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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a law banning excessively loud ads on streaming platforms like Netflix, the first such law in the US, modeled on a 2010 law (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/06/d

Honored to join Rep Suzanne Bonamici in Oregon last week!
Suzanne is a terrific Member of Congress who is fighting to cancel the cuts, lower costs and save healthcare.
You can learn more about Suzanne and help her at this link: https://www.bonamiciforcongress.com
-- Rep. Ted Lieu

Suzanne Bonamici for Congress
Suzanne Bonamici is a Democrat from Oregon, representing the state's first district in Congress.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a law banning excessively loud ads on streaming platforms like Netflix, the first such law in the US, modeled on a 2010 law (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/06/d

"The economy is BOOMING!"
It's not.
"The Fed must lower rates!"
That's not what you do when the economy is booming.

Bananas for Tonks' gas: structural transitions in bent-core molecule bi-layers
David A. King
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21503 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Bananas for Tonks' gas: structural transitions in bent-core molecule bi-layers
We study the role of particle geometry in the ordering of bilayers of bent-core particles using a simplified two-dimensional model. Particles are confined to two parallel one-dimensional layers and can adopt only two discrete orientations of their bent cores. By mapping the system exactly onto a pair of coupled Ising chains in the thermodynamic limit, we may obtain closed-form expressions for all correlation functions. The coupling between orientational and layer degrees of freedom produces rem…

Classical theory of electron-ion correlations at electrochemical interfaces: Closing the circuit from double-layer charging to ion adsorption
Nils Bruch, Michael Eikerling, Tobias Binninger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14751

Classical theory of electron-ion correlations at electrochemical interfaces: Closing the circuit from double-layer charging to ion adsorption
The electric double layer (EDL) that forms at the interface between metals and ionic solutions is at the heart of various energy technologies. Recent experimental data have challenged our traditional understanding of the EDL charging behavior, which is based on mean-field Gouy-Chapman-Stern-type (GCS) models. In this article, we present a classical theory for the EDL, derived from first-principles statistical mechanics, that accounts for electron-ion correlation effects using the method of imag…

Piquant$\varepsilon$: Private Quantile Estimation in the Two-Server Model
Hannah Keller, Jacob Imola, Fabrizio Boninsegna, Rasmus Pagh, Amrita Roy Chowdhury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14035

Piquant$\varepsilon$: Private Quantile Estimation in the Two-Server Model
Quantiles are key in distributed analytics, but computing them over sensitive data risks privacy. Local differential privacy (LDP) offers strong protection but lower accuracy than central DP, which assumes a trusted aggregator. Secure multi-party computation (MPC) can bridge this gap, but generic MPC solutions face scalability challenges due to large domains, complex secure operations, and multi-round interactions. We present Piquant$\varepsilon$, a system for privacy-preserving estimation of…