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'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft
Frankfurt (Germany) (AFP) – At a time of growing concern over the power of the world's mighty tech companies, one German state is turning its back on US giant Microsoft.
https://www.

'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft
At a time of growing concern over the power of the world's mighty tech companies, one German state is turning its back on US giant Microsoft.

Damn.
Most of the Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy team that handles U.S. engagement with partner countries to prevent China from prevailing in AI and 5G wireless technologies, and in global data policy, were fired from the State Department.
https://www.washing…

State Department cuts China policy staff amid major overhaul
The State Department fired personnel and consolidated offices that help craft the U.S. diplomatic response to China’s aggression in Asia and global tech competition.

US State Department fires Russia and Ukraine analysts in recent layoffs, NYT reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/us-state-department-fires-russia.html

Turbulent relations between France and Israel are nothing new,
but even by those historical standards the crisis caused by President Emmanuel Macron’s apparently⭐️ imminent readiness to recognize a Palestinian state is acute.
https:…

France’s Macron Faces Dilemma With Intention to Recognize Palestinian State
The French-Israeli relationship has always been turbulent, but the prospect that President Emmanuel Macron may recognize a Palestinian state has brought tension to a new level.

Israel bombs Iranian state TV during a live broadcast, sending the anchor fleeing her desk amid smoke and rubble, as it broadens its bombing campaign in Iran (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/16/iran-state-tv-bombed-israel-strike

Israel bombs Iranian state TV during live broadcast
Watch the moment Iran's state TV was struck.

Few Single-Qubit Measurements Suffice to Certify Any Quantum State
Meghal Gupta, William He, Ryan O'Donnell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11355 https://…

Few Single-Qubit Measurements Suffice to Certify Any Quantum State
A fundamental task in quantum information science is \emph{state certification}: testing whether a lab-prepared $n$-qubit state is close to a given hypothesis state. In this work, we show that \emph{every} pure hypothesis state can be certified using only $O(n^2)$ single-qubit measurements applied to $O(n)$ copies of the lab state. Prior to our work, it was not known whether even sub-exponentially many single-qubit measurements could suffice to certify arbitrary states. This resolves the main o…

Wapahani baseball's underdog story end in IHSAA 2A semi-state final https://www.thestarpress.com/story/sports/high-school/2025/06/15/wapahani-baseball-falls-t…

State Dept. Layoffs Hit Russia and Ukraine Analysts (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/us/politics/state-department-layoffs-russia-ukraine.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250716/p24#a250716p24

California Governor Gavin Newsom just went on a right-leaning Sean Ryan Show podcast & slammed Republican officials who constantly criticize his state: “More patents, more engineers, more researchers, more Nobel Laureates in my state than any other damn state.”

#California #GavinNewsom

"On Wednesday, the museum announced that the rest of Tolokonnikova’s performance would have to be postponed indefinitely, because of “ongoing demonstrations and military activity”.
“Every single event I did in Russia was shut down by the cops,” she posted on Instagram, “and now it’s starting to feel a lot like Russia.”"
...
“I guess the National Guard will be performing POLICE STATE instead of me this week,” Tolokonnikova wrote on Instagram.
#NoKings #USPolitics
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jun/15/pussy-riot-nadya-tolokonnikova-police-state

«Trance State». El segundo adelanto del próximo šlbum de estudio de Suede que saldrš el 5 de septiembre de este año.
#Suede

CFP: 2026 Gods and Monsters Conference at Texas State University https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20120465/cfp-2026-gods-and-monsters-conference-texas-state-university

In case you haven't seen it yet, check out the analysis of the devastating state of [mostly] modern #OpenSSL by members of haproxy at https://www.haproxy.com/blog/state-of-ssl-stacks

Recursive KalmanNet: Deep Learning-Augmented Kalman Filtering for State Estimation with Consistent Uncertainty Quantification
Hassan Mortada, Cyril Falcon, Yanis Kahil, Math\'eo Clavaud, Jean-Philippe Michel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11639

Recursive KalmanNet: Deep Learning-Augmented Kalman Filtering for State Estimation with Consistent Uncertainty Quantification
State estimation in stochastic dynamical systems with noisy measurements is a challenge. While the Kalman filter is optimal for linear systems with independent Gaussian white noise, real-world conditions often deviate from these assumptions, prompting the rise of data-driven filtering techniques. This paper introduces Recursive KalmanNet, a Kalman-filter-informed recurrent neural network designed for accurate state estimation with consistent error covariance quantification. Our approach propaga…

Sensor Model Identification via Simultaneous Model Selection and State Variable Determination
Christian Brommer, Alessandro Fornasier, Jan Steinbrener, Stephan Weiss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11263

Sensor Model Identification via Simultaneous Model Selection and State Variable Determination
We present a method for the unattended gray-box identification of sensor models commonly used by localization algorithms in the field of robotics. The objective is to determine the most likely sensor model for a time series of unknown measurement data, given an extendable catalog of predefined sensor models. Sensor model definitions may require states for rigid-body calibrations and dedicated reference frames to replicate a measurement based on the robot's localization state. A health metric is…

