Tootfinder

Ok. Lycos (one of the granddaddy search engines like Altavista) is still alive and kicking (ok, its Bing behind the scenes, but so is DDG) and it is surprisingly NOT SHIT:
https://triangletoot.party/@monkeyborg/114863903210165291

»What Does That Server Really Serve?
How programs like Google Docs rob users of their freedom.
[…] Software as a service always subjects you to the power of the server operator, and the only remedy is to avoid it. […]«
Yes, we are living in the future, fifteen years ago. But even back then, those who looked into the future were labeled as paranoid crackpots and negative propagandists, but they were right.
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Electromagnetic Dirac Cogenesis
Debasish Borah, Arnab Dasgupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11607 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.11607

Electromagnetic Dirac Cogenesis
We propose a novel cogenesis mechanism by utilising the two-body decay of heavy vector-like fermions to dark matter (DM) $χ$ and right chiral part of light Dirac neutrino $ν_R$ via the electromagnetic dipole operator. This leads to generation of asymmetry in dark fermion $χ$ as well as $ν_R$ with the latter getting transferred to left-handed lepton doublets via Yukawa interactions with a neutrinophilic Higgs doublet. While lepton asymmetry is converted into baryon asymmetry of the Universe …

Das hat länger gedauert, als erwartet. Als Making of des Bestsellers hat das Buch seine Berechtigung. Die Wanderung am Ende kam mir angeflanscht vor. #büchernase #lesen

YSO Jets Driven by Magnetic Pressure Generated through Stellar Magnetosphere-Disk Interaction
Yisheng Tu, Zhi-Yun Li, Zhaohuan Zhu, Xiao Hu, Chun-Yen Hsu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11333

YSO Jets Driven by Magnetic Pressure Generated through Stellar Magnetosphere-Disk Interaction
The origin of jets in young stellar objects (YSOs) remains a subject of active investigation. We present a 3D non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic simulation of jet launching in YSOs, focusing on the interaction between the stellar magnetosphere and the circumstellar disk. At the beginning of the simulation, the magnetosphere partially opens, forming two oppositely directed magnetic field regions: one threading the star and the other threading the inner disk. The latter dominates over the original dis…

Revisiting Cosmic Distance Duality with Megamasers and DESI DR2: Model Independent Constraints on Early-Late Calibration
Brijesh Kanodia, Ujjwal Upadhyay, Yashi Tiwari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11518

Revisiting Cosmic Distance Duality with Megamasers and DESI DR2: Model Independent Constraints on Early-Late Calibration
The Cosmic Distance Duality Relation (CDDR) connects the angular diameter distance ($d_A$) and the luminosity distance ($d_L$) at a given redshift. This fundamental relation holds in any metric theory of gravity, provided that photon number is conserved and light propagates along null geodesics. A deviation from this relation could indicate new physics beyond the standard cosmological model. In this work, we test the validity of the CDDR at very low redshifts ($z < 0.04$) by combining $d_A$ fro…

It feels like Trump is running into the inherent problems of international diplomacy among a world order of autocrats.
He tells Putin to stop bombing Ukraine, Putin says yes and does no. He tells Netanyahu to stop attacking Syria, Netanyahu says yes and does no.
Their nature as autocrats is that they do not respect a leader above them. They cannot be seen to respect a leader above them. Realists like Rutte are happy to play obsequious, but the "strong men" never will.

Stereo Sound Event Localization and Detection with Onscreen/offscreen Classification
Kazuki Shimada, Archontis Politis, Iran R. Roman, Parthasaarathy Sudarsanam, David Diaz-Guerra, Ruchi Pandey, Kengo Uchida, Yuichiro Koyama, Naoya Takahashi, Takashi Shibuya, Shusuke Takahashi, Tuomas Virtanen, Yuki Mitsufuji
https://arxiv.org/a…

Stereo Sound Event Localization and Detection with Onscreen/offscreen Classification
This paper presents the objective, dataset, baseline, and metrics of Task 3 of the DCASE2025 Challenge on sound event localization and detection (SELD). In previous editions, the challenge used four-channel audio formats of first-order Ambisonics (FOA) and microphone array. In contrast, this year's challenge investigates SELD with stereo audio data (termed stereo SELD). This change shifts the focus from more specialized 360° audio and audiovisual scene analysis to more commonplace audio and me…

Third throw of the dice on an arts council application for our festival is in, lets see..

Cutting rules for non-relativistic dark matter in solids based on Kohn-Sham orbitals
Zheng-Liang Liang, Fawei Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11033 https:…

Cutting rules for non-relativistic dark matter in solids based on Kohn-Sham orbitals
The Cutkosky cutting rules establish a direct connection between the imaginary parts of loop amplitudes and physical observables such as decay rates and cross sections, providing heuristic insights into the underlying processes. This work lays a robust theoretical foundation for the application of cutting rules in solid-state systems involving instantaneous dark matter (DM)-electron Yukawa interaction as well as the Coulomb potential. The cutting rules are formulated using the single-electron w…