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Audit Finds No Issues, Concerns with Finances at Center for Antiracist Research | BU Today | Boston University
https://www.bu.edu/articles/2023/audit-finds-no-issues-at-center-for-antiracist-research/

Audit Finds No Issues, Concerns with Finances at Center for Antiracist Research
Six weeks after layoffs at Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research (CAR), BU officials say an internal audit found no issues with finances

Mistral introduces AI model customization options, including an SDK for fine-tuning its models on workstations, servers, and small data center nodes (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/05/mistral-launc…

Mistral launches new services, SDK to let customers fine-tune its models | TechCrunch
French AI startup Mistral has launched model fine-tuning services to let customers and developers tailor its models for specific use cases.

In loving memory.
#photography

Human rights groups call on ICC to investigate five prominent Russian propagandists: https://benborges.xyz/2024/06/07/human-rights-groups.html

Galactic center GeV excess and classification of Fermi-LAT sources with machine learning
Dmitry V. Malyshev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03990 https://

Galactic center GeV excess and classification of Fermi-LAT sources with machine learning
Excess of gamma rays with a spherical morphology around the Galactic center (GC) observed in the Fermi large area telescope (LAT) data is one of the most intriguing features in the gamma-ray sky. The excess has been interpreted by annihilating dark matter as well as emission from a population of unresolved millisecond pulsars (MSPs). We use a multi-class classification of Fermi-LAT sources with machine learning to study the distribution of MSP-like sources among unassociated Fermi-LAT sources n…

And then there were 4. Dual Senses with Hall Effect joysticks, that is. Got the second one I bought off eBay today. Was pretty trashed. Shell was broken in a couple places, stick cap got pulled through the shell.. found out once I opened it up why it was sold "as is". It had obviously been opened up and they noticed the headphone jack was broken off the board. Took most of the pads with it. I don't have good enough gear to fix that.. but I did test it before doing the stick swa…

You know, the newish UCSF Mission Bay medical center is quite nicely built.

Grateful Dead Live at Deer Creek Music Center on 1991-06-06 : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive
#GratefulDead #TIGDH #LiveMusic

That's super lazy xD
TL;DR: Send e-mails/documents to users and tell them "copy this command, then open the execute command dialog, paste the command and press OK!!1!".
https://asec.ahnlab.com/en/66300/

Warning Against Phishing Emails Prompting Execution of Commands via Paste (CTRL+V) - ASEC BLOG
AhnLab Security Emergency response Center

The Joint ALMA Observatory is hiring a Systems Engineer! If you're the successful applicant, you will be collaborating with both operational and development system engineering tasks.
The alt-text of the image cointains more detail, but the full details of the application, including how to apply, can be found at

Job opportunity: Systems Engineer- Grade 15 at Alma Observatory
The Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) is seeking an experienced engineer to become a System Engineer in the Engineering Service Group, part of the ALMA Department of Engineering (ADE). The selected candidate will contribute to the success of the exciting new period for the observatory, in which the regular stable operation must be efficiently combined with changes introduced by extension of capabilities, obsolescence upgrades, and new systems related to the ALMA 2030 initiatives. The selected candid…

Pegasus: The Zero-Click Threat to Democracy and Human Rights from Israel
https://www.juancole.com/2024/06/pegasus-threat-democracy.html

Pegasus: The Zero-Click Threat to Democracy and Human Rights from Israel
Munich, Germany (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) –– Pegasus, the main cyber-surveillance weapon developed by the Israeli company NSO Group, had been at the center of formidable reporting before July 2021. Still, the revelations presented by the Pegasus Project partners in a cascade of articles that began on July 18, 2021, represented a watershed moment. The Pegasus Project was a working group of international investigative journalists that incorporated 17 media organizations. The proj…

“Right-wing power-mongers have long expounded the theory of a ‘unitary executive’ as the most…efficient way to achieve a policy agenda that remains deeply unpopular with the American electorate…Vought seeks to transform that theory into a comic book plot arc…
The president becomes…a master accruer of power devoted at the same time to its wide dispersion among the satellite communities of superheroes practicing an elevated

The Theocratic Blueprint for Trump’s Next Term
How the Christian nationalist vanguard would pursue unprecedented power over all branches of government.

An MXM Take On The 3dfx Voodoo
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-80d32089-441b833a2367732c
An MXM Take On The 3dfx Voodoo [sdz] of Vogons forum brings us an unexpected device for the 21st century – a 3dfx Voodoo 4 card in MXM format,

one of my favorite things to do right now is treating the Seattle Center Monorail as a serious means of public transit and using it to get to/from the office

The user is asking if Penetration Testing is more technical than a Security Operations Center analyst or Incident Response/Digital Forensics roles. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1daaka6/

Mistral introduces AI model customization options, including an SDK for fine-tuning its models on workstations, servers, and small data center nodes (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/05/mistral-launc…

Mistral launches new services, SDK to let customers fine-tune its models | TechCrunch
French AI startup Mistral has launched model fine-tuning services to let customers and developers tailor its models for specific use cases.

