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The latest post by @… reminded me of our EV car hire in Wales back in 2023… it’s quite the story!
https://rasterweb.net/raster/2023/06/05/the…

The Electric Vehicle Road Trip
Electric Vehicles are great! Except when you need to charge them...

BBC Commercial reports 2024-25 revenue of £2.2B, up from £1.9B in 2023-24, with BBC Studios EBITDA up 11% YoY to £225M and media and streaming revenues up 43% (Advanced Television)
https://www.advanced-television.com/2025/07/15/bbc-commercial-delivers-…

BBC Commercial delivers record revenues
BBC Commercial, the media company which is part of the BBC Group, has released its annual results as part of the BBC’s Annual Report and Accounts, marking a y

According to the TidBITS article “A Roundup of Vertical Tab Support in Mac Web Browsers” <https://tidbits.com/2023/06/05/a-roundup-of-vertical-tab-support-in-mac-web-browsers/>, Safari supports vertical tabs since version 16.
I did not know it!
I don’t seem to be able to get the Safari vertical tabs to work though.
I can see the list of tabs in the Sidebar.
I also have the tabs displays horizontally at the top of the window (in both Separate or Compact mode).
I was expecting no tabs at the top when using vertical tabs. Is that not what you’d expect when thinking about vertical tabs?

Two years ago I took 7 `<blockquote>` variations (W3C & WHATWG HTML) and reported their output across 7 screen readers, for a measly 49 variations:
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/07/blockquotes-in-screen-readers.html
I made one anti-…

Blockquotes in Screen Readers
TL;DR: This post does not assert the correct way to code blockquotes, it will only demonstrate how screen readers announce some existing patterns. Test Details The first four examples are lifted from WHATWG HTML’s

entry. The next three are from W3C HTML’s 2019

guidance (the W3C HTML spec…

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Rein numerische Zählung nach Inbetriebnahmejahr ohne Berücksichtigung des Betriebsstatus.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erster Versuch einer #Datenanalyse

The BBC reports 23.8M licenses at the end of 2024-25, down from 24.1M in 2023-24, and license fee income of £3.8B after an inflationary fee rise, up from £3.7B (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jul

Bitte unterschreibt das. Ihr wisst schon: Am Anfang kamen sie...
https://weact.campact.de/petitions/kei

Kein Sonderregister für trans* Personen – Nie wieder Listen gegen Minderheiten!
Hallo, ich bin Penelope Alva Frank, Transfrau, queerfeministische Aktivistin und Gründerin der queerfeministischen Bewegung Queermany. Ich weiß, wie es ist, jeden Tag Blicke, Sprüche und Angriffe auszuhalten, nur weil ich trans bin. Ich erlebe Queerfeindlichkeit auf der Straße, online und sogar in meinem Aktivismus wie bei, Polizei Gewahrsam 2023 und ich will mir gar nicht vorstellen, was passiert, wenn falsche Polizisten oder Behördenmitarbeiter Zugriff auf mein früheres Geschlecht...

"New report details global drought impacts"
#Drought #Climate #ClimateChange

New report details global drought impacts
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln's National Drought Mitigation Center and the United Nations' Convention to Combat Desertification have released a report outlining the impacts of drought around the world since 2023.

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'`,…

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.

If you read the "Bluesky requires IDs now" post:
1. This only applies to UK users.[1]
2. It's because the UK is building a surveillance state that requires websites and apps to do this, not because Bluesky is evil.[2]
3. It's either that or shut down in the UK.
Whether you like it or not, this also affects Mastodon—and even personal blogs with comments enabled.[3]
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/704468/bluesky-age-verification-uk-online-safety-act
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Act_2023
[3] https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/law/doing-an-osa-assessment-for-my-single-user-fedi-server.html

just wanted to Sign up to CodeBerg and noticed that I have an account there - since 2023 🤯

Strong converse rate for asymptotic hypothesis testing in type III
Nicholas Laracuente, Marius Junge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07989 https://

Strong converse rate for asymptotic hypothesis testing in type III
We extend from the hyperfinite setting to general von Neumann algebras Mosonyi and Ogawa's (2015) and Mosonyi and Hiai's (2023) results showing the operational interpretation of sandwiched relative Rényi entropy in the strong converse of hypothesis testing. The specific task is to distinguish between two quantum states given many copies. We use a reduction method of Haagerup, Junge, and Xu (2010) to approximate relative entropy inequalities in an arbitrary von Neumann algebra by those in finit…

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

BMI und Dobrinth fordern die Einführung eines Sonderregisters wenn Personen ihren Vornamen nach ihren Wünschen im Rahmen des SBGG ändern lassen. Wider den Sonderregistern die wir schon einmal hatten! Hier zeichnen:

Kein Sonderregister für trans* Personen – Nie wieder Listen gegen Minderheiten!
Hallo, ich bin Penelope Alva Frank, Transfrau, queerfeministische Aktivistin und Gründerin der queerfeministischen Bewegung Queermany. Ich weiß, wie es ist, jeden Tag Blicke, Sprüche und Angriffe auszuhalten, nur weil ich trans bin. Ich erlebe Queerfeindlichkeit auf der Straße, online und sogar in meinem Aktivismus wie bei, Polizei Gewahrsam 2023 und ich will mir gar nicht vorstellen, was passiert, wenn falsche Polizisten oder Behördenmitarbeiter Zugriff auf mein früheres Geschlecht...

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Cowboys star gets honorable mention in rankings for top 10 at his position https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-star-honorable-mention-nfl-rankings-top-10-tight-ends

Anti-Money Laundering Machine Learning Pipelines; A Technical Analysis on Identifying High-risk Bank Clients with Supervised Learning
Khashayar Namdar, Pin-Chien Wang, Tushar Raju, Steven Zheng, Fiona Li, Safwat Tahmin Khan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09127

Anti-Money Laundering Machine Learning Pipelines; A Technical Analysis on Identifying High-risk Bank Clients with Supervised Learning
Anti-money laundering (AML) actions and measurements are among the priorities of financial institutions, for which machine learning (ML) has shown to have a high potential. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive and systematic approach for developing ML pipelines to identify high-risk bank clients in a dataset curated for Task 1 of the University of Toronto 2023-2024 Institute for Management and Innovation (IMI) Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Competition. The dataset included 195,789 c…

Nearly Optimal Bounds for Stochastic Online Sorting
Yang Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07823 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.07823

Nearly Optimal Bounds for Stochastic Online Sorting
In the online sorting problem, we have an array $A$ of $n$ cells, and receive a stream of $n$ items $x_1,\dots,x_n\in [0,1]$. When an item arrives, we need to immediately and irrevocably place it into an empty cell. The goal is to minimize the sum of absolute differences between adjacent items, which is called the \emph{cost} of the algorithm. It has been shown by Aamand, Abrahamsen, Beretta, and Kleist (SODA 2023) that when the stream $x_1,\dots,x_n$ is generated adversarially, the optimal cos…

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

Source: NFLPA boss works for NFL-interested firm https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45705432/nflpa-head-works-firm-approved-invest-nfl

from my link log —
Vectorized interpreters: mass rapid transit for programming languages.
http://venge.net/graydon/talks/VectorizedInterpretersTalk-2023-05-12.pdf
saved 2025-06-05

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

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

Wakker geworden in een walgelijk land.
Waarin bijna 2/3 van de ‘volksvertegenwoordigers’ ronduit fascistische wetten ingevoerd hebben.
Zelfs als de eerste kamer deze smerige wetten terugdraait, zal de SGP hun evangelie moeten herschrijven: de barmhartige Samaritaan krijgt aan het eind van het verhaal onbarmhartig straf voor het helpen. Christofascisme in het volle zicht. En NSC is de partij gebleken die sinds november 2023 steeds na lang twijfelen gewoon Wilders zijn walgelijke age…

LAOStrain response of carbon black-polymer hydrogels: insights from rheo-TRUSAXS and rheo-electric experiment
Gauthier Legrand, Guilhem P. Baeza, William Ch\`evremont, S\'ebastien Manneville, Thibaut Divoux
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08966

LAOStrain response of carbon black-polymer hydrogels: insights from rheo-TRUSAXS and rheo-electric experiment
Colloid-polymer hydrogels are encountered in various applications, from flow batteries to drug delivery. Here, we investigate hydrogels composed of hydrophobic colloidal soot particles -carbon black (CB)- and carboxymethylcellulose (CMC), a food-grade polymer functionalized with hydrophobic groups binding physically to CB. As described in [Legrand et al., Macromolecules 56, 2298-2308 (2023)], CB-CMC hydrogels exist in two flavors: either electrically conductive when featuring a percolated netwo…

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

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.

#nordstadtblogger Das #NRW-Landeskriminalamt hat erstmals umfassend #Femizide untersucht. Fast jeden Tag wird in Nordrhein-Westfalen eine Frau getötet, nur weil sie eine Frau ist.

Fast jeden Tag wird in Nordrhein-Westfalen eine Frau getötet, nur weil sie eine Frau ist - Nordstadtblogger
Das Landeskriminalamt Nordrhein-Westfalen (LKA) hat im Auftrag des Innenministeriums erstmals eine umfassende Untersuchung zu Tötungsdelikten an Frauen durchgeführt. Die Studie basiert auf einer Sonderauswertung der Polizeilichen Kriminalstatistik (PKS) für die Jahre 2014 bis 2023 und …

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…

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

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.

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.)

On Jiang's Bounded Index Property for products of nilmanifolds
Peng Wang, Qiang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06132 https://ar…

On Jiang's Bounded Index Property for products of nilmanifolds
In 2023, Zhang and Zhao presented the first examples of aspherical manifolds lacking the Bounded Index Property (BIP) for fixed points. This answered a question posed by Jiang in 1998 in the negative. In this paper, we first extend the notion of BIP to that of iterations of selfmaps (BIP$_k$), and then demonstrate BIP$_k$ for certain products $M\times N$ of nilmanifolds. Finally, we give characterizations for the Lefschetz number, the Nielsen number, and the minimal number of fixed points of se…

#sound

Global Ear: Beijing - The Wire
After the body blows of the early 2020s, eclectic spaces in China’s capital are platforming a new generation of players and listeners. Josh Feola selects tracks by some of the musicians involved

Probabilistic Approximate Optimization: A New Variational Monte Carlo Algorithm
Abdelrahman S. Abdelrahman, Shuvro Chowdhury, Flaviano Morone, Kerem Y. Camsari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07420

Probabilistic Approximate Optimization: A New Variational Monte Carlo Algorithm
We introduce a generalized \textit{Probabilistic Approximate Optimization Algorithm (PAOA)}, a classical variational Monte Carlo framework that extends and formalizes prior work by Weitz \textit{et al.}~\cite{Combes_2023}, enabling parameterized and fast sampling on present-day Ising machines and probabilistic computers. PAOA operates by iteratively modifying the couplings of a network of binary stochastic units, guided by cost evaluations from independent samples. We establish a direct corresp…

A Short Drop or a Sudden Stop? Sanctions, Trade Shocks, and Firms’ Adjustment Margins: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/a-short-drop-or-a.html

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

Was hat die #GEZ je für uns getan? Seit ca. April 2023 sind die @… Inhalte in der ARD #Mediathek App integriert und das funktioniert wirklich klasse. Besonders pr…

Interdependence Themes for Independence Day https://muz4now.com/2023/interdependence-themes-for-independence-day/

Interdependence Themes for Independence Day
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Optical and Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Outbursting Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks
Ruining Zhao, Bin Yang, Michael S. P. Kelley, Silvia Protopapa, Aigen Li, Yang Huang, Jifeng Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03247

Optical and Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Outbursting Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks
We present optical and near-infrared (NIR) observations of the outbursting, Halley-type comet 12P/Pons-Brooks. Three NIR spectra were obtained during two outbursts in October and November 2023, with the 3-meter Infrared Telescope Facility and the Palomar 200-inch Telescope, respectively. The NIR spectra exhibited absorption features at 1.5 and 2.0 $μ$m, consistent with the diagnostic absorption bands of water ice, superimposed on a red dust-scattering continuum. We find that the absorption ban…

"Why didn't I get the emergency alert?"
Dunno mate. Did you maybe switch off the alerts in 2023 when the Mail provided instructions to do so, amid "Nanny State" criticisms?

Dealroom: European VC deals are set to rise 3-4% YoY in 2025 to $57B, about the same as in 2023, driven by rising startup valuations in AI, fintech, and defense (Ivan Levingston/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5cd37cea-87e7-4648-b85b-f77091dd4558

2024: in der EU soll besser vor Vergewaltigung geschützt und #JaHeißtJa als Standard gesetzt werden. Aber die #FDP in der Bundesregierung blockiert und Deutschland geht zusammen mit Frankreich dagegen.

Richtlinie zu Gewalt gegen Frauen: Warum Deutschland kein EU-Gesetz gegen Vergewaltigung will
Es begann als ambitioniertes Vorhaben der EU-Kommission gegen sexualisierte Gewalt. Bei den heutigen Trilog-Verhandlungen droht jedoch ein Debakel. Ausgerechnet Deutschland blockiert eine europaweite Regelung gegen Vergewaltigung. Und der Rat möchte den besseren Schutz vor bildbasierter Gewalt und Deepfakes verwässern.

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.

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'`,…

Slavic Techniques for Hat Guessing Algorithms
I. M. J. McInnis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21487 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.21487

Slavic Techniques for Hat Guessing Algorithms
2023 undergraduate thesis on a deterministic "hat game." For a digraph $D$, each player stands on a vertex $v$, is assigned a hat from $h(v)$ possible colors, and makes $g(v)$ guesses of her hat's color based on her out-neighbors' hats. If there exists a collective strategy that guarantees a correct guess for any hat assignment, the game is winnable. Which games $(D,g,h)$ are winnable? Two much-studied parameters: $μ(D)$ is the maximum integer $k$ such that $(D,1,k)$ is winnable, and $\hatμ(D…

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…

No, it's not in aid distribution. It's simply in being alive in an extermination camp.
Or would you people be speaking of the dangers in aid distribution if someone trying to help the jews in Auschwitz ended up in the gas chambers?
https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/1…

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.)

Number of Texans receiving out-of-state abortions quadrupled between 2021 and 2023 (Christopher Adams/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5432293-texas-out-of-state-abortions/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250801/p80#a250801p80

I am sad to be one of the Canadians who’ve chosen to avoid discretionary travel to the US, under the current government, that they’re talking about in this video.
As a comparison, here are my in-the-US discretionary spends for the first halves of 2023, 2024, 2025. This does not include air travel or accommodation. This is in-person spending on things like restaurants, gas, entertainment, parking, food.
2023Q1Q2: 1763.97 USD
2024Q1Q2: 1455.82 USD
2025Q1Q2: 172.12 USD

Lockheed Constellation sobre Santiago de Cuba https://archivo.kamasystems.nl/es/2023/07/31/lockheed-constellation-sobre-santiago-de-cuba/

12) Who needs to take a bigger leap https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/12-who-needs-to-take-a-bigger-leap-guyton-or-mazi

… found only 8% of articles in 2023 shared ANY Open data, consistent with previous reports for psychiatry and psychology research.
In our bioscience sample that year, only 8% of articles shared no Open data. Many factors underlying this difference, of course.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjment-2024-301333
👇 CMHN is our analysis of articles from researchers in the MRC-funded "Circadian and Mental Health Network". 3/3

Excitation and tunneling spectra of a fractional quantum Hall system in the thin cylinder limit
Jyesta M. Adhidewata, Joel E. Moore
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21375 https://

Excitation and tunneling spectra of a fractional quantum Hall system in the thin cylinder limit
The excitations of fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) states have been largely inaccessible to experimental probes until recently. New electron scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) results from Hu et.al. (2023) show promise in detecting and identifying these excited states via the local density of states (LDOS) spectrum. On a torus, there exists a mapping to a 1D lattice Hamiltonian with center-of-mass or dipole moment conservation. In this work, we apply perturbation theory starting from the…

Downward self-reducibility in the total function polynomial hierarchy
Karthik Gajulapalli, Surendra Ghentiyala, Zeyong Li, Sidhant Saraogi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19108 https…

Downward self-reducibility in the total function polynomial hierarchy
A problem $\mathcal{P}$ is considered downward self-reducible, if there exists an efficient algorithm for $\mathcal{P}$ that is allowed to make queries to only strictly smaller instances of $\mathcal{P}$. Downward self-reducibility has been well studied in the case of decision problems, and it is well known that any downward self-reducible problem must lie in $\mathsf{PSPACE}$. Harsha, Mitropolsky and Rosen [ITCS, 2023] initiated the study of downward self reductions in the case of search probl…

Analysis: 12 Chinese tech companies have applied to list in Hong Kong so far this year, the most since 2023, after rules allowed lossmaking companies to float (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/31212a34-d8be-491c-9236-f4743e27f64f

Constraining the Origin of FRB 20121102A's Persistent Radio Source with Long-Term Radio Observations
Mohit Bhardwaj, Arvind Balasubramanian, Yasha Kaushal, Shriharsh P. Tendulkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23861

Constraining the Origin of FRB 20121102A's Persistent Radio Source with Long-Term Radio Observations
The persistent radio source (PRS) associated with FRB 20121102A, the first precisely localized repeating fast radio burst (FRB), provides key constraints on both its local environment and the nature of the underlying FRB engine. We present a seven-year (2016-2023) temporal analysis of the PRS, combining new uGMRT observations with archival data across L-band frequencies. We find no statistically significant long-term trend in its L-band flux density. The observed variability is consistent with …

A Multi-stage Low-latency Enhancement System for Hearing Aids
Chengwei Ouyang, Kexin Fei, Haoshuai Zhou, Congxi Lu, Linkai Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04283 https://

A Multi-stage Low-latency Enhancement System for Hearing Aids
This paper proposes an end-to-end system for the ICASSP 2023 Clarity Challenge. In this work, we introduce four major novelties: (1) a novel multi-stage system in both the magnitude and complex domains to better utilize phase information; (2) an asymmetric window pair to achieve higher frequency resolution with the 5ms latency constraint; (3) the integration of head rotation information and the mixture signals to achieve better enhancement; (4) a post-processing module that achieves higher hear…

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

In Memory Of Tom
Inspired by the life of a mentor and friend...
#PianoImprov #NowPlaying
https://muz4no…

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

Unternehmen aus Deutschland finanzieren den israelischen Gaza Krieg. Durch Waffenkäufe und Kredite.
"Kaum Beachtung findet auch, dass die Bundeswehr ein bedeutender Käufer israelischer Rüstungsgüter ist"
"EU-Staaten kauften fast die Hälfte aller Ausfuhren."
"Zur Finanzierung des Gaza­kriegs gab Israel zwischen dem 2023-10-07 und Anfang 2025 Staatsanleihen im Wert von 19,4 Milliarden $ aus. Große Banken wie die Deutsche Bank griffen zu, ebenso der Al…

from my link log —
Bringing runtime index checks to compile time in Rust.
https://ktkaufman03.github.io/blog/2023/04/20/rust-compile-time-checks/
saved 2023-04-27

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

Attosecond Control and Measurement of Chiral Photoionisation Dynamics
Meng Han, Jia-Bao Ji, Alexander Blech, R. Esteban Goetz, Corbin Allison, Loren Greenman, Christiane P. Koch, Hans Jakob W\"orner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01906

Attosecond Control and Measurement of Chiral Photoionisation Dynamics
Many chirality-sensitive light-matter interactions are governed by chiral electron dynamics. Therefore, the development of advanced technologies harnessing chiral phenomena would critically benefit from measuring and controlling chiral electron dynamics on their natural attosecond time scales. Such endeavors have so far been hampered by the lack of characterized circularly polarized attosecond pulses, an obstacle that has recently been overcome (Han et al. Optica 10 (2023) 1044-1052, Han et al.…

I had reason to break out my very brief tutorial on styling links and buttons today:
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/08/styling-links-and-buttons.html
I wrote it because I’ve encountered many devs who use the wrong element claiming they can’t style …

Styling Links and Buttons
I made a tutorial for styling links and buttons, something which many developers have struggled with (resulting in links used as buttons and buttons used as links). I have embedded it on this page, but if you are coming in with your RSS reader you can visit the tutorial directly…

Raiders claim DT Keondre Coburn https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-claim-keondre-coburn-dt-nfl-waivers-2025-training-camp-transactions

12) Who needs to take a bigger leap https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/12-who-needs-to-take-a-bigger-leap-guyton-or-mazi

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…

The dispute has been fanned by nationalist sentiment,
compounded by a bitter feud between two powerful politicians:
Hun Sen, who ruled Cambodia with an iron fist for four decades before handing power to his son Hun Manet in 2023,
and Thaksin Shinawatra, the former populist leader of Thailand, whose daughter Paetongtarn Shinawatra became prime minister in 2024.
Both former leaders remain highly influential.
On Thursday night, Thaksin said on social media he had…

'I think this is really his time': Why the Raiders need Tyree Wilson to live up to first-round billing https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45859555/las-vegas-raiders-defensive-lineman-tyree-wilson-first-round…

A Jarque-Bera test for skew normal data
Diam Ba, Gorgui Gning, Gandasor Bonyiri Onesiphore Da, Oumar Foly Sow, Gane Samb Lo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18032 https://

A Jarque-Bera test for skew normal data
The skew normal law has been introduced in Azzalin (1985) as an alternative to adjusting asymmetric data that share important patterns with the normal law. It has been extensively studied. However, there is so much to do in order to catch the diversity and the richness of the investigation of its normal counterpart. The General Jarque-Berra Test (GJBT) has been devised by Lo et al. (2015), Da et al. (2023) for arbitrary laws with at least finite first eight moments, as a generalization of the J…

Cover art reveal for another piano improv opus #art #artist #inspiration

Cover art reveal for the next piano improv opus
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Weak Fan Structures for Two-Parameter Degenerations of K3 Surfaces
Badre Mounda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14954 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Weak Fan Structures for Two-Parameter Degenerations of K3 Surfaces
In this note, we provide an explicit computation of the weak fan associated with a two-parameter degeneration of K3 surfaces. This example serves as a concrete illustration of the general framework developed by Robles and Deng (2023) for the compactification of period maps via nilpotent orbits in the non-Hermitian case. We describe the associated nilpotent cones, examine their compatibility conditions, and construct the weak fan governing the degeneration behavior. This computation contributes …

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

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

Die Erde speichert derzeit mehr als doppelt so viel Wärme, wie #Klimamodelle es erwarten.
Die #Energieungleichgewicht liegt 2023 bei 1,8 W/m² und übersteigt die Prognosen deutlich. Forscher vermuten eine abnehmende

Greenhouse Gases Are Trapping Twice As Much Heat As They Should, Leading To A Record-Breaking Energy Imbalance
Only by phasing out fossil fuels immediately can this problem be fixed.

General Strong Bound on the Uncrossed Number which is Tight for the Edge Crossing Number
Gaspard Charvy, Tom\'a\v{s} Masa\v{r}\'ik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20937 https…

General Strong Bound on the Uncrossed Number which is Tight for the Edge Crossing Number
We investigate a very recent concept for visualizing various aspects of a graph in the plane using a collection of drawings introduced by Hliněný and Masařík [GD 2023]. Formally, given a graph $G$, we aim to find an uncrossed collection containing drawings of $G$ in the plane such that each edge of $G$ is not crossed in at least one drawing in the collection. The uncrossed number of $G$ ($unc(G)$) is the smallest integer $k$ such that an uncrossed collection for $G$ of size $k$ exists. The …

Getting There #NowPlaying #originalmusic #streaming htt…

Getting There #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Elliptic estimates cross-chain criminal and high-risk activity has topped $21.8B in 2025, up from $7B in 2023; North Korea is responsible for ~12% of the total (Yohan Yun/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/crosschain-swaps-move-21b-…

TelevisaUnivision reports Q2 revenue down 4% YoY to $1.21B, ad revenue down 5%, operating expenses down 9%, and 10M ViX subscribers, up from ~7M at 2023's end (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/televisaunivision-cuts-expense…

TelevisaUnivision Cuts Expenses to Boost Q2 Profit Amid Revenue Dip
Spanish-language giant TelevisaUnivision took a tough hand on operating expenses in a bid to boost second quarter profit even as key revenue fell

A Dormant Captured Oort Cloud Comet Awakens: (18916) 2000 OG44
Colin Orion Chandler, William J. Oldroyd, Chadwick A. Trujillo, Dmitrii E. Vavilov, William A. Burris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21324

A Dormant Captured Oort Cloud Comet Awakens: (18916) 2000 OG44
We report the discovery of activity emanating from (18916) 2000 OG44 (alternately designated 1977 SD), a minor planet previously reported to be both an extinct comet or an asteroid on a cometary orbit. We observed 2000 OG44 with a thin tail oriented towards the coincident anti-solar and anti-motion vectors (as projected on the sky) in images we acquired on UT 2023 July 24 and 26 with the Apache Point Observatory 3.5-meter Astrophysical Research Consortium telescope (New Mexico, USA). We also in…

Berend Botje https://archivo.kamasystems.nl/es/2023/03/29/berend-botje/

📈 Bioscience researchers shared data in 92% of articles that we manually evaluated from 2023. In the chart 👇 orange shading shows 45% of articles shared ALL the relevant data, up from 7% in 2014👏. Sharing varied by data type as expected, 🧬 vs. 🔬, among several other factors.
Thanks to BIH QUEST @ChariteBerlin for ODDPub, which gave a parallel, programmatic evaluation.

In contrast, testing an international sample of circadian, neuroscience and mental health articles by the same manual method … 2/3
Edited for Alt-text.

Raiders claim DT Keondre Coburn https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-claim-keondre-coburn-dt-nfl-waivers-2025-training-camp-transactions

Seeking Joy
- in spite of all the ruckus, we seek joy -
#NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2023/seeking-joy-nowplaying/

Seeking Joy #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Campfire, which offers AI-powered ERP and accounting services, raised a $35M Series A led by Accel (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/30/tiny-ai-erp-startup-campfire-is-winning-s…

Tiny AI ERP startup Campfire is winning so many startups from NetSuite, Accel led a $35M Series A  | TechCrunch
Campfire was launched in 2023 to upend 1990s-era enterprise resource planning accounting software (ERP) like Netsuite with an LLM-powered alternative. 

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in Deutschland mit Stand vom 26.07.2025.
Zählung der Anlagen mit Inbetriebnahmedatum. Der aktuelle Betriebsstatus wird nicht berücksichtigt.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erster Versuch einer #Datenanalyse

Mailbag: Comparing 2025 Cowboys to 2023? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-comparing-2025-cowboys-to-2023

Colts owner: Richardson 'still has time to prove it' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45788854/colts-owner-says-anthony-richardson-prove-it

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

Subtle Drama #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 378 nodes and 3267 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1039061 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

A whistleblower provides nonpublic data revealing that 1M 2FA SMS messages from June 2023 passed via Fink Telecom, a small Swiss company linked to spy agencies (Bloomberg)

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

For Those In Need Of Love Today #NowPlaying https://muz4now.com/2023/for-those-in-need-of-love-today-nowplaying/

For Those In Need Of Love Today #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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

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

Die #Klimakrise trifft #Spanien:
In #Spanien gab es im Juli 2025 über 1.000 #Hitzetote – ein …

Anstieg hitzebedingter Todesfälle in Spanien: 1.060 allein im Juli
Der Juli 2025 wurde zu einem der tödlichsten Monate für hitzebedingte Todesfälle in Spanien: 1.060 Todesfälle wurden den hohen Temperaturen zugeschrieben. Die Zahl entspricht einem Anstieg von 57 % gegenüber Juli 2024 und 54,5 % gegenüber demselben Monat im Jahr 2023.