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Chiefs part ways with two-time Super Bowl champion pass rusher Michael Danna ahead of free agency

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/chiefs-part-ways-with-two-time-sup…

Poland: New Regulation Guarantees Access to Plant-Based Canteen Food https://vegconomist.com/politics-law/poland-new-regulation-guarantees-access-to-plant-based-canteen-food/

Poland: New Regulation Guarantees Access to Plant-Based Canteen Food - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
The Minister of Health has signed a regulation which, for the first time in the history of Polish law, guarantees children in schools access to fully

Sam Altman says currently "the idea of putting data centers in space is ridiculous" and that it is "not something that's going to matter at scale this decade" (Lauren Edmonds/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman

Sam Altman says Elon Musk's idea of putting data centers in space is 'ridiculous'
While in New Delhi on Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said "there will come a time" for orbital data centers, but it won't be anytime soon.

Cool, von @… gibt es ebenfalls eine Jahresrückschau :) Sogar mit Alt-Text-Generator für die SharePics. Gefällt mir.
In den Top 10 habe ich noch #LinkinPark und #Moderat

News about Friday’s march / rally / general strike in Minneapolis is coming at me from every direction. Temperature right now is -18F / -28C and this thing is still going to be massive. People here are ready to punch a hole through the fabric of the space-time continuum if they have to. Going to be bed. Tomorrow’s going to be a hell of a day.

News about Friday’s march / rally / general strike
in Minneapolis
is coming from every direction.
Temperature right now is
-18F / -28C
and this thing is still going to be massive.
People here are ready to punch a hole through the fabric of the space-time continuum if they have to.
Going to be bed.
Tomorrow’s going to be a hell of a day.

I got those new disks loaded into the TrueNAS server and have been moving things around to make more space on the primary pool.
I've got my home computers running backups to the NAS and most of the Macs also have Time Machine drives attached...
At this point I'm still missing off-site backups but I can look into that by placing a small NAS at the office.
#TrueNAS

Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain why comets at the outskirts of our own solar system contain crystalline silicates, -- since crystals require intense heat to form and these “dirty snowballs” spend most of their time in the ultracold Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud.
Now, looking outside our solar system, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has returned the first conclusive evidence that links how those conditions are possible.
The telescope clearly showed for the first ti…

NASA Webb Finds Young Sun-Like Star Forging, Spewing Common Crystals
Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain why comets at the outskirts of our own solar system contain crystalline silicates, since crystals require

"Where will the von Neumanns, the Einsteins, and the Gödels of our age migrate after the SCOTUS overrules democracy in 2024 and Gödel’s Loophole is proven to exist? At this time, the two major powers of our time, the United States and China seem unlikely locations for brains to settle and grow in the long term."
(Inadvertently and ironically published on July 4th, 2022)

William Aspray
There was a moment in which Kurt Gödel, Albert Einstein, and John von Neumann were all roaming the halls of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton at the same time. Let that information sink in. Humanity experiences such gatherings of brilliant minds in a remote location of the space-time continuum only every so often; maybe the ancient Greeks and the men of the Renaissance witnessed such periods in time, as did the IAS staff at the end of World War II. How much will we have to wait f…

