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Kansas Republicans advance bill requiring abortion providers to state reason for patient’s procedure | The Hill
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4558102-kansas-republicans-advan…

Kansas Republicans advance bill requiring abortion providers to state reason for patient’s procedure
The Republican-controlled Kansas state Legislature passed a bill Tuesday requiring abortion providers to ask patients the reason for their procedure and report the information to the state, a move critics say creates an unnecessary hurdle for patients to receive reproductive care. The state Senate passed the bill in a 27-13 party-line vote on Tuesday, after…

2021 retro-link! https://openjdk.java.net/projects/valhalla/design-notes/state-of-valhalla/01-background - State of Valhalla, part 1: value types for the JVM.

Georgia Republicans are dead set on erecting a statue to honor the corrupt Clarence Thomas.
https://thecurrentga.org/2024/03/25/lawmakers-take-up-proposal-to-honor-clarence-thomas-in-state-capitol/

Nice, insightful survey. Thanks Alex! https://www.composables.com/state-of-compose

State of Compose in 2023 – Composables.com
Community survey to identify the latest trends, available APIs, and community efforts in the Compose ecosystem.

Pair of K-State Wildcats Selected By NFC East Teams https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/pair_of_k_state_wildcats_selected_by_nfc_east_teams/s1_17394_40292772

Pair of K-State Wildcats Selected By NFC East Teams
The Kansas State Wildcats are no strangers to having players drafted to the NFL including Felix Anudike-Uzomah in the first round by the Kansas City Chiefs last year. Two more Wildcats added their names to that list in 2024 after tight end Ben Sinnott and offensive lineman Cooper Beebe were selected on day two of the NFL Draft . With Sinnott and Beebe being drafted so far in 2024, K-State ups its all-time players drafted to the NFL to 153 . The Kansas State tight end was drafted in the second r…

Among premium SVODs, US subscriber growth fell from 21.6% YoY in 2022 to 10.1% YoY in 2023; 140.5M cancelled their subscriptions in 2023 vs. 104.3M in 2022 (Antenna)
https://www.antenna.live/post/antenna-q124-state-of-subscriptions-report-prem…

Antenna Q1’24 State of Subscriptions Report: Premium SVOD - Antenna Blog

In amended filings, Alibaba discloses previously unknown stakes by the Chinese government in more than 12 business units, following an inquiry by the US SEC (Sarah Zheng/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Alibaba Discloses State Ownership in More Than 12 Business Units
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. disclosed a wider web of Chinese government stakes in its business units than previously known, following an inquiry from the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

US disapproves of Ukrainian strikes inside Russia, says State Department official: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/27/us-disapproves-of.html

Judge rules John Eastman should be disbarred over efforts to overturn 2020 election 
“In view of the circumstances surrounding Eastman’s misconduct and balancing the aggravation and mitigation, the court recommends that Eastman be disbarred,” Roland wrote in a 128-page decision.
The judge also recommended that Eastman be ordered to pay $10,000 in monetary sanctions to the State Bar of California Client Security Fund.
Eastman’s legal team said he would appeal Wednesday’s r…

Judge rules John Eastman should be disbarred over efforts to overturn 2020 election 
A California judge recommended disbarring a lawyer at the center of former President Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election on Wednesday.  State Bar Court Judge Yvette Roland found John Eastman culpable on 10 of the 11 counts filed by the California State Bar last year. The state bar sought to strip…

New York suing major beef producer over environmental impact of products (Lauren Irwin/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4495492-jbs-new-york-state-beef-environmental-lawsuit/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240228/p91#a240228p91

First, buses don’t land. Well, the one in “Speed” did, but that was special effects. Otherwise, buses don’t land. But that’s on The Hill, and that’s dumb.
Which means everything about this — including this ridiculous fear stoking, hot button spewing, bulk mailer distributing, send-me-money-because-I’ve-scared-you state rep — is dumb.
Except Gonzaga. #Gonzaga is usually awesome. Poor Go…

“Tech isn’t political”
The Nazis in tech are, very vocally. That’s why if you have any sort of following in tech on social media you should vocally call them out and use your voice to denounce these absolute garbage people.
Because if you don’t, you’re quietly let them take away what you love.
ht…

The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco
If Balaji Srinivasan is any guide, then the Silicon Valley plutocrats are definitely not okay.

