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Drive Inward - pressing towards hope
#inspiration #CreativeProcess
https://muz4now.com/2022/drive-i…

Drive Inward - pressing towards hope
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Seahawks sing Darnold's praises after GW drive https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46384322/seahawks-darnold-calmly-directs-winning-drive-vs-cardinals

Apparently I missed that as of last year, Proton now has Docs (https://proton.me/drive/docs) as an alternative to real-time editing via Google Docs (or Word docs). As of now, it appears Proton only has Docs for word processing and not one like Google Sheets for spreadsheets (yet? I'll need that functionality …

Create and collaborate on docs with total privacy | Proton
Proton Docs is end-to-end encrypted so your work stays safe from data breaches, online surveillance, and can never be fed into privacy-invading AI models.

Every now and then I check my #Google account quota (https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/quota) to make sure its not pulling any sneaky shit like automatically uploading my

For the love fuck, this is meaningless. LLM models can't shut themselves off. They're never "on" in the first place. They don't have physicality or permanence.
It's an algorithm that transforms one state of data into another, and for each invocation needs to be fed the whole conversation again.
Perpetuating the unhinged bullshit that LLMs are somehow sentient is harmful.
Dear journalists, for the love of Carl Sagan's sweater vest get some actual experts to vet claims from the industry or indusry-adjacent sources and clarify your reporting.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/25/ai-models-may-be-developing-their-own-survival-drive-researchers-say

"Don’t look up: how Trump’s deregulation drive could obscure the stars and threaten our access to space"
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/sep/26/trump-rocket-launches-executive-order-threatens-sta…

New Report!
GREYING THE GREENBELT
COMMUNITY PLANNING ALLIANCE
THE UNNECESSARY MAKING OF A GREY, UNPLEASANT LAND
Greying the Greenbelt FINALOct2025.pdf - Google Drive https://drive.google.com/file/d/13C8XgJoc8-25px2WX88xsNUVzkI-4km7/view

Human disturbances drive significant soil carbon loss in hyper-arid deserts, study reveals #desert

Human disturbances drive significant soil carbon loss in hyper-arid deserts, study reveals
A recent study led by Prof. Zeng Fanjiang from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed concerning trends in soil organic carbon (SOC) loss due to prolonged human disturbance in hyper-arid desert ecosystems.

Mike Macdonald on Sam Darnold leading Seahawks game-winning drive: 'He's a guy on a mission' https://www.nfl.com/news/mike-macdonald-on-sam-darnold-leading-seahawks-game-winning-drive-he-s-a-guy-on-a-mission

Is #AI developing HALitosis?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/25/ai-models-may-be-develop…

Is #AI developing HALitosis?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/25/ai-models-may-be-develop…

I got a disc image of the old system drive on the home server but I never managed to use it to image the replacement system drive. I think that I'm going to try installing a new copy of windows on the new drive.
If I can button the server up tonight and work on installing a new OS over the next week, I think that I am willing to call that success.

Geno Smith throws TD pass in only drive for Raiders, who fall to Cardinals 20-10 https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/geno-smith-throws-td-pass-in-only-drive-for-raiders-who-fall-to-cardinals-2010

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
TSHA feat. Ingrid Witt:
🎵 Drive
#NowPlaying #TSHA #IngridWitt
https://tshamusic.bandcamp.com/track/drive-feat-ingrid-witt

If you use Duplicati on your Linux server via Docker to perform backups to an external USB drive, this must be mounted before the container starts up. Otherwise, Duplicati will throw an error ("missing files") when it tries to perform the backup because it cannot verify the files on the external drive, even though it tells you that it can detect that external drive.
The quickest solution in this case is to restart the Duplicati container.

I’m bummed I have to drive to work today. Hopefully I can bike the rest of the week.

Homeowner shoots, kills 2 men in ski masks claiming to be officers, Houston Police Department says
"It was just two people and they're masked up and no police cars, no lights or anything like that," said Lt. Khan with HPD.
https://www.

