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But doesn’t israel have the right to defend itself against the people it is starving?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/17/dozens-killed-in-gaza-waiting-for-food-trucks-says-health-ministry
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U.S. Forward Deploys Dozens of Aerial Tankers Amid Possible Entry Into Israel-Iran War : r/worldnews
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1lcjg98/us_forward_deploys_dozens_of_aerial_tankers_amid/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #ElSonido
molotov:
🎵 gimme tha power
#molotov
https://djmiguesoria.bandcamp.com/track/molotov-x-gorillaz-gimme-tha-power-nastyshup-86-bpm
https://open.spotify.com/track/6FY8Imjs6YSglIAqnbU9mM

Optimized Spectral Fault Receptive Fields for Diagnosis-Informed Prognosis
Stan Mu\~noz Guti\'errez, Franz Wotawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12375 http…

Optimized Spectral Fault Receptive Fields for Diagnosis-Informed Prognosis
This paper introduces Spectral Fault Receptive Fields (SFRFs), a biologically inspired technique for degradation state assessment in bearing fault diagnosis and remaining useful life (RUL) estimation. Drawing on the center-surround organization of retinal ganglion cell receptive fields, we propose a frequency-domain feature extraction algorithm that enhances the detection of fault signatures in vibration signals. SFRFs are designed as antagonistic spectral filters centered on characteristic fau…

Polynomial Prenexing of QBFs with Non-Monotone Boolean Operators
Abdallah Saffidine, Andreas Herzig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12562 https://

Polynomial Prenexing of QBFs with Non-Monotone Boolean Operators
It is well-known that every quantified boolean formula (QBF) can be transformed into a prenex QBF whose only boolean operators are negation, conjunction, and disjunction. It is also well-known that the transformation is polynomial if the boolean operators of the original QBF are restricted to negation, conjunction, and disjunction. In contrast, up to now no polynomial transformation has been found when the original QBF contains other boolean operators such as biconditionals or exclusive disjunc…

Piketty on the need for a wealth tax, with a fairly hilarious French Revolution analogy – Le blog de Thomas Piketty https://www.lemonde.fr/blog/piketty/2025/06/17/the-senate-beside-the-story/

Ultra-wealthy, the Senate beside the story
By opposing the 2% minimum wealth tax on the 1,800 French people whose net worth exceeds €100 million, after the measure was adopted by France's Assemblée nationale (lower house of Parliament), the upper house, the Sénat, has shown just how disconnected it is from the issues of our time. This is nothing new. Between 1896 …

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@arXiv_physicsaoph_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-16 09:49:49

Using gridpoint relaxation for forecast error diagnostics in neural weather models
Uros Perkan, Ziga Zaplotnik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11987 https://

Using gridpoint relaxation for forecast error diagnostics in neural weather models
Deep-learning (DL) weather prediction models offer notable advantages over traditional physics-based models, including auto-differentiability and low computational cost, enabling detailed diagnostics of forecast errors. Using our convolutional encoder-decoder model, ConvCastNet, we systematically relax selected subdomains of the forecast fields towards "true" weather states (ERA5 analyses) and monitor the forecast skill gain in other regions. Our results show that an 8-day midlatitude forecast …

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-06-17 14:30:54

'Have you no decency?' Read the scathing letter a Minnesota US Senate staffer sent to Mike Lee (Robert Gehrke/Salt Lake Tribune)
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2025/06/16/minnesota-us-senate-staffer-sends/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p55#a250617p55

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-06-17 12:48:49

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
The Cure:
🎵 Just Like Heaven
#TheCure
https://djgenesis.bandcamp.com/track/the-cure-just-like-heaven-dj-genesis-breaks-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/4NnWuGQujzWUEg0uZokO5M

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-06-16 12:27:17

I’d say lemmings off a cliff but it’s unfair to lemmings who don’t actually commit suicide by jumping off cliffs, much less by first building the cliff themselves. https://mastodon.social/@bruces/114691439094389816

Bruce Sterling @bruces (@bruces@mastodon.social)
*Fossil-fueled AI, deep in the heart of Texas https://www.desmog.com/2025/06/12/texas-ai-artificial-intelligence-demand-100-gas-plants-data-centers-pollution-eip-report/