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#NowPlaying 'Nightmare Reality', the rager of a noisy, raw crust/d-beat tape from 2023 by Wellington, New Zealand's PUTRID FUTURE. Love stuff like this. Riffy, feedbacky, rough around the edges.
https://razoredraw…

Mumbai-based online pharmacy Truemeds, which offers generic alternatives to branded drugs, raised $85M led by Accel at a $400M valuation, up from $110M in 2023 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/10/trueme…

Why investors just bet $85M on this Indian company's generic drug strategy | TechCrunch
Truemeds has taken a different route from other Indian online pharmacies — and it has helped the startup double its revenue.

Kanadisches Filmfest streicht Doku über Hamas-Massaker – aus Sorge um Bildrechte der Terroristen
https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/toronto-film-festival-streicht-hamas-doku-schockiert-und-traurig-a-27…

»Schockiert und traurig«: Kanadisches Filmfest streicht Doku über Hamas-Massaker – aus Sorge um Bildrechte der Terroristen
Auf dem Toronto Film Festival sollte eine Doku über den Anschlag auf Israel vom 7. Oktober 2023 gezeigt werden. Der Film enthält Aufnahmen von Terroristen, die ihre Gräueltaten selbst filmten. Nun wird es keine Vorführung geben, angeblich wegen unklarer Rechte an den Hamas-Aufnahmen.

SETI Post-Detection Futures: Directions for Technosignature Research and Readiness
Kate Genevieve, Andjelka B. Kovacevic, John Elliott, Martin Dominik, Emily Finer, Kathryn Denning, Chelsea Haramia, George Profitiliotis, Carol A. Oliver, Anamaria Berea, Arik Kershenbaum, Daliah Bibas, Hannah Little, William H. Edmondson, Pauli Laine
https://

SETI Post-Detection Futures: Directions for Technosignature Research and Readiness
This white paper highlights the work that is needed to anticipate the challenges and societal impacts of a possible technosignature detection. We recommend practical steps to strengthen NASA's astrobiology agenda, guided by the existing interdisciplinary framework of the SETI PostDetection Hub (est. 2022) at the University of St Andrews (Elliot et al. 2023), which emphasizes comprehensive preparedness across science, society, governance, and communication. NASA can significantly enhance readine…

First article of mine published in TanahAir.net, and the first one in Indonesian in several months!
Pengaruh pertumbuhan LNG Cina pada rencana energi Asia Tenggara
https://tanahair.net/id/pengaruh-pertumbuhan-lng-cina-pada-rencana-energi-asia-te…

Pengaruh pertumbuhan LNG Cina pada rencana energi Asia Tenggara - tanahair.net
Lonjakan kontrak gas alam cair jangka panjang dari Cina menopang produksi regional dan memperpanjang ketergantungan bahan bakar fosil. oleh: Nithin Coca* Pada tahun 2021, volume impor gas alam cair Cina melampaui semua negara lain. Setelah turun ke posisi kedua pada tahun 2022, negara ini merebut kembali posisi teratas pada tahun 2023 dan bertahan di sana

The Piano In The Dining Room – #PianoImprov #NowPlaying #musicvideos #nowplaying

The Piano In The Dining Room - #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Wusstet Ihr....
Die erste #Balkonsolaranlage wurde bereits am 14.04.1923 auf einer #Gartenlaube errichtet.
Damals arbeitete das #Marktstammdatenregister noch mi…

Oh great, the 3 warmest months of July on record globally are now 2023, 2024, and 2025.
https://mstdn.social/@Powerfromspace1/114994787705123922

PKPs Powerfromspace1 (@Powerfromspace1@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image @extretemps@toot.community #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming July 2025 Worldwide,according to NASA, had a temperature anomaly of +0.45C vs 1991/2020 (+1.03C vs 1951/1980) and was the 3rd hottest July on record, +0.16C behind both those of 2023 and 2024. https://bsky.app/profile/extremetemps.bsky.social/post/3lvvxirf7mc2i

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Voyager One:
🎵 Wires
#VoyagerOne
https://voyagerone.bandcamp.com/track/wires-2023
https://open.spotify.com/track/4AUbRVm9hW7FijHrs7xABm

Is “Bicycle Fishing” really a thing?
➡️ http://www.all-the-bikes.com/2023/04/Introduction to Bicycle Fishing.html
#bikeTooter

Introduction to Bicycle Fishing
Bicycle fishing is a unique and exciting way to explore the great outdoors while catching fish. Combining the joys of cycling and fishing, ...