And the next space launch webcast is on: #NewShepard 37 - see https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-shepard-ns-37-mission and https://abcnews.go.com/US/1st-time-person-wheelchair-fly-space/story?id=128483608 and https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/18/science/blue-origin-launch-benthaus-koenigsmann for more.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[1/5]:
- Feed Two Birds with One Scone: Exploiting Wild Data for Both Out-of-Distribution Generalization a...
Haoyue Bai, Gregory Canal, Xuefeng Du, Jeongyeol Kwon, Robert Nowak, Yixuan Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09158
- Sparse, Efficient and Explainable Data Attribution with DualXDA
Galip \"Umit Yolcu, Moritz Weckbecker, Thomas Wiegand, Wojciech Samek, Sebastian Lapuschkin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12118 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/111962593972369958
- HGQ: High Granularity Quantization for Real-time Neural Networks on FPGAs
Sun, Que, {\AA}rrestad, Loncar, Ngadiuba, Luk, Spiropulu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00645 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/112370274737558603
- On the Identification of Temporally Causal Representation with Instantaneous Dependence
Li, Shen, Zheng, Cai, Song, Gong, Chen, Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15325 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/112511890051553111
- Basis Selection: Low-Rank Decomposition of Pretrained Large Language Models for Target Applications
Yang Li, Daniel Agyei Asante, Changsheng Zhao, Ernie Chang, Yangyang Shi, Vikas Chandra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15877 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/112517547424098076
- Privacy Bias in Language Models: A Contextual Integrity-based Auditing Metric
Yan Shvartzshnaider, Vasisht Duddu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03735 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113089789682783135
- Low-Rank Filtering and Smoothing for Sequential Deep Learning
Joanna Sliwa, Frank Schneider, Nathanael Bosch, Agustinus Kristiadi, Philipp Hennig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.06800 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113283021321510736
- Hierarchical Multimodal LLMs with Semantic Space Alignment for Enhanced Time Series Classification
Xiaoyu Tao, Tingyue Pan, Mingyue Cheng, Yucong Luo, Qi Liu, Enhong Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18686 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113367101100828901
- Fairness via Independence: A (Conditional) Distance Covariance Framework
Ruifan Huang, Haixia Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.00720 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113587817648503815
- Data for Mathematical Copilots: Better Ways of Presenting Proofs for Machine Learning
Simon Frieder, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.15184 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113683924322164777
- Pairwise Elimination with Instance-Dependent Guarantees for Bandits with Cost Subsidy
Ishank Juneja, Carlee Joe-Wong, Osman Ya\u{g}an
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10290 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113859392622871057
- Towards Human-Guided, Data-Centric LLM Co-Pilots
Evgeny Saveliev, Jiashuo Liu, Nabeel Seedat, Anders Boyd, Mihaela van der Schaar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10321 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113859392688054204
- Regularized Langevin Dynamics for Combinatorial Optimization
Shengyu Feng, Yiming Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00277
- Generating Samples to Probe Trained Models
Eren Mehmet K{\i}ral, Nur\c{s}en Ayd{\i}n, \c{S}. \.Ilker Birbil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06658 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113984059089245671
- On Agnostic PAC Learning in the Small Error Regime
Julian Asilis, Mikael M{\o}ller H{\o}gsgaard, Grigoris Velegkas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09496 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114000974082372598
- Preconditioned Inexact Stochastic ADMM for Deep Model
Shenglong Zhou, Ouya Wang, Ziyan Luo, Yongxu Zhu, Geoffrey Ye Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10784 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114023667639951005
- On the Effect of Sampling Diversity in Scaling LLM Inference
Wang, Liu, Chen, Light, Liu, Chen, Zhang, Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.11027 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114023688225233656
- How to use score-based diffusion in earth system science: A satellite nowcasting example
Randy J. Chase, Katherine Haynes, Lander Ver Hoef, Imme Ebert-Uphoff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10432 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114516300594057680
- PEAR: Equal Area Weather Forecasting on the Sphere
Hampus Linander, Christoffer Petersson, Daniel Persson, Jan E. Gerken
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17720 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114572963019603744
- Train Sparse Autoencoders Efficiently by Utilizing Features Correlation
Vadim Kurochkin, Yaroslav Aksenov, Daniil Laptev, Daniil Gavrilov, Nikita Balagansky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22255 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114589956040892075
- A Certified Unlearning Approach without Access to Source Data
Umit Yigit Basaran, Sk Miraj Ahmed, Amit Roy-Chowdhury, Basak Guler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06486 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114658421178857085
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Freedom for Animals has delved into the dark world of the bird of prey industry for a second time, to carry out a major new investigation as part of our Tether and Torment campaign.
This comes seven years after our landmark 2018 report first brought national attention to the hidden suffering behind the industry, and exposed the continuing welfare failures in UK bird of prey centres.

Tether and Torment 2
Undercover investigation into Bird of Prey Zoos in the UK. Read our new report, published 2025.

Just when you thought you’d seen it all… Space-time? No, space-crime!
https://www.kwch.com/2026/02/15/kansas-woman-sentenced-federal-prison-lying-law-enforcement-about-space-crime/

Kansas woman sentenced to federal prison for lying to law enforcement about space crime
The 51-year-old woman falsely claimed that her estranged spouse, a NASA astronaut, had illegally accessed her bank account while in space.

There’s definitely a hopeful feeling in having room to worry about Space Camp fundraising right now, instead of, say, ICE staging at the local Target parking lot yet again (with Target’s tacit blessing, damn them). It’s been quiet in the city these last few days. Fingers crossed.
Hopeful, but also melancholy: even if ICE does in fact draw down to pre-Dec levels, our “after” is not really going to come for a long time — and when it does, it will feel more like a scar than a sunrise.
/end

Rats suck.
I have a largish older (’48) brick house on a crawl space. I have a large brushy yard. I live in the Midwest. So of course I am a rat magnet.
This is the 2nd pack we’ve had in 25 years, so I guess that means we’ve been lucky. For an unknown period of time prior to last Winter the crawl had standing water deep enough that no self-respecting rat would have stayed. Last week we had a bag of snacks ripped open.
The guys from Critter Control have snap-trapped 3 so…

ONLINE SEMINAR: Nature and Boundaries: Water, Space, and the Sensory Experience of the Rus'-Steppe Frontier (1050s–1100s) https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20135270/online-seminar-nature-and-boundaries-water-spac…

Time for renewed #presentation
Hi, I'm Matteo. I'm Italian 🇮🇹, living abroad 🇪🇺. I'm a big space Nerd. Computer scientist with a PhD in Evolutionary Robotics.
I work in AAA #gamedev as a UI/UX engineer.

macOS is like "yeah we've got 100GB of Time Machine backups cached, but don't worry, if you need the space, we'll just delete them!"
Well, that was a lie.

from my link log —
Resizable arrays in optimal time and space.
https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~imunro/cs840/ResizableArrays.pdf
saved 2025-12-18 ht…

