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India opens criminal investigations into The Wire editor Siddharth Varadarajan, the outlet's staff, and parent FIJ over articles on April attacks and Pakistan (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/08/indian-police-open-2-criminal-…

Indian police open 2 criminal probes into The Wire news outlet - Committee to Protect Journalists
New Delhi, August 20, 2025—Two police branches in northeastern Indian state of Assam opened separate criminal investigations into Siddharth Varadarajan, editor for independent news website The Wire, its entire editorial team, including Hindi language editor Ashutosh Bhardwaj and contributor Karan Thapar, and the outlet’s parent company, the Foundation for Independent Journalism (FIJ). The investigations are...

"Disney is under siege from all sides.
Within 48 hours of its decision to pull late-night host Jimmy Kimmel off the air indefinitely, the parent company of ABC has once again found itself at the center of a bitter political battle. The company now faces protests outside its studios, celebrities threatening to break ties and political pressure from Republicans and Democrats."

Pressure mounts on Disney over Kimmel suspension as some boycott calls spread
Within 48 hours of its decision to pull late-night host Jimmy Kimmel off the air indefinitely, Disney has once again found itself at the center of a bitter political battle.

#Minnesota Pubic Radio (MPR) parent company cuts 30 jobs following federal funding cuts | MPR News (h/t akuzee@bsky.social)
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/08/15/m

MPR parent company cuts 30 jobs following federal funding cuts
Minnesota Public Radio's parent company laid off 30 staff members Friday after Congress clawed back funding that it had previously approved for public broadcasting. Cuts in state funding from the Minnesota Legislature exacerbated the budget gap.

OpenAI says its nonprofit parent will continue to have oversight over the company and will own an equity stake of more than $100B (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/11/openai-says-nonprofit-parent-to-own-stake-in-compa…

OpenAI says nonprofit parent will own equity stake in company of over $100 billion
OpenAI said that its nonprofit parent will continue to oversee the company and have a very large stake in its future.

Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ canceled by CBS, to end in May 2026

The announcement came days after Colbert spoke out
against the $16 million settlement
paid by CBS News parent Paramount to settle a lawsuit filed by Donald Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/st…

Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ canceled by CBS, to end in May 2026
The announcement came days after Colbert spoke out against the $16 million settlement paid by CBS News parent Paramount to settle a lawsuit filed by Donald Trump.

"U.S. District Judge Tim Kelly, a Donald Trump appointee, found the government's "reunification" plan included little proof that any parent or guardian wanted the children returned."
Federal judge blocks deportation of hundreds of Guatemalan children | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/federal-judge-blocks-deportation-of-hundreds-of-guatemalan-children/

Wow, don't miss the intense amount of cybersecurity news in today's Metacurity, including
--AI cyber risks are more evolutionary than revolutionary, experts say,
--Gucci parent Kering is a victim of an attack claimed by ShinyHunters,
--Jaguar extends its shutdown after ShinyHunters attack,
--Google confirms LE platform attack claimed by ShinyHunters,
--ShinyHunters claims attack on SK Telecom,
--Poland boosts cyber budget after attacks,
--China…

AI cyber risks are more evolutionary than revolutionary, experts
Gucci parent Kering is a victim of an attack claimed by ShinyHunters, Jaguar extends its shutdown after ShinyHunters attack, Google confirms LE platform attack claimed by ShinyHunters, ShinyHunters claims attack on SK Telecom, Poland boosts cyber budget after attacks, much more

😆 it’s not schokking at all. The 黄牛s ( people who bought tickets just to re-sell them) in China have being known to collaborate with platforms like such to raise the prices for a long time. https://flipboard.com/@pitchfork/news-pqu92e91z/-/a-uCnrzOak…

Federal Trade Commission Sues Ticketmaster and Live Nation Entertainment
Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation Entertainment, have long been the target of ire from musicians and concertgoers alike due to their use of hidden fees and the prevalence of ticket scalpers on their platforms. Last year, under President Joe Biden, the United States Justice Department …

A Race Bias Free Face Aging Model for Reliable Kinship Verification
Ali Nazari, Bardiya Kariminia, Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15177 https://

A Race Bias Free Face Aging Model for Reliable Kinship Verification
The age gap in kinship verification addresses the time difference between the photos of the parent and the child. Moreover, their same-age photos are often unavailable, and face aging models are racially biased, which impacts the likeness of photos. Therefore, we propose a face aging GAN model, RA-GAN, consisting of two new modules, RACEpSp and a feature mixer, to produce racially unbiased images. The unbiased synthesized photos are used in kinship verification to investigate the results of ver…

The numerical case for identifying paired quantum Hall phases by their daughters
Misha Yutushui, Arjun Dey, David F. Mross
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14162 https://

The numerical case for identifying paired quantum Hall phases by their daughters
Many candidate non-Abelian quantum Hall states are accompanied by nearby `daughter' states, which are proposed to identify their topological order. Combining exact diagonalization and trial wave functions, we provide numerical evidence that daughter states reliably predict the parent topological phase. In the contexts of bilayer graphene and wide GaAs quantum wells, we show that the same interactions simultaneously stabilize Pfaffian, anti-Pfaffian, and their daughters, while suppressing the Ja…

A non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model with the energy levels of free parafermions
Edward McCann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11601 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

