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PBS North Carolina says it will offer voluntary buyouts as it anticipates an annual loss of $4.8M in federal funding and may also lose $4M in state funding (Julian Wyllie/Current)
https://current.org/2025/08/pbs-north-carolina-will-cut-sta…

PBS North Carolina will cut staff amid state and federal funding crisis
The station faces an annual loss of $4.8 million in federal support.

And the most recent jobs report has many hints that ICE is indeed having that desired effect: in an otherwise stagnant or contracting labor market, there was job group in leisure and hospitality, private health care, and (somewhat less) construction — all job markets with a concentration of immigrant labor.
I am not an economist and this is not a proper analysis — grain of salt, please! — but a quick skim of these stats is at least superficially consistent with a good chunk of current job growth coming from decreased immigrant participation in the labor force.
https://www.bls.gov/ces/publications/highlights/2025/current-employment-statistics-highlights-06-2025.pdf
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How People in the Twin Cities Responded to a Federal Raid https://crimethinc.com/2025/06/04/minneapolis-to-fed…

Minneapolis to Feds: "Get the Fuck Out"
Two firsthand accounts detailing how people in the Twin Cities responded to a federal raid.

"The ChargeWise California pilot found that dynamic price signals, combined with automated charging management, achieve up to 98% EV charging load delivered off-peak, above the 60-70% typically achieved by ToU tariffs."
https://www.current-new…

Dynamic price signals beat time-of-use tariffs for energy load management in US trial
A pilot programme funded by the California Energy Commission shows EV charging on dynamic price signals outperforms time-of-use (ToU) rates.

How former OSU teammates, current Steelers rookies Will Howard, Jack Sawyer overcame adversity to reach NFL

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/how-for

Would anyone else like to access the current :nixos: flake's commit message from within #nix, e.g. via `self.sourceInfo.commitMsg`, for example to get a more descriptive boot menu entry? I for sure do and opened an issue:
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Provide flake's current commit message in self.sourceInfo · Issue #13331 · NixOS/nix
Is your feature request related to a problem? It would be great if one could access the current commit message of the flake. The self.sourceInfo.*Rev are great, but for things like the boot menu or...

On conformal Komar currents in LRS spacetimes
Abbas M. Sherif
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04888 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.04888

On conformal Komar currents in LRS spacetimes
For locally rotationally symmetric (LRS) spacetimes, we construct two equivalent forms of the Komar current derived from a conformal Killing vector. One is a kinematic construction and the other is in terms of the matter quantities on the spacetime. The required conservation condition for the current is derived and discussed in various instances, and the implications of the conservation of the current, and in the case of a vanishing current, are analyzed. A relationship between the conservation…

Lifeguards rescued hundreds of people from Rip Currents in Newport Beach, California on July 4th weekend
https://abc7.com/post/lifeguards-make-hundreds-rescues-hazardous-conditions-socal-beaches-july-4th-weekend…

Lifeguards make hundreds of rescues with hazardous conditions at SoCal beaches on July 4th weekend
Newport Beach lifeguards shared a video of crews saving 10 swimmers from what they called a "monster rip current." They made 350 rescues there on Friday.

Coherent phase control of two-color continuous variable entangled light
Andrea Grimaldi, Valeriy Novikov, T\'ulio Brito Brasil, Eugene Simon Polzik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03303

Coherent phase control of two-color continuous variable entangled light
A continuous variable Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) state is a resource for secure quantum communication and distributed quantum sensing. Here we present a technique for coherent control of the two-color EPR state generated by a frequency nondegenerate optical parametric oscillator. The scheme allows for robust control of the homodyne detection of each of the two EPR quantum fields separated by 200 nanometers. We apply our control scheme to stabilize and characterize a strong entangled state of…

Survey: 47% of UK adults and 81% of UK "decision makers" say they use AI "as part of consuming news and staying up to date with current events" (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audie

Where do UK 'decision makers' get their news? Publishers, social media and AI
Decision makers and news: Where do UK business and political leaders get informed about current affairs. Data on publishers, social media and AI.