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State of Europe’s environment not good: threats to nature and impacts of climate change top challenges https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/newsroom/news/state-of-europes-environment-2025
Europe must step up efforts to protect environment: Report

State of Europe’s environment not good: threats to nature and impacts of climate change top challenges
Significant progress has been made in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, but the overall state of Europe’s environment is not good, especially its nature which continues to face degradation, overexploitation and biodiversity loss. The impacts of accelerating climate change are also an urgent challenge, according to the European Environment Agency’s (EEA) most comprehensive, ‘state of environment’ report, published today. The outlook for most environmental trends is co…

The State of Podcasting in Australia: Trends, Listeners, and Local Opportunities
#AusPods …

The State of Podcasting in Australia | Umbrella Creative
The State of Podcasting in Australia: Trends, Listeners, and Local Opportunities Introduction Australia’s podcasting scene has exploded over the past five years, shifting from a...

Virginia Democrat flips seat in state legislature by taking on datacenters
John McAuliff won against a Republican by focusing on something affecting all his constituents:
the cost of energy
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/n

'Confirmation of Kremlin state policy' — Ukraine slams Russia's withdrawal from torture prevention convention: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/29/confirmation-of-kremlin-state-policy.html

Multihead Finite-State Dimension
Xiang Huang, Xiaoyuan Li, Jack H. Lutz, Neil Lutz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22912 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22912…

Multihead Finite-State Dimension
We introduce multihead finite-state dimension, a generalization of finite-state dimension in which a group of finite-state agents (the heads) with oblivious, one-way movement rules, each reporting only one symbol at a time, enable their leader to bet on subsequent symbols in an infinite data stream. In aggregate, such a scheme constitutes an $h$-head finite state gambler whose maximum achievable growth rate of capital in this task, quantified using betting strategies called gales, determines th…

1D Cluster State Generation On Superconducting Hardware
Rahul Dev Sharma, Md Sakibul Islam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21798 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.2179…

1D Cluster State Generation On Superconducting Hardware
Measurement-based Quantum Computation(MBQC) utilize entanglement as resource for performing quantum computation. Generating cluster state using entanglement as resource is a key bottleneck for the adoption of MBQC. To generate cluster state with charge-qubit arrrays, we provide analytical derivations and numerical validations for 4-qubit cluster state. We compare our fidelities under ideal (noise-free) Hamiltonian evolution and due to effect of decoherence. We show incorporating energy relaxati…

Remarks on stochastic cloning and delayed-state filtering
Tara Mina, Lindsey Marinello, John Christian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21260 https://arxiv.org/p…

Remarks on stochastic cloning and delayed-state filtering
Many estimation problems in robotics and navigation involve measurements that depend on prior states. A prominent example is odometry, which measures the relative change between states over time. Accurately handling these delayed-state measurements requires capturing their correlations with prior state estimates, and a widely used approach is stochastic cloning (SC), which augments the state vector to account for these correlations. This work revisits a long-established but often overlooked a…

Pope Leo insists on two-state solution to resolve Israel-Palestine conflict | Religion News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/30/pope-leo-insists-on-2-state-solution-to-resolve-israel-palestine-conflict?traffic_source=rss

Today's top games to watch, best bets, odds: Ohio State aims to snap losing streak to Michigan, NBA and more

https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/t…

Neural Network State-Space Estimators
Minxing Sun, Li Miao, Qingyu Shen, Yao Mao, Qiliang Bao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25959 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.2…

Neural Network State-Space Estimators
Classical state estimation algorithms rely on predefined target's state-space model, which complicates model derivation and limits adaptability when system dynamics change. Neural network based estimators offer a data-driven alternative, but rarely fuse classical estimation theory into their structure and demand large, pre-computed training sets. To overcome these limitations, we propose a unified state-space structure without target's state-space model and treats both the input-layer activatio…

Benchmarking the State of Networks with a Low-Cost Method Based on Reservoir Computing
Felix Simon Reimers, Carl-Hendrik Peters, Stefano Nichele
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21420

Benchmarking the State of Networks with a Low-Cost Method Based on Reservoir Computing
Using data from mobile network utilization in Norway, we showcase the possibility of monitoring the state of communication and mobility networks with a non-invasive, low-cost method. This method transforms the network data into a model within the framework of reservoir computing and then measures the model's performance on proxy tasks. Experimentally, we show how the performance on these proxies relates to the state of the network. A key advantage of this approach is that it uses readily availa…

Maryland state senator charged with extorting ex-consultant over an affair (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/10/30/maryland-state-senator-dalya-attar-charged/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p112#a251030p112

Structured Sparse Transition Matrices to Enable State Tracking in State-Space Models
Aleksandar Terzi\'c, Nicolas Menet, Michael Hersche, Thomas Hofmann, Abbas Rahimi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22284

Structured Sparse Transition Matrices to Enable State Tracking in State-Space Models
Modern state-space models (SSMs) often utilize transition matrices which enable efficient computation but pose restrictions on the model's expressivity, as measured in terms of the ability to emulate finite-state automata (FSA). While unstructured transition matrices are optimal in terms of expressivity, they come at a prohibitively high compute and memory cost even for moderate state sizes. We propose a structured sparse parametrization of transition matrices in SSMs that enables FSA state tra…

