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Get Creative With These Simple Strategies  #creativity #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2024/get-creative-

Get Creative With These Simple Strategies 
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Nika Soon-Shiong, LAT owner Patrick Soon-Shiong's daughter, becomes Drop Site News' publisher, as the left-leaning outlet hits ~400K subs since its 2024 launch (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/14/2025

‘The verdict of history will be merciless’: A new left media rises in the age of Trump
Drop Site News is bringing on a new publisher as it and other leftist news sites get scoops and momentum.

Buccaneers QB Teddy Bridgewater suspended for high school football season after giving impermissible benefits

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/buccan…

Crypto trading volume at Bitstamp, bought by Robinhood in 2024, grew 21% MoM in August to $14.4B, surpassing Robinhood's crypto volume, which fell 18% to $13.7B (Brayden Lindrea/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitstamp-flips-parent-robin…

Inflation quashed household income gains in 2024, census finds (Gaya Gupta/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/09/09/census-household-income-inflation/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzU3MzkwNDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzU4NzcyNzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTczOTA0MDAsImp0aSI6ImVkN2UxNzRjLTRjMWUtNDhiNS04NTdiLWRkMDg4OGQ0MDc1MCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9uYXRpb24vMjAyNS8wOS8wOS9jZW5zdXMtaG91c2Vob2xkLWluY29tZS1pbmZsYXRpb24vIn0.-6DXtKaEItl3MoY9o2zfF5ZY5VA0BNY6KKYJ3lyzRHM&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250909/p130#a250909p130

And a related issues - lowered speed limits work when well implemented. #VisionZero #SafeStreets
https://…

Brent Toderian (@brenttoderian.bsky.social)
IMPORTANT STUDY: “On average, the implementation of 30 km/h speed limits in European cities demonstrated a 23%, 37% & 38% reduction in road crashes, fatalities & injuries respectively. Lower speed limits also yielded environmental benefits.” https://www.nrso.ntua.gr/review-of-city-wide-30-kmh-speed-limit-benefits-in-europe-may-2024/

And a related issues - lowered speed limits work when well implemented. #VisionZero #SafeStreets
https://…

Brent Toderian (@brenttoderian.bsky.social)
IMPORTANT STUDY: “On average, the implementation of 30 km/h speed limits in European cities demonstrated a 23%, 37% & 38% reduction in road crashes, fatalities & injuries respectively. Lower speed limits also yielded environmental benefits.” https://www.nrso.ntua.gr/review-of-city-wide-30-kmh-speed-limit-benefits-in-europe-may-2024/

Piscine en ruine, paillotes abandonnées… On a retrouvé le Club Med des « Bronzés » en Côte d’Ivoire - Le Parisien
https://www.leparisien.fr/culture-loisirs/ci…

Piscine en ruine, paillotes abandonnées… On a retrouvé le Club Med des « Bronzés » en Côte d’Ivoire
Alors que le Splendid vient de perdre brutalement Michel Blanc, nous sommes retournés dans le village vacances où a été tourné en 1978 le premier long métrage de la troupe, « Les Bronzés », au bord de l’Atlantique, en Côte d’Ivoire, inoccupé depuis vingt ans.

This aged like milk #Ubuntu!
https://mg.co.za/thought-leader/opinion/2024-05-17-ubuntu-is-for-all-people-including-the-lgbtq-communit…

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

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

“How is it possible that a peace proposal ignores the International Court of Justice’s July 2024 Advisory Opinion, which reiterated that Israel’s occupation is illegal and must end?
How can it fail to mention the Palestinian’s right to self-determination?
Why are Palestinians, who have a right under international law to armed struggle against an occupying power, expected to disarm while Israel, the illegally occupying force, is not?”
And many more good questions.

Trump’s Sham Peace Plan
There will be no peace in Gaza. Only the temporary absence of war.

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).

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

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

Hybrid GCN-GRU Model for Anomaly Detection in Cryptocurrency Transactions
Gyuyeon Na, Minjung Park, Hyeonjeong Cha, Soyoun Kim, Sunyoung Moon, Sua Lee, Jaeyoung Choi, Hyemin Lee, Sangmi Chai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07392

Hybrid GCN-GRU Model for Anomaly Detection in Cryptocurrency Transactions
Blockchain transaction networks are complex, with evolving temporal patterns and inter-node relationships. To detect illicit activities, we propose a hybrid GCN-GRU model that captures both structural and sequential features. Using real Bitcoin transaction data (2020-2024), our model achieved 0.9470 Accuracy and 0.9807 AUC-ROC, outperforming all baselines.

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

Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – December 9, 2024
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Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest - December 9, 2024 | The Religious Studies Project
Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 21 new job opportunities, 3 fellowships, 2 grants, and 4 calls for papers.

Britain’s intelligence and military support to Israel since October 7, as well as the continued authorisation of components of F35 jets, “crosses the line into participation,” Mr Kennard added.
Forz Khan, the lawyer who represented the family of Jim Henderson, an aid worker with World Central Kitchen who was killed in April 2024, said it was ”highly likely that Sir Keir Starmer is guilty of genocide.”
'This is not complicity, this is participation' | Morning Star

Drifting – the Piece and the Process #inspiration #music #musicvideo #originalmusic

Drifting - the Piece and the Process
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Cowboys need this $50 million weapon to sharpen from dull 2024 performance https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/09/03/rebound-required-cowboys-jake-ferguson-offensive-playmak…

Clustering methods for Categorical Time Series and Sequences : A scoping review
Ottavio Khalifa, Viet-Thi Tran, Alan Balendran, Fran\c{c}ois Petit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07885

Clustering methods for Categorical Time Series and Sequences : A scoping review
Objective: To provide an overview of clustering methods for categorical time series (CTS), a data structure commonly found in epidemiology, sociology, biology, and marketing, and to support method selection in regards to data characteristics. Methods: We searched PubMed, Web of Science, and Google Scholar, from inception up to November 2024 to identify articles that propose and evaluate clustering techniques for CTS. Methods were classified according to three major families -- distance-based,…

Übrigens: die ganzen Berichte zum Jahresbeginn über den angeblichen Einbruch der Zulassungszahlen von Elektroautos waren quatsch, weil überholt.
Das kann man hier anhand der Grafik der KBA der letzten 12 Monate gut sehen. Ich habe mit lila den 12-Monats-Trend für BEV eingezeichnet...

Matters Arising: Spatial correlation in economic analysis of climate change
Christof Sch\"otz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10575 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Matters Arising: Spatial correlation in economic analysis of climate change
Climate change poses substantial risks to the global economy. Kotz, Levermann and Wenz (Nature, 2024) statistically analyzed economic and climate data, finding significant projected damages until mid-century and a divergence in outcomes between high- and low-emission scenarios thereafter. We find that their analysis underestimates uncertainty owing to large, unaccounted-for spatial correlations on the subnational level, rendering their results statistically insignificant when properly corrected…

Ladies & Gentleman... the amazing Grace Bowers & The Hodge Podge
#mucke

Won No Teg
Grace Bowers & The Hodge Podge · Wine On Venus · Song · 2024

„Aus Zahlen der Bundesagentur für Arbeit schlussfolgert das Institut, dass die wegen Totalverweigerung von Jobcentern verhängten Sanktionen zwischen April 2024 und Juni 2025 wohl deutlich weniger als 100 Menschen betrafen.
„Dies ist eine sehr geringe Zahl angesichts von mehr als fünf Mio. Personen, die (..) 2024 (..) zur Gruppe der erwerbsfähigen Leistungsberechtigten gehörten“, heißt es im Bericht des zur Bundesagentur für Arbeit gehörenden Forschungsinstituts.“

The burning number conjecture holds for trees of order $n$ with at most $\left\lfloor \sqrt{n-1}\right\rfloor$ degree-2 vertices
Jiajun Ning, Xian'an Jin, Meiqiao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03144

The burning number conjecture holds for trees of order $n$ with at most $\left\lfloor \sqrt{n-1}\right\rfloor$ degree-2 vertices
Inspired by the spread of information in social networks and graph-theoretic processes such as Firefighting and graph cleaning, Bonato, Janssen and Roshanbin introduced in 2016 the burning number $b(G)$ of any finite graph $G$. They conjectured that $b(G)\le \lceil n^\frac{1}{2}\rceil$ holds for all connected graphs $G$ of order $n$, and observed that it suffices to prove the conjecture for all trees. In 2024, Murakami confirmed the conjecture for trees without degree-2 vertices. In this paper,…

from my link log —
Unification-free ("keyword") type checking.
https://www.haskellforall.com/2024/02/unification-free-keyword-type-checking.html
saved 2025-09-01

Unification-free ("keyword") type checking
Unification-free ("keyword") type checking From my perspective, one of the biggest open problems in imple...

Social Networks Are Lying to Manipulate You
#SocialMeda are manipulating all the time. This is what h…

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…

Hitliste aus Vorjahr - Das waren 2024 die beliebtesten Babynamen #News #Nachrichten …

You.com, which pivoted from AI search to enterprise AI tools, raised $100M led by Cox Enterprises at a $1.5B valuation, after a $50M Series B in September 2024 (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Het Uur van de Wolf | NPO Start
https://npo.nl/start/serie/het-uur-van-de-wolf/seizoen-21_1/het-uur-van-de-wolf-janis-ian-breaking-silence (2024, 85 min)
Straks om 2240 het uur vsn de Wolf met
Janis Ian - Break…

Der konkrete Erziehungsstil der Eltern ist für das spätere Leben der Kinder kaum relevant, solange drei Dinge gegeben sind:
1. Unbedingte Wärme und Zuwendung,
2. kulturelle Impulse und
3. eine gewisse Struktur mit konkreten Zielen.
Ansonsten tun Kinder halt das, was ihnen ihre Eltern vorleben.

The One Big Thing You Can Do for Your Kids
The research shows that you probably have less effect on your kids than you think—with one major exception: Your love will make them happy.

Field hockey at the new Martha Dodson Field out past the East Hill Plaza -- Cornell Beat Vermont 3-1 in front of the largest crowd I've ever seen at a field hockey game. In the center are № 8 Ashley Plzak of the Big Red and № 15 Sophia Lefranc of the Catamounts, who won the US East Conference in 2024
#photo

A survey on proximity monitoring and warning in construction
Yuexiong Ding, Qiong Liu, Ankang Ji, Xiaowei Luo, Wen Yi, Albert P. C. Chan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00862 https:/…

A survey on proximity monitoring and warning in construction
Various technologies have been applied to monitor the proximity between two construction entities, preventing struck-by accidents and thereby enhancing onsite safety. This study comprehensively reviews related efforts dedicated to proximity monitoring and warning (PMW) based on 97 relevant articles published between 2010 and 2024. The bibliometric analysis reveals the technical roadmap over time, as well as the five most influential leaders and the two largest research networks they have establ…

props to Gemini or whatever for getting over sycophancy and just deciding I'm Always Wrong

Massacre Š Bint Jbeil : 5 tués au moins, dont 3 enfants, dans une frappe de drone israélien
Cette attaque sanglante, l’une des plus meurtrières depuis le cessez-le-feu de novembre 2024, a coïncidé avec la visite au Liban de l'émissaire adjointe américaine au Moyen-Orient Morgan Ortagus.
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Massacre à Bint Jbeil : 5 tués au moins, dont 3 enfants, dans une frappe de drone israélien
Un véritable massacre a été commis par l’armée israélienne dimanche dans l’après-midi dans la ville de Bint Jbeil, au Liban-Sud. Un drone a apparemment tiré deux missiles, l'un touchant une moto et...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
The Humpers:
🎵 You Give Good Headache
#TheHumpers
https://takethecityrecords.bandcamp.com/track/you-give-good-headache-2024-remastered
https://open.spotify.com/track/4wpkLcLygYWdAoj9qfBxHw

(2024) Visual neuroprostheses for impaired human nervous system: State-of-the-art and future outlook #BCI

Diese Meldung gab es ähnlich bereits 2024, aber nun sind wir bereits im Jahr 2028!
#Kohleausstieg schreitet…

Content and Engagement Trends in COVID-19 YouTube Videos: Evidence from the Late Pandemic
Nirmalya Thakur, Madeline D Hartel, Lane Michael Boden, Dallas Enriquez, Boston Joyner Ricks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01954

Content and Engagement Trends in COVID-19 YouTube Videos: Evidence from the Late Pandemic
This work investigated about 10,000 COVID-19-related YouTube videos published between January 2023 and October 2024 to evaluate how temporal, lexical, linguistic, and structural factors influenced engagement during the late pandemic period. Publishing activity showed consistent weekday effects: in the first window, average views peaked on Mondays at 92,658; in the second, on Wednesdays at 115,479; and in the third, on Fridays at 84,874, reflecting a shift in audience attention toward mid- and l…

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❌ 6:5 Blackjack
❌ Triple-zero Roulette
❌ Mandatory sidebet tables
❌ Big Wheel anything
❌ Capped odds bets in craps
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Analyzing the Effect of an Extreme Weather Event on Telecommunications and Information Technology: Insights from 30 Days of Flooding
Leandro M\'arcio Bertholdo, Renan Barreto Paredes, Gabriela de Lima Marin, Cesar A. H. Loureiro, Milton Kaoru Kashiwakura Pedro de Botelho Marcos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04219

Analyzing the Effect of an Extreme Weather Event on Telecommunications and Information Technology: Insights from 30 Days of Flooding
In May 2024, weeks of severe rainfall in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil caused widespread damage to infrastructure, impacting over 400 cities and 2.3 million people. This study presents the construction of comprehensive telecommunications datasets during this climatic event, encompassing Internet measurements, fiber cut reports, and Internet Exchange routing data. By correlating network disruptions with hydrological and operational factors, the dataset offers insights into the resilience of fiber ne…

⚠️ Eilmeldung 🇪🇺
Der #EU #Datenschutzbeauftragte knickt ein "die @… habe alle im März 2024 fes…

"Trevor Milton and his wife donated $1.8 million to Trump in 2024"
Trump Pardoned Him. Now He Won't Have to Pay Back $660 Million
https://gizmodo.com/trump-pardoned-him-now-he-wont-have-to-pay-back-660-million-2000661542

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- BBC Proms 2024: First Night
Elim Chan leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Clara Schumann's piano concerto with Isata Kanneh-Mason with Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, as well as Ben Nobuto's Hallelujah Sim.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002jfzc

Consciousness Self and Language
Robert Worden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23342 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.23342

Consciousness Self and Language
Theories of consciousness depend on data, and it needs to be appropriate data, without overwhelming confounding factors. The reports of Minimal Phenomenal Experience (MPE) in [Metzinger 2024] relate to consciousness in a state purer than everyday consciousness, which may have fewer confounding factors. This essay suggests that the confounding factors, which are absent or diminished in MPE states, are related to language. The self which is absent in mindful states is a product of language. The l…

Oh boy, we have Ig Noble Prize 2025!
#igNobel #funny

Past Ig Winners
Ig® Nobel Prize Winners For achievements that first make people LAUGH then make them THINK Winners by year: 2025 : 2024 : 2023 : 2022 : 2021 2020 : 2019 : 2018 : 2017 : 2016 2015 : 2014 : 2013 : 20…

Solving Polynomial Systems with Gr\"obner Bases: An Introduction to F4 and FGLM
Anna Maria Bigatti, Alessio Caminata, Tor Kristian Ellingsen, Evelina Lanteri, Andrea Sanguineti, Irene Villa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03346

Solving Polynomial Systems with Gröbner Bases: An Introduction to F4 and FGLM
These notes originate from a reading course held by the authors in the spring of 2024 at the Università di Genova. They provide a hands-on introduction to the F4 and FGLM algorithms. In addition to the notes, we present two implementations of the algorithms: FGLM in CoCoALib and F4 in Sage. These implementations closely follow the structure of the algorithms as described here and are intended to help readers experiment with them in practice, thereby gaining a deeper understanding.

On the Effect of Tap Changers and Nonlinear Loads on Voltage Stability
Andrea Zanelli, Dirk Schmidt, Matthias Resch, Marco Giovanelli, Martin Geidl, Walter Sattinger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02238

On the Effect of Tap Changers and Nonlinear Loads on Voltage Stability
On 21 June 2024, a severe incident happened in the South-Eastern part of the Continental European power system. After a voltage collapse, large parts of Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as Croatia suffered from a blackout [1]. The initial tripping of two transmission lines resulted in a voltage collapse in these countries. Investigations have shown that a) transformers with on-load tap changers (OLTC) and b) nonlinear loads, in particular air conditioning systems, played a si…

Internal data: Amazon registered 5.4M US Prime sign-ups over the 21-day run-up to Prime Day and the four-day event, ~116K less than 2024 and 106K below its goal (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co

2025 Ig Nobel prize winners, including
PEACE PRIZE [THE NETHERLANDS, UK, GERMANY]
Fritz Renner, Inge Kersbergen, Matt Field, and Jessica Werthmann, for showing that drinking alcohol sometimes improves a person’s ability to speak in a foreign language.
https://improbable.com/ig/winners/?amp

Past Ig Winners
Ig® Nobel Prize Winners For achievements that first make people LAUGH then make them THINK Winners by year: 2025 : 2024 : 2023 : 2022 : 2021 2020 : 2019 : 2018 : 2017 : 2016 2015 : 2014 : 2013 : 20…

Orientation does not help with 3-coloring a grid in online-LOCAL
Thomas Boudier, Filippo Casagrande, Avinandan Das, Massimo Equi, Henrik Lievonen, Augusto Modanese, Ronja Stimpert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22233

Orientation does not help with 3-coloring a grid in online-LOCAL
The online-LOCAL and SLOCAL models are extensions of the LOCAL model where nodes are processed in a sequential but potentially adversarial order. So far, the only problem we know of where the global memory of the online-LOCAL model has an advantage over SLOCAL is 3-coloring bipartite graphs. Recently, Chang et al. [PODC 2024] showed that even in grids, 3-coloring requires $Ω(\log n)$ locality in deterministic online-LOCAL. This result was subsequently extended by Akbari et al. [STOC 2025] to a…

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…

The Uranus Flagship: Investigating New Paradigms for Outer Solar System Exploration Workshop Summary Report
Amy Simon, Louise Prockter, Ian Cohen, Kathleen Mandt, Lynnae Quick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21074

The Uranus Flagship: Investigating New Paradigms for Outer Solar System Exploration Workshop Summary Report
This white paper is a summary of the Uranus Flagship Workshop that took place 21 to 23 May 2024 at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Co-led by Goddard and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab conveners, we had a broad, international, Science Organizing Committee, and a largely early career Local Organizing Committee from APL and GSFC. From prior workshops, it was apparent that the community was wildly enthusiastic about starting a mission, but lacked focus on what was possible or where to begin.…

When Does Tourism Raise Land Prices? Threshold Effects, Superstar Cities, and Policy Lessons from Japan
Mingzhi Xiao, Takara Sakai, Daisuke Murakami, Yuki Takayama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04307

When Does Tourism Raise Land Prices? Threshold Effects, Superstar Cities, and Policy Lessons from Japan
While tourism is widely regarded as a catalyst for economic and urban transformation, its effects on land prices remain contested. This study examines tourism and land prices using a panel of 1,724 Japanese municipalities from 2021 to 2024, with annual tourist arrivals as a proxy for tourism activity. Using mediation analysis and panel threshold regression, we show that sizable land price increases are concentrated in a small group of "superstar" cities, specifically those in the top 5.9 percen…

The FBI reportedly recorded Donald Trump’s border czar -- Tom Homan -- accepting $50,000 in cash from undercover agents who were posing as business contractors last year.
A new report from MSNBC on Saturday reveals that the agents recorded Homan, six weeks before the 2024 election,
allegedly promising to assist in securing government contracts across the border security industry during Trump’s second term.
Six sources familiar with the matter told MSNBC that the FBIand just…

Flare energetics, CME launch and heliospheric propagation for the May 2024 events, as derived from ensemble MHD modelling
Brigitte Schmieder, Jinhan Guo, Guillaume Aulanier, Anwesha Maharana, Stefaan Poedts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16144

Flare energetics, CME launch and heliospheric propagation for the May 2024 events, as derived from ensemble MHD modelling
Many questions must be answered before understanding the relationship between the emerging magnetic flux through the solar surface and the extreme geoeffective events. The main ingredients for getting X-ray class flares and large interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are the build-up of electric current in the corona, the existence of magnetic free energy, magnetic energy/helicity ratio, twist, and magnetic stress in active regions (ARs). The upper limit of solar energy in the space rese…

First Radio Neutrino & Cosmic Rays Astronomy Workshop in India
Mohammad Ful Hossain Seikh, Victor Grachev, Ilya Kravchenko, Mohammad Sajjad Athar, Dave Besson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20704

First Radio Neutrino & Cosmic Rays Astronomy Workshop in India
We summarize the motivation for (as well as the presentations from) the April, 2024 workshop held in India and focused on radiowave techniques for cosmic ray and neutrino detection.

"Let it be Chaos in the Plumbing!" Usage and Efficacy of Chaos Engineering in DevOps Pipelines
Stefano Fossati, Damian Andrew Tamburri, Massimiliano Di Penta, Marco Tonnarelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14931

"Let it be Chaos in the Plumbing!" Usage and Efficacy of Chaos Engineering in DevOps Pipelines
Chaos Engineering (CE) has emerged as a proactive method to improve the resilience of modern distributed systems, particularly within DevOps environments. Originally pioneered by Netflix, CE simulates real-world failures to expose weaknesses before they impact production. In this paper, we present a systematic gray literature review that investigates how industry practitioners have adopted and adapted CE principles over recent years. Analyzing 50 sources published between 2019 and early 2024, w…

Clapping propulsion and thin vortex rings: a computational study of vortex dynamics, energy equivalence, and core potential energy
Suyog V. Mahulkar, Jaywant H. Arakeri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11491

Clapping propulsion and thin vortex rings: a computational study of vortex dynamics, energy equivalence, and core potential energy
We present a numerical study on clapping propulsion using a body consisting of two rigid plates hinged at one end, with a 60-degree interplate cavity. The closing of the cavity generates a thrust-producing jet. Our previous experimental study (Mahulkar and Arakeri, PRF, 2024) compared the flow fields of the clapping body in two cases: free-moving (dynamic) and forward-constrained (stationary). The experiments revealed significant differences in body motion and flow structures. This numerical st…

Uncovering AI Governance Themes in EU Policies using BERTopic and Thematic Analysis
Delaram Golpayegani, Marta Lasek-Markey, Arjumand Younus, Aphra Kerr, Dave Lewis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13387

Uncovering AI Governance Themes in EU Policies using BERTopic and Thematic Analysis
The upsurge of policies and guidelines that aim to ensure Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are safe and trustworthy has led to a fragmented landscape of AI governance. The European Union (EU) is a key actor in the development of such policies and guidelines. Its High-Level Expert Group (HLEG) issued an influential set of guidelines for trustworthy AI, followed in 2024 by the adoption of the EU AI Act. While the EU policies and guidelines are expected to be aligned, they may differ in their …

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

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

Next Generation #NowPlaying https://muz4now.com/2024/next-generation-nowplaying/

Next Generation #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 19.09.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum

A profile of Edwin Chen, the CEO of Surge AI, a Scale AI rival that had $1.2B revenue in 2024, is profitable, and is reportedly raising $1B at a $30B valuation (Phoebe Liu/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/phoebeliu/2025/09/17/the-ai-billionaire-…

AI Founder Edwin Chen Shunned VC. Now He’s Worth $18 Billion
An alum of Google and Twitter, Edwin Chen built his data labeling company, Surge, in the shadows of the AI revolution. Now the 37-year-old wants to make his voice heard.

On the connection between zero-free regions and the error term in the Prime Number Theorem
Frederik Broucke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13780 https://

On the connection between zero-free regions and the error term in the Prime Number Theorem
We provide for a wide class of zero-free regions an upper bound for the error term in the Prime Number Theorem, refining works of Pintz (1980), Johnston (2024), and Révész (2024). Our method does not only apply to the Riemann zeta function, but to general Beurling zeta functions. Next we construct Beurling zeta functions having infinitely many zeros on a prescribed contour, and none to the right, for a wide class of such contours. We also deduce an oscillation result for the corresponding err…

Hunter Renfrow says Dabo Swinney talked him out of retiring after missing 2024 season with autoimmune disease

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/hunter…

Predicting Movie Success with Multi-Task Learning: A Hybrid Framework Combining GPT-Based Sentiment Analysis and SIR Propagation
Wenlan Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02809 http…

Predicting Movie Success with Multi-Task Learning: A Hybrid Framework Combining GPT-Based Sentiment Analysis and SIR Propagation
This study presents a hybrid framework for predicting movie success. The framework integrates multi-task learning (MTL), GPT-based sentiment analysis, and Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) propagation modeling. The study examines limitations in existing approaches. It models static production attributes, information dissemination, and audience sentiment at the same time. The framework uses 5,840 films from 2004 to 2024 and approximate 300,000 user reviews. It shows predictive performance wit…

2027 gibt's wieder eine #Airpower:
https://steiermark.orf.at/stories/3322122/
WIe sagt man, dass man mit anderen Worten, wie sehr man auf die

🥠 How candidates evoke identity and issues on TikTok
#media #socialmedia

How candidates evoke identity and issues on TikTok
Social media platforms are increasingly central to campaign communication, with both paid (advertising) and earned (organic) posts used for fundraising, mobilization, and persuasion. TikTok, and other short-form video platforms, with its short-video format and content-driven algorithms, demand unique content. We examine the final six months before the 2024 US Presidential Election to understand how major campaigns used TikTok. We frame our analysis around two political science theories. The fir…

Source: Stripe is in talks to buy back shares from its VC backers at a $106.7B valuation; Sequoia bought $861M worth of shares in 2024 at a $70B valuation (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/23/stripe-buy-back-stock-vc

Scoop: Stripe in talks to buy back stock from investors
Stripe has never seemed interested in an IPO.

Digging My Way Out #NowPlaying https://muz4now.com/2024/digging-my-way-out-nowplaying/

Digging My Way Out #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.09.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen

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 < …

Dallas Cowboys' DeMarvion Overshown inching closer to return from injury https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-demarvion-overshown-inching-closer-return-injury/a662…

from my link log —
Tiling with three polygons is undecidable.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11582
saved 2024-11-21 https://dotat.at/…

Tiling with Three Polygons is Undecidable
We prove that the following problem is co-RE-complete and thus undecidable: given three simple polygons, is there a tiling of the plane where every tile is an isometry of one of the three polygons (either allowing or forbidding reflections)? This result improves on the best previous construction which requires five polygons.

Filing: Lachlan Murdoch's fiscal 2025 compensation jumped to $33M, including a $3M salary and $10.6M in stock awards, up from $23.8M in 2024 and $21.8M in 2023 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Lachlan Murdoch’s Fox Pay Rises to $33 Million As He Assumes Control of Family Media Empire
Weeks after settling with his siblings over who will control Fox, the company revealed that the CEO's fiscal 2025 pay rose significantly from 2024.

Incentives and Outcomes in Bug Bounties
Serena Wang, Martino Banchio, Krzysztof Kotowicz, Katrina Ligett, R. Preston McAfee, Eduardo' Vela'' Nava
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16655

Incentives and Outcomes in Bug Bounties
Bug bounty programs have contributed significantly to security in technology firms in the last decade, but little is known about the role of reward incentives in producing useful outcomes. We analyze incentives and outcomes in Google's Vulnerability Rewards Program (VRP), one of the world's largest bug bounty programs. We analyze the responsiveness of the quality and quantity of bugs received to changes in payments, focusing on a change in Google's reward amounts posted in July, 2024, in which …

Permutations satisfying $(P_1)$ and $(P_2)$ properties and $\ell$-optimal bent functions
Sadmir Kudin, Enes Pasalic, Alexandr Polujan, Fengrong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14277

Permutations satisfying $(P_1)$ and $(P_2)$ properties and $\ell$-optimal bent functions
An important classification of permutations over $\mathbb{F}_2^m$, suitable for constructing Maiorana-McFarland bent functions on $\mathbb{F}_2^m \times \mathbb{F}_2^m$ with the unique $M$-subspace of maximal dimension, was recently considered in Pasalic et al. (IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory 70(6): 4464-4477, 2024). More precisely, two properties called $(P_1)$ and $(P_2)$ were introduced and a generic method of constructing permutations having the property $(P_1)$ was presented, whereas no such resu…

Skill, Will, or Both? Understanding Digital Inaccessibility from Accessibility Professionals' Viewpoint
P D Parthasarathy, Rachel F. Adler, Devorah Kletenik, Swaroop Joshi, Anshu M Mittal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23287

Skill, Will, or Both? Understanding Digital Inaccessibility from Accessibility Professionals' Viewpoint
Digital inaccessibility continues to be a significant barrier to true inclusion and equality. WebAIM's 2024 report reveals that only 4.1% of the world's top one million website homepages are fully accessible. Furthermore, the percentage of web pages with detectable Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) failures has only decreased by 1.9\% over the past five years, from 97.8%. To gain deeper insights into the persistent challenges of digital accessibility, we conducted a comprehensive surv…

Most United Nations workers killed on duty last year were killed by Israel in Palestinian territories, 181 out of 383.
"(...)383 aid workers were confirmed killed in the line of duty last year(...)"
"The [Gaza] Strip saw 181 humanitarian workers killed in 2024, with 60 more fatalities in Sudan. More widely, violence against aid workers increased in 21 countries in 2024 compared to the previous year, with State actors the most common perpetrators".

World Humanitarian Day 2025: Aid workers mull record toll of their own
With the news on Tuesday that a record 383 aid workers were confirmed killed in the line of duty last year, one veteran UN aid worker based in Gaza reaffirmed the resolve of humanitarians everywhere to save lives and relieve suffering, no matter how challenging the situation.

The nebular phase of SN 2024ggi: a low-mass progenitor with no signs of interaction
L. Ferrari, G. Folatelli, K. Ertini, H. Kuncarayakti, T. Regna, M. C. Bersten, C. Ashall, E. Baron, C. R. Burns, L. Galbany, W. B. Hoogendam, K. Maeda, K. Medler, N. I. Morrel, B. Shapee, M. D. Stritzinger, H. Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22794

The nebular phase of SN 2024ggi: a low-mass progenitor with no signs of interaction
Context: SN 2024ggi is a Type II supernova (SN) discovered in the nearby galaxy NGC 3621 (D $\approx6.7\pm0.d$ Mpc) on 2024 April 03.21 UT. Its proximity enabled a detailed investigation of the SN's properties and its progenitor star. This work focuses on the optical evolution of SN 2024ggi at the nebular phase. Aims: We investigate the progenitor properties and possible asymmetries in the ejecta by studying the nebular phase evolution between days 287 and 400 after the explosion. Methods: We p…

Energy Transition Domain and Its Application in Constructing Gravity-Assist Escape Trajectories
Shuyue Fu, Xiaowen Liu, Di Wu, Peng Shi, Shengping Gong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00518

Energy Transition Domain and Its Application in Constructing Gravity-Assist Escape Trajectories
This Note proposes the concept and theory of energy transition domain (ETD) defined by the mechanical energy of spacecraft in the Earth-Moon planar circular restricted three-body problem (PCR3BP) inspired by the pioneering work from Ano{è} et al. (2024) on the ETD defined by the two-body energy with respect to the secordary body in the PCR3BP. An effective construction method of gravity-assist escape trajectories is then proposed. Firstly, the concept of the ETD defined by the mechanical energ…

A profile of A24, valued at $3.5B in June 2024, as the studio focuses on big budget projects and invests in AI tools via A24 Labs, drawing mixed reactions (Alex Barasch/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/a24s-empire-of-auteurs?curre…

A24’s Empire of Auteurs
Alex Barasch offers the first inside look at the studio behind such movies as Ari Aster’s “Midsommar,” Celine Song’s “Past Lives,” the Daniels’ “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” Barry Jenkins’s “Moonlight,” and Josh Safdie’s upcoming “Marty Supreme”—and reports on its shift toward big budgets and A.I. tools.

#Steckersolargeräte, auch bekannt als #Balkonkraftwerke, gewinnen in #Deutschland weiter an Bedeutung.
Laut einer aktuellen Analyse erzeugten sie 2024 rund 1,7 TWh

Steckersolargeräte gewinnen zunehmend an Bedeutung
Steckersolargeräte, umgangssprachlich Balkonkraftwerke, werden immer beliebter. Durch sie kann man vergleichsweise preiswert und leicht Solarstrom erzeugen und selber nutzen. In einer aktuellen Studie wurde untersucht, wie hoch das Marktvolumen dieser Anlagen tatsächlich ist, wie viel Strom bereitgestellt wird und in welchem Umfang dieser PV-Strom selbst verbraucht oder ins Netz eingespeist wird.

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

Sources: Reddit is in early talks with Google to deepen integration of its content into Google's AI products, beyond its $60M data-sharing deal signed in 2024 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-17/…

3rd of 3 – Next Generation #hardrock #idea #music #musicvideo

3rd of 3 - Next Generation
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Jerry Jones Drops Huge Hint On Cowboys Contract Extension Plan https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/jerry-jones-contract-extension-hint-update/?adt_ei=[email]

Bengals RB Zack Moss eyes return from broken neck, tempers expectations for 2025 season

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bengals-rb-zack-moss…

No Words – #NoWords https://muz4now.com/2024/no-words-nowords/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=mu…

No Words - #NoWords
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

RSF says Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan, jailed from 2020 to 2024, has been sentenced to four more years on a charge of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-c…

Der #Marmolata-Gletscher in den #Dolomiten zieht sich weiter zurück.
Aktuelle Messungen zeigen einen durchschnittlichen Schwund von sieben Metern seit 2024 sowie eine deutliche #Ausdünnung

Dolomiten: Marmolata-Gletscher verschwindet
Italienische Glaziologinnen und Glaziologen sehen für den Marmolata-Gletscher in den Dolomiten schwarz. Im Vergleich zu 2024 hat er sich im Durchschnitt um sieben Meter zurückgezogen – begleitet von einer allgemeinen Ausdünnung der Gletscherfronten.

Cowboys season outlook: Dak Prescott is healthy, but is that enough for Dallas to rebound from forgetful 2024?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys…

Are gray skies trying to bring us down? #inspiration #beauty #inspiration

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

Shopify updated a help page in May to tighten its rules against "hateful content" like racist merchandise, after removing a similar ban in July 2024 (Thomas Seal/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Vanity Fair announces 12 new hires, including Olivia Nuzzi, who left New York Magazine in October 2024 after admitting to an affair with RFK Jr. (Vanity Fair)
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/vanity-fair-welcomes-new-hires

Vanity Fair Announces New Hires Across Departments
Jennifer Pastore, Olivia Nuzzi, Lindsey Underwood, Aidan McLaughlin, and more to join the magazine

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.