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Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
TARRANT: [OOV] Tarrant to Scorpio. We're ready for teleport.
VILA: About time.
AVON: Stand by for teleport. Slave where are those cruisers now?
SLAVE: Sector Twelve, Master. You outmanoeuvred them with consumate skill.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/403/490

Why I Abruptly Stopped Using Ulysses After Twelve Years: https://marginally.ghost.io/why-i-abruptly-stopped-using-ulysses-after-twelve-years/
As of this weekend I have switched away from Ulysses, a writing app I have used for over twelve years.…

Why I Abruptly Stopped Using Ulysses After Twelve Years
As of this weekend I have switched away from Ulysses, a writing app I have used for over twelve years. It’s worth taking a moment to explain why.

I am feeling oddly competitive now that my twelve year old has caught up with my progress in Silksong.
#Silksong

Turns out ‘Good, Fast, Cheap - pick two’ also applies to Power-to-X, such as hydrogen electrolysis. Flexibility, small scale, low-cost: you can’t have it combined.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/all-quiet-h

All Quiet on the HyFront
Twelve months ago, I joined Marble, a Paris-based cleantech incubator with the idea of founding a Power-to-x Company. The move was a culmination of an eight-year analyst career spanning market research, technology diligence, as well as policy and grant advisory.

Flexible MIMO for Future Wireless Communications: Which Flexibilities are Possible?
Zhe Wang, Jiayi Zhang, Bokai Xu, Wenhui Yi, Emil Bj\"ornson, Bo Ai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07599

Flexible MIMO for Future Wireless Communications: Which Flexibilities are Possible?
To enable next-generation wireless communication networks with modest spectrum availability, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology needs to undergo further evolution. In this paper, we introduce a promising next-generation wireless communication concept: flexible MIMO technology. This technology represents a MIMO technology with flexible physical configurations and integrated applications. We categorize twelve representative flexible MIMO technologies into three major classifications…

Universal Mass Equation for Equal-Quantum Excited-States Sets II
L. David Roper (VTech), Igor Strakovsky (GWU)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06496 https://

Universal Mass Equation for Equal-Quantum Excited-States Sets II
We extend our recent study of the universal mass equation for equal-quantum excited-states sets reported by Roper and Strakovsky~\cite{Roper:2024ovj}. The masses of twelve baryon sets and sixteen meson sets, with only two equal-quantum excited states in each set, using Breit-Wigner PDG2024 masses and their uncertainties at fixed $J^P$ for baryons and $J^{PC}$ for mesons, are fitted by a simple one-parameter logarithmic function, $M_n = αLn(n) + M_1$, where $n$ is the level of radial excitation…

A preliminary orbit for the satellite of dwarf planet (136472) Makemake
Daniel Bamberger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05880 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05880

A preliminary orbit for the satellite of dwarf planet (136472) Makemake
I present a preliminary orbit for the satellite of dwarf planet (136472) Makemake, based on archival Hubble Space Telescope images taken on 13 days between April 2015 and February 2019. The satellite was detected on twelve of them. A best-fit circular orbit has a period of $18.023 \pm 0.017$ d, a semi-major axis of $22250 \pm 780$ km, and an inclination of $83.7^{\circ} \pm 1.0^{\circ}$ relative to the line of sight. That orbit is nearly edge-on, raising the possibility of ongoing or imminent m…

Economic and Policy Uncertainties and Firm Value: The Case of Consumer Durable Goods
Bahram Adrangi, Saman Hatamerad, Madhuparna Kolay, Kambiz Raffiee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07476

Economic and Policy Uncertainties and Firm Value: The Case of Consumer Durable Goods
The objective of this study is to analyze the response of firm value, represented by the Tobin's Q (Q) for a group of twelve U.S. durable goods producers to uncertainties in the US Economy. The results, based on an estimated panel quantile regressions (PQR) and panel vector autoregressive MIDAS model (PVM), show that Q for these firms reacts negatively to the positive shocks to the current ratio, and debt-to-asset ratio and positively to operating income after depreciation and the quick ratio i…

Hanging out on #Alki Beach with my kid, who's ... sorta getting stood up on his first thing-that-looks-like-a-date
(Long story, but a lot of it revolves around twelve year olds not communicating well with each other or their respective driving adults)
#Seattle

The Ethical Compass of the Machine: Evaluating Large Language Models for Decision Support in Construction Project Management
Somtochukwu Azie, Yiping Meng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04505

The Ethical Compass of the Machine: Evaluating Large Language Models for Decision Support in Construction Project Management
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into construction project management (CPM) is accelerating, with Large Language Models (LLMs) emerging as accessible decision-support tools. This study aims to critically evaluate the ethical viability and reliability of LLMs when applied to the ethically sensitive, high-risk decision-making contexts inherent in CPM. A mixed-methods research design was employed, involving the quantitative performance testing of two leading LLMs against twelve real…

Cat Royale: An Artistic Inquiry into Trust in Robots
Matt Adams, Nick Tandavanitj, Steve Benford, Ayse Kucukyilmaz, Victor Ngo, Simon Castle-Green, Guido Salimberi, Pepita Bernard, Joel Fischer, Alan Chamberlain, Eike Schneiders, Clara Mancini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04970

Cat Royale: An Artistic Inquiry into Trust in Robots
Cat Royale is an artwork created by the artists Blast Theory to explore the question of whether we should trust robots to care for our loved ones. The artists endeavoured to create a `Cat Utopia', a luxurious environment that was inhabited by a family of three cats for six hours a day for twelve days, at the centre of which a robot arm played with them by wielding toys. Behind the scenes, the decision engine recommended games based on ongoing assessment of their happiness. A video installation …

Energy-dependent anisotropy of cosmic-ray muons: A twelve-year study with IceCube Neutrino Observatory
Nabin Upadhya Dhakal, Nabin Bhusal, Manjeet Kunwar, Manil Khatiwada, Shiv Narayan Yadav
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01194

Energy-dependent anisotropy of cosmic-ray muons: A twelve-year study with IceCube Neutrino Observatory
We present a comprehensive, energy-resolved study of cosmic-ray muon anisotropy using 12 years (2011-2023) of data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, comprising 7.92 x 10^11 events in the 13 TeV to 5.3 PeV energy range. Dividing the spectrum at log-scale energy 5 GeV, we contrast low- and high-energy anisotropy features via sidereal modulation, angular profiles, Fourier analysis, and full-sky HEALPix mapping. Gaussian and power-law fits to energy distributions are evaluated using chi-square…

Measuring the dynamics of an XXZ quantum simulator and controlling collapse through symmetries
D. J. Papoular
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02468 https://arxi…

Measuring the dynamics of an XXZ quantum simulator and controlling collapse through symmetries
We theoretically consider the quantum simulation of a spin Hamiltonian whose twelve sites are arranged in a planar configuration with high spatial symmetry, $D_{6h}$. We map the system onto an effective fermionic Hamiltonian and identify its symmetry group. Comparing different initial states evolving under the Heisenberg or XXZ Hamiltonians, we analyze the impact of symmetry on the probability distribution for the outcomes of a measurement in a given basis, as a function of the evolution time. …

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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Khruangbin:
🎵 August Twelve
#Khruangbin
https://khruangbin.bandcamp.com/track/august-twelve
https://open.spotify.com/track/6JoIfxSRHuhdDiA7l10CqP

I know that in principle it's possible to compute the sine of an angle from first principles, because I'm pretty sure I could do it at school when I was twelve.
I know that in principle it's possible to compute the sine of an angle from first principles, because some clever bugger did it in 6502 assembly code fifty years ago.
Can I do it now in #Clojure

On my 11th power outage in the last twelve months in Grass Valley, CA. Thanks Piggy!

More than a decade after EuroMaidan, Ukrainians once again rally in Kyiv for their rights (PHOTOS): https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/26/more-than-a-decade-after.html

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08752 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Three Tone Networks and a Tessellation
The Eulerian tonnetz, which associates three minor chords to each major chord and three major chords to each minor chord, can be represented by a bipartite graph with twelve white vertices signifying major chords and twelve black vertices signifying minor chords. This so-called Levi graph uniquely determines the combinatorial geometry of a remarkable configuration of twelve points and twelve lines in the real projective plane with the property that three points lie on each line and three lines …

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost

VLBI studies of FLASH H I 21-cm absorbers - I
J. N. H. S. Aditya, Elaine M. Sadler, Raffaella Morganti, L. Y. Petrov, An Tao, Emily F. Kerrison, Elizabeth K. Mahony, Hyein Yoon, Renzhi Su, Matthew Whiting, Vanessa A. Moss, Simon Weng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19957

VLBI studies of FLASH H I 21-cm absorbers - I
We have conducted VLBA 1.4 GHz (L-band) continuum observations towards twelve sources with HI 21-cm absorption detections at redshift $0.4

All my best kitchen purchases have been at restaurant supply stores. Forget colorful overpriced Martha Stewart bowls, give me the $2.79 little metal bowls that stack twelve deep in less than six inches any day.

A Multidimensional AI-powered Framework for Analyzing Tourist Perception in Historic Urban Quarters: A Case Study in Shanghai
Kaizhen Tan, Yufan Wu, Yuxuan Liu, Haoran Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03830

A Multidimensional AI-powered Framework for Analyzing Tourist Perception in Historic Urban Quarters: A Case Study in Shanghai
Historic urban quarters play a vital role in preserving cultural heritage while serving as vibrant spaces for tourism and everyday life. Understanding how tourists perceive these environments is essential for sustainable, human-centered urban planning. This study proposes a multidimensional AI-powered framework for analyzing tourist perception in historic urban quarters using multimodal data from social media. Applied to twelve historic quarters in central Shanghai, the framework integrates foc…

Look: AI at Work! - Analysing Key Aspects of AI-support at the Work Place
Stefan Schiffer, Anna Milena Rothermel, Alexander Ferrein, Astrid Rosenthal-von der P\"utten
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02274

Look: AI at Work! - Analysing Key Aspects of AI-support at the Work Place
In this paper we present an analysis of technological and psychological factors of applying artificial intelligence (AI) at the work place. We do so for a number of twelve application cases in the context of a project where AI is integrated at work places and in work systems of the future. From a technological point of view we mainly look at the areas of AI that the applications are concerned with. This allows to formulate recommendations in terms of what to look at in developing an AI applicat…

Weekend Reads
* IPv6 adoption measurement https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11678
* Starlink capacity analysis https://

Towards a Non-Binary View of IPv6 Adoption
Twelve years have passed since World IPv6 Launch Day, but what is the current state of IPv6 deployment? Prior work has examined IPv6 status as a binary: can you use IPv6, or not? As deployment increases we must consider a more nuanced, non-binary perspective on IPv6: how much and often can a user or a service use IPv6? We consider this question as a client, server, and cloud provider. Considering the client's perspective, we observe user traffic. We see that the fraction of IPv6 traffic a user …

Today, my trusted wristwatch fell face down on a tiled floor. As a result, all twelve marker lines broke off and are now changing place with my every movement. At first, I was angry and sad. But then I noticed: What a perfect metaphor for life! How fragile life is. How sudden our illusion of safety can be broken. And also, how resilient life is. The watch is still working perfectly. Now, whenever I check the time, I am reminded to be grateful for being alive.

The scent also rises
#Sims4 #TheSims4 #Comicstrip

Went to see a Hoopla improv show at The Bell, a mix of half a dozen different groups doing different thin
gs. "Shuffle improv" were basing their scenes on a shuffled playlist built by the audience on the way in
and an interesting format from a improv-as-a-second-language group chatting about their experiences in a
foreign land and basing their scenes off it. The group called "twelve people" only had six but were good
chaotic fun.
Lots of stuff about cooking and food.
I found myself pondering optimum size for an improve group. In general the larger groups seemed more fun to me, with the exception of three-person "burn the script" who did excellent work. More than eight wouldn't fit in the tiny stage at that venue. In rehearsal I like to have the group split in half and perform for each other. Hard to do that with fewer than six. Still up in the air if our group will get off the ground or not. More people does mean more calendar clashes even if it makes for a cheaper-per-person room hire.
Everyone has instagram pages, which are no use to me. Won't link or visit there. Interesting that nobody has a Twitter profile any more and of course nobody seems to have just a damned website which still strikes me as madness. Imagine not wanting to own your own space on the web?
#improv #london

from my link log —
London Cycle Orbital: peaceful cycling at London's margins.
https://london-cycle-orbital.org.uk/
saved 2025-04-11 https://…

Welcome to peaceful cycling at London's margins
Cycle Orbital is an 890-mile network of recreational cycleways ringing the capital, ranging from child-friendly to challenging and arranged into twelve Arcs, Spokes and Spinoffs.

#Upcoming Twelve years in the making, “The Formless Irregular” chronicles the art of Babs Santini over 5 decades. Contains many never before seen pieces and illuminating commentary in this unique catalogue of (almost) everything Steven Stapleton has created visually! Preorders available via Timeless Edition, July 19th.

Better tried by twelve than carried by six.
-- Jeff Cooper

ALMA FACTS III. High-Resolution CO(2-1)/CO(1-0) Maps of Twelve Nearby Galaxies
Amanda M Lee, Jin Koda, Fumi Egusa, Akihiko Hirota, Shinya Komugi, Fumiya Maeda, Tsuyoshi Sawada
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13498

ALMA FACTS III. High-Resolution CO(2-1)/CO(1-0) Maps of Twelve Nearby Galaxies
We present early results from a high-resolution analysis ($\sim$100-200pc) of the CO(2-1)/CO(1-0) line ratio in twelve nearby galaxies. We use new ALMA CO(1-0) observations from the Fundamental CO(1-0) Transition Survey (FACTS), and re-imaged CO(2-1) data from PHANGS. We make empirical classifications based on the optical and molecular gas morphologies, which show clear systematic trends in the variation of $R_{21}$ as a function of galactic structure. The sample includes barred and unbarred, a…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #WordsAndMusic
Brett Dean, Sydney Symphony Orchestra & Brett Dean:
🎵 Twelve Angry Men
#BrettDean #SydneySymphonyOrchestra

