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I stand by this review from last year:

Dinner time is 30 minutes away. I hope he survives... :neocat_cry:

Private sector hiring rose by just 37,000 in May, the lowest in more than two years, ADP says (Jeff Cox/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/04/adp-jobs-report-may-2025-.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p112#a250604p112

It's also frustrating that thousands of people are protesting and organizing #TeslaDown and Musk does it himself with a few posts.

"Brazil generates 88% of power from renewables in 2024"
#Brazil #Energy #Renewables

Brazil generates 88% of power from renewables in 2024
Brazil’s electricity mix was 88% renewable in 2024, with wind and solar supplying about 24% of total demand, according to new data from state-owned energy agency Empresa de Pesquisa Energetica (EPE).

I want to do a Boiler Room reboot, but instead of a room full of stock brokers, it’s a room full of vibe coders with Ben Affleck yelling at them to “VIBE HARDER YOU BASTARDS!”
Hollywood, please call me.

Interesting study of eastern Joshua tree mycorrhizal associations from trees near the Dome Fire burn in Mojave National Preserve, with sampling stratified by season
#ecology #mutualism #JoshuaTree …

#Stadtnatur-Tipp!
Die Pflanzenwelt der Tegeler Stadtheide – TXL unter der Lupe – Fahrrad-Tour
Dienstag, 06.05. / Zeit: 17:00 – 19:30 Uhr
Mehr Info:

Annd youtube is doing this again for me.

Slowakisches Parlament lehnt neue Russland-Sanktionen ab
Das Parlament der Slowakei hat neue Sanktionen gegen Russland abgelehnt. In einer mit knapper Mehrheit überraschend angenommenen Erklärung rief die Volksvertretung in Bratislava die Vertreter des Landes auf, künftig gegen geplante weitere Sanktionen zu stimmen. Diese würden dem Land selbst wirtschaftlichen Schaden zufügen, heißt es in der Begründung des von der kleinste…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Satellitenbilder zeigen Schäden an Flugzeugen ++
Nach dem ukrainischen Angriff vom Sonntag auf russische Militärstützpunkte sind auf Satellitenbildern Schäden an einigen Maschinen zu sehen. Im Norden der Ukraine sind bei Angriffen laut Behörden mindestens fünf Menschen getötet worden. Der Liveblog vom Donnerstag zum Nachlesen.

Kruimels morsen wordt zeer gewaardeerd

Club convergence of renewables https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014098832500458X @…

Anarchy forever: no gods, no masters!
#Anarchy #Anarchism

I always find the use of first person plural pronouns in discussions of the distant future to be too cute…
Humans didn’t exist a million years ago. There were some crafty hominid apes but not the sort you could clean up and mistake for a human.
There is no “us” 7 billion years from now. There is very likely no “us” in half a million years. We may or may not have descendants but they won’t be “us” in any sense.
A billion years is longer than Earth has had visible life

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Diarycast - Year In Review (2024)
The 2024 EOU diary, including finally ditching fossil gas... #yearInReview #heatPump

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Eki Shola:
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#EkiShola

Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
BLAKE: I'd rather not try. But if I have to, I will not be alone. I've already contacted a Resistance leader.
[Wooded area near the Forbidden Zone]
VERON: No sign of them?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/205/62 B7B6

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

Aplicando prova aqui agora. Conferindo a lista de presença, notei que o número de assinaturas ali excedia em dois o número de alunos presentes. Fiquei confuso por um tempo, até entender que o aluno que assinou na posição 13 desenhou o algarismo três de uma forma esquisita, que mais parecia um 5, o que fez o aluno seguinte assinar como se fosse o número 16 rs.

What the last 5 years of the NFL Draft tells us about college football recruiting https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6402371/2025/06/05/nfl-draft-college-football-recruiting-2/

Datadog is joining the S&P 500, replacing Juniper Networks after HPE acquired Juniper, before trading on July 9; DDOG jumps 10% after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/02/datadog-stock-jumps-sp-500-index-inclusion.html

Datadog stock jumps 10% on tech company’s inclusion in S&P 500 index
Hewlett Packard Enterprise's closing of its Juniper deal created an opening in the index, which has added several technology companies in recent months.

