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TikTok lays off workers from the US division of TikTok Shop, the third round of layoffs for the team since April, after a year of missing internal sales targets (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

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🥇 Mykola Korchynskyi (6,5/9)
🥈 Levi Malinowsky (6,5/9)
🥉 Alberto Atoyan (6/9)
Alle Partien und Ergebnisse der U16 sind hier zu finden:

To the surprise of no one, yet another study shows RFK Jr is full of shit. Vaccines are safe.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5403751-aluminum-vaccines-autism-study/

Prediction of Geoeffective CMEs Using SOHO Images and Deep Learning / First Observations of a Geomagnetic Superstorm With a Sub-L1 Monitor: #SolarStorms: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasa-missions-help-explain-predict-severity-of-solar-storms/

Mathematicians are excited about how Cairo’s work will inspire new research. “I am certain that, from now on, whenever we come upon a problem of similar flavor, we will try to test it against Cairo-like constructions,” Oliveira said.
He and others in the harmonic analysis community will also have to reckon with a changed landscape.
In harmonic analysis, there’s a constellation of questions about how the energy of a wave concentrates.
If a conjecture known as Stein’s conje…

At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery | Quanta Magazine
After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture.

Trump Fired America's Economic Data Collector. History Shows the Perils. (Ben Casselman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/business/trump-bls-firing-economic-reports.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bU8.rRDw.MHENewXzaxZX&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250803/p35#a250803p35

things catherine needs for happiness: 4 mg doxazosin bi-daily, apparently
(it's an alpha antagonist, fixes the bit where i can't fucking sleep or do anything at all besides looking for distractions)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
WITCH:
🎵 Queenless King
#WITCH
https://w-i-t-c-h.bandcamp.com/track/queenless-king
https://open.spotify.com/track/4wVm21i38buWyVwge0tkYQ
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
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Meta und Yandex haben die Browsernutzung von Android-Nutzer'innen mit einer perfiden und bisher unbekannten Tracking-Methode deanonymisiert und damit die strikte Trennung von Apps ausgehebelt.
Das in Websites eingebettete Tracking-Script (also z.B. "Facebook Pixel") konnte sein _fbp-Cookie über einen internen Port (z.B. 127.0.0.0:12387) senden und die Facebook-App hat auf diesem Port gelauscht und das Cookie abgefangen. So wurde ein Webseitenbesuch, bei dem Facebook eing…

Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers
Abuse allows Meta and Yandex to attach persistent identifiers to detailed browsing histories.

Teknologiakritiikin ja -kriitikoiden tarpeesta. Taiteessa on kriitikoilla ja kritiikillä tärkeä rooli. (...) Teknologian maailmassa ei juurikaan ole tuollaista kritiikkiä, vaan arviointi on analyysiä jostain näkökulmasta (...) No niin, voisi miettiä olisiko teknologiakritiikissä ideaa. Se voisi kohdistua suoraan teknologiaan, kuten tekoäly, tai teknologiahypetykseen. Sellaisen sisältöjä jälkimmäisessä tapauksessa olisivat esim.
Jatkuu...

Teknologiakritiikin ja -kriitikoiden tarpeesta. | Matti Vuori
Teknologiakritiikin ja -kriitikoiden tarpeesta. Taiteessa on kriitikoilla ja kritiikillä tärkeä rooli. Kaikkihan nykyään jo tietävät, että taidekritiikki ei ole negatiivista virheiden etsimistä, vaan prosessi ja tuotos, jolla etsitään teoksen olennaisuuksia, laatuja, erityisyyksiä liittämällä se taidelajin historiaan ja nykykenttään, genreihin jne., ymmärtäen taiteilijan pyrkimyksiä, teosten myötä paljastuvaa identiteettiä. Samalla kritiikki itsessään on kriitikon teos …

