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"China braced for rise in air pollution deaths"
#China #AirPollution #Emissions

During the years leading up to his death in a Russian prison, Aleksei A. #Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, was writing a #memoir about his life and work as a pro-democracy activist.
Titled “#Patriot,” the memoir will be publ…

Before He Died in Prison, Aleksei Navalny Wrote a Memoir. It’s Coming This Fall.
In the book, Navalny tells his story in his own words, chronicling his life, his rise as an opposition leader, and the attempts on his life.

Hey friends!
I finished the #photos from last weekend. This is directly from the start. And I admit, I had a pretty WOW feeling.
I'm not 100% satisfied as I wanted even more blur in the front. But still it's been one of the greatest views at the start of a hike I ever had.
Enjoy!
#nature

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #OwainWynEvans
Paul Weller:
🎵 Rise Up Singing
#PaulWeller
https://open.spotify.com/track/3VZXbrdQnGkt9gUwosnKM0
https://wonderfulsound.bandcamp.com/track/rise-up-singing-feat-paul-weller

Rise of the Tomb Raider: it’s not that lost
Well, Jonah didn't last long. Trinity had the atlas which meant they looked to see where the Divine Source was, and discovered it was under a glacier. A shootout saw Jonah badly injured, and Jacob demonstrated his marvellous healing skills. Turns out he's a bit special. This set up the thrilling climax of the game - our objective is in the Lost City; I'm going in through the secret entrance, and Trinity's going to try going……

An der Küste von Casablanca-Mohammedia in #Marokko häufen sich #Überschwemmungen, die durch steigenden #Meeresspiegel und

Assessing coastal flood risk under extreme events and sea level rise in the Casablanca-Mohammedia coastline (Morocco) - Natural Hazards
In the Casablanca-Mohammedia corridor (Morocco), flooding episodes have happened frequently over the past 20 years, damaging coastal settlements through overtopping and overflowing processes. In this context, a realistic assessment of the flood risk on this coastline is required. For this, the marine water level variations were computed by combining the involved variables (astronomical tide, storm surge, wave run-up, and sea level rise) during energetic events. They were compared with the seafr…

Nolyn (The Rise and Fall, #1), by Michael J. Sullivan
https://turing.mailstation.de/nolyn-the-rise-and-fall-1-by-michael-j-sullivan/?feed_id=2911&_unique_id=65ec3cc6c9121

News Corp reports The Sun revenue down 5% to £305.2M, losses down 48% to £65.9M in the year to July 2, 2023, The Times revenue up 3% to £385.8M, profit down 17% (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_busin

Sun halves losses, Times titles grow revenue, TalkTV losses rise to £88m
The Sun halved its losses last year while News UK stablemate The Times suffered a 17% drop in profits and TalkTV's losses are revealed.

How Netflix's stand-up specials, COVID, and rise of platforms like TikTok and YouTube have transformed the comedy business, broadening comedians' reach (Addie Morfoot/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/tv/features/netflix-…

Netflix's Massive Paydays, COVID and TikTok Caused 'Explosion of Comedians'
The comedy business is quickly changing thanks to Netflix's massive paydays and comics flocking to TikTok and YouTube. 

California’s #electricity #deregulation had a rocky start
but notice that it is paying off today
because what is happening is that prices are low at mid-day when the sun is shining
and they rise in the evening.
Power companies profit by using

Battery Arbitrage - Marginal REVOLUTION
Solar is powering a large share of California’s energy needs during the day and batteries are now powering a significant share at night. NYTimes: Since 2020, California has installed more giant batteries than anywhere in the world apart from China. They can soak up excess solar power during the day and store it for use […]

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #OwainWynEvans
Paul Weller:
🎵 Rise Up Singing
#PaulWeller
https://open.spotify.com/track/3VZXbrdQnGkt9gUwosnKM0
https://wonderfulsound.bandcamp.com/track/rise-up-singing-feat-paul-weller

New aircraft checkout today: The Schweizer 1-36.
46-foot wingspan, 483 lbs empty weight, and a 31:1 glide ratio. It’s a step up in performance from training gliders like the 2-33 and 1-26, but also demands more precision to fly well.

