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Menlo Ventures: business spending on generative AI hit $37B in 2025, up from $11.5B in 2024; Anthropic's share of enterprise LLM spend grew from 24% to 40% YoY (Menlo Ventures)
https://menlovc.com/perspective/2025-the-state-of-generative-ai-in-the-enter…

2025: The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise | Menlo Ventures
For all the fears of over-investment, AI is spreading across enterprises at a pace with no precedent in modern software history.

Lithuania declares state of emergency over smuggler balloons from Belarus: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/09/lithuania-declares-state-of-emergency.html

Weather tracker: Hawaii declares state of emergency as Hurricane Kiko looms https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/08/weather-tracker-hawaii-declares-state-of-emergency-hurricane-kiko

De Nederlandse overheid zou van Schleswig-Holstein kunnen leren.
https://itsfoss.com/news/german-state-ditch-microsoft/

This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source
Schleswig-Holstein's migration to LibreOffice reaches 80% completion, with a one-time €9 million investment on cards for 2026.

Just a reminder:
Each of you ought to take a look at your state's "unclaimed property" website. You may find something owed to you or to someone you know.
The amounts can be trivial or they can be large - and you won't know until you check.
Usually getting the funds owed to you is as simple as filling out a government form on a web page (and perhaps submitting something that proves you are who you say you are.)
Here is the link for California:

Trump plans executive order curbing state AI laws https://therecord.media/trump-plans-ai-exec-order-curbing-state-laws

Linking to Tipped and Overtime Income Deductions Would Worsen State Shortfalls, Do Little to Help Workers – ITEP
https://itep.org/tips-overtime-income-tax-deduction-state-budgets/

State of Oregon, et al. v. Trump, et al. (CourtListener)
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71554902/32/state-of-oregon-et-al-v-trump-et-al/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251009/p3#a251009p3

💸 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.

The world's chemical pollution: Current state of research #environment

The world's chemical pollution: Current state of research
Two authors from ETH Zurich and RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau have concluded that the rapid production and distribution of chemicals in the environment means that regulatory risk assessment can no longer keep pace with their ever-increasing numbers.

This fall, Americans got to see what it’s like to go without a safety net for the hungry.
With the U.S. government shut down for multiple weeks
and Donald Trump refusing to fund SNAP, the federal food stamp program,
a panic set inamong the more than 40 million people who rely on it.
Families skipped meals,
and babies went unfed.
Food banks ran out of food, and some people turned to dumpster diving.
It was just a glimpse of what’s to come.
Start…

Wave of Tax Cuts Has Left Many States Vulnerable to Trump SNAP and Medicaid Crisis
President Donald Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act will shift billions in costs for SNAP and Medicaid to states. But with 26 having cut or eliminated state income taxes just since 2021, they may not have the money to continue the programs.

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,…

Quantum-Kaniadakis entropy as a measure of quantum correlations through implicit bounds
Narayan S Iyer, Shraddha Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07241 https://

Quantum-Kaniadakis entropy as a measure of quantum correlations through implicit bounds
In the present article, we examine the relationship of negative conditional quantum Kaniadakis entropy ($α-$CQKE) with the fully entangled fraction (FEF) which is a substantial yardstick for quantum information processing protocols including teleportation, and quantum steerability, executed over four vital quantum states with maximally mixed marginals, the 2-qubit Werner state, the 2-qubit Weyl state, the 2-qudit Werner state and the isotropic state. We initiate our analysis in 2$\otimes$2 sys…

DeRainMamba: A Frequency-Aware State Space Model with Detail Enhancement for Image Deraining
Zhiliang Zhu, Tao Zeng, Tao Yang, Guoliang Luo, Jiyong Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06746

DeRainMamba: A Frequency-Aware State Space Model with Detail Enhancement for Image Deraining
Image deraining is crucial for improving visual quality and supporting reliable downstream vision tasks. Although Mamba-based models provide efficient sequence modeling, their limited ability to capture fine-grained details and lack of frequency-domain awareness restrict further improvements. To address these issues, we propose DeRainMamba, which integrates a Frequency-Aware State-Space Module (FASSM) and Multi-Directional Perception Convolution (MDPConv). FASSM leverages Fourier transform to d…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Pearl Jam:
🎵 State of Love and Trust
#PearlJam
https://thescenicroute.bandcamp.com/track/state-of-love-trust-pearl-jam-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/6GUoi7rEtaX4grD61qr0uP

