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Deploying U.S. marines to Chicago isn’t just stupid and illegal.
20 years later, the Marine Corps can still learn from Fallujah https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2024/11/07/20-years-later…

20 years later, the Marine Corps can still learn from Fallujah
History provides lessons for the next urban fight, but it may be much worse.

KPMG: the 12 largest media companies collectively spent ~$210B on content in 2024, up 4% YoY, led by Comcast/NBCUniversal at $37B and YouTube at $32B (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/content-spending-2024-re…

Content Spending Hit $210B in 2024, Led by Comcast, YouTube, Disney
The biggest media companies set a new content-spending record in 2024, paying out around $210 billion, according to an analysis by KPMG.

UK prosecutors say the ringleader of a 2024 arson attack on Ukraine-linked businesses in London discussed kidnapping Revolut's Russia-born CEO Nikolay Storonsky (Michael Holden/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/r

With Elon Musk news at a low ebb, here’s a blast from the past.
Remember last year when Elon Musk set up a $1m daily sweepstakes for swing state voters who signed a petition, creating a controversy over vote-buying?
Do you remember the part where the sweepstakes turned out to be a scam with handpicked winners, as freely admitted by his own lawyers?
Promptly leading to a class action for fraud?
Well, that class action has now survived a motion to dismiss.

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.

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

Nachtrag: Änderung der Berechnung bezüglich https://mastodon.online/@tinoeberl/115236719296242946.
Der Filter auf "in Betrieb" ändert die Zahlen leider rückwirkend. Also:
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in

I currently read “It can’t happen here” by Sinclair Lewis from 1935. It's about fictive events in the US in 1936: an election won by a senator turned dictator. It reads like a description of the US 2024/2025, except dear leader is Democrat, not Republican. I'm on page 90 (just finished chapter 11), almost 300 more to read, it really is hard!
As the Trump playbook follows Project 2025, are we completely sure that this is NOT just a rewrite of Lewis' novel?

GWTC-4.0: Updating the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog with Observations from the First Part of the Fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing Run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18082

GWTC-4.0: Updating the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog with Observations from the First Part of the Fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing Run
Version 4.0 of the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-4.0) adds new candidates detected by the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA observatories through the first part of the fourth observing run (O4a: 2023 May 24 15:00:00 to 2024 January 16 16:00:00 UTC) and a preceding engineering run. In this new data, we find 128 new compact binary coalescence candidates that are identified by at least one of our search algorithms with a probability of astrophysical origin $p_{\rm astro} \geq 0.5$ and that are n…

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.

PoliTok-DE: A Multimodal Dataset of Political TikToks and Deletions From Germany
Tomas Ruiz, Andreas Nanz, Ursula Kristin Schmid, Carsten Schwemmer, Yannis Theocharis, Diana Rieger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15860

PoliTok-DE: A Multimodal Dataset of Political TikToks and Deletions From Germany
We present PoliTok-DE, a large-scale multimodal dataset (video, audio, images, text) of TikTok posts related to the 2024 Saxony state election in Germany. The corpus contains over 195,000 posts published between 01.07.2024 and 30.11.2024, of which over 18,000 (17.3%) were subsequently deleted from the platform. Posts were identified via the TikTok research API and complemented with web scraping to retrieve full multimodal media and metadata. PoliTok-DE supports computational social science acro…

Email: Indian crypto exchange WazirX plans to resume operations on October 24, following a court-approved restructuring, after hackers stole $230M in July 2024 (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/10/2

WazirX Latest News: Users Can Start Trading on Friday After $230M Hack Comes to Close
That was the final step in a process that began after a massive security breach last year froze assets, shuttered withdrawals, and effectively took India’s oldest crypto platform offline.

Muss nicht in Haft - Pfarrer versuchte Meth zu kochen – aus Liebe … #News #Nachrichten

Impact of nonthermal electron distributions on the triggering of the ion-ion acoustic instability near the Sun: Kinetic simulations
M. S. Afify, J. Dreher, S. O'Neill, M. E. Innocenti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18032

Impact of nonthermal electron distributions on the triggering of the ion-ion acoustic instability near the Sun: Kinetic simulations
Context. In a previous paper (Afify et al. 2024), we have investigated the stability threshold of the ion-ion acoustic instability (IIAI) in parameter regimes compatible with recent Parker Solar Probe (PSP, (Fox et al. 2016)) observations, in the presence of a Maxwellian electron distribution. We found that observed parameters are close to the instability threshold, but IIAI requires a higher electron temperature than observed. Aims. As electron distributions in the solar wind present clear non…

from my link log —
Mix-testing: revealing a new class of compiler concurrency bugs.
https://johnwickerson.wordpress.com/2024/06/28/mix-testing-revealing-a-new-class-of-compiler-bugs/
saved 2024-06-29

