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▶️ Keeper: Double Fine’s Otherworldly Adventure, Arriving October 17  - Xbox Wire
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/06/08/keeper-double-fine-xbox-games-showcase/

Double Fine’s Otherworldly Adventure, Arriving October 17  - Xbox Wire
Keeper is a third-person adventure filled with exploration, puzzle solving, and unexpected departures from reality, coming October 17, 2025.

#silentSunday #RockyMountainNationalPark
#sunrise in Moraine Park. October 2015

The UK Financial Conduct Authority partners with Nvidia to launch a Supercharged Sandbox for financial companies to test AI tools, starting in October 2025 (Sam Tabahriti/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/u

It seemed far away, but now the next Bandcamp Friday is right around the corner -- August 1. Trying to figure out what all I'm gonna grab. Luckily, there's one in September, October and December this year too.

#EroticMusings 2 - Craft: Do you intentionally experiment with new techniques?
I did a lot of experimenting when I did prompt challenges, writing erotic flash fiction in October and April (using #Kinktober and

Are nominations by those accused of war crimes even considered?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/08/trump-nominated-nobel-peace-prize-netanyahu?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Q&A with British Library CEO Rebecca Lawrence on dealing with the aftermath of a major October 2023 cyberattack, AI scraping, AI for text analysis, and more (Mishal Husain/Bloomberg)

J-PAS: Forecasting constraints on Neutrino Masses
Gabriel Rodrigues, Antonio J. Cuesta, Jailson Alcaniz, Miguel Aparicio Resco, Antonio L. Maroto, Manuel Masip, Jamerson G. Rodrigues, Felipe B. M. dos Santos, Javier de Cruz P\'erez, Jorge Enrique Garc\'ia-Farieta, Clarissa Siqueira, Fuxing Qin, Yuting Wang, Gong-Bo Zhao, Carlos Hern\'andez-Monteagudo, Valerio Marra, Raul Abramo, Narciso Ben\'itez, Silvia Bonoli, Saulo Carneiro, Javier Cenarro, David Crist\'obal-Horn…

J-PAS: Forecasting constraints on Neutrino Masses
The large-scale structure survey J-PAS is taking data since October 2023. In this work, we present a forecast based on the Fisher matrix method to establish its sensitivity to the sum of the neutrino masses. We adapt the Fisher Galaxy Survey Code (FARO) to account for the neutrino mass under various configurations applied to galaxy clustering measurements. This approach allows us to test the sensitivity of J-PAS to the neutrino mass across different tracers, with and without non-linear correcti…

X-ray Polarization Detection of the Pulsar Wind Nebula in G21.5-0.9 with IXPE
Niccol\`o Di Lalla, Nicola Omodei, Niccol\`o Bucciantini, Jack T. Dinsmore, Nicol\`o Cibrario, Stefano Silvestri, Josephine Wong, Patrick Slane, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Michela Negro, Roger W. Romani, Riccardo Ferrazzoli, Stephen Chi-Yung Ng, Miltiadis Michailidis, Yi-Jung Yang, Fei Xie, Martin C. Weisskopf, Philip Kaaret, Iv\'an Agudo, L. A. Antonelli, Matteo Bachetti, Luca Baldini, Wayne H. Baumgartner, Ronal…

X-ray Polarization Detection of the Pulsar Wind Nebula in G21.5-0.9 with IXPE
We present the X-ray polarization observation of G21.5-0.9, a young Galactic supernova remnant (SNR), conducted with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) in October 2023, with a total livetime of approximately 837 ks. Using different analysis methods, such as a space-integrated study of the entire region of the PWN and a space-resolved polarization map, we detect significant polarization from the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) at the center of the SNR, with an average polarization degree of …

Optical and Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Outbursting Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks
Ruining Zhao, Bin Yang, Michael S. P. Kelley, Silvia Protopapa, Aigen Li, Yang Huang, Jifeng Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03247

