Tootfinder

Weather station working again 😀 https://tempestwx.com/station/33047
https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws

Time to continue my #rail travel stories. It's a few years since I was at the seaside last, since the travel's too long for me now. Before, I used to visit Świnoujście and Kołobrzeg a few times. The route to Kołobrzeg is quite straight, whereas Świnoujście gets interesting because of Szczecin on the way there.
So over all these years, using regional Poznań – Świnoujście trains, I've made all these variations:
• a direct train that reversed on Szczecin Główny station (i.e. the main station in Szczecin)
• a direct train, except that I got off at Szczecin Dąbie to stretch my legs, and then entered the same train 40 minutes later as it stopped at the same station again
• a direct train that passed through Główny and used a roundabout track to reverse
• a direct train, except that I got off at the first stop at Szczecin Dąbie, and changed trains to "Błękitny" that went faster from Szczecin to Świnoujście
• the "Orkan" train that used the rail bypass to go straight from Szczecin Zdunowo to Szczecin Załom, and skip all the other Szczecins (except I only went as far as Goleniów back then)

In an email sent out to PBS station managers on Wednesday,
PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger announced that the organization plans to cut its budget by 21 percent
in order to offset some of the financial damage being caused by the Trump administration’s campaign to stop public media from receiving federal funding that was originally distributed by the CPB.
Because of the recently passed bill, PBS, NPR, and all of both organizations’ affiliates will no longer receive the $…

PBS is slashing its budget in response to Trump’s attack on public media
PBS plans to cut its budget by 21 percent as it braces for the financial fallout caused by Trump dismantling the CPB.

Ukrainian drones hit key rail hub in Russia's Voronezh Oblast, HUR says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/17/ukrainian-drones-hit-key-rail.html

"Traditionally…country that illegally invades another country & carries out war crimes is held responsible legally & financially for these actions. Trying war criminals & requiring aggressor states to pay reparations are…traditional…is expected…countries return their armed forces to within…own borders…entirely normal…for Ukraine’s allies to station troops on Ukrainian territory…entirely traditional measures…not startling new developments."

Common Sense about Negotiations
For Americans about Ukraine

A map of areas at risk of losing public radio and TV access due to CPB cuts and a chart of the average share of station funding from federal sources by state (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/07/18/business/media/house-…

Where Congress’s Cuts Threaten Access to PBS and NPR
The loss of federal funding threatens scores of public TV and radio stations across the United States.

#SchleswigHolstein, #Kiel und die Welt, ich finde von diesem radkulturellen Highight solltet ihr wissen.
Ich wusste es noch nicht und hab dummerweise meinen Samstag in Bremen verplant.
#Sprottenflotte

'Deliberate Indifference': Oregon Cop Left Dying Man Inside Patrol Car to Go Inside Police Station to Watch TikToks and Send Intimate Texts About ‘Snuggles,’ Federal Lawsuit Alleges
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/08/17/oregon-cop-left-dying-man-inside-patrol-car/

Efficient Remote Monitoring through Noisy Random Access with Retransmissions
Sergey Foss, Dmitriy Kim, Andrey Turlikov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12368 htt…

Efficient Remote Monitoring through Noisy Random Access with Retransmissions
We consider a rare event monitoring system consisting of a set of devices and a base station, where devices transmit information about rare events to the base station using a random multiple access scheme. We introduce a model in which the presence of noise in the multiple access channel can cause message loss even in the absence of transmission collisions. The occurrence of events is modeled by a family of independent two-state Markov chains (with states 0 and 1). We analyze how repeated trans…

A can of Summit Red Thunder from Aldi's is $0.80 and a can of comparable Red Bull from the gas station down the street is $4 per can. The cheap stuff tastes good and I don't really see a purpose to buying the expensive stuff (beyond the fact that they sell it cold). 🤷‍♂️

Read all about Chatcontrol and why we should resist it. This sentence is extremely scary.... "Specifically, this AI will have to be built by WhatsApp/Meta so they can monitor us on behalf of the EU" 😱
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/chatcontrol-in-brief/

Chatcontrol 2025 edition in Brief - Bert Hubert's writings
In short, led by Denmark, many EU member states are arguing for forcing WhatsApp/Signal/etc to inspect all our photos and links, using AI. If the AI is in any “doubt” if this might be child pornography, your photo, location, phone number & other details get reported to Europol and a local police force. What happens next is not specified, but your holiday in Cyprus might end up with you having to explain your photos over at the local police station.

