Tootfinder

Finland charges captain of suspected Russian ‘shadow fleet’ tanker for subsea cable damage https://therecord.media/finland-charges-captain-russia-ghost-fleet-undersea-cable

Newsletter service Ghost says publishers have earned $100M on it, its annual revenue is $8.5M , it now supports ActivityPub, and is upping new member pricing (Neel Dhanesha/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/ghost-makes-it-easier-to-publish-t…

«Everybody Laughs», el primer adelanto del recientemente anunciado próximo disco de David Byrne. Me gustó 👌🏻.
#DavidByrne

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PacificNotions
Francis Gri:
🎵 Ghost Work 1
#FrancisGri
https://francisgri.bandcamp.com/track/ghost-work-1

Fear of immigration raids turns California community into ghost town (Adam Yamaguchi/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fear-immigration-raids-huntington-park-california/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250812/p2#a250812p2

Newsletter service Ghost says publishers have earned $100M on it, its annual revenue is $8.5M , it now supports ActivityPub, and is upping new member pricing (Neel Dhanesha/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/ghost-makes-it-easier-to-publish-t…

Conditions for positivity of energy in superrenormalizable polynomial gravity
P\'ublio Rwany B. R. do Vale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07508 https://arx…

Conditions for positivity of energy in superrenormalizable polynomial gravity
At the quantum level, the polynomial models of gravity with six and eight derivatives are superrenormalizable, but suffer from higher derivative ghost and/or tachyonic ghost states. On the other hand, these models may have advantages in the control of negative effects of ghosts, compared to the more common fourth-derivative theory. We explore the positiveness of energy of the individual plane wave solutions in the general models with six and eight derivatives. Different from the fourth-order gr…

Call for Papers: Religion and AI in Science Fiction and Horror
https://ift.tt/cQEWn28
Book Title: A (Holy?) Ghost in the Machine: Religion and Artificial Intelligence in Science-Fiction…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Call for Papers: Religion and AI in Science Fiction and Horror
Book Title: A (Holy?) Ghost in the Machine: Religion and Artificial Intelligence in Science-Fiction and Horror Editor: Gregory Stevenson, York University The genres of Science-Fiction and Horror ha…

Newsletter platform Ghost now lets publishers syndicate their posts across social web platforms like Mastodon, Bluesky and Threads
https://www.theverge.com/news/718286/ghost

One of the biggest newsletter platforms now syndicates to Bluesky and Mastodon
Newsletter platform Ghost now lets publishers syndicate their posts across social web platforms like Bluesky, Threads, and Mastodon as part of its 6.0 release.

My new #vinyl #record finally made it to my doorstep yesterday!
#VerucaSalt – Ghost Notes is now in my collection.
What a great album! We are a Veruca Salt household.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[3/4]:
- Description of the Training Process of Neural Networks via Ergodic Theorem : Ghost nodes
Eun-Ji Park, Sangwon Yun

Replaced article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[4/5]:
- Description of the Training Process of Neural Networks via Ergodic Theorem : Ghost nodes
Eun-Ji Park, Sangwon Yun

Don't trust **anyone** who uses their phone like this! Maybe they are actually ghosts. 👻
Thank you, Tim Cook, for gifting us this easy-to-use ghost detector!
#apple #wwdc #liquidglass

Eleven Theses on Technological Hype as Capital:
https://interregnum.ghost.io/eleven-theses-on-technological-hype-as-capital/

Eleven Theses on Technological Hype as Capital
Hype is a kind of currency in the tech world, and when so much of the market for innovation depends on speculation, all kinds of monsters appear. Vassilis Galanos theorises this hype as a form of capital.

"GenAI art has already reached polyester status, and this is just the beginning. Despite all the techno-utopian promises, our brains see it as ersatz."
(Original title: GenAI is Our Polyester)
https://culture.ghost.io/genai-is-our-polyester/

GenAI is Our Polyester
The best way to understand generative AI art and aesthetics is to consider how previous "synthetics" lost value in the long-run For the first half of the 20th century, white-collar workers wore business shirts made from cotton or linen that wrinkled in the wash. Ironing them into a presentable shape

fab interview with @… guitarist dm hotep about building the wildly cool/expansive ghost horizons project around marshall allen & collaborators. https://pos…