Optical and Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Outbursting Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks
We present optical and near-infrared (NIR) observations of the outbursting, Halley-type comet 12P/Pons-Brooks. Three NIR spectra were obtained during two outbursts in October and November 2023, with the 3-meter Infrared Telescope Facility and the Palomar 200-inch Telescope, respectively. The NIR spectra exhibited absorption features at 1.5 and 2.0 $μ$m, consistent with the diagnostic absorption bands of water ice, superimposed on a red dust-scattering continuum. We find that the absorption ban…

"I wrote in October that billionaires should resist cozying up to authoritarians: while it can feel as if they are reducing risks to themselves and their businesses, surrendering to a corrupt system is just as likely to endanger them. Musk is the first to learn this lesson, but I suspect he will not be the last."
Let's see.

Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It’s a political timebomb
"While housing lies at the heart of political disillusionment today, it is for the same reason becoming a primary trigger for mobilisation across Europe. In October 2024, 150,000 protesters marched through the streets of Madrid demanding action. Some governments, including Denmark and the Netherlands, are introducing policies to deter speculators. But real estate capital continues to hold the…

OBC on the Corsa gone again I fear 😞 Worse, it went the weekend before we were trading it in. Thankfully we had taken out an extended warranty on it (which expires in October) so the purchasing dealer is trying to see what they can do...
Bit of a faff though.

#ThrowbackThursday meets #FootpathFriday
(Dolomites, late October 2024)
#LandscapePhotography

"Jacqueline Rivault's two grandchildren, who were French citizens, were killed in October 2023 by 'two F16 missiles fired by the Israeli army.'"
French grandmother files 'genocide' complaint over Gaza killings
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/police-and-justice/article/2025/06/06/french-grandmother-files-genocide-complaint-over-gaza-killings_6742078_105.html

"South Africa to ban highly toxic pesticide Terbufos"
#SouthAfrica #Pesticides

South Africa to ban highly toxic pesticide Terbufos
In a decision welcomed by advocacy groups and researchers, South Africa’s Cabinet has approved a ban on the import of Terbufos, a highly toxic pesticide linked to the deaths of six children in a South African township in October 2024. On June 12, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, Minister of Presidency, said the ban will be accompanied by […]

“Here be dragons and sea monsters, my fellow genital cartographers, and we have a lot to learn from poking them.”
— Mira Bellwether, “Fucking Trans Women”
https://archive.org/details/fucking-trans-women-mira-bellwether-october-2010.cleaned…

#foggyfriday #RockyMountainNationalPark #elk
Misty morning in Moraine Park. October 2015

Q&A with British Library CEO Rebecca Lawrence on dealing with the aftermath of a major October 2023 cyberattack, AI scraping, AI for text analysis, and more (Mishal Husain/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-rebecca-lawrence-weekend-i…

IceCat-2: Updated IceCube Event Catalog of Alert Tracks
Angela Zegarelli (for the IceCube Collaboration), Anna Franckowiak (for the IceCube Collaboration), Giacomo Sommani (for the IceCube Collaboration), Nora Valtonen-Mattila (for the IceCube Collaboration), Tianlu Yuan (for the IceCube Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507…

IceCat-2: Updated IceCube Event Catalog of Alert Tracks
We present preliminary results for IceCat-2, the second public catalog of IceCube Alert Tracks, which plans to build and improve upon the first release, IceCat-1. The initial catalog, last updated in October 2023, included all real-time alerts issued since 2016, as well as events observed by IceCube since the start of full-detector data collection in 2011 that would have triggered an alert if the program had been in place at that time. IceCat-2 plans to expand on this by incorporating all addit…

Anyone else being ghosted since 8 months by @… for a ⌚ #PineTime warranty case? I eventually received an email in October 2024 where they confirmed they'll send me a replacement. I regularly followed up via Mastodon and email, but have been ghosted since, no react…

topology: Internet AS graph (2004)
An integrated snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from multiple sources, including the RouteViews and RIPE BGP trace collectors, route servers, looking glasses, and the Internet Routing Registry databases. This snapshot was created around October 2004.
This network has 34761 nodes and 171403 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – October 30, 2024
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Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 35 new job opportunities, 1 fellowship, 1 grant, 8 call for papers, and 11 conferences/speakers.

Colts QB Anthony Richardson out indefinitely with injury to throwing shoulder https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6406152/2025/06/05/anthony-richardson-injury-shoulder-colts-news/

South Africa to ban highly toxic pesticide Terbufos https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/07/south-africa-to-ban-highly-toxic-pesticide-terbufos/

South Africa to ban highly toxic pesticide Terbufos
In a decision welcomed by advocacy groups and researchers, South Africa’s Cabinet has approved a ban on the import of Terbufos, a highly toxic pesticide linked to the deaths of six children in a South African township in October 2024. On June 12, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, Minister of Presidency, said the ban will be accompanied by […]

5-Month Forecast: What to watch from Cowboys in October https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/5-month-forecast-what-to-watch-from-cowboys-in-october

„Area 64“ by Pal
Platform: C64
Released: Released 29 October 2016
#GFX_Pal #YR_2016 #PF_C64 #C64

Is posting wrong AI answers still a thing, or do we all just accept they're making stuff up? #ai #googlesearch #aioverview
I mean, just note that the first and last sentence are clearly contradicting each other.

From @…
Cheerful Earful Podcast Festival
MELBOURNE Dates: 3–5 October · Venue: Stupid Old Studios
Returning for its second year in Australia, Cheerful Earful’s Melbourne edition brings back fan favourites like TOFOP, Do Go On, and Plumbing the Death Star, alongside late-night hangouts and special guests at the Stupid Old Studios hub.

The world's funniest podcast festival returns - Cheerful Earful 2025 expands into the US
The beloved podcast festival returns with 15 days of live shows, over 50 podcasts, and a debut in New York City

A’s great ‘Mr. October’ to throw out 1st pitch at Battle for Vegas charity game https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/athletics/as-great-mr-october-to-throw-out-1st-pitch-at-battle-for-vegas-charity-game-…

"The RDBMS field is so young, we can actually see it grow through the pages of computer magazines of the 1980s. BYTE Magazine had its first issue dedicated to databases in November 1981, and then another one in October 1984. Dr. Dobb’s Journal did not feature an article about databases until 1984 and did not have many more throughout the decade; actually most of them were authored by Gene Head, and talk about dBASE."

The Elephant In The Room
We have often highlighted in the pages of this magazine the seemingly never-ending sequence of fashion waves hitting the software industry. We have discussed in 2020 the one impacting type systems, and more recently, another one concerning object-oriented programming. What is important in both cases is not the details of the technologies per se, but the social mechanisms at play in both situations. In this edition, we will encounter yet another example of such a clash, this time concerning rela…

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The Monte Carlo Computational Summit -- October 25 & 26, 2023 -- Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
The Monte Carlo Computational Summit was held on the campus of the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, USA on 25--26 October 2023. The goals of the summit were to discuss algorithmic and software alterations required for successfully porting respective code bases to exascale-class computing hardware, compare software engineering techniques used by various code teams, and consider the adoption of industry-standard benchmark problems to better facilitate code-to-code performance comp…

CISA, the ACSC, and the FBI say the Play ransomware gang, active since June 2022, had breached roughly 900 organizations as of May 2025, up 3x on October 2023 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Religious Studies Project Opportunites Digest – October 16, 2024
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Religious Studies Project Opportunites Digest - October 16, 2024 | The Religious Studies Project
Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 38 new job opportunities, 5 fellowships, 3 grants, 5 call for papers, 12 conferences/speakers, and 1 other opportunity.

