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It looks like the ARRL did a reasonable job articulating objections to the spectrum grab attempt from AST. I hope it works, though with this administration my hopes are low.
https://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-files-comments-to-protect-70-centimeter-amateur-ban…

25 years ago this month I joined a most remarkable trip to #Iran, led by U.S. amateur astronomers and a famous astronaut - what a fantastic time that was! Here is a contemporary report by one of the participants: https://web.archive.org/web/20010814214746/http://members.tripod.com/ykChia/

This Send/Sync Secret Separates Professional From Amateur #Rust Developers
https://blog.cuongle.dev/p/this-sendsync-secret-separates-professional-and-amat…

CNN's John Miller Says Kirk Shooter 'Wasn't an Amateur'
https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/cnn-intelligence-analyst-says-kirk-shooter-wasnt-an-amateur/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Sparks:
🎵 Amateur Hour
#Sparks
https://tributefestpgh.bandcamp.com/track/amateur-hour
https://open.spotify.com/track/1C5Pxs8JpgQ2sWin9h1d7i

Humanoid Robot Games highlighted robotics advancements but also limitations, with robots tripping over each other; one robot ran faster than many amateur humans (Yan Zhuang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/world/asia/china-humanoid-robot-games.…

At China’s Humanoid Robot Games, Athletes Fell Down a Lot
The Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing — featuring running, kickboxing and soccer — highlighted advancements in robotics. Limitations, too.

Clever wife. Knows exactly when to hand me the backpack. 😰
(you can't tell but that is an uphill trail, just turned uphill after I got the backpack)
#photography #amateur #Germany #Deutschland #Kelheim #hiking #health

Car Dealer Simulator (PC) Go find those wrecks and revive em for your used car lot and MAKE BANK.
I got this with Bus Flipper and while it has some issues, boy am I glad I sprung for that bundle. The (very basic) story is you've arrived in your friend's(?, I think, not really established) town where he owns a dilapidated used car dealership. He wants you to run it for him. Go take the truck with the car trailer and get to work.
So, this is another 1st effort from a dev, …

Watched the remake of The Amateur, wherein a team of people analyse devices, cctv, etc in order to determine how someone might have snuck a couple of sensitive pdf files out of a secure building.

I know I’m doing this as an amateur.
How could I get better results? https://hachyderm.io/@al3x/115038661259804194

@helmet91@mastodon.social You are spreading a crackpot conspiracy theory based on your amateur forensics and harming actual people who are facing genocide and famine.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Since you clearly have no intention to stop, I am blocking you. And I suggest anyone with a conscience does the same.

I'm obviously at a Mastodon event, an alternativey amateur concert organized by a café associatif featuring, inter alia, a band called the Incredible Segfault Orchestra

A beautiful old water pot at Udupi Krishna Matha.
Apparently the pot generally sits at that exact spot. I have walked by it for ~year and not notice it until an hour ago. 😳
#photography #amateur #stillLife #waterPot #Udupi #Karnataka #India

Amateur Milky Way observation in neutral hydrogen on steroids, with a 2.6 meter dish and superresolution: a poster at #ag2025goerlitz with detailled explanations in http://radioastronomie-leicht-gemacht.de

If you are a US citizen holding a #HamRadio license, please add your name to #AmateurRadio antennas with bills in both the house and senate,…

An Atlas of Spectroheliograms from 3641 to 6600 \AA
P. V\'aradi Nagy, A. G. M. Pietrow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13025 https://a…

An Atlas of Spectroheliograms from 3641 to 6600 Å
We present a spectral atlas of solar spectroheliograms covering the wavelength range from 3641 to 6600 Å, with continuous coverage between 3711 and 5300 Å, and sparser coverage beyond this range. The spectral resolution varies between R $\sim$ 20 000 and 40 000, with a spectral step size between 60 and 90 mÅ, while the spatial resolution averages around 2.5 arcseconds. These observations were acquired over three months during the 2025 solar maximum, using amateur spectroheliographs (Sol'Ex a…

