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Trump ordered his White House counsel and the attorney general on Wednesday to investigate former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his staff -- in Mr. Trump’s latest attempt to stoke outlandish conspiracy theories about his predecessor.
In an executive order, Mr. Trump put the power and resources of the federal government to work examining whether some of Mr. Biden’s presidential actions were legally invalid because his aides had enacted those policies without his knowledge.
The e…

Trump Orders Investigation of Biden and His Aides
The executive order is the latest effort by President Trump to stoke outlandish conspiracy theories about his predecessor and question the legality of his actions in office.

A Trump administration letter to Congress outlines a plan to restructure VOA that would shrink the agency to 18 employees, down from roughly 1,400 in March (Minho Kim/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/us/politics/trump-voice-of-america.h…

Nearly All Remaining Voice of America Employees Could Be Fired Under Plan
A proposed restructuring would leave only 18 employees at the federally funded news agency, which was founded in 1942 to combat Nazi propaganda.

But-but-but the Bible Belt's the largest consumer!
Southern Baptist Convention Calls For Outlawing Porn - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/05/southern-baptist-convention-calls-for-outlawing-porn/

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00277 has been replaced.
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Stochastic Domination of Exit Times for Random Walks and Brownian Motion with Drift
In this note, by an elementary use of Girsanov's transform we show that the exit time for either a biased random walk or a drifted Brownian motion on a symmetric interval is stochastically monotone with respect to the drift parameter. In the random walk case, this gives an alternative proof of a recent result of E. Peköz and R. Righter in 2024. Our arguments in both discrete and continuous cases are parallel to each other. We also outline a simple SDE proof for the Brownian case based on a sta…

From this year on, ESWC will be under the umbrella of SWSA, the Semantic Web Science Association, to secure financial sustainability for the upcoming years after its previous supporting organisation STI was dissolved in 2023. Basics about the transition are given by Elena Simperl, president of SWSA.
https://swsa.semanticweb.org/

"UK government unveils solar roadmap, outlines steps to 47 GW by 2030"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #SolarPower #Energy

UK government unveils solar roadmap, outlines steps to 47 GW by 2030
The UK government has published its plan to support solar deployment to 2030 and beyond. Policies include updating the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme, a safety review of plug-in solar for balconies and rooftops, consulting on car park solar, and engaging with industry on skills and training.

Trump Amplifies Outlandish Robot Biden Conspiracy Theory (Zolan Kanno-Youngs/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/us/politics/trump-biden-conspiracy-theory.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250601/p72#a250601p72

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13880 has been replaced.
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An AI-powered Public Health Automated Kiosk System for Personalized Care: An Experimental Pilot Study
Background: The HERMES Kiosk (Healthcare Enhanced Recommendations through Artificial Intelligence & Expertise System) is designed to provide personalized Over-the-Counter (OTC) medication recommendations, addressing the limitations of traditional health kiosks. It integrates an advanced GAMENet model enhanced with Graph Attention Networks (GAT) and Multi-Head Cross-Attention (MHCA) while ensuring user privacy through federated learning. This paper outlines the conceptual design and architecture…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16998 has been replaced.
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Geometrizing the Anomaly
Recently a manifestly gauge invariant formalism for calculating amplitudes in quantum electrodynamics was outlined in which the field strength, rather than the gauge potential, is used as the propagating field. To demonstrate the utility of this formalism we calculate the axial and gauge anomalies explicitly in theories with both electrically and magnetically charged particles. Usually the gauge anomaly is identified as an amplitude that (in certain theories) fails to be gauge invariant, so it …

02:31—Good Night #Fediverse! 😴💤
I just made myself a new banner for myself, using (mostly) open source software. The only exception was that I used a random website to add an outline to my Rudolf Rocker image, I was too lazy to get out of bed and use GIMP on my PC for that step. For everything else, I used this tool from GitHub: