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Pair of Ancient Megalithic Tombs Identified That Date Back to ‘Polish Pyramid’ Builders https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/pair-of-ancient-megalithic-tombs-identified-that-date-back-to-polish-pyramid-builders/

Pair of Ancient Megalithic Tombs Identified That Date Back to 'Polish Pyramid' Builders
Attributed to a culture known as the Funnel Breakers, the pyramids were constructed of megalithic stones in elongated triangular shapes.

SEC filing: Paramount nominates three directors to its board and schedules its annual meeting for July 2; board member Judith McHale won't stand for re-election (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/para

Paramount Nominates Three New Board Members
With the Skydance deal pending, Paramount Global set a date for its 2025 annual meeting of stockholders and nominated three new board members.

Sticky Date Cake With Toffee And Vanilla Ice Cream #plantbased

Sticky Date Cake With Toffee And Vanilla Ice Cream
For a decadent and dreamy dessert make this vegan sticky date cake with toffee and dairy-free vanilla ice cream.

Why did we add Planned Dates to OmniFocus 4.7, when we already have both Due Dates and Defer Dates?
Defer Dates and Due Dates express constraints: you can't work on something before a date, or you need to finish something by a date. They affect the task's status: it's not available until its Defer Date, and it's overdue after its Due Date.
Planned Dates don't affect a task's status, they simply schedule when you currently plan to do the task. Goodbye, fake…

Planned versus Deferred date intended usage?
The defer date indicates when you want a task to become available. Until that date, it won’t show up in any perspectives that are filtering out unavailable tasks. It’s a way of hiding future work so it’s not distracting you today. You’ll start to see available tasks in various perspectives as soon as they’ve reached their defer date. The new planned date is for scheduling when you actually plan to do the task. It could be days or weeks or months later than the defer date. It doesn’…

{lubridate} makes working with dates in R just that little bit easier: #rstats #dates

Make Dealing with Dates a Little Easier
Functions to work with date-times and time-spans: fast and user friendly parsing of date-time data, extraction and updating of components of a date-time (years, months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds), algebraic manipulation on date-time and time-span objects. The lubridate package has a consistent and memorable syntax that makes working with dates easy and fun.

pokec: Pokec online social network (2012)
The online social network of Pokec, a popular OSN in Slovakia, from 2012. Date covers about 10 years and more than 1.6 million people. Profile data contains gender, age, hobbies, interest, education etc. Profile metadata are in Slovak language. Friendships in Pokec are oriented.
This network has 1632804 nodes and 30622564 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Metadata

There are so many students in Boston that 99% of leases begin and end at the same date
-- on September 1 everyone has to move at the same time
#moveageddon #boston

Just caught the release date for the new Red Sonja movie will be August 15 - two weeks away! Wild that it's 2025 and we're getting a new Red Sonja flick. I am HERE for THIS shit. It's sword and sorcery, you can't take it too seriously. But it looks like a hell of a lot of fun ⚔️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rUNj73…

Maybe Rex Tillerson Was Right. Maybe Donald Trump Really Is Just A Moron. (S.V. Date/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-ignorant-moron_n_68af882fe4b0d635adb3ace1
http://www.memeorandum.com/250831/p101#a250831p101

The media focus on this one criticism is insane, just massive focus on ensuring everybody is quoted as being against Bob's chant.
The manufacturing of consent in plain view. No support of Bob allowed to be quoted, only condemnation. No focus at all on the horrors committed by the army itself, just condemnation and contrition from all corners.
And all so much louder than the coverage of death and hunger and destruction and genocide being committed by that army.
Our media environment is so focused and in lock-step, even though it's in theory free. Yet not a single newspaper saying, you know, the Vylan character has a point! Maybe we should disband a criminal army!
Got confused about the date in the show here, but the reading's about right. The bandwagon rolls on because it's a victory for everyone. The media gets to condemn someone, and they don't have to condemn Israel.
https://wordcloudtarot.com/readings/2025-07-01-gazaandglastonbury/

You ever overhear two people on a date and think “run, girl, run”?

NFL news roundup: Buccaneers' Baker Mayfield day to day with hand contusion; Dolphins sign QB https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-friday-aug-1