If there's a shooting in your apartment building, would you feel helped if your building were razed in response? When there's a shooting a block from a police station, do we destroy the whole block including the police station? Whatever Frey's excuse of the moment for destroying the makeshift homes of unhoused people, it is collective punishment— of the victims no less.
(Comment posted on @…

RIP Marilyn Hagerty, Great and Humble Chronicler of Upper Midwestern Eats - Racket
Plus south Minneapolis mass shootings, DJ calls for Saloon boycott, and a Robert Redford local angle in today's Flyover news roundup.

Paris Gard du Nord Train Station Afternoon Piano (2023-09) - Ambient busy big city train station with a talented chap tickling the public piano. #fieldRecording #travel #Paris -

Paris Gard du Nord Train Station Afternoon Piano (2023-09)
Ambient busy big city train station with a talented chap tickling the public piano. #fieldRecording #travel #Paris

Cities are fighting rising temperatures with tree-planting initiatives to combat urban heat islands and improve air quality. A practical and effective climate solution. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Officials launch ambitious 5-year plan to fight dangerous impacts of soaring temperatures: 'A great strategy'
College Station is launching a 5-year plan to fight urban heat — and it's all about planting more trees.

Finite dominating sets for the refueling station location problem in fleet operations
Moddassir Khan Nayeem, Fuhad Ahmed Opu, Omar Abbaas, Sara Abu-Aridah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11441

Finite dominating sets for the refueling station location problem in fleet operations
This study considers a set of routes used by public transportation vehicles and dedicated distribution fleets in a general network. We aim to optimally locate alternative fuel refueling stations in the network to serve these dedicated routes. Deviations from prescribed routes for refueling purposes are allowed. Unlike most related literature, our approach considers all points in the network as candidate refueling station locations. We derive coverage constraints for any candidate location to se…

Cowboys vs. Giants radio coverage: Station, channel, streaming to listen live to NFL Week 2 game broadcast https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/cowboys-giants-radio-coverage-station-channels-streaming-listen…

First Toronto bike share dock was installed east of the 404 and north of the 401 on #Sheppard and Brian Drive. Technically #NorthYork but essentially first station in North #Scarborough

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 02 - Power
ORAC: No, unless directed by an outside agency, matter transmuted to energy will merely dissipate at random.
VILA: [Indicating teleport area] Could this have done it without us knowing?
https://

A news station, real enough for the US DoD to have someone on it, was knowingly using Grok-generated images without labelling them as such.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/15/media/oan-gaetz-ai-images-women-military-kingsley-wilson

A Trump-favored MAGA network praised an increase in women soldiers. Its images were fake
The images of female soldiers appear to have been generated using Elon Musk’s Grok.

1/2 Thanks to @… for this interesting article. It speaks to me. :)
I’ve been weather blogging @… since 2005. It is interesting how it has changed, and how I have changed.
My website used to be just data from the (expensive) station I bought when I moved back to Port Alberni. It was a hobby and a side project to practice web/coding skills I use at work. My focus was on creating useful data for people that was more local/relevant than the official EC station outside of the city.
Then I put up a webcam and learned how to make timelapses. This got the attention of local media… because pictures. :)
Then I added a blog and started to write about the weather almost daily. This was before Facebook. There was a popular local online forum where I would post things. The media would also follow my website and they started to call me when there was extreme weather (usually very hot or very wet/stormy).
Then Facebook started to get big and I made a page that eventually had a few thousand followers. I would blog often. Lots of traffic from Facebook… this was 2010 and on. I blogged about climate and weather pretty equally.
Like anyone in Port Alberni, I was/am obsessed with the Martin Mars and got wrapped up in that issue along with others which combined with the weather following probably gave me just enough exposure to have me elected as a councillor in 2014.
I continued through that 4 years, blogging often in addition to councillor duties and work, heavily on facebook, then it all went sideways on my own poor judgement (go ahead and google it, it’s ok :)) and I was not reelected, but Facebook by 2018 had also changed. Cambridge Analytica, etc.
….Continued…
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-weather-apps-data-wildfires-storms-preparation-obsession-social-media/

