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August 2025 was the third-warmest August globally, behind only 2023 and 2024, with an average surface air temperature of 16.60°C, 1.29°C above the estimated 1850-1900 average used to define the pre-industrial level.
https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-temper…

Ein seltsames Ziel, dass das #Umweltbundesamt da für 2030 sieht...
Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/daten/energie/primaerener…

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'`,…

Preventing Another Tessa: Modular Safety Middleware For Health-Adjacent AI Assistants
Pavan Reddy, Nithin Reddy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07022 https://ar…

Preventing Another Tessa: Modular Safety Middleware For Health-Adjacent AI Assistants
In 2023, the National Eating Disorders Association's (NEDA) chatbot Tessa was suspended after providing harmful weight-loss advice to vulnerable users-an avoidable failure that underscores the risks of unsafe AI in healthcare contexts. This paper examines Tessa as a case study in absent safety engineering and demonstrates how a lightweight, modular safeguard could have prevented the incident. We propose a hybrid safety middleware that combines deterministic lexical gates with an in-line large l…

An updated catalog of HIRES/Keck radial velocity measurements. Including Ca II H&K measurements
Jerusalem T. Teklu, Volker Perdelwitz, R. Paul Butler, Trifon Trifonov, Steven S. Vogt, Deepa Mukhija, Lev Tal-Or
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06072

An updated catalog of HIRES/Keck radial velocity measurements. Including Ca II H&K measurements
The first HIRES/Keck precision radial velocity (RV) catalog was released in 2017; it was followed by a second release in 2019, which incorporated corrections for small but significant systematic errors. The manifestation of stellar activity accompanied by systematic errors could affect the detection of exoplanets via the RV method. We expanded the HIRES catalog to March 2023 using publicly available spectra. Furthermore, we included the chromospheric emission line Ca II H&K indicator ($R_{\math…

Federal prosecutors accuse two US men of operating and promoting OmegaPro, a crypto multi-level marketing scheme that allegedly defrauded victims of $650M (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/08/doj-omegapro-crypto-scam.html

Two charged in $650 million global crypto scam that promised 300% returns
From 2019 to 2023, Sims and Reynoso allegedly lured thousands of victims worldwide to purchase "investment packages" from OmegaPro using cryptocurrency.

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…

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1114359 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Partially paywalled but still lots of juicy data. “State of the software engineering job market in 2025”: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-the-tech-market-in-2025
From which:

State of the software engineering job market in 2025
A deepdive into today’s tech jobs market, with exclusive data on tech jobs, AI engineering, Big Tech recruitment, the growing importance of location, and more

"But AI tools will be just like calculators..."

The Trump administration is reversing a former President Biden-era plan to require airlines to
compensate passengers with cash, meals and other expenses
for disruptions caused by U.S. carriers. 
The rule, which was first introduced in 2023, would have provided customers between $200 and  $775 in compensation,
along with lodging and meals,
if the delay took place because of an airline system outage or a plane having a mechanical issue

Dense photometry validation of super-fast-rotating asteroid candidates
Bojan Novakovi\'c, Pedro J. Guti\'errez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06533 https://

Dense photometry validation of super-fast-rotating asteroid candidates
Super-fast rotators (SFRs; P < 2.2 hr) are of great importance in asteroid studies; yet, many reported detections suffer from aliasing caused by an insufficient observation cadence. We present dense CCD photometry for 15 SFRs candidates (14 after excluding 11219 Benbohn, whose published period already exceeds the spin barrier) observed from 2023 Aug 11 to 2024 Aug 11 with the 1.5 m Sierra Nevada and 1.4 m AS Vidojevica telescopes. Our dataset comprises approximately 2,400 calibrated data points…

diese woche endlich mal zum lesen gekommen:
"Über die Bedeutung des Spaßfaktors in Forschungsprojekten – Ein Erfahrungsbericht" von Jutta Bertram
https://doi.org/10.1515/bfp-2023-0060
– ein erfreulich offener rückblick auf ein forschungssemester, das nicht so gelaufen war wie gep…

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Überwachung: Strafverfolger setzen erneut mehr Staatstrojaner ein

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #SHERELLE
Crystal Waters:
🎵 100% Pure Love
#CrystalWaters
https://waldodj.bandcamp.com/track/crystal-waters-100-pure-love-waldo-remix-2023
https://open.spotify.com/track/0dfQwyoZoS9LgQiU6AJO7f

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...