😡
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/discovery-space-shuttle-smithsonian-texas-trump-bill-b2782278.html

Space Shuttle is set to be moved out of Smithsonian and to Texas thanks to Trump’s tax bill
President Donald Trump’s bill will allocate $85 million to transport the Discovery space shuttle from the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum to Space Center Houston

Budget Bashar
bot by @…
No laws were broken in the making of this bot: let's not make entertainment lead to internment.
#satire #potus45

„Die Jugendlichen wollen bis zu 10.000 Euro netto im Monat verdienen“ darunter wollen sie weder Schulabschlüsse machen, Ausbildungsabschlüsse etc.
Wie werden diese #Jugendliche|n reagieren, wenn sie merken, dass sie von Mindestsicherung leben müssen. (Viele werden AfD wählen, sich radikalisieren, hoffen, wie vor 100 Jahren, mit Unterstützung Rechtsradikaler doch noch Karriere machen zu kön…

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城市抓拍 II 📸
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Fujifilm Neopan SS, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Yiding Cao Geld mit PayPal.Me senden
Folgen Sie dem Link PayPal.Me/dingsterdingster und geben Sie den Betrag ein. Es ist bequem und sicher. Sie haben noch kein PayPal-Konto? Kein Problem.

Nice tutorial on setting up local AI.
Set up a Local AI like ChatGPT on your own machine! https://youtu.be/DYhC7nFRL5I?si=lUyi5yGSJb37t0eO

Exclusive: One-third of top U.S. cyber force has left since Trump took office
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/03/cisa-staff-layoffs-resignations-trump-cuts

Exclusive: One-third of top U.S. cyber force has left since Trump took office
Trump wanted to cut 1,000 people. They're already gone.

Stream should be here:
https://stream.udk-berlin.de/w/p/xqqYT1VKfzFtUojF7CRquU?playlistPosition=1

This month's haul from #BandcampFriday
(and one album from Amazon Music, but what am I going to do? It's Little Simz)
Links in the Alt/Comments
#morningMusic

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This Dungeon was so tiny.

You gotta give it to the Carrot Clown. To reintroduce concentration camps and slavery on Independence Day is no small feat.

[2025-07-04 Fri (UTC), 19 new articles found for hep-th High Energy Physics - Theory]
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Design of a visual environment for programming by direct data manipulation
Michel Adam (UBS, IRISA), Patrice Frison (UBS, IRISA), Moncef Daoud (UBS), Sabine Letellier Zarshenas (UBS)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03720

Design of a visual environment for programming by direct data manipulation
The use of applications on computers, smartphones, and tablets has been considerably simplified thanks to interactive and dynamic graphical interfaces coupled with the mouse and touch screens. It is no longer necessary to be a computer specialist to use them. Paradoxically, the development of computer programs generally requires writing lines of code in a programming language whose syntax is particularly strict. This process poses many difficulties for programmers. We propose an original tool i…

You really have to have a special kind of contempt for the intellect of your supporters to expect them to believe this.
They do though. But still.
https://bsky.app/profile/carolmac80.bsky.social/post/3lt3aozm5622p

carolmac80💙🌈☮️🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸🇺🇦🧿🌊 (@carolmac80.bsky.social)

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.01953 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Twists of intermediate Jacobian fibrations
We study the sections, Tate--Shafarevich twists, and the period for an OG10 hyperkähler Lagrangian associated to a cubic fourfold. To do so, we introduce the analytic relative Jacobian sheaf for a Lagrangian fibration of a hyperkähler variety. The Tate--Shafarevich group parameterizing twists is isomorphic to the first cohomology group of this sheaf and we compute it in terms of certain analytic Brauer groups associated to the cubic fourfold. We prove that the primitive Hodge lattice of the c…

Ukraine to exit mine ban treaty, citing war demands, realities on the ground: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/ukraine-to-exit-mine-ban.html

GOP megabill littered with special tax breaks (Brian Faler/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/04/from-rum-to-gun-silencers-tailored-tax-breaks-add-billions-to-megabill-00438962
http://www.memeorandum.com/250704/p51#a250704p51

