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The ICE List: Tracking Deportation Agents Across America
Crowdsourced database of individuals involved in deportations, ICE operations, and associated abuses.
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The ICE List: Tracking Deportation Agents Across America Crowdsourced database of individuals involved in deportations, ICE operations, and associated abuses.  The ICE List is an open journalistic project created by the Crustian Daily. Report an Agent What is the ICE List? The ICE List is a public, open-source effort to document the people responsible for […]

The only way Microsoft should be involved in a European Sovereign Tech Fund is if we fund it by taxing the living shit out of them.
But having them organise and influence it (and who gets funded by it), thereby de facto giving Microsoft EU taxpayer subsidies? Get the fuck out of here.
There are no words to describe how angry this attempt at corporate capture gets me when we’ve been working on sovereign tech in the EU for the past seven years with zero EU funding (not for lack of …

We need a European Sovereign Tech Fund
With a new feasibility study, GitHub’s developer policy team is building a coalition of policymakers and industry to close the maintenance funding gap.

crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…

Columbia University diligently showing Trump that it's a staunch supporter of genocide too.
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/22/columbia-students-protest-punishment

Columbia punishes students involved in pro-Palestinian protest
It comes as Columbia seeks a deal with the Trump administration to reinstate millions in federal funding.

"The Office of Cybersecurity has deemed WhatsApp a high-risk to users due to the lack of transparency in how it protects user data, absence of stored data encryption, and potential security risks involved with its use."
This follows Iran's ban on WhatsApp.
https://www.axi…

Scoop: WhatsApp banned on House staffers' devices
The House's cybersecurity office deemed the messaging app "high risk" due to its treatment of user data.

Ukrainian military releases footage of Russian troops killing civilian in Donetsk Oblast — and Ukraine's retaliation: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/22/ukrainian-military-releases-footage-of.html

Yesterday managed to see at least a half dozen bands for #Kenmore Porchfest (#Buffalo). I only remembered to take one pic (at this RAtM cover band, Anger Is a Gift). They did a great job and the hosts had a cooler of water for everyone.
Kudos to everyone involved in the day.

Dolphins RB Jaylen Wright ready to be more involved in Year 2: 'I can be a top back in this league' https://www.nfl.com/news/dolphins-rb-jaylen-wright-ready-to-be-more-involved-in-year-2

If this mechanism is indeed involved in the origin of life, then a form of life is likely to be present on innumerable habitable planets throughout the universe. Which is expected, of course, and will no-doubt be found at some point.
https://mastodon.social/@ScienceScholar/114734…

To give some examples:
When police get vastly differential results at investigating crimes against some groups (e.g., Black women) vs. others (e.g., white men), that's malcompetence. Probably plenty of simple malice involved too, and probably the whole gamut of mechanisms I mentioned in the last post are involved here.
Another example, from my own experience: when I stumble over the names of my non-white students but pronounce my white students' names flawlessly, that's malcompetence on my part, because the net effect of my selective incompetence is to make some students feel less welcome in my classroom, which hurts their learning. I'm my case, the reasons for the incompetence are not conscious nor (I think) unconscious malice, but instead a differential capability picked up from a certain kind of upbringing and then (sometimes) insufficiently mitigated by capability-building effort. Because of how I grew up, my ability to pronounce different names is biased (this is true of everyone in the world; most people don't have a classroom instructor position that causes it to matter so much). When I'm successful at mitigating my malcompetence, I use practice time with student intro videos to pare down my competence gap for the specific students in my class. This is time consuming (several hours per week for the first few weeks of classes) and I'm sad to admit that I don't always invest that time. But it's a great example of malcompetence because I have a introspective access to it.

