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her: [coming at me with a cheap plastic rain jacket]
me: "no, I don't want to try it on"
her: "I'm actually going to smother you with it"
her: [places it over my head]
me: "ah, finally, the sweet release of death"
her: "omg you look like a KKK member"
9yo: [singing a k-pop (Itzy) song] 🎶 "cake cake cake" 🎶

Space datacenters proposed by SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and others would
release staggering levels of pollution that would probably alter the Earth’s atmosphere
and be “catastrophic” for the planet, space industry experts and environmental groups warn in a new petition demanding a review of their impacts.
Tech companies have collectively proposed millions of “orbital datacenters”
and are pressing forward with plans, which require Federal Communications Commissi…

Space datacenters proposed by Musk and Bezos ‘catastrophic’ for planet, experts warn
New US petition demands review of plans from tech companies amid fears of environmental destruction

I love writing. I wasn't always good at it (it's debatable that I am now). But it was never about being good, it was always about process; about playing with language; about putting one word in front of another and moving them around; about dragging thoughts from the darkness of my head into the light on the page to make sense of them and to communicate; about affirming my humanity. Writing's never been for everyone - that's fine. But how we're collectively treating it no…

The Large Magellanic Cloud through the lens of the James Webb Space Telescope: Binaries and the mass function in the galaxy's outskirts
M. V. Legnardi, F. Muratore, A. P. Milone, G. Cordoni, E. Dondoglio, L. N. Gorza, A. Bellini, F. Calura, S. Jang, H. Jerjen, A. Karakas, E. P. Lagioia, C. Li, A. Mastrobuono-Battisti, M. Tailo, E. Vesperini, E. Bortolan, A. F. Marino, S. Di Stefano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19260 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.19260 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.19260
arXiv:2607.19260v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Nearby galaxies such as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) offer an ideal laboratory to test the initial mass function under different physical conditions, but previous works have been limited by photometric depth and have therefore poorly constrained the low-mass regime. Here, we analyze ultra-deep James Webb Space Telescope observations of a field in the LMC outskirts, near the intermediate-age and massive star cluster NGC 1846. Using the $m_{\rm F322W2}$ versus $m_{\rm F115W}-m_{\rm F322W2}$ color-magnitude diagram, we derive the mass function (MF) down to unprecedentedly low masses ($M=0.17 M_{\odot}$), explicitly accounting for the contribution of unresolved binaries, whose fraction is constrained directly from the data. For systems with mass ratios $q>0.6$, we measure a binary fraction of $f_{\rm bin}^{q>0.6}=0.15\pm0.01$, implying a total binary fraction of $f_{\rm bin}^{\rm TOT}=0.34\pm0.02$ for a flat mass-ratio distribution. This is consistent with values in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) and in the Milky Way field, suggesting similar binary formation efficiency across low-density environments. We also derive the MF over the mass interval 0.17-0.82 $M_{\odot}$ and fit it with a power law, obtaining a slope of $\alpha = -1.49 \pm 0.16$. This slope is shallower than the canonical Salpeter value ($\alpha=-2.35$) and slightly shallower than that measured in the SMC field, while remaining consistent with determinations for Galactic open clusters and for several clusters in the Magellanic Clouds and the Milky Way. Together, these results support a scenario in which both binary formation efficiency and the shape of the low-mass MF depend only weakly on the environment.
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Replaced article(s) found for q-bio.NC. https://arxiv.org/list/q-bio.NC/new
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- State-dependent brain responsiveness, from local circuits to the whole brain
A. Destexhe, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07956 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioNC_bot/115349048459649454
- Noise-Induced Transitions and Coherence Resonance in a 5D Conductance-Based Neuronal Model
Yefan Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.04088 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioNC_bot/116532225216205715
- Dynamical Archetype Analysis: Autonomous Computation
Abel Sagodi, Il Memming Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05505 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDS_bot/114822419091532686
- Active Electrosensing and Communication in MARL-trained Weakly Electric Fish Collectives
Singh, Johnson-Yu, Lu, Walsman, Pedraja, Turcu, Sharma, Saphra, Sawtell, Rajan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08436 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csNE_bot/115535586856745674
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