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Breaking down 20 years of election data that shows how the two parties have evolved in the Trump era (Ben Kamisar/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/breaking-20-years-election-data-shows-two-parties-evolved-trump-era-rcna211197
http://www.memeorandum.com/250607/p3#a250607p3

X changes its developer agreement to prevent third parties from using "the X API or X Content to fine-tune or train a foundation or frontier model" (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/x-changes-i…

X changes its terms to bar training of AI models using its content | TechCrunch
Social network X has changed its developer agreement to prevent third parties from using the platform's content to train large language models.

⚖️ 6 parties civiles se battent pour la justice dans l’affaire OKC-Spatz. iElles n’ont pas les moyens de payer leurs avocats. Chardons Bleus est lŠ pour les soutenir. Aidons-les Š poursuivre leur combat ! votre don peut faire la différence 💙 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/dons

»Life360 Secretly Sells Users’ Geolocation Data to Third Parties, Class Action Claims:
A proposed class action alleges family tracking app Life360 secretly sells data about users’ locations and movements to third parties.«
When apps are (almost) free, they make unlimited money by selling you. Don't trust any, if they don't communicate their data protection.
🕵️

Life360 Secretly Sells Users’ Geolocation Data to Third Parties, Class Action Claims
A class action alleges family tracking app Life360 secretly sells data about users’ locations and movements to third parties.

Nombre Effectif de Partis Politiques en Afrique: Une Nouvelle M\'ethode pour un Calcul Objectif et Institutionnellement Neutre
Adama Nouboukpo, Kodzo Michel Aladji, Muktar Bappa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04279

Nombre Effectif de Partis Politiques en Afrique: Une Nouvelle Méthode pour un Calcul Objectif et Institutionnellement Neutre
Political fragmentation in Africa poses to a significant challenge to effective governance and stability. Traditional measures of party system fragmentation, such as the Effective Number of Parties (ENP) index, often fail to capture the nuanced realities of African political landscapes, particularly the influence of dominant parties, fluid party affiliations, and the impact of ethnic and regional cleavages. To address these limitations, this paper introduces two novel "apolitical" or "instituti…

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

They Planned Parties and Salsa Music for July 4th.
ICE Raids Made Them Think Twice.
Some communities in the Los Angeles region canceled events over fears of immigration raids,
as Latinos grapple with how, and whether, to celebrate Independence Day.
Bell Gardens, where more than 96 percent of residents are Hispanic, is one of more than two dozen so-called Gateway Cities that make up a hub of largely Latino working-class communities.
In recent days, the mayor of …

They Planned Parties and Salsa Music for July 4th. ICE Raids Made Them Think Twice.
Some communities in the Los Angeles region canceled events over fears of immigration raids, as Latinos grapple with how, and whether, to celebrate Independence Day.

Authenticated Private Set Intersection: A Merkle Tree-Based Approach for Enhancing Data Integrity
Zixian Gong, Zhiyong Zheng, Zhe Hu, Kun Tian, Yi Zhang, Zhedanov Oleksiy, Fengxia Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04647

Authenticated Private Set Intersection: A Merkle Tree-Based Approach for Enhancing Data Integrity
Private Set Intersection (PSI) enables secure computation of set intersections while preserving participant privacy, standard PSI existing protocols remain vulnerable to data integrity attacks allowing malicious participants to extract additional intersection information or mislead other parties. In this paper, we propose the definition of data integrity in PSI and construct two authenticated PSI schemes by integrating Merkle Trees with state-of-the-art two-party volePSI and multi-party mPSI pr…

Allez, on se rapproche du but ! Il nous manque seulement 8050 € pour clôturer cette facture d'avocats pour nos 6 parties civiles. Ta contribution compte ! 💪
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🗳️ Can the “Red Wave” Stop Austerity in Finland?
#politics

Can the “Red Wave” Stop Austerity in Finland?
Last Sunday’s local and regional elections in Finland saw a big defeat for the hard-right Finns Party. Its leader called the gains for left-wing parties a “red wave” — but it’s less clear that this will halt the government’s austerity agenda.