PVCA names 5 WPIAL boys volleyball players as first-team all-state https://www.post-gazette.com/sports/hsother/2025/07/15/pvca-wpial-paia-boys-volleyball/stories/202507150055

Check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know today, including
--Salt Typhoon 'extensively' compromised a state national guard network for months,
--Former US army soldier pleads guilty to hacking telcos,
--Ukraine claims hack of big Russian drone maker,
--Korean insurance giant hit by ransomware attack,
--Trump's bill offers $1b spend on offensive cyber,
--Abacus Market goes dark after suspected rug…

Salt Typhoon 'extensively' compromised a state national guard network for months
Former US army soldier pleads guilty to hacking telcos, Ukraine claims hack of big Russian drone maker, Korean insurance giant hit by ransomware attack, Trump's bill offers $1b spend on offensive cyber, Abacus Market goes dark after suspected rug pull, AsyncRAT has spawned 30+ forks, much more

Nadya Tolokonnikova,
the co-founder of the feminist art collective Pussy Riot,
was sitting in a replica Russian prison cell in downtown Los Angeles
when the police started shutting down the streets around the art museum.
Police helicopters hovered overhead. Somewhere, through a loudspeaker, an officer delivered a tinny order to disperse.
Tolokonnikova was only three and a half days into what was supposed to be a
“durational performance” reenacting her two ye…

A review of perfect quantum state transfer, from one to two and three dimensional arrays of qubits
Marzieh Asoudeh, Vahid Karimipour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11016

A review of perfect quantum state transfer, from one to two and three dimensional arrays of qubits
In the light of recent advances in fabricating single layer quantum chips and a possible road toward development of multi-layer quantum chips, we review, in a detailed way, the subject of quantum state transfer with particular emphasis on perfect quantum state transfer in two and three dimensional lattices. We show how one can route an unknown quantum state from one node in a single layer of a quantum chip to another one on another layer with unit fidelity. Our method of presentation in this …

Please help if you can.
People are starving in a famine manufactured by the genocidal terrorist state of isreal with the support of the united $tates, germany, little england, and most €pean countries.
#israel #genocide

Device-Level Optimization Techniques for Solid-State Drives: A Survey
Tianyu Ren, Yajuan Du, Jinhua Cui, Yina Lv, Qiao Li, Chun Jason Xue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10573

Device-Level Optimization Techniques for Solid-State Drives: A Survey
Solid-state drives (SSDs) have revolutionized data storage with their high performance, energy efficiency, and reliability. However, as storage demands grow, SSDs face critical challenges in scalability, endurance, latency, and security. This survey provides a comprehensive analysis of SSD architecture, key challenges, and device-level optimization techniques. We first examine the fundamental components of SSDs, including NAND flash memory structures, SSD controller functionalities (e.g., addre…

Chinese state media: researchers successfully implanted a brain-computer interface in a tetraplegia patient in March, the second country after the US to do so (Karoline Kan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Judge blocks renewed Trump plans for mass State Department layoffs | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-blocks-renewed-trump-plans-for-mass-state-department-layoffs/

57-year-old suspect sought in targeted shootings of Minnesota state lawmakers (Ryan Pattee/KSTP-TV)
https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/57-year-old-suspect-sought-in-targeted-shootings-of-minnesota-state-lawmakers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p67#a250614p67

Accretion of Dark Energy Candidates Following Redshift Parametrization Type Equation of State : Horava-Lifshitz Gravity
Promila Biswas, Sukanya Dutta, Ritabrata Biswas, Farook Rahaman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11173

Accretion of Dark Energy Candidates Following Redshift Parametrization Type Equation of State : Horava-Lifshitz Gravity
In this article, accretion of particular dark energy candidates is studied. These dark energy models possess equation of state dependent on redshift and some free parameters. Central gravitating object for this accretion model is chosen to be the Kehagias Sfetsos black hole sitting in Horava Gravity. Four special redshift parametrization models, viz. Chevallier-Polarski-Linder, Jassal-Bagala-Padmanabhan, Barboza-Alcaniz and Barboza-Alcaniz-Zhu-Silva are picked to study different accretion prope…

To dig slightly deeper here, I think that there's a feedback loop between "fall in love/wait for your perfect match (and by the way girls the only career you should aspire to is the literally unattainable 'princess'" Disney stuff and this "my characters are complex I'm so sophisticated; they suffer but it's not intolerable and their lives are good enough despite the imperfections" crap that gets praised as so evocative of the human condition. In fact, I think it merely evokes the condition of its authors & fans who were poisoned by the Disney in their youth and who have remained bad as relationships ever since, though this is not exactly their fault. In any case, their white middle-aged wisdom-shaped-but-quite bitter and intricately-constructed-so-it's-hard-to-see-the-really-untrue-character-facets work ends up keeping their audience within the "romance is luck" cult by way of reassuring them that a middling romance with lots of doubt and complications is "just life" even though the author doesn't actually have any broader perspective on what life is than anyone else.
This has turned into a bit of a rant, but I think I'll just add that reading Mama by Nikkya Hargrove just before Dream State helped immensely to see how the distant & awkward parent-child relationships of the latter are not a product of human nature but instead of white western culture & capitalism.
(The defeatism about climate change is a whole nother dimension of wrong about Dream State, by that's a separate rant.)