A non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model with the energy levels of free parafermions
Using a parent Hermitian tight-binding model on a bipartite lattice with chiral symmetry, we theoretically generate non-Hermitian models for free fermions with $p$ orbitals per unit cell satisfying a complex generalization of chiral symmetry. The $p$ complex energy bands in $k$ space are given by a common $k$-dependent real factor, determined by the bands of the parent model, multiplied by the $p$th roots of unity. When the parent model is the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model, the single-partic…

New: Podcast REMIX: Tracy McCubbin on having a parent who hoards and becoming a professional organising superstar https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-remix-tracy-mccubbin-on-ha…

As a Danish parent of vaccinated Danish children, I'm happy to learn there is no evidence for any harm, but also happy to have contributed to such important science.
Science In Action: Vaccine study retraction request* rejected
*(By RFK Jr)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct6yfq

Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Jerry Greenfield is leaving the ice cream brand after 47 years, saying that
the independence it once had to speak up on social issues has been stifled by parent company Unilever
https://apnews.com/article/ben-jerrys-

Why Jerry Greenfield is leaving Ben & Jerry's after 47 years
Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Jerry Greenfield is leaving the ice cream brand after 47 years, saying the freedom the company used to have to speak up on social issues has been stifled by corporate parent Unilever. Co-founder Ben Cohen posted Greenfield's letter on social media platform X on Greenfield’s behalf. Greenfield said that he felt the independence the brand had to speak on social issues and events was lost to Unilever.

Late fluid flow in a primitive asteroid revealed by Lu–Hf isotopes in #Ryugu: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09483-0.epdf?sharing_token=VL8QMH3tVOhYxVKrJmTozdRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0NPQK0_mk8K7IgOT-Cto7Eo7Wz9oQUxzQKpjpaa2UdwuGYA71rDYG1QYVuwa4CBanwmb6BgPdujtT03FRKF28qp9SvV40dGHc0Iym5wGaWv9y5L1cy7JRyggjQSwsNVGH3F-1iVtnCEQSNlhTHKNgPPvBXSpsvARNlTBSiShsCbG-LtNUXW4tLcBP54GvJC6VQ=&tracking_referrer=www.space.com -> Scientists find evidence of flowing water on Ryugu’s ancient parent asteroid: https://www.space.com/astronomy/asteroids/scientists-find-evidence-of-flowing-water-on-ryugus-ancient-parent-asteroid-it-was-a-genuine-surprise

Hint: hierarchical inter-frame correlation for one-shot point cloud sequence compression
Yuchen Gao, Qi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14859 https://arxi…

Hint: hierarchical inter-frame correlation for one-shot point cloud sequence compression
Deep learning has demonstrated strong capability in compressing point clouds. Within this area, entropy modeling for lossless compression is widely investigated. However, most methods rely solely on parent orsibling contexts and level-wise autoregression, which suffers from decoding latency on the order of 10 to 100 seconds. We propose HINT, a method that integrates temporal and spatial correlation for sequential point cloud compression. Specifically, it first uses a two stage temporal feature …

Precise Measurement of $^{216}$Po Half-life with Exact Parent-daughter Pairing in PandaX-4T
PandaX Collaboration, Chenxiang Li, Zihao Bo, Wei Chen, Xun Chen, Yunhua Chen, Chen Cheng, Xiangyi Cui, Manna Deng, Yingjie Fan, Deqing Fang, Xuanye Fu, Zhixing Gao, Yujie Ge, Lisheng Geng, Karl Giboni, Xunan Guo, Xuyuan Guo, Zichao Guo, Chencheng Han, Ke Han, Changda He, Jinrong He, Houqi Huang, Junting Huang, Yule Huang, Ruquan Hou, Xiangdong Ji, Yonglin Ju, Xiaorun Lan, Jiafu Li, Mingchuan Li…

Precise Measurement of $^{216}$Po Half-life with Exact Parent-daughter Pairing in PandaX-4T
We report a precise measurement of $^{216}\rm Po$ half-life using the PandaX-4T liquid xenon time projection chamber (TPC). $^{220}\rm Rn $, emanating from a $^{228}\rm Th $ calibration source, is injected to the detector and undergoes successive $α$ decays, first to $^{216}\rm Po$ and then to $^{212}\rm Pb$. PandaX-4T detector measures the 5-dimensional (5D) information of each decay, including time, energy, and 3-dimensional positions. Therefore, we can identify the $^{220}\rm Rn $ and $^{21…

It's very confusing having a parent at the beginning of the end. Mum's been in hospital for a week, needing to be stabilised before she can be moved elsewhere for palliative care. She has a terminal neurodegenerative illness and has suddenly deteriorated very rapidly.
I think I feel survivor's guilt. I want her suffering to be over but is that saying I want her to die? I can also see how much better my dad is in himself now he's not caring for her at home. Confusing is …

Parenting Out Loud
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Could we make the use of the manufactured verb 'to vibe' a Capital Offence?
I understand it defines the user as a lazy individual that is a succubus of code and of no social worth whatever so I'd be content with shunning and general silent glares in their direction.
Perhaps the painting of 'V' on their gate or parent's house (they probably live there).

