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Gaza: Israeli Strike Killing 106 Civilians an Apparent War Crime.
Governments Should Suspend Arms to Israel, Support ICC Probe.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/04/04/gaza-israeli-strike-killing-106-civilians-apparent-war-crime…

Gaza: Israeli Strike Killing 106 Civilians an Apparent War Crime
An Israeli airstrike on a six-story apartment building sheltering hundreds of people in central Gaza on October 31, 2023, is an apparent war crime, Human Rights Watch said today. The attack, which killed at least 106 civilians, including 54 children, is among the deadliest single incidents for civilians since the Israeli government’s bombardment and ground incursion into Gaza following the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on October 7.

How significant is Russia’s apparent interception of military talks on Ukraine?
The main benefit to Moscow is to try to publicly exploit the leaks against the German chancellor, who will nevertheless continue to come under western and Ukrainian pressure to donate the Taurus missiles, not least because in the leaked call the German experts say they believe 10-20 might be able to blow up the Kerch Bridge.
“The UK was the first country to provide long-range precision strike missile…

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Dynamics of holographic dark energy with apparent-horizon cutoff and non-minimal derivative coupling gravity in non-flat FLRW universe
Background cosmological dynamics for a universe with matter, a scalar field non-minimally derivative coupling to Einstein tensor under power-law potential and holographic vacuum energy is considered here. The holographic IR cutoff scale is apparent horizon which, for accelerating universe, forms a trapped null surface in the same spirit as blackhole's event horizon. For non-flat case, effective gravitational constant can not be expressed in the Friedmann equation. Therefore holographic vacuum d…

Exiled official: Russian election organizer killed in explosion in occupied Berdiansk: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/06/exiled-official-russian.html

Sexual reproduction can lead to major conflicts between sexes and within genomes. Here we report an extreme case ...
We found that sterile workers are produced by normal sexual reproduction, whereas daughter queens are invariably clonally produced.
In an apparent response to this conflict between sexes, genetic analyses reveal that males reproduce clonally, most likely by eliminating the maternal half of the genome in diploid eggs. [!!!]
As a result, all sons have nuclear …

males and females but no sex! weird ants:
Wasmannia auropunctata, the little fire ant. native to the new world tropics but a very invasive pest worldwide does sex REALLY WEIRD: Fourn...

Rights Group Says Israeli Strike on Gaza Building Killed 106 in Apparent War Crime
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-04-04/rights-group-says-israeli-strike-on-gaza-building-kille…

Gaza medical officials say Israeli strike kills 4 foreign aid workers, driver after delivering food
"An apparent Israeli airstrike killed four international aid workers with the World Central Kitchen charity and their Palestinian driver late Monday after they helped deliver food and other supplies to northern Gaza that had arrived hours earlier by ship, health officials in Gaza said."

Israel-Hamas war: Israeli troops withdraw from Shifa Hospital in Gaza
Gaza medical officials say an apparent Israeli airstrike killed four international aid workers with the World Central Kitchen charity and their Palestinian driver after they helped deliver food and other supplies to northern Gaza that had arrived hours early by ship. Footage showed the bodies of the five dead at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central Gaza town of Deir al-Balah. Several of them wore protective gear with the charity’s logo. Staff showed the passports of three of the dead – B…

PhenoAuth: A Novel PUF-Phenotype-based Authentication Protocol for IoT Devices
Hongming Fei, Owen Millwood, Gope Prosanta, Jack Miskelly, Biplab Sikdar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03486

PhenoAuth: A Novel PUF-Phenotype-based Authentication Protocol for IoT Devices
Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) have been shown to be a highly promising solution for enabling high security systems tailored for low-power devices. Commonly, PUFs are utilised to generate cryptographic keys on-the-fly, replacing the need to store keys in vulnerable, non-volatile memories. Due to the physical nature of PUFs, environmental variations cause noise, manifesting themselves as errors which are apparent in the initial PUF measurements. This necessitates expensive active error cor…

Protect your info online folks and don't expect much from AirBnB if you get a fraudulent charge from them on your card!
I recently saw an AirBnB purchase on my credit card. I did not make it. $CAD466 for a reservation in London. I have never even had my CC connected to AirBNB and my account is secure. It was obviously made by someone who got my CC info.
I saw it a couple days after the transaction but it was still pending on my statement. So I called my bank (VanCity) and th…

Exploring the Improvement of Evolutionary Computation via Large Language Models
Jinyu Cai, Jinglue Xu, Jialong Li, Takuto Ymauchi, Hitoshi Iba, Kenji Tei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02876

Exploring the Improvement of Evolutionary Computation via Large Language Models
Evolutionary computation (EC), as a powerful optimization algorithm, has been applied across various domains. However, as the complexity of problems increases, the limitations of EC have become more apparent. The advent of large language models (LLMs) has not only transformed natural language processing but also extended their capabilities to diverse fields. By harnessing LLMs' vast knowledge and adaptive capabilities, we provide a forward-looking overview of potential improvements LLMs can bri…

Astrometric Redshifts of Supernovae
Jaemyoung (Jason), Lee, Masao Sako, Richard Kessler, Alex I. Malz, The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04522

Astrometric Redshifts of Supernovae
Differential Chromatic Refraction (DCR) is caused by the wavelength dependence of our atmosphere's refractive index, which shifts the apparent positions of stars and galaxies and distorts their shapes depending on their spectral energy distributions (SEDs). While this effect is typically mitigated and corrected for in imaging observations, we investigate how DCR can instead be used to our advantage to infer the redshifts of supernovae from multi-band, time-series imaging data. We simulate Type …

