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New @… post on the Florida DOGE audit of the state universities:
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Ken Paxton blocks San Antonio from funding out-of-state abortion travel (David Zimmermann/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3448669/ken-paxton-blocks-san-antonio-funding-out-of-state-abortion-travel/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p84#a250620p84

The US State Department restarts student visa interviews and requires all applicants to make their social media accounts public for vetting by US embassies (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-se…

State Dept. restarts student visa interviews with tougher social media rules 
Foreign nationals who seek visas to study in the United States will have to make social media posts public to be scrutinized for hostility toward the U.S.

Four years after Gov. Greg Abbott announced Texas would be the first state to build its own border wall, lawmakers have quietly stopped funding the project, leaving only scattered segments covering a small fraction of the border.
That decision, made in the waning hours of this year’s legislative session,
leaves the future of the state wall unclear.
Just 8% of the 805 miles the state identified for construction is complete, which has cost taxpayers more than $3 billion to dat…

With only 8% built, Texas quietly defunds state border wall program
Texas officials suggested the federal government could pick up construction. However, during President Trump’s first term, his administration built about one-third of what the state was able to put up in the same amount of time.

«“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.”»
«“Police State Exhibit Closed Today Due to the Police State,”
she posted on Instagram.»
https://www.theguardi…

Silicon Valley was never woke. It just played woke on TV. https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/114721179380101771

'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.

When the family calls me a tankie, I just drop Rudolf Rocker’s black-and-red flag and remind them: Rocker spent his life critiquing both state capitalism and authoritarian socialism, he literally wrote book's on why real liberation means smashing all forms of state power, not trading one boss for another.
Anarcho-syndicalism: Theory and Practice

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

Just don't miss today's Metacurity for a raft of Iran-related cyber developments and the other critical infosec news you should know today, including
--Israel-linked hackers destroyed data at Iran’s state-owned Bank Sepah
--Israel-linked hackers stole $48m in crypto from Iran,
--Iran urges removal of WhatsApp from phones,
--Iran shuts down internet amid Israel strikes,
--US critical infrastructure girds for Iranian cyber threats,
--UK ICO fines 23an…

Israel-linked hackers destroyed data at Iran’s state-owned Bank Sepah
Israel-linked hackers stole $48m in crypto from Iran, Iran urges removal of WhatsApp from phones, Iran shuts down internet amid Israel strikes, US critical infrastructure girds for Iranian cyber threats, UK ICO fines 23andMe $3.1m over 2023 breach, Chinese spies invest heavily in AI, so much more

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.

“You never walk alone” is a song about taking a stroll in a surveillance state.

"‘World’s largest’ carbon credit deal under fire as Amazon prosecutors seek repeal"
#CarbonCapture #Climate #ClimateChange

‘World’s largest’ carbon credit deal under fire as Amazon prosecutors seek repeal
A Brazilian state was set to close a massive $180 million carbon credit deal, but now faces an escalating legal battle, accused of violating national laws and Indigenous rights, potentially ruining the project.

It's still really easy to hack and reprogram road signs | StateScoop https://statescoop.com/its-still-really-easy-to-hack-and-reprogram-road-signs/

It’s still really easy to hack and reprogram road signs
Easily accessed through default passwords that are never changed, road signs can be altered to state anything from video-game jokes to zombie warnings.

That’s an excellent move.
Let’s make it national.
Decades ago, my first wife was a librarian and met a lot of people. She was a friendly person. She befriended a guy who seemed to misunderstand friendship. We ended up having to refuse entry to CPS twice in the ensuing 3 weeks. Thankfully, they didn’t deem either anonymous report worth seeking a warrant.

