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Isolated Amazon tribe seen near logging bridge site, alarming rights group
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-08-28/isolated-amazon-tribe-seen-near-logging-bridge-site-alarming-rights-group

Isolated Amazon tribe seen near logging bridge site, alarming watchdog
Members of Peru’s Mashco Piro tribe have been seen entering another Indigenous groups village in the Amazon as a logging company operates heavy equipment near their territory, according to an Indigenous group

I've seen some outbreaks of toxic positivity before, but the way some people in the Ruby community contort themselves into olympic-level mental gymnastics to not see the plainly obvious thing and are pretending "Ruby Central is doing their best" is truly spectacular.

I've seen many posts about headmates and plural personalities on fedi, and I get it, but my personal experience is dozens of identical Cats (me) all talking at the same time.
Maybe it's just my ADHD, but for me it's like being possessed by yourself (if that makes sense). Brain is always going 200% speed just not always in the direction I want. 😹

Seen on a wall in Berlin-Schöneberg

I've seen many reasonable criticisms of Liquid Glass online, but whenever I show Liquid Glass to someone in person they seem to really enjoy the new design.
I think part of this is that it's hard to show a dynamic design that responds to you in a screenshot or video that isn't actually responding to you.
But another part is that it _does_ require careful design work, and this early in it's easy to find examples where the design (perhaps of the system, perhaps of t…

Broncos' win over Raiders was so ugly it produced something the NFL hasn't seen in nearly 50 years

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/broncos

now that i've seen "one battle..." & no longer fear spoilers, i should mention i was a guest recently on the slow learners #podcast, poking at the counterculture threads in "vineland," which was seriously fun.

VINELAND EP 2: What Was The Hippie? (w/Jesse Jarnow)
Podcast Episode · Slow Learners · 10/02/2025 · 1h 38m

Almost 30 minutes into Microsoft Teams the movie.
And so far the biggest problem is you know what movie I’m talking about if you’ve seen it. 😝
Having fun watching it.
#movie #film

Harvard’s business model is raking in ungodly amounts of money selling that name to the offspring of the ultra-wealthy, however deserving or undeserving, and then investing it.
(Harvard does to its credit use a portion of that money to subsidize access for the highly deserving and underprivileged. I’ve seen the “tuition paid” graph for Harvard, and it’s very roughly ~20% pay nothing and ~40% pay full freight and their family has more money than everyone you’ve every known combined.)
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What's Trending in the NFL: Weirdest touchdowns we've seen through 5 weeks https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6701305/2025/10/09/nfl-trends-week-5-weirdest-touchdowns/

I printed a MIK adapter and it fits into the rear rack of the Level 3. Aventon will not say the rack is MIK-compatible.
Maybe it's a licensing issue? I've seen them post "Our racks are not labeled for MIK compatibility. For a rack to be 100% compatible, it must have the MIK or MIK HD logo on the rack." So maybe its a wink-wink situation.
Let's just unofficially say you can (probably) use MIK stuff on the rear rack of the Level 3.

Finishing up Blood Glacier, as I thought I'd seen it and was making sure (I haven't, I've just seen something similar). This one's weird and maybe a little cheesy.. I only noticed partway through that unfortunately, it's badly dubbed in English- like, VERY badly. I hate dubbed stuff. Wish it was subbed, but there's no choice for that on Tubi. Just this weird dubbed version. But I'm just here for the gore anyway 😂 which this one's delivering, a little.

Blood Glacier (2013)
At a climate research station in the Alps, the scientists are stunned as the nearby melting glacier is leaking a red liquid. It quickly turns to be very special juice — with unexpected genetic effects on the local wildlife.