How popular media gets love wrong
Now a bit of background about why I have this "engineered" model of love:
First, I'm a white straight cis man. I've got a few traits that might work against my relationship chances (e.g., neurodivergence; I generally fit pretty well into the "weird geek" stereotype), but as I was recently reminded, it's possible my experience derives more from luck than other factors, and since things are tilted more in my favor than most people on the planet, my advice could be worse than useless if it leads people towards strategies that would only have worked for someone like me. I don't *think* that's the case, but it's worth mentioning explicitly.
When I first started dating my now-wife, we were both in graduate school. I was 26, and had exactly zero dating/romantic experience though that point in my life. In other words, a pretty stereotypical "incel" although I definitely didn't subscribe to incel ideology at all. I felt lonely, and vaguely wanted a romantic relationship (I'm neither aromantic nor asexual), but had never felt socially comfortable enough to pursue one before. I don't drink and dislike most social gatherings like parties or bars; I mostly hung around the fringes of the few college parties I attended, and although I had a reasonable college social life in terms of friends, I didn't really do anything to pursue romance, feeling too awkward to know where to start. I had the beginnings of crushes in both high school and college, but never developed a really strong crush, probably correlated with not putting myself in many social situations outside of close all-male friend gatherings. I never felt remotely comfortable enough to act on any of the proto-crushes I did have. I did watch porn and masturbate, so one motivation for pursuing a relationship was physical intimacy, but loneliness was as much of a motivating factor, and of course the social pressure to date was a factor too, even though I'm quite contrarian.
When I first started dating my now-wife, we were both in graduate school. I was 26, and had exactly zero dating/romantic experience though that point in my life. In other words, a pretty stereotypical "incel" although I definitely didn't subscribe to incel ideology at all. I felt lonely, and vaguely wanted a romantic relationship (I'm neither aromantic nor asexual), but had never felt socially comfortable enough to pursue one before. I don't drink and dislike most social gatherings like parties or bars; I mostly hung around the fringes of the few college parties I attended, and although I had a reasonable college social life in terms of friends, I didn't really do anything to pursue romance, feeling too awkward to know where to start. I had the beginnings of crushes in both high school and college, but never developed a really strong crush, probably correlated with not putting myself in many social situations outside of close all-male friend gatherings. I never felt remotely comfortable enough to act on any of the proto-crushes I did have. I did watch porn and masturbate, so one motivation for pursuing a relationship was physical intimacy, but loneliness was as much of a motivating factor, and of course the social pressure to date was a factor too, even though I'm quite contrarian.
I'm lucky in that I had some mixed-gender social circles already like intramural soccer and a graduate-student housing potluck. Graduate school makes a *lot* more of these social spaces accessible, so I recognize that those not in school of some sort have a harder time of things, especially if like me they don't feel like they fit in in typical adult social spaces like bars.
However, at one point I just decided that my desire for a relationship would need action on my part and so I'd try to build a relationship and see what happened. I worked up my courage and asked one of the people in my potluck if she'd like to go for a hike (pretty much clearly a date but not explicitly one; in retrospect not the best first-date modality in a lot of ways, but it made a little more sense in our setting where we could go for a hike from our front door). To emphasize this point: I was not in love with (or even infatuated with) my now-wife at that point. I made a decision to be open to building a relationship, but didn't follow the typical romance story formula beyond that. Now of course, in real life as opposed to popular media, this isn't anything special. People ask each other out all the time just because they're lonely, and some of those relationships turn out fine (although many do not).
I was lucky in that some aspects of who I am and what I do happened to be naturally comforting to my wife (natural advantage in the "appeal" model of love) but of course there are some aspects of me that annoy my wife, and we negotiate that. In the other direction, there's some things I instantly liked about my wife, and other things that still annoy me. We've figured out how to accept a little, change a little, and overall be happy with each other (though we do still have arguments; it's not like the operation/construction/maintenance of the "love mechanism" is always perfectly smooth). In particular though, I approached the relationship with the attitude of "I want to try to build a relationship with this person," at first just because of my own desires for *any* relationship, and then gradually more and more through my desire to build *this specific* relationship as I enjoyed the rewards of companionship.
So for example, while I think my wife is objectively beautiful, she's also *subjectively* very beautiful *to me* because having decided to build a relationship with her, I actively tried to see her as beautiful, rather than trying to judge whether I wanted a relationship with her based on her beauty. In other words, our relationship is more causative of her beauty-to-me than her beauty-to-me is causative of our relationship. This is the biggest way I think the "engineered" model of love differs from the "fire" and "appeal" models: you can just decide to build love independent of factors we typically think of as engendering love (NOT independent of your partner's willingness to participate, of course), and then all of those things like "thinking your partner is beautiful" can be a result of the relationship you're building. For sure those factors might affect who is willing to try building a relationship with you in the first place, but if more people were willing to jump into relationship building (not necessarily with full commitment from the start) without worrying about those other factors, they might find that those factors can come out of the relationship instead of being prerequisites for it. I think this is the biggest failure of the "appeal" model in particular: yes you *do* need to do things that appeal to your partner, but it's not just "make myself lovable" it's also: is your partner putting in the effort to see the ways that you are beautiful/lovable/etc., or are they just expecting you to become exactly some perfect person they've imagined (and/or been told to desire by society)? The former is perfectly possible, and no less satisfying than the latter.
To cut off my rambling a bit here, I'll just add that in our progress from dating through marriage through staying-married, my wife and I have both talked at times explicitly about commitment, and especially when deciding to get married, I told her that I knew I couldn't live up to the perfect model of a husband that I'd want to be, but that if she wanted to deepen our commitment, I was happy to do that, and so we did. I also rearranged my priorities at that point, deciding that I knew I wanted to prioritize this relationship above things like my career or my research interests, and while I've not always been perfect at that in my little decisions, I've been good at holding to that in my big decisions at least. In the end, *once we had built a somewhat-committed relationship*, we had something that we both recognized was worth more than most other things in life, and that let us commit even more, thus getting even more out of it in the long term. Obviously you can't start the first date with an expectation of life-long commitment, and you need to synchronize your increasing commitment to a relationship so that it doesn't become lopsided, which is hard. But if you take the commitment as an active decision and as the *precursor* to things like infatuation, attraction, etc., you can build up to something that's incredibly strong and rewarding.
I'll follow this up with one more post trying to distill some advice from my ramblings.
#relationships #love

residence_hall: ANU Residence Hall network
A network of friendships among students living in a residence hall at Australian National University (date unknown). Edge direction indicates that resident i named resident j as a friend, and edge weight indicates the level of friendship: 5 (best friend), 4 (close friend), 3 (friend), 2, 1.
This network has 217 nodes and 2672 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