Virginia man pleads guilty to shooting Latino men he thought were illegal immigrants (Ryan Nadeau/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5359450-virginia-man-pleads-guilty-shooting-latino-men/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p91#a250619p91

I am quite annoyed by our news media.
They put up maps (or usually silhouettes) of Israel and Iran showing them as roughly the same size.
Which is rubbish.
Israel is about 8,000 square miles - rather smaller than the US state of New Hampshire.
Iran is about 636,000 square miles - that's much more than twice the size of the state of Texas.
(The US is about 3,800,000 square miles.)
In other words, Iran is about 80x larger than Israel.
And Iran has …

‘Necessary to quell the rebellion’: DOJ tells 9th Circuit that Trump can deploy National Guard from every state and can’t be second-guessed by judges
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/necessary-to-quell-the-rebellion-doj-tells-9th-circuit-that-trump-can-deploy-national-guard-from-every-state-and-cant-be-second-guessed-by-judges/

Oklahoma high schools to teach 2020 election conspiracy theories as fact;
State superintendent Ryan Walters tapped chief of Heritage Foundation, key player behind Project 2025, for curriculum
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/…

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…

Ashton Jeanty's Impact Will be Immeasurable for the Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-travis-hunter-ashton-jeanty-barry-sanders-boise-state

Ich nutze #AI täglich, im wesentlichen für meine Arbeit. AI dafür manchmal gut genug und manchmal nicht. Und es bleibt eine Black Box.
Was mich stört, ist unter anderem, daß die besten Modelle nicht offen sind und sich in den Händen weniger Player befinden. Daher spielt die AI Gesetzesinitiative der Republikaner in den #USA

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

Our statement on the rise of #POX (party of xenophobes and fascists), the threat they pose, reasons for their success, strategies, good and bad, for countering them.
Steady State Manchester | For local prosperity, justice & ecological safety

The right wing threat and a viable future
A statement from Steady State Manchester Introduction With horror we see the electoral success of POX, The party of Xenophobes and Fascists (which, without irony, actually calls itself Reform UK1).…

Refugee Makes History Becoming British Ambassador: ‘Mom Was Worried I Wasn’t English Enough’ https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/first-ever-refugee-appointed-as-a-british-ambassador-reflects-on-…

Refugee Makes History Becoming British Ambassador: 'Mom Was Worried I Wasn't English Enough'
He admitted his mother was nervous when she first heard he was planning to join the Foreign Office, equivalent of the US State Department.

Exact plane symmetric black bounce with a perfect-fluid exterior obeying a linear equation of state
Hideki Maeda, Cristian Martinez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14872

Exact plane symmetric black bounce with a perfect-fluid exterior obeying a linear equation of state
We investigate an exact two-parameter family of plane symmetric solutions admitting a hypersurface-orthogonal Killing vector in general relativity with a perfect fluid obeying a linear equation of state $p=χρ$ in $n(\ge 4)$ dimensions, obtained by Gamboa in 2012. The Gamboa solution is identical to the topological Schwarzschild-Tangherlini-(anti-)de~Sitter $Λ$-vacuum solution for $χ=-1$ and admits a non-degenerate Killing horizon only for $χ=-1$ and $χ\in[-1/3,0)$. We identify all possibl…

good news: California Assembly passed a bill to require Caltrans to develop a quick-build program for bike lane and intersection safety projects on state highways! it's #AB891 (Zbur)
https://

Quick-Build Legislation Makes It Through the Assembly - Streetsblog California
Following the success of Quick-Build projects in Santa Monica, their Assemblymember wants to allow them on state highways.

State- versus Reaction-Based Information Processing in Biochemical Networks
Anne-Lena Moor, Age Tjalma, Manuel Reinhardt, Pieter Rein ten Wolde, Christoph Zechner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13373

State- versus Reaction-Based Information Processing in Biochemical Networks
Trajectory mutual information is frequently used to quantify information transfer in biochemical systems. Tractable solutions of the trajectory mutual information can be obtained via the widely used Linear-Noise Approximation (LNA) using Gaussian channel theory. This approach is expected to be accurate for sufficiently large systems. However, recent observations show that there are cases, where the mutual information obtained this way differs qualitatively from results derived using an exact Ma…

Quantum and Semi-Classical Signatures of Dissipative Chaos in the Steady State
Griffith Rufo, Sabrina Rufo, Pedro Ribeiro, Stefano Chesi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14961