#CJEU:
«a harmonised standard, adopted on the basis of a directive [...] forms part of EU law»
«the rule of law, which requires free access to EU law for all natural or legal persons of the European Union»
«there is an overriding public interest [...] justifying the disclosure of the requested harmonised standards»
«As is apparent [...] the Commission should have acknowledged [...]…

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Battery quality at scale
As the impacts of climate change become increasingly apparent, the need for widespread electrification is now internationally recognized. As a result, global battery production is set to dramatically expand over the next decade. Unfortunately, however, batteries are both immensely difficult to produce at the gigawatt-hour scale and inordinately sensitive to minor manufacturing variation. As a result, the battery industry has already experienced a number of both highly-visible safety incidents a…

Jeimer Candelario: Exits with apparent injury
#MLB #Baseball #Rotowire

Sources: Israel's bombing campaign in Gaza used Lavender, an AI system that identified 37,000 potential human targets based on their apparent links to Hamas (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai-datab…

Safe from the 4.8 magnitude #earthquake here in NYC. No apparent damage that I know of. It was near the surface but east coast quakes can be felt from quite a distance.
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?currentFeatureId=at00sbh3yv&extent=35.92464,-77.17896&extent=45.56791,-70.85083&map=false

Patriots executive takes apparent shot at Bill Belichick culture: 'Less of a hard-ass vibe'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/patriot

Patriots executive takes apparent shot at Bill Belichick culture: 'Less of a hard-ass vibe'
Eliot Wolf said the Patriots will be different in many ways

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Expected Impact of Glints from Space Debris in the LSST
We examine the simple model put forth in a recent note by Loeb regarding the brightness of space debris in the size range of 1-10 cm and their impact on the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) transient object searches. Their main conclusion was that "image contamination by untracked space debris might pose a bigger challenge [than large commercial satellite constellations in LEO]". Following corrections and improvements to this model, we calculate the apparent brightness o…

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Emergence of Cosmic Space and Horizon Thermodynamics from Kaniadakis Entropy
Utilizing Kaniadakis entropy associated with the apparent horizon of the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) Universe and applying the emergence of cosmic space paradigm, we deduce the modified Friedmann equation for a non-flat (n+1)-dimensional universe. Employing the first law of thermodynamics, we arrive at the same modified Friedmann equation, showing the connection between emergence of cosmic space and first law of thermodynamics. We also establish the condition to satisfy the Generalized sec…

I read the headline thinking "poor old fellow", then woke with a start to the fact he's just a year older than me.
"The #NHS has been systematically underinvested in for 14 years, you generate a system that becomes unsafe, and those cracks in the system are so apparent."
Salford Royal patient's 'nightmare' after he was left lying in urine - BBC News

Salford Royal patient's 'nightmare' after he was left lying in urine
A 73-year-old man says he was denied pain relief and was left lying in a bed soaked with urine.

Multi-frequency VLBI Imaging of the Sub-parsec Scale Jet In the Sombrero Galaxy (M 104)
Xi Yan, Ru-Sen Lu, Wu Jiang, Thomas P. Krichbaum, Fu-Guo Xie, Zhi-Qiang Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04215

Multi-frequency VLBI Imaging of the Sub-parsec Scale Jet In the Sombrero Galaxy (M 104)
We report multi-frequency and multi-epoch VLBI studies of the sub-parsec jet in Sombrero galaxy (M 104, NGC 4594). Using Very Long Baseline Array data at 12, 22, 44, and 88 GHz, we study the kinematics of the jet and the properties of the compact core. The sub-parsec jet is clearly detected at 12 and 22 GHz, and the inner jet base is resolved down to $\sim70$ Schwarzschild radii ($R_{\rm s}$) at 44 GHz. The proper motions of the jet are measured with apparent sub-relativistic speeds of $0.20\pm…

Action potentials in vitro: theory and experiment
Ziqi Pi, Giovanni Zocchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03369 https://arxiv.org/pdf/240…

Action potentials in vitro: theory and experiment
Action potential generation underlies some of the most consequential dynamical systems on Earth, from brains to hearts. It is therefore interesting to develop synthetic cell-free systems, based on the same molecular mechanisms, which may allow for the exploration of parameter regions and phenomena not attainable, or not apparent, in the live cell. We previously constructed such a synthetic system, based on biological components, which fires action potentials. We call it "Artificial Axon". The s…

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Beware of CaBER: Filament thinning rheometry doesn't give `the' relaxation time of polymer solutions
The viscoelastic relaxation time of a polymer solution is often measured using Capillary Breakup Extensional Rheometry (CaBER) where a droplet is placed between two plates which are pulled apart to form a thinning filament. For a slow plate retraction protocol, required to avoid inertio-capillary oscillations for low-viscosity liquids, we show experimentally that the CaBER relaxation time $τ_e$ inferred from the exponential thinning regime is in fact an apparent relaxation time that increases …

The only explanation I can come up with for why our governments refused to condemn the psychopathic brutality of the IDF is that it is creating precedents that give them cover to do the same type of shit when they need to.
It also clearly illuminates the fact that they no longer feel any sense of obligation or accountability to their voters.
From: @…

Started the day 1.5hrs earlier to get some work done before leaving home to hike but made zero progress because:
- Laptop restarted overnight for no apparent reason. No crash. Update history says nothing for 10 days.
- 20 mins recreating environment: various logins, PPTs, PDFs, web pages, dev environ,…
- Noticed a license change that potentially interferes w a plan, researched origins and explanations.
- Stuff
- Need a sit down 😩
Modern

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Viscous rebound of a quasi-2D cylinder on a solid wall
The purpose of the present study is to extend the simple concept of apparent coefficient of restitution, widely approached in the literature for the case of a single-contact-point between a sphere and a wall, to the case of bouncing whose complexity is increased due to the shape of the contacting object. Experiments are carried out with a finite-length cylinder, freely falling in a liquid at rest. Complex 3D motions of the cylinder with respect to the wall occur during bouncing, including mul…

Spin fluctuations in the ultranodal superconducting state of Fe(Se,S)
Yifu Cao, Chandan Setty, Andreas Kreisel, Laura Fanfarillo, P. J. Hirschfeld
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03846

Spin fluctuations in the ultranodal superconducting state of Fe(Se,S)
The iron-based superconductor FeSe isovalently substituted with S displays an abundance of remarkable phenomena that have not been fully understood, at the center of which are apparent zero-energy excitations in the superconducting state in the tetragonal phase. The phenomenology has been generally consistent with the proposal of the so-called ultranodal states where Bogoliubov Fermi surfaces are present. Recently, nuclear magnetic resonance measurements have seen unusually large upturns in the…

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The state of the dark energy equation of state circa 2023
We critically examine the state of current constraints on the dark energy (DE) equation of state (EoS) $w$. Our study is motivated by the observation that, while broadly consistent with the cosmological constant value $w=-1$, several independent probes appear to point towards a slightly phantom EoS ($w \sim -1.03$) which, if confirmed, could have important implications for the Hubble tension. We pay attention to the apparent preference for phantom DE from Planck Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB…

So....rumor is, WWE will be getting "Extreme" when they move to Netflix....😁😅
ECW is coming back apparently with an "MMA style" approach and of course being more edgy. This has been hinted at recently with the new "era" talk from Triple H and all the cursing/blood lately.
I'm excited as hell tbh. This is going to test if Paul Heyman can still book things as good as he used to....🤣
LET'S GOO!!!
PS. Attached is the apparent new WWE …

Car used as weapon in Vancouver. No mention of confiscation of car. Was it confiscated? #carbrain
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/dramatic-video-shows-…

Dramatic video shows apparent car attack on Abbotsford teens
Three teenage boys are lucky to be alive after a shocking Valentine's Day incident in Abbotsford.

Randomly, if anyone knows the folks at University of Virginia Press, email to them isn't being delivered because of some apparent snafu on their end. The host tm.az.virginia.edu isn't delivering mail. Dunno why, but they haven't received my email because they can't. :-( And no one answered when I tried to call the main number I found through a web search.

The court rejected the injunction against the protesters at McGill. I think this means that for the time being, and against the apparent wishes of the McGill administration, the police won't be intervening. Great news.
#mcgill #McGillUniversity

Campement à McGill : la Cour supérieure rejette l’injonction | RCI
La Cour supérieure rejette la demande d’injonction déposée par deux étudiants de McGill visant à limiter les manifestations propalestiniennes sur le campus.

Could the Cowboys double-dip in the draft 2 years in a row? https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/could_the_cowboys_double_dip_in_the_draft_2_years_in_a_row/s1_17100_40054621

More war crimes by Israel: "Report: Dozens killed by IDF fire in Gaza while waiting for humanitarian aid".
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-0

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Inferring properties of dark galactic halos using strongly lensed gravitational waves
Gravitational waves (GWs) can be deflected, similarly to electromagnetic (EM) waves, by massive objects through the phenomenon of gravitational lensing. The importance of gravitational lensing for GW astronomy is becoming increasingly apparent in the GW detection era, in which nearly 100 events have already been detected. As current ground-based interferometers reach their design sensitivities, it is anticipated that these detectors may observe a few GW signals that are strongly lensed by the d…

Apparent failure of Bring Chicago Home tax referendum may slow Mayor Johnson's agenda, critics say (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/apparent-failure-bring-chicago-home-tax-referendum/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240322/p47#a240322p47

TV in hospital waiting areas is very strange. Not just because I've never willingly watched television programming for about twenty years, but because it just seems so terribly unhealthy. Considering mental health alongside physical health, TV becomes apparent as essentially fast food. Advertising; shows about buying, renovating, and selling property; the presentation of a "post-pandemic" world that is still, in fact, in a pandemic; "news" being made and sold as a pro…

Clifford Theory: A Geometrical Interpretation of Multivectorial Apparent Power
M. Castilla, Juan Carlos Bravo, M. Ordo\~nez, Juan Carlos Monta\~no
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12882

Clifford Theory: A Geometrical Interpretation of Multivectorial Apparent Power
In this paper, a generalization of the concept of electrical power for periodic current and voltage waveforms based on a new generalized complex geometric algebra (GCGA) is proposed. This powerful tool permits, in n-sinusoidal/nonlinear situations, representing and calculating the voltage, current, and apparent power in a single-port electrical network in terms of multivectors. The new expressions result in a novel representation of the apparent power, similar to the Steinmetz's phasor model, b…

A Detailed Exploration of Bouncing Solutions using Reconstruction Schemes in Curvature Matter Coupled Gravity
M. Zubair, Saira Waheed, Quratulien Muneer, M. Ahmad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03682

A Detailed Exploration of Bouncing Solutions using Reconstruction Schemes in Curvature Matter Coupled Gravity
The present work is devoted to explore some interesting cosmological features of a newly proposed theory of gravity namely $\mathcal{F}(R,L_m,T)$ theory, where $R$ and $T$ represent the Ricci scalar and trace of energy momentum-tensor, respectively. Firstly, a non-equilibrium thermodynamical description is considered on the apparent horizon of the Friedmann's cosmos. The Friedmann equations are demonstrated to be equivalent to the first law of thermodynamics, i.e., ${T_{Ah}d\varepsilon_{h}^\pri…

