from my link log —
The state of SIMD in Rust in 2025.
https://shnatsel.medium.com/the-state-of-simd-in-rust-in-2025-32c263e5f53d
saved 2025-11-06

The state of SIMD in Rust in 2025
If you’re already familiar with SIMD, the table is all you need. And if you’re not, you will understand the table by the end of the…

💸 Idaho State University may buy a private med school: What would it mean for Idaho's doctor shortage?
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-idaho-state-university-buy-private.html

Idaho State University may buy a private med school: What would it mean for Idaho's doctor shortage?
Idaho State University appears to be getting more serious about buying the Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine in Meridian—at least, serious enough to spend $100,000 on a study that could help make the case for a purchase.

Partially paywalled but still lots of juicy data. “State of the software engineering job market in 2025”: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-the-tech-market-in-2025
From which:

State of the software engineering job market in 2025
A deepdive into today’s tech jobs market, with exclusive data on tech jobs, AI engineering, Big Tech recruitment, the growing importance of location, and more

On Structured State-Space Duality
Jerry Yao-Chieh Hu, Xiwen Zhang, Weimin Wu, Han Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04944 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04944

On Structured State-Space Duality
Structured State-Space Duality (SSD) [Dao & Gu, ICML 2024] is an equivalence between a simple Structured State-Space Model (SSM) and a masked attention mechanism. In particular, a state-space model with a scalar-times-identity state matrix is equivalent to a masked self-attention with a $1$-semiseparable causal mask. Consequently, the same sequence transformation (model) has two algorithmic realizations: as a linear-time $O(T)$ recurrence or as a quadratic-time $O(T^2)$ attention. In this note,…

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808 State:
🎵 Pacific State
#NowPlaying #808State
https://tokyodancemusic.bandcamp.com/track/808-state-pacific-state-hyper-dance-cover-by-tokyo
https://open.spotify.com/track/2h7w0KHwHbx4WbG6WxjO7U

Oklahoma State football adds defensive back Maliek Bracy to 2026 recruiting class https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/college/cowboys/2025/10/07/oklahoma-state-football-adds-maliek-bracy-2…

Democratic state Rep. James Talarico is set to announce his Senate bid on Tuesday, according to three people familiar with the plans.
The state legislator has been considered a rising star in Texas,
conducting dozens of national media interviews after he and his fellow Democrats left the state to hold up a Trump-led plan aimed at netting more Republican-leaning seats.
He also secured a spot on Joe Rogan’s enormously popular podcastthis spring.
Former Rep. Colin Allre…

FOIA docs: Illinois news entities operating 120 outlets are receiving a combined $4M in 2025 state tax credits under a new law for employing local journalists (John Volk/Local News Initiative)
https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.e…

Illinois Newsrooms Receive $4 Million from State
Forty Illinois local news entities operating 120 outlets are receiving $4 million in state tax credits under a new law designed to encourage the retention and hiring of journalists, according to documents released this week.

NEW ART ALERT!
Hey Garden State Social! Thanks to everyone on the contributing to the cost of running the server I have commissioned more art for the server.
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Hawaii issues state of emergency as Hurricane Kiko approaches islands as Category 4
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5490353-hurricane-kiko-hawaii-storm/

A Legal Standoff in the Lone Star State (Anna Bower/Lawfare)
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-legal-standoff-in-the-lone-star-state
http://www.memeorandum.com/250807/p149#a250807p149

Utility-Scale Quantum State Preparation: Classical Training using Pauli Path Simulation
Cheng-Ju Lin, Hrant Gharibyan, Vincent P. Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02428 https://

Utility-Scale Quantum State Preparation: Classical Training using Pauli Path Simulation
We use Pauli Path simulation to variationally obtain parametrized circuits for preparing ground states of various quantum many-body Hamiltonians. These include the quantum Ising model in one dimension, in two dimensions on square and heavy-hex lattices, and the Kitaev honeycomb model, all at system sizes of one hundred qubits or more, beyond the reach of exact state-vector simulation, thereby reaching utility scale. We benchmark the Pauli Path simulation results against exact ground-state energ…

StaMo: Unsupervised Learning of Generalizable Robot Motion from Compact State Representation
Mingyu Liu, Jiuhe Shu, Hui Chen, Zeju Li, Canyu Zhao, Jiange Yang, Shenyuan Gao, Hao Chen, Chunhua Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05057

StaMo: Unsupervised Learning of Generalizable Robot Motion from Compact State Representation
A fundamental challenge in embodied intelligence is developing expressive and compact state representations for efficient world modeling and decision making. However, existing methods often fail to achieve this balance, yielding representations that are either overly redundant or lacking in task-critical information. We propose an unsupervised approach that learns a highly compressed two-token state representation using a lightweight encoder and a pre-trained Diffusion Transformer (DiT) decoder…

I wasn't aware of "the dual state". I've known it as "Soviet legal theory".
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/dual-state-supreme-court/

MCMC for State Space models
Paul Fearnhead, Chris Sherlock
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04932 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04932…

MCMC for State Space models
A state-space model is a time-series model that has an unobserved latent process from which we take noisy measurements over time. The observations are conditionally independent given the latent process and the latent process itself is Markovian. These properties lead to simplifications for the conditional distribution of the latent process given the parameters and the observations. This chapter looks at how we can leverage the properties of state-space models to construct efficient MCMC sampler…

NO. F'ING. WAY.
✅ Winless UCLA stuns No. 7 Penn State in biggest upset of the season
https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/breaking-news/article/winless-ucla-stuns-no-7-penn-state-i…

Winless UCLA stuns No. 7 Penn State in biggest upset of the season
Not exactly the bounce-back Penn State was hoping for after the Oregon loss.

