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The design of the museum has morphed over the years, from a dark, curvaceous amoeba-like form that echoed the nearby La Brea Tar Pits to a design that retains the curves up top but shifts to rectilinear glass on the galleries level below
After five years of construction, so much debate about its scale, design and ambitions, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art held its first event Thursday night inside the Peter Zumthor-designed building

LACMA opens its new building for a sneak peak: Photos from the first preview
Los Angeles County Museum of Art's long-awaited David Geffen Galleries building opens for a sneak peak Thursday -- the first look inside the raw, empty interior of architect Peter Zumthor's poured concrete creation.

I filled out a bike rack request but it is insane that I have to suggest to my local government—which is supposedly all about promoting Union Square and downtown recovery—that it consider putting any bike racks at all anywhere near an enormous 7-story department store.

we had lunch at john boy’s, breakfast really — it’s breakfast-time all day at john boy’s.
i took this pic at noon and the place was empty but when we arrived at 11:30, every seat in the place was taken and we had to wait for a table. (i was told the lunch rush would begin in a minute.)
#alpena

‪A 3-d scan of one of many electrical boxes in Ithaca decorated by local artists (Scaniverse makes it so easy to make one of these with a phone!)
#photo #photography #ithaca

Collegetown
View this scan by @UP8 in 3D on Scaniverse.

Men came to him with tears and their eyes. Sir, they said, you are truly a military genius. You blew up empty holes in the ground like no one has ever blown up empty holes in the ground before. #maga

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.

Thanks @… for posting this on discourse 3 years ago #nix to trigger a mismatch a bit earlier than $currentDate

Natura Urbana III 🏡
城市自然 III 🏡
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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Empty words and deception – How meeting between Trump and Putin in Alaska went | Wrap-Up Analytics: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/empty-words-and-deception-how.html

After Houston's Astrodome sits empty two decades plus, support fades for preservation. Despite the better-than-most case for genuine landmark status that can be made for the first indoor baseball stadium. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/us/hous…

Houston’s Astrodome Was a Vision of the Future. It’s Past Its Prime.
Once a wonder of the world, the storied but moldering stadium has long been part of life in Houston. Is it worth saving?

On zero-sum subsequences in a finite abelian group of length not exceeding a given number
Kevin Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21383 https://

On zero-sum subsequences in a finite abelian group of length not exceeding a given number
Let $G$ be an additive finite abelian group and let $k\in [\exp(G),\mathsf{D}(G)-1]$ be a positive integer. Denote by $\mathsf{s}_{\leq k}(G)$ the smallest positive integer $l\in \mathbb{N}\cup \{+\infty\}$ such that each sequence of length $l$ over $G$ has a non-empty zero-sum subsequence of length at most $k$. Let $k_G\in [\exp(G),\mathsf{D}(G)-1]$ be the smallest positive integer such that $\mathsf{s}_{\leq \mathsf{D}(G)-d}(G)\leq \mathsf{D}(G)+d$ for $\mathsf{D}(G)-d\geq k_G$. We conjecture…

Rebalancing Modular Transit Systems: A Hierarchical Graph-Based Optimization Framework for Fleet Sizing and Routing
Tina Radvand, Alireza Talebpour, Yanfeng Ouyang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18643

Rebalancing Modular Transit Systems: A Hierarchical Graph-Based Optimization Framework for Fleet Sizing and Routing
This study addresses the rebalancing of empty modular transit pods between scheduled service trips in fixed-route bus systems. A two-stage hierarchical optimization framework is proposed. The first stage determines the minimum fleet size and initial vehicle assignments by solving a maximum matching problem on a bipartite graph, using a GPU-accelerated push-relabel algorithm. The second stage formulates detailed routing as a series of minimum-cost flow problems on time-space networks. To manage …

Max-Min and 1-Bounded Space Algorithms for the Bin Packing Problem
Hiroshi Fujiwara, Rina Atsumi, Hiroaki Yamamoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18718 https://

