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Series B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
JENNA: Where?
TARA: The vapour does not tell me that.
JENNA: Lurgen left behind him a secret, what does the vapour say about that? The keeper of the secret may not even know that he, or she, is the keeper.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/212/261 B7…

copenhagen: Copenhagen Networks Study
A network of social interactions among university students within the Copenhagen Networks Study, over a period of four weeks, sampled every 5 minutes. Interactions include physical proximity (undirected), phone calls (directed, weighted), text messages (directed), and information about Facebook friendships (undirected). Nodes include some metadata, including gender.
This network has 536 nodes and 3600 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unwei…

EU moves to end all Russian gas imports.
First phase of EU ban of Russian gas will begin on Jan. 1, 2026 with a grace period for existing contracts: short term contracts concluded before June 17, 2025 can run until June 17, 2026, and long-term contracts until Jan. 1, 2028.
Only Russia-friendly Hungary and Slovakia refused to back the bill.

Europe moves to end all Russian gas imports
Only Russia friendly Hungary and Slovakia, refused to back the bill, which terminates Russian pipeline and liquified natural gas imports.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said that it would not publish the October consumer price index (CPI)
– one of the country’s key reports for inflation data.
“BLS could not collect October 2025 reference period survey data due to a lapse in appropriations.
BLS is unable to retroactively collect these data,”
a statement on the agency’s website reads.
The report was set to be released in November,
and would serve as an important barometer for the Feder…

ICE arrests McMinnville High School student during Friday lunch period (Holly Bartholomew/OPB)
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/11/21/mcminville-high-school-oregon-ice-immigration-customs-enforcement/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251122/p3#a251122p3

Well worth a read.
https://kyivindependent.com/we-are-f-king-fascists-pussy-riot-memoir-looks-at-everything-wrong-with-russia/

‘We are f–king fascists’ — Pussy Riot memoir looks at everything wrong with Russia
Upon being released from prison in December 2013 after serving time for “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred,” Russian political activist Maria Alyokhina observes that she and her fellow Pussy Riot punk group members “arrived in a different country.” Outwardly, Russia sought to convey to the world during this period that it was a serious global power through events such as the Sochi Winter Olympics. The reality, as Alyokhina writes, was completely different: just a few months lat…

facebook_wall: Facebook wall posts (2009)
Friendship relationships and interactions (wall posts) for a subset of the Facebook social network in 2009, recorded over a 2 year period. Edge directed edge represents a post by one user on another user's FB wall.
This network has 46952 nodes and 876993 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Temporal, Multigraph

A century of glaciers melting, condensed into a few seconds. Impressive video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQWfDRejcPw/?igsh=Zm51d2Qzb2xtNHM4

Michel Galati on Instagram: "A century of change condensed into a few seconds. In collaboration with @glacionaut I transformed historical and contemporary photographs of Swiss and Austrian glaciers into short AI-animated sequences (Dream Machine by @lumalabsai ). Each clip shows the passage from past to present. The climate has always changed, true, but never this fast. In the past two years alone, Swiss glaciers have lost more than 10% of their total volume (source: Swiss Academy of Sciences). What once took centuries now happens in decades. And yes, the music is The Four Seasons by Vivaldi. An homage to nature, and perhaps a reminder of what we stand to lose. 📍 Photos: @glacionaut 🎥 AI Animation: @flashologo 🗓️ Period: ca. 1875–2024 • 🇮🇹 Un secolo di cambiamento racchiuso in pochi secondi. In collaborazione con @glacionaut, ho trasformato fotografie storiche e contemporanee di alcuni ghiacciai svizzeri e austriaci in brevi sequenze animate con l’intelligenza artificiale (Dream Machine di @lumalabsai). Ogni clip mostra il passaggio dal passato al presente. Il clima è sempre cambiato, è vero, ma mai così rapidamente. Negli ultimi due anni i ghiacciai svizzeri hanno perso oltre il 10% del loro volume (fonte: Swiss Academy of Sciences). Ciò che un tempo accadeva in secoli, oggi avviene in decenni. E sì, la musica è Le Quattro Stagioni di Vivaldi. Un omaggio alla natura e, forse, un promemoria di ciò che rischiamo di perdere. 📍 Foto: @glacionaut 🎥 Animazioni AI: @flashologo 🗓️ Periodo: ca. 1875–2024 • • #ai #dreammachine #ray3 #imagetovideo #glaciers #switzerland #austria #climatchange #history"
44K likes, 814 comments - flashologo on October 28, 2025: "A century of change condensed into a few seconds. In collaboration with @glacionaut I transformed historical and contemporary photographs of Swiss and Austrian glaciers into short AI-animated sequences (Dream Machine by @lumalabsai ). Each clip shows the passage from past to present. The climate has always changed, true, but never this fast. In the past two years alone, Swiss glaciers have lost more than 10% of their total volume (sou…

Discovering Top-k Periodic and High-Utility Patterns
Qingfeng Zhou, Wensheng Gan, Guoting Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15732 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.…

