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Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that U.S. Space Command will be located in Alabama,
reversing a Biden-era decision to keep it at its temporary headquarters in Colorado.
The long-expected decision from Trump caps a four-year tug of war between two states and opposing administrations about where to locate U.S. Space Command,
an intense fight because the headquarters would be a significant boon to the local economy.
Alabama and Colorado have long battled to claim Space…

Trump will announce Space Command moves from Colorado to Alabama
President Donald Trump’s administration will announce U.S. Space Command will be located in Alabama, reversing a Biden-era decision to keep it at its temporary headquarters in Colorado. That's according to two people familiar with the announcement. The people say Trump is expected to speak Tuesday afternoon and will give the new location. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to confirm the plans ahead of the official announcement. A Pentagon website set up to livestream the remarks …

Noticed the SVG spec saves me from having to jump through hoops fixing an implementation detail. Phew. Thank goodness. 😅
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16890292/why-nest-an-svg-element-inside-another-svg-element

Why nest an
Why would a demo such as this: http://jsbin.com/ejorus/2/edit, have an

🍸 'Super alcohol' created in space-like lab reveals cosmic secrets
#chemistry

'Super alcohol' created in space-like lab reveals cosmic secrets
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers in the Department of Chemistry have created a molecule once thought too unstable to exist called methanetetrol using extreme, space-like conditions. The discovery could reshape our understanding of chemistry in the universe and shed light on the complex reactions happening in deep space.

Emotional speech by Zelenskyy – Ukraine exists and will remain on this land! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/01/emotional-speech-by-zelenskyy-ukraine.html

Optimizing Speech Language Models for Acoustic Consistency
Morteza Rohanian, Michael Krauthammer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26276 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Optimizing Speech Language Models for Acoustic Consistency
We study speech language models that incorporate semantic initialization and planning losses to achieve robust and consistent generation. Our approach initializes speech tokens with self-supervised features, applies a light alignment loss, and trains with thinning and auxiliary objectives that target robustness and content planning. We train three models: a 0.7B speech-only model, a 1.0B speech-only model, and a 1.0B interleaved model with both text and speech. Acoustic studies show that the sp…

Reference-free automatic speech severity evaluation using acoustic unit language modelling
Bence Mark Halpern, Tomoki Toda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00639 https://

Reference-free automatic speech severity evaluation using acoustic unit language modelling
Speech severity evaluation is becoming increasingly important as the economic burden of speech disorders grows. Current speech severity models often struggle with generalization, learning dataset-specific acoustic cues rather than meaningful correlates of speech severity. Furthermore, many models require reference speech or a transcript, limiting their applicability in ecologically valid scenarios, such as spontaneous speech evaluation. Previous research indicated that automatic speech naturaln…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Spooks:
🎵 Things I've Seen
#NowPlaying #Spooks
https://mattprehn.bandcamp.com/track/the-spooks-things-ive-seen-matt-prehn-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/673OnqT7JuOTkxyfa0BT0t

❝ Move slow and feel things ❞
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https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/115294036465862708

All eyes on #3I/ATLAS ☄️
Our Mars Express & ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter will observe the comet around its closest approach to Mars on 3 October 2025, when 3I/ATLAS will be around 30 million km from the red planet.

ESA observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
The European Space Agency (ESA) reacted promptly to the discovery of comet 3I/ATLAS on 1 July 2025. Soon after they were alerted to its existence by automated detection systems, ESA astronomers began using ground-based telescopes in Hawaii, Chile, and Australia to monitor its progress.Since then, the comet has been observed by space telescopes close to Earth, including the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope.In the coming months, ESA will turn interp…