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The Contrarian on #Mamdani , powerful
https://open.substack.com/pub/contrarian/p/why-the-establishment-didnt-get-mamdani…

I got the new cover on the bike. It is supposed to get down into the '40s tonight in Milwaukee.
Good timing!

What is an #astronaut? https://cosmobiota.substack.com/p/what-is-an-astronaut -> Does it matter who gets to use the term astronaut at the start of the age of space tourism? Thread: https://bsky.app/profile/cosmobiologist.bsky.social/post/3m4qdzkmucs2c

Partitioning set $[n] = \{1, \dots, n\}$ into subsets of size at most $m$ such that all sums are powers of $m$
Vladimir Gurvich, Mariya Naumova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00946 …

Partitioning set $[n] = \{1, \dots, n\}$ into subsets of size at most $m$ such that all sums are powers of $m$
Given integer $n > 0$ and $m > 1$, we call a partition of set $[n] = \{1, \dots, n\}$ {\em $m$-good} if each of the partitioning sets is of size at most $m$ and the sum of numbers in it is a power of $m$, that is, $m^t$ for some $t \geq 0$. It is easily seen that a unique 2-good partition exists for each $n$ and, in contrast, for each fixed $m>3$, for infinitely many $n$, no $m$-good partition exists. Case $m=3$ is more difficult. We conjecture that 3-good partitions exist for each $n$ and pr…

Just to hammer this home a bit more, I knew a guy who joined the army. I met him after he went AWOL. When he went into the recruiter's office, they asked him if he had any open warrants out for his arrest because they couldn't recruit anyone with a criminal record. He said he did, then they said, "oh, actually, we can help you with all that, don't get caught before we ship you out."
He was just trying to keep himself out of jail. That's not supposed to happen, but it does. IIRC it was on a drug charge, which, also, they're not supposed to take anyone who tests positive for weed... but they also just tell you how to prepare for a drug test.
Another friend joined because she wanted to be part Army Corps of Engineers. A good chunk of the folks I went to school with joined the military after graduation because the other choices were working at the saw mill or working at the canary. If you join the military, you get to go to college. (Or you get to stay out of jail... as long as you don't go AWOL.)

Measurement of Dark Matter Substructure from the Kinematics of the GD-1 Stellar Stream
Jacob Nibauer, Ana Bonaca, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, David N. Spergel, Jenny E. Greene
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02247

Measurement of Dark Matter Substructure from the Kinematics of the GD-1 Stellar Stream
Stellar streams are sensitive tracers of low-mass dark matter subhalos and provide a means to test the Cold Dark Matter (CDM) paradigm on small scales. In this work, we connect the intrinsic velocity dispersion of the GD-1 stream to the number density and internal structure of dark matter subhalos in the mass range $10^5$-$10^9\ M_\odot$. We measure the radial velocity dispersion of GD-1 based on 160 identified member stars across four different spectroscopic catalogs. We use repeat observation…

Missade #drinkklubben pga jom kipur och kommer ha stressigt närmsta två veckorna pga andra högtider. Men jag kommer tillbaka! Synd för veckans verkade god!

A good read (thanks to @…)
Deport Republicans: A Practical Guide
https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/deport-republicans-a-practical-guide…

Deport Republicans: A Practical Guide
Wouldn't it be nice not to share a country with Texas?

Wit haben gezeigt, wie man schlecht #Fußball spielt, das aber gut. #FCSP. https://www.mag…

Wir haben gezeigt, wie man schlecht Fußball spielt - das aber gut. 
Seien wir ehrlich. Wir alle hatten schon mal mehr Spaß am Millerntor. Das war sang- und klanglos und in der Höhe absolut verdient. In keiner Phase des Spieles hatte man das Gefühl, dass Gladbach hier noch mal Probleme bekommen würde. Irgendwas ist kaputt. Wir haben zu Beginn der Saison ein Team

Blir regelbundet förvånad över hur få som känner till det långa och stabila samarbetet mellan Bibi och Hamas - ett samarbete som inte är så konstigt när man ser vilka ideologiska likheter som finns i rörelserna (även om det är helt omöjligt att hitta likheter i deras maktpositioner). Påminner om den goda relationen mellan amerikanska republikaner och saudiska kungafamiljen.
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Ptr Frstdt (@ptr2@mastodonsweden.se)
Attached: 1 image Nathan Shachar: Palestinsk stat är en belöning åt självstyret – inte åt Hamas Väldigt intressant kommentar av Nathan Shachar i DN den 2/8 2025.