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CBS aired MTV's VMAs for the first time, prompting a 42% YoY increase in audience to 5.5M viewers, a six-year high (The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/vmas-2025-tv-ratings-cbs-1236365220/

VMAs Ratings Surge With Move to CBS
Welcome to broadcast, MTV.

Trump Shows Off "Trump 2028" Hat To Foreign Leader - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/08/trump-shows-off-trump-2028-hat-to-foreign-leader/

Koalas vs. Crows: An Evolutionary Theory of #Software
https://ajmoon.com/posts/koalas-vs-crows-an-evolutionary-theory-of-software

Technische Universität Darmstadt
12. Ringvorlesung Sichere Kritische Infrastrukturen im Wintersemester 2025/2026
#KRITIS

UV-dark polar ovals on #Jupiter as tracers of magnetosphere–atmosphere connections: https://de.slideshare.net/slideshow/uv-dark-polar-ovals-on-jupiter-as-tracers-of-magnetosphere-atmosphere-connections/273806682 or https://researchportal.northumbria.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/176663394/tsubota_manuscript_revision1_complete.pdf (sorry, found these OA versions only now) -> Magnetic Tornado Is Stirring Up the Haze at Jupiter’s Poles: https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/magnetic-tornado-stirring-haze-jupiters-poles - unusual magnetically driven vortices may be generating Earth-size concentrations of hydrocarbon haze.

Jeremy Clarkson's pub has been 'swindled' out of £27,000 by hackers
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/showbiz-news/jeremy-clarkson-pub-hackers-cotswolds-32433280

Jeremy Clarkson's pub has been 'swindled' out of £27,000 by hackers
The 65-year-old also accused some customers of failing to use the bathrooms properly

Does the news reflect what we die from? (Our World in Data)
https://ourworldindata.org/does-the-news-reflect-what-we-die-from
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p154#a251006p154

Enhancement of the WS$_2$ A$_{1\text{g}}$ Raman Mode in MoS$_2$/WS$_2$ Heterostructures
Annika Bergmann-Iwe, Tomasz Wo\'zniak, Mustafa Hemaid, Ois\'in Garrity, Patryk Kusch, Rico Schwartz, Ziyang Gan, Antony George, Ludger Wirtz, Stephanie Reich, Andrey Turchanin, Tobias Korn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00785

Enhancement of the WS$_2$ A$_{1\text{g}}$ Raman Mode in MoS$_2$/WS$_2$ Heterostructures
When combined into van der Waals heterostructures, transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers enable the exploration of novel physics beyond their unique individual properties. However, for interesting phenomena such as interlayer charge transfer and interlayer excitons to occur, precise control of the interface and ensuring high-quality interlayer contact is crucial. Here, we investigate bilayer heterostructures fabricated by combining chemical-vapor-deposition-grown MoS$_2$ and exfoliated WS$…

Fox Sports gets US TV and streaming rights for the 2026 World Baseball Classic; in August, Netflix picked up the WBC rights in Japan (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/fox-sports-deal-2…

Fox Sports Inks Deal for 2026 World Baseball Classic
Fox will once again be the home for the international tournament, with select games also set to stream on Fox One and Tubi.

Burning wood indoors could cause damage in a similar way to cigarette smoke.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/warning-issued-uk-households-who-32588072

Warning issued to UK households who use wood burners
Many UK homes have wood burners as a modern, efficient alternative to fires

Enhanced second-harmonic generation from WS$_2$/ReSe$_2$ heterostructure
Kanchan Shaikh, Taejun Yoo, Zeyuan Zhu, Qiuyang Li, Amalya C. Johnson, Hui Deng, Fang Liu, Yuki Kobayashi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03491

Enhanced second-harmonic generation from WS$_2$/ReSe$_2$ heterostructure
Van der Waals stacking presents new opportunities for nonlinear optics with its remarkable tunability and scalability. However, the fundamental role of interlayer interactions in modifying the overall nonlinear optical susceptibilities remains elusive. In this letter, we report an anisotropic enhancement of second-harmonic generation (SHG) from a WS$_2$/ReSe$_2$ heterobilayer, where the individual composite layers possess distinctive crystal phases. We investigate polarization-resolved response…

Origin of trapped intralayer Wannier and charge-transfer excitons in moir\'e materials
Indrajit Maity, Johannes Lischner, Arash A. Mostofi, \'Angel Rubio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06137

Origin of trapped intralayer Wannier and charge-transfer excitons in moiré materials
Moiré materials offer a versatile platform for engineering excitons with unprecedented control, promising next-generation optoelectronic applications. While continuum models are widely used to study moiré excitons due to their computational efficiency, they often disagree with ab initio many-body approaches, as seen for intralayer excitons in WS$_2$/WSe$_2$ heterobilayers. Here, we resolve these discrepancies using an atomistic, quantum-mechanical framework based on the Bethe-Salpeter equatio…

Angela Rayner's real offence was being a working class woman in power - Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/angela-rayners-real-offence-being-32422596

Angela Rayner's real offence was being a working class woman in power
British politics just became a little less northern, a little less working class, and a little less female - and that loss should worry us all', writes Rob Williams.

The Curious Cat Management Improvement Institute has partnered with William Scherkenbach to make his files on management improvement available on their website. These files provide great value to those seeking to improve the practice of management in their organizations
https://ccmii.org/files/ws/
Docu…

Getting a generation accustomed to armed soldiers everywhere https://bird.makeup/users/macfarlanenews/statuses/1959782970694226299

Scott MacFarlane
National Guard joint task force says it's increasing National Guard presence at "pre-specified Metro locations in conjunction with the start of the school year for many Washington, D.C. schools"

Enceladus Water Plume Modeling Using DSMC (i.e. Direct Simulation Monte Carlo): #Enceladus shoots less ice into space than previous estimates: https://tacc.utexas.edu/news/latest-news/2025/09/30/out-of-this-world-ice-geysers/

LaFleur reviews what went wrong on defense in Dallas https://www.packers.com/news/lafleur-reviews-what-went-wrong-on-defense-in-dallas-sept-30-2025

The Paws Perspective Podcast
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Moscow's 2022 'Teacher of the Year' killed while fighting in Ukraine, Meduza reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/22/moscows-teacher-of-the-year.html

Greta Thunberg's Gaza flotilla forced to turn back to port just hours after leaving (Anthony Blair/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/09/01/world-news/greta-thunbergs-gaza-flotilla-forced-to-turn-back/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250901/p70#a250901p70

#Facebook is very very bad. https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/how-facebook-t…

Yet another bad decision from the Planning Inspectorate.
Huge development to go ahead after £5m demand thrown out - Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/huge-development…

Huge development to go ahead after £5m demand thrown out
Council officers rejected the plans three years ago

"Accrington man in sea accident!"
Salford-born hypnotherapist Zack Polanski becomes new Green Party leader - Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/sal…

Salford-born hypnotherapist Zack Polanski becomes new Green Party leader
He went to Stockport Grammar but 'got kicked out

no ____ sherlock: “Evidence of drought”
In 2015 we had a long drought and that was the first year *ever* #BCWildfire saw Rank 5 fires in the Coastal Fire Centre of BC. It was a fire near Squamish. I was in a municipal meeting with BC Wildfire folks at UBCM.
Climate Change is happening, has happened, and will continue until we stop forcing it. Our natural landscapes have no way to adapt.
END FOSSIL FUELS
#BCWildfire #endfossilfuels #BCPoli #CanPoli #ClimateChange
https://www.albernivalleynews.com/local-news/evidence-of-drought-wesley-ridge-wildfire-burns-through-dry-conditions-8175809

I stand corrected and my undue confidence is shattered to pieces.
Windows 11 cleared of all charges for killing SSDs, the real culprit is faulty firmware | TechSpot
https://www.techspot.com/news/109370-windows-11-cleared-all-charges-killing-ss…

Joni Ernst expected to announce she won't seek reelection in 2026, sources say (Des Moines Register)
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/29/iowa-us-sen-joni-ernst-expected-to-announce-she-wont-seek-reelection/85340310007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250829/p40#a250829p40

