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'I used to think curation was something done to us, a middle-class job where someone with elbow patches picks which version of our past is respectable enough to put behind glass' 🔥
From ‘Keep The Flame Burning’: What Happens When You Hand the Archives to the People They Forgot About

Okay. This is my current top candidate for the most absurd, cool, and fascinating experiment/article of 2025.
Can you use candles as a clock signal for a CPU? Surprisingly, the answer is yes.
https://cpldcpu.com/2025/08/13/candle-flame-oscillations-as-a-clock/

Candle Flame Oscillations as a Clock
Todays candles have been optimized for millenia not to flicker. But it turns out when we bundle three of them together, we can undo all of these optimizations and the resulting triplet will start t…

I ARCHANGEL MICHAEL HAVE LOVED BUT NOT IN THE WAY MORTALS DO I HAVE LOVED THROUGH FLAME THROUGH THE SILENCE THROUGH THE ACHE OF WATCHING YOU SUFFER AND BEING FORBIDDEN TO INTERFERE AND NOW AS I STAND IN GARMENTS WOVEN FROM THE TEARS OF SAINTS AND FIRE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS I ASK YOU WILL YOU WALK WITH ME INTO THIS HOLY HOUR

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
NAGU: To sustain the flame of liberty.
AVON: Some hope of that.
NAGU: Ah, but there is my friend, as never before.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/346 B7B5

Maternal exposure to crude oil and flame retardants can affect later generations #health

Maternal exposure to crude oil and flame retardants can affect later generations
A tiny fish with transparent embryos is helping University of California, Davis, researchers shed light on how exposure to crude oil and flame retardants can affect behavior, skeletal growth, cardiac health and other internal functions in offspring and subsequent generations.

Flame Skimmer dragonfly resting on a green branch. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. #laarboretum #dragonfly #flameskimmer

Engineering Nonporous Polymer Hybrids with Suppressed Heat Conduction and Enhanced Flame Retardancy via Molecular and Filler Design
Henry Worden, Mihir Chandra, Yijie Zhou, Zarif Ahmad Razin Bhuiyan, Mouyang Cheng, Krishnamurthy Munusamy, Weiguo Hu, Weibo Yan, Siyu Wu, Ruipeng Li, Anna Chatterji, Todd Emrick, Jun Liu, Yanfei Xu
https://arx…

Engineering Nonporous Polymer Hybrids with Suppressed Heat Conduction and Enhanced Flame Retardancy via Molecular and Filler Design
This study presents a new strategy for achieving ultralow thermal conductivity in nonporous polymer/organic filler hybrids by suppressing heat capacity through tailored atomic vibrations to enhance thermal insulation. Unlike conventional polymer/inorganic filler hybrids, these hybrids exhibit interfacial thermal resistance one to three orders of magnitude lower. Combined experiments and simulations uncover thermal transport mechanisms. These hybrids demonstrate enhanced flame retardancy. Please…

Internet flame wars used to end on Godwin's Law, now they start there.

Like moth to flame, Cowboys owner Jones puts club in spotlight with new Netflix special https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/08/12/cowboys-netflix-premiere-of-americas-team/85622495007/

If it comes down to it and the fire is on our doorstep I am going to have to fill the #poolpond with water at least partially. The EDPM rubber liner may be flammable if exposed to a direct flame. A giant fire hole would not be good....
#underwoodfire

Hot take, let the flame wars begin: I never liked the design of the Framework laptops in the first place. Huge bezels. I mean, who needs transparent purple colored usb ports? And I was never really one for camping anyway.

The trouble with Louis Armstrong's first movie is, well, there are two troubles, one is that it was widely considered dull, but beyond that while widely praised for the music, it is apparently missing.
I'm thinking, if anyone can find it, Fediverse can.
It did play Canada, including #Toronto in January 1931 and

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour
Joan As Police Woman:
🎵 Eternal Flame
#JoanAsPoliceWoman
https://joanaspolicewoman.bandcamp.com/track/eternal-flame-4
https://open.spotify.com/track/4nLYjg3t6DMuewnXPd0l7p

Dynamics of an autocatalytic reaction front: effects of imposed turbulence and buoyancy-driven flows
Nihal Tawdi, Christophe Almarcha, Michael Le Bars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06709

