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How should #Mars samples be handled upon arrival on Earth? What measurements are necessary to unlock their full scientific potential? In a new report, the Measurement Definition Team of #NASA and #ESA

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/115635779318419465
"The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses."
And in this case the things they are using to kill it have radio transponders that regularly transmit their geolocation, and these can be looked up on sites that also generally track their Intended destination.
Frog suit Luigi jokes aside, I do feel like it would be possible to blockade some of these ships or at least make their stays in some ports uncomfortable. There are some problems with tracking boats to specific owners, but any giant yacht should probably just be resisted on principle.
I hope someone with more organizing time than me thinks about this a bit. It would definitely take international effort, but an international org like XR could actually probably pull something like that off... If they actually wanted to do something.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@warandpeas/115622653459844057
I bought a copy of "Hi, Earth" as a gift. The online shop lets you add a dedication and I even got a doodle and a sticker. Thanks, War and Peas!

There hasn't been nearly enough coverage of this.
Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone — Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/…

Fascism disgusts me to my core, it corrupts everything it touches, it has no place on this earth, not now, not ever, and I will never stop rejecting it with every part of who I am.
#Fascism #Nazis #US

Czech Republic to donate Earth observation satellite to Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/22/czech-republic-to-donate-earth.html

Going live with LOTRO tonight on my Linux PC! Middle-earth runs smoother on Tux than a hobbit on second breakfast. Come join the adventure! 🐧🧙‍♂️ #LOTRO #LinuxGaming https…

Their father, who they thought was human, revealed himself to be a man of the soil once drunk. Crackling browns darkened by wine dribbling down his chin, writhing with small insects and budding flora. They couldn't bear laying eyes on his breath any longer, the flood was all of God's open might they could handle.

"We are now at a critical juncture. We are at or very close to human caused environmental change that will fundamentally unpick the life-sustaining systems on Earth. These risk triggering feedback loops...
Ultimately that could cause the planet to drift away along the pathway to “hothouse Earth”, a scenario where even if emissions were reduced, self amplifying feedback loops would drive global temperature increases up to or even beyond 5°C"

#Theia, the giant impactor that created the Moon, and Earth were neighbors! Read more about Theia's likely "birthplace" in the inner Solar System here: https://www.mps.mpg.de/theia-and-earth-wer

For my #HamRadio tunable elevated radial project, I want to isolate them from the earth and the mast, and I'm not finding an isolating mount that goes into a normal ½" "light stand". So I've come up with this design to build. (Yay, I can't just buy it, so I have an excuse to spend some shop time!)
From 1" 6061 aluminum stock and 1" POM:

• An aluminum stem/spigot that fits…

Fiery energy lanced out, but the beams struck an intangible wall between
the Gubru and the rapidly turning Earth ship.
"Water!" it shrieked as it read the spectral report. "A barrier of water
vapor! A civilized race could not have found such a trick in the Library!
A civilized race could not have stooped so low! A civilized race would not
have..."
It screamed as the Gubru ship hit a cloud of drifting snowflakes.
-- Startide…

After #Trump finally crashes and burns (I'm still saying I don't think he makes it to the mid terms, and I think it's more than possible he won't make it to the end of the year) we'll hear a lot of people say, "the system worked!" Today people are already talking about "saving democracy" by fighting back. This will become a big rally cry to vote (for Democrats, specifically), and the complete failure of the system will be held up as the best evidence for even greater investment in it.
I just want to point out that American democracy gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile, who, before being elected was already a well known sexual predator, and who made the campaign promise to commit genocide. He then preceded to commit genocide. And like, I don't care that he's "only" kidnaped and disappeared a few thousand brown people. That's still genocide. Even if you don't kill every member of a targeted group, any attempt to do so is still "committing genocide." Trump said he would commit genocide, then he hired all the "let's go do a race war" guys he could find and *paid* them to go do a race war. And, even now as this deranged monster is crashing out, he is still authorized to use the world's largest nuclear arsenal.
He committed genocide during his first term when his administration separated migrant parents and children, then adopted those children out to other parents. That's technically genocide. The point was to destroy the very people been sending right wing terror squads after.
There was a peaceful hand over of power to a known Russian asset *twice*, and the second time he'd already committed *at least one* act of genocide *and* destroyed cultural heritage sites (oh yeah, he also destroyed indigenous grave sites, in case you forgot, during his first term).
All of this was allowed because the system is set up to protect exactly these types of people, because *exactly* these types of people are *the entire power structure*.
Going back to that system means going back to exactly the system that gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile *TWICE*.
I'm already seeing the attempts to pull people back, the congratulations as we enter the final phase, the belief that getting Trump out will let us all get back to normal. Normal. The normal that lead here in the first place. I can already see the brunch reservations being made. When Trump is over, we will be told we won. We will be told that it's time to go back to sleep.
When they tell you everything worked, everything is better, that we can stop because we won, tell them "fuck you! Never again means never again." Destroy every system that ever gave these people power, that ever protected them from consequences, that ever let them hide what they were doing.
These democrats funded a genocide abroad and laid the groundwork for genocide at home. They protected these predators, for years. The whole power structure is guilty. As these files implicate so many powerful people, they're trying to shove everything back in the box. After all the suffering, after we've finally made it clear that we are the once with the power, only now they're willing to sacrifice Trump to calm us all down.
No, that's a good start but it can't be the end.
Winning can't be enough to quench that rage. Keep it burning. When this is over, let victory fan that anger until every institution that made this possible lies in ashes. Burn it all down and salt the earth. Taking down Trump is a great start, but it's not time to give up until this isn't possible again.
#USPol

