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State of the Climate in 2024 ist erschienen.
2024 war das wärmste Jahr seit Beginn der Aufzeichnungen. Die #CO2-Konzentration stieg auf 422,8 ppm – 52 % über dem vorindustriellen Niveau.
Extreme #Wetterlagen nahmen zu: schwere Überschwemmungen in

State of the Climate in 2024
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Monitoring firm MUSO says piracy hit a low in 2020 with 130B website visits and grew by 2024 to 216B; in Sweden, 25% of those surveyed reported pirating in 2024 (Gabriel V Rindborg/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/

Appfigures: AI companion apps are on track to generate $120M in revenue in 2025, and in H1 there were 60M downloads of this kind of app, up 88% YoY (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/12/ai-companion-apps-on-track-to-pull-in-120m-in-…

AI companion apps on track to pull in $120M in 2025 | TechCrunch
The number of AI companion apps has grown more than 60% since 2024.

#Deutschlandangebot2040
Heute hat der ÖPNV 12 mrd. Fahrgäste und das obwohl der allergrößte Teil Deutschlands kein gutes ÖPNV-Angebot hat und quasi abgehängt ist. 16-21 mrd. Fahrgäste sind machbar, wenn wir den Menschen ein flächendeckend ausreichend gutes Angebt bieten - statt weite Teile des Landes abzuhängen.

I just dropped in on my BlueSty account for a visit, and discovered that those bastard online hooker accounts that "like" your posts for attention have now migrated there from Elonland. It's soooo tedious.

Emulating Dark Matter Halo Merger Trees with Graph Generative Models
Tri Nguyen, Chirag Modi, Siddharth Mishra-Sharma, L. Y. Aaron Yung, Rachel S. Somerville
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10652

Emulating Dark Matter Halo Merger Trees with Graph Generative Models
Merger trees track the hierarchical assembly of dark matter halos across cosmic time and serve as essential inputs for semi-analytic models of galaxy formation. However, conventional methods for constructing merger trees rely on ad-hoc assumptions and are unable to incorporate environmental information. Nguyen et al. (2024) introduced FLORAH, a generative model based on recurrent neural networks and normalizing flows, for modeling main progenitor branches of merger trees. In this work, we exten…

Next Generation
#HardRock #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2024/next-generation-nowp…

Next Generation #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

If the IDF dossiers (see screenshots) are correct, then #AnasJamalAlSharif recently killed in #Gaza was a soldier agent of #Hamas (source:

Lamar pulls challenge of Aikman No. 8 trademark https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45965979/lamar-jackson-withdraws-challenge-aikman-no-8-trademarks

Statistical Perspectives on Urban Inequality: A Systematic Review of GIS-Based Methodologies and Applications
Mahshid Gorjian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08296 https://

Statistical Perspectives on Urban Inequality: A Systematic Review of GIS-Based Methodologies and Applications
Urban inequality, as reflected by uneven spatial allocations of resources, services, and opportunities, has arisen as a major topic for quantitative research and policy intervention. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) provide a solid framework for quantifying, analyzing, and visualizing these disparities; nevertheless, the many statistical approaches used in different studies have not been completely pooled. This analysis looks at 201 peer-reviewed articles published between 1996 and 2024, ob…

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

"Umgang mit dem Unsichtbaren – Neurodiversity-Management in Bibliotheken" https://doi.org/10.1515/bfp-2024-0005

Recent Advances and Trends in Research Paper Recommender Systems: A Comprehensive Survey
Iratxe Pinedo, Mikel Larra\~naga, Ana Arruarte
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08828 https://…

Recent Advances and Trends in Research Paper Recommender Systems: A Comprehensive Survey
As the volume of scientific publications grows exponentially, researchers increasingly face difficulties in locating relevant literature. Research Paper Recommender Systems have become vital tools to mitigate this information overload by delivering personalized suggestions. This survey provides a comprehensive analysis of Research Paper Recommender Systems developed between November 2021 and December 2024, building upon prior reviews in the field. It presents an extensive overview of the techni…

Raiders remain in top 10 of NFL’s most valuable teams https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-remain-in-top-10-of-nfls-most-valuable-teams-3421298/

Interesting! The Swedes have found that if they add the enzyme endolysin to antibiotics, that they can work again against resistant bacteria.

Nieuwsuur vroeg aan Sigrid Kaag een foto mee te nemen die voor haar betekenis heeft.
Dit is dus al in April 2024.
Meer dan een jaar geleden dus.
In Nieuwsuur dus een uitgebreid interview met een duidelijk heel kritische Kaag op het NLse beleid. Aanrader en verplichte kost voor dit kabinet.
#Nieuwsuur #Gaza

Was cleaning out my tabs, and wow, this article aged well. 😂
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/18/24247985/tesla-cybertruck-july-2024-sales-deliveries-match-all-ev-trucks

Tesla sold more Cybertrucks than almost all other EV trucks combined
Tesla Cybertruck registrations in July almost match overall EV truck registrations, including Rivian R1T and Ford F-150 Lightning, suggesting strong Cybertruck demand.