Vier Raumfahrer zur ISS gestartet
Eine Kapsel des Raumfahrtunternehmens SpaceX bringt eine vierköpfige Crew ins All. Das Wetter sorgte zunächst für Verzögerung.
https://www.heise.de/news/Vier-Raumfahrer-

"The only way I can move past the absurdity of what I do, is to commit to the point of absurdity."
-Jake Gyllenhaal
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Another big jump in atmospheric CO₂ measured at Mauna Loa*: based on daily values, the June average was ~429.7 ppm, that's 2.8 ppm higher than last year!
*) Trump regime now threatening to discontinue this unique and essential measurement series running since 1958
#CO2 #emissions

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Birth control and turnpike property of Lotka-McKendrick models with diffusion
In this paper, we study the turnpike property in age structured population dynamics with birth control. These models describe the temporal evolution of one or more populations, incorporating age dependence and spatial structure. To this end, we first establish the null controllability of the system: we prove that for any T > A and any initial datum in L2(Omega x (0,A)), the population can be driven to zero using control functions that are spatially localized in time but act only at age a = 0. W…

Announcing my plans to try and find a way to link FreePBX to Adtran n-Command MSP to control TotalAccess devices.

Solving and closing customer support issues like…

[2025-06-03 Tue (UTC), 20 new articles found for astro-ph.GA Astrophysics of Galaxies]
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Resolution Studies for Future DIRC Detectors
The resolution of Cherenkov detectors using the DIRC method is mainly limited by three components: photon loss due to steep angles of incidence, dispersion effects, and angle straggling due to the Coulomb interaction of the charged particle. This paper highlights the general limitations of any generic DIRC detector, based on studies for the proposed experiments PANDA in Darmstadt and SCTF in Russia. These studies used theoretical calculations and simplified Monte-Carlo simulations to obtain an …

I’m trying to sell an air conditioner on Facebook Marketplace and it’s amazing how much it makes nostalgic for Craigslist as a civilized place

Anybody here shaving their eyelashes?
From VOX:
“In the latest salvo, young boys on TikTok are shaving off their eyelashes, ostensibly because long eyelashes are girly.”
Make it stop. Please.

»Social Media Matrix – Kurznachrichtendienste im Vergleich«
Falls wer noch weitere positive Argumente für Mastodon benötigt, dann kann mensch ja mal hier nachsehen und außerhalb vom Fediverse weiter teilen.
P.S. Das Fediverse ist einiges mehr als nur Mastodon (ich weiss ihr wisst es).
👉 https://social-me…

Social Media Matrix • King Consult
Social Media im Vergleich: Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads oder X? Warum das Fediverse langfristig die beste Wahl für Behörden, Verbände, Wissenschaft und Journalismus ist.

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femtoPro: Real-time linear and nonlinear optics simulations
Real-time optics and spectroscopy simulations ideally provide results at update rates of 120 Hz or more without any noticeable delay between changing input parameters and the calculated results. Such calculations require models of sufficient speed yet adequate level of detail in the physical approximations to contain the essential features of the simulated phenomena. We discuss a representation of femtosecond laser pulses in which fast phase oscillations due to carrier frequency and due to spat…

Ik gok op banaan.
VVD, NSC en BBB tegen dreigende Wilders: werk extra asielmaatregelen uit https://nos.nl/l/2569649

VVD, NSC en BBB tegen dreigende Wilders: werk extra asielmaatregelen uit
Een klein uur is gepraat over de eis van de PVV-leider om snel extra asielmaatregelen te accepteren. "Werk ze uit", is de boodschap van VVD, NSC en BBB.

Via https://www.tumblr.com/digitalfossils/781211273834692608
https://migurski.tumblr.com/post/78508…

'Fahrrad' #FotoVorschlag "Bicycle"
Ahh that motto immediately reminded me of our bike&hike to the Schachen above #GarmischPartenkirchen in 2021.
We were pretty done when we reached our destination but it was a great ride. It would be so cool if I…

If any of you will be around the Burlington, #Vermont, waterfront this weekend, it is the Lake Champlain Dragon Boat Festival, where teams of 18-ish people will compete in a fun event that raises funds for supporting those with cancer. This afternoon are the serious races for people who are actually part of teams that practice to compete. Tomorrow is the “community day” where teams from business…

Neede ... Regendruppels!