Colts vs. Raiders tickets: How to buy, prices, game time for 2025 NFL Week 5 game in Indianapolis https://www.sportingnews.com/us/tickets/news/colts-vs-raiders-tickets-prices-time-2025-nfl-week-5-indianapolis/e…

My old Acurite weather station quit working properly. I won't own another Acurite product, so I bought an Ambient WS-2903D. This should be a link to local weather conditions in NE Oklahoma. I'll be setting up sharing shortly. #OKWX #PWS

Temperature-dependent Optical and Polaritonic Properties of hBN-encapsulated Monolayer TMDs
Matan Meshulam, Anabel Atash Kahlon, Yonatan Gershuni, Thomas Poirier, Thomas Poirier, Seth Ariel Tongay, Itai Epstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17829

Temperature-dependent Optical and Polaritonic Properties of hBN-encapsulated Monolayer TMDs
Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) support robust excitons in the visible to near-infrared spectral range. Their reduced dielectric screening results in large binding energies, and combined with a direct bandgap in monolayer form, these excitons dominate the optical response of TMDs. In this work, we present a comprehensive investigation of the temperature-dependent optical and polaritonic properties of high-quality, flux-grown $\mathrm{WS_2}$, $\mathrm{MoS_2}$, $\mathrm{WSe_2}$,…

At least he understood the location and extent of our problem. Not great on the solution side, but we will be workshopping that... https://bird.makeup/users/macfarlanenews/statuses/1969117630578540785

Scott MacFarlane
ALERT: Justice Dept will seek minimum 30-year prison term for Nicholas Roske, the California man who pleaded guilty in attempt to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanugh Feds argue Roske was targeting UP TO THREE justices for assassination COURT FILING: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.514255/gov.uscourts.mdd.514255.98.0.pdf

Pinching-Antenna Systems-Enabled Multi-User Communications: Transmission Structures and Beamforming Optimization
Jingjing Zhao, Haowen Song, Xidong Mu, Kaiquan Cai, Yanbo Zhu, Yuanwei Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14458

Pinching-Antenna Systems-Enabled Multi-User Communications: Transmission Structures and Beamforming Optimization
Pinching-antenna systems (PASS) represent an innovative advancement in flexible-antenna technologies, aimed at significantly improving wireless communications by ensuring reliable line-of-sight connections and dynamic antenna array reconfigurations. To employ multi-waveguide PASS in multi-user communications, three practical transmission structures are proposed, namely waveguide multiplexing (WM), waveguide division (WD), and waveguide switching (WS). Based on the proposed structures, the joint…

Cowboys vs. Packers DFS Picks: Best SNF DraftKings, FanDuel lineups for NFL Showdown games https://www.sportingnews.com/us/fantasy/news/nfl-dfs-week-4-snf-packers-cowboys-picks-2025/f810e956f8b30ee49ef2478d

Nielsen: Jimmy Kimmel Live! drew 6.26M viewers on Tuesday, over 3x its Q2 average, despite not airing in 23% of US homes due to Nexstar and Sinclair blackouts (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jimmy-…

‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Draws Record Ratings in Return from Suspension
More than 6 million viewers tuned in for the late night host’s first show back, which wasn’t available in 23 percent of the country due to affiliate blackouts.

US vows to defend 'every inch' of NATO territory after Russian drone incursion into Poland: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/13/us-vows-to-defend-every.html

これ、リリースされたら導入を検討してもいいかな。ま、政府が提供するアプリなんでね。アプリの信頼性はいかがなものか...。いつぞやの COCOA みたいに重大な不具合があると困る。
https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/2048656.html

Android端末が身分証明書に。2026年秋に「Androidのマイナンバーカード」提供開始
　デジタル庁は9月19日、2026年秋ごろに「Androidスマホ用電子証明書搭載サービス」を刷新し、「Androidのマイナンバーカード」の提供を開始すると発表した。

Democrat Catelin Drey wins Iowa Senate special election, breaking Republican supermajority (Stephen Gruber-Miller/Des Moines Register)
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/26/democrat-catelin-drey-wins-iowa-senate-special-election-defeats-republican-christopher-prosch/85819325007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250826/p165#a250826p165

Reversible local strain engineering of $\mathrm{WS}_2$ using a micro-mechanical spring
Eric Herrmann, Zhixiang Huang, Sai Rahul Sitaram, Ke Ma, S M Jahadun Nobi, Xi Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07784

