2026-10-31T04:44:50Z https://nostr.now Dan Riley https://nostr.now/npub1w2tq3q8x65r5vjgxwku6nm9uqtjap3kpxspcgf0ghy23jlm2gc2s8nuuza https://cdn.masto.host/federatesocial/accounts/avatars/109/506/235/243/695/277/original/374a30f74992fb3d.png https://cdn.masto.host/federatesocial/accounts/avatars/109/506/235/243/695/277/original/374a30f74992fb3d.png https://nostr.now/nevent1qqst4gzuvpac6jcsmmfv763kckpcna0s6p2q0cc83lafadsv0h3ve2qzypefvzyqum2sw3jfqe6mn20vhspwt5xxcy6q8pp9azu32xtldfrp2aw0jwf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst8k8ghsp8g3gvqjy235t0m0ch4t08gtvs66rgh5ljd92ktr9gvkc5fv9nx'>nevent1q…v9nx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>requiring an account to charge is normal for an org that’s mostly funded by outside contracts. Needing a WBS means they’re treating it like any other service (computer or otherwise). 2026-10-18T23:34:42Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsx2at67vcpde56tj05sk0cfa4na8alfmren7rrs58s0nnf709z7vqzypefvzyqum2sw3jfqe6mn20vhspwt5xxcy6q8pp9azu32xtldfrp2jmt3rf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8jjuhtadpct6vnkxwvn49y5etp3vzfy0qecqxvf4za7u2wvhkgycgk7f9d'>nevent1q…7f9d</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>OMB is at the very center of the problem. GAO does good work but it needs Congressional backing to be effective. It can—and does—say that DOGE, and this administration more generally, violated the law, but it has limited ability to compel testimony or publicize the way Congress can.<br/><br/>With the way the “unitary executive” has been going, Congress is going to need many more institutions like the GAO inside the legislative branch. 2026-10-18T01:29:37Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswdfejxluauqwt0de70kyr9kksv367m7rncz9jk9qhggrcj6xdq4szypefvzyqum2sw3jfqe6mn20vhspwt5xxcy6q8pp9azu32xtldfrp2855w3v In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv5clnw6mge8f56pnkm4g48knelrljfawwfzteay3htct26g63xrs0e760m'>nevent1q…760m</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>arcades?.gov redirects to <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/arcade/">https://www.whitehouse.gov/arcade/</a> with games to “protect the border from the coming horde” and “fill your kids’ Trump accounts”.<br/><br/>I haven’t tried playing it, but the imagery for “border patrol along the Rio Grande” looks pretty offensive (as one would expect from this administration). 2026-09-04T15:05:21Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsw8sfrue8nw3f3dwe9js7z7n76jffnxu7gn6ymxtj0jfs0q7plu3gzypefvzyqum2sw3jfqe6mn20vhspwt5xxcy6q8pp9azu32xtldfrp2vdac99 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz79dfz2ekael2fvngde4vs7myg3g5mahfqf78zhv2kc2ddtrlckq33myyv'>nevent1q…myyv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The arXiv budget is just internal operations, it doesn’t make any grants or fund outside projects, so the CEO salary is going to be a larger percentage than for a place like the Simons Foundation that serves as a funder of many outside project (including arXiv).<br/><br/>While $300k sounds like a lot, it looks to be towards the low side of CEO compensation for a tech-oriented non-profit foundation in NYC. 2026-03-13T22:13:08Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdlta2kyfvfjg5pzf5wzd0zg8ng86t9usp5nkqjn0ey4c009aschczypefvzyqum2sw3jfqe6mn20vhspwt5xxcy6q8pp9azu32xtldfrp2hf68zq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw6003vdmk87cu82n2rcxr5j6mae0wh7jh0p8zsfsnqrfffrlqpgsql5pjt'>nevent1q…5pjt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The Fisk-Nanney organ at Stanford Memorial Chapel is an interesting instrument, with both fifth-comma and well-tempered tunings (in a pipe organ!). The “Brustpositive and the Brustpedalia are fixed in meantone and offer two sub-semitones, or split sharps, per octave, D sharp/E flat and G sharp/A flat”<br/><br/><a href="https://cbfisk.com/opus/opus-85/">https://cbfisk.com/opus/opus-85/</a><br/><br/><a href="https://orsl.stanford.edu/memorial-church-organs">https://orsl.stanford.edu/memorial-church-organs</a><br/><br/>(My Mom, a student of Herb Nanney, loved playing this organ.) 2025-12-25T15:16:01Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0dmr5z9rd65r6m2vcd87srmc7wn7k9w2xx4e3tdpj0g2al59nayczypefvzyqum2sw3jfqe6mn20vhspwt5xxcy6q8pp9azu32xtldfrp26wmrvy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfjytms7fj8czzjne93ga9vkdjtcglhmntrnepq2hvttc7usfkd7sm59h7g'>nevent1q…9h7g</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Oh my, I wonder how they ended up publishing there? Hadronic Journal is a vanity publication of the well-known crackpot Ruggero Santilli. 