Quantum and Semi-Classical Signatures of Dissipative Chaos in the Steady State
We investigate the quantum-classical correspondence in open quantum many-body systems using the SU(3) Bose-Hubbard trimer as a minimal model. Combining exact diagonalization with semiclassical Langevin dynamics, we establish a direct connection between classical trajectories characterized by fixed-point attractors, limit cycles, or chaos and the spectral and structural properties of the quantum steady state. We show that classical dynamical behavior, as quantified by the sign of the Lyapunov ex…

Pose State Perception of Interventional Robot for Cardio-cerebrovascular Procedures
Shunhan Ji, Yanxi Chen, Zhongyu Yang, Quan Zhang, Xiaohang Nie, Jingqian Sun, Yichao Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14201

Pose State Perception of Interventional Robot for Cardio-cerebrovascular Procedures
In response to the increasing demand for cardiocerebrovascular interventional surgeries, precise control of interventional robots has become increasingly important. Within these complex vascular scenarios, the accurate and reliable perception of the pose state for interventional robots is particularly crucial. This paper presents a novel vision-based approach without the need of additional sensors or markers. The core of this paper's method consists of a three-part framework: firstly, a dual-he…

Waymo applied for a NYC permit to test its cars with safety drivers and plans to start collecting mapping data with manually driven cars in Manhattan in July (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/689093/waymo-nyc-permit…

Waymo’s robotaxis are coming back to New York City
Waymo applied for a permit to test autonomous vehicles with safety drivers in New York City. And it hopes it can change the state law to allow it to operate fully driverless.

Rotational Variables: Kepler Versus ASAS-SN
Jack Stethem (Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University), Christopher S. Kochanek (Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University, Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics, The Ohio State University), Anya Phillips (Center for Astrophysics - Harvard and Smithsonian), Lyra Cao (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University), Marc Pinsonneault (Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University, Center for Cosmol…

Rotational Variables: Kepler Versus ASAS-SN
Rotational variables are stars that vary in brightness due to star spots modulated by rotation. They are probes of stellar magnetism, binarity, and evolution. Phillips et al. (2023) explored distinct populations of ~50,000 high-amplitude rotational variables from the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN), examining correlations between stellar rotation, binarity, and activity. Here, we carry out a similar analysis of ~50,000 much lower amplitude Kepler rotational variables. The Kepl…

The authoritarian dream is rooted in the belief that state violence should serve as the primary tool of governance.
When the guardrails of democracy are dismantled, violence shifts from being a last resort to a governing principle.
This is precisely what unfolded in Los Angeles, where Trump deployed the National Guard and Marines to crush protests against his mass deportation policies,
while mobilizing ICE as a modern-day Gestapo.
What cannot be ignored is that the…

From the Streets of LA to the National Stage: The Left Must Win the Cultural War
Trump’s war on dissent can only be defeated by a left that challenges the values sustaining authoritarianism.

'Forever chemicals' detected in 65% of sampled private wells in Pennsylvania https://phys.org/news/2025-06-chemicals-sampled-private-wells-pennsylvania.html
PFAS Found in 65% of Private Wells Sampled in Pennsylvania

'Forever chemicals' detected in 65% of sampled private wells in Pennsylvania
In Pennsylvania, 3.5 million people are served by private well systems, according to Penn State Extension. To better understand potential contamination of the groundwater feeding these systems, a team of researchers from Penn State conducted a novel three-year citizen science study of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)—often referred to as forever chemicals—in 167 private wells across Pennsylvania.

