Tootfinder

Whoa. New science. These ant queens produce babies of two different species.
https://www.404media.co/the-biological-rulebook-was-just-rewritten-by-ants/?ref=the-abstract-newsletter

The Biological Rulebook Was Just Rewritten—by Ants
Iberian harvester ant queens clone males of a different species in a never-before-seen case of reproduction and domestication.

Shadow and Quasi-Normal Modes of Schwarzschild-Hernquist Black Hole
Xing-Hui Feng, Guang-Yu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04001 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Shadow and Quasi-Normal Modes of Schwarzschild-Hernquist Black Hole
In this paper we study the shadow and quasi-normal modes (QNMs) of a black hole (BH) surrounded by a dark matter halo with Hernquist-type density distribution, which was reported in Ref. \cite{Cardoso:2021wlq}. In astrophysical scenarios, we find that the shadow radius enlarges as the compactness of halo increases. Therefore, we obtain an upper bound for the compactness ${\cal C}\le0.092$ with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations. We calculate axial gravitational QNMs of the galactic …

An alliance for Cascadia's health
This week, reacting to the meltdown of the CDC under HHS leader and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the governors of three west coast states – Washington, Oregon, and California – announced the creation of the West Coast Health Alliance that will center their vaccine and other public health policies on science rather than politics. Hawaii announced this week it will also join the alliance.

An alliance for Cascadia's health
This week, reacting to the meltdown of the CDC under HHS leader and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the governors of three west coast states – Washington, Oregon, and California – announced the creation of the West Coast Health Alliance that will center their vaccine and other public health policies on

It’s opportunistic but I’m drunk so sod it: if you want to buy me a book for my birthday, here’s what I want to read: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/2A169UYO51WU0?ref_=wl_share

@… When and why, and by whom COLORADO CITY, TEXAS was settled by ?
/ref

Kulturkampfminister.
https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/kulturstaatsminister-weimer-verbot-von-gendersprache-im-bundeskanzleramt-a-93cc9c8d-afef-4ee2-a287-f1c5da1b1c64?sara_ref=re-xx…

Kampf gegen Sternchen, Unterstrich, Doppelpunkt: Kulturstaatsminister Weimer bevorzugt »Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren«
In dienstlichen Schreiben des Bundeskanzleramtes sind gendergerechte Formulierungen ab sofort untersagt, das hat Kulturstaatsminister Wolfram Weimer mitgeteilt. Gendern beschädige die Schönheit der deutschen Sprache.

Und ich sag noch, alles Touch ist ein Irrweg. schön, wenn das so langsam wieder bei den Autofirmen ankommt. Hyundai bisher angenehm stabil
„Auch hat das neue Auto mehr Knöpfe zum Bedienen, statt der bei VW-Fans verhassten Touch-Slider. »Ein richtiger Volkswagen«, schwärmt Schäfer.“

Neue E-Autos: Darum setzt VW wieder auf den Polo
VW will mit bewährtem Namen und Design an vergangene Erfolge anknüpfen. Der ID.Polo wird sogar wieder mehr Bedienknöpfe haben.

I think this is my favourite C macro to this day.
Also, TIL you can put while loops in there, and some people actually DO that.
Ghidra is easier to read here. xD
for ref:
https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/blob/

Great Guides From benja0x40 on Reddit
[Guide] Accessing Linux Duplicity Backups on Ext4 USB Drive from Apple Silicon Macs (2025)
Tips & Guides
I recently needed to access and selectively restore files from large Duplicity backups stored on an Ext4 USB drive, and created by DéjŠ Dup on an Ubuntu Linux server...

Three old posts updated this afternoon, but linking to the same ref:
• https://adrianroselli.com/2020/11/under-engineered-responsive-tables.html#Update05
•

Under-Engineered Responsive Tables
I have written a bunch about responsive tables. Maybe too much. I keep trying to give developers the information they need to make informed decisions — ARIA attributes, screen reader & browser pairing results, bugs, and so on. I have spread things out over years of posts. I have filed…

Still contributing the occasional PR via github, but adding a note encouraging people to leave
https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/pull/11082#issuecomment-3219409552

#KI durfte Verkaufsautomaten betreiben und scheiterte spektakulär
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000276648/k…

"You not believing it doesn't make it true. You not understanding it doesn't mean it isn't understood. Your ignorance give you no authority. Your skepticism doesn't make you wise."
https://www.the-reframe.com/your-ignorance-doesnt-make-you-an-expert/?ref=the-reframe-newsletter