v-representability on a one-dimensional torus at elevated temperatures
Sarina M. Sutter, Markus Penz, Michael Ruggenthaler, Robert van Leeuwen, Klaas J. H. Giesbertz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07784

v-representability on a one-dimensional torus at elevated temperatures
We extend a previous result [Sutter et al., J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 57, 475202 (2024)] to give an explicit form of the set of $v$-representable densities on the one-dimensional torus with any fixed number of particles in contact with a heat bath at finite temperature. The particle interaction has to satisfy some mild assumptions but is kept entirely general otherwise. For densities, we consider the Sobolev space $H^1$ and exploit the convexity of the functionals. This leads to a broader set of…

Suomessa on 31.12.2024 mennessä havaittu hyväksytysti 496 luonnonvaraiseksi luokiteltua lintulajia #luonto

BirdLife Suomi | Suomessa havaitut lintulajit
Yhdessä lintujen puolesta

Controlling tail risk in two-slope ski rental
Qiming Cui (Johns Hopkins University), Michael Dinitz (Johns Hopkins University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06809 https://

Controlling tail risk in two-slope ski rental
We study the optimal solution to a general two-slope ski rental problem with a tail risk, i.e., the chance of the competitive ratio exceeding a value $γ$ is bounded by $δ$. This extends the recent study of tail bounds for ski rental by [Dinitz et al. SODA 2024] to the two-slope version defined by [Lotker et al. IPL 2008]. In this version, even after "buying," we must still pay a rental cost at each time step, though it is lower after buying. This models many real-world "rent-or-buy" scenarios…

This "service" is thanks to the numbskulls the Tories hired when they were still in power. Utter incompetence.

Unveiling Unprecedented Fine Structure in Coronal Flare Loops with the DKIST
Cole A. Tamburri, Maria D. Kazachenko, Gianna Cauzzi, Adam F. Kowalski, Ryan French, Rahul Yadav, Caroline L Evans, Yuta Notsu, Marcel F. Corchado-Albelo, Kevin P. Reardon, Alexandra Tritschler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05875…

Unveiling Unprecedented Fine Structure in Coronal Flare Loops with the DKIST
We present the highest-resolution H$α$ observations of a solar flare to date, collected during the decay phase of an X1.3-class flare on 8 August 2024 at 20:12 UT. Observations with the Visible Broadband Imager at the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope reveal dark coronal loop strands at unprecedented spatial resolution in the flare arcade above highly structured chromospheric flare ribbons. After surveying the 20 best-seeing images, we calculate a mean loop w…

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1071459 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

How the GOP Brought Trump Back from the Dead (The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/how-the-gop-brought-trump-back-from-dead-2020-2024-january-6-republicans-dawsey-pager-arnsdorf-trial-primary
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p129#a250708p129

Common Sunflower. Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge, California, USA. September, 2024. #descansogardens #sunflower #flower

Pre-perihelion radio observations of comet 12P/Pons-Brooks with Tianma radio telescope
Juncen Li, Xian Shi, Jianchun Shi, Yuehua Ma, Bin Yang, Jian-Yang Li, Zexi Xing, Man-To Hui, Zhen Wang, Ruining Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06936

Pre-perihelion radio observations of comet 12P/Pons-Brooks with Tianma radio telescope
{The multiple outburst events of comet 12P/Pons-Brooks during its 2024 apparition offer a unique window into highly-active volatile releasing processes not observable during quiescent periods. We performed radio observations of comet 12P/Pons-Brooks with the Tianma-65m radio telescope, targeting the OH and NH$_3$ inversion lines at 18-cm and 1.3-cm, respectively. By monitoring 12P at different heliocentric distances on its inbound journey, we aim to provide insights into the comet's volatile co…

"Over Half of UK Badger Population Killed: 247,880 Culled Since 2013"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Badgers #Animals

Over Half of UK Badger Population Killed: 247,880 Culled Since 2013
Official figures from Natural England released today reveal another 17,150 badgers were killed in 2024 culls.

Has to be be intervention from the gods of fate (i e. irony of fate), that one of the biggest assholes in literature, Peer Gynt, is a national hero and idol in Norway. https://www.ibsenbyen.no/en/ibsen-i-norge-peer-gynt-pa-gala-ikonisk-forest…

Juno Observations of Io's Alfvén Wing From 23 Io Radii: #Alfvén wing at a distance of ∼23 #Io radii south of the moon during perijove 62. Evidence for this passage was clearly seen in the #Juno plasma wave, magnetometer, and plasma data. The plasma wave signature was an intensification of quasi-electrostatic waves below about 1 kHz with a weaker magnetic component, all lasting for about two minutes. A strong perturbation of the magnetic field consistent with strong field-aligned currents was observed at the edges of the Alfvén wing. Ions in the range below about 1 keV/q were slowed within the Alfvén wing. As with other measurements in Io's Alfvén wing, we observe evidence of filamentation. The power in the Alfvén wing based on the measured Poynting flux is estimated to be ∼500–1,500 × 109 W."

