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On the Image Profiles of Transients in the Palomar Sky Survey
Beatriz Villarroel, Enrique Solano, Geoffrey W. Marcy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15896 https:…

On the Image Profiles of Transients in the Palomar Sky Survey
The VASCO project has discovered groups of short-lived transients on historical photographic plates that lack conventional explanation. Hambly & Blair (2024) examined nine such transients reported by Villarroel (2021) and found that they exhibit narrower, rounder profiles, attributing this to emulsion flaws. However, well-established optical principles and atmospheric physics imply that unresolved flashes lasting less than a second naturally appear sharper and more circular than stellar images,…

President Trump's 2024 financial disclosure report shows he earned ~$57M from his stake in World Liberty Financial and $1.2M from an NFT licensing deal (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/us/politics/trump-disclosure-cryptocu…

Trump Was Already a Crypto Czar in 2024
Financial disclosures for 2024 filed by the president on Friday show that digital coins had already become one of his family’s most successful ventures.

Isto é interessante. Relatório sobre educação nos países da OCDE.
https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/education-at-a-glance-2024_c00cad36-en.html

Sobre la DANA o gota fría https://archivo.kamasystems.nl/2024/11/03/over-de-dana-of-gota-fria/?lang=es

What Makes A Happy New Year? Digging My Way Out #instrumental #music https://muz4now.com/2024/what-makes-a-

What Makes A Happy New Year? Digging My Way Out
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

There’s a specific kind of cognitive dissonance that comes from watching a woman of color who seemed to have been intellectually reared in progressive circles endear herself to this iteration of the Republican Party
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/20

The One Thing You Need to Know to Understand Usha Vance
Usha Vance isn’t a mystery.

The 2024 US State Department report on UK human rights has been published. Note that this is a 2024 report so doesn't have anything to say about the recent policing of support for proscribed groups.
https://www.state.gov/reports/2024-country-…

After stabilizing around 2000-2005, atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gas methane started to rise again, accelerating until a few years ago.
At least the increase seems to be slowing down since 2021.
From the @NOAA ESRL site, now threatened by the Trump regime.
#emissions #methane

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Nun gabs Berichte auf der Versammlung von Wikimedia Deutschland #wmdemv25
In einem kurzen Überblick wurden die Aktivitäten von Wikimedia Deutschland erläutert. Darunter Arbeit an Technik, vor allem WikiData und WikiBase, politische Arbeit zur Förderung und Sicherung Freien Wissens und Zusammenarbeit mit anderen Organisationen.
Mehr Details gibts im Tätigkeitsbericht unter

"Brazil generates 88% of power from renewables in 2024"
#Brazil #Energy #Renewables

Brazil generates 88% of power from renewables in 2024
Brazil’s electricity mix was 88% renewable in 2024, with wind and solar supplying about 24% of total demand, according to new data from state-owned energy agency Empresa de Pesquisa Energetica (EPE).

2025 Bengals look a lot like the 2024 Bengals: Here's the good, bad and ugly from preseason loss to Eagles

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2025-be

»Solo RPGs: A Breakdown of Single Player Role-Playing Games«
You don't always have to be online or watch TV to entertain yourself ;)
🎲 https://wizardsrespite.com/2024/02/13/solo-rpgs-a-breakdown-of-single-player-role-playi…

Solo RPGs: A Breakdown of Single Player Role-Playing Games - Wizard's Respite
Take a close look at the solo RPGs. Discover their history, how they evolved over the years, and what they are today.

Cannot even find where i read it but because i first read about an alleged breach of data from the Israeli government held by the Iranian government (on Mossad agents, recordings from secret cameras installed by Netanyahu to get compromising info on potential rivals, and much more, apparently all from a 2024 hack or leak) i have not been able to shake the twisted thought that the war Israel has now started against Iran is the new worst ever fallout for bad information security.

Changement de registrar
#dns

Prediction of Spotify Chart Success Using Audio and Streaming Features
Ian Jacob Cabansag, Paul Ntegeka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11632 https://arxiv.org/…

Prediction of Spotify Chart Success Using Audio and Streaming Features
Spotify's streaming charts offer a real-time lens into music popularity, driving discovery, playlists, and even revenue potential. Understanding what influences a song's rise in ranks on these charts-especially early on-can guide marketing efforts, investment decisions, and even artistic direction. In this project, we developed a classification pipeline to predict a song's chart success based on its musical characteristics and early engagement data. Using all 2024 U.S. Top 200 Spotify Daily Cha…

„This year, over 11.7 million people applied for Schengen short-stay visas. Globally, demand rose by more than 13%.
But for African applicants, that just meant more money lost.
Analysts estimate Africans lost €60 million (around US$67.5 million) in visa fees in 2024 alone — just for rejections.“
Via Sham Jaff's excellent newsletter https:…

Jag vidhåller att det mest anmärkningsvärda med Säpos hantering är att Le Monde har en världsomspännande publicering om hur Bidens och Macrons livvakter läcker position via Strava i oktober 2024. I juni 2025 fortsätter svenska livvakter läcka *på exakt samma sätt*.

1) Det är anmärkningsvärt att inte upptäcka den här läckan på 7-9 år, trots att risken är känd, men…

2) Att inte agera när Le Monde publicerar en världsomspännande nyhet som exakt avslöjar metoden som läckan sker på…

TAGB: Ritualisierte Praktiken: Formeln ­– Zeichen – Rezeptarien, Basel (07.11. – 08.11.2024) https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20070652/tagb-ritualisierte-praktiken-formeln-zeichen-rezeptarien-basel-0711

God, I loved this movie. I ugly cried so hard in the theater... especially the twist.

▶️ IF | Final Trailer (2024 Movie) - Ryan Reynolds, John Krasinski, Steve Carrell
https://youtube.com/watch?v=mb2187ZQtBE&si=uMC_d5B248gGSVyg

#idw #Stromversorgung 2024: Rekordanteil #erneuerbarer Energien
Eine Bestandsaufnahme der deutschen Stromversorgung zeigt: Die Produktion von Elektrizität hat sich seit 2019 grundlegend verändert. Der A…

Stromversorgung 2024: Rekordanteil erneuerbarer Energien

Here is a poll about #GenAI since that's all we're talking about at the moment:
Do you believe that you can detect AI-generated text?
If so, what are your tips to detect it? I found this article which has a few suggestions :

5 Easy Ways To Tell If Written Content Came From Generative AI
Spread of generative AI content online since ChatGPT 3.5 launched in November 2022 is up 8,362%. Here's how to tell if content was written by an AI bot or not.

Build it and they will come.
In spring 2024, 11% of trips in Paris were made by bicycle and 4.2% by car. In 2010, the cycling share was just 3%.
This year, records have been broken on a monthly basis at many cycle counters. Existing cycle paths are becoming congested and need to be widened.
From: @…

3 NFL players returning from injury who will bounce back immediately https://fansided.com/nfl/3-nfl-players-returning-from-injury-who-will-bounce-back-immediately

"In a record year for forest loss across the tropics, more than a fifth of all the primary forest destroyed in 2024 was in Bolivia, placing the Latin American nation at the very heart of a global crisis."
Bolivia Burning: ‘We are on the edge of a precipice’ | Latin America Bureau

Bolivia Burning: ‘We are on the edge of a precipice’ | Latin America Bureau
In a record year for forest loss across the tropics, more than a fifth of all the primary forest destroyed in 2024 was in Bolivia, placing the Latin

Brock Bowers Was the Perfect Prospect https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/brock-bowers-las-vegas-draft-john-spytek-pete-carroll

Resisting AI Solutionism through Workplace Collective Action
Kevin Zheng, Linda Huber, Aaron Stark, Nathan Kim, Francesca Lameiro, Wells Lucas Santo, Shreya Chowdhary, Eugene Kim, Justine Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08313

Resisting AI Solutionism through Workplace Collective Action
In the face of increasing austerity and threats of AI-enabled labor replacement at the University of Michigan, a group of workers and students have coalesced around the project of "AI resistance" since Fall 2024. Forming a cross-departmental coalition including librarians, faculty, staff, graduate workers, and undergraduate students, we have hosted a public workshop questioning the techno-deterministic inevitability of AI use at the University and are working with other campus organizations to …

from my link log —
Why does Windows use backslash as its path separator?
https://www.os2museum.com/wp/why-does-windows-really-use-backslash-as-path-separator/
saved 2024-04-25

BRIDGES Lectures: Flows of geometric structures, especially $\mathrm{G}_2$-structures
Spiro Karigiannis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11604 https://arxiv.org/…

BRIDGES Lectures: Flows of geometric structures, especially $\mathrm{G}_2$-structures
The BRIDGES meeting in gauge theory, extremal structures, and stability was held June 2024 at l'Institut d'Études Scientifiques de Cargèse in Corsica, organized by Daniele Faenzi, Eveline Legendre, Eric Loubeau, and Henrique Sá Earp. The first week was a summer school consisting of four independent but related lecture series by Oscar García Prada, Spiro Karigiannis, Laurent Manivel, and Ruxandra Moraru. The present document consists of notes for the lecture series by Spiro Karigiannis on "F…

Kävin Alkossa. Petit Bourgeois -roseeta. Kareliaanista piirakkaa, erilaisia hilloja, valkohomejuustoa.
(Ei pidä sekoittaa petite bourgeoisie:hin, pois se minusta, haha.)

