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‘De uitspraak van vandaag kan een kantelpunt worden voor wereldwijde klimaatactie’ | de Volkskrant
https://archive.ph/e0iNu

Knuddels im Wandel: Vom Hobbyprojekt zur Community-Plattform
Knuddels ist seit 25 Jahren online, hatte eine Vergangenheit mit Cybergrooming und setzt heute auf eine treue Community und strengere Sicherheitsmaßnahmen.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Kim Deal:
🎵 Crystal Breath
#KimDeal
https://kimdeal.bandcamp.com/track/crystal-breath
https://open.spotify.com/track/6PsxpQQfcOljj2eBmGF8h3

Amazon schedules its annual fall hardware event for September 30 in NYC, where it is expected to launch new Echo smart speakers and Kindle devices (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/778008/amazon-fall-hardware-event-…

Amazon announces its fall hardware event
The company will likely launch its latest Echo devices and new Kindles at the September 30th event.

"Whoever needs to see it, will see it": Motivations and Labor of Creating Algorithmic Conspirituality Content on TikTok
Ankolika De, Kelley Cotter, Shaheen Kanthawala, Haley McAtee, Amy Ritchart, Gahana Kadur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16851

"Whoever needs to see it, will see it": Motivations and Labor of Creating Algorithmic Conspirituality Content on TikTok
Recent studies show that users often interpret social media algorithms as mystical or spiritual because of their unpredictability. This invites new questions about how such perceptions affect the content that creators create and the communities they form online. In this study, 14 creators of algorithmic conspirituality content on TikTok were interviewed to explore their interpretations and creation processes influenced by the platform's For You Page algorithm. We illustrate how creators' belief…

Discrete VHCs for Propeller Motion of a Devil-Stick using purely Impulsive Inputs
Aakash Khandelwal, Ranjan Mukherjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15040 https://

Discrete VHCs for Propeller Motion of a Devil-Stick using purely Impulsive Inputs
The control problem of realizing propeller motion of a devil-stick in the vertical plane using impulsive forces applied normal to the stick is considered. This problem is an example of underactuated robotic juggling and has not been considered in the literature before. Inspired by virtual holonomic constraints, the concept of discrete virtual holonomic constraints (DVHC) is introduced for the first time to solve this orbital stabilization problem. At the discrete instants when impulsive inputs …

Progenitor Insights of Type IIP SN 2018pq: A Comprehensive Photometric and Spectroscopic Study
Monalisa Dubey, Kuntal Misra, Raya Dastidar, G\'eza Cs\"ornyei, Naveen Dukiya, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Iair Arcavi, K. Azalee Bostroem, Daichi Hiramatsu, Griffin Hossienzadeh, D. Andrew Howell, Curtis McCully, Ajay Kumar Singh
https://

Progenitor Insights of Type IIP SN 2018pq: A Comprehensive Photometric and Spectroscopic Study
We present high-cadence photometric and low-resolution (R $\sim$ 400--700) optical spectroscopic observations of Type IIP supernova, SN~2018pq, which exploded on the outskirts of the galaxy IC~3896A. The optically thick phase (``plateau'') lasts approximately 97 d, the plateau duration of normal Type IIP supernovae. SN~2018pq has a {\em V}-band absolute magnitude of $-16.42 \pm 0.01$ mag at 50 d, resembles normal-luminous supernova, and the V-band decline rate of 0.42$\pm$0.06 mag 50 d$^{-1}$ d…

Der #WDR berichtet von illegaler Duldung der #Falschparker durch die Stadt Essen.
Statt ihren Pflichten zum Schutz der Bürgerschaft nachzukommen, redet sie sich mit dreisten Strohmanargumenten raus: Das Ordnungsamt könne nicht permanent nur einen Ort abdecken. Eine Forderung, die niemand stellt un…

WDR Lokalzeit Ruhr | 18.07.2025
Themen: Jahrelanger Ärger um zugeparkten Gehweg in Essen | Volunteers bei den Hochschul-Games | 15 Jahre nach A40 Still-Leben | Studiogespräch: Ralph Kindel, damals der Chef-Organisator des Stilllebens | Nachbarschaftsinitiative Fresh und die Kraft der Blumen | Ihre Bestellung bitte: Nettester Mc Donalds-Mitarbeiter ever | Reporter Stefan Göke berichtet vom Festival "Bermudadreieck" | Wetter

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Luontohyvinvoinnin ja luonnon monimuotoisuuden mallialue Kaarinan Lemunnimelle https://www.kuntalaisaloite.fi/fi/aloite/44589
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GratNet: A Photorealistic Neural Shader for Diffractive Surfaces
Narayan Kandel, Daljit Singh J. S. Dhillon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15815 https://

GratNet: A Photorealistic Neural Shader for Diffractive Surfaces
Structural coloration is commonly modeled using wave optics for reliable and photorealistic rendering of natural, quasi-periodic and complex nanostructures. Such models often rely on dense, preliminary or preprocessed data to accurately capture the nuanced variations in diffractive surface reflectances. This heavy data dependency warrants implicit neural representation which has not been addressed comprehensively in the current literature. In this paper, we present a multi-layer perceptron (MLP…