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Top adviser to supreme leader dies in hospital following Israeli attack
Ali Shamkhani, Iran’s top adviser to its supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei,
has died in the hospital a day after Israel launched airstrikes across the country.
Shamkhani had previously served as Iran’s top national security official for a decade and had represented Iran in the China-facilitated rapprochement talks with Saudi Arabia

Nice to see Michael Hansmeyer still following his dreams: The White Tower was finally revealed 2 weeks ago, currently the largest 3D printed structure in the world (30 meters [90ft] tall), located in a small village in Switzerland:
https://www.michael-hansmeyer.com/white-tower

Tor Alva | White Tower - Project Overview
Tor Alva, White Tower, Weisser Turm in Mulegns, Switzerland, Origen Foundation

EU's Frontex has published a children's book for children who are about to be deported
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https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/6eea0e99-e464-11ef-be2a-01aa75ed71a1
Official PDFs availabl…

Toolbox for children in return - Publications Office of the EU
Addressing the return of unaccompanied minors or children within families is a delicate matter that demands a humane approach. This approach must not only respect fundamental rights but also prioritise the child's best interests. Additionally, clear and comprehensive information about the return procedures is essential for those involved, enabling them to prepare as effectively as possible. One of the primary objectives of Frontex is to assist MS throughout all stages of the return procedures. …

The overall goal at "A New Social"
is to shift the power of social networks back to the people,
not the platform makers,
by giving them tools that let them
move their account and their followings,
and leave if a platform ever fails them in some way.

Introducing Bounce, a tool to move your following between Bluesky and Mastodon | TechCrunch
The overall goal at A New Social is to shift the power of social networks back to the people, not the platform makers, by giving them tools that let them move their account, their followings, and leave if a platform ever fails them in some way.

I can't tell you how weird it is as a manager to go through burnout blossoming and then sinking in to become a morass of emotional exhaustion and feelings of utter uselessness — while, in parallel, hearing feedback from my reports about how I've helped them struggle through and in most cases escape their own burgeoning burnout over the past few months
Just out here using my own body as a stick to pull my reports out of the quicksand of burnout

Act now! Vote to ban the forced conversion therapy! You have not to go out only click the following link on the european website:
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home
Let's get out and vote now! Tell your friends, collegues and all supporters you know!
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Equivariant CM minimization for extremal manifolds
Gabriel Frey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10679 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10679

Equivariant CM minimization for extremal manifolds
We prove an equivariant version of the CM minimization conjecture for extremal Kähler manifolds. This involves proving that, given an equivariant punctured family of polarized varieties, a relative version of the CM degree is strictly minimized by an extremal filling. This generalizes a result by Hattori for cscK manifolds with discrete automorphism group by allowing automorphisms and extremal metrics. As a main tool, we extend results by Székelyhidi on asymptotic filtration Chow stability …

Some flying insect just flew down my polo and stung me three times. If these are my last words, please tell my family there's a reason I did not tag them in my posts.

In case anyone here has connections with the Python team: can you please tell them to update their docs on XML security? The way it is is quite misleading, and it's been annoying me for a while. I raised this a while ago in their issue tracker, but it got no reaction whatsoever. https://github.com/python/cpython/issu…

Reconsider XML Security warnings / obsolete vulnerabilities · Issue #127502 · python/cpython
Documentation The documentation for the xml.etree.ElementTree API contains the following stark warning: Warning: The xml.etree.ElementTree module is not secure against maliciously constructed data....