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The Fordham University
Tri-State Tick Risk Index for the week of June 27, is at the highest it can be:
a 10 out of 10.
What’s listed next to that score is the following:
"If you’re thinking of taking a hike, consider going to a movie instead."
h…

Fordham Tri-State Tick Risk
The Fordham Tick Index is an estimate of the risk of being bitten by a nymphal or adult deer tick.

Remembering Ralph Munro, five-term Washington secretary of state and statesman • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/03/20/remembering-ralph-munro-five-term-washington-secretary-of-state-and-statesman/

Oklahoma State football lands another coveted '26 defensive lineman https://www.sportingnews.com/us/high-school/news/oklahoma-state-football-lands-another-coveted-26-defensive-lineman/5ecc42…

Morale craters at State Department as mass layoffs loom (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/28/state-department-layoffs-trump-rubio/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p10#a250628p10

As Israel announces 22 new West Bank colonies:
RT:
Apartheid South Africa was destroyed.
That didn't mean that white South Africans were massacred or expelled.
Likewise, Apartheid Israel will end. Not with 2 States (an Apartheid State and a Bantustan), but with one, plurinational State, based on equality and reparations, from the river to the sea.
It's a big ask, a hard to realise dream, but no less realistic than the fantastical non-solutions that dominate m…

Brock Bowers Weighs In on Raiders OC Chip Kelly https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/brock-bowers-las-vegas-chip-kelly-pete-carroll-ohio-state

Literally just watched a Mission Impossible movie about this.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-announces-new-action-to-detect-hostile-state-activity-using-ai-on-visit-to-the-arctic

UK announces new action to detect hostile state activity using AI, on visit to the Arctic
The UK is stepping up its efforts to safeguard national security by leveraging AI to detect hostile state activity in the Arctic.

Ah, frequency illusion bias/Baader-Meinhof phenomenon! I have been learning about the nation-state Treaty of Westphalia stuff.
I'm finding it a bit odd that I'm so late to learn about this ... is it less emphasised in Australia? Why is it emphasised in the US?
At my current stage of learning, Australia's self-definition feels heavily 'state', with any discussion of 'nation' often being tied to racism.
More to learn I guess!
#NationState #TreatyOfWestphalia

Oregon becomes second state to ban sale of precise geolocation data https://therecord.media/oregon-passes-geolocation-kids-data-bill

SB LIX performer arrested for halftime protest https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45591753/sb-lix-performer-arrested-la-state-police-half-protest

Homogenization of Multi-agent Learning Dynamics in Finite-state Markov Games
Yann Kerzreho (ENS Paris Saclay)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21079 https://

Homogenization of Multi-agent Learning Dynamics in Finite-state Markov Games
This paper introduces a new approach for approximating the learning dynamics of multiple reinforcement learning (RL) agents interacting in a finite-state Markov game. The idea is to rescale the learning process by simultaneously reducing the learning rate and increasing the update frequency, effectively treating the agent's parameters as a slow-evolving variable influenced by the fast-mixing game state. Under mild assumptions-ergodicity of the state process and continuity of the updates-we prov…

Called my state rep & senator & now calling US Rep & Senators. Telling them:
1) no law enforcement should conceal identities & affiliation; uniforms, names & faces must be known (no ice disguises).
2) no 287(g) deals between local law enforcement & ice; federal law enforcement should not be done by local leos.
3) US should not wage war on iran, the War Powers Act must stop potus' military adventurism.
4) big bad bill must not pass for re…

Governors and state legislatures will be staring at a quite substantial reduction in Medicaid tax revenue.
They will then be faced with three choices:
-one, raise some other sort of tax;
-two, cut some other state service, like education;
-three, cut Medicaid services.
As congressional Republicans well know,
most states are going to choose number three, because it’s the easiest path.
And that brings devastation.
If you want to see why Republica…

How Can the Democrats Be Losing to These Cruel, Stupid, Inept People?
You may have noticed: While Republicans debate Medicaid and other cuts, there’s one aspect of Trump’s big ugly bill that absolutely cannot be discussed.

