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A coalition of press freedom groups urges Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to release Atlanta journalist Mario Guevara, detained by ICE for two months (Free Press)
https://www.freepress.net/news/press-freedom-groups-call-kristi-no…

Press-Freedom Groups Call on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to Immediately Release Journalist Mario Guevara from Prolonged ICE Detention
Guevara’s arrest and detention represents an erosion of democratic norms in the United States.

“You will live in exile.
Because the power of law enforcement under President Trump’s leadership will be used to find you,
will be used to take away your money,
to take away your power,
and if you’ve broken the law,
to take away your freedom.”
https://bsky.app/profile/cdarw…

Chuck Darwin (@cdarwin.bsky.social)
“You will live in exile. Because the power of law enforcement under President Trump’s leadership will be used to find you, will be used to take away your money, to take away your power, and if you’ve broken the law, to take away your freedom.” https://www.commondreams.org/news/stephen-miller-dismantle-the-left

Israeli authorities release 14 journalists and others who had been detained, most of them for four days, after sailing aboard a Gaza-bound flotilla (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/10/israel-frees-14-journalists-detained-f…

Israel frees 14 journalists detained from Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla - Committee to Protect Journalists
Sulaymaniyah, October 14, 2025 —  Israeli authorities have released 14 journalists and others who had been detained, most of them for four days, after sailing aboard the Wijdan (Conscience), a vessel that was part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), one of several aid convoys that have attempted to break the blockade on Gaza.  The...

FSF announces Librephone project https://www.fsf.org/news/librephone-project
"The Free Software Foundation announced its project to bring mobile phone freedom to users. "Librephone" is an initiative to reverse-engineer obstacles preventing mobile phone freedom until its goal is…

@… I may be thinking of the war they called enduring freedom

"how are free people supposed to stay free? One short answer: don’t trust anyone over thirty. Paine, reversing centuries’ worth of regard for age and experience, argued that freedom is not a privilege that the old may confer, but a right that the young must demand. Every rising generation should hold its predecessors accountable, boldly taking its rights from them"
I am an old man and I approve this message.

Inventing the American Revolution: On Thomas Paine’s Guide to Fighting Dictatorship
Back in 2018, two years into the first Trump presidency, when the ground was shifting beneath our feet in ways that, today, might barely register on our wearied internal seismographs, political ana…

Bad year for bicycling at the California State Capitol. Caltrans quick-build bill died, among others.
https://www.calbike.org/bike-friendly-bills-bite-the-dust/

Bike-Friendly Bills Bite the Dust - CalBike
After several years of successful campaigns, including passing the Freedom to Walk Act,the Complete Streets Bill, and securing $1 billion for the Active Transportation Program, 2025 is shaping up to be a dismal year for active transportation efforts in Sacramento. A combination of budget shortfalls, literal and metaphorical fires, and a federal government openly hostile […]

How the US rightwing is taking over news media and choking press freedom (Edward Helmore/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/14/rightwing-news-media-journalism
http://www.memeorandum.com/250914/p17#a250914p17

You Trump voters just gave up 250 years of American liberty & freedom to a dimwitted, childish Emperor.
Trump isn't just a criminal & a fascist: He's a modern day DESPOT & you #Trump voters made this happen.
From: @…

The New Republic (@newrepublic) on Threads
Sudden federal takeovers of America’s cities will apparently be the new normal. Several officials, including one senior administration official, told Rolling Stone that it is now a priority to normalize military deployments to cities across the country. https://trib.al/2bj5Grx

There is nothing in our Constitution that prevents a future president from revoking this award (and also the other ones that El Cheeto granted to highly unworthy people.)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-set-posthumously-aw…

Trump set to posthumously award Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Tuesday marks what would have been Kirk's 32nd birthday.

Freedom fighters were always called "terrorists" by occupying powers who demand abject submission. Now that's extended to people who utter even the most timid peaceful protests as well.

Hanna #Perekhoda: ‘The fight for freedom in Ukraine is intimately linked to the global struggle against fascist forces’
https://voxeurop.eu/en/hanna-perekhoda-ukraine-war/

📉 Miami’s Freedom Tower turns 100 as more Cubans are being deported than ever before
https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-07-23/miamis-freedom-tower-turns-100-while-more-cubans-are-being-deported-than-ever-bef…

Miami’s Freedom Tower turns 100 as more Cubans are being deported than ever before
Recent arrivals are experiencing a ‘perfect storm.’ On one hand, the Republican Party has aligned itself against immigrants; on the other, the Cuban-American community is no longer united

Full Canadian Transportation Agency decisions were #public, but legislative changes made most #confidential
https://www.…

"Freedom of speech is skeptical power: it is always a challenge. And it affirms truth: it is always a search. Without skepticism of power and affirmation of truth, we will not have freedom of speech. The me speakers push us to embrace their power and treat everything they say as truth. They will call this “free speech.”
https://

Free Speech and Me Speech
A helpful distinction

Spent a few hours cleaning out the fridge on my M1 Mac Mini today. It’s now in an ok state and can resume its local server role. But man, there’s zero joy in using macOS anymore. Just paper cut after paper cut. Or should I say joy in using OS X? I guess that’s when it actually was nice to use. Even with the limitations, iOS feels less claustrophobic – perhaps because it never had the freedom to begin with, so you don’t run into all the restrictions in the same way. I got the Mac because it w…

Sonnet 046 - XLVI
Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war,
How to divide the conquest of thy sight;
Mine eye my heart thy picture's sight would bar,
My heart mine eye the freedom of that right.
My heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie,
A closet never pierc'd with crystal eyes,
But the defendant doth that plea deny,
And says in him thy fair appearance lies.
To 'cide this title is impannelled
A quest of thoughts, all t…

Revisiting Cross-View Localization from Image Matching
Panwang Xia, Qiong Wu, Lei Yu, Yi Liu, Mingtao Xiong, Lei Liang, Yongjun Zhang, Yi Wan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10716 ht…

Revisiting Cross-View Localization from Image Matching
Cross-view localization aims to estimate the 3 degrees of freedom pose of a ground-view image by registering it to aerial or satellite imagery. It is essential in GNSS-denied environments such as urban canyons and disaster zones. Existing methods either regress poses directly or align features in a shared bird's-eye view (BEV) space, both built upon accurate spatial correspondences between perspectives. However, these methods fail to establish strict cross-view correspondences, yielding only co…

It takes either a high degree of stupidity or chutzpah for the Darth #Trump administration to accuse the EU of suppressing freedom of expression, while at the same time the former ambassador to Germany, #Grenell, wants to expel Elmar

Elmar Theveßen: ZDF verteidigt Korrespondent Theveßen gegen Ex-US-Botschafter Grenell
Wegen Aussagen zur US-Regierung fordert der ehemalige US-Botschafter, dass Journalist Elmar Theveßen sein US-Visum verliert. Das ZDF verteidigt seinen Korrespondenten.

Remember the Photoshop competitor that didn't require a monthly subscription? #AffinityPhoto
You can no longer download/purchase their software and they are giving away the iPad version for free until the end of the month. And they are teasing something "big" coming up with a bunch of marketing-speak. Whenever a company talks about freedom, be weary.

The undeniable convenience, freedom, and opportunity that cars offer is literally killing us
“Over 1.3 million humans are killed a year because of Big Car.
The total number of people killed by cars in the 20th Century 
— in excess of 60 million
 — is equal to the total number of people killed during World War II.
Efforts to make driving safer 
— take the laws requiring seat belts 
— were bitterly fought by Big Car,
as were softer dash boards and …

Run Over by 'Big Car'
David Obst's new book details how lead in gas drove us all crazy.

Identifying nonequilibrium degrees of freedom in high-dimensional stochastic systems
Catherine Ji, Ravin Raj, Benjamin Eysenbach, Gautam Reddy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08247 h…

Identifying nonequilibrium degrees of freedom in high-dimensional stochastic systems
Any coarse-grained description of a nonequilibrium system should faithfully represent its latent irreversible degrees of freedom. However, standard dimensionality reduction methods typically prioritize accurate reconstruction over physical relevance. Here, we introduce a model-free approach to identify irreversible degrees of freedom in stochastic systems that are in a nonequilibrium steady state. Our method leverages the insight that a black-box classifier, trained to differentiate between for…

Evolution of moments in atmospheric scintillation
Filippus S. Roux
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10171 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.10171

Evolution of moments in atmospheric scintillation
Evolution equations for the moments of a photonic quantum state propagating through atmospheric turbulence are derived. These evolution equations are obtain from an evolution equation for the characteristic functional of the state, incorporating all spatiotemporal degrees of freedom. The measured quantities, such as the intensity or photon distribution, of the evolving state can be expressed in terms of such moments without having to know the exact final state. The case of an initial coherent s…

HapticGiant: A Novel Very Large Kinesthetic Haptic Interface with Hierarchical Force Control
Michael Fennel, Markus Walker, Dominik Pikos, Uwe D. Hanebeck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09595

HapticGiant: A Novel Very Large Kinesthetic Haptic Interface with Hierarchical Force Control
Research in virtual reality and haptic technologies has consistently aimed to enhance immersion. While advanced head-mounted displays are now commercially available, kinesthetic haptic interfaces still face challenges such as limited workspaces, insufficient degrees of freedom, and kinematics not matching the human arm. In this paper, we present HapticGiant, a novel large-scale kinesthetic haptic interface designed to match the properties of the human arm as closely as possible and to facilitat…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Lupe Fiasco:
🎵 Around My Way (Freedom Ain’t Free)
#LupeFiasco
https://emanuelvinson.bandcamp.com/track/ii-lupe-fiasco-freedom-aint-free-around-my-way
https://open.spotify.com/track/2aFM8RCTeVK5OuYlpeedr9

Benny Johnson asks if Trump will give 'Big Balls' Medal of Freedom
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5448637-benny-johnson-dc-crime-trump/amp/

Snufkin is often seen as a free spirit who values personal freedom and dislikes material possessions or hierarchical control. He is a carefree, anti-establishment character who despises private property and the trappings of capitalism, as evidenced by his habit of tearing down "private property" signs.
He embodies a philosophy of simplicity, independence, and living in harmony with nature, making him appear anti-hierarchical and anti-capitalist in spirit. This aligns with hi…

On Casimir effect in Yang-Mills theories in three and four dimensions
Dimitra Karabali, Antonina Maj, V. P. Nair
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10301 https://a…

On Casimir effect in Yang-Mills theories in three and four dimensions
We calculate the Casimir energy for the configuration of two parallel plates coupled to nonabelian gauge fields with a Yang-Mills action. We consider both 2+1 and 3+1 dimensions in the manifestly gauge-invariant formalism we have pursued over the last several years which allows us to factor out the gauge degrees of freedom. A boundary action in the functional integral, equivalent to the insertion of operators representing the plates, is used to enforce the required boundary conditions for the g…

Charge dependence of mesons with flavored contact-interaction couplings
F\'abio L. Braghin, Bruno El-Bennich, Fernando E. Serna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09298 https://

