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Deceased New Jersey congressman wins Democratic primary election
Rep. Donald Payne Jr. (D) of New Jersey won the Democratic primary election in the state’s 10th Congressional District on Tuesday
— more than a month after he suffered a fatal heart attack.

Payne was running for reelection unopposed in the deep-blue district,
but because the filing deadline to run in the primary had already passed by the time of his death,
his name still appeared on the ballot.


Deceased New Jersey congressman wins Democratic primary election
Rep. Donald Payne Jr. (D-N.J.) died following a heart attack in April. More than a month later, he won the Democratic primary for New Jersey’s 10th District.

Russian Media Monitoring: Examining Ukraine’s Temporary Derogation of ECHR Rights Written by Matt Wickham UCMC/HWAG analyst Russian propaganda seeks to depict human rights in Ukraine as deteriorating, Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/russian-media-

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.13337 has been replaced.
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Dynamical quantum phase transitions following a noisy quench
We study how time-dependent energy fluctuations impact the dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) following a noisy ramped quench of the transverse magnetic field in a quantum Ising chain. By numerically solving the stochastic Schrödinger equation of the mode-decoupled fermionic Hamiltonian of the problem, we identify two generic scenarios: Depending on the amplitude of the noise and the rate of the ramp, the expected periodic sequence of noiseless DQPTs may either be uniformly shifted in…

I've been reading "On Green” (https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/03/21/on-green) and its following article, “On Attunement” with some interest today. I am uninterested in the ways he is focused on “AGI”, but that might actually be part of what he's saying and missing.
They talk about the philosophy of green in the "magic the gathering" sense, which has five core modes of things, and being a game, designed to balance. It's an attractive system and not without merit as a philosophical labeling system. In short: white, moral; blue, knowledge and rationality; red, passion and desire; black, power and achievement. And green. Green is the subject they can't identify clearly.
I don't think they really understand green. (They come from a very rationalist place, and that's not a good mode to understand Green)
Green is the domain of systems thinking and of ecology. It's one of flexible boundaries and hierarchies that vanish when you look at them for long. They talk about philosophical agents and try to fit a green philosophical stance into that framework, but it misses: the very idea of a self is nebulous in a green philosophy. Yes, it obviously exists, we are all separate from each other. But also we are inseparable from each other. Green is a philosophy of relationality and multiple perspectives and ever shifting viewpoints. It's not just yin, passive, permissive, but holistic. It's not that it lets the Other in, it's that it actively is in relation with the Other. The other is the self, the self is the other.
The essays also label green as conservative, and this is not quite true. It is not about being slow or regressive or traditional, but about being whole. They can't quite see that green's willingness to accept death and pain as things that happen and also its strong preservationist stance are not opposed to each other. It seems incoherent, but it's not: death and pain are things that happen to living parts of an ecosystem. They matter, but so too does the whole matter. Where so many blue rationalists see statistical and demographic counts of deaths and "sentient beings harmed”, green sees a whole ecosystem where some of that is deeply natural. It's unnatural, ecosystem-harming deaths that are disasters in the green philosophy. Wholesale extinctions. Protracted, painful deaths, as much for the wound they cause outside the individual as the individual suffering as well. But we all come to an end, and to change that wholesale would end so many kinds of relationship, so many things.
Green revels in the illegible, the incomplete, and the connected. It's easy to be green-blind, to ignore the subtle systemic effects. So many of us want simple cause and effect, rather than action and plurality of reactions.
Green's ability to embrace the illegible lets it deal with Red chaos; its resilience tempers red passion. It can ally with White philosophies into a pastoral, conservative, moralistic framework. It ends up at odds with the rationalist Blue and the power-hungry Black, because they drive disequilibrium, but more than just transition to new stable ecologies, they drive systems permanently out of stability, destroying relationships in their path. When confronted with this, they will deny it because the objects are still there. Preserved. Catalogued. Legible and accounted for. Perhaps used instrumentally. Perhaps wrecked for some "greater purpose” but only acknowledged as objects. The relationships between things remain illegible.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07402 has been replaced.
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An excursion onto Schrödinger's bridges: Stochastic flows with spatio-temporal marginals
The purpose of the present work is to expand substantially the type of control and estimation problems that can be addressed following Schrödinger's dictum, by incorporating termination (killing) of stochastic flows. Specifically, in the context of estimation, we seek the most likely evolution realizing measured spatio-temporal marginals of killed particles. In the context of control, we seek a suitable control action directing the killed process toward spatio-temporal probabilistic constraint…

Are convicted felons bad? 🤔
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 on X: "I’m tired of Democrat antics claiming Republicans worship Donald Trump. I worship God! Democrats are still worshiping Convicted Felon George Floyd. https://t.co/OVNQnZ71vP" / X

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) on X
I’m tired of Democrat antics claiming Republicans worship Donald Trump. I worship God! Democrats are still worshiping Convicted Felon George Floyd.

What's particularly muddy right now is
how a rising number of cattle infections are impacting farm workers,
beyond the Texas case that occurred back in March.
Veterinarians and physicians in states with dairy cattle outbreaks told The Associated Press there are multiple reports of farm workers falling sick,
but confirming cases is proving challenging for one key reason:
Many workers are reluctant to get tested.
"You have groups of individuals that…

What would it take to spark an H5N1 bird flu pandemic? And how bad would it be? | CBC News
For several decades, scientists have rung alarms that a dangerous form of bird flu had pandemic potential. As H5N1 spreads to more species, including U.S. dairy cattle, how likely is that worst-case scenario?

"Senate Democrats could use the power of the committees they chair to subpoena Amazon for that tape under the auspices of a decades-old law relating to the rigging of game shows."
Here’s how Senate Dems can legally obtain tape of Trump’s n-word comment on The Apprentice - Alternet.org

Here’s how Senate Dems can legally obtain tape of Trump’s n-word comment on The Apprentice
Being convicted of 34 felonies by a New York jury may not even be the most scandalous thing to happen to former President Donald Trump in the 2024 election. A tape apparently exists of him using a racial slur on his NBC game show, The Apprentice, and Senate Democrats may be able to get their hands o...

Whatever rules Americans thought were in place are now being rewritten by Donald J. Trump,
The notion that 34 felonies is not automatically disqualifying
and a convicted criminal can be a viable candidate for commander in chief
upends two and a half centuries of assumptions about American democracy.
And it raises fundamental questions about the limits of power in a second term, should Mr. Trump be returned to office.
If he wins, it means he will have survived …

A Felon in the Oval Office Would Test the American System
Some are wondering how the Constitution’s checks and balances, meant to hold presidents accountable, would work if the next president elected were already a felon.

Whatever rules Americans thought were in place are now being rewritten by Donald J. Trump,
The notion that 34 felonies is not automatically disqualifying
and a convicted criminal can be a viable candidate for commander in chief
upends two and a half centuries of assumptions about American democracy.
And it raises fundamental questions about the limits of power in a second term, should Mr. Trump be returned to office.
If he wins, it means he will have survived …

A Felon in the Oval Office Would Test the American System
Some are wondering how the Constitution’s checks and balances, meant to hold presidents accountable, would work if the next president elected were already a felon.