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Cowboys are clearly missing Micah Parsons https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-clearly-missing-micah-parsons/def166cbbe4f3482e3f40ee9

Curtis Yarvin wears racial hatred as a badge of honor
—and clearly doesn't come into contact with people of color on a regular basis.
Yarvin, who hides behind a screen, wouldn't have the guts to utter these slurs on the street. -- In the real world, that kind of talk tends to carry consequences.
Instead, he flings epithets from the safety of his tony Craftsman home in ultra-liberal Berkeley, performing racism online for an audience of anonymous far-right Twitter use…

Curtis Yarvin Just Can’t Stop Using This Racist Word
His slurs are public. His ideas are toxic. But to men like JD Vance, Yarvin is still worth following.

I'm seeing some really awful, low effort "may be..." ALT text recently. Clearly generated by an automatic process rather than by a human.
Is bad* alt text worse than no alt text?
*completely incorrect, and misleading
#Accessibility #a11y

Karl Popper clearly explained that a truly tolerant society must retain the right to be intolerant of the intolerant. He wrote: "We must therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate intolerance." #intolerance #freedomOfSpeech

Good to see hairy rufty tufty kilted blokes in the crowd for #scovwal Their masculinity clearly isn't remotely threatened by following women's sport. #wrwc2025

What now?
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/25/2340181/-We-live-in-a-Fascist-nation-what-now-by-Chris-Armitage

"We live in a Fascist nation, what now?"- by Chris Armitage
This was shared by a friend on Facebook, and I can’t stop thinking about it. It’s the kind of thing that the author clearly wants to be distributed as widely as possible, so I’m posting it all here and hope I’m not running afoul of anything. -— "I...

'Clearly 1:0 to Putin' — European officials react to Alaska Summit: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/clearly-to-putin-european-officials.html

As NFL resumes international series, could an overseas Super Bowl be in the future? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6652017/2025/09/22/nfl-international-super-bowl-draft/

Oh YAML *wtf*
I thought until now YAML is more or less fixed and clearly defined but apparently not. Do you know all the possible effects unknown to me?
🤬 #yaml

ohyaml.wtf | YAML Quiz
YAML is known to be nobody's friend and almost everyone's enemy. Try this to see if it's your friend or foe!

Learning to vary: Teaching LMs to reproduce human linguistic variability in next-word prediction
Tobias Groot, Salo Lacunes, Evgenia Ilia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17794 https:…

Learning to vary: Teaching LMs to reproduce human linguistic variability in next-word prediction
Natural language generation (NLG) tasks are often subject to inherent variability; \emph{e.g.} predicting the next word given a context has multiple valid responses, evident when asking multiple humans to complete the task. While having language models (LMs) that are aligned pluralistically, so that they are able to reproduce well the inherent diversity in perspectives of an entire population of interest is clearly beneficial, \citet{ilia2024predict} show that LMs do not reproduce this type of …

Computational aspects of the trace norm contraction coefficient
Idris Delsol, Omar Fawzi, Jan Kochanowski, Akshay Ramachandran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16737

Computational aspects of the trace norm contraction coefficient
We show that approximating the trace norm contraction coefficient of a quantum channel within a constant factor is NP-hard. Equivalently, this shows that determining the optimal success probability for encoding a bit in a quantum system undergoing noise is NP-hard. This contrasts with the classical analogue of this problem that can clearly by solved efficiently. Our hardness results also hold for deciding if the contraction coefficient is equal to 1. As a consequence, we show that deciding if a…

The 35-day old baby who starved to death in Gaza was clearly a Hamas terrorist. Anyone who says otherwise is antisemitic.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/19/weeks-old-baby-dies-of-starvation-in-gaza-hospital-amid-ongoing…

Weeks-old baby dies of starvation in Gaza hospital during ongoing blockade
Medical sources also report 116 killed across Gaza, including 38 desperate residents seeking food at GHF site.

