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The case of an independent publisher banned from county buildings in Jeff Davis County, Texas, raises questions about who gets to call themselves a journalist (Carlos Nogueras Ramos/The Texas Tribune)
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/11/we

In West Texas, an independent publisher’s arrest sparks First Amendment questions
Publisher David Flash has been documenting the happenings in Jeff Davis County since 2020. Last year, he was banned from county buildings over allegations of harassment.

Apple’s ‘liquid glass’ contrast hilarity is now a bullet on my post “I Don’t Care What Google or Apple or Whoever Did”
https://adrianroselli.com/2020/03/i-dont-care-what-google-or-apple-or-whomever-did.html
Please please PLEA…

Enjoying Non-linearity in Multinomial Logistic Bandits
Pierre Boudart (PSL, DI-ENS, Inria), Pierre Gaillard (PSL, DI-ENS, Inria), Alessandro Rudi (PSL, DI-ENS, Inria)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05306

Enjoying Non-linearity in Multinomial Logistic Bandits
We consider the multinomial logistic bandit problem, a variant of generalized linear bandits where a learner interacts with an environment by selecting actions to maximize expected rewards based on probabilistic feedback from multiple possible outcomes. In the binary setting, recent work has focused on understanding the impact of the non-linearity of the logistic model (Faury et al., 2020; Abeille et al., 2021). They introduced a problem-dependent constant $κ_*$, that may be exponentially larg…

(YouTube 2020) Rewiring the Brain with David Eagleman | FUTURES Podcast #30, discussing sensory substitution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdl8tM1z88I&t=1608s Transcript at

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #LiveOnKEXP
Frankie and The Witch Fingers:
🎵 Sidewalk
#FrankieandTheWitchFingers
https://frankieandthewitchfingers.bandcamp.com/album/sidewalk-2020-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/3gjtxnGDNtCNJFOE25V2ZJ

A Flexible Measure of Voter Polarization
Boris Ginzburg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07770 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07770

A Flexible Measure of Voter Polarization
This paper introduces a definition of ideological polarization of an electorate around a particular central point. By being flexible about the location or width of the center, this measure enables the researcher to analyze polarization around any point of interest. The paper then applies this approach to US voter survey data between 2004 and 2020, showing how polarization between right-of-center voters and the rest of the electorate was increasing gradually, while polarization between left-wing…

(2020) Want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local #environment

You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local
“Eat local” is a common recommendation to reduce the carbon footprint of your diet. How does the impact of what you eat compare to where it's come from?

just stumbled over the #scanimage #cli tool thanks to this blog post by @… (

Kommenden Dienstag 8.7.25, 19:30 Uhr, ist es so weit:
Michael Blume in der Manufaktur
Sturmflut der Lügen - Wie wir unsere Gesellschaft gegen Desinformation Wappnen
@…
#schorndorf

On the existence of negative moments for some non-colliding particle systems and its application
Minh Thang Do, Hoang Long Ngo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04022

On the existence of negative moments for some non-colliding particle systems and its application
We consider a class of $d$-dimensional stochastic differential equations that model a non-colliding random particle system. We provide a sufficient condition, which does not depend on the dimension $d$, for the existence of negative moments of the gap between two particles, and then apply this result to study the strong rate of convergence of the semi-implicit Euler-Maruyama approximation scheme. Our finding improves a recent result of Ngo and Taguchi (Annals of Applied Probability, 2020).

psi: Plant Photosystem I excitation energy transfer network (2020)
Weighted directed network of the light-harvesting Photosystem Ι (PSI) of the plant Pisum sativum. The nodes represent chromophores with different identities (i.e. chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, β-carotene and derivates, lutein, violaxanthin), while edges represent FRET transfer between chromophores. The link directionality connecting nodes in the PSI network depends on the energy levels of the connected chromophores. The…

Alkali phenoxides in comets
M. Fulle, P. Molaro, A. Rotundi, L. Tonietti, A. Aletti, L. Buzzi, P. Valisa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02343 https://

Alkali phenoxides in comets
Potassium was first detected in spectra of the sungrazer comet Ikeya-Seki at the heliocentric distance rh = 0.15 au and, 48 years later, in comets PanSTARRS and ISON at rh = 0.46 au. The alkali tail photoionization model provides a Na/K ratio close to the solar value. No lithium was detected in any comet: the lower limit of the Na/Li ratio was almost one order of magnitude greater than the solar ratio. Here we searched for the emissions of the alkali NaI, KI, and LiI in Comets C/2020 F3 and C/2…

Good Morning #Canada
OTD in 1977, Tim Severin landed on Peckford Island, Newfoundland. Severin had set sail from Ireland on May 17th with a five-man crew in a boat built using only techniques and materials available in sixth-century Ireland. The arduous 7,300km journey was meant to prove that St. Brendon had discovered North America almost 1,000 years before Columbus. I'm sure we were polite and didn't smirk when we welcomed him to Canada.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Myth
https://lookingnorth.blog/2020/07/the-brendan-voyage/

I feel sad when publications I've read in the past stop being published on paper.
I've also not bought a paper magazine or comic (single) since March 2020.

James Brown in Roses, a true story https://archivo.kamasystems.nl/es/2020/06/08/james-brown-in-roses-a-true-story/

Like Trump himself, those attracted to his administration don't actually believe in their own talking points. They just want power. #uspol

Oh, cool! The #MyPillow guy was found guilty!
https://apnews.com/article/mike-lindell-dominion-voting-defamation-2020-election-af473792a6e395d86ea6ca0f97742c3f

Quasi-periodic oscillations and reflection feature evolution in 4U 1630-47 observed with Insight-HXMT
Jiashi Chen, Wei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19285

Quasi-periodic oscillations and reflection feature evolution in 4U 1630-47 observed with Insight-HXMT
The Galactic black hole (BH) X-ray binary 4U 1630-47 went into a new outburst in 2021 after $\sim$ 600 days from its 2020 outburst. We perform a detailed analysis of quasi-periodic oscillations and spectral evolutions during its 2021 outburst based on \textit{Insight}-HXMT observations. The main science aims to study the reflection features evolution of this accreting black hole using the observations of detecting quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) and quasi-regular modulations (QRMs). The QPOs…

Quantum Radar and Research Assessment
Gaspare Galati, Gabriele Pavan, Frederick Daum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13797 https://arxiv.o…

Quantum Radar and Research Assessment
Quantum Radar was studied in many Nations for about fifteen years with the production of some hundred publications. In the post 2020 literature, it is shown that, due to the exceedingly low transmitted power, Quantum Radar cannot produce neither significant results nor real world applications. Regrettably, most of the scientific community ignored this negative outcome: a fact worth of exam. A detailed study of such an assessment failure depicts the main shortcomings of the present situation, ca…

Detection, attribution, and modeling of climate change: key open issues
Nicola Scafetta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13994 https://arxi…

Detection, attribution, and modeling of climate change: key open issues
The CMIP global climate models (GCMs) assess that nearly 100% of global surface warming observed between 1850-1900 and 2011-2020 is attributable to anthropogenic drivers like greenhouse gas emissions. These models also generate future climate projections based on shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs), aiding in risk assessment and the development of costly Net-Zero climate mitigation strategies. Yet, the CMIP GCMs face significant scientific challenges in attributing and modeling climate change,…