From fantasy to science, all in one stream! Join me as I explore Middle-earth in LOTRO while 3D printing the legendary Tiangong-1 Space Station. The only thing better than an epic quest is a real-life space build. #LOTRO #3DPrinting

Travaux : pour rejoindre Gabriel Péri, empruntez le métro 13 puis descendre Š la station Les Agnettes puis le bus de substitution M13 sur place.
🤖 17/07 16:35

#Spearhead's #MichaelFranti played a concert last night at #SDSU as online rumblings grew about allegations from a female artist casting some unusually dark shadows over the positive vibes associated with ex-

Ukrainian drones hit Liski rail hub in Russia’s Voronezh region, halting train traffic: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/17/ukrainian-drones-hit-liski-rail.html

"Gas stations are America's accidental museums-fluorescent-lit shrines to kitsch, camp, and chaotic consumerism. Exploring gas station merchandise through art becomes a way to examine the surreal poetry of the roadside: airbrushed wolves on velvet, rhinestone trucker hats, Jesus candles, lottery tickets, and beef jerky side by side like some late capitalist still life. These one-stop culture convergence points are where regional identity, mass production, nostalgia, and irony collid…

Fairfax County expands its bikeshare network to 94 stations, with more to come. While Montgomery County has been shrinking its 77-station network, despite having urbanized areas more conducive to bikeshare use than anywhere in Fairfax. https://www.ffxnow.com/2025/08/08/capit…

Capital Bikeshare expands to Herndon area, Huntington Metro station | FFXnow

We just got about an inch or so of pea-sized hail in our neighborhood, and just over 1/2 inch of measured precip on my weather station at a rate of just under 2 inch/hour. That counts as a deluge in the high desert where we are in northern Colorado.

We're happy to see an official Muni sign at Church/Duboce replace our community-installed one after 3 years! They even reused our mounting hardware 🥺 Make your own sign at https://munisign.org

Imaginary dialog:
"Excuse me, where is the train station?"
"It's these unmarked doors between the barber shop and the driving school."
#Głogów, #Poland.
#rail

Nexstar and Sinclair, who said they'd preempt Kimmel, are lobbying the FCC over regulatory issues; Nexstar needs FCC approval for its $6.2B Tegna acquisition (Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/09/nexstar-jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk-1236547382/

Nexstar’s Decision To Drop Jimmy Kimmel’s Show From Its ABC Stations Indefinitely Comes As It Seeks FCC Approval For Major Merger — Update
The station group is seeking FCC approval of a major merger.

Near-Field Variable-Width Beam Coverage and Codebook Design for XL-RIS
Yida Zhang, Qiuyan Liu, Qiang Wang, Hongtao Luo, Yuqi Xia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11178 https://…

Near-Field Variable-Width Beam Coverage and Codebook Design for XL-RIS
To mitigate the issue of limited base station coverage caused by severe high-frequency electromagnetic wave attenuation, Extremely Large Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (XL-RIS) has garnered significant attention due to its high beam gain. However, XL-RIS exhibits a narrower beam width compared to traditional RIS, which increases the complexity of beam alignment and broadcast. To address this problem, we propose a variable-width beam generation algorithm under the near-field assumption and a…

Je n'aurais jamais imaginé que la STM baptiserait une station de métro en honneur de Mary Two-Axe Earley.
Texte d'Isabelle Picard paru dans la Presse sur cette militante des droits des femmes des Premières Nations au Canada.
https://www.lapresse.ca/dialog…

Bienvenue à la station Mary-Two-Axe-Earley
La Société de transport de Montréal a dévoilé mardi matin le nom des futures stations du prolongement de la ligne bleue du métro de Montréal.

If You Give a Writer a Weather Station…
New toy. Tree fall down go boom. And a road trip next week.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/if-you-give-a-writer-a-weather-station/

If You Give a Writer a Weather Station... – Bob Mueller
You know how if you give a mouse a cookie, they'll probably want a glass of milk to go with it? It felt like I had one of those days today.

