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NFC North burning questions for 2025 NFL season: Can Bears unlock Caleb Williams? Will Lions survive changes?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/new…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
The War on Drugs:
🎵 Burning
#TheWaronDrugs
https://thewarondrugs.bandcamp.com/track/burning-live-again
https://open.spotify.com/track/2S2nmmJAS5efQ5fVrvYAQj

'Russian bombers are burning en masse' — Ukraine's SBU drones hit 'more than 40' aircraft in mass attack, source claims.
Fantastic operation by Ukraine's security service, launching drones from trucks parked inside Russia!
https://

'Enemy bombers are burning en masse' — Ukraine's SBU drones hit 'more than 40' Russian aircraft
"Currently, more than 40 aircraft are known to have been hit, including the A-50, Tu-95 and Tu-22 M3," a source told the Kyiv Independent.

Russian logistics hub burning in occupied Luhansk Oblast amid reported drone attack, explosions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/russian-logistics-hub-burning-in.html

NFC South 2025 burning questions: Can Falcons leapfrog Buccaneers? How bad could Saints QB situation get?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfc-so…

Ukraine's latest drone attack will be analysed for a long time, amazing achievement. As much spy work/intelligence as the smart use of drones.
https://kyivindependent.com/enemy-bombers-are-burning-en-masse-ukraines-sbu-…

'Enemy bombers are burning en masse' — Ukraine's SBU drones hit 'more than 40' Russian aircraft
"Currently, more than 40 aircraft are known to have been hit, including the A-50, Tu-95 and Tu-22 M3," a source told the Kyiv Independent.

Particle-in-Cell Simulations of Burning ICF Capsule Implosions
Johannes J. van de Wetering, Justin R. Angus, W. Farmer, V. Geyko, D. Ghosh, D. Grote, C. Weber, G. Zimmerman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02273

Particle-in-Cell Simulations of Burning ICF Capsule Implosions
Anomalies observed in the neutron spectral shift of high-yield shots at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) suggest the presence of suprathermal ions, implying that kinetic effects play a significant role in burning inertial confinement fusion (ICF) plasmas. Furthermore, recent measurements of reaction-in-flight (RIF) neutrons offer a direct probe of the stopping power in the burning fuel region of high energy alpha particles and up-scattered fuel ions. We have developed the particle-in-cell c…

One Burning Question for the Raiders Heading into the Season https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-brock-bowers-jakobi-meyers-chip-kelly-pete-carroll

Already, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act places Trump and the Republicans at odds with their base and with swing voters.
According to a Wall Street Journal poll, 70% of the US believes the act benefits the rich.
Beyond that, the tax plan is underwater with the public, 42-52,
and is disfavored by a majority of independents.
Practically speaking, the Congressional Budget Office projected in June that nearly 8 million people would lose their insurance under the Trump-ba…

Additionally the yellow line is solar, so that's 50% wind, 22% solar meaning almost ¾ of UK power generation is clean and renewable right now. There's another 12% that's nuclear generated. Very, very little fossil fuel burning at the moment.
#UKenergy #Renewables #CleanEnergy

reading this anthology about #StopCopCity and one of the most interesting chapters talks about how the movement handled having a diversity of tactics. some people were writing op-eds, filing lawsuits, and pursuing a ballot measure. others were occupying the forest, burning bulldozers, and setting traps for the cops raiding them. the aboveground parts of the movement refused to condemn the under…

No Cop City, No Cop World

Our chosen company gave us 8 options covering a traditional set-up versus heat pump and back up heat, and 2 different brands. We chose a mid-tier solution with a gas furnace and heat pump from a non-traditional brand. More on that later. It would be set-up so the heat pump would provide heat down to 0°C at which point the furnace kicks in. That means we would be burning natural gas for approx 18 weeks in the Innisfil area. And that new furnace is 96% efficient vs. 80%ish for our old furnace.

OH – food for thought: “They've found ways to be successful critics – emphasis on successful. They get invited to conferences, win awards, maintain influence … that success might come from never truly threatening the system.
Maybe aggressive rhetoric and a bridge-burning approach isn’t a bug but a feature. When the house is on fire, you don’t negotiate with the arsonists about fire safety regulations. You sound the alarm, loudly and repeatedly.
In a truly existential fight, w…

It's early June, and already 180 wildfires are burning in Canada, 90 of which out of control.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/canada-calls-for-international-help-to-battle-massive-wildfires/?ftag=CNM-00-10aac3a

from my link log —
cdimage: A tool for burning visible pictures on a compact disc.
https://github.com/arduinocelentano/cdimage
saved 2025-06-07

GitHub - arduinocelentano/cdimage: A tool for burning visible pictures on a compact disc surfase
A tool for burning visible pictures on a compact disc surfase - arduinocelentano/cdimage

NFC East burning questions for 2025 season: Cowboys' Dak Prescott washed up? Commanders to take step back?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/n…

The #MadreFire first broke out around 9:30 p.m. PT on Thursday
in a remote area of central California near Highway 166.
It quickly consumed roughly 35,000 acres overnight,
moving east-northeast onto the Carrizo Plain and burning through parts of  Los Padres National Park.
As of Friday morning, the Madre Fire was 10% contained
and had already burned about 52,592 acres of land, …