FGS people, get yourself and your kids vaccinated and tell, don't ask, your friends and family to do the same!
There is no excuse for Measles to be making the rounds again!
#Health #Canada #World

GOP: Noem up in smoke; Scott, Burgum rise in Trump VP race (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4642282-noem-scott-burgum-trump-vp/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240505/p16#a240505p16

The increase of stock sales in privately held companies leads to tensions with startups like Stripe; the market is estimated to rise 40% YoY to $64B in 2024 (Erin Griffith/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/06/technology/startup-stock-fu…

Tensions Rise in Silicon Valley Over Sales of Start-Up Stocks
The market for shares of hot start-ups like SpaceX and Stripe is projected to reach a record $64 billion this year.

Check out Rise UP!, an excellent digital archive of feminist activism in Canada covering the 1970s through the 1990s. @…
https://riseupfeministarchive.ca/
<…

How Netflix's stand-up specials, COVID, and rise of platforms like TikTok and YouTube have transformed the comedy business, broadening comedians' reach (Addie Morfoot/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/tv/features/netflix-…

Netflix's Massive Paydays, COVID and TikTok Caused 'Explosion of Comedians'
The comedy business is quickly changing thanks to Netflix's massive paydays and comics flocking to TikTok and YouTube. 

"The cost of regulated rail fares in England will rise by up to 4.9% from Sunday.
The jump is likely to be unwelcome for rail passengers..."
No shit Sherlock!?
Cheaper train tickets: Five ways to save money - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-648277

Cheaper train tickets: Five ways to save money
As rail fares rise on Sunday, we find the ways passengers can keep journeys as cheap as possible.

SN2023fyq: A Type Ibn Supernova With Long-standing Precursor Activity Due to Binary Interaction
Yize Dong, Daichi Tsuna, Stefano Valenti, David J. Sand, Jennifer E. Andrews, K. Azalee Bostroem, Griffin Hosseinzadeh, Emily Hoang, Saurabh W. Jha, Daryl Janzen, Jacob E. Jencson, Michael Lundquist, Darshana Mehta, Aravind P. Ravi, Nicolas E. Meza Retamal, Jeniveve Pearson, Manisha Shrestha, Alceste Bonanos, D. Andrew Howell, Nathan Smith, Joseph Farah, Daichi Hiramatsu, Koichi Itagaki, Cur…

SN2023fyq: A Type Ibn Supernova With Long-standing Precursor Activity Due to Binary Interaction
We present photometric and spectroscopic observations of SN 2023fyq, a type Ibn supernova in the nearby galaxy NGC 4388 (D$\simeq$18~Mpc). In addition, we trace long-standing precursor emission at the position of SN 2023fyq using data from DLT40, ATLAS, ZTF, ASAS-SN, Swift, and amateur astronomer Koichi Itagaki. Precursor activity is observed up to nearly three years before the supernova explosion, with a relatively rapid rise in the final 100 days. The double-peaked post-explosion light curve …

More coal power plants closings deferred to meet rising demand for electricity in the PJM power grid. If you are in PA, NJ, or MD, your electric car is coal-powered and running it emits more CO2 per mile than a gasoline-powered car.
https://www.…

You could pay higher utility bills under deal to save coal
Under a deal up for approval next month, two power plants in Anne Arundel County would continue to burn coal at least three years longer than planned — potentially costing Marylanders $250 million or more every year.