Well, it’s public: Mayor Lurie has announced that he’s letting Uber and Lyft onto car-free Market Street along with Waymo, something he has no authority to do. The Transportation Code clearly doesn’t allow it. These companies are treating our billionaire mayor as above the law. #sfPol

Label Uncertainty for Ultrasound Segmentation
Malini Shivaram, Gautam Rajendrakumar Gare, Laura Hutchins, Jacob Duplantis, Thomas Deiss, Thales Nogueira Gomes, Thong Tran, Keyur H. Patel, Thomas H Fox, Amita Krishnan, Deva Ramanan, Bennett DeBoisblanc, Ricardo Rodriguez, John Galeotti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15635

Label Uncertainty for Ultrasound Segmentation
In medical imaging, inter-observer variability among radiologists often introduces label uncertainty, particularly in modalities where visual interpretation is subjective. Lung ultrasound (LUS) is a prime example-it frequently presents a mixture of highly ambiguous regions and clearly discernible structures, making consistent annotation challenging even for experienced clinicians. In this work, we introduce a novel approach to both labeling and training AI models using expert-supplied, per-pixe…

Evidence for Three Subpopulations of Merging Binary Black Holes at Different Primary Masses
Sharan Banagiri, Eric Thrane, Paul D. Lasky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15646 https://…

Evidence for Three Subpopulations of Merging Binary Black Holes at Different Primary Masses
With the release of the fourth LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA gravitational-wave catalog (GWTC-4), we are starting to gain a detailed view of the population of merging binary black holes. The formation channels of these black holes is not clearly understood, but different formation mechanisms may lead to subpopulations with different properties visible in gravitational-wave data. Adopting a phenomenological approach, we find GWTC-4 data supports the presence of at least three subpopulations, each associate…

Just realized, now that I’m home, that when I ordered a small pizza at the #Bostodon meetup, that the bill had an automatic 20% for gratuity, to which I added an additional tip of 25% (cos that’s how I roll). Clearly I have tnot been eating in town enough and was not on the ball 😂

Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
AVON: Right. Bring it directly over the skull. No, that won't do. You'll have to use the radio sensor. Good, that's much better. Yes, there it is. There's the limiter implant, you can see it quite clearly. Give me the side view. Good. Yes, it's in the sub four section all right. Now let's take a look at the limiter itself. Close focus, slowly.
JENNA: Well, there's nothing wrong with the connectors.

SPHEREx Discovery of Strong Water Ice Absorption and an Extended Carbon Dioxide Coma in 3I/ATLAS
C. M. Lisse, Y. P. Bach, S. Bryan, B. P. Crill, A. Cukierman, O. Dor\'e, B. Fabinsky, A. Faisst, P. M. Korngut, G. Melnick, Z. Rustamkulov, V. Tolls, M. Werner, M. L. Sitko, C. Champagne, M. Connelley, J. P. Emery, B. Yang, the SPHEREx Science Team
https://

SPHEREx Discovery of Strong Water Ice Absorption and an Extended Carbon Dioxide Coma in 3I/ATLAS
In mid-August 2025, 0.75-5.0 micron SPHEREx imaging spectrophotometric and ancillary NASA-IRTF SpeX 0.7-2.5 micron low-resolution spectral observations of Interstellar Object 3I ATLAS were obtained. The combined spectrophotometry is dominated by features due to water ice absorption and CO2 gas emission. A bright, 3 arcmin radius CO2 gas coma was clearly resolved, corresponding to Qgas,CO2 = 9.4 x 10{^26} molec/sec. From the SPHEREx photometry, we put conservative, preliminary 3sigma upper limit…

Somebody (maybe it was Erin? can’t remember) proposed that we should have a menu of governance structures just as we currently have a menu of OSS licenses, crafted with the same care and granted the same importance, so that somebody looking to share code can:
- communicate very clearly where they are on that continuum from “Here’s some cool code, maybe it’s useful” to “There is solid, sustainable human infra behind this code,” and
- get guidance and support so that, as their project grows, it moves smoothly along that continuum of governance.
7/

Inclination Effect on Observational Identification of Outflow Rotation in Magnetohydrodynamics Simulations
Yusuke Aso, Masahiro N. Machida
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15535

Inclination Effect on Observational Identification of Outflow Rotation in Magnetohydrodynamics Simulations
We investigate the observational signatures of outflow rotation in protostellar systems using magnetohydrodynamics simulations of protostellar evolution with radiative transfer and synthetic observation. The velocity gradient perpendicular to the outflow axis indicates outflow rotation. The rotation signature is clearly seen in the moment 1 map and a position-velocity (PV) diagram across an outflow lobe made from our model with an inclination angle of i>~85{degree sign}, as in observational stu…

Hach, damals, als man noch Bücher lesen und genießen konnte, ohne ständig mit Politik und Ideologie konfrontiert zu werden ...

