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WAR-2026: UAVs outpace artillery! @PrestonStewart on warfare evolution and Putin's failures!: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/26/war-uavs-outpace-artillery-prestonstewart.html

On the Divergent Evolution of Io and Europa as Primordial Ocean Worlds: #GalileanMoons set at birth: https://www.swri.org/newsroom/press-releases/new-study-finds-water-makeup-of-jupiter-s-galilean-moons-set-birth

NYT: The rise of eyes began with just one https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/science/evolution-vertebrate-eye.html (archived at https://

The Evolution of Eyes Began With One
Even Charles Darwin was puzzled by the evolution of the vertebrate eye. New research suggests that it traces back to a cyclopean invertebrate with a single eye atop the head.

Weekend Reads
* Peering market evolution
https://blog.lacnic.net/en/peering-market-at-a-glance/
* BGP path security with ASPA

LACNIC Blog | Peering market at a glance
By Flavio Luciani, Namex CTO and John Souter, Namex Advisor Trends, transformations, and regional dynamics of Internet interconnection Abstract Over the past decade, the Internet’s interconnection landscape has been shaped by sustained traffic growth, changing content distribution models, and increasingly complex relationships between networks. Internet Exchange Points sit at the center of these dynamics, yet […]

Schnelle Evolution: Neue Spezies erscheinen 2000 Jahre nach Chicxulub-Einschlag
Der Einschlag des Asteroiden im heutigen Yucatan löschte fast das ganze Leben auf der Erde aus. Es erholte sich schneller als bisher angenommen.

I am thrilled to be back at FOSDEM. It is a fantastic opportunity to meet with the open source community and connect with fellow developers at such a great conference!
Please join me this Saturday in the FOSS on Mobile devroom. I will be presenting the technical evolution of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, demonstrating how we achieved full mainline support—from power management to the Adreno GPU—running on actual product hardware.
I look forward to seeing you there.
Saturday, 18:30…

Don't leave for the weekend - and don't head to RSA - without scanning today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--US dismantles major botnet networks, but Mirai’s evolution keeps the threat alive,
--Cops take down 373k scam darknet sites posting as CSAM sites,
--FBI seizes two Handala sites,
--Man convicted on extortion counts after sensitive contractor data theft,
--Man pleads guilty to AI-assisted stre…

US dismantles major botnet networks, but Mirai’s evolution keeps the threat alive
Cops take down 373k scam darknet sites posting as CSAM sites, FBI seizes two Handala sites, Man convicted on extortion counts after sensitive contractor data theft, Man pleads guilty to AI-assisted streaming fraud, Admin unveils AI legislative framework, much more

Trump administration's $1B deal to stop offshore wind shows an evolution in its anti-wind strategy (Jennifer McDermott/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-offshore-wind-energy-climate-totalenergies-interior-9e7d909510473f9eb13904c8035fe047
http://www.memeorandum.com/260324/p120#a260324p120

This is actually not too far off from a pamphlet I wrote at my community college as an experiment in "turning assignments into creative writing." I was taking a religion class, so I decided to create one. I was working in a group and by the end we had developed 3 sects of the religion and we each talked about our sect and how it related and differed from the original text.
I also handed out pamphlets at a mall, half as part of a psychology class (because why not find a way to reuse my material) and part as an experiment to see how long it would take to get kicked out of said mall. (The answer was bout 15 minutes, if I remember correctly.)
Somewhere between there and here, the books "The Evolution of God" and "Non-Zero" came out (written, interestingly but probably unrelated, by someone who lived in the town with that mall where I handed out those flyers). These books both have heavily overlapping ideas with the original pamphlet (lost, which may not be the worst thing since it was full of spelling and grammar errors).
But both of those books had a decidedly theistic flavor, though, I think, they were more generally liberal. The whole #CultPunk thing feels like a missing piece to something that's been bouncing around in my head for... uh... some years. But not so much at the front of my mind.
It was actually in the hospital, on pain killers and ketamine, that this all came rushing back. Perhaps that's the right state of mind for such things.