Any suggestions OTHER than upgrading to AlmaLinux 9 to fix these kind of issues with ansible? Ansible server is Alma 10, but I have a few v8 boxes and mostly v9. "FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Could not import the dnf python module using /usr/bin/python3.9 (3.9.20 (main, Oct 23 2024, 09:34:14) [GCC 8.5.0 20210514 (Red Hat 8.5.0-22)]). Please install `python3-dnf` package or ensure you have specified the correct ansible_python_interpreter. " ?? …

It may not come as a surprise that the fracking billionaire who helped launch The Daily Wire has also denied that the climate emergency is real. 
https://www.desmog.com/2024/09/09/inside-the-anti-climate-culture-war-led…

Tidal Triggering of Magnitude 7 Earthquakes by Jupiter
E. W. Holt, Eric Newman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07064 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.07064

Tidal Triggering of Magnitude 7+ Earthquakes by Jupiter
This work uses a chi-squared test of independence to determine if days that include earthquakes greater than or equal to magnitude 7 (M7+) from 1960 to 2024 are truly independent of the position of Earth in its orbit around the sun. To this end, this study breaks up Earth's orbit into days offset on either side of two reference Earth-Sun-Planet orientations, or zero-points: opposition and inferior conjunction. A computer program is used to sample U.S.G.S. earthquake and N.A.S.A. Horizons epheme…

Steelers' Aaron Rodgers isn't a fan of new helmet, says it 'looks like a damn spaceship'

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

@… Why have you branded your "Edinburgh" account with the union flag instead of the Saltire?

#FensterFreitag
Córdoba, May 2024.

Call for Papers: ICMS 2026 Panel, "The Imagined Woman"
https://ift.tt/lHdwe5h
University of Alaska - Fairbanks - Alaska & Polar Regions Area Studies Bibliographer & Curator of…
via Input 4 RELCFP …

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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I woke up at 3am, and while trying to get back to sleep thought about how there will be literally thousands of men loose in society who have done unspeakable things during the brutal and disgraceful conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza.
Some will be caught and tried for war crimes, but most won't. They'll walk past you on the street, have jobs.
It feels like a ticking time bomb.

Are gray skies trying to bring us down? #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2024/are-gray-skies-trying-to-bring-us-down-inspiration/

Are gray skies trying to bring us down? #inspiration
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

In Q2 2025, global VC funding reached $91B, up from $82B in Q2 2024, driven largely by AI investments, but down from $114B in Q1 2025, the highest since Q3 2022 (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/global-funding-climbs-q2-…

Q2 Global Venture Funding Climbs In A Blockbuster Quarter For AI And As Capital Concentrates In Larger...
Global venture funding ticked up year over year in Q2 2025, reaching $91 billion, with a greater concentration of capital into the largest funding rounds compared to a year ago, Crunchbase data shows.

Embargo ransomware gang has handled at least $34 million in about a year, report says https://therecord.media/embargo-ransomware-gang-blackcat-alphv-successor

The multi-physics analysis, design and testing of CUSP, a CubeSat mission for space weather and solar flares x-ray polarimetry
Giovanni Lombardi, Sergio Fabiani, Ettore Del Monte, Andrea Alimenti, Riccardo Campana, Mauro Centrone, Enrico Costa, Nicolas De Angelis, Giovanni De Cesare, Sergio Di Cosimo, Giuseppe Di Persio, Abhay Kumar, Alessandro Lacerenza, Pasqualino Loffredo, Gabriele Minervini, Fabio Muleri, Paolo Romano, Alda Rubini, Emanuele Scalise, Enrico Silva, Paolo Soffitta, Da…

The multi-physics analysis, design and testing of CUSP, a CubeSat mission for space weather and solar flares x-ray polarimetry
The space-based CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) mission aims to measure the linear polarization of solar flares in the hard X-ray band by means of a Compton scattering polarimeter. CUSP is a project in the framework of the Alcor Program of the Italian Space Agency aimed at developing new CubeSat missions. As part of CUSP's Phase B study, which began in December 2024 and will last one year, we present the current development status of the design solutions adopted for the mission's most critical…

Out & about in the Bernina Range, on our way to the Labyrinth, surrounded by majestic 4000ers (meters)... A dream! 😍
(#ThrowbackThursday, preemptive #FootpathFriday and my personal hiking highlight of 2024)

Movies watched in July, ranked (being on the bottom doesn’t mean it’s bad)
(1/2)
- The Graduate (1967) 🌞
- Kneecap (2024) 🔁
- The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025)
- The Substance (2024) 🔁
- 28 Days Later (2002) 🔁
- A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) 🩸🔁
- 28 Years Later (2025)
- F1 (2025)
- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004) 🌏🔁
- 28 Weeks Later (2007)
- An Unfinished Film (2024)
- …
🔁 — rewatch
🩸 — Creepy Crypt
…

Better Call Claude: Can LLMs Detect Changes of Writing Style?
Johannes R\"omisch, Svetlana Gorovaia, Mariia Halchynska, Gleb Schmidt, Ivan P. Yamshchikov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00680

Better Call Claude: Can LLMs Detect Changes of Writing Style?
This article explores the zero-shot performance of state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) on one of the most challenging tasks in authorship analysis: sentence-level style change detection. Benchmarking four LLMs on the official PAN~2024 and 2025 "Multi-Author Writing Style Analysis" datasets, we present several observations. First, state-of-the-art generative models are sensitive to variations in writing style - even at the granular level of individual sentences. Second, their accuracy …

Murder Officially Plunged in 2024 (Jeff Asher/Jeff-alytics)
https://jasher.substack.com/p/murder-officially-plunged-in-2024
http://www.memeorandum.com/250805/p62#a250805p62

