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YouTube's head of products for podcasts Steve McLendon says viewers streamed 700M hours of podcasts on TV in October, up from 400M hours in October 2024 (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

People Watched 700 Million Hours of YouTube Podcasts on TV in October
That’s up from 400 million hours a year ago as podcasts become the new late-night TV.

#Microsoft:
> Due to ongoing technical issues, as of October 23, 2024, downloads are temporarily unavailable.
Yeah, I get it. These proprietary systems are like that. You can't do anything without exploiting open source volunteers.
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines/

Google’s vibe-coding tool, Opal,
is making its way to Gemini.
The company on Wednesday said it is integrating the tool,
which lets you build AI-powered mini apps,
inside the Gemini web app,
allowing users to create their own custom apps,
which Google calls Gems.
Introduced in 2024,
Gems are customized versions of Gemini designed for specific tasks or scenarios.
For instance, some of Google’s pre-made Gems include
a learning coach,…

Quickstart  |  Opal  |  Google for Developers

Good analysis from april 2024 by Ian Bond, still valid, "Does it matter if Ukraine loses?"
https://www.cer.eu/publications/archive/policy-brief/2024/does-it-matter-if-ukraine-loses

Does it matter if Ukraine loses?
Ukraine is retreating and Russia is advancing, militarily and politically. Western leaders seem to underestimate both the impact of Ukraine’s defeat and the West’s ability to prevent it.

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz
https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rfutation-des-affirmations.html

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
En tant que victime, survivant de la dérive sectaire Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) et défenseur de la justice, des droits des enfants, des droits humains et de la …

Duo Mimikry gewinnt "Knurrhahn"
Das Duo überzeugte beim Wilhelmshavener Festival der Kleinkunst 2024 mit pantomimischer Comedy.
https://www.kabarett-news.de/News-vom-21.11.2025-duo-mimikry-knurrhahn.html
Foto Copyright Duo Mimikry

#Tatort: Man stirbt nur zweimal • #ARD #WDR
#krimi #crimi

"Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024" für Playstation 5 erschienen
Der "Flight Simulator 2024" ist für die Playstation 5 erschienen. Dabei hatte Microsoft einen Port zuerst abgelehnt.
https://w…

Behold, the 1200 meter tall "Labyrinth" ice wall/fall at Morteratsch, Bernina group, Engadin. September 2024.
(A special place if you ever wanted/needed to feel real small, surrounded by majestic fourthousanders...)
#MountainMonday #MonocrhomeMonday

Meta say it has frozen its third-party Horizon OS headset program, announced in 2024 with Asus and Lenovo as the first partners to build headsets (Ben Lang/Road to VR)
https://www.roadtovr.com/meta-horizon-os-third-party-headset-cancelled-asus-lenovo/

Meta "Pauses" Third-party Headset Program, Effectively Cancelling Horizon OS Headsets from Asus & Lenovo
Meta has “paused” its initiative to bring third-party Horizon OS headsets to the market. The company says it has shifted focus to “building the world-class first-party hardware and software needed to advance the VR market.” The News A little over a year and a half ago, Meta made an “industry-altering announcement,” as I called the …

Cinemablend's SD Comic-Con 2024 interview about Star Trek: Prodigy, including Kate Mulgrew herself.
▶️ 'Star Trek: Prodigy' Comic-Con 2024 Interview | Kate Mulgrew, Brett Gray...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OV3Gyiv2Cv4&si=0u31G3pkzrYZJc0l

Bengals releasing receiver Jermaine Burton, a 2024 third-round pick https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6873632/2025/12/08/bengals-release-jermaine-burton/

👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Erneuerbare Energien sind die teuersten“.
Eine Umfrage hat diesen Glauben in der deutschen Bevölkerung erst 2025 wieder gezeigt. Schauen wir uns die Kosten an. Wie schneiden

Energiewende-Mythos: „Erneuerbare Energien sind die teuersten“
2024 stammt der meiste Strom in Deutschland aus erneuerbaren Energien – und sie sind günstiger als Kohle oder Gas. Fakten statt Mythen.