Wie kann es sein, dass erst 13.000 Menschen unterschrieben haben? https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/me-cfs-long-covid-post-vac-650-000-erkrankte-brauchen-mind-1-milliarde-forschungsgelder?

ME/CFS, Long Covid, Post Vac - 650.000 Erkrankte brauchen mind. 1 Milliarde Forschungsgelder! - Online petition
Bis zu 650.000 Menschen in Deutschland leiden an ME/CFS, dazu kommen die Fälle mit Post Vac und Post Corona – viele sind schwerstkrank, ohne jede Therapie. Kinder und Jugendliche sind nicht beschulbar. Unter Lauterbach wurde Forschung versprochen, die neue Regierung sieht offenbar keine Notwendigkeit und stellt nur 15 Mio. Euro bereit (https://bmbf-test41.gsb.itzbund.de/bmbf/shareddocs/kurzmeldungen/de/2023/09/230912-mecfs.html). Wir fordern mindestens 1 Milliarde Euro für zeitnahe Forschun…

Finding Bliss
#MellowMusic #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2023/finding-bliss-nowp…

Finding Bliss #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Dwangsom van 50.000 euro per dag voor ministerie van Landbouw: emissiegegevens Gelderland moeten openbaar worden.
De rechter weegt mee dat „met het oog op de verkiezingen in oktober het publiek moet kunnen worden geïnformeerd over de effectiviteit van het stikstofbeleid”.
#TK2025

Dwangsom van 50.000 euro per dag voor ministerie van Landbouw: emissiegegevens moeten openbaar worden
Stikstof: Minister Wiersma (Landbouw, BBB) moet zich houden aan de uitspraak van een rechtbank in Overijssel. Dat betekent dat ze de uitstootgegevens van boeren in Gelderland, over het jaar 2023, moet vrijgeven. Een overwinning voor drie journalistieke organisaties die een kort geding hadden aangespannen.

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

Luminate: Apple TV has all but abandoned animated shows, ordering just six animated series in 2024, a 60% drop compared to 15 orders each in 2022 and 2023 (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…

Where Did All the Apple TV+ Animation Go?
Even with its 'Peanuts' rights, the Apple SVOD service has seemingly all but abandoned cartoons.

iPhone 12: Sendeleistungsanpassung erreicht nach Frankreich alle EU-Länder
Die französische Funkaufsichtsbehörde hatte von Apple 2023 verlangt, die Antenneneinstellungen bei einem Modell zu ändern. Das geschieht nun auch europaweit.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

16WW Hot Noon Garden Ambient (2023-09) - Back garden noises with temperature hitting 32 Celsius; birds, bees, cars, planes, sirens. #fieldRecording #London #heatWave -

16WW Hot Noon Garden Ambient (2023-09)
Back garden noises with temperature hitting 32 Celsius; birds, bees, cars, planes, sirens. #fieldRecording #London #heatWave

Simultaneous Rational Function Codes: Improved Analysis Beyond Half the Minimum Distance with Multiplicities and Poles
Matteo Abbondati, Eleonora Guerrini, Romain Lebreton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05284

Simultaneous Rational Function Codes: Improved Analysis Beyond Half the Minimum Distance with Multiplicities and Poles
In this paper, we extend the work of Abbondati et al. (2024) on decoding simultaneous rational function codes by addressing two important scenarios: multiplicities and poles (zeros of denominators). First, we generalize previous results to rational codes with multiplicities by considering evaluations with multi-precision. Then, using the hybrid model from Guerrini et al. (2023), we extend our approach to vectors of rational functions that may present poles. Our contributions include: a rigorous…

The generalized Tur\'an number for K_3 in graphs without suspensions of a path on five vertices
Doudou Hei, Xinmin Hou, Yue Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03851 https://