Earth enters 'new reality' as coral reefs reach first climate tipping point #environment

Earth enters 'new reality' as coral reefs reach first climate tipping point
The world faces a "new reality" as we have reached the first of many Earth system tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm unless humanity takes urgent action, according to a report released by the University of Exeter and international partners.

Global #TippingPoints Report 2025: https://global-tipping-points.org/resources-gtp/ (summary and full report) -> Bleaching, Melting, Slowing - New report tracks growing risks of Earth system tipping points: https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/files/bleaching-melting-slowing-new-report-tracks-growing-risks-of-earth-system-tipping-points-4 -> The planet has entered a ‘new reality’ as it hits its first climate tipping point, landmark report finds: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/13/climate/tipping-points-coral-reef-ice-amoc

When in 2029, ESA’s #Ramses spacecraft accompanies #asteroid #Apophis on its very close flyby of #Earth

"So the next time you find yourself asking why you're being inundated with AI wherever you go, remember that the answer is that someone with millions of dollars to spare paid for it on the off chance that it will yield a nice return."
(Original title: a16z Is Funding a 'Speedrun' to AI-Generated Hell on Earth)

a16z Is Funding a 'Speedrun' to AI-Generated Hell on Earth
Do you want ‘AI-powered social orbits,’ ‘autonomous recruiting firms,’ and an ‘AI-powered credit card?’ Too bad, you’re getting them anyway.

What on earth has Starmer been smoking now?
'Keir Starmer is to examine India’s digital ID system on his visit to Mumbai as a potential model for the UK, praising the system as a “massive success”.
Speaking on his two-day trip to Mumbai, where he met an expert on India’s digital ID system, Starmer defended the introduction of a similar measure in the UK, saying he believed the rollout of a voluntary system could be expanded to school applications, mortgages and driving licenc…

LiFePO4 Battery Integration with Off-grid Solar PV - How I parallelled a lithium-iron battery with my lead-acid system for years. #storage #microgen -

LiFePO4 Battery Integration with Off-grid Solar PV
How I parallelled a lithium-iron battery with my lead-acid system for years. #storage #microgen

I made this for my sister c. 1990. And yes, this is the extent of my artistic abilities. I'm not entirely sure what possessed me to portray Trump as a globe-consuming kaiju, but since it appears that Santa has not actually saved the world from him, it's up to us to go out tomorrow.
#nokings

you and me in an infinite stampede flowing through a dark deep cavern that circles the earth's center like an ouroboros

Sen. Bernie Sanders said at a “No Kings” protest on Saturday that mega-billionaires have “hijacked” the economy,
slamming some of the wealthiest people in the nation.
“This is about a handful of the wealthiest people on earth who,
in their insatiable greed,
have hijacked our economy and our political system in order to enrich themselves at the expense of working families throughout this country,”
Sanders said in a clip highlighted by Mediaite.
“I am talkin…

Earth-Like Planets Are More Common Than We Thought, Study Says https://www.404media.co/earth-like-planets-are-more-common-than-we-thought-study-says/

Streaming some Middle-earth magic tonight! ⚔️ Running Lord of the Rings Online on the Linux box while my 3D printer handles a "Grimly the Dwarf" figure in the background. 🖨️⚒️
Come hang out for the questing and the prints! 🐧💪
#LinuxGaming #LOTRO

I didn't realize how many lucky coincidences lead to our robust electoral system - great yarn, should be required reading by those who don't study civics.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-09/civic-duty-compulsory-preferen…

Australia's democratic system is unlike any other on Earth
Behind the quirks of Australia's incredible democratic system are a series of complex human backstories.

