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Stat Counter: Windows 11 had a 50.9% share of the Windows market on July 4, ahead of Windows 10's 46.2%; the OS, released in 2021, only had a <10% share in 2022 (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
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Windows 11 is now the most popular desktop OS in the world — finally surpasses Windows 10 after 4 years
After four years on the market, Windows 11 has finally surpassed Windows 10 to become the most dominant desktop OS platform in the world.

Ex-All-Pro defensive back Adam 'Pacman' Jones arrested for fourth time in four years, facing multiple charges

https://www.cbssports.com…

"Giant river otter returns to Argentina after almost four decades"
#Argentina #Otters #Animals

Giant river otter returns to Argentina after almost four decades
A family of giant river otters was released into the Iberá National Park in northeast Argentina on July 1. The endangered species, with no known breeding populations in Argentina over the past 40 years, was considered probably extinct in the country. The release, led by conservation nonprofit Rewilding Argentina, included a breeding pair named Coco […]

72 years later, this image still seems to resonate.
'In America - At This Restaurant Only One Person Is Served' (Krokodil # 4, 1953) by Yuliy Ganf. The solider at the table being well fed is labeled “war” and the neglected tables are labeled 'Education', 'Health Care', 'Libraries' and 'Art'.
#USpol

Long; central Massachusetts colonial history
Today on a whim I visited a site in Massachusetts marked as "Huguenot Fort Ruins" on OpenStreetMaps. I drove out with my 4-year-old through increasingly rural central Massachusetts forests & fields to end up on a narrow street near the top of a hill beside a small field. The neighboring houses had huge lawns, some with tractors.
Appropriately for this day and this moment in history, the history of the site turns out to be a microcosm of America. Across the field beyond a cross-shaped stone memorial stood an info board with a few diagrams and some text. The text of the main sign (including typos/misspellings) read:
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Town Is Formed
Early in the 1680's, interest began to generate to develop a town in the area west of Natick in the south central part of the Commonwealth that would be suitable for a settlement. A Mr. Hugh Campbell, a Scotch merchant of Boston petitioned the court for land for a colony. At about the same time, Joseph Dudley and William Stoughton also were desirous of obtaining land for a settlement. A claim was made for all lands west of the Blackstone River to the southern land of Massachusetts to a point northerly of the Springfield Road then running southwesterly until it joined the southern line of Massachusetts.
Associated with Dudley and Stoughton was Robert Thompson of London, England, Dr. Daniel Cox and John Blackwell, both of London and Thomas Freak of Hannington, Wiltshire, as proprietors. A stipulation in the acquisition of this land being that within four years thirty families and an orthodox minister settle in the area. An extension of this stipulation was granted at the end of the four years when no group large enough seemed to be willing to take up the opportunity.
In 1686, Robert Thompson met Gabriel Bernor and learned that he was seeking an area where his countrymen, who had fled their native France because of the Edict of Nantes, were desirous of a place to live. Their main concern was to settle in a place that would allow them freedom of worship. New Oxford, as it was the so-named, at that time included the larger part of Charlton, one-fourth of Auburn, one-fifth of Dudley and several square miles of the northeast portion of Southbridge as well as the easterly ares now known as Webster.
Joseph Dudley's assessment that the area was capable of a good settlement probably was based on the idea of the meadows already established along with the plains, ponds, brooks and rivers. Meadows were a necessity as they provided hay for animal feed and other uses by the settlers. The French River tributary books and streams provided a good source for fishing and hunting. There were open areas on the plains as customarily in November of each year, the Indians burnt over areas to keep them free of underwood and brush. It appeared then that this area was ready for settling.
The first seventy-five years of the settling of the Town of Oxford originally known as Manchaug, embraced three different cultures. The Indians were known to be here about 1656 when the Missionary, John Eliott and his partner Daniel Gookin visited in the praying towns. Thirty years later, in 1686, the Huguenots walked here from Boston under the guidance of their leader Isaac Bertrand DuTuffeau. The Huguenot's that arrived were not peasants, but were acknowledged to be the best Agriculturist, Wine Growers, Merchant's, and Manufacter's in France. There were 30 families consisting of 52 people. At the time of their first departure (10 years), due to Indian insurrection, there were 80 people in the group, and near their Meetinghouse/Church was a Cemetery that held 20 bodies. In 1699, 8 to 10 familie's made a second attempt to re-settle, failing after only four years, with the village being completely abandoned in 1704.
The English colonist made their way here in 1713 and established what has become a permanent settlement.
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All that was left of the fort was a crumbling stone wall that would have been the base of a higher wooden wall according to a picture of a model (I didn't think to get a shot of that myself). Only trees and brush remain where the multi-story main wooden building was.
This story has so many echoes in the present:
- The rich colonialists from Boston & London agree to settle the land, buying/taking land "rights" from the colonial British court that claimed jurisdiction without actually having control of the land. Whether the sponsors ever actually visited the land themselves I don't know. They surely profited somehow, whether from selling on the land rights later or collecting taxes/rent or whatever, by they needed poor laborers to actually do the work of developing the land (& driving out the original inhabitants, who had no say in the machinations of the Boston court).
- The land deal was on condition that there capital-holders who stood to profit would find settlers to actually do the work of colonizing. The British crown wanted more territory to be controlled in practice not just in theory, but they weren't going to be the ones to do the hard work.
- The capital-holders actually failed to find enough poor suckers to do their dirty work for 4 years, until the Huguenots, fleeing religious persecution in France, were desperate enough to accept their terms.
- Of course, the land was only so ripe for settlement because of careful tending over centuries by the natives who were eventually driven off, and whose land management practices are abandoned today. Given the mention of praying towns (& dates), this was after King Phillip's war, which resulted in at least some forced resettlement of native tribes around the area, but the descendants of those "Indians" mentioned in this sign are still around. For example, this is the site of one local band of Nipmuck, whose namesake lake is about 5 miles south of the fort site: #LandBack.