Good to see the other states have come on board with police officer decertification policies. Rhode Island needs to get with the program.
#JusticeReform
http…

Rhode Island resists efforts at policing reform embraced by every other state
In October, a Newport County jury found that former Jamestown Police Det. Derek Carlino was negligent in his involvement in the death by suicide of a teenager. But it won’t end Carlino’s career in policing. A report commissioned by the Portsmouth School Department found Carlino had worked with a football coach to pressure fifteen-year-old Nathan […]

Ollie Madden, director of Film4 and Channel 4 drama, is leaving the broadcaster in October after an eight-year stint to join Netflix as director of UK film (Andreas Wiseman/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/ollie-madden-film4-join-netfli…

Ollie Madden Exiting Film4/Channel 4 To Join Netflix As Director Of UK Film; Farhana Bhula & Gwawr Lloyd Upped At UK Broadcaster
Ollie Madden Leaving Film4/Channel 4 To Join Netflix As Director Of UK Film;

Fuck Google
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/04/30/google-end-date-original-nest-thermostat/

Google Announces End Date for Original Nest Thermostat Support
Google has announced that first- and second-generation Nest Learning Thermostats will lose support in October 2025, disabling their connected...

if you want to read the new translation of Capital, it's 50% off until May 31st, which means there is only half as much socially-necessary labor time embodied in it
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691190075/capital

EUV Wave and Coronal Seismology
Pooja Devi, Ramesh Chandra, Arun Kumar Awasthi, Brigitte Schmieder, Reetika Joshi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01400 https://…

EUV Wave and Coronal Seismology
We present an investigation of the Extreme-Ultraviolet (EUV) wave linked to the flare that occurred on 28 October 2021, along with the associated coronal loop oscillation and type II radio burst. The EUV wave was observed by multi-viewpoint with Solar Dynamics Observatory and Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory - A. The associated coronal mass ejection (CME) was observed by Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) as well by COR1 coronagraph. From the multi-view observation, we fou…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.08277 has been replaced.
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Quantum computing from a mathematical perspective: a description of the quantum circuit model
This paper is an essentially self-contained and rigorous description of the fundamental principles of quantum computing from a mathematical perspective. It is intended to help mathematicians who want to get a grasp of this quickly growing discipline and find themselves taken aback by the language gap between mathematics and the pioneering fields on the matter: computer science and quantum physics. A first version of this paper was originally published at arXiv in October 2018. Minor corrections…

What was 1946 and close to eight decades of settler colonialism, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and now genocide, asshole?
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing

5-Month Forecast: What to watch from Cowboys in October https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/5-month-forecast-what-to-watch-from-cowboys-in-october

Dahlias, Eryngium, Verbena bonariensis, Agapanthus and Crocosmia, all in June rather than July onwards.
#ClimateChange #Gardening.

A new movie from #YorgosLanthimos in October already? Whatever, count me in!
#trailer https://www.youtube…

Do these comments in the Israeli press possibly explain what is happening in #Gaza?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun…

Do these comments in the Israeli press possibly explain what is happening in #Gaza?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun…

Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – October 23, 2024
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Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 13 new job opportunities, 2 fellowships, 2 call for papers, and 4 conferences/speakers.

"104 companies linked to 20% of global environmental conflicts, study finds"
#Business #Environment

104 companies linked to 20% of global environmental conflicts, study finds
A recent study has found that just 104 companies, mostly multinational corporations from high-income countries, are involved in a fifth of the more than 3,000 environmental conflicts it analyzed. The study examined 3,388 conflicts, involving 5,589 companies, recorded in the Global Atlas of Environmental Justice (EJAtlas) as of October 2024. The atlas is the world’s […]

Indie game devs who have made roguelikes, have them on Steam and want to be in the Steam Sale that @… is doing in October (you don't have to be a speaker at their conference to get your game in the sale!) - the form must be filled out by August 1, and it's here:

Call for Steam Event Participants 2025
Roguelike Celebration is an annual festival featuring the development, history, community, and play of roguelike games, procedural generation, and related topics. Our Steam event is an extension of the festival that seeks to highlight games from our community as well as games we think our community would like. ✨You don't have to be a speaker to be in the sale, and you don't have to have a game in the sale to be a speaker.✨ To submit your game for consideration, please fill out this form …

