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Studios are rereleasing old films in theaters, helping them pad out thin slates; Universal has 12 rereleases on its 2025 slate, vs. four in 2024 and two in 2023 (Esther Zuckerman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/movies/rereleases-black-swan-…

Why ‘Black Swan,’ ‘Jaws’ and ‘Clue’ Are Coming Back to Theaters
The multiplex is awash in titles that are 15, 20, even 60 years old. Nostalgia is a factor but economics play a big part, too.

KORRIGIERTE GRAFIK FÜR ZU/RÜCKBAU
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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Apple raises the price of Apple TV in the US and some markets globally after previously raising the price in 2023; in the US, the price will rise $3 to $12.99 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/apple-tv-plus-price-increa…

Apple TV+ Price Increase: Service Now Costs $13 per Month in U.S.
Apple TV+ is bumping up its price by 30%: For U.S. customers, it will now be $12.99 per month, up from $9.99.

"From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40 percent, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend."
Here, in my view, is one clear contributor of our becoming an increasingly less empathetic, less intellectual, less capable of critical thought populace.
READ! READ TO YOUR CHILDREN! USE THE WONDERFUL RESOURCES AT YOUR PUBLIC LIBRARY!

Fewer People Are Reading for Fun, Study Finds
From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40 percent, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend.

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

When Family Comes First – Spending time with them all #connection #family https://muz4now.com/2023/when-f…

When Family Comes First - Spending time with them all
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Accurate complex-stacking-fault Gibbs energy in Ni3Al at high temperatures
Xiang Xu, Xi Zhang, Andrei Ruban, Siegfried Schmauder, Blazej Grabowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15528

Accurate complex-stacking-fault Gibbs energy in Ni3Al at high temperatures
To gain a deeper insight into the anomalous yield behavior of Ni3Al, it is essential to obtain temperature-dependent formation Gibbs energies of the relevant planar defects. Here, the Gibbs energy of the complex stacking fault (CSF) is evaluated using a recently proposed ab initio framework [Acta Materialia, 255 (2023) 118986], accounting for all thermal contributions - including anharmonicity and paramagnetism - up to the melting point. The CSF energy shows a moderate decrease from 300K to abo…

Antenna: Americans buy ~30% of all new streaming subscriptions via third-party apps like Prime Video or Roku, rising 40% from 2023, a new kind of cable bundle (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/business/media/streaming-tv-s…

Come One, Come All! Buy Your TV Subscriptions Here!
A battle is heating up in the streaming world as millions of Americans sign up for multiple services through a single provider instead of separate apps.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Liz Phair:
🎵 Help Me Mary (2023 remaster)
#LizPhair
https://lizphair.bandcamp.com/track/help-me-mary-2018-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/3BYfQ3SIacPyf9DdmRlQMQ

Seahawks QB Sam Darnold fond of brief 49ers sting, lauds Kyle Shanahan, Brock Purdy

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/seahawks-qb-sam-darnold-fond-…

#TuneTuesday (Aug 19)
I first learned of New York–based duo #FlyByMidnight in 2023 and I found myself really enjoying their music. And if you’re curious, their song “Borrow Your Time” is an example of the style of melodic synth-pop that is just a pleasure to listen to.

Missing Targeting Pods, Inflated Bills: Inside the Troubled Su-57 Procurement Program: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/missing-targeting-pods-inflated-bills.html

Stochastic heat flow is a black noise
Yu Gu, Li-Cheng Tsai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16484 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.16484

Stochastic heat flow is a black noise
We prove that the stochastic heat flow Caravenna Sun Zygouras (2023), Tsai (2024) is a black noise in the sense of Tsirelson (2004). As a corollary, the 2d stochastic heat equation driven by a mollified spacetime white noise becomes asymptotically independent of that noise in the scaling limit.

Chow-Witt Rings of Classifying Spaces of Products of Multiplicative and Cyclic Groups
Andrea Lachmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13605 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Chow-Witt Rings of Classifying Spaces of Products of Multiplicative and Cyclic Groups
We compute the total Chow-Witt rings of the classifying space Bμ_n of the roots of unity, as well as the products BG_m x Bμ_n and Bμ_m x Bμ_n for all m,n greater than or equal to 1 based on the strategy by di Lorenzo and Mantovani (2023) for Bμ_n with n even. Moreover we compute the total I^j-cohomology and Chow-Witt rings of P^q x P^r for all q,r greater than or equal to 1 and of BG_m x BG_m.

