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2 snaps from roughly the same spot in a stream. (britain) spring and summer.
a) 27th March 2026
b) 18th August 2026
#nature #climate

Which Cowboys Draft Class Will Make the Biggest Impact in 2026? https://insidethestar.com/which-cowboys-draft-class-will-make-the-biggest-impact-in-2026

Finally got a final client approval for this commissioned map of the Pampanga River basin / watershed. 🥳
(Rivers, coastline, and borders are from #OpenStreetMap, licensed under the ODbL 1..0)
#maps #Mapstodon

Mariensprung (2021)
A 160 meter tall waterfall emerging straight out of the rock below the Waxenstein, and a tributary to the Hammersbach in the Höllental (Hell's Valley).
#WaterfallWednesday #Video #POV

Theoretical derivation of blood velocity from TOF-MRA based artery centerline
Abrar Faiyaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.16498 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.16498 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.16498
arXiv:2607.16498v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Time-of-flight magnetic resonance angiography (TOF-MRA) is widely used for structural vascular imaging, but extracting functional hemodynamics like blood velocity typically requires supplementary phase-contrast scans. This study proposes a novel, physics-informed computational framework to extract variable fluid velocity directly from standard TOF-MRA signal profiles. We analytically expand the Bloch equations into Bloch-McConnell flow equations, establishing a mathematical relationship between the spatial decay of longitudinal magnetization and fluid velocity. To validate this derivation and overcome the limitations of constant-velocity assumptions, a MATLAB simulation framework was developed to model fluid flow in two variable-geometry flowing tube cases i.e continuous tapering and focal stenosis -under synthetic scanner noise. A global inverse optimization approach utilizing Dual-Tikhonov regularization was deployed to stably invert the ill-posed transit time integral, actively penalizing high-frequency numerical ringing while preserving structural curve stiffness. The computational sim-ulations successfully recovered ground-truth point-wise velocities, accurately tracking gradual hemodynamic accelerations and sharp stenotic jets. This theoretical framework provides a robust mathematical proof-of-concept that quantitative, localized functional hemodynamic metrics can be extracted from standard structural MRA imaging, estab-lishing a foundation for advanced flow quantification without requiring additional scan time.
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California is forecast to be on the western flank of a broad area of high pressure over the interior West this weekend into early next week.
Winds high in the atmosphere flowing clockwise around the high-pressure system will draw humid, subtropical air from the south toward California and push it as far north as eastern Oregon and Washington.
For California, the monsoon is only an occasional presence, but when winds do align, it can trigger thunderstorms statewide.
Lightning…

This guy livestreaming

Raiders Drop 27 in Week 1, but Alarming Flaws Signal Danger Ahead https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/raiders-dolphins-kirk-cousins-red-flags/

Livestream shopping app Whatnot raised a $545M Series G led by Iconiq, Lightspeed, and Avra at a $20B valuation, up from an $11.5B valuation in October 2025 (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/08/07/ai-obse…

In AI-obsessed Silicon Valley, live commerce platform Whatnot just notched a new funding round valuing it at $20 billion
The $545 million Series G nearly doubles Whatnot's valuation—a rare consumer-marketplace breakout when nearly every venture dollar is flowing to AI.

Let's keep the bad news from Japan flowing...

"There are also mounting economic costs of falling behind. As of January 2026, more than 80% of European AI chatbot users relied on OpenAI's ChatGPT. That means European data — the raw material of the modern information economy — is flowing primarily into American algorithms rather than European ones."
No! This completely misunderstands what the advantage of a European stack should be. I don't care much whether my data goes to an American or a European company.
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How the EU became a digital colony — and how it might break free
European lawmakers and analysts warn that reliance on US artificial intelligence and digital services is a strategic liability, spurring calls for ...

at the vision fest at abrons arts center, leading off with marshall allen (102?!!) & all-stars including william parker, andrew cyrille, dm hotep, & darius jones, flowing through the outer darkness. then, trae crudup & co. with a powerful milford graves tribute, heartbeat thunder & glitched vocals. #nyc #jazz

Why river management is so crucial to protecting one of world's most important wetlands #environment

Why river management is so crucial to protecting one of world's most important wetlands
A major new study led by Swansea University has shown that upstream river management, rather than local rainfall, is the primary driver of one of the world's most important wetlands. According to the research published in Scientific Reports, which analyzed more than two decades of satellite observations, the future of Iraq's Mesopotamian Marshes depends far more on the water flowing from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers than on rainfall.