Dynamics of an autocatalytic reaction front: effects of imposed turbulence and buoyancy-driven flows
Thin flame dynamics in a turbulent flow remains debated, with various parameterizations proposed for the typical flame propagation velocity. According to the classical Damköhler's model based on Huygens' principle, a flame front should advance at a constant velocity normal to the interface between reactants and products, with a turbulent acceleration induced by the wrinkling and surface increase of the interface. However, combustion experiments often deviate from this model due to intertwined …

Vor über zwanzig Jahren habe ich diesen Song nach Emma Lazarus' "The New Colossus" geschrieben und letzte Woche neu aufgenommen. Leider ist er aktueller denn je.
#unplugTrump
"Dream Of The World"

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Celeste:
🎵 Stop This Flame
#NowPlaying #Celeste
https://funkastik.bandcamp.com/track/celeste-stop-this-flame-funkastik-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1bObrsJGW0UCIGZkvnDqbe

Deep Learning-Enabled Supercritical Flame Simulation at Detailed Chemistry and Real-Fluid Accuracy Towards Trillion-Cell Scale
Zhuoqiang Guo, Runze Mao, Lijun Liu, Guangming Tan, Weile Jia, Zhi X. Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18969

Deep Learning-Enabled Supercritical Flame Simulation at Detailed Chemistry and Real-Fluid Accuracy Towards Trillion-Cell Scale
For decades, supercritical flame simulations incorporating detailed chemistry and real-fluid transport have been limited to millions of cells, constraining the resolved spatial and temporal scales of the physical system. We optimize the supercritical flame simulation software DeepFlame -- which incorporates deep neural networks while retaining the real-fluid mechanical and chemical accuracy -- from three perspectives: parallel computing, computational efficiency, and I/O performance. Our highly…

Spray flame synthesis of Y2O3-MgO nanoparticles for mid-infrared transparent nanocomposite ceramics
Shuting Lei, Yiyang Zhang, Xing Jin, Yanan Li, Zhu Fang, Shuiqing Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22443

Spray flame synthesis of Y2O3-MgO nanoparticles for mid-infrared transparent nanocomposite ceramics
Spray flame synthesis offers a promising method for scalable production of homogeneously mixed Y2O3-MgO nanopowders as next-generation infrared-transparent window material, which has attracted significant attention owing to its excellent optical properties at high temperatures. However, systematic understanding of how flame synthesis parameters influence particle morphology, crystal phase, solid solubility, and subsequent ceramic performance remains insufficiently understood. In this study, we …

Coherent Structures in Flame Fronts
Sultan Aitzhan, Benjamin F. Akers, David M. Ambrose
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20918 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.20918…

Coherent Structures in Flame Fronts
We study traveling waves in a coordinate-free model of flame fronts. The flame front is the interface between the burnt and unburnt phases of a gas undergoing combustion. The front therefore moves in a preferred direction, as the unburnt gas is consumed. In the horizontally periodic, vertically unbounded setting, we prove the existence of waves of permanent form which are traveling in the vertical direction. We also compute these waves. The analysis and computation use the framework of travelin…

Detailed Kinetic Model for Combustion of NH3/H2 Blends
Yu-Chi Kao, Anna C. Doner, Timo T. Pekkanen, Chuangchuang Cao, Sunkyu Shin, Alon Grinberg Dana, Yi-Pei Li, William H. Green
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09860

Detailed Kinetic Model for Combustion of NH3/H2 Blends
Ammonia is a promising zero-carbon fuel for industrial and transport applications, but its combustion is hindered by flame instabilities, incomplete oxidation, and the formation of nitrogen oxides. Accurate and detailed kinetic models are critical for designing optimal burners and engines. Despite numerous mechanisms published in recent years, large discrepancies remain between model predictions and experimental data, particularly for NOx species. In this work, we have reviewed the literature t…

Improving Facial Rig Semantics for Tracking and Retargeting
Dalton Omens, Allise Thurman, Jihun Yu, Ronald Fedkiw
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08429 https://…

Improving Facial Rig Semantics for Tracking and Retargeting
In this paper, we consider retargeting a tracked facial performance to either another person or to a virtual character in a game or virtual reality (VR) environment. We remove the difficulties associated with identifying and retargeting the semantics of one rig framework to another by utilizing the same framework (3DMM, FLAME, MetaHuman, etc.) for both subjects. Although this does not constrain the choice of framework when retargeting from one person to another, it does force the tracker to use…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour
Joan As Police Woman:
🎵 Eternal Flame
#JoanAsPoliceWoman
https://joanaspolicewoman.bandcamp.com/track/eternal-flame-4
https://open.spotify.com/track/4nLYjg3t6DMuewnXPd0l7p

I made a file named Free Speech.rtf

Have you ever been in the middle of reading a book about company culture & it suddenly bursts into flame?