The generalized Turán number for K_3 in graphs without suspensions of a path on five vertices
Given graphs $H$ and $F$, the generalized Turán number $\ex(n, H, F)$ is defined as the maximum number of copies of $H$ in an $n$-vertex graph that contains no copy of $F$. The suspension $\widehat{F}$ of a graph $F$ is obtained by adding a new vertex that is adjacent to every vertex of $F$. Mubayi and Mukherjee (2023, DM) conjectured that $\ex(n, K_3, \widehat{P_k})=\left\lfloor \frac{k-2}{2}\right\rfloor \cdot \frac{n^2}{8}+o(n^2)$, where $P_k$ is a path on $k\ge 4$ vertices. Using…

Six microlensing planets detected via sub-day signals during the 2023 -- 2024 season
Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Andrzej Udalski, Ian A. Bond, Michael D. Albrow, Sun-Ju Chung, Andrew Gould, Youn Kil Jung, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, Yossi Shvartzvald, In-Gu Shin, Jennifer C. Yee, Weicheng Zang, Hongjing Yang, Sang-Mok Cha, Doeon Kim, Dong-Jin Kim, Seung-Lee Kim, Dong-Joo Lee, Yongseok Lee, Byeong-Gon Park, Richard W. Pogge, Przemek Mr\'oz, Micha{\l} K. Szyma\'nski, Jan Skowron…

Six microlensing planets detected via sub-day signals during the 2023 -- 2024 season
We present analyses of six microlensing events: KMT-2023-BLG-0548, KMT-2023-BLG-0830, KMT-2023-BLG-0949, KMT-2024-BLG-1281, KMT-2024-BLG-2059, and KMT-2024-BLG-2242. These were identified in KMTNet data from the 2023 -- 2024 seasons, selected for exhibiting anomalies shorter than one day -- potential signatures of low-mass planetary companions. Detailed modeling of the light curves reveals that the anomalies in all six events are caused by planetary companions to the lenses. The brief durations…

Over the last couple of weeks I introduced you to our homeless stray cat Cinderella and her descendants Nele, Nepomuk and Nera. Today I'll show you the last one of our cats: say hello to Kasimir. He was also homeless, found by my brother 12 years ago. He moved together with us, when we relocated from Bavaria to the north-eastern corner of Germany in December 2023. Living alone with us for 10 years, it took a while until he became friend with the stray cats family.

Josh McDaniels says there’s no hard feelings toward Raiders https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/josh-mcdaniels-says-theres-no-hard-feelings-toward-raiders-3438187/

Energy Confinement Time Scaling for the Negative Triangularity Scenario in DIII-D
P. Lunia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04279 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.0427…

Energy Confinement Time Scaling for the Negative Triangularity Scenario in DIII-D
Results from the 2023 negative triangularity campaign on DIII-D demonstrate encouraging energy confinement properties, similar to or exceeding the scaling of the IPB98(y,2) law. This paper describes the procedure with which a new scaling law was regressed specifically from the data from the DIII-D campaign. Given the relatively small size of the single-machine dataset, measures were taken to minimize sampling bias and give a realistic estimate of the large uncertainties from the regression. The…

Measurement of coherent exclusive $J/\psi\to\mu^ \mu^-$ production in ultraperipheral Pb Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\textrm{NN}}}=5.36$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
ATLAS Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04135

Measurement of coherent exclusive $J/ψ\toμ^+μ^-$ production in ultraperipheral Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\textrm{NN}}}=5.36$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
The ATLAS experiment has performed a measurement of coherent exclusive $J/ψ\toμ^+μ^-$ production in ultraperipheral Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\textrm{NN}}}=5.36$ TeV. The data was recorded at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) during 2023, and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 78 $μ$b$^{-1}$. Exclusive $J/ψ$ candidates were selected with a dedicated track-sensitive trigger based on the ATLAS transition radiation tracker. The analysis involves reconstruction of the dimuon invarian…

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 238 nodes and 3755 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

Classical density functional theory for nanoparticle-laden droplets
Melih G\"ul, Andrew J Archer, Benjamin D Goddard, Roland Roth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04149 https://

Classical density functional theory for nanoparticle-laden droplets
Droplets of a pure fluid, such as water, in an open container surrounded by gas, are thermodynamically unstable and evaporate quickly. In a recent paper [Archer et al. J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 159}, 194403 (2023)] we employed lattice density functional theory (DFT) to demonstrate that nanoparticles or solutes dissolved in a liquid droplet can make it thermodynamically stable against evaporation. In this study, we extend our model by using continuum DFT, which allows for a more accurate description o…

Ihmisen jalanjälki #luonto #ympäristö

Ihmisen jalanjälki
Miten ihmisen toiminta on vaikuttanut maapallon nykytilaan ja evoluutioon? Yhdysvaltalainen biologi Shane Campbell-Staton selvittää ihmisen jättämää jalanjälkeä maapallolla käyttäen esimerkkejä jokapäiväisestä elämästämme. (Human Footprint. Tuotanto: Days Edge Productions/PBS, Yhdysvallat 2023.)