Cowboys' projected starter should start worrying about his job because of rising teammate https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_projected_starter_should_start_worrying_about_…

Cowboys' projected starter should start worrying about his job because of rising teammate
Although we didn’t learn nearly as much as we wanted during the Dallas Cowboys 2024 mandatory minicamp, we did find out there’s a high-stakes battle going on that we weren’t really in tune with. Ahead of OTAs and minicamp, we already had plenty of roster battles on our radar: We knew Cooper Beebe would face some competition from Brock Hoffman and others to start at center. We were aware about Trey Lance having a shot at debunking Cooper Rush from QB2. So on and so forth. But the moment th…

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Electromagnetic Scoot
Recent work on scattering of massive bodies in general relativity has revealed that the mechanical center of mass of the system (or, more precisely, its relativistic mass moment) undergoes a shift during the scattering process. We show that the same phenomenon occurs in classical scattering of charged particles in flat spacetime and study the effect in detail. Working to leading order in the interaction, we derive formulas for the initial and final values of the mechanical and electromagnetic e…

The Criminalization of Solidarity: The Stop Cop City Prosecutions | Portside
https://portside.org/2024-06-06/criminalization-solidarity-stop-cop-city-prosecutions

The Criminalization of Solidarity: The Stop Cop City Prosecutions
Just after sunrise on November 13, 2023, hundreds of protesters gathered in Gresham Park on Atlanta’s outskirts. As they zipped up painted jumpsuits, a police helicopter circled overhead. It was the start of the latest action in a sprawling, decentralized campaign to stop construction of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, better known as Cop City.

Crypto miners are trying to ride the AI boom by converting data centers to rent out to AI companies or by selling computing power directly to AI clients (David Pan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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The $v^{1/3}_{3}/v^{1/2}_{2}$ ratio in PbAu collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}} = $ 17.3 GeV -- a hint of a hydrodynamic behavior
The Fourier harmonics, $v_2$ and $v_3$ of negative pions are measured at center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}$= 17.3 GeV around midrapidity by the CERES/NA45 experiment at the CERN SPS in 0--30\% central PbAu collisions with a mean centrality of 5.5\%. The analysis is performed in two centrality bins as a function of the transverse momentum $\mathrm{p_{\mathrm{T}}}$ from 0.05 GeV/$c$ to more than 2 GeV/$c$. This is the first measurement of the $v^{1/3}_{3}/v^{1/2}_{…

Multiplicity dependence of (multi-)strange hadrons in oxygen-oxygen collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}~=~7$ TeV using EPOS4 and AMPT
M. U. Ashraf, A. M. Khan, J. Singh, N. Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04096

Multiplicity dependence of (multi-)strange hadrons in oxygen-oxygen collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}~=~7$ TeV using EPOS4 and AMPT
LHC is anticipated to collect data from oxygen-oxygen ($O+O$) collisions at center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}~=~7$ TeV to further investigate the particle production mechanisms. In the present work, we report on the predictions of transverse momentum ($p_{\rm T}$-spectra), $dN/dy$, yield ratios relative to pions, $p_{\rm T}$-differential ratios of (multi-)strange hadrons in $O+O$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}~=~7$ TeV using EPOS4 and AMPT models. Both models differ fundament…

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Abstract Group Automorphisms of Two-Step Nilpotent Lie Groups and Partial Automatic Continuity
Any abstract (not necessarily continuous) group automorphism of a simple, compact Lie group must be continuous due to Cartan (1930) and van der Waerden (1933). The purpose of this paper is to study a similar question in nilpotent Lie groups. For many simply connected 2-step nilpotent Lie groups, we show any abstract group automorphism is continuous "up to discontinuity due to the center and field automorphisms of $\mathbb{C}$." Such groups include (1) a generic simply connected 2-step nilpotent…

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Measurement of the $e^+e^-\toπ^+π^-$ cross section from threshold to 1.2 GeV with the CMD-3 detector
The cross section of the process $e^+e^-\toπ^+π^-$ has been measured in the center of mass energy range from 0.32 to 1.2 GeV with the CMD-3 detector at the electron-positron collider VEPP-2000. The measurement is based on a full dataset collected below 1 GeV during three data taking seasons, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 62 pb$^{-1}$. In the dominant $ρ$-resonance region, a systematic uncertainty of 0.7% has been reached. At energies around $ϕ$-resonance the $π^+π^-$ …