Drew Brees rips Eagles' 'boring' offense, omits Jalen Hurts in his list of top quarterbacks

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/drew-br

Spot the kitty

Great piece by Nik Suresh from last year, 'I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again'
"I started working as a data scientist in 2019, and by 2021 I had realized that while the field was large, it was also largely fraudulent. Most of the leaders that I was working with clearly had not gotten as far as reading about it for thirty minutes despite insisting that things like, I dunno, the next five years of a ten thousand person non-tech organization should be entir…

I have often been unhappy that the line type in a #ggplot2 legend is not clearly visible. Today, I found a simple solution: simply use
theme(legend.key.width = unit(1, "cm"))
Replace 1 with any other value that you like (not too small, of course!).
#rstats

Officials from various European countries took to social media to share their reactions following the Alaska summit.
"Putin got his red carpet treatment with Trump, Trump got nothing,"
German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger wrote on X.
"As was to be feared: no ceasefire, no peace. No real progress
— clearly 1:0 for Putin
— no new sanctions.
For the Ukrainians: nothing.
For Europe: deeply disappointing."
During the post-summit …

'Clearly 1:0 to Putin' — European officials react to Alaska Summit
"Putin got his red carpet treatment with Trump, Trump got nothing. ... For the Ukrainians: nothing. For Europe: deeply disappointing."

Towards LLM-generated explanations for Component-based Knowledge Graph Question Answering Systems
Dennis Schiese, Aleksandr Perevalov, Andreas Both
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14553

Towards LLM-generated explanations for Component-based Knowledge Graph Question Answering Systems
Over time, software systems have reached a level of complexity that makes it difficult for their developers and users to explain particular decisions made by them. In this paper, we focus on the explainability of component-based systems for Question Answering (QA). These components often conduct processes driven by AI methods, in which behavior and decisions cannot be clearly explained or justified, s.t., even for QA experts interpreting the executed process and its results is hard. To address …

Principles and Reasons Behind Automated Vehicle Decisions in Ethically Ambiguous Everyday Scenarios
Lucas Elbert Suryana, Simeon Calvert, Arkady Zgonnikov, Bart van Arem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13837

Principles and Reasons Behind Automated Vehicle Decisions in Ethically Ambiguous Everyday Scenarios
Automated vehicles (AVs) increasingly encounter ethically ambiguous situations in everyday driving--scenarios involving conflicting human interests and lacking clearly optimal courses of action. While existing ethical models often focus on rare, high-stakes dilemmas (e.g., crash avoidance or trolley problems), routine decisions such as overtaking cyclists or navigating social interactions remain underexplored. This study addresses that gap by applying the tracking condition of Meaningful Human …

Cowboys Legend Michael Irvin Blasts CeeDee Lamb Decision After Injury in Bears Loss https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/michael-irvin-ceedee-lamb-injury-run/?adt_ei=[email]

“A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at Risk”
“People across the United States have endured rushed or premature attempts to remove their organs. Some were gasping, crying or showing other signs of life.”
A chilling read about an absolutely galling failure of the most basic bioethical concerns. The process around circulatory death donation is clearly broken and requires reform and better oversight. It’s ghoulish in its present state.

A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at Risk
People across the United States have endured rushed or premature attempts to remove their organs. Some were gasping, crying or showing other signs of life.

I've probably mentioned that I'm working on switching #Gentoo from our half-broken eselect-ldso logic to #FlexiBLAS. This also involves a transition period where both setups would be supported.
A good thing is that the switch is ABI-compatible with the previous state (or at least it's supposed to be — we're working with upstream on fixing function coverage). Since libblas.so, liblapack.so and the rest are replaced by symlinks, programs that link to them will simply start using FlexiBLAS. So far, so good.
Unfortunately, switching the other way doesn't work as well. Stuff newly built against our libblas.so & co. symlinks naturally reads FlexiBLAS's SONAME from them, and links to libflexiblas directly. So should you decide to switch back, some packages will stay linked to FlexiBLAS and will need to rebuilt.
In order to avoid this, I would have to replace the symlinks with wrapper libraries, having libblas.so.3 and so on SONAMEs, and linking to libflexiblas. Unfortunately, a dummy wrapper isn't going to work — the linker will complain about using indirect symbols from libflexiblas.so. So I would probably have to "reexport" their symbols somehow, and ideally split into appropriate libraries, so that `-Wl,--as-needed` wouldn't drop some of them. But how to do that?
Well, let's look at the existing logic for eselect-ldso — clearly both BLIS and OpenBLAS create some wrappers. So I've spent some time investigating upstream Makefiles, and literally couldn't find the respective targets. I mean, these are quite complex Makefiles, but I'm grepping hard and can't find even a partial match.
As it turns out, these Makefile targets are added by Gentoo-specific patches. And these patches are just horrible. In case of OpenBLAS, they create the wrapper libraries by linking all the relevant .o files from OpenBLAS build, plus the shared OpenBLAS library. So the OpenBLAS symbols relevant to each interface end up duplicated in libblas.so, liblapack.so, etc., and apparently the symbols needed by them are taken from libopenblas.so. The individual interface libraries aren't even linked to one another, so they expose their own duplicate symbols, but use the implementation from OpenBLAS instead.
BLIS is even worse — the patch is simply creating libblas.so and libcblas.so, using all BLIS objects directly, plus symbol visibility to hide symbols irrelevant to the library. So yes, libblis.so, libblas.so and libcblas.so are roughly three separate copies of the same library, differing only in symbol visibility. And of course libcblas.so doesn't use libblas.so.
Truly #GSoC quality.