Analysis of Biomedical Data to Assess the Risk of Heart Rate Variability in Athletes Participating in Long-Term Excessive Endurance Exercise
Saeid Aghasoleymani Najafabadi, Hadi Jabbari Saray
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10556

Analysis of Biomedical Data to Assess the Risk of Heart Rate Variability in Athletes Participating in Long-Term Excessive Endurance Exercise
Amateur marathon runners who exercise excessively over time have pathological structural changes in their hearts and aortas. Amateur marathon runners' cardiovascular system adaptations and dangers are discussed in this article. After completing endurance races, amateur athletes experience a series of cardiac modifications, including temporary elevation and changes in biomarkers of cardiac damage associated with an increased risk of coronary atherosclerosis, arrhythmias, and sudden cardiac death…

« On fait des safaris dans nos jardins ! » : l’art de saisir l’infiniment petit
https://www.lemonde.fr/series-d-ete/article/2025/08/10/on-fait-des-safaris-dans-nos-jardins-l-art-de-saisir-l-in…

« On fait des safaris dans nos jardins ! » : l’art de saisir l’infiniment petit
« La photo animalière amateur sort les griffes » (4/7). Les membres de l’association Camera Natura s’essayent à la macrophotographie, permettant de saisir des sujets de petite taille, dans la Vienne. Une manière de lutter contre l’anxiété liée à la disparition du vivant.

I think I've seen this photo before (it's from 2022) but I don't know that I've read the article or seen the photo right before the owl landed.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/great-grey-owl-lands-on-camera-1.6397792

Great grey owl flips the script on Quebec City wildlife photographer | CBC News
An amateur photographer got more than she bargained for when the owl she set out to photograph landed on her camera lens.

Robustness analysis of Deep Sky Objects detection models on HPC
Olivier Parisot, Diogo Ramalho Fernandes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09831 https://arxiv.org…

Robustness analysis of Deep Sky Objects detection models on HPC
Astronomical surveys and the growing involvement of amateur astronomers are producing more sky images than ever before, and this calls for automated processing methods that are accurate and robust. Detecting Deep Sky Objects -- such as galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters -- remains challenging because of their faint signals and complex backgrounds. Advances in Computer Vision and Deep Learning now make it possible to improve and automate this process. In this paper, we present the training and…

theredneckpoppa2: Charlie Kirk wasn't killed by some random amateur, nor was it likely the "radical left" they will be blaming.
Give your best guess who it was
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOco5m6jowE/

But the moon has its own tricks to keep the clouds at bay.
#photography #amateur #moon

Cosy crime: tachtigers als detective en een theepot als moordwapen - #nos
https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/2580271-cosy-crime-tachtigers-als-det…

Pulp confirms National Treasure status, and not just Jarvis Cocker who has conned since the late 80's that he's an amateur.
He's professional all the way through.
I was also see that their new album, More, has a track written by Serafina Steer.
#glastonbury2025

Sources: AI video startup Runway is looking to raise ~$500M at a $5B pre-money valuation; rival Luma AI aims to raise $1.1B at a $3.2B pre-money valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/runway-luma-talks-mul…

Runway, Luma in Talks for Multibillion-Dollar Fundraises as Revenue Picks Up
Startups that use artificial intelligence to make videos for Hollywood studios and amateur filmmakers are getting thirsty for more capital. Runway, a startup that has cut deals with Lionsgate and AMC Networks, is in talks with investors to raise around $500 million at a valuation of at least $5 ...

PianoVAM: A Multimodal Piano Performance Dataset
Yonghyun Kim, Junhyung Park, Joonhyung Bae, Kirak Kim, Taegyun Kwon, Alexander Lerch, Juhan Nam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08800

PianoVAM: A Multimodal Piano Performance Dataset
The multimodal nature of music performance has driven increasing interest in data beyond the audio domain within the music information retrieval (MIR) community. This paper introduces PianoVAM, a comprehensive piano performance dataset that includes videos, audio, MIDI, hand landmarks, fingering labels, and rich metadata. The dataset was recorded using a Disklavier piano, capturing audio and MIDI from amateur pianists during their daily practice sessions, alongside synchronized top-view videos …