Germany is drawing up plans to rapidly expand its network of bomb-proof bunkers and shelters,
the government’s most senior civilian protection official has said,
warning the state needs to be prepared for an attack from Russia within the next four years.
Ralph Tiesler, the head of the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK),
said Europe’s largest economy needed to wake up to the reality of conflict,
and that in its current state Germany w…

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, contracts must first go through an approval process led in part by a young man who worked as a Temple University food hall monitor last year.
A few weeks earlier, Politico reported on a different young man, just four years removed from high school, who was appointed to serve as the acting chief AI officer at the Department of Health and Human Services, while on leave from pursuing his undergraduate degree.
The problem is made w…

Despite talk of ‘meritocracy,’ a Team of Amateurs holds sway on Team Trump
One of the things that people outside of Washington, D.C., might not fully appreciate about how the city works is the outsize influence of young adults.

"Google’s data center energy use doubled in 4 years"
#Google #Emissions #Technology

Google’s data center energy use doubled in four years | TechCrunch
Google has pledged to use only carbon-free sources of electricity to power its operations, a task made more challenging by its breakneck pace of data center growth.

The Hourglass Simulation: A Catalog for the Roman High-Latitude Time-Domain Core Community Survey
B. M. Rose, M. Vincenzi, R. Hounsell, H. Qu, L. Aldoroty, D. Scolnic, R. Kessler, P. Macias, D. Brout, M. Acevedo, R. C. Chen, S. Gomez, E. Peterson, D. Rubin, M. Sako
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05161

The Hourglass Simulation: A Catalog for the Roman High-Latitude Time-Domain Core Community Survey
We present a simulation of the time-domain catalog for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's High-Latitude Time-Domain Core Community Survey. This simulation, called the Hourglass simulation, uses the most up-to-date spectral energy distribution models and rate measurements for ten extra-galactic time-domain sources. We simulate these models through the design reference Roman Space Telescope survey: four filters per tier, a five day cadence, over two years, a wide tier of 19 deg$^2$ and a dee…

As the AI talent wars reach a fever pitch,
Mark Zuckerberg is offering top tier recruits to Meta’s new superintelligence lab
pay packages of up to $300 million over four years,
with more than $100 million in total compensation for the first year.
https://bsky.app/profile/wired.com/pos

Alright, alright, alright. My team, RCB, finally won the #IPL trophy. 17 years of the league and four finals appearance by the team. 🏏🏆
I suppose RCB had to win today, what with the divine support. 😀
#Cricket #sports

Magnetic field monitoring of four massive A-F supergiants
Gregg Wade, Mary Oksala, Coralie Neiner, Etienne Boucher, James Barron
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00282

Magnetic field monitoring of four massive A-F supergiants
We report magnetic field measurements spanning about 15 years of four massive ($7.5-15 M_\odot$) supergiant stars: $α$ Per (HD\,20902, F5Iab), $α$ Lep (HD\,36673A, F0Ib), $η$ Leo (HD\,87737, A0Ib) and 13 Mon (HD\,46300, A1Ib). For each star, spectropolarimetric observations were collected using ESPaDOnS at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. The observed spectra were co-added, normalized, then processed using Least Squares Deconvolution (LSD) to yield mean Stokes $I$ and $V$ profiles. Each s…

Eagles running back Saquon Barkley says his retirement could come 'out of nowhere' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6402865/2025/06/04/saquon-barkley-eagles-retirement-comments-chris-long/

Hm...
I guess a good way to prevent that would be to wipe out the whole fleet of Russian strategic bombers, eh? Too bad we can't do that beforehand...
Oh, wait. Someone else can.
https://mastodonapp.uk/@bbcnewsfeed/114609055478351645

Can Nick Sorensen keep Cowboys special teams on top? https://insidethestar.com/can-nick-sorensen-keep-cowboys-special-teams-on-top

iHeartMedia signs a content distribution deal with Audacy, bringing Audacy's 240 radio brands and on-demand audio offerings to the iHeartRadio app (Adam Jacobson/Radio & Television Business Report)
https://rbr.com/audacy-strikes-a-streaming-deal-with-ihe…

Audacy Strikes A Streaming Deal With iHeartMedia | Radio & Television Business Report
More than four years after a big rebrand and substantial effort to draw audience and advertisers to its exclusive podcasts and streaming audio, Audacy Inc. is breaking the silo and has agreed to place its content on an app other than its own.

The broligarchs are loving this idea...
#privacy #surveillance

Health Secretary Wants Every American To Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years - Slashdot
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a major federal campaign to promote wearable health tech, aiming for every American to adopt a device within four years as part of a broader effort to "Make America Healthy Again." Gizmodo reports: RFK Jr. announced the initiative ...

"An Australian study, conducted over four years and starting before the pandemic, has come up with some enlightening conclusions about the impact of working from home. The researchers are unequivocal: this flexibility significantly improves the well-being and happiness of employees, transforming our relationship with work."

🐞 Nebraska residents call for tighter insecticide regulations after contamination event
https://www.thenewlede.org/2025/04/nebraska-residents-call-for-tighter-insecticide-regulations-after-contamination-event/…

Nebraska residents call for tighter insecticide regulations after contamination event
By Shannon Kelleher More than four years after a massive contamination event tied to pesticide-coated farm seeds rocked a rural Nebraska community, environmental and public health advocates are calling on state officials to remove regulatory exemptions for the coated seeds, and to monitor waterways for the pesticide pollutants.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11635 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

Evidence of equilibrium dynamics in human social networks evolving in time
How do networks of relationships evolve over time? We analyse a dataset tracking the social interactions of 900 individuals over four years. Despite continuous shifts in individual relationships, the macroscopic structural properties of the network remain stable, fluctuating within predictable bounds. We connect this stability to the concept of equilibrium in statistical physics. Specifically, we demonstrate that the probabilities governing network dynamics are stationary over time, and key fea…

Source: Mark Zuckerberg has, on 10 occasions, offered to pay AI research talent up to $300M over four years, with $100M in compensation for the first year (Zoë Schiffer/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-meta-offer-top-ai-talent-…

Here’s What Mark Zuckerberg Is Offering Top AI Talent
The Meta CEO is leading a hiring blitz, offering top talent at OpenAI eye-watering pay packages and endless access to cutting-edge chips.