To be clear, none of this is to say "this is definitely fake evidence." People talk in really strange ways when they're under stress. People are weirder than you think. Reality is weirder than you think. I don't think this is clearly "this is fabricated."
But I don't just trust it by default, especially when it lines up really well with what the administration wants.

Clearly at least the vandals (aka drivers) knew about it.
'Public should have been told about North Yorkshire speed camera'
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg57gle8l1o
> The fixed camera on the A64, near Malton, was vandalised hours before it was due to be…

Cowboys' Micah Parsons reposts JJ Watt's tweet questioning Jerry Jones throwing shade at star linebacker

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys

Cables are clearly conscious, sinister, and spite us by doing things like this on purpose.

It's funny how people asking for someone's gender when the information they need is pronouns. Whoever came up with the term XY problem clearly chose a suitable name.

Sometimes they come back: pulsations in A 0538-66 at 69 ms rediscovered with NICER
Lorenzo Ducci, Sandro Mereghetti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16420 https:…

Sometimes they come back: pulsations in A 0538-66 at 69 ms rediscovered with NICER
We report on NICER X-ray observations of the Be X-ray binary A 0538-66 located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Fast pulsations (69 ms) in this source were discovered in 1980 during a bright outburst in which it reached a luminosity of ~8E38 erg/s, but were never reobserved since then. We clearly detected the pulsations at P=69.3055 +/- 0.0005 ms with a pulsed fraction of ~20% during a short time interval (~11 minutes) on 2023 January 9, when A 0538-66 had a luminosity of ~8E36 erg/s (0.3-10 keV)…

Scotland, it seems, does not like the #OnlineSafetyAct. I've long been interested in opinion maps on which the England/Scotland border is clearly defined, but this one surprises even me.
#ScotPol

it annoys me when news headlines refer to a government agency as taking a horrific action when it is clearly the work of the unconstitutional attackers of that agency, like saying the "EPA" is shredding environmental protections, but without an institutional opposition that is willing to defend these agencies and hire the ousted administrators to speak on behalf of the "real" agency, i don't see why i should care anymore.

Too many inconvenient truths coming from that.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/08/nasas-acting-chie…

NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency
NASA’s charter clearly states the agency should study planet Earth, however.

Clearly, an attempt to tap the infinite low carbon energy created from Steve Jobs spinning in his grave…
https://mastodon.social/@verge/115219405596725827

Lavrov you Bolshevik bastard.
Wearing a USSR shirt (CCCP is Cyrillic for USSR) to the Alaska meeting with potus means the U.S. should join the International Criminal Court (ICC) just to refer you to it.
What’s next, ya gonna bring breadlines back to Moscow?
h/t @…
@…

The year is 2027.
Google: "Should we remove HTML from the web platform?
You know it's kind of old and we have barely any resources to keep it running, and there's chatbots anyway."
People: "What?!"
Google: "Well, clearly you don't have anything to say." [deletes code]

Reifenberg Theorem for Locally Finitely Almost Splitting Sets
Jiaqi Zang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14805 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14805

Reifenberg Theorem for Locally Finitely Almost Splitting Sets
The well-known Reifenberg theorem states that if a subset of $\mathbb{R}^n$ can be well approximated by $k$-planes at every point and every scale, then it is biHölder homeomorphic to a $k$-disk. This article concerns a subset $S$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$ which can be approximated by at most $N$ parallel $k$ planes at each point and scale. As a subset of $\mathbb{R}^n$ such an $S$ may be quite degenerate; $S$ may clearly not be homeomorphic to a disk, and indeed we will see may not be homeomorphic to …

@… FWIW When my wife gave birth, the hospital clearly stated that they had a 2 person maximum in the room. So even if the wife gave in, this dude probably just can’t get what he wants, and needs to deal with that.

