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Ukraine finalizes trade agreement with UAE: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/29/ukraine-finalizes-trade.html

FACT SHEET: Impact of Bipartisan Border Agreement Funding on Border Operations (The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/02/29/fact-sheet-impact-of-bipartisan-border-agreement-funding-on-border-operations/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240229/p86#a240229p86

SCOTUS rejects an appeal from Elon Musk in his case to overturn an SEC agreement to have a lawyer pre-approve his posts about Tesla, without giving a reason (Greg Stohr/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Supreme Court Rejects Musk’s ‘Twitter Sitter’ Appeal in SEC Win
The US Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Elon Musk in his “Twitter sitter” case, leaving intact his agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to have an in-house lawyer pre-approve his social media posts about Tesla Inc.

BuzzFeed signs an agreement licensing the UK and Ireland operations of HuffPost, Tasty, Seasoned, and BuzzFeed to the Independent, which ~30 staff will join (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The Independent Takes Control of BuzzFeed UK and HuffPost UK
BuzzFeed Inc., once the poster child of disruptive online media, will hand what remains of its UK and Ireland operations to British news business Independent Digital News & Media Ltd. in a long-term licensing agreement.

Synevo medical lab says it reached agreement with authorities over building seizure: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/29/synevo-medical-lab.html

Quintez Cephus, Bills reach agreement after WR reinstated from gambling suspension https://theathletic.com/5455452/2024/04/28/quintez-cephus-bills-contract/

Quintez Cephus, Bills reach agreement after WR reinstated from gambling suspension
The NFL reinstated Cephus earlier this month following his year-long suspension for violating the league's gambling policy.

Message from Kasja Ollongren, Minister of Defence.
The Netherlands will sign a long term security agreement with Ukraine. So we shall continue our support, now and in the future. 🇺🇦’s tireless fight is crucial for security in Europe. We must continue to take a united stand against Putin's aggression.

The Netherlands concludes ten-year security agreement with Ukraine
The Netherlands and Ukraine are to sign a security agreement covering the next ten years. The agreement signals the Dutch government's commitment to provide enduring support to Ukraine in the areas of security, reconstruction and justice. The agreement means that the Netherlands will help Ukraine defend itself against Russia and achieve further integration into the EU and NATO.

wikiconflict: Wikipedia edit wars (2009)
A network representing editorial interactions among editors of the English Wikipedia. Nodes are editors, and an edge denotes an edit conflict between the two editors. Edge are timestamped and signed. A positive sign indicates the users have agreement on the edit, and the negative sign indicates a disagreement (a reversion) on the edit.
This network has 118100 nodes and 2917785 edges.
Tags: Social, Conflict, Signed, Timestamps

Ukraine And Italy Sign Bilateral Security Agreement, Zelenskiy Says
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-italy-sign-bilateral-security-agreement/32833717.html

Ukraine And Italy Sign Bilateral Security Agreement, Zelenskiy Says
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on February 24 signed a bilateral security agreement with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

Venezuelan President Nicolšs Maduro is brazenly refusing to honor his agreement to allow a free and fair election this year.

The United States lifted some sanctions in October after the Maduro government and the Venezuelan opposition, known as the #Unitary #Platform, agreed in Barbados on a “road map” that would …

Venezuela’s Maduro is breaking through all red lines. Time to respond.
The Venezuelan strongman is careening through the red lines set by the U.S.

Ukraine, Poland ready to conclude agreement on joint border control: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/28/ukraine-poland-ready.html

"From 2016 to 2022, 80 percent of global #CO2 #emissions were produced by just 57 [state-owned and private sector] companies."
Additionally, "since the #ParisAgreement was signed, 58 of the top 100

Distributed Estimation and Control for LTI systems under Finite-Time Agreement
Camilla Fioravanti, Evagoras Makridis, Gabriele Oliva, Maria Vrakopoulou, Themistoklis Charalambous
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17466

Distributed Estimation and Control for LTI systems under Finite-Time Agreement
This paper considers a strongly connected network of agents, each capable of partially observing and controlling a discrete-time linear time-invariant (LTI) system that is jointly observable and controllable. Additionally, agents collaborate to achieve a shared estimated state, computed as the average of their local state estimates. Recent studies suggest that increasing the number of average consensus steps between state estimation updates allows agents to choose from a wider range of state fe…

The Financial Times signs a deal with OpenAI to train AI models on its archived content, and to let ChatGPT respond with short summaries of FT articles (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)
https://t.co/MYGajP4KtO

The Financial Times and OpenAI strike content licensing deal
Agreement comes as Microsoft-backed start-up seeks data from reliable sources to train latest artificial intelligence models

Albania, Ukraine sign cooperation agreement: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/28/albania-ukraine-sign.html

The National Archives and Arts Council England sign new agreement https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/the-national-archives-and-arts-council-england-sign-new-agreement/

The National Archives and Arts Council England sign new agreement - The National Archives
The National Archives and Arts Council England have signed a new collaboration agreement for 2024 to 2027. This agreement outlines how we will build on our previous work together to ensure a comprehensive cultural offer for the public, which includes the rich variety of arts, museums, libraries and archives. Arts Council England is the national […]

Venezuelan President Nicolšs Maduro is brazenly refusing to honor his agreement to allow a free and fair election this year.

The United States lifted some sanctions in October after the Maduro government and the Venezuelan opposition, known as the #Unitary #Platform, agreed in Barbados on a “road map” that would …

Venezuela’s Maduro is breaking through all red lines. Time to respond.
The Venezuelan strongman is careening through the red lines set by the U.S.

The Financial Times signs a deal with OpenAI to train AI models on its archived content, and to let ChatGPT respond with short summaries of FT articles (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)
https://t.co/MYGajP4KtO

The Financial Times and OpenAI strike content licensing deal
Agreement comes as Microsoft-backed start-up seeks data from reliable sources to train latest artificial intelligence models

"When that old order fell, it took the form of a well-earned landslide, and a clear step towards something genuinely new. After a decade and a half, the Bute House Agreement breathed new life into those fading hopes. Now it seems more likely that real change will come crawling out of a tomb, in a faded red rosette"
#ScotPol

Scotland’s old order plots a restoration
In 1985, Neal Ascherson compared the different attitudes which the English and the Scots have to their national histories. When the English think of their past, he argued, they “are gazing from the te

Wanted #german contributor to #dotclear circa 2017
Looking for Martin - Open Time
https://open-time.net/post/2024…

Three-time Pro Bowl running back reuniting with Cowboys https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/three_time_pro_bowl_running_back_reuniting_with_cowboys/s1_14819_40298890

Three-time Pro Bowl running back reuniting with Cowboys
In a move which comes as no surprise at this point, Ezekiel Elliott is set to return to the Cowboys.  The former rushing champion has a deal in place with Dallas pending a physical, Tom Pelissero and Ian Rapoport of NFL Network report. It is a one-year agreement worth $3M, per Clarence Hill Jr. of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Elliott will collect $2M guaranteed, he adds. The 28-year-old is therefore in line to once again take on a notable role in the Cowboys’ backfield. One month ago, Ellio…

Stoppen met kolencentrales en ouderwetse hoogovens, dat moet, dat zijn de grootste stappen. Maar ja, dat kan de burger niet, dat is aan de politiek en het bedrijfsleven dus ligt de nadruk elders. https://mastodon.social/@Snoro/112000706977419967

Raiders to add to WR room with addition of veteran https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_to_add_to_wr_room_with_addition_of_veteran/s1_14819_40301647

Raiders to add to WR room with addition of veteran
The Raiders will give Michael Gallup a second chance. After the Cowboys cut the veteran wide receiver earlier this year, ESPN.com’s Adam Schefter reports the former 1,000-yard performer has a deal in place with the Raiders. Gallup is heading to Las Vegas on a one-year deal worth up to $3M. This certainly represents a steep drop from Gallup’s five-year Cowboys agreement, but the former third-round pick is coming off three straight underwhelming seasons. Las Vegas did not draft a wide receive…

Interesting comments from Rory Scothorne on the possible repercussions of the First Minister's cancellation of the Bute House Agreement https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/scotland/2024/04/scotlands-old-order-plots-a-restoration

Scotland’s old order plots a restoration
In 1985, Neal Ascherson compared the different attitudes which the English and the Scots have to their national histories. When the English think of their past, he argued, they “are gazing from the te

A state rep got caught committing securities fraud. A grand jury indicted him on felony charges. Years passed. The defendant was elected attorney general. Years more passed.
Now he has agreed to accept punishment. He must pay nearly $300,000 in restitution, take legal ethics classes and perform 100 hours of community service.
And he remains attorney general.
Given these impossible facts—what state are we in?

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Reaches Deal to Avoid Criminal Trial
Nearly a decade after his indictment for securities fraud, Mr. Paxton will pay restitution, take legal ethics classes and do community service as part of an agreement with prosecutors.

