@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2025-08-07 16:04:44
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2025-10-07 15:58:26
Truck driver sues Mark Sanchez and Fox after violent fight over parking space https://www.foxsports.com/articles/motor/truck-driver-sues-mark-sanchez-and-fox-after-violent-fight-over-parking-space
@sean@scoat.es2025-08-06 17:19:22
@… I’m truly exhausted by the feeling that I need to move away from every service, no matter how many [hundreds of?] thousands of dollars I’ve delivered to them, all the time.
Imagine your legacy being “killed it after even a Microsoft acquisition didn’t kill it”. :smh:
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-03 01:34:22
The US is set to raise the number of military vessels deployed near Venezuela to eight this week,
which Maduro described as
“the greatest threat that has been seen on our continent in the last 100 years.”
Following an authorization by Trump to use military force against Latin American drug cartels,
the Associated Press and CBS News report that “the US Navy now has two Aegis guided-missile destroyers — the USS Gravelyand the USS Jason Dunham — in the Caribbean,
a…
@arXiv_physicschemph_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-08-08 08:42:02
Mind the Gap: From Resolving Theoretical Foundations of Chiral(ity)-Induced Spin Selectivity to Pioneering Implementations in Quantum Sensing
Yan Xi Foo, Aisha Kermiche, Farhan T. Chowdhury, Clarice D. Aiello, Luke D. Smith
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05611
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-08-06 12:03:02
Uspol
"We're not redrawing the districts to discriminate based on race, we're drawing them to favor our own party," is such an interesting thing to say out loud. On the one hand, pretense of democratic norms is completely gone; says a lot about where the country is headed. On the other hand, the need to maintain a pretense of non-racism persists? That's probably better than them feeling comfortable to go full mask-off about white supremacy. They're already flaunting breaking a lot of laws, so I wonder whether the legal or social-norms aspects of coming out as explicitly racist matter more to them here.
#USPol
@arXiv_quantph_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-08-04 09:58:30
Quantum repeaters based on stationary and flying Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill qudits
Stefan H\"aussler, Peter van Loock
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00530 https://
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-09-05 13:15:19
"""
In melancholy, the spirits are carried away by an agitation, but a weak agitation that lacks power or violence, a sort of impotent upset that follows neither a particular path nor the aperta opercula [open ways], but traverses the cerebral matter constantly creating new pores. Yet the spirits do not wander far on the new paths they create, and their agitation dies down rapidly, as their strength is quickly spent and motion comes to a halt: ‘non longe perveniunt’ [they do not reach far]. A trouble of this nature, common to all delirium, does not have the power to produce on the surface of the body the violent movements or the cries to be observed in mania and frenzy. Melancholy never attains frenzy; it is a madness always at the limits of its own impotence. That paradox is explained by the secret alterations in the spirits. Ordinarily, they travel with the speed and instantaneous transparency of rays of light, but in melancholy they become weighed down with night, becoming ‘obscure, thick and dark’, and the images of things that they bring before consciousness are ‘in a shadow, or covered with darkness’. As a result they move more slowly, and are more like a dark, chemical vapour than pure light. This chemical vapour is acid in nature, rather than sulphurous or alcoholic, for in acid vapours the particles are mobile and incapable of repose, but their activity is weak and without consequence. When they are distilled, all that remains in the still is a kind of insipid phlegm. Acid vapours, therefore, are taken to have the same properties as melancholy, whereas alcoholic vapours, which are always ready to burst into flames, are more related to frenzy, and sulphurous vapours bring on mania, as they are agitated by continuous, violent movement. If the ‘formal reason and causes’ of melancholy were to be sought, it made sense to look for them in the vapours that rose up from the blood to the head, and which had degenerated into ‘an acetous or sharp distillation’. A cursory glance seems to indicate that a melancholy of spirits and a whole chemistry of humours lies behind Willis’ analyses, but in fact his guiding principle mostly reflects the immediate qualities of the melancholic illness: an impotent disorder, and the shadow that comes over the spirit with an acrid acidity that slowly corrodes the heart and the mind. The chemistry of acids is not an explanation of the symptoms, but a qualitative option: a whole phenomenology of melancholic experience.
"""
(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)
@servelan@newsie.social2025-08-03 19:23:21
“These numbers are put together by teams of literally hundreds of people following detailed procedures that are in manuals. There’s no conceivable way that the head of the BLS could have manipulated this number.”
White House Doubles Down on Baseless “Rigged” Claims About Poor Jobs Data – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/trump-jobs-data-bls-commissioner-fired-conspiracy-theory/
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-10-02 18:32:22
Today I had to go to the dentist, to have a filling replaced. My dentist is a small young woman from Glasgow, very competent, who chats cheerily through the whole procedure.
But I was thinking of @… , a poet from #Gaza who wants to be a dentist, and wh…