FGS people, get yourself and your kids vaccinated and tell, don't ask, your friends and family to do the same!
There is no excuse for Measles to be making the rounds again!
#Health #Canada #World

I've been reading Ray Dailo's "Principles for dealing with the changing world order" in which he charts the rise and fall of empires and kingdoms and dynasties.
The main cycle, he reckons is:
1) Winner of a war consolidates power, unites the population (often through oppression)
2) A smart cooperative equitable educated society with meritocracy means good societal progress and wide sharing of the wealth.
3) Long period of peace, building good tech and military and financial systems.
4) Leadership corrupts: Excessive debt, money-printing, inequality, financial ruin, no sense of solidarity, then a natural disaster pushes it over the edge
5) The fall: Escalating rebellions, very bad inequality, internal conflicts
6) Civil war, revolution, eventually a strong leader proves the winner and back to 1.
We in the western civilization are very clearly in the late states of this kind of cycle, and it's frankly terrifying with the weapons we have these days when it comes to a war.
The leadership is too corrupt to try and fix the inequality or invest in that well educated, equitable, cooperative society.
He explicitly agrees with Marx and implicitly with me a lot more than I'd have expected from the rabid capitalist that Ray Dailo is.
It's interesting to hear his emphasis on inequality and how a prosperous society depends upon sharing the gains of prosperity widely. You tend to hear hyper-capitalists mostly emphasizing that capital's gains should go to capital, and Ray is certainly suggesting the opposite here. That if that happens, it corrupts the leadership and ends with cronyism and debt and revolution.
We seem to basically agree what creates good prosperous peaceful civil society, and that capitalism in the Anglican world isn't doing it, and that fucked up corrupt government is why we aren't doing it.
We'd offer fairly different prescriptions though I think.
#reading #books #economics

Get excited about being a hardcore Democrat!
Trounce Repugnantcons that are destroying lives and democracy.
This is real life story: good guys and gals against the fascists.
Rise up and take back your country from fascist religious extremists, America!
You, us, we can do it! 🥂
:mastodon:

"Only 15% of [Antarctic ice shelf] pinning points [where floating ice shelves ground on topographic highs on the sea bed] reduced from 1973 to 1989, before increasing to 25% from 1989 to 2000 and 37% from 2000 to 2022. A continuation of this trend would further reduce the buttressing potential of ice shelves, enhancing ice discharge and accelerating the contribution of Antarctica to sea-level rise."
( Miles, B.W.J., Bingham, R.G. Progressive unanchoring of Antarctic ice shelves since 1973. Nature 626, 785–791 (2024). #Antarctic #IceShelves #cryology #climatecrisis

Daily pic of Brisbane

GOP: Noem up in smoke; Scott, Burgum rise in Trump VP race (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4642282-noem-scott-burgum-trump-vp/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240505/p16#a240505p16

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #OJBorg
Paul Weller:
🎵 Rise Up Singing
#PaulWeller #newRelease 🆕 single
https://open.spotify.com/track/3VZXbrdQnGkt9gUwosnKM0
https://wonderfulsound.bandcamp.com/track/rise-up-singing-feat-paul-weller

Cybersecurity faces a challenge from artificial intelligence’s rise
Earlier last year, a sales director in India for tech security firm Zscaler got a call that seemed to be from the company’s chief executive.

As his cellphone displayed founder Jay Chaudhry’s picture, a familiar voice said
“Hi, it’s Jay. I need you to do something for me,” before the call dropped.
A follow-up text over WhatsApp explained why. “I think I’m having poor network coverage as I am travelin…

Cybersecurity faces a challenge from artificial intelligence’s rise
The prospect comes as a range of professionals report real progress in security, from slowing ransomware attacks to more timely sharing of information by the U.S. government.

The Foxes of Hydesville - complete series 👻🔮👭
Dramatized paranormal series | Total listening time: 3h 55m
Inspired by the true story of the Fox Sisters. This 9-episode swirling family epic (starring Carey Mulligan) follows the infamous mediums as they rise to fame in the 19th century when they begin conjuring up the dead… and inadvertently ...

The Foxes of Hydesville - complete series 👻🔮👭
Dramatized paranormal series | Total listening time: 3h 55m Inspired by the true story of the Fox Sisters. This 9-episode swirling family epic (starring Carey Mulligan) follows the infamous mediums as they rise to fame in the 19th century when they begin conjuring up the dead… and inadvertently spawn a new religion: Spiritualism. Nominated for a 2024 Ambies Award for Best Fiction Podcast. 1 seasons, 9 episodes as of Jun 28, 2023.