Madre Fire grows to over 50,000 acres on Fourth of July: See map
California's Madre Fire sparked in the late evening of July 3 but has since grown to the largest in the state this year by the Fourth.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour
Gwen McCrae:
🎵 Keep the Fire Burning
#GwenMcCrae
https://liquidexperience.bandcamp.com/track/gwen-mccrae-keep-the-fire-burning-liquid-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/4rS4K30qVDExdjeU4feF4c

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11082 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCC_…

Complexity of Firefighting on Graphs
We consider a pursuit-evasion game that describes the process of extinguishing a fire burning on the nodes of an undirected graph. We denote the minimum number of firefighters required by $\text{ffn}(G)$ and provide a characterization for the graphs with $\text{ffn}(G)=1$ and $\text{ffn}(G)=2$ as well as almost sharp bounds for complete binary trees. We show that deciding whether $\text{ffn}(G) \leq m$ for given $G$ and $m$ is NP-hard. Furthermore, we show that shortest strategies can have supe…

"Carbon 'offsets' aren't working: Researchers offer a 'roadmap' to improve nature-based climate solutions"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Emissions

Carbon 'offsets' aren't working: Researchers offer a 'roadmap' to improve nature-based climate solutions
A lot of the climate-altering carbon pollution humans release into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels gets drawn into the Earth's oceans and landscapes through natural processes, mostly through photosynthesis, as plants turn atmospheric carbon dioxide into biomass.

We have to talk about burning trash🗑️🔥
Waste incinerators / waste-to-energy plants that generate electricity and heat are an enormous and often underestimated source of CO2 🏭💨🌎. For example, in Germany, a country where waste-to-energy plants are common, their emissions are higher than those of cement.
Waste incinerator operators will often claim that half of their emissions don't count 🌿 or even that they already have net-negative emissions 🌎. I disagree with both 🧵

Just Stop Burning Trash
Waste-to-energy plants are a massive source of carbon dioxide emissions. Yet, it is not obvious what the best solution for high-emitting incinerators would be. Should incinerators be equiped with carbon capture? How much can recycling rates be improved, and what role should chemical recycling play? And could landfills be a carbon storage solution?

'“This is ACTUAL IDF chanting about burning Palestinian villages … but yeah, let’s talk about #BobVylan instead,” commented Nizar Mhani on X after the Glastonbury show, posting a video of IDF members singing and chanting “burn their villages!” Mhani is a British NHS consultant who has his own YouTube channel where he unravels Israeli propaganda about the Gaza genocide.'
The BBC own go…

I loooooove the sight of strategic bombers burning in the morning.
#Russia

Indirect Measurement of the $^{23}\textbf{Na}(p,\gamma)^{24}$Mg Direct Capture Reaction Rate via ($^3$He,d) Spectroscopy
Kaixin Song, Richard Longland, Caleb Marshall, Kiana Setoodehnia, Federico Portillo Chaves, Axel Fraud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02095

Indirect Measurement of the $^{23}\textbf{Na}(p,γ)^{24}$Mg Direct Capture Reaction Rate via ($^3$He,d) Spectroscopy
The cross section of the $^{23}\text{Na}(p,γ)^{24}\text{Mg}$ reaction is dominated by direct capture at low energies relevant for stellar burning. Such cross sections can be constrained using spectroscopic factors($C^2S$) or asymptotic normalization coefficients(ANCs) from transfer reactions. In this work, the $^{23}\text{Na}(^3\text{He},d)^{24}\text{Mg}$ reaction was measured at $E_{lab}=21$ MeV to extract spectroscopic factors for $^{24}\text{Mg}$ states with excitation energies in $E_x=7\si…

An operation by Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) using first-person-view (FPV) drones smuggled deep inside Russian and hidden inside trucks has hit 41 Russian heavy bombers at four airfields across the country.
The operation — codenamed "Spider web" and a year-and-a-half in the planning — appears to have dealt a major blow to the aircraft Moscow uses to launch long-range missile attacks on Ukraine's cities.
"The SBU first transported FPV drones to Russia,

'Enemy bombers are burning en masse' — Ukraine's SBU drones hit 'more than 40' Russian aircraft
"Currently, more than 40 aircraft are known to have been hit, including the A-50, Tu-95 and Tu-22 M3," a source told the Kyiv Independent.

Thiel is fully supportive of burning up the Earth & dumping it for Mars.
Put aside the other jackass that wants to "Occupy Mars" & the utter stupidity of leaving Earth...
...who do you think he believes can/should AFFORD to leave earth after he's used all its resources?
https://

Open burning of plastic is an escalating public health threat, say experts https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/open-burning-of-plastic-is-an-escalating-public-health-threat-say-experts/

Open burning of plastic is an escalating public health threat, say experts
When Tiwonge Mzumara-Gawa was a child, her mother sent her to market with a basket woven from grasses. “But now we don’t do that,” she says, because plastic has taken over most utilitarian purposes in today’s Malawi. “You go and you get a plastic carrier, and they’re usually not reusable plastics.” In many Malawi communities, […]

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Burning Spear:
🎵 Slavery Days
#NowPlaying #BurningSpear
https://indidginus.bandcamp.com/track/burning-spear-slavery-days-indidginus-free-man-rmx
https://open.spotify.com/track/2xYUmiqMOw2deOABJ1f67h

Burn baby burn!
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/entertainment/english/trumps-own-supporters-are-burning-maga-hats-epstein-list-is-the-reason-why/videoshow/122370627…

Trump's Own Supporters Are Burning MAGA Hats & 'Epstein List' Is The Reason Why
U.S. President Donald Trump comes under fire amid Epstein case backlash. MAGA loyalists call for burning iconic 'Make America Great Again' caps. Trump's own support base turns against him as anger over 'Epstein Files' grows. Department of Justice (DOJ) has claimed Epstein did not maintain a 'client list'. This was despite promises from Attorney General Pam Bondi about 'a list on my table'. Bondi raised expectations of conservative influencers and conspiracy theorists. But then came DOJ's findin…

Make no mistake. This is a USA automaker and oil company hit job on the independence and sovereignty of the Canadian economy.
They are trying to reverse the inevitable so they can continue their own businesses as usual for as long as possible.
It can't be allowed to happen. Canada is already lagging far behind other nations. Our Economy and our Society and our burning forests, will suffer if our government gives in to this pressure.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #EV #Cars
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/zev-mandate-climate-1.7576456

Parametric models of core-helium-burning stars: structural glitches near the core
Massimiliano Matteuzzi, Ga\"el Buldgen, Marc-Antoine Dupret, Andrea Miglio, Lucy Panier, Walter E. van Rossem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18980

Parametric models of core-helium-burning stars: structural glitches near the core
Understanding the internal structure of core helium burning (CHeB) stars is crucial for evaluating transport processes in nuclear-burning regions, constructing accurate stellar population models, and assessing nucleosynthesis processes that impact the chemical evolution of galaxies. While asteroseismic observations have recently enabled detailed probing of CHeB star interiors, seismic signatures related to structural variations at the boundary between the convective and radiative core, and chem…

"Fear and loathing on study section: Reviewing grant proposals while the system is burning"
https://www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-careers/fear-and-loathing-on-study-section-reviewing-grant-proposals-wh…

Fear and loathing on study section: Reviewing grant proposals while the system is burning
As grants are canceled, delayed and subject to general uncertainty, participating in study sections can feel futile. But it’s more important than ever.

In #Manitoba wüten seit Mai #Waldbrände, die sich im Juli stark ausgeweitet haben.
Über 10.000 Menschen wurden evakuiert, ganze Gemeinden wie Split Lake sind betroffen. Starke #Hitze,

I guess I sort of understand those people who don’t like it when it’s winter and super cold outside.
(Only sort of!)
#hot #heatwave #burning

Sources: xAI is burning through $1B/month and expects to burn through ~$13B in 2025; revenues are expected to be just $500M this year, rising to $2B next year (Bloomberg)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Yeah Yeah Yeahs:
🎵 Burning
#YeahYeahYeahs
https://tzeech.bandcamp.com/track/yeah-yeah-yeahs-burning-lava-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/4JFet0crxTPHFV2n1ZqZKV

Please Shout Fire. This Theater Is Burning (Rebecca Solnit/Meditations in an Emergency)
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/please-shout-fire-this-tis-burning/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250713/p54#a250713p54

Ok, enough about my F-Droid rants now where are my pork pies Albion Mastodon Fairy?
The Albion Mastodon Fairy hereby grants 1 pork pie to shoppingtonz.
Me:
1 pork pie, are you kidding me!? Ok I'll take it just to be kind to you fairy! I'll unburden you by taking that pork pie from your angelic fingers, probably burning them since they are too corrupted to be held by a holy being like you!

Can you get solder-down optics for common Ethernet standards that are smaller than a SFP ?
Like, if I wanted to specifically put 10Gbase-SR on a duplex LC on a board, and didn't need to ever support SMF or baseT or anything else, can I just buy a TOSA/ROSA/driver assembly and slap it down as a package without burning board space on card edge connectors and unnecessary metal packaging etc?
Or would it basically be the same size anyway?
(I'm not asking about buying a …

What’s burning in California:
Wolf and Juniper fires are among over a dozen new fires in 72 hours
Fire season has begun with a bang in California,
where more than a dozen wildfires have ignited since Saturday
— the largest of which are in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, authorities said.
Officials warn that the fiery events of the last three days are a prelude of what is to come over the next few months
as the state moves from an usually dry winter…

California's Wolf, Juniper fires among over a dozen in 72 hours
Fire season has begun with a bang in California, where more than a dozen wildfires have ignited since Saturday — the largest of which are located in Riverside and San Bernardino and counties. Here is the latest on the blazes.

Series A, Episode 05 - The Web
ZEN: There is a partial malfunction on the forward detectors.
[In the teleport area, Cally continues to tamper with the detector comp. It shorts out, burning her hand.]
[Flight deck of the Liberator.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/105/52 B7B3

Accurate.

"Oceans feel the heat from human climate pollution"
#Oceans #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange

Oceans feel the heat from human climate pollution
Oceans have absorbed the vast majority of the warming caused by burning fossil fuels and shielded societies from the full impact of greenhouse gas emissions.

Calamus 14 Not heat flames up and consumes
A declaration of love, eroticism mixed with nature imagery. Something of a theme in Calamus! It didn't really grab me though, I think because so many of the lines start with negations and it distances me from the meaning.
The sexy line here:
the flames of me, consuming, burning for his love whom I love!
I also like the imagery of seeds wafted in the wind, then heading to "my Soul is borne through the open air".
This musical performance by the Erato Ensemble is a nice interpretation.