Automatic Network Planning with Digital Radio Twin
Xiaomeng Li, Yuru Zhang, Qiang Liu, Mehmet Can Vuran, Nathan Huynh, Li Zhao, Mizan Rahman, Eren Erman Ozguven
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12441

Automatic Network Planning with Digital Radio Twin
Network planning seeks to determine base station parameters that maximize coverage and capacity in cellular networks. However, achieving optimal planning remains challenging due to the diversity of deployment scenarios and the significant simulation-to-reality discrepancy. In this paper, we propose \emph{AutoPlan}, a new automatic network planning framework by leveraging digital radio twin (DRT) techniques. We derive the DRT by finetuning the parameters of building materials to reduce the sim-t…

Joint Price and Power MPC for Peak Power Reduction at Workplace EV Charging Stations
Thibaud Cambronne, Samuel Bobick, Wente Zeng, Scott Moura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12703

Joint Price and Power MPC for Peak Power Reduction at Workplace EV Charging Stations
Demand charge often constitutes a significant portion of electricity costs for commercial electric vehicle charging station operators. This paper explores control methods to reduce peak power consumption at workplace EV charging stations in a joint price and power optimization framework. We optimize a menu of price options to incentivize users to select controllable charging service. Using this framework, we propose several solutions to achieve a reduction in both demand charge and overall oper…

We're used to hearing pianos in public spaces - London Bridge Station has a minimalist organ!

From Bill McKibben
America: A (Fracked) Gas Station With Nukes
One part of the Trump plot to wreck America gets clearer
https://open.substack.com/pub/billmckibben/p/america-a-fracked-gas-station-with?utm_campa…

America: A (Fracked) Gas Station With Nukes
One part of the Trump plot to wreck America gets clearer

The deployment of a geomagnetic variometer station as auxiliary instrumentation for the study of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
Foteini Vervelidou, Alex Delacroix, Laura Domine, Ezra Kelderman, Sarah Little, Abraham Loeb, Eric Masson, Wes A. Watters, Abigail White
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11355

The deployment of a geomagnetic variometer station as auxiliary instrumentation for the study of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
Witness reports of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) occasionally associate UAP sightings with local electromagnetic interferences, such as spinning magnetic compasses onboard aircraft or sudden malfunctions of mechanical vehicles. These reports have motivated the incorporation of a magnetometer into the instrumentation suite of the Galileo Project (GP), a Harvard-led scientific collaboration whose aim is to collect and analyze multi-sensor data that collectively could help elucidate the natu…

Radio detection of Cosmic Rays with the IceCube Surface Array Enhancement
Megha Venugopal (for the IceCube Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13033 https://

Radio detection of Cosmic Rays with the IceCube Surface Array Enhancement
The surface array of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, IceTop, measures cosmic rays in the PeV-EeV primary energy range. Stations comprising radio antennas and scintillation detectors will be added to enhance the existing surface detectors. A prototype station, consisting of eight scintillation detectors and three radio antennas, has been in operation in with the instrumentation in final design since the beginning of 2023. Radio signals from air showers are measured by antennas that are read-ou…

Apple time!

Series D, Episode 02 - Power
VILA: What happened to the transceiver?
ORAC: It is no longer functioning.
TARRANT: Yes, but why?
ORAC: There is a seventy two percent probability that it was damaged by a hostile agency.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/402/34 B7B3

Climate Station ausprobiert: Mit PSVR 2 durch die Klimageschichte
Sonys kostenlose PS5-App "Climate Station" visualisiert den Klimawandel. Wir haben sie ausprobiert und klären, welchen Mehrwert Playstation VR 2 bringt.

Electric ferry ⛴️ ⚡ for the win.
#Vestmannaeyjar #Heimaey

Uit de oude doos: het station van Groningen in 1927
https://gic.nl/nieuws/uit-de-oude-doos-het-station-van-groningen-in-1927

Cooperative Base Station Assignment and Resource Allocation for 6G ISAC Network
Jiajia Liao, Luping Xiang, Shida Zhong, Lixia Xiao, Haochen Liu, Kun Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10240

Cooperative Base Station Assignment and Resource Allocation for 6G ISAC Network
In the upcoming 6G networks, integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) will be able to provide a performance boost in both perception and wireless connectivity. This paper considers a multiple base station (BS) architecture to support the comprehensive services of data transmission and multi-target sensing. In this context, a cooperative BS assignment and resource allocation (CBARA) strategy is proposed in this paper, aiming at jointly optimizing the communication and sensing (C&S) performan…

Okay why is link light rail frequency at 2pm on a weekday higher than the nyc F train??
That was an 8 min wait at Roosevelt station, and at Queenbridge during the day I'm often waiting 13 mins!

U-Bahnhof Gesundbrunnen

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: SUI UZI (8) Luanmer (5) Strawberry Station (4) Tanuki (4) サクラSakura-Lee (4). #myweekcounted 97 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

Optimizing Rate-CRB Performance for Beyond Diagonal Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Enabled ISAC
Xiaoqi Zhang, Liang Liu, Shuowen Zhang, Weifeng Zhu, Haijun Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11295

Optimizing Rate-CRB Performance for Beyond Diagonal Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Enabled ISAC
This letter considers a beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surface (BD-RIS) aided integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where the BD-RIS can help a multi-antenna base station (BS) serve multiple user equipments (UEs) and localize a target simultaneously. We formulate an optimization problem that designs the BS beamforming matrix and the BD-RIS scattering matrix to maximize UEs' sum rate subject to a localization Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) constraint and an additional unitary m…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SoundsOfSurvivance
Karen Dalton:
🎵 In a Station
#KarenDalton
https://karendalton.bandcamp.com/track/in-a-station
https://open.spotify.com/track/7HAdvyu6chWlnH0EDlvJuL

Gemini shares opened up 32.2% at $37.01 in its Nasdaq debut, giving it a ~$4.4B market cap, after the Winklevoss' exchange operator raised $425M in its IPO (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/12/gemini-the-winklevoss-crypto-e…

Gemini, the Winklevoss' crypto exchange, pops more than 40% in Nasdaq debut
Shares of Gemini Space Station soared on Thursday after the exchange operator raised $425 million in an initial public offering.

Oriole GO train station parking lot is closing permanently. The location of this station is so car centric that the usage is likely to plummet
https://www.gotransit.com/en/find-a-station-or-stop/or/service-alerts

"If Gas Stations charged like Electricity"
Funny because it's true
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/gas-stations-charged-like-electricity-matt-roderick-nokkf/

If Gas Stations charged like Electricity
Ever wondered why most people ignore energy, despite how much it affects daily life? Picture your local petrol station tossing aside simple pricing and embracing all the delightfully baffling billing mechanisms from the world of electricity. Grab a calculator, a calendar, and maybe a PhD, because yo

Saturday was one of those days, even if I did get a new gadget to play with. #okwx #genealogy #reunion

If You Give a Writer a Weather Station... – Bob Mueller
You know how if you give a mouse a cookie, they'll probably want a glass of milk to go with it? It felt like I had one of those days today.

In an email sent out to PBS station managers on Wednesday,
PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger announced that the organization plans to cut its budget by 21 percent
in order to offset some of the financial damage being caused by the Trump administration’s campaign to stop public media from receiving federal funding that was originally distributed by the CPB.
Because of the recently passed bill, PBS, NPR, and all of both organizations’ affiliates will no longer receive the $1…

PBS is slashing its budget in response to Trump’s attack on public media
PBS plans to cut its budget by 21 percent as it braces for the financial fallout caused by Trump dismantling the CPB.

QTCAJOSA: Low-Complexity Joint Offloading and Subchannel Allocation for NTN-Enabled IoMT
Alejandro Flores C., Konstantinos Ntontin, Ashok Bandi, Symeon Chatzinotas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13242

QTCAJOSA: Low-Complexity Joint Offloading and Subchannel Allocation for NTN-Enabled IoMT
In this work, we consider the resource allocation problem for task offloading from Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices, to a non-terrestrial network. The architecture considers clusters of IoMT devices that offload their tasks to a dedicated unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) serving as a multi-access edge computing (MEC) server, which can compute the task or further offload it to an available high-altitude platform station (HAPS) or to a low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite for remote computing. W…

ASL360: AI-Enabled Adaptive Streaming of Layered 360{\deg} Video over UAV-assisted Wireless Networks
Alireza Mohammadhosseini, Jacob Chakareski, Nicholas Mastronarde
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10544

