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The Austrian Data Protection Authority ("DSB") issued a decision finding that Microsoft 365 Education illegally tracks students and uses student data for Microsoft's own purposes.
https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-microsoft-365-education-tracks-school-child…

noyb win: Microsoft 365 Education tracks school children
Favorable decision by the Austrian DSB: Microsoft Education 365 may not track school kids and Microsoft is ordered to provide full access to kids' data.

Love’s Shifting Nature album preview – 3 #piano #improv tracks #music

Love's Shifting Nature album preview - 3 #piano #improv tracks
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

🐽 🇪🇺 #Microsoft 365 Education darf Schüler nicht tracken | @…
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Ions leaving no tracks
Azat Abdullaev, Javier Garcia Fernandez, Chloe Nozais, Jacques O'Connell, Rustem Tlegenov, Kairolla Sekerbayev, Alexander Azarov, Aleksi Leino, Junlei Zhao, Aldo Artimez Pena, Nikita Medvedev, Zhandos Utegulov, Oystein Prytz, Flyura Djurabekova, Andrej Kuznetsov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07440

Ions leaving no tracks
The paths of swift heavy ions are typically traceable in solids, because of confined electronic interactions along the paths, inducing what is known in literature as 'ion tracks', i.e. nano-sized in cross-section cylindrical zones of modified material extending for microns in length. Such tracks readily form in materials exhibiting low thermal conductivities, in particular insulators or semiconductors, altering the homogeneity of materials. In this work, using recently discovered gamma/beta-Ga2…

🪨 Rocks on train tracks strand 900 Machu Picchu tourists amid protest
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/17/rocks-on-train-tracks-strand-900-machu-picchu-tourists-amid-protest

SemiAnalysis launches InferenceMAX, an open-source benchmark that automatically tracks LLM inference performance across AI models and frameworks every night (Kimbo Chen/SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/inferencemax-open-source-inference

InferenceMAX™: Open Source Inference Benchmarking
NVIDIA GB200 NVL72, AMD MI355X, Throughput Token per GPU, Latency Tok/s/user, Perf per Dollar, Tokens per Provisioned Megawatt, DeepSeek R1 670B, GPTOSS 120B, Llama3 70B

Spotify users can now connect their accounts to ChatGPT so it can provide recommendations for tracks, artists, podcasts, and playlists (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/10/you-can-now-connect-your-spotify-ac…

You can now connect your Spotify account to ChatGPT: Here’s how to do it | TechCrunch
You can now connect your Spotify account in ChatGPT and it will perform tasks for you, such as creating personalized playlists.

Sunday late night mood: Wonderfully calm ambient mix by the one and only Jeff Chill (includes a fair number of vintage film samples/monologues):
"Experience weightlessness in Space for 3 h 00 with ambient with the likes of ISHQ, Mick Chillage, ASC, Mount Shrine (RIP), Warmth, Black dog, Inmost and Donato Dozzy. 40 tracks total, a journey from Earth to Space."
Orbiting The Earth - 3 h 00 in Space (2023)

Theropod tracks "of a very large dinosaur for which we currently have no skeletal evidence." Mill Canyon site, near Moab, Utah #FossilFriday

#sound

Global Ear: Beijing - The Wire
After the body blows of the early 2020s, eclectic spaces in China’s capital are platforming a new generation of players and listeners. Josh Feola selects tracks by some of the musicians involved

Putting the Dutch offshore wind train back on the tracks
The Dutch offshore wind programme is in trouble. While 4.5 GW is in operation and another 1.5 GW under construction, the original plan was to rapidly build out capacity to 21 GW by 2032. That target is now out of reach.
My thoughts on how this happened, and what to do about it!

Putting the Dutch offshore wind train back on the tracks
Putting the Dutch offshore wind train back on the tracks

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThisClassicalLife
- Jess Gillam with... Ksenija Sidorova
Jess Gillam swaps favourite music with the accordionist Ksenija Sidorova, including tracks by Shostakovich, Tonu Korvits, Astor Piazzolla, Vivaldi and Otis Redding.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0024fxl

budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 105293 edges.
Tags: Biol…

Waaaarum sagt mir keiner, dass #MeraLuna live auf #Arte läuft?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KujUPpK0QIM

Tidal For Streaming
I know that Spotify is considered to have the best algorithm for suggesting new music. However, the sound quality isn’t there. Therefore, I use Tidal for lossless hi-res playback (of at least some of the library). Today, I’ve found that Tidal does a pretty good job suggesting other tracks I would like to listen to after playing an album. Some time back, it was just suggesting rap, and other stuff I didn’t care to listen to.

