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2023 elections, the Netherlands: many vote for weird parties hoping they'll do a better job than normal parties. Weird parties argue for half a year, form a coalition, do little and keep on arguing.
Same voters now: we really don't trust politics anymore. Politicians do little and keep arguing.

Psychologe Timur Sevincer: „Eine Meta-Analyse [von 2023] … legt nahe: #Triggerwarnungen führen nicht dazu, dass Menschen belastende Inhalte vermeiden, und … auch nicht [dazu], dass Menschen weniger aufgewühlt sind … Stattdessen … werden manche Menschen etwas nervöser.“
„Auch bei Menschen mit [PTBS], die Furchtbares erlebt haben und dadurch langfristig psychisch belastet sind, fin…

Sharp lower bounds and extremal graphs for the generalized $k$-independence number
Jing Huang, Jiaxin Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12563 https://arxiv.o…

Sharp lower bounds and extremal graphs for the generalized $k$-independence number
A vertex set $S$ is a generalized $k$-independent set if the induced subgraph $G[S]$ contains no tree on $k$ vertices. The generalized $k$-independence number $α_k(G)$ is the maximum size of such a set. For a tree $T$ with $n$ vertices, Bock et al. [J. Graph Theory 103 (2023) 661-673] and Li et al. [Taiwanese J. Math. 27 (2023) 647-683] independently showed that $α_3(G)\geq \frac{2}{3}n$ and identified the extremal trees that attain this lower bound. Subsequently, Li and Zhou [Appl. Math. Com…

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

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'`,…

All Models Are Wrong, But Can They Be Useful? Lessons from COVID-19 Agent-Based Models: A Systematic Review
Emma Von Hoene, Sara Von Hoene, Szandra Peter, Ethan Hopson, Emily Csizmadia, Faith Fenyk, Kai Barner, Timothy Leslie, Hamdi Kavak, Andreas Zufle, Amira Roess, Taylor Anderson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13346

All Models Are Wrong, But Can They Be Useful? Lessons from COVID-19 Agent-Based Models: A Systematic Review
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a surge in computational models to simulate disease dynamics and guide interventions. Agent-based models (ABMs) are well-suited to capture population and environmental heterogeneity, but their rapid deployment raised questions about utility for health policy. We systematically reviewed 536 COVID-19 ABM studies published from January 2020 to December 2023, retrieved from Web of Science, PubMed, and Wiley on January 30, 2024. Studies were included if they used ABMs …

"Smoke from Canada's 2023 wildfires linked to more than 80,000 early deaths worldwide, study warns"
#Canada #Wildfires #Health

Millions breathed toxic air from Canada’s record 2023 wildfires
Pollution from the five months of fires was responsible for 22,000 early deaths in Europe alone.

Paris Gard du Nord Train Station Afternoon Piano (2023-09) - Ambient busy big city train station with a talented chap tickling the public piano. #fieldRecording #travel #Paris -

Paris Gard du Nord Train Station Afternoon Piano (2023-09)
Ambient busy big city train station with a talented chap tickling the public piano. #fieldRecording #travel #Paris

AI Hasn't Fixed Teamwork, But It Shifted Collaborative Culture: A Longitudinal Study in a Project-Based Software Development Organization (2023-2025)
Qing Xiao, Xinlan Emily Hu, Mark E. Whiting, Arvind Karunakaran, Hong Shen, Hancheng Cao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10956

AI Hasn't Fixed Teamwork, But It Shifted Collaborative Culture: A Longitudinal Study in a Project-Based Software Development Organization (2023-2025)
When AI entered the workplace, many believed it could reshape teamwork as profoundly as it boosted individual productivity. Would AI finally ease the longstanding challenges of team collaboration? Our findings suggested a more complicated reality. We conducted a longitudinal two-wave interview study (2023-2025) with members (N=15) of a project-based software development organization to examine the expectations and use of AI in teamwork. In early 2023, just after the release of ChatGPT, particip…

In the recent ICANN Registrations Operation Workshop 30th September 2025, the
following data was shared about DNSSEC Validation Rates
- Region / Rate / Increase since 2023
- Asia 32% 4%
- Oceania 54% 11%
- Africa 46% 15%
- Americas 37% 4%
- Europe 48% 8%
#dns #dnssec

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.