In another union win, UAW signs contract with Daimler Truck in NC - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2024/04/27/in-another-union-win-uaw-signs-contract-with-daimler-truck-in-nc/

How is Weiss still not replaced? He. Is. A. Witness.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/03/19/david-weiss-does-not-contest-he-reneged-on-hunter-bidens-plea-agreement-to-chase-russian-lies/…

David Weiss Does Not Contest He Reneged on Hunter Biden's Plea Agreement to Chase Russian Lies - emptywheel
David Weiss is claiming one thing about the disposition of Alexander Smirnov's 2020 attempt to frame Joe Biden in Smirnov's prosecution and saying something totally different in attempts to withhold discovery on that from Hunter Biden. And the withheld documents go to the core of Weiss' decision to renege on a plea deal.

"The resolution aims to foster the protection of personal data, enhance privacy policies, ensure close monitoring of #AI for potential risks, and uphold human rights. It emerged from a proposal by the US and received backing from China & 121 countries.
Being a nonbinding agreement and thus effectively toothless, the resolution seems broadly popular in the AI industry."

World’s first global AI resolution unanimously adopted by United Nations
Nonbinding agreement seeks to protect personal data and safeguard human rights.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17056 has been replaced.
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Four-gluon vertex from the Curci-Ferrari model at one-loop order
We compute the four-gluon vertex from the Curci-Ferrari model at one-loop order for a collinear configuration. Our results display a good agreement with the first lattice data for this vertex, released very recently (arXiv:2401.12008). A noteworthy novelty of our work is that we can provide analytical expressions for the four-gluon vertex in collinear configurations, together with a renormalization scheme that allows us to perform reliable perturbative computations even in the infrared regime. …

'We were born knowing this is ours': B.C. signs deal recognizing Haida Nation title over Haida Gwaii | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-haida-gwaii-title-agreement-1.7173601

🃏 eBay enters trading card commercial agreement with Collectors, acquires Goldin
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/10/ebay-enters-trading-card-commercial-agreement-with-collectors-acquires-goldin/

eBay enters trading card commercial agreement with Collectors, acquires Goldin | TechCrunch
As eBay continues to invest in the trading card space, the e-commerce company announced Wednesday three significant commercial transactions with eBay entered a series of commercial transactions with trading card authenticator Collectors.

Sat near a group of people having a meeting. One guy has a very deep voice and keeps going mmm, mmmm, mmmm in agreement as the discussion continues. Think he might be a medic trying to show that he’s listening and sympathising. It’s very annoying although the people in the meeting don’t seem to mind.

Diamondbacks, Jordan Montgomery in agreement on $25 million deal: Source
#MLB #Baseball #KenRosenthal

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.05723 has been replaced.
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$(g-2)_μ$ and Stau coannihilation : Dark Matter and Collider Analysis
Slepton coannihilation is one of the most promising scenarios that can bring the predicted Dark Matter (DM) abundance in the the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) into agreement with the experimental observation. In this scenario, the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP), usually assumed to be the lightest neutralino, can serve as a Dark Matter (DM) candidate while the sleptons as the next-to-LSPs (NLSPs) lie close in mass. In our previous studies analyzing the electroweak (EW) sec…

Sources: Sony made multiple filings in India to pull out a pact to merge its India operations with Zee Entertainment (Anto Antony/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-29/sony-is-said-to-have-wit…

Sony Is Said to Have Withdrawn Its India Merger Pact With Zee
Sony Group Corp. is said to have withdrawn the agreement to merge its India operations with Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. from a local company court, taking the final step in scrapping a two-year-old plan that sought to create a $10 billion media giant.

I tired of the sanctimonious whining about alleged put-downs of White rural residents.
Nicholas F. Jacobs and Daniel M. Shea offer a three-pronged argument intended to excuse these voters and shift blame to others.
🔹First, they suggest that these residents are victims of
“economic policies that have devastated local industries,”
an idea they support with only a glancing reference to the North American Free Trade Agreement,
which has a history and impact more c…

What city-dwellers and rural Americans don’t get about each other
Four readers on the way Americans from different parts of the country see each other.

Patriots, DT Barmore agree to 4-year extension https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/40049891/patriots-dt-christian-barmore-agree-4-year-extension-agent-says

Patriots, DT Christian Barmore agree to 4-year extension, agent says - ESPN
The Patriots and defensive tackle Christian Barmore have reached agreement on a four-year deal with a maximum value of $92 million, agent Nicole Lynn told ESPN's Adam Schefter.

