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McKinsey expects the European demand-side flexibility market to grow to €12 billion by 2030, with a €2 billion residential portion.
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/electric-power-and-natural-…

When IIb Ceases To Be: Bridging the Gap Between IIb and Short-plateau Supernovae
Joseph R. Farah, D. Andrew Howell, Daichi Hiramatsu, Curtis McCully, Moira Andrews, Megan Newsome, Estefania Padilla Gonzalez, Craig Pellegrino, Edo Berger, Peter Blanchard, Sebastian Gomez, Harsh Kumar, K. Azalee Bostroem, Yuan Qi Ni, A. Gagliano, Aravind P. Ravi
https://

When IIb Ceases To Be: Bridging the Gap Between IIb and Short-plateau Supernovae
Hydrogen-rich supernovae (SNe) span a range of hydrogen envelope masses at core collapse, producing diverse light curves from extended plateaus in Type II SNe to double-peaked Type IIb SNe. Recent hydrodynamic modeling predicts a continuous sequence of light-curve morphologies as hydrogen is removed, with short plateau SNe (plateau durations ~50--70 days) emerging as a transitional class. However, the observational boundary between IIb and short-plateau remains poorly defined, and thus far unob…

Classification and qualitative properties of positive solutions to double-power nonlinear stationary Schr\"{o}dinger equations
Takafumi Akahori, Slim Ibrahim, Hiroaki Kikuchi, Masataka Shibata, Juncheng Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12484

Classification and qualitative properties of positive solutions to double-power nonlinear stationary Schrödinger equations
In this paper, we investigate positive radial solutions to double-power nonlinear stationary Schrodinger equations in three space dimensions. It is now known that the non-uniqueness of H^{1}-positive solutions can occur in three dimensions when the frequency is sufficiently small. Under suitable conditions, in addition to the ground state solution (whose L^{\infty} norm vanishes as the frequency tends to zero), there exists another positive solution that minimizes a different constrained variat…

Fifa kept the costs of 2026 World Cup tickets under wraps until the very moment of sale,
replacing the usual published table of price points with a digital lottery that decided who even got the chance to buy.
Millions spent hours staring at a queue screen as algorithms determined their place in line.
When access finally came for most, the lower-priced sections had already vanished,
many presumably hoovered up by bots and bulk-buyers (and that’s before Fifa quietly r…

Yes it is a funky little dial. I don't have enough characters to fully explain it here without starting a thread, so I cheated and shoved it all in the alt text. 🤷
#WristCheck (but not really, since it is a pocket watch).

practicing writing in a new language is so deeply embarrassing
#gaeilge

There are many key lessons for higher education in @…'s Enshittification. One is about mission:
"...the double edged nature of vocational awe. Sure Googlers [faculty] had been willing to pull long hours, putting work before personal life and health, in order to realize the company's [university's] mission, but the quid pro quo those workers expected was for the company [university] to take that mission as seriously as they did."
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/

I’ve worked over the past year to reduce the amount of noise in my consciousness on a daily basis.
By that I mean - information noise, not literal sounds “noise”. (That problem was solved long ago by some good earplugs and noise canceling earphones.)
I’ve gotten used to spending less time on social media, regularly blocking most apps on my devices (anything with a feed news, most work communication apps, etc.), putting my phone and other devices aside for extended periods of time. Often go to work places with my iPad explicitly having its WiFi turned off and selecting cafes that don’t offer WiFi at all.
Negotiated better boundaries at work and in personal life where I exchange messages with people less often but try to make those interactions more meaningful, and people rarely expect me to respond to requests in less than 24 hours. Spent a lot of time setting up custom notification settings on all apps that would allow it, so I get fewer pings. With software, choosing fewer cloud-based options and using tools that are simple and require as few interruptions as possible.
Accustomed myself to lower-tech versions of doing things I like to do: reading on paper, writing by hand, drawing in physical sketchbooks, got a typewriter for typing without a screen. Choosing to call people on audio more, trying to make more of an effort to see people in person. Going to museums to look at art instead of browsing Pinterest. Defaulting to the library when looking for information.
I’m commenting on this now for two reasons:
1. I am pretty proud of myself for how much I’ve actually managed to reduce the constant stream of modern life esp. as a remote worker in tech!
2. Now that I’ve reached a breaking point of reducing enough noise that it’s NOTICEABLE - I am struck by the silence. I don’t know what to do with it. I don’t know how to navigate it and fill it. I made this space to be able to read and write and think more deeply - for now I feel stuck in limbo where I’m just reacquainting myself with the concept of having any space in my mind at all.

So the DC National Guard are an f-ing laughing stock of derelict traitorous fops. They couldn’t secure a lemonade stand and yet took and take the illegal order to deploy _against_ the American People.
11 f-ing shootings on the National Guard’s watch because the f-ing National Guard are not police and never should take a deployment to pretend to be.
You dishonorable scum. You will never live down the shame. Wastes of space.

11 people were shot at seven overnight incidents, police say
D.C. police are investigating the shootings of 11 people overnight at seven different locations. These shootings took place within nine hours.

okay so cleaning my room the other day I found an empty Diablo sauce packet which made me nervous bc I figured it meant id find exploded hot sauce somewhere
I FEEL LIKE I WOULD REMEMBER THIS HAPPENING? I FEEL LIKE I WOULD RECALL HAVING HOT SLIPPERY SAUCED TOES??