2026 NFL Mock Draft, top 10 picks: Fernando Mendoza at No. 1, Jeremiyah Love to Vikings https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6873333/2025/12/09/nfl-mock-draft-2026-mendoza-ohio-state/

A Comparative Analysis of Contextual Representation Flow in State-Space and Transformer Architectures
Nhat M. Hoang, Do Xuan Long, Cong-Duy Nguyen, Min-Yen Kan, Luu Anh Tuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06640

A Comparative Analysis of Contextual Representation Flow in State-Space and Transformer Architectures
State Space Models (SSMs) have recently emerged as efficient alternatives to Transformer-Based Models (TBMs) for long-sequence processing, offering linear scaling and lower memory use. Yet, how contextual information flows across layers and tokens in these architectures remains understudied. We present the first unified, token- and layer-level analysis of representation propagation in SSMs and TBMs. Using centered kernel alignment, stability metrics, and probing, we characterize how representat…

David Sacks says AI preemption won't apply to state laws on child safety, communities won't be forced to host data centers they don't want, and more (David Sacks/@davidsacks)
https://x.com/davidsacks/status/1998125180753944985

David Sacks (@DavidSacks) on X
ONE RULEBOOK FOR AI I wanted to share a few thoughts on AI preemption and address some of the concerns. First, this is not an “AI amnesty” or “AI moratorium.” It is an attempt to settle a question of jurisdiction. When an AI model is developed in state A, trained in state B,

🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
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

I have colorized my dual-operator CW #POTA script and turned it into a cheat sheet with an example on the reverse side, centered so you can print it duplex and cut it out if you like.

• Dual-OP-CW-POTA-Cheat-Sheet.pdf if you just want to print

Cowboys never made an Eagles counteroffer for Micah Parsons according to Jerry Jones https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/penn-state/news/cowboys-eagles-counteroffer-micah-parsons-jerry-jones/dc50…

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…

"Brazil fast-tracks paving controversial highway in Amazon with new licensing rule"
#Brazil #AmazonRainforest #Trees

Brazil fast-tracks paving controversial highway in Amazon with new licensing rule
Brazil’s Senate approved an environmental licensing bill that could expedite major infrastructure projects, including paving a highway that cuts through one of the most intact parts of the Amazon Rainforest in northwestern Brazil. The BR-319 highway runs through 885 kilometers (550 miles) of rainforest, connecting Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, with Rondônia state farther […]

Non-uniqueness of the steady state for run-and-tumble particles with a double-well interaction potential
L\'eo Touzo, Pierre Le Doussal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07212 http…

Non-uniqueness of the steady state for run-and-tumble particles with a double-well interaction potential
We study $N$ run-and-tumble particles (RTPs) in one dimension interacting via a double-well potential $W(r)=-k_0 \, r^2/2+g \, r^4/4$, which is repulsive at short interparticle distance $r$ and attractive at large distance. At large time, the system forms a bound state where the density of particles has a finite support. We focus on the determination of the total density of particles in the stationary state $ρ_s(x)$, in the limit $N\to+\infty$. We obtain an explicit expression for $ρ_s(x)$ as…

TODO list of walks to take in my neighborhood (with room for combining):
- stay on Storrs St. the entire time (instead of taking detours)
- one-way portion of Perley St.
- up and down Downing St., zigzagging on side streets
- portion of Main St. between State St. and Hall St.
- Gulf St. and Teardrop Park
- the portion of Hall St. I skipped
- stay on Spring St. the entire time, thru Avon St.
- up to Fruit St.
- around more in the State Hospital Grounds
- around Memorial Field
- to Rundlett and back
- to Rollins Park and back
- the Warren St. and Federal St. block(s)

2026 NFL Mock Draft, top 10 picks: Fernando Mendoza at No. 1, Jeremiyah Love to Vikings https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6873333/2025/12/09/nfl-mock-draft-2026-mendoza-ohio-state/

Except, of course, on city-owned property like Potrero Yards, because affordable housing doesn't pencil out.
And SF's Upzoning plan allows towers without on-site affordable, unlike the State Density Bonus, which actually requires significant on site affordable housing. Developers can just fee out for less than half the cost of building affordable units.
SO I wonder - who were the advisors on the Family Zoning Plan, and whose families would be built for?

