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Marsha P. Johnson has become an icon of gay, trans, and queer liberation,
and yet little is known about her life beyond her participation in the Stonewall Uprising of 1969 and the decades long controversy after her lifeless body was found floating in the Hudson River in 1992.
In "Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson",
Tourmaline, an award-winning Black trans artist, filmmaker, and activist who has dedicated her life to uplifting Marsha P. Johnson’s l…

What We Can Learn From the Defiant Life and Legacy of Marsha P. Johnson
Black trans artist, filmmaker, and activist Tourmaline discusses her new book about Marsha’s trailblazing life.

Analyzing and Evaluating the Behavior of Git Diff and Merge
Niels Glodny
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22071 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.22071

Analyzing and Evaluating the Behavior of Git Diff and Merge
Despite being widely used, the algorithms that enable collaboration with Git are not well understood. The diff and merge algorithms are particularly interesting, as they could be applied in other contexts. In this thesis, I document the main functionalities of Git: how diffs are computed, how they are used to run merges, and how merges enable more complex operations. In the process, I show multiple unexpected behaviors in Git, including the following: The histogram diff algorithm has pathologic…

John Spytek Has Strong Words for Jakobi Meyers Following Trade Request https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/john-spytek-jakobi-meyers-trade-request/?adt_ei=[email]

MCIF: Multimodal Crosslingual Instruction-Following Benchmark from Scientific Talks
Sara Papi, Maike Z\"ufle, Marco Gaido, Beatrice Savoldi, Danni Liu, Ioannis Douros, Luisa Bentivogli, Jan Niehues
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19634

MCIF: Multimodal Crosslingual Instruction-Following Benchmark from Scientific Talks
Recent advances in large language models have catalyzed the development of multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) that integrate text, speech, and vision within unified frameworks. As MLLMs evolve from narrow, monolingual, task-specific systems to general-purpose instruction-following models, a key frontier lies in evaluating their multilingual and multimodal capabilities over both long and short contexts. However, existing benchmarks fall short in evaluating these dimensions jointly: they are often limited t…

A look at SFGate, which has the largest audience of any purely local US news site; EIC Grant Marek says the site has 60 employees and has "never had a layoff" (Lucy Kenningham/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/pub…

How SFGATE is making local news pay and filling California's news gaps
SFGATE has the largest audience of any purely local news site in the US.

Second harmonic generation in polycrystalline ZnS nanowaveguides
Antoine Lemoine, Lise Morice, Brieg Le Corre, Antoine L\'etoublon, Alex Na\"im, Thomas Batte, Mathieu Perrin, Charles Cornet, Yannick Dumeige, Christophe Levallois, Yoan l\'eger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22667

Second harmonic generation in polycrystalline ZnS nanowaveguides
We report the realization of Zinc Sulfide (ZnS) nanowaveguides and the experimental observation of second harmonic generation (SHG) in such structures, demonstrating their potential for integrated nonlinear photonics. ZnS thin films were deposited via RF magnetron sputtering and characterized using atomic force microscopy (AFM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and ellipsometry. The nonlinear optical properties of these films were theoretically analyzed to assess the…

Using Containers to Speed Up Development, to Run Integration Tests and to Teach About Distributed Systems
Marco Mambelli, Bruno Moreira Coimbra, Namratha Urs, Ilya Baburashvili
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21464

Using Containers to Speed Up Development, to Run Integration Tests and to Teach About Distributed Systems
GlideinWMS is a workload manager provisioning resources for many experiments, including CMS and DUNE. The software is distributed both as native packages and specialized production containers. Following an approach used in other communities like web development, we built our workspaces, system-like containers to ease development and testing. Developers can change the source tree or check out a different branch and quickly reconfigure the services to see the effect of their changes. In this pape…

Browns owner Jimmy Haslam says there's no panic following disappointing 2024 season https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6523164/2025/07/29/cleveland-browns-owner-jimmy-haslam/

Review of the Higgs boson production via vector boson fusion and its decay into bottom quarks in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=8,13$ TeV
Fikriye C I Kaya, Ibrahim Mirza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22765 …

Review of the Higgs boson production via vector boson fusion and its decay into bottom quarks in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=8,13$ TeV
We present a comprehensive overview of the vector boson fusion production and the following decay of the Higgs boson to two bottom quarks (\(H\!\to\! b\bar{b}\)), which dominates the Higgs total width yet remains experimentally challenging because of substantial QCD multijet backgrounds. We overview the use of boosted decision trees, which advance jet reconstruction and flavour tagging by including boosted topologies and deep-learning-based \(b\)-tagging and which improve sensitivity in associa…

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has been in Trump administration’s crosshairs since he ordered the return of more than 200 Venezuelan immigrants summarily deported to El Salvador in March
Now Trump's Attorney General, Pam Bondi, ordered the DOJ to file a misconduct complaint against Judge Boasberg
This is the second instance of the Justice Department filing a misconduct complaint against a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. 
The DOJ claime…

DOJ files misconduct complaint against chief DC Judge James Boasberg
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has been in Trump administration’s crosshairs since he ordered the return of more than 200 Venezuelan immigrants summarily deported to El Salvador in March.