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They're doing this because the Insurrection Act sounds cool and edgy but they can't actually justify using the Insurrection Act.
It's a silly action by an insecure administration desperately to seem manly and powerful.
It should be criticized relentlessly, but it should also be laughed at.
https://…

Impact of Tariff Wars on Global Economy
N. S. Gonchar, O. P. Dovzhyk, A. S. Zhokhin, W. H. Kozyrsky, A. P. Makhort
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05576 https:/…

Impact of Tariff Wars on Global Economy
The Ricardian model of world trade based on comparative advantage is not sufficient to justify equal trade relations.The existing model of trade relations does not explain the distribution of income among trading countries. This paper presents a method for building equitable trade relations. Its essence is to present an algorithm for building such trade relations, based on the previously proposed model of world trade, that the trade balance of each country would be equal to zero. Under such con…

Paul Krugman says nothing here the well-informed don’t already know, but I’m quoting here because he says it so crisply:
❝Until ICE moved in Los Angeles was, in fact, remarkably peaceful.…Los Angeles [minus ICE] is probably as safe as it has ever been.❞
❝The events unfolding in Los Angeles as you read this and, I fear, the events likely to unfold across much of America soon, quite possibly this weekend, suggest that the motivations of Trump and his cronies go deeper than mere (mere!) sadism. They want to use false claims of chaos to justify a power grab that, if successful, would mark the end of the American experiment.❞
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-finally-know-what-american-carnage

"‘We don’t need a disaster to justify resilience’: Climate projects can bring big economic benefits"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Finance

How climate resilience projects are paying off around the world
The 320 climate projects analysed were found to have potential yields of about €1 trillion in projected returns over a decade.

"Actions over words:" Bengals wide receiver Jermaine Burton is ready for a challenge https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45458576/nfl-jermaine-burton-cincinnati-bengals-second-season

"Putin believes Russia is a “civilization-state” with cultural-cum-religious significance, rights and responsibilities that justify the erasure of other nations."
Opinion | Putin’s agenda in Ukraine has long been clear. Trump ignores it. - The Washington Post
https://archive.ph/2025.06.07-145813/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/06/putin-russia-ukraine-trump/#selection-1277.0-1281.114

The primitive equations for the ocean and atmosphere in anisotropic spaces
Valentin Lemari\'e (LAMA)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07546 https://

The primitive equations for the ocean and atmosphere in anisotropic spaces
In this work, we study the well-posedness of the primitive equations for the ocean and the atmosphere on two specific domains: a bounded domain $Ω_1\mathrel{\mathop:}=(-1,1)^3$ with periodic boundary conditions, and the strip $Ω_2\mathrel{\mathop:}=\mathbb{R}^2\times(-1,1)$ with periodic boundary conditions in the vertical direction. In a first time, we establish a global existence and uniqueness theorem for small initial data in a suitable anisotropic Besov space. Then, we also justify, in a…

New ZFS AnyRAID feature would probably get me to use ZFS at home instead of btrfs.
I have a lot of different-sized old SATA enterprise SSDs retired from @… and a cheap 8 bay eSATA enclosure. The performance is good enough. I can't really justify buying 8 new, matching drives.
AnyMirror would be good enough for my purposes.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11370 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGT_…

Stable Menus of Public Goods: A Matching Problem
We study a matching problem between agents and public goods, in settings without monetary transfers. Since goods are public, they have no capacity constraints. There is no exogenously defined budget of goods to be provided. Rather, each provided good must justify its cost by being utilized by sufficiently many agents, leading to strong complementarities in the "preferences" of goods. Furthermore, goods that are in high demand given other already-provided goods must also be provided. The questio…

Electricity Market Predictability: Virtues of Machine Learning and Links to the Macroeconomy
Jinbo Cai, Wenze Li, Wenjie Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07477

Electricity Market Predictability: Virtues of Machine Learning and Links to the Macroeconomy
With stakeholder-level in-market data, we conduct a comparative analysis of machine learning (ML) for forecasting electricity prices in Singapore, spanning 15 individual models and 4 ensemble approaches. Our empirical findings justify the three virtues of ML models: (1) the virtue of capturing non-linearity, (2) the complexity (Kelly et al., 2024) and (3) the l2-norm and bagging techniques in a weak factor environment (Shen and Xiu, 2024). Simulation also supports the first virtue. Penalizing p…

The White House has lost confidence in a Pentagon leak investigation that Hegseth used to justify firing three top aides last month, after advisers were told that the aides had supposedly been outed by an illegal warrantless National Security Agency (NSA) wiretap.
https://www.the…

I've just cancelled my Surfshark VPN sub. Not that it wasn't useful occasionally, but I simply didn't use it enough to justify renewal.
#VPN #Subscription

First Law of the Internet
Every person shall be free to use the Internet in any way that is privately beneficial without being publicly detrimental.
- The burden of demonstrating public detriment shall be on those who wish to prevent the private use.
- Such a demonstration shall require clear and convincing evidence of public detriment.
- The public detriment must be of such degree and extent as to justify the suppression of the private activity.
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From David Suzuki
It’s hard not to conclude that much of the world has been taken over by idiots. Sure, there have always been uninformed politicians & those who let their ideology stumble ahead of their wits. & some who seem more sociopathic than stupid, waging brutal wars & massacres with no regard for the lives, families and communities they destroy under whatever nationalistic banner they concoct to justify their actions.
Lately things seem extraordinarily stupid.…

Bias Corrected Variance Stabilizing Transformation for Small Area Estimation
Masayo Y. Hirose, Malay Ghosh, Mayumi Oka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04583 htt…

Bias Corrected Variance Stabilizing Transformation for Small Area Estimation
Small area estimation models are typically based on the normality assumption of response variables. More recently, attention has been drawn to the transformation of the original variables to justify the assumption of normality. Variance stabilizing transformation of observation serves the dual purpose of reaching closer to normality, as well as known variance of the transformed variables in contrast to the assumption of known variances of the original variables, the latter needed to avoid non-i…

Lin-Lu-Yau Ricci curvature on hypergraphs
Yulu Tian, Liang Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04109 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.04109

Lin-Lu-Yau Ricci curvature on hypergraphs
In this paper, we introduce a unified framework for defining Lin-Lu-Yau (LLY) Ricci curvature on both undirected and directed hypergraphs. By establishing upper bounds and monotonicity properties for the parameterized curvature $κ_α$, we justify the well-posedness and compatibility of our definitions. Furthermore, we prove a Bonnet-Myers-type theorem for hypergraphs, which highlights the potential of LLY Ricci curvature in hypergraph analysis, particularly in studying geometric and structural…

Evaluating the Impact of Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning on CAN Intrusion Detection
Gabriele Digregorio, Elisabetta Cainazzo, Stefano Longari, Michele Carminati, Stefano Zanero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04978

Evaluating the Impact of Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning on CAN Intrusion Detection
The challenges derived from the data-intensive nature of machine learning in conjunction with technologies that enable novel paradigms such as V2X and the potential offered by 5G communication, allow and justify the deployment of Federated Learning (FL) solutions in the vehicular intrusion detection domain. In this paper, we investigate the effects of integrating FL strategies into the machine learning-based intrusion detection process for on-board vehicular networks. Accordingly, we propose a …

"Why Libraries Should Invest in Visual Design" @ Katina Magazine: https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/future-of-work/2025/why-librarians-should-invest-in-visual-design
"As libraries face f…

Workers at Google, TikTok, Adobe, Dropbox, CrowdStrike, and other tech firms recount how managers used AI to justify firing them, speed up their work, and more (Brian Merchant/Blood in the Machine)
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-ai-is-killing-jo…

AI Killed My Job: Tech workers
Tech workers at TikTok, Google, and across the industry share stories about how AI is changing, ruining, or replacing their jobs.

Nonparametric regression for cost-effectiveness analyses with observational data -- a tutorial
Jonas Esser, Mateus Maia, Judith Bosmans, Johanna van Dongen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03511

Nonparametric regression for cost-effectiveness analyses with observational data -- a tutorial
Healthcare decision-making often requires selecting among treatment options under budget constraints, particularly when one option is more effective but also more costly. Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) provides a framework for evaluating whether the health benefits of a treatment justify its additional costs. A key component of CEA is the estimation of treatment effects on both health outcomes and costs, which becomes challenging when using observational data, due to potential confounding. W…

Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
GAN: That doesn't sound very promising. Someone must have made an attack on the base.
VILA: Who'd be stupid enough to do that?
AVON: [Snaps his fingers] Justify "stupid."
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/112 B7B2

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

Random PR of the day https://github.com/pbzweihander/fediday.org/pull/16

Fix carousel scroll on small screens by cheeaun · Pull Request #16 · pbzweihander/fediday.org
Before: The first post is cropped and can't be scrolled to After: The first post appears and scrollable Solution is using safe https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/justify-content...

Modal Verification Patterns for Systems
Ismail Kuru, Colin S. Gordon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01719 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.0171…

Modal Verification Patterns for Systems
Although they differ in the functionality they offer, low-level systems exhibit certain patterns of design and utilization of computing resources. In this paper, we argue the position that modalities, in the sense of modal logic, should be a go-to approach when specifying and verifying low-level systems code. We explain how the concept of a resource context helps guide the design of new modalities for verification of systems code, and we justify our perspective by discussing prior systems that …

Physical Observers and Quantum Reconstructions
Dorian Daimer, Susanne Still
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01561 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Physical Observers and Quantum Reconstructions
There is a multitude of interpretations of quantum mechanics, but foundational principles are lacking. Relational quantum mechanics views the observer as a physical system, which allows for an unambiguous interpretation as all axioms are purely operational, describing the observer's information acquisition. The approach, however, is based on the premise that the observer retains only predictive information about the observed system. Here, we justify this premise using the following principle: P…

Free-surface Euler equations with density variations, and shallow-water limit
Th\'eo Fradin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06889 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06889 https://arxiv.org/html/2507.06889
arXiv:2507.06889v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this paper we study the well-posedness in Sobolev spaces of the incompressible Euler equations in an infinite strip delimited from below by a non-flat bottom and from above by a free-surface. We allow the presence of vorticity and density variations, and in these regards the present system is an extension of the well-studied water waves equations. When the bottom is flat and with no density variations (but when the flow is not necessarily irrotational), our study provides an alternative proof of the already known large-time well-posedness results for the water waves equations. Our main contribution is that we allow for the presence of density variations, while also keeping track of the dependency in the shallow water parameter. This allows us to justify the convergence from the free-surface Euler equations towards the non-linear shallow water equations in this setting. Using an already established large time existence result for these latter equations, we also prove the existence of the free-surface Euler equations on a logarithmic time-scale, in a suitable regime.
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The recent European switch to attached bottle lids for recycling is very interesting to me, because as an American I've always been told that plastic bottle caps *cannot* be recycled, and should be thrown in the trash while only the bottle itself gets recycled.
Anybody know the origin for this? Was it just a desire to sell more single-use plastics? Are detached lids so small that the effort to extract them from the waste stream is too much to justify the amount of material you get?…

New pre-print! #ai
**Universal pre-training by iterated random computation.**
⌨️🐒 A monkey behind a typewriter will produce the collected works of Shakespeare eventually.
💻🐒 But what if we put a monkey behind a computer?
⌨️🐒 needs to be lucky enough to type all characters of all of Shakespeare correctly. 💻🐒 only needs to be lucky enough to type a program for Shakespeare.

Universal pre-training by iterated random computation
We investigate the use of randomly generated data for the sake of pre-training a model. We justify this approach theoretically from the perspective of algorithmic complexity, building on recent research that shows that sequence models can be trained to approximate Solomonoff induction. We derive similar, but complementary theoretical results. We show empirically that synthetically generated data can be used to pre-train a model before the data is seen. We replicate earlier results that models t…

The LA Press Club, CWA, and others sue the DHS, alleging it used excessive force and violated journalists' First Amendment rights during the LA protests (ACLU of Southern California)
https://www.aclusocal.org/en/press-release

Echt, het is zó tijd om de guillotine uit het vet te halen
https://www.commondreams.org/news/did-republicans-vote-to-cut-medicaid

> “Instead of articulating our own thoughts, we articulate whatever AI helps us to articulate…we become more persuaded.” Without these signals, Naaman warns, we’ll only trust face-to-face communication — not even video calls.
Now I expect generative AI be used to justify return to office policies 🤢
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You sound like ChatGPT
AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s changing how we speak and interact with others. And there’s only more to come.

You sound like ChatGPT
AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s changing how we speak and interact with others. And there’s only more to come.

If you're trying to justify a purchase you don't need, it's very easy to say is this self-care? Sure! https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-187-what-if-we-focu…

Random PR of the day https://github.com/pbzweihander/fediday.org/pull/16

Fix carousel scroll on small screens by cheeaun · Pull Request #16 · pbzweihander/fediday.org
Before: The first post is cropped and can't be scrolled to After: The first post appears and scrollable Solution is using safe https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/justify-content...