The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat

The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco
If Balaji Srinivasan is any guide, then the Silicon Valley plutocrats are definitely not okay.

Balaji Srinivasan is the spearhead of the new fascist movement establishing itself in Silicon Valley.
It's easy to dismiss him as a clown given how bad, inconsistent and dumb his ideas are but he's a clown with a lot of followers in tech who listen to his visions of "ethnic cleansing".
https://

The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco
If Balaji Srinivasan is any guide, then the Silicon Valley plutocrats are definitely not okay.

I put it into verse
Put it in an envelope
I put it in a postbox
Someone puts it in your house
And that house is in a town
That town ain't far from here
But it doesn't feel very near
And that town is in a state
And that state is in a country
And that country is in a bad state — There's a familiar atmosphere about the place
And in the end they might thank me
With a garden in my name
'Cause I walked through the heathe…

What Chefs Really Think About Tipping, Diners and the Industry - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/27/dining/chefs-state-of-the-restaurant-industry.html

What Chefs Really Think About Tipping, Diners and the Industry
In hours of interviews, we talked with highly accomplished chefs from all over the country about the challenges of running a restaurant today.

On the Complexity of Initial-and-Final-State Opacity for Discrete Event Systems
Tom\'a\v{s} Masopust, Petr Osi\v{c}ka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17000 …

On the Complexity of Initial-and-Final-State Opacity for Discrete Event Systems
Opacity is a general framework modeling security properties of systems interacting with a passive attacker by asserting that a part of the systems behaviour remains secret. In initial-and-final-state opacity (IFO, for short) the secret is whether the system evolved from a given initial state to a given final state or not. Two algorithms for IFO verification are discussed in the literature. One algorithm arises from a trellis-based state estimator, which builds a semigroup of binary relations ge…

Arizona Lawmaker Who Shared Abortion Plans on Senate Floor Had to Endure State-Mandated Counseling  - Jezebel
https://www.jezebel.com/this-state-senator-sought-abortion-for-a-nonviable-pregnancy-was-counseled-to…

Arizona Lawmaker Who Shared Abortion Plans on Senate Floor Had to Endure State-Mandated Counseling 
Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

Explainable Graph Neural Networks for Observation Impact Analysis in Atmospheric State Estimation
Hyeon-Ju Jeon, Jeon-Ho Kang, In-Hyuk Kwon, O-Joun Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17384

Explainable Graph Neural Networks for Observation Impact Analysis in Atmospheric State Estimation
This paper investigates the impact of observations on atmospheric state estimation in weather forecasting systems using graph neural networks (GNNs) and explainability methods. We integrate observation and Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) points into a meteorological graph, extracting $k$-hop subgraphs centered on NWP points. Self-supervised GNNs are employed to estimate the atmospheric state by aggregating data within these $k$-hop radii. The study applies gradient-based explainability metho…

Symmetry of graphs and perfect state transfer in Grover walks
Sho Kubota, Kiyoto Yoshino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17341 https://arx…

Symmetry of graphs and perfect state transfer in Grover walks
We study relationships between symmetry of graphs and perfect state transfer in Grover walks. Symmetry of graphs mathematically refers to automorphisms of graphs. When perfect state transfer occurs between two vertices, the following two statements hold. One is that automorphisms preserve the occurrence of perfect state transfer. The other is that the stabilizer subgroups of the automorphism groups with respect to those two vertices coincide. Using these results, we completely characterize circ…

"State of the climate: 2024 off to a record-warm start"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https://www.

State of the climate: 2024 off to a record-warm start - Carbon Brief
Global temperatures have been exceptionally high over the past three months – at around 1.6C above pre-industrial levels

Hacking Terraform state to gain code execution and privilege escalation https://blog.plerion.com/hacking-terraform-state-privilege-escalation/

We had to memorize the Periodic Table *AND* every American State name and State Capital.
When I met an American kid, I said, “You guys are so lucky. You only have to memorize our ten Provinces and Capitals.”
“We don’t study anything about Canada in school…"
WTAF!? 😳
That's when I realized Canadians were different from Americans. 🤣

PixiePancake (@MissPixiePancake@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image I had to memorize the Periodic Table of Elements and the associated atomic weights in the 9th grade. Where was this guy when I needed him? #Humor #Funny #Lol #Fun #Humour #Science

