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Chicago-based stablecoin payments startup Coinflow raised a $25M Series A led by Pantera and says it supports stablecoin-powered payments in 170 countries (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/10/08/…

Coinflow Raises $25M to Scale Stablecoin Payments, Backed by Pantera and Coinbase
The company says it has grown revenue 23-fold since 2024 and now supports stablecoin-powered payments in over 170 countries.

Meditations on Pushing a Creative Project Too Far
https://muz4now.com/2024/meditations-on-pushing-a-creative-project-too-far/

Meditations on Pushing a Creative Project Too Far
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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.

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."

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

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

Cognition raised $400M led by Founders Fund at a $10.2B valuation, up from $4B in March; its coding tool Devin's ARR grew from $1M in Sept. 2024 to $73M by June (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-08/co…

A November 2024 report from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) reflects staggering numbers:
There are an estimated 96 million #birders in the United States
—more than a third of U.S. adults
—who together spent more than $107 billion in 2022.
In total, that’s more money than the 2022 gross domestic product of New Hampshire (and 10 other U.S. states).

Krishan Bhatia, Amazon's VP of global video advertising, is leaving; Bhatia joined Amazon in April 2024 after more than a decade as an ad sales leader at NBCU (Ad Age)
https://adage.com/media/tv-streaming/aa-amazon-ads-vp-krishan-bhatia-departs/

Amazon Ads VP Krishan Bhatia departs
The Prime Video and former NBCU ad leader announced his departure from Amazon Friday.

The pre-eruption state of T CrB as observed with ALMA in 2024
D. Petry, G. Sala, I. El Mellah, T. Stanke, J. Greiner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05111 https://

The pre-eruption state of T CrB as observed with ALMA in 2024
T CrB is a nearby symbiotic binary and a recurrent nova with a period of ca. 80 years. The next eruption is expected to take place in 2025 or 2026. We present our pre-eruption observations made in ALMA frequency Bands 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8 in August to November 2024 and constrain the properties of the environment into which the imminent next nova will erupt. We find that in the second half of 2024, the quiescent T CrB was a faint mm source with a spectral energy distribution well described by …

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…

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

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.

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…

Shifted Symplectic Geometry by Examples
Damien Calaque, Stefano Ronchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04625 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04625

Shifted Symplectic Geometry by Examples
These notes are intended to be an introduction to shifted symplectic geometry, targeted to Poisson geometers with a serious background in homological algebra. They are extracted from a mini-course given by the first author at the Poisson 2024 summer school that took place at the Accademia Pontaniana in Napoli.

XRISM observations of solar flare X-ray emission reflected in the Earth's atmosphere
Hiromasa Suzuki, Jun Kurashima, Koji Mori, Satoru Katsuda, Shun Inoue, Daiki Ishi, Eugene M. Churazov, Rashid A. Sunyaev, Ildar Khabibullin, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Caroline Kilbourne, Yuichiro Ezoe, Hiroshi Nakajima, Kosuke Sato, Eric Miller, Kyoko Matsushita
https://

XRISM observations of solar flare X-ray emission reflected in the Earth's atmosphere
The X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), launched into low-Earth orbit in 2023, observes the reflection of solar flare X-rays in the Earth's atmosphere as a by-product of celestial observations. Using a $\sim$one-year data set covering from October 2023 to November 2024, we report on our first results of the measurement of the metal abundance pattern and high-resolution Fe-K spectroscopy. The abundances of Mg, Si, S, Ar, Ca, and Fe measured with the CCD detector Xtend during M- and X…

Google's security for Android is getting worse. They recently moved from monthly security updates to quarterly. Layoffs have slowed releases as well. Atop that, there are some easy fixes that they're just ignoring. There are only two secure mobile OSes: GrapheneOS and (secondarily) iOS.
https://grapheneos.social/@Gr…

Mass concentration in a spatially inhomogeneous coagulation model with fast sedimentation
Iulia Cristian, Juan J. L. Vel\'azquez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04270 https://

Mass concentration in a spatially inhomogeneous coagulation model with fast sedimentation
We study a spatially inhomogeneous coagulation model that contains a transport term in the spatial variable. The transport term models the vertical motion of particles due to gravity, thereby incorporating their fall into the dynamics. Local existence of mass-conserving solutions for a class of coagulation rates for which in the spatially homogeneous case instantaneous gelation (i.e., instantaneous loss of mass) occurs has been proved in [Cristian-Niethammer-Velázquez, 2024]. In order to obtai…

