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Malísima – The Art of Slowly Being The Only One Left
https://www.clongclongmoo.org/2025/06/06/malisima-the-art-of-slowly-being-the-only-one-left/

Mailbag: Could Smith kick out to left tackle? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-could-smith-kick-out-to-left-tackle

🗳️ Can the “Red Wave” Stop Austerity in Finland?
#politics

Can the “Red Wave” Stop Austerity in Finland?
Last Sunday’s local and regional elections in Finland saw a big defeat for the hard-right Finns Party. Its leader called the gains for left-wing parties a “red wave” — but it’s less clear that this will halt the government’s austerity agenda.

"Breaching the target would ramp up the extreme weather already devastating communities around the world. It would also require carbon dioxide to be sucked from the atmosphere in future to restore the stable climate in which the whole of civilisation developed over the past 10,000 years."
This is bogus. Carbon-neutral #CarbonCaptureAndStorage is the modern perpetual…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
SassyBlack:
🎵 Left or Right
#SassyBlack
https://sassyblack.bandcamp.com/track/left-or-right
https://open.spotify.com/track/5WBN9QAqv6eWmvu8nQgU3y

The IRS open sourced much of its incredibly popular Direct File software as the future of the free tax filing program is at risk of being killed by Intuit’s lobbyists and Donald Trump’s megabill.
Meanwhile, several top developers who worked on the software have left the government and joined a project to explore the “future of tax filing” in the private sector

The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced
Direct File has been open sourced, and its creators have left government to continue working on the "future of tax filing."

Ukraine will not be left alone! Is the US preparing to resume military aid?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/04/ukraine-will-not-be-left.html

Dark matter mixing within the seesaw type II mechanism in the left-right symmetric model
M. Dubinin, E. Fedotova, D. Kazarkin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04035

Dark matter mixing within the seesaw type II mechanism in the left-right symmetric model
The seesaw type II mechanism is considered within the framework of a left-right chiral model with a gauge group $SU(2)_L\times SU(2)_R\times U(1)$, the lepton sector of which includes three generations of heavy Majorana neutrinos. The dependence of the mixing parameters of the lightest sterile neutrino as a dark matter particle on the scales of left-right symmetry breaking in the case of direct and inverse hierarchies of active neutrino masses is analyzed.

We have booked a stay in a self-catering cottage in Gloucestershire for a week over the summer. We've just been sent the welcome pack and it reads a little bit like solving an old school adventure game.
There is a keysafe at the cottage - located on the left pillar of the porch when you walk up the path. The key safe code is XXXX.
Use the small key in here to open the wooden box on your left as you walk in to the porch. Inside that you will find a large key which is for the main door.
Please make sure you leave this key in the wooden box on your departure as this is the only key to the property.

Mailbag: Could Smith kick out to left tackle? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-could-smith-kick-out-to-left-tackle

Right-wing (people's) hypocrisy
Isn't it interesting how someone first criticizes someone (I didn't listen to their conversation enough to know who was it about) using Polish insults for left-wing people, adding "nothing is sacred to them", and then buys a ticket to a train that's financed from the budget, and on top of that benefits from discount for disabled people and their guardians (both being left-wing inventions).

Encoding of Demographic and Anatomical Information in Chest X-Ray-based Severe Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Classifiers
Basudha Pal, Rama Chellappa, Muhammad Umair
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03192

Encoding of Demographic and Anatomical Information in Chest X-Ray-based Severe Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Classifiers
While echocardiography and MRI are clinical standards for evaluating cardiac structure, their use is limited by cost and accessibility.We introduce a direct classification framework that predicts severe left ventricular hypertrophy from chest X-rays, without relying on anatomical measurements or demographic inputs. Our approach achieves high AUROC and AUPRC, and employs Mutual Information Neural Estimation to quantify feature expressivity. This reveals clinically meaningful attribute encoding a…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01870 has been replaced.
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Various irrational series involving binomial coefficients
Motivated by Galois theory, we propose some new irrational series of Ramanujan's type or Zeilberger's type. For example, we conjecture that \begin{equation*}\sum_{k=1}^\infty\frac{\binom{2k}k^2\binom{4k}{2k}}{(84-32\sqrt6)^{4k}} \left(280k+5\sqrt6+26\right)=\frac3π(2\sqrt3+33\sqrt2) \end{equation*} and \begin{align*}&\sum_{k=1}^\infty\frac{(27(37102-15147\sqrt6))^k}{k^3\binom{2k}k^2\binom{3k}k} \left(9k(11\sqrt6+51)-2(19\sqrt6+54)\right) \\&\qquad=\frac{5625}2\left(\sqrt6 L_{-24}(2)-3G\r…