The State of State AI: Legislative Approaches to AI in 2025
https://fpf.org/blog/the-state-of-state-ai-legislative-approaches-to-ai-in-2025/
@…

Investigation of the $l^{-}l^{ }\nu \overline{\nu}$ final state at multi-TeV muon colliders through the exclusive decay of ZZ/WW gauge bosons in the Randall-Sundrum model
Bui Thi Ha Giang, Dang Van Soa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02638

Investigation of the $l^{-}l^{+}ν\overlineν$ final state at multi-TeV muon colliders through the exclusive decay of ZZ/WW gauge bosons in the Randall-Sundrum model
An attempt is made to present the effect of the exclusive decay of ZZ/WW gauge bosons at high energy colliders in the Randall-Sundrum (RS) model. In this paper, we investigate the $l^{-}l^{+}ν\overlineν$ final state at muon-TeV colliders through the exclusive decay of ZZ/WW gauge bosons in detail. The result shows that with fixed collision energies, cross-sections for $l^{-}l^{+}ν\overlineν$ production in final state depend strongly on the parameters of the unparticle physics, muon polariza…

Fractional quantum Hall state at $\nu = 1/2$ with energy gap up to 6 K, and possible transition from one- to two-component state
Siddharth Kumar Singh, Chengyu Wang, Adbhut Gupta, Kirk W. Baldwin, Loren N. Pfeiffer, Mansour Shayegan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03983

Fractional quantum Hall state at $ν= 1/2$ with energy gap up to 6 K, and possible transition from one- to two-component state
The fractional quantum Hall state (FQHS) observed in the lowest Landau level at filling factor $ν=1/2$ in wide quantum wells has been enigmatic for decades because the two-dimensional electron system (2DES) has a bilayer charge distribution but with significant interlayer tunneling. Of particular interest is whether the 1/2 FQHS in this system has a one-component (1C) or two-component (2C) origin; these are typically identified as the Pfaffian (non-Abelian) or the $Ψ_{331}$ (Abelian) FQHSs, r…

"Zohran Mamdani is not a symbol of socialism, or communism as Trump says, those boogeymen which fill the hearts of many Americans with terror. He’s something more powerful than that. His cry is: we don’t have to do things like we used to do. Everything can change. And it’s a message of hope that can resonate everywhere"
https://

Empire State Of Mind
Why Mamdani’s win is bigger than the Big Apple

It's the last week of the California Legislative session, and there are a number of #climate & #environment bills awaiting action in the California Senate.
PLease help! #350BayArea has an eas…

Solutions that our communities need - Support these bills!
As Californians concerned about global warming and the climate crisis, it is up to us to make sure that our legislators listen to us and enact legislation that will do everything possible to fight climate change, and to mitigate its effects on all communities, especially those communities most directly affected. Please add your voice to this effort by signing this letter to your State Senator. Feel free to add your experiences and your thoughts about why your Senator needs to support this cl…

It's the last week of the California Legislative session, and there are a number of #climate & #environment bills awaiting action in the California Senate.
PLease help! #350BayArea has an eas…

Solutions that our communities need - Support these bills!
As Californians concerned about global warming and the climate crisis, it is up to us to make sure that our legislators listen to us and enact legislation that will do everything possible to fight climate change, and to mitigate its effects on all communities, especially those communities most directly affected. Please add your voice to this effort by signing this letter to your State Senator. Feel free to add your experiences and your thoughts about why your Senator needs to support this cl…

Fuck Trump, fuck Silicon Valley, and fuck Big Tech.
Look at the state of these slimy sycophants.
🤮
#Trump

Steady-State Spread Bounds for Graph Diffusion via Laplacian Regularisation
Ardavan Rahimian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04924 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04…

Steady-State Spread Bounds for Graph Diffusion via Laplacian Regularisation
We study how far a diffusion process on a graph can drift from a designed starting pattern when that pattern is produced using Laplacian regularisation. Under standard stability conditions for undirected, entrywise nonnegative graphs, we give a closed-form, instance-specific upper bound on the steady-state spread, measured as the relative change between the final and initial profiles. The bound separates two effects: (i) an irreducible term determined by the graph's maximum node degree, and (ii…

Jets, Cowboys get active at NFL trade deadline; Ohio State headlines initial College Football Playoff Top 25

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jets-co

I see that with a lot of criticism of generative "AI"—people state that obviously it's completely unreliable and untrustworthy for _their domain of expertise_ but they'll somehow gladly use it for other stuff.
I believe this cognitive dissonance has to do with how the chatbots pretend to be humans and trick us to assume agency when there is none.
Anyway, as I said otherwise it's great, you should read it: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

Echo State Networks as State-Space Models: A Systems Perspective
Pradeep Singh, Balasubramanian Raman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04422 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Echo State Networks as State-Space Models: A Systems Perspective
Echo State Networks (ESNs) are typically presented as efficient, readout-trained recurrent models, yet their dynamics and design are often guided by heuristics rather than first principles. We recast ESNs explicitly as state-space models (SSMs), providing a unified systems-theoretic account that links reservoir computing with classical identification and modern kernelized SSMs. First, we show that the echo-state property is an instance of input-to-state stability for a contractive nonlinear SSM…