"Humans burn themselves—and survive burns—with a frequency likely much greater than any other animal. Most animals avoid fire completely, while in contrast, humans live alongside fire and most humans will experience minor burns throughout their lives."
Exposure to burn injuries played key role in shaping human evolution, study suggests

Exposure to burn injuries played key role in shaping human evolution, study suggests
Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping how our bodies heal, fight infection, and sometimes fail under extreme injury, according to new research.

Philip Ball:
"There’s a broader issue at stake here too that pertains to the place of AI in scientific research. Too often now, we hear claims of how AI will replace human scientists and, in doing so, will solve our most pressing problems: curing all disease, solving climate change, figuring out how to conduct nuclear fusion. Such claims are never supported by experts in those fields—and that’s not because they want to convince us that they are indispensable after all. Rather, it i…

AlphaGenome: On the Promise and Limits of AI in Science
PHILIP BALL | According to the old story, we once thought that all this other DNA was just “junk,” a term coined in this context in the 1970s. It was accumulated over the course of evolution, for example by viruses inserting their genetic material into ours, and it did nothing useful but just cluttered up our genome the way all our old detritus of a lifetime clutters up our attic.

Evolution of tech news website:
If you don't use AI, you'll be left behind
Adding toxic glue to pizza dough make it softer
We want to sincerely apologize for our last article...

TROT-Open-Source-Roboter lässt Evolution von Vierbeinern nachvollziehen
Mit dem TROT-Roboter können Forscher evolutionäre Veränderungen von Vierbeinern vergleichen. Der Roboter ist Open Source und kann nachgebaut werden.

From myth to machine: The technological evolution of storytelling https://bigthink.com/books/the-technological-evolution-of-human-storytelling/

Evolution of music cards: on left the original 2021 design, on right: new design with alpha blended QR code #music #art #printing

Belligerence is a feature of evolution; peace is an unstable state of living matter.

Alt text:
“THEObr🌞mic
@theobromic_
“a 2005 study found an autistic reindeer herder in siberia that didnt like being around people but memorized the entire genealogical and medical history of all his 2600 reindeer, which made him a respected elder in his community”
Quoted post:
“Jack @JMB4wasHere
“What did autistic people in ancient times
hyperfixate on”

ancient hyperfixations - Mander
https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2016/research/autism-human-evolution/ [https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2016/research/autism-human-evolution/]

UrbanFM: Scaling Urban Spatio-Temporal Foundation Models
Wei Chen, Yuqian Wu, Junle Chen, Xiaofang Zhou, Yuxuan Liang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20677 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20677 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20677
arXiv:2602.20677v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Urban systems, as dynamic complex systems, continuously generate spatio-temporal data streams that encode the fundamental laws of human mobility and city evolution. While AI for Science has witnessed the transformative power of foundation models in disciplines like genomics and meteorology, urban computing remains fragmented due to "scenario-specific" models, which are overfitted to specific regions or tasks, hindering their generalizability. To bridge this gap and advance spatio-temporal foundation models for urban systems, we adopt scaling as the central perspective and systematically investigate two key questions: what to scale and how to scale. Grounded in first-principles analysis, we identify three critical dimensions: heterogeneity, correlation, and dynamics, aligning these principles with the fundamental scientific properties of urban spatio-temporal data. Specifically, to address heterogeneity through data scaling, we construct WorldST. This billion-scale corpus standardizes diverse physical signals, such as traffic flow and speed, from over 100 global cities into a unified data format. To enable computation scaling for modeling correlations, we introduce the MiniST unit, a novel split mechanism that discretizes continuous spatio-temporal fields into learnable computational units to unify representations of grid-based and sensor-based observations. Finally, addressing dynamics via architecture scaling, we propose UrbanFM, a minimalist self-attention architecture designed with limited inductive biases to autonomously learn dynamic spatio-temporal dependencies from massive data. Furthermore, we establish EvalST, the largest-scale urban spatio-temporal benchmark to date. Extensive experiments demonstrate that UrbanFM achieves remarkable zero-shot generalization across unseen cities and tasks, marking a pivotal first step toward large-scale urban spatio-temporal foundation models.
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Every once in awhile I catch up on the state of knowledge about really early evolution and there's at least one phylogeny where you have to hunt for the eukaryotes
The archaeal roots of eukaryotic life https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2516062123