GARG-AML against Smurfing: A Scalable and Interpretable Graph-Based Framework for Anti-Money Laundering
Bruno Deprez, Bart Baesens, Tim Verdonck, Wouter Verbeke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04292

GARG-AML against Smurfing: A Scalable and Interpretable Graph-Based Framework for Anti-Money Laundering
Money laundering poses a significant challenge as it is estimated to account for 2%-5% of the global GDP. This has compelled regulators to impose stringent controls on financial institutions. One prominent laundering method for evading these controls, called smurfing, involves breaking up large transactions into smaller amounts. Given the complexity of smurfing schemes, which involve multiple transactions distributed among diverse parties, network analytics has become an important anti-money la…

Do you oppose new political parties on the basis that they might "split the vote" and give power to the other side? Maybe it's electoral reform you should be looking into.
(When I was young, people used to object to reform as it might let the BNP gain seats. FPTP eventually produced governments with the BNP's policies anyway.)

⚖️ Survivre Š une secte, c’est dur. Obtenir justice, encore plus. L’instruction de l’affaire OKC-Spatz arrive Š un moment clé. Aidons 6 parties civiles Š aller jusqu’au procès. 🙏 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/cagnotte-en-ligne

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02965 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…

Memory-Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Training for Mixture-of-Experts LLMs
Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) has been gaining popularity due to its successful adaptation to large language models (LLMs). In this work, we introduce Privacy-preserving Collaborative Mixture-of-Experts (PC-MoE), which leverages the sparsity of the MoE architecture for memory-efficient decentralized collaborative LLM training, enabling multiple parties with limited GPU-memory and data resources to collectively train more capable LLMs than they could achieve individually. At the same time, this appro…

Someone sent me a link to a video showing an interesting advertising campaign and my reply was:
"This needs to be hacked to support a harsh criticism of Capitalism."
(I am fun at parties but they have to be socialist parties.)

F.F.S. The Republican parties of Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi are already selling Alligator Alcatraz merch. Evan Power, Chairman of the Republican Party of Florida said, “…when you sell merch, you get names, you get emails, and then you make some money off of all of it.”

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03734 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Labeling without Seeing? Blind Annotation for Privacy-Preserving Entity Resolution
The entity resolution problem requires finding pairs across datasets that belong to different owners but refer to the same entity in the real world. To train and evaluate solutions (either rule-based or machine-learning-based) to the entity resolution problem, generating a ground truth dataset with entity pairs or clusters is needed. However, such a data annotation process involves humans as domain oracles to review the plaintext data for all candidate record pairs from different parties, which…

If you're ever going to pay attention to local government elections in England and Wales, these are the ones to watch. (But remember a lot of counts don't even begin until Friday morning - staying up all night would be a bad move, unless you wake up at midnight.)
In a nutshell, first past the post just about copes with two major parties. With three, it can throw up wild swings depending on how support is distributed across constituencies. With FIVE parties polling within a few …

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

Ahead of a meeting of the Democratic National Committee’s Executive Committee in Little Rock on Friday,
DNC chair Ken Martin said the national party is committing the largest financial assistance to state Democratic parties ever.
“The DNC will push out over a million dollars every month to the state parties,” Martin said in an interview.
“There’s real opportunity for us, but that means we have to take advantage of it. Arkansas is really an important part of the calculus&quot…

General many-body entanglement swapping protocol
Santeri Huhtanen, Yousef Mafi, Ali G. Moghaddam, Teemu Ojanen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22430 https://

General many-body entanglement swapping protocol
Sharing entangled pairs between non-signaling parties via entanglement swapping constitutes a striking demonstration of the nonlocality of quantum mechanics and a crucial building block for future quantum technologies. In this work, we generalize pair-swapping methods by introducing a many-body entanglement swapping protocol, which allows two non-signaling parties to share general many-body states along an arbitrary partitioning. The shared many-body state retains exactly the same Schmidt vecto…

Verifiable Weighted Secret Sharing
Kareem Shehata, Han Fangqi, Sri AravindaKrishnan Thyagarajan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24289 https://

Verifiable Weighted Secret Sharing
Traditionally, threshold secret sharing (TSS) schemes assume all parties have equal weight, yet emerging systems like blockchains reveal disparities in party trustworthiness, such as stake or reputation. Weighted Secret Sharing (WSS) addresses this by assigning varying weights to parties, ensuring security even if adversaries control parties with total weight at most a threshold $t$. Current WSS schemes assume honest dealers, resulting in security from only honest-but-curious behaviour but not …

Night before the #AustralianElection2025 :
Looking up all the small, weird & often racist parties to figure out your preferential voting list.
Laugh-crying at how bad their websites, photos/bios & policies are.
Shuddering, knowing you'll have to decide a number to put in their box.
Voting is compulsory.