1/ I’ve been very lucky with my job. I get paid full time but I couldn’t say when I last did a full working week - it must be years ago. My boss has been very understanding since I escaped my abusive marriage over four years ago, and has also supported me as I battle through the courts to get more time with my kids. My up and down #mentalhealth impacts upon how productive I am, and the cour…

Are you four years old? Are you sitting down? Let me tell you something. You ain't getting no pony.

Aaron Rodgers reacts to Packers drafting receiver in first round for first time in 23 years

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/aaron-r

Your values are euros and cents. https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/114699001106153315

An inspiring and emotional heart-felt and very personal testimony, beautifully written by Allison Becker, Liverpool and Brazil goal keeper.
You'll never walk alone.
https://www.theplayerstribune.com/alisson-becker-premier-league-s…

In Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Man of the People" (part of "Four Ways to Forgiveness") there's a scene where the Hainish protagonist begins studying history. It's excellent in many respects, but what stood out the most to me was the softly incomprehensible idea of a people with multiple millions of years of recorded history. As one's mind starts to try to trace out the implications of that, it dawns on you that you can't actually comprehend the concept. Like, you read the sentence & understood all the words, and at first you were able to assemble them into what seemed like a conceptual understanding, but as you started to try to fill out that understating, it began to slip away, until you realized you didn't in fact have the mental capacity to build a full understanding and would have you paper things over with a shallow placeholder instead.
I absolutely love that feeling, as one of the ways in which reading science fiction can stretch the brain, and I connected it to a similar moment in Tsutomu Nihei's BLAME, where the android protagonists need to ride an elevator through the civilization/galaxy-spanning megastructure, and turn themselves off for *millions of years* to wait out the ride.
I'm not sure why exactly these scenes feel more beautifully incomprehensible than your run-of-the-mill "then they traveled at lightspeed for a millennia, leaving all their family behind" scene, other than perhaps the authors approach them without trying to use much metaphor to make them more comprehensible (or they use metaphor to emphasize their incomprehensibility).
Do you have a favorite mind=expanded scene of this nature?
#AmReading

I recorded a new episode (#483) of my "Moving at the Speed of Creativity" podcast, which is 20 years old this year in 2025! I titled it, "Creativity, Code, and Compassion: AI Lessons from Middle School and Beyond."
https://www.spee…

Holy fuck this guitar is my goddamn spirit animal
#guitar #gearsquad #PRS

“We spent more than four years in research and development, working closely with Herman to get everything exactly right”: PRS activates total shred mode for the launch of Herman Li’s feature-packed Chleo signature electric
Available in Orchid Dusk and Charcoal Purple Burst, limited to 200 units, we've got 13 unique tone combinations from its HSH Fishman pickups, a Gotoh floating vibrato and Eclipse Dragon inlays too

"Solar panels' shade helps boost Colorado grassland productivity in dry years"
#US #USA #America #Colorado

Solar panels' shade helps boost Colorado grassland productivity in dry years
Grasses growing in the shade of a solar array were only a little less productive than those growing nearby in open grassland during years of average and above-average rainfall—but in a dry year, the shaded plants grew much better than those growing in full sun. That's the result of a four-year study we conducted in a semi-arid grassland of northern Colorado.

Poster No 857: Plastic changes in the occipital regions during pitch perception associate with blindness onset age; "Specifically, the primary visual cortex remains engaged in pitch processing tasks following late blindness." https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15641972

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-s-scum-points-to-something-more-sinister-than-partisan-posturing/

Trump's 'scum' attack gave awful signal of what's coming
Donald Trump opened Memorial Day in the most disgusting way possible, not by praising our fallen heroes but by attacking Democrats. He wrote on his Nazi-infested social media site on Monday morning:“Happy Memorial Day to all, including the scum that spent the last four years trying to destroy our co...