“I never considered what would come after creation.
And having reached the edge of the earth, there was no horizon left.
The achievement felt unnatural.
Void of meaning.
And this troubled me so.”
#Frankenstein https://

Analyst goes scorched earth on 'atrocious' Jets after Cowboys loss - 'You have any pride?' https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/new-york-jets/news/analyst-goes-scorched-e…

#idw Dependence of #TippingPoints in the global system: Four central #climate components are losing stability
Four of the most important interconnected parts of the Earth's climate system are losing stabil…

Dependence of tipping points in the global system: Four central climate components are losing stability

Y'all posting your aurora pictures... There are times I wish I spent more time back up north! Meanwhile, I'm glad I got my ham radio fix yesterday hunting a little bit of POTA, because the CME was responsible for more than the aurora... https://solar.w5mmw.net/

Protracted core formation and impact disruptions shaped the earliest outer Solar System #planetesimals: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw1668 -> Meteorite chemistry reveals the violent origins of planet formation: https://www.earth.com/news/meteorites-hint-at-early-planet-formation-within-the-solar-system/

Evaluating Earth-Observing Satellite Sampling Effectiveness Using Kullback-Leibler Divergence
Negin Esmaeili, Paul T. Grogan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10859 https://

Evaluating Earth-Observing Satellite Sampling Effectiveness Using Kullback-Leibler Divergence
This work presents an objective, repeatable, automatic, and fast methodology for assessing the representativeness of geophysical variables sampled by Earth-observing satellites. The primary goal is to identify and mitigate potential sampling biases attributed to orbit selection during pre-Phase A mission studies. This methodology supports current incubation activities for a future Planetary Boundary Layer observing system by incorporating a sampling effectiveness measure into a broader architec…

i was at the cookout before earth itself was formed

Today's soundtrack is Soar by Earth Ship. Nicely heavy and noisy. I picked up the album on beautiful red vinyl while in Berlin some time ago, and I kind of forgot to get back to it. But I am enjoying it now! https://earthship.bandcamp.com/album/soar - they describe themselves as doom/slud…

Day 15 (belated): Darcie Little Badger
An Indigenous author of YA fiction, Little Badger writes warm characters with deep hearts, and of course offers a fantasy world that feels refreshingly different to anyone steeped mainly in fantasy of the Tolkien lineage. Would be nice if works like hers weren't rare and didn't seem exotic, but that's not the world we live in.
I greatly enjoyed "A Snake Falls to Earth" and need to remember to grab more from her soon, although my current library crop is sitting at something like 8 books to do through first.
#20AuthorsNoMen

Jedan od najljepših albuma ikada.
https://mastodon.nl/@vinyl/115367651122763896

Score-based generative emulation of impact-relevant Earth system model outputs
Shahine Bouabid, Andre Nogueira Souza, Raffaele Ferrari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04358 https://

Score-based generative emulation of impact-relevant Earth system model outputs
Policy targets evolve faster than the Couple Model Intercomparison Project cycles, complicating adaptation and mitigation planning that must often contend with outdated projections. Climate model output emulators address this gap by offering inexpensive surrogates that can rapidly explore alternative futures while staying close to Earth System Model (ESM) behavior. We focus on emulators designed to provide inputs to impact models. Using monthly ESM fields of near-surface temperature, precipitat…

#3iatlas
I've read that we can't observe 3I/Atlas from earth because it will be behind the sun, but according to SkyLive it looks like i should be possible to spot it from Norway still at around 1730.
If I had had a telescope, I would have tried(and likely failed).
#3i_atlas

Breathless headline: "97% of buildings on Earth now 3D-mapped!"
Well, 0% of my or my three nearest neighbors' 14 houses/sheds are there in any way, and the "buildings" that *are* present near us don't actually exist, so either we're the 3%, or that number is utter bullshit.
...which is a good thing, tbh, because this is a massive invasion of privacy. Bad enough to have Google taking pictures of me from the sky; now I have to let the council do dr…

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"A perfect opportunity, Xcolit, to
capture a specimen of the intelligent
life form of the Earth planet!"

