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Mark Bray, a historian who has taught courses on anti-fascism at Rutgers university, was attempting to board a plane at Newark airport late on Wednesday when he was informed at the boarding gate that reservations for him and his family had been cancelled.
“‘Someone’ cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second,” Bray posted on Bluesky. “We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared’.”
Th…

Micah Parsons’ Tweet After Luka Doncic to Lakers Resurfaces Following Blockbuster Cowboys Trade https://www.si.com/nba/lakers/news/micah-parsons-tweet-after-luka-doncic-to-lakers-resurfaces-following-blockbuster-cowb…

Rep. Ro Khanna says Trump is following Nixon's playbook in attempt to 'interfere' with the Federal Reserve (Megan Lebowitz/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/ro-khanna-trump-nixon-playbook-federal-reserve-lisa-cook-mortgage-rcna228264
http://www.memeorandum.com/250831/p55#a250831p55

Entanglement dynamics and performance of two-qubit gates for superconducting qubits under non-Markovian effects
Kiyoto Nakamura, Joachim Ankerhold
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05872

Entanglement dynamics and performance of two-qubit gates for superconducting qubits under non-Markovian effects
Within a numerically exact simulation technique, the dissipative dynamics of a two-qubit architecture is considered in which each qubit couples to its individual noise source (reservoir). The goal is to reveal the role of subtle qubit-reservoir correlations including non-Markovian processes as a prerequisite to guide further improvements of quantum computing devices. This paper addresses the following three topics. First, we examine the validity of the rotating wave approximation imposed previo…

Abstract Landscapes
(Bernina range, on the approach to Lago di Fellaria, Sep 2025)
Everything about this place is so special: the road to the trailhead (with 1700m elevation gain), the scale of the majestic ~4000er (meters) mountains with their glaciated peaks. Observing the different levels/layers of this upper valley where the glaciers have already mostly receded, the parts which have been flooded with a reservoir (slowly drying out), the equally spectacular & tragic waterfa…

My wife read some of the Discworld books years ago but lost interest, I have tried to get her hooked for a while.
This morning we collected an old edition of "Alles Sense" (Reaper Man) from the post office. She just wanted to have a quick peak inside. That was an hour ago. I silently retreated to another room.
Now I just heard her shout "I want a curry!" from the living room.

Hot springs and dust reservoirs: JWST reveals the dusty, molecular aftermath of extragalactic stellar mergers
Viraj Karambelkar, Mansi Kasliwal, Ryan M. Lau, Jacob E. Jencson, Nadejda Blagorodnova, Marco A. Gomez-Munoz, Hugo Tranin, Maxime Wavasseur, Melissa Shahbandeh, Kishalay De
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03932

Hot springs and dust reservoirs: JWST reveals the dusty, molecular aftermath of extragalactic stellar mergers
We present James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations of four Luminous Red Novae (LRNe): dusty, extragalactic transients from stellar mergers following common-envelope evolution (CEE) in massive binary stars. Our targets - AT2021blu, AT2021biy, AT2018bwo, and M31-LRN-2015 - span a broad range in progenitor primary masses ($\approx$3-24M$_{\odot}$) and post-merger ages ($\approx$1100-3700 days). All four were observed with the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) from 5-25$μ$m; AT2021blu and AT20…

Economic fears of investors are here — and fed by Trump’s reaction
Friday’s disappointing jobs report revealed a labor market that is much weaker than either the White House or Federal Reserve understood.
Inflation, the voter irritant that helped return Trump to the Oval Office, is proving newly stubborn.
And consumers are growing more cautious with their spending.

Economic fears of investors are here — and fed by Trump’s reaction
President Donald Trump’s economic policies have sparked controversy and uncertainty, with a recent jobs report fueling concerns about the economy’s health.

Federal Reserve Governor
Lisa Cook's lawyer
has filed a lawsuit against Trump
following his unprecedented attempt to fire her on Monday.
Many experts fear that the president's latest action could spell the end of the Fed's independence.