Optical Control of Fluorescence Spatial Hole Burning Effect in Monolayer WS2
Yichun Pan, Liqing Zhu, Zheng Wang, Weihang Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15287

Optical Control of Fluorescence Spatial Hole Burning Effect in Monolayer WS2
Doping plays a crucial role in both electrical and optical properties of semiconductors. In this work, we report observation, as well as optical control, of fluorescence spatial hole burning effect in monolayer WS2. We demonstrate that the pronounced exciton-exciton annihilation process, in combination with the efficient capture of holes by intrinsic sulfur vacancy defects, induces significant photo-doping effect and eventually leads to fluorescence spatial hole burning. By means of a dual-beam…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #JamzSupernova
Burning Spear:
🎵 Tradition
#BurningSpear
https://open.spotify.com/track/5x1S9GX4t7uDcYZ92ZyIRK

#ListeningClub Also! This one ought to be repurposed into album art for some black metal band!

wayward internet grotesque beauty
canned screaming crying proudly antihuman burning cities proudly nostalgic diy jumbotrons as apartment walls dancers wallow in makeup or lack thereof mechanical laughter at one anothers most sterile moments their tongues become needles along the sidewalks their twenty year old bubbling vomit cycle as both aesthetic and dogma and the unspoken understanding wed crumble if it weren't for losing ourselves in this

„My country was burning and the same people who lit the fire now call me illegal.”

I've moved on from re-binging "The Last Kingdom" to re-binging "Vikings."
I love historical fiction movies but at some point the forever-burning torches and ubiquitous candles start to bother me. The trouble is that cold darkness doesn't film well.

Maria Montessori:
❝Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.❞
❝We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.❞
9/

My neighbor's yard.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Sonic Youth:
🎵 The Burning Spear
#SonicYouth
https://sonicyouth.bandcamp.com/track/the-burning-spear
https://open.spotify.com/track/420xpMt9HMhs8crr35pEUF

Spirit of the West, "Darkhouse", *1988*:
> We're watching the right hand
> Not watching the left hand
> Soon we'll be watching the world turn
> With no hands at all
> We're really amazing
> This trail we are blazing
> Burning the bridge between our rise and fall....
> We used to dig! lift! heave!
> Now "we" has turned to "it"
> Programs! computes!
> But hardly u…

With the browser being such a core part of our digital reality and how we access it I find it incomprehensible to move my life and workflows over to a closed source browser by some money burning "AI" startup that might not be there in a year.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #JamzSupernova
Burning Spear:
🎵 Marcus Garvey
#BurningSpear
https://dluxdropz.bandcamp.com/track/marcus-garvey-instrumental
https://open.spotify.com/track/30ELPvO4DH57Rq2kgj7a8e

This week's #ThursDeath is a great promo from earlier this month via Tarragona, Spain's CEREBRAL CURSE. As they describe it themselves, "three tracks of raw, slow-burning death metal.. twisted riffs, decaying pace, and suffocating tone." I agree. Definitely not one to miss, and I'm keeping my eyes on these guys-- psyched for more from them.

Why is the Trump Administration Destroying Almost $10 Million of Contraceptives? (They're also burning 500 tons of food aid meant for hungry children.)
https://jill.substack.com/p/why-is-the-trump-administration-destroying

A solution to the tension of burning on neutron stars and nuclear physics
Y. Cavecchi, D. Galloway, A. Heger, P. Santill\'An-Ortega, M. Nava-Callejas, F. M. Vincentelli, L. Rivera Sandoval, A. Goodwin, Z. Johnston, S. Puente Mancilla, D. Page
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11966

A solution to the tension of burning on neutron stars and nuclear physics
When neutron stars accrete matter from a companion star, this matter forms a disc around them and eventually falls on their surface. Here, the fuel can ignite into bright flashes called Type I bursts. Theoretical calculations based on state-of-the-art nuclear reactions are able to explain many features of the bursts. However, models predict that the bursts should cease at high accretion rates, whereas in many sources they disappear at much lower rates. Moreover, their recurrence times also show…