CBS Late Show host Stephen Colbert condemns parent company Paramount Global settling President Trump's lawsuit over a 60 Minutes story as a "big fat bribe" (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/colbert-ste

The Paramount comics, Colbert and Stewart, are sharp critics of the '60 Minutes' deal
Stephen Colbert returned from vacation loaded for bear. The CBS late-night comic referred to the settlement between his parent company, Paramount Global, and President Donald Trump over a “60 Minutes” interview as a “big, fat bribe.” The deal was made while Paramount is awaiting Trump administration approval of its sale to Skydance Media. Colbert's comments on his show Monday came a week after Jon Stewart of Comedy Central, another Paramount-owned company

Families' Vision of Generative AI Agents for Household Safety Against Digital and Physical Threats
Zikai Wen, Lanjing Liu, Yaxing Yao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11030 https:…

Families' Vision of Generative AI Agents for Household Safety Against Digital and Physical Threats
As families face increasingly complex safety challenges in digital and physical environments, generative AI (GenAI) presents new opportunities to support household safety through multiple specialized AI agents. Through a two-phase qualitative study consisting of individual interviews and collaborative sessions with 13 parent-child dyads, we explored families' conceptualizations of GenAI and their envisioned use of AI agents in daily family life. Our findings reveal that families preferred to di…

Burger King's parent company has come under fire for allegedly using copyright law to suppress a researcher who uncovered serious security flaws in its drive-through ordering technology.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/s…

Burger King accused of silencing security researcher with copyright claim
Burger King's parent company has come under fire for allegedly using copyright law to suppress a researcher who uncovered serious security flaws in its drive-through ...

Detection of low-luminosity X-ray pulsations from the accreting millisecond pulsar IGR J17511-3057: an ever-thinning thread between bright accretion and sub-luminous states
Giulia Illiano, Alessandro Papitto, Sergio Campana, Alessio Marino, Arianna Miraval Zanon, Francesco Carotenuto, Francesco Coti Zelati, Maria Cristina Baglio, Filippo Ambrosino, Christian Malacaria, Caterina Ballocco, Gaurava K. Jaisawal, Marco M. Messa, Emilie Parent, Thomas D. Russell, Andrea Sanna, Anastasios Tzi…

Detection of low-luminosity X-ray pulsations from the accreting millisecond pulsar IGR J17511-3057: an ever-thinning thread between bright accretion and sub-luminous states
After nearly a decade in quiescence, the accreting millisecond pulsar IGR J17511$-$3057 displayed a new outburst on 2025 February 11, its third since discovery, following previous activity in 2009 and 2015. We report on an XMM-Newton Target of Opportunity observation performed on 2025 March 4, more than twenty days after the outburst onset. From the X-ray spectrum - well described by an absorbed Comptonization model - we estimated an unabsorbed 0.5$-$10 keV luminosity of $L_X \sim 7 \times 10^{…

Crypto trading volume at Bitstamp, bought by Robinhood in 2024, grew 21% MoM in August to $14.4B, surpassing Robinhood's crypto volume, which fell 18% to $13.7B (Brayden Lindrea/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitstamp-flips-parent-robin…

Insurer Blue Shield of California's new parent company alarms consumer advocates
Blue Shield of California accrued a surplus of more than $4 billion over the decades as it benefited from its former tax-exempt status, according to a regulatory filing.
Last year, regulators approved a request by 💥Blue Shield of California,
the state's third-largest health insurer, to restructure and establish a new parent corporation in Delaware.
The Oakland-based nonprofit go…

Insurer Blue Shield of California's new parent company alarms consumer advocates
Whistleblower demands California regulators rescind restructuring of Blue Shield of California, which established a new corporate parent in Delaware. He...

Parody of (#)OnlineSafetyAct:
UK: YOU ARE UNFIT PARENTS
also UK: WE ARE HEREBY TAKING OVER AS PARENTS OF UKs CHILDREN AND WE WILL KEEP THEM SAFE WITH THE ONLINE SAFETY ACT
Parent: but...
UK: YOU ARE AN UNFIT PARENT...NOW LET THE REAL PARENTS (THE GOVERNMENT) CONTROL!
Parent: I'm the parent
UK: NO! WE ARE THE PARENT BECAUSE YOU ARE WORTHLESS. WHAT DID YOUR KID DO MOMENTS AGO
Parent: Uhm...my work
UK: EXCUSES!
YOU ARE NO LONGER A LEGAL …

fucking fascists
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/10/hyundai-factory-ice-raid-legal-visa

Most incompatible measurements and sum-of-squares optimisation
S\'ebastien Designolle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10381 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.10381…

Most incompatible measurements and sum-of-squares optimisation
Measurement incompatibility, or joint measurability, is a cornerstone of quantum theory and a useful resource. For finite-dimensional systems, quantifying this resource and establishing universal bounds valid for all measurements is a long-standing problem. In this work, we exhibit analytical universal parent measurements giving access to bounds that beat the state of the art. In particular, we can show that, for relevant robustnesses, sets of anticommuting observables give rise to the most inc…

Finished "Hungry Ghost" by Victoria Ying. A beautiful graphic novel dealing with disordered eating via an unintentionally abusive parent, plus loss of a parent. It's #OwnVoices and has a gentle ending. I enjoyed the body- and food-positive takeaways.
#AmReading

Designing for Engaging Communication Between Parents and Young Adult Children Through Shared Music Experiences
Euihyeok Lee, Souneil Park, Jin Yu, Seungchul Lee, Seungwoo Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10907

