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Thermal convection in huddling emperor penguins
Dmitry Bratsun, Kirill Kostarev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16586 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.16586

Thermal convection in huddling emperor penguins
Emperor penguins are the only penguin species that winter in Antarctica. As is known, during cold weather, birds huddle together to share body heat. We developed a microscopic model in which penguins interact with each other through an effective potential that describes the birds' intention to move along the gradient of the thermal field. The model describes the aggregation of penguins into a motionless huddle, as observed previously. More interestingly, we found that increasing the number of b…

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Godspeed You! Black Emperor Remove Music From Streaming Services
https://pitchfork.com/news/godspeed-you-black-emperor-remove-music-from-streaming-services/?utm_source=fl…

Godspeed You! Black Emperor Remove Music From Streaming Services
The Canadian post-rock band has pulled its discography from Spotify, Tidal, and Amazon Music, with Apple Music soon to follow

Destruction of "Peas in a Pod?" A Candidate Multi-planet System Around the Nearby, Bright Star, HD208487
Rafael I. Rubenstein, James S. Jenkins, Pablo A. Pe\~na R., Carolina Charalambous, Mikko Tuomi, Douglas R. Alves, Jos\'e Vines, Mat\'ias R. D\'iaz, Suman Saha, Paul R. Butler, Jeffrey D. Crane, Steve Shectman, Johanna K. Teske, David Osip, Zahra Essack, Benjamin T. Montet, Adina D. Feinstein, Cristobal Petrovich

Destruction of "Peas in a Pod?" A Candidate Multi-planet System Around the Nearby, Bright Star, HD208487
We re-investigate the HD208487 system to test the reality of the proposed HD208487c world. We also search for additional companions using applied Bayesian statistics and 15+ years of new RV data from the HARPS and the PFS instruments that were taken post-discovery of HD208487b. The RV data was analyzed with GLS Periodograms, followed by Bayesian analysis using the EMPEROR code. We scrutinised various stellar activity indices to search for any corresponding peaks in the power spectra, correlat…

The Emperor's New Chain-of-Thought: Probing Reasoning Theater Bias in Large Reasoning Models
Qian Wang, Yubo Fan, Zhenheng Tang, Nuo Chen, Wenxuan Wang, Bingsheng He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13758

The Emperor's New Chain-of-Thought: Probing Reasoning Theater Bias in Large Reasoning Models
Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) like DeepSeek-R1 and o1 are increasingly used as automated evaluators, raising critical questions about their vulnerability to the aesthetics of reasoning in LLM-as-a-judge settings. We introduce THEATER, a comprehensive benchmark to systematically evaluate this vulnerability-termed Reasoning Theater Bias (RTB)-by comparing LLMs and LRMs across subjective preference and objective factual datasets. Through investigation of six bias types including Simple Cues and Fa…

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You Trump voters just gave up 250 years of American liberty & freedom to a dimwitted, childish Emperor.
Trump isn't just a criminal & a fascist: He's a modern day DESPOT & you #Trump voters made this happen.
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The New Republic (@newrepublic) on Threads
Sudden federal takeovers of America’s cities will apparently be the new normal. Several officials, including one senior administration official, told Rolling Stone that it is now a priority to normalize military deployments to cities across the country. https://trib.al/2bj5Grx

Flock: completed!
I haven't written about it for a while, but I had been playing Flock in small chunks since I started it back in December, until I reached a bit where I couldn't quite parse the instructions. Having identified and charmed the Emperor Cosmot and the Cloaked Rustic, the forests were unveiled and I explored, including the giant mushrooms of the Skyfish Caverns.

Your word of the day:
"Caesarism"
Yup, it calls for a revival of the government approach of Julius, Augustus, Nero, and Caligula.
And it is becoming the policy of our country's R-party and our countries orange colored wannabe emperor.
It is an espoused plank of the "National Conservative" movement who are meeting in DC, with many MAGA gov't officials not only in attendance, but as speakers.

Army Soldier Recalls the Day that Victory over Japan Was Declared | Military.com #history

What It Was Like to Be Fighting the Japanese on V-J Day
It took almost a week to convince the six to seven thousand Japanese on Cebu that the war was really over. They had to be provided with radio communication to hear their emperor declare it was so.

If I were alive back then I wouldn't let the emperor make me his castrated eunuch slave. I would be really tired and uncomfortable to be around and they would just behead me and someone would make a humorous folk song about it you can only find nowadays with archive.org on some personal page an academic created in '98

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Sinéad O'Connor:
🎵 The Emperor's New Clothes
#NowPlaying #SinéadOConnor 🖤
https://sinadoconnor.bandcamp.com/track/the-emperors-new-clothes
https://open.spotify.com/track/0HSmS7KsbOpB3K4UFdOSx9

A version of "The Emperor's New Clothes" where the child who pointed out the obvious is subsequently disappeared.

The Emperor of 10,000 Taxes
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🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Lorde:
🎵 Man Of The Year
#NowPlaying #Lorde
https://jonnywanzer.bandcamp.com/track/fancy-man-of-the-year-featuring-iggy-azelea-lorde-schoolboy-q-of-montreal-chi-city-godspeed-you-black-emperor
https://open.spotify.com/track/1hoeP1oPYlhcv6iRCtB7pT

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The Emperor of 10,000 Taxes
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The Emperor of 10,000 Taxes
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