Irreducible components of Toric Complete Intersections
Andrey Zhizhin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00745 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.00745

Irreducible components of Toric Complete Intersections
An equivariant linear system on a toric variety is a linear system invariant under the torus action. We study the number of irreducible components of the complete intersection of general divisors from a fixed collection of equivariant linear system on a toric variety $X$. An explicit formula for the number of components was obtained by Khovanskii in 2016 for the case $X = T^n$ over $\mathbb C$ and generalized to an algebraically closed field of arbitrary characteristic the author in 2024. Build…

But nice lawns and golf courses and unblemished flower gardens are so important. We can't possibly give up routine use of #pesticides.
Yet it's clear that even "benign" pesticides, like #pyrethroids, have adverse impacts. Even if they are harmless to people and pets, they …

As @pluralistic writes here, “the American right is a brittle coalition:”
https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/14/fracture-lines/
We imagine the right as monolithic at our peril. Reply guys love, love, love to lecture me about how These People are all the same. Here’s the thing: they are not, and imagining they are is self-defeating. The right has been •incredibly• effective at finding fracture points on the left and jamming a crowbar into them. It’s time we did the same.
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Comment on "Mineral-water reactions in Earth's mantle: Predictions from Born theory and ab initio molecular dynamics" by Fowler et al. 2024 (Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 372, 111-123)
Jiajia Huang, Ding Pan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05656

Comment on "Mineral-water reactions in Earth's mantle: Predictions from Born theory and ab initio molecular dynamics" by Fowler et al. 2024 (Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 372, 111-123)
This comment addresses discrepancies in dielectric constant calculations of water under extreme conditions (~10 GPa and 1000 K) between Fowler et al.'s recent study [Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 372, 111-123 (2024)] and the earlier work by Pan et al. [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 110, 6646-6650 (2013)]. Through reproduced ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations using the CP2K code with extended duration and identical system size, we rigorously validate that Pan et al.'s original results (39.4) ar…

Microsoft says it paid $17M to 344 security researchers across 59 countries between June 2024 to June 2025 via its bug bounty program; the top reward was $200K (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/micr

Interface crossing behavior of prolate microswimmers: thermo and hydrodynamics
Rishish Mishra, Harish Pothukuchi, Harinadha Gidituri, Juho Lintuvuori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23708

Interface crossing behavior of prolate microswimmers: thermo and hydrodynamics
Motivated by recent experiments of motile bacteria crossing liquid-liquid interfaces of isotropic- nematic coexistence (Cheon et al., Soft Matter 20: 7313-7320, 2024), we study the dynamics of prolate microswimmers traversing clean liquid-liquid interfaces. Using large-scale lattice Boltzmann simulations, we observe that neutrally wetting swimmers can be either trapped or cross the in- terface, depending on their initial angle, swimming speed and the interfacial tension between the two fluids. …

A conjecture on the tensor ideal for an elementary p-group generated by the restriction of a Steinberg module
Kevin Coulembier, Johannes Flake
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02722

A conjecture on the tensor ideal for an elementary p-group generated by the restriction of a Steinberg module
In previous work (Coulembier--Flake 2024), the authors conjectured that the tensor product of an arbitrary finite-dimensional modular representation of an elementary abelian $p$-group with the biggest non-projective restricted Steinberg $SL_2$-module is a restricted tilting module. We showed that the validity of the conjecture would have interesting implications in the theory of tensor categories in positive characteristic, in particular, with respect to the classification of incompressible sym…

T CrB - overview of the accretion history, Roche-lobe filling, orbital solution, and radiative modeling: #TCrB are mounting, initiated by the discovery in 2015 of a new enhanced mass-transfer phase (SAP), which is reminiscent of the one preceding the last recorded outburst in 1946. [...] SAP has been caused by an inside-out collapse of the disk, during which the mean accretion rate onto the WD has been ~28x larger than in quiescence. SAP ended in April 2023, but from May 2024 mass-flow has intensively resumed at disk inner radii while the collapse wave reached the outer portions of the disk; the consequent revamp in mass accretion could fill the gap inherited by the fainter 2015-2023 SAP and eventually lead the WD accreted shell to ignition."

Verification of the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center solar flare forecast (1998-2024)
Enrico Camporeale, Thomas E. Berger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01114 https://

Verification of the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center solar flare forecast (1998-2024)
The NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) issues the official U.S. government forecast for M-class and X-class solar flares, yet the skill of these forecasts has never been comprehensively verified. In this study, we evaluate the SWPC probabilistic flare forecasts over a 26-year period (1998-2024), comparing them to several zero-cost and statistical baselines including persistence, climatology, Naive Bayes, and logistic regression. We find that the SWPC model does not outperform these bas…

Falcons QB Kirk Cousins opens up about Atlanta's decision to draft Michael Penix Jr. in 2024

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

Stadt Bochum zeichnet sich selbst aus.
„Fortschritte für den Radverkehr: ADFC zeichnet Bochum aus
Die Stadt Bochum hat beim Fahrradklimatest 2024 des Allgemeinen Deutschen Fahrrad Clubs (ADFC) den ersten Platz in der Kategorie Aufholer erhalten.“
https://www.