Tidal For Streaming
I know that Spotify is considered to have the best algorithm for suggesting new music. However, the sound quality isn’t there. Therefore, I use Tidal for lossless hi-res playback (of at least some …

Homotopy Iterators
Paul Breiding, Taylor Brysiewicz, Hannah Friedman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08084 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08084

Homotopy Iterators
We introduce the concept of homotopy iterators for performing polynomial homotopy continuation tasks in a memory efficient manner. The main idea is to push forward an iterator for the start solutions of a homotopy via the function which tracks them along the homotopy. Doing so produces a representation of the target solutions, bypassing the need to hold all solutions in memory. We discuss several applications of this datatype ranging from solution counting to data compression.

Bodega: Serving Linearizable Reads Locally from Anywhere at Anytime via Roster Leases
Guanzhou Hu, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07158 h…

Bodega: Serving Linearizable Reads Locally from Anywhere at Anytime via Roster Leases
We present Bodega, the first consensus protocol that serves linearizable reads locally from any desired node, regardless of interfering writes. Bodega achieves this via a novel roster leases algorithm that safeguards the roster, a new notion of cluster metadata. The roster is a generalization of leadership; it tracks arbitrary subsets of replicas as responder nodes for local reads. A consistent agreement on the roster is established through roster leases, an all-to-all leasing mechanism that ge…

Had a blast at our little #OpenStreetMap birthday celebration. 🍰 🧉
It ended up being too windy to fly drones for long. Instead we recorded street-level images for #panoramax and GPS tracks, in addition to doing a lot of live surveying – using a huge range of tools that allow contributing to OSM!
In no particular order we at least used: @…, @…, @…, @…, HOTOSM's ChatMap, iD and JOSM.
Having so many different ways of making contributions is a real feature.

Spotify’s Royalty Threshold Is Conscious Parallelism Reshaping the Music Business—But Not in a Good Way
https://thetrichordist.com/2025/08/07/

Spotify’s Royalty Threshold Is Conscious Parallelism Reshaping the Music Business—But Not in a Good Way
Spotify’s 1,000-stream royalty threshold isn’t just a cost-saving measure—it’s a redistribution scheme that cuts out millions of tracks while still using them to drive engagement, ads, and algorith…

Geordnete Musiksammlungen. #sound
https://www.last.fm/music/ noredirect/Unbekannter Interpret/ tracks?date_preset=LAST_7_DAYS

Find Unbekannter Interpret's songs, tracks, and other music | Last.fm
Listen to Spur 14, After the Moment and more from Unbekannter Interpret. Find similar music that you'll enjoy, only at Last.fm.

The first track feels like a Forza Horizon material (in a good way). I like the Emily Pilbeam spin of the show (Tom Robinson was great of course). I am so relieved BBC kept at least this show out in the open. I know there is no free lunch, but cutting the access of the outside world to so much BBC content was an absolute cultural-spread disaster, imo.
With a new Track of the Week from Bug Teeth | BBC Music Introducing Mixtape

BBC Radio 6 Music - BBC Music Introducing Mixtape, With a new Track of the Week from Bug Teeth
Emily Pilbeam presents a mixtape of her personal selection of tracks from BBC Introducing.

Measurement of All Flavor PeV Neutrino Flux using Combined Datasets from IceCube
Emre Yildizci (for the IceCube Collaboration), Zo\"e Rechav (for the IceCube Collaboration), Lu Lu (for the IceCube Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05886

Measurement of All Flavor PeV Neutrino Flux using Combined Datasets from IceCube
Recently, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory has reported a deviation from the single power law in the extragalactic diffuse neutrino flux. A neural network-based event selection of contained and uncontained cascade events from IceCube, in which uncontained events have interaction vertices at the edge or outside of the detector instrumentation volume, has a factor ~3 gain in effective area over the cascade events used in the novel combined tracks and cascades selection which reported the deviatio…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#PrivatePassions
- Alfred Brendel
Another chance to hear pianist Alfred Brendel in conversation with Michael Berkeley in 2017. Brendel’s music choices include tracks by Gesualdo, Zelenka, Bizet and Beethoven.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09k6t75

So viel zum Thema #Chatkontrolle und „Wer nichts zu verbergen hat…“
Wenn die Falschen an der Macht sind und die Strukturen bestehen, wird es übel.
https://www.