Businesses are throwing parties celebrating his resignation...
OK GOP State Senator, Essentially: Ryan Walters’ Mandates Were Performative Bullshit | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/06/ok-gop-state-senator-essentially-ryan-walters-mandates-were-performative-bullshit/

Texas and Florida Have Become National Models for Using the Police State To Wage Culture War Battles (C.J. Ciaramella/Reason)
https://reason.com/2025/10/06/culture-war-police-state/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p50#a251006p50

Quantizer Design for Finite Model Approximations, Model Learning, and Quantized Q-Learning for MDPs with Unbounded Spaces
Osman Bicer, Ali D. Kara, Serdar Yuksel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04355

Quantizer Design for Finite Model Approximations, Model Learning, and Quantized Q-Learning for MDPs with Unbounded Spaces
In this paper, for Markov decision processes (MDPs) with unbounded state spaces we present refined upper bounds presented in [Kara et. al. JMLR'23] on finite model approximation errors via optimizing the quantizers used for finite model approximations. We also consider implications on quantizer design for quantized Q-learning and empirical model learning, and the performance of policies obtained via Q-learning where the quantized state is treated as the state itself. We highlight the distinctio…

Periodic Event-Triggered Prescribed Time Control of Euler-Lagrange Systems under State and Input Constraints
Chidre Shravista Kashyap, Karnan A, Pushpak Jagtap, Jishnu Keshavan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02769

Periodic Event-Triggered Prescribed Time Control of Euler-Lagrange Systems under State and Input Constraints
This article proposes a periodic event-triggered adaptive barrier control policy for the trajectory tracking problem of perturbed Euler-Lagrangian systems with state, input, and temporal (SIT) constraints. In particular, an approximation-free adaptive-barrier control architecture is designed to ensure prescribed-time convergence of the tracking error to a prescribed bound while rejecting exogenous disturbances. In contrast to existing approaches that necessitate continuous real-time control act…

State Field Coverage: A Metric for Oracle Quality
Facundo Molina, Nazareno Aguirre, Alessandra Gorla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03071 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

State Field Coverage: A Metric for Oracle Quality
The effectiveness of testing in uncovering software defects depends not only on the characteristics of the test inputs and how thoroughly they exercise the software, but also on the quality of the oracles used to determine whether the software behaves as expected. Therefore, assessing the quality of oracles is crucial to improve the overall effectiveness of the testing process. Existing metrics have been used for this purpose, but they either fail to provide a comprehensive basis for guiding or…

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A deep dive into the state of the tech job market in 2025, including an increase in demand for AI engineers and a rising average tenure at Big Tech companies (Gergely Orosz/The Pragmatic Engineer)
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-the-tech-market…

State of the software engineering job market in 2025
A deepdive into today’s tech jobs market, with exclusive data on tech jobs, AI engineering, Big Tech recruitment, the growing importance of location, and more

VChain: Chain-of-Visual-Thought for Reasoning in Video Generation
Ziqi Huang, Ning Yu, Gordon Chen, Haonan Qiu, Paul Debevec, Ziwei Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05094 https://…

VChain: Chain-of-Visual-Thought for Reasoning in Video Generation
Recent video generation models can produce smooth and visually appealing clips, but they often struggle to synthesize complex dynamics with a coherent chain of consequences. Accurately modeling visual outcomes and state transitions over time remains a core challenge. In contrast, large language and multimodal models (e.g., GPT-4o) exhibit strong visual state reasoning and future prediction capabilities. To bridge these strengths, we introduce VChain, a novel inference-time chain-of-visual-thoug…

Spectral Measurement of the $^{214}$Bi beta-decay to the $^{214}$Po Ground State with XENONnT
E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe, M. Adrover, S. Ahmed Maouloud, L. Althueser, B. Andrieu, E. Angelino, D. Ant\'on Martin, S. R. Armbruster, F. Arneodo, L. Baudis, M. Bazyk, L. Bellagamba, R. Biondi, A. Bismark, K. Boese, R. M. Braun, A. Brown, G. Bruno, R. Budnik, C. Cai, C. Capelli, J. M. R. Cardoso, A. P. Cimental Ch\'avez, A. P. Colijn, J. Conrad, J. J. Cuenca-Garc\'ia, V. D'A…

Spectral Measurement of the $^{214}$Bi beta-decay to the $^{214}$Po Ground State with XENONnT
We report the measurement of the $^{214}$Bi beta-decay spectrum to the ground state of $^{214}$Po using the XENONnT detector. This decay is classified as first-forbidden non-unique, for which theoretical predictions require detailed nuclear structure modeling. A dedicated identification algorithm isolates a high-purity sample of ground-state beta-decays, explicitly excluding events with associated gamma-rays emission. By comparing the measured spectrum, which covers energies up to 3.27 MeV, wit…

What your brain activity says about you: A review of neuropsychiatric disorders identified in resting-state and sleep EEG data
J. E. M. Scanlon, A. Pelzer, M. Gharleghi, K. C. Fuhrmeister, T. K\"ollmer, P. Aichroth, R. G\"oder, C. Hansen, K. I. Wolf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04984

