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It's unusually hot in the UK, so it seemed a good time for a bit more cataloguing of my 'private' library on https://www.librarything.com/ It's free and once you get going it's quite an insight finding similar collections and recommendations.
It's good for collections by societies, …

Measurement of the Dispersion–Galaxy Cross-Power Spectrum with the Second CHIME/FRB Catalog: #CHIME collaboration helps identify location of "missing" matter in the universe: https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/chime-collaboration-helps-identify-location-missing-matter-universe-373578 - researchers from McGill, MIT and partner institutions combined fast radio bursts and incoming light from galaxies to locate a vast source of previously unaccounted-for matter.

Sony Music Publishing completes its acquisition of the full music rights portfolio of Recognition Music Group, backed by Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC (Tim Ingham/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/d…

Done deal: Sony Music Publishing completes acquisition of Recognition Music Group’s catalog
Sony Music Publishing already administered the Recognition catalog before completing the acquisition.

Behold, and harken! When I was a wee child, this was my Google.
Its firmware was not upgradable, it needed no charging and was always on.
Dewey, the lord of Decimals, had a system, and it _was_ good.
Encyclopedias were our more formally fact-checked Wikipedia. Microfilm and microfiche the optical technologies we used to access compressed information.
Turn the filmstrip when you hear the beep.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@SeanCasten/116788003515770862
This thread is a damning catalog of foreseeable and preventable errors.

The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). II. A Catalog of Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster
Laura Ferrarese, Patrick Cote, Lauren A. MacArthur, Joel C. Roediger, John P. Blakeslee, Michele Cantiello, Jean-Charles Cuillandre, Puragra Guhathakurta, Stephen Gwyn, Max M. Kurzner, Eric W. Peng, Matthew Santos, Eleanore B. Todd, Elisa Toloba, Pierre-Alain Duc, Patrick R. Durrell, Nicholas Fantin, Yuting Feng, Ariane Lancon, Sungsoon Lim, Chengze Liu, Deborah Lokhorst, Alessia Longobardi, Simona Mei, J. Christopher Mihos, Sanjaya Paudel, Thomas H. Puzia, Anand Raichoor, Ruben Sanchez-Janssen, Kaixiang Wang, Hongxin Zhang, Alessandro Boselli, Michael L. Balogh, Samuel Boissier, Eric Emsellem, J. J. Kavelaars, Alan W. McConnachie, Cameron R. Morgan, Chelsea Spengler, James E. Taylor, Matthew A. Taylor, Toby Brown, Sebastien Fabbro, Raphael Gavazzi, Hendrik Hildebrandt, Rashi Jain, Andres Jordan, Rory Smith, Solveig Thompson, Haruka Yoshino, Wim van Driel, Ludovic van Waerbeke, Tyrone E. Woods, Jade Yeung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18414 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.18414 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.18414
arXiv:2607.18414v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS) is a deep, high resolution imaging campaign that used the 1 deg$^2$ MegaCam instrument on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope to carry out a comprehensive optical survey of the Virgo cluster, from its core to its virial radius. The NGVS covers a contiguous area of 104 deg$^2$ (8.63 Mpc$^2$ at the 16.5 Mpc distance of Virgo) in the $u^*$-,$g$-,$i$-, and $z$-band, with additional limited coverage in $r$. In this paper, we present the final catalog of Virgo galaxies across the entire NGVS area. The catalog includes 3680 galaxies considered to be $bona~fide$ members of the cluster, spanning a factor of 2.5 million in luminosity, from $g = 8.42$ mag to $g = 24.41$ mag ($M_g = -22.67$ mag to $M_g = -6.68$ mag). With 2100 previously uncataloged galaxies, the NGVS catalog augments the number of known Virgo members by a factor 2.3. The catalog is complete down to $g = 18.6$ mag ($M_g=-12.5$ mag, corresponding to a stellar mass $M_* \sim 1.6\times10^7~M_{\odot}$ for an old stellar population) and 50% complete at $g = 22.0$ mag ($M_g=-9.1$ mag, $M_* \sim 6.2\times10^5~M_{\odot}$), three magnitudes deeper than the venerable Virgo Cluster Catalog (VCC), which for over 40 years has served as the reference standard for Virgo. Photometric and structural parameters are derived for all NGVS galaxies and presented in a series of tables, alongside nuclear and morphological classification, as well as stellar masses and, when available, radial velocities.
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Season: A Letter to the Future (PC/PS5, xp'd on PS5) Your best friend in the village has a dream that the Season is about to end. You decide to leave the village and go out into the world on your bike to catalog as much as you can so that the future might remember this Season.
This is a short (9h to credits for me) "walking sim" that, if I'm honest, is rather melancholic. In this alternate universe, there are purple crystals that have affects on people's memor…

A catalog of free & public domain movies from Archive.org and YouTube
https://select.github.io/movies/

most unexpected litter i've encountered in a minute: multiple deaccessioned card catalog entries for "the glass menagerie," only some pictured.

