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What if #Alberta really did vote to #separate?
https://theconversation.com/what-if-alberta-really-did-vote-to-separate-257214

There have been many instances documented, do a damn web search.
But forget that for a moment: What I’m doing is the same as what Netanyahu is doing? My opposing genocide is the same as a fucker perpetrating genocide?
Fuck you, Alfred.
Get some fucking perspective. https://mastodon.social/@amsz…

Nobel Prize Laureate Kip Thorne speaking yesterday at the Albert Einstein Institute in Postdam, Germany:
"Donald Trump is destroying America's capacity for [leading science].
We are counting on Europe to take over here and elsewhere." ⚛️
https://bsky.app/profile/abazajian.n…

Kev Abazajian (@abazajian.net)
Nobel Prize Laureate Kip Thorne speaking yesterday at the Albert Einstein Institute in Postdam, Germany: "Donald Trump is destroying America's capacity for [leading science]. We are counting on Europe to take over here and elsewhere." ⚛️ 🧪

On Pioneering Works of Albert Shiryaev on Markov Decision Processes and Some Later Developments
Eugene A. Feinberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04896 https:/…

On Pioneering Works of Albert Shiryaev on Markov Decision Processes and Some Later Developments
This article is dedicated to three fundamental papers on Markov Decision Processes and on control with incomplete observations published by Albert Shiryaev approximately sixty years ago. One of these papers was coauthored with O.V. Viskov. We discuss some of the results and some of many rich ideas presented in these papers and survey some later developments. At the end we mention some recent studies of Albert Shiryaev on Kolmogorov's equations for jump Markov processes and on control of continu…

🎵 Auf der Music Encoding Conference 2025 in London hörten wir ein faszinierendes Panel zum Thema „Sketching genetic editions: Challenges and Opportunities“ (präsentiert von Salome Obert (Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe); Agnes Seipelt (Beethovens Werkstatt | Universität Paderborn; Alessandra Paciotti (UniversitŠ degli Studi di Pavia, Italien); Cecilia Raunisi (Christian Albrechts Universität zu Kiel); Lisa Rosendahl (Beethovens Werkstatt | Beethoven-Haus Bonn).

The Ohio Senate has decided to remove the Rejoining of the Midwest Interstate Passenger Rail Commission and eliminate the Passenger Rail Seat on the Ohio Rail Development Commission.
This is a huge setback over 75% of Ohioans support passenger rail! #transit

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Silvia Piccollo, Teresa Nesci, Chorus of Swiss Radio, Lugano, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Marco Beasley, Furio Zanasi, Paolo Crivellaro, Alberto Rasi, Theatrum Instrumentorium & Diego Fasolis:
🎵 Stabat Mater for 8 voices
https://open.spotify.com/track/5so8VDmXQUx8F0SWNnlyKg

Zimní pneu – Nahšč
#alternative

MULTISS: un protocole de stockage confidentiel {\`a} long terme sur plusieurs r{\'e}seaux QKD
Thomas Pr\'evost (I3S), Olivier Alibart (INPHYNI), Marc Kaplan, Anne Marin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04800

MULTISS: un protocole de stockage confidentiel {à} long terme sur plusieurs r{é}seaux QKD
This paper presents MULTISS, a new protocol for long-term storage distributed across multiple Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) networks. This protocol is an extension of LINCOS, a secure storage protocol that uses Shamir secret sharing for secret storage on a single QKD network. Our protocol uses hierarchical secret sharing to distribute a secret across multiple QKD networks while ensuring perfect security. Our protocol further allows for sharing updates without having to reconstruct the entire s…

Evaluating Prompt-Driven Chinese Large Language Models: The Influence of Persona Assignment on Stereotypes and Safeguards
Geng Liu, Li Feng, Carlo Alberto Bono, Songbo Yang, Mengxiao Zhu, Francesco Pierri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04975

Evaluating Prompt-Driven Chinese Large Language Models: The Influence of Persona Assignment on Stereotypes and Safeguards
Recent research has highlighted that assigning specific personas to large language models (LLMs) can significantly increase harmful content generation. Yet, limited attention has been given to persona-driven toxicity in non-Western contexts, particularly in Chinese-based LLMs. In this paper, we perform a large-scale, systematic analysis of how persona assignment influences refusal behavior and response toxicity in Qwen, a widely-used Chinese language model. Utilizing fine-tuned BERT classifiers…