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If there's a shooting in your apartment building, would you feel helped if your building were razed in response? When there's a shooting a block from a police station, do we destroy the whole block including the police station? Whatever Frey's excuse of the moment for destroying the makeshift homes of unhoused people, it is collective punishment— of the victims no less.
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RIP Marilyn Hagerty, Great and Humble Chronicler of Upper Midwestern Eats - Racket
Plus south Minneapolis mass shootings, DJ calls for Saloon boycott, and a Robert Redford local angle in today's Flyover news roundup.

Anisotropy enables advanced light sheet microscopy with opaque lenses
Mikis Mylonakis, Evangelos Marakis, George J. Tserevelakis, Athanasios Zacharopoulos, Maira Tampakaki, Iro Manne, Angela Pasparaki, Nektarios Tavernarakis, Dimitrios G. Papazoglou, Giannis Zacharakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12840

Anisotropy enables advanced light sheet microscopy with opaque lenses
Advances in fluorescence microscopy have reached a plateau in improving depth-to-resolution ratios for imaging scattering tissues, highlighting an urgent need for innovative techniques. We introduce Wavelens, a groundbreaking opaque lens that combines dynamic wavefront shaping with a passive, angularly anisotropic photonic scattering plate-designed to scatter light predominantly in one direction. This compact, robust optoelectronic device, comparable in size to a conventional microscope lens, d…

biblically accurate angels blew up cuz they made neet husks in youtube comments sections glimpse the marvelous for the 1st time since they were 7, then the internet spent the last decade working tirelessly, out of love, to petrify and print millions of their now-predictable listless forms out for window dressing as if they're any other coming and going meme, unable to see any other way to love anything in the 21st century.

Man attempts high jump at Trackapalooza 2025 held at Groton High School way in the Northeast corner of Tompkins County
#photo #photography #sports

MolmoAct: Action Reasoning Models that can Reason in Space
Jason Lee, Jiafei Duan, Haoquan Fang, Yuquan Deng, Shuo Liu, Boyang Li, Bohan Fang, Jieyu Zhang, Yi Ru Wang, Sangho Lee, Winson Han, Wilbert Pumacay, Angelica Wu, Rose Hendrix, Karen Farley, Eli VanderBilt, Ali Farhadi, Dieter Fox, Ranjay Krishna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07917

MolmoAct: Action Reasoning Models that can Reason in Space
Reasoning is central to purposeful action, yet most robotic foundation models map perception and instructions directly to control, which limits adaptability, generalization, and semantic grounding. We introduce Action Reasoning Models (ARMs), a class of vision-language-action models that integrate perception, planning, and control through a structured three-stage pipeline. Our model, MolmoAct, encodes observations and instructions into depth-aware perception tokens, generates mid-level spatial …

New York Post will launch a version of the rightwing tabloid in California in 2026
It comes at a trying time for news outlets in the Los Angeles area.
The storied Los Angeles Times,
the state’s biggest paper and once one of the most influential regional outlets in the US,
lost more than 20% of its newsroomlast January,
months after laying off 74 staffers amid advertising declines in 2023.
On top of losing tens of millions of dollars a year, it also suffe…

While traditional media avoided sharing explicit videos of Charlie Kirk's assassination, gory videos flooded social media, including X, Instagram, and TikTok (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/charlie-kirk…

Graphic Charlie Kirk video spread fast, showing media's fading grip
Traditional news outlets were careful in their coverage of conservative activist Charlie Kirk's assassination to not show graphic images of the event. But if people wanted to see graphic evidence of what happened to him, it was easily available online — and millions of people quickly sought it out. It showed how media's gatekeeper role had changed so markedly in the era of social media. Gory images — from different angles, with different perspectives — were up on X, Facebook, YouTube, eve…

Milliarcsecond astrometric oscillations in AGN as a precursor of multi-messaging gravitational wave events
Leonid I. Gurvits, Alexander G. Polnarev, Sandor Frey, Oleg Titov, Angelina A. Osetrova, Xiaohui Fan, Alexey Melnikov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02146

Milliarcsecond astrometric oscillations in AGN as a precursor of multi-messaging gravitational wave events
The existence of supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) is predicted by various cosmological and evolutionary scenarios for active galactic nuclei. These objects are considered as contributors into the gravitational wave (GW) background and emitters of discrete GW bursts. Yet, SMBHBs remain a rather elusive class of extragalactic objects. Previously we have identified the quasar J2102+6015 as potential SMBHB system based on its oscillating astrometric pattern. We analysed the available VLBI …

Properties for Paths in Graph Databases
Fernando Orejas, Elvira Pino, Renzo Angles, E. Pasarella, Nikos Milonakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19329 https://…

Properties for Paths in Graph Databases
This paper presents a formalism for defining properties of paths in graph databases, which can be used to restrict the number of solutions to navigational queries. In particular, our formalism allows us to define quantitative properties such as length or accumulated cost, which can be used as query filters. Furthermore, it enables the identification and removal of paths that may be considered ill-formed. The new formalism is defined in terms of an operational semantics for the query language …