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BrainLesion Suite: A Flexible and User-Friendly Framework for Modular Brain Lesion Image Analysis
Florian Kofler, Marcel Rosier, Mehdi Astaraki, Hendrik M\"oller, Ilhem Isra Mekki, Josef A. Buchner, Anton Schmick, Arianna Pfiffer, Eva Oswald, Lucas Zimmer, Ezequiel de la Rosa, Sarthak Pati, Julian Canisius, Arianna Piffer, Ujjwal Baid, Mahyar Valizadeh, Akis Linardos, Jan C. Peeken, Surprosanna Shit, Felix Steinbauer, Daniel Rueckert, Rolf Heckemann, Spyridon Bakas, Jan Kirschke, …

BrainLesion Suite: A Flexible and User-Friendly Framework for Modular Brain Lesion Image Analysis
BrainLesion Suite is a versatile toolkit for building modular brain lesion image analysis pipelines in Python. Following Pythonic principles, BrainLesion Suite is designed to provide a 'brainless' development experience, minimizing cognitive effort and streamlining the creation of complex workflows for clinical and scientific practice. At its core is an adaptable preprocessing module that performs co-registration, atlas registration, and optional skull-stripping and defacing on arbitrary multi-…

After almost two centuries,
Baker & Taylor,
a nationwide library book distributor,
will reportedly shut down operations in January.
Baker & Taylor CEO Aman Kochar told employees Monday that following a recent failed acquisition deal with ReaderLink, the Charlotte-based company has no viable path forward, though he had hoped to find another solution

Baker & Taylor Prepares Plan to Shut Down
At a town hall yesterday, B&T owner and CEO Aman Kochar announced that following the termination of the ReaderLink acquisition deal, he does not see a path to keep the library wholesaler in business.

Opendoor names Shopify COO Kaz Nejatian as its CEO, following Carrie Wheeler's ouster, and taps co-founder Keith Rabois as chairman; OPEN jumps 35% after hours (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/c-suite/opend

I don’t know about you 
but my feelings oscillate between intense grief and boiling anger. 
I do not hide my pro-Palestinian sentiments. 
But this goes beyond one side or another. 
This is about our shared humanity. 
Does it still exist? Did it ever exist?
As citizens, our tools are limited. 
As meager as they sometimes appear, we still haveto utilize them. 
So, tell your congressperson to co-sponsor HR 3565
— The Block the Bombs Act
— atte…

Just finished "Beasts Made of Night" by Tochi Onyebuchi...
Indirect CW for fantasy police state violence.
So I very much enjoyed Onyebuchi's "Riot Baby," and when I grabbed this at the library, I was certain it would be excellent. But having finished it, I'm not sure I like it that much overall?
The first maybe third is excellent, including the world-building, which is fascinating. I feel like Onyebuchi must have played "Shadow of the Colossus" at some point. Onyebuchi certainly does know how to make me care for his characters.
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I felt like it stumbles towards the middle, with Bo's reactions neither making sense in the immediate context, nor in retrospect by the end when we've learned more. Things are a bit floaty in the middle with an unclear picture of what exactly is going on politics-wise and what the motivations are. Here I think there were some nuances that didn't make it to the page, or perhaps I'm just a bit thick and not getting stuff I should be? More is of course revealed by the end, but I still wasn't satisfied with the explanations of things. For example, (spoilers) I don't feel I understand clearly what kind of power the army of aki was supposed to represent within the city? Perhaps necessary to wield the threat of offensive inisisia use? In that case, a single scene somewhere of Izu's faction deploying that tactic would have been helpful I think.
Then towards the end, for me things really started to jumble, with unclear motivations, revelations that didn't feel well-paced or -structured, and a finale where both the action & collapsing concerns felt stilted and disjointed. Particularly the mechanics/ethics of the most important death that set the finale in motion bothered me, and the unexplained mechanism by which that led to what came next? I can read a couple of possible interesting morals into the whole denouement, but didn't feel that any of them were sufficiently explored. Especially if we're supposed to see some personal failing in the protagonist's actions, I don't think it's made clear enough what that is, since I feel his reasons to reject each faction are pretty solid, and if we're meant to either pity or abjure his indecision, I don't think the message lands clearly enough.
There *is* a sequel, which honestly I wasn't sure of after the last page, and which I now very interested in. Beasts is Onyebuchi's debut, which maybe makes sense of me feeling that Riot Baby didn't have the same plotting issues. It also maybe means that Onyebuchi couldn't be sure a sequel would make it to publication in terms of setting up the ending.
Overall I really enjoyed at least 80% of this, but was expecting even better (especially politically) given Onyebuchi's other work, and I didn't feel like I found it.
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Dozens of coal miners and their families are protesting the Trump administration outside the Labor Department building,
arguing it has failed to protect them from black lung disease,
an incurable illness caused by inhaling coal and silica dust.
They have been waiting months for the government to enforce federal limits on silica dust,
a carcinogen that has led to a recent spike in the disease.
But mining industry groups have sued to block the rule,
and the T…

Coal Miners With Black Lung Say They Are ‘Cast Aside to Die’ Under Trump
President Trump has been a cheerleader for coal miners. But these miners say his administration is failing to enforce limits on a lethal workplace hazard.

Spin Hall effect in the high-resistivity high-entropy alloy AlCrMoW
Jyoti Yadav, Felix Janus, Tiago de Oliveira Schneider, Shalini Sharma, Daniel Schr\"oter, Markus Meinert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09835

Spin Hall effect in the high-resistivity high-entropy alloy AlCrMoW
We study thin films of the high-entropy alloy system Al$_{x}$(CrMoW)$_{1-x}$, grown on Ta seed layers by magnetron co-sputtering. Between $x=0.2$ and $x=0.6$, a resistivity larger than 100$μΩ$cm is achieved, with a peak of 180$μΩ$cm at $x=0.5$. Around the stoichiometric composition AlCrMoW, the alloy forms a bcc solid solution. The harmonic Hall method was used to characterize the spin Hall angle of the alloy series, where a maximum spin Hall angle of $θ= -0.12 \pm 0.01$ is observed for $x…

A quantitative stability result for regularity of optimal transport on compact manifolds
Micah Warren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09035 https://

A quantitative stability result for regularity of optimal transport on compact manifolds
We use a Korevaar-style maximum principle approach to show the following: Fixing a $C^{2}$ bound on the log densities of a set of smooth measures, there is a quantifiably-sized Wasserstein neighborhood over which all pairs of such measures will enjoy smooth optimal transport. \ We do this in spite of unhelpful MTW\ curvature, by showing that when the gradient of the Kantorovich potential is small enough, the Hessian ``bound" places the Hessian in one of two disconnected regions, one bounded and…

In March, Trump told NBC’s Kristen Welker that he was “not joking” about considering a third term.
There are “methods” by which he could do so, he claimed,
one being if Vice President JD Vance was to win the presidency, then pass the baton to Trump.
In May, however, Trump declared to Welker that he will be “a two-term president”
—though he seemingly couldn’t help but add,
“There are ways of doing it.”
In August, he said he would “like to run” again but “pro…

Amy Coney Barrett Gives Least Reassuring Answer on Trump Third Term
This Supreme Court is failing us.

In July, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France plans to recognize a Palestinian state
—joining the ranks of more than 100 global states, mostly non-European, that have already done so.
His decision was a clear shot across the bow to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Israeli conduct in Gaza.
The point was made even more blunt in the following days by the news that the United Kingdom also intends to recognize a Palestinian state if no progress is…

What Was the Tipping Point on Gaza?
After almost two years of war, Israel is feeling the growing weight of governmental opprobrium.