Here’s a good analysis by Gartner and The Next Platform that tries to make sense of spending on AI predictions over the next few years. “if you add devices to datacenter stuff, then AI drove 19.6 percent of IT revenues in 2024 and will drive 27.2 percent of IT revenues in 2025 and 34.1 percent in 2026.” h…

Dicing, Slicing, And Augmenting Gartner’s AI Spending Forecast
When we try to predict the weather, we use ensembles of the initial conditions on the ground, in the oceans, and throughout the air to create a kind of

Terahertz third-harmonic generation of lightwave driven Weyl fermions far from equilibrium
Patrick Pilch, Changqing Zhu, Sergey Kovalev, Renato M. A. Dantas, Amilcar Bedoya-Pinto, Stuart S. P. Parkin, Zhe Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16166

Terahertz third-harmonic generation of lightwave driven Weyl fermions far from equilibrium
We report on time-resolved ultrafast terahertz third-harmonic generation spectroscopy of nonequilibrium dynamics of Weyl fermions in a nanometer thin film of the Weyl semimetal TaP. Under a strong multicycle narrowband terahertz drive, very efficient terahertz third-harmonic generation is observed at room temperature which exhibits a perturbative cubic power-law dependence on the terahertz drive. By varying the polarization of the drive pulse from linear to elliptical, we realize a sensitive tu…

Part of me wants to hop in the car and drive west to find a "dangerous" beach for some bodysurfing.
That part does not include my right side chest wall, in which some number of muscles did something painful and abrupt when I lifted Kyle into his chair. I can feel the endorphins trying to spare me...
#IAmOld

WX Story (bot) (@wxstory_bot@m.ai6yr.org)
Attached: 1 image National Weather Service - Grand Rapids, MI #MIwx #GRR #NWS #WX

Now that El Cheeto has done a rigged deal to "sell" TikTok, it is time to fill that platform with old people stuff, dad stuff, and other stuff that would be stale even on MySpace. AI generated gunk would be great for this.
That'll drive away the kid users and turn TikTok into a weed filled vacant lot with no market value.

Phonons Drive the Topological Phase Transition in Quasi-One-Dimensional Bi$_4$I$_4$
Wenjie Hu, Jiayi Gong, Yuhui Qiu, Lexian Yang, Jin-Jian Zhou, Yugui Yao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17268

Phonons Drive the Topological Phase Transition in Quasi-One-Dimensional Bi$_4$I$_4$
Quasi-one-dimensional bismuth halides offer an exceptional platform for exploring diverse topological phases, yet the nature of the room-temperature topological phase transition in Bi$_4$I$_4$ remains unresolved. While theory predicts the high-temperature $β$-phase to be a strong topological insulator (TI), experiments observe a weak TI. Here we resolve this discrepancy by revealing the critical but previously overlooked role of electron-phonon coupling in driving the topological phase transit…

Breaking down Bears’ 19-play TD drive versus Cowboys https://www.chicagobears.com/news/breaking-down-bears-19-play-td-drive-versus-cowboys-2025-week-3-caleb-williams-offense

HPD: 2 men impersonating police shot, killed in southeast Houston | khou.com
https://www.khou.com/article/news/crime/men-impersonating-police-shot-bellnole-drive/285-931f39d1-2f01-4654-b56a-cc11abaaaf72

Nahverkehr, HeinerLiner oder Carsharing? #Ladelust
Mobilität im Alltag ohne eigenes Auto: Carsharing, ÖPNV und der HeinerLiner ersetzen unseren ID.3, der erst in vier Wochen kommt – hoffentlich. Eine erste Fahrt mit Book-n-drive in Darmstadt war beeindruckend einfach, die Umbuchung meines Wagens für Donnerstag ein Flop.