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day
Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

This is the first time a book I've contributed to has gotten the subway platform publicity treatment.
#histodons #Montréal #HigherEd

Proton-Acoustic Wave Effects on the Relaxation of Proton Transverse Heating in Magnetized Plasmas
Mart\'in A. Quijada, Pablo S. Moya, Roberto E. Navarro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08106

Proton-Acoustic Wave Effects on the Relaxation of Proton Transverse Heating in Magnetized Plasmas
Transverse electromagnetic and electrostatic plasma wave modes propagating along a background magnetic field $\vec{B}_0$ are independent according to linear kinetic theory. However, resonant interactions and energy exchange between waves and particles break this linear decoupling. This work tracks the coupled evolution of Alfvén-cyclotron (ACWs) and Ion-acoustic waves (IAWs) by solving moment-based quasilinear equations for a collisionless plasma of bi-Maxwellian protons and Maxwellian electro…

Generative World Modelling for Humanoids: 1X World Model Challenge Technical Report
Riccardo Mereu, Aidan Scannell, Yuxin Hou, Yi Zhao, Aditya Jitta, Antonio Dominguez, Luigi Acerbi, Amos Storkey, Paul Chang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07092

Generative World Modelling for Humanoids: 1X World Model Challenge Technical Report
World models are a powerful paradigm in AI and robotics, enabling agents to reason about the future by predicting visual observations or compact latent states. The 1X World Model Challenge introduces an open-source benchmark of real-world humanoid interaction, with two complementary tracks: sampling, focused on forecasting future image frames, and compression, focused on predicting future discrete latent codes. For the sampling track, we adapt the video generation foundation model Wan-2.2 TI2V-…

MATRIX: Mask Track Alignment for Interaction-aware Video Generation
Siyoon Jin, Seongchan Kim, Dahyun Chung, Jaeho Lee, Hyunwook Choi, Jisu Nam, Jiyoung Kim, Seungryong Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07310

MATRIX: Mask Track Alignment for Interaction-aware Video Generation
Video DiTs have advanced video generation, yet they still struggle to model multi-instance or subject-object interactions. This raises a key question: How do these models internally represent interactions? To answer this, we curate MATRIX-11K, a video dataset with interaction-aware captions and multi-instance mask tracks. Using this dataset, we conduct a systematic analysis that formalizes two perspectives of video DiTs: semantic grounding, via video-to-text attention, which evaluates whether n…

I tried batch uploading "a couple" (several hundreds) of my GPX tracks from the recent years into #wanderer . It went all smooth! And I finally have the "white areas" which I didn't walk or cycle -- yet! :D
When people ask me if I'm out and about often, I never know what to say. I try to get into nature once in a while, yes.

For #GrindayFriday this week, the debut self-titled LP by Czech/Slovak grind band SICK DESTROYER. Been listening to a lot of this one, it's a banger. It features members of Lycanthrophy, Needful Things and Morbid Angel Dust. This brutal record has 19 tracks, including an Assück cover - it even has some wild bass breakdowns, great dynamics, riffing, drumming, etc. Another serious contender this ye…

Open ASR Leaderboard: Towards Reproducible and Transparent Multilingual and Long-Form Speech Recognition Evaluation
Vaibhav Srivastav, Steven Zheng, Eric Bezzam, Eustache Le Bihan, Nithin Koluguri, Piotr \.Zelasko, Somshubra Majumdar, Adel Moumen, Sanchit Gandhi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06961

Open ASR Leaderboard: Towards Reproducible and Transparent Multilingual and Long-Form Speech Recognition Evaluation
Despite rapid progress, ASR evaluation remains saturated with short-form English, and efficiency is rarely reported. We present the Open ASR Leaderboard, a fully reproducible benchmark and interactive leaderboard comparing 60+ open-source and proprietary systems across 11 datasets, including dedicated multilingual and long-form tracks. We standardize text normalization and report both word error rate (WER) and inverse real-time factor (RTFx), enabling fair accuracy-efficiency comparisons. For E…

Full die PIC12F683 100x scan at M3 with a little bit of passivation remaining.
There's a few small particulates on the surface from my somewhat crude "rub it with a swab" cleaning to remove residual undercut glass fragments.
Plan is to give it ~10 more seconds in HF to get more glass residue off, then maybe a very brief sonication (like 2-3 seconds), then image again to see if it cleaned up at all.
Depending on how things go I might end up just continuing to e…

Had a lot of fun last night, compiling a little playlist of some of my fave old #NinjaTune tracks. So many outstanding artists, tracks, so much variety and also humor (in titles, samples, production)... mementos and signs from a more optimistic era!

