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The event page for @… 's Enshittification book tour stop in #Montreal links to Facebook for full details…
The irony of this is not lost on me.
(See you there, tomorrow, local friends?)

Cory Doctorow launches Enshittification | Librairie Drawn & Quarterly
Drawn & Quarterly is an internationally renowned publisher of the world's best cartoonists.

Carroll, Raiders Face a Pivotal Upcoming Week https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-john-spytek-arizona-cardinals-pete-carroll-geno-smith

As GenAI disrupts media content creation by lowering barriers and costs, value will shift to complements such as merchandise, live events, and exclusive access (Doug Shapiro/The Mediator)
https://dougshapiro.substack.com/p/what-if-all-media-is-marketing-no

What If All Media is Marketing? (No Paywall)
The Logical Conclusion of Plummeting Creation Costs

Multi-top signals of vectorlike quarks at the LHC
Elias Bernreuther, Bogdan A. Dobrescu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14960 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14960…

Multi-top signals of vectorlike quarks at the LHC
We point out that events with 6 or more top quarks may be observed at the LHC if certain particles exist at the TeV scale. In a model where a vectorlike quark of charge 2/3 decays into a top quark and a pseudoscalar particle, which subsequently decays into a top-antitop pair, the LHC production cross section for events with 6 top quarks may be above 10 fb. If the pseudoscalar is part of a complex scalar field, then longer cascade decays, involving the scalar partner, may lead to events with 8 o…

Localized five-dimensional rotating brane-world black hole Analytically Connected to an to an AdS$_5$ boundary
Milko Estrada, Francisco Tello-Ortiz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18435

a feature that i wish was built into mastodon from the start & hope it eventually comes to heads.social. feel like being able to communicate only with people on your local server is one of the missing pieces in actually making local servers work. (i'd certainly be more apt to live-toot live shows/streams if i knew the readers were specifically the heads server.)

Parkes transient events: II. Pulsar single pulses database containing raw data segment
Xuan Yang, S. B. Zhang, Le-Yu Tang, L. Toomey, Xue-Feng Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14403

Parkes transient events: II. Pulsar single pulses database containing raw data segment
We have re-processed single pulse candidates from the first four years (1997-2001) of the Parkes Multibeam receiver system observations, creating a new Parkes transient database (PTD II) that contains 165,592 single pulses from 363 known pulsars. Unlike previous databases, PTD II preserves the critical raw data segments of each detected pulse, enabling detailed analyses of emission physics while maintaining a compact size of only 1.5 GB. The database employs a sqlite3 structure organising pulsa…

A local cancer institute has a giant inflatable colon, maybe 3m in diameter and 6m long, set up at a community event.
Where does one even go to make such a thing? I feel like there's a single digit number of companies globally that specialize in making custom printed/sculpted inflatable props like this. It's certainly not something you'd buy COTS.
Like anybody who makes bouncy castles *could* but I suspect most such companies just do standard designs

The garden festival / Landesgartenschau was not just about #gardening. There were also events etc. (Which we didn't attend)
One place was about #floristry with really beautifully decorated arrangements. I'm always a bit jealous of such things. They look really beautiful, and requir…

BioMetaphor: AI-Generated Biodata Representations for Virtual Co-Present Events
Lin Lin, Ming Wu, Anyu Ren, Zhanwei Wu, Daojun Gong, Ruowei Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11600

BioMetaphor: AI-Generated Biodata Representations for Virtual Co-Present Events
In virtual or hybrid co-present events, biodata is emerging as a new paradigm of social cues. While it is able to reveal individuals' inner states, the technology-mediated representation of biodata in social contexts remains underexplored. This study aims to uncover human cognitive preferences and patterns for biodata expression and leverage this knowledge to guide generative AI (GenAI) in creating biodata representations for co-present experiences, aligning with the broader concept of Human-in…