Former Browns Pro Bowler without a job clearly deserves a training camp invite https://fansided.com/nfl/former-browns-pro-bowler-without-a-job-clearly-deserves-a-training-camp-invite

The folks in Battle River-Crowfoot have the chance to do the funniest thing ever. . . .
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/17/opinion/pierre-poilievre-safe-seat-byelection-alberta

Pierre Poilievre’s safe seat isn’t so safe after all
The Conservative leader clearly thinks the byelection in Battle River-Crowfoot is going to be a cakewalk. His opponents have other ideas.

Can Multimodal LLMs See Materials Clearly? A Multimodal Benchmark on Materials Characterization
Zhengzhao Lai, Youbin Zheng, Zhenyang Cai, Haonan Lyu, Jinpu Yang, Hongqing Liang, Yan Hu, Benyou Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09307

Can Multimodal LLMs See Materials Clearly? A Multimodal Benchmark on Materials Characterization
Materials characterization is fundamental to acquiring materials information, revealing the processing-microstructure-property relationships that guide material design and optimization. While multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have recently shown promise in generative and predictive tasks within materials science, their capacity to understand real-world characterization imaging data remains underexplored. To bridge this gap, we present MatCha, the first benchmark for materials characteriz…

Perplexity's unsolicited $34.5B bid for Chrome with claimed VC backing is clearly a marketing stunt and strategic signaling amid Google's antitrust uncertainty (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/i-offer-to-buy-jupiter/

Perplexity's Perplexing and Positively PR Offer to Buy Chrome
Why not offer a quadrillion dollars?

“Tellingly, the defendants do not dispute that the Act prohibits the executive branch from imposing extra-statutory policy-based conditions on the Endowment's funding, Yet record evidence clearly shows that the defendants are withholding funding for impermissible policy reasons.”
Trump-appointed judge does the right thing, and DOGE damage lives on
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/16/2338306/-Trump-appointed-judge-does-the-right-thing-and-DOGE-damage-lives-on?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=main

To state the obvious: this is bland stuff, clearly protected by the 1A and so very far within the bounds of what a non-authoritarian FCC would allow that it’s just comical. Kimmel is about as controversial as a goldfish here. They aren’t serious about it being a problem; the whole •point• is that it’s obviously •not• a problem.
They are using something extremely benign to test the waters of government repression of speech, to see just how much they can get away with — and ABC caved like 3rd-grade toothpick bridge.

Dez Bryant envisions big things for one Raiders rookie wide receiver https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/dez-bryant-envisions-big-things-raiders-rookie-wide-receiver/7ef8c9553d26…

every single AI-for-coding experiment i've conducted ended up the same way: it was clearly faster, even if only a little bit, to do the same thing without the LLM in the middle https://mastodon.social/@janl@narrativ.es/115014692424751266

Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material
Any journalist or news organization sanctioned under this policy should immediately sue
-- they will win,
and be lauded as a defender of free speech
The Trump administration unveiled a new, clearly unconstitutional, crackdown Friday on journalists at the Pentagon,
saying it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information
— even unclassified
— that hasn’t been expre…

Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is imposing strict new rules that would severely limit the ability of journalists to report on the Pentagon.

i was put in charge of three grandchildren for a few hours yesterday so we headed straight to ben & jerry's to split a milkshake, then explored the state theater (and even sneaked into a movie but later got thrown out for horsing around on the escalator), then i gave a nickel tour of angell/mason/haven halls, then they chased squirrels on the diag which took longer than you might think, then we looked in all the windows in nickels arcade. it all went slowly and well.

The worst people, having discovered the killer probably came from their ranks, now have to fall back to their oldest tactic — canceling. It’s clearly their strongest play (they invented it, successfully blamed the tactic on everyone else, and are getting traction with it again now).

Right-Wing Activists Urge Followers to Expose Those Celebrating Charlie Kirk Killing
The widespread and fast-moving campaign has already resulted in lost jobs, suspensions and internal investigations, heightening tensions online between supporters and detractors of Charlie Kirk.