Verification of the Timing System for the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission in the GPS Unsynchronized Mode
Megumi Shidatsu, Yukikatsu Terada, Takashi Kominato, So Kato, Ryohei Sato, Minami Sakama, Takumi Shioiri, Yugo Motogami, Yuuki Niida, Chulsoo Kang, Toshihiro Takagi, Taichi Nakamoto, Chikara Natsukari, Makoto S. Tashiro, Kenichi Toda, Hironori Maejima, Shin Watanabe, Ryo Iizuka, Rie Sato, Chris Baluta, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Tessei Yoshida, Shoji Ogawa, Yoshiaki Kanemaru, Kotaro Fukushima, Akio Hoshino, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Shinichiro Uno, Ken Ebisawa, Satoshi Eguchi, Satoru Katsuda, Aya Kubota, Naomi Ota, Atsushi Tanimoto, Yuichi Terashima, Yohko Tsuboi, Yuusuke Uchida, Hideki Uchiyama, Shigeo Yamauchi, Tomokage Yoneyama, Satoshi Yamada, Nagomi Uchida, Matt Holland, Michael Loewenstein, Tahir Yaqoob, Eric D. Miller, Robert S. Hill, Efrain C. Perez-Solis, Morgan D. Waddy, Mark Mekosh, Joseph B. Fox, Isabella S. Brewer, Emily Aldoretta, Koji Mukai, Kenji Hamaguchi, Francois Mernier, Anna Ogorzalek, Katja Pottschmidt, Mihoko Yukita
#toXiv_bot_toot

topology: Internet AS graph (2004)
An integrated snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from multiple sources, including the RouteViews and RIPE BGP trace collectors, route servers, looking glasses, and the Internet Routing Registry databases. This snapshot was created around October 2004.
This network has 34761 nodes and 171403 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Dekker:
🎵 Maybe October
#NowPlaying #Dekker
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv

Just checked, I have a "gen 3" thermostat, good for now.
https://www.techmeme.com/250425/p29#a250425p29

Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – October 9, 2024
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Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 28 new job opportunities, 3 fellowships, 2 grants, 5 call for papers, and 3 conferences/speakers. Everyone at RSP says thank you to all who have generously supported the RSP through our Patreon and PayPal donation options! Our goal is to have 100 patrons (currently at 39!) […]

Looks like the #dana floods in Valencia last October. Massive rainfall in a matter of hours like nothing people have experienced before.
Dozens dead, many missing.
And the US Administration wants to do everything possible to slow the transition away from greenhouse gas emitting society.
Self Destruction.
#climatecrisis #endfossilfuels #climatechange #climateEmergency
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/texas-floods-search-1.7578158?cmp=rss

I remember vividly when the Fediverse immediately used the fake news about an alleged #Israel​i airstrike on al-Ahli Arab Hospital on 17 October 2023 as evidence for an ongoing genocide.
Wondering what the conclusion from the #Iran​ian airstrike on

Iranian missile strikes hit Israeli hospital
Israel is targeted by new Iranian missile strikes with several hits, among them, the Soroka Hospital in Beersheba. Israel earlier reportedly attacked a key heavy-water research reactor in Khondab. DW has more.

A bit of context that might be needed for this story about a 2010 website, is that prior to 2011 https wasn't widely used outside of e-commerce. The release of Firesheep in October 2010 led to a push for site authentication to go over https, and the 2013 Snowden revelations shifted the web towards encrypt all transmission.
https…

The CIA Secretly Ran a Star Wars Fan Site
The site, starwarsweb.net, was a covert CIA communications tool. It has pictures of Yoda and C-3PO on it.

The move to Windows 11 isn’t just about security updates.
It increases dependence on Microsoft through aggressive cloud integration,
forcing users to adopt Microsoft accounts and services.
It also leads to higher costs due to subscription and licensing models,
and reduces control over how your computer works and how your data is managed.
Furthermore, new hardware requirements will render millions of perfectly good PCs obsolete.
This is a turning point.

