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Pacific Freedom Forum Chair Robert Iroga says Pacific countries are facing a "critical moment" for press freedom, as journalists face lawsuits and prosecution (Kate Lyons/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/…

ICE Is A Press Freedom Issue: Interview With Status Coup Reporter Tina-Desiree Berg https://thedissenter.org/ice-is-a-press-freedom-issue-interview-with-status-coup-reporter-tina-desiree-berg/

Q: How does the Polish Constitution differ from the American?
A: Under the Polish Constitution citizens are guaranteed freedom of
speech, but under the United States constitution they are
guaranteed freedom after speech.
-- being told in Poland, 1987

The Marines and National Guard shouldn't be deployed to protests in LA, Texas or anywhere else.
But since they are, the Freedom of the Press Foundation and other press freedom groups wrote a letter to them explaining the basics of journalists' rights when covering demonstrations, and offering their help.
#Press #Freedom #Democracy

Look, I give a fuck, because freedom isn't some abstract idea or lip service paid to "choice" while real decisions are made over your head.
Freedom is collective, it's when everyone gets to shape the community together, no more of this top-down bullshit where rules drop from above and you’re told to accept it or leave. Anarcho-syndicalism is not theory to me, it’s my fucking life story now, because I want to actually live this principle where people, not bosses, run t…

An interview with News Agents podcast co-host Lewis Goodall about a now-lifted two-year super injunction to silence UK media over a government data breach (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/a

Afghan data breach super injunction 'deeply disturbing' for press freedom, says Lewis Goodall
Podcast co-host Lewis Goodall has shared fears for the future of media over a court-imposed super injunction.

»What Does That Server Really Serve?
How programs like Google Docs rob users of their freedom.
[…] Software as a service always subjects you to the power of the server operator, and the only remedy is to avoid it. […]«
Yes, we are living in the future, fifteen years ago. But even back then, those who looked into the future were labeled as paranoid crackpots and negative propagandists, but they were right.
🫤

Friends of computational reproducibility: do any of you have experience with Guix?
#reproducibleresearch

"Rhode Island Freedom to Read Act is First in Nation with Special Guarantees to Writers and Readers Against Censorship"
https://pen.org/press-release/rhode-island-freedom-to-read-act…

Rhode Island Freedom to Read Act is First in Nation with Special Guarantees to Writers and Readers Against Censorship - PEN America
Joining a growing number of states that are passing laws to protect the right to read, Rhode Island’s newly signed Freedom to Read Act provides safeguards for both public and school libraries, protections for librarians and staff and is the first in the nation to guarantee writers and readers a special right of action against censorship.

The Johnson Amendment is not exactly a difficult law to parse.
To keep their sweet tax-exempt status, religious groups can’t endorse political candidates.
But evangelicals want to have their cake and eat it too. -- They don’t want to pay taxes, but they do want ministers to be able to climb into the pulpit and tell their flock who to vote for.
The "Alliance Defending Freedom", the hard-right law firm with a truly staggering track record of getting the United St…

Goodbye, separation of church and state
Churches now have extra special speech rights, thanks to Trump.

First Choice Women's Resource Centers v. Platkin (Alliance Defending Freedom)
https://adfmedia.org/case/first-choice-womens-resource-centers-v-platkin/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p163#a250616p163

Troops in Los Angeles marked a dramatic new turn in the Trump authoritarian rollout. Yet American protesters are making the turn towards a national mobilization in defense of freedom and democracy.
http://woborders.blog/2025/06/13/resistance-to-trump-reac…

Resistance to Trump reaches its first turning point
“The Whole World Is Watching.” It’s been decades since American protesters chanted this sentence at American police in an effort to deter violence and brutality. But it has perhaps neve…

Adam Curtis explores Edward Bernays and his "Torches of Freedom" campaign
https://youtube.com/watch?v=IYWW6NEsNOQ&si=YXLwznqW1KRoeZu5

Juneteenth celebrates the end of most slavery in the United States. It is also known as Emancipation Day, Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Juneteenth Independence Day, Black Independence Day, and by U.S. statute, Juneteenth National Independence Day.
https://www.cong…

Good morning all! A rare day without any real meetings, and only one calendar entry (and that's a fun one, a networking thing to talk about how social media research can go forward in Germany). I'm not sure I can be trusted with that much freedom from time constraints #academicChatter

MTG's anti-trans bill advances - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/mtgs-anti-trans-bill-advances-doechii-stands-up-for-freedom-gets-booed-by-artists/

Torsion induced current-scalaron coupling in Einstein-Cartan gravity
Minxi He, Muzi Hong, Kyohei Mukaida
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12151 https://

Torsion induced current-scalaron coupling in Einstein-Cartan gravity
We investigate the matter current couplings with the scalar degrees of freedom originated from the torsion in Einstein-Cartan (EC) gravity. It has been shown in previous studies that the presence of the operators consisting of torsion components up to dimension four can naturally induce a (pseudo-)scalar degree of freedom, the scalaron. In this work, we consider the couplings between torsion and matter currents in this framework, and show that they can lead to couplings between these currents a…

