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The Blue Room
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Bears meet with former Pro Bowler ahead of training camp about filling out WR room, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bears-m

Inside the locker room https://www.commanders.com/video/inside-the-locker-room-wr-deebo-samuel

This weekend I've managed to remove wallpaper from the final room we plan to redecorate. This room took only 8 hours... Here's hoping that plastering and painting the walls will be easier.

Today is "Listen to the new Deftones album in full in a dark room" day.
It's gonna be a weird experience ;)

We're going to need a bigger litter box...

Kim was not so cooperative, I tried to corner her in one room and she opened the door with her paw, I eventually got a shot of her under the couch in Room 23
#cats #caturday #photo

Series D, Episode 12 - Warlord
ORAC: Orbit range in seventeen minutes.
SOOLIN: Visual scanners?
DAYNA: Locking on to automatic.
[Crew room]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/412/8 B7B4

The closure of rural hospitals is a looming problem across all of California.
Two Inland Empire lawmakers are urging state officials to take action to save a hospital in Blythe.
Last spring, Palo Verde Hospital in Blythe was on the brink of closure,
after a series of financial mishaps left it bleeding cash.
In May, the hospital announced that it would not accept new patients, “for the foreseeable future,”
although its emergency room and clinic remained open, th…

This rural hospital almost closed. Emergency state funding is keeping it open, but for how long?
The closure of rural hospitals is a looming problem across California. Two lawmakers are urging the state try and save a hospital in Blythe.

Let's Measure the Elephant in the Room: Facilitating Personalized Automated Analysis of Privacy Policies at Scale
Rui Zhao, Vladyslav Melnychuk, Jun Zhao, Jesse Wright, Nigel Shadbolt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14214

Let's Measure the Elephant in the Room: Facilitating Personalized Automated Analysis of Privacy Policies at Scale
In modern times, people have numerous online accounts, but they rarely read the Terms of Service or Privacy Policy of those sites despite claiming otherwise. This paper introduces PoliAnalyzer, a neuro-symbolic system that assists users with personalized privacy policy analysis. PoliAnalyzer uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) to extract formal representations of data usage practices from policy texts. In favor of deterministic, logical inference is applied to compare user preferences with t…

I didn't know before today that this room existed. Points for the person who knows where this was.
#Milwaukee

Well done AI for bagsying humans with the Chinese room.

Got an alert from the living room cam.
"Pet detected"
I assure you my #AIOverlords - this is not, in fact, a GODDAMN PET

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010) - Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon -

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010)
Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon

So much this. I do much of my reading at night, in a room with other people. Please write it out.
https://hachyderm.io/@petrillic/115063838306776558

Oh, and look at these hilarious shots of girls clapping every time the top 3 drivers came into the cool down room. Completely forgot that was a thing in #f1 hahaha so funny. Imagine any sport doing that now? Meltdowns left and right.

Inside the locker room https://www.commanders.com/video/inside-the-locker-room-s-jeremy-reaves-x2162

Room-Temperature Surface Exciton Polaritons in Colloidal J-Aggregate Flakes
Carla Est\'evez-Varela, Jos\'e Nuno Gama, Miguel Castillo, Adelaide Miranda, Pieter De Beule, Jorge P\'erez-Juste, Martin Lopez-Garcia, Isabel Pastoriza-Santos, Sara N\'u\~nez-S\'anchez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13784

Room-Temperature Surface Exciton Polaritons in Colloidal J-Aggregate Flakes
J-aggregates are promising organic materials for nanophotonic applications due to their excitonic properties and ability to support surface exciton polaritons at room temperature, providing a robust platform for nanoscale light manipulation. While thin films composed of J-aggregates have demonstrated these advantages, colloidal J-aggregate nanoparticles remain underexplored. Herein, we report the synthesis of colloidal J-aggregate flakes by electrostatic interaction of cyanine molecules (TDBC) …

Zufällig hab ich mitbekommen, dass gerade das #bcki um ist, und zwar hier auf #mastodon. Die Bilder zu sehen hat mich direkt nostalgisch gemacht und es ist toll zu sehen dass auch so viele bekannte Gesichter noch dabei sind. Ich bin ja leider schon lange (jetzt schon über 10 Jahre! Wie die Zeit…