Discovering Top-k Periodic and High-Utility Patterns
With a user-specified minimum utility threshold (minutil), periodic high-utility pattern mining (PHUPM) aims to identify high-utility patterns that occur periodically in a transaction database. A pattern is deemed periodic if its period aligns with the periodicity constraint set by the user. However, users may not be interested in all periodic high-utility patterns (PHUPs). Moreover, setting minutil in advance is also a challenging issue. To address these issues, our research introduces an algo…

The Alps set to lose a record number of glaciers in the next decade, study warns #Alps

The Alps set to lose a record number of glaciers in the next decade, study warns
Glaciers are melting worldwide. In some regions, they could even disappear completely. Looking at the number of glaciers disappearing, the Alps could reach their peak loss rate as early as 2033 to 2041. Depending on how sharply the planet warms, this period may mark a time when more glaciers vanish than ever before. Worldwide, the peak glacier loss rate will occur about ten years later and could rise from 2,000 to 4,000 glaciers lost each year.

facebook_wall: Facebook wall posts (2009)
Friendship relationships and interactions (wall posts) for a subset of the Facebook social network in 2009, recorded over a 2 year period. Edge directed edge represents a post by one user on another user's FB wall.
This network has 46952 nodes and 876993 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Temporal, Multigraph

did you know ITU has a document with the exact frequencies of dialtones and busy tones for every region? https://www.itu.int/ITU-T/inr/forms/files/tones-0203.pdf
very useful for getting modem handshakes period- and region-correct

Good Morning #Canada
The month of December will typical put a dent in your paycheck, or January if you're using your credit cards, so it's tough to save any money. Canadians rank 21st worldwide with regards to how much of our salary we put into a savings account. According to World Population Review, we put away approximately 7% of our paycheck for a #RainyDay, far behind South Korea at 35%. I'm retired and therefore not a saver at this point, but even during my most successful earnings period I can't imagine I would have been able to put away a third of my salary.
I suspect the savings percentage is driven by a small group of high wage earners as individual Canadian debt has increased. According to Equifax, total consumer debt in Canada reached $2.56 trillion at the end of 2024, a 4.6 per cent increase over 2023.
#CanadaIsAwesome
https://www.equifax.ca/business/blog/all-news/-/story/stable-versus-struggling-canada-s-financial-divide-widens/

Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
TARRANT: What about you?
GROFF: I'll be alright, get going! But if you could tell them, my family, they were always in my thoughts.
TARRANT: We'll tell them, Groff. [Groff tries to move main switch]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/304/363…

Funny, is this a competition? #AWS with Dynamo DB, #Azure front door, today #Couldflare...
Will Google top them all and set their outage in the Christmas shopping period? 🤔

bitcoin: Bitcoin transactions (2009-2013)
A network of Bitcoin transactions spanning January 2009 to April 2013. Nodes are public-key "addresses" at some time within the given period, and each edge is marked with the time (at a resolution of seconds) of the transaction.
This network has 6336770 nodes and 16057711 edges.
Tags: Economic, Cryptocurrency, Unweighted, Timestamps

High 5: Five positions to evaluate over the final games https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/high-5-five-positions-to-evaluate-over-the-final-games

An Ultra-Short Period Super-Earth and Sub-Neptune Spanning the Radius Valley Orbiting the Kinematic Thick Disk Star TOI-2345
Yoshi Nike Emilia Eschen, Thomas G. Wilson, Andrea Bonfanti, Carina M. Persson, S\'ergio G. Sousa, Monika Lendl, Alexis Heitzmann, Attila E. Simon, G\"oran Olofsson, Amadeo Castro-Gonz\'alez, Jo Ann Egger, Luca Fossati, Alexander James Mustill, Hugh P. Osborn, Hugo G. Vivien, Yann Alibert, Roi Alonso, Tamas B\'arczy, David Barrado, Susana C. C. B…

An Ultra-Short Period Super-Earth and Sub-Neptune Spanning the Radius Valley Orbiting the Kinematic Thick Disk Star TOI-2345
A crucial chemical link between stars and their orbiting exoplanets is thought to exist. If universal, this connection could affect the formation and evolution of all planets. Therefore, this potential vital link needs testing by characterising exoplanets around chemically-diverse stars. We present the discovery of two planets orbiting the metal-poor, kinematic thick-disk K-dwarf TOI-2345. TOI-2345 b is a super-Earth with a period of 1.05 days and TOI-2345 c is a sub-Neptune with a period of 21…

Mozilla appoints Anthony Enzor-DeMeo as its CEO amid a challenging period for Mozilla's for-profit arm with layoffs, restructuring, and its Google dependence (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/845216/mozilla-ceo-anthony-enzor-demeo

Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox
Anthony Enzor-DeMeo says he thinks Mozilla and Firefox still have a role to play in the web, even as things shift toward AI.

