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Fear of flying therapy is about reframing the flight experience;
if my mind’s eye squints,
I can almost interpret my sweating palms and pounding heartbeat as a kind of buzz.
But this requires repeated, strenuous effort,
and the result is a mental exhaustion that makes the worst-case scenario appealing:
succumbing to my fears and never flying again.
I imagine this as analogous to what many Americans, aerophobic or not, are feeling.
It’s simply easier…

Winging It | Noelle Mateer
For those trying to overcome their fears of flying, it’s been . . . a challenging time to say the least.

"The UK’s actual record in the 1930s is far from good, but no doubt if Nigel Farage had been in power he would have eagerly sent every Jewish refugee fleeing from the Nazis back to Germany."
mainly macro: Key myths on asylum, immigration and how to take on the far right
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Watching Control Freak with Kelly Marie Tran. Creepy and good. Lynchian almost.
#film #films

Control Freak (2025)
A motivational speaker, plagued by an uncontrollable itch on her head, becomes infected with a parasitic demon from her homeland.

After airport chaos, tanker blast, Putin fires Russian transport minister: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/07/after-airport-chaos-tanker-blast.html

Magnetic force microscopy versus scanning quantum-vortex microscopy: Probing pinning landscape in granular niobium films
A. Yu. Aladyshkin, R. A. Hovhannisyan, S. Yu. Grebenchuk, S. A. Larionov, A. G. Shishkin, O. V. Skryabina, A. V. Samokhvalov, A. S. Mel'nikov, D. Roditchev, V. S. Stolyarov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05172…

Magnetic force microscopy versus scanning quantum-vortex microscopy: Probing pinning landscape in granular niobium films
We provide an overview of the methodology and fundamental principles associated with newly developed experimental technique -- scanning quantum-vortex microscopy [Hovhannisyan et al., Commun. Mater., vol. 6, 42 (2025)]. This approach appears promising for experimental studies of vortex pinning phenomena in superconducting films and nanodevices. In particular, we studied the magnetic properties of magnetron-sputtered niobium (Nb) films by low-temperature magnetic force microscopy. As the tempera…

We are now in the weeds on Hacker Summer Camp, so cut through the clutter and check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Microsoft, CISA warn of critical on-prem exchange flaw,
--Poisoned Google invite can exploit Gemini,
--OpenAI Connectors' weakness can extract info from Google Drive accounts,
--Sweeping intrusion breached US legal filing system,
--Deibert warns of tech fascism,
--NIST with…

Microsoft, CISA warn of critical on-prem exchange flaw
Poisoned Google invite can exploit Gemini, OpenAI Connectors' weakness can extract info from Google Drive accounts, Sweeping intrusion breached US legal filing system, Deibert warns of tech fascism, NIST withheld AI report due to Trump fears, Air France and KLM hit by cyberattacks, much more

$L^p$ Hardy inequalities with homogeneous weights
Subhajit Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05674 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05674

$L^p$ Hardy inequalities with homogeneous weights
For $p\in (1,\infty)$ and $α\in\mathbb{R}$, we consider measurable functions $g$ on $\mathbb{S}^{N-1}$ that satisfy the following weighted Hardy inequality: \begin{equation}\label{abs} \int_{\mathbb{R}^N}\frac{ g (x/|x|)}{|x|^{p+α}}|u(x)|^p dx \leq C\int_{\mathbb{R}^N}\frac{|\nabla u(x)|^p}{|x|^α} dx, \quad\forall\,u\in \mathcal{C}_c^\infty(\mathbb{R}^N), \end{equation} for some constant $C>0$. Depending on $N$, $p$, and $α$, we identify s…

Switzerland currently has hazard warnings for
- heavy rain
- flash floods
- strong wind
- droughts
- forest fires
and *drumroll*
- avalanches
The only thing missing is an earthquake.
But it would probably feel to much like Iceland then 😄
#climatechange #meteoswiss

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.

It's September, and these are my favorite films of 2025 so far. (Freaky Tales is technically 2024, but it released in theaters this year, I'm counting it, it happens)
#film