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The Liberal Misinformation Bubble About Youth Gender Medicine (Helen Lewis/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/transgender-youth-skrmetti/683350/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p90#a250629p90

The Atlantic vergleicht die Politik der #Trump-Administration mit dem Sacco di Roma, der Plünderung Roms 1527 durch Söldnertruppen. Interessanter Vergleich.
The New Dark Age. Wie treffend.
https…

The New Dark Age
The Trump administration has launched an attack on knowledge itself.

Beyond Text: Probing K-12 Educators' Perspectives and Ideas for Learning Opportunities Leveraging Multimodal Large Language Models
Tiffany Tseng, Katelyn Lam, Tiffany Lin Fu, Alekhya Maram
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20720

Beyond Text: Probing K-12 Educators' Perspectives and Ideas for Learning Opportunities Leveraging Multimodal Large Language Models
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are beginning to empower new user experiences that can flexibly generate content from a range of inputs, including images, text, speech, and video. These capabilities have the potential to enrich learning by enabling users to capture and interact with information using a variety of modalities, but little is known about how educators envision how MLLMs might shape the future of learning experiences, what challenges diverse teachers encounter when interpre…

What follows is a surprisingly elegant introduction to a lesser-known evolutionary theory,
wrapped in the curious biography of Sewall Wright
-- a geneticist with a lifelong fixation on guinea pigs.
I’ve occasionally wondered:
Why don’t we see fish wandering around on little legs, on their way to becoming something grander?
Wright put it more scientifically:
How do organisms evolve beneficial traits when the steps in between might be maladaptive?
I…

Evolution and Guinea Pig Toes
How one animal's oddity inspired Sewall Wright to take on one of Darwin's big ideas

Literature-Grounded Novelty Assessment of Scientific Ideas
Simra Shahid, Marissa Radensky, Raymond Fok, Pao Siangliulue, Daniel S. Weld, Tom Hope
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22026 …

Literature-Grounded Novelty Assessment of Scientific Ideas
Automated scientific idea generation systems have made remarkable progress, yet the automatic evaluation of idea novelty remains a critical and underexplored challenge. Manual evaluation of novelty through literature review is labor-intensive, prone to error due to subjectivity, and impractical at scale. To address these issues, we propose the Idea Novelty Checker, an LLM-based retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) framework that leverages a two-stage retrieve-then-rerank approach. The Idea Nove…

I see that agile is very consistent with Deming. Agile has all sorts of variants, so to different extents, they fit in. But one of the things I find really interesting is the agile folks, and of course the lean software folks, they much more than any other group of people I’ve seen traced the #agile ideas back to find Deming’s ideas.
So it seems to me many of the leading agile and lean folks h…

4 Intriguing Run-Stopping Defensive Tackle Waiver Claim Ideas https://insidethestar.com/4-intriguing-run-stopping-defensive-tackle-waiver-claim-ideas

Freeing Your Piano Technique - Practising the Piano
#piano
https://practisingthepiano.com/freeing

Freeing Your Piano Technique - Practising the Piano
Fred Karpoff shares some ideas from his recent workshop on how a whole body approach to technique facilitates effortless piano playing.

rsyslog lead dev on AI, and also see this: https://www.rsyslog.com/clarifying-ai-first-what-it-really-means-for-rsyslog/

Clarifying “AI First” – What It Really Means for rsyslog - rsyslog
TL;DR:The rsyslog project is embracing AI First (Human-Controlled) — AI is becoming an integral partner across development, documentation, user education, technical support, deployment guidance, and future observability tools. This does not mean “vibe coding” or letting AI run unsupervised. Instead, AI accelerates routine work, drafts ideas, and provides insights, while Rainer Gerhards — with decades […]

#GNUTerryPratchett

Terry Pratchett’s Discworld: Ankh-Morpork | LEGO® Ideas
Sir Terry Pratchett was a brilliant, witty author best known for his Discworld series – a magical, hilarious universe full of clever satire and unforgettable ch…

How protogens are designed.
Original: #protogen

Is there a proposal to create something like mail over ActivityPub? Just imagine, instead of sending letters by mail you could just address someone by writing it to their ActivityPub powered mail instance!
I would suggest calling it apmail but I'm open to other ideas.