Possible Quasi-Period Oscillation Signals in the Unique Event of GRB 250702DBE/EP250702a?
Fei-Fan Song, Jirong Mao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10139 https://

Possible Quasi-Period Oscillation Signals in the Unique Event of GRB 250702DBE/EP250702a?
GRB 250702DBE was time-consequently triggered by GBM onboard the Fermi satellite. It is uncertain which celestial catalog is suitable for this special ultra-long event to belong to. In this paper, we comprehensively investigate the lightcurves obtained by Fermi-GBM detectors. In the energy band of 8-1000 keV, no Quasi-Period Oscillation (QPO) signals are found in the lightcurve of the first burst 250702D, a possible QPO signal of 0.046 Hz corresponding to a period of 21.7 s is found in the ligh…

Gaia DR3 Open Cluster Cepheids: A Unified Catalog with Calibrated Period-Age and Period-Wesenheit Relations
Shunhong Deng, Zhihong He, Anbing Ren, Qian Cui, Xiaoyue Zhou, Liming Peng, Chenxin Wang, Ziang Chen, Yangping Luo, Kun Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08390

Gaia DR3 Open Cluster Cepheids: A Unified Catalog with Calibrated Period-Age and Period-Wesenheit Relations
Classical Cepheids (CCs) in Galactic open clusters (OCs) provide essential observational constraints for calibrating the period-age relation (PAR) and the period-Wesenheit relation (PWR) of CCs. However, distant and long-period OC Cepheids remain limited, while the confirmed samples still require more precise determinations of their physical properties, such as ages and extinctions. In this work, we present a comprehensive census of OC Cepheids based on an extensive sample of distant OCs from G…

bitcoin: Bitcoin transactions (2009-2013)
A network of Bitcoin transactions spanning January 2009 to April 2013. Nodes are public-key "addresses" at some time within the given period, and each edge is marked with the time (at a resolution of seconds) of the transaction.
This network has 6336770 nodes and 16057711 edges.
Tags: Economic, Cryptocurrency, Unweighted, Timestamps

Series D, Episode 02 - Power
GUNN SAR: Put that thing back where it came from. Use his glove.
[On the hillside]
PELLA: The one being held by the Hommiks is called Avon.
KATE: Well, does he concern us?
PELLA: Our future depends on him. Dorian is dead.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/402/207

I feel as though I should illustrate the difference that this one single constraint can make by two examples.
The rules of Simon Says are maximally authoritarian. You must perform any action ordered, with the only restriction that the authority must say "Simon says" first. Were you forced to stay in this system, it would be the most despotic autocracy possible. But it's not. It's a silly game because you can leave at any time.
Let's flip this and imagine a room. During a specific period of time you will have absolute control over everything in this room. In this room you have total freedom. This is not even the limited freedom, the coordinated freedom, the compromising freedom of civil society. You could, without consequence, perform any action you wish in this room. You could say anything, destroy or steal any object, order any individual to perform any action, kill any person in the room with you and take anything they own. This is the sovereign freedom, the absolute freedom, of dictators and kings. The only restriction is that you are not allowed to leave the room while you have this freedom. In fact, you really only have this level of freedom because the room is actually empty other than for you. I am, of course, talking about a form of torture still common in the US: solitary confinement.

bitcoin: Bitcoin transactions (2009-2013)
A network of Bitcoin transactions spanning January 2009 to April 2013. Nodes are public-key "addresses" at some time within the given period, and each edge is marked with the time (at a resolution of seconds) of the transaction.
This network has 6336770 nodes and 16057711 edges.
Tags: Economic, Cryptocurrency, Unweighted, Timestamps

While fascist ideas never found a foothold among the majority of Americans,
they exerted considerable influence during the period between the first and second world wars.
Extremist groups like
the Silver Shirts,
the Christian Front,
the Black Legion and
the Ku Klux Klan claimed hundreds of thousands of members.
Together they glorified a white Christian nation purified of Jews, Black Americans, immigrants and communists.
During the 1930s and …

America faced domestic fascists before and buried that history
Although thousands of Americans embraced fascist ideas during the interwar years, a new study examines why the US has had little appetite to remember that past.

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 03 - Cygnus Alpha
KARA: Gan.
[Gan steps back. The spear misses him and hits Kara. The fight continues. Blake is struggling with one of the priests. Vila stabs the priest.]
BLAKE: Don't just stand there Vila. Run.
h…

Periods detecting Eisenstein series and sums of $L$-values I
Weixiao Lu, Guodong Xi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12446 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12446

Periods detecting Eisenstein series and sums of $L$-values I
We study the automorphic period associated to a $G$-Hamiltonian variety $M$ whose dual is $\check{M} = T^*(\check{G}/\check{L})$, where $\check{G}$ is a general linear group and $\check{L}$ is a Levi subgroup. For certain cuspidal Eisenstein series, we prove that their period is equal to a finite sum of special values of $L$-functions. This sum is indexed by the fixed points of the associated extended $L$-parameter on $\check{M}$, confirming a conjecture by Ben-Zvi-Sakellaridis-Venkatesh in thi…

bitcoin: Bitcoin transactions (2009-2013)
A network of Bitcoin transactions spanning January 2009 to April 2013. Nodes are public-key "addresses" at some time within the given period, and each edge is marked with the time (at a resolution of seconds) of the transaction.
This network has 6336770 nodes and 16057711 edges.
Tags: Economic, Cryptocurrency, Unweighted, Timestamps