I continue to progress and enjoy the Adrift Expedition in No Man's Sky. I have acquired a couple more starships to go along with the basic ass hauler I started with. The Solar Ship came by way of the Phase 2 "find a crashed ship and repair it" milestone. Oddly enough, I could swear I got one with the same name in the last Expedition I played through. I've been carrying around some odd thing in my inventory almost since I started, and finally used it and had a Sentinel ship …

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Detection of a Spatially Extended Stellar Population in M33: A Shallow Stellar Halo?
We analyze the outer regions of M33, beyond 15 kpc in projected distance from its center using Subaru/HSC multi-color imaging. We identify Red Giant Branch (RGB) stars and Red Clump (RC) stars using the surface gravity sensitive $NB515$ filter for the RGB sample, and a multi-color selection for both samples. We construct the radial surface density profile of these RGB and RC stars, and find that M33 has an extended stellar population with a shallow power-law index of $α> -3$, depending on the …

Event-horizon-scale Imaging of M87* under Different Assumptions via Deep Generative Image Priors
Berthy T. Feng, Katherine L. Bouman, William T. Freeman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02785

Event-horizon-scale Imaging of M87* under Different Assumptions via Deep Generative Image Priors
Reconstructing images from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87, depends on a prior to impose desired image statistics. However, given the impossibility of directly observing black holes, there is no clear choice for a prior. We present a framework for flexibly designing a range of priors, each bringing different biases to the image reconstruction. These priors can be weak (e.g., impose only basic natural-image stati…

Optical read and write of spin states in organic diradicals
Rituparno Chowdhury, Petri Murto, Naitik A. Panjwani, Yan Sun, Pratyush Ghosh, Yorrick Boeije, Vadim Derkach, Seung-Je Woo, Oliver Millington, Daniel G. Congrave, Yao Fu, Tarig B. E. Mustafa, Miguel Monteverde, Jes\'us Cerd\'a, Jan Behrends, Akshay Rao, David Beljonne, Alexei Chepelianskii, Hugo Bronstein, Richard H. Friend

Optical read and write of spin states in organic diradicals
Optical control and read-out of the ground state spin structure has been demonstrated for defect states in crystalline semiconductors, including the diamond NV- center, and these are promising systems for quantum technologies. Molecular organic semiconductors offer synthetic control of spin placement, in contrast to current limitations in these crystalline systems. Here we report the discovery of spin-optical addressability in a diradical molecule that comprises two trityl radical groups couple…

“Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe.””
John 20:29 NRSV
https://bible.com/bible/2016/jhn.20.29.NRSV

John 20:29 Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe.” | New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) | Download The Bible App Now
Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe.”

Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC

Bengals sign starting center Karras to extension https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/40342022/bengals-sign-starting-center-ted-karras-1-year-extension

Bengals sign starting center Ted Karras to 1-year extension - ESPN
The Bengals signed starting center Ted Karras to a one-year contract extension on Thursday.

‘AI Call Center Software’ Is Powering a Scam Call Center https://www.404media.co/ai-call-center-software-is-powering-a-scam-call-center/

‘AI Call Center Software’ Is Powering a Scam Call Center
Internal data from a scam call center shows it is using Voiso to power its scam operation. Voiso does offer some AI-powered features, although it's unclear if the scammers are using those particular products.

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Measurement of the $e^+e^-\toπ^+π^-$ cross section from threshold to 1.2 GeV with the CMD-3 detector
The cross section of the process $e^+e^-\toπ^+π^-$ has been measured in the center of mass energy range from 0.32 to 1.2 GeV with the CMD-3 detector at the electron-positron collider VEPP-2000. The measurement is based on a full dataset collected below 1 GeV during three data taking seasons, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 62 pb$^{-1}$. In the dominant $ρ$-resonance region, a systematic uncertainty of 0.7% has been reached. At energies around $ϕ$-resonance the $π^+π^-$ …

Superstep wavefield propagation
Tamas Nemeth (Chevron Technical Center), Kurt Nihei (Chevron Technical Center), Alex Loddoch (Chevron Technical Center), Anusha Sekar (Chevron Technical Center), Ken Bube (University of Washington), John Washbourne (Chevron Technical Center), Luke Decker (Chevron Technical Center), Sam Kaplan (Chevron Technical Center), Chunling Wu (Chevron Technical Center), Andrey Shabelansky (Chevron Technical Center), Milad Bader (Chevron Technical Center), Ovidiu Cr…

Superstep wavefield propagation
This paper describes how to propagate wavefields for arbitrary numbers of traditional time steps in a single step, called a superstep. We show how to construct operators that accomplish this task for finite-difference time domain schemes, including temporal first-order schemes in isotropic, anisotropic and elastic media, as well as temporal second-order schemes for acoustic media. This task is achieved by implementing a computational tradeoff differing from traditional single step wavefield pro…