By changing our diets now, we can avoid the food chaos that climate change is bringing #nutrition

By changing our diets now, we can avoid the food chaos that climate change is bringing
Climate change is pushing up the prices of the food that we buy and therefore changing what we eat. One-third of UK food price increases in 2023 resulted from climate change, according to research by agricultural economists. This extra cost contributed to food price inflation and the UK's cost-of-living crisis.

Simultaneous observations of multiple ELVES and SPRITES at the Pierre Auger Observatory
Roberto Mussa (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11641

Simultaneous observations of multiple ELVES and SPRITES at the Pierre Auger Observatory
Since 2014, the Pierre Auger Observatory has exploited a dedicated trigger and its very high time resolution to study ELVES and harvest record samples of multiple ELVES using the Fluorescence Detector (FD). In 2017, after extending the readout of trace lengths to 0.9 ms, we started observing other types of light transients from the base of the ionosphere, such as HALOS, which deserved further investigation. In December 2023 and April 2024, we installed two additional cameras (TLECAMs), which al…

So the anti-vaxx murderers in government are shutting down mRNA vaccine research in the US.
The biggest medical advance in decades, got the 2023 Nobel Prize, saved millions of lives.
Lots of in-development vaccines, among them for various cancers, AIDS and other things, cancelled.
Not only will this kill and maim untold numbers of people—it also takes leadership in science away from the US.
And for what? Buying the Republicans votes from a few unhinged people.

#PgBouncer is useful, important, and fraught with peril
https://jpcamara.com/2023/04/12/pgbouncer-is-useful.html

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…

New York Post will launch a version of the rightwing tabloid in California in 2026
It comes at a trying time for news outlets in the Los Angeles area.
The storied Los Angeles Times,
the state’s biggest paper and once one of the most influential regional outlets in the US,
lost more than 20% of its newsroomlast January,
months after laying off 74 staffers amid advertising declines in 2023.
On top of losing tens of millions of dollars a year, it also suffe…

The Tiny Awards have celebrated the best of the small and creative web since 2023, and voting is now open (it closes September 1) to select one of the eleven nominations for the 2025 awards, here: #TinyAwards2025

Tiny Awards
This is the home of the Tiny Awards, which, since 2023, has celebrated the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web.

Cincinnati-based Pantomath, which automates enterprise data operations using AI, raised a $30M Series B led by General Catalyst, after a $14M Series A in 2023 (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/04/autom…

Automated data operations platform Pantomath raises $30M led by General Catalyst - SiliconANGLE
Automated data operations platform Pantomath raises $30M led by General Catalyst - SiliconANGLE

📗 Cornford, F. M. (2023). Antes y Después de Sócrates (Edición de acceso abierto). [Publicación original: 1932].
https://archive.org/details/cornford-f.-m.-antes-y-despues-de-socrates-epl-fs-1932-2023
En "Antes y Después de

Cornford, F. M. Antes Y Después De Sócrates [EPL FS] [1932] [2023] : F. M. Cornford : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Edición digital ePubLibre, 2023. Ed. original 1932. Acceso abierto.

The new Online Safety Act – safety or authoritarianism?
https://northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/opinion/the-new-online-safety-act-safet…

The new Online Safety Act – safety or authoritarianism?
Is the UK's Online Safety Act 2023, with people having to age-verify for social media, a step toward safety or digital authoritarianism?

När en israelisk attack dödar många civila, sjukvårdspersonal eller hjälparbetare blir beskedet ofta att en militär internutredning ska göras.
Men 88 procent har inte lett till någon känd åtgärd, visar en ny rapport. #Gaza ht…

Inga fel hittade i nio av tio av Israels internutredningar sedan oktober 2023
Inga fel hittade i nio av tio av Israels internutredningar sedan i oktober 2023.

Oh great, the 3 warmest months of July on record globally are now 2023, 2024, and 2025.
July 2025 was 1.03°C above the 1951-1980 average, that's around 1.22°C above the preindustrial average.
The map shows an anomaly of 4 to 8°C for West-Antarctica!
#globalwarming #ClimateChange

Jaaaaaa.... ich habe mir gestern abend zusammen mit SO aus Versehen diesen Film auch angetan. DANKE ARD! ;-)
> Vergessen Sie mal den Titel dieses Blogs [Anm.: Mediathekperlen]. Das hier ist wahrlich keine Perle, sondern Sondermüll. Meine Verantwortung als Blogger und Gebührenzahler ist es, davor zu warnen. Es ist mir damit wirklich ernst!
> […] Was folgt, ist ein Culture-Clash-Gelage auf dem intellektuellen Niveau von Werbespots für Tiefkühlpizza.