Charge dependence of mesons with flavored contact-interaction couplings
Effective interaction models of quantum chromodynamics, based on quark degrees of freedom, have been successfully employed to compute the properties of a large array of ground and excited meson and baryon states, along with their electromagnetic form factors, distribution functions and thermal behavior. Amongst them, the contact-interaction model, while non-renormalizable, implements confinement, satisfies Lorentz covariance and correctly describes chiral symmetry and its dynamical breaking pat…

Nonlinear Effects in a Weakly Nonholonomic Systems With a Small Degrees of Freedom
Alexander S. Kuleshov, Nikita M. Vidov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10803 https://

Nonlinear Effects in a Weakly Nonholonomic Systems With a Small Degrees of Freedom
In 1986 Ya.V. Tatarinov presented the foundations of the theory of weakly nonholonomic systems. Mechanical systems with nonholonomic constraints depending on a small parameter are considered. It is assumed that for zero value of this parameter the constraints of such a system become integrable; i.e., in this case, we have a family of holonomic systems depending on several arbitrary integration constants. We will assume that these holonomic systems are completely integrable Hamiltonian systems. …

Fluid Antenna Enabled Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Under Time-Constrained Mobility
He Xu, Tuo Wu, Ye Tian, Kangda Zhi, Wei Liu, Baiyang Liu, Hing Cheung So, Naofal Al-Dhahir, Kin-Fai Tong, Chan-Byoung Chae, Kai-Kit Wong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10820

Fluid Antenna Enabled Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Under Time-Constrained Mobility
Fluid antenna (FA) technology has emerged as a promising approach in wireless communications due to its capability of providing increased degrees of freedom (DoFs) and exceptional design flexibility. This paper addresses the challenge of direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation for aligned received signals (ARS) and non-aligned received signals (NARS) by designing two specialized uniform FA structures under time-constrained mobility. For ARS scenarios, we propose a fully movable antenna configurat…

TL;DR: what if nationalism, not anarchy, is futile?
Since I had the pleasure of seeing the "what would anarchists do against a warlord?" argument again in my timeline, I'll present again my extremely simple proposed solution:
Convince the followers of the warlord that they're better off joining you in freedom, then kill or exile the warlord once they're alone or vastly outnumbered.
Remember that even in our own historical moment where nothing close to large-scale free society has existed in living memory, the warlord's promise of "help me oppress others and you'll be richly rewarded" is a lie that many understand is historically a bad bet. Many, many people currently take that bet, for a variety of reasons, and they're enough to coerce through fear an even larger number of others. But although we imagine, just as the medieval peasants might have imagined of monarchy, that such a structure is both the natural order of things and much too strong to possibly fail, in reality it takes an enormous amount of energy, coordination, and luck for these structures to persist! Nations crumble every day, and none has survived more than a couple *hundred* years, compared to pre-nation societies which persisted for *tends of thousands of years* if not more. I'm this bubbling froth of hierarchies, the notion that hierarchy is inevitable is certainly popular, but since there's clearly a bit of an ulterior motive to make (and teach) that claim, I'm not sure we should trust it.
So what I believe could form the preconditions for future anarchist societies to avoid the "warlord problem" is merely: a widespread common sense belief that letting anyone else have authority over you is morally suspect. Given such a belief, a warlord will have a hard time building any following at all, and their opponents will have an easy time getting their supporters to defect. In fact, we're already partway there, relative to the situation a couple hundred years ago. At that time, someone could claim "you need to obey my orders and fight and die for me because the Queen was my mother" and that was actually a quite successful strategy. Nowadays, this strategy is only still working in a few isolated places, and the idea that one could *start a new monarchy* or even resurrect a defunct one seems absurd. So why can't that same transformation from "this is just how the world works" to "haha, how did anyone ever believe *that*? also happen to nationalism in general? I don't see an obvious reason why not.
Now I think one popular counterargument to this is: if you think non-state societies can win out with these tactics, why didn't they work for American tribes in the face of the European colonizers? (Or insert your favorite example of colonialism here.) I think I can imagine a variety of reasons, from the fact that many of those societies didn't try this tactic (and/or were hierarchical themselves), to the impacts of disease weakening those societies pre-contact, to the fact that with much-greater communication and education possibilities it might work better now, to the fact that most of those tribes are *still* around, and a future in which they persist longer than the colonist ideologies actually seems likely to me, despite the fact that so much cultural destruction has taken place. In fact, if the modern day descendants of the colonized tribes sow the seeds of a future society free of colonialism, that's the ultimate demonstration of the futility of hierarchical domination (I just read "Theory of Water" by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson).
I guess the TL;DR on this is: what if nationalism is actually as futile as monarchy, and we're just unfortunately living in the brief period during which it is ascendant?

Investigating the Impact of Higher-Order Phase Transitions in Binary Neutron-Star Mergers
P. Hammond, A. Clevinger, M. Albino, V. Dexheimer, S. Bernuzzi, C. Brown, W. Cook, B. Daszuta, J. Fields, E. Grundy, C. Provid\^encia, D. Radice, A. Steiner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10698

Investigating the Impact of Higher-Order Phase Transitions in Binary Neutron-Star Mergers
In this paper we investigate quark deconfinement in neutrons stars and their mergers, focusing on the effects of higher orders for the phase transition between hadronic and quark matter. The different descriptions we use to describe matter microscopically contain varying particle degrees of freedom, including nucleons, hyperons, Delta baryons, and light and strange quarks. We use tabulated equations of state from the CompOSE database in which the quark deconfinement phase transition is describe…

What a time to be alive...
"Protecting Freedom of Science and Preventing Distortion of Scientific Truth
A Statement of Concern from the Pontifical Academy of Sciences"
https://www.pas.va/en/events/2025/statement_of_concern.html

A Statement of Concern from the PAS on Protecting Freedom of Science and Preventing Distortion of Scientific Truth
Erosion of Scientific Freedom and the Crisis of Truth The Pontifical Academy of Sciences’ Council and co-signing members of the Academy issue this ...

Interplay of vibrational, electronic, and magnetic states in CrSBr
Daria I. Markina, Priyanka Mondal, Lukas Krelle, Sai Shradha, Mikhail M. Glazov, Regine von Klitzing, Kseniia Mosina, Zdenek Sofer, Bernhard Urbaszek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10267

Interplay of vibrational, electronic, and magnetic states in CrSBr
The van der Waals antiferromagnet CrSBr exhibits coupling of vibrational, electronic, and magnetic degrees of freedom, giving rise to distinctive quasi-particle interactions. We investigate these interactions across a wide temperature range using polarization-resolved Raman spectroscopy at various excitation energies, complemented by optical absorption and photoluminescence excitation (PLE) spectroscopy. Under 1.96 eV excitation, we observe pronounced changes in the A$_g^1$, A$_g^2$, and A$_g^3…

The US right has increased its influence on mainstream media in America in recent weeks,
especially in television news which has been a major target of the Donald Trump administration.
CBS News
– once home to legends of US journalism like Walter Cronkite and Edward R Murrow
– installed a Trump ally as its ombudsman,
weeks after the family of Larry Ellison, one of the world’s richest men, and a friend of the US president, sealed control over Paramount, the owner …

Impact of Wind Direction on Flow Over a Realistic Urban Area: A Large-Eddy Simulation Study
Ivette Rodr\'iguez, Josep Maria Dur\'o, Ernest Mestres, Ming Teng, Oriol Lehmkuhl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11247

Impact of Wind Direction on Flow Over a Realistic Urban Area: A Large-Eddy Simulation Study
We conducted high-resolution large-eddy simulations over a real urban district in Barcelona to examine the impact of wind direction on near-ground flow. The computational mesh resolves over 500 million degrees of freedom, with a spatial resolution on the order of 1 m at pedestrian level. This allows a detailed analysis of mean velocity and turbulence patterns within the canopy layer. Although instantaneous flow fields differ significantly between cases, double-averaged profiles of velocity and …

Fine dissipative properties of Euler solutions with measure first derivatives
Marco Inversi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10704 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.107…

Fine dissipative properties of Euler solutions with measure first derivatives
We study fine properties of bounded weak solutions to the incompressible Euler equations whose first derivatives, or only some combinations of them, are Radon measures. As consequences we obtain elementary proofs of the local energy conservation for solutions in BV and BD, without relying on the freedom in choosing the convolution kernel appearing in the approximation of the dissipation. The argument heavily exploits the form of the Euler nonlinearity and it does not apply to the linear transpo…

Helical Field-Driven Translational-Rotational Conversion in Conductors
M. D. Tokman, V. L. Bratman, E. Magori, N. Balal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10042 https://

Helical Field-Driven Translational-Rotational Conversion in Conductors
A theory of a new magnetodynamic effect describing the energy exchange between the degrees of freedom of a conducting cylinder moving in a helical magnetic field has been developed. The possibility of effectively converting the translational motion of the cylinder into its angular rotation around the system axis (translational-rotational conversion, TRC) has been demonstrated. A connection between this effect and the formation of helical trajectories of electrons in undulators in free electron …

Gauging the variational optimization of projected entangled-pair states
Wei Tang, Laurens Vanderstraeten, Jutho Haegeman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10822 https://

Gauging the variational optimization of projected entangled-pair states
Projected entangled-pair states (PEPS) constitute a powerful variational ansatz for capturing ground state physics of two-dimensional quantum systems. However, accurately computing and minimizing the energy expectation value remains challenging, in part because the impact of the gauge degrees of freedom that are present in the tensor network representation is poorly understood. We analyze the role of gauge transformations for the case of a U(1)-symmetric PEPS with point group symmetry, thereby …

Podcast ep 192: What if we make mistakes on purpose? The unlikely freedom of doing things badly and letting yourself run out https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-192-make-mistakes-on-purpose/

Orbital dependent Coulomb drag in electron-hole bilayer graphene heterostructures
Zuocheng Zhang, Ruishi Qi, Jingxu Xie, Qize Li, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Michael F. Crommie, Feng Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09313

Orbital dependent Coulomb drag in electron-hole bilayer graphene heterostructures
We report Coulomb drag studies in an electron-hole bilayer graphene heterostructure in a magnetic field, where the orbital, spin, and valley degrees of freedom are lifted by the combined effects of exchange interaction, Zeeman energy, and vertical displacement field. Our device enables the application of a large vertical displacement field in both layers. In addition to the well-established strong Coulomb drag between Landau levels with an orbital quantum number N = 0, we observe a Coulomb drag…

„It’s possible that what I have to say is how to live with defeat, or how to live with despair, or how to champion a lost cause. I do not think there is such a thing as a victory even for the rich. They are stuck in an imaginary where we are going to cease to exist. But we are not going to cease to exist.“

Vibrational frequencies and stark tuning rate with continuum electro-chemical models and grand canonical density functional theory
Mouyi Weng, Nic\'ephore Bonnet, Oliviero Andreussi, Nicola Marzari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10307

Vibrational frequencies and stark tuning rate with continuum electro-chemical models and grand canonical density functional theory
Simulating electrochemical interfaces using density functional theory (DFT) requires incorporating the effects of electrochemical potential. The electrochemical potential acts as a new degree of freedom that can effectively tune DFT results as electrochemistry does. Typically, this is implemented by adjusting the number of electrons on the solid surface within the Kohn-Sham (KS) equation, under the framework of an implicit solvent model and the Poisson-Boltzmann equation (PB equation), thereby …

hey! here are the last four #photos from our walk in the #schwarzwald . There were some pretty beautyful trails and - also a little blister-issue. But thanks to being prepared, it was easy to fix and we could enjoy the rest of the walk.
Some more photos and a short clip are on the blog:

