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Supreme Court Deals Another Major Blow To Transgender Rights (Lil Kalish/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-deals-another-major-blow-to-transgender-rights_n_683767fee4b05a60acead47b
http://www.memeorandum.com/250618/p75#a250618p75

Het budget is op. Punt uit.
Als we op dit niveau blijven uitstoten gaan we over 1.9 jaar door de 1,5 °C heen en moeten we vanaf dan helemaal niets meer uitstoten om niet door te denderen.
Only two years left of world’s carbon budget to meet 1.5C target, scientists warn

Tomorrow morning is another vet appointment with my cat Mimi. She’s still suffering a lot :-/

new book about medicine history, "droplets" theory etc
"Science writer Carl Zimmer’s latest book is a brilliant history of medicine that takes us from Louis Pasteur’s germ theory of the 19th century to present day. Along the way, it offers an anthropological study of medical culture — a culture capable of ignoring science when it wants to. ...
"If COVID-19 spread in droplets, then it was worthwhile to keep people two metres apart, to put up plexiglas barriers around checkout stands, and make supermarket aisles one-way. Sanitizing countertops could break the chain of infection.
"But if COVID-19 was airborne, all those measures were pointless."
Bit of an exaggeration in that part of the article. The 2m distance does put you outside the densest clouds of exhaled breath, and sanitising countertops helps against other diseases. But yeah. A lot of effort wrongly expended due to the prevailing myth.
#CovidIsAirborne #books #history

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Dusty Springfield:
🎵 Take Another Piece of My Heart
#DustySpringfield
https://open.spotify.com/track/0E4UBpsUOZ6Ic4SCxrXz1L

Sources: OpenAI researcher Jason Wei, who worked on o3 and deep research models, and his colleague Hyung Won Chung are joining Meta's new superintelligence lab (Kylie Robison/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/jason-wei-open-ai-meta/

Another High-Profile OpenAI Researcher Departs for Meta
Jason Wei, who worked on OpenAI’s o3 and deep research models, will be joining Meta’s superintelligence lab. His colleague Hyung Won Chung is also joining Meta, a source tells WIRED.

Massive stars exploding in a He-rich circumstellar medium. XI. Diverse evolution of five Ibn SNe 2020nxt, 2020taz, 2021bbv, 2023utc and 2024aej
Z. -Y. Wang, A. Pastorello, Y. -Z. Cai, M. Fraser, A. Reguitti, W. -L. Lin, L. Tartaglia, D. Andrew Howell, S. Benetti, E. Cappellaro, Z. -H. Chen, N. Elias-Rosa, J. Farah, A. Fiore, D. Hiramatsu, E. Kankare, Z. -T. Li, P. Lundqvist, P. A. Mazzali, C. McCully, J. Mo, S. Moran, M. Newsome, E. Padilla Gonzalez, C. Pellegrino, Z. -H. Peng, S. J. S…

Massive stars exploding in a He-rich circumstellar medium. XI. Diverse evolution of five Ibn SNe 2020nxt, 2020taz, 2021bbv, 2023utc and 2024aej
We present the photometric and spectroscopic analysis of five Type Ibn supernovae (SNe): SN 2020nxt, SN 2020taz, SN 2021bbv, SN 2023utc, and SN 2024aej. These events share key observational features and belong to a family of objects similar to the prototypical Type Ibn SN 2006jc. The SNe exhibit rise times of approximately 10 days and peak absolute magnitudes ranging from $-$16.5 to $-$19 mag. Notably, SN 2023utc is the faintest Type Ibn supernova discovered to date, with an exceptionally low r…

Quantifying the Improvement of Accessibility achieved via Shared Mobility on Demand
Severin Diepolder, Andrea Araldo, Tarek Chouaki, Santa Maiti, Sebastian H\"orl, Constantinos Antoniou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13100

Quantifying the Improvement of Accessibility achieved via Shared Mobility on Demand
Shared Mobility Services (SMS), e.g., demand-responsive transport or ride-sharing, can improve mobility in low-density areas, which are often poorly served by conventional Public Transport (PT). Such improvement is generally measured via basic performance indicators, such as waiting or travel time. However, such basic indicators do not account for the most important contribution that SMS can provide to territories, i.e., increasing the potential, for users, to reach surrounding opportunities, s…

Großbritanien: WhatsApp springt Apple im Kryptokrieg zur Seite
Großbritannien will iOS per Gesetz unsicherer machen, was auch Nutzer in anderen Ländern betrifft. Die Meta-Tochter WhatsApp geht juristisch dagegen vor.

Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Detection of Carbon Monoxide in the Type II Supernova SN 2023ixf
Seong Hyun Park, Jeonghee Rho, Sung-Chul Yoon, Jeniveve Pearson, Manisha Shrestha, Samaporn Tinyanont, T. R. Geballe, Ryan J. Foley, Aravind P. Ravi, Jennifer Andrews, David J. Sand, K. Azalee Bostroem, Chris Ashall, Peter Hoeflich, Stefano Valenti, Yize Dong, Nicolas Meza Retamal, Emily Hoang, Darshana Mehta, D. Andrew Howell, Joseph R. Farah, Giacomo Terreran, Estefania Padilla Gonzalez, M…

Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Detection of Carbon Monoxide in the Type II Supernova SN 2023ixf
Core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) may contribute a significant amount of dust in the early universe. Freshly formed coolant molecules (e.g., CO) and warm dust can be found in CCSNe as early as ~100 d after the explosion, allowing the study of their evolution with time series observations. In the Type II SN 2023ixf, we aim to investigate the temporal evolution of the temperature, velocity, and mass of CO and compare them with other CCSNe, exploring their implications for the dust formation in CCS…