Les photos valent le coup, mais deuxième mention en deux articles de Facebook :(
« Je vois mon fils tellement épanoui, lui qui a toujours été un enfant un peu Š part » : les petits perdreaux de la photo
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« Je vois mon fils tellement épanoui, lui qui a toujours été un enfant un peu à part » : les petits perdreaux de la photo
« La photo animalière amateur sort les griffes » (3/7). Lubin Godin, 13 ans, et Corentin Revel, 15 ans, depuis leur plus jeune âge passionnés de nature, entraînent leurs familles respectives dans leurs périples à la recherche d’animaux, et parcourent festivals et expositions.

Long; central Massachusetts colonial history
Today on a whim I visited a site in Massachusetts marked as "Huguenot Fort Ruins" on OpenStreetMaps. I drove out with my 4-year-old through increasingly rural central Massachusetts forests & fields to end up on a narrow street near the top of a hill beside a small field. The neighboring houses had huge lawns, some with tractors.
Appropriately for this day and this moment in history, the history of the site turns out to be a microcosm of America. Across the field beyond a cross-shaped stone memorial stood an info board with a few diagrams and some text. The text of the main sign (including typos/misspellings) read:
"""
Town Is Formed
Early in the 1680's, interest began to generate to develop a town in the area west of Natick in the south central part of the Commonwealth that would be suitable for a settlement. A Mr. Hugh Campbell, a Scotch merchant of Boston petitioned the court for land for a colony. At about the same time, Joseph Dudley and William Stoughton also were desirous of obtaining land for a settlement. A claim was made for all lands west of the Blackstone River to the southern land of Massachusetts to a point northerly of the Springfield Road then running southwesterly until it joined the southern line of Massachusetts.
Associated with Dudley and Stoughton was Robert Thompson of London, England, Dr. Daniel Cox and John Blackwell, both of London and Thomas Freak of Hannington, Wiltshire, as proprietors. A stipulation in the acquisition of this land being that within four years thirty families and an orthodox minister settle in the area. An extension of this stipulation was granted at the end of the four years when no group large enough seemed to be willing to take up the opportunity.
In 1686, Robert Thompson met Gabriel Bernor and learned that he was seeking an area where his countrymen, who had fled their native France because of the Edict of Nantes, were desirous of a place to live. Their main concern was to settle in a place that would allow them freedom of worship. New Oxford, as it was the so-named, at that time included the larger part of Charlton, one-fourth of Auburn, one-fifth of Dudley and several square miles of the northeast portion of Southbridge as well as the easterly ares now known as Webster.
Joseph Dudley's assessment that the area was capable of a good settlement probably was based on the idea of the meadows already established along with the plains, ponds, brooks and rivers. Meadows were a necessity as they provided hay for animal feed and other uses by the settlers. The French River tributary books and streams provided a good source for fishing and hunting. There were open areas on the plains as customarily in November of each year, the Indians burnt over areas to keep them free of underwood and brush. It appeared then that this area was ready for settling.
The first seventy-five years of the settling of the Town of Oxford originally known as Manchaug, embraced three different cultures. The Indians were known to be here about 1656 when the Missionary, John Eliott and his partner Daniel Gookin visited in the praying towns. Thirty years later, in 1686, the Huguenots walked here from Boston under the guidance of their leader Isaac Bertrand DuTuffeau. The Huguenot's that arrived were not peasants, but were acknowledged to be the best Agriculturist, Wine Growers, Merchant's, and Manufacter's in France. There were 30 families consisting of 52 people. At the time of their first departure (10 years), due to Indian insurrection, there were 80 people in the group, and near their Meetinghouse/Church was a Cemetery that held 20 bodies. In 1699, 8 to 10 familie's made a second attempt to re-settle, failing after only four years, with the village being completely abandoned in 1704.
The English colonist made their way here in 1713 and established what has become a permanent settlement.
"""
All that was left of the fort was a crumbling stone wall that would have been the base of a higher wooden wall according to a picture of a model (I didn't think to get a shot of that myself). Only trees and brush remain where the multi-story main wooden building was.
This story has so many echoes in the present:
- The rich colonialists from Boston & London agree to settle the land, buying/taking land "rights" from the colonial British court that claimed jurisdiction without actually having control of the land. Whether the sponsors ever actually visited the land themselves I don't know. They surely profited somehow, whether from selling on the land rights later or collecting taxes/rent or whatever, by they needed poor laborers to actually do the work of developing the land (& driving out the original inhabitants, who had no say in the machinations of the Boston court).
- The land deal was on condition that there capital-holders who stood to profit would find settlers to actually do the work of colonizing. The British crown wanted more territory to be controlled in practice not just in theory, but they weren't going to be the ones to do the hard work.
- The capital-holders actually failed to find enough poor suckers to do their dirty work for 4 years, until the Huguenots, fleeing religious persecution in France, were desperate enough to accept their terms.
- Of course, the land was only so ripe for settlement because of careful tending over centuries by the natives who were eventually driven off, and whose land management practices are abandoned today. Given the mention of praying towns (& dates), this was after King Phillip's war, which resulted in at least some forced resettlement of native tribes around the area, but the descendants of those "Indians" mentioned in this sign are still around. For example, this is the site of one local band of Nipmuck, whose namesake lake is about 5 miles south of the fort site: #LandBack.