Reform led Nottinghamshire Council is blacklisting journalists for asking questions. An outrageous attack on press freedom. Sign the petition to get them to reverse this decision: https://

Reform: Stop hiding from press scrutiny!
Nigel Farage says he welcomes freedom of speech, even if people find it offensive. Surely that should apply to freedom of the press too? So why have Reform's Nottinghamshire councillors - who control the county council - been banned from talking to the Nottingham Post & Nottinghamshire Live, just because we wrote an article they didn't like? Our report asked legitimate questions about local government restructuring. That's our job. When councillors pick and choose which journalists get to...

Here’s how to share sensitive leaks with the press
#activism

Here’s how to share sensitive leaks with the press
Thinking about securely leaking information to news organizations? This guide will show you how.

Celebration of freedom in war: Ukrainians fight, world leaders support: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/24/celebration-of-freedom-in-war.html

UK would rather arrest almost 500 people rather than admit or cease its complicity in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.
So I guess the next step is a 5,000-person protest.
They arrest 5,000? Time for 50,000.
Overwhelm the system until the system stops committing genocide.

UK police arrest at least 466 people at Palestine Action protest in London
Critics say ban on activist group stifles freedom of speech and assembly and aims to curb pro-Palestine demonstrations.

Exact Classicalization of N-Level Quantum Systems Interacting with a Bath: Theory and Applications
Daniel Mart\'inez-Gil, Pedro Bargue\~no, Salvador Miret-Art\'es
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10131

Exact Classicalization of N-Level Quantum Systems Interacting with a Bath: Theory and Applications
In this manuscript, starting from a five-step algorithmic procedure for exactly classicalizing the dynamics of N-level quantum systems, we incorporate a classical bath of harmonic oscillators to model environmental interactions. Using the geometry of complex projective spaces CP(N-1) and a Langevin formalism, we obtain N-1 Hamilton's equations which encode both the quantum system and the bath degrees of freedom, representing a generalization of the Caldeira-Legget model in a complex projective …

Fewer than half of the 8- and 9-year-olds have gone down a grocery-store aisle alone; more than a quarter aren’t allowed to play unsupervised even in their own front yard.
https://www.

One Way Parents Can Fight the Phone-Based Childhood
Children who were raised on screens need more freedom out in the real world.

Momentum expansions in finite-density perturbative calculations
Mika Nurmela, Juuso \"Osterman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10623 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Momentum expansions in finite-density perturbative calculations
Complex-valued Feynman integrals in the imaginary time formalism and zero-temperature limit suffer from particular types of infrared divergences that can not be regulated by integration dimension alone. Related problems leading to integration order dependent results are even further pronounced in the presence of additional scales such as external momenta. This plays a noticeable role in systems featuring fermionic degrees of freedom such as cold Quantum Chromodynamics, where loop integrals are …

Iran's Streets 'Transformed' As More Women Shun The Mandatory Hijab
https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-hijab-woman-life-freedom-tehran-protests/33555684.html

The Right to Communications Confidentiality in Europe: Protecting Privacy, Freedom of Expression, and Trust
Frederik J. Zuiderveen Borgesius, Wilfred Steenbruggen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08247

The Right to Communications Confidentiality in Europe: Protecting Privacy, Freedom of Expression, and Trust
In the European Union, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provides comprehensive rules for the processing of personal data. In addition, the EU lawmaker intends to adopt specific rules to protect confidentiality of communications, in a separate ePrivacy Regulation. Some have argued that there is no need for such additional rules for communications confidentiality. This Article discusses the protection of the right to confidentiality of communications in Europe. We look at the right's…

It's #NationalComingOutDay and I know how scary and life-changing it can be to come out. So many don't have the freedom to come out. I am a general manager of a store and I strive for my employees to be able to be themselves.
…

Quantum Gravity and Entanglement in Particle Physics and Gravitation
Nick E. Mavromatos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08346 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08346…

Quantum Gravity and Entanglement in Particle Physics and Gravitation
Some approaches to Quantum Gravity (QG) entail decoherence of quantum matter propagating in it, due to an ``environment'' of QG degrees of freedom inaccessible to low-energy observers. In the first part of this talk, I discuss potential, and rather unique, effects of QG-induced decoherence on entangled particle states, specifically an induced modification of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) correlations of entangled neutral-meson states in meson factories ($ω$-effect). In the second part, I summa…

I have signed this petition, together with hundreds of other experienced correspondents, photographers and media professionals. We demand immediate authorization to enter Gaza and report independently. https://freedomtoreport.org/

Freedom To Report : Gaza Mission
media enquiries: gazapressmission@pm.me Instagram The Issue What’s happening in Gaza today reveals a far broader crisis: the erosion of press freedom as a pillar of democracy. The people most directly affected are not only the millions of civilians in Gaza enduring war beyond public scrutiny, but also global citizens everywhere whose right to receive free […]

A Unified Framework for Adaptive Waveform Processing in Next Generation Wireless Networks
Abdelali Arous, Hamza Haif, Arman Farhang, Huseyin Arslan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12648

A Unified Framework for Adaptive Waveform Processing in Next Generation Wireless Networks
The emergence of alternative multiplexing domains to the time-frequency domains, e.g., the delay-Doppler and chirp domains, offers a promising approach for addressing the challenges posed by complex propagation environments and next-generation applications. Unlike the time and frequency domains, these domains offer unique channel representations which provide additional degrees of freedom (DoF) for modeling, characterizing, and exploiting wireless channel features. This article provides a compr…

Oscillations and parity violation in gravitational wave background from extra tensor modes
Jaume Garriga, Mohammad Ali Gorji, Fazlollah Hajkarim, Misao Sasaki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08481

Oscillations and parity violation in gravitational wave background from extra tensor modes
Spectator fields which provide additional tensor degrees of freedom, on top of the standard metric tensor perturbations, can produce significant amounts of gravitational waves (GWs). Employing the effective field theory approach for spin-2 fields, we find a universal prediction that linear mixing between the metric and extra tensor modes inevitably induces oscillatory features in the GW spectrum, reminiscent of the so-called neutrino oscillation. Moreover, parity-violating operators in the spin…

Trump’s Baseless Claims:
President Trump said he had made flag burning a crime punishable by a year in prison.
But such a claim contradicts both Supreme Court precedent and the text of an executive order he signed.
https://www.

Trump Baselessly Claims He ‘Took the Freedom of Speech Away’ From Flag Burners
The president said he had made flag burning a crime punishable by a year in prison. But such a claim contradicts both Supreme Court precedent and the text of an executive order he signed.

The more I study capitalism, the more I realize it is a system structured to divide people. It uses the state and economic institutions strategically to keep the working majority fragmented and powerless, preventing them from uniting against their common exploitation.
It’s wrong, deeply wrong, that capitalism enslaves people not only economically but socially and politically. It steals freedom and dignity, forcing the overwhelming majority to serve the selfish interests of a tiny rulin…

Why do rightwing parties in Europe call themselves "freedom parties"?

Putting Profits Over Press Freedom: Interview With Jeff Cohen https://thedissenter.org/putting-profits-over-press-freedom-interview-with-jeff-cohen/

😎 How do politicians view democracy? It depends on whether they win or lose
#politics

How do politicians view democracy? It depends on whether they win or lose
There is a heightened concern about the current state of democracy around the globe. These include worries about a decrease in freedom, the growing number of autocracies around the world and citizens' dissatisfaction with democracy or government.

Day 20: bell hooks.
Despite having decided to continue to 30, number 20 feels important, and hooks gets the spot in part because I haven't yet included a non-fiction feminist author, which feels like an obvious thing to include on such a list. The one category of author being bumped out of the first 20 here is anime writers, but I'll follow up with one of them, along with more academics and mangaka who I've been itching to include.
In any case, hooks is absolutely legendary as a feminist writer for good reason, and as a teacher I've especially appreciated her writing on pedagogy like "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" and "Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom". These have challenged me to teach at a higher level, and while I'm not sure I've completely succeeded, they're important to me. They also pair well with Paolo Friere's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed", but hooks always seems to be focused on very practical advice and it's incredibly direct in her writing, even though her advice isn't always straightforward to implement. In fact, that's one of the things I value about her writing: when the truth is complicated or the real work is messy interpersonal relationships that need to be negotiated with each student, she's not afraid to say so and give good advice for navigating those waters instead of trying to dispense simple-seeming platitudes or formulas for success that paper over the deeper issues. Her concern has always been truth, rather than simplicity or audience comfort and the popularity it might seem to entail, which I think is part of why her legacy endures so well.
#20AuthorsNoMen
#30AuthorsNoMen

In Chicago, clergy and faith-based protesters say ICE is threatening their religious freedom (Jack Jenkins/RNS)
https://religionnews.com/2025/10/07/in-chicago-clergy-and-religious-protesters-say-ice-is-threatening-their-religious-freedom/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251007/p135#a251007p135

LAPD officers struck and injured UK photojournalist Nick Stern twice while he was covering LA immigration protests, and assaulted multiple other journalists (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/los-angel

In L.A., police nightsticks are clubbing press freedom to death
On Friday, LAPD cops allegedly battered and detained journalists at a protest — the ugliest of the many threats to U.S. press freedom.

Performance of universal machine-learned potentials with explicit long-range interactions in biomolecular simulations
Viktor Zaverkin, Matheus Ferraz, Francesco Alesiani, Mathias Niepert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10841

Performance of universal machine-learned potentials with explicit long-range interactions in biomolecular simulations
Universal machine-learned potentials promise transferable accuracy across compositional and vibrational degrees of freedom, yet their application to biomolecular simulations remains underexplored. This work systematically evaluates equivariant message-passing architectures trained on the SPICE-v2 dataset with and without explicit long-range dispersion and electrostatics. We assess the impact of model size, training data composition, and electrostatic treatment across in- and out-of-distribution…

The freedom fighters for the oppressed are the terrorists for the oppressor.

Point and Go: Intuitive Reference Frame Reallocation in Mode Switching for Assistive Robotics
A. Wang, C. Jiang, M. Przystupa, J. Valentine, M. Jagersand
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08753

Point and Go: Intuitive Reference Frame Reallocation in Mode Switching for Assistive Robotics
Operating high degree of freedom robots can be difficult for users of wheelchair mounted robotic manipulators. Mode switching in Cartesian space has several drawbacks such as unintuitive control reference frames, separate translation and orientation control, and limited movement capabilities that hinder performance. We propose Point and Go mode switching, which reallocates the Cartesian mode switching reference frames into a more intuitive action space comprised of new translation and rotation …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Pharoah Sanders:
🎵 you got to have freedom (opolopo tweek)
#PharoahSanders
https://markdeclivelowe.bandcamp.com/track/youve-got-to-have-freedom
https://open.spotify.com/track/1sxRufRKMer2iOqxUkdhN4

Please join me in raising funds for medical cargo buses and trucks with electric jamming for brigades of Ukraine's Khartiia Corps. These automobiles make the difference between whether people survive or not. We can do something very specific and meaningful to help.
-- Timothy Snyder
https://www.hel…

Timothy Snyder: Freedom is Action
Professor Timothy Snyder – a prominent voice of freedom, teams up with NAFO to fundraise for ten trucks and ten cargo buses with anti-drone jamming systems. These will transport and protect those who serve in five brigades of Khartiia, the 2nd Corps of the National Guard of Ukraine.