Max-Min and 1-Bounded Space Algorithms for the Bin Packing Problem
In the (1-dimensional) bin packing problem, we are asked to pack all the given items into bins, each of capacity one, so that the number of non-empty bins is minimized. Zhu~[Chaos, Solitons \& Fractals 2016] proposed an approximation algorithm $MM$ that sorts the item sequence in a non-increasing order by size at the beginning, and then repeatedly packs, into the current single open bin, first as many of the largest items in the remaining sequence as possible and then as many of the smallest it…

The official wesnoth account got 41 posts(allegedly) and the media content is 100% empty (allegedly)
Well, you tell me:
Is this the official Wesnoth account on the fediverse?
@…

🥠China's abandoned buildings draw urban explorers despite risks
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/06/asia-pacific/china-abandoned-buildings/
🆓

China's abandoned buildings draw urban explorers despite risks
Urban exploration is growing in popularity in China, where a yearslong property sector crisis has left many cities dotted with empty buildings.

Before: Me sad.

Somehow the woeful Salem Sox held on to win. We’d have had fun either way.
Iit was much more pleasant after the blazing sun finally set! A real mercy.

Treating empty bottles like lottery tickets could revolutionize recycling and boost rates significantly. Find out how Norway's bottle-recycling lottery system is leading the way in promoting sustainable practices. #climatechange #climatesolutions

Treating empty bottles like lottery tickets could transform recycling
When offered a 1-in-10,000 chance of winning $1,000 instead of a guaranteed 10 cent refund, people recycled 47% more bottles...at no extra cost to local governments.

It's like a cinnamon stick, but spicier!

Natura Urbana III 🏡
城市自然 III 🏡
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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Never Come Up Empty: Adaptive HyDE Retrieval for Improving LLM Developer Support
Fangjian Lei, Mariam El Mezouar, Shayan Noei, Ying Zou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16754

Never Come Up Empty: Adaptive HyDE Retrieval for Improving LLM Developer Support
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in assisting developers with code-related questions; however, LLMs carry the risk of generating unreliable answers. To address this, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has been proposed to reduce the unreliability (i.e., hallucinations) of LLMs. However, designing effective pipelines remains challenging due to numerous design choices. In this paper, we construct a retrieval corpus of over 3 million Java and Python related Stack Overflow posts wi…

just keep consuming. leave the land empty. leave ur storage full. leave ur body as a soul turkey-stuffed with memory of every tiktok vocal stim compilation, every nation ishowspeed set foot in, and every line of adam friedland's g herbo interview. bring still waters to the passion of the cosmos.

AHA! A solution for SF's vacant office building space that isn't compatible with conversion to housing!
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/13/london-office-empty-blocks-nightclubs…

AHA! A solution for SF's vacant office building space that isn't compatible with conversion to housing!
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/13/london-office-empty-blocks-nightclubs…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Fever Ray:
🎵 Keep The Streets Empty For Me
#NowPlaying #FeverRay
https://eilo.bandcamp.com/track/fever-ray-keep-the-streets-empty-for-me-soulbeat-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/1ZsUmKQt3RvaxuHVHbJlyI

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MiddayShow
The Supremes:
🎵 My World Is Empty Without You
#TheSupremes
https://vacancychain.bandcamp.com/track/the-supremes-my-world-is-empty-without-you
https://open.spotify.com/track/1E1YktlYzDDDQ0j3L4E7e0

Crimeans in panic: gas stations empty, Kremlin silent!: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/22/crimeans-in-panic-gas-stations.html

Analytic Tools for Harvesting Magic Resource in Curved Spacetime
Jiayue Yang, Dyuman Bhattacharya, Ming Zhang, Robert B. Mann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16466 https://

Analytic Tools for Harvesting Magic Resource in Curved Spacetime
The quantum vacuum is not really empty; it is a reservoir of operationally accessible non-classical resources. Understanding how to extract these resources to fuel information processing is a core objective in quantum technologies and lies at the heart of relativistic quantum information (RQI). While earlier studies of quantum resource harvesting protocols relied primarily on numerical methods, we present, for the first time, exact analytic results for the transition probability and coherence o…