Omnicom's DM9 returned three Cannes awards after a NC state senator and CNN Brazil found the company had used AI to manipulate their content and used it for ads (Emmanuel Felton/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/11/30/deep-fake-whirlo…

Deepfake of North Carolina lawmaker used in award-winning Whirlpool video
North Carolina state Sen. DeAndrea Salvador discovered her 2018 TED Talk had been altered by an ad agency working for Whirlpool in Brazil, leading to a lawsuit.

from my link log —
Schubfach: The smallest state-of-the-art floating point double-to-string implementation.
https://vitaut.net/posts/2025/smallest-dtoa/
saved 2025-11-29

Today is house meeting day for us at DMI as we find out where the state's budget cuts will land and who will be affected (i.e. made redundant).
Coincidentally, one of our #Ukraine #AntarcticScience centre colleagues has just sent us a draft deliverable report to review.
They apologise for lack of polish (it's actually really good! And very interesting science looking at climate change impacts in Antarctica) and they appended this photo of their apartment block after a visit by a Russian drone last week.
And suddenly, Danish state budget cuts seem much less worse...
And now I am going to find someone to swear at.

The 2025 state of the #climate report - a planet on the brink: https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biaf149/8303627 -> Earth’s vital signs worsen, science shows options for livable future: https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/state-of-the-climate-2025-earths-vital-signs-worsen-science-shows-options-for-livable-future -> Our Planet’s Vital Signs are Crashing: https://eos.org/research-and-developments/2025-state-of-the-climate-report-our-planets-vital-signs-are-crashing

The government shutdown threatens US government cybersecurity, which is already in a weakened state due to budget cuts and layoffs. And threat actors are taking notes on the chaos.
Check out my latest CSO piece with thanks to Michael Daniel of the Cyber Threat Alliance, Max Shier at Amentum, and Jeffrey Wells of Sigma7 for their insight.
Government shutdown deepens US cyber risk, exposing networks to threat actors

Government shutdown deepens US cyber risk, exposing networks to threat actors
As Trump’s cyber spending cuts and CISA firings weaken defenses, the latest government shutdown leaves federal networks even more exposed to nation-state and criminal hackers looking to exploit thinned defenses.

Stephen Miller is turning the US state department into an
‘anti-immigration machine’
Miller, the president’s immigration czar,
in recent months has turned the state department’s visa and refugee operations into what some current and former diplomats have described as a personal fiefdom.
Each morning, usually at 10am,
a small circle of conservative diplomats allied with Miller,
-- including those who have assumed control of the state department’s consular a…

Model Reference Adaptive Control with Time-Varying State and Input Constraints
Poulomee Ghosh, Shubhendu Bhasin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21586 https://ar…

Model Reference Adaptive Control with Time-Varying State and Input Constraints
This paper presents a model reference adaptive control (MRAC) framework for uncertain linear time-invariant (LTI) systems subject to user-defined, time-varying state and input constraints. The proposed design seamlessly integrates a time-varying barrier Lyapunov function (TVBLF) to enforce state constraints with a time-varying saturation function to handle input limits. These time-varying constraints can be designed as performance functions to shape transient and steady-state behaviors for both…

🎮 Real example: Complete order state machine with New−Paid−Shipped−Cancelled transitions
🔧 Design-first approach: Sketch states as nouns, events as verbs before writing any code
https://wendelladriel.com/blog/welcome-to-the-state-machine-pattern

PRISM: Progressive Rain removal with Integrated State-space Modeling
Pengze Xue, Shanwen Wang, Fei Zhou, Yan Cui, Xin Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26413 https://

PRISM: Progressive Rain removal with Integrated State-space Modeling
Image deraining is an essential vision technique that removes rain streaks and water droplets, enhancing clarity for critical vision tasks like autonomous driving. However, current single-scale models struggle with fine-grained recovery and global consistency. To address this challenge, we propose Progressive Rain removal with Integrated State-space Modeling (PRISM), a progressive three-stage framework: Coarse Extraction Network (CENet), Frequency Fusion Network (SFNet), and Refine Network (RNe…

Ukraine’s digital chief pushes for AI-first state amid war and cyber threats https://therecord.media/ukraine-ai-state-digital

Omnicom's DM9 returned three Cannes awards after a NC state senator and CNN Brazil found the company had used AI to manipulate their content and used it for ads (Emmanuel Felton/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/11/30/deep-fake-whirlo…

Deepfake of North Carolina lawmaker used in award-winning Whirlpool video
North Carolina state Sen. DeAndrea Salvador discovered her 2018 TED Talk had been altered by an ad agency working for Whirlpool in Brazil, leading to a lawsuit.

#idw State of the climate 2025: Vitalparameter der Erde verschlechtern sich, Wissenschaft zeigt Pfade für lebenswerte Zukunft
22 von 34 lebenswichtigen „Vitalparametern“ unseres Planeten sind auf Rekordniveau, viele tendieren weiterhin stark in die falsche Richtung. Das ist die Botschaft der sechsten Ausgabe des jährlichen #Klima

State of the climate 2025: Vitalparameter der Erde verschlechtern sich, Wissenschaft zeigt Pfade für lebenswerte Zukunft

I bought a copy of "God and the State" by Mikhail Bakunin for about $10.
#Anarchism #Anarchy #MikhailBakunin

"Kerala to become first Indian state to eliminate extreme poverty this weekend"
#Kerala has for many years had Communist-led, Left Front governments. Even when I was there in 1980 the lower level of extreme poverty, compared to neighbouring states, was noticeable.

