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Zenni’s Anti-Facial Recognition Glasses are Eyewear for Our Paranoid Age https://www.404media.co/zennis-anti-facial-recognition-glasses-are-eyewear-for-our-paranoid-age/

I posted something less than sufficiently anti-AI for the audience and got some thoughtful argument and some "AI is terrible and stupid and doesn't work" replies. I understand the anti-AI sentiment but I regret the shallowness of so many replies. To claim that LLMs are completely useless is deliberately ignorant. There are lots of interesting critiques of LLMs: copyright, human agency, effectiveness, privacy, even existential threats. "I hate this new thing I don't understand" is a bad start to a conversation.

💰 Do anti-bribery laws work when doing international business? New research sheds light
#bribery

Do anti-bribery laws work when doing international business? New research sheds light
In today's global economy, companies often do business with countries that have different standards, especially regarding what's acceptable, such as acts like bribery.

If the federal government has its way, programs that provide housing subsidies to low-income people will soon be cut,
and current recipients will have to comply with work rules and time limits on residency.
Those who receive Section 8 subsidies are now facing draconian budget-slashing that will put millions in danger of losing their homes.
These plans have long been on the right’s anti-poor wish list.
In fact, when the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 agenda was rele…

Trump Administration Threatens Housing for Millions in “War on the Poor”
Proposed cuts to Section 8 put 3.3 million people at risk of eviction and homelessness.

Es ist mir ein Rätsel warum gängige CAPTCHA/Anti-Bot Dienste wie Anubis, ALTCHA etc. auf Proof-of-Work (PoW) setzen. Das (allein) verplempert doch nur Rechenleistung und lässt sich leicht umgehen, oder verstehe ich das nur nicht richtig?

TL;DR: spending money to find the cause of autism is a eugenics project, and those resources could have been spent improving accommodations for Autistic people instead.
To preface this, I'm not Autistic but I'm neurodivergent with some overlap.
We need to be absolutely clear right now: the main purpose is *all* research into the causes of autism is eugenics: a cause is sought because non-autistic people want to *eliminate* autistic people via some kind of "cure." It should be obvious, but a "cured autistic person" who did not get a say in the decision to administer that "cure" has been subjected to non-consensual medical intervention at an extremely unethical level. Many autistic people have been exceptionally clear that they don't want to be "cured," including some people with "severe autism" such as people who are nonverbal.
When we think things like "but autism makes life so hard for some people," we're saying that the difficulties in their life are a result of their neurotype, rather than blaming the society that punished & devalues the behaviors that result from that neurotype at every turn. To the extent that an individual autistic person wants to modify their neurotype and/or otherwise use aids to modify themselves to reduce difficulties in their life, they should be free to pursue that. But we should always ask the question: "what if we changed their social or physical environment instead, so that they didn't have to change themselves?" The point is that difficulties are always the product of person x environment, and many of the difficulties we attribute to autism should instead be attributed to anti-autistic social & physical spaces, and resources spent trying to "find the cause of autism" would be *much* better spent trying to develop & promote better accommodations for autism. Or at least, that's the case if you care about the quality of life of autistic people and/or recognize their enormous contributions to society (e.g., Wikipedia could not exist in anything near its current form without autistic input). If instead you think of Autistic people as gross burdens that you'd rather be rid of, then it makes sense to investigate the causes of autism so that you can eventually find a "cure."
All of that to say: the best response to lies about the causes of autism is to ask "What is the end goal of identifying the cause?" instead of saying "That's not true, here's better info about the causes."
#autism #trump
P.S. yes, I do think about the plight of parents of autistic kids, particularly those that have huge struggles fitting into the expectations of our society. They've been put in a position where society constantly bullies and devalues their kid, and makes it mostly impossible for their kid to exist without constant parental support, which is a lot of work and which is unfair when your peers get the school system to do a massive amount of childcare. But in that situation, your kid is in an even worse position than you as the direct victim of all of that, and you have a choice: are you going to be their ally against the unfair world, or are you going to blame them and try to get them to confirm enough that you can let the school system take care of them, despite the immense pain that that will provoke? Please don't come crying for sympathy if you choose the later option (and yes, helping them be able to independently navigate society is a good thing for them, but there's a difference between helping them as their ally, at their pace, and trying to force them to conform to reduce the burden society has placed on you).

Hawking-Page transition in anti-de Sitter massive gravity with non-compact spatial boundary
Nelson R. F. Braga, William S. Cunha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13454 https://…

Hawking-Page transition in anti-de Sitter massive gravity with non-compact spatial boundary
In gauge/gravity duality, the Hawking Page (HP) process plays the important role of representing a confined/deconfined phase transition. For spaces that are asymptotically anti-de Sitter (AdS) with planar spatial boundary there is no HP transition, unless some infrared energy scale is introduced. Massive gravity theories have been applied in the context of holography in order to represent systems with momentum dissipation. In this work we study the HP transition for massive gravity in an asympt…

Emoanti: audio anti-deepfake with refined emotion-guided representations
Xiaokang Li, Yicheng Gong, Dinghao Zou, Xin Cao, Sunbowen Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10781 https://

Emoanti: audio anti-deepfake with refined emotion-guided representations
Audio deepfake is so sophisticated that the lack of effective detection methods is fatal. While most detection systems primarily rely on low-level acoustic features or pretrained speech representations, they frequently neglect high-level emotional cues, which can offer complementary and potentially anti-deepfake information to enhance generalization. In this work, we propose a novel audio anti-deepfake system that utilizes emotional features (EmoAnti) by exploiting a pretrained Wav2Vec2 (W2V2) …

Phase-Field Model of Freeze Casting
Kaihua Ji, Alain Karma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18416 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18416…

Phase-Field Model of Freeze Casting
Directional solidification of water-based solutions has emerged as a versatile technique for templating hierarchical porous materials. However, the underlying mechanisms of pattern formation remain incompletely understood. In this work, we present a detailed derivation and analysis of a quantitative phase-field model for simulating this nonequilibrium process. The phase-field model extends the thin-interface formulation of dilute binary alloy solidification with anti-trapping to incorporate the…

Victoria Shynkar and her colleagues, who work for the demining charity the Halo Trust,
uncovered 243 TM-62 Soviet-designed anti-tank mines left by the Russian army in a neighbouring field.
A chunky and intimidating 32-centimetres in diameter and 13-cm-wide,
the TM-62 contains 7.5 kilos of TNT and can puncture a tank if triggered. 
The presence of landmines and other unexploded ordnance is a significant issue in Ukraine,
impacting civilians and Ukraine’s agricultu…

Ukraine’s Contaminated Land: Clearing Landmines With Rakes, Tractors and Drones - bellingcat
This story was produced in partnership with Agence France-Presse (AFP). In a field near the small town of Bezymenne in southern Ukraine, Viktoria Shynkar carefully picks out a narrow path through the overgrown grass in front of her.  This small corridor of farmland in Mykolaiv Oblast will be checked for the presence of landmines and […]

Hybrid Pruning: In-Situ Compression of Self-Supervised Speech Models for Speaker Verification and Anti-Spoofing
Junyi Peng, Lin Zhang, Jiangyu Han, Old\v{r}ich Plchot, Johan Rohdin, Themos Stafylakis, Shuai Wang, Jan \v{C}ernock\'y
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16232

Hybrid Pruning: In-Situ Compression of Self-Supervised Speech Models for Speaker Verification and Anti-Spoofing
Although large-scale self-supervised learning (SSL) models like WavLM have achieved state-of-the-art performance in speech processing, their significant size impedes deployment on resource-constrained devices. While structured pruning is a key technique for model compression, existing methods typically separate it from task-specific fine-tuning. This multi-stage approach struggles to create optimal architectures tailored for diverse downstream tasks. In this work, we introduce a unified framewo…

Ok, yeah, I'm not done processing my anger over liberals doing shit like this. So this historian sees a rise in right wing violence, sees the US government carrying out ethnic cleansing, sees a rise in white supremacist terrorism, and then says, "oh yeah... this reminds me of a time right around the 1920s. Hum... yeah, ANARCHISTS fighting the government! Yeah, that's the same thing."
FFS, IT'S THE RED SUMMER! If you want a parallel between today and some horrible time in US history, TALK ABOUT THE RED SUMMER. The point of the language of dehumanization that the right uses, the point of all the anti-black and anti-emigrant rhetoric, is that it leads to genocide. Trump already carried out an act of genocide (#USPol