"The Matrix is everywhere, it's all
around us, here even in this room.
You can see it out your window or
on your television. You feel it
when you go to work, or go to
church or pay your taxes. It is
the world that has been pulled
over your eyes to blind you from
the truth."
— MORPHEUS

People are starving in Gaza, you fucks. Talk about not having taste. Read the fucking room. https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115059906348542852

European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)
Attached: 1 image Europe’s taste is timeless and protected. From golden Mediterranean olive oil to summit-aged cheeses, over 3,600 products are registered as Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) and Geographical Indication (GI). These labels don’t just reveal the story behind the name. They preserve it, celebrating the communities behind it, their craft, and its quality. This summer, discover the flavours that define Europe 👇 https://eur…

Today I emptied the room ready for the actual professions. Took apart all the cupboards and the bed and packed it all into the van to drive to the tip.
Only just fit in the van really.
Spent more than half the day doing it and I'm knackered but as you can see, the room is empty and ready for the carpet fitters on Monday.

Today, the senior progressive living facility that my mother is living in (until May - in an independent apartment) confirmed in a meeting today that she is no longer able to be independent. So my 2 siblings and I are working on moving her out of her 2 bedroom apt into a single Skilled Nursing room.
This looks like the family history of Alzheimer's has bit her too.
I and my siblings are fine and working on everything that needs to be done. But tired.

BREAKING: Influential fediverse user "The Pervert Genius", famed for his ironic and egy humor, found dead in the cleaning room of a Miami Buc-ee's, all his organs stripped from his body and sewn into dolls of the four Teletubbies as if they were canopic jars. The smell of Mary Jane and broken promises filled the room. Police believe the murder was motivated by a recent YouTube video exposing Mr. Genius's DL (down low) homosexual relationship with Ron DeSantis.

4H-SiC PIN detector for alpha particles from room temperature to 90 {\deg}C
Xingchen Li, Sen Zhao, Mengke Cai, Suyu Xiao, Congcong Wang, Weimin Song, Xin Shi, Xiyuan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13815

4H-SiC PIN detector for alpha particles from room temperature to 90 °C
In the field of high-energy particle detection, detectors operating in high-radiation environments primarily face high costs associated with power consumption and cooling systems. Therefore, the development of particle detectors capable of stable operation at room temperature or even elevated temperatures is of great significance. Silicon carbide (SiC) exhibits significant potential for particle detector applications due to its exceptional carrier mobility, radiation hardness, and thermal stabi…

I love paying to run my clothes in the dryer for 7 hours and then hanging them up in the spare room because they're still not dry. Such a win for the environment AND my time.

Fabrication of oriented NV center arrays in diamond via femtosecond laser writing and reorientation
Kai Klink, Andrew Raj Kirkpatrick, Yukihiro Tadokoro, Jonas Nils Becker, Shannon Singer Nicley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14047

Fabrication of oriented NV center arrays in diamond via femtosecond laser writing and reorientation
Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are widely recognized as highly promising solid-state quantum sensors due to their long room temperature coherence times and atomic-scale size, which enable exceptional sensitivity and nanoscale spatial resolution under ambient conditions. Ultrafast laser writing has demonstrated the deterministic spatial control of individual NV$^-$ centers, however, the resulting random orientation of the defect axis limits the magnetic field sensitivity and signal con…

Loudoun schools suspend boys uncomfortable with biological female student in locker room (Nick Minock/WJLA-TV)
https://wjla.com/news/local/loudoun-county-schools-suspend-boys-students-stone-bridge-high-school-sexual-harassment-female-school-locker-room-discrimination-bathroom-title-ix-investigation-gender-identity-policy-8040-education
http://www.memeorandum.com/250818/p135#a250818p135

One for all good Americans, appropriately via _Foundation_ season 3 episode 7, "Foundation's End".

