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3.5 billion euros in new funds pledged for Ukraine's reconstruction after Recovery Conference, ministry says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/13/billion-euros-in-new-funds.html

Anybody have a good source for a ripstop nylon zipper pouch, kinda like a pencil case, that's solidly built and fits comfortably in a cargo pants pocket?
Use case is a tiny pocket first aid kit. Nothing fancy, just a couple of bandaids, single-dose ibuprofen, etc. In the past I've tried a plastic clamshell case that eventually broke (and was uncomfortable), a notched vacuum sealed bag (great until you open it, but not resealable), a ziploc (too flimsy).

Today in Tabs and Garbageday were the best reads about wtf is going on with Kirk.
https://www.todayintabs.com/p/groyper-war-2-turns-hot

Groyper War 2 Turns Hot
Let's take a deep calming breath before we confront the following.

"So in summary: it appears that this was a shooting where the victim, an influencer, was answering a question from another influencer when he was shot by a third influencer, after which a fourth influencer documented the ensuing chaos and a host of other influencers registered their takes, before the director of the FBI (an influencer) and the deputy director of the FBI (another influencer) announced the alleged shooter’s apprehension with a quote from Mad Max."

Groyper War 2 Turns Hot
Let's take a deep calming breath before we confront the following.

TL;DR: what if nationalism, not anarchy, is futile?
Since I had the pleasure of seeing the "what would anarchists do against a warlord?" argument again in my timeline, I'll present again my extremely simple proposed solution:
Convince the followers of the warlord that they're better off joining you in freedom, then kill or exile the warlord once they're alone or vastly outnumbered.
Remember that even in our own historical moment where nothing close to large-scale free society has existed in living memory, the warlord's promise of "help me oppress others and you'll be richly rewarded" is a lie that many understand is historically a bad bet. Many, many people currently take that bet, for a variety of reasons, and they're enough to coerce through fear an even larger number of others. But although we imagine, just as the medieval peasants might have imagined of monarchy, that such a structure is both the natural order of things and much too strong to possibly fail, in reality it takes an enormous amount of energy, coordination, and luck for these structures to persist! Nations crumble every day, and none has survived more than a couple *hundred* years, compared to pre-nation societies which persisted for *tends of thousands of years* if not more. I'm this bubbling froth of hierarchies, the notion that hierarchy is inevitable is certainly popular, but since there's clearly a bit of an ulterior motive to make (and teach) that claim, I'm not sure we should trust it.
So what I believe could form the preconditions for future anarchist societies to avoid the "warlord problem" is merely: a widespread common sense belief that letting anyone else have authority over you is morally suspect. Given such a belief, a warlord will have a hard time building any following at all, and their opponents will have an easy time getting their supporters to defect. In fact, we're already partway there, relative to the situation a couple hundred years ago. At that time, someone could claim "you need to obey my orders and fight and die for me because the Queen was my mother" and that was actually a quite successful strategy. Nowadays, this strategy is only still working in a few isolated places, and the idea that one could *start a new monarchy* or even resurrect a defunct one seems absurd. So why can't that same transformation from "this is just how the world works" to "haha, how did anyone ever believe *that*? also happen to nationalism in general? I don't see an obvious reason why not.
Now I think one popular counterargument to this is: if you think non-state societies can win out with these tactics, why didn't they work for American tribes in the face of the European colonizers? (Or insert your favorite example of colonialism here.) I think I can imagine a variety of reasons, from the fact that many of those societies didn't try this tactic (and/or were hierarchical themselves), to the impacts of disease weakening those societies pre-contact, to the fact that with much-greater communication and education possibilities it might work better now, to the fact that most of those tribes are *still* around, and a future in which they persist longer than the colonist ideologies actually seems likely to me, despite the fact that so much cultural destruction has taken place. In fact, if the modern day descendants of the colonized tribes sow the seeds of a future society free of colonialism, that's the ultimate demonstration of the futility of hierarchical domination (I just read "Theory of Water" by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson).
I guess the TL;DR on this is: what if nationalism is actually as futile as monarchy, and we're just unfortunately living in the brief period during which it is ascendant?