Resonances: A Conversation with DM Hotep on Marshall Allen’s Ghost Horizons - PostGenre
In a 2021 interview, Henry Threadgill noted his belief that “[Marshall Allen] should have the highest award that can be bestowed on any artist for performing one-nighters at age 97. They should make up an award for such a person… he’s going unrecognized. It is a travesty. Can you imagine doing one-nighters at 97 years

Call for Papers: Religion and AI in Science Fiction and Horror
https://ift.tt/busR1GA
Book Title: A (Holy?) Ghost in the Machine: Religion and Artificial Intelligence in Science-Fiction…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Call for Papers: Religion and AI in Science Fiction and Horror
Book Title: A (Holy?) Ghost in the Machine: Religion and Artificial Intelligence in Science-Fiction and Horror Editor: Gregory Stevenson, York University The genres of Science-Fiction and Horror ha…

Infrared foundations for quantum geometry II: Catalogue of all torsion-like theories including new ghost-tachyon-free cases
Will Barker, Carlo Marzo, Alessandro Santoni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05349

Infrared foundations for quantum geometry II: Catalogue of all torsion-like theories including new ghost-tachyon-free cases
The construction of consistent effective field theories in the infrared demands that models be defined by their underlying gauge symmetries, rather than by an arbitrary tuning of couplings or a cherry-picking of operators which may not be stable against radiative corrections. Adhering to this principle, we systematically derive all linear, parity-conserving models that propagate a pair-antisymmetric rank-three field on a Minkowski background. Such models are relevant not only to torsion, but to…

I have found 20 news orgs in the #Fediverse thanks to #Ghost:
@… (404 Media)
@…

A simple ghost free and caustic free mimetic scalar field dark matter model
Emmanuel Kanambaye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05290 https://

A simple ghost free and caustic free mimetic scalar field dark matter model
Chamseddine and Mukhanov have promoted the concept of mimetic dark matter as alternative dark matter candidate coming from gravitation. Unfortunately although being very interesting, their proposition turned out to have weakness among which ghost and caustic instabilities. In this paper I propose among the simplest ghost free and caustic free scalar field dark matter extension of their model; a proposition capable of challenging $Λ$CDM model or even capable of doing better.

This is amazing. https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/114970908518687748

Slopes of modular forms and the Ghost conjecture
Eunsu Hur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02761 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.02761…

Slopes of modular forms and the Ghost conjecture
We give an algorithm to compute the slope sequence of modular forms with fixed Galois components from its first few entries, which is a refined version of the conjecture of [Buz05]. We use the results of arXiv:2302.07697 on the ghost conjecture from axXiv:1710.01572. These symmetries in slope sequences have potential implication to unexplained symmetries in many Coleman-Mazur eigencurves.

A Time-resolved High-resolution Spectroscopic Analysis of Ionized Calcium and Dynamical Processes in the Ultra-hot Jupiter HAT-P-70 b: #GHOST Spies Ultra-hot Jupiter With Ultra-fast Winds: https://noirlab.edu/public/blog/ghost-spies-jupiter/ - study of HAT-P-70 b’s atmosphere highlights the spectacular spectroscopic abilities of Gemini South’s GHOST.

The Ghost Donkey, a hidden #LasVegas speakeasy at the #Cosmopolitan Hotel & Casino. Capacity: 27 people.

I have published a silly Death Stranding 2 (free) subscriber-only post: https://marginally.ghost.io/a-series-of-cringe-alternate-titles-for-ds2/

A Series of Cringe Alternate Titles for DS2
Grasping increments by the root.

The Situation: A Ghost Grand Jury and a Ponzi Scheme (Benjamin Wittes/Lawfare)
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-situation--a-ghost-grand-jury-and-a-ponzi-scheme
http://www.memeorandum.com/250806/p113#a250806p113

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
DJ Shadow:
🎵 Six Days
#DJShadow
https://ghostchannels.bandcamp.com/track/dj-shadow-six-days-ghost-channels-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/525vGLj61tNqCToVJ9cPzp

Is AI your ghost writer or creative partner? The key is using AI as a collaborator, not a replacement for your authentic voice. I'm finding ways to leverage AI while preserving what makes my perspective unique. How are you navigating this balance in _your_ work? 

Partner, Not Proxy: How I Use AI Without Losing My Voice
When Andrew Winston asked recently, “How do we feel about using AI—trained on our own writing—to help create something new?” I had a lot to say. Let me try to distill a few key points, drawn from how I’m using AI today, that might be helpful to others exploring this new world.