from my link log —
A history of man pages.
https://abochannek.github.io/utilities/2024/12/08/man-pages.html
saved 2025-11-06 https://…

"An increasing number of homes in the Netherlands are heated without the use of natural gas. In 2024, 11.2 percent of homes were fully gas-free, up from 8.7 percent in 2022. These homes are usually heated using a heat pump or are connected to a collective district heating system."
https://www.cbs.…

Ever more gas-free homes
An increasing number of homes in the Netherlands are heated without the use of natural gas. In 2024, 11.2 percent of homes were fully gas-free, up from 8.7 percent in 2022. These homes are usually heated using a heat pump or are connected to a collective district heating system. This means they do not require a gas-fired boiler. Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reports this on the basis of newly released figures.

"However, by 2015, support for independence stood at 52% among those on the left, compared with just 24% among those on the right – a difference of 28 points... In our most recent survey in 2024, those on the left were 34 points more likely than those on the right to say that Scotland should become an independent country"
#ScottishIndependence

Scottish Social Attitudes | 25 years of devolution in Scotland | National Centre for Social Research
This briefing charts some of the key developments in Scottish public opinion since the advent of devolution.

OnePlus 15R review: the new $700 device is fast with a big battery and a vibrant 165Hz OLED, but one less camera than 2024's 13R and only four years of support (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphone

OnePlus 15R review: A 165Hz display and big battery for $700
The OnePlus 15R has many of the same strengths as the more expensive OP15, but shaves off $200 off by compromising on cameras.

The Academy reports fiscal 2025 revenues of $269.2M, up from $263.1M in 2024, after cutting expenses from $220.1M to $208.1M; Oscars revenue grew to $150.5M (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Film Academy Grows Oscars Revenue to $150 Million As It Trims Expenses
"It is so important that we continue to diversify revenue streams and control expenses to allow for a sustainable and impactful future," Academy CEO Bill Kramer tells THR.

Cyclo-logistique en Belgique
- plus de 5 millions de colis livrés Š vélo en Belgique, soit 70 % de plus qu’en 2023
- 10 millions de km parcourus par des coursiers Š vélo, soit 30 % de plus
- 4112 tonnes de CO₂ évitées et 12 millions € de coûts externes économisés
https://

Characteristics of temporal and spatial variation of the electron density in the plasmasphere and ionosphere during the May 2024 super #GeomagneticStorm: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40623-025-02317-3 -> How superstorm Gannon squeezed Earth’s plasmasphere to one-fifth its size: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1106633 - new study shows how a major space storm dramatically shrank Earth’s protective plasma layer and slowed its recovery, helping improve solar storm forecasts and protect space infrastructure we rely on.

„Im Jahr 2024 wurden über 2.770 Menschen im Verkehr getötet. „Hundertdreizehn“ macht klar, wie das die 2.800 mal 113, die über 310.000 Überlebenden in Deutschland traumatisiert. Plakate allein reichen nicht aus. Schmonzetten auch nicht. Aber sie helfen, die Perspektive zu ändern.“
@… über die Serie 113 in

A profile of Credo, which makes active electrical cables to connect AI servers and whose stock price has more than doubled this year, after soaring 245% in 2024 (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/17/500-purple-cables-put-credo-in-middle-…

$500 purple cables put this little-known company in the middle of the AI boom
Credo's stock has more than doubled this year after soaring 245% in 2024 as the AI boom makes its way downstream.

China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months.
The rapid adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) saw CO2 emissions from transport fuel drop by 5% year-on-year, while there were also declines from cement and steel production.
While emissions from the power sector were flat year-on-year, a big rise in the chemical industry’s CO2 output offset reductions elsewhere.

Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions were unchanged from a year earlier in the third quarter of 2025, extending a flat or falling trend that started in March 2024.