'Nothing secret left' — Ukraine hacks Russia's Tupolev bomber producer, source claims
https://kyivindependent.com/there-is-nothing-secret-left-ukraine-hacks-russias-tupolev-aircraft-manufacturer-source-claims/

Source: ~1,000 people have left the CISA during the second Trump administration, including 750 taking a buyout, cutting CISA's workforce by nearly a third (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/03/cisa-staff-layoffs-resignations-trump-cuts…

Exclusive: One-third of top U.S. cyber force has left since Trump took office
Trump wanted to cut 1,000 people. They're already gone.

bag_of_words: Bag of words (2008)
Five text collections in the form of bags-of-words, i.e. a bipartite document–word network. Left nodes are documents and right nodes are words. Edge weights are multiplicities. .
This network has 10336 nodes and 353160 edges.
Tags: Informational, Text, Bipartite, Weighted, Metadata
https://

Cybersec information overload got you down? Then don't miss today's Metacurity for a concise run-down of the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--1,000 CISA employees have decamped from the agency since January
--Victoria's Secret postpones earnings release after cyberattack,
--New security fixes for Qualcomm chips,
--AFP nabs nearly two dozen in sextortion sting,
--Marriott can't be sued for breach,
--Trump dumps …

1,000 CISA employees have left the agency since January
Victoria's Secret postpones earnings release after cyberattack, New security fixes for Qualcomm chips, AFP nabs nearly two dozen in sextortion sting, Marriott can't be sued for breach, Trump dumps AI Safety Institute, Indian grocery delivery startup wiped out by hack, so much more

#silentSunday
Cormorant. May 2023

HAProxy’s “The State of SSL Stacks” is a depressing read.
After 2014 there was a brief period of hope for OpenSSL. Hope that was squashed by the disastrous 3.0 release & there’s little hope for improvement left.
The best current contender is AWS-LC of all things.
https://www.haproxy.com/blog/state-of-ssl…

The State of SSL Stacks
The SSL landscape has shifted dramatically. In this paper, we examine OpenSSL 3.x, BoringSSL, LibreSSL, WolfSSL, and AWS-LC with HAProxy.

At 'CPAC of the Center,' Democratic Moderates Beat Up on the Left (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/us/politics/democrats-centrists-moderates-welcome-pac.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p58#a250605p58

Thought I needed a replacement of my keyboard, but repair man thought otherwise. A bit of polishing the wires was enough 🤝

Vacation officially started with a cup of ice cream 😊
#vacation #bayern

The algebraic small object argument as a saturation
Evan Cavallo, Christian Sattler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02759 https://arxiv.or…

The algebraic small object argument as a saturation
We analyze the structure of left maps in algebraic weak factorization systems constructed using Garner's algebraic small object argument. We find that any left map can be constructed from generators in Bourke and Garner's double category of left maps by operations that parallel the classical cell-complex-forming operations of Quillen's small object argument (coproducts, cobase changes, transfinite composites, and retracts). Our main theorems are phrased as "saturation" principles, which express…

Homological Invariants of Left and Right Serial Path Algebras
Ruoyu Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02307 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.0…

Homological Invariants of Left and Right Serial Path Algebras
We investigate the relationship between the delooping level (dell) and the finitistic dimension of left and right serial path algebras. These 2-syzygy finite algebras have finite delooping level, and it can be calculated with an easy and finite algorithm. When the algebra is right serial, its right finitistic dimension is equal to its left delooping level. When the algebra is left serial, the above equality only holds under certain conditions. We provide examples to demonstrate this and include…

Two Parasites and a Corpse: #Trump, #Musk, and the Maggot Feud Inside America's Rotting Democracy
#Resist

Urban Snaps 📸
城市抓拍 📸
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Fujifilm Neopan SS, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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I finally got rid of the old bed I’d kept since moving in, so the room feels pretty empty right now.
I’m in the process of reorganizing everything and plan to turn this space into my own anarchist sanctuary.
Soon, I’ll add a bookshelf and more anarchist art to the wall, right next to the communist hammer and sickle symbol.
#Declutter

