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REMINDER: Influenza has everything needed to kill people every year and produce a global pandemic every few decades forever. What keeps it at a low “just the flu” level is vaccination. One thing that kept the most recent surges from being more like 1918 is the CDC. What is left of the CDC is inadequate to that task. https://m…

🦨 'Rotten egg' gas could be the answer to treating nail infections, say scientists
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-rotten-egg-gas-infections-scientists.html

'Rotten egg' gas could be the answer to treating nail infections, say scientists
Hydrogen sulfide, the volcanic gas that smells of rotten eggs, could be used in a new treatment for tricky nail infections that acts faster and with fewer side effects, according to scientists at the University of Bath and King's College London (KCL).

Kill All The Poor
#Mitchell_and_Webb
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s_4J4uor3JE

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
BLAKE: How soon can you complete?
KAYN: Thirty-five minutes.
BLAKE: Do it in twenty.
KAYN: Or you'll kill me.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/540

Die Mitglieder der SPD begründen ihre Mitgliedschaft aus einer Wertehaltung heraus.
Sie stehen nicht nur für eine bestimmte Zielgruppe, sondern für eine Haltung. Diese Haltung ist geprägt von Vernunft, von unseren Grundwerten, von Empathie und von Respekt in der Debatte voreinander und untereinander.
So ähnlich kommentierte der Generalsekretär der SPD, Tim Klüssendorf, den Zwischenstand des digitalen Mitgliederforums.

Convergence analysis of inexact MBA method for constrained upper-$\mathcal{C}^2$ optimization problems
Ruyu Liu, Shaohua Pan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09940 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.09940 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.09940
arXiv:2511.09940v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper concerns a class of constrained optimization problems in which, the objective and constraint functions are both upper-$\mathcal{C}^2$. For such nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization problems, we develop an inexact moving balls approximation (MBA) method by a workable inexactness criterion for the solving of subproblems. By leveraging a global error bound for the strongly convex program associated with parametric optimization problems, we establish the full convergence of the iterate sequence under the partial bounded multiplier property (BMP) and the Kurdyka-{\L}ojasiewicz (KL) property of the constructed potential function, and achieve the local convergence rate of the iterate and objective value sequences if the potential function satisfies the KL property of exponent $q\in[1/2,1)$. A verifiable condition is also provided to check whether the potential function satisfies the KL property of exponent $q\in[1/2,1)$ at the given critical point. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first implementable inexact MBA method with a full convergence certificate for the constrained nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization problem.
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Starting Jan. 1, New Hampshire’s Medicaid program will stop covering GLP-1 drugs
— Wegovy, Zepbound, and others
— for weight loss.
“We looked at the way that the state was supporting coverage for GLP-1 medicines
and found that this was a fairly significant cost driver,”
Gov. Kelly Ayotte told reporters on Wednesday.
“And so we looked at the medically necessary reasons for it in terms of those who had pre-existing conditions
and made the decision work…