ASL360: AI-Enabled Adaptive Streaming of Layered 360° Video over UAV-assisted Wireless Networks
We propose ASL360, an adaptive deep reinforcement learning-based scheduler for on-demand 360° video streaming to mobile VR users in next generation wireless networks. We aim to maximize the overall Quality of Experience (QoE) of the users served over a UAV-assisted 5G wireless network. Our system model comprises a macro base station (MBS) and a UAV-mounted base station which both deploy mm-Wave transmission to the users. The 360° video is encoded into dependent layers and segmented tiles, all…

立秋を過ぎて、気温も落ち着いてくるかと思っていたのだけどまだまだのよう。週間天気予報を見たら、明日以降の一週間の東京の最高気温は 35℃ ～ 37℃となっていた。早く涼しくなれ！

Bay Area public radio station KQED says it is laying off 45 people and 12 are taking voluntary buyouts, a 15% staff cut; 10 vacant positions will go unfilled (Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)
https://www.kqed.org/news/12048122/kqed-to-s…

KQED to Slash Workforce by 15%, Cutting Dozens of Jobs in Latest Round of Layoffs
The Bay Area media nonprofit is laying off staff for the third time in five years. It comes as the Trump administration aims to cut off federal funding for public media.

Remember to stay hydrated, my peeps

@… Guess you're heading to Union Station in DC. . .
Not many folks feel safe with all those armed federal forces.

If you see a completely legal activity, report it to the police

Sheriff: Death of Elway's ex-agent an accident https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45736921/sheriff-death-john-elway-former-agent-tragic-accident

Protesting Gaza War, Massive Crowds Shut down Tel Aviv, Storm TV Station, Call for General Strike
https://www.juancole.com/2025/08/protesting-massive-station.html

DB Lounge date @ 18:00 / Frankfurt main station anyone?

Dock für Mac mini M4 im klassischen Macintosh-Design und Screen
Die Wokyis Retro Docking Station packt Apples kleinen Desktop in ein Achtzigerjahre-Gehäuse. Besonderheit ist das Display.
https://www.…

Rams vs. Cowboys radio coverage: Station, channels, streaming to listen live to NFL Week 1 preseason game broadcast https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/rams-cowboys-radio-coverage-station-channel-str…

According to the Weather Station about a quarter a mile away it's now 33°C.

Day eight of my road trip and a driving day from Nullabor Roadhouse, SA to Cocklebiddy Roadhouse, WA. Had to go through the quarantine search at the border. Great sunrise over the Nullabor weather station. #RoadTrip

Abandoned Police Station
Baywatch Nights 2x09 - Night Whispers
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Baywatch

Secure Pinching Antenna-aided ISAC
Elmehdi Illi, Marwa Qaraqe, Ali Ghrayeb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13131 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Secure Pinching Antenna-aided ISAC
In this letter, a pinching antenna (PA)-aided scheme for establishing a secure integrated sensing and communication system (ISAC) is investigated. The underlying system comprises a dual-functional radar communication (DFRC) base station (BS) linked to multiple waveguides to serve several downlink users while sensing a set of malicious targets in a given area. The PA-aided BS aims at preserving communication confidentiality with the legitimate users while being able to detect malicious targets. …

"FBi Radio is regarded by the industry as a cornerstone of the Australian music scene." FBi Radio is also home to some of Australia's great podcasts including *All The Best*, *Back Chat*, and *Race Matters* https://www.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Unclassified
Tunng:
🎵 Drifting Memory Station
#Tunng
https://open.spotify.com/track/525q38EvdU1wdWvoy2LBJC

When the search engine allows you to search by postal code radius, or the whole city, so you're searching for a postal code first to find a point close to the train station.

The German radio station "Bayern 2" has devoted the latest episode of its show “IQ” to the #Sun - and to Solar Orbiter’s first views of the solar poles. Interview partner is Sami Solanki of #mpsgoettingen :

Optimization research for rescue hot standby EMU location and coverage area in a large-scale high-speed railway network
Boliang Lin, Zhenyu Wang, Yaoming Shen, Yufei Meng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11630

Optimization research for rescue hot standby EMU location and coverage area in a large-scale high-speed railway network
With the extension of China high-speed railway network, the number of railway stations is increasing. The challenge that railway companies are facing is how to reasonably plan the location of hot standby Electric Multiple Units (EMU) and determine the rescue coverage area of each hot standby EMU. It is uneconomical to configure a hot standby EMU for each station. Railway companies want to use the minimum number of hot standby EMUs to provide rescue tasks for the entire high-speed railway networ…

