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In Brazil, Volkswagen is once again being sued for its use of slave labor during the military dictatorship between 1974 - 1986. Looks like VW just exported the methods they had already pioneered during WW2 closer to home…
(article in German)
https://amerika21.de/2025/06/275586/vw-angezeigt-brasilien

Complexity of mixed Schatten norms of quantum maps
Jan Kochanowski, Omar Fawzi, Cambyse Rouz\'e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08358 https://

Complexity of mixed Schatten norms of quantum maps
We study the complexity of computing the mixed Schatten $\|Φ\|_{q\to p}$ norms of linear maps $Φ$ between matrix spaces. When $Φ$ is completely positive, we show that $\| Φ\|_{q \to p}$ can be computed efficiently when $q \geq p$. The regime $q \geq p$ is known as the non-hypercontractive regime and is also known to be easy for the mixed vector norms $\ell_{q} \to \ell_{p}$ [Boyd, 1974]. However, even for entanglement-breaking completely-positive trace-preserving maps $Î…

Today's writing music:
Preservation Hall Jazz Band (live, 1974)
#AmWriting

Das Neueste!
#Werbung aus dem Jahr 1974 in einer Fachzeitschrift für Automatenaufsteller.

Heute vor 51 Jahren: Am 10 Juli 1974 testen die #USA die Atombombe "Escabosa". Die Operation Bedrock war eine Serie von 27 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1974/75 auf der Nevada Test Site in Nevada unterirdisch durchgeführt wurde.

1973 Hew Report Via https://bsky.app/profile/miriamposner.com/post/3lnxspqi7hc22
https://migurski…

Miriam Posner (@miriamposner.com)
Wow the cover of the 1973 Hew Report (precursor to 1974's Data Privacy Act) is *wild*. https://ia601702.us.archive.org/8/items/recordscomputers00unit/recordscomputers00unit_jpg.pdf

Personal Memories of 50 Years of Quarkonia
John Ellis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10643 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10643

Personal Memories of 50 Years of Quarkonia
The world of particle physics was revolutionised in November 1974 by the discovery of the J/psi particle, the first particle to be identified as a quarkonium state composed of charm quarks and antiquarks. The charmonium interpretation of the J/psi was cemented by the subsequent observations of a spectrum of related c \bar c states, and finally by the discovery of charmed particles in 1976. The discovery of charmonium was followed in 1977 by the discovery of bottomonium mesons and particles cont…

The capillary Gauss curvature flow
Xinqun Mei, Guofang Wang, Liangjun Weng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09840 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

The capillary Gauss curvature flow
In this article, we first introduce a Gauss curvature type flow for capillary hypersurfaces, which we call capillary Gauss curvature flow. We then show that the flow will shrink to a point in finite time. This is a capillary counterpart (or Robin boundary counterpart) of Firey's problem studied in [Mathematika 21 (1974), pp. 1-11] and Tso [Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 38 (1985), no. 6, 867-882]. Finally, we prove that its normalized flow converges to a soliton. This is a capillary counterpart of the …

A centralized intelligence database on all Americans is not inherently legal.
It likely breaks the Privacy Act of 1974, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the 1st, 4th and 5th Amendments.
This must be stopped. Contact your Senators and Representative and ask them to stop it. I use @… to call mine.

Trump Taps Palantir to Create Master Database on Every American
Trump’s dystopian plan is already underway.

Ah damn, Sly Stone has died. Late 20th-century American music would've been a very different thing without him.
Sly and the Family Stone, "Stand!" (live 1974)
#RIP

Half-Iterates of $x(1 x)$, $\sin(x)$ and $\exp(x/e)$
Steven Finch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07625 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.07625…

Half-Iterates of $x(1+x)$, $\sin(x)$ and $\exp(x/e)$
The title reflects the original intent of this paper -- to continue exploring compositional square roots -- focusing on Walker's (1991) study of the Abel equation $f(\exp(x/e))=f(x)+1$ for real $x \neq e$. An unexpected discovery changed everything. We already knew that Écalle (1974) developed theory inspiring relevant calculations across years. Precise details, however, seemed to escape attention until recently. Helpful online posts of Jagy (2012) are important not to overlook. The new algori…

On Finite Element Methods for Heterogeneous Elliptic Problems
Abimael F. D. Loula, Maicon R. Correa, Jo\~ao N. C. Guerreiro, Elson M. Toledo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08251

On Finite Element Methods for Heterogeneous Elliptic Problems
Dealing with variational formulations of second order elliptic problems with discontinuous coefficients, we recall a single field minimization problem of an extended functional presented by Bevilacqua et al (1974), which we associate with the basic idea supporting discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods. We review residual based stabilized mixed methods applied to Darcy flow in homogeneous porous media and extend them to heterogeneous media with an interface of discontinuity. For smooth i…

