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Ukrainian strike sets Russia's Saratov oil refinery ablaze, military reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/16/ukrainian-strike-sets-russias-saratov.html

Donald Trump cuts US public spending on health science to lowest level in decade
https://www.ft.com/content/63c12080-d7f3-4ffb-afbc-ff0a90a0131d?sharetype=blocked

Putin offered at Alaska summit to
freeze the front lines if Ukraine withdraws from the
Donetsk region

Putin told Trump he could relax some territorial claims in exchange for Donetsk region
Russian president offered at Alaska summit to freeze front lines if Ukraine withdraws from crucial eastern area

Important, informative thread re farmworker pay.
#agriculture

Important, informative thread re farmworker pay.
#agriculture

Bad year for bicycling at the California State Capitol. Caltrans quick-build bill died, among others.
https://www.calbike.org/bike-friendly-bills-bite-the-dust/

Bike-Friendly Bills Bite the Dust - CalBike
After several years of successful campaigns, including passing the Freedom to Walk Act,the Complete Streets Bill, and securing $1 billion for the Active Transportation Program, 2025 is shaping up to be a dismal year for active transportation efforts in Sacramento. A combination of budget shortfalls, literal and metaphorical fires, and a federal government openly hostile […]

This is not a joke... A press release from the UK government about a meeting of the "national drought group", in order to "save water at home", suggests to:
"Delete old emails and pictures as data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems"
... while the government also pus…

National Drought Group meets to address “nationally significant” water shortfall
Five areas remain in drought with six more in prolonged dry weather

Klarna reports Q2 revenue up 25% YoY to $823M with a net loss of $53M, up from a net loss of $18M in Q2 2024, as it prepares for a second attempt at a US IPO (Akila Quinio/Financial Times)

Quiver superconformal index and giant gravitons: asymptotics and expansions
Souradeep Purkayastha, Zishen Qu, Ali Zahabi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12123 https://

Quiver superconformal index and giant gravitons: asymptotics and expansions
We study asymptotics of the $d=4$, $\mathcal{N}=1$ superconformal index for toric quiver gauge theories. Using graph-theoretic and algebraic factorization techniques, we obtain a cycle expansion for the large-$N$ index in terms of the $R$-charge-weighted adjacency matrix. Applying saddle-point techniques at the on-shell $R$-charges, we determine the asymptotic degeneracy in the univariate specialization for $\hat{A}_{m}$, and along the main diagonal for the bivariate index for $\mathcal{N}=4$ a…

Heute vor 22 Jahren: Am 16. Juli 2003 entdeckte die italienische Grenzkontrolle bei einem Schrotttransport erhöhte #Strahlung. Eine Cs-137-Quelle wurde identifiziert, der Transport gestoppt und ein Sicherheitsbereich eingerichtet. Der #Schrott kam von einem Händler aus Ljubljana.