Nahverkehr, HeinerLiner oder Carsharing? #Ladelust
Mobilität im Alltag ohne eigenes Auto: Carsharing, ÖPNV und der HeinerLiner ersetzen unseren ID.3, der erst in vier Wochen kommt – hoffentlich. Eine erste Fahrt mit Book-n-drive in Darmstadt …

Homeowner shoots, kills 2 men in ski masks claiming to be officers, HPD says (Sammy Turner/KHOU-TV)
https://www.khou.com/article/news/crime/men-impersonating-police-shot-bellnole-drive/285-931f39d1-2f01-4654-b56a-cc11abaaaf72
http://www.memeorandum.com/250823/p56#a250823p56

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
The poles are cold and dark half the year, so you might think these areas were low productivity. Nope. These are some of the highest productivity and efficient food webs on the planet, which is why whales will travel half the globe to feed here. When sunlight returns in spring, long days and nutrients drive intense blooms. There was a question of nutrient sources…

The war on cars continues unabated in Reykjavík. It’s pretty great, honestly (tbf, this street was already so overrun with pedestrians, it would have more annoying to drive down it than not). Cc: @…

I set my watch to notify on zone 2 borders and “ran” 🙄 for an hour. Early on, it felt like I was constantly roofing it, but as I got deeper into it, everything seemed to settle. I’m going to try to stay with it, but I don’t know if I can intentionally go so slowly for weeks and weeks.
Saw my fox buddy on the drive home.
#Running

chain chewsday, nope. fat chain friday, nope. phat chain phurzday :)
:luna_moth:
#chain

Well I was going to smoke crack and drunk-drive a motorcycle through the middle of Dublin at 200kph but now that you've texted me I will reconsider

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
TSHA feat. Ingrid Witt:
🎵 Drive
#NowPlaying #TSHA #IngridWitt
https://tshamusic.bandcamp.com/track/drive-feat-ingrid-witt

Beyond Sharp Minima: Robust LLM Unlearning via Feedback-Guided Multi-Point Optimization
Wenhan Wu, Zheyuan Liu, Chongyang Gao, Ren Wang, Kaize Ding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20230

Beyond Sharp Minima: Robust LLM Unlearning via Feedback-Guided Multi-Point Optimization
Current LLM unlearning methods face a critical security vulnerability that undermines their fundamental purpose: while they appear to successfully remove sensitive or harmful knowledge, this ``forgotten" information remains precariously recoverable through relearning attacks. We identify that the root cause is that conventional methods optimizing the forgetting loss at individual data points will drive model parameters toward sharp minima in the loss landscape. In these unstable regions, even m…

Weak anharmonicity sensing by single- and two-photon drives
Shi-Yu Zeng, Chao-Qun Ai, Xi Cheng, Ming-Wei Yan, Xun-Wei Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19891 https://

Weak anharmonicity sensing by single- and two-photon drives
The optical cavity undergoes a quantum phase transition when the strength of a two-photon drive exceeds a critical point (CP), and the great sensitivity of CP in sensing has been recognized. However, these methodologies are customized to sense linear perturbations, and quantum noise is divergent at the CP. Here, we propose a scheme for sensing the weak Kerr nonlinearity in an optical cavity by both single- and two-photon drives, based on the CP for phase transition. We show that the mean photon…

Poisoning crisis could drive vulture extinction in South Africa’s Kruger region https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/poisoning-crisis-could-drive-vulture-extinction-in-south-africas-kruger-region/

Poisoning crisis could drive vulture extinction in South Africa’s Kruger region
A spate of poisoning events this year has killed more than 400 vultures in and near South Africa’s Kruger National Park. In May, 49 vultures died after feasting on a poisoned giraffe carcass. A similar incident soon afterward killed 123 vultures, the vast majority critically endangered white-backed vultures (Gyps africanus). Later that same month, another […]

Paris-based Upciti, which offers city operations software and hardware to over 150 municipalities in 17 countries, raised a $20M Series A led by Notion Capital (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/10/16/upciti-closes-20m-to-dr…

UPCITI closes $20M to drive global growth of its urban operating platform
UPCITI, a Paris-based company building an operating system for cities, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Notion Capital, with participation from Point Nine and Chalfen Ventures.UPCITI combines proprietary software with purpose-built hardware to help municipalities run critical operations, such as traffic flow, street management, and public safety, more efficiently and securely, with a clear ROI that simplifies adoption. By owning both the software an…

"In the past 10 weeks America has witnessed an extraordinary outpouring of decisions from its highest...
The six rightwing justices who control the court – three of them given their lifetime seats by Trump himself – have effectively greenlighted the president’s explosive and law-busting agenda.
The supermajority has granted Trump 18 straight victories in the administration’s requests for emergency relief...

Waves drive the rise and fall of 2D flows in rotating turbulence
S\'ebastien Gom\'e, Anna Frishman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18323 https://arxiv.o…

Visual Analytics for Causal Reasoning from Real-World Health Data
Arran Zeyu Wang, David Borland, David Gotz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17474 https://arxiv…

Visual Analytics for Causal Reasoning from Real-World Health Data
The increasing capture and analysis of large-scale longitudinal health data offer opportunities to improve healthcare and advance medical understanding. However, a critical gap exists between (a) -- the observation of patterns and correlations, versus (b) -- the understanding of true causal mechanisms that drive outcomes. An accurate understanding of the underlying mechanisms that cause various changes in medical status is crucial for decision-makers across various healthcare domains and roles,…

🎉 2026 Canberra Comedy Festival 🎉
It is that time of year already!
Expressions of interest for local artists for the 2026 Canberra Comedy Festival are now open.
If you are thinking of applying, please first read out FAQ https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VerO1

Time for authors to get off Audible (and ideally Amazon as well) before you'll find yourself trapped in a death spiral.
And yes, I know how hard that would hit most. But if Amazon is able to destroy competitors, nothing will stop them from exploiting you even more.
https://www.instagram.com/r…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
L.A. Witch:
🎵 Drive Your Car
#LAWitch
https://lawitches.bandcamp.com/album/drive-your-car
https://open.spotify.com/track/0Na7NrilVbz9tRwcEtwTph

New Jersey PBS will shut down on July 1, 2026, due to the federal rescission and state funding falling 75% to $250K (Mike Davis/Asbury Park Press)
https://www.app.com/story/entertainment/televisio…

New Jersey PBS to shut down next July. Massive funding cuts drive move
WNET, the parent company of NJ PBS, was unable to reach a deal with the state broadcasting authority due to cuts in funding.

Cam Ward leads Titans on touchdown drive in final preseason showing https://www.nfl.com/news/cam-ward-leads-titans-on-touchdown-drive-in-final-preseason-showing

I'm giving it another try to copy the files off of the system drive from my home server. If I can do that, I'm going to try to replace the drive in between doing other things around the house.

From this weekend, a cargo bike demo

Separating Photospheric and Starspot Magnetic Fields in Pre-Main-Sequence Stars Using IGRINS Spectroscopy
Facundo P\'erez Paolino, Lynne Hillenbrand, Jeff Bary
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20475

Separating Photospheric and Starspot Magnetic Fields in Pre-Main-Sequence Stars Using IGRINS Spectroscopy
Magnetic fields in pre main sequence stars regulate angular momentum evolution, drive magnetic activity, and modify stellar structure, yet their surface distributions remain poorly constrained. Traditional single component Zeeman broadening analyses typically yield mean field strengths of 2-4 kG, sometimes exceeding the photospheric equipartition limit, and assume complete magnetic coverage. These assumptions conflict with evidence that strong fields are concentrated in cool starspots. Here we …

Good Morning #Canada
The list of abandoned towns in PEI is apparently so short that no one has produced any really scary histories. It makes sense being a small island that there isn't enough distance to truly "abandon" a settlement. Maybe a house here or there, perhaps a short street. But that means you are more likely to be living next door to a haunted location. So today, we have a list of ghostly tales from around the island that may, or may not, be myth. Remember, don't go into the old shed with all the sharp farm tools....
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianGhostTowns
https://pointseastcoastaldrive.com/scary-stories-of-points-east-coastal-drive/

Interactive Recommendation Agent with Active User Commands
Jiakai Tang, Yujie Luo, Xunke Xi, Fei Sun, Xueyang Feng, Sunhao Dai, Chao Yi, Dian Chen, Zhujin Gao, Yang Li, Xu Chen, Wen Chen, Jian Wu, Yuning Jiang, Bo Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21317

Interactive Recommendation Agent with Active User Commands
Traditional recommender systems rely on passive feedback mechanisms that limit users to simple choices such as like and dislike. However, these coarse-grained signals fail to capture users' nuanced behavior motivations and intentions. In turn, current systems cannot also distinguish which specific item attributes drive user satisfaction or dissatisfaction, resulting in inaccurate preference modeling. These fundamental limitations create a persistent gap between user intentions and system interp…

@… 2GB hard drive *feels* huge still

A Measurement Report Data-Driven Framework for Localized Statistical Channel Modeling
Xinyu Qin, Ye Xue, Qi Yan, Shutao Zhang, Bingsheng Peng, Tsung-Hui Chang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19342

A Measurement Report Data-Driven Framework for Localized Statistical Channel Modeling
Localized statistical channel modeling (LSCM) is crucial for effective performance evaluation in digital twin-assisted network optimization. Solely relying on the multi-beam reference signal receiving power (RSRP), LSCM aims to model the localized statistical propagation environment by estimating the channel angular power spectrum (APS). However, existing methods rely heavily on drive test data with high collection costs and limited spatial coverage. In this paper, we propose a measurement repo…

F****ng Google Drive is driving me insane with their constant spam about my storage being low. I have 10GB left which will last me at least a couple of years, yet at every turn they’re spamming me with ads to up my subscription. It’s that annoying I’m thinking of switching providers. Any recommendations? Thanks in advance.
#storage

🤬 Personalized pricing can backfire on companies, says study
#business

Personalized pricing can backfire on companies, says study
Personalized pricing, where merchants adjust prices according to the pile of data about a consumer's willingness to pay, has been criticized for its potential to unfairly drive-up prices for certain customers.

Exciting Stellar Eccentricity in Gaia BH3 via a Hidden Black Hole Binary
Qingru Hu, Bin Liu, Wei Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20806 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Exciting Stellar Eccentricity in Gaia BH3 via a Hidden Black Hole Binary
We propose that the high eccentricity of the stellar orbit in Gaia BH3 system could be excited through a secular resonance effect if the inner dark object is, in effect, a tight and eccentric black hole binary (BHB). During the orbital decay of the inner BHB, the apsidal precession rate of the inner binary matches that of the outer stellar orbit, and this resonance advection can drive the outer eccentricity into some extreme values. For a Gaia BH3-like system, we show that a near equal-mass ($q…

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
TARRANT: [To Avon] What are you doing?
AVON: Programing in the main circuit drive.
DAYNA: You can't do that. That main drive will fire as soon as she makes the final connection.
SOOLIN: Fifteen seconds.

Improving Outdoor Multi-cell Fingerprinting-based Positioning via Mobile Data Augmentation
Tony Chahoud, Lorenzo Mario Amorosa, Riccardo Marini, Luca De Nardis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19405

Improving Outdoor Multi-cell Fingerprinting-based Positioning via Mobile Data Augmentation
Accurate outdoor positioning in cellular networks is hindered by sparse, heterogeneous measurement collections and the high cost of exhaustive site surveys. This paper introduces a lightweight, modular mobile data augmentation framework designed to enhance multi-cell fingerprinting-based positioning using operator-collected minimization of drive test (MDT) records. The proposed approach decouples spatial and radio-feature synthesis: kernel density estimation (KDE) models the empirical spatial d…

Hydrodynamic instabilities in driven chiral suspensions
Seema Chahal, Brato Chakrabarti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17879 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.17879…

Hydrodynamic instabilities in driven chiral suspensions
Active Stokesian suspensions are conventionally understood to generate dipolar stresses that destabilize aligned states in the bulk and drive system-wide spatiotemporally chaotic flows. Here, we report dynamics in suspensions of torque-driven spinning chiral particles that exhibit a distinct and previously unrecognized route to collective dynamics. Using a mean-field kinetic theory, stability analysis, and nonlinear simulations, we demonstrate how flows driven by torque monopoles and self-propu…

#3goodthings And it's only 10 o'clock!
1. My daughter reached France safely in the early hours of the morning, via Switzerland and Germany and train, plane and bus 🚆✈️🚌
2. What a beautiful sunny day 🌞
3. @… has fitted the new drive to…

Almost wiped out by a car overtaking on a blind hill on our way to Bushmills today.
The brakes on the Boxster, while a bit noisy, do actually work quite well, as does the ABS, these Michelin tyres, and the horn (though only tested that *after* we'd escaped from danger)
We live to drive another day, without the substantial front end of a bloody VW Touran messing up my crumple zone, and us, obvs.