Solid-State Dewetting of Polycrystalline Thin Films: a Phase Field Approach
Paul Hoffrogge, Nils Becker, Daniel Schneider, Britta Nestler, Axel Voigt, Marco Salvalaglio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10811

Solid-State Dewetting of Polycrystalline Thin Films: a Phase Field Approach
Solid-state dewetting (SSD) is the process by which thin solid films break up and retract on a substrate, resulting in the formation of nanostructures and islands. While SSD in single-crystalline films is generally understood as a surface-energy-driven process mediated by surface diffusion, polycrystalline films feature additional complexity due to the presence of grain boundaries. Theoretical investigations and simulation frameworks have mainly focused on single-crystalline SSD. In this work, …

Statistical State Dynamics based study of turbulence in Eady fronts. Part 1. Instability
Eojin Kim, Brian F. Farrell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11993 https…

Statistical State Dynamics based study of turbulence in Eady fronts. Part 1. Instability
The streamwise roll and streak structure (RSS) is prominent in observations of the planetary boundary layer in the atmosphere and ocean and in unstratified wall-bounded shear flows. Although the RSS in these systems is structurally similar, the mechanism forming and maintaining the RSS in both remains controversial. This study demonstrates that the same turbulence-sustaining mechanism identified to underlie the RSS in the Statistical State Dynamics (SSD) formulation of unstratified wall-bounded…

Strong decays of newly observed charm-strange meson states based on a relativistic model
Bhoomika Pandya, Manan N Shah, P C Vinodkumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11022

Strong decays of newly observed charm-strange meson states based on a relativistic model
The mass spectra of charm-strange mesons including ground, radial and orbital excitations have been calculated within a relativistic Dirac framework. The predicted masses of the ground state $1S$ and the first orbital excited state $1P$ exhibits excellent agreement with values reported by the PDG. Utilizing these mass predictions and an effective Lagrangian approach based on heavy quark and chiral symmetries, we have computed the OZI allowed two body strong decay widths of higher excited state …

LLMs on support of privacy and security of mobile apps: state of the art and research directions
Tran Thanh Lam Nguyen, Barbara Carminati, Elena Ferrari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11679

LLMs on support of privacy and security of mobile apps: state of the art and research directions
Modern life has witnessed the explosion of mobile devices. However, besides the valuable features that bring convenience to end users, security and privacy risks still threaten users of mobile apps. The increasing sophistication of these threats in recent years has underscored the need for more advanced and efficient detection approaches. In this chapter, we explore the application of Large Language Models (LLMs) to identify security risks and privacy violations and mitigate them for the mobile…

Kotlikoff Tells Alumni What Differentiates Cornell From the ‘Woke University’ Stereotype at 2025 State of the University Address
https://www.cornellsun.com/article/2025/06/kotlikoff-address-alumni-in-2025-state-of-the-university-add…

Kotlikoff Tells Alumni What Differentiates Cornell From the ‘Woke University’ Stereotype at 2025 State of the University Address
President Michael Kotlikoff addressed current University affairs from research cuts to attacks on the University in his 2025 State of the University address to alumni on Saturday. 

Morse decomposition for semi-dynamical systems with an application to systems of state-dependent delay differential equations
Istv\'an Bal\'azs, \'Abel Garab, Teresa Rauscher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11382

Morse decomposition for semi-dynamical systems with an application to systems of state-dependent delay differential equations
Understanding the structure of the global attractor is crucial in the field of dynamical systems, where Morse decompositions provide a powerful tool by partitioning the attractor into finitely many invariant Morse sets and gradient-like connecting orbits. Building on Mallet-Paret's pioneering use of discrete Lyapunov functions for constructing Morse decompositions in delay differential equations, similar approaches have been extended to various delay systems, also including state-dependent dela…

Hi to all my NB followers! Have some 16'hxzzx (4-state logic counts as non binary, right?)

The Integral Decimation Method for Quantum Dynamics and Statistical Mechanics
Ryan T. Grimm, Alexander J. Staat, Joel D. Eaves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11341

The Integral Decimation Method for Quantum Dynamics and Statistical Mechanics
We present a method to numerically evaluate functional integrals called integral decimation (ID). It constructs a separable decomposition of the integrand as a spectral tensor train (STT), a continuous generalization of the matrix product state. ID builds the STT by mapping the integrand to an auxiliary many-body wavefunction that evolves in time from an initially unentangled state. Each body-ordered term of the action corresponds to a quantum gate, applied to the state during its evolution. Th…

Large deviations for general Markov chains on discrete state spaces
L\'eo Daures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11166 https://arxiv.o…

Large deviations for general Markov chains on discrete state spaces
We study the large deviations of Markov chains under the sole assumption that the state space is discrete. In particular, we do not require any of the usual irreducibility and exponential tightness assumptions. Using subadditive arguments, we provide an elementary and self-contained proof of the level-2 and level-3 large deviation principles. Due to the possible reducibility of the Markov chain, the rate functions may be nonconvex and may differ, outside a specific set, from the Donsker-Varadha…

Azov is where you can learn to defend your homeland from Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/azov-is-where-you-can.html

Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and military against protesters in Los Angeles is widely being interpreted as
a display of intimidation and state power ahead of his birthday,
when Trump will oversee a military parade in Washington, D.C. in the style of a dictator.
The president has warned that protesters in D.C. will be
“met with very heavy force.”
Democrats and civil rights groups say the president is inflaming tensions to justify further repr…

Trump Is Rapidly Expanding the Surveillance State as Protests Grow
Immigrants are only the first target of a rapidly expanding digital dragnet that can track our individual movements.

