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Slightly manic looking selfie you say? Bloody right mate - I donated plasma for the first time today at Launceston and my arm is sore!
It takes a bit of time to sort out optimal arm positions for the needle as it's a 45 minute thang, the awesome staff help make the time fly..
Next plasma donation will be in two weeks because #BloodIsLife

Voter model on heterogeneous directed networks
Luca Avena, Federico Capannoli, Rajat Subhra Hazra, Diego Garlaschelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12169 http…

Voter model on heterogeneous directed networks
We investigate the consensus dynamics of the voter model on large random graphs with heterogeneous and directed features, focusing in particular on networks with power-law degree distributions. By extending recent results on sparse directed graphs, we derive exact first-order asymptotics for the expected consensus time in directed configuration models with i.i.d. Pareto-distributed in- and out-degrees. For any tail exponent α>0, we derive the mean consensus time scaling depending on the networ…

Enteignen? Wohnungskonzerne? 200.000 Wohnungen? Das ist doch ein Tabu!
Doch die Chancen stehen nicht schlecht! Denn die Artikel 14 und 15 des Grundgesetzes erlauben ausdrücklich Enteignungen und Überführungen in Gemeineigentum im Sinne des Gemeinwohls - natürlich gegen Zahlung einer angemessenen Entschädigung.

Wohnungskonzerne enteignen: Darf man das?
Die Berliner können ab heute für einen Volksentscheid unterschreiben, mit dem die Vergesellschaftung von mehr als 200.000 Wohnungen angestrebt wird. Die Chancen für die Initiative stehen recht gut.

Amendments to the Montana Consumer Data Privacy Act Bring Big Changes to Big Sky Country
https://fpf.org/blog/amendments-to-the-montana-consumer-data-privacy-act-bring-big-changes-to-big-sky-country/

Iterative Annealing Mechanism for Protein and RNA Chaperones
Changbong Hyeon, D. Thirumalai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12645 https://…

Iterative Annealing Mechanism for Protein and RNA Chaperones
Molecular chaperones are machines that consume copious amount of ATP to drive misfolded proteins or RNA to fold into functionally competent native states. Because the folding landscapes of biomolecules with complex native state topology are rugged consisting of multiple minima that are separated by large free energy barriers, folding occurs by the kinetic partitioning mechanism according to which only a small fraction of the molecules reach the folded state in biologically viable times. The res…

"A new government of austerity and war, in a deteriorating international situation, after 17 years of economic slump and stagnation, unable to confront crises from genocide to climate change to housing shortages and preparing the way for far-right rule, would warrant sustained opposition from the left under any circumstances."
The Times They Are-a-Changin: #Labour is no longer the de…

Loving my new compression socks - they help with my #longCovid induced #POTS - so wanted to give a shout out to Hannah from Not Your Grandma's for creating such wonderful garments
(she's also struggling to keep the shop afloat so hoping to support a small UK business)

Not Your Grandma's - Compression Socks You Want to Wear
Compression is game-changing for chronic illness but only if you wear it! Yet all the socks out there are plain and beige, well ours are anything but!

This got tossed by the cabal.
CFPB Files Lawsuit to Stop Illegal Kickback Scheme to Steer Borrowers to Rocket Mortgage | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-files-lawsuit-to-stop-illegal-kickback-scheme-to-steer-borrowers-to-rocket-mortgage/

Universal Scaling Laws for Deep Indentation Beyond the Hertzian Regime
Tong Mu, Changhong Linghu, Yanju Liu, Jinsong Leng, Huajian Gao, K. Jimmy Hsia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11461

Universal Scaling Laws for Deep Indentation Beyond the Hertzian Regime
Deep indentation of soft materials is ubiquitous across scales in nature and engineering, yet accurate predictions of contact behaviors under extreme deformations ($δ/R > 1$) remain elusive due to geometric and material nonlinearities. Here, we investigate the indentation of rigid spheres into soft elastic substrates, resolving the highly nonlinear regime where the sphere becomes fully submerged. A universal geometric mapping approach reveals Hertz-type pressure distributions in the deformed c…

My conscience says OK. My conscience always says OK. My conscience is a right guy.