"Temperatures and Carbon Emissions Continue to Rise"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https://

Temperatures and Carbon Emissions Continue to Rise - Inside Climate News
An acceleration of warming that started in 2023 continued through 2024, according to the latest annual climate assessment by the American Meteorological Society, as atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases continue to increase at a quickening rate.

Stable magnetic fields and changing starspots on Vega -- An ultra-deep decadal survey at Pic du Midi and OHP
T. B\"ohm, M. Holschneider, P. Petit, F. Ligni\`eres, F. Paletou, C. P. Folsom, M. Rainer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13348

Stable magnetic fields and changing starspots on Vega -- An ultra-deep decadal survey at Pic du Midi and OHP
Monitoring magnetic and activity variations in A- and B-type stars with ultra-weak magnetic fields is essential to understand the origin and evolution of these fields in this region of the HR diagram, with Vega standing as the prototype of this category. We collected high-resolution spectroscopic and spectropolarimetric data with SOPHIE (OHP, 2018) and with NARVAL/NEO-NARVAL (TBL, 2018, 2023, and 2024), yielding a total of 13108 individual spectra. Magnetic field maps were reconstructed using t…

Get Real – How Community Informs Reality #community #musicianresources #musiciantips

Get Real - How Community Informs Reality
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

A new equilibrium: COVID-19 lockdowns and WFH persistence
Laura Ketter, Todd Morris, Lizi Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16671 https://

A new equilibrium: COVID-19 lockdowns and WFH persistence
This paper documents a robust link between COVID-19 lockdowns and the uptake and persistence of working from home (WFH) practices. Exploiting rich longitudinal data, we use a difference-in-differences strategy to compare office workers in three heavily locked-down Australian states to similar workers in less affected states. Locked-down workers sustain 43% higher WFH levels through 2023 - 0.5 days per week - with a monotonic dose-response relationship. Persistence is driven by adjustments on bo…

@… : Zerrissen • Fernsehfilm Deutschland 2023
Trailer
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/tatort…

Im #Windpark #Elster werden ältere #Windräder zurückgebaut und durch leistungsstärkere ersetzt.
Durch das #Repowering

Windpark-Umbau in Elster - weniger neue Windräder mit mehr Power | MDR.DE
Im Windpark Elster werden alte Windräder abgebaut und durch stärkere ersetzt. So wird mit weniger Fläche deutlich mehr Strom erzeugt. Der Umbau, der 2023 begann, soll im August abgeschlossen sein.

The covering radius of Butson Hadamard codes for the homogeneous metric
Xingxing Xu, Minjia Shi, Patrick Sole
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12859 https://arxi…

The covering radius of Butson Hadamard codes for the homogeneous metric
Butson matrices are complex Hadamard matrices with entries in the complex roots of unity of given order. There is an interesting code in phase space related to this matrix (Armario et al. 2023). We study the covering radius of Butson Hadamard codes for the homogeneous metric, a metric defined uniquely, up to scaling, for a commutative ring alphabet that is Quasi Frobenius. An upper bound is derived by an orthogonal array argument. A lower bound relies on the existence of bent sequences in the s…

Nearly Tight Bounds for the Online Sorting Problem
Yossi Azar, Debmalya Panigrahi, Or Vardi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14287 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.142…

Nearly Tight Bounds for the Online Sorting Problem
In the online sorting problem, a sequence of $n$ numbers in $[0, 1]$ (including $\{0,1\}$) have to be inserted in an array of size $m \ge n$ so as to minimize the sum of absolute differences between pairs of numbers occupying consecutive non-empty cells. Previously, Aamand {\em et al.} (SODA 2023) gave a deterministic $2^{\sqrt{\log n} \sqrt{\log \log n + \log (1/\varepsilon)}}$-competitive algorithm when $m = (1+\varepsilon) n$ for any $\varepsilon \ge Ω(\log n/n)$. They also showed a lower b…

Type-Driven Prompt Programming: From Typed Interfaces to a Calculus of Constraints
Abhijit Paul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12475 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508…

Type-Driven Prompt Programming: From Typed Interfaces to a Calculus of Constraints
Prompt programming treats large language model prompts as software components with typed interfaces. Based on a literature survey of 15 recent works from 2023 to 2025, we observe a consistent trend: type systems are central to emerging prompt programming frameworks. However, there are gaps in constraint expressiveness and in supporting algorithms. To address these issues, we introduce the notion of Lambda Prompt, a dependently typed calculus with probabilistic refinements for syntactic and sema…

Longitudinal review of portfolios with minimum variance approach before during and after the pandemic
Genjis A. Ossa, Luis H. Restrepo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15111 https://

