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Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
BLAKE: You're both coming with us.
INGA: No, we can't.
BLAKE: Why not?
USHTON: It's too late for me, but you could go.
INGA: No. Travis left us a legacy. We could never break into this place, but he managed it.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/700

A meta-modal logic for bisimulations
Alfredo Burrieza, Fernando Soler-Toscano, Antonio Yuste-Ginel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15117 https://

A meta-modal logic for bisimulations
We propose a modal study of the notion of bisimulation. Our contribution is twofold. First, we extend the basic modal language with a new modality [b], whose intended meaning is universal quantification over all states that are bisimilar to the current one. We show that bisimulations are definable in this object language. Second, we provide a sound and complete axiomatisation of the class of all pairs of Kripke models linked by bisimulations.

i dont want social media or the internet in general to be a "safe space" cuz thats inherently fried. i browse it for an adventure! to find some new cool shit!! if i want safety i message friends and take walks in the moonlight, real shit without doomscrolling and the usuals everyone hates. i still want some way to filter chuds and their pet edges cuz they're somehow even more cookie cutter and repetitive than the compsci transbians, but in general im alright with laissez-faire …

The oldest tidally induced bar-like galaxy in the IllustrisTNG cluster
Ewa L. Lokas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14555 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14555

The oldest tidally induced bar-like galaxy in the IllustrisTNG cluster
New JWST observations have revealed the presence of a significant number of high-redshift barred galaxies. The origin of these bars remains unclear, and their properties appear difficult to reconcile with the results of cosmological simulations of galaxy formation. I present an example of a tidally induced bar-like galaxy formed at z = 2.9 in the TNG100 suite of the IllustrisTNG simulations. The galaxy was identified among the sample of bar-like galaxies studied before and has the earliest bar …

Epstein shit and adjacent, Rural America, Poverty, Abuse
Everyone who's not a pedophile thinks pedophiles are bad, but there's this special obsessed hatred you'll find among poor rural Americans. The whole QAnon/Epstein obsession may not really make sense to folks raised in cities. Like, why do these people think *so much* about pedophiles? Why do they think that everyone in power is a pedophile? Why would the Pizzagate thing make sense to anyone? What is this unhinged shit? A lot of folks (who aren't anarchists) might be inclined to ask "why can't these people just let the cops take care of it?"
I was watching Legal Eagle's run down on the Trump Epstein thing earlier today and I woke up thinking about something I don't know if I've ever talked about. Now that I'm not in the US, I'm not at any risk of talking about it. I don't know how much I would have been before, but that's not something I'm gonna dig into right now. So let me tell you a story that might explain a few things.
I'm like 16, maybe 17. I have my license, so this girl I was dating/not dating/just friends with/whatever would regularly convince me to drive her and her friends around. I think she's like 15 at the time. Her friends are younger than her.
She tells me that there's a party we can go to where they have beer. She was told to invite her friends, so I can come too. We're going to pick her friends up (we regularly fill the VW Golf well beyond the legal limit and drive places) and head to the party.
So I take these girls, at least is 13 years old, down to this party. I'm already a bit sketched out bringing a 13 year old to a party. We drive out for a while. It's in the country. We drive down a long dark road. Three are some barrel fires and a shack. This is all a bit strange, but not too abnormal for this area. We're a little ways outside of a place called Mill City (in Oregon).
We park and walk towards the shack. This dude who looks like a rat comes up and offers us beer. He laughs and talks to the girl who invited me, "What's he doing here? You're supposed to bring your girl friends." She's like, "He's our ride." I don't remember if he offered me a beer or not.
We go over to this shed and everyone starts smoking, except me because I didn't smoke until I turned 18. The other girls start talking about the rat face dude, who's wandered over by the fire with some other guys. They're mainly teasing one of the 13 year old girls about having sex with him a bunch of times. They say he's like, 32 or something. The other girls joke about him only having sex with 13 year olds because he's too ugly to have sex with anyone closer to his own age.
Somewhere along the line it comes out that he's a cop. I never forgot that, it's absolutely seared in to my memory. I can picture his face perfectly still, decades later, and them talking about how he's a deputy, he was in his 30's, and he was having sex with a 13 year old girl. I was the only boy there, but there were a few older men. This was a chunk of the good ol' boys club of the town. I think there were a couple of cops besides the one deputy, and a judge or the mayor or some kind of big local VIP.
I kept trying to get my friend to leave, but she wanted to stay. Turns out under age drinking with cops seems like a great deal if you're a kid because you know you won't get busted. I left alone, creeped the fuck out.
I was told later that I wasn't invited and that I couldn't talk about it, I've always been good at compartmentalization, so I never did.
Decades later it occurred to me what was actually happening. I'm pretty sure that cop was giving meth he'd seized as evidence to these kids. This wasn't some one-off thing. It was regular. Who knows how many decades it went on after I left, or how many decades it had been going on before I found out. I knew this type of thing had happened at least a few times before because that's how that 13 year old girl and that 32 year old cop had hooked up in the first place.
Hearing about Epstein's MO, targeting these teenage girls from fucked up backgrounds, it's right there for me. I wouldn't be surprised if they were involved in sex trafficking of minors or some shit like that... but who would you call if you found out? Half the sheriff's department was there and the other half would cover for them.
You live in the city and shit like that doesn't happen, or at least you don't think it happens. But rural poor folks have this intuition about power and abuse. It's right there and you know it.
Trump is such a familiar character for me, because he's exactly that small town mayor or sheriff. He'll will talk about being tough on crime and hunting down pedophiles, while hanging out at a party that exists so people can fuck 8th graders.
The problem with the whole thing is that rural folks will never break the cognitive dissonance between "kill the peods" and "back the blue." They'll never go kill those cops. No, the pedos must be somewhere else. It must be the elites. It must be outsiders. It can't be the cops and good ol' boys everyone respects. It can't be the mayor who rigs the election to win every time. It can't be the "good upstanding" sheriff. Nah, it's the Clintons.
To be fair, it's probably also the Clitnons, a bunch of other politicians, billionaires, etc. Epstein was exactly who everyone thought he was, and he didn't get away with it for so long without a whole lot of really powerful help.
There are still powerful people who got away with involvement with #Epstein. #Trump is one of them, but I don't really believe that he's the only one.
#USPol #ACAB