@… When I first moved to Pasadena, the two drive-thru dairies there I knew of were notorious for selling you weed (before it was legal) if you asked for a special product

Busy day ahead. Snatched an appointment to request a new ID card. Mine has expired two month ago 🙈. But first need to check on an old bike to get there. Because kiddo is using my bike for a summer camp. Then put the bike on the car and drive to Potsdam to pick up a friend we take care of from hospital and drive him home to the Uckermark. Then also do the grocery shopping for him and deliver back to him. Then bring said bike to our house in the countryside cause we don't need it in Berlin…

We now have a new drive.

A curse on all those who generate JSON data with subfielded keys.
...I'm looking at you Dell PERC, with all your "Drive /c0/e32/s9 - Detailed Information" nonsense. - I KNOW what the device attachment is (I GAVE you that on the command line), what I want is CONSISTENT key names I can use JQ to filter on (This key should be "Drive Detailed Information" - or something even LESS of a mouthful).

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Curtis Harding:
🎵 The Power
#CurtisHarding
https://curtisharding.bandcamp.com/track/the-drive
https://open.spotify.com/track/4difawHT7Gzi9q7l9qUcZi

Energy transfer from MHD-scale slow-mode waves to kinetic-scale ion acoustic waves
Xiaofei Shi, Xin An, Vassilis Angelopoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19763 https://

Energy transfer from MHD-scale slow-mode waves to kinetic-scale ion acoustic waves
Large-amplitude slow-mode waves are commonly observed near Earth's magnetopause. Recent observations show that these waves can occur simultaneously with kinetic-scale ion acoustic waves. The amplitude of the ion acoustic waves is enhanced near the magnetic field peaks of the slow-mode wave, suggesting that the slow-mode waves may drive the generation of ion acoustic waves. To test this hypothesis, we conduct a hybrid simulation using observation-based parameters. The simulation results demonstr…

Cellular Flow Architecture Exposes the Hidden Mechanics of Biological Matter
Tianxiang Ma, Valeriia Grudtsyna, Robin V. B\"olsterli, Amin Doostmohammadi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17974

Cellular Flow Architecture Exposes the Hidden Mechanics of Biological Matter
Understanding how biomechanical reorganization governs key biological processes, such as morphogenesis and development, requires predictive insights into stress distributions and cellular behavior. While traditional approaches focused on cell motion as a response to stress, we demonstrate that Lagrangian coherent structures (LCSs) -- robust attractors and repellers in cellular flows -- precede and drive long-term intercellular stress reorganization, physically governed by the mechanical propert…

The Unwritten Contract of Cloud-based Elastic Solid-State Drives
Yingjia Wang, Ming-Chang Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17372 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.…

The Unwritten Contract of Cloud-based Elastic Solid-State Drives
Elastic block storage (EBS) with the storage-compute disaggregated architecture stands as a pivotal piece in today's cloud. EBS furnishes users with storage capabilities through the elastic solid-state drive (ESSD). Nevertheless, despite the widespread integration into cloud services, the absence of a thorough ESSD performance characterization raises critical doubt: when more and more services are shifted onto the cloud, can ESSD satisfactorily substitute the storage responsibilities of the loc…

'Bigger, hotter, faster': Extreme blazes drive rise in CO₂ fire emissions #environment

'Bigger, hotter, faster': Extreme blazes drive rise in CO₂ fire emissions
Rampant wildfires in the Americas drove a jump in global greenhouse gas emissions from fires in the year to February, new research found Thursday, warning that climate change was fanning the flames.

