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Common ownership? Never, so long as society clings to economic monopolies and the machinery of state, true freedom for all remains impossible!
As Rocker argued, only the abolition of all monopolies and the creation of a federation of free communities, where the land and means of production belong to everyone, not privileged minorities, can end exploitation and allow genuine liberty to flourish.
Until then, "common ownership" is just a slogan, not a living reality.

Forming Double Neutron Stars using Detailed Binary Evolution Models with POSYDON: Comparison to the Galactic Systems
Abhishek Chattaraj, Jeff J. Andrews, Simone S. Bavera, Max Briel, Debatri Chattopadhyay, Tassos Fragos, Seth Gossage, Vicky Kalogera, Konstantinos Kovlakas, Matthias U. Kruckow, Camille Liotine, Kyle A. Rocha, Philipp M. Srivastava, Meng Sun, Elizabeth Teng, Zepei Xing, Emmanouil Zapartas

Forming Double Neutron Stars using Detailed Binary Evolution Models with POSYDON: Comparison to the Galactic Systems
With over two dozen detections in the Milky Way, double neutron stars (DNSs) provide a unique window into massive binary evolution. We use the POSYDON binary population synthesis code to model DNS populations and compare them to the observed Galactic sample. By tracing their origins to underlying single and binary star physics, we place constraints on the detailed evolutionary stages leading to DNS formation. Our study reveals a bifurcation within the well-known common envelope formation channe…

IMUCoCo: Enabling Flexible On-Body IMU Placement for Human Pose Estimation and Activity Recognition
Haozhe Zhou, Riku Arakawa, Yuvraj Agarwal, Mayank Goel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01894

IMUCoCo: Enabling Flexible On-Body IMU Placement for Human Pose Estimation and Activity Recognition
IMUs are regularly used to sense human motion, recognize activities, and estimate full-body pose. Users are typically required to place sensors in predefined locations that are often dictated by common wearable form factors and the machine learning model's training process. Consequently, despite the increasing number of everyday devices equipped with IMUs, the limited adaptability has seriously constrained the user experience to only using a few well-explored device placements (e.g., wrist and …

Confidence intervals for forced alignment boundaries using model ensembles
Matthew C. Kelley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01256 https://

Confidence intervals for forced alignment boundaries using model ensembles
Forced alignment is a common tool to align audio with orthographic and phonetic transcriptions. Most forced alignment tools provide only a single estimate of a boundary. The present project introduces a method of deriving confidence intervals for these boundaries using a neural network ensemble technique. Ten different segment classifier neural networks were previously trained, and the alignment process is repeated with each model. The alignment ensemble is then used to place the boundary at th…

Hot Rocks Survey III: A deep eclipse for LHS 1140c and a new Gaussian process method to account for correlated noise in individual pixels
Mark Fortune, Neale P. Gibson, Hannah Diamond-Lowe, Jo\~ao M. Mendon\c{c}a, Am\'elie Gressier, Daniel Kitzmann, Natalie H. Allen, Prune C. August, Jegug Ih, Erik Meier Vald\'es, Merlin Zgraggen, Lars A. Buchhave, Brice-Olivier Demory, N\'estor Espinoza, Kevin Heng, Kathryn Jones, Alexander D. Rathcke

Hot Rocks Survey III: A deep eclipse for LHS 1140c and a new Gaussian process method to account for correlated noise in individual pixels
Time-series photometry at mid-infrared wavelengths is becoming a common technique to search for atmospheres around rocky exoplanets. This method constrains the brightness temperature of the planet to determine whether heat redistribution is taking place - indicative of an atmosphere - or whether the heat is reradiated from a low albedo bare rock. By observing at 15$μ$m we are also highly sensitive to CO$_2$ absorption. We observed three eclipses of the rocky super-Earth LHS 1140c using MIRI/Im…

Calamus 37 A leaf for hand in hand!
I continue to have little patience for these Whitman entreaties to American unity. The recitation of place names does little for me. But I do appreciate that he's talking more about loving unity between men than some abstract political message.
You friendly boatmen and mechanics! You roughs! ...
I wish to infuse myself among you till I see it common for you to walk hand in hand.
That's the gay part there. It's pretty mild, but still seems striking of talking about two boatmen or mechanics walking holding hands. One might even see an appeal to rough trade.
I am beginning to understand this Whitman concept of "adhesiveness", a brotherly love that could unify a nation. I still prefer a more sexual gay reading but I think his poems work in both ways.

A recent post about a library publishing guidelines on citing genAI got me thinking about when that might be appropriate (rarely) or not (almost always), and what those cites should look like when they are needed. I have a new post talking about why genAI output shouldn’t be cited in most cases and, for when they must be, giving examples from common style guides.

Citing material generated by LLMs and chatbots
A recent post on Bluesky lamenting a university library publishing guidelines for citing generative AI (genAI) got me thinking about why one would want to do that in the first place and then, assuming there's a valid reason, what that citation should look like. So, that's what I'm exploring today.

Common Weedkiller Ingredient Harms Gut Bacteria and Multiple Organs: Study #environment

Common Weedkiller Ingredient Harms Gut Bacteria and Multiple Organs: Study
The chemical diquat, used in place of glyphosate in weedkillers in the U.S., has been found to damage organs and kill gut bacteria.