The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog
The Document Foundation and LibreOffice support the international campaign @endof10 https://endof10.org/ The countdown has begun. On 14 October 2025, Microsoft will end support for Windows 10. This will leave millions of users and organisations with a difficult choice: should they upgrade to Windows 11, or completely rethink their work environment? The good news? You don’t […]

Two Cases of Non-Radial Filament Eruption and Associated CME Deflection
Kostadinka Koleva, Ramesh Chandra, Pooja Devi, Peter Duchlev, Momchil Dechev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01580

Two Cases of Non-Radial Filament Eruption and Associated CME Deflection
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the multi-wavelength and multi-instrument observations of two quiescent filament eruptions as well as the deflection of associated CMEs from the radial direction. The events occurred on 18 October 2017 and 9 May 2021, respectively, in the southern solar hemisphere. Both of them and associated flares were registered by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory-Ahead (S…

Tracking the affordability of least-cost healthy diets helps guide intervention for food security and improved nutrition
William A. Masters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22965

Tracking the affordability of least-cost healthy diets helps guide intervention for food security and improved nutrition
This Policy Comment describes how the Food Policy article entitled 'Cost and affordability of nutritious diets at retail prices: Evidence from 177 countries' (first published October 2020) and 'Retail consumer price data reveal gaps and opportunities to monitor food systems for nutrition' (first published September 2021) advanced the use of least-cost benchmark diets to monitor and improve food security. Those papers contributed to the worldwide use of least-cost diets as a new diagnostic indic…

Active InSAR monitoring of building damage in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas War
Corey Scher, Jamon Van Den Hoek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14730 https://

Active InSAR monitoring of building damage in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas War
Aerial bombardment of the Gaza Strip beginning October 7, 2023 is one of the most intense bombing campaigns of the twenty-first century, driving widespread urban damage. Characterizing damage over a geographically dynamic and protracted armed conflict requires active monitoring. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has precedence for mapping disaster-induced damage with bi-temporal methods but applications to active monitoring during sustained crises are limited. Using interferometric SAR data from S…

Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?
#linux

sp_primary_school: Primary school dynamic contacts (2009)
Two temporal networks of contacts among students and teachers at a primary school in Lyon, France, on consecutive days of in October 2009. Each network accumulates all contacts over the course of a single day; contacts were sampled at 20-second intervals.
This network has 242 nodes and 125773 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

I just got email from Delta Airlines. As of October of this year, flying economy earns you zero frequent flyer miles.
That's fine, it just means that I have to discount competing brands by 5% or something when comparing, since (for instance) economy on JetBlue *will* give me miles (points).

Full Stokes magnetometry of the active M dwarfs AU Mic and EV Lac with SPIRou
J. -F. Donati, P. I. Cristofari, B. Klein, B. Finociety, C. Moutou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01754

Full Stokes magnetometry of the active M dwarfs AU Mic and EV Lac with SPIRou
We report in this paper circularly and linearly polarized observations of the young active M dwarfs AU Mic and EV Lac with the near-infrared SPIRou spectropolarimeter at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, collected from August to October 2023 over a few rotation cycles of both stars. Applying Least-Squares Deconvolution (LSD) to our spectra, we detected Zeeman signatures in circular (Stokes V) and linear (Stokes QU) polarization, and Zeeman broadening in unpolarized (Stokes I) LSD profiles, al…

#NowPlaying the rad, weird new Tuff Guac tune and video 'I Want It Too' from their new album that comes out in October. Rafael can do no wrong, man 😂🔥
https://youtu.be/qG6ThZtq-a4?si=Y9WY0E

A Broncos coach stared at life’s ‘scariest time.’ The team made sure he didn’t face it alone https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6433027/2025/06/23/broncos-zack-grossi-cancer/

Microsoft makes Windows 10's extended security updates free for an extra year for users who sync PC settings via a Microsoft Account and the Windows Backup app (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-ap

Microsoft makes Windows 10 security updates FREE for an extra year — but there's a catch, and you might not like it
Windows 10 users will have the option to continue receiving security updates for free beyond October 2025, so long as they sync their PC settings data with the cloud via a Microsoft Account.