Kaikkeen hyvään toimintaan liittyy paradokseja, ristiriitaisia periaatteita ja pyrkimyksiä. Toyotan sellaisista on tehty oikein kirja (Extreme Toyota). Kirjassa "LEGO - Kuinka tanskalaissuku valloitti maailman" mainitaan LEGOn pomon 1960-tekemä lista, joka on näköjään netissä:
https://

11 paradoxes of leadership (from LEGO)
One of my CEO coaching clients with 30+ years of experience (much as a CEO) recently read The LEGO Story: How a Little Toy Sparked the World’s Imagination and shared the list below of 11 R…

Towards a precise measurement of the $\Lambda_c^ /D^0$ ratio at RHIC
Joseph D. Osborn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10772 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.10772

Towards a precise measurement of the $Λ_c^+/D^0$ ratio at RHIC
sPHENIX is a next-generation experiment at RHIC for jet and heavy-flavor physics which was fully commissioned during 2023 and 2024. Using its novel streaming-readout-capable, precision tracking system, sPHENIX collected 100 billion unbiased $p$$+$$p$ collisions, and a further sample of minimum-bias Au-Au collisions, in Run-24. A key measurement of the sPHENIX heavy flavor physics program is the comparison of $Λ_c^+$ to $D^0$ differential yields in both Au+Au and $p$$+$$p$ collisions, which pro…

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…

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 …

The FCC votes to confirm a $920K fine against the operator of a New Jersey pirate radio station from November 2023 to January 2024, under the PIRATE Act of 2020 (Inside Radio)
https://www.insideradio.com/free/fcc-issue

FCC Issues Near-Million Dollar Fine Against New Jersey Pirate.
The FCC has affirmed a $920,000 fine against Masner Beauplan for operating “Radio Leve Kanpe” on 91.7 FM in Irvington and Maplewood, NJ from November 2023 to January 2024. Field

I liked the premise of this The Dig podcast, that it was going to tell me why Chicago's left-wing mayor is seemingly so unpopular, but it's very in the weeds and didn't provide much of an overview of the issues. Feels like it's only for people who are already Chicago politics junkies
https://

A judge in Michigan dismissed the felony charges against a slate of electors who falsely signed on to documents claiming Donald Trump won the 2020 election
in the latest blow to efforts to hold the president and his allies accountable for attempting to overturn the results of the White House race he lost to Joe Biden.
Sixteen people were initially charged with eight felonies each related to forgery and conspiracy by the Democratic attorney general, Dana Nessel, in 2023,
tho…