Full Canadian Transportation Agency decisions were #public, but legislative changes made most #confidential
https://www.…

Scaling Relations, Morphological Stability, and Asymptotic Freedom of Plasma-Surface Deposition Dynamics
Joel Saucedo, Uday Lamba, Hasitha Mahabaduge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10645

Scaling Relations, Morphological Stability, and Asymptotic Freedom of Plasma-Surface Deposition Dynamics
Connecting plasma processing parameters to the resultant film microstructure remains a fundamental challenge in materials synthesis, one that has largely confined process design to empirical approaches. To bridge this gap, we develop a predictive analysis of coupling by applying a renormalization group (RG) analysis to an effective Hamiltonian for the stochastic dynamics of the plasma-surface interface, derived systematically from microscopic principles. The central result from this formalism i…

A curvilinear framework for vector light fields
Leonardo S. Gonzalez-Aceves, Gabriela Flores-Cova, Blas M. Rodr\'iguez-Lara, Raul I. Hernandez-Aranda, Alfonso Jaimes-Najera, Carmelo Rosales-Guzman, Benjamin Perez-Garcia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11407

A curvilinear framework for vector light fields
Vector beams are often regarded as non-separable superpositions of spatial and polarization degrees of freedom that satisfy the wave equation. This interpretation ties their polarization structure to their spatial shape. Here, we introduce a generalized method to construct vector beams whose structure is entirely encoded in the polarization degree of freedom. Using conformal maps, we construct orthonormal polarization bases from the geometry of the coordinates and encode them experimentally via…

The Freedom Flotilla „Madleen” is projected to arrive in just a few hours at a coast in Gaza. If anything happens to @… or the other activists, the international community will never forgive the current Israeli government for it.
I wish and pray for your best, keep being the voice of our generation…

Freiheit für Greta Thunberg, Yasemin Acar und alle Aktivist*innen der Freedom Flotilla - Online-Petition
Humanitäre Hilfe ist kein Verbrechen! Am 1. Juni 2025 wurde das zivile Hilfsschiff Madleen der Freedom Flotilla Coalition auf dem Weg nach Gaza in internationalen Gewässern gewaltsam von der israelischen Armee gestoppt, geentert und seine Besatzung verschleppt. An Bord befanden sich ausschließlich unbewaffnete Freiwillige und dringend für den Gazastreifen benötigte humanitäre Hilfsgüter wie Babynahrung, Medizin und Prothesen für verletzte Kinder. Unter den Festgehaltenen ist neben Greta…

Quite extensive writeup on the whole W/X situation, the title suggesting too political of a discussion - I do recommend reading through it, neglecting stances, and just seeing where the projects stand.
To be clear, I do not endorse or judge anything here. It helps getting an overview. In the end, there are too many aspects, and deciding for either solution requires you to consider your personal preferences and priorities.

The price of software freedom is eternal politics
Comment: Many don't realize or forget, but the FOSS world has ideological wings, too

A solid-state temporally multiplexed quantum memory array at the single-photon level
Markus Teller, Susana Plascencia, Cristina Sastre Jachimska, Samuele Grandi, Hugues de Riedmatten
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12200

A solid-state temporally multiplexed quantum memory array at the single-photon level
The exploitation of multimodality in different degrees of freedom is one of the most promising ways to increase the rate of heralded entanglement between distant quantum nodes. In this paper, we realize a spatially-multiplexed solid-state quantum memory array with ten individually controllable spin-wave memory cells featuring on-demand read-out and temporal multiplexing. By combining spatial and temporal multiplexing, we store weak coherent pulses at the single-photon level in up to 250 spatio-…

Freedom is not a gift to be given or granted; freedom is something we seize through collective struggle and direct action.
#Anarchy #Freedom #CollectiveStruggle

Exteroception through Proprioception Sensing through Improved Contact Modeling for Soft Growing Robots
Francesco Fuentes, Serigne Diagne, Zachary Kingston, Laura H. Blumenschein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10694

Exteroception through Proprioception Sensing through Improved Contact Modeling for Soft Growing Robots
Passive deformation due to compliance is a commonly used benefit of soft robots, providing opportunities to achieve robust actuation with few active degrees of freedom. Soft growing robots in particular have shown promise in navigation of unstructured environments due to their passive deformation. If their collisions and subsequent deformations can be better understood, soft robots could be used to understand the structure of the environment from direct tactile measurements. In this work, we pr…

An interview with US Press Freedom Tracker Senior Reporter Stephanie Sugars on documenting nearly 62,000 anti-press social posts by Trump over the past 10 years (Liam Scott/Freedom of the Press Foundation)
http://freedom.press/issues/the-repor

The reporter documenting 10 years of Trump’s anti-media posts
Since Trump’s first term as president, Stephanie Sugars has managed an extensive database that documents each and every anti-media post from Trump.

