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Pacific Freedom Forum Chair Robert Iroga says Pacific countries are facing a "critical moment" for press freedom, as journalists face lawsuits and prosecution (Kate Lyons/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/…

The Marines and National Guard shouldn't be deployed to protests in LA, Texas or anywhere else.
But since they are, the Freedom of the Press Foundation and other press freedom groups wrote a letter to them explaining the basics of journalists' rights when covering demonstrations, and offering their help.
#Press #Freedom #Democracy

MTG's anti-trans bill advances - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/mtgs-anti-trans-bill-advances-doechii-stands-up-for-freedom-gets-booed-by-artists/

Freedom is not a gift to be given or granted; freedom is something we seize through collective struggle and direct action.
#Anarchy #Freedom #CollectiveStruggle

An interview with US Press Freedom Tracker Senior Reporter Stephanie Sugars on documenting nearly 62,000 anti-press social posts by Trump over the past 10 years (Liam Scott/Freedom of the Press Foundation)
http://freedom.press/issues/the-repor

The reporter documenting 10 years of Trump’s anti-media posts
Since Trump’s first term as president, Stephanie Sugars has managed an extensive database that documents each and every anti-media post from Trump.

First Choice Women's Resource Centers v. Platkin (Alliance Defending Freedom)
https://adfmedia.org/case/first-choice-womens-resource-centers-v-platkin/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p163#a250616p163

Troops in Los Angeles marked a dramatic new turn in the Trump authoritarian rollout. Yet American protesters are making the turn towards a national mobilization in defense of freedom and democracy.
http://woborders.blog/2025/06/13/resistance-to-trump-reac…

Resistance to Trump reaches its first turning point
“The Whole World Is Watching.” It’s been decades since American protesters chanted this sentence at American police in an effort to deter violence and brutality. But it has perhaps neve…

Good morning all! A rare day without any real meetings, and only one calendar entry (and that's a fun one, a networking thing to talk about how social media research can go forward in Germany). I'm not sure I can be trusted with that much freedom from time constraints #academicChatter

The Freedom Flotilla „Madleen” is projected to arrive in just a few hours at a coast in Gaza. If anything happens to @… or the other activists, the international community will never forgive the current Israeli government for it.
I wish and pray for your best, keep being the voice of our generation…

Freiheit für Greta Thunberg, Yasemin Acar und alle Aktivist*innen der Freedom Flotilla - Online-Petition
Humanitäre Hilfe ist kein Verbrechen! Am 1. Juni 2025 wurde das zivile Hilfsschiff Madleen der Freedom Flotilla Coalition auf dem Weg nach Gaza in internationalen Gewässern gewaltsam von der israelischen Armee gestoppt, geentert und seine Besatzung verschleppt. An Bord befanden sich ausschließlich unbewaffnete Freiwillige und dringend für den Gazastreifen benötigte humanitäre Hilfsgüter wie Babynahrung, Medizin und Prothesen für verletzte Kinder. Unter den Festgehaltenen ist neben Greta…

A curvilinear framework for vector light fields
Leonardo S. Gonzalez-Aceves, Gabriela Flores-Cova, Blas M. Rodr\'iguez-Lara, Raul I. Hernandez-Aranda, Alfonso Jaimes-Najera, Carmelo Rosales-Guzman, Benjamin Perez-Garcia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11407

A curvilinear framework for vector light fields
Vector beams are often regarded as non-separable superpositions of spatial and polarization degrees of freedom that satisfy the wave equation. This interpretation ties their polarization structure to their spatial shape. Here, we introduce a generalized method to construct vector beams whose structure is entirely encoded in the polarization degree of freedom. Using conformal maps, we construct orthonormal polarization bases from the geometry of the coordinates and encode them experimentally via…

immigrant rights is a bike issue https://usa.streetsblog.org/2025/05/02/freedom-to-move-why-immigration-belongs-in-the-mobility-conversation

Freedom to Move: Why Immigration Belongs in the Mobility Conversation — Streetsblog USA
"If movement is a right, then that right must apply to everyone regardless of identity."

Communications lost with
Gaza-bound aid ship Madleen
after Israeli navy tells it to change course
Freedom Flotilla Coalition says ship’s communications were jammed after Israeli defence minister threatened to ‘take all necessary measures’ to prevent the humanitarian ship from reaching Gaza

Local and global approaches to the thermodynamics of pure decoherence processes in open quantum systems
Irene Ada Picatoste, Alessandra Colla, Heinz-Peter Breuer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11633

Local and global approaches to the thermodynamics of pure decoherence processes in open quantum systems
We study the nonequilibrium thermodynamics of pure decoherence processes in open quantum systems coupled to a thermal reservoir. We review various definitions of central quantities, such as internal energy, work, heat and entropy production, developed within local and global approaches to quantum thermodynamics. Within local approaches thermodynamic quantities only refer to the open system's degrees of freedom, while in the global approaches certain quantities are defined by referring explicitl…

“If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel.”
– Greta Thunberg
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/08/middleeast/freedom-f…

Israel intercepts Gaza-bound aid ship, detaining Greta Thunberg and other prominent activists
Israel has intercepted a Gaza-bound aid ship carrying Greta Thunberg and other prominent activists and is escorting the boat to Israel, the foreign ministry said early Monday.

So as @… pointed out, "Sneaky way to include the Russian flag in your official messaging." 🤔
#USpol #dod

Israel has boarded Gaza-bound aid ship carrying Greta Thunberg, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition says
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/08/middleeast/freedom-flotilla-gaza-aid-ship-thunberg-intl-hnk

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🔹 Pros:
✅ Truly passive income
✅ Wealth grows exponentially over time
✅ Maximum financial security & freedom
🔹 Cons:
❌ Requires capital to start
❌ Knowledge & risk management are crucial
❌ Returns aren’t instant – patience is key

Convenience gives the illusion of freedom but is quite often the exact opposite.
Convenience creates "freedom from choice" and takes away the ability to make decisions on your own.

Läsvärt debattinlägg av Johan Schaar, som tidigare tjänstgjort vid det svenska generalkonsulatet i Jerusalem. https://www.dn.se/kultur/johan-schaar-freedom-flotilla-har-vind-i-seglen-nar-sverige-sviker/

Johan Schaar: Freedom flotilla har vind i seglen i opinionen
Israel stoppar fartyget Madleen och tvingar Gazabor att löpa gatlopp för mat. Även den svenska regeringen har gjort bistånd till ett politiskt spel, skriver Johan Schaar.

@Snowshadow@mastodon.social
Would be a shame if the crazy red hat wearing health sites were reported
https://www.wtphealthcare.com/

We The People Health and Wellness Center | Primary Care | 959 East Venice Avenue, Venice, FL, USA
We The People Health and Wellness Center in Venice, Florida. Our DPC services offer transparent, affordable plans with unlimited telehealth visits for adults and pediatrics. Redefine your healthcare experience with IV Therapy, Red Light Therapy, Vitamin Shots, and Functional Medicine. Visit wtphealthcare.com for more. medical freedom, direct primary care, doctors that care, primary care, IV therapy, PRP therapy, massage therapy, red light therapy, pediatric care, vitamin shots, supplements.

A Contemporary Survey on Fluid Antenna Systems: Fundamentals and Networking Perspectives
Hanjiang Hong, Kai-Kit Wong, Hao Xu, Xinghao Guo, Farshad Rostami Ghadi, Yu Chen, Yin Xu, Chan-Byoung Chae, Baiyang Liu, Kin-Fai Tong, Yangyang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13317

A Contemporary Survey on Fluid Antenna Systems: Fundamentals and Networking Perspectives
The explosive growth of teletraffic, fueled by the convergence of cyber-physical systems and data-intensive applications, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), autonomous systems, and immersive communications, demands a multidisciplinary suite of innovative solutions across the physical and network layers. Fluid antenna systems (FAS) represent a transformative advancement in antenna design, offering enhanced spatial degrees of freedom through dynamic reconfigurability. By exploiting spatial fle…

Proposed measurement of longitudinally polarised vector bosons in $WH$ and $ZH$ production at Hadron colliders
Rosa Colyer, Dominik Duda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13002

Proposed measurement of longitudinally polarised vector bosons in $WH$ and $ZH$ production at Hadron colliders
The longitudinal polarisation states of the $W$ and $Z$ bosons arise during electroweak (EW) symmetry breaking as the vector bosons absorb the Higgs boson's massless degrees of freedom. Consequently, these states are intrinsically linked to the EW symmetry breaking mechanism. Measuring the Higgs boson's coupling to them thus offers a unique opportunity to deepen our understanding of EW symmetry breaking and potentially opens a window to physics beyond the Standard Model. This work studies vecto…

Say hello to the movie that grabbed me by the guts and never let go — Joker from 2019, my favorite film, raw and wild and real.
Then there’s the other one, Joker: Folie Š Deux, the disaster I hated so much I can’t imagine ever watching it again.
One feels like freedom tearing through the screen, the other like a cage slamming shut on everything I loved.
That’s my truth, no filters.
#Joker

Statistical mechanics of fluids with hidden degrees of freedom
Masanari Shimada, Tetsuya J. Kobayashi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10253 https://

Statistical mechanics of fluids with hidden degrees of freedom
Although coarse-grained models have been widely used to explain exotic phenomena in complex fluids, such as droplet formation in living cells, these conventional approaches often fail to capture the intricate microscopic degrees of freedom that such fluids inherently possess. In this study, we propose a model that incorporates distinct microscopic degrees of freedom and their interactions, without directly relying on conventional coarse-grained descriptions. By introducing two key assumptions, …

Aww The Freedom Caucus Wants A Do-Over On Big Beautiful Bill | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/06/aww-freedom-caucus-wants-do-over-big

On The Political Roots of Academic Freedom — Crooked Timber https://crookedtimber.org/2025/06/03/on-the-political-roots-of-academic-freedom/

Hidden degree of freedom implied by unusual nonlocal transport in a topological semimetal
Yongjian Wang, A. A. Taskin, Yoichi Ando
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09720

