Some reactions to the current Indonesian protests:
- As far as the underlying issue goes, that of legislative pay, the protesters are in the wrong there, as legislators do actually deserve to be compensated for the extra expenses associated with the position
- That being said, the rights we consider "First Amendment rights" here in the US (speech, assembly, petitioning the government for redress of grievances) are fundamental and should be protected. The protesters have a right to protest even if they are wrong about legislative pay.
- Furthermore, police response to the protests has been disproportionately violent and fascistic. The death of a protester struck by a police vehicle shows the danger of both car culture and police militarization. Further protests on these two topics are necessary, and I stand in solidarity with any protesters speaking out against police brutality and vehicle deadliness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_2025_Indonesian_protests
On representations of the multi-virtual braid group $M_kVB_n$ and the multi-welded braid group $M_kWB_n$
Vaibhav Keshari, Mohamad N. Nasser, Madeti Prabhakar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04168
On beam characterization of ground-based CMB radio telescopes using UAV-mounted sources: application to the QUIJOTE TFGI and plans for LSPE-Strip
Fabio Paonessa, Lorenzo Ciorba, Giuseppe Addamo, Paz Alonso-Arias, Barbara Caccianiga, Marco Bersanelli, Francesco Cuttaia, Cristian Franceschet, Ricardo Tanausu Genova Santos, Massimo Gervasi, Roger Hoyland, Mike Jones, Carlos Hugo Lopez-Caraballo, Mauro Lumia, Michele Maris, Aniello Mennella, Gianluca Morgante, Oscar Antonio Peverini, Sabri…
Readout electronics for low occupancy High-Pressure Gas TPCs
N. Khan, Y. Hua, I. Xiotidis, T. Alves, E. Atkin, G. Barker, D. Barrow, A. Booth, J. Borg, A. Bross, M. F. Cicala, L. Cremonesi, A. Deisting, K. Duffy, R. Gran, P. Green, A. Habig, M. Judah, T. Junk, A. Kaboth, A. Klustov\'a, H. LeMoine, A. D. Marino, F. Mart\'inez L\'opez, T. Mohayai, D. Naples, R. Nichol, D. Parker, M. Pfaff, J. Raaf, P. Rubinov, P. Singh, A. Srivastava, A. Waldron, L. Warsame, M. Wascko, A. Wil…
Involutive root-graded Lie algebras and Lie tori of type $A$
Saeid Azam, Mehdi Izadi Farhadi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16954 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.16…
Nucleon charge radius measurement with low-energy electron scattering
Clement Legris, Rika Danjo, Taiga Goke, Yuki Honda, Kengo Hotta, Rin Kagami, Hiroki Kobayashi, Michael Kohl, Yukie Maeda, Dominique Marchand, Edward Morris, Toshiya Muto, Tetsuya Ohnishi, Shunto Sasaki, Toshimi Suda, Kyo Tsukada, Eric Voutier, Toyohiro Yamauchi, Kosei Yoshimoto
https://