@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Britney Spears sold her music catalog and other rights to Primary Wave, in a deal estimated to be "in the ballpark" of $200M (TMZ.com)
https://www.tmz.com/2026/02/10/britney-spears-sells-music-catalog/
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzSolar twins in Gaia DR3 GSP-Spec - building a large catalog of #SolarTwins with ages: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/03/aa58913-26/aa58913-26.html -> Our Sun escaped together with stellar “twins” from galaxy center: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1119007
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDisney is rolling out Verts, its new short-form video feed, to US users on its mobile app, featuring clips from movies and TV shows on Disney (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/12/disney-is-rolling-out-its-tiktok-lik…
@newsie@darktundra.xyzCISA orders federal agencies to patch exploited SolarWinds, Apple, Microsoft bugs within weeks https://therecord.media/cisa-orders-federal-agencies-to-patch-solarwinds-microsoft-apple-bugs
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzGWTC-4.0 - an Introduction to Version 4.0 of the #GravitationalWave Transient Catalog: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae0c06 -> The latest crop of space-time wobbles includes a variety of heavy, fast-spinning, and lopsided colliding black holes: https://physics.mit.edu/news/new-catalog-more-than-doubles-the-number-of-gravitational-wave-detections-made-by-ligo-virgo-and-kagra-observatories/ / New catalog of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observations published: https://www.aei.mpg.de/1415736/new-catalog-of-ligo-virgo-kagra-observations-published - the latest catalog, GWTC-4, includes 128 new candidates from the fourth observing run, more than doubling the previous total.
@peterhoneyman@a2mi.sociali'm playing records that don't spark joy tonight, thanking them for their service before i trade them in at the record store down the street
#vinyl #jazz #harryjames
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Gender-fair language in translation and post-editing: Insights and best practices"
#linguistics
@trochee@dair-community.socialGrowing up in the 80s, my mom was a board member of a 2nd-wave feminist bookshop in Atlanta, so I thought all bookstores were queer-friendly, feminist spaces
As the funny fad of the Internet started to take off, I naturally assumed — for literally months, in the early 90s — that "Amazon" was an online lesbian separatist bookstore in the vein of the Whole Earth Catalog.
In retrospect, my imagined reality was SO MUCH BETTER than what we wound up with
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzA catalog to unite them all - #REGALADE, a revised galaxy compilation for the advanced detector era: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/02/aa56896-25/aa56896-25.html -> 80 million galaxies - gigantic astronomical catalog viewable online: https://www.heise.de/en/news/80-million-galaxies-Gigantic-astronomical-catalog-viewable-online-11202479.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialEpic v. Google: the companies propose a settlement that would have Google share its Play Store app catalog with rivals and allow alternate app stores on Android (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…
@mia@hcommons.socialYour semi-regular reminder that the British Library's Research Repository has stacks of open datasets from collections, and research by Library staff e.g. https://bl.iro.bl.uk/catalog?f[human_r
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialSo.... Rockin' in the USA (Update: Rockin' in the Free World), seemingly Cheato's favorite tune to steal, is now owned by Greenland.
Update: He is not giving the copyrights to Greenland, he is giving free access to the tunes to people in Greenland.
"Neil Young Trashes Amazon, Gives His Complete Musical Catalog to Greenland for Free"
@bourgwick@heads.socialfarewell to doug irwin, the luthier behind jerry garcia's guitars. here's the note he included with the catalog when he auctioned them in 2002. https://heads.social/@bourgwick/116230474875585075
@david@boles.xyzThe Quiet Throat-Cutting of the American University
Syracuse University announced the other day that it will phase out 93 of its approximately 460 academic programs. The administration framed the decision as strategic alignment, calling it a portfolio review driven by student demand and institutional focus. Provost Lois Agnew insisted the move was "not a cost-cutting exercise." Taken at face value, some of these cuts are routine catalog maintenance.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioThe Sony catalog from 1989/1990 has HUNDRED AND FIFTY PAGES of the most amazing audio and video equipment you've ever seen.
Today everything is a small black rectangle.
Sad.
https://archive.org/details/sony-gesamtkatalog-1989-90/page/n1/mode/2up
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at Eko, whose Arkansas "capture factory" creates digital product catalogs intended to serve as training data for retail-focused AI models (Sarah Nassauer/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.c…
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe
@felwert@fedihum.orgWhat, Netflix is removing She-Ra from their catalog? 😱 Oh no!
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"BYU Library's New Seed Library"
https://news.lib.byu.edu/byu-librarys-new-seed-library
– schöne idee für ausrangierte Katalogkartenschränke! 🌱
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@cdarwin@c.imOil Regulators Found Hundreds of Wells Violating Oklahoma Rules.
Then They Ignored Their Findings.
https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-injection-wells-oil-regulators-database
@NFL@darktundra.xyzPredicting Bad Bunny's set list at the Super Bowl LX halftime show https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6990573/2026/01/23/bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-show-prediction/
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzThe uncertain brightness and tail(s) development of #Kreutz #comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) is one thing - see the curves in https://astro.vanbuitenen.nl/comet/2026A1 and https://aerith.net/comet/catalog/2026A1/2026A1.html for guesses and https://cobs.si/obs_list?id=2688 for the current value which is ~8.5 mag. - but the viewing geometry is the other: here it is for 51.5° North (my place Bochum) and 22.5° South (Windhoek) as the view is much better from the southern hemisphere.
The table first gives the elongation (angle between comet and Sun in the sky) and the phase angle (the angle Sun - comet - Earth) which nearing 180° can lead to significant boost of brightness by forward scattering on dust.
And this is followed by the altitude of the comet at the solar depressions given in the top line, for Bochum and Windhoek: sunset and end of civilian twilight and for the latter also the end of nautical and astronomical twilight, i.e. the onset of night. Also of importance is the angle of a hypothetical dust tail (simulated in https://hdr-astrophotography.com) after perihelion, also much better in the South: https://britastro.org/section_news_item/c-2026-a1-maps-a-kreutz-group-sungrazer - but first MAPS has to survive the latter *and* release a lot of dust at the right time ...
@bourgwick@heads.socialjust dislodged a memory of attending the original 2002 auction of jerry garcia's guitars, at studio 54 for some reason, & guitar maker doug irwin (who garcia willed them to) literally cackling/laughing from the back of the room when tiger went for almost a million.
@mia@hcommons.socialVia the AI4LAM Slack: An Extreme Multi-label Text Classification (XMTC) Library Dataset: What if we took "Use of Practical AI in Digital Libraries" seriously? https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10876
@teledyn@mstdn.caRE: https://aoir.social/@aram/116257142511080037
Surprise surprise! Totally. Who would have guessed? Oh. My. Gawd. Wow. 😐
Good thing nobody will care. Again. By stroke of luck, we just happen to have two new Trump-sided LNG maga-pipelines to the Pacific rim AND stay tuned for our latest Munitions Catalog! AmEx accepted.
