2026-05-21 10:35:46
What a terrible indictment of all the UK's news media!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/21/voters-across-parties-believe-uk-net-migration-is-rising-despite-sharp-drop
As with a few mother…
What a terrible indictment of all the UK's news media!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/21/voters-across-parties-believe-uk-net-migration-is-rising-despite-sharp-drop
As with a few mother…
Both sides in the antitrust lawsuit over Nexstar's Tegna acquisition have asked a federal judge to schedule the case for a jury trial in July 2027 (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/06/nexstar-tegna-july-2027-trial-date-request/
are political parties, de facto, part of the state apparatus? #poll
#Education, folks.
We need a lot of education.
It's shocking how many people vote for certain parties despite it being against their own interests.
Keep talking to people. Because in a #democracy, the people vote. And so they need to know what's up to meet their needs.…
It's worth nothing that oil, the dominant funder of both political parties, the industry that ultimately maintains veto power over both parties political platforms, is not profitable without massive state investment. Roads, parking, and infrastructure grants, all put money in the pockets of the industry that is destroying the planet. That money then comes right back into the political sphere to control the frame of debate around climate change and how to address it.
Sources: Google and Blackstone plan to create an AI cloud company to monetize Google's TPUs to external parties; Blackstone plans to put $5B in the venture (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-and-bla
Wenn die Geilheit auf Kontrolle selbst die Furcht vor Verlust von internen Informationen übertrifft (denn wenn bossware jede Mausbewegung an Data Broker rausbläst, werden auch Hinweise auf interne Prozesse rund um den Globus verteilt), muss der Hass auf die Beschäftigten schier grenzenlos sein.
https://www.
CNN poll: Political independents hit their highest level in a decade (Jennifer Agiesta/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/16/politics/cnn-poll-political-parties-independent-democrats-republicans
http://www.memeorandum.com/260616/p75#a260616p75
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
It must be galling to him that we no longer have the pre-Reagan pre-cable FCC regs and station norms that empowered the POTUS to monopolize the media in primetime.
I expect that many non-olds don’t even realize that was a thing. Once upon a time all TV was broadcast and most was network-affiliated or network-owned, and those all took the feed from the White House when it was offered. There was no escape... @…
“Britain has been telling itself wildly inaccurate stories about itself for decades. The further those stories have drifted from reality, the worse their ability to govern has become”
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-britain-the-ungoverned-country/
Government just prematurely ended debate on Bill C-22
The federal government decided to use a so-called “guillotine” time-limit all further clause by clause on Bill C-22 to just 30 minutes.1 This will block ANY committee debate that scrutinizes the dangerous surveillance powers in Part 2 of the bill.2
The government wants to jam Bill C-22 today, and vote it through the House tomorrow (June 19). We’re calling on MPs of all parties to refuse to advance Part 2 without full committee…
Giants' John Harbaugh on potential Odell Beckham reunion: 'It's got to be right for both parties' https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-john-harbaugh-on-potential-odell-beckham-reunion-it-s-got-to-be-right-for-both-pa…
In this key by-election, it is essential to defeat Reform Ltd. That means putting aside reservations about Burnham.
Other left parties, in this case, must stand aside
Andy Burnham faces perilous race to win Makerfield byelection, allies say | Labour | The Guardian
htt…
« Nier jusqu’Š l’absurde » : au procès en appel du financement libyen, les parties civiles ciblent l’attitude de Nicolas Sarkozy - Le Parisien
https://www.leparisien.fr/fai…
Is emoji interpretation just a "fun" summer topic, or does emoji misinterpretation ever become serious, like in court discussions? - In face there have been several cases both in North America and Europe where emoji meanings were negotiated in court! I keep a collection of them because it's a nice intersection with my alter ego, the "forensic" linguist. For example, in cases from Canada and Bavaria, judges had to decide whether a thumbs-up 👍 in a chat was meant as a signal of agreement (to a contract or contract amendment), or whether (like the senders argued) it constituted only an acknowledgement of receipt of the message. In both cases, the context was super important - how did the parties interact before, what else was said in the chat, etc. Interesting! #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
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Yeah, the Democratic Party in the present and political parties in general are…um, disappointing at best, let’s just say. It’s foolish to view them as the primary mechanism of constructive change; they are at best a tool we use, but change has to come from the ground up.