Sleeper Alert: Cowboys 7th-round pick is the one RB no one is talking about https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/20/dallas-cowboys-sleeper-running-back-phil-mafah-2025/85282301007/

Evaluating Joint Attention for Mixed-Presence Collaboration on Wall-Sized Displays
Adrien Coppens, Val\'erie Maquil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15443 ht…

Evaluating Joint Attention for Mixed-Presence Collaboration on Wall-Sized Displays
To understand and quantify the quality of mixed-presence collaboration around wall-sized displays, robust evaluation methodologies are needed, that are adapted for a room-sized experience and are not perceived as obtrusive. In this paper, we propose our approach for measuring joint attention based on head gaze data. We describe how it has been implemented for a user study on mixed presence collaboration with two wall-sized displays and report on the insights we gained so far from its implementa…

Inside the locker room https://www.commanders.com/video/inside-the-locker-room-lb-frankie-luvu-x7899

Interesting and fulsome interview on exactly how NORAD reacted to the plane hijacking in Victoria/Vancouver on Tuesday. They speak to the commander of NORAD, currently a Canadian.
I appreciated the last section most though:
“It's the only bi-national command in the world; it's been a strong bi-national command since 1958, and nothing has changed.
We don't ever talk politics at work. It's not something that we do, nor does it affect what we do.
I would say that we are as tight, and probably tighter than we've ever been. As the world around us gets to be more dangerous, I would say that NORAD is even closer than it's ever been.
But one last thing — we have the watch. That's the slogan here for NORAD.
To give you a great example, all of the assessors, we all live on-base in homes that actually have a safe, we call it the SCIF. It's basically a classified room that has all of our systems. The days that you're on duty, you're either at work or in your house. Because the timelines are so small for answering the phone, you don't walk the dog; you don't do all these other things, and someone covers for you when you're going between work and home.
That's how important this mission is to us down here. It's really important for everybody in Canada to know that at NORAD, we have the watch”
#canpoli #norad #cf18
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/us-fighter-jets-bc-alleged-plane-hijacking-1.7588750

Adrienne Jones-McAllister told News 12 Long Island that she was undergoing an MRI on her knee
when she asked the technician to get her husband, Keith McAllister, to help her get off the table.
She said she called out to him.
The man, 61, entered the MRI room while a scan was underway
The machine’s strong magnetic force drew him in by the metallic chain around his neck, according to a release from the Nassau County Police Department.
He died Thursday afternoon

Man dies after heavy weight-training chain around neck pulls him into MRI machine
A man whose large metallic weight-training chain around his neck pulled him into an MRI machine in New York after he wandered into the room has died. Nassau County police on Long Island say the 61-year-old man died Thursday afternoon, a day after he entered a room while a Magnetic Resonance Imaging scan was underway at Nassau Open MRI. The police department said in a statement that the strong magnetic force drew him in by his metallic chain. Authorities did not release his name. A person who an…

Eco-Movement, which holds a quasi-monopoly on EV charging point data in Europe, has been acquired by Dow Jones.
https://www.dowjones.com/press-room/dow-jones-acquires-eco-movement/

Dow Jones Acquires Eco-Movement
Latest acquisition advances Dow Jones’s energy business with industry-leading data  NEW YORK – [September 18, 2025] – Dow Jones today announced it has acquired Eco-Movement, a leading global platform for EV charging station data. Eco-Movement will operate as part of OPIS, Dow Jones’s growing energy business.  Headquartered in Utrecht, Netherlands, Eco-Movement is a leading charge […]

Algorithms for Stable Roommate with Externalities
Jing Leng, Sanjukta Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14194 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14194

Algorithms for Stable Roommate with Externalities
In the roommate matching model, given a set of 2n agents and n rooms, we find an assignment of a pair of agents to a room. Although the roommate matching problem is well studied, the study of the model when agents have preference over both rooms and roommates was recently initiated by Chan et al. [11]. We study two types of stable roommate assignments, namely, 4-person stable (4PS) and 2-person stable (2PS) in conjunction with efficiency and strategy-proofness. We design a simple serial dictato…

"We are visiting London and in need of a dog sitter for several evenings next week to stay in our hotel room
We have a small italian greyhound (7 kg), very well behaved. But we prefer not"
A lot to unpack there, and an interesting assignment, but I'm not available.

How Apple tests Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 5G, and satellite connectivity on the Apple Watch, including using a Global Navigation Satellite System simulation room (Vanessa Hand Orellana/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/i-went-in

I Went Inside Apple's Labs to See How Apple Watch Connectivity Is Tested
From radio labs to anechoic chambers that look like Elsa's castle, here's a rare look at how Apple tests Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 5G and satellite connectivity on the Apple Watch.