A Lost Planet Created the Moon. Now, We Know Where It Came From. https://www.404media.co/a-lost-planet-created-the-moon-now-we-know-where-it-came-from/

Expanding and Optimising Off-grid PV for Mid-winter (2016) - Read how I attempted to move 10% of our mid-winter home electricity demand off-grid... #microgen #storage -

Expanding and Optimising Off-grid PV for Mid-winter (2016)
Read how I attempted to move 10% of our mid-winter home electricity demand off-grid... #microgen #storage

🚨Job alert! 🚨 Two Post-docs "bridging knowledge between Earth and Planetary sciences (the Solar System) and Exoplanet science (beyond the Solar System)" at the Munich Center for Geoastronomy #geology #planetary

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[1/5]:
- Feed Two Birds with One Scone: Exploiting Wild Data for Both Out-of-Distribution Generalization a...
Haoyue Bai, Gregory Canal, Xuefeng Du, Jeongyeol Kwon, Robert Nowak, Yixuan Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09158
- Sparse, Efficient and Explainable Data Attribution with DualXDA
Galip \"Umit Yolcu, Moritz Weckbecker, Thomas Wiegand, Wojciech Samek, Sebastian Lapuschkin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12118 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/111962593972369958
- HGQ: High Granularity Quantization for Real-time Neural Networks on FPGAs
Sun, Que, {\AA}rrestad, Loncar, Ngadiuba, Luk, Spiropulu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00645 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/112370274737558603
- On the Identification of Temporally Causal Representation with Instantaneous Dependence
Li, Shen, Zheng, Cai, Song, Gong, Chen, Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15325 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/112511890051553111
- Basis Selection: Low-Rank Decomposition of Pretrained Large Language Models for Target Applications
Yang Li, Daniel Agyei Asante, Changsheng Zhao, Ernie Chang, Yangyang Shi, Vikas Chandra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15877 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/112517547424098076
- Privacy Bias in Language Models: A Contextual Integrity-based Auditing Metric
Yan Shvartzshnaider, Vasisht Duddu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03735 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113089789682783135
- Low-Rank Filtering and Smoothing for Sequential Deep Learning
Joanna Sliwa, Frank Schneider, Nathanael Bosch, Agustinus Kristiadi, Philipp Hennig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.06800 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113283021321510736
- Hierarchical Multimodal LLMs with Semantic Space Alignment for Enhanced Time Series Classification
Xiaoyu Tao, Tingyue Pan, Mingyue Cheng, Yucong Luo, Qi Liu, Enhong Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18686 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113367101100828901
- Fairness via Independence: A (Conditional) Distance Covariance Framework
Ruifan Huang, Haixia Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.00720 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113587817648503815
- Data for Mathematical Copilots: Better Ways of Presenting Proofs for Machine Learning
Simon Frieder, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.15184 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113683924322164777
- Pairwise Elimination with Instance-Dependent Guarantees for Bandits with Cost Subsidy
Ishank Juneja, Carlee Joe-Wong, Osman Ya\u{g}an
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10290 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113859392622871057
- Towards Human-Guided, Data-Centric LLM Co-Pilots
Evgeny Saveliev, Jiashuo Liu, Nabeel Seedat, Anders Boyd, Mihaela van der Schaar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10321 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113859392688054204
- Regularized Langevin Dynamics for Combinatorial Optimization
Shengyu Feng, Yiming Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00277
- Generating Samples to Probe Trained Models
Eren Mehmet K{\i}ral, Nur\c{s}en Ayd{\i}n, \c{S}. \.Ilker Birbil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06658 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113984059089245671
- On Agnostic PAC Learning in the Small Error Regime
Julian Asilis, Mikael M{\o}ller H{\o}gsgaard, Grigoris Velegkas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09496 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114000974082372598
- Preconditioned Inexact Stochastic ADMM for Deep Model
Shenglong Zhou, Ouya Wang, Ziyan Luo, Yongxu Zhu, Geoffrey Ye Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10784 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114023667639951005
- On the Effect of Sampling Diversity in Scaling LLM Inference
Wang, Liu, Chen, Light, Liu, Chen, Zhang, Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.11027 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114023688225233656
- How to use score-based diffusion in earth system science: A satellite nowcasting example
Randy J. Chase, Katherine Haynes, Lander Ver Hoef, Imme Ebert-Uphoff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10432 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114516300594057680
- PEAR: Equal Area Weather Forecasting on the Sphere
Hampus Linander, Christoffer Petersson, Daniel Persson, Jan E. Gerken
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17720 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114572963019603744
- Train Sparse Autoencoders Efficiently by Utilizing Features Correlation
Vadim Kurochkin, Yaroslav Aksenov, Daniil Laptev, Daniil Gavrilov, Nikita Balagansky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22255 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114589956040892075
- A Certified Unlearning Approach without Access to Source Data
Umit Yigit Basaran, Sk Miraj Ahmed, Amit Roy-Chowdhury, Basak Guler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06486 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114658421178857085
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Lauschen bang dem Netz-Rumoren
Horch! Es naht #React2Shell!