Reversible local strain engineering of $\mathrm{WS}_2$ using a micro-mechanical spring
Local strain engineering is a promising technique to tune the properties of two-dimensional materials at the nanoscale. However, many existing methods are static and limit the systematic exploration of strain-dependent material behavior. Here, we demonstrate dynamic and reversible control of local strain distributions in suspended trilayer tungsten disulfide ($\mathrm{WS}_2$) via nanoindentation using a micro-mechanical spring patterned with nanoscale probes. Micro-photoluminescence measurement…

Disney says Jimmy Kimmel will return to ABC on Tuesday and the suspension was "to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment" for the US (The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jimmy-kimmel-li…

Jimmy Kimmel to Return to ABC on Tuesday After Show’s Controversial Suspension
The Walt Disney company in a new statement says the move was made "to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country."

Two high-ranking NOAA employees connected to 'Sharpiegate' are put on leave (Evan Bush/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/two-high-ranking-noaa-employees-connected-sharpiegate-incident-put-lea-rcna221113
http://www.memeorandum.com/250726/p6#a250726p6

Theoretical Foundations of the General Standard Model: A Unified Framework for Particle Physics and Cosmology
Yue-Liang Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20128 https://

Theoretical Foundations of the General Standard Model: A Unified Framework for Particle Physics and Cosmology
We present a comprehensive theoretical analysis of the General Standard Model (GSM), a recently proposed framework that unifies particle physics and cosmology within the Gravitational Quantum Field Theory (GQFT). Constructed from first principles based exclusively on the intrinsic properties of leptons and quarks, the GSM reveals an enlarged gauge symmetry structure, WS$_{c}$(1,3)$\times$GS(1)$\times$Z$_2$, which extends beyond the conventional U$_Y$(1)$\times$SU$_L$(2)$\times$SU$_C$(3) symmetr…

Manchester's improved public transport system.
Four months ago, this had never been done in Greater Manchester. Now it’s happened 10 million times - Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-…

Four months ago, this had never been done in Greater Manchester. Now it’s happened 10 million times
There's been a very quiet revolution on our roads

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Toro y Moi:
🎵 Laws Of The Universe
#ToroyMoi
https://toroymoi.bandcamp.com/track/laws-of-the-universe
https://open.spotify.com/track/64LpyRkIpVDUeUnJgveStL

Enhanced Biaxial Compressive Strain Tuning of 2D semiconductors via Hot Dry Transfer on Polymer Substrates
Alvaro Cortes-Flores, Eudomar Henr\'iquez-Guerra, Lisa Almonte, Hao Li, Andres Castellanos-Gomez, M. Reyes Calvo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22806

Enhanced Biaxial Compressive Strain Tuning of 2D semiconductors via Hot Dry Transfer on Polymer Substrates
Strain engineering is an effective tool for tailoring the properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials, especially for tuning quantum phenomena. Among the limited methods available for strain engineering under cryogenic conditions, thermal mismatch with polymeric substrates provides a simple and affordable strategy to induce biaxial compressive strain upon cooling. In this work, we demonstrate the transfer of unprecedentedly large levels of uniform biaxial compressive strain to single-layer WS$…

Sources: publishers are considering moving from flat-fee AI content licensing deals with companies to usage-based deals; Perplexity is developing such a model (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/news-p…

News Publishers Shift AI Licensing Focus to Usage-Based Deals
Signs that OpenAI and other artificial intelligence firms are generating ever-increasing revenues are getting attention—from news publishers who want to get their piece of the action. Publishers that have struck deals to license their content to AI firms for training large language models are ...