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Long-lived heavy neutral leptons at lepton colliders as a probe of left-right symmetric models
Left-right symmetric models (LRSM) were proposed to reconcile the apparent parity violation in weak interactions with our intrinsic notion of fundamental parity symmetry. It was quickly realized that LRSM offers a viable framework for explaining neutrino masses by incorporating right-handed neutrinos, $N$, into its spectrum. In this study, we investigate for the first time the potential of future lepton colliders (including the FCC-ee, CEPC, ILC, CLIC, and a muon collider) to detect signals ste…

Started the day 1.5hrs earlier to get some work done before leaving home to hike but made zero progress because:
- Laptop restarted overnight for no apparent reason. No crash. Update history says nothing for 10 days.
- 20 mins recreating environment: various logins, PPTs, PDFs, web pages, dev environ,…
- Noticed a license change that potentially interferes w a plan, researched origins and explanations.
- Stuff
- Need a sit down 😩
Modern

DeAndre Hopkins shuts down rumors of a possible breakup with the Titans amid apparent rebuild

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/deandre

DeAndre Hopkins shuts down rumors of a possible breakup with the Titans amid apparent rebuild
Hopkins doesn't plan on leaving Nashville this offseason

11870, 11935, 13830 & 15565 kHz: all four frequencies scheduled for Vatican Radio's Via Crucis commentaries are up. However, 11935 Arabic seems to have fallen in a Houthi (?) trap - apparent heavy buzz #jammer targeting Republic of Yemen Radio in exile, which has been changing frequencies across 25m a couple times in the past months. Bad stuff...

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Electron-Phonon Coupling using Many-Body Perturbation Theory: Implementation in the Questaal Electronic Structure Suite
The ability to calculate the electron-phonon coupling (e-ph) from first principles is of tremendous interest in materials science, as it provides a non-empirical approach to understand and predict a wide range of phenomena. While this has largely been accomplished in the Kohn-Sham framework of density functional theory (KS-DFT), it is becoming more apparent that standard approximations in KS-DFT can be inaccurate. These discrepancies are often attributed to a non-local potential where more adva…

Spin fluctuations in the ultranodal superconducting state of Fe(Se,S)
Yifu Cao, Chandan Setty, Andreas Kreisel, Laura Fanfarillo, P. J. Hirschfeld
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03846

Spin fluctuations in the ultranodal superconducting state of Fe(Se,S)
The iron-based superconductor FeSe isovalently substituted with S displays an abundance of remarkable phenomena that have not been fully understood, at the center of which are apparent zero-energy excitations in the superconducting state in the tetragonal phase. The phenomenology has been generally consistent with the proposal of the so-called ultranodal states where Bogoliubov Fermi surfaces are present. Recently, nuclear magnetic resonance measurements have seen unusually large upturns in the…

Yeah, don't be mean to the large accounts here, making them feel unwelcome. That's their job, in their replies.
Seriously. Another apparent hallmark of large follower accounts is being terse, judgmental, and rude to earnest replies. Just seeing it again now (not to me, I don't ever engage large accounts).
Being an asshole to your followers is what will make this place just like Twitter.

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Reducing system dimensionality with long-range collective dipole-dipole interactions
Dimensionality plays a crucial role in long-range dipole-dipole interactions (DDIs). We demonstrate that a resonant nanophotonic structure modifies the apparent dimensionality in an interacting ensemble of emitters, as revealed by population decay dynamics. Our measurements on a dense ensemble of interacting quantum emitters in a resonant nanophotonic structure with long-range DDIs reveal an effective dimensionality reduction to $\bar{d} = 2.20 (12)$, despite the emitters being distributed in 3…

#LB Descrição da imagem: um gato preto de olhos verdes estš olhando fixamente para frente, de modo a parecer que estš olhando para o leitor. Embaixo, a legenda: "Bite someone. For no apparent reason".
E, mais embaixo, de uma forma a lembrar o logo da nike (tendo inclusive este logo na frente da frase): "Just bite them."

“Hence [Trump’s] "response" to Putin’s apparent murder of Navalny, which was to allude to it indirectly and then directly compare it to the malign abuse he insists he’s the victim of by virtue of his conviction for financial fraud and his upcoming trials for illegally seeking to cling to power by overturning a presidential election.
If he truly believes he’s the same kind of victim as Alexei Navalny, he at least should have the decency to die.”

Meyerson on TAP: ‘Useful Idiots’—Stalin’s Then and Putin’s Now
The Latest from the...

NFL Analyst Reveals AFC Team Who Should Pursue Dak Prescott https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/nfl_analyst_reveals_afc_team_who_should_pursue_dak_prescott/s1_17150_40310095

NFL Analyst Reveals AFC Team Who Should Pursue Dak Prescott
Dak Prescott has remained a focal point of NFL discussions throughout the offseason, with fans and analysts alike speculating about his future, particularly given the Dallas Cowboys’ apparent lack of urgency in extending his contract. There’s a prevailing notion that Prescott may part ways with the Cowboys after the 2024 season, contingent upon either a deep playoff run or a Super Bowl triumph. Amidst this speculation, people have been trying to forecast Prescott’s destination for the upc…

“Introducing proper records in the late 19th century reduced by more than two-thirds the number of babies who would eventually seem to reach the age of 110. That suggests that, until recently, seven out of 10 apparent supercentenarians were, in fact, younger than claimed.”
Interesting article about longevity statistics.
The surprising data behind supercentenarians