Longitudinal review of portfolios with minimum variance approach before during and after the pandemic
This study investigates the impact of the pandemic on the most traded stocks in the Colombian stock market for the date of January 17, 2024. Based on the daily data of the most traded companies in Colombia for said date and covering a period general from 2015 to 2023, in a summarized way our analysis reveals that in the period 2015-2019, the return reached 5.70%, with a relatively low risk of 18.45%. However, in the following period 2016 -2020, although the yield decreased to 5.40%, the risk ex…

Felix Anudike-Uzomah's injury with Chiefs punctuates concerning trend for 2023 NFL Draft edge rushers

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/felix-a

Non-r-partite graphs without complete split subgraphs
Bing Wang, Wenwen Chen, Ping Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12210 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12210

Non-r-partite graphs without complete split subgraphs
The classical Simonovits' chromatic critical edge theorem shows that for sufficiently large $n$, if $H$ is an edge-color-critical graph with $χ(H)=p+1\ge 3$, then the Turán graph $T_{n,p}$ is the unique extremal graph with respect to ${\rm ex}(n,H)$. Denote by ${\rm EX}_{r+1}(n,H)$ and ${\rm SPEX}_{r+1}(n,H)$ the family of $n$-vertex $H$-free non-$r$-partite graphs with the maximum size and with the spectral radius, respectively. Li and Peng [SIAM J. Discrete Math. 37 (2023) 2462--2485] chara…

Two-dimensional Rademacher walk
Satyaki Bhattacharya, Stanislav Volkov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16259 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.16…

Two-dimensional Rademacher walk
We study a generalisation of the one-dimensional Rademacher random walk introduced in Bhattacharya and Volkov (2023) to $\mathbb{Z}^2$ (for $d\ge 3$, the Rademacher random walk is always transient, as follows from Theorem 8.8 in Englander and Volkov (2025)). This walk is defined as the sum of a sequence of independent steps, where each step goes in one of the four possible directions with equal probability, and the size of the $n$th step is $a_n$ where $\{a_n\}$ is a given sequence of positive …

US newsletter publisher The Flyover now has 25 staff, 2.5M subscribers, nine state-specific daily editions, and one national edition, after its 2023 launch (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-ameri

Email-based publisher The Flyover has 25 full-time staff two years after launch
The Flyover is an email-first publication that is seeing success through converting its state news readers to national news.

Le bouddhisme tibétain, ses grandes figures ont gardé le silence sur 3 canaux distincts :
- Le Dalai Lama de 1998 Š 2023
- Shechen Rabjam de 1997 Š 2023
- Matthieu Ricard de 2010 Š 2023
Découvrez pourquoi ces dates sont cruciales :
1/5

Huh?
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/08/opm-orders-deletion-federal-workers-vaccination-records/407334/

OPM orders deletion of federal workers’ vaccination records
The announcement came hours after a formal dissolution of a lawsuit challenging the Biden-era requirement that federal employees be vaccinated against COVID-19, which hasn’t been enforced since 2023.

„Fingerbanger“ by Optic
Platform: Amiga
Released: 21 January 2023
Specification: 320x256px, 32 colors
Note: 2nd in the Gerp 2023 Amiga Graphics competition
#GFX_Optic #YR_2023 #PF_Amiga

The End of Hyperbolic Growth in Human Population and CO$_2$ Emissions
Victor M. Yakovenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11038 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.11038…

The End of Hyperbolic Growth in Human Population and CO$_2$ Emissions
Using current empirical data from 10,000 BCE to 2023 CE, we re-examine a hyperbolic pattern of human population growth, which was identified by von Foerster et al. in 1960 with a predicted singularity in 2026. We find that human population initially grew exponentially in time as $N(t)\propto e^{t/T}$ with $T$=2080 years. This growth then gradually evolved to be super-exponential with a form similar to the Bose function in statistical physics. Around 1700, population growth further accelerated, …

Swarm-in-Blocks: Simplifying Drone Swarm Programming with Block-Based Language
Agnes Bressan de Almeida, Joao Aires Correa Fernandes Marsicano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11498 h…

Swarm-in-Blocks: Simplifying Drone Swarm Programming with Block-Based Language
Swarm in Blocks, originally developed for CopterHack 2022, is a high-level interface that simplifies drone swarm programming using a block-based language. Building on the Clover platform, this tool enables users to create functionalities like loops and conditional structures by assembling code blocks. In 2023, we introduced Swarm in Blocks 2.0, further refining the platform to address the complexities of swarm management in a user-friendly way. As drone swarm applications grow in areas like del…

Überwachung: Strafverfolger setzen erneut mehr Staatstrojaner ein
2023 erlaubten Gerichte 116 Mal das Hacken von IT-Geräten – 2022 gab es 109 Anordnungen. Ermittler fragten zudem deutlich mehr Nutzungsdaten bei Plattformen ab.

