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The Danish independent media organisation @… are on a member drive with 10 promises if they make it to 50,000, including that they'll share more on social media. I can dream they'll make it to the #fediverse I suppose?
In any case their journalism is outstanding and they carefully avoid making an explicit political stance and contributing to polarisation. #UnbreakingNews
In depth journalism you can read or listen to (try deepL if you don't speak Danish), often beautifully produced, always fascinating. They also don't report on problems without reporting solutions.
It's by far the most uplifting read/listen of my day.
Free link here, pay what you want and free to first time voters...
https://www.zetland.dk/a/rmottram?og=amba25-8

new beanytuesday politicians dont hit like og bloodfeast but ill take it

Medallion, which automates healthcare back-office operations and compliance, raised $43M at a valuation of around $440M, bringing its total raised to $130M (Medallion)
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-r…

Medallion Raises $43 Million to Expand AI Infrastructure and Launch the First National Credentialing Clearinghouse
/PRNewswire/ -- Medallion, the leader in AI-powered provider network infrastructure, today announced it has raised $43 million in new funding. Acrew Capital...

It has happened to the best of us: You forgot the name of a function or the package that function was in but you are sure its there somewhere and does exactly what you need! Introduce {forgot}, it helps you find that function: https://github.com/parmsam/forgot

GitHub - parmsam/forgot: R package to search for that one function you need in that one package
R package to search for that one function you need in that one package - parmsam/forgot

The Thalos Principle 2 estš em uma ótima promoção na #Steam. Eu adorei o primeiro jogo, foi o mais próximo de uma experiência literšria que eu jš tive jogando. Eu só fico com um pé atršs porque, ao contršrio do primeiro, este segundo jogo não tem versão nativa pra #linux. E, mesmo que rode bem via…

Supreme Court cases, starting with Bantam Books v. Sullivan, established that the First Amendment forbids the government from using coercion to suppress speech (Adam Liptak/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/202…

In Pressuring ABC Over Kimmel, Trump May Have Crossed a Constitutional Line
The Supreme Court has distinguished bully-pulpit persuasion, which is permissible under the First Amendment, from coercion and threats, which are not.

Understanding high photocatalytic activity of the TiO2 high-pressure columbite phase by experiments and first-principles calculations
Jacqueline Hidalgo-Jimenez, Taner Akbay, Tatsumi Ishihara, Kaveh Edalati
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12559

Understanding high photocatalytic activity of the TiO2 high-pressure columbite phase by experiments and first-principles calculations
The clean production of hydrogen as a zero-emission fuel can be done using photocatalysis, with TiO2 being one of the most promising photocatalysts. However, the activity of TiO2 anatase and rutile phases is still limited. In this study, an oxygen-deficient high-pressure phase of TiO2, columbite, is stabilized by a high-pressure torsion method. The phase is utilized as an active photocatalyst for hydrogen production, and the mechanism of its high activity is examined using density functional th…

Narrowing the discovery space of the cosmological 21-cm signal using multi-wavelength constraints
Jiten Dhandha, Anastasia Fialkov, Thomas Gessey-Jones, Harry T. J. Bevins, Sandro Tacchella, Simon Pochinda, Eloy de Lera Acedo, Saurabh Singh, Rennan Barkana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13761

Narrowing the discovery space of the cosmological 21-cm signal using multi-wavelength constraints
The cosmic 21-cm signal is a promising probe of the early Universe, owing to its sensitivity to the thermal state of the neutral intergalactic medium (IGM) and properties of the first luminous sources. In this work, we constrain the 21-cm signal and infer IGM properties by leveraging multi-wavelength synergies. This builds on our earlier study, where we developed the synergy between high-redshift UV luminosity functions (UVLFs), cosmic X-ray and radio backgrounds (CXB and CRB), 21-cm global sig…

Much like Trump's other hypocritical campaigns against "antisemitism" and "crime" ...
All to seize more power and avoid accountability
https://bsky.app/profile/adamjschwarz.bsky.social/post/3lz5an3gtkk2o

Adam Schwarz (@adamjschwarz.bsky.social)
Trump's vengeful tone shows he genuinely doesn't support First Amendment rights. He's an instinctive tyrant waging war against America's Constitution & founding principles. As Benjamin Franklin warned, "Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."

PA-MPPI: Perception-Aware Model Predictive Path Integral Control for Quadrotor Navigation in Unknown Environments
Yifan Zhai, Rudolf Reiter, Davide Scaramuzza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14978

PA-MPPI: Perception-Aware Model Predictive Path Integral Control for Quadrotor Navigation in Unknown Environments
Quadrotor navigation in unknown environments is critical for practical missions such as search-and-rescue. Solving it requires addressing three key challenges: the non-convexity of free space due to obstacles, quadrotor-specific dynamics and objectives, and the need for exploration of unknown regions to find a path to the goal. Recently, the Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) method has emerged as a promising solution that solves the first two challenges. By leveraging sampling-based optimiz…