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/

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

Uspol, genocide
In case you're wondering whether "political violence" is escalating in the U.S.A. right now, of *course* it is as we move into an era of concentration campus and domestic military deployments. But both domestic genocides and purges as well as political violence targeted at individual prominent figures has been a *constant* throughout American history, from gun duels fought between political rivals to massacres of Native Americans in order to steal their land, to pogroms against Catholics, to literal wars on local Black success and political participation, all dating back before the American Revolution to the beginning of colonization. Thanks to Wikipedia, here's a *small sampling* where I attempted to whittle things down to about one event per decade before recent times.
Sources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_United_States
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_massacres_in_North_America
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_political_violence_in_Washington,_D.C.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_racial_violence_in_the_United_States
Killings, woundings, and plots against political figures:
Aaron Burr killing Alexander Hamilton in 1804
Sam Houston beats Rep. William Stanbery in 1832
Attempted Assassination of Andrew Jackson in 1835
Fight between Representatives Churchwell & Cullom in 1854
Caning of Sen. Charles Summer in 1856
Brawl on the House floor in 1858
Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865
Assassination of President James A. Garfield in 1881
Assassination of President William McKinley in 1901
Attempted Assassination of William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz in 1909
Wounding of former President Theodore Roosevelt in 1912
Bombing of the U.S. Senate reception room in 1915
Attempted Assassination of President Herbert Hover in 1928 (in Argentina)
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1947
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1950
The United States Capitol Shooting in 1954
Planned Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1960
Attempted Assassination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1963
Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963
Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968
Weather Underground bombings in 1970, 1971, and 1975
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1972 (Alabama Governor George Wallace was targeted & injured instead)
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1974
Planned Assassination of President Gerald Ford in 1974
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Gerald Ford in 1975
Wounding of President Ronald Reagan in 1981
Attempted Kidnapping of Federal Reserve Board members in 1981
Planned Assassination of President George Bush in 1993 (in Kuwait)
Attempted Assassinations (x3) of President Bill Clinton in 1994
Attempted Assassination of President Bill Clinton in 1996
Anthrax attacks on US senators in 2001
Attempted Assassination of President George W. Bush in 2005 (in the foreign country of Georgia)
Planned Assassination of President-Elect Barrack Obama in 2008
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2009 (in Turkey)
Attempted Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2011
Shooting of Rep. Gabby Gliffords in 2011
Planned Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2012
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2013
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2015
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Donald Trump in 2017
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2018
Pipe bombs mailed to Democratic leaders in 2018, including former President Barack Obama
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2019
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2020
Kidnapping plot against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020
Planned Assassination of Former President George W. Bush in 2022
Planned Assassination of Former President Barrack Obama in 2023
Attempted Assassination of President Joe Biden in 2023
Planned Assassinations (x2) of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Wounding of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Massacres and other mass killings, mostly with genocidal motivations:
The Acoma Massacre in 1599
The Paspaheg Massacre in 1610
The Wessagusset affair in 1623
The Mystic Massacre in 1637
The Pound Ridge Massacre in 1644
The Susquehannock chiefs massacre in 1675
The Apalachee Massacre in 1704
The Massacre at Fort Narhantes in 1712
The Norridgewock Massacre in 1724
The 1745 Massacre at Walden (in 1745)
The 1756 Massacre at Walden (in 1756)
The Killings by the Paxton Boys in 1763
The Yellow Creek Massacre in 1774
The Gnadenhütten Massacre in 1782
The Canyon del Muerto Massacre in 1805
The Battle of Tallushatchee in 1813
The Philadelphia Nativist Riots in 1844
The Bloody Island Massacre in 1850
The Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857
The Sand Creek Massacre in 1864
The Opelousas Massacre in 1868
The Chinese Massacre in 1871
The Election Riot of 1874
The Haymarket Affair in 1886
The Buffalo Gap Massacre in 1890
The Wilmington Massacre in 1898
The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre (in 1906)
The Ludlow Massacre in 1914
The Elaine massacre in 1919
The Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921
The Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921
The Bonus Army Conflict in 1932
The 1937 Memorial Day massacre (in 1937)
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963
The Kent State shootings in 1970
The Greensboro massacre in 1979
The MOVE Bombing in 1985
The 4 O'Clock murders in 1988
The Oklahoma City bombing in 1995
The September 11 Attacks in 2001
The Fort Hood Shooting in 2009
The Holocaust Memorial Shooting in 2009
The Isla Vista killings in 2014
The Charleston Church shooting in 2015
The San Bernardino attack in 2015
The Orlando Nightclub Shooting in 2016
The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting in 2018
The El Paso Walmart shooting in 2019
The January 6th Capitol Attack in 2021
The 2022 Buffalo Shooting (in 2022)

Cowboys CB DaRon Bland could miss multiple weeks due to foot injury https://www.nfl.com/news/cowboys-cb-daron-bland-could-miss-multiple-weeks-due-to-foot-injury

Cycle of Creativity – Inspire, Create, Rest, Repeat #creativity #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2023/cy…

Cycle of Creativity - Inspire, Create, Rest, Repeat
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Lush:
🎵 Starlust
#Lush
https://lushofficial.bandcamp.com/track/starlust-2023-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/3ZOMVzyjvE8kJouhVScrqg

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.

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…

Alexa : Amazons neue Assistentin ist endlich final
Bereits Ende 2023 präsentierte Amazon seine verbesserte Assistentin, nun "Alexa ". Zumindest in den USA hat sie Marktreife erreicht.
https://www.

Five principles to protect the human knowledge ecosystem 3/5

Arithmetic properties of partition functions introduced by Pushpa and Vasuki
Hemjyoti Nath, Manjil P. Saikia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08801 https://arxiv…

Arithmetic properties of partition functions introduced by Pushpa and Vasuki
In this short note, we prove several infinite family of congruences for some restricted partitions introduced by Pushpa and Vasuki (2022) (thereby, also proving a conjecture of Dasappa et. al. (2023)). We also prove some isolated congruences which seem to have been missed by earlier authors. Our proof techniques uses both elementary means as well as the theory of modular forms.

16WW Coronalog - Timeline - A corona diary from EOU HQ, London UK, 2020 to 2023 #coronavirus #lockdown - https://www.earth.org.uk/cor…

16WW Coronalog - Timeline
A corona diary from EOU HQ, London UK, 2020 to 2023 #coronavirus #lockdown

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…

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

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…

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…

Zitat:
"Tony Wu und Christian Szegedy haben im März 2023 das neue Unternehmen xAI von Elon Musk mitgegründet, und sie behaupten, dass die Mathematik in drei Jahren in demselben Sinne »gelöst« ist wie das Schachspiel – dass Maschinen im Beweisen besser sind als jeder Mensch."
Das ist ja nur noch ein halbes Jahr!
via:
https://www.spektrum.de/news/wie-ki-und-beweispruefer-die-arbeit-von-mathematikern-veraendern/2210083

The Guardian reports revenue in the year to March up 7% YoY to £276M, losses down £24M from £37M the year prior, and 1.3M "recurring supporters" online, up 13% (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_busin…

Guardian reports bumper year for digital reader revenue
The Guardian has reported a bumper year for digital reader revenue, up by 22% from £88m in 2023/2024 to £107m in the year to March 2025.

Two updates to old posts, both from social media bits:
1. https://adrianroselli.com/2023/09/the-children-are-driving-the-bus.html#Update01 adds this mini-thread for Bootlicker.js:

The Children Are Driving the Bus
The Vercel CEO over on the hell-site tweets: v0.dev produces the kind of production-grade code that we'd want to ship in our own @vercel products. That was the bar we set for ourselves. At the moment it can output HTML with @tailwindcss and React w/ @shadcn UI. pic.twitter.com/hWLzpmyaG2 Guillermo Rauch…

Wavelet-SARIMA-Transformer: A Hybrid Model for Rainfall Forecasting
Junmoni Saikia, Kuldeep Goswami, Sarat C. Kakaty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11903 https://

Wavelet-SARIMA-Transformer: A Hybrid Model for Rainfall Forecasting
This study develops and evaluates a novel hybridWavelet SARIMA Transformer, WST framework to forecast using monthly rainfall across five meteorological subdivisions of Northeast India over the 1971 to 2023 period. The approach employs the Maximal Overlap Discrete Wavelet Transform, MODWT with four wavelet families such as, Haar, Daubechies, Symlet, Coiflet etc. to achieve shift invariant, multiresolution decomposition of the rainfall series. Linear and seasonal components are modeled using Seas…

From The Conversation
Mark Carney’s climate inaction is at odds with his awareness of climate change’s existential threat
Mark Carney has long been recognized as an authority on climate change. In 2015, as the governor of the Bank of England, he gave his famous “tragedy of the horizon” speech that introduced climate change to bankers as a threat to international financial stability.
🧵1/4
#canpoli

The EU's General Court backs the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, approved in 2023, rejecting a legal challenge that US surveillance laws fall short of EU laws (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-03/eu-court…

Machine Learning Power Week 2023: Clustering in Hadronic Calorimeters
Muaz Al Halabi (ed), Marcel Bajdel (ed), Jeroen Peter Bormans (ed), Hannah Bossi (ed), Maria Calmon Behling (ed), Florian Ehmann (ed), Niklas Gotz (ed), Jerome Jung (ed), Rafet Kavak (ed), Mario Kr\"uger (ed), Robin Lakos (ed), Annemarie Lauterbach (ed), Patrick Mccormack (ed), Akhil Mithran (ed), Daniel Murnane (ed), Mathis Nolte (ed), Tim Rogoschinski (ed), Jan Scharf (ed), Oddharak Tyagi (ed), Liv V{\aa}ge (e…

Machine Learning Power Week 2023: Clustering in Hadronic Calorimeters
In both high-energy physics and industry applications, a crowd-sourced approach to difficult problems is becoming increasingly common. These innovative approaches are ideal for the development of future facilities where the simulations can be publicly distributed, such as the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). In this paper, we discuss a so-called ``Power Week" where graduate students were able to learn about machine learning while also contributing to an unsolved problem at a future facility. Here, …

"Industrial-Scale" Black Hole Selection without a Satellite
Zexuan Wu, Subo Dong, Andrew P. Gould, Przemek Mr\'oz, A. M\'erand
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05406

"Industrial-Scale" Black Hole Selection without a Satellite
The forthcoming GRAVITY+ instrument promises to usher in an era of "industrial-scale" mass measurements of isolated black holes (BHs), with the potential to assemble a sample of many tens of BHs via interferometric microlensing over several years. A key challenge will be selecting interferometric follow-up targets from an order-of-magnitude larger pool of ongoing microlensing events when using traditional selection based on event timescale alone. Gould (2023) proposed a criterion optimized for …

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 06.09.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 246 nodes and 4498 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

Juneteenth – what you and I need to know #inspiration #juneteenth https://muz4now.com/2023/juneteenth-wh

Juneteenth - what you and I need to know
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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…

Russisches Spionageschiff kartiert europäische Unterseekabel
Das russische Spionageschiff Yantar kartiert offenbar systematisch Unterseekabel und Pipelines. Satellitenbilder zeigen verstärkte Aktivitäten seit 2023.

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.

Monthly Rural-Urban Scaling of Road Accidents in England, Wales and Scotland (2019-2023)
Isabel Copsey, Quentin Hanley, Jack Sutton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07351 https://

Monthly Rural-Urban Scaling of Road Accidents in England, Wales and Scotland (2019-2023)
Road traffic accidents remain a major public health challenge worldwide, with urbanisation and population density identified as key factors influencing risk. This study analyses monthly accident data from 2009 to 2023 across 632 parliamentary constituencies in England, Wales, and Scotland, using an area-normalised approach based on population density. Segmented power law models consistently identified breakpoints separating sublinear rural from superlinear urban scaling behaviours. Seasonal var…

Optimizing Districting Plans to Maximize Majority-Minority Districts via IPs and Local Search
Daniel Brous, David Shmoys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07446 https://

Optimizing Districting Plans to Maximize Majority-Minority Districts via IPs and Local Search
In redistricting litigation, effective enforcement of the Voting Rights Act has often involved providing the court with districting plans that display a larger number of majority-minority districts than the current proposal (as was true, for example, in what followed Allen v. Milligan concerning the congressional districting plan for Alabama in 2023). Recent work by Cannon et al. proposed a heuristic algorithm for generating plans to optimize majority-minority districts, which they called short…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CerysMatthews
La Sonora Santanera:
🎵 El Orangutan (6 Music Session, 17th September 2023)
#LaSonoraSantanera
https://open.spotify.com/track/27qu4d4L7KAP7Mssqia37j

In 2023, I wrote an article about two Bioenergy-with-CCS 🌲🔥🍃 (BECCS) projects in Denmark🇩🇰, which is somewhat timely given recent news.
It was published on the shipping news page Fathom World, which is no longer online, so I have republished it.
Back then, Ørsted announced plans for carbon capture and storage at two of its bioenergy power plants (Asnæsværket and AvedŸreværket). 🧵

Denmark's biomass plants become part of carbon dioxide shipping project
Ørsted plans to ship carbon emissions from two of its biomass-fired power plants in Denmark to the Northern Lights project in Norway.

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

Our Home – Opus 6-10 #piano #improv https://muz4now.com/2023/our-home-opus-6-10-piano-improv

Our Home - Opus 6-10 #piano #improv
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Non-iid hypothesis testing: from classical to quantum
Giacomo De Palma, Marco Fanizza, Connor Mowry, Ryan O'Donnell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06147 https://

Non-iid hypothesis testing: from classical to quantum
We study hypothesis testing (aka state certification) in the non-identically distributed setting. A recent work (Garg et al. 2023) considered the classical case, in which one is given (independent) samples from $T$ unknown probability distributions $p_1, \dots, p_T$ on $[d] = \{1, 2, \dots, d\}$, and one wishes to accept/reject the hypothesis that their average $p_{\mathrm{avg}}$ equals a known hypothesis distribution $q$. Garg et al. showed that if one has just $c = 2$ samples from each $p_i$,…

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

Induced Minors, Asymptotic Dimension, and Baker's Technique
Robert Hickingbotham
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06190 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06190

Induced Minors, Asymptotic Dimension, and Baker's Technique
Asymptotic dimension is a large-scale invariant of metric spaces that was introduced by Gromov (1993). We prove that every hereditary class of bounded-degree graphs that excludes some graph as a fat minor has asymptotic dimension at most $2$, which is optimal. This makes substantial progress on a question of Bonamy, Bousquet, Esperet, Groenland, Liu, Pirot, and Scott (J. Eur. Math. Soc. 2023). The key to our proof is a notion inspired by Baker's technique (J. ACM 1994). We say that a graph cl…

🦞 🇩🇪 💸 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…

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…

Bummed, I just noticed the Space Invaders: World Defense app doesn't really work anymore-- it doesn't connect to the servers or high scores, it errors out when you try and play outside.
Space Invaders: World Defense came out in 2023 and was really cool, it had an AR aspect, you could go outside and see the ships coming down in the real world. I messed around with it some back then and took some photos, but I can't find them. Should've messed around with it more then. I…

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…

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

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

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…

Familiar faces in strange places as Cowboys face Packers https://insidethestar.com/familiar-faces-in-strange-places-as-cowboys-face-packers

Resolvent-Based Optimisation for Invariant Flows
Thomas Burton, Sean Symon, Davide Lasagna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02463 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.0246…

Resolvent-Based Optimisation for Invariant Flows
We present a robust optimisation framework for computing invariant solutions of wall-bounded flows by recasting the Navier-Stokes equations as a variational problem as established in Ashtari and Schneider, JFM (2023). The approach minimises the residual of the governing equations over a finite time horizon, seeking periodic or equilibrium solutions. A novel contribution is made by including a Galerkin projection onto a basis of divergence-free modes that satisfy the no-slip boundary conditions.…

Phase II of the LAMOST-Kepler/K2 Survey. II. Time Domain of Medium-resolution Spectroscopic Observations from 2018 to 2023
Mingfeng Qin, Jian-Ning Fu, Weikai Zong, Peter De Cat, Antonio Frasca, Tianqi Cang, Jiangtao Wang, Jianrong Shi, Ali Luo, Haotong Zhang, Hongliang Yan, J. Molenda- \.Zakowicz, R. O. Gray, Jiaxin Wang
https://arxiv.org/…

Phase II of the LAMOST-Kepler/K2 Survey. II. Time Domain of Medium-resolution Spectroscopic Observations from 2018 to 2023
The LAMOST-Kepler/K2 Medium-Resolution Spectroscopic Survey (LK-MRS) conducted time-domain medium-resolution spectroscopic observations of 20 LAMOST plates in the Kepler and K2 fields from 2018 to 2023, a phase designated as LK-MRS-I. A catalog of stellar parameters for a total of 36,588 stars, derived from the spectra collected during these five years, including the effective temperature, the surface gravity, the metallicity, the α-element abundance, the radial velocity, and v sin i of the ta…

Some cool stuff coming here: https://athletechnews.com/apple-watchos-26-public-beta-fitness-upgrades/?utm_source=Athletech Media Group LLC&utm_campaign=929c7ecf86-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_09_01_11_00_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-717047a094-604853391

Filing: Netflix UK distribution arm reports revenue of £1.85B for 2024, up 11% from 2023, and an 11% growth in average paid memberships (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/netflix-uk-revenue-surges-2-billion-profits-grow…

Netflix U.K. Revenue Surges to $2.4 Billion, Profits Grow
Netflix's U.K. arm delivered a strong performance in 2024, with revenue climbing 11% to $2.48 billion as the streaming giant continued its expansion.