Designing for Engaging Communication Between Parents and Young Adult Children Through Shared Music Experiences
This paper aims to foster social interaction between parents and young adult children living apart via music. Our approach transforms their music-listening moment into an opportunity to listen to the other's favorite songs and enrich interaction in their daily lives. To this end, we explore the current practice and needs of parent-child communication and the experience and perception of music-mediated interaction. Based on the findings, we developed DJ-Fam, a mobile application that enables par…

My great failure in life is that I never put myself in a position to monetise being this embarrassingly incompetent.
#auspol #australia #government

OpenAI is preparing to launch an AI-powered jobs platform that could place the company in direct competition with LinkedIn, even though Microsoft, LinkedIn’s parent company, remains its largest financial backer.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/o

OpenAI unveils jobs platform to challenge LinkedIn
OpenAI is preparing to launch an AI-powered jobs platform that could place the company in direct competition with LinkedIn, even though Microsoft, LinkedIn’s parent company, ...

Alphabet becomes the fourth company to reach a $3T market cap, joining Nvidia, Microsoft, and Apple, after its stock jumped 4% on Monday (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/15/alphabet-3-trillion-market-cap.html

Alphabet becomes fourth company to reach $3 trillion market cap
Google's parent company added hundreds of billions of dollars in value in September following a favorable ruling.

Yang-Baxter structure of the extended space
Kirill Gubarev, Edvard Musaev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09637 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.09637

Yang-Baxter structure of the extended space
We construct an analogue of Yang--Baxter deformations defined by a single Killing vector, that is a solution generating transformation in Einstein--Maxwell dilaton theory. We show that these are nothing but a coordinate transformation in a parent theory related to EMd theory by KK reduction. Similarly (almost-abelian) bi-vector Yang--Baxter deformations are coordinate transformations in the doubled space.

“Reuters published a story just a few days ago, 1 of many warnings: ‘In May, every living former director of NWS signed on to an open letter w/ a warning that, if continued, Trump’s cuts to fed weather forecasting would create needless loss of life. Despite bipartisan congressional pushback for a restoration in staffing & funding to NWS, sharp budget cuts remain on pace in projections for the 2026 budget for NOAA, the parent organization of NWS.”

Texas Officials Blame Agency Gutted by Trump for Results of Deadly Storm
Experts warned for months about cuts to NWS and NOAA

An Effective Two-Phase Genetic Algorithm for Solving the Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem (RCPSP)
D. Sun, S. Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21915

An Effective Two-Phase Genetic Algorithm for Solving the Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem (RCPSP)
This note presents a simple and effective variation of genetic algorithm (GA) for solving RCPSP, denoted as 2-Phase Genetic Algorithm (2PGA). The 2PGA implements GA parent selection in two phases: Phase-1 includes the best current solutions in the parent pool, and Phase-2 excludes the best current solutions from the parent pool. The 2PGA carries out the GA evolution by alternating the two phases iteratively. In exploring a solution space, the Phase-1 emphasizes intensification in current neighb…

Interpreting Hubble tension with a cascade decaying dark matter sector
Quan Zhou, Zixuan Xu, Sibo Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08687 https://

Interpreting Hubble tension with a cascade decaying dark matter sector
Hubble tension can be alleviated by altering either early- or late-time $Λ$CDM. So far, extensive studies have shown that only early dark energy or ad hoc combinations of those two-fold effects can reduce the tension to $3σ$ or lower. In this work, we improve the later solution by considering a cascade decaying dark matter sector, where a parent particle produces relativistic dark matter in the early Universe and the dark matter subsequently decays to neutrinos in the late-time Universe. We p…

this *sounds* like SFMTA agreed to painting full 20-foot red curbs at every intersection, rather than the mere 10 feet at stop-controlled intersections that has been traffic engineer Ricardo Olea's policy. if so, good! parent organizing worked!
https://www.k…

SFMTA Coming Up Short on Daylighting SF’s Red Curbs, Parents Say
San Francisco’s transit agency says it will change its daylighting policy to ensure compliance with a California traffic safety law intended to protect pedestrians and cyclists.

Effect of stochasticity on the growth of the infty-parent SLFV process
Jan Lukas Igelbrink (BioSP), Apolline Louvet (BioSP)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22484 https://

Effect of stochasticity on the growth of the infty-parent SLFV process
We explore the impact of different forms of stochasticity on the expansion dynamics of a stochastic growth model called the $\infty$-parent spatial $Λ$-Fleming Viot process. This process belongs to a family of population genetics processes in a spatial continuum, and was recently introduced to study the evolution of genetic diversity in spatially expanding populations. Its stochastic reproduction dynamics gives rise to a rich growth structure, on which first theoretical results were obtained. …

Magnetic, charge and orbital properties of parent and Sr-doped La$_2$NiO$_4$ and its pressure evolutions
Han-Yu Wang, Shu-Hong Tang, Xiao-Teng Huang, Ya-Min Quan, XianLong Wang, Yan-Ling Li, Da-Yong Liu, H. -Q. Lin, Zhi Zeng, Liang-Jian Zou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03277

Magnetic, charge and orbital properties of parent and Sr-doped La$_2$NiO$_4$ and its pressure evolutions
Recent discovery of unconventional superconductivity on multilayer nickelates under high pressure have stimulated great interest. The magnetic and charge configurations in the normal phase of multilayer nickelates which closely relate to the spin-charge fluctuations remain under strongly debated. In this work, we focus the normal-state magnetic, charge and orbital configurations and its evolutions with hydrostatic pressure and Sr-doping concentration of monolayer nickelate La$_2$NiO$_4$. We rev…

Sources: ByteDance is working on a lightweight MR device that resembles goggles, tethered to a compute puck, and has a team working on the device's custom chips (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/bytedance-developin…

ByteDance Developing Mixed Reality Goggles in Challenge to Meta
Competition in mixed reality devices is heating up. TikTok’s parent, ByteDance, is working on a lightweight mixed reality device that resembles a pair of goggles, according to three people with direct knowledge of the project. It’s following in the footsteps of Meta Platforms, which has been ...