Weak Existence for Degenerate Distribution Dependent SDEs with multiplicative Noise -- a pathwise regularization approach
Fabian Harang, Chengcheng Ling, Peter H. C. Pang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03665

Weak Existence for Degenerate Distribution Dependent SDEs with multiplicative Noise -- a pathwise regularization approach
We establish the existence of weak solutions to a class of distribution-dependent stochastic differential equations (DDSDEs) with possibly degenerate multiplicative noise and singular coefficients. Extending the weak existence techniques introduced by Bechtold & Hofmanova 2023 to a distribution-dependent framework, we utilize pathwise averaging and local-time decomposition methods to show how irregular noise effectively regularizes analytical challenges associated with degeneracies in stochasti…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
The Big Moon:
🎵 2 Lines (6 Music Session, 12 Dec 2023)
#TheBigMoon
https://thebigmoonband.bandcamp.com/track/2-lines
https://open.spotify.com/track/1i4nDDv1ZBFKqTUWoJRulv

Dramatized or not, the #TetrisMovie is so much better than I imagined.
▶️ Tetris - Official Trailer (2023) Taron Egerton, Toby Jones
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Hcfbg994fu

DreamState - Awakening
- awakening with dreams alive is one of the best feelings -
- #DreamState #NowPlaying -
https://

DreamState - Awakening - #DreamState #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Energy-dependent anisotropy of cosmic-ray muons: A twelve-year study with IceCube Neutrino Observatory
Nabin Upadhya Dhakal, Nabin Bhusal, Manjeet Kunwar, Manil Khatiwada, Shiv Narayan Yadav
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01194

Energy-dependent anisotropy of cosmic-ray muons: A twelve-year study with IceCube Neutrino Observatory
We present a comprehensive, energy-resolved study of cosmic-ray muon anisotropy using 12 years (2011-2023) of data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, comprising 7.92 x 10^11 events in the 13 TeV to 5.3 PeV energy range. Dividing the spectrum at log-scale energy 5 GeV, we contrast low- and high-energy anisotropy features via sidereal modulation, angular profiles, Fourier analysis, and full-sky HEALPix mapping. Gaussian and power-law fits to energy distributions are evaluated using chi-square…

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

JWST-TST DREAMS: NIRSpec/PRISM Transmission Spectroscopy of the Habitable Zone Planet TRAPPIST-1 e
N\'estor Espinoza, Natalie H. Allen, Ana Glidden, Nikole K. Lewis, Sara Seager, Caleb I. Ca\~nas, David Grant, Am\'elie Gressier, Shelby Courreges, Kevin B. Stevenson, Sukrit Ranjan, Knicole Col\'on, Brett M. Morris, Ryan J. MacDonald, Douglas Long, Hannah R. Wakeford, Jeff A. Valenti, Lili Alderson, Natasha E. Batalha, Ryan C. Challener, Jingcheng Huang, Zifan Lin, Dana R. Lo…

JWST-TST DREAMS: NIRSpec/PRISM Transmission Spectroscopy of the Habitable Zone Planet TRAPPIST-1 e
TRAPPIST-1 e is one of the very few rocky exoplanets that is both amenable to atmospheric characterization and that resides in the habitable zone of its star -- located at a distance from its star such that it might, with the right atmosphere, sustain liquid water on its surface. Here, we present a set of 4 JWST/NIRSpec PRISM transmission spectra of TRAPPIST-1 e obtained from mid to late 2023. Our transmission spectra exhibit similar levels of stellar contamination as observed in prior works fo…

Human-AI Technology Integration and Green ESG Performance: Evidence from Chinese Retail Enterprises
Jun Cui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03057 https://

