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Trump started the verbal war with Canada shortly after the 2024 election.
He invited Prime Minister Trudeau to dine with him at Mar-a-Lago on November 29.
Trump said then that Canada should be the fifty-first state and that Trudeau should be its governor. (Later, Trump switched to Gretzky.)
“I look forward to seeing the governor again soon so that we may continue our in depth talks on tariffs and trade,” Trump posted on social media.
To this, Trudeau responded:
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The New Detroit-Windsor Bridge Can’t Repair the Damage Trump Has Done
The opening of the Gordie Howe bridge has been delayed. It’s an apt metaphor for where U.S.-Canada relations have gone under Trump 2.0.

Quadratic Kernel for Cliques or Trees Vertex Deletion
Soh Kumabe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16815 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16815

Quadratic Kernel for Cliques or Trees Vertex Deletion
We consider \textsc{Cliques or Trees Vertex Deletion}, which is a hybrid of two fundamental parameterized problems: \textsc{Cluster Vertex Deletion} and \textsc{Feedback Vertex Set}. In this problem, we are given an undirected graph $G$ and an integer $k$, and asked to find a vertex subset $X$ of size at most $k$ such that each connected component of $G-X$ is either a clique or a tree. Jacob et al. (ISAAC, 2024) provided a kernel of $O(k^5)$ vertices for this problem, which was recently improve…

Long-term simultaneous 2.25/8.60~GHz monitoring of the newly-discovered repeating FRB~20240114A
Xiao-Wei Wang, Zhen Yan, Zhi-Qiang Shen, Ke-Jia Lee, Ya-Jun Wu, Rong-Bing Zhao, Jie Liu, Rui Wang, Kuo Liu, Yuan-Chuan Zou, Zhi-Peng Hang, Chu-Yuan Zhang, Fan Yang, Zhen-Long Liao, Yang-Yang Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15615

Long-term simultaneous 2.25/8.60~GHz monitoring of the newly-discovered repeating FRB~20240114A
We report on the simultaneous monitoring of the repeating fast radio burst (FRB) 20240114A at 2.25 and 8.60~GHz, conducted 66 times between 2024 January 29 and 2025 February 15 with the Shanghai Tianma Radio Telescope (TMRT). In about 180 hours of observation, we detected 155 bursts at 2.25~GHz above a fluence threshold of 0.72~Jy~ms, but none at 8.60~GHz above a fluence threshold of 0.27~Jy~ms. FRB~20240114A exhibited frequency-dependent activity, as evidenced by the non-detections in 14.3 hou…

Use of Bicivia bike lanes up 21% in five years, with 75,600 daily users in 2024
Use of bicycles up 29% and scooters by 92% in Barcelona metropolitan area
https://www.catalannews.com/society-science/item/use-of…

Use of Bicivia bike lanes up 21% in five years, with 75,600 daily users in 2024
Use of bicycles up 29% and scooters by 92% in Barcelona metropolitan area

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #EasternEchoes
DJ Marky, XRS & Makoto:
🎵 Soul Samba (DJ Marky & Makoto Remix 2024)
#DJMarky #XRS #Makoto
https://innerground.bandcamp.com/album/dj-marky-xrs-soul-samba-dj-marky-makoto-remix-2024-inn125
https://open.spotify.com/track/1u7JI6HZcJw6P32BrGKWoO

ich war ja im Juli 2024 noch auf der Ausstellung "Das Fahrrad - Kultobjekt - Designobjekt" in der Pinakothek der Modernen in München.
Keine Ahnung, wieso das bis jetzt gedauert hat, dass ich was dazu geschrieben habe.
https://mega-stoffel.de/weblog/2024/07/29/das-fahrrad…

Flip, a TikTok rival that let shoppers post video reviews and earn cash based on engagement, has shut down; it had raised $300M and was valued at $1B in 2024 (Ann Gehan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/tiktok-challenger-flip-shuts

TikTok Challenger Flip Shuts Down
Flip, a video-sharing social media app that at one point tried to challenge TikTok’s dominance, has shut down, according to a message to users and the company’s website. Flip didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. The social commerce app raised over $300 million from investors since its founding in 2019, and was valued in April 2024 at more than $1 billion, according to PitchBook

Eagles unveil 2024 Super Bowl banner amid fireworks before NFL opener against Dallas https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/eagles-unveil-2024-super-bowl-banner-amid-fireworks-before-nfl-opener-against-dallas

Analyse: Möglicher Asteroideneinschlag in den Mond ließe sich noch verhindern
Noch ist nicht auszuschließen, dass der Asteroid 2024 YR₄ in sieben Jahren in den Mond einschlägt, mit gefährlichen Folgen. Gegenwehr wäre jetzt noch möglich.