9th Circuit sides with Oregon mother denied foster parent status over LGBTQ views - oregonlive.com
https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2025/07/9th-circuit-sides-with-oregon-mother-denied-foster-parent-status-over-lgbtq-views.html

[BLOG] Von schlechtem Kupfer und langsamen Netzwerken https://www.adlerweb.info/blog/2025/08/06/von-schlechtem-kupfer-und-langsamen-netzwerken/

@… @… Hell yeah.
My life got a lot better when I stopped listening to any parent except the ones I know well and respect.

this is an underrated dees, its composition evokes dali and carrington landscapes in a way none of his other stuff does

...I didn't realize until I was an adult having parents who loved you and made it obvious they did day to day is so valuable...
A parent that loves their work also provides huge benefits, in my experience...
https://curiouscatlinks.blogspot.com/2025/07/i-was-lucky-…

I was a Lucky Kid
 Comments on: Work travel: it’s required for my role and business, but brutal for my heart. My 5-year-old is really struggling with me trave...

Causal identification with $Y_0$
Charles Tapley Hoyt, Craig Bakker, Richard J. Callahan, Joseph Cottam, August George, Benjamin M. Gyori, Haley M. Hummel, Nathaniel Merrill, Sara Mohammad Taheri, Pruthvi Prakash Navada, Marc-Antoine Parent, Adam Rupe, Olga Vitek, Jeremy Zucker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03167…

Causal identification with $Y_0$
We present the $Y_0$ Python package, which implements causal identification algorithms that apply interventional, counterfactual, and transportability queries to data from (randomized) controlled trials, observational studies, or mixtures thereof. $Y_0$ focuses on the qualitative investigation of causation, helping researchers determine whether a causal relationship can be estimated from available data before attempting to estimate how strong that relationship is. Furthermore, $Y_0$ provides gu…

For a family of 4 with 2 children the parents believe are too young to fly without a parent sitting adjacent to them...
If that family flies out of a smallish airport where nearly all destinations require a layover, under current rules requiring a fee for every seat assignment, that family will be paying 12 seat assignment fees. In many cases, it will exceed the cost of 1 ticket. It adds up fast.
#Travel

IGN lays off staff, including eight members of the IGN Creators Guild, representing 12% of the bargaining unit, as parent company Ziff Davis cuts costs (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/718692/ign-entertainment-layoffs-creators-guil…

IGN hit by layoffs as parent company Ziff Davis cuts costs
IGN is laying off eight of its unionized staffers, and the guild representing them says it’s due to a mandate from Ziff Davis to cut costs.

Well, it's done. I have finally finished making my combined parent/professor College Visit / Campus Tour Bingo card, distilled from the several we did this summer. Please use responsibly and joyously (and remember to never take these tours too seriously).

#SouthPark celebrated its 27th season premiere and parent company Paramount's capitulation with a hilarious mocking AI video of a beleaguered #Trump stripping down and examining his tiny appendage.
(AI was used for some of the imaging.)

He should have become a priest. Then they'd never have fired him...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/29/new-orleans-teacher-widower-mark-jacobs-catholic-school

Now that there's apparently a definition of working class (it's based on one of your parent's job when you were 14), can someone build an "am I working class or not?" web service?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3ez3v9v8jqo

Civil service interns must all be working class, government says
Internships will only go to students from poorer families in a push to make Whitehall more working class.

Verification Method for Graph Isomorphism Criteria
Chuanfu Hu, Aimin Hou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07615 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.07615

Verification Method for Graph Isomorphism Criteria
The criteria for determining graph isomorphism are crucial for solving graph isomorphism problems. The necessary condition is that two isomorphic graphs possess invariants, but their function can only be used to filtrate and subdivide candidate spaces. The sufficient conditions are used to rebuild the isomorphic reconstruction of special graphs, but their drawback is that the isomorphic functions of subgraphs may not form part of the isomorphic functions of the parent graph. The use of sufficie…

Role-Playing LLM-Based Multi-Agent Support Framework for Detecting and Addressing Family Communication Bias
Rushia Harada, Yuken Kimura, Keito Inoshita
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11210

Role-Playing LLM-Based Multi-Agent Support Framework for Detecting and Addressing Family Communication Bias
Well-being in family settings involves subtle psychological dynamics that conventional metrics often overlook. In particular, unconscious parental expectations, termed ideal parent bias, can suppress children's emotional expression and autonomy. This suppression, referred to as suppressed emotion, often stems from well-meaning but value-driven communication, which is difficult to detect or address from outside the family. Focusing on these latent dynamics, this study explores Large Language Mod…

On Magnetic and Crystal Structures of NiO and MnO
V. Pomjakushin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11715 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.11715

On Magnetic and Crystal Structures of NiO and MnO
The magnetic and crystal structures of manganese and nickel monoxides have been studied by high-resolution neutron diffraction. The known 1$k$-structures based on the single propagation vector $\left[\tfrac{1}{2}\ \tfrac{1}{2}\ \tfrac{1}{2}\right]$ for the parent paramagnetic space group $Fm\bar{3}m$ are forced to have monoclinic magnetic symmetry and are not possible in rhombohedral symmetry. However, the monoclinic distortions from the rhombohedral $R\bar{3}m$ metric allowed by symmetry are v…

A look at US-backed NVD, as its parent org NIST scrambles to hire contractors to help clear a backlog of 25K vulnerabilities, ~10x the previous high in 2017 (Matthew King/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/11/1119370…

Cybersecurity’s global alarm system is breaking down
The US system to track vulnerabilities is struggling to keep up with its backlog. Experts are scrambling to assemble alternatives.

Pretty sure my mom gets that “flying-an-airplane-without-a-manual” feeling whenever she walks in and catches sight of my anarchist flag waving next to the rainbow, trans, and neurodiversity pride flags.
#Autism #ActuallyAutistic

From Bsky (and colleague):
Cargo Bike Test Drive event is this Saturday AM in Arlington (MA). An event where owners of cargo bikes volunteer their time to help those considering cargo bikes figure out the right cargo bike for them. Test drives in a safe for newbies environment.
https://www.familybikeride.org/testdrive

Family Bike Ride - Cargo Bike Test Drive
Register Location: Thorndike Field on Minuteman Trail This will be our 9th crowd sourced event to benefit parents considering cargo bikes to transport their children by helping them to be able talk to a variety current parent owners that live in their community and try out the bikes. The goal is

Assessing the dissociation hierarchy of aniline under UV-induced multiphoton ionization
Muthuamirthambal Selvaraj, Binduja Panja, Rejila J, Sreeja R, Theertha M, Vishnumaya A, Umesh Kadhane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08305

Assessing the dissociation hierarchy of aniline under UV-induced multiphoton ionization
The multiphoton ionization of the simplest aromatic amine, aniline, was examined utilizing a kinetic energy-correlated time-of-flight mass spectrometer at a wavelength of 266 nm. The primary and secondary fragment channels have been identified, and their plausible internal energy dependence has been discussed. Furthermore, the sequential loss fragment channel has been analyzed using the energy-correlated mass spectrum, revealing the fragment channels along with their respective parent mass excl…

I took a very lengthy video course that I remember being called "Intermediate Python" circa 2016 on Lynda.com. Since then, LinkedIn acquired Lynda to build out LinkedIn Learning and parent company Microsoft has apparently wiped most of the history of Lynda's very existence from the internet.
I'm giving a talk at #PyOhio this month and I'd like to credit the authors …

The University of Michigan paid over $800,000 to Amerishield,
parent company to a private security company called City Shield.
It was part of a broader
👉 $3 million public‑security budget, which included ⚠️surveillance of pro‑Palestinian student activists.
The university hired plainclothes agents who 💥trailed students into cafés, harassed them, and even staged confrontations,
including faking a disability to falsely accuse them of theft.
City Shield, a p…

US Campuses Have Become the Newest Laboratories for Surveillance Technology
From Gaza to the US, military-grade surveillance tools are being deployed to monitor and punish student dissent.

Electrodeless Magnetohydrodynamic Local Force Generator for Aerocapture
Bernard Parent, Felipe Martin Rodriguez Fuentes, Spencer LaFoley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04806 https:/…

Electrodeless Magnetohydrodynamic Local Force Generator for Aerocapture
This paper presents a novel magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) system for planetary entry aerocapture. The system is advantaged over previous approaches by having the following two characteristics: (i) it can be deployed locally to one or various flow regions, and (ii) it does not make use of electrodes. Previous MHD systems for planetary entry were either electrodeless global systems or two-electrode local systems. The proposed novel MHD system employs two magnets to establish a current loop resulting…

EchoStar reports losing 383K subscribers in Q2 for ~7.1M in total and pay TV revenue down 8% YoY to $2.5B; Sling TV lost 109K subscribers for a total of 1.78M (Daniel Frankel/StreamTV Insider)
https://www.streamtvinsider.com/technology/…

Dish, Sling TV lose 289K pay TV subs in Q2 as bankruptcy bell tolls
In the words of one prominent analyst, it’s no longer a question of if Dish-parent EchoStar will liquidate, but when. | In the words of one prominent analyst, it’s no longer a question of if Dish-parent EchoStar will liquidate, but when.

Me: "hey, any interest in switching this [SMS thread] over to Signal?"
Other class parent: "I would prefer not to add another service I'm not currently using. But we could do WhatsApp."
🙄
we fucking deserve the surveillance capitalism that we have

Sources: India's Billionbrains Garage, parent of investment app Groww, plans to file for an India IPO next week, seeking $650M-$800M at an ~$8B valuation (Rajesh Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

I used the acronym "LLMs" after the word "AI" in a school parents' meeting today and only one other parent ( my husband) knew what it was.
Is it just a bit of jargon? Completely unknown? Or am I out of touch?
jargon but also a word people use
not jargon but a bit obscure
No idea what you're talking about
I'm a techbro who wants to know what people think

A look at Radio Times parent company Immediate Media, which had adjusted profit of ~£36M in 2024 and 745K digital subscribers, out of 1.3M total subscribers (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news-leader

Podcasts, paywalls and Apple News fuel growing profitability at Immediate Media
Immediate Media CEO Sean Cornwell on why AI adoption is now a key performance metric for staff and new digital revenue streams.

