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P.S. Hat tip to @… for the radium reference. He was talking about other things (https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/19/just-stop-putting-that-up-your-ass/#harm-reduction), but the whole vibe of that “Radium will magically restore you to health!” era is by far the best historical comparison I’ve found for the current froth-mouthed AI hype.

El Pais is doing an amazing work in showing how citation metrics is a call for abuse (gaming to be more precise).
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-12-05/dozens-of-the-worlds-most-cited-sci…

Dozens of the world’s most cited scientists stop falsely claiming to work in Saudi Arabia
This newspaper unveiled that Saudi universities were paying up to €70,000 a year to prestigious researchers to artificially pump up Arab institutions in international academic rankings

NOTICE OF PUBLIC FORUM
(Public Participation Hearing)
Southern California Edison Company and San Diego Gas and Electric Company’s
Joint Application for the 2024 Nuclear Decommissioning Cost Triennial Proceeding
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Southern California Edison Company (SCE), San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E), and the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) would like to hear from you. You are invited to participate in a Public Forum, also calle…

Healing Melodies – recovery and inspiration #healing #inspiration #music

Healing Melodies - recovery and inspiration
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

My favorite blues and snow white sands near Crodon di San Candido (October 2024)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

P.S. Hat tip to @… for the radium reference. He was talking about other things (https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/19/just-stop-putting-that-up-your-ass/#harm-reduction), but the whole vibe of that “Radium will magically restore you to health!” era is by far the best historical comparison I’ve found for the current froth-mouthed AI hype.

„Schau Katja, für den 80 cm breiten roten Radweg bekommt Bochum demnächst den Titel „Aufholer“ vom @…“
06/2024

Where is AIED Headed? Key Topics and Emerging Frontiers (2020-2024)
Shihui Feng, Huilin Zhang, Dragan Ga\v{s}evi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20971 ht…

Where is AIED Headed? Key Topics and Emerging Frontiers (2020-2024)
In this study, we analyze 2,398 research articles published between 2020 and 2024 across eight core venues related to the field of Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED). Using a three-step knowledge co-occurrence network analysis, we analyze the knowledge structure of the field, the evolving knowledge clusters, and the emerging frontiers. Our findings reveal that AIED research remains strongly technically focused, with sustained themes such as intelligent tutoring systems, learning analyt…

Response to comment on Mutualism weaken the latitudinal diversity gradient among oceanic islands
Camille Delavaux, Thomas Crowther, James Bever, Evan Gora
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21006

Response to comment on Mutualism weaken the latitudinal diversity gradient among oceanic islands
In our original paper (Delavaux et al. 2024; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07110-y), we find that the latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) in plant species richness is reduced on oceanic islands worldwide. Moreover, we find that plants that associate with mutualists, including pollinators, AM fungi, and N-fixing bacteria, disproportionately contribute to this reduction. To make this assertion, we fit models of continental diversity to absolute latitude and compared mainland diversi…

Achieving Gender Representation in Lead-Author Publications in the ASTRO3D Centre of Excellence
Kim-Vy H. Tran, Stuart Wyithe, Michelle Ding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20676

Achieving Gender Representation in Lead-Author Publications in the ASTRO3D Centre of Excellence
We examine the publication rates of 400 research-focused members in the ASTRO3D Centre of Excellence by gender, project, and year from January 2018 to January 2024 (six years). Of the 443 refereed publications led by ASTRO3D members, women were first-author on 38% which is nearly double that of the astronomy field in the same period (~20%). We record a high-water mark in 2022: 46% of ASTRO3D publications were led by females and 45% of research members identified as female. Using the nine resear…

I am hoping to do 1,000 miles on the bike this year. It's still June and I'm at 650 (surpassing the 620 for all of 2024.) I also did 120 this month which is the most miles I've done in a single month. I am glad I started riding and try to do it daily.
#biking #bikeTooter

… found only 8% of articles in 2023 shared ANY Open data, consistent with previous reports for psychiatry and psychology research.
In our bioscience sample that year, only 8% of articles shared no Open data. Many factors underlying this difference, of course.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjment-2024-301333
👇 CMHN is our analysis of articles from researchers in the MRC-funded "Circadian and Mental Health Network". 3/3

Analysis: YC picked just four Indian startups in 2024 vs. 66 in 2021, amid a growing trend of startups shifting their parent entities to India for domestic IPOs (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.…

From 66 to 4: Why Y Combinator backed fewer Indian startups in 2024
Y Combinator's selection of Indian startups has decreased significantly. This decline is attributed to factors like YC's US incorporation requirement and the rise of domestic IPOs. Indian startups are shifting focus to local funding options. They find domestic markets favorable for listing. YC is also prioritizing AI-focused startups. This shift impacts Indian participation. Domestic capital is growing with regulatory support.

