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A day that will live in infamy. https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2001/winter/crafting-day-of-infamy-speech.html

FDR’s “Day of Infamy” Speech
Crafting a Call to Arms Winter 2001, Vol. 33, No. 4 | Our Heritage in Documents Enlarge The USS Arizona seen burning after the attack by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the morning of December 7, 1941. It was 1 p.m. in Washington. (Franklin D. Roosevelt Library) View in National Archives Catalog In the early afternoon of December 7, 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt was just finishing lunch in his oval study on the second floor of the White House, preparing to work on his stamp album, when…

at @… in #brooklyn, the debut of patricia brennan's lush new collection of cosmic gearworks, "of the near & far," with full album ensemble, discovering a new kind of light in the space between brennan's vibraphone & sylvie courvoisie…

Still a few days of Disney left so I'm catching up on Star Wars. Episode VIII (The Last Jedi) is... not good, right? So far everything feels ridiculous: space bombers are "dropping" bombs onto another ship and when they are destroyed they are slowing sinking "downwards" like WW2 bombers. Spaceships that are nothing but burning debris still have perfect gravity. And Princess Leia can fly through the vacuum of space like superman?

Pulp giant RGE admits possible deforestation breach in Bornean wildlife habitat https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/pulp-giant-rge-admits-possible-deforestation-breach-in-bornean-wildlife-habitat/

Pulp giant RGE admits possible deforestation breach in Bornean wildlife habitat
JAKARTA — One of the world’s biggest pulp and paper companies has acknowledged to Mongabay a potential breach of its no-deforestation commitment in its supply chain, raising questions about the company’s attempt to regain sustainability certification under the Forest Stewardship Council. A new report by U.S.-based campaign group Rainforest Action Network (RAN) alleges that Singapore-based […]

Trump’s Baseless Claims:
President Trump said he had made flag burning a crime punishable by a year in prison.
But such a claim contradicts both Supreme Court precedent and the text of an executive order he signed.
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Trump Baselessly Claims He ‘Took the Freedom of Speech Away’ From Flag Burners
The president said he had made flag burning a crime punishable by a year in prison. But such a claim contradicts both Supreme Court precedent and the text of an executive order he signed.

Ex-C.I.A. Chief Wants to Block Judge Cannon From Inquiry Pushed by Trump's Allies (Charlie Savage/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/us/politics/trump-doj-investigation-judge-cannon-brennan-cia.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-k8.q8qW._2LQuf9_T4jA&smid=tw-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p99#a251222p99

North and Baltic seas show widespread contamination by MRI contrasting agents #sea

North and Baltic seas show widespread contamination by MRI contrasting agents
A comprehensive study by the CritMET research group, led by Prof. Michael Bau, a geochemist at Constructor University in Bremen, provides evidence of widespread contamination of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea with MRI contrast agents. As modern wastewater treatment plants cannot remove these contaminants from the wastewater, they can freely enter the environment and pollute rivers and lakes. Recently published research from a Bremen area group has shown that rare earth elements directly attri…

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Weighted Stochastic Differential Equation to Implement Wasserstein-Fisher-Rao Gradient Flow
Herlock Rahimi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17878 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.17878 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.17878
arXiv:2512.17878v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Score-based diffusion models currently constitute the state of the art in continuous generative modeling. These methods are typically formulated via overdamped or underdamped Ornstein--Uhlenbeck-type stochastic differential equations, in which sampling is driven by a combination of deterministic drift and Brownian diffusion, resulting in continuous particle trajectories in the ambient space. While such dynamics enjoy exponential convergence guarantees for strongly log-concave target distributions, it is well known that their mixing rates deteriorate exponentially in the presence of nonconvex or multimodal landscapes, such as double-well potentials. Since many practical generative modeling tasks involve highly non-log-concave target distributions, considerable recent effort has been devoted to developing sampling schemes that improve exploration beyond classical diffusion dynamics.
A promising line of work leverages tools from information geometry to augment diffusion-based samplers with controlled mass reweighting mechanisms. This perspective leads naturally to Wasserstein--Fisher--Rao (WFR) geometries, which couple transport in the sample space with vertical (reaction) dynamics on the space of probability measures. In this work, we formulate such reweighting mechanisms through the introduction of explicit correction terms and show how they can be implemented via weighted stochastic differential equations using the Feynman--Kac representation. Our study provides a preliminary but rigorous investigation of WFR-based sampling dynamics, and aims to clarify their geometric and operator-theoretic structure as a foundation for future theoretical and algorithmic developments.
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