Militia kooks attack TV station's weather radar.
https://www.kosu.org/local-news/2025-07-09/news9-radar-damaged-in-apparent-attack-by-anti-government-militia-group

I'm quite sure people here in the Netherlands don't see this as an unusually hot summer, but through yesterday it was already #4 out of 125 summers on record, and there's another warm period coming up.
#ClimateChange #globalwarming

Distributed Deep Learning with RIS Grouping for Accurate Cascaded Channel Estimation
Saifur Rahman, Syed Luqman Shah, Salman Khan, Jalal Khan, Muhammad Irfan, Maaz Shafi, Said Muhammad, Fazal Muhammad, Mohammad Shahed Akond
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14062

Distributed Deep Learning with RIS Grouping for Accurate Cascaded Channel Estimation
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) panels are envisioned as a key technology for sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks, providing a cost-effective means to enhance coverage and spectral efficiency. A critical challenge is the estimation of the cascaded base station (BS)-RIS-user channel, since the passive nature of RIS elements prevents direct channel acquisition, incurring prohibitive pilot overhead, computational complexity, and energy consumption. To address this, we propose a deep l…

Series D, Episode 12 - Warlord
AVON: He's going to get here and discover that his daughter is nowhere to be found before we've even finished loading.
SOOLIN: Unless we get a move on.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/412/237 B7B2

Data Fusion for BS-UE Cooperative MIMO-OFDM ISAC
Yixin Ding, Haoyu Jiang, Xiaoli Xu, Yanan Liang, Yong Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12646 https://arxiv.…

Data Fusion for BS-UE Cooperative MIMO-OFDM ISAC
Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a promising technique for expanding the functionalities of wireless networks with enhanced spectral efficiency. The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has defined six basic sensing operation modes in wireless networks. To further enhance the sensing capability of wireless networks, this paper proposes a new sensing operation mode, i.e., the base station (BS) and user equipment (UE) cooperative sensing. Specifically, after decoding the commun…

Gemini closed up 14.3% at $32 per share in its Nasdaq debut, giving it a ~$3.8B market cap, after the Winklevoss' crypto exchange raised $425M in its IPO (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/12/gemini-the-winklevoss-crypto-exc…

Gemini, the Winklevoss' crypto exchange, pops more than 14% in Nasdaq debut
Shares of Gemini Space Station rallied Friday after the exchange operator raised $425 million in an initial public offering.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Les Lullies:
🎵 Station Service
#LesLullies
https://leslullies.bandcamp.com/track/station-service
https://open.spotify.com/track/5dU4KnTA1biev0clTFyHTW

Series D, Episode 08 - Games
AVON: We don't have half an hour!
VILA: I know that, but unless you can cut off one of Belkov's fingers for me - just a minute? [He bends down and grabs Tarrant's foot]
TARRANT: Vila, what are you doing?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/408/480…

Design and Commissioning of an LWA Swarm Station: The Long Wavelength Array -- North Arm
C. A. Taylor, J. Dowell, G. B. Taylor, K. S. Obenberger, S. I. Chastain, J. Verastegui, L. E. Cordonnier, P. Kumar, E. Sheldahl, S. Bruzewski, T. Dolch, C. A. Siders
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09109

Design and Commissioning of an LWA Swarm Station: The Long Wavelength Array -- North Arm
Modern radio interferometers are designed with increasingly sprawling geographical footprints, offering enhanced sensitivity and resolution. However, managing such extensive facilities presents operational challenges that can potentially impede or delay scientific progress. One solution to such obstacles is the `swarm telescope' concept which enables collaborative use of individual telescope systems, overseen by separate institutions, to create a more powerful and manageable facility. We presen…

Penn State University plans to "wind down" public media station WPSU by June 2026 after a university board declined to transfer ownership to Philadelphia's WHYY (Carmen Russell-Sluchansky/WHYY)
https://whyy.org/articles/penn-state-wpsu-whyy/

Penn State to wind down WPSU after board of trustees declines transfer to WHYY
In voting down a proposal to transfer the station to WHYY, trustees expressed concern over a $17 million subsidy and wanted a commitment to hire staff.

