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The U.S. House of Representatives offered a rare rebuke of ‌President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement agenda on Thursday
as a handful of Republicans joined Democrats to vote to extend temporary protections for 350,000 Haitians living in the United States.
The House voted 224-204 in ⁠favor of legislation allowing Haitians to remain eligible for
"Temporary Protected Status" for three years
after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security terminated t…

"Rest and be thankful" spot in #Scotland,
Before and after the snow (2 days ago vs today)

"Torazine was the most extreme magazine that has ever been published in Italy. Born in Rome in 1995 as an offshoot of the local rave scene and fueled by the most rigorous "chemical diet" of the time, for the next seven years it would infest the worst underground nightmares of distorted visions and degenerate accelerationisms, infecting with its "polychrome capsules of pop counterculture" an imagination which, at the turn of the millennium, even risked overflowing int…

Roman elites drank from leaded cups because it made water sweeter. Radiation was thought at one time to have healing properties, so people would add uranium to their drinking water. Glowing dishes are still a collectors item. After the discovery of x-rays, shoe stores started installing them and using them on kids feet to size shoes. Lead was added to gasoline to improve engine performance, and paint to make it whiter. We all know about asbestos and DDT.
We look back at all of this and think, "how could people have been so incompetent back then?" Some of these things caused irreparable harm in their generation, some continue to cause harm today almost 100 years later.
If you wonder that, look at the whole #LLM thing and you have your answer.

Here’s a half-block stretch in the Avenues with no trees.
Legislation by Mayor Lurie and Alan Wong made it harder to remove these driveways by allowing them to remain when garages are converted to housing.
Now the Lurie-Wong legislation to let developers not plant trees and limit tree removal appeals is going to Planning Commission tomorrow.
#sfpol

Heute vor 58 Jahren: Am 12. März 1968 zündeten die USA im Rahmen von Operation #Crosstie eine Salve von 5 atomaren Sprengkörpern "#Buggy 1-5" um einen Kanal zu erzeugen. Crosstie war eine Serie von Tests zwischen 67/68 bei der insgesamt 48 #Kernwaffentests stattfanden.

Iranian-born Soheila Sohkanvari's brilliant Leave to Remain, currently on display at the Tate Britain, has numerous real passports from various countries, with fake passport-style stamps alongside real ones.
https://kristinhjellegjerde.com/news/112/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Mel Bonis, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Rumon Gamba:
🎵 Suite Orientale, Op 48 no 2: Prelude & Danse d'almees
#MelBonis #BBCSymphonyOrchestra #RumonGamba

Two-dimensional IR-Raman spectroscopy of vibrational polaritons: Role of dipole surfaces
Xinwei Ji, Tomislav Begusic, Tao E. Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24521 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.24521 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.24521
arXiv:2603.24521v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Nonlinear spectroscopy provides a unique perspective to understand time-resolved molecular dynamics under vibrational strong coupling (VSC). Herein, equilibrium-nonequilibrium cavity molecular dynamics simulations are performed to compute the two-dimensional (2D) infrared-infrared-Raman (IIR) spectroscopy of liquid water under VSC. In conventional computational chemistry practices, accurate molecular spectra are often constructed by using an advanced molecular dipole or polarizability model to post-process molecular dynamics trajectories evolved under a computationally efficient potential. By contrast, this work highlights the necessity of employing a consistent dipole surface model in both CavMD simulations and spectroscopic post-processing. While utilizing inconsistent dipole models only mildly influences the linear polariton spectrum, it severely distorts 2D spectra in wide frequency regions. With a consistent dipole-induced-dipole model, compared to the outside-cavity molecular 2D-IIR spectrum, the cavity 2D-IIR spectrum splits the OH stretch band to a pair of polariton branches along only the IR (not Raman) axis, while fading molecular signals at other frequency regions. This work provides the foundation for employing direct CavMD simulations to construct 2D spectra of realistic molecules under VSC.
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Supreme Court considers Trump administration’s bid to fire Lisa Cook,
asking lawyer to provide evidence for alleged mortgage fraud
During today’s arguments, both conservative justice Amy Coney Barrett
and Ketanji Brown Jackson of the liberal wing of the court
pushed solicitor general Sauer to explain how the administration’s allegations against Cook would harm the public if she were to remain in her position.
Jackson went on to press Sauer to provide “evidence t…