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Mah, THAT was smart:
* making a short #video ✅
* writing a #blog post ✅
* and forgetting to include the video in the blog post 🔴🥴 (I feel like a real pro again ...)
Well, included it right now as well, but you might have seen it already anyways. Enjoy your Sunday!
Blog:

Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
COSER: Now, even if Security trace us to this planet, they'll assume the ship crashed and we died in the explosion. Did you hear what I said?
RASHEL: Yes.
COSER: Well?
RASHEL: It's a very clever plan, sir.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/2

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Magnetosonic Waves as a Driver of Observed Temperature Fluctuation Patterns in AGN Accretion Disks
Ish Kaul, Omer Blaes, Yan-Fei Jiang, Lizhong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11189

Magnetosonic Waves as a Driver of Observed Temperature Fluctuation Patterns in AGN Accretion Disks
Recent observations have revealed slow, coherent temperature fluctuations in AGN disks that propagate both inward and outward at velocities of $\sim 0.01 - 0.1c$, a kind of variability that is distinct from reverberation (mediated by the reprocessing of light) between different regions of the disk. We investigate the origin and nature of these fluctuations using global 3D radiation-magnetohydrodynamic simulations of radiation and magnetic pressure-dominated AGN accretion disks. Disks with a sig…

So #Axiom4 ain't going anywhere for now ... because "NASA is working with Roscosmos to understand a new pressure signature, after the recent post-repair effort" of the infamous ISS leak: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2025/06/12/nasa-axiom-space-delay-axiom-mission-4-launch-to-space-station/

On the prospects of thermalization of axion-SU(2) inflation
Sukannya Bhattacharya, Matteo Fasiello, Alexandros Papageorgiou, Ema Dimastrogiovanni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11853 …

On the prospects of thermalization of axion-SU(2) inflation
Axion inflation models coupled to a gauge sector via a Chern-Simons term exhibit an array of interesting phenomenology including a chiral gravitational wave spectrum and primordial black hole production. They may also provide a useful mechanism for generating lepton asymmetry. The possibility to embed this class of models in UV-finite theories and their intriguing, testable, signatures make for a compelling candidate for early acceleration. Due to the Chern-Simons coupling, gauge modes may unde…

Microsoft has once again been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning (DSML) Platforms.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog

Microsoft recognized for second consecutive year as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms | Microsoft Azure Blog
Find out how Microsoft Azure Machine Learning can help you optimize business processes, improve customer experiences, and drive innovation.

I nearly missed the fact it's been a year since I translated @… Meta in Myanmar series to Polish.
A year later, I can confidently say that series radicalized me quite a bit.
I've hated Meta products for a while, so not much has changed in that department.
However, re-reading the story of Rohingya ethnic cleansing over and over again made me grow plenty of sheer anger within me.
Anger over general injustice in the world and stuff.
My third 'era' of photography, involving documenting local activism, with particular attention to oppressed or marginalized groups (tenants, Palestinians, Belarusians - to name just a few) wouldn't have happened if I hadn't had my moment of disillusionment about the whole system we live in.
All of that because I started noticing familiar patterns I haven't been aware before. All stories that involve oppression, genocide, ethnic cleansing or any other kind of systemic cruelty started rhyming to me. Only the context and the environment kept changing.
Literally everything about my current life has changed around April 2024 and only now I'm ready to take a look at that.
Anyway. To all of you who want to read that once again:
Full series in Polish:
https://blog.lukaszwojcik.net/pl/meta-w-mjanmie/
Web Archive copy of the above:
https://archive.org/details/meta-w-mjanmie-pl
Original in English:
https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-full-series

We've once again made to #pizza night. Way to go everyone!

Truck in Ontario CA “Rolls Coal” (blows burning oil/fuel out of an illegal modification to their exhaust system)
A saga in 48 seconds, watch to the end
#California #LosAngelesProtests

‘Blackballed’: Black HR Employee Sues Disney For Firing Her After She Exposed the Company's Hiring Preference for Indian and Asian Candidates While Axing More Black Employees
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/06/11/black-hr-employee-sues-disney/