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Alpine County, perched like an emerald on the crest of the Sierra Nevada, is as rural as rural California gets.
Vast distance separates its sparse settlements, tucked among forests and crystalline streams. The views, unobstructed by city clutter, go on forever.
There is no hospital,
no supermarket, fast-food restaurant or shopping mall anywhere in its 743 square miles.
The only stoplight is temporary,
put in place for a bridge repair.
And yet if all goes …

California mystery: Why does a small rural county vote like SF?
Rural usually means Republican. But this county is a Democratic speck in California's sea of red.

https://ucrh.edu.au/new-research-reveals-hidden-backbone-of-northern-rivers-flood-recovery-womens-leadership/

New research reveals hidden backbone of Northern Rivers flood recovery: women’s leadership - University Centre for Rural Health
A groundbreaking new study published in the journal Women's Health is bringing long-overdue recognition to the women who played a pivotal role in the Northern Rivers’ recovery from the catastrophic 2022 floods.

"The environmental burden of the United States’ bitcoin mining boom
Bitcoin mines—massive computing clusters generating cryptocurrency tokens—consume vast amounts of electricity. .... From mid-2022 to mid-2023, the 34 mines consumed 32.3 terawatt-hours of electricity—33% more than Los Angeles—85% of which came from fossil fuels. We estimated that 1.9 million Americans were exposed to ≥0.1 μg/m3 of additional PM2.5 pollution from Bitcoin mines"

The environmental burden of the United States’ bitcoin mining boom - Nature Communications
The paper maps air pollution from power plants supplying electricity to US Bitcoin mines. It finds that 1.9 million people in 2022-2023 breathed toxic amounts of Bitcoin mine attributable pollution, particularly around New York City and Houston.

Love's Shifting Nature
- a suite of instrumental music inspired by deep grief and remembrance -
#grief #NowPlaying
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Love's Shifting Nature #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

I’m concerned the Overlay Community Group has found a way to normalize overlays by influencing the W3C draft “Accessibility of machine learning and generative AI”:
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/09/accessibility-at-the-edg…

‘Accessibility at the Edge’ W3C CG Is an Overlay Smoke Screen
Another post where I lay it all out in the title. What follows is why I am making this assertion (with a handy table of contents). Timeline 26 May 2022 at 10:58am ET 26 May 2022 at 7:56pm ET 27 May 2022 at 7:38pm ET 28 May 2022 at 5:04pm…

A new Lagrange multiplier approach for constructing structure preserving schemes, III. Bound preserving and energy dissipating
Qing Cheng, Tingfeng Wang, Xiaofei Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12402

A new Lagrange multiplier approach for constructing structure preserving schemes, III. Bound preserving and energy dissipating
In the third part of this series, we continue to explore the idea of the Lagrange multiplier introduced in the first part [2020, Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engr., 391, 114585] and refined in the second part [2022, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 60, 970-998] to further develop efficient and accurate numerical schemes that preserve the maximum bound principle (MBP) and energy dissipation for solving gradient flows. The proposed framework allows us to begin with any conventional scheme as a predictor step…

This still nauseates me.
☑️ Oracle’s Larry Ellison joined Nov. 2020 call about contesting Trump’s loss - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/20/larry-ellison-oracle-trump-election-challenges/

Oracle’s Larry Ellison joined Nov. 2020 call about contesting Trump’s loss
The billionaire GOP donor, the biggest backer of Elon Musk’s attempted Twitter takeover, participated along with Fox’s Sean Hannity and Sen. Lindsey Graham, according to court filings and a participant.

Heute vor 60 Jahren: Am 16.06.1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Diluted Waters". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.16505 has been replaced.
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Spectral conditions for spanning $k$-trees or $k$-ended-trees of $t$-connected graphs
Let $G$ be a connected graph of order $n$. A spanning $k$-tree of $G$ is a spanning tree with the maximum degree at most $k$, and a spanning $k$-ended-tree of $G$ is a spanning tree at most $k$ leaves, where $k\geq2$ is an integer. This paper establishes some spectral conditions for the existence of spanning $k$-trees or spanning $k$-ended-trees in $t$-connected graphs, which generalize the results of Fan et al. (2022) and Zhou (2010), and improve the results of Fiedler et al. (2010), Ao et al.…

Tesla sues ex-Optimus engineer Zhongjie Li, who worked at Tesla from 2022 to 2024, accusing him of stealing humanoid robot info and setting up a rival startup (Dana Hull/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Guerre en Ukraine : le grand désarroi des russophones de Daugavpils, en Lettonie
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2022/03/03/guerre-en-ukraine-le-grand-desarroi-des-r…

Guerre en Ukraine : le grand désarroi des russophones de Daugavpils, en Lettonie
Dans cette ville située près des frontières russe et biélorusse, la guerre en Ukraine déchire les familles, la population se divisant entre Russes ou russophones et Lettons. Vers qui doivent-ils se tourner ?