🦿 China's humanoid robots generate more soccer excitement than their human counterparts
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-06-china-humanoid-robots-generate-soccer.html

China's humanoid robots generate more soccer excitement than their human counterparts
While China's men's soccer team hasn't generated much excitement in recent years, humanoid robot teams have won over fans in Beijing based more on the AI technology involved than any athletic prowess shown.

crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…

Juneteenth is a campus holiday, but there are many ways to still engage with the history and observance of the event both online and in-person. https://belong.yale.edu/be-involved/engage/june-focus-juneteenth

Automatic Selection of Protections to Mitigate Risks Against Software Applications
Daniele Canavese, Leonardo Regano, Bjorn De Sutter, Cataldo Basile
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18470

Automatic Selection of Protections to Mitigate Risks Against Software Applications
This paper introduces a novel approach for the automated selection of software protections to mitigate MATE risks against critical assets within software applications. We formalize the key elements involved in protection decision-making - including code artifacts, assets, security requirements, attacks, and software protections - and frame the protection process through a game-theoretic model. In this model, a defender strategically applies protections to various code artifacts of a target appl…

Department of Justice Subpoenas Doctors and Clinics Involved in Performing Transgender Medical Procedures on Children
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-subpoenas-doctors-and-clinics-involved-performing-tr…

An improved input-constrained funnel controller for nonlinear systems
Thomas Berger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18417 https://arxiv.or…

An improved input-constrained funnel controller for nonlinear systems
We present an improvement of a recent funnel controller design for uncertain nonlinear multi-input, multi-output systems modeled by higher order functional differential equations in the presence of input constraints. The objective is to guarantee the evolution of the tracking error within a performance funnel with prescribed desired shape for the case of inactive saturation. Compared to its precursor, controller complexity is significantly reduced, much fewer design parameters are involved and …

kegg_metabolic: Metabolic networks from KEGG (2006)
109 metabolic networks of various species, as extracted from the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) database in March 2006. Nodes are substances involved in enzymatic reactions present in the organism, and edges represent reactant-product pairs as extracted from the KEGG ligand database and matched against the present enzymes.
This network has 822 nodes and 2026 edges.
Tags: Biological, Metabolic, Unweighted

Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
DURKIM: Why would I want to do that?
SERVALAN: 'Why' is always the most difficult question. At the moment I am more concerned with 'how'.
DURKIM: Is she involved?
SERVALAN: You know her?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/213/116 B…

Galactokinetics II: Spiral structure
Chris Hamilton, Shaunak Modak, Scott Tremaine
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16950 https://arxiv.org…

Galactokinetics II: Spiral structure
We present a unified theory of linear spiral structure in stellar disks. We begin by identifying the characteristic scales involved in the spiral structure problem and listing some quantitative requirements of a successful theory. We then write down the general linear response theory for thin disks, making clear the equivalence between different representations (e.g., Volterra, Landau, van Kampen) of the theory. Next, using the asymptotic expansions developed in our previous galactokinetics pap…

Overblown or not, it's always a good time to update your passwords. I just went through and did everything that would severely fuck my life https://flipboard.com/@gizmodo/tech-fknh6odjz/-/a-m0vsrs-YTqqjU9-Hb98ylg:a:1876139665-/0…

What We Know So Far About the Supposed 'Mother of All Data Breaches'
Some say more than 16.5 billion credentials are involved. One thing is for sure: the dark web is swimming in stolen data. Data breaches are so common …

Radiatively Corrected Starobinsky Inflation and Primordial Gravitational Waves in Light of ACT Observations
Waqas Ahmed, Mansoor Ur Rehman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18077

Radiatively Corrected Starobinsky Inflation and Primordial Gravitational Waves in Light of ACT Observations
Nonminimal coupling between the inflaton and the Ricci scalar plays a crucial role in shaping the predictions of single-field inflationary models. While a quartic potential with such coupling represents one of the simplest realizations compatible with cosmological observations, it generically receives important radiative corrections when the inflaton interacts with other fields, particularly those involved in the reheating process. In this work, we focus on radiative corrections arising from bo…

$H^2$-regularity on convex domains for Robin eigenfunctions with parameter of arbitrary sign
Pier Domenico Lamberti, Luigi Provenzano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16726

$H^2$-regularity on convex domains for Robin eigenfunctions with parameter of arbitrary sign
We prove that the Robin eigenfunctions on convex domains of $\mathbb R^n$ are $H^2$ regular regardless of the sign of the parameter involved in the boundary conditions. The proof is an adaptation of a classical argument used in the case of positive parameters combined with a Rellich-Pohozaev identity.