Yesterday we got the boy off to college & sorted his dorm room. We all left behind letters for him. A less emotional excerpt of mine:
"It will take me some time to get accustomed to not looking to see if the light is on under your door each night, to buying fewer apples each week, to stealing a glance across the table with a wink and a smile as I prepare to say something ridiculous to your mom."
Proud & happy for him to start this grand new adventure. House feel…

Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
BLAKE: Jenna, you take my place. Brief Cally.
[Computer room, Gan tries to pull piping from wall]
AVON: Gan, no! You'll break the computer links, we'll never get them started. [Avon tries to stop Gan, who thows him off]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/295

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Horace Silver:
🎵 Room 608
#HoraceSilver
https://open.spotify.com/track/016hoPtF97mvw0A2HXTIDo

The Piano In The Dining Room – streaming where you listen #improvpiano #improvisation #listen #music …

The Piano In The Dining Room - streaming where you listen
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Inside the locker room https://www.commanders.com/video/inside-the-locker-room-c-tyler-biadasz-x7434

Charge density wave in intermetallic oxides R$_5$Pb$_3$O (R = La and Ce)
Rafaela F. S. Penacchio, Siham Mohamed, Haley A. Harms, Lin-Lin Wang, Sergey L. Bud'ko, Paul. C Canfield, Tyler J. Slade
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15817

Charge density wave in intermetallic oxides R$_5$Pb$_3$O (R = La and Ce)
The R$_5$Pb$_3$O family was discovered decades ago, but has remained largely unexplored. Here, we report single crystal growth and basic characterization for the La and Ce members of this family. At room temperature, these compounds adopt a tetragonal structure (I4/mcm), where R and Pb atoms form linear chains along the c-axis. We identify a second-order structural phase transition at 260 K and 145 K for R = La and Ce, respectively. Single crystal X-ray diffraction reveals a lattice modulation …

ya know, unlike in Hamilton, I don’t want to be in the room when it happens.
As long as it happens.

'We could reach an agreement that could deter any future aggression against Ukraine,' Trump tells European leaders: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/18/we-could-reach-an-agreement.html

LECTURE> Prof. Mei Lin 梅林 - Dunhuang Cave 96 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20122876/talk-prof-mei-lin-meilin-dunhuang-cave-96

Two things of note
(1) The men's room at SeaTac offers free menstrual products, good for them
(2) #facesInThings

Hybrelighter: Combining Deep Anisotropic Diffusion and Scene Reconstruction for On-device Real-time Relighting in Mixed Reality
Hanwen Zhao, John Akers, Baback Elmieh, Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14930

Hybrelighter: Combining Deep Anisotropic Diffusion and Scene Reconstruction for On-device Real-time Relighting in Mixed Reality
Mixed Reality scene relighting, where virtual changes to lighting conditions realistically interact with physical objects, producing authentic illumination and shadows, can be used in a variety of applications. One such application in real estate could be visualizing a room at different times of day and placing virtual light fixtures. Existing deep learning-based relighting techniques typically exceed the real-time performance capabilities of current MR devices. On the other hand, scene underst…

On small, local language models: 'In a world increasingly dominated by massive models and opaque APIs, we believe there’s still room for small, transparent, controllable systems. Models you can fine-tune, understand and run on your own terms' https://www.turing.ac.uk…

Somebody ate a bee this morning.
Mr. Boots fed her a Benedryl right away, & she’s looking a lot better than she did a few hrs ago, but she’s still swollen, & I think it still hurts a bit. *sigh*
#DogsOfMastodon #SpicyFly

Do not touch these escape room puzzles! by Playful Technology
#youtube

Saints acquire WR Vele, send picks to Broncos https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46033838/broncos-trade-devaughn-vele-saints-two-draft-picks

they are going to beat you to death

they are going to beat you to death

Spot the kitty

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Fugazi:
🎵 Waiting Room
#Fugazi
https://alyen.bandcamp.com/track/salle-dattente-fugazi-waiting-room-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/2DBlfjL5chsdeULzhTp5K8

I resisted giving an information security lecture in the changing room at the swimming pool but really. Teenage girls, one in the shared space and one in a changing cubicle 10 yards away. “He never said that?” “He did, he chatted me! Where’s my phone?” “It’s out here. What’s your password?” “222222”