State constrained stochastic optimal control of a PV system with battery storage via Fokker-Planck and Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations
Alfredo Berm\'udez, Iago Pad\'in
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11765

State constrained stochastic optimal control of a PV system with battery storage via Fokker-Planck and Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations
With the growing global emphasis on sustainability and the implementation of contemporary environmental policies, the penetration of renewable energy sources has significantly increased --primarily due to their inexhaustible nature. In this context, integrating photovoltaic (PV) modules with energy storage systems offers a means to mitigate the inherent variability of solar energy. This paper proposes an optimal methodology for power management and market bidding strategies tailored to PV power…

Yesterday evening, it was New York. After over 50 mm (2 inches) of rain within an hour, three subway lines were shut down.
#ClimatechangeisWaterchange
https://www.

Storms Pummel Parts of N.Y.C. And New Jersey, Prompting Flash Floods
Flash flood warnings were issued for all five boroughs as heavy rainfall hit the area. Gov. Philip D. Murphy of New Jersey declared a state of emergency.

Discovery of a 10:1 Resonator with a Novel Libration State: #202VN40

Magnetic ground state and persistent spin fluctuations in triangular-lattice antiferromagnet NdZnAl$_{11}$O$_{19}$
Yantao Cao, Huanpeng Bu, Toni Shiroka, Helen C. Walker, Zhendong Fu, Zhaoming Tian, Jinkui Zhao, Hanjie Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11391

Magnetic ground state and persistent spin fluctuations in triangular-lattice antiferromagnet NdZnAl$_{11}$O$_{19}$
Rare-earth triangular-lattice magnets serve as an excellent platform for investigating exotic quantum magnetic phenomena. Recently, the hexaaluminate \cmao\ has been proposed to host a $U(1)$ Dirac quantum spin liquid state with dominant Ising anisotropy. Here, we report a systematic study of its analogue, \nzao, employing ac susceptibility, inelastic neutron scattering, and muon spin relaxation measurements. Inelastic neutron scattering measurements establish a well-defined $J_\mathrm{eff}$ = …

another reason concrete is better than cameras. there are real solutions to traffic violence without making excuses for mass surveillance
https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/14/oakland-san-francisco-ice-license-plate-readers/

SF, Oakland cops illegally funneled license plate data to feds
SF and Oakland police appear to have repeatedly broken state law by sharing data from license plate cameras with federal agencies. OPD fulfilled a request related to an ICE investigation on one occasion.

Something like one in ten documents in this archival fonds (generated by the 19th-century state) are requisitions, receipts, or correspondence regarding stationary or postage.
This has me wondering: what percentage of communications in today's bureaucracies deal with IT?

Joan Westenberg: "A failed state. With very good fonts." Whoah <-- read the whole thing --> https://www.theindex.media/america-is-a-failed-state-with-good-branding/

One of the RV dwellers Lurie plans to displace is a staffer helping Joel Engardio fight his recall. #sfPol
https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/11/l…

Lurie has a plan to get RVs off the streets. RV dwellers say it's cruel and misguided
The residents react to City Hall's voucher proposal: "That's a step down."

Maryland suspends 20,000 drivers licenses per year because of unpaid child support. And how many does it suspend because of bad driving?
https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/pol…

Maryland lawmakers scale back driver’s license suspensions for unpaid child support
The measure exempts Marylanders making at or 250% below the federal poverty guidelines.

I see that Mike Huckabee is off of his meds again.
He kinda forgot the lost his presidential bid and is, now, pretending that he is the font of US foreign policy.
"US ambassador to Israel says US no longer pursuing goal of independent Palestinian state"
https://www.

Oakland police illegally shared license plate data with ICE https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/14/oakland-san-francisco-ice-license-plate-readers/

SF, Oakland cops illegally funneled license plate data to feds
SF and Oakland police appear to have repeatedly broken state law by sharing data from license plate cameras with federal agencies. OPD fulfilled a request related to an ICE investigation on one occasion.

Don’t travel to the US, it’s already a fascist state. ICE raids, LA sweeps, and Florida cops brutalize people every day.
This isn’t a future threat, it’s the present reality, authoritarian power is everywhere, backed by a fascist king.
Read more here: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/…

Minnesota political assassin
57-year-old Vance Boelter,
was twice appointed to the nonpartisan Governor’s Workforce Development Council

-- in 2016 under former Gov. Mark Dayton
and again in 2019 under Gov. Tim Walz.
His most recent term expired in January 2023.

