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Abundances of Rarely Detected s-process Elements Derived from the Ultraviolet Spectrum of the s-process-enhanced Metal-poor Star HD 196944
Ian U. Roederer, Vinicius M. Placco, Amanda I. Karakas, Elizabeth A. Den Hartog, Timothy C. Beers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11922

Abundances of Rarely Detected s-process Elements Derived from the Ultraviolet Spectrum of the s-process-enhanced Metal-poor Star HD 196944
We present an analysis of the heavy-element abundances of HD 196944, a carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) star enriched with elements produced by the slow neutron-capture process (s-process). We obtained a new high-resolution ultraviolet (UV) spectrum of this star, the UV-brightest known CEMP-s star, with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph on board the Hubble Space Telescope. This spectrum extends deeper into the UV (2029 < lambda < 2303 Angstroms) than previous studies of any CEMP-s star.…

Sources: Apptronik, a humanoid robot maker backed by Google, is in the process of raising at least $400M led by B Capital at a $5B pre-money valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-backed-apptronik-tal…

Google-Backed Apptronik in Talks to Raise Funding at $5 Billion Valuation
Apptronik, a humanoid robot maker backed by Google, is in the process of raising at least $400 million at a $5 billion valuation not including the new money, according to two people familiar with the discussions. The new round,led by B Capital, would at least triple the startup’s valuation from ...

Xu Bo, a Chinese billionaire, was seeking parental rights to at least four unborn children,
and the court’s additional research showed that he had already fathered or was in the process of fathering at least eight more
—all through surrogates.
When called in for a confidential hearing in the summer of 2023,
he never entered the courtroom, according to people who attended the hearing.
The maker of fantasy videogames lived in China and appeared via video, speaking …

China fertility facts of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
A Chinese billionaire was seeking parental rights to at least four unborn children, and the court’s additional research showed that he had already fathered or was in the process of fathering at least eight more—all through surrogates. When Pellman called Xu Bo in for a confidential hearing in the summer of 2023, he never entered […]

GPU-Accelerated Algorithms for Process Mapping
Petr Samoldekin, Christian Schulz, Henning Woydt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12196 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510…

GPU-Accelerated Algorithms for Process Mapping
Process mapping asks to assign vertices of a task graph to processing elements of a supercomputer such that the computational workload is balanced while the communication cost is minimized. Motivated by the recent success of GPU-based graph partitioners, we propose two GPU-accelerated algorithms for this optimization problem. The first algorithm employs hierarchical multisection, which partitions the task graph alongside the hierarchy of the supercomputer. The method utilizes GPU-based graph pa…

Process creates friction, so we got rid of process. But that friction was necessary for holding workslop at bay.
Because without slowing down, we can't ask "is this good? is this right?" We can only ask "when will it be done?" And that's a world where #LLM outputs will always beat people.
Fortunately, an "optimized" process moves slowly, because prod…

The myth of "no design process"
Process can add friction, but trying to get rid of friction by getting rid of process dooms design to irrelevance.

Verifying Correctness of Shared Channels in a Cooperatively Scheduled Process-Oriented Language
Jan Pedersen, Kevin Chalmers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11751 https://

Verifying Correctness of Shared Channels in a Cooperatively Scheduled Process-Oriented Language
Correct concurrent behaviour is important in understanding how components will act within certain conditions. In this work. we analyse the behaviour of shared communicating channels within a coorporatively scheduled runtime. We use the refinement checking and modelling tool FDR to develop both specifications of how such shared channels should behave and models of the implementations of these channels in the cooperatively scheduled language ProcessJ. Our results demonstrate that although we can …

"...detailed how the company would use AI to speed up licensing. In [Microsoft’s] conception, existing nuclear licensing documents and data about nuclear sites data would be used to train an LLM that’s then used to generate documents to speed up the process."
JESUS MOTHERFUCKING CHRIST
https://www.404media.co/power-companies-are-using-ai-to-build-nuclear-power-plants/

Registration for HRM26 Hellenic Mountain Race 2026 is now live. May 23-30, 2026
https://themountainraces.eventrac.co.uk/e/hellenic-mountain-race-14449

Hellenic Mountain Race
Welcome to the application process for Hellenic Mountain Race 2026 The application process is divided into the following two stages STAGE ONE: Choose your entry category and submit your personal information to receive a confirmation email with a...