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Detection of a Spatially Extended Stellar Population in M33: A Shallow Stellar Halo?
We analyze the outer regions of M33, beyond 15 kpc in projected distance from its center using Subaru/HSC multi-color imaging. We identify Red Giant Branch (RGB) stars and Red Clump (RC) stars using the surface gravity sensitive $NB515$ filter for the RGB sample, and a multi-color selection for both samples. We construct the radial surface density profile of these RGB and RC stars, and find that M33 has an extended stellar population with a shallow power-law index of $α> -3$, depending on the …

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Phase transitions in typical fluorite-type ferroelectrics
While ferroelectric hafnia ($\mathrm{HfO_2}$) has become a technically important material for microelectronics, the physical origin of its ferroelectricity remains poorly understood. The tetragonal $P4_2/nmc$ phase is commonly assigned as its paraelectric mother phase but has no soft mode at the Brillouin zone center. In this work, we propose that the paraelectric-ferroelectric transition in hafnia-like $Pca2_1$ ferroelectric family can be described by a $Pcca$-$Pca2_1$ transition, where the $P…

at lincoln center in #nyc, sam green's "love song of r. buckminster fuller" live #documentary with yo la tengo performing their #soundtrack along with green's narration. saw the (longer?) it…

'The center is holding,' von der Leyen declares amid Europe's far-right surge: https://benborges.xyz/2024/06/10/the-center-is.html

Is anyone familiar with this source of data center floor area and capacity? It seems to be one of the sources driving the narrative about explosive IT electricity use but there are issues, the first one being that the implied power density from their national numbers is about 150W/sf of IT load, which is implausibly high. https://

#AustinTX is about to become the center of the #Objectivist universe: https://YouTube.com/live/u2bd15PxBl8?t

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Search for a third-generation leptoquark coupled to a $τ$ lepton and a b quark through single, pair, and nonresonant production in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
A search is presented for a third-generation leptoquark (LQ) coupled exclusively to a $τ$ lepton and a b quark. The search is based on proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV recorded with the CMS detector, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb$^{-1}$. Events with $τ$ leptons and a varying number of jets originating from b quarks are considered, targeting the single and pair production of LQs, as well as nonresonant $t$-channel LQ exchange. An excess is…

TechInsights: Nvidia shipped ~3.76M data center GPUs in 2023, up from 2.64M in 2022; the total data center GPU market was 3.85M in 2023, up from ~2.67M in 2022 (Agam Shah/HPCwire)
https://www.hpcwire.com/2024/06/10/nvidia-

Nvidia Shipped 3.76 Million Data-center GPUs in 2023, According to Study
Nvidia had an explosive 2023 in data-center GPU shipments, which totaled roughly 3.76 million units, according to a study conducted by semiconductor analyst firm TechInsights. Nvidia’s GPU shipments in 2023 […]

Carbon accounting in the Cloud: a methodology for allocating emissions across data center users
Ian Schneider, Taylor Mattia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09645

Carbon accounting in the Cloud: a methodology for allocating emissions across data center users
This paper presents a methodology for allocating energy consumption to multiple users of shared data center machines, infrastructure, and software. Google uses this methodology to provide carbon reporting data for enterprise customers of multiple Google products, including Google Cloud and Workspace. The approach documented here advances the state-of-the-art of large scale Cloud carbon reporting systems. It uses detailed, granular measurement data on machine energy consumption. In addition, it …

The one-eyed squirrel that I occasionally feed in response to its screen-climbing demands has left us a thank-you gift.
The is the table on the front porch where it typically waits after it believes I have seen it.
A couple weeks back I had dropped and abandoned a pretzel while snacking out there and the squirrel later placed it on the chair.
This is all speculation — it could have been done by one of the handful of cats that visits. But cats aren’t that courteous.

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Search for a third-generation leptoquark coupled to a $τ$ lepton and a b quark through single, pair, and nonresonant production in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
A search is presented for a third-generation leptoquark (LQ) coupled exclusively to a $τ$ lepton and a b quark. The search is based on proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV recorded with the CMS detector, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb$^{-1}$. Events with $τ$ leptons and a varying number of jets originating from b quarks are considered, targeting the single and pair production of LQs, as well as nonresonant $t$-channel LQ exchange. An excess is…

Limit cycles of piecewise smooth differential systems of the type nonlinear center and saddle
Nanasaheb Phatangare, Krishnat Masalkar, Subhash Kendre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.08138

Limit cycles of piecewise smooth differential systems of the type nonlinear center and saddle
Piecewise linear differential systems separated by two parallel straight lines of the type of center-center-Hamiltonian saddle and the center-Hamiltonian saddle-Hamiltonian saddle can have at most one limit cycle and there are systems in these classes having one limit cycle. In this paper, we study the limit cycles of a piecewise smooth differential system separated by two parallel straight lines formed by nonlinear centers and a Hamiltonian saddle.