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.

Nach jahrelanger Kritik und ohne Nutzungsperspektive wird der umstrittene Tiefbrunnen von #CocaCola in #Gellersen bei #Lüneburg zurückgebaut.
Die Untere

Grundwasser bleibt – Brunnen geht: Landkreis Lüneburg ordnet Rückbau des Brunnens von Coca-Cola an
Die als Mineralwasser-Brunnen geplante Grundwasser-Entnahmestelle in der Samtgemeinde Gellersen wird zurückgebaut. Am morgigen Freitag (24. November 2023) lässt das Unternehmen Coca-Cola bzw. die Apollinaris Brands GmbH als Eigentümerin der Bohrung...

Meditation Suite 2
#MellowMusic #MeditationMusic #NowPlaying

Meditation Suite 2 #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

An interview with Binance co-founder Yi He on growing up poor in China, the tests she faced during Binance's year of crisis when CZ was imprisoned, and more (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/08/13/binance-yi-he/

How Binance’s Yi He became ‘the most powerful woman in crypto’—and steered the company past its biggest ordeal
In 2023, Yi He had to face down an enormous business challenge at Binance—one that was very personal as well.

Insights from the Algonauts 2025 Winners
Paul S. Scotti, Mihir Tripathy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10784 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.10784

Insights from the Algonauts 2025 Winners
The Algonauts 2025 Challenge just wrapped up a few weeks ago. It is a biennial challenge in computational neuroscience in which teams attempt to build models that predict human brain activity from carefully curated stimuli. Previous editions (2019, 2021, 2023) focused on still images and short videos; the 2025 edition, which concluded last month (late July), pushed the field further by using long, multimodal movies. Teams were tasked with predicting fMRI responses across 1,000 whole-brain parce…

Sunday late night mood: Wonderfully calm ambient mix by the one and only Jeff Chill (includes a fair number of vintage film samples/monologues):
"Experience weightlessness in Space for 3 h 00 with ambient with the likes of ISHQ, Mick Chillage, ASC, Mount Shrine (RIP), Warmth, Black dog, Inmost and Donato Dozzy. 40 tracks total, a journey from Earth to Space."
Orbiting The Earth - 3 h 00 in Space (2023)

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.

Heute habe ich wundervoll zu Mittag gegessen. Das mir das Rezept erst am Ende der Saison unter die Augen gekommen ist, ist schon bedauerlich.
Gnocchi und Aupergine, Zuccine, etc.
Leicht und äußerst schmackhaft, dazu noch einfach zuzubereitet.
Dies kommt auf jeden Fall zu meinen Top 20. Danke.
#vegan

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…

Is This Just Fantasy? Language Model Representations Reflect Human Judgments of Event Plausibility
Michael A. Lepori, Jennifer Hu, Ishita Dasgupta, Roma Patel, Thomas Serre, Ellie Pavlick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12553

Is This Just Fantasy? Language Model Representations Reflect Human Judgments of Event Plausibility
Language models (LMs) are used for a diverse range of tasks, from question answering to writing fantastical stories. In order to reliably accomplish these tasks, LMs must be able to discern the modal category of a sentence (i.e., whether it describes something that is possible, impossible, completely nonsensical, etc.). However, recent studies have called into question the ability of LMs to categorize sentences according to modality (Michaelov et al., 2025; Kauf et al., 2023). In this work, we …

Clueless Colts: Why starting Daniel Jones over Anthony Richardson has zero upside for QB-starved Indy

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/clueles

Best Guitar Pedals for Indie Rock Musicians #guitar #indiemusic https://muz4now.com/2023/best-guitar-p

Best Guitar Pedals for Indie Rock Musicians
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Forty-five billion will build a lot of stuff.
As a point of comparison: In 2023, the United States budgeted $12.8 billion to build new affordable housing.
We’re about to spend nearly four times on detention centers as we spend on housing.
https://newrepublic.com/article/197619…

Are We About to Have Labor Camps in the United States of America?
If you think that’s far-fetched, then you really haven’t been paying attention to what the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have been up to lately.

