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Long-Term Astrometric Monitoring of the Galactic Center Magnetar PSR J1745--2900
Geoffrey C. Bower, Adam T. Deller, Paul B. Demorest, Jason Dexter, Andreas Brunthaler, Gregory Desvignes, Ralph P. Eatough, Heino Falcke, Ciriaco Goddi, Michael Kramer, F. Yusef-Zadeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02348…

Long-Term Astrometric Monitoring of the Galactic Center Magnetar PSR J1745--2900
We present new astrometric observations of the Galactic Center magnetar, PSR J1745-2900, with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). Combined with previously published measurements in 10 epochs that spanned 477 days, the complete data set consists of 25 epochs and 41 independent measurements that span 1984 days. These data constrain the proper motion to an accuracy of $\lesssim 2\%$ and set an upper limit on the absolute value of the magnetar's acceleration of $\lesssim (0.4, 0.2)\, {\rm mas\,y^{…

#NowPlaying - probably the entire lefty wilbury discography is what they call cheap heat these days. @…

Is it just me, or does simply being nice to people feel like a radical act these days?

We've seen some lovely cars out and about lately. The E-type was at the supermarket today, the other two parked up at Shobdon airfield recently. There were other classic cars there too but these really stood out to me. I would cheerfully zoom off in any of these despite being an #EV bore 😄 We used to have an MGF and for years my mum had MGs. These days we drive an electric MG which is ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐.

New Guest Gist: Empires of Certainty
Dermot Casey responds to "The Age of Diagnosis" and its suggestions that there are just too many ADHD people around these days. This is the Gist.
https://www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-empires-of-certainty/

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19246 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

On the transmission of texts: written cultures as complex systems
Our knowledge of past cultures relies considerably on written material. For centuries, texts have been copied, altered, then transmitted or lost - eventually, from surviving documents, philologists attempt to reconstruct text phylogenies ("stemmata"), and past written cultures. Nonetheless, fundamental questions on the extent of losses, representativeness of surviving artefacts, and the dynamics of text genealogies have remained open since the earliest days of philology. To address these, we ra…

The role of the Lorentz force in sunspot equilibrium
J. M. Borrero, A. Pastor Yabar, M. Schmassmann, M. Rempel, M. van Noort, M. Collados
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23986

The role of the Lorentz force in sunspot equilibrium
Sunspots survive on the solar surface for time-scales ranging from days to months. This requires them to be in an equilibrium involving magnetic fields and hydrodynamic forces. Unfortunately, theoretical models of sunspot equilibrium are very simplified as they assume that spots are static and possess a self-similar and axially symmetric magnetic field. These assumptions neglect the role of small scale variations of the magnetic field along the azimuthal direction produced by umbral dots, light…

Is it just me, or does simply being nice to people feel like a radical act these days?

So I've just bumped a bunch of old #Gentoo packages to EAPI 8. Some of them haven't been updated for 6 years. And do you know what's best? They still worked — their build systems work, they compile and they just work. Unlike most of the stuff developed these days.
#autotools #C

A more interesting question, perhaps: 
why are so many people obeying these circumventions of proper lawmaking?
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000010128290/why-trump-is-signing-so-many-e…

Here’s my take. You can avoid bsky if you must. But these days you will be behind schedule. The fediverse gets the news later. I’m sorry to be the messenger of bad news.

I’ve been hungry for seeing these days, hungry especially for color—wild, deeply saturated, mood-altering color. It has me looking up—as I always do when I’m lost—at the sky. Celeste blue. Blue of infinite depth. Ultra-blue.
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/ways-of…

Ways of Seeing: Blue
Taking inspiration from Maggie Nelson's book, Bluets, this Ways of Seeing encourages you to take the color blue as your oracle and guide.

The countdown is officially on! Berlin Buzzwords 2025 is just around the corner, taking place from 15 to 17 June. We can't wait to welcome you to our 16th edition!
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Join us for two days of exciting talks, workshops and discussions, and of course our barcamp on Sunday! Berlin Buzzwords will take place as a hybrid conference online and in our venue Kulturbrauerei in Berlin.

One of the few encouraging things to hear in the political news these days is to see society dipping its toe into the "find out" phase of this disaster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1wjaRZites

What linters are we using for web accessibility these days?
#a11y #accessibility

Wow. I've been doing WaniKani since 2013, 12 years ago. Didn't realize it's been that long. These days I mostly use my own review program but still based on WK's data. I've been using it since 2018. I practice daily and I still suck.
Languages are hard (and I’m not studying in a very efficient way).

For no real reason I’ve been writing a Gradle build for Jing and Trang (#jing

Here’s my take. You can avoid bsky if you must. But these days you will be behind schedule. The fediverse gets the news later. I’m sorry to be the messenger of bad news.

"If anything, this author firmly believes that programming skills are second to those related to communication; most engineers coming out of colleges these days are unable to express themselves in public, to teach their peers, to write an essay or a blog post, to communicate their ideas to stakeholders, or to put together a simple documentation bundle without suffering a seizure in the process."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/banning-adopting-reckoning/

Now Pocket is going away. Mozilla really loves alienating its userbase these days, huh? Not that all of them used Pocket, but Mozilla pushed it hard and integrated it into the browser - only to kill it with pretty short notice. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket…

I don't even remember the last time I played a game day 1, but wowzers am I getting the whole "games have so many bugs on day 1 these days" vibes from Oblivion Remastered. Hope patches can iron out the issues!

Stopped off in town, Broadmarsh area. Sat on a rock for a bit and read my book.
I don't often go into town these days, but I was reminded of this nice little garden area when the May Day march met round the corner the other week, and I thought I would have a rest there today before coming home.
Lovely to see the flowers growing there now. I really like that the city council went in that direction for that bit of the land.
#Nottingham #BloomScrolling

All I do these days is delete posts about how bad teaching has become.

Supreme Courts really giving themselves a bad name these days.

I got to migrate my blogs to a new provider. That made me wonder if I really want all the archive to still be online in these days. Then I thought of one small post I made about a friend's suicide many years ago and how still almost every year someone leaves a comment. To him, not to me, not to my blog post. This post's perfect place seems to be nested amongst dozens of others in the archive where only those who know still get back to it. I guess this little big thing makes me keep m…

Warming up out there!
Working up a sweat when I increasingly run outside these days. Happy with my pace too 😀
#running #runnersofmastodon

Project Espresso alpha now available
"We are excited to announce that Project Espresso, our project to port Adélie Linux to the Wii U console, has just released alpha repositories. We will be providing root images for SD cards in the coming days. For more information, including links to the repositories and how to set up your existing install to use these binaries, see the linked blog post. Happy computing!"

Was just reading about Matilda Emmerich having her artwork declined by the Hawkesbury Agricultural Show because of its content. Am I the only one concerned about the censorship of artists in Australia these days?
https://www.…

Teen artist striving for ‘hope’ during global wars banned from show
A teenager submitted a painting of a young angel in combat fatigues and flags from global conflict zones, but organisers have refused to hang it.

I find myself doing a lot of the research when coding larger features or debugging hard problems over my phone these days, googling things, looking up articles, you name it. Because sometimes thoughts come to me when I am not necessarily in front of the PC and having the phone handy is really convenient.
So I really miss having the same convenience to try actual code out without having to walk over to my PC be it a room or half a town away.
Am I alone in that feeling?