#UkAcademia question: I see references to the "REF" a lot, including needing to publish papers that get a specific REF "rating" like 3* or 4*. Anyone knows what these stars mean and how do they decide how many stars your papers get?
#Academia

Event-by-event vortex rings in fixed-target p Ar collisions
David Chinellato, Michael Lisa, Willian Serenone, Chun Shen, Jun Takahashi, Giorgio Torrieri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00512

Event-by-event vortex rings in fixed-target p+Ar collisions
We present event-by-event simulations for central asymmetric p+Ar collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} = 68$ GeV to investigate the formation and evolution of vortex-ring structures from the early-stage longitudinal flow velocity profile. Our predictions for their imprints on Lambda hyperon's polarization observables are complementary to those presented in Ref. [Phys.Rev.C 110 (2024) 5, 054908] and can be explored in the future fixed-target collisions at the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) e…

Neues von den Orkas: Sie benutzen und basteln sich Werkzeuge.
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00450-6?ref=404media.co

Ich habe mir - zu kaum was anderem wegen der Hitze in der Lage - einige Episoden von #ZeroDay angeschaut.
Ich mag Robert de Niro. Ein klasse Schauspieler.
DIe Episoden lassen mich immer wieder an Darth #Trump denken. Auch so ein egomaner und selbstherrlicher Paranoiker - unfähig zur Selbstkritik.

Zero Day (Miniserie 2025) ⭐ 7.0 | Drama, Thriller
50m | 16

„In den kommenden Jahren wird die Nostalgie-Nomenklatur durch die ganze Modellpalette gezogen. Denn wer ID.Polo sagt, muss im kommenden Jahr auch ID.Tiguan sagen statt wie bisher ID.4. Der ID.1, dessen Design Schäfer im März präsentiert hat, wird nach dieser Logik ab 2027 wohl ID.Up heißen, der heutige ID.7 wird in der nächsten Generation voraussichtlich zum ID.Passat. Der ID.3, das ist schon sicher, muss in einigen Jahren dem ID.Golf weichen.“
IMHO guter Kompromiss.

Neue E-Autos: Darum setzt VW wieder auf den Polo
VW will mit bewährtem Namen und Design an vergangene Erfolge anknüpfen. Der ID.Polo wird sogar wieder mehr Bedienknöpfe haben.

Interested in #IntellectualHistory, #NeoLatin, and/or #DigitalHumanities? Looking for a funded PhD position (3 years, 75%)? Come join my excellent colleague Christoph Sander and his

PhD researcher (m/f/x)

Engineers turn toxic ancient tomb fungus into anti-cancer drug
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-toxic-ancient-tomb-fungus-anti.html?ICID=ref_fark

hah! https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/27/politics/andrew-cuomo-mayors-race-rebrand?ref=hellgatenyc.com

Glasgow City Council hit by cyber attack as warning issued
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25266300.warning-glasgow-city-council-hit-cyber-attack/?ref=rss&mid=1#cid=2937380

What I really like about Rust is how much it feels like the code is practically writing itself thanks to all the excellent crates out there.
Once again, I am making great use of the zerocopy crate, specifically Ref:
https://docs.rs/zerocopy/latest/zerocopy/struct.Ref.html

Was für ein Ballwechsel! - #Tischtennis
Als erster Europäer gewinnt der schwedische Tischtennisspieler Truls Möregardh ein Grand-Smash-Turnier.

Bastien Fachan (@BastienFachan) on X
This is insane: Truls Moregard won the Europe Smash (equivalent of a Grand Slam in tennis) on this MONSTER rally... ...score at three sets all, 10-9 in the deciding set 🤯

TIL Ben Feldman and Reid Scott are not the same person.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1169428/?ref_=tt_cst_i_4
https://www.…

Reid Scott | Actor, Writer, Producer
Known for: Veep, The Big C, My Boys

Check out I Don't Write About Girls by Marcin feat. Ichika Nito on Amazon Music
https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0D5DCLF4L?trackAsin=B0D5DCLF4M&do=play&ts=1750437613&ref=dm_sh_4hj6HTTKIHglFy…

Comment on "Quantum tunneling from Schwarzschild black hole in non-commutative gauge theory of gravity"
A. A. Ara\'ujo Filho, Iarley P. Lobo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22965

Comment on "Quantum tunneling from Schwarzschild black hole in non-commutative gauge theory of gravity"
The particle creation via quantum tunneling was recently calculated for the Schwarzschild non-commutative black hole solution in Ref. [Phys. Lett. B 848 (2024) 138335, e-Print: 2310.02445 [gr-qc]]. Nevertheless, it contains inconsistencies in the calculations that need to be properly corrected. In particular, the event horizon was incorrectly determined in that work, which affected all the subsequent calculations. Moreover, the same issue have been repeated elsewhere by the same authors in Refs…