Lately I have spent more time bookmarking /podcasts episodes I don’t want to miss than actually listening to them !
https://rmendes.net/podroll/
https://

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#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
JARVIK: And so are you. But when was the last time you felt the warmth of the Earth's sun on your naked back? Or lifted your face to the heavens, and laughed with the joy of being alive? How long since you wept at the death of a friend? [Pause.] Doesn't mean a thing to you, does it, Madam President? You've surrounded your…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Pantha du Prince:
🎵 Supernova Space Time Drift
#PanthaduPrince
https://open.spotify.com/track/7AHAhgQaJSp7HvlN1YnD69

The first time I ever really felt at home, comfortable and safe, was in an anarchist space in Seattle called "The Wildcat." It only existed for a few months, maybe a year, after I found it. Since then I've found similar places here in Amsterdam, and other places.
I want these places to be as comfortable, as much of a refuge, for everyone as they have been for me. Part of that is acknowledging and addressing the things they make physical and organizing spaces hostile.

A second #planetesimal collision in the #Fomalhaut system: #Hubble Sees Asteroids Colliding at Nearby Star for First Time / Zerstörerische Kollisionen in einem jungen Planetensystem: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Hubble_sees_asteroids_colliding_around_nearby_star / https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-sees-asteroids-colliding-at-nearby-star-for-first-time/ / https://www.mpg.de/24356362/fomalhaut-staubwolken-durch-kollisionen

For ESA’s mission #Vigil to forecast dangerous space weather, #mpsgoettingen is providing one of the key instruments: Vigil's Photospheric Magnetic Field Imager. Read more about the instrument and the science we plan to do with it here:

Is it just me? Perhaps because I often have only one or two tabs open - I'm a compulsive tab closer. But the new UI in macOS Safari for handling tabs wastes space, is hard to use, and confuses me constantly about where the URL box is and such. I am unsure why it passed muster at product review time.
Perhaps it works well for others. But even if you always have more than one tab open, it still wastes vertical space.

Ocean impacts nearly double economic cost of climate change, study finds #ocean

Ocean impacts nearly double economic cost of climate change, study finds
For the first time, a study by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego integrates climate-related damages to the ocean into the social cost of carbon—a measure of economic harm caused by greenhouse gas emissions.

Increasing amounts of metal, such as lithium, as a byproduct of the modern-day space race, are beginning to alter the chemical composition of Earth’s atmosphere. 
Robin Wing, and his colleagues at the Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Rostock in Germany, measured a 10-fold concentration of lithium atoms in the upper atmosphere around 20 hours after the uncontrolled re-entry of a Falcon 9 rocket.
The findings are detailed in a new studypublished Thursda…

Study Confirms: Reentering SpaceX Rockets Are Peppering the Upper Atmosphere With Metal Pollution
For the first time, scientists were able to directly detect upper-atmospheric pollution from space debris.

Okay, a 64 GB /var/cache folder is too much. It's time to purge.
sudo paccache -rk 1
(disk space saved: 58.55 GiB)
Wow.
#ArchLinux

Time to harness the sun! ☀️🛰️
We are LIVE for today's 3D printing stream, and we're adding more solar arrays to the Tiangong space station model. Powering the space race, one layer at a time (and still running smooth on Linux, naturally 🐧).
Tune in to watch the model grow: 👇 https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus

Starcloud, which launched a satellite with a Nvidia H100 chip in November, says the satellite is running and querying responses from Google's Gemma (Pia Singh/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/10/nvidia-backed-starcloud-tr…

‘Greetings, earthlings’: Nvidia-backed Starcloud trains first AI model in space as orbital data center race heats up
The company's Starcloud-1 satellite is running Gemma, an open model from Google, marking the first time in history that an LLM has been trained in outer space.

The Alps set to lose a record number of glaciers in the next decade, study warns #Alps

The Alps set to lose a record number of glaciers in the next decade, study warns
Glaciers are melting worldwide. In some regions, they could even disappear completely. Looking at the number of glaciers disappearing, the Alps could reach their peak loss rate as early as 2033 to 2041. Depending on how sharply the planet warms, this period may mark a time when more glaciers vanish than ever before. Worldwide, the peak glacier loss rate will occur about ten years later and could rise from 2,000 to 4,000 glaciers lost each year.

Regularized Random Fourier Features and Finite Element Reconstruction for Operator Learning in Sobolev Space
Xinyue Yu, Hayden Schaeffer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17884 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.17884 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.17884
arXiv:2512.17884v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Operator learning is a data-driven approximation of mappings between infinite-dimensional function spaces, such as the solution operators of partial differential equations. Kernel-based operator learning can offer accurate, theoretically justified approximations that require less training than standard methods. However, they can become computationally prohibitive for large training sets and can be sensitive to noise. We propose a regularized random Fourier feature (RRFF) approach, coupled with a finite element reconstruction map (RRFF-FEM), for learning operators from noisy data. The method uses random features drawn from multivariate Student's $t$ distributions, together with frequency-weighted Tikhonov regularization that suppresses high-frequency noise. We establish high-probability bounds on the extreme singular values of the associated random feature matrix and show that when the number of features $N$ scales like $m \log m$ with the number of training samples $m$, the system is well-conditioned, which yields estimation and generalization guarantees. Detailed numerical experiments on benchmark PDE problems, including advection, Burgers', Darcy flow, Helmholtz, Navier-Stokes, and structural mechanics, demonstrate that RRFF and RRFF-FEM are robust to noise and achieve improved performance with reduced training time compared to the unregularized random feature model, while maintaining competitive accuracy relative to kernel and neural operator tests.
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Note to self: Do not run more than one space heater in the basement at the same time.
Congrats to self: The UPS for the home server was worth it.

Fuck off #Adobe #AdobeAcrobat.
Its an API specification overview. _Its ONLY NINE PAGES_.
Also what the crap is a "PDF Space" - keep your space germs away from my PDF.

Why does this shit make it into mass media as if it is anything to take seriously?
This is on exactly on the same level as Mayan-calendar apocalypse stuff.
Not only is it complete bullshit, it also takes away time and space from the actual issues with "AI", like widespread theft ripping off authors and artists, the largest investment bubble in history threatening the economy, even more aggregation of wealth in the hands of a few tech billionaires, the deskilling of people and the utter bankruptcy of education; just to name a few.

Just finished "The Raven Boys," a graphic novel adaptation of a novel by Maggie Stiefvater (adaptation written by Stephanie Williams and illustrated by Sas Milledge).
I haven't read the original novel, and because of that, this version felt way too dense, having to fit huge amounts of important details into not enough pages. The illustrations are gorgeous and the writing is fine; the setting and plot have some pretty interesting aspects... It's just too hard to follow a lot of the threads, or things we're supposed to care about aren't given the time/space to feel important.
The other thing that I didn't like: one of the central characters is rich, and we see this reflected in several ways, but we're clearly expected to ignore/excuse the class differences within the cast because he's a good guy. At this point in my life, I'm simply no longer interested in stories about good rich guys very much. It's become clear to me how in real life, we constantly get the perspectives of the rich, and rarely if ever hear the perspectives of the poor (same applies across racial and gender gradients, among others). Why then in fiction should I get more of the same, spending my mental bandwidth building empathy for yet another dilettante who somehow has a heart of gold? I'm tired of that.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Rams GM Les Snead to give Matthew Stafford 'space,' wants 'win-win' on Puka Nacua extension https://www.nfl.com/news/rams-gm-les-snead-give-matthew-stafford-space-win-win-puka-nacua

ONLINE SEMINAR: Nature and Boundaries: Water, Space, and the Sensory Experience of the Rus'-Steppe Frontier (1050s–1100s)
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Mining the Logs: Sources on Blue Humor URL …
via Input 4 RELCFP <…

‘The normal should be darkness’: why one Belgian national park is turning off ‘pointless’ streetlights https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/11/lights-belgian-park-lamps-light-polluted-night-time-environment-wi…

There's a real sense of expectation in this photo by @…. Like something is about to happen, or has just happened. Like a surrealist liminal space.

A polynomial-time algorithm for recognizing high-bandwidth graphs
Luis M. B. Varona
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01755 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.01755 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.01755
arXiv:2602.01755v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: An unweighted, undirected graph $G$ on $n$ nodes is said to have \emph{bandwidth} at most $k$ if its nodes can be labelled from $0$ to $n - 1$ such that no two adjacent nodes have labels that differ by more than $k$. It is known that one can decide whether the bandwidth of $G$ is at most $k$ in $O(n^k)$ time and $O(n^k)$ space using dynamic programming techniques. For small $k$ close to $0$, this approach is effectively polynomial, but as $k$ scales with $n$, it becomes superexponential, requiring up to $O(n^{n - 1})$ time (where $n - 1$ is the maximum possible bandwidth). In this paper, we reformulate the problem in terms of bipartite matching for sufficiently large $k \ge \lfloor (n - 1)/2 \rfloor$, allowing us to use Hall's marriage theorem to develop an algorithm that runs in $O(n^{n - k 1})$ time and $O(n)$ auxiliary space (beyond storage of the input graph). This yields polynomial complexity for large $k$ close to $n - 1$, demonstrating that the bandwidth recognition problem is solvable in polynomial time whenever either $k$ or $n - k$ remains small.
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Book Description
A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of "The Disordered Cosmos"
In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle physicist Dr. #Chanda #Prescod-

The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed de...

