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#PennedPossibilities 1136: MC POV: A time you felt far from home was…
MC: As the saying goes, 'Home is where my hat is', and since it's mostly on my head, I'm never really far from home. A well-ordered and mannered place? It is not. Predictable? Absolutely not. Chaotic? Without question. Alive? Terrifyingly so.

The fellow sat down at a bar, ordered a drink and asked the bartender if he
wanted to hear a dumb-jock joke.
"Hey, buddy," the bartender replied, "you see those two guys next to
you? They used to be with the Chicago Bears. The two dudes behind you made
the U.S. Olympic wrestling team. And for your information, I used to play
center at Notre Dame."
"Forget it," the customer said. "I don't want to explain it five
t…

Oh, I've ordered from Wonder a handful of times since it opened. Guess I'll stop that.
https://www.alxnow.com/2026/08/18/delivery-robot-service-expanded-in-alexandria-to-wonder-food-hall/

Delivery robot service expanded in Alexandria to Wonder food hall | ALXnow
The deployment of autonomous sidewalk delivery robots is expanding further in Alexandria. Serve Robotics announced today (Monday) that the Wonder food hall at 3615 Richmond Highway will offer robot deliveries. The New York City-based Wonder, which has been rapidly expanding in the D.C. region and beyond, opened the Potomac Yard location in January. The food

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ryanjess77/116967826500999130
'Afgelopen vijf jaar [aug 2025] is de Nederlandse aanschaf van Israëlische wapens geëxplodeerd.
Met een pakket orders ter waarde van 1,9 miljard euro is Nederland een van de belangrijkste klanten van de Israëlische wapenindustrie geworden. De helft daarvan is besteld na de start van het Israëlische offensief in Gaza in oktober 2023. De genocide heeft daar kortom geen enkele rem op gezet.'
https://paxvoorvrede.nl/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Policy-Paper-Hoe-Nederland-de-Israelische-wapenindustrie-spekt.pdf (PDF)
Een verbod op goederen uit illegale nederzettingen als afleidingsmanoeuvre voor de miljarden die we aan Israëlische wapens afnemen.

Star formation powers optical line emission from the CGM
Huanian Zhang, Lizhi Xie, Zhijie Qu, Dennis Zaritsky, Luis C. Ho, Min Bao, Fabio Fontanot, Michaela Hirschmann, Chenxu Liu, Gabriella De Lucia, Enci Wang, Haoyan Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18385 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.18385 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.18385
arXiv:2607.18385v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Using integral field spectroscopy, we explore the disk-halo interface, or the inner circumgalactic medium (CGM), of individual galaxies by constructing and analyzing emission-line maps for a large sample (72) of normal, low-redshift galaxies spanning three orders of magnitude in stellar mass and four orders in star formation rate (SFR). We find a steep turnover occurring at $(1-2) R_e$ in the H$\alpha$, [O {\small II}], and [O {\small III}] line emission radial profiles. Beyond this radius, the slope of the line emission radial profiles becomes shallower as the SFR of the central galaxy decreases, which might reflect the strength of the feedback processes. The line emission fluxes at large radius ($(5-10) R_e$ or $\sim (0.1-0.25)r_{\rm vir}$) correlate with the galaxy's SFR, but not with its stellar mass. These findings suggest that ionizing photons escaping from star-forming regions in the central galaxy account for the observed emission line fluxes from the inner CGM, with escape fractions inferred from the [O {\small III}] and [O {\small II}] ratio. Different state-of-the-art theoretical models do not agree on the predicted dependence of cool gas on the SFR of the central galaxies, highlighting the importance of CGM emission line measurements to distinguish between different subgrid models for star formation and feedback processes.
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A Maltese businessman goes on trial on accusations of ordering the 2017 murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was probing corrupt payments to Malta's leaders (Christopher Scicluna/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Well, this is all terrible. And I don't think many #Utahns know the extent this is happening right now.
#ICE #Immigration

Utah’s immigration court is speeding up hearings — and deportations
KUER spent an afternoon in the courtroom to observe larger hearings and gauge when immigrants were ordered deported for not showing up to court.

Micron-Scale #Technosignatures - How a Cubic Metre of Lunar Regolith May Begin to Constrain the Number of Past Technological Civilisations in the Galaxy: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.24028 -> "Building on Arkhipov's proposal that technogenic artefacts may survive natural interstellar transport and accumulate on airless Solar System bodies, we examine the prospects for identifying micron-scale engineered particulate material within the lunar regolith. We analyse the transport of micron and submicron grains through the interstellar medium, including gas drag, sputtering, and ISM phase-dependent survival, and show that refractory particles with characteristic radii of order 0.3 microns may traverse kiloparsec scales over residence times of 0.1-1 Gyr."

Certain real surfaces in $\mathbb{C}^2$ with degenerated CR singularities
Sushil Gorai, Suman Karak, Golam Mostafa Mondal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.17016 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.17016 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.17016
arXiv:2607.17016v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this paper, we study the local polynomial convexity of certain smooth real surfaces in \(\mathbb{C}^2\) with isolated CR singularity at the origin with higher-order of degeneracy. Under the assumption that the surface can be pulled back to a union of finitely many pairwise transverse totally real surfaces by a proper holomorphic map from $\mathbb{C}^2$ to $\mathbb{C}^2$, we obtain a normal form for such surfaces near the origin as
$\{(z,w)\in\mathbb{C}^2: w= \overline{z}^k o(|z|^{k})\}$
or
$M_t
:=
\left\{
(z,w)\in\mathbb{C}^2 :
w=(z t\overline{z})^k o(|z|^k)
\right\}$,
for some \(t>0\), where the parameter $t$ is a local biholomorphic invariant. We focus on the surfaces with order of degeneracy $k\geq 3$.
We prove that $M_t$ is locally polynomially convex at the origin if $t>cosec\left(\frac{\pi}{k}\right)$.
On the other hand, for $0<\frac{1}{k-2}$, we will also show that $M_t$ fails to be locally polynomially convex at the origin; and furthermore, a $(2k-3)$-parameter family of analytic discs attached to $M_t$ for $0<\min\left\{\sin\left(\frac{\pi}{k}\right),\frac{1}{k-2}\right\}$.
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I recently received this sheet of stickers for free in with something I ordered. Would you guess it's AI slop, the work of someone whose first language is not English, or both?