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NATO boss Rutte (fmr Dutch PM) sends app to Trump, who promptly publishes it.
"Wow, your bombing of Iran was great; it makes the world a safer place!"
Straight from The Hague, formerly known as the International City of Peace and Justice. Awkward.

Flying choir boy vibes tbh #BloomScrolling #CaliforniaNatives #SanFranciscoHellscape

Some recent popular books “explaining” music are actually awful. They commit the naturalistic fallacy with flair - as if the sweep of nature had quietly handed us a tidy little musical rulebook. I come away not with understanding but with a feeling of aesthetic conscription. Or constipation.

A stochastic model for the diffusion of competing opinions with trend-following, opposition, and indifference
Manuel Gonz\'alez-Navarrete
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18313

A stochastic model for the diffusion of competing opinions with trend-following, opposition, and indifference
We study a stochastic model for the diffusion of competing opinions in a population composed of three types of agents: trend-followers, opposers, and indifferent individuals. The decision dynamics are driven by reinforcement mechanisms, modulated by a latent trend process, allowing us to capture realistic features such as amplification, resistance, and randomness in opinion formation. We derive explicit formulas for the finite-time moments of the opinion count vector and establish a set of stro…

Little one has reached an interesting stage of personal hygiene. She wants to shower instead of taking baths, but can't do it fully by herself.
So i have to poke my head and arms around the shower curtain, soap up her head, rinse her hair without getting water in her eyes, and try not to get myself completely drenched in the process or fling too much water around the bathroom.

Thin active nematohydrodynamic layers: asymptotic theories and instabilities
Mehrana R. Nejad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16523 https://

Thin active nematohydrodynamic layers: asymptotic theories and instabilities
Starting from a three-dimensional description of an active nematic layer, we employ an asymptotic theory to derive a series of low-dimensional continuum models that capture the coupled dynamics of flat and curved films, including variations in film thickness, shape deformations, internal velocity fields, and the dynamics of orientational order. Using this asymptotic theory, we investigate instabilities driven by activity in both the nematic and isotropic phases for cylindrical and flat films.…

So, my Valve Index arrived. As you may know, it officially supports Linux.
It works, sort of, but dear god what a mess that was to get working.
Within the span of one evening, I have seen it all: GPU freezing, failing to aquire a DRM lease, firmware updates crashing, latency, and some weird swap chain flickering issue.
It works, though. On Linux. And I have a plethora of paths to get it perfect. This weekend will be awesome.

Size distribution of decaying foam bubbles
Ildoo Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18049 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.18049

Size distribution of decaying foam bubbles
The most studies on the stability of foam bubbles investigated the mechanical stability of thin films between bubbles due to the drainage by gravity. In the current work, we take an alternative approach by assuming the rupture of bubbles as a series of random events and by investigating the time evolution of the size distribution of foam bubbles over a long time up to several hours. For this purpose, we first prepared layers of bubbles on Petri dishes by shaking soap solutions of a few differen…