That's nice, Houthi's won't fire on vessels from China and Russia....
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-21/china-russia-reach-agreement-with-yemen-s-houthis-on-red…

China, Russia Reach Agreement With Yemen’s Houthis on Red Sea Ships
The Yemen-based Houthis have told China and Russia their ships can sail through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden without being attacked, according to several people with knowledge of the militant group’s discussions.

Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
EGRORIAN: It is a threat. Like you, I have a price on my head. So, having revealed my little sanctuary, I cannot allow you and your colleagues to leave. Not, at any rate, until we've reached an agreement.
AVON: [V.O.] The Federation gave up looking for you a long time ago, Egrorian. You are a forgotten man. [Pinder laughs. Egrorian looks annoyed.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/s/411/33 📺 B7B3

Onset of Air Entrainment by a smooth plunging jet under atmospheric pressure
Alain Cartellier, Juan Lasheras
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17571 https://

Onset of Air Entrainment by a smooth plunging jet under atmospheric pressure
The onset of air entrainment by a smooth vertical liquid jet impacting a pool of the same liquid has been experimentally determined. The ranges of parameters covered complement those considered by Lin & Donnelly (1969). The influence of the jet curvature is clarified. A model based on the viscous stress acting on the interface proves to be in good agreement with the experiments in the limit of very viscous liquids. For less viscous liquids, the critical capillary number happens to be mainly con…

Pair of intriguing RBs loom as potential addition for Cowboys https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/pair_of_intriguing_rbs_loom_as_potential_addition_for_cowboys/s1_14819_40166636

Pair of intriguing RBs loom as potential addition for Cowboys
With Tony Pollard no longer in the picture, the Cowboys are an obvious candidate to draft a running back. A veteran signing before then would come as little surprise, though, and a pair of high-profile names could be eyeing a Dallas agreement. When speaking at the league meetings, head coach Mike McCarthy confirmed Dallas will be making at least one addition at the RB spot, via NFL Network’s Mike Garafolo. The Cowboys retained Rico Dowdle, who finished second on the team in rushing yards last…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.11039 has been replaced.
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A priori bounds for quasi-linear SPDEs in the full sub-critical regime
This paper is concerned with quasi-linear parabolic equations driven by an additive forcing $ξ\in C^{α-2}$, in the full sub-critical regime $α\in (0,1)$. We are inspired by Hairer's regularity structures, however we work with a more parsimonious model indexed by multi-indices rather than trees. This allows us to capture additional symmetries which play a crucial role in our analysis. Assuming bounds on this model, which is modified in agreement with the concept of algebraic renormalization, …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.16895 has been replaced.
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MIDIS: JWST/MIRI reveals the Stellar Structure of ALMA-selected Galaxies in the Hubble-UDF at Cosmic Noon
We present deep James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)/MIRI F560W observations of a flux-limited, ALMA-selected sample of 28 galaxies at z=0.5-3.6 in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF). The data from the MIRI Deep Imaging Survey (MIDIS) reveal the stellar structure of the HUDF galaxies at rest-wavelengths of >1 micron for the first time. We revise the stellar mass estimates using new JWST photometry and find good agreement with pre-JWST analysis; the few discrepancies can be explained by blending is…

Day 796: will Ukrainian withdrawal from west of Avdiyivka facilitate Russia’s gains? ISW’s analysis Will Ukrainian withdrawal from west of Avdiyivka facilitate Russia’s gains? ISW’s analysis. Ukraine Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/796

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17809 has been replaced.
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Self-consistent quasi-particle $GW$ and hybrid functional calculations for Al/InAs/Al heterojunctions: band offset and spin-orbit coupling effects
The electronic structure of surfaces and interfaces plays a key role in the properties of quantum devices. Here, we study the electronic structure of realistic Al/InAs/Al heterojunctions using a combination of density functional theory (DFT) with hybrid functionals and state-of-the-art quasi-particle $GW$ (QS$GW$) calculations. We find a good agreement between QS$GW$ calculations and hybrid functional calculations which themselves compare favourably well with ARPES experiments. Our study confir…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.13541 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_nuc…

Studying the interaction between charm and light-flavor mesons
The two-particle momentum correlation functions between charm mesons ($\mathrm{D^{*\pm}}$ and $\mathrm{D}^\pm$) and charged light-flavor mesons ($π^{\pm}$ and K$^{\pm}$) in all charge-combinations are measured for the first time by the ALICE Collaboration in high-multiplicity proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s} =13$ TeV. For $\mathrm{DK}$ and $\mathrm{D^*K}$ pairs, the experimental results are in agreement with theoretical predictions of the residual strong interac…

