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#FuckEricAdams so so much. And fuck Hochul for not removing him. #BikeNYC
https://hellgateny…

Sanctioning Officials of the Palestinian Authority and Members of the Palestine Liberation Organization (United States Department of State)
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/07/sanctioning-officials-of-the-palestinian-authority-and-members-of-the-palestine-liberation-organization/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250731/p104#a250731p104

I suspect that are an increasing number of people among us who have long supported the right of the state of Israel to exist who are starting to wonder whether they ought to reconsider that position.
"Israel launches waves of Gaza airstrikes after new displacement orders"

"State of the climate: 2025 on track to be second or third warmest year on record"
#Climate #ClimateChange

State of the climate: 2025 on track to be second or third warmest year on record - Carbon Brief
As it passes its midway point, 2025 is on track to be the second or third warmest year on record, Carbon Brief analysis shows.

As Florida’s Republican government moves to construct a sprawling new immigration detention center in the heart of the Everglades, environmental groups and a wide range of other activists have begun to mobilize against "Gater Gitmo"
Florida’s Republican attorney general, James Uthmeier, announced last week that construction of the jail,
at the site of a disused airbase in the Big Cypress National Preserve, had begun.
According to Fox 4 Now, an affiliate in Southw…

Environmental and Indigenous Groups Mobilize to Stop 'Alligator Alcatraz' | Common Dreams
"This scheme is not only cruel, it threatens the Everglades ecosystem that state and federal taxpayers have spent billions to protect," said Eve Samples, executive director of Friends of the Everglades.

China unveils its new 'graphite bomb' — here's how they work: https://benborges.xyz/2025/06/30/china-unveils-its-new-graphite.html

“Under this definition of antisemitism, which absurdly conflates criticism of a nation-state, Israel, and a political ideology, Zionism, with the ancient evil of Jew-hatred, it is impossible with any honesty to teach about topics such as the history of the creation of Israel, and the ongoing Palestinian Nakba”

Brazil: Protect the mangroves and tropical forests of Tauš-Mirim! https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1305/brazil-protect-the-mangroves-and-tropical-forests-of-taua-mirim

#petition Brazil: Protect the mangroves and tropical forests of Tauá-Mirim!
The people of the Tauá-Mirim region in the Amazon are urgently calling on the Brazilian government to protect their land. The rivers, mangroves and tropical forests south of São Luís in the state of Maranhão are threatened by infrastructure, industrial, and agricultural projects. Please support our petition.

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.

Portugal 'considering' recognition of Palestinian state in September
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/07/31/portugal-considering-recognition-of-palestinian-state-in-september_6743951_4.html

Analogy of space-time as an elastic medium -- Study of the perturbation tensor of the metric $h_{\mu\nu}$ through the prism of the analogy of the theory of elasticity -- Analysis and potential consequences
David Izabel, Yves Remond, Matteo Lucas Ruggiero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21984 …

Analogy of space-time as an elastic medium -- Study of the perturbation tensor of the metric $h_{μν}$ through the prism of the analogy of the theory of elasticity -- Analysis and potential consequences
A state of the art of the different deformations of space-time measured for more than a hundred years in the case of general relativity in the weak field is carried out. The phenomena of general relativity in low fields targeted are gravitational waves, Lense-thirring effects, gravitational lensing, gravitation around the earth or the sun. The overview of these different deformations highlights the different active components of the perturbation tensor of the metric $h_{μν}$. The authors show…

From the "Your UX is bad so you should feel bad Dept.":
The act of observing the state of your 365 subscription changes the state of your 365 subscription. Or Schrodingers's 365 subscription - until you check, the subscription is both active AND expired in superposition and by checking your subscription the waveform collapses to one of those two states. Was your subscription ever really active at all?

