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Housing (for) a post-growth world: A manifesto.
#housing

Housing (for) a post-growth world: A manifesto
by Anna Pagani, Hans Volmary, Daniel Fitzpatrick* Providing housing for all is central to building any future. Yet, the system put in place to deliver housing globally has been relentlessly driven …

Democratic Report Says Disorder at DOGE Jeopardized Americans’ Data - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/us/politics/democratic-report-disorder-doge.html

I am full of germs and even huskier than usual, so this week, enjoy this fascinating conversation with Dr Jan Eppingstall, where we talk about hoarding disorder vs Diogenes syndrome vs squalor vs disposophobia vs syllogomania vs Plyushkin Syndrome vs Havisham Syndrome!
Phew!

Podcast REMIX: Hoarding disorder, Diogenes syndrome or squalor? With Dr Jan Eppingstall
I am full of germs and even huskier than usual, so this week, enjoy this fascinating conversation with Dr Jan Eppingstall, where we talk about hoarding disorder vs Diogenes syndrome vs squalor vs disposophobia vs syllogomania vs Plyushkin Syndrome vs Havisham Syndrome! Phew!

The dbcooper package turns a database connection into a collection of functions. #rstats #database

GitHub - pipeline-tools/dbcooper: Create user-friendly accessor functions from a database connection
Create user-friendly accessor functions from a database connection - pipeline-tools/dbcooper

We are going to open all of these presents RIGHT NOW!

Harnessing optical disorder for Bell inequalities violation
Baptiste Courme, Malo Joly, Adrian Makowski, Sylvain Gigan, Hugo Defienne
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21052 https://…

Harnessing optical disorder for Bell inequalities violation
Bell inequalities are a cornerstone of quantum physics. By carefully selecting measurement bases (typically polarization), their violation certifies quantum entanglement. Such measurements are disrupted by the presence of optical disorder in propagation paths, including polarization or spatial mode mixing in fibers and through free-space turbulence. Here, we demonstrate that disorder can instead be exploited as a resource to certify entanglement via a Bell inequality test. In our experiment, on…

A Riemannian Variational and Spectral Framework for High-Dimensional Sphere Packing: Barrier-Dynamics Reconciliation, Periodic Rigidity, and Discrete-Time Guarantees
Faruk Alpay, Hamdi Alakkad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21066

A Riemannian Variational and Spectral Framework for High-Dimensional Sphere Packing: Barrier-Dynamics Reconciliation, Periodic Rigidity, and Discrete-Time Guarantees
We develop a unified framework that reconciles a barrier based geometric model of periodic sphere packings with a provably convergent discrete time dynamics. First, we introduce a C2 interior barrier U_nu that is compatible with a strict feasibility safeguard and has a Lipschitz gradient on the iterates domain. Second, we correct and formalize the discrete update and give explicit step size and damping rules. Third, we prove barrier to KKT consistency and state an interior variant clarifying th…

Alamo Trust president resigns after Dan Patrick calls for her removal (The Texas Tribune)
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/10/23/texas-alamo-trust-dan-patrick-dissertation-history-politics-2/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251024/p133#a251024p133

New: Podcast REMIX: Hoarding disorder, Diogenes syndrome or squalor? With Dr Jan Eppingstall https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-remix-hoarding-disorder-diogenes-syndrome-or-squalor-with-dr-jan-eppin…

New: Podcast REMIX: Hoarding disorder, Diogenes syndrome or squalor? With Dr Jan Eppingstall https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-remix-hoarding-disorder-diogenes-syndrome-or-squalor-with-dr-jan-eppin…