Development of a time calibration system for the KLM upgrade in the Belle II experiment
Ziyu Liu, Xiyang Wang, Shiming Zou, Xiaolong Wang, Junhao Yin, Minggang Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20029

Development of a time calibration system for the KLM upgrade in the Belle II experiment
To meet the stringent time calibration requirements for the Belle II experiment upgrade, particularly for its large-size KL and Muon Detector comprising tens of thousands of scintillator channels with time resolutions better than 100 ps, we developed a compact and high-speed time calibration system. The system utilizes a laser diode as its light source, integrated with a fast pulse laser drive circuit that employs high-speed switching GaN FETs and gate drivers. A prototype was constructed and r…

Challenge: "Name 20 female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 1:
Olga Tokarczuk. Superb, just superb.
Start with "Drive your plows over the bones of the dead"

OK this may be my first encounter with the enshittification of OneDrive - I know it only from the online cloud storage that you have to actually acitively save stuff too.
Appears that microsoft has it as default storgae so everything saved on hard drive of laptop is also backed up to their cloud.
And this onedrive storage is "full" after we downloaded full google photos* backup yesterday. So I can't do anything here even though the laptop itslef has a goood 150 Gb free on the hard drive.
Swearing is starting to happen. 3/n
*another world of pain I won't go into here.

Electron-beam-controlled volatile nanomechanical bistability
Toji Thomas, Kevin F. MacDonald, Eric Plum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20564 https://arxiv.org/…

Electron-beam-controlled volatile nanomechanical bistability
Bistability in nanomechanical resonators can be exploited for sensing, signal processing, and memory applications due to its potential for switching and high sensitivity to external stimuli. External vibration can be used to drive a doubly-clamped nanowire into the nonlinear regime of bistable oscillation. Here, we experimentally demonstrate that the bistable oscillation of such a nonlinear nanomechanical resonator can be controlled, switched and read by an electron beam.

A vapor-cavity-QED system for quantum computation and communication
Sharoon Austin, Dhruv Devulapalli, Khoi Hoang, Feng Zhou, Kartik Srinivasan, Alexey V. Gorshkov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19432

A vapor-cavity-QED system for quantum computation and communication
In this work, we propose performing key operations in quantum computation and communication using room-temperature atoms moving across a grid of high-quality-factor, small-mode-volume cavities. These cavities enable high-cooperativity interactions with single atoms to be achieved with a characteristic timescale much shorter than the atomic transit time, allowing multiple coherent operations to take place. We study scenarios where we can drive a Raman transition to generate photons with specific…

Hahaha never mind, I found a thing!
#retrocomputing #harddrive

DiskClick by Deervo
Emulate Old hard drive sounds in Windows Using Your Own C Drive

Really wish we had a class like this at RPI back when I was there.
https://people.engr.tamu.edu/spalermo/ecen720.html
This is what I thought "advanced computer hardware design" would be.
Nope. It was doing IDE hard drive controllers on XC4000 se…

'Tiring' 19 play drive helps seal deal for Bears https://247sports.com/nfl/chicago-bears/article/tiring-19-play-drive-helps-seal-deal-for-chicago-bears-254406576/

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Tomorrow's World:
🎵 Drive
#NowPlaying #TomorrowsWorld
https://pandadub.bandcamp.com/track/tomorrows-world-drive-panda-dub-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/77660rTEaCa4tWslx0fqhv
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Massive Discovery of Low-Dimensional Materials from Universal Computational Strategy
Mohammad Bagheri, Ethan Berger, Hannu-Pekka Komsa, Pekka Koskinen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20164

Massive Discovery of Low-Dimensional Materials from Universal Computational Strategy
Low-dimensional materials have attractive properties that drive intense efforts for novel materials discovery. However, experiments are tedious for systematic discovery, and present computational methods are often tuned to two-dimensional (2D) materials, overlooking other low-dimensional materials. Here, we combined universal machine-learning interatomic potentials (UMLIPs) and an advanced, interatomic force constant (FC) -based dimensionality classification method to make a massive discovery o…

AI creative studio Wonder Studios, backed by OpenAI and Google DeepMind execs, raised a $12M seed led by Atomico and aims to release its first content in 2026 (Najat Kantouar/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.ws…

Dynamic driving enables independent control of material bits for targeted memory
E. Gutierrez-Prieto, C. M. Meulblok, M. van Hecke, P. M. Reis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16257 h…

Dynamic driving enables independent control of material bits for targeted memory
Mechanical structures made from bistable elements can store configurational memories to enable tunable stiffness, sequential shape-morphing, and computation. While control over configurations is essential, it typically requires local and individual access to all elements. Here, we introduce a dynamic control strategy that enables transitions between any pair of configurations within a single global drive cycle by exploiting sensitivity to different (orders of) derivatives of the driving. We ill…