Das Trolley-Problem scheint dir abgehoben und viel zu abstrakt?
Nun, die Ethik hat sich auch schon ausführlich überlegt, wie ein autonomes Auto sich denn in Extrem-Gefahren­situationen verhalten soll¹, und auch das wirkt eher sehr abgehoben und unrealistisch. Was nicht diskutiert wurde, ist die in der Praxis implementierte Lösung: Autopilot schaltet sich Millisekunden vor dem Aufprall aus, um nicht schuld zu sein.²
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Likelihood confidence intervals for misspecified Cox models
Yongwu Shao, Xu Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11851 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.11851

Likelihood confidence intervals for misspecified Cox models
The robust Wald confidence interval (CI) for the Cox model is commonly used when the model may be misspecified or when weights are applied. However it can perform poorly when there are few events in one or both treatment groups, as may occur when the event of interest is rare or when the experimental arm is highly efficacious. For instance, if we artificially remove events (assuming more events are unfavorable) from the experimental group, the resulting upper CI may increase. This is clearly co…

@… I can't understand why OAPs holding up signs are in jail, but Yaxley-Lennon is out continuing to cause trouble.
The OAPs weren't violent, but he has shown clearly that he is.
cc @…

Handy Relation Between Binary Black Hole Merger Times and Host Galaxy Properties
Kelly Holley-Bockelmann (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, Department of Physics, Fisk University, Nashville, TN), Fazeel Khan (New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Center for Astrophysics and Space Science), Isaiah Williams (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN), Jaelyn Roth (Department of Physics and Astronomy, …

Handy Relation Between Binary Black Hole Merger Times and Host Galaxy Properties
Over the past 15 years, the evidence has clearly demonstrated that massive black hole (MBH) binary merger timescales depend strongly on the structural and kinematic properties of their host galaxy. Stellar density, gas content, shape and kinematics all play a role, combining in non-linear ways to effect the evolution of the binary. The binary properties themselves, such as eccentricity, mass ratio, and orbital plane, all matter as well. This makes it nontrivial to estimate accurate cosmological…

Today's cup of flat white #coffee. The latte art clearly still needs more practice, but the coffee is already better than what my frother and mokka pot delivered before.
#FlatWhite

In Brazil, the rule of law clearly and unambiguously classified the coup as a #coup and put Jair #Bolsonaro behind bars for 27 years.
Why didn't the #UnitedStates manage to do the same when the then and …

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.

Watching GitHub PR update emails roll in on a Sunday morning for my former job's repo that I was sole developer on. Manager is clearly trying to vibe code some update but it's breaking.
Although I don't have org access anymore my account is still in the approvers group so I'm getting emails
#softwaredevelopment

"The Conservative party has collectively decided that the threat of Farage is best met by copying him, so the idea that Badenoch could act towards Jenrick the way Heath did to Powell seems impossible. More extraordinary is that the Labour government is also under the misapprehension that the best way to combat Farage is to sound like him, a mistake that will seem incomprehensible in a few years time."
Fascism, Rivers of Blood, and today’s political and media elite

Urban Meyer questions whether NFL should suspend Chargers' Jim Harbaugh over Michigan sign-stealing scandal

https://www.cbssports.com/col…

Academics can be viciously funny.
I recently published a journal article. One of the reviewers didn't much care for it. Alongside the obvious critique that I clearly hadn't read enough of my own work, Reviewer 2 didn't like me quoting a certain text, having misread what I thought was an obvious reference to a classic text as insulting one of the people at the center of my article. The editor agreed with me enough to put an illustration of the classic text on the issue's…

Solar power is growing exponentially in Africa
https://www.futuretimeline.net/blog/2025/09/1-solar-power-growth-exponential-africa.htm

Solar power is growing exponentially in Africa
An inflection point in Africa's adoption of solar energy is now clearly visible, driven by record imports and rapid expansion across dozens of countries on the continent.

🧠 People with more life experience see and digest everyday 'events' more clearly, research finds
#brain

People with more life experience see and digest everyday 'events' more clearly, research finds
Research by Royal Holloway has found people with a varied social life mentally put their daily experiences into small "events," compared to more isolated people who see their world as one-long stretch.

Geert Wilders posted an islamophic image in a tweet a few days ago and is now being sued for it.
The thing is, the image is clearly AI generated. This means that the prompt for it is still around somewhere.
Under US discovery, that prompt would certainly be made public; possibly in the Dutch system as well.
This suggests some interesting possibilities. First, if Wilders made the image himself, his language in the prompt may have been more candid than his public persona.

