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"Swiss River Cleanup Sets a Global Example"
#Switzerland #Environment
https://happyeconews.com/swiss-river-c

Swiss River Cleanup Sets a Global Example | Happy Eco News
The Swiss river cleanup turned once-polluted waters into safe, swimmable spaces through strict laws, modern sewage systems, and major investments. Today, Swiss cities enjoy crystal-clear rivers, setting a global example. Their continued efforts to remove micropollutants show how clean water benefits public health, community well-being, and the environment.

Refract ICL: Rethinking Example Selection in the Era of Million-Token Models
Arjun R. Akula, Kazuma Hashimoto, Krishna Srinivasan, Aditi Chaudhary, Karthik Raman, Michael Bendersky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12346

Refract ICL: Rethinking Example Selection in the Era of Million-Token Models
The emergence of long-context large language models (LLMs) has enabled the use of hundreds, or even thousands, of demonstrations for in-context learning (ICL) - a previously impractical regime. This paper investigates whether traditional ICL selection strategies, which balance the similarity of ICL examples to the test input (using a text retriever) with diversity within the ICL set, remain effective when utilizing a large number of demonstrations. Our experiments demonstrate that, while longer…

Somehow I got myself on this mailing list, every month or 3 they send a list of used printing equipment in Europe. I actually enjoy glancing at it, definitely a Heavy Metal vibe, for example this thing, made in 2011, has printed 137M impressions, and can be yours for a mere 420,000€. Free shipping probably not available.

Space Cybersecurity Testbed: Fidelity Framework, Example Implementation, and Characterization
Jose Luis Castanon Remy, Caleb Chang, Ekzhin Ear, Shouhuai Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11763

Space Cybersecurity Testbed: Fidelity Framework, Example Implementation, and Characterization
Cyber threats against space infrastructures, including satellites and systems on the ground, have not been adequately understood. Testbeds are important to deepen our understanding and validate space cybersecurity studies. The state of the art is that there are very few studies on building testbeds, and there are few characterizations of testbeds. In this paper, we propose a framework for characterizing the fidelity of space cybersecurity testbeds. The framework includes 7 attributes for charac…

In the ISE2025 lecture today, our students learned about unsupervised learning on the example of k-Means clustering. One nice hands-on example is image colour reduction based on k-means clustering, as demonstrated in a colab notebook (based on the Python DataScience Handbook by Vanderplus)
colab notebook: https://…

Source: OpenAI is preparing ChatGPT agents to let users create files compatible with PowerPoint and Excel, generate reports, and handle tasks involving websites (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI Preps ChatGPT Agents in Challenge to Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
As OpenAI tries to turn ChatGPT into a core application for white-collar work, it’s developing agent features that could make its customers less dependent on productivity apps from Microsoft. In the latest example, OpenAI has developed features that let ChatGPT customers quickly create and edit ...

Trump and his allies wasted little time in branding the people protesting against immigration enforcement raids in Los Angeles as “insurrectionists”.
Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff for policy
– particularly the vindictive kind
– spoke darkly of a “violent insurrection”.
JD Vance, the vice-president, inveighed against “insurrectionists carrying foreign flags” on the streets of the nation’s second-biggest city.
It didn’t escape notice that …

Added a customizable 2D vector field plot function for #ThingUmbrella

Declarative, functional & multi-format data visualization toolkit based around @thi.ng/hiccup

To add a single example here (feel free to chime in with your own):
Problem: editing code is sometimes tedious because external APIs require boilerplate.
Solutions:
- Use LLM-generated code. Downsides: energy use, code theft, potential for legal liability, makes mistakes, etc. Upsides: popular among some peers, seems easy to use.
- Pick a better library (not always possible).
- Build internal functions to centralize boilerplate code, then use those (benefits: you get a better understanding of the external API, and a more-unit-testable internal code surface; probably less amortized effort).
- Develop a non-LLM system that actually reasons about code at something like the formal semantics level and suggests boilerplate fill-ins based on rules, while foregrounding which rules it's applying so you can see the logic behind the suggestions (needs research).
Obviously LLM use in coding goes beyond this single issue, but there are similar analyses for each potential use of LLMs in coding. I'm all cases there are:
1. Existing practical solutions that require more effort (or in many cases just seem to but are less-effort when amortized).
2. Near-term researchable solutions that directly address the problem and which would be much more desirable in the long term.
Thus in addition to disastrous LLM effects on the climate, on data laborers, and on the digital commons, they tend to suck us into cheap-seeming but ultimately costly design practices while also crowding out better long-term solutions. Next time someone suggests how useful LLMs are for some task, try asking yourself (or them) what an ideal solution for that task would look like, and whether LLM use moves us closer to or father from a world in which that solution exists.

Note for myself: Franck Bedrossian makes rather rare #horror #music (#modernism).
Example: The "Don Quixote" concerto.

Beyond standard model particles in the atmospheric flux: a long-lived stau example
Atri Bhattacharya, Mary Hall Reno, Ina Sarcevic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10745

Beyond standard model particles in the atmospheric flux: a long-lived stau example
We discuss fluxes of long-lived supersymmetric (SUSY) particles produced in the atmosphere from ultra-high energy cosmic-ray interactions with air nuclei. We consider long-lived particle production which proceeds first via the on-shell formation of heavier particles in the SUSY spectrum and then their decays. Specifically, we focus on the production of stau pairs from the decays of squarks produced in the initial cosmic ray-air collision under the purview of gauge-mediated symmetry breaking mod…

from my link log —
Get the location of the ISS using DNS.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/get-the-location-of-the-iss-using-dns/
saved 2025-07-06

Get the location of the ISS using DNS
I love DNS esoterica. Weird little things that you can shove in the global directory to be distributed around the world instantly(ish). Domain names, like www.example.com usually resolve to servers. As much as we think of "the cloud" as being some intangible morass of ethereal Turing-machines floating in probability space, the more prosaic reality is that they're just boxen in data centres. They …

I like to complain about mean, petty, and just generally awful colleagues as much as anyone in #academia. But most people around here are alright. Some are even great. Today's example: a junior colleague at a different university asked to see something relatively minor, but still meaningful that I and a senior colleague had put together for internal purposes. When I asked the older guy if it was OK …

CVE-2011-10007 was actually published on
2025-06-05.
🔗 Vulnerability details https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/CVE-2011-10007
🔗 Details

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My single favorite photo of No Kings Los Angeles. I often park here near City Hall Main.
The LA Mall is often hailed as an example of City government failure. I like to think this photo represents Los Angelenos unity & love.
When you attack one of us, you attack all of us. One City. #NoKings