57-year-old suspect sought in targeted shootings of Minnesota state lawmakers
Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband have died after they were shot at their home in Brooklyn Park.

Finally: the United States sanctions Israeli officials for their ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
And by that I mean the United States sanctions the United Nations Human Rights Council special rapporteur Francesca Albanese for criticising and calling for an end to Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.
“Are we the baddies?”
What a silly question. When did you stop?

US sanctions UN expert Francesca Albanese, critic of Israel's Gaza offensive
Secretary of State Marco Rubio linked the move to her support for the International Criminal Court (ICC).

New York State passes a bill mandating safety and transparency requirements for frontier AI models; it awaits Governor Hochul's decision (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/13/new-york-passes-a-bill-to-prevent-ai-fu…

New York passes a bill to prevent AI-fueled disasters | TechCrunch
New York has a new AI safety bill that tries to regulate frontier AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.

Florida Supreme Court Demands State Bar Stop Working With ABA Because... LOL, Screw This 'Rule Of Law' Stuff - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/06/florida-supreme-court-demands-state-bar-stop-working-with-aba-because-lol-screw-this-rule-of-law-stuff/

A Random Matrix Theory of Pauli Tomography
Nathan Keenan, John Goold, Alex Nico-Katz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12010 https://arxiv.o…

A Random Matrix Theory of Pauli Tomography
Quantum state tomography (QST), the process of reconstructing some unknown quantum state $\hatρ$ from repeated measurements on copies of said state, is a foundationally important task in the context of quantum computation and simulation. For this reason, a detailed characterization of the error $Δ\hatρ= \hatρ-\hatρ^\prime$ in a QST reconstruction $\hatρ^\prime$ is of clear importance to quantum theory and experiment. In this work, we develop a fully random matrix theory (RMT) treatment of…

CFP: 2026 Gods and Monsters Conference at Texas State University
https://ift.tt/z3TOKR8
H-Diplo Article Review 934 on Nannichi. “In the Shadow of Back-Channels: Britain and the Berlin…
via Input 4 RELCFP

To encourage a mental flow state, I listen to 'zone music'. Whenever I have to concentrate, I turn this music on.
The songs below are also a Pomodoro 25min so it's break time when the song ends.
✅ INFO: Maintaining focus w/ “Music to Code By”
https://kurtsh.com/2015/05/05/i…

INFO: Maintaining focus w/ “Music to Code By”
Totally off topic, but it relates to a few posts I made 5-10 years ago.  INFOMANIA. ALIVE & WELL. One of my interests is the study of “Infomania”, a syndrome described by Hewlett Packard R…

Minnesota political assassinations
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/14/us/minnesota-shootings?smtyp=cur&unlocked_article_code=1.O08.d4NX.fqrqIQDXzcvn&…

Suspect Identified In Minnesota Lawmakers Shootings: Live Updates
The suspect was identified as Vance Boelter, 57, by law enforcement officials with knowledge of the investigation into the killing of a state representative and her husband and the attack on a state senator and his wife. He remains at large.

Artificial Light at Night - State of the Science 2025: #LightPollution

Just finished reading Dream State by Eric Puchner, and it kind of pissed me off. I think I can see exactly why it might be popular with a certain WASPy liberal "literati" type that probably includes a lot of influential reviewers, but to me, it's points about love & life, despite being much more complex, ring just about as hollow (and harmful) as a Disney movie.
I've got a lot of quibbles, but I think most galling to me was a throwaway line near the beginning about why platonic relationships get so much less glory in media than romantic ones, when so much of the plot proceeds to revolve around a stale agency-free romantic attraction model that's certainly more complex on its face than a Disney romance but which is ultimately just as misleading.
Go read Loveless or really any YA #OwnVoices romance (especially queer) and you'll be learning more & better lessons about the human condition.

Judge halts Rubio's plan to lay off almost 2,000 State Dept. employees (Adam Taylor/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/13/state-department-layoffs-rubio/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p141#a250613p141

"Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while undermining anti-terrorism initiatives."
Death, Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking: Fallout From U.S. Aid Withdrawal Hits the World’s Most Fragile Locations — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-usaid-malawi-state-department-crime-sexual-violence-trafficking

Emmanuel Macron has criticised Donald Trump’s threats to take over Greenland
as he became the first foreign head of state to visit the vast, mineral-rich Arctic territory since the US president began making explicit threats to annex it.
“I don’t think that’s what allies do,”
Macron said as he arrived in the Danish autonomous territory for a highly symbolic visit aimed at conveying
“France’s and the EU’s solidarity” with Greenlandon his way to a summit of G7 leaders in …

Quantum Advantage in Storage and Retrieval of Isometry Channels
Satoshi Yoshida, Jisho Miyazaki, Mio Murao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10784 https://…

Quantum Advantage in Storage and Retrieval of Isometry Channels
Storage and retrieval refer to the task of encoding a quantum channel $Λ$ into a quantum state, known as the program state, such that the channel can later be retrieved. This task is closely related to quantum channel estimation, where multiple queries to $Λ$ are used to prepare a quantum state $ϕ_Λ$ that encodes information about the channel. The channel can then be retrieved by measuring $ϕ_Λ$, following a measure-and-prepare strategy. In this work, we analyze the asymptotic performance…

In March, New York added a checkbox to its WARN system for companies to show if "technological innovation or automation", like AI, was a reason for mass layoffs (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

The gunman accused of shooting two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota has been taken into custody. 
Vance Boelter, 57, was arrested late Sunday night for the murders of Democratic State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, and the attempted murder of Democratic State Senator John Hoffman and his wife. 

