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“Simply, there is no way to be cool,” [Pissed Jeans singer] Korvette concludes, “especially when you’ve hit a sixth album. We’re clearly not new; we’re old, we don’t care. It feels cool to not want to be cool. It’s the best. It’s the beauty of not feeling inclined to impress anyone, no need to show that you deserve anything, that you are punk or edgy. It’s embarrassing to try too hard. We're more comfortable in our own skin.”

Pissed Jeans Don’t Try Too Hard and Do Music For Fun | Feature Interview — POST-TRASH
During our 33-minute conversation, Matt Korvette, the 42-year-old vocalist of Pissed Jeans, says “fun” eleven times and “fan” six times. The Sub Pop mainstays out of Philadelphia dropped their sixth album, Half Divorced , and Korvette has it on repeat. Approaching two decades as a band, Pissed Jean

Ferroelectrically tunable topological phase transition in In$_2$Se$_3$ thin films
Zhiqiang Tian, Ziming Zhu, Jiang Zeng, Chao-Fei Liu, Yurong Yang, Anlian Pan, Mingxing Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18274

Ferroelectrically tunable topological phase transition in In$_2$Se$_3$ thin films
Materials with ferroelectrically switchable topological properties are of interest for both fundamental physics and practical applications. Using first-principles calculations, we find that stacking ferroelectric $α$-In$_2$Se$_3$ monolayers into a bilayer leads to polarization-dependent band structures, which yields polarization-dependent topological properties. Specifically, we find that the states with interlayer ferroelectric couplings are quantum spin Hall insulators, while those with anti…

“Chancellor Diermeier met our students not with dialogue but with security guards. And now the university has responded to a time-honored protest tactic, the sit-in, with punishment and expulsion,” Bjork-James said. “Our students stood up during a moral crisis, and we are failing them.”

Three students expelled following Student Accountability hearings, faculty criticize university response - The Vanderbilt Hustler
Outcomes of the preliminary hearings for the 27 suspended students include three expulsions, one suspension and over 20 disciplinary probations, according to the Vanderbilt Divest Coalition.

Legendrian loops and cluster modular groups
James Hughes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12951 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.12951

Legendrian loops and cluster modular groups
This work studies Legendrian loop actions on exact Lagrangian fillings of Legendrian links in $(\R^3, ξ_{\st})$. By identifying the induced action of Legendrian loops as generators of cluster modular groups, we establish the existence of faithful group actions on the exact Lagrangian fillings of several families of Legendrian positive braid closures, including all positive torus links. In addition, we leverage a Nielsen-Thurston-like classification of cluster automorphisms to provide new combi…

Realizing topological quantum magnets with atomic spins on surfaces
Hao Wang, Peng Fan, Jing Chen, Lili Jiang, Hong-Jun Gao, Jose L. Lado, Kai Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14145

Realizing topological quantum magnets with atomic spins on surfaces
Artificial quantum systems have emerged as indispensable platforms to realize exotic topological matter in a well-controlled manner. Here, we demonstrate topological quantum Heisenberg spin lattices, engineered with spin chains and two-dimensional spin arrays using spin 1/2 atoms on insulating films in a scanning tunnelling microscope (STM). We engineered with atomic precision both topological and trivial phases of the quantum spin model, realizing first- and second-order topological quantum ma…

Amenable graphs and the spectral radius of extensions of Markov maps
Johannes Jaerisch, Elaine Rocha, Manuel Stadlbauer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08270 ht…

Amenable graphs and the spectral radius of extensions of Markov maps
We discuss relations between the amenability of a graph and spectral properties of a random walk driven by a dynamical system. In order to include graphs which are not locally compact, we introduce the concept of amenability of weighted graphs, which generalises the usual notion as the new definition is shown to be equivalent to Foelner's condition. As a first result, we obtain the following generalisation of Kesten's amenability criterion to graphs and non-independent increments: If the random…