I wonder if I ever shared #photos from my #FrozenMajesties Collection - or at least it is a while since I last shared them.
Anyways, I took it during a winter hike in the #Karwendel and r…

Has anyone provided helper functions with and for one of their :nixos: #NixOS modules? 🤔
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/providing-helper-functions-in-and…

Providing helper functions in and for a module
Some (of my) module options would benefit greatly from helper functions for defining option values. An example would be populating services.jupyterub.kernels, which can get quite verbose if you include things like wrapping in an FHS env or custom virtualenv management. Sure, types.submodule exists, but such a submodule is rather suitable for perfectly similar structures with just different values. Instead, something like this would be helpful: { pkgs, config, lib, ... }: { services.jupyterhu…

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Plankton is fundamental to the functioning of aquatic #ecosystems. An example was seen in the 2013 deaths of #Florida bottlenose dolphins. Dense harmful phytoplankton

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#ShamelesslyStolenFromBlueSky

"It is also interesting to note that James McCartney, the original developer of #SuperCollider, was specifically inspired by Braxton’s #LanguageMusic system as an example of functional and modular musical vocabulary."
▶︎ Trio (Wesleyan) 2005 | #AnthonyBraxton
https://newbraxtonhouse.bandcamp.com/album/trio-wesleyan-2005

Spiffy! CPython bytecode is now viewable in @… !
https://discuss.python.org/t/python-bytecode-cfg-added-to-com…

Python bytecode CFG added to compiler-explorer
Hi We just added control-flow-graph support to compiler-explorer: Hopefully it is useful to you guys. Please report any problems you find - and maybe even further enhancement suggestions! Toy example: Compiler Explorer Thanks, -Ofek

Andor.
Film noir plus some action in a rich environment. (But still very Disney., annoying companion droids for example.)
It's "Luck makes the galaxy turn, right?" instead of "Remember, the force will be with you, always."

STEP 3: make use of it
for example, with #claudecode: create a new command:
.claude/commands/jetbrains-fix-errors.md
and use this prompt: https://gist.github.com/michabbb/e9335…

🛖 How Norway Is Proving That Homelessness Is a Solvable Problem
#norway

How Norway Is Proving That Homelessness Is a Solvable Problem
The Scandinavian nation has significantly reduced the number of people experiencing homelessness. What could other countries learn from its example?

SEQ-GPT: LLM-assisted Spatial Query via Example
Ivan Khai Ze Lim, Ningyi Liao, Yiming Yang, Gerald Wei Yong Yip, Siqiang Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10486 https://

SEQ-GPT: LLM-assisted Spatial Query via Example
Contemporary spatial services such as online maps predominantly rely on user queries for location searches. However, the user experience is limited when performing complex tasks, such as searching for a group of locations simultaneously. In this study, we examine the extended scenario known as Spatial Exemplar Query (SEQ), where multiple relevant locations are jointly searched based on user-specified examples. We introduce SEQ-GPT, a spatial query system powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) …

Ah yes, nearly 2am and have finally got audio working on the new T480. Was it too much to ask that when you plug a headphone cable in, the sound gets routed to them? Apparently so!
On the other hand, I've got a new example of the old "Don't give me that stony-faced glare, I'm a user too" cartoon.
I present:

NOCTA: Non-Greedy Objective Cost-Tradeoff Acquisition for Longitudinal Data
Dzung Dinh, Boqi Chen, Marc Niethammer, Junier Oliva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12412

NOCTA: Non-Greedy Objective Cost-Tradeoff Acquisition for Longitudinal Data
In many critical applications, resource constraints limit the amount of information that can be gathered to make predictions. For example, in healthcare, patient data often spans diverse features ranging from lab tests to imaging studies. Each feature may carry different information and must be acquired at a respective cost of time, money, or risk to the patient. Moreover, temporal prediction tasks, where both instance features and labels evolve over time, introduce additional complexity in dec…

@… agiert anti-zionistisch, dennoch verlinke ich einen Post, der die laufende autoritäre Entwicklung in den #USA illustrieren mag:

Δρομογράφος (@dromografos)
She runs a large anti-#ICE TikTok account—now agents caught on livestream targeting her in violent arrest. Agents drag her out of Tesla & throw her on ground where she lay unresponsive—then rushed by ambulance to hospital. She is well-known to ICE as community activist who films raids in Los Angeles, California—it seems she has been targeted for an especially brutal arrest to make an example out of her. Watch her livestream from inside the car during the arrest. (timestamp 0:34) There…

Interpreting quantum reference frame transformations through a simple example
Esteban Castro-Ruiz, Thomas D. Galley, Leon Loveridge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09540 https://

Interpreting quantum reference frame transformations through a simple example
Quantum reference frame transformations have been proposed to provide a means by which to translate descriptions of quantum systems relative to each other. At present, there are several differing frameworks for describing quantum reference frames, with concomitantly different transformation rules. Here, we investigate a simple example of three qubit systems with $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry in order to analyze physical and conceptual distinctions between three contemporary approaches to quantum refe…

To go back to my previous post, for a plant-based diet to be attractive, we need to help people choose plant based alternatives to meat for more or less all occasions. So meat is no longer the default
That's what we need good chefs for: to help turn traditional foods into vegetarian/vegan alternatives that are tasty and easy to prepare.
Most traditional dishes are surprisingly modern. Our tastes can easily be changed...
As an example, in France, the markets are laden with charcuterie and cheese, BUT ALSO, beautiful fresh fruits and vegetables - a nudge towards the latter would improve human health, animal welfare and reduce emissions...
#PlantBased food.
This site however is outstanding making french cuisine vegan
https://menu-vegetarien.com/

A Task Taxonomy for Conformance Checking
Jana-Rebecca Rehse, Michael Grohs, Finn Klessascheck, Lisa-Marie Klein, Tatiana von Landesberger, Luise Pufahl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11976

A Task Taxonomy for Conformance Checking
Conformance checking is a sub-discipline of process mining, which compares observed process traces with a process model to analyze whether the process execution conforms with or deviates from the process design. Organizations can leverage this analysis, for example to check whether their processes comply with internal or external regulations or to identify potential improvements. Gaining these insights requires suitable visualizations, which make complex results accessible and actionable. So fa…

I agree entirely with Rich.
BUT: there is a sound basis for not implementing mail functionality in systems that do not absolutely demand it. https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/114688068144011594

Density of solutions for systems of forms
Amichai Lampert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11514 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.11514

