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Mesoscale FEM Model of Concrete: Statistical Assessment of Inherent Stress Concentrations in Dependence on Phase Heterogeneity
Jan Ma\v{s}ek (Institute of Physics of Materials, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic, Institute of Structural Mechanics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic), Petr Miarka (Institute of Physics of Materials, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic, Institute of Structural Mechanics, Faculty of Ci…

Mesoscale FEM Model of Concrete: Statistical Assessment of Inherent Stress Concentrations in Dependence on Phase Heterogeneity
Concrete heterogeneity originates from its production process, which involves bonding aggregates with a binder matrix. This study presents a mesoscale finite element model (MFEM) that offers detailed insights into the fracture process at the aggregate-cement matrix interface, focusing on one of concrete's key properties: its mechanical response. Unlike discrete models, which often average out critical stress concentrations within the mesostructure, the MFEM approach captures detailed stress dis…

Today is the 40th anniversary of the Air India Flight 182 bombing that departed Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and exploded off the coast of Ireland.
Many lives stolen - never forgotten. We still grieve. We still love.
My best friend and her family were on that plane. She was 11.
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'My kids haven't heard about this': Community calls for Air India bombing learning centre in B.C. | CBC News
A coalition of B.C.-based faith groups and community members are calling on the province to build a large memorial and education centre to honour the victims of the 1985 Air India bombing, considered the worst terrorist attack in Canada's history.

Not a JS expert, but if you ignore `<dialog>` (via `.showModal()`) to roll your own modal, I feel a different selector for interactive elements is better than repeating `.filter()` (comment link):
https://css-tricks.com/a-primer-on-focus-trapping/#comment-1…

A Primer on Focus Trapping | CSS-Tricks
Focus trapping is about managing focus within an element, such that focus always stays within it. The whole process sounds simple in theory, but it can quite difficult to build in practice, mostly because of the numerous parts to you got to manage.

How Do Community Smells Influence Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Machine Learning Projects?
Shamse Tasnim Cynthia, Nuri Almarimi, Banani Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15884

How Do Community Smells Influence Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Machine Learning Projects?
Community smells reflect poor organizational practices that often lead to socio-technical issues and the accumulation of Self-Admitted Technical Debt (SATD). While prior studies have explored these problems in general software systems, their interplay in machine learning (ML)-based projects remains largely underexamined. In this study, we investigated the prevalence of community smells and their relationship with SATD in open-source ML projects, analyzing data at the release level. First, we ex…

The Postman: A Journey of Ethical Hacking in PosteID/SPID Borderland
Gabriele Costa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17007 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.17007

The Postman: A Journey of Ethical Hacking in PosteID/SPID Borderland
This paper presents a vulnerability assessment activity that we carried out on PosteID, the implementation of the Italian Public Digital Identity System (SPID) by Poste Italiane. The activity led to the discovery of a critical privilege escalation vulnerability, which was eventually patched. The overall analysis and disclosure process represents a valuable case study for the community of ethical hackers. In this work, we present both the technical steps and the details of the disclosure process.

This weekend I listened to the 'How to Age Up' podcast on climate change. A lot of good observations for how parents can help their children process the daily news cycle and manage their anxiety about the future.
Turns out one effective strategy is one I keep hearing from so many different sources - you build community. Building community makes communities more resilient. Building community makes you feel less alone - so you can help do the work to combat climate change/racism/…

'Setting Fire to the Last Forest': Project West Ford and the Mobilization of the Astronomical Community 1958-1965
John C. Barentine
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14714

'Setting Fire to the Last Forest': Project West Ford and the Mobilization of the Astronomical Community 1958-1965
The dawning of the Space Age marked the start of an ongoing relationship between the professional astronomical community and both state and non-state actors that launch and operate spacecraft in near-Earth orbital space. While the Cold War heated up in the late 1950s, military uses of outer space quickly came into conflict with the priorities of astronomers then building ever-bigger ground-based telescopes and envisioning the first generation of space telescopes. As the threat of global thermon…

"“Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy” has plenty of phrases like “task force,” “initiative,” “framework,” “collaboration,” and “harmonizing authorization processes,” but it repeatedly pleas for “more research” on chemicals and toxins that are already accepted by the wider medical community a dangerous."
'I’m horrified as a mother': Make America Healthy Again moms turn their backs on Trump - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/donald-trump-maha-mothers/

"Whoever needs to see it, will see it": Motivations and Labor of Creating Algorithmic Conspirituality Content on TikTok
Ankolika De, Kelley Cotter, Shaheen Kanthawala, Haley McAtee, Amy Ritchart, Gahana Kadur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16851

"Whoever needs to see it, will see it": Motivations and Labor of Creating Algorithmic Conspirituality Content on TikTok
Recent studies show that users often interpret social media algorithms as mystical or spiritual because of their unpredictability. This invites new questions about how such perceptions affect the content that creators create and the communities they form online. In this study, 14 creators of algorithmic conspirituality content on TikTok were interviewed to explore their interpretations and creation processes influenced by the platform's For You Page algorithm. We illustrate how creators' belief…

Update - I think I managed to come to a compromise on timeline and firmly established that no AI will be used for this project.
They agreed, although they did make say that “it’s as if you decided to dig up a garden using a shovel instead of a tractor. As long as it’s done, it’s done”
I don’t wanna pick a fight so I left the comment alone but now that I think of it I have two responses:
- who digs a garden with a tractor?
- last I checked tractor didn’t have a ~30% chance of lying about the dirt they did or up to 70% odds of just giving up on working if the ground was too hard to dig