What your brain activity says about you: A review of neuropsychiatric disorders identified in resting-state and sleep EEG data
Electroencephalogram monitoring devices and online data repositories hold large amounts of data from individuals participating in research and medical studies without direct reference to personal identifiers. This paper explores what types of personal and health information have been detected and classified within task-free EEG data. Additionally, we investigate key characteristics of the collected resting-state and sleep data, in order to determine the privacy risks involved with openly availa…

State agency files lawsuit to ban Moscow-backed church in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/03/state-agency-files-lawsuit-to.html

contiguous_usa: Contiguous states (USA)
A network of contiguous states in the USA, in which each state is a node and two nodes are connected if they share a land-based geographic border. The dataset includes the lower 48 states, and the District of Columbia.
This network has 49 nodes and 107 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

Hallucination-Resistant, Domain-Specific Research Assistant with Self-Evaluation and Vector-Grounded Retrieval
Vivek Bhavsar, Joseph Ereifej, Aravanan Gurusami
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02326

Hallucination-Resistant, Domain-Specific Research Assistant with Self-Evaluation and Vector-Grounded Retrieval
Large language models accelerate literature synthesis but can hallucinate and mis-cite, limiting their usefulness in expert workflows. We present RA-FSM (Research Assistant - Finite State Machine), a modular GPT-based research assistant that wraps generation in a finite-state control loop: Relevance -> Confidence -> Knowledge. The system is grounded in vector retrieval and a deterministic citation pipeline. The controller filters out-of-scope queries, scores answerability, decomposes questions,…

❝The state became neither “free market” nor “socialist” — it became a patronage machine run by insiders.❞
EDIT: Posted the link for the first paragraphs, but man, that article goes off the rails later on. 🧵
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/nov/04/state-capture-corruption-democracy

State-aligned hacking groups have sharply escalated their cyber operations against the EU over the past year, says European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) Threat Landscape Report
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/security/state-aligned-th…

State-aligned cyber threats against EU intensify, ENISA warns
State-aligned hacking groups have sharply escalated their cyber operations against the EU over the past year, says European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) Threat Landscape ...

Generalized Entanglement of Purification Criteria for 2-Producible States in Multipartite Systems
Tian-Ren Jin, Yu-Ran Zhang, Heng Fan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04596 https://

Generalized Entanglement of Purification Criteria for 2-Producible States in Multipartite Systems
Multipartite entanglement has much more complex structures than bipartite entanglement, such as the semiseparable state. The multipartite state absent of multipartite entanglement is called a 2-producible state, which is a tensor product of at most 2-partite states. Recently, it is proved that a tripartite pure state is 2-producible if and only if the gap between entanglement of purification and its lower bound vanishes. Here, we show that the entanglement of purification gap is not sufficient …

Is Pete Carroll Unhappy With State of Raiders Roster? https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/pete-carroll-roster-thoughts/?adt_ei=[email]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/sandworm-hackers-use-data-wipers-to-disrupt-ukraines-grain-sector/
Sandworm hackers use data wipers to disrupt Ukraine's grain sector

Sandworm hackers use data wipers to disrupt Ukraine's grain sector
Russian state-backed hacker group Sandworm has deployed multiple data-wiping malware families in attacks targeting Ukraine's education, government, and the grain sector, the country's main revenue source.

The state of HTTP clients in Spring
https://spring.io/blog/2025/09/30/the-state-of-http-clients-in-spring

"I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have to know where the lens is, what the shot is, and where you're moving. And then you have to trick yourself into an emotional state where you believe this stuff is actually happening."
—Julianne Moore
#acting

I appreciate posts that give approaches with reasoning:
https://www.a11y-collective.com/blog/visually-hidden/
But I wish these posts would reference prior art, such as:
• Scott’s

Essential Visually Hidden CSS Techniques for Web Accessibility
Fix vanishing focus indicators & conflicting sr-only classes. Learn the 3-state visibility model that transforms CSS hacks into logical accessibility decisions.

Donald Trump has pardoned the former Tennessee House speaker and his former top aide in the state legislature
just weeks after they were sentenced to prison on public corruption charges.

Glen Casada, 66, was sentenced in September to three years in federal prison on charges
related to a kickback and bribery arrangement involving the legislature’s state-funded constituent mailer program.
Cade Cothren, 38, previously Casada’s chief of staff, was also convicted of fraud…

Trump pardons former Tennessee House speaker, top aide awaiting prison
Trump has granted clemency in the opening year of his term to several former elected officials convicted on corruption-related charges.

@… by the way, does it sometimes happen that the Geofabrik data downloads lag a few days behind the actual state of the OSM despite the timestamps seeming current? Or does the picture gen pipeline somehow not clear out stale data sometimes? 🙂