"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

deep state illuminati initiation humiliation ritual is prolly just them reading all ur posts

BraTS orchestrator : Democratizing and Disseminating state-of-the-art brain tumor image analysis
Florian Kofler, Marcel Rosier, Mehdi Astaraki, Ujjwal Baid, Hendrik M\"oller, Josef A. Buchner, Felix Steinbauer, Eva Oswald, Ezequiel de la Rosa, Ivan Ezhov, Constantin von See, Jan Kirschke, Anton Schmick, Sarthak Pati, Akis Linardos, Carla Pitarch, Sanyukta Adap, Jeffrey Rudie, Maria Correia de Verdier, Rachit Saluja, Evan Calabrese, Dominic LaBella, Mariam Aboian, Ahmed W. Moawad, …

BraTS orchestrator : Democratizing and Disseminating state-of-the-art brain tumor image analysis
The Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) cluster of challenges has significantly advanced brain tumor image analysis by providing large, curated datasets and addressing clinically relevant tasks. However, despite its success and popularity, algorithms and models developed through BraTS have seen limited adoption in both scientific and clinical communities. To accelerate their dissemination, we introduce BraTS orchestrator, an open-source Python package that provides seamless access to state-of-the-…

StacKAT: Infinite State Network Verification
Jules Jacobs, Nate Foster, Tobias Kapp\'e, Dexter Kozen, Lily Saada, Alexandra Silva, Jana Wagemaker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13383

StacKAT: Infinite State Network Verification
We develop StacKAT, a network verification language featuring loops, finite state variables, nondeterminism, and - most importantly - access to a stack with accompanying push and pop operations. By viewing the variables and stack as the (parsed) headers and (to-be-parsed) contents of a network packet, StacKAT can express a wide range of network behaviors including parsing, source routing, and telemetry. These behaviors are difficult or impossible to model using existing languages like NetKAT. W…

Non-degenerate Ground State of the Spin-Boson Model under Abelian Diagonalization
Tao Liu, Juhao Wu, Mark Ying
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14818 https://

Non-degenerate Ground State of the Spin-Boson Model under Abelian Diagonalization
By utilizing a unitary transformation, we derive the necessary and sufficient conditions for the degeneracy between the even- and odd-parity energy states of the spin-boson model (SBM). Employing the Rayleigh quotient of matrix algebra, we rigorously prove that the ground state energy of the SBM is lower than the systems lowest possible degenerate energy and possesses a definite parity. Based on the necessary and sufficient conditions for parity breaking, we provide an analytical expression for…

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/

Maximally-Informative Retrieval for State Space Model Generation
Evan Becker, Benjamin Bowman, Matthew Trager, Tian Yu Liu, Luca Zancato, Wei Xia, Stefano Soatto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12149

Maximally-Informative Retrieval for State Space Model Generation
Given a query and dataset, the optimal way of answering the query is to make use all the information available. Modern LLMs exhibit impressive ability to memorize training data, but data not deemed important during training is forgotten, and information outside that training set cannot be made use of. Processing an entire dataset at inference time is infeasible due to the bounded nature of model resources (e.g. context size in transformers or states in state space models), meaning we must resor…

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. 

from my link log —
The sorry state of Java deserialization.
https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_110_java_io/
saved 2024-09-22 https://

Investigation: pages affiliated with RT, Sputnik, and other entities remained part of Facebook's ad revenue program months after being subject to EU sanctions (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/sanctioned-russian-med…

Sanctioned Russian media still partnered with Facebook
Sanctioned pro-Russian media are still part of Facebook’s advertising revenue program, new research out Friday showed. Russian state broadcasters, including Rossiya Segodnya — the organizatio…

Observer Switching Strategy for Enhanced State Estimation in CSTR Networks
Lisbel B\'arzaga-Martell, Francisco Ib\'a\~nez, Angel L. Cede\~no, Maria Coronel, Francisco Concha, Norelys Aguila-Camacho, Jos\'e Ricardo P\'erez-Correa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13878

Observer Switching Strategy for Enhanced State Estimation in CSTR Networks
Accurate state estimation is essential for monitoring and controlling nonlinear chemical reactors, such as continuous stirred-tank reactors (CSTRs), where limited sensor coverage and process uncertainties hinder real-time observability. This paper introduces a novel multi-observer switching framework that combines several advanced estimators: Extended Luenberger Observer (ELO), Extended Kalman Filter (EKF), Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF), Quadrature Kalman Filter (QKF), and Particle Filter (PF),…

"But West Virginia’s new law is unusual. Boasting the “least restrictive regulatory environment in the nation,” it prohibits local officials from having any input into where off-grid data centers go. This provision appears to be a nationwide first and is angering mayors and commissioners statewide."
From: @…

State Dept. restarts student visa interviews with tougher social media rules (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/18/student-visas-social-media-vetting-state-department/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250618/p119#a250618p119

The State of CSS 2025 survey is out:
https://survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey/state-of-css/2025
The “pain points” questions were easy for me this year (and not just because of CSS carousels, inert, interactive pseudos, Google in general, separati…

State of CSS 2025
Take the State of CSS survey

Trump’s Police State (ROBERT REICH SUBSTACK, 9 Jun 2025)
#resist

Trump’s Police State
It endangers all of us

Isostructural electronic transition in MoS$_2$ probed by solid-state high harmonic generation spectroscopy
Bailey R. Nebgen, Victor Chang Lee, Jacob A. Spies, Randy M. Sterbentz, Craig P. Schwartz, Dean Smith, Diana Y. Qiu, Michael W. Zuerch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14215

Isostructural electronic transition in MoS$_2$ probed by solid-state high harmonic generation spectroscopy
Studying materials under extreme pressure in diamond anvil cells (DACs) is key to discovering new states of matter, yet no method currently allows the direct measurement of the electronic structure in this environment. Solid-state high harmonic generation (sHHG) offers a new all-optical window into the electronic structure of materials. We demonstrate sHHG spectroscopy inside a DAC by probing $2H$-MoS$_2$, up to 30 GPa, revealing a pressure-induced crossover of the lowest direct bandgap from th…

Electromagnetic probes revealing the inner structure of the $\Lambda_c(2940)$
Ping Chen, Zi-Le Zhang, Yu Zhuge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15428 https://

Electromagnetic probes revealing the inner structure of the $Λ_c(2940)$
The $Λ_c(2940)$, an open-charm baryon discovered in 2006, has sparked interest due to its ``low mass puzzle'', paralleling the $X(3872)$ in the charmoniumlike sector. Both states challenge conventional hadronic interpretations, with the $X(3872)$ understood as a $D^*\bar{D}$ molecular state and the $Λ_c(2940)$ hypothesized as a $D^*N$ molecular state. This work investigates the radiative decay modes $Λ_c(2940) \to Λ_c(2286)γ$, $Λ_c(2940) \to Λ_c(2595)γ$, and $Λ_c(2940) \to Λ_c(2765)γ…

Self-Stabilizing Replicated State Machine Coping with Byzantine and Recurring Transient Faults
Shlomi Dolev, Amit Hendin, Maurice Herlihy, Maria Potop Butucaru, Elad Michael Schiller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12900

Self-Stabilizing Replicated State Machine Coping with Byzantine and Recurring Transient Faults
The ability to perform repeated Byzantine agreement lies at the heart of important applications such as blockchain price oracles or replicated state machines. Any such protocol requires the following properties: (1) \textit{Byzantine fault-tolerance}, because not all participants can be assumed to be honest, (2) r\textit{ecurrent transient fault-tolerance}, because even honest participants may be subject to transient ``glitches'', (3) \textit{accuracy}, because the results of quantitative queri…

Non-Gaussian state preparation and enhancement using weak-value amplification
Xiao-Xi Yao, Yusuf Turek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14632 https://

Non-Gaussian state preparation and enhancement using weak-value amplification
We introduce a protocol for generating a broad class of non-Gaussian (nG) quantum states via postselected weak measurement techniques. The scheme involves injecting an arbitrary quantum state and a single photon into the signal and idler ports, respectively, of an interference setup that incorporates a third-order nonlinear medium. A nG state is conditionally produced at the signal output, heralded by the detection of a single photon in one of the idler output channels. The protocol exploits a …

The Reflexive Integrated Information Unit: A Differentiable Primitive for Artificial Consciousness
Gnankan Landry Regis N'guessan, Issa Karambal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13825

The Reflexive Integrated Information Unit: A Differentiable Primitive for Artificial Consciousness
Research on artificial consciousness lacks the equivalent of the perceptron: a small, trainable module that can be copied, benchmarked, and iteratively improved. We introduce the Reflexive Integrated Information Unit (RIIU), a recurrent cell that augments its hidden state $h$ with two additional vectors: (i) a meta-state $μ$ that records the cell's own causal footprint, and (ii) a broadcast buffer $B$ that exposes that footprint to the rest of the network. A sliding-window covariance and a dif…

Real adulthood is recognizing that a wise application of global state is preferable to constant refactoring of tiny implicit dependencies

Judge overturns Biden-era HHS rule on HIPAA protections for those seeking reproductive care https://therecord.media/judge-overtuns-biden-era-hhs-rule-hipaa-reproductive-care

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

MODS: Multi-source Observations Conditional Diffusion Model for Meteorological State Downscaling
Siwei Tu, Jingyi Xu, Weidong Yang, Lei Bai, Ben Fei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14798

MODS: Multi-source Observations Conditional Diffusion Model for Meteorological State Downscaling
Accurate acquisition of high-resolution surface meteorological conditions is critical for forecasting and simulating meteorological variables. Directly applying spatial interpolation methods to derive meteorological values at specific locations from low-resolution grid fields often yields results that deviate significantly from the actual conditions. Existing downscaling methods primarily rely on the coupling relationship between geostationary satellites and ERA5 variables as a condition. Howev…

Take action in your community to help save Medicaid.
If you’re in a swing district or state, use our simple Neighbor2Neighbor tool to get a list of like-minded neighbors,
knock on their doors and talk to them about stopping the monstrous GOP megabill:
https://indivisiblepr…

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…

InceptionMamba: Efficient Multi-Stage Feature Enhancement with Selective State Space Model for Microscopic Medical Image Segmentation
Daniya Najiha Abdul Kareem, Abdul Hannan, Mubashir Noman, Jean Lahoud, Mustansar Fiaz, Hisham Cholakkal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12208

InceptionMamba: Efficient Multi-Stage Feature Enhancement with Selective State Space Model for Microscopic Medical Image Segmentation
Accurate microscopic medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in diagnosing various cancerous cells and identifying tumors. Driven by advancements in deep learning, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformer-based models have been extensively studied to enhance receptive fields and improve medical image segmentation task. However, they often struggle to capture complex cellular and tissue structures in challenging scenarios such as background clutter and object overlap. Moreove…

Break-in reported at home of slain Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman (David K. Li/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/break-reported-home-slain-minnesota-state-rep-melissa-hortman-rcna213780
http://www.memeorandum.com/250618/p109#a250618p109

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

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.

https://www.wionews.com/world/israeli-hackers-breach-iranian-tv-urging-iranians-to-rise-up-in-protest-1750304429134
“The visuals displayed were of women tearing off their hijab and cutting their hair in defiance,…

Israeli hackers breach Iranian TV, urging Iranians to rise up in protest
During a live broadcast, footage from the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom protests, women cutting their hair in defiance, flashed across screens in Iran state TV (IRIB)

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…

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.

How Iranian and Israeli hacking groups spent years sparring online; the US State Department is offering $10M for info on the Iran-linked CyberAv3ngers group (Jordan Robertson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

"Human-caused stratospheric cooling may have been detectable as early as 1885"
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Human-caused stratospheric cooling may have been detectable as early as 1885
A small, multi-institutional team of climate scientists has found evidence that human-caused impacts on the stratosphere began earlier than previously thought. In their study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group used observational data, environmental theory and computer modeling to create simulations depicting the state of the stratosphere to a time just after the dawn of the industrial age.

