@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-08-14 21:30:59
DeSantis says he doesn't support Republican Rep. Cory Mills in Tuesday's primary (Anna Liss-Roy/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/08/14/desantis-says-he-doesnt-support-republican-rep-cory-mills-tuesdays-primary/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260814/p82#a260814p82
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-10 23:15:51
Daphy Michel,
who suffered from severe mental illness,
was found more than 20 miles away from her home in Charleroi,
wearing summer clothes in freezing weather.
In June, Michel’s death was ruled a homicide.
An attorney for the family said they are planning to file a lawsuit.
Michel’s death isn’t recorded on ICE’s website. “ICE had NOTHING to do with this woman’s death,” DHS declared on social media.
ICE reporting also doesn’t account for people who die…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-07-31 16:59:40
Malik Nabers doesn’t know if he’ll be ready for NY Giants vs Cowboys in Week 1 https://bolavip.com/en/nfl/malik-nabers-doesnt-know-if-hell-be-ready-for-ny-giants-vs-cowboys-in-week-1
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-08-14 19:35:58
DeSantis says he doesn't support embattled Florida Rep. Cory Mills (Gary Fineout/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/14/florida-desantis-mills-house-support-01038128
http://www.memeorandum.com/260814/p68#a260814p68
@arXiv_mathDS_bot@mastoxiv.page2026-08-04 09:55:10
Crosslisted article(s) found for math.DS. https://arxiv.org/list/math.DS/new
[1/2]:
- Inertial manifolds for the nonlocal parabolic problem
Xiaoqing Yang, Alexandre N. Carvalho, Chunyou Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00197 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathAP_bot/117036089642684807
- Why males compete rather than care, with an application to supplying collective goods
Sara L. Loo, Danya Rose, Michael Weight, Kristen Hawkes, Peter S. Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00292 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioPE_bot/117036170847876781
- Sylvester's Theorem and Reduced Linear Systems: From Three-Factor Products to Small Dynamical Models
James M. Hyman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00367 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathHO_bot/117036100065935534
- Modeling Unknown Nonlocal PDE Systems via Flow Map Learning
Zhongshu Xu, Ying Li, Yanzhi Zhang, Dongbin Xiu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00400 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/117036316536728731
- Fundamental examples of height functions on closed manifolds and their 1st derivatives
Naoki Kitazawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00556 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/117036201322109036
- Duck hunting with quantum mechanics
Artem Alexandrov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00579 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_nlinPS_bot/117036126019380602
- Dynamics on graphs with disjoint cycles and applications
Pere Ara, Tran Quang Do, Tran Giang Nam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00587 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathRA_bot/117036105572329742
- Co-evolution of social reward and punishment under institutional interventions
Van An Nguyen, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.01183 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/117036523376490165
- Reputation-driven Cooperation in Lattice-based Decentralized Federated Learning through Evolution...
Huynh, Vinh, Lam, Truong, Bui, Dinh, Le Gia, Le Nguyen Nhat, Duong, Han, Nguyen, Trang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.01197 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/117036523769335776
- The Riemann Problem for a 3x3 Generalized Chaplygin Gas System with Variable Pressure
Thomas Allen, Ella Kim, Jonathan Nunes, Rita Xing, Charis Tsikkou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.01580 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathAP_bot/117036470486364433
- Non-KKT Accumulation in Entropic Mirror Descent
Kuangyu Ding, Kim-Chuan Toh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.01658 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathOC_bot/117036313981076116
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@pixelpusher220@dmv.community2026-10-09 22:53:18
Insurance company offers 30% discount for miles driven by Tesla Full Self Driving FSD
No word on the rates for when it goes driving on railroads
https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/4792/lemonade-extends-fsd-insurance-discount-to-hw3-tesla-owners
@losttourist@social.chatty.monster2026-08-12 16:34:10
We are up on Helsby Hill, looking out westwards over the Mersey mudflats and north Cheshire's vast miles of oil refineries.
It may not be the most beautiful vista ever, but we have a glorious unimpeded view of the slowly descending sun. Now we're just waiting for the moon to do its thing.
#eclipse #eclipse2026
@billbert@mastodon.social2026-10-06 10:39:41
Went to one grocery store because it had a slight discount on store brand oat milk. Purchased some, but then went to my regular grocery store. Spent over $100 on various things. Forgot to get coffee sweetener.
1/2
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-08-20 22:28:10
So about that discomfort...
In the end, we have basically "hooray, national park declaration will protect the endangered species, whose traditional guardians, effectively extinct, will move into a new formal structure."
Celeste isn't Indigenous-coded, but this is *way* to close to several layers of colonialist myth that we have in America. The real story of our national parks, after all, is that we genocided the original inhabitants and forced them to move out of the parks, including banning culturally-important religious ceremonies at sacred sites in parks like Yosemite (in a country that's supposed to be very serious about freedom of religion...). Then we mostly erased those tribes from officially-taught history, pretending that they had tragically disappeared (they're still around; I could probably go look up their websites right now if I wanted to), and said "look at the majesty of this *wild*, *untamed*, *remote* wilderness. Isn't its completely *natural* beauty, untouched by humans, so wonderful?" Then just like the original tribes we do a bunch of human intervention to maintain the ecosystems there, and start charging camping and parking fees to support that work.
Yeah, it's a really fucked-up history.
So that's why it bothers me that the book ends with this as a positive resolution. In the book, the dragons' guardians are actually extinct, down to just Celeste. The prophecy-bending pretty much ensures that they won't actually make a comeback as a culture... But in real life, the descendants of the tribes that were forced out of Yellowstone, Yosemite, and other national parks are still around. The portrayal of genocides of indigenous peoples as completed is actually one big part of the colonialist myth: if they're all dead already, it might be tragic, but it's history, and there's no reason to give the land back or pay reparations or anything like that (Hollow Knight is sadly another extremely popular example of this myth-making). Then there's the idea that humans and nature are separable, the idea that the colonizers are trustworthy stewards of the land they stole, etc. When you set these things up to be true in your fictional world, you're helping acclimate readers to the idea that they're true in the real world, and that's bad.
I don't think that Matrin necessarily did this with malice: she's probably just reflecting back the myths she was taught. Special order tasked with sacred duty now almost extinct? Great way to give a character a tragic backstory and some powerful motivations, right? Etc.
TL;DR: I wish Martin had been as conscious of and clever in undermining colonialist myths as she was in dealing with standard fantasy racism.
@smurthys@hachyderm.io2026-08-24 07:38:02
I don't know if "Revisit" is a #YouTube genre, but the "Only Desi" channel has revisits of #Bollywood #movies with supremely funny roasts. You do need decent familiarity with that movie industry, and India in general, to get full mileage.
Recommend 10/10.
#entertainment #reviews #comedy