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Not sure why it won't let me respond to your comment directly..
If you look at my feed at all, you will see I am far from a "Republican"
If one watches PBS Newshour with any critical media literacy their drift to the right is clear. They are always doing the "both sides", treating Trump and his Reublican minons as normal, etc. But the Republicans (who I am definitely not one of) have been working on this since Reagan and they really got going in 2005 https://www.democracynow.org/2005/5/12/a_right_wing_coup_at_pbs
https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/june-23-2005-corporation-for-public-broadcasting-hires-former-rnc-chair

The LQR-Schr\"odinger Bridge
Marc Lambert (SIERRA)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17273 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.17273

The LQR-Schrödinger Bridge
We consider the Schr{ö}dinger bridge problem in discrete time, where the pathwise cost is replaced by a sum of quadratic functions, taking the form of a linear quadratic regulator (LQR) cost. This cost comprises potential terms that act as attractors and kinetic terms that control the diffusion of the process. When the two boundary marginals are Gaussian, we show that the LQR-Schr{ö}dinger bridge problem can be solved in closed form. We follow the dynamic programming principle, interpreting t…

Alpine County, perched like an emerald on the crest of the Sierra Nevada, is as rural as rural California gets.
Vast distance separates its sparse settlements, tucked among forests and crystalline streams. The views, unobstructed by city clutter, go on forever.
There is no hospital,
no supermarket, fast-food restaurant or shopping mall anywhere in its 743 square miles.
The only stoplight is temporary,
put in place for a bridge repair.
And yet if all goes …

California mystery: Why does a small rural county vote like SF?
Rural usually means Republican. But this county is a Democratic speck in California's sea of red.

I'd like to propose "Fascist Around, Find Out", for Viktor Orban. If people, especially young people, don't like your stupid shit, if they can leave, they will.
https://vsquare.org/inside-viktor-orbans-failure-to-achieve-his-demographic-go…

Inside Viktor Orbán’s Failure to Achieve His Demographic Goal - VSquare.org
The Prime Minister has long said that he would like to grow the population of Hungary without bringing in immigrants. Recently, births have fallen, but the number of people leaving the country has also soared.

Schr\"odinger Bridge Matching for Tree-Structured Costs and Entropic Wasserstein Barycentres
Samuel Howard, Peter Potaptchik, George Deligiannidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17197

Schrödinger Bridge Matching for Tree-Structured Costs and Entropic Wasserstein Barycentres
Recent advances in flow-based generative modelling have provided scalable methods for computing the Schrödinger Bridge (SB) between distributions, a dynamic form of entropy-regularised Optimal Transport (OT) for the quadratic cost. The successful Iterative Markovian Fitting (IMF) procedure solves the SB problem via sequential bridge-matching steps, presenting an elegant and practical approach with many favourable properties over the more traditional Iterative Proportional Fitting (IPF) procedu…

BraTS orchestrator : Democratizing and Disseminating state-of-the-art brain tumor image analysis
Florian Kofler, Marcel Rosier, Mehdi Astaraki, Ujjwal Baid, Hendrik M\"oller, Josef A. Buchner, Felix Steinbauer, Eva Oswald, Ezequiel de la Rosa, Ivan Ezhov, Constantin von See, Jan Kirschke, Anton Schmick, Sarthak Pati, Akis Linardos, Carla Pitarch, Sanyukta Adap, Jeffrey Rudie, Maria Correia de Verdier, Rachit Saluja, Evan Calabrese, Dominic LaBella, Mariam Aboian, Ahmed W. Moawad, …

BraTS orchestrator : Democratizing and Disseminating state-of-the-art brain tumor image analysis
The Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) cluster of challenges has significantly advanced brain tumor image analysis by providing large, curated datasets and addressing clinically relevant tasks. However, despite its success and popularity, algorithms and models developed through BraTS have seen limited adoption in both scientific and clinical communities. To accelerate their dissemination, we introduce BraTS orchestrator, an open-source Python package that provides seamless access to state-of-the-…

VS-Singer: Vision-Guided Stereo Singing Voice Synthesis with Consistency Schr\"odinger Bridge
Zijing Zhao, Kai Wang, Hao Huang, Ying Hu, Liang He, Jichen Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16020

VS-Singer: Vision-Guided Stereo Singing Voice Synthesis with Consistency Schrödinger Bridge
To explore the potential advantages of utilizing spatial cues from images for generating stereo singing voices with room reverberation, we introduce VS-Singer, a vision-guided model designed to produce stereo singing voices with room reverberation from scene images. VS-Singer comprises three modules: firstly, a modal interaction network integrates spatial features into text encoding to create a linguistic representation enriched with spatial information. Secondly, the decoder employs a consiste…

Characterizing the Dynamics of Conspiracy Related German Telegram Conversations during COVID-19
Elisabeth H\"oldrich, Mathias Angermaier, Jana Lasser, Joao Pinheiro-Neto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13398

Characterizing the Dynamics of Conspiracy Related German Telegram Conversations during COVID-19
Conspiracy theories have long drawn public attention, but their explosive growth on platforms like Telegram during the COVID-19 pandemic raises pressing questions about their impact on societal trust, democracy, and public health. We provide a geographical, temporal and network analysis of the structure of of conspiracy-related German-language Telegram chats in a novel large-scale data set. We examine how information flows between regional user groups and influential broadcasting channels, reve…

Schr\"odinger Bridge Consistency Trajectory Models for Speech Enhancement
Shuichiro Nishigori, Koichi Saito, Naoki Murata, Masato Hirano, Shusuke Takahashi, Yuki Mitsufuji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11925

Schrödinger Bridge Consistency Trajectory Models for Speech Enhancement
Speech enhancement (SE) utilizing diffusion models is a promising technology that improves speech quality in noisy speech data. Furthermore, the Schrödinger bridge (SB) has recently been used in diffusion-based SE to improve speech quality by resolving a mismatch between the endpoint of the forward process and the starting point of the reverse process. However, the SB still exhibits slow inference owing to the necessity of a large number of function evaluations (NFE) for inference to obtain hi…

Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin
on what she called a new
Economic War Plan:
“Defense is simply not enough. We need to offer a different vision and demonstrate an affirmative, positive plan for the country. That's our responsibility and what this moment demands of us.”

Slotkin pitches ‘economic war plan’ for Democrats to play ‘offense’ against Trump | Bridge Michigan
Michigan’s newest US Senator is urging her party to take a new approach to President Donald Trump and refocus on middle class voters.