Density of solutions for systems of forms
Let $K$ be a field of characteristic zero over which every diagonal form in sufficiently many variables admits a nontrivial solution. For example, $K$ may be a totally imaginary number field or a finite extension of a $p$-adic field. Suppose $f_1,\ldots,f_s$ are forms of degree $d$ over $K.$ Bik, Draisma and Snowden recently proved that there exists a constant $B = B(d,s,K)$ such that the rational solutions to the system of equations $f_1=\ldots=f_s = 0$ are Zariski dense, as long as the Birch …

Powers of 2 in High-Dimensional Lattice Walks
Nikolai Beluhov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12789 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.12789

Powers of 2 in High-Dimensional Lattice Walks
Let $W_d(n)$ be the number of $2n$-step walks in $\mathbb{Z}^d$ which begin and end at the origin. We study the exponent of $2$ in the prime factorisation of this number; i.e., $w_d(n) = ν_2(W_d(n))$. We show that, for each $d$, there is a relationship between $w_d(n)$ and the number $s_2(n)$ of $1$s in the binary expansion of $n$. For example, $w_d(n) = s_2(n)$ if $d$ is odd and $w_d(n) = 2s_2(n)$ if $ν_2(d) = 1$; while $w_d(n) \ge 3s_2(n)$ if $ν_2(d) = 2$. The pattern changes further when …

Distributed Algorithms for Potential Problems
Alkida Balliu, Thomas Boudier, Francesco d'Amore, Dennis Olivetti, Gustav Schmid, Jukka Suomela
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12038 …

Distributed Algorithms for Potential Problems
In this work we present a fast distributed algorithm for local potential problems: these are graph problems where the task is to find a locally optimal solution where no node can unilaterally improve the utility in its local neighborhood by changing its own label. A simple example of such a problem is the task of finding a locally optimal cut, i.e., a cut where for each node at least half of its incident edges are cut edges. The distributed round complexity of locally optimal cut has been wide …

Trigonal Curve with Trigonal Deformation of Maximal Rank
Jiacheng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11450 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.1…

Trigonal Curve with Trigonal Deformation of Maximal Rank
By extending methods of Favale-Pirola arXiv:2108.02157 and González-Alonso-Torelli arXiv:2402.15158 to toric surfaces via toric Jacobian ring, we are able to show there exists trigonal curve with trigonal deformation of rank $g$ for $g=5,7,9,11,13,15$ by giving an explicit example. Also, we give a computable criterion to determine whether a nondegenerate ample section of toric surface has first order deformation of rank $g$ within the linear system.

Eccentricity, extendable choice and descending distributive forcing
Calliope Ryan-Smith
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11607 https://arxi…

Eccentricity, extendable choice and descending distributive forcing
We introduce the forcing property of descending distributivity. A forcing $\mathbb{P}$ is $κ$-descending distributive if for all decreasing sequences $(D_α)_{α<κ}$ of open dense sets, $\bigcap_αD_α$ is open dense. This generalises the informal idea that $\mathbb{P}$ doesn't affect much on the scale of $κ$, such as if $\mathbb{P}$ is $κ$-distributive or if $κ> \lvert \mathbb{P} \rvert$. For example, a $κ$-descending distributive forcing will not change the cofinality of $κ$ or introdu…

A relation between k-symplectic and k-contact Hamiltonian systems
S. Vilari\~no
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11873 https://arxiv.org/pd…

A relation between k-symplectic and k-contact Hamiltonian systems
Systems of partial differential equations which appear in classical field theories can be studied geometrically using different geometrical structures, for example, k-symplectic geometry, k-cosymplectic geometry, multisymplectic geometry, etc. In recent years, there has been a notable increase in the study of k-contact Hamiltonian systems. These are based on the description of the dynamics of field theories using the so-called k-contact manifolds. Such structures are generalizations of contact …

crossMoDA Challenge: Evolution of Cross-Modality Domain Adaptation Techniques for Vestibular Schwannoma and Cochlea Segmentation from 2021 to 2023
Navodini Wijethilake, Reuben Dorent, Marina Ivory, Aaron Kujawa, Stefan Cornelissen, Patrick Langenhuizen, Mohamed Okasha, Anna Oviedova, Hexin Dong, Bogyeong Kang, Guillaume Sall\'e, Luyi Han, Ziyuan Zhao, Han Liu, Tao Yang, Shahad Hardan, Hussain Alasmawi, Santosh Sanjeev, Yuzhou Zhuang, Satoshi Kondo, Maria Baldeon Calisto, Shaikh Muh…

crossMoDA Challenge: Evolution of Cross-Modality Domain Adaptation Techniques for Vestibular Schwannoma and Cochlea Segmentation from 2021 to 2023
The cross-Modality Domain Adaptation (crossMoDA) challenge series, initiated in 2021 in conjunction with the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), focuses on unsupervised cross-modality segmentation, learning from contrast-enhanced T1 (ceT1) and transferring to T2 MRI. The task is an extreme example of domain shift chosen to serve as a meaningful and illustrative benchmark. From a clinical application perspective, it aims to automate Ve…

Webdesigner, eh.
Besuche die Seite example.com -> Forbidden.
Besuche die Seite www.example.com -> Hier sind Ihre Inhalte.
🤦

Optimal and Suboptimal Decoders under Finite-Alphabet Interference: A Mismatched Decoding Perspective
Sibo Zhang, Bruno Clerckx
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12646

Optimal and Suboptimal Decoders under Finite-Alphabet Interference: A Mismatched Decoding Perspective
Interference widely exists in communication systems and is often not optimally treated at the receivers due to limited knowledge and/or computational burden. Evolutions of receivers have been proposed to balance complexity and spectral efficiency, for example, for 6G, while commonly used performance metrics, such as capacity and mutual information, fail to capture the suboptimal treatment of interference, leading to potentially inaccurate performance evaluations. Mismatched decoding is an infor…

Optimized Qubit Routing for Commuting Gates via Integer Programming
Moritz Stargalla, Friedrich Wagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12199 https://

Optimized Qubit Routing for Commuting Gates via Integer Programming
Quantum computers promise to outperform their classical counterparts at certain tasks. However, existing quantum devices are error-prone and restricted in size. Thus, effective compilation methods are crucial to exploit limited quantum resources. In this work, we address the problem of qubit routing for commuting gates, which arises, for example, during the compilation of the well-known Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm. We propose a two-step decomposition approach based on integer pro…

A hyperbolic $4$-orbifold with underlying space $\mathbb{P}^2$
Matthew Stover
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11667 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

A hyperbolic $4$-orbifold with underlying space $\mathbb{P}^2$
This paper shows that the complex projective plane $\mathbb{P}^2$ can be realized as the underlying space for a closed hyperbolic $4$-orbifold. This is the first example of a closed hyperbolic $4$-orbifold whose underlying space is symplectic, which is related to the open question as to whether or not closed hyperbolic $4$-manifolds can admit symplectic structures.

