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The intersection of many man-made actions - #ClimateCrisis, excessive #ResourceExtraction, #Wetlands "reclamation" - all in the interest of profit, now starting to show the actual costs.…

The mystery eating Ocean Beach alive
San Francisco is building a $175 million seawall meant to protect a threatened sewage plant. Scientists say it might destroy the beach.

The intersection of many man-made actions - #ClimateCrisis, excessive #ResourceExtraction, #Wetlands "reclamation" - all in the interest of profit, now starting to show the actual costs.…

The mystery eating Ocean Beach alive
San Francisco is building a $175 million seawall meant to protect a threatened sewage plant. Scientists say it might destroy the beach.

Surface Waves Alter Air Entrainment During Water Entry
Chase T. Gabbard, Mario Ibrahim, Joseph Quinton, Eli Silver, Jesse Belden, Daniel M. Harris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20067 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20067 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.20067
arXiv:2607.20067v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: When a sphere crosses an air-water interface it can entrain a significant volume of air, a process relevant to numerous naval, industrial, and environmental settings. While air entrainment through sphere impact onto quiescent baths has been extensively studied, real-world interfaces are inherently unsteady, and the influence of surface waves is less understood. In this Letter, we systematically investigate the effect of interfacial geometry on the air entrained by impacting hydrophobic spheres onto an axisymmetric wavefield. By analyzing the resulting cavity across a wide parameter space, including wave phase, driving amplitude, and frequency, we reveal that local interface deformation dramatically alters air entrainment. This effect is driven by a geometric modulation of the splash curtain, which shifts the transition between cavity closure modes. We demonstrate that the influence of the waves is fully described by the local wave slope at the radius of the sphere, which alongside the Weber number We and Bond number Bo, establishes a foundational parametric framework for predicting air entrainment and cavity metrics across highly dynamic, real-world surfaces like the open ocean.
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After EV maker Fisker's collapse, ~4,000 car owners formed a nonprofit to keep their cars working by reverse-engineering software and building open-source tools (Fred Lambert/Electrek)
https://electrek.co/2026/05/16/fisker-ocean-open-source-ev-story-aft…

Fisker went bankrupt and owners built open source car company from the ashes
After Fisker's bankruptcy left 11,000 Ocean EVs orphaned, a 4,000-member community reverse-engineered software, hacked CAN buses, and kept their cars alive.

analyzing why #osmocom ARM package building is taking too long: Turns out the build worker is spending 7.5 times more time in post-installation of latex (for setting up the package build) than it is taking to actually build osmo-sgsn including its user manual: https://

#SilentSunday #photography #monochrome #sepia

#SilentSunday #photography #throwback #Rome