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Ich bin an dem Punkt, wo ich einfach gern eine halbwegs funktionierende freiheitlich-demokratische, rechtsstaatliche Regierung hätte. Wo diese mit meinen persönlichen Überzeugungen und Vorstellungen übereinstimmt, ist mir inzwischen (beinahe) egal.
(Kann ich die Bonner Republik nochmal sehen?)
#Merz

Plex has tried to trick me twice in the last month into agreeing to the abusive data sharing agreement that I first refused in March.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21611 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hept…

Disturbing news about the $d=2+ε$ expansion
The $O(N)$ Non-Linear Sigma Model (NLSM) in $d=2+ε$ has long been conjectured to describe the same conformal field theory (CFT) as the Wilson-Fisher (WF) $O(N)$ fixed point obtained from the $λ(ϕ^2)^2$ model in $d=4-ε$. In this work, we put this conjecture into question, building on the recent observation [Jones (2024)] that the NLSM CFT possesses a protected operator with dimension $N-1$, which is instead absent in the WF $O(N)$ CFT. For $N=3$, we investigate the possibility of lifting thi…

Tempted to go to the Valkyries preview tonight considering you can get a club level ticket for $26...

Effective description of Nelson-Barr models and the theta parameter
Gustavo H. S. Alves, Celso C. Nishi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03257 https://

Effective description of Nelson-Barr models and the theta parameter
Nelson-Barr theories solve the strong CP problem with CP spontaneously broken at Λ_{CP} and transmitted to the CP conserving version of the SM through vector-like quarks (VLQs). For an arbitrary number of CP breaking scalars and VLQs, we perform the full one-loop matching calculations at Λ_{CP} up to dimension five operators and the relevant matching calculations at the VLQ scale relevant to tracking the contributions to the parameter \barθ. In the EFT after the CP breaking scalars have been…

Nach Arnie-Durchsage - Jetzt stärkt nächster Star Wiener Öffis den Rücken #News #Nachrichten

Calamus 24 I hear it is charged against me
This poem feels just so typically Whitman, but lesser somehow. Not one of my favorites.
He says he is "charged that I seek to destroy institutions". Charged by whom, one wonders, is he really so important? He sort of denies this, or is ambivalent to it, and then gets to the queer part:
I will establish ... the institution of the dear love of comrades
And here we are again at the central queer question: just what does he mean by "dear love of comrades"? As I read these poems I'm increasingly thinking it's both things. Sure, it's brotherly love, adhesiveness, a sort of robust fraternity. But so much of his writing and life is homoerotic it has to also have that charge. It can be both.
I feel like I've heard that phrase "the institution of the dear love of comrades" repeated often.

LA train friends: I'm flying down and Amtraking up over next weekend, any recs on what to do/where to stay? I get in early Friday and have all of Saturday.

I just did the generic "Applications Engineer" job test for City of SF and it definitely was written by someone who hasn't moved past domain controllers and 2005. I got a "15.0", whatever that means for the rule of the list.

RIP Edmund White. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/arts/edmund-white-dead.html