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There is little about Scott Jennings,
or the words that come out of his mouth,
that corresponds to reality.
A decade into Trump’s capture of the Republican Party, Jennings is the premier crossover enabler.
He is perhaps CNN’s most recognizable face alongside its primetime anchors,
and he is feted on jokey, tough-talk shows like Bill Maher. 
But Jennings is a representation of our own malady,
a projection of a country whose political culture is now…

Scott Jennings in the Hyperreal and the Myth of the Escape Hatch
Jennings is like a simulation of a Trump enabler.

ABC News launches What You Need to Know, a daily news program on Disney , streaming weekdays at 6am ET, with each episode available for 24 hours (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/abc-news-disney-pl…

ABC News to Launch Exclusive Daily Show on Disney+
What You Need to Know' will go live on the Disney streaming platform weekdays at 6 a.m., anchored by chief international correspondent James Longman and senior political correspondent Rachel Scott.

Degree conditions for spanning expansion hypertrees
Mengjiao Rao, Nicol\'as Sanhueza-Matamala, Lin Sun, Guanghui Wang, Wenling Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08324

Degree conditions for spanning expansion hypertrees
The $k$-expansion of a graph $G$ is the $k$-uniform hypergraph obtained from $G$ by adding $k-2$ new vertices to every edge. We determine, for all $k > d \geq 1$, asymptotically optimal $d$-degree conditions that ensure the existence of all spanning $k$-expansions of bounded-degree trees, in terms of the corresponding conditions for loose Hamilton cycles. This refutes a conjecture by Pehova and Petrova, who conjectured that a lower threshold should have sufficed. The reason why the answer is of…

Why is caregiving so hard in America? The answers emerge in a new film https://www.npr.org/2025/06/20/nx-s1-5438564/caregiving-documentary-pbs?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=npr/magazin…

Former ABC News correspondent and anchor Terry Moran launches a Substack channel following his ouster from the news network (Glenn Garner/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/terry-moran-launches-substack-abc-news-dismissal-1236431503/…

Terry Moran Launches Substack Channel To Continue “Important Work” After ABC News Dismissal
Following Terry Moran's unceremonious ousting from ABC News, the Emmy-winning anchor and reporter has already moved onto his next platform.

The embedded deformation problem for monomial ideals
Benjamin Briggs, Elo\'isa Grifo, Josh Pollitz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10827 https://

The embedded deformation problem for monomial ideals
This article is concerned with homological properties of local or graded rings whose defining relations are monomials on some regular sequence. The main result of the article positively answers a question of Avramov for such a ring $R$. More precisely, we establish that an embedded deformation of $R$ corresponds exactly to a degree two central element in the homotopy Lie algebra of $R$, as well as a free summand of the conormal module of $R$. A major input in the proof is an analysis of cohomol…

Clustering of large deviations events in heavy-tailed moving average processes: the catastrophe principle in the short-memory case
Jiaqi Wang, Gennady Samorodnitsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10256

Clustering of large deviations events in heavy-tailed moving average processes: the catastrophe principle in the short-memory case
How do large deviation events in a stationary process cluster? The answer depends not only on the type of large deviations, but also on the length of memory in the process. Somewhat unexpectedly, it may also depend on the tails of the process. In this paper we work in the context of large deviations for partial sums in moving average processes with short memory and regularly varying tails. We show that the structure of the large deviation cluster in this case markedly differs from the correspon…

OpenAI details why "emergent misalignment", where training on wrong answers in one area can lead to misalignment in others, happens and how it can be mitigated (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/18/open

OpenAI found features in AI models that correspond to different 'personas' | TechCrunch
OpenAI researchers say they've discovered hidden features inside AI models that correspond to misaligned "personas," according to new research published

Is posting wrong AI answers still a thing, or do we all just accept they're making stuff up? #ai #googlesearch #aioverview
I mean, just note that the first and last sentence are clearly contradicting each other.

The non-unit conjecture for Misiurewicz parameters
Robert L. Benedetto, Vefa Goksel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05254 https://arxiv.or…

The non-unit conjecture for Misiurewicz parameters
A Misiurewicz parameter is a complex number $c$ for which the orbit of the critical point $z=0$ under $z^2+c$ is strictly preperiodic. Such parameters play the same role in dynamical moduli spaces as singular moduli (corresponding to CM elliptic curves) play on modular curves. Building on our earlier work, we investigate whether the difference of two Misiurewicz parameters can be an algebraic unit. (The corresponding question for singular moduli was recently answered in the negative by Li.) We …