High-performance amorphous superconducting rhenium films by e-beam evaporation
E. V. Tarkaeva, V. A. Ievleva, A. R. Prishchepa, E. S. Zhukova, A. V. Terentiev, A. Yu. Kuntsevich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13536

High-performance amorphous superconducting rhenium films by e-beam evaporation
We present electron beam evaporation of rhenium films on room-temperature substrates. The films are shown to be amorphous and achieve a record-high critical temperature for rhenium - exceeding 7 K at the midpoint of the transition - alongside a high critical current density of 5000 A/mm^2 and critical fields above 10 T. Terahertz spectroscopy reveals a BCS-like character of superconductivity with a zero-temperature energy gap of approximately 2 meV and subgap optical conductivity. Despite being…

Inside the locker room | RB Chris Rodriguez Jr. https://www.commanders.com/video/inside-the-locker-room-rb-chris-rodriguez-jr-x3606

I fear I am living in a crap 70s sitcom.
We are having some building work done next week so we've ordered a skip to be delivered today. Also today our next door neighbours are moving out.
Skip wagon arrives about 11-ish, knocks next door who tell him that no they haven't ordered a skip but they know that next door (i.e. us) is waiting for one. Skippy rings my doorbell, delivers the skip and drives off.
90 minutes later another skip wagon turns up, rings my doorbell and says "there's no room for your skip because you've already got one". Which obviously I do.
Meanwhile the new next door neighbours are starting to move in and say "is that our skip?"
Given they're both 8 yard skips you'd think they could just deliver ours next door but apparently not as it's a different skip company. So he spent 30 minutes shuffling skips between our driveway & next door.

"The program totally backfired. People thought ELIZA was intelligent, they were confiding in the machine, revealing personal issues they would not tell anyone else. Even my secretary asked me to leave the room so she could be alone with the computer. They called me a genius for creating it, but I kept telling them that the computer was not thinking at all."
Oh, really, now, isn't that interesting, and so, of course, they reanimated it, because only a liberal socialist would call that a failure. 🤣
#posiwid #automatedgatheringofintel #agi

SkyNET-scape Room: An Escape Room to Explore Astroparticle Physics
Elisa Prandini, Sabine Hemmer, Michele Branca, Luca Campagnoni, Gabriella Cataldi, Marco Circella, Jean-Pierre Jonckheere, Emanuele Leonora, Ilaria Viale, Giuseppe Silvestri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14190

SkyNET-scape Room: An Escape Room to Explore Astroparticle Physics
Innovative science communication is key to engaging the public with complex topics such as astroparticle physics. As part of the Italian PRIN 2022 funding initiative, we are developing SkyNET-scape Room, an interactive escape room designed to introduce participants to the main messengers of the high-energy universe, namely cosmic rays, gamma rays, and neutrinos. The experience is structured into three interactive stations, each focusing on a specific messenger and its detection method. Small …

3 Cowboys veterans in danger of release as cutdown day approaches https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/21/cowboys-roster-veterans-risk-collns-sanders-thomas/85718305007/

#fakedrumroom
Had a drum track recorded in a small room so re-amped it in my living room to add to the original #recording.
#drums

I can imagine there is some diplomatic wiggle room in the recognition of russian occupied Crimea, surely not de jure but some de facto maybe... giving up not-occupied territory is complete madness, so will not happen. I am very curious what european diplomats will come up with and whether they can commit Trump to something that is good for Ukraine and Europe.
#Trump

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MidnightInAPerfectWorld
Rachika Nayar & Nina Keith:
🎵 In the Memory Room
#RachikaNayar #NinaKeith
https://rvng.bandcamp.com/track/rachika-nayar-nina-keith-in-the-memory-room
https://open.spotify.com/track/6qeg9VijCIEHXS228GnTcx

Rehearsal room work.

