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A profile of Joshua Kushner, including Thrive Capital's investments in GitHub and Stripe and its role in reinstating Sam Altman as OpenAI CEO in November 2023 (Jeremy Stern/Colossus)
https://joincolossus.com/article/joshua-kushner-thrive-new-world/

LAT Media Group reports a net loss before taxes of $48.1M in 2024, up from $30M in 2023, with a $21.5M loss in H1 2025; 50% of revenue still came from print (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-america/los…

Los Angeles Times reveals $50m loss as it seeks $500m investment
The Los Angeles Times Media Group made a loss of almost $50m (£37m) in 2024, according to newly-published unaudited accounts.

Spectroscopic Reverberation Mapping for SARM: The Case of Mrk 1048 and Mrk 618
Shivangi Pandey, Suvendu Rakshit, S. Muneer, Jincen Jose, Ashutosh Tomar, Yan-Rong Li, Jian-Min Wang, C. S. Stalin, Jong-Hak Woo, Romain G. Petrov, James Leftley, Sebastian F. H\"onig, Amit Kumar Mandal, Tushar Ubarhande, Shu Wang, Michael Brotherton, Archana Gupta
https://

Spectroscopic Reverberation Mapping for SARM: The Case of Mrk 1048 and Mrk 618
Robust extragalactic distance measurements are crucial for resolving the persistent discrepancy in the value of the Hubble constant (H$_0$)). Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs), through their compact and variable broad-line regions (BLRs), enable the determination of geometric distances when reverberation mapping (RM) is combined with spectroastrometry(SA). We report results from a spectroscopic RM campaign (October 2022 to March 2023) targeting two narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies, Mrk 1048 and Mrk 6…

Sources: Binance nears a deal with the US DOJ to remove the outside compliance monitor imposed under its $4.3B 2023 settlement over money laundering failures (Sabrina Willmer/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Charles Leno, former Pro Bowl offensive tackle, announces retirement from NFL

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/charles-leno-former-pro-bowl-offensive-ta…

He’s coming to Vancouver as well: #enshittification

39. Cory Doctorow: Enshittification - Granville Island Stage - Vancouver - Oct 23, 2025
EVENT DESCRIPTION At last, a word has been coined that encapsulates our modern era, that eloquently sums up the pressing issues of our times: Enshittification. The term—which creator Cory Doctorow describes as a diagnosis about the state of exploitative online services, and the disheartening digital world as a whole—resonated so strongly that the American Dialect Society named it the 2023 Word of the Year, and it was cited as an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror. With incisive…

This is mesmerizing.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l6arnocvhn2zrll2gn6xlxn2/post/3m33bzfkh722u

Artologica aka Michele Banks (@artologica.net)
Courtney Mattison, Gyre I, stoneware and porcelain, 2023. "references the fragility, diversity, and resilience of marine ecosystems" #sciart

Uniqueness of entire function concerning derivatives and shifts
Sujoy Majumder, Nabadwip Sarkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10275 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510…

Uniqueness of entire function concerning derivatives and shifts
In the paper, we investigate the uniqueness problem of entire function concerning its derivative and shift and obtain two results. On of our result solves the open problem posed by Majumder et al. (On a conjecture of Li and Yang, Hiroshima Math. J., 53 (2023), 199-223) and the other result improves and generalizes the recent result due to Huang and Fang (Unicity of entire functions concerning their shifts and derivatives, Comput. Methods Funct. Theory, 21 (2021), 523-532) in a large extend.

Purcell - O Solitude performed by Reginald Mobley | EMV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns4flJJ04qg
> Henry Purcell's 'O Solitude, My Sweetest Choice' Z.406. Performed by Reginald Mobley on February 3, 2023, at Christ Church Cathedral in Vancouver, BC.Reginal...

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 04.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

Neros, which makes low-cost, military FPV drones in the US, raised $75M led by Sequoia, bringing its total funding to $121M, and won a US Army contract (Farah Stockman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/business/neros-military-drones.html

The 20-Somethings Who Raised $121 Million to Build Military Drones
Neros, a company founded in 2023 by former teenage drone racers, won a coveted Army contract and is gaining popularity in the defense sector.