Cowboys look to Giants interim DC as interview process rolls on https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/14/cowboys-request-interview-giants-interim-dc-charlie-bullen/88182949007/<…

Looking for other people here who're interested in analog "alt process" photography (especially Kallitype & salt prints in general) and who are also making their own prints. There used to be a few more such people in my TL, but they all seem to have vanished or stopped posting in the past year, and generally it feels there's precious little interest in this topic on Mastodon... (I too have a feeling, either my own photography went drastically downhill over the past 3-4 …

We get so easily fooled because the typical answer is often in fact the correct one. That’s a heuristic we use in our interactions with other humans — “That’s what people say!” — and an LLM using human social forms triggers that psychological process. That’s how this magic trick works.
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Yesterday, I wanted to quickly post something on my blog when I realized that my blog generating process was broken after upgrading to Debian 13.
So I had to analyze the situation, got lost in my complex shell script hell and decided to merge it into one single script without lots of dated stuff.
Next I realized that one of my own libs has a minor issue with Python 3 strings: had to migrate to raw strings to get rid of very valid warnings.
Well, I could not publish that lib…

Stellar s-process neutron capture cross sections on A-Se and A-Ce
R. N. Sahoo, M. Tessler, S. Halfon, Y. Kashiv, D. Kijel, A. Kreisel, M. Paul, A. Shor, L. Weissman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12695

Stellar s-process neutron capture cross sections on A-Se and A-Ce
We report on experiments at the Soreq Applied Research Accelerator Facility - Liquid-Lithium Target (SARAF-LiLiT) laboratory dedicated to the study of s-process neutron capture reactions. The kW-power proton beam at 1.92 MeV (1-2 mA) from SARAF Phase I yields high-intensity 30 keV quasi-Maxwellian neutrons (3-5x10^10 n/s). The high neutron intensity enables Maxwellian averaged cross sections (MACS) measurements of samples with short-lived decay products. Neutron capture reactions on nat-Se and …

Wait, Games Workshop did something good?
#AI

Games Workshop Rejects the Abominable Intelligence
The makers of 'Warhammer' declare heresy on generative AI, banning its use in the company's design process.

Very bummed to hear the news that friend John Collier is dealing with prostate cancer, and about to undergo radiation treatments. Great guy and sitting on an absolute wealth of musical knowledge. Radiation is a rough road for anyone, but John could really use some funding to get through copays and car repair, to support him through the treatment process. Hang in there John, you got this.

Donate to Support John Collier’s Cancer Treatment and Recovery, organized by Ward Ruth
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In the Amazon, political systems fail to prioritize the environment https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/in-the-amazon-political-systems-fail-to-prioritize-the-environment/

In the Amazon, political systems fail to prioritize the environment
Realizing the goals of sustainable development and environmental conservation in the Pan Amazon will require profound changes in the region’s legal and economic framework. This type of change can only be obtained via the political process. Fortunately, there is broad support within Amazonian nations for a change in the policies that drive deforestation and unsustainable […]

Really feeling the slowness of #fsharp compilation process. I am surprised they haven't made more progress in this area but I am sure I am not understanding the full complexities involved - or perhaps it's not a big enough issue to warrant too much attention. Either way. The only thing that's missing for this beautiful ecosystem of f#/.net world in my book.

Gaze patterns during visual mental imagery reflect part-based generation https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-35447-z "eye movements during mental imagery reflect a part-by-part generation process of the imagined content, independent of prior perceptual encoding"

Feynman Formula for Discrete-time Quantum Walks
Jean-Pierre Fouque, Tomoyuki Ichiba, Ka Lok Lam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12038 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510…

Feynman Formula for Discrete-time Quantum Walks
We explicitly connect (discrete-time) quantum walks on Z with a four-state Markov additive process via a Feynman-type formula (2.5). Using this representation, we derive a relation between the spectral decomposition of the Markov additive process and the limiting density of the homogeneous quantum walk. In addition, we consider a space-time rescaling of quantum walks, which leads to a system of quantum transport PDEs in continuous time and space with a phase interaction term. Our probabilistic …

Jaguars’ Travis Hunter will continue playing offense, defense once recovered from injury https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6970239/2026/01/14/travis-hunter-jaguars-offense-defense-injury/

How AI is upending India's business process management sector, which employs 1.65M people; conversational AI startup LimeChat claims to have automated 5K jobs (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/meet-ai-chatbots-replacing-in…

ThinkPilot: Steering Reasoning Models via Automated Think-prefixes Optimization
Sunzhu Li, Zhiyu Lin, Shuling Yang, Jiale Zhao, Wei Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12063 https:/…