The surprising data behind supercentenarians
Lies, damn lies and longevity

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What you need to know about a learning robot: Identifying the enabling architecture of complex systems
Nowadays, we are dealing more and more with robots and AI in everyday life. However, their behavior is not always apparent to most lay users, especially in error situations. As a result, there can be misconceptions about the behavior of the technologies in use. This, in turn, can lead to misuse and rejection by users. Explanation, for example, through transparency, can address these misconceptions. However, it would be confusing and overwhelming for users if the entire software or hardware was …

Back in the day, some appropriately geeky people had little scripts that dropped thd name of the track they happened to be listening to at the time into their mail .sigs . Can't access my involuntary catousel of mental musical earworms, but #randomEarworm will have to do.
So, NP in my head, for no apparent reason: Teddy Bear's Picnic.
https://youtu.be/dZANKFxrcKU
That's a rather sample-able intro, I wonder if anyone's used it for a drill dreadcore ditty?

"Mr. #Bolsonaro said this month that he was not worried about being #arrested.
“I could very well be in another country, but I decided to come back here at all costs,” he said at a political event. “I’m not #afraid

Video: Bolsonaro, Facing Investigations, Hid at Hungarian Embassy
Security-camera footage obtained by The Times shows that Brazil’s former president spent two nights at the Hungarian Embassy in an apparent bid for asylum.

Ex-American Media CEO David Pecker was the first witness at Trump's hush money trial, as prosecutors outline National Enquirer's role in "catch and kill" scheme (Sean Piccoli/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/trump-hush-money-trial-1235891402…

Donald Trump Arrives At Courthouse As Opening Statements Begin In New York Criminal Hush Money Trial
Donald Trump arrived at a Manhattan courthouse this morning, where he will sit and watch as prosecutors and defense attorneys deliver opening statements to a jury in an unprecedented scene. This is the first criminal trial of a former president, readily apparent with the metal barricades and patrol by dozens of uniformed officers around the […]

Sean Murphy: Exits with apparent oblique injury
#MLB #Baseball #Rotowire

Saudis push for ‘plan B’ that excludes Israel from key deal with US
In the absence of a ceasefire in Gaza
and in the face of adamant resistance from Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israeli government to the creation of a Palestinian state
– and its apparent determination to launch an offensive on Rafah
– the Saudis are pushing for a more modest plan B, which excludes the Israelis.
Under that option, the US and Saudi Arabia would sign agreements on a bilateral defence pact…

I just came across an old tab about the apparent fact that I was [[shadowbanned]] on Twitter in late 2022/early 2023. I had normalized it by the time of this post -- but honestly, what a shitty thing to do in a social network.
My guess is that I was posting too much about bridges, in particular one that was relatively well-known at the time, and Twitter didn't like it.

in the [[arcades]] (@flaneur@merveilles.town)
Attached: 1 image I am apparently being shown to people as blocked on [[Twitter]] for some strange reason ;)

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An alternative statistical interpretation for the apparent plateaus in the duration distributions of GRBs
The existence of a plateau in the short-duration tail of the observed distribution of cosmological Long-soft Gamma Ray Bursts (LGRBs) has been argued as the first direct evidence of Collapsars. A similar plateau in the short-duration tail of the observed duration distribution of Short-hard Gamma Ray Bursts (SGRBs) has been suggested as evidence of compact binary mergers. We present an equally plausible alternative interpretation for this evidence, which is purely statistical. Specifically, we s…

“We're at the end of a vast (…) con of internet users, where ultra-rich technologists tricked their customers into building their companies for free. And while the trade once seemed fair, it's become apparent that these executives see users not as willing participants in some sort of fair exchange, but as veins of data to be exploitatively mined as many times as possible, given nothing in return other than access to a platform that may or may not work properly.”

Are We Watching The Internet Die?
Sometime this month, Reddit will go public at a valuation of $6.5bn. Select Redditors were offered the chance to buy stock at the initial listing price, which it hasn’t announced yet but is expected to be in the range of $31-34 per share. Regardless of the actual price,

Honestly, I find the decision in #Wine 9.0 to force #HidRaw by default for specific gamepads a very bad one. Apparently, it was done because these devices use "a proprietary HID protocol", and so they full functionality cannot be exposed via XInput. Well, okay. Except that there are two problems.
Firstly, using them via HidRaw requires special device permissions. In #Gentoo, this means installing games-util/game-device-udev-rules. If you don't do that, the controllers simply don't appear at all, and you don't know why. You have to look for answers. Even if you do, I have some doubts about giving extra permissions to stuff.
Secondly, it requires all software to support these gamepads explicitly. I mean, I've tried this with DualShock 4 in two games. In "Saints Row V", the gamepad work but the Y axis would be reversed for no apparent reason. In "A Plague Tale", the gamepad wouldn't be detected at all.
I prefer a gamepad that works over theoretical support for some fancy hidden features. So it's back to XInput for me:
wine reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\winebus" /v "DisableHidraw" /t REG_DWORD /d 1
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56306

🎾 @… #Tennis
Someone from Russia / Belarus jumped from a high balcony - sounds a little bit dodgy ....
Via José Morgado @josemorgado
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3h
My god

CRE Solutions for a Greener Planet Build Momentum
Arbor - April 23, 2024
“As the need for sustainability becomes increasingly apparent, lawmakers and lenders have advanced programs and policies that show ‘going green’ is a win-win.”
https://arbor.com/blog/cre-solutions-f

CRE Solutions for a Greener Planet Build Momentum
As more CRE companies seek green solutions, lawmakers are advancing policies that make “going green” a win-win.