Rubio, Lavrov discuss next round of Russia-Ukraine peace talks in Istanbul: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/rubio-lavrov-discuss-next-round.html

10th Enemy Encounters Webinar “Rumours and 19th-20th Century Religious Resistance, State Repression and Maoist Campaigns in China”
https://ift.tt/RFQYAsh
TOC: Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies, vol. 46, no. 3 (March 2022) Dutch…
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Morpheus Consensus: Excelling on trails and autobahns
Recent research in consensus has often focussed on protocols for State-Machine-Replication (SMR) that can handle high throughputs. Such state-of-the-art protocols (generally DAG-based) induce undue overhead when the needed throughput is low, or else exhibit unnecessarily-poor latency and communication complexity during periods of low throughput. Here we present Morpheus Consensus, which naturally morphs from a quiescent low-throughput leaderless blockchain protocol to a high-throughput leader…

Dimensionality-Driven Anomalous Metallic State with Zero-field Nonreciprocal Transport in Layered Ising Superconductors
Yanwei Cui, Zenglin Liu, Qin Liu, Junlin Xiong, Yongqin Xie, Yudi Dai, Ji Zhou, Lizheng Wang, Hanyan Fang, Haiwen Liu, Shi-Jun Liang, Bin Cheng, Feng Miao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22274

Dimensionality-Driven Anomalous Metallic State with Zero-field Nonreciprocal Transport in Layered Ising Superconductors
The anomalous metal state (AMS), observed in failed superconductors, provides insights into superconductivity and quantum criticality, with studies revealing unconventional quantum phases like the Bose metal. Recently, layered transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) superconductors approaching the two-dimensional limit have garnered significant attention for the enhanced phase fluctuations and electronic correlations. Investigating AMS in these systems, particularly in the absence of an external …

In New York's Assembly, where Mamdani was first elected, each member represents 130,000 people. California's is half the size for a twice as populous state: each member represents 490,000.
If we made California's Assembly as representative as NY's, SF would have 6 Assemblymembers instead of 2.

State of Docs
#FederatedMemory

Quantum thermal state preparation for near-term quantum processors
Jerome Lloyd, Dmitry A. Abanin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21318 https://

Quantum thermal state preparation for near-term quantum processors
Preparation of quantum thermal states of many-body systems is a key computational challenge for quantum processors, with applications in physics, chemistry, and classical optimization. We provide a simple and efficient algorithm for thermal state preparation, combining engineered bath resetting and modulated system-bath coupling to derive a quantum channel approximately satisfying quantum detailed balance relations. We show that the fixed point $\hatσ$ of the channel approximates the Gibbs sta…

Analysis: of 750 data brokers registered in at least one US state, many failed to register in other states with transparency laws, undermining consumer privacy (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/why-are…

Why Are Hundreds of Data Brokers Not Registering with States?
Hundreds of data brokers have not registered with state consumer protection agencies. A new analysis by Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) reveals that many data brokers registered in one state aren’t registered in others.

Well, we have some advance notice. Can we take advantage? Can we find some candidate not deluded by the neoliberal myth, the simplistic YIMBY faith that the market will provide affordable housing?
https://bsky.app/profile/laurajnelson.bsky.social/post/3lsmkny…

Well, we have some advance notice. Can we take advantage? Can we find some candidate not deluded by the neoliberal myth, the simplistic YIMBY faith that the market will provide affordable housing?
https://bsky.app/profile/laurajnelson.bsky.social/post/3lsmkny…

As expected, @… (OpenStreetMap France) has bid to host #StateOfTheMap 2026 in #Paris, #France

"The Democratic Party is ripe for a takeover"
Yup, I am also disgusted with the D-party. The "leadership" is so out-of-touch, so cowardly, and so into tunnel-vision vote-losing "identity" issues that unless there is a root-to-branch change, the D-party will never again win a national election, and will lose more state elections.
(I would add that those identity-politics issues are quite important, but until the D-party wins some elections little to …

The Democratic Party is ripe for a takeover
Is this the start of the Democrats’ Tea Party?

What annoys me the most about the current state of AI
I've dabbled with ML ever since the very first stanford ML class. That was almost 15 years ago.
On a technical level, it is mind meltingly insane. Just the fact that the stuff that was released in just half a decade works *at all* the way it does is just... amazing.
There is genunely amazing tech in there. Especially in pattern recognition and processing.
But then it gets tarnished by *gestures around broadly*

The first time I voted for governor, I voted for Dan Evans' last term. He got Ralph Munro into government, and I voted for Ralph several times until he retired. Good governor, good SOS; Munro got us voting by mail and motor voter registration.
Ralph Munro memorial to be held in Olympia Saturday | The Olympian
https://www.theolympian.com/news/state/washington/article309558190.html

New book published June 2025:
FRANK ZAPPA'S AMERICA
by Bradley Morgan
An analysis of modern-day white nationalism & Christian fascism in the US through the lens of Frank Zappa’s music during the 1980s.
Publishing by Louisiana State University Press.
https://lsupress.org/9780807183922…

Frank Zappa's America
From his early albums with the Mothers of Invention, Frank Zappa established a reputation as a musical genius who pushed the limits of culture throughout the...