Series A, Episode 08 - Duel
VILA: Of course I will, how can you doubt me?
BLAKE: It isn't easy, but somehow I manage it. Come on. Put us down. [Blake, Jenna and Gan teleport to the planet's surface and look around]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/108/60 B7B3

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Karen Dalton:
🎵 In a Station
#KarenDalton
https://karendalton.bandcamp.com/track/in-a-station
https://open.spotify.com/track/7HAdvyu6chWlnH0EDlvJuL

Electric Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Station-based or Route-based Charging Options
Tran Trung Duc, Vu Duc Minh, Nguyen Ngoc Doanh, Pham Gia Nguyen, Laurent El Ghaoui, Ha Minh Hoang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07402

Electric Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Station-based or Route-based Charging Options
The Electric Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Station-based or Route-based Charging Options addresses fleet optimization incorporating both conventional charging stations and continuous wireless charging infrastructure. This paper extends Schneider et al.'s foundational EVRP-TW model with arc-based dynamic wireless charging representation, partial coverage modeling, and hierarchical multi-objective optimization prioritizing fleet minimization. Computational experiments on Schneider…

Chicago Public Media, which owns the Sun-Times and public radio station WBEZ, names Kimbriell Kelly as EIC effective September 2, succeeding Jennifer Kho (David Roeder/Chicago Sun Times)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/media/2025/08/14/kimbriell-…

Kimbriell Kelly named editor-in-chief at Sun-Times, WBEZ
A Pulitzer Prize winner, Kelly has a background in investigative reporting. She will succeed Jennifer Kho, who will work on a project dealing with the future of public media.

Two wildfires are burning at or near the North Rim, known
as the White Sage Fire
and the Dragon Bravo Fire.
The latter is the one that destroyed the lodge and other structures.
The park initially was managing it as a controlled burn
but then shifted to suppression as it rapidly grew to 7.8 square miles (20 square kilometers) because of hot temperatures,
low humidity and wind, fire officials said.
No injuries have been reported.
Millions of peo…

A historic Grand Canyon lodge has been destroyed by wildfire, park official says
The Grand Canyon Lodge, the only lodging inside the park at the North Rim, was consumed by the flames, park Superintendent Ed Keable told park residents, staff and others in a meeting Sunday morning. He said the visitor center, the gas station, a waste water treatment plant, an administrative building and some employee housing were among the 50 to 80 structures lost.

My old Acurite weather station quit working properly. I won't own another Acurite product, so I bought an Ambient WS-2903D. This should be a link to local weather conditions in NE Oklahoma. I'll be setting up sharing shortly. #OKWX #PWS

Ukrainian drone strike on Russia’s Vtorovo oil pumping station knocks out power at Transneft facility: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/10/ukrainian-drone-strike-on-russias.html

Series C, Episode 09 - Sarcophagus
TARRANT: NO!
ZEN: Twenty seconds.
CALLY: I think I can bring them out with me, otherwise they'll both die.
DAYNA: This way you'll all die.
ZEN: Fifteen seconds.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/309/141 B7B2

Joint Antenna Positioning and Beamforming for Movable Antenna Array Aided Ground Station in Low-Earth Orbit Satellite Communication
Jinming Wang, Lipeng Zhu, Shuai Han, He Sun, Rui Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07511

Joint Antenna Positioning and Beamforming for Movable Antenna Array Aided Ground Station in Low-Earth Orbit Satellite Communication
This paper proposes a new architecture for the low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite ground station aided by movable antenna (MA) array. Unlike conventional fixed-position antenna (FPA), the MA array can flexibly adjust antenna positions to reconfigure array geometry, for more effectively mitigating interference and improving communication performance in ultra-dense LEO satellite networks. To reduce movement overhead, we configure antenna positions at the antenna initialization stage, which remain un…

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
CALLY: I think so, too.
AVON: They would have called in.
JENNA: Avon's right.
AVON: [Looks over at Jenna] I usually am.
JENNA: Blake says wait so we wait.
https://

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
VILA: Now I want to show you a little trick here. Right, Gan. You know this one.
DAINER: Now, I'll watch carefully this time.
VILA: Right, now watch carefully, watch the old piece of cloth, right... And a one...

Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
KAYN: That's where the fault was, in the limiter, there. And there it is repaired. If you survive, so should he.
BLAKE: Is there any way we can thank you?
KAYN: You could try getting caught.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/552 B7B2