Among premium SVODs, US subscriber growth fell from 21.6% YoY in 2022 to 10.1% YoY in 2023; 140.5M cancelled their subscriptions in 2023 vs. 104.3M in 2022 (Antenna)
https://www.antenna.live/post/antenna-q124-state-of-subscriptions-report-prem…

Antenna Q1’24 State of Subscriptions Report: Premium SVOD - Antenna Blog

Player Profile: Get to know LB Tommy Eichenberg https://www.raiders.com/news/player-profile-get-to-know-lb-tommy-eichenberg-ohio-state-2024-nfl-draft

Player Profile: Get to know LB Tommy Eichenberg
A three-year starter and two-time captain at Ohio State, Eichenberg played in 41 games (27 starts) for the Buckeyes over five seasons.

Bills select Florida State wide receiver Keon Coleman with No. 33 overall pick in 2024 NFL Draft https://www.nfl.com/news/bills-select-florida-state-wide-receiver-keon-coleman-with-no-33-overall-pick-in-2024-nfl-dr…

Bills select Florida State wide receiver Keon Coleman with No. 33 overall pick in 2024 NFL Draft 
The Buffalo Bills selected Florida State wide receiver Keon Coleman with the No. 33 overall pick of the 2024 NFL Draft. 

Estonian police arrest citizen who allegedly reported for Russian state media: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/28/estonian-police-arrest.html

#Oklahoma state senator Tom Woods calls #LGBTQ residents "filth," declares Oklahoma is "a religious state, a Christian state."

Okay...
Is it weird that my naive position right now is for a two state solution?
Israel would never accept being turned over
And Israel is currently trying to evict Gaza
And I would rather the settlers leave and Israel stop the genocide
It's a weird unjustified on the fence position
But I'm just not a "from the river to the sea" kinda chap?
Like I want them to get along separately because I think they won't get along under a unified government ever again regardless of who controls it.
But if they had two cool headed heads of state.... Maybe.

Want to Learn About Women’s Health in your State?
KFF recently updated its interactive dashboard with national and state data on women’s health, as well as information about various policies that affect women’s health.
#Vote4Healthcare

State Profiles for Women's Health | KFF
The KFF State Profiles for Women’s Health database offers the latest national and state data and policies on a broad range of state-level statistics and policies of importance to women including health status, insurance and Medicaid coverage, use of preventive services, contraceptive coverage, sexual health, maternal and infant health, and abortion policies. Many indicators also provide state-level information for women of different racial and ethnic groups.

Inverse Optimal Control for Linear Quadratic Tracking with Unknown Target States
Yao Li, Chengpu Yu, Hao Fang, Jie Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17247 ht…

Inverse Optimal Control for Linear Quadratic Tracking with Unknown Target States
This paper addresses the inverse optimal control for the linear quadratic tracking problem with a fixed but unknown target state, which aims to estimate the possible triplets comprising the target state, the state weight matrix, and the input weight matrix from observed optimal control input and the corresponding state trajectories. Sufficient conditions have been provided for the unique determination of both the linear quadratic cost function as well as the target state. A computationally effi…

Iterated INLA for State and Parameter Estimation in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
Rafael Anderka, Marc Peter Deisenroth, So Takao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17036

Iterated INLA for State and Parameter Estimation in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
Data assimilation (DA) methods use priors arising from differential equations to robustly interpolate and extrapolate data. Popular techniques such as ensemble methods that handle high-dimensional, nonlinear PDE priors focus mostly on state estimation, however can have difficulty learning the parameters accurately. On the other hand, machine learning based approaches can naturally learn the state and parameters, but their applicability can be limited, or produce uncertainties that are hard to i…

Apparently NOT an "Onion" story 😉
LEGO tells California police: stop putting our heads on your mugshots;
Toy company makes request after altered images – which hide suspects’ identities in line with state law – go viral
https://www.theguardian.c…

It’s time to declare Israel a rogue state | Israel War on Gaza | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/4/25/its-time-to-declare-israel-a-rogue-state?traffic_source=rss

It’s time to declare Israel a rogue state
It is time for the international community to accept that Israel is a rogue actor and start treating it as such.

Did you know SFPD chases end in collisions 41% of the time, and arrests 39% of the time?
And that performance is much worse than most big cities in CA?
Maybe voting #NoOnPropE Is a good idea

San Francisco police chases top California crash list
An analysis by The Standard found that 41% of pursuits initiated by SFPD from 2018 to 2021 resulted in a collision. That was nearly twice the statewide average of 22%.

