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David and Clare Rozzell – social song review #singersongwriter #song #songwriter

David and Clare Rozzell - social song review
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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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Det er utroligt så meget "Institute for the Study of War" bliver citeret på TV2. Det er en amerikansk tænketank der beskrives som tilhŸrende "hŸgene", altså dem der hellere ser krig end fred og er iŸvrigt finansieret af amerikanske våbenfakrikanter.

Russiske styrker i strategisk "afvigelse", skriver tænketank

Hvad sker der? Hundredvis af ukrainske familier er blevet tvangsevakueret fra byen Kupiansk i Kharkiv-regionen, som Rusland har rettet en offensiv imod.

@… @… too true.
Also, knowledge and intelligence are not the same.
I've had a thorn in my side since summer 2024. I should have responded more robustly at the time, instead: I kept quiet. When the person who stuck it in takes ple…

Generative AI and Firm Productivity: Field Experiments in Online Retail
Lu Fang, Zhe Yuan, Kaifu Zhang, Dante Donati, Miklos Sarvary
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12049 https://

Generative AI and Firm Productivity: Field Experiments in Online Retail
We quantify the impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) on firm productivity through a series of large-scale randomized field experiments involving millions of users and products at a leading cross-border online retail platform. Over six months in 2023-2024, GenAI-based enhancements were integrated into seven consumer-facing business workflows. We find that GenAI adoption significantly increases sales, with treatment effects ranging from 0\% to 16.3\%, depending on GenAI's marginal…

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.

Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year
By Diego Delso, CC-BY-SA
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2024/Results/All

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/

Radial Velocity Monitoring and Analysis of Gaia Astrometry of Selected Intermediate Mass Stars to Constrain Their Multiplicity Status
J. B\"atz, M. Mugrauer, K. -U. Michel, J. Reichert, A. Tschirschky, L. Pietsch, F. Edelmann, R. Neuh\"auser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09772

Radial Velocity Monitoring and Analysis of Gaia Astrometry of Selected Intermediate Mass Stars to Constrain Their Multiplicity Status
We present new radial velocity measurements of 13 selected intermediate mass stars (2 - 6 M$_\odot$). The measurements were performed between 29 April and 6 September 2024 at the University Observatory Jena using the échelle spectrograph FLECHAS. The radial velocity of eight stars was found to be constant during our spectroscopic monitoring, namely: 17 Dra A, HD 148374, HD 169487 A, 57 Cnc, $γ$ And, HD 11031, $κ$ And, and $λ$ Cas. In contrast, the radial velocity of five stars showed signif…

Natural Disaster In Canada (2024)
H. Hao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08594 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08594

Natural Disaster In Canada (2024)
This paper is a follow-up to our earlier study, Natural Disasters in Canada (2017). We analyze the Canadian Disaster Database (CDD) to examine the frequency and severity of various natural disasters over the past 120 years and to identify emerging trends. We generate annual loss distributions for individual disaster types, as well as an aggregate annual loss distribution across all event types. Our analysis provides evidence that Canada is experiencing warmer and wetter conditions and indicates…

Venezuelan opposition politician María Corina Machado
has won the Nobel peace prize
for her dogged struggle to rescue the South American country from its fate as
“a brutal, authoritarian state”.
Machado, 58, a conservative often described as Venezuela’s Iron Lady,
has spent the last year living in hiding
after her political movement was widely believed to have beaten the country’s president, Nicolšs Maduro,
in the July 2024 presidential election.

"An SNP victory in May’s Holyrood contest would hardly be an earthquake, after 18 continuous years of nationalist government. It would, though, signal a remarkable comeback from a period of eclipse, and from an often dismal record on public services. For Labour, which did so well in Scotland in the 2024 general election, it would signal a crisis moment, imperilling Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership"
#UKPol

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.

Every year, as I come up on my birthday, I start to think a lot more about the shooting. The intensity was a bit lower after Trump left office the first time, but October of 2024 was pretty intense.
As I've been processing through all this, I thought about the cards and letters folks sent to me in the hospital. I have a box of them in the US and sometimes I think about asking for them to be sent here. But things have a tenancy to get lost in the mail on the way here.
There's a little bit of a trapped and incomplete feeling, that Trump's chaos makes feel even more intense.
So I decided to write a bit about that box, and the hospital, and death.
CW: body horror, death
#Writing

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

Putin admits Russian air defense opened fire at Azerbaijani airliner in 2024: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/09/putin-admits-russian-air-defense.html

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Daten lokal speichern

An analysis of a rock sampled by NASA's #Perseverance #Mars rover last year called “Sapphire Canyon” will be discussed in a press conference at the top of the hour: #Jezero Crater long ago.

“Web is losing” is returning to my mind more often than I’d like
https://infrequently.org/2024/10/platforms-are-competitions/

Platform Strategy and Its Discontents
Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.

Finland’s trial of men charged over Baltic Sea cable damage hits choppy waters https://therecord.media/finland-court-decision-undersea-cable-breaks-eagle-s-crew

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

Next Generation #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Selvitys: Ikea vaarantaa Euroopan viimeiset luonnonmetsät https://www.greenpeace.org/finland/tiedotteet/metsat/selvitys-ikea-vaarantaa-euroopan-viimeiset-luonnonmetsat/

Selvitys: Ikea vaarantaa Euroopan viimeiset luonnonmetsät - Greenpeace Suomi
Ikean tuotteet liittyvät Karpaattien vuoriston luonnonmetsien hakkuisiin Romaniassa, selviää Greenpeacen tänään julkaisemasta selvityksestä. Selvityksen mukaan vuonna 2024 Karpaattien luonnonmetsää hakattiin jopa 59 neliökilometriä, eli yli 8200 jalkapallokentän verran. Tutkijoiden mukaan…

Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten ersetzt, Sonderregelungen nach Solarpaket berücksichtigt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Amortisation automatisch

It's shocking to me that the guy who was a useless councilmember (and council president) in Seattle for more than a decade also turned out to be a useless Mayor. Absolutely shocking! https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/115327462564038876

OH on slack:
SREcon 2024: hey, just a crazy thing, but we thought about giving the root password to a parrot. What do you think?
SREcon 2025: here's our comprehensive report from parrot's rampage, after equipping it with root password and a spending account
SREcon 2026: codebases should be parrots, not pets
SREcon 2027, presented mostly by parrots: how to work effectively with grumpy humans
#sre #devoops #aipocalypse @sre@tagpush.app

🗡️ Landmines and violence in Colombian Amazon confine Indigenous Siona families
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/09/landmines-and-violence-in-colombian-amazon-confine-indigenous-siona-families/…

Landmines and violence in Colombian Amazon confine Indigenous Siona families
Siona Indigenous guards in southern Colombia are raising alarm that landmines and armed groups are cutting off their families from natural resources and trapping them in small portions of their territory. It’s been an ongoing problem for decades, Mongabay contributor Jose Guarnizo reported. In August 2024, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) expanded its […]

Detta skaver.
På samma sätt som det skaver att Tidölaget skjutit in sig på att förstöra för hållbar energi, bred folkbildning, jämställdhet och social trygghet.
Det finns ett mönster i det här som jag tycker är motbjudande.
https://www.europarl.eu…

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…

The market share of new battery electric #vehicles in #Canada has fallen from 13.9% in Q4 2024 to 5.4% in Q2 2025.
#EV #BEV

Chris Godwin injury update: Buccaneers WR returning to practice amid recovery from ankle surgery, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/chris-g

PEN America warns that book bans in public schools have become "rampant and common", with 3,750 titles banned in 87 districts during the 2024-25 school year (Elizabeth A. Harris/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/books/book-bans-pen-america.html…

‘Rampant’ Book Bans Are Now Taken for Granted, Free Speech Group Warns
A new report from PEN America tracks restrictions on school books across 45 states.

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

A hierarchical entropy method for the delocalization of bias in high-dimensional Langevin Monte Carlo
Daniel Lacker, Fuzhong Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08619 https://

A hierarchical entropy method for the delocalization of bias in high-dimensional Langevin Monte Carlo
The unadjusted Langevin algorithm is widely used for sampling from complex high-dimensional distributions. It is well known to be biased, with the bias typically scaling linearly with the dimension when measured in squared Wasserstein distance. However, the recent paper of Chen et al. (2024) identifies an intriguing new delocalization effect: For a class of distributions with sparse interactions, the bias between low-dimensional marginals scales only with the lower dimension, not the full dimen…

The firefly luciferase is being used as a 'reporter gene' here, to reveal the Kalanchoe's 24-hour rhythms in the lab. Otherwise they are invisible.
Actually the luciferase glow is not directly visible either! It's so faint that the video was taken with super-sensitive cameras, closer to astronomy kit than to your smartphone. These are transgenic plants, developed for lab science in my now-#EdinburghUni colleague Jessica Pritchard's PhD, with James Hartwell in Liverpool.
She reported this cool new science in a #preprint last year:
📖 https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.19.629446
and I just caught up with it, although... 2/n

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

I learned this sad news with a huge delay because WKIT 404s today for some reason 😑 (WKIT was bought at the last minute by Jeff Solari and Greg Hawes, but up until now I didn't know this, as I tune in only occasionally.) ->
Stephen King’s radio stations to sign off for good at month’s end (Published: Dec. 2, 2024 at 5:01 PM EET)

Stephen King’s radio stations to sign off for good at month’s end
Stephen King’s radio stations are signing off for good at the end of the month.

Call for Papers: ICMS 2026 Panel, "The Imagined Woman"
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University of Alaska - Fairbanks - Alaska & Polar Regions Area Studies Bibliographer & Curator of…
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Seit 2010 sind sie für Solarstrom um 41 Prozent gesunken; 2024 kostete eine Kilowattstunde (kWh) im Schnitt nur etwa 3,5 Rp. Windstrom an Land war mit 2,7 Rp./kWh sogar noch günstiger. Zum Vergleich: Strom aus neuen Gaskraftwerken kostete in Deutschland laut Fraunhofer-Institut mindestens 8 Rp./kWh, aus Braunkohle sogar mindestens 10 Rp. ~ SES

Meditations on Pushing a Creative Project Too Far #brokenankle #creativity #improvisation #inspiration

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

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…

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…

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…

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
…

US investors in spyware firms nearly tripled in 2024: report https://therecord.media/us-investors-in-spyware-tripled-in-2024

A study found that by late 2024, around 24% of English-language corporate press releases and 14% of UN press releases involved LLM-assisted writing (AJ Dellinger/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/ai-finds-its-niche-writing-corporate-press-releases-2000666360

AI Finds its Niche: Writing Corporate Press Releases
Hopefully it got the numbers right.

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.

"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.

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…

For several years
– since conservatives, gained a six-three majority on the bench thanks to Donald Trump’s nominations during his first presidency
– the court has been delivering transformative rulings that have reverberated across the social and political landscape.
In 2022, it overturned Roe v Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion that had existed for nearly half-a-century.
In July 2024, in a far-reaching decision, it granted Trump
– and, by exten…

Today we celebrate all the wonderful creatures who share our planet. Happy World Animal Day! May every animal live a life full of love, kindness, and care.
#worldanimalday

Average wholesale electricity prices per bidding zone in Europe, 2024:
- lowest in Scandinavia
- low in France, Spain, Portugal
- high in the east, in Italy, and in Ireland
- average in the middle, including the Netherlands
Source: @energy-charts.bsky.social

Evaluation of Machine Learning Reconstruction Techniques for Accelerated Brain MRI Scans
Jonathan I. Mandel, Shivaprakash Hiremath, Hedyeh Keshtgar, Timothy Scholl, Sadegh Raeisi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07193

Evaluation of Machine Learning Reconstruction Techniques for Accelerated Brain MRI Scans
This retrospective-prospective study evaluated whether a deep learning-based MRI reconstruction algorithm can preserve diagnostic quality in brain MRI scans accelerated up to fourfold, using both public and prospective clinical data. The study included 18 healthy volunteers (scans acquired at 3T, January 2024-March 2025), as well as selected fastMRI public datasets with diverse pathologies. Phase-encoding-undersampled 2D/3D T1, T2, and FLAIR sequences were reconstructed with DeepFoqus-Accelerat…

What day is the peak of birth in France?
Nathalie Blanpain (INSEE)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06234 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06234

What day is the peak of birth in France?
Over the last ten years, from 2015 to 2024, the day with the highest average number of births was on the 20th of July, while Christmas Day recorded the fewest. Apart from July, a noticeable concentration of births occurred in late September, reflecting conceptions that took place during the end of year holidays. Births tended to be less frequent on weekends and public holidays. Since the 1970s, France's ``baby season'' shifted from spring to summer. From 1975 to 2010, heat waves were most often…

Quaking in Soft Granular Particles with Speed-dependent Friction: Effect of Inertia
Wei-Chang Lo, Jih-Chiang Tsai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25932 https://…

Quaking in Soft Granular Particles with Speed-dependent Friction: Effect of Inertia
Our previous numerical simulation [C.-E. Tsai et al., Physical Review Research 6, 023065 (2024)] has shown that, for soft granular particles under quasistatic shearing, incorporating a speed-dependent friction is a necessary condition for reproducing the rate-dependent stick-slip fluctuations that have been found in laboratory experiments [J.-C. Tsai et al., Physical Review Letters 126, 128001 (2021)]. As a continuation, here we employ the simulation at a wide range of driving speeds to examine…

Revisiting Simple Baselines for In-The-Wild Deepfake Detection
Orlando Castaneda, Kevin So-Tang, Kshitij Gurung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04150 https://ar…

Revisiting Simple Baselines for In-The-Wild Deepfake Detection
The widespread adoption of synthetic media demands accessible deepfake detectors and realistic benchmarks. While most existing research evaluates deepfake detectors on highly controlled datasets, we focus on the recently released "in-the-wild" benchmark, Deepfake-Eval-2024. Initial reporting on Deepfake-Eval-2024 showed that three finetuned open-source models achieve accuracies between 61% and 69%, significantly lagging behind the leading commercial deepfake detector with 82% accuracy. Our work…

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…

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

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.

Analyst picks perfect team comparison for Dallas Cowboys in 2025 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/analyst-picks-perfect-team-comparison-for-dallas-cowboys

Trump demands Kamala Harris, Beyoncé, Oprah be prosecuted over 2024 campaign payouts: 'Totally illegal' (Ryan King/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/07/27/us-news/trump-demands-kamala-harris-beyonce-oprah-be-prosecuted-over-2024-campaign-payouts-totally-illegal/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250727/p22#a250727p22

A look at LA's shrinking entertainment economy; ProdPro: 30% fewer $40M films and shows began shooting in the US in 2024 vs 2022, down 13% more in 2025 so far (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/los-a…

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…

Criterion for the Existence of the $G(3900)$ Resonance
Yin Huang, Xurong Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06353 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06353

Criterion for the Existence of the $G(3900)$ Resonance
About 18 years ago, the BABAR and the Belle Collaborations reported evidence for a new $c\bar{c}$ structure near $3900~\mathrm{MeV}$ in $e^{+}e^{-} \to D\bar{D}$, triggering debate over whether it represents a genuine hadronic state or arises from interference effects and the opening of the $D^{*}\bar{D}$ threshold. The issue remained unsettled until 2024, when BESIII, with an enlarged $e^{+}e^{-} \to D\bar{D}$ sample, confirmed the presence of the $G(3900)$ structure, reviving discussion of it…

Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – November 18, 2024
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Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 36 new job…
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Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest - November 18, 2024 | The Religious Studies Project
Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 36 new job opportunities, 12 fellowships, 1 grant, 7 calls for papers, 3 conferences/speakers, and 3 other opportunities.

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…

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

@… I don't know about games, but I thought this article was good (I switched to Mint in 2024):
https://www.zdnet.com/articl…

Patriots' Stefon Diggs opens up about 'emotional' return to Buffalo: 'Going to be a hell of an atmosphere'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/new…

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Group Decision Making and Beyond 2. Distorted Polarization and Vulnerability
Serge Galam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06649 https://

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Group Decision Making and Beyond 2. Distorted Polarization and Vulnerability
This paper extends previous work on echo chambers modeled by an Ising-like system at zero temperature (1. Echo Chambers and random Polarization, Symmetry 2024, 16(12), 1566). There, polarization emerged as a spontaneous symmetry-breaking process with a randomly selected direction. Here using a mean-field analysis and Monte Carlo simulations I show that this mechanism is highly vulnerable to minimal distortions. An external symmetry-breaking field, even vanishingly small, suffices to impose a gl…

Sinkholes around the world – in pictures | World news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2024/dec/04/sinkholes-around-the-world-from-greenwich-to-guatemala-in-pictures

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.

Note on Robins' Conjecture in Dimension Four and Higher
Oleg Asipchuk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26587 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.26587

Note on Robins' Conjecture in Dimension Four and Higher
This article is motivated by a conjecture proposed by Sinai Robins in 2024. The conjecture asserts that two convex, centrally symmetric sets of positive measure that are not multi-tilers must coincide up to rigid motions if and only if their Fourier transforms agree on the lattice $\mathbb{Z}^d$. In this paper, we disprove the conjecture by constructing explicit counterexamples in dimensions $d \geq 4$.

GWI: Time spent on social media globally peaked in 2022 and is steadily declining; North America is the exception, with usage up 15% in 2024 compared to Europe (John Burn-Murdoch/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a0724dd9-0346-4df3-80f5-d6572c93a863
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🇺🇦 #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

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 …

Russians with spy ties behind 2024 parcel explosions in Europe, Lithuania says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/18/russians-with-spy-ties-behind.html

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.

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).

#Tatort: Siebte Etage • #ARD #WDR
#crimi #krimi

Singularidades para as solu\c{c}\~{o}es das Equa\c{c}\~{o}es de Navier-Stokes and Euler e o Problema do Mil\^{e}nio
Milton C. Lopes Filho, Helena J. Nussenzveig Lopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07638

Singularidades para as soluções das Equações de Navier-Stokes and Euler e o Problema do Milênio
The purpose of this note is to offer a birds-eye view on the history and the state-of-the-art in the research surrounding the Millenium Prize problem for the Navier-Stokes equations, the general problem of singularities in fluid dynamics and the corresponding problem for the Euler equations. This is the content of a plenary talk delivered at the 2024 Biannual meeting of the Brazilian Math Society by Helena Nussenzveig Lopes and it is written in portuguese.

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 04.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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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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California Scrub Jay. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. December 2024. #laarboretum #jay #scrubjay

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
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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…

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…

How Hulk Hogan came to endorse Trump in 2024 (Alexandra Hutzler/ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hulk-hogan-endorse-trump-2024/story?id=124039602
http://www.memeorandum.com/250724/p107#a250724p107

Call for Papers: ICMS 2026 Panel, "The Imagined Woman"
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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 < …

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

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…

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…

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

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

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…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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Filing: CFPB scrapped a 2024 Apple credit card settlement implemented under Biden, ending oversight requirements years early; Apple had already paid a $25M fine (Christian Martinez/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa…

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 …

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.

#RWE hat im Kreis #Düren den Windpark #Aldenhoven auf rekultivierter #Tagebaufläche in Betr…

RWE nimmt Windpark auf ehemaliger Tagebaufläche in Betrieb
Windenergie fürs Revier: RWE hat ihren Windpark Aldenhoven im Kreis Düren mit einer installierten Gesamtleistung von 34,2 Megawatt (MW) in Betrieb genommen. Auf rekultivierter Fläche des Tagebaus Inden hat das Unternehmen seit Frühjahr 2024 sechs Windenergie-anlagen der 5,7-MW-Klasse errichtet.