The Narwhal (@…) seems to only have posted this thread on their Bluesky feed, but it's worth echoing here. https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sxywa

“If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel.”
– Greta Thunberg
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/08/middleeast/freedom-f…

Israel intercepts Gaza-bound aid ship, detaining Greta Thunberg and other prominent activists
Israel has intercepted a Gaza-bound aid ship carrying Greta Thunberg and other prominent activists and is escorting the boat to Israel, the foreign ministry said early Monday.

Israel has boarded Gaza-bound aid ship carrying Greta Thunberg, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition says
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/08/middleeast/freedom-flotilla-gaza-aid-ship-thunberg-intl-hnk

immigrant rights is a bike issue https://usa.streetsblog.org/2025/05/02/freedom-to-move-why-immigration-belongs-in-the-mobility-conversation

Freedom to Move: Why Immigration Belongs in the Mobility Conversation — Streetsblog USA
"If movement is a right, then that right must apply to everyone regardless of identity."

Sirener på natten, spansk sång på gatan fem minuter senare. Rostiga stridsvagnar, FREEDOM i metall, en mural med dikten som lovar gryning. Kyivs lågmälda motståndskraft påminner oss: frihet kräver omtanke, också långt från fronten.
https://carlheath.se/kyivs-muraler-sjunger-om-motsta…

2/3
🔹 Pros:
✅ Truly passive income
✅ Wealth grows exponentially over time
✅ Maximum financial security & freedom
🔹 Cons:
❌ Requires capital to start
❌ Knowledge & risk management are crucial
❌ Returns aren’t instant – patience is key

UV completions of scalar-tensor EFTs
Edoardo Alviani, Adam Falkowski, Panagiotis Marinellis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11426 https://…

UV completions of scalar-tensor EFTs
We study models that give rise to scalar-tensor effective field theories (EFTs) at low energies. Our framework involves massive particles of spin $S=0, 1/2, 1$ coupled to gravity and to a real massless scalar in the UV. Integrating out the massive states leads to a scalar-tensor EFT describing the massless graviton and scalar degrees of freedom. Using the on-shell amplitude methods and the spinor-helicity formalism, we match the two frameworks at one loop, so as to express the EFT Wilson coeffi…

Läsvärt debattinlägg av Johan Schaar, som tidigare tjänstgjort vid det svenska generalkonsulatet i Jerusalem. https://www.dn.se/kultur/johan-schaar-freedom-flotilla-har-vind-i-seglen-nar-sverige-sviker/

Johan Schaar: Freedom flotilla har vind i seglen i opinionen
Israel stoppar fartyget Madleen och tvingar Gazabor att löpa gatlopp för mat. Även den svenska regeringen har gjort bistånd till ett politiskt spel, skriver Johan Schaar.

A Contemporary Survey on Fluid Antenna Systems: Fundamentals and Networking Perspectives
Hanjiang Hong, Kai-Kit Wong, Hao Xu, Xinghao Guo, Farshad Rostami Ghadi, Yu Chen, Yin Xu, Chan-Byoung Chae, Baiyang Liu, Kin-Fai Tong, Yangyang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13317

A Contemporary Survey on Fluid Antenna Systems: Fundamentals and Networking Perspectives
The explosive growth of teletraffic, fueled by the convergence of cyber-physical systems and data-intensive applications, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), autonomous systems, and immersive communications, demands a multidisciplinary suite of innovative solutions across the physical and network layers. Fluid antenna systems (FAS) represent a transformative advancement in antenna design, offering enhanced spatial degrees of freedom through dynamic reconfigurability. By exploiting spatial fle…

Each week, Metacurity offers our free and paid subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--Satellite jamming and spoofing set back global shipping,
--AI is inherently janky,
--Salvadoran gender freedom advocates fight oppression with digital training,
--A new sector arises to fight AI false positives in Chinese universities,

Best infosec-related long reads for the weeks of 6/28/25 and 7/5/25
Satellite jamming and spoofing sets back global shipping, AI is inherently janky, Salvadoran gender freedom advocates fight oppression with digital training, Sector arises to fight AI false positives in Chinese universities, Uncovering the venality of a nudify app, so much more

Gravitational wave propagation in hybrid metric-Palatini gravity
Cl\'audio Gomes, Jo\~ao Lu\'is Rosa, Miguel A. S. Pinto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12870

Gravitational wave propagation in hybrid metric-Palatini gravity
In this work we analyze the propagation properties of gravitational waves in the hybrid metric-Palatini gravity theory. We introduce the scalar-tensor representation of the theory to make explicit the scalar degrees of freedom of the theory and obtain their equations of motion in a form decoupled from the metric tensor. Then, we introduce linear perturbations for the metric tensor and for the two scalar fields and obtain the propagation equations for these three quantities. We analyzed the theo…