My JS Krups is resisting netbooting. I see it doing a DHCP discover, and I see Kea responding with an offer, but then it just sends another Discover. Hmph. I can get to the serial console and doing boot net from there doesn't help; none of the keyboard shortcuts for network diag etc seem to work (except the one that displays the help for it...). So I took the flash SIM out and now it boots to Net rather than flash by default; alas with the same DHCP behaviour. Time to try isc-dhcp.…

Just finished "Statistically Speaking" by Debbie Johnson. It's coincidentally the second book dealing with adoption that I've just finished, though I suspect in both cases not #OwnVoices, which I also suspect matters somewhat. I was well-absorbed and enjoyed it immensely, but was left again with the reservation that I'm sure it may reflect only that small facet of real life which is pleasing and/or tolerable to a wide audience, and may thus in its own way make things more difficult for those whose realities it does not reflect. I find myself very glad to have also recently read Mama by Nikkya Hargrove, which is autobiographical and which as a result of having more real-world complexity drives its similar point about found family home with more force, to me (to be fair, Johnson's work has a decent amount of real life complexity, for a novel).
#AmReading

"As a political force, the Labour left is finished. The tactic of entryism – entering the Labour party and changing it – is finished too."
"..a string of local council victories next year would pave the way for an unprecedented challenge to #Labour – not from the right, as the party has always had to fight, but from its radical flank. And this new movement could take parts of Lab…

The British left is coming for the Government
Whisper it as yet, but after five long years of confusion and disarray, the British left is rallying. Local political organisations are coalescing, from Chiswick to Liverpool to Newcastle. The Green P

Failed US peace effort left Ukraine worse off, expert argues: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/failed-us-peace-effort-left.html

Going through boxes, drawers, etc. in my home office, in anticipation of redoing it (I need more bookshelves). In an old bankers box, I found my daily planners from high school, university, and all the way until I got my first Palm device in 1999…
In the planner for the 1986-87 academic year, I find an entry for Friday, September 26th, 1986: «(Freak Out!)» Unfortunately, past me did not feel a need to elaborate on that, and so I am left guessing…
That said, it was a busy school y…

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
JENNA: Well, maybe that's not related.
CALLY: Well, Jenna, remember there was something else - earlier, in the rest room.
JENNA: Complaining of some sort of noise.
AVON: A sort of tone, he said.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/83

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

NFL, Cowboys, Texans pledge $1.5 million for flood relief in Texas https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6476760/2025/07/06/nfl-cowboys-texans-flood-relief/

Existence and multiplicity of normalized solutions for the generalized Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation in $\mathbb{R}^2$
Claudianor O. Alves, Rui Ding, Chao Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04967

Existence and multiplicity of normalized solutions for the generalized Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation in $\mathbb{R}^2$
In this paper, we study the existence and {multiplicity} of nontrivial solitary waves for the generalized Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation with prescribed {$L^2$-norm} \begin{equation*}\label{Equation1} \left\{\begin{array}{l} \left(-u_{x x}+D_x^{-2} u_{y y}+λu-f(u)\right)_x=0,{\quad x \in \mathbb{R}^2, } \\[10pt] \displaystyle \int_{\mathbb{R}^2}u^2 d x=a^2, \end{array}\right.%\tag{$\mathscr E_λ$} \end{equation*} where $a>0$ and $λ\in \mathbb{R}$ is an unknown parameter that appears …

You put your left foot in    🦶
You put your left foot out 🦶
You put your left foot in    🦶

#opensource

Best of the Left podcast - Building an Organized Left, the Eternal Oxymoron
https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1720
Please listen and act!
We need to preserve what independence we have.
@…

#1720 Building an Organized Left, the Eternal Oxymoron
The militarization of Trump's deportation regime and response to protesters is the clearest example of his desire to implement a fully authoritarian government. Pure and simple.

Sonnet 009 - IX
Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye,
That thou consum'st thy self in single life?
Ah! if thou issueless shalt hap to die,
The world will wail thee like a makeless wife;
The world will be thy widow and still weep
That thou no form of thee hast left behind,
When every private widow well may keep
By children's eyes, her husband's shape in mind:
Look what an unthrift in the world doth spend
Shifts but his…

Characterization of non-singular hyperplanes of $H\left(s,q^2\right)$ in $\mathrm{P G}\left(s, q^2\right)$
Stuti Mohanty, Bikramaditya Sahu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23330

Characterization of non-singular hyperplanes of $H\left(s,q^2\right)$ in $\mathrm{P G}\left(s, q^2\right)$
In this paper, we present a combinatorial characterization of the hyperplanes associated with non-singular hermitian varieties ${H}\left(s, q^2\right)$ in the projective space $\mathrm{PG}\left(s,q^2\right)$ where $s\geq3$ and $q>2$. By analyzing the intersection numbers of hyperplanes with points and co-dimension $2$ subspaces, we establish necessary and sufficient conditions for a hyperplane to be part of the hermitian variety. This approach extends previous characterizations of hermitian var…

Sunset

If I ever open a #bookstore - maybe in my next life - I will have a #typewriter there.
https://www.