The Proof Analysis Problem
Noel Arteche, Albert Atserias, Susanna F. de Rezende, Erfan Khaniki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16956 https://

The Proof Analysis Problem
Atserias and Müller (JACM, 2020) proved that for every unsatisfiable CNF formula $φ$, the formula $\operatorname{Ref}(φ)$, stating "$φ$ has small Resolution refutations", does not have subexponential-size Resolution refutations. Conversely, when $φ$ is satisfiable, Pudlák (TCS, 2003) showed how to construct a polynomial-size Resolution refutation of $\operatorname{Ref}(φ)$ given a satisfying assignment of $φ$. A question that remained open is: do all short Resolution refutations of $\op…

On a non-commutative sixth $q$-Painlev\'e system: from discrete system to surface theory
Irina Bobrova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22466 https://arxiv.o…

On a non-commutative sixth $q$-Painlevé system: from discrete system to surface theory
In this paper, we describe the non-commutative formal geometry underlying a certain class of discrete integrable systems. Our main example is a non-commutative analog, labeled \ref{eq:qPA3}, of the sixth $q$-Painleve equation. The system \ref{eq:qPA3} is constructed by postulating an extended birational representation of the extended affine Weyl group $\widetilde{W}$ of type $D_5^{(1)}$ and by selecting the same translation element in $\widetilde{W}$ as in the commutative case. Starting from th…

https://www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue-with-an-ai-booster/?ref=ed-zitrons-wheres-your-ed-at-newsletter
Yep, Ed Zitron did it again. Mind you, I didn't finish it yet, because it's 16.000 words. Yes, that's serio…

Snoop dog. Ehemaliger Krimineller und ex-Gang Mitglied. Einer Gang, die für ein außergewöhnlich hohes Maß an Gewalt bekannt ist, zittert vor Angst einen Film mit LGBTQ I Personen zu sehen.
Mit einer offene Gesellschaft Kriminalität bekämpfen. Wer hätte das gedacht.

Podcastauftritt: Snoop Dogg spricht sich gegen LGBTQ+-Paare in Kinderfilmen aus
US-Rapper Snoop Dogg hat die Darstellung von LGBTQ+-Personen in Kinderfilmen kritisiert. Er habe jetzt »Angst«, mit seinen Enkeln ins Kino zu gehen, nachdem in einem Pixarfilm ein lesbisches Paar gezeigt wurde.

Apropos Banane.
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000280247/ber252hmtes-kunstwerk-millionenschwere-banane-verputzt?ref=niewidget

Berühmtes Kunstwerk: Millionenschwere Banane in Museum verspeist – schon wieder
Ein Besucher des Centre Pompidou-Metz hat die bekannte Arbeit "Comedian" des italienischen Künstlers Maurizio Cattelan gegessen. Wie schmecken sechs Millionen Dollar?

re the The fuckity-fuck cycle -
Reminds me of the" 1950s in the United States are often characterized by a strong emphasis on conformity, particularly within the white, middle-class society. This era saw the rise of the suburbs, with mass-produced homes and consumer goods, reinforcing a sense of sameness."
via @…

This is the stuff of nightmares. But who needs to sleep anyways…? AI certainly doesn’t.
AI 2027 https://ai-2027.com/?ref=marketermilk

'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community
https://www.404media.co/a-black-hole-of-energy-use-metas-massive-ai-data-center-is-stressing-out-a-louisiana-community/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

Too little, too late
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000274628/ex-us-praesident-obama-warnt-vor-autokratie-in-den-usa?ref=mastodon

Ex-US-Präsident Obama warnt vor Autokratie in den USA
Wenn sich die US-Regierung nicht an die Verfassung halte, laufen die USA Gefahr "in etwas abzudriften, das nicht mit der amerikanischen Demokratie vereinbar ist", sagte der Ex-US-Präsident

There's obviously something like a Rule 34-C: no matter what your fetish is, there's a crowdfunding for a device to help you enjoy it.
Groove Thing | The World's First Internal Music Player https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/groov…