That's nice, Houthi's won't fire on vessels from China and Russia....
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-21/china-russia-reach-agreement-with-yemen-s-houthis-on-red…

China, Russia Reach Agreement With Yemen’s Houthis on Red Sea Ships
The Yemen-based Houthis have told China and Russia their ships can sail through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden without being attacked, according to several people with knowledge of the militant group’s discussions.

wikiconflict: Wikipedia edit wars (2009)
A network representing editorial interactions among editors of the English Wikipedia. Nodes are editors, and an edge denotes an edit conflict between the two editors. Edge are timestamped and signed. A positive sign indicates the users have agreement on the edit, and the negative sign indicates a disagreement (a reversion) on the edit.
This network has 118100 nodes and 2917785 edges.
Tags: Social, Conflict, Signed, Timestamps

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17466 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_ees…

Distributed Estimation and Control for LTI systems under Finite-Time Agreement
This paper considers a strongly connected network of agents, each capable of partially observing and controlling a discrete-time linear time-invariant (LTI) system that is jointly observable and controllable. Additionally, agents collaborate to achieve a shared estimated state, computed as the average of their local state estimates. Recent studies suggest that increasing the number of average consensus steps between state estimation updates allows agents to choose from a wider range of state fe…

I am equal parts excited and resigned to my (our) neo-liberal fate of perpetual disappointment... but dammit, I will be excited for the next 10 minutes at least!!
And by the way, I saw this on Mastodon First! (H/t @…)
#CdnPoli

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.14438 has been replaced.
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Higher-form symmetry and chiral transport in real-time lattice $U(1)$ gauge theory
We study classical lattice simulations of theories of electrodynamics coupled to charged matter at finite temperature, interpreting them using the higher-form symmetry formulation of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). We compute transport coefficients using classical Kubo formulas on the lattice and show that the properties of the simulated plasma are in complete agreement with the predictions from effective field theories. In particular, the higher-form formulation allows us to understand from hydrod…

Republicans Rally Against WHO Pandemic Agreement: "Pray For A Tower Of Babel Within Their Organization" - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2024/04/republicans-rally-against-who-pan…

Republicans Rally Against WHO Pandemic Agreement: “Pray For A Tower Of Babel Within Their Organization”
From the Family Research Council's website: The Biden administration is signing away American sovereignty and rushing the United States into a binding agreement that would establish a global body gove

UMG strikes a 10-year distribution deal with K-pop management agency Hybe; UMG also will invest in and further collaborate with Hybe's superfan platform Weverse (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/uni

Universal Music invests in ‘superfan’ platform Weverse, as it strikes new 10-year agreement
HYBE has struck an expanded long-term agreement with Universal Music Group…

Signed Graph Representation Learning: A Survey
Zeyu Zhang, Peiyao Zhao, Xin Li, Jiamou Liu, Xinrui Zhang, Junjie Huang, Xiaofeng Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15980

Signed Graph Representation Learning: A Survey
With the prevalence of social media, the connectedness between people has been greatly enhanced. Real-world relations between users on social media are often not limited to expressing positive ties such as friendship, trust, and agreement, but they also reflect negative ties such as enmity, mistrust, and disagreement, which can be well modelled by signed graphs. Signed Graph Representation Learning (SGRL) is an effective approach to analyze the complex patterns in real-world signed graphs with …

Implications of purity constraints on light higgsinos
Stephen P. Martin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19598 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.1…

Implications of purity constraints on light higgsinos
The lightest supersymmetric particles could be higgsinos that have a small mixing with gauginos. If the lightest higgsino-like state makes up some or all of the dark matter with a thermal freezeout density, then its mass must be between about 100 and 1150 GeV, and dark matter searches put bounds on the amount of gaugino contamination that it can have. Motivated by the generally good agreement of flavor- and CP-violating observables with Standard Model predictions, I consider models in which the…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.06995 has been replaced.
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Topological recursion and uncoupled BPS structures II: Voros symbols and the $τ$-function
We continue our study of the correspondence between BPS structures and topological recursion in the uncoupled case, this time from the viewpoint of quantum curves. For spectral curves of hypergeometric type, we show the Borel-resummed Voros symbols of the corresponding quantum curves solve Bridgeland's "BPS Riemann-Hilbert problem". In particular, they satisfy the required jump property in agreement with the generalized definition of BPS indices $Ω$ in our previous work. Furthermore, we observ…

David Weiss Does Not Contest He Reneged on Hunter Biden's Plea Agreement to Chase Russian Lies (emptywheel)
https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/03/19/david-weiss-does-not-contest-he-reneged-on-hunter-bidens-plea-agreement-to-chase-russian-lies/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240320/p3#a240320p3

Ukraine, Portugal start talks on security agreement: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/24/ukraine-portugal-start.html

De Nederlandse regering viel vanwege een verzinsel, de nieuwe Nederlandse regering verzint een crisis om te kunnen gaan regeren, maar de Schotse regering doet niet moeilijk: die valt gewoon over een echte, bestaande, crisis.
Scotland’s coalition government collapses – POLITICO https://www.