Literati Bookstore on Instagram: "When we are alone, and left with a blank page, we are more alike than we think. #bookstagram #literati #annarbor"
55K likes, 805 comments - literatibookstore on April 6, 2025: "When we are alone, and left with a blank page, we are more alike than we think. #bookstagram #literati #annarbor".

New algorithms for girth and cycle detection
Liam Roditty, Plia Trabelsi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02061 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.…

New algorithms for girth and cycle detection
Let $G=(V,E)$ be an unweighted undirected graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges. Let $g$ be the girth of $G$, that is, the length of a shortest cycle in $G$. We present a randomized algorithm with a running time of $\tilde{O}\big(\ell \cdot n^{1 + \frac{1}{\ell - \varepsilon}}\big)$ that returns a cycle of length at most $ 2\ell \left\lceil \frac{g}{2} \right\rceil - 2 \left\lfloor \varepsilon \left\lceil \frac{g}{2} \right\rceil \right\rfloor, $ where $\ell \geq 2$ is an integer and $\varepsil…

A natural and short proof of Lee's conjecture on the Frobenius norm
Teng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02684 https://arxiv.org…

A natural and short proof of Lee's conjecture on the Frobenius norm
In 2010, Eun-Young Lee conjectured that if $A,B$ are two $n\times n$ complex matrices and $\left|A\right|, \left|B\right|$ are the absolute values of $A, B$, respectively, then \[ \|A+B\|_F\le \sqrt{\dfrac{1+\sqrt{2}}{2}}\|\left|A\right|+\left|B\right|\|_F, \] where $\|\cdot\|_F$ is the Frobenius norm of matrices. This conjecture was initially proven by Lin and Zhang [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 516 (2022) 126542] by studying inequa…

Baby's first unun!
My #AmateurRadio journey continues with making some of my own equipment...
I wanted to be able to connect either an EFHW or an EFRW to my KX3, but move the actual antenna away from the radio, so that I can POTA with other people close enough to talk, while keeping the antennas for the different out of each others' near field so they don't interere. To …

A look at India's push to compete in the global AI race, as the country's vast linguistic diversity poses a core challenge to building foundational AI models (Shadma Shaikh/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/0

Inside India’s scramble for AI independence
Structural challenges and the nation’s many languages have made it tough to develop foundational AI models. But the government is keen not to be left behind.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01056 has been replaced.
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MCP-Zero: Proactive Toolchain Construction for LLM Agents from Scratch
Function-calling has enabled large language models (LLMs) to act as tool-using agents, but injecting thousands of tool schemas into the prompt is costly and error-prone. We introduce MCP-Zero, a proactive agent framework that lets the LLM itself decide when and which external tools to retrieve, thereby assembling a task-specific toolchain from scratch. The framework is built upon three components: (1) Proactive Tool Request, where the model emits a structured $\left<\operatorname{tool\_assistan…

Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR) has gained access to sensitive data of Russia's strategic aircraft manufacturer Tupolev
Tupolev, a Soviet-era aerospace firm now fully integrated into Russia's defense-industrial complex, has been under international sanctions since 2022 for its role in Russia's war against Ukraine.
Its bombers have been widely used to launch long-range cruise missiles against Ukrainian cities and infrastructure.
According to the so…

'There is nothing secret left' — Ukraine hacks Russia's Tupolev aircraft manufacturer, source claims
HUR's cyber corps accessed over 4.4 gigabytes (GB) of internal data, including official correspondence, personnel files, home addresses, resumes, purchase records, and closed meeting minutes, a source claimed.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09833 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_…

Learning Rock Pushability on Rough Planetary Terrain
In the context of mobile navigation in unstructured environments, the predominant approach entails the avoidance of obstacles. The prevailing path planning algorithms are contingent upon deviating from the intended path for an indefinite duration and returning to the closest point on the route after the obstacle is left behind spatially. However, avoiding an obstacle on a path that will be used repeatedly by multiple agents can hinder long-term efficiency and lead to a lasting reliance on an ac…

An analysis of 61 settlements signed by Channel 4 staff who left amid employment disputes between 2017 and 2021 shows it paid out ~£5M and all but two had NDAs (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/channel-4-denies-using-nda-zelda-pe…

Channel 4 Says It Doesn’t Use NDAs, But Documents Reveal Company Is Curbing Free Speech Of Aggrieved Ex-Employees
Channel 4 described itself as the "defender of free speech," but documents reveal it is restricting what former staffers can say about the company.