Trump says 'it's possible' US gets involved in Israel-Iran conflict (Rachel Scott/ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-us-gets-involved-israel-iran-conflict/story?id=122865561
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p64#a250615p64

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On stablecoins, JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon says, "We're going to be involved in both JPMorgan deposit coin and stablecoins to understand it, to be good at it" (Hugh Son/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/15/jamie-dimon-jpmorgan-chase-stablecoins.htm…

Jamie Dimon says JPMorgan Chase will get involved in stablecoins as fintech threat looms
JPMorgan Chase is a juggernaut in the global payments industry, helping move nearly $10 trillion daily, so it makes sense that they would explore stablecoins.

Emission Impossible: privacy-preserving carbon emissions claims
Jessica Man, Sadiq Jaffer, Patrick Ferris, Martin Kleppmann, Anil Madhavapeddy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16347

Emission Impossible: privacy-preserving carbon emissions claims
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have a significant climate impact, and data centres account for a large proportion of the carbon emissions from ICT. To achieve sustainability goals, it is important that all parties involved in ICT supply chains can track and share accurate carbon emissions data with their customers, investors, and the authorities. However, businesses have strong incentives to make their numbers look good, whilst less so to publish their accounting methods along…

'A Little Bubble of Friends': An Analysis of LGBTQ Pandemic Experiences Using Reddit Data
Dhruvee Birla, Nazia Akhtar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15033

'A Little Bubble of Friends': An Analysis of LGBTQ+ Pandemic Experiences Using Reddit Data
Social media was one of the most popular forms of communication among young people with digital access during the pandemic. Consequently, crucial debates and discussions about the pandemic crisis have also developed on social media platforms, making them a great primary source to study the experiences of specific groups and communities during the pandemic. This study involved research using LDA topic modeling and sentiment analysis on data obtained from the social media platform Reddit to under…

Years ago someone told me that most lab glassware that breaks does so during cleaning, not during actual experimental usage.
It makes some level of intuitive sense, given the amount of handling involved in cleaning. But has this ever been seriously studied?

UK sanctions Russian intelligence units involved in cyberattacks: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/18/uk-sanctions-russian-intelligence-units.html

One thing I think the news reports are missing about the guy killed by an MRI machine while wearing a 9kg metal chain, is that you *can't* flip a switch and quickly turn off the magnetism, even in emergency situations. Shutting down is a slow involved process, and many MRI magnets are always active for their working life.

I don't usually get involved in the pro/anti nuclear discussion, but whenever people say "we need nuclear because renewables aren't reliable enough", do they usually take into account how much energy storage you can buy for the price of one nuclear power plant?

The Role of Excitatory Parvalbumin-positive Neurons in the Tectofugal Pathway of Pigeon (Columba livia) Hierarchical Visual Processing
Shan Lu, Xiaoteng Zhang, Yueyang Cang, Shihao Pan, Yanyan Peng, Xinwei Li, Shaoju Zeng, Yingjie Zhu, Li Shi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15486

The Role of Excitatory Parvalbumin-positive Neurons in the Tectofugal Pathway of Pigeon (Columba livia) Hierarchical Visual Processing
The visual systems of birds and mammals exhibit remarkable organizational similarities: the dorsal ventricular ridge (DVR) demonstrates a columnar microcircuitry that parallels the cortical architecture observed in mammals. However, the specific neuronal subtypes involved and their functional roles in pigeon hierarchical visual processing remain unclear. This study investigates the role of excitatory parvalbumin (PV+) neurons within the Ento-MVL (entoallium-mesopallium venterolaterale) circuit …

Many people have this sense that the price of books is primarily linked to the cost of materials, manufacture, & distribution. But the majority of the cost of publishing books are in the labor leading up to the 1st copy: editorial & editorial production work, before any reproduction in whatever format. Addition labor happens later, for marketing. When you buy a book, you’re mainly paying for these kinds of labor.
From: @…

Towards Open-Closed Categorical Enumerative Invariants: Circle-Action Formality Morphism
Jakob Ulmer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15445 https://

Towards Open-Closed Categorical Enumerative Invariants: Circle-Action Formality Morphism
Categorical enumerative invariants of a Calabi-Yau category, encoded as the partition function of the associated closed string field theory (SFT), conjecturally equal Gromov-Witten invariants when applied to Fukaya categories. Part of this theory is a formality $L_\infty$ morphism which depends on a splitting of the non-commutative Hodge filtration. Our main result is providing an open-closed formality morphism; the algebraic structures involved conjecturallygive a home to open-closed GW invari…

I wonder how involved my abuelo, who would have been only 13, or his father/family, was in this. They lived in village called Silla a few kilometres south of Valencia.
Soy pensamiento de mi abuelo y su familia durante el guerra civil en València.
#Valencia #SpanishCivilWar #España #historia #history #fascism
https://mastodon.social/@onthisday/114898085057932640

When someone asks you to do something that's _part of your effin' job_, answer ASAP. Say 'yes' or say 'no' (if you can), but don't let the request sit for days or weeks. The time you spend ignoring the request might cause problems for the human(s) involved.

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Cannot emphasize enough how much we need people with experience as public defenders and civil rights lawyers to run for political office.
At a time of authoritarianism, their skepticism of power is critical.
https://bsky.app/profile/davidmenschel.bsky.social/post…

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Color me unsurprised.
https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/114823551288713925

which guy involved in us politics is the most gilles de rais

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The article specifies the "admissible" evidence was insufficient to prosecute. And it sounds like Utah officers take the position that women are assumed to be consenting unless they can prove otherwise.
Were the involved officers fired? Are they prevented from being hired elsewhere?
https://www.

The US Treasury sanctions Philippines-based Funnull Technology for allegedly facilitating "pig butchering" crypto scams that stole over $200M from US victims (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/29/us-g

US government sanctions tech company involved in cyber scams | TechCrunch
The Treasury said FUNNULL was involved in providing infrastructure for pig butchering crypto scams.

kidnappings: Abu Sayyaf kidnappings (2014)
Bipartite network of members of the Abu Sayyaf Group in the Philippines, and the kidnapping events they were involved in.
This network has 351 nodes and 402 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/kidnapp…

Semi-empirical Modeling of Supermassive Black Hole Evolution: Highlighting a possible tension between Demographics and Gravitational Wave Background
Andrea Lapi, Francesco Shankar, Michele Bosi, Daniel Roberts, Hao Fu, Karthik M. Varadarajan, Lumen Boco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15436

Semi-empirical Modeling of Supermassive Black Hole Evolution: Highlighting a possible tension between Demographics and Gravitational Wave Background
The evolution of the supermassive Black Hole (BH) population across cosmic times remains a central unresolved issue in modern astrophysics, due to the many noticeable uncertainties in the involved physical processes. Here we tackle the problem via a semi-empirical approach with minimal assumptions and data-driven inputs. This is firmly grounded on a continuity plus Smoluchowski equation framework that allows to unitarily describe the two primary modes of BH growth: gas accretion and binary merg…

"Judge Michael Wilner imposed $31,000 in sanctions against the law firms involved, saying 'no reasonably competent attorney should out-source research and writing' to AI" #aiethics
https://www.

Europe is exporting military dogs—used as weapons by Israel's elite forces. These dogs have been linked to civilian injuries and deaths, including children and people with disabilities. Doors forced open in the middle of the night, piercing cries for help, fangs sunk mercilessly into the flesh of victims. Children are torn from their mothers' arms, women scream for help, men collapse in agony, while apathetic soldiers just laugh as dogs tear bodies apart indiscriminately.

The family of #StarTrek characters comes up every once in a while. But not all of them are widely known, even if they were involved with a rather notorious character like Dukat. But let's see if you can answer this #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the…

This goshawk (?) was completely frozen in place - she had just killed what seems to be a crow, and the other crow on the fence was making a call i never ever heard (kinda like a cat looking at a bird, iykwim) and there were a couple other crows circling around.
I found it a very sad demonstration that life is a bit shit for everyone involved.

There are far more ways for an air strike on Iran to go wrong than for it to go the way it is being sold to Trump.
The illegal attack launched by Israel against Iran already set off a war that raises the stakes -- and brings the U.S. increasingly closer to getting directly involved -- even if it doesn’t strike.
But if it does strike, it sets off a series of consequences that likely lead to a long, drawn-out commitment with no clear exit strategy, again.
An American strike…

Can the United States Really Be Marching Toward This Madness Again?
The eerie echoes of Iraq and 2003 are numerous. But there are some key differences—and they make going into Iran an even greater act of folly.

Evaluating the Ability of Large Language Models to Reason about Cardinal Directions, Revisited
Anthony G Cohn, Robert E Blackwell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12059

Evaluating the Ability of Large Language Models to Reason about Cardinal Directions, Revisited
We investigate the abilities of 28 Large language Models (LLMs) to reason about cardinal directions (CDs) using a benchmark generated from a set of templates, extensively testing an LLM's ability to determine the correct CD given a particular scenario. The templates allow for a number of degrees of variation such as means of locomotion of the agent involved, and whether set in the first, second or third person. Even the newer Large Reasoning Models are unable to reliably determine the correct C…

There are some things that you should just not get involved in. https://apple.news/A7_mxU4BeRyK22qHiCeasLg

Britain has no plans to defend Israel from Iran retaliation — The Telegraph
PM urges both sides to use restraint as Foreign Secretary warns of ‘very dangerous moment’

No, really, my OP scarcely even involved creativity at all.
#TeslaTakedown
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:m65ifh7vn5zdgs7izcmht4gy/post/3ltfqdcndf22i

Now personally, I'm not invested in the law and I reject the logical underpinnings of the whole thing. The US is founded on land that already had people on it, that already had multiple systems of authority, so there can be no claim that it has any legal authority to exist at all.
But it's hard to ignore the inconsistency here. Accepting the logic from the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, there is no way in which the current state can be legitimate and which Trump has the authority to do anything. The last legal president, again, following the logic that assumes such a thing even possible, was Barak Obama. Since the transfer of power, the country has failed to enforce the law.
If the executive cannot complete their oath, then they are considered vacant under the 25th amendment. If the cabinet fails to invoke article 4, then they too are involved in the insurrection (again, simply following the logic outlined pretty clearly here) as are any who would fail to support the invocation.
Since a full takeover of the federal government by insurrectionists wasn't really planned for, I'm guessing that it would necessarily go to the states, being the only remaining legal authority.

"[Chain of reasoning] reports are untrustworthy on principle: they are plausible explanations for plausible responses, and since the inferences involved are more complex, they burn more compute and carbon per query as well as introducing more mistakes"
This is a particularly offensive point about #LLMs: we actually do have a class of systems, inference engines, which do reason and can…

Artificial intelligence is the opposite of education
Or: what if there is no middle ground?

TGIF: Talker Group-Informed Familiarization of Target Speaker Extraction
Tsun-An Hsieh, Minje Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14044 https://

TGIF: Talker Group-Informed Familiarization of Target Speaker Extraction
State-of-the-art target speaker extraction (TSE) systems are typically designed to generalize to any given mixing environment, necessitating a model with a large enough capacity as a generalist. Personalized speech enhancement could be a specialized solution that adapts to single-user scenarios, but it overlooks the practical need for customization in cases where only a small number of talkers are involved, e.g., TSE for a specific family. We address this gap with the proposed concept, talker g…

"Attorney General Pam Bondi fired several employees Saturday who were involved in former Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith's investigation against Trump."
Look out, kid, they keep it all hid

DOJ fires Maurene Comey, prosecutor involved in Epstein, Diddy cases (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/16/maurene-comey-fired-epstein-diddy/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250717/p5#a250717p5

Suppressing excitations in the nonlinear Landau-Zener model
Sebastian Deffner, Steve Campbell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11759 https://

Suppressing excitations in the nonlinear Landau-Zener model
Many complex quantum systems can be described by effectively nonlinear dynamics. While such dynamics have many appealing characteristics, they also make the analysis significantly more involved. This is due to the fact that only a few analytical treatments exist, and that the language of quantum mechanics is built for linear operators. For instance, the very formulation of the quantum adiabatic theorem requires the underlying dynamics to be linear. In this work we show that in a generalized Lan…

Emergence of charm-strange dibaryons with negative parity via baryon-baryon interactions
Yu-Yue Cui, Xiao-Mei Tang, Qi Huang, Rui Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12958

Emergence of charm-strange dibaryons with negative parity via baryon-baryon interactions
Within the framework of the one-boson-exchange model, we systematically perform a coupled channel analysis of the $P-$wave interactions between a charm baryon and light baryon, the involved channels include $Ξ_cN$, $Λ_cΣ$, $Ξ_c^{\prime}N$, $Σ_cΛ$, $Ξ_c^*N$, $Σ_c^*Λ$, $Σ_cΣ$, and $Σ_c^*Σ$. Our results can predict several possible molecular candidates, such as a $Ξ_c^{\prime}N$ molecule with $I(J^P)=0(1^-)$, $Ξ_c^{*}N$ molecules with $0(0^-, 1^-, 2^-)$, $Σ_cΣ$ molecules with $0(1…