As Mamdani looks to City Hall, de Blasio reemerges (Jeff Coltin/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/13/de-blasio-sets-an-example-as-mamdani-thinks-about-staffing-up-00449610
http://www.memeorandum.com/250713/p32#a250713p32

Can plasmoid-mediated reconnection occur in collisionless systems?
Keita Akutagawa, Shinsuke Imada, Munehito Shoda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11904 https:/…

Can plasmoid-mediated reconnection occur in collisionless systems?
Magnetic reconnection is a process that converts magnetic energy into plasma energy by changing the magnetic field line topology. The outstanding question is why the reconnection rate is $\mathcal{O}(0.01 - 0.1)$ in many astrophysical phenomena, for example solar flares and terrestrial substorms. Previous studies have shown two ideas of Hall reconnection and plasmoid instability. However, there is no consensus on which process is the reason for the fast reconnection. In this paper, we discuss t…

I am getting sick and tired of campfire song protests - these will have no effect on the maga-klan. (I admit that such gatherings are useful means to build networks of people and communications, but I am not sure that that is actually happening in the kind of way we need.)
Let's think of actions that may fracture the unity of the maga-nutz.
For example, were I running for mayor of NYC I would have among my campaign planks a plan to seize Trump Tower (using eminent domain and…

Two things can be true, even if they seem in opposition.
Hitler's race law was based on Jim Crow. Lebensraum was a direct translation of Manifest Destiny to Europe. The genocide of indigenous Americans was the inspiration and roadmap for the Holocaust. Red Summer was a genocide event. Chinese exclusion was a genocide event. The genocide of indigenous Americans continued, and the Dakota Access Pipeline is an example of that continuance.
And... Trumpian fascism is new phase of America that's markedly different than anything that anyone alive had ever experienced. Trump was inspired by Hitler's speeches and read them regularly. He admires Hitler and tries to emulate him. The language he used during his first campaign were developed by Neonazi groups like Aryan Brotherhood working with the KKK. His image was shaped by white and Christian nationalists, as is his platform today. He is a new and more dangerous kind of monster. The death camps are new. The scale of what's happening is new. The concentration of power is new.
These can both be true, and are.
#USPol

Bootstrap prediction intervals for the age distribution of life-table death counts
Han Lin Shang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11946 https://

Bootstrap prediction intervals for the age distribution of life-table death counts
We introduce a nonparametric bootstrap procedure based on a dynamic factor model to construct pointwise prediction intervals for period life-table death counts. The age distribution of death counts is an example of constrained data, which are nonnegative and have a constrained integral. A centered log-ratio transformation is used to remove the constraints. With a time series of unconstrained data, we introduce our bootstrap method to construct prediction intervals, thereby quantifying forecast …

Datrics Text2SQL: A Framework for Natural Language to SQL Query Generation
Tetiana Gladkykh, Kyrylo Kirykov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12234 https://

Datrics Text2SQL: A Framework for Natural Language to SQL Query Generation
Text-to-SQL systems enable users to query databases using natural language, democratizing access to data analytics. However, they face challenges in understanding ambiguous phrasing, domain-specific vocabulary, and complex schema relationships. This paper introduces Datrics Text2SQL, a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)-based framework designed to generate accurate SQL queries by leveraging structured documentation, example-based learning, and domain-specific rules. The system builds a rich K…

I learned something new today—threat actors are using AWS Lambda URLs for C2. Lambda is an ephemeral serverless function service from AWS. They have different URL endpoints in the different AWS regions. One example is: <uniquename>.lambda-url.ap-southeast-1.on[.]aws
Something you may want to hunt for. #cybersecurity

Polymorphism Crystal Structure Prediction with Adaptive Space Group Diversity Control
Sadman Sadeed Omee, Lai Wei, Sourin Dey, Jianjun Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11332

Polymorphism Crystal Structure Prediction with Adaptive Space Group Diversity Control
Crystalline materials can form different structural arrangements (i.e. polymorphs) with the same chemical composition, exhibiting distinct physical properties depending on how they were synthesized or the conditions under which they operate. For example, carbon can exist as graphite (soft, conductive) or diamond (hard, insulating). Computational methods that can predict these polymorphs are vital in materials science, which help understand stability relationships, guide synthesis efforts, and d…

HIF: The hypergraph interchange format for higher-order networks
Mart\'in Coll, Cliff A. Joslyn, Nicholas W. Landry, Quintino Francesco Lotito, Audun Myers, Joshua Pickard, Brenda Praggastis, Przemys{\l}aw Szufel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11520

HIF: The hypergraph interchange format for higher-order networks
Many empirical systems contain complex interactions of arbitrary size, representing, for example, chemical reactions, social groups, co-authorship relationships, and ecological dependencies. These interactions are known as higher-order interactions and the collection of these interactions comprise a higher-order network, or hypergraph. Hypergraphs have established themselves as a popular and versatile mathematical representation of such systems and a number of software packages written in vario…

Tossing half-coins and other partial coins: signed probabilities and Sibuya distribution
Nikolai Leonenko, Igor Podlubny
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12369 h…

Tossing half-coins and other partial coins: signed probabilities and Sibuya distribution
We provide an example of numerical simulation of signed probability distribution for the case of tossing a (1/n)-th of a coin.

A Synthetic Pseudo-Autoencoder Invites Examination of Tacit Assumptions in Neural Network Design
Assaf Marron
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12076 https://

A Synthetic Pseudo-Autoencoder Invites Examination of Tacit Assumptions in Neural Network Design
We present a handcrafted neural network that, without training, solves the seemingly difficult problem of encoding an arbitrary set of integers into a single numerical variable, and then recovering the original elements. While using only standard neural network operations -- weighted sums with biases and identity activation -- we make design choices that challenge common notions in this area around representation, continuity of domains, computation, learnability and more. For example, our const…

A 2-complex containing Sobolev spaces of matrix fields
Jay Gopalakrishnan, Kaibo Hu, Joachim Sch\"oberl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11869 https://

A 2-complex containing Sobolev spaces of matrix fields
Using a generalization of complexes, called 2-complexes, this paper defines and analyzes new Sobolev spaces of matrix fields and their interrelationships within a commuting diagram. These spaces have very weak second-order derivatives. An example is the space of matrix fields of square-integrable components whose row-wise divergence followed by yet another divergence operation yield a function in a standard negative-order Sobolev space. Similar spaces where the double divergence is replaced by …