Canada : "Le coût estimé pour l’achat de 88 nouveaux F-35A auprès des États‑Unis a explosé de près de 50 % depuis 2022"
#F35 #défense

Las Vegas Raiders Star Geno Smith Named Best Quarterback in One Key Category https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/geno-smith-best-quarterback-one-category/?adt_ei=[email]

DreamState - Dreams -
#DreamState #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2022/dreamstate-dr

DreamState - Dreams - #DreamState #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Heute vor 60 Jahren: Am 11.06.1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Organdy". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

Refugees' path to legal stability is long and systematically unequal
Ola Ali, Elma Dervic, Guillermo Prieto-Viertel, Carsten K\"allner, Rainer St\"utz, Andrea Vismara, Rafael Prieto-Curiel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07916

Refugees' path to legal stability is long and systematically unequal
Legal systems shape not only the recognition of migrants and refugees but also the pace and stability of their integration. Refugees often shift between multiple legal classifications, a process we refer to as the "legal journey". This journey is frequently prolonged and uncertain. Using a network-based approach, we analyze legal transitions for over 350,000 migrants in Austria (2022 to 2024). Refugees face highly unequal pathways to stability, ranging from two months for Ukrainians to nine mon…

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GL-LowPopArt: A Nearly Instance-Wise Minimax Estimator for Generalized Low-Rank Trace Regression
We present `GL-LowPopArt`, a novel Catoni-style estimator for generalized low-rank trace regression. Building on `LowPopArt` (Jang et al., 2024), it employs a two-stage approach: nuclear norm regularization followed by matrix Catoni estimation. We establish state-of-the-art estimation error bounds, surpassing existing guarantees (Fan et al., 2019; Kang et al., 2022), and reveal a novel experimental design objective, $\mathrm{GL}(π)$. The key technical challenge is controlling bias from the non…

Prediction of the SVOM MXT camera end of life spectral performance based onproton irradiation results
Clara Plasse, Diego G\"otz, Aline Meuris, Miguel Fernandez Moita, Philippe Ferrando, Leo Favier, Francesco Ceraudo
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En Lettonie, le conflit en Ukraine ravive la guerre des mémoires entre russophones et lettophones
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2022/05/09/en-le…

En Lettonie, le conflit en Ukraine ravive la guerre des mémoires entre russophones et lettophones
Pour les uns, le 9 mai 1945 représente la défaite de l’Allemagne nazie face à l’Armée rouge, pour les autres, le début de « l’occupation » par l’URSS. En avril, le Parlement a interdit les rassemblements célébrant la victoire soviétique.

On the Earth's tidal perturbations. II. LARES 2 satellite
V. G. Gurzadyan, I. Ciufolini, H. G. Khachatryan, S. Mirzoyan, A. Paolozzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10310

On the Earth's tidal perturbations. II. LARES 2 satellite
Laser-ranging satellites have proved their efficiency in high precision testing of General Relativity and constraining modified gravity theories proposed to explain the dark sector and the cosmological tensions. The LARES 2 satellite launched in 2022, is currently providing improved information regarding the frame-dragging effect predicted by General Relativity, as well as the geodesy, thus essentially complementing the data of already existing laser-ranging satellites. The proper knowledge of …

Heute vor 60 Jahren: Am 11.06.1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Petrel". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR) has gained access to sensitive data of Russia's strategic aircraft manufacturer Tupolev
Tupolev, a Soviet-era aerospace firm now fully integrated into Russia's defense-industrial complex, has been under international sanctions since 2022 for its role in Russia's war against Ukraine.
Its bombers have been widely used to launch long-range cruise missiles against Ukrainian cities and infrastructure.
According to the so…

'There is nothing secret left' — Ukraine hacks Russia's Tupolev aircraft manufacturer, source claims
HUR's cyber corps accessed over 4.4 gigabytes (GB) of internal data, including official correspondence, personnel files, home addresses, resumes, purchase records, and closed meeting minutes, a source claimed.

Guru Puppy - I'm Learning From My Dog
#BeBetter
https://muz4now.com/2022/guru-puppy-im-learning-from-my-dog/

Verification of the Timing System for the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission in the GPS Unsynchronized Mode
Megumi Shidatsu, Yukikatsu Terada, Takashi Kominato, So Kato, Ryohei Sato, Minami Sakama, Takumi Shioiri, Yugo Motogami, Yuuki Niida, Chulsoo Kang, Toshihiro Takagi, Taichi Nakamoto, Chikara Natsukari, Makoto S. Tashiro, Kenichi Toda, Hironori Maejima, Shin Watanabe, Ryo Iizuka, Rie Sato, Chris Baluta, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Tessei Yoshida, Shoji Ogawa, Yoshiaki Kanemaru, Kotaro Fukushima, Akio Hoshino, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Shinichiro Uno, Ken Ebisawa, Satoshi Eguchi, Satoru Katsuda, Aya Kubota, Naomi Ota, Atsushi Tanimoto, Yuichi Terashima, Yohko Tsuboi, Yuusuke Uchida, Hideki Uchiyama, Shigeo Yamauchi, Tomokage Yoneyama, Satoshi Yamada, Nagomi Uchida, Matt Holland, Michael Loewenstein, Tahir Yaqoob, Eric D. Miller, Robert S. Hill, Efrain C. Perez-Solis, Morgan D. Waddy, Mark Mekosh, Joseph B. Fox, Isabella S. Brewer, Emily Aldoretta, Koji Mukai, Kenji Hamaguchi, Francois Mernier, Anna Ogorzalek, Katja Pottschmidt, Mihoko Yukita
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Dreaming is more than what happens while you sleep
#dreams #inspiration
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Dreaming is more than what happens while you sleep
Stan Stewart - @muz4now