My take for #silentSunday . Seen yesterday from the summit that I was #hiking to. I had to zoom in quite a bit to capture this distant scene.
Whenever I see a trailrunner passing me with his ultralight / small backpack, I'm wondering why I'm carrying that heavy gear up those mounta…

i want you to put everything youve ever seen and experienced and perceived into me

Can't believe I haven't seen a YouTuber do this before... Hilarious seeing Dermot get annihilated! 🤣
▶️ TEAM BATTLESHOTS - Irish People Try Team Battleshots | Floored Games - Try Channel
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VxGi2l0ND_Q&si=DIS5fSts4NVMT4Zj

Most meetings are bad, and most attempts to fix it merely reduce the *amount* of meetings, rather than do anything to improve their usefulness.
This is an opportunity for #UX designers aspiring to "do strategy." But hi-fi artifacts won't help you here; their purpose is to document decisions that have already been made.
Lo-fi artifacts only appear skippable when seen alone; i…

This meeting could have been a picnic
Well-designed meetings are just as important to our work as well-designed artifacts.

Free London business paper City AM says it returned to print profitability, with gross profit margin of 50% last quarter and EBIT up 52% from January to August (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/city-am-trumpets-re…

City AM trumpets resurgence of print profitability
London business newspaper City AM has seen massive growth in its print profitability following a "transformative" year under its new owner.

As #TOTP pays out with Maria McKee, it transpires that Mrs Losttourist claims to have never seen Days of Thunder. Off to the bay of pirates we go, for this needs to be rectified immediately! #TOTP

I’ve seen a few folks from the PNW share their pictures from 5 years ago, when we had a really bad fire season.
Here are a couple of mine:

The time-domain gamma-ray sky seen by the Fermi-LAT
Giacomo Principe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07660 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.07660

The time-domain gamma-ray sky seen by the Fermi-LAT
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is currently celebrating its 15th anniversary of operation. Since its launch, the Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT), the main instrument onboard the Fermi satellite, has remarkably unveiled the sky at GeV energies providing outstanding results in time-domain gamma-ray astrophysics. In particular, LAT has observed some of the most powerful transient phenomena in the Universe (such as gamma-ray bursts, blazar flares, magnetar flares, ...) enabling the possibilit…

First #Chicago snowstorm of the season

Well this is new, never seen a #computer #clock off to bad a #browser complains about it because it can't do a

V Sge - Supersoft Source or Exotic Hot Binary? An X-Shooter campaign in the high state: #star is eating its cosmic twin at rate never seen before: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2025/09/hungry-star-is-eating-its-cosmic-twin.page

Here's a bonus image to make up for the slow days: one of those purple coneflowers which is quickly disappearing from the landscape as fall closes in on us
#photo #photography #flowers

The heart of NGC 5253 as seen with MUSE-NFM: nitrogen enrichment through stellar chemical feedback at parsec scales
Brigitte G. A. Pruijt (Leiden Observatory, Leiden University), Ana Monreal-Ibero (Leiden Observatory, Leiden University), Peter M. Weilbacher (Leibniz-Institut fur Astrophysik Potsdam), Jeremy R. Walsh (European Southern Observatory), Sebastian Kamann (Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University), Azlizan A. Soemitro (Leibniz-Institut fur Astrophysik…

The heart of NGC 5253 as seen with MUSE-NFM: nitrogen enrichment through stellar chemical feedback at parsec scales
NGC 5253 is a nearby (D=3.6 Mpc) Blue Compact Dwarf galaxy, notable for its three massive young super star clusters (SSCs) and nitrogen enrichment. Its similarity to extreme star-forming galaxies at high redshift makes it a good local analogue for studying chemical enrichment at high spatial resolution. We characterise the ionised gas and dust in the giant HII region in the proximity of the three SSCs in the centre of NGC 5253 using new Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer Narrow Field Mode adapti…

Western Honey Bee flying away after visiting a Canary Island Daisy. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. April, 2025. #laarboretum #bee #honeybee

Farcical.
“MaKiNg aN ObViOuS AcTiOn dIrEcTlY In fRoNt oF Of tHe gOaLkEePeR”
No angle exists to back the assertion that Robbo was directly in front of the goalkeeper. Quite the opposite, actually. Donnarumma is seen to be sighted the whole time. And the “obvious action” was to duck.
Michael Oliver didnt adequately review it, while conversely resorting to a Zapruder film single frame per second to see Doku get grazed by Marmadashvilli.
Worse, he got the rules flat out …

I remember like 10 years ago when fascism and racism were seen by most people for what it is: criminal behavior, and not “political opinions”

Hey @…, just seeing how you're doing, since I haven't seen any posts from you in a while, even when I'm blatantly using your wordle patent! 😁 Hope you've just been busy w/ good stuff.