Move your blog from Google blogger to self hosted Ghost. Never get indexed again. 🤦‍♂️ I've even submitted by sitemaps to the major search engines.
#Google #Blogging #Ghost

I'm not sure whether or not I agree with the conclusions, but sharing this as an interesting read on tradeoffs in #socialHousing, from a knowledgeable person and good writer

You probably know I get frowny when browser makers lie about support or pretend their late implementation of a feature is somehow new, so I am suffering from a bunch of confirmation bias (and validation) here:
“Safari at WWDC '25: The Ghost of Christmas Past”
https://infrequently.org/2025…

Safari at WWDC '25: The Ghost of Christmas Past
Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.

Repeated warnings of AI-driven layoffs is fueling anxiety among workers, who report feeling pressured to accept pay cuts or worse conditions to keep their jobs (Anne Lutz Fernandez/Nobody Wants This)
https://nobody-wants-this.ghost.io/ai-is-already-disemp…

AI is Already Disempowering Workers Through Hype
Workers and students are being prepped for less power in the workplace

Working on my new home (#blogging, I am realizing that unlike in the past, it might not make sense to use feedburner anymore.
M…

David August
Stories, serious articles, satire, tech trends, how to guides and ideas from David August. Actor. Writer. Acting coach.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05927 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

GHOST commissioning science results -- IV: Chemodynamical analyses of Milky Way satellites Sagittarius II and Aquarius II
We present Gemini/GHOST high-resolution spectra of five stars observed in two low surface brightness Milky Way satellites, Sagittarius II (Sgr2) and Aquarius II (Aqu2). For Aqu2, the velocities and metallicities of the two stars are consistent with membership in a dark matter-dominated ultra faint dwarf galaxy (UFD). The chemical abundance ratios suggest inefficient star formation from only one or a few supernovae (e.g., low Na, Sr, Ba), and enriched potassium (K) from super-AGB stars. For Sgr2…

Patrick Mahomes Sounds Off on Raiders' Minority Owner Tom Brady https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/patrick-mahomes-las-vegas-tom-brady-new-england-patriots

Quantum Assisted Ghost Gutzwiller Ansatz
P. V. Sriluckshmy, Fran\c{c}ois Jamet, Fedor \v{S}imkovic IV
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21431 https://

Quantum Assisted Ghost Gutzwiller Ansatz
The ghost Gutzwiller ansatz (gGut) embedding technique was shown to achieve comparable accuracy to the gold standard dynamical mean-field theory method in simulating real material properties, yet at a much lower computational cost. Despite that, gGut is limited by the algorithmic bottleneck of computing the density matrix of the underlying effective embedding model, a quantity which must be converged within a self-consistent embedding loop. We develop a hybrid quantum-classical gGut technique w…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Ghost of Vroom:
🎵 Still Getting It Done
#GhostofVroom
https://open.spotify.com/track/6BEsg7mKbgysBJfB8rGEaX

ASASSN-24fw: Candidate circumplanetary disk occultation of a main-sequence star
Nadia L. Zakamska, Gautham Adamane Pallathadka, Dmitry Bizyaev, Jaroslav Merc, James E. Owen, Kevin C. Schlaufman, Karolina B\k{a}kowska, S{\l}awomir Bednarz, Krzysztof Bernacki, Agnieszka Gurgul, Kirsten R. Hall, Franz-Josef Hambsch, Krzysztof Kotysz, Sebastian Kurowski, Alexios Liakos, Przemys{\l}aw J. Miko{\l}ajczyk, Erika Pak\v{s}tien\.e, Grzegorz Pojma\'nski, Adam Popowicz, Henrique Reggiani, Danie…

ASASSN-24fw: Candidate circumplanetary disk occultation of a main-sequence star
Dusty disks around planets in outer reaches of exo-planetary systems can be detected as long-lasting occultations, provided the observer is close to the planet's orbital plane. Here we report follow-up observations of ASASSN-24fw (Gaia 07:05:18.97+06:12:19.4), a 4-magnitude dimming event of a main-sequence star which lasted 8.5 months. Using optical spectroscopy with KOSMOS (APO), MagE (Magellan) and GHOST (Gemini-S), we find strong Na I D absorption indicating that the occulter is gas rich. We…

#Ghost keeps bringing publications into the #Fediverse: @… counts more than 1700 servers now, meaning more than 1700 blogs, publications etc.
This is cool, but for m…

Why I Abruptly Stopped Using Ulysses After Twelve Years: https://marginally.ghost.io/why-i-abruptly-stopped-using-ulysses-after-twelve-years/
As of this weekend I have switched away from Ulysses, a writing app I have used for over twelve years.…

Why I Abruptly Stopped Using Ulysses After Twelve Years
As of this weekend I have switched away from Ulysses, a writing app I have used for over twelve years. It’s worth taking a moment to explain why.