Great comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS): dust loss before perihelion
Bin Liu, Man-To Hui, Xiaodong Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12756 https://

Great comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS): dust loss before perihelion
In this study, the dust loss of comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) is investigated through the analysis of archival images. By measuring the surface brightness profile of the coma, we determined that the comet maintained nearly in a steady state during the observations. Analysis of the dust distribution perpendicular to the orbital plane reveals that the ejection velocity is $v_{\perp}\sim(65\pm5)\,β^{1/2}$ m s$^{-1}$, where $β$ is inversely proportional to the size of the dust grains. From …

Big sad that I just found that #fireship got bought by a private equity firm in 2023. That explains why it recently became a slop machine just constantly publishing about AI.
Good for him getting the money he deserves, but the content isn't worth watching anymore in my opinion it's just the same "AI is going to take your job, buy this AI tool".

A Polylogarithmic Algorithm for Stochastic Online Sorting
Dimitris Fotakis, Andreas Kalavas, Charalampos Platanos, Thanos Tolias
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12527 https://…

A Polylogarithmic Algorithm for Stochastic Online Sorting
In the \emph{Online Sorting Problem}, an array of $n$ initially empty cells is given. At each time step $t$, a real number $x_t \in [0,1]$ arrives and must be placed immediately and irrevocably into an empty cell. The objective is to minimize the sum of absolute differences between consecutive entries. The problem was introduced by Aamand, Abrahamsen, Beretta, and Kleist (SODA 2023) as a technical tool for proving lower bounds in online geometric packing problems. In follow-up work, Abrahamsen,…

More Joutnalists killed in #Gaza by #Israel
#AlJazeera said the attack “is a desperate attempt to silence voices in anticipation of the occupation of Gaza.”

das hier, ein Beitrag von Prof. Friedrich Lohmann in meinem Blog, finde ich immer noch sehr nachdenkenswert: #Frieden

Kantar: the share of Indians consuming media exclusively on mobile phones grew to 23% in Q1 2025, up from 15% in Q1 2023, as TVs stay unaffordable for many (Satviki Sanjay/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Are nominations by those accused of war crimes even considered?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/08/trump-nominated-nobel-peace-prize-netanyahu?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Pastor comitted crypto fraud, blames god for telling him to do it!! #hipocracy #religion

Homogeneous hypersurfaces of the four-dimensional Thurston geometry ${\rm Sol_0^4}$
Guoxin Wei, Zeke Yao, Xi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10545 https://

Homogeneous hypersurfaces of the four-dimensional Thurston geometry ${\rm Sol_0^4}$
In this paper, we classify hypersurfaces with constant principal curvatures in the four-dimensional Thurston geometry ${\rm Sol_0^4}$ under certain geometric assumptions. As an application of the classification result, we give a complete classification of homogeneous hypersurfaces in ${\rm Sol_0^4}$, which solves a problem raised by Erjavec and Inoguchi (Problem 6.4 of [J. Geom. Anal. 33, Art. 274, (2023)]).

A couple years ago I made an accordion showing common message colors for applications:
https://codepen.io/aardrian/pen/qBLNYBe
Some details:

Common Application Message Colors
Reflects colors I have seen used in messaging systems. Uses my [progressively enhanced HTML accordion](https://adrianroselli.com/2023/08/progressively-...

Tödlicher Titanic-Tauchgang: Vernichtender Untersuchungsbericht
Auf dem Weg zur Titanic implodierte im Sommer 2023 das Kohlefaser-Tauchboot Titan. Eine Untersuchung lässt kein gutes Haar an den Betreibern.
h…

"Texas study reveals heat waves can cause more polluted air"
#US #USA #America #Heatwave

Texas study reveals heat waves can cause more polluted air
Heat waves are becoming more common, severe and long-lasting. These prolonged periods of hot weather are especially dangerous in already hot places like Texas. In 2023, more than 300 people in Texas died from heat, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services, the most since the state began tracking such deaths in 1989. Researchers found it may not only be temperatures that make heat waves unsafe but also the heat-related increase in airborne pollutants.

Infinite lexicographic products of positional objectives
Antonio Casares, Pierre Ohlmann, Micha{\l} Skrzypczak, Igor Walukiewicz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14544

Infinite lexicographic products of positional objectives
This paper contributes to the study of positional determinacy of infinite duration games played on potentially infinite graphs. Recently, [Ohlmann, TheoretiCS 2023] established that positionality of prefix-independent objectives is preserved by finite lexicographic products. We propose two different notions of infinite lexicographic products indexed by arbitrary ordinals, and extend Ohlmann's result by proving that they also preserve positionality. In the context of one-player positionality, th…