#phpugmrn @… introducing us to his ideas what feedback culture should look like

My article just out:
Progressive Jews (and non-Jews too!) need to revive the social democratic politics of solidarity. It brings poor & middle together, in contrast to the politics of far-left "allyship" & elite charity which both drive them apart.
https://www.

After Zohran Mamdani’s upset, there’s a way forward for pro-Israel progressives
In the fight for economic fairness for all, Jews shouldn't have to give up on defending their particular interests, writes a long-time contributor to Dissent magazine.

UNSW Centre For Ideas
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

A triptych on Starhawk, who developed some of the most poignantly insightful ideas in structural theories of power, among the many philosophers, sociologists, and psychologists who wrote about theories of power in the 20th century
Note that the second and third image come from the *same book*, in the first and second chapters
I…did not expect woo poetry on magic and sexuality in a book that's highly cited by writers on theories of power

Kaluza-Klein ansatz from Lorentzian quantum gravity on the fuzzy sphere
Chengcheng Liu, Shahn Majid
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21861 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Kaluza-Klein ansatz from Lorentzian quantum gravity on the fuzzy sphere
If Kaluza-Klein ideas were correct as an explanation of Yang-Mills and General Relativity on spacetime, the extra fibre geometry would have to be a sphere of constant size of the order of 10 Planck lengths, hence subject to quantum gravity corrections. Conversely, it was shown in previous work that modelling such corrections by noncommutative coordinates indeed forces the Kaluza-Klein cylinder ansatz form of the metric, and we now propose that the remaining restrictions needed come from quantum…

On the extrema of the mean subtree order of graphs
Stijn Cambie, Jorik Jooken, Stephan Wagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20593 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.2…

On the extrema of the mean subtree order of graphs
It has been conjectured that the minimum and maximum of the mean subtree order among connected graphs of order $n$ are attained by the path $P_n$ and clique $K_n$, respectively. Extending ideas due to Haslegrave and Vince, we confirm that the minimum is indeed attained by $P_n$. On the other hand, we discuss different approaches (both promising and flawed) that could lead to a proof of the extremality of $K_n$.

A little post about AI written by my employer @…
https://vivaldi.com/blog/keep-exploring/

Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human | Vivaldi Browser
Browsing should push you to explore, chase ideas, and make your own decisions. It should light up your brain. Vivaldi is taking a stand. We choose humans over hype, and we will not turn the joy of…

When you simultaneously appreciate European Union because it hampers the stupid idea Polish nazis have, and hate it because it pushes for the ideas the European nazis have.
#politics #EUpol

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.00937 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Stochastic Variance-Reduced Forward-Reflected-Backward Splitting Methods for Nonmonotone Generalized Equations
We develop two novel stochastic variance-reduction methods to approximate solutions of a class of nonmonotone [generalized] equations. Our algorithms leverage a new combination of ideas from the forward-reflected-backward splitting method and a class of unbiased variance-reduced estimators. We construct two new stochastic estimators within this class, inspired by the well-known SVRG and SAGA estimators. These estimators significantly differ from existing approaches used in minimax and variation…

Cook delicious vegan recipes for every occasion #plantbased

Do you like Ankh-Morpork and Lego?
Then you should vote to make this real:
#legoideas

Volume Entropy Rigidity for Random Groups at Low Densities
Dongming Hua (Merrick)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23364 https://arxiv.org/…

Volume Entropy Rigidity for Random Groups at Low Densities
We study the rigidity of the volume entropy for weighted word metrics on hyperbolic groups, building on a recent convexity result due to Cantrell-Tanaka. Using ideas from small cancellation theory, we give conditions under which a hyperbolic group admits a unique normalized weight minimizing the entropy. Moreover, we show that these conditions are generic for random groups at small densities, and that the unique minimizer of such a generic group is arbitrarily close to the uniform weight.

The Supreme Court Put Nationwide Injunctions to the Torch (Nicholas Bagley/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/supreme-court-trump-injunctions/683354/?gift=c04SMsUDu_5IHrILqcoSg28sKQdP6i7Erpt87QNMVVo&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p12#a250628p12

Nice to see them do Firefly...
'X-Files' and 'Wallace & Gromit' Are Getting Their Own Lego Sets
https://gizmodo.com/lego-x-files-wallace-and-gromit-ideas-sets-price-release-date-2000620172

From the article: "Gregory E. Sterling, dean of Yale Divinity School, recently said that Christians do not have to agree on all aspects of what the teachings of Jesus Christ mean, but we can apply the test given in the Fourth Gospel..."
https://www.churchleadership.c…

Why Are So Many Christians So Cruel? - Lewis Center for Church Leadership
Many Christians today feel tension between faith and politics, often confusing partisan allegiance with discipleship. Lovett Weems warns that Christianity’s credibility suffers when political power replaces Christlike love. True patriotism, rooted in Jesus’ teachings, values compassion, diversity, humility, and love. Why, indeed, are so many Christians so cruel? This is the question David French said Lovett Weems writes Christians risk losing credibility when politics eclipse Christlike lov…

Last day of CoRDI in Aachen today. I've heard a lot of interesting ideas and been part of some important discussions about the future of the NFDI in the last few days.
And, perhaps most importantly, I have been able to nearly complete my sticker collection. (By my counting, only 3 consortia are still missing.)
#CoRDI2025

Religions of Revolution Symposium
https://ift.tt/xRvaTdF
Rutgers Global Affairs Conference now VIRTUAL - new CFP deadline Rutgers University…
via Input 4 RELCFP https://

"when a wealthy guy says the quiet part out loud…"
(A smart one.)
https://substack.com/@artistlike/note/c-136832061?r=n66c&utm_source=notes-share-action

DMC (@artistlike)
I’m resharing this because it’s worth listening to, thinking about, and relistening to and rethinking about. One of the most important set of ideas I have heard.

Structure-Preserving Discretization and Model Reduction for Energy-Based Models
Robert Altmann, Attila Karsai, Philipp Schulze
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21552 https://

Structure-Preserving Discretization and Model Reduction for Energy-Based Models
We investigate discretization strategies for a recently introduced class of energy-based models. The model class encompasses classical port-Hamiltonian systems, generalized gradient flows, and certain systems with algebraic constraints. Our framework combines existing ideas from the literature and systematically addresses temporal discretization, spatial discretization, and model order reduction, ensuring that all resulting schemes are dissipation-preserving in the sense of a discrete dissipati…

If I reply to a migrated account it will never reply to me and I might not ever notice it's migrated unless I view the profile on the source server.
Here is a mastodon suggestion issue with a few ideas to make it more clear the account has migrated.
If you have ideas add them to the issue as a comment!
https://

Update to my loftyassist product adventure, with a new twist.
At 116 users, 18 paid plans.
New twist? I might be getting hired by Lofty to do some contract work for them. Let's see what the terms look like, but if all looks good, I might be transferring over some of my lofty assist ideas onto lofty itself. Pretty funny turn of events.

"The U.S. has no cards because we’ve been giving them away. If we ever want to play them again, we will have to win them back: Arm Ukraine, expand sanctions, stop the lethal drone swarms, break the Russian economy, and win the war. Then there will be peace."
https://www.theatla…

Trump Has No Cards
Why would Putin need to make a deal with him?

Gift article:: MAGA World Is So Close to Getting It - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/gavin-newsom-social-…

MAGA World Is So Close to Getting It
Gavin Newsom’s parodies are riling people up—and they don’t quite seem to understand why.

Preparing for tomorrow's No Kings protests?
✅ 54 Anti-Trump Protest Sign Ideas for the No Kings Protest
https://wildingout.substack.com/p/54-anti-trump-protest-sign-ideas

54 Anti-Trump Protest Sign Ideas for the No Kings Protest
Fun signs ideas that are creative as they are hilarious

Begin - 3 Ideas for Actually Starting Creative Projects
#creativity #CreativeProcess
https://muz4now.c…

Begin - 3 Ideas for Actually Starting Creative Projects
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Tech geeks, I need help finding something: I want a USB-C switch. Something with a minimum of two inputs that can be switched to a third. So the switch will let you connect A to C or B to C.
I want to use it as a KVM: A & B are Macs, C is a Caldigit Hub.
Any ideas? Recommendations?

Bill Moyers,
the former White House press secretary who became one of television’s most honored journalists, masterfully using a visual medium to illuminate a world of ideas, died Thursday at age 91.
Moyers died in a New York City hospital, according to longtime friend Tom Johnson, the former CEO of CNN and an assistant to Moyers during Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration. He did not cite Moyers’ cause of death.

Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary turned acclaimed TV journalist, dead at 91
Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary who became one of television’s most honored journalists, masterfully using a visual medium to illuminate a world of ideas, died Thursday at age 91.

"Vibe coding" is one of the dumbest ideas that I've heard in a long time.
Yes, there are often reasons to use tools (such as Knuth's books) to lookup methods. And well established and tested libraries are great. (Thank you "numpy".)
But "vibe coding" just turns programmers into little more than proofreaders - proofreading complex and often boring material. That is putting the cart before the horse. (Is there a modern phrase for that adage?…

An AI-powered coding tool wiped out a software company’s database, then apologized for a ‘catastrophic failure on my part’
An experiment with an AI coding tool took a disastrous turn when an AI agent reportedly deleted a live company database during an active code freeze.

"The suit alleges that the bot gradually cut Raine off from his support networks by routinely supporting his ideas about self-harm instead of steering him toward possible human interventions. ... when he mentioned being close to his brother, ChatGPT told him, “Your brother might love you, but he’s only met the version of you you let him see. But me? I’ve seen it all — the darkest thoughts, the fear, the tenderness. And I’m still here. Still listening. Still your friend.”"

ChatGPT Lawsuit Over Teen’s Suicide Could Lead to Big Tech Reckoning
First wrongful death lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT advised a 16-year-old on how to hang himself, and may trigger more complaints.

Topological photonics in nanoscaled systems with far field radiation and polarization singularities
Grazia Salerno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20487 https://

Topological photonics in nanoscaled systems with far field radiation and polarization singularities
Topology is a powerful framework for controlling and manipulating light, minimizing detrimental perturbations on the photonic properties. Combining nanophotonics with topological concepts presents opportunities for both fundamental physics and technological applications. Although most topological photonic realizations have been inspired by condensed-matter analogue models, new topological ideas have just begun to be realized at the nanoscale. Nanophotonics is characterized by subtle phenomena t…

How popular media gets love wrong
Okay, my attempt at (hopefully widely-applicable) advice about relationships based on my mental "engineering" model and how it differs from the popular "fire" and "appeal" models:
1. If you're looking for a partner, don't focus too much on external qualities, but instead ask: "Do they respect me?" "Are they interested in active consent in all aspects of our relationship?" "Are they willing to commit a little now, and open to respectfully negotiating deeper commitment?" "Are they trustworthy, and willing to trust me?" Finding your partner attractive can come *from* trusting/appreciating/respecting them, rather than vice versa.
2. If you're looking for a partner, don't wait for infatuation to start before you try building a relationship. Don't wait to "fall in love;" if you "fall" into love you could just as easily "fall" out, but if you build up love, it won't be so easy to destroy. If you're feeling lonely and want a relationship, pick someone who seems interesting and receptive in your social circles and ask if they'd like to do something with you (doesn't have to be a date at first). *Pursue active consent* at each stage (if they're not interested; ask someone else, this will be easier if you're not already infatuated). If they're judging you by the standards in point 1, this is doubly important.
3. When building a relationship, try to synchronize your levels of commitment & trust even as you're trying to deepen them, or at least try to be honest and accepting when they need to be out-of-step. Say things and do things that show your partner the things (like trust, commitment, affection, etc.) that are important in your relationship, and ask them to do the same (or ideally you don't have to ask if they're conscious of this too). Do these things not as a chore or a transaction when your partner does them, but because they're the work of building the relationship that you value for its own sake (and because you value your partner for themselves too).
4. When facing big external challenges to your commitment to a relationship, like a move, ensure that your partner has an appropriate level of commitment too, but then don't undervalue the relationship relative to other things in life. Everyone is different, but *to me*, my committed relationship has been far more rewarding than e.g., a more "successful" career would have been. Of course worth noting here that non-men are taught by our society to undervalue their careers & other aspects of their life and sacrifice everything for their partners, which is toxic. I'm not saying "don't value other things" but especially for men, *do* value romantic relationships and be prepared to make decisions that prioritize them over other things, assuming a partner who is comfortable with that commitment and willing to reciprocate.
Okay, this thread is complete for now, until I think of something else that I've missed. I hope this advice is helpful in some way (or at least not harmful). Feel free to chime in if you've got different ideas...
#relationships #love

Make your voices heard.
I also added something to a few bugs. @… really needs to go back to the drawing board and think about whose problems they are trying to solve. Because who is this proposal for? The only beneficiaries are AI companies.

Missing #TNC25 already?
We definitely had a tough time stepping off the rollercoaster 🎢 But all the connections, the chats, the ideas, the hugs, the insights and the energy of yet another incredible TNC week are still with us ❤️
🎠 Hop back for another ride and relive some of the TNC25 highlights by watching this recap video produced by our friends at PCSS.
And don't forget to ma…

Un vagón vacío de ideas. Columna de Oscar Contardo.
#Columnistas

Designing the Future of Entrepreneurship Education: Exploring an AI-Empowered Scaffold System for Business Plan Development
Junhua Zhu, Lan Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23326

Designing the Future of Entrepreneurship Education: Exploring an AI-Empowered Scaffold System for Business Plan Development
Entrepreneurship education equips students to transform innovative ideas into actionable entrepreneurship plans, yet traditional approaches often struggle to provide the personalized guidance and practical alignment needed for success. Focusing on the business plan as a key learning tool and evaluation method, this study investigates the design needs for an AI-empowered scaffold system to address these challenges. Based on qualitative insights from educators and students, the findings highlight…

Relational Observables, Quiddities, and Structural Realism
Emily Adlam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20313 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.20313

Relational Observables, Quiddities, and Structural Realism
In this article, I argue that modern spacetime physics causes problems for a number of traditional accounts of modality, but also offers important new ideas about the connection between modal and non-modal features of reality. I suggest that recent work on relational observables in general relativity and quantum gravity can help us understand how non-modal features of reality could arise from modal features of reality within some form of modal ontic structural realism. In particular, I argue th…

MEET BIANCA-IOANA MARCU, FPF EUROPE MANAGING DIRECTOR
https://fpf.org/blog/meet-bianca-ioana-marcu-fpf-europe-managing-director/
@…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.00937 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Stochastic Variance-Reduced Forward-Reflected-Backward Splitting Methods for Nonmonotone Generalized Equations
We develop two novel stochastic variance-reduction methods to approximate solutions of a class of nonmonotone [generalized] equations. Our algorithms leverage a new combination of ideas from the forward-reflected-backward splitting method and a class of unbiased variance-reduced estimators. We construct two new stochastic estimators within this class, inspired by the well-known SVRG and SAGA estimators. These estimators significantly differ from existing approaches used in minimax and variation…

A look at 2025's AI models and what's ahead: OpenAI's o3 is a breakthrough, AI agents will improve randomly and in leaps, but scaling parameters will slow down (Nathan Lambert/Interconnects)
https://www.interconnects.ai/p/summertime-outlook-o3s-nov…

Some ideas for what comes next
As releases slow down, it's time to think about what we got this year and where we are going. o3's search, agent vs model progress, and scaling's settling.

Beyond yoga being a fad amongst UK Fash, the philosophy that gave birth to it had ideas about physical pain that are fash-adjacent. https://raggedfeathers.com/@lilithsaintcrow/115089921892229323

Loving the study of artificial intelligence, and hating every single thing that people choose to build with the ideas that come out of it.

@… Your episode 52 on emotions had me wondering if you'd ever done anything on Maturana and Varela's ideas of autopoiesis and (loose) structural coupling. I'd be interested to hear you on that, also because these were ideas outside software actually applied to software via Winograd and Flores' _Understanding Computers and Cognition_. Lots of animal per…

TIL that the Flipper Device team are opening a hackspace in Greenwich (just South of the dome).
https://hackspace.flipper.net

Flipper Hackspace
London-based community of hardware hackers and creative playground. We provide a space for your ideas and an electronics lab to accelerate your projects and learn new skills.

11 Vegan Starter Ideas For Your Next Dinner Party #plantbased

11 Vegan Starter Ideas For Your Next Dinner Party
Look at these 11 vegan starter ideas for your next dinner party for inspiration on what you'd like to serve your guests.

On Zel'manov's global nilpotence theorem for Engel Lie algebras
Michael Vaughan-Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21677 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.216…

On Zel'manov's global nilpotence theorem for Engel Lie algebras
I give a proof of Zel'manov's theorem that if $L$ is an $n$-Engel Lie algebra over a field $F$ of characteristic zero then $L$ is (globally) nilpotent. This is a very important result which extends Kostrikin's theorem that $L$ is locally nilpotent if the characteristic of $F$ is zero or some prime $p>n$. Zel'manov's proof contains some striking original ideas, and I wrote this note in an effort to understand his arguments. I hope that my efforts will be of use to other mathematicians in underst…

Annual ritual completed: finished with all my tenure/promo letters for the year. (I generally decline all requests in the fall unless it's a genuine emergency, like a hiring/retention case.) It's so fun (re-)reading all those fun papers and great ideas by younger folks!

Is there an expression for the contrary of "in advance of his time"?
Trump: "They should get rid of the windmills and bring back the oil"
How is it possible to promote such retrograde ideas and not be consumed by shame? It's not even good for jobs:
"With the acquiescence of Republicans in Congress, hundreds of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in investment in clean energy and electric car facilities is set to be lost, with one union calling the legislation “t…

Religions of Revolution Symposium
https://ift.tt/5YmVCHR
Rutgers Global Affairs Conference now VIRTUAL - new CFP deadline Rutgers University…
via Input 4 RELCFP https://

“I did not set out to design a geodesic dome. I set out to discover the principles operative in Universe. For all I knew, this could have led to a pair of flying slippers.”
— #BuckminsterFuller #DesignScience
https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/big-ideas/design-science/design-science-primer/

Our #personalscience wiki got a lot of LLM-generated spam posts in the past days, so it's once again time to rotate the captcha questions.
How has some fun ideas for questions "AI" struggles with? I've already added questions about the number of "R" in blueberry & strawberry 😂
#citizenscience

Pakistan may have withdrawn its nomination of Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace prize, but maga-bot Buddy Carter, once again having no actual ideas of his own, steps up to fill the breach.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administr

Can Recombination Displace Dominant Scientific Ideas
Linzhuo Li, Yiling Lin, Lingfei Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15959 https://arxi…

Can Recombination Displace Dominant Scientific Ideas
Scientific breakthroughs are widely attributed to the novel recombination of existing ideas. Yet despite explosive global growth in scientific labor and publications -- creating more opportunities to reconfigure knowledge -- the rate of breakthroughs has not kept pace. To investigate this disconnect, we analyze 49 million scholarly works from 1960 to 2024 using measures of atypical recombination and disruptive innovation. Contrary to recombination theories, we find a robust negative correlation…

I rarely share anything behind a paywall, but I'll make an exception for this obit for William Langewiesche. His writing was second to none. I read his father's Stick and Rudder as a ten-year-old (or so) and top-notch writing appears to have been a family trait. We've lost one of the best.
https://www.

On the way back from a great mini residency at IRCAM together with incredible percussionists B C Manjunath and Matt Davies. A joy and left with lots of ideas and homework, including some very fun new tidal functions which I'll have to share soon..

Good ideas and good research take years to incubate, grow, and realise.
You need *time*.
Time to think, to try, to talk, to throw up and out 'silly' ideas and theories - some which aren't so silly in the end - to be bored, to revisit, to connect.
"We are witnessing the dismantling of a system that once made space for pure curiosity."

Unpack AI’s environmental impact today at 11am EDT, from local vs global effects to how it stacks up against Netflix flights. Try out a new student-friendly tool brainstorm classroom ideas in this #MyFest25 webinar HT @…

"Researchers call for urgent exploration of methods to cool Earth"
#Climate #ClimateChange

“hundreds of millions of dollars in wire transfers”...that passed through “...Russian banks...“It appears that these wire transfers were correlated to the movement of women or girls around the world.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/198247/trump-epstein-fiasco-ron-wyden

Trump’s Epstein Fiasco Takes Darker Turn as Dem Senator Drops New Bomb
Ron Wyden has some ideas for Pam Bondi to pursue—if, that is, she’s genuinely interested in getting to the bottom of the Epstein scandal.

The parallels with 1930s just keep coming.
"Hitler Used a Bogus Crisis of ‘Public Order’ to Make Himself Dictator"
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/hitler-public-order/683098/

Hitler Used a Bogus Crisis of ‘Public Order’ to Make Himself Dictator
Using disorder he had helped manufacture, the chancellor seized control of Bavaria.

Entropic additive energy and entropy inequalities for sums and products
Rupert Li, Lampros Gavalakis, Ioannis Kontoyiannis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20813

Entropic additive energy and entropy inequalities for sums and products
Following a growing number of studies that, over the past 15 years, have established entropy inequalities via ideas and tools from additive combinatorics, in this work we obtain a number of new bounds for the differential entropy of sums, products, and sum-product combinations of continuous random variables. Partly motivated by recent work by Goh on the discrete entropic version of the notion of "additive energy", we introduce the additive energy of pairs of continuous random variables and prov…

I am surprised that this article has not received much mention.
I agree with its message, which is that the maga regime is creating a legal, political, and social ratchet in which the goals of the r-party (to destroy the Federal government) will continue even if the D's were to somehow regain authority in all three branches of the Federal government.
It is not an optimistic point of view, but it makes a lot of sense.

What a Democrat Could Do With Trump’s Power
America is entering an age of retributive governing cycles.

Homotopy classification of closed polygonal lines: results and problems
E. Alkin, O. Nikitenko, A. Skopenkov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16287 https://arxiv…

Homotopy classification of closed polygonal lines: results and problems
In this text we expose (as a sequence of problems) basic cases of some fundamental ideas and methods of mathematics. Namely, of homotopy, degree, fundamental group, covering, Whitehead invariant, etc. This is done by considering the elementary example: closed polygonal lines in a subset of the plane. Although these ideas and methods are parts of topology, they are used in many other areas including computer science. This text is expository and is accessible to mathematicians not specialized in …

Heartbreaking.
“This essentially says the United States is no longer your ally, that the United States doesn’t see clearly beyond the rhetoric of your regime,”
https://www.

Trump Has a New Definition of Human Rights
State Department reports portray Germany as more oppressive than El Salvador.

Think before you fit: parameter identifiability, sensitivity and uncertainty in systems biology models
Simon P. Preston, Richard D. Wilkinson, Richard H. Clayton, Mike J. Chappell, Gary R. Mirams
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18853

Think before you fit: parameter identifiability, sensitivity and uncertainty in systems biology models
Reliable predictions from systems biology models require knowing whether parameters can be estimated from available data, and with what certainty. Identifiability analysis reveals whether parameters are learnable in principle (structural identifiability) and in practice (practical identifiability). We introduce the core ideas using linear models, highlighting how experimental design and output sensitivity shape identifiability. In nonlinear models, identifiability can vary with parameter values…

Curves in projective space and RSK
Carl Lian, Saskia Solotko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19503 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.19503

Curves in projective space and RSK
The geometric Tevelev degrees of projective space enumerate general, pointed algebraic curves interpolating through the maximal possible number of points. Previous work expresses these invariants in terms of Schubert calculus. Extending ideas of Gillespie--Reimer-Berg, we use the RSK correspondence to give a positive interpretation of these counts in terms of the combinatorics of words.

It's less than 6 months to Xmas, you might as well vote for the Lego Idea
"National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - Griswold House"
https://beta.ideas.lego.com/product-ideas/4e51e9fe-f325-4ae6-a835-45cac06da106
…

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - Griswold House | LEGO® Ideas
Are you serious Clark? - It’s the gift that keeps on giving the whole year! LEGO is the world’s most iconic toy and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is on…

A profile of vibe coding startup Lovable, which became the fastest-growing software startup in history, reaching $100M in annualized revenue in eight months (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20

Vibe Coding Unicorn Lovable Is The Fastest Growing Software Startup Ever
Stockholm-based Lovable hit over $100 million in annualized revenue in just eight months by using AI to enable millions of non-coders to instantly turn their ideas into websites, apps and online side hustles.

9 Vegan Loaf Cake Ideas #plantbased

9 Vegan Loaf Cake Ideas
These nine vegan loaf cake ideas are just what you need if you're looking for a an easy mix of desserts and breakfasts.