Room Impulse Response Generation Conditioned on Acoustic Parameters
Silvia Arellano, Chunghsin Yeh, Gautam Bhattacharya, Daniel Arteaga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12136

Room Impulse Response Generation Conditioned on Acoustic Parameters
The generation of room impulse responses (RIRs) using deep neural networks has attracted growing research interest due to its applications in virtual and augmented reality, audio postproduction, and related fields. Most existing approaches condition generative models on physical descriptions of a room, such as its size, shape, and surface materials. However, this reliance on geometric information limits their usability in scenarios where the room layout is unknown or when perceptual realism (ho…

Study: There is less room to store carbon dioxide, driver of climate change, than previously thought #carbon

Study: There is less room to store carbon dioxide, driver of climate change, than previously thought
The world has far fewer places to securely store carbon dioxide deep underground than previously thought, steeply lowering its potential to help stem global warming, according to a new study that challenges long-held industry claims about the practice.

Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
AVON: Right. Bring it directly over the skull. No, that won't do. You'll have to use the radio sensor. Good, that's much better. Yes, there it is. There's the limiter implant, you can see it quite clearly. Give me the side view. Good. Yes, it's in the sub four section all right. Now let's take a look at the limiter itself. Close focus, slowly.
JENNA: Well, there's nothing wrong with the connectors.

This is what I heard from the other room. #parenting
8yo: "Hey mom?"
my wife: "Yeah?"
8yo: "Here you go. I found this between my toes, you can have it."

What the fuck? This fucking government, I swear! Read the fucking room, you toffs!
#Ireland #Palestine #sports

Bytes Europe (@byteseu@pubeurope.com)
Attached: 1 image Palestine kids barred from Ireland hurling final https://www.byteseu.com/1207990/ #Ireland #Palestine #Sports

Visited my 95-year-old Mom in Saskatchewan and came away with Prairie pictures and thoughts on memory and topography and Google color science and healthcare economics. https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/07/09/Saskatchewan

Memory in Saskatchewan

ROOM: A Physics-Based Continuum Robot Simulator for Photorealistic Medical Datasets Generation
Salvatore Esposito, Mat\'ias Mattamala, Daniel Rebain, Francis Xiatian Zhang, Kevin Dhaliwal, Mohsen Khadem, Subramanian Ramamoorthy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13177

ROOM: A Physics-Based Continuum Robot Simulator for Photorealistic Medical Datasets Generation
Continuum robots are advancing bronchoscopy procedures by accessing complex lung airways and enabling targeted interventions. However, their development is limited by the lack of realistic training and test environments: Real data is difficult to collect due to ethical constraints and patient safety concerns, and developing autonomy algorithms requires realistic imaging and physical feedback. We present ROOM (Realistic Optical Observation in Medicine), a comprehensive simulation framework desig…

Packers' Matt LaFleur dismisses idea of cutting WR Romeo Doubs: 'No, that will not happen' https://www.nfl.com/news/packers-romeo-doubs-matt-lafleur-dismisses-idea-cutting-wr

Went to see a Hoopla improv show at The Bell, a mix of half a dozen different groups doing different thin
gs. "Shuffle improv" were basing their scenes on a shuffled playlist built by the audience on the way in
and an interesting format from a improv-as-a-second-language group chatting about their experiences in a
foreign land and basing their scenes off it. The group called "twelve people" only had six but were good
chaotic fun.
Lots of stuff about cooking and food.
I found myself pondering optimum size for an improve group. In general the larger groups seemed more fun to me, with the exception of three-person "burn the script" who did excellent work. More than eight wouldn't fit in the tiny stage at that venue. In rehearsal I like to have the group split in half and perform for each other. Hard to do that with fewer than six. Still up in the air if our group will get off the ground or not. More people does mean more calendar clashes even if it makes for a cheaper-per-person room hire.
Everyone has instagram pages, which are no use to me. Won't link or visit there. Interesting that nobody has a Twitter profile any more and of course nobody seems to have just a damned website which still strikes me as madness. Imagine not wanting to own your own space on the web?
#improv #london

Lattice anharmonicity effects in fluorite oxide single crystals and anomalous increase in phonon lifetime in ceria at elevated temperature
Amey Khanolkar, Saqeeb Adnan, Md Minaruzzaman, Linu Malakkal, Darren B. Thomson, David B. Turner, J. Matthew Mann, David H. Hurley, Marat Khafizov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14254