#NowPlaying David Kirby has resurrected HOMOPHONI, restoring the net label’s entire back catalog. https://homophoni.com/

HOMOPHONI
HOMOPHONI is an experimental audio archive and label catalog of free releases spanning sound art, improvisation, musique concrete, and related work.

"The Catalog of Distinctive Type (CDT) uses machine learning to analyze the minute details of 17th-century printing, offering scholars a powerful new way to identify who printed what."
https://www.library.cmu.edu/about/news/2026-05/catalog-distinctive-type

Sources: in a deal worth $300M , the Red Hot Chili Peppers sold the rights to their recorded catalog to Warner Music, which worked with Bain to fund the deal (Ethan Millman/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/mu

Red Hot Chili Peppers Ink $300 Million-Plus Deal With Warner Music to Sell Catalog (Exclusive)
The deal makes up about half of the $650 million WMG reported that they spent through a joint venture catalog acquisition with Bain Capital.

➡️ Open Library
#bookmarks

Danica Fine is Joining us at #bbuzz26 with another session exploring the Iceberg catalog landscape, covering core functions, the impact of REST catalogs, and more.
Learn more about this session https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/herding-catalogues-the-apache-iceberg-catalog-landscape/

Allegory of Satan is stunning! I’ve never seen a more appropriate depiction of the devil in the arts!
https://zbiory.mnk.pl/en/search-result/catalog/429353

Galaxy Clusters Selected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in 5 year data from the SPT-3G Main Survey: #GalaxyClusters: https://www.anl.gov/article/south-pole-telescope-analysis-yields-catalog-of-more-than-7000-galaxy-clusters - new cosmic census, detailed by lead co-authors from Argonne, is based on five years of data.

Avex Music Group plans a $100M fund to acquire music copyrights, companies, and publishing catalogs over the next 12 months (Elizabeth Dilts Marshall/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/avex-music-group-launches-100-million-catalog-fund/

Avex Music Group Launches $100 Million Publishing Catalog Fund
Avex Music Group announced the launch of a $100 Million publishing catalog fund and acquired the catalog of Teddy Swims collaborator Infamous.

@… https://refactoring.com/catalog/extractFunction.html

How long will MAHA hold together?
However long Kennedy lasts in government, his
"Make America Healthy Again" coalition already lies in shambles,
its catalog of achievements short.
What happened?
At present, there is no confirmed head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
or of the Food and Drug Administration.
There is no surgeon general and no head of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease,
effectively…

Has the MAHA Movement Given Up?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his allies promised public-health libertarianism. The idea couldn’t survive once they took power.

Arcaneum 0.7.0 is out
https://github.com/cwensel/arcaneum/releases/tag/v0.7.0

Release v0.7.0 · cwensel/arcaneum
Features corpus: improve corpus list display (40b8c24) cli: expose model catalog policy (c1b4ed1) cli: show corpus sync metadata in list (e596cb9) cli: add global json output mode (30f2636) cli: a...

Found a partition name catalog, some were not included in https://troopers.de/downloads/troopers17/TR17_ME11_Static.pdf and I haven't seen them myself.

Spotify partners with Peloton to offer Premium users access to playlists and a catalog of 1,400 ad-free fitness classes, its first foray into fitness content (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

COUNTESS I - A Uniformly Vetted Catalog of Known and New Transiting #Exoplanets in the TESS Northern Continuous Viewing Zone: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.13789 -> thread https://bsky.app/profile/kevinkhu.bsky.social/post/3moccmn6txs2s

Why Hardened Images are Suddenly Everywhere
#docker

Door of the Cosmos #SunRa playlist
"This playlist is a bit more out there, more eclectic and in the spirit of SUN RA, defies chronology to some degree. This is a mix I could not have made a year ago but I feel reveals the many moods of RA and the reason why I still return to his expansive and singular catalog of sonic wonder!"