China-nexus cyber threat groups rapidly exploit React2Shell vulnerability (CVE-2025-55182) | Amazon Web Services
Within hours of the public disclosure of CVE-2025-55182 (React2Shell) on December 3, 2025, Amazon threat intelligence teams observed active exploitation attempts by multiple China state-nexus threat groups, including Earth Lamia and Jackpot Panda. This critical vulnerability in React Server Components has a maximum Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) score of 10.0 and affects React versions […]

Replaced article(s) found for astro-ph.EP. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.EP/new
[1/1]:
- Diversity of low-mass planet atmospheres in the C-H-O-N-S-Cl system with interior dissolution, no...
Dan J. Bower, Maggie A. Thompson, Kaustubh Hakim, Meng Tian, Paolo A. Sossi

Large Language Model-Empowered Channel Prediction and Predictive Beamforming for LEO Satellite Communications
Zhixiong Chen, Hyundong Shin, Arumugam Nallanathan, Jonathon Chambers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10561

Large Language Model-Empowered Channel Prediction and Predictive Beamforming for LEO Satellite Communications
Accurate channel prediction and effective beamforming are essential for low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications to enhance system capacity and enable high-speed connectivity. Most existing channel prediction and predictive beamforming methods are limited by model generalization capabilities and struggle to adapt to time-varying wireless propagation environments. Inspired by the remarkable generalization and reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), this work proposes an LLM…

RFSoC receiver calibration system for 21-cm global spectrum experiments from space: The CosmoCube case
Jiacong Zhu, Eloy de Lera Acedo, Kaan Artuc, Xuelei Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06558

RFSoC receiver calibration system for 21-cm global spectrum experiments from space: The CosmoCube case
The CosmoCube project plans to deploy a global 21-cm spectrometer with 10-100 MHz observation band in a lunar orbit. The farside part of such an orbit, i.e. the part of orbit behind the Moon, offers an ideal site for accurately measuring the 21-cm signal from the Dark Ages, Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization, as the effects of the Earth's ionosphere, artificial radio frequency interference (RFI), and complex terrain and soil are all avoided. Given the limitations of a satellite platform, we …

Cavity Enhanced Emission from Telecom Rare-Earth System in Colloidal Host
Purbita Purkayastha, Cristian Gonzalez, Cameron Mollazadeh, Chang-Min Lee, Fariba Islam, Abhijit Biswas, Michael F. Toney, Christopher B. Murray, Edo Waks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01139

Cavity Enhanced Emission from Telecom Rare-Earth System in Colloidal Host
Erbium incorporated in a ceria (CeO2) host offers strong potential as a spin qubit platform, providing a pathway toward telecom-compatible quantum memory. But erbium is a dim emitter due to its long excited state lifetime. Methods to enhance its emission rate and efficiency through nanophotonic cavity integration are therefore essential. In this work, we demonstrate cavity-enhanced emission from erbium doped CeO2. We couple colloidally synthesized erbium doped CeO2 nanocrystals to a silicon nan…

Researchers track massive ice loss from Berry Glacier in West Antarctica #Antarctica

Researchers track massive ice loss from Berry Glacier in West Antarctica
Berry Glacier, a tributary of the Getz Ice Shelf in West Antarctica, has deteriorated dramatically in the past three decades, according to researchers in the Department of Earth System Science at the University of California, Irvine.

LiFePO4 Battery Integration with Off-grid Solar PV - How I parallelled a lithium-iron battery with my lead-acid system for years. #storage #microgen -

LiFePO4 Battery Integration with Off-grid Solar PV
How I parallelled a lithium-iron battery with my lead-acid system for years. #storage #microgen

What on earth am I watching? At least he binged my favorite childhood show.
#NowWatching

The sports secretary of the UK is in hot water for giving a donor a job as the government "football regulator".
Why on earth does football require a government regulator?

An Asteroid Threatening Earth Is Teeming With Ingredients for Life, Scientists Discover https://www.404media.co/an-asteroid-threatening-earth-is-teeming-with-ingredients-for-life-scientists-discover/

yall check out what @… just dropped
"this script will search through the list of towns with 500 people or more that I found on geonames.org and give you a random location, based on how populous that town and that country are."

