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Bah, humbug. SF shouldn't have laid a grid over the hills; it makes walking and biking the city harder by adding needless elevation change.
But I agree with @… that stair streets lined with gardens are wonderful, as are the view spots in hilltop parks.
Now that we're stuck with this grid, we should make the hills less of a reason for car depen…

The Walras-Bowley Lecture: Fragmentation of Matching Markets and How Economics Can Help Integrate Them
Yuichiro Kamada, Fuhito Kojima, Akira Matsushita
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19628

The Walras-Bowley Lecture: Fragmentation of Matching Markets and How Economics Can Help Integrate Them
Fragmentation of matching markets is a ubiquitous problem across countries and across applications. In order to study the implications of fragmentation and possibilities for integration, we first document and discuss a variety of fragmentation cases in practice such as school choice, medical residency matching, and so forth. Using the real-life dataset of daycare matching markets in Japan, we then empirically evaluate the impact of interregional transfer of students by estimating student utilit…

O que leva o YouTube a achar que eu tenho qualquer interesse em luta livre?! Que algoritmo burro!
Mesmo que seja conteúdo impulsionado, é burrice. O cara paga para esse conteúdo chegar a quem tem boas chances de consumí-lo, não pra alguém cujo perfil de uso deixa bem claro que não se interessarš por isso.
@…

Sorry for posting so many YouTube videos but this is great and geeky: a video essay about "Akira elevators", those platforms that travel horizontally and vertically at the same time. I remember the Half-Life example and the original from Akira. They are an awesome design but a bit like mechas they are futuristic tools that feel incredibly dangerous to build as a means to transport humans.

I know that one of these days I am going to cave in and agree to pay the Grauniad £3 a month to read their site, but the amount of money I have to pay for media is not large and it mainly goes to small indy podcasts by individuals or small groups. I do have a sub to @…, which is corporate media, but that's the only exception.
There are so many rea…

We are a very digital society in Denmark, this is generally a very good things, but not when the banks decide we *must* use Google to log in to our accounts...
Absolutely agree with @… here
#TechSovreignty #privacy
https://jyllands-posten.dk/debat/breve/ECE18376402/du-er-tvunget-til-at-tillade-google-at-overvaage-og-saelge-dig/

The mid-infrared spectrum of $\beta$ Pictoris b. First VLTI/MATISSE interferometric observations of an exoplanet
M. Houll\'e, F. Millour, P. Berio, J. Scigliuto, S. Lacour, B. Lopez, F. Allouche, J. -C. Augereau, D. Blain, M. Bonnefoy, M. Carbillet, G. Chauvin, J. Leftley, A. Matter, J. Milli, P. Molli\`ere, E. Nasedkin, M. Nowak, P. Palma-Bifani, \'E. Pantin, P. Priolet, M. Ravet, J. Woillez, W. Balmer, P. Boley, V. G\'amez Rosas, J. H. Girard, X. Haubois, S. Hinkley, M. H…

The mid-infrared spectrum of $β$ Pictoris b. First VLTI/MATISSE interferometric observations of an exoplanet
Few spectra of directly-imaged exoplanets have been obtained in the mid-infrared (> 3 $μ$m). This region is particularly rich in molecular spectral signatures, whose measurements can help recover atmospheric parameters and provide a better understanding of giant planet formation and atmospheric dynamics. In the past years, exoplanet interferometry with the VLTI/GRAVITY instrument has provided medium-resolution spectra of a dozen substellar companions in the near infrared. The 100-meter interfe…

I got this post by @… in my email today, it was forwarded while it still was attributed to Liz Cheney with this preface which I agree with:
"When she was in Congress, I disagreed with almost everything she said and every vote she made. But on the transcendent issue of our time — protecting our democracy from Trump and the forces of authoritarianism and fascism — Liz Cheney has been correct, clear, and courageous."
Turns out the message is not by Liz Cheney but is well worth reading as a kick in the ass to the Democratic Party.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-remarkable-message

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