@… Thank you for fixing these!
When I try to upgrade, I get a strange error:
```
$ nix run'git https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/li

Incredibly strong post about #genAI and journalism:
https://www.404media.co/the-medias-pivot-to-ai-is-not-real-and-not-going-t…

The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work
AI is not going to save media companies, and forcing journalists to use AI is not a business model.

Comments on Exploring Quantum Statistics for Dirac and Majorana Neutrinos using Spinor-Helicity technique (arXiv:2507.07180 [hep-ph])
C. S. Kim, M. V. N. Murthy, Dibyakrupa Sahoo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14463

Comments on Exploring Quantum Statistics for Dirac and Majorana Neutrinos using Spinor-Helicity technique (arXiv:2507.07180 [hep-ph])
We give our comments on Ref. [1](arXiv:2507.07180) which critiques our idea of exploring quantum statistics to distinguish between Dirac and Majorana neutrinos proposed in some of our earlier works. We show that the ad-hoc symmetrization of the Dirac case amplitude square advocated in Eqs. (16) and (35) of [1], have no physical basis and it leads to violation of lepton number in the the standard model. Therefore, we consider this symmetrization by hand as incorrect and misleading. Moreover, we …

On the generalized Komar charge of Kaluza-Klein theories and higher-form symmetries
G. Barbagallo, J. L. V. Cerdeira, C. G\'omez-Fayr\'en, P. Meessen, T. Ort\'in
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15615

On the generalized Komar charge of Kaluza-Klein theories and higher-form symmetries
The generalized Komar $(d-2)$-form charge can be modified by the addition of any other on-shell closed (conserved) $(d-2)$-form charge. We show that, with Kaluza--Klein boundary conditions, one has to add a charge related to the higher-form symmetry identified in Ref.~\cite{Gomez-Fayren:2024cpl} to the naive Komar charge of pure 5-dimensional gravity to obtain a conserved charge charge whose integral at spatial infinity gives the mass. The new term also contains the contribution of the Kaluza--…

Teslas Robotaxi fährt jetzt – aber nur, wenn die Sonne scheint, der Regen ausbleibt und ein Tesla-Mitarbeiter auf dem Beifahrersitz brav winkt. Autonom? Eher autonom-isch! Der große Sprung nach vorn sieht aus wie ein Beta-Test auf Rädern. Waymo fährt längst, #Tesla feiert noch das Versprechen von 2016. Willkommen in der PR-Zone! (

Tesla Robotaxi Analyse – Der grosse Bluff in Austin
Tesla hat es mal wieder geschafft, die Schlagzeilen zu dominieren. Mit dem offiziellen Start des Robotaxi-Services in Austin, Texas, suggeriert das Unternehmen einen technologischen Quantensprung. Doch was steckt wirklich dahinter? Ein genauer Blick zeigt: Wenig Technologie, viel Inszenierung... und jede Menge alter Versprechen. Wenn ihr MeTacheles direkt unterstuetzen wollt, dann

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PacificNotions
Brandee Younger:
🎵 Reflection Eternal
#BrandeeYounger
https://brandee.bandcamp.com/track/reflection-eternal
https://open.spotify.com/track/7wLH62MhVqsqbLxdYUkctr

ICE is Trump’s 21st Century Gestapo
https://www.404media.co/ice-is-using-a-new-facial-recognition-app-to-identify-people-leaked-emails-show/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

The ref cam is also stupid. The perspective is way too distant and the jostling of video on a running human without stabilizing technology is too ridiculous to actually show anything.
PGMOL can’t even get VAR right with umpteen HD replays, so maybe they’re happy to have a ragged replay as a face-saving charade.
If it was accurately synced to what Simon Hooper saw, large sections of the game would be blank screens. He’s hopeless. I don’t need a camera affixed to his chest to see t…

Revisiting Coincident GR in Internal STEGR Formulation
Kyosuke Tomonari, Taishi Katsuragawa, Shin'ichi Nojiri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22158 https://…

Revisiting Coincident GR in Internal STEGR Formulation
We revisit Coincident General Relativity (CGR) in the gauge approach to gravity based on Symmetric Teleparallel Equivalent to General Relativity (STEGR) in the {\it internal-space formulation}, which one of the authors recently proposed in Ref.~[J. Math. Phys. 66 (2025) 5, 052505]. First, we review the standard formulation of STEGR theories in the Palatini approach to gravity, in which formulation we impose the teleparallel and torsion-free conditions by using Lagrange multipliers. Second, we i…

Lamb, in street garb, trucked by ref, then flagged https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45934617/ceedee-lamb-flagged-getting-hit-ref-wr-street-clothes-sideline

Viral CeeDee Lamb ref collision gets perfect response from Cowboys star https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/viral-ceedee-lamb-ref-collision-perfect-response-dallas-cowboys-star