Synesthesia of Machines (SoM)-Enhanced Sub-THz ISAC Transmission for Air-Ground Network
Zonghui Yang, Shijian Gao, Xiang Cheng, Liuqing Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12831

Synesthesia of Machines (SoM)-Enhanced Sub-THz ISAC Transmission for Air-Ground Network
Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) within sub-THz frequencies is crucial for future air-ground networks, but unique propagation characteristics and hardware limitations present challenges in optimizing ISAC performance while increasing operational latency. This paper introduces a multi-modal sensing fusion framework inspired by synesthesia of machine (SoM) to enhance sub-THz ISAC transmission. By exploiting inherent degrees of freedom in sub-THz hardware and channels, the framework opt…

An Exact Gradient Framework for Training Spiking Neural Networks
Arman Ferdowsi, Atakan Aral
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10568 https://

An Exact Gradient Framework for Training Spiking Neural Networks
Spiking neural networks inherently rely on the precise timing of discrete spike events for information processing. Incorporating additional bio-inspired degrees of freedom, such as trainable synaptic transmission delays and adaptive firing thresholds, is essential for fully leveraging the temporal dynamics of SNNs. Although recent methods have demonstrated the benefits of training synaptic weights and delays, both in terms of accuracy and temporal representation, these techniques typically rely…

Convenience gives the illusion of freedom but is quite often the exact opposite.
Convenience creates "freedom from choice" and takes away the ability to make decisions on your own.

Statistical mechanics of fluids with hidden degrees of freedom
Masanari Shimada, Tetsuya J. Kobayashi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10253 https://

Statistical mechanics of fluids with hidden degrees of freedom
Although coarse-grained models have been widely used to explain exotic phenomena in complex fluids, such as droplet formation in living cells, these conventional approaches often fail to capture the intricate microscopic degrees of freedom that such fluids inherently possess. In this study, we propose a model that incorporates distinct microscopic degrees of freedom and their interactions, without directly relying on conventional coarse-grained descriptions. By introducing two key assumptions, …

"Who makes the rules? Because no dogs allowed… that is a new rule."
"I want to know about my freedom. I didn’t go to war defending that freedom so that I could live in a cellar under the boot heel of Chairman Bud Askins."
"War never changes."
-Cooper Howard, The Ghoul
#fallout

I'm not saying any new shit:
"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."
- Letter from a Birmingham Jail, MLK

So as @… pointed out, "Sneaky way to include the Russian flag in your official messaging." 🤔
#USpol #dod

Hidden degree of freedom implied by unusual nonlocal transport in a topological semimetal
Yongjian Wang, A. A. Taskin, Yoichi Ando
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09720

Hidden degree of freedom implied by unusual nonlocal transport in a topological semimetal
The spin Hall and inverse spin Hall effects have established a principle to understand nonlocal charge transport due to an additional degree of freedom. This principle applies successfully to the nonlocal transport due to the valley degree of freedom in graphene or to the chiral degree of freedom in a Weyl semimetal. Here we report the discovery of an unusual nonlocal charge transport that cannot be explained by any known mechanism and hence points to the existence of a hidden degree of freedom…

Urgent action before 12.00 CET / 11.00 BST
Call for the Protection of the Freedom Flotilla and an End to the Gaza Blockade - Deadline 5th June 12.00 CET | Framaforms.org
https://framaforms.org/call-for-the-pr

On The Political Roots of Academic Freedom — Crooked Timber https://crookedtimber.org/2025/06/03/on-the-political-roots-of-academic-freedom/

Electron-phonon-dominated charge-density-wave fluctuations in TiSe$_2$ accessed by ultrafast nonequilibrium dynamics
Sotirios Fragkos, Hibiki Orio, Nina Girotto Erhardt, Akib Jabed, Sarath Sasi, Quentin Courtade, Muthu P. T. Masilamani, Maximilian \"Unzelmann, Florian Diekmann, Baptiste Hildebrand, Dominique Descamps, St\'ephane Petit, Fabio Boschini, J\'an Min\'ar, Yann Mairesse, Friedrich Reinert, Kai Rossnagel, Dino Novko, Samuel Beaulieu, Jakub Schusser

Electron-phonon-dominated charge-density-wave fluctuations in TiSe$_2$ accessed by ultrafast nonequilibrium dynamics
1T-TiSe$_2$ exhibits a charge-density-wave (CDW) transition below 200 K, which is believed to be driven by a hybrid exciton-phonon mechanism, making it a versatile platform for investigating the interplay between electronic and lattice degrees of freedom. Although the corresponding band structure modifications below the CDW transition temperature are well established, only a few reports discuss the occurrence of the CDW fluctuating phase and its spectral features well above the transition tempe…

Going to #NoKings Saturday? Try to recruit the newly radicalizing to defunding the police, to defending all in our communities facing displacement—immigrant, queer, unhoused, unable to pay rent—in short, to fighting local fascisms, so we can better fight national fascism, at ICE centers

