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My favorite clip of Terry A. Davis is when he sends a Letter to the CIA!
https://peertube.wtf/w/64f8KBvcWcU3tXZqPTMjuC
Terry had schizophrenia, which affected how he saw the world and how he worked on his projects.

A Trump administration letter to Congress outlines a plan to restructure VOA that would shrink the agency to 18 employees, down from roughly 1,400 in March (Minho Kim/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/us/politics/trump-voice-of-america.h…

Nearly All Remaining Voice of America Employees Could Be Fired Under Plan
A proposed restructuring would leave only 18 employees at the federally funded news agency, which was founded in 1942 to combat Nazi propaganda.

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LSZ ghostbusters in the quadratic gravity stage
The present letter considers the quantization method developed in [1]-[9], which postulates that, in several situations, negative norm or ghost states can be avoided in order to give positive probabilities. These authors also postulate a candidate for a path integral for those theories, following pioneer works initiated by Dirac [10]} and Pauli \[11]. However, taking into account the non standard oscillator algebra inherent to this method, in order to be sure that unitarity is not violated, one…

Source: Trump's World Liberty Financial sent a cease-and-desist letter to the company behind $TRUMP and to Magic Eden after they announced the $TRUMP Wallet (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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Realization of maximally-entangling two-qutrit gates using the Cross-Resonance scheme
In this letter, we present a comprehensive theoretical framework for realizing maximally entangling two-qutrit gates on fixed-frequency transmons that generalize the qubit-centric cross-resonance (CR) interaction beyond the 0-1 subspace, which we call as generalized cross-resonance (GCR) scheme. We use the GCR scheme to design parametric two-qutrit gates, namely, $U_{CR}^{01}$ and $U_{CR}^{12}$, that act on the $0{-}1$ and $1{-}2$ energy transitions of transmons, respectively. Our gates improve…

A framework for fluctuating times and counting observables in stochastic excursions
Guilherme Fiusa, Pedro E. Harunari, Abhaya S. Hegde, Gabriel T. Landi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05160

A framework for fluctuating times and counting observables in stochastic excursions
Many natural systems exhibit dynamics characterized by alternating phases. Describing the fluctuations of such systems over stochastic trajectories is necessary across diverse fields, from biological motors to quantum thermal machines. In an accompanying Letter, we introduced the notion of stochastic excursions -- a framework to analyze far from equilibrium processes via sub-trajectories. Through counting observables, this framework captures finite-time fluctuations and trajectory-level behavio…

Pinching Antenna Systems versus Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces in mmWave
Mostafa Samy, Hayder Al-Hraishawi, Madyan Alsenwi, Abuzar B. M. Adam, Symeon Chatzinotas, Bj\"orn Otteresten
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05102

Pinching Antenna Systems versus Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces in mmWave
Flexible and intelligent antenna designs, such as pinching antenna systems and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), have gained extensive research attention due to their potential to enhance the wireless channels. This letter, for the first time, presents a comparative study between the emerging pinching antenna systems and RIS in millimeter wave (mmWave) bands. Our results reveal that RIS requires an extremely large number of elements (in the order of $10^4$) to outperform pinching anten…

PDRs4All XIV: CH radical and $H_3^ $ molecular ion in the irradiated protoplanetary disk d203-506
I. Schroetter, O. Bern\'e, J. R. Goicoechea, J. H. Black, O. Roncero, F. Alarcon, P. Amiot, O. Asvany, C. Boersma, S. Br\"unken, J. Cami, L. Coudert, E. Dartois, A. Fuente, B. Gans, A. Gusdorf, U. Jacovella, M. A. Martin Drumel, T. Onaka, E. Peeters, E. Roueff, A. G. G. M. Tielens, M. Zannese

PDRs4All XIV: CH radical and $H_3^+$ molecular ion in the irradiated protoplanetary disk d203-506
Most protoplanetary disks experience a phase in which they are subjected to strong ultraviolet radiation from nearby massive stars. This UV radiation can substantially alter their chemistry by producing numerous radicals and molecular ions. In this Letter we present detailed analysis of the JWST-NIRSpec spectrum of the d203-506 obtained as part of the PDRs4All Early Release Science program. Using state-of-the-art spectroscopic data, we searched for species using a multi-molecule fitting tool, P…