I had 12 weeks of parental leave for each of my children. (Six of those were paid by my company, and 6 by Washington State. In the US, this might come across as bragging but functional countries will be shocked at how little it is.) My partner fed them, because we had the privilege of being able to breast feed, so I took care of diapers, tummy time, and what other things I could.
I learned about elimination communication (EC). We used cloth diapers, for ecological reasons but also because they can help with potty training later. With EC, it was relatively easy. I actually only had to change dirty diapers a few times. I was available, so I could pay attention to our babies. I could learn their body language. Both of them rarely cried because we knew what they needed before they had to cry about it.
When I was forced back to work, the EC thing fell off. We continued to use cloth diapers for a while with our oldest, but it became too hard with our youngest. We had to switch to disposable diapers because of the overhead.
There have been so many wasteful things we've done because we don't have space to do the right thing. Having kids is both isolating and overwhelming. To maintain sanity, you just have to take short cuts when you don't have time or help.
Before kids, we used to really enjoy cooking together. We would start from basic ingredients and work our way up. We made pad thai, squishing tamarind paste from pods by hand. Even after having kids, my oldest and I would collect acorns from the tree down the street and crack them together. The other day we all cracked acorns we had collected for the first time since moving over here (and I made some Dotori-muk. We've also started making bread together again.
Kids really love making and processing food. There's a sensory element to it, which, if you don't have kids, is actually a really big thing kids need. But there's also a social element to making food together. They just behave better when we do things like that. It's almost like there's some kind of evolutionary incentive for kids to *want* to help. Go figure.
I've really been wanting to make seitan as we try to reduce how much meat we eat in our house. Even that meat consumption is partially about convenience. It's relatively cheap and easy to throw a bag of chicken wings in air fryer, or some ground beef in with pearl couscous in the instant pot, and just have low effort food home made food. My partner is vegan. I used to eat mostly vegan at home and only eat meat on occasion, usually eating out. But it just takes more mental energy to cook without meat. It's an easy protein, and our kids are picky.
These threads, and a few others, all connect back to a single thing. When we can slow down, we can be more careful and thoughtful. We can be mindful. We can make decisions that are better for the environment, that account for climate change. When we are under pressure, when we are tired and overworked, it's just harder or impossible to be careful and mindful... and that's exactly the point.
At a time when the survival of our species depends on our ability to slow down and be mindful, we are more stressed and overwhelmed than ever. Because, if we had a chance to slow down and think, if we could make good choices, we would make choices that would destroy the industries at the core of the global order. To slow down, as we did at the beginning of COVID, is catastrophic for "the economy." Of course it is.
When an industry runs out of room to expand by driving efficiency, it must increase demand. If demand is already fulfilled, it must create waste. The more pressure there is on the population, the worse decisions people make, the more they waste. Waste is the point. We are in an existential conflict. If we do not destroy this system, if we cannot simply slow down and think, we will be destroyed by it.
I think about the microplastics from those diapers, the methane from them rotting (not captured in the municipal biogas digester, but released directly into the environment), the little plastic containers of everything, all the opportunity costs of the carelessness inflicted on us to survive, and I wonder, "is any of this really worth my time in the office? Did I really produce so much more value doing my work than when destroyed in order to allow me to work?" Of course not, because the invisible hand, in it's infinite wisdom, has shuffled away that cost. The cost of our family thrashing is borne by society, we are a burden on everyone, while the value of my labor is internalized to the company.
How much of your "carbon footprint" should belong to your employer? There can be no capitalist solution to the climate crisis because capitalism is the crisis.
#ClimateCrisis

Reuters withdraws Xi and Putin's longevity chat video, after China state TV pulls legal permission to use it; the video was distributed to 1,000 media clients (Kenneth Li/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

This would make it dramatically more difficult to fund both affordable housing and transit in California. The Howard Jarvis people want to pull up the drawbridge and make us an even more exclusionary, car-dependent and on-fire state. https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/10

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Elder:
🎵 Dream State Return
#NowPlaying #Elder
https://beholdtheelder.bandcamp.com/album/liminality-dream-state-return
https://open.spotify.com/track/0mXIGc9b6KECIvsa8eepST

Everything-Grasping (EG) Gripper: A Universal Gripper with Synergistic Suction-Grasping Capabilities for Cross-Scale and Cross-State Manipulation
Jianshu Zhou, Jing Shu, Tianle Pan, Puchen Zhu, Jiajun An, Huayu Zhang, Junda Huang, Upinder Kaur, Xin Ma, Masayoshi Tomizuka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04585

Everything-Grasping (EG) Gripper: A Universal Gripper with Synergistic Suction-Grasping Capabilities for Cross-Scale and Cross-State Manipulation
Grasping objects across vastly different sizes and physical states-including both solids and liquids-with a single robotic gripper remains a fundamental challenge in soft robotics. We present the Everything-Grasping (EG) Gripper, a soft end-effector that synergistically integrates distributed surface suction with internal granular jamming, enabling cross-scale and cross-state manipulation without requiring airtight sealing at the contact interface with target objects. The EG Gripper can handle …

What semiconductor scale technology node did you start on?
I started with 3,000 nm
(current state of the art is 3nm, with 2nm coming to mass production next year)

Judge Immergut, an appointee of President Trump, called an emergency hearing Sunday,
then broadened her restraining order to cover “the relocation, federalization or deployment of members of the National Guard of any state or the District of Columbia in the state of Oregon,”
telling Justice Department lawyers that the president was ”in direct contravention” of her order.
The blizzard of moves by the Trump administration,
from Texas to California, Illinois to Oregon,

Judge Blocks National Guard Deployment in Oregon as Trump Expands His Targets
A federal judge in Oregon accused the administration of circumventing her order, even as the president turned to Texas for troops aimed at Chicago and other cities.