Cdu-spd wegener-regierung in berlin hat 2024 die einbürgerung von den bezirken zu einer zentralen behörde des landes übertragen und digitalisiert. Die zahl der Einbürgerungen hat sich von 9000 im jahr auf 3300 im monat vervierfacht. Der Backlog von 40000 anträgen wurde abgearbeitet.
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This is really wild: Microsoft is pushing more and more #spyware features into everyday products to steal all of your data:
"#Copilot #Vision is an extension of Microsoft's divisive Recall [...] is de…

Lamar pulls challenge of Aikman No. 8 trademark https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45965979/lamar-jackson-withdraws-challenge-aikman-no-8-trademarks

Crash Landing
- let's see if we can stop crashing - OK?
#MusicVideo #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2024/…

Crash Landing #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

Mapping the Perseus Galaxy Cluster with XRISM: Gas Kinematic Features and their Implications for Turbulence
Congyao Zhang, Irina Zhuravleva, Annie Heinrich, Elena Bellomi, Nhut Truong, John ZuHone, Eugene Churazov, Megan E. Eckart, Yutaka Fujita, Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, Yuto Ichinohe, Maxim Markevitch, Kyoko Matsushita, Fran\c{c}ois Mernier, Eric D. Miller, Koji Mori, Hiroshi Nakajima, Anna Ogorzalek, Frederick S. Porter, Ay\c{s}eg\"ul T\"umer, Shutaro Ueda, Norbert Werner

Mapping the Perseus Galaxy Cluster with XRISM: Gas Kinematic Features and their Implications for Turbulence
In this paper, we present extended gas kinematic maps of the Perseus cluster by combining five new XRISM/Resolve pointings observed in 2025 with four Performance Verification datasets from 2024, totaling 745 ks net exposure. To date, Perseus remains the only cluster that has been extensively mapped out to ~0.7$r_{2500}$ by XRISM/Resolve, while simultaneously offering sufficient spatial resolution to resolve gaseous substructures driven by mergers and AGN feedback. Our observations cover multipl…

Anomalous inverse Faraday effect for graphene quantum dots in optical vortices
Zi-Yang Xu, Wei E. I. Sha, Hang Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12654 https://

Anomalous inverse Faraday effect for graphene quantum dots in optical vortices
Chiral photon interactions with two-dimensional (2D) materials enable unprecedented control of quantum phenomena. In this paper, we report anomalous inverse Faraday effects (IFE) in graphene quantum dots (GQDs) under linearly polarized optical vortex illumination, where transferred orbital angular momentum (OAM) generates light-induced magnetic moments. Employing our recently developed time-dependent quantum perturbation framework [Phys. Rev. B 110, 085425 (2024)], we demonstrate a counterintui…

Heh.
Smart.
https://noc.social/@todayilearned/114937316291088628

Today I learned (@todayilearned@noc.social)
Attached: 1 image TIL Anthony Borges, the Parkland shooting hero who shielded his classmates with his body, legally owns the rights to the shooter's name preventing the shooter from granting interviews or make any agreements with film producers or authors without Borges' permission. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolas_Cruz#2024 #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1mcezre/til_anthony_borges_the_parkland_shooting_hero_who/

Pre- and Post-Treatment Glioma Segmentation with the Medical Imaging Segmentation Toolkit
Adrian Celaya, Tucker Netherton, Dawid Schellingerhout, Caroline Chung, Beatrice Riviere, David Fuentes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19626

Pre- and Post-Treatment Glioma Segmentation with the Medical Imaging Segmentation Toolkit
Medical image segmentation continues to advance rapidly, yet rigorous comparison between methods remains challenging due to a lack of standardized and customizable tooling. In this work, we present the current state of the Medical Imaging Segmentation Toolkit (MIST), with a particular focus on its flexible and modular postprocessing framework designed for the BraTS 2025 pre- and post-treatment glioma segmentation challenge. Since its debut in the 2024 BraTS adult glioma post-treatment segmentat…