Turkey-based Good Job Games, which develops Match-3 games like the popular Match Villains, raised a $60M Series A, after raising a $23M seed six months ago (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/07/31/good-job-games-secures-60m-seri…

Good Job Games secures $60M Series A to build the future of Match-3 gaming
Turkish mobile games dev company Good Job Games has raised a $60 million Series A round, co-led by Menlo Ventures and Anthos Capital, with additional participation by Bessemer Venture Partners.  The round brings the total investment amount to date to $83 million, after a seed round of $23 million just six months ago. Good Job Games aims to build a generational entertainment brand through timeless, socially-driven games. An example is its popular Match Villains, a game designed to be endless…

VQ-VLA: Improving Vision-Language-Action Models via Scaling Vector-Quantized Action Tokenizers
Yating Wang, Haoyi Zhu, Mingyu Liu, Jiange Yang, Hao-Shu Fang, Tong He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01016

VQ-VLA: Improving Vision-Language-Action Models via Scaling Vector-Quantized Action Tokenizers
In this paper, we introduce an innovative vector quantization based action tokenizer built upon the largest-scale action trajectory dataset to date, leveraging over 100 times more data than previous approaches. This extensive dataset enables our tokenizer to capture rich spatiotemporal dynamics, resulting in a model that not only accelerates inference but also generates smoother and more coherent action outputs. Once trained, the tokenizer can be seamlessly adapted to a wide range of downstream…

Plug. Play. Persist. Inside a Ready-to-Go Havoc C2 Infrastructure
Alessio Di Santo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00189 https://arxiv.org…

Plug. Play. Persist. Inside a Ready-to-Go Havoc C2 Infrastructure
This analysis focuses on a single Azure-hosted Virtual Machine at 52.230.23.114 that the adversary converted into an all-in-one delivery, staging and Command-and-Control node. The host advertises an out-of-date Apache 2.4.52 instance whose open directory exposes phishing lures, PowerShell loaders, Reflective Shell-Code, compiled Havoc Demon implants and a toolbox of lateral-movement binaries; the same server also answers on 8443/80 for encrypted beacon traffic. The web tier is riddled with publ…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Yeah Yeah Yeahs:
🎵 Date with the night
#NowPlaying #YeahYeahYeahs
https://kkristan.bandcamp.com/track/travisscottxiix-x-kkris-t-an-feat-the-semitransparents-date-with-a-night-yeah-yeah-yeahs-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/0EJHhccadE8UvdZ5wGI1SN

Gaia's promise to detect compact-object binaries: where we stand with the third data release
Chirag Chawla, Sourav Chatterjee, Katelyn Breivik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21805

Gaia's promise to detect compact-object binaries: where we stand with the third data release
With its third data release (DR3), Gaia begins unveiling dormant candidate compact object (CO) binaries with luminous companion (LC) as predicted by several past theoretical studies. To date, 3 black hole (BH), 21 neutron star (NS), and ~3200 white dwarf (WD) candidates have been identified with LCs in detached orbits using astrometry. We adopt an observationally motivated sampling scheme for the star formation history of the Milky Way, and initial zero-age main-sequence binary properties, inco…

SPT-3G D1: Axion Early Dark Energy with CMB experiments and DESI
A. R. Khalife, L. Balkenhol, E. Camphuis, A. J. Anderson, B. Ansarinejad, M. Archipley, P. S. Barry, K. Benabed, A. N. Bender, B. A. Benson, F. Bianchini, L. E. Bleem, F. R. Bouchet, L. Bryant, M. G. Campitiello, J. E. Carlstrom, C. L. Chang, P. Chaubal, P. M. Chichura, A. Chokshi, T. L. Chou, A. Coerver, T. M. Crawford, C. Daley, T. de Haan, K. R. Dibert, M. A. Dobbs, M. Doohan, A. Doussot, D. Dutcher, W. Everett, C. Fen…

SPT-3G D1: Axion Early Dark Energy with CMB experiments and DESI
We present the most up-to-date constraints on axion early dark energy (AEDE) from cosmic microwave background (CMB) and baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements. In particular, we assess the impact of data from ground-based CMB experiments, the South Pole Telescope (SPT) and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) -- both with and without $Planck$ -- on constraints on AEDE. We also highlight the impact that BAO information from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has on these co…

Translating between the representations of an acyclic convex geometry of bounded degree
Oscar Defrain, Arthur Ohana, Simon Vilmin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.24052

Translating between the representations of an acyclic convex geometry of bounded degree
We consider the problem of enumerating the irreducible closed sets of a closure system given by an implicational base. In the context of Horn logic, these correspond to Horn expressions and characteristic models, respectively. To date, the complexity status of this problem is widely open, and it is further known to generalize the notorious hypergraph dualization problem, even in the context of acyclic convex geometries, i.e., closure systems admitting an acyclic implicational base. This paper s…

Gosh, I just can't imagine why people dislike people like MrBeast.
I guess it's a mystery.
▶️ MrBeast Takes Over Disneyland for $500K Date Night in Empty Park
https://people.com/mrbeast-shuts-down-disneyland-for-usd500-000-…

MrBeast Shuts Down Disneyland for $500K Date Night in Empty Park
MrBeast rented out Disneyland for a $500k private date night, he shared in a new video. The video creator, his fiancée Thea Booysen, and a group of friends enjoyed a night of the park all to themselves.