Lurie warns Sunset: rezone or ‘there could be towers everywhere’ 
In doubleheader, Sen. Scott Wiener, architect of the state building mandates that require San Francisco to rezone, draws ire at Westside forum

Except, of course, on city-owned property like Potrero Yards, because affordable housing doesn't pencil out.
And SF's Upzoning plan allows towers without on-site affordable, unlike the State Density Bonus, which actually requires significant on site affordable housing. Developers can just fee out for less than half the cost of building affordable units.
SO I wonder - who were the advisors on the Family Zoning Plan, and whose families would be built for?

Lurie warns Sunset: rezone or ‘there could be towers everywhere’ 
In doubleheader, Sen. Scott Wiener, architect of the state building mandates that require San Francisco to rezone, draws ire at Westside forum

jmstate, a Flexible Python Package for Multi-State Joint Modeling
F\'elix Laplante, Christophe Ambroise, Estelle Kuhn, Sarah Lemler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07128 https://…

jmstate, a Flexible Python Package for Multi-State Joint Modeling
Classical joint modeling approaches often rely on competing risks or recurrent event formulations to account for complex real-world processes involving evolving longitudinal markers and discrete event occurrences. However, these frameworks typically capture only limited aspects of the underlying event dynamics. Multi-state joint models offer a more flexible alternative by representing full event histories through a network of possible transitions, including recurrent cycles and terminal absor…

It would take a law to stop laws, not the pronouncement of a POTUS
Trump pledges executive action to counter state AI laws - Roll Call
https://rollcall.com/2025/12/08/trump-pledges-executive-action-to-counter-state-ai-laws/

New York State Attorney General Indicted (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/new-york-state-attorney-general-indicted
http://www.memeorandum.com/251009/p108#a251009p108

Ground state magnetic structure of Mn3Sn
Jeppe Jon Cederholm, Zhian Xu, Yanfeng Guo, Martin Ovesen, Thomas Olsen, Kristine M. L. Krighaar, Chrystalla Knekna, Jian Rui Soh, Youngro Lee, Navid Qureshi, Jose Alberto Rodriguez Velamazan, Eric Ressouche, Andrew T. Boothroyd, Henrik Jacobsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06808

Ground state magnetic structure of Mn3Sn
We use spherical neutron polarimetry to determine the ground state magnetic structure of Mn3Sn. We find that Mn3Sn adopts an inverse triangular structure with spins parallel to <100> (Type III) rather than spins parallel to <110> (Type IV). Density functional theory calculations reveal no energy difference between these two structures, suggesting that the selection is caused by subtle effects such as sixth-order anisotropy. Partial control of the magnetic domain population through a moderate ma…

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/
@…

Precise measurement of the $\gamma$-decay probability of the Hoyle state with a new triple coincidence-detection method
K. Sakanashi, T. Kawabata, S. Adachi, H. Akimune, S. Aogaki, D. L. Balabanski, S. R. Ban, R. Borcea, S. C\u{a}linescu, C. Clisu, R. Corbu, C. Costache, A. Covali, M. Cuciuc, A. Dhal, I. Dinescu, N. Florea, T. Furuno, I. Gheorghe, A. Ionescu, M. Itoh, S. Kubono, A. Ku\c{s}o\u{g}lu, Y. Matsuda, C. Mihai, R. E. Mihai, C. Neacsu, D. Nichita, R. Niina, S. Okamoto, H. Pai, …

Precise measurement of the $γ$-decay probability of the Hoyle state with a new triple coincidence-detection method
We measured the $γ$-decay probability of the Hoyle state with a new method of triple coincidence detection of a scattered $α$ particle, a recoil $\rm ^{12}C$ nucleus, and a $γ$ ray in inelastic alpha scattering on $\rm ^{12}C$. This method successfully enabled a low-background measurement and a precise determination of the $γ$-decay probability of the Hoyle state as $Γ_\mathrmγ/Γ=[4.00 \pm 0.22 \mathrm{(sta.)} \pm 0.18 \mathrm{(sys.)}]\times10^{-4}$, which is consistent with the previous…

Dynamic Functional Connectivity Features for Brain State Classification: Insights from the Human Connectome Project
Valeriya Kirova, Dzerassa Kadieva, Daniil Vlasenko, Isak B. Blank, Fedor Ratnikov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05325