"En moyenne, 15 substances sont quantifiées dans l’eau de mer par site de suivi. Les trois quarts des 66 substances recherchées dans l’eau marine apparaissent au moins une fois."
Et en premier, on retrouve les HERBICIDES évidemment... Visiblement, ça n'a pas d'effet sur les algues vertes donc on va peut-être penser Š lever le pied hein ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Des pesticides et des substances pharmaceutiques relevés sur l’ensemble du littoral français
De 2021 à 2024, les scientifiques de l’Ifremer et du laboratoire EPOC, rattaché entre autres au CNRS, ont recherché dans l’eau de mer et dans des mollusques la présence d’une centaine de contaminants.

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…

My 2018 Nissan Leaf has had no maintenance needed in 7 years (besides the usual tire rotation, brake check, etc).
Love it so much we bought a 2024 as well. https://mas.to/@carnage4life/115691608937085271

Das #bpkFotoarchiv der @… erprobt seit 2024 #KI-gestützte Erschließungsmethoden, um seine mehr als 12 Millionen Bildmotive besser zugänglich und nutzbar zu machen.
Ste…

Foto-Story vom Robert-Schuman-Platz Brüssel von Hanna Penzer.
#brussels

Umbau an der Schaltzentrale Europas - Europa Blog
Der Schuman-Platz bildet das Herz des Brüsseler EU-Viertels. In dieser Foto-Story dokumentieren wir den 2024 begonnenen Umbau des Platzes.

“Warum soll man sich bei Nachbarschaftsgrillen nicht über Steuergerechtigkeit unterhalten? … Das Steuergeheimnis schützt oft nur die, die keine Steuern bezahlen.“
Anne Brorhilker im Buch: Cum/Ex, Milliarden und Moral #finanzwende

Titans Revisited: A Lightweight Reimplementation and Critical Analysis of a Test-Time Memory Model
Gavriel Di Nepi, Federico Siciliano, Fabrizio Silvestri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09551

Titans Revisited: A Lightweight Reimplementation and Critical Analysis of a Test-Time Memory Model
By the end of 2024, Google researchers introduced Titans: Learning at Test Time, a neural memory model achieving strong empirical results across multiple tasks. However, the lack of publicly available code and ambiguities in the original description hinder reproducibility. In this work, we present a lightweight reimplementation of Titans and conduct a comprehensive evaluation on Masked Language Modeling, Time Series Forecasting, and Recommendation tasks. Our results reveal that Titans does not …

Bernie Kosar undergoes liver transplant surgery https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6814372/2025/11/17/bernie-kosar-undergoes-liver-transplant-surgery/

Ein wachsender Anteil des in #Deutschland erzeugten #Solarstroms wird direkt vor Ort verbraucht.
2024 lag der #Eigenverbrauch laut

Immer größerer Solarstromanteil erreicht das öffentliche Netz nicht
Die Strompreise liegen heute weit über der Einspeisevergütung für Solarstrom. Eine Studie belegt, wie schnell der Eigenverbrauch deutscher Erzeuger steigt.

Jag gör som @… och skriver under https://www.mittskifte.org/petitions/radda

Grundeinkommen mal anders.
https://noc.social/@todayilearned/115639265788636490

Sheffield ! Looking forward to playing on the 12.4 channel iklectik soundsystem at no bounds festival together with @… bundy from 2:30pm this Saturday
https://noboundsfestival.co.uk/lineup

Cowboys offseason gamble is paying off after 5 weeks https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-offseason-gamble-is-paying-off-after-5-weeks

How can we make sustainability part of everything we do?
That question led to the creation of SIG-Sustainability, a new community space within the GÉANT Community Programme (GCP).
Launched in 2024, the group brings together members from across our community to exchange ideas and tools, from reducing carbon footprint to promoting inclusivity & climate adaptation.
📖 Read the full interview with the SIG-Sustainability Coordinator Judith Six (Jisc) in

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

Uniform ergodicity of geodesic slice sampling
Mareike Hasenpflug
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06748 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06748

Uniform ergodicity of geodesic slice sampling
Geodesic slice sampling, introduced in Durmus et al., 2024, is a slice sampling based Markov chain Monte Carlo method for approximate sampling from distributions on Riemannian manifolds. We prove that it is uniformly ergodic for distributions with compact support that have a bounded density with respect to the Riemannian measure. The constants in our convergence bound are available explicitly, and we investigate their dependence on the hyperparameters of the geodesic slice sampler, the target d…

