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Utah Senator Mitt Romney revealed the motivation for the bipartisan consensus to ban TikTok, and it has little to do with protecting users’ data.
Speaking at the McCain Institute on Friday alongside Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Romney lamented Israel’s inability to control the flow of information out of and about Gaza, despite its best efforts to restrict press access.

Mitt Romney Reveals Twisted Reason Why Congress Moved to Ban TikTok
It’s not about national security, after all.

Wieder eine weirde Mischung aus ständig das gleiche Lied in Dauerschleife zu hören um den Fokus für die Arbeit zu halten. Wie oft habt ihr so diesen Impuls Lieder in Dauerschleife zu hören? #adhs

Republican “leaders” at all levels recognized in 2016 the danger Trump represented,
and yet, fearing his and his followers’ vitriol,
mostly kept mum rather than form a united, vocal front against his nomination.
Traditional Republicans who joined the Trump administration naively rationalized that they’d be good influences on the erratic president,
only to learn who was boss.
Trump critics turned into sycophants (here’s looking at you, Lindsey Graham), even aft…

Opinion: Trump inspires yet another profile in cowardice
One after another, American institutions have spinelessly bowed to Trump's power. The latest GOP invertebrates run a foundation meant to honor President Gerald R. Ford.

The Sora announcement by OpenAI is kinda frightening/exciting and Marques does a really good job discussing the implications of this new technology.
https://youtu.be/NXpdyAWLDas
What's not discussed as much as well is the huge amounts of water and electricity that is required to run thi…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05908 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Transition dynamics in the $Λ_{\rm s}$CDM model: Implications for bound cosmic structures
We explore the predictions of $Λ_{\rm s}$CDM, a novel framework suggesting a rapid anti-de Sitter (AdS) to de Sitter (dS) vacua transition in the late Universe, on bound cosmic structures. In its simplest version, the cosmological constant, $Λ_{\rm s}$, abruptly switches sign from negative to positive, attaining its present-day value at a redshift of ${z_\dagger\sim 2}$. The $Λ_{\rm s}$CDM model emerges as a promising solution to major cosmological tensions, particularly the $H_0$ and $S_8$ …

"I was able to run the software on the first try, just by following the instructions (on MacOS). That doesn't happen often, especially with really complex software, and *especially* if Python is involved"
i know it's my efforts that are being praised, but still i can't help but feel sad
"i can install the application and it runs" is just about the lowest bar you can have. the bar of downloading random installers to run on your windows xp machine, b…

„Frühling liegt in der Luft“, meint Petersen, Chefkapitalmarktstrategin für den deutschsprachigen Raum beim Blackrock Investment Institute."
Die Felle des Mittelstands werden verteilt.
Schon komisch, dass die Börse boomt und ebenso rechtsextreme Positionen, Demokratie und demokratische Werte jedoch angegriffen werden, der Staat in eine Dauerkrise geredet wird - #CDU

Aktienkurse auf Allzeithochs: Warum die Börse wirklich boomt
Rekordjagd an der Börse – weil die Inflation sinkt und die Zinsen folgen werden? Das hat etwas damit zu tun. Es ist aber eher die nachgeschobene Begründung.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06174 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qu…

A quantum information theoretic analysis of reinforcement learning-assisted quantum architecture search
In the field of quantum computing, variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) represent a pivotal category of quantum solutions across a broad spectrum of applications. These algorithms demonstrate significant potential for realising quantum computational advantage. A fundamental aspect of VQAs involves formulating expressive and efficient quantum circuits (namely ansatz) and automating the search of such ansatz is known as quantum architecture search (QAS). RL-QAS involves optimising QAS using rein…

Bereite für Geschichtstheorie ein Impulsreferat über die "Elemente des Antisemitismus" von Adorno und Horkheimer vor.
Das Kapitel finde ich — aus vielen Gründen — etwas angestaubt und viele Aussagen, die in den naturwissenschaftlichen Bereich gehören ... sagen wir, schwierig.
Aber manche Beobachtungen treffen den Punkt.
Wie diese:
"Die Wut entlädt sich auf den, der auffällt ohne Schutz."

Time-resolved investigations of a glow mode impulse dielectric barrier discharge in pure ammonia gas by means of E-FISH diagnostic
Ronny Jean-Marie-Desiree (IJL), Aymane Najah (IJL), C\'edric No\"el (IJL), Ludovic de Poucques (IJL), Stephane Cuynet (IJL)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08276

Time-resolved investigations of a glow mode impulse dielectric barrier discharge in pure ammonia gas by means of E-FISH diagnostic
Time-resolved electric field strength measurements have been performed, using an electric-field induced second harmonic (E-FISH) diagnostic, in a nanosecond glow discharge of an impulse dielectric barrier discharge (iDBD), in an ammonia gas environment. A temporal resolution of 2 ns and a spatial resolution estimated at 70 $μ$m (given by laser waist) have been achieved. The comparative study of E-FISH measurements with and without a plasma discharge, operated at 4 kHz, reveal the presence of a…