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

Le bouddhisme tibétain, ses grandes figures ont gardé le silence sur 3 canaux distincts :
- Le Dalai Lama de 1998 Š 2023
- Shechen Rabjam de 1997 Š 2023
- Matthieu Ricard de 2010 Š 2023
Découvrez pourquoi ces dates sont cruciales :
1/5

Measuring CEX-DEX Extracted Value and Searcher Profitability: The Darkest of the MEV Dark Forest
Fei Wu, Danning Sui, Thomas Thiery, Mallesh Pai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13023

Measuring CEX-DEX Extracted Value and Searcher Profitability: The Darkest of the MEV Dark Forest
This paper provides a comprehensive empirical analysis of the economics and dynamics behind arbitrages between centralized and decentralized exchanges (CEX-DEX) on Ethereum. We refine heuristics to identify arbitrage transactions from on-chain data and introduce a robust empirical framework to estimate arbitrage revenue without knowing traders' actual behaviors on CEX. Leveraging an extensive dataset spanning 19 months from August 2023 to March 2025, we estimate a total of 233.8M USD extracted …

Was für ein Spieltag in der #Erima-GFL #AmericanFootball
https://www.football-aktuell.de/cgi-bin…

Rund 20 Jahre lang - Das Phantom: Wie Benko seinen Freund bezahlen ließ #News #Nachrichten

Raqlet: Cross-Paradigm Compilation for Recursive Queries
Amir Shaikhha, Youning Xia, Meisam Tarabkhah, Jazal Saleem, Anna Herlihy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03978 https://

Raqlet: Cross-Paradigm Compilation for Recursive Queries
We introduce Raqlet, a source-to-source compilation framework that addresses the fragmentation of recursive querying engines spanning relational (recursive SQL), graph (Cypher, GQL), and deductive (Datalog) systems. Recent standards such as SQL:2023's SQL/PGQ and the GQL standard provide a common foundation for querying graph data within relational and graph databases; however, real-world support remains inconsistent across systems. Raqlet bridges this gap by translating recursive queries acros…

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…

Convergence of a finite-volume scheme for aggregation-diffusion equations with saturation
David G\'omez-Castro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11132 https:/…

Convergence of a finite-volume scheme for aggregation-diffusion equations with saturation
In [Bailo, Carrillo, Hu. SIAM J. Appl. Math. 2023] the authors introduce a finite-volume method for aggregation-diffusion equations with non-linear mobility. In this paper we prove convergence of this method using an Aubin--Simons compactness theorem due to Gallouët and Latché. We use suitable discrete $H^1$ and $W^{-1,1}$ discrete norms. We provide two convergence results. A first result shows convergence with general entropies ($U$) (including singular and degenerate) if the initial datum d…

Do STEM graduates fare better at times of Crises? Evidence from COVID 19 pandemic in India
Jheelum Sarkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12471 https://arxiv.or…

Do STEM graduates fare better at times of Crises? Evidence from COVID 19 pandemic in India
I study whether and to what extent STEM college degrees offer labor market resilience during the COVID 19 shock. Both the pandemic and its nationwide lockdown affected occupations unevenly. While some jobs could adapt by switching to remote work or surging demand, others could not. Using the nationally representative high-frequency labor force survey data (2017-2023), I used a difference-in-difference strategy to compare changes in employment participation and monthly earnings between STEM and …

While it is bad #grok is bad again, it is very good how obvious the chains are.
#ai

J-PAS: Forecasting constraints on Neutrino Masses
Gabriel Rodrigues, Antonio J. Cuesta, Jailson Alcaniz, Miguel Aparicio Resco, Antonio L. Maroto, Manuel Masip, Jamerson G. Rodrigues, Felipe B. M. dos Santos, Javier de Cruz P\'erez, Jorge Enrique Garc\'ia-Farieta, Clarissa Siqueira, Fuxing Qin, Yuting Wang, Gong-Bo Zhao, Carlos Hern\'andez-Monteagudo, Valerio Marra, Raul Abramo, Narciso Ben\'itez, Silvia Bonoli, Saulo Carneiro, Javier Cenarro, David Crist\'obal-Horn…

J-PAS: Forecasting constraints on Neutrino Masses
The large-scale structure survey J-PAS is taking data since October 2023. In this work, we present a forecast based on the Fisher matrix method to establish its sensitivity to the sum of the neutrino masses. We adapt the Fisher Galaxy Survey Code (FARO) to account for the neutrino mass under various configurations applied to galaxy clustering measurements. This approach allows us to test the sensitivity of J-PAS to the neutrino mass across different tracers, with and without non-linear correcti…

The Piano In The Dining Room – streaming where you listen #improvpiano #improvisation #listen #music …

The Piano In The Dining Room - streaming where you listen
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

2023 wurden in Deutschland erstmals über 10 Millionen Quadratmeter #Gründächer neu angelegt.
Das ist ein Rekordwert laut #BuGG-Marktreport. Der Markt für #Gebäudebegrünung

BuGG-Marktreport Archiv - BuGG e.V.