Federated Learning Assisted Edge Caching Scheme Based on Lightweight Architecture DDPM
Xun Li, Qiong Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04593 https://

Federated Learning Assisted Edge Caching Scheme Based on Lightweight Architecture DDPM
Edge caching is an emerging technology that empowers caching units at edge nodes, allowing users to fetch contents of interest that have been pre-cached at the edge nodes. The key to pre-caching is to maximize the cache hit percentage for cached content without compromising users' privacy. In this letter, we propose a federated learning (FL) assisted edge caching scheme based on lightweight architecture denoising diffusion probabilistic model (LDPM). Our simulation results verify that our propo…

Had to use guess 4 for some letter placements. It worked. #Wordle
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Model selection using the HII galaxy Hubble diagram
Jun-Jie Wei, Fulvio Melia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04819 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Model selection using the HII galaxy Hubble diagram
The proposal to use HII galaxies (HIIGx) and giant extragalactic HII regions (GEHR) as standard candles to construct the Hubble diagram at redshifts beyond the current reach of Type Ia supernovae has gained considerable support recently with the addition of five new HIIGx discovered by JWST. The updated sample of 231 sources now extends the redshift range of these objects to $z\sim 7.5$, mapping the Universe's expansion over $95\%$ of its current age. In this {\it Letter} we use these sources f…

The Trump people have just announced that they have sent a letter to Columbia’s accreditor, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, accusing Columbia of being in violation of civil rights law.
My initial reaction is that this is good news since it implies both that Columbia hasn’t further caved-in yet and makes clear that the Trump people have run out of ammunition

The Situation at Columbia XXIII
This week I’m very happy to not be at Columbia, and not in the US, enjoying spending the week at the Perimeter Institute at a conference in honor of Lee Smolin. Since there’s a little b…

I just updated the prints on my office door to reflect the kind of photos (particularly event photos) that I am taking now -- as well the the new system which supersedes "three sided cards" that attains better branding in every respect except that it doesn't have a name (yet) #photo #photography

Der Arc Browser war zwei Jahre lang mein Standardbrowser, bis ihr lascher Umgang mit Security-Issues mich zu einem Wechsel führte. Das war wohl ein guter Entscheid …
Letter to Arc members 2025 https://browsercompany.substack.com/p/letter-to-arc-members-2025…

#uspol Federal grants that my mom's department uses to study long-term care for people with Alzheimer's disease have been withdrawn, and an accompanying letter bearing RFK Jr.'s signature decried their work as unscientific and a waste of money.
This is especially sad to our family as her father/my grandfather had Alzheimer's for many years before he passed.
To sus…

Alzheimer's Association | Alzheimer's Disease & Dementia Help
Alzheimer's Association national site – information on Alzheimer's disease and dementia symptoms, diagnosis, stages, treatment, care and support resources.

Steelers send letter to fans angry about players attending Donald Trump rally: Reports https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6400476/2025/06/03/steelers-letter-fans-players-trump-rally/

A bipartisan group of over 260 US state legislators sign a letter opposing a federal budget bill provision that bans states from enforcing AI laws for 10 years (Sophia Fox-Sowell/StateScoop)
https://statescoop.com/state-lawmakers-push-back-fe…

State lawmakers push back on federal proposal to limit AI regulation
More than 260 state legislators from all 50 states have signed a letter opposing a provision in the federal budget reconciliation bill that would limit state power in regulating AI.

Google has been downgrading the search results of smaller web sites offering human-written quality information, claims Nate Hake of Travel Lemming in a long explanation, citing many sources and developments.
Many of these changes appear to happen when #Google embraced #AI and removed the "hum…

Please, read this.
"An open letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who thinks my daughter is a tragedy" - by Anaïs Godard
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-open-letter-to-robert-f-kennedy-jr-who-thinks-my-d…

the House #GOP #Budget proposes cuts to #Medicaid. Please ask your Senators to protect Medicaid - It's easy to do with the ACLU's letter at

Congress: Save Medicaid Now
Politicians are attempting to pass devastating cuts to Medicaid right now and we must act fast. Send a message telling your member of Congress to fight back now.

the House #GOP #Budget proposes cuts to #Medicaid. Please ask your Senators to protect Medicaid - It's easy to do with the ACLU's letter at

Congress: Save Medicaid Now
Politicians are attempting to pass devastating cuts to Medicaid right now and we must act fast. Send a message telling your member of Congress to fight back now.

