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40 years ago this weekend, jerry garcia falls into a diabetic coma & nearly dies. in the hospital, his heart stops following an allergic reaction when doctors give him valium. the dead will cancel 30 dates through fall. he relearns to play guitar & is performing again by october.

As climate change starts to hit hard in the US and around the world, Trump puts his foot on the accelerator and his tech billionaire buddies are building fossil fuel power plants like mad.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/climate/epa-power-plant-climate-rules.h…

E.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants
Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.

The new #MovingPandas release 0.23 has just landed in pypi and conda-forge and I want to share with you two highlights
http://anitagraser.com/2026/08/09/movingpandas-0-23-releas…

MovingPandas 0.23 released!
The new MovingPandas release 0.23 has just landed in pypi and conda-forge and I want to share with you two highlights: New HTML representations The new HTML representations for Trajectory & Tra…

Health officials in Louisiana are urging beachgoers to take precautions
during a summertime surge in infections from a flesh-eating bacteria found in coastal waters.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/health

Health officials urge caution for Gulf Coast beachgoers during surge of deadly bacterial infections
Louisiana has confirmed nine cases of Vibrio vulnificus infections this year, the state's health department said last week in a news release. All were hospitalized, and five died.

Mozilla tomorrow: "Our AI has escaped containment, hacked our signing keys, and committed them to a public github repository" 🙃
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/11/mozilla-revokes-firefo…

Mozilla revokes Firefox signing key after unencrypted copy lands in GitHub
Audit logs found no unexpected visitors, but release verification still needs an update

Due to a >1000% increase in attempted signups on our server datasci.social in the past weeks generated by AI bots, we added a new rule: Only human users. (They won't care, but it's now explicit.)
We also clarify our ads rule: No commercial advertisements, unless permitted. This has never been an issue, but we want to be open to allow small projects supporting themselves reasonably. We deleted mention of spam as it is already covered by Mastodon's defaults.

"Fast fashion's carbon footprint can be reduced across its life cycle, new study suggests"
#FastFashion #Textiles #Clothes

Fast fashion's carbon footprint can be reduced across its life cycle, new study suggests
Fast fashion is built on cheap, short-lived garments, especially cotton and polyester T-shirts. To sustain its profits, the industry relies on high production frequency, short product lifespan and a globalized supply chain. All these elements contribute to making the industry a major source of global pollution.

Happy Birthday Diana Muldaur (88)!
https://www.instagram.com/p/DcN7-C_x0od/

Black Wax Cafe on Instagram: "Happy 88th Birthday, Diana! Diana Muldaur (born August 19, 1938) is an American film and television actress. Muldaur’s television roles include Rosalind Shays on L.A. Law and Dr. Katherine Pulaski in the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. She appeared in two episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series in the late 1960s, playing different roles (Drs. Miranda Jones and Ann Mulhall). She has been nominated for an Emmy twice, as a supporting actress on L.A. Law in 1990 and 1991. Born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised on the Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard, Muldaur started acting in high school and continued on through college, graduating from Sweet Briar College in Virginia in 1960. She studied acting under Stella Adler, and made her name on the New York stage. She was at one point a board member of the Screen Actors Guild and was the first woman to serve as president of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (1983–1985)"
0 likes, 1 comments - blackwaxcafe on August 19, 2026: "Happy 88th Birthday, Diana! Diana Muldaur (born August 19, 1938) is an American film and television actress. Muldaur’s television roles include Rosalind Shays on L.A. Law and Dr. Katherine Pulaski in the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. She appeared in two episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series in the late 1960s, playing different roles (Drs. Miranda Jones and Ann Mulhall). She has been nominated for an Emmy twice, a…

For fossil fuel cars, the 'official' (test) emissions were already much lower than their real world emissions. Now the gap for plug-in hybrids has become absurd. We need to lower our emissions, and we need to reduce the EU's dependence on fossil fuel imports, and both don't care about 'official' fake numbers.
We also need more attention for real world performance of battery-electric cars, by the way.

Plug-in hybrids emit six times, on average, what official tests claim…
The car lobby is demanding that the EU scrap rules that would better reflect PHEV pollution

Coupled quintessence from an axion dark sector
Rayff de Souza, Edmund J. Copeland, Jailson Alcaniz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05032 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.05032 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.05032
arXiv:2608.05032v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent observational data arising from the DESI collaboration has hinted at a possible departure from the standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model, preferring instead the presence of a dynamical dark energy component. Specifically, the associated equation of state of the dark energy features a crossing into the so-called phantom regime, which is challenging to accommodate in canonical single scalar-field scenarios. However, this behavior can be effectively described by an interacting dark sector, where the specific dark energy equation of state remains above the phantom divide whilst the dark matter component deviates from the standard cold dark matter evolution. In this work, we explore this possibility in the context of an axion dark sector, where both the dark energy and dark matter are represented by two interacting axion-like fields. We show that given the required mass hierarchy for these fields to play such roles, their dynamics can be effectively placed in the coupled quintessence framework, where their motion follows from a sourced continuity equation in the fluid description. In this regime, we perform a statistical analysis of this scenario with current data, finding that a sub-Planckian dark energy axion decay constant stays well within the observational bounds without the need to fine-tune the associated field's initial conditions. We also perform a comparison with $\Lambda$CDM, where we find that the model provides a better fit to the data while staying competitive from a Bayesian perspective.
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