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Reconnaissance with JWST of the J-region Asymptotic Giant Branch in Distance Ladder Galaxies: From Irregular Luminosity Functions to Approximation of the Hubble Constant
We study stars in the J-regions of the asymptotic giant branch (JAGB) of near-infrared color magnitude diagrams in the maser host NGC 4258 and 4 hosts of 6 Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia): NGC 1448, NGC 1559, NGC 5584, and NGC 5643. These clumps of stars are readily apparent near $1.0

An apparent* scammer phoned me from a mobile number that ACTUALLY RINGS when I phone it back. His script was okay, not pure amateur, so maybe there's a diversion or fake caller ID in there. But if not... Oh, the possibilities.
* High confidence, and if I'm wrong then my bank has messed up bad and should suffer the consequences anyway.

Western bluebird in North Hollywood park
#naturalist #photography

Happens to the best of us.
"the company’s quality assurance team was conducting testing of a task involving a changing of time zones for the Powerball website from Coordinated Universal Time to Eastern Standard Time.
[...] accidentally posted test Powerball numbers on the game’s live website rather than a development environment"

Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
DAYNA: Nothing.
AVON: Well, this is it - computer control. Unless Orac has got his wires twisted. [Avon touches the door, to no apparent effect.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/s/311/389 📺 B7BA

*PC fans spinning up for no apparent reason*
me: why is it so computy 🤔?

Revisiting the apparent horizon finding problem with multigrid methods
Hon-Ka Hui, Lap-Ming Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16511 https://

Revisiting the apparent horizon finding problem with multigrid methods
Apparent horizon plays an important role in numerical relativity as it provides a tool to characterize the existence and properties of black holes on three-dimensional spatial slices in 3+1 numerical spacetimes. Apparent horizon finders based on different techniques have been developed. In this paper, we revisit the apparent horizon finding problem in numerical relativity using multigrid-based algorithms. We formulate the nonlinear elliptic apparent horizon equation as a linear Poisson-type equ…

Well, it turns out that the #godot 360 panorama #vr renderer I wrote still wasn't right.
It does a final image-warp to map from the perspective projection it renders into an equirectangular projection for playback, and the function was doing the opposite of the intended job.
I only thought it was working because it also had an eye-switching bug which fixed the eyes-rendering-wrong bug in the earlier code so really seemed to make things look better.
Only really became apparent as I got to rendering things other than test graphics.
That's fixed now, by reversing the mapping function.
Is it right now? Yes? Maybe. I dunno. I don't really understand the maths let alone why I had to reverse it.
Like the Doctor says, you can just #reverseThePolarityOfTheNeutronFlow, give it a try.
https://github.com/revpriest/godotPanoRenderer/commit/1c09ad2114035b10bfd0a6c35528afff54f55d47

/A Specimen of a Hominid Species with Reduced Stature and Broad Furry Feet from the Late Orcocene Period, Including a Discussion of Its Apparent Agonistic Interaction with a Large Pyroemetic Flying Reptile/
#DarwinAMovie
#HashtagGames

Issue 11 of #OwnYourWeb is out. 🥳
Welcome to the IndieWeb.
With links to posts and tools by @…, @…

Own Your Web – Issue 11: Welcome to the IndieWeb
Hi All! 🤗 Imagine you post and make new friends on an online network for more than a decade – and suddenly, your account gets suspended for no apparent...

Cyclic sieving on permutations -- an analysis of maps and statistics in the FindStat database
Ashleigh Adams, Jennifer Elder, Nadia Lafreni\`ere, Erin McNicholas, Jessica Striker, Amanda Welch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16251

Cyclic sieving on permutations -- an analysis of maps and statistics in the FindStat database
We perform a systematic study of permutation statistics and bijective maps on permutations using SageMath to search the FindStat combinatorial statistics database to identify apparent instances of the cyclic sieving phenomenon (CSP). Cyclic sieving occurs on a set of objects, a statistic, and a map of order $n$ when the evaluation of the statistic generating function at the $d$th power of the primitive $n$th root of unity equals the number of fixed points under the $d$th power of the map. Of th…

Global existence and geometry of constant mass aspect function foliation in perturbed Schwarzschild spacetime
Pengyu Le
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17137 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.17137
arXiv:2404.17137v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The constant mass function foliation has been shown useful for studying the null Penrose inequality on a null hypersurface, because of the monotonicity formula of Hawking mass along such a foliation. In this paper, we show the global existence of the constant mass aspect function foliation on a nearly spherically symmetric incoming null hypersurface, emanating from a spacelike surface near the apparent horizon to the past null infinity in a vacuum perturbed Schwarzschild spacetime. Moreover, we study the geometry of the constant mass aspect function foliation, by comparing with the spherically symmetric foliation in the Schwarzschild spacetime. The knowledge about the geometry of the foliation is essential for investigating the perturbation of the constant mass aspect function foliation, which is the core in the application to the null Penrose inequality for a vacuum perturbed Schwarzschild spacetime.