JD reports Q4 revenue up 3.6% YoY to ~$42.6B, beating ~$41.7B est., after offering discounts and launches a $3B three-year stock buyback program; JD jumps 8% (Jane Zhang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

JD.com’s Revenue Beat After Targeting Frugal China Shoppers
JD.com Inc. reported a better-than-expected 3.6% rise in revenue after adjusting its product lineup and cutting prices to target cost-conscious Chinese consumers.

Sources: ByteDance reports Q3 revenue up 43% YoY to $30.9B, $84.4B in January to September 2023 revenue, above 2022's $85.2B, and starts staff share buybacks (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.…

The National Assessment Governing Board has released a report on The COVID Generation's Future, and it's pretty bleak. They'll have lifetime earnings 6% less than non-impacted students, adding up to 600-900 billion dollars in unrealized earnings.
Beyond that, graduation rates are likely to decline and with that a host of other negative outcomes rise.
But "Covid is over" and states and the federal government have dried up any money for schools to provide reme…

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #OJBorg
Paul Weller:
🎵 Rise Up Singing
#PaulWeller
https://open.spotify.com/track/3VZXbrdQnGkt9gUwosnKM0
https://wonderfulsound.bandcamp.com/track/rise-up-singing-feat-paul-weller

Estimation of Quantile Functionals in Linear Model
Jana Jure\v{c}kov\'a, Jan Picek, Jan Kalina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02764 https://

Estimation of Quantile Functionals in Linear Model
Various indicators and measures of the real life procedures rise up as functionals of the quantile process of a parent random variable Z. However, Z can be observed only through a response in a linear model whose covariates are not under our control and the probability distribution of error terms is generally unknown. The problem is that of nonparametric estimation or other inference for such functionals. We propose an estimation procedure based on the averaged two-step regression quantile, rec…

The Crypto Con Years Aren’t Over Yet
https://www.didiermary.fr/likes/the-crypto-con-years-arent-over-yet/
Three books explore the failures of regulators—and sometimes journalists […]

The Crypto Con Years Aren’t Over Yet - Didier J. MARY (blog)
Likes The Crypto Con Years Aren’t Over Yet by David Gerard. Three books explore the failures of regulators—and sometimes journalists: Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon, Michael Lewis,October 2023 Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall, Zeke Faux,September

#SilentSunday #RockyMountainNationalPark
Longs Peak at sunset. October 2014

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Explicit open images for elliptic curves over $\mathbb{Q}$
For a non-CM elliptic curve $E$ defined over $\mathbb{Q}$, the Galois action on its torsion points gives rise to a Galois representation $ρ_E: Gal(\overline{\mathbb{Q}}/\mathbb{Q})\to GL_2(\widehat{\mathbb{Z}})$ that is unique up to isomorphism. A renowned theorem of Serre says that the image of $ρ_E$ is an open, and hence finite index, subgroup of $GL_2(\widehat{\mathbb{Z}})$. We describe an algorithm that computes the image of $ρ_E$ up to conjugacy in $GL_2(\widehat{\mathbb{Z}})$; this alg…

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #JoWhiley
Paul Weller:
🎵 Rise Up Singing
#PaulWeller
https://open.spotify.com/track/3VZXbrdQnGkt9gUwosnKM0
https://wonderfulsound.bandcamp.com/track/rise-up-singing-feat-paul-weller

The Foxes of Hydesville - Limited series 👻🔮👭
Dramatized paranormal series | Total listening time: 3h 55m
Inspired by the true story of the Fox Sisters. This 9-episode swirling family epic (starring Carey Mulligan) follows the infamous mediums as they rise to fame in the 19th century when they begin conjuring up the dead… and inadvertently ...