Let's get festive! 🎄 Tonight we're back in Middle-earth for more LOTRO Yule Festival chaos! Time to throw rotten fruit at the actors in Frostbluff and grab those new cosmetics.
All the holiday action powered by my Bazzite gaming setup! Come join the snowball fight!
🔴 LIVE AT https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus

“All five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA,
along with phosphates,
have already been found in the Bennu samples
brought to Earth by OSIRIS-REx,”
said Yoshihiro Furukawa.
“The new discovery of ribose means that all of the components to form the molecule RNA are present in Bennu.”
…

Sugars, ‘Gum,’ Stardust Found in NASA's Asteroid Bennu Samples - NASA
The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists’ biggest questions about the formation of the early solar system and the origins of life. As

European "socialism" is a compromise wherein the population gets services and, in exchange, the rich are allowed to continue to exist. This compromise developed to save capitalism from the threat of the working class just rising up and just doing it all themselves. Revolutions, it turns out, can be dangerous and may be subverted. It's generally safer, so Europe's working class decided, to accept some exploitation in exchange for not taking that chance.
The the strategy of "point guns at everyone until they comply" was a sustainable strategy, all of Europe would still be absolute monarchies, feudalism would still be the dominant economic system globally, and England would still control most of the land on Earth. Recognizing that this *isn't* the state of the world should give some clues as to how well Yarvin's ideas continue will play out in the real world.
#USPol

Raiders HC Pete Carroll’s QB Crisis: Greg Olson Talks, Richie Incognito Snaps https://raiderramble.com/2025/11/29/raiders-hc-pete-carrolls-qb-crisis-greg-olson-talks-richie-incognito-snaps/

"Google Earth gets an AI chatbot to help chart the climate crisis"
#Google #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Climate

Google Earth gets an AI chatbot to help chart the climate crisis
New AI features in Google Earth let users ask chatbot-style questions to find changes in the climate. The system could eventually predict disasters and identify the communities likely to be affected.

Crosslisted article(s) found for stat.ME. https://arxiv.org/list/stat.ME/new
[1/1]:
- Variational Autoencoders-based Detection of Extremes in Plant Productivity in an Earth System Model
Bharat Sharma, Jitendra Kumar

Just finished "It's Lonely at the Center of the Earth" by Zoe Thorogood.
CW: Frank/graphic discussion of suicide and depression (not in this post but in the book).
It feels a bit wrong to simply give it my review here as I would another graphic memoir, because it's much more personal and less consensual than the usual. It feels less like Thorogood has invited us into her life than like she was forced to put her life on display in order to survive, and while I selfishly like to read into the book that she benefited in some way from the process, she's honest about how tenuous and sometimes false that claim can be. Knowing what I've learned from this book about Thorogood's life and demons, I don't want her to feel the mortification of being perceived by me, and so perhaps the best thing I could do is to simply unread the book and pull it back out of my memories.
I did not find Thorogood's life relatable, nor pitiable (although my instinct bends in that direction), but instead sacred and unknowable. I suspect that her writing and drawing has helped others in similar circumstances, but she leaves me with no illusion that this fact brings her any form of peace or joy. I wonder what she would feel reading "Lab Girl" or "The Deep Dark," but she has been honest enough to convey that such speculation on my part is a bit intrusive.
I guess the one other thing I have to say: Zoe Thorogood has through artistic perseverance developed an awe-inspiring mastery of the comic medium, from panel composition, through to page layout and writing. This book wields both Truth and Beauty.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

The relationship between surface features and sub-surface turbulence: simulations and experiments
Omer M. Babiker, J{\o}rgen R. Aarnes, Ali Semati, Am\'elie Ferran, Yi Hui Tee, R. Jason Hearst, Simen {\AA}. Ellingsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03732

The relationship between surface features and sub-surface turbulence: simulations and experiments
Turbulent flows close beneath a free water surface are of central importance in the Earth system, yet remain relatively little studied with many open questions. We study the degree of correlation between surface motion and sub-surface velocities, comparing data from direct numerical simulation to a new experimental setup where the free-surface motion and sub-surface velocity field are measured simultaneously in a jet-stirred tank. A previous study showed a close correlation between the time ser…

Eco Puzzler: 0-GHG Energy - For those on their way to mastering engineering... How to create a 100% Greenhouse Gas Free Energy System for the UK? #ecoEngineering #renewables -

Eco Puzzler: 0-GHG Energy
For those on their way to mastering engineering... How to create a 100% Greenhouse Gas Free Energy System for the UK? #ecoEngineering #renewables

PRESOL: a web-based computational setting for feature-based flare forecasting
Chiara Curletto, Paolo Massa, Valeria Tagliafico, Cristina Campi, Federico Benvenuto, Michele Piana, Andrea Tacchino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01799

PRESOL: a web-based computational setting for feature-based flare forecasting
Solar flares are the most explosive phenomena in the solar system and the main trigger of the events' chain that starts from Coronal Mass Ejections and leads to geomagnetic storms with possible impacts on the infrastructures at Earth. Data-driven solar flare forecasting relies on either deep learning approaches, which are operationally promising but with a low explainability degree, or machine learning algorithms, which can provide information on the physical descriptors that mostly impact the …