Dynamic Functional Connectivity Features for Brain State Classification: Insights from the Human Connectome Project
We analyze functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data from the Human Connectome Project (HCP) to match brain activities during a range of cognitive tasks. Our findings demonstrate that even basic linear machine learning models can effectively classify brain states and achieve state-of-the-art accuracy, particularly for tasks related to motor functions and language processing. Feature importance ranking allows to identify distinct sets of brain regions whose activation patterns are unique…

Inducing State Anxiety in LLM Agents Reproduces Human-Like Biases in Consumer Decision-Making
Ziv Ben-Zion, Zohar Elyoseph, Tobias Spiller, Teddy Lazebnik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06222

Inducing State Anxiety in LLM Agents Reproduces Human-Like Biases in Consumer Decision-Making
Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly evolving from text generators to autonomous agents, raising urgent questions about their reliability in real-world contexts. Stress and anxiety are well known to bias human decision-making, particularly in consumer choices. Here, we tested whether LLM agents exhibit analogous vulnerabilities. Three advanced models (ChatGPT-5, Gemini 2.5, Claude 3.5-Sonnet) performed a grocery shopping task under budget constraints (24, 54, 108 USD), before and after expo…

us_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…

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…

On the coming down from infinity of continuous-state branching processes with drift-interaction
F\'elix Rebotier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05958 https://

On the coming down from infinity of continuous-state branching processes with drift-interaction
We study the phenomenon of coming down from infinity - that is, when the process starts from infinity and never returns to it - for continuous-state branching processes with generalized drift. We provide sufficient conditions on the drift term and the branching mechanism to ensure both non-explosion and coming down from infinity, without requiring the associated jump measure to have a finite first moment. Assuming the process comes down from infinity and the drift satisfies a one-sided Lipschit…

Confined tumbling state as the origin of the excess of slowly rotating asteroids / Understanding the Long-term Rotational Evolution of Asteroids with Gaia: #Asteroids and Finds a New Way to Probe Their Interiors: https://www.europlanet.org/epsc-dps2025-gaia-solves-mystery-of-tumbling-asteroids-and-finds-a-new-way-to-probe-their-interiors/

Content-Adaptive Inference for State-of-the-art Learned Video Compression
Ahmet Bilican, M. Ak{\i}n Y{\i}lmaz, A. Murat Tekalp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07283 https://

Content-Adaptive Inference for State-of-the-art Learned Video Compression
While the BD-rate performance of recent learned video codec models in both low-delay and random-access modes exceed that of respective modes of traditional codecs on average over common benchmarks, the performance improvements for individual videos with complex/large motions is much smaller compared to scenes with simple motion. This is related to the inability of a learned encoder model to generalize to motion vector ranges that have not been seen in the training set, which causes loss of perf…

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.

Letitia James, New York’s Democratic attorney general,
has formally announced her intention to intervene in a Texas attempt to penalize a New York doctor accused of mailing abortion pills across state lines,
escalating one of the most consequential fights in the US abortion wars.
The move on Monday tees up a showdown between states that ban abortion and those that protect it
– one that, legal experts say, challenges fundamental constitutional issues and will probably …

Nonlinear Optical Response in Pseudo-Hermitian Systems at Steady State
S. Sajad Dabiri, Reza Asgari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06580 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Nonlinear Optical Response in Pseudo-Hermitian Systems at Steady State
We establish a steady-state theory for nonlinear optical conductivity in pseudo-Hermitian systems. We derive compact formulas for the first and second order conductivity tensors in both the velocity and length gauges and prove their exact equivalence through generalized sum rules and Berry connection identities by formulating the nonlinear response in terms of a biorthogonal density matrix. Utilizing the formalism on parity-time symmetric two-level systems reveals nonlinear phenomena that are n…

Learning-based model predictive control with moving horizon state estimation for autonomous racing
Yassine Kebbati, Andreas Rauh, Naima Ait-Oufroukh, Dalil Ichalal, Vincent Vigneron
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05366

Learning-based model predictive control with moving horizon state estimation for autonomous racing
This paper addresses autonomous racing by introducing a real-time nonlinear model predictive controller (NMPC) coupled with a moving horizon estimator (MHE). The racing problem is solved by an NMPC-based off-line trajectory planner that computes the best trajectory while considering the physical limits of the vehicle and circuit constraints. The developed controller is further enhanced with a learning extension based on Gaussian process regression that improves model predictions. The proposed c…

France is providing a wonderful example of why if and when we dumped the British Monarchy, a Canadian Republic would probably be best not to go to a fully elected Presidential system but rather keep the appointed and largely powerless Constitutional head of state with the same Parliamentary system.
There is something to be said for not only the simplicity of our Parliamentary system but also the election of MPs that turn into a Cabinet and PM.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #Republican https://journa.host/@w7voa/115175872332891929

Added a category manager and category state section to the Exocortex Log app.
Have now organized and cleaned up the categories in my ten year database and so we can get some views of the time spent in each category.
We see that through September and October I was in a routine of work and slack with a bit of social a couple of times a week, until the end of November when I went away for social at a conference all weekend. I saw a demo there of a person using Shakespeare, and then when I got back started doing some vibe-coding, shown in in Red.
A break from that to go away at the weekend to a long social party then finish it off and publish a few days ago, since when Vibe Coding has dropped off a little.
#lifeLog #app #exocortexLog

Reading this below on the 36th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and by extension the symbolic end of the GDR, the place I grew up in... with neighbors and parents of classmates belonging to the Stasi (east German secret police), the fear my own parents might be disappeared — years later seeing the thickness of the files of surveillance materials the state/stasi had collected on my family... remembering early autumn 1989, joining friends protesting in the streets every Monday after …

Wonder where all the overweight Americans will migrate to?
https://flipboard.com/@thenewrepublic/breaking-news-9mhchbihz/-/a-Wt3BiLd_SQS7LD1d-_ZAew:a:436232176-/0

A general dark-state theory for arbitrary multilevel quantum systems
Xuan Zhao, Le-Man Kuang, Jie-Qiao Liao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05561 https://arxiv.…

A general dark-state theory for arbitrary multilevel quantum systems
The dark-state effect, caused by destructive quantum interference, is an important physical effect in atomic physics and quantum optics. It not only deepens the understanding of light-atom interactions, but also has wide application in quantum physics and quantum information. Therefore, how to efficiently and conveniently determine the number and form of the dark states in multilevel quantum systems with complex transitions is an important and interesting topic in this field. In this work, we p…

the simpsons monorail bit, except instead of a monorail its yet another highway, and instead of Lyle Lanley it's a state DOT.

🤨 The GOP reeeeeaally hates the needy.
"The Trump administration late Saturday told Wisconsin state officials to "undo" their fulfillment of food assistance benefits amid a court battle over funding for the nation's anti-hunger programs during the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history."
#Wisconsin #SNAP

State Department allows denial of immigrant visas to those with certain medical conditions (The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5595789-immigrant-visas-medical-conditions-state-department/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251109/p15#a251109p15

I hold deep contempt for the adult, powerful, wealthy politicians who saw the opportunity to single out four children in the entire state of #Utah and keep them from enjoying their sport.
This is a story that radicalized me, and whenever I'm reminded by the bullies gloating over the pain of literal children, I'm going to share it again.

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…

Jordyn Tyson 2026 NFL Draft profile: Arizona State WR, Hines Ward protégé turning heads as possible WR1

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/jordyn-tyson-2026-nfl-draft-scoutin…

One dead, multiple injured after shooting on Kentucky State University's campus; suspect in custody (WKYT-TV)
https://www.wkyt.com/2025/12/09/one-dead-suspect-custody-after-shooting-kentucky-state-universitys-campus-officials-say/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251209/p149#a251209p149

Anomalous Criticality of Absorbing State Transition toward Jamming
He-Da Wang, Bo Wang, Qun-Li Lei, Yu-Qiang Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06641 https://ar…

Anomalous Criticality of Absorbing State Transition toward Jamming
The jamming transition is traditionally regarded as a geometric transition governed by static contact networks. Recently, dynamic phase transitions of athermal particles under periodic shear provide a new lens on this problem, leading to a conjecture that jamming transition corresponds to an absorbing-state transition within the Manna (conserved directed percolation) universality class. Here, by re-examing the biased random organization model, a minimal model for particles under periodic sheari…

Three-point connectivity constant for $q$-state Potts spin clusters
Gefei Cai, Haoyu Liu, Baojun Wu, Zijie Zhuang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05850 https://…