We can recognize that without the nose-in-air whataboutism of this person’s reply. The fact is that if we had 2 more Democrats in the House right now, ICE and CBP wouldn’t have this •massive• budget influx that’s set to give these modern Brownshirts the ability to operate at every-city-at-once scale. I am not looking for a party I can cheer like a sports team; political parties should not be fandoms. I am just looking for ways to put out the fire that’s consuming my country. If I have a bucket of water I can dump on it, I am not going to whine about how the water tastes.
https://olifant.social/@burly/statuses/01KTS3TPYH0HK6HC7VQ58MTNRP
Senators in both parties say the odds are rising of another government shutdown in September
after Trump demanded that GOP leaders abolish the filibuster or face a spending showdown and another shutdown.
Trump blindsided GOP leaders on Monday when he warned there could be another shutdown if Senate Republicans don’t abolish the filibuster,
which would allow them to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act and spending legislation without any Democra…
@… have called for an independent enquiry into ALL Scottish parties' finances.
That's a genuinely sensible idea.
Now, will other parties back it? After all, what do they have to hide?
#ScotPol
Court of appeal on Palestine Action: “It is not, as it claims, a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes operating transparently in the open. It is a covert organisation that operates using secret cells to avoid the detection and prosecution of those using violence to destroy the property of third parties.”
Er, surely that's exactly how the suffragettes operated, very famously?
Folks, am I real? @… https://infosec.exchange/@Epic_Null/116913940973597376
The UK CMA orders Google to provide greater transparency on how its search rankings work and to let users transfer their search data to authorized third parties (Muvija M/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk-regulator-sets-out…
With only half of eligible voters turning out in Highlands and Islands, a massive 3,677 of them threw away their vote on 12 tiny "parties" and two independents, at least 3 of which were obviously created to disable votes that could have been given to real parties.
"Trump Celebrates While America Capitulates" The Atlantic
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/trump-iran-deal/687547/?utm_source=feed
The UK CMA orders Google to provide greater transparency on how its search rankings work and to let users transfer their search data to authorized third parties (Muvija M/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk-regulator-sets-out…
US cloud hyperscalers (AWS, Google, Microsoft, Oracle) are now regulated as Critical Third Parties in the UK for services provided to the financial sector.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-financial-system-strengthen…
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 UK CMA orders Google to provide greater transparency on how its search rankings work and to let users transfer their search data to authorized third parties (Muvija M/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk-regulator-sets-out…
Paris-Saclay retire a Etienne Klein son doctorat car il en aurait plagié de grande parties
Paris-Saclay ne retire pas le doctorat de Idriss Aberkane qui est essentiellement du copier-coler du manuel d'un logiciel open-source.
Je comprend pas trop la logique
Trump has announced that the United States and Iran have reached a deal to end their war.
“Congratulations to all!” he said in a posting on his Truth Social site this evening.
He then headed off to oversee the garish public spectacle he’d arranged for his birthday on the South Lawn of the White House.
The United States, however, has little to celebrate:
Trump and his team, in record time, just lost a war to a militarily mediocre
—but nonetheless extremely dang…
To be honest, this doesn't sound like a horrible way to govern.
No political parties, but house and senate approval needed to pass anything.
#CanPoli
So in the legal fight over the cage matches on the White House lawn, parties have filed their briefs.
So it's Boxers vs Briefs
#DadJokes
More Parties, More Risks, More Opportunity? Evolving Governance to Support Cyber Resilience Amidst Evolving Policy and Technological Change
https://fpf.org/blog/more-parties-more-ris…
🇺🇸 Car seeks energy partner to work together on exciting projects for the grid. A lasting partnership, based on equality that lifts both parties.
In Europe you could almost find the reverse contact ad:
🇪🇺 Smart energy partner seeks car for joint grid fun.
#V2G
Why are conservative parties not only always deeply corrupt and often doing illegal things... but also traitorous?
The UCP, "Centurion Project" and "Republican Party of Alberta" are all so tainted with this scandal that Jason Kenney... yes Jason Kenney... is playing the victim.
I feel bad for Albertans, but they've also brought a lot of it on themselves by voting these bozos in time and time again.
#ABpoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/elections-alberta-voter-data-centurion-project-ndp-ucp-9.7189167
"The Wisconsin Bike Fed asked all Gubernatorial candidates, from both parties, if they would be willing to participate in a policy questionnaire related to cycling, recreation, and active transportation..."
https://wisconsinbikefed.org/advocacy/
'The new soccer mom': Both parties scramble for working class voters ahead of '28 (Megan Messerly/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/02/new-soccer-mom-both-parties-scramble-working-class-latinos-ahead-28-00903148
http://www.memeorandum.com/260502/p33#a260502p33
Wäre ich 20 Jahre gesünder, wären deren Partys sicher reizvoll für mich.
https://sachsentrance.com/
Ich bin über das Interview …
After the complete disaster of #Brexit and the horrible example of #Trump and other far-right governments throughout the world.. you would think that people would want to avoid far-right parties like the plague...
But instead there are still (and maybe more, I guess we're waiting for al…
from my link log —
Maximizing DNS qname minimization.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20200916-maximizing-qname-minimization-new-chapter-dns-protocol-evolution/
saved 2020-09-17
If the other parties could stand aside for a Martin Bell-like character for Clacton that would be hilarious.
«Your End-to-End Encrypted Messages:
Aren't As Secure As You Think
Here's what end-to-end encryption protects—and what it doesn't.»
I know, this is not a new topic for most of you here, but you can forward it outside of the Fediverse ;)
💬 https://lifehacker.com/tech/en…
Remember when politicians were civil, honorable, principled & obeyed the rules... unless both parties agreed on otherwise. 😊
▶️ Let’s Have a Real Debate | The West Wing
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VDHpHQ8GhBo&si=yKOJtU_alIiJF9zl
Expanding a bit on that “my ass” part:
One of the US parties is a mostly-anti-fascist party that’s going through an internal war about whether the best way to fight fascism is to sort of split the difference and cede a bit based on polling, or to punch fascists with everyone we’ve got.
The other US party is fascists, still united in lock step behind a fascist leader who is still trying consolidate authoritarian power — now by forming a massive paramilitary.
I don’t like either one of those things. But I dislike them in very different ways.
Multipartite reference-frame-independent quantum cryptographic communication
Donghwa Lee, Kyujin Shin, Hyang-Tag Lim, Yosep Kim, Yong-Su Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12284 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.12284 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.12284
arXiv:2606.12284v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reference frame mismatch among communication parties introduces errors in quantum cryptographic protocols. As the number of participants increases, aligning reference frames becomes increasingly difficult, complicating multipartite quantum cryptographic implementations. Here, we theoretically and experimentally investigate multipartite reference-frame-independent (RFI) quantum cryptographic communication using Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states. We generalize the bipartite RFI security parameter $C$ to an $N$-party parameter $C_N$ and derive the asymptotic secret key rate expressed solely in terms of experimentally accessible quantities. We analyze the key rate under global and local depolarizing noise models and find that increasing the number of parties $N$ enhances robustness against global depolarizing noise while increasing vulnerability to local channel noise. We also present a proof-of-principle experimental demonstration of four-party RFI quantum cryptographic communication using four-photon GHZ states, confirming the reference-frame invariance of both the $C_4$ parameter and the secret key rate under various reference frame rotations.
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Tell the city administrator that infrastructure co-ordination is NOT optional and there will be one group responsible, no discussion, no debate, here is your order. That group checks with the departments, province and utilities on what is coming up for the next 12 to 18 months. Also, if there is an emergency they are consulted so that ALL parties are informed.
Burnham has been made leader of the Labour party then. No other candidates got the required number of nominations so it's a coronation.
He has a few things to say.
He's proud. The party is united, he says, and now they'll put that power of unity to give people hope back. And he is ready to build on Kier's foundation. Thanks Kier, for all the NHS work and renters rights and rebuilding the nation's reputation (??).
He does like to name-check all the various towns and unions of the country. Just listing them. They made Labour, apparently.
We must recognize that this generation of politicians, including Burnham himself, have failed. Four decades of neoliberalism have not been kind to all those places he listed.
He pledges to be better, and will do five things.
1) Work relentlessly to build a culture of one Labour team. No infighting. Wants to eradicate the split. End factional politics.
I guess end Starmer's war on the left then? 🤨
2) Work to build a new politics. This is the last chance for change, and we must take it together. Tell people what Labour will do, not just pick fights with other parties. Seek consensus with those other parties instead, to improve the political discourse.
3) Change political direction: know exactly where he stands and set a direction that is distinctively Labour. No out-greening greens or out-reforming reform or wearing tory clothes. Boldly confidently authentically Labour.
