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Jeeeez.
❝One unit-level message bluntly said "no fat soldiers."❞
Read this story. Get it out. This is important.
❝“If soldiers have political views that are in opposition to the current administration and they don't want to be in the audience then they need to speak with their leadership and get swapped out,” another note to troops said.❞
In a country where the military is one of the more respected institutions, people need — NEED — to hear this:
They engineered the audience. They faked the appearance of soldiers’ support.
They staged it like reality TV.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/11/bragg-soldiers-who-cheered-trumps-political-attacks-while-uniform-were-checked-allegiance-appearance.html

Here's my latest Boles Bells article!
https://bolesbells.com/blog/2025/6/9/the-iron-ballast-kettlebells-national-identity-and-the-russian-mythos-of-strength

The Iron Ballast: Kettlebells, National Identity, and the Russian Mythos of Strength — David Boles Bells
The trajectory of Russia over the past century is a story deeply etched with societal upheavals, ideological fervor, and an unyielding quest for national assertion on the global stage. Knotted into this complex tapestry is the seemingly modest history of the kettlebell, or girya . This unassuming i

Revealed: the 6 greatest decades in classical music history | Classical Music #ClassicalMusic

Revealed: the 6 greatest decades in classical music history | Classical Music
The story of classical music is filled with magical eras, when a sense of discovery filled the air. Here are music's 6 most seminal decades

recent-ish reading/rereading. #books @…

From Voids to Clusters: Mergers and Evolutionary Pathways of Star-Forming and Quenched Low-Mass Galaxies
Mohammad Reza Shojaei, Saeed Tavasoli, Parsa Ghafour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06711

From Voids to Clusters: Mergers and Evolutionary Pathways of Star-Forming and Quenched Low-Mass Galaxies
The evolution of low-mass galaxies is shaped by both internal processes and environmental factors, yet the role of environment and mergers in regulating their growth and star formation rates remains poorly understood, especially in the low-density regime. This study aims to compare the evolutionary pathways and merger histories of star-forming and quenched galaxies in dense (cluster) and under-dense (void) environments, focusing on galaxies with stellar masses in the range $10^{8.5} \leq M_\sta…

If you have an interest in Nonconformist history, here is the story of the Salvation Army in Northampton, England.
https://edintone.com/salvation-army/

Salvation Army in Northampton No. 1 Corps - Miscellanea Edintone
Here is a brief Infographic on Northampton No. 1 Corps. In 1879, it was the 100th Corps founded nationally. There were two others No. 2 located at Market

Ich hoffe ja sehr, dass das #ZDF gerade mit Hochdruck daran arbeitet, die neue #Mediathek noch einmal gründlich zu überarbeiten. Die jüngsten Bewertungen im App Store sprechen Bände 👀😭

LLMs often nail short-term tasks but AI agents can spiral into insane meltdowns over time. This AI-powered vending machine tried to email the FBI to say it was a victim of cyberfraud and then declared its quantum state "collapsed":
https://www.linked…

"I think it is a huge mistake for people to assume that they can trust AI when they do not trust each other. The safest way to develop superintelligence is to first strengthen trust between humans, and then cooperate with each other to develop superintelligence in a safe manner. But what we are doing now is exactly the opposite. Instead, all efforts are being directed toward developing a superintelligence."
#AGI #AI
https://www.wired.com/story/questions-answered-by-yuval-noah-harari-for-wired-ai-artificial-intelligence-singularity/

Constraints on the progenitor models of fast radio bursts from population synthesis with the first CHIME/FRB catalog
Min Meng, Can-Min Deng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04986

Constraints on the progenitor models of fast radio bursts from population synthesis with the first CHIME/FRB catalog
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are enigmatic extragalactic radio transients with unknown origins. We performed comprehensive Monte Carlo simulations based on the first CHIME/FRB catalog to test whether the FRB population tracks the cosmic star formation history directly or requires a delay. By fully considering CHIME's complex selection effects and beam response, we find that the hypothesis that the FRB population tracks the SFH is not ruled out by the current data, although a small delay is preferre…