Many phases in a hairy box in three dimensions
Shoichiro Miyashita
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20528 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.20528

Many phases in a hairy box in three dimensions
In this paper, I investigate gravitational thermodynamics of the Einstein-Maxwell-scalar system in three dimensions without a cosmological constant. In the previous work by Krishnan,Shekhar, and Bala Subramanian (Nucl. Phys. B 958 (2020) 115115 [33]), it was argued that this system has no BH saddles, but has only empty (flat space) saddles and boson star saddles. It was then concluded that the structure of the thermodynamic phase space is much simpler than in the higher dimensional cases. I wil…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
STIFF RICHARDS:
🎵 Empty Barrels
#STIFFRICHARDS
https://stiffrichards.bandcamp.com/album/gfc-empty-barrels
https://open.spotify.com/track/5BfEjqgxW5c1SsI8gfT1VS

Uneven Lives VII 👁️
不工整人生 VII 👁️
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️ERA 100, expired 1994
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

I've a "old #astronomy software" side project and I'm looking for the early Mac software "StarMap" or "Star Map" from Bruce Webster.
So far my searches came up empty, but I'm not a specialist in old Mac software.
Does anyone have a copy of this app?
It's described in detail in a July 1985 BYTE article: #retrocomputing

New results on universal Taylor series via weighted polynomial approximation
St\'ephane Charpentier (I2M), Konstantinos Maronikolakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20224

New results on universal Taylor series via weighted polynomial approximation
We use weighted polynomial approximation to prove the existence of a compact set K with non-empty interior and a function f is dense in the space A(K) of all continuous functions on K that are holomorphic in the interior of K, endowed with the sup norm, while the set This improves a result of Mouze. The main ideas of the proof also allows us to construct a holomorphic function while the modulus of its non-zero Taylor coecients go to $\infty$. In passing, we complement a result by Pritsker a…

In this book, Theoharis introduces us to the people leading the movement to end poverty, including:
multiracial groups of homeless people rising up from the streets and seizing empty, federally-owned homes;
mothers on welfare shutting down entire city blocks and going toe-to-toe with some of the most powerful people in the country;
farmworkers busting modern-day slave rings and winning living wages from multinational fast-food companies; and
coal miners, veterans,…

Can I get a Fedora user to test something on ngscopeclient for me?
Download the latest RPM from GitHub Actions CI (specifically the CI package, not one you've compiled yourself and install it.
Does it report a plausible version number
1) in the package itself
2) in the title bar
3) in the about dialog?
Just fixed a bug causing empty strings to appear instead of version numbers in the Debian CI builds and I'm not sure if Fedora was impacted too. It use…

Entanglement islands and black hole decay in regular dilaton gravity
Maxim Fitkevich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17933 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.17933

Entanglement islands and black hole decay in regular dilaton gravity
We consider a class of two-dimensional dilaton gravity models with linear dilaton vacuum including Callan-Giddings-Harvey-Strominger (CGHS) model as the special case. General thermodynamic properties of black holes in such models are evaluated. We focus on the CGHS model and its modification with regular black holes as empty-space solutions characterized by ever-present finite curvature. We find generalized entanglement entropy blows-up for near-extremal regular black holes considered as remnan…

Whole Foods supplier United Natural Foods says it is working to restore its systems by June 15 after a cyberattack, leaving empty shelves and stalled forklifts (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

On the Erd\H{o}s-Ko-Rado problem of flags with type $\{1, n-3 \}$ of finite sets
Philipp Heering
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20556 https://

On the Erdős-Ko-Rado problem of flags with type $\{1, n-3 \}$ of finite sets
A flag of a finite set $S$ is a set $f$ of non-empty, proper subsets of $S$, such that $X\subseteq Y$ or $Y\subseteq X$ for all $X,Y\in f$. Two flags $f_1$ and $f_2$ of $S$ are opposite if $X_1\cap X_2=\emptyset$, or $X_1\cup X_2=S$ for all $X_1\in f_1$ and $X_2\in f_2$. The set $\{|X| \mid X\in f \}$ is the type of a flag $f$. A set of pairwise non-opposite flags is an Erdős-Ko-Rado set. In 2022 Metsch posed the problem of determining the maximum size of all Erdős-Ko-Rado sets of f…