This random NPC ghost is the best character in the whole game!

Totoro spoilers
Re the quoted post from @…:
The very first time I saw My Neighbor Totoro, it was because a friend cajoled me into attending the student anime club’s showing with absolutely no context whatsoever except “you •have• to see this movie, Paul.” I had no idea what genre it was. I had no idea that it was a movie considered suitable for kids. The last anime I’d seen was IIRC Ghost in the Shell; I was ready for anything.
When Mei went missing, I thought, “omg, is this a tragedy? I think this story is a tragedy!” The whole time they were looking for her, I was absolutely terrified. I thought for sure they’d found her sandal. I still tear up when they find her now, on every rewatching.
I’m so glad for that first viewing. It’s a much better movie that way. When you’re expecting an innocent movie about cute forest plushies, you see that. But when you see that it could be a tragedy — the mother’s shadowy illness, the lost child — it hits hard. https://wandering.shop/@Violinknitter/114792748619083661

Cosmography of Non-Interacting Ghost and Generalized Ghost Dark Energy Models in f(Q) Gravity
M. Sharif, Madiha Ajmal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02280 http…

Cosmography of Non-Interacting Ghost and Generalized Ghost Dark Energy Models in f(Q) Gravity
This paper aims to develop non-interacting ghost dark energy and generalized ghost dark energy models within the framework of $f(Q)$ theory using the correspondence scheme. We use pressureless matter and a power-law scale factor. The cosmic implications of the resulting models are studied through the equation of state parameter and the phase planes. We also check the stability of the reconstructed models through the squared speed of sound parameter. The equation of state parameter exhibits a ph…

Ghost in the Machine: Examining the Philosophical Implications of Recursive Algorithms in Artificial Intelligence Systems
Llewellin RG Jegels
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01967

Ghost in the Machine: Examining the Philosophical Implications of Recursive Algorithms in Artificial Intelligence Systems
This paper investigates whether contemporary AI architectures employing deep recursion, meta-learning, and self-referential mechanisms provide evidence of machine consciousness. Integrating philosophical history, cognitive science, and AI engineering, it situates recursive algorithms within a lineage spanning Cartesian dualism, Husserlian intentionality, Integrated Information Theory, the Global Workspace model, and enactivist perspectives. The argument proceeds through textual analysis, compar…

So arguably the Pac-Man ghost logic is the exact opposite of “AI”.
It’s extremely well defined behavior based on very basic deterministic algorithms that are so simple a 8-year old player can understand them and anticipate them correctly for those high-scores.
The game actually is famous for the simple enemy logic and studied by games designers for it.
Pac-Man enemy behavior:
deterministic, well-defined algorithm that can easily be executed on the most primitive* computer hardware
“AI”:
black-box algorithm with indeterministic behavior that requires a metric shitload of compute
—
*By “primitive computer hardware” I mean that the Pac-Man arcade machine runs on a Zilog Z80 CPU with 8,500 transistors.The CPU in the phone you are reading this on has (latest iPhone as example) 15 billion transistors or so (almost 2 million times more) and runs tens of thousands of times faster.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Siouxsie and the Banshees:
🎵 The Ghost in You
#SiouxsieandtheBanshees
https://open.spotify.com/track/1ML9YGxYVVl8XkLzgSozBU

A Ghost Lemma for Commutative Ring Homomorphisms via Andr\'{e}-Quillen Homology
Daniel McCormick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13988 https://

A Ghost Lemma for Commutative Ring Homomorphisms via André-Quillen Homology
We adapt the theory of ghost maps from derived categories to the setting of commutative rings using André-Quillen homology. The Frobenius endomorphism is a primary example of a ghost map in this setting. We prove an analogue of the ghost lemma for rings and demonstrate its utility by deducing a characteristic independent generalization of Kunz's theorem and an analogue for complete intersection rings.

My network engineer just tried to do a firewall upgrade remotely over VPN on the same said firewall. I decided this is the network equivalent of ghost riding the whip. We were down for 45 minutes as he drove into the office.