Monoclonal antibody therapies are being developed to treat #measles in response to its recent resurgence.
David A Kennedy argues that such therapies risk driving measles virus evolution in ways that might undermine the protection offered by #vaccination.

from my link log —
Nearly every sport except long-distance running is fundamentally absurd.
https://slate.com/culture/2012/06/long-distance-running-and-evolution-why-humans-can-outrun-horses-but-cant…

Why Nearly Every Sport Except Long-Distance Running Is Fundamentally Absurd
At first glance the annual Man vs. Horse Marathon, set for June 9 in Wales, seems like a joke sport brought to us by the same brilliant minds behind...

This is actually not too far off from a pamphlet I wrote at my community college as an experiment in "turning assignments into creative writing." I was taking a religion class, so I decided to create one. I was working in a group and by the end we had developed 3 sects of the religion and we each talked about our sect and how it related and differed from the original text.
I also handed out pamphlets at a mall, half as part of a psychology class (because why not find a way to reuse my material) and part as an experiment to see how long it would take to get kicked out of said mall. (The answer was bout 15 minutes, if I remember correctly.)
Somewhere between there and here, the books "The Evolution of God" and "Non-Zero" came out (written, interestingly but probably unrelated, by someone who lived in the town with that mall where I handed out those flyers). These books both have heavily overlapping ideas with the original pamphlet (lost, which may not be the worst thing since it was full of spelling and grammar errors).
But both of those books had a decidedly theistic flavor, though, I think, they were more generally liberal. The whole #CultPunk thing feels like a missing piece to something that's been bouncing around in my head for... uh... some years. But not so much at the front of my mind.
It was actually in the hospital, on pain killers and ketamine, that this all came rushing back. Perhaps that's the right state of mind for such things.

#darwin #evolution

If you are not an expert on how our DNA works and how it forms who we are: read this masterpiece of Philip Ball:
https://www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/alpha-genome

AlphaGenome: On the Promise and Limits of AI in Science
PHILIP BALL | According to the old story, we once thought that all this other DNA was just “junk,” a term coined in this context in the 1970s. It was accumulated over the course of evolution, for example by viruses inserting their genetic material into ours, and it did nothing useful but just cluttered up our genome the way all our old detritus of a lifetime clutters up our attic.

Experimental evidence for granular shear-flow instability in the Epstein regime: #planets - a turbulent story: https://mediarelations.unibe.ch/media_releases/2026/media_releases_2026/evolution_of_planets/index_eng.html

Q&A with Google Chief AI Scientist Jeff Dean about the evolution of Google Search, TPUs, coding agents, balancing model efficiency and performance, and more (Latent.Space)
https://www.latent.space/p/jeffdean

Tonight (Wed, March 18) at 6:30 pm (EDT) a public event on "Time's Second Arrow: Evolution, Order, and a New Law of Nature" by Bob Hazen and Mike Wong. ⚒️🧪 #mineralogy
Virtual registration at https://carnegiescie…

Time's Second Arrow
Join Carnegie Science researchers Robert M. Hazen and Michael L. Wong for a lively discussion about their proposed "second arrow of time"—a heretofore missing law of nature that explains how the marvelously complex constituents of our universe came to be.

Ajit Niranjan writes about the supposed decoupling in #Romania.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/11/is-romania-blueprint-economic-g…

RE: https://mastodon.nl/@miekg/116249216969365261
When you don't like what already exists, you can always create a new truth (value) 🧌
(just trolling about politics, this is a great syntax evolution and I was not aware it was now possible)

Scientists Got Men to Rate Penises by How Intimidating They Are. This Is What They Found. https://www.404media.co/scientists-got-men-to-rate-penises-by-how-intimidating-they-are-this-is-what-they-found/

Ukraine update: the evolution of conflict continues with Ukrainian gains.
Fog of war and concepts of frontlines and strategic geography become fuzzier as drones and electromagnetic warfare become more dominant factors.
Share the friend link to bypass the paywall:

The Invisible Counteroffensive That Is Draining the Russian Rearways
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

The transformation is nearly complete. #KristiNoem

Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms"
https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14957.001.0001
"The story of the rise of networked data through the evolution of archiving and digital storage."

Cynicism, "AI"
I've been pointed out the "Reflections on 2025" post by Samuel Albanie [1]. The author's writing style makes it quite a fun, I admit.
The first part, "The Compute Theory of Everything" is an optimistic piece on "#AI". Long story short, poor "AI researchers" have been struggling for years because of predominant misconception that "machines should have been powerful enough". Fortunately, now they can finally get their hands on the kind of power that used to be only available to supervillains, and all they have to do is forget about morals, agree that their research will be used to murder millions of people, and a few more millions will die as a side effect of the climate crisis. But I'm digressing.
The author is referring to an essay by Hans Moravec, "The Role of Raw Power in Intelligence" [2]. It's also quite an interesting read, starting with a chapter on how intelligence evolved independently at least four times. The key point inferred from that seems to be, that all we need is more computing power, and we'll eventually "brute-force" all AI-related problems (or die trying, I guess).
As a disclaimer, I have to say I'm not a biologist. Rather just a random guy who read a fair number of pieces on evolution. And I feel like the analogies brought here are misleading at best.
Firstly, there seems to be an assumption that evolution inexorably leads to higher "intelligence", with a certain implicit assumption on what intelligence is. Per that assumption, any animal that gets "brainier" will eventually become intelligent. However, this seems to be missing the point that both evolution and learning doesn't operate in a void.
Yes, many animals did attain a certain level of intelligence, but they attained it in a long chain of development, while solving specific problems, in specific bodies, in specific environments. I don't think that you can just stuff more brains into a random animal, and expect it to attain human intelligence; and the same goes for a computer — you can't expect that given more power, algorithms will eventually converge on human-like intelligence.
Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, what evolution did succeed at first is achieving neural networks that are far more energy efficient than whatever computers are doing today. Even if indeed "computing power" paved the way for intelligence, what came first is extremely efficient "hardware". Nowadays, human seem to be skipping that part. Optimizing is hard, so why bother with it? We can afford bigger data centers, we can afford to waste more energy, we can afford to deprive people of drinking water, so let's just skip to the easy part!
And on top of that, we're trying to squash hundreds of millions of years of evolution into… a decade, perhaps? What could possibly go wrong?
[1] #NoAI #NoLLM #LLM

Well. This does not seem like a good thing: «AI systems are built to function in ways that degrade and are likely to destroy our crucial civic institutions. The affordances of AI systems have the effect of eroding expertise, short-circuiting decision-making, and isolating people from each other. These systems are anathema to the kind of evolution, transparency, cooperation, and accountability that give vital institutions their purpose and sustainability. In short, current AI systems are a de…

„Evolution des Radios“? Erste private Radiosender spielen KI-generierte Songs
Private Radiosender beginnen damit, KI-generierte Musik zu spielen. Wenn auch als Unterhaltungswert deklariert, spielen ökonomische Interessen eine Rolle.

Vielleicht ist das Y-Chromosom ja einfach ein Fehler der Evolution.
https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/golem-grad-schildkroeten-maennchen-quaelen-weibchen-bis-diese-sich-umbri…

Population in Nordmazedonien: Männliche Schildkröten quälen Weibchen, bis die sich von der Klippe stürzen
Die weiblichen Hermann-Schildkröten auf der Insel Golem Grad könnten bald aussterben. Schuld sind ihre männlichen Artgenossen. Sie drangsalieren die Weibchen derart, dass diese sterben – oder sich umbringen.

The Cooperator’s Dilemma: How Martin Nowak’s Mathematics of Kindness Became a Blueprint for Control
Martin Nowak wanted to prove that cooperation is the animating force of evolution. He succeeded. His mathematical models, published across decades of work at Oxford, Princeton, and Harvard, demonstrate with formal rigor that cooperation is not an anomaly in a competitive world but a fundamental mechanism by which biological complexity arises. Genomes cooperate. Cells…

The Cooperator’s Dilemma: How Martin Nowak’s Mathematics of Kindness Became a Blueprint for Control | David Boles, Blogs
Martin Nowak wanted to prove that cooperation is the animating force of evolution. He succeeded. His mathematical models, published across decades of work at Oxford, Princeton, and Harvard, demonst…

Canal says it will "roll out a major evolution of the Canal App" using OpenAI's tech to "power content search and discovery", and signs a Google Cloud AI deal (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywood…

Canal+ Unveils Sky English-Language Drama Partnership, OpenAI and Google Cloud AI Deals
"We begin 2026 from a position of strength, clarity and confidence," says Canal+ CEO Maxime Saada. "We now move into the execution phase of our strategy."

Mike Macdonald's defensive evolution: The tweaks that sparked a Seahawks Super Bowl run https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6993187/2026/02/04/mike-macdonald-seahawks-defense-scheme-super-bowl/

AI without meaning is not intelligence, it is mathematics
#philosophy

AI and the Neglect of Meaning: From Unlimited to Indefinite
The story of artificial intelligence is not just one of increasing computational power—it’s also a story about how machines relate to meaning. Or more precisely, how meaning has been progressively sidelined in favor of statistical pattern manipulation. To understand this, we can trace AI’s evolution through a

Full disclosure in computer security still exists and is complementary to other disclosure models. The evolution of vulnerability disclosure is not linear from full disclosure to responsible disclosure to coordinated disclosure. These models coexist and all need to be taken into account.
You can’t just say “the legal framework will solve it” or “just do coordinated disclosure.” Vendors, researchers, and users are not all rational actors playing the same game.
Vulnerability disclo…

Millions of years of evolution and this is who humans choose for their 'leaders' now, eh

Hard House History
Hosted by Hard House icon Paul Glazby, this podcast dives deep into the evolution of the Hard House movement, exploring the music, the culture, and the unforgettable nights that defined an era...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/hard-h…

Professor David J. Farber, whose work on academic experimental computer networks helped define the evolution of the early internet, died on February 7 at age 91 (Peter Wayner/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/technol

If you live in/near Sheffield UK and want to develop your live coding practice, why not apply to join the pattern club live coding residency? https://numbers.patternclub.org/o/docs/forms/vGiWDYshQaK93bcQq3wStU/4

Staying true to my one trick pony ethos.
SwiftTerm, running a poor man's Evolution email client written in TermKit using MailFoundation and MimeFoundation:

I wonder if consciously avoiding the style and patterns frequently applied by generative AI might be triggering some kind of forced language evolution. Previously considered best practices that are now shunned to not sound like a machine.
#language #linguistics

Tracking the Evolution of Plasma Instabilities from the Prominence–Corona Transition Region into Interplanetary Space with Total Solar Eclipse and PSP/WISPR White Light Images: #corona: https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2026/02/17/eclipse-research-suns-corona/

Usually #TheConversation is quite reliable and rigorous. Sadly, not this time. There's a lot of make-believe in this piece.
https://theconversation.com/the-healin

The healing power of poisonous plants
Evolution has created plants with the power to kill and heal.

🎮 Demonstrated in game scenarios:
🤖 Real-time game bot driving with natural language commands
🎯 Group memory for tactical evolution
📋 Dynamic plan generation based on environmental feedback
🔗 https://eu.36kr.com/en/p/3678583640810112

If anyone knows how to subscribe to Microsoft #Exchange calendars of colleagues using #Thunderbird (and Owl), I'd appreciate a tip. It works in #Evolution, but that one struggles with modifying recurring events...

Evolution Of The Muppet Show Theme Song (1976-2026) (Television Scenes Only)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyGzDVLlw6c

Crosslisted article(s) found for nlin.PS. https://arxiv.org/list/nlin.PS/new
[1/1]:
- Coupled Map Lattice for Astronomical Object Formation: A Scenario for Evolution from Star to Disk...
Erika Nozawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15083 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophEP_bot/116090720904970124
- On the efficiency of pairwise Hamiltonian control to desynchronize the higher-order Kuramoto model
Martin Moriam\'e, Riccardo Muolo, Timoteo Carletti, Maxime Lucas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15279 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_nlinAO_bot/116090614708486257
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Distinct Rotational Evolution of Giant Planets and Brown Dwarf Companions: #exoplanet spins confirms long-predicted relationship between planetary mass and rotation: https://keckobservatory.org/kpic-spin-survey/ with https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/w5f4ntav4pybpale8c6p6/ANbPpoQxnCEIG2i-0vL5Ll8?rlkey=cxblu3u2n3ovocew0qch46opt&e=1&st=fgpk8v3u&dl=0

Those of you interested in the history of cellular phones and cellular networks: There is a book on the subject "Cellular: An Economic and Business History of the International Mobile-Phone Industry" published by MIT Press, and the book is also available as PDF via Open Access: https://

Cellular: An Economic and Business History of the International Mobile-Phone Industry
Tracks the evolution of the international cellular industry from the late 1970s to the present.The development of the mobile-phone industry into what we kn

from my link log —
I don’t know what is Apple’s endgame for the Fn/Globe key, and I’m not sure Apple knows either.
https://aresluna.org/fn/
saved 2026-03-10 https://

I don’t know what is Apple’s endgame for the Fn/Globe key, and I’m not sure Apple knows either
The origin and the evolution of the most confusing modifier key

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DreamTime
Mor Elian:
🎵 Elderberry Evolution
#MorElian
https://morelian.bandcamp.com/track/elderberry-evolution
https://open.spotify.com/track/5vPdeuz5apGaob1i6bQsjL

Short documentary about the evolution of car chase scenes in movies. I didn't know that "The French Connection" shows an actual traffic accident with a civilian car that wasn't involved in the shoot! The film team hadn't even acquired a permission to film their chase scenes.
The video mentions CGI for set extensions but unfortunately it doesn't cover the full CG cars and environments that we're seeing nowadays.

Bounded Local Generator Classes for Deterministic State Evolution
R. Jay Martin II
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11476 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.11476 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.11476
arXiv:2602.11476v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We formalize a constructive subclass of locality-preserving deterministic operators acting on graph-indexed state systems. We define the class of Bounded Local Generator Classes (BLGC), consisting of finite-range generators operating on bounded state spaces under deterministic composition. Within this class, incremental update cost is independent of total system dimension. We prove that, under the BLGC assumptions, per-step operator work satisfies W_t = O(1) as the number of nodes M \to \infty, establishing a structural decoupling between global state size and incremental computational effort. The framework admits a Hilbert-space embedding in \ell^2(V; \mathbb{R}^d) and yields bounded operator norms on admissible subspaces. The result applies specifically to the defined subclass and does not claim universality beyond the stated locality and boundedness constraints.
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IME, a lot of good information on how to achieve things with the #OpenHAB Rules DSL requires good searching on the OpenHAB forums or mining through the Javadoc.
I thought I'd use Claude over the weekend/last night to help generify some stuff in my config, and it suggested a cool approach whereby I could put metadata against items and then use that metadata in my rules to customise b…

Kai, which is developing an AI-enabled cyber platform, raised $125M in a combined seed and Series A round led by Evolution Equity Partners (Angus Loten/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-cyber-star

Cenozoic evolution of earth’s strongest geoid low illuminates mantle dynamics beneath #Antarctica: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-28606-1 -> Beneath Antarctica - the deep-time story behind Earth’s largest “gravity low”: https://www.ipgp.fr/en/news-and-agenda/news/beneath-antarctica-the-deep-time-story-behind-earths-largest-gravity-low/ -> Antarctica’s ‘Gravity Hole’ Has Been Quietly Growing Stronger: https://gizmodo.com/antarcticas-gravity-hole-has-been-quietly-growing-stronger-2000722955 - scientists aren't fully sure what this means for Antarctica's future, however.

In this account, participants in the rapid response networks in the Twin Cities describe their experiences,
explore the threat represented by the development of Immigration and Customs Enforcement into a political police,
and propose a strategy for how the rapid response networks could rise to the challenge and contribute to revolutionary social change.
To learn more about the rapid response chat structure, start here.

Rapid Response Networks in the Twin Cities
The rapid response networks people organize to defend their communities have undergone a whirlwind evolution to keep up with ever-shifting ICE tactics.

Accretion Disk Perturbations and Their Effects on Kerr Black Hole Superradiance and Gravitational Atom Evolution
Ruiheng Li, Zhong-hao Luo, Zehong Wang, Fa Peng Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.05182

Go back.

I'm ever so slowly working my way through some thoughts on the relationship between art and human society and evolution. Without succumbing to instrumentalism, I have come to see the capacity to create and enjoy art perhaps one of the defining essenses of being human.
In brief, art enables us to imagine the impossible—or, perhaps, our ability to imagine the impossible is first expressed through art—and thus enables innovation and change at both an individual and societal level. Als…

The Metropolitan Opera is Dying Because It Wants to Die
The pinnacle of the Performing Arts in America is collapsing not from the weight of its chandelier, but from the brittleness of its imagination. The Metropolitan Opera has chosen extinction over evolution, and the evidence is no longer circumstantial.

The Metropolitan Opera is Dying Because It Wants to Die | David Boles, Blogs
The pinnacle of the Performing Arts in America is collapsing not from the weight of its chandelier, but from the brittleness of its imagination. The Metropolitan Opera has chosen extinction over ev…

January recap blog post: #MastodonDev

Volatile-rich evolution of molten super-Earth L 98-59 d: #planet: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-03-16-researchers-reveal-new-class-molten-planet

"Evolving the 3-2-1 backup rule for more resilient data"
#RDM

🌲 Evolution of Insect Pollination Before Angiosperms and Lessons for Modern Ecosystems
#plants

A look at the state of AI agents, the evolution of thinking models, the staggering need for inference compute in the coming years, automated research, and more (Eric Jang/Evjang.com)
https://evjang.com/2026/02/04/rocks.html

from my link log —
Floppy disk history: The evolution of personal computing.
https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/the-history-of-the-floppy-disk-1703.html
saved 2019-10-10

Aruba Cloud (#AS31034) #VMWare to #OpenStack migration continues:
"As part of the evolution of [our] infrastructure, we inform you that the Cloud VPS service based on VMware technology wi…

JWST Reveals a Candidate #JellyfishGalaxy at z = 1.156: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae3824 -> Scientists observe distant jellyfish galaxy for first time: https://uwaterloo.ca/news/media/scientists-observe-distant-jellyfish-galaxy-first-time - new astronomical find is 8.5 billion years old and reshapes our understanding of early cosmic evolution.

I have some thoughts on the role of art in our lives, in society, and in evolution. https://filmschoolteacher.info/fredsnotes/2026/02/10/some-notes-on-the-role-of-art/

Proton Energy Dependence of Radiation Induced Low Gain Avalanche Detector Degradation
Veronika Kraus, Marcos Fernandez Garcia, Luca Menzio, Michael Moll
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01800 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.01800 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.01800
arXiv:2602.01800v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Low Gain Avalanche Detectors (LGADs) are key components for precise timing measurements in high-energy physics experiments, including the High Luminosity upgrades of the current LHC detectors. Their performance is, however, limited by radiation induced degradation of the gain layer, primarily driven by acceptor removal. This study presents a systematic comparison of how the degradation evolves with different incident proton energies, using LGADs from Hamamatsu Photonics (HPK) and The Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona (IMB-CNM) irradiated with 18 MeV, 24 MeV, 400 MeV and 23 GeV protons and fluences up to 2.5x10^15 p/cm2. Electrical characterization is used to extract the acceptor removal coefficients for different proton energies, whereas IR TCT measurements offer complementary insight into the gain evolution in LGADs after irradiation. Across all devices, lower energy protons induce stronger gain layer degradation, confirming expectations. However, 400 MeV protons consistently appear less damaging than both lower and higher energy protons, an unexpected deviation from a monotonic energy trend. Conversion of proton fluences to 1 MeV neutron-equivalent fluences reduces but does not eliminate these differences, indicating that the standard Non-Ionizing Energy Loss (NIEL) scaling does not fully account for the underlying defect formation mechanisms at different energies and requires revision when considering irradiation fields that contain a broader spectrum of particle types and energies.
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