Quasiparticle Interference in LiFeAs: Signature of Inelastic Tunneling through Spin Fluctuations
Shun Chi, Carolina A. Marques, Walter N. Hardy, Ruixing Liang, Pinder Dosanjh, Doug A. Bonn, Sarah A. Burke, Peter Wahl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11755

Quasiparticle Interference in LiFeAs: Signature of Inelastic Tunneling through Spin Fluctuations
Quasi-particle interference (QPI) is a powerful tool to characterize the symmetry of the superconducting order parameter in unconventional superconductors, by mapping the spatial dependence of elastic tunneling of electrons between the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope and a sample. Here, we consider the influence of inelastic tunneling on quasi-particle interference, exemplarily for the iron-based superconductor LiFeAs. We clearly observe replica features in both experimental QPI maps and…

Extreme right follower of an extreme right guy shoots another extreme right guy
Media: clearly this is a radical left trans guy

I still don't understand how the Atleti goal was allowed to stand. Griezemann was clearly an influence on the play in an offside decision. Might have even screened Alisson.
#LFC

The students that will be starting university in fall have been using #GenAI successfully (as in: they got their diplomas) for years. Why should they start questioning this now? What would be the incentive?
In the context of formal education, the primary incentive for most people (who are not intrinsically motived) is obtaining the degree. So, “encouraging reflection” will clearly not be en…

The students that will be starting university in fall have been using #GenAI successfully (as in: they got their diplomas) for years. Why should they start questioning this now? What would be the incentive?
In the context of formal education, the primary incentive for most people (who are not intrinsically motived) is obtaining the degree. So, “encouraging reflection” will clearly not be en…

This is a public service announcement for all the dollar-store Sherlock Holmes’s out there who clearly have nothing better to do than to concoct conspiracy theories about people from Gaza on the fediverse who are faced with genocide and famine:
Stop.
Have some humanity.
Case in point, do not do what Daniel (@helmet91@mastodon.social) is doing here:

Source identifiers are used to track your activity on a site:
Where you came from, what device you use, and even who you talk to.
Whether it's written clearly in the url or tied to a random string of characters, it's assigned to your activity.
When you send a link containing a source identifier to somebody and they click it, it signals to the website that you two are connected.
And that data goes right back to the website operators, and thus their advertisers…

Heartbreaking.
“This essentially says the United States is no longer your ally, that the United States doesn’t see clearly beyond the rhetoric of your regime,”
https://www.

Trump Has a New Definition of Human Rights
State Department reports portray Germany as more oppressive than El Salvador.

It's time to shame #PDM, the "#Python package and dependency manager", for embracing unethical coding. Also, clearly wasting large amounts energy to make a 4-line change, and get it wrong twice while at it.
(Yes, the "no significant changes" is another fix to the same #LLM coding mistake.)
#AI

Enhancing Multi-Agent Debate System Performance via Confidence Expression
Zijie Lin, Bryan Hooi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14034 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509…

Enhancing Multi-Agent Debate System Performance via Confidence Expression
Generative Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks. Recent research has introduced Multi-Agent Debate (MAD) systems, which leverage multiple LLMs to simulate human debate and thereby improve task performance. However, while some LLMs may possess superior knowledge or reasoning capabilities for specific tasks, they often struggle to clearly communicate this advantage during debates, in part due to a lack of confidence expression. Moreove…

Little Red Dots as Direct-collapse Black Hole Nurseries
Elia Cenci, Melanie Habouzit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14897 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14897

Little Red Dots as Direct-collapse Black Hole Nurseries
The James Webb Space Telescope recently uncovered a population of massive black holes (BHs) in the first billion years after the Big Bang. Among these high-redshift BH candidates, observations have identified a class of active galactic nuclei candidates, dubbed Little Red Dots (LRDs), with extraordinarily compact gas reservoirs and peculiar spectral features. LRDs clearly emerge at redshift z<8 and their abundance declines by z<5. Recent theoretical studies have explored the link between LRDs a…

The fascist coalition was never going to hold. It couldn't. Fascists want everyone to be exactly the same. That's their whole thing. Leftists want diversity, so we can actually form coalitions. Fascists will always reach a point where they have to kill all the other fascists who aren't exactly like them.
Project 2025 betrayed this. It wasn't consistent. It was a jumble of different ideas that couldn't actually be implemented together. Someone gets left out. The Groypers haven't been getting what they want. Things have been moving too slowly for them. So now we get to see what happens. If they keep accelating, Trump could be forced to choose between cracking down on the far right (and destroying his coalition completely) or letting his people get killed. I hope that's a choice he has to make.
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While Rome burns, go build things that help people and get other people involved in it. The way we win is by not getting involved in that mess, but rather just clearly demonstrating that we can make things better.