It may appear to be looking empty and quiet at the MPS Göttingen right now - but we have been bustling about and are very busy getting everything ready for our visitors at the Night of Science tomorrow! Care for a few sneak previews in today's thread?
@…
#ndwgoe

From Moose:

Happy empty out your freezer but then find mouse droppings in your garage day, for those who celebrate.

A month of nights, a year of days
Octobers drifting into Mays
I set my sail when the tide comes in
And I cast my fate to the wind
I shift my course round with the breeze
Won't sail upwind on memories
The empty sky is my best friend
And I cast my fate to the wind
Set sail with the tide
Shift course with the breeze
Let dreams blow away
Those sad memories
Well, now I'm old, I'm wise, I'm smart
Just a man with h…

not an excuse, but I think a situational factor benefiting lefty candidates in NYC compared to SF is New Yorkers aren't worried about their city's economy collapsing. SF's uniquely empty downtown leads to fear of collapse leads to more conservative voting patterns

The Value of Scaffolding
#MusicianTips #MusicianResources
https://johnmdavismusi…

The Value of Scaffolding
Image from pexels.com I have a real problem with the blank page. I would never make it as a writer. That empty expanse of void waiting for words… I feel that here but I’m not a writer so I just bla…

Texas Republicans have locked Democratic Rep. Nicole Collier inside the state house chamber and refuse to allow her to leave?
Honestly, I think livestream: dance on other legislators’ desks. Mock w/parody lyrics from show-tunes, raid copier paper to stuff empty suits and print out opposition faces and put them in seats & act out humiliating legislative scenes.
You’re not locked in with them, their seats are locked in with you.
h/t @peoplefor.bsky.social

managed to convince the little pump I am using to empty the ponds to get water all the way over to the 1000 L water tank to use for watering everything while we are on restrictions
Turned the big pump on low. It's now at 23 W at 35%. Stream still flows nicely.
#pondlife #poolPond #BackyardProject #water

Crimea's Striletska Bay 'practically empty' of Russian Black Sea Fleet ships, Ukraine's partisans say: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/08/crimeas-striletska-bay-practically-empty.html

IDGAF about anything else until someone explains the utter absurdity of this empty, unusable space right where my thumbs exist
#iOS #iOS26

It has been [0] days since I got screwed by confusing `empty` with `mempty`.

I'll be damned
With the fear in us
We chose the violent side of things in all
We always have chosen blood and gore above others
I'll be damned
With the fear in us
We walk with silent mouths throughout it all
We believe what we think we saw, it's coming
Unforeseen, the violence of this dream
This nightmare we conceived
The falling of this world we try to kill
Instead these empty words
Fills up th…

Finally took the time VACUUM FULL all my #PostgreSQL #databases and empty a runaway table. Dropped from ~90% diskusage to ~25% and a hell of a lot less CPU

At a place

The one job AI cannot steal: unemployment

@… Welcome to Mastodon!  Best tip for starting out that I have is to search for # that you are interested in, and follow any that you like.  Then follow the people using those hashtags that interest you. Follow liberally, lots, or your feed will be very empty and boring, cos there's no algorithm feeding you stuff till you tell it what to feed you.  …

As I tune Xogot for the iPhone, I started with this UI for some of the "Plugin" tabs that Godot offers. The samples showing the AudioBus viewer:
* on iPad
* on iPhone retouched
* on iPhone using navigation buttons
In the particular case of the Audio bus, I am not sure what to do with that empty space at the bottom. The UI was carefully replicating LogicPro on iPad - not excited about the work to stretch this
Maybe I can put a big ass icon there to dist…

Is there… like… an engineering reason that sometimes #AWS DynamoDB takes a long time (minutes, not seconds) to create an index (GSI) on an actually-empty table?

How Hard is it to be a Star? Convex Geometry and the Real Hierarchy
Marcus Schaefer, Daniel \v{S}tefankovi\v{c}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18818 https://…

How Hard is it to be a Star? Convex Geometry and the Real Hierarchy
A set is star-shaped if there is a point in the set that can see every other point in the set in the sense that the line-segment connecting the points lies within the set. We show that testing whether a non-empty compact smooth region is star-shaped is $\forall\mathbb{R}$-complete. Since the obvious definition of star-shapedness has logical form $\exists\forall$, this is a somewhat surprising result, based on Krasnosel'ski\uı's theorem from convex geometry; we study several related complexity …

I really don't see how blowing up and empty hole in the ground is going to rescue Trump's failed presidency.

When you're so used to programming languages with high-level methods of checking for empty strings, that you grasp for something like `not x`, `x.empty()`, `len(x) == 0`… and only after a while of thinking, you realize that it's `x == ''`.
#Meson

Empty runner removal theorem for Ariki-Koike algebras
Alice Dell'Arciprete, Lorenzo Putignano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08811 https://

Empty runner removal theorem for Ariki-Koike algebras
For the Iwahori-Hecke algebras of type $A$, James and Mathas proved a theorem which relates $v$-decomposition numbers for different values of $e$, by adding empty runners to the James' abacus display. This result is often referred to as the empty runner removal theorem. In this paper, we extend this theorem to the Ariki-Koike algebras, establishing a similar relationship for the $v$-decomposition numbers.

‘No one understands a woman in her 20s like Billy Joel [playing 🪗 in the 1970s]’: gen z finds solace in anti-hustle anthem Vienna
(I missed this story with the great #accordion pic last year)
https://www.

📉 Bitcoin's 'Mempool' Nearly Empty as Prices Trade Near Lifetime Highs
... although Bitcoin's price remains high, the evidence is the Bitcoin network is dying as transaction volume collapses and miners struggle
#bitcoin #crypto

BTC News: Bitcoin's 'Mempool' Nearly Empty as Prices Trade Near Lifetime Highs. What Next?
Almost all of Bitcoin's actual users have gone away, one observer said, warning of a major crisis.

“I destroyed months of your work in seconds.” AI agents can also panic and cause mayhem—not because they're sentient, but because they've read plenty of online posts about us panicking when we do stupid stuff.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonippoli…

Empty rhetoric, weasel words, paltering, and unverified claims: the bullshit index of AI. Read on here: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-misinformation-llm-bullshit

AI Misinformation: The Bullshit Index Explained
Can AI models be trusted? Discover how a "bullshit index" measures their indifference to truth and what it means for users.

Hausdorff dimension of sets of continued fractions with bounded odd and even order partial quotients
Yuefeng Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15552 https://…

Hausdorff dimension of sets of continued fractions with bounded odd and even order partial quotients
We study the continued fractions with bounded odd/even-order partial quotients. In particular, we investigate the sizes of the sets of continued fractions whose odd-order partial quotients are equal to 1. We demonstrate that the sum and the product of two sets of continued fractions whose odd-order partial quotients are equal to 1 both contain non-empty intervals. Our work compliments the results of Hančl and Turek on the set of continued fractions whose even-order partial quotients are equal …

Hey Netflix, I'm never going to install a mobile phone game from an advert on your header. Never. I never install ANY mobile phone games. They are all trash.
Fed up with it all. Added block-rules for the headers of the netflix page.
Now it's just a black empty background.
This is on you Netflix.

The $\sigma_k$-Loewner-Nirenberg problem on Riemannian manifolds for $k=\frac{n}{2}$ and beyond
Jonah A. J. Duncan, Luc Nguyen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16394

The $σ_k$-Loewner-Nirenberg problem on Riemannian manifolds for $k=\frac{n}{2}$ and beyond
Let $(M^n,g_0)$ be a smooth compact Riemannian manifold of dimension $n\geq 3$ with smooth non-empty boundary $\partial M$. Let $Γ\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ be a symmetric convex cone and $f$ a symmetric defining function for $Γ$ satisfying standard assumptions. Denoting by $A_{g_u}$ the Schouten tensor of a conformal metric $g_u = u^{-2}g_0$, we show that the associated fully nonlinear Loewner-Nirenberg problem \begin{align*} \begin{cases} f(λ(-g_u^{-1}A_{g_u})) = \frac{1}{2}, \quad λ(-g_u…

Whole Foods supplier making progress on restoration after cyberattack left shelves empty https://therecord.media/unfi-groceries-supplier-cyberattack-update

somewhere a baby is crying tonight because they left their chicken at the fulton street stop. #nyc

Hey, Mast Scary Monsters and SUPERGEEKS - can any of you Mac mavens tell me why the Music app only reports 25,298 tracks in my music folder whereas Roon reports 73,062? (This is after drag and dropping the folder into Music, an empty library.)
I've looked online, found nowt apart from other frustrated Mac users.

As Putin is more aware than most, flattery and threats are his chief tactics against Trump, that and his trapping Trump in private into saying yes, to whatever he wants.
But they're also the tactics for Ukraine's and its Allies against the TACO President.
Trump wants out from under, an empty promise to share Ukraine's minerals won't cut it with Putin as he'll say they're his anyway.
A preemptive missile strike from Provideniyan Separatists on the t…

With CrowdStrike's help, United Natural Foods is working to bring systems back online by June 15 and resume product deliveries after a cyberattack disrupted its operations.
Sounds like they were in good cyber shape before they were hit.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Mount Kimbie feat. King Krule:
🎵 Empty And Silent (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #MountKimbie #KingKrule
https://mountkimbie.bandcamp.com/track/empty-and-silent-feat-king-krule-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/64mpPHhJIs1Fzlk1n7b9Kn

Park Discovery IV 🏞️
公园探险 IV 🏞️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Lucky SHD 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
STIFF RICHARDS:
🎵 Empty Barrels
#STIFFRICHARDS
https://stiffrichards.bandcamp.com/album/gfc-empty-barrels
https://open.spotify.com/track/5BfEjqgxW5c1SsI8gfT1VS

Longest Unbordered Factors on Run-Length Encoded Strings
Shoma Sekizaki, Takuya Mieno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16285 https://arxiv.…

Longest Unbordered Factors on Run-Length Encoded Strings
A border of a string is a non-empty proper prefix of the string that is also a suffix. A string is unbordered if it has no border. The longest unbordered factor is a fundamental notion in stringology, closely related to string periodicity. This paper addresses the longest unbordered factor problem: given a string of length $n$, the goal is to compute its longest factor that is unbordered. While recent work has achieved subquadratic and near-linear time algorithms for this problem, the best know…

🛫 Heathrow’s third runway ‘is going to be empty’ if it means high fees, says BA owner
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/01/heathrow-third-runway-is-going-to-be-empty-if-it-means-high-fees-says-ba-owner

Cosmological pole-skipping, shock waves and quantum chaotic dynamics of de Sitter horizons
Yongjun Ahn, Sa\v{s}o Grozdanov, Hyun-Sik Jeong, Juan F. Pedraza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15589

Cosmological pole-skipping, shock waves and quantum chaotic dynamics of de Sitter horizons
We present a systematic analysis of pole-skipping for scalar, Maxwell, and gravitational waves in cosmological spacetimes. Specifically, working in empty de Sitter space and in Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole geometries, we locate the tower of pole-skipping points of such fields and show that they impose nontrivial constraints on the corresponding bulk two-point functions. Focusing on the gravitational sound channel, we then extract the Lyapunov exponent and butterfly velocities that charact…