Implications of the evidence for direct $\mathbf{CP}$ violation in $D\to \pi^ \pi^-$ decays
Rahul Sinha, Thomas E. Browder, N. G. Deshpande, Dibyakrupa Sahoo, Nita Sinha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24338

Implications of the evidence for direct $\mathbf{CP}$ violation in $D\to π^+π^-$ decays
The observation of CP violation in the difference of CP asymmetries between $D\to K^+K^-$ and $D\to π^+π^-$ has raised a debate whether the observed asymmetries can be regarded as a signal of physics beyond the standard model (SM). In this letter we show that the measured observables for $D\to ππ$ unambiguously imply a very large penguin contribution that is larger than $10\%$ of the amplitude for $D^0\toπ^+ π^-$ at a significance greater than $3.3σ$. We present arguments based only on u…

#CNN: "Kristi Noem said a migrant threatened to kill Trump. Investigators think he was set up...
The investigators suspect the letter was to benefit a separate individual..."
Expect these investigators to soon recant or be fired. 😟
#uspol

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Extended $δN$ formalism: Nonspatially Flat Separate Universe Approach
The $δN$ formalism is a powerful approach to compute non-linearly the large-scale evolution of the comoving curvature perturbation $ζ$. It assumes a set of FLRW patches that evolve independently, but in doing so, all the gradient terms are discarded, which are not negligibly small in models beyond slow-roll. In this Letter, we extend the formalism to capture these gradient corrections by encoding them in a homogeneous-spatial-curvature contribution assigned to each FLRW patch. For a concrete …

Paul Krugman: A Letter to Europe - You’re stronger than you think. Act like it. #DKPol #EUPol https://paulkrugman.substack…

A Letter to Europe
You’re stronger than you think. Act like it.

Stable invariant manifold for generalized ODEs with applications to measure differential equations
Lu Weijie, Piccione Paolo, Xia Yonghui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02874

Stable invariant manifold for generalized ODEs with applications to measure differential equations
This paper establishes the stable invariant manifold for a new kind of differential equations defined by Kurzweil integral, so-called {\em generalized ODEs} on a Banach space. The nonlinear generalized ODEs are formulated as $$ \frac{dz}{dτ}=D[Λ(t)z+F(z,t)], $$ where $Λ(t)$ is a bounded linear operator on a Banach space $\mathscr{Z}$ and $F(z,t)$ is a nonlinear Kurzweil integrable function on $\mathscr{Z}$. The letter $D$ represents that generalized ODEs are defined via its solution, and $\f…

HMPC-assisted Adversarial Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Smart Home Energy Management
Jiadong He, Liang Yu, Zhiqiang Chen, Dawei Qiu, Dong Yue, Goran Strbac, Meng Zhang, Yujian Ye, Yi Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00898

HMPC-assisted Adversarial Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Smart Home Energy Management
This letter proposes an Adversarial Inverse Reinforcement Learning (AIRL)-based energy management method for a smart home, which incorporates an implicit thermal dynamics model. In the proposed method, historical optimal decisions are first generated using a neural network-assisted Hierarchical Model Predictive Control (HMPC) framework. These decisions are then used as expert demonstrations in the AIRL module, which aims to train a discriminator to distinguish expert demonstrations from transit…

Hardware-Centric Analysis of DeepSeek's Multi-Head Latent Attention
Robin Geens, Marian Verhelst
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02523 https://

Hardware-Centric Analysis of DeepSeek's Multi-Head Latent Attention
Multi-Head Latent Attention (MLA), introduced in DeepSeek-V2, improves the efficiency of large language models by projecting query, key, and value tensors into a compact latent space. This architectural change reduces the KV-cache size and significantly lowers memory bandwidth demands, particularly in the autoregressive decode phase. This letter presents the first hardware-centric analysis of MLA, comparing it to conventional Multi-Head Attention (MHA) and evaluating its implications for accele…

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Iterative Joint Detection of Kalman Filter and Channel Decoder for Sensor-to-Controller Link in Wireless Networked Control Systems
In this letter, we propose an iterative joint detection algorithm of Kalman filter (KF) and channel decoder for the sensor-to-controller link of wireless networked control systems, which utilizes the prior information of control system to improve control and communication performance. In this algorithm, we first use the KF to estimate the probability density of the control system outputs and calculate the prior probability of received signals to assist decoder. Then, the possible outputs of the…

In the spring and summer of 2008, when Donald Trump was still a registered Democrat,
an anonymous blogger known as Mencius Moldbug posted a serial manifesto under the heading
“An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives.”
Written with the sneering disaffection of an ex-believer,
the hundred-and-twenty-thousand-word letter argued that egalitarianism,
far from improving the world,
was actually responsible for most of its ills.
That his bien-pensant re…

Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
A Profile of Curtis Yarvin, the right-wing thinker behind the Substack “Gray Mirror,” who has been embraced by J. D. Vance, Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, and other supporters of Donald Trump. Ava Kofman reports.

Companies House have just sent me an email telling me that because of new laws, I need to verify my identity. So I leapt into action. There follows an open letter.
Dear Companies House.
The questions "Do you have a passport?" and "Do you have your passport on you in the office right now?" are different fucking questions and you should clarify which you mean before you direct me down an irreversible cul-de-sac in your application's verification logic.

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Stretching Response of a Polymer Chain with Deformable Bonds
The stretching response of polymer chains fundamentally determines the mechanical properties of polymer networks. In this Letter, we develop a statistical mechanics model that incorporates both bond stretching and bond angle deformation, enabling accurate predictions of chain behavior up to large forces. We further propose a semianalytical deformable freely rotating chain (dFRC) model, which represents the chain as a freely rotating chain with effective bond stretch and bond angle that depend o…

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Thermal conductance at the superradiant phase transition in the quantum Rabi model
The quantum Rabi model exhibits a superradiant phase transition when the coupling becomes strong, even though it involves only two components: a two-level atom and a single bosonic mode. This phase transition is referred to as a finite-component quantum phase transition, in contrast to conventional phase transitions in many-body systems. In this Letter, we investigate heat transport across an atom embedded in bosonic modes, modeled by the quantum Rabi model, between two thermal baths. We found …

Hey. I don’t know how to share this here. I don't know how to "frame" it for Mastodon...
But I want to share it. Because I know other people out there hurt. I know how isolating it is.
So, this isn't snappy & well-packaged. But neither am I. And neither is pain.
I hope this somehow helps someone feel less alone in their pain:

An Open Letter to My Body (and an Apology to the Public)
This is a post in two parts. One to my body, and one to you.

#israel #genocide #Palestine #Gaza

He says that like it’s a bad thing.
https://www.theverge.com/news/674366/nick-clegg-uk-ai-artists-policy-letter

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Meta’s former head of global affairs Nick Clegg said asking for permission from rights owners to train models would is “implausible.”

Of course, if it's companies wanting to take everything without consent then it's just a necessity we all have to live with. If individuals do they'll be sued into oblivion or bullied into suicide…
(Also filed under 'the UK keeps being a joke')
https://www.theverge.com/news/674366/nick-clegg-uk-ai-artists-policy-letter

Yes!
https://bsky.app/profile/repjasmine.bsky.social/post/3lqpvhi537k2o

Yes!
https://bsky.app/profile/repjasmine.bsky.social/post/3lqpvhi537k2o

Wow. From Anna Bower at Lawfare Media:
So, uh, it certainly looks like DOJ intended to file a letter to Judge Liman in MTA v. Duffy, but….it accidentally filed a letter containing its legal advice to the Department of Transportation instead
https://storag…

Passive Multi-Target Visible Light Positioning Based on Multi-Camera Joint Optimization
Wenxuan Pan, Yang Yang, Dong Wei, Meng Zhang, Zhiyu Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02418

Passive Multi-Target Visible Light Positioning Based on Multi-Camera Joint Optimization
Camera-based visible light positioning (VLP) has emerged as a promising indoor positioning technique. However, the need for dedicated LED infrastructure and on-target cameras in existing algorithms limits their scalability and increases deployment costs. To address these limitations, this letter proposes a passive VLP algorithm based on Multi-Camera Joint Optimization (MCJO). In the considered system, multiple pre-calibrated cameras mounted on the ceiling continuously capture images of position…

