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Nothing I’m trying to write is "flowing"...it's all laborious.
I'm encouraged by "Your labor isn’t a sign of defeat" from @… wherein she quotes Verlyn Klinkenborg:
"if you accept that writing is hard work, And that’s what it feels like when you’re writing, Then everything is as it should be. Your labor is…

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On isomorphisms of semi-free Hamiltonian $S^1$-manifolds and fixed point data
Liat Kessler, Nikolas Wardenski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14000 https://

On isomorphisms of semi-free Hamiltonian $S^1$-manifolds and fixed point data
Following Gonzales, we answer the question of whether the isomorphism type of a semi-free Hamiltonian $S^1$-manifold of dimension six is determined by certain data on the critical levels. We first give counter examples showing that Gonzales' assumptions are not sufficient for a positive answer. Then we prove that it is enough to further assume that the reduced spaces of dimension four are symplectic rational surfaces and the interior fixed surfaces are restricted to at most one level. The addit…

They have finally come to realize that things have changed since the 1800s. Now, if they would stop writing off unknowns as UAPs, not to be reported, and actually confirm what all the “unknowns” flying over the border are.
Texas stops providing new funding for border wall construction https://ground.news/article/texas-stops-providing-new-funding-for-border-wall-construction_b2c4f2

Congratulations to Professor Braxton Shelley of YDS and the ISM! He has been appointed to the newly endowed George Washington Williams Chair, named for the first African American to graduate from Newton Theological Institution (which continues today as part of Andover Newton Seminary at YDS).
Read about Prof. Shelley's appointment and other YDS faculty accomplishments here.

Just received a friend request on Facebook by someone named Peter Waldmeier.
https://www.facebook.com/peter.waldmeier.865
He seemed such a nice person, I think he is a model in a Scandinavian country.
When I asked him why he was sending me a friend request he go…

Scattered Spider hackers targeting insurance industry following retail hits, Google warns https://therecord.media/scattered-spider-targeting-insurance-sector-following-retail-attacks

"What Stroustrup wanted was apparently what a lot of people wanted: a language that provided OOP features, such as those offered by Smalltalk, but compiled into binaries that would execute as fast as an executable written in C.
The solution Stroustrup adopted was not to adopt the Smalltalk model, but instead to take inspiration from fellow Scandinavians and to bolt ideas borrowed from Simula into C."

I am astonished that the #Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial
https://www.auschwitz.org/en/
still supports or at least has an account on X (Twitter). They have at least one account here. @…
I have written them to express my dismay and have urged them to drop their X account with no response. I believe that it would help if as many of us as possible would write them to express your feelings about this.
https://www.auschwitz.org/en/contact/
Please boost.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03108 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_…

Writing with AI Lowers Psychological Ownership, but Longer Prompts Can Help
The feeling of something belonging to someone is called "psychological ownership." A common assumption is that writing with generative AI lowers psychological ownership, but the extent to which this occurs and the role of prompt length are unclear. We report on two experiments to examine the relationship between psychological ownership and prompt length. Participants wrote short stories either completely by themselves or wrote prompts of varying lengths. Results show that when participants wrot…

Battery electric vehicles had a market share of 18% last month in Germany; sales 45% higher than in May 2024.
China's BYD up 824%, easily surpassing Tesla (down 36%), but still only 4% share in Germany's BEV market.
https://www.