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Today’s global civilisation, however, is deeply interconnected and unequal and could lead to the worst societal collapse yet, he says. The threat is from leaders who are “walking versions of the dark triad” – narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism – in a world menaced by the climate crisis, nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence and killer robots.
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If citizens’ juries and wealth caps seem wildly optimistic, Kemp says we have been long brainwashed by rulers justifying their dominance, from the self-declared god-pharaohs of Egypt and priests claiming to control the weather to autocrats claiming to defend people from foreign threats and tech titans selling us their techno-utopias. “It’s always been easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of Goliaths. That’s because these are stories that have been hammered into us over the space of 5,000 years,” he says.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/02/self-termination-history-and-future-of-societal-collapse

Who knew that Blue Laws were still a thing? I remember when WV repealed theirs. I don't think The State should be telling a business that it can't be open on Sundays. That's a religious limitation. Let the public decide. And is Sunday even the Sabbath?
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p…

New Jersey town sues mall for ignoring Blue Laws and selling merch on Sundays
Paramus is suing the nation’s second-largest mall, American Dream, for keeping its stores open on the Sabbath

Soso … der heißeste Tag des Jahres … pssst: wir haben Anfang Juli. Hochsommer kommt erst noch 😇 #klimakatastrophe

Nå, hvis jeg ikke tager meget fejl, er det mandag i morgen, og arbejdet kalder efter en dejlig ferie. Jeg har fulgt flere af jeres gode råd til en blid overgang*, men mangler stadig en god #playliste som man kan koncentrere sig til (dvs. uden tekster eller for mange dansable rytmer). Hvad vil I anbefale mig?
*Jeg har nedbarberet indbakken og planlagt fŸrste uge, inkl. ting at se frem…

Control of Power Grids With Switching Equilibria: $\Omega$-Limit Sets and Input-to-State Stability
Mahmoud Abdelgalil, Vishal Shenoy, Guido Cavraro, Emiliano Dall'Anese, Jorge I. Poveda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00240

Control of Power Grids With Switching Equilibria: $Ω$-Limit Sets and Input-to-State Stability
This paper studies a power transmission system with both conventional generators (CGs) and distributed energy assets (DEAs) providing frequency control. We consider an operating condition with demand aggregating two dynamic components: one that switches between different values on a finite set, and one that varies smoothly over time. Such dynamic operating conditions may result from protection scheme activations, external cyber-attacks, or due to the integration of dynamic loads, such as data c…

Modality Agnostic, patient-specific digital twins modeling temporally varying digestive motion
Jorge Tapias Gomez, Nishant Nadkarni, Lando S. Bosma, Jue Jiang, Ergys D. Subashi, William P. Segars, James M. Balter, Mert R Sabuncu, Neelam Tyagi, Harini Veeraraghavan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01909…

Modality Agnostic, patient-specific digital twins modeling temporally varying digestive motion
Objective: Clinical implementation of deformable image registration (DIR) requires voxel-based spatial accuracy metrics such as manually identified landmarks, which are challenging to implement for highly mobile gastrointestinal (GI) organs. To address this, patient-specific digital twins (DT) modeling temporally varying motion were created to assess the accuracy of DIR methods. Approach: 21 motion phases simulating digestive GI motion as 4D sequences were generated from static 3D patient scans…

FActBench: A Benchmark for Fine-grained Automatic Evaluation of LLM-Generated Text in the Medical Domain
Anum Afzal, Juraj Vladika, Florian Matthes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02198

FActBench: A Benchmark for Fine-grained Automatic Evaluation of LLM-Generated Text in the Medical Domain
Large Language Models tend to struggle when dealing with specialized domains. While all aspects of evaluation hold importance, factuality is the most critical one. Similarly, reliable fact-checking tools and data sources are essential for hallucination mitigation. We address these issues by providing a comprehensive Fact-checking Benchmark FActBench covering four generation tasks and six state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs) for the Medical domain. We use two state-of-the-art Fact-check…

Synthetic CVs To Build and Test Fairness-Aware Hiring Tools
Jorge Saldivar, Anna Gatzioura, Carlos Castillo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21179 https://arxiv.…

Synthetic CVs To Build and Test Fairness-Aware Hiring Tools
Algorithmic hiring has become increasingly necessary in some sectors as it promises to deal with hundreds or even thousands of applicants. At the heart of these systems are algorithms designed to retrieve and rank candidate profiles, which are usually represented by Curricula Vitae (CVs). Research has shown, however, that such technologies can inadvertently introduce bias, leading to discrimination based on factors such as candidates' age, gender, or national origin. Developing methods to measu…

Signal processing and data acquisition system for the BTO detectors onboard COSI
Shunsaku Nagasawa, Tadayuki Takahashi, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Hannah Gulick, Claire Chen, Hiroki Yoneda, Keigo Okuma, Matt Dexter, Josh Forgione, Nihal Gulati, Andrew Ji, Kaylie Ching, Isabel Schmidtke, Sarah Jauregui, Eric Yang, Andreas Zoglauer, Juan Carlos Martinez Oliveros, John Tomsick

Signal processing and data acquisition system for the BTO detectors onboard COSI
The energy range from a few hundred keV to a few MeV includes important probes such as nuclear gamma-rays and the 511 keV annihilation line. However, compared to X-rays and GeV/TeV gamma-rays, this range suffers from lower sensitivity by orders of magnitude. The upcoming NASA SMEX satellite mission Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI), scheduled for launch in 2027, is expected to break through this limitation with its Compton telescope utilizing a germanium semiconductor detector, covering th…

A note on the uniqueness properties of solutions for the Schr\"odinger-Korteweg de Vries system
Eddye Bustamante, Jos\'e Jim\'enez Urrea, Jorge Mej\'ia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01733

A note on the uniqueness properties of solutions for the Schrödinger-Korteweg de Vries system
In this work we prove that if $(u_i,v_i)$, $i=1,2$, are smooth enough solutions of the coupled Schrödinger-Korteweg-de Vries system \begin{align*} \left. \begin{array}{rl} i u_t+\partial_x^2 u &\hspace{-2mm}=βuv - |u|^2 u,\\ \partial_t v + \partial_x^3 v &\hspace{-2mm}=γ\partial_x |u|^2-\frac12\partial_x (v^2) \end{array} \right\} \end{align*} with appropriate decay at infinity such that at two different times $t_0=0$ and $t_1=1$ satisfy that $$u_1(0)-u_2(0),u_1(1)-u_2(1)…