Analysis: YC picked just four Indian startups in 2024 vs. 66 in 2021, amid a growing trend of startups shifting their parent entities to India for domestic IPOs (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.…

From 66 to 4: Why Y Combinator backed fewer Indian startups in 2024
Y Combinator's selection of Indian startups has decreased significantly. This decline is attributed to factors like YC's US incorporation requirement and the rise of domestic IPOs. Indian startups are shifting focus to local funding options. They find domestic markets favorable for listing. YC is also prioritizing AI-focused startups. This shift impacts Indian participation. Domestic capital is growing with regulatory support.


Kari Lake, sent termination notices to more than 500 employees at the broadcaster and its parent agency Friday night.

The agency sent out notices late Friday night ahead of the Labor Day long weekend, with a termination date of Sept. 30, multiple recipients told The Washington Post.

Lake — the acting CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media — has faced legal challenges amid allegations that she is overstepping her statutory authority,
and was blocked earlier this week from firi…

Kari Lake lays off more than 500 staff at Voice of America parent agency
Amid a contentious court battle, the Trump administration official sent long-awaited termination notices to staffers who have been waiting on administrative leave for months.

The variety and origin of materials accreted by Bennu’s parent asteroid / Mineralogical evidence for hydrothermal alteration of Bennu samples / Space weathering effects in Bennu asteroid samples: #Bennu Samples Reveal Complex Origins, Dramatic Transformation: https://news.arizona.edu/news/asteroid-bennu-time-capsule-materials-bearing-witness-its-origin-and-transformation-over / https://science.nasa.gov/missions/osiris-rex/nasas-bennu-samples-reveal-complex-origins-dramatic-transformation/

1 more note: DO NOT TAKE ADVICE FROM AN ATTORNEY WHO’S BEEN PROVIDED BY AN AGENCY OR HOPEFUL ADOPTIVE PARENT. Sign nothing, especially not in the hospital & especially not when you’ve recently given birth & are exhausted, overwhelmed, & perhaps under the influence. Your baby is yours until you’ve signed a TPR, which is often presented to mothers as something other than a TPR. #CrisisPregnancy

A New Hampshire court rejected TikTok's request to dismiss the state AG's suit accusing the company of using manipulative design features aimed at kids (Zach Vallese/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/11/tiktok-lawsuit-kids.html

TikTok loses bid to dismiss lawsuit alleging its 'addictive design' exploits kids
President Donald Trump granted ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, a third extension on time to sell off its U.S. TikTok operations.

Dallas Morning News parent company DallasNews Corporation signs a merger agreement to be acquired by Hearst, in a deal that values it at $74.9M (Amy Hollyfield/Dallas Morning News)
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2025/07/10/dallasnews-corporatio…

DallasNews Corporation agrees to merge with Hearst
DallasNews Corporation and Hearst have signed a definitive merger agreement, which has been unanimously approved by the boards of directors from both...

Multi-Ontology Integration with Dual-Axis Propagation for Medical Concept Representation
Mohsen Nayebi Kerdabadi, Arya Hadizadeh Moghaddam, Dongjie Wang, Zijun Yao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21320

Multi-Ontology Integration with Dual-Axis Propagation for Medical Concept Representation
Medical ontology graphs map external knowledge to medical codes in electronic health records via structured relationships. By leveraging domain-approved connections (e.g., parent-child), predictive models can generate richer medical concept representations by incorporating contextual information from related concepts. However, existing literature primarily focuses on incorporating domain knowledge from a single ontology system, or from multiple ontology systems (e.g., diseases, drugs, and proce…

Current problems of studying relativistic dissociation of light nuclei in nuclear emulsion
D. A. Artemenkov, N. K. Kornegrutsa, N. Marimuthu, N. G. Peresadko, V. V. Rusakova, A. A. Zaitsev, P. I. Zarubin, I. G. Zarubina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09636

Current problems of studying relativistic dissociation of light nuclei in nuclear emulsion
The progress of the study of unstable states in relativistic dissociation events of light nuclei in nuclear emulsion is presented. Identification of these states is possible by means of the invariant mass determined from the most accurate and complete measurements of relativistic fragment emission angles in the approximation of conservation of momentum per nucleon of the parent nucleus. It is established that excitations $^{12}\mathrm{C}(0^{+}_{2})$ and $^{12}\mathrm{C}(3^{-})$ lead in the diss…

Dunno if you’re watching #JonStewart on #theDailyShow tonight, but it’s worth taking a look at the show asap. I figured he’d be a tad riled up over the Colbert thing, but omg. It’ll be interesting to see the reaction tomorrow. Especially, as he mentioned, the same parent company owns his show. Wil…

This is what my mom doesn’t understand 🧩 I know more than the average Joe ♾️
#Autism #ActuallyAutistic #Autistic

Indirect CW: religious abuse, divorce
Just finished "Visitations" by Corey Egbert, a really powerful fictionalized graphic autobiography about a kid growing up in a cult-adjacent situation. It's more about his specific parent than the Mormon Church, but of course his mom's problems are symbiotic with and amplified through faith.
Spoilers:
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Has a positive ending, thank goodness.
#AmReading

The team behind AI agent Manus has relocated its HQ to Singapore and started recruiting there, while parent company Butterfly Effect reportedly remains in China (Hannah Wang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-t…

Chinese start-up Manus AI relocates to Singapore amid US chip curbs
Manus AI has begun recruiting in the city state, offering positions such as data analyst and AI agent engineer.

