Tootfinder

I regret to inform you all that I went back in time intending to only fix one little thing, but I couldn't help myself and I messed with some other things too. Now I've changed the present to be all wrong; not only do you have to deal with that Berenstain Bears nonsense, but you also now have to deal with Trump and Mamdani being besties. I'd say I'm sorry, but I'm really not - it was totally worth it*.
* My lawyers have advised me not to say anything further.

The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social)
“Would you feel comfortable living in NYC under a Mamdani administration?” TRUMP: “I would. I really would.”

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
LARGO: Oh, I'm fascinated. But I'm just an independent businessman.
AVON: [Takes two gems from a bag, lays them on Largo's platform] Are you sure?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/…

Mit dem ersten Spatenstich startet der Bau des Windparks Böttingen-Buch bei #Münsingen.
Drei Anlagen vom Typ #Enercon E-175 sollen ab Frühjahr 2027 rund 19 MW Strom erzeugen.
Investor ist die Schöller SI erneuerbare Energien GmbH, die rund 45 Millionen Euro investiert. Der

Erster Spatenstich für den Windpark Böttingen-Buch - Über die Alb - Reutlinger General-Anzeiger - gea.de
Die Schöller SI erneuerbare Energien GmbH investiert 45 Millionen Euro in drei Rotor-Anlagen auf der Münsinger Gemarkung.

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
VILA: You're in charge now, are you?
AVON: Can you think of anyone more suitable? Yourself, perhaps? [Exits]
VILA: And why not? [Shouts after Avon] I'm as good as you are. [Sotto voce] Better probably.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/177<…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
The B.U.M.S.:
🎵 Lyfe 'n' Tyme
#TheBUMS

just the normal goings-on at my house

On Setting Up a Raspberry Pi Off-grid PV-Powered Server (2014) - How I set up a Raspberry Pi (Model B then B ) after the SheevaPlug. ~1.6W consumption typical, 400x less than my original server rack! #RPi #frugal #offGrid

On Setting Up a Raspberry Pi Off-grid PV-Powered Server (2014)
How I set up a Raspberry Pi (Model B then B+) after the SheevaPlug. 1.6W consumption typical, 400x less than my original server rack! #RPi #frugal #offGrid

'M.O.B. Ties': How Mike Macdonald rebuilt the Seahawks' winning culture https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47339227/seattle-seahawks-mission-bs-culture-nfc-west-los-angeles-rams

I morges fik jeg endelig ringet til en kloakmester om mit aflŸb der konstant stopper til. Han kom så mens jeg havde Zoom-mŸde, og min mand lukkede ham ind. Han (min mand) sidder nu selv i online mŸde, så jeg kan ikke spŸrge til hvordan det gik. Men der ser sådan her ud (hvor filen kommer den flise/sten/whatever fra?? Hvis den har blokeret det hele, kan jeg sguda godt forstå det er stoppet til 😉).

Used to just eat the Social Security COLA...which is 2. something this year...
Standard Medicare Part B monthly premium to jump 9.7% in 2026
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/17/standard-medicare-part-b-premium-2026.html

Oh man I'm so glad I won't have to hear MTG's name any more.
*monkey paw curls*

@…
So to reiterate this conversation:
You: Passkeys don't have problems A, B, C and D!
Me: Actually B is still a problem.
You: Yeah well, B is also a problem for passwords! And so is F and G!
Me: Yes, but B is still a problem.
You: But if I hacked the pentagon, then Z would also be a problem for passwords!
I'm not a…

Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
AVON: Has anybody else picked it up?
ZEN: Negative. [More beeps come in]
AVON: Decode.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/530 B7B3

Searching for GEMS: TOI-5916 b & TOI-6158 b are two Saturn-density planets orbiting M2 dwarfs
Shane O'Brien, Amber Wong, Te Han, Paul Robertson, Shubham Kanodia, Caleb I. Ca\~nas, Arvind F. Gupta, Tera Swaby, Henry A. Kobulnicky, Nidia Morrell, Michael Rodruck, Andrea S. J. Lin, Andrew Monson, William D. Cochran, Chad F. Bender, Scott A. Diddams, Samuel Halverson, Daniel M. Krolikowski, Jessica E. Libby-Roberts, Joe P. Ninan, Arpita Roy, Christian Schwab, Gudmundur Stefansson

Searching for GEMS: TOI-5916 b & TOI-6158 b are two Saturn-density planets orbiting M2 dwarfs
We confirm the planetary nature of (1) TOI-5916 b and (2) TOI-6158 b, two Exoplanets Transiting M-dwarf Stars (GEMS), both discovered by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Both systems were confirmed with ground-based photometry (Red Buttes Observatory and Swope, respectively) and radial velocity data from the Habitable-zone Planet Finder. Their radii are $R_{1}=11.8^{+0.52}_{-0.51}\text{ }R_{\oplus}$ and $R_{2}=10.4^{+2.70}_{-1.11}\text{ }R_{\oplus}$ and masses are $M_{1}=219\pm…

Duve, which offers AI-powered guest management tools for hotels, raised a $60M Series B led by Susquehanna Growth, bringing its total funding to $85M (Adriana Lee/Skift)
https://skift.com/2025/12/09/duve-60-million-series-b-hotels-guest-management/

Duve Raises $60 Million to Expand AI Guest Management Platform for Hotels
Duve raised a $60 million Series B to expand its AI-powered guest management platform for hotels worldwide, the company announced Tuesday, bringing total

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
AVON: Could it have been perfected by now?
CALLY: Possibly. At least for the transmission of a basic signal.
JENNA: Like an oscillating pulse tone.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/245 B7B2

The whole hubhub around Mozilla, Firefox, and AI is interesting because I'm of two minds:
* I really, *really* don't want AI in my browser. I don't see the point.
* If my browser must have AI (b/c some asshole CEO has decided it _must_ be done), the way Mozilla is proposing it is probably the best case scenario, at least the way it has been described.