How President Trump's tariffs ended China's monopoly on making US game consoles, boosting Vietnam, whose exports jumped from $30M/month in 2024 to $400M in May (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-trump-tariffs-vietnam-china-video-…

An appeals court in Missouri
✅has ordered the rewording of a misleading explainer for a Republican-backed ballot measure
🔥that aims to undo a previously passed initiative that expanded abortion and reproductive rights in the state.
The order from the three-judge panel within Missouri’s Western District of Appeals
represents the second time in just a few months that the explanation accompanying the anti-abortion ballot measure was found to be confusing or deceptive.

Missouri Court Orders Clearer Wording on GOP Measure to Undo Abortion Rights
The ballot measure seeks to undo a citizen-driven one that passed in 2024, which expanded abortion rights in the state.

"Brits heading for Spain may soon have to wear a face mask again due to the huge surge in flu and Covid cases."
Everyone else will be exempt or what? 🥴
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2140229/spain-covid-flu-alert-new-rules-hospitals…

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Der Flensburg Krimi - Staffel 1 - #ARD
#crimi #krimi #DonnerstagsKrimi

Never been as scared watching a movie as I was in the final 10min of "Arthur the King".
Dog lovers, this was a great dog movie... but terrifying.
▶️ Arthur the King (2024) Official Trailer - Mark Wahlberg, Simu Liu, Julie Rylance, Nathalie Emmanuel
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wjDJNEPg…

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

A look at the First Amendment Watch's SLAPP Back Initiative, a US SLAPP tracker; in 2024, 69 of 500 cases involved the media, of which 46 were dismissed (Liam Scott/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/slapp-lawsuit-p…

The SLAPP problem is worse than we thought.
As Donald Trump tests the limits of anti-press litigation, a new initiative aims to document the wave of nuisance suits.

Iran-linked hackers target Israeli, Egyptian critical infrastructure through phishing campaign https://therecord.media/iran-linked-hackers-target-israel-egypt-phishing

A Note on the Paper "Localization of Zeros of Polar Polynomials on the Unit Disk"
Renato Alvarez-Nodarse, Kenier Castillo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01703 https://

A Note on the Paper "Localization of Zeros of Polar Polynomials on the Unit Disk"
In this note we show that the only result of [Rocky Mountain J. Math. 54 (2024), no. 4, 995--1004] is nothing more than a misformulated version of an exercise from classical texts, presented with a flawed proof. To place the matter on firmer ground, we provide instead a direct solution of a more general problem.

Three-point connectivity constant for $q$-state Potts spin clusters
Gefei Cai, Haoyu Liu, Baojun Wu, Zijie Zhuang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05850 https://…

Three-point connectivity constant for $q$-state Potts spin clusters
Recently, Ang--Cai--Sun--Wu (2024) determined the three-point connectivity constant for two-dimensional critical percolation, confirming a prediction of Delfino and Viti (2010). In this paper, we address the analogous problem for planar critical $q$-state Potts spin clusters. We introduce a continuum three-point connectivity constant and compute it explicitly. Under the scaling-limit conjecture for Potts spin clusters, this quantity coincides with the scaling limit of the properly normalized pr…

Have you ever wondered to what extend LLMs are used to support writing of scientific publications? Here is a chart indicating the fraction of LLM-modified sentences in scientific publications over time.
c.f. Liang et al, Mapping the Increasing Use of LLMs in Scientific Papers (2024)
https://arxiv.org/html/2404.01268v1

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1192237 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz
https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rfutation-des-affirmations.html

Q&A with Square product chief Willem Avé on Block's restructuring in 2024, AI automation, investing in crypto, the Lightning Network, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/839062/square-product-ch…

Square’s product chief on the death of the penny and the future of money
Square’s Willem Avé thinks AI is the most exciting technology shift in two decades. Here’s what he thinks it will do for fintech.