Minnesota shooting suspect Vance Boelter is arrested after Democrat lawmakers were gunned down
Vance Boelter, 57, the gunman accused of shooting two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota has been taken into custody.

There is a fundraiser for Minnesota State Senator Hoffman and his wife Yvette. They have survived being shot multiple times in a political assassination attempt.
Fundraiser at https://gofund.me/0e1c4783
Coverage of how they are doing archived at

Reversing adiabatic state preparation
L. Romanato, N. Eshaqi-Sani, L. Lepori, T. Kirova, E. Arimondo, S. Wimberger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08439 https:/…

Reversing adiabatic state preparation
We present a detailed study of an adiabatic state preparation in an effective three-level quantum system. States can be prepared with high speed and fidelity by adding a counterdiabatic quantum control protocol. As a second step, we invert the preparation protocol to get back to the initial state. This describes an overall cyclic evolution in state space. Using counterdiabatic terms, the resulting composed fast evolution can be repeated many times. We then analyze the control of Berry's phase a…

The Trump administration on Monday took another step to make it harder to find major, legally mandated scientific assessments of how climate change is endangering the nation and its people.
Earlier this month, the official government websites that hosted the authoritative, peer-reviewed national climate assessments went dark.
Such sites tell state and local governments and the public what to expect in their backyards from a warming world and how best to adapt to it.
At the …

NASA website won't publish major climate change reports
The Trump administration has made it harder for people, local and state governments to find critical climate change reports. On Monday, NASA announced it would not host the National Climate Assessments, reversing earlier plans. These reports detail climate impacts across the U.S. and were previously available on government websites that went offline earlier this month. NASA stated it has no legal obligation to host the data. Critics, including scientists, accuse the administration of trying to …

Texas state capitol evacuated after 'credible threat' toward lawmakers (Ben Johansen/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/14/texas-capitol-evacuated-protest-00406287
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p79#a250614p79

Flash flooding hits NYC and New Jersey declares state of emergency as storms soak Northeast | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-york-storms-floods-travel-chaos-b2789005.html

Wow. Maria's still got it.
▶️ Maria Sharapova Finds Flow State While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones
#tennis

Learning Encodings by Maximizing State Distinguishability: Variational Quantum Error Correction
Nico Meyer, Christopher Mutschler, Andreas Maier, Daniel D. Scherer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11552

Learning Encodings by Maximizing State Distinguishability: Variational Quantum Error Correction
Quantum error correction is crucial for protecting quantum information against decoherence. Traditional codes like the surface code require substantial overhead, making them impractical for near-term, early fault-tolerant devices. We propose a novel objective function for tailoring error correction codes to specific noise structures by maximizing the distinguishability between quantum states after a noise channel, ensuring efficient recovery operations. We formalize this concept with the distin…

Minnesota state lawmaker killed in 'politically-motivated assassination,' massive manhunt for suspect underway, officials say (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/06/14/us/minneapolis-targeted-shooting
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p52#a250614p52

Refugees from travel ban countries must be allowed to enter US, Seattle judge rules • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/07/14/refugees-from-travel-ban-countries-must-be-allowed-to-enter-us-seattle-judge-rules/

A scalable quantum-neural hybrid variational algorithm for ground state estimation
Minwoo Kim, Kyoung Keun Park, Uihwan Jeong, Sanghyeon Lee, Taehyun Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11002

A scalable quantum-neural hybrid variational algorithm for ground state estimation
We propose the unitary variational quantum-neural hybrid eigensolver (U-VQNHE), which improves upon the original VQNHE by enforcing unitary neural transformations. The non-unitary nature of VQNHE causes normalization issues and divergence of the loss function during training, leading to exponential scaling of measurement overhead with qubit number. U-VQNHE resolves these issues, significantly reduces required measurements, and retains improved accuracy and stability over standard variational qu…

How a city in Nebraska is recovering after the state's largest worksite immigration raid (Nicole Acevedo/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/omaha-immigration-workplace-raid-aftermath-rcna212931
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p80#a250615p80

The State Department formally notified employees on Thursday that it was about to begin layoffs
as part of a consolidation plan that department officials say will reduce bureaucratic bloat
but that critics call a shortsighted blow to American diplomacy.
In an internal message sent to State Department workers on Thursday, Michael J. Rigas, the deputy secretary of state for management and resources, said
the department would “soon” begin notifying U.S. employees who are…

State Department to Soon Begin Mass Layoffs
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s plan to downsize a “bloated” department had been on hold after a court ruling.