"The state parole board further explained that it reviewed the defendant's case on Sept. 30 — "as required by state law" — and "unanimously voted" that he remain in prison. However, the law, which is listed as having become effective in 2017, "required the Department of Corrections to release the inmate."
Parole board members threatened after killer's release
https://lawandcrime.com/crime/parole-board-members-threatened-after-child-killers-release-from-prison-even-though-they-say-they-unanimously-voted-to-keep-him-locked-up/

The Authoritarian Stack.
This is brilliant – if you’re interested in human rights, democracy, and tech, and want to understand technofascism/corporatocracy bookmark and read this.👇
#AuthoritarianStack #tech

Qubit entanglement from forward scattering
Kamila Kowalska, Enrico Maria Sessolo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04200 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04200

Qubit entanglement from forward scattering
In the context of entanglement in relativistic $2\to 2$ scattering described by a perturbative $S$-matrix, we derive analytically the concurrence for a mixed final state of two qubits corresponding to a discrete quantum number of the scattered particles. Given an initial product state, the derived concurrence depends at the leading order on the real part of the inelastic forward amplitude and the initial state only. We also point out that the real part of the forward amplitude provides a sublea…

Sources: the Chinese government issues guidance requiring new data center projects that have received any state funds to only use domestically-made AI chips (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-bans-foreign-ai-c…

Midwest Democrats struggle to counter GOP on redistricting (The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5489340-democrats-gop-redistricting-midwest/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250907/p67#a250907p67

At least 24 relatives of Putin get state-linked jobs, investigative journalists say: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/06/at-least-relatives-of-putin.html

Optimizaci\'on de la Transmisi\'on de Estados Cu\'anticos en Cadenas de Qubits usando Deep Reinforcement Learning y Algoritmos Gen\'eticos
Sof\'ia Per\'on Santana, Ariel Fiuri, Omar Osenda, Mart\'in Dom\'inguez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05010

Optimización de la Transmisión de Estados Cuánticos en Cadenas de Qubits usando Deep Reinforcement Learning y Algoritmos Genéticos
Quantum state transfer (QST) via homogeneous spin chains plays a crucial role in building scalable quantum hardware. A basic quantum state transmission protocol prepares a state in one qubit and transfers it to another through a channel, seeking to minimize the time and avoid information loss. The fidelity of the process is measured by functions proportional to the transition probability between both states. We approach this optimization problem using constant magnetic pulses and two complement…

Seahawks troll Raiders' Ashton Jeanty after big first half by ex Boise State teammate https://www.si.com/nfl/seahawks/seahawks-troll-raiders-ashton-jeanty-george-holani-big-half

IRS Direct File,
the electronic system for filing tax returns for free,
will not be offered next year,
the Trump administration has confirmed.
An email sent Monday from IRS official Cynthia Noe to state comptrollers that participate in the Direct File program said that
“IRS Direct File will not be available in Filing Season 2026. No launch date has been set for the future.”
The program developed during Joe Biden’s presidency
was credited by users with…

IRS Direct File won't be available next year for submitting tax returns for free
The Trump administration has decided not to offer the IRS' electronic tax filing system for free next year, and its future is unclear. An IRS official informed state comptrollers in an email Monday that "IRS Direct File will not be available in Filing Season 2026." Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said better alternatives exist and the private sector can do a better job. The program, developed during Joe Biden's presidency, was praised for making tax filing easy and economical. However, it face…

RFK To States: Comply With Jesus Vaccine Exemptions - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/09/rfk-warns-state-to-comply-with-jesus-vax-exemptions/

Trump defends RFK Jr.: 'He's a different kind of a guy' (Ian Swanson/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5490947-trump-kennedy-vaccine-debate/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250907/p70#a250907p70

Last month, Judge Goodstein had temporarily blocked the state’s election commission from releasing its voter files to the Department of Justice,
a decision that was openly criticized by Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon
and later reversed by the state Supreme Court.
The DOJ had sought the information, including names, addresses, driver’s license numbers, and social security numbers,
of over three million registered voters as part of Trump’s M…

"House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Burns Down" #ELB
Time: Police are investigating the cause of a fire that burned down the home of South Carolina Circuit Court judge Diane Goodstein, who had reportedly received death threats for weeks related to her work. State law enforcement is investigating the house fire … Continue reading “House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Burns Down” →

1Password CEO David Faugno says the company has crossed $400M in ARR, up from $250M in 2023, as it benefits from a shift in the threat landscape due to AI (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/ryan-reynolds-backed-1password-tops-400…

Password manager backed by Ryan Reynolds, other celebs, hits key revenue metric on AI tail winds
1Password was founded in 2005 and counts IBM, Perplexity AI, Salesforce and the Golden State Warriors among its customers.