Analytical Framework for Power System Strength
Ignacio Ponce, Federico Milano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16061 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Analytical Framework for Power System Strength
This paper proposes a general framework to evaluate power system strength. The formulation features twelve indicators, grouped in three dynamical orders, that quantify the resistance of bus voltage phasors and their first and second order rates of change to sudden current injection changes. To quantify such changes the paper introduces a novel finite differentiation technique, that we named Delta operator, able to properly capture "jumps" of algebraic variables and utilizes the recently develop…

Exploration of vertical self-resonant bifurcations from DRO in the Earth-Moon CR3BP
Cengiz Aydin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17286 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Exploration of vertical self-resonant bifurcations from DRO in the Earth-Moon CR3BP
The purpose of this paper is to investigate vertical self-resonant (VSR) bifurcations from distant retrograde orbit (DRO) family in the framework of the Earth-Moon CR3BP. To this end, by using a classical corrector-predictor algorithm we compute the vertical stability of DROs and identify twelve vertical-critical DROs. We split them into three groups according to orbiting around libration points $L_i$, $i=1,2,4,5$. (i) We first analyze six VSR bifurcations of multiplicity from five to ten assoc…

Graph Learning via Logic-Based Weisfeiler-Leman Variants and Tabularization
Reijo Jaakkola, Tomi Janhunen, Antti Kuusisto, Magdalena Ortiz, Matias Selin, Mantas \v{S}imkus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10651

Graph Learning via Logic-Based Weisfeiler-Leman Variants and Tabularization
We present a novel approach for graph classification based on tabularizing graph data via variants of the Weisfeiler-Leman algorithm and then applying methods for tabular data. We investigate a comprehensive class of Weisfeiler-Leman variants obtained by modifying the underlying logical framework and establish a precise theoretical characterization of their expressive power. We then test two selected variants on twelve benchmark datasets that span a range of different domains. The experiments d…

Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
ZEN: Fifteen minutes.
JENNA: How long before her detectors pick us up?
ZEN: Twelve minutes.
JENNA: We can't go down, if that's all the time we've got.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/625 B7B5

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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Jurassic 5:
🎵 Twelve (Clean)
#Jurassic5
https://open.spotify.com/track/00EhTxe4ZeK05cx72GMaTT

Towards a Non-Binary View of IPv6 Adoption
Sulyab Thottungal Valapu, John Heidemann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11678 https://arxiv.or…

Towards a Non-Binary View of IPv6 Adoption
Twelve years have passed since World IPv6 Launch Day, but what is the current state of IPv6 deployment? Prior work has examined IPv6 status as a binary: can you use IPv6, or not? As deployment increases we must consider a more nuanced, non-binary perspective on IPv6: how much and often can a user or a service use IPv6? We consider this question as a client, server, and cloud provider. Considering the client's perspective, we observe user traffic. We see that the fraction of IPv6 traffic a user …

FastTrack: a fast method to evaluate mass transport in solid leveraging universal machine learning interatomic potential
Hanwen Kang, Tenglong Lu, Zhanbin Qi, Jiandong Guo, Sheng Meng, Miao Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10505

FastTrack: a fast method to evaluate mass transport in solid leveraging universal machine learning interatomic potential
We introduce a rapid, accurate framework for computing atomic migration barriers in crystals by combining universal machine learning force fields (MLFFs) with 3D potential energy surface sampling and interpolation. Our method suppresses periodic self interactions via supercell expansion, builds a continuous PES from MLFF energies on a spatial grid, and extracts minimum energy pathways without predefined NEB images. Across twelve benchmark electrode and electrolyte materials including LiCoO2, Li…

Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
ZEN: Unchanged.
TARRANT: So, we have five minutes before they link, four while they transfer cargo, less than twelve before they break orbit.
VILA: Bit of a know-all, aren't you? [Tarrant winks and smiles.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/305/230

Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC

Automated Thematic Analyses Using LLMs: Xylazine Wound Management Social Media Chatter Use Case
JaMor Hairston, Ritvik Ranjan, Sahithi Lakamana, Anthony Spadaro, Selen Bozkurt, Jeanmarie Perrone, Abeed Sarker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10803

Automated Thematic Analyses Using LLMs: Xylazine Wound Management Social Media Chatter Use Case
Background Large language models (LLMs) face challenges in inductive thematic analysis, a task requiring deep interpretive and domain-specific expertise. We evaluated the feasibility of using LLMs to replicate expert-driven thematic analysis of social media data. Methods Using two temporally non-intersecting Reddit datasets on xylazine (n=286 and n=686, for model optimization and validation, respectively) with twelve expert-derived themes, we evaluated five LLMs against expert coding. We modele…