Three-point connectivity constant for $q$-state Potts spin clusters
Recently, Ang--Cai--Sun--Wu (2024) determined the three-point connectivity constant for two-dimensional critical percolation, confirming a prediction of Delfino and Viti (2010). In this paper, we address the analogous problem for planar critical $q$-state Potts spin clusters. We introduce a continuum three-point connectivity constant and compute it explicitly. Under the scaling-limit conjecture for Potts spin clusters, this quantity coincides with the scaling limit of the properly normalized pr…

On the one hand, it does little to accuse the MAGA right of hypocrisy,
because they expressly reject moral and logical consistency,
aiming only for dominance and retribution.
On the other, it’s worth examining the way they bamboozled a majority of Americans into
believing conservatives are simply fighting for the principles of free expression and intellectual diversity.
The key to understanding this is recognizing how the right worked around the limitations …

State Universities Are Scrambling to Appease the Bigoted MAGA Regime
From Oklahoma to Indiana to Alabama, state schools are bending over backward—suspending student magazines and even disciplining instructors—to preemptively satisfy the Trump administration.

What You Don't Know Can Hurt You: How Well do Latent Safety Filters Understand Partially Observable Safety Constraints?
Matthew Kim, Kensuke Nakamura, Andrea Bajcsy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06492

What You Don't Know Can Hurt You: How Well do Latent Safety Filters Understand Partially Observable Safety Constraints?
Safe control techniques, such as Hamilton-Jacobi reachability, provide principled methods for synthesizing safety-preserving robot policies but typically assume hand-designed state spaces and full observability. Recent work has relaxed these assumptions via latent-space safe control, where state representations and dynamics are learned jointly through world models that reconstruct future high-dimensional observations (e.g., RGB images) from current observations and actions. This enables safety …

In Indiana, a vaunted Jewish studies program is upended by red-state politics over Israel and speech (Andrew Lapin/Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
https://www.jta.org/2025/11/07/united-states/in-indiana-a-vaunted-jewish-studies-program-is-upended-by-red-state-politics-over-israel-and-speech
http://www.memeorandum.com/251108/p5#a251108p5

The next launch attempt for New Glenn with #ESCAPADE is no earlier than November 12, due to forecasted weather and sea state conditions: https://www.blueorigin.com/missions/ng-2 - Blue Origin has worked with the FAA and range to select a launch window from 19:50 to 21:17 UTC; the live webcast starts at T-20 minutes.

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…

"Massive fungus from India is newly described species"
#India #Mushroom #Fungus

Massive fungus from India is newly described species
From the forests of northeast India’s Arunachal Pradesh state, researchers have described a new-to-science species of fungus with “exceptionally large” fruiting bodies that can hold the weight of a person. The species is named Bridgeoporus kanadii in honor of Indian mycologist Kanad Das for his contributions to Indian macrofungi. The researchers led by Arvind Parihar, […]

Krugman zum Schutz, den Trump den Social Media-Konzernen trotz aller dokumentierten Risiken gewährt.
America Has Become a Digital Narco-State https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/america-has-become-a-digital-narco

Safe Stabilization of the Stefan Problem with a High-Order Moving Boundary Dynamics by PDE Backstepping
Shumon Koga, Miroslav Krstic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06571 https://

Safe Stabilization of the Stefan Problem with a High-Order Moving Boundary Dynamics by PDE Backstepping
This paper presents a safe stabilization of the Stefan PDE model with a moving boundary governed by a high-order dynamics. We consider a parabolic PDE with a time-varying domain governed by a second-order response with respect to the Neumann boundary value of the PDE state at the moving boundary. The objective is to design a boundary heat flux control to stabilize the moving boundary at a desired setpoint, with satisfying the required conditions of the model on PDE state and the moving boundary…

Universal initial state preparation for first quantized quantum simulations
Jack S. Baker, Gaurav Saxena, Thi Ha Kyaw
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07278 https://

Universal initial state preparation for first quantized quantum simulations
Preparing symmetry-adapted initial states is a principal bottleneck in first-quantized quantum simulation. We present a universal approach that efficiently maps any polynomial-size superposition of occupation-number configurations to the first-quantized representation on a digital quantum computer. The method exploits the Jordan--Schwinger Lie algebra homomorphism, which identifies number-conserving second-quantized operators with their first-quantized action and induces an equivariant bijectio…

In DeepSeek's first public appearance since R1's success, a senior researcher told a state-run conference he was pessimistic about AI's impact on humanity (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

A graduate student at the University of Oklahoma
is the latest in a growing list of college instructors to face disciplinary action
after being targeted by Turning Point USA,
the right-wing campus pressure group founded by the late Charlie Kirk.
Mel Curth, a trans psychology instructor who recently won the Department of Psychology’s Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award,
gave a zero to junior Samantha Fulnecky’s reaction paper for an assignment on “gender typicali…

State Universities Are Scrambling to Appease the Bigoted MAGA Regime
From Oklahoma to Indiana to Alabama, state schools are bending over backward—suspending student magazines and even disciplining instructors—to preemptively satisfy the Trump administration.