ThinkPilot: Steering Reasoning Models via Automated Think-prefixes Optimization
Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) are powerful, but they still suffer from inefficient and off-target reasoning. Currently, training-free methods are limited to either rigid heuristics or descriptive, non-actionable analyses. In this paper, we introduce ThinkPilot, a training-free framework that automatically optimizes LRMs reasoning. It uses an evolutionary process to generate think-prefixes, which are instructions that evolve driven by a taxonomy of reasoning behaviors to guide models toward supe…

What a treat: A reader send me a bunch of hand-printed cards inspired by my article "Something From Nothing" https://tante.cc/2025/12/12/something-from-nothing/

Okay, a brief recap of today's trials.
Alpine with Cosmic was no success, with an cosmic-OSD running at 100%.
AerynOS blew up the install at 97%.
FreeBSD River showed the audio output device in pavucontrol, but produced no sound.
The Slackware QT6 spin shat the bed again with SDDM.
Gentoo KDE update got interrupted by me; compiling kwin takes ages. And i mean 2 hours or so.
The Slackware Cosmic iso downloaded, but got corrupted in the process.
The exter…

media conglomerates are leading the way against open internet law by fining cloudflare:
Italy's "shadowy cabal of European media elites" ... "scheme to censor the Internet. The scheme, which even the EU has called concerning, required us within a mere 30 minutes of notification to fully censor from the Internet any sites a shadowy cabal of European media elites deemed against their interests. No judicial oversight. No due process. No appeal. No transparency. "

This is a direct mutual aid program organized by parents; there’s no nonprofit or governmental intermediary.
I realize that involves a lot of trust, and again, I’m personally vouching for this fundraiser (for whatever that’s worth, I’m just a foot with an eyeball on top on the internet). The advantage of this kind of mutual aid process is that it will get money to families who need it •fast•.
https://givebutter.com/famshelpingfams

Low-maturity #tech orgs fetishize ideas.
Their process goes like this: a senior stakeholder has an idea, then the engineers build it. Only then can the team go and "validate" it.
The main outcome of this process is ANXIETY, because people know they are making a huge bet, but the risks aren't being acknowledged.
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Writing on UX and product management to connect today's discourse with classic insights that the industry forgot.

Republican Indiana State Senator:
We don't want to be redistricting every 2 years at the whim of the president.
It makes the legislative process just too transactional.
https://bsky.app/profile/factpostnews.bsky.social/post/3m7sobkh65e2v

FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social)
Republican Indiana State Senator: We don't want to be redistricting every 2 years at the whim of the president. It makes the legislative process just too transactional.

As part of the conversion, computer specialists rewrote 1,500 programs;
a process that traditionally requires some debugging.
-- USA Today, referring to the Internal Revenue Service
conversion to a new computer system.

PCIe any% speedrun update: LTSSM is in full swing, I've made it all the way to Configuration.LinkWidth.Accept (and improved the ngscopeclient decode for link training in the process).

What Raiders HC Requests Say About Organizational Outlook https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-hc-requests-say-organizational-outlook

A silent scenery in four acts...
(Selenium-toned[1] 4x6 salt print (still in final wash) plus previous work-in-progress stages... see alt text for details)
The picture/motif itself is one of my personal favorites and was taken 4 years ago in the Alpstein massif, when clouds were spontaneously forming around us, creating a wonderful light/scene/drama and a dear memory... now also as print which likely will/can outlast myself
[1] The tones will become more neutral once dry...…

Refashion: Reconfigurable Garments via Modular Design
Rebecca Lin, Michal Luk\'a\v{c}, Mackenzie Leake
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11941 https://arxiv.o…

Refashion: Reconfigurable Garments via Modular Design
While bodies change over time and trends vary, most store-bought clothing comes in fixed sizes and styles and fails to adapt to these changes. Alterations can enable small changes to otherwise static garments, but these changes often require sewing and are non-reversible. We propose a modular approach to garment design that considers resizing, restyling, and reuse earlier in the design process. Our contributions include a compact set of modules and connectors that form the building blocks of mo…

The local DSA chapter is doing a D&D style thing but with some changes...
"We'll be having a one off campaign with a Socialist twist — we're using Roberts Rules of Order. Instead of individually declaring actions, each player proposes motions that are discussed, amended, and approved by the whole group following the Robert's Rules of Order process. You can battle monsters, unionize your local tavern, redistribute your spoils to the masses, start a working class rev…