Did you know SFPD chases end in collisions 41% of the time, and arrests 39% of the time?
And that performance is much worse than most big cities in CA?
Maybe voting #NoOnPropE Is a good idea

San Francisco police chases top California crash list
An analysis by The Standard found that 41% of pursuits initiated by SFPD from 2018 to 2021 resulted in a collision. That was nearly twice the statewide average of 22%.

If you’re a web developer using Vivaldi, first thing you should do is go to Menu − Settings − Appearance and, under the Menu section, select Page from the Menu Customization dropdown then right-click on [Developer Tools] under Content and deselect Show as Subfolder.
You’re welcome 🤓👍
Update: You have to do this manually for *every item* in the Menu section. That’s Audio and Video, Image, Link, Selection, and Text Field in order to have the Inspect item top-level.

Along with the police violence (look at the sheer number of bullets sprayed into that dormitory!), racism, SCOTUS nonsense, and the general lack of historical coverage (people know about Kent State, but not this) - there's a #SafeStreets/#BanCars angle here too.
50 years later, things truly have not changed much.

Sally Strange (@SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe)
Attached: 2 images Since people are talking about Kent State, Ohio, 1970, it's a good time to talk about Jackson State, Mississippi, 1970. Similar situation, except there was no active protest, just a bunch of students hanging out. The mayor of Jackson declared a riot and called in the pigs. Someone threw a glass bottle, not at the pigs, but they still opened fire. Phillip Gibbs, a student at Jackson State, and James Green, a high school student who was walking home from his job, were murder…

A state rep got caught committing securities fraud. A grand jury indicted him on felony charges. Years passed. The defendant was elected attorney general. Years more passed.
Now he has agreed to accept punishment. He must pay nearly $300,000 in restitution, take legal ethics classes and perform 100 hours of community service.
And he remains attorney general.
Given these impossible facts—what state are we in?

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Reaches Deal to Avoid Criminal Trial
Nearly a decade after his indictment for securities fraud, Mr. Paxton will pay restitution, take legal ethics classes and do community service as part of an agreement with prosecutors.

An optimal tradeoff between entanglement and copy complexity for state tomography
Sitan Chen, Jerry Li, Allen Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16353 https://…

An optimal tradeoff between entanglement and copy complexity for state tomography
There has been significant interest in understanding how practical constraints on contemporary quantum devices impact the complexity of quantum learning. For the classic question of tomography, recent work tightly characterized the copy complexity for any protocol that can only measure one copy of the unknown state at a time, showing it is polynomially worse than if one can make fully-entangled measurements. While we now have a fairly complete picture of the rates for such tasks in the near-ter…

“Tech isn’t political”
The Nazis in tech are, very vocally. That’s why if you have any sort of following in tech on social media you should vocally call them out and use your voice to denounce these absolute garbage people.
Because if you don’t, you’re quietly let them take away what you love.
ht…

The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco
If Balaji Srinivasan is any guide, then the Silicon Valley plutocrats are definitely not okay.

A friend shared this article.
Worth your time. Can we escape the dopamine cartels?
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-state-of-the-culture-2024

The State of the Culture, 2024
Or a glimpse into post-entertainment society (it's not pretty)

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.12857 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_…

Risk-aware Control for Robots with Non-Gaussian Belief Spaces
This paper addresses the problem of safety-critical control of autonomous robots, considering the ubiquitous uncertainties arising from unmodeled dynamics and noisy sensors. To take into account these uncertainties, probabilistic state estimators are often deployed to obtain a belief over possible states. Namely, Particle Filters (PFs) can handle arbitrary non-Gaussian distributions in the robot's state. In this work, we define the belief state and belief dynamics for continuous-discrete PFs an…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #fip
Sholto:
🎵 Lucid state
#Sholto
https://open.spotify.com/track/5hpG1QpvypyIksaWFesnmu
https://sholto2.bandcamp.com/track/lucid-state

Balaji Srinivasan is the spearhead of the new fascist movement establishing itself in Silicon Valley.
It's easy to dismiss him as a clown given how bad, inconsistent and dumb his ideas are but he's a clown with a lot of followers in tech who listen to his visions of "ethnic cleansing".
https://

The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco
If Balaji Srinivasan is any guide, then the Silicon Valley plutocrats are definitely not okay.

Estonian police arrest citizen who allegedly reported for Russian state media: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/28/estonian-police-arrest.html

Texans are FREAKING out about the upcoming solar eclipse and declaring parts of the state a disaster area in advance. What is wrong with that state? What so scared? Wild.
https://www.statesman.com/st…

Texas county issues disaster declaration for solar eclipse. Will more counties follow suit?
Texas cities, counties are expected to be flooded by tourists for the April 8 solar eclipse. Bell County is taking precautions to keep residents safe.

A thoughtful and on-point piece from Bruce Schneier, about who should bear the risk of cybersecurity failures when state actors are involved:
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/02/a-cyber-insurance-backstop.html
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us_air_traffic: U.S. air traffic
Yearly snapshots of flights among all commercial airports in the United States from 1990 to today. Metadata include passengers, distance, carrier, airport located city, state, and month of the flight.
This network has 2278 nodes and 6390340 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

Ground state energy of the dilute spin-polarized Fermi gas: Lower bound
Asbj{\o}rn B{\ae}kgaard Lauritsen, Robert Seiringer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17558

Ground state energy of the dilute spin-polarized Fermi gas: Lower bound
We prove a lower bound on the ground state energy of the dilute spin-polarized Fermi gas capturing the leading correction to the kinetic energy resulting from repulsive interactions. This correction depends on the $p$-wave scattering length of the interaction and matches the corresponding upper bound in [J. Funct. Anal. 286.7 (2024), p. 110320].

Bound-state confinement after trap-expansion dynamics in integrable systems
Leonardo Biagetti, Vincenzo Alba
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17623 https://

Bound-state confinement after trap-expansion dynamics in integrable systems
Integrable systems possess stable families of quasiparticles, which are composite objects (bound states) of elementary excitations. Motivated by recent quantum computer experiments, we investigate bound-state transport in the spin-$1/2$ anisotropic Heisenberg chain ($XXZ$ chain). Specifically, we consider the sudden vacuum expansion of a finite region $A$ prepared in a non-equilibrium state. In the hydrodynamic regime, if interactions are strong enough, bound states remain confined in the initi…

"Spoke to a Microsoft engineer on the GPT-6 training cluster project. He kvetched about the pain they're having provisioning infiniband-class links between GPUs in different regions.
Me: "why not just colocate the cluster in one region?"
Him: "Oh yeah we tried that first. We can't put more than 100K H100s in a single state without bringing down the power grid." 🤯" via Kyle Corbitt @corbtt on Twitter

Kyle Corbitt (@corbtt) on X
Spoke to a Microsoft engineer on the GPT-6 training cluster project. He kvetched about the pain they're having provisioning infiniband-class links between GPUs in different regions. Me: "why not just colocate the cluster in one region?" Him: "Oh yeah we tried that first. We…

Symmetry of graphs and perfect state transfer in Grover walks
Sho Kubota, Kiyoto Yoshino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17341 https://arx…

Symmetry of graphs and perfect state transfer in Grover walks
We study relationships between symmetry of graphs and perfect state transfer in Grover walks. Symmetry of graphs mathematically refers to automorphisms of graphs. When perfect state transfer occurs between two vertices, the following two statements hold. One is that automorphisms preserve the occurrence of perfect state transfer. The other is that the stabilizer subgroups of the automorphism groups with respect to those two vertices coincide. Using these results, we completely characterize circ…

One of the candidates to represent a Boston-area district in the Massachusetts Republican Party's State Committee is an avowed neo-Nazi who has pledged the mass expulsion of Jews from the United States.
"Don’t forget I’ll likely get voted into office on March 5," Lori Kauffman posted to her X account over the weekend. "
Long term goals are to ban same sex marriage (never should have been legalized) and trans will be illegal. Yes illegal. I will also exile all Je…

Hitler-praising Massachusetts GOP candidate pledges to 'exile all Jews'
One of the candidates to represent a Boston-area district in the Massachusetts Republican Party's State Committee is an avowed neo-Nazi who has pledged the mass expulsion of Jews from the United States."Don’t forget I’ll likely get voted into office on March 5," Lori Kauffman posted to her X account...