Robert De Niro - "Und dann kam Dad" (2023)
Ich habe schon viel ertragen. Deutsche Sonntagabendkrimis. Dieter Hallervorden. Netflix-Algorithmen, die mich für einen Teenager mit Konzentrationsproblemen halten. Aber das hier, zur besten Sendezeit in der ARD? Das ist keine schlechte Programmierung mehr – das ist ein Angriff auf mein Restvertrauen in den öffentlich-rechtlichen Kulturauftrag! Vergessen Sie mal den Titel dieses Blogs. Das hier is

When will the FBI release the documents that prove Stanley Kubrick is a time traveler who came forward in time to 2023 for movie ideas and after seeing the Barbie movie decided to make a whole movie based on the opening sequence.

From 2023: Digable Planets - Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat) (Live on KEXP) https://youtu.be/Q3CVl7QYhmA <-- 30 years old! forever great!

Are BLS monthly numbers still trustworthy?
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/06/04/ADP-May-jobs-lowest-since-2023/8661749044732/

ADP: Private payrolls grew by 37,000 in May; lowest rate since 2023 - UPI.com
Private payroll company ADP Wednesday reported May private sector jobs growth of just 37,000 - the lowest in over two years.

Cowboys DT Mazi Smith, a 2023 first-rounder, leaves practice early https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/cowboys-dt-mazi-smith-a-2023-firstrounder-leaves-practice-early

Tor-Åge Bringsværd er dŸd, melder VG og NRK. På IKO-forlaget synes vi det var stas å få jobbe med en kjempe i den norske barnelitteraturen – han ga ut fire bŸker her, den siste var Babel i 2023.

Heute, jetzt gleich demnächst: Abschlussworkshop zum @… Projekt „Potentials of Advanced Text Technologies. Auf maschinellem Lernen basierende Texterkennung (PATT)“ in der Hochschulbibliothek der #ZHAW
Mit dabei: meine

from my link log —
Bringing runtime index checks to compile time in Rust.
https://ktkaufman03.github.io/blog/2023/04/20/rust-compile-time-checks/
saved 2023-04-27

Fångsten på dagens Bandcamp Friday

Skyral, a London-based modeling and simulation startup developing AI-based digital twin tech for defense, healthcare, and other sectors, raised a $20M Series A (Lucy Adams/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/06/04/uk-based-sk

UK-based Skyral raises $20M Series A to expand modelling and simulation tech globally
British modelling and simulation startup Skyral has secured $20 million in Series A funding, led by NOIA Capital in partnership with Accrete Capital, as it looks to expand the global reach of its AI-enabled digital twin technology across sectors including defence, national security, healthcare, and infrastructure. Founded in June 2023 and headquartered in the UK, Skyral is developing a next-generation platform that combines digital twin modelling with artificial intelligence to simulate comple…

OMD at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles, performing 'Anthropocene' June 21, 2025.
https://open.spotify.com/track/1zTghGUFb7Ajrn5ghO9ZQl?si=XNxEhurBRXaWIu3kJmY42Q&context=spotify:album:2yW1JUK…

Anthropocene
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark · Bauhaus Staircase (The Complete Edition) · Song · 2023

"It's this brutal fragility of vector stacks — which are used by most modern computer languages — which makes software people so wary of fully exploiting the beauty and power of recursion, and I really think that's a shame"
#Lisp

Can fractal dimension distinguish between grand-design and flocculent spiral arms?
Biju Saha, Subhadip Dutta, Arunima Banerjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04411 https://

Can fractal dimension distinguish between grand-design and flocculent spiral arms?
About two-thirds of disk galaxies host spiral arms, ranging from well-delineated grand-design spirals to fragmented flocculent spiral galaxies. We introduce fractal dimension $D_B$ as a non-parametric measure to distinguish between grand-designs and flocculents. We calculate the $D_B$ of 197 grand-designs and 322 flocculents from SDSS DR18, using the samples of \citet{Buta..2015} and \citet{Sarkar..2023}. Our calculated median values of $D_B$ are $1.29^{+0.06}_{-0.04}$ and $1.38^{+0.05}_{-0.06}…

Systemic Trade Risk Suppresses Comparative Advantage in Rare Earth Dependent Industries
Peter Klimek, Sophia Baum, Markus Gerschberger, Maximilian Hess
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00556