Whow, that hits our vulnerability management hard:
#ITSecurity

Surface waves and axoplasmic pressure waves in action potential propagation: fundamentally different physics or two sides of the same coin?
Marat M. Rvachev, Benjamin Drukarch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24580

Surface waves and axoplasmic pressure waves in action potential propagation: fundamentally different physics or two sides of the same coin?
We argue that El Hady and Machta's "surface wave" model describes the same underlying process as the "axoplasmic pressure wave" model introduced earlier by Rvachev. Note. We, the authors, contacted A. El Hady and B. Machta for comment on the ideas presented herein. They suggested that we "submit a Matters Arising Letter to Nature Communications and we will be asked to respond in due time." Nature Communications ultimately rejected the manuscript, citing: "... Our main criterion for consider…

Sum Rate Maximization for Wireless Powered Pinching-Antenna Systems (PASS)
Yixuan Li, Ji Wang, Ming Zeng, Yuanwei Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00355 http…

Sum Rate Maximization for Wireless Powered Pinching-Antenna Systems (PASS)
In this letter, we investigate a novel wireless powered communication network (WPCN) enabled by a pinching-antenna system (PASS), in which multiple pinching antennas (PAs) are activated on a waveguide to establish strong line-of-sight (LoS) links with multiple devices. In this system, time division multiple access (TDMA) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) protocols are adopted to fully explore the potential of the wireless information transmission. To maximize the sum rate of the PASS-WP…

“#SFUSD sent a sternly worded letter to the #SFParksAlliance. The language was cool and technical, but the meaning was not. It mirrored the poem that won Flyguy the Pimp of the Year contest: ‘Better have my money! Through rain, sleet or snow! Better have my money! Not half! Not some! But alllllllll my…

S.F. Parks Alliance’s downfall came gradually, then suddenly. But always predictably.
Years ago, the Parks Alliance allegedly stiffed the school district a six-figure sum. Why have consequences been so long in coming? 

#Scientists, the public needs to hear your story and learn about your work. Write a McClintock letter with help from the folks at Cornell: https://www.defendresearch.org/take-action

In statistics, when you have a population parameter (the "true" value of a statistic in frequentist parlance) the general notation is to use a Greek letter to represent the value:
ϕ
when you estimate a parameter you put a caret on top of the Greek symbol to indicate you have estimated a value. This is pronounced "hat" so the value below would be "Phi hat." (not sure this comes out well on mastodon, but the caret is supposed to be on top of the phi)

Chaotic Noncoherent SWIPT in Multi-Functional RIS-Aided Systems
Priyadarshi Mukherjee, Constantinos Psomas, Himal A. Suraweera, Ioannis Krikidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01051

Chaotic Noncoherent SWIPT in Multi-Functional RIS-Aided Systems
In this letter, we investigate the design of chaotic signal-based transmit waveforms in a multi-functional reconfigurable intelligent surface (MF-RIS)-aided set-up for simultaneous wireless information and power transfer. We propose a differential chaos shift keying-based MF-RIS-aided set-up, where the MF-RIS is partitioned into three non-overlapping surfaces. The elements of the first sub-surface perform energy harvesting (EH), which in turn, provide the required power to the other two sub-sur…

Very glad to see that CSUN's president has joined the AAC&U open letter "against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education"
https://www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-call-for-constructive-e…

I, for one, believe that isolationism is a great mistake and will make us all poorer as humans.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/22/trump-harvard-international-students

If you look at the organizations standing up for students being targeted by US immigration, the unions are really leading the way. A huge thanks to the AAUP for it's leadership in this:
https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/2025.04.07-AAUP-Letter-to-GCs-corrected.pdf
https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/Faculty_Association_Amicus_Brief.pdf

An inspiring and emotional heart-felt and very personal testimony, beautifully written by Allison Becker, Liverpool and Brazil goal keeper.
You'll never walk alone.
https://www.theplayerstribune.com/alisson-becker-premier-league-s…

Next-to-leading-order prediction for the neutrinoless double-beta decay
Y. L. Yang, P. W. Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24121 https://

Next-to-leading-order prediction for the neutrinoless double-beta decay
The neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0νββ$) of two neutrons$nn \rightarrow ppee$ is the elementary subprocess of $0νββ$ decay in nuclei. Accurate knowledge of the $nn \rightarrow ppee$ amplitude is required to pin down the short-range contributions in the nuclear matrix elements of the candidate nuclei for large-scale $0νββ$ searches. In this Letter, we report the first next-to-leading-order prediction of the nn \rightarrow ppee amplitude, with Bayesian uncertainty quantification. This…

Rhetorical Analysis of an Open Letter
I want to talk first about the effects of genre on rhetorical analysis. Let’s start with two main categories. Primary sources: These are texts from a writer or an organization to a specific audience or audiences with a persuasive purpose. Such texts include op-eds, letters, press releases, blog posts, tweets, and emails. These texts provide an opportunity for a straightforward rhetorical analysis because the rhetorical situation is…

Broadcom's account registration blocks pasting in the password inputs - bullshit.
It also has a captcha that seems broken? I very definitely typo'd one letter, was unable to correct what I'd typed for some reason, but it accepted it anyway?

Large Language Models Can Achieve Explainable and Training-Free One-shot HRRP ATR
Lingfeng Chen, Panhe Hu, Zhiliang Pan, Qi Liu, Zhen Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02465

Large Language Models Can Achieve Explainable and Training-Free One-shot HRRP ATR
This letter introduces a pioneering, training-free and explainable framework for High-Resolution Range Profile (HRRP) automatic target recognition (ATR) utilizing large-scale pre-trained Large Language Models (LLMs). Diverging from conventional methods requiring extensive task-specific training or fine-tuning, our approach converts one-dimensional HRRP signals into textual scattering center representations. Prompts are designed to align LLMs' semantic space for ATR via few-shot in-context learn…

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link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Physics education research: Resources for middle school science teachers
This resource letter intends to provide middle school science teachers with a collection of resources to aid them in planning and implementing a physical science curriculum. The resources are in the form of books, websites, journals, and organizations.

“Of course, we’ll not sign it, we won’t return it, we’ll do nothing about it,”
Stockholm rejects ‘bizarre’ US letter urging city to scrap diversity initiatives - The Guardian https://apple.news/AY-ia_hgUQIiUQ3Dh286CPg

"I don’t believe anyone was thinking about [the] 51st state idea. Truthfully, the intent was to not get political, but to focus on social, cultural, and economic ties."
I hate this nonsense. With great respect and in kindness: Mr. City Councillor in Bellngham needs to put on his big boy pants and admit that yes it is political and yes it is about the 51st state rhetoric and all the scary border stuff from his federal government.
His choice not to admit that and speak against that, and worse, to act like it doesn’t exist, is a further insult and will not help to get BC/Canadians to resume visits.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #51stState #NoFascism #TheAmericanFascist #Economy #Tourism
https://www.albernivalleynews.com/home2/video-bellingham-letter-of-support-sent-to-bc-communities-8034581

Of course, if it's companies wanting to take everything without consent then it's just a necessity we all have to live with. If individuals do they'll be sued into oblivion or bullied into suicide…
(Also filed under 'the UK keeps being a joke')
https://www.theverge.com/news/674366/nick-clegg-uk-ai-artists-policy-letter

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Geometric expansion of fluctuations and average shadows
Fluctuations of observables provide unique insights into the nature of physical systems, and their study stands as a cornerstone of both theoretical and experimental science. Generalized fluctuations, or cumulants, provide information beyond the mean and variance of an observable. In this letter, we develop a systematic method to determine the asymptotic behavior of cumulants of local observables as the region becomes large. Our analysis reveals that the expansion is closely tied to the geometr…

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LSZ ghostbusters in the quadratic gravity stage
The present letter considers the quantization method developed in [1]-[9], which postulates that, in several situations, negative norm or ghost states can be avoided in order to give positive probabilities. These authors also postulate a candidate for a path integral for those theories, following pioneer works initiated by Dirac [10]} and Pauli \[11]. However, taking into account the non standard oscillator algebra inherent to this method, in order to be sure that unitarity is not violated, one…