Ionospheric gradient estimation using ground-based GEO observations for monitoring multi-scale ionospheric dynamics: #Ionosphere in motion - a new way to track space weather in real time: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1110143

Half way through the Hoopla Improv Story narrative course and we actually attempt a couple of 20 minute stories.
One pretty confused one about a voyage to find unicorns which ended up about time-travellers due to mixups.
And one about the child of a missing astronaut seeking his father by joining a space mission.
Edits are what made the main difference here. Shouting "Cut to the jail" left half the players thinking they were in a flashback and the other half thinking they were in the consequences of the previous scene. Thus one ending up being a time-traveler.
A more coherent edit might have been "Flashback to jail", and these more coherent edits are key to what made the second story less chaotic and more whole. "Cut to the training test" or "Flashback to school where a teacher is impressed with the protagonist"
I like a game with a narrator. The narrator can give the story structure and theme and act as a director of the action. But we can do that without a narrator if the edits are well thought out and shouted clearly enough to keep the actors on the same track.
Mind you, the chaos is the funny bit usually.
#improv #hooplaImpro #london

H5N1 bird flu kills more than 50 skuas in first Antarctica wildlife die off #Antarctica

H5N1 bird flu kills more than 50 skuas in first Antarctica wildlife die off
For the first time, deadly H5N1 bird flu has been confirmed as the cause of a wildlife die-off in Antarctica, killing more than 50 skuas during the 2023–2024 summers. Researchers on an Antarctic expedition found the virus ravaging these powerful seabirds, with some suffering severe neurological symptoms—twisted necks, circling behavior, and even falling from the sky. While penguins and fur seals were examined, skuas emerged as the primary victims, especially on Beak Island, where a mass die…

I"m currently thinking a bit how I want to organise my stuff.
I noticed that for a long time I only managed my calendar through the Nextcloud interface.
Which lead to the following questions.
- What if I would carry all my data with me?
- How much disk space would I need?
- Or what if I would go back to manually syncing things?
- How does #localfirst lo…

Russia loses ability to send humans into space for first time in 60 years | Ukrainska Pravda
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/11/28/8009355/

Series A, Episode 08 - Duel
TRAVIS: This is hardly the time for that.
MUTOID: Normally I wouldn't do it in the presence of an unmodified.
TRAVIS: Forget your coyness, I'm aware of your need for blood serum.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/108/51 B7B5

OFERA: Blendshape-driven 3D Gaussian Control for Occluded Facial Expression to Realistic Avatars in VR
Seokhwan Yang, Boram Yoon, Seoyoung Kang, Hail Song, Woontack Woo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01748 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.01748 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.01748
arXiv:2602.01748v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We propose OFERA, a novel framework for real-time expression control of photorealistic Gaussian head avatars for VR headset users. Existing approaches attempt to recover occluded facial expressions using additional sensors or internal cameras, but sensor-based methods increase device weight and discomfort, while camera-based methods raise privacy concerns and suffer from limited access to raw data. To overcome these limitations, we leverage the blendshape signals provided by commercial VR headsets as expression inputs. Our framework consists of three key components: (1) Blendshape Distribution Alignment (BDA), which applies linear regression to align the headset-provided blendshape distribution to a canonical input space; (2) an Expression Parameter Mapper (EPM) that maps the aligned blendshape signals into an expression parameter space for controlling Gaussian head avatars; and (3) a Mapper-integrated Avatar (MiA) that incorporates EPM into the avatar learning process to ensure distributional consistency. Furthermore, OFERA establishes an end-to-end pipeline that senses and maps expressions, updates Gaussian avatars, and renders them in real-time within VR environments. We show that EPM outperforms existing mapping methods on quantitative metrics, and we demonstrate through a user study that the full OFERA framework enhances expression fidelity while preserving avatar realism. By enabling real-time and photorealistic avatar expression control, OFERA significantly improves telepresence in VR communication. A project page is available at https://ysshwan147.github.io/projects/ofera/.
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Seabirds ingest large quantities of pollutants—some of which have been banned for decades—liver analyses reveal https://phys.org/news/2026-02-seabirds-ingest-large-quantities-pollutants.html

Seabirds ingest large quantities of pollutants—some of which have been banned for decades—liver analyses reveal
In her 1962 book, "Silent Spring," American biologist Rachel Carson revealed that DDT, a widely used pesticide at the time, was responsible for the mass death of birds, including the iconic bald eagle. One reason was that the pesticide made eggshells thinner, causing mothers to break them when sitting on them to incubate. Silent Spring is considered the founding work of the modern environmental movement.

How does your work space look?
This is mine, before I have had time to make a mess. I like order and seem to be unable to uphold it for long. It just happens to be one of those things I never seem to be able to master.
I'm the chaos collector! And every now and then I have to throw out my collection and begin a new one. That's my excuse, and I am sticking with it!
What is yours? #writer

Transit system isn't reliable. Work space is limited and not enough parking...
Home office is better equipped.
https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/public-servants-offices-opinion

Half of the world's coral reefs suffered major bleaching during the 2014–2017 global heat wave, estimates suggest https://phys.org/news/2026-02-world-coral-reefs-major-global.html

Half of the world's coral reefs suffered major bleaching during the 2014–2017 global heat wave, estimates suggest
Benefits to society from coral reefs, including fisheries, tourism, coastal protection, pharmaceutical discovery and more, are estimated at about $9.8 trillion per year. For the first time, an international team led by Smithsonian researchers estimated the extent of coral bleaching worldwide during a global marine heat wave, finding that half of the world's reefs experienced significant damage. Another heat wave began in 2023 and is ongoing.

@… Biggest falsehood is non-breaking space. Any time I use it, something breaks.

