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What a completely loopy day 🙃 someone take my internet away, I'm in danger of just writing what I think in emails

Truncating loopy tensor networks by zero-mode gauge fixing
Ihor Sokolov, Yintai Zhang, Jacek Dziarmaga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00338 https://arxiv.org/p…

Truncating loopy tensor networks by zero-mode gauge fixing
Loopy tensor networks have internal correlations that often make their compression inefficient. We show that even local bond optimization can make better use of the insight it has locally into relevant loop correlations. By cutting the bond, we define a set of states whose linear dependence can be used to truncate the bond dimension. The linear dependence is eliminated with zero modes of the states' metric tensor. The method is illustrated by a series of examples for the infinite pair entangled…

Loopy D And The Long Tail
https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jdfwnosj5tavojrkinbcor6h/post/3lygupqt45s2x

Julian Sanchez (@normative.bsky.social)
This is incredibly silly. Of course he did. What even is the alternate theory of the case? You're not obligated to treat it as some kind of seriously open question just because Trump denies it. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

at public records in #brooklyn, dreamy/loopy chamber #jazz for a summer's eve in bitchin' quad sound by johnson/wilkes/uhlmann, which (i kept thinking) would probably get somewhat lost if played outdoors on a summer's eve. perhaps the best room for pure listening in

Loopy Black-Hole Remnants
Asier Alonso-Bardaji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21159 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21159 …

Loopy Black-Hole Remnants
The quantized area predicted by loop quantum gravity suggests the existence of a lower bound for black-hole horizons. We prove this intuition within a covariant effective model for spherical loop quantum gravity, where nonsingular quasi-static black holes evaporate until their horizons attain the smallest positive eigenvalue of the area operator. Consistent with the third law of black-hole thermodynamics, this final state -- characterized by vanishing temperature and entropy -- cannot be realiz…

BBC bias on Israel
From Jonathan Cook. (Substack link, sorry.)
"In a confrontation with BBC news chief Richard Burgess, journalist Peter Oborne sets out six ways the state broadcaster has wilfully misled audiences on Israel's destruction of Gaza"
For example,
"... the distinguished Israeli historian Avi Shlaim lives in the UK and teaches at Oxford University. ... Shlaim is both knowledgeable about the history of Israeli colonisation of Palestine and truly independent. He is in a position to dispassionately provide the context BBC audiences need to make judgments about what is going on and who is responsible for it.
"And yet extraordinarily, Shlaim has never been invited on by the BBC. ... He is one of the prominent Israelis we are never allowed to hear from, because they are likely to make more credible and mainstream a narrative the BBC wishes to present as fringe, loopy and antisemitic."
Plus some media analysis stats such as:
"The BBC mentioned “occupation” – the essential context for understanding the relationship between Israel and Palestinians – only 14 times in news articles when providing context to the events of 7 October 2023. That amounted to 0.3% of articles. Additional context – decades of Israeli apartheid rule and Israel’s 17-year blockade of Gaza — were entirely missing from the coverage."
#Israel #Palestine #history #Gaza #media #BBC #JonathanCook