"For Fairer Open Access Deals, Base Article Eligibility on Submission Date" @ Katina Magazine:
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/fairer-oa-deals-article-eligibility-submission-date…

Nice dashboard for current CVE-2025-7775 RCE vulnerability.
https://dashboard.shadowserver.org/sta

Exploring the economic promise and environmental costs of mining in Brazil #Brazil…

Exploring the economic promise and environmental costs of mining in Brazil
Mining in Brazil does not deliver the sustained economic benefits often claimed, while informal mining is a major driver of deforestation, especially in the Amazon. A new study offers one of the most comprehensive assessments to date, combining satellite imagery and economic data to analyze the environmental and economic impacts of mining at the municipal scale across Brazil.

Chasing Serendipity: Tackling Transient Sources with Neutrino Telescopes
Lua F. T. Airoldi, Gustavo F. S. Alves, Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez, Gabriel M. Salla, Renata Zukanovich Funchal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24652

Chasing Serendipity: Tackling Transient Sources with Neutrino Telescopes
The discovery of ultra-high-energy neutrinos by IceCube marked the beginning of neutrino astronomy. Yet, the origin and production mechanisms of these neutrinos remain open questions. With the recent observation of the highest-energy neutrino event to date by the KM3NeT collaboration, transient sources - astrophysical objects that emit particles in brief, localized bursts - have emerged as promising candidates. In this work, we revisit the identification of such sources in IceCube and future ne…

wordnet: WordNet relationships
A network of English words from the WordNet. Node is a word, and edge denotes relationships between words (synonymy, hyperonymy, meronymy, etc.). The date at which this network was extracted from WordNet is not unknown.
This network has 146005 nodes and 656999 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
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A first look at rocky exoplanets with JWST
Laura Kreidberg, Kevin B. Stevenson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00933 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

A first look at rocky exoplanets with JWST
Rocky exoplanet characterization has been a top priority for early James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) science operations. Several milestones have been achieved, including the most precise rocky planet transmission spectra measured to date, and the first detection of thermal emission for rocky worlds below 800 Kelvin. Despite these advances, no atmospheres have been definitively detected. Several transmission spectra show tentative evidence for molecular absorption features, but these hints are m…

getting all dressed up for her date with The Kraken?
#Monsterdon

Studying Protoplanets and Protoplanetary Disks with the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Bin B. Ren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.24129 https://

Studying Protoplanets and Protoplanetary Disks with the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Since the discovery of the first exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star, the confirmation of nearly 6000 exoplanets to date - and their diversity - has revolutionized our knowledge of planetary systems in the past three decades. Nevertheless, the majority of these planets are around mature stars (${\gtrsim}1$ Gyr), where the planet birth environments have already dissipated. Indeed, we have only confirmed 2 forming planets (i.e., protoplanets; ${\lesssim}10$ Myr) residing in one single system. In c…

Giant odd-parity magnetoresistance from proximity-induced topological states
Tomoki Hotta, Le Duc Anh, Takahiro Chiba, Yohei Kota, Masaaki Tanaka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23166

Giant odd-parity magnetoresistance from proximity-induced topological states
Magnetoresistance typically exhibits even symmetry with respect to the magnetic field, owing to time reversal symmetry (TRS) as dictated by Onsager reciprocity relations. However, in certain systems where TRS is broken, magnetoresistance may acquire an odd component with respect to the magnetic field, referred to as odd parity magnetoresistance (OMR). To date, reported OMR values have been modest, usually restricted to a few tens of percent even under high magnetic fields. Here, we report the d…

Netflix sets a November 10 premiere date for Sesame Street; new episodes will be available same day-and-date on PBS in the US and across PBS Kids platforms (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/sesame-street-ms-rachel-ne…

'Sesame Street,' 'Ms. Rachel' New Season Release Date Netflix
Netflix has an end-of-summer present for parents of pre-K kids: the premiere dates for new seasons of "Ms. Rachel," "Sesame Street."

Catalogue of central stars of extragalactic planetary nebulae
W. A. Weidmann, M. B. Mari, R. A. Pignata, M. M. Miller Bertolami, E. O. Schmidt, K. Werner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21194

Catalogue of central stars of extragalactic planetary nebulae
Context. Central stars of planetary nebulae (CSPNe) are essential for understanding the final evolutionary stages of low- and intermediate-mass stars. However, their study in extragalactic environments remains challenging due to their intrinsic faintness and the limited availability of high-quality data. Aims. We aim to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date catalogue of extragalactic CSPNe in order to enable a more complete view of their physical properties across different galactic environmen…

NFL news roundup: Ravens sign DE Brent Urban, Browns CB Greg Newsome II (shoulder) considered day to day https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-saturday-aug-2

One more entry in my epic date parsing adventure. I’ve shipped a breaking change to this library to ensure that all valid date strings supported in Eleventy v4 will be RFC 9557-compatible, ensuring friendliness with the standardized Temporal APIs coming to a JavaScript runtime near you. Our full test suite runs against both!
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Experimental realization of dice-lattice flat band at the Fermi level in layered electride YCl
Songyuan Geng, Xin Wang, Risi Guo, Chen Qiu, Fangjie Chen, Qun Wang, Kangjie Li, Peipei Hao, Hanpu Liang, Yang Huang, Yunbo Wu, Shengtao Cui, Zhe Sun, Timur K. Kim, Cephise Cacho, Daniel S. Dessau, Benjamin T. Zhou, Haoxiang Li
https://arxiv.org/…