Housing, water, energy, transport, all broken due to privatization and concentration of wealth and power.
Four decades of political power draining from regions to corporations and central government ends now.
Take back the slogan "take back control" from the right, who gave away power to corps and quangos.
Life should be more affordable.
4) Be a leader for the north, south, east and west, for Scotland and Northern Ireland (aw, shame for the midlanders 🤣 ).
Gonna do to everywhere what he done for Manchester he reckons.
Kids shouldn't have to leave their home towns to prosper.
5) Take power back from westminster and give it to the place where you live.
More power for regions, to run trains for passengers not shareholders. Improve high-streets, and back shops and pubs, and education, and reindustrialization.
He's gonna be pro-business.
Add all that together and he reckons we'll bring back hope.
Thanks a few people in particular.
He says he knows what he believes and what he wants to do, he has a plan. He wants change, to be close to the people.
He wants it to be Andy 4 us. Labour 4 us. Bring back hope.
#ukpol #burnham #labourParty
this week’s grateful deadcast covers a favorite topic: the feral young dead of 1966. we use the new july ’66 fillmore auditorium release to get into the san francisco ballrooms, wild acid parties at rancho olompali, lost owsley tapes, the dead’s 1st single & more. https://www.dead.net/deadcast/independence
Bad for health and the environment: Lung experts highlight environmental impact of tobacco product waste https://phys.org/news/2026-06-bad-health-environment-lung-experts.html
"Some of my liberal friends have urged the rest of us on the left to stop obsessing over distant foreign wars, stop lambasting the Democratic and #Labour parties for their (clear) complicity in war crimes. They want us to focus instead on the very real threat from rising authoritarianism in the US and the UK. But the opposition to the destruction of Gaza – and now also
Open Primaries Have Their Fans. The Parties Are Not Among Them. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/us/politics/open-primaries-improve-lives.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260514/p99#a260514p99
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
'A Green party spokesperson said: “Antisemitism needs a cross-party effort and politicians of all parties have a responsibility to reduce tensions and division, not escalate them. It does feel like the world is upside down when Reform are invited to be part of an initiative to tackle antisemitism but the Green party – and its Jewish leader – aren’t.”'
Downing Street rally asks ‘silent majority’ to fight antisemitism | UK news | The Guardian
The World Cup in Las Vegas: Pool parties, star-spangled dungarees and 480 cans of Tennent's https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7382026/2026/06/22/world-cup-las-vegas/
The Cognitive Bargain Has Ended: A Generation Born Without Comparative Advantage
The claim circulating in policy papers, venture capital essays, and parental anxiety threads runs like this: no child born this year will grow up to be smarter than artificial intelligence. The line gets used as a slogan, which is the first sign it deserves examination. Slogans that move easily through dinner parties usually carry hidden machinery. The machinery here is a definition of…
Trump’s well-documented ability to destroy everything he touches has come for what should have been the easiest of tasks:
making the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence fun.
If there is one thing the world’s oldest democracy is good at, it’s throwing Independence Day parties,
hosting outdoor concerts, and filling out state fairs with charmingly schlocky entertainment and ice cream stands.
Producing the Great American State Fair in Was…
FYI, anyone complaining about Ikea assembly, has never installed a Ring doorbell.
No indication of what tools will be needed.
Not even a size specification for the drill that you might need.
Yes we need a spycam because reasons, we'll do our best to disable its image sharing with third parties. The advertising is also fucking appalling, be very frightened, burglars and evildoers want to enter your home. One ad was actually overtly racist "wrong neighborhood".…
Siri (Beta) is really interesting.
On one hand, I don't have to trust any new parties with my data. Apple already has it since they have my mobile devices, so if they were going to maliciously steal (e.g.) my email contents, they could already do that. This opens the door to a whole bunch of LLM data based interrogation that I wouldn't trust with other providers.
…on the other hand, the "on-device only" Siri falls over immediately when disabling the internet c…
#CarlHeastie continues to be awful, but NYers maybe want to give his office a call to tell him to stop blocking the Stop Super Speeders bill. His office # is 518-455-3791, I just called and someone answered right away.
#StopSuperSpeeders
"Populist and rightwing figures take aim at Ed Miliband and UK net zero policies at ‘anti-woke Davos’"
#Climate #ClimateChange #UK
It passed the House. ICE CBP are now one of the world’s largest militaries by budget.