Those are all wonderful films, but The Princess Bride is quite simply the perfect movie. @… https://flipboard.social/@CultureDesk/11572588…

Neuralink returns to South San Francisco as Bay Area neurotech regroups https://www.neurofounders.co/post/neuralink-returns-to-south-san-francisco-bay-area How does a patient registry of roughly 10,000 people compare to well over 500,000 Android app i…

Neuralink Returns to South San Francisco as Bay Area Neurotech Regroups
Neuralink has leased a 144,000-square-foot building at 499 Forbes Boulevard in South San Francisco, placing the company back inside the region’s biotech belt after a period of Texas-focused expansion. The move lands alongside a patient registry of roughly 10,000 people, an initial paper submitted to The New England Journal of Medicine, and ongoing first-in-human work. The signals point to a company accelerating rather than slowing.Details on how the new site will be used have not been disclos…

moreno_sheep: Bighorn sheep (1984)
Dominance interactions among a group of female bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) from the National Bison Range in western Montana USA, over a 27 month period ending in 1984. Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction. Metadata gives the sheep ages, roughly.
This network has 28 nodes and 250 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted, Metadata

High 5: Five positions to evaluate over the final games https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/high-5-five-positions-to-evaluate-over-the-final-games

Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
KOMMISSAR: Really? I've heard of people who resist. I've never seen one before. This could be interesting. Let us begin.
ASSISTANT KOMMISSAR: Sir. [They walk toward rack room. Kommissar stops and turns to Ro]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/265 …

twitter_15m: Twitter 15-M movement (2011)
A network representing follower-following relations among Twitter users associated with the 15-M Movement or Anti-austerity movement in Spain, in the period April-May 2011. Metadata include hashtags in the tweets.
This network has 87569 nodes and 6030459 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

Pleasantly Surprised!!
"Cryptocurrency mining – another sector with large electricity demands – would be banned.”
Unfortunately unsurprised:
"starting next year, the province will open up bidding for artificial intelligence and data centres that will be capped at a total of 400 megawatts of power over a two-year period. Prices will be set by regulation.”
#BCPoli #Energy #Electricity #AI #bubble
https://archive.ph/TJ6sy#selection-2589.0-2589.88

Winding quotients for virtual period maps of rank 1
Kyoji Saito
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04558 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04558

Winding quotients for virtual period maps of rank 1
We illustrate a rank 1 model of virtual period maps and their associated winding quotient, where the winding quotient is a new phenomenon appeared in a recent study of virtual period maps and it requires a reformulation of the classical inversion problem for the period maps. We answer to the new inversion problem by introducing the q-multiplicatively periodic function, whose pull-back to the winding covering space is the Weierstrass p-function up to a correction by Eisenstein series E2, and whi…

Homogenization of the scattered wave and scattering resonances for periodic high-contrast subwavelength resonators
Yuxin Du, Xin Fu, Wenjia Jing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11972

Homogenization of the scattered wave and scattering resonances for periodic high-contrast subwavelength resonators
We study time-harmonic scattering by a periodic array of penetrable, high-contrast obstacles with small period, confined to a bounded Lipschitz domain. The strong contrast between the obstacles and the background induces subwavelength resonances. We derive a frequency-dependent effective model in the vanishing-period limit and prove quantitative convergence of the heterogeneous scattered wave to the effective scattered wave. We also identify the limiting set of scattering resonances and establi…

Plotted my MacBook Pro's battery usage history based on almost 4 years of coconutBattery data for shits and giggles

Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
MAX: Did you expect to?
DEETA: I don't mean personally. I mean there's something strange about him, something wrong.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/312/219 B7B3

foursquare_friendships: Foursquare global friendships (2013)
A network of user friendships on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. The 'old' and 'new' dataset correspond to two snapshots taken before and after the check-in data collection period.
This network has 114324 nodes and 363704 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

»Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days:
Let’s Encrypt will be reducing the validity period of the certificates we issue. We currently issue certificates valid for 90 days, which will be cut in half to 45 days by 2028.«
The @… halving the validity of the keys makes the web more secure (not more anonymous).
🔐

Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days
Let’s Encrypt will be reducing the validity period of the certificates we issue. We currently issue certificates valid for 90 days, which will be cut in half to 45 days by 2028. This change is being made along with the rest of the industry, as required by the CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements, which set the technical requirements that we must follow. All publicly-trusted Certificate Authorities like Let’s Encrypt will be making similar changes. Reducing how long certificates are valid …

TeamLease Digital: Global Capability Centers in India have grown tech headcount to ~2M from 1.2M in 2022, rising 18%-27% YoY, compared to 4%-6% at IT companies (Tanya Pandey/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

Techtonic shift: GCCs hiring 4x faster than IT cos now
GCCs are expanding headcount by 18-27% year on year, compared with 4-6% for IT services, according to data from staffing firm TeamLease Digital. Together, they employ nearly 2 million people now, up from 1.2 million in 2022, creating about 300,000 jobs annually. In contrast, IT services have added only 25,000-40,000 employees a year on a net basis during this period.