Surya: Foundation Model for Heliophysics
Sujit Roy, Johannes Schmude, Rohit Lal, Vishal Gaur, Marcus Freitag, Julian Kuehnert, Theodore van Kessel, Dinesha V. Hegde, Andr\'es Mu\~noz-Jaramillo, Johannes Jakubik, Etienne Vos, Kshitiz Mandal, Ata Akbari Asanjan, Joao Lucas de Sousa Almeida, Amy Lin, Talwinder Singh, Kang Yang, Chetraj Pandey, Jinsu Hong, Berkay Aydin, Thorsten Kurth, Ryan McGranaghan, Spiridon Kasapis, Vishal Upendran, Shah Bahauddin, Daniel da Silva, Nikolai V. Pogo…

Surya: Foundation Model for Heliophysics
Heliophysics is central to understanding and forecasting space weather events and solar activity. Despite decades of high-resolution observations from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), most models remain task-specific and constrained by scarce labeled data, limiting their capacity to generalize across solar phenomena. We introduce Surya, a 366M parameter foundation model for heliophysics designed to learn general-purpose solar representations from multi-instrument SDO observations, includin…

Inference Time Debiasing Concepts in Diffusion Models
Lucas S. Kupssinsk\"u, Marco N. Bochernitsan, Jordan Kopper, Ot\'avio Parraga, Rodrigo C. Barros
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14933

Inference Time Debiasing Concepts in Diffusion Models
We propose DeCoDi, a debiasing procedure for text-to-image diffusion-based models that changes the inference procedure, does not significantly change image quality, has negligible compute overhead, and can be applied in any diffusion-based image generation model. DeCoDi changes the diffusion process to avoid latent dimension regions of biased concepts. While most deep learning debiasing methods require complex or compute-intensive interventions, our method is designed to change only the inferen…

Assessing the Reliability of Truncated Coupled Cluster Wavefunction: Estimating the Distance from the Exact Solution
\'Ad\'am Ganyecz, Zsolt Benedek, Kl\'ara Petrov, Gergely Barcza, Andr\'as Olasz, Mikl\'os A. Werner, \"Ors Legeza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15681

Assessing the Reliability of Truncated Coupled Cluster Wavefunction: Estimating the Distance from the Exact Solution
A new approach is proposed to assess the reliability of the truncated wavefunction methods by estimating the deviation from the full configuration interaction (FCI) wavefunction. While typical multireference diagnostics compare some derived property of the solution with the ideal picture of a single determinant, we try to answer a more practical question, how far is the solution from the exact one. Using the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) method to provide an approximate FCI soluti…

Probing the band structure of the strongly correlated antiferromagnet NiPS3 across its phase transition
Benjamin Pestka, Biplab Bhattacharyya, Milosz Rybak, Jeff Strasdas, Adam K. Budniak, Adi Harchol, Marcus Liebmann, Niklas Leuth, Honey Boban, Vitaliy Feyer, Iulia Cojocariu, Daniel Baranowski, Simone Mearini, Lutz Waldecker, Bernd Beschoten, Christoph Stampfer, Yaron Amouyal, Lukasz Plucinski, Efrat Lifshitz, Krzysztof Wohlfeld, Magdalena Birowska, Markus Morgenstern

Probing the band structure of the strongly correlated antiferromagnet NiPS3 across its phase transition
NiPS3 is an exfoliable van-der-Waals intralayer antiferromagnet with zigzag-type spin arrangement. It is distinct from other TMPS3 (TM: transition metal) materials by optical excitations into a strongly correlated state that is tied to the magnetic properties. However, the related, fundamental band structure across the antiferromagnetic phase transition has not been probed yet. Here, we use angular-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy with μm resolution in combination with DFT+U calculations fo…