Open question about OpenGraph to any geek who feels like responding 😄

BlueSky and LinkedIn fail to fetch the featured image for posts on axbom.com (my English site) but does it with no issues for posts on axbom.se (my Swedish site).

From my perspective they are set up in exactly the same way (Ghost sites). My estimate is that this started happening more than a month ago and I have no idea why.

Sandviken.
Vilken upplevelse!
Kan bara konstatera att Ghost live är brutalt bra. Detta toppar nog Metallica i globen faktiskt, och det höll jag som bästa showen hittills. Eftersom jag älskar båda banden, och båda har en otrolig professionalism, så måste det bero på något annat och jag tror jag vet vad. Skillnaden är att jag på Ghost slapp mobilskogen framför mig som bländar och stör.
Mobilfri upplevelse FTW!

putting ice in a drink makes it feel like ur drinking the ghost of it

@… https://maura.ghost.io/rss

"Speaker Mike Johnson, a Russian-financed Republican (who may or may not be subject to blackmail based on his own history of "adopting" a Black boy while a 20-something anti-gay singleton in Louisiana) who just four days ago called for "maximum transparency" on Epstein, announced that Republicans hoping to vote to RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES would have to cool their jets until at least September."
**Normalizing Child Rape**
https://unprecedented.ghost.io/archive/normalizing-child-rape/

Another day waiting around for builders from 7am only to be told at 1.30pm they're not actually gonna appear.
I might start a career as a professional ghost hunter, I think I'd have more chance of spotting my quarry.
Couldn't work last night, all today wasted. Fucking brilliant.

This month's haul from #BandcampFriday
(and one album from Amazon Music, but what am I going to do? It's Little Simz)
Links in the Alt/Comments
#morningMusic

Various Artists – Beyond The Body
#electronic

From Zooey Deschanel to Captain Kirk doing Dylan: the best songs by actors, ranked! https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/jul/31/best-songs-by-actors-ranked?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

@… Given the article you just published, any chance of moving from SubSStack to something like Ghost?
https://www.usermag.co/p/substack-sent…

SCOOP: Substack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog
The alert contained a swastika and prompted users to subscribe to newsletter featuring opinions and news important to the "white nationalist community."

More ghost modules I
Kiyoshi Igusa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12904 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.12904…

More ghost modules I
Ghost modules were introduced in [I3] without definitions or proofs. We also introduced stability diagrams or "relative pictures" for torsion classes and torsion-free classes for representations of Dynkin quivers. Modules which were not in the chosen class reappeared as "ghosts", in fact one missing module produced two ghosts. In this short paper, we give a precise definition of ghost modules. We give several examples and prove basis properties of ghosts and pictures for torsion and torsion-fre…

Ghost-Free Quantisation of Higher Time-Derivative Theories via Non-Unitary Similarity Transformations
Andreas Fring, Takano Taira, Bethan Turner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21400

Ghost-Free Quantisation of Higher Time-Derivative Theories via Non-Unitary Similarity Transformations
We address the long-standing ``ghost problem" in higher time-derivative theories (HTDTs), where quantisation typically yields sectors with either unbounded spectra or non-normalisable eigenstates; both rendering the theory unphysical. We propose a novel method that preserves the bounded nature of the spectrum in one particular sector while restoring normalisability by employing a non-unitary similarity transformation. Inspired by techniques from pseudo/quasi-Hermitian PT-symmetric quantum mecha…

Some statistics about all robotic #LunarLanding attempts so far from 1965 to 2025 compiled from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon and https://scicomm.xyz/@AkaSci@fosstodon.org/114636519291241321 in which I only count those for which descent to the surface had been initiated, not missions lost at launch or on the way - in a nutshell ~70% of all landings by government agencies went well (essentially the same rate 60 years ago and now!) but only ~30% by private companies. Here goes ...
There have been two separate periods of soft lunar landing attempts of ca. a dozen years each, from 1965 to 1976 and 2013 to 2025 (ongoing) with a huge gap between them.
In the first interval there were 20 attempts with 13 successes (Luna 9, 13, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21 and 24 and Surveyor 1, 3, 5, 6 and 7), one partial success (Luna 23, counting as 50%) and 6 failures (Luna 5, 7, 8, 15 and 18 and Surveyor 4), so the success rate was 13.5/20 = 68 %. All missions were by - the Soviet and U.S. - governments.
In the second interval there were so far 14 attempts with 6 full successes (Chang'e-3, 4, 5 and 6, Vikram 2 and Blue Ghost), three partial successes (SLIM, IM-1 and 2, counting as 75%, 50% and 25%, respectively) and 5 failures (Beresheet, Vikram 1, Hakuto-R 1 and 2 and Luna 25) so the success rate was 7.5 / 14 = 54%.
But looking only at the government missions it was 72%, slighly up from 50 years ago. While for the commercial attempts it was only 29%. In total the success rate was 19 (18 government-run) missions out of 34 (28) attempts or 62% but 69% for governments only. And if you throw in the 6 Apollo landings, the total success rate rises to 68% and the government-only rate goes even up to 75%.

