Our astronauts are conducting a spacewalk outside the International Space Station, performing delicate maintenance 250 miles above Earth. Safely tethered to humanity's orbital outpost, they have a front-row seat to the most stunning show in the universe: our home planet. From

The right bank of the Hudson River near Poughkeepsie, New York Capital Weather Gang

Universal basic capital would create a fair AI economy on.ft.com/48ZmM5g via @financialtimes Intriguing idea, e.g. "return on [such] investments . . . has made Australia among . . . highest average wealth in the world at $550,000 per adult."

Elon Musk Lmaao

Claim: Precise and scalable analogue matrix equation solving using resistive random-access memory chips nature.com/articles/s4192…

It was like when the the stroke had quelled her Yet everyone assumed she could still hear And petted her and dabbed the lips with water Until an hour before that, all morning . . . Seamus Heaney: a new glimpse of his life and poetry on.ft.com/3WAAlRe via @financialtimes

A good tutorial on free-electron lasers and extreme ultraviolet lithography optica-opn.org/home/articles/… Optica

Crafty Diggers explore nonlinear wave dynamics with submillimeter optical/superfluid helium waveguide science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… UQ News

Marmite!

Big bad news for my beloved alma mater wsj.com/us-news/educat…

It's over, folks. Pack it in.

Thanks! Western Massachusetts is indeed so beautiful at this time of year.

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

The men who stared at mushroom clouds on.ft.com/3LcqgHU via @financialtimes Sweet, sentimental account of reunion of Britain's atomic test veterans at Pontins, Weston-super-Mare. Image © Sadie Catt AtomicHeritage Nuclear Museum

I asked Grok to walk through an example of an "indirect prompt injection attack" on.ft.com/47nQZKf via @financialtimes I was amazed! The vulnerability of LLMs there seems to me to be a deeply embedded feature rather than an incidental bug. Appreciate replies by experts.

First-principles calculations of defect formations and positron annihilation spectroscopy (PAS) in nitrogen-doped diamond distinguish nitrogen-related from intrinsic vacancy defects. PAS attains sub-nanometer spatial resolution. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… UCL Ps Spectroscopy

The way I would put it, is that linear algebra has been the natural language of quantum mechanics since its foundation. We are all quantum machines.

The Mussel Gatherers, Winslow Homer (1881-1882). Transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite. In the collections of Baltimore Museum of Art

Grenoble Bridge, J. M. W. Turner, 1824. Transparent and opaque watercolor with scraping over traces of graphite. In the collections of Baltimore Museum of Art

Evocative video of burial at sea of WW II hero Aviation Machinist's Mate Second Class Loyce Edward Deen U.S. Navy. He is in the cabin of the airplane in which he was killed, on this day in 1944. H/T worthy Kim Noah, volunteer guardian of Arlington National Cemetery youtu.be/FMWz10jaK0g?si…