„Ich war so dumm“ - Das sagt Teichtmeister zum Oktoberfest-Desaster #News #Nachrichten

Sehr (bitter) gelacht.
Die lange erwartete empirische Studie zu geschlechtsspezifischer Gewalt, die erste seit 2004, lässt weiter auf sich warten. 2023 hieß es "Erste Ergebnisse werden 2025 erwartet".
Aktuell will sich das Ministerium gar nicht mehr festlegen.
https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/21/…

Revealed: Europe losing 600 football pitches of nature and crop land a day https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/01/revealed-europe-losing-600-football-pitches-of-nature-and-crop-land-a-day

Cowboys' Brandon Aubrey named NFC Special Teams Player of Month https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/02/cowboys-brandon-aubrey-nfc-special-teams-player-month-september…

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

Local well-posedness for a class of semilinear Moore-Gibson-Thompson equations with subcritical nonlinearities
Flank D. M. Bezerra, Lu\'is M. Salge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06944

Local well-posedness for a class of semilinear Moore-Gibson-Thompson equations with subcritical nonlinearities
In this paper, we study a class of higher-order semilinear evolution equations inspired by the Moore-Gibson-Thompson model introduced by Dell'Oro, Liverani and Pata (2023), involving strongly elliptic operators of order ($2m$) with homogeneous boundary conditions. The associated unbounded linear operator is a sectorial operator with zero belonging to the resolvent set, allowing the construction of fractional powers spaces, and the analysis of their spectral properties. We prove the local well-p…

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."

"Speed cameras lead to 31% reduction in traffic accidents with injuries or deaths on Catalan roads"
https://www.catalannews.com/society-science/item/speed-cameras-lead-to-31-reduction-…

Speed cameras lead to 31% reduction in traffic accidents with injuries or deaths on Catalan roads
Government study says that 1,610 accidents have been prevented from 2002 to 2023

Aufschrieb zu meiner (nicht nur) SF-Lektüre im August.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/index.php/2025/08/29/science-fiction-und-fantasy-im-august-2025/

Science Fiction und Fantasy im August 2025
Ich fange mit einem Buch an, das eigentlich eher ein Sachbuch ist - Mark McCaughreans "Reiseführer" 111 places in space that you must not miss (2023). Der Titel beschreibt eigentlich auch schon ganz gut, was es mit diesem Buch auf sich hat, das wohl tatsächlich in einer Reihe erschienen ist, die auc

#Artikelupdate
Die "rätselhafte" #Meereserwärmung des Pazifischen Ozeans habe ich als Lesestoff mit aufgenommen. Wir hatten ähnliches bereits 2023 beim Atlantik. Letzteres wurde allerdings bereits in Studien untersucht.

Kipppunkte im Klimasystem: Die ersten sind erreicht - vor 25 Jahren
Wie nah sind wir am Klimakollaps? Kipppunkte im Klimasystem – welche wurden bereits überschritten?

Giants turned down Saquon trade request in '23 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46521433/saquon-barkley-asked-giants-owner-trade-23-season

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…

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

This band Ultra Lights are often described as "90s slacker rock". To my ears, upon hearing this, I thought it was a new Soft Pack (aka Muslims) album lol
https://www.ultralightsband.com/

Ultra Lights
Rainbow Vision is a planner brand and creative consulting practice by Leela Hoehn. After 10+ years of building and expanding the Rainbow Vision paper and gift brand Leela condensed the line down to a handful of favorites in 2023. Rainbow Vision is based out of Atlanta, GA

"Watchdog rules Red Tractor exaggerated its environmental standards"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Farming

I don't disagree with suggestions that the UK public sector should have less reliance on the big-three (American) cloud providers. But this has been a concern for more than a decade, and people should at least be aware of both the "GOV.UK PaaS" and UKCloud.

Migrating our data from GOV.UK Platform as a Service (PaaS) to Amazon Web Services (AWS) – MHCLG Digital
After learning that GOV.UK’s hosting platform PaaS is being decommissioned, the Energy Performance of Buildings Register team decided to migrate all their hosting to AWS. In this post, Barry, Developer, explains what they did.

"In total between 2000 and 2023, Bermon said there had been 135 DSD finalists in elite international events, given some of the 50 to 60 athletes competed in more than one final.
He also showed a slide that said that DSD cases are 151.9 times more likely than would be expected given the number of DSD individuals in the general population."

"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.

Content and Engagement Trends in COVID-19 YouTube Videos: Evidence from the Late Pandemic
Nirmalya Thakur, Madeline D Hartel, Lane Michael Boden, Dallas Enriquez, Boston Joyner Ricks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01954

Content and Engagement Trends in COVID-19 YouTube Videos: Evidence from the Late Pandemic
This work investigated about 10,000 COVID-19-related YouTube videos published between January 2023 and October 2024 to evaluate how temporal, lexical, linguistic, and structural factors influenced engagement during the late pandemic period. Publishing activity showed consistent weekday effects: in the first window, average views peaked on Mondays at 92,658; in the second, on Wednesdays at 115,479; and in the third, on Fridays at 84,874, reflecting a shift in audience attention toward mid- and l…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Lush:
🎵 Nothing Natural
#Lush
https://lushofficial.bandcamp.com/track/nothing-natural-2023-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/252uwichmLXhrtDY5GTLNi

Five crucial Earth systems near a tipping point: Report https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/10/five-crucial-earth-systems-near-a-tipping-point-report/