Arizona Dem says state is bluer 'not because Arizona is necessarily a blue state,' but from distaste for GOP 'extremism' (John L. Dorman/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/arizona-extreme-gop-abortion-ban-trump-biden-2024-4
http://www.memeorandum.com/240427/p25#a240427p25

Chinese government data: iPhone shipments in China fell ~33% YoY to ~2.4M units in February 2024, after dropping 39% YoY to ~5.5M units in January 2024 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-26/iph…

Apple (AAPL) iPhone China Shipments Fell About 33% in Feb., State Data Show
Apple Inc. iPhone shipments in China fell about 33% in February from a year earlier, according to official data, extending a slump in demand for the flagship device in its most important overseas market.

Tommy Eichenberg describes his love for football as 'unmatched' https://www.raiders.com/news/tommy-eichenberg-describes-his-love-for-football-as-unmatched-ohio-state-2024-nfl-draft

Tommy Eichenberg describes his love for football as 'unmatched'
The fifth-rounder enjoyed a decorated career at Ohio State, and hopes to fit the mold of the Raiders defense.

Germany charges 5 people for sale of gas turbines to Russian state-owned company in occupied Crimea: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/28/germany-charges-people.html

Okay...
Is it weird that my naive position right now is for a two state solution?
Israel would never accept being turned over
And Israel is currently trying to evict Gaza
And I would rather the settlers leave and Israel stop the genocide
It's a weird unjustified on the fence position
But I'm just not a "from the river to the sea" kinda chap?
Like I want them to get along separately because I think they won't get along under a unified government ever again regardless of who controls it.
But if they had two cool headed heads of state.... Maybe.

Today's #RepublicanParty.
"Don’t forget I’ll likely get voted into office on March 5," Lori Kauffman posted to her X account over the weekend. "Long term goals are to ban same sex marriage (never should have been legalized) and trans will be illegal. Yes illegal. I will also exile all Jews."

Hitler-praising Massachusetts GOP candidate pledges to 'exile all Jews'
One of the candidates to represent a Boston-area district in the Massachusetts Republican Party's State Committee is an avowed neo-Nazi who has pledged the mass expulsion of Jews from the United States."Don’t forget I’ll likely get voted into office on March 5," Lori Kauffman posted to her X account...

Cardinals select Ohio State WR Marvin Harrison Jr. with No. 4 overall pick https://www.nfl.com/news/cardinals-select-ohio-state-wr-marvin-harrison-jr-with-no-4-overall-pick

Cardinals select Ohio State WR Marvin Harrison Jr. with No. 4 overall pick
The Cardinals selected Marvin Harrison Jr. with the No. 4 overall pick in Thursday's first round in Detroit.

Did you know SFPD chases end in collisions 41% of the time, and arrests 39% of the time?
And that performance is much worse than most big cities in CA?
Maybe voting #NoOnPropE Is a good idea

San Francisco police chases top California crash list
An analysis by The Standard found that 41% of pursuits initiated by SFPD from 2018 to 2021 resulted in a collision. That was nearly twice the statewide average of 22%.

An optimal tradeoff between entanglement and copy complexity for state tomography
Sitan Chen, Jerry Li, Allen Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16353 https://…

An optimal tradeoff between entanglement and copy complexity for state tomography
There has been significant interest in understanding how practical constraints on contemporary quantum devices impact the complexity of quantum learning. For the classic question of tomography, recent work tightly characterized the copy complexity for any protocol that can only measure one copy of the unknown state at a time, showing it is polynomially worse than if one can make fully-entangled measurements. While we now have a fairly complete picture of the rates for such tasks in the near-ter…

State legislators are taking the maternal mortality crisis into their own hands • Louisiana Illuminator
https://lailluminator.com/2024/04/27/maternal-mortality/

State legislators are taking the maternal mortality crisis into their own hands • Louisiana Illuminator
As efforts to address the country’s maternal mortality crisis have stalled at the federal level, statewide review committees are trying to save lives.

The Ron DeSantis-appointed board of Disney World's district settles a state lawsuit with Disney, which agrees to revoke changes that limited the board's power (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Disney Ends Fight With Ron DeSantis by Settling Florida Lawsuit
A board appointed by Ron DeSantis to oversee the municipal authority that governs Walt Disney Co. in Florida has voted to settle a state lawsuit against the company.