Fortschritte für den Radverkehr: ADFC zeichnet Bochum aus | Stadt Bochum
Die Stadt Bochum hat beim Fahrradklimatest 2024 des Allgemeinen Deutschen Fahrrad Clubs (ADFC)  den ersten Platz in der Kategorie „Aufholer“ erhalten.

https://hpiers.obspm.fr/eoppc/bul/buld/bulletind.145
Paris, 18 December 2024 Bulletin D 144
(er oops looks like they forgot to update the heading, should be 145)
ANNOUNCEMENT OF DUT1
From the 10 July 2025, 0h UTC until further notice, the value o…

Call for Papers: ICMS 2026 Panel, "The Imagined Woman"
https://ift.tt/0XPK6tS
University of Alaska - Fairbanks - Alaska & Polar Regions Area Studies Bibliographer & Curator of…
via Input 4 RELCFP …

"Netherlands installs 4.32 GW of solar in 2024"
#Netherlands #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Netherlands installs 4.32 GW of solar in 2024
The Netherlands installed 4.32 GW of solar capacity in 2024, bringing its cumulative total to 28.62 GW by year-end, according to official data.

Trump Media reports Q2 net sales up 5.5% YoY to $883.3K, a net loss of $20M, vs. a $16.4M net loss in Q2 2024, and $3.1B in cash and investments, up ~800% YoY (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/trump-truth-social-tmtg-q2-2…

Trump's TMTG Truth Social Q2 Earnings: $20M Loss on $883K in Net Sales
Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social that is majority-owned by President Donald Trump, posted earnings for Q2 2025.

Cooper Beebe continues to be underestimated as Dallas Cowboys o-line anchor https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/cooper-beebe-underestimated-dallas-cowboys-o-line-anchor

A Nitrogen-rich AGN Powering a Large Ionizing Bubble at z=8.63
Takahiro Morishita, Massimo Stiavelli, Charlotte A. Mason, Roberta Tripodi, Marco Chiaberge, Stefan Schuldt, Chris J. Willott, Yechi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01372

A Nitrogen-rich AGN Powering a Large Ionizing Bubble at z=8.63
We report the detection of Ly$α$ in CANUCS-LRD-z8.6, a recently discovered AGN at z = 8.63 by Tripodi et al. (2024), in new NIRSpec/MSA G140H/F070LP observations. We detect broad Ly$α$ emission (FWHM $= 1540 \pm 260$ km/s) near the systemic velocity, which suggests a large ionizing bubble considering that the universe is almost fully neutral at the redshift. Through Ly$α$ line-shape modeling assuming a Stromgren sphere, we find a large bubble radius, $R_b = 1.5^{+0.3}_{-0.2}$ pMpc, and a mod…

#OTD 2024. Rotterdam.

Der Juli 2025 war weltweit der drittwärmste seit Beginn der Aufzeichnungen.
Die globale Durchschnittstemperatur lag 0,45 °C über dem Juli-Mittel von 1991–2020 und 1,25 °C über dem vorindustriellen Niveau.
Damit blieb der Monat knapp unter der 1,5-Grad-Schwelle. Im 12-Monats-Zeitraum August 2024 bis Juli 2025 lag die globale Temperatur im Schnitt bereits 1,53 °C darüber.

Worlds Next Door: A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in the Habitable Zone of $\alpha$ Cen A. II. Binary Star Modeling, Planet and Exozodi Search, and Sensitivity Analysis
Aniket Sanghi, Charles Beichman, Dimitri Mawet, William O. Balmer, Nicolas Godoy, Laurent Pueyo, Anthony Boccaletti, Max Sommer, Alexis Bidot, Elodie Choquet, Pierre Kervella, Pierre-Olivier Lagage, Jarron Leisenring, Jorge Llop-Sayson, Michael Ressler, Kevin Wagner, Mark Wyatt

Worlds Next Door: A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in the Habitable Zone of $α$ Cen A. II. Binary Star Modeling, Planet and Exozodi Search, and Sensitivity Analysis
JWST observed our closest solar twin, $α$ Cen A, with the MIRI coronagraph in F1550C (15.5 $μ$m) at three distinct epochs between August 2024 and April 2025. For the first time with JWST, we demonstrate the application of reference star differential imaging to simultaneously subtract the coronagraphic image of a primary star and the point spread function (PSF) of its binary companion to conduct a deep search for exoplanets and dust emission. We achieve a typical 5$σ$ point source contrast se…

Autobuses de Malta https://archivo.kamasystems.nl/2024/08/13/autobuses-de-malta/?lang=es

Wie gestalten wir Schach inklusiv? Hier bekommst du konkrete Ideen für mehr Teilhabe in Verein und Verband.
➡️ #DSJAkademie

Dak Prescott expects to be 'full-go' for camp, not worried about building rapport with George Pickens https://www.nfl.com/news/dak-prescott-expects-to-be-full-go-for-camp-not-worried-about-building-rappo…

I still see no signs that indicate that the D-party has the ability to win seats in 2024 or win the presidency (or house or senate majority) in 2028.
I am perceiving the D-party eroding-itself away leaving individual candidates to run their own campaigns.
Although I am much in favor of the goals of much "identity" based campaign messaging I feel that emphasis on those has cost the progressive/liberal voice too many seats. Those messages, valid and important as they are…