Montana GOP Candidate Failed To Disclose Post At Right-Wing Think Tank (Chris D'Angelo/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tim-sheehy-disclosure-property-and-environmental-research-center_n_6669b060e4b076909e1cc443
http://www.memeorandum.com/240612/p53#a240612p53

Toy Dolls – “A Far Out Disc” (1983)
UK release on Volume Records
My best friend at the time got the “Dig That Groove” album the year prior and we would listen to that thing non-stop. I recorded it, then got it on cassette, and eventually on CD.
To this day, that’s one of my top 5 all time favorite albums. I’m grateful I had the luck of being exposed to this band early on.
So I of course got their next album asap. It’s a close second, with standout tunes like “She Goes…

Shopping centers are making a comeback? Well, sort of. A lot of the comeback is by shrinking retail space & building apartments.
Final words from a shopping-center developer who just pre-leased 100% of the space in a new center:
“Maybe we’re the cockroaches of the earth-extinction event.”

What Retail Apocalypse? Shopping Centers Are Making a Comeback.
Vacancy is the lowest it has been in two decades, at 5.4 percent, according to a recent report. The properties are thriving even as retailers like Macy’s and Express shutter many stores.

"Die 40-jährige Olek­san­dra #Mat­wijt­schuk ist heute welt­be­kannt. Bei der inter­na­tio­na­len #Ukraine Reco­very Con­fe­rence in Berlin sprach die Vor­sit­zende des Center for Civil Liber­ties am 12. Juni 2024 über die Rolle ukrai­ni­scher

Friedensnobelpreisträgerin Matwijtschuk: Menschenrechtlerin aus Überzeugung
Die 40-jährige Oleksandra Matwijtschuk ist heute weltbekannt. Bei der internationalen Ukraine Recovery Conference in Berlin sprach die Vorsitzende des Center for Civil Liberties am 12. Juni 2024 über die Rolle ukrainischer Frauen während des Krieges. Ihre Organisation kämpft aber bereits seit 2007 für Menschenrechte.

#Volkswagen plant ab 2025 den Einsatz von #Ökostromspeichern aus gebrauchten E-Auto-Batterien in #Norddeutschland. Diese "Power Center" sollen das

Energiewende: 2025 erster Ökostromspeicher von Volkswagen in Norddeutschland
"Power Center" aus ausgedienten E-Auto-Akkus sollen laut VW ab 2025 als Ökostromspeicher zur Netzstabilisierung dienen. Sie können Gaskraftwerke einsparen.

Hamiltonian Structure of the Guiding-center Vlasov-Maxwell Equations with Polarization and Magnetization
Alain J. Brizard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.05932 …

Hamiltonian Structure of the Guiding-center Vlasov-Maxwell Equations with Polarization and Magnetization
The Hamiltonian formulation of guiding-center Vlasov-Maxwell equations, which contain dipole contributions to the guiding-center polarization and magnetization, is presented in terms of a guiding-center Hamiltonian functional that is derived from the exact guiding-center Vlasov-Maxwell energy conservation law, and an antisymmetric functional bracket that satisfies the Jacobi property. Exact energy-momentum and angular momentum conservation laws are expressed in Hamiltonian form and the guiding-…

AFC North chosen for HBO's in-season 'Hard Knocks' series; Steelers, Ravens, Bengals, Browns take center stage

https://www.cbssports.c…

AFC North chosen for HBO's in-season 'Hard Knocks' series; Steelers, Ravens, Bengals, Browns take center stage
Perhaps the NFL's toughest division will be featured

Observation of quantum entanglement in top quark pair production in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
CMS Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03976

Observation of quantum entanglement in top quark pair production in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
Entanglement is an intrinsic property of quantum mechanics and is predicted to be exhibited in the particles produced at the Large Hadron Collider. A measurement of the extent of entanglement in top quark-antiquark ($\mathrm{t\bar{t}}$) events produced in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV is performed with the data recorded by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC in 2016, and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.3 fb$^{-1}$. The events are selected based on …

at lincoln center in #nyc, sam green's "love song of r. buckminster fuller" live #documentary with yo la tengo performing their #soundtrack along with green's narration. saw the (longer?) it…

Altro che Agenda 2030! Entro il 2026, l’energia dei Data Center sarŠ pari al consumo del Giappone
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-c4564aa3-08a9a688b153ee66
Altro che Agenda 2030! Entro il 2026, l’energia dei Data Center sarŠ pari al consumo d…

Should FEMA recognize extreme heat and wildfire smoke as ‘major disasters’?
In a rule-making petition filed Monday, the Center for Biological Diversity and more than 30 other environmental organizations, healthcare groups and trade unions
are requesting that the Stafford Act
— FEMA’s animating statute
— be amended to include extreme heat and wildfire smoke in its regulations.
Doing so, they say, would unlock crucial disaster relief funding
that would all…

Are extreme heat and wildfire smoke major disasters?
Making the Federal Emergency Management Agency formally recognize extreme heat and smoke would unlock crucial disaster relief funding during those events.