Live in Philadelphia | Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons | Ars Nova Workshop
https://arsnovaworkshop.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-philadelphia

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Erik Griswold:
🎵 Ghost of Ravel
#ErikGriswold

The four-gluon and ghost-gluon vertices in the Landau gauge from lattice simulations
Nuno Brito, Manuel Cola\c{c}o, Orlando Oliveira, Paulo J. Silva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23476

The four-gluon and ghost-gluon vertices in the Landau gauge from lattice simulations
The computation of the four-gluon and ghost-gluon vertices in the Landau gauge using high statistical lattice ensembles for $32^4$ and $48^4$ volumes is addressed. For the four-gluon vertex, our previous results for the collinear kinematics are updated allowing to get a better coverage of the IR region. Furthermore, the one-particle irreducible ghost-gluon Green function in the soft gluon limit is computed covering, with precision, a large momentum region.

Statt Kathedralenbau braucht Europa einen digitalen Bazar, meint Markus Beckedahlä: Offen, vielfältig, lebendig. Zentralisierung ist keine Antwort auf Vielfalt. Leider wollen viele Konsumenten aus Bequemlichkeit aber das All-in-One-Kaufhaus, das Amazon der sozialen Medien. Dabei könnte der Bazar viel bunter und spannender sein, aber eben nicht bequem #Medienpolitik

Plattformen und Journalismus: Die Entkernung der Demokratie
Auf der Jahrestagung von Netzwerk-Recherche in Hamburg habe ich heute die Keynote gehalten. Das ist der Redetext. Meine Texte hier erscheinen in der Regel auch als Newsletter. Rechts kann dieser abonniert werden. Die reichsten und mächtigsten Menschen der Welt reihen sich hinter einem autoritären Herrscher ein, während die US Demokratie

Axially symmetric ghost stars
L. Herrera, J. L. Hernandez-Pastora, J. Ospino, A. Di Prisco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05114 https://a…

Axially symmetric ghost stars
We present static axially symmetric fluid distributions not producing gravitational field outside their boundaries (i.e. fluid sources which match smoothly on the boundary surface to Minkowski space-time). These solutions provide further examples of ghost stars. A specific model is fully described, and its physical and geometrical properties are analyzed in detail. This includes the multipole moment structure of the source and its complexity factors, both of which vanish for our solution.

Not gonna lie, things have been feeling pretty bleak lately. I did find a spot of joy this weekend when I took a foraging class. I took a bunch of photos so this week . . . every day is #fungifriday #bloomscrolling Here is a ghost flower - an oddity in the plant world because it doesn…

Buy this because it’s cool and I made it https://www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/Abstract-Painted-Ghost-by-Mind-Unraveled/170472890.EJUG5

Broadband coherent Raman spectroscopy based on single-pulse spectral-domain ghost imaging
Jing Hu, Tianjian Lv, Zhaoyang Wen, Wending Huang, Ming Yan, Heping Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16161

Broadband coherent Raman spectroscopy based on single-pulse spectral-domain ghost imaging
Broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) spectroscopy plays a vital role in chemical sensing and label-free vibrational imaging, yet conventional methods suffer from limited acquisition speeds and complex detection schemes. Here, we demonstrate high-speed broadband CARS enabled by nonlinear spectral ghost imaging combined with time-stretch dispersive Fourier-transform spectroscopy (TS-DFT). We exploit modulation instability to generate a stochastic supercontinuum as the Stokes sou…

Sony says its PlayStation Plus three-tier overhaul has "surpassed our expectations" and that the $160/year Premium tier has grown 18% in the past 12 months (Stephen Totilo/Game File)
https://www.gamefile.news/p/playstation-plus-1…

Sony is all-in on PlayStation Plus, says its most expensive tier is thriving
Sony kicks off PS Plus' 15th anniversary by chatting with Game File about the past, present and future of its gaming subscription service: Talking price, catalogue tweaks and where the PS3 games are.

