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"I don't give a s**t how large is the room, I cast the fireball, make it all boom!"
I've discovered "The Bardic DM" band and yes, they are as awesome as it sounds!👍😂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8yPMFxD31

A UPS cargo plane crashed shortly after take off,
erupting into a massive fireball
near the Louisville Muhammad Ali international airport in Kentucky,
leaving at least seven dead and 11 injured
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025…

#XSLT used to be my goto tool for transforming documents. Today I was facing a document transformation problem (the daring fireball `markdown` program does not emit valid HTML, and although you can pipe it through `tidy`, tidy won't extract the first `h1` and use it as `title`), so I thought 'yay! XSLT'.
Reader, I am no longer competent to write a simple XSLT transform.
I *kno…

2032 and 2036 risk enhancement from NEOs in the #Taurid stream: Is there a significant coherent component to impact risk? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576525006460?via=ihub -> UNM research suggests Halloween fireballs could signal increased risk of cosmic impact or airburst in 2032 and 2036: https://news.unm.edu/news/unm-research-suggests-halloween-fireballs-could-signal-increased-risk-of-cosmic-impact-or-airburst-in-2032-and-2036

Apple replacing Alan Dye with Stephen Lemay may fix Jony Ive's mistake by restoring the Jobsian "design is how it works" ethos in Apple's UI design (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_dye_job

Bad Dye Job
It might have made some sense to bring someone from the fashion/brand world to lead software design for Apple Watch, but it sure didn’t seem to make sense for the rest of Apple’s platforms. And the decade of Dye’s HI leadership has proven it.

Probing vorticity through femtoscopic correlations
Oleh Savchuk, Pawel Danielewicz, Daniel Kincses, Agnieszka Sorensen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10795 https://

Probing vorticity through femtoscopic correlations
In heavy-ion collisions, as the two nuclei pass through one another and create hot and dense matter, part of their initial angular momentum is transferred to the fireball, generating a nonzero average vorticity. Understanding heavy-ion collision dynamics and its influence on key observables, including those used to probe the initial state or assess thermodynamics of nuclear matter, requires understanding the magnitude of effects tied to vorticity. In this work, we use simulations of non-central…

Apple's removal of ICEBlock raises questions about the limits of what the company will resist under the Trump administration's increasingly outrageous demands (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
https://daringfireball.net/2025/10/iceblock_removed_from_app_store

Complying With ‘Demand’ From Trump Administration, Apple Removes ICEBlock From App Store
It’s rather chilling to consider what Apple would have done if the Trump administration had “demanded” a list of device IDs and user identities for everyone who had installed ICEBlock. Or what Apple *will* do if such a demand pops into one of their dimwitted but cruel minds.

Monday is the day of the Orionids!
In 2025, this shower coincides with moonless nights, hooray! Watch on the morning of October 21, starting after midnight through the wee hours before dawn.
These fast-moving meteors sometimes produce bright fireballs, which might be able to overcome a moonlit glare. If you trace these meteors backward, they seem to radiate from the Club of the famous constellation Orion the Hunter.

Exploring GRB Afterglows in the TeV Era: New Diagnostics of Particle Acceleration
L. Foffano, M. Tavani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01739 https://arxiv.org/…

Exploring GRB Afterglows in the TeV Era: New Diagnostics of Particle Acceleration
The TeV gamma-ray band is essential for probing the most extreme particle acceleration processes in the Universe. The recent detections of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) at these energies offer an incredible opportunity to investigate the origins of such transient events in an unprecedented way. In this presentation, we analyze the afterglows of these GRBs by modeling their synchrotron and inverse Compton emission within an optimized relativistic fireball framework. By comparing observational data wit…

Apple's DMA compliance isn't "malicious", but an effort to balance Apple's privacy focus with the EU's mandate, as iOS 26.2 iPhone/Watch Wi-Fi sync changes show (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
https://daringfireball.net/2025/11/apple_eu_d…

Exploring, in Detail, Apple’s Compliance With the EU’s DMA Mandate Regarding Apple Watch, Third-Party Accessories, and the Syncing of Saved Wi-Fi Networks From iPhones to Which They’re Paired
The bottom line is that users setting up new Apple Watches in the EU will now get a somewhat slightly worse experience in the name of parity with accessories made by third-party companies. It remains to be seen whether users of third-party iPhone accessories and peripherals in the EU will see any benefit at all.