movement patterns. The Netmob25 Data Challenge addresses this gap by releasing a unique GPS-based mobility dataset derived from the EMG 2023 GNSS-based mobility survey conducted in the Ile-de-France region (Greater Paris area), France. This dataset captures detailed daily mobility over a full week for 3,337 volunteer residents aged 16 to 80, collected betw…

The Washington Post names Adam O'Neal, Washington correspondent for The Economist, as its new opinion editor (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/the-economists-oneal-to-become-washington-post…

The Economist's O'Neal to become Washington Post opinion editor - Talking Biz News
Adam O’Neal, Washington correspondent for The Economist, has been hired as opinion editor at The Washington Post. He has been at The Economist since September 2023. Before that, he was at The Dispatch as executive editor. Previously, O’Neal was an editorial page writer at The Wall Street Journal. Before that, he was an assistant op-ed […]

A Tale of Two Shocks
Robert F. Wimmer-Schweingruber, Domenico Trotta, Rungployphan Kieokaew, Liu Yang, Alexander Kollhoff, Lars Berger, Patrick K\"uhl, Stephan I. B\"ottcher, Bernd Heber, Philippe Louarn, Andrey Fedorov, Javier Rodriguez-Pacheco, Ra\'ul G\'omez-Herrero, Francisco Espinosa Lara, Ignacio Cernuda, Yulia Kartavykh, Linghua Wang, George C. Ho, Robert C. Allen, Glenn M. Mason, Zheyi Ding, Andrea Larosa, G. Sindhuja, Sandra Eldrum, Sebastian Fleth, David Lar…

A Tale of Two Shocks
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, . . . - for the thermal/suprathermal particle populations in the vicinity of two traveling interplanetary shocks observed by Solar Orbiter on 2023-11-29 07:51:17 UTC and 2023-11-30 10:47:26 UTC at $\sim 0.83$ astronomical units from the Sun. We investigate these two very dissimilar shocks and elucidate their non-equilibrium features. We do not provide explanations of all observed features, our aim is to report them here for future reference…

Constrain magnetar parameters by taking into account the evolutionary effects of radius and moment of inertia with \emph{Swift}/XRT data
Lin Lan, He Gao, Shunke Ai, Wen-Jin Xie, Yong Yuan, Long Li, Li-Ping Xin, Jian-Yan Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11110

Constrain magnetar parameters by taking into account the evolutionary effects of radius and moment of inertia with \emph{Swift}/XRT data
A newly born millisecond magnetar has been proposed as one possible central engine of some gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with X-ray plateau emission. In this work, we systematically analyzed the \emph{Swift}/XRT data of long GRBs with plateau emission that were detected before 2023 December, and estimated the magnetar parameters by considering the $R/I$ evolutionary effects, and investigated possible relationships among these parameters and their relation to the GRB jet and magnetar wind radiation. W…

A Dormant Captured Oort Cloud Comet Awakens: (18916) 2000 OG44
Colin Orion Chandler, William J. Oldroyd, Chadwick A. Trujillo, Dmitrii E. Vavilov, William A. Burris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21324

A Dormant Captured Oort Cloud Comet Awakens: (18916) 2000 OG44
We report the discovery of activity emanating from (18916) 2000 OG44 (alternately designated 1977 SD), a minor planet previously reported to be both an extinct comet or an asteroid on a cometary orbit. We observed 2000 OG44 with a thin tail oriented towards the coincident anti-solar and anti-motion vectors (as projected on the sky) in images we acquired on UT 2023 July 24 and 26 with the Apache Point Observatory 3.5-meter Astrophysical Research Consortium telescope (New Mexico, USA). We also in…

Teil der deutschen Produktionsketten (II) https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10082

IceCat-2: Updated IceCube Event Catalog of Alert Tracks
Angela Zegarelli (for the IceCube Collaboration), Anna Franckowiak (for the IceCube Collaboration), Giacomo Sommani (for the IceCube Collaboration), Nora Valtonen-Mattila (for the IceCube Collaboration), Tianlu Yuan (for the IceCube Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507…

IceCat-2: Updated IceCube Event Catalog of Alert Tracks
We present preliminary results for IceCat-2, the second public catalog of IceCube Alert Tracks, which plans to build and improve upon the first release, IceCat-1. The initial catalog, last updated in October 2023, included all real-time alerts issued since 2016, as well as events observed by IceCube since the start of full-detector data collection in 2011 that would have triggered an alert if the program had been in place at that time. IceCat-2 plans to expand on this by incorporating all addit…