At #DegrowthOslo25 Conference chair Erik Gómez notes that when the Great Financial Crash and the Covid pandemic struck, we were not ready.
Green Parties largely domesticated.
Left parties often seem to be looking down on people.
We shouldn't be trying to educate people but to learn from them.
#Oslo

💔 Les survivants d’OKC ont surmonté des défis incroyables. Ensemble, luttons pour leur droit Š la justice. Rejoignez-nous pour mettre fin Š l'impunité. 🙏 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

Un financement participatif pour une chaine youtube qui fait du 40k Warhammer 40K narratif – Saison 2 en qualité ciné - Ulule
https://fr.ulule.com/warhammer-40k-narratif-saison-2-en-qualite-cine/

Warhammer 40K narratif – Saison 2 en qualité ciné
Aidez-nous à créer une saison 2 digne d’un film : Des Parties de Wargame Présentées comme une série d'action, bourrée de surprises.

Good article on some of the UK developments enabling aggregators (virtual lead parties) to unlock more demand side flexibility, including residential (heat pumps, batteries, EVs).
https://www.greenexecutives.com/post/unlocking-th…

Unlocking the Future of Energy: How UK Flex Markets Are Reshaping the Grid
With more renewable energy—especially wind and solar—being integrated than ever before, maintaining balance between supply and demand in real time is a growing challenge. That’s where flex markets come in - and everyone from business to consumers is invited to have a seat at the table.

Conceal Truth while Show Fake: T/F Frequency Multiplexing based Anti-Intercepting Transmission
Zhisheng Yin, Nan Cheng, Tom H. Luan, Mingjie Wang, Dongbo Li, Yiliang Liu, Changle Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00811

Conceal Truth while Show Fake: T/F Frequency Multiplexing based Anti-Intercepting Transmission
In wireless communication adversarial scenarios, signals are easily intercepted by non-cooperative parties, exposing the transmission of confidential information. This paper proposes a true-and-false (T/F) frequency multiplexing based anti-intercepting transmission scheme capable of concealing truth while showing fake (CTSF), integrating both offensive and defensive strategies. Specifically, through multi-source cooperation, true and false signals are transmitted over multiple frequency bands u…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14283 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_sta…

Information Leakage Detection through Approximate Bayes-optimal Prediction
In today's data-driven world, the proliferation of publicly available information raises security concerns due to the information leakage (IL) problem. IL involves unintentionally exposing sensitive information to unauthorized parties via observable system information. Conventional statistical approaches rely on estimating mutual information (MI) between observable and secret information for detecting ILs, face challenges of the curse of dimensionality, convergence, computational complexity, an…

Supreme Court will hear challenge to limits on political party spending
The Supreme Court will hear a significant campaign finance case next term
that will examine whether it violates the Constitution to restrict the amount of money that political parties can spend in coordination with individual candidates.

The national Republican senatorial and congressional committees,
then-Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio)
and then-Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) filed suit over the limits…

Supreme Court will hear challenge to limits on political party spending
The Republicans who sued are asking the Supreme Court to lift restrictions on how much political parties can spend on candidates, saying they violate free-speech protections.

