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Over the first months of the second Trump presidency, we have watched the guardrails of democracy come off rapidly in real time.
Mass firings of civil servants,
the dismissal of government watchdogs,
the weaponization of the military against our citizens,
the use of the national budget as a cudgel,
and the dehumanization of immigrants. 
💥Donald Trump and his allies are following what we believe is a similar path as autocrats abroad,
with an American…

We Can Stop the Rise of American Autocracy
Stacey Abrams and Kim Lane Scheppele argue that we must act now to stop autocracy from taking over America.

After seeing a workshop using a crappy pseudo/proprietary forensic web capture toolkit for law enforcement, I was disappointed by the lack of open source tooling to have a sane forensic collection for web capture. Following a discussion with @… he did an implementation to add web forensic acquisition in

1935 and the Frankfurt School of left intellectuals, having fled Nazism in Germany, like many others, re-established itself in New York, USA.
2025 and left intellectuals start fleeing from really existing fascism in the USA.
Ironically to Spain, in one high profile case, which in 1935 was in the process of succumbing to the fascist Falange, but which now has a democratic and centre left government.

49ers waiving Jake Moody following multiple missed kicks in Week 1 win over Seahawks https://www.nfl.com/news/49ers-waive-jake-moody-following-multiple-missed-kicks-in-week-1

Tell-Tale Watermarks for Explanatory Reasoning in Synthetic Media Forensics
Ching-Chun Chang, Isao Echizen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05753 https://arxiv.o…

Tell-Tale Watermarks for Explanatory Reasoning in Synthetic Media Forensics
The rise of synthetic media has blurred the boundary between reality and fabrication under the evolving power of artificial intelligence, fueling an infodemic that erodes public trust in cyberspace. For digital imagery, a multitude of editing applications further complicates the forensic analysis, including semantic edits that alter content, photometric adjustments that recalibrate colour characteristics, and geometric projections that reshape viewpoints. Collectively, these transformations man…

Some French news publishers have signed agreements with unions to redistribute revenue from AI licensing deals to journalists; Le Monde redistributes 25% (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/in-france…

Some French publishers are giving AI revenue directly to journalists. Could that ever happen in the U.S.?
Le Monde agreed to give journalists 25% of revenue from licensing deals with OpenAI and Perplexity. Now, other French publishers are following suit.

Space-filling discrete helices
Jayanth R. Banavar, Achille Giacometti, Trinh X. Hoang, Amos Maritan, Tatjana \v{S}krbi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07011 https://

Space-filling discrete helices
Proteins are linear chain molecules that play a central role in life and health. Protein native state folds are modular assemblies of space-filling building blocks of α-helices, \{beta}-sheets and tight turns. Here we deduce the structures of a countable set of space-filling helical forms of a uniform discrete thick string from first principles with no additional input or adjustable parameters. These forms occur in correspondence with the natural numbers, loosely analogous to the energy levels…

An update on the existence of integer Heffter arrays
Fiorenza Morini, Marco Antonio Pellegrini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08302 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.…

An update on the existence of integer Heffter arrays
An integer Heffter array $H(m,n;s;k)$ is an $m\times n$ partially filled array whose entries are the elements of a subset $Ω\subset \mathbb{Z}$ such that $\{Ω,-Ω\}$ is a partition of the set $\{1,2,\ldots,2nk\}$ and such that the following conditions are satisfied: each row contains $s$ filled cells, each column contains $k$ filled cells, the elements in every row and column add up to $0$. It was conjectured by Dan Archdeacon that an integer $\H(m,n;s;k)$ exists if and only if $ms=nk$, $3\le…

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- Vince P.
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