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Pretty extreme @… forecast for this coming Tuesday 1 July, here in central the Netherlands (De Bilt).
A temperature of 35°C was only reached 7 times before (1901-2024) in July, all of those on 19 July or later.

Why Raiders Will Be Better in 2025 https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-christian-wilkins-pete-carroll-ashton-jeanty-john-spytek

Hey! We just came back from a nice afterwork cycling.
Currently we do an hour of easy cycling every day.
Especially after work it really a blessing.
As I'm STILL behind with the recent trips I just browsed the archives for some beautiful memories of a hike last year.
This trail doesn't offer epic vistas but the trail itself is just a gem.
The blog:

Measurements of enriched 155 Gd and 157Gd converters with the NMX detector on the nTOF EAR2 beam line at CERN
D. Pfeiffer, F. M. Brunbauer, I. R. Fehse, A. D. Finke, K. Fissum, K. J. Floethner, D. Janssens, M. Lisowska, H. Muller, E. Oksanen, E. Oliveri, L. Ropelewski, A. Rusu, J. Samarati, L. Scharenberg, M. van Stenis, R. Veenhof, N. Zavaritskaya
https://

Measurements of enriched 155 Gd and 157Gd converters with the NMX detector on the nTOF EAR2 beam line at CERN
The detectors for the NMX instrument at the European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund use natural Gd as the neutron converter. In 2024, beam time was obtained at the neutron time-of flight experiment (nTOF) at CERN to study the feasibility of an upgrade to enriched Gd. A 10 x 10 cm^2 prototype of the NMX detector was equipped with two enriched Gd samples (157Gd and 155Gd) that were attached with copper tape to the natural Gd cathode of the detector. Three sets of measurements were taken, with th…

Adam Sandler's 2024 Special is impressive 👑 ->
Adam Sandler's Comedy Song (2024)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5Jt8oX9WwI

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

My removal from #nasa #nyc continued afoot.
I haven’t said much of it here — but my competitive grant proposals (nasa scientists get funded this way since full cost accounting hit in 2004) have been chosen, but not funded.
There is no grant money to distribute. Folks in the know have seen that - ROSES, the acronym for research opportunities in science, does not have a 2025 call and the 2024 chosen post January 2025 don’t have money getting distributed.
If I cannot get proposals funded I will be in the same situation as every other soft money researcher.
So the soft RIF is coming for me and 1000’s of others.

Hey @… könnt ihr dann wenigstens Konsequent sein und auch dieses Bild entfernen 🥺🥺🥺
EDIT: Nach mehr Kommunikation mit Menschen aus der Orga wird der Fall klarer:
Ein Dauercamper hat die Platzwarte dazu gebracht, über die Fahne nachzudenken. Weil der Campingplatz ein Eigenbetrieb der Stadt ist, fühlt sich der Platzwart nicht mit der „Riot Nights“ Aussage com…

These: "Mähroboter töten Igel"
Der Verein "Pro Igel e.V." hat dazu dies:
"Im Zeitraum September 2021 bis September 2024 hat das Leibniz-Institut für Zoo- und Wildtierforschung (Leibniz-IZW) anhand von 370 deutschlandweit gemeldeten Einzelfällen verletzter Tiere festgestellt, dass knapp die Hälfte die Verletzung durch Mähroboter oder Freischneider nicht überlebt hat."
Dieser seltsam konstruierte Satz verdeckt nur notdürftig: Die haben eigentlich…

Democrats' 2024 Autopsy Is Described as Avoiding the Likeliest Cause of Death (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/us/politics/democrats-2024-autopsy-harris-biden.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Xk8.5bA7.DMIFme0Pd3Jb&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250719/p4#a250719p4

"World’s largest banks pledged $869bn to fossil fuel firms in 2024, new report finds"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

XR Extreme Reach: in 2024, only 9% of TV ads had closed captions and 1% had audio descriptions, despite over half of adults watching content with captions on (TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/06/xr-report-accessibility-advertising/

XR: Most TV ads lack accessibility features like captions
The shortcoming means viewers with disabilities aren't engaging with brand messaging on TV.

Der MDR verlässt X/Twitter, aber nicht, weil es damit ein Problem gäbe, sondern weil es bei Meta und LinkedIn mehr Reichweite gibt.
Bitter, denn mind. Meta (Insta, FB, Threads) ist ja ähnlich schlimm.

With the 4th #AAS246 press conference come the press releases #PUNCH and #CODEX sitting on the ISS. While the corona shape predictions for the 2024 total solar eclipse were published in https://www.predsci.com/corona/apr2024eclipse/home.php

Heute ist bei uns in #BadOeYnhausen das #Stadtradeln gestartet und ich habe letztes Jahr schon etwas dazu geschrieben, was sich auch in diesem Jahr nicht geändert hat:

Right-wing Americans have done much to fund cultural products that are not necessarily political but have deep political undertones.
Over the decades, Republicans have invested billions of dollars in selling their larger values and political brand while Democrats seem to think that a barrage of easily ignored video ads can counteract it.
This is a serious issue for Democrats because Donald Trump's 2024 election victory was largely thanks to people who had never voted before …

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.06.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1923 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Diarycast - Year In Review (2024) - The 2024 EOU diary, including finally ditching fossil gas... #yearInReview #heatPump - https://www.

Diarycast - Year In Review (2024)
The 2024 EOU diary, including finally ditching fossil gas... #yearInReview #heatPump

Crypto PAC Fairshake says it has raised $109M since the US elections in November 2024, and $52M in H1 2025, as it prepares for the 2026 US midterm elections (Sarah Wynn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/362685/crypto

Have A Plan - 10 Tips for Boosting Productivity
#solopreneur #productivity
https://

Have A Plan - 10 Tips for Boosting Productivity
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Ach ja, es ist ja Sommerloch. Da kann man den Quatsch auch mal wieder hervorholen.
Fun Fact: Ich finde die Dinger sogar ganz nett, weil man dann direkt den Deckel griffbereit hat und wenn man es richtig benutzt stört der noch nichtmal beim Trinken. 🤷
https://ard.social/@tagesschau/1147044

RLZ-r and LZ-End-r: Enhancing Move-r
Patrick Dinklage, Johannes Fischer, Lukas Nalbach, Jan Zumbrink
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17300 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

RLZ-r and LZ-End-r: Enhancing Move-r
In pattern matching on strings, a locate query asks for an enumeration of all the occurrences of a given pattern in a given text. The r-index [Gagie et al., 2018] is a recently presented compressed self index that stores the text and auxiliary information in compressed space. With some modifications, locate queries can be answered in optimal time [Nishimoto & Tabei, 2021], which has recently been proven relevant in practice in the form of Move-r [Bertram et al., 2024]. However, there remains th…

"ChatGPT ranking of business and management journals with article quality scores" https://doi.org/10.1108/AJIM-11-2024-0927 [closed access / paywall]

Tight bounds of norms of Wasserstein metric matrix
Aaisha Be, Nachiketa Mishra, Debasisha Mishra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15326 https://

Tight bounds of norms of Wasserstein metric matrix
Very recently, Bai [Linear Algebra Appl., 681:150-186, 2024 \& Appl. Math. Lett., 166:109510, 2025] studied some concrete structures, and obtained essential algebraic and computational properties of the one-dimensional, two-dimensional and generalized Wasserstein-1 metric matrices. This article further studies some algebraic and computational properties of these classes of matrices. Specifically, it provides lower and upper bounds on the $1,2,\infty$-norms of these matrices, their inverses, and…

Installing Whoogle on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W in 2025
I had to update the instructions for my 2024 article. Here it is:
https://theprivacydad.com/installing-whoogle-on-a-raspberry-pi-zero-2-w-in-2025/

Seven questions on sophomore NFL QBs: What's next for Penix, Williams, Daniels, Maye https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45465496/2025-nfl-season-sophomore-quarterbacks-williams-daniels-maye-nix-mccarthy-pe…

Thank you for the nice #qgisuc2025 summary and for the #Trajctools shout out, @… !

QGIS User Conference 2025
The QGIS International User Conference 2025 happened in Norrköping, Sweden from 2-3 June 2025. I have been to the previous conferences in 2024, 2023 and 2019 and always look forward to the annual e…

Isn't it weird how when a Federal Crown Corporation - Marine Atlantic - buys a new ship... there is nary a mention that it was built in China (#BCPoli #BCFerries

“The colonial monopoly on violence is backed by the liberal demand of nonviolent resistance.”
— tsengputterman, 2024 on Twitter

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02976 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_…

Deep Learning for Retinal Degeneration Assessment: A Comprehensive Analysis of the MARIO AMD Progression Challenge
The MARIO challenge, held at MICCAI 2024, focused on advancing the automated detection and monitoring of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) through the analysis of optical coherence tomography (OCT) images. Designed to evaluate algorithmic performance in detecting neovascular activity changes within AMD, the challenge incorporated unique multi-modal datasets. The primary dataset, sourced from Brest, France, was used by participating teams to train and test their models. The final ranking wa…

Eftersom DN avslöjade Säpos mångåriga slarv efter att Le Monde redan avslöjat *exakt* samma problematik i Frankrike (och hos fler världsledare) i oktober 2024 finns en rad filmer som förklarar hur det går till.

I en serie artiklar under beteckningen #StravaLeaks har Le Monde publicerat pedagogiska filmer som visar hur information finns att hämta publikt, och vilka riskerna är.

A…

The Pierre Auger Observatory: Contributions to the 39th International Cosmic Rays Conference
Collaboration, Halim, Abreu, Aglietta, Allekotte, Cheminant, Almela, Aloisio, Alvarez-Mu\~niz, Ambrosone, Yebra, Anchordoqui, Andrada, Dourado, Apollonio, Aramo, Arnone, Vel\'azquez, Assis, Avila, Avocone, Bakalova, Baluta, Barbato, Mocellin, Bellido, Berat, Bertaina, Bianciotto, Biermann, Binet, Bismark, Bister, Biteau, Blazek, Bl\"umer, Boh\'a\v{c}ov\'a, Boncioli, Bonifazi, B…

The Pierre Auger Observatory: Contributions to the 39th International Cosmic Rays Conference
The Pierre Auger Observatory, located in La Pampa Amarilla, Argentina, has been continuously acquiring data since 2004. It comprises a surface detector array covering 3,000 km$^2$ and 27 fluorescence telescopes, designed to detect extensive air showers initiated by ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. An upgrade to the Observatory was commissioned in 2024, enhancing the existing water-Cherenkov detectors with additional radio antennas, surface scintillator detectors, and a buried scintillator array. …

"Guest post: Why 2024’s global temperatures were unprecedented, but not surprising"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Guest post: Why 2024’s global temperatures were unprecedented, but not surprising - Carbon Brief
Human-caused greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2024 continued to drive global warming to record levels.

Trigonometric Ratios Can Prove the Pythagorean Theorem
Shoya Kise, Takesa Uehara, Takashi Shinzato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06304 https://

Trigonometric Ratios Can Prove the Pythagorean Theorem
Recent interest in noncircular trigonometric proofs has underscored the need for alternative methodologies. Jackson and Johnson's 2024 study addresses a longstanding gap in the foundations of trigonometric proofs. Inspired by the work of Jackson and Johnson [JJ24], we present three noncircular proofs of the Pythagorean theorem based on trigonometric identities. First, we establish the Pythagorean theorem via an isosceles triangle construction and the tangent double-angle formula. Second, we pre…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

Plonger dans le dossier de presse sur les affaires OKC qui s'étend de 1997- Š 2025 !
Comment nos sociétés traitent la question des dérives sectaires et la place des enfants mineurs dans ce genre de dérive ?
#PressKit #ChardonsBleus

A Comprehensive Analysis of COVID-19 Detection Using Bangladeshi Data and Explainable AI
Shuvashis Sarker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07234 https://

A Comprehensive Analysis of COVID-19 Detection Using Bangladeshi Data and Explainable AI
COVID-19 is a rapidly spreading and highly infectious virus which has triggered a global pandemic, profoundly affecting millions across the world. The pandemic has introduced unprecedented challenges in public health, economic stability, and societal structures, necessitating the implementation of extensive and multifaceted health interventions globally. It had a tremendous impact on Bangladesh by April 2024, with around 29,495 fatalities and more than 2 million confirmed cases. This study focu…

The final presentation at the SEC 2025 - https://www.vvs.be/subsite/sec-2025/programme - was by Mariusz Krukar about the Impact of solar eclipses on twilight. He called the 1990 observations by Geyer et al. - https://opg.optica.org/ao/abstract.cfm?uri=ao-33-21-4614 (don't know of any OA version) - the best so far while in https://eeq.astro-geo-gis.com/2024-2/ he had predictions for 2024. The next SEC will probably be in 2029 - no location decided yet. 19/19

New video documents turbulent path to Cowboys star's $39 million payday https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/07/cowboys-ceedee-lamb-2024-holdout-youtube-series/84081968007/…

Ball path curvature and in-game free throw shooting proficiency in the National Basketball Association
Ruoqian Zhu, Dave Love, Scott Powers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13779

Ball path curvature and in-game free throw shooting proficiency in the National Basketball Association
Basketball shooting coaches agree that smoother shooting motions are better, but there is less agreement about what "smooth" means quantitatively or what part of the shooting motion needs to be smooth. Using ball tracking data from the 2023-2024 National Basketball Association regular season, we explore the relationship between ball path curvature and free throw shooting performance. We fit Bézier curves to the ball tracking data in the sagittal plane and test different methods of calculating …

"There was a recent 2024 study that showed us that individuals who survive an acute COVID-19 infection (...) on average will lose somewhere in the neighbourhood of two to six IQ points per infection."
"although your immune system can take on [a COVID] infection, you want to avoid testing it as much as possible because your body is sustaining damage with each infection that it survives."
Seriously, wear a mask 😷 .

Beyond long COVID — how reinfections could be causing silent long-term organ damage | CBC Radio
Scientific evidence is painting an unsettling picture: COVID infections, even if mild or asymptomatic, may be causing long-term cellular and organ damage, as well as increasing your risk of developing long COVID.

Sources: xAI prepares a new fundraising round, its third in two months, targeting a valuation of $170B to $200B, up 10x from its May 2024 valuation of $18B (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/25aab987-c2a1-4fca-8883-38a617269b68

NASA: May 2025 was the 2nd warmest May on record, globally: 1.07°C above the 1951-1980 average. Only May 2024 was warmer.
Highest anomalies in the Siberian Arctic, Central Asia, and the West-Antarctic.
#globalwarming #ClimateChange

#ToolTipThursday für Bibliotheken!
Am 10. Juli, 13:30 Uhr stellen Moritz Mutter (VÖBB) und Tillmann Scheel (ASK) den neuen KI-Chatbot des VÖBB vor.
Er erleichtert die Katalogrecherche und empfiehlt Medien – auch bei vagen Anfragen.
🔍 KI trifft OPAC: Wie funktioniert das? Wo liegen die Grenzen?
Jetzt anmelden:

Israeli data security startup Cyera raised $540M led by Georgian, Greenoaks, and Lightspeed at a $6B valuation, up from $3B in November 2024 after raising $300M (Steven Scheer/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/

Dallas Cowboys predicted to fix RB room with Notre Dame Heisman hopeful https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/news/dallas-cowboys-predicted-fix-rb-room-notre-dame-heisman-hopeful/ed44365e…

Ex-Raiders GM Tom Telesco reveals quarterbacks Las Vegas considered drafting in 2024 https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/ex-raiders-tom-telesco-quarterbacks-…

#CachyOS takes #DistroWatch top spot with extreme performance optimizations 🚀🏆 Claims #1 ranking on #DistroWatch after rapid climb since 2024 debut ⚡ Ultra-fast package installation:

Former Steelers standout receiver plots NFL comeback: 'I am the strongest and fastest I've ever been'

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

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

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

Der Winter 2024/25 brachte in den #Alpen teils Rekord-#Trockenheit und extremen #Schneemangel.
An der #Zugspitze

Alpen-Bilanz 2024/25: Rekord-Trockenheit und Schneemangel
Rekord-Trockenheit in den Alpen: Im Winter 2024/25 fiel mancherorts so wenig Schnee wie seit über 90 Jahren nicht mehr. Auch an der Zugspitze wurden Negativrekorde gemessen.

A whistleblower details Clothoff, an AI-powered nudify app that owns 10 similar services; Clothoff had 27M visitors in H1 2024 and produced 200K images daily (Spiegel Online)
https://www.spiegel.de/internationa…

Using AI to Humiliate Women: The Men Behind Deepfake Pornography
AI-generated naked images of real women is the business model behind Clothoff, a dubious "nudify" app that has millions of visitors. Now, a whistleblower has provided details of just how cynical the site's operators are.

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

12) Who needs to take a bigger leap https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/12-who-needs-to-take-a-bigger-leap-guyton-or-mazi

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

Las Vegas Raiders 2025 Outlook: What Can We Expect From Raheem Mostert? https://raiderramble.com/2025/07/07/las-vegas-raiders-2025-outlook-raheem-mostert/

"Coral once feared extinct rediscovered in the Galšpagos after 25 years"
#Galápagos #Coral #CoralReef #Environment

Coral once feared extinct rediscovered in the Galápagos after 25 years
Wellington’s solitary coral, a species thought to be extinct for more than two decades, was rediscovered in 2024 near Tagus Cove in Ecuador’s Galápagos Islands, according to a recent study.  Over multiple dives in 2024, scientists from the Charles Darwin Foundation, the Galápagos National Park Directorate, and the California Academy of Sciences spotted more than […]

Decadal Analysis of Delhi's Air Pollution Crisis: Unraveling the Contributors
Prachi Tewari, Shweta Jindal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.24087 https://

Decadal Analysis of Delhi's Air Pollution Crisis: Unraveling the Contributors
Recently, Delhi has become a chamber of bad air quality. This study explores the trends of probable contributors to Delhi's deteriorating air quality by analyzing data from 2014 to 2024 -- a period that has not been the central focus of previous research. The study aims to reassess the contributors in light of recent shifts. The consistently worsening air quality has forced the people of Delhi to adapt to an unhealthy environment. People breathing this polluted air are at great risk of developi…