Right, it’s time we started an initiative to find and call out (with receipts) accounts on the fediverse engaged in genocide denial and genocide apologism in support of Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
There are accounts (and even whole instances, it would seem) that are engaged in this and, further, attempts to silence the voices, not to mention threaten the livelihoods of, those of us speaking out against Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people and attempting …

Extracting and charging energy into almost unknown quantum states
Andrea Canzio, Vasco Cavina, Roberto Menta, Vittorio Giovannetti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08899 https://

Extracting and charging energy into almost unknown quantum states
In this work, we investigate the amount of energy that can be extracted or charged through unitary operations when only minimal information about the state is known. Assuming knowledge of only the mean energy of the state, we start by developing optimal upper bounds for the work that can be unitarily extracted or charged in this scenario. In deriving these upper bounds, we provide a complete characterization of the minimum ergotropy and anti-ergotropy for density matrices with fixed average ene…

Characterizing Phishing Pages by JavaScript Capabilities
Aleksandr Nahapetyan, Kanv Khare, Kevin Schwarz, Bradley Reaves, Alexandros Kapravelos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13186 …

Characterizing Phishing Pages by JavaScript Capabilities
In 2024, the Anti-Phishing Work Group identified over one million phishing pages. Phishers achieve this scale by using phishing kits -- ready-to-deploy phishing websites -- to rapidly deploy phishing campaigns with specific data exfiltration, evasion, or mimicry techniques. In contrast, researchers and defenders continue to fight phishing on a page-by-page basis and rely on manual analysis to recognize static features for kit identification. This paper aims to aid researchers and analysts by …

Deep Generative and Discriminative Digital Twin endowed with Variational Autoencoder for Unsupervised Predictive Thermal Condition Monitoring of Physical Robots in Industry 6.0 and Society 6.0
Eric Guiffo Kaigom
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12740

Deep Generative and Discriminative Digital Twin endowed with Variational Autoencoder for Unsupervised Predictive Thermal Condition Monitoring of Physical Robots in Industry 6.0 and Society 6.0
Robots are unrelentingly used to achieve operational efficiency in Industry 4.0 along with symbiotic and sustainable assistance for the work-force in Industry 5.0. As resilience, robustness, and well-being are required in anti-fragile manufacturing and human-centric societal tasks, an autonomous anticipation and adaption to thermal saturation and burns due to motors overheating become instrumental for human safety and robot availability. Robots are thereby expected to self-sustain their perform…

On some subspaces of vector-valued continuous function space, from the perspective of Best coapproximation
Souvik Ghosh, Kallol Paul, Debmalya Sain, Shamim Sohel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04971

On some subspaces of vector-valued continuous function space, from the perspective of Best coapproximation
This article explores anti-coproximinal and strongly anti-coproximinal subspaces in the spaces of vector-valued continuous functions and operator spaces. We provide a complete characterization of strongly anti-coproximinal subspaces in $ C_0(K, \mathbb{X}) $, under the assumption that the unit ball of $ \mathbb{X}^* $ is the closed convex hull of its weak*-strongly exposed points. Additionally, the work includes a stability analysis of anti-coproximinal and strongly anti-coproximinal subspaces …

Shadow of a nonlinear electromagnetic generalized Kerr-Newman-AdS black hole
Mohsen Fathi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13341 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.13341…

Shadow of a nonlinear electromagnetic generalized Kerr-Newman-AdS black hole
In this work, we investigate the shadow properties of the Kerr-Newman-Anti-de Sitter black hole coupled to a nonlinear electrodynamics. We construct the shadow by employing the celestial coordinate approach for observers located at finite distances, accounting for the non-asymptotically flat nature of the spacetime. The size, distortion, area, and oblateness of the shadow are analyzed in terms of the black hole parameters, including the spin, effective charge, and nonlinearity parameter. We fur…

Baryon and Pseudoscalar Meson Octets within a Unified broken SU(6) symmetry
Luiz L. Lopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08581 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08581…

Baryon and Pseudoscalar Meson Octets within a Unified broken SU(6) symmetry
In this work, I discuss neutron stars with hyperons and anti-kaon condensate. To fix their coupling constants with the vector mesons of the Quantum Hadrodynamics, I use a unified scheme imposing that the Yukawa coupling is an invariant under SU(3) and SU(6) groups. Combining with the G-Parity, I show that some expected results of the kaon and anti-kaon interaction with the nucleus are re-obtained. In the same sense, the naive quark-isospin counting rule is restored in the SU(6) limit. Furthermo…

Anything to deflect the narrative!
Adelita Grijalva elected but not yet sworn in.
Epstein files not released.
Hundreds of thousands will lose health care under the Republican budget.
Foreign governments buying gold and not USD.
But what is the MSM reporting?
Democrats shut down the Government.
Blue cities unsafe.
Tylenol unsafe.
Circumcision unsafe.
And now we get to talk about this?

mekka okereke :verified: (@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)
Attached: 1 image Some of y'all are pointing out that Trump ran the FBI on Jan 6, and had run it for ~1,400 days straight at this point. But this doesn't have to pass your discerning eye. It has to work on people that believe that Haitians eat your dogs, and that raw milk and Ivermectin is better than vaccines.🤷🏿‍♂️ You live in a world where the Ivermectin sipping, Black people hating, anti-vaxxers have consolidated enough power that they don't have to even pretend to care what …

I had an eye exam a couple weeks ago. The optometrist recommended progressive bifocals this time. I'd known it was time for a while, so okay.
My employer's VSP plan only covers the basic lenses, ~$75. The lower distortion, anti-reflective coated Nikon lenses are ~$275. If I pick the Nikons, I pay the $200 difference out of pocket.
One thing the optician said is the longer I delay getting my first bifocals, the harder it will be to adjust to how they work. Is this true?

Can an Anti-de Sitter Vacuum in the Dark Energy Sector Explain JWST High-Redshift Galaxy and Reionization Observations?
Anirban Chakraborty, Tirthankar Roy Choudhury, Anjan Ananda Sen, Purba Mukherjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02431

Can an Anti-de Sitter Vacuum in the Dark Energy Sector Explain JWST High-Redshift Galaxy and Reionization Observations?
The James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) discovery of an unexpectedly high abundance of UV-bright galaxies at redshifts $z > 10$ poses a significant challenge to the standard $Λ$CDM cosmology. This work tests whether this tension can be resolved solely by modifying the cosmological background, without invoking significant evolution in the astrophysical properties of early galaxies. We investigate an alternative framework featuring the presence of an anti-de Sitter vacuum in the dark energy sect…

Twisted locality-preserving automorphisms, anomaly index, and generalized Lieb-Schultz-Mattis theorems with anti-unitary symmetries
Ruizhi Liu, Jinmin Yi, Liujun Zou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06555

Twisted locality-preserving automorphisms, anomaly index, and generalized Lieb-Schultz-Mattis theorems with anti-unitary symmetries
Symmetries and their anomalies are powerful tools to understand quantum matter. In this work, for quantum spin chains, we define twisted locality-preserving automorphisms and their Gross-Nesme-Vogts-Werner indices, which provide a unified framework to describe both unitary and anti-unitary symmetries, on-site and non-on-site symmetries, and internal and translation symmetries. For a symmetry $G$ with actions given by twisted locality-preserving automorphisms, we give a microscopic definition of…

Above and beyond the laser induced anti Stokes broadband white light emission in rare earth manganese perovskites
Talita J. S. Ramos, Agata Musialek, Robert Tomala, Wieslaw Strek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08695

Above and beyond the laser induced anti Stokes broadband white light emission in rare earth manganese perovskites
Herein, an experimental and theoretical analysis of broadband laser-induced white light emission (LIWE) in lead-free perovskite under near-infrared excitation is reported. LIWE is a tunable emission influenced by excitation wavelength, power density, pressure, and temperature. The radiance profile presented in this work closely resembles the solar spectral distribution, suggesting potential for solid-state lighting and photovoltaic applications. Based on theoretical modelling, along with photop…

Maybe AI Was Never a Tool
They can deliver conclusions that feel complete but skip the struggle that gives thought its humanity. This is what I call anti-intelligence—not stupidity, but perhaps better expressed as a kind of counterfeit cognition. It's intelligence without friction that results in output—built in that shared cognitive dynamic—that looks like insight but has bypassed the work that makes insight truly yours.

Maybe AI Was Never a Tool
Using artificial intelligence "responsibly" assumes it is just another tool—it isn't.

Mitigating data replication in text-to-audio generative diffusion models through anti-memorization guidance
Francisco Messina, Francesca Ronchini, Luca Comanducci, Paolo Bestagini, Fabio Antonacci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14934

Mitigating data replication in text-to-audio generative diffusion models through anti-memorization guidance
A persistent challenge in generative audio models is data replication, where the model unintentionally generates parts of its training data during inference. In this work, we address this issue in text-to-audio diffusion models by exploring the use of anti-memorization strategies. We adopt Anti-Memorization Guidance (AMG), a technique that modifies the sampling process of pre-trained diffusion models to discourage memorization. Our study explores three types of guidance within AMG, each designe…

Toward a rainbow Corr\'{a}di--Hajnal Theorem \RNum{1}
Deng Jinghua, Hou Jianfeng, Hu caiyun, Liu xizhi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04018 https://arxiv.o…

Toward a rainbow Corrádi--Hajnal Theorem \RNum{1}
We study an anti-Ramsey extension of the classical Corrádi--Hajnal Theorem: how many colors are needed to color the complete graph on $n$ vertices in order to guarantee a rainbow copy of $t K_{3}$, that is, $t$ vertex-disjoint triangles. We provide a conjecture for large $n$, consisting of five classes of different extremal constructions, corresponding to five subintervals of $\left[1,\, \tfrac{n}{3}\right]$ for the parameter $t$. In this work, we establish this conjecture for the first in…

On integrable structure of the null string in (anti-)de Sitter space
D. V. Uvarov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04158 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.04158

On integrable structure of the null string in (anti-)de Sitter space
Presently integrability turned the key property in the study of duality between superconformal gauge theories and strings in anti-de Sitter superspaces. Complexity of the study of integrable structure in string theory is caused by complicated dependence of background fields of the Type II supergravity multiplets, with which strings interact, on the superspace coordinates. This explains an interest to study of limiting cases, in which superstring equations simplify. In the present work considere…

Finished "Lobizona" by Romina Garber. I have extremely mixed feelings about this book. It's a powerful depiction of the fear of living as an undocumented child/teen and it has interesting things to say about rejection, belonging, and the choice between seeking to be recognized for who you are and wanting you blend in enough to be accepted as normal. However, it's also an explicit homage to Harry Potter, and while it doesn't include antisemitic tropes or glorify slavery or even have any anti-trans sentiments I can detect, to me the magical school setup felt forced and I thought it would have been a better book had it not tried to fit that mould. Also, it would have been a super interesting situation to explore trans issues, and while it's definitely fine for it not to do that, the author's praise of Rowling's work has me wondering...
There's a sequel that I think could in theory be amazing, but given the execution of the first book, I think I'll wait a bit before checking it out. By putting her main character in opposition to both ICE in the human world and the magical authorities in the other world, Garber explicitly sets the stage for a revolution standing between her protagonist and any kind of lasting peace. But I'm not confident she's capable of writing that story without relying on some kind of supernatural deus ex machina, which would be disappointing to me, since "a better world if only possible through divine intervention" is an inherently regressive message.
Overall, #OwnVoices fantasy centering an undocumented immigrant is an excellent thing, and I've certainly got a lot of privilege that surely influences my criticism. However, #OwnVoices stuff has a range of levels of craft and political stances, and it can be excellent for some reasons and mediocre for others.
On that point, if anyone reading this has suggestions for fiction books grappling with borders and the carceral state, Is be happy to hear them.
#AmReading

D-dimensional black holes in extended Gauss-Bonnet gravity
Jia-Zhou Liu, Si-Jiang Yang, Chun-Chun Zhu, Yu-Xiao Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04292 https://

D-dimensional black holes in extended Gauss-Bonnet gravity
In this work, we present charged spherically symmetric anti-de Sitter black hole solutions in $d$ dimensions ($d \geq 5$) within the framework of extended Gauss--Bonnet gravity. Moreover, by employing dimensional regularization of the extended Gauss--Bonnet term, we further obtain charged anti-de Sitter black hole solutions in three- and four-dimensional spacetimes. Furthermore, we also obtain a three-dimensional rotating black hole solution in a special case. These solutions exhibit markedly d…

Intrinsic non-Hermitian topological phases
Ken Shiozaki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06879 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06879

Intrinsic non-Hermitian topological phases
We study the interplay of non-Hermitian topological phases under point- and line-gap conditions. Using natural homomorphisms from line-gap to point-gap phases, we distinguish extrinsic phases, reducible to Hermitian or anti-Hermitian line-gapped phases, from intrinsic phases, which are genuinely non-Hermitian without Hermitian counterparts. Although classification tables for all symmetry classes were already presented in earlier work, the present paper develops a unified formulation and provide…

How the US democracy is designed to avoid representation
Right now in the US, a system which proclaims to give each citizen representation, my interests are not represented very well by most of my so-called representatives at any level of government. This is true for a majority of Americans across the political spectrum, and it happens by design. The "founding fathers" were explicit about wanting a system of government that would appear Democratic but which would keep power in the hands of rich white landowners, and they successfully designed exactly that. But how does disenfranchisement work in this system?
First, a two-party system locked in by first-post-the-post winner-takes-all elections immediately destroys representation for everyone who didn't vote for the winner, including those who didn't vote or weren't eligible to vote. Single-day non-holiday elections and prisoner disenfranchisement go a long way towards ensuring working-class people get no say, but much larger is the winner-takes all system. In fact, even people who vote for the winning candidate don't get effective representation if they're really just voting against the opponent as the greater of two evils. In a 51/49 election with 50% turnout, you've immediately ensured that ~75% of eligible voters don't get represented, and with lesser-of-two-evils voting, you create an even wider gap to wedge corporate interests into. Politicians need money to saturate their lesser-of-two-evils message far more than they need to convince any individual voter to support their policies. It's even okay if they get caught lying, cheating, or worse (cough Epstein cough) as long as the other side is also doing those things and you can freeze out new parties.
Second, by design the Senate ensures uneven representation, allowing control of the least-populous half of states to control or at least shut down the legislative process. A rough count suggests 284.6 million live in the 25 most-populous states, while only 54.8 million live in the rest. Currently, counting states with divided representation as two half-states with half as much population, 157.8 million people are represented by 53 Republican sensors, while 180.5 million people get only 45 seats of Democratic representation. This isn't an anti-Democrat bias, it's a bias towards less-populous states, whose residents get more than their share it political power.
I haven't even talked about gerrymandering yet, or family/faith-based "party loyalty," etc. Overall, the effect is that the number of people whose elected representatives meaningfully represent their interests on any given issue is vanishingly small (like, 10% of people tops), unless you happen to be rich enough to purchase lobbying power or direct access.
If we look at polls, we can see how lack of representation lets congress & the president enact many policies that go against what a majority of the population wants. Things like abortion restrictions, the current ICE raids, and Medicare cuts are deeply unpopular, but they benefit the political class and those who can buy access. These are possible because the system ensures at every step of the way that ordinary people do NOT get the one thing the system promises them: representation in the halls of power.
Okay, but is this a feature of all democracies, inherent in the nature of a majority-decides system? Not exactly...
1/2
#uspol #democracy

Skyrmions with customized intensity distribution and trajectory
Yihan Tian, Guoxia Han, Shiru Song, Feiyang Zhang, Guangyi Wang, Qihui Zhao, Maoda Jing, Xianghua Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09657

Skyrmions with customized intensity distribution and trajectory
Optical skyrmions, which are topological protection quasi-particles with nontrivial textures, hold a pivotal focus in current structured light research for their potential in diverse applications. In this work, the angular spectrum theory is first introduced into the generation of optical skyrmions and modulation of the intensity and trajectory of skyrmions at will. We propose a novel theoretical approach for the generation of skyrmions, including Neel-type, Bloch-type, anti-type and 2nd order.…