As an immigrant there isn’t much I can say about the news right now, so here’s my #cat sleeping in a folded up tatami today

from my link log —
Behind the scenes of Rust string formatting and format_args!().
https://blog.m-ou.se/format-args/
saved 2023-12-05 https://

Dollying in on #Caturday

This news about Diamond Distributor is wild! I hope all the small publishers find a way to survive!
#ttrpg

Deutschlandkarte mit der Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke je Bundesland pro 10000 Einwohner in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025 in einer Farbskala-Darstellung.
Mehr zu #Steckersolar

Boende i hettans Paris: ”Nu är vi less på det här” https://www.dn.se/varlden/boende-i-paris-bavar-infor-framtiden-nu-ar-vi-less-pa-det-har/

Boende i Paris bävar inför framtiden – juni var näst varmaste junimånaden som uppmätts
Boende i Paris bävar inför framtiden – juni var näst varmaste junimånaden som uppmätts i Frankrike

A post from the archive 📫:
Find the address of an object in Visual Studio
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/find-the-address-of-an-object-in-visual-studio

Sources: Disney is laying off several hundred employees globally across multiple teams, including TV and film (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/disney-mass-layoffs-tv-film-finance-departments-1236415786/

Disney Mass Layoffs Cut Across TV, Film, Finance and Other Departments
Disney is laying off several hundred employees globally across multiple teams.

residence_hall: ANU Residence Hall network
A network of friendships among students living in a residence hall at Australian National University (date unknown). Edge direction indicates that resident i named resident j as a friend, and edge weight indicates the level of friendship: 5 (best friend), 4 (close friend), 3 (friend), 2, 1.
This network has 217 nodes and 2672 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

Tributo hecho por @The_Ren1981@x.com, a propósito del pronto lanzamiento del nuevo disco de Pulp.
🐦 #Pulp

Sydney Sweeney’s Republican voter registration revealed amid jeans ad controversy | US news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/03/sydney-sweeney-jeans-ad-republican-voter-registration

Chinese anime feels very challenging to watch for me.
I'm not sure if there's a larger culture of "and the things happened outside the show, fans will know what's up, because they watch more than just the show" or it's just culturally accepted to run a little looser/faster in the content.
There's also strong tendencies to weave in Chinese history and culture plot points or references that just continue to miss me.
BUT - I do enjoy that they tend to go _hard_ on universe building and story intensity. Everything is always epic.
Lord of Mysteries so far is an -amazing- mysticism story with strong Lovecraftian elements. Would love to see more like it. Live action would be absolutely wild.

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https://www.pastpuzzle.de

Don't introduce yourself as Kyle's mom. It means you've given up.

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Falcon: Fast Visuomotor Policies via Partial Denoising
Diffusion policies are widely adopted in complex visuomotor tasks for their ability to capture multimodal action distributions. However, the multiple sampling steps required for action generation significantly harm real-time inference efficiency, which limits their applicability in real-time decision-making scenarios. Existing acceleration techniques either require retraining or degrade performance under low sampling steps. Here we propose Falcon, which mitigates this speed-performance trade-of…

It's June, so I've got my Javastation off the shelf for the first time in a couple of decades. This is a Javastation Krups, with 100MHz sparc, sold as a diskless workstation. I never realised it had a PPP ROM boot in! Anyway, I should get on and set up networking and a boot server.
(Note: the plastic on the clips on the doors is fragile, 2 just pinged off on me)
#retrocomputing

Do y’all think that being interested in Linux is a sign of autism?
https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/do-yall-think-that-being-interested-in-linux-is-a-sign-of-autism/57333

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A note on gluing cosilting objects
Based on the recent works of M. Saorin and A. Zvonoreva on gluing (co)silting objects and of L. Angeler Hugel, R. Laking, J. Stovicek and J. Vitoria on mutating (co)silting objects, we first study further on gluing pure-injective cosilting objects in algebraically compactly generated triangulated categories and gluing cosilting complexes in the derived categories of rings. Then we discuss the compatibility of cosilting gluing and cosilting mutation.