Bridging a gap: A heavy elastica between point supports
Grace K. Curtis, Ian M. Griffiths, Dominic Vella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11875 https://

Bridging a gap: A heavy elastica between point supports
We study the deformation and slip-through of a heavy elastic beam suspended above two point supports and subject to an increasing body force -- an idealized model of a fibre trapped in the pores of a filter as flow strength increases, for example. Using both asymptotic and numerical techniques, we investigate the behaviour of the beam under increasing body force and the maximum force that can be supported before it must slip between the supports. We quantify this maximum body force as a functio…

Combinatorial $n$-od covers of graphs
Logan C. Hoehn, Hugo Adrian Maldonado-Garcia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11979 https://arxiv.org…

Combinatorial $n$-od covers of graphs
We introduce the notion of a combinatorial $n$-od cover, for $n \geq 3$, which is a tool that may be used to show that certain continua embedded in the plane are not simple $n$-od-like. Using this tool, we generalize a classic example of Ingram, and give a construction, for each $n \geq 3$, of an indecomposable plane continuum which is simple $(n+1)$-od-like but not simple $n$-od-like, and such that each non-degenerate proper subcontinuum is an arc. These examples may be compared with related c…

Phonon spectrum in the spin-Peierls phase of CuGeO$_3$
L. Spitz, A. Razpopov, S. Biswas, H. Lane, S. E. Nikitin, K. Iida, R. Kajimoto, M. Fujita, M. Arai, M. Mourigal, Ch. R\"uegg, R. Valent\'i, B. Normand
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12409

Phonon spectrum in the spin-Peierls phase of CuGeO$_3$
CuGeO$_3$ has long been studied as a prototypical example of the spin-Peierls transition in a $S = 1/2$ Heisenberg chain. Despite intensive investigation of this quasi-one-dimensional material, systematic measurements and calculations of the phonon excitations in the dimerized phase have not to date been possible, leaving certain aspects of the spin-Peierls phenomenon unresolved. We perform state-of-the-art density functional theory (DFT) calculations to compute the electronic structure and pho…

Semi-anonymous Internet friend relationships must be so weird to people who aren't used to the culture.
Example 1: guy I've known on IRC for probably ten years and I consider a fairly good friend, I have his personal phone number, we talk quite often.
But I only know roughly what city he's in and his first name. He's in my phone as [first name] [irc handle].
Example 2: Catgirl I've known for a couple of years, she's been to my house, I've been to…

If you send a bulk mail to a retired email address (former staff member, for example) and your unsubscribe feedback page doesn't have "address no longer used", I *will* click the "this is spam" feedback item.

How feasible would it be to have posts from specific servers be highlighted in a specific color on #Mastodon?
For example I don't mind reading posts from the bluesky bridge but I don't really want to interact with them. If they were highlighted in blue or something, that would be helpful..
#MastoDev

I actually found something useful in #jetbrains #MCP server/plugin 😏
We all know the "warnings" in #phpstorm (for example) - so let

DrafterBench: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Tasks Automation in Civil Engineering
Yinsheng Li, Zhen Dong, Yi Shao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11527

DrafterBench: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Tasks Automation in Civil Engineering
Large Language Model (LLM) agents have shown great potential for solving real-world problems and promise to be a solution for tasks automation in industry. However, more benchmarks are needed to systematically evaluate automation agents from an industrial perspective, for example, in Civil Engineering. Therefore, we propose DrafterBench for the comprehensive evaluation of LLM agents in the context of technical drawing revision, a representation task in civil engineering. DrafterBench contains t…

A counter example for the Homogeneity Conjecture
Ming Xu, Shaoqiang Deng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09471 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.…

A counter example for the Homogeneity Conjecture
We construct a counter example to show that the Homogeneity Conjecture, first proposed by J.A. Wolf in 1962, is not true. To be precise, we prove that on the Lie group Sp(2), there exists a left invariant Riemannian metric and a cyclic subgroup Γ of order (2n+1), such that the left translation of each element of Γ on Sp(2) is a Clifford-Wolf translation, but the Riemannian quotient Γ\Sp(2) is not homogeneous.

“[Rubio’s] priorities speak volumes: financing Israel genocide on Palestine, torturing Cuba, going after health care services for those who need them most,”
Diplomat Johana Tablada.
USA can't tolerate Cuba's good example of free health care nor its international solidarity.
US sanctions Brazil health officials over Cuba’s overseas medical missions | Donald Trump News | Al Jazeera

US sanctions Brazil health officials over Cuba’s overseas medical missions
Washington claims the health officials were involved in Cuba’s ‘coercive labour export’ of medical workers.

On Levi operators between normed and vector lattices
Eduard Emelyanov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12578 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.125…

On Levi operators between normed and vector lattices
The notion of Levi operator is an operator abstraction of the Levy property of a norm. Various aspects of Levi operators have been studied recently by several authors. The present paper is devoted to Levi operators from a normed lattice to a vector lattice. It is proved that every finite rank operator is a Levi operator. An example is given showing that the sum of a positive rank one operator and a positive compact Levi operator need not to be a Levi operator. We prove that every quasi Levi ope…

Santa Barbara's turnout was just one example of the historic nationwide mobilization.
The “No Kings” protest brought millions to the streets in over 2,100 cities and towns across the country.
Organizers stated this movement has exceeded expectations,
uniting citizens to reject authoritarian overreach, defend fundamental freedoms,
and protect vulnerable communities.

Thousands Show Up for 'No Kings' Protest in Santa Barbara
Over a thousand demonstrators lined Cabrillo Blvd Saturday to join the nationwide "No Kings" protest opposing the Trump administration and defending democracy.

Last weekend the Defa Film Library started a virtual festival titled "The Colorful World of DEFA Animation: A Short History". Throughout July and August every few days a anther example of East German animated film will go online. The overall streaming link on the website is good from now until the end of August.
https://www.

Sometimes I do random acts of kindness. Like keeping my mouth shut, for example.

