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The design of the museum has morphed over the years, from a dark, curvaceous amoeba-like form that echoed the nearby La Brea Tar Pits to a design that retains the curves up top but shifts to rectilinear glass on the galleries level below
After five years of construction, so much debate about its scale, design and ambitions, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art held its first event Thursday night inside the Peter Zumthor-designed building

LACMA opens its new building for a sneak peak: Photos from the first preview
Los Angeles County Museum of Art's long-awaited David Geffen Galleries building opens for a sneak peak Thursday -- the first look inside the raw, empty interior of architect Peter Zumthor's poured concrete creation.

The Bills are going to win the Super Bowl*, plus Alcaraz's reign https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6609558/2025/09/08/bills-ravens-comeback-week-1-the-pulse/

Symplectic Hamiltonian Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Linearized Shallow Water Equations
C. N\'u\~nez (Facultad de Matem\'aticas, Pontificia Universidad Cat\'olica de Chile, Santiago, Chile), M. A. S\'anchez (Instituto de Ingenier\'ia Matem\'atica y Computacional, Facultad de Matem\'aticas y Escuela de Ingenier\'ia, Pontificia Universidad Cat\'olica de Chile, Santiago, Chile)

Symplectic Hamiltonian Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Linearized Shallow Water Equations
This paper focuses on the numerical approximation of the linearized shallow water equations using hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) methods, leveraging the Hamiltonian structure of the evolution system. First, we propose an equivalent formulation of the equations by introducing an auxiliary variable. Then, we discretize the space variables using HDG methods, resulting in a semi-discrete scheme that preserves a discrete version of the Hamiltonian structure. The use of an alternative form…

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The Seven Deadly UX Sins of the #Fediverse Web Experience
https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/…

Oh happy day! Saw my first ever tūī in Ōtautahi! It was feeding in a flowering tree I didn't recognize on the north eastern hillside of our valley, below the Sign of the Kiwi...

There's no Top of the Pops #TOTP tonight because some people are sitting in a field in Somerset, but of course I'm not going to let a little thing like that stop me from wittering on about Old Time Music.
Anyway I've just relistened (for the first time in about a bazillion years) to Ballroom Blitz by the Sweet. And however much we laugh about glam rock, you can't deny it's a glorious joyful piece of music.
#70sMusic #GlamRock

A look at seven UX issues in the Fediverse web experience, including complex onboarding, the lack of a dedicated DM UI wrapper, and fragmented user discovery (Tim Chambers)
https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/18/113327.html

The Seven Deadly UX Sins of the Fediverse Web Experience (To Fix)
So, confession time: I was recently helping a new client get set up on the Fediverse—guiding them through their first steps into our glorious decentralized galaxy. And seeing it all again through fresh eyes? Reader, it was brutal. So much of what should be table stakes for any social media UX in the year of our Lord 2025 still is missing or deeply broken still. I know progress has been made and a good fight, fought.

Projection-based stabilization for high-order incompressible flow solvers
Antonio Blanco-Casares, Vishal Kumar, Daniel Mira, Oriol Lehmkuhl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04352 http…

Projection-based stabilization for high-order incompressible flow solvers
This work presents a novel stabilization strategy for the Galerkin formulation of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, developed to achieve high accuracy while ensuring convergence and compatibility with high-order elements on unstructured meshes. The numerical algorithm employs a fractional step method with carefully defined boundary conditions to obtain a consistent pressure field, enabling high-order temporal accuracy. The proposed stabilization is seamlessly integrated into the algor…

AI bots that scrape the internet for training data are hammering the servers of libraries, archives, museums, and galleries,
and are in some cases knocking their collections offline,
according to a new survey published today.
While the impact of AI bots on open collections has been reported anecdotally,
this survey is the first attempt at measuring the problem,
which in the worst cases can make valuable, public resources unavailable to humans
because the…

AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”

A quasi-Trefftz space for a second order time-harmonic Maxwell's equation
Lise-Marie Imbert-G\'erard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00193 https://arxiv…

A quasi-Trefftz space for a second order time-harmonic Maxwell's equation
Quasi-Trefftz methods are a family of Discontinuous Galerkin methods relying on equation-dependent function spaces. This work is the first study of the notion of local Taylor-based polynomial quasi-Trefftz space for a system of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). These discrete spaces are introduced here for electro-magnetic wave propagation in inhomogeneous media, governed by a second order formulation of Maxwell's equation with variable coefficients. Thanks to an adequate Helmholtz decompo…