CyberRAG: An agentic RAG cyber attack classification and reporting tool
Francesco Blefari, Cristian Cosentino, Francesco Aurelio Pironti, Angelo Furfaro, Fabrizio Marozzo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02424

CyberRAG: An agentic RAG cyber attack classification and reporting tool
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS) in large enterprises can generate hundreds of thousands of alerts per hour, overwhelming security analysts with logs that demand deep, rapidly evolving domain expertise. Conventional machine-learning detectors trim the alert volume but still yield high false-positive rates, while standard single-pass Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines often retrieve irrelevant context and fail to justify their predictions. To overcome these shortc…

Role, cost, and complexity of software in the real-world: a case for formal methods
Giovanni Bernardi, Adrian Francalanza, Marco Peressotti, Mohammad Reza Mousavi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13821

Role, cost, and complexity of software in the real-world: a case for formal methods
In this chapter we outline the role that software has in modern society, along with the staggering costs of poor software quality. To lay this bare, we recall the costs of some of the major software failures that happened during the last~$40$ years. We argue that these costs justify researching, studying and applying formal software verification and in particular program analysis. This position is supported by successful industrial experiences.

"Musk and his allies systematically built a false narrative of widespread fraud at the Social Security Administration based on misinterpreted data, using their claims to justify an aggressive effort to gain access to personal information on millions of Americans."
Gift link.

Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security
The drama offers a case study in how Elon Musk’s team sought to run a critical government agency through misinformation and social media blasts — and how longtime employees responded.

They have to overextend further and further to justify their crimes. We must hold on.
#kilmarabregogarcia

Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and military against protesters in Los Angeles is widely being interpreted as
a display of intimidation and state power ahead of his birthday,
when Trump will oversee a military parade in Washington, D.C. in the style of a dictator.
The president has warned that protesters in D.C. will be
“met with very heavy force.”
Democrats and civil rights groups say the president is inflaming tensions to justify further repr…

Trump Is Rapidly Expanding the Surveillance State as Protests Grow
Immigrants are only the first target of a rapidly expanding digital dragnet that can track our individual movements.

A Study of the Spectral Sequence for Locally Free Isometric Actions of Abelian Lie Groups
Pawe{\l} Ra\'zny
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12422 https://

A Study of the Spectral Sequence for Locally Free Isometric Actions of Abelian Lie Groups
We give an upper bound on the number of the page on which the spectral sequence corresponding to a locally free isometric action of an abelian Lie group degenerates. We give examples showing that these bounds are indeed sharp. Finally, we further justify the study of this sequence by exhibiting a potential application to the study of harmonic forms.

Singular limits of anisotropic weak solutions to compressible magnetohydrodynamics
Nicolas Besse, Christophe Cheverry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19784 http…

Singular limits of anisotropic weak solutions to compressible magnetohydrodynamics
The aim is to justify rigorously the so-called reduced magnetohydrodynamic model (abbreviated as RMHD), which is widely used in fusion, space and astrophysical plasmas. Motivated by physics, the focus is on plasmas that are simultaneously strongly magnetized and anisotropic. We consider conducting fluids that can be described by viscous and resistive barotropic compressible magnetohydrodynamic equations. The purpose is to study the asymptotic behaviour of global weak solutions, which do exist, …

Incompressible Euler limit from the Boltzmann equation with Maxwell reflection boundary condition in the half-space
Ning Jiang, Chao Wang, Yulong Wu, Zhifei Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18420

Incompressible Euler limit from the Boltzmann equation with Maxwell reflection boundary condition in the half-space
In this paper, we rigorously justify the incompressible Euler limit of the Boltzmann equation with general Maxwell reflection boundary condition in the half-space. The accommodation coefficient $α\in (0,1]$ is assumed to be $O(1)$. Our construction of solutions includes the interior fluid part and Knudsen-Prandtl coupled boundary layers. The corresponding solutions to the nonlinear Euler and nonlinear Prandtl systems are taken to be shear flows. Due to the presence of the nonlinear Prandtl lay…

Hele-Shaw limit of chemotaxis-Navier-Stokes flows
Qingyou He, Ling-Yun Shou, Leyun Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11757 https://arxiv.…

Hele-Shaw limit of chemotaxis-Navier-Stokes flows
This paper investigates the connection between the chemotaxis--Navier--Stokes system with porous medium type nonlinear diffusion and the Hele--Shaw problem in $\mathbb{R}^d$ ($d\geq2$). First, we prove the global-in-time existence of weak solutions for the Cauchy problem of the chemotaxis-Navier-Stokes system with the general initial data, uniformly in the diffusion range $m\in [3,\infty)$. Then, we rigorously justify the Hele--Shaw limit for this system as $m\rightarrow\infty$, showing the con…