Wandern auf den Laaber bei Oberammergau 2024
#hiking #silentsunday

GWTC-4.0: Updating the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog with Observations from the First Part of the Fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing Run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18082

GWTC-4.0: Updating the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog with Observations from the First Part of the Fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing Run
Version 4.0 of the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-4.0) adds new candidates detected by the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA observatories through the first part of the fourth observing run (O4a: 2023 May 24 15:00:00 to 2024 January 16 16:00:00 UTC) and a preceding engineering run. In this new data, we find 128 new compact binary coalescence candidates that are identified by at least one of our search algorithms with a probability of astrophysical origin $p_{\rm astro} \geq 0.5$ and that are n…

Guarding Against Malicious Biased Threats (GAMBiT) Experiments: Revealing Cognitive Bias in Human-Subjects Red-Team Cyber Range Operations
Brandon Beltz, Jim Doty, Yvonne Fonken, Nikolos Gurney, Brett Israelsen, Nathan Lau, Stacy Marsella, Rachelle Thomas, Stoney Trent, Peggy Wu, Ya-Ting Yang, Quanyan Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20963…

Guarding Against Malicious Biased Threats (GAMBiT) Experiments: Revealing Cognitive Bias in Human-Subjects Red-Team Cyber Range Operations
We present three large-scale human-subjects red-team cyber range datasets from the Guarding Against Malicious Biased Threats (GAMBiT) project. Across Experiments 1-3 (July 2024-March 2025), 19-20 skilled attackers per experiment conducted two 8-hour days of self-paced operations in a simulated enterprise network (SimSpace Cyber Force Platform) while we captured multi-modal data: self-reports (background, demographics, psychometrics), operational notes, terminal histories, keylogs, network packe…

Implementation and Basis Construction for Smooth Finite Element Spaces
Chunyu Chen, Long Chen, Tingyi Gao, Xuehai Huang, Huayi Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19732 https://

Implementation and Basis Construction for Smooth Finite Element Spaces
The construction of $C^m$ conforming finite elements on simplicial meshes has recently advanced through the groundbreaking work of Hu, Lin, and Wu (Found. Comput. Math. 24, 2024). Their framework characterizes smoothness via moments of normal derivatives over subsimplices, leading to explicit degrees of freedom and unisolvence, unifying earlier constructions. However, the absence of explicit basis functions has left these spaces largely inaccessible for practical computation. In parallel, multi…

Netzwerk aufgeflogen - Freundin betäubt und vergewaltigt: 7 Jahre Haft #News #Nachrichten

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – December 9, 2024
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Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest - December 9, 2024 | The Religious Studies Project
Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 21 new job opportunities, 3 fellowships, 2 grants, and 4 calls for papers.

NFL picks, predictions against the spread Week 5: Chiefs cool Jaguars, Cowboys best Jets https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/nfl-picks-predictions-against-spread-week-5/265e0b16595e236ca1885170

Open Data from LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA through the First Part of the Fourth Observing Run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18079

Open Data from LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA through the First Part of the Fourth Observing Run
LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA form a network of gravitational-wave observatories. Data and analysis results from this network are made publicly available through the Gravitational Wave Open Science Center. This paper describes open data from this network, including the addition of data from the first part of the fourth observing run (O4a) and selected periods from the preceding engineering run, collected from May 2023 to January 2024. The public data set includes calibrated strain time series for each…

Dependency Network-Based Portfolio Design with Forecasting and VaR Constraints
Zihan Lin, Haojie Liu, Randall R. Rojas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20039 https://

Dependency Network-Based Portfolio Design with Forecasting and VaR Constraints
This study proposes a novel portfolio optimization framework that integrates statistical social network analysis with time series forecasting and risk management. Using daily stock data from the S&P 500 (2020-2024), we construct dependency networks via Vector Autoregression (VAR) and Forecast Error Variance Decomposition (FEVD), transforming influence relationships into a cost-based network. Specifically, FEVD breaks down the VAR's forecast error variance to quantify how much each stock's shock…

Raiders release Christian Wilkins: Franchise reportedly voiding DT's contract amid dispute over foot injury

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/raiders

Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – November 13, 2024
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Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 13 new job…
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Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest - November 13, 2024 | The Religious Studies Project
Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 13 new job opportunities, 6 fellowships, 3 grants, 4 calls for papers, 4 conferences/speakers, and 1 other submission.