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Multiple Texas Farms Shut Down After ‘Almost 100%’ Of Workforce Vanishes Overnight
Looks like food prices will be on the rise again. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/multiple-texas-farms-shut-down-after-almost-100-of-workforce-vanishes-overnight/ss-AA1H5GRH#image=1

I hate that just to park my car somewhere, I have to agree to a privacy policy that allows them to record me, use facial recognition, recognize my ad identifier on my phone, share all that info with whomever they please, receive any info other companies or specifically any individuals have to share, train their ai with that info, and to top it all off I pay them to do it.

New Zealand-based Xero, which offers accounting software for small businesses, agrees to acquire payments software company Melio in a $2.5B cash-and-stock deal (Rajasik Mukherjee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactiona

Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
DAYNA: And if we agree?
ULTRA 1: We shall reconsider the fate of your friends. And, of course, yourselves.
TARRANT: Is that the best you can do? No deal.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/310/506 B7B5

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Homomorphism Indistinguishability and Game Comonads for Restricted Conjunction and Requantification
Georg Schindling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19746 https…

Homomorphism Indistinguishability and Game Comonads for Restricted Conjunction and Requantification
The notion of homomorphism indistinguishability offers a combinatorial framework for characterizing equivalence relations of graphs, in particular equivalences in counting logics within finite model theory. That is, for certain graph classes, two structures agree on all homomorphism counts from the class if and only if they satisfy the same sentences in a corresponding logic. This perspective often reveals connections between the combinatorial properties of graph classes and the syntactic struc…

Lightweight Target-Speaker-Based Overlap Transcription for Practical Streaming ASR
Ale\v{s} Pra\v{z}\'ak, Marie Kune\v{s}ov\'a, Josef Psutka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20288

Lightweight Target-Speaker-Based Overlap Transcription for Practical Streaming ASR
Overlapping speech remains a major challenge for automatic speech recognition (ASR) in real-world applications, particularly in broadcast media with dynamic, multi-speaker interactions. We propose a light-weight, target-speaker-based extension to an existing streaming ASR system to enable practical transcription of overlapping speech with minimal computational overhead. Our approach combines a speaker-independent (SI) model for standard operation with a speaker-conditioned (SC) model selectivel…

Excitation of the non-resonant streaming instability around sources of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays
Alessandro Cermenati, Roberto Aloisio, Pasquale Blasi, Carmelo Evoli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20646

Excitation of the non-resonant streaming instability around sources of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays
The interpretation of the ultra-high-energy cosmic ray spectrum (UHECRs) and composition suggests a suppression of the flux below $\sim$1 EeV, as observed by the Pierre Auger Observatory and Telescope Array. A natural explanation for this phenomenon involves magnetic confinement effects. We investigate the possibility that UHECRs self-generate the magnetic turbulence necessary for such confinement via current-driven plasma instabilities. Specifically, we show that the electric current produced …

Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
DAYNA: And if we agree?
ULTRA 1: We shall reconsider the fate of your friends. And, of course, yourselves.
TARRANT: Is that the best you can do? No deal.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/310/506 B7B5

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Microtubule polymerization generates microtentacles important in circulating tumor cell invasion
Lucina Kainka, Reza Shaebani, Kathi Kaiser, Jonas Bosche, Ludger Santen, Franziska Lautenschl\"ager
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18301

Microtubule polymerization generates microtentacles important in circulating tumor cell invasion
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) have crucial roles in the spread of tumors during metastasis. A decisive step is the extravasation of CTCs from the blood stream or lymph system, which depends on the ability of cells to attach to vessel walls. Recent work suggests that such adhesion is facilitated by microtubule (MT)-based membrane protrusions called microtentacles (McTNs). However, how McTNs facilitate such adhesion and how MTs can generate protrusions in CTCs remain unclear. By combining fluore…

Stripe has agreed to acquire Privy, which helps companies build crypto wallets into their user experiences; Privy was last valued at $230M in March 2025 (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20