I guess the executive power grab attempts in SF government are taking multiple forms. Not only the Commission Streamlining Task Force, but Mayor Lurie and Board President Mandelman have also created this "charter reform working group," where there's no public comment and major city departments are excluded.
https://

On SF Charter Reform Group
With SPUR’s stated political goals trust and confidence in a genuine Charter reform process remains elusive

Mind the gap: Revealing sidewalk networks at scale
pdf: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2632-072X/ae35b9/pdf
Nice to see important research on the both most important and neglected mode of transport 🚶

Mean-Field Games with Constraints
Anran Hu, Zijiu Lyu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11843 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11843

Mean-Field Games with Constraints
This paper introduces a framework of Constrained Mean-Field Games (CMFGs), where each agent solves a constrained Markov decision process (CMDP). This formulation captures scenarios in which agents' strategies are subject to feasibility, safety, or regulatory restrictions, thereby extending the scope of classical mean field game (MFG) models. We first establish the existence of CMFG equilibria under a strict feasibility assumption, and we further show uniqueness under a classical monotonicity co…

So, Gableman's argument is that if he isn't allowed to pick which judges hear his case, it is a violation of due process? I don't think that is the way the law is meant to work.
"Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman says his due process rights have been denied during the ongoing fallout of his investigation of the 2020 presidential election."
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol

A High-Level Feature Model to Predict the Encoding Energy of a Hardware Video Encoder
Diwakara Reddy, Christian Herglotz, Andr\'e Kaup
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12754 https…

A High-Level Feature Model to Predict the Encoding Energy of a Hardware Video Encoder
In today's society, live video streaming and user generated content streamed from battery powered devices are ubiquitous. Live streaming requires real-time video encoding, and hardware video encoders are well suited for such an encoding task. In this paper, we introduce a high-level feature model using Gaussian process regression that can predict the encoding energy of a hardware video encoder. In an evaluation setup restricted to only P-frames and a single keyframe, the model can predict the e…

Monitoring 3D Lattice Structures in Additive Manufacturing Using Topological Data Analysis
Yulin An, Xueqi Zhao, Enrique del Castillo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11740 https://…

Monitoring 3D Lattice Structures in Additive Manufacturing Using Topological Data Analysis
We present a new method for the statistical process control of lattice structures using tools from Topological Data Analysis. Motivated by applications in additive manufacturing, such as aerospace components and biomedical implants, where hollow lattice geometries are critical, the proposed framework is based on monitoring the persistent homology properties of parts. Specifically, we focus on homological features of dimensions zero and one, corresponding to connected components and one-dimensio…

Iterative polynomial regularisation of $\text{P}_{\text{IV}}$-type: Hamiltonian systems and Newton polygons
Marta Dell'Atti, Galina Filipuk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12378 …

Iterative polynomial regularisation of $\text{P}_{\text{IV}}$-type: Hamiltonian systems and Newton polygons
We study several polynomial Hamiltonian systems of $\text{P}_{\text{IV}}$-type (including the mixed case quasi-$\text{P}_{\text{IV}}$), and show that via the iterative process of polynomial regularisation, it is possible to identify the "minimal" Hamiltonian system. The selected Hamiltonian function is associated with the Newton polygon with minimal area and smallest highest total degree.

Baidu unveils Ernie 5.0, an AI model to process and generate text, images, audio, and video, claiming it beats GPT-5-High and Gemini 2.5 Pro on some benchmarks (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/baidu-unveils-proprietary-ern…

from my link log —
capsudo: Rethinking sudo with object capabilities.
https://ariadne.space/2025/12/12/rethinking-sudo-with-object-capabilities.html
saved 2025-12-12

Koszul dual $\mathcal{A}_{\infty}$-algebras from star-shaped diagrams -- part 2
Isabella Khan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12575 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.1…

Koszul dual $\mathcal{A}_{\infty}$-algebras from star-shaped diagrams -- part 2
This paper proves a Koszul duality result between weighted $\mathcal{A}_{\infty}$-algebras constructed in the author's previous work. In the process, we construct a new box tensor product for weighted $\mathcal{A}_{\infty}$ bimodules, and verify a correspondence between weighted $\mathcal{A}_{\infty}$-algebra maps and a particular class of $\mathcal{A}_{\infty}$-bimodule. This paper is part 2 of arXiv:2408.01564.