Don't worry everyone, we'll fix it in the midterm elections. https://archive.is/S74FW#selection-1519.246-1519.265

Thank you, Norm! FFS ppl, stop listening to media outlets who are to sell papers to both parties & start using your brain:
Trump is extending numerous roles past the non-employee limit. That was NOT the reason #ElonMusk had an unceremonious departure.
Original post:

💔 Survivre Š une dérive sectaire, c’est déjŠ un combat. Se reconstruire et chercher justice, c’est encore plus difficile. Aidons les victimes d’OKC Š faire entendre leur voix au tribunal. ⚖️ 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

Some lawmakers in both parties question the legality of Trump's Iran strikes (Sahil Kapur/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/lawmakers-both-parties-question-legality-trumps-iran-strikes-rcna214316
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p74#a250621p74

Audacy says it will close its Pineapple Street podcast studio, exiting the business of distributing shows for outside parties and leading to job cuts (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

"The one thing that can stop the rise of the far right is the one thing mainstream parties are currently not prepared to deliver: greater equality. The rich should be taxed more, and the revenue used to improve the lives of the poor. However frantically centrist parties avoid the issue, there is no other way."
#FightingOligarchy
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/13/trump-populists-human-nature-economic-growth

#Plex, stop! I only have so much popcorn to eat while I watch all these new changes play out🍿
https://lemmy.ml/post/30839839

Un procès est essentiel, mais le financement est crucial pour faire entendre leur voix. Soutenons les 6 parties civiles de l’affaire OKC-Spatz pour obtenir justice. 💙 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

I have this idea of building a "Luddite Library". A set of information, tools and processes to harness luddite thinking when analyzing technological developments and "innovation".
Something that interested parties could use to understand that there might be a different way to think about what tech is/should be/can be/mustn't be for us. Think for example sets of questions to use to analyze a new thing being pushed on you and similar tools.
I'm thinking …

I feel weird saying “Happy July 4” to my American friends, because I don’t think many Americans are very happy with where the country is headed. Independence Day? From what? Tyrannical Kings? Colonial masters?
Seems #theAmericanFascist is headed back there as quickly as he can.
You gotta fight it, friends. You have to stop what you are doing today and really think about how to force Trump and his backers to reverse course now, hopefully peacefully, but maybe not.
So Happy Independence Day to my good hearted American friends. I know you are there, from both parties.
I wish for you the strength to stand up for that Independence and Freedom for all within your borders so you can again become a beacon. Remember that you have friends in the world willing to help, but the first step has to be yours.
#usa #july4 #independenceday

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

Tasmanian leaders struggle with a basic fact: environment laws should protect the environment https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/23/tasmanian-leaders-environment-laws-protect

Optimal Benchmark Design under Costly Manipulation
\'Angel Hernando-Veciana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22142 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Optimal Benchmark Design under Costly Manipulation
Price benchmarks are used to incorporate market price trends into contracts, but their use can create opportunities for manipulation by parties involved in the contract. This paper examines this issue using a realistic and tractable model inspired by smart contracts on blockchains like Ethereum. In our model, manipulation costs depend on two factors: the magnitude of adjustments to individual prices (variable costs) and the number of prices adjusted (fixed costs). We find that a weighted mean i…

INTACT: Compact Storage of Data Streams in Mobile Devices to Unlock User Privacy at the Edge
R\'emy Raes (SPIRALS), Olivier Ruas (SPIRALS), Adrien Luxey-Bitri (SPIRALS), Romain Rouvoy (SPIRALS)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21998

INTACT: Compact Storage of Data Streams in Mobile Devices to Unlock User Privacy at the Edge
Data streams produced by mobile devices, such as smartphones, offer highly valuable sources of information to build ubiquitous services. Such data streams are generally uploaded and centralized to be processed by third parties, potentially exposing sensitive personal information. In this context, existing protection mechanisms, such as Location Privacy Protection Mechanisms (LPPMs), have been investigated. Alas, none of them have actually been implemented, nor deployed in real-life, in mobile d…

I've just set up (again, didn't seem to 'take' last time) POSSE (https://indieweb.org/POSSE - Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) for this Mastodon account to my 'stub' account on BlueSky - if I understand it correctly, it should syndicate my posts here (in 'my ow…

Realistic quantum network simulation for experimental BBM92 key distribution
Michelle Chalupnik, Brian Doolittle, Suparna Seshadri, Eric G. Brown, Keith Kenemer, Daniel Winton, Daniel Sanchez-Rosales, Matthew Skrzypczyk, Cara Alexander, Eric Ostby, Michael Cubeddu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24851…