The Future is Fluid: Revolutionizing DOA Estimation with Sparse Fluid Antennas
He Xu, Tuo Wu, Ye Tian, Ming Jin, Wei Liu, Qinghua Guo, Maged Elkashlan, Matthew C. Valenti, Chan-Byoung Chae, Kin-Fai Tong, Kai-Kit Wong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10826

The Future is Fluid: Revolutionizing DOA Estimation with Sparse Fluid Antennas
This paper investigates a design framework for sparse fluid antenna systems (FAS) enabling high-performance direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation, particularly in challenging millimeter-wave (mmWave) environments. By ingeniously harnessing the mobility of fluid antenna (FA) elements, the proposed architectures achieve an extended range of spatial degrees of freedom (DoF) compared to conventional fixed-position antenna (FPA) arrays. This innovation not only facilitates the seamless application o…

Ukrainian journalist Roshchyna posthumously named Press Freedom Hero: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/10/ukrainian-journalist-roshchyna-posthumously-named.html

Judge sides with faith group over Utah county in psychedelic mushroom religious freedom lawsuit • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/08/07/judge-sides-with-faith-group-over-utah-county-in-psychedelic-mushroom-religious-freedom-lawsuit/

The latest Los Angeles protest march against Donald Trump's aggressive deportation arrests
took off from the city's MacArthur Park uneventfully on Friday night,
which is just as well for journalists
In L.A., police nightsticks are clubbing press freedom to death
-- Will Bunch
htt…

In L.A., police nightsticks are clubbing press freedom to death
On Friday, LAPD cops allegedly battered and detained journalists at a protest — the ugliest of the many threats to U.S. press freedom.

And who is the kind of person trying to get @… to ban the accounts of Palestinians who are using the fediverse as their last lifeline to literally get funds to eat as they’re being starved by Israel in a genocide?
The same kind of person – an anonymous coward furthermore – who paints the freedom flotilla as “Hamas”.
Do not let these Zionist propaganda acc…

Academic Freedom: How Universities Lost Their Way (Jonathan Zimmerman/Washington Monthly)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/08/05/academic-freedom-how-universities-lost-their-way/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250805/p23#a250805p23

Autonomous Mobile Plant Watering Robot : A Kinematic Approach
Justin London
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08607 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08607

Autonomous Mobile Plant Watering Robot : A Kinematic Approach
Plants need regular and the appropriate amount of watering to thrive and survive. While agricultural robots exist that can spray water on plants and crops such as the , they are expensive and have limited mobility and/or functionality. We introduce a novel autonomous mobile plant watering robot that uses a 6 degree of freedom (DOF) manipulator, connected to a 4 wheel drive alloy chassis, to be able to hold a garden hose, recognize and detect plants, and to water them with the appropriate amount…

Geometry of supergravity and the Batalin--Vilkovisky formulation of the $\mathcal N=1$ theory in ten dimensions
Julian Kupka, Charles Strickland-Constable, Fridrich Valach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06398

Geometry of supergravity and the Batalin--Vilkovisky formulation of the $\mathcal N=1$ theory in ten dimensions
We provide full details of a BV formulation of $\mathcal N=1$ supergravity in ten dimensions, to all orders in fermions, built from the generalised geometry description of the theory. In contrast to standard treatments, we introduce neither the degrees of freedom corresponding to orthonormal frames for the metric nor the local Lorentz symmetries that remove them again. Instead, we observe that the field space has a fibred structure, with the fermionic degrees of freedom spanning the fibres. We …

Freedom of the Press Foundation and 404 Media file a FOIA lawsuit against the US DHS and CMS, seeking documents about Medicaid patient data sharing with ICE (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/404-media-and-freedom-of-the-press-foundation-sue-dhs/

404 Media and Freedom of the Press Foundation Sue DHS
Both organizations are seeking a copy of a data sharing agreement that is giving the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients to ICE.

Media across the ideological spectrum said they will not sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new press policy by Tuesday’s afternoon deadline.
The Washington Post, the New York Times and CNN said they wouldn’t sign, as did Newsmax and the Washington Times.

Matt Murray, The Post’s executive editor, said the policy runs counter to the Constitution’s guarantee of freedom of the press.

News outlets broadly reject Pentagon rules before signing deadline
The Washington Post and other major news outlets have refused to sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new media policy, citing First Amendment concerns.

Aaron Rupar on bsky, with video:
Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3m2pfkrmyxg2k

Humanoid Robot Acrobatics Utilizing Complete Articulated Rigid Body Dynamics
Gerald Brantner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08258 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08…

Humanoid Robot Acrobatics Utilizing Complete Articulated Rigid Body Dynamics
Endowing humanoid robots with the ability to perform highly dynamic motions akin to human-level acrobatics has been a long-standing challenge. Successfully performing these maneuvers requires close consideration of the underlying physics in both trajectory optimization for planning and control during execution. This is particularly challenging due to humanoids' high degree-of-freedom count and associated exponentially scaling complexities, which makes planning on the explicit equations of motio…

Counter-propagating Entangled Photon Pairs from a Monolayer
Zhuoyuan Lu, Jiri Janousek, Syed M. Assad, Shuyao Qiu, Mayank Joshi, Yecheng Hu, Alex Y Song, Chuanyu Wang, Manuka Suriyage, Jie Zhao, Ping Koy Lam, Yuerui Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06860

Counter-propagating Entangled Photon Pairs from a Monolayer
Non-phase-matched spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) in atomically thin materials provides new degrees of freedom and enhanced quantum information capacity compared to conventional phase-matched sources. These systems emerged as promising platforms for quantum computing, communication, and imaging, with the potential to support higher-order nonlinear processes. However, direct observation of photon-pair emission from a monolayer has remained experimentally challenging. In this work, …

Trump to posthumously award Charlie Kirk with Presidential Medal of Freedom (Alex Gangitano/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5498203-charlie-kirk-presidential-medal/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250911/p55#a250911p55

“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is,
‘Love your neighbor, love your God,
save your soul and quit your job,’”
said David Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago.
“Everybody chants that.”

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago
(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who would Jesus deport?’

ZS-Puffin: Design, Modeling and Implementation of an Unmanned Aerial-Aquatic Vehicle with Amphibious Wings
Zhenjiang Wang, Yunhua Jiang, Zikun Zhen, Yifan Jiang, Yubin Tan, Wubin Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08690

ZS-Puffin: Design, Modeling and Implementation of an Unmanned Aerial-Aquatic Vehicle with Amphibious Wings
Unmanned aerial-aquatic vehicles (UAAVs) can operate both in the air and underwater, giving them broad application prospects. Inspired by the dual-function wings of puffins, we propose a UAAV with amphibious wings to address the challenge posed by medium differences on the vehicle's propulsion system. The amphibious wing, redesigned based on a fixed-wing structure, features a single degree of freedom in pitch and requires no additional components. It can generate lift in the air and function as…

Trump announces he will posthumously award Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom (Alexandra Hutzler/ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-announces-posthumously-award-charlie-kirk-presidential-medal/story?id=125474603
http://www.memeorandum.com/250911/p52#a250911p52

Christian group ‘deceived’ supreme court about LGBTQ research, cited scholars say | US supreme court | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/06/alliance-defending-freedom-supreme-court-conversion-therapy

Kinetostatics and Particle-Swarm Optimization of Vehicle-Mounted Underactuated Metamorphic Loading Manipulators
Nan Mao, Guanglu Jia, Junpeng Chen, Emmanouil Spyrakos-Papastavridis, Jian S. Dai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09093

Kinetostatics and Particle-Swarm Optimization of Vehicle-Mounted Underactuated Metamorphic Loading Manipulators
Fixed degree-of-freedom (DoF) loading mechanisms often suffer from excessive actuators, complex control, and limited adaptability to dynamic tasks. This study proposes an innovative mechanism of underactuated metamorphic loading manipulators (UMLM), integrating a metamorphic arm with a passively adaptive gripper. The metamorphic arm exploits geometric constraints, enabling the topology reconfiguration and flexible motion trajectories without additional actuators. The adaptive gripper, driven en…

In L.A., police nightsticks are clubbing press freedom to death (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/los-angeles-protests-journalists-police-20250810.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250810/p45#a250810p45

Trump just said “we took the freedom of speech away.”
And our leaders are asleep at the wheel. 
I’m Liam Elkind.
I’m 26 years old and I’m running for Congress because Trump is inches away from becoming a dictator, and I’m pissed as hell. 
Any Democrat who’s not fighting this tooth and nail is complicit. I’ll use every tool in my toolbox to beat Trump’s fascism. 
But I need your help. Can you chip in any amount today so I can get to Congress and actually FIGHT fo…

Trump to award Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom (Jesse Byrnes/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5480508-rudy-giuliani-medal-freedom/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250901/p61#a250901p61

American neo-Nazis love the Trump era.
“[Trump] awakened a lot of people to the issues we’ve been raising for years.
He’s the best thing that’s happened to us.”
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/american-nazis…

Trump says he'll honor Giuliani with Presidential Medal of Freedom (Rebecca Falconer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/01/trump-giuliani-presidential-medal-freedom
http://www.memeorandum.com/250901/p72#a250901p72

Google is fond of saying its mission is to
"organize the world's information,"
but who gets to decide what information is worthy of organization?
A San Francisco tech CEO has spent the past several years attempting to remove unflattering information about himself from Google's search index,
and the nonprofit Freedom of the Press Foundation says he's still at it.
Most recently, an unknown bad actor used a bug in one of Google's search …

Google tool misused to scrub tech CEO’s shady past from search
Google has fixed the bug, which it says affected only “a tiny fraction of websites.”…

The policies May Mailman helped devise
— and is now leveraging as she leads the White House’s negotiations with colleges
— have sent shock waves through higher education,
dividing faculty and alarming some students who see an effort to silence dissent.
The aggressive tactics could have far-reaching implications for the future of academic freedom,
the admissions practices at the most competitive colleges
and the global reputations for some of the crown jew…

The Harvard-Trained Lawyer Behind Trump’s Fight Against Top Universities
May Mailman is credited as an animating force behind a strategy that has intimidated independent institutions and undercut years of medical and scientific research.

Federal lawmakers sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
demanding information on any plans Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has
to use Graphite, a spyware program that can access
— without the owner’s knowledge or consent
— a phone’s location data, photos, and encrypted applications, including WhatsApp and Signal.
Last year, the Biden administration paused the contract with Paragon Solutions, which operates Graphite,
while it …

Lawmakers Demand Information About Potential Use of Paragon Spyware by ICE
The lawmakers warned that allowing ICE to use spyware “threatens Americans’ freedom of movement and freedom of speech.”…