Hidden degree of freedom implied by unusual nonlocal transport in a topological semimetal
The spin Hall and inverse spin Hall effects have established a principle to understand nonlocal charge transport due to an additional degree of freedom. This principle applies successfully to the nonlocal transport due to the valley degree of freedom in graphene or to the chiral degree of freedom in a Weyl semimetal. Here we report the discovery of an unusual nonlocal charge transport that cannot be explained by any known mechanism and hence points to the existence of a hidden degree of freedom…

Urgent action before 12.00 CET / 11.00 BST
Call for the Protection of the Freedom Flotilla and an End to the Gaza Blockade - Deadline 5th June 12.00 CET | Framaforms.org
https://framaforms.org/call-for-the-pr

Joseph E. Stiglitz, Professor der Columbia University und Wirtschafts-Nobelpreisträger bekommt von der #Trump - Regierung die Mittel für eine Vortragsreihe in Dänemark gekürzt, die der dortige Botschafter schon frei gegeben hatte. Es geht um lachhafte 10 tsd Dollar. Stiglitz bedankt sich mit dem Florett in einem Meinungsartikel in der NYTimes

Prominent lawyers join press freedom fight to thwart Paramount settlement with Trump
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2025-06-06/freedom-press-abbe-lowell-norm-eisen-bre…

Press group adds high-powered attorneys in fight against Paramount
Prominent attorneys Abbe Lowell and Norm Eisen joined the Freedom of the Press Foundation's campaign to thwart efforts by Paramount to reach a settlement with President Trump over his "60 Minutes" lawsuit.

Going to #NoKings Saturday? Try to recruit the newly radicalizing to defunding the police, to defending all in our communities facing displacement—immigrant, queer, unhoused, unable to pay rent—in short, to fighting local fascisms, so we can better fight national fascism, at ICE centers

Immigration Detention Map — Freedom for Immigrants
Map of U.S. Immigration Detention

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🔹 Pros:
✅ Truly passive income
✅ Wealth grows exponentially over time
✅ Maximum financial security & freedom
🔹 Cons:
❌ Requires capital to start
❌ Knowledge & risk management are crucial
❌ Returns aren’t instant – patience is key

http://www.nkp.no/uttalelse-om-freedom-flotilla-coalition.6721258.html
#Kommunisme

Vending machines at the University of Waterloo violated privacy act
https://flip.it/23eUXQ

@Snowshadow@mastodon.social
Would be a shame if the crazy red hat wearing health sites were reported
https://www.wtphealthcare.com/

We The People Health and Wellness Center | Primary Care | 959 East Venice Avenue, Venice, FL, USA
We The People Health and Wellness Center in Venice, Florida. Our DPC services offer transparent, affordable plans with unlimited telehealth visits for adults and pediatrics. Redefine your healthcare experience with IV Therapy, Red Light Therapy, Vitamin Shots, and Functional Medicine. Visit wtphealthcare.com for more. medical freedom, direct primary care, doctors that care, primary care, IV therapy, PRP therapy, massage therapy, red light therapy, pediatric care, vitamin shots, supplements.

POSTPONED! See reply.
TOMORROW: May 31, 2:00 PM until 6:00 PM
FREEDOM RISING
Union Station, Washington, DC
Art | Music | Freedom
#art #music #resist

140 media organizations call on Israel to LIFT its BAN on international journalists entering Gaza.
There is NO excuse for not allowing international media to enter #Gaza.
"Absolutely unprecedented in modern warfare". #PressFreedom

Press freedom groups demand open access to Gaza – DW – 06/08/2025
More than 140 media organizations are calling on Israel to lift its ban on international journalists entering Gaza. The lack of foreign journalists allows misinformation to flourish, said Jodie Ginsberg, CEO of the Committee to Protect Journalists and one of the signatories of the appeal.

Honorable USMC, sorry.
(tune of The Marines’ Hymn)
From halls of Pasadena,
To the shores of Newport Beach,
We fight our country’s citizens
In the air, on land, and sea.
First to fight for white folks’ freedom,
And make BIPOC bend the knee,
Can’t be proud to claim the title
Of United States Marine.

#Harvard continues to ignore reports of anti- Palestinian/Arabi/Muslim bias.
“Now, in the face of Trump, Harvard pretends that it is standing up, but you cannot stand up for freedom and silence members of your own community,”
h…

Harvard Affiliates Deliver Hundreds of Complaints Alleging Anti-Arab and Anti-Muslim Bias to President Garber’s Office | News | The Harvard Crimson
More than 30 Harvard affiliates delivered a box containing 452 discrimination complaints to Massachusetts Hall at a Monday rally, alleging that Harvard has fostered “pervasive bias against Muslims, Arabs and Palestinians.”

Documents: since mid-December 2024, YouTube told moderators to prioritize "freedom of expression" over potential harm, exempting political and culture videos (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/technology/youtube-video…

YouTube Loosens Video Content Moderation Rules
The world’s largest video platform has told content moderators to favor “freedom of expression” over the risk of harm in deciding what to take down.