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.08766 has been replaced.
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Unlocking Mental Health: Exploring College Students' Well-being through Smartphone Behaviors
The global mental health crisis is a pressing concern, with college students particularly vulnerable to rising mental health disorders. The widespread use of smartphones among young adults, while offering numerous benefits, has also been linked to negative outcomes such as addiction and regret, significantly impacting well-being. Leveraging the longest longitudinal dataset collected over four college years through passive mobile sensing, this study is the first to examine the relationship betwe…

Libraries, Digital Libraries, and Data: Forty years, Four Challenges
Christine L. Borgman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15055 https://ar…

Libraries, Digital Libraries, and Data: Forty years, Four Challenges
"Digital libraries" is an umbrella term that encompasses the automation of library services, online catalogs, information retrieval systems, multi-media databases, data archives, and other internet-facing collections of digital resources. Clifford Lynch has played pivotal roles in the technical development, institutionalization, policy, practice, and dissemination of digital libraries for more than 40 years. Beginning with his foundational role in building MELVYL for the University of Californi…

Pamela Alma Weymouth, Katharine Graham's granddaughter, says The Washington Post is at risk under Jeff Bezos and urges him to keep his promise to defend it (Pamela Alma Weymouth/The Nation)
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/t…

My Grandmother Stood Up to Nixon—Jeff Bezos Should Take Note 
Fifty-four years ago, Katharine Graham defended The Washington Post against presidential threats. Her granddaughter now fears its soul is being sold.

Paris s'éveille
Hype, the world’s largest hydrogen taxi operator, is to cease operating its fleet of hydrogen taxis in the Paris area
When the reality of #hydrogen costs hits home (and you still don't want to believe it)

'A form of oligopoly' | World’s largest hydrogen taxi operator hurls accusations at supply giants as it quits H2 in Paris
Hype argues that Air Liquide and TotalEnergies have presided over doubling of H2 prices in four years — which it says is blocking a credible path to green hydrogen use

It’s been 55 years since the Ohio National Guard opened fire on students at Kent State University
who were protesting the US war in Vietnam.
Four students were murdered at the Kent State Massacre:
Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Lee Scheuer, and William Schroeder.
In this episode of The Marc Steiner Show, Marc speaks with Mike Alewitz,
who was a student at Kent State in 1970,
about what it was like to witness the massacre firsthand,
and abou…

‘There were massive revolts’: The history of the 1970 Kent State massacre you haven’t heard
“The whole history of the massacre was suppressed… And then they suppressed the whole history of the anti-war movement at Kent. They've tried to erase the history.”

Don't leave for the weekend without reading today's packed Metacurity for the most crucial infosec developments you should know, including
--Customers keep buying Predator spyware despite US sanctions
--Ukraine paralyzed top Siberian ISP,
--Meta AI shows other customers' sensitive info,
--Whole Foods still grappling with product disruptions,
--Malicious adtech is highly interconnected,
--Cybercrims are selling lost RCMP key containing informants…

Customers keep buying Predator spyware despite US sanctions
Ukraine paralyzed top Siberian ISP, Meta AI shows other customers' sensitive info, Whole Foods still grappling with product disruptions, Malicious adtech is highly interconnected, Cybercrims are selling lost RCMP key containing informants' data, BEC scammer sentenced to four years, much more

How Broncos' Dondrea Tillman found 'light at the end of the tunnel' in uncommon NFL path https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6466035/2025/07/03/dondrea-tillman-broncos-ufl-spring-league/

This type of reasoning is always baffling to me. When climate change is discussed these people always say that there is some magical technological solution that will pop up to save us (usually handed to us by the AI gods).
Why then, in the the several decades that it takes to scale up nuclear, can we not account for the possibility that AI could become more energy efficient?
That sounds like something you could solve for the cost of a few power plants...

UK needs more nuclear to power AI, says Amazon Web Services boss
The world's largest cloud computing company plans to spend £8bn on new data centres in the UK over the next four years.