Top U.S. Multifamily Rent Growth Markets — Q1 2025
"As was the case during 2024, the top rent growth markets to start 2025 represented several regions, all with varying strengths and characteristics."

Top U.S. Multifamily Rent Growth Markets Q1 2025 - Arbor Realty
The U.S. multifamily sector finished 2024 with the wind at its sails, as the market settled into a more normalized cycle with emerging opportunities. The sector’s resilience stood out during the year, amid a shifting economic landscape and volatile interest rate environment.

MAGNA: Asia Pacific ad revenue grew 7.9% in 2024 to $288B led by digital advertising; TV budgets declined by 1.9%, print dropped by 3%, and radio fell by 4.2% (Alisha Buaya/Mediaweek)
https://www.mediaweek.com.au/magna-forecast-apac-ad-revenue-gr…

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1039061 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Dallas Cowboys' LB DeMarvion Overshown video shares encouraging injury update https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-demarvion-overshown-video-encouraging-injury-update

Was wurde aus dem Loch vom Wedding? https://weddingweiser.de/was-wurde-aus-dem-loch-vom-wedding/

Ende der Bauarbeiten absehbar: Was wurde aus dem Loch vom Wedding?
Reparaturarbeiten an der Seestraße fast abgeschlossen In der Silvesternacht 2024 kam es im Wedding …

Demonstration of the Major #LunarStandstill with two cell phone pics taken 5 months apart in 2025 in the very moments when the (practically) full moon culminated at maximum and minimum elevation, respectively, over Bochum, Germany. This time there were no clouds on both days (the evening on 12 Jan and the morning of 12 Jun), while the same experiment in 2024 had had some problems: https://scicomm.xyz/@cosmos4u/113653916761501298

Small update to my log store build - had a bit of a disaster!
https://www.simoncox.com/post/2024-05-28-log-store-build/#step-12

‘No one understands a woman in her 20s like Billy Joel [playing 🪗 in the 1970s]’: gen z finds solace in anti-hustle anthem Vienna
(I missed this story with the great #accordion pic last year)
https://www.

Read That Before You Trust Anything by Microsoft Once Again
#Microsoft

Our pre-conference Barcamp has become a real highlight, offering a fantastic opportunity to connect with fellow attendees and dive into some engaging conversations before the main conference even kicks off. This year, Nick Burch will once again be guiding the flow of ideas and discussions on 15 June, starting at 2:30 pm. It's a great way to warm up, share your thoughts, and meet new people!
Learn more about our barcamp:

The European Commission accepts Corning's offer to end exclusivity terms in its supply contracts, ending an antitrust investigation opened in November 2024 (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

REfugEEs From Beyond – Weird Real Freestyle
#byncsa

@… Remember we were talking about this a few days ago? "[The report] notes that 170 candidates received in total almost £2m more than they were legally allowed to spend locally during the [2024] election, raising questions about where the surplus funds went after the campaign. The donors who funded them are also tricky to identify, especially if the candid…

from my link log —
“Twelfth Night Till Candlemas: the story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending.
https://davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twelfth-night-till-candlemas-the-story…

“Twelfth Night Till Candlemas” – the story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
The day before the Winter Solstice, 2024 This post is about finally finding a book from one’s youth forty years later – and after nearly thirty years of searching. It is also a tale about gob…

Lunar Orbital VLBI Experiment: motivation, scientific purposes and status
Xiaoyu Hong, Weiren Wu, Qinghui Liu, Dengyun Yu, Chi Wang, Tao Shuai, Weiye Zhong, Renjie Zhu, Yonghui Xie, Lihua Zhang, Liang Xiong, Yuhua Tang, Yongliao Zou, Haitao Li, Guangli Wang, Jianfeng Xie, Changbin Xue, Hao Geng, Juan Zhang, Xiaojing Wu, Yong Huang, Weimin Zheng, Lei Liu, Fang Wu, Xiuzhong Zhang, Tao An, Xiaolong Yang, Fengxian Tong, Leonid I. Gurvits, Yong Zheng, Minfeng Gu, Xiaofei Ma, Liang Li, Peiji…