Lattice anharmonicity effects in fluorite oxide single crystals and anomalous increase in phonon lifetime in ceria at elevated temperature
We investigate the temperature dependence of the frequency and linewidth of the triply-degenerate T$_{2g}$ zone-centered optical phonon in flux-grown ceria and hydrothermally-synthesized thoria single crystals from room temperature to 1273 K using Raman spectroscopy. Both crystals exhibit an expected increase in the phonon linewidth with temperature due to enhanced phonon-phonon scattering. However, ceria displays an anomalous linewidth reduction in the temperature range of 1023-1123 K. First-p…

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010) - Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon -

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010)
Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon

Meta rolls out Hyperscape Capture in early access, letting developers and creators use Quest 3 devices to scan a room and turn it into a VR space in minutes (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/17/meta-launches-hyper…

Meta launches Hyperscape, technology to turn real-world spaces into VR | TechCrunch
Meta launches Hyperscape into beta, allowing users to turn real world spaces into digital spaces for VR.

La Dispute's new album is great from what we've heard to far. But "I Dreamt of a Room with All my Friends I could not get in" might be the best thing they've done so far.
https://youtu.be/BfhTfsy7Kzo?si=KhUh89xENFoAWQ5N

a lot of canopic jar collection pics feel like boy band promo pics, and that's beautiful

The price of clown college is out of control!
https://www.mooseburger.com/product-page/moose-camp-registration-2026

Series D, Episode 05 - Animals
TARRANT: Hmm, smells lovely.
VILA: No, it doesn't. It's disgusting.
AVON: Well, somebody has to go down and you are the one with the delicate touch, Vila.
TARRANT: Magic hands. You've often said so yourself.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/405/140

A special experiential presentation
August 24, 2025 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cambria Center for the Arts Theatre & Green Room
https://cambriaarts.org/academy-program/#E351

3 things to look for in Raiders’ preseason finale: Who makes cut at RB? https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/3-things-to-look-for-in-raiders-preseason-finale-who-makes-cut-at-rb-3428419/

D12 - Warlord
ZUKAN: [Shakes head] As long as the installation is right.
AVON: Well, the only problem now is: where do we find enough raw material to keep this lot running? [He is moving about, looking at various circuit boards and so forth.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/412/103 B7B3

Ashton Jeanty, Maxx Crosby and Tre Tucker Scrums vs. Commanders https://www.raiders.com/video/maxx-crosby-tre-tucker-ashton-jeanty-scrums-nfl-week-3-commanders

Inside the strategy of organizing an NFL locker room https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45946731/nfl-locker-room-49ers-rams-bengals-falcons-michael-penix-jessie-bates

In Depth Look at Raiders' Quarterback Situation Heading into Training Camp https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/news/ashton-jeanty-geno-smith-elandon-roberts-pete-carroll

Series C, Episode 02 - Powerplay
TARRANT: Not for more than an hour. There's nothing on this heading except the planet Chenga. That's got to be where we're going.
KLEGG: Chenga? Never heard of it.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/302/299 B7B3

Cam Miller: 'I couldn't be more grateful for the [QB room]' https://www.raiders.com/video/cam-miller-raiders-training-camp-preseason-week-3-presser-08192025

Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
OFFICER: My apologies, sir; I meant no offence.
CARNELL: I was offensive. Why shouldn't you be?
OFFICER: Sir?
CARNELL: Give me the report. [Flips the folder open and closes it] Do you play chess?
OFFICER: A little, sir.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/374

Ashton Jeanty: 'There is always room to get better' https://www.raiders.com/video/ashton-jeanty-training-camp-preseason-week-3-presser-08192025

Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
FORBUS: [Interrupts] Now don't waste time thanking me my friends, you must hurry!
[Communications control room]
TRACER: Flight commander wants clearance to launch, sir.
QUUTE: All right, go ahead. [The General enters]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/403/405

Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
VILA: Entertainment, for example
JENNA: Why don't you take a cold shower or something?
VILA: And risk being left behind when we go and meet your friend?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/67 B7B4

Raiders thin out the quarterback room ahead of training camp report day https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/07/16/raiders-thin-out-quarterback-room-ahead-of-training-cam…

Aidan O'Connell: 'Every day is a competition with myself' https://www.raiders.com/video/aidan-o-connell-raiders-training-camp-preseason-week-3-presser-nfl-08192025