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Now, for any person with a shred of moral dignity, there's some time during US history where you would have to admit that an insurrection or rebellion was necessary. Only complete scum bag fascists would try to argue that a slave revolt wasn't an absolute good, and that it was a bad thing when those revolts were crushed. Anyone with a shred of moral decency has to admit that there is at least one point in US history where the nation was doing something so incredibly evil, that it would have been good if people would have rose up and stopped it.
Today we're talking about the displacement and genocide of people in Gaza. We can look at any number of genocide on US soil carried out by the US government. Who, with any moral clarity, wouldn't point to those and want to believe that they would have resisted, violently if necessary, against those slaughters. Who, that today condemns slavery, could look at John Brown and not wish to have the moral integrity to fight and die along side of him?
Every liberal who actually believes in justice, who isn't just virtue signaling out of guilt, should be able to point to a time in history where they would absolutely agree with the most militant resistance. For those folks, I always wonder, when did that evil end? Where is your line? Have you thought about that?

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Characterizing FaaS Workflows on Public Clouds: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Varad Kulkarni, Nikhil Reddy, Tuhin Khare, Abhinandan S. Prasad, Chitra Babu, Yogesh Simmhan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23013

Characterizing FaaS Workflows on Public Clouds: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Function-as-a-service (FaaS) is a popular serverless computing paradigm for developing event-driven functions that elastically scale on public clouds. FaaS workflows, such as AWS Step Functions and Azure Durable Functions, are composed from FaaS functions, like AWS Lambda and Azure Functions, to build practical applications. But, the complex interactions between functions in the workflow and the limited visibility into the internals of proprietary FaaS platforms are major impediments to gaining…

Decompositions of augmentation varieties via weaves and rulings
Johan Asplund, Orsola Capovilla-Searle, James Hughes, Caitlin Leverson, Wenyuan Li, Angela Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20226

Decompositions of augmentation varieties via weaves and rulings
The braid variety of a positive braid and the augmentation variety of a Legendrian link both admit decompositions coming from weaves and rulings, respectively. We prove that these decompositions agree under an isomorphism between the braid variety and the augmentation variety. We also prove that both decompositions coincide with a Deodhar decomposition and another decomposition coming from the microlocal theory of sheaves. Our proof relies on a detailed comparison between weaves and Morse compl…

Competitive Bundle Trading
Yossi Azar, Niv Buchbinder, Roie Levin, Or Vardi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23047 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.23047

Competitive Bundle Trading
A retailer is purchasing goods in bundles from suppliers and then selling these goods in bundles to customers; her goal is to maximize profit, which is the revenue obtained from selling goods minus the cost of purchasing those goods. In this paper, we study this general trading problem from the retailer's perspective, where both suppliers and customers arrive online. The retailer has inventory constraints on the number of goods from each type that she can store, and she must decide upon arrival…

Comparative Study of Subjective Video Quality Assessment Test Methods in Crowdsourcing for Varied Use Cases
Babak Naderi, Ross Cutler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20118 https://…

Comparative Study of Subjective Video Quality Assessment Test Methods in Crowdsourcing for Varied Use Cases
In crowdsourced subjective video quality assessment, practitioners often face a choice between Absolute Category Rating (ACR), ACR with Hidden Reference (ACR-HR), and Comparison Category Rating (CCR). We conducted a P.910-compliant, side-by-side comparison across six studies using 15 talking-head sources of good and fair quality, processed with realistic degradations (blur, scaling, compression, freezing, and their combinations), as well as a practical bitrate-ladder task at 720p and 1080p reso…

Effect of Mixed Ratios of Mangosteen Peel (Garcinia mangostana L.) and Grass Jelly Leaf (Cyclea barbata L. Miers) Natural Dyes on the Performance of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSC)
Eka Nurfani, Haifa Salsabila, Dwiky I. Bakhtiar, Wahyu S. Sipahutar, M Alvien Ghifari, Rishal Asri, Meqorry Yusfi, Tarmizi Taher, Aditya Rianjanu, Robi Kurniawan
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Effect of Mixed Ratios of Mangosteen Peel (Garcinia mangostana L.) and Grass Jelly Leaf (Cyclea barbata L. Miers) Natural Dyes on the Performance of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSC)
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are promising low-cost and environmentally friendly photovoltaic devices, especially when utilizing natural sensitizers. This study explores the effect of concentration ratios of natural dyes extracted from mangosteen peel (MP) and grass jelly leaves (GJL) on the optical, morphological, and photovoltaic properties of DSSCs. Dye solutions were prepared at a fixed concentration of 0.6 g/mL, with the MP:GJL volume ratio varied at 3:1, 2:1, 1:1, 1:2, and 1:3. As a…

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Für die #Brotbäcker: Wie wird ein #Roggenkastenbrot gebacken? Eine Anleitung für dieses

Roggenkastenbrot, 2 x 750g
Der Teig reicht gleich für zwei 26er Kastenbrote. Nach dem Auskühlen kann man die Brote zum Beispiel schneiden und auf Vorrat einfrieren.Ich mache zwei Kästen, weil 2 in den Ofen passen und ich die Hitze und den...

Homological torsion growth in non-normal chains of graphs of free groups
Dario Ascari, Jonathan Fruchter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15075 https://arxiv.org…

Homological torsion growth in non-normal chains of graphs of free groups
Let $G$ be a hyperbolic group that splits as a graph of free groups with cyclic edge groups, and which is not isomorphic to a free product of free and surface groups. We show that $G$ admits an exhausting, nested sequence of finite-index non-normal subgroups $G\ge G_1 \ge G_2 \ge \cdots$ with exponential homological torsion growth. More specifically, we prove that simultaneously for every prime $p$, $\liminf_{n\rightarrow \infty} \frac{\log \vert \mathrm{Tor}_p(G_n^{\mathrm{ab}})\vert}{[G:G_n]}…