Combining IceCube Muon Tracks and Cascades to measure the Galactic Diffuse Neutrino Flux
Jonas Hellrung (for the IceCube Collaboration), Julia Becker Tjus (for the IceCube Collaboration), Wolfgang Rhode (for the IceCube Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06089

Combining IceCube Muon Tracks and Cascades to measure the Galactic Diffuse Neutrino Flux
The diffuse Galactic neutrino flux is produced by cosmic rays interacting with the interstellar medium. The measurement of this flux can help to understand the distribution of cosmic rays in the Galaxy. The first observation of this neutrino flux was published in 2023 by the IceCube Collaboration. Here, plans for a new analysis combining different event topologies are presented. IceCube measures events in two main topologies. Tracks, originating in charged current $ν_μ$ interactions, provide …

Asteroseismology of the G8 subgiant beta Aquilae with SONG-Tenerife, SONG-Australia and TESS
Hans Kjeldsen, Timothy R. Bedding, Yaguang Li, Frank Grundahl, Mads Fredslund Andersen, Duncan J. Wright, Jack Soutter, Robert Wittenmyer, Claudia Reyes, Dennis Stello, Courtney Crawford, Yixiao Zhou, Mathieu Clerte, Pere L. Palle, Sergio Simon-Diaz, Joergen Christensen-Dalsgaard, Rasmus Handberg, Hasse Hansen, Paul Heeren, Jens Jessen-Hansen, Mikkel Lund, Mia S. Lundkvist, Karsten Brogaard, Re…

Asteroseismology of the G8 subgiant beta Aquilae with SONG-Tenerife, SONG-Australia and TESS
We present radial velocities of the G8 subgiant star beta Aql obtained in 2022 and 2023 using SONG-Tenerife and SONG-Australia. We also analysed a sector of TESS photometry that overlapped with the 2022 SONG data. We processed the time series to assign weights and to remove bad data points. The power spectrum clearly shows solar-like oscillations centred at 430 muHz. The TESS data show the oscillations at lower signal-to-noise because photometric measurements are much more affected by the granu…

X-ray observations of Nova Sco 2023: Spectroscopic evidence of charge exchange
Sharon Mitrani, Ehud Behar, Marina Orio, Jack Worley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02465

X-ray observations of Nova Sco 2023: Spectroscopic evidence of charge exchange
The super-soft source (SSS) phase of a nova eruption, observed a few days after the outburst, usually displays an absorbed X-ray thermal continuum with absorption features, emitted by the white dwarf (WD) atmosphere. However, the X-ray spectra of many novae in this phase display additional emission lines which likely originate from shocks in the novae ejecta. When the shocked plasma interacts with cold gas, narrow radiative recombination continua (RRCs) and charge exchange (CX) emission are obs…

Tracing the light: Identification for the optical counterpart candidates of binary black-holes during O3
Lei He, Zhengyan Liu, Rui Niu, Bingzhou Gao, Mingshen Zhou, Purun Zou, Runduo Liang, Wen Zhao, Ning Jiang, Zhen-Yi Cai, Zi-Gao Dai, Ye-Fei Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02475

Tracing the light: Identification for the optical counterpart candidates of binary black-holes during O3
The accretion disks of active galactic nuclei (AGN) are widely considered the ideal environments for binary black hole (BBH) mergers and the only plausible sites for their electromagnetic (EM) counterparts. Graham et al.(2023) identified seven AGN flares that are potentially associated with gravitational-wave (GW) events detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration during the third observing run. In this article, utilizing an additional three years of Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) pub…

Constraining the Origin of FRB 20121102A's Persistent Radio Source with Long-Term Radio Observations
Mohit Bhardwaj, Arvind Balasubramanian, Yasha Kaushal, Shriharsh P. Tendulkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23861

Constraining the Origin of FRB 20121102A's Persistent Radio Source with Long-Term Radio Observations
The persistent radio source (PRS) associated with FRB 20121102A, the first precisely localized repeating fast radio burst (FRB), provides key constraints on both its local environment and the nature of the underlying FRB engine. We present a seven-year (2016-2023) temporal analysis of the PRS, combining new uGMRT observations with archival data across L-band frequencies. We find no statistically significant long-term trend in its L-band flux density. The observed variability is consistent with …