Aww The Freedom Caucus Wants A Do-Over On Big Beautiful Bill | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/06/aww-freedom-caucus-wants-do-over-big

Wisdom Tantra Freedom
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Say hello to the movie that grabbed me by the guts and never let go — Joker from 2019, my favorite film, raw and wild and real.
Then there’s the other one, Joker: Folie Š Deux, the disaster I hated so much I can’t imagine ever watching it again.
One feels like freedom tearing through the screen, the other like a cage slamming shut on everything I loved.
That’s my truth, no filters.
#Joker

Local and global approaches to the thermodynamics of pure decoherence processes in open quantum systems
Irene Ada Picatoste, Alessandra Colla, Heinz-Peter Breuer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11633

Local and global approaches to the thermodynamics of pure decoherence processes in open quantum systems
We study the nonequilibrium thermodynamics of pure decoherence processes in open quantum systems coupled to a thermal reservoir. We review various definitions of central quantities, such as internal energy, work, heat and entropy production, developed within local and global approaches to quantum thermodynamics. Within local approaches thermodynamic quantities only refer to the open system's degrees of freedom, while in the global approaches certain quantities are defined by referring explicitl…

Until it’s FREEDOM FOR ALL, it’s freedom for none. In our history, we’ve never actually achieved FREEDOM FOR ALL. But we will. Or we’ll die trying. #NeverGiveUp #FreedomForAll #4thOfJuly

Unified Modeling and Structural Optimization of Multi-magnet Embedded Soft Continuum Robots for Enhanced Kinematic Performances
Zhiwei Wu, Jiahao Luo, Siyi Wei, Jinhui Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10950

Unified Modeling and Structural Optimization of Multi-magnet Embedded Soft Continuum Robots for Enhanced Kinematic Performances
This paper presents a unified modeling and optimization framework to enhance the kinematic performance of multi-magnet embedded soft continuum robots (MeSCRs). To this end, we establish a differentiable system formulation based on an extended pseudo-rigid-body model. This formulation enables analysis of the equilibrium well-posedness and the geometry of the induced configuration under magnetic actuation. In particular, we show that the maximum controllable degrees of freedom of a MeSCR equal tw…

Communications lost with
Gaza-bound aid ship Madleen
after Israeli navy tells it to change course
Freedom Flotilla Coalition says ship’s communications were jammed after Israeli defence minister threatened to ‘take all necessary measures’ to prevent the humanitarian ship from reaching Gaza

was pretty convinced i was having a psychotic break when i walked into this scene at the world trade center freedom mall, & confirmed that feeling when i subsequently got forcibly shoved out of the way by some wrassler's entourage disembarking from the escalator as i tried to get to the PATH train. #nyc

Vending machines at the University of Waterloo violated privacy act
https://flip.it/23eUXQ

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In an earlier post I introduced the principle that there were four categories of side hustle. Let’s now talk about the fourth and final category.
4️⃣ 𝐈 – 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐇𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐬: 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐘𝐨𝐮
The ultimate level of financial freedom? Investing (I quadrant) – where your money generates income instead of your time.
🔹 Examples: Stocks, real estate, cryptocurrency, digital assets, angel investing.

Proposed measurement of longitudinally polarised vector bosons in $WH$ and $ZH$ production at Hadron colliders
Rosa Colyer, Dominik Duda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13002

Proposed measurement of longitudinally polarised vector bosons in $WH$ and $ZH$ production at Hadron colliders
The longitudinal polarisation states of the $W$ and $Z$ bosons arise during electroweak (EW) symmetry breaking as the vector bosons absorb the Higgs boson's massless degrees of freedom. Consequently, these states are intrinsically linked to the EW symmetry breaking mechanism. Measuring the Higgs boson's coupling to them thus offers a unique opportunity to deepen our understanding of EW symmetry breaking and potentially opens a window to physics beyond the Standard Model. This work studies vecto…

Joseph E. Stiglitz, Professor der Columbia University und Wirtschafts-Nobelpreisträger bekommt von der #Trump - Regierung die Mittel für eine Vortragsreihe in Dänemark gekürzt, die der dortige Botschafter schon frei gegeben hatte. Es geht um lachhafte 10 tsd Dollar. Stiglitz bedankt sich mit dem Florett in einem Meinungsartikel in der NYTimes

"Freedom and Authenticity" 7th International Interdiciplinary Conference
https://ift.tt/B9Qzdy7
updated: Monday, July 14, 2025 - 3:29pmfull name / name of organization: InMind Supportcontact…
via Input 4 RELCFP

140 media organizations call on Israel to LIFT its BAN on international journalists entering Gaza.
There is NO excuse for not allowing international media to enter #Gaza.
"Absolutely unprecedented in modern warfare". #PressFreedom

Press freedom groups demand open access to Gaza – DW – 06/08/2025
More than 140 media organizations are calling on Israel to lift its ban on international journalists entering Gaza. The lack of foreign journalists allows misinformation to flourish, said Jodie Ginsberg, CEO of the Committee to Protect Journalists and one of the signatories of the appeal.

Ugh, they're banning[1] self-importing sunscreens from Europe and Asia. I can only use like one specific Japanese sunscreen that doesn't have crap in it that I'm allergic to.
I guess because freedom and small government or something. /s
[1] https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDHSCBP/bulletins/3e8b084

POSTPONED! See reply.
TOMORROW: May 31, 2:00 PM until 6:00 PM
FREEDOM RISING
Union Station, Washington, DC
Art | Music | Freedom
#art #music #resist

Fleet, which offers open-source device management tools for OSes, various networks, VPNs, and more, raised a $27M Series B led by Ten Eleven Ventures (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/17/27m-fundin…

With $27M in funding, Fleet wants to bring more freedom to enterprise device management - SiliconANGLE
With $27M in funding, Fleet wants to bring more freedom to enterprise device management - SiliconANGLE

#Harvard continues to ignore reports of anti- Palestinian/Arabi/Muslim bias.
“Now, in the face of Trump, Harvard pretends that it is standing up, but you cannot stand up for freedom and silence members of your own community,”
h…

Harvard Affiliates Deliver Hundreds of Complaints Alleging Anti-Arab and Anti-Muslim Bias to President Garber’s Office | News | The Harvard Crimson
More than 30 Harvard affiliates delivered a box containing 452 discrimination complaints to Massachusetts Hall at a Monday rally, alleging that Harvard has fostered “pervasive bias against Muslims, Arabs and Palestinians.”

Prominent lawyers join press freedom fight to thwart Paramount settlement with Trump
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2025-06-06/freedom-press-abbe-lowell-norm-eisen-bre…

Press group adds high-powered attorneys in fight against Paramount
Prominent attorneys Abbe Lowell and Norm Eisen joined the Freedom of the Press Foundation's campaign to thwart efforts by Paramount to reach a settlement with President Trump over his "60 Minutes" lawsuit.

Ultrafast dynamics of quantum matter driven by time-energy entangled photons
Giovanni Citeroni, Marco Polini, Michael Dapolito, D. N. Basov, Giacomo Mazza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12211

Ultrafast dynamics of quantum matter driven by time-energy entangled photons
We study the dynamics of quantum matter interacting with time-energy entangled photons. We consider the stimulation of a collective mode of a two-dimensional material by means of one of the two partners of a time-energy entangled pair of photons. Using an exactly solvable model, we analyze the out-of-equilibrium properties of both light and matter degrees of freedom, and show how entanglement in the incident photons deeply modifies relevant time scales of the light-matter interaction process. W…

http://www.nkp.no/uttalelse-om-freedom-flotilla-coalition.6721258.html
#Kommunisme

Honorable USMC, sorry.
(tune of The Marines’ Hymn)
From halls of Pasadena,
To the shores of Newport Beach,
We fight our country’s citizens
In the air, on land, and sea.
First to fight for white folks’ freedom,
And make BIPOC bend the knee,
Can’t be proud to claim the title
Of United States Marine.

I have my share of issues with Parkrose Permaculture, but she has a lot of things I do strongly agree with. I can't stress enough that you never dehumanize your enemies. You can respond appropriately to violence. You can defend yourself from them by any means necessary. But you do not dehumanize them. You always limit your response to the minimum necessary to defend yourself.
There are a number of former Nazi skins who became antifascists after realizing they were wrong. Those folks tend to be some of the most dedicated because they feel a debt, and some of the most knowledgeable because they were there. Coming out of these types of cults, police included, is hard and takes time. A lot of us don't have the ability to work with them. But some do.
By repeatedly humanizing your opponent, you can break some of them. The #Seattle Police Department was not defunded but saw a massive reduction in numbers because their morale was destroyed. Some people will never change. Some people are broken and feel like they need the power. But if you change one person's mind, even give them something to think about, it's a crack. If even one cop quits, that's one less trained gun pointed at you in the future.
The 18 year old marines and federalized national guard troops out there are literally kids. A lot of them came from poor communities. They are being used in a way they haven't been trained to do, doing things they (should) have been told are not legal. They joined to get out of poverty, to go to college, or to "defend the American people" (regardless of how misguided that is). Few, if any, of them joined to abuse people. They will be especially open to persuasion.
Remind those troops that they are carrying out illegal orders, that they are being called on to violate their oath to protect the constitution, that they are suppressing the free speech of the fellow Americans they swore to defend. Remind them that the people they could be illegally arresting now are just like their parents, their neighbors, their families, the friends who didn't join. Remind them that this is the first step. They will be called on to kill Americans if they let this keep going.
Remind them ICE sleeps in hotels while they sleep on the ground. Remind them that their drunk and incompetent leadership thinks of them as disposable tools. Remind them that some of these people are out protesting *for them* against cuts to the VA and other services. Remind them that the people they're defending refuse to make college free so they can recruit from poor schools. Remind them that they will always be welcome when they're ready to join the side of freedom and justice.
When you dehumanize your enemies, you unify them. When you humanize your enemies, you can divide them. There is no weapon available to us right now so powerful as compassion.
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In announcing her resignation from the National Science Board, Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social details #DOGE interference in National Science Foundation #NSF grant making. «

A Model Anti-Doxing Law: Free Speech, Press Freedom Groups Oppose Effort https://thedissenter.org/a-model-anti-doxing-law-free-speech-press-freedom-groups-oppose-effort/

Freedom Flotilla organiser Huwaida Arraf shortly after she and the rest of the ship’s support crew lost contact with the Madleen:
“All those on board have been abducted. They have been taken against their will while they were sailing peacefully and lawfully in international waters…
They were in international waters, sailing towards Palestinian territorial waters, not getting near Israeli waters…
It needs to be made very clear that Israel has absolutely no jurisdiction, no l…

Madleen Gaza flotilla live: Ship, activists being taken to Israel
The Madleen crew is being detained by Israeli forces after their ship was stopped close to 160km (100 miles) from Gaza.

Freedom Caucus insists it did not fold on Trump's megabill (Emily Brooks/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5384637-house-freedom-caucus-opposition-trump-bill/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p134#a250703p134

Israeli military ordered to block aid flotilla carrying Greta Thunberg
The Freedom Flotilla ship is carrying rice, flour, medical supplies, and baby formula to Gaza.
Rashida Tlaib Pens Plea to Trump Admin to Protect Gaza Freedom Flotilla
https://www.politico.eu…

Israeli military ordered to block aid flotilla carrying Greta Thunberg
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition says it is on a mission aimed at delivering supplies to the Gaza Strip.

Documents: since mid-December 2024, YouTube told moderators to prioritize "freedom of expression" over potential harm, exempting political and culture videos (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/technology/youtube-video…

YouTube Loosens Video Content Moderation Rules
The world’s largest video platform has told content moderators to favor “freedom of expression” over the risk of harm in deciding what to take down.

Ultrafast All-optical control of Multiple Light Degrees of Freedom through Mode-mixing in a Graphene Nanoribbon Metamaterial
Nikolaos Matthaiakakis, Sotiris Droulias, George Kakarantzas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06809

Ultrafast All-optical control of Multiple Light Degrees of Freedom through Mode-mixing in a Graphene Nanoribbon Metamaterial
The evolution of optical technologies necessitates advanced solutions for selective and dynamic manipulation of light's degrees of freedom, including amplitude, phase, polarization, wavelength, and angular momentum. Metamaterials can offer such control through the interplay between the intrinsic material and geometrical properties of nanostructures or extrinsically through excitation and detection symmetry breaking, leading to customizable performance. However, achieving dynamic control over mu…

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Greta Thunberg och de andra ombord "Madleen" är nu bara 300 km från Gaza. Om de inte blir bordade av israelisk militär, kan de vara framme imorgon. #freedom_flotilla #Gaza

“The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) confirms that its civilian ship, Madleen, carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, has been attacked/forcibly intercepted by the Israeli military at 3:02 am CET in international waters at 31.95236° N, 32.38880° E. The ship was unlawfully boarded, its unarmed civilian crew abducted, and its life-saving cargo—including baby formula, food and medical supplies—confiscated.”

Arbitrary high-fidelity binomial codes from multiphoton spin-boson interactions
Pradip Laha, Peter van Loock
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08585 https://

Arbitrary high-fidelity binomial codes from multiphoton spin-boson interactions
Encoding a qubit in the continuous degrees of freedom of a quantum system, such as bosonic modes, is a powerful alternative to modern quantum error correction (QEC). Among the most prominent bosonic QEC codes, binomial codes provide protection against loss and dephasing errors by encoding logical states in superpositions of Fock states with binomially weighted coefficients. While much attention has been given to their error-correcting capabilities and integration into fault-tolerant architectur…

Inside the Freedom Caucus' final surrender (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/03/house-freedom-caucus-megabill-surrender-00439657
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p133#a250703p133

Netanyahu suggested that new plans for the forced relocation of refugees to other countries would give Palestinians
the “freedom” to choose.
But what Palestinians actually want is “the freedom to return to the places from which their families were expelled,”
says Peter Beinart, editor-at-large at Jewish Currents. “
"What kind of freedom is it when you have an area where most of the buildings and the hospitals and the schools and the bakeries and the agriculture …

“Freedom to Choose”?: Peter Beinart Slams Trump-Netanyahu Plan for Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump this week in Washington, D.C. Trump and Netanyahu are discussing Israel’s war in Gaza, with Netanyahu suggesting that new plans for the forced relocation of refugees to other countries would give Palestinians the “freedom” to choose. But what Palestinians actually want is “the freedom to return to the places from which their families were expelled,” says Peter Beinart, editor-at-large at Jewish Curre…

Photonic chiral bulk transports manipulated by boundary freedom in three-dimensional meta-crystals
Yingxin Qi, Hanyu Wang, Qinghua Guo, Zhihong Zhu, Biao Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10861

Photonic chiral bulk transports manipulated by boundary freedom in three-dimensional meta-crystals
In topological physics, one of the most intriguing phenomena is the presence of topological boundary states, accurately predicted by the well-established bulk-edge correspondence. For example, in three-dimensional Weyl semimetals, Fermi arcs emerge to connect projected Weyl points on the surface due to inheriting the bulk-edge correspondence from the integer quantum Hall effect. However, limited attention has been paid to exploring the reverse mechanism in topological crystals. In this study, w…

I had a bad day and made a mistake, but I chose to do the right thing and move forward.
Proud bisexual, gender-fluid, autistic anarchist committed to building a world based on mutual aid, solidarity, and freedom for all.
If you believe in challenging power and creating change from the ground up, let’s connect and let’s grow this movement together.
Now, here I am, feeling stronger and ready for better days ahead.

A Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists arrived at an Israeli port Monday after Israeli forces stopped and detained them
Israel’s Foreign Ministry published a photo on social media of Thunberg after disembarking.
The 12 activists were expected to be held at a detention facility in Ramle before being deported, according to Adalah, a legal rights group representing them

Israeli forces detain Greta Thunberg after halting Freedom Flotilla aid boat
Israeli forces have seized a Gaza-bound aid boat and detained Greta Thunberg and other activists on board, enforcing a longstanding blockade of the Palestinian territory that has been tightened during the war with Hamas. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition, which had organized the voyage to deliver humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip and protest Israel’s blockade and wartime conduct, said the activists had been “kidnapped by Israeli forces.” Israel said the passengers would return to their home…

GOP leaders look to White House to sway Freedom Caucus on megabill (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/02/congress/gop-megabill-freedom-caucus-00437113
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p67#a250702p67

New post on #Pixelfed:
https://pixelfed.social/p/midtsveen/848525352129301491

Appeals court hands AP an incremental loss in its attempt to regain its access to Trump events (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-administration-white-house-ap-press-freedom-360937fa4adb6bdbdebb58a03a6bfcc5
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p164#a250606p164

You can stay updated on Greta Thunberg and the Freedom Flotilla fleet by following their RSS feed below:
Homepage: https://freedomflotilla.org
RSS: https://

We’re witnessing unprecedented attempts to bully academic institutions with the administration’s ideological aims.
These attempts challenge long-standing norms of academic freedom
—that is, the ability of a teacher or researcher in higher education to investigate and discuss subjects without fear of political interference.
Our elected officials should stand up for scientific research and those who produce it in the face of politically motivated attacks.
But public a…

Apathy Over Attacks on Higher Education Needs to Change
If Americans don’t fight back against efforts to dismantle higher education, the U.S. will lose lifesaving medical research, innovation that spurs our economy and the ability to freely study science and society

Sometimes I wake up to the liberating feeling that no one holds authority over me. If only the world would recognize this freedom and dismantle all forms of oppression!
#Anarchism #Syndicalism

Los Angeles police officers arrested journalist
💥Anthony Orendorff
-- while he was documenting a federal immigration raid in Pacoima on June 19.
❌He spent four days behind bars without bail on charges of battery of an officer
before the case was dropped and he was released. 
“It’s bittersweet because I’m out, but there’s a lot of people still in,” Orendorff said.
“There’s a lot of people we still got to fight for.
But this is a win for us … this is…

LAPD Arrest of Journalist at ICE Raid Fuels Press Freedom Fears
Anthony Orendorff was jailed for four days without bail before charges were dropped.

Don’t expect to read independent reporting about ICE activity
— at least not if government officials get their way.
Journalists and members of the public who report on ICE are increasingly under attack by officials who would prefer to silence them so government propaganda can fill the information void.

ICE wants to work in secret. We shouldn’t let it
Journalism about ICE is increasingly under attack by officials who prefer government propaganda

Soon, I’ll be throwing away all my desktop computers as well, though I’m keeping my Lenovo Thinkpad around. I hate computers, yet I use them.
To me, computers are just junk nobody asked for. They’re glowing traps that keep us hooked, scrolling and clicking away our time for endless feeds. No matter the OS or hardware, it’s all distraction from reality.
Yes, Linux can free us and all that, and even the hardware can be part of that freedom. But the computers themselves remain a cir…

My good, how much I hate the internet and computers. I just wanna scream louder than I ever have at them, my good, I’m angry right now. All my life lost to a dumb-ass screen, brainwashed by the latest tech psyops on YouTube nobody asked for.
It’s like being trapped in a never-ending circus of clicks and scrolls, where the clowns are algorithms and the ringmaster is some faceless corporation laughing at how easy it is to fool us.
Computers and the internet promised freedom but del…