Movies watched in July, ranked (being on the bottom doesn’t mean it’s bad)
(1/2)
- The Graduate (1967) 🌞
- Kneecap (2024) 🔁
- The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025)
- The Substance (2024) 🔁
- 28 Days Later (2002) 🔁
- A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) 🩸🔁
- 28 Years Later (2025)
- F1 (2025)
- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004) 🌏🔁
- 28 Weeks Later (2007)
- An Unfinished Film (2024)
- …
🔁 — rewatch
🩸 — Creepy Crypt
…

Multishot Dual Polarity GRAPPA: Robust Nyquist Ghost Correction for multishot EPI
Yuancheng Jiang, Yohan Jun, Qiang Liu, Wen Zhong, Yogesh Rathi, Hua Guo, Berkin Bilgic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18273

Multishot Dual Polarity GRAPPA: Robust Nyquist Ghost Correction for multishot EPI
Purpose: This work aims to develop a robust Nyquist ghost correction method for multishot echo-planar imaging (EPI). The method helps correct challenging Nyquist ghosts, particularly on scanners with high-performance gradients or ultra-high fields. Methods: A method for multishot EPI ghost correction, called multishot dual-polarity GRAPPA (msDPG), is developed by extending the DPG concept to multishot readouts. msDPG employs tailored DPG kernels to address high-order phase differences between t…

This is why I moved my articles and blogging to ghost, and not substack:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/substack-sent-135263203
via @…@…

Sandviken.
Vilken upplevelse!
Kan bara konstatera att Ghost live är brutalt bra. Detta toppar nog Metallica i globen faktiskt, och det höll jag som bästa showen hittills. Eftersom jag älskar båda banden, och båda har en otrolig professionalism, så måste det bero på något annat och jag tror jag vet vad. Skillnaden är att jag på Ghost slapp mobilskogen framför mig som bländar och stör.
Mobilfri upplevelse FTW!

3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought https://www.404media.co/3d-printing-patterns-might-make-ghost-guns-more-traceable-than-we-thought/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Space Ghost & Teddy Bryant:
🎵 Majestic Fantasies
#SpaceGhost #TeddyBryant
https://space-ghost.bandcamp.com/album/majestic-fantasies
https://open.spotify.com/track/2NC8aQqlsBgRqGkLhQrLfS

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20597 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hept…

LSZ ghostbusters in the quadratic gravity stage
The present letter considers the quantization method developed in [1]-[9], which postulates that, in several situations, negative norm or ghost states can be avoided in order to give positive probabilities. These authors also postulate a candidate for a path integral for those theories, following pioneer works initiated by Dirac [10]} and Pauli \[11]. However, taking into account the non standard oscillator algebra inherent to this method, in order to be sure that unitarity is not violated, one…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Radiohead:
🎵 Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
#Radiohead
https://ghostdata.bandcamp.com/track/radiohead-weird-fishes-arpeggi-ghost-data-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/4wajJ1o7jWIg62YqpkHC7S

SDSO1 is a Ghost Planetary Nebula Bow Shock in Front of M31
Patrick Ogle, Mark Petersen, Tim Schaeffer, Lewis McCallum, Alberto Noriega-Crespo, R. Michael Rich, Biny Sebastian, Carl Bjork, Steeve Body, Sendhil Chinnasamy, Marcel Dreschsler, Tarun Kottary, Yann Sainty, Patrick Sparkman, Xavier Strottner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507…

SDSO1 is a Ghost Planetary Nebula Bow Shock in Front of M31
We present new, deep narrow band imagery and discuss the nature of SDSO1, the large [O III]-emitting nebula centered 1.5 degrees SE of M31. We find strong evidence to support the hypothesis that SDSO1 is unrelated to M31 and is instead a bow shock driven by a faded, giant (D = 20 pc), 400 kyr-old, ghost planetary nebula (GPN) expelled by the symbiotic WD binary star EG Andromedae. Because EG And lags the rotation of the Milky Way, its hypersonic velocity of 107 km/s drives a shock into the loca…