Overly academic/distanced ethical discussions
Had a weird interaction with @/brainwane@social.coop just now. I misinterpreted one of their posts quoting someone else and I think the combination of that plus an interaction pattern where I'd assume their stance on something and respond critically to that ended up with me getting blocked. I don't have hard feelings exactly, and this post is only partly about this particular person, but I noticed something interesting by the end of the conversation that had been bothering me. They repeatedly criticized me for assuming what their position was, but never actually stated their position. They didn't say: "I'm bothered you assumed my position was X, it's actually Y." They just said "I'm bothered you assumed my position was X, please don't assume my position!" I get that it's annoying to have people respond to a straw man version of your argument, but when I in response asked some direct questions about what their position was, they gave some non-answers and then blocked me. It's entirely possible it's a coincidence, and they just happened to run out of patience on that iteration, but it makes me take their critique of my interactions a bit less seriously. I suspect that they just didn't want to hear what I was saying, while at the same time they wanted to feel as if they were someone who values public critique and open discussion of tricky issues (if anyone reading this post also followed our interaction and has a different opinion of my behavior, I'd be glad to hear it; it's possible In effectively being an asshole here and it would be useful to hear that if so).
In any case, the fact that at the end of the entire discussion, I'm realizing I still don't actually know their position on whether they think the AI use case in question is worthwhile feels odd. They praised the system on several occasions, albeit noting some drawbacks while doing so. They said that the system was possibly changing their anti-AI stance, but then got mad at me for assuming this meant that they thought this use-case was justified. Maybe they just haven't made up their mind yet but didn't want to say that?
Interestingly, in one of their own blog posts that got linked in the discussion, they discuss a different AI system, and despite listing a bunch of concrete harms, conclude that it's okay to use it. That's fine; I don't think *every* use of AI is wrong on balance, but what bothered me was that their post dismissed a number of real ethical issues by saying essentially "I haven't seen calls for a boycott over this issue, so it's not a reason to stop use." That's an extremely socially conformist version of ethics that doesn't sit well with me. The discussion also ended up linking this post: https://chelseatroy.com/2024/08/28/does-ai-benefit-the-world/ which bothered me in a related way. In it, Troy describes classroom teaching techniques for introducing and helping students explore the ethics of AI, and they seem mostly great. They avoid prescribing any particular correct stance, which is important when teaching given the power relationship, and they help students understand the limitations of their perspectives regarding global impacts, which is great. But the overall conclusion of the post is that "nobody is qualified to really judge global impacts, so we should focus on ways to improve outcomes instead of trying to judge them." This bothers me because we actually do have a responsibility to make decisive ethical judgments despite limitations of our perspectives. If we never commit to any ethical judgment against a technology because we think our perspective is too limited to know the true impacts (which I'll concede it invariably is) then we'll have to accept every technology without objection, limiting ourselves to trying to improve their impacts without opposing them. Given who currently controls most of the resources that go into exploration for new technologies, this stance is too permissive. Perhaps if our objection to a technology was absolute and instantly effective, I'd buy the argument that objecting without a deep global view of the long-term risks is dangerous. As things stand, I think that objecting to the development/use of certain technologies in certain contexts is necessary, and although there's a lot of uncertainly, I expect strongly enough that the overall outcomes of objection will be positive that I think it's a good thing to do.
The deeper point here I guess is that this kind of "things are too complicated, let's have a nuanced discussion where we don't come to any conclusions because we see a lot of unknowns along with definite harms" really bothers me.

Canary Island Daisy (with tiny spider). LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. July, 2024. #laarboretum #daisy #flower

Raiders' Contender for Comeback Player of the Year https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-maxx-crosby-pro-bowl-pete-carroll

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Steckersolargeräte: Rechte und Förderung zu Balkonkraftwerken (1/n)
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The Ethics of Generative AI in Anonymous Spaces: A Case Study of 4chan's /pol/ Board
Parth Gaba, Emiliano De Cristofaro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14191

The Ethics of Generative AI in Anonymous Spaces: A Case Study of 4chan's /pol/ Board
This paper presents a characterization of AI-generated images shared on 4chan, examining how this anonymous online community is (mis-)using generative image technologies. Through a methodical data collection process, we gathered 900 images from 4chan's /pol/ (Politically Incorrect) board, which included the label "/mwg/" (memetic warfare general), between April and July 2024, identifying 66 unique AI-generated images. The analysis reveals concerning patterns in the use of this technology, with …

Changes to the Facebook Algorithm Decreased News Visibility Between 2021-2024
Szymon Talaga, Erin Wertz, Dominik Batorski, Magdalena Wojcieszak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19373 …

Changes to the Facebook Algorithm Decreased News Visibility Between 2021-2024
Platforms, especially Facebook, are primary news sources in the US. In its widely criticized "War on News," Meta algorithmically deprioritized news and political content. We use data from 40 news organizations (5,243,302 Facebook posts, 7,875,372,958 user reactions) and 21 non-news pages (396,468 posts; 1,909,088,308 reactions) between January 1, 2016 and February 13, 2025 to examine how these changes influenced news visibility on the platform. Reactions to news declined by 78% between 2021 and…

Worlds Next Door: A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in the Habitable Zone of $\alpha$ Cen A. I. Observations, Orbital and Physical Properties, and Exozodi Upper Limits
Charles Beichman, Aniket Sanghi, Dimitri Mawet, Pierre Kervella, Kevin Wagner, Billy Quarles, Jack J. Lissauer, Max Sommer, Mark Wyatt, Nicolas Godoy, William O. Balmer, Laurent Pueyo, Jorge Llop-Sayson, Jonathan Aguilar, Rachel Akeson, Ruslan Belikov, Anthony Boccaletti, Elodie Choquet, Edward Fomalont, Thomas Henning, De…

Worlds Next Door: A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in the Habitable Zone of $α$ Cen A. I. Observations, Orbital and Physical Properties, and Exozodi Upper Limits
We report on coronagraphic observations of the nearest solar-type star, $α$ Cen A, using the MIRI instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope. With three epochs of observation (August 2024, February 2025, and April 2025), we achieve a sensitivity sufficient to detect $T_{\rm eff}\approx$ 225-250 K (1-1.2 $R_{\rm Jup}$) planets between 1"-2" and exozodiacal dust emission at the level of $>$5-8$\times$ the brightness of our own zodiacal cloud. The lack of exozodiacal dust emission sets an unpre…

Sources: In 2024, Apple explored a cloud service renting its own chips to developers; it spends ~$7B per year on renting Nvidia chips from AWS and Google (Aaron Tilley/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-explored…

Apple Explored Launching a Cloud Service for Developers
Apple over the past few years considered launching a business renting out its servers to the millions of developers that create apps for the iPhone and Mac, in what would be a hugely ambitious move that would pit it against Amazon, Microsoft and Google. The idea discussed was for Apple to rent ...

Microsoft entlässt weitere 9000 Leute. Mit KI wird die Qualität deren Software auch nicht besser. Die Finanzergebnisse waren 2024 rekordverdächtig – 245 Mrd. Dollar Umsatz (Steigerung um 16 %) und 109 Mrd. Dollar operativer Gewinn (Steigerung um ein Viertel). Damit werden vor allem Spielestudiis aufgekauft und neue Rechenzentren gebaut.
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Decrease in Milky Way rotation curve revisited
Jozef Kla\v{c}ka, Michal \v{S}turc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23551 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.23551

Decrease in Milky Way rotation curve revisited
Context. Latest papers on the rotation curve of the Milky Way galaxy, i. e. Ou et al. (2024); Jiao et al. (2023); Sylos Labini et al. (2023) suggest a Keplerian decrease in the rotation curve. This behavior is not consistent with other spiral galaxies (Lelli et al. 2016; Mistele et al. 2024). Aims. Show that the prior use of the axisymmetric Jeans equation is not consistent with the final model produced in the papers. Methods. Comparison of the results on gravitational potential in Ou et al. (2…

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
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Scaling and Data Saturation in Protein Language Models
Aviv Spinner, Erika DeBenedictis, Corey M. Hudson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22210 https://arxiv.org…

Scaling and Data Saturation in Protein Language Models
Data in biology is redundant, noisy, and sparse. How does the type and scale of available data impact model performance? In this work, we specifically investigate how protein language models (pLMs) scale with increasing pretraining data. We investigate this relationship by measuring the performance of protein function prediction on a suite of pLMs pretrained on yearly snapshots of UniRef100 from 2011 to 2024. We find no evidence of model saturation on this task: performance improves--but not mo…

Dividing Conflicting Items Fairly
Ayumi Igarashi, Pasin Manurangsi, Hirotaka Yoneda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14149 https://arxiv.or…

Dividing Conflicting Items Fairly
We study the allocation of indivisible goods under conflicting constraints, represented by a graph. In this framework, vertices correspond to goods and edges correspond to conflicts between a pair of goods. Each agent is allocated an independent set in the graph. In a recent work of Kumar et al. (2024), it was shown that a maximal EF1 allocation exists for interval graphs and two agents with monotone valuations. We significantly extend this result by establishing that a maximal EF1 allocation e…

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Eidophor: 1950's space age video projection technology. (video)
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Jonathan Taylor is the workhorse RB Fantasy Football managers are overlooking heading into 2025 drafts

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Alleged #Whistleblower Harassment #Lawsuit involving #SanLeandro #PublicOfficials sheds new light on mutual

Leo Varadkar, who stood down as taoiseach in April 2024,
said he did not think a date should be fixed for an Irish unity referendum
as nationalists did not yet have the numbers to win.
But he said planning for a united Ireland should take place.
"I don't think a united Ireland is inevitable, I think it's something that we have to work towards," he said.
"But I think there are a lot of factors that would suggest that we're on that traje…

Leo Varadkar says Nigel Farage as PM would move Irish unity 'centre stage'
The former Irish prime minister says planning should take place for the possibility of Irish unification.

The Bones and Shapes of the Phillips Curve
Hanyuan Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14030 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.14030

The Bones and Shapes of the Phillips Curve
The COVID-19 pandemic reignited debate on the U.S. Phillips curve. Using MSA-level panel data (2001-2024), we employ a Two-Stage Least Squares (2SLS) instrumental variable strategy with a shift-share instrument to estimate core non-tradable inflation's response to a v/u-based slack measure. We distinguish structural slope stability from state-dependent non-linearities via a threshold model. Our analysis addresses whether the slope of the Phillips Curve changed during and after the Pandemic in t…

Die #Erdbeerernte 2025 fällt so schlecht aus wie seit 30 Jahren nicht mehr.
Bundesweit werden nur rund 75.500 Tonnen #Freilanderdbeeren erwartet. Das ist ein Minus von 4 % im Vergleich zum Vorjahr.
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Erdbeerernte: Schlechtester Wert seit 30 Jahren erwartet
Die Erdbeerernte soll in diesem Jahr so schlecht ausfallen wie seit 30 Jahren nicht mehr. Laut Statistischem Bundesamt werden vier Prozent weniger Freilanderdbeeren als 2024 erwartet. Niedersachsen liegt im Norden dennoch vorn.

Discovery of 63 New Young Asteroid Families
David Nesvorny, David Vokrouhlicky, Miroslav Broz, Fernando V. Roig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00753 https://ar…

Discovery of 63 New Young Asteroid Families
We searched for young asteroid families -- those with ages t_age < 10 Myr and at least three members -- using the proper element catalog from Nesvorny et al. (2024). Our approach employed the Hierarchical Clustering Method (HCM) in a five-dimensional space of proper orbital elements: semimajor axis, eccentricity, inclination, proper nodal longitude, and proper perihelion longitude. The proper longitudes were calculated for various times in the past. Any convergence of these angles at times t < …

Cannes Lions: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says YouTube Shorts now averages 200B daily views, up 186% from 70B daily views reported in March 2024 (Kayla Cobb/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/youtube-shorts-200-billion-daily-views/

YouTube Shorts Now Averages 200 Billion Daily Views
YouTube Shorts now averages 200 billion daily views, CEO Neal Mohan announced during his keynote at Cannes Lions 2025.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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Can Quantum Physics Help Fight Climate Change? A Thematic Analysis of Press Release Narratives
Maxwell Bernstein, Joanna Krajewski, Rachel Fisher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13600 …

Can Quantum Physics Help Fight Climate Change? A Thematic Analysis of Press Release Narratives
The climate crisis demands innovative solutions and quantum technologies are considered by some a potential solution (Berger et al., 2021; Calvin et al., 2023). The United Nations declared 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (United Nations, 2024), focusing on applications for quantum technologies. Quantum technologies, leveraging quantum mechanics, offer unprecedented computational power (Ajagekar & You, 2022) and sensitivity (Schleich et al., 2016) that could revolut…

Cannes Lions: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says YouTube Shorts now averages 200B daily views, up 186% from 70B daily views reported in March 2024 (Kayla Cobb/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/youtube-shorts-200-billion-daily-views/

YouTube Shorts Now Averages 200 Billion Daily Views
YouTube Shorts now averages 200 billion daily views, CEO Neal Mohan announced during his keynote at Cannes Lions 2025.

Jets new coaching staff challenging Sauce Gardner to reach new heights https://www.nfl.com/news/jets-new-coaching-staff-challenging-sauce-gardner-to-reach-new-heights

Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence (1)
https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/2641/2025/
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Negative news posts are less prevalent and generate lower user engagement than non-negative news posts across six countries
Szymon Talaga, Dominik Batorski, Magdalena Wojcieszak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19300

Negative news posts are less prevalent and generate lower user engagement than non-negative news posts across six countries
Although news negativity is often studied, missing is comparative evidence on the prevalence of and engagement with negative political and non-political news posts on social media. We use 6,081,134 Facebook posts published between January 1, 2020, and April 1, 2024, by 97 media organizations in six countries (U.S., UK, Ireland, Poland, France, Spain) and develop two multilingual classifiers for labeling posts as (non-)political and (non-)negative. We show that: (1) negative news posts constitut…

Colts rookie TE Tyler Warren starting to find his fit at training camp: 'We’re putting a lot on his plate' https://www.nfl.com/news/colts-rookie-te-tyler-warren-starting-to-find-his-fit-at-training-camp-we-re-…

Achieving Gender Representation in Lead-Author Publications in the ASTRO3D Centre of Excellence
Kim-Vy H. Tran, Stuart Wyithe, Michelle Ding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20676

Achieving Gender Representation in Lead-Author Publications in the ASTRO3D Centre of Excellence
We examine the publication rates of 400 research-focused members in the ASTRO3D Centre of Excellence by gender, project, and year from January 2018 to January 2024 (six years). Of the 443 refereed publications led by ASTRO3D members, women were first-author on 38% which is nearly double that of the astronomy field in the same period (~20%). We record a high-water mark in 2022: 46% of ASTRO3D publications were led by females and 45% of research members identified as female. Using the nine resear…

Realität trifft erneut auf #Wasserstoff-Träume:
Die #Zillertalbahn wird künftig mit #Akkuzüge​n statt mit

Strombetriebene Zillertalbahn: Akkus stechen Wasserstoff - electrive.net
Die Zillertalbahn soll künftig mit Akku-Zügen betrieben werden. Damit erteilen die Entscheidungsträger der vor rund zehn Jahren geborenen Idee eine Absage,