Je découvre ce type d'agence de voyage, je comprends les témoignages. Les photos sont juste superbes.
« On recueille davantage de likes avec une panthère ou un ours blanc qu’avec un beau paysage » : les nouveaux safaris photos en plein essor

« On recueille davantage de likes avec une panthère ou un ours blanc qu’avec un beau paysage » : les nouveaux safaris photos en plein essor
« La photo animalière amateur sort les griffes » (1/7). Le nombre d’agences de voyages organisatrices de séjours pour des clients désireux d’aller immortaliser des animaux rares se multiplient. Pour éviter les dérives, les tour-opérateurs tentent de mettre en avant une approche respectueuse.

Scalability, Availability, Reproducibility and Extensibility in Islamic Database Systems
Umar Siddiqui, Habiba Youssef, Adel Sabour, Mohamed Ali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22384

Scalability, Availability, Reproducibility and Extensibility in Islamic Database Systems
With the widespread of software systems and applications that serve the Islamic knowledge domain, several concerns arise. Authenticity and accuracy of the databases that back up these systems are questionable. With the excitement that some software developers and amateur researchers may have, false statements and incorrect claims may be made around numerical signs or miracles in the Quran. Reproducibility of these claims may not be addressed by the people making such claims. Moreover, with the …

And here now is the color composite of the famous images of the #InterstellarComet 3I/ATLAS taken in the night 27/28 August in u, g, r and i: https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2525/ - the tail measures about 30 arc seconds. Amateur astronomers caught it as well, with a 12-inch telescope, only a few hours later: https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/message/33921

Cornelis Easton:The Milky Way as a spiral galaxy
Pieter C. van der Kruit (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, the Netherlands)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03409

Cornelis Easton:The Milky Way as a spiral galaxy
Cornelis Easton (1864-1929) became a journalist and newspaper editor. During most of his career he was active as an amateur astronomer and contributed important papers in international astronomical journals This concerned three areas. The first was mapping the Milky Way. The book, La Voie Lactee dans l'hemisphere boreal, which he published in 1893, made some impression. Since it had in addition to drawings of the surface brightness of the Milky Way, also extensive descriptions and discussions o…

Intéressant, une photo, une seule, mais elle vaut carrément le détour.
« En finir avec le délit de sale gueule » : comment l’herpétologue Françoise Serre Collet photographie reptiles et amphibiens pour redorer leur image

« En finir avec le délit de sale gueule » : comment l’herpétologue Françoise Serre Collet photographie reptiles et amphibiens pour redorer leur image
« La photo animalière amateur sort les griffes » (2/7). La retraitée du Muséum national d’histoire naturelle s’évertue depuis quarante ans à changer le regard du grand public sur les serpents et les amphibiens.