Chelsea blitzing and exposing PSG, going up 1-0 midway through the first half is the perfect example of why I don’t bet on sports.
#ClubWorldCup #CHEPSG #fedifc

Understanding API Usage and Testing: An Empirical Study of C Libraries
Ahmed Zaki, Cristian Cadar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11598 https://

Understanding API Usage and Testing: An Empirical Study of C Libraries
For library developers, understanding how their Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are used in the field can be invaluable. Knowing how clients are using their APIs allows for data-driven decisions on prioritising bug reports, feature requests, and testing activities. For example, the priority of a bug report concerning an API can be partly determined by how widely that API is used. In this paper, we present an empirical study in which we analyse API usage across 21 popular open-source…

Everybody should remember that even as Iran is probably militarily incapable for the coming few years, it is really about instability in the broader region. For example in neighbouring Iraq. Where extremists are active, terrorism can develop etcetera.
#geopolitics #iran

Zu den schrecklichen Wahrheiten des Kriegs gegen die Ukraine gehört die kaum vorstellbare Zahl der Opfer unter den Soldaten an der Front.
Russland verliert täglich etwa 1000 Soldaten, davon die Hälfte tot - dh sie werden quasi geopfert. Seit Beginn des Krieges sollen es 1 Mio sein, schreibt der @….
Alleine dies stellt sich für mich als unvor…

Russia's daily losses 3 times higher than Ukraine's, Zelensky says
"For example, yesterday's figures, which are roughly average: Russian losses per day are about 1,000 – 500 killed and 500 wounded," President Volodymyr Zelensky said at a meeting with journalists attended by the Kyiv Independent.

Sound Signal Synthesis with Auxiliary Classifier GAN, COVID-19 cough as an example
Yahya Sherif Solayman Mohamed Saleh, Ahmed Mohammed Dabbous, Lama Alkhaled, Hum Yan Chai, Muhammad Ehsan Rana, Hamam Mokayed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08892

Sound Signal Synthesis with Auxiliary Classifier GAN, COVID-19 cough as an example
One of the fastest-growing domains in AI is healthcare. Given its importance, it has been the interest of many researchers to deploy ML models into the ever-demanding healthcare domain to aid doctors and increase accessibility. Delivering reliable models, however, demands a sizable amount of data, and the recent COVID-19 pandemic served as a reminder of the rampant and scary nature of healthcare that makes training models difficult. To alleviate such scarcity, many published works attempted to …

Backsolution: A Framework for Solving Inverse Problems via Automatic Differentiation
Koji Kobayashi, Tomi Ohtsuki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13210 https://…

Backsolution: A Framework for Solving Inverse Problems via Automatic Differentiation
We present a simple yet powerful framework for solving inverse problems by leveraging automatic differentiation. Our method is broadly applicable whenever a smooth cost function can be defined near the true solution, and a numerical simulator is available. As a concrete example, we demonstrate that our method can accurately reconstruct the spatial profiles in a conductor from magnetotransport measurements. Even if the given data are insufficient to uniquely determine the profiles, the same fram…

Layered tree-independence number and clique-based separators
Cl\'ement Dallard, Martin Milani\v{c}, Andrea Munaro, Shizhou Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12424

Layered tree-independence number and clique-based separators
Motivated by a question of Galby, Munaro, and Yang (SoCG 2023) asking whether every graph class of bounded layered tree-independence number admits clique-based separators of sublinear weight, we investigate relations between layered tree-independence number, weight of clique-based separators, clique cover degeneracy and independence degeneracy. In particular, we provide a number of results bounding these parameters on geometric intersection graphs. For example, we show that the layered tree-ind…

Meta’s banning of two anti-Zionist comedians from Instagram is the latest example of Big Tech’s deep anti-Palestinian bias
#meta #facebook #instagram

The boundedness of rough generalized commutators with Lipschitz functions on homogeneous variable exponent Herz type spaces
Ferit Gurbuz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12164

The boundedness of rough generalized commutators with Lipschitz functions on homogeneous variable exponent Herz type spaces
With the development of science, many nonlinear problems have emerged. At this time, the classical function space has certain restrictions. For example, it has lost its effectiveness for nonlinear problems under nonstandard growth conditions. In the process of studying such nonlinear problems, scholars are paying more and more attention to the transition from classical function space to variable exponent function space. Also, there is a big difference between variable exponent space and classic…

Implementation of the magnetic force theorem for large-scale calculations of magnon bands: application to yttrium iron garnet
Thorbj{\o}rn Skovhus, Varun Rajeev Pavizhakumari, Thomas Olsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11374

Implementation of the magnetic force theorem for large-scale calculations of magnon bands: application to yttrium iron garnet
We present an efficient implementation of the magnetic force theorem which allows for direct evaluation of exchange parameters in q-space. The exchange parameters are calculated directly from Bloch states and the implementation does not rely on any mapping onto localized orbitals. This renders the approach well suited for high-throughput computations, where the construction of a localized basis set (for example Wannier functions) often is impractical. We demonstrate the versatility of the metho…

A gunman shot at the CDC, killing an officer.
Trump hasn’t said a word.
Things Donald Trump talked about publicly this week:
Sylvester Stallone’s body,
the $200 million ballroom he wants to build at the White House,
receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame,
not receiving a Kennedy Center lifetime achievement award
and taking over the police force in the nation’s capital.

Something Trump hasn’t talked about:
a gunman, upset by c…

A gunman shot at the CDC, killing an officer. Trump hasn’t said a word.
Trump has said nothing about the police officer killed by a gunman who shot at the CDC, an example of how selective he can be amid his daily torrent of words.

Chirality across scales in tissue dynamics
Sihan Chen, Doruk Efe G\"okmen, Michel Fruchart, Miriam Krumbein, Pascal Silberzan, Victor Yashunsky, Vincenzo Vitelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12276

Chirality across scales in tissue dynamics
Chiral processes that lack mirror symmetry pervade nature from enantioselective molecular interactions to the asymmetric development of organisms. An outstanding challenge at the interface between physics and biology consists in bridging the multiple scales between microscopic and macroscopic chirality. Here, we combine theory, experiments and modern inference algorithms to study a paradigmatic example of dynamic chirality transfer across scales: the generation of tissue-scale flows from subcel…

Geospatial Diffusion for Land Cover Imperviousness Change Forecasting
Debvrat Varshney, Vibhas Vats, Bhartendu Pandey, Christa Brelsford, Philipe Dias
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10649

Geospatial Diffusion for Land Cover Imperviousness Change Forecasting
Land cover, both present and future, has a significant effect on several important Earth system processes. For example, impervious surfaces heat up and speed up surface water runoff and reduce groundwater infiltration, with concomitant effects on regional hydrology and flood risk. While regional Earth System models have increasing skill at forecasting hydrologic and atmospheric processes at high resolution in future climate scenarios, our ability to forecast land-use and land-cover change (LULC…

Noise-induced stabilization in a chemical reaction network without boundary effects
Andrea Agazzi, Lucie Laurence
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12163 https://…

Noise-induced stabilization in a chemical reaction network without boundary effects
We present a chemical reaction network that is unstable under deterministic mass action kinetics, exhibiting finite-time blow-up of trajectories in the interior of the state space, but whose stochastic counterpart is positive recurrent. This provides an example of noise-induced stabilization of the model's dynamics arising due to noise perturbing transversally the divergent trajectories of the system that is independently of boundary effects. The proof is based on a careful decomposition of the…

US ethnic cleansing and what to do about it
Reposting link to source article instead of screenshot of tweet that had no alt text:
Data on arrests shows that ICE was heavily engaged in racial profiling in LA, because their arrest numbers fell by ~66% after that were ordered to stop making arrests based just in factors like skin color, with place, or language spoken.
#ICE #USPol

Dynamic Parameter Memory: Temporary LoRA-Enhanced LLM for Long-Sequence Emotion Recognition in Conversation
Jialong Mai, Xiaofen Xing, Yawei Li, Zhipeng Li, Jingyuan Xing, Xiangmin Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09076

Dynamic Parameter Memory: Temporary LoRA-Enhanced LLM for Long-Sequence Emotion Recognition in Conversation
Recent research has focused on applying speech large language model (SLLM) to improve speech emotion recognition (SER). However, the inherently high frame rate in speech modality severely limits the signal processing and understanding capabilities of SLLM. For example, a SLLM with a 4K context window can only process 80 seconds of audio at 50Hz feature sampling rate before reaching its capacity limit. Input token compression methods used in SLLM overlook the continuity and inertia of emotions a…

Bulk Excitations of Invertible Phases
Wenjie Ji, David T. Stephen, Michael Levin, Xie Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11288 https://a…

Bulk Excitations of Invertible Phases
Recent developments in the study of topological defects highlight the importance of understanding the multi-dimensional structure of bulk excitations inside a quantum system. When the bulk ground state is trivial, i.e. a product state, excitations on top of it are decoupled from each other and correspond to lower-dimensional phases and their defects within. In this paper, we expand the discussion to invertible phases and study the bulk excitations in, for example, SPT phases, Majorana chains, p…

Fired DOJ employee could face prison for throwing sandwich at officer
After his arrest, Charles Dunn allegedly told one of the officers: “I did it. I threw a sandwich.”

“If you touch any law enforcement officer, we will come after you,” Bondi posted on X Thursday.
“This is an example of the Deep State we have been up against for seven months as we work to refocus DOJ.”

Fired DOJ employee could face prison for throwing sandwich at officer
Police allege that the man approached law enforcement officers, including Metro Transit Police and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, and began yelling obscenities.

"Palestine Action is not arming the genocide and Israel — that’s Keir Starmer and the British government, who should be proscribed,”
'A clear example of political censorship' | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/clear-e…

from my link log —
Apple's sillyballs (1988).
https://devnonsense.com/posts/apple-sillyballs/
saved 2025-04-30 https://

Optimal rate of convergence in the vanishing viscosity for uniformly convex Hamilton-Jacobi equations
Louis-Pierre Chaintron (ENS-PSL), Samuel Daudin (UPCit\'e)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13255

Optimal rate of convergence in the vanishing viscosity for uniformly convex Hamilton-Jacobi equations
The purpose of this note is to provide an optimal rate of convergence in the vanishing viscosity regime for first-order Hamilton-Jacobi equations with uniformly convex Hamiltonian. We prove that for a globally Lipschitz-continuous and semiconcave terminal condition the rate is of order O($ε$log$ε$), and we provide an example to show that this rate cannot be sharpened. This improves on the previously known rate of convergence O($\sqrt$$ε$), which was widely believed to be optimal. Our proof c…

Did you know? You can run #ClaudeCode with any other #LLM, for example with kimi-k2, gemini, and grok - all together 😉 🚀
👉 https://

A Dataset for Distilling Knowledge Priors from Literature for Therapeutic Design
Haydn Thomas Jones, Natalie Maus, Josh Magnus Ludan, Maggie Ziyu Huan, Jiaming Liang, Marcelo Der Torossian Torres, Jiatao Liang, Zachary Ives, Yoseph Barash, Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez, Jacob R. Gardner, Mark Yatskar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10899

A Dataset for Distilling Knowledge Priors from Literature for Therapeutic Design
AI-driven discovery can greatly reduce design time and enhance new therapeutics' effectiveness. Models using simulators explore broad design spaces but risk violating implicit constraints due to a lack of experimental priors. For example, in a new analysis we performed on a diverse set of models on the GuacaMol benchmark using supervised classifiers, over 60\% of molecules proposed had high probability of being mutagenic. In this work, we introduce \ourdataset, a dataset of priors for design pr…

Another Woman Arrested For Her Pregnancy Loss
All of these women—including ‘B’—are women of color.
Three of the four are Black women.
As is often the case, racism and misogyny skewed these women’s interactions with police, hospitals—even the media.
All had their mugshots splashed across local media outlets, for example,
and their pregnancy losses turned into crime stories with salacious headlines.
Reporting in Ohio claimed Watts had “clogged” her toilet …

Another Woman Arrested For Her Pregnancy Loss
A South Carolina woman has been charged for “desecration of human remains”

GNN-based Unified Deep Learning
Furkan Pala, Islem Rekik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10583 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.10583…

GNN-based Unified Deep Learning
Deep learning models often struggle to maintain generalizability in medical imaging, particularly under domain-fracture scenarios where distribution shifts arise from varying imaging techniques, acquisition protocols, patient populations, demographics, and equipment. In practice, each hospital may need to train distinct models - differing in learning task, width, and depth - to match local data. For example, one hospital may use Euclidean architectures such as MLPs and CNNs for tabular or grid-…

Long post, game design
Crungle is a game designed to be a simple test of general reasoning skills that's difficult to play by rote memory, since there are many possible rule sets, but it should be easy to play if one can understand and extrapolate from rules. The game is not necessarily fair, with the first player often having an advantage or a forced win. The game is entirely deterministic, although a variant determines the rule set randomly.
This is version 0.1, and has not yet been tested at all.
Crungle is a competitive game for two players, each of whom controls a single piece on a 3x3 grid. The cells of the grid are numbered from 1 to 9, starting at the top left and proceeding across each row and then down to the next row, so the top three cells are 1, 2, and 3 from left to right, then the next three are 4, 5, and 6 and the final row is cells 7, 8, and 9.
The two players decide who shall play as purple and who shall play as orange. Purple goes first, starting the rules phase by picking one goal rule from the table of goal rules. Next, orange picks a goal rule. These two goal rules determine the two winning conditions. Then each player, starting with orange, alternate picking a movement rule until four movement rules have been selected. During this process, at most one indirect movement rule may be selected. Finally, purple picks a starting location for orange (1-9), with 5 (the center) not allowed. Then orange picks the starting location for purple, which may not be adjacent to orange's starting position.
Alternatively, the goal rules, movement rules, and starting positions may be determined randomly, or a pre-determined ruleset may be selected.
If the ruleset makes it impossible to win, the players should agree to a draw. Either player could instead "bet" their opponent. If the opponent agrees to the bet, the opponent must demonstrate a series of moves by both players that would result in a win for either player. If they can do this, they win, but if they submit an invalid demonstration or cannot submit a demonstration, the player who "bet" wins.
Now that starting positions, movement rules, and goals have been decided, the play phase proceeds with each player taking a turn, starting with purple, until one player wins by satisfying one of the two goals, or until the players agree to a draw. Note that it's possible for both players to occupy the same space.
During each player's turn, that player identifies one of the four movement rules to use and names the square they move to using that rule, then they move their piece into that square and their turn ends. Neither player may use the same movement rule twice in a row (but it's okay to use the same rule your opponent just did unless another rule disallows that). If the movement rule a player picks moves their opponent's piece, they need to state where their opponent's piece ends up. Pieces that would move off the board instead stay in place; it's okay to select a rule that causes your piece to stay in place because of this rule. However, if a rule says "pick a square" or "move to a square" with some additional criteria, but there are no squares that meet those criteria, then that rule may not be used, and a player who picks that rule must pick a different one instead.
Any player who incorrectly states a destination for either their piece or their opponent's piece, picks an invalid square, or chooses an invalid rule has made a violation, as long as their opponent objects before selecting their next move. A player who makes at least three violations immediately forfeits and their opponent wins by default. However, if a player violates a rule but their opponent does not object before picking their next move, the stated destination(s) of the invalid move still stand, and the violation does not count. If a player objects to a valid move, their objection is ignored, and if they do this at least three times, they forfeit and their opponent wins by default.
Goal rules (each player picks one; either player can win using either chosen rule):
End your turn in the same space as your opponent three turns in a row.
End at least one turn in each of the 9 cells.
End five consecutive turns in the three cells in any single row, ending at least one turn on each of the three.
End five consecutive turns in the three cells in any single column, ending at least one turn on each of the three.
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns, end at least one turn in each of cells 1, 3, 7, and 9 (the four corners of the grid).
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns at least one turn in each of cells 2, 4, 6, and 8 (the central cells on each side).
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns, end at least one turn in the cell directly above your opponent, and end at least one turn in the cell directly below your opponent (in either order).
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns at least one turn in the cell directly to the left of your opponent, and end at least one turn in the cell directly to the right of your opponent (in either order).
End 12 turns in a row without ending any of them in cell 5.
End 8 turns in a row in 8 different cells.
Movement rules (each player picks two; either player may move using any of the four):
Move to any cell on the board that's diagonally adjacent to your current position.
Move to any cell on the board that's orthogonally adjacent to your current position.
Move up one cell. Also move your opponent up one cell.
Move down one cell. Also move your opponent down one cell.
Move left one cell. Also move your opponent left one cell.
Move right one cell. Also move your opponent right one cell.
Move up one cell. Move your opponent down one cell.
Move down one cell. Move your opponent up one cell.
Move left one cell. Move your opponent right one cell.
Move right one cell. Move your opponent left one cell.
Move any pieces that aren't in square 5 clockwise around the edge of the board 1 step (for example, from 1 to 2 or 3 to 6 or 9 to 8).
Move any pieces that aren't in square 5 counter-clockwise around the edge of the board 1 step (for example, from 1 to 4 or 6 to 3 or 7 to 8).
Move to any square reachable from your current position by a knight's move in chess (in other words, a square that's in an adjacent column and two rows up or down, or that's in an adjacent row and two columns left or right).
Stay in the same place.
Swap places with your opponent's piece.
Move back to the position that you started at on your previous turn.
If you are on an odd-numbered square, move to any other odd-numbered square. Otherwise, move to any even-numbered square.
Move to any square in the same column as your current position.
Move to any square in the same row as your current position.
Move to any square in the same column as your opponent's position.
Move to any square in the same row as your opponent's position.
Pick a square that's neither in the same row as your piece nor in the same row as your opponent's piece. Move to that square.
Pick a square that's neither in the same column as your piece nor in the same column as your opponent's piece. Move to that square.
Move to one of the squares orthogonally adjacent to your opponent's piece.
Move to one of the squares diagonally adjacent to your opponent's piece.
Move to the square opposite your current position across the middle square, or stay in place if you're in the middle square.
Pick any square that's closer to your opponent's piece than the square you're in now, measured using straight-line distance between square centers (this includes the square your opponent is in). Move to that square.
Pick any square that's further from your opponent's piece than the square you're in now, measured using straight-line distance between square centers. Move to that square.
If you are on a corner square (1, 3, 7, or 9) move to any other corner square. Otherwise, move to square 5.
If you are on an edge square (2, 4, 6, or 8) move to any other edge square. Otherwise, move to square 5.
Indirect movement rules (may be chosen instead of a direct movement rule; at most one per game):
Move using one of the other three movement rules selected in your game, and in addition, your opponent may not use that rule on their next turn (nor may they select it via an indirect rule like this one).
Select two of the other three movement rules, declare them, and then move as if you had used one and then the other, applying any additional effects of both rules in order.
Move using one of the other three movement rules selected in your game, but if the move would cause your piece to move off the board, instead of staying in place move to square 5 (in the middle).
Pick one of the other three movement rules selected in your game and apply it, but move your opponent's piece instead of your own piece. If that movement rule says to move "your opponent's piece," instead apply that movement to your own piece. References to "your position" and "your opponent's position" are swapped when applying the chosen rule, as are references to "your turn" and "your opponent's turn" and do on.
#Game #GameDesign

The Trump administration has shifted from bureaucratic threats to armed suppression of political opponents.
By beginning with vulnerable groups who have less legal standing and social capital to resist repression,
the Trump administration is making a strategic choice, hoping to provoke less public outcry
and then use these precedents of repression later against a broader population.
This is a textbook example of democratic backsliding, similar to what we have witnesse…

Military Crackdown on LA Protests Portends Further Erosion of Everyone’s Rights
Governments at all levels from both parties have paved the way to an authoritarian response to dissent.