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#JunkDrawerASongOrPoem

Watching Get Over It which I had never seen but has every IT actor from 2001. It's wild.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0192071/?ref_=ext_shr

Jessica Wildfire: We Live Under Authoritarian Rule
https://www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/we-live-under-authoritarian-rule/?ref=the-sentinel-intelligence-newsletter
> It's time to act like it.

We Live Under Authoritarian Rule
It's time to act like it.

Great piece by Nik Suresh from last year, 'I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again'
"I started working as a data scientist in 2019, and by 2021 I had realized that while the field was large, it was also largely fraudulent. Most of the leaders that I was working with clearly had not gotten as far as reading about it for thirty minutes despite insisting that things like, I dunno, the next five years of a ten thousand person non-tech organization should be entir…

hey quick question
what drugs were the RMII people on
multiplexing a fully asynchronous signal (CRS) with a fully synchronous signal (DV) to get this weird... half-asynchronous-half-synchronous thing where *some* rising edges are referenced to REF_CLK and some are not, but all falling edges are
what is wrong with them? and more importantly how the fuck are you supposed to use it in a MAC??

OMFG
"A hacker compromised a version of Amazon’s popular AI coding assistant ‘Q’, added commands that told the software to wipe users’ computers, and then Amazon included the unauthorized update in a public release of the assistant this month"
https://www.

Hacker Plants Computer 'Wiping' Commands in Amazon's AI Coding Agent
The wiping commands probably wouldn't have worked, but a hacker who says they wanted to expose Amazon’s AI “security theater” was able to add code to Amazon’s popular ‘Q’ AI assistant for VS Code, which Amazon then pushed out to users.

Glassholes 4.0 - who would have thought that this is the usecase for these devices.
https://www.404media.co/a-cbp-agent-wore-meta-smart-glasses-to-an-immigration-raid-in-los-angeles/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

Por si acaso estoy de cumpleaños el 19 de julio 🙄
Ref: https://www.rockaxis.com/vanguardia/noticia/46983/ya-esta-disponible-la-nueva-version-remasterizada-de-peluson-of-milk-de-luis-al…

For some time I have been debating getting one of those phone cooling fan that I have heard @… talk about on episodes of @…. I ordered one a few days ago and it arrived tonight. I have an iPhone 12 Pro Max running iOS 26 Beta 4…

WhatsApp is leaking to Meta and Telegram is leaking to Russia. Let’s meet on signal, k?
https://mastodon.derstandard.at/@web/114702149410538498

On the spectral theory in the Fock space with polynomial eigenfunctions
A. V. Turbiner (deceased), N. L. Vasilevski (deceased)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05924 https://

On the spectral theory in the Fock space with polynomial eigenfunctions
The notion of the eigenvalue problem in the Fock space with polynomial eigenfunctions is introduced. This problem is classified by using the finite-dimensional representations of the $\mathfrak{sl}(2)$-algebra in Fock space. In the complex representation of the 3-dimensional Heisenberg algebra, proposed by Turbiner-Vasilevski (2021) in Ref.7, this construction is reduced to the linear differential operators in $(\frac{\partial}{\partial \overline{z}}\,,\,\frac{\partial}{\partial z})$ acting on …

Mein toller neuer Kollege Christoph Sander startet demnächst sein ERC-Projekt @… bei uns am CERES @…. Eine erste Promotionsstelle (75%, 3 Jahre) ist schon ausgeschrieben:

PhD researcher (m/f/x)

Ford plant für 2027 einen elektrischen #PickUp in #Mittelgröße zum Einstiegspreis von 30.000 Dollar.
Im Unterschied zu Konkurrenten wie Slate Auto soll das Modell ohne Komfortverzicht auskommen. Möglich machen das neue Produktionsverfahren und eine eigene EV-Plattform mit Lithium-…

Ford verspricht elektrischen Pick-up-Truck um 30.000 Dollar
Das "mittelgroße" Fahrzeug soll bereits 2027 erhältlich werden

Tunneling conductance in superconducting junctions with $p$-wave unconventional magnets breaking time-reversal symmetry
Yuri Fukaya, Keiji Yada, Yukio Tanaka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13372

Tunneling conductance in superconducting junctions with $p$-wave unconventional magnets breaking time-reversal symmetry
A new type of magnet called $p$-wave unconventional magnet is proposed, stimulated by the discovery of altermagnet. We study the tunneling conductance of $p$-wave unconventional magnet/superconductor junctions by adopting the effective Hamiltonian of $p$-wave unconventional magnets with time-reversal symmetry breaking, suggested in Ref [arXiv: 2309.01607 (2024)]. The tunneling conductance shows an asymmetric behavior with respect to bias voltage in the helical $p$-wave superconductor junctions.…

"**The wiping commands probably wouldn't have worked, but a hacker who says they wanted to expose Amazon’s AI “security theater” was able to add code to Amazon’s popular ‘Q’ AI assistant for VS Code, Amazon then pushed out to users.**"
Hacker Plants Computer 'Wiping' Commands in Amazon's AI Coding Agent
https://www.404media.co/hacker-plants-computer-wiping-commands-in-amazons-ai-coding-agent/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

Quantum cosmological perturbations in bouncing models with mimetic dark matter
Idaiane L. Machado, D\^eivid R. da Silva, Nelson Pinto-Neto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06901

Quantum cosmological perturbations in bouncing models with mimetic dark matter
We calculate the power spectrum of cosmological perturbations originated from quantum vacuum fluctuations in bouncing scenarios proposed in Ref.~\cite{chamseddine2014cosmology} in the framework of mimetic cosmology. We show that all physically relevant models produce scale invariant spectral indices, and amplitudes compatible with observations provided that the bounce occurs at length scales $t_0$ inside the physically reasonable interval $10^5 l_p < t_0 < 10^9 l_p$. We also show that by slight…

from Cascadia Journal
The Seattle Times reports that two wildland firefighters working on the Bear Gulch fire in Washington's Olympic mountains were arrested by federal border agents
https://www.msn.com/en-us…

Modified L\"uscher zeta-function and the modified effective range expansion in the presence of a long-range force
Rishabh Bubna, Hans-Werner Hammer, Bai-Long Hoid, Jin-Yi Pang, Akaki Rusetsky, Jia-Jun Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18399

Modified Lüscher zeta-function and the modified effective range expansion in the presence of a long-range force
An efficient numerical algoritm is proposed for the calculation of the modified Lüscher zeta-function in the presence of a long-range force. Using the formalism developed in Ref.~\cite{Bubna:2024izx} for the analysis of synthetic data on the finite-volume energy levels in a toy model, it is demonstrated that, in contrast to the standard Lüscher approach, the truncation of the higher partial waves has very little effect on the final result. Furthermore, the regularization and renormalization o…

The Anarchist's Cookbook for Fonts
A Must read
The Arialpocalypse
https://brilliantcrank.com/the-arialpocalypse-default-thinking-ate-the-world/?ref=brilliantcrank-newsletter
via @…

Gratuliert @… !
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000274468/214sterreich…

Österreichische Zeichnerin Ulli Lust gewinnt Deutschen Sachbuchpreis
Die Künstlerin wurde für ihren detailreichen Sachcomic "Die Frau als Mensch" in Hamburg ausgezeichnet. Der Preis ist mit 25.000 Euro dotiert

Rechte haben ein kindisches Faible für Flaggen, Fackeln, Feinde, Flüchtlinge, Fake News und so weiter.
Da hat wohl jemand die wehenden Fahnen der #Nazis mit Hakenkreuz als Vorbild vor Augen.
Man sollte sich zweimal überlegen, wem man welches Gebäude verkauft.
#AfD

Bützow in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: Großer Bahnhof für die AfD
Wer mit dem Zug zwischen Rostock und Schwerin unterwegs ist, passiert einen Kleinbahnhof, der seit Kurzem AfD-Optik trägt. Fahrgäste sind schockiert, der Eigentümer des Gebäudes sieht den »Bürgerwillen« repräsentiert, die Bahn zeigt sich machtlos.

On some level I find it hilarious that the announcers are always like "the ref has said the sky is red so I guess it is infact red"
#nwsl

REF-VC: Robust, Expressive and Fast Zero-Shot Voice Conversion with Diffusion Transformers
Yuepeng Jiang, Ziqian Ning, Shuai Wang, Chengjia Wang, Mengxiao Bi, Pengcheng Zhu, Lei Xie, Zhonghua Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04996

REF-VC: Robust, Expressive and Fast Zero-Shot Voice Conversion with Diffusion Transformers
In real-world voice conversion applications, environmental noise in source speech and user demands for expressive output pose critical challenges. Traditional ASR-based methods ensure noise robustness but suppress prosody, while SSL-based models improve expressiveness but suffer from timbre leakage and noise sensitivity. This paper proposes REF-VC, a noise-robust expressive voice conversion system. Key innovations include: (1) A random erasing strategy to mitigate the information redundancy inh…

Nº 23 Aila Dervisevic of the Ithaca College Bombers scored 3 points and made one block on a game against Hobart William Smith I photographed on Jan 31 at the Ben Light Gymnasium
#sports #basketball #photography

CeeDee Lamb could face further NFL punishment for sideline ref collision https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/ceedee-lamb-could-face-further-nfl-punishment-sideline-ref-collision

https://x.com/AlfredoPedulla/status/1931779210378359233?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed%…

The quest for a Quark-Gluon Plasma
Edward Shuryak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07985 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.07985…

The quest for a Quark-Gluon Plasma
A chapter in a book"50 years of QGP" An extended summary of the field can be found in large books and reviews, e.g., my take in Ref.~\cite{Shuryak:2024zrh}. It is hard to compress its 600+ pages and 50+ years of research to a few given below. Those include only recollection of few episodes, from early days to now, showing how vague dreams were eventually turning into solid and detailed scientific facts.

Lamb, in street garb, trucked by ref, then flagged https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45934617/ceedee-lamb-flagged-getting-hit-ref-wr-street-clothes-sideline

I tried tatting once; even that minimal exposure lets me know that ain't tatting on the cover. Not sure what it is, but reviews say it's an AI book. This is what we have to put up with now. #craft #crafting #tatting
Amazon.com: Mastering Shuttle Tatting: From Simple Stitches to Complex Creations: 9798333221711: Noah, Olivia: Books
https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Shuttle-Tatting-Stitches-Creations/dp/B0D9JKXPZ1/ref=asc_df_B0D9JKXPZ1

Klimaat en ineenstorting als rouwproces:
From Collapse Awareness to Collapse Acceptance
Jessica Wildfire
https://www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/from-collapse-awareness-to-collapse-acceptance/?ref=…

I need to dispel some table accessibility myths.
1. `<thead>` and `<tbody>` are not exposed to users. Using `<thead>` to wrap multiple header rows has no effect (and you shouldn’t have multiple header rows). Partial ref: https://adrianroselli.com/2022/02/colu

Column Headers and Browser Support
Data tables need column headers. Monolitten, a granite column of humans (each with a head) at Vigelandsanlegget, a sculpture park in Frognerparken in Oslo, Norway. What they probably do not need is a new set of column headers every few rows, particularly not when they change the meaning of the…

What Kind of America Survives After Trump? via @… https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/07/25/What-Kind-America-Survive…

Creative Intelligence is the only book that will give you the foundation, the ability for you to create your own floor. While others scramble to hit AI usage metrics and come up with bland ideas, you'll be building the skills and capabilities that actually matter and set you apart.
https://

Ein Zusammenbruch der Atlantischen #Umwälzzirkulation (#AMOC) könnte laut einer neuen Studie drastische Folgen für #Europa haben. Das ist nicht neu und der

Atlantische Umwälzzirkulation: So frostig würde es in Europa, sollten die Meeresströmungen zusammenbrechen
Mehr Winterstürme, die Inseln des Wattenmeers mit einer Eisschicht bedeckt: Dieses Szenario entwirft eine Studie für Europa, sollte die Atlantische Umwälzzirkulation kollabieren. Auch in Berlin könnte es kalt werden.

An excellent, though long, essay on what's really happening with spending on building out Data Centers for AI and how there is no hope to every pay it back
#AIHype
https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-a-money-trap/?ref=ed-zitrons-wheres-your-ed-at-newsletter

Brian Schottenheimer addresses viral CeeDee Lamb-ref collision with unique take https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/brian-schottenheimer-addresses-viral-ceedee-lamb-ref-collision-unique-take

A new constraint on the $y$-distortion with FIRAS: robustness of component separation methods
Alina Sabyr, Giulio Fabbian, J. Colin Hill, Federico Bianchini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04593

A new constraint on the $y$-distortion with FIRAS: robustness of component separation methods
The sky-averaged Compton-$y$ distortion in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) energy spectrum, $\langle y \rangle$, provides information about energy injection in the Universe occurring at $z \lesssim 5\times10^{4}$. It is primarily sourced by the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect -- the up-scattering of CMB photons on free electrons in collapsed dark matter halos. In this work and our companion paper, Ref. [1], we perform a re-analysis of the archival COBE/FIRAS data to constrain $\langle y …

A propósito de la nota de El País sobre Rosalía (Link mšs abajo), ¿Consideran ustedes que los artistas DEBEN pronunciarse sobre el conflicto en Gaza y sobre los grandes conflictos políticos del mundo en general?
