@berlinbuzzwords@floss.socialDanica 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/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAvex 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/
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"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
@frankel@mastodon.topWhy Hardened Images are Suddenly Everywhere
#docker
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com
@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
@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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@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzO4b 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/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSpotify 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
@rasterweb@mastodon.social @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialIndia'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.
@cdarwin@c.imHealth 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.
@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 ...
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineBehold, 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.
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net⚡ 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.
@soundclamp@mastodon.xyz#NowPlaying David Kirby has resurrected HOMOPHONI, restoring the net label’s entire back catalog. https://homophoni.com/
@barijaona@mastodon.mgA catalog of free & public domain movies from Archive.org and YouTube
https://select.github.io/movies/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSpotify 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
@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.
@blackknight95857669@social.linux.pizzaSeason: 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…
@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
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: 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
@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-…
@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
@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
@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
@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.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe NIST narrows its National Vulnerability Database priorities to CVEs in CISA's known exploited catalog, to deal with a backlog after its 2024 funding lapse (Matt Kapko/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/nist-narrows-cve-analysis-nvd/
@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.
@avalon@jazztodon.comDoor 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!"
@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…
@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.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…
@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.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: 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…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzGravitational-wave constraints on the pair-instability mass gap and nuclear burning in massive stars: #GravitationalWave Transient Catalog.
