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Reminder that this time tomorrow (noon London time, Wednesday 21st May), it's the digital OpenUK meetup. Our topic is "digital sovereignty" which seems ... timely - and we have two great speakers. Open to everyone, hope you can make it!
Details and sign up here: https://www.meetup.com/openuk/events/306642326

Looking forward to it!
https://mastodon.social/@karlgroves/114534519629700177

Hell yeah! I'm really going to try and make it out to this event Games Transformed in London next month.
#GamesTransformed

Further detail about what's been happening expanding on my thread about context: #USpol

Trump signed an executive order decrying so-called anti-Christian bias in February,
and a hotline was created in April to encourage State Department workers to call in and snitch on their colleagues who might be acting with any kind of “anti-Christian bias.”
The Religious Liberty Commission was established via another executive order on May 1 during a flashy White House event.
Trump has even established his own Christian “faith” office in the White House, seemingly further…

Trump’s ‘anti-Christian bias’ taskforce reveals its propagandistic agenda in first meeting
Even though Christians are the dominant religious group in the country, Trump and his allies are desperate to portray persecution where there is none

In einer Stadt leben, in der die Möglichkeiten zum Abstellen von Fahrrädern rund um ein Großevent wie die #KielerWoche einen Artikel in der Lokalzeitung bekommen, weil es ein solches Event gibt, weil es ein breites Angebot mit Fahrradabstellanlagen gibt, weil es Leute gibt, die sich dafür verantwortlich fühlen und gute Arbeit machen, weil es Leute gibt, die Fahrrad fahren und das brauchen...

Fahrradständer zur Kieler Woche 2025: Wo stelle ich mein Rad sicher ab?
Zur Kieler Woche 2023 wird es auch wieder fünf bewachte Fahrradstellplätze geben. Wo liegen die Fahrradparkplätze zur Kieler Woche, wann sind sie geöffnet und wie funktioniert das Fahrrad-Parken-Pfandsystem? Und wo kann ich mein Fahrrad zur KiWo sonst noch sicher abstellen? Eine Übersicht.

Thoughts from the @braiduk.bsky.social event thus far (shaped through my own interests and thinking)
People's desire to shape AI in society was very present (but I missed a sense of grassroots work eg AI4LAM in GLAMs, other equivalents)
Science fiction and other creative expressions can help society think through potential models for AI
AI is an extension, intensification of existing technologies
Clearly tensions, temptations between values and efficiencies, which lin…

Massive stars exploding in a He-rich circumstellar medium. XI. Diverse evolution of five Ibn SNe 2020nxt, 2020taz, 2021bbv, 2023utc and 2024aej
Z. -Y. Wang, A. Pastorello, Y. -Z. Cai, M. Fraser, A. Reguitti, W. -L. Lin, L. Tartaglia, D. Andrew Howell, S. Benetti, E. Cappellaro, Z. -H. Chen, N. Elias-Rosa, J. Farah, A. Fiore, D. Hiramatsu, E. Kankare, Z. -T. Li, P. Lundqvist, P. A. Mazzali, C. McCully, J. Mo, S. Moran, M. Newsome, E. Padilla Gonzalez, C. Pellegrino, Z. -H. Peng, S. J. S…

Massive stars exploding in a He-rich circumstellar medium. XI. Diverse evolution of five Ibn SNe 2020nxt, 2020taz, 2021bbv, 2023utc and 2024aej
We present the photometric and spectroscopic analysis of five Type Ibn supernovae (SNe): SN 2020nxt, SN 2020taz, SN 2021bbv, SN 2023utc, and SN 2024aej. These events share key observational features and belong to a family of objects similar to the prototypical Type Ibn SN 2006jc. The SNe exhibit rise times of approximately 10 days and peak absolute magnitudes ranging from $-$16.5 to $-$19 mag. Notably, SN 2023utc is the faintest Type Ibn supernova discovered to date, with an exceptionally low r…

Study finds planetary waves linked to wild summer weather have tripled since 1950 https://phys.org/news/2025-06-planetary-linked-wild-summer-weather.html
Study finds planetary waves linked to wild summer weather have tripled since 1950

Study finds planetary waves linked to wild summer weather have tripled since 1950
Climate change has tripled the frequency of atmospheric wave events linked to extreme summer weather in the last 75 years and that may explain why long-range computer forecasts keep underestimating the surge in killer heat waves, droughts and floods, a new study says.

Detecting Narrative Shifts through Persistent Structures: A Topological Analysis of Media Discourse
Mark M. Bailey, Mark I. Heiligman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14836

Detecting Narrative Shifts through Persistent Structures: A Topological Analysis of Media Discourse
How can we detect when global events fundamentally reshape public discourse? This study introduces a topological framework for identifying structural change in media narratives using persistent homology. Drawing on international news articles surrounding major events - including the Russian invasion of Ukraine (Feb 2022), the murder of George Floyd (May 2020), the U.S. Capitol insurrection (Jan 2021), and the Hamas-led invasion of Israel (Oct 2023) - we construct daily co-occurrence graphs of n…