A Bourgain-Brezis-Mironescu result for fractional thin films
Andrea Braides, Margherita Solci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08874 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.0…

A Bourgain-Brezis-Mironescu result for fractional thin films
We consider the limit of squared $H^s$-Gagliardo seminorms on thin domains of the form $Ω_\varepsilon=ω\times(0,\varepsilon)$ in $\mathbb R^d$. When $\varepsilon$ is fixed, multiplying by $1-s$ such seminorms have been proved to converge as $s\to 1^-$ to a dimensional constant $c_d$ times the Dirichlet integral on $Ω_\varepsilon$ by Bourgain, Brezis and Mironescu. In its turn such Dirichlet integrals divided by $\varepsilon$ converge as $\varepsilon\to 0$ to a dimensionally reduced Dirichlet…

OdysseyBench: Evaluating LLM Agents on Long-Horizon Complex Office Application Workflows
Weixuan Wang, Dongge Han, Daniel Madrigal Diaz, Jin Xu, Victor R\"uhle, Saravan Rajmohan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09124

OdysseyBench: Evaluating LLM Agents on Long-Horizon Complex Office Application Workflows
Autonomous agents powered by large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in real-world applications requiring complex, long-horizon workflows. However, existing benchmarks predominantly focus on atomic tasks that are self-contained and independent, failing to capture the long-term contextual dependencies and multi-interaction coordination required in realistic scenarios. To address this gap, we introduce OdysseyBench, a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating LLM agents on long-horizo…

Continued Rapid Radio Brightening of the Tidal Disruption Event AT2018hyz
Yvette Cendes, Edo Berger, Paz Beniamini, Ramandeep Gill, Tatsuya Matsumoto, Kate D. Alexander, Michael F. Bietenholz, Aprajita Hajela, Collin T. Christy, Ryan Chornock, Sebastian Gomez, Mark A. Gurwell, Garrett K. Keating, Tanmoy Laskar, Raffaella Margutti, Ramprasad Rao, Natalie Velez, Mark H. Wieringa

Continued Rapid Radio Brightening of the Tidal Disruption Event AT2018hyz
We present ongoing radio observations of the tidal disruption event (TDE) AT2018hyz, which was first detected in the radio at 972 days after disruption, following multiple non-detections from earlier searches. The new observations presented here span approximately 1370-2160 days and 0.88-240 GHz. We find that the light curves continue to rise at all frequencies during this time period, following a power law of about F ~ t^3 (compared to F_nu ~ t^5.7 at 972-1400 days), and reaching a peak lumino…

Adaptive Framework for Ambient Intelligence in Rehabilitation Assistance
G\'abor Baranyi, Zsolt Csibi, Kristian Fenech, \'Aron F\'othi, Zs\'ofia Ga\'al, Joul Skaf, Andr\'as L\H{o}rincz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08624

Adaptive Framework for Ambient Intelligence in Rehabilitation Assistance
This paper introduces the Ambient Intelligence Rehabilitation Support (AIRS) framework, an advanced artificial intelligence-based solution tailored for home rehabilitation environments. AIRS integrates cutting-edge technologies, including Real-Time 3D Reconstruction (RT-3DR), intelligent navigation, and large Vision-Language Models (VLMs), to create a comprehensive system for machine-guided physical rehabilitation. The general AIRS framework is demonstrated in rehabilitation scenarios following…

Validity of perturbation theory in calculations of magnetocrystalline anisotropy in Co-based layered systems
M. Cinal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08233 http…

Validity of perturbation theory in calculations of magnetocrystalline anisotropy in Co-based layered systems
Validity of second-order perturbation theory (PT) is examined for magnetocrystalline anisotropy (MCA) energy in Co films with enhanced spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and Co/Pt bilayers. Comparison with accurate results obtained with the force theorem (FT) reveals significant discrepancies in the dependence of the MCA energy on the Co thickness. For systems with strong SOC, the PT fails to correctly describe the oscillations of the MCA energy, largely overestimating their amplitude and even failing (…