We have reached the traditional period of „this has to be done before Christmas“

Seattle athletes were terrorized in a spree of burglaries. ‘They feel unsafe in their homes’ https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6716323/2025/10/15/seattle-athletes-crime-spree-mariners-seahawks/

"To future historians—not just of computing, but of humanity—the current period will be a dark age.
How was Facebook used by students in the 2010s? We cannot show you, that version of Facebook is not hosted anywhere.
What correspondence did Vint Cerf have as president of the ACM with other luminaries of computing industry and research? We do not know; Google will not publish his emails."

The Digital Dark Ages
There are three interesting things to do with a computing museum. Museum directors and curators should be aware of all three and design galleries, present information, and make archives available to address them all.

#idw #Archaeology Farmers were already diversifying cereal cultivation in the early #Neolithic period.
Agricultural innovations made the food supply in the

Farmers were already diversifying cereal cultivation in the early Neolithic period

I feel as though I should illustrate the difference that this one single constraint can make by two examples.
The rules of Simon Says are maximally authoritarian. You must perform any action ordered, with the only restriction that the authority must say "Simon says" first. Were you forced to stay in this system, it would be the most despotic autocracy possible. But it's not. It's a silly game because you can leave at any time.
Let's flip this and imagine a room. During a specific period of time you will have absolute control over everything in this room. In this room you have total freedom. This is not even the limited freedom, the coordinated freedom, the compromising freedom of civil society. You could, without consequence, perform any action you wish in this room. You could say anything, destroy or steal any object, order any individual to perform any action, kill any person in the room with you and take anything they own. This is the sovereign freedom, the absolute freedom, of dictators and kings. The only restriction is that you are not allowed to leave the room while you have this freedom. In fact, you really only have this level of freedom because the room is actually empty other than for you. I am, of course, talking about a form of torture still common in the US: solitary confinement.

foursquare_friendships: Foursquare global friendships (2013)
A network of user friendships on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. The 'old' and 'new' dataset correspond to two snapshots taken before and after the check-in data collection period.
This network has 114324 nodes and 363704 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

After a very hectic period, an #offline #sailing trip was well needed: with three-masted topsail schooner #Oosterschelde from Porto via Madeira to Tenerife.
Weirdest incident: being woken tw…

new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…

Generalized Pseudo-Hopf Bifurcation: Limit Cycle Position and Period
Lucas Queiroz Arakaki, Douglas Novaes, Paulo Santana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05269 https://

Generalized Pseudo-Hopf Bifurcation: Limit Cycle Position and Period
We investigate planar piecewise-smooth vector fields with a discontinuity line, focusing on the bifurcation of crossing limit cycles that arise when one of the vector fields is translated along the discontinuity set. We establish topological conditions under which such bifurcations occur and, under additional generic hypotheses, derive precise asymptotic expressions for both the position and the period of the resulting limit cycle in terms of the perturbation parameter. Our results extend the c…

Missing Beats: Dark Matter Silences Short-Period Cepheids in the Galactic Center
Djuna Croon, Tim Linden, Jeremy Sakstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02641 https://

Missing Beats: Dark Matter Silences Short-Period Cepheids in the Galactic Center
Upcoming near-infrared facilities (e.g., JWST/NIRCam, ELT/MICADO) will dramatically increase the detectability of galactic center Cepheids despite extreme extinction at optical wavelengths. In this work, we study the impact of dark matter (DM) annihilation on Cepheid stars in the inner parsec of the Milky Way. We show that at densities $ρ\sim 10^5 \, \text{GeV} \, \text{cm}^{-3}$, blue-loop evolution can be suppressed, preventing the formation of low-mass ($3$-$6 \, M_\odot$) short-period ($1$…

Analysis of minimum orbital periods around d-dimensional charged black holes
Yan Peng, Guohua Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04223 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Analysis of minimum orbital periods around d-dimensional charged black holes
This paper investigates the bounds on the minimum orbital period for test objects around d-dimensional charged black holes in asymptotically flat spacetimes. We find numerically that the minimum orbital period decreases as the charge of the black hole increases. Thus, the upper limit is reached for an uncharged black hole, while the lower limit is attained for a maximally charged one. We then analytically derive the upper and lower bounds for the minimum orbital period. These results improve ou…

This is duuuuumb.
Hey, #StopAndShop: the exclamation point is exactly as alphanumeric as the period. Gaaah!
#GUI #HireAWriter