13yo: "and at the end of art class they take our sketchbooks"
me: "that sucks"
13yo: "Yeah, it does."
13yo: "Anyway, I was trying to draw a staff but I was having problems with the feathers..." ⚚
me: "Hey, I have a Staph *infection*!"
13yo: 😐
me: "..In case you need a drawing reference or something"
13yo: 🤨
me: "...what?" 😇
13yo: "I'm afraid of what else you'…

On Setting Up a Raspberry Pi Off-grid PV-Powered Server (2014) - How I set up a Raspberry Pi (Model B then B ) after the SheevaPlug. ~1.6W consumption typical, 400x less than my original server rack! #RPi #frugal #offGrid

On Setting Up a Raspberry Pi Off-grid PV-Powered Server (2014)
How I set up a Raspberry Pi (Model B then B+) after the SheevaPlug. 1.6W consumption typical, 400x less than my original server rack! #RPi #frugal #offGrid

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Mild High Club:
🎵 Weeping Willow
#MildHighClub
https://mildhighclub.bandcamp.com/album/windowpane-b-w-weeping-willow
https://open.spotify.com/track/0cQqxwmGhBh0w3I3gw8hXg

Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
BLAKE: In a Federation prison colony too?
RO: No. In an accident.
BLAKE: Paura told me that your father would never have made his people slaves as you have done.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/339 B7B3

SN 2021lwz: Another Exotic Luminous and Fast Evolving Optical Type Ic Broad-Lined Supernova ?
F. Poidevin, S. L. West, C. M. B. Omand, R. K\"onyves-T\'oth, S. Schulze, L. Yan, T. Kangas, I. P\'erez-Fournon, S. Geier, J. Sollerman, P. J. Pessi, C. M. Guti\'errez, T. -W. Chen, K-Ryan Hinds, R. Marques-Chaves, R. Shirley, C. Jimenez Angel, R. Lunnan, D. A. Perley, N. Sarin, Y. Yao, R. Dekany, J. Purdum, A. Wold, R. R. Laher, M. J. Graham, M. M. Kasliwal, T. Jegou Du Laz

SN 2021lwz: Another Exotic Luminous and Fast Evolving Optical Type Ic Broad-Lined Supernova ?
Context. Current large-scale, high-cadence surveys, such as the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), provide detections of new and rare types of transients and supernovae whose physical origins are not well understood. Aims. We investigate the nature of SN 2021lwz at a redshift z=0.065, an overluminous supernova (SN) of absolute magnitude, $M_{g} \sim -20.1$ AB, falling in the lower range of superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) luminosities, and discovered in a faint dwarf galaxy with an absolute magni…

Entwicklung der #Nabenhöhen von #Windkraftanlagen an Land in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.10.2025.
Die kleinste registrierte

Triaxiality and shape dynamics in $^{70}$Ge
T. M. Kowalewski, A. D. Ayangeakaa, N. Sensharma, R. V. F. Janssens, Y. M. Wang, Q. B. Chen, J. M. Allmond, C. M. Campbell, S. Carmichael, M. P. Carpenter, P. Copp, C. Cousins, M. Devlin, U. Garg, C. M\"uller-Gatermann, T. J. Gray, D. J. Hartley, J. Heery, J. Henderson, H. Jayatissa, S. R. Johnson, S. P. Kisyov, F. G. Kondev, T. Lauritsen, S. Nandi, R. Rathod, W. Reviol, M. Rocchini, E. Rubino, R. Russell, A. Saracino, D. Seweryniak, M. …

Triaxiality and shape dynamics in $^{70}$Ge
The electromagnetic properties of low-lying states in $^{70}$Ge were investigated via multi-step Coulomb excitation of a $^{70}$Ge beam impinging on a $^{208}$Pb target at the ATLAS facility of the Argonne National Laboratory. A total of 27 transitional elements and six diagonal matrix elements coupling 11 low-lying states, were extracted from the measured cross sections. These were used to calculate reduced transition probabilities, spectroscopic quadrupole moments, and rotational invariant sh…

JWST Observations of SN 2024ggi II: NIRSpec Spectroscopy and CO Modeling at 285 and 385 Days Past the Explosion
T. Mera, C. Ashall, P. Hoeflich, K. Medler, M. Shahbandeh, C. R. Burns, E. Baron, J. M. DerKacy, E. Fereidouni, C. M. Pfeffer, S. Shiber, P. J. Brown, A. Burrow, D. . A. Coulter, M. Engesser, L. Ferrari, G. Folatelli, O. Fox, L. Galbany, M. Guolo, J. T. Hinkle, W. B. Hoogendam, E. Y. Hsiao, M E. Huber, T. de Jaeger, D. O. Jones, S. Kumar, J. Lu, P. A. Mazzali, N. Morrell, M. …

JWST Observations of SN 2024ggi II: NIRSpec Spectroscopy and CO Modeling at 285 and 385 Days Past the Explosion
We present James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NIRSpec 1.7--5.5 micron observations of SN~2024ggi at +285.51 and +385.27 days post-explosion. The late-time nebular spectra are dominated by emission lines from various ionization states of H, Ca, Ar, C, Mg, Ni, Co, and Fe. We also detect strong CO emission in both the first overtone and fundamental vibrational bands. Most atomic features exhibit asymmetric line profiles, indicating an aspherical explosion. Using observed fluxes combined with non-LT…

The maximum product of sizes of cross-\(t\)-intersecting families
Jingjun Bao, Lijun Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11724 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11724…

The maximum product of sizes of cross-\(t\)-intersecting families
Two families of sets \(\mathcal{A}\) and \(\mathcal{B}\) are called \emph{cross-\(t\)-intersecting} if \(|A \cap B| \geq t\) for all \(A \in \mathcal{A}\) and \(B \in \mathcal{B}\). Determining the maximum product of sizes for such cross-\(t\)-intersecting families is an active problem in extremal set theory. In this paper, we verify the following cross-\(t\)-intersecting version of the Erdős-Ko-Rado theorem: For \(k\geq l \geq t \geq 3\) and \(\min\{m,n\} \geq (t+1)(k-t+1)\), the ma…

Interplay of choice and topology in percolation on mediation-driven attachment networks
Nilomber Roy, M. M. B. Sheraj, M. K. Hassan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10076 https://

Interplay of choice and topology in percolation on mediation-driven attachment networks
We investigate bond percolation on mediation-driven attachment (MDA) networks under the generalized Achlioptas process, where $M>1$ candidate bonds are sampled and the one that minimizes the resulting cluster size is selected the best-of-$M$ rule. This framework offers a systematic approach to investigate how network topology and choice mechanisms jointly shape percolation behavior. We analyze the effects of the degree exponent $ω$ and the choice parameter $M$ on the critical point $t_c$ and t…

Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
JENNA: There is a condition.
BLAKE: Yes?
JENNA: None of us is prepared to commit suicide. We don't intend to die making some heroic gesture.
CALLY: We need a chance of survival.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/205/85 B7B4

$\Lambda_b\to\Lambda^{(*)}\nu{\bar\nu}$ and $b\to s$ $B$ decays
Jong-Phil Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26370 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.26370

$Λ_b\toΛ^{(*)}ν{\barν}$ and $b\to s$ $B$ decays
The baryonic $b\to s$ transition $Λ_b\toΛ^{(*)}ν{\barν}$ is analyzed. We combine the mesonic counterpart $B^+\to K^+ν{\barν}$ and $B^0\to K^{*0}ν{\barν}$ as well as other observables involving $B$ mesons like $R(K^{(*)})$, ${\rm Br}(B_s\toμ^+μ^-)$, ${\rm Br}(B^+\to K^+μ^+μ^-)$, and $P_5'(B^+\to K^{*+}μ^+μ^-)$. We find that the new physics scale $M_{\rm NP}$ to be $2.04~{\rm TeV}\le M_{\rm NP} \le 11.76~{\rm TeV}$ (at $1σ$) for ordinary heavy new mediators. Our predictions for the…

Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
KOMMISSAR: Really? I've heard of people who resist. I've never seen one before. This could be interesting. Let us begin.
ASSISTANT KOMMISSAR: Sir. [They walk toward rack room. Kommissar stops and turns to Ro]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/265 …

Improved Pixel-wise Calibration for Charge-Integrating Hybrid Pixel Detectors with Performance Validation
X. Xie, A. Bergamaschi, M. Br\"uckner, M. Carulla, R. Dinapoli, S. Ebner, K. Ferjaoui, E. Fr\"ojdh, V. Gautam, D. Greiffenberg, S. Hasanaj, J. Heymes, V. Hinger, M. H\"urst, V. Kedych, T. King, S. Li, C. Lopez-Cuenca, A. Mazzoleni, D. Mezza, K. Moustakas, A. Mozzanica, J. Mulvey, M. M\"uller, K. A. Paton, C. Posada Soto, C. Ruder, B. Schmitt, P. Sieber, S. Sille…

Improved Pixel-wise Calibration for Charge-Integrating Hybrid Pixel Detectors with Performance Validation
The MÖNCH hybrid pixel detector, with a 25 \textmu m pixel pitch and fast charge-integrating readout, has demonstrated subpixel resolution capabilities for X-ray imaging and deep learning-based electron localization in electron microscopy. Fully exploiting this potential requires extensive calibration to ensure both linearity and uniformity of the pixel response, which is challenging for detectors with a large dynamic range. To overcome the limitations of conventional calibration methods, we d…

Heute habe ich gelernt, dass Mönche eine Alternative zu Zapfen sind.
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M�%B6nch_(Teichwirtschaft)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Ludwig van Beethoven, Ádšm Fischer & Danish National Chamber Orchestra:
🎵 Symphony No. 4 in B-Flat Major, Op. 60: III. Allegro vivace
#LudwigvanBeethoven #ÁdámFischer
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ZTpJh9ml7mPHiqIxv45dt

Hey Jimmy, what does a neutral description of genocide look like, you walking moral vacuity?
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/wikipedia-founder-comments-on-gaza-genocide-article-sparks-b

Wikipedia founder comments on Gaza genocide article sparks backlash
Jimmy Wales challenges the neutrality of Wikipedia's 'Gaza genocide' article, prompting a pushback from editors amid wider debate on how to cover "Israel's" actions against Palestine.

Series B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
BLAKE: Quiet! You'll bring the guards.
OLD MAN: Not the guards! Not the guards!
BLAKE: Then keep quiet. [Old Man drops out of sight.]
[GOLA'S TENT - He is playing chequers with Jenna, Servalan is watching.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/212/319…

New Machine Learning Approaches for Intrusion Detection in ADS-B
Mika\"ela Ngambo\'e, Jean-Simon Marrocco, Jean-Yves Ouattara, Jos\'e M. Fernandez, Gabriela Nicolescu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08333

New Machine Learning Approaches for Intrusion Detection in ADS-B
With the growing reliance on the vulnerable Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) protocol in air traffic management (ATM), ensuring security is critical. This study investigates emerging machine learning models and training strategies to improve AI-based intrusion detection systems (IDS) for ADS-B. Focusing on ground-based ATM systems, we evaluate two deep learning IDS implementations: one using a transformer encoder and the other an extended Long Short-Term Memory (xLSTM) network…