It is disturbingly ridiculous for the Darth #Trump administration to claim that they were not involved in #Israel's attack on Iran.
They are doing this in order to avoid giving Iran a reason to attack US facilities.
They are now acting as if an attack on them would be tantamount to a declaration of…

@… Yeah, as long as the #BigPub cartels are involved, it’ll only get worse. That much should be clear by now. And yet…

@… Yeah, as long as the #BigPub cartels are involved, it’ll only get worse. That much should be clear by now. And yet…

EU's Frontex has published a children's book for children who are about to be deported
😲
https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/6eea0e99-e464-11ef-be2a-01aa75ed71a1
Official PDFs availabl…

Toolbox for children in return - Publications Office of the EU
Addressing the return of unaccompanied minors or children within families is a delicate matter that demands a humane approach. This approach must not only respect fundamental rights but also prioritise the child's best interests. Additionally, clear and comprehensive information about the return procedures is essential for those involved, enabling them to prepare as effectively as possible. One of the primary objectives of Frontex is to assist MS throughout all stages of the return procedures. …

Relativistic second gradient theory of continuous media
Mina Chapon (LMPS), Lionel Darondeau (IMJ-PRG), Rodrigue Desmorat (LMT, LMPS), Cl\'ement Ecker (LMPS), Boris Kolev (LMPS)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13030

Relativistic second gradient theory of continuous media
Variational Relativity is a framework developed by Souriau in the sixties to better formulate General Relativity and its classical limit\,: Classical Continuum Mechanics. It has been used, for instance, to formulate Hyperelasticity in General Relativity. In that case, two primary variables are involved, the universe (Lorentzian) metric $g$ and the matter field $Ψ$. A Lagrangian density depending on the 1-jet of these variables is then introduced which must satisfy the principle of General Cova…

We need to develop good practices for bots and crawlers that are acceptable for all parties involved. Otherwise AI will suffocate the open web.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/keeping-web-under-weight-ai-crawlers

Keeping the Web Up Under the Weight of AI Crawlers
If you run a site on the open web, chances are you've noticed a big increase in traffic over the past few months, whether or not your site has been getting more viewers, and you're not alone. Operators everywhere have observed a drastic increase in automated traffic—bots—and in most cases attribute...

It's official now, I guess...I just received confirmation from the ARRL that my nomination petition was received and I was accepted as a candidate for Santa Barbara Section Manager.
I have no desire or intention to get involved in the politics going on back East. I just want to keep trying to get people on the air more, and the Section Manager position is a good pulpit for the task.
One major goal is to support the creation of more college clubs.

discogs_genre: Discogs artist affiliations
Two bipartite networks of the affiliations between musical artists and either musical genres or musical "styles," as given in the discogs.com database. An edge indicates that a given artist was involved in a production of a particular genre or style. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 1754838 nodes and 19033891 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

The MAGA cult REFUSES to acknowledge that their great orange leader is involved in the Epstein fiasco.
So they all point their red-hat fingers at Pam Bondi.
YET! The small amount of files that have been released, Trump is all over them.
Just look at the flight logs.
Trump, Trump, Trump! #denial

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The MAGA cult REFUSES to acknowledge that their great orange leader is involved in the Epstein fiasco. So they all point their red-hat fingers at Pam Bondi. YET! The small amount of files that have been released, Trump is all over them. Just look at the flight logs. Trump, Trump, Trump! #denial

ADHO (adho.org) updates at the opening of #DH2025 from Diane and Michael - the Italian Digital Humanities association officially joins ADHO, and announces awards including the Zampoli prize to Stylo software, the conference bursaries winners and Fortier prize nominees. Also note the Code of Conduct!

