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Related to my last boost, still annoyed this DID NOT make it into WCAG 2.2:
3.2.7 Hidden Controls (Level AA): Controls needed to progress or complete a process are visible at the time they are needed without requiring pointer hover or keyboard focus, or a mechanism is available to make them persistently visible.
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Get Inspired: 10 Great Articles and 4 Great Tools
#inspiration #creativity
https://muz4now.com…

Get Inspired: 10 Great Articles and 4 Great Tools
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

How Trump's delusion about the 2020 election morphed into a movement
Why so many Republicans are still playing along
And why the media has stopped pushing back
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/why-has-the-media-stopped-fighting

Why Has the Media Stopped Fighting Trump’s Lies?
Will Saletan takes on Donald Trump’s latest assault on reality, this time targeting the nation’s job numbers.

Evolution of the ZTF SLRN-2020 star-planet merger
Ricardo Yarza, Morgan MacLeod, Benjamin Idini, Ruth Murray-Clay, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05365

Evolution of the ZTF SLRN-2020 star-planet merger
We model the optical and infrared transient ZTF SLRN-2020, previously associated with a star-planet merger. We consider the scenario in which orbital decay via tidal dissipation led to the merger, and find that tidal heating within the star was likely unobservable in the archival image of the system taken $12\mathrm{yr}$ before the merger. The observed dust formation months before the merger is consistent with a planet of mass $M_\mathrm{p} \gtrsim 5M_\mathrm{J}$ ejecting material as it skims t…

Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp, who has held that position since 2020, says he will step down and lead a new S&S imprint that will publish six books a year (Elizabeth Harris/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/books/review/jona…

Jonathan Karp to Step Down as Head of Simon & Schuster
Jonathan Karp, the chief executive since 2020, will oversee a new imprint that publishes six books year.

I just found this UK report on #covid epidemiology from 2020 to Dec 2024; the graph I most noticed is below - they looked at blood donors for spike (S) and Nucleo (N) protein antibodies over time; The spike proteins are in both infection and vaccine, while N is infection only - so you can see when people got vaccinated and how now pretty much everyone (95.5% as end of January) has been infected as…

Epidemiology of COVID-19 in England: January 2020 to December 2024

psi: Plant Photosystem I excitation energy transfer network (2020)
Weighted directed network of the light-harvesting Photosystem Ι (PSI) of the plant Pisum sativum. The nodes represent chromophores with different identities (i.e. chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, β-carotene and derivates, lutein, violaxanthin), while edges represent FRET transfer between chromophores. The link directionality connecting nodes in the PSI network depends on the energy levels of the connected chromophores. The…

Honestly nothing about Eric Adams surprises me any more.
#FuckEricAdams

Thunderstorm - a (perhaps strange) creative process story
#StoryTelling #CreativeProcess
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Thunderstorm - a (perhaps strange) creative process story
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

The 2020 Superburst of 4U 1608-522 and its impact on the accretion disk
Tugba Boztepe, Tolga Guver, Elif Ece Devecioglu, Julia Speicher, Motoko Serino, David R. Ballantyne, Diego Altamirano, Gaurava K. Jaisawal, Mason Ng, Andrea Sanna, Can Gungor, Wataru Iwakiri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02713

The 2020 Superburst of 4U 1608-522 and its impact on the accretion disk
Superbursts are rare events observed from bursting neutron star low mass X-ray binaries. They are thought to originate from unstable burning of the thick layer of Carbon on the surface of the neutron star, causing the observed X-ray flashes to last several hours. Given their fluence it has long been thought that superbursts may have significant effects on the accretion flow around the neutron star. In this paper, we first present evidence for a new superburst observed from 4U 1608-522 by MAXI d…

Trump is changing the Department of Justice to the Department of Revenge.
First, he granted pardons to all the criminals who had been found guilty or pled guilty to invading the halls of Congress on January 6th, 2020.
They were protesting the outcome of the presidential election and trying to overturn the results in favor of Trump.
These were people who assaulted policeman and vandalized offices of members of Congress,
stealing documents and souvenirs on their rampag…

US power prices are climbing, but clean energy isn't to blame. Find out what's driving the increase and how we can tackle the challenges ahead. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Chart: Yes, US power prices are rising. Don’t blame clean energy.
Household costs have been going up since 2020 due to an aging grid, natural disasters, and volatile gas prices. Trump is making things worse.

And then it became "quote tweet" in 2020.
Screenshot from https://www.iphonetricks.org/how-to-use-the-new-twitter-quote-tweets/

Invisible Labor, Visible Barriers: The Socioeconomic Realities of Women's Work in Pakistan
Sana Khalil, Angela Warner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16664 https://

Invisible Labor, Visible Barriers: The Socioeconomic Realities of Women's Work in Pakistan
We provide a short note on the barriers shaping womens economic opportunities in Pakistan, where female labor force participation remains among the lowest in the world. Recent labor force surveys (2020-21) show a sharp rural-urban divide: rural womens participation is 28 percent compared to 69 percent for rural men, while urban womens participation is 10 percent compared to 66 percent for urban men. Unemployment is higher for women in both rural (7 percent) and urban (16 percent) areas than for…

Former Raiders First Rounder Called “Worst Draft Pick” https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/alex-leatherwood-called-worst-draft-pick/?adt_ei=[email]

psi: Plant Photosystem I excitation energy transfer network (2020)
Weighted directed network of the light-harvesting Photosystem Ι (PSI) of the plant Pisum sativum. The nodes represent chromophores with different identities (i.e. chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, β-carotene and derivates, lutein, violaxanthin), while edges represent FRET transfer between chromophores. The link directionality connecting nodes in the PSI network depends on the energy levels of the connected chromophores. The…

Rovibrational computations for He$_2^ $ X$^ \ \Sigma_\mathrm{u}^ $ including non-adiabatic, relativistic and QED corrections
Edit M\'atyus, \'Ad\'am Marg\'ocsy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19120

Rovibrational computations for He$_2^+$ X$^+\ Σ_\mathrm{u}^+$ including non-adiabatic, relativistic and QED corrections
We report the potential energy curve, the diagonal Born-Oppenheimer, non-adiabatic mass, relativistic, and leading-order QED corrections for the ground electronic state of the helium dimer cation; the higher-order QED and finite-nuclear size effects are also estimated. The computations are carried out with an improved error control and over a much broader configuration range compared to earlier work [D. Ferenc, V. I. Korobov, and E. Mátyus, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 213001 (2020)]. As a result, al…

A Radio-quiet AGN as a candidate counterpart to neutrino event IceCube-200615A
F. McBride, N. Schettino, J. D. O'Brien, W. Harwood, L. Perot, G. Temple, H. Ayalo Solares, A. Corsi, A. Coleiro, D. Cowen, D. B. Fox, Y. Li, K. Murase, A. Pellegrino, T. D. Russell, S. Wissel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20064

A Radio-quiet AGN as a candidate counterpart to neutrino event IceCube-200615A
Follow-up observations of neutrino events have been a promising method for identifying sources of very-high-energy cosmic rays. Neutrinos are unambiguous tracers of hadronic interactions and cosmic rays. On June 15, 2020, IceCube detected a neutrino event with an 82.8% probability of being astrophysical in origin. To identify the astrophysical source of the neutrino, we used X-ray tiling observations to identify potential counterpart sources. We performed additional multiwavelength follow-up wi…

Sprinkled Decoupling for Hammersley's Process
Leandro P. R. Pimentel, Roberto Viveros
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19008 https://ar…

Sprinkled Decoupling for Hammersley's Process
In this article we prove a sprinkled decoupling inequality for the stationary Hammersley's interacting particle process. Inspired by the work of Baldasso and Texeira (2018), and Hilário, Kious and Texeira (2020), we apply this inequality to study two distinct problems on the top of this particle process. First, we analyze a detection problem, demonstrating that a fugitive can evade particles, provided that their jump range is sufficiently large. Second, we show that a random walk in a dynamic …

Spectral evolution of GX 17 2 using AstroSat and NICER observations
Sree Bhattacherjee, Ranjeev Misra, Biplob Sarkar, V. Jithesh, Jayashree Roy, Yashpal Bhulla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21679

Spectral evolution of GX 17+2 using AstroSat and NICER observations
We study the spectral evolution of the Z-track source GX 17+2 using AstroSat and NICER observations taken between 2016 and 2020. The AstroSat observations cover the period when the source is in the normal branch (NB) and the flaring branch (FB), while for the NICER ones the variability can be associated with the FB branch. The source spectra at different regions of the branches are well described by accretion disk emission, blackbody surface emission and a thermal Comptonization component. In t…

Toeplitz operators and weighted composition operators on variable exponent Bergman spaces
Cezhong Tong, Zicong Yang, Zehua Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13675

Toeplitz operators and weighted composition operators on variable exponent Bergman spaces
In a recent paper [JFA, 278 (2020), 108401], Choe et al. obtained characterizations for bounded and compact differences of two weighted composition operators acting on standard weighted Bergman spaces over the unit disk in terms of Carleson measures. Then they extended the results to the ball setting. In this paper, we further generalize those results to variable exponent Bergman spaces over the unit ball. Our proofs, when restricted to the case of constant variable, are new and simpler. Moreov…

Quasi-periodic oscillations and reflection feature evolution in 4U 1630-47 observed with Insight-HXMT
Jiashi Chen, Wei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19285

Quasi-periodic oscillations and reflection feature evolution in 4U 1630-47 observed with Insight-HXMT
The Galactic black hole (BH) X-ray binary 4U 1630-47 went into a new outburst in 2021 after $\sim$ 600 days from its 2020 outburst. We perform a detailed analysis of quasi-periodic oscillations and spectral evolutions during its 2021 outburst based on \textit{Insight}-HXMT observations. The main science aims to study the reflection features evolution of this accreting black hole using the observations of detecting quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) and quasi-regular modulations (QRMs). The QPOs…

Raiders fans will get chance to watch training camp practices https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-fans-will-get-chance-to-watch-training-camp-practices-3399855/

August 2025 Sees #Newsmax TV Network Finally Agree to Pay $67 Million #Defamation $ettlement To #Dominion #Voting Systems Over Broadcasts Of Nove…

Enhancing air-shower observations: Results from an IceCube Surface Array Prototype Station
Megha Venugopal (for the IceCube Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09806

Enhancing air-shower observations: Results from an IceCube Surface Array Prototype Station
The Surface Array Enhancement of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory is set to equip the existing surface cosmic-ray array of ice-Cherenkov detectors, IceTop, with radio antennas and scintillation detectors. This can lower the energy threshold of detection and increase the measurement accuracy of IceTop. The antenna readout uses a multiplicity trigger from the scintillation detectors. A fully functioning prototype station of the enhancement was deployed at the South Pole in 2020 and upgraded in 20…