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TollBit: from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, traffic from AI retrieval bots to 266 websites, including national and local news organizations, grew 49%, as AI usage jumps (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

‘This is coming for everyone’: A new kind of AI bot takes over the web
As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI chatbots.

Progress toward the detection of the gravitational-wave background from stellar-mass binary black holes: a mock data challenge
Xiao-Xiao Kou, Muhammed Saleem, Vuk Mandic, Colm Talbot, Eric Thrane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14179

Progress toward the detection of the gravitational-wave background from stellar-mass binary black holes: a mock data challenge
While the third LIGO--Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalog includes 90 signals, it is believed that ${\cal O}(10^5)$ binary black holes merge somewhere in the Universe every year. Although these signals are too weak to be detected individually with current observatories, they combine to create a stochastic background, which is potentially detectable in the near future. LIGO--Virgo searches for the gravitational-wave background using cross-correlation have so far yielded upper limits. Howe…

TollBit: from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, traffic from AI retrieval bots to 266 websites, half run by national and local news organizations, grew 49%, as AI usage jumps (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

‘This is coming for everyone’: A new kind of AI bot takes over the web
As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI chatbots.

As promised, the @… fundraising campaign seems to be storming ahead, so here's a new - and rather hastily edited - video from NW #Greenland fieldwork just up on @… Just in case anyone finds it interesting and fun. I made this in shotcut. At some point I'll work out how to annotate them properly I guess...
Enjoy!
https://tilvids.com/w/nY8US6AsGDnsVeUXPqBixq

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Unclassified
rest symbol:
🎵 Twelfth Hour
#restsymbol
https://open.spotify.com/track/0oJfxe7WRHK7AxnX8Syjrc

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Jesus and Mary Chain:
🎵 Tower of Song
#TheJesusandMaryChain
https://open.spotify.com/track/6tLF3toLOqEJWqK0hXP0Rh

from my link log —
“Twelfth Night Till Candlemas: the story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending.
https://davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twelfth-night-till-candlemas-the-story…

“Twelfth Night Till Candlemas” – the story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
The day before the Winter Solstice, 2024 This post is about finally finding a book from one’s youth forty years later – and after nearly thirty years of searching. It is also a tale about gob…

Discovery of Faint Nebulosity Around a Z Camelopardalis-type Cataclysmic Variable in Antlia: Nova Shell or Ancient Planetary Nebula?
Howard E. Bond (Penn State University, STScI), Dana Patchick (Deep Sky Hunters Consortium), Daniel Stern (MEA Observatory), Jonathan Talbot (Stark Bayou Observatory), John R. Thorstensen (Dartmouth)
https://

Discovery of Faint Nebulosity Around a Z Camelopardalis-type Cataclysmic Variable in Antlia: Nova Shell or Ancient Planetary Nebula?
We report our discovery of a faint nebula surrounding a previously little-studied 15th-mag variable star, ASASSN-19ds, in the southern-hemisphere constellation Antlia. Spectra verify that the star is a cataclysmic variable (CV). Using new and archival photometry, we confirm that ASASSN-19ds is an eclipsing binary with an orbital period of 0.139 days (3.34 hr). Moreover, its out-of-eclipse brightness shows a "sawtooth" light curve with an amplitude of $\sim$1~mag and an interval between peaks th…

I seem to be having a rush* of new followers on my occasional #peertube channel - no idea why? Bots?
Does this mean I should post more videos? Anyone else seeing more people arriving to peertube?
*Ok, "rush" is relative, but it's more than two hundred now
https://tilvids.com/c/icesheets_climate/videos

One of my favourite peertube channels btw is @… who in this inspiring video, explains how she makes all her vids on linux.
If I ever get more time, I will seriously follow some of these recommendations - I'm already a fan of @…
https://tilvids.com/w/p4pRnBvNGGAAafD5KtDSvs