Die #dem25 ist vorbei und wir blicken sukzessiv auf die Top 3 der einzelnen Altersklassen. Wir gratulieren:
🥇 Mykola Korchynskyi (6,5/9)
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Rep. Jerry Nadler demands probe after DHS handcuffs his aide (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/02/jerry-nadler-ice-investigation-trump-jim-jordan
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p75#a250602p75

China's World AI Conference struck a stark contrast to Trump's America-first, regulation-light vision, focusing instead on global cooperation for AI safety (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/china-artificial-intelligence-policy-laws-race/
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Inside the Summit Where China Pitched Its AI Agenda to the World
Behind closed doors, Chinese researchers are laying the groundwork for a new global AI agenda—without input from the US.

There is now also a CBET about the new interstellar #comet 3I/ATLAS: http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/005500/CBET005578.txt - it comes with an even more precise orbit based on astrometry back to 5 June and predicts 13th magnitude with 60° elongation after perihelion in November. The current magnitude is about 17.7.

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
NAS per DIY: Billiges Gehäuse zum Selberdrucken
https://www.

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Summary Report of the Physics Beyond Colliders Study at CERN
The Physics Beyond Collider (PBC) Study Group was initially mandated by the CERN Management to prepare the previous European Particle Physics Strategy Update for CERN projects other than the high-energy frontier colliders. The main findings were summarized in an PBC Summary Report submitted to the Strategy Update. Following the Update process, the PBC Study Group was confirmed on a permanent basis with an updated mandate taking into account the strategy recommendations. The Study Group is now i…

@… has anyone asked for an Oakton feature that allows you to start the ASP.NET Core host and then run the commands simultaneously? I would like to call an endpoint on the host app from a command, but right now I have to start the server my self.
Instead of RunAsync using StartAsync would allow for this feature. It would be neat if each command coul…

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says Democrats need to take a page from Donald Trump’s own playbook.
“Maybe it’s time for us to be a little meaner,” the former vice presidential hopeful said during a speech at the South Carolina Democratic Party’s annual convention in Columbia, South Carolina.
“Maybe it’s time for us to be a little more fierce because we have to ferociously push back on this.”
“When it’s a bully like Donald Trump, you bully the s--t out of him,” Walz added

Walz Tells Dems to ‘Bully the S**t’ Out of Trump or Risk Becoming ‘Roadkill’
The former vice presidential candidate doled out harsh words for both the president and his own party.

Simulating High-Velocity Clouds in the Observational Plane: An Initial Study with the Smith Cloud
Lori E. Porter, Matthew Abruzzo, Greg L. Bryan, Mary Putman, Yong Zheng, Drummond Fielding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00111

Simulating High-Velocity Clouds in the Observational Plane: An Initial Study with the Smith Cloud
High-velocity clouds (HVCs) may fuel future star formation in the Milky Way, but they must first survive their passage through the hot halo. While recent work has improved our understanding of the survival criterion for cloud-wind interactions, few observational comparisons exist that test this criterion. We therefore present an initial comparison of simulations with the Smith Cloud (SC; $d=$ 12.4 kpc, $l, b = 40^{\circ}, -13^{\circ}$) as mapped with the GALFA-HI survey. We use the Smith Cloud'…

Declaro esta como la semana de Pulp ante el inminente estreno del nuevo disco de la banda este viernes 🤘🏻
#Pulp

Supreme Court to consider reviving case over counting ballots after Election Day (Josh Gerstein/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/02/supreme-court-mail-in-ballots-illinois-00380101
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p74#a250602p74

I'm down, my man.
- Mitt Romney. He means well.