Do these comments in the Israeli press possibly explain what is happening in #Gaza?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun…

On the homological shifts of cover ideals of Cohen-Macaulay graphs
Amit Roy, Kamalesh Saha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01810 https://a…

On the homological shifts of cover ideals of Cohen-Macaulay graphs
For a non-negative integer $k$, let $\mathrm{HS}_{k}(J(G))$ denote the $k^{\text{th}}$ homological shift ideal of the vertex cover ideal $J(G)$ of a graph $G$. For each $k\geq 2$, we construct a Cohen-Macaulay very well-covered graph $G_k$ which is both Cohen-Macaulay bipartite and a whiskered graph so that $\mathrm{HS}_{k}(J(G))$ does not have a linear resolution. This contradicts several results as well as disproves a conjecture in [J. Algebra, $\mathbf{629}$, (2023), 76-108] and [Mediterr. J…

Settle–Carlisle line! ❤️ Did it in 2023, stopped at Ribblehed to go and admire the viaduct more closely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGbtl3i5WBI

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…

Underhållande artikel
Ultra-Processed Evidence - May Contain Lies https://maycontainlies.com/ultra-processed-evidence/

Le bouddhisme tibétain, ses grandes figures ont gardé le silence sur 3 canaux distincts :
- Le Dalai Lama de 1998 Š 2023
- Shechen Rabjam de 1997 Š 2023
- Matthieu Ricard de 2010 Š 2023
Découvrez pourquoi ces dates sont cruciales :
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Teil der deutschen Produktionsketten (II) https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10082

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…

Additional JWST/NIRSpec Transits of the Rocky M Dwarf Exoplanet GJ 1132 b Reveal a Featureless Spectrum
Katherine A. Bennett, Ryan J. MacDonald, Sarah Peacock, Junellie Perez, E. M. May, Sarah E. Moran, Lili Alderson, Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, Hannah R. Wakeford, David K. Sing, Kevin B. Stevenson, Natasha E. Batalha, Mercedes L\'opez-Morales, Munazza K. Alam, Joshua D. Lothringer, Guangwei Fu, James Kirk, Jeff A. Valenti, L. C. Mayorga, Kristin S. Sotzen

Additional JWST/NIRSpec Transits of the Rocky M Dwarf Exoplanet GJ 1132 b Reveal a Featureless Spectrum
As an archetypal M-dwarf rocky exoplanet, GJ 1132 b has a varied history of atmospheric measurements. At 1.13 $\rm R_{\oplus}$, 1.66 $\rm M_{\oplus}$, and 580 K, it orbits a bright, slowly rotating M dwarf in a 1.6-day period, making it a prime target for characterization. In this study, we combine two JWST NIRSpec/G395H transits previously reported by May and MacDonald et al. 2023 with two new NIRSpec/G395M transits to constrain the presence of an atmosphere. This marks the first time the G395…

BBC bias on Israel
From Jonathan Cook. (Substack link, sorry.)
"In a confrontation with BBC news chief Richard Burgess, journalist Peter Oborne sets out six ways the state broadcaster has wilfully misled audiences on Israel's destruction of Gaza"
For example,
"... the distinguished Israeli historian Avi Shlaim lives in the UK and teaches at Oxford University. ... Shlaim is both knowledgeable about the history of Israeli colonisation of Palestine and truly independent. He is in a position to dispassionately provide the context BBC audiences need to make judgments about what is going on and who is responsible for it.
"And yet extraordinarily, Shlaim has never been invited on by the BBC. ... He is one of the prominent Israelis we are never allowed to hear from, because they are likely to make more credible and mainstream a narrative the BBC wishes to present as fringe, loopy and antisemitic."
Plus some media analysis stats such as:
"The BBC mentioned “occupation” – the essential context for understanding the relationship between Israel and Palestinians – only 14 times in news articles when providing context to the events of 7 October 2023. That amounted to 0.3% of articles. Additional context – decades of Israeli apartheid rule and Israel’s 17-year blockade of Gaza — were entirely missing from the coverage."
#Israel #Palestine #history #Gaza #media #BBC #JonathanCook

How former Food52 executive Shannon Muldoon stole $270,000 from Food52 between 2021 and 2023 by using the company's credit card for luxury clothing and travel (Charlotte Klein/The Cut)
https://www.thecut.com/article/food52-shannon-muldoon-company-…

The Food52 Exec Who Spent $270k on the Company Credit Card
Food52 executive Shannon Muldoon, 38, stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from her employer using the company credit card for clothes and travel.