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…

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
…

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…

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…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
IDLES:
🎵 DANCER (6 Music Session, 12 Feb 2024)
#IDLES
https://calebletoile.bandcamp.com/track/idles-dancer-caleb-letoile-always-sweating-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/15uzP4I5pMX4dfQ9Lx72h1

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 …

#Steady-CommunityContent
Seit Oktober 2024 haben #Mieter in Deutschland Anspruch auf die Zustimmung ihres #Vermieters zur Installation eines

Steckersolargeräte: Rechte und Förderung zu Balkonkraftwerken (1/n)
Du bist Mieter*in und willst Solarstrom? Erfahre, wie Du ein Balkonkraftwerk installierst – mit Tipps zu Genehmigung & Förderung.

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…

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

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…

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)

Kaupunginvaltuusto hyväksyi kaupunkistrategian vuosille 2025–2029 https://www.hel.fi/fi/uutiset/kaupunginvaltuusto-hyvaksyi-kaupunkistrategian-vuosille-2025-2029

Kaupunginvaltuusto hyväksyi kaupunkistrategian vuosille 2025–2029
Kaupunginvaltuusto hyväksyi kokouksessaan keskiviikkona 27. elokuuta Helsingille uuden kaupunkistrategian. Valtuusto merkitsi myös tiedoksi kaupungin ympäristöraportin 2024 ja hyväksyi kaavamuutokset Kamppiin, Pukinmäkeen ja Vuosaareen.

Wirtschaftsinstitut: IT-Fachkräfte sind in Deutschland deutlich weniger gefragt
Die durchschnittliche Zahl offener Stellen in IT-Berufen hat sich 2024 gegenüber 2023 um 26 Prozent reduziert. Gerade Experten mit Uni-Abschluss sind betroffen.

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 …

Last year someone asked me for the pizza recipe I use, but it's a little more complicated than just a recipe, so I wrote a whole post about it.
https://rasterweb.net/raster/2024/12/18/pizza-advice/

Pizza Advice
What I've learned in the months and years...

Interesting RTE analysis on the 🇫🇷 electricity spot market prices in the first half of 2025 (and first half of 2024). A clear 'canard'🦆
These are the average prices, which also include the winter months. But this new reality is barely reflected in retail prices.

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. …

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."

Selenskyj: Ukrainisches Team trifft am Freitag US-Regierungsvertreter
Im Ringen um ein Ende des Ukraine-Krieges werden ukrainische Regierungsvertreter nach Angaben von Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj am Freitag mit US-Vertretern in New York zusammenkommen. "Am Freitag finden in New York, in den Vereinigten Staaten, Treffen mit dem Team von Präsident (Donald) Trump statt", sagte Selenskyj am Mittwoch in seiner abendlichen Videoa…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ 100.000 Ukrainer ohne Strom ++
Nach russischen Angriffen auf Energieanlagen sind in drei ukrainischen Regionen etwa 100.000 Menschen ohne Strom. Die Bundesregierung hat 2024 Rüstungsexporte im Wert von 8,15 Milliarden Euro an Kiew genehmigt.

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

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.

Your regular reminder that if you use “assistive technology” to mean only screen readers, then you’re using the term incorrectly and maybe sowing confusion.
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/08/at-is-more-than-screen-readers.html

AT Is More Than Screen Readers
A screen reader is a single element of the overall set of assistive technologies. In practice, however, each is often used as a metonym for the other. Well, hello there. It’s nice to see you. If you’re here because I sent you the link, it’s nothing personal. You’re a lovely…

Does Extending Polling Hours Compensate for Bomb Threats? Evidence from the 2024 Election in Georgia, USA
Sequoia Andrade, Philip Stark
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19442 https://…

Does Extending Polling Hours Compensate for Bomb Threats? Evidence from the 2024 Election in Georgia, USA
At least 227~bomb threats against polling places and tabulation centers were received on the day of the 2024 US presidential election. Threats disrupted voting in the swing states of Georgia, Arizona, and Pennsylvania while law enforcement swept polling places. No bombs were found. Roughly a dozen `credible' threats were received in Georgia in DeKalb and Fulton counties, interrupting voting at eleven polling locations; there were dozens of `non-credible' threats in addition. To remediate the ef…

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.

I have massive issues w/ #Newsom, & I do NOT want him to be our President, but this made me literally laugh out loud. & that’s not easily done these days.

Illinois Restores Protections For Press Targeted With Frivolous Lawsuits https://thedissenter.org/illinois-restores-protections-for-press-targeted-with-frivolous-lawsuits/

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

Let’s take a look back at GÉANT’s 2024 — all in one place.
Our 2024 Annual Report captures how GÉANT and its community of NRENs continue to drive innovation, collaboration, and impact for the European #Research & #Education community.
Inside you'll learn more about the GÉANT GN5-1 a…

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.
In

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.

Hey @… I was just listening to the great literary olfactoloy episode with @allylouks.bsky.social€, but I feel that the existence/role of human pheromones has been a bit misrepresented.
I have worked on mammalian pheromones for my PhD, and I have encountered (at least) two major definitions of the term "pheromone", one based on the function of a substance, and the other, which I personally prefer, on the information flow involved in it (https://doi.org/10.1159/000096511).
Based on the Sbarbati & Osculati definition, a pheromone would be a component that conveys information between individuals of the same species.
There is also quite a bit of research that argues for the existence of human pheromones (e.g. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.a.20125, https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.a.20125, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1198331)
However, the discussion on the existence of human pheromones is difficult, as it touches on the topic of free will as many reactions to odor are involuntary. During the International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste held in Iceland in 2024, there have been several session on human olfaction touching on sensitive aspects such as olfaction-mediated effects on mate choice and pregnancy, but none of the researchers dared utter the word pheromone, while colleagues working on other mammals where happily talking about pheromonal effects for very similar topics.
Long story short, I feel that saying there is no hard evidence for human pheromones is misrepresenting the current research.

How the number of days per year that temperature exceeds 85F (29.4°C) exploded within one generation. Look at Spain, but also Italy, Greece, Bulgaria!
And underneath those lighter shades, the number is growing too.
By NY Times via María Ramirez on Bluesky.

Improved $\ell_{p}$ Regression via Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares
Alina Ene, Ta Duy Nguyen, Adrian Vladu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01729 https://arx…

Improved $\ell_{p}$ Regression via Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares
We introduce fast algorithms for solving $\ell_{p}$ regression problems using the iteratively reweighted least squares (IRLS) method. Our approach achieves state-of-the-art iteration complexity, outperforming the IRLS algorithm by Adil-Peng-Sachdeva (NeurIPS 2019) and matching the theoretical bounds established by the complex algorithm of Adil-Kyng-Peng-Sachdeva (SODA 2019, J. ACM 2024) via a simpler lightweight iterative scheme. This bridges the existing gap between theoretical and practical a…

from my link log —
Damas-Hindley-Milner inference two ways.
https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/type-inference/
saved 2024-10-17 https…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Eddie Palmieri:
🎵 Comparsa de los locos
#EddiePalmieri
https://fania.bandcamp.com/track/comparsa-de-los-locos-remastered-2024-1
https://open.spotify.com/track/3rZ5GjrObnRNsDxC2zrFMx

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

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

Sometime last night, I walked over 2225 km for the year, putting me over my total walking distance for all of last year. Several more months to go!

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…

Data-Driven Deepfake Image Detection Method -- The 2024 Global Deepfake Image Detection Challenge
Xiaoya Zhu, Yibing Nan, Shiguo Lian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11464 https://…

Data-Driven Deepfake Image Detection Method -- The 2024 Global Deepfake Image Detection Challenge
With the rapid development of technology in the field of AI, deepfake technology has emerged as a double-edged sword. It has not only created a large amount of AI-generated content but also posed unprecedented challenges to digital security. The task of the competition is to determine whether a face image is a Deepfake image and output its probability score of being a Deepfake image. In the image track competition, our approach is based on the Swin Transformer V2-B classification network. And o…

Clark explains why 2025 could be career-best https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/clark-explains-why-2025-could-be-career-best

"Temperatures and Carbon Emissions Continue to Rise"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https://

Temperatures and Carbon Emissions Continue to Rise - Inside Climate News
An acceleration of warming that started in 2023 continued through 2024, according to the latest annual climate assessment by the American Meteorological Society, as atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases continue to increase at a quickening rate.

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

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 < …

Promotion digraphs
Rebecca Patrias, Oliver Pechenik, Jessica Striker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10969 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.10969

Promotion digraphs
Work of Gaetz, Pechenik, Pfannerer, Striker, and Swanson (2024) introduced promotion permutations for a rectangular standard Young tableau $T$. These promotion permutations encode important features of $T$ and its orbit under Schützenberger's promotion operator. Indeed, the promotion permutations uniquely determine the tableau $T$. We introduce more general promotion digraphs for both standard and increasing tableaux of arbitrary shape. For rectangular standard tableaux, this construction re…

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Nikki Haley’s campaign manager warned influential donors Tuesday that the GOP would lose control of the U.S. House of Representatives
if Donald Trump is the party’s presidential nominee,
leaning into concerns about down-ballot races
as some anti-Trump Republicans view the fight over Congress as a better investment than the presidential race.

Haley camp seeks to convince top donors that Trump would cost GOP the House
The move marked the latest effort by a campaign many Republicans have written off to hit back against the overwhelming GOP favorite.

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

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-…

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Analyzing the Relationship among Cryptocurrencies using Complex Networks
Stergios Intzes, Georgios D. Papadopoulos, Lykourgos Magafas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20126 https://…

Analyzing the Relationship among Cryptocurrencies using Complex Networks
Our analysis focuses on the stock cryptocurrency market, by studying a group of nineteen cryptocurrencies where their capitalisation is about 99% of the total market. Specifically, it is examined this group of cryptocurrencies for the period from 2017 up to 2024, taking into account the effect of COVID-19 pandemic. As far as we know, this is the first time that this kind of study has been published, where it takes place by creating various networks based on stock cryptocurrency correlation, in …

Highlands Suite
- piano improvisations inspired by the beauty of Scotland -
#PianoImprov #NowPlaying
https://

Highlands Suite #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

I got my bike all sorted! Took it back to the shop and my friend there was like "Your chain is all twisted!" and yeah, it was.
I didn't inspect it closely after the incident the other day, but it it was literally twisted in one spot.
They threw on a new chain, checked the derailers and cassette and it all good now. I did a 3 mile ride this morning with no issues.
(And I forgot I got a new cassette in Feb 2024.)

Studios are rereleasing old films in theaters, helping them pad out thin slates; Universal has 12 rereleases on its 2025 slate, vs. four in 2024 and two in 2023 (Esther Zuckerman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/movies/rereleases-black-swan-…

Why ‘Black Swan,’ ‘Jaws’ and ‘Clue’ Are Coming Back to Theaters
The multiplex is awash in titles that are 15, 20, even 60 years old. Nostalgia is a factor but economics play a big part, too.

Flip, a TikTok rival that let shoppers post video reviews and earn cash based on engagement, has shut down; it had raised $300M and was valued at $1B in 2024 (Ann Gehan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/tiktok-challenger-flip-shuts

TikTok Challenger Flip Shuts Down
Flip, a video-sharing social media app that at one point tried to challenge TikTok’s dominance, has shut down, according to a message to users and the company’s website. Flip didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. The social commerce app raised over $300 million from investors since its founding in 2019, and was valued in April 2024 at more than $1 billion, according to PitchBook

Soon, there will be no export market left for mass-market models of internal combustion engine vehicles. Some 'premium' car makers may continue to produce niche models for a while, but the mass market will be electrified (EU 2035 or not).
https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outl

Amazon shuts down watering hole attack attributed to Russia’s APT29 hacking group https://therecord.media/amazon-shuts-down-apt29-watering-hole-attack

What's occurring?
Joy Behar says
Gavin Newsom and Stacey Abrams
Presidential ticket is 'Lush' for 2024
https://youtu.be/SrBhrcwRnnY

Range characterization of the ray transform on Sobolev spaces of symmetric tensor fields in two dimensions
Divyansh Agrawal, Venkateswaran P. Krishnan, Vladimir A. Sharafutdinov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03046

Range characterization of the ray transform on Sobolev spaces of symmetric tensor fields in two dimensions
The ray transform $I_m$ integrates a symmetric $m$ rank tensor field $f$ on $\mathbb{R}^n$ over lines. In the case of $n\ge3$, the range characterization of the operator $I_m$ on weighted Sobolev spaces $H^{s}_t({\mathbb R}^n;S^m{\mathbb R}^n)$ was obtained in [V. Krishnan and V. Sharafutdinov. Range characterization of ray transform on Sobolev spaces of symmetric tensor fields. Inverse Problems and Imaging, 18(6), 1272--1293, 2024]. Here we obtain a range characterization result in higher orde…

Source: Jets cut 2024 third-round pick Corley https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46079307/source-jets-cut-2024-third-round-pick-malachi-corley

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.