Ideal noncrystals: A possible new class of ordered matter without apparent broken symmetry
Xinyu Fan, Ding Xu, Jianhua Zhang, Hao Hu, Peng Tan, Ning Xu, Hajime Tanaka, Hua Tong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17675

Ideal noncrystals: A possible new class of ordered matter without apparent broken symmetry
Order and disorder constitute two fundamental and opposite themes in condensed matter physics and materials science. Crystals are considered the epitome of order characterized by long-range translational order. The discovery of quasicrystals, with no periodicity but rotational symmetries forbidden for crystals, leads to a paradigm shift in solid-state physics. Moving one step forward, it is intriguing to ask whether ordered matter exists without apparent symmetry breaking. The same question may…

Sean Murphy: Exits with apparent oblique injury
#MLB #Baseball #Rotowire

NFL Analyst Reveals Brutal Thoughts On Dallas Cowboys: ‘Laughing Stock’ https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/nfl_analyst_reveals_brutal_thoughts_on_dallas_cowboys_laughing_stock/s1_17355_40310272

NFL Analyst Reveals Brutal Thoughts On Dallas Cowboys: ‘Laughing Stock’
Despite the enduring pride associated with donning the iconic blue star of the Dallas Cowboys, it’s increasingly apparent that the team’s relevance in football has waned. Even though they are always touted as America’s Team and maintaining its status as a sports behemoth, the Cowboys’ on-field performance fails to match their branding. The sentiment was echoed by sports analyst Craig Carton, who couldn’t stifle a chuckle upon hearing Ezekiel Elliott’s aspirations of securing a champ…

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Reconnaissance with JWST of the J-region Asymptotic Giant Branch in Distance Ladder Galaxies: From Irregular Luminosity Functions to Approximation of the Hubble Constant
We study stars in the J-regions of the asymptotic giant branch (JAGB) of near-infrared color magnitude diagrams in the maser host NGC 4258 and 4 hosts of 6 Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia): NGC 1448, NGC 1559, NGC 5584, and NGC 5643. These clumps of stars are readily apparent near $1.0

Las Vegas Raiders re-sign offensive guard Jordan Meredith before 2024 NFL Draft https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/las_vegas_raiders_re_sign_offensive_guard_jordan_meredith_before_2024_nfl_dra…

Las Vegas Raiders re-sign offensive guard Jordan Meredith before 2024 NFL Draft
The Las Vegas Raiders need two offensive line positions: a right tackle and a right guard. Basically, the entire right side of the offensive line needs improvement, along with the starter position and depth. They aren't perfect, but they are close to having a roster that can compete at a high level. This upcoming draft should help them in that department. However, after some recent news, it's apparent that the Raiders have ticked one need off the list before the draft starts. Before the draft, …

"It is the possibility that Jagmeet Singh is the future of Canada and perhaps of a new multicultural North that will be much less sympathetic to the white nationalist project of militant Zionism." @…
#CdnPoli

And why would Cohen take out a home equity loan and use a shell company to pay off Daniels for something that didn’t happen?
Hope Hicks will Testify: She Talked w/ prosecutors for hours, and was in on Negotiations w/ Daniels

Hope Hicks will Testify: She Talked w/ prosecutors for hours, and was in on Negotiations w/ Daniels
She also defied a subpoena….. But first, Trump’s apparent defense strategy: …….Trump could go scorched earth. He could deny that he ever had sex with Daniels, argue he paid her off because she was extorting him, maintain there’s nothing wrong with the...

Electron-Phonon Coupling using Many-Body Perturbation Theory: Implementation in the Questaal Electronic Structure Suite
Savio Laricchia, Casey Eichstaedt, Dimitar Pashov, Mark van Schilfgaarde
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02902

Electron-Phonon Coupling using Many-Body Perturbation Theory: Implementation in the Questaal Electronic Structure Suite
The ability to calculate the electron-phonon coupling (e-ph) from first principles is of tremendous interest in materials science, as it provides a non-empirical approach to understand and predict a wide range of phenomena. While this has largely been accomplished in the Kohn-Sham framework of density functional theory (KS-DFT), it is becoming more apparent that standard approximations in KS-DFT can be inaccurate. These discrepancies are often attributed to a non-local potential where more adva…

Craig Kimbrel: Departs with apparent injury
#MLB #Baseball #Rotowire

“I’m profoundly disturbed about the apparent direction of the court,” J. Michael Luttig told me. “I now believe that it is unlikely Trump will ever be tried for the crimes he committed in attempting to overturn the 2020 election.”
I called Luttig, a former federal judge with extensive conservative credentials, to solicit his reaction to this week’s Supreme Court hearing over Donald Trump’s demand for absolute immunity from prosecution for any crimes related to his insurrection attempt. …

Shocker From Top Conservative Judge: Trump Likely To Skate Completely
J. Michael Luttig sees two potential outcomes from Thursday’s Supreme Court arguments. Both are grim for our democracy.

NFL Analyst Reveals AFC Team Who Should Pursue Dak Prescott https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/nfl_analyst_reveals_afc_team_who_should_pursue_dak_prescott/s1_17150_40310095

NFL Analyst Reveals AFC Team Who Should Pursue Dak Prescott
Dak Prescott has remained a focal point of NFL discussions throughout the offseason, with fans and analysts alike speculating about his future, particularly given the Dallas Cowboys’ apparent lack of urgency in extending his contract. There’s a prevailing notion that Prescott may part ways with the Cowboys after the 2024 season, contingent upon either a deep playoff run or a Super Bowl triumph. Amidst this speculation, people have been trying to forecast Prescott’s destination for the upc…

[[Techcrunch]] picked up on a fraction of the Fediverse's apparent "closed by default" attitude towards [[Bluesky]]:
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/14/bluesky-and-mastodon-users-are…

Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media | TechCrunch
As decentralized social networks become more popular, the way different protocols interact could set the stage for the future of the web.

The X-ray enhancements of radio-loud quasars at high redshift: New results at $z = 4\text{ -- }7$
Zihao Zuo, Shifu Zhu, W. N. Brandt, Gordon P. Garmire, F. Vito, Jianfeng Wu, Yongquan Xue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17828

The X-ray enhancements of radio-loud quasars at high redshift: New results at $z = 4\text{ -- }7$
Highly radio-loud quasars (HRLQs; $\log R>2.5$) at $z\gtrsim 4$ show apparent enhanced X-ray emission compared to matched HRLQs at lower redshifts, perhaps due to a redshift-dependent fractional contribution to the X-ray luminosity from inverse-Compton scattering of cosmic microwave background photons (IC/CMB). Using new {\it Chandra} observations and archival X-ray data, we investigate this phenomenon with an optically flux-limited sample of 41 HRLQs at $z = 4$--5.5 all with sensitive X-ray co…

Electron-Phonon Coupling using Many-Body Perturbation Theory: Implementation in the Questaal Electronic Structure Suite
Savio Laricchia, Casey Eichstaedt, Dimitar Pashov, Mark van Schilfgaarde
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02902

Electron-Phonon Coupling using Many-Body Perturbation Theory: Implementation in the Questaal Electronic Structure Suite
The ability to calculate the electron-phonon coupling (e-ph) from first principles is of tremendous interest in materials science, as it provides a non-empirical approach to understand and predict a wide range of phenomena. While this has largely been accomplished in the Kohn-Sham framework of density functional theory (KS-DFT), it is becoming more apparent that standard approximations in KS-DFT can be inaccurate. These discrepancies are often attributed to a non-local potential where more adva…

Kevin Kiermaier: Exits with apparent injury
#MLB #Baseball #Rotowire

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Observational signatures of Rotating compact objects in Plasma space-time
We have investigated the characteristics of shadows cast by the Kerr black hole in the presence of plasma and compared them to those of a rotating wormhole in a uniform plasma space-time for an observer at infinity. Interestingly, for the same uniform plasma density, the apparent shadow size of the rotating wormhole is always greater than that of the Kerr black hole. To further distinguish the two compact objects we studied the deflection angle and did a comparative study in the presence of the…

Bullet-riddled body found in Spain was Russian defector, Ukraine says
A man’s corpse, found riddled with bullets and run over by a vehicle in Spain last week, was identified as that of Russian military pilot Maksim Kuzminov, who flew his Mi-8 helicopter to Ukraine in a dramatic defection in August, Ukrainian officials said.

His apparent murder — after a very public threat to his life last year on Russian state television — has raised questions about whether this was a Russian-o…

Bullet-riddled body found in Spain was Russian defector, Ukraine says
Maksim Kuzminov flew a Russian military helicopter into Ukraine to defect with great fanfare last year. Pro-government Russians bloggers have celebrated the killing.

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Spacetime singularities and caustic of outgoing null hypersurfaces
In this paper, we investigate the caustic point developed by outgoing null hypersurfaces and the behavior of null curves. We analyze three cases: Future, past, and zero caustic point terminology for outgoing null hypersurfaces in the marginally bound Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi (LTB) metric for homogenous and inhomogeneous cases defined in the present work. We show the criteria to form local and globally visible singularity in terms of the tangent on the apparent horizon curve.

Ex-president rebuked as judge warns against juror intimidation
Donald Trump met a stern rebuke on Tuesday from the jurist presiding over his criminal hush-money trial, with the judge warning:
“I won’t have any jurors intimidated in this courtroom.”
Trump’s apparent misbehavior did not derail the trial’s progress;
seven jurors were picked by day’s end.
Judge Juan Merchan’s comment came shortly after jury selection resumed after lunch.
Trump’s team had foun…

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Generalized second law of thermodynamics in massive gravity
Here, we study the generalized second law (GSL) of thermodynamics in the framework of massive gravity. To do this, we consider a FRW universe filled only with matter and enclosed by the apparent horizon. In addition, we consider two models including generalized massive gravity (GMG) as well as dRGT massive gravity on de Sitter. For both models, we first study the dynamics of background cosmology and then explore the validity of GSL. We conclude that for the selected values of model parameters t…

Some Remarks on Wang-Yau Quasi-Local Mass
Bowen Zhao, Lars Andersson, Shing-Tung Yau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19310 https://arxiv.o…

Some Remarks on Wang-Yau Quasi-Local Mass
We review Wang-Yau quasi-local definitions along the line of gravitational Hamiltonian. This makes clear the connection and difference between Wang-Yau definition and Brown-York or even global ADM definition. We make a brief comment on admissibility condition in Wang-Yau quasi-lcoal mass. We extend the positivity proof for Wang-Yau quasi-local energy to allow possible presence of strictly stable apparent horizons through establishing solvability of Dirac equation in certain 3-manifolds that pos…

Gravitational wave probes of Barrow cosmology with LISA standard sirens
Mahnaz Asghari, Alireza Allahyari, David F. Mota
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13025 h…

Gravitational wave probes of Barrow cosmology with LISA standard sirens
We study the Barrow cosmological model, which proposes that quantum gravity effects create a complex, fractal structure for the universe's apparent horizon. We leverage the thermodynamics - gravity conjecture. By applying the Clausius relation to the apparent horizon of the Friedmann - Lemaître - Robertson - Walker universe within this framework, we derive modified field equations where the Barrow entropy is linked to the horizon. We assess the Barrow cosmology against current observations - c…

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Observing gravitational waves with solar system astrometry
The subtle influence of gravitational waves on the apparent positioning of celestial bodies offers novel observational windows. We calculate the expected astrometric signal induced by an isotropic Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB) in the short distance limit. Our focus is on the resultant proper motion of Solar System objects, a signal on the same time scales addressed by Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTA). We derive the corresponding astrometric deflection patterns, finding that they man…