Lanthanide Impact on the Infra-Red Spectra of Nebular Phase Kilonovae
Quentin Pognan, Kyohei Kawaguchi, Shinya Wanajo, Sho Fujibayashi, Anders Jerkstrand
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12413

Lanthanide Impact on the Infra-Red Spectra of Nebular Phase Kilonovae
Nebular phase kilonovae (KNe) have significant infra-red (IR) emission thought to be mostly forbidden emission lines from rapid neutron capture (r-process) species in neutron star merger ejecta. Lanthanide elements in particular have complex atomic structures with many IR transitions. Using non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (NLTE) radiative transfer simulations, we explore the impact of lanthanides on the IR spectra of KNe in the nebular phase, exploring a parameter space of ejecta mass and l…

🪱 Bioinspired Drilling for Extraterrestrial Applications
#space #planets

I love how simple Kitten’s Streaming HTML workflow makes building features like this, especially when using class-based Kitten pages and components :)
#Kitten

one of the biggest misconceptions about microchips people have is that the process is anything close to "fully automatic"
it really isn't. i mean, some operations are, but look at this video! there's a human like every other step of the process. and it's not like this is some expensive unique device. they're making mass-market LEDs by the reel

Scientists shocked as bumblebees learn to read simple “Morse code” #bee

Scientists shocked as bumblebees learn to read simple “Morse code”
In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists found that bumblebees can tell the difference between short and long light flashes, much like recognizing Morse code. The insects learned which signal led to a sweet reward, demonstrating an unexpected sense of timing. This ability may stem from a fundamental neural process, suggesting that even tiny brains have complex time-tracking mechanisms relevant to evolution and AI.

Aspects of holographic complexity and volume of the black holes
Suraj Maurya, Sashideep Gutti, Rahul Nigam, Swastik Bhattacharya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11833 https://…

Aspects of holographic complexity and volume of the black holes
In this article, we study the complexity growth rate for Banados Teitlboim Zanelli, Schwarzschild, Reissner Nordstrom, and Kerr black holes using complexity-volume (CV) and complexity-action (CA) dualities and verify that it is proportional to the product of the horizon temperature and entropy of the black holes as conjectured by Susskind. Furthermore, we explore the variation in the complexity growth rate $δ\dot{\mathcal{C}}$ under various physical processes, including the Penrose process, su…

celegans_interactomes: C. elegans interactomes (2009)
Ten networks of protein-protein interactions in Caenorhabditis elegans (nematode), from yeast two-hybrid experiments, biological process maps, literature curation, orthologous interactions, and genetic interactions. The WI8 network combines WI2004, WI2007 and BPmaps, while the Integrated Network combines data from all sources.
This network has 912 nodes and 22738 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted<…

The negotiation process is not standing still! Trump gave a positive assessment #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/01/the-negotiation-process-is-not.html

Sources: during the bidding process, Paramount promised WBD that its foreign partners and Jared Kushner's fund wouldn't have any voting or governance rights (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/11/paramount-wbd-voting-rights

Scoop: Original Paramount bid for WBD didn't exclude foreign voting rights
Paramount has now made a hostile bid after WBD accepted Netflix's offer.

As Cyber Threats Escalate, the National Vulnerability Database Is Falling Behind
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is struggling.
It faces a growing backlog to process data in its vulnerability repository, which publicly shares information assessing and detailing mitigation solutions against new cyber exploits.
With nearly 1,800 new reported vulnerabilities sitting in a queue for analysis this year, delays in processing leave the United States increa…

Early massive galaxy formation in the core of a galaxy protocluster 650 million years after the Big Bang
Yoshinobu Fudamoto, Yurina Nakazato, Daniel Ceverino, Luis Colina, Takuya Hashimoto, Akio K. Inoue, Yoichi Tamura, Naoki Yoshida, Yongda Zhu, Yuma Sugahara, Santiago Arribas, Javier 'Arvarez-M'arquez, Tom Bakx, Carmen Blanco Prieto, Luca Costantin, Alejandro Crespo G'omez, Masato Hagimoto, Takeshi Hashigaya, Hiroshi Matsuo, Rui Marques-Chaves, Ken Mawatari, Ikki Mitsuhas…

Early massive galaxy formation in the core of a galaxy protocluster 650 million years after the Big Bang
Rest-frame optical observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered a population of massive galaxies, exceeding $10^{10}$ solar masses, present less than a billion years after the Big Bang. The large stellar masses of these galaxies require an efficient conversion of baryons into stars, which may exceed theoretical expectations. However, the formation process of massive galaxies so early in the Universe's history is perplexing, as observations provide limited information t…

I have an expired credit card with a metal core that I want to destroy. I originally thought the core was an aluminum alloy, but it resisted scissors. With some bending and prying, I'm 99% sure the core is steel.
After a few minutes of work, I managed to peel some of the plastic off the mag-stripe side but cut a finger in the process.
The card had a pleasant heft and feeling of durability, but given the difficulty to destroy it, I really dislike it now.