Waymo introduces teen accounts in Phoenix, allowing teenagers aged 14-17 to use its Waymo One ridehailing service alone with parental approval (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/699580/waymo-teen-account-phoenix

Waymo introduces teen accounts for the first time in Phoenix
Waymo is introducing teen accounts for the first time in Phoenix. Kids as young as 14 can create an account that’s linked to their parent or guardian.

News Media Corporation says it will cease operations effective immediately, citing financial challenges; NMC operated local newspapers in five US states (Dan Cepeda/Oil City News)
https://oilcity.news/community/busines

Multiple small Wyoming newspapers go dark after corporate closes without warning
CASPER, Wyo. — Around 11 communities in Wyoming have lost their local newspapers after the sudden closure of their parent company. According to a company

Meta said it supports proposals for an EU-wide age of digital adulthood, below which minors would need parental consent to use social media (Brian O'Donovan/RTÉ)
https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0704/1521746-meta-eu/

Meta backs EU digital majority age
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has said it supports proposals for a common digital majority age across EU member states.

Trump Media reports Q2 net sales up 5.5% YoY to $883.3K, a net loss of $20M, vs. a $16.4M net loss in Q2 2024, and $3.1B in cash and investments, up ~800% YoY (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/trump-truth-social-tmtg-q2-2…

Trump's TMTG Truth Social Q2 Earnings: $20M Loss on $883K in Net Sales
Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social that is majority-owned by President Donald Trump, posted earnings for Q2 2025.

Indian quick commerce companies like Swiggy, Zepto and Flipkart are slowing down dark store expansion to rein in cash burn after an aggressive year of growth (Pranav Mukul/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiat…

Quick commerce companies slow dark stores buildout to control cash burn
Quick commerce firms are hitting pause on expansion of dark stores to keep cash burn in check. Industry executives said companies are renegotiating their lease agreements for these mini-warehouses. An exception is Blinkit, which is backed by parent Eternal’s $2 billion war chest and plans to expand its network to 3,000 stores from 1,544 dark stores as of June 30.

Ziff Davis is laying off 15% of its unionized workforce, or 23 people, 19 of which work for CNET; Ziff Davis has bought five companies in 2025 (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/715220/ziff-davis-creators-guild-cnet-layoffs

Layoffs hit CNET as its parent company goes on a buying spree
Media company Ziff Davis is laying off 15 percent of its unionized workforce, with the majority being from tech outlet CNET.

Trump Media reports Q2 net sales up 5.5% YoY to $883.3K and a net loss of $20M, and says it accumulated ~$2B in bitcoin and bitcoin-related securities in July (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/trump-truth-social-tmtg-q2-2…

Trump's TMTG Truth Social Q2 Earnings: $20M Loss on $883K in Net Sales
Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social that is majority-owned by President Donald Trump, posted earnings for Q2 2025.

A profile of OnlyFans' secretive founder Leo Radvinsky, as the platform's parent company is considering a sale for as much as $8B, according to sources (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/only-fa

NetChoice sues Arkansas over two laws that would put limits on social media content and let parents of children who died by suicide sue over platform content (Andrew Demillo/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/net-choice-ar…

Tech industry group sues Arkansas over new social media laws
A tech industry trade group has sued Arkansas over two new law placing limits on content on social media platforms. The lawsuit was filed Friday in federal court by NetChoice, whose members include TikTok, Facebook parent Meta, and X, formerly known as Twitter. The lawsuit comes months after a federal judge struck down an Arkansas law that would have required parental consent for minors to create new social media accounts. The new laws the group is challenging include one that would allow paren…

Aylo, owner of Pornhub, YouPorn, and RedTube, will add "government approved age assurance methods" in the UK by July 25 to comply with the Online Safety Act (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr5v2lz5vl6o

Pornhub to introduce 'government approved' UK age checks
Parent company Aylo hasn't spelt out what the age checking methods will be, but say they will be introduced within a month.

Q&A with Harsh Jain, CEO of Dream11 parent Dream Sports, on India's real-money gaming law, which he says erased 95% of the group's revenue and all its profits (Moneycontrol)
https://www.

SEC filing: Alden-owned MediaNews makes a ~$88M bid for DallasNews Corporation, after the Dallas Morning News parent signed a $75M merger agreement with Hearst (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/business/media/d…

Alden Global Capital Makes a Play for The Dallas Morning News
The investment firm’s MediaNews Group, the country’s second-largest newspaper publisher, put in a bid for the publication nearly two weeks after Hearst agreed to buy it.

Veteran anchor Chris Wallace has become a senior adviser for news and media investments at RedBird Capital Partners, a major Skydance investor (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/business/media/chris-wallace-redbird-cbs.html

Chris Wallace, a CBS News Scion, Is Advising Its New Owner
The longtime news anchor recently began working for a financial firm connected to CBS’s new parent company and has spoken with the network’s owner, David Ellison, several times.