Der Flensburg Krimi: Der Fall Lorenz – Der Flensburg-Krimi (3) - #ARD
#krimi #crimi #DonnerstagsKrimi

Bengals waive embattled WR prospect Burton https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47250476/bengals-cut-ties-embattled-wr-prospect-jermaine-burton

>>Viele Tote in Deutschland <<
>>Zehntausende Europäer starben an Hitze im Rekordsommer 2024<<
Gut, das es dank unseres allwissenden, weisen Kanzlers Merz keine Klimakatastrophe gibt. 🤮
https://www.n-tv.de/wissen/Zehntausend…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Louis Culture:
🎵 Babe (6 Music Session, 8 Oct 2024) (feat. Tora-I)
#LouisCulture
https://open.spotify.com/track/4DbsTW4h2gjwdpC9W9iID4

Large-Scale, Longitudinal Study of Large Language Models During the 2024 US Election Season
Sarah H. Cen, Andrew Ilyas, Hedi Driss, Charlotte Park, Aspen Hopkins, Chara Podimata, Aleksander M\k{a}dry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18446

"Denmark’s second largest PV plant goes online"
#Denmark #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
…

Denmark’s second largest PV plant goes online
Swedish independent power producer Alight has completed a 215 MW solar project in Lolland, southern Denmark. The construction of Lidsø solar park started in the summer of 2024.

Shifted Symplectic Geometry by Examples
Damien Calaque, Stefano Ronchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04625 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04625

Shifted Symplectic Geometry by Examples
These notes are intended to be an introduction to shifted symplectic geometry, targeted to Poisson geometers with a serious background in homological algebra. They are extracted from a mini-course given by the first author at the Poisson 2024 summer school that took place at the Accademia Pontaniana in Napoli.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

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

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

Causal Understanding by LLMs: The Role of Uncertainty
Oscar Lithgow-Serrano, Vani Kanjirangat, Alessandro Antonucci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20088 https://

Causal Understanding by LLMs: The Role of Uncertainty
Recent papers show LLMs achieve near-random accuracy in causal relation classification, raising questions about whether such failures arise from limited pretraining exposure or deeper representational gaps. We investigate this under uncertainty-based evaluation, testing whether pretraining exposure to causal examples improves causal understanding >18K PubMed sentences -- half from The Pile corpus, half post-2024 -- across seven models (Pythia-1.4B/7B/12B, GPT-J-6B, Dolly-7B/12B, Qwen-7B). We an…

Investment in subsea cable projects is expected to reach $13B between 2025 and 2027, almost 2x the amount invested between 2022 and 2024, driven by AI buildout (Magdalena Petrova/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/08/big-tech-ai-underwater-cables.html

Underwater cables are a vital piece of the AI buildout and internet — investment is booming
Over 95% of international data and voice traffic travels through subsea telecom cables. Tech giants Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft are investing for AI.

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…

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

Engaging and Educating Eclipse Observers Through Workshops, Media, Planetarium shows and Citizen Science
Patricia H. Reiff, Carolyn T. Sumners, Charles H. Gardner, Amir Caspi, Sarah Kovac
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22348

Engaging and Educating Eclipse Observers Through Workshops, Media, Planetarium shows and Citizen Science
The Heliophysics Big Year was an extended year where major solar events engaged the public. It included two eclipses (annular on October 14, 2023 and total on April 8, 2024), plus solar max and the Parker Solar Probe perihelion December 24, 2024. After the eclipse of 2017, many millions more Americans planned to view the solar corona. We expanded our eclipse website with activities, citizen science projects, resources, training videos, equipment, and external links. We were the Southwest Region…

just looking at my archive of postgresql backups over the past 2 years of my mastodon instance.
In December 2023 just shy of 1 year since spinning it up, the compressed gz file of the database was 600MB.
By Aug 2024 it was 988MB
In April 2025 it was 1500MB
Today it is 1800MB.
That is a 2 user instance. Not small!
#selfhost #footiMac #Debian #mastodon #fediverse #upgrade