O4b Open Data Release: #GravitationalWave Transient Catalog: https://dcc.ligo.org/public/0206/P2600085/008/paper.pdf / https://dcc.ligo.org/public/0206/P2600152/006/gwtc-5_results_noauthors_flattened.pdf -> Black Hole Discoveries Abound in Newly Released LIGO-Virgo Catalog: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2026/05/26/black-hole-discoveries-abound-in-newly-released-ligo-virgo-catalog/

➡️ Dead Format - A community for vinyl collectors
#bookmarks

⚡ Three scan profiles: baseline (global packages extensions, lightweight), project (dev dirs like ~/code), and deep (on-demand incident checks across broad roots like $HOME). Cadence is your runner's job.
🎯 Feed it an exposure catalog (simple JSON: ecosystem package versions) and Bumblebee flags exact matches across your fleet. The threat_intel/ dir ships with maintained catalogs from real supply-chain campaigns.

Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, on Tuesday added to his lengthening catalog of bizarre wild animal encounters by
posting to social media a video of himself in Florida wrestling with two snakes.
Kennedy, who has previously admitted dumping the carcass of a bear cub in New York’s Central Park,
and is also alleged to have cut the penis off a road-kill raccoon,
is seen grabbing the pair of serpents with his bare hands.

Apple TV relies on a few tentpole titles to draw audiences, like HBO did in the past, while Netflix uses its catalog size and algorithms to keep viewers engaged (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/column/948295/apple-tv-new-hbo

Is Apple TV the new HBO?
Unlike competitors like Netflix, Apple TV emphasizes tentpole titles over large catalogs.

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.PF. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.PF/new
[1/1]:
- Attention at the Theoretical Minimum: A Mathematics of Arrays Framework for Memory-Optimal Transf...
Lenore Mullin, Gaetan Hains
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.07713 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116719339788828558
- An Empirical Comparison of General Context-Free Parsers
Huan Vo, Danushka Liyanage, Hong Jin Kang, Sasha Rubin, Rahul Gopinath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.08465 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csFL_bot/116718996893368453
- Fairness-Aware and Latency-Controllable Scheduling for Chunked-Prefill LLM Serving
Haoxin Liu, Jiayi Wang, Yueshen Xu, Rui Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.09061 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDC_bot/116719152021398104
- Correlation Is Not Enough: Embedding Human Metadata for Individual Causal Discovery
Suraj Biswas, Saurabh Gupta, Pritam Mukherjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.09672 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116719417844314505
- AutoMegaKernel: A Statically-Checked Agent Harness for Self-Retargeting Megakernel Synthesis
Jaber Jaber, Osama Jaber
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.09682 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116719454809500736
- An 84-Format Numeric Catalog with Bit-Exact Conformance Vectors: A Vendor-Neutral Reference for F...
Dmitrii Vasilev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.09686 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAR_bot/116718979590686345
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Physical Properties of 6.7 Million Galaxies from the DESI Bright Galaxy Survey: Spectral Fitting and Systematic Tests with Mock Spectra
Niu Li, Hu Zou, Jinfu Gou, Weijian Guo, Wenxiong L, Haoming Song, Jipeng Sui, Xi Tan, Yunao Xiao, Jingyi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19162 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.19162 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.19162
arXiv:2607.19162v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present a comprehensive analysis of the physical properties of galaxies in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 1 (DR1) Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS), based on full spectral fitting of $\sim 6.7$ million galaxy spectra. Using a customized spectral fitting pipeline, we derive key physical parameters including stellar mass, stellar velocity dispersion, stellar population age, dust attenuation, and emission-line properties. To quantify the reliability and systematic uncertainties of our measurements, we construct a large set of mock spectra that closely reproduce the observed properties of DESI data, including realistic noise and spectral features. By comparing the recovered parameters with the known inputs, we assess the performance of the spectral fitting as a function of stellar continuum signal-to-noise ratio (S/N, defined as the ratio of the median continuum flux to its associated error) and redshift. We find that stellar masses can be robustly recovered with negligible bias for spectra with $\mathrm{S/N} \gtrsim 5$, while low-S/N spectra ($\mathrm{S/N} \lesssim 5$) show a mild systematic overestimation of $\sim 0.1$ dex and increased scatter. Similar trends are observed for stellar population parameters, while emission-line fluxes are recovered with high accuracy and minimal bias. We further validate our stellar mass estimates by comparison with independent measurements from photometric spectral energy distribution fitting, finding good overall consistency within the expected systematic uncertainties. The value-added catalog presented in this work enables a wide range of statistical studies of galaxy evolution with DESI, and provides a foundation for future analyses.
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The TESS All-Sky #Rotation Survey - Periods for 1,046,317 Stars within 500 pc: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ae6657 -> A New Catalog of Stellar Rotation Periods for Over a Million Stars: https://aasnova.org/2026/07/01/a-new-catalog-of-stellar-rotation-periods-for-over-a-million-stars/