Democrat Marilyn Lands won a contentious special election for a state house seat in deep-red Alabama on Tuesday night, in a race that could signal the dominant role of abortion and in-vitro fertilization in elections across the country in 2024.
The election was one of the first tests of how Alabama voters felt about the state court’s February ruling, which threatened access to IVF when it found that frozen embryos were legally considered children. The state’s legislature also weighed i…

A victory for reproductive rights? Democratic candidate Marilyn Lands wins Alabama special election
Marilyn Lands’ win in deep-red Alabama highlights the influence abortion and IVF access could have on races down the ballot in 2024.

Distributed Estimation and Control for LTI systems under Finite-Time Agreement
Camilla Fioravanti, Evagoras Makridis, Gabriele Oliva, Maria Vrakopoulou, Themistoklis Charalambous
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17466

Distributed Estimation and Control for LTI systems under Finite-Time Agreement
This paper considers a strongly connected network of agents, each capable of partially observing and controlling a discrete-time linear time-invariant (LTI) system that is jointly observable and controllable. Additionally, agents collaborate to achieve a shared estimated state, computed as the average of their local state estimates. Recent studies suggest that increasing the number of average consensus steps between state estimation updates allows agents to choose from a wider range of state fe…

Cowboys draft Kansas State IOL Cooper Beebe at No. 73 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/2024/04/26/cowboys-cooper-beebe-2024-nfl-draft-round-3/

Cowboys draft Kansas State IOL Cooper Beebe at No. 73
Dallas returned to the OL well and have created a ton of depth in their first three picks. | From @KDDrummondNFL

TwoStep: Multi-agent Task Planning using Classical Planners and Large Language Models
Ishika Singh, David Traum, Jesse Thomason
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17246

TwoStep: Multi-agent Task Planning using Classical Planners and Large Language Models
Classical planning formulations like the Planning Domain Definition Language (PDDL) admit action sequences guaranteed to achieve a goal state given an initial state if any are possible. However, reasoning problems defined in PDDL do not capture temporal aspects of action taking, for example that two agents in the domain can execute an action simultaneously if postconditions of each do not interfere with preconditions of the other. A human expert can decompose a goal into largely independent con…

In Putin’s Russia, state violence is on full display: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/27/in-putins-russia.html

Arizona Dem says state is bluer 'not because Arizona is necessarily a blue state,' but from distaste for GOP 'extremism'
https://www.businessinsider.com/arizona-extreme-gop-abortion-ban-trump-biden-2024-4

Arizona has become bluer due to rejection of 'extreme' GOP: lawmaker
Arizona, a key target for both Biden and Trump this fall, has become ground-zero for major issues like immigration and reproductive rights.

Two journalists who were attacked by Minnesota police as they covered the 2020 George Floyd protests for the LA Times settle a lawsuit with the state for $1.2M (Hannah Wiley/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2<…

L.A. Times reporters attacked by Minnesota police to settle lawsuit
The journalists sued the Minnesota State Patrol in 2021 after being cornered and attacked by officers while covering a protest of George Floyd's slaying.

Chinese state media: President Xi criticized "technological barriers" during Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte's visit to Beijing, as the US curbs ASML exports (Cagan Koc/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Xi Slams ‘Technological Barriers’ During Dutch Premier’s Visit
Chinese President Xi Jinping criticized “technological barriers” during Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s visit to Beijing as the US pushes to tighten controls on ASML Holding NV’s chipmaking-equipment sales to the Asian country.

In Putin’s Russia, state violence is on full display: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/27/in-putins-russia.html

Jets pick up Florida State QB Travis in 5th round https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/40039355/jets-add-playmaker-jordan-travis-qb-room-5th-round-pick

Jets add 'playmaker' Jordan Travis to QB room as 5th-round pick - ESPN
Quarterback Jordan Travis, who suffered a left ankle fracture last November in his final season at Florida State, was drafted in the fifth round by the Jets on Saturday.

GOP State Rep. Matt Maddock Calls Gonzaga Basketball Team 'Illegals'
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/matt-maddock-gonzaga-basketball-illegals-1234995954/

GOP Lawmaker Thinks He Exposed Busload of ‘Illegals’ … It Was the Gonzaga Basketball Team
Matt Maddock, a GOP state representative from Michigan, claimed buses at an airport were full of "illegals." They carried the Gonzaga basketball team.