🔥 Seagate Expansion 28TB External Hard Drive and the HAMR HDD Within Mini-Review
https://www.servethehome.com/seagate-expansion-28tb-external-hard-drive-and-the-hamr-hdd-within-mini-review/

Seagate Expansion 28TB External Hard Drive and the HAMR HDD Within Mini-Review
We test the Seagate Expansion 28TB and then opened it up to find a Seagate Barracuda 28TB HAMR-based drive inside the USB enclosure

It’s *wild* to me that Google Drive has no option to see how large a folder is on disk 😭

Seahawks survive a TNF classic, plus MLB's late drama surge https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6662226/2025/09/26/seahawks-cardinals-tnf-the-pulse/

Well, I think I found the problem with the home server. It was definitely the system drive (a 2tb m.2 drive).

AI creative studio Wonder Studios, backed by OpenAI and Google DeepMind execs, raised a $12M seed led by Atomico and aims to release its first content in 2026 (Najat Kantouar/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.ws…

#EAuto wird wohl erst in 4 Wochen geliefert. Ich werde versuchen, die Zeit bis dahin u.a. mit #CarSharing überbrücken. Die erste Erfahrung heute mit book-n-drive war schon mal sehr positiv. Blogbeitrag kommt nach 4 Wochen und das wäre dann auch mal ein Thema für

Brock Bowers' 9-yard fingertip catch saves Raiders drive https://www.nfl.com/videos/brock-bowers-9-yard-fingertip-catch-saves-raiders-drive

There's this garage mystery... when I get up around 6am I can see my alley neighbor's garage door open. I've wondered why.
I think one of the people who lives there leaves really early but doesn't have a garage door opener, so they just drive away and leave the door open.
Later the other person who lives there drives away and closes the door, because they have the remote.
That's my best guess, two people/cars, but only one remote.

High harmonic generation from a Bose-Einstein condensate
Philipp Stammer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19022 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19022

Been a few months since I turned my ancient Alienware laptop into a #linux daily drive and so far, mostly, so good; no real complaints.
It has an #nVidia 770M in it, but I've been using the default #Ubuntu Nouveau graphics…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Tomorrow's World:
🎵 Drive
#NowPlaying #TomorrowsWorld
https://pandadub.bandcamp.com/track/tomorrows-world-drive-panda-dub-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/77660rTEaCa4tWslx0fqhv

Ethereum's "low-risk DeFi" applications like payments and savings could drive the chain's revenue in a similar way that search and ads sustain Google's business (Vitalik Buterin/Vitalik Buterin's website)
https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/09/21/lo…

Baker Mayfield leads late drive as Buccaneers stun Texans in Houston https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46274741/texans-buccaneers-mayfield-late-drive-stroud

Jalen Tolbert keeps Cowboys drive alive with fourth-down diving catch https://www.nfl.com/videos/jalen-tolbert-keeps-cowboys-drive-alive-with-fourth-down-diving-catch

Google is testing a Windows desktop app that brings Mac's Spotlight-like search bar to PC users, allowing them to search local files, Google Drive, and the web (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/778940/google-app-windows-launch

Google’s new Windows desktop app brings a Spotlight-like search bar to PC
Google is testing a new app on Windows that you can use to search your files, Drive, and the web.

I'm trying to make a disc image of the M.2 drive that was in the home server. I don't have a lot of flat surfaces next to power outlets on the first floor of my house.

Raiders' O'Connell exits with right wrist injury https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46061296/las-vegas-raiders-qb-aidan-oconnell-exits-wrist-injury

It won't let me create an image file based on the drive because of disk IO errors. I'm trying to copy the files off without trying to create a disc image. I don't know if that's going to succeed but I'm guessing it won't.

Eagles' opening TD drive vs. Rams features 2 tush pushes, 2 apparent false starts https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6649187/2025/09/21/eagles-tush-push-false-start-rams/

Giants OT James Hudson benched after being penalized four times on opening drive vs. Cowboys

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/giants-ot-…