Patient-Centred Explainability in IVF Outcome Prediction
Adarsa Sivaprasad, Ehud Reiter, David McLernon, Nava Tintarev, Siladitya Bhattacharya, Nir Oren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18760

Patient-Centred Explainability in IVF Outcome Prediction
This paper evaluates the user interface of an in vitro fertility (IVF) outcome prediction tool, focussing on its understandability for patients or potential patients. We analyse four years of anonymous patient feedback, followed by a user survey and interviews to quantify trust and understandability. Results highlight a lay user's need for prediction model \emph{explainability} beyond the model feature space. We identify user concerns about data shifts and model exclusions that impact trust. Th…

28 Years of Sun-as-a-star Extreme Ultraviolet Light Curves from SOHO EIT
Emily Sandford, Fr\'ed\'eric Auch\`ere, Annelies Mortier, Laura A. Hayes, Daniel M\"uller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18990

28 Years of Sun-as-a-star Extreme Ultraviolet Light Curves from SOHO EIT
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) has been taking images of the Solar disk and corona in four narrow EUV bandpasses (171Å, 195Å, 284Å, and 304Å) at a minimum cadence of once per day since early 1996. The time series of fully-calibrated EIT images now spans approximately 28 years, from early 1996 to early 2024, covering solar cycles 23, 24, and the beginning of cycle 25. We convert this extensive EIT image archive into a time series of …

from my link log —
Distance-based ISA for efficient register renaming.
https://www.sigarch.org/distance-based-isa-for-efficient-register-management/
saved 2025-06-04

Distance-Based ISA for Efficient Register Management
CPU cores have become significantly wider over the past decade. Ten years ago, the highest-performance CPUs could decode only up to four instructions simultaneously and execute up to eight instruct…

Amazon says it plans to invest £40B in the UK economy over the next three years, including opening four new warehouses; Amazon invested £12B in the UK in 2023 (Freya Jones/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: QVC is consulting advisers to explore options for its $5B debt; its stock has fallen 99% in the past four years, cutting its market cap to ~$72M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-27…

It does explain why Eric and Don Jr. have been conspicuously out of the public eye of late. “The sentencing came after the men were accused of stealing or trying to sell the $6 million fully-functioning gold toilet, an artwork titled ‘America,’ which was believed to have been chopped up so the gold could be sold.”

2 Men Are Sentenced in Theft of Golden Toilet
The men were sentenced to two to four years for their roles in the 2019 theft of an 18-carat artwork at Winston Churchill’s ancestral home.

Longtime Monitoring of TeV Radio Galaxies with HAWC
R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, E. Anita-Rangel, J. C. Arteaga-Vel\'azquez, D. Avila Rojas, H. A. Ayala Solares, R. Babu, P. Bangale, E. Belmont-Moreno, A. Bernal, K. S. Caballero-Mora, T. Capistr\'an, A. Carrami\~nana, F. Carre\'on, S. Casanova, U. Cotti, J. Cotzomi, S. Couti\~no de Le\'on, E. De la Fuente, D. Depaoli, P. Desiati, N. Di Lalla, R. Diaz Hernandez, M. A. DuVernois, J. C. D\'iaz-V\'elez, K. Engel, T. Ergin…

Longtime Monitoring of TeV Radio Galaxies with HAWC
We present the monitoring of the TeV-emitting radio galaxies M87, NGC~1275, 3C~264, and IC~310 with the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC) over a period of approximately $7.5$ years. The analysis includes light curves at daily, weekly and monthly time scales for the four sources. We report the detection of gamma-ray emission from M87 with a significance exceeding 5$σ$. Due to its significant detection, this work reports the integrated TeV spectrum of M87 from the longest temporal…

Former Raiders receiver Henry Ruggs apologizes to family of woman he killed while driving 156 mph https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/former-raiders-receiver-henry-ruggs-apologizes-to-family-of-w…

X-ray and Optical Analysis of the Prototype Polar AN UMa
S. Ok, M. Yardimci, B. Kalomeni, A. Schwope
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18553 https://

X-ray and Optical Analysis of the Prototype Polar AN UMa
We present a long-term optical and X-ray photometric study of AN UMa, one of the prototypical polar-type cataclysmic variables, tracing more than 34 years of its accretion history. Observations from both ground-based and space-based facilities have been analysed to investigate state transitions within the system. Throughout this period, significant changes in the light curve have been observed, corresponding to different mass accretion states. From four years of TESS photometry, we derive a rev…