Die #Klimakrise trifft #Kanada und #Europa.
Im Juli 2025 wurden auf beiden Seiten des Atlantiks außergewöhnlich starke

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-tool-that-tracks-locations-of-hundreds-of-millions-of-phones-every-day/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250930/p163#a250930p163

PARSEC V2.0: Rotating tracks and isochrones for seven addtional metallicities in the range Z=0.0001-0.03
C. T. Nguyen, G. Costa, A. Bressan, L. Girardi, G. Cescutti, A. J. Korn, G. Volpato, Y. Chen, G. Pastorelli, M. Trabucchi, K. G. Shepherd, G. Ettorre, S. Zaggia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02393 …

PARSEC V2.0: Rotating tracks and isochrones for seven addtional metallicities in the range Z=0.0001-0.03
PARSEC v2.0 rotating stellar tracks were previously presented for six values of metallicity from subsolar to solar values, with initial rotation rates ($ω_\mathrm{i}$, defined as the ratio of angular velocity and its critical value) spanning from the non-rotating case to very near the critical velocity (i.e. $ω_\mathrm{i}=0.99$), and for initial masses covering the $\sim 0.7 M_\odot$ to $14 M_\odot$ interval. Furthermore, we provided the corresponding isochrones converted into several photome…

Moody Urbanity - Nowhere 🔲
情绪化城市 - 无处 🔲
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

There is an ActivityPub proposal that involves the #DNS.
I have only just discovered it and have not considered it deeply so I am reluctant to make any grand statements. It is not obvious to me why this is useful or better than alternative approaches. It appears to involve the use of TXT RRs, any new de facto use of which makes me skeptical.

[TRACKING] FEP-612d: Identifying ActivityPub Objects through DNS
The proposal has been received. Thank you! This issue tracks discussions and updates to the proposal during the `DRAFT` period. Please post links to relevant discussions as comment to this issue. `dateReceived`: 2023-04-18 If no further actions are taken, the proposal may be set by ed...

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day https://www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-tool-that-tracks-locations-of-hundreds-of-millions-of-phones-every-day/

4 fun tracks with banjo and guitar – #DreamState revisited #music #musician #musicianresources

4 fun tracks with banjo and guitar - #DreamState revisited
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Caoilinn Hughes - following in Joyce's railway tracks.
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/aug/26/train-travel-following-in-james-joyce-tracks-to-trieste

CDC dramatically scales back program that tracks food poisoning infections | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/cdc-dramatically-scales-back-program-that-tracks-food-poisoning-infections

Jede Woche intensiv ein Album hören. Das letzte Album dieser Reihe lief hier sogar zwei Wochen, weil ich in der ersten Woche nicht ausreichend Zeit fand, mich damit zu beschäftigen. Dabei läuft The Overview (erschienen 2025) gerade mal etwas über 40min und hat auch nur zwei Tracks. Die es aber in sich haben, wie man es von einem Steven Wilson erwartet. #albumderwoche

Major kudos to the people who put together the tracks for this new compilation of power pop songs.
Some real hidden gems in here, like the early tracks from The Bongos and The Smithereens.
It covers the decade quite well with the early 80s stuff that's often included in these comps, through to the late 80s with deep cuts from Redd Kross and The Pursuit of Happiness.
#music

Various Artists: I Wanna Be A Teen Again - American Power Pop 1980-1989, 3CD Box Set
• 3CD CELEBRATION OF CLASSIC AND RARE NORTH AMERICAN POWER POP OF THE 1980s.• OVER 75 TRACKS FULL OF HOOKS, HARMONIES & HIGH ENERGY!• FEATURING THE FLAMIN' GROOVIES, CHEAP TRICK, THE GO-GOS, THE RAMONES, THE BANGLES, REDD KROSS, THE KNACK, THE ROMANTICS, STIV BATORS, THE SHIVVERS, THE SMITHEREENS, THE VELVET CRUSH, MATERIAL ISSUE, DWIGHT TWILLEY, PHIL SEYMOUR, ERIC CARMEN, NIKKI & THE CORVETTES, PAUL COLLINS' BEAT, 20/20, RICK SPRINGFIELD, SHOES, THE LONG RYDERS, UTOPIA AND SCORES MORE….

Balancing Accuracy and Novelty with Sub-Item Popularity
Chiara Mallamaci, Aleksandr Vladimirovich Petrov, Alberto Carlo Maria Mancino, Vito Walter Anelli, Tommaso Di Noia, Craig Macdonald
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05198

Balancing Accuracy and Novelty with Sub-Item Popularity
In the realm of music recommendation, sequential recommenders have shown promise in capturing the dynamic nature of music consumption. A key characteristic of this domain is repetitive listening, where users frequently replay familiar tracks. To capture these repetition patterns, recent research has introduced Personalised Popularity Scores (PPS), which quantify user-specific preferences based on historical frequency. While PPS enhances relevance in recommendation, it often reinforces already-k…

OK, that's a new one: they replaced the carriage I was on. Everybody had to get off, everybody ahead of that carriage went for a ride along, they brought back two new carriages instead. Wild.
#CrossBorderRail

Sensor Co-design for $\textit{smartpixels}$
Danush Shekar, Ben Weiss, Morris Swartz, Corrinne Mills, Jennet Dickinson, Lindsey Gray, David Jiang, Mohammad Abrar Wadud, Daniel Abadjiev, Anthony Badea, Douglas Berry, Alec Cauper, Arghya Ranjan Das, Giuseppe Di Guglielmo, Karri Folan DiPetrillo, Farah Fahim, Rachel Kovach Fuentes, Abhijith Gandrakota, James Hirschauer, Eliza Howard, Shiqi Kuang, Carissa Kumar, Ron Lipton, Mia Liu, Petar Maksimovic, Nick Manganelli, Mark S Neubauer, Aidan …

Sensor Co-design for $\textit{smartpixels}$
Pixel tracking detectors at upcoming collider experiments will see unprecedented charged-particle densities. Real-time data reduction on the detector will enable higher granularity and faster readout, possibly enabling the use of the pixel detector in the first level of the trigger for a hadron collider. This data reduction can be accomplished with a neural network (NN) in the readout chip bonded with the sensor that recognizes and rejects tracks with low transverse momentum (p$_T$) based on th…

"scientists developed a #mRNA #vaccine – based on similar technology used for some COVID-19 vaccines – to block the fertilization process. The result: a 99.7% drop in the rate of transmission of the malaria-causing parasite recorded in preclinical studies.
That could be a huge step forward in t…

Learning Relationships Between Separate Audio Tracks for Creative Applications
Balthazar Bujard (IRCAM, SU), J\'er\^ome Nika (IRCAM), F\'ed\'eric Bevilacqua (IRCAM), Nicolas Obin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25296

Learning Relationships Between Separate Audio Tracks for Creative Applications
This paper presents the first step in a research project situated within the field of musical agents. The objective is to achieve, through training, the tuning of the desired musical relationship between a live musical input and a real-time generated musical output, through the curation of a database of separated tracks. We propose an architecture integrating a symbolic decision module capable of learning and exploiting musical relationships from such musical corpus. We detail an offline implem…

In today's British rail excuses: not damp enough
Rail services in parts of England are cut as tracks disturbed by lack of moisture | Rail transport | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/04/rail-services-e…

Morning Jams Continue
As near as I can tell, I did the first of these morning jams on January 27, 2025. If I search on "jam" in my project folder I get 230 tracks, of which I would say about 200 or so are morning jams. They started out as just guitar, then over time I starting adding a drum groove, then a bass part, then synth.

Railroad tracks on Rt 38 south of Newark Valley -- so far as I know trains still deliver oil to a petroleum depot near Harford
#photo #photography #landscape

The three things that make bicycle route planning most difficult where I live is freeways, railroad tracks, and rivers.
#biking #bikeTooter

Spotify updates its AI policy, including adopting the upcoming DDEX standard to label and identify AI music and rolling out a new music spam filter (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/25/spotify-updates-ai-policy-to-label-trac…

Spotify to label AI music, filter spam and more in AI policy change | TechCrunch
Spotify is launching a music spam filter, labeling AI tracks, and clarifying its rules around AI voice clones.

budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 71604 edges.
Tags: Biolo…

We're in Remer, #Minnesota, the home of Bigfoot Days

The signal is not flushed away: Inferring the effective reproduction number from wastewater data in small populations
Isaac H. Goldstein, Daniel M. Parker, Sunny Jiang, Aiswarya Rani Pappu, Volodymyr M. Minin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03959

The signal is not flushed away: Inferring the effective reproduction number from wastewater data in small populations
The effective reproduction number is an important descriptor of an infectious disease epidemic. In small populations, ideally we would estimate the effective reproduction number using a Markov Jump Process (MJP) model of the spread of infectious disease, but in practice this is computationally challenging. We propose a computationally tractable approximation to an MJP which tracks only latent and infectious individuals, the EI model, an MJP where the time-varying immigration rate into the E com…

Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission
"They could fix this problem. One of their talented software engineers could stop this fraudulent practice in its tracks, if they had the will to do so."
🎶 https://www.404media.co/sp…

Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission
"They could fix this problem. One of their talented software engineers could stop this fraudulent practice in its tracks, if they had the will to do so."

Finished "Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl" by Jonathan C. Slaght.
Slaght leads a scientific study to the remote and frozen Primoriye region of Eastern Russia to learn more about the Blakiston Fish Owl, the largest living species of owl. Slaght hoped that increased understanding would allow for habitat preservation and conservation to protect this amazing species. Utterly fascinating.
5/5 stars ⭐⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the W…
A field scientist and conservationist tracks the elusiv…

Nearly 100 activists from
"Jewish Voice for Peace"
filled the lobby of #Palantir’s Seattle offices on July 14, 2025.
Activists carried banners featuring giant eyes with yellow irises:
“First Palantir Surveils, then IDF Kills.”
“First Palantir Tracks, then ICE attacks.”
Arm in arm, they blocked the elevators to the building,
preventing employees from a…

Organizers Are Demanding Palantir Drop Contracts With ICE and Israeli Military
Tech workers are also increasingly determined to hold their workplaces accountable for enabling the genocide in Gaza.

Algorave : la teuf en open source | Tracks | ARTE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crz6R4p_owI

Los Angeles Chargers Second-Rounder Puts Holdout Train On Tracks: AFC West https://raiderramble.com/2025/07/14/los-angeles-chargers-puts-holdout-train-on-tracks-afc-west/

Spotify updates its AI policy, including adopting the upcoming DDEX standard to label and identify AI music and rolling out a new music spam filter (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/25/spotify-updates-ai-policy-to-label-trac…

Spotify to label AI music, filter spam and more in AI policy change | TechCrunch
Spotify is launching a music spam filter, labeling AI tracks, and clarifying its rules around AI voice clones.

NFL Week 1 injury report: Player statuses for all 16 games https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-week-1-injury-report-player-statuses-for-all-16-games-2025-season

Two of Noah Lyas' beautifully crafted slow-mo albums, somewhere between dub and deep techno, minimal-ish, but with lots of atmos, warmth, layers, rhythms & space to breathe...
Noah Lyas & Eafhm - Rhythms & Thoughts (6 tracks, 2023)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?l…

Ad Astra Tom Lehrer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro

Typhoon Tracks Regulated by Feedbacks of Fine-Scale Clouds to Environment
Haoran Zhao, Shaoqing Zhang, Yang Gao, Lixin Wu, Yihan Cao, Wenju Cai, Bin Wang, L. Ruby Leung, Zebin Lu, Zhong Zhong, Xiaolin Yu, Mingkui Li, Chenyu Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26257

Typhoon Tracks Regulated by Feedbacks of Fine-Scale Clouds to Environment
Accurate tropical cyclone (TC) track prediction is crucial for mitigating the catastrophic impacts of TCs on human life and the environment. Despite decades of research on tropical cyclone (TC) track prediction, large errors known as track forecast busts (TFBs) occur frequently, and their causes remain poorly understood. Here, we examine a few dozens of TCs using a unique TC downscaling strategy that can quantitatively assess the sensitivity of TC track on the strength of feedbacks of fine-scal…

MESA Isochrones and Stellar Tracks (MIST) III. The White Dwarf Cooling Sequence
Evan B. Bauer, Aaron Dotter, Charlie Conroy, Tim Cunningham, Minjung Park, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21717