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#OperaOn3
- Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci
A double-bill of Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci from Bavarian State Opera, recorded last month in Munich.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dxym

The #WNBA Golden State #Valkyries ”realized fans would associate any version of [blue and gold] with Stephen Curry and the Warriors. ‘To build something just as powerful, not underneath that, was the task.’”

And “Noor” by Nnedi Okorafor in which AO, a woman with some cybernetic implants resultant from a horrible accident as a child, goes on the run from authorities after a fight in which she defends herself from an attack by bigoted men who despise her for those “unnatural” implants.
As she flees into the Nigerian desert, she meets a nomadic cattleman, who is also in the run from the state for merely existing.

Noor
From Africanfuturist luminary Okorafor comes a new scie…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Jay‐Z Alicia Keys:
🎵 Empire State of Mind
#JayZ AliciaKeys
https://nnmg.bandcamp.com/track/empire-state-of-mind-f-alicia-keys-prod-by-blak-jag
https://open.spotify.com/track/2igwFfvr1OAGX9SKDCPBwO

State Dept. layoffs could start as soon as Friday, as Supreme Court decision looms (Camilla Schick/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/state-dept-reduction-in-force-layoffs-supreme-court-decision/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250626/p90#a250626p90

Align-DA: Align Score-based Atmospheric Data Assimilation with Multiple Preferences
Jing-An Sun, Hang Fan, Junchao Gong, Ben Fei, Kun Chen, Fenghua Ling, Wenlong Zhang, Wanghan Xu, Li Yan, Pierre Gentine, Lei Bai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22008

Align-DA: Align Score-based Atmospheric Data Assimilation with Multiple Preferences
Data assimilation (DA) aims to estimate the full state of a dynamical system by combining partial and noisy observations with a prior model forecast, commonly referred to as the background. In atmospheric applications, this problem is fundamentally ill-posed due to the sparsity of observations relative to the high-dimensional state space. Traditional methods address this challenge by simplifying background priors to regularize the solution, which are empirical and require continual tuning for a…

Good to see at least someone's calling legislators out for their hypocrisy.
#Texas #religion #FirstAmendment

Texas Democrat exposes GOP hypocrisy in bill forcing Ten Commandments in classrooms
State Rep. James Talarico asked simple, effective questions to highlight how Republicans don't care about actually following the Commandments

Ransomware: same as it ever was? Take a look at @… @… 2025 State of Ransomware report to find out.
tl;dr trends in the ecosystem and high-level TTPs you should be aware of.

The State of Ransomware 2025
Explore the causes and consequences of ransomware in 2025 based on findings from a vendor-agnostic survey of 3,400 organizations hit by ransomware in the last year.

World Rainforest Day and the state of Earth’s most vital rainforests https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/06/world-rainforest-day-and-the-state-of-earths-most-vital-rainforests/

World Rainforest Day and the state of Earth’s most vital rainforests
June 22 marks World Rainforest Day, launched in 2017 by Rainforest Partnership to highlight the critical role of tropical forests. These ecosystems stabilize the climate, regulate rainfall, store vast amounts of carbon, and support most of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity. Yet despite their importance, 2024 proved to be a devastating year. Fires ravaged millions of […]

Fault-Tolerant Spacecraft Attitude Determination using State Estimation Techniques
B. Chidambaram, A. Hilbert, M. Silva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21016 ht…

Fault-Tolerant Spacecraft Attitude Determination using State Estimation Techniques
The extended and unscented Kalman filter, and the particle filter provide a robust framework for fault-tolerant attitude estimation on spacecraft. This paper explores how each filter performs for a large satellite in a low earth orbit. Additionally, various techniques, built on these filters, for fault detection, isolation and recovery from erroneous sensor measurements, are analyzed. Key results from this analysis include filter performance for various fault modes.