Todd Grantham is out as Oklahoma State defensive coordinator, Clint Bowen will take over https://www.foxsports.com/articles/cfb/todd-grantham-is-out-as-oklahoma-state-defensive-coordinator-clint-bowen-will-take-over

Robotaxis are so safe that California police haven't written them a single ticket. https://apnews.com/article/waymo-no-driver-traffic-ticket-0a0dffb19bf38c5ee85681a6f83591ff

Police in Northern California stop driverless Waymo taxi after illegal U-turn
Police in Northern California pulled over a self-driving Waymo taxi after it made an illegal U-turn. But without a driver behind the wheel, they could not issue a moving violation ticket. The San Bruno Police Department wrote up the weekend encounter in social media posts that have gone viral. Police said that their “citation books don’t have a box for ‘robot’.” State law requires moving violations be issued to drivers or operators. A new state law that kicks in next year will allow l…

Solid-State-Buttons im iPhone 20: Leaker glauben fest dran
Im iPhone 20 sollen angeblich alle mechanischen Tasten durch Festtasten mit Vibrationsfeedback ersetzt werden. Diese Idee kursiert nicht zum ersten Mal.
h…

A review on the equation of state of color superconductivity via holography
Nguyen Hoang Vu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26244 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.262…

A review on the equation of state of color superconductivity via holography
In this project, we will study a bottom$-$up holographic model for the color superconductivity (CSC) phase in the Einstein$-$Gauss$-$Bonnet (EGB) gravity. We consider the color superconductivity in the deconfinement phase which is dual to the planar GB$-$RN$-$AdS black hole in six-dimensional spacetime and we find the equation of state of the CSC phase in the inner core of the heavy compact star.

UN report: Israel silently tolerates torture and murder in its prisons
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/29/israel-has-de-facto-state-policy-of-organised-torture-says-un-reportses

Production of the $ X(3872)$ state via the $B^0 \to K^{\ast 0} X(3872)$ decay
Luciano M. Abreu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21223 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.…

Production of the $ X(3872)$ state via the $B^0 \to K^{\ast 0} X(3872)$ decay
In this work the production of the state $X(3872)$ is estimated via the reaction $B^0 \to K^{\ast 0} X(3872)$ through triangle mechanisms described by the sequence $B^0 \to D_s^{(*)+} (\to K^{\ast 0} D^{(*)+} ) \ D^{(*)-} \to K^{\ast 0} \ ( D^{(*)+} D^{(*)-} ) \to K^{\ast 0} X(3872) $. The molecular configuration $(D\bar D^* - c.c. )$ of the $X(3872)$ is considered. By means of the effective Lagrangian approach, the branching ratio $\mathcal{B}(B^0 \to K^{\ast 0} X(3872))$ is calculated as a fu…

Trump returns to '51st state' rhetoric in speech to U.S. military officials
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-returns-51st-state-rhetoric-144644685.html

West Virginia Sen. Chris Rose has introduced a proposal to incorporate 33 conservative counties from Virginia and Maryland into the Mountain State.
Dubbed the
"Appeal to Heaven Movement,"
the plan would alter state lines to include all counties bordering West Virginia, except Democratic leaning Loudoun County, Va.

West Virginia senator proposes adding 33 counties from Virginia, Maryland
West Virginia Sen. Chris Rose has introduced a proposal to incorporate 33 conservative counties from Virginia and Maryland into the Mountain State.Dubbed the "A

Indiana GOP state senator says he will vote no on redistricting push after Trump used slur (Alexandra Marquez/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/donald-trump-indiana-state-senator-bohacek-redistricting-vote-no-slur-rcna246451
http://www.memeorandum.com/251129/p43#a251129p43

This charge is so baseless, the comparison to genocide, the wholesale slaughter of populations. Did the Nazis ask the Jews to leave, kindly leave, go out? Did others? Do you want me to name all the genocidal leaders of history. Just go one by one. Did anyone do this? Did they say “go out so we can come in”?
— Benjamin Netanyahu, 26.09.2025 [

Dark Soliton Formation as a Dark-State Phase Transition in a Dissipative Superfluid Chain
Robbe Ceulemans, Samuel E. Begg, Matthew J. Davis, Michiel Wouters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25707

Dark Soliton Formation as a Dark-State Phase Transition in a Dissipative Superfluid Chain
We identify and characterize a first-order dark-state phase transition between a discrete dark soliton and a uniform superfluid in a Bose-Hubbard chain with a single lossy site. Using classical-field (truncated-Wigner) simulations together with a Bogoliubov stability analysis, we show that the dark-state nature of the soliton suppresses fluctuations and shifts the critical point relative to the comparable phenomenon of optical bistability in driven-dissipative Kerr resonators. We then demonstra…

Classical Heisenberg and XY models on zigzag ladder lattices with nearest-neighbor bilinear-biquadratic exchange: Exact solution for the ground-state problem
Yuriy Dublenych
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26318

Classical Heisenberg and XY models on zigzag ladder lattices with nearest-neighbor bilinear-biquadratic exchange: Exact solution for the ground-state problem
An exact and complete solution of the ground-state problem for the classical Heisenberg and XY models with nearest-neighbor bilinear-biquadratic exchange on two- and three-dimensional lattices composed of isosceles triangles is determined with the use of a cluster method. It is shown how the geometric frustration due to the presence of triangles as structural units leads to the emergence of a rich phase diagram with incommensurate spiral orderings and their collinear limits, as well as canted a…

What if dinner was public infrastructure - again?
"food charity Nourish Scotland are pushing for the reintroduction of public diners to Scotland: diners subsidised by the state to provide affordable, nutritious, and filling meals that are accessible to everyone regardless of their financial status.
“There's an element of universality, dignity, and quality that comes with something being a public institution or a part of public infrastructure,” said Anna Chworow"

What if dinner was public infrastructure?
A Scottish charity wants to reintroduce state-subsidised diners for all—a potentially a big ask in the current political climate.