Diffeomorphic approximation of piecewise affine homeomorphisms
Daniel Campbell, Luigi D'Onofrio, Tom\'a\v{s} V\'itek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02854

Diffeomorphic approximation of piecewise affine homeomorphisms
Given any $f$ a locally finitely piecewise affine homeomorphism of $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^d$ onto $Δ\subset \mathbb{R}^d$ (for $d=3, 4$) such that $f\in W^{1,p}(Ω, \mathbb{R}^d)$ and $f^{-1}\in W^{1,q}(Δ, \mathbb{R}^d)$, $1\leq p ,q < \infty$ and any $ε>0$ we construct a diffeomorphism $\tilde{f}$ such that $$\|f-\tilde{f}\|_{W^{1,p}(Ω,\mathbb{R}^d)} + \|f^{-1}-\tilde{f}^{-1}\|_{W^{1,q}(Δ,\mathbb{R}^d)} < ε.$$

REMI: Reconstructing Episodic Memory During Intrinsic Path Planning
Zhaoze Wang, Genela Morris, Dori Derdikman, Pratik Chaudhari, Vijay Balasubramanian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02064

REMI: Reconstructing Episodic Memory During Intrinsic Path Planning
Grid cells in the medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) are believed to path integrate speed and direction signals to activate at triangular grids of locations in an environment, thus implementing a population code for position. In parallel, place cells in the hippocampus (HC) fire at spatially confined locations, with selectivity tuned not only to allocentric position but also to environmental contexts, such as sensory cues. Although grid and place cells both encode spatial information and support me…

Tumult bei Angehörigen - Soldat tot: Zwölf Jahre Haft für Mord in Kaserne #News #Nachrichten

Fracture Sounds releases Solo String Formations for Kontakt Player featuring solo violin, viola, and cello https://www.kvraudio.com/news/fr…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01870 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Various irrational series involving binomial coefficients
Motivated by Galois theory, we propose some new irrational series of Ramanujan's type or Zeilberger's type. For example, we conjecture that \begin{equation*}\sum_{k=1}^\infty\frac{\binom{2k}k^2\binom{4k}{2k}}{(84-32\sqrt6)^{4k}} \left(280k+5\sqrt6+26\right)=\frac3π(2\sqrt3+33\sqrt2) \end{equation*} and \begin{align*}&\sum_{k=1}^\infty\frac{(27(37102-15147\sqrt6))^k}{k^3\binom{2k}k^2\binom{3k}k} \left(9k(11\sqrt6+51)-2(19\sqrt6+54)\right) \\&\qquad=\frac{5625}2\left(\sqrt6 L_{-24}(2)-3G\r…

Trump will US-Truppen vorerst in Deutschland stationiert lassen
US-Präsident Donald Trump will die in Deutschland stationierten Truppen vorerst im Land belassen. Wenn Deutschland sie haben wolle, sei das "kein Problem", sagte Trump beim Antrittsbesuch von Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz im Weißen Haus. Zwar sei der Unterhalt der Streitkräfte teuer, weil sie hoch bezahlt seien, aber die Beziehungen zu Deutschland seien wichtig, b…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Satellitenbilder zeigen Schäden an Flugzeugen ++
Nach dem ukrainischen Angriff vom Sonntag auf russische Militärstützpunkte sind auf Satellitenbildern Schäden an einigen Maschinen zu sehen. Im Norden der Ukraine sind bei Angriffen laut Behörden mindestens fünf Menschen getötet worden. Der Liveblog vom Donnerstag zum Nachlesen.

So, when will it be time to stop paying US Federal taxes?

How long can this go on? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/world/middleeast/israel-west-bank-palestinians-attack.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TE8.iYaY.Y1Cz-EJUmmUi&smid=u…

Israelis Set a Palestinian Village Ablaze in West Bank Attack
The violence last week in Kafr Malik, in the West Bank, comes amid a surge in assaults by Israeli settlers. It also set off a chain of violence in the area.