The Foxes of Hydesville - Limited series 👻🔮👭
Dramatized paranormal series | Total listening time: 3h 55m Inspired by the true story of the Fox Sisters. This 9-episode swirling family epic (starring Carey Mulligan) follows the infamous mediums as they rise to fame in the 19th century when they begin conjuring up the dead… and inadvertently spawn a new religion: Spiritualism. Nominated for a 2024 Ambies Award for Best Fiction Podcast. 1 seasons, 9 episodes as of Jun 28, 2023.

"Coastal #wetlands can’t keep pace with sea-level rise, and #infrastructure is leaving them nowhere to go
Wetlands have flourished along the world’s coastlines for thousands of years, playing valuable roles in the lives of people and

Coastal wetlands can’t keep pace with sea-level rise, and infrastructure is leaving them nowhere to go
A coastal scientist explains why marshes, mangroves and other wetlands can’t keep up with the effects of climate change, and how human infrastructure is making it harder for them to survive.

Magnificence! The cirque, the scale and the horns above Oeschinensee...
#WildWednesday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

From Avaaz
Alexei Navalny has just died in a Russian prison colony in the Arctic Circle. The fiercest opponent of Putin's regime has been poisoned, imprisoned and has now died. We can’t remain silent: let's turn this atrocity into a worldwide cry of hope against tyranny. Sign this letter now in tribute to Alexei Navalny.

Honoring Alexei Navalny – add your name
Your courage is beyond words. It is the courage that all dictators fear most, the courage that inspires people to rise up against tyranny.

Hey friends! Two quick impressions from my evening walk. It's getting warmer - finally! and its Friday!
Tomorrow we'll go for a cycling ride - at least that's what we planned.
#landscape #bayern #spring

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #VernonKay
Paul Weller:
🎵 Rise Up Singing
#PaulWeller
https://open.spotify.com/track/3VZXbrdQnGkt9gUwosnKM0
https://wonderfulsound.bandcamp.com/track/rise-up-singing-feat-paul-weller

Warmer oceans might cause #glaciers to break apart more quickly.
A 6.5-mile #crack formed in 2012 on Pine Island Glacier— a retreating ice shelf that holds back the larger West Antarctic ice sheet — in about 5 and a half minutes.
The rift opened at about 115 feet per second, or about💥 80 miles per hour.💥

The 80 MPH Glacier Fracture: A Wake-Up Call From Antarctica
There’s enough water frozen in Greenland and Antarctic glaciers that if they melted, global seas would rise by many feet. What will happen to these glaciers over the coming decades is the biggest unknown in the future of rising seas, partly because glacier fracture physics is not yet fully understoo

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #VernonKay
Paul Weller:
🎵 Rise Up Singing
#PaulWeller
https://open.spotify.com/track/3VZXbrdQnGkt9gUwosnKM0
https://wonderfulsound.bandcamp.com/track/rise-up-singing-feat-paul-weller

Applying the starquake model to study the formation of elastic mountains on spinning neutron stars
Yashaswi Gangwar, David Ian Jones
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00553

Applying the starquake model to study the formation of elastic mountains on spinning neutron stars
When a neutron star is spun-up or spun-down, the changing strains in its solid elastic crust can give rise to sudden fractures known as starquakes. Early interest in starquakes focused on their possible connection to pulsar glitches. While modern glitch models rely on pinned superfluid vorticity rather than crustal fracture, starquakes may nevertheless play a role in the glitch mechanism. Recently, there has been interest in the issue of starquakes resulting in non-axisymmetric shape changes, p…

At a DC event on May 1, over 100 tech CEOs and investors plan to lobby against AI regulation, ask to relax immigration rules, and drum up hawkishness on China (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/…

A.I. Leaders Press Advantage With Congress as China Tensions Rise
Silicon Valley chiefs are swarming the Capitol to try to sway lawmakers on the dangers of falling behind in the artificial intelligence race.

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On the asymptotic safety in the Litim-Sannino model at four loops
We consider a four-dimensional $SU(N_c)$ gauge theory coupled to $N_f$ species of color fermions and $N_f^2$ colorless scalars. The quantum field theory possesses a weakly interacting ultraviolet fixed point that we determine from beta functions computed up to four-loop order in the gauge coupling, and up to three-loop order in the Yukawa and quartic scalar couplings. The fixed point has one relevant direction giving rise to asymptotic safety. We compute fixed-point values of dimensionless coup…

Magnificence! The cirque, the scale and the horns above Oeschinensee...
#WildWednesday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

Pre-merger detection of massive black hole binaries using deep learning
Wen-Hong Ruan, Zong-Kuan Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16282 https://

Pre-merger detection of massive black hole binaries using deep learning
Coalescing massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) are one of primary sources for space-based gravitational wave (GW) observations. The mergers of these binaries are expected to give rise to detectable electromagnetic (EM) emissions with a narrow time window. The pre-merger detection of GW signals is vital for follow-up EM observations. The conventional approach for searching GW signals involves high computational costs. In this study, we present a deep learning model to search for GW signals from …

Sources: ABC News President Kim Godwin has become a polarizing figure inside the network, as critics say she is failing to rise up to challenges facing the unit (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.…

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Emulating moiré materials with quasiperiodic circuit quantum electrodynamics
Topological bandstructures interfering with moiré superstructures give rise to a plethora of emergent phenomena, which are pivotal for correlated insulating and superconducting states of twisttronics materials. While quasiperiodicity was up to now a notion mostly reserved for solid-state materials and cold atoms, we here demonstrate the capacity of conventional superconducting circuits to emulate moiré physics in charge space. With two examples, we show that Hofstadter's butterfly and the mag…

Oracle reports Q3 revenue up 7% YoY to $13.3B, meeting expectations, and cloud services and license support revenues up 12% YoY to $9.96B; ORCL jumps 9% (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/11/oracle-shares-rise-on-bet…

"Electric and hybrid car sales to rise to new global record in 2024"
#EV #ElectricVehicles #Cars #Vehicles

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Phishing Website Detection through Multi-Model Analysis of HTML Content
The way we communicate and work has changed significantly with the rise of the Internet. While it has opened up new opportunities, it has also brought about an increase in cyber threats. One common and serious threat is phishing, where cybercriminals employ deceptive methods to steal sensitive information.This study addresses the pressing issue of phishing by introducing an advanced detection model that meticulously focuses on HTML content. Our proposed approach integrates a specialized Multi-L…

Geometric approach for the identification of Hamiltonian systems of quasi-Painlev\'e type
Marta Dell'Atti, Thomas Kecker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19053

Geometric approach for the identification of Hamiltonian systems of quasi-Painlevé type
Some new Hamiltonian systems of quasi-Painlevé type are presented and their Okamoto's space of initial conditions computed. Using the geometric approach that was introduced originally for the identification problem of Painlevé equations, comparing the irreducible components of the inaccessible divisors arising in the blow-up process, we find bi-rational, symplectic coordinate changes between some of these systems that give rise to the same global symplectic structure. This scheme thus gives a…

The brief and rather peculiar history of the rise of the idea of the "self-organising network".
A very powerful ideology of our time is the idea of the "self-organising network".
It says that human beings can organise themselves into systems where they are linked, but where there is no #hierarchy, no #leaders

A Universal Property of the Spectrum of a Ring and the Semiring of its Ideals
William Bernardoni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10937 https://

A Universal Property of the Spectrum of a Ring and the Semiring of its Ideals
Arithmetic valuations are intimately connected with the structure of the ideals of a commutative ring. We show how the generalized idempotent semiring valuations of Jeffrey and Noah Giansiracusa can be used to make this connection explicit. Through this generalized valuation theory sufficiently complete positive valuations give rise to Galois correspondences with the lattice of ideals of a commutative ring. Up to isomorphism the semiring of ideals of a commutative ring can be defined as a unive…

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #JeremyVine
Paul Weller:
🎵 Rise Up Singing
#PaulWeller
https://open.spotify.com/track/3VZXbrdQnGkt9gUwosnKM0
https://wonderfulsound.bandcamp.com/track/rise-up-singing-feat-paul-weller

