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Texas parents frantically posted photos of their young daughters on social media with pleas for information as more than 20 campers from an all-girls summer camp were unaccounted for Friday after floods tore through the state’s south-central region.
At least 13 people were dead Friday and dozens missing after months worth of heavy rain fell in a matter of hours on Texas Hill Country, Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said.
The flood-prone region is dotted with century-old summer …

Texas families plead for information on more than 20 girls missing from summer camp after floods
Texas parents frantically posted photos of their young daughters on social media with pleas for information as more than 20 campers from an all-girls summer camp were unaccounted for Friday after floo...

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45 Name an Hour (@45names@mastodon.social)
4.7K Posts, 820 Following, 210 Followers · 45 names, one an hour. Created by @davidaugust@mastodon.online https://www.davidaugust.com Collection of names for the 45th President. Thanks to the writers, comedians, late night shows, internet folk and more who made these up. If I've gone missing, please come find me. Thanks to @boodoo@mastodon.social for helping this run. searchable on tootfinder.ch and #fedi22 For entertainment purposes only: please don't ruin my life. #satire #potus45 #potu…

⛽ Floating platform to produce synthetic fuels using wind, seawater, and air
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Floating platform to produce synthetic fuels using wind, seawater, and air
Off-grid, modular, and seaworthy: KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) and partners intend to produce synthetic fuels on a floating platform using wind energy, seawater, and ambient air. For this purpose, the "PtX-Wind" project was launched under the H2Mare lead project. A corresponding modular plant was installed on a barge and lies operational at anchor in Bremerhaven. Later this year, it will start producing synthetic fuel directly on the sea just off Helgoland Island.

On the Uniqueness of the $G$-equivariant Spectral Flow
Marek Izydorek, Joanna Janczewska, Maciej Starostka, Nils Waterstraat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01061 https://

On the Uniqueness of the $G$-equivariant Spectral Flow
The spectral flow is an integer-valued homotopy invariant for paths of selfadjoint Fredholm operators. Lesch as well as Pejsachowicz, Fitzpatrick and Ciriza independently showed that it is uniquely characterised by its elementary properties. The authors recently introduced a $G$-equivariant spectral flow for paths of selfadjoint Fredholm operators that are equivariant under the action of a compact Lie group $G$. The purpose of this paper is to show that the $G$-equivariant spectral flow is uniq…

Rapid7 finds eight vulnerabilities, including one remotely-exploitable flaw that cannot be fixed via firmware patch, affecting 689 models of Brother printers (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/694877/brother-printer…

Hundreds of Brother printer models have an unpatchable security flaw
Serious security flaws have been found in hundreds of Brother printer models that could allow attackers to remotely access the device.

Dynamically Adaptive Reasoning via LLM-Guided MCTS for Efficient and Context-Aware KGQA
Yingxu Wang, Shiqi Fan, Mengzhu Wang, Siwei Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00719 https://…

Dynamically Adaptive Reasoning via LLM-Guided MCTS for Efficient and Context-Aware KGQA
Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) aims to interpret natural language queries and perform structured reasoning over knowledge graphs by leveraging their relational and semantic structures to retrieve accurate answers. Recent KGQA methods primarily follow either retrieve-then-reason paradigm, relying on GNNs or heuristic rules for static paths extraction, or dynamic path generation strategies that use large language models (LLMs) with prompting to jointly perform retrieval and reasoning. …

Unlocking New Paths for Science with Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals: Machine Learning-Enhanced MCMC for Accurate Parameter Inversion
Bo Liang, Chang Liu, Hanlin Song, Zhenwei Lyu, Minghui Du, Peng Xu, Ziren Luo, Sensen He, Haohao Gu, Tianyu Zhao, Manjia Liang Yuxiang Xu, Li-e Qiang, Mingming Sun, Wei-Liang Qian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.003…

Unlocking New Paths for Science with Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals: Machine Learning-Enhanced MCMC for Accurate Parameter Inversion
The detection of gravitational waves from extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) in space-borne antennas like LISA and Taiji promises deep insights into strong-field gravity and black hole astrophysics. However, the complex, non-convex likelihood landscapes of EMRI signals (compounded by instrumental noises) have long hindered reliable parameter estimation based on traditional Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods, which often fail to escape local optima or require impractical computational cos…

Today’s our last full day up north so we’re hanging out on Thunder Bay even though it’s a little cloudy and a little windy and a little chilly.
Lynn’s labyrinth amazingly survives from year to year (with a little annual TLC).

Calamus 20 I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing
What a heartaching poem of loneliness and the need for the love of another! Just wonderful. I understand now why this poem is so popular, particularly as a gay poem. It is full of meaning and is quite clear about it.
I wondered how it could utter joyous leaves, standing alone there, without its friend, its lover near—for I knew I could not
There's a more cerebral interpretation of this work, particularly if you understand "leaves" to mean "pages in my poetry book Leaves of Grass". Whitman talking about his own poetic inspiration from lovers.
Which well enough. But I'm more interested in Whitman's expressed need for "manly love". Which is clearly on his mind constantly:
my own dear friends ... I believe lately I think of little else than of them
Also Whitman's own eroticization of nature and himself. Here speaking of the tree,
its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself

Playing The Fool
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