"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/

An analysis of 100T tokens from the past year shows reasoning models now represent over half of all usage, open-weight model use has grown steadily, and more (OpenRouter)
https://openrouter.ai/state-of-ai

State of AI | OpenRouter
An empirical study analyzing over 100 trillion tokens of real-world LLM interactions across tasks, geographies, and time.

Quantum approximate optimization of bosonic finite-state systems
Shakib Daryanoosh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05576 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.05576…

Quantum approximate optimization of bosonic finite-state systems
There exist numerous problems in nature inherently described by finite $D$-dimensional states. Formulating these problems for execution on qubit-based quantum hardware requires mapping the qudit Hilbert space to that of multiqubit which may be exponentially larger. To exclude the infeasible subspace, one common approach relies on penalizing the objective function. However, this strategy can be inefficient as the size of the illegitimate subspace grows. Here we propose to employ the Hamiltonian-…

Pritzker on Trump deploying troops to Chicago: 'This is a man who's suffering dementia' (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5544637-pritzker-trump-dementia-chicago/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p47#a251008p47

Sources: at a November meeting in the Oval Office, Jensen Huang told President Trump that a flurry of state AI laws could cause the US to lose the AI race (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-silicon-va

Ban on police face coverings pitched ahead of WA’s 2026 legislative session • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/12/08/ban-on-police-face-coverings-pitched-ahead-of-was-2026-legislative-session/

Black People Knew This Would Happen (Alain Stephens/The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2025/10/08/chicago-ice-blitz-black-surveillance-state-violence/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251009/p2#a251009p2

Learning stabilizer structure of quantum states
Srinivasan Arunachalam, Arkopal Dutt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05890 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.05890

Learning stabilizer structure of quantum states
We consider the task of learning a structured stabilizer decomposition of an arbitrary $n$-qubit quantum state $|ψ\rangle$: for $\varepsilon > 0$, output a state $|ϕ\rangle$ with stabilizer-rank $\textsf{poly}(1/\varepsilon)$ such that $|ψ\rangle=|ϕ\rangle+|ϕ'\rangle$ where $|ϕ'\rangle$ has stabilizer fidelity $< \varepsilon$. We firstly show the existence of such decompositions using the recently established inverse theorem for the Gowers-$3$ norm of states …

An overview of AI in 2025, including arguments for and against above-trend model capabilities growth, the state of evals, and the safety of reasoning models (Gavin Leech/LessWrong)
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Q9ewXs8pQSAX5vL7H/ai-in-2025-gestalt

AI in 2025: gestalt — LessWrong
This is the editorial for this year’s "Shallow Review of AI Safety". (It got long enough to stand alone.)  …

If the Supreme Court officially makes the chief executive a unitary executive,
the advancement of the public good may depend on little more than the whims of the president,
a state of affairs normally more characteristic of dictatorship than democracy.
https://

The Supreme Court is headed toward a radically new vision of unlimited presidential power
Recent rulings indicate that the high court is leaning toward expanding the type of presidential power that is more emblematic of dictatorship than democracy.

"On Tuesday, the Department of Education announced that it had reached a settlement with the state of Missouri to end the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) program, which allowed more than 7 million mostly low-income Americans to reduce their federal student loan payments."
Trump admin blasted for 'unrelenting push to jack up costs' with new 'backroom deal' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/linda-mcmahon-2674384567/

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 …

President Trump says he will do "a ONE RULE" EO on AI "this week" and "you can't expect a company to get 50 Approvals every time they want to do something" (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City disciplined three nurses
who spoke to the media and to fellow staff about safety concerns
following an attempted shooting in the hospital’s emergency department last month
— a consequence their union calls unlawful.
The New York State Nurses Association alleges that Mount Sinai’s decision
to write up two nurses and suspend another the day after Thanksgiving for discussing the union’s safety proposals with fellow nurses

Three Nurses Disciplined After Speaking Out on Mount Sinai Shooting Scare
Weeks after a gunman threatened to open fire at the ER, and as they head into union negotiations, care providers say they need better safety protections.