2025-10-26T23:42:46Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs92gc9xc8w0v5m2r7vap5nklh9y9jfpxlj8c72e8yvm8mhhacdhzszypefvzyqum2sw3jfqe6mn20vhspwt5xxcy6q8pp9azu32xtldfrp2qfx939 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvvug63jjpgfh34tkr6ax3ruxvas73wfw9g9lvqvc65ene2umykxgzxwqax'>nevent1q…wqax</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Media consolidation makes this so much easier. Mega-corps are very dependent on a favorable regulatory environment, which makes them vulnerable to coercion by a government that doesn’t believe fairness is a virtue.<br/><br/>Companies like Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery have an enormous attack surface, and there’s only a handful of them that need to be coerced in order to change the landscape. 2025-09-21T13:17:14Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsf6g42wlsj6j6pucjxwq5k0j04l4alwj8j7jyyatmv9ap22s5e9wszypefvzyqum2sw3jfqe6mn20vhspwt5xxcy6q8pp9azu32xtldfrp20en4k3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgryq0p9q57ef6p4cx3l8x3eelswh9a6nst4e6zpdwcuvcevxffnczzyes5'>nevent1q…yes5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It seems a doubly strange wording. AIUI most molecules have IR spectral lines--nearly everything except noble gases and diatomic molecules like N2 and O2 that don&#39;t have internal rotational excitation modes. 2025-07-09T15:50:45Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszjgvnngaysu7fv6p6ps9w66s5aywwjf3tkkvzjv4t2xkfn2c8q8szypefvzyqum2sw3jfqe6mn20vhspwt5xxcy6q8pp9azu32xtldfrp2a6epqe In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9k3lavsvrfxtqps4d4yqpwcxajzddgtevtswp4yt656as5758nes2ntm9y'>nevent1q…tm9y</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>“meta-methamatical” is a nifty typo 2025-05-02T18:21:22Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxwc47nscyvcrkh40e0negdgfc0j0mh2j690p3q3kmn35z45600mszypefvzyqum2sw3jfqe6mn20vhspwt5xxcy6q8pp9azu32xtldfrp2vdzj3s In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd5u7ck5qljtjjk8hevfsu8tgy8az008w0xjwhu6fwd2kuq8n8mtg7cqum7'>nevent1q…qum7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>there’s a very similar (homomorphic?) suit vs DOE, also wrt indirect rates. I’d imagine this will eventually reach NSF too.<br/><br/><a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.283318/gov.uscourts.mad.283318.1.0.pdf">https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.283318/gov.uscourts.mad.283318.1.0.pdf</a><br/><br/><a href="https://statements.cornell.edu/2025/20250414-doe-litigation.cfm">https://statements.cornell.edu/2025/20250414-doe-litigation.cfm</a> 2025-04-15T06:08:06Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsf36lunag062w9da3wwsm97vj8wpcxsl8q7xs6xzlc2u80jtvnehczypefvzyqum2sw3jfqe6mn20vhspwt5xxcy6q8pp9azu32xtldfrp2knqd6p In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf6xkymhgkruh2p95gl88pgqmldytxlyayxj29xnlch6l0gx7yc8syula4y'>nevent1q…la4y</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The LHC actually turned on in 2010, at 7TeV. In 2012 it saw the first preliminary Higgs signal, and by then had also eliminated most of the easy range of supersymmetry predictions. 2015 was after the first long shutdown, which increased the COM energy to 13TeV.<br/><br/>So the supersymmetry paper peak in 2012 was just before the LHC ruled out most of the natural phase space. 2025-03-30T19:46:17Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxtkpj4g63fy2kzf64yr7twj3upmajdv04a42ehktrj07rvf8rlwczypefvzyqum2sw3jfqe6mn20vhspwt5xxcy6q8pp9azu32xtldfrp28c0ufk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswxry6z2wu4fvs69ph5kjs6fpl9mfqh3rsd2fld98rsa5l64xptjg47n99y'>nevent1q…n99y</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>related to <a href="https://xkcd.com/2985/">https://xkcd.com/2985/</a> ? 2024-09-14T00:19:20Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsp89zeeg87gqgshtunmdnlzkl9k0y9frsvscl7fewmhfsnatvq4cszypefvzyqum2sw3jfqe6mn20vhspwt5xxcy6q8pp9azu32xtldfrp22n2txx How I’d like to feel today #silentsunday sailing off N Pender island between Victoria and BC<br/> <img src="https://cdn.masto.host/federatesocial/media_attachments/files/113/103/141/040/097/366/original/f2552f42b490eb51.jpg"> <br/> 2024-09-08T17:39:35Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstywsyqnwm0cprlxga2zkdpw3jzefmce57w6mfd5623xylxu2lqngzypefvzyqum2sw3jfqe6mn20vhspwt5xxcy6q8pp9azu32xtldfrp22u5nyr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2rvzgcfan0u2qclpkrcg99lr35fu64g97c3h5m7avtwz55ugzjjg94dm9x'>nevent1q…dm9x</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Historical note: the often brilliant but frequently heterodox astronomer Tommy Gold infamously argued that solar sails violated fundamental thermodynamics.<br/><br/><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0306050">https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0306050</a><br/><br/>(I think he made the error of mistaking an approximation for an exact relation. Still, Gold was right often enough that he&#39;s revered in Cornell astronomy.) 2024-09-07T14:42:55Z