Now that I'm almost 40 pages in, I've started to accept that I am, in fact, in the process of writing a book and not a zine.

Do Railway Commuters Exhibit Consistent Route Choice Rationality Across Different Contexts and Time? Evidence from Tokyo metropolitan Commutes
Yixuan Y Zheng, Hideki Takayasu, Misako Takayasu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12381

Do Railway Commuters Exhibit Consistent Route Choice Rationality Across Different Contexts and Time? Evidence from Tokyo metropolitan Commutes
Recent advances in data collection and technology enable a deeper understanding of complex urban commuting, yet few studies have rigorously analyzed the temporal stability and Origin-Destination (OD) heterogeneity of route choice. To address this, we analyze one year of smartphone position data from over one million users in the Tokyo metropolitan area to extract high-resolution commuting trajectories. Our methodology is twofold: First, we develop algorithms to process raw position data, accura…

Sources: CoinGecko, a prominent crypto market data and analytics company, is considering a sale at a ~$500M valuation, after starting the sales process in 2025 (Will Canny/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/01/

SCOOP: Crypto data platform CoinGecko weighs sale for around $500 million, sources say
The crypto market data firm has hired investment bank Moelis, as dealmaking across the sector accelerates.

"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different."
—Ian Mckellen
#acting #coaching

First stage of the STEP Fusion plant build consultation in the planning process they're intending to get it running in the 2040's; This is an old Coal power station site in West Burton they're reusing:
(I expect others to have got fusion working first, but still promising)
https://stepfusion.com/consultation/

STEP Fusion - Consultation
STEP Fusion’s first stage of public consultation runs from 14 January through to 11 March 2026

Good. That report from NINE YEARS AGO needs to be examined closely and the recommendations need to be put in place. Ideally, we'd end the death penalty, given the state's record with putting innocent people on death row, but I'm not hopeful Oklahomans will ever come to their senses about that.

it's so cool that Twitter locked my account and all active sessions until I re-enroll my security key, something I've already done using a process that doesn't work because their passkey implementation is buggy as hell

Maybe I am just a naïve European and I just don’t get the process of a government shutdown in the USA. But I must say that I simply do not understand the approach whereby, in the event of disagreement, the state (the richest state in the world!!!) can cease its basic functions and not pay salaries.

"sudo-rs: Partial password reveal when password timeout occurs"
It also prints it if you kill the sudo process (not just wait for timeout to occur).
https://github.com/trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs/security/advisories/GHSA-c978-wq47-pvvw…

TIme to start the process of updating to Mastodon v4.5! Now that I've lightened the load on little #footiMac this should be a much quicker process than the past few updates!
Happy Updating!
#MastoAdmin #selfhost

"...the first rebellious act that a man can perform (is) refusing to sleep. That's the real #rebellion against #life and the generative process. That's the real #human idea. 'I refuse to s…

This extract in particular is an excellent summary of why people turn to AI, and (as well as what follows, namely the "raising the standards and lowering the stakes" bit) an excellent guide to recentering education as a process & practice rather than a series of benchmarks students are required to chase.
https://www.tumblr.com/inside-a-cold-cave/805462716508717056?source=share

Cowboys' defensive coordinator decision may be uncomfortably drawn out https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/13/cowboys-defensive-coordinator-decision-uncomfortably-draw…

Kristi Noem has hailed a more than $200 million, taxpayer-funded ad campaign as a crucial tool to stem illegal immigration.
Her agency invoked the “national emergency” at the border as it awarded contracts for the campaign,
bypassing the normal competitive bidding process designed to prevent waste and corruption.
The Department of Homeland Security has kept at least one beneficiary of the nine-figure ad deal a secret,
records and interviews show:
a Republican c…

Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for the taxpayer-funded campaign.