Computing finite Weyl groupoids
Iv\'an Angiono, Leandro Vendramin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24555 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.245…

Computing finite Weyl groupoids
We present algorithms to compute generalized root systems of Nichols algebras of diagonal type and of contragredient Lie superalgebras. As a consequence, we obtain an algorithm to compute the Lyndon words in the Kharchenko PBW basis associated to each positive root, along with their corresponding hyperwords. This data is essential for obtaining a minimal presentation of Nichols algebras of diagonal type with a finite root system.

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Modified Transfer Matrix Method for the Extraction of Material Properties via Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy
Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy is a powerful technique for extracting the low-frequency optical properties of materials. However, the optical constants are difficult to determine directly from the experimental transfer function, such that various numerical approximations must be implemented to describe specific conditions. Here, we introduce a modified Transfer Matrix Method that uses a genetic algorithm for optimization to determine the refractive index of materials in the THz regime. We s…

A UK government trial with 20K civil servants using Microsoft's Copilot AI for three months found a 26 minute average daily time saving, or two weeks per year (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7c2aa19d-4c92-490d-bb35-f329a246fe5b

UK civil servants who used AI saved two weeks a year, government study finds
Staff used Microsoft’s Copilot to help draft documents and summarise meetings

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First study of neutrino angle reconstruction using quasielastic-like interactions in MicroBooNE
We investigate the expected precision of the reconstructed neutrino direction using a νμ-argon quasielastic-like event topology with one muon and one proton in the final state and the reconstruction capabilities of the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber. This direction is of importance in the context of DUNE sub-GeV atmospheric oscillation studies. MicroBooNE allows for a data-driven quantification of this resolution by investigating the deviation of the reconstructed muon-proton…

Elon Musk's Real Drug Problem Is Much Worse Than You Think (Jeet Heer/The Nation)
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/elon-musk-drug-use-ideology/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p73#a250602p73

MUSE observations that affirm the path to detonation of a Type Ia #supernova in a supernova remnant: https://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/eso2511/eso2511a.pdf -> Double detonation - new image shows remains of star destroyed by pair of explosions: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2511/

[2025-06-02 Mon (UTC), 1 new article found for math.RT Representation Theory]
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Machine learning assisted speckle and OAM spectrum analysis for enhanced turbulence characterisation
Atmospheric turbulence presents a major obstacle to the performance of free-space optical (FSO) communication and environmental sensing. While most studies focused on robust detection and recognition of transmitted structured light in turbulent media, a critical, yet often underexplored, avenue involves leveraging the structure of light itself to detect and characterize the medium itself. Here we introduce a deep learning framework that synergistically leverages post-transmission intensity spec…

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🥇 Neil Albrecht (7/9)
🥈 Alfred Nemitz (6,5/9)
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U.S. jobs data "very unreliable," top Trump econ adviser says (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/03/trump-jobs-labor-statistics-fired
http://www.memeorandum.com/250803/p19#a250803p19

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New constraints on cosmic ray-boosted dark matter from the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment
While dual-phase xenon time projection chambers (TPCs) have driven the sensitivity towards weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) at the GeV/c^2 to TeV/c^2 mass scale, the scope for sub-GeV/c^2 dark matter particles is hindered by a limited nuclear recoil energy detection threshold. One approach to probe for lighter candidates is to consider cases where they have been boosted by collisions with cosmic rays in the Milky Way, such that the additional kinetic energy lifts their induced signa…

Astronomy as a strategic driver for sustainable development: #Astronomy for Development is to direct astronomy towards addressing urgent societal needs.