Symmetry Rules on Multipole Interactions under Crystallographic Point Groups and Application to Multiple-$Q$ Multipole States
Ryota Yambe, Satoru Hayami
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10358

Symmetry Rules on Multipole Interactions under Crystallographic Point Groups and Application to Multiple-$Q$ Multipole States
Multipole degrees of freedom describe the mutual interplay among the charge, spin, and orbital degrees of freedom in electrons, which provides a microscopic understanding of unconventional electronic orderings and their associated physical phenomena. We here show the symmetry rules on multipole interactions under crystallographic point groups in a systematic manner. Depending on the bond symmetries, we show the necessary symmetry conditions of the antisymmetric multipole interactions, which cor…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #20thCenturyRadicals
Richie Havens:
🎵 Freedom (Live at Woodstock)
#RichieHavens
#Spotify

2 years later, my Freedom of Information Request shows a snapshot of Government ignoring Vancouver Islanders for 20 years.
On June 28, 2023 I submitted a Request for Information to the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure of British Columbia for documents related to the Island Railway on Vancouver Island. It took two years to receive the response.
#VancouverIsland #BC #BCPoli #transportation #FOiA #Canada #CdnPoli
https://chrisalemany.ca/b/2tp

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In an earlier post I introduced the principle that there were four categories of side hustle. Let’s now talk about the fourth and final category.
4️⃣ 𝐈 – 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐇𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐬: 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐘𝐨𝐮
The ultimate level of financial freedom? Investing (I quadrant) – where your money generates income instead of your time.
🔹 Examples: Stocks, real estate, cryptocurrency, digital assets, angel investing.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Caribbean Torpedoes:
🎵 Freedom Ride
#CaribbeanTorpedoes
https://whatsprotocol.bandcamp.com/track/freedom-ride

Israeli military ordered to block aid flotilla carrying Greta Thunberg
The Freedom Flotilla ship is carrying rice, flour, medical supplies, and baby formula to Gaza.
Rashida Tlaib Pens Plea to Trump Admin to Protect Gaza Freedom Flotilla
https://www.politico.eu…

Israeli military ordered to block aid flotilla carrying Greta Thunberg
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition says it is on a mission aimed at delivering supplies to the Gaza Strip.

“Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
https://www.marshall.edu/onemarshallu/i-have-a-dream/

In announcing her resignation from the National Science Board, Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social details #DOGE interference in National Science Foundation #NSF grant making. «

From Olivier Messiaen's ‘Technique of My Musical Language':
"My freedom is total: no prohibition weighs upon me; all sounds being admitted, all modes, all rhythms, all noises, all timbres. I am a free man: the universe is mine. I gather it like a bouquet..."

Oh yeah. And theres the new XBOX HANDHELD. 😁
✅ ROG Xbox Ally Handhelds Revealed: Experience Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Gears of War: Reloaded and More - Wherever You Go - Xbox Wire
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/06/08/xbox-handheld-rog-ally-x-games-sh…

ROG Xbox Ally Handhelds Revealed: Experience Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Gears of War: Reloaded and More - Wherever You Go - Xbox Wire
Announcing the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X— two new handhelds that combine the power of Xbox with the freedom of Windows.

On a mean-field Pontryagin minimum principle for stochastic optimal control
Manfred Opper, Sebastian Reich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10506 https://…

On a mean-field Pontryagin minimum principle for stochastic optimal control
This papers outlines a novel extension of the classical Pontryagin minimum (maximum) principle to stochastic optimal control problems. Contrary to the well-known stochastic Pontryagin minimum principle involving forward-backward stochastic differential equations, the proposed formulation is deterministic and of mean-field type. The Hamiltonian structure of the proposed Pontryagin minimum principle is achieved via the introduction of an appropriate gauge variable. The gauge freedom can be used t…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Plain White T's:
🎵 Hey There Delilah
#NowPlaying #PlainWhiteTs
https://fabianmaze.bandcamp.com/track/plain-white-ts-hey-there-delilah-fabian-maze-freedom-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/3DWOTqMQGp5q75fnVsWwaN

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In an earlier post I introduced the principle that there were four categories of side hustle. Let’s now talk about the fourth and final category.
4️⃣ 𝐈 – 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐇𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐬: 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐘𝐨𝐮
The ultimate level of financial freedom? Investing (I quadrant) – where your money generates income instead of your time.
🔹 Examples: Stocks, real estate, cryptocurrency, digital assets, angel investing.

I had a bad day and made a mistake, but I chose to do the right thing and move forward.
Proud bisexual, gender-fluid, autistic anarchist committed to building a world based on mutual aid, solidarity, and freedom for all.
If you believe in challenging power and creating change from the ground up, let’s connect and let’s grow this movement together.
Now, here I am, feeling stronger and ready for better days ahead.

Description and Discussion on DCASE 2025 Challenge Task 4: Spatial Semantic Segmentation of Sound Scenes
Masahiro Yasuda, Binh Thien Nguyen, Noboru Harada, Romain Serizel, Mayank Mishra, Marc Delcroix, Shoko Araki, Daiki Takeuchi, Daisuke Niizumi, Yasunori Ohishi, Tomohiro Nakatani, Takao Kawamura, Nobutaka Ono
https://arxiv.org…

Description and Discussion on DCASE 2025 Challenge Task 4: Spatial Semantic Segmentation of Sound Scenes
Spatial Semantic Segmentation of Sound Scenes (S5) aims to enhance technologies for sound event detection and separation from multi-channel input signals that mix multiple sound events with spatial information. This is a fundamental basis of immersive communication. The ultimate goal is to separate sound event signals with 6 Degrees of Freedom (6DoF) information into dry sound object signals and metadata about the object type (sound event class) and representing spatial information, including d…

Freedom Flotilla organiser Huwaida Arraf shortly after she and the rest of the ship’s support crew lost contact with the Madleen:
“All those on board have been abducted. They have been taken against their will while they were sailing peacefully and lawfully in international waters…
They were in international waters, sailing towards Palestinian territorial waters, not getting near Israeli waters…
It needs to be made very clear that Israel has absolutely no jurisdiction, no l…

Madleen Gaza flotilla live: Ship, activists being taken to Israel
The Madleen crew is being detained by Israeli forces after their ship was stopped close to 160km (100 miles) from Gaza.

Re4MPC: Reactive Nonlinear MPC for Multi-model Motion Planning via Deep Reinforcement Learning
Ne\c{s}et \"Unver Akmandor, Sarvesh Prajapati, Mark Zolotas, Ta\c{s}k{\i}n Pad{\i}r
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08344

Re4MPC: Reactive Nonlinear MPC for Multi-model Motion Planning via Deep Reinforcement Learning
Traditional motion planning methods for robots with many degrees-of-freedom, such as mobile manipulators, are often computationally prohibitive for real-world settings. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-model motion planning pipeline, termed Re4MPC, which computes trajectories using Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC). Re4MPC generates trajectories in a computationally efficient manner by reactively selecting the model, cost, and constraints of the NMPC problem depending on the comp…

KI4Demokratie: An AI-Based Platform for Monitoring and Fostering Democratic Discourse
Rudy Alexandro Garrido Veliz, Till Nikolaus Schaland, Simon Bergmoser, Florian Horwege, Somya Bansal, Ritesh Nahar, Martin Semmann, J\"org Forthmann, Seid Muhie Yimam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09947…

KI4Demokratie: An AI-Based Platform for Monitoring and Fostering Democratic Discourse
Social media increasingly fuel extremism, especially right-wing extremism, and enable the rapid spread of antidemocratic narratives. Although AI and data science are often leveraged to manipulate political opinion, there is a critical need for tools that support effective monitoring without infringing on freedom of expression. We present KI4Demokratie, an AI-based platform that assists journalists, researchers, and policymakers in monitoring right-wing discourse that may undermine democratic va…

Newsflash: Game developer confident that their joke that relies on political knowledge is in no way political. He'll return now to making apolitical games about having the freedom to shoot people.
https://www.

'I'm not here to apologize but I am here to clarify': Splitgate 2 boss says his Make FPS Great Again hat is 'not a political statement'
The 1047 Games CEO wore the Trump slogan-parody hat on stage at Summer Game Fest.

Photonic chiral bulk transports manipulated by boundary freedom in three-dimensional meta-crystals
Yingxin Qi, Hanyu Wang, Qinghua Guo, Zhihong Zhu, Biao Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10861

Photonic chiral bulk transports manipulated by boundary freedom in three-dimensional meta-crystals
In topological physics, one of the most intriguing phenomena is the presence of topological boundary states, accurately predicted by the well-established bulk-edge correspondence. For example, in three-dimensional Weyl semimetals, Fermi arcs emerge to connect projected Weyl points on the surface due to inheriting the bulk-edge correspondence from the integer quantum Hall effect. However, limited attention has been paid to exploring the reverse mechanism in topological crystals. In this study, w…

Appeals court hands AP an incremental loss in its attempt to regain its access to Trump events (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-administration-white-house-ap-press-freedom-360937fa4adb6bdbdebb58a03a6bfcc5
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p164#a250606p164

Here's a great short article on the unexpected relationship between #CincodeMayo and democracy in the US:
https://www.the74million.org/article/teach

Rethinking Citation of AI Sources in Student-AI Collaboration within HCI Design Education
Prakash Shukla, Suchismita Naik, Ike Obi, Jessica Backus, Nancy Rasche, Paul Parson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08467

Rethinking Citation of AI Sources in Student-AI Collaboration within HCI Design Education
The growing integration of AI tools in student design projects presents an unresolved challenge in HCI education: how should AI-generated content be cited and documented? Traditional citation frameworks -- grounded in credibility, retrievability, and authorship -- struggle to accommodate the dynamic and ephemeral nature of AI outputs. In this paper, we examine how undergraduate students in a UX design course approached AI usage and citation when given the freedom to integrate generative tools i…

Type III Valley Polarization and Anomalous Valley Hall Effect in Two-Dimensional Non-Janus and Janus Altermagnet Fe2WS2Se2
Yanchao She, Yiding Wang, Hanbo Sun, Chao Wu, Weixi Zhang, Ping Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09675

Type III Valley Polarization and Anomalous Valley Hall Effect in Two-Dimensional Non-Janus and Janus Altermagnet Fe2WS2Se2
Exploiting the valley degree of freedom introduces a novel paradigm for advancing quantum information technology. Currently, the investigation on spontaneous valley polarization mainly focuses on two major types of systems. One type magnetic systems by breaking the time-reversal symmetry, the other is ferroelectric materials through breaking the inversion symmetry. Might there be additional scenarios? Here, we propose to realize spontaneous valley polarization by breaking the mirror symmetry in…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00120 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hept…

Type II RR string fields and exotic diffeomorphisms
We study the theory of massless fields of type II strings arising from the string field theory that uses two string fields, a physical one and an extra one that allows the writing of an action, but whose degrees of freedom ultimately decouple. The mechanism allowing the description of the self-dual five-form of type IIB, anticipated by Sen, is used by the SFT to describe all Ramond-Ramond forms in type IIB and IIA in a manifestly duality-invariant way. We find explicit expressions for the leadi…

Exact degrees of freedom via a projector-rank partition theorem
Nagananda K G
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01619 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Exact degrees of freedom via a projector-rank partition theorem
Degrees of freedom ($\mathrm{df}$) allocation becomes opaque once blocking, nesting, fractionation, or unequal replication disturb the balanced one-stratum classical ANOVA. We resolve this ambiguity with a $\mathrm{df}$ partition theorem. For $N$ observations and a set $\mathcal{S}$ that indexes all randomization strata in the experiment, let $\mathbf{P}_s$ denote the idempotent projector that averages observations within randomization stratum $s \in \mathcal{S}$ and $\mathcal C_{\overline E}$ …

A Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists arrived at an Israeli port Monday after Israeli forces stopped and detained them
Israel’s Foreign Ministry published a photo on social media of Thunberg after disembarking.
The 12 activists were expected to be held at a detention facility in Ramle before being deported, according to Adalah, a legal rights group representing them

Israeli forces detain Greta Thunberg after halting Freedom Flotilla aid boat
Israeli forces have seized a Gaza-bound aid boat and detained Greta Thunberg and other activists on board, enforcing a longstanding blockade of the Palestinian territory that has been tightened during the war with Hamas. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition, which had organized the voyage to deliver humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip and protest Israel’s blockade and wartime conduct, said the activists had been “kidnapped by Israeli forces.” Israel said the passengers would return to their home…

Greta Thunberg och de andra ombord "Madleen" är nu bara 300 km från Gaza. Om de inte blir bordade av israelisk militär, kan de vara framme imorgon. #freedom_flotilla #Gaza

Read somewhere: If you are a lover of freedom, but don't love it for everybody, then it's not freedom you love - it's privilege.
Or impunity.

“The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) confirms that its civilian ship, Madleen, carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, has been attacked/forcibly intercepted by the Israeli military at 3:02 am CET in international waters at 31.95236° N, 32.38880° E. The ship was unlawfully boarded, its unarmed civilian crew abducted, and its life-saving cargo—including baby formula, food and medical supplies—confiscated.”

Live: Freedom Flotilla Coalition, from the #Madleen
#Israel

A Quantum Mechanical Pendulum Clock
Matteo Brunelli, Mohammad Mehboudi, Nicolas Brunner, Patrick P. Potts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10666 https://

A Quantum Mechanical Pendulum Clock
We investigate an optomechanical system as a model of an autonomous mechanical pendulum clock in the quantum regime, whose operation relies only on incoherent (thermal) resources. The escapement of the clock, the mechanism that translates oscillatory motion into ticks, is provided by an emitter in the optical cavity and the operation of the clock relies on the existence of a limit cycle. Since the clock is based on an oscillatory degree of freedom, it can overcome the thermodynamic uncertainty …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03477 has been replaced.
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Analysis of the multi-dimensional semi-discrete Active Flux method using the Fourier transform
The degrees of freedom of Active Flux are cell averages and point values along the cell boundaries. These latter are shared between neighbouring cells, which gives rise to a globally continuous reconstruction. The semi-discrete Active Flux method uses its degrees of freedom to obtain Finite Difference approxi\-mations to the spatial derivatives which are used in the point value update. The averages are updated using a quadrature of the flux and making use of the point values as quadrature point…

Studies on the $\pi^ p$ elastic scattering via the von Neumann entropy
Seung-il Nam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10672 https://arxiv.o…

Studies on the $π^+ p$ elastic scattering via the von Neumann entropy
We study the $π^+ p$ elastic scattering process using an effective Lagrangian approach that incorporates the $s$-, $u$-, and $t$-channel amplitudes, including $Δ^{++,0}(1232)$, neutron, and $ρ^0$ contributions. By constructing the spin-density matrices (SDMs) from helicity amplitudes, we derive the von Neumann (entanglement) entropy associated with the spin degrees of freedom of the initial and final state particles. We compute the entropy by performing a partial trace over the spin subsyste…

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SLAC: Simulation-Pretrained Latent Action Space for Whole-Body Real-World RL
Building capable household and industrial robots requires mastering the control of versatile, high-degree-of-freedom (DoF) systems such as mobile manipulators. While reinforcement learning (RL) holds promise for autonomously acquiring robot control policies, scaling it to high-DoF embodiments remains challenging. Direct RL in the real world demands both safe exploration and high sample efficiency, which are difficult to achieve in practice. Sim-to-real RL, on the other hand, is often brittle du…

2/3
🔹 Pros:
✅ Scalable – your income isn’t tied to hours worked
✅ Leverage – teams, automation, or systems do the heavy lifting
✅ More time freedom over the long term
🔹 Cons:
❌ Requires upfront effort to build systems
❌ May involve an initial investment
❌ Requires leadership & strategic thinking
💡 Best for: Those ready to shift from self-employed to system owner – turning their side hustle into a real asset.

Documents: since mid-December 2024, YouTube told moderators to prioritize "freedom of expression" over potential harm, exempting political and culture videos (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/technology/youtube-video…

YouTube Loosens Video Content Moderation Rules
The world’s largest video platform has told content moderators to favor “freedom of expression” over the risk of harm in deciding what to take down.

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Freedom Satellite:
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#NowPlaying #FreedomSatellite
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Rydberg atom arrays as quantum simulators for molecular dynamics
Simon Euchner, Igor Lesanovsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09865 https://

Rydberg atom arrays as quantum simulators for molecular dynamics
Rydberg atoms held in optical tweezer arrays combine vibrational and electronic degrees of freedom which can be coupled and manipulated at a microscopic level. This opens opportunities for the quantum simulation of artificial molecular systems and offers in particular a platform for probing complex vibronic dynamics in controlled settings with increasing complexity. Tailored interatomic interactions and electron-phonon couplings yield handles for designing electronic state manifolds, for studyi…

Soon, I’ll be throwing away all my desktop computers as well, though I’m keeping my Lenovo Thinkpad around. I hate computers, yet I use them.
To me, computers are just junk nobody asked for. They’re glowing traps that keep us hooked, scrolling and clicking away our time for endless feeds. No matter the OS or hardware, it’s all distraction from reality.
Yes, Linux can free us and all that, and even the hardware can be part of that freedom. But the computers themselves remain a cir…

Interacting Electronic Topology of Nonlocal Crystals
Shu Hamanaka, Martina O. Soldini, Tsuneya Yoshida, Titus Neupert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10071 http…

Interacting Electronic Topology of Nonlocal Crystals
Nonlocal crystals are systems with translational symmetry but arbitrary range couplings or interactions between degrees of freedom. We argue that the notion of topology in such systems does not collapse to that in zero dimensions, as one may naively expect in view of the infinite interaction range. At the same time, we show that the range of available topological phases can be enriched in comparison to the case with local interactions. This is demonstrated by constructing an example of a fermio…

2/3
🔹 Pros:
✅ Scalable – your income isn’t tied to hours worked
✅ Leverage – teams, automation, or systems do the heavy lifting
✅ More time freedom over the long term
🔹 Cons:
❌ Requires upfront effort to build systems
❌ May involve an initial investment
❌ Requires leadership & strategic thinking
💡 Best for: Those ready to shift from self-employed to system owner – turning their side hustle into a real asset.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.10484 has been replaced.
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Generalized Symmetries of Non-SUSY and Discrete Torsion String Backgrounds
String / M-theory backgrounds with degrees of freedom at a localized singularity provide a general template for generating strongly correlated systems decoupled from lower-dimensional gravity. There are by now several complementary procedures for extracting the associated generalized symmetry data from orbifolds of the form $\mathbb{R}^6 / Γ$, including methods based on the boundary topology of the asymptotic geometry, as well as the adjacency matrix for fermionic degrees of freedom in the qui…

My good, how much I hate the internet and computers. I just wanna scream louder than I ever have at them, my good, I’m angry right now. All my life lost to a dumb-ass screen, brainwashed by the latest tech psyops on YouTube nobody asked for.
It’s like being trapped in a never-ending circus of clicks and scrolls, where the clowns are algorithms and the ringmaster is some faceless corporation laughing at how easy it is to fool us.
Computers and the internet promised freedom but del…

A Modular Haptic Display with Reconfigurable Signals for Personalized Information Transfer
Antonio Alvarez Valdivia, Benjamin A. Christie, Dylan P. Losey, Laura H. Blumenschein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05648

A Modular Haptic Display with Reconfigurable Signals for Personalized Information Transfer
We present a customizable soft haptic system that integrates modular hardware with an information-theoretic algorithm to personalize feedback for different users and tasks. Our platform features modular, multi-degree-of-freedom pneumatic displays, where different signal types, such as pressure, frequency, and contact area, can be activated or combined using fluidic logic circuits. These circuits simplify control by reducing reliance on specialized electronics and enabling coordinated actuation …

Generation of frequency entanglement by rotating Doppler effect
Bolong Yi, Ling Chen, Baocheng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09488 https://

Generation of frequency entanglement by rotating Doppler effect
We propose a method to generate the frequency entanglement, allowing a continuous generation of entangled two-photon states in a hybrid degree of freedom by post-manipulation. Our method is based on type-II spontaneous parametric down-conversion in a nonlinear crystal and the rotation Doppler effect by rotating the q-plates, without preset discrete frequency entanglement. This allows the arbitrary modification of frequency entangled photons in a wide frequency range at room temperature, offerin…

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‘Restricted’: Nearly 7 billion people worldwide lack full civil rights | Freedom of the Press News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/2/restricted-nearly-7-billion-people-worldwide-lack-full-civil-rights?traffic_source=rss

Angular $k$-uniformity and the Hyperinvariance of Holographic Codes
Wanli Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06577 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Angular $k$-uniformity and the Hyperinvariance of Holographic Codes
Holographic quantum error-correcting codes, often realized through tensor network architectures, have emerged as compelling toy models for exploring bulk-boundary duality in AdS-CFT. By encoding bulk information into highly entangled boundary degrees of freedom, they capture key features of holography such as subregion duality, operator reconstruction, and complementary recovery. Among them, hyperinvariant tensor networks-characterized by the inclusion of edge tensors and the enforcement of mul…

Radiative decay of $\chi_{c1}$ states in effective Lagrangian approach
Thanat Sangkhakrit, Attaphon Kaewsnod, Ayut Limphirat, Khanchai Khosonthongkee, Warintorn Sreethawong, Nopmanee Supanam, Yupeng Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08406

Radiative decay of $χ_{c1}$ states in effective Lagrangian approach
The $χ_{c1}(3872)$ state, first observed by the Belle collaboration with its quantum numbers identified as $J^{PC} = 1^{++}$, has been the subject of extensive research due to its intriguing properties. Several theoretical interpretations have been proposed to explain its unique characteristics, including the $χ_{c1}(2P)$ assignment, a molecular $\bar{D}^{*}D/\bar{D}D^{*}$ configuration, a coupled-channel framework incorporating $c\bar{c}$ and di-meson degrees of freedom, and the compact tetr…

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Geometric Floquet theory
We derive Floquet theory from quantum geometry. We identify quasienergy folding as a consequence of a broken gauge group of the adiabatic gauge potential $U(1){\mapsto}\mathbb{Z}$. Fixing instead the gauge freedom using the parallel-transport gauge uniquely decomposes Floquet dynamics into a purely geometric and a purely dynamical evolution. The dynamical average-energy operator provides an unambiguous sorting of the quasienergy spectrum, identifying a Floquet ground state and suggesting a way …

The reason I’m so fixated on Rudolf Rocker is that he understood authority and centralized control as inherently oppressive structures that suppress individual freedom and the collective ability to self-organize.
He argued that true freedom arises not from legal or political institutions, which often serve to maintain domination, but from the voluntary, free association of people resisting all forms of coercion and hierarchy.
For Rocker, political rights are not granted by govern…

Freeze-in production of scalaron dark matter in $f(R)$ gravity
Basabendu Barman, Ashmita Das, Rakesh Kumar SivaKumar, Rudra Pratap Udgata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06436

Freeze-in production of scalaron dark matter in $f(R)$ gravity
We demonstrate that the scalaron, a scalar degree of freedom, emerging from the $f(R)$ theory of gravity, can account for the observed dark matter (DM) abundance if its mass is around the MeV scale, to ensure its cosmological stability. Focusing on two well-known $f(R)$ gravity models, we systematically show that if scalaron production proceeds via the freeze-in mechanism, the right relic abundance is satisfied over a very narrow window of reheating temperature $10^{14}\lesssim T_{\rm rh}\lesss…

'Elon Musk is right'
to criticize spending bill
says House Republican
who voted for spending bill
Representative Scott Perry,
a Pennsylvania Republican and member of the far-right House Freedom caucus,
just seconded Elon Musk’s criticism of the massive spending bill
that passed the House by a single vote
as “a disgusting abomination”
and added that the billionaire Republican donor
“is right to call out House Leadership”.

Adaptive quantum dynamics with the time-dependent variational Monte Carlo method
Raffaele Salioni, Rocco Martinazzo, Davide Emilio Galli, Christian Apostoli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08575

Adaptive quantum dynamics with the time-dependent variational Monte Carlo method
We introduce an extension of the time-dependent variational Monte Carlo (tVMC) method that adaptively controls the expressivity of the variational quantum state during the simulation. This adaptive tVMC approach addresses numerical instabilities that arise when the variational ansatz is overparameterized or contains redundant degrees of freedom. Building on the concept of the local-in-time error (LITE), a measure of the deviation between variational and exact evolution, we introduce a procedure…

Rudolf Rocker argued that true social liberation requires the abolition of all forms of political, economic, and social oppression, he maintained that even complete economic equality is meaningless without freedom, and that any system enforcing authority or coercion undermines genuine emancipation.
When I think about it, I strongly agree with this view, because real freedom can only exist where no one is subject to outside control, where each person has the space to shape their own lif…

Autism and anarchy: The importance of autistic anarchism
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/04/10/autism-and-anarchy-the-importance-of-autistic-anarchism/

Since childhood, I have viewed the family as an inherently authoritarian institution, a primary form of domination that compels obedience and suppresses the individual’s natural freedom to organize themselves, as Rocker made clear in his unyielding critique of all authority.
#Anarchism #Syndicalism

Hey everyone!
What do you think about Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg heading to Gaza with the Freedom Flotilla to deliver humanitarian aid and challenge the blockade?
I’m honestly mixed on it, and I would love to hear your thoughts.
#GretaThunberg #GretaTintinEleonoraErnmanThunberg