Mailbag: Will new culture bring more discipline? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-will-new-culture-bring-more-discipline

Less than two years ago,
the administration of President Joe Biden announced what tribal leaders hailed as an unprecedented commitment to the Native tribes
whose ways of life had been devastated by federal dam-building along the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest.
The deal, which took two years to negotiate, halted decades of lawsuits over the harm federal dams had caused to the salmon that had sustained those tribes culturally and economically for thousands of years. …

Trump Administration Abandons Deal With Northwest Tribes to Restore Salmon
The Trump administration canceled a deal, signed under President Joe Biden, that would have enabled the removal of four hydroelectric dams along the Columbia River that are considered harmful to salmon.

Texans CB Damon Arnette took 'look in the mirror,' feels he's made 'complete turnaround' before second chance in NFL https://www.nfl.com/news/texans-cb-damon-arnette-took-look-in…

Henry Ruggs apologizes to victim's family at Las Vegas event https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/henry-ruggs-apologizes-to-victims-family-at-las-vegas-event

Mailbag: Will new culture bring more discipline? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-will-new-culture-bring-more-discipline

Four years after Gov. Greg Abbott announced Texas would be the first state to build its own border wall, lawmakers have quietly stopped funding the project, leaving only scattered segments covering a small fraction of the border.
That decision, made in the waning hours of this year’s legislative session,
leaves the future of the state wall unclear.
Just 8% of the 805 miles the state identified for construction is complete, which has cost taxpayers more than $3 billion to dat…

With only 8% built, Texas quietly defunds state border wall program
Texas officials suggested the federal government could pick up construction. However, during President Trump’s first term, his administration built about one-third of what the state was able to put up in the same amount of time.

Former Raiders receiver Henry Ruggs apologizes to victim's family at Las Vegas event https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/former-raiders-receiver-henry-ruggs-apologizes-to-victims-family-at-las-vegas-event

US intelligence assessments have found Iran was not actively pursuing a nuclear weapon and would have been up to three years away from being able to deliver one, CNN is reporting. The assessments, sourced to four people familiar with them, are in stark contrast to the narrative being pushed by Israel that Iran was fast approaching a point of no return in acquiring nuclear weapons
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jun/17/israel-iran-conflict-live-updates-tehran-trump-evacuation-middle-east?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#EndFossilFuels #ClimateAction
Fact: Taking a BC Ferry from Metro Vancouver to Vancouver Island is a High CO2 experience, though if it's a full ferry, it's not terrible (~5kgCO2/passenger)
By 2031, BC Ferries will have replaced 18 ferries (big and small!) in 15 years, and nearly all will be 100% electric-ready.
They just announced they're doing the big ships next.
"Built with diesel-battery hybrid propulsion systems and designed with the capability to operate on full electric power in future, the NMVs are expected to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve fuel efficiency, and lower underwater radiated noise to better protect marine life. With greater capacity than the vessels they replace, the NMVs will offer more space for vehicles and passengers and upgraded amenities, supporting a more reliable and comfortable travel experience.”
The age of fossil fuels is ending. Any politician or lobbyist who says otherwise is either not paying attention, or bought.
#BCPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli #ClimateEmergency #SalishSea #BCFerries
https://www.bcferries.com/news-releases/bc-ferries-selects-shipyard-to-construct-four-new-major-vessels

Ruggs apologizes to victim's family at Vegas event https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45534886/apologetic-henry-ruggs-speaks-hope-prisoners-event

Acting FAA Administrator Chris Rocheleau told the House Appropriations Committee that the Federal Aviation Administration plans to replace its aging air traffic control systems
-- which still rely on floppy disks and Windows 95 computers!
The agency has issued a Request For Information to gather proposals from companies willing to tackle the massive infrastructure overhaul

US air traffic control still runs on Windows 95 and floppy disks
Agency seeks contractors to modernize decades-old systems within four years.

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