One dead and woman left in critical condition after fireworks explode and light a whole city block on fire | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/fireworks-explosion-death-pacoima-los-angeles-b2782833.html

how do you like them apples?
#cndpoli #Canpoli #Poilievre

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01068 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hept…

Free field construction of Heterotic string compactified on Calabi-Yau manifolds of Berglund-Hubsch type in the Batyrev-Borisov combinatorial approach
Heterotic string models in $4$-dimensions are the hybrid theories of a left-moving $N=1$ fermionic string whose additional $6$-dimensions are compactified on a $N=2$ SCFT theory with the central charge $9$, and a right-moving bosonic string, whose additional dimensions are also compactified on $N=2$ SCFT theory with the central charge $9$, and the remaining $13$ dimensions of which form the torus of $E(8)\times SO(10)$ Lie algebra. The important class of exactly solvable Heterotic string mode…

Two Parasites and a Corpse: Trump, Musk, and the Maggot Feud Inside America's Rotting Democracy: https://blog.rmendes.net/2025/06/06/two-parasites-and-a-corpse.html

I realize people have differing priorities & everyone's fighting their own war... but FFS, how does a family accidentally leave their dog behind when they move homes?
✅ Gen Z Couple Excited To Get Keys to New Home—Then They See What's Inside - Newsweek
https://www.

Gen Z Couple Excited To Get Keys to New Home—Then They See What's Inside
The previous homeowners left a surprise behind; they "didn't have enough space in their moving van," Louren Wilson told Newsweek.

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If there's one thing that life has taught me about alarmist left-wing crackpots it's that they are consistently right about basically everything.

Howe duality for the dual pair $\left(\mathfrak{spo}(2n|1)\,, \mathfrak{osp}(2|2)\right)$
Roman Lavicka, Allan Merino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04075 http…

Howe duality for the dual pair $\left(\mathfrak{spo}(2n|1)\,, \mathfrak{osp}(2|2)\right)$
The goal of our work is to study the decomposition of the joint action of $\mathfrak{g} = \mathfrak{spo}(2n|1)$ and $\mathfrak{g}' = \mathfrak{osp}(2|2)$ on the supersymmetric algebra S = S($\mathbb{C}^{2n|1} \otimes \mathbb{C}^{1|1}$). As proved by Merino and Salmasian, we have a one-to-one correspondence between irreducible representations of $\mathfrak{g}$ and $\mathfrak{g}'$ appearing as subrepresentations of S. In this paper, we obtained an explicit description of the h…

Identity Testing for Circuits with Exponentiation Gates
Jiatu Li, Mengdi Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04529 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Identity Testing for Circuits with Exponentiation Gates
Motivated by practical applications in the design of optimization compilers for neural networks, we initiated the study of identity testing problems for arithmetic circuits augmented with \emph{exponentiation gates} that compute the real function $x\mapsto e^x$. These circuits compute real functions of form $P(\vec x)/P'(\vec x)$, where both $P(\vec x)$ and $P'(\vec x)$ are exponential polynomials \[ \sum_{i=1}^k f_i(\vec x)\cdot \exp\left(\frac{g_i(\vec x)}{h_i(\vec x)}\right), \] for …

Cosmological Dynamics of Accelerating Model in $f(T)$ Gravity with Special Form of Deceleration Parameter
Shivank Pal, Romanshu Garg, Gyan Prakash Singh, Gauree Shanker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03756

Cosmological Dynamics of Accelerating Model in $f(T)$ Gravity with Special Form of Deceleration Parameter
In this paper, the dynamical behavior of the accelerated expansion of the universe is discussed within the framework of $f(T)$ gravity for a particular form of $ f(T)=α(-T)^{n}$. Considering a redshift-dependent parameterization of the deceleration parameter as $q(z)=q_{0}+ q_{1}\left(\frac{ \ln(N+z)}{z+1}-\ln N \right)$. We have derived the Hubble parameter in terms of redshift and discussed its effect on other cosmological parameters. Using Bayesian statistical analysis and $χ^2$-minimizati…

Exclusive: One-third of top U.S. cyber force has left since Trump took office
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/03/cisa-staff-layoffs-resignations-trump-cuts

Exclusive: One-third of top U.S. cyber force has left since Trump took office
Trump wanted to cut 1,000 people. They're already gone.