As NASA moves closer to launch of the #Artemis II test flight, the agency soon will roll its #SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft to the launch pad for the first time at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin final integration, testing, and launch rehearsals: #VehicleAssemblyBuilding to Launch Pad 39B.

I was just thinking about how the fact that #Musk named his AI "Grok" is evidence that he "reads sci-fi" in the same way he "plays video games." Like, he claims to do it but when it comes time to show the evidence it's clear he does not actually "grok" it.
Like... To grok something is to have a layer deeper than simply knowledge, but mathematically encoding statistical relationships between words is pretty obviously not even understanding much less qualifying as "groking" it. In the book, the ability to grok something is also the ability to annihilate that thing with a thought. Just pretending that an LLM actually *was* something that could become AGI (which it's not), this name would imply the AI would have the power to annihilate reality. That's bad. That's a bad name for an AI.
And why would a greedy fascist name something of his after something an anarchist communist space Jesus taught to the hippie cult he started? There are so many layers of facepalm to this. It's some kind of php-esque fractal of incompetence.
Like, there's no reason to talk about this but my brain does this to me sometimes and now it's your problem.

Day spent prepping surfaces and hammering in insulation. Doesn't look like much, but it's fiddly work that takes time. The end is perilously nigh.
Then I have to actually DO something with the space 😱

the wind in a tree playing with the sunlight on a Begonia
#photography #bloomScrolling #begonia #orange

Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based telescopes, astrophysicists have for the first time found firm evidence that a companion is disrupting the atmosphere of Betelgeuse.
Like a boat moving through water, the companion star creates a ripple effect in Betelgeuse’s atmosphere.
Astronomers now see direct signs of this wake, confirming that Betelgeuse really does have a hidden companion shaping its appearance and behavior.

NASA Hubble Helps Detect 'Wake' of Betelgeuse’s Elusive Companion Star

A Greenland glacier is cracking open in real time #Greenland

A Greenland glacier is cracking open in real time
A meltwater lake that formed in the mid-1990s on Greenland’s 79°N Glacier has been draining in sudden, dramatic bursts through cracks and vertical ice shafts. These events have accelerated in recent years, creating strange triangular fracture patterns and flooding the glacier’s base with water in just hours. Some drainages even pushed the ice upward from below, like a blister forming under the glacier. Scientists now wonder whether the glacier can ever return to its previous seasonal rhyth…

Read "Revelation Space" by Alastair Reynolds, a story about some future space people investigating the demise of an extinct civilization.
Some of the people are software uploads or implants in other people's brains, or infectious biological agents and things.
The story is galactic in scale across time and space with good world building, a good tale weaving of elements together.
I liked the scene where the woman falling to her death in a lift-shaft remembered she was on a space-ship which only had gravity coz of engine thrust, so saved herself turning the engines off with a wrist controller.
Trouble is I came to it infrequently with long gaps and so struggled to keep track of what's going on quite a bit. Lots of different elements to keep track of.
My fault, should try and concentrate harder and remember things.
#reading #books #novel #alastairReynolds #revelationSpace

Replaced article(s) found for physics.ins-det. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.ins-det/new
[1/1]:
- Frequency domain laser ultrasound for inertial confinement fusion target wall thickness measurements
Martin Ryzy, Guqi Yan, Clemens Gr\"unsteidl, Georg Watzl, Kevin Sequoia, Pavel Lapa, Haibo Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15997 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsinsdet_bot/115411462164784635
- Performance study of 4-MU-loaded water for Cherenkov light detection
Pendo B. Nyanda, Gowoon Kim, Youngduk Kim, Kyungmin Seo, Jaison Lee, Olga Gileva, Eungseok Yi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.03989 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsinsdet_bot/115507625334754650
- Design and Performance of a 96-channel Resistive PICOSEC Micromegas Detector for ENUBET
A. Kallitsopoulou, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05589 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsinsdet_bot/115683123547651781
- Quantitative mobile gamma-ray spectrometry through Bayesian inference
David Breitenmoser, Alberto Stabilini, Malgorzata Magdalena Kasprzak, Sabine Mayer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18769 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsinsdet_bot/115768012810833326
- Neutron multiplicity measurement in muon capture on oxygen nuclei in the Gd-loaded Super-Kamiokan...
Kamiokande Collaboration, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17002 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hepex_bot/114063427901532394
- Monte Carlo simulation of the ISOLPHARM gamma camera for Ag-111 imaging
D. Serafini, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20112 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsmedph_bot/114080420857311942
- Performance and radiation damage mitigation strategy for silicon photomultipliers on LEO space mi...
L. Burmistrov, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00532 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hepex_bot/114103061208888723
- Predicting the single-site and multi-site event discrimination power of dual-phase time projectio...
Sazzad, Hardy, Dai, Xu, Lenardo, Sutanto, Antipa, Koertzen, John, Akinin, Pershing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02258 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hepex_bot/115309574340832888
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#LittleRedDot variability over a century reveals black hole envelope via a giant Einstein cross: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05180 -> One image tracks the same cosmic object across space and time. It's all down to a strange quirk of physics: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/rxc-j2211-0350-little-red-dots