OKVIS2-X: Open Keyframe-based Visual-Inertial SLAM Configurable with Dense Depth or LiDAR, and GNSS
Simon Boche, Jaehyung Jung, Sebasti\'an Barbas Laina, Stefan Leutenegger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04612

OKVIS2-X: Open Keyframe-based Visual-Inertial SLAM Configurable with Dense Depth or LiDAR, and GNSS
To empower mobile robots with usable maps as well as highest state estimation accuracy and robustness, we present OKVIS2-X: a state-of-the-art multi-sensor Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) system building dense volumetric occupancy maps, while scalable to large environments and operating in realtime. Our unified SLAM framework seamlessly integrates different sensor modalities: visual, inertial, measured or learned depth, LiDAR and Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) measuremen…

Coherent Two-State Oscillations in False Vacuum Decay Regimes
Peiyun Ge, Xiao Wang, Yu-Xin Chao, Rong Lv, Li You
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04272 https://a…

Coherent Two-State Oscillations in False Vacuum Decay Regimes
Coherent two-state oscillations are observed in numerical simulations of one-dimensional transverse- and longitudinal-field Ising model within the false vacuum decay regimes. Starting from the false vacuum state with all spins up, in moderate-sized systems with a small transverse field, we find conventional decay dynamics at resonance conditions $ h\approx 2J/n$ can change into coherent oscillations between the false vacuum and a symmetric resonant state, manifested by a sub-leading eigenstate …

Trump orders federal law enforcement to patrol DC (Regina Zilbermints/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5442446-trump-federal-law-enforcement-dc/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250807/p156#a250807p156

Poland says state energy company Orlen is preparing to sell off Polska Press, the media group that it controversially purchased under the former government (Daniel Tilles/Notes From Poland)
https://notesfrompoland.com/2025/09/03

Polish state energy firm Orlen preparing to sell media group purchased under former government

In 2022, Oregonians narrowly passed Measure 111,
⭐️amending their constitution and guaranteeing affordable health care as a fundamental right to every resident of the state.
Through years of organizing, coalition building and planning,
💥Oregon may enact its Universal Health Plan as early as fall 2027. 
In the face of extreme Medicaid cuts from the Trump administration
-- which will leave roughly 16 million people without health coverage by 2034
-- a state-l…

Could Oregon chart the course for universal health care in the US?
Oregon is on the verge of enacting a single-payer health care plan, but continued organizing is needed to secure this historic victory.

Miami real estate gift for Trump presidential library sparks lawsuit (Max Rego/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5543581-miami-dade-college-lawsuit-trump-library/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251007/p122#a251007p122

Dems end Mississippi state Senate GOP's supermajority - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/11/05/dems-end-mississippi-state-senate-gops-supermajority/

VBM-NET: Visual Base Pose Learning for Mobile Manipulation using Equivariant TransporterNet and GNNs
Lakshadeep Naik, Adam Fischer, Daniel Duberg, Danica Kragic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04171

VBM-NET: Visual Base Pose Learning for Mobile Manipulation using Equivariant TransporterNet and GNNs
In Mobile Manipulation, selecting an optimal mobile base pose is essential for successful object grasping. Previous works have addressed this problem either through classical planning methods or by learning state-based policies. They assume access to reliable state information, such as the precise object poses and environment models. In this work, we study base pose planning directly from top-down orthographic projections of the scene, which provide a global overview of the scene while preservi…

ICE opening detention tent facility at Texas military base (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5441986-fort-bliss-immigration-detention-center/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250807/p148#a250807p148

Polarization-Controlled Dual-State Distribution of Bell and N00N Entanglement Over a Metro-Scale Commercial Quantum Network
Kazi Reaz, Md Mehdi Hassan, Jacob E. Humberd, Matthew L. Boone, Angel Fraire Estrada, Rick Mukherjee, H. R. Sadeghpour, Girish S. Agarwal, George Siopsis, Tian Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03701

Polarization-Controlled Dual-State Distribution of Bell and N00N Entanglement Over a Metro-Scale Commercial Quantum Network
We report the first demonstration of multiphoton, dual state entanglement distribution over a metropolitan scale commercial fiber network, implemented on the EPB Bohr IV quantum network in Chattanooga, TN, using an all fiber optic experimental platform. Employing a spatially degenerate, continuous wave type II SPDC biphoton source and fully fiber coupled linear optics, we generated a 4 photon entangled state. Through polarization projective measurements on two locally retained photons, we then …

Arizona abortion providers challenge pre-Dobbs restrictions in state court | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/arizona-abortion-providers-challenge-pre-dobbs-restrictions-in-state-court/

Members of the National Guard are rarely covered by the
Posse Comitatus Act because they usually report to their state or territory’s governor.
That means they are free to participate in law enforcement if doing so is consistent with state law.
However, when Guard personnel are called into federal service, or “federalized,”
they become part of the federal armed forces,
which means they are bound by the Posse Comitatus Act until they are returned to state contr…

The Posse Comitatus Act Explained
The law generally prevents the president from using the military as a domestic police force.

Florida surgeon general on ending vaccine mandates: Not 'actually a scientific debate' (Filip Timotija/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5489802-florida-surgeon-general-vaccine-mandates/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250906/p26#a250906p26

Amplitude-based Input Attribution in Quantum Learning via Integrated Gradients
Nicholas S. DiBrita, Jason Han, Younghyun Cho, Hengrui Luo, Tirthak Patel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02497

Amplitude-based Input Attribution in Quantum Learning via Integrated Gradients
Quantum machine learning (QML) algorithms have demonstrated early promise across hardware platforms, but remain difficult to interpret due to the inherent opacity of quantum state evolution. Widely used classical interpretability methods, such as integrated gradients and surrogate-based sensitivity analysis, are not directly compatible with quantum circuits due to measurement collapse and the exponential complexity of simulating state evolution. In this work, we introduce HATTRIQ, a general-pur…

State Department Agents Are Now Working With ICE on Immigration (Vittoria Elliott/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/state-department-dss-agents-ice-immigration/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250905/p49#a250905p49