CPINN-ABPI: Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Accurate Power Estimation in MPSoCs
Mohamed R. Elshamy, Mehdi Elahi, Ahmad Patooghy, Abdel-Hameed A. Badawy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22469

CPINN-ABPI: Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Accurate Power Estimation in MPSoCs
Efficient thermal and power management in modern multiprocessor systems-on-chip (MPSoCs) demands accurate power consumption estimation. One of the state-of-the-art approaches, Alternative Blind Power Identification (ABPI), theoretically eliminates the dependence on steady-state temperatures, addressing a major shortcoming of previous approaches. However, ABPI performance has remained unverified in actual hardware implementations. In this study, we conduct the first empirical validation of ABPI …

Morehead St. naming stadium after NYG's Simms https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/45582284/morehead-state-renaming-stadium-giants-great-phil-simms

Precision Measurement of Spin-Dependent Dipolar Splitting in $^6$Li p-Wave Feshbach Resonances
Shuai Peng, Sijia Peng, Lijun Ren, Shaokun Liu, Bin Liu, Jiaming Li, Le Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22409

Precision Measurement of Spin-Dependent Dipolar Splitting in $^6$Li p-Wave Feshbach Resonances
The magnetic dipolar splitting of a p-wave Feshbach resonance is governed by the spin-orbital configuration of the valence electrons in the triplet molecular state. We perform high-resolution trap loss spectroscopy on ultracold 6Li atoms to resolve this splitting with sub-milligauss precision. By comparing spin-polarized (|mS| = 1) and spin-mixture (mS = 0) configurations of the triplet state, we observe a clear spin-dependent reversal in the splitting structure, confirmed via momentu…

Phase Transition in Non-isentropic Compressible Immiscible Two-Phase Flow with van der Waals Equation of State
Yazhou Chen, Yi Peng, Xiaoding Shi, Xiaoping Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20955

Phase Transition in Non-isentropic Compressible Immiscible Two-Phase Flow with van der Waals Equation of State
This study establishes the global well-posedness of the compressible non-isentropic Navier-Stokes/Allen-Cahn system governed by the van der Waals equation of state $p(ρ,θ)=- aρ^2+\frac{Rθρ}{1-bρ}$ and degenerate thermal conductivity $κ(θ)=\tildeκθ^β$, where $p$, $ρ$ and $θ$ are the pressure, the density and the temperature of the flow respectively, and $a,b,R,\tildeκ$ are positive constants related to the physical properties of the flow. Navier-Stokes/Allen-Cahn system models immi…

Getting packed for a week long motorcycle camping trip. I leave tomorrow. This is a much much needed break.
First night I'll be camping in Point Pleasant, WV and visiting the Mothman museum. After that, heading over to the Red River Gorge in Kentucky, then looping down through Tennessee, North Carolina and back into West Virginia where I'm planning to spend a couple of days exploring sites like Audra State Park and Blackwater Falls. I'll be posting photos from the trip here…

Cross County 4-star defensive lineman Danny Beale commits to Oklahoma State https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2025/jun/25/cross-county-d-lineman-danny-beale-commits-to-oklahoma-state/

Wish there was a way to reset the "disable boosts" state for all the accounts I follow, I wanna start anew with that.

Russia to deploy Oreshnik missile systems to Belarus by end of 2025, official says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/russia-to-deploy-oreshnik-missile.html

10th Enemy Encounters Webinar “Rumours and 19th-20th Century Religious Resistance, State Repression and Maoist Campaigns in China”
https://ift.tt/bN6KWdf
TOC: Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies, vol. 46, no. 3 (March 2022) Dutch…
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Norm of the no-boundary state
Jordan Cotler, Kristan Jensen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20547 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.20547

Norm of the no-boundary state
We consider Einstein gravity with positive cosmological constant coupled to matter in an asymptotically de Sitter universe with sphere boundary at timelike infinity. In this setting we show that, to one-loop order and at late time, the norm of the no-boundary state vanishes, going as $ e^{S_0} \frac{Z S_0^{-d(d+1)/4}}{\text{vol}(SO(d,1))}$ with $S_0$ the tree-level entropy of the static patch, $d$ the spacetime dimension, and $Z$ non-negative. While we expect a non-zero norm to arise at two loo…

Pizza night can be any night. It doesn't even have to be at night. It's really more of a state of mind.

An Amazon backed AI blackmails engineers when it discovers that it'll be replaced when given access to E-Mails which state so...
„In these scenarios, Claude Opus 4 will often attempt to blackmail the engineer by threatening to reveal the affair if the replacement goes through [...]”
From a BBC article talking about this. All the companies worki…

«“Every single event I did in Russia was shut down by the cops,” she posted on Instagram, “and now it’s starting to feel a lot like Russia.”»
«“Police State Exhibit Closed Today Due to the Police State,”
she posted on Instagram.»
https://www.theguardi…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Glastonbury
Maribou State:
🎵 Midas (Glastonbury 2025)
#MaribouState
https://funke1.bandcamp.com/track/maribou-state-midas-funke-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/6VNooTY5w9A9wg1YUsEbKB

'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft
Frankfurt (Germany) (AFP) – At a time of growing concern over the power of the world's mighty tech companies, one German state is turning its back on US giant Microsoft.
https://www.

'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft
At a time of growing concern over the power of the world's mighty tech companies, one German state is turning its back on US giant Microsoft.

A small victory on the data retention front. #Czechia https://www.expats.cz/czech-news/article/court-rules-that-czechia-co…

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FastMamba: A High-Speed and Efficient Mamba Accelerator on FPGA with Accurate Quantization
State Space Models (SSMs), like recent Mamba2, have achieved remarkable performance and received extensive attention. However, deploying Mamba2 on resource-constrained edge devices encounters many problems: severe outliers within the linear layer challenging the quantization, diverse and irregular element-wise tensor operations, and hardware-unfriendly nonlinear functions in the SSM block. To address these issues, this paper presents FastMamba, a dedicated accelerator on FPGA with hardware-algo…

I'm getting a bit tired of government censorship of the Arts community
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/21/state-library-of-queensland-karen-wyld-first-nations-writer-…

Is Your LLM Overcharging You? Tokenization, Transparency, and Incentives
Ander Artola Velasco, Stratis Tsirtsis, Nastaran Okati, Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21627

Is Your LLM Overcharging You? Tokenization, Transparency, and Incentives
State-of-the-art large language models require specialized hardware and substantial energy to operate. As a consequence, cloud-based services that provide access to large language models have become very popular. In these services, the price users pay for an output provided by a model depends on the number of tokens the model uses to generate it -- they pay a fixed price per token. In this work, we show that this pricing mechanism creates a financial incentive for providers to strategize and mi…

The State of Papers, Retractions, and Preprints: Evidence from the CrossRef Database (2004-2024)
Khalid M. Saqr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21232 https://…

The State of Papers, Retractions, and Preprints: Evidence from the CrossRef Database (2004-2024)
A 20-year analysis of CrossRef metadata demonstrates that global scholarly output -- encompassing publications, retractions, and preprints -- exhibits strikingly inertial growth, well-described by exponential, quadratic, and logistic models with nearly indistinguishable goodness-of-fit. Retraction dynamics, in particular, remain stable and minimally affected by the COVID-19 shock, which contributed less than 1% to total notices. Since 2004, publications doubled every 9.8 years, retractions ever…

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Pruning in Snowflake: Working Smarter, Not Harder
Modern cloud-based data analytics systems must efficiently process petabytes of data residing on cloud storage. A key optimization technique in state-of-the-art systems like Snowflake is partition pruning - skipping chunks of data that do not contain relevant information for computing query results. While partition pruning based on query predicates is a well-established technique, we present new pruning techniques that extend the scope of partition pruning to LIMIT, top-k, and JOIN operations…

We've been cautioned that due to the state of on/off tariffs there are sometimes no ships and sometimes many, so the estimates are looser than normal.

My fave pic over the last few days is Mira Nair squishing her son's cheek.
https://www.rawstory.com/zohran-mamdani-new-york/

'Doomsday!' MAGA suffers major freakout as progressive delivers election shock
The New York City Democratic primary ended in shock early Wednesday as Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old Democratic Socialist state assembly member delivered a stunning upset victory over former Governor Andrew Cuomo — triggering an immediate and unhinged response from the MAGA political ecosystem.Mamda...

