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Immigration protests last overnight in Los Angeles following surprise ICE detainments
Protests lasted through the night in Los Angeles after ICE conducted surprise immigration operations on Friday.
https://www.cbsnews.com/los…

"Ocean currents can generate electricity, and our study shows Africa's seas have some of the strongest"
#Africa #Oceans #Energy

Ocean currents can generate electricity, and our study shows Africa's seas have some of the strongest
The world's oceans cover more than 70% of Earth's surface. They're filled with currents, some much stronger than the fastest flowing large rivers. These currents can be harnessed as clean, marine renewable energy. Marine energy is much more predictable and reliable than many other forms of renewable energy because unlike the sun and wind, which regularly do not produce electricity, ocean currents never stop moving around the planet. New research has found that the eastern and south-eastern coas…

Protest filling the street at 24th and Mission in San Francisco
#ICEProtests #FuckICE

Detection of multiple X-ray quasi-periodic oscillations in IGR J19294 1816 with Insight-HXMT
Wen Yang, Wei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05771 https://…

Detection of multiple X-ray quasi-periodic oscillations in IGR J19294+1816 with Insight-HXMT
We report the timing results with Insight-HXMT observations of X-ray binary IGR J19294+1816 during its 2019 Type I outburst at the decline phase shortly following its peak. We analyze the light curves and power density spectrum (PDS) of the 2019 observations and reveal a peak at approximately $ν_{NS} \sim 80.2$ mHz, corresponding to X-ray pulsations from the neutron star. In addition, a significant quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) feature is observed at around $ν_{QPO} \sim 30.2$ mHz from 10-…

Failing Banks
Sergio Correia, Stephan Luck, Emil Verner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06082 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.06082

Failing Banks
Why do banks fail? We create a panel covering most commercial banks from 1863 through 2024 to study the history of failing banks in the United States. Failing banks are characterized by rising asset losses, deteriorating solvency, and an increasing reliance on expensive noncore funding. These commonalities imply that bank failures are highly predictable using simple accounting metrics from publicly available financial statements. Failures with runs were common before deposit insurance, but thes…

Sources: EchoStar is considering filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to protect its valuable wireless spectrum licenses from potential revocation by the FCC (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/echosta…

Tidal Disruption in Topological Solitons and the Emergence of an Effective Horizon
Pierre Heidmann, Gela Patashuri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05463 https:/…

Tidal Disruption in Topological Solitons and the Emergence of an Effective Horizon
We compute the dynamics of particles and strings falling into smooth horizonless spacetimes that match the Schwarzschild black hole but replace its horizon with a smooth cap in supergravity. The cap consists of a regular topological structure formed by the deformations of extra compact dimensions. We show that infalling particles follow Schwarzschild-like trajectories down to the cap, but experience rapidly growing tidal forces that reach extreme values. In addition, infalling strings encounter…

Sometimes you look at a graph and think that a particular value seems a bit odd. Then you look at the other numbers and they seem off, too. At that point, you realise that the graph is not intended to clarify, but to obscure. On German #EV charging prices, Quartets and diesel.

Sometimes you look at a graph and think that a particular value seems a… | Jaap Burger
Sometimes you look at a graph and think that a particular value seems a bit odd. Then you look at the other numbers and they seem off, too. At that point, you realise that the graph is not intended to clarify, but to obscure. Thank you, Felix Hamer, for drawing attention to this recent slide from BDEW Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft e.V. The title suggests that EV charging would only cost the same as filling up a diesel or petrol car for the same distance in an 'Extremszenario…

Bernie Sanders warned of the US’s slide into authoritarianism
following Donald Trump’s decision to deploy the national guard to Los Angeles over the city’s protests against federal immigration raids.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

On Friday, Trump’s border czar,
Tom Homan, said he plans to send the National Guard to Los Angeles
to combat protests against ICE that began this weekend following immigration raids in the city.
“We are making Los Angeles safer. Mayor Bass should be thanking us. She says they are going to mobilize—guess what?
We are already mobilizing.
We are going to bring the National Guard in tonight,”
Homan told Fox News.
California Governor Gavin Newsom respo…

LA protests live: National Guard to arrive within 24 hours after being deployed by Trump over immigration demos
Demonstrators clash with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in hours-long stand-off