:goose_honk_left: EXTREME HITZE :goose_honk_left:

Conference colateral benefit: catching up with Good old Friends & colleagues, talking research, and having a decent Espresso 😜
#eswc2025 #slovenia #semanticweb

Chirality Amplification and Deracemization in Liquid Crystals
Matthew J. Deutsch, Robin L. B. Selinger, Paul van der Schoot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05053

Chirality Amplification and Deracemization in Liquid Crystals
Liquid crystal mesophases of achiral molecules are normally achiral, yet in a few materials they spontaneously deracemize and form right- and left-handed chiral domains. One mechanism that drives deracemization is molecular shape fluctuations between axial chiral conformations, where molecular interactions favor matching chirality and promote helical twist. Cooperative chiral ordering may also play a role in chirality amplification, as when a tiny fraction of chiral dopant drives a nematic phas…

'Evacuate to safer regions!' — Russian attacks kill 5, injure 1 in Donetsk Oblast: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/06/evacuate-to-safer-regions-russian.html

Happy #PrideMonth! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
I’m just too fabulously queer and genderfluid to function like anyone expects. My identity is a whole spectrum, shifting and sparkling with every color and every gender. 🌈✨
Some days I’m femme, some days I’m masc, and some days I’m something totally unique and undefined. 💖💙🤍
My

High-ranking federal officials have suggested that #birdflu virus should be left to "rip" through poultry farms across the U.S.
— but experts warn that this hands-off approach could hasten the beginning of a new pandemic

RFK's proposal to let bird flu spread through poultry could set us up for a pandemic, experts warn
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 outbreaks spread unchecked through U.S. poultry farms. Health experts warn it could lead to a new pandemic.

WATCH: 49ers' Trent Williams pancakes teammate in return to practice field following ankle injury

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/watch-4

A robust and versatile deep learning model for prediction of the arterial input function in dynamic small animal $\left[^{18}\text{F}\right]$FDG PET imaging
Christian Salomonsen, Luigi Tommaso Luppino, Fredrik Aspheim, Kristoffer Wickstr{\o}m, Elisabeth Wetzer, Michael Kampffmeyer, Rodrigo Berzaghi, Rune Sundset, Robert Jenssen, Samuel Kuttner
https:…

A robust and versatile deep learning model for prediction of the arterial input function in dynamic small animal $\left[^{18}\text{F}\right]$FDG PET imaging
Dynamic positron emission tomography (PET) and kinetic modeling are pivotal in advancing tracer development research in small animal studies. Accurate kinetic modeling requires precise input function estimation, traditionally achieved via arterial blood sampling. However, arterial cannulation in small animals like mice, involves intricate, time-consuming, and terminal procedures, precluding longitudinal studies. This work proposes a non-invasive, fully convolutional deep learning-based approach…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05306 has been replaced.
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Vertex isoperimetry on signed graphs and spectra of non-bipartite Cayley and Cayley sum graphs
For a non-bipartite finite Cayley graph, we show the non-trivial eigenvalues of its normalized adjacency matrix lie in the interval $$\left[-1+\frac{ch_{out}^2}{d},1-\frac{Ch_{out}^2}{d}\right],$$ for some absolute constant $c$ and $C$, where $h_{out}$ stands for the outer vertex boundary isoperimetric constant. This improves upon recent obtained estimates aiming at a quantitative version of a result due to Breuillard, Green, Guralnick and Tao. We achieve this by extending the work of Bobkov, H…

Yesterday I finally wrote the blog post for the bike and hike recently.
For me it was pretty tough as it was constant incline of around 1000m over around 12km with just one short exception.
The view here is from the summit down to the "plain" where we left the bikes for the final climb.
The blog: https://w…

Various irrational series involving binomial coefficients
Zhi-Wei Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01870 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.018…

Various irrational series involving binomial coefficients
Motivated by Galois theory, we propose some new irrational series of Ramanujan's type or Zeilberger's type. For example, we conjecture that \begin{equation*}\sum_{k=1}^\infty\frac{\binom{2k}k^2\binom{4k}{2k}}{(84-32\sqrt6)^{4k}} \left(280k+5\sqrt6+26\right)=\frac3π(2\sqrt3+33\sqrt2) \end{equation*} and \begin{align*}&\sum_{k=1}^\infty\frac{(27(37102-15147\sqrt6))^k}{k^3\binom{2k}k^2\binom{3k}k} \left(9k(11\sqrt6+51)-2(19\sqrt6+54)\right) \\&\qquad=\frac{5625}2\left(\sqrt6 L_{-24}(2)-3G\r…

Existence of normalized solutions to nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations on lattice graphs
Zhentao He, Chao Ji, Yifan Tao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01591

Existence of normalized solutions to nonlinear Schrödinger equations on lattice graphs
In this paper, using a discrete Schwarz rearrangement on lattice graphs developed in \cite{DSR}, we study the existence of global minimizers for the following functional $I:H^1\left(\mathbb{Z}^N\right)\to \R$, $$I(u)=\frac{1}{2} \int_{\mathbb{Z}^N}|\nabla u|^2 \,dμ-\int_{\mathbb{Z}^N} F(u)\, dμ,$$ constrained on $S_m:=\left\{u \in H^1\left(\mathbb{Z}^N\right) \mid\|u\|_{\ell^2\left(\mathbb{Z}^N\right)}^2=m\right\}$, where $N \geq 2$, $m>0$ is prescribed, $f \in C(\mathbb{R…

Aaron Rodgers joining Steelers: How Hall of Fame quarterbacks fared playing for third team

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/aaron-r

The IRS open sourced most of its Direct File tax software on GitHub last week, fulfilling a legal requirement under the SHARE IT Act, despite Intuit pressure (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/directfile-open-source-…

The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced
Direct File has been open sourced, and its creators have left government to continue working on the "future of tax filing."

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06200 has been replaced.
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On the query complexity of sampling from non-log-concave distributions
We study the problem of sampling from a $d$-dimensional distribution with density $p(x)\propto e^{-f(x)}$, which does not necessarily satisfy good isoperimetric conditions. Specifically, we show that for any $L,M$ satisfying $LM\ge d\ge 5$, $ε\in \left(0,\frac{1}{32}\right)$, and any algorithm with query accesses to the value of $f(x)$ and $\nabla f(x)$, there exists an $L$-log-smooth distribution with second moment at most $M$ such that the algorithm requires $\left(\frac{LM}{dε}\right)^{�…

The chief executive of the
United States Institute of Peace (USIP) says
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency
left the nonprofit’s Washington, D.C., headquarters in disarray,
full of water damage, rats, and roaches, according to a new sworn statement first reported by Court Watch.
The statement from the executive, George Moose, comes just a few days after a federal judge ruled that DOGE’s takeover of the nonprofit was illegal.
And this week, Mu…

DOGE left United States Institute of Peace office with water damage, rats, and roaches | TechCrunch
The chief executive of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) says Elon Musk's DOGE left the nonprofit's Washington, D.C., headquarters in disarray.

Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
TRAVIS: I was merely quoting you, Supreme Commander.
SERVALAN: Contact the ship. I have an appointment with a man named Carnell.
TRAVIS: [Regarding the clone on his way out] My compliments.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/529 B7B5

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Cowboys appear to have a plan should Tyler Guyton fail to develop https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-appear-to-have-a-plan-should-tyler-guyton-fail-to-develop

Packers' Josh Jacobs feels he 'left a lot on the table' in rebound season; RB eyes 'No. 1 spot,' Super Bowl in 2025 https://www.nfl.com/news/packers-josh-jacobs-feels-he-left-a-lot-o…

Periodic solutions for p(t)-Lienard equations with a singular nonlinearity of attractive type
Petru Jebelean, Jean Mawhin, Calin Serban
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04927

Periodic solutions for p(t)-Lienard equations with a singular nonlinearity of attractive type
We are concerned with the existence of $T$-periodic solutions to an equation of type $$\left (|u'(t))|^{p(t)-2} u'(t) \right )'+f(u(t))u'(t)+g(u(t))=h(t)\quad \mbox{ in }[0,T]$$ where $p:[0,T]\to(1,\infty)$ with $p(0)=p(T)$ and $h$ are continuous on $[0,T]$, $f,g$ are also continuous on $[0,\infty)$, respectively $(0,\infty)$. The mapping $g$ may have an attractive singularity (i.e. $g(x) \to +\infty$ as $x\to 0+$). Our approach relies on a continuation theorem obtained in the recent …