Analyst: 'Doing the Draft Show in October' if Cowboys don't correct this Prescott issue https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/18/cowboys-prescott-mccarthy…

sp_primary_school: Primary school dynamic contacts (2009)
Two temporal networks of contacts among students and teachers at a primary school in Lyon, France, on consecutive days of in October 2009. Each network accumulates all contacts over the course of a single day; contacts were sampled at 20-second intervals.
This network has 242 nodes and 125773 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

„Magician Among the Spirits“ by Slayer
Platform: Amiga
Released: 22 October 2022
Specification: 320x256px, 32 colors
Note: 1st in the Decrunch 2022 Amiga Pixel Graphics competition
#GFX_Slayer #YR_2022

MY HERO ACADEMIA FINAL SEASON PV
STARTS AIRING October 2025
#MyHeroAcademia

#CFP: AAR-Southeast Conference Theme: Shifting Identities and Fractured Communities
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The Call for Papers for the 2026 Meeting is live! Submissions due October 1, 2025
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#CFP: AAR-Southeast Conference Theme: Shifting Identities and Fractured Communities
The Call for Papers for the 2026 Meeting is live! Submissions due October 1, 2025

#silentSunday #RockyMountainNationalPark
View from Many Parks Curve. October 2016

sp_primary_school: Primary school dynamic contacts (2009)
Two temporal networks of contacts among students and teachers at a primary school in Lyon, France, on consecutive days of in October 2009. Each network accumulates all contacts over the course of a single day; contacts were sampled at 20-second intervals.
This network has 242 nodes and 125773 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

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X-ray polarization observations of NGC 2110 with IXPE
X-ray polarimetric observations from the Imaging X-ray Polarimeter Explorer (IXPE) is an excellent tool for probing the geometry and dynamics of X-ray emitting corona in active galactic nuclei (AGN). This work aims to investigate the geometry of the X-ray corona in the Seyfert 2 AGN, NGC 2110, using its first polarimetric observation with IXPE, conducted over a net exposure of 554 ks beginning on October 16, 2024. We performed a model-independent analysis of the 2-8 keV IXPE polarimetric observ…

Titans WR Treylon Burks out to 'prove myself right' in comeback from torn ACL https://www.nfl.com/news/titans-wr-treylon-burks-out-to-prove-myself-right-in-comeback-from-torn-acl

And yes... of course he ...
"It should come as no surprise that after the massacres of October 7, 2023, all the loudest voices from the residential-schools “activism” immediately merged with the loudest voices in the ‘From Turtle Island to Palestine’ histrionics."
It's a wonder he sleeps at night with the spirits of innocent victims of genocidal governments swirling around him.
#palestine #israel #gaza
#genocide #canpoli #cdnpoli #indigenous #everychildMatters #canada #residentialschools

Amsterdam-based Tebi, which offers a payments platform for hospitality companies, raised €30M led by CapitalG, after a €20M Series A in October 2024 (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/10/tebi

Tebi, the new startup by Adyen's departed cofounder, raises a fresh $30M from Alphabet's CapitalG | TechCrunch
Co-founded by Adyen's former CTO, Tebi helps restaurants, bars and other hospitality businesses manage their operations with an all-in-one subscription-based platform that can handle payments, reservations, inventory, and more.

