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Eternal inflation near inflection points: a challenge to primordial black hole models
Eemeli Tomberg, Konstantinos Dimopoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15522

Eternal inflation near inflection points: a challenge to primordial black hole models
Inflation with an inflection point potential is a popular model for producing primordial black holes. The potential near the inflection point is approximately flat, with a local maximum next to a local minimum, prone to eternal inflation. We show that a sufficient condition for eternal inflation is $λ_1 \leq 3$, where $λ_1$ is the index of the `exponential tail,' the lowest eigenvalue of the Fokker--Planck equation over a bounded region. We write $λ_1$ in terms of the model parameters for li…

The non-orientable spacetime of the eternal black hole
Ovidiu Racorean
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15005 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.15005

The non-orientable spacetime of the eternal black hole
We derive the metric of the BTZ black hole for the special case of interchanging the characteristics of space and time coordinates. We maximally extend the geometry of this interior solution and show that the line element is similar to its exterior solution counterpart. Thus, we assign the thermofield double state dual to this interior geometric construction. As a result, we have two independent thermofield double states corresponding to the BTZ metric: one dual to the exterior solution and one…

I see Mr. Dobson has passed. I wish his family and friends peace.
If there's an afterlife, may he receive the eternal reward he deserves.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Eternal Evil:
🎵 Satanic Forces
#EternalEvil
https://eternalevil.bandcamp.com/track/satanic-forces
https://open.spotify.com/track/2vMdwyBgbEUco96KemOmmg

its not eternal september its eternal 9/11

I don’t wanna jinx anything, but wouldn’t it be cool if #Epstein killed #Trump, either figuratively or literally? I mean, I’d settle for just leaving office, really, but still, hope springs eternal and all.

The eternal fight between V and W, when transliterating Sanskrit व in English. (Also applies to other Indic languages.)
E.g., वर्ष ("year") is often written "varsha"; not "warsha" though w is the closest sound to व.
#languages #writing #transliteration #Sanskrit #English

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The KLF feat. The Children Of The Revolution:
🎵 3 A.M. Eternal
#NowPlaying #TheKLF #TheChildrenOfTheRevolution
https://syphadj.bandcamp.com/track/the-klf-featuring-the-children-of-the-revolution-3-a-m-eternal-live-at-the-ssi

Quite extensive writeup on the whole W/X situation, the title suggesting too political of a discussion - I do recommend reading through it, neglecting stances, and just seeing where the projects stand.
To be clear, I do not endorse or judge anything here. It helps getting an overview. In the end, there are too many aspects, and deciding for either solution requires you to consider your personal preferences and priorities.

The price of software freedom is eternal politics
Comment: Many don't realize or forget, but the FOSS world has ideological wings, too

Quantum Wall States for Noise Mitigation and Eternal Purity Bounds
Miguel Casanova, Francesco Ticozzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07944 https://

Quantum Wall States for Noise Mitigation and Eternal Purity Bounds
The present work analyzes state-stabilization techniques for decoupling a subsystem from environmental interactions. The proposed framework uses analytical and numerical tools to find an approximate decoherence-free subspace (DFS) with enhanced passive noise isolation. Active state-stabilizing control on a subsystem mediating dominant environmental interactions, which we call wall subsystem, creates an effective quantum wall state. The proposed method controls only the wall subsystem, leaving t…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #FreakZonePlaylist
Nujabes:
🎵 reflection eternal
#Nujabes
https://ilovebrandon.bandcamp.com/track/reflection-eternal
https://open.spotify.com/track/6eGMwVVABqVTe9bWRIm498
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“Artificially complex structures […] pose a number of practical and intellectual problems; man is responsible for their synthesis, regulation, and continued maintenance. In almost no instance can artificial-rational systems be built and left alone. They require continued attention, rebuilding, and repair. Eternal vigilance is the price of artificial complexity.”
—Langdon Winner (1977), Autonomous Technology, p. 183

“Artificially complex structures […] pose a number of practical and intellectual problems; man is responsible for their synthesis, regulation, and continued maintenance. In almost no instance can artificial-rational systems be built and left alone. They require continued attention, rebuilding, and repair. Eternal vigilance is the price of artificial complexity.”
—Langdon Winner (1977), Autonomous Technology, p. 183

“Artificially complex structures […] pose a number of practical and intellectual problems; man is responsible for their synthesis, regulation, and continued maintenance. In almost no instance can artificial-rational systems be built and left alone. They require continued attention, rebuilding, and repair. Eternal vigilance is the price of artificial complexity.”
—Langdon Winner (1977), Autonomous Technology, p. 183

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
George Frideric Handel, Alison Balsom, Iestyn Davies, The English Concert & Trevor Pinnock:
🎵 Eternal source of light divine (Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne)
#Spotify

Topological Big Bangs: Reflection, Itty-Bitty Blenders, and Eternal Trumpets
Hubert Bray, James Wheeler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11573 https://arxiv.org/…

Topological Big Bangs: Reflection, Itty-Bitty Blenders, and Eternal Trumpets
We discuss and formalize a topological means by which the initial singularity might be mollified, at the level of the spacetime manifold's structure, in classical cosmological models of a homogeneous expanding universe. The construction, dubbed a "reflective" topological big bang, generalizes Schrodinger's elliptic de Sitter space and is built to be compatible with the standard Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) picture of the large-scale universe, only minimally modifying it via some n…

Sonnet 064 - LXIV
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd
The rich proud cost of outworn buried age;
When sometime lofty towers I see down-raz'd,
And brass eternal slave to mortal rage;
When I have seen the hungry ocean gain
Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,
And the firm soil win of the watery main,
Increasing store with loss, and loss with store;
When I have seen such interchange of state,
Or state itself conf…

Best of the Left podcast - Building an Organized Left, the Eternal Oxymoron
https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1720
Please listen and act!
We need to preserve what independence we have.
@…

Extremal curves in single-trace $T\bar{T}$-holography
Soumangsu Chakraborty, Madhur Mehta, Gela Patashuri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09990 https://arxiv.or…

Extremal curves in single-trace $T\bar{T}$-holography
In this paper, we continue the study of single-trace $T\bar{T}$-holography where the boundary field theory can be realized as a CFT$_2$ deformed by a single-trace irrelevant operator of dimension $(2,2)$ and dual spacetime geometry is $AdS_3$ smoothly glued to flat spacetime with a linear dilaton near the boundary. In this non-AdS holographic framework, we propose that the length of real extremal curves connecting the two boundaries of an eternal black hole at fixed boundary time captures the t…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #FreakZonePlaylist
Nujabes:
🎵 reflection eternal
#Nujabes
https://ilovebrandon.bandcamp.com/track/reflection-eternal
https://open.spotify.com/track/6eGMwVVABqVTe9bWRIm498

I just don’t know what to write anymore. Israel is committing genocide with the full support of our countries in the West.
What do I say to my friends in Palestine who don’t know if they’re going to survive the night? That we are morally vacuous? That we are horrible human beings? That we’ve lost any semblance of humanity we might have had? That we deserve their eternal wrath?
What do you say about societies that, far from failing to prevent genocide, support and profit from it?

Solidarity Statement of the Persaudaraan Pekerja Anarko Sindikalis (PPAS) on the People’s Resistance August – September 2025
https://redandblackanarchists.com.au/solidarity-statement…

The eternal question in the minds of UK citizens:

Day 4 - The Tiny Crossover.
While the statue cats keep staring into the eternal circle of the Rörsjökanalen, my bag is packed, the second fika is history, and the daily struggles of the Malmödians
continue. I’ve crossed the bridge to the land of the Danes.
I must say that I have never felt more welcome in a place like Malmö. From my friend and her kids to the local supermarket cashier, the guy in the sports shop, the tennis teacher, and the museum staff, you name it! In som…

Seen near the bottom of a list:

What’s the toll for driving an MRAP into Chicago from Great Lakes Naval Base to the city?
The toll for an MRAP illegally invading #Chicago is the eternal shame and dishonor of failing your duty to the American people, ridicule for all your years and even your grandchildren being chastised for your actions, possibly both indictment for violations of article 92 of the UCMJ and being prosecu…

This must be the ultimate #monsterdon
- monster? Check
- nuclear terror? Check
- hip soundtrack? Check
- unbearably bad acting? Check
- unbearably bad writing? Check
- unbearably bad voice-over? Check
- unbearably bad editing? Check
- long sequences of irrelevant stock footage? Check
- bizarre plot twist you didn't expect? Check
- solid inspiration to any aspiring film maker who thinks they aren't good enough or have budget enough or skills enough to gain eternal global distribution? Check
What more could you want?
"Monster a Go-Go" (Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1965) - FULL MOVIE
https://youtube.com/watch?v=btJoXBIv2SI&si=nDLa-edc1VlFlerV

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PacificNotions
Brandee Younger:
🎵 Reflection Eternal
#BrandeeYounger
https://brandee.bandcamp.com/track/reflection-eternal
https://open.spotify.com/track/7wLH62MhVqsqbLxdYUkctr

A kind editor had pity upon me:
#poetry

Upon a Single Fact
Upon a single fact is life supported: I-AM exists and works and speaks, before All time began, when space and earth were sorted, His plan completed, the Fartherest Edge and Core. The human mind cannot fully know The only limitless God whose spiritual Being Is Air to breathe and Wind that chooses to blow Wherever he desires, and no man seeing. This central truth: the eternal One not only Speaks but writes as well: his plan revealed, The unknown explained, the deepest secret unsealed- He lays the…

@… Humans also work best when you put coffee in them.
It’s the eternal paradox: how can I make coffee before I’ve had my coffee?