Mix-testing: revealing a new class of compiler bugs
I’m delighted that Luke Geeson’s work on “mix testing” (a collaboration with James Brotherston, Wilco Dijkstra, Alastair Donaldson, Lee Smith, Tyler Sorensen, and myself) will app…

It's #GrindayFriday, and this week is local Phoenix, Arizona grind/powerviolence duo LAW ABIDING CITIZEN and their 2024 EP 'For the Culture' via No Time Records. The separate tracks of the EP have all been merged into one here-- just over 10 minutes total. Great riffs, brutality, insanity, a few samples that actually still crack me up (Carrey and Farley). A lot to dig on this one.

"Over 60,000 Europeans died from heat during 2024 summer: Study"
#Europe #Climate #ClimateChange #Health

Over 60,000 Europeans died from heat during 2024 summer: Study
More than 60,000 people died from heat in Europe during last year's record-breaking summer, a benchmark study said Monday, in the latest warning of the massive toll climate change is having on the continent.

Fiducial-Cosmology-dependent systematics for the DESI 2024 Full-Shape Analysis
R. Gsponer, S. Ramirez-Solano, F. Rodr\'iguez-Mart\'inez, M. Vargas-Maga\~na, S. Novell-Masot, N. Findlay, H. Gil-Mar\'in, P. Zarrouk, S. Nadathur, A. Rocher, S. Brieden, A. P\'erez-Fern\'andez, J. Aguilar, S. Ahlen, D. Bianchi, D. Brooks, F. J. Castander, T. Claybaugh, A. Cuceu, A. de la Macorra, A. de Mattia, Arjun Dey, P. Doel, A. Font-Ribera, J. E. Forero-Romero, E. Gazta\~naga, S. Go…

Fiducial-Cosmology-dependent systematics for the DESI 2024 Full-Shape Analysis
We assess the impact of the fiducial cosmology choice on cosmological inference from full-shape (FS) fits of the galaxy power spectrum in the DESI 2024 Data Release 1 (DR1). Using a suite of AbacusSummit DR1 mock catalogues based on the Planck 2018 best-fit cosmology, we quantify potential systematic shifts introduced by analysing the data under five secondary cosmologies - featuring variations in matter density, thawing dark energy, higher effective number of neutrino species, reduced clusteri…

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Tag des offenen Rechenzentrums am 7. November 2025
https://www.

Das Geld parkt falsch auf der Straße. Wir haben nur kein Personal es aufzuheben.
Wie viele Verfahren konnten aufgrund der Privatanzeigen eingeleitet werden?
2023 konnten von 6.865 Anzeigen 4.355 Verfahren eingeleitet werden.
2024 konnten aufgrund erheblicher Personalausfälle in dem betroffenen Arbeitsbereich von insgesamt 11.034 Anzeigen nur 2.775 Verfahren eingeleitet werden

Anfrage zu Privatanzeigen im Bereich ruhender Verkehr
bitte beantworten Sie folgende Fragen, jeweils aufgeschlüsselt für die Jahre 2023 und 2024 für den Bereich des ruhenden Verkehrs mit dem Schwerpunkt auf Privatanzeige/Drittanzeige/Fremdanzeigen - im Folgenden nur noch 'Privatanzeigen' genannt: * Wie viele Privatanzeigen sind bei Ihnen eingegangen? * Wie viele Verfahren konnten aufgrund der Privatanzeigen eingeleitet werden? * Wie viele Verfahren durch Privatanzeigen wurden durch Zahlung eines Verwarnungsgeldes bestandskräfig? * Wie viele V…

Six microlensing planets detected via sub-day signals during the 2023 -- 2024 season
Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Andrzej Udalski, Ian A. Bond, Michael D. Albrow, Sun-Ju Chung, Andrew Gould, Youn Kil Jung, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, Yossi Shvartzvald, In-Gu Shin, Jennifer C. Yee, Weicheng Zang, Hongjing Yang, Sang-Mok Cha, Doeon Kim, Dong-Jin Kim, Seung-Lee Kim, Dong-Joo Lee, Yongseok Lee, Byeong-Gon Park, Richard W. Pogge, Przemek Mr\'oz, Micha{\l} K. Szyma\'nski, Jan Skowron…

Six microlensing planets detected via sub-day signals during the 2023 -- 2024 season
We present analyses of six microlensing events: KMT-2023-BLG-0548, KMT-2023-BLG-0830, KMT-2023-BLG-0949, KMT-2024-BLG-1281, KMT-2024-BLG-2059, and KMT-2024-BLG-2242. These were identified in KMTNet data from the 2023 -- 2024 seasons, selected for exhibiting anomalies shorter than one day -- potential signatures of low-mass planetary companions. Detailed modeling of the light curves reveals that the anomalies in all six events are caused by planetary companions to the lenses. The brief durations…

The new #Compendium is here, and it’s more than just data. [Part 2]
While every NREN is unique, we’re united by a shared mission: delivering interlinked core services that power #Research & #Education

Booth after first career pick-six: 'It's me versus me' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/booth-after-first-career-pick-six-it-s-me-versus-me

"Upgrading a thousand Debian hosts in less than an hour" – Grégory Colpart (@…) & Jérémy Lecour (@…) at MiniDebConf Toulouse 2024

Towards a precise measurement of the $\Lambda_c^ /D^0$ ratio at RHIC
Joseph D. Osborn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10772 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.10772

Towards a precise measurement of the $Λ_c^+/D^0$ ratio at RHIC
sPHENIX is a next-generation experiment at RHIC for jet and heavy-flavor physics which was fully commissioned during 2023 and 2024. Using its novel streaming-readout-capable, precision tracking system, sPHENIX collected 100 billion unbiased $p$$+$$p$ collisions, and a further sample of minimum-bias Au-Au collisions, in Run-24. A key measurement of the sPHENIX heavy flavor physics program is the comparison of $Λ_c^+$ to $D^0$ differential yields in both Au+Au and $p$$+$$p$ collisions, which pro…

Pact: streamers spent a record £850M on British TV shows in 2024, up 24% and surpassing Channel 4's annual originals budget (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/09/netflix-adolescence-row-channel-4-snarkiness-stream…

Streamer Spend In UK Topped $1B For First Time Last Year, Pact Research Finds, As John McVay Accuses Channel 4 Of “Snarkiness” Over ‘Adolescence’ Row
The Netflix 'Adolescence' row has seen John McVay accuses Channel 4 Of "snarkiness," while the Pact census found streamers spent $1B in the UK in 2024.

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

Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – October 30, 2024
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Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 35 new job…
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Religious Studies Opportunities Digest - October 30, 2024 | The Religious Studies Project
Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 35 new job opportunities, 1 fellowship, 1 grant, 8 call for papers, and 11 conferences/speakers.

Probing spectral variability in NGC 4490 ULX-8 over 24 years of XMM-Newton, Chandra and Swift-XRT observations
Tarang Vashisht, Aru Beri, Tanuman Ghosh, Aman Upadhyay, Vikram Rana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11415

Probing spectral variability in NGC 4490 ULX-8 over 24 years of XMM-Newton, Chandra and Swift-XRT observations
We present comprehensive spectral and timing results of 14 Chandra, 6 XMM-Newton and 19 Swift-XRT observations of the ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 4490 ULX-8, spanning from 2000 to 2024. We model the source spectra using absorbed power-law and absorbed multicolour disc blackbody models. The best-fit photon indices span 0.92-2.68, with typical uncertainties ranging from $\pm$0.1 to $\pm$1 depending on data quality. The inner disk temperature range from 0.97 to 1.69 keV, consistent with blackbo…

Phase transition properties via partition function zeros: The Blume-Capel ferromagnet revisited
Le\"ila Moueddene, Nikolaos G Fytas, Bertrand Berche
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20084

Phase transition properties via partition function zeros: The Blume-Capel ferromagnet revisited
Since the landmark work of Lee and Yang, locating the zeros of the partition function in the complex magnetic-field plane has become a powerful method for studying phase transitions. Fisher later extended this approach to complex temperatures, and subsequent generalizations introduced other control parameters, such as the crystal field. In previous works [Moueddene et al, J. Stat. Mech. (2024) 023206; Phys. Rev. E 110, 064144 (2024)] we applied this framework to the two- and three-dimensional B…

Brock Purdy was the NFL’s darling as Mr. Irrelevant. Who will he be as a $265 million man? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6585778/2025/09/04/brock-purdy-contract-49ers-2025-season/

Network Contagion in Financial Labor Markets: Predicting Turnover in Hong Kong
Abdulla AlKetbi, Patrick Yam, Gautier Marti, Raed Jaradat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08001 https:/…

Network Contagion in Financial Labor Markets: Predicting Turnover in Hong Kong
Employee turnover is a critical challenge in financial markets, yet little is known about the role of professional networks in shaping career moves. Using the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) public register (2007-2024), we construct temporal networks of 121,883 professionals and 4,979 firms to analyze and predict employee departures. We introduce a graph-based feature propagation framework that captures peer influence and organizational stability. Our analysis shows a contagio…

Understanding Human Daily Experience Through Continuous Sensing: ETRI Lifelog Dataset 2024
Se Won Oh, Hyuntae Jeong, Seungeun Chung, Jeong Mook Lim, Kyoung Ju Noh, Sunkyung Lee, Gyuwon Jung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03698

Understanding Human Daily Experience Through Continuous Sensing: ETRI Lifelog Dataset 2024
Improving human health and well-being requires an accurate and effective understanding of an individual's physical and mental state throughout daily life. To support this goal, we utilized smartphones, smartwatches, and sleep sensors to collect data passively and continuously for 24 hours a day, with minimal interference to participants' usual behavior, enabling us to gather quantitative data on daily behaviors and sleep activities across multiple days. Additionally, we gathered subjective self…

Dense photometry validation of super-fast-rotating asteroid candidates
Bojan Novakovi\'c, Pedro J. Guti\'errez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06533 https://

Dense photometry validation of super-fast-rotating asteroid candidates
Super-fast rotators (SFRs; P < 2.2 hr) are of great importance in asteroid studies; yet, many reported detections suffer from aliasing caused by an insufficient observation cadence. We present dense CCD photometry for 15 SFRs candidates (14 after excluding 11219 Benbohn, whose published period already exceeds the spin barrier) observed from 2023 Aug 11 to 2024 Aug 11 with the 1.5 m Sierra Nevada and 1.4 m AS Vidojevica telescopes. Our dataset comprises approximately 2,400 calibrated data points…

The cosmic web's Lyman-$\alpha$ glow at $z \approx 2.5$; varying hydrodynamic models, dust, and wide-field, narrow-band imaging detection
Oleksii Sokoliuk, John K. Webb, Kenneth M. Lanzetta, Michael M. Shara, Stefan Gromoll, James S. Bolton, Robert F. Carswell, Gaspar Galaz, C\'edric Ledoux, Gaspare Lo Curto, Alain Smette, David Valls-Gabaud, Anja von der Linden, Frederick M. Walter, Joris Witstok

The cosmic web's Lyman-$α$ glow at $z \approx 2.5$; varying hydrodynamic models, dust, and wide-field, narrow-band imaging detection
The diffuse glow of the cosmic web in Lyman-$α$ emission has long been predicted, yet remained elusive to direct wide field detection. We present theoretical calculations that, when compared with recent observations made using the Condor Array Telescope in New Mexico reported in Lanzetta et al. 2024, point to its discovery at $z \approx 2.5$. Synthetic Lyman-$α$ surface brightness maps are constructed from five state-of-the-art hydrodynamic simulations (Illustris-TNG, SIMBA, EAGLE, CROCODILE,…

Von #umverkehR @…
Volkswillen respektieren: Mobilitätswende statt Autobahnausbau.
Die Ablehnung des Autobahnausbaus vom 24. November 2024 war der Wendepunkt in der Schweizer

Petition Mobilitätswende statt Autobahnausbau
Wir fordern den Bundesrat auf, den Volkswillen zu respektieren und die Schweizer Klimaziele zu erreichen. Der Autobahnausbau muss endgültig gestoppt und die Gelder aus dem Strassenfonds in die Mobilitätswende investiert werden.

VLF Remote Sensing across and along the Totality Path during the April 8, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse using a VLF Receiver Network
Oleksiy Agapitov (Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, Astronomy and Space Physics Department, National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine), Mark Go{\l}kowski (Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO, USA), Lucas Colomban (Space Sciences Laboratory, University o…

VLF Remote Sensing across and along the Totality Path during the April 8, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse using a VLF Receiver Network
During the total solar eclipse in the United States on April 8, 2024, we observed the amplitude and phase of VLF signals from five U.S. Navy VLF transmitters using a novel geometry of VLF receivers deployed along and across the totality path. Nine receiver sites (four of them inside the totality path) were deployed to collect the data in different transmitter-receiver configurations relative to the totality path, which intersected with the radio propagation paths from the Cutler, MA (NAA, 24 kH…

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…

To cut or not to cut: Data-quality evaluation for the ASTRI Mini-Array
E. Molina (for the ASTRI Project), L. Foffano (for the ASTRI Project), S. Crestan (for the ASTRI Project), S. Iovenitti (for the ASTRI Project), S. Lombardi (for the ASTRI Project), F. Lucarelli (for the ASTRI Project), T. Mineo (for the ASTRI Project)
https://arxiv.org…

To cut or not to cut: Data-quality evaluation for the ASTRI Mini-Array
The ASTRI Mini-Array consists of nine Cherenkov telescopes under construction at the Observatorio del Teide, with one of them already performing observations since November 2024. Given the complexity of the analysis of gamma-ray data acquired with Cherenkov telescopes, a proper evaluation of the quality of these data is important to avoid a negative impact on the high-level scientific products. There are several factors that can contribute to reducing the quality of the observations, such as cl…

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 < …