ESA’s space probe #JUICE is headed towards a truly unexpected encounter: on November 2nd, observations of interstellar object #3IATLAS will begin. Read more about contributions from #mpsgoettingen

Scientists Discover ‘Black Widow’ Exoplanet That Defies Explanation https://www.404media.co/scientists-discover-black-widow-exoplanet-that-defies-explanation/

In much the same way we want useful #privacy focused, secure software, but the techbros keep delivering insecure #AI focused insecure nightmares, I wish the food industry would stop trying to sell us #ultraprocessed #overpackaged and mostly marketing driven guff and start turning their brilliant minds to real problems.
Why can't I have a delicious #vegan #plantbased cheese that doesn't cost the earth available at my local supermarket?
It's as if the brightest minds of each generation get turned to the wrong things - like ever more sophisticated ways to keep scrolling, or physics graduates who became quants and helped cause the financial crisis...

Merry Yule, Middle-earth! 🎄
It's officially time for holiday shenanigans in Bree-land. We're diving into the LOTRO Yule Festival quests and snowball fights, all running smoothly on my trusty Bazzite PC.
🔴 LIVE NOW: https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus

"...'fire' does not matter, 'earth' and 'air' and 'water' do not
matter. 'I' do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality
and remembers words. The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his
fellows esteem him. He looks upon the great transformations of the
world, but he does not see them as they were seen when man looked upon
reality for the first time. Their names come to his lips and he smiles
as …

More Vigilante Traffic Safety!
(I know Stephen Earle well! He's a great guy and a retired VIU Geology and Earth Science Professor. A wonderful climate leader around #Nanaimo)
#Traffic #Safety #Pedestrian #Cycle #Climate

Top-of-atmosphere radiation fields over the last millennium reconstructed from proxies
Dominik Stiller, Gregory J. Hakim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09896 https://

Top-of-atmosphere radiation fields over the last millennium reconstructed from proxies
Earth's energy imbalance at the top of the atmosphere is a key climate system metric, but its variability is poorly constrained by the short observational record and large uncertainty in coupled climate models. While existing ocean heat content reconstructions offer a longer perspective, they cannot separate the contributions of shortwave and longwave radiation, obscuring the underlying processes. We extend the energy budget record by reconstructing the top-of-atmosphere radiation and related s…

RE: https://social.finkhaeuser.de/@jens/115633394234495682
Fascism, has no place on earth, not now, not ever!

Crosslisted article(s) found for stat.OT. https://arxiv.org/list/stat.OT/new
[1/1]:
- Variational Autoencoders-based Detection of Extremes in Plant Productivity in an Earth System Model
Bharat Sharma, Jitendra Kumar

Replaced article(s) found for astro-ph.EP. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.EP/new
[1/1]:
- Modeling the Solar System as an Observed Multi-Transit System I: Characterization Limits from Ana...
Bethlee Lindor, Eric Agol

Earth Is Getting Darker, Literally, and Scientists Are Trying To Find Out Why https://www.404media.co/earth-is-getting-darker-literally-and-scientists-are-trying-to-find-out-why/

Solar Hegemony: M-Dwarfs Are Unlikely to Host Observers Such as Ourselves
David Kipping
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01215 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01215…

Solar Hegemony: M-Dwarfs Are Unlikely to Host Observers Such as Ourselves
With no firm evidence for life beyond our solar system, inferences about the population observers such as ourselves rests upon the Earth as a single input, at least for now. Whilst the narrative of our home as a 'humdrum' system has become ingrained in the public psyche via Sagan, there are at least two striking facts about our existence which we know are certainly unusual. First, the stelliferous period spans ~10Tyr - yet here we are living in the first 0.1% of that volume. Second, over three-…

Ecosystem Recovery to Historical Targets Becomes Unattainable Under Modelled Fishing and Climate in the Barents Sea
Matthew Hatton, Jack H Laverick, Neil Banas, Michael Heath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04806

Ecosystem Recovery to Historical Targets Becomes Unattainable Under Modelled Fishing and Climate in the Barents Sea
Climate change and fisheries jointly shape the resilience of the Barents Sea marine ecosystem, yet the recovery of key fish populations to climate and anthropogenic disturbances requires further investigation. This study examines how fishing pressure and climate change, driven by the NEMO-MEDUSA Earth system model, influence the recovery times of Demersal and Planktivorous fish in the Barents Sea. We used the StrathE2EPolar end-to-end ecosystem model to simulate transient dynamics under increas…

Tonight, my sleigh is powered by Tux! 🐧 Streaming LOTRO as Linux Santa and spreading open-source cheer across Middle-earth. Hope you've all been good little kernel developers! Stream starts soon! #LOTRO #Linux