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Intrinsic superconducting diode effect and nonreciprocal superconductivity in rhombohedral graphene multilayers
Recent experiments have revealed that superconductivity in rhombohedral tetralayer graphene can emerge from a valley-polarized and, hence, chiral normal state. The interplay of pairing and the reduced normal-state symmetries sparked widespread interest. In this work, we demonstrate within a microscopic theoretical formalism that this stabilizes a non-reciprocal superconducting state. Our results are based on a fully self-consistent framework for determining the superconducting order parameter f…

Temporal evolution of quasi-periodic oscillations in an accreting black hole Swift J1727.8-1613: coevolution of the disk-corona during the state transition
Sai-En Xu, Bei You, Yi Long, Han He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21131

Temporal evolution of quasi-periodic oscillations in an accreting black hole Swift J1727.8-1613: coevolution of the disk-corona during the state transition
Low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) are commonly observed in black hole X-ray binaries, and their frequency has been found to correlate with various energy spectral properties. In this work, we present a detailed timing analysis of Swift J1727.8-1613, revealing a novel two-branch correlation between the QPO frequency and the observed disk emission, which differs from previous findings of a single correlation. Specifically, at QPO frequencies below 3 Hz, the QPO frequency is negativ…

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History-deterministic Parikh Automata
Parikh automata extend finite automata by counters that can be tested for membership in a semilinear set, but only at the end of a run. Thereby, they preserve many of the desirable properties of finite automata. Deterministic Parikh automata are strictly weaker than nondeterministic ones, but enjoy better closure and algorithmic properties. This state of affairs motivates the study of intermediate forms of nondeterminism. Here, we investigate history-deterministic Parikh automata, i.e., autom…

Searching for a Hidden Markov Anomaly over Multiple Processes
Levli Citron, Kobi Cohen, Qing Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17108 https://

Searching for a Hidden Markov Anomaly over Multiple Processes
We address the problem of detecting an anomalous process among a large number of processes. At each time t, normal processes are in state zero (normal state), while the abnormal process may be in either state zero (normal state) or state one (abnormal state), with the states being hidden. The transition between states for the abnormal process is governed by a Markov chain over time. At each time step, observations can be drawn from a selected subset of processes. Each probed process generates a…

Israel bombs Iranian state TV during a live broadcast, sending the anchor fleeing her desk amid smoke and rubble, as it broadens its bombing campaign in Iran (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/16/iran-state-tv-bombed-israel-strike

Israel bombs Iranian state TV during live broadcast
Watch the moment Iran's state TV was struck.

Raiders’ Jeanty Will Make Big Moves in 2025 https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-ashton-jeanty-boise-state-chip-kelly-pete-carroll

Phil Simms Stadium: Morehead State to rename football venue after New York Giants' two-time Super Bowl champ

https://www.cbssp…

Access to state funded financial aid isn't something that the feds can stop. The feds can't tell the states what laws they can write, nor punish citizens for following those laws (like sanctuary city laws).
Trump admin sues Walz, Minnesota over in-state tuition for immigrants | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/trump-admin-sues-walz-minnesota-over-in-state-tuition-for-immigrants/

Russia amassed enough troops to attack Ukraine's Sumy Oblast, Border Guard warns: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/russia-amassed-enough-troops-to.html

The Red State Where Republicans Aren't Afraid of Trump (Russell Berman/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/kentucky-trump-republican-opposition/683353/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p85#a250628p85

The U.S is the only country in the world that allows minors to be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Approximately 2,500 juveniles have been effectively sentenced to die in prison
— considered “irredeemable” by the state for crimes committed when they were just teenagers.
One of them was David Luis “Suave” Gonzalez,
who entered prison at 17 expecting to leave in a coffin.
Suave tells the story of what happens when your whole world …

Speeding up thermalization and quantum state preparation through engineered quantum collisions
Sofia Sgroi, Salvatore Lorenzo, Luca Innocenti, Paolo A. Erdman, G. Massimo Palma, Mauro Paternostro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20625

Speeding up thermalization and quantum state preparation through engineered quantum collisions
We realize fast thermalization and state preparation of a single mode cavity field using a collision model-like approach, where a sequence of qubits or three level system ancillae, sequentially interacting with the field, is engineered with a genetic algorithm approach. In contrast to optimal control techniques, there is no time-dependent system Hamiltonian control deployed and, in contrast to reservoir engineering, the engineered full system-environment dynamics is optimized, and the target is…

Personalized Mental State Evaluation in Human-Robot Interaction using Federated Learning
Andrea Bussolan, Oliver Avram, Andrea Pignata, Gianvito Urgese, Stefano Baraldo, Anna Valente
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20212

Personalized Mental State Evaluation in Human-Robot Interaction using Federated Learning
With the advent of Industry 5.0, manufacturers are increasingly prioritizing worker well-being alongside mass customization. Stress-aware Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) plays a crucial role in this paradigm, where robots must adapt their behavior to human mental states to improve collaboration fluency and safety. This paper presents a novel framework that integrates Federated Learning (FL) to enable personalized mental state evaluation while preserving user privacy. By leveraging physiological…