The CEERS Photometric and Physical Parameter Catalog
Isa G. Cox, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Micaela B. Bagley, Steven L. Finkelstein, Caitlin Rose, Ali Ahmad Khostovan, Katherine Chworowsky, Olivier Ilbert, Anton M. Koekemoer, Henry C. Ferguson, Pablo Arrabal Haro, Bren E. Backhaus, Mark Dickinson, Adriano Fontana, Yuchen Guo, Andrea Grazian, Norman A. Grogin, Santosh Harish, Nimish P. Hathi, Benne W. Holwerda, Kartheik G. Iyer, Lisa J. Kewley, Allison Kirkpatrick, Dale D. Kocevski, Rebecca…

The CEERS Photometric and Physical Parameter Catalog
We present the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey (CEERS) catalog, including space-based photometry, photometric redshifts, and physical parameters for more than 80,000 galaxies. The imaging used for this catalog comes from the CEERS survey, which has NIRCam coverage over ~100 sq. arcmin of the Extended Groth Strip (EGS) in seven filters from 1.15$μ$m to 4.44$μ$m. Alongside these data, we also include ancillary HST imaging in seven filters from 0.435$μ$m to 1.6$μ$m. We used Sourc…

On the Piecewise Linear Perturbations of the Doubling Map
Anubrato Bhattacharyya, Kuntal Banerjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11441 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

On the Piecewise Linear Perturbations of the Doubling Map
Inspired by the 2007 work by M.~Misiurewicz and A.~Rodrigues [Double Standard Maps, M. Misiurewicz, A. Rodrigues, Communications in Mathematical Physics], we consider a family of circle maps that are perturbations of the doubling map on the circle by a piecewise linear map. We call this the \textit{piecewise linear perturbation of the doubling map} (PLPDM) and it is given by the formula, $f_{a,b}(x)= \displaystyle \bigl(2x+a+\dfrac{b}{2} S(x) \bigr) // 1 \quad {\text {for }} x, a, b \in [0,1]…

From CCPA
Please join us for the 2025 Rosenbluth Lecture, featuring James K. Galbraith
What: Rosenbluth Lecture (webinar format)
Who: James K. Galbraith, renowned economist
When: November 25, 2025—3 pm ET/noon PT
Where: Zoom (link shared upon registration)
This webinar is free and open to the public.

got my name called specifically to board early and then flight attendant guy told me there's nobody else in my row so I can sit Wherever
they actually changed my seat at the desk without me asking bc they saw I'm a Sunflower Person w mobility issues
everyone so nice 2 me!!! dis gon b a good day.

Ratios of two exponents of van der Laan-Padovan numbers
Tomohiro Yamada
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06192 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06192

Ratios of two exponents of van der Laan-Padovan numbers
The van der Laan-Padovan sequence $P_n ~ (n=0, 1, \ldots)$ is defined by $P_0=1, P_1=P_2=0$, and $P_{n+3}=P_{n+1}+P_n$ for $n=0, 1, \ldots$. We determine all pairs $(P_m, P_n)$ satisfying $P_m^b/P_n^a=2^{g_1} 3^{g_2} 5^{g_3} 7^{g_4}$ for some integers $g_1, g_2, g_3, g_4$, $a$, and $b$. More generally, for a linear recurrence sequence $u_n$ satisfying the dominant root condition and a given set of primes $p_1, \ldots, p_k$, there exist only finitely many pairs $(u_m, u_n)$ satisfying $u_m^b/u_n…

Series B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
JENNA: Where?
TARA: The vapour does not tell me that.
JENNA: Lurgen left behind him a secret, what does the vapour say about that? The keeper of the secret may not even know that he, or she, is the keeper.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/212/261 B7…

With the advent of Blacksky and Northsky, I was seriously considering creating a bsky account and checking things out over there. Turns out I don't need to after all!
https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/115402352112431443

Log-majorizations between quasi-geometric type means for matrices
Fumio Hiai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04691 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04691

Log-majorizations between quasi-geometric type means for matrices
In this paper, for $α\in(0,\infty)\setminus\{1\}$, $p>0$ and positive semidefinite matrices $A$ and $B$, we consider the quasi-extension $\mathcal{M}_{α,p}(A,B):=\mathcal{M}_α(A^p,B^p)^{1/p}$ of several $α$-weighted geometric type matrix means $\mathcal{M}_α(A,B)$ such as the $α$-weighted geometric mean in Kubo--Ando's sense, the Rényi mean, etc. The log-majorization $\mathcal{M}_{α,p}(A,B)\prec_{\log}\mathcal{N}_{α,q}(A,B)$ is examined for pairs $(\mathcal{M},\mathcal{N})$ of those $�…

The Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting Survey - Data Release 1: #MWISP survey was conducted using the PMO 13.7 m telescope at a spatial resolution of approximately 50" and a velocity resolution of 0.16 km/s at 115 GHz. DR1 fully covered 2310 square degrees within the Galactic longitude (l) and latitude (b) range of 9.75 deg =< l=< 229.75 deg and |b| =< 5.25 deg."

MANGOS II: Five new giant planets orbiting low-mass stars
G. Dransfield, M. Timmermans, D. Sebastian, B. V. Rackham, A. Burgasser, K. Barkaoui, A. H. M. J. Triaud, M. Gillon, J. M. Almenara, S. L. Casewell, K. A. Collins, A. Fukui, C. Jano-Munoz, S. Kanodia, N. Narita, E. Palle, M. G. Scott, A. Soubkiou, A. Stokholm, J. Audenaert, G. \'A. Bakos, Y. Beletsky, Z. L. de Beurs, Z. Benkhaldoun, A. Burdanov, R. P. Butler, D. Caldwell, J. D. Crane, Y. T. Davis, B. O. Demory, E. Ducrot, Y.…

MANGOS II: Five new giant planets orbiting low-mass stars
Giant planets orbiting low-mass stars on short orbits present a conundrum, as in the most extreme cases their existence cannot be reconciled with current models of core accretion. Therefore, surveys dedicated to finding these rare planets have a key role to play by growing the sample to overcome small number statistics. In this work we present MANGOS, a programme dedicated to the search for giant objects (planets, brown dwarfs, and low-mass stars) orbiting M dwarfs. We report on the discovery o…

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
CALLY: What's that? He's transmitting. Who to?
AVON: Who cares? Stand by.
CALLY: His detectors must warn him soon.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/212/69

Revisiting FRB 20121102A: milliarcsecond localisation and a decreasing dispersion measure
M. P. Snelders, J. W. T. Hessels, J. Huang, N. Sridhar, B. Marcote, A. M. Moroianu, O. S. Ould-Boukattine, F. Kirsten, S. Bhandari, D. M. Hewitt, D. Pelliciari, L. Rhodes, R. Anna-Thomas, U. Bach, E. K. Bempong-Manful, V. Bezrukovs, J. D. Bray, S. Buttaccio, I. Cognard, A. Corongiu, R. Feiler, M. P. Gawro\'nski, M. Giroletti, L. Guillemot, R. Karuppusamy, M. Lindqvist, K. Nimmo, A. Possenti, W…

Revisiting FRB 20121102A: milliarcsecond localisation and a decreasing dispersion measure
FRB 20121102A is the original repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source and also the first to be localised to milliarcsecond precision using very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI). It has been active for over 13 years and resides in an extreme magneto-ionic environment in a dwarf host galaxy at a distance of ~1 Gpc. In this work, we use the European VLBI Network (EVN) to (re-)localise FRB 20121102A and its associated persistent radio source (PRS). We confirm that the two are co-located -- impro…

Phanpy doesn't support quoots yet, so I'm using Mastodon's stock web interface and.. it's bad. Compare how busy it looks with unnecessary stuff (do I really need a "post" input form on screen at all times? Do I need a link to "favorites" visible at all times?), but also - the fonts are bad. Bad, bad, bad. Just so much harder to read. And the timeline toots just kind of run together, rather than being clearly delineated by whitespace in phanpy.

On Setting Up a Raspberry Pi Off-grid PV-Powered Server (2014) - How I set up a Raspberry Pi (Model B then B ) after the SheevaPlug. ~1.6W consumption typical, 400x less than my original server rack! #RPi #frugal #offGrid

On Setting Up a Raspberry Pi Off-grid PV-Powered Server (2014)
How I set up a Raspberry Pi (Model B then B+) after the SheevaPlug. 1.6W consumption typical, 400x less than my original server rack! #RPi #frugal #offGrid

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
B.M.U. (Black Men United):
🎵 U Will Know (C.J. Mackintosh 7″ edit)
#BMUBlackMenUnited

TOI-3288 b and TOI-4666 b: two gas giants transiting low-mass stars characterised by NIRPS
Yolanda G. C. Frensch, Fran\c{c}ois Bouchy, Gaspare Lo Curto, Alexandrine L'Heureux, Roseane de Lima Gomes, Jo\~ao Faria, Xavier Dumusque, Lison Malo, Marion Cointepas, Avidaan Srivastava, Xavier Bonfils, Elisa Delgado-Mena, Nicola Nari, Khaled Al Moulla, Romain Allart, Jose M. Almenara, \'Etienne Artigau, Khalid Barkaoui, Fr\'ed\'erique Baron, Susana C. C. Barros, Bj\"orn Be…

TOI-3288 b and TOI-4666 b: two gas giants transiting low-mass stars characterised by NIRPS
Gas giant planets orbiting low-mass stars are uncommon outcomes of planet formation. Increasing the sample of well-characterised giants around early M dwarfs will enable population-level studies of their properties, offering valuable insights into their formation and evolutionary histories. We aim to characterise giant exoplanets transiting M dwarfs identified by TESS. High-resolution spectroscopic data are obtained in the optical and nIR, combining HARPS and NIRPS. We derive RVs via the cross-…

Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
JENNA: It's Travis's move. We still control the Liberator.
CALLY: A sitting target.
JENNA: Not for him.
CALLY: Not for anybody.
JENNA: Where are you going?
CALLY: I'm going to clear the neutron blasters for firing,
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/499

Asteroseismic investigation of HD 140283: The Methuselah star
M. S. Lundkvist, J. R. Larsen, Y. Li, M. L. Winther, T. R. Bedding, H. Kjeldsen, T. R. White, M. B. Nielsen, G. Buldgen, C. Guillaume, A. L. Stokholm, D. Huber, J. L. R{\o}rsted, P. Mani, F. Grundahl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11532

Asteroseismic investigation of HD 140283: The Methuselah star
HD 140283 is a well-studied metal-poor subgiant and a Gaia benchmark star, often used for testing stellar models due to its proximity, brightness, and low metallicity ([Fe/H] = -2.3 dex). Here we present the first asteroseismic analysis of HD 140283, providing improved constraints on its fundamental properties. The star was observed by TESS in 20-second cadence during Sector 51. We extracted a custom light curve and performed a frequency analysis, revealing a rich spectrum of solar-like osc…

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
AVON: We're also a long way out and still running. Why?
JENNA: We lost those patrol ships ages ago.
VILA: We lost everything ages ago. Nothing comes this far out.
BLAKE: So we're free for the time being anyway.

