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40 some films and such that have come out or will come out in 2025 that I'm interested in (and may or may not see) 😂
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2025 films
A list of 44 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Wolf Man (2025), Companion (2025), This Is the Tom Green Documentary (2025), By Design (2025) and If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (2025).

Special Cases of the Shafarevich Conjecture for Complete Intersections in Abelian Varieties
Frank Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14935 https://

Special Cases of the Shafarevich Conjecture for Complete Intersections in Abelian Varieties
In this paper, we prove the Shafarevich conjecture for certain complete intersections of hypersurfaces in abelian varieties defined over a number field $K$ using the Lawrence-Venkatesh method. The main new inputs we need are computation of certain Euler characteristics of these complete intersections and a big monodromy statement for the variation of Hodge structure arising from the middle cohomology of a family of such complete intersections. Following \cite{ls25}, we prove the latter by relat…

Many people are detained at U.S. airports for reasons they find arbitrary and mysterious.
I got lucky—when I was stopped by Customs and Border Protection last week, after flying to Los Angeles from Melbourne, a border agent told me, explicitly and proudly, why I’d been pulled out of the customs line.
“Look, we both know why you are here,” the agent told me.
He identified himself to me as Adam, though his colleagues referred to him as Officer Martinez.
When I said that…

How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation
Alistair Kitchen on being detained at Los Angeles International Airport and sent back to Australia because of his reporting on the protests at Columbia University criticizing Israel’s actions in Gaza.

Dual-Stage Value-Guided Inference with Margin-Based Reward Adjustment for Fast and Faithful VLM Captioning
Ankan Deria, Adinath Madhavrao Dukre, Feilong Tang, Sara Atito, Sudipta Roy, Muhammad Awais, Muhammad Haris Khan, Imran Razzak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15649

Dual-Stage Value-Guided Inference with Margin-Based Reward Adjustment for Fast and Faithful VLM Captioning
Despite significant advances in inference-time search for vision-language models (VLMs), existing approaches remain both computationally expensive and prone to unpenalized, low-confidence generations which often lead to persistent hallucinations. We introduce \textbf{Value-guided Inference with Margin-based Reward (ViMaR)}, a two-stage inference framework that improves both efficiency and output fidelity by combining a temporal-difference value model with a margin-aware reward adjustment. In th…

Strain-tuning for superconductivity in La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ thin films
Motoki Osada, Chieko Terakura, Akiko Kikkawa, Masamichi Nakajima, Hsiao-Yi Chen, Yusuke Nomura, Yoshinori Tokura, Atsushi Tsukazaki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15319

Strain-tuning for superconductivity in La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ thin films
The recent discovery of high-transition temperature ($T_\mathrm{c}$) superconductivity in pressurized La$_{3}$Ni$_{2}$O$_{7}$ bulk crystals has attracted keen attention due to its characteristic energy diagram of $e_{g}$ orbitals, containing nearly half-filled $d_{3z^2 - r^2}$ and quarter-filled $d_{x^2 - y^2}$ orbitals. This finding provides valuable insights into the orbital contributions and interlayer interactions in double NiO$_{6}$ octahedra, offering opportunities to control the electron…

ImpReSS: Implicit Recommender System for Support Conversations
Omri Haller, Yair Meidan, Dudu Mimran, Yuval Elovici, Asaf Shabtai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14231

ImpReSS: Implicit Recommender System for Support Conversations
Following recent advancements in large language models (LLMs), LLM-based chatbots have transformed customer support by automating interactions and providing consistent, scalable service. While LLM-based conversational recommender systems (CRSs) have attracted attention for their ability to enhance the quality of recommendations, limited research has addressed the implicit integration of recommendations within customer support interactions. In this work, we introduce ImpReSS, an implicit recomme…

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good news: California Assembly passed a bill to require Caltrans to develop a quick-build program for bike lane and intersection safety projects on state highways! it's #AB891 (Zbur)
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Quick-Build Legislation Makes It Through the Assembly - Streetsblog California
Following the success of Quick-Build projects in Santa Monica, their Assemblymember wants to allow them on state highways.

A United States senator forced to the floor and handcuffed by federal agents for interrupting a news conference.
A mayor taken into custody by masked officials in military-style fatigues.
A political candidate pushed against a wall and handcuffed in a dispute at an immigration courthouse.
A government crackdown is extending to the political opposition.
“This is executive authority, especially in the Department of Homeland Security, running out of control,” said Senator …

Images of Handcuffed Democrats Are Piling Up in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
Federal agents have arrested a growing number of the party’s elected officials, fueling liberal outrage and conservative accusations that Democrats are carrying out publicity stunts.

Elizabeth Warren Calls for DHS Secretary Noem’s Resignation Following Padilla Incident
“The Trump administration is trying to undermine free speech in this country,”
Warren said during an interview.
https://truthout.org/articles/warren-c

Elizabeth Warren Calls for DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to Resign Following Padilla Incident
“The Trump administration is trying to undermine free speech in this country,” Warren said during an interview.