On the Complexity of the Succinct State Local Hamiltonian Problem
Gabriel Waite, Karl Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25821 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.25821…

On the Complexity of the Succinct State Local Hamiltonian Problem
We study the computational complexity of the Local Hamiltonian problem under the promise that its ground state is succinctly represented. We show that the Succinct State 3-Local Hamiltonian problem is (promise) MA-complete. Our proof proceeds by systematically characterising succinct quantum states and modifying the original MA-hardness reduction. In particular, we show that a broader class of succinct states suffices to capture the hardness of the problem, extending and strengthening prior res…

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Oklahoma State Board of Education to 'reset' accreditation process, review social studies standards https://nondoc.com/2025/10/23/state-board-of-education-to-reset-accreditation-process-review-social-studies-standards/

State Board of Education to 'reset' accreditation process, review social studies standards
Citing a desire to reset in a new administration, Oklahoma's State Board of Education declined to issue accreditation warnings Oct. 23, 2025.

Charge Transfer States in Donor Acceptor Bulk Heterojunctions as Triplet Triplet Annihilation Sensitizer for Solid-State Photon Upconversion
Maciej Klein, Alexander R. Ireland, Evan G. Moore, Dennis Delic, Ajay K. Pandey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25679

Charge Transfer States in Donor Acceptor Bulk Heterojunctions as Triplet Triplet Annihilation Sensitizer for Solid-State Photon Upconversion
Photon interconversion in semiconductors is of fundamental importance for digital imaging and quantum sensing. Nonlinear processes such as triplet-triplet annihilation (TTA) offer photon upconversion (UC) at yields desired for solid-state optoelectronic devices. Here, we present a multilayer molecular system where a near-infrared (NIR) photosensitizer facilitates robust photon UC. A molecular stack of squaraine DIB-SQ: 6,6-Phenyl C61 butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) is optimized for UC by fine …

Don't get whipsawed by the overwhelming amount of cybersecurity news. Check out today's Metacurity for a concise rundown of the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Former defense firm GM pleads guilty to selling cyber exploits to Russia,
--Nation-state hackers breached key US telecom services firm Ribbon Communications for nearly a year,
--US government agencies back bid to ban TP-Link routers,
--Hacktivists breached Canadian critical inf…

Former defense firm GM pleads guilty to selling cyber exploits to Russian broker
Nation-state hackers breached key US telecom services firm Ribbon Communications for nearly a year, US government agencies back bid to ban TP-Link routers, Hacktivists breached Canadian critical infrastructure, Python Foundation rejected US grants that required DEI deletions, much more

Eye-Tracking and BCI Integration for Assistive Communication in Locked-In Syndrome: Pilot Study with Healthy Participants
Ana Patr\'icia Pinto, Rute Bettencourt, Urbano J. Nunes, Gabriel Pires
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23518

Eye-Tracking and BCI Integration for Assistive Communication in Locked-In Syndrome: Pilot Study with Healthy Participants
Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) progressively lose voluntary motor control, often leading to a Locked-In State (LIS), or in severe cases, a Completely Locked-in State (CLIS). Eye-tracking (ET) systems are common communication tools in early LIS but become ineffective as oculomotor function declines. EEG-based Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) offer a non-muscular communication alternative, but delayed adoption may reduce performance due to diminished goal-directed thinking. Thi…

Computing Invariant Zeros of a MIMO Linear System Using State-Space Realization
Jhon Manuel Portella Delgado, Ankit Goel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24105 https://

Computing Invariant Zeros of a MIMO Linear System Using State-Space Realization
Poles of a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) linear system can be computed by solving an eigenvalue problem; however, the problem of computing its invariant zeros is equivalent to a generalized eigenvalue problem. This paper revisits the problem of computing the invariant zeros by solving an eigenvalue problem. We introduce a realization called the invariant zero form in which the system's invariant zeros are isolated in a partition of the transformed dynamics matrix. It is shown that the invaria…

More than a dozen states including New York, California and Delaware prohibit the reporting of #medicaldebt on a consumers’ #credit report.
The #Drumpf administration is coming for

Trump administration moves to overrule state laws protecting credit reports from medical debt
The Trump administration is moving to overrule state laws that protect consumers’ credit reports from medical debt. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has drafted an interpretative rule related to the Fair Credit Reporting Act. This rule suggests that the FCRA should preempt state laws on debt reporting to credit bureaus like Experian, Equifax, and Trans Union. This repeals Biden-era regulations allowing states to implement their own credit reporting bans. More than a dozen states, incl…