Ultra-Faint Milky Way Satellites Discovered in Carina, Phoenix, and Telescopium with DELVE Data Release 3
C. Y. Tan (DELVE,DES Collaboration), W. Cerny (DELVE,DES Collaboration), A. B. Pace (DELVE,DES Collaboration), J. A. Sharp (DELVE,DES Collaboration), K. Overdeck (DELVE,DES Collaboration), A. Drlica-Wagner (DELVE,DES Collaboration), J. D. Simon (DELVE,DES Collaboration), B. Mutlu-Pakdil (DELVE,DES Collaboration), D. J. Sand (DELVE,DES Collaboration), A. M. Senkevich (DELVE,DES Coll…

Ultra-Faint Milky Way Satellites Discovered in Carina, Phoenix, and Telescopium with DELVE Data Release 3
We report the discovery of three Milky Way satellite candidates: Carina IV, Phoenix III, and DELVE 7, in the third data release of the DECam Local Volume Exploration survey (DELVE). The candidate systems were identified by cross-matching results from two independent search algorithms. All three are extremely faint systems composed of old, metal-poor stellar populations ($τ\gtrsim 10$ Gyr, [Fe/H] $ \lesssim -1.4$). Carina IV ($M_V = -2.8;\ r_{1/2} = 40 {\rm pc}$) and Phoenix III ($M_V = -1.2;\ …

Ultracold Neutron Guide-Coating Facility at U.Winnipeg
T. Hepworth, A. Zahra, B. Algohi, R. de Vries, S. Pankratz, P. Switzer, T. Reimer, M. McCrea, J. W. Martin, R. Mammei, D. Anthony, L. Barr\'on-Palos, M. Boss\'e, M. P. Bradley, A. Brossard, T. Bui, J. Chak, R. Chiba, C. Davis, K. Drury D. Fujimoto, R. Fujitani, M. Gericke, P. Giampa, C. Gibson, R. Golub, T. Higuchi, G. Ichikawa, I. Ide, S. Imajo, A. Jaison, B. Jamieson, M. Katotoka, S. Kawasaki, M. Kitaguchi, W. Klassen, E.…

Ultracold Neutron Guide-Coating Facility at U.Winnipeg
We report the construction and commissioning of a new ultracold neutron (UCN) guide-coating facility at the University of Winnipeg. The facility employs pulsed laser deposition (PLD) to produce diamond-like carbon (DLC) coatings on cylindrical UCN guides up to 1 m in length with a 200 mm outer diameter. DLC is a promising material for UCN transport and storage due to its high Fermi potential, low neutron absorption, and low depolarization probabilities. First coating attempts on a full length a…

Entwicklung der #Nabenhöhen von #Windkraftanlagen an Land in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.10.2025.
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Eruptive mass loss less than a year before the explosion of superluminous supernovae. II. A systematic search for pre-explosion eruptions with VLT/X-shooter
A. Gkini, C. Fransson, R. Lunnan, S. Schulze, J. Sollerman K. Tsalapatas, N. Sarin, M. Nicholl, C. Angus, U. Burgaz, S. J. Brennan, T. -W. Chen, A. Gal-Yam, A. Gangopadhyay, Y. Hu, M. M. Kasliwal, R. R. Laher, P. J. Pessi, B. Rusholme, E. Russeil, A. Singh, C. Skoglund, R. Smith, B. van Baal, S. L. West, L. Yan

Eruptive mass loss less than a year before the explosion of superluminous supernovae. II. A systematic search for pre-explosion eruptions with VLT/X-shooter
We present X-shooter observations of a sample of 21 hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSNe-I), spanning a redshift range of z=0.13-0.95, aimed at searching for shells of circumstellar material (CSM). Specifically, we focus on identifying broad Mg II absorption features that are blueshifted by several thousand kilometers per second and have previously been interpreted as arising from resonance line scattering of the SLSN continuum by rapidly expanding CSM ejected shortly before explosion.…

I picked the wrong weekend to replace windows.
https://m.ai6yr.org/@BakerRL75/115368351540130611

The PHANGS-MUSE/HST-Halpha Nebulae Catalogue
A. T. Barnes, R. Chandar, K. Kreckel, F. Belfiore, D. Pathak, D. Thilker, A. K. Leroy, B. Groves, S. C. O. Glover, R. McClain, A. Amiri, Z. Bazzi, M. Boquien, E. Congiu, D. A. Dale, O. V. Egorov, E. Emsellem, K. Grasha, J. Gonzalez Lobos, K. Henny, H. He, R. Indebetouw, J. C. Lee, J. Li, F. -H. Liang, K. Larson, D. Maschmann, S. E. Meidt, J. E. M\'endez-Delgado, J. Neumann, H. -A. Pan, M. Querejeta, E. Rosolowsky, S. K. Sarbadhicary, F. …

The PHANGS-MUSE/HST-Halpha Nebulae Catalogue
We present the PHANGS-MUSE/HST-Halpha nebulae catalogue, comprising 5177 spatially resolved nebulae across 19 nearby star-forming galaxies (< 20 Mpc), based on high-resolution Halpha imaging from HST, homogenised to a fixed 10 pc resolution and sensitivity. Combined with MUSE spectroscopy, this enables robust classification of 4882 H II regions and separation of planetary nebulae and supernova remnants. Electron densities for 2544 H II regions are derived using [S II] diagnostics, and nebular s…

Entwicklung der #Nabenhöhen von #Windkraftanlagen an Land in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 04.10.2025.
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The rings of (2060) Chiron: Evidence of an evolving system
C. L. Pereira, F. Braga-Ribas, B. Sicardy, R. Leiva, M. Assafin, B. E. Morgado, J. L. Ortiz, P. Santos-Sanz, J. I. B. Camargo, G. Margoti, Y. Kilic, G. Benedetti-Rossi, R. Vieira-Martins, T. F. L. L. Pinheiro, R. Sfair, F. L. Rommel, A. R. Gomes-J\'unior, R. C. Boufleur, R. Duffard, J. Desmars, D. Souami, N. Morales, F. Arrese, K. Barkaoui, A. Burdanov, C. A. Colazo, C. A. Domingues, H. Dutra, R. C. Gargalhone, C. Jacques, …