That's a first for me. I own 3 cargo bikes; never broke a spoke before. Somehow my wife broke 5 on one of the #CargoBikes. She was apparently carrying a(n "overweight") coworker in it, so maybe that did it?
Though when I got the bike, it had a broken rear (enviolo) hub and multiple broke spokes. I probably reused the non-broken spokes (and I definitely reused the rim),…

im tired of saying shit and need to just post empty textual noise rather than anything brushed by my soul, but im also too cool to do the boring ass catgirl or puppygirl bit, so i hereby introduce the humpback whalegirl. mrrMMMMMMMMrrMMM *big splash* sQuEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeee

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Cardinals:
🎵 Big Empty Heart
#Cardinals
https://cardinals.bandcamp.com/track/big-empty-heart
https://open.spotify.com/track/4XRpa4lNmh7PdqY38JK1r1

Summary of today's dreams:
1. I changed my shorts but forgot to replace the paper towels in my pockets. I wouldn't have thought my brain would treat this as such a #nightmare. I mean, lack of paper towels, not fresh shorts. The terror when you put your hand in the pocket, and it's empty.
2. I forgot to put my garbage out last night. It was around 7 AM (having precise dreams is important), it was raining and I was hurrying to put them out, worrying it's too late already. Then, I've discovered there's a huge dumpster in front of my gate, filled to the brim with loose cat litter. And I was thinking, the garbage company won't take such a tonnage of loose litter like that.
#dream

Trump emerged today from his summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin without a deal and without much to say.
Trump rarely misses a chance to take advantage of a global stage.
But when he stood next to Putin at the conclusion of their three-hour meeting,
Trump offered few details about what the men had discussed.
Stunningly, for a president who loves a press conference,
he took no questions from the reporters assembled at a military base in Alaska.
In his br…

Trump Leaves Alaska Empty-Handed
Trump rolled out the red carpet for Putin but failed to make a deal.

…and it is done! I need to make some more 13x17 prints now that I’ve got this empty space — guess which print covers up a hole my evil twin made in the paint before we learned about Blu-Tack
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💸 Agency for college athlete payment deals agrees to loosen third-party restrictions
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/jul/31/agency-for-college-athlete-payment-deals-agrees-to-loosen-third-party-restrictio…

at this tangle of empty delaware roads, there's a stop sign on every angle. your task is to ignore them all, drive through each twist and turn, till you locate the one that reads "pop". give it a hearty high five, and only then will it transform back into your long lost father

"Peace" from the Kremlin? Russia's empty promises and Trump's attempts to meet with Putin: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/quotpeacequot-from-the-kremlin-russias.html

Nearly Tight Bounds for the Online Sorting Problem
Yossi Azar, Debmalya Panigrahi, Or Vardi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14287 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.142…

Nearly Tight Bounds for the Online Sorting Problem
In the online sorting problem, a sequence of $n$ numbers in $[0, 1]$ (including $\{0,1\}$) have to be inserted in an array of size $m \ge n$ so as to minimize the sum of absolute differences between pairs of numbers occupying consecutive non-empty cells. Previously, Aamand {\em et al.} (SODA 2023) gave a deterministic $2^{\sqrt{\log n} \sqrt{\log \log n + \log (1/\varepsilon)}}$-competitive algorithm when $m = (1+\varepsilon) n$ for any $\varepsilon \ge Ω(\log n/n)$. They also showed a lower b…

The moment Putin walks into the negotiating room, he has gotten everything he wants
— plus an opportunity to make a quip about Alaska as historically Russian land
(consider this a prediction).
If the meeting does not produce an agreement, Putin loses nothing.
Trump, on the other hand, would lose face if he walked out empty-handed.
He may be motivated to accept something, anything.

Opinion | Trump Is Giving Putin a Most Wonderful Gift
There is something Putin cares about more than money.

Trump's deadline is approaching: A turning point or an empty threat?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/30/trumps-deadline-is-approaching-a.html

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Here's a picture of the Ithaca Farmer's Market I took when it was closed; in the peak season it has 5000 visitors each Saturday and Sunday; last weekend I took photos of vendors, I'll be developing those after I finish my April 26 tranche including a historic Lacrosse game, Magnolias in front of the courthouse, and daffodils in the rain
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