Prévoir un allongement de temps de trajet de 10 minutes environ pour le train suivant : -KOHO départ Melun Š 19h19, arrivée Montereau Š 19h57.
Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil Twitter de la ligne.
Motif : respect des distances entre les trainsŠ Melun.
🤖 04/07 19:49

ASDA: Audio Spectrogram Differential Attention Mechanism for Self-Supervised Representation Learning
Junyu Wang, Tianrui Wang, Meng Ge, Longbiao Wang, Jianwu Dang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02666

ASDA: Audio Spectrogram Differential Attention Mechanism for Self-Supervised Representation Learning
In recent advancements in audio self-supervised representation learning, the standard Transformer architecture has emerged as the predominant approach, yet its attention mechanism often allocates a portion of attention weights to irrelevant information, potentially impairing the model's discriminative ability. To address this, we introduce a differential attention mechanism, which effectively mitigates ineffective attention allocation through the integration of dual-softmax operations and appro…

Faster Algorithm for Bounded Tree Edit Distance in the Low-Distance Regime
Tomasz Kociumaka, Ali Shahali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02701 https://

Faster Algorithm for Bounded Tree Edit Distance in the Low-Distance Regime
The tree edit distance is a natural dissimilarity measure between rooted ordered trees whose nodes are labeled over an alphabet $Σ$. It is defined as the minimum number of node edits (insertions, deletions, and relabelings) required to transform one tree into the other. In the weighted variant, the edits have associated costs (depending on the involved node labels) normalized so that each cost is at least one, and the goal is to minimize the total cost of edits. The unweighted tree edit dist…

Меня загазлайтили... Сказали, что в банке деревенская сметана, а это на самом деле было сливочное масло. Я поняла это слишком поздно, когда по рецепту вместо оладьев получилось печенье.

Branch-and-Cut for Mixed-Integer Generalized Nash Equilibrium Problems
Alo\"is Duguet, Tobias Harks, Martin Schmidt, Julian Schwarz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02520

Branch-and-Cut for Mixed-Integer Generalized Nash Equilibrium Problems
Generalized Nash equilibrium problems with mixed-integer variables form an important class of games in which each player solves a mixed-integer optimization problem with respect to her own variables and the strategy space of each player depends on the strategies chosen by the rival players. In this work, we introduce a branch-and-cut algorithm to compute exact pure Nash equilibria for different classes of such mixed-integer games. The main idea is to reformulate the equilibrium problem as a sui…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.01312 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_grqc_…

Dynamical dark energy and gravitational coupling from moving geometries
We introduce the notion of moving Cartan geometries described by quotients of Lie groups and Lie algebras with spacetime dependant structure constants and construct associated deformed topological gauge action functionals for Lorentzian (including dS and AdS) and Lorentz$\times$Weyl moving geometries. The actions feature a generalization of the Nieh-Yan topological term for a varying coupling constant. We compute the equations of motion of the gauge $+$ matter actions and show that they dictate…

Okay, hear me out.
Trucknuts.
But instead the regular boring ones.
You have *giant* basketball sized rat nuts. Dragging across the road.

Read more at: #NSFIAA #IWA

heise übernimmt Hardware-Händler Mindfactory
Mit Mindfactory wechselt einer der größten deutschen Hardware-Händler den Besitzer. Nur noch das Kartellamt muss zustimmen.
https://www.h…

I solved today's puzzle!
That Non-Platonic Feeling by Stefan Jewett
Yay! I did it in 1 tries!
#4x3game #WordPuzzle
https://www.4x…

@… I’ve been happy with the free tier of https://umami.is/, don’t know if it would work for you though. Was quick and easy to add into my static site generator.

Die erste Runde #Zucchini ist erntereif. 😁
Mehr zu #Balkongärtnern über den Link

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Alice Zawadzki:
🎵 Es Verdad
#AliceZawadzki
https://open.spotify.com/track/0ZZbBKxxgwreGHBYNjeY5U

"Ukraine's Massive Drone Attack Was Powered by Open Source Software"
I'm always saying, open source software is good!
Which opensouce license is forbidding military use?
I remember that there was a discussion about that in the #searchwing project.
And of course, military can still ignore it. terrorists will ignore for sure..
Via @…

Ukraine's Massive Drone Attack Was Powered by Open Source Software
Ukraine used ArduPilot to help it wipe out Russian targets. It wasn’t the first time and it won’t be the last.

So the betrayal of Ukraine by the US continues, delivering less desperately needed air defence missiles to protect civilian areas.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/01/pentagon-munitions-ukraine-halt-00436048

Ok, this is hilarious. https://www.yankodesign.com/2025/06/27/worlds-narrowest-fiat-panda-is-one-anorexic-19-inch-wide-ev-destined-for-the-record-books/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Autolux:
🎵 Plantlife
#Autolux
https://autolux.bandcamp.com/track/plantlife
https://open.spotify.com/track/3RR8JZGjOZ1bYPewpJkG8I

Pond Slider on a rock. Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge, California, USA. March, 2021. #descansogardens #turtle #slider

A statistical theory for polymer elasticity: from molecular kinematics to continuum behavior
Lin Zhan, Siyu Wang, Rui Xiao, Shaoxing Qu, Paul Steinmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02361

A statistical theory for polymer elasticity: from molecular kinematics to continuum behavior
Predicting the macroscopic mechanical behavior of polymeric materials from the micro-structural features has remained a challenge for decades. Existing theoretical models often fail to accurately capture the experimental data, due to non-physical assumptions that link the molecule kinematics with the macroscopic deformation. In this work, we construct a novel Hamiltonian for chain segments enabling a unified statistical description of both individual macromolecular chains and continuum polymer …

We are nothing if we never stop and look at who we've become.

Google rolls out its Veo 3 video generation model to Google's AI Pro subscribers in more than 159 countries, with a cap of three videos per day (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/03/google-rolls-out-its-new-…

Google rolls out its new Veo 3 video-generation model globally | TechCrunch
Google on Thursday said it has begun rolling out its Veo 3 video generation model to Gemini users in more than 159 countries.

Selenskyj: Mit Trump Zusammenarbeit bei Luftverteidigung vereinbart
Der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj hat Details zu seinem Telefonat mit US-Präsident Donald Trump bekanntgegeben. "Wir haben über Möglichkeiten bei der Luftverteidigung gesprochen und vereinbart, dass wir zusammenarbeiten werden, um den Schutz unseres Himmels zu verstärken", schrieb Selenskyj in Online-Netzwerken.
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Telefonat zwischen Trump und Selenskyj, Vassili Golod, ARD Kiew und Torben Börgers, ARD Washington, mit Details
Telefonat zwischen Trump und Selenskyj, Vassili Golod, ARD Kiew und Torben Börgers, ARD Washington, mit Details

Norge trenger verken autoritære ledere eller formelle stater, for ekte frihet og folkestyre vokser fram når arbeiderklassen og lokale fellesskap tar styringen selv gjennom direkte handling og desentralisert selvstyre.
Jeg nekter å la noen herske over meg eller ta beslutninger på mine vegne, fordi makten tilhŸrer arbeiderne og fellesskapet gjennom selvorganisering og solidaritet.
FŸlg @…

What is SSSS?
SSSS stands for
"Secondary Security Screening Selection"
by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
and is displayed on boarding passes as a four-letter code.
The symbol prompts officers to conduct additional security screenings on a passenger.
Travelers can receive an SSSS on their boarding pass for both domestic and international flights to and from the U.S.
Those flagged with the designation have reported their carry-on…

Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social)
Being penalized for political speech is not unique to the Trump administration. When I was a writer for the WhiteHouse.Org website, which mercilessly spoofed the George W. Bush administration, I constantly got "SSSS" written on my boarding passes. My carry-on was placed on the gangway and searched.

Free boundary regularity for a tumor growth model with obstacle
Giulia Bevilacqua, Matteo Carducci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02837 https://

Free boundary regularity for a tumor growth model with obstacle
We develop an existence and regularity theory for solutions to a geometric free boundary problem motivated by models of tumor growth. In this setting, the tumor invades an accessible region $D$, its motion is directed along a constant vector $V$, and it cannot penetrate another region $K$ acting as an obstacle to the spread of the tumor. Due to the non variational structure of the problem, we show existence of viscosity solutions via Perron's method. Subsequently, we prove interior regularity f…

"Ban on disposable vapes enters force in the UK"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Vapes

De-AntiFake: Rethinking the Protective Perturbations Against Voice Cloning Attacks
Wei Fan, Kejiang Chen, Chang Liu, Weiming Zhang, Nenghai Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02606

De-AntiFake: Rethinking the Protective Perturbations Against Voice Cloning Attacks
The rapid advancement of speech generation models has heightened privacy and security concerns related to voice cloning (VC). Recent studies have investigated disrupting unauthorized voice cloning by introducing adversarial perturbations. However, determined attackers can mitigate these protective perturbations and successfully execute VC. In this study, we conduct the first systematic evaluation of these protective perturbations against VC under realistic threat models that include perturbatio…

Siemens says it has restored full access to its chip design software for its Chinese clients after the Trump admin lifted export curbs, initially imposed in May (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.05820 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_grqc_…

Thermodynamic phase description of charged 4D Gauss-Bonnet black holes in quantum regime
Glavan and Lin [Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 081301 (2020)] ave argued for a 4D theory of Gauss-Bonnet (GB)gravity. This model predicts significant contributions of the GB coupling parameter $α$ to gravitational dynamics, while circumventing the Lovelock theorem and avoiding Ostrogradsky instability. As a powerful competitor to general relativity (GR), the model has been examined on various phenomenological grounds. Here, we employ a technique from information geometry to analyze the thermodynamic ph…

Die Prognose für Patienten mit anhaltenden Defiziten ist typischerweise desolat.

Solarproduzent Meyer Burger stellt Insolvenzantrag
Der Schweizer Solarhersteller Meyer Burger zieht bei seinen drei deutschen Töchtern die Notbremse. Zwei Standorte in Deutschland sind direkt betroffen.
https:…

@… “security”

OpenTRV Archive Material and Sources - Archival collection of OpenTRV history, events, links, discussion, and related material. #OpenTRV #heating #cutCarbon -

Ukrainian forces hit Russian command post in occupied Donetsk Oblast, General Staff says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/ukrainian-forces-hit-russian-command.html

What, exactly, are we celebrating tomorrow?
Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?
Our new concentration camps?
Our dying economy?
Our ditching due process?
Our corruption?
Our broken legislature?
Our corrupt SCOTUS?
Our ridiculous buffoon president?
#FourthOfJuly
-- Mrs Betty Bowers

Trump's Task as He Heads to Iowa: Selling His Bill to the American Public (Tyler Pager/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/us/politics/trump-policy-bill.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p44#a250703p44

On the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations with horizontal viscosity
Chongsheng Cao, Yanqiu Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02775 https://

On the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations with horizontal viscosity
This paper is concerned with a 2D channel flow that is periodic horizontally but bounded above and below by hard walls. We assume the presence of horizontal viscosity only. We study the well-posedness, large-time behavior, and stability of solutions. For global well-posedness, we aim to assume less differentiability on initial velocity $(u_0, v_0)$: in particular, we assume $u_0,v_0\in L^2(Ω)$ and $\partial_y u_0 \in L^2(Ω)$.

Xbox says Arrowhead's Helldivers 2 will arrive on the Xbox Series X and S on August 26 for $40, the first PlayStation-published title to launch on Xbox (Cameron Faulkner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/697430/helldivers-2-xbox…

Helldivers 2 is the first PlayStation-published Xbox game
The first PlayStation-published game is arriving on Xbox on August 26th. Helldivers 2 will bring cross play and all of the hilarity we know and love.

Analyzing and Improving Speaker Similarity Assessment for Speech Synthesis
Marc-Andr\'e Carbonneau, Benjamin van Niekerk, Hugo Seut\'e, Jean-Philippe Letendre, Herman Kamper, Julian Za\"idi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02176

Analyzing and Improving Speaker Similarity Assessment for Speech Synthesis
Modeling voice identity is challenging due to its multifaceted nature. In generative speech systems, identity is often assessed using automatic speaker verification (ASV) embeddings, designed for discrimination rather than characterizing identity. This paper investigates which aspects of a voice are captured in such representations. We find that widely used ASV embeddings focus mainly on static features like timbre and pitch range, while neglecting dynamic elements such as rhythm. We also ident…

What sickens me is that he always gets what he wants.
He wanted a big wasteful parade and got one.
He wanted to pave over the Rose Garden: done.
Build tent cities to detain immigrants; done in a week.
Add a couple trillion to the debt; done.
We are being bulldozed flatter than that rose garden.
-- Donna Hook

Ukraine strikes Russian rear! Crimea is on fire, and allies invest in drones | News Pulse: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/ukraine-strikes-russian-rear-crimea.html

Traveling Wave Solutions to a Large Class of Brenner-Navier-Stokes-Fourier Systems
Saehoon Eo, Namhyun Eun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02224 https://…

Traveling Wave Solutions to a Large Class of Brenner-Navier-Stokes-Fourier Systems
The Brenner-Navier-Stokes-Fourier (BNSF) system, introduced by Howard Brenner, was developed to address some deficiencies in the classical Navier-Stokes-Fourier system, based on the concept of volume velocity. We consider the one-dimensional BNSF system in Lagrangian mass coordinates, incorporating temperature-dependent transport coefficients, which yields a more physically realistic framework. We establish the existence and uniqueness of monotone traveling wave solutions (or viscous shocks) to…

Elon Musk Hired a Dozen Texas Lobbyists This Year. State Law Keeps the Extent of Their Influence Under Wraps. (Lauren McGaughy/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-texas-lobbyists-influence-law
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p45#a250703p45

It's really telling how much of the conversation around AI boils down to,
"Is there any value in humans being able to think?"
Which all too quickly reduces to
"Is there any value in humans” ?
https://bsky.app/profile/kevinriggle.b

Tools for stability analysis of fractional reaction diffusion systems
Sofwah Ahmad, Szymon Cygan, Grzegorz Karch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02094 https://

Tools for stability analysis of fractional reaction diffusion systems
The linearization principle states that the stability (or instability) of solutions to a suitable linearization of a nonlinear problem implies the stability (or instability) of solutions to the original nonlinear problem. In this work, we prove this principle for solutions of abstract fractional reaction-diffusion equations with a fractional derivative in time of order $α\in (0,1)$. Then, we apply these results to particular fractional reaction-diffusion equations, obtaining, for example, the …

Neuralink raised a $650M Series E from ARK Invest, Founders Fund, G42, Human Capital, Sequoia, Thrive, and others; it was reportedly valued at ~$9B pre-money (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/02/elon-musks-neuralink-closes-a-65…

Elon Musk's Neuralink closes a $650M Series E | TechCrunch
Elon Musk's brain chip implant startup Neuralink raised a $650 million Series E funding round, the company announced.

Azerbaijan-Russia tensions escalate as Baku accuses Moscow of intentional killing of its citizens: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/azerbaijanrussia-tensions-escalate-as-baku.html

I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing:
"if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?"
Did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?
https://bsky.app/prof…

Figma files for an IPO, plans to trade on the NYSE under FIG, and reports Q1 revenue increased 46% YoY to $228.2M and net income grew from $13.5M to $44.9M YoY (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/figma-fig-files-for-ipo-as-tec…

Figma files for NYSE debut as tech IPO market gains steam
Figma filed its IPO prospectus on Tuesday, as the design software vendor looks to raise money and awareness to take on Adobe.

I think it's really underappreciated that solar panels are now about as cheap per unit area as mass-produced building materials like wood, siding, shingles/shakes, etc.
The Republican reconciliation bill aims to make solar expensive again in the US through tariffs and taxes.
https://bsky…

I’m going to be very honest and clear.
I am fully preparing myself to die under this new American regime.
That’s not to say that it’s the end of the world. It isn’t.
But I am almost 50 years old. It will take so long to do anything with this mess that this is the new normal for *me*.
I do hope a lot of you run. I hope you vote, sure.
Maybe do a general strike or rent strike.
All great!
But I spent the last week reading things and this is not, for ME…

Rep Jared Moskowitz:
There's a little bit of waste here
$42000 Bonus for each ICE employee
https://bsky.app/profile/jdtrumputinmusk.bsky.social/post/3lt3bftqo7c2q

ICE now has a bigger budget that the Russian military.
And Russia is in the middle of an invasion of another country.
https://bsky.app/profile/cjbush88.bsky.social/post/3lt3fybbfs224

AOC:
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase.
It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play.
And people are disappearing.