Human-AI Technology Integration and Green ESG Performance: Evidence from Chinese Retail Enterprises
This study examines the relationship between human-AI technology integration transformation and green Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance in Chinese retail enterprises, with green technology innovation serving as a mediating mechanism. Using panel data comprising 5,400 firm-year observations from 2019 to 2023, sourced from CNRDS and CSMAR databases, we employ fixed-effects regression models to investigate this relationship. Our findings reveal that human-AI technology integr…

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}…

Avara luonto: Pohjanmeri ja Itämeri #luonto

Avara luonto: Pohjanmeri ja Itämeri
Sarjassa perehdytään myrskyisän Pohjanmeren ja matalan Itämeren luontoon ja ilmaston lämpenemisen tuomiin uusiin haasteisiin. Miten mm. kalat, linnut, hylkeet ja kasvit pärjäävät muuttuvissa olosuhteissa? (Seas in Motion, Tuotanto: Doclights/NDR/ARD/Arte/Terra Mater, Saksa 2023.)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Alogte Oho and his Sounds of Joy:
🎵 La Ka Ba'a (6 Music Session, 19 Aug 2023)
#AlogteOhoandhisSoundsofJoy
https://alogteohoandhissoundsofjoy.bandcamp.com/track/la-ka-baa
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Y62CbvptkVHpq6OsmFceu

Owning two Pixel phones running GrapheneOS made me both chuckle and tear up a little. It’s such an amazing operating system that I’m planning to start making monthly donations to support the project.
I had my Pixel 6a since early May 2023, but yesterday I upgraded to a Pixel 9a because the speakers and earpiece microphone on my 6a had started to fail badly, and the battery was showing its age.
I’m glad I made the upgrade, and now people can hear me clearly on the phone again.

Beamstrahlung monitoring at SuperKEKB upgrade 2023
Dmitri Liventsev, Giovanni Bonvicini, Daniel Ricalde Herrmann, Pedro L. M. Podesta-Lerma, Makoto Tobiyama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03955

Beamstrahlung monitoring at SuperKEKB upgrade 2023
Beam monitoring is crucial for particle accelerators to achieve high luminosity. We describe an upgrade of the LABM, a beam monitoring device utilizing observation of the beamstrahlung, radiation emitted by a beam of charged particles when it accelerates in the electromagnetic field of another beam of charged particles.

🦞 🇩🇪 💸 Ledger ( #AD2023) | Lobsters
https://lobste.rs/s/wthfwo/ledger_2023#c_gfo9px
about the most tricky entries are those split 50/50 private/business and separate VAT, e.g…

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…

Simultaneous Diophantine approximation on the three dimensional Veronese curve
Dmitry Badziahin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21401 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507…

Simultaneous Diophantine approximation on the three dimensional Veronese curve
We compute the Hausdorff dimension of the set of simultaneously $λ$-well approximable points on the Veronese curve in $\RR^3$ for $1/3\le λ\le 3/5$. This range for $λ$ was predicted in the conjecture of Beresnevich and Yang from~\cite{ber_yan_2023}. To the best of the author's knowledge, this makes $\VVV_3$ the first nondegenerate curve in $\RR^n$, $n\ge 3$, to confirm the lower bound part of this conjecture.

Daily fluctuations propagate damply through a black hole accretion disk
Han He, Yi Long, Bei You, Fu-Guo Xie, Zhen Yan, Andrzej A. Zdziarski, Sai-En Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01384

Daily fluctuations propagate damply through a black hole accretion disk
Propagating fluctuations within accretion disks are known to induce multi-wavelength variability across diverse timescales. While these fluctuations have been widely invoked to explain rapid timing phenomena within the inner disk region in the frequency domain, observational signatures of outer-disk fluctuations propagating in the time domain remain sparse. Here, we present an analysis of observations by the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT) during the 2023 outburst of the newly discovered…

Subtle Drama
#MellowMusic #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2023/subtle-drama-

Subtle Drama #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Blameless Users in a Clean Room: Defining Copyright Protection for Generative Models
Aloni Cohen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19881 https://

Blameless Users in a Clean Room: Defining Copyright Protection for Generative Models
Are there any conditions under which a generative model's outputs are guaranteed not to infringe the copyrights of its training data? This is the question of "provable copyright protection" first posed by Vyas, Kakade, and Barak (ICML 2023). They define near access-freeness (NAF) and propose it as sufficient for protection. This paper revisits the question and establishes new foundations for provable copyright protection -- foundations that are firmer both technically and legally. First, we sho…

Native American teens kayak river to celebrate dam removals, symbolizing restoration and honoring ancestors. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Native American teens kayak US river to celebrate dam removals
Four dams were dynamited and removed between 2023 to 2024, freeing hundreds of miles of the Klamath.

Establishment of global phase coherence in a highly disordered fractal MgO/MgB2 nanocomposite: Roles of interface, morphology and defect
Iku Nakaaki, Aoi Hashimoto, Shun Kondo, Yuichi Ikuhara, Shuuichi Ooi, Minoru Tachiki, Shunichi Arisawa, Akiko Nakamura, Taku Moronaga, Jun Chen, Hiroyo Segawa, Takahiro Sakurai, Hitoshi Ohta, Takashi Uchino
https://…

Establishment of global phase coherence in a highly disordered fractal MgO/MgB2 nanocomposite: Roles of interface, morphology and defect
Recently, we have reported that a highly disordered fractal MgO/MgB2 nanocomposite exhibits bulk-like superconducting properties with isotropic pinning, showing an excellent phase-coherent capability irrespective of the low volume fraction (~30 vol. %) of MgB2 [Uchino et al., Phys. Rev. B 101, 035146 (2020); Teramachi et al,, Phys. Rev. B 108, 155146 (2023)]. Hence, this nanocomposite provides a useful experimental system to investigate the relationship between the structural disorder and the e…

Nyheim Hines reportedly signs with Chargers after missing two seasons due to jet ski accident

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nyheim-…

Der gesamte contentindustrielle Journalismus ist eine gigantische Kopiermaschine für industriell erzeugte Dummheit geworden, und über dem breiten Tor, das in die Idiocracy und das nächste finstere Mittelalter führt, stehen als flammendes Menetekel die Worte Breaking News
#Selbstzitat | Quelle:

WGA West report: the number of members reporting earnings fell 9.4% YoY in 2024, while total earnings rose 12.7% to $1.5B in the same period, below 2022's $1.9B (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

TV and Film Writing Jobs Grew More Scarce, Even If Earnings Were Up Slightly in 2024
The annual tally from the Writers Guild West shows that its members may have made slightly more money overall than during the 148-day strike year of 2023, but there's fewer jobs available.

Forecasting Geopolitical Events with a Sparse Temporal Fusion Transformer and Gaussian Process Hybrid: A Case Study in Middle Eastern and U.S. Conflict Dynamics
Hsin-Hsiung Huang, Hayden Hampton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20935

Forecasting Geopolitical Events with a Sparse Temporal Fusion Transformer and Gaussian Process Hybrid: A Case Study in Middle Eastern and U.S. Conflict Dynamics
Forecasting geopolitical conflict from data sources like the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) is a critical challenge for national security. The inherent sparsity, burstiness, and overdispersion of such data cause standard deep learning models, including the Temporal Fusion Transformer (TFT), to produce unreliable long-horizon predictions. We introduce STFT-VNNGP, a hybrid architecture that won the 2023 Algorithms for Threat Detection (ATD) competition by overcoming these l…

Sources: Pinecone, which provides an AI-compatible vector database, is exploring a sale after receiving takeover interest; Pinecone was valued at $750M in 2023 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/top-funded-ai-database-star…

Top-Funded AI Database Startup Pinecone Considers a Sale
When the artificial intelligence boom began a few years ago, investors flocked to startups that helped businesses transform and store proprietary data in a format AI could understand, known as a vector database. The technology allowed businesses to use a customized AI chatbot to search or ...

#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.

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Last week, I mentioned a ciliate that can cause red tide #blooms. Mesodinium rubrum is an example of a unicellular organism that can both injest food and photosynthesize. Its main prey are cryptomonad

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…

Solange #Piraten nicht in den Parlamenten sitzen wird das wieder passieren, eher häufiger als seltener: https://chaos.social/@Freiheitsrechte/114901808007320123

50 years ago #OTD at 16:09 UTC #Soyuz 19 and the final #Apollo spacecraft docked in orbit in the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project or Экспериментальный полёт «Союз»–«Аполлон» (the Americans and Soviets never agreed on which s/c comes first): https://www.nasa.gov/apollo-soyuz-test-project/ = various NASA materials, https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/astp.htm = many links, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/sp-4209.pdf = a biiiig book, https://www.facebook.com/AstroDrewMorgan/posts/pfbid0wcN12LcAfRYYTmiWS71GQ47P42jukXVhd2QWA7eBzgg1wbdZAKq8LXVGTC9o7tKtl and https://www.facebook.com/ralf.heckel1/posts/pfbid02jcFp85PRy2UBUs4JVhPQcBnmddC8sQbPL3Vx26XoFMvbbsToNJmpLMDrRfce98HPl and https://www.facebook.com/groups/176051159106442/posts/24331420949809459 and https://www.facebook.com/groups/48800622850/posts/10162318303047851 = more visuals, https://www.youtube.com/live/Mu7iEyaOmDM = an online event, https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/07/not-that-into-peace-doves-the-apollo-soyuz-patch-nasa-rejected/ and https://www.spacerockethistory.com/2025/02/space-rocket-history-457-apollo-soyuz-test-project-soviet-concerns-with-apollo/ and http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-071425a-apollo-soyuz-test-project-astp-official-flight-kit-ofk-apk.html and https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/science/apollo-soyuz-test-project-1975-anniversary.html?smid=bs-share = articles and https://scicomm.xyz/@Nick_Stevens_graphics@mastodon.art/114858897568849751 = a contemporary cartoon.

Det er ikke bare fælt i de gamle epostene mine da. Norges styggeste kirke, i norges styggeste kirke. https://kimenkulturhus.no/program/39990-stjordal-kirke-temakveld/

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12282

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing run
We present an all-sky search for long-duration gravitational waves (GWs) from the first part of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA fourth observing run (O4), called O4a and comprising data taken between 24 May 2023 and 16 January 2024. The GW signals targeted by this search are the so-called "long-duration" (> 1 s) transients expected from a variety of astrophysical processes, including non-axisymmetric deformations in magnetars or eccentric binary coalescences. We make minimal assumptions on the emitted GW …

Subtle Drama #NowPlaying #nowplaying #originalmusic #streaming

Subtle Drama #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheMorningAfterMix
Suicide:
🎵 Surrender ('88 Version) (2023 Remaster)
#Suicide
https://promqueenband.bandcamp.com/track/surrender-suicide
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Ds35tFDM7sTBpB2h09c9I

Discovery and dynamics of a Sedna-like object with a perihelion of 66 au
Ying-Tung Chen, Patryk Sofia Lykawka, Yukun Huang, JJ Kavelaars, Wesley C. Fraser, Michele T. Bannister, Shiang-Yu Wang, Chan-Kao Chang, Matthew J. Lehner, Fumi Yoshida, Brett Gladman, Mike Alexandersen, Edward Ashton, Young-Jun Choi, A. Paula Granados Contreras, Takashi Ito, Youngmin JeongAhn, Jianghui Ji, Myung-Jin Kim, Samantha M. Lawler, Jian Li, Zhong-Yi Lin, Hong-Kyu Moon, Surhud More, Marco Mu\~noz-Guti\…

Discovery and dynamics of a Sedna-like object with a perihelion of 66 au
Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) with large perihelion distances ($q > 60$ au) and semi-major axes ($a > 200$ au) provide insights into the early evolution of the solar system and the existence of a hypothetical distant planet. These objects are still rare and their detection is challenging, yet they play a crucial role in constraining models of solar system formation. Here we report the discovery of a Sedna-like TNO, 2023\,KQ$_{14}$, nicknamed `Ammonite', with $q = 66$ au, $a = 252$ au, and incl…

Density estimation via periodic scaled Korobov kernel method with exponential decay condition
Ziyang Ye, Haoyuan Tan, Xiaoqun Wang, Zhijian He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15419

Density estimation via periodic scaled Korobov kernel method with exponential decay condition
We propose the periodic scaled Korobov kernel (PSKK) method for nonparametric density estimation on $\mathbb{R}^d$. By first wrapping the target density into a periodic version through modulo operation and subsequently applying kernel ridge regression in scaled Korobov spaces, we extend the kernel approach proposed by Kazashi and Nobile (SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 2023) and eliminate its requirement for inherent periodicity of the density function. This key modification enables effective estimation …

Temperature Sensitivity of Residential Energy Demand on the Global Scale: A Bayesian Partial Pooling Model
Peer Lasse Hinrichsen, Katrin Rehdanz, Richard S. J. Tol
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22768

Temperature Sensitivity of Residential Energy Demand on the Global Scale: A Bayesian Partial Pooling Model
This paper contributes to the limited literature on the temperature sensitivity of residential energy demand on a global scale. Using a Bayesian Partial Pooling model, we estimate country-specific intercepts and slopes, focusing on non-linear temperature response functions. The results, based on data for up to 126 countries spanning from 1978 to 2023, indicate a higher demand for residential electricity and natural gas at temperatures below -5 degrees Celsius and a higher demand for electricity…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Pip Blom:
🎵 Get Back (6 Music Session, 24 Oct 2023)
#PipBlom
https://pipblom.bandcamp.com/track/get-back
https://open.spotify.com/track/3jGPRb14PYAd2z5LdDKWOT

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…

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

Tupakantumpit ja nikotiinipussit päätyvät katukaivoista Itämereen – roskien myrkyt vaaraksi kaloille ja vesistöjen muille eliöille https://www.maaseuduntulevaisuus.fi/uutiset/20fb1e27-62bf-4f96-aef6-471c0e019278

Tupakantumpit ja nikotiinipussit päätyvät katukaivoista Itämereen – roskien myrkyt vaaraksi kaloille ja vesistöjen muille eliöille
Nikotiinipussit olivat yksi Suomen yleisimmistä rantaroskista vuonna 2023 vain kuukausia sen jälkeen, kun niiden myynti sallittiin.

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.

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 …

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.

Exploring Each DreamState Deeply #dreams #inspiration #puppy

Exploring Each DreamState Deeply
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Two elected #Democrat political officials in #NorthernCalifornia town booked and held on $1 million bail for #arson & #insurance sch…

‼️Gern boosten für mehr Antworten‼️
😃Seit September 2023 immer falsch geraten. 😛
In wie vielen #Fernsehsendungen des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks wurde im Juni 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.

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

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

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

Inner disc and circumplanetary material in the PDS 70 system
Daniele Fasano, Myriam Benisty, Pietro Curone, Stefano Facchini, Francesco Zagaria, Tomohiro C. Yoshida, Kiyoaki Doi, Anibal Sierra, Sean Andrews, Jaehan Bae, Andrea Isella, Nicol\'as T. Kurtovic, Laura M. P\'erez, Paola Pinilla, Luna Rampinelli, Richard Teague
https://

Inner disc and circumplanetary material in the PDS 70 system
The two giant protoplanets directly imaged in the dust-depleted cavity of PDS 70 offer a unique opportunity to study ongoing planet formation. Both planets have been detected in infrared thermal emission and in H$α$, indicating active accretion. We calibrate and analyse archival ALMA Band 6 and 7 observations of PDS 70 from 2019, 2021, and 2023 to search for circumplanetary material and assess its motion. Using 2D visibility modelling of the high-resolution (~0.11"x0.08" in Band 6; ~0.05"x0.05…

Evolution of QPO During Discovery Outburst of MAXI J1834-021: Estimation of Intrinsic Parameters from Spectro-Temporal Study
Dipak Debnath, Hsiang-Kuang Chang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10267

Evolution of QPO During Discovery Outburst of MAXI J1834-021: Estimation of Intrinsic Parameters from Spectro-Temporal Study
The Galactic transient black hole candidate (BHC) MAXI~J1834-021 was detected for the first time by MAXI/GSC on February 05, 2023 and it was active for next $\sim 10$~months. A monotonic evolution of low-frequency QPOs from higher to lower frequencies is observed in the middle-phase of the outburst. We study this evolution of the QPO with the propagating oscillatory shock (POS) model, and it suggests the presence of a receding shock. The POS model fit also estimates the mass of the source to be…

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…