Experimental realization of dice-lattice flat band at the Fermi level in layered electride YCl
Flat electronic bands, where interactions among electrons overwhelm their kinetic energies, hold the promise for exotic correlation physics. The dice lattice has long been theorized as a host of flat bands with intriguing band topology. However, to date, no material has ever been found to host the characteristic flat bands of a dice lattice. Here, using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), we discover a dice-lattice flat band at $E_F$ in the van der Waals (vdW) electride [YCl]$^{2…

Assessing Future Wind Energy Potential under Climate Change: The Critical Role of Multi-Model Ensembles in Robustness Assessment
Andrea Lira-Loarca, Francesco Ferrari, Andrea Mazzino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24463

Assessing Future Wind Energy Potential under Climate Change: The Critical Role of Multi-Model Ensembles in Robustness Assessment
Accurate projections of wind energy potential under climate change are critical for effective long-term energy planning. While previous studies have highlighted the value of multi-model ensembles, they often fall short in capturing the full spectrum of uncertainties and temporal dynamics relevant to wind resource reliability. This paper presents one of the most comprehensive assessments to date, leveraging a large ensemble of 21 high-resolution RCM-GCM combinations from the EURO-CORDEX initiati…

Période : Š partir de 21h10 Date : le jeudi 31 juillet. Le trafic est interrompu entre Paris Saint-Lazare <> La Défense. Report sur les lignes régulières des bus :
- 94 renforcé entre Paris Saint-Lazare <> Clichy.
- 178 et 275 entre Bécon les Bruyères <> La Défense.
Bus de remplacement mis en place entre Asnières sur Seine <> Sartrouville, avec desserte des gares intermédiaires.
Les derniers trains Š circuler normalement :
- Paris Saint-Laza…

Why do i keep blabbing on about the liveslaks and repos of @… ? And how Slackware can be very much up to date and current?
Because the day i read about an update of niri on the web it automagically also shows up in the slackeroni repos. Thanks Jay!
#slackware

OmniFocus 4.7 is now available, introducing a new “Planned” date type (for specifying the date an item is scheduled for work), the ability to create mutually exclusive tags (handy in a variety of workflows, like prioritization and energy level assignment), and improved repeat functionality (including new support for setting a repeat to end after a specific date or set number of repetitions).
Enjoy!

The nox-minima dome: a tangible alternative to flat star maps for astronomy education
A. Bessa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21195 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.…

The nox-minima dome: a tangible alternative to flat star maps for astronomy education
This article introduces nox-minima, a low-cost, three-dimensional paper dome that provides an alternative representation of the sky for astronomy education. Generated from precise astronomical data, the dome provides accurate local sky views for any date and location. Its assembly is simple, and the design is freely available at nox-minima.net/en . Initial workshops with students and teachers confirm its effectiveness as a hands-on tool to explore the celestial sphere and cultural perspectives …

Let's Play #Cyberpunk2077 Wir besuchen River auf ein Jambalaya mit seiner Familie und versuchen uns am Romancing. Wir kriegen einen Krimi Noir Auftrag von Lizzy Wizzy, dem chromgewordenen Popstar, die gar nix mit Grimes gemeinsam hat. Wir überlassen Johnny unseren Körper für ein Date mit Rogue. Was könnte da schon schiefgehen?

faa_routes: FAA Preferred Routes (2010)
A network of air traffic routes, from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) National Flight Data Center (NFDC) preferred routes database (www.fly.faa.gov). Date of extraction is prior to 2010. Nodes represent airports or service centers, and a directed edge is the preferred route between airport i and airport j.
This network has 1226 nodes and 2615 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted

PSA: Fake verification replies are starting again. Don't fall for them. Best thing you can do is report them as SPAM to your instance and forward to any optional instances with "Fake Mastodon Verification Scam" written in the notes/comments section for the report. Make sure everyone you interact with knows this is going on. Permanent solutions to combat this scam are being implemented to tackle it by the software developers.

New CDC chief was part of meetings where officials pressed ousted leader on vaccines (Adam Cancryn/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/08/29/politics/jim-oneill-cdc-vaccine-meetings?Date=20250829&Profile=CNN
http://www.memeorandum.com/250829/p65#a250829p65

Spa-VLM: Stealthy Poisoning Attacks on RAG-based VLM
Lei Yu, Yechao Zhang, Ziqi Zhou, Yang Wu, Wei Wan, Minghui Li, Shengshan Hu, Pei Xiaobing, Jing Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23828

Spa-VLM: Stealthy Poisoning Attacks on RAG-based VLM
With the rapid development of the Vision-Language Model (VLM), significant progress has been made in Visual Question Answering (VQA) tasks. However, existing VLM often generate inaccurate answers due to a lack of up-to-date knowledge. To address this issue, recent research has introduced Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) techniques, commonly used in Large Language Models (LLM), into VLM, incorporating external multi-modal knowledge to enhance the accuracy and practicality of VLM systems. Nev…

from my link log —
Optimizing with novel calendrical algorithms.
https://jhpratt.dev/blog/optimizing-with-novel-calendrical-algorithms/
saved 2025-05-15

Today's 50th anniversary of Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance made it into my German page-a-day wisenheimer calendar.
Quote from Hoffa as the quote of the day: "I do to others as they do to me, not worse." (My translation.)

Nice to see them do Firefly...
'X-Files' and 'Wallace & Gromit' Are Getting Their Own Lego Sets
https://gizmodo.com/lego-x-files-wallace-and-gromit-ideas-sets-price-release-date-2000620172

Regulations: The MA thesis must be submitted at least 30 days before the date of the defense.
Student (sending me their thesis 1 week before the end of the exam period, after months of total radio silence): Yeah, but I really want to defend it next Friday, otherwise I’d lose a whole semester!!!1!11
#AcademicChatter

Regulations: The MA thesis must be submitted at least 30 days before the date of the defense.
Student (sending me their thesis 1 week before the end of the exam period, after months of total radio silence): Yeah, but I really want to defend it next Friday, otherwise I’d lose a whole semester!!!1!11
#AcademicChatter

>Order something online.
>Mom and dad home downstairs, eating dinner.
>Tracker updates.
>"You weren't home, so we'll try again at another date"
Jepp... The driver literally just didn't even bother actually delivering the thing.
And ofc, DHL is so confident in their delivery people... That they removed their Twitter acc a while ago (so you can't publically shame them for it). : D

dbtropes_feature: Artistic works and their tropes
A bipartite network of artistic works (movies, novels, etc.) and their tropes (stylistic conventions or devices), as extracted from tvtropes.org. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 152093 nodes and 3232134 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted
https…

Netflix plans to open its first Netflix House locations, 100K-sq-ft entertainment and shopping venues, in Philadelphia on November 12 and Dallas on December 11 (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/netflix-house-opening-date-…

Netflix House Sets Opening Dates for Philadelphia, Dallas
Netflix has set the opening dates for its much-hyped, 100,000-square-foot permanent entertainment and shopping destinations in Philadelphia and Dallas.

Signatures of supermassive charged gravitinos in liquid scintillator detectors: #gravitinos be detected by underground detectors?

DeepSieve: Information Sieving via LLM-as-a-Knowledge-Router
Minghao Guo, Qingcheng Zeng, Xujiang Zhao, Yanchi Liu, Wenchao Yu, Mengnan Du, Haifeng Chen, Wei Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22050

DeepSieve: Information Sieving via LLM-as-a-Knowledge-Router
Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at many reasoning tasks but struggle with knowledge-intensive queries due to their inability to dynamically access up-to-date or domain-specific information. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a promising solution, enabling LLMs to ground their responses in external sources. However, existing RAG methods lack fine-grained control over both the query and source sides, often resulting in noisy retrieval and shallow reasoning. In this work, we in…

I think I may have got this giant roll of 2” (I think) flexible pipe….. for free?
I don’t have a receipt for it. All I have is the tracking number. The Amazon order is cancelled so there is no info there. My credit card has two $0 transactions on the date it was ordered.
I was not expecting it to show up. I need to confirm that it is actually 2” but either way, I guess…
…umm… 🎁 🐴
#amazon #pondlife

Fewer Companions in the Crowd: The Low Close Binary Fraction in Globular Clusters from Gaia RVS
Dolev Bashi, Vasily Belokurov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00131

Fewer Companions in the Crowd: The Low Close Binary Fraction in Globular Clusters from Gaia RVS
In dense environments like globular clusters (GCs), dynamical interactions can disrupt or harden close binaries, nonetheless, detailed comparisons with field binary fractions remain limited. Here, we present an analysis of the close binary fraction in a carefully selected sample of field stars and 10 GCs using Gaia Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS) data, which is among the largest samples of GCs analysed using multi-epoch spectroscopy to date. By assessing the peak-to-peak variations of the so…

Earth Overshoot Day Reaches Record for Earliest Date #society

Earth Overshoot Day Reaches Record for Earliest Date
For 2025, Earth Overshoot Day fell on July 24, the earliest it has been since the event was first calculated in 2006.

On Finding $\ell$-th Smallest Perfect Matchings
Nicolas El Maalouly, Sebastian Haslebacher, Adrian Taubner, Lasse Wulf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22619 htt…

On Finding $\ell$-th Smallest Perfect Matchings
Given an undirected weighted graph $G$ and an integer $k$, Exact-Weight Perfect Matching (EWPM) is the problem of finding a perfect matching of weight exactly $k$ in $G$. In this paper, we study EWPM and its variants. The EWPM problem is famous, since in the case of unary encoded weights, Mulmuley, Vazirani, and Vazirani showed almost 40 years ago that the problem can be solved in randomized polynomial time. However, up to this date no derandomization is known. Our first result is a simple de…

XL-Calibur Polarimetry of Cyg X-1 Further Constrains the Origin of its Hard-state X-ray Emission
Hisamitsu Awaki, Matthew G. Baring, Richard Bose, Jacob Casey, Sohee Chun, Adrika Dasgupta, Pavel Galchenko, Ephraim Gau, Kazuho Goya, Tomohiro Hakamata, Takayuki Hayashi, Scott Heatwole, Kun Hu, Daiki Ishi, Manabu Ishida, Fabian Kislat, M\'ozsi Kiss, Kassi Klepper, Henric Krawczynski, Haruki Kuramoto, Lindsey Lisalda, Yoshitomo Maeda, Hironori Matsumoto, Shravan Vengalil Menon, Aiko Mi…

XL-Calibur Polarimetry of Cyg X-1 Further Constrains the Origin of its Hard-state X-ray Emission
The balloon-borne hard X-ray polarimetry mission XL-Calibur observed the Black Hole X-ray Binary (BHXRB) Cygnus X-1 (Cyg X-1) during its nearly six-day Long Duration Balloon (LDB) flight from Sweden to Canada in July 2024. The XL-Calibur observations allowed us to derive the most precise constraints to date of the Polarization Degree (PD) and Polarization Angle (PA) of the hard X-ray emission from a BHXRB. XL-Calibur observed Cyg X-1 in the hard state and measured a $\sim$19-64 keV PD of ($5.0^…

dbtropes_feature: Artistic works and their tropes
A bipartite network of artistic works (movies, novels, etc.) and their tropes (stylistic conventions or devices), as extracted from tvtropes.org. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 152093 nodes and 3232134 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted
https…