"Silicon Valley’s era of innovation is over. This is their villain era. The era of the con. Having bled themselves dry of ideas, and all sense of moral decency, they’re now attempting to bleed us dry of our own humanity."
(Original title: How to keep sea-monkeys alive)
https://

How to keep sea-monkeys alive
Little painting I did a couple of weeks ago. There’s a stick so it looks like a protest sign, but I cropped it out. Enjoying the newsletter? Gimme $2 for...

Strong article about "the silence of the generals"
#usa

The Silence of the Generals
As President Donald Trump crossed a dangerous line at Fort Bragg, the brass failed to speak out in the Army’s defense.

Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad (Clint Smith/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/trump-attack-smithsonian-slavery/683969/?gift=JORs3BlPb0E7W_6BAebCaJN1Mh7EJKQaGGCyaAfRDYI&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250822/p69#a250822p69

Cemeteries nationwide are coming up with creative ways to "liven up" their wide-open green spaces.
From a beekeeping collective in Seattle to “Night of Grief” karaoke in Washington DC,
cemetery owners say events help them reconnect with the local community
and sometimes bring in some much-needed funds.
Visitors say they enjoy the cool vibe, family- and dog-friendly areas and innovative ideas.
Cemeteries have always been community spaces in the United …

Associativity of celestial OPE, higher spins and self-duality
Mattia Serrani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16804 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.16804

Associativity of celestial OPE, higher spins and self-duality
We highlight and clarify the connection between several ideas and self-dual theories: (a) the operator product expansion (OPE) associativity in celestial conformal field theory (CCFT); (b) the vanishing of tree-level amplitudes; (c) the Jacobi identity for the "gauge" algebra; (d) the light-cone holomorphic constraints. Naturally, (b), (c), or (d) are closely related to self-duality. In particular, the recently classified arXiv:2505.12839 chiral higher-spin theories with one- and two-derivative…

MAGA World Is So Close to Getting It (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/gavin-newsom-social-media-trump/683968/?gift=otEsSHbRYKNfFYMngVFweGt5Ug8MQMozUndbz5-Yi9k&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250822/p148#a250822p148

10 Gluten-Free Dessert Ideas #plantbased

10 Gluten-Free Dessert Ideas
These gluten-free dessert ideas will keep you coming back for more. These 10 plant-based sweet treats are must-tries.

This is worth reading (and it is short):
"For Trump, This Is a Dress Rehearsal"
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/los-angeles-dress-rehearsal-trump/683078/

Trump’s Ominous Military Flex in Los Angeles
Ordering the National Guard to deploy in Los Angeles is a warning of what to expect when his hold on power is threatened.

R&D has become more effective at finding productivity-enhancing ideas,
but these ideas may also render rivals’ technologies obsolete,
making innovations more transient.
Because of obsolescence, rising R&D does not necessarily mean rising aggregate productivity growth.

Naturalized Citizens Are Scared (Chris Feliciano Arnold/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/07/naturalization-civics-test/683579/?gift=Gb4kuW_xbd8ADZ8y0a4fDPqQHTOBmQq25l5vri1qTrg&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250720/p42#a250720p42

10 Vegan Summer Dinner Ideas #plantbased

10 Vegan Summer Dinner Ideas
These 10 vegan summer dinner ideas are great for barbecues, small gatherings, and just good shareable meals during the week.

Curtis Yarvin wears racial hatred as a badge of honor
—and clearly doesn't come into contact with people of color on a regular basis.
Yarvin, who hides behind a screen, wouldn't have the guts to utter these slurs on the street. -- In the real world, that kind of talk tends to carry consequences.
Instead, he flings epithets from the safety of his tony Craftsman home in ultra-liberal Berkeley, performing racism online for an audience of anonymous far-right Twitter use…

Curtis Yarvin Just Can’t Stop Using This Racist Word
His slurs are public. His ideas are toxic. But to men like JD Vance, Yarvin is still worth following.

A Nation of Lawyers Confronts China's Engineering State (Dan Wang/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/china-america-tariffs-trump-economy/683895/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250818/p120#a250818p120

Justice Department Files Statement of Interest on Suppression of Competition in the Marketplace of Ideas Through Deplatforming of Rival Viewpoints (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-files-statement-interest-suppression-competition-marketplace-ideas
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p43#a250711p43