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Nippon Steel’s $14.9bn acquisition of US Steel closed on Wednesday,
confirming an unusual degree of power for the Trump administration after the Japanese company’s 18-month struggle to close the purchase.
Under the deal terms, Nippon bought 100% of US Steel shares at $55 a share, as it first laid out in its December 2023 offer for the well-known and struggling steelmaker.
A press release on the filing also discloses details of a national security agreement inked with the Tr…

Chinese game Revenge on Gold Diggers, one of the most popular and contentious video games in the country, sparks a debate over misogyny and male resentment (Li Yuan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/busines

‘Who Killed Love?’ A Video Game Plays to Male Resentment in China.
A popular and contentious game, Revenge on Gold Diggers, sheds light on misogyny, inequality and the feeling among many men that they are economic victims.

Four Tet, Into Dust (Still Falling). #sound
https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/track/into-dust-still-falling

Welcome to Berlin Buzzwords 2025! 
Be sure not to miss our keynote speaker, @…, who will be giving a talk on „Unpacking Digital Sovereignty: How to avoid fueling the nationalist rise," which commences at 9:35 am at stage Kesselhaus.
 
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Unpacking Digital Sovereignty: How to avoid fueling the nationalist rise
With the new ruling coalition of Trump, Musk and Big Tech, European digital sovereignty seems to be the widely accepted solution to break free from US companies that are used to threaten European governments. The EU is reviving industrial policy and is willing to invest a lot of money into digital sovereignty - but which problems exactly should it address, and what should be part of the solution? This talk shows that digital sovereignty is prone to open the door to a nationalist agenda which fa…

Typical #Mastodon (Fediverse?) moment:

• a supportive video on the #Fediverse is referenced in a post. In this case the video is on YouTube...
• one person in the comments saying that the video should really be on PeerTube instead
• @…

#Spearhead's #MichaelFranti played a concert last night at #SDSU as online rumblings grew about allegations from a female artist casting some unusually dark shadows over the positive vibes associated with ex-

Officials from various European countries took to social media to share their reactions following the Alaska summit.
"Putin got his red carpet treatment with Trump, Trump got nothing,"
German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger wrote on X.
"As was to be feared: no ceasefire, no peace. No real progress
— clearly 1:0 for Putin
— no new sanctions.
For the Ukrainians: nothing.
For Europe: deeply disappointing."
During the post-summit …

'Clearly 1:0 to Putin' — European officials react to Alaska Summit
"Putin got his red carpet treatment with Trump, Trump got nothing. ... For the Ukrainians: nothing. For Europe: deeply disappointing."

Regularizing Effect for a Nonlocal Maxwell-Schr\"odinger System
Lu\'is Henrique de Miranda, Ayana Pinheiro de Castro Santana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12294

Regularizing Effect for a Nonlocal Maxwell-Schrödinger System
In this paper we prove existence and regularity of weak solutions for the following system \begin{align*} \begin{cases} &-\mbox{div}\Bigg(\bigg(\|\nabla u\|^{p}_{L^{p}}+\|\nabla v\|^{p}_{L^{p}}\bigg)|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u\Bigg) + g(x,u,v)=f \ \ \ \mbox{in} \ Ω; &-\mbox{div}\Bigg(\bigg(\|\nabla u\|^{p}_{L^{p}}+\|\nabla v\|^{p}_{L^{p}}\bigg)|\nabla v|^{p-2}\nabla v\Bigg) = h(x,u,v) \ \ \ \ \mbox{in} \ Ω; &u=v=0 \ \mbox{on} …

Meta says it has taken down around 10M Facebook profiles so far this year that were impersonating or repeatedly reusing content from large content producers (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/following-youtu…

Following YouTube, Meta announces crackdown on 'unoriginal' Facebook content | TechCrunch
Like YouTube, Meta says it won't penalize users who are engaging with other people's content, doing things like making reaction videos, joining a trend, or adding their own takes.

Italian filmmaker @_elena and her friends have made an OUTSTANDING short film, which explains why people should quit the fascist social networks and join us in the fediverse.
Watch, and share the link everywhere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRJHIJy5Nno