Voting for it (BAD):
⁃ 214 Republicans
⁃ 0 Democrats
Voting against it (GOOD):
⁃ 0 Republicans
⁃ 211 Democrats
⁃ 1 Independent
“Both parties are the same” my ass.
"However, a US intelligence report in 2021 ... conducted under John Ratcliffe, Trump’s then-director of national intelligence and his present CIA director, found China attempted to collect information on US voters, public opinion and political parties going as far back as 2008. Typically, such data is publicly available and cannot be used to alter votes."
Did China steal 2020 US election data, as Trump claims? | US Elections 2020 News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/17/did-china-steal-2020-us-election-data-as-trump-claims?traffic_source=rss
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
«Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones:
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.»
Now do not explain to me that this is useful and convenient. Especially for third parties who are unintentionally recorded.
😠
Report: Letterboxd's owners have held early talks with potential buyers, including Netflix, Sony Pictures, Paramount, and PE giant TPG (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/letterboxd-sales-talks-netflix-sony-paramou…
John Fetterman Is a Lonely Democrat. Is Friendship Enough to Turn Him Republican? (Jonathan Martin/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/05/04/fetterman-switch-parties-republican-00904177
http://www.memeorandum.com/260504/p9#a260504p9
@… Do you think Orcadians and Shetlanders are aware that both the LibDems and Labour are pushing for new nuclear power?
As these are English branch office parties, they will be sure to go along with using Scotland for nuclear waste disposal and placing new nuclear plants that we don't want.
And look out for the uranium found in Orkney…
Chances were fading on Wednesday for a breakthrough in Congress to salvage a warrantless surveillance law before its expiration this weekend,
after Trump dug in on naming a close ally who has alienated members of both parties to a top intelligence post.
Unless lawmakers act by midnight on Friday, the law, known as
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, will sunset.
It is the legal underpinning for what is widely considered to be the most po…
i saw the stooges & the jesus lizard & sonic youth & the breeders in this room when all tomorrow's parties was held there. https://tech.intersects.art/@roadside/116491798263745574
Bloody Keynesians. Trash the planet, put us all at greater risk, squander public money
Burnham "says he wants to use higher defence investment to boost economic growth."
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/…
"No Kings" organizers are planning events across the U.S. on June 14, the day of Trump’s 80th birthday
A national concert-style event, "Rise Up, Sing Out," will anchor activities with watch parties
Several high-profile public figures and entertainers are listed as participants, including:
Rufus Wainwright
Bette Midler
Patti Smith
Sasha Allen
Joy Reid
Jane Fonda
The event will focus on nonviolent participation
The pla…
EU national governments, storage developers, renewable energy developers, energy-intensive industries and financial institutions sign tripartite agreement to boost energy storage.
This provides certainty for the parties involved and thus makes delivery easier.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/press…
Former Trump and Biden AI advisers Dean Ball and Ben Buchanan urge bipartisan action on AI security risks, including tighter export controls and safety audits (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/opinion
"Regular reminder that Donald Trump’s core competency is not dealmaking with powerful counter-parties. It is duping gullible victims."
✅ 'The David Frum Show': The Trump Grift Machine - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archi…
Backstage Collapsed: Universal Recording and the Architecture of Courtship
A panelist on a recent broadcast conversation made the following argument. Young people across the wealthy world are not having children. Before they do not have children, they do not date. Before they do not date, they do not interact at the dances, the parties, the mixers their parents and grandparents used as the primary infrastructure for finding mates. Even when they show up at such…
Formula 1 says Sky Sports will remain its exclusive live broadcaster in the UK until at least the end of 2034; a source says the deal is worth £1B (Jonathan McEvoy/Daily Mail)
https://www.dailymail.com/sport/formulaone
Replaced article(s) found for quant-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/quant-ph/new
[3/5]:
- Fundamental Limitations of QAOA on Constrained Problems and a Route to Exponential Enhancement
Chinonso Onah, Kristel Michielsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17259 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/115604063563298977
- Sharing quantum indistinguishability with multiple parties
Lemieux Wang, Hanwool Lee, Joonwoo Bae, Kieran Flatt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.15199 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/115740075668663194
- Quantum thermodynamics, quantum correlations and quantum coherence in accelerating Unruh-DeWitt d...