Foreign students will be required to unlock their social media profiles
to allow US diplomats to review their online activity
before receiving educational and exchange visas, the state department has announced.
Those who fail to do so will be suspected of hiding that activity from US officials.
The new guidance, unveiled by the state department on Wednesday, directs US diplomats to conduct an online presence review to look for
“any indications of hostility towa…

Emergence of cosmic structure from Planckian discreteness
Gabriel R. Bengochea, Gabriel Leon, Alejandro Perez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15413 https://

Emergence of cosmic structure from Planckian discreteness
In the standard inflationary paradigm the inhomogeneities observed in the CMB arise from quantum fluctuations of an initially homogeneous and isotropic vacuum state. This picture suffers from two well-known weaknesses. First, it assumes that quantum field theory remains valid at trans-Planckian scales, without modifications from quantum gravity. Second, it necessitates a quantum-to-classical transition in which fluctuations of a homogeneous quantum state become the classical inhomogeneities see…

https://reason.com/2025/06/19/judge-protects-a-utah-churchs-mushrooms/
Utah Passed a Religious Freedom Law. Then Cops Went After This Psychedelic Church.
A group using psilocybin mushrooms in ceremonies "put Utah's commitment to religious freedo…

Psychedelic church puts Utah's religious freedom law to the test
A religious group using psilocybin mushrooms in ceremonies "put the State of Utah's commitment to religious freedom to the test," a federal judge wrote.

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/

Mitigating sloppiness in joint estimation of successive squeezing parameters
Priyanka Sharma, Stefano Olivares, Devendra Kumar Mishra, Matteo G. A. Paris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15638

Mitigating sloppiness in joint estimation of successive squeezing parameters
When two successive squeezing operations with the same phase are applied to a field mode, reliably estimating the amplitude of each is impossible because the output state depends solely on their sum. In this case, the quantum statistical model becomes sloppy, and the quantum Fisher information matrix turns singular. However, estimation of both parameters becomes feasible if the quantum state is subjected to an appropriate scrambling operation between the two squeezing operations. In this work, …

ATK: Automatic Task-driven Keypoint Selection for Robust Policy Learning
Yunchu Zhang, Shubham Mittal, Zhengyu Zhang, Liyiming Ke, Siddhartha Srinivasa, Abhishek Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13867

ATK: Automatic Task-driven Keypoint Selection for Robust Policy Learning
Visuomotor policies often suffer from perceptual challenges, where visual differences between training and evaluation environments degrade policy performance. Policies relying on state estimations, like 6D pose, require task-specific tracking and are difficult to scale, while raw sensor-based policies may lack robustness to small visual disturbances.In this work, we leverage 2D keypoints - spatially consistent features in the image frame - as a flexible state representation for robust policy le…

Members of Congress worry about lack of plan as political violence rises (Paul Kane/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/19/congress-political-violence-minnesota-state-lawmakers-killings/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p15#a250619p15

Idaho pastor Douglas Wilson can be provocative.
He once wrote that “slavery produced in the South a genuine affection between the races.”
He’s said that “sodomy” is worse than “slavery”;
abortion, he’s written, is “as great an evil as slavery” due to what he sees as its ability to spark a civil war.
He told me last year that he regards the American state as the “biggest blasphemer” of them all.
But beneath the provocations is a vision of a remade
— and Chri…

An Outspoken Christian Nationalist Pastor Expands His Sway In Trump’s DC
Idaho pastor Douglas Wilson can be provocative. He once wrote that “slavery...

The House will vote next week on a resolution “condemning the violent June 2025 riots in Los Angeles, California,”
sponsored by California GOP Rep. Young Kim.
Protests against sweeping immigration raids, deportations and detentions swelled in the Democratic stronghold earlier this month amid Donald Trump’s broader immigration crackdown.
Trump deployed Marines and the National Guard in a move harshly criticized by Democrats and resulting in a lawsuit from the state of Calif…

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Experimental demonstration of high-fidelity logical magic states from code switching
Lucas Daguerre, Robin Blume-Kohout, Natalie C. Brown, David Hayes, Isaac H. Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14169

Experimental demonstration of high-fidelity logical magic states from code switching
Preparation of high-fidelity logical magic states has remained as a necessary but daunting step towards building a large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computer. One approach is to fault-tolerantly prepare a magic state in one code and then switch to another, a method known as code switching. We experimentally demonstrate this protocol on an ion-trap quantum processor, yielding a logical magic state encoded in an error-correcting code with state-of-the-art logical fidelity. Our experiment is base…

A bipartisan group of over 260 US state legislators sign a letter opposing a federal budget bill provision that bans states from enforcing AI laws for 10 years (Sophia Fox-Sowell/StateScoop)
https://statescoop.com/state-lawmakers-push-back-fe…

State lawmakers push back on federal proposal to limit AI regulation
More than 260 state legislators from all 50 states have signed a letter opposing a provision in the federal budget reconciliation bill that would limit state power in regulating AI.