“Stochasticity is the center of creativity in organisms”
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/753643100546777088/evolution-may-be-purposeful-and-its-freaking?source=share

Observation of $\gamma\gamma\to\tau\tau$ in proton-proton collisions and limits on the anomalous electromagnetic moments of the $\tau$ lepton
CMS Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03975

Observation of $γγ\toττ$ in proton-proton collisions and limits on the anomalous electromagnetic moments of the $τ$ lepton
The production of a pair of $τ$ leptons via photon-photon fusion, $γγ\toττ$, is observed for the first time in proton-proton collisions, with a significance of 5.3 standard deviations. This observation is based on a data set recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb$^{-1}$. Events with a pair of $τ$ leptons produced via photon-photon fusion are selected by requiring them to be back-to-back in the …

“As of 2022, there are 1,225 hate groups in the US, according to the non-profit legal group Southern Poverty Law Center. While specific views vary between these & other groups, they are generally all galvanized by curtailing government power or hatred toward individuals of certain races, religions, ethnicities, or sexual orientations. These groups are active in all 50 states, but in some parts of the country, they are far more common than in others.”

This is the US State With the Highest Concentration of Hate Groups: All 50 Ranked
The first hate group to be formed in the United States was the Ku Klux Klan, which was formed in 1865. Since then hate groups have thrived with new groups being formed often. Hate groups in the US include far-right political parties, neo-Nazi movements, and apolitical protest groups.As of 2022, there are 1,225 hate groups […]

European elections: Far-right gains, center holds, Ukraine-skeptics flounder: https://benborges.xyz/2024/06/10/european-elections-farright.html

Über 20 NATO-Länder erreichen das Zwei-Prozent-Ziel
Mehr als 20 NATO-Länder werden nach Angaben von Generalsekretär Jens Stoltenberg in diesem Jahr mindestens zwei Prozent des Bruttoinlandsprodukts für Verteidigung ausgeben. In einer Rede in der Denkfabrik Wilson Center sagte Stoltenberg, dass die Zahl der NATO-Mitglieder, die das Ausgabenziel von zwei Prozent des BIP erfüllten, heute höher sei als vor fünf Jahren. Damals err…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Putin entlässt vier Vize-Verteidigungsminister ++
Russlands Staatschef Putin hat vier stellvertretende Verteidigungsminister ihrer Ämter enthoben. Das ukrainische Militär meldet Erfolge gegen die Luftverteidigung auf der Krim. Alle Entwicklungen im Liveblog.

Potato 🥔 varieties grown in Peru.
"More than 4,000 varieties of native potatoes grow in the Andean highlands of Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador." https://cipotato.org/potato/native-potato-varieties/
I'd like to taste them all...

On the one dimensional polynomial, regular and regulous images of closed balls and spheres
Jos\'e F. Fernando
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09943 https://…

On the one dimensional polynomial, regular and regulous images of closed balls and spheres
We present a full geometric characterization of the $1$-dimensional (semi\-algebraic) images $S$ of either $n$-dimensional closed balls $\overline{\mathcal B}_n\subset{\mathbb R}^n$ (of center the origin and radius $1$) or $n$-dimensional spheres ${\mathbb S}^n\subset{\mathbb R}^{n+1}$ (of center the origin and radius $1$) under polynomial, regular and regulous maps for some $n\geq1$. In all the previous cases one can find an alternative polynomial, regular or regulous map on either $\overline{…

We went to the LEGO discovery center for Father's day. Here's a selfie we took while there.

Customer service automation startup Cognigy, whose AI agents can talk to tens of thousands of users at once, raised a $100M Series C and reports ~175 clients (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/11/cognigy-la…

Cognigy lands cash to grow its contact center automation business | TechCrunch
Cognigy, a contact center automation platform founded in 2016, has raised $100 million in a fresh venture equity deal.

A survey of 10,287 US adults on Facebook, Instagram, X, and TikTok: most see news content, but fewer say news is why they are on the platforms, except for X (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/202

How Americans Get News on TikTok, X, Facebook and Instagram
X is still more of a news destination than these other platforms, but the vast majority of users on all four see news-related content.

A global map of gullied hillslopes on Mars: #Mars ever has flowing water: https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/what-martian-gullies-mean-for-water-on-mars/ - now, a comprehensive study examines the question.

The new control center is nice #wwdc

Altro che Agenda 2030! Entro il 2026, l’energia dei Data Center sarŠ pari al consumo del Giappone
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-c4564aa3-08a9a688b153ee66
Altro che Agenda 2030! Entro il 2026, l’energia dei Data Center sarŠ pari al consumo d…

It’s great that this is hapening but….DUH…
“Colorado’s growing approach to solving chronic homelessness: Permanent housing”
https://coloradosun.com/2024/06/05/housing-homelessness-mental-health/

Colorado’s growing approach to solving chronic homelessness: Permanent housing with few rules
Jefferson Center and WellPower of Denver are building permanent supportive housing complexes modeled after a 2017 Denver building that still has a waitlist.

Ravens' Derrick Henry on playing with Lamar Jackson: 'Breath of fresh air not being the center of attention'

https://www.cbssports.co…

Ravens' Derrick Henry on playing with Lamar Jackson: 'Breath of fresh air not being the center of attention'
Henry is no longer the focal point of his offense

"Die 40-jährige Olek­san­dra #Mat­wijt­schuk ist heute welt­be­kannt. Bei der inter­na­tio­na­len #Ukraine Reco­very Con­fe­rence in Berlin sprach die Vor­sit­zende des Center for Civil Liber­ties am 12. Juni 2024 über die Rolle ukrai­ni­scher

Friedensnobelpreisträgerin Matwijtschuk: Menschenrechtlerin aus Überzeugung
Die 40-jährige Oleksandra Matwijtschuk ist heute weltbekannt. Bei der internationalen Ukraine Recovery Conference in Berlin sprach die Vorsitzende des Center for Civil Liberties am 12. Juni 2024 über die Rolle ukrainischer Frauen während des Krieges. Ihre Organisation kämpft aber bereits seit 2007 für Menschenrechte.

New 'Christian Supremacist' Movement Poses Biggest Threat to Democracy According to Southern Poverty Law Center - MeidasTouch News
https://meidasnews.com/news/new-christian-supremacis…

T.J. Bass on ‘process’ of center before camp battle https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/t-j-bass-on-process-of-center-before-camp-battle

Spy agencies’ foreign influence hub says it is issuing more private warnings https://therecord.media/intelligence-agencies-foreign-malign-influence-center-more-warnings-issued

Spy agencies’ foreign influence hub says it is issuing more private warnings
The uptick in private notices by the Foreign Malign Influence Center coincides with the 2024 presidential race. The warnings go to political campaigns, companies and other organizations.

The Black Hole Explorer: Preliminary Antenna Design
T. K. Sridharan (National Radio Astronomy Observatory), R. Lehmensiek (National Radio Astronomy Observatory), D. Marrone (University of Arizona), M. Johnson (Center for Astrophysics, Harvard Smithsonian), J. Houston (Center for Astrophysics, Harvard Smithsonian), M. Freeman (Center for Astrophysics, Harvard Smithsonian), P. Cheimets (Center for Astrophysics, Harvard Smithsonian), M. Silver (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)

The Black Hole Explorer: Preliminary Antenna Design
We present the basic design of a large, light weight, spaceborne antenna for the Black Hole Explorer (BHEX) space Very Long Baseline Interferometry (space-VLBI) mission, achieving high efficiency operation at mm/sub-mm wavelengths. An introductory overview of the mission and its science background are provided. The BHEX mission targets fundamental black hole physics enabled by the detection of the finely structured image feature around black holes known as the photon ring, theoretically expecte…

Apple's iOS 18 lets users lock apps behind Face ID, adds redesigned Tapbacks in Messages, updates the Journal app, adds topographic support in Maps, and more (Kris Holt/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ios-18-gets-a-rev

iOS 18 gets a revamped Control Center and loads of home screen customization options
It's WWDC time, which means we're finding out all about what's going to be in iOS 18.

CBRE: India is on track to add up to 850 MW of data center capacity by the end of 2026, outpacing South Korea at 495 MW and Japan at 407 MW over the same period (Nikkei Asia)
https://t.co/MFkIgCBmPn

India outpacing Asian rivals in data center capacity, report says
Major investments by Amazon and Reliance drive lead over Japan and Singapore

Dickless – “I'm A Man” b/w “Saddle Tramp” (1990)
7” 45RPM
First edition of 4000 copies on green vinyl
The appeal for me at the time was their bass heavy, grungy sound. Never saw them live, but heard they were pretty bad. Maybe that’s why they were so short lived 🤷‍♂️
I prefer the b-side on this one. It’s got a melody.
#VinylRecords

Ok. Let's do this. LEGO British phone box we got today at the Discovery Center.
#LEGO
#HappyFathersDay

The new control center is nice #wwdc

Survey: 88% of Black Americans say they sometimes come across news about Black people they think is inaccurate; 72% say the inaccuracies were created on purpose (Kiana Cox/Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-eth…

5. Black Americans and racial conspiracy theories about the news media 
About half of Black Americans say the news media was designed to hold Black people back a great deal or a fair amount.

Turkey thwarts major terrorist plot in Moscow after Crocus City mall attack: https://benborges.xyz/2024/06/18/turkey-thwarts-major.html

¡Anarchy 6! – “Hardcore Lives!” (1988)
LP on Gasatanka Records
It was about time someone made fun of the more ridiculous and toxic aspects of punk rock.
And who better than Steve McDonald (Redd Kross) and a couple dudes from the band Sin 34?
And what better label than Bill Bartel's "Gasatanka Records" (a reference to Kiss label, Casablanca Records)?
It’s a great parody of the scene at the time. They even poke fun at their own bands. As a young pun…

The Black Hole Explorer: Instrument System Overview
Daniel P. Marrone (University of Arizona), Janice Houston (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard/Smithsonian), Kazunori Akiyama (MIT Haystack Observatory, Mizusawa VLBI Observatory, BHI), Bryan Bilyeu (MIT Lincoln Laboratory), Don Boroson (MIT Lincoln Laboratory), Paul Grimes (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard/Smithsonian), Kari Haworth (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard/Smithsonian), Robert Lehmensiek (National Radio Astronomy Observator…

The Black Hole Explorer: Instrument System Overview
The Black Hole Explorer (BHEX) is a space very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) mission concept that is currently under development. BHEX will study supermassive black holes at unprecedented resolution, isolating the signature of the "photon ring" - light that has orbited the black hole before escaping - to probe physics at the edge of the observable universe. It will also measure black hole spins, study the energy extraction and acceleration mechanisms for black hole jets, and characterize …

Apple unveils iOS 18, adding more Home Screen customization, a Dark Mode for app icons, an updated Control Center, scheduled send for Messages, and more (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2024/06/10/ios-18-new-features-launch-release-date/…

Apple unveils iOS 18 with new home screen customization, Control Center revamp, more - 9to5Mac
iOS 18 has officially been announced. The update includes new home screen customization, improvements to dark mode, and more. Head...

Ukraine hits 15 Russian air defense systems in occupied Crimea over past 2 months, military says: https://benborges.xyz/2024/06/17/ukraine-hits-russian.html

Mike Johnson-Linked Ex-Southern Baptist Convention Leader Who Settled Molestation Lawsuit Dies At Age 92 - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2024/06/mike-johnson-linked-ex-southern-baptist-co…

Mike Johnson-Linked Ex-Southern Baptist Convention Leader Who Settled Molestation Lawsuit Dies At Age 92
The Texas Tribune reports: Paul Pressler, the monumental Southern Baptist leader and Republican activist at the center of a massive sex abuse scandal, died on June 7. He was 94. Pressler was one of th

Sparks – “Angst In My Pants” (1982)
Not sure what year I got this, but it was definitely after seeing Valley Girl 😎
Along with “Whomp That Sucker” and “In Outer Space”, this was a big part of the soundtrack to my early teen years. I remember seeing them play at Magic Mountain in 1983. I just happened to be there at that time. Total coincidence.
#VinylRecords

Structure Research: tech companies' data center plans in India will push the nation from the sixth place to the top spot in Asia Pacific for self-built capacity (Financial Times)
https://t.co/gKW34k8wSk

War, combat fatigue, and uncertainty about the terms of service: https://benborges.xyz/2024/06/10/war-combat-fatigue.html

This BlackRock left-wing conspiracy theory has more to it than meets the eye | Semafor
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/13/2024/this-blackrock-left-wing-conspiracy-theory-has-more-to-it-than-meets-the-eye

This BlackRock left-wing conspiracy theory has more to it than meets the eye | Semafor
A House Judiciary Committee report alleged the asset manager was at the center of a left-wing cabal, but a close read reveals money, not ideology, is actually the bottom line.

Finbourne, which helps financial companies organize and use their data in AI and other models, raised a £55M Series B at a valuation just over £280M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/finbourne-ta…

Finbourne taps $70M for tech that turns financial data dust into AI gold  | TechCrunch
Finbourne, founded out of London’s financial center, has built a platform to help financial companies organize and use more of their data in AI and other models.

Russia targets 103 settlements in past day, civilians killed and injured: https://benborges.xyz/2024/06/09/russia-targets-settlements.html

Leaked documents reveal life-threatening issues at Amazon's primary-care service One Medical, raising concerns about Amazon's frugal approach to health care (Caroline O'Donovan/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/

Leaked documents reveal patient safety issues at Amazon’s One Medical
After One Medical began using a call center staffed by contractors with minimal training, patients with urgent symptoms failed to receive immediate help.

A survey of 10,287 US adults on Facebook, Instagram, X, and TikTok: most see news content, but fewer say news is why they are on the platforms, except for X (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/202

How Americans Get News on TikTok, X, Facebook and Instagram
X is still more of a news destination than these other platforms, but the vast majority of users on all four see news-related content.