Sources: Nigeria detains two senior Binance executives who flew to the country following its decision last week to ban several crypto trading websites (Financial Times)
https://t.co/aurcPCtF8F

Must be...Neptune: "The state is spending big on adapting to sea level rise, but Republicans don't want to name the cause"
Florida is about to erase climate change from most of its laws | Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2024/03/27/flo…

Florida is about to erase climate change from most of its laws
The state is spending big on adapting to sea level rise, but Republicans don't want to name the cause

A US judge clears Chinese state-backed chipmaker Fujian Jinhua of economic espionage and other charges, over five years after the US blacklisted the company (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-2…

Chinese Chipmaker Cleared in US Criminal Trade Secrets Case
A Chinese chipmaker was cleared of economic espionage and other criminal charges in a setback for a US Justice Department crackdown on intellectual property theft by China.

Both #Islamic #State in general, and #ISIS-K in particular, have long proclaimed their intention of striking Russia.
They have cited Russia’s earlier military occupation of

State department confirms US began secretly providing Ukraine long-range ATACMS missiles in March: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/24/state-department-confirms.html

Moore v. Harper ARGUED: 12/7/2022
The Supreme Court Considers the **Independent State Legislature Theory**, shoots it down! #law
**DECISION**: 6/27/2023: In a 6-3 opinion from Chief Justice John Roberts, the Court's majority found that the Constitution's Elections Clause does not vest exclusive and independent authority in state legislatures to set the rules regarding federal elec…

Court arrests agriculture minister accused of illegal acquisition of state-owned land: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/26/court-arrests-agriculture.html

Cox Enterprises is buying OpenGov in a deal valuing the company, which provides cloud software for cities and state agencies, at $1.8B (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
https://t.co/eEZPbnaLVe

AI21 Labs launches Jamba, an AI model that integrates two architectures: transformer and Mamba, which is based on the Structured State Space model (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/28/ai21-labs-new-text-g…

AI21 Labs' new AI model can handle more context than most | TechCrunch
Increasingly, the AI industry is moving toward generative AI models with longer contexts. But models with large context windows tend to be

Islamic State releases photo of alleged perpetrators of Moscow shooting: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/23/islamic-state-releases.html

Apple sues an ex-employee for allegedly leaking details about the Journal app and more to journalists, to "kill" products and features with which he took issue (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/28/apple-sues-…

Apple Sues Former Employee for Leaking iPhone's Journal App and More
Apple this month sued its former employee Andrew Aude in California state court, alleging that he breached the company's confidentiality...

Google researchers observed 97 zero-day exploits in the wild in 2023, up 50% from 62 in 2022; 48 were used by espionage actors and 10 were financially-motivated (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
https://therecord.media/zero-day-exploits-jumped-in-2023-spyware…

Zero-days exploited in the wild jumped 50% in 2023, fueled by spyware vendors
Cybersecurity experts are warning that zero-day exploits, which can be used to compromise devices before anyone is aware they’re vulnerable, have become more common as nation-state hackers and cybercriminals find sophisticated ways to carry out their attacks.

State Customs Service: Polish protesters stop blockade at Yahodyn-Dorohusk border crossing: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/22/state-customs-service.html

Agriculture minister, accused of illegal acquisition of state-owned land, resigns: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/25/agriculture-minister-accused.html

Media investigation: Kremlin uses Russian Red Cross as propaganda tool, violating its tenets: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/27/media-investigation-kremlin.html

Media: Rosatom's top manager arrested over suspicion of bribery: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/28/media-rosatoms-top.html

Ex-lawmaker Pashynskyi released on bail: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/27/exlawmaker-pashynskyi-released.html

Russian media: Number of wounded in Moscow attack rises to 360: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/27/russian-media-number.html

Portrait of the Invader: 2 years of Russian soldiering in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/28/portrait-of-the.html

Border Guard: Bodies of 2 men pulled out of Tysa River: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/28/border-guard-bodies.html

Russian investigators receive 143 reports about missing persons after Moscow shooting: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/27/russian-investigators-receive.html

Border Guard: Polish protesters temporarily suspend blockade at Uhryniv-Dolhobychuv crossing: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/28/border-guard-polish.html

Russian media: Russia's Krasnodar Krai oil refinery 'partially suspends' operations after drone attack: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/27/russian-media-russias.html