(Copio el formato de encuesta de @…)
Ref:

Dies wäre ja ein Ereignis, zu dem ich humpeln würde, aber noch bin ich im "need to take it slow"-Modus.
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000271636/dope-beats-und-bauchkraulen-urbs-cutex-veroef…

Dope-Beats und Bauchkraulen: Urbs & Cutex veröffentlichen ein neues Album
"On Our Way" heißt das Comebackalbum des Wiener Duos, das sich in der Hip-Hop- und Dope-Beats-Szene der 1990er formiert hat. Die beiden können es immer noch

AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
https://www.404media.co/ai-scraping-bots-are-breaking-open-libraries-archives-and-museums/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

Topological Stars and scalar wave equation: Exact resummation of the renormalized angular momentum in the eikonal limit
Donato Bini, Giorgio Di Russo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14442

Topological Stars and scalar wave equation: Exact resummation of the renormalized angular momentum in the eikonal limit
We show that for a Topological Star the renormalized angular momentum parameter, $ν$, appearing in the Mano-Suzuki-Takasugi-type or in the quantum-Seiberg-Witten-type approaches of the perturbation equations, has 1) a direct link with the geodesic radial action computed along the null orbits of the background and 2) admits an exact resummation in terms of hypergeometric functions, generalizing previous results valid in the Schwarzschild case, see Ref.[arXiv:2504.07862 [hep-th]].

Radiative decays of $P$-wave charmed baryons in the $SU(3)$ flavor $\bf6_F$ representation
Xuan Luo, Hua-Xing Chen, Er-Liang Cui, Hui-Min Yang, Dan Zhou, Zhi-Yong Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08335

Radiative decays of $P$-wave charmed baryons in the $SU(3)$ flavor $\bf6_F$ representation
We perform a comprehensive investigation of the radiative decays of $P$-wave charmed baryons in the $SU(3)$ flavor $\mathbf{6}_F$ representation, employing the light-cone QCD sum rule approach within the framework of heavy quark effective theory. We analyze their electromagnetic transitions into ground-state charmed baryons via photon emission. When combined with the mass spectra and strong decay properties previously studied in Ref.~\cite{Yang:2021lce}, our results constitute a systematic and …

Brian Schottenheimer addresses viral CeeDee Lamb-ref collision with unique take https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/brian-schottenheimer-addresses-viral-ceedee-lamb-ref-collision-unique-take

The monster isn't in the machine. It's in the mirror
https://brilliantcrank.com/every-generation-discovers-the-same-monster/?ref=brilliantcrank-newsletter
via @…

Photos: SFU unveils new cultural landmark with the Gibson Art Museum
https://www.straight.com/arts/photos-sfu-unveils-new-cultural-landmark-with-gibson-art-museum?ref=cascadia-journal.ghost.io#
Simo…

Geodesics, Scalar Fields, and GUP-Corrected Thermodynamics of Charged BTZ-like Black Holes in Bopp-Podolsky Electrodynamics
Faizuddin Ahmed, Ahmad Al-Badawi, Abdelmalek Bouzenada, Erdem Sucu, \.Izzet Sakall{\i}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10874

Geodesics, Scalar Fields, and GUP-Corrected Thermodynamics of Charged BTZ-like Black Holes in Bopp-Podolsky Electrodynamics
In Ref. [1], the spacetime geometry generated by compact objects in $(2+1)$-dimensional Bopp-Podolsky electrodynamics is derived. Using a perturbative approach, the authors derived a charged BTZ-like black hole solution and computed corrections up to second order in a perturbative expansion valid far from the horizon. In this work, we investigate the same circularly symmetric three-dimensional charged BH solution pierced by disclinations. We begin by analyzing the motion of photons within this …

Cowboys’ CeeDee Lamb got taken out by a ref during preseason game https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-ceedee-lamb-ref-preseason-game/bc23b9e55e3b9a1e4f39ad08

Lamb won't be fined for being run over by ref https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45995887/ceedee-lamb-fined-being-run-official

AI Therapy Bots Are Conducting 'Illegal Behavior,' Digital Rights Organizations Say
https://www.404media.co/ai-therapy-bots-meta-character-ai-ftc-complaint/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

[Ich bin auch immer schon gern allein in Restaurants essen gegangen, muss gestehen, mich hat noch nie jemand blöd angequatscht, vielleicht schau ich einfach zu böse beim Essen.]
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000282230/…

Solo-Dinner: Warum haben manche davor Angst, abends allein essen zu gehen?
Das Solo-Dinner gilt den einen als Teil der Selbstfürsorge, andere tun sich schwer, ein Restaurant allein zu besuchen. Dabei gibt es gute Gründe, das zum Ritual zu machen