Why AI can't possibly make you more productive; long
#AI and "productivity", some thoughts:
Edit: fixed some typos.
Productivity is a concept that isn't entirely meaningless outside the context of capitalism, but it's a concept that is heavily inflected in a capitalist context. In many uses today it effectively means "how much you can satisfy and/or exceed your boss' expectations." This is not really what it should mean: even in an anarchist utopia, people would care about things like how many shirts they can produce in a week, although in an "I'd like to voluntarily help more people" way rather than an "I need to meet this quota to earn my survival" way. But let's roll with this definition for a second, because it's almost certainly what your boss means when they say "productivity", and understanding that word in a different (even if truer) sense is therefore inherently dangerous.
Accepting "productivity" to mean "satisfying your boss' expectations," I will now claim: the use of generative AI cannot increase your productivity.
Before I dive in, it's imperative to note that the big generative models which most people think of as constituting "AI" today are evil. They are 1: pouring fuel on our burning planet, 2: psychologically strip-mining a class of data laborers who are exploited for their precarity, 3: enclosing, exploiting, and polluting the digital commons, and 4: stealing labor from broad classes of people many of whom are otherwise glad to give that labor away for free provided they get a simple acknowledgement in return. Any of these four "ethical issues" should be enough *alone* to cause everyone to simply not use the technology. These ethical issues are the reason that I do not use generative AI right now, except for in extremely extenuating circumstances. These issues are also convincing for a wide range of people I talk to, from experts to those with no computer science background. So before I launch into a critique of the effectiveness of generative AI, I want to emphasize that such a critique should be entirely unnecessary.
But back to my thesis: generative AI cannot increase your productivity, where "productivity" has been defined as "how much you can satisfy and/or exceed your boss' expectations."
Why? In fact, what the fuck? Every AI booster I've met has claimed the opposite. They've given me personal examples of time saved by using generative AI. Some of them even truly believe this. Sometimes I even believe they saved time without horribly compromising on quality (and often, your boss doesn't care about quality anyways if the lack of quality is hard to measure of doesn't seem likely to impact short-term sales/feedback/revenue). So if generative AI genuinely lets you write more emails in a shorter period of time, or close more tickets, or something else along these lines, how can I say it isn't increasing your ability to meet your boss' expectations?
The problem is simple: your boss' expectations are not a fixed target. Never have been. In virtue of being someone who oversees and pays wages to others under capitalism, your boss' game has always been: pay you less than the worth of your labor, so that they can accumulate profit and thus more capital to remain in charge instead of being forced into working for a wage themselves. Sure, there are layers of management caught in between who aren't fully in this mode, but they are irrelevant to this analysis. It matters not how much you please your manager if your CEO thinks your work is not worth the wages you are being paid. And using AI actively lowers the value of your work relative to your wages.
Why do I say that? It's actually true in several ways. The most obvious: using generative AI lowers the quality of your work, because the work it produces is shot through with errors, and when your job is reduced to proofreading slop, you are bound to tire a bit, relax your diligence, and let some mistakes through. More than you would have if you are actually doing and taking pride in the work. Examples are innumerable and frequent, from journalists to lawyers to programmers, and we laugh at them "haha how stupid to not check whether the books the AI reviewed for you actually existed!" but on a deeper level if we're honest we know we'd eventually make the same mistake ourselves (bonus game: spot the swipe-typing typos I missed in this post; I'm sure there will be some).
But using generative AI also lowers the value of your work in another much more frightening way: in this era of hype, it demonstrates to your boss that you could be replaced by AI. The more you use it, and no matter how much you can see that your human skills are really necessary to correct its mistakes, the more it appears to your boss that they should hire the AI instead of you. Or perhaps retain 10% of the people in roles like yours to manage the AI doing the other 90% of the work. Paradoxically, the *more* you get done in terms of raw output using generative AI, the more it looks to your boss as if there's an opportunity to get enough work done with even fewer expensive humans. Of course, the decision to fire you and lean more heavily into AI isn't really a good one for long-term profits and success, but the modern boss did not get where they are by considering long-term profits. By using AI, you are merely demonstrating your redundancy, and the more you get done with it, the more redundant you seem.
In fact, there's even a third dimension to this: by using generative AI, you're also providing its purveyors with invaluable training data that allows them to make it better at replacing you. It's generally quite shitty right now, but the more use it gets by competent & clever people, the better it can become at the tasks those specific people use it for. Using the currently-popular algorithm family, there are limits to this; I'm not saying it will eventually transcend the mediocrity it's entwined with. But it can absolutely go from underwhelmingly mediocre to almost-reasonably mediocre with the right training data, and data from prompting sessions is both rarer and more useful than the base datasets it's built on.
For all of these reasons, using generative AI in your job is a mistake that will likely lead to your future unemployment. To reiterate, you should already not be using it because it is evil and causes specific and inexcusable harms, but in case like so many you just don't care about those harms, I've just explained to you why for entirely selfish reasons you should not use it.
If you're in a position where your boss is forcing you to use it, my condolences. I suggest leaning into its failures instead of trying to get the most out of it, and as much as possible, showing your boss very clearly how it wastes your time and makes things slower. Also, point out the dangers of legal liability for its mistakes, and make sure your boss is aware of the degree to which any of your AI-eager coworkers are producing low-quality work that harms organizational goals.
Also, if you've read this far and aren't yet of an anarchist mindset, I encourage you to think about the implications of firing 75% of (at least the white-collar) workforce in order to make more profit while fueling the climate crisis and in most cases also propping up dictatorial figureheads in government. When *either* the AI bubble bursts *or* if the techbros get to live out the beginnings of their worker-replacement fantasies, there are going to be an unimaginable number of economically desperate people living in increasingly expensive times. I'm the kind of optimist who thinks that the resulting social crucible, though perhaps through terrible violence, will lead to deep social changes that effectively unseat from power the ultra-rich that continue to drag us all down this destructive path, and I think its worth some thinking now about what you might want the succeeding stable social configuration to look like so you can advocate towards that during points of malleability.
As others have said more eloquently, generative AI *should* be a technology that makes human lives on average easier, and it would be were it developed & controlled by humanists. The only reason that it's not, is that it's developed and controlled by terrible greedy people who use their unfairly hoarded wealth to immiserate the rest of us in order to maintain their dominance. In the long run, for our very survival, we need to depose them, and I look forward to what the term "generative AI" will mean after that finally happens.