**Parkinson’s “Trigger” Seen Directly in the Human Brain for the First Time**
https://scitechdaily.com/parkinsons-trigger-seen-directly-in-the-human-brain-for-the-first-time/

The Contingencies of Physical Embodiment Allow for Open-Endedness and Care
Leonardo Christov-Moore (Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, Santa Monica, CA), Arthur Juliani (Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, Santa Monica, CA), Alex Kiefer (Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, Santa Monica, CA, VERSES, Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies), Nicco Reggente (Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, Santa Monica, CA), B. Scott Rousse (A…

The Contingencies of Physical Embodiment Allow for Open-Endedness and Care
Physical vulnerability and mortality are often seen as obstacles to be avoided in the development of artificial agents, which struggle to adapt to open-ended environments and provide aligned care. Meanwhile, biological organisms survive, thrive, and care for each other in an open-ended physical world with relative ease and efficiency. Understanding the role of the conditions of life in this disparity can aid in developing more robust, adaptive, and caring artificial agents. Here we define two m…

https://www.space.com/astronomy/black-holes/scientists-detect-biggest-black-hole-flare-ever-seen-with-the-power-of-10-trillion-suns

@… Have you seen this new blog yet? https://stonetools.ghost.io/ "Exploring retro productivity software from the 8/16-bit era. No games, just work." (h/t

Stone Tools
Exploring retro productivity software from the 8/16-bit era. No games, just work.

#grok still is an amazing good #llm - build something with a mix of claude, kimi (thinking), codex.... let grok check everything, and still this thing found a mistake, all others haven't seen..... 🤷 #ai

Ok. Those of you south of the border break out your spreadsheets and figure what this would cost you.
1. Pain, blood in urine, can't urinate much.
2. In emergency. Seen by two doctors, multiple nurses.
3. CAT scan.
4. Review by urologist.
5. Hooked up to IV.
6. Overnight stay with multiple visits from nurses doing checks.
7. Morning visit with urologist on what is happening.
8. Visit from pharmacist to go over what meds I need.
9. Transport…

Mailbag: Pick your poison stopping run, pass? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-pick-your-poison-stopping-run-pass

Multimodal Prompt Injection Attacks: Risks and Defenses for Modern LLMs
Andrew Yeo, Daeseon Choi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05883 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Multimodal Prompt Injection Attacks: Risks and Defenses for Modern LLMs
Large Language Models (LLMs) have seen rapid adoption in recent years, with industries increasingly relying on them to maintain a competitive advantage. These models excel at interpreting user instructions and generating human-like responses, leading to their integration across diverse domains, including consulting and information retrieval. However, their widespread deployment also introduces substantial security risks, most notably in the form of prompt injection and jailbreak attacks. To s…

As seen on slashdot about what you can do with your cable modems:
(http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=32387&cid=3495418):
Summary: It's not about how you handle your equipment, it's where
you have permission to stick it.
The p…

Guess your neighbor's input: Quantum advantage in Feige's game
Simon Schmidt, Sigurd A. L. Storgaard, Michael Walter, Yuming Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08484 https:…

Guess your neighbor's input: Quantum advantage in Feige's game
In this article, we study a nonlocal game with two questions and three answers per player, which was first considered by Feige in 1991, and show that there is quantum advantage in this game. We prove that the game is a robust self-test for the $3$-dimensional maximally entangled state. Furthermore, we show that the game can be seen as the "or" of two games that each do not have quantum advantage. Lastly, we investigate the behavior of the game with respect to parallel repetition in the classica…

Trump complained that domestic violence was being counted in the crime statistics,
which he claimed meant that the influence of his policy was not being seen as significant enough.
“They said, ‘Crime’s down 87%,’” the president claimed, not explaining who “they” were.
“I said, no, no, no. It’s more than 87%, virtually nothing.
And much lesser things, things that take place in the home they call crime.
You know, they’ll do anything they can to find something.

"The website, called Fight Chat Control, was set up by Joachim, a 30-year-old software engineer living in Aalborg, Denmark. He made it after learning of a new attempt to approve a European Union proposal to fight child sexual abuse material (CSAM) — a bill seen by privacy activists as breaking encryption and leading to mass surveillance."
One-man spam campaign ravages EU ‘chat control’ bill

One-man spam campaign ravages EU ‘chat control’ bill
A software developer from Denmark is having an outsized influence on a hotly debated law to break open encrypted apps.

From “Design a Spaceship” by Andi Buchanan in Uncanny Magazine issue 24 (“Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction!”), September / October 2018.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/f145b753-ba18-4d1b-a5e1-8b7c66e254b7
I’ve seen the answer to this quest…

Mohammed has badly burned his leg with boiling water while making coffee.
(I’ve seen photos without the bandages and it is bad.)
Please help with his fundraiser as he will need additional funds as he recovers:
https://chuffed.org/project/mohshbairgaza
Thank you!
…

No shelter, no safety - Help Mohammed survive genocide in Gaza
My name is Thomas and I live in France and in the UK. I'm hosting Mohammed's campaign because Palestinians cannot host their own campaigns. If you've got any questions or if you'd like any proofs, I'm happy to provide you with these. Please support! Peace ✌️

Isotopy invariance and stratified $\mathbb{E}_2$-structure of the Ran Grassmannian
Guglielmo Nocera, Morena Porzio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06222 https://

Isotopy invariance and stratified $\mathbb{E}_2$-structure of the Ran Grassmannian
Let $G$ be a complex reductive group. A folklore result asserts the existence of an $\mathbb{E}_2$-algebra structure on the Ran Grassmannian of $G$ over $\mathbb{A}^1_{\mathbb{C}}$, seen as a topological space with the complex-analytic topology. The aim of this paper is to prove this theorem, by establishing a homotopy invariance result: namely, an inclusion of open balls $D' \subset D$ in $\mathbb{C}$ induces a homotopy equivalence between the respective Beilinson--Drinfeld Grassmannians $\mat…

AnalysisGNN: Unified Music Analysis with Graph Neural Networks
Emmanouil Karystinaios, Johannes Hentschel, Markus Neuwirth, Gerhard Widmer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06654 https…

AnalysisGNN: Unified Music Analysis with Graph Neural Networks
Recent years have seen a boom in computational approaches to music analysis, yet each one is typically tailored to a specific analytical domain. In this work, we introduce AnalysisGNN, a novel graph neural network framework that leverages a data-shuffling strategy with a custom weighted multi-task loss and logit fusion between task-specific classifiers to integrate heterogeneously annotated symbolic datasets for comprehensive score analysis. We further integrate a Non-Chord-Tone prediction modu…

Sistrix: among the 10 UK news sites with the highest search visibility scores, six saw double-digit percentage drops in Google search visibility since January (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audie

Most leading UK news websites fell down Google rankings in 2025
Around six in ten of the UK’s biggest news websites have seen a drop in their visibility in Google search results in 2025 so far.

Bills shocking win over Ravens ends with final score that's never been seen before in NFL history

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bills-s

Benchmarking Information Retrieval Models on Complex Retrieval Tasks
Julian Killingback, Hamed Zamani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07253 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Benchmarking Information Retrieval Models on Complex Retrieval Tasks
Large language models (LLMs) are incredible and versatile tools for text-based tasks that have enabled countless, previously unimaginable, applications. Retrieval models, in contrast, have not yet seen such capable general-purpose models emerge. To achieve this goal, retrieval models must be able to perform complex retrieval tasks, where queries contain multiple parts, constraints, or requirements in natural language. These tasks represent a natural progression from the simple, single-aspect qu…

I snowboarded the face of the Matterhorn & this video is the single most amazing, yet most TERRIFYING thing I've ever seen.
Andrzej Bargiel is unbelievable.
▶️ I Skied Down Mount Everest (world first, no oxygen)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cjZvFY6__qw&amp…

Content-Adaptive Inference for State-of-the-art Learned Video Compression
Ahmet Bilican, M. Ak{\i}n Y{\i}lmaz, A. Murat Tekalp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07283 https://

Content-Adaptive Inference for State-of-the-art Learned Video Compression
While the BD-rate performance of recent learned video codec models in both low-delay and random-access modes exceed that of respective modes of traditional codecs on average over common benchmarks, the performance improvements for individual videos with complex/large motions is much smaller compared to scenes with simple motion. This is related to the inability of a learned encoder model to generalize to motion vector ranges that have not been seen in the training set, which causes loss of perf…

😎🧵
https://carhenge.club/@skiles/115512538449587516

Chicago PD arrested multiple people on behalf of ICE after they raided an entire city block in the Little Village neighborhood. (11/8/25)
One of the neighbors detained can be seen being choked by CPD and telling the officers that he can’t breathe.
Source: https://reddit.com/comments/1os1m78

Control variates from Eulerian and Lagrangian perturbation theory: Application to the bispectrum
Nickolas Kokron, Shi-Fan Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07375 https://

Control variates from Eulerian and Lagrangian perturbation theory: Application to the bispectrum
Control variates have seen recent interest as a powerful technique to reduce the variance of summary statistics measured from costly cosmological $N$-body simulations. Of particular interest are the class of control variates which are analytically calculable, such as the recently introduced 'Zeldovich control variates' for the power spectrum of matter and biased tracers. In this work we present the construction of perturbative control variates in Eulerian and Lagrangian perturbation theory, and…

Elusive Sailback Shark Rediscovered After 50 Years https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/elusive-sailback-shark-rediscovered-after-50-years/

Elusive Sailback Shark Rediscovered After 50 Years
In 1970, fishermen reeled in a freakish-looking shark with an elongated fin and then it was never seen again. 

#ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

A view of the crowd after the Ithaca 5 and 10 in front of Ithaca High School... more photos that Kilian Weinberger, myself and maybe some others took here: #photo

Against the run of play, Richards gets turned and can’t recover. Surprising moment for the normally rock-solid defender. If not on a yellow already, he might have been able to do more.
Initially I thought Freese was too reserved in the goalmouth, but I think having seen it again, it was a perfectly placed shot.
#USMNT

I'm probably going to need a new Land Rover t-shirt at some point.
#LandRover

Sunset over Carpinteria State Beach. Carpinteria, California, USA. March, 2025. #beach #sunset #monochrome

py5sig build automatically 5G signalling messages and fuzz SBI interfaces
Pretty cool stuff seen at the @… workshop
#5g #fuzzing

On Recurrence of the Infinite Server Queue
Sergey Foss, Peter Glynn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06075 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06075

On Recurrence of the Infinite Server Queue
This paper concerns the recurrence structure of the infinite server queue, as viewed through the prism of the maximum dater sequence, namely the time to drain the current work in the system as seen at arrival epochs. Despite the importance of this model in queueing theory, we are aware of no complete analysis of the stability behavior of this model, especially in settings in which either or both the inter arrival and service time distributions have infinite mean. In this paper, we fully develop…

I was writing (a brilliant) post about something, but now I just want to say: Writing in a box in a browser-window makes the 1980's advice relevant again: *Save your draft often* ! The danger used to be MS Word crashing, now it's just switching away from the window that will destroy your nuggets of wisdom, for them never to be seen by anyone 😪

Algebraic interpretation of the two-variable Jacobi polynomials on the triangle: the pentagonal way
Nicolas Cramp\'e, Quentin Labriet, Lucia Morey, Satoshi Tsujimoto, Luc Vinet, Alexei Zhedanov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07949

Algebraic interpretation of the two-variable Jacobi polynomials on the triangle: the pentagonal way
The rank two Jacobi algebra $\mathcal{J}_2$ is used to provide an interpretation of the two-variable Jacobi polynomials $J_{n,k}^{(a,b,c)}(x,y)$ on the triangle, as overlaps between two representation bases. The subalgebra structure of $\mathcal{J}_2$ depicted via a pentagonal graph is exploited to find the explicit expression of the two-variable functions in terms of univariate Jacobi polynomials. It is also seen to provide an explanation for the fact that the expansion on the basis $J_{n,k}^{…

🌿 You've seen the succulent Kalanchoe's in #bloomscrolling but have you seen its leaves glowing in the dark? 🌟 👀 🧵
➡️ #plantscience 📖 for data not visuals, so in grayscale with all the leaves laid out flat. 🧬 🧪
But it's glowing using the firefly protein luciferase 🌟, hooked up to the plant's biological clock ⏰ ... so the leaves glow once per day ... 1/n
#circadian #PlantCircadianRhythms

The A.I. insurance market is in its infancy, but Mr. Kvist says mainstream insurers are lining up to back him.
One of his clients is a job recruiting company that uses A.I. to sift through candidates.
“Which is great, but you can now discriminate at a scale we’ve never seen before,” Mr. Kvist said.
“It’s a breeding ground for class-action lawsuits.”
Mr. Kvist believes the work he is doing now will lay the foundation for more complex A.I. insurance policies to come.

Opinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World
A destructive A.I., like a nuclear bomb, is now a concrete possibility; the question is whether anyone will be reckless enough to build one.

It's funny how you spend a bit of time looking at silicon and quickly develop a sixth sense for recognizing processes and nodes.
Besides the obvious tells for specific foundries (like TSMC and Samsung fiducials) I can recognize TSMC 350 nm, Microchip 160K, Atmel's 350nm node, and UMC 180 at a glance.
Probably more, but those are some of the most distinctive looking ones that i've seen a *lot* of chips made on. Especially UMC 180.

The Evolution of Enumerative Geometry: A Narrative from Classical Problems to Enriched Invariants
Candace Bethea, Thomas Brazelton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04275 https://

The Evolution of Enumerative Geometry: A Narrative from Classical Problems to Enriched Invariants
Enumerative geometry, the art and science of counting geometric objects satisfying geometric conditions, has seen a resurgence of activity in recent years due to an influx of new techniques that allow for enriched computations. This paper offers a historical survey of enumerative geometry, starting with its classical origins and real counterparts, to new advances in quadratic enrichment. We include a brief survey of the paradigm shift initiated by Gromov-Witten theory, whose impact can be seen …

Trump attending the US Open as Rolex's guest despite Swiss tariffs. Any boos may not be seen on TV (Will Weissert/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-us-open-sporting-events-boos-5a80b02c78403f1f2f87a30852ffb0f5
http://www.memeorandum.com/250907/p40#a250907p40

Here’s the view from the official web cam at the #AlpineVisitorCenter in #RockyMountainNationalPark on Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Mailbag: Pick your poison stopping run, pass? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-pick-your-poison-stopping-run-pass

Fungi seen on Salish Trail, Pacific Spirit Park this afternoon
#Vancouver

I've seen the future, and it's a round thing. Nobody should ever again say that Google can't innovate anymore.
Gboard ダイヤルバージョン / Gboard Dial Version
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BgdWyD0cBx4&si=HN819FR1fxEB3nAA

"In 2020, Berlin passed a law that resulted in a five-year rent freeze [...] for 90% of the flats in the city. While the law offered relief to about 1.5 million households who had seen rents rise by an estimated third in the six years prior, it was ruled as unconstitutional in 2021 after Germany’s highest court sided with landlords and property investment lobbyists who had argued it was inappropriate and illegal for the state to meddle with the private market."

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given

Folks, just a quick heads up: I’m in touch over Signal with Mahmoud from the “Help Mahmoud Family” accounts you might have seen contacting you.
Like you, I was hugely suspicious of them due to the many accounts and automated spam-like messages (I also reported and had one of them taken down as a scam).
It’s looking to me now like this was more of a misguided (and understandably, given the circumstances) desperate attempt to get help.
I ask that we keep an open mind and offe…

Chiefs' Jones owns up to not chasing Lawrence https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46543778/chris-jones-calls-lack-lawrence-pursuit-teaching-point

"There is a paragraph on page 22 of the Trump administration's appeal of a federal judge's requirement that it make full November SNAP payments that has to be seen to be believed.
The opening sentence asserts that "the district court's order threatens significant and irreparable harm to the government which outweighs any claimed injury to plaintiffs."
**In SNAP appeal, Trump admin says it faces more harm than those without food**
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/in-snap-appeal-trump-admin-says-it-faces-more-harm-than-those-without-food-analysis/ar-AA1Q3Tho

This is one of the most shortsighted and greediest things I've seen a successful tech company do in a while.
Just staggeringly mindblowing how the C-suite there failed to understand or just decided to ignore what their customers would do.

