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Prosecutor's release 42,000 word response to That 70's Show star #DannyMasterson's appeal to be released from 30 yr #California #prison term on forcible rape & drugging charges.
The details are not prett…

Por lo que leo lo de #FreeBSD con las tarjetas wifi Intel es una relación fraternal... como la de Caín con Abel. Menos mal que ha sido conectarle un pendrive ASUS, configurar dos líneas en el rc.conf y tener la wifi funcionando sin aparentes problemas en el portštil...

About morbid thriftiness (Autism Spectrum Condition)
As you may have noticed, I am morbidly thrifty. Usually I don't buy stuff that I don't need — and if I decide that I actually need something, I am going to ponder about it for a while, look for value products, and for the best price. And with some luck, I'm going to decide I don't need it that bad after all.
One reason for that is probably how I was raised. My parents taught me to be thrifty, so I have to be. It doesn't matter that, from retrospective, I see that their thriftiness was applied rather arbitrarily to some spendings and not others, or that perhaps they were greedy — spending less on individual things so that they could buy more. Well, I can't delude myself like that, so I have to be thrifty for real. And when I fail, when I pay too much, when I get cheated — I feel quite bad about it.
The other reason is that I keep worrying about my future. It doesn't matter how rich I may end up — I'll keep worrying that I'll run out of money in the future. Perhaps I'll lose a job and won't be able to find anything for a long time, Perhaps something terrible will happen and I'm going to need to pay a lot suddenly.
Another thing is that I easily get attached to objects. Well, it's easier to be thrifty when you really don't want to replace stuff. Over time you also learn to avoid getting new stuff at all, since the more stuff you have, the more stuff may break and need to be thrown away.
Finally, there's my environmental responsibility. I admit that I don't do enough — but at least the things I can do, I do.
[EDIT: and yes, I feel bad about how expensive my new phone was, even though it's of much higher quality than the last one. Also, I got a worse deal because I waited too long.]
#ActuallyAutistic

A Lyman continuum analysis for $\sim 100$ galaxies at $z_{\text{spec}} \sim 3$ in the Abell 2744 Cluster Field
Y. Liu, S. Mascia, L. Pentericci, P. Watson, A. Alavi, P. Bergamini, M. Brada\v{c}, A. Calabr\`o, K. Glazebrook, A. Henry, M. Llerena, E. Merlin, B. Metha, T. Nanayakkara, L. Napolitano, N. Roy, B. Siana, E. Vanzella, B. Vulcani, X. Wang
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A Lyman continuum analysis for $\sim 100$ galaxies at $z_{\text{spec}} \sim 3$ in the Abell 2744 Cluster Field
Identifying Lyman continuum (LyC) leakers at intermediate redshifts is crucial for understanding the properties of cosmic reionizers, as the opacity of the intergalactic medium (IGM) prevents direct detection of LyC emission from sources during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). In this study, we confirm two new LyC candidate leakers at $z \sim 3$ in the Abell 2744 cluster field, with absolute escape fractions ($f_{\text{esc}}$) of $0.90^{+0.07}_{-0.86}$ and $0.60^{+0.37}_{-0.56}$, respectively. …

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A DBMS-independent approach for capturing provenance polynomials through query rewriting
Paulo Pintor, Rog\'erio Costa, Jos\'e Moreira
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14608 h…

A DBMS-independent approach for capturing provenance polynomials through query rewriting
In today's data-driven ecosystems, ensuring data integrity, traceability and accountability is important. Provenance polynomials constitute a powerful formalism for tracing the origin and the derivations made to produce database query results. Despite their theoretical expressiveness, current implementations have limitations in handling aggregations and nested queries, and some of them and tightly coupled to a single Database Management System (DBMS), hindering interoperability and broader appl…

Dygtige skribenter har en fantastisk forståelse for sprogets nuancer, helt ned (op?) på et fŸlelsesmæssigt niveau. Jeg har lige nydt Kathryn Schulz’ diskussion af fŸlelsen i ordet “og” (dvs. “and” fordi hun taler om engelsk, men pointerne er de samme for dansk) i Ezra Kleins podcast.
Man kunne tale om en tankens grammatik, en formning af vores tanker. Og “og” er vidunderlig fordi denne konjunktion kan sammensætte både det kongruente og det inkongruente, og samtidig peger ordet ind i f…

Our Lives Are an Endless Series of 'And'
Podcastepisode · The Ezra Klein Show · 30.05.2025 · 1 t. 6 min.

"""
"[…] Wanting a man got me into awful troubles more than once. But wanting to get married, never! No, no. None of that for me."
"Why not?" Tenar demanded.
Taken aback, Moss said simply, "Why, what man'd marry a witch?" And then, with a sidelong chewing motion of her jaw, like a sheep shifting its cud, “And what witch’d marry a man?"
They split rushes.
"What's wrong with men?" Tenar inquired cautiously.
As cautiously, lowering her voice, Moss replied, "I don't know, my dearie. I’ve thought on it. Often I’ve thought on it. The best I can say it is like this. A man’s in his skin, see, like a nut in its shell." She held up her long, bent, wet fingers as if holding a walnut. “It’s hard and strong, that shell, and it’s all full of him. Full of grand man-meat, man-self. And that’s all. That’s all there is. It’s all him and nothing else, inside."
Tenar pondered awhile and finally asked, "But if he's a wizard—"
"Then it's all his power, inside. His power’s himself, see. That’s how it is with him. And that’s all. When his power goes, he’s gone. Empty." She cracked the unseen walnut and tossed the shells away. “Nothing."
"And a woman, then?"
"Oh, well, dearie, a woman's a different thing entirely. Who knows where a woman begins and ends? Listen, mistress, I have roots, I have roots deeper than this island. Deeper than the sea, older than the raising of the lands. I go back into the dark." Moss’s eyes shone with a weird brightness in their red rims and her voice sang like an instrument. “I go back into the dark! Before the moon I was. No one knows, no one knows, no one can say what I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman’s power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon. Who dares ask questions of the dark? Who’ll ask the dark its name?"
"""
(Ursula K. Le Guin, Tehanu)