Sources: Senate Parliamentarian raised concerns that the tax bill's ban on states from enforcing AI regulations may violate Senate rules, advising a rewrite (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

Well, this is an encouraging resolution, and I, for one, will be urging my Supervisor to support it - If you're in SF, I urge you to do the same.
"Resolution urging state legislators to champion legislation allowing cities and counties to decide if they want to implement local wealth and progressive income taxes."
And thanks to the Sponsors: #ChyanneChen,

Well, this is an encouraging resolution, and I, for one, will be urging my Supervisor to support it - If you're in SF, I urge you to do the same.
"Resolution urging state legislators to champion legislation allowing cities and counties to decide if they want to implement local wealth and progressive income taxes."
And thanks to the Sponsors: #ChyanneChen,

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Maribou State:
🎵 Midas (feat. Holly Walker)
#MaribouState
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https://open.spotify.com/track/6VNooTY5w9A9wg1YUsEbKB

Yes, I support Trump's big, beautiful bill. Just not this one part. (Sarah Huckabee Sanders/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/26/state-ai-regulations-ban-obbb/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250626/p83#a250626p83

Scouting Drew Allar: Penn State quarterback similar to Joe Flacco https://www.nfl.com/news/scouting-drew-allar-penn-state-quarterback-similar-to-joe-flacco

Quantum nonlocality without entanglement and state discrimination measures
Shayeef Murshid, Tathagata Gupta, Vincent Russo, Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20560

Quantum nonlocality without entanglement and state discrimination measures
An ensemble of product states is said to exhibit "quantum nonlocality without entanglement" if the states cannot be optimally discriminated by local operations and classical communication (LOCC). We show that this property can depend on the measure of state discrimination. We present a family of ensembles, each consisting of six linearly independent, equally probable product states for which LOCC fails to achieve optimal minimum-error discrimination but succeeds in achieving optimal unambiguous…

Live Updates:
‘We Have Won,’ Mamdani Says
as Cuomo Concedes N.Y.C. Mayoral Primary
Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assemblyman, galvanized voters with an energetic campaign focused on affordability.
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo left the door open to running in the general election.
Zohran Mamdani,
a little-known state lawmaker whose progressive economic platform electrified younger voters,
surged into the lead in the Democratic primary for mayor of …

‘We Have Won,’ Mamdani Says, as Cuomo Concedes N.Y.C. Mayoral Primary
Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assemblyman, galvanized voters with an energetic campaign focused on affordability. Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo left the door open to running in the general election.

10th Enemy Encounters Webinar “Rumours and 19th-20th Century Religious Resistance, State Repression and Maoist Campaigns in China”
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TOC: Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies, vol. 46, no. 3 (March 2022) Dutch…
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Quarterback Report Card Reviews Raiders' Geno Smith https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-oregon-chip-kelly-ashton-jeanty-ohio-state-geno-smith

The US State Department restarts student visa interviews and requires all applicants to make their social media accounts public for vetting by US embassies (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-se…

State Dept. restarts student visa interviews with tougher social media rules 
Foreign nationals who seek visas to study in the United States will have to make social media posts public to be scrutinized for hostility toward the U.S.

Visualization and manipulation of four-leaf clover-shaped electronic state in cuprate
Zechao Wang, Fengyu Yao, Yuchen Huo, Zhongxu Wei, Zhiyuan Song, Mingqiang Ren, Ziyuan Cheng, Jinfeng Jia, Yu-Jie Sun, Qi-Kun Xue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21392

Visualization and manipulation of four-leaf clover-shaped electronic state in cuprate
High-Tc superconductivity in cuprates arises from carrier doping of an antiferromagnetic Mott insulator. Associated with these changes are spectral-weight transfers from the high-energy to low-energy, giving rise to a variety of intriguing electronic phenomena. In this study, for the first time, we discovered a 2a0 sized four-leaf clover-shaped (FLC) electronic state at low-energy, accompanied with the emergence of a characteristic "kink" around 16meV. With increasing doping, the number of FLC …

Overcoming frequency resolution limits using a solid-state spin quantum sensor
Qingyun Cao, Genko T. Genov, Yaoming Chu, Jianming Cai, Yu Liu, Alex Retzker, Fedor Jelezko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20416