Systemic Trade Risk Suppresses Comparative Advantage in Rare Earth Dependent Industries
Rare earth elements (REEs) are critical to a wide range of clean and high-tech applications, yet global trade dependencies expose countries to vulnerabilities across production networks. Here, we construct a multi-tiered input-output trade network spanning 168 REE-related product codes from 2007-2023 using a novel AI-augmented statistical framework. We identify significant differences between dependencies in upstream and intermediate (input) products, revealing that exposure and supplier concen…

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 458 nodes and 7613 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

#Wetterextreme haben Europa 2023 mehr als 45 Milliarden Euro gekostet. #Deutschland verzeichnete die höchsten Schäden, gefolgt von #Italien,

Unwetterschäden: Wetterextreme kosten Europa jährlich viele Milliarden Euro
Klimabedingte Extremereignisse haben in Europa 2023 zu Wirtschaftsschäden von mehr als 45 Milliarden Euro geführt. Die höchsten Schäden verzeichnete Deutschland.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Funkadelic:
🎵 Maggot Brain (remastered 2023)
#Funkadelic
https://derrok.bandcamp.com/track/gusano-funkadelics-maggot-brain-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/5WJU527RQNyMLuKecjsL8V

Change of bifurcation type in 2D free boundary model of a moving cell with nonlinear diffusion
Leonid Berlyand, Oleksii Krupchytskyi, Tim Laux
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03138

Change of bifurcation type in 2D free boundary model of a moving cell with nonlinear diffusion
We introduce a 2D free boundary problem with nonlinear diffusion that models a living cell moving on a substrate. We prove that this nonlinearity results in a qualitative of solution behavior compared to the linear diffusion case (Rybalko et al. TAMS 2023), namely the switch between direct and inverse pitchfork bifurcation. Our objectives are twofold: (i) develop a rigorous framework to prove existence of bifurcation and determining its type (subcritical vs. superctitical) and (ii) the deri…

A term sheet shows Ant will sell its remaining 5.84% Paytm stake via block deals that could total ~$433.72M; Ant sold a 4% stake in May and 10.3% in August 2023 (Ananta Agarwal/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-ant-group-e…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.13191 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Moment-sos and spectral hierarchies for polynomial optimization on the sphere and quantum de Finetti theorems
We revisit the convergence analysis of two approximation hierarchies for polynomial optimization on the unit sphere. The first one is based on the moment-sos approach and gives semidefinite bounds for which Fang and Fawzi (2021) showed an analysis in $O(1/r^2)$ for the r-th level bound, using the polynomial kernel method. The second hierarchy was recently proposed by Lovitz and Johnston (2023) and gives spectral bounds for which they show a convergence rate in $O(1/r)$, using a quantum de Finet…

I’m running CalyxOS on my old Fairphone4, not because it’s a bad choice, but precisely to observe how incredibly behind this OS is on security updates.
My primary device today is a Pixel 9a running GrapheneOS, not this outdated, insecure, and privacy-compromised Fairphone 4.
This Fairphone never became my daily driver once I realized just how far behind it is on security and privacy. I used it from October 2022 until I switched to my Pixel 6a running GrapheneOS in early May 2023,…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08048 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

The origin of the coherent radio flash potentially associated with GRB 201006A
Rowlinson et al. 2023 recently claimed the detection of a coherent radio flash 76.6 minutes after a short gamma-ray burst. They proposed that the radio emission may be associated with a long-lived neutron star engine. We show through theoretical and observational arguments that the coherent radio emission, if real and indeed associated with GRB 201006A and at the estimated redshift, is unlikely to be due to the collapse of the neutron star, ruling out a blitzar-like mechanism. Instead, we show …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Blondie:
🎵 Atomic
#Blondie
https://orenamram.bandcamp.com/album/blondie-atomic-oren-amram-2023-remixes
https://open.spotify.com/track/5QIbR39hAEDIOkr4ggh4xc
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Meditation Suite 2
#MellowMusic #MeditationMusic #NowPlaying

Meditation Suite 2 #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

AlF-AlF sticking time and prospects for ultracold dimers
Mahmoud A. E. Ibrahim, Mateo Londo\~no, Jes\'us P\'erez-R\'ios
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00676 https://

AlF-AlF sticking time and prospects for ultracold dimers
We report on the sticking time of the AlF dimer in the ultracold regime. We employ a full-dimensional potential energy surface for AlF-AlF, constructed using a machine learning approach [X. Liu et al., J. Chem. Phys. 159, 144103 (2023)], to compute the density of states using a semi-classical counting method. Next, using the Rice-Ramsperger-Kassel-Marcus (RRKM) theory, we determine a sticking time of 216.3 ns, which is shorter than that of other previously reported dimers. We explain these resu…

from my link log —
The joys of UNIX keyboards.
https://donatstudios.com/UNIX-Keyboards
saved 2023-08-04 https://do…