Tuesday: Jog Falls, #Karnataka #India
#WorldPhotographyDay #photography #amateur #waterfall #nature

HD 5501: A Rapidly Evolving Interacting Eclipsing Binary with a Variable Light Curve and H$\alpha$ Emission
Richard O. Gray, Christopher. J. Corbally, Sean Curry, Bradley E. Schaefer, Jack Martin, David Boyd, James Foster, Dale E. Mais, Michael M. Briley, Forrest Sims, Christophe Boussin, Gary Walker, Joe Novosel, David Cejudo Fernandez, Robert Buchheim, David Iadevaia, Robin Leadbeater, Daniel B. Caton, Adam Smith, Courtney E. McGahee, David Decker, Gary Hawkins

HD 5501: A Rapidly Evolving Interacting Eclipsing Binary with a Variable Light Curve and H$α$ Emission
HD~5501, a hitherto little studied eclipsing binary with an early A-type primary, has been caught in a short-lived, astrophysically interesting phase of its binary evolution. Recent photometric and spectroscopic observations, including photometric data from {\it TESS}, show it has a highly variable light curve as well as complex spectral variability, particularly in both the absorption and emission components at H~$α$. Our current campaign, including both professional and amateur observers, ha…

I love the intense colors and the good vibes things like this carry. 🌱
Aug. 31, 2025. Tulasi (holy basil) plant in front of a home in #Udupi #Karnataka #India
#photography #amateur

Cost Effective Designs For Next-Generation Radio Telescopes
G B Raghavkrishna, Deeptangshu Banik, B Ravi Kumar, D Veeraswamy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22398

Cost Effective Designs For Next-Generation Radio Telescopes
Radio astronomy has entered its golden era, with many revolutionary facilities such as SKA, ngVLA, and LOFAR2.0 coming online in the next decade. These facilities are certain to redefine radio astronomy. However, on smaller scales-such as at institutional or amateur levels-radio astronomy is still mostly practiced for educational or personal interest. The primary reason small-scale radio astronomical experiments rarely produce cutting-edge scientific results is the limitation of funding availab…

The clouds want to swallow the almost full moon. 🌫️
#photography #amateur #moon #clouds

When you want a pretzel and a donut but are allowed just one item. 🥨🍩
#abomination
#photography #amateur #food #pretzel #donut #Germany #Deutschland

From inside the aircraft I flew in this morning. According to the inflight map:
1, 2: Somewhere over and near Zvornik, #Bosnia. The river in 2 should be #Drina.
3: Somewhere over #Switzerland with a view of the #Alps.
#photography #amateur #flying #travel #sunrise

Aug. 18, 2025: #Sculptures and scenes from #Shravanabelagola #Karnataka #India
These are from one of my favorite spots at this site: a doorway with "gajalakshmi" over it.
More pictures as time permits 👇
#photoMonday #FotoMontag #photography #amateur #tourism

Had the opportunity to visit a most fascinating solar #observatory Thursday in #Switzerland near #Arosa, the Astrophysikalisches Observatorium #Tschuggen (AOT) which #MaxWaldmeier had built in 1939, which was abandoned in 1980 and which amateur astronomers are now bringing back to the state just at that time: Here are the original Kern #coronagraph and another one from #Zeiss (with a huge spectrograph) it's sitting on. See https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=dan.fischer.393&set=a.10230945670040155 for a picture album, with links to the background in the first comment.

Close encounter yesterday with Big Foot. Like hardly a meter in front of me. 😲
#BigFoot #photography #amateur #Germany #Deutschland #art #sculpture #joke

*Affogato al caffè*. ☕🍨
#photography #amateur #stillLife #coffee #espresso #dessert #food

It's nice to have caring #friends. ☺️
A friend in #Germany homemade nut #granola for us. Similar to a #Costco item we'd brought her in the past.
PS: I had no patience to fix lighting and such. Was too eager to finish taking the picture and get to the granola. 😁
#food #photography #amateur

A more beautiful sculpture of Ganesha does not (and cannot possibly) exist.
(Aug. 30th, #Udupi #Karnataka #India)
#Hindu #Ganesha #clay #art #sculpture #photography #amateur