"An SNP victory in May’s Holyrood contest would hardly be an earthquake, after 18 continuous years of nationalist government. It would, though, signal a remarkable comeback from a period of eclipse, and from an often dismal record on public services. For Labour, which did so well in Scotland in the 2024 general election, it would signal a crisis moment, imperilling Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership"
#UKPol

Health insurance prices for next year under the Affordable Care Act
are now available in about a dozen states,
giving Americans their first look at the sharp increases many will pay for coverage
if Congress does not extend subsidies that have made some plans more affordable.
The annual enrollment period for Obamacare is expected to begin Nov. 1,
but the costs for some Americans are becoming publicly available piecemeal through some state marketplaces.
The…

Higher Obamacare Prices Become Public in a Dozen States
Consumers are facing greater costs for their 2026 A.C.A. health coverage as Congress continues to debate whether to extend subsidies that help people afford their premiums.

The application period for the EMJM- #EMLex Master Programme (European Master in Lexicography) is now open.
Interested candidates can submit their applications via the following link:
https://emlex.eu.usc.gal/web/application
Applications for the Erasmus Mundus scholarship are open until February 2, 2026 (inclusive).

Good Morning #Canada
Prior to #Retirement, my last decade in business was spent in #ReverseLogistics managing major retail and manufacturer clients. Reverse logistics is the process of managing customer returns with the objective of recapturing value or ensure proper disposal. It covers activities like processing, restocking where possible, repairs, recycling, refurbishing, and resale. This company in Mississauga is relatively small in comparison to a Costco or Walmart reverse logistics warehouse but it provides a glimpse at a little known industry that deals with $880B USD in annual returns worldwide. The industry is about to enter its busiest period as consumers will return over 10% of Christmas purchases, close to 30% for clothing. In the 1st 3 months of 2026 some remarketing B2B auction sites (representing Costco, Walmart, Home Depot, Target, etc) will be liquidating 100 tractor trailer loads per day, including stuff you're about to unwrap in a few days.
#CanadaIsAwesome
https://www.orilliamatters.com/ontario-news/inside-the-warehouse-poised-to-process-your-unwanted-gifts-this-holiday-11646891

$p$-adic hypoerbolicity for Shimura varieties and period images
Benjamin Bakker, Abhishek Oswal, Ananth N. Shankar, Zijian Yao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25461 https://

$p$-adic hypoerbolicity for Shimura varieties and period images
We prove that Shimura varieties and geometric period images satisfy a $p$-adic extension property for large enough primes $p$. More precisely, let $\mathsf{D}^{\times}\subset \mathsf{D}$ denote the inclusion of the closed punctured unit disc in the closed unit disc. Let $X$ be either a Shimura variety or a geometric period image with torsion-free level structure. Let $F$ be a discretely valued $p$-adic field containing the number field of definition of $X$, where $p$ is a large enough prime. Th…

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Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
LEYLAN: All right... all right. Now... now don't move. Now, just look around and tell me what you see.
KRELL: [V.O.] What? I heard something.
LEYLAN: What is it?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/555 B7B4

eROSITA-selection of new period-bounce Cataclysmic Variables: First follow-up confirmation using TESS and SDSS
Daniela Mu\~noz-Giraldo, Beate Stelzer, Axel Schwope, Santiago Hern\'andez-D\'iaz, Scott F. Anderson, Sebastian Demasi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17216

eROSITA-selection of new period-bounce Cataclysmic Variables: First follow-up confirmation using TESS and SDSS
Between 40$\%$ and 80$\%$ of cataclysmic variables (CVs) are expected to have evolved past the period-minimum and contain a degenerate donor. However, observational surveys for CVs have only been able to detect a few of these highly evolved "period-bouncers", most likely due to the intrinsic faintness associated with their predicted low mass accretion rates. We have produced an initial selection of 137 high-likelihood period-bounce candidates from WD catalog based on our multiwavelength period-…

High Five From ASTEP: Three Validated Planets and Two Eclipsing Binaries in a Diverse Set of Long-Period Candidates
Erika Rea, Maximilian N. G\"unther, George Dransfield, Tristan Guillot, Amaury H. M. J. Triaud, Keivan G. Stassun, Juan I. Espinoza-Retamal, Rafael Brahm, Sol\`ene Ulmer-Moll, Matteo Beltrame, Vincent Deloupy, Mathilde Timmermans, Lyu Abe, Karim Agabi, Philippe Bendjoya, Djamel Mekarnia, Francois-Xavier Schmider, Olga Suarez, Ana M. Heras, Bruno Mer\'in, Fran\c{c…

High Five From ASTEP: Three Validated Planets and Two Eclipsing Binaries in a Diverse Set of Long-Period Candidates
We present the analysis of five long-period TESS Objects of Interest (TOIs), each with orbital periods exceeding one month. Initially identified by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), we extensively monitored these targets with the Antarctic Search for Transiting Exoplanets (ASTEP), supported by other facilities in the TESS Follow-Up (TFOP) network. These targets occupy a relatively underexplored region of the period-radius parameter space, offering valuable primordial probes for …

moreno_sheep: Bighorn sheep (1984)
Dominance interactions among a group of female bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) from the National Bison Range in western Montana USA, over a 27 month period ending in 1984. Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction. Metadata gives the sheep ages, roughly.
This network has 28 nodes and 250 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted, Metadata

Series A, Episode 03 - Cygnus Alpha
VARGAS: I ruled. I ruled. A small prison planet with never more than five hundred people. But with this. With this I could rule a thousand planets. For that prize, do you think I would hesitate to kill you? Now take this ship back to Cygnus Alpha.
[He backs up into teleport area]
https://blak…

foursquare_friendships: Foursquare global friendships (2013)
A network of user friendships on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. The 'old' and 'new' dataset correspond to two snapshots taken before and after the check-in data collection period.
This network has 114324 nodes and 607333 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
JENNA: It's Travis's move. We still control the Liberator.
CALLY: A sitting target.
JENNA: Not for him.
CALLY: Not for anybody.
JENNA: Where are you going?
CALLY: I'm going to clear the neutron blasters for firing,
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/499

More than 60,000 penguins have starved to death off the coast of South Africa
as a result of collapsing sardine numbers, according to a new study.
From 2004 to 2011, more than 95 per cent of the African penguins on Dassen Island and Robben Island died.
Researchers said they probably died during the moulting period, the annual event where they replace all their feathers at once over a number of weeks.
The climate crisis and overfishing have been attributed to driving…

More than 60,000 penguins starve to death near Africa after fall in sardine numbers
African penguins need sardines to fatten up before a three-week moulting period on land

On the decimal digits of $1/p$
Kurt Girstmair
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07873 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07873

On the decimal digits of $1/p$
Let $p$ be a prime $\equiv 3$ mod 4, $p>3$, and suppose that 10 has the order $(p-1)/2$ mod p. Then $1/p$ has a decimal period of length $(p-1)/2$. We express the frequency of each digit $0,\LD,9$ in this period in terms of the class numbers of two imaginary quadratic number fields. We also exhibit certain analogues of this result, so for the case that 10 is a primitive root mod $p$ and for octal digits of $1/p$.

Phase-resolved optical spectroscopy of the rapidly varying white dwarf ZTF 1851 1714
C. C. Pedersen, M. R. M. Knudsen, K. Valeckas, L. Izzo, T. M. Tauris, J. P. U. Fynbo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06331

Phase-resolved optical spectroscopy of the rapidly varying white dwarf ZTF 1851+1714
We report on phase-resolved optical spectroscopy and photometry in the R and B bands of the white dwarf candidate ZTF 185139.81+171430.3. The source has been reported to be variable with a large amplitude of close to 1 magnitude, in the R band, and a short period of 12.37 min. We confirm this period and interpret it as the spin period of the white dwarf. The optical spectrum shows emission lines from hydrogen and helium superposed on a featureless continuum. The continuum changes shape througho…

Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
TARRANT: [Clutching his leg] Aaaah! [Tarrant and Dayna scramble for cover in the rocks.]
DAYNA: Are you all right?
TARRANT: Don't mind me, get them.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/303/612 B7B5

Gaia DR3 Open Cluster Cepheids: A Unified Catalog with Calibrated Period-Age and Period-Wesenheit Relations
Shunhong Deng, Zhihong He, Anbing Ren, Qian Cui, Xiaoyue Zhou, Liming Peng, Chenxin Wang, Ziang Chen, Yangping Luo, Kun Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08390

bitcoin: Bitcoin transactions (2009-2013)
A network of Bitcoin transactions spanning January 2009 to April 2013. Nodes are public-key "addresses" at some time within the given period, and each edge is marked with the time (at a resolution of seconds) of the transaction.
This network has 6336770 nodes and 16057711 edges.
Tags: Economic, Cryptocurrency, Unweighted, Timestamps

Series B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
FOOL: [Singing] I sing you of the Tents, my Master, Charl of the Goths, I sing you of the golden tents, Where your fathers wait to greet you...
BLAKE: [Examining the talisman] It's gone, the brain print's gone!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/212/515…

twitter_15m: Twitter 15-M movement (2011)
A network representing follower-following relations among Twitter users associated with the 15-M Movement or Anti-austerity movement in Spain, in the period April-May 2011. Metadata include hashtags in the tweets.
This network has 87569 nodes and 6030459 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

A Refined Orbital Ephemeris for the Intermediate Polar FO Aquarii and Evidence for a Period Derivative
Peter Garnavich (Notre Dame), Jordan Tweddale (Notre Dame), Colin Littlefield (BAERI)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22786

A Refined Orbital Ephemeris for the Intermediate Polar FO Aquarii and Evidence for a Period Derivative
We combine more than 40 years of eclipse timings of the intermediate polar FO Aqr and derive new orbital ephemerides. The eclipse times are best fit with a second order polynomial, implying an $8σ$ detection of a period derivative. The results show that the orbital period of FO Aqr is currently increasing, with a derivative of $\dot{P}=6.65\pm0.81\times10^{-11}$.

email_company: Manufacturing company email (2010)
A network of emails among employee email addresses at a mid-sized manufacturing company. Each directed edge represents an email sent from address i to address j. Edges are timestamped, and occurred over a 6 month period in an unspecified year.
This network has 167 nodes and 82927 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…

Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
TARRANT: Apparently it means "The City at the Edge of the World".
[Vila is walking down a corridor]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/117 B7B3

moreno_sheep: Bighorn sheep (1984)
Dominance interactions among a group of female bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) from the National Bison Range in western Montana USA, over a 27 month period ending in 1984. Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction. Metadata gives the sheep ages, roughly.
This network has 28 nodes and 250 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted, Metadata

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 11 - Bounty
BLAKE: He is older. It's seven years since he came into exile. [Into bracelet] Liberator, come in, Liberator.
[Flight deck of the Liberator]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/111/32

rhesus_monkey: Rhesus monkey grooming (1963)
Grooming interactions among a group of wild adult rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) in Cayo Santiago, during a two month period in 1963. Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction. The two versions below are equivalent.
This network has 16 nodes and 111 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

Series A, Episode 07 - Mission To Destiny
SONHEIM: I was off duty. I share quarters with Pasco.
PASCO: We were both there. Routine rest period.
BLAKE: And your name?
SONHEIM: Sonheim. We must have slept through it all, as Dr. Kendall did.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/107/97…

facebook_wall: Facebook wall posts (2009)
Friendship relationships and interactions (wall posts) for a subset of the Facebook social network in 2009, recorded over a 2 year period. Edge directed edge represents a post by one user on another user's FB wall.
This network has 46952 nodes and 876993 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Temporal, Multigraph

Series D, Episode 13 - Blake
BLAKE: Oh, most of it wasn't on Earth, Tarrant. Not what happened to me. [Arlen enters, Blake turns, Tarrant kicks the gun out of Blake's hand, shoves him into Arlen, and bolts out of the room, strongarming Deva on the way.]
ARLEN: Do you want him killed?!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/413/…

facebook_wall: Facebook wall posts (2009)
Friendship relationships and interactions (wall posts) for a subset of the Facebook social network in 2009, recorded over a 2 year period. Edge directed edge represents a post by one user on another user's FB wall.
This network has 46952 nodes and 876993 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Temporal, Multigraph

rhesus_monkey: Rhesus monkey grooming (1963)
Grooming interactions among a group of wild adult rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) in Cayo Santiago, during a two month period in 1963. Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction. The two versions below are equivalent.
This network has 16 nodes and 111 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

Series C, Episode 08 - Rumours of Death
TARRANT: You took your time.
AVON: It was necessary.
TARRANT: Is it done?
AVON: Yes, but it isn't finished.
VILA: Wonderful. Who's next on your list? Servalan?
AVON: [Inserts key] Orac.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/308/306…

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
BLAKE: Why not?
RICHIE: We've left documents in the city with your signature on them. Forged, of course, but convincing enough to implicate you in everything we've been doing.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/62 B7B2

bitcoin: Bitcoin transactions (2009-2013)
A network of Bitcoin transactions spanning January 2009 to April 2013. Nodes are public-key "addresses" at some time within the given period, and each edge is marked with the time (at a resolution of seconds) of the transaction.
This network has 6336770 nodes and 16057711 edges.
Tags: Economic, Cryptocurrency, Unweighted, Timestamps

email_company: Manufacturing company email (2010)
A network of emails among employee email addresses at a mid-sized manufacturing company. Each directed edge represents an email sent from address i to address j. Edges are timestamped, and occurred over a 6 month period in an unspecified year.
This network has 167 nodes and 82927 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

bitcoin: Bitcoin transactions (2009-2013)
A network of Bitcoin transactions spanning January 2009 to April 2013. Nodes are public-key "addresses" at some time within the given period, and each edge is marked with the time (at a resolution of seconds) of the transaction.
This network has 6336770 nodes and 16057711 edges.
Tags: Economic, Cryptocurrency, Unweighted, Timestamps

new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…

bitcoin: Bitcoin transactions (2009-2013)
A network of Bitcoin transactions spanning January 2009 to April 2013. Nodes are public-key "addresses" at some time within the given period, and each edge is marked with the time (at a resolution of seconds) of the transaction.
This network has 6336770 nodes and 16057711 edges.
Tags: Economic, Cryptocurrency, Unweighted, Timestamps

twitter_15m: Twitter 15-M movement (2011)
A network representing follower-following relations among Twitter users associated with the 15-M Movement or Anti-austerity movement in Spain, in the period April-May 2011. Metadata include hashtags in the tweets.
This network has 87569 nodes and 6030459 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata