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The 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society #AAS247 is underway, coming with 8 press conferences - https://aas.org/meetings/aas247/press-kit#briefings - streaming on https://www.youtube.com/@AASPressOffice. There were already two yesterday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gAjRP1xLtQ about Galaxies Big and Small, covering e.g. https://public.nrao.edu/news/hidden-giants-of-the-early-universe/ / https://news.ucmerced.edu/news/2026/astronomers-reveal-hidden-activity-early-universe’s-most-massive-galaxies / https://keckobservatory.org/aas247-magaz3ne/ and https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae1584 (The First RELHIC? Cloud-9 is a Starless Gas Cloud) -> https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-examines-cloud-9-first-of-new-type-of-object/ / https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Cloud-9_a_new_celestial_object_found_by_Hubble / https://public.nrao.edu/news/starless-dark-matter-failed-galaxy-near-m94/.
And https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvpDVq-7h6E about Stars and Their Behavior, covering e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00470 (Betelgeuse: Detection of the Expanding Wake of the Companion Star) -> https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/cfa-scientists-detect-wake-betelgeuses-elusive-companion-star / https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasa-hubble-helps-detect-wake-of-betelgeuses-elusive-companion-star/ and https://aas.org/sites/default/files/2026-01/Steven and Tyler AAS Press Release.pdf and https://public.nrao.edu/news/alma-devours-cosmic-hamburger-reveals-potential-for-giant-planet-formation/

Stephen Miller is fashion obsessed and agreed with Trump joke that he wants everyone to look like him, report says | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/stephen-miller-fashion-obsessed-white-house-b2896244.html

Why All Eyes Will Be on the Raiders This Offseason https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-all-eyes-will-be-on-this-offseason

The third #AAS247 presser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfDmYXvBbV4 about News from the High-Redshift Universe and Local Analogs dealt with the papers The ALPINE-CRISTAL-JWST Survey: JWST/IFU Optical Observations for 18 Main-sequence Galaxies at z = 4–6 (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ae0928 with https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/young-galaxies-grow-up-fast and https://public.nrao.edu/news/young-galaxies-grow-up-fast/), A New Population of Point-like, Narrow-line Objects Revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope (https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12177 with https://showme.missouri.edu/2026/scientists-discover-platypus-galaxies-in-the-early-universe/ and https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/scientists-identify-astronomys-platypus-with-nasas-webb-telescope/; slide), Supermassive Stars Match the Spectral Signatures of JWST's Little Red Dots (https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12618 with https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/scientists-use-jwst-examine-ancient-monster-stars-may-reveal-birth-black-holes) and Discovery of SiC and Iron Dust around AGB Stars in the Very Metal-poor Sextans a Dwarf Galaxy with JWST: Implications for Dust Production at High Redshift & JWST Captures Growth of Aromatic Hydrocarbon Dust Particles in the Extremely Metal-poor Galaxy Sextans A (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adf06a / https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04060 with https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasa-webb-finds-early-universe-analogs-unexpected-talent-for-making-dust/).

from my link log —
Who owns the memory? Who calls free?
https://lukefleed.xyz/posts/who-owns-the-memory-pt2/
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Who Owns the Memory? Part 2: Who Calls Free? | Luca Lombardo
Destructors, RAII, and the ownership question.

{constructive} prints code that can be used to recreate R objects. Like dput, but better... #rstats

Display Idiomatic Code to Construct Most R Objects
Prints code that can be used to recreate R objects. In a sense it is similar to base

The Raiders Already Have Some Offseason Answers https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-already-have-some-offseason-answers

from my link log —
Who owns the memory? How big is your type?
https://lukefleed.xyz/posts/who-owns-the-memory-pt3/
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Who Owns the Memory? Part 3: How Big Is your Type? | Luca Lombardo
Type layout, fat pointers, and the cost of polymorphism.

How the Raiders' Offseason Moves Will Impact the Entire NFL https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-how-offseason-moves-will-impact-entire

from my link log —
System time, clocks, and their syncing in macOS.
https://eclecticlight.co/2025/05/21/system-time-clocks-and-their-syncing-in-macos/
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System time, clocks and their syncing in macOS
How to ensure your Mac’s clock and time is as accurate as possible, what can cause problems, and how it works using the timed daemon, as revealed in the log.