Juno Measures the Heat Below Io's Restless Surface - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/articles/juno-measures-the-heat-below-ios-restless-surface

Perhaps Robin is just using the #TCRno12 as training for this years #SMR?
"In order to avoid a banned road, Robin took to hiking down to a riverbank to reach a stream. Wading through the flowing, rocky water with his bike, he passed under a bridge, climbed up the other bank, and continued on…

A Day Or Two At The Museum II🏛️
博物馆的一两天 II🏛️
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After Fraud Accusations, a Young Entrepreneur’s Rise Ends in Tragedy https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/nyregion/mohamed-coulibaly-scam-mali-nfl.html

07:16 AM
What a morning and long day it was last week! Was already out & about for 3 hours when I got to this place, earlier mostly taking hundreds of images of the nearby (~500m away) Breslauer Hut and vicinity during sunrise... The first large (and loud) group of people already got up at 4AM, getting ready for climbing Wildspitze, another group left an hour later, as did I. Maintenance/repair works on the hut continued at 08:30, taking lots more pictures to document, interviewin…

Pseudoreal AMSB: Troubling Tensions with Tumbling
Bea Noether
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06148 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.06148 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.06148
arXiv:2608.06148v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: I analyze the pseudoreal confining $\mathcal{N}=1$ SUSY gauge theories deformed by anomaly mediated SUSY breaking (AMSB). Taking the conjecture that the AMSB and non-SUSY limits are in the same universality class, I find broadly that the non-SUSY confining pseudoreal gauge theories of this class have no massless particles in their spectra. This contradicts recent expectations from tumbling. I explore whether or not non-standard tumbling could reconcile the two pictures, and find that it would require condensation in repulsive channels in three of the cases, and that in one case it does not appear possible regardless of attractiveness/repulsiveness. I briefly comment on the additional theories that may be in the conformal window, and find that their SUSY versions are consistent with flowing to superconformal fixed points.
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All across America, the midterm elections are drowning in dark money.
A New York Times review of advertising data, campaign-finance filings and tax records
revealed that about $1 billion in anonymous money is sloshing through the political landscape in 2026,
a staggering sum and yet almost certainly a low-end estimate,
given how difficult this money is to trace.

‘The Least Transparent Midterm’: How Dark Money Is Washing Over the 2026 Election
At least $1 billion from anonymous donors is flowing into the midterm elections. Dark money is not new, but it now permeates nearly every major contest.

Quebec hydropower is now flowing to New York City—1.25 GW of clean electricity displacing fossil generation.
Meanwhile, Twelve launched America's first commercial e-jet fuel plant, turning CO2 and renewable power into synthetic jet fuel.
And China brought online a massive solar-battery-hydrogen complex to power industry with renewables.
Real infrastructure. Real progress. Today.
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This week's pick isn't your typical rock and metal fare - but #ChadwickStokes and #StateRadio have earned the detour, and the story behind this one is worth every second. Keep those good vibes flowing!
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Evidence for Possible N2 Basal Flow beneath Pluto’s Northern Sputnik Planitia: #Pluto

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #FocusBeats
tee_illa:
🎵 Flowing
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Me in front of Uris Hall
#photo #photography #selfie #fox

Flowing best right now near Eastern Goleta Valley
Updated about 1 hour ago
Ranked by live stream-gauge flow versus each waterfall's seasonal normal.
1Sisquoc Falls

Roaring · 0 cfs

96th
PERCENTILE

2Wellhouse Falls

Moderate · 4 cfs

62nd
PERCENTILE

3Rose Valley Falls

Moderate · 2 cfs

43rd
PERCENTILE

4Tangerine Falls

Moderate · 12 cfs

41st
PERCENTILE

5Nojoqui Falls

Moderate · 34 cfs

27th
PERCENTILE

6Jackson Falls

Low · 7 cfs


Waterfall Hikes Near Eastern Goleta Valley, CA — Live Conditions
7 waterfall hikes within 50 miles of Eastern Goleta Valley, CA. Includes 2 easy trails, 4 dog-friendly trails, 4 free trails.

