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Gwen Snyder posted something on Saturday to the effect that “Fascists •need• the appearance of strength, and right now, Trump just looks weak.”
I think it’s easy for us evidence-hungry thinker types to underestimate just how much appearance matters. Massive rallies are not — •must• not be — the endpoint of resistance. However, neither are they purely symbolic. They have a real and concrete effect. They change perceptions, which change human behavior. Yes, they matter. They matter a lot.
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We have urgent news from Ukraine.
More innocent lives were lost and dozens were injured after a second consecutive night of massive aerial attacks on the city of Kyiv.
Hundreds of Russian drones destroyed homes, residential buildings and healthcare clinics.
How much more can the people of Ukraine take?
Right now, more than 5 million Ukrainian refugees are scattered across Europe,
while 3.7 million people remain displaced inside their own country.
Famili…

B.C. cyclist's clever Strava drawings:
"Perfect intersection' of art, fitness and road rash
When B.C.'s Janine Strong got into road cycling in 2019, she had no idea it would lead her down the path of Strava art: the creation of massive GPS-tracked sketches around the world."
See Ya later Alligator
#stava

Flavor Symmetries and Winding Modes
Xueqi Li, Xiang-Gan Liu, Hans Peter Nilles, Michael Ratz, Alex Stewart
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12887 https://…

Flavor Symmetries and Winding Modes
Modular flavor symmetries have been proposed as a new way to address the flavor problem. It is known that they can emerge from string compactifications. We discuss this connection in detail, and show how the congruence subgroups of SL(2,Z), which underlie many modular flavor symmetries, emerge from stringy duality symmetries by orbifolding. This requires an analysis of massive states, which reveals a picture that is more intricate than the well-known situation on the torus. It involves towers o…

250th anniversary of the military.
Massive military display planned in the capital.
Apropos of nothing, who saw season 3 of #StarTrek #Picard?

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is building multi-gigawatt datacenter "clusters", starting with a massive datacenter called Prometheus that will come online in 2026 (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Deep Learning Model Acceleration and Optimization Strategies for Real-Time Recommendation Systems
Junli Shao, Jing Dong, Dingzhou Wang, Kowei Shih, Dannier Li, Chengrui Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11421

Deep Learning Model Acceleration and Optimization Strategies for Real-Time Recommendation Systems
With the rapid growth of Internet services, recommendation systems play a central role in delivering personalized content. Faced with massive user requests and complex model architectures, the key challenge for real-time recommendation systems is how to reduce inference latency and increase system throughput without sacrificing recommendation quality. This paper addresses the high computational cost and resource bottlenecks of deep learning models in real-time settings by proposing a combined s…

Discrimination of metric theories
F. J. Lobo, M. Rivera-Tapia, G. Rubilar, O. Jim\'enez, A. Delgado
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12243 https://

Discrimination of metric theories
We study the possibility of discriminating between metric theories within the Parametrized Post-Newtonian formalism. In this approach, the two-dimensional quantum state of a massive quantum clock becomes, after propagating at low speed and in a weak gravitational field, a function of the post-Newtonian parameters and thus a signature of a metric theory. To discriminate among metric theories, we resort to quantum-state discrimination strategies such as minimum error and unambiguous state discrim…

I started the massive cleanup of the production libraries. I don't care what one party says. I am moving jobs, control files, and SPUFIs that are not being run in the production environment. Just for one item type, I am archiving 14k members. This will make sure that no one can accidentally run them in production! They are still available for reference in the archive libraries.
They have never done this, and the libraries are so bloated it takes a long time to scan them looking…

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