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Internal email: Cognition offers buyouts to the ~200 newly acquired Windsurf staff, with Cognition CEO Scott Wu writing "we don't believe in work-life balance" (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/cognition-off…

Cognition Offers Buyouts to Newly Acquired Windsurf Staff
Cognition, a two-year-old artificial intelligence coding startup last valued at $4 billion, has offered buyouts to the roughly 200 employees it acquired in a takeover of rival Windsurf three weeks ago, saying they will receive nine months of salary in return, according to an e-mail seen by The ...

Mercury Crustal Magnetization Indicates a Stronger Ancient Dynamo
Isaac S. Narrett, Benjamin P. Weiss, Sarah C. Steele, John B. Biersteker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02003 https…

Mercury Crustal Magnetization Indicates a Stronger Ancient Dynamo
Mercury is the only other terrestrial planet in the solar system with an active dynamo magnetic field (~200 nT at the equatorial surface). Furthermore, Mercury's ~3.9-3.7 billion-year old (Ga) crust is strongly magnetized (~10 nT at ~30-km altitude), indicating the presence of a past dynamo. However, the source and strength of the field that magnetized this crust are unknown. To address this, we performed three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the ancient solar wind interaction wi…

The Trump administration
illegally withheld funding
from the federal child care program, according to congressional investigators.
It’s the third time this year that
investigators from the Government Accountability Office
have determined the administration
defied Congress on spending.

Trump Administration Illegally Withheld Head Start Funds, Watchdog Finds
It’s the third time this year that investigators from the Government Accountability Office have determined the administration defied Congress on spending.

college_freshmen: Dutch college freshman (1995)
A small network of friendships among freshmen at Dutch College in 1994-1995. Friendship ties were surveyed at 7 different times over the year, and each edge is timestamped. The direction of an edge indicates that person i named person j, and the edge weight represents their level of friendship, ranging from -1 (risk of conflict) to 3 (best friend).
This network has 32 nodes and 3062 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Tim…

Update on the Sony PVM-2530: probably should use RGB before diagnosing color issues (e.g. luma). I did have to get in my custom CMPTR board to do it, but everything lined up perfectly. I do need to fix the geometry a bit, but for right now I think I'll be playing a few games after work.
#electronics

For those who have .social or other premium domains.
How can I be sure, that the registration company is not making a premium domain from 200$ a year to 2000$ a year?
It would be bad, if you think, 200$ a year is fine, and register it and building a community in it, but then it's too high and you still have to pay the 2000$ for it, as you can't lose the community?
Any idea how that works?

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TrainTracks
- Live from Darlington
Elizabeth Alker continues the musical and cultural celebration of a landmark moment: the 200 year anniversary of the birth of the modern railway.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002jv2z

Wait: econ professors get *bonuses*? For what, being such darling peaches?

Today I had my first "Sturm" of the year at Volksstimmefest (very traditionally)

An interview with CEO David Baszucki on Roblox's origin story, what's next for the gaming platform whose shares have risen about 200% in the past year, and more (Tim Fernholz/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/he-didnt-set…

He didn’t set out to create a kids’ company. Roblox’s “Builderman” wound up with one anyway.
Founder and CEO David Baszucki tells us the origin story and what’s next for a company that has nearly tripled in stock price and caught a lot of controversy over the past year.

This is the extremely rare Parachute penstemon, only found in a small area in northern Colorado, USA.
This penstemon grows on steep shale fields at 7,800 to 9,200 feet elevation. The flower blooms from about mid-June to mid-July each year.
Photo: CPW/Raquel Wertsbaugh
#Flower #Rare

#lego #nintendo

Unraveling the Secrets of the lower Solar Atmosphere: One year of Operation of the Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) on board Aditya-L1
Rahul Gopalakrishnan, Soumya Roy, Deepak Kathait, Janmejoy Sarkar, Nived V. N., Durgesh Tripathi, A. N. Ramaprakash, Sami K. Solanki, Sreejith Padinhatteeri, Mahesh Burse, Rushikesh Deogaonkar, Sakya Sinha, Adithya H. N., K. Sankarasubramanian, Dipankar Banerjee, Dibyendu Nandy, Srikant Motamarri, Amit Purohit, Rethika T, Sreenath K R, Priyank…

Unraveling the Secrets of the lower Solar Atmosphere: One year of Operation of the Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) on board Aditya-L1
The Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) is an instrument onboard Aditya--L1, the first solar space observatory of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), India, launched on September 2, 2023. SUIT is designed to image the Sun in the 200--400 nm wavelength band in eight narrowband and three broadband filters. SUIT's science goals start with observing the solar atmosphere and large-scale continuum variations, the physics of solar flares in the NUV region, and many more. The paper el…

The LA Times Guild plans to hold its first-ever strike authorization vote as contract talks near their third year; the union lost about 200 members since 2022 (Raquel 'Rocky' Harris/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/la-times-union-strike-authorization-vote/…

LA Times Union to Hold First-Ever Strike Authorization Vote as Contract Talks Near 3rd Year
Since negotiations began in September 2020, the guild has seen layoffs impact approximately 200 Times staffers.