The Look from the Bystander 👁️
旁观者的凝视 👁️
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I'm not big on the whole Christian "natural/artificial" binary, or the settler-colonialist concept of "wilderness" which erases indigenous stewardship in a bid to claim mid territory (see, e.g., tribes forced out of what are now national parks in the US). But I do enjoy getting out of urban/suburban environments and into places where the human impact on the land is minimal and/or synergistic with non-human flourishing.
I was thinking about why I enjoy this so much today while out on a stroller hike with my younger child, and came to the conclusion that it may be less about being in a "natural" space and more about being in a space whose flourishing is not tied to the capitalist necropolitical "growth" spiral.
Like, there's the baseline intrinsic beauty of flowers, trees, flowing water, etc. Then there's the pleasure of considering how these things fit together into an ecosystem and mutually support each other (and also compete/predate, etc.). But on top of all that, there's the sense that these things are part of a self-sustaining pattern that's capable of continuing without outside inputs and without creating external waste over vast, geologic timescales. The things I see when I look around in a city aren't like that. 100 or 1000 or 10000 years from now they'll be ruins, not necessarily because of human extinction or anything like that, but because the resource flows that create them are inseparable from a fundamentally unsustainable economy built around a paradoxical assumption of infinite exponential growth.
There *are* of course some human-built or -stewarded things in the world that are sustainably maintained, and ruins can have their own kind of beauty. But to me part of the joy of being on a hiking trail is to look around and see beautiful systems that will persist regardless of (most) human political outcomes that I spend a lot of energy worrying about.
Even in the extreme cases of climate change these things will eventually come back, albeit in an altered form. I don't want to ignore the incredibly destructive impact of humans on the environment, of course, but still, it's comforting to me to think about how the problems and brokenness of currently-dominant human cultures might change and scar but will not actually destroy the many systems on this planet that just don't depend on humans for their propagation.

Petrichor, Visualized (2026)
(From our morning walk yesterday, 15 mins after the heavy rain shower passed, dense localized mist with small light shafts forming all over the little creek in this canyon. Absolute magic... and the scent, of course! 🤩)
#MorningWalk #LandscapePhotography

What's going on with Omarchy? Why is so much money flowing into a Linux distro that barely changes from its upstream?
Is its bigoted founder offering something behind the scenes, or is this just an "OMG, AI Linux" moment from execs that don't understand anything?

The Aspiration of History 🌠
历史的热望 🌠
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Don't miss today's Metacurity for a tight overview of yesterday's news involving the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, as well as other top infosec developments you should know, including
--Anthropic unveils encrypted AI breakthrough,
--AI workers demand global safety oversight,
--Zuckerberg doubles down on AI,
--Anthropic's AI safety stance draws fire,
--MCP gets its biggest overhaul yet,
--OpenAI open-sources Codex security tools,
--FCC bans new Chinese robots, power inverters,
--Russia charges Telegram founder with aiding terrorism,
--Cyberattack disrupts Angola telecom ahead of IPO,
--Australian nurse charged over patient data theft,
--xAI challenges Minnesota deepfake law,
--SparkKitty malware steals crypto wallet seed phrases,
--Man charged after wiping phone during border search,
--AI harness can make or break attacks,
--Bot detection startup Spur raises $200m,
--ThreatLocker raises $190 million,
--Act Security emerges from stealth with $60m
--Mate Security lands $35m,
--AI security startups attract record seed funding,
--Fairlife gets production flowing again,
--AI pushes CISOs toward the exit
https://www.metacurity.com/openai-reveals-broader-ai-agent-campaign-as-hugging-face-publishes-remarkable-timeline/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SaturdayMorning
Roxanna Panufnik & Aurora Percussion Duo:
🎵 Flowing River part 1
#RoxannaPanufnik #AuroraPercussionDuo
https://open.spotify.com/track/1yRbEIuM0L5KgJzZks3ul8