Fenceline (or frontline) communities are residential areas that sit next to high polluting facilities that emit pollutants like noise, light, odours, chemicals, and even traffic.
Lynn Jacobs explains that less than a kilometer from her home and across from the KahnawŠ:ke Survival (High) School are waste management facilities, including one that recycles plastic battery casings.
“In the summer, we smell plastic burning odours because the process of the recycling is, it gets shredd…

Sacrifice Zones: Life along the fenceline between the land and industry
Lynn Jacobs opens a gate to the backyard of her small homestead, taking slow strides

Burning of fossil fuels caused 1,500 deaths in recent European heat wave, study estimates #Europe

Burning of fossil fuels caused 1,500 deaths in recent European heat wave, study estimates
Human-caused climate change is responsible for killing about 1,500 people in last week's European heat wave, a first-of-its-kind rapid study found.

Quantifying Carbon Cycle Extremes and Attributing Their Causes Under Climate and Land Use & Land Cover Change from 1850 to 2300
Bharat Sharma, Jitendra Kumar, Nathan Collier, Auroop R. Ganguly, Forrest M. Hoffman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18874

Quantifying Carbon Cycle Extremes and Attributing Their Causes Under Climate and Land Use & Land Cover Change from 1850 to 2300
Rising carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions due to human activities, such as fossil fuel burning and land use and land cover change (LULCC), are the major driver of climate change. Heatwaves, droughts, and fires have increased and are expected to accelerate with climate change in the twenty-first century and beyond. This increase in extreme climate conditions has the potential to further alter vegetation productivity (called gross primary production or GPP) and carbon uptake capacity. Here, we use a …

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

And just to be 100% clear, #LosAngeles is nailing it. Massive peaceful protests are great. That's absolutely unequivocally a good thing. So are burning cop cars. Diversity of tactics is critical.
Escalating radically at a protest with kids and grandmas is a shit thing to do. Don't do that unless it's absolutely necessary. Having kids and grandmas out protesting is important. Having them peacefully block vehicles with their bodies or occupy ICE facilitates *is* a strong thing. That is real. That's not virtue signaling, it does something... And sometimes that isn't enough. Sometimes things *need* to escalate to save people.
Diversity is good. Don't break the diversity of tactics *either way*. #LA seems to be doing a pretty good job right now or holding that balance. I hope to see more of that in every city.

Ultrafast Spatial Hole Burning Dynamics in Monolayer WS2: Insights from Time-resolved Photoluminescence Spectroscopy
Yichun Pan, Liqing Zhu, Yongsheng Hu, Xin Kong, Tao Wang, Wei Xie, Weihang Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15538

Ultrafast Spatial Hole Burning Dynamics in Monolayer WS2: Insights from Time-resolved Photoluminescence Spectroscopy
The transport of excitons lies at the heart of excitonic devices. Probing, understanding, and manipulating excitonic transport represents a critical step prior to their technological applications. In this work, we report experimental studies on the ultrafast nonlinear transport of excitons in monolayer WS2. Under intense optical pumping, we observed an ultrafast spatial hole burning effect in the excitonic emission profile, followed by a re-brightening at even higher pumping density. By means o…

Carbon burning cannot explain puffy hypervelocity white dwarfs
Natsuko Yamaguchi, Kareem El-Badry, Tin Long Sunny Wong, Ken J. Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15952

Carbon burning cannot explain puffy hypervelocity white dwarfs
The dominant formation channel of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) has been extensively studied for many years. Several hypervelocity white dwarfs (HVWDs) with space velocities of $\gtrsim 1000\,\mathrm{kms}^{-1}$ have recently been discovered. One possible origin of these stars is the dynamically-driven double-degenerate double-detonation (D6) scenario, in which an accreting sub-Chandrasekhar mass carbon-oxygen (CO) WD detonates as a SN Ia. In this scenario, the less massive WD may survive its comp…

Voted in the Hottest 100 of Australian songs. Suspect my finished list was totally different to my first ten selections. #hottest100

The NAACP intends to sue xAI over the natural gas turbines at its Memphis data center, which it claims are polluting nearby predominantly Black neighborhoods (Hiroko Tabuchi/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.…

Elon Musk’s AI Company Faces Lawsuit Over Gas-Burning Turbines
The company, xAI, has installed several dozen turbines in Memphis without proper permits, the group said, polluting a nearby community.

red river red river
wash over me
angels wit burning wings
watch over me

Horrifying how #ALEC's lies are hurting so many people in many ways.
#NaturalGas is dirty, dangerous and damaging.
Dirty: toxic air around gas wells, toxic fumes from burning it
Dangerous: gas explosions, frequently associated with injuries and deaths, as well as destruction of propert…

Louisiana is the latest state to greenwash gas
A new state law that redefines natural gas as a “green” energy source was adapted from language written by a right-wing think tank.

Just for terminological issues: what are the exact requirements to call a situation “civil war”?
The area around LA river in Paramount is literally burning, federal agents and sheriff's deputies in full gear with gas masks, vans running over people…
#FederalActivities

"Burning of fossil fuels caused 1,500 deaths in recent European heat wave, study estimates"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

Burning of fossil fuels caused 1,500 deaths in recent European heat wave, study estimates
Human-caused climate change is responsible for killing about 1,500 people in last week's European heat wave, a first-of-its-kind rapid study found.