The rings of (2060) Chiron: Evidence of an evolving system
The centaur (2060) Chiron has long been a candidate for hosting material in orbit, based on occultation and photometric and spectroscopic data. Here, we present a multichord stellar occultation observed on 2023 September 10 UT that reveals new and complex structures surrounding Chiron. High-cadence light curves show multiple secondary events that are best explained (when compared with a multishell interpretation) with a system of three confined rings located at average radii of 273, 325, and 43…

So Trump is targeting NY's AG with bullshit charges. The AG is sending me emails that look like every single other generic Democrat "we need $15 to fight!" nonsense email, which makes me much less inclined to actually send her money.

Black-hole X-ray binary Swift J1727.8$-$1613 shows Type-B quasi-periodic oscillations across the hard-intermediate and soft-intermediate states
Pei Jin, Mariano M\'endez, Federico Garc\'ia, Diego Altamirano, Federico M. Vincentelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10353

Black-hole X-ray binary Swift J1727.8$-$1613 shows Type-B quasi-periodic oscillations across the hard-intermediate and soft-intermediate states
We present a timing analysis of \textit{Insight}-HXMT observations of the black-hole X-ray binary Swift J1727.8$-$1613 across a bright soft X-ray flare on 2023 September 19 (MJD 60206). At the peak of the flare, the source undergoes a brief transition from the hard-intermediate state (HIMS) into the soft-intermediate state (SIMS), marked by the simultaneous appearance of three discrete radio jet ejections, a drop in broadband noise in the 2$-$10 keV band, and the presence of a narrow quasi-peri…

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
JENNA: [V.O.] Teleport, emergency. I repeat, teleport, emergency.
AVON: No teleport, Jenna. Not possible.
TRAVIS: Don't touch those coordinates. Activate it now.
[Atlay]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/588 B7B3

Spatial Profiles of 3I/ATLAS CN and Ni Outgassing from Keck/KCWI Integral Field Spectroscopy
W. B. Hoogendam, B. J. Shappee, J. J. Wray, B. Yang, K. J. Meech, C. Ashall, D. D. Desai, K. Hart, J. T. Hinkle, A. Hoffman, E. M. Hu, D. O. Jones, K. Medler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11779

Spatial Profiles of 3I/ATLAS CN and Ni Outgassing from Keck/KCWI Integral Field Spectroscopy
Cometary activity from interstellar objects provides a unique window into the environs of other stellar systems. We report blue-sensitive integral field unit spectroscopy of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS from the Keck-II-mounted Keck Cosmic Web Imager on August 24, 2025 UT. We confirm previously reported CN and Ni outgassing, and present, for the first time, the radial profiles of Ni and CN emission in 3I/ATLAS. We find a characteristic $e$-folding radius of $593.7\pm14.8$ km for Ni and $841…

The thing about laptops is that there are plenty of options. Unlike, say, phone OSes or ISPs, there's a million different laptop vendors, all trying to differentiate themselves (despite often using the same factories & hardware).
I can buy a 3yo Latitude on ebay for $250. If I'm going to pay a premium to buy a product that's open and/or upgradable, I'm doing so because I believe in the company's goals, and by extension its morals.
Framework doing this is..…

Combining the second data release of the European Pulsar Timing Array with low-frequency pulsar data
F. Iraci, A. Chalumeau, C. Tiburzi, J. P. W. Verbiest, A. Possenti, S. C. Susarla, M. A. Krishnakumar, G. M. Shaifullah, J. Antoniadis, M. Bagchi, C. Bassa, R. N. Caballero, B. Cecconi, S. Chen, S. Chowdhury, B. Ciardi, I. Cognard, S. Corbel, S. Desai, D. Deb, J. Girard, A. Golden, J-M. Grie{\ss}meier, L. Guillemot, M. Hoeft, H. Hu, F. Jankowski, G. Janssen, B. C. Joshi, S. Kala, E. Kea…

Combining the second data release of the European Pulsar Timing Array with low-frequency pulsar data
Low-frequency radio data improve the sensitivity of pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) to propagation effects such as dispersion measure (DM) variations, enabling better noise characterization essential for detecting the stochastic gravitational wave background (GWB). We combined LOFAR (100-200 MHz) and NenuFAR (30-90 MHz) observations with the recent European and Indian PTA release (DR2new+) into a new dataset, DR2low, spanning ~11 years for 12 pulsars. DR2low allows updated noise models, increasing …

It always cracks me up when I see stuff like this. I'm now on my second 100yo home, and in both cases the window weight cavities were just empty despite having windows "professionally" installed. Now, my first 100yo home had the windows replaced in the 70s/80s, so.. I can forgive that. The 2nd 100yo home, tho, had the windows replaced in the 2000s. They also insulated from the interior (putting foamboard against the brick, sealed w/ spray foam, then 2x3 metal studs to build a n…

Series B, Episode 07 - Killer
BELLFRIAR: [Over intercom] There's nothing I can do. It's a new virus, we've got no defence against it.
TYNUS: That's ridiculous, you're the medical section. My men are dying, you must do something.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/207/517…

8yo: *crying* DAD *crying*
8yo: *crying* DAAAAD *crying*
me: "WHAT??"
8yo: "this time I don't need you, I'm just used to saying that."
8yo: *resumes crying*

I am not the least bit surprised. I'm pretty sure entire swaths of #NYC have more illegally parked cars than street trees. LIC around PS 76Q, for example, is pretty wild.