JWST NIRISS Transmission Spectroscopy of the Super-Earth GJ 357b, a Favourable Target for Atmospheric Retention
Jake Taylor, Michael Radica, Richard D. Chatterjee, Mark Hammond, Tobias Meier, Suzanne Aigrain, Ryan J. MacDonald, Loic Albert, Bj\"orn Benneke, Louis-Philippe Coulombe, Nicolas B. Cowan, Lisa Dang, Ren\'e Doyon, Laura Flagg, Doug Johnstone, Lisa Kaltenegger, David Lafreni\`ere, Stefan Pelletier, Caroline Piaulet-Ghorayeb, Jason F. Rowe, Pierre-Alexis Roy

JWST NIRISS Transmission Spectroscopy of the Super-Earth GJ 357b, a Favourable Target for Atmospheric Retention
We present a JWST NIRISS/SOSS transmission spectrum of the super-Earth GJ 357 b: the first atmospheric observation of this exoplanet. Despite missing the first $\sim$40 % of the transit due to using an out-of-date ephemeris, we still recover a transmission spectrum that does not display any clear signs of atmospheric features. We perform a search for Gaussian-shaped absorption features within the data but find that this analysis yields comparable fits to the observations as a flat line. We comp…


Kari Lake, sent termination notices to more than 500 employees at the broadcaster and its parent agency Friday night.

The agency sent out notices late Friday night ahead of the Labor Day long weekend, with a termination date of Sept. 30, multiple recipients told The Washington Post.

Lake — the acting CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media — has faced legal challenges amid allegations that she is overstepping her statutory authority,
and was blocked earlier this week from firi…

Kari Lake lays off more than 500 staff at Voice of America parent agency
Amid a contentious court battle, the Trump administration official sent long-awaited termination notices to staffers who have been waiting on administrative leave for months.

visualizeus: vi.sualize.us picture tagging network
Three bipartite networks of tag-picture, user-picture, and user-tag linkages that represent the folksonomy of the picture tagging network of vi.sualize.us. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 577437 nodes and 2298816 edges.
Tags: Informational, Folksonomy, Unweighted, Multigraph

Paramount says it expects its merger with Skydance to close on August 7; the new company will trade on Nasdaq as PSKY (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/paramount-skydance-deal-close-date-1236470440/

When Will the Paramount-Skydance Merger Deal Close? Date Is Set
Paramount Global expects the merger with Skydance -- forming Paramount Skydance Corp. -- to close Aug. 7.

Période : Š partir de 22h30 Date : le jeudi 31 juillet. Le trafic est interrompu entre Paris Saint-Lazare <> Nanterre Université / Maisons-Laffitte.
Un service de bus de remplacement est mis en place entre Asnières Sur Seine <> Sartrouville, avec desserte des gares intermédiaires.Pour se rendre dans les gares de : Pont Cardinet et Clichy Levallois, prendre les lignes régulières du bus 94 renforcé.
Asnières sur Seine, prendre les trains de la ligne J direction Ermon…

visualizeus: vi.sualize.us picture tagging network
Three bipartite networks of tag-picture, user-picture, and user-tag linkages that represent the folksonomy of the picture tagging network of vi.sualize.us. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 577437 nodes and 2298816 edges.
Tags: Informational, Folksonomy, Unweighted, Multigraph

New X-date gives Congress a little more time (Hans Nichols/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/25/congress-x-date-debt-limit
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p13#a250625p13

Ein Mord in Dogtown, ein explosives Yacht-Date mit Kerry und auf den Spuren von Cynosure: auch Militech spielen mit wilden AIs.
Episode 33 meines Let's Play von Cyberpunk 2077 mit Phantom Liberty.
https://youtu.be/zHMcywjGtIo

discogs_genre: Discogs artist affiliations
Two bipartite networks of the affiliations between musical artists and either musical genres or musical "styles," as given in the discogs.com database. An edge indicates that a given artist was involved in a production of a particular genre or style. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 1754838 nodes and 19033891 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

Searching for planet-induced radio signal from the young close-in planet host star HIP 67522
Ekaterina Ilin, Sanne Bloot, Joseph R. Callingham, Harish K. Vedantham
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00796

Searching for planet-induced radio signal from the young close-in planet host star HIP 67522
HIP 67522 is a 17 Myr old 1.2$M_\odot$ dwarf, and the only such young star known to host two close-in gas giant planets. The inner planet likely orbits close enough to its host to power magnetic star-planet interactions. In the radio domain, magnetic star-planet interaction is expected to produce a unique signature: electron cyclotron maser emission (ECME), beamed in phase with the orbit of the close-in planet. We conducted the longest radio monitoring campaign of a G dwarf host star to date …

NFL news roundup: Bengals expected to sign TE Noah Fant; Bears CB should be back by Week 1 https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-thursday-july-31

discogs_label: Discogs label affiliations
Two bipartite networks of the affiliations between musical labels and either musical genres or musical "styles," as given in the discogs.com database. Edges represent that a label was involved in a production of a musical release of a given genre or given style. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 270786 nodes and 4147665 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Multigraph

Western Japan sees earliest end to rainy season on record #Japan

Western Japan sees earliest end to rainy season on record
Japan's rainy season ended at the earliest date on record in the country's western regions, meteorologists said Friday, as climate change makes global weather patterns less predictable.