Trump's Education Secretary mocked after critics spot embarrassing grammatical errors in threatening letter to Harvard
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14685541/Trump-Education-Secretary-critics-spot-e…

Texas Solicitor General Resigned After Fantasizing Colleague Would Get 'Anally Raped By a Cylindrical Asteroid' https://www.404media.co/texas-solicitor-general-judd-stone-resigned/

The California State Senate launches an inquiry into whether Paramount's proposed $15M settlement with Trump violated bribery and unfair competition laws (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/30/2025/california-opens…

California opens inquiry into Paramount and Trump
The California Senate’s move follows a letter from three US senators to the embattled media company.

brian eno’s open letter to Microsoft
https://www.tumblr.com/trickbop/784345281404846080?source=share

I don't think we should always have to include the "upswing" in struggles we share
When you're in the shit of it & all you hear is upswing, you can feel more alone—that you need to "suck it up/be positive." And I find that toxic
Still, I have BIG feelings about sharing my suck with so little upswing
...cause I'm a hypocritical asshole when it comes to myself🙃
Full thought:

Feedbackless Feed
A (non)social feedbackless feed to nowhere

Letter: Synopsys tells staff to stop sales, services, and new orders in China to comply with new US export curbs, and pulls its annual and quarterly forecasts (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/synops

A great piece of analysis with lots of suggestions for what to do in response to the Trump administration's efforts to destroy U.S. research infrastructure. I appreciate the inclusion of the work to #DefendResearch against #censorship.

Geopolitical Tensions and Financial Networks: Strategic Shifts Toward Alternatives
Antonis Ballis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21480 https://

Geopolitical Tensions and Financial Networks: Strategic Shifts Toward Alternatives
Global financial systems are undergoing strategic shifts as geopolitical tensions reshape international trade and payments. The United States (US)-China trade war, sanctions regimes, and rising concerns over the weaponization of financial infrastructures like SWIFT have led countries to seek alternative networks, including China's CIPS and emerging cross-border CBDCs. This letter presents a dynamic theoretical framework where sanction risks, investment choices, and network effects drive payment…

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Physics education research: Resources for graduate student instructors
This resource letter intends to provide physics instructors - particularly graduate student teaching assistants - at the introductory university level with a small but representative collection of resources to acquire a familiarity with research in physics education for guidance in everyday instruction. The resources are in the form of books, articles, websites, journals, and organizations.

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Theory of cell size regulation during migration in adhered cells
Cell migration is closely linked to cell shape, yet cell size is often assumed to remain constant. This assumption is challenged by recent experiments showing that cells undergo volume loss during spreading and swelling upon activation, with migration velocity correlated to cell size. In this Letter, we present a minimal theoretical framework for cellular size regulation and its influence on migration velocity. We connect cell size to membrane potential and active, actin-driven forces. Spatial …

I’ve got some thoughts, and some questions.
Do you think pushback from Senate Republicans had anything to do with trumriff’s recent reversal? I do, though I haven’t seen it discussed, and wonder why. If you haven’t read about this, I can refer you to Heather Cox Richardson’s Letter of April 7, where she writes, “Seven Republican senators have now signed onto a bill that would limit Trump’s ability to impose tariffs. The power to levy tariffs belongs to Congress, but Congress has permit…

Startup CTO, writer and coach Dr. Milan Milanović shares a love letter to C# in 2025, and why its adherents believe it's such a good choice. He discusses, amongst other topics:
1. Language Features
2. The .NET Ecosystem
3. Tooling
4. Libraries and NuGet
5. Documentation
6. Community
7. Popularity
8. C# vs Other Languages, and
9. The Future of C#
He also shares a brief history of the language.
"Why C#?"

Why C#?
I might have been skeptical if someone had told me years ago that C# would become my programming language of choice for most projects.

This was a real post on LinkedIn. It was deleted, either by LinkedIn or by the page owner. Long live Sesame Street!

"I rejoice greatly that I find there is patience in my soul for quite a long time yet, that I desire no earthly possessions, and need nothing but books, the possibility of writing, and of being daily for a few hours alone." - Fyodor #Dostoevsky, letter to N. D. Fonvisin, March 1854.
#books #solitude #writing #quotes