Two Possible Optical--X-Ray Anti-Correlations of PSR J1023 0038
Ka-Yui Au, Kwan-Lok Li, Albert K. H. Kong, Jumpei Takata, Chung-Yue Hui, Lupin C. C. Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07763

Two Possible Optical--X-Ray Anti-Correlations of PSR J1023+0038
X-ray emission is generally believed to be one of the major heating sources for the optical modulation in redback pulsar binaries as we have seen similar phenomena in many low mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). While, e.g., MeV/GeV gamma-rays from the neutron stars are also possible heating sources, X-ray observations are currently much more sensitive, and therefore, joint optical--X-ray data are observationally unique on the irradiation mechanism investigation. Using 18 X-ray/B-band simultaneous XMM…

Cosmic Rays on Galaxy Scales: Progress and Pitfalls for CR-MHD Dynamical Models
Philip F. Hopkins
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07104 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Cosmic Rays on Galaxy Scales: Progress and Pitfalls for CR-MHD Dynamical Models
Recent years have seen many arguments for cosmic rays (CRs) as an important influence on galactic and circumgalactic (CGM) physics, star and galaxy formation. We present a pedagogical overview of state-of-the-art modeling of CR-magnetohydrodynamics (CR-MHD) on macro scales (~kpc), highlighting their fundamental dependence on the micro (< au) scales of CR gyro orbits and meso (~pc) scales of CR mean-free-paths, intended to connect the extragalactic, Galactic, and plasma CR transport modeling com…

Kalani Bagsby, Tyler Booker’s Girlfriend, Fires Back at Trolls https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/tyler-booker-girlfriend-kalani-bagsby-trolls/?adt_ei=[email]

Re this from @…:
@… described Jim Crow states as “one-party dictatorships where power was consolidated in the hands of whites,” and now that I’ve seen it I can’t unsee it. https://mstdn.social/@MaryAustinBooks/115508635251477446

Giants' Brian Daboll gets heated on sideline during Jaxson Dart's concussion check https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6705380/2025/10/09/giants-brian-daboll-injury-concussion-check/

Once prided as the ‘people’s slam’, New York’s major tennis tournament now doubles as a lifestyle carnival
where attending is no longer just about watching, but about being seen watching
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/sep

I haven't seen quite a few #StarWars scenes here! Really amazing... especially the Mon Mothma/Organa discussion... & that one Hoth scene. 😜
▶️ The Unseen Star Wars Footage That Would Change Everything
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NFL, NFLPA investigating Brian Daboll's behavior during Jaxson Dart concussion evaluation https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6706880/2025/10/10/brian-daboll-investigation-jaxson-dart-concussion-check/

About 400 runners off the start at Ithaca High school this Sunday for the Ithaca 5 & 10 -- a rare photo I didn't color grade because I'm paying close attention to how the trees have gotten darker in the past two weeks because they're already starting to turn
#photo #photography

AGN-heated dust revealed in "Little Red Dots"
I. Delvecchio, E. Daddi, B. Magnelli, D. Elbaz, M. Giavalisco, A. Traina, G. Lanzuisi, H. B. Akins, S. Belli, C. M. Casey, F. Gentile, C. Gruppioni, F. Pozzi, G. Zamorani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07100

AGN-heated dust revealed in "Little Red Dots"
Little Red Dots (LRDs) are a puzzling population of extragalactic sources whose origin is highly debated. In this Letter, we stack NIRCam, MIRI and ALMA images of a large and homogeneously-selected sample of LRDs from multiple JWST Legacy fields. We find clear evidence for hot-dust emission, seen as a rising mid-infrared continuum up to rest-frame $λ_{\rm rest}$$\sim$ 3$μ$m, that is best explained by a standard dusty AGN structure. This scenario holds regardless of whether the Optical/Ultravi…

Evanston, Illinois Mayor Daniel Biss says what he has seen of federal immigration raids amounts to an “invasion from our own federal government.”
His office is now launching investigations into reports of federal agents brutalizing and threatening community members.
“They appear to have just started beating people up for no reason,”
Biss says.
“If that was anybody except for a federal agent, they would be under arrest.”

“My Community Is Under Invasion from Our Own Federal Gov’t”: Evanston Mayor Decries ICE Raids in Illinois
Amid federal immigration raids in the Chicagoland area, the mayor of one Chicago suburb is on the frontlines of the anti-ICE protest movement. Mayor Daniel Biss says what he has seen of federal immigration raids in Evanston, Illinois, amounts to an “invasion from our own federal government.” His office is now launching investigations into reports of federal agents brutalizing and threatening community members. “They appear to have just started beating people up for no reason,” Biss says…

Auriga Streams III: the mass-metallicity relation does not rule out tidal mass loss in Local Group satellites
Alexander H. Riley, Rebekka Bieri, Alis J. Deason, Nora Shipp, Christine M. Simpson, Francesca Fragkoudi, Facundo A. G\'omez, Robert J. J. Grand, Federico Marinacci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06859

Auriga Streams III: the mass-metallicity relation does not rule out tidal mass loss in Local Group satellites
Context. The mass-metallicity relation is a fundamental galaxy scaling law that has been extended to the faintest systems in the Local Group. The small scatter in this relation has been used to argue against severe tidal mass loss in Local Group satellites. Aims. We aim to show that the observed scatter is consistent with tidal mass loss seen in cosmological hydrodynamical zoom-in simulations, using simulated Milky Way-mass haloes from the Auriga project as an example. Methods. We analyze the s…

Hedge fund billionaire
Ken Griffin has warned that Trump’s pressure on the Fed and dismissal of officials
risk eroding U.S. institutional credibility and driving up long-term borrowing costs.
He cautioned that once confidence is lost
—as seen in past crises from Nixon’s Fed battles to Liz Truss’s meltdown in the U.K.
—it is costly to rebuild.

Ken Griffin lays down the law on why Trump needs to back off the Fed, saying his meddling could prompt a national debt crisis
Ken Griffin warns Trump’s pressure on Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve risks eroding U.S. institutional credibility.

It’s interesting that librarian and libertarian have such a short levenshtein distance, yet refer to people herding books and people who have never seen a book respectively

Broncos could send Raiders on historical losing streak NFL hasn't seen in 40 years with blowout win on 'TNF'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/broncos-raiders-historic-r…

Perception of Mayfield shifting amid MVP-type run https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46534098/perception-bucs-baker-mayfield-shifting-amid-mvp-type-run

Trump is attending the U.S. Open on Sunday as a guest of Rolex despite imposing steep tariffs on the Swiss watchmaker’s home country
-- and with organizers seeking to keep any audience booing of him from being seen on the TV broadcast.
Trump has built the bulk of his second term’s domestic travel around attending major sports events rather than hitting the road to make policy announcements or address the kind of large rallies he so relished as a candidate
⭐️Let's make th…

Trump's US Open visit lead to boos, long security lines
President Donald Trump attended the U.S. Open on Sunday, drawing boos from the crowd. His presence delayed the men's final due to heightened security, causing long lines for many people who didn't make it in before play started. Trump briefly appeared before the event, receiving mixed reactions from the then-mostly empty Arthur Ashe Stadium. During the National Anthem, he was shown on the big screen, which increased the volume of boos. Boos got more intense later in the match. Organizers delaye…

Bills somehow find a way to stun Ravens: 'I’m in a dream state right now' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6609941/2025/09/08/bills-ravens-comeback-joey-bosa/

The Bills are going to win the Super Bowl*, plus Alcaraz's reign https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6609558/2025/09/08/bills-ravens-comeback-week-1-the-pulse/