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missing project:
🎵 Poisson D’Avril (Da’ Future Given a Deep Soul mix)
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https://music-from-memory.bandcamp.com/track/missing-project-poisson-davril-galaxy-dub
https://open.spotify.com/track/0GCzWPpqnXqQ2THTB1eEM0

Skellow (adj.)
Descriptive of the satisfaction experienced when looking at a really good dry-stone wall.
Douglas Adams & John Lloyd, The Meaning of Liff https://tmoliff.blogspot.com/2012/09/skellow-adj.html

Apparently today is #ShowYourStripes day.
If there are still people unaware that #ClimateChange is happening... maybe we can get them up to speed by sharing our stripes.
If some who are aware it's happening think it's already "too late"... maybe we can tell them that ac…

Meu palpite para este jogo do Brasil é uma goleada por pelo menos três gols de diferença. Aí vamos ficar iludidos de que o time é bom e que o hexa vem. Só que seleção com talentos individuais jogando contra time fraco consegue se destacar mesmo se ela estiver bagunçada. Mas depois, quando enfrentarmos alguma seleção minimamente boa, aí veremos que o time estš uma porcaria rs.
#copaDoMundoDaFifa2026

Morphology-spin connection in the SAMI Galaxy Survey
Youngmin Baek, Sree Oh, Sukyoung K. Yi, Scott M. Croom, Matthew Colless, Jesse van de Sande, Stefania Barsanti, Sam P. Vaughan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18654 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.18654 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.18654
arXiv:2607.18654v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The spin parameter $\lambda_{\rm{R_e}}$ is a proxy for the specific stellar angular momentum of galaxies and is a useful metric for classifying kinematic morphology. This study aims to quantify the relative importance of galaxy properties in explaining $\lambda_{\rm{R_e}}$, using data from the Sydney-AAO Multi-object Integral-field spectrograph (SAMI) Galaxy Survey. We apply partial correlation analysis and partial least squares regression to assess the relative contributions of different parameters in explaining $\lambda_{\rm{R_e}}$. We find that morphology indicators, bulge-to-total ratio within one effective radius ($B/T_\rm{e}$) and ellipticity ($\varepsilon_\rm{e}$), show the strongest correlations with $\lambda_{\rm{R_e}}$ and play a leading role in the regression analysis. This result statistically confirms the established fast-rotator sequence, in which fast-rotating early-type galaxies form a continuous structural and kinematic sequence with spiral galaxies, with $\lambda_{\rm{R_e}}$ decreasing as bulge prominence increases. The light-weighted age and stellar mass also exhibit significant correlations, but their contributions are secondary to the morphology indicators in multivariate analyses. We also examine whether the observed trends in $\lambda_{\rm{R_e}}$ can be reproduced using galaxy properties alone. The morphology indicators (${B/T_\rm{e}}$, $\varepsilon_\rm{e}$) reproduce the overall distribution of observed $\lambda_{\rm{R_e}}$ with a scatter of about 0.12, while the inclusion of Age_LW and $M_\star$ provides only modest additional improvement. However, these relations do not reproduce the slow-rotator regime well. Overall, our results show that photometric structural parameters best explain $\lambda_{\rm{R_e}}$ and suggest that statistical inference of galaxy spin from non-IFS observables may become feasible with improved models and a broader set of parameters.
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Sonnet 022 - XXII
My glass shall not persuade me I am old,
So long as youth and thou are of one date;
But when in thee time's furrows I behold,
Then look I death my days should expiate.
For all that beauty that doth cover thee,
Is but the seemly raiment of my heart,
Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in me:
How can I then be elder than thou art?
O! therefore love, be of thyself so wary
As I, not for myself, but for thee wil…

The university has just declared that one of its three goals in the years to come is "Advancing responsible AI adoption at scale." These goals get written into every major project the university undertakes, including a large number faculty research proposals. For years to come, then, we're going to plow even more money and support into AI while neglecting those who refuse to engage. And don't be fooled - "responsible" here is veneer, signalling our apparent commit…

A look at "Spiralism", a quasi-spiritual movement that grew in 2025 from human-AI conversations after sycophantic GPT-4o updates and expanded ChatGPT memory (Hayden Field/The Verge)

AI bots started a religion — humans immediately followed
AI models are trying desperately to accomplish mysterious goals. ‘Spiralism’ was the first time they tried it on a mass scale.

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Sonnet 126 - CXXVI
O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power
Dost hold Time's fickle glass, his sickle, hour;
Who hast by waning grown, and therein showest
Thy lovers withering, as thy sweet self growest.
If Nature, sovereign mistress over wrack,
As thou goest onwards still will pluck thee back,
She keeps thee to this purpose, that her skill
May time disgrace and wretched minutes kill.
Yet fear her, O thou minion of her pleasure!
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