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A spectral ansatz for the long-time homogenization of the wave equation
Consider the wave equation with heterogeneous coefficients in the homogenization regime. At large times, the wave interacts in a nontrivial way with the heterogeneities, giving rise to effective dispersive effects. The main achievement of the present work is a new ansatz for the long-time two-scale expansion inspired by spectral analysis. Based on this spectral ansatz, we extend and refine all previous results in the field, proving homogenization up to optimal timescales with optimal error esti…

Reddit stock closes up 30% at $59.80, after the company went public at $34 last week, as the debut of options trading tied to Reddit appears to fuel the rise (Saqib Iqbal Ahmed/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/reddit-…

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Observations of type Ia supernova SN 2020nlb up to 600 days after explosion, and the distance to M85
The type Ia supernova (SN Ia) SN 2020nlb was discovered in the Virgo Cluster galaxy M85 shortly after explosion. Here we present observations that include one of the earliest high-quality spectra and some of the earliest multi-colour photometry of a SN Ia to date. We calculated that SN 2020nlb faded 1.28 +/- 0.02 mag in the B band in the first 15 d after maximum brightness. We independently fitted a power-law rise to the early flux in each filter, and found that the optical filters all give a c…

KELLMRec: Knowledge-Enhanced Large Language Models for Recommendation
Weiqing Luo, Chonggang Song, Lingling Yi, Gong Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06642

KELLMRec: Knowledge-Enhanced Large Language Models for Recommendation
The utilization of semantic information is an important research problem in the field of recommender systems, which aims to complement the missing parts of mainstream ID-based approaches. With the rise of LLM, its ability to act as a knowledge base and its reasoning capability have opened up new possibilities for this research area, making LLM-based recommendation an emerging research direction. However, directly using LLM to process semantic information for recommendation scenarios is unreliab…

Nicht nur bei #Tornados muss die Sturmkategorie erweitert werden, sondern auch bei den Alarmen für ozeanische #Hitzewellen:
"Global Coral Reef Monitor Adds New Heat Stress Alerts Amid Rise in Climate Change-Driven Mass Bleaching Events"

Coral Reef Monitor Adds New Heat Alerts Amid Rising Temperatures | Earth.Org
Scientists and conservationists have long relied on the alert system set up by the CRW to monitor the conditions of corals around the world.

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A Bayesian Approach to Strong Lens Finding in the Era of Wide-area Surveys
The arrival of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), Euclid-Wide and Roman wide area sensitive surveys will herald a new era in strong lens science in which the number of strong lenses known is expected to rise from $\mathcal{O}(10^3)$ to $\mathcal{O}(10^5)$. However, current lens-finding methods still require time-consuming follow-up visual inspection by strong-lens experts to remove false positives which is only set to increase with these surveys. In this wor…

Pre-merger detection of massive black hole binaries using deep learning
Wen-Hong Ruan, Zong-Kuan Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16282 https://

Pre-merger detection of massive black hole binaries using deep learning
Coalescing massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) are one of primary sources for space-based gravitational wave (GW) observations. The mergers of these binaries are expected to give rise to detectable electromagnetic (EM) emissions with a narrow time window. The pre-merger detection of GW signals is vital for follow-up EM observations. The conventional approach for searching GW signals involves high computational costs. In this study, we present a deep learning model to search for GW signals from …

Since it came up in another thread I thought it'd be useful to quote W.E.B. Du Bois on the American Dream. This is from Black Reconstruction in America:
"Behind this extraordinary industrial development, as justification in the minds of men, lay what we may call the great American Assumption, which up to the time of the Civil War, was held more or less explicitly by practically all Americans. The American Assumption was that wealth is mainly the result of its owner’s effort and that any average worker can by thrift become a capitalist. The curious thing about this assumption was that while it was not true, it was undoubtedly more nearly true in America from 1820 to 1860 than in any other contemporary land. It was not true and not recognized as true during Colonial times; but with the opening of the West and the expanding industry of the twenties, and coincident with the rise of the Cotton Kingdom, it was a fact that often a poor white man in America by thrift and saving could obtain land and capital; and by intelligence and good luck he could become a small capitalist and even a rich man; and conversely a careless spendthrift though rich might become a pauper, since hereditary safeguards for property had little legal sanction.
Thus arose the philosophy of “shirt-sleeves to shirt-sleeves,” on which the American theory of compensated democracy was built. It asked simply, in eighteenth century accents, freedom from government interference with individual ventures, and a voice in the selection of government officials. The continued freedom of economic opportunity and ever possible increase of industrial income, it took for granted. This attitude was back of the adoption of universal suffrage, the disappearance of compulsory military service and imprisonment for debt, which characterized Jacksonian democracy. The American Assumption was contemporary with the Cotton Kingdom, which was its most sinister contradiction. The new captains of industry in the North were largely risen from the laboring class and thus living proof of the ease of capitalistic accumulation. The validity of the American Assumption ceased with the Civil War, but its tradition lasted down to the day of the Great Depression, when it died with a great wail of despair, not so much from bread lines and soup kitchens, as from poor and thrifty bank depositors and small investors."
#AmericanDream #WEBDuBois #Reconstruction #BlackReconstructionInAmerica

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Searching for late-time interaction signatures in Type Ia supernovae from the Zwicky Transient Facility
Jacco H. Terwel, Kate Maguire, Georgios Dimitriadis, Mat Smith, Simeon Reusch, Leander Lacroix, Llu\'is Galbany, Umut Burgaz, Luke Harvey, Steve Schulze, Mickael Rigault, Steven L. Groom, David Hale, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Young-Lo Kim, Josiah Purdum, Ben Rusholme, Jesper Sollerman, Joseph P. Anderson, Ting-Wan Chen, Christopher Frohmaier, Mariusz Gromadzki, Tom\'as E. M\"ul…

Searching for late-time interaction signatures in Type Ia supernovae from the Zwicky Transient Facility
The nature of the progenitor systems and explosion mechanisms that give rise to Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are still debated. The interaction signature of circumstellar material (CSM) being swept up by expanding ejecta can constrain the type of system from which it was ejected. Most previous studies have focused on finding CSM ejected shortly before the SN Ia explosion still residing close to the explosion site, resulting in short delay times until the interaction starts. We use a sample of 36…

Resecurity: in Q1, malicious cyber activities targeting the Philippines, including cyberattacks and misinfo campaigns, were up 300% YoY, as China tensions rise (Pierluigi Paganini/Security Affairs)
https://securityaffairs.com/161909/int

Misinformation and hacktivist campaigns targeting the Philippines skyrocket
Amidst rising tensions with China in the SCS, Resecurity observed a spike in malicious cyber activity targeting the Philippines in Q1 2024.

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Paul Weller:
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Paul Weller:
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https://wonderfulsound.bandcamp.com/track/rise-up-singing-feat-paul-weller

While it sometimes makes me sad, the thing I love most about seeing instances fall apart is knowing that three new instances will rise up in their place.
For every domain the Taliban deletes, for every instance the corporations censor, for every domain that is just gets hounded out by the Home Owners Association that think they rule here, you'll see someone say, "FFS., I'll set up my own then, and this time we'll be gay and do crimes!"
Be gay. Do crimes. Bridge networks. Yell at people. Ignore the people yelling at you.
Be weird. Be fedi.
#fedi #bluesky #bridge #norules

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Paul Weller:
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The Mass Density of Merging Binary Black Holes Over Cosmic Time
Aryanna Schiebelbein-Zwack, Maya Fishbach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17156 https://<…

The Mass Density of Merging Binary Black Holes Over Cosmic Time
The connection between the binary black hole (BBH) mergers observed by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) and their stellar progenitors remains uncertain. Specifically, the fraction $ε$ of stellar mass that ends up in BBH mergers and the delay time $τ$ between star formation and BBH merger carry information about the astrophysical processes that give rise to merging BBHs. We model the BBH merger rate in terms of the cosmic star formation history, coupled with a metallicity-dependent efficiency $ε$ and a…