Scotland’s coalition government collapses
Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf kills agreement between SNP and Scottish Greens amid bitter row over climate targets.

Sources: Paramount and Skydance move closer to a deal, but Paramount's renewal agreement with Charter, which has an April 30 deadline, is a significant hurdle (Alex Sherman/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/25/paramount-skydance-inch-…

The ALMaQUEST Survey XV: The Dependence of the Molecular-to-Atomic Gas Ratios on Resolved Optical Diagnostics
Niankun Yu, Zheng Zheng, Chao-Wei Tsai, Pei Zuo, Sara L. Ellison, David V. Stark, Di Li, Jingwen Wu, Karen L. Masters, Ting Xiao, Yinghui Zheng, Zongnan Li, Kai Zhang, Hongying Chen, Shu Liu, Sihan Jiao, Fanyi Meng
https://

The ALMaQUEST Survey XV: The Dependence of the Molecular-to-Atomic Gas Ratios on Resolved Optical Diagnostics
The atomic-to-molecular gas conversion is a critical step in the baryon cycle of galaxies, which sets the initial conditions for subsequent star formation and influences the multi-phase interstellar medium. We compiled a sample of 94 nearby galaxies with observations of multi-phase gas contents by utilizing public H I, CO, and optical IFU data from the MaNGA survey together with new FAST H I observations. In agreement with previous results, our sample shows that the global molecular-to-atomic g…

David Weiss Does Not Contest He Reneged on Hunter Biden's Plea Agreement to Chase Russian Lies (emptywheel)
https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/03/19/david-weiss-does-not-contest-he-reneged-on-hunter-bidens-plea-agreement-to-chase-russian-lies/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240320/p3#a240320p3

Valley relaxation in a single-electron bilayer graphene quantum dot
Lin Wang, Guido Burkard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18328 https://…

Valley relaxation in a single-electron bilayer graphene quantum dot
We investigate the valley relaxation due to intervalley coupling in a single-electron bilayer graphene quantum dot. The valley relaxation is assisted by both the emission of acoustic phonons via the deformation potential and bond-length change mechanisms and $1/f$ charge noise. In the perpendicular magnetic-field dependence of the valley relaxation time $T_1$, we predict a monotonic decrease of $T_1$ at higher fields due to electron-phonon coupling, which is in good agreement with recent experi…

Over 90 scientists sign an agreement that seeks to prevent their AI-aided research for designing new proteins from being used for the development of bioweapons (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.co…

Dozens of Top Scientists Sign Effort to Prevent A.I. Bioweapons
An agreement by more than 90 said, however, that artificial intelligence’s benefit to the field of biology would exceed any potential harm.

Was the 2020 election stolen?
Job interviews at #RNC take an unusual turn.

Prospective hires say agreeing with Trump’s false election claim appears to be a new #litmus #test for being hired by the party

Was the 2020 election stolen? Job interviews at RNC take an unusual turn.
Prospective hires say agreement with Trump’s false election claims appear to be a new litmus test for being hired by the party.

Sources: Paramount and Skydance move closer to a deal, but Paramount's renewal agreement with Charter, which has an April 30 deadline, is a significant hurdle (Alex Sherman/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/25/paramount-skydance-inch-…

Denmark signs 10-year security agreement with Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/22/denmark-signs-year.html

Was the 2020 election stolen? Job interviews at RNC take an unusual turn - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/26/rnc-2020-election-stolen-trump-hiring/

Was the 2020 election stolen? Job interviews at RNC take an unusual turn.
Prospective hires say agreement with Trump’s false election claims appear to be a new litmus test for being hired by the party.

