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pbhstat: A Python package for calculating the primordial black hole abundance
Philippa S. Cole, Jacopo Fumagalli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14326 https://a…

pbhstat: A Python package for calculating the primordial black hole abundance
We present pbhstat, a publicly available Python package designed to compute the mass function and total abundance of primordial black holes (PBHs) from a given primordial power spectrum. The package offers a modular framework using multiple statistical approaches, including Press-Schechter theory, peaks theory, and formalisms based on the non-linear compaction function. Currently, the implementation is limited to scenarios with nearly Gaussian initial conditions.

The president posted a furious rant on Truth Social Tuesday, saying that any of his followers who were interested in the Epstein case were falling for Democratic “bullshit,”
and compared it to the “totally fake and made up story used in order to hide Crooked Hillary Clinton’s big loss in the 2016 Presidential Election.”
Similarly to Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, Trump now claims that Epstein files are a “hoax.”
Unfortunately for Trump, Americans don’t care abou…

Panicked Trump Rushes to Create a Distraction From Epstein Files
Donald Trump is throwing everything at the wall and hoping something sticks.

Randall Munroe (of xkcd fame) posted about an analysis done by David R. Hagen related to his "missing 11th" comic. Great read, which includes some nice statistical analysis, but more interestingly, bias and artifacts.
https://bsky.app/profile/xkcd.com/post/3lrxgvl677k2w

Apparently I'm basically the only one using the #DungeonCrawlers hashtag, but that's okay, because scrolling it is a pretty cool look back at the games I've played and dug.
Roundup of the games I've posted screenshots/brief reviews of on the #DungeonCrawlers hashtag since 2023, with …

DemonsTier on Steam
From the union of Riddled Corpse and Xenon Valkyrie comes Demonstier, an RPG roguelike with elements of action, adventure, & arcade. Enter the dungeons of king Thosgar & destroy the demonic beings present there .

It's been awhile since I've posted a #jonathanpie video. I'm not terminally online but even on the fediverse you get some backscatter from regular social media channels. I do wonder how much is genuine division and how much is a relatively small number of people and an army of bots wedging them apart:

I would suspect that many birth-citizenship US citizens could not pass this citizenship test.
(I note that the USCIS website for citizenship test materials has many items blocked by Privacy Badger and Ublock Origin - in other words, the website has trackers, some of which are private companies.)
Just read the hogwash in this announcement:
"“American citizenship is the most sacred citizenship in the world and should only be reserved for aliens who will fully embrace our…

USCIS Unveils First Changes to Naturalization Test in Multi-Step Overhaul of American Citizenship Standards
Today, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services posted a Federal Register notice announcing implementation of the 2025 naturalization civics test.

Think about this, China manufactures around:
85% of the world’s solar panels
80% of batteries
68% of wind turbines
70% of electric vehicles, and
65% of energy storage systems

I posted the same solar facts on two social media platforms: One sparked discussion, the other, disinformation
One hundred solar panels per second reflects extraordinary technical progress. A platform that simply fosters noise over truth does not.

The pseudoautomorphism group of $\mathbb{P}^3$ blown-up at $8$ very general points
C\'ecile Gachet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12977 https://arxiv.org/p…

The pseudoautomorphism group of $\mathbb{P}^3$ blown-up at $8$ very general points
We prove that the pseudoautomorphism group of a blow-up of $\mathbb{P}^3$ at $8$ very general points is trivial. We also establish the injectivity of the Coble representation associated to blow-ups of $\mathbb{P}^3$ at $r\ge 8$ general points, answering a question of Dolgachev--Ortland.

Job opening at Meta for an #accessibility program manager (LinkedIn) #a11y