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How bonkers?
You can run DOOM on a 13 year old cable from Apple bonkers.
https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/doom-runs-on-an-apple-lightning-to-hdmi-dongle-soc-inside-adapter-has-enough-power-for-smooth-gameplay

❓ Fragt ihr euch, unter welchen Bedingungen ihr eure Objekte in euren Sammlungen 3d-digitalisieren und publizieren dürft?
💡 Unsere brandneue NFDI4Culture-Handreichung in Form eines Entscheidungsbaumes unterstützt Kulturerbeeinrichtungen bei der Rechteklärung für die Digitalisierung und Veröffentlichung von 3D-Daten aus ihren Sammlungen.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Tangerine Dream:
🎵 Love on A Real Train
#TangerineDream
https://betamaxxmusic.bandcamp.com/album/tangerine-dream-love-on-a-real-train-betamaxx-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/49y78l709VxMkIcq7jUJKN

Key fantasy football questions for Week 10: Committee concerns for Bears, Rams? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6782483/2025/11/06/key-fantasy-football-questions-week-10/

A chilly 36°F (2.2°C) but with sustained 19 mph (30.5 kph) winds gusting to 38 mph (61 kph) making it feel like 26°F (-3.3°C). Once or twice, I came around a corner and was nearly stopped in my tracks. I do love this chilly weather and saw several other runners also on #TeamShorts
Ran/walked 4/1 min intervals again, which feels mostly right at the minute — although I was fading to somethin…

Day 30: Elizabeth Moon
This last spot (somehow 32 days after my last post, but oh well) was a tough decision, but Moon brings us full circle back to fantasy/sci-fi, and also back to books I enjoyed as a teenager. Her politics don't really match up to Le Guin or Jemisin, but her military experience make for books that are much more interesting than standard fantasy fare in terms of their battles & outcomes (something "A Song of Ice and Fire" achieved by cribbing from history but couldn't extrapolate nearly as well). I liked (and still mostly like) her (unironically) strong female protagonists, even if her (especially more recent) forays into "good king" territory leave something to be desired. Still, in Paksenarion the way we get to see the world from a foot-soldier's perspective before transitioning into something more is pretty special and very rare in fantasy (I love the elven ruins scene as Paks travels over the mountains as an inflection point). Battles are won or lost on tactics, shifting politics, and logistics moreso than some epic magical gimmick, which is a wonderful departure from the fantasy norm.
Her work does come with a content warning for rape, although she addresses it with more nuance and respect than any male SF/F author of her generation. Ex-evangelicals might also find her stuff hard to read, as while she's against conservative Christianity, she's very much still a Christian and that makes its way into her writing. Even if her (not bad but not radical enough) politics lead her writing into less-satisfying places at times, part of my respect for her comes from following her on Twitter for a while, where she was a pretty decent human being...
Overall, Paksenarrion is my favorite of her works, although I've enjoyed some of her sci-fi too and read the follow-up series. While it inherits some of Tolkien's baggage, Moon's ability to deeply humanize her hero and depict a believable balance between magic being real but not the answer to all problems is great.
I've reached 30 at this point, and while I've got more authors on my shortlist, I think I'll end things out tomorrow with a dump of also-rans rather than continuing to write up one per day. I may even include a man or two in that group (probably with at least non-{white cishet} perspective). Honestly, doing this challenge I first thought that sexism might have made it difficult, but here at the end I'm realizing that ironically, the misogyny that holds non-man authors to a higher standard means that (given plenty have still made it through) it's hard to think of male authors who compare with this group.
Looking back on the mostly-male authors of SF/F in my teenage years, for example, I'm now struggling to think of a single one whose work I'd recommend to my kids (having cheated and checked one of my old lists, Pratchett, Jaques, and Asimov qualify but they're outnumbered by those I'm now actively ashamed to admit I enjoyed). If I were given a choice between reading only non-men or non-woman authors for the rest of my life (yes I'm giving myself enby authors as a freebie; they're generally great) I'd very easily choose non-men. I think the only place where (to my knowledge) not enough non-men authors have been allowed through to outshine the fields of male mediocrity yet is in videogames sadly. I have a very long list of beloved games and did include some game designers here, but I'm hard-pressed to think of many other non-man game designers I'd include in the genuinely respect column (I'll include at least two tomorrow but might cheat a bit).
TL;DR: this was fun and you should do it too.
#30AuthorsNoMen

Mage session:
The un-awakened teenager, whose brother had been abducted and imprisoned by their parents, has just spotted them for the first time since her brother vanished. She runs at them, yelling a battle cry on the top of her lungs.
Storyteller: »Is somebody trying to stop her?«
The Euthanatoi social worker: »Can I possess her with a spirit of vengeance?«
#rpg

Replaced article(s) found for physics.optics. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.optics/new
[1/1]:
- LLM4Laser: Large Language Models Automate the Design of Lasers
Renjie Li, Ceyao Zhang, Sixuan Mao, Xiyuan Zhou, Feng Yin, Sergios Theodoridis, Zhaoyu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.12145
- Room-temperature valley-selective emission in Si-MoSe2 heterostructures enabled by high-quality-f...
Feng Pan, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.09806 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsoptics_bot/113152185040115763
- 1T'-MoTe$_2$ as an integrated saturable absorber for photonic machine learning
Maria Carolina Volpato, Henrique G. Rosa, Tom Reep, Pierre-Louis de Assis, Newton Cesario Frateschi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16140 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsoptics_bot/114901571498004090
- NeOTF: Guidestar-free neural representation for broadband dynamic imaging through scattering
Yunong Sun, Fei Xia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22328 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsoptics_bot/114947052118796753
- Structured Random Models for Phase Retrieval with Optical Diffusers
Zhiyuan Hu, Fakhriyya Mammadova, Juli\'an Tachella, Michael Unser, Jonathan Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14490 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsoptics_bot/115388901264416806
- Memory Effects in Time-Modulated Radiative Heat Transfer
Riccardo Messina, Philippe Ben-Abdallah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19378 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsoptics_bot/115422659227231796
- Mie-tronics supermodes and symmetry breaking in nonlocal metasurfaces
Thanh Xuan Hoang, Ayan Nussupbekov, Jie Ji, Daniel Leykam, Jaime Gomez Rivas, Yuri Kivshar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.03560 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsoptics_bot/115502066008543828
- Integrated soliton microcombs beyond the turnkey limit
Wang, Xu, Wang, Zhu, Luo, Luo, Wang, Ni, Yang, Gong, Xiao, Li, Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.06909 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsoptics_bot/115530791701071777
- Ising accelerator with a reconfigurable interferometric photonic processor
Rausell-Campo, Al Kayed, P\'erez-L\'ppez, Aadhi, Shastri, Francoy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13284 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsoptics_bot/115570439939074488
- Superradiance in dense atomic samples
I. M. de Ara\'ujo, H. Sanchez, L. F. Alves da Silva, M. H. Y. Moussa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20242 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/114425762810828336
- Fluctuation-induced Hall-like lateral forces in a chiral-gain environment
Daigo Oue, M\'ario G. Silveirinha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14754 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatmeshall_bot/114896308178114535
- Tensor-network approach to quantum optical state evolution beyond the Fock basis
Nikolay Kapridov, Egor Tiunov, Dmitry Chermoshentsev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15295 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/115581390666689204
- OmniLens : Blind Lens Aberration Correction via Large LensLib Pre-Training and Latent PSF Repres...
Jiang, Qian, Gao, Sun, Yang, Yi, Li, Yang, Van Gool, Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17126 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessIV_bot/115603729319581340
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