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In 1863, at the height of the Civil War, two Baton Rouge photographers captured an image of a former slave's horrifically scarred back that shocked white Americans across the Union.
Now that photo is among dozens of exhibits about slavery at several national parks, which have reportedly been ordered removed by the Trump administration.

National park to remove exhibit of famed photograph showing former slave’s scarred back, says report
The famous photo is among dozens of exhibits on slavery said to be nixed by the Trump administration

Search is Dead.
Really, this should not have taken two hours across oodles of prompts using four different search engines, but every one of those prompts was deconstructed into syllables to match anything even remotely thesaurused, regardless of details provided, regardless quote marks, minus or plus signs. "Malcolm Strauss"? oh, you mean RICHARD! No, fuck you bot, and Diana Allen is neither Rita Hayworth or Woody Allen and 1923 is not 1945 and a 2006 is unlikely to be SILENT, and this shouldn't take two hours before, finally, only Google would find this mention with the key phrase "presumed lost".
Silent Era : Progressive Silent Film List
https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/S/Salome1923.html

Evaluation of Neural Surrogates for Physical Modelling Synthesis of Nonlinear Elastic Plates
Carlos De La Vega Martin, Rodrigo Diaz Fernandez, Mark Sandler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12563

Evaluation of Neural Surrogates for Physical Modelling Synthesis of Nonlinear Elastic Plates
Physical modelling synthesis aims to generate audio from physical simulations of vibrating structures. Thin elastic plates are a common model for drum membranes. Traditional numerical methods like finite differences and finite elements offer high accuracy but are computationally demanding, limiting their use in real-time audio applications. This paper presents a comparative analysis of neural network-based approaches for solving the vibration of nonlinear elastic plates. We evaluate several sta…

Large Language Models Discriminate Against Speakers of German Dialects
Minh Duc Bui, Carolin Holtermann, Valentin Hofmann, Anne Lauscher, Katharina von der Wense
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13835

Large Language Models Discriminate Against Speakers of German Dialects
Dialects represent a significant component of human culture and are found across all regions of the world. In Germany, more than 40% of the population speaks a regional dialect (Adler and Hansen, 2022). However, despite cultural importance, individuals speaking dialects often face negative societal stereotypes. We examine whether such stereotypes are mirrored by large language models (LLMs). We draw on the sociolinguistic literature on dialect perception to analyze traits commonly associated wi…

"🔜 Energy Grids Package to fix 8 critical bottlenecks across Europe – from the Pyrenees to the Trans-Balkan pipeline, from the Øresund Strait to the Sicilian Canal"
Pyrenees, you say? Us Iberians are getting properly connected with the grid of the rest of Europe? That's about freaking time, eh?
https://…

Eine neue Studie zeigt die negativen Auswirkungen menschlicher Aktivitäten auf die biologische Vielfalt für alle Arten und Ökosysteme.
Menschliche Aktivitäten treiben den Verlust der biologischen Vielfalt sowohl direkt, als auch indirekt voran.
Via @…

The global human impact on biodiversity - Nature
Key measures of biodiversity were quantified and found to be affected by human pressures that shifted community composition and decreased local diversity across terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems.

SteeringControl: Holistic Evaluation of Alignment Steering in LLMs
Vincent Siu, Nicholas Crispino, David Park, Nathan W. Henry, Zhun Wang, Yang Liu, Dawn Song, Chenguang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13450

SteeringControl: Holistic Evaluation of Alignment Steering in LLMs
We introduce SteeringControl, a benchmark for evaluating representation steering methods across core alignment objectives--bias, harmful generation, and hallucination--and their effects on secondary behaviors such as sycophancy and commonsense morality. While prior alignment work often highlights truthfulness or reasoning ability to demonstrate the side effects of representation steering, we find there are many unexplored tradeoffs not yet understood in a systematic way. We collect a dataset of…

Expansion creates spin-glass order in finite-connectivity models: a rigorous and intuitive approach from the theory of LDPC codes
Benedikt Placke, Grace M. Sommers, Nikolas P. Breuckmann, Tibor Rakovszky, Vedika Khemani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13342

Expansion creates spin-glass order in finite-connectivity models: a rigorous and intuitive approach from the theory of LDPC codes
Complex free-energy landscapes with many local minima separated by large barriers are believed to underlie glassy behavior across diverse physical systems. This is the heuristic picture associated with replica symmetry breaking (RSB) in spin glasses, but RSB has only been rigorously verified for certain mean-field models with all-to-all connectivity. In this work, we give a rigorous proof of finite temperature spin glass order for a family of models with local interactions on finite-connectivit…

Thermal-nonthermal transition of the charged particle production in pp collisions
J. Alonso Tlali, D. Rosales Herrera, J. R. Alvarado Garc\'ia, A. Fern\'andez T\'ellez, C. Pajares, J. E. Ram\'irez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14175

Thermal-nonthermal transition of the charged particle production in pp collisions
We determine the internal energy of charged particle production in minimum bias pp collisions using a thermostatistical approach by analyzing the $p_\text{T}$ spectrum reported by the ALICE Collaboration across LHC energies. To do this, we define temperature as the slope of the $p_\text{T}$ spectrum at low $p_\text{T}$ values and Shannon's entropy as the system's entropy, calculated considering the normalized $p_\text{T}$ spectrum. We found that the internal energy for the Hagedorn and Tricomi …

Novel discretization method to calculate g-functions of vertical geothermal boreholes with improved accuracy and efficiency
Yue Yang, Xiaodong Yang, Chenhui Lin, Luo Xu, Qi Wang, Shuwei Xu, Wenchuan Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11154

Novel discretization method to calculate g-functions of vertical geothermal boreholes with improved accuracy and efficiency
The calculation of g-functions is essential for the design and simulation of geothermal boreholes. However, existing methods, such as the stacked finite line source (SFLS) model, face challenges regarding computational efficiency and accuracy, particularly with fine-grained discretization. This paper introduces a novel discretization method to address these limitations. We reformulate the g-function calculation under the uniform borehole wall temperature boundary condition as the solution to sp…