Distribution of Farey fractions with $k$-free denominators
Bittu Chahal, Tapas Chatterjee, Sneha Chaubey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00228 https://

Distribution of Farey fractions with $k$-free denominators
We study the global and local distribution of Farey fractions with $k$-free denominators in residue classes defined as \[\mathscr{F}_{Q,k}^{(m)}:=\left\{\frac{a}{q}\ |\ 1\leq a\leq q\leq Q,\ \gcd(a,q)=1,\ q\ \text{is}\ k\text{-free}\ \&\ q\equiv b\pmod{m} \right\}.\] We show that $\left(\mathscr{F}_{Q,k}^{(m)}\right)_{Q\ge 1}$ is equidistributed modulo one, and prove analogues of the classical results of Franel, Landau, and Niederreiter for $\left(\mathscr{F}_{Q,k}^{(m)}\right)_{Q\ge 1}$, …

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 07 - Killer
BLAKE: Kemp, Wardin, Tober, missing in the constellation of 61 Cygnii, seven hundred years ago.
WILER: May I continue?
BELLFRIAR: Sorry.
[Mortuary]
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Analysis: since his inauguration, President Trump posted 2,262 times on Truth Social in 132 days, 3x the volume of tweets in the same period of his first term (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/06/03/trump-truth-socia…

Tallying Trump’s online posting frenzy: 2,262 ‘truths’ in 132 days
In his current term, the president has left his own record for social media missives in the dust. He posts day and night.

Free-agent WR Tyler Boyd would 'absolutely' play for Steelers, thinks he has 'a few more years' left in him https://www.nfl.com/news/free-agent-wr-tyler-boyd-would-absolutely-play-for-steeler…

Deepening divisions are threatening the fate of the sprawling bill,
which includes large tax cuts;
reductions to Medicaid, food assistance and clean energy programs;
and additional money for border security and the military.
They erupted online on Tuesday after Trump lashed out at an outspoken Republican opponent of the legislation
-- and as Elon Musk, the tech billionaire who recently left his governmental role leading the Department of Government Efficiency, …

Trump Pressures Divided G.O.P. to Back Policy Bill
The president is pressing Republicans in the Senate to unite quickly behind sprawling legislation that carries his domestic agenda, but the measure’s opponents have a powerful new ally: Elon Musk.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.15007 has been replaced.
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Uniqueness of positive solutions for m-Laplacian equations with polynomial non-linearity
We consider the uniqueness of the following positive solutions of $m$-Laplacian equation: \begin{equation} \left\{ \begin{aligned} -Δ_m u&=λu^{m-1}+u^{p-1} \quad \text{in} \quad Ω\\ u&=0 \quad \text{on} \quad \partial Ω\end{aligned} \right. \qquad(0.1)\end{equation} where $m>1$ is a constant. When $p\rightarrow m$, the uniqueness of positive solutions of $(0.1)$ is shown which is based on the essential uniqueness of first eigenfunction for $m$-Laplacian equation. Futhermore, we also prove t…

For Trump,
“it’s no billionaire left behind
— and good luck to everyone else.”
“It’s telling that President Trump has chosen to release his budget on a Friday night with no fanfare whatsoever,”
said Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee,
following the administration’s release of approximately 1,200 pages of budget documents.
“That’s probably because his budget would raise costs for working people,
destroy basic s…

'No Billionaire Left Behind' in Trump Budget Request That Trashes Workers, Struggling Families | Common Dreams
One expert critic said the updated request "confirms once again that the president continues to break his promises to lower families' costs and help people who are struggling to make ends meet."

Steelers trade for Jalen Ramsey, Jonnu Smith: Pittsburgh still has one major item left on offseason to-do list

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/…

Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were left baffled on Monday after the head of the US disaster agency said during a briefing that he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season, according to four sources familiar with the situation.
The US hurricane season officially began on Sunday and lasts through November.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecast last week that this year’s season is expected to bring as many as 10 hurricanes.

BREAKING
The Supreme Court green lights the Trump admin sending immigrants to war-torn and human-rights abusing South Sudan without process, even though aren't from there.
Background https://www.allrisenews.com/p/update-south-sudan

UPDATE: South Sudan flight violated court order, judge says
A federal judge left arguments about whether the violation was criminally contemptuous for another day.