The Joys of UNIX Keyboards

Building Blocks of a User Experience Research Point of View
Patricia Diaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15332 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506…

Building Blocks of a User Experience Research Point of View
This paper presents three User Experience Research (UXR) perspectives based on data, evidence and insights - known as Point of View (POV) - showcasing how the strategies and methods of building a POV work in an enterprise setting. The POV are: 1. Smart Visuals: Use AI to extract and translate text from visuals in videos (2019). 2. Assessable Code Editor: Focus on direct AI-feedback to the learner as it is the loop that requires the least effort for the highest impact(2023). 3. Opportunity Lands…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Blondie:
🎵 Atomic
#Blondie
https://orenamram.bandcamp.com/album/blondie-atomic-oren-amram-2023-remixes
https://open.spotify.com/track/5QIbR39hAEDIOkr4ggh4xc

Ammonia in the hot core W51-IRS2: Maser line profiles, variability, and saturation
E. Alkhuja, C. Henkel, Y. T. Yan, B. Winkel, Y. Gong, G. Wu, T. L. Wilson, A. Wootten, A. Malawi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02214

Ammonia in the hot core W51-IRS2: Maser line profiles, variability, and saturation
W51-IRS2 is known to be one of the most prolific sources of interstellar ammonia (NH$_3$) maser lines. So far, however, many of these inversion lines have rarely been studied. Here we report spectrally resolved line profiles for the majority of detected features and provide information on the variability of these maser components between 2012 and 2023. This includes the first tentative detection of a ($J$,$K$) = (5,2) maser in the interstellar medium and the first tentative detection of a (6,4)…

Verification of the Timing System for the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission in the GPS Unsynchronized Mode
Megumi Shidatsu, Yukikatsu Terada, Takashi Kominato, So Kato, Ryohei Sato, Minami Sakama, Takumi Shioiri, Yugo Motogami, Yuuki Niida, Chulsoo Kang, Toshihiro Takagi, Taichi Nakamoto, Chikara Natsukari, Makoto S. Tashiro, Kenichi Toda, Hironori Maejima, Shin Watanabe, Ryo Iizuka, Rie Sato, Chris Baluta, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Tessei Yoshida, Shoji Ogawa, Yoshiaki Kanemaru, Kotaro Fukushima, Akio Hoshino, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Shinichiro Uno, Ken Ebisawa, Satoshi Eguchi, Satoru Katsuda, Aya Kubota, Naomi Ota, Atsushi Tanimoto, Yuichi Terashima, Yohko Tsuboi, Yuusuke Uchida, Hideki Uchiyama, Shigeo Yamauchi, Tomokage Yoneyama, Satoshi Yamada, Nagomi Uchida, Matt Holland, Michael Loewenstein, Tahir Yaqoob, Eric D. Miller, Robert S. Hill, Efrain C. Perez-Solis, Morgan D. Waddy, Mark Mekosh, Joseph B. Fox, Isabella S. Brewer, Emily Aldoretta, Koji Mukai, Kenji Hamaguchi, Francois Mernier, Anna Ogorzalek, Katja Pottschmidt, Mihoko Yukita
#toXiv_bot_toot

Piano Sample Libraries You Love to Hear #musicianresources #musiciantips #samplelibraries #samplelibrary

Piano Sample Libraries You Love to Hear
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

And yes... of course he ...
"It should come as no surprise that after the massacres of October 7, 2023, all the loudest voices from the residential-schools “activism” immediately merged with the loudest voices in the ‘From Turtle Island to Palestine’ histrionics."
It's a wonder he sleeps at night with the spirits of innocent victims of genocidal governments swirling around him.
#palestine #israel #gaza
#genocide #canpoli #cdnpoli #indigenous #everychildMatters #canada #residentialschools

Identifying High-Risk Areas for Traffic Collisions in Montgomery, Maryland Using KDE and Spatial Autocorrelation Analysis
Stanislav Liashkov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21930

Identifying High-Risk Areas for Traffic Collisions in Montgomery, Maryland Using KDE and Spatial Autocorrelation Analysis
Despite a global decline in motor vehicle crash fatalities due to improved research and road safety policies, road traffic injuries remain a significant public health concern. The World Health Organization 2023 report highlights that road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death among individuals aged 5-29, with over half of fatalities involving pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists. This study addresses this critical issue by identifying high-risk areas in Montgomery County, Maryland…