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Pushback against progressive mayoral candidate #Zohran #Mamdani has been fierce.
That includes the mainstream media, which is trying to brand him a socialist to negate his progressive and popular policy proposals.
Stephen Janis and Taya Graham analyze the CNN anchor’s takedown and show why her efforts are corp…

Corporate media is trying to take down Mamdani. This is why they’re failing.
Pushback against mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has been fierce. That includes the mainstream media, which is trying to brand him a socialist to negate his progressive and popular policy proposals.

what a day what a night ...ends at 8pm or 10 ;-)

Verified Language Processing with Hybrid Explainability: A Technical Report
Oliver Robert Fox, Giacomo Bergami, Graham Morgan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05017

Verified Language Processing with Hybrid Explainability: A Technical Report
The volume and diversity of digital information have led to a growing reliance on Machine Learning techniques, such as Natural Language Processing, for interpreting and accessing appropriate data. While vector and graph embeddings represent data for similarity tasks, current state-of-the-art pipelines lack guaranteed explainability, failing to determine similarity for given full texts accurately. These considerations can also be applied to classifiers exploiting generative language models with …

Micah Parsons reflects on 'toxic situation' with Cowboys after Packers debut https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/micah-parsons-reflects-on-toxic-situation-dallas-cowboys-after-packers-debut

"Politicians, oil companies and Russia: Who’s fuelling climate disinformation, and why?"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Report exposes key players spreading climate disinformation
A new report has revealed how political figures, fossil fuel interests and foreign states are shaping climate denial worldwide.

Are Depth-2 Regular Expressions Hard to Intersect?
Rocco Ascone, Giulia Bernardini, Alessio Conte, Veronica Guerrini, Giulia Punzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03593

Are Depth-2 Regular Expressions Hard to Intersect?
We study the basic regular expression intersection testing problem, which asks to determine whether the intersection of the languages of two regular expressions is nonempty. A textbook solution to this problem is to construct the nondeterministic finite automaton that accepts the language of both expressions. This procedure results in a $Θ(mn)$ running time, where $m$ and $n$ are the sizes of the two expressions, respectively. Following the approach of Backurs and Indyk [FOCS'16] and Bringmann…

> Two years ago, the Flemish Roads Agency (AWV) announced the introduction of the new system: via an app on your smartphone, you can get a traffic light to turn green more quickly.
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2025/07/24/200-000-flemish…

According to capitalists:
✅ Working for a company like Google or Microsoft that is complicit in genocide.
❌ Displaying images of the genocide.
Maybe if the consequences of your work are considered “Not Safe For Work”, you shouldn’t be doing that work in the first place.*
But, no, it’s just much easier to look away, isn’t it? After all, you’re just following orders, right?
* Update: because I just *know* that someone will pipe in maliciously with “oh, so you mean…

1/ f noise and two-level systems in MBE-grown Al thin films
Shouray Kumar Sahu, Yen-Hsun Glen Lin, Kuan-Hui Lai, Chao-Kai Cheng, Chun-Wei Wu, Elica Anne Heredia, Ray-Tai Wang, Yen-Hsiang Lin, Juainai Kwo, Minghwei Hong, Juhn-Jong Lin, Sheng-Shiuan Yeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01850

1/ f noise and two-level systems in MBE-grown Al thin films
Aluminum thin films are essential to the functionalities of electronic and quantum devices, where two-level systems (TLS) can degrade device performance. MBE-grown Al films may appeal to these applications due to their low TLS densities. We studied the energy distributions of TLS densities, g(E), in 10-nm-thick MBE-grown and electron-beam evaporated Al films through 1/f noise measurements between 80 and 360 K. At 300 K, the noise magnitudes in MBE-grown films are about three times lower than in…

Study of Optical Properties of MOCVD-Grown Rutile GeO2 Films
Imteaz Rahaman, Anthony Bolda, Botong Li, Hunter D. Ellis, Kai Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01289 https://

Study of Optical Properties of MOCVD-Grown Rutile GeO2 Films
Rutile germanium dioxide (r-GeO$_2$) is a promising ultra-wide bandgap (UWBG) semiconductor, offering a high theoretical Baliga figure of merit, potential for p-type doping, and favorable thermal and electrical properties. In this work, we present a comprehensive optical investigation of crystalline r-GeO$_2$ thin films grown on r-TiO$_2$ (001) substrates via metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). Cathodoluminescence (CL) spectroscopy reveals broad visible emissions with distinct peak…