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Epidemic risk perception and social interactions lead to awareness cascades on multiplex networks
Tim Van Wesemael, Luis E. C. Rocha, Jan M. Baetens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16466

Epidemic risk perception and social interactions lead to awareness cascades on multiplex networks
The course of an epidemic is not only shaped by infection transmission over face-to-face contacts, but also by preventive behaviour caused by risk perception and social interactions. This study explores the dynamics of coupled awareness and biological infection spread within a two-layer multiplex network framework. One layer embodies face-to-face contacts, with a biological infection transmission following a simple contagion model, the SIR process. Awareness, modelled by the linear threshold mo…

German defense minister: Russia already produces surplus military equipment: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/25/german-defense-minister.html

U.S. Republicans, following orders from ex-President Donald Trump, are blocking arms deliveries to Ukraine, subjecting troops to “ammo starvation” with immediate, deleterious effects on the battlefield.
After taking Bakhmut and Avdiivka, Russian troops are now trying to press their advantage in the directions of Marinka, Robotyne and Kreminna, according to battlefield observers.
European leaders, despite having become Ukraine’s chief material backers, are failing to fill the ga…

Why the West is losing Ukraine
U.S. Republicans blocking aid. European right-wingers pushing to abandon Kyiv. Ultra-cautious leaders. What is the West’s real strategy?

Filing: Samsung sold 1.58M ASML shares, or 0.4% of ASML, worth ~$930M in September 2023, reducing its stake to zero, as Samsung looks to new areas of chipmaking (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024…

Samsung Sells Down Entire ASML Stake to Expand in New Arenas
Samsung Electronics Co. sold its entire remaining stake in ASML Holding NV in the December quarter as part of its push to expand into new areas of chipmaking.

Arthur packets for pure real forms of symplectic and special orthogonal groups
Nicolas Arancibia Robert, Paul Mezo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16748 https:/…

Arthur packets for pure real forms of symplectic and special orthogonal groups
Arthur packets have been defined for pure real forms of symplectic and special orthogonal groups following two different approaches. The first approach, due to Arthur, Moeglin and Renard uses harmonic analysis. The second approach, due to Adams, Barbasch and Vogan uses microlocal geometry. We prove that the two approaches produce essentially equivalent Arthur packets. This extends previous work of the authors and J. Adams for the quasisplit real forms.

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The great reorganization of Germany in 1803, the last act of the Holy Roman Empire before its abolition, is often seen as the traumatic result of Napoleon's overwhelming defeat of various German armies and his gobbling-up of the Rhine. But the damage had in many ways been done much earlier with the partitions of Poland [and Lithuania]. Looked at now, these seem pieces of insanity. It had been clear, if surprising, since the early eighteenth century and the victories of Peter the Great that Russia was to be as big a factor in European politics as Britain (both countries flanking Europe and, in their different ways, impervious to normal attack). It should have been in everyone's interest to keep Poland as a cheerful, thriving buffer, but instead, for careless, short-term reasons the Prussians, Austrians and Russians carved Poland into non-existence. Aside from the rights of the Poles to an ancient and, for centuries, highly successful state, this international piracy meant that Germans and Russians now shared a border — an issue that was to define international politics until Soviet tanks arrived in Berlin in 1945. […]
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(Simon Winder, Germania)

I know you're going to find this hard to believe, but Saudi Arabia says "The world should give up on the idea of phasing out oil and gas" and that "the current energy transition strategy is failing" https://www.cnbc.com…

49ers plan to release Arik Armstead after failing to work out restructured contract: Reports https://theathletic.com/5331541/2024/03/10/49ers-arik-armstead-release-free-agency/

49ers plan to release Arik Armstead after failing to work out restructured contract: Reports
Armstead, 30, and the 49ers came close to a deal, but he is now expected to become a free agent, per ESPN.

Reports: Commanders to sign DE Dorance Armstrong, C Tyler Biadasz https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/reports_commanders_to_sign_de_dorance_armstrong_c_tyler_biadasz/s1_17049_40091527

Reports: Commanders to sign DE Dorance Armstrong, C Tyler Biadasz
Center Tyler Biadasz and defensive end Dorance Armstrong agreed to join the Washington Commanders, following new head coach Dan Quinn from Dallas, according to reports. Biadasz, 26, started 53 games in four seasons with the Cowboys since entering the NFL in 2020 as a fourth-round pick out of Wisconsin. Armstrong, 26, had a breakout season in 2023, finishing second to Micah Parsons with 7.5 sacks in the regular season, with Quinn running the Cowboys' defense. Armstrong has 23.5 sacks and 14 star…

About life and feelings, gloomy and private
The feelings we get from the activities we do could be classified as neutral, positive and negative.
Let's take developing #Gentoo as an example. It's something that makes me happy — but you can't (or at least I can't) just get the happiness and reject everything else. Most of the Gentoo work is basically neutral, even bland — a duty that takes a lot of time and effort, and probably a little of your health. It's statistically probable that you're going to get some positive feelings out of it — the joy of success, satisfaction, appreciation, awareness that you've done something good. But you also get negative feelings — from failures, frustration, negative interactions.
My hiking trips are like that too. My family believes that "I do it for pleasure" — but it's a harmful oversimplification and it only tells me that they even aren't trying to understand me. In fact, it's mostly a necessity, a way of solving specific problems that works for me — halting diabetes-related problems, coping with emotions. Of course there's a positive side to it — good mood, energy to survive another day, something the joy of visiting a new place, seeing something beautiful, finding a solution to a vexatious problem, positive interactions with people. But there are also negative feelings — anger and sadness from failure, stress from problems, negative contacts with people. Sometimes you end up slowly charging your social battery for a whole week, just to have one person destroy it all.
If you think about it, life's something like that. It's mostly a bland effort to survive every following day, sometimes interspersed with positive or negative moments.
#ActuallyAutistic