Do these comments in the Israeli press possibly explain what is happening in #Gaza?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun…

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…

Identifying Radio Active Galactic Nuclei with Machine Learning and Large-Area Surveys
Xu-Liang Fan, Jie Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01596 https://arxiv.o…

Identifying Radio Active Galactic Nuclei with Machine Learning and Large-Area Surveys
Context. Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and star forming galaxies (SFGs) are the primary sources of extragalactic radio sky. But it is difficult to distinguish the radio emission produced by AGNs from that by SFGs, especially when the radio sources are faint. Best et al. (2023) classified the radio sources in LoTSS Deep Fields DR1 through multiwavelength SED fitting. With the classification results of them, we perform a supervised machine learning to distinguish radio AGNs and radio SFGs. Aims…

Universal Jailbreak Suffixes Are Strong Attention Hijackers
Matan Ben-Tov, Mor Geva, Mahmood Sharif
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12880 https://

Universal Jailbreak Suffixes Are Strong Attention Hijackers
We study suffix-based jailbreaks$\unicode{x2013}$a powerful family of attacks against large language models (LLMs) that optimize adversarial suffixes to circumvent safety alignment. Focusing on the widely used foundational GCG attack (Zou et al., 2023), we observe that suffixes vary in efficacy: some markedly more universal$\unicode{x2013}$generalizing to many unseen harmful instructions$\unicode{x2013}$than others. We first show that GCG's effectiveness is driven by a shallow, critical mechani…

Sources: Mistral AI is in talks to raise as much as $1B in equity from several investors including Abu Dhabi's MGX; it has raised €1B since its 2023 founding (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

Missed deadline… I’m okay with that #beauty https://muz4now.com/2023/missed-deadline-im-okay-with-that

Missed deadline… I’m okay with that
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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

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…

EA schließt Studio und stampft "Black Panther"-Spiel ein
EA hat ein 2023 angekündigtes "Black Panther"-Spiel eingestampft. Das eigens dafür gegründete Entwicklerstudio wird geschlossen.

Sources: CapitalG and Nvidia are in talks to invest in Vast Data, which could value the AI infrastructure provider at ~$30B, up from $9.1B in 2023 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/alphabets-capitalg-nvidia-…

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

Pittsburgh-based Gecko Robotics, which makes robots to inspect infrastructure, raised a $125M Series D at a $1.25B valuation, up from $633M in December 2023 (Ian Thomas/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/12/gecko-robotics-…

Gecko Robotics raises $125 million in deal valuing critical infrastructure startup over $1 billion
Gecko Robotics, which uses robots and AI to inspect and monitor critical infrastructure, has raised a $125 million, bringing its valuation to $1.25 billion.

Solar Flare Prediction Using LSTM and DLSTM with Sliding Window Pattern Recognition
Zeinab Hassani, Davud Mohammadpur, Hossein Safari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05313

Solar Flare Prediction Using LSTM and DLSTM with Sliding Window Pattern Recognition
We investigate the use of Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Decomposition-LSTM (DLSTM) networks, combined with an ensemble algorithm, to predict solar flare occurrences using time-series data from the GOES catalog. The dataset spans from 2003 to 2023 and includes 151,071 flare events. Among approximately possible patterns, 7,552 yearly pattern windows are identified, highlighting the challenge of long-term forecasting due to the Sun's complex, self-organized criticality-driven behavior. A slidi…

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
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A look at The Examination, a nonprofit investigative news outlet with ~20 staffers launched in 2023 that focuses on Big Food, tobacco, pollution, and drugs (Sophie Endrud/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2025/t…

Meet The Examination, a nonprofit watchdog for global health - Poynter
Ben Hallman and his team of almost 20 are taking on four of the biggest global industries, one health investigation at a time

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😃Seit September 2023 immer falsch geraten. 😛
In wie vielen #Fernsehsendungen des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks wurde im Februar 2025 über den #Klimawandel und dessen Drumherum sowie den

Klimawandel im Fokus: Analyse der Berichterstattung im öffentlich-rechtlichen Fernsehen 2025
Wird der Klimawandel im öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk ausreichend thematisiert? Eine umfassende Analyse zeigt Zahlen und Trends in der Berichterstattung.