Johnson: Separation Of Church And State Is A Myth - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/07/johnson-separation-of-church-and-state-is-a-myth/

Who Are the Lawmakers Who Were Shot? -- A Minnesota state representative and her husband ... (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/us/politics/hortman-hoffman-shot-minnesota.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p56#a250614p56

Real-time preparation and verification of nonstabilizer states
Jian Li, Ye-Chao Liu, Xiao-Xiao Chen, Zhe Meng, Xing-Yan Fan, Wen-Hao Wang, Jie Ma, An-Ning Zhang, Jiangwei Shang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11180

Real-time preparation and verification of nonstabilizer states
Entanglement lies at the heart of quantum information science, serving as a key resource for quantum communication, computation, and metrology. Consequently, high-precision entangled state preparation and efficient verification are essential for practical quantum technologies. Quantum state verification (QSV) has recently gained much attention as an efficient and experiment-friendly approach for verifying entangled states. In this work, we experimentally demonstrate a QSV protocol for verifying…

The roughly 1,350 State Department workers laid off by the Trump administration last week
included senior analysts specializing in Russia and Ukraine.
The loss of expertise in those countries comes as Trump presses to settle the war between them,
one of his top foreign policy goals.
In other federal job-cutting moves, the Health and Human Services Department finalized layoff notices for thousands of workers,
and the batch of career employees fired at the Justi…

Senate Advances Clawback of Foreign Aid and Public Broadcast Funds

'Hortman played a central role in MN's pursuit of racial justice, actively participating in vital police reform legislation. [H]er efforts continue to shape the state. Significant reforms include prohibitions on neck restraints and chokeholds, banning "warrior-style" training, and the creation of an independent body to investigate police misconduct.'
White George Floyd Advocate and Husband 'Target of Political Assasination' but It Gets Worse | The Root
https://www.theroot.com/white-george-floyd-advocate-and-husband-target-of-polit-2000045678

Fidelity of entanglement and quantum entropies: unveiling their relationship in quantum states and channels
Komal Kumar, Bivas Mallick, Tapaswini Patro, Nirman Ganguly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11506

Fidelity of entanglement and quantum entropies: unveiling their relationship in quantum states and channels
Entanglement serves as a fundamental resource for various quantum information processing tasks. Fidelity of entanglement (which measures the proximity to a maximally entangled state) and various quantum entropies are key indicators for certifying entanglement in a quantum state. Quantum states with high fidelity are particularly useful for numerous information-theoretic applications. Similarly, states possessing negative conditional entropy provide significant advantages in several quantum info…

Manhunt for suspect in shootings of Minnesota lawmakers crosses state lines (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/06/15/minnesota-lawmakers-shooting-suspect-vance-boelter/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p57#a250615p57

Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, has said that the US is no longer pursuing the goal of an independent Palestinian state,
marking what analysts describe as the most explicit abandonment yet of a cornerstone of US Middle Eastdiplomacy.
https://www.

Rapid mixing for Gibbs states within a logical sector: a dynamical view of self-correcting quantum memories
Thiago Bergamaschi, Reza Gheissari, Yunchao Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10976

Rapid mixing for Gibbs states within a logical sector: a dynamical view of self-correcting quantum memories
Self-correcting quantum memories store logical quantum information for exponential time in thermal equilibrium at low temperatures. By definition, these systems are slow mixing. This raises the question of how the memory state, which we refer to as the Gibbs state within a logical sector, is created in the first place. In this paper, we show that for a broad class of self-correcting quantum memories on lattices with parity check redundancies, a quasi-local quantum Gibbs sampler rapidly conver…

Attorney General Bonta Sues Trump Administration for Freezing Billions in Education Grants Just Weeks Before School Year Start (State of California)
https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-sues-trump-administration-freezing-billions-education
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p122#a250714p122

GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON:
Rally · Volunteer organized
Thursday, July 17
7:30 – 8:30pm PDT
State Street & West Cabrillo Boulevard
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
About this event
Good Trouble Lives On is a national day of nonviolent action to respond to the attacks posed on our civil and human rights by the Trump administration and to remind them that in America, the power lies with the people.
On July 17, the anniversary of Congressman John Lewis’s pass…

GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON: · John Lewis Actions
Good Trouble Lives On is a national day of nonviolent action to respond to the attacks posed on our civil and human rights by the Trump administration and to remind them that in America, the power lies with the people. On July 17, the anniversary of Congressman John Lewis’s passing, we’re taking action across the country to defend our democracy and carry forward his legacy of Good Trouble. From voter suppression bills like the SAVE Act to the criminalization of protest, the Trump adminis…

Higher spin Richardson-Gaudin model with time-dependent coupling: Exact dynamics
Suvendu Barik, Lieuwe Bakker, Vladimir Gritsev, Ji\v{r}\'i Min\'a\v{r}, Emil A. Yuzbashyan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10856

Higher spin Richardson-Gaudin model with time-dependent coupling: Exact dynamics
We determine the exact asymptotic many-body wavefunction of a spin-$s$ Richardson-Gaudin model with a coupling inversely proportional to time, for time evolution starting from the ground state at $t = 0^+$ and for arbitrary $s$. Contrary to common belief, the resulting wavefunction cannot be derived from the spin-$1/2$ case by merging spins, but instead requires independent treatment for each spin size. The steady state is non-thermal and, in contrast to the spin-$1/2$ case, does not conform to…