Dem Congresswomen Demand ICE Agents Clearly Identify Themselves Amid Wave of Imposter Assaults | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/house-democrats-ice-agents

Oh, you think the dress is your ally, but you merely bought the dress. I was born in it, molded by it.

Dak Prescott was clearly best player on field for Dallas Cowboys in loss vs. Eagles https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dak-prescott-was-clearly-best-player-dallas-cowboys-loss-vs-eagles

@helmet91@mastodon.social You are spreading a crackpot conspiracy theory based on your amateur forensics and harming actual people who are facing genocide and famine.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Since you clearly have no intention to stop, I am blocking you. And I suggest anyone with a conscience does the same.

Clearly a work in progress. Lots of promise, but very disjointed while chemistry is built, fitness is gained, and adaptations to a faster and more physical league are happening. It's a lot of roster changes.
The defense look shaky, but often they were put in bad positions by turnovers with too many players committed. Outside backs and midfielders.
Thrilled for Chiesa to get one. Happy for Mo to continue the opening day streak.
Ekitike is my MOTM. He already looks comfor…

If you want to make the case against political violence, start by saying clearly that Charlie Kirk was a miserable sack of shit who promoted bigotry and religious hatred and helped organized a violent coup attempt whose goal was to end democracy in the US in order to establish a white supremacist ethnostate. Say that the world is better without him in it.
•Then• make your argument that even in his case — even a person whose death improves the world — even •then• political violence is a bad strategy.
A/2

"Volume Two: Thank You For Your Patience" is one of my recent favorite albums. Milwaukee's the Beat Index clearly had a blast making "an album of on-hold music for automated phone systems." You really need to listen to the whole album - it's sonically on point, damn catchy, and brutally funny (the endlessly repeating tri-tone at the end of the full album "Telesthesia Mix" makes me wanna cry every time).
"Caught in a Lie (Hotline Mix)" (20…

Micah Parsons contract: Cowboys players 'clearly frustrated' with Jerry Jones, 'distracted' ahead of season

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/…

Acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy
emphasized his desire to end NASA's focus on studying the Earth and understanding how the planet's surface and atmosphere are changing.
This shift has been a priority of the Trump Administration at other federal agencies.
https://…

NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency
NASA’s charter clearly states the agency should study planet Earth, however.

Top 12 NFL RBs of 1975: Where Bills' O.J. Simpson and Steelers' Franco Harris rank on iconic list of backs

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/top-12-

Dez Bryant envisions big things for one Raiders rookie wide receiver https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/dez-bryant-envisions-big-things-raiders-rookie-wide-receiver/7ef8c9553d26…

Whatever this cat got caught doing, they were obviously framed. They'll happily do it again, but they're clearly innocent! Just look at them :3

Trump clearly got booed during the national anthem at the U.S. Open,
but ABC “conveniently” cut to commercial when he hit the scoreboard.
And why does he salute the anthem like a dictator
instead of putting his hand over his chest like every other American?
https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonlin…

Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com)
Trump clearly got booed during the national anthem at the U.S. Open, but ABC “conveniently” cut to commercial when he hit the scoreboard. And why does he salute the anthem like a dictator instead of putting his hand over his chest like every other American?

In case anyone needs a laugh tonight, here’s me wearing a chicken hat.
You’re welcome.
(There are some stores I clearly should not be allowed in.)
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Cowboys Encouraged To Cut 4th Year Run Game ‘Liability’ https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/damone-clark-encouraged-cut-run-liability/?adt_ei=[email]

Cowboys depth at edge rusher may be envy of all other NFL teams if they can fit all on 53 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/03/edge-rusher-is-clearly-cow…

'Nowhere all-time:' Randy Moss says Tyreek Hill hasn't reached that plateau among NFL's best receivers ever

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news…

Trump and his officials are waging a war on electricity infrastructure.
This campaign is primarily driven by their opposition to the solar and wind farms that they associate with their foils, the Democrats.
Even as electricity has clearly become more important to the economy
— and even as the country’s biggest technology firms strive to secure any spare electron for their new metropolis-size data centers
— Trump and his team have begun a regulatory coup to smother n…

Opinion | Trump Is Destroying the Future of America to Own the Libs
Smothering electric vehicles might have been a regrettable mistake for a Republican to make 10 years ago. Today, it is economic idiocy.