Five crucial Earth systems near a tipping point: Report
Five of Earth’s vital systems are close to a point of irreversible change, warns a new report released by a global network of scientists ahead of the upcoming U.N. climate change conference in Brazil. The 2025 Global Tipping Points report updates a 2023 report to assess 25 Earth systems that human societies and economies depend […]

Posting this here for others with #LongCovid.
One of the things I've done this year is rule out potential other causes of my symptoms (imaging, blood work, neurological testing). This, in addition to treating symptoms as best I can (insomnia, brain fog, joint pain, double vision, tinnitus, hearing loss, etc.).
This fall, I wrapped up with neurology (I didn't want to, a…

2023 gab es aufgeregte Berichte über eine rätselhafte Erwärmung des #Atlantik.
Nun erlebt der #Nordpazifik eine ungewöhnlich starke #MeeresHitzewelle.
Zwischen Juli und Septemb…

Mysterious 'warm blob' breaks records in the North Pacific Ocean
Temperatures have surged across a large area of the north Pacific - and scientists don't know exactly why.

1Password CEO David Faugno says the company has crossed $400M in ARR, up from $250M in 2023, as it benefits from a shift in the threat landscape due to AI (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/ryan-reynolds-backed-1password-tops-400…

Password manager backed by Ryan Reynolds, other celebs, hits key revenue metric on AI tail winds
1Password was founded in 2005 and counts IBM, Perplexity AI, Salesforce and the Golden State Warriors among its customers.

Comment on "Strong lensing and shadow of Ayon-Beato-Garcia (ABG) nonsingular black hole"
M. Fahmi Fauzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24777 https://…

Comment on "Strong lensing and shadow of Ayon-Beato-Garcia (ABG) nonsingular black hole"
It was suggested by Ramadhan et al. (Eur Phys J C 83:465, 2023) that the Sagittarius A* black hole cannot be modeled by an Ayón-Beato-Garcìa regular black hole due to the incompatible shadow radius. However, they overlooked the distant-observer limit of the correction term in the effective geometry, which renders their calculation invalid. When evaluated correctly, the result reverses the conclusion of the paper. This comment highlights the flaw and demonstrates how to properly compute the sh…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Rachel Sermanni, Louis Linklater, Mischa Stevens, Rachel Lightbody & Cariss Crosbie:
🎵 Killer Line (6 Music Session, 30th August 2023)
#RachelSermanni #LouisLinklater #MischaStevens #RachelLightbody #CarissCrosbie

Dolphins' Darren Waller on two-touchdown return in first game since 2023 season: 'It felt like when I started playing football as a kid' https://www.nfl.com/news/dolphins-darren-w

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.

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…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 26.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

On the generator graph of a cyclic group
Zekhaya B. Shozi, Teresa L. Tacbobo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14865 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14865

On the generator graph of a cyclic group
In this paper, we continue the study of the generator graph of a group. In 2023, Tacbobo [9] defined the generator graph of a nontrivial group to be the graph whose vertices are the elements of the group, with two vertices being adjacent if at least one of them is a generator of the group. Building on the properties established in [9], we prove that the diameter of the generator graph of a cyclic group is at most $2$. Furthermore, we present explicit formulas for some topological indices of the…

Samsung rolls out a Perplexity TV app, which works alongside Samsung's Vision AI Companion, on its 2025 TVs; 2023 and 2024 TV models will get it later this year (Artie Beaty/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-get-perplex…

How to get Perplexity AI Pro for free on your Samsung TV - and what it can do
The new Perplexity TV app is rolling out to Samsung's 2025 TVs first, with older models getting it later this year.

Variable-preconditioned transformed primal-dual method for generalized Wasserstein Gradient Flows
Jin Zeng, Dawei Zhan, Ruchi Guo, Chaozhen Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15385 …

Variable-preconditioned transformed primal-dual method for generalized Wasserstein Gradient Flows
We propose a Variable-Preconditioned Transformed Primal-Dual (VPTPD) method for solving generalized Wasserstein gradient flows via a structure-preserving JKO scheme. This is a nontrivial extension of the TPD method [Chen et al. (2023) arXiv:2312.12355] incorporating proximal splitting techniques to address the challenges arising from the nonsmoothness of the objective function. Our key contributions include: (i) a semi-implicit-explicit iteration that combines proximal steps for the nonsmooth p…

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.09.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen

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…

Isaiah Land reunites with Cowboys in 2025 https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/isaiah-land-expected-to-reunite-with-cowboys

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.

Judge orders #Dept of Edu to restore $1 Billion in #school funding for #MentalHealth grants that they've refused to honor in #DJT exec branch effor…

The FTC's 2023 lawsuit against Amazon goes to trial this week, alleging it used misleading tactics to entice people into Prime and made cancellation difficult (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/is-amazon-pri

Cowboys Part Ways With 5-foot-5 Former Sixth Round Pick https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/release-running-back-deuce-vaughn/?adt_ei=[email]