Ukraine shot down 3,200 Shahed-type drones from helicopters in past year, chief commander says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/18/ukraine-shot-down-shahedtype-drones.html

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TrainTracks
- Live from Pitlochry
Tom Service with a musical and cultural celebration of a landmark moment: the 200 year anniversary of the birth of the modern railway
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002jv2v

Dutch drought resumes. The season's precipitation deficit (evaporation minus rainfall) has been hovering around 200 mm for a while, a high value already. But now, it is starting to grow again, in line with the top 5% driest years in the 1906-2025 record.
#ClimateChange #drought

As of today I have a decade worth of Dad Experience! He was one tiny guy just… yesterday??!?!??! How did that happen??! 🙃

The Impact of AI Adoption on Retail Across Countries and Industries
Yunqi Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15885 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.15885

The Impact of AI Adoption on Retail Across Countries and Industries
This study investigates the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) adoption on job loss rates using the Global AI Content Impact Dataset (2020--2025). The panel comprises 200 industry-country-year observations across Australia, China, France, Japan, and the United Kingdom in ten industries. A three-stage ordinary least squares (OLS) framework is applied. First, a full-sample regression finds no significant linear association between AI adoption rate and job loss rate ($β\approx -0.0026$, $p = …

Dear Democratic National Committee. I pledge to send you $100 on the last day of each month. I will reduce that amount by $1 for every unsolicited communication (text, email, phone call, voice mail, physical mail piece) I receive from a left leaning candidate, cause, or PAC requesting a donation.
Although I am pledging up to $1,200 for the next year, I suspect my total donation under this pledge will be between $0 and $60.

I am an asshole on the Old People's Social Media:
"I would love to see drivers follow the example set by cyclists, and manage to kill "only" 200 pedestrians per year, instead of 6000."
(these are approximate US figures, for anyone reading from the civilized world.)

Jaime Alanís died a day after a frenzied immigration raid of Glass House Farms in Ventura county
where authorities arrested at least 200 workers.
The 57-year-old, who was from the town of Huajúmbaro in Michoacšn, Mexico, is the first known person to die during the Trump administration’s enhanced immigration enforcement operations in southern California.
The federal government’s ramped up enforcement activities have brought chaos across southern California as Ice agents des…

🌽 To get that perfect ear of corn, weather has to cooperate. But climate change is making it dicier
#corn

To get that perfect ear of corn, weather has to cooperate. But climate change is making it dicier
Robb Rynd and his brother grew up farming and wanted to do more of it outside their day jobs, so they went in together on what's now a little over 200 acres of corn, soybeans, wheat and sorghum. Last year was a good year, and Rynd said he enjoyed walking the fields with his kids to see how the corn was doing.

Source: Perplexity has secured commitments from investors for $200M in new funding at a $20B valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/perplexity-finalizes-20-billion-valuation-round

Perplexity Finalizes $20 Billion-Valuation Round 
Perplexity, which runs an artificial intelligence-powered search engine, has secured commitments from investors for $200 million in new funding at a $20 billion valuation, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The new capital comes less than two months after the three-year-old startup raised money at a $18 billion valuation. The frequent but relatively modest financings, at

Use of a genetic algorithm in university scheduling for equitable and efficient determination of teaching assignments
Tom Bensky, Karl Saunders
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06981 …

Use of a genetic algorithm in university scheduling for equitable and efficient determination of teaching assignments
Here a genetic algorithm (GA) is presented that creates a teaching schedule for a university physics department by algorithmically assigning ${\sim}200$ classes to ${\sim}50$ professors for each of three academic terms per year. The algorithm is driven by chromosomes of the GA that encode proposed pairings between enumerated lists of professors and classes. The fitness of the pairings is measured by considering both contractual work constraints and individual teaching preferences. The algorithm…

A bit of good news!   our #PurdueFortWayne 🐘 department collaborates with Indiana University and #IUI on an annual conference series, which has been supported by the National Science Foundation for approx. 10 years.  We have just received notice that this year's grant has been approved at all…

A dark money group that was founded by one of former President Trump’s key allies raised over $20 million in 2020 and used the money to help finance various conservative groups.
Leonard Leo’s The 85 Fund received the money through the Donors Trust, a donor-advised nonprofit group that funnels money from wealthy conservative financiers to other organizations, according to a tax filing first seen by CNBC.
Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA received $200,000 for a “TP Campus Project” fr…

Trump ally's fund received over $20 million last year, then funneled cash to other right-leaning groups
A dark money group that was founded by one of ex-President Trump's key allies raised over $20 million in 2020.

Sources: Meta offered Ruoming Pang a $200M pay package over a several-year period in line with Meta's other major AI hires; Apple didn't try to match the offer (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta Poached Apple’s Ruoming Pang With Pay Package Over $200 Million
Meta Platforms Inc. has made unusually high compensation offers to new members of its “superintelligence” team — including a more than $200 million package for a former Apple Inc. distinguished engineer.

The Unhurried Universe: A Continued Search for Long Term Variability in ASAS-SN
Sydney Petz, C. S. Kochanek, K. Z. Stanek, Benjamin J. Shappee, Subo Dong, J. L. Prieto, Todd A. Thompson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07174

The Unhurried Universe: A Continued Search for Long Term Variability in ASAS-SN
We search a sample of 5,685,060 isolated sources in the All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) with 14.5

Pony AI says it rolled out 200 Gen-7 Robotaxis since mass production started two months ago, putting it on track for its 1,000-vehicle goal by the end of 2025 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-13/po…