Trump Prosecutor Jack Smith to Launch Firm With Ex-DOJ Lawyers | On Tuesday, the Department of Education announced that it had reached a settlement with the state of Missouri to end the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) program, which allowed more than 7 million mostly low-income Americans to reduce their federal student loan payments.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/trump-jack-smith-special-counsel/2025/12/09/id/1237718/

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” →

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/

I was a red state governor. What I saw at Harvard surprised me. (Eric Holcomb/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/12/08/harvard-eric-holcomb-indiana-governor/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p72#a251208p72

Texas National Guard troops arrive in Illinois over leaders’ objections
Photographs Tuesday showed Texas National Guard troops carrying rifles and riot shields at the Joliet Army Reserve Training Center in Elwood, Illinois,
about 50 miles southwest of downtown Chicago.
In a statement over the weekend, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) said 400 Texas troops were ordered to deploy to Illinois and other states,
calling the move an “invasion.”

The Trump administration…

Texas National Guard troops arrive in Illinois over leaders’ objections
The arrival of Texas National Guard troops came ahead of a Thursday hearing in Illinois’s lawsuit seeking to stop the Trump administration from deploying into the state.

Democrat flips Georgia state House seat in district Trump won (Brandon Conradis/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5641566-democrats-flip-georgia-seat/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251209/p151#a251209p151

Fifty years into the era of mass incarceration,
states like Arkansas, Montana, California, and Colorado
are pushing to build new prisons
and expand immigrant detention.
In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa talks with
Nicole Porter of
"The Sentencing Project"
about how federal and state governments are
doubling down on new prison construction and ICE contracts
to expand the prison-industrial complex,
what…

Nicole Porter: The US is ‘by far the world’s number one jailer’
“There really isn't an issue with mass incarceration in other countries,” Nicole Porter of The Sentencing Project tells us. “The United States by far is the world's number one jailer.”

California becomes the first state to phase ultraprocessed food out of school meals (Aria Bendix/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/california-phase-ultraprocessed-food-school-meals-rcna236506
http://www.memeorandum.com/251009/p6#a251009p6

Despite having beencriticized by civil rights groups for using
"cell site simulators" (Stingrays) during the last Trump administration,
ICE continues to use the technology.
Earlier this year, new media publication Straight Arrow News said it had
“mobile network anomalies” around a Washington state protest against ICE raids that were consistent with Stingray use.
Forbes found contract records showing ICE purchased nearly
$1 million worth of “cell s…

How ICE Is Using Fake Cell Towers To Spy On People’s Phones
ICE is using a controversial spy tool to locate smartphones, court records show.

Trump Promises Executive Order to Block State A.I. Regulations (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/us/politics/trump-executive-order-ai-laws.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p65#a251208p65

⭐️German federal police will soon be allowed to shoot down unmanned aerial vehicles,
interior minister Alexander Dobrindt said on Wednesday,
after a spate of drone sightings believed to be Russian efforts to spy and intimidate.
Unveiling a draft law, Dobrindt said police would be authorised “to take state-of-the-art technical action against drone threats,
for example with electromagnetic pulses, jamming, GPS interference, but also with physical means”.
…

The Vast, Terrifying Scale of Trump's Detention State (Ian Gordon/Mother Jones)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/ice-statistics-deportations-agents-hiring-trump-obbb-detention-centers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251009/p63#a251009p63

In the closing days of the Biden administration, deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology Anne Neuberger warned,
“China is targeting critical infrastructure in the United States.”

That sounds like the sort of thing the U.S. government might want to do something about.
But apparently not;
On Dec. 3, the Financial Times reported that the Trump administration had
“halted plans to impose sanctions on China’s Ministry of State Security

What Trump lets China do for buying U.S. soybeans
The president is buddy-buddy with Xi and won’t let cyberattacks or saber-rattling get in the way.

Maine whistleblower alleges Minnesota-like fraud in state's Medicaid program (Rich McHugh/NewsNation)
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/northeast/maine-whistleblower-gateway/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p119#a251208p119

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

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