Source: OpenAI is planning to launch GPT-5 in early August, complete with mini and nano versions that will also be available through its API (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft-newsletter/712950/openai-gpt-5-m…

OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August
OpenAI is getting ready to launch its next-gen AI model. GPT-5 is tentatively scheduled to arrive in early August.

Appfigures: ChatGPT's app for iOS and Android hit $2B in global consumer spending, including $1.35B so far in 2025, up 673% YoY; Grok made ~$25.6M this year (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/15/chatgpts-mobile-a…

ChatGPT's mobile app has generated $2B to date, earns $2.91 per install | TechCrunch
ChatGPT is topping its rivals on mobile with $2B in global consumer spending to date.

NFL news roundup: Panthers agree to terms with WR Hunter Renfrow https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-saturday-aug-30

dbpedia_genre: DBpedia work-genre network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between artists and their works on one side and genre classifications on the other, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 266717 nodes and 463497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

Google Cloud says its Universal Ledger, a layer-1 blockchain for financial products, is in a private testnet, and more details will be revealed at a later date (Danny Park/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/368399/google-cloud-blockchain-gcul

dbpedia_genre: DBpedia work-genre network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between artists and their works on one side and genre classifications on the other, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 266717 nodes and 463497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

NFL news roundup: Latest league updates from Wednesday, July 30 https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-wednesday-july-30

President Trump plans to sign an executive order this week to grant TikTok a 90-day extension in enforcement of the sale-or-ban law, marking his third extension (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/tech/tiktok-trump-ban-delay?Date=202506…

Trump will grant TikTok another 90-day extension in enforcement of sale-or-ban law
TikTok just got another lifeline from the White House, with President Donald Trump set to delay enforcement of the sale-or-ban law by another 90 days.

Apple says it plans to release iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe 26 in the fall; developer betas will be available today, with public betas next month (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/675819/ios-26-macos-tahoe-26-release-date-apple-…

iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe are coming this fall
Apple announced a release date for the next major versions of its iPhone and Mac operating systems at WWDC 2025.

dbpedia_genre: DBpedia work-genre network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between artists and their works on one side and genre classifications on the other, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 266717 nodes and 463497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

dbpedia_location: DBpedia entity-location network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between named entities from Wikipedia and particular notable locations, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 225498 nodes and 293697 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

Meta unveils Oakley smart glasses with same features as Ray-Ban glasses but with 3K video recording and double the battery life, available in summer for $399 (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/690133/meta-oakley-hstn-ai-glasses-price-…

Meta announces Oakley smart glasses
Meta is releasing a new line of AI glasses with Oakley, starting with a $499 limited-edition gold accent frame that shoots 3K video.

discogs_label: Discogs label affiliations
Two bipartite networks of the affiliations between musical labels and either musical genres or musical "styles," as given in the discogs.com database. Edges represent that a label was involved in a production of a musical release of a given genre or given style. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 270786 nodes and 4147665 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Multigraph

discogs_genre: Discogs artist affiliations
Two bipartite networks of the affiliations between musical artists and either musical genres or musical "styles," as given in the discogs.com database. An edge indicates that a given artist was involved in a production of a particular genre or style. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 1754838 nodes and 19033891 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

discogs_label: Discogs label affiliations
Two bipartite networks of the affiliations between musical labels and either musical genres or musical "styles," as given in the discogs.com database. Edges represent that a label was involved in a production of a musical release of a given genre or given style. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 270786 nodes and 4147665 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Multigraph

internet_top_pop: Internet topology (PoP level) (1969-2012)
Assorted snapshots of internet graph at the Point of Presence (PoP) level (which lies between the IP and AS levels), collected from around the world and at various times. The earliest snapshots are for ARPANET (1969-1972), with a few more from pre-2000. Most are from 2006 onward. Metadata include link type or speed, longitudes, and latitudes of nodes, URL, and date of record.
This network has 19 nodes and 24 edges.

chicago_road: Chicago road network
A transportation network of Chicago, USA, from an unknown date (probably late 20th century). Nodes represent intersections or endpoints and edge represent the road connecting these nodes.
This network has 12982 nodes and 39018 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted
https://

discogs_genre: Discogs artist affiliations
Two bipartite networks of the affiliations between musical artists and either musical genres or musical "styles," as given in the discogs.com database. An edge indicates that a given artist was involved in a production of a particular genre or style. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 1754838 nodes and 19033891 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

wordnet: WordNet relationships
A network of English words from the WordNet. Node is a word, and edge denotes relationships between words (synonymy, hyperonymy, meronymy, etc.). The date at which this network was extracted from WordNet is not unknown.
This network has 146005 nodes and 656999 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
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dbtropes_feature: Artistic works and their tropes
A bipartite network of artistic works (movies, novels, etc.) and their tropes (stylistic conventions or devices), as extracted from tvtropes.org. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 152093 nodes and 3232134 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted
https…

dbpedia_genre: DBpedia work-genre network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between artists and their works on one side and genre classifications on the other, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 266717 nodes and 463497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

dbpedia_genre: DBpedia work-genre network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between artists and their works on one side and genre classifications on the other, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 266717 nodes and 463497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Timestamps