FACT SHEET: President Biden Announces Up To $8.5 Billion Preliminary Agreement with Intel under the CHIPS & Science Act (The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/03/20/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces-up-to-8-5-billion-preliminary-agreement-with-intel-under-the-chips-science-act/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240320/p17#a240320p17

Minister: Italy set to sign security agreement with Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/22/minister-italy-set.html

Sources: Steelers add KR TD leader Patterson https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39815804/sources-steelers-sign-ex-falcons-rb-cordarrelle-patterson

Sources - Steelers to sign ex-Falcons RB Cordarrelle Patterson - ESPN
Cordarrelle Patterson reached agreement on a two-year, $6 million deal with the Pittsburgh Steelers, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter on Tuesday.

Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass asked whether a woman’s story about an affair with a married candidate would do well.
“That would have been kind of like National Enquirer gold?”
Pecker said yes.
But, Steinglass continued: “At the time you had entered into that agreement [with McDougal], you had zero intention of publishing that story?”
Steinglass pressed: “Despite the fact that publishing it would help your bottom line, you killed it to help the candidate, Donald Trump?”

Microsoft's deal with Inflection is a further sign that the emerging AI economy will probably be dominated by the US tech giants, as the AI talent war heats up (John Thornhill/Financial Times)
https://t.co/dHDOAjRIZl

Sesame Workshop writers reach a tentative deal with management, narrowly avoiding a strike; the 35 WGA members will vote to ratify the deal in the coming days (Sharon Knolle/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/sesame-workshop-writers-reach-tentative…

Sesame Workshop Writers Reach Tentative 5-Year Agreement
WGA members at Sesame Workshop and management avoided a strike after reaching a tentative five-year collective bargaining agreement

Two systems of justice:
Felony securities fraud charges against Ken Paxton to be dropped after 9 years - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/felony-securities-fraud-charges-against-attorney-general-ken-paxto…

Felony securities fraud charges against Ken Paxton to be dropped after 9 years
HOUSTON — Prosecutors on Tuesday agreed to drop the securities fraud charges facing Attorney General Ken Paxton if he performs community service and fulfills other conditions of a pretrial agreement, bringing an abrupt end to the nearly nine-year-old felony case that has loomed over the embattled Re...

Probing the shape of the quark-gluon plasma droplet via event-by-event QGP tomography
Bithika Karmakar, Dusan Zigic, Pasi Huovinen, Marko Djordjevic, Magdalena Djordjevic, Jussi Auvinen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17817

Probing the shape of the quark-gluon plasma droplet via event-by-event QGP tomography
This study investigates Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) in heavy-ion collisions through two avenues: high-$p_{\perp}$ frameworks and hydrodynamic modeling. Using the T$_{\text{R}}$ENTo model, we find that IP-Glasma mimicking $p=0$ value aligns well with high-$p_{\perp}$ data, in agreement with Bayesian analysis of the low-$p_{\perp}$ regime. While adjusting $p$ values may improve a fit to a particular high-$p_{\perp}$ observable, it does not permit an earlier onset of transverse expansion.

Texas AG Ken Paxton makes deal to avoid felony securities trial
#Texas #Attorney #General Ken Paxton (R), a conservative firebrand acquitted last year in a historic impeachment trial, has reached an agreement with prosecutors to a…

Texas AG Ken Paxton makes deal to avoid felony securities trial
Ken Paxton was accused nearly a decade ago of defrauding investors at a Dallas-area tech company. He had pleaded not guilty before reaching a deal Tuesday.

An interview with DocuSign CEO Allan Thygesen on the company's new Intelligent Agreement Management service, now in beta, moving beyond e-signatures, and more (Richard Nieva/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2024/…

Docusign Wants You To Know It’s More Than Just An E-Signature Company
In an exclusive interview with Forbes, Docusign CEO Allan Thygesen calls its new platform a “reinvention” of the entire company.

Ukraine, Estonia begin drafting bilateral security agreement: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/19/ukraine-estonia-begin.html

Ireland and Nato enter new agreement to counter Russia threat – The Irish Times
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2024/02/09/ireland-enters-wide-ranging-agreement-with-nato-aimed-at-countering-r…

Ireland and Nato enter new agreement to counter Russia threat
Deal gives Ireland greater access to Nato resources, including intelligence, but is not a step towards full membership, Government insists

Probing the shape of the quark-gluon plasma droplet via event-by-event QGP tomography
Bithika Karmakar, Dusan Zigic, Pasi Huovinen, Marko Djordjevic, Magdalena Djordjevic, Jussi Auvinen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17817

Probing the shape of the quark-gluon plasma droplet via event-by-event QGP tomography
This study investigates Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) in heavy-ion collisions through two avenues: high-$p_{\perp}$ frameworks and hydrodynamic modeling. Using the T$_{\text{R}}$ENTo model, we find that IP-Glasma mimicking $p=0$ value aligns well with high-$p_{\perp}$ data, in agreement with Bayesian analysis of the low-$p_{\perp}$ regime. While adjusting $p$ values may improve a fit to a particular high-$p_{\perp}$ observable, it does not permit an earlier onset of transverse expansion.