Realistic quantum network simulation for experimental BBM92 key distribution
Quantum key distribution (QKD) can provide secure key material between two parties without relying on assumptions about the computational power of an eavesdropper. QKD is performed over quantum links and quantum networks, systems which are resource-intensive to deploy and maintain. To evaluate and optimize performance prior to, during, and after deployment, realistic simulations with attention to physical realism are necessary. Quantum network simulators can simulate a variety of quantum and cl…

I’ve noticed at work there are two types of retirement parties:
1) Parties for beloved coworkers that everyone will miss.
2) Parties for despised coworkers that everyone is glad are finally retiring.
It’s kind of interesting that type 2 parties are always happy events and type 1 parties are always a bit sad.

@… @… Political parties in an electoral system that enables a party to win a majority is the traditional means of overcoming this. The US currently has a system of one disciplined political party and one party composed of individual…

This is quite close to a risk I spoke to someone about a couple of months ago.
Government domains might host documents containing opinions or other third-party information (consultation responses, evidence, etc) - but LLM training ingest may assume the context of the government domain and incorporate it into a government position.
> Google’s AI overview interpreted the PDF document as an official EU stance, blending the information into a response

The libxml2 maintainer is basically shrugging his shoulders and saying "deal with your own fucking security issues; libxml was never meant to be used in your projects" to google and the rest of the giant corporations that are using his labor without contributing back. I'm totally on board with that.
https://

Triaging security issues reported by third parties (#913) · Issues · GNOME / libxml2 · GitLab
I have to spend several hours each week dealing with security issues reported by third parties. Most of these issues aren't critical but it's still a lot of...

The Role of Partisan Culture in Mental Health Language Online
Sachin R. Pendse, Ben Rochford, Neha Kumar, Munmun De Choudhury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20377

The Role of Partisan Culture in Mental Health Language Online
The impact of culture on how people express distress in online support communities is increasingly a topic of interest within Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). In the United States, distinct cultures have emerged from each of the two dominant political parties, forming a primary lens by which people navigate online and offline worlds. We examine whether partisan culture may play a role in how U.S. Republican and Democrat users of online mental heal…

The workers' freedom must be the work of their own hands, the emancipation and liberation of the working class cannot be granted or imposed by external political parties or authorities, but must be achieved through autonomous, collective action and self-organization.
#Anarchism #Syndicalism

Dépasser le vécu et les traumas d'une secte peut être un défi, mais obtenir justice l'est encore plus. L'information sur l'affaire OKC-Spatz est essentielle. Soutenons les 6 parties civiles dans leurs quête de vérité. 🙏 Découvrez comment vous pouvez aider ici : 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/cagnotte-en-

L’entretien qu’Ignazio Cassis, conseiller fédéral chargé des Affaires étrangères, a donné Š la RTS mardi soir est en train de faire basculer les positions. Y compris au sein du PLR. En cause: la condamnation par le ministre des deux parties au conflit Š Gaza, le refus de se joindre au mouvement international contre le gouvernement israélien et l’absence d’empathie manifestée par le Tessinois durant son interview.
https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/le-dossier-de-gaza-doit-etre-retire-a-ignazio-cassis

Très bonne idée cette carte pour recenser des aidants Š l'installation et prise en main de linux : https://aidelinux.gogocarto.fr
Un des repair cafés dont je suis membre est chaud pour ma proposition d'organiser des sessions de découverte et install parties Š l'ancienne, pour toutes…

Parrains et Marraines Linux
Ne jetez pas votre PC sur Windows 10, faites en une bête de course avec le système d'exploitation Gnu/Linux, les parrains / marraines présents sur cette carte peuvent vous aider. Contactez-les !

