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Ticket sales for #NixCon2025 are open! 🎉 🎆
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/ticket-sales-started-for-nixcon-2025/64756

I wil shortly be getting awarded the title of Worst Human Ever when I have to get the cat into the pet carrier. I don't know why he winges so, it's less a cattery and more a luxury kitty hotel that we take him to. But cats are gonna cat.

Abuse and #Buddhism: Behind the Smiling Façade https://www.info-buddhism.com/Abuse_and_Buddhism-Behind_the_Smiling_Facade-Anna_Sawerthal.html

Abuse and Buddhism: Behind the Smiling Façade
Buddhism in the West is in a crisis. For years, it had benefited from a reputation too good to be true. Only now are victims of sexual abuse, corruption and cultic behaviour finally beginning to speak out.

Can tidal evolution lead to close-in planetary bodies around white dwarfs II: volcanism and transits
Yuqi Li, Amy Bonsor, Oliver Shorttle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20316

Can tidal evolution lead to close-in planetary bodies around white dwarfs II: volcanism and transits
Planetary material accreted by white dwarfs provides unique insights regarding exoplanetary composition. The evolutionary pathways of planetary bodies around white dwarfs are crucial to understanding the presence of close-in planetary material, observed in the form of pollutants in the atmospheres of white dwarfs and planetary material transiting white dwarfs. Periodic transits around white dwarfs potentially reveal the existence of close-in planetary bodies undergoing dust production. Tidal in…

Tailoring Magnetic Properties of Zigzag Structured Thin Films via Interface Engineering and Columnar Nano-structuring
Sharanjeet Singh, Manisha Priyadarsini, Anup Kumar Bera, Smritiparna Ghosh, Varimalla R. Reddy, Sarathlal Koyiloth Vayalil, Benedikt Sochor, Dileep Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19577

Tailoring Magnetic Properties of Zigzag Structured Thin Films via Interface Engineering and Columnar Nano-structuring
We report the emergence of a novel interface-induced shape anisotropy component in zigzag-structured thin films fabricated via Sequential Oblique Angle Deposition (S-OAD). In this study, we systematically investigate cobalt (Co) and Co2FeAl (CFA) thin films by varying column length, number of bilayers, and magneto-crystalline anisotropy (MCA) to explore how structural modulation affects magnetic behavior. Using magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) measurements in conjunction with synchrotron-base…

Suomalainen broilerintuotanto on suurtilojen tehotuotantoa https://animaliamedia.fi/suomalainen-broilerintuotanto-on-suurtilojen-tehotuotantoa/

Suomalainen broilerintuotanto on suurtilojen tehotuotantoa  | Animalia-media
Broilerintuotanto on epäeettistä tehotuotantoa, joka on mahdollista vain silloin, kun eläimellä ei ole muuta arvoa kuin vähäinen rahallinen arvo.

Can tidal evolution lead to close-in planetary bodies around white dwarfs I: Orbital period distribution
Yuqi Li, Amy Bonsor, Oliver Shorttle, Laura K. Rogers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20301

Can tidal evolution lead to close-in planetary bodies around white dwarfs I: Orbital period distribution
The evolution of planetary systems around white dwarfs is crucial to understanding the presence of planetary material in the atmospheres of white dwarfs. These systems uniquely probe exoplanetary compositions. Periodic signals in the photometry of a handful of white dwarfs suggest material blocking the star, potentially from disintegrating planetesimals. Tidal evolution followed by scattering can bring planetesimals onto close-in orbits that would have been within the envelope of the white dwar…

“The second accident was a cooling system leak which occurred in 1967, shortly after refueling. Finding the leak required breaking through the concrete and metal biological shield with sledgehammers. Once the leak was found, it became apparent that the sledgehammer damage could not be repaired; subsequently, all three reactors were removed by blowing them off the ship with shaped charges above a burial site off Novaya Zemlya”

Lenin (1957 icebreaker) - Wikipedia

Next stop on our NLP timeline (as part of the #ISE2025 lecture) was Terry Winograd's SHRDLU, an early natural language understanding system developed in 1968-70 that could manipulate blocks in a virtual world.
Winograd, T. Procedures as a Representation for Data in a Computer Program for Understanding Natural Language. MIT AI Technical Report 235.

Polyharmonic curves in semi-Riemannian manifolds
Stefano Montaldo, Andrea Ratto, Antonio Sanna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16954 https://

Polyharmonic curves in semi-Riemannian manifolds
Let $(M^m_t,g)$ be a semi-Riemannian manifold of dimension $m$ with a non-degenerate metric of \textit{index} $t$, $m\geq 2$, $1 \leq t \leq m-1$. The main aim of this paper is to investigate the existence of Frenet curves in $(M^m_t,g)$ which are polyharmonic of order $r$, shortly, $r$-harmonic. We shall focus primarily on the cases that the ambient space is a semi-Riemannian space form $N^m_t(c)$ of sectional curvature $c$, a ruled Lorentzian surface or a suitable, possibly warped, product sp…