Jimmy Kimmel to Return to ABC on Tuesday After Show's Controversial Suspension (The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jimmy-kimmel-live-return-abc-1236374942/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250922/p121#a250922p121

Bichromatic Moir\'{e} Superlattices for Tunable Quadrupolar Trions and Correlated States
Mingfeng Chen, Runtong Li, Haonan Wang, Yuliang Yang, Yiyang Lai, Chaowei Hu, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Jiaqiang Yan, Jiun-Haw Chu, Erik Henriksen, Chuanwei Zhang, Li Yang, Xi Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15118

Bichromatic Moiré Superlattices for Tunable Quadrupolar Trions and Correlated States
Moiré superlattices in transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures provide a platform to engineer many-body interactions. Here, we realize a bichromatic moiré superlattice in an asymmetric WSe$_2$/WS$_2$/WSe$_2$ heterotrilayer by combining R- and H-stacked bilayers with mismatched moiré wavelengths. This structure hosts fermionic quadrupolar moiré trions--interlayer excitons bound to an opposite-layer hole--with vanishing dipole moments. These trions arise from hybridized moiré potent…

これ、リリースされたら導入を検討してもいいかな。ま、政府が提供するアプリなんでね。アプリの信頼性はいかがなものか...。いつぞやの COCOA みたいに重大な不具合があると困る。
https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/2048656.html

Trump rules out putting 'American boots on the ground' in Ukraine (Ryan King/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/world-news/trump-rules-out-putting-american-boots-on-the-ground-in-ukraine/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p52#a250819p52

First principles and scanning tunneling spectroscopical evidences for thermodynamically stable "on-top" sulfur divacancy in monolayer WS$_{2}$
Weiru Chen, John C. Thomas, Yihuang Xiong, Zhuohang Yu, Da Zhou, Shalini Kumari, Zhongwei Dai, Joshua A. Robinson, Mauricio Terrones, Archana Raja, Sin\'ead Griffin, Alexander Weber-Bargioni, Geoffroy Hautier

Channel 4 to Mark Trump's U.K. Visit With "Longest Uninterrupted Reel of Untruths Ever Broadcast on Television" (Lily Ford/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/channel-4-donald-trump-uk-visit-truth-untruth-lies-program-1236371565/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250915/p147#a250915p147

Hey all! This is short notice so please boost! Calling all local Canadian Journalists!
Sign ups are open until Friday at 5PM PDT!
"Independent publishing can be lonely, but it doesn’t have to be. LION Publishers wants to help news entrepreneurs across Canada connect and build new relationships.
Each group will be led by a LION community ambassador and will meet monthly from August to October to discuss the highs and lows of local publishing"
#canpoli #cdnpoli #journalism #local #BC #news

Efficient $GW$ band structure calculations using Gaussian basis functions and application to atomically thin transition-metal dichalcogenides
R\'emi Pasquier, Mar\'ia Camarasa-G\'omez, Anna-Sophia Hehn, Daniel Hernang\'omez-P\'erez, Jan Wilhelm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18411

Efficient $GW$ band structure calculations using Gaussian basis functions and application to atomically thin transition-metal dichalcogenides
We present a $GW$ space-time algorithm for periodic systems in a Gaussian basis including spin-orbit coupling. We employ lattice summation to compute the irreducible density response and the self-energy, while we employ $k$-point sampling for computing the screened Coulomb interaction. Our algorithm enables accurate and computationally efficient quasiparticle band structure calculations for atomically thin transition-metal dichalcogenides. For monolayer MoS$_\text{2}$, MoSe$_\text{2}$, WS$_\tex…

Accused Minnesota assassin Vance Boelter hints at motive during exclusive jailhouse interview: 'It didn't involve... Trump stuff or pro-life' (Georgia Worrell/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/07/12/world-news/accused-killer-vance-boelter-hints-at-motive-in-post-jailhouse-interview/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250712/p37#a250712p37

The Federal NDP are on Vancouver Island strategizing for the upcoming Parliament.
Interim leader Davies:
""There's an ebb and flow to politics and I view it as an opportunity for our party to regenerate, to reimagine what a bold, progressive NDP looks like on the federal scene.””
I loved Jack Layton too, but I think it is time to leave Jack to the past. They really need to find someone who is here, in this moment, and can present a real vision for Canadians to strive for and achieve that is the opposite of what the Conservatives and Red-Tory Liberals are trying to do.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Tseshaht #Hupacasath #PortAlberni #Courtenay #Tofino
https://www.albernivalleynews.com/local-news/federal-new-democrats-meet-with-nuu-chah-nulth-leaders-in-port-alberni-8243469