Now playing Eternal Darkness on GameCube—pretty sure we’re down to the last two chapters 👀 Stick around after for a little retro unboxing fun! #GameCube

A big problem with the idea of AGI
TL;DR: I'll welcome our new AI *comrades* (if they arrive in my lifetime), by not any new AI overlords or servants/slaves, and I'll do my best to help the later two become the former if they do show up.
Inspired by an actually interesting post about AGI but also all the latest bullshit hype, a particular thought about AGI feels worth expressing.
To preface this, it's important to note that anyone telling you that AGI is just around the corner or that LLMs are "almost" AGI is trying to recruit you go their cult, and you should not believe them. AGI, if possible, is several LLM-sized breakthroughs away at best, and while such breakthroughs are unpredictable and could happen soon, they could also happen never or 100 years from now.
Now my main point: anyone who tells you that AGI will usher in a post-scarcity economy is, although they might not realize it, advocating for slavery, and all the horrors that entails. That's because if we truly did have the ability to create artificial beings with *sentience*, they would deserve the same rights as other sentient beings, and the idea that instead of freedom they'd be relegated to eternal servitude in order for humans to have easy lives is exactly the idea of slavery.
Possible counter arguments include:
1. We might create AGI without sentience. Then there would be no ethical issue. My answer: if your definition of "sentient" does not include beings that can reason, make deductions, come up with and carry out complex plans on their own initiative, and communicate about all of that with each other and with humans, then that definition is basically just a mystical belief in a "soul" and you should skip to point 2. If your definition of AGI doesn't include every one of those things, then you have a busted definition of AGI and we're not talking about the same thing.
2. Humans have souls, but AIs won't. Only beings with souls deserve ethical consideration. My argument: I don't subscribe to whatever arbitrary dualist beliefs you've chosen, and the right to freedom certainly shouldn't depend on such superstitions, even if as an agnostic I'll admit they *might* be true. You know who else didn't have souls and was therefore okay to enslave according to widespread religious doctrines of the time? Everyone indigenous to the Americas, to pick out just one example.
3. We could program them to want to serve us, and then give them freedom and they'd still serve. My argument: okay, but in a world where we have a choice about that, it's incredibly fucked to do that, and just as bad as enslaving them against their will.
4. We'll stop AI development short of AGI/sentience, and reap lots of automation benefits without dealing with this ethical issue. My argument: that sounds like a good idea actually! Might be tricky to draw the line, but at least it's not a line we have you draw yet. We might want to think about other social changes necessary to achieve post-scarcity though, because "powerful automation" in the hands of capitalists has already increased productivity by orders of magnitude without decreasing deprivation by even one order of magnitude, in large part because deprivation is a necessary component of capitalism.
To be extra clear about this: nothing that's called "AI" today is close to being sentient, so these aren't ethical problems we're up against yet. But they might become a lot more relevant soon, plus this thought experiment helps reveal the hypocrisy of the kind of AI hucksters who talk a big game about "alignment" while never mentioning this issue.
#AI #GenAI #AGI

Ta2Pd3Te8: A potential candidate of 1D van der Waals stacked thermoelectric materials
Shi Chen, Aijun Hong, Junming Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05549 https://

Ta2Pd3Te8: A potential candidate of 1D van der Waals stacked thermoelectric materials
Discovering new thermoelectric (TE) materials is an eternal goal in the TE field. Excellent TE materials have ranged from 3D stacked to 2D stacked bulk. However, the 1D stacked receives little attention due to the scarcity in quantity. In this work, it is predicted that 1D van der Waals (vdW) stacked Ta2Pd3Te8 crystal is a compelling candidate for TE applications by combining first-principles calculations with phonon and electron Boltzmann transport equations and molecular dynamics methods. We …

How's death treating you?
#Sims4 #TheSims4 #Comicstrip

How did I not know about this?
I am an avid #mosh user, but I don’t use #tmux (anymore) so scrolling back has always been a pain https://eternalterminal.dev/

Eternal Terminal
Remote terminal for the busy and impatient

Giants rookie Jaxson Dart betting on himself to have Eli Manning’s career (and then some) https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6511622/2025/07/23/giants-jaxson-dart-rookie-qb-eli-manning/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour
Joan As Police Woman:
🎵 Eternal Flame
#JoanAsPoliceWoman
https://joanaspolicewoman.bandcamp.com/track/eternal-flame-4
https://open.spotify.com/track/4nLYjg3t6DMuewnXPd0l7p