Sources: Sony is in talks to acquire Recognition Music Group, which includes works of Justin Bieber and Neil Young, from Blackstone for between $3.5B and $4B (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-0…

Replaced article(s) found for astro-ph.GA. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.GA/new
[2/3]:
- Hunting Wandering 3<z<8 Black Holes: Spatial Offsets in Ionization Ratio and Continuum Emission
Urvi Thakurdesai, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.30715 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophGA_bot/116843669196485332
- Spectral Energy Distributions of Globular Clusters in VV191a
Ashton Cardona, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.10352 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophGA_bot/116917375134409194
- The different methods to calculate cluster membership probabilities
Tahereh Ramezani, Prapti Mondal, Katerina Neumannova, Ernst Paunzen, Johana Supikova, Gabriel Szasz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.13711 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophGA_bot/116928584338673264
- On the current status of tidal tails of Galactic open clusters
Tahereh Ramezani, Prapti Mondal, Katerina Neumannova, Ernst Paunzen, Johana Supikova, Gabriel Szasz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.13747 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophGA_bot/116928607930493156
- The Stripped-Star Ultraviolet Magellanic Cloud Survey (SUMS): The UV Photometric Catalog and Stri...
Bethany Ludwig, Maria R. Drout, Ylva Gotberg, Dustin Lang, Alexander Laroche
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18632 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophSR_bot/114578704405418342
- Observable signature of magnetic tidal coupling in hierarchical triple systems
Marta Cocco, Gianluca Grignani, Troels Harmark, Marta Orselli, Davide Panella, Daniele Pica
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.24897 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_grqc_bot/115462391818777276
- Periodic Gravitational Lensing with Oscillating Boson Stars
Xing-Yu Yang, Tan Chen, Rong-Gen Cai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.19606 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_grqc_bot/115615137595636545
- Search for Dark Matter Annihilation and Decay with H$\alpha$ Line Emission
Rebecca K. Leane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09019 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hepph_bot/115700041751825685
- Reanalyzing DESI DR1: 5. Cosmological Constraints with Simulation-Based Priors
Anton Chudaykin, Mikhail M. Ivanov, Oliver H. E. Philcox
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.18554 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophCO_bot/116124504277603946
- Can wormholes have vanishing Love numbers?
Shauvik Biswas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03025 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_grqc_bot/116526586864139338
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HETDEX Public Data Release 1 - Source Catalog 2 and Data Cubes from ∼90 deg^2 of Integral-field Optical Spectroscopy: #HETDEX opens Massive Cosmic Dataset to Scientists, Novices, AI and the public: https://mcdonaldobservatory.org/news/releases/20260603 and https://www.aip.de/en/news/hetdex-dataset-publication/

Gravitational-wave constraints on the pair-instability mass gap and nuclear burning in massive stars: #GravitationalWave Transient Catalog.

India's Times Music, backed by Primary Wave, acquires Punjabi music label Catrack Entertainment, following acquisitions of Symphony Recording Co. and ARC Musicq (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.

India’s Times Music buys Punjabi record label Catrack Entertainment — in third acquisition since
Punjabi specialist Catrack was founded in 1990, with a catalog that spans what the company describes as a ‘golden era’ of the genre.

Instead of •judging• people who are stuck between a rock and a hard place, we all — but especially us tech folks! — should spend some time •actually learning• what’s locking people in to a platform going bad. There are some answers in the original QP. Here are some guesses of my own:
- Is prohibitively hard to migrate their catalog / inventory?
- Are they unsure how to proceed?
- Are they burned out on platform switching?
- Do they have some larger process that really, really works and are loath to abandon it?
- Do the alternatives not provide the same functionality?
- Will they lose contact with their supporters if they switch?
- etc.
Those are all made-up guesses, but they're all examples of •perfectly good reasons• for someone to be resistant to switching.

Spotify partners with Peloton to offer Premium users access to playlists and a catalog of 1,400 ad-free fitness classes, its first foray into fitness content (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20