Latino GOP lawmakers voice worry about Trump's mass deportation campaign (Marianna Sotomayor/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/03/latino-republicans-immigration-trump-law-abiding-ice/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250803/p20#a250803p20

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Nonsymmorphic symmetry adapted finite element modeling of glide-symmetric photonic structures
Space group theory is pivotal in the design of nanophotonics devices, enabling the characterization of periodic optical structures such as photonic crystals. The aim of this study is to extend the application of nonsymmorphic space groups in the field of numerical analysis for research and design of nanophotonics devices. In this work, we introduce the nonsymmorphic symmetry adapted finite element method, and provide a systematic approach for efficient band structure analysis of photonic struct…

GOTO065054 593624 - an 8.5 mag amplitude dwarf nova identified in real time via Kilonova Seekers: #Kilonova Seekers - the GOTO project for real-time citizen science in time-domain astrophysics: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/533/2/2113/7735340?login=false -> A citizen science project has already identified 20 new astronomical discoveries: https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/news/citizen-science-project-identifies-20-new-astronomical-discoveries

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Non-resonant Optical Injection Locking in Quantum Cascade Laser Frequency Combs
Optical injection locking of the repetition frequency of a quantum cascade laser frequency comb is demonstrated using an intensity modulated near-infrared light at 1.55 $μ$m illuminating the front facet of the laser. Compared to the traditional electrical modulation approach, the introduced technique presents benefits from several perspectives such as the availability of mature and high bandwidth equipment in the near-infrared, circumvent the need of dedicated electronic components for the qua…

The Detection-vs-Retrieval Challenge - #Titan as an Exoplanet: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12144 -> Titan is the Perfect Benchmark for Studying Exoplanet Atmospheres: https://www.universetoday.com/articles/titan-is-the-perfect-benchmark-for-studying-exoplanet-atmospheres

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Electro-optically tunable Brillouin microlasers on lithium niobate platform
Miniature, monolithic, tunable sources of coherent radiation with narrow linewidths and low noise are highly sought after for photonic integration. Brillouin lasers, known for their intrinsically narrow linewidths, present an appealing solution. However, achieving the strong optomechanical coupling necessary for lasing in optical microresonators remains challenging due to the difficulty of simultaneously confining optical and acoustic modes with substantial modal overlap. Additionally, most Bri…

High-velocity #MolecularClouds in M83: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/addab7 -> Milky Way-like galaxy M83 consumes high-speed clouds: https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press/z0508_00416.html & https://news.stonybrook.edu/university/research-provides-new-insight-into-how-galaxies-evolve-over-time/ - unusually fast clouds of gas around nearby galaxy suggest extragalactic origin.

Why Trump's Meddling in the Bureau of Labor Statistics Matters (George A. Akerlof/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/opinion/trump-bls-fired-labor-jobs-data.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bU8.iLX3.cvxds1pXUGP_&smid=nytcore-android-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250803/p34#a250803p34

Temporal variation in the cloud-top temperature of #Venus revealed by meteorological satellites: https://earth-planets-space.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40623-025-02223-8 -> Meteorological satellites observe temperatures on Venus: https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press/z0508_00415.html - the forecast is bright for future, long-term multiband monitoring of planets.

You know who loves the Epstein scandal? President-in-waiting JD Vance. (Rex Huppke/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/03/trump-epstein-scandal-vance-president/85481602007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250803/p32#a250803p32

Now settled into low-Earth orbit, #SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) has begun delivering its sky survey data to a public archive on a weekly basis, allowing anyone to use the data to probe the secrets of the cosmos: https://science.nasa.gov/open-science/spherex-universe-map/

'He has trouble completing a thought': bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on Trump's mental acuity (Adam Gabbatt/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/03/donald-trump-mental-fitness
http://www.memeorandum.com/250803/p31#a250803p31

Wall St and Silicon Valley ride high as tariffs hit Main Street (George Steer/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/aefad7d1-e809-4a16-8acd-6e2ef9f28ebe
http://www.memeorandum.com/250803/p30#a250803p30