Various Artists – 2000’s Horrors
#byncnd

„Was passiert, wenn Plattformen journalistische Inhalte noch mehr gezielt diskriminieren – algorithmisch oder manuell? Was, wenn der Rechtsruck weiter voranschreitet und die Pressefreiheit auch bei uns systematisch beschnitten wird? Was, wenn Informationsfreiheitsgesetze, Pressegesetze, Datenschutzstandards ‚abgeräumt‘ werden – in einem Klima der Gleichgültigkeit oder des Zynismus?"
@…

Plattformen und Journalismus: Die Entkernung der Demokratie
Auf der Jahrestagung von Netzwerk-Recherche in Hamburg habe ich heute die Keynote gehalten. Das ist der Redetext. Meine Texte hier erscheinen in der Regel auch als Newsletter. Rechts kann dieser abonniert werden. Die reichsten und mächtigsten Menschen der Welt reihen sich hinter einem autoritären Herrscher ein, während die US Demokratie

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
mary in the junkyard:
🎵 ghost
#maryinthejunkyard
https://maryinthejunkyard.bandcamp.com/track/ghost
https://open.spotify.com/track/11wMfHsceksu8GAIugQMA9

Call for Papers: Religion and AI in Science Fiction and Horror
https://ift.tt/vpiHcUx
Book Title: A (Holy?) Ghost in the Machine: Religion and Artificial Intelligence in Science-Fiction…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Call for Papers: Religion and AI in Science Fiction and Horror
Book Title: A (Holy?) Ghost in the Machine: Religion and Artificial Intelligence in Science-Fiction and Horror Editor: Gregory Stevenson, York University The genres of Science-Fiction and Horror ha…

Here folks, we have the AI Ouroboros, nourished only on the Dead Internet Theory. A true Simulacra Net in the wild, pure Ghost Web creation, never intended for human eyes.
Yet here, you may behold the horror yourself.
Article literally had zero alternatives and spoke eloquently(?) on them. 😳😆
#DeadInternet

Markus Beckedahl kritisiert scharf: Die EU-Kommission knickt vor Trumps Drohkulisse ein und verschiebt die Durchsetzung des Digital Markets Act. Demokratie und Wettbewerb werden geopfert, um mögliche Autozölle zu vermeiden. Ein Armutszeugnis für Europas digitale Souveränität
Big Tech-Regulierung: EU-Kommission beugt sich Druck von #Trump

Another publication has arrived in the #Fediverse:
@… (#Platformer) is here, thanks to #Ghost

I chose a new home for my blogging and articles:
#DigitalMigration

Migrating Stuff
changing the place I blog, post articles and...stuff So I've chosen stuff.davidaugust.com as my new custom domain for this site. Setting up a custom domain with ghost, the software running this site, is pretty straightforward. I did it a few minutes ago and already can now access

Call for Papers: Religion and AI in Science Fiction and Horror
https://ift.tt/cJK4wve
Book Title: A (Holy?) Ghost in the Machine: Religion and Artificial Intelligence in Science-Fiction…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Call for Papers: Religion and AI in Science Fiction and Horror
Book Title: A (Holy?) Ghost in the Machine: Religion and Artificial Intelligence in Science-Fiction and Horror Editor: Gregory Stevenson, York University The genres of Science-Fiction and Horror ha…

Call for Papers: Religion and AI in Science Fiction and Horror
https://ift.tt/KxFGOHC
Book Title: A (Holy?) Ghost in the Machine: Religion and Artificial Intelligence in Science-Fiction…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Call for Papers: Religion and AI in Science Fiction and Horror
Book Title: A (Holy?) Ghost in the Machine: Religion and Artificial Intelligence in Science-Fiction and Horror Editor: Gregory Stevenson, York University The genres of Science-Fiction and Horror ha…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Dick Dale:
🎵 (Ghost) Riders in the Sky
#DickDale
https://dickdale.bandcamp.com/track/riders-in-the-sky
https://open.spotify.com/track/1FoqVwZoG6weTcRnAdGCEf

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Space Ghost & Teddy Bryant:
🎵 Majestic Fantasies
#SpaceGhost #TeddyBryant
https://space-ghost.bandcamp.com/album/majestic-fantasies
https://open.spotify.com/track/2NC8aQqlsBgRqGkLhQrLfS

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Mayyors:
🎵 Ghost Punch
#Mayyors
https://octagrape.bandcamp.com/track/ghost-punch-mayyors

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
DJ Shadow:
🎵 Six Days
#DJShadow
https://ghostchannels.bandcamp.com/track/dj-shadow-six-days-ghost-channels-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/525vGLj61tNqCToVJ9cPzp