Today in the Capitalist Climate Catastrophe, Scott Moe, chief apologist of Saskatchewan (and Premier) for the Fossil Fuel criminals, wants a "National Firefighting Force”.
(note: I would not be opposed to this... but the fact this asshole is suggesting it while he demands more help getting his world-burning fossil fuels out of the ground is just too much.)
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #SKPoli #EndFossilFuels #ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction #ClimateChange #Wildfires
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/no-relief-in-sight-from-wildfires-as-20-sask-communities-under-evacuation-orders-1.7549403

There are prophecies for those with eyes to see

NFC West burning questions for 2025 NFL season: Marvin Harrison Jr. to make Year 2 leap? 49ers fix ailing 'D'?

https://www.cbssports.com/…

On miniature ultra-high-field commercial stellarator reactors with breeding external to resistive coils
V. Queral, E. Rincon, A. de Castro, A. Moro\~no, I. Fernandez-Berceruelo, I. Palermo, D. Spong, S. Cabrera, J. Varela
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23485

On miniature ultra-high-field commercial stellarator reactors with breeding external to resistive coils
The working parameters and challenges of transposed (breeding external to resistive coils) ultra-high-field pulsed commercial stellarator reactors of small plasma volume are studied. They may allow production of commercial heat and electricity in a tiny and simple device, and contribute to the knowledge on burning plasmas. The concept is based on the previous works (V. Queral et al.) performed for the high-field experimental fusion reactor i-ASTER (J. Fus. Energy 37 2018) and the recent Distrib…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Burning Spear:
🎵 The Youth
#BurningSpear
https://sonicyouth.bandcamp.com/track/the-burning-spear
https://open.spotify.com/track/420xpMt9HMhs8crr35pEUF

Rauch von Waldbränden in #Kanada hat am Wochenende für ungewöhnlich orangefarbene Himmelsphänomene über dem Vereinigten Königreich gesorgt.
Die Partikel in der #Atmosphäre streuen blaues Licht, sodass Rot- und Orangetöne dominieren. Die

Canada wildfires smoke turns UK skies orange
Smoke from wildfires burning in central Canada was visible in the skies over the UK this weekend.

This 'investigation' into Comey and Brennan is clearly meant only as a distraction from the #Epstein debacle, trying to keep Trump's supporters from burning their #MAGA hats.

Trump day 170-171: Trump opens investigation into former FBI and CIA directors, wants to take over DC and NY administration, Grok becomes MechaHitler, lights on 24/7 at Alligator Alcatraz, maggots in food and Gor turns out to be Russian - Reporters Online
New decisions from Trump, and new fallout. An overview of day 170 and 171.

An unusual type-I X-ray burst from the neutron star X-ray binary IGR J17591-2342: a double-photospheric-radius-expansion burst?
Sudip Bhattacharyya, Akshay Singh, Andrea Sanna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16632

An unusual type-I X-ray burst from the neutron star X-ray binary IGR J17591-2342: a double-photospheric-radius-expansion burst?
Type-I X-ray bursts observed from neutron stars originate from intermittent unstable thermonuclear burning of accreted matter on these stars. Such bursts, particularly those reaching the Eddington luminosity and having a temporary photospheric radius-expansion due to radiation pressure, provide a testbed to study nuclear fusion processes in intense radiation, gravity, and magnetic fields. Here, we investigate time-resolved spectroscopic properties of a type-I burst from the accretion-powered mi…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Tom Jones & The Cardigans:
🎵 Burning Down The House
#NowPlaying #TomJones #TheCardigans
https://open.spotify.com/track/3v3EGRQ6bywgEaeBRYhpcN

At least four firefighters have been injured over the last week while battling three wildfires in Northern California forests that are burning amid extreme heat in steep, bone-dry terrain, fire officials said Monday.
One firefighter combating the barely contained Green fire in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest sustained a blunt force trauma wound while working on the fire line Saturday
Another firefighter suffered a heat-related injury Sunday, she said. Both were treated at a h…

At least four firefighters injured while battling Northern California wildfires
At least four firefighters have been injured over the last week while battling three wildfires in Northern California forests that are burning amid extreme heat in steep, bone-dry terrain, fire officials said Monday.

Nonlinear edge localized mode with impurity seeding in CFETR hybrid scenario
Shiyong Zeng, Ping Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20892 https://

Nonlinear edge localized mode with impurity seeding in CFETR hybrid scenario
A critical challenge for operating fusion burning plasma in high confinement mode lies in mitigating damage caused by edge localized modes (ELMs). While impurity seeding has been experimentally validated as a reliable and effective ELM mitigation technique, its underlying physics remains insufficiently understood and requires further clarification. Through nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations, this work reproduces key features of natural ELM crash and reveals its trigger mechanism. I…

Global ocean acidification has passed safe planetary boundary threshold: Study https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/06/global-ocean-acidification-has-passed-safe-planetary-boundary-threshold-study/

Global ocean acidification has passed safe planetary boundary threshold: Study
A new assessment finds that the world’s oceans crossed the safe threshold for acidification in 2020, breaching a key planetary boundary and posing serious threats to marine life. Ocean acidification is caused when excess atmospheric carbon dioxide, resulting from human activities like burning fossil fuels, dissolves in seawater, forming carbonic acid that increases the water’s […]

Efficient first-principles inverse design of nanolasers
Be\~nat Martinez de Aguirre Jokisch, Alexander Cerjan, Rasmus Elleb{\ae}k Christiansen, Jesper M{\o}rk, Ole Sigmund, Steven G. Johnson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20223

