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“I Deleted My Second Brain
Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save”
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/i-deleted-my-second-brain

„My new system is, simply, no system at all. I write what I think. I delete what I don’t need. I don’t capture everything. I don’t try to. I read what I feel like. I think in conversation, in movement, in context. I don’t build a second brain. I inhabit the first.”
The PKM-movement never took off for me since it feels like building and bulding and building… Just one more note! It’s like productivity snake-oil.

I Deleted My Second Brain
Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save

Their Lives for Your Likes: The Exploitation of Wild Animals on Social Media #AnimalRights

Their Lives for Your Likes: The Exploitation of Wild Animals on Social Media (2022) | Born Free USA

Scoop: Brown interviewing campaign managers for Ohio Senate race (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/04/sherrod-brown-ohio-senate-race-husted
http://www.memeorandum.com/250804/p94#a250804p94

Happy Fourth of July. A fine new recording that's worth a listen today.
Ben Folds with the National Symphony Orchestra, "But Wait, There's More" (live, 2024)
Wait, there's more.
Don't think we can take too much more.
Pray that there's a bottom somewhere in sight.
Brothers and sisters hold tight.
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Last week, 75% of German electricity on the public grid came from renewable sources!
34% wind, 24% solar, 9% biogas and other bio-energy, 7% hydro (run of the river)
https://wisskomm.social/@energy_charts_d/114968887701253995

Bruno Burger (@energy_charts_d@wisskomm.social)
Attached: 1 image Öffentliche Nettostromerzeugung in Deutschland in Woche 31 vom 28.07.25 bis 03.08.25: 5,45 TWh Erneuerbare Energien (EE) 1,81 TWh nicht EE 75,1 % Anteil der EE an der öffentlichen Nettostromerzeugung 66,8% Anteil der EE an der Last 0,81 TWh Import im Saldo https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/energy_pie/chart.htm?l=de&c=DE&week=31&year=2025

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Electronic properties of Kagome metal YbV$_3$Sb$_4$: A First-Principles Study
D. Gurung, Keshav Shrestha, Shalika R. Bhandari, Samy Brahimi, Samir Lounis, D. P. Rai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00655

Electronic properties of Kagome metal YbV$_3$Sb$_4$: A First-Principles Study
We have investigated the vanadium-based Kagome metal YbV$_3$Sb$_4$ using density functional theory (DFT) combined with the Wannier function analysis. We explore the electronic properties, de Haas-van Alphen (dHvA) effect and Fermi surface. The inclusion of spin-orbit coupling SOC induces the splitting of Yb-4f states, while its impact on the V-3d states is moderate. Furthermore, we have incorporated SOC+U, where U being the Hubbard parameter, which drastically changes the Yb-4f states creating …

Mix-modal Federated Learning for MRI Image Segmentation
Guyue Hu, Siyuan Song, Jingpeng Sun, Zhe Jin, Chenglong Li, Jin Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02541 https://

Mix-modal Federated Learning for MRI Image Segmentation
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) image segmentation is crucial in diagnosing and treating many diseases, such as brain tumors. Existing MRI image segmentation methods mainly fall into a centralized multimodal paradigm, which is inapplicable in engineering non-centralized mix-modal medical scenarios. In this situation, each distributed client (hospital) processes multiple mixed MRI modalities, and the modality set and image data for each client are diverse, suffering from extensive client-wise m…

Researchers tested 200 toddlers — 96 chemicals were lurking in their bodies #UnitedStates

Researchers tested 200 toddlers — 96 chemicals were lurking in their bodies
Researchers testing urine from 2- to 4-year-olds in four U.S. states uncovered 96 different chemicals, many of them unmonitored and linked to hormone and brain disruption. Legacy toxins like triclosan are slowly declining, yet replacements such as DINCH plasticizer and modern pesticides are rising. Toddlers—especially the youngest, later-born, and those from minority groups—often carried higher levels than their own mothers. Scientists urge expanded biomonitoring and stricter regulations be…