Statement from President Joe Biden on CHIPS and Science Act Preliminary Agreement with Samsung (The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/04/15/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-chips-and-science-act-preliminary-agreement-with-samsung/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240415/p19#a240415p19

Filing: OpenAI rebuts Elon Musk's lawsuit, saying OpenAI didn't violate its founding agreement because "there is no founding agreement, or any agreement at all" (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

OpenAI Calls Elon Musk’s Claims ‘Incoherent’ in Court Filing
OpenAI rebutted Elon Musk’s claims against it in a court filing, saying that the Tesla Inc. billionaire’s claims “rest on convoluted — often incoherent — factual premises.”

The AP and Texas Tribune enter a content sharing agreement; AP will distribute Tribune reporting on Texas and Tribune will get access to AP immigration coverage (The Associated Press)
https://www.ap.org/media-center/press-rele

Ukraine signs agreement with Turkey simplifying bilateral trade: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/08/ukraine-signs-agreement.html

I’m pleased to announce a preliminary agreement between #Samsung and the Department of Commerce to bring Samsung’s
💥advanced semiconductor manufacturing 💥and research and development to #Texas.
This announcement, will unleash over $40 billion in investment from Samsung, and cement 🔸central Texas’s role as a st…

Statement from President Joe Biden on CHIPS and Science Act Preliminary Agreement with Samsung | The White House
I signed the CHIPS and Science Act to restore U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing and ensure America’s consumers, businesses, and military maintain access to the chips that underpin our modern technology. But well before the law was passed, I was working to address our supply chain vulnerabilities. This included my trip to the Republic of Korea…

SAG-AFTRA members ratify new three-year TV animation agreements, which include wage increases and AI protections for voice actors, with 95% voting in favor (Katie Campione/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2024/03/sag-aftra-tv-animat…

SAG-AFTRA Members Overwhelmingly Approve TV Animation Agreement
SAG-AFTRA members overwhelmingly approved the 2023 TV animation agreement.

Ukraine, Czech Republic begin bilateral security agreement negotiations: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/18/ukraine-czech-republic.html

I’m pleased to announce a preliminary agreement between #Samsung and the Department of Commerce to bring Samsung’s
💥advanced semiconductor manufacturing 💥and research and development to #Texas.
This announcement, will unleash over $40 billion in investment from Samsung, and cement 🔸central Texas’s role as a st…

Statement from President Joe Biden on CHIPS and Science Act Preliminary Agreement with Samsung | The White House
I signed the CHIPS and Science Act to restore U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing and ensure America’s consumers, businesses, and military maintain access to the chips that underpin our modern technology. But well before the law was passed, I was working to address our supply chain vulnerabilities. This included my trip to the Republic of Korea…

Italy to cooperate with UNESCO in rebuilding Odesa, cathedral damaged by Russian attacks: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/25/italy-to-cooperate.html

The US has splintered into 12 news bubbles based on ideology, wealth, jobs, age, and location, making gauging public opinion and finding common agreement hard (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/25/news-media-filter-bubble-different-realities…

Shards of glass: Inside media's 12 splintering realities
Traditional media, at least as a center of dominant power, is dead.

The US awards Intel $8.5B in CHIPS Act funding and $11B in loans to expand in Arizona, Ohio, New Mexico, and Oregon; Intel plans to spend $100B over five years (Financial Times)
https://t.co/FEheC13x4u

Reuters: Ukraine, Russia almost reached Black Sea shipping agreement in March: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/16/reuters-ukraine-russia.html

French parliament supports bilateral security agreement with Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/12/french-parliament-supports.html

Zelensky discusses potential security guarantees, joint weapons production with Swedish Defense Minister: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/24/zelensky-discusses-potential.html

House Majority Leader: 'No agreement reached' on Ukraine aid funding as negotiations with White House continue: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/12/house-majority-leader.html

Tusk meets Polish farmers, no agreement on ending border protests reached: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/09/tusk-meets-polish.html

Zelensky: Ukraine, US 'finalized' agreements on ATACMS: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/22/zelensky-ukraine-us.html

Estonian FM announces imminent signing of security agreement with Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/08/estonian-fm-announces.html