Cosmological Correlators in Gauge Theory and Gravity from EAdS
Md. Abhishek, Charlotte Sleight, Massimo Taronna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09536 https://ar…

Cosmological Correlators in Gauge Theory and Gravity from EAdS
In this work we examine in more detail the perturbative map between late-time correlators in de Sitter space and boundary correlators in Euclidean anti-de Sitter space, elaborating on the general construction presented in arXiv:2007.09993 and arXiv:2109.02725 for EFTs of bosonic spinning fields by treating explicitly the cases of gauge bosons and gravitons. In these cases, additional technical subtleties arise from the treatment of massless representations of the de Sitter isometry group in eve…

Long post! #immigration #TFW #BC #CanPoli #CdnPoli #BCPoli #University #ForeignWorkers
I’ve been looking for hard numbers on foreign workers/international student workers. This story on cuts at Coast Mountain College in Prince Rupert surprisingly included examples!
As of March 28, 2025 (presumably in Prince Rupert):
McDonald's: 50 of 80 employees on temporary visas
Safeway: 50% of its 78 staff
Save On Foods: 35%
Tim Hortons: 30%
Skeena Taxi: 60%
Chances Casino: 55%
Crest Hotel: 35%
Three other local restaurants were 100% per cent reliant on temporary foreign workers.
— I want to make clear — I am not 'anti-immigrant’ — I am anti-business using cheap, exploitative, labour.
I am also against public universities/colleges (and thus government) relying on exorbitant tuitions to fund domestic programs, also admitted by a former President of CMC here!
"“Pursuing international students was a strategy developed when I chaired the board at Coast Mountain College," Prince Rupert Mayor Herb Pond said. "It wasn't a money grab, but rather a tactic to build out a broader offering of courses for the sake of local students. Pond added that he suspects the restrictions on foreign students will limit what the college is able to offer to Prince Rupert students.””
Governments and public institutions thave gotten drunk on international tuition to pad education budgets just like businesses have got drunk on high profit margins from hiring low-cost TFWs and raising consumer prices!
It's a money grab on both ends and in the middle are exploited immigrants and young Canadians looking for work.
"Many businesses struggle to recruit residents or convince Canadians from other regions…resulting in heavy reliance on international students and temporary foreign workers to pick up the slack."
This is a Business-Industry lie! Try applying for a minimum wage job! It's damn near impossible.
Con/Lib Government did this!
https://www.albernivalleynews.com/news/college-struggles-worker-supply-fades-as-immigration-changes-hammer-bcs-northwest-8247783

Thermodynamics of Einstein-Geometric Proca AdS compact objects
Asalkhon Alimova, Elham Ghorani, Beyhan Puli\c{c}e, Farruh Atamurotov, Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09389

Thermodynamics of Einstein-Geometric Proca AdS compact objects
In this study we explore metric-Palatini gravity extended by the antisymmetric component of the affine curvature. This gravitational theory results in general relativity plus a geometric Proca field. Building on our previous work, where we constructed its static spherically symmetric solutions in the Anti-de Sitter (AdS) background (Eur. Phys. J. C 83(4):318, 2023), we conduct a comprehensive analysis of the system's thermodynamics. We examine the thermodynamic properties of the Einstein-Geomet…

Ferromagnetism vs. Antiferromagnetism in Narrow-Band Systems: Competition Between Quantum Geometry and Band Dispersion
Haoyu Hu, Oskar Vafek, Kristjan Haule, B. Andrei Bernevig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03575

Ferromagnetism vs. Antiferromagnetism in Narrow-Band Systems: Competition Between Quantum Geometry and Band Dispersion
Magnetism in narrow-band systems arises from the interplay between electronic correlations, quantum geometry, and band dispersion. In particular, both ferro and anti-ferro magnets are known to occur as ground states of (different) models featuring narrow bands. This poses the question of which is favored and under what conditions. In this work, we present a unified theoretical framework to investigate spin physics within narrow bands. By deriving an effective spin model, we show that the non-at…