Video: Stefanik Torches Hochul Over Sanctuary State EO -- And Its Results (Ed Morrissey/HotAir)
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/06/12/video-stefanik-torches-hochul-over-sanctuary-state-eo-n3803726
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p108#a250612p108

$d 1$ Measurement Bases are Sufficient for Determining $d$-Dimensional Quantum States: Theory and Experiment
Tianqi Xiao, Yaxin Wang, Ying Xia, Zhihao Li, Xiaoqi Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11204

$d+1$ Measurement Bases are Sufficient for Determining $d$-Dimensional Quantum States: Theory and Experiment
A long-standing problem in quantum physics is to determine the minimal number of measurement bases required for the complete characterization of unknown quantum states, a question of particular relevance to high-dimensional quantum information processing. Here, we propose a quantum state tomography scheme that requires only $d+1$ projective measurement bases to fully reconstruct an arbitrary $d$-dimensional quantum state. As a proof-of-principle, we experimentally verified this scheme on a sili…

In March, we wrote about how Trump's halting of a massive Agent Orange cleanup in Vietnam puts hundreds of thousands at risk.
In May, we obtained exclusive records showing how cuts to humanitarian aid have led to violence and instability in Africa and the Middle East while undermining anti-terrorism initiatives
This week, Secretary Marco Rubio began laying off hundreds of State Department officials, including much of the foreign and civil service.
We're continuing …

Channel-loss-independent quantum-enhanced interferometer
Yi-Xin Shen, Zhou-Kai Cao, Jian Leng, Xiang-Bin Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11342 https://

Channel-loss-independent quantum-enhanced interferometer
We propose a channel-loss-independent quantum-enhanced interferometer. In our scheme, the Fisher information for phase difference of weak light from a remote star remains constant under arbitrarily large channel loss, and the angular resolution of our method is better than that of prior quantum-enhanced methods in the long-baseline regime. Moreover, our method requires only threshold detectors and tunable coherent state or two-mode squeezed state sources, both of which are matured technologies …

It’s authoritarianism and in-your-face grift all in a neat little uniquely American package
That it it’s his personal brand, not the state, is just the cherry on top.
https://bsky.app/profile/scottlincicome.bsky.social/post/3lrqa6jslpy2x

Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome.bsky.social)
So the guy who can singlehandedly set US tariffs on smartphones is launching his own US smartphone company do I have that right

Indian Creek Village,
the “Billionaire Bunker” near Miami,
couldn’t get approval to discharge its waste into a neighboring town’s sewer lines.
So the village quietly persuaded state lawmakers to force the issue.
In a world where billionaires are increasingly exercising political clout,
the fight over sewage in Indian Creek suggests the degree to which their influence is extending not just to policy in the White House and Congress but to some of the most foundat…

A Billionaire Island Where Bezos and Kushner Live Is Fighting Over Sewage
Indian Creek Village, the “Billionaire Bunker” near Miami, couldn’t get approval to discharge its waste into a neighboring town’s sewer lines. So the village quietly persuaded state lawmakers to come to the rescue.

Magic Steady State Production: Non-Hermitian and Stochastic pathways
Pablo Martinez-Azcona, Matthieu Sarkis, Alexandre Tkatchenko, Aur\'elia Chenu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08676

Magic Steady State Production: Non-Hermitian and Stochastic pathways
Universal quantum computers require states with both entanglement and non-stabilizerness, the latter property being commonly known as \textit{quantum magic}. Here, we introduce a protocol that prepares magic steady states by leveraging non-Hermitian dynamics, which, contrary to unitary dynamics, can host pure-state attractors. We investigate the dissipative qubit, in which we find the optimal parameters to prepare $|H\rangle$ and $|T\rangle$ states. Interestingly, this approach does n…

Henry Clay Frick was a union buster

In 1892, he hired hundreds of Pinkerton detectives
— a private army of thugs with guns
— to quell a strike against a Pennsylvania steel mill.
Ten men were killed, dozens injured, and the situation became so inflamed that the state militia was called in to break the workers’ resistance.
Frick, who made a fortune supplying the coal derivative known as coke
to Andrew Carnegie’s steel company, where Frick later served…

At the Frick, a grand Gilded Age collection shows its intimate side
A five-year, $220-million expansions has transformed the Frick, without changing anything fundamental to the experience.

Donald Trump told reporters he wants Texas to redraw its districts
— so the GOP can pick up five more seats
— and said this could also be done in some other states as well.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom then responded: two can play that game.
Will this start a new red and blue state battle to redraw districts?
What isn’t a question is that Trump feels the GOP has a need to get more districts to win in 2026 and beyond.

Supreme Court clears way for Trump to gut education department – live updates
The supreme court has cleared the way for Donald Trump’s administration to resume dismantling the Department of Education -- part of his effort to shrink the federal government’s role in education in favor of more state control.
In the latest high court win for Trump, the justices lifted a federal judge’s order that had reinstated nearly 1,400 workers affected by mass layoffs at the department and block…