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My wife currently messages me the increasing number of noise sources at home:
Chainsaw to cut bushes, roadworks with jackhammer and rock cutting saw, and now the garbage truck beeping while reversing in our road.
I get a play-by-play description of what keeps her from sleeping in, and I'm torn between laughing, emphasizing and thinking "What happens if she goes all Michael Douglas in Falling Down?"

Trump’s tariff threats have turned into a play for cold, hard cash
as he tries to leverage U.S. economic power to cajole other nations to make multibillion-dollar investments in order to maintain access to America’s market.
The president’s second-term trade agenda has clear echoes of his “Mob Boss” approach,
essentially demanding that trading partners show him the money in the form of investment pledges or else face astronomically high tariffs

Trump’s Demand to Trading Partners: Pledge Money or Get Higher Tariffs
President Trump is using an “Art of the Deal” approach to get other nations to hand over cash to lower their tariffs.

The Local Structure Theorem for Graph Minors with Finite Index
Christophe Paul, Evangelos Protopapas, Dimitrios M. Thilikos, Sebastian Wiederrecht
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02769

The Local Structure Theorem for Graph Minors with Finite Index
The Local Structure Theorem (LST) for graph minors roughly states that every $H$-minor free graph $G$ that contains a sufficiently large wall $W$, there is a set of few vertices $A$ such that, upon removing $A$, the resulting graph $G':=G - A$ admits an "almost embedding" $δ$ into a surface $Σ$ in which $H$ does not embed. By almost embedding, we mean that there exists a hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$ whose vertex set is a subset of the vertex set of $G$ and an embedding of $\mathcal{H}$ in $Σ$ su…

How Trump Is Plotting To Disrupt The Next Election (Paul Blumenthal/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-2026-election-threat_n_688d1e69e4b022c2fddf099b
http://www.memeorandum.com/250803/p46#a250803p46

I always find the use of first person plural pronouns in discussions of the distant future to be too cute…
Humans didn’t exist a million years ago. There were some crafty hominid apes but not the sort you could clean up and mistake for a human.
There is no “us” 7 billion years from now. There is very likely no “us” in half a million years. We may or may not have descendants but they won’t be “us” in any sense.
A billion years is longer than Earth has had visible life

Ich lese gerade das Buch "Unsere Welt neu denken" von #MajaGöpel und bin an der Stelle, an der sie ihre Berührungspunkte mit #Volkswirtschaftslehre und #Wirtschaftswissenschaften beschreibt, insbesondere die abstrusen Theorien, mit denen diese Zweige arbeiten (Kapitel "Mensch und Verhalten"). Mensch und Umwelt kommen darin nicht vor. Geld ist die einzige Messgröße, auf die es ankommt und es wird vom absoluten Egoismus ausgegangen, der dann auf unerklärliche Weise letzten Endes doch wieder allen zugute kommen soll.
Mich wundert es nicht mehr, wieso wir alle so kaputtgemanaget und -regiert werden, wenn diese Leute nichts anderes als erfundene Fakten gelehrt bekommen. Die glauben wahrscheinlich sogar, dass sie richtig handeln.

Long-Term Astrometric Monitoring of the Galactic Center Magnetar PSR J1745--2900
Geoffrey C. Bower, Adam T. Deller, Paul B. Demorest, Jason Dexter, Andreas Brunthaler, Gregory Desvignes, Ralph P. Eatough, Heino Falcke, Ciriaco Goddi, Michael Kramer, F. Yusef-Zadeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02348…

Long-Term Astrometric Monitoring of the Galactic Center Magnetar PSR J1745--2900
We present new astrometric observations of the Galactic Center magnetar, PSR J1745-2900, with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). Combined with previously published measurements in 10 epochs that spanned 477 days, the complete data set consists of 25 epochs and 41 independent measurements that span 1984 days. These data constrain the proper motion to an accuracy of $\lesssim 2\%$ and set an upper limit on the absolute value of the magnetar's acceleration of $\lesssim (0.4, 0.2)\, {\rm mas\,y^{…

Trump began paving over the White House Rose Garden in June
Now he wants a rushed job to add a Ballrroom to the White House
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/us/politics/trump-…

Experts Raise Concerns Over Trump’s White House Ballroom Renovation Plans
President Trump plans to build a $200 million ballroom off the East Wing “long before” the end of his term in 2029.

It's Official: The GOP Is Not A Working-Class Party (Paul Blumenthal/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-budget-bill_n_6866f478e4b0225e8f8c014e
http://www.memeorandum.com/250704/p32#a250704p32

The Close AGN Reference Survey (CARS). Long-term spectral variability study of the changing look AGN Mrk 1018
T. Saha, M. Krumpe, A. Markowitz, M. Powell, G. Leung, F. Combes, R. E. McElroy, J. S. Elford, M. Gaspari, N. Winkel, A. L. Coil, T. Urrutia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03061

The Close AGN Reference Survey (CARS). Long-term spectral variability study of the changing look AGN Mrk 1018
Changing-look AGNs (CLAGN) are accreting supermassive black hole systems that undergo variations in optical spectral type, driven by major changes in accretion rate. Mrk 1018 has undergone two transitions, a brightening event in the 1980s and a transition back to a faint state over the course of 2-3 years in the early 2010s. We characterize the evolving physical properties of the source's inner accretion flow, particularly during the bright-to-faint transition, as well as the morphological prop…