Cyber information-sharing law and state grants set to go dark as Congress stalls over funding https://therecord.media/cisa-2015-state-cyber-grants-lapse-congress-government-shutdown

Orchestrating multi-level magic state distillation: a dynamic pipeline architecture
Junshi Wang (University of Cambridge), Prakash Murali (University of Cambridge)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24402

Orchestrating multi-level magic state distillation: a dynamic pipeline architecture
Practical quantum computation requires high-fidelity instruction executions on qubits. Among them, Clifford instructions are relatively easy to perform, while non-Clifford instructions require the use of magic states. This makes magic state distillation a central procedure in fault-tolerant quantum computing. A magic state distillation factory consumes many low-fidelity input magic states and produces fewer, higher-fidelity states. To reach high fidelities, multiple distillation factories are t…

In early 2023, Paul Newby, the Republican chief justice of North Carolina’s Supreme Court,
gave the state and the nation a demonstration of the stunning and overlooked power of his office. 
The previous year, the court — then majority Democrat — had outlawed partisan gerrymandering in the swing state.
Over Newby’s vehement dissent, it had ordered independent outsiders to redraw electoral maps that the GOP-controlled legislature had crafted to conservatives’ advantage.

God’s Chief Justice
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state.

Traffic State Estimation in Congestion to Extend Applicability of DFOS
Yoshiyuki Yajima (NEC Corporation), Hemant Prasad (NEC Corporation), Daisuke Ikefuji (NEC Corporation), Hitoshi Sakurai (NEC Corporation), Manabu Otani (Central Nippon Expressway Company, Limited)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21138

Traffic State Estimation in Congestion to Extend Applicability of DFOS
This paper presents a traffic state estimation (TSE) method in congestion for distributed fiber-optic sensing (DFOS). DFOS detects vehicle driving vibrations along the optical fiber and obtains their trajectories in the spatiotemporal plane. From these trajectories, DFOS provides mean velocities for real-time spatially continuous traffic monitoring without dead zones. However, when vehicle vibration intensities are insufficiently low due to slow speed, trajectories cannot be obtained, leading t…

📊 Full observability: Log every state change, measure latency, generate audit trails
🎨 #PHP8 features: String-backed enums for states/events, readonly value objects for context data
🔄 Domain events pattern: Emit events to outbox, handle side effects idempotently with retries
📋 Easy testing: Unit test state transitions without hitting database or network
📈 Auto-documentation: …

Who’s the Best of the Best? Ranking the Top 10 Ohio State Receivers in the NFL https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/whos-best-best-ranking-top-10-ohio-state-receivers-nfl

New York becomes the first US state to require retailers to disclose use of algorithmic pricing tied to personal data; 10 states are considering similar bills (Tim Balk/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/nyregio

N.Y. Law Could Set Stage for A.I. Regulation’s Next ‘Big Battleground’
The new law seeks to prevent retailers from ripping off consumers by using artificial intelligence and their personal data to charge them higher prices.

"The calls are part of a broader strategy by the Trump administration to ... turn the state department into an anti-immigration machine. "In the Trump administration migration issues have become a key pillar of our foreign policy, and this may be here to stay for the rest of the century,” a senior state department official told The Guardian."
**Stephen Miller holding secret calls with diplomats every day to push Trump’s immigration agenda across the globe**
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/stephen-miller-immigration-diplomats-secret-calls-b2856464.html

Sampling Complexity of TD and PPO in RKHS
Lu Zou, Wendi Ren, Weizhong Zhang, Liang Ding, Shuang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24991 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Sampling Complexity of TD and PPO in RKHS
We revisit Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) from a function-space perspective. Our analysis decouples policy evaluation and improvement in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS): (i) A kernelized temporal-difference (TD) critic performs efficient RKHS-gradient updates using only one-step state-action transition samples; (ii) a KL-regularized, natural-gradient policy step exponentiates the evaluated action-value, recovering a PPO/TRPO-style proximal update in continuous state-action spaces.…

State grid boss ousted amid board-government rift: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/26/state-grid-boss-ousted-amid.html

A simple method for seniority-zero quantum state preparation
Michal Krompiec, Josh J. M. Kirsopp, Antonio M\'arquez Romero, Vicente Perez Soloviev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21679

A simple method for seniority-zero quantum state preparation
Quantum Phase Estimation (QPE), the quantum algorithm for estimating eigenvalues of a given Hermitian matrix and preparing its eigenvectors, is considered the most promising approach to finding the ground states and their energies of electronic systems using a quantum computer. It requires, however, to be warm--started from an initial state with sufficiently high overlap with the ground state. For strongly-correlated states, where QPE is expected to have advantage over classical methods, prepar…

Spending Soars, Rankings Fall at New College of Florida (Josh Moody/Inside Higher Ed)
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/state-oversight/2025/10/01/spending-soars-rankings-fall-new-college-florida
http://www.memeorandum.com/251001/p18#a251001p18

How California rushed to expand the state's film and TV production tax credits in eight months, uniting union leaders, lawmakers, top filmmakers, and workers (Katie Campione/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/08/california-tv-film-tax-credits-ne…

As California Dishes Out $256M In TV Tax Credits, Here’s How Lawmakers, Union Leaders & Production Workers United To (Hopefully) Revitalize Hollywood
As California dishes out $256M in TV tax credits, we dug into how lawmakers, union leaders and production workers united to help bring production back

State and Input Constrained Model Reference Adaptive Control with Robustness and Feasibility Analysis
Poulomee Ghosh, Shubhendu Bhasin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21584 https://

State and Input Constrained Model Reference Adaptive Control with Robustness and Feasibility Analysis
We propose a model reference adaptive controller (MRAC) for uncertain linear time-invariant (LTI) plants with user-defined state and input constraints in the presence of unmatched bounded disturbances. Unlike popular optimization-based approaches for constrained control, such as model predictive control (MPC) and control barrier function (CBF) that solve a constrained optimization problem at each step using the system model, our approach is optimization-free and adaptive; it combines a saturate…

Illinois politicians denounce ICE protest indictment
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5582331-pritzker-johnson-defend-broadview-six/

Sling TV settles with California for allegedly violating state consumer privacy law https://therecord.media/sling-tv-california-data-protection-settlement

How long after a sovereign ruler of a repressive state murders one of your columnists should you make a deal with him?
The answer, it turns out, is a little over six years.
https://www.theverge.com/amazon/667916/jeff-bezos-amazon-saudi-arabia-jama…

Jeff Bezos makes his most ghoulish deal yet
How long after a nation-state murders one of your columnists is it appropriate to make a multibillion-dollar deal with it? For Bezos: five years.

Indian government order: India's telecom ministry privately asks phonemakers to preload state cybersecurity app Sanchar Saathi on all new devices within 90 days (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa<…

Classified U.S. report finds backlog of hundreds of possible Israeli human rights violations (John Hudson/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/10/30/state-department-report-israel-gaza-human-rights-violations/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p118#a251030p118

Oklahoma State football falls short vs Baylor to open post-Mike Gundy era https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/college/cowboys/2025/09/27/oklahoma-state-football-score-baylor-week-5-osu-cowboys-mik…

Tracking Quantum State Collapse/Decoherence in Real Time via a Superposition Trap
Hardeep Singh, Tim Kovachy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23053 https://arxiv…

Tracking Quantum State Collapse/Decoherence in Real Time via a Superposition Trap
We propose a novel method for probing quantum state collapse and decoherence in real time using a mechanism we term the superposition trap. This approach exploits the continuity equation in quantum mechanics to engineer a configuration that spatially confines only coherent superpositions, while allowing decohered or collapsed states to escape. By monitoring this leakage, the dynamics of collapse processes-whether environmentally induced or intrinsic to objective collapse models-can be experimen…

Fewer Americans see crime as a serious problem: Poll
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5581062-americans-crime-concerns-decline-gallup-poll/

Until now, Social Security disability benefits got easier to qualify for as a person reached 50 and above. The Trump plan would end that.

New Work World: The administration contends that injured laborers have more access to technology and more nonphysical job options than in the past.

Red State Blues: Under the plan, millions — particularly in states that voted for Trump — could find it more difficult to qualify for disability benefits in the future.

Red State Workers Could Lose Out on Disability Benefits as Trump Administration Rewrites Eligibility Rules
Planned changes to Social Security’s disability program could leave hundreds of thousands of older blue-collar workers ineligible for aid. These changes would fall disproportionately on some of President Trump’s most loyal supporters.

Small-Covariance Noise-to-State Stability of Stochastic Systems and Its Applications to Stochastic Gradient Dynamics
Leilei Cui, Zhong-Ping Jiang, Eduardo D. Sontag
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24277

Small-Covariance Noise-to-State Stability of Stochastic Systems and Its Applications to Stochastic Gradient Dynamics
This paper studies gradient dynamics subject to additive random noise, which may arise from sources such as stochastic gradient estimation, measurement noise, or stochastic sampling errors. To analyze the robustness of such stochastic gradient systems, the concept of small-covariance noise-to-state stability (NSS) is introduced, along with a Lyapunov-based characterization. Furthermore, the classical Polyak-Lojasiewicz (PL) condition on the objective function is generalized to the $\mathcal{K}$…

A look at Cal State's plans to become an "AI-empowered" university via partnerships with Amazon and a $16.9M deal to provide ChatGPT Edu to students and staff (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/tec…

Cal State Invited Tech Companies to Remake Learning With A.I.
Spurred by titans like Amazon and OpenAI, California State wants to become the nation’s “largest A.I.-empowered” university.

Optimizing sparse quantum state preparation with measurement and feedforward
Yao-Cheng Lu, Han-Hsuan Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21346 https://arxiv.org…

Optimizing sparse quantum state preparation with measurement and feedforward
Quantum state preparation (QSP) is a key component in many quantum algorithms. In particular, the problem of sparse QSP (SQSP) $\unicode{x2013}$ the task of preparing the states with only a small number of non-zero amplitudes $\unicode{x2013}$ has garnered significant attention in recent years. In this work, we focus on reducing the circuit depth of SQSP with limited number of ancilla qubits. We present two SQSP algorithms: one with depth $O(n\log d)$, and another that reduces depth to $O(n)$. …

Kristi Noem denies JB Pritzker's request to halt ICE operations on Halloween
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5581764-kristi-noem-chicago-immigration-enforcement-halloween/

Acquiring solar panels at home can be an expensive hassle for people in the US.
But small, simple, plug-in solar panels for use on balconies are soon to become available for millions of Americans,
with advocates hoping the technology will quickly go mainstream.
Balcony solar panels are now widespread in countries such as Germany
– where more than 1m homes have them
– but have until now been stymied in the US by state regulations.
This is set to change, wit…

Oklahoma State football got no moral victory vs Baylor, but offense brought hope https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/college/cowboys/2025/09/27/oklahoma-state-football-offensive-shakeup-d…

A lot of Trump voters who don't think they're "on Obamacare"
are going to be finding out this week that their health insurance that they get through their state based exchange with a name like
"[State] Direct Health Exchange] is...Obamacare.
https://bsky.app/profile/izzos.us/post

Dan Izzo (@izzos.us)
A lot of Trump voters who don't think they're "on Obamacare" are going to be finding out this week that their health insurance that they get through their state based exchange with a name like "[State] Direct Health Exchange] is...Obamacare.

U-generating system dynamics with a product state using local operations
Daniel Dilley, Alvin Gonzales, Jeffrey Larson, Mark Byrd
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23083 https://

U-generating system dynamics with a product state using local operations
A quantum system may undergo undesired dynamics if it is already correlated with its environment before global unitary evolution takes place. To mitigate these effects, we apply local operations on the system of interest prior to the global evolution. This ensures that a specific dynamics-matching condition is satisfied - namely, that the system's dynamics can be U-generated starting from an initial product state. We review two strategies for achieving this: local measurements and local unitari…

US startups are increasingly adopting Chinese open source AI models, as some capabilities of Chinese models start to catch up with those of frontier US labs (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/silicon-valley-building-free-chinese-ai-r…

More of Silicon Valley is building on free Chinese AI
Surveying the state of America’s artificial intelligence landscape earlier this year, Misha Laskin was concerned

Your regular reminder that marginal income & capital gains tax rates are too low
-- and this poses an existential threat to 🇺🇸 democracy
https://bsky.app/profile/robertscotthorton.bsky.social/post/3lzu3j77n622p

Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social)
Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.' https://fortune.com/2024/09/17/oracle-larry-ellison-surveillance-state-police-ai/

Why I feel blessed to live in a blue state:
WA directs $2.2 million/week state dollars to food banks as SNAP funding cliff nears • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/briefs/wa-directs-state-dollars-to-food-banks-as-snap-funding-cliff-nears/

Quantum Dynamics with Time-Dependent Neural Quantum States
Alejandro Romero-Ros, Javier Rozal\'en Sarmiento, Arnau Rios
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24865 https://

Quantum Dynamics with Time-Dependent Neural Quantum States
We present proof-of-principle time-dependent neural quantum state (NQS) simulations to illustrate the ability of this approach to effectively capture key aspects of quantum dynamics in the continuum. NQS leverage the parameterization of the wave function with neural-network architectures. Here, we put NQS to the test by solving the quantum harmonic oscillator. We obtain the ground state and perform coherent state and breathing mode dynamics. Our results are benchmarked against analytical soluti…

Omar Fateh,
the son of Somali immigrants and a democratic socialist,
is a leading candidate in the mayoral race in Minneapolis
and seeking to unseat incumbent Jacob Frey.
Fateh made history in 2020 by becoming the first Muslim and first Somali American to be elected to Minnesota’s state Senate.
Fateh has run for mayor on a platform advocating for rent stabilization,
raising the minimum wage
and reforming how the city handles public safety.
“…

“Mamdani of the Midwest”: Meet Omar Fateh. Could He Be the Next Mayor of Minneapolis?
Omar Fateh, the son of Somali immigrants and a democratic socialist, is a leading candidate in the mayoral race in Minneapolis and seeking to unseat incumbent Jacob Frey. Fateh made history in 2020 by becoming the first Muslim and first Somali American to be elected to Minnesota’s state Senate. Fateh has run for mayor on a platform advocating for rent stabilization, raising the minimum wage and reforming how the city handles public safety. “Minneapolis can have a different kind of politics,…

Quantum Sequential Universal Hypothesis Testing
Matteo Zecchin, Osvaldo Simeone, Aaditya Ramdas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21594 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508…

Quantum Sequential Universal Hypothesis Testing
Quantum hypothesis testing (QHT) concerns the statistical inference of unknown quantum states. In the general setting of composite hypotheses, the goal of QHT is to determine whether an unknown quantum state belongs to one or another of two classes of states based on the measurement of a number of copies of the state. Prior art on QHT with composite hypotheses focused on a fixed-copy two-step protocol, with state estimation followed by an optimized joint measurement. However, this fixed-copy ap…

DHS Plans to Collect State Driver’s License Data for Citizenship Checks — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/dhs-citizenship-checks-drivers-license-data

Cost-aware Photonic Graph State Generation: A Graphical Framework
Sobhan Ghanbari, Hoi-Kwong Lo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22777 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509…

Cost-aware Photonic Graph State Generation: A Graphical Framework
Photonic graph states are essential resources for quantum computation and communication. Deterministic emitter-based generation of graph states overcomes the scalability issues of probabilistic approaches, but their experimental realization is constrained by technological demands, often expressed by the number of two-qubit gates and the depth and/or width of the quantum circuits used to model the generation process. We introduce a cost-aware framework for the generation of photonic graph states…

Near-Optimal Simultaneous Estimation of Quantum State Moments
Xiao Shi, Jiyu Jiang, Xian Wu, Jingu Xie, Hongshun Yao, Xin Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24842 https://

Near-Optimal Simultaneous Estimation of Quantum State Moments
Estimating nonlinear properties such as Rényi entropies and observable-weighted moments serves as a central strategy for spectrum spectroscopy, which is fundamental to property prediction and analysis in quantum information science, statistical mechanics, and many-body physics. However, existing approaches are susceptible to noise and require significant resources, making them challenging for near-term quantum hardware. In this work, we introduce a framework for resource-efficient simultaneous…

Some state and local elections officials say they no longer have working relationships with the federal government
and do not trust the expertise they used to tap into on election security.
https://c.im/@cdarwin/115633975364257626

Coherence restoring in communication line via controlled interaction with environment
E. B. Fel'dman, I. D. Lazarev, A. N. Pechen, A. I. Zenchuk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25861

Coherence restoring in communication line via controlled interaction with environment
We consider the state-restoring protocol based on the controlled interaction of a linear chain with environment through the specially adjusted step-wise time dependent Lindblad operators. We show that the best restoring result (maximal scale factors in the restored state) corresponds to the symmetrical Lindblad equation. (0,1)-excitation dynamics is considered numerically, and restoring protocol for the 1-order coherence matrix is proposed for the case of the two-qubit sender (receiver). The st…

Reporting on the “data center boom” in the state of Oregon,
Rolling Stonetells the story of Jim Doherty, a cattle rancher and former county commissioner of Morrow, in eastern Oregon.
Doherty’s story began when he noticed a rise in bizarre medical conditions among the county’s 45,000 residents,
linked to toxins in the local water.
Working with the county health office, the rancher-turned-official began a survey of 70 wells throughout his jurisdiction
— 68 of which…

Amazon Data Center Linked to Cluster of Rare Cancers
A sprawling data center in eastern Oregon has been linked to a huge rise in rare cancers, muscle conditions, and miscarriages.

State officials promise large-scale
involuntary addiction and mental health treatment at Salt Lake City’s edge.
Critics see
“a prison, or a warehouse.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/us/poli

In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
State officials promise large-scale involuntary addiction and mental health treatment at Salt Lake City’s edge. Critics see “a prison, or a warehouse.”

Nonclassical phonon pair
Yu Wang, Zhen Shen, Mai Zhang, Zhi-Peng Shi, Hong-Yi Kuang, Shuai Wan, Fang-Wen Sun, Guang-Can Guo, Chun-Hua Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24429 https…

Nonclassical phonon pair
Quantum-correlated photon pairs are crucial resources for modern quantum information science. Similarly, the reliable generation of nonclassical phonon pairs is vital for advancing engineerable solid-state quantum devices and hybrid quantum networks based on phonons. Here, we present a novel approach to generate quantum-correlated phonon pairs in a suspended silicon microstructure initialized in its motional ground state. By simultaneously implementing red- and blue-detuned laser pulses, equiva…

Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer said he had outlined his concerns about the state of healthcare in the country to Trump, and said:
“He seemed to, for the first time, understand the magnitude of this crisis.
“We hope he’ll talk to the Republican leaders and tell them, we need bipartisan input on healthcare, on decisions into their bill. Their bill does not have these – they never talked to us.”
But there was little sign that Republicans had shifted from their demands tha…

The Guided Local Hamiltonian Problem for Stoquastic Hamiltonians
Gabriel Waite
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25829 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.25829

The Guided Local Hamiltonian Problem for Stoquastic Hamiltonians
We show that the Guided Local Hamiltonian problem for stoquastic Hamiltonians is (promise) BPP-hard. The Guided Local Hamiltonian problem is a variant of the Local Hamiltonian problem that incorporates an additional input known as a guiding state, which is promised to overlap with the ground state. For a range of local Hamiltonian families, this problem is (promise) BQP-hard, though for stoquastic Hamiltonians, the complexity was previously unknown. Our results are achieved by first reducing fr…

Rest Fire
Santa Barbara County
An Evacuation Warning has been requested for Gaviota State Beach, per Incident Command. The fire is 1/2 to 1 acre in medium brush w/ moderate rate of spread, burning under the influence of a north wind & is burning towards the south, per Incident Command.
https://share.wa…

Watch Duty - Wildfire Maps & Alerts
Real-time information about wildfire and firefighting efforts nearby

Good thing
The Kansas Law Review is hosting an entire symposium on this in two weeks!!
State Constitutions in a time of Federal Uncertainty
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Sharon Brett (@sharonbrett.bsky.social)
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Momentum is building on both sides of the Atlantic to give Ukraine the approximately $300 billion in Russian state assets frozen by Western countries after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion in 2022.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has now endorsed the idea, removing a long-standing obstacle.
But another one remains:
Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened to retaliate by confiscating the remaining Western investment in Russia.

Western countries are no…

Putin is eyeing Western business assets. Here’s how to stop him.
When Fidel Castro tried the same thing in the 1990s, Congress answered with the Libertad Act.

Economist Justin Wolfers: “Demolishing the East Wing of the WH before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump’s approach to economic policy.
The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.”

This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 260. 11/30/25
… Ukraine’s peace negotiators met with the US delegation today, which was led by Sec of State Marco Rubio, special envoy Steve Witkoff, and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner. After multiple recent revelations about Witkoff being owned by Putin, he looked pretty uncomfortable facing the Ukrainians he has worked so hard to sell out.