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What I've been saying... YIMBY "wins" in California have failed to actually build housing. The blockage is investment. The solution is public investment, ideally in the form of social housing!
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SF YIMBYs keep winning, so where's the housing?
Legislators and voters have approved novel ideas to generate funding, but a lack of political will has scuttled them.

„Mogelpackungen“ - Deutsche Verbraucherschützer gehen gegen Milka vor #News #Nachrichten

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Norway fund divests from US firm Caterpillar over Gaza, West Bank abuses | Gaza News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/26/norway-fund-divests-from-us-firm-caterpillar-over-gaza-west-bank-abuses?traffic_source=rss

Code-Weight Sphere Decoding
Yubeen Jo, Geon Choi, Yongjune Kim, Namyoon Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19631 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.19631

Code-Weight Sphere Decoding
Ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) demand high-performance error-correcting codes and decoders in the finite blocklength regime. This letter introduces a novel two-stage near-maximum likelihood (near-ML) decoding framework applicable to any linear block code. Our approach first employs a low-complexity initial decoder. If this initial stage fails a cyclic redundancy check, it triggers a second stage: the proposed code-weight sphere decoding (WSD). WSD iteratively refines the code…

Modeling the Mass Distribution and Gravitational Potential of Nearby Disk Galaxies: Implications for the ISM Dynamical Equilibrium
Vivek Vijayakumar, Jiayi Sun, Eve C. Ostriker, Enrico M. Di Teodoro, Konstantin Haubner, Chang-Goo Kim, Adam K. Leroy, Miguel Querejeta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22381…

Modeling the Mass Distribution and Gravitational Potential of Nearby Disk Galaxies: Implications for the ISM Dynamical Equilibrium
We characterize stellar, gas, and dark matter mass distributions for 17 nearby massive disk galaxies from the PHANGS sample. This allows us to compute the gravitational potential that vertically confines the interstellar gas and determines its equilibrium scale height and weight. We first combine dynamical mass constraints from existing CO and HI rotation curves together with stellar and gas mass estimates from near-infrared, CO, and HI data. These estimates incorporate current best practices i…

I filled out a bike rack request but it is insane that I have to suggest to my local government—which is supposedly all about promoting Union Square and downtown recovery—that it consider putting any bike racks at all anywhere near an enormous 7-story department store.

Observation of spin-conserving two-spinon continuum in the $S$=1/2 antiferromagnetic chain system Sr$_2$CuO$_3$ using Cu $K$-edge resonant inelastic x-ray scattering
Kenji Ishii, Kenji Tsutsui, Takayuki Kawamata, Yoji Koike
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22492

Observation of spin-conserving two-spinon continuum in the $S$=1/2 antiferromagnetic chain system Sr$_2$CuO$_3$ using Cu $K$-edge resonant inelastic x-ray scattering
We report a Cu $K$-edge resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) study of spin excitations in the $S$=1/2 antiferromagnetic chain system Sr$_2$CuO$_3$. The spectral weight observed below the charge-transfer gap appears in two-spinon continuum, indicating the fractionalization of a spin-conserving ($ΔS = 0$) magnetic excitation into two-spinon states. The intensity of these excitations reaches a maximum near the midpoint between the center and the boundary of the Brillouin zone, and decreases…

#AntiAKW Eine aktuelle Pressemitteilung der #Linken in #NRW zu den aktuellen Entwicklungen um die #Castortransporte aus …

Ecocidal Israeli Death Force uproots thousands of Palestinian olive trees in West Bank | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/23/israeli-military-uproots-thousan…

Israeli military uproots thousands of Palestinian olive trees in West Bank
Israeli destruction in al-Mughayyir near Ramallah is part of push to forcibly displace Palestinians, researcher says.