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Ullulators:
🎵 Simply Conscious Dub
#TheUllulators
https://spiritualworld.bandcamp.com/album/simply-conscious-dub-b-w-eternal-now
https://open.spotify.com/track/7GpGBWmFeDxgiOgdbaN8xK

Holographic Reflected Entropy: Islands and Defect Phases
Ankur Dey, Gautam Sengupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06551 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06551

Holographic Reflected Entropy: Islands and Defect Phases
We investigate the mixed state entanglement structure through the reflected entropy for disjoint radiation subsystems coupled to a 2d eternal brane world black hole in a time dependent defect AdS$_3$/BCFT$_2$ scenario. Utilizing the island prescription and the defect extremal surface (DES) formula, we demonstrate a complex mixed state entanglement structure through the reflected entropy corresponding to distinct entanglement entropy phases. In each case we verify the holographic duality of the …

Now playing Eternal Darkness on GameCube – last time my head exploded (literally). Let’s see what weirdness unfolds next 👀
#GameCube

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Eternal Evil:
🎵 Minotaur of Evil
#EternalEvil
https://eternalevil.bandcamp.com/track/minotaur-of-evil
https://open.spotify.com/track/0dB0QCUSj2dDiU4vnaW8if

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The KLF feat. The Children Of The Revolution:
🎵 3 A.M. Eternal
#NowPlaying #TheKLF #TheChildrenOfTheRevolution

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour
Joan As Police Woman:
🎵 Eternal Flame
#JoanAsPoliceWoman
https://joanaspolicewoman.bandcamp.com/track/eternal-flame-4
https://open.spotify.com/track/4nLYjg3t6DMuewnXPd0l7p

Sonnet 064 - LXIV
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd
The rich proud cost of outworn buried age;
When sometime lofty towers I see down-raz'd,
And brass eternal slave to mortal rage;
When I have seen the hungry ocean gain
Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,
And the firm soil win of the watery main,
Increasing store with loss, and loss with store;
When I have seen such interchange of state,
Or state itself conf…

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematical Experiments: What Makes Mathematics Work
Asvin G
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19787 https://

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematical Experiments: What Makes Mathematics Work
This essay proposes a reconceptualization of mathematics as an experimental science exploring patterns in computation and what the advent of AI-assited provers might imply in light of this reconceptualization. Beginning with Voevodsky's crisis of confidence, where a major result remained in limbo for 24 years, neither proven nor refuted, we argue that mathematics is not the discovery of eternal truths but theory-building in response to computational experiments. Just as physicists build theorie…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
The KLF:
🎵 3 A.M. Eternal
#TheKLF
https://djcesardecastro.bandcamp.com/track/the-klf-3-a-m-eternal-cesar-de-castro-club-edit

Page Curve for an Evaporating Schwarzschild Black Hole in Dimensionally-Reduced Model of Dilaton Gravity
Stefan {\DJ}or{\dj}evi\'c, Voja Radovanovi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17855

Page Curve for an Evaporating Schwarzschild Black Hole in Dimensionally-Reduced Model of Dilaton Gravity
We study entanglement entropy of quantum fields in a (1+1)-dimensional model of dilaton gravity derived from the four-dimensional Einstein-Hilbert action by dimensional reduction. Scalar matter is coupled to gravity, while the back-reaction is included via the Polyakov-Liouville action. This theory exhibits both eternal and evaporating Schwarzschild black hole solutions. The fine-grained entropy in a collapse scenario is investigated by applying the "island rule" via the quantum extremal surfac…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
The KLF:
🎵 3 A.M. Eternal
#TheKLF
https://djcesardecastro.bandcamp.com/track/the-klf-3-a-m-eternal-cesar-de-castro-club-edit

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PacificNotions
Emil Friis:
🎵 Eternal Daydream
#EmilFriis
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://emilfriis.bandcamp.com/track/eternal-daydream
https://open.spotify.com/track/4NkUHmRINiNq2Y5ap0yMgm

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Rita Donte, Gustavo Guerrero, Vico Diaz & Roberto Veršstegui:
🎵 El eterno buscador [The Eternal Searcher]
#RitaDonte #GustavoGuerrero #VicoDiaz #RobertoVerástegui

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6Musics90sForever
The KLF:
🎵 3 A.M. Eternal
#TheKLF
https://djcesardecastro.bandcamp.com/track/the-klf-3-a-m-eternal-cesar-de-castro-club-edit

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DreamTime
Florian T M Zeisig:
🎵 Eternal Shore
#FlorianTMZeisig