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07872 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csNI_…

Revenue Optimization in Video Caching Networks with Privacy-Preserving Demand Predictions
Performance of video streaming, which accounts for most of the traffic in wireless communication, can be significantly improved by caching popular videos at the wireless edge. Determining the cache content that optimizes performance (defined via a revenue function) is thus an important task, and prediction of the future demands based on past history can make this process much more efficient. However, since practical video caching networks involve various parties (e.g., users, isp, and csp) that…

Suddenly the political outlook looks very grim in Spain as the majority coalition party, Sšnchez's PSOE is mired in a corruption scandal.
Sšnchez himself not implicated but his judgement in appointing ministers is.
Minority parties could withdraw.
Election not due til 2027 but how long can he hold on?
Alliance of post Franco PP and neofascist Vox is the nightmare scenario.
El día en que colapsó la legislatura

El día en que colapsó la legislatura
Política para supervivientes' es una carta semanal de Iñigo Sáenz de Ugarte exclusiva para socios y socias de elDiario.es con historias sobre política nacional. Si tú también lo quieres leer y recibir cada domingo en tu buzón, hazte socio, hazte socia de elDiario.es

We need to develop good practices for bots and crawlers that are acceptable for all parties involved. Otherwise AI will suffocate the open web.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/keeping-web-under-weight-ai-crawlers

Keeping the Web Up Under the Weight of AI Crawlers
If you run a site on the open web, chances are you've noticed a big increase in traffic over the past few months, whether or not your site has been getting more viewers, and you're not alone. Operators everywhere have observed a drastic increase in automated traffic—bots—and in most cases attribute...

Solnit: "It's...routine to blame the Democratic Party for what the Republican Party does. The two parties are unconsciously regarded as akin to a husband and wife in a traditional marriage in which it's the job of the wife to placate and soothe the husband and help him realize his goals or be held responsible for his outbursts and outrages."

Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence
I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the advance of rights for nature, women, children, indigenous peoples, BIPOC and immigrants/refugees, queer people, trans people, people with

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

⚖️ Un procès est possible. Mais sans financement, il n’y aura que silence. Aidons les 6 parties civiles de l’affaire OKC-Spatz Š porter leur voix devant la justice. 💙 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

“In the US, we have a set of electoral and legislative institutions that drive us toward only having two parties,”
Mark Copelovitch told us.
“That allowed the 20 to 25 percent of people that support the far right to basically take over one of the two parties,
and everything in our system is weighted towards the Republican constituency
— the Supreme Court, the gerrymandered House, the way the Senate is apportioned.
All of these things basically bias the electo…

“Neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”
Mark Copelovitch unpacks his signature phrase.

Finite Gaussian assistance protocols and a conic metric for extremizing spacelike vacuum entanglement
Boyu Gao, Natalie Klco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23968

Finite Gaussian assistance protocols and a conic metric for extremizing spacelike vacuum entanglement
In a pure Gaussian tripartition, a range of entanglement between two parties ($AB$) can be purified through classical communication of Gaussian measurements performed within the third ($C$). To begin, this work introduces a direct method to calculate a hierarchic series of projective $C$ measurements for the removal of any $AB$ Gaussian noise, circumventing divergences in prior protocols. Next, a multimode conic framework is developed for pursuing the maximum (Gaussian entanglement of assistanc…

«What “win the center” pragmatists would have us believe is that the shock of the Missouri ladies over the shabby treatment of one of their “good ‘uns” means that they share our common value of universal human equality, even though there is scant evidence that this value is shared. This seems to be standard rhetorical practice when one is a pragmatic “win the center” type.»
Applies to all places where parties try to beat the fascists by moving towards the right
https://www.the-reframe.com/winning-the-middle/

I've started making a concerted effort to avoid using the terms "left" and "right" when talking about #politics.
Calling politicians/parties by more specific names (for example, social democrats, liberals, conservatives, fascists, corporatists, etc) makes everything far more clear and prevents so much confusion.

Good Morning #Canada
I was going to post something about Preston Manning's birthday, but the related web surfing about how the parties he founded provided platforms for the worst Canadian politicians was too depressing. So instead, I'm starting a new feature called "Mercer Memories," where Rick Mercer gets centre stage on days where nothing interesting happened or topics don't pique my interest. You're welcome...
#CanadaIsAwesome #MercerMemories
https://youtu.be/yi1yhp-_x7A?si=dMmAuI2p0Sy_mXgO

I am still alive, but it's been a hectic several weeks and I've not been both idle and online together.
It started with joy as my eldest graduated from high school -- one of several valedictorians. We are, of course, immensely proud. Parties and celebrations were our constant companions.
Then, off to Indianapolis, to be with my dad and stepmom, providing aid and care while he underwent two successful surgical procedures. The recovery has not been as linear as I'd like…

Headlines like this really make me want to just give up (by which I mean move to one of those tiny offshore islands in the North Atlantic)
https://theconversation.com/ai-tools-collect-and-store-da…

AI tools collect and store data about you from all your devices – here’s how to be aware of what you’re revealing
AI tools that provide information to you also gather lots of information from you and may provide it to third parties.