Efficient first-principles inverse design of nanolasers
We develop and demonstrate a first-principles approach, based on the nonlinear Maxwell-Bloch equations and steady-state ab-initio laser theory (SALT), for inverse design of nanostructured lasers, incorporating spatial hole-burning corrections, threshold effects, out-coupling efficiency, and gain diffusion. The resulting figure of merit exploits the high-$Q$ regime of optimized laser cavities to perturbatively simplify the nonlinear model to a single linear ''reciprocal'' Maxwell solve. The cons…

Replaced article(s) found for astro-ph.SR. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.SR/new
[1/1]:
- Nuclear Neural Networks: Emulating Late Burning Stages in Core Collapse Supernova Progenitors
Grichener, Renzo, Kerzendorf, Farmer, de Mink, Bellinger, Chan, Chen, Farag, Justham

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Burning Spear:
🎵 Institution
#BurningSpear
https://open.spotify.com/track/1WIKaNBlG6VuT1U22Hyn1g

Weak Bursts on Slowly Accreting Neutron Stars
Sierra Casten, Simon Guichandut, Andrew Cumming, Edward F. Brown
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15818 https://

Weak Bursts on Slowly Accreting Neutron Stars
Nearly all observed thermonuclear X-ray bursts are thought to be triggered by the thermally unstable triple-alpha process. Unlike in accreting white dwarfs, the $\gtrsim10^{8} \mathrm{K}$ envelope temperature forces hydrogen burning to proceed via the $β$-limited, thermally stable hot CNO cycle. Recent observations of weak X-ray bursts from SAX J1808.4-3658 occurring within 1-3 days of the onset of an accretion outburst have raised the question that these bursts were triggered by thermally uns…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
The House Crew:
🎵 Keep The Fire Burning
#TheHouseCrew
https://yanisbellalem.bandcamp.com/track/the-house-crew-keep-the-fire-burning-y-oldskool-acid-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/4mHvsYnPxa4F46BifVe2VQ

how my hard image collection's looking so far

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
The House Crew:
🎵 Keep The Fire Burning
#TheHouseCrew
https://yanisbellalem.bandcamp.com/track/the-house-crew-keep-the-fire-burning-y-oldskool-acid-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/4mHvsYnPxa4F46BifVe2VQ

"The hidden health risks of wood-burning and eco stoves in homes"
#Wood #WoodBurner #Emissions #AirPollution

The hidden health risks of wood-burning and eco stoves in homes
Households are being warned about the dangers of wood-burning stoves, including modern eco-design models, as a new study by the University of Surrey's Global Center for Clean Air Research (GCARE) has found that the use of woodstoves results in short-term exposures to high concentrations of toxic pollutants.

Two wildfires are burning at or near the North Rim, known
as the White Sage Fire
and the Dragon Bravo Fire.
The latter is the one that destroyed the lodge and other structures.
The park initially was managing it as a controlled burn
but then shifted to suppression as it rapidly grew to 7.8 square miles (20 square kilometers) because of hot temperatures,
low humidity and wind, fire officials said.
No injuries have been reported.
Millions of peo…

A historic Grand Canyon lodge has been destroyed by wildfire, park official says
The Grand Canyon Lodge, the only lodging inside the park at the North Rim, was consumed by the flames, park Superintendent Ed Keable told park residents, staff and others in a meeting Sunday morning. He said the visitor center, the gas station, a waste water treatment plant, an administrative building and some employee housing were among the 50 to 80 structures lost.

JWST Imaging of the Closest Globular Clusters -- VI. The Lowest-Mass Objects in M 4 and the Galactic Bulge
L. R. Bedin (INAF-OAPD), R. Gerasimov (Univ. Notre Dame IN-USA), A. Calamida (STScI), M. Libralato (INAF-OAPD), M. Scalco (Bloomington Indiana Univ), D. Nardiello (Univ.PD), M. Griggio (STScI), D. Apai (UniAZ Tucson-USA, and), J. Anderson (STScI), A. Bellini (STScI), A. J. Burgasser (UC SanDiego-USA)

JWST Imaging of the Closest Globular Clusters -- VI. The Lowest-Mass Objects in M 4 and the Galactic Bulge
We present `James Webb Space Telescope' observations of M4 -- the closest globular cluster -- that probe the lower Main Sequence down to the hydrogen-burning limit. The unveiled stellar sequence reaches much fainter luminosities than previously possible, revealing a few extremely red objects that are consistent with brown dwarfs as cool as T_eff~1000K. However, the lack of a second JWST epoch presently prevents us from verifying the cluster membership of these objects. By cross-matching our dat…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Paramore:
🎵 Burning Down the House
#Paramore
https://open.spotify.com/track/3pRCHHfwYNVCOjWSrkGNw1

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Burning Spear:
🎵 Old Marcus Garvey (Glastonbury 2025)
#BurningSpear
https://open.spotify.com/track/0vWEFmT888qnCZKUxhs8tH

#MadreFire
Size: 80, 480 Acres
Containment: 30%
Total Personnel: 1,472
Firefighters are strengthening containment lines throughout the northwest and north perimeters,
and mopping-up. Progress remains steady on the northeast and southwest perimeters,
with dozer operations reinforcing lines.
There is challenging terrain on the southwest side and crews are putting in…