Lunar Orbital VLBI Experiment: motivation, scientific purposes and status
The Lunar Orbital VLBI Experiment (LOVEX) is a scientific component of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Project (CLEP) Chang'E-7. The spaceborne component of LOVEX is implemented onboard the relay satellite QueQiao-2, which was launched on 2024 March 20, and later placed into an elliptical selenocentric orbit. The LOVEX-specific payload consists of an X-band cryogenic receiver, a hydrogen maser frequency standard, and VLBI data formatting and acquisition electronics. Several components of the QueQ…

Was wurde aus dem Loch vom Wedding? https://weddingweiser.de/was-wurde-aus-dem-loch-vom-wedding/

Ende der Bauarbeiten absehbar: Was wurde aus dem Loch vom Wedding?
Reparaturarbeiten an der Seestraße fast abgeschlossen In der Silvesternacht 2024 kam es im Wedding …

Ex-Raiders QB Signs With Playoff Contender After Prolonged Free Agency https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/desmond-ridder-bengals-contract-signing/?adt_ei=[email]

Check out this compelling rebuttal of Soteria International's claims regarding the OKC case. Get informed about the facts and perspectives presented in the article by visiting: https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rebuttal-of-soteria.html

Rebuttal of Soteria International's Claims on the OKC Case - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
Rebuttal of Soteria International’s Claims on the OKC Case As a victim of the Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) cult and an advocate for justice, I find Soteria …

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.

Why Substack Shouldn’t Be the Future of Online Publishing (Torment Nexus, 8 July 2024)
https://torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/why-substack-shouldnt-be-the-future-of-online-publishing/

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…

Alphabet Index Mapping: Jailbreaking LLMs through Semantic Dissimilarity
Bilal Saleh Husain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12685 https://…

Alphabet Index Mapping: Jailbreaking LLMs through Semantic Dissimilarity
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, yet their susceptibility to adversarial attacks, particularly jailbreaking, poses significant safety and ethical concerns. While numerous jailbreak methods exist, many suffer from computational expense, high token usage, or complex decoding schemes. Liu et al. (2024) introduced FlipAttack, a black-box method that achieves high attack success rates (ASR) through simple prompt manipulation. This paper investigates the underly…

Heh, I missed this because I don't care about the A Song of Ice and Fire books anymore, but I guess it's official:
> In December 2024, he stated that he might never finish [The Winds of Winter] or book series, but did reaffirm that it was still a priority for him[…].
Reminds me of how my privacy is apparently the priority to everyone on the web.

Cam Ward brings humility to Titans QB battle, explains 2024 first-round pick JC Latham

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cam-ward-br…

40 deutsche Firmen bei Aufbaukonferenz
An der Wiederaufbaukonferenz für die Ukraine nehmen auch rund 40 deutsche Firmen teil, wie der Ost-Ausschuss der deutschen Wirtschaft erklärte. "Angesichts der gewaltigen Herausforderungen beim Wiederaufbau ist die Mobilisierung privater Investitionen unverzichtbar", sagte der Ausschuss-Vorsitzende Michael Harms.
Seit der vorigen Aufbaukonferenz 2024 in Berlin…
🔗

Ukraine-Wiederaufbaukonferenz in Rom kündigt Wiederaufbaufonds an
Der Fonds soll das Land dabei unterstützen, die Schäden an Straßen, Brücken, Krankenhäusern, Schulen und Elektrizitätswerken zu reparieren.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Hamish Hawk:
🎵 Men Like Wire (6 Music Session, 12 Aug 2024)
#HamishHawk
https://open.spotify.com/track/42WNxEp3MmQZNCb0vcR0se

Und wo wir gerade bei underrated Mucke sind: wie konnte Snow Patrol so lange an mir vorbeigehen!?
https://open.spotify.com/album/7cbi6YeBaCjEdyzMdtwG45?si=cCWF1I7gSG-K1LMnEMJd0Q

The Forest Is The Path
Snow Patrol · Album · 2024 · 12 songs

Cowboys minicamp: Jake Ferguson, George Pickens shine on Day 2; ping pong duels intensify https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6419759/2025/06/12/cowboys-minicamp-george-pickens-jake-ferguson-parsons/

Statista expects the global influencer marketing industry to grow 36% between 2024 and 2025, reaching $33B, as brands tighten overall ad budgets (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-14/influen…

TollBit: from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, traffic from AI retrieval bots to 266 websites, including national and local news organizations, grew 49%, as AI usage jumps (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

‘This is coming for everyone’: A new kind of AI bot takes over the web
As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI chatbots.