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11512 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

Beyond the Median Voter: A Model of How the Ideological Dimension Shapes Party Polarization
Defying the median voter theorem, party polarization has spread globally, especially in the United States. As concerns grow over its risks to democracy, political science has probed its causes, revealing two paradoxes: while polarization between U.S. political parties has undeniably increased since the 1970s, the corresponding rise in issue polarization among voters remains contested; moreover, the growing number of politically relevant issues would be expected to counteract party polarization …

Un procès est essentiel, mais le financement est crucial pour faire entendre leur voix. Soutenons les 6 parties civiles de l’affaire OKC-Spatz pour obtenir justice. 💙 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

⚖️ Survivre Š une secte, c’est dur. Obtenir justice, encore plus. L’instruction de l’affaire OKC-Spatz arrive Š un moment clé. Aidons 6 parties civiles Š aller jusqu’au procès. 🙏 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/cagnotte-en-ligne

Dépasser le vécu et les traumas d'une secte peut être un défi, mais obtenir justice l'est encore plus. L'information sur l'affaire OKC-Spatz est essentielle. Soutenons les 6 parties civiles dans leurs quête de vérité. 🙏 Découvrez comment vous pouvez aider ici : 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/cagnotte-en-

Emission Impossible: privacy-preserving carbon emissions claims
Jessica Man, Sadiq Jaffer, Patrick Ferris, Martin Kleppmann, Anil Madhavapeddy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16347

Emission Impossible: privacy-preserving carbon emissions claims
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have a significant climate impact, and data centres account for a large proportion of the carbon emissions from ICT. To achieve sustainability goals, it is important that all parties involved in ICT supply chains can track and share accurate carbon emissions data with their customers, investors, and the authorities. However, businesses have strong incentives to make their numbers look good, whilst less so to publish their accounting methods along…

💙 Les victimes de dérives sectaires ont déjŠ fait un travail énorme en portant plainte et en devenant parties civiles. Aidons-les Š surmonter cette épreuve jusqu’Š la justice. ⚖️ 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

State updates and useful qubits in relativistic quantum information
Jos\'e Polo-G\'omez, T. Rick Perche, Eduardo Mart\'in-Mart\'inez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18906

State updates and useful qubits in relativistic quantum information
We address the longstanding challenge of consistently updating quantum states after selective measurements in a relativistic spacetime. Standard updates along the future lightcones preserve causality but break correlations between causally disconnected parties, whereas updates along the past lightcone either imply retrocausality or do not respect the causal propagation of information. We introduce a minimal extension of multipartite states to encode subsystem-specific contextual information. Th…

📚 Nos avocats doivent éplucher des milliers de pages des affaires OKC, en France (1997-2003) et en Belgique (1997-2022). Ce travail colossal est indispensable pour obtenir un procès. Aidez-nous Š financer leur mission ! 🙏 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

Allez, on se rapproche du but ! Il nous manque seulement 8050 € pour clôturer cette facture d'avocats pour nos 6 parties civiles. Ta contribution compte ! 💪
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The Trump administration has shifted from bureaucratic threats to armed suppression of political opponents.
By beginning with vulnerable groups who have less legal standing and social capital to resist repression,
the Trump administration is making a strategic choice, hoping to provoke less public outcry
and then use these precedents of repression later against a broader population.
This is a textbook example of democratic backsliding, similar to what we have witnesse…

Military Crackdown on LA Protests Portends Further Erosion of Everyone’s Rights
Governments at all levels from both parties have paved the way to an authoritarian response to dissent.

