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Raymond Scott:
🎵 Lightworks (instrumental)
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https://beatzandup.bandcamp.com/track/13-raymond-scott-lightworks

Check out this compelling rebuttal of Soteria International's claims regarding the OKC case. Get informed about the facts and perspectives presented in the article by visiting: https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rebuttal-of-soteria.html

Hey, just a reminder that Thursday 18th there’s the “IPTC Photo Metadata Conference 2025”, a free Zoom event open to all. I’m a speaker (focusing on #C2PA). It looks like it should be interesting for anyone interested in the tangle of issues about media provenance, #genAI, publishing workflow, social media, and…

Photo Metadata Conference 2025 - IPTC
IPTC is the global standards body of the news media. We provide the technical foundation for the news ecosystem.

A US judge sentences Matthew Lane, a 20-year-old Massachusetts man, to four years in prison after he pled guilty to hacking two companies, including PowerSchool (Nate Raymond/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/m

Chandra Large Project Observations of the Supernova Remnant N132D: Measuring the Expansion of the Forward Shock
Xi Long, Paul P. Plucinsky, Terrance J. Gaetz, Vinay L. Kashyap, Aya Bamba, William P. Blair, Daniel Castro, Adam R. Foster, Charles J. Law, Dan Milisavljevic, Eric Miller, Daniel J. Patnaude, Manami Sasaki, Hidetoshi Sano, Piyush Sharda, Benjamin F. Williams, Brian J. Williams, Hiroya Yamaguchi

Chandra Large Project Observations of the Supernova Remnant N132D: Measuring the Expansion of the Forward Shock
We present results from the Chandra X-ray Observatory Large Project (878 ks in 28 observations) of the Large Magellanic Cloud supernova remnant N132D. We measure the expansion of the forward shock in the bright southern rim to be $0.\!^{\prime\prime}10 \pm 0.\!^{\prime\prime}02$ over the $\sim14.5$ yr baseline, which corresponds to a velocity of $1620\pm400~\mathrm{km\,s^{-1}}$ after accounting for several instrumental effects. We measure an expansion of $0.\!^{\prime\prime}23 \pm 0.\!^{\prime\…

As Microsoft EOLs Windows 10, I'm reminded of why Windows is fundamentally broken, by design. https://davelane.nz/windows-broken-design When you're a global platform monopoly, your existing users are your biggest competition. Your interests and those of your customers are diametricall…

Large-field CO(1-0) observations toward the Galactic historical supernova remnants: shocked molecular clouds toward the Crab Nebula
Xuepeng Chen (Purple Mountain Observatory and Key Laboratory of Radio Astronomy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, School of Astronomy and Space Science, University of Science and Technology of China), Dong Wang (Purple Mountain Observatory and Key Laboratory of Radio Astronomy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, School of Astronomy and Space Science, University of S…

Large-field CO(1-0) observations toward the Galactic historical supernova remnants: shocked molecular clouds toward the Crab Nebula
Using the PMO 13.7m telescope, we present large-field and high-sensitivity CO(1-0) line observations toward the Crab Nebula, in order to better understand the interstellar gas environment of this well-known historical supernova remnant. The CO observations show molecular clouds toward the Crab Nebula at a velocity range from about 0 to 16 km/s. After checking the CO spectra, we find shocked signatures in the clouds extending at a velocity of roughly [5, 11] km/s. These shocked molecular clouds,…

The number of times I need to check my own feed to remind myself of what I did or did not say is shocking to me specifically.

Can you even imagine, if #Carlin was still alive, under #Trump ?: https://blog.rmendes.net/2025/10/14/ca

Observational Evidence of Dust Evolution in Supernova Remnants: Size Redistribution Toward Larger Grains in Early Sedov Phase
He Zhao, Bingqiu Chen, Jun Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12067

Observational Evidence of Dust Evolution in Supernova Remnants: Size Redistribution Toward Larger Grains in Early Sedov Phase
Recent observations have revealed that dust is widespread and abundant in galaxies up to $z\,{\backsimeq}\,8$, significantly influencing their appearance and spectral properties. In the early Universe, dust is thought to form primarily in supernova (SN) ejecta, but also undergoes destruction by the reverse shock. Studying dust in local supernova remnants (SNRs) of different sizes and ages thus provides key constraints on dust formation and evolution during cosmic dawn. Using the newly released …