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The {conflicted} package makes sure that namespace conflicts are solved explicitly and prevents unpleasent surprises: #rstats

“Are we the baddies?” is not a question anyone in the West has to ask themselves. There’s no question about it. You were. You are. Will you continue to be? That’s the only question that matters and the answer is entirely up to you.
Silence is complicity.
Inaction is complicity.
Apologism is complicity.
Do something!
#israel

End Israeli Apartheid (@EndIsraeliApartheid@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image More RAF jets are being sent to the Middle East, Keir Starmer has said after Iran threatened to target UK, French and US bases if the countries help stop strikes on Israel. Additional refuelling aircraft have been deployed from UK bases and more fast jets will be sent over, it is understood. The UK already has RAF jets in the Middle East as part of Operation Shader. https://www.thenational.scot/news/25239897.uk-jets-sent-middle-east-despite-calls-de-escalation/ 🕎 �…

Hyperbolic spaces not quasi-isometric to curve complexes
Javier Aramayona, Hugo Parlier, Richard Webb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08086 https://

Hyperbolic spaces not quasi-isometric to curve complexes
We identify a condition that prevents a hyperbolic space from being quasi-isometric to the curve complex of any non-sporadic surface. Our result applies to several hyperbolic complexes, including arc complexes, disk complexes, non-separating curve complexes, (hyperbolic) pants complexes, and to free splitting complexes of free groups.

Reddit says it has started verifying UK users' ages before letting them "view certain mature content", in order to comply with the country's Online Safety Act (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Reddit’s UK users must now prove they’re 18 to view adult content
Reddit hires company to verify user age with selfie or photo of government ID.

Where that understanding goes wrong is that humans have perception and experience and common sense. And yes, people are foolish and fallible — but ultimately humans are the adaptable element of complex systems[1], and when we design processes involving humans, we always, always lean on that adaptability.
If we say “walk out the door,” humans generally will not just walk face first into the wall just because the door is behind it.
Code will — unless you tell it not to.
[1] https://how.complexsystems.fail/#12
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Tucker Carlson Blasts Trump for Being 'Complicit' in Israel's Attack on Iran (Catherine Bouris/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-blasts-trump-for-being-complicit-in-israels-attack-on-iran/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p3#a250614p3

WH Declares "No Kings Day" Protests To Have Been "Complete Utter Failure With Minuscule Attendance" - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/wh-declares-no-kings-day-protests-to-have-been-complete-utter-failure-with-minuscule-attendance/

Complexity of mixed Schatten norms of quantum maps
Jan Kochanowski, Omar Fawzi, Cambyse Rouz\'e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08358 https://

Complexity of mixed Schatten norms of quantum maps
We study the complexity of computing the mixed Schatten $\|Φ\|_{q\to p}$ norms of linear maps $Φ$ between matrix spaces. When $Φ$ is completely positive, we show that $\| Φ\|_{q \to p}$ can be computed efficiently when $q \geq p$. The regime $q \geq p$ is known as the non-hypercontractive regime and is also known to be easy for the mixed vector norms $\ell_{q} \to \ell_{p}$ [Boyd, 1974]. However, even for entanglement-breaking completely-positive trace-preserving maps $�…

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Trump says 'it's possible' US gets involved in Israel-Iran conflict (Rachel Scott/ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-us-gets-involved-israel-iran-conflict/story?id=122865561
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p64#a250615p64