TALP-Pages: An easy-to-integrate continuous performance monitoring framework
Valentin Seitz, Jordy Trilaksono, Marta Garcia-Gasulla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12436 https://

TALP-Pages: An easy-to-integrate continuous performance monitoring framework
Ensuring good performance is a key aspect in the development of codes that target HPC machines. As these codes are under active development, the necessity to detect performance degradation early in the development process becomes apparent. In addition, having meaningful insight into application scaling behavior tightly coupled to the development workflow is helpful. In this paper, we introduce TALP-Pages, an easy-to-integrate framework that enables developers to get fast and in-repository feedb…

Phenome-Wide Multi-Omics Integration Uncovers Distinct Archetypes of Human Aging
Huifa Li, Feilong Tang, Haochen Xue, Yulong Li, Xinlin Zhuang, Bin Zhang, Eran Segal, Imran Razzak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12384

Phenome-Wide Multi-Omics Integration Uncovers Distinct Archetypes of Human Aging
Aging is a highly complex and heterogeneous process that progresses at different rates across individuals, making biological age (BA) a more accurate indicator of physiological decline than chronological age. While previous studies have built aging clocks using single-omics data, they often fail to capture the full molecular complexity of human aging. In this work, we leveraged the Human Phenotype Project, a large-scale cohort of 12,000 adults aged 30--70 years, with extensive longitudinal prof…

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NFL Announces Punishment for Raiders Veteran in Loss to Broncos https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/jamal-adams-nfl-fine-broncos/

Squirrels at War: Postscript
#writingcommunity #sciencefiction #visualinspiration

How the NFL head coach interview process works: Timeline and the Rooney Rule https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6946139/2026/01/06/nfl-coach-hiring-process-timeline-rules/

Preferential accretion of binary stars
Daniel Dalsgaard, Michael Kuffmeier, Troels Haugb{\o}lle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11805 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510…

Preferential accretion of binary stars
The attracting properties of gravity enable matter present in cores to collapse into stars with seven orders of magnitude change in space and time making modelling of star formation a challenging multi-scale process. To circumvent this scale problem stars are replaced by a sub-grid sink particle at a much larger scale. Sink particles are created above a threshold density and acquire mass and momentum through accretion. In models where binary star systems form and migrate to separations of a few…

"New Teflon Recycling Method Turns The “Forever Chemical” into Toothpaste "
#PFAS #ForeverChemicals
https://

New Teflon Recycling Method Turns The “Forever Chemical” into Toothpaste  | Happy Eco News
Scientists from Newcastle University and the University of Birmingham developed a room-temperature Teflon recycling method that turns Teflon waste into sodium fluoride using mechanical shaking with sodium metal. The process breaks strong carbon-fluorine bonds without heat or solvents, producing pure sodium fluoride for toothpaste, water treatment, and pharmaceutical applications.

🥫 Artificial proteins offer new path for fast, sustainable and biocompatible energy storage devices
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-11-artificial-proteins-path-fast-sustainable.html

Artificial proteins offer new path for fast, sustainable and biocompatible energy storage devices
Researchers have managed to modify a class of proteins to give them the ability to transport and store electricity. These proteins can be used to create sustainable, efficient and biocompatible conducting materials. These materials are highly stable and easy to process, which means they can be incorporated into industrial processes.

A phony peace process to appease Trump: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/30/a-phony-peace-process-to.html

Aeolian dune simulation (made in 2017) for #MeerMittwoch:
The images show a screenshot of the JavaScript application to create the simulation and some Houdini renders of exported height fields. The sim itself had 5 macro params to control the behavior of the interactive deposit/erosion/transportation process. It supported tileable patterns, customizable seed terrain (images) and ran r…

Sources: Bari Weiss has kept Anderson Cooper's unaired 60 Minutes piece about Trump's decision to accept South African refugees in a prolonged editorial process (Oliver Darcy/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/60-minutes-bari-weiss-cbs-news-cecot

The Shadow Over ‘60’
As Sharyn Alfonsi's “60 Minutes” report remains shelved, Status has learned that an Anderson Cooper piece is also caught in a prolonged editorial review process, frustrating the veteran producer attached to the story.

celegans_interactomes: C. elegans interactomes (2009)
Ten networks of protein-protein interactions in Caenorhabditis elegans (nematode), from yeast two-hybrid experiments, biological process maps, literature curation, orthologous interactions, and genetic interactions. The WI8 network combines WI2004, WI2007 and BPmaps, while the Integrated Network combines data from all sources.
This network has 2724 nodes and 14322 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted…

"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different."
—Ian Mckellen
#acting #coaching