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…

Finally read #Cyberlibertarianism by David Golumbia and tbh I'm a little underwhelmed.
Seems like he thinks there's no legitimate criticism of the state and current democratic systems from a leftist point of view? Mass surveillance is fine since it's signed off by governments and if you think there's something wrong with that you must be rightwing and cyberliber…

On the Physical Untenability of the Standard Notion of Quantum State
Christian de Ronde
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23989 https://arxi…

On the Physical Untenability of the Standard Notion of Quantum State
The notion of quantum state plays a fundamental role within the Standard account of Quantum Mechanics (SQM) as established by Dirac and von Neumann during 1930s and up to the present. In this work we expose the deep inconsistencies that exist within the multiple definitions of the notion of quantum state that are provided within this axiomatic formulation. As we will argue, these different inconsistent definitions continue to be -- even today -- uncritically confused within the mainstream physi…

The fascinating neuroscience of lucid dreaming https://www.brainfacts.org/thinking-sensing-and-behaving/sleep/2025/the-fascinating-neuroscience-of-lucid-dreaming-072325

The Fascinating Neuroscience of Lucid Dreaming
Training the mind to enter this rare state of conscious sleep may bring surprising benefits.

@… AFAICT, Cloudflare’s durable objects are a kind of persistent actor, and I think it’s well-known that actors and OOP have problems with hidden state getting out of sync. Akka’s persistent actors have similar trouble eventually.
It’s a trade-off; you’re trading simplicity (state is in one place and strongly consistent) for speed (state is loca…

Challenges and Applications of Large Language Models: A Comparison of GPT and DeepSeek family of models
Shubham Sharma, Sneha Tuli, Narendra Badam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21377

Challenges and Applications of Large Language Models: A Comparison of GPT and DeepSeek family of models
Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming AI across industries, but their development and deployment remain complex. This survey reviews 16 key challenges in building and using LLMs and examines how these challenges are addressed by two state-of-the-art models with unique approaches: OpenAI's closed source GPT-4o (May 2024 update) and DeepSeek-V3-0324 (March 2025), a large open source Mixture-of-Experts model. Through this comparison, we showcase the trade-offs between closed source models …

Former Ohio State standout Trey Sermon taking 'full advantage' of opportunity with Steelers

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/former-

Oh man, the cybersecurity news is piling up ahead of next week's Hacker Summer Camp, so check out today's Metacurity to stay on top of critical infosec developments you should know, including
--The US Army booted Easterly from West Point post to pacify a conspiracy theorist,
--Big Balls got his hands on sensitive law enforcement HR and payroll systems,
--Fraudsters are flooding Discord with polished websites,
--Likely DPRK hackers stole $44m from India's Co…

The US Army booted Easterly from West Point post to pacify a conspiracy theorist
Big Balls got his hands on sensitive law enforcement HR and payroll systems, Fraudsters are flooding Discord with polished websites, Likely DPRK hackers stole $44m from India's CoinDCX, 90 state and local gov'ts targeted in SharePoint attacks, SSNs swiped in Allianz breach, much more

Has anyone tried making a panther nexus in maine. or pennsylvania. idk yall it feels kinda greedy of em to be the only state with a panther nexus but maybe thats just me

Today's #HamRadio #POTA CW activation of US-3847 Occoneechee Mountain Natural State Conservation Area (four hunting park-to-park QSOs, six running calling CQ) along with tonight's SST together made a milestone for me: Now 75% of all my logged QSOs are Morse code.
I still marvel t…

Yes, please, Minnesota gov and every state: take matters into your own hands. I want my 2025 fall COVID booster. Show us what you’re made of. Get it done.
https://newrepublic.com/article/199853/trump-cdc-pritzker-public-health

Poisoning Attacks to Local Differential Privacy for Ranking Estimation
Pei Zhan (School of Cyber Science and Technology, Shandong University, State Key Laboratory of Cryptography and Digital Economy Security, Shandong University, Qingdao, China), Peng Tang (School of Cyber Science and Technology, Shandong University, State Key Laboratory of Cryptography and Digital Economy Security, Shandong University, Qingdao, China), Yangzhuo Li (School of Cyber Science and Technology, Shandong Univ…

Poisoning Attacks to Local Differential Privacy for Ranking Estimation
Local differential privacy (LDP) involves users perturbing their inputs to provide plausible deniability of their data. However, this also makes LDP vulnerable to poisoning attacks. In this paper, we first introduce novel poisoning attacks for ranking estimation. These attacks are intricate, as fake attackers do not merely adjust the frequency of target items. Instead, they leverage a limited number of fake users to precisely modify frequencies, effectively altering item rankings to maximize ga…

Learning Lifted Action Models From Traces of Incomplete Actions and States
Niklas Jansen, Jonas G\"osgens, Hector Geffner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21449 https://

Learning Lifted Action Models From Traces of Incomplete Actions and States
Consider the problem of learning a lifted STRIPS model of the sliding-tile puzzle from random state-action traces where the states represent the location of the tiles only, and the actions are the labels up, down, left, and right, with no arguments. Two challenges are involved in this problem. First, the states are not full STRIPS states, as some predicates are missing, like the atoms representing the position of the ``blank''. Second, the actions are not full STRIPS either, as they do not reve…

Prom tonight! Kids turned up in two helicopters, a couple of Bentleys, at least one Aston, a Lamborghini, lots of Porches, Mercs and assorted other sports cars and one kid drove himself in a Fendt! This is just a state high school but there's plenty of money sloshing about behind the scenes in the shire. Thank god my shoe waited til I was picking up fish & chips afterwards to fall apart. I've had to bin three disintegrated items of clothing today, a rarity ever for me 🙄

Complexity of interchanges at multi-lane expressway with separate free & toll lanes confuses drivers & creates safety hazard. https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/transportation/fatal-beltway-crash-express-lanes-braddock-…

After deadly Beltway crash, Express Lanes official urges vigilance
A deadly crash in the Express Lanes on the Capital Beltway in Northern Virginia is raising safety concerns. Virginia State Police say they believe a driver of a…

Immersive Technologies and Elderly Users: Current use, Limitations and Future Perspectives
Zoe Anastasiadou, Andreas Lanitis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22932

Immersive Technologies and Elderly Users: Current use, Limitations and Future Perspectives
The increase of the percentage of elderly population in modern societies dictates the use of emerging technologies as a means of supporting elder members of the society. Within this scope, Extended Reality (XR) technologies pose as a promising technology for improving the daily lives of the elderly population. This paper presents a literature review that describes the most common characteristics of the physical and mental state of the elderly, allowing readers, and specifically XR developers, t…

Human cost of Tory and Labour welfare cuts.
UK is no longer a Welfare State: it's becoming a Warfare State wiith reckless militarisation, and a war without bullets on the "surplus population".
'I've got no money. I'm constantly cold. I don't want to be here anymore' - Manchester Evening News

'I've got no money. I'm constantly cold. I don't want to be here anymore'
The Manchester Evening News spent a day at Citizen's Advice to find out what impact Labour's controversial welfare cuts could have

LCS: An AI-based Low-Complexity Scaler for Power-Efficient Super-Resolution of Game Content
Simon Pochinda, Momen K. Tageldeen, Mark Thompson, Tony Rinaldi, Troy Giorshev, Keith Lee, Jie Zhou, Frederick Walls
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22873

LCS: An AI-based Low-Complexity Scaler for Power-Efficient Super-Resolution of Game Content
The increasing complexity of content rendering in modern games has led to a problematic growth in the workload of the GPU. In this paper, we propose an AI-based low-complexity scaler (LCS) inspired by state-of-the-art efficient super-resolution (ESR) models which could offload the workload on the GPU to a low-power device such as a neural processing unit (NPU). The LCS is trained on GameIR image pairs natively rendered at low and high resolution. We utilize adversarial training to encourage rec…

First principles computations of the Stark shift of a defect-bound exciton: the case of the T center in silicon
Louis Alaerts, Yihuang Xiong, Sin\'ead M. Griffin, Geoffroy Hautier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24747

First principles computations of the Stark shift of a defect-bound exciton: the case of the T center in silicon
The T center in silicon has recently drawn a lot of attention for its potential in quantum information science. The sensitivity of the zero-phonon line (ZPL) to electrical field was recently investigated by a combination of different experimental methods but there is still no first principles study on the Stark shift of the T center. Dealing with the defect-bound exciton nature of the excited state is particularly challenging using density functional theory because of the large spatial delocali…

I haven't been able to get a positive ID on the "sloppy daisies" that grow in Shindagin Hollow State forest but species that look similar are found in Mexico, Hawaii and other places -- these often have missing or irregularly shaped petals
#photo #photography

Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis
Article originally published at North West Bylines, 31 July, 2025 Based on a longer, fully referenced pamphlet, jointly published by Steady State Manchester and DegrowthUK available HERE Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis The road towards a viable net-zero world is long and full of obstacles, but all economies need to reduce their carbon footprint by Mark H Burton Net zero, that is the government plan to reduce climate…

Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis
Article originally published at North West Bylines, 31 July, 2025 Based on a longer, fully referenced pamphlet, jointly published by Steady State Manchester and DegrowthUK available HERE Renewables…

the existence of heads of state implies the existence of tails of state

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys:
🎵 Empire State Of Mind
#NowPlaying #JayZ #AliciaKeys
https://juanvalencia.bandcamp.com/track/jay-z-alicia-keys-empire-state-of-mind-juan-valencia-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2igwFfvr1OAGX9SKDCPBwO

Impact of magnetic field-driven anisotropies on the equation of state probed in neutron star mergers
Elias R. Most, Jeffrey Peterson, Luigi Scurto, Helena Pais, Veronica Dexheimer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21696

Impact of magnetic field-driven anisotropies on the equation of state probed in neutron star mergers
Binary neutron star mergers can produce extreme magnetic fields, some of which can lead to strong magnetar-like remnants. While strong magnetic fields have been shown to affect the dynamics of outflows and angular momentum transport in the remnant, they can also crucially alter the properties of nuclear matter probed in the merger. In this work, we provide a first assessment of the latter, determining the strength of the pressure anisotropy caused by Landau level quantization and the anomalous …

Simulation of the total energy of a triatomic silicon cluster in the first order of perturbation theory
V. P. Koshcheev, Yu. N. Shtanov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00053

Simulation of the total energy of a triatomic silicon cluster in the first order of perturbation theory
As part of a new approach to calculating the total energy of a diatomic molecule (cluster), it is shown that in the first order of perturbation theory, the total energy of a triatomic cluster is equal to the sum of the total energies of the diatomic clusters (molecules). If all three aluminum atoms are in the ground state of Al(2p), then the quantum of energy of collective electron oscillations (plasmon energy) in each of the diatomic clusters (molecules) is eV (electron volts).

Dodajemy jeszcze jeden system budowania, brachu! Z pewnością nie pożałujesz dodania jeszcze jednego systemu budowania!
Oczywiście, że próbują wepchnąć bajzel… znaczy, #Bazel.
https://github.com/libarchive/libar…

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

Explanations for Unrealizability of Infinite-State Safety Shields
Andoni Rodriguez, Irfansha Shaik, Davide Corsi, Roy Fox, Cesar Sanchez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23603 https:/…

Explanations for Unrealizability of Infinite-State Safety Shields
Safe Reinforcement Learning focuses on developing optimal policies while ensuring safety. A popular method to address such task is shielding, in which a correct-by-construction safety component is synthesized from logical specifications. Recently, shield synthesis has been extended to infinite-state domains, such as continuous environments. This makes shielding more applicable to realistic scenarios. However, often shields might be unrealizable because the specification is inconsistent (e.g., c…

Some states manage to lead, while others talk about how they are leaders. I'm impressed.
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/carbon-free-buildings/new-york-finalizes-gas-ban

New York becomes first state to commit to all-electric new buildings
The state finalized rules ensuring most new edifices will install electric heat pumps and stoves instead of gas appliances, lowering costs and improving…

Some states manage to lead, while others talk about how they are leaders. I'm impressed.
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/carbon-free-buildings/new-york-finalizes-gas-ban

New York becomes first state to commit to all-electric new buildings
The state finalized rules ensuring most new edifices will install electric heat pumps and stoves instead of gas appliances, lowering costs and improving…

Resilient State Recovery using Prior Measurement Support Information
Yu Zheng, Olugbenga Moses Anubi, Warren E. Dixon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22340 https://

Resilient State Recovery using Prior Measurement Support Information
Resilient state recovery of cyber-physical systems has attracted much research attention due to the unique challenges posed by the tight coupling between communication, computation, and the underlying physics of such systems. By modeling attacks as additive adversary signals to a sparse subset of measurements, this resilient recovery problem can be formulated as an error correction problem. To achieve exact state recovery, most existing results require less than $50\%$ of the measurement nodes …

Number of Texans receiving out-of-state abortions quadrupled between 2021 and 2023 (Christopher Adams/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5432293-texas-out-of-state-abortions/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250801/p80#a250801p80

A clever statement on the sorry state of the #AI arts via meme-able mesmergorical AI art?
#infiniteloops #kitchomatic
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/790711569148411904/surrealist-fan-service?source=share

"Washington State Protects the Old-Growth Forests of Tomorrow, Creates 77,000 Acres of ‘Legacy Forests’"
#US #USA #America #Washington

Washington to Protect the Old-Growth Forests of Tomorrow, Creates 77,000 Acres of 'Legacy Forests'
The legacy forest announcement raises an interesting question for forest management and conservation to consider around the world over.

Two Florida pastors were arrested while praying on top of a
‘Black History Matters’ mural
to stop crews from removing it
The church leaders in St. Petersburg prayed over the ‘Black History Matters’ mural as state transportation workers showed up to paint over it
https://www.

Two Florida pastors arrested after praying on top of ‘Black History Matters’ mural to stop crews from removing it
Church leaders in St. Petersburg prayed over the ‘Black History Matters’ mural as state transportation workers showed up to paint over it

As Putin shakes hands with Modi, Xi, here’s the state of Russia’s allies: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/01/as-putin-shakes-hands-with.html

Simulating Binary Neutron Star Mergers with Finite-temperature Equations of State: The influences of the slope of the symmetry energy and artificial heating
Henrique Gieg, Maximiliano Ujevic, Armen Sedrakian, Tim Dietrich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23684

Simulating Binary Neutron Star Mergers with Finite-temperature Equations of State: The influences of the slope of the symmetry energy and artificial heating
We present a new set of numerical-relativity simulations of merging binary neutron stars, aiming to identify possible observable signatures of the slope of the symmetry energy $L_{\rm sym}$. To achieve this goal, we employ a set of equations of state based on a parameterization of the covariant density functional theory of nuclear matter that allows controlled variations of $L_{\rm sym}$ and the skewness $Q_{\rm sat}$, holding the latter fixed. For a set of our simulations, we identify a steep …

Welcome to maga america... Land of rugged individualism where governments have been shrunk to a size that could be drowned in a bathtub. Ah, American Exceptionalism - where each and every one of us is free to starve or die on our own.
"‘Not a Damned Penny.’ Texas Flood Survivors Look for Help"
https://www.…

‘Not a Damned Penny.’ Texas Flood Survivors Look for Help
Texas state legislators will be in Kerrville on Thursday for a hearing on the July 4 floods. They may get an earful.

Whoa, a positive development on the federal government funding front, where it's needed, perhaps, most - state and local grants.
DHS Launches Over $100 Million in Funding to Strengthen Communities’ Cyber Defenses

Selective filtering of multi-photon events from a single-photon emitter
Friedrich Sbresny, Carolin Calcagno, Sang Kyu Kim, Katarina Boos, William Rauhaus, Frederik Bopp, Hubert Riedl, Jonathan J. Finley, Eduardo Zubizarreta Casalengua, Kai M\"uller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22378

Selective filtering of multi-photon events from a single-photon emitter
Single-photon purity is one of the most important key metrics of many quantum states of light. For applications in photonic quantum technologies, e.g. quantum communication and linear optical quantum computing, a minimization of the multi-photon error rate is required because of its error-introducing nature. Ultimately, the purity of state-of-the-art single-photon sources was found to be limited by spontaneous emission and subsequent reexcitation during the interaction with the driving field. H…

Rethinking Layer-wise Model Merging through Chain of Merges
Pietro Buzzega, Riccardo Salami, Angelo Porrello, Simone Calderara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21421 https://

Rethinking Layer-wise Model Merging through Chain of Merges
Fine-tuning pretrained models has become a standard pathway to achieve state-of-the-art performance across a wide range of domains, leading to a proliferation of task-specific model variants. As the number of such specialized modules in-creases, merging them into a unified model without retraining has become a critical challenge. Existing merging techniques often rely on interference heuristics,importance weighting, or activation matching while treating each layer independently, thereby failing…

Another casualty of Mayor Lurie’s last-minute micromanagement in adding a left turn phase to Valencia at 17th, 21st and 23rd: The signals have lost their leading pedestrian intervals.
LPIs improve safety by letting peds/bikes go first, with 3-7sec of walk light before green light. Just added a few years ago as a state-funded safety improvement, they’re gone now.