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/

https://apnews.com/article/iran-whatsapp-meta-israel-d9e6fe43280123c9963802e6f10ac8d1
Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices

Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices
Iranian state television on Tuesday afternoon urged the country’s public to remove the messaging app WhatsApp from their smart phones, alleging without offering any evidence the app gathered user information to send to Israel. WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted, which means a service provider in the middle can't read messages. WhatsApp says it does not track users' precise location and does not track personal messages. Iran had banned WhatsApp in 2022 following mass protests. It lifted the ban …

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…

Sources: lobbyists for Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta back a campaign for a 10-year US state AI regulation ban, a move dividing the AI industry and the GOP (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/52ae52f1-531e-462f-898f-e9f86b3b1869

Big Tech pushes for 10-year ban on US states regulating AI
Call by Amazon, Google and Microsoft lobbyists for a ‘moratorium’ has split industry and the Republican party

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…

Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence (1)
https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/2641/2025/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p63#a250619p63

Dynamically Dressed States of a Quantum Four-Level System
Carolin Calcagno, Friedrich Sbresny, Thomas K. Bracht, Sang Kyu Kim, Eduardo Zubizarreta Casalengua, Katarina Boos, William Rauhaus, Hubert Riedl, Jonathan J. Finley, Doris E. Reiter, Kai M\"uller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14643…

Dynamically Dressed States of a Quantum Four-Level System
In this work, we experimentally and theoretically study the dressed-state emission of the biexciton-exciton cascade in a semiconductor quantum dot under pulsed, resonant, two-photon excitation. Building on the well-characterized steady-state dressed emission of the four-level system, we examine its dynamic counterpart under pulsed, resonant excitation, addressing both experimental observations and theoretical modeling. Here we report several sidebands emerging from the biexciton-to-exciton tran…

A cyberattack claimed by the pro-Israel hacktivist group Predatory Sparrow has reportedly disrupted services at Iran's state-owned Bank Sepah (Matt Kapko/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/iran-bank-sepah-cyberattack/

Norm Inequality for Perturbed Quantum Evolutions and Its Application to Grover's Algorithm
Kohei Kobayashi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14230 https://

Norm Inequality for Perturbed Quantum Evolutions and Its Application to Grover's Algorithm
We investigate the impact of coherent control errors on quantum state evolution by deriving a general norm inequality based on Gronwall's lemma. This inequality provides an explicit upper bound on the deviation between an ideal quantum state and one subject to arbitrary coherent perturbations, including both time-dependent and time-independent cases. The framework is broadly applicable, requiring no assumptions about the detailed structure of the perturbation and full dynamics of the quantum sy…

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.

Israel bombs Iranian state TV during live broadcast (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/16/iran-state-tv-bombed-israel-strike
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p80#a250616p80

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.

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…

Trump signed an executive order decrying so-called anti-Christian bias in February,
and a hotline was created in April to encourage State Department workers to call in and snitch on their colleagues who might be acting with any kind of “anti-Christian bias.”
The Religious Liberty Commission was established via another executive order on May 1 during a flashy White House event.
Trump has even established his own Christian “faith” office in the White House, seemingly further…

Trump’s ‘anti-Christian bias’ taskforce reveals its propagandistic agenda in first meeting
Even though Christians are the dominant religious group in the country, Trump and his allies are desperate to portray persecution where there is none

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

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.

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

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 …

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.

No Kings 2.0. July 4, 2025
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