Leaked memo from Hegseth's brother calls for US army to help with deportations nationwide 'for years to come': report (Graig Graziosi/The Independent)
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/memo-leak-pete-hegseth-military-deportations-b2800978.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250803/p29#a250803p29

White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett defends Trump's firing of labor statistics head (Alexandra Marquez/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/economics/economic-adviser-kevin-hassett-defends-trumps-firing-labor-jobs-report-rcna222725
http://www.memeorandum.com/250803/p28#a250803p28

To Live Inside a Lie (Nicholas Grossman/Arc Digital)
https://www.arcdigital.media/p/to-live-inside-a-lie
http://www.memeorandum.com/250803/p26#a250803p26

Young progressives look to Zohran Mamdani, AOC as future of the Democratic Party - under one condition (Deirdre Heavey/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/young-progressives-look-zohran-mamdani-aoc-future-democratic-party-one-key-caveat
http://www.memeorandum.com/250803/p27#a250803p27

Trump Lashes Out at Charlamagne Tha God Over Epstein Comments (Adeel Hassan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/us/politics/trump-charlamagne-tha-god-epstein-republicans.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250803/p25#a250803p25

Senate heads home with no deal to speed confirmations as irate Trump tells Schumer to 'go to hell' (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/senate-confirmations-nominations-trump-schumer-thune-905a63d0046319eeb7c266d5e24e70b6
http://www.memeorandum.com/250803/p24#a250803p24

Trump And Miller Compel Colleges Not To Enroll International Students (Stuart Anderson/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2025/08/03/trump-and-miller-compel-colleges-not-to-enroll-international-students/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250803/p23#a250803p23

Curtis Sliwa Wants to Be Mayor. He's Taking Off His Beret to Prove It. (Nicholas Fandos/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/nyregion/sliwa-beret-mayor-republican.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250803/p22#a250803p22

White House has no plan to mandate IVF care, despite campaign pledge (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/03/trump-administration-ivf-care/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250803/p21#a250803p21

The class divide among women in the workplace is widening (Emily Peck/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/03/women-college-degree-jobs
http://www.memeorandum.com/250803/p18#a250803p18

A Tiny Conservative News Outlet Pioneered the Attack on Higher Education (Vimal Patel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/us/campus-reform-college-protests-antisemitism-zachary-marschall.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250803/p17#a250803p17

Food Stamp Cuts Could Deal a Blow to Small Grocers (Madeleine Ngo/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/us/politics/food-stamp-cuts-grocers.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250803/p16#a250803p16

Some Chinese Weigh Painful Question: Stay or Flee Under Trump? (Alicia Chen/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/us/politics/chinese-stay-flee-united-states-trump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250803/p15#a250803p15

Conservatives: Trump won our megabill votes by promising crackdown on renewable energy credits (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/03/congress/conservatives-trump-megabill-energy-credits-crackdown-00438357
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p50#a250703p50

Republicans Are Flat-Out Lying About Their Medicaid Cuts (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/republicans-lying-cuts-medicaid-1235352465/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p66#a250602p66

Arizona's Water Is Vanishing Before AI Gets a Crack at It (Mark Gongloff/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-06-02/arizona-s-water-is-vanishing-before-ai-gets-a-crack-at-it?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc0ODg3MTU5OSwiZXhwIjoxNzQ5NDc2Mzk5LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTWDg2S0FUMVVNMFcwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIxMkE1QzVFRUNERDg0NUJEQjVFOTM1MUE0Mzk4QTAxNCJ9.SCsqcYaCRQ5bEJbmT9QXvBRQ9asNzbCpWm5sM3iP5OA&leadSource=uverify wall
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p65#a250602p65

Kavanaugh signals Supreme Court will soon decide constitutionality of banning AR-15s (Zach Schonfeld/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5328587-kavanaugh-supreme-court-ar-15/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p64#a250602p64