The California Supreme Court rejected a First Amendment challenge to a state law that protects the rights of gay and transgender people in nursing homes and forbids employees of those sites from using the wrong pronouns to address a resident or coworker.
The ruling, handed down today, held that violations of the"LGBT Long-Term Care Residents’ Bill of Rights" are not protected by the First Amendment because they relate to codes of conduct in what is effectively both a workplace…

California Supreme Court rejects free speech challenge to LGBT protections in nursing homes
A 2017 California law is meant to protect the rights of gay and transgender people in nursing homes, including by forbidding employees from misgendering those patients

MAGA’s Top
“Voter Fraud” Watchdog
Votes in a Swing State.
He Doesn’t Live There.
A long paper trail shows that
Jack Posobiec votes in one state and lives in another
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/10/jack-posobi…

MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There.
A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

Three liberal justices won another 10-year term on the Pennsylvania supreme court,
giving Democrats a key victory and allowing them to maintain their 5-2 advantage on a vital body that could issue important rulings on abortion and voting rights in an important battleground state in the coming years.

Fire Consumes the Home of a South Carolina State Judge (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/us/politics/goodstein-house-fire-south-carolina-judge-senator.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p167#a251006p167

Colorado voters overwhelmingly supported a pair of ballot measures that aim to ensure every public school child in the state is able to access free meals at their schools.
Proposition MM increases taxes on wealthy households earning more than $300,000 annually.
The measure supplements a previously passed referendum from 2022 that also called for increases in taxes in order to help fund schools, but which fell short of its funding goals.
The tax increases will affect around …

Colorado Passes Measures to Feed All Public School Kids by Taxing the Wealthy
Excess funds from the school meals program would be redirected toward the state-managed SNAP program.

"Kansas mayor charged with alleged voter fraud; state leader says 'hundreds' more cases expected" (Rick Hasen/Election Law Blog)
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=152939
http://www.memeorandum.com/251106/p77#a251106p77

Tens of thousands of demonstrators surged down 16th Street toward the White House on Saturday.
It was the city’s first major organized protest since Trump declared a state of emergency and unleashed federal troops onto its streets.
Banners waved and voices rose in unison at the
“We Are All D.C.” march,
a massive show of resistance led by a coalition that included
Free DC, defenders of local self-rule,
Democracy Forward,
and the American Civil Libert…

'We Are All DC ': Tens of Thousands March to White House | Common Dreams
D.C.rallies against Trump’s troops as more cities targeted

South Carolina authorities are investigating a fire that engulfed the home of state circuit court judge (Cindy Von Quednow/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/us/judge-diane-goodstein-home-fire-investigation
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p90#a251006p90

Trump on Sunday deployed 300 California National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon
💥 defying a federal order blocking the move
– as Golden State Gov. Gavin Newsom vowed to sue in response.
“After a federal court blocked his attempt to federalize the Oregon National Guard,
Donald Trump is deploying 300 California National Guard personnel into Oregon,”
Newson said in a post on X,
later calling the order “un-American.”
“They are on their way there now. …

Trump defies federal court, sends 300 California National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon: 'On their way there now'
President Trump on Sunday sent 300 California National Guard troops to Portland defying a federal order blocking the move – as Golden State Gov. Gavin Newsom promised to sue over the move.

"We stand by the accuracy of what we published,"
Reuters' statement read.
"We have carefully reviewed the published footage, and we have found no reason to believe Reuters longstanding commitment to accurate, unbiased journalism has been compromised."
The four-minute clip, released Sept. 3, captured Putin telling Xi that biotechnology could one day extend human life indefinitely.
"With continuous advances in biotechnology, human organs wi…

Reuters withdraws Putin-Xi immortality video after Chinese legal objections
Reuters on Sept. 5 withdrew a video in which Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping were shown discussing whether humans could live to 150 years old, after China's state broadcaster revoked permission to use the footage.

Today, California Governor Gavin Newsom,
Oregon Governor Tina Kotek,
and Washington Governor Bob Ferguson
announced they will launch a new
⭐️"West Coast Health Alliance"
to ensure residents remain protected by science, not politics.
The alliance represents a unified regional response to the Trump Administration’s destruction of the U.S. CDC’s credibility and scientific integrity.
“President Trump’s mass firing of CDC doctors and scientists…

California, Oregon, and Washington to launch new West Coast Health Alliance to uphold scientific integrity in public health as Trump destroys CDC’s credibility | Governor of California
State of California

Right Wingnut Watch

E.W. Jackson says that black voters are suffering from "spiritual blindness" that makes them vote for Democrats even though "the Democrat Party created the Klu Klux Klan."
Rep. Brandon Gill frets that "we’re losing our country" and "mass deportations, remigration and strict immigration caps are desperately needed."
Montana state Rep. Lukas Schubert shares that conviction: "I oppose ALL forms of mass imm…

Demonic Criminals
Spiritual Blindness Remigration No Constitutional Authority

The Trump administration has targeted Massachusetts as its next location to begin arresting and deporting immigrants, a Department of Homeland Security official confirmed to NBC News on Saturday.
DHS and its US Immigration and Customs Enforcement arm are calling the operation Patriot 2.0,
modifying the name of a May deportation surge that led to the arrest of 1,500 people in the state.
The operation is expected to last several weeks, the New York Times said, quoting unnamed…