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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

TIL how to spell check in vim
#vim

Three old post updates:
1. Alexander Lehner’s styles for accordions:
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/08/progressively-enhanced-html-accordion.html#Update056
2. Devin Prater asking for Google to do better:

Progressively Enhanced HTML Accordion
Does what it says on the tin. Uses

and

with a bit of ARIA to create an accordion that works without JavaScript while working better with JavaScript. Mostly. See the Pen Progressively Enhanced HTML Accordion by Adrian Roselli (@aardrian) on CodePen. Visit the standalone version for testing or…

Strudel's audio engine is SuperDough (2023) mostly by @…, which is based on SuperDirt (2015) mostly by @…, which is based on 'dirt' a sampler made by me and originally called 'datadirt' (2005), but very heavily based on MSG (2…

Das war schockierend ahnungslos: Esra Limbacher ist direkt gewählter Wahlkreisabgeordneter und seit 2021 im Bundestag und dort stellv. Vorsitzender der SPD-Bundestagsfraktion. Er ist zudem seit 2023 Generalsekretär der SPD Saarland.
Was er gerade im Deutschlandfunk zum Klimaschutz gesagt hat - oder nicht sagen konnte, sollte der SPD Sorgen machen. Hört selbst:

Beschleunigung des Klimawandels? Interview Esra Limbacher, SPD-Fraktions-Vize

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
After The Fire:
🎵 Der Kommissar (single version)
#AfterTheFire
https://orenamram.bandcamp.com/track/after-the-fire-der-kommissar-oren-amram-2023-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/0ROtxObpdDA25o5DriPSOk

Filing: Lachlan Murdoch's fiscal 2025 compensation jumped to $33M, including a $3M salary and $10.6M in stock awards, up from $23.8M in 2024 and $21.8M in 2023 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Lachlan Murdoch’s Fox Pay Rises to $33 Million As He Assumes Control of Family Media Empire
Weeks after settling with his siblings over who will control Fox, the company revealed that the CEO's fiscal 2025 pay rose significantly from 2024.

Le Dalaï-lama était informé dès 1997.
Il promettait de retirer sa lettre de légitimité si Spatz était condamné.
Spoiler : rien n’a bougé.
Il faudra attendre 2023, après des mois de lobbying et un documentaire ARTE, pour qu’une reconnaissance soit enfin suspendue.
temporairement.

The orbital period and inclination of the neutron star X-ray transient MAXI J1807 132
E. A. Saavedra, T. Mu\~noz-Darias, M. A. P. Torres, I. V. Yanes-Rizo, M. Armas Padilla, A. \'Alvarez-Hern\'andez, J. Casares, D. Mata S\'anchez, S. K. Rout, S. Navarro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20178 …

The orbital period and inclination of the neutron star X-ray transient MAXI J1807+132
The neutron star X-ray transient MAXI J1807+132 has undergone outbursts in 2017, 2019, and 2023. We conducted an $R$-band time series photometry campaign using the Isaac Newton Telescope during the 2022 quiescent state. We detected a periodic variation in the light curve, consistent with ellipsoidal modulation, which allowed us to determine an orbital period of $P_{\rm orb} = 4.258 \pm 0.008$ hr. By modelling the light curve, we obtained a binary inclination of $ i = 72\pm5 \, °$ and a mass ra…

Day 3: Octavia Butler.
Incredibly dark, graphic, and disturbing near-future science fiction, which has proved absolutely prophetic. In the 1990's she was writing about a charismatic Conservative Christian and white nationalist president elected in 2024, and the horrors his paramilitary followers would unleash, including forced labor & indoctrination camps. Did I mention those books include ebikes & pseudo-cellphones too? Characters fleeing north from a disastrous social collapse in Loss Angeles? This is "The Parable of the Sower" and "The Parable of the Talents" and the later was tragically rushed to an end because of Butler's declining health.
Her work deals unflinchingly with racism and the darker parts of society, and to those who might say "her depiction of social collapse is overblown," I'd say that while it's not literally the world we live in, it's *effectively* the world that the poorest of us live in. If you're a homeless undocumented latinx person in LA right now, I'm not sure how meaningfully different your world is from the one she depicts.
Her work comes with a strong content warning for lots of things, including racial violence, sexual abuse and slavery, including of children, animal harm, etc., so it's not for everyone. Reading it in 2023 was certainly an incredible trip. Her politics are really cool though; with explicit pro-LGBTQ themes and tinges of what might today be considered #SolarPunk.
#20WomenAuthors

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 26.10.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1167083 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

4 updates to old posts this week:
1. Embeds Beau Vass’s id24 video:
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/01/comparing-manual-and-free-automated-wcag-reviews.html#Update07
2. Embeds Lola Odelola’s id24 video:

Comparing Manual and Free Automated WCAG Reviews
Automated accessibility testing tools cannot test 100% of WCAG. This position is not controversial. Other than overlay vendors, no automated tool maker makes that claim. This is partly because WCAG is targeted at humans, not code, and so nuance and context apply. Free automated accessibility testing tools may have even…

Last year global temperatures were 1.6°C over the pre-industrial average, the first year to breach the 1.5° goal.
"One or two years that exceed 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level does not imply that the Paris Agreement has been breached. However, with the current rate of warming at more than 0.2°C per decade, the probability of breaching the 1.5°C target of the Paris Agreement within the 2030s is highly likely."

$H^\infty$-control problem for a singular parabolic system with convection
Cristian Cazacu, Gabriela Marinoschi, Teodor Rugin\u{a}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20984 https://

$H^\infty$-control problem for a singular parabolic system with convection
We study the $H^\infty-$control problem for an infinite dimensional parabolic system, with a convection term, perturbed by a singular inverse-square potential with control distributed in the interior of a domain, extending part of the results by G. Marinoschi (ESAIM: COCV, 2023).

Multivariate Quadratic Hawkes Processes -- Part II: Non-Parametric Empirical Calibration
Cecilia Aubrun, Michael Benzaquen, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21244

Multivariate Quadratic Hawkes Processes -- Part II: Non-Parametric Empirical Calibration
This is the second part of our work on Multivariate Quadratic Hawkes (MQHawkes) Processes, devoted to the calibration of the model defined and studied analytically in Aubrun, C., Benzaquen, M., & Bouchaud, J. P., Quantitative Finance, 23(5), 741-758 (2023). We propose a non-parametric calibration method based on the general method of moments applied to a coarse-grained version of the MQHawkes model. This allows us to bypass challenges inherent to tick by tick data. Our main methodological innov…

Quebec wines. IYKYK.
Or more like If TQS aired in your market when you were a teenager in the ’90s YK.

Integrating Mechanistic Modeling and Machine Learning to Study CD4 /CD8 CAR-T Cell Dynamics with Tumor Antigen Regulation
Saranya Varakunan, Melissa Stadt, Mohammad Kohandel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19536

Integrating Mechanistic Modeling and Machine Learning to Study CD4+/CD8+ CAR-T Cell Dynamics with Tumor Antigen Regulation
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has shown remarkable success in hematological malignancies, yet patient responses remain highly variable and the roles of CD4 and CD8 subsets are not fully understood. We present an extended mathematical framework of CAR-T cell dynamics that explicitly models CD4 helper and CD8 cytotoxic lineages and their interactions with tumor antigen burden. Building on the Kirouac et al. (2023) model of antigen-regulated memory, effector, and exhaustion transi…

Exploring the Relationship Between Swift Short Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows and their Host Galaxy Properties
Cristian Castrejon (Northwestern, CIERA), Anya E. Nugent, Wen-fai Fong, Genevieve Schroeder, Alicia Rouco Escorial, Olivia Guerra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20156

Exploring the Relationship Between Swift Short Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows and their Host Galaxy Properties
We present a comprehensive compilation of short-duration gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows in the X-ray, optical, and radio bands, comprising 150 events discovered primarily by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory over 2005-2023. We pair these observations with uniformly modeled host galaxies to understand how broadband afterglow luminosities are influenced by their environmental properties. We compare the X-ray and optical afterglow luminosities at 3 hr with projected physical and host-normalized…

Alleged Scattered Spider member turns self in to Las Vegas police https://therecord.media/las-vegas-arrest-scattered-spider-suspect-turns-self-in

FusedANN: Convexified Hybrid ANN via Attribute-Vector Fusion
Alireza Heidari, Wei Zhang, Ying Xiong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19767 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

FusedANN: Convexified Hybrid ANN via Attribute-Vector Fusion
Vector search powers transformers technology, but real-world use demands hybrid queries that combine vector similarity with attribute filters (e.g., "top document in category X, from 2023"). Current solutions trade off recall, speed, and flexibility, relying on fragile index hacks that don't scale. We introduce FusedANN (Fused Attribute-Vector Nearest Neighbor), a geometric framework that elevates filtering to ANN optimization constraints and introduces a convex fused space via a Lagrangian-lik…

Design and deployment of a fast neural network for measuring the properties of muons originating from displaced vertices in the CMS Endcap Muon Track Finder
Efe Yigitbasi (on behalf of CMS Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21062

Design and deployment of a fast neural network for measuring the properties of muons originating from displaced vertices in the CMS Endcap Muon Track Finder
We report on the development, implementation, and performance of a fast neural network used to measure the transverse momentum in the CMS Level-1 Endcap Muon Track Finder. The network aims to improve the triggering efficiency of muons produced in the decays of long-lived particles (LLPs). We implemented it in firmware for a Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA and deployed it during the LHC Run 3 data-taking in 2023. The new displaced muon triggers that use this algorithm broaden the phase space accessible to …

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…

Atlantic Council: the number of US-based investors in spyware nearly tripled in 2024 to 31 firms, compared to just 11 in 2023, topping Israel's 26 investors (Vas Panagiotopoulos/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/us-spyware-investment/

US Investment in Spyware Is Skyrocketing
A new report warns that the number of US investors in powerful commercial spyware rose sharply in 2024 and names new countries linked to the dangerous technology.

Quantum criticality in cuprate superconductors revealed by optical conductivity measurement
Hwiwoo Park, Sung-Sik Lee, G. D. Gu, Jungseek Hwang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19675 …

Quantum criticality in cuprate superconductors revealed by optical conductivity measurement
The ubiquitous temperature ($T$)-linear behaviour of the transport scattering rate in the normal state of strongly correlated electron systems is called strange metallicity \cite{zaanen:2004,phillips:2022,hartnoll:2022,chowdhury:2022,yuan:2022}. Although strange metallicity is crucial to understanding superconductivity in correlated electron systems, its origin remains elusive to date \cite{hussey:2023}. Here, we present the doping-, temperature-, and frequency ($ω$)-dependent transport proper…

Nonlinear corrections to the nuclear heavy flavor structure functions
F. Abdi, B. Rezaei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20934 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.20934

Nonlinear corrections to the nuclear heavy flavor structure functions
We study numerically the small-$x$ behaviour of the nuclear gluon distribution function $ G^A(x,Q^2)$ at next-to-leading order (NLO) approximation of the Gribov-Levin-Ryskin-Mueller-Qiu, Zhu-Ruan-Shen (GLR-MQ-ZRS) nonlinear equation and quantify the impact of gluon recombination in the kinematic range of $x \le 10^{-2}$ and $Q^2 \ge 5 \text{GeV}^2$ respectively. The results are comparable to the Rausch-Guzey-Klasen (RGK) [J.Rausch, V.Guzey and M.Klasen, Phys. Rev. D 107, 054003 (2023)] nuclear …

Unprecedentedly bright X-ray flaring in Cygnus X-1 observed by INTEGRAL
P. Thalhammer, T. Bouchet, J. Rodriguez, F. Cangemi, K. Pottschmidt, D. A. Green, L. Rhodes, C. Ferrigno, M. A. Nowak, V. Grinberg, T. Siegert, P. Laurent, I. Kreykenbohm, M. Perucho, J. Tomsick, C. S\'anchez-Fern\'andez, J. Wilms C. S\'anchez-Fern\'andez, J. Wilms
https://

Unprecedentedly bright X-ray flaring in Cygnus X-1 observed by INTEGRAL
We study three extraordinarily bright X-ray flares originating from Cyg X-1 seen on 2023 July 10 detected with INTEGRAL. The flares had a duration on the order of only ten minutes each, and within seconds reached a 1-100 keV peak luminosity of $1.1-2.6\times10^{38}$ erg/s. The associated INTEGRAL/IBIS count rate was about ${\sim}$10x higher than usual for the hard state. To our knowledge, this is the first time that such strong flaring has been seen in Cyg X-1, despite the more than 21 years of…

Caleb Williams reacts after Bears' collapse in fourth-quarter letdown against Vikings in season opener

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/caleb-w

Revisiting H\"otte (2025): A Companion Analysis with Extended Evidence from UK Inter-Industry Payment Data, 2017-2024
Kerstin H\"otte
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17695 …

Revisiting Hötte (2025): A Companion Analysis with Extended Evidence from UK Inter-Industry Payment Data, 2017-2024
In 2025, the UK Office for National Statistics released a novel dataset of monthly inter-industry payment flows during January 2017 to November 2024 at the 5-digit SIC level (ONS, 2025a), covering $>$3.1 million UK organizations. Annual aggregates amount to 490 million transactions with an aggregate value of over £3.1 trillion in 2023. Such publicly available data are unprecedented by their granularity and timeliness, providing a rich basis for economic research and real-time policy advice. H�…

Superconformal symmetry in a class of Schellekens theories
Harry Fosbinder-Elkins, Jeffrey A. Harvey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08941 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Superconformal symmetry in a class of Schellekens theories
In 2023, Moore and Singh used the theory of orbifold vertex operator algebras to explicitly construct an $\mathcal{N} = 1$ supercurrent in the Beauty and the Beast module of Dixon, Ginsparg, and Harvey. Using their techniques, we show that $\mathcal{N} = 1$ superconformal symmetry exists in all VOAs constructed as spin lifts of canonical $\mathbb{Z}_2$ orbifolds of Niemeier lattice VOAs.

Netflix acquires the Japanese media rights to carry the 2026 World Baseball Classic, marking the first time it will stream a live event in Japan (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/world-baseball-classic-netflix-japan-3ca47c79a174e31…

Netflix wins Japanese media rights for 2026 World Baseball Classic
Netflix has secured the Japanese media rights for next year's World Baseball Classic, marking its first live event it will stream in Japan. The platform will broadcast all 47 games of the tournament. Team Japan is the defending champion, having won in 2023. Previously, a consortium including Amazon Prime Video held these rights. The sixth edition of the tournament will feature 20 teams competing in four first-round pools in Tokyo, San Juan, Houston, and Miami. It starts on March 5, with the fin…

Large Language Models (LLMs) for Requirements Engineering (RE): A Systematic Literature Review
Mohammad Amin Zadenoori, Jacek D\k{a}browski, Waad Alhoshan, Liping Zhao, Alessio Ferrari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11446

Large Language Models (LLMs) for Requirements Engineering (RE): A Systematic Literature Review
Large Language Models (LLMs) are finding applications in numerous domains, and Requirements Engineering (RE) is increasingly benefiting from their capabilities to assist with complex, language-intensive tasks. This paper presents a systematic literature review of 74 primary studies published between 2023 and 2024, examining how LLMs are being applied in RE. The study categorizes the literature according to several dimensions, including publication trends, RE activities, prompting strategies, an…

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

Jake Moody released: 49ers cut struggling kicker after two misses in Week 1 against the Seahawks

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jake-mo

Magnetic Reconnection as a Potential Driver of X-ray Variability in Active Galactic Nuclei
Chen-Ran Hu, Yong-Feng Huang, Lang Cui, Hanle Zhang, Jiang-Tao Li, Li Ji, Jin-Jun Geng, Orkash Amat, Fan Xu, Chen Du, Wen-Long Zhang, Ze-Cheng Zou, Xiao-Fei Dong, Chen Deng, Pengfei Jiang, Jie Liao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12978

Magnetic Reconnection as a Potential Driver of X-ray Variability in Active Galactic Nuclei
We present a systematic analysis on the X-ray variability in 13 bright quasars at z > 4.5, combining recent Swift observations from 2021 to 2023 and archival multi-epoch observations. Upper limits of the luminosity measurements were included in the analysis by using the Kaplan-Meier estimator method. It is found that the high-z quasars exhibit X-ray variability on both short-term (hours-to-days) and intermediate-term (weeks-to-months) timescales, with short-term variability dominating the overa…

Propeller effect in action: unveiling quenched accretion in the transient X-ray pulsar 4U 0115 63
Hua Xiao, Sergey S. Tsygankov, Valery F. Suleimanov, Alexander A. Mushtukov, Long Ji, Juri Poutanen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09860

Propeller effect in action: unveiling quenched accretion in the transient X-ray pulsar 4U 0115+63
The Be/X-ray pulsar 4U 0115+63 underwent a type II outburst in 2023. After the outburst, similar to the outbursts in 2015 and 2017, the source decayed into a quiescent state. Two out of three XMM-Newton observations conducted after the 2023 outburst confirmed the source to be in a low-luminosity state at a level of $L_{\rm X} \sim 10^{33}\,\rm erg\,s^{-1}$. X-ray pulsations were detected at $\approx$0.277 Hz in both observations with a pulsed fraction exceeding 50%. The power density spectra sh…

Radio detection of Cosmic Rays with the IceCube Surface Array Enhancement
Megha Venugopal (for the IceCube Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13033 https://

Radio detection of Cosmic Rays with the IceCube Surface Array Enhancement
The surface array of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, IceTop, measures cosmic rays in the PeV-EeV primary energy range. Stations comprising radio antennas and scintillation detectors will be added to enhance the existing surface detectors. A prototype station, consisting of eight scintillation detectors and three radio antennas, has been in operation in with the instrumentation in final design since the beginning of 2023. Radio signals from air showers are measured by antennas that are read-ou…

A comprehensive view of PKS 2155-304 from 2008 to 2023 through a multi-epoch modeling of its spectral energy distributions
G. Harutyunyan, N. Sahakyan, D. B\'egu\'e, M. Khachatryan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11827

A comprehensive view of PKS 2155-304 from 2008 to 2023 through a multi-epoch modeling of its spectral energy distributions
We present a detailed investigation of the temporal and spectral evolution of the emission from the blazar PKS 2155-304, a high-synchrotron-peaked (HSP) blazar. Using $γ$-ray, X-ray, optical/UV, and infrared data assembled from the Markarian Multiwavelength Data Center, we constructed multi-band light curves and temporally resolved spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of PKS 2155-304 to probe the origin of its emission. The light curves show significant variability, with fractional variability…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
DEADLETTER:
🎵 Binge (6 Music Session, 25 Jan 2023)
#DEADLETTER
https://deadletter-band.bandcamp.com/track/binge
https://open.spotify.com/track/14lyCslumg3lMiYMRwmP4u

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…

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…