Satellite Assignment Policy Learning for Coexistence in LEO Networks
Jeong Min Kong, Ian P. Roberts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01408 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Satellite Assignment Policy Learning for Coexistence in LEO Networks
Unlike in terrestrial cellular networks, certain frequency bands for low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite systems have thus far been allocated on a non-exclusive basis. In this context, systems that launch their satellites earlier (referred to as primary systems) are given spectrum access priority over those that launch later, known as secondary systems. For a secondary system to function, it is expected to either coordinate with primary systems or ensure that it does not cause excessive interferenc…

For my birthday today… I deleted the Facebook account I created in September to access Marketplace. It served its purpose. I was going to sell other things but never got around to it. Then friends started requesting to be friends. It was awkward. I didn’t accept any requests and even made one post on my profile that I wouldn’t be friending anyone.. that it was only for Marketplace. People still requested…
Then a colleague/friend passed away and I missed an RSVP because someone sent me the message on FB rather than real life even though we weren’t FB connected and hadn’t communicated on there for years. This is what happens when people treat FB like the entirety of “the internet” and “communication”. I have a website with my name and phone! My address is not hard to search. Email!?
I was angry and sad about that. 😢
So ya… if I do the Marketplace thing again I’ll just make a temp account and delete it after use, like a single use plastic bag to pick up dog poop. 💩 🤣
In the meantime I’ll keep focusing on good people here on the #opensocialweb… and also connecting with people in real life.
Most of the 48 years I have spent on this earth have been without Facebook. I’ll manage :)
#toxicsocialmedia #facebook #deleteyouraccount #mastodonMigration #dumpzuck

Beyond the Training Data: Confidence-Guided Mixing of Parameterizations in a Hybrid AI-Climate Model
Helge Heuer, Tom Beucler, Mierk Schwabe, Julien Savre, Manuel Schlund, Veronika Eyring
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08107

Beyond the Training Data: Confidence-Guided Mixing of Parameterizations in a Hybrid AI-Climate Model
Persistent systematic errors in Earth system models (ESMs) arise from difficulties in representing the full diversity of subgrid, multiscale atmospheric convection and turbulence. Machine learning (ML) parameterizations trained on short high-resolution simulations show strong potential to reduce these errors. However, stable long-term atmospheric simulations with hybrid (physics + ML) ESMs remain difficult, as neural networks (NNs) trained offline often destabilize online runs. Training convect…

Crosslisted article(s) found for astro-ph.EP. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.EP/new
[1/1]:
- Technosignatures of Self-Replicating Probes in the Solar System
Alex Ellery

Ho ho ho! Linux Santa has arrived! 🎅 Tonight, I'm streaming Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO), delivered flawlessly from my stable Linux PC. Come get your gifts of smooth frame rates and Middle-earth cheer! #LOTRO #LinuxGaming

cuHPX: GPU-Accelerated Differentiable Spherical Harmonic Transforms on HEALPix Grids
Xiaopo Cheng, Akshay Subramaniam, Shixun Wu, Noah Brenowitz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01785

cuHPX: GPU-Accelerated Differentiable Spherical Harmonic Transforms on HEALPix Grids
HEALPix (Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelization) is a widely adopted spherical grid system in astrophysics, cosmology, and Earth sciences. Its equal-area, iso-latitude structure makes it particularly well-suited for large-scale data analysis on the sphere. However, implementing high-performance spherical harmonic transforms (SHTs) on HEALPix grids remains challenging due to irregular pixel geometry, latitude-dependent alignments, and the demands for high-resolution transforms at scale…

Back in Middle-earth tonight streaming #LOTRO! Running it on Bazzite Linux, so we have maximum FPS and zero Eye of Sauron (Windows telemetry) watching us. 🧙‍♂️ 🎅 🐧
Come join the fellowship! 👇 #LinuxGaming

Exoplanets beyond the Conservative Habitable Zone: I. Habitability
Amri Wandel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00736 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00736

Exoplanets beyond the Conservative Habitable Zone: I. Habitability
The Habitable Zone (HZ) is defined by the possibility of sustaining liquid water on a planetary surface. In the Solar System, the HZ for a conservative climate model extends approximately between the orbits of Earth and Mars. We elaborate on earlier HZ models and apply an analytical climate model of the temperature distribution on tidally-locked planets to extend the HZ. We show that planets orbiting M- and K-dwarf stars may maintain liquid water on their night side, significantly closer to the…

Streaming some Lord of the Rings Online tonight from my Linux PC! Let's explore Middle-earth. Come hang out! #LOTRO #LinuxGaming #Stream