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The playlist "Femme Fatale" by AfroWave celebrates the impactful contributions of African women to the music scene.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/46E72kWxaxa8wbatFy0gGE
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AfroWave XVIII: Femme Fatale
AfroWave XVIII: Femme Fatale · Playlist · 54 songs · 4 likes

I swam 🏊 #Uckermark #swimming

Log Calabi-Yau pairs of birational complexity zero
Joshua Enwright, Fernando Figueroa, Joaqu\'in Moraga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05878 https://

Log Calabi-Yau pairs of birational complexity zero
In this article, we study the geometry of log Calabi-Yau pairs $(X,B)$ of index one and birational complexity zero. Firstly, we propose a conjecture that characterizes such pairs $(X,B)$ in terms of their dual complex and the rationality of their log canonical places. Secondly, we show that for these pairs the open set $X\setminus B$ is divisorially covered by open affine subvarieties which are isomorphic to open subvarieties of algebraic tori. We introduce and study invariants that measure the…

My pasque flower took a year to get established but now she’s really here. What a delightful plant. The blooms are gorgeous and the plants are literally pettable… every bit as soft as they look.
I took this during the eclipse, which is when I first noticed it was blooming, so this will also be my Eclipse Photo.
#gardening

Most Top News Sites Block AI Bots. Right-Wing Media Welcomes Them
"Nearly 90 percent of top news outlets like The New York Times now block AI data collection bots from OpenAI and others. Leading right-wing outlets like NewsMax and Breitbart mostly permit them."
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Most Top News Sites Block AI Bots. Right-Wing Media Welcomes Them
Nearly 90 percent of top news outlets like 'The New York Times' now block AI data collection bots from OpenAI and others. Leading right-wing outlets like NewsMax and Breitbart mostly permit them.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
Cabaret Voltaire:
🎵 Spies In The Wires
#CabaretVoltaire
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Syoo4vqm1iqnpzEXb1Uyt
https://cabaretvoltaire.bandcamp.com/track/spies-in-the-wires

A Categorical Treatment of Open Linear Systems
Dario Stein, Richard Samuelson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03934 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

A Categorical Treatment of Open Linear Systems
An open stochastic system à la Willems is a system affected two qualitatively different kinds of uncertainty -- one is probabilistic fluctuation, and the other one is nondeterminism caused by lack of information. We give a formalization of open stochastic systems in the language of category theory. A new construction, which we term copartiality, is needed to model the propagating lack of information (which corresponds to varying sigma-algebras). As a concrete example, we discuss extended Gau…

Remember in the Obama administration there was a fake scandal about the IRS “targeting” conservative nonprofits—and the press fell for it more or less wholesale?
Since then, it’s been hands off. So now we have a vast web of illegitimate right-wing nonprofits using tax-exempt dark money for influence-peddling, covert electioneering, and nest-feathering. Today’s case in point from the tireless David Fahrenthold. (Gift link.)

Trump-Allied Nonprofit Paid Millions to Companies Run by Insiders
The Conservative Partnership Institute’s three highest-paid contractors had connections to the group’s leaders or their relatives, raising concerns about self-dealing.

Good try!
#CalvinAndHobbes

I surrender!
#Cats #Caturday