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Sanctions on Oil Smugglers Exporting Iranian Oil (United States Department of State)
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/07/sanctions-on-oil-smugglers-exporting-iranian-oil/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p97#a250703p97

US sanctions Russian IT company Aeza Group over ransomware operations: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/us-sanctions-russian-it-company.html

A Keyframe-Based Approach for Auditing Bias in YouTube Shorts Recommendations
Mert Can Cakmak, Nitin Agarwal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02543 https://arxiv…

A Keyframe-Based Approach for Auditing Bias in YouTube Shorts Recommendations
YouTube Shorts and other short-form video platforms now influence how billions engage with content, yet their recommendation systems remain largely opaque. Small shifts in promoted content can significantly impact user exposure, especially for politically sensitive topics. In this work, we propose a keyframe-based method to audit bias and drift in short-form video recommendations. Rather than analyzing full videos or relying on metadata, we extract perceptually salient keyframes, generate capti…

Impact of early-age exposure to power ultrasound on the micromechanical properties of hardened cement paste
Martin Chaigne, S\'ebastien Manneville, Michael Haist, Roland J. -M. Pellenq, Thibaut Divoux
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02183

Impact of early-age exposure to power ultrasound on the micromechanical properties of hardened cement paste
Cement paste serves as the universal binder in concrete, formed by mixing water with Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC). In its fresh state, cement paste is a suspension in which the initial particle inventory continuously dissolves, while simultaneously, a growing population of colloidal calcium silica-hydrate (C-S-H) particles forms and progressively builds a percolated structure that densifies and hardens through hydration. Like most colloidal gels, cement paste is sensitive to external stimuli …

ICE says its officers use a “minimum amount of force” when making arrests.
You can judge for yourself.
WHAT WE’RE SEEING
🆘Agents break car windows even when sobbing children or pregnant women
https://projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-smashed-w…

“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself.

Black hole optical analogue: photon sphere microlasers
Chenni Xu, Aswathy Sundaresan, Nazire-Beg\"um Kazkal, Clement Lafargue, Lior Zarfaty, Li-Gang Wang, Ofek Birnholtz, Dominique Decanini, Melanie Lebental, Patrick Sebbah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01751

Black hole optical analogue: photon sphere microlasers
The bell-like ringdown of the gravitational field in the last stage of the merging of massive black holes is now routinely detected on earth by the last generation of gravitational wave detectors. Its spectrum is interpreted as a sum of damped sinusoidal vibrations of the spacetime in the vicinity of the black hole. These so-called quasinormal modes are currently the subject of extensive studies, yet, their true nature remains elusive. Here, we emulate, in the laboratory, genuine four-dimension…

https://projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-smashed-windows-deportation-arrests

#Maryland's top election official balks at #Drumpf #DOJ demand for complete trove of sensitive personal voter information.
“This is a new era for the DOJ, it seems,” said a

Schön war die heutige äh gestrige #CriticalMass in #Zürich. Und mit 25km auch etwas länger als sonst. Mit An- und Abreise waren's für mich 33.5km, die wegen Home-Office heute gut aufs #BikeToWork…

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Sanctioning Officials of the Palestinian Authority and Members of the Palestine Liberation Organization (United States Department of State)
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/07/sanctioning-officials-of-the-palestinian-authority-and-members-of-the-palestine-liberation-organization/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250731/p104#a250731p104