Docs: xAI terminated its status as a public benefit corporation as of May 9, 2024; XAI Holdings, which houses xAI and X, also doesn't have a PBC designation (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/25/elon-musk-xai-dropp…

Elon Musk's xAI secretly dropped its benefit corporation status while fighting OpenAI
Elon Musk started xAI as a public benefit corporation, but dropped that distinction last year as the company's operations in Memphis, Tennessee were expanding.

Clark explains why 2025 could be career-best https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/clark-explains-why-2025-could-be-career-best

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Magnetic interaction analysis of multiple interplanetary coronal mass ejections leading to a historic geomagnetic storm in May 2024
Sanchita Pal, Cecilia Mac Cormack, Emilia K. J. Kilpua, Yogesh, Lan K. Jian, Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16780

Magnetic interaction analysis of multiple interplanetary coronal mass ejections leading to a historic geomagnetic storm in May 2024
Interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs), the large-scale eruptive phenomena capable of shedding a huge amount of solar magnetic helicity and energy are potential in driving strong geomagnetic storms. They complexly evolve while preceded and followed by other large-scale structures e.g. ICMEs. Magnetic interaction among multiple ICMEs may result intense and long-lived geomagnetic storms. Our aim is to understand the reason of substantial changes in the geoeffectivity of two meso-scale sepa…

Newsmax reports Q2 revenue of $46.4M, up 18.4% YoY, a net loss of $75.2M, compared with a $4.8M loss in Q2 2024, primarily due to settlement costs with Dominion (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/08/newsmax-q2-2025-earnings-report/

Newsmax revenue climbs to $46 million during Q2
August 19, 2025 - The company renewed its carriage deal with Comcast, inked a new talent agreement with Greta van Susteren and expanded its reach on Hulu with Live TV.

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

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

Next Generation #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten ersetzt, Sonderregelungen nach Solarpaket berücksichtigt.
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This "service" is thanks to the numbskulls the Tories hired when they were still in power. Utter incompetence.

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.

Sources: Paramount layoffs could affect 2,000 to 3,000 employees and are expected by early November; Paramount had 18,600 employees globally as of December 2024 (Brent Lang/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/paramoun…

Paramount Layoffs: Thousands of Job Cuts Expects by Early November
Paramount will enact steep layoffs by early November after closing its merger with Skydance.

Detection of OH maser emission in the 71-year periodic comet 12P/Pons-Brooks using the 40-m Thai National Radio Telescope (TNRT)
Nobuyuki Sakai, Saran Poshyachinda, Koichiro Sugiyama, Wiphu Rujopakarn, Boonrucksar Soonthornthum, Apichat Leckngam, Busaba Kramer, Phrudth Jaroenjittichai, Bannawit Pimpanuwat, Dan Singwong, Kitipoom Kanjana, Nikom Prasert, Songklod Punyawarin, Spiro Sarris, Teep Chairin, Kamorn Bandudej, Chalunthon Nuchur, Haseng Sani, Nattawit Chanwedchasart, Pathit Chatu…

Detection of OH maser emission in the 71-year periodic comet 12P/Pons-Brooks using the 40-m Thai National Radio Telescope (TNRT)
Although the optical cometary database is extensive, the radio database is limited. The 18-cm OH maser observations of comets allow us to determine (i) the production rate of OH ($Q_{\rm{OH}}$) and (ii) the water expansion velocity, for each comet. To reveal the physical properties of the periodic comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, we conducted the OH maser observations of the comet using the 40-m TNRT (Thai National Radio Telescope) on March 22nd, 27th and 29th, 2024 before the perihelion passage on April…

Blockchain-based lender Figure files for a US IPO, reporting H1 revenue up 22.4% YoY to $191M and a profit of $29M, compared with a loss of $13M in H1 2024 (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/blockchai

Trey Hendrickson trade rumors: Breaking down whether 2024 NFL sack leader will play for Bengals in Week 1

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/trey-he

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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/

'I can't go out like that': How Travis Kelce has prepared for what could be his final season https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46018818/kansas-city-chiefs-travis-kelce-2025-final-season-super-bowl

Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.08.2025.
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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,

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
Abstract Editors note: For easy download the posted pdf of the State of the Climate in 2024 is a low-resolution file. A high-resolution copy of the report is available by clicking here. Please be patient as it may take a few minutes for the high-resolution file to download.

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

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
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