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California : A land of flaming liberalism?
Senate primary results contradict state stereotype
By choosing Adam #Schiff, a Burbank congressman who is the most moderate of the major Democratic candidates — and thus most Feinstein-like — voters passed up the two more liberal alternatives, Reps. Katie #Porter of I…

Schiff and familiarity win California's marquee Senate race
By choosing Schiff over his fellow Democrats, voters rejected the leftward swerve promised by more liberal alternatives. By advancing Steve Garvey to November, they set up a conventional partisan runoff

Gaussian orbital perturbation theory in Schwarzschild space-time in terms of elliptic functions
Oleksii Yanchyshen, Claus L\"ammerzahl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01991

Gaussian orbital perturbation theory in Schwarzschild space-time in terms of elliptic functions
General relativistic Gauss equations for osculating elements for bound orbits under the influence of a perturbing force in an underlying Schwarzschild space-time have been derived in terms of Weierstrass elliptic functions. Thereby, the perturbation forces are restricted to act within the orbital plane only. These equations are analytically solved in linear approximation for several different perturbations such as cosmological constant perturbations, quantum corrections to the Schwarzschild met…

"Dredging of Puerto Rico’s biggest port begins despite warnings it may harm turtles and corals"
#PuertoRico #Oceans #Animals

Dredging of Puerto Rico's biggest port begins despite warnings it may harm turtles and corals
A $62 million project to dredge Puerto Rico’s biggest and most important seaport has started amid fierce opposition from environmentalists and a pending lawsuit. Crews will remove nearly 3 million cubic yards of marine floor to open the San Juan Bay to larger vessels including tankers that will serve a new liquid natural gas terminal. Officials say the dredged material will be deposited into the Atlantic Ocean north of the island in a move approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.…

"Happy" Anniversary to THE NIGHT PORTER aka "Il portiere di notte" porter, which premiered in France on this day 50 years ago in 1974.
This is probably the weirdest and unsettling movie I have ever seen. Its an italian sexploitation flic with a twist:
1/2

#FilmAnniversary

On the (in)consistency of perturbation theory at finite temperature
Peter Lowdon, Owe Philipsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02009 https://

On the (in)consistency of perturbation theory at finite temperature
A well-known difficulty of perturbative approaches to quantum field theory at finite temperature is the necessity to address theoretical constraints that are not present in the vacuum theory. In this work, we use lattice simulations of scalar correlation functions in massive $ϕ^{4}$ theory to analyse the extent to which these constraints affect the perturbative predictions. We find that the standard perturbative predictions deteriorate even in the absence of infrared divergences at relatively …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06947 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_…

MaTe3D: Mask-guided Text-based 3D-aware Portrait Editing
3D-aware portrait editing has a wide range of applications in multiple fields. However, current approaches are limited due that they can only perform mask-guided or text-based editing. Even by fusing the two procedures into a model, the editing quality and stability cannot be ensured. To address this limitation, we propose \textbf{MaTe3D}: mask-guided text-based 3D-aware portrait editing. In this framework, first, we introduce a new SDF-based 3D generator which learns local and global represent…

Epic says Apple removed its iOS developer account, hampering its app store plans, and shares a letter from Apple lawyers calling Epic "verifiably untrustworthy" (Jon Porter/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/6/240…

Apple kills Epic’s iOS game store plans over App Store criticism
Apple has terminated the developer account Epic Games planned to use to bring a third-party app store to iOS in the EU, citing CEO Tim Sweeney’s posts on X.

The vibes portrait in the first sentence here from @… was genuinely helpful to me: https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/112395594897702523

"Dredging of Puerto Rico’s biggest port begins despite warnings it may harm turtles and corals"
#PuertoRico #Oceans #Animals

Dredging of Puerto Rico's biggest port begins despite warnings it may harm turtles and corals
A $62 million project to dredge Puerto Rico’s biggest and most important seaport has started amid fierce opposition from environmentalists and a pending lawsuit. Crews will remove nearly 3 million cubic yards of marine floor to open the San Juan Bay to larger vessels including tankers that will serve a new liquid natural gas terminal. Officials say the dredged material will be deposited into the Atlantic Ocean north of the island in a move approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.…

The celebrated portraitist Platon has spent much of his career photographing the famous and powerful, but he has also traveled the world documenting human rights activists and their quests for justice.
The Defenders presents five photo essays spanning 15 years of work on these struggles in Burma, Egypt, Russia, the United States and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Platon: The Defenders - ARTBOOK|D.A.P.
The celebrated portraitist Platon has spent much of his career photographing the famous and powerful, but he has also traveled the world documenting human rights activists and their quests for justice. The Defenders presents five photo essays spanning 15 years of work on these struggles in Burma, Egypt, Russia, the United States and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In Burma, he took portraits of monks, sex workers, former child soldiers and the controversial political leader Aung San Suu …