Series B, Episode 01 - Redemption
AVON: Exactly. You have just made a prediction based on the known facts. A computer works on precisely the same principle.
BLAKE: But all you're saying is that prediction is not immutable fact.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/201/23 B7B4

Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
AVON: Obviously.
HANNA: That's why we haven't been killed yet. He's making an example of us.
BEK: Oh, shut up Hanna, Its none of their business.
GAN: Isn't it? I mean if they're making an example of you...
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/220

According to #ForestHills #Indivisible, ICE raided my local fruit stand yesterday. This is the first I'm hearing about it, I don't have any details other than what's in the email. #FuckICE

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
JENNA: Zen, abort course for asteroid PK One One Eight and resume course for planet Del Ten. Confirm with arrival time.
ZEN: Arrival at planet Del Ten at zero four five plus one.
[Liberator turns in space]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/164

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 09 - Countdown
BLAKE: [To Jenna] Get a locator fix on the signal.
CALLY: It's already pinpointed.
BLAKE: Well done. Alright, Avon, get kitted up. You too, Vila.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/2…

The propaganda is so wild. When I was younger, they'd lie about things 20-30 years prior, with the assumption that people will have forgotten. Now they are constantly attempting to rewrite history that happened a mere 5 years ago, thinking that they're slick.
To quote Orwell: "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
AVON: I'm sorry to have to inform you that he is himself all right.
[End of episode. Roll credits.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/623 B7B3

Describing modem dial-up noises to the 13yo as "two computers screaming at each other"...
"See, nowadays everything is over the internet. You make a phone call, it's routed over the internet. Back then [we wore an onion in our belt as was the style at the time] everything was over voice networks, so when you were on the internet it was translating bits and data into sound.."
I'm not sure at which point he tuned out.

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
AVON: He What?
VILA: Blake!
[Group enters flight deck with Blake]
VILA: What about Del Ten?
CALLY: What about the beta particles?
BLAKE: They can wait.
https://

I'm no math surgeon, but there's 342mil people in the US. 70 of 342 is around 20%, or 1 in 5 Americans.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:f7utvjkqbgwfjonqtpfcf5fu/post/3m4pc4toy7s2z

Series B, Episode 09 - Countdown
BLAKE: Why don't you do that again, maybe they didn't hear you. [Blake and Avon leave]
VILA: Wait for me!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/209/144 B7B2

I've never seen Total Recall (I was 10 when it was released). I'm going to fix that now!

Series B, Episode 01 - Redemption
BLAKE: Zen, identify the hostiles.
CALLY: Forty-two seconds.
BLAKE: Zen! [Zen burbles]
AVON: The information must be bypassing the translator systems.
CALLY: Thirty-five seconds.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/201/97 B7B3

Series B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
FOOL: [Singing] I sing you of the Tents, my Master, Charl of the Goths, I sing you of the golden tents, Where your fathers wait to greet you...
BLAKE: [Examining the talisman] It's gone, the brain print's gone!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/212/515…

I'm happy that Brad Lander is running, but extremely unhappy about the way I found out. It wasn't from social media, or a newspaper... no, it was from a text message asking me for money, with an ActBlue link. At least it wasn't fucking NGP VAN, I guess..

Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
KRANTOR: My dear sir, my congratulations! Five million! That is a record. While your money is being, uh ... packaged, I wonder if you would do Krantor the honour of joining him for a little celebratory drink ... in my sanctum.
VILA: Well, thank you kindly, Krantor. Thank you kindly. [Vila goes off with Krantor.]
https:…

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 07 - Killer
JENNA: It's hardly moving.
BLAKE: They were slow, Jenna, infraluminal. Question is, how did it get here?
JENNA: Well, what do you mean?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/207/19<…

8yo: *cackles as she steals my veggie chicken nuggets*
me: "Hey, what are you doing?!"
8yo: *runs away*
me: "Those aren't even real, they're fake chicken. I thought you were a carnivore?"
8yo: "I'm an omnivore. I'll OM-NOM-NOM anything!"

Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
MUTOID: Yes, Supreme Commander. Time distort ten.
SERVALAN: Mutoids. Don't you ever question anything?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/384 B7B4

Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
CALLY: Blake, we're losing them I think. Forward vision is now clear.
BLAKE: Cally's right.
JENNA: But how?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/85 B7B3

Series B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
BLAKE: Travis! Old man, old man, Lurgen, the healer, did he talk of Star One? Did he speak to you of anything?
OLD MAN: [Virtually inaudible] A fool knows everything and nothing. [Dies]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/212/518 B7B2

Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
BLAKE: There's no reason why they should.
[Space City. Chairman is seen on communications screen]
ENFORCER: They'll be making planetfall anytime now.
CHAIRMAN: Excellent. Are all Largo's addicts so available?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/444

Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
AVON: I'm sorry. [To Blake] I knew you were lying.
BLAKE: Yes, well unless you can come up with some good reasons why not, we're going ahead as planned.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/205/329 B7B2

Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
CALLY: But you operated on the people who built Star One.
DOCHOLLI: The technicians, yes, thirty of them. I had no choice.
JENNA: Then you must know where Star One is located. How could you not?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/211/487 B7B4

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
VILA: Well, do something! [Avon smashes the control box]
[Atlay. Tone ceases, Blake calms down. Jenna forces the bracelet on him and puts on her own. Glynd and Travis continue to struggle]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/613 B7B2

Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
BLAKE: That's right.
RO: The name's forbidden. You can't cling to the past. Paura shouldn't have spoken it.
BLAKE: Huh! He probably thought he had nothing to lose - under the circumstances.
RO: Circumstances?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/316

Series B, Episode 07 - Killer
JENNA: Obviously not.
BLAKE: I hope we got that through to him in time.
[A-line room]
AVON: Keep an eye on the corridor.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/207/537 B7B3