I don't think I'll ever tire of these magic moments when a print first appears almost out of nowhere when pouring developer over it...
(The image is another one of my ancient art pieces from 2010/11, a rendered detail of the skeleton of one of the generative characters made for a collection of 100 3D printed sculptures)
Thanks to @… for being m…

NFL news roundup: Troy Aikman will assist in Dolphins' HC search as he did with their GM process https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-saturday-jan-10

"This project is unmaintained and has known security issues. It is foolish to use this software to process untrusted data“,
says the README of libxml2, a library that many other Open Source projects depend on.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2

GNOME / libxml2 · GitLab
XML parser and toolkit

I’m sympathetic to this from @…, but my patience for that learning process is short because the wrongheaded “plastic recycling is 100% hoax!!” canard quickly gets turned into “ALL recycling is 100% hoax!!” by right-wingers. It’s a learning process, yes, but a learning process that bad actors have been actively exploiting for at least a decade.
https://mastodon.social/@schwa/115651093211678205

Cowboys in the process of finalizing trade for DT Quinnen Williams https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-in-the-process-of-finalizing-trade-for-dt-quinnen-williams

Belichick among 9 coaches as HOF semifinalists https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46859051/bill-belichick-9-coaches-advancing-hall-fame-process

celegans_interactomes: C. elegans interactomes (2009)
Ten networks of protein-protein interactions in Caenorhabditis elegans (nematode), from yeast two-hybrid experiments, biological process maps, literature curation, orthologous interactions, and genetic interactions. The WI8 network combines WI2004, WI2007 and BPmaps, while the Integrated Network combines data from all sources.
This network has 759 nodes and 1593 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

The Trump administration began what could be a contentious process
to rework the trade deal that governs North American business this week,
as it began hearings about the
U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement that Trump signed into law in 2020 during his first term.
Farmers, academics, trade groups and others assembled in a government building south of the National Mall on Wednesday
for the first of three days of hearings
to share their assessment of the deal.

Groups Express Anixety as Trump Threatens to Derail U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Pact
Hearings that began Wednesday in Washington reflected anxiety over the future of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade pact and whether the president could end up scrapping it.

Sources: Aikman to advise Fins on GM search https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47475598/sources-troy-aikman-advise-dolphins-gm-search-process

Construction is underway at the Velvet-Wood uranium and vanadium mine in southeastern Utah, the first project approved under the Interior Department’s accelerated permitting process.
https://bsky.app/profile/sltrib.com/post/3m53mor7eex2f

The Salt Lake Tribune (@sltrib.com)
Construction is underway at the Velvet-Wood uranium and vanadium mine in southeastern Utah, the first project approved under the Interior Department’s accelerated permitting process. https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/11/07/velvet-wood-uranium-mine/

Apple and Google say they've developed new features that streamline the process of moving data between each platform as part of a joint collaboration (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/12/08/android-iphone-switching/

Google and Apple partner on better Android-iPhone switching 
The latest Android Canary is available today and it features work by Apple and Google to make switching between Android and iPhone easier.

Tee Higgins back in concussion protocol after returning twice vs. Bills, raising questions about NFL's process

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/tee-higgins-co…

The Hawaiian Supreme Court
ruled that Hawaii’s constitution requires police to record interrogations.
And they vowed to protect due process for Hawaii residents
—unlike, they said, the U.S. Supreme Court.
https://boltsmag.org/hawaii-supreme-court-police-inter…

Hawaii Supreme Court Expands Rights of Defendants, and Once Again Rebukes SCOTUS - Bolts
The justices ruled that Hawaii’s constitution requires police to record interrogations. And they vowed to protect due process for Hawaii residents—unlike, they said, the Roberts Court.

A new poll by Goodwin Simon Strategic Research
examines California voters’ attitudes toward due process for immigrants with criminal convictions
The survey also examined support for how tax dollars are spent and Californians’ views on the state’s sanctuary policies.
It found bipartisan support for ensuring that immigrants facing deportation receive due process, including ones with criminal records.
“This survey shows that there’s clear concern about the current admini…

Members of Congress are routinely escorted through airport security,
but the process does not normally result in profanity-laced airport tirades
Police investigation faults Nancy Mace for testy exchanges

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/20

Police investigation faults Nancy Mace for profanity-laced airport tirade  
A report found Rep. Nancy Mace (R-South Carolina) turned a “minor miscommunication” by police into a “spectacle” during a recent encounter at Charleston International Airport.