#DDA Vogelwelt aktuell: Rückblick auf den Winter 2024/2025. https://www.dda-web.de/aktuelles/meldungen/vogelwelt-aktuell-rueckblick-auf-den-winter-202…

After a full day of sessions, come relax and connect with fellow attendees at our Get-Together on 16 June, generously sponsored by our partner Search Guard. Enjoy tasty food, drinks, and live music – a fantastic opportunity to meet new people and catch up with familiar faces.
Learn more: https://2025.berlinbuzzwo…

Anyone else being ghosted since 8 months by @… for a ⌚ #PineTime warranty case? I eventually received an email in October 2024 where they confirmed they'll send me a replacement. I regularly followed up via Mastodon and email, but have been ghosted since, no react…

Immer wenn ich lese "Kein Backup, kein Mitleid." muss ich mit dem Kopf schütteln. Hier ist nicht nur das "ob" (also warum man Backups machen muss) etwas das IMMER WIEDER erklärt werden muss, Auch das "wie", gerade das "wie", omg ist das "wie" wichtig!
aber abgesehen davon, nur weil man Jahrzehnte in einem Bereich tätig ist, geht ein Thema nicht weg, denn es haben mit der Zeit eben nicht alle verstanden. Muss mich da auch an eigene Nase…

Replaced article(s) found for physics.space-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.space-ph/new
[1/1]:
- GIC--Related Observations During the May 2024 Geomagnetic Storm in the United States
Wilkerson, Weigel, Thomas, Bor, Oughton, Gaunt, Balch, Wiltberger, Pulkkine…

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Der Wedding liebt Erika! https://weddingweiser.de/der-wedding-liebt-erika/

Analysis of Floating-Point Matrix Multiplication Computed via Integer Arithmetic
Ahmad Abdelfattah, Jack Dongarra, Massimiliano Fasi, Mantas Mikaitis, Fran\c{c}oise Tisseur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11277

Analysis of Floating-Point Matrix Multiplication Computed via Integer Arithmetic
Ootomo, Ozaki, and Yokota [Int. J. High Perform. Comput. Appl., 38 (2024), p. 297-313] have proposed a strategy to recast a floating-point matrix multiplication in terms of integer matrix products. The factors A and B are split into integer slices, the product of these slices is computed exactly, and AB is approximated by accumulating these integer products in floating-point arithmetic. This technique is particularly well suited to mixed-precision matrix multiply-accumulate units with integer s…

Programming tonight’s episode of @… radio and stumbled on our most recent 3–hour #Drone #Accordion special episode from last fall
That’ll keep me going through…

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-10-30: Electronic, Experimental & Drone Show IV: Night of the Restless
So… our podcast schedule got disrupted by the Internet Archive hack late last year, and we never quite got caught up. But we can get closer. Here, today, I can share with you our incredible e…

👇 👇 👇
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/jun/04/saying-trump-is-dangerous-is-not-enough-bernie-sanders-on-biden-billionaires-and-why-the-de…

It’s exhilarating to hear Bernie Sanders speak to a crowd:
his zeal is reflected back in their faces,
his moral clarity is such a relief,
set against the cynicism and resignation of most of the Democratic party’s opposition to Trump and his administration.
Class war is as old as time, but it’s a peculiarity of this age that you rarely hear a politician name it.
“I do,” he tells me. “There is a class war going on. The people on top are waging that war.”
…

Sources: Elon Musk engaged in intense drug use during the 2024 presidential campaign, as he juggled the messy consequences of efforts to produce more babies (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/elon

Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama on Trump’s Campaign Trail
As Mr. Musk entered President Trump’s orbit, his private life grew increasingly tumultuous and his drug use was more intense than previously known.

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.

No Words - #NoWords https://muz4now.com/2024/no-words-nowords/

No Words - #NoWords
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

BBC Commercial reports 2024-25 revenue of £2.2B, up from £1.9B in 2023-24, with BBC Studios EBITDA up 11% YoY to £225M and media and streaming revenues up 43% (Advanced Television)
https://www.advanced-television.com/2025/07/15/bbc-commercial-delivers-…

BBC Commercial delivers record revenues
BBC Commercial, the media company which is part of the BBC Group, has released its annual results as part of the BBC’s Annual Report and Accounts, marking a y

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

Are there stars in Bluesky after the return of Donald Trump to the White House?
Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado, Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Daniel Torres-Salinas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22702

Are there stars in Bluesky after the return of Donald Trump to the White House?
This study examines the shift in the scientific community from X (formerly Twitter) to Bluesky, its impact on scientific communication, and consequently on social metrics (altmetrics). We analysed 14,497 publications from multidisciplinary and Library and Information Science (LIS) journals between January 2024 and March 2025. The results reveal a notable increase in Bluesky activity for multidisciplinary journals in November 2024, likely influenced by political and platform changes, with mentio…

How to search Google without the crap
https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/

Beware! The AI Act Can Also Apply to Your AI Research Practices
Alina Wernick, Kristof Meding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03218 https://

Beware! The AI Act Can Also Apply to Your AI Research Practices
The EU has become one of the vanguards in regulating the digital age. A particularly important regulation in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) domain is the EU AI Act, which entered into force in 2024. The AI Act specifies -- due to a risk-based approach -- various obligations for providers of AI systems. These obligations, for example, include a cascade of documentation and compliance measures, which represent a potential obstacle to science. But do these obligations also apply to AI researcher…

Thinking Beyond Visibility: A Near-Optimal Policy Framework for Locally Interdependent Multi-Agent MDPs
Alex DeWeese, Guannan Qu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04215

Thinking Beyond Visibility: A Near-Optimal Policy Framework for Locally Interdependent Multi-Agent MDPs
Decentralized Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (Dec-POMDPs) are known to be NEXP-Complete and intractable to solve. However, for problems such as cooperative navigation, obstacle avoidance, and formation control, basic assumptions can be made about local visibility and local dependencies. The work DeWeese and Qu 2024 formalized these assumptions in the construction of the Locally Interdependent Multi-Agent MDP. In this setting, it establishes three closed-form policies that are tr…

AI, AGI, and learning efficiency
My 4-month-old kid is not DDoSing Wikipedia right now, nor will they ever do so before learning to speak, read, or write. Their entire "training corpus" will not top even 100 million "tokens" before they can speak & understand language, and do so with real intentionally.
Just to emphasize that point: 100 words-per-minute times 60 minutes-per-hour times 12 hours-per-day times 365 days-per-year times 4 years is a mere 105,120,000 words. That's a ludicrously *high* estimate of words-per-minute and hours-per-day, and 4 years old (the age of my other kid) is well after basic speech capabilities are developed in many children, etc. More likely the available "training data" is at least 1 or 2 orders of magnitude less than this.
The point here is that large language models, trained as they are on multiple *billions* of tokens, are not developing their behavioral capabilities in a way that's remotely similar to humans, even if you believe those capabilities are similar (they are by certain very biased ways of measurement; they very much aren't by others). This idea that humans must be naturally good at acquiring language is an old one (see e.g. #AI #LLM #AGI

MacMahon's Double Vision: Partition Diamonds Revisited
Matthias Beck, Kobe Wijesekera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23354 https://ar…

MacMahon's Double Vision: Partition Diamonds Revisited
Plane partition diamonds were introduced by Andrews, Paule, and Riese (2001) as part of their study of MacMahon's $Ω$-operator in search for integer partition identities. More recently, Dockery, Jameson, Sellers, and Wilson (2024) extended this concept to $d$-fold partition diamonds and found their generating function in a recursive form. We approach $d$-fold partition diamonds via Stanley's (1972) theory of $P$-partitions and give a closed formula for a bivariate generalization of the Dockery…

And if you're wondering what happened to those three Fast Cats.
In January 2024 someone tried to get someone to buy them by putting them up on Facebook Marketplace (yep!) for $15 Million for all three. (98% off original price lol). They were, and likely still are, sitting tied up in Alexandria, Egypt. They were last owned by the Egyptian Government.
At least one of them was essentially unchanged inside since the 1990s. (a Nanaimo Bar for $1.5!)
#BCPoli #BCNDP #FastFerry #Shipbuilding

I didn't want to let the day go without posting a photo ;-) So I just grabbed one from last year when we visited #vienna in autumn.
A bit of context can be found on the blog: https://www.

XRISM Spectroscopy of the Stellar-Mass Black Hole 4U 1630-472 in Outburst
Jon M. Miller (Univ. of Michigan), Misaki Mizumoto (Univ. of Teacher Education Fukuoka), Megumi Shidatsu (Ehime University), Ralf Ballhausen (Univ. of Maryland, College Park, NASA/GSFC, CRESST), Ehud Behar (Technion), Maria Diaz Trigo (ESO), Chris Done (Univ. of Durham), Tadayasu Dotani (ISAS), Javier Garcia (Caltech), Timothy Kallman (NASA/GSFC), Shogo B. Kobayashi (Tokyo Univ. of Science), Aya Kubota (Shibaura …

XRISM Spectroscopy of the Stellar-Mass Black Hole 4U 1630-472 in Outburst
We report on XRISM/Resolve spectroscopy of the recurrent transient and well-known black hole candidate 4U 1630$-$472 during its 2024 outburst. The source was captured at the end of a disk-dominated high/soft state, at an Eddington fraction of $λ_\mathrm{Edd} \sim 0.05~(10 M_{\odot}/M_\mathrm{BH})$. A variable absorption spectrum with unprecedented complexity is revealed with the Resolve calorimeter. This marks one of the lowest Eddington fractions at which highly ionized absorption has been de…

#Satellitendaten zeigen einen Rückgang von 22 % bei 16 #Kaiserpinguin-Kolonien in Teilen der #Antarktis zwischen 2009 und 2024.
Hauptursache ist der Verlust stabiler

Emperor penguins show dramatic decline in one region of Antarctica, satellite photos show
WASHINGTON — The population of emperor penguins in one part of Antarctica appears to be declining faster than previously thought, according to a new analysis of satellite imagery released Tuesday

Sometimes Being Unsigned Means DIY
- Do I prefer collaboration and teamwork? You bet. But... sometimes... -
- #IndieMusician #DIYMusician -

Sometimes Being Unsigned Means DIY - #IndieMusician
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Replaced article(s) found for astro-ph.CO. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.CO/new
[1/1]:
- Constraining primordial non-Gaussianity with DESI 2024 LRG and QSO samples
E. Chaussidon, et al.

Apple's July 2022 to June 2024 transparency report shows it gave governments data on thousands of push notifications, which can include unencrypted content (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/apple-gave-governments-data-on-tho…

Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications
Push notification data can sometimes include the unencrypted content of notifications. Requests include from the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Israel.

Analysis of BDDC preconditioners for non-conforming polytopal hybrid discretisation methods
Santiago Badia, Jerome Droniou, Jordi Manyer, Jai Tushar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11956

Analysis of BDDC preconditioners for non-conforming polytopal hybrid discretisation methods
In this work, we build on the discrete trace theory developed in [Badia, Droniou, Tushar, arXiv (2024)] to analyse the rate of convergence of the Balancing Domain Decomposition by Constraints (BDDC) preconditioner generated from non-conforming polytopal hybrid discretisation. We prove polylogarithmic condition number bounds for the preconditioner that are independent of the mesh parameter and number of subdomains, and hold on polytopal meshes. The analysis hinges on the continuity of a face tru…

WGA West report: the number of members reporting earnings fell 9.4% YoY in 2024, while total earnings rose 12.7% to $1.5B in the same period, below 2022's $1.9B (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

TV and Film Writing Jobs Grew More Scarce, Even If Earnings Were Up Slightly in 2024
The annual tally from the Writers Guild West shows that its members may have made slightly more money overall than during the 148-day strike year of 2023, but there's fewer jobs available.

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

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

Cooper Beebe continues to be underestimated as Dallas Cowboys o-line anchor https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/cooper-beebe-underestimated-dallas-cowboys-o-line-anchor

Religious Studies Project Opportunites Digest – October 16, 2024
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Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 38 new job opportunities, 5 fellowships, 3 grants, 5 call for papers, 12 conferences/speakers, and 1 other opportunity.

Politics and polarization on Bluesky
Ali Salloum, Dorian Quelle, Letizia Iannucci, Alexandre Bovet, Mikko Kivel\"a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03443 ht…

Politics and polarization on Bluesky
Online political discourse is increasingly shaped not by a few dominant platforms but by a fragmented ecosystem of social media spaces, each with its own user base, target audience, and algorithmic mediation of discussion. Such fragmentation may fundamentally change how polarization manifests online. In this study, we investigate the characteristics of political discourse and polarization on the emerging social media site Bluesky. We collect all activity on the platform between December 2024 an…

Sources and docs: Amazon Prime Video ad load has increased to 4-6 minutes per hour, up from 2-3.5 minutes when ads were first introduced in January 2024 (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/amazon-doubles-prime-video-ad-load/

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Doubles Prime Video Ads to 6 Minutes Per Hour
The move could lower CPMs but potentially hurt performance.

Healing Melodies
- we've known for a long time that music has healing power -
#HealingMusic #NowPlaying
https://

Healing Melodies #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Facts are Harder Than Opinions -- A Multilingual, Comparative Analysis of LLM-Based Fact-Checking Reliability
Lorraine Saju, Arnim Bleier, Jana Lasser, Claudia Wagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03655

Facts are Harder Than Opinions -- A Multilingual, Comparative Analysis of LLM-Based Fact-Checking Reliability
The proliferation of misinformation necessitates scalable, automated fact-checking solutions. Yet, current benchmarks often overlook multilingual and topical diversity. This paper introduces a novel, dynamically extensible data set that includes 61,514 claims in multiple languages and topics, extending existing datasets up to 2024. Through a comprehensive evaluation of five prominent Large Language Models (LLMs), including GPT-4o, GPT-3.5 Turbo, LLaMA 3.1, and Mixtral 8x7B, we identify signific…

A look at Yahoo Creators, launched in March 2024, offering creators a 50/50 ad revenue split for posting original written content and has signed up 135 creators (Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/yahoo-takes-cues-from-pla…

Yahoo takes cues from platforms as it offers more editorial control to creators
In June, Yahoo for Creators had its most lucrative month yet, reflecting Yahoo's gradual adoption of aspects of a creator platform.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
A Certain Ratio:
🎵 All Comes Down To This (6 Music Session, 17 Apr 2024)
#ACertainRatio
https://acertainratio.bandcamp.com/album/it-all-comes-down-to-this
https://open.spotify.com/track/0s8vKvPVS6QuhMFe1VPgV0

How Has Raiders' Malcolm Koonce Looked in OTAs? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/malcolm-koonce-patrick-graham-pete-carroll-las-vegas

Eurochem, Zug, Switzerland
Reuters identified five chemical companies, in which five Western-sanctioned billionaires hold stakes, that provided more than 75% of the key chemicals shipped by rail to some of Russia's largest explosives factories from the start of the war until September this year, according to the railway data.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-billionaires-whose-chemical-factories-fuel-russias-war-machine-2024-12-30/

Jake Ferguson on new-look Cowboys offense, having bounce back year https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/jake-ferguson-on-new-look-cowboys-offense-having-bounce-back-year

Rund 3000 #Hitzetote im Sommer 2024 zeigen, wie gefährlich extreme #Temperaturen sein können.
Beim #Hitzeaktionstag in

3000 Hitzetote in Deutschland in nur einem Sommer: Hamm mit Hinweisen und Schutz
3000 Hitzetote in Deutschland in nur einem Sommer – diese Zahl erschreckte beim Hitzeaktionstag in Hamm. Es geht um Gefahren und Schutzmaßnahmen.

Paper Of Record delves into how unchecked global warming #climate chaos created catastrophic conditions for deadly #floods in #TX. The #GuadalupeRiver

As the World Warms, Extreme Rain Is Becoming Even More Extreme
Even in places, like Central Texas, with a long history of floods, human-caused warming is creating the conditions for more frequent and severe deluges.

Sources: Pump.fun plans to raise $1B via a token sale at a $4B valuation; Pump.fun has generated over $700M in cumulative revenue since its launch in early 2024 (Blockworks)
https://blockworks.co/news/pumpdotfun-token-sale

Cowboys star among NFLPA's leaders in retail sales, 2 others in year-end top 50 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/11/cowboys-parsons-lamb-prescott-among-league…

Irlands #Treibhausgasemissionen sind 2024 um 2 % gesunken – zum dritten Mal in Folge.
Doch laut #EPA reichen die Fortschritte nicht aus. Um die #Klimaziele 2030 zu erreichen, müsste …

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.