Bachain, Amazioug, Laamara, Nisar, Zakarya, Ismail, Abdel-Aty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18123 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/115768302468735679
- Wigner Cat Phases: A finely tunable system for exploring the transition to quantum chaos
M. S\"uzen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.22169 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/115807528778934437
- A saturation-absorption rubidium magnetometer with multilevel optical Bloch-equation modeling for...
Dangi, Gupta, Kasti, Vishwanath, Zepp, Smith, Geiger, Choy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09115 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/115898368405478505
- Quantum Entanglement, Stratified Spaces, and Topological Matter: Towards Entanglement-Sensitive L...
Kazuki Ikeda, Steven Rayan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.13467 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/115933232875600453
- Residual-Squeezing Mechanism of Mismatch in Inverse-Squeezing Kennedy Receivers
Bai, Sun, Wu, Ran, Zhou, Zhang, Peng, Dong, Tong, Zhang, Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19093 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/115972142241455241
- Recirculating Quantum Photonic Networks for Fast Deterministic Quantum Information Processing
Emil Grovn, Matias Bundgaard-Nielsen, Jesper M{\o}rk, Dirk Englund, Mikkel Heuck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11033 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/116057137426725312
- Coupled integrated photonic quantum memristors using a single photon source made of a colour center
Baldazzi, Ancel, Guaraldo, Fattori, Chen, Akar, Deturche, Azzini, Couteau, Pavesi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.14736 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/116085940182705111
- Generating function and Bloch representation for quantum Fisher tensor
Felipe P. Abreu, Wei Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04615 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/116181633051356644
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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 BJP was formed by members of what was basically a Hindu religious fascist party, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), an organisation modelled on Mussolini’s Black Brigades. Modi was a long-time member of the RSS who then moved seamlessly into the BJP. "
India: a further swing to the right – Michael Roberts Blog
The rise of Rush Limbaugh and Fox News,
and before them, grifter television evangelists,
turned out to be critical in blocking the country’s movement toward equality and true representation,
instead bringing democracy to the brink of collapse.
The U.S. disaster is currently mirrored around the world by ascendant authoritarian parties and movements.
Something larger is going on,
and as always, it’s worth paying attention to the very particular history of …
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
EU countries and lawmakers reach an impasse on a deal watering down the EU's AI Act due to some parties seeking exemptions for already regulated industries (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
My takeaways:
1. Don’t even try me with your “both parties are the same” BS.
2. Don’t even try me with your “support all Democrats all the time no matter what” BS.
3. We need to make Democrats a •lot• more afraid of getting primaried.
4. Above all, we need to stop imagining the politicians are the leaders of social change. We need to fight every day, in every place we are, to create a reality where trans people are safe and politicians are scared of casting votes like this before we even target them.
2/2
Forbes Media preliminarily agrees to a $10M settlement to resolve a California class action lawsuit alleging unauthorized user tracking via its website (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/forbes-agrees-10-million-settlement-privacy-class-acti…
A sour, anti-incumbent mood is sweeping across the nation
in what political analysts say is an especially troubling sign for Republican control of the House and Senate,
given Trump’s slumping approval rating.
Rising voter anger with the status quo has hit both parties,
with eight House incumbents
— five Democrats and three Republicans
— losing primary races this year
in addition to two GOP Senate incumbents, Sens. Bill Cassidy (La.) and John Cornyn …
A key Senate rule is slowly losing its grip, and both parties know it (Theodoric Meyer/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/01/senate-filibuster-under-strain/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260501/p14#a260501p14
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
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
Andi Tepelena, a prominent activist and art curator organizing the 2026 civic protests in Tirana, Albania
made these remarks to emphasize the deepening political crisis.
He stated that m
"the regime has activated an army of patronage Nazis to tarnish the protest,"
but added that this battle has been won by the citizens and their supporters.
Tepelena stressed that protesters are united around the demand for the removal of the government and a profound c…
Two groups file a petition to deny FCC review of ABC's TV station licenses; they say they will seek revocations if stations restrict speech in trade for FCC OK (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/06/frequency-forward-media-action…
Hicks said he didn’t have an alternative to propose to the top-two system,
only a conviction that it needed “a review, a reconsideration and maybe even a repeal”.
He hoped either the state legislature of “someone with significant resources” would put a different model before the voters. “It could be done as early as 2026,” he said, “but it could be done in a future election as well.”
Historically, the two major parties have tended to prefer primaries accessible only to reg…