New Broncos RB J.K. Dobbins fires back at Chargers after signing with AFC West rivals

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/new-broncos-r…

🌟 “I see GÉANT as a strong component in the competitiveness that Europe is striving for.”
In her first interview as GÉANT CEO, Lise Fuhr reflects on her initial impressions, shares what she wishes more people knew about the GÉANT community, and offers a glimpse into the forthcoming GÉANT Association strategy.
➡️ Read the full interview:

CONNECT Interview: Lise Fuhr, GÉANT CEO | GÉANT CONNECT Online
In November 2024, Lise Fuhr took on the role of Chief Executive Officer at GÉANT. Now, six months into her new role, she reflects on her first impressions, shares what she wishes more people knew about the GÉANT community, and offers a glimpse into the forthcoming GÉANT Association strategy. You’ve now been at GÉANT for

The story of Rogue #rogue #roguelikes

🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Retröt: Mit #Steckersolaranlagen kannst Du selbst auf Deinem #Balkon Teil der #Energiewende werden, Deine

Steckersolaranlagen für Deinen Balkon: Sparen mit der Energiewende
Spare Stromkosten mit einem Balkonkraftwerk! Finde heraus, was die neuen Regelungen 2024 für Dich bedeuten. Einfach installieren und profitieren.

Discovery and Localization of the Swift-Observed FRB 20241228A in a Star-forming Host Galaxy
Alice P. Curtin, Shion Andrew, Sunil Simha, Alice Cai, Kenzie Nimmo, Shami Chatterjee, Amanda M. Cook, Fengqiu Adam Dong, Yuxin Dong, Tarraneh Eftekhari, Wen-fai Fong, Emmanuel Fonseca, Jason W. T. Hessels, Ronniy C. Joseph, Victoria Kaspi, Calvin Leung, Robert Main, Kiyoshi W. Masui, Ryan Mckinven, Daniele Michilli, Mason Ng, Ayush Pandhi, Aaron B. Pearlman, Ziggy Pleunis, Mawson W. Sammons, K…

Discovery and Localization of the Swift-Observed FRB 20241228A in a Star-forming Host Galaxy
On 2024 December 28, CHIME/FRB detected the thus-far non-repeating FRB 20241228A with a real-time signal-to-noise ratio of $>50$. Approximately 112~s later, the X-ray Telescope onboard the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory was on source, the fastest follow-up to-date of a non-repeating FRB (Tohuvavohu et al. in prep.). Using CHIME/FRB and two of the three CHIME/FRB Outriggers, we obtained a Very Long Baseline Interferometry localization for FRB 20241228A with a 1$σ$ confidence ellipse of 11$^{\pr…

It's so nice when companies only make small changes to their code of conduct. Google dropped the word "Don't" from their foundational guiding principle.
I guess that makes it easier to make money.
https://www.theguardian.com/t…

REfugEEs From Beyond – Odd Spede Noisecore
#byncsa

A new type-1 transition in NGC 1346 revealed by (spectro)polarimetry
F. Marin, D. Hutsem\'ekers, S. Jorstad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08589 https://…

A new type-1 transition in NGC 1346 revealed by (spectro)polarimetry
We present the first photo- and spectropolarimetric observations of the changing-look active galactic nucleus NGC~1346 taken with the Perkins telescope (November 2022, March 2025) and VLT/FORS2 (August and September 2024), which have revealed a new spectral transition. We find that NGC~1346 has reverted to its former (2001) type-1 spectral state after having been a type-2 active galactic nucleus from 2004 to 2022. More and more intense broad H$β$ (3720 $\pm$ 310 km.s$^{-1}$ full width at half …

from my link log —
When should a Java JIT compiler expand garbage collection barriers?
https://robcasloz.github.io/blog/2024/02/14/when-should-a-compiler-expand-garbage-collection-barriers.html
saved…

Slovenia becomes first EU country to impose arms embargo on Israel | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/1/slovenia-becomes-first-eu-country-to-impose-arms-embargo-on-is…

Slovenia becomes first EU country to impose arms embargo on Israel
The Central European country has also recognised Palestinian statehood in 2024.

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1060581 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

SMA and NOEMA reveal asymmetric sub-structure in the protoplanetary disk of IRAS23077 6707
Joshua B. Lovell, Leon Trapman, Kristina Monsch, Sean M. Andrews, Alice S. Booth, Garrett K. Keating, Takahiro Ueda, David J. Wilner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00122

SMA and NOEMA reveal asymmetric sub-structure in the protoplanetary disk of IRAS23077+6707
We present high-resolution data of IRAS 23077+6707 (`Dracula's Chivito') with the Submillimeter Array (SMA at 1.33 mm/225.5 GHz) and the Northern Extended Millimeter Array (NOEMA at 2.7 mm/111.7 GHz and 3.1 mm/96.2 GHz). IRAS 23077+6707 is a highly-inclined and newly discovered protoplanetary disk, first reported in 2024. We combine SMA baselines from the Compact, Extended and Very Extended arrays, and NOEMA baselines from its A and C configurations, and present continuum images with resolution…

The economy created only 33,000 jobs in May and June combined
— anemic growth the likes of which we haven’t seen the final months of President Trump’s first term.
In contrast, under President Biden, the economy gained some 420,000 jobs in May and June 2024.
Trump’s response was as unhinged and authoritarian as you’d expect.
In an unprecedented move, he abruptly firedErika McEntarfer,
the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
-- and as an excuse lied th…

The looming Trump-cession
Orange man bad (for the economy).

Broncos LB Nik Bonitto 'hungrier' to build off of breakout season entering contract year in 2025

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/broncos

Comment on "Quantum tunneling from Schwarzschild black hole in non-commutative gauge theory of gravity"
A. A. Ara\'ujo Filho, Iarley P. Lobo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22965

Comment on "Quantum tunneling from Schwarzschild black hole in non-commutative gauge theory of gravity"
The particle creation via quantum tunneling was recently calculated for the Schwarzschild non-commutative black hole solution in Ref. [Phys. Lett. B 848 (2024) 138335, e-Print: 2310.02445 [gr-qc]]. Nevertheless, it contains inconsistencies in the calculations that need to be properly corrected. In particular, the event horizon was incorrectly determined in that work, which affected all the subsequent calculations. Moreover, the same issue have been repeated elsewhere by the same authors in Refs…

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1026385 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

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

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

The 2024 #Labour Budget allocated just £11.3 billion to climate change mitigation and adaptation—covering everything from carbon capture* and
nuclear energy* to tree planting and EV charging*—compared to
at least £58 billion for military spending.
NB, those with a * are fake climate mitigation.
#warmongering

Advances in aviation radiation mitigation were demonstrated during the Gannon storm
W. K. Tobiska, B. Hogan, L. Didkovsky, K. Judge, J. Bailey, K. Drumm, K. Wahl, A. Sosnov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00887

Advances in aviation radiation mitigation were demonstrated during the Gannon storm
The validation of a strategy for aviation radiation hazard mitigation in development for decades has been completed using two commercial airline flights in 2024 and 2025. This article provides a historical review of the primary elements leading to that strategy, including the building of aviation radiation awareness and collaborative efforts by global aviation and radiological bodies that established mitigation standards. The validation of an ALARA strategy was accomplished using two UAL 990 fl…

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

Worst to first for 49ers? Ranking 8 last-place teams’ chances to win division in 2025 https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/worst-first-49ers-ranking-8-last-place-teams-chances-win-division-2025

🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Retröt: Mit #Steckersolaranlagen kannst Du selbst auf Deinem #Balkon Teil der #Energiewende werden, Deine

Steckersolaranlagen für Deinen Balkon: Sparen mit der Energiewende
Spare Stromkosten mit einem Balkonkraftwerk! Finde heraus, was die neuen Regelungen 2024 für Dich bedeuten. Einfach installieren und profitieren.

📝 CrossCurrents Volume 74, Number 4, December 2024 Special Issue: 200 Years of Johnson v. M’Intosh: Indigenous Responses to the Religious Foundations of Racism. Open Access. https://dofd.fyi/vol74
!The cover art by Anna Ullman shows a turtle island being labed as sold. (https://cdn.some.pics/adjb/68654e44dd835.png)

Arcsecond-Scale X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy of SS 433 with Chandra HETG
Yusuke Sakai, Shinya Yamada, Haruka Sakemi, Mami Machida, Taichi Igarashi, Ryota Hayakawa, Miho Tan, Taisei Furuyama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19042

Arcsecond-Scale X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy of SS 433 with Chandra HETG
We present a spatial and spectral analysis of arcsecond-scale X-ray emission in SS433 using zeroth-order data from Chandra High-Energy Transmission Grating (HETG) observations. The analysis is based on 24 observations acquired between 1999 and 2024, comprising a total exposure of $\sim$850 ks and covering a wide range of orbital and precessional phases. Among these, the $\sim$140 ks observation from 2014 was analyzed in detail for this study. This data provides the best statistics and was taken…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in Deutschland. Stand: 02.08.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erste Versuche einer #Datenanalyse. 😁 Hinweise gerne. Wü…

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1014651 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in Deutschland mit Stand vom 02.08.2025.
Zählung der Anlagen mit Inbetriebnahmedatum. Der aktuelle Betriebsstatus wird nicht berücksichtigt.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erste Versuche einer #Datenanalyse

Die #Versicherungen haben es bereits seit Jahrzehnten verstanden. Die Politik ignoriert wirksamen #Klimaschutz weiterhin.
Naturgewalten haben 2024 in Deutschland erneut #Milliardenschäden