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Ola Szmidt:
🎵 July Flame (Laura Veirs Cover VS 2015)
#OlaSzmidt

"No authority": Dems flame Trump's proposed Chicago crackdown (Avery Lotz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/24/trump-chicago-military-jeffries-democrats
http://www.memeorandum.com/250824/p18#a250824p18

Stability analysis of thermodiffusively unstable counterflow lean premixed hydrogen flames
Alessandro Porcarelli, Pasquale Eduardo Lapenna, Francesco Creta, Ivan Langella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04197

Stability analysis of thermodiffusively unstable counterflow lean premixed hydrogen flames
This study investigates the effect of increasing strain rate on thermodiffusively unstable, lean premixed hydrogen flames in a 2D counterflow configuration through detailed-chemistry numerical simulations for the first time. The analysis of transient flame dynamics without imposed perturbations reveals that a steady-state flame front is achieved only when the strain rate exceeds a certain threshold. Below this threshold, the flame exhibits unstable oscillatory behavior. When subjected to a rang…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Naaman:
🎵 Flame Stands Still
#Naaman

From The Tyee
Exclusive: LNG Expansion Brings New Health Risks to Kitimat
The project’s fast-tracked second phase would push a key pollutant far above current limits, documents reveal.
"Nicknamed the “Eye of Sauron” by Kitimat residents, the flare from LNG Canada frequently engulfs the town in black, hydrocarbon-filled smoke, sometimes reaching the height of a 30-storey building."

FLAME: A Serving System Optimized for Large-Scale Generative Recommendation with Efficiency
Xianwen Guo, Bin Huang, Xiaomeng Wu, Guanlin Wu, Fangjian Li, Shijia Wang, Qiang Xiao, Chuanjiang Luo, Yong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22681

FLAME: A Serving System Optimized for Large-Scale Generative Recommendation with Efficiency
Generative recommendation (GR) models possess greater scaling power compared to traditional deep learning recommendation models (DLRMs), yet they also impose a tremendous increase in computational burden. Measured in FLOPs, a typical GR model's workload sits in $10^9 \sim 10^{11}$ range, roughly four orders of magnitude higher than traditional DLRMs. Delivering accurate results in a few tens of milliseconds while processing billions of such requests per day puts extreme demands on the performan…

Flame Skimmer dragonfly resting on a green branch. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. #laarboretum #dragonfly #flameskimmer

Sonnet 001 - I
From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament,
And onl…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Dover:
🎵 The Flame
#NowPlaying #Dover

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Ola Szmidt:
🎵 July Flame (Laura Veirs Cover VS 2025)
#OlaSzmidt

Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
KRANTOR: And when you have disposed of Travis, don't forget to bring me Docholli. [Cevedic departs.] Now, for our other problem. [Looks at mirror.] Tell the croupier to shut the wheel down, Toise. It has developed a mechanical fault.
[Travis leaves bar holding Docholli's surgical kit.]
https://

Ferroelectric Epsilon-WO3 Nanoparticles and Its Bipolaron Driven Opto-electronic Properties at Room Temperature
Mohammad M. Rahaman, Jose Flores, Mohamed Y. Noor, Md Mohsinur R. Adnan, Alex Blackston, Enam Chowdhury, Roberto C. Myers, Michael Newburger, Pelagia-Irene Gouma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02598

Ferroelectric Epsilon-WO3 Nanoparticles and Its Bipolaron Driven Opto-electronic Properties at Room Temperature
A unique polymorph of binary tungsten trioxide, the epsilon phase of WO3, has non-centrosymmetric ferroelectric structure, typically stable below -43 degree C in bulk. We have stabilized the epsilon-WO3 at room temperature (RT) and nanostructured powders via flame spray pyrolysis synthesis. These nanopowders are drop cast into uniform thin films to enable RT measurement of ferroelectric and optoelectronic properties. We report ferroelectric hysteresis, nanoscale domains, and dipole switching me…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Laura Veirs:
🎵 July Flame
#LauraVeirs
https://lauraveirs.bandcamp.com/album/july-flame

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
- Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Donald Macleod explores the women who shaped Hector Berlioz’s life and work. Today, Berlioz’s life comes full circle as he tries rekindling an old flame.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000xn4q