"Mary Maxwell Gates, Bill’s mother, was appointed to the board of directors of the national United Way in 1980. And guess who else was in that committee? The late John Opel, president, chairman, and CEO of…, you guessed it, IBM, between 1974 and 1986."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/gary-

FPF Unveils Paper on State Data Minimization Trends
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-unveils-paper-on-state-data-minimization-trends/
@…

"Under the 1974 Impoundment Control Act, if Congress rejects the rescission package or does nothing, the administration must release the money back to the intended recipients — effectively undoing the DOGE cuts."
What are your bets?
https://www.

Heute vor 50 Jahren: Am 11. Juni 1975 testen die #USA die Atombombe "Alviso". Die Operation Bedrock war eine Serie von 27 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1974/75 auf der Nevada Test Site in Nevada unterirdisch durchgeführt wurde.

Trump undermines Watergate laws in massive shift of ethics system

Then-Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman was 32 when, as a member of the House Judiciary Committee, she voted in 1974 for three articles of impeachment against President Richard M. Nixon.
She spent the next few years as part of a Congress that passed wave after wave of laws to rein in future presidents.

A half-century later, Holtzman, a New York Democrat, is watching as Donald Trump takes aim at post-Watergate reforms …

Trump undermines Watergate laws in massive shift of ethics system
Congress built a system 50 years ago to prevent another Nixon. Trump seems determined to dismantle those rules.

In einer telelogischen Welt ist die Menschheit zum Fortschritt verdammt. In der Theologie Peter Thiels sind dazu große Projekte nötig, zu denen wir aktuell aber nicht in der Lage sind, weil wir uns in gesellschaftspolitischem Klein-Klein verheddern:
"Um nicht zurückzufallen, sind große Ziele unverzichtbar, wie es sie einst in den USA gab: das Manhattan-Projekt zur Entwicklung der Atombombe, die Mondlandung oder Nixons Plan 1974, Krebs bis zum Ende des Jahrtausends zu besiegen. Doc…

Kapitalismus verspricht Selbstwirksamkeit, begrenzt sie aber - Weltenkreuzer
Ein zentrales Versprechen demokratisch-kapitalistischer Systeme ist die (formale) Möglichkeit für einzelne Personen, ihrer Stimme Gehör zu verschaffen und bei der Gestaltung der Gesellschaft mitzusprechen. Dabei stellt sich von vornherein die Frage, inwieweit dieses Versprechen überhaupt einlösbar ist, faktisch wird es auf jeden Fall nicht realisiert. Individuen sind in spätmodernen Gesellschaften in diesem Sinne einem Dilemma ausgesetzt, das sich nur schwer eigenhändig auflösen lä…

Heute vor 51 Jahren: Am 31. Mai 1974 führten die #UDSSR in Balapan, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan den 400. #Atomtest durch. Er diente der Forschung und fand unterirdisch (Tunnel/Schacht) statt. 1974 fanden in der UDSSR insgesamt 21 Atomtests statt.

@… sorry i missed this pass! but no need to emulate 2 drummers. their 1-drummer years (1965-1966/1971-1974) are considered the apex of the dead by many. europe '72 is an A primer to billy kreutzmann's approach to both song playing & improv.

Heute vor 51 Jahren: Am 6. Juni 1974 führten die #USA in #Nevada den #Atomtest "Jara", Teil der "Operation Arbor", durch. Bei dieser Operation wurden 1973/74 20 Atomtests unterirdisch du…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Richard & Linda Thompson:
🎵 I'll Regret It All in the Morning (BBC Session, 4 Feb 1974)
#Richard #LindaThompson
https://open.spotify.com/track/6eL1Sk4e5M5AiDqR5i3Pqx

Heute vor 51 Jahren: Am 19. Juni 1974 führten die #USA in #Nevada den #Atomtest "Ming Blade", Teil der "Operation Arbor", durch. Bei dieser Operation wurden 1973/74 20 Atomtests unterird…

Heute vor 50 Jahren: Am 19. Juni 1975 testen die #USA die Atombombe "Mast". Die Operation Bedrock war eine Serie von 27 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1974/75 auf der Nevada Test Site in Nevada unterirdisch durchgeführt wurde.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Richard & Linda Thompson:
🎵 Georgie On A Spree (John Peel Session (04/02/1974)
#Richard #LindaThompson
https://open.spotify.com/track/30Ei7wByCvuiRNRB3Hy3PD