SpeedCP: Fast Kernel-based Conditional Conformal Prediction
Yeo Jin Jung, Yating Liu, Zixuan Wu, So Won Jeong, Claire Donnat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24100 https://

SpeedCP: Fast Kernel-based Conditional Conformal Prediction
Conformal prediction provides distribution-free prediction sets with finite-sample conditional guarantees. We build upon the RKHS-based framework of Gibbs et al. (2023), which leverages families of covariate shifts to provide approximate conditional conformal prediction intervals, an approach with strong theoretical promise, but with prohibitive computational cost. To bridge this gap, we develop a stable and efficient algorithm that computes the full solution path of the regularized RKHS confor…

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'`,…

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.10.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1153689 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

"Nations’ plans to ramp up coal, gas and oil extraction ‘will put climate goals beyond reach’"
#FossilFuels #Energy #Climate

EUSO-SPB2 Cosmic Ray Searches and Observations
George Filippatos (for the JEM-EUSO Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05147 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

EUSO-SPB2 Cosmic Ray Searches and Observations
The Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon 2 (EUSO-SPB2) flew in May of 2023, marking an important step towards the observation of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR) and neutrino-induced showers from space. The ultimate goal of this endeavor is to complement ground-based detectors and achieve unprecedented exposure and nearly uniform full-sky coverage at the highest energies, thereby enabling charged particle astronomy and enriching the multi-messenger approach to hig…

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…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CerysMatthews
La Sonora Santanera:
🎵 Los Luchadores (6 Music Session, 17th September 2023)
#LaSonoraSantanera
https://open.spotify.com/track/0HBiHi1FZBpI8QOqiS0oBm

Podcast : La Secte OKC : ils racontent leur vie dans la secte bouddhiste belge
Presque 15 ans d'écart entre nos deux protagonistes et pourtant tellement de point commun quoi qu'en dise "l'évolution de l'éducation des enfants" selon la OKC
https://

Which major NFL trades look better -- worse -- in hindsight? Barnwell's fresh takes on 23 recent swaps https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46356119/nfl-trades-2022-2023-barnwell-russell-wilson-deshaun-watson-tyr…

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 246 nodes and 4498 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

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

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.

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in Deutschland mit Stand vom 09.08.2025.
Zählung der Anlagen mit Inbetriebnahmedatum. Der aktuelle Betriebsstatus wird nicht berücksichtigt.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erste Versuche einer #Datenanalyse

Cowboys Add WR From Practice Squad With CeeDee Lamb Out vs. Packers https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/jalen-cropper-elevated-ceedee-lamb-out/?adt_ei=[email]

Flexport announces it is selling Convoy's tech to DAT Freight & Analytics, after acquiring the digital freight startup's tech stack in late 2023 (John Kingston/FreightWaves)
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/less-tha

Less than 2 years after Flexport bought Convoy’s tech stack, it’s being sold to DAT
Flexport is selling the Convy tech stack to DAT, less than two years after it bought it from the defunct digital brokerage.

SEC filing: Versant, preparing for a Nasdaq IPO, reports 2024 revenue of $7B, down from $7.4B in 2023, and 2024 net income of $1.4B, down from $1.5B in 2023 (Sarah Whitten/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/18/comcast-versant-annual-profit-public.html

Comcast spinoff Versant reports declining annual profit as it prepares to go public
Versant will trade on the Nasdaq under the ticker "VSNT" after its separation from Comcast.

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

🇺🇦 #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

In Memory Of Tom #PianoImprov #NowPlaying https://muz4now.com/2023/in-memory-of-tom/

In Memory Of Tom #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Google says it revised its Android Earthquake Alerts algorithm after it failed to send the highest-level Take Action warnings to 10M people in Turkey in 2023 (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c77v2kx304go

Google failed to warn 10 million of Turkey earthquake severity
The tech giant said only 469 serious warnings were sent out ahead of the 7.8 magnitude quake.

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.

Meditation Suite 2 #NowPlaying #nowplaying #originalmusic #streaming

Meditation Suite 2 #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Nachtrag: Änderung der Berechnung bezüglich https://mastodon.online/@tinoeberl/115236719296242946.
Der Filter auf "in Betrieb" ändert die Zahlen leider rückwirkend. Also:
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.09.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1131260 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

4 fun tracks with banjo and guitar – #DreamState revisited #music #musician #musicianresources

4 fun tracks with banjo and guitar - #DreamState revisited
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.09.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…