„No signal, 1081-head in the glitchy CGA swamp“ by z3k
Platform: Amiga
Released: 1 October 2022
Specification: 320x240px 66 colors
Note: 1st in the Flashparty 2022 Oldschool Pixel Art competition
#GFX_z3k #YR_2022

email_eu: Email network (EU research inst.)
An email network (anonymized) from a large European research institution, collected from October 2003 to May 2005 (18 months). Each node corresponds to an email address, and a directed edge exists between nodes i and j, if i sent at least one message to j.
This network has 265214 nodes and 420045 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted

Henry Ruggs breaks silence on fatal car crash, says he would 'love' to play for Raiders again

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/henry-r

Carlton Cemetery, Nottingham, September 2023
#photography #ukphotographer #nottingham #documentingplaces

email_eu: Email network (EU research inst.)
An email network (anonymized) from a large European research institution, collected from October 2003 to May 2005 (18 months). Each node corresponds to an email address, and a directed edge exists between nodes i and j, if i sent at least one message to j.
This network has 265214 nodes and 420045 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted

„Duck It“ by Pal
Platform: C64
Released: 25 October 2014
Note: 1st in the X 2014 Graphics competition
#GFX_Pal #YR_2014 #PF_C64

topology: Internet AS graph (2004)
An integrated snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from multiple sources, including the RouteViews and RIPE BGP trace collectors, route servers, looking glasses, and the Internet Routing Registry databases. This snapshot was created around October 2004.
This network has 34761 nodes and 171403 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

John Lynch: 49ers WR Brandon Aiyuk doing 'tremendous job coming back' from knee injury https://www.nfl.com/news/john-lynch-49ers-wr-brandon-ayiuk-tremendous-job-coming-back-knee-injury

BBC bias on Israel
From Jonathan Cook. (Substack link, sorry.)
"In a confrontation with BBC news chief Richard Burgess, journalist Peter Oborne sets out six ways the state broadcaster has wilfully misled audiences on Israel's destruction of Gaza"
For example,
"... the distinguished Israeli historian Avi Shlaim lives in the UK and teaches at Oxford University. ... Shlaim is both knowledgeable about the history of Israeli colonisation of Palestine and truly independent. He is in a position to dispassionately provide the context BBC audiences need to make judgments about what is going on and who is responsible for it.
"And yet extraordinarily, Shlaim has never been invited on by the BBC. ... He is one of the prominent Israelis we are never allowed to hear from, because they are likely to make more credible and mainstream a narrative the BBC wishes to present as fringe, loopy and antisemitic."
Plus some media analysis stats such as:
"The BBC mentioned “occupation” – the essential context for understanding the relationship between Israel and Palestinians – only 14 times in news articles when providing context to the events of 7 October 2023. That amounted to 0.3% of articles. Additional context – decades of Israeli apartheid rule and Israel’s 17-year blockade of Gaza — were entirely missing from the coverage."
#Israel #Palestine #history #Gaza #media #BBC #JonathanCook

Results from the Pan-STARRS Search for Kilonovae: Contamination by Massive Stellar Outbursts
M. D. Fulton, S. J. Smartt, M. E. Huber, K. W. Smith, K. C. Chambers, M. Nicholl, S. Srivastav, D. R. Young, E. A. Magnier, C. -C. Lin, P. Minguez, T. de Boer, T. Lowe, R. Wainscoat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07082

Results from the Pan-STARRS Search for Kilonovae: Contamination by Massive Stellar Outbursts
We present results from the Pan-STARRS optical search for kilonovae without the aid of gravitational wave and gamma-ray burst triggers. The search was conducted from 26 October 2019 to 15 December 2022. During this time, we reported 29,740 transients observed by Pan-STARRS to the IAU Transient Name Server. Of these, 175 were Pan-STARRS credited discoveries that had a host galaxy within 200 Mpc and had discovery absolute magnitudes M > -16.5. A subset of 11 transients was plausibly identified as…

#CFP: AAR-Southeast Conference Theme: Shifting Identities and Fractured Communities #acrel #Religidons #AARSBL

#CFP: AAR-Southeast Conference Theme: Shifting Identities and Fractured Communities
The Call for Papers for the 2026 Meeting is live! Submissions due October 1, 2025