@… Yeah, I am not opposed to state varying across that level. Across applications, maintained by separate teams or even departments, of course! You don’t want to couple yourself to people who might have drastically different definitions of “success” to you.
But within a single application, serving a single purpose? Only if there’s no better way.…

Why Norway is investing billions in Ukraine's victory: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/why-norway-is-investing-billions.html

Lawyer: Vegas boss legally sold rifle to NY shooter https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45875367/casino-supervisor-rifle-sale-nyc-gunman-complied-state-federal-law

MetaAgent: Automatically Constructing Multi-Agent Systems Based on Finite State Machines
Yaolun Zhang, Xiaogeng Liu, Chaowei Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22606 https://

MetaAgent: Automatically Constructing Multi-Agent Systems Based on Finite State Machines
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated the ability to solve a wide range of practical tasks within multi-agent systems. However, existing human-designed multi-agent frameworks are typically limited to a small set of pre-defined scenarios, while current automated design methods suffer from several limitations, such as the lack of tool integration, dependence on external training data, and rigid communication structures. In this paper, we propose MetaAgent, a finite state machine based fr…

'No other option'
— Russian state media article demands
no Ukrainians 'be left alive'
https://kyivindependent.com/russian-state-media-article-demands-no-ukrainians-be-left-alive/

'No other option' — Russian state media article demands no Ukrainians 'be left alive'
In a piece titled "There is no other option: no one should be left alive in Ukraine," columnist Kirill Strelnikov repeats Kremlin propaganda lines, including the claim that Ukraine is a "military training ground" for the West and that Ukrainians are mere pawns of the U.S. and Europe.

Detection of Personal Data in Structured Datasets Using a Large Language Model
Albert Agisha Ntwali, Luca R\"uck, Martin Heckmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22305

Detection of Personal Data in Structured Datasets Using a Large Language Model
We propose a novel approach for detecting personal data in structured datasets, leveraging GPT-4o, a state-of-the-art Large Language Model. A key innovation of our method is the incorporation of contextual information: in addition to a feature's name and values, we utilize information from other feature names within the dataset as well as the dataset description. We compare our approach to alternative methods, including Microsoft Presidio and CASSED, evaluating them on multiple datasets: DeSSI,…

Fishermen in Maceió, Brazil, found to have higher-than-average mercury levels #Brazil …

Fishermen in Maceió, Brazil, found to have higher-than-average mercury levels
Researchers from the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL) and the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil have found high levels of mercury in the blood and urine of people living on the shores of the Mundaú Lagoon in Maceió, the capital of the Brazilian state of Alagoas. These levels are higher than those found in other populations within the same municipality that have a similar socioeconomic level but live far from the lagoon.

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

I told these hikers that I was out with my new lens because I'd always struggled to capture the experience of what it's like to hike in Shindagin Hollow State Forest and they said that was a noble mission
#photo #photography

Wales' 'forgotten' architect of the welfare state, Jim Griffith's.
https://nation.cymru/news/event-to-commemorate-wales-forgotten-architect-of-the-welfare-state/

Event to commemorate Wales' 'forgotten' architect of the welfare state
Martin Shipton Fifty years after the death of Llanelli MP Jim Griffiths – a man described as “one of the greatest sons of Wales” – a special memorial event will be held in the town. The politician, who has been hailed as the founding father of the welfare state, became the first Secretary of State […]

Breaking the mould of Social Mixed Reality -- State-of-the-Art and Glossary
Marta Bie\'nkiewicz, Julia Ayache, Panayiotis Charalambous, Cristina Becchio, Marco Corragio, Bertram Taetz, Francesco De Lellis, Antonio Grotta, Anna Server, Daniel Rammer, Richard Kulpa, Franck Multon, Azucena Garcia-Palacios, Jessica Sutherland, Kathleen Bryson, St\'ephane Donikian, Didier Stricker, Beno\^it Bardy

Breaking the mould of Social Mixed Reality -- State-of-the-Art and Glossary
This article explores a critical gap in Mixed Reality (MR) technology: while advances have been made, MR still struggles to authentically replicate human embodiment