MESA Isochrones and Stellar Tracks (MIST) III. The White Dwarf Cooling Sequence
We present a substantial update to the MESA Isochrones and Stellar Tracks (MIST) library, extending the MIST model grids and isochrones down the white dwarf (WD) cooling sequence with realistic physics for WD cooling timescales. This work provides a large grid of MESA models for carbon-oxygen core WDs with hydrogen atmospheres (spectral type DA/DC), descended from full prior stellar evolution calculations. The model tracks, isochrones, and WD cooling timescale contours are available on the MIST…

From Zooey Deschanel to Captain Kirk doing Dylan: the best songs by actors, ranked! https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/jul/31/best-songs-by-actors-ranked?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

@… 😎
https://beige.party/@Moss/115114711113758637

Lagrangian description and quantification of scalar mixing in fluid flows from particle tracks
Anna Kl\"unker, Alexandra von Kameke, Kathrin Padberg-Gehle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25030

Lagrangian description and quantification of scalar mixing in fluid flows from particle tracks
Understanding, quantifying and controlling transport and mixing processes are central in the study of fluid flows. Many different Lagrangian approaches have been proposed for detecting organizing flow structures that determine material transport, including recent data-based methods that aim to identify such coherent objects directly from tracer trajectories. These methods have helped to gain a better understanding of the underlying dynamics. However, the quantification of scalar mixing has not …

Probing missing physics from inspiralling compact binaries via time-frequency tracks
Debtroy Das, Soumen Roy, Anand S. Sengupta, Cosimo Bambi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21566 ht…

Probing missing physics from inspiralling compact binaries via time-frequency tracks
The orbital evolution of binary black hole (BBH) systems is determined by the component masses and spins of the black holes and the governing gravity theory. Gravitational wave (GW) signals from the evolution of BBH orbits offer an unparalleled opportunity for examining the predictions of General Relativity (GR) and for searching for missing physics in the current waveform models. We present a method of stacking up the time-frequency pixel energies through the orbital frequency evolution with t…

Looking at brother's kids toys:
Carbrains will do everything not to admit the superiority of railways. They will literally put cars on tracks!

Recycled rubber tracks reduce maintenance and extend track life for rail operators. Innovative technology tested on Sydney Trains freight line shows promising results. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Recycled rubber tracks underlay slow ballast wear and cut maintenance
Sydney’s recycled rubber track innovation cushions load, protects ballast, and promises millions in maintenance savings.

budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 112890 edges.
Tags: Biol…

Amazing #video of an #earthquake where large areas were moved for several meters(!) within 1.3 seconds: https://youtu.be/77ubC4bcgRM

Non-Destructive Rail Monitoring for Defect Identification
Elissa Akiki (TPIA - IEMN, IEMN), Lynda Chehami (TPIA - IEMN, IEMN), Nikolay Smagin (TPIA - IEMN, IEMN), Emmanuel Moulin (TPIA - IEMN, IEMN), Jamal Assaad, Youssef Zaatar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06394

Non-Destructive Rail Monitoring for Defect Identification
Non-destructive evaluation (NDE) of rail tracks is crucial to ensure the safety and reliability of rail transportation systems. In this work, we present a quantitative study using various signal processing methods to identify defects in rail structures. A diffuse field configuration was employed at few dozens of kiloHertz, where the emitter and receiver were remotely located, and wave energy propagated via multiple reflections within the medium. A reference database is first constructed by acqu…

Weltweit nahmen #Waldbrände in der ersten Jahreshälfte 2025 stark zu.
Besonders betroffen waren #Kanada und #Russland mit extremen Emissionen und weitreichendem

THIS👇👇👇👇👇
https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/114949958179517536
( And it highlights the fact that we need to rethink utilities, recognizing them as services necessary for a modern equitable society to function)

THIS👇👇👇👇👇
https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/114949958179517536
( And it highlights the fact that we need to rethink utilities, recognizing them as services necessary for a modern equitable society to function)

‘Find My Parking Cops’ Tracks Officers Handing Out Tickets All Around San Francisco https://www.404media.co/find-my-parking-cops-tracks-officers-handing-out-tickets-all-around-san-francisco/

Love’s Shifting Nature album preview – 3 #piano #improv tracks #music

Love's Shifting Nature album preview - 3 #piano #improv tracks
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

A Linear N-Point Solver for Structure and Motion from Asynchronous Tracks
Hang Su, Yunlong Feng, Daniel Gehrig, Panfeng Jiang, Ling Gao, Xavier Lagorce, Laurent Kneip
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22733

A Linear N-Point Solver for Structure and Motion from Asynchronous Tracks
Structure and continuous motion estimation from point correspondences is a fundamental problem in computer vision that has been powered by well-known algorithms such as the familiar 5-point or 8-point algorithm. However, despite their acclaim, these algorithms are limited to processing point correspondences originating from a pair of views each one representing an instantaneous capture of the scene. Yet, in the case of rolling shutter cameras, or more recently, event cameras, this synchronizati…

Moody Urbanity - Up ☁️
情绪化城市 - 上面 ☁️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Groove Monkey Jams
#music #guitar #improvisation This series of jams will feature midi drum files from Groove Monkey. I wanted to do some tracks that had a shuffle beat, so I chose one…

FBI Director Fast-Tracks New Agents as Firings and Departures of G-Men Tied to January 6 and Trump Prosecutions Accelerate (Daniel Edward Rosen/New York Sun)
https://www.nysun.com/article/fbi-director-fast-tracks-new-agents-as-firings-and-departures-of-g-men-tied-to-january-6-and-trump-prosecutions-accelerate
http://www.memeorandum.com/250816/p68#a250816p68

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day
https://www.404media.co/email/0ba0f6a2-9195-4ced-9c40-92bb72367e7a/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

🚂 How to repurpose abandoned railway tracks: Two projects explore driverless electric mini-trains
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-08-23/how-to-repurpose-abandoned-railway-tracks-tw…

How to repurpose abandoned railway tracks: Two projects explore driverless electric mini-trains
Autonomous rail vehicles with few seats could connect low-demand destinations at a very low cost, although Spanish legislation poses a stumbling block

Spotify adds new features for free users globally, allowing them to search for and play any song they want; the company reported 433M ad-supported MAUs in Q2 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/15/spotify-will-now-let-free-users-pic…

Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch
On Monday, the company announced that free users globally will now be able to search and play any song they want or play a song shared by a friend or an artist they follow on social media.

budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 93708 edges.
Tags: Biolo…

Spotify adds new features for free users globally, allowing them to search for and play any song they want; the company reported 433M ad-supported MAUs in Q2 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/15/spotify-will-now-let-free-users-pic…

Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch
On Monday, the company announced that free users globally will now be able to search and play any song they want or play a song shared by a friend or an artist they follow on social media.

"Beyond the past": Leveraging Audio and Human Memory for Sequential Music Recommendation
Viet-Tran Anh, Bruno Sguerra, Gabriel Meseguer-Brocal, Lea Briand, Manuel Moussallam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17356

"Beyond the past": Leveraging Audio and Human Memory for Sequential Music Recommendation
On music streaming services, listening sessions are often composed of a balance of familiar and new tracks. Recently, sequential recommender systems have adopted cognitive-informed approaches, such as Adaptive Control of Thought-Rational (ACT-R), to successfully improve the prediction of the most relevant tracks for the next user session. However, one limitation of using a model inspired by human memory (or the past), is that it struggles to recommend new tracks that users have not previously l…

NFL Week 5 injury report: Player statuses for all 14 games https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-week-5-injury-report-player-statuses-for-all-14-games

Ritüel Kaçış (Ritual Escape) #PentatonicMusic #NowPlaying #originalmusic
5 tracks of mystical delight

Ritüel Kaçış (Ritual Escape) #PentatonicMusic #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Railroad track by the waterfront in Ithaca, NY; that's the clubhouse for Cornell's rowing team with the big C in the background
#photo #photography #ithaca

4 fun tracks with banjo and guitar - #DreamState revisited
#banjo
https://muz4now.com/2023/4…

4 fun tracks with banjo and guitar - #DreamState revisited
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

PEN America warns that book bans in public schools have become "rampant and common", with 3,750 titles banned in 87 districts during the 2024-25 school year (Elizabeth A. Harris/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/books/book-bans-pen-america.html…

‘Rampant’ Book Bans Are Now Taken for Granted, Free Speech Group Warns
A new report from PEN America tracks restrictions on school books across 45 states.

Long Beach man tries to quash feds’ subpoena over his app that tracks ICE activity – NBC Los Angeles
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/long-beach-man-federal-ice-subpoena-meta-instagram/3783748/

3 #MusicVideos from the musical suite "Ritual Escape"
- all tracks are based on the pentatonic scale -
#Listen

Ithaca's № 14 Kenzie Perluke has a great expression as she watches William Smiths № 15 Molly Walsh attempt a free throw -- these reactions are what make my free throw shots keepers or not
#photo #photography