"How can we learn and use AI at the same time?:: Participatory Design of GenAI with High School Students
Isabella Pu, Prerna Ravi, Linh Dieu Dinh, Chelsea Joe, Caitlin Ogoe, Zixuan Li, Cynthia Breazeal, Anastasia K. Ostrowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15525

EU slaps new sanctions on Russia over hybrid threats, disinformation: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/eu-slaps-new-sanctions-on.html

train_terrorists: Madrid train bombing terrorists (2004)
A network of associations among the terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombing, as reconstructed from press stories after-the-fact. Edge weights encode four levels of connection strength: friendships, ties to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, co-participants in wars, and co-participants in previous terrorist attacks.
This network has 64 nodes and 243 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

kidnappings: Abu Sayyaf kidnappings (2014)
Bipartite network of members of the Abu Sayyaf Group in the Philippines, and the kidnapping events they were involved in.
This network has 351 nodes and 402 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/kidnapp…

gotta get involved in sea exploration shit and start wearing this all the time

The U.S. military B-2 Spirit bomber pilots and crew involved with the coordinated strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities last month have been invited to attend a July 4 celebration at the White House
-- but it's not clear what measures have been taken to protect their identities.
The White House confirmed to Military.com that those involved in the mission, dubbed Operation Midnight Hammer, were invited to the White House's July 4 celebration.
It follows comments mad…

Pilots Who Conducted Iran Strikes Invited to White House on July 4, Raising Security Concerns
The B-2 Spirit bomber pilots and crew involved with the strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities last month have been invited to attend a July 4 celebration at the White House, but it's not clear what measures have been taken to protect their identities.

Bondi fires 20 Justice Dept. employees involved in Trump prosecutions (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/12/bondi-trump-justice-fbi-firings/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzUyMjkyODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzUzNjc1MTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTIyOTI4MDAsImp0aSI6ImUzZDc5NzZiLWQ5MDgtNDhhZi1hN2FjLTg1Y2FmODIxNzA4MiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9uYXRpb25hbC1zZWN1cml0eS8yMDI1LzA3LzEyL2JvbmRpLXRydW1wLWp1c3RpY2UtZmJpLWZpcmluZ3MvIn0.QW72Q4SJjYN9womUA9EMC2AcGS2k26-qp1JYMEVvxbw&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250712/p65#a250712p65

Pushing the Limits of Safety: A Technical Report on the ATLAS Challenge 2025
Zonghao Ying, Siyang Wu, Run Hao, Peng Ying, Shixuan Sun, Pengyu Chen, Junze Chen, Hao Du, Kaiwen Shen, Shangkun Wu, Jiwei Wei, Shiyuan He, Yang Yang, Xiaohai Xu, Ke Ma, Qianqian Xu, Qingming Huang, Shi Lin, Xun Wang, Changting Lin, Meng Han, Yilei Jiang, Siqi Lai, Yaozhi Zheng, Yifei Song, Xiangyu Yue, Zonglei Jing, Tianyuan Zhang, Zhilei Zhu, Aishan Liu, Jiakai Wang, Siyuan Liang, Xianglong Kong, Hainan Li, …

Pushing the Limits of Safety: A Technical Report on the ATLAS Challenge 2025
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have enabled transformative advancements across diverse applications but remain susceptible to safety threats, especially jailbreak attacks that induce harmful outputs. To systematically evaluate and improve their safety, we organized the Adversarial Testing & Large-model Alignment Safety Grand Challenge (ATLAS) 2025}. This technical report presents findings from the competition, which involved 86 teams testing MLLM vulnerabilities via adversarial image-…

Justice Dept. fires more prosecutors, support staff involved in Trump prosecutions, AP sources say (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/jack-smith-justice-department-fired-trump-af94503d10143f5464559fb503425f4f
http://www.memeorandum.com/250713/p8#a250713p8

The Justice Department on Friday 👉fired at least three prosecutors involved in U.S. Capitol riot criminal cases,
the latest moves by the Trump administration targeting attorneys connected to the massive prosecution of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack,
according to two people familiar with the matter.
Those dismissed include two attorneys who worked as supervisors overseeing the Jan. 6 prosecutions in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington
as well as a line attorney who pro…

Justice Department fires 3 lawyers involved in Jan. 6 cases
The Justice Department has fired at least three prosecutors involved in U.S. Capitol riot criminal cases, according to two people familiar with the matter. It’s the latest move by the Trump administration targeting attorneys connected to the massive prosecution of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. Those dismissed include two attorneys who worked as supervisors overseeing the Jan. 6 prosecutions in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington as well as a line attorney who prosecuted cases stemming from…

discogs_genre: Discogs artist affiliations
Two bipartite networks of the affiliations between musical artists and either musical genres or musical "styles," as given in the discogs.com database. An edge indicates that a given artist was involved in a production of a particular genre or style. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 1754838 nodes and 19033891 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