Les CEO du RN et du LR discutent sur le rachat du LR par le RN (ou ce qu’il en reste depuis de départ de Ciotti en 2024).
https://www.letemps.ch/monde/europe/lecon-de-la-crise-en-france-une-certaine-union-des-droites-ne-semble-plus-taboue

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

📣 The call for nominations for the Sarah Jones Award 2026 is now open!
What is it?
‘The Sarah Jones Award for exceptional contribution to fostering collaboration in #OpenScience’ was established by the Research Data Alliance (RDA) in June 2024. This bi-annual award honours the memory of our dear colleague Sarah Jones, and her significant contributions to the global open science commu…

Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan says the startup raised two undisclosed rounds: $55M at a $350M valuation in 2024 and $150M at a $1.2B valuation earlier in 2025 (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/373783/polyma

Comment on Galina Weinstein's article entitled "Convergences and Divergences: Einstein Poincar\'e and Special Relativity"
Jean-Marc Ginoux
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22726

Comment on Galina Weinstein's article entitled "Convergences and Divergences: Einstein Poincaré and Special Relativity"
In 2024, after thirty years of research on this subject, I published a book entitled: Poincaré, Einstein and the discovery of special relativity. An end to the controversy (Ginoux2024). In September 2025, Galina Weinstein published a review of this book entitled: Convergences and Divergences: Einstein Poincaré and Special Relativity (arXiv:2509.09361) in which she aimed "to show how Einstein's ether-free, principle-based kinematics marked out a path that, unlike its contemporaries, became the…

RE: #Balkonsolaranlage

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
BODEGA:
🎵 Shiny New Model (6 Music Session, 3 Jun 2024)
#BODEGA
https://bodegabk.bandcamp.com/album/shiny-new-model
https://open.spotify.com/track/6n4a29V8m31YOzvZ1z1jST

Conceptual design of a Doppler Backscattering diagnostic for the EXL-50U spherical tokamak
Ying Hao Matthew Liang, Valerian Hongjie Hall-Chen, Terry L. Rhodes, Yumin Wang, Yihang Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18532

There are no US federal prohibitions on limiting campaign contributions at the state level, so twelve states actually permit unlimited financing. Other states have unfairly-high limits. Too bad I'm not a billionaire…
https://news.ballo…

"Kaarster Stern" für Jonas Greiner
Das Publikum wählte ihn mit deutlicher Mehrheit: Jonas Greiner wird als bester Nachwuchscomedian mit dem Kleinkunstpreis Kaarster Stern ausgezeichnet. Er bekommt den Preis im November 2026. - Am 27.11.25 wird der Kaarster Stern 2024 an Sven Garrecht verliehen.
https://www.

It\^o-Wentzell formulas for semimartingale conditional laws with applications to mean-field control
Nizar Touzi, Mehdi Talbi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00242 https://

Itô-Wentzell formulas for semimartingale conditional laws with applications to mean-field control
The present paper is an extension of Fadle-Touzi (2024). Following the same methodology, merely based on Taylor expansions, we establish the Itô and Itô-Wentzell formulae for flows of conditional distributions of general semimartingales, thus allowing for discontinuous semimartingales with possibly discontinuous flows of conditional marginals. We apply these results to derive the dynamic programming equations corresponding to mean field control problems with Poisson type common noise and mean…

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Many people, that includes you, are worried about #Skynet assuming control of all military systems, but what happens when it starts harvesting our crops? Canadian agricultural scientists are blindly charging ahead in their efforts to fill our farms with robots. It started with self-driving tractors pulling conventional equipment and evolved to fully autonomous vehicles that plow, plant, fertilizer, weed, and harvest. Organic farming is seeing the biggest benefits as robots can hand weed 2 hectares per day, eliminating herbicides.... and farm workers. Almost 15% of Canada’s dairy farms use robotic milking cubicles where cows enter when they need milking, with no cold human hands involved. IMO, using robots to replace hard back breaking labour or tedious driving of equipment up and down a farm field is a good use of technology. But I hope the tech is not priced out of the reach of small farms.
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Chinese PV Industry Brief: January-October solar additions reach 252.87 GW
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