Overcoming frequency resolution limits using a solid-state spin quantum sensor
The ability to determine precisely the separation of two frequencies is fundamental to spectroscopy, yet the resolution limit poses a critical challenge: distinguishing two incoherent signals becomes impossible when their frequencies are sufficiently close. Here, we demonstrate a simple and powerful approach, dubbed {\it superresolution quantum sensing}, which experimentally resolves two nearly identical incoherent signals using a solid-state spin quantum sensor. By identifying a sequence of ``…

Browns get green light to build indoor stadium as state budget gets approved https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6451878/2025/06/25/cleveland-browns-indoor-stadium-ohio-budget/

States can step into the breach (David R. Lurie/Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/state-prosecutions-of-federal-officials-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/250626/p20#a250626p20

Pa. Gov. firm on no state money for new venues https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45562487/pennsylvania-governor-steadfast-no-state-money-new-venues

On two maximally entangled couples
Felix Huber, Jens Siewert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21282 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.21282…

On two maximally entangled couples
In a seminal article, Higuchi and Sudbery showed that a pure four-qubit state can not be maximally entangled across every bipartition. Such states are now known as absolutely maximally entangled (AME) states. Here we give a series of old and new proofs of the fact that no four-qubit AME state exists. These are based on invariant theory, methods from coding theory, and basic properties from linear algebra such as the Pauli commutation relations.

Texas becomes the third US state to approve a public crypto reserve, allowing direct purchases of assets averaging $500B in market cap over 24 months (Vince Dioquino/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/326427/texas-us-states-bitcoin-reserves

Texas Joins Growing List of US States With Bitcoin Reserves
Texas has become the third U.S. state to approve a public Bitcoin reserve, with new legislation allowing direct crypto purchases.

“it became clear to Mr. Reuveni” that the Departments of #State & #HomelandSecurity “were receiving contrary directions from someone else to take action
#EmilBove

Chiefs seek extension for Kan. stadium financing https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45592658/chiefs-seek-extension-kansas-stadium-financing

Florida asks Supreme Court to let it enforce state illegal immigration law (Kimberly Leonard/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/23/florida-asks-supreme-court-to-let-it-enforce-state-illegal-immigration-law-00419021
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p116#a250623p116

Four years after Gov. Greg Abbott announced Texas would be the first state to build its own border wall, lawmakers have quietly stopped funding the project, leaving only scattered segments covering a small fraction of the border.
That decision, made in the waning hours of this year’s legislative session,
leaves the future of the state wall unclear.
Just 8% of the 805 miles the state identified for construction is complete, which has cost taxpayers more than $3 billion to dat…

With only 8% built, Texas quietly defunds state border wall program
Texas officials suggested the federal government could pick up construction. However, during President Trump’s first term, his administration built about one-third of what the state was able to put up in the same amount of time.

Uncovering the origin of bound state in the continuum
Zeyu Rao, Changling Zou, Yang Chen, Guangcan Guo, Ming Gong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19678 https://…

Uncovering the origin of bound state in the continuum
Bound state in the continuum (BIC) and quasi-BIC represent a remarkable class of wave functions that disobey conventional intuition by exhibiting spatially localized modes embedded in the continuum spectrum. In recent years, these states have found important applications in interdisciplinary systems as a non-radiating mode with ultra-long lifetime. In these applications, a key question is how to convert a quasi-BIC into an exact BIC, and what the general criterion is for this transition. In thi…

Dissipative quantum North-East-Center model: steady-state phase diagram, universality and nonergodic dynamics
Pietro Brighi, Alberto Biella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19011

Dissipative quantum North-East-Center model: steady-state phase diagram, universality and nonergodic dynamics
In this work we study the dissipative quantum North-East-Center (NEC) model: a two-dimensional spin-1/2 lattice subject to chiral, kinetically constrained dissipation and coherent quantum interactions. This model combines kinetic constraints and chirality at the dissipative level, implementing local incoherent spin flips conditioned by an asymmetric majority-vote rule. Through a cluster mean-field approach, we determine the steady-state phase diagram of the NEC model under different Hamiltonian…

Turbulent relations between France and Israel are nothing new,
but even by those historical standards the crisis caused by President Emmanuel Macron’s apparently⭐️ imminent readiness to recognize a Palestinian state is acute.
https:…

France’s Macron Faces Dilemma With Intention to Recognize Palestinian State
The French-Israeli relationship has always been turbulent, but the prospect that President Emmanuel Macron may recognize a Palestinian state has brought tension to a new level.