UK sanctions Russian officials and lab over chemical weapons use in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/07/uk-sanctions-russian-officials-and.html

kidnappings: Abu Sayyaf kidnappings (2014)
Bipartite network of members of the Abu Sayyaf Group in the Philippines, and the kidnapping events they were involved in.
This network has 351 nodes and 402 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/kidnapp…

ICE agents ram car to take man into custody in Boyle Heights (Kabc/ABC7)
https://abc7.com/post/federal-agents-involved-boyle-heights-crash-accused-hit-run-lapd-investigating/16724558/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p145#a250611p145

kidnappings: Abu Sayyaf kidnappings (2014)
Bipartite network of members of the Abu Sayyaf Group in the Philippines, and the kidnapping events they were involved in.
This network has 351 nodes and 402 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/kidnapp…

discogs_label: Discogs label affiliations
Two bipartite networks of the affiliations between musical labels and either musical genres or musical "styles," as given in the discogs.com database. Edges represent that a label was involved in a production of a musical release of a given genre or given style. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 270786 nodes and 4147665 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Multigraph

On 1-year anniversary, Ukraine names Russian officer linked to deadly strike on Kyiv Okhmatdyt children's hospital: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/08/on-year-anniversary-ukraine-names.html

discogs_label: Discogs label affiliations
Two bipartite networks of the affiliations between musical labels and either musical genres or musical "styles," as given in the discogs.com database. Edges represent that a label was involved in a production of a musical release of a given genre or given style. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 270786 nodes and 4147665 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Multigraph

discogs_label: Discogs label affiliations
Two bipartite networks of the affiliations between musical labels and either musical genres or musical "styles," as given in the discogs.com database. Edges represent that a label was involved in a production of a musical release of a given genre or given style. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 270786 nodes and 4147665 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Multigraph

President Trump is the first to ask federal job applicants to describe their allegiance to administration policy in an essay
or to mandate training for senior government officials on White House executive orders, experts said.
Senior agency officials, who are often political appointees, are to be directly involved in the hiring process, which has not previously been the case.
The guidelines, released last month, arrived at a time when the Trump administration was beginning …

In Trump’s ‘Patriotic’ Hiring Plan, Experts See a Politicized Federal Work Force
Political appointments inherently take into consideration loyalty to the president or the party. But expanding those types of questions to the career civil service is a significant departure.

discogs_genre: Discogs artist affiliations
Two bipartite networks of the affiliations between musical artists and either musical genres or musical "styles," as given in the discogs.com database. An edge indicates that a given artist was involved in a production of a particular genre or style. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 1754838 nodes and 19033891 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

kidnappings: Abu Sayyaf kidnappings (2014)
Bipartite network of members of the Abu Sayyaf Group in the Philippines, and the kidnapping events they were involved in.
This network has 351 nodes and 402 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/kidnapp…

discogs_genre: Discogs artist affiliations
Two bipartite networks of the affiliations between musical artists and either musical genres or musical "styles," as given in the discogs.com database. An edge indicates that a given artist was involved in a production of a particular genre or style. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 1754838 nodes and 19033891 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

discogs_genre: Discogs artist affiliations
Two bipartite networks of the affiliations between musical artists and either musical genres or musical "styles," as given in the discogs.com database. An edge indicates that a given artist was involved in a production of a particular genre or style. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 1754838 nodes and 19033891 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

kidnappings: Abu Sayyaf kidnappings (2014)
Bipartite network of members of the Abu Sayyaf Group in the Philippines, and the kidnapping events they were involved in.
This network has 351 nodes and 402 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/kidnapp…

crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…

kidnappings: Abu Sayyaf kidnappings (2014)
Bipartite network of members of the Abu Sayyaf Group in the Philippines, and the kidnapping events they were involved in.
This network has 351 nodes and 402 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/kidnapp…

kidnappings: Abu Sayyaf kidnappings (2014)
Bipartite network of members of the Abu Sayyaf Group in the Philippines, and the kidnapping events they were involved in.
This network has 351 nodes and 402 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/kidnapp…