Replaced article(s) found for cs.DS. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DS/new
[1/1]:
- Fully Dynamic Adversarially Robust Correlation Clustering in Polylogarithmic Update Time
Vladimir Braverman, Prathamesh Dharangutte, Shreyas Pai, Vihan Shah, Chen Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09979 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/113502653187863544
- A Simple and Combinatorial Approach to Proving Chernoff Bounds and Their Generalizations
William Kuszmaul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03488 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/113791396712128907
- The Structural Complexity of Matrix-Vector Multiplication
Emile Anand, Jan van den Brand, Rose McCarty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.21240 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/114097340825270885
- Clustering under Constraints: Efficient Parameterized Approximation Schemes
Sujoy Bhore, Ameet Gadekar, Tanmay Inamdar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06980 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/114312444050875805
- Minimizing Envy and Maximizing Happiness in Graphical House Allocation
Anubhav Dhar, Ashlesha Hota, Palash Dey, Sudeshna Kolay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00296 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/114437013364446063
- Fast and Simple Densest Subgraph with Predictions
Thai Bui, Luan Nguyen, Hoa T. Vu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12600 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/114538936921930134
- Compressing Suffix Trees by Path Decompositions
Becker, Cenzato, Gagie, Kim, Koerkamp, Manzini, Prezza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14734 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/114703384646892523
- Improved sampling algorithms and functional inequalities for non-log-concave distributions
Yuchen He, Zhehan Lei, Jianan Shao, Chihao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11236 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/114862112197588124
- Deterministic Lower Bounds for $k$-Edge Connectivity in the Distributed Sketching Model
Peter Robinson, Ming Ming Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11257 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/114862223634372292
- Optimally detecting uniformly-distributed $\ell_2$ heavy hitters in data streams
Santhoshini Velusamy, Huacheng Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07286 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/115178875220889588
- Uncrossed Multiflows and Applications to Disjoint Paths
Chandra Chekuri, Guyslain Naves, Joseph Poremba, F. Bruce Shepherd
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.00254 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/115490402963680492
- Dynamic Matroids: Base Packing and Covering
Tijn de Vos, Mara Grilnberger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15460 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/115580946319285096
- Branch-width of connectivity functions is fixed-parameter tractable
Tuukka Korhonen, Sang-il Oum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.04756 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/115864074799755995
- CoinPress: Practical Private Mean and Covariance Estimation
Sourav Biswas, Yihe Dong, Gautam Kamath, Jonathan Ullman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06618
- The Ideal Membership Problem and Abelian Groups
Andrei A. Bulatov, Akbar Rafiey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.05218
- Bridging Classical and Quantum: Group-Theoretic Approach to Quantum Circuit Simulation
Daksh Shami
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.19575 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/112874282709517475
- Young domination on Hamming rectangles
Janko Gravner, Matja\v{z} Krnc, Martin Milani\v{c}, Jean-Florent Raymond
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03788 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathCO_bot/113791421814248215
- On the Space Complexity of Online Convolution
Joel Daniel Andersson, Amir Yehudayoff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00181 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCC_bot/114437005955255553
- Universal Solvability for Robot Motion Planning on Graphs
Anubhav Dhar, Pranav Nyati, Tanishq Prasad, Ashlesha Hota, Sudeshna Kolay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18755 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCC_bot/114737342714568702
- Colorful Minors
Evangelos Protopapas, Dimitrios M. Thilikos, Sebastian Wiederrecht
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10467
- Learning fermionic linear optics with Heisenberg scaling and physical operations
Aria Christensen, Andrew Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05058
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Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
CALLY: I want you back here. Get ready to teleport.
VILA: Wasting your time, Cally. I'm not wearing a bracelet. I'm not going to be snatched away in the middle of...in the middle of anything. Sightseeing. And you should see some of the sights I'm seeing. No. Perhaps you shouldn't.
https://

You should spend as much money as possible at Amazon because it helps fund Blue Origin and Blue Origin stands the best chance of eliminating up to 6 worthless space tourists at a time with each launch

Today, Vandenberg Spaceforce Base is best known for the booming SpaceX launches that send satellites into orbit.
But once upon a time, it was a hotbed for UFO sightings, quietly logged by the military.
This year, those sightings resurfaced.
Details of extraterrestrial encounters on the Central Coast were discussed in government hearings and explored in the newly released documentary
"The Age of Disclosure" (2025).
The film features government inside…

In New Doc ‘The Age of Disclosure,’ Military Servicemen Expose More Details About UFOs at Vandenberg
Depending on who you ask — and what you’re willing to believe — aliens are real. And they’ve visited Vandenberg Space Force Base in Lompoc more than once.

RE: #redshift measured spectroscopically hailed in this press release as well as in https://esawebb.org/news/weic2603/ and https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_gazes_further_back_in_time has been published in May 2025 as https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11263 (appearing on ArXiv counts as a publication in today's academic landscape) and made some headlines then, including by yours truly: https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2025/05/18/resiliences-mond-punch-fur-alle-pslv-versagt/ ("Neuer spektroskopischer Rotverschiebungs-Rekord: z=14.44").

Speak up for our oceans! #Canada #ocean

Our ocean needs you to speak up!
Our ocean is under severe threat from climate change and biodiversity loss. It's time to act!

Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
JENNA: All right. [walks toward the passage off Liberator flight deck, then stops]
BLAKE: Problem?
JENNA: Putting out a false distress signal. It's a trick used by space pirates.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/60 B7B4

MIT study shows high-fat diets give liver cancer a dangerous head start #nutrition

MIT study shows high-fat diets give liver cancer a dangerous head start
A high-fat diet does more than overload the liver with fat. New research from MIT shows that prolonged exposure to fatty foods can push liver cells into a survival mode that quietly raises the risk of cancer. Faced with ongoing metabolic stress, these cells abandon their normal roles and revert to a more primitive state that helps them endure harsh conditions. Over time, that shift leaves the liver less functional and far more vulnerable to tumor formation, helping explain why fatty liver disea…

The first detection of cosmic-ray excited H2 in #interstellar space: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20168 -> Cosmic Radiation Brought to Light: https://www.uni-due.de/2026-02-03-first-time-measurement-of-ionisation-in-dark-cloud

Caribbean heat waves intensify over five decades, study finds #Caribbea

Caribbean heat waves intensify over five decades, study finds
A new study led by climatologists at the University at Albany has found that extreme heat waves across the Caribbean are becoming significantly more frequent, longer and severe. This study examined extreme summer heat waves in the Caribbean over the last five decades, focusing on their causes and how they have changed over time.

Minnesota's brief asserts that federal agents left the scene several hrs after the shooting,
“allowing the perimeter to collapse and potentially spoiling evidence,”
a “sharp departure from normal best practices” that may’ve “directly led to the destruction of evidence.”
https://

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.DS. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DS/new
[1/1]:
- A Fault-Tolerant Version of Safra's Termination Detection Algorithm
Wan Fokkink, Georgios Karlos, Andy Tatman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00272 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDC_bot/116005743114928343
- Non-Clashing Teaching in Graphs: Algorithms, Complexity, and Bounds
Sujoy Bhore, Liana Khazaliya, Fionn Mc Inerney
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00657 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCC_bot/116005533092908045
- Sublinear Time Quantum Algorithm for Attention Approximation
Zhao Song, Jianfei Xue, Jiahao Zhang, Lichen Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00874 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/116006587128552159
- Hallucination is a Consequence of Space-Optimality: A Rate-Distortion Theorem for Membership Testing
Anxin Guo, Jingwei Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00906 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116006973804501595
- Counting Unit Circular Arc Intersections
Haitao Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01074 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCG_bot/116005535191670040
- Profit Maximization in Closed Social Networks
Poonam Sharma, Suman Banerjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01232 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSI_bot/116005691056225955
- Totally $\Delta$-Modular Tree Decompositions of Graphic Matrices for Integer Programming
Caleb McFarland
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01499 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathCO_bot/116006381339684193
- Finite and Corruption-Robust Regret Bounds in Online Inverse Linear Optimization under M-Convex A...
Taihei Oki, Shinsaku Sakaue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01682 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116007186801693076
- Stable Matching with Predictions: Robustness and Efficiency under Pruned Preferences
Samuel McCauley, Benjamin Moseley, Helia Niaparast, Shikha Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02254 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGT_bot/116005915605630934
- Deciding Reachability and the Covering Problem with Diagnostics for Sound Acyclic Free-Choice Wor...
Thomas M. Prinz, Christopher T. Schwanen, Wil M. P. van der Aalst
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02447 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csFL_bot/116005733006023408
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Hey Generous Folks -- I wanted to put a message up for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. #16DaysAgainstGBV #16Days
Rather than an ask for donations, I want to encourage you to find your local spaces in your own community that help women and people of all genders who are fleeing gender based violence or intimate partner violence.
Maybe *you* can raise a few dollars, volunteer at a local space, or help out in other ways. Maybe you've never done that. It might seem scary! I guarantee you, you'll love it. Whether you raise $50 or $500, or nothing at all, by becoming part of it, you'll make a difference
I'm signing up, as I have for a few years now, for another year at Coldest Night of the Year (#IntimatePartnerViolence #Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli

US forests store record carbon as natural and human factors combine #UnitedStates …

US forests store record carbon as natural and human factors combine
U.S. forests have stored more carbon in the past two decades than at any time in the last century, an increase attributable to a mix of natural factors and human activity, finds a new study.

ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration is seeking contractors to help it overhaul the United States’ immigrant detention system
in a plan that includes renovating industrial warehouses to hold more than 80,000 immigrant detainees at a time,
according to a draft solicitation reviewed by The Washington Post.

Rather than shuttling detainees around the country to wherever detention space is available, as happens now, …

ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.

Weather tracker: Cyclone Fytia in Madagascar kills several people and floods homes https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/02/weather-tracker-cyclone-fytia-madagascar-floods

It's Time To End Animal Cruelty #AnimalRights