🚧 L’accès Š la justice est un combat. Encore plus pour des survivant-es de dérives sectaires. Aidons-les Š surmonter cet obstacle et Š voir leur dossier avancer. Chaque don compte ! 💙 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

The Trump regime's coordinated repression did not come from nowhere.
In 2024, TheNew York Times reported that the Trump transition team was already planning to use emergency powers, such as the one Trump invoked on June 7,
to confront political opponents who protest the administration.
While the Trump administration planned this move for about a year,
the deployment of troops in Los Angeles is the brutal culmination of a yearslong campaign to systematically erod…

Military Crackdown on LA Protests Portends Further Erosion of Everyone’s Rights
Governments at all levels from both parties have paved the way to an authoritarian response to dissent.

⚠️ Les survivant-es d’OKC se battent contre un système judiciaire lent et souvent violent pour les victimes. Aidons-les Š franchir cette épreuve et Š porter leur affaire jusqu’au procès. 🙏 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

Découvrez les coulisses de la secte bouddhiste belge OKC dans cet article ! 💫 Pour soutenir les parties civiles dans leur quête de justice, l'association Chardons Bleus a mis en place une cagnotte en ligne. Faites un don ici : https://chardonsbleus.org/dons

⚖️ Survivre Š une secte, c’est dur. Obtenir justice, encore plus. L’instruction de l’affaire OKC-Spatz arrive Š un moment clé. Aidons 6 parties civiles Š aller jusqu’au procès. 🙏 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/cagnotte-en-ligne

Allez, on se rapproche du but ! Il nous manque seulement 7305 € pour clôturer cette facture d'avocats pour nos 6 parties civiles. Ta contribution compte ! 💪
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📚 Nos avocats doivent éplucher des milliers de pages des affaires OKC, en France (1997-2003) et en Belgique (1997-2022). Ce travail colossal est indispensable pour obtenir un procès. Aidez-nous Š financer leur mission ! 🙏 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

⚖️ 6 parties civiles se battent pour la justice dans l’affaire OKC-Spatz. iElles n’ont pas les moyens de payer leurs avocats. Chardons Bleus est lŠ pour les soutenir. Aidons-les Š poursuivre leur combat ! votre don peut faire la différence 💙 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/dons

Dépasser une le vécu et les traumas d'une secte peut être un défi, mais obtenir justice l'est encore plus. L'information sur l'affaire OKC-Spatz est essentielle. Soutenons les 6 parties civiles dans leurs quête de vérité. 🙏 Découvrez comment vous pouvez aider ici : 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/cagnotte-en-…

💔 Les survivants d’OKC ont surmonté des défis incroyables. Ensemble, luttons pour leur droit Š la justice. Rejoignez-nous pour mettre fin Š l'impunité. 🙏 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

Allez, on se rapproche du but ! Il nous manque seulement 7305 € pour clôturer cette facture d'avocats pour nos 6 parties civiles. Ta contribution compte ! 💪
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💔 Survivre Š une dérive sectaire, c’est déjŠ un combat. Se reconstruire et chercher justice, c’est encore plus difficile. Aidons les victimes d’OKC Š faire entendre leur voix au tribunal. ⚖️ 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

🌟 Chardons Bleus relève un défi immense. Offrir aux victimes d’OKC la chance d’aller jusqu’au procès. Sans financement, leur voix restera inaudible. Soutenons-les dès maintenant. 💙 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

Découvrez les coulisses de la secte bouddhiste belge OKC dans cet article ! 💫 Pour soutenir les parties civiles dans leur quête de justice, l'association Chardons Bleus a mis en place une cagnotte en ligne. Faites un don ici : https://chardonsbleus.org/dons

🚧 L’accès Š la justice est un combat. Encore plus pour des survivant-es de dérives sectaires. Aidons-les Š surmonter cet obstacle et Š voir leur dossier avancer. Chaque don compte ! 💙 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

💔 Les survivants d’OKC ont surmonté des défis incroyables. Ensemble, luttons pour leur droit Š la justice. Rejoignez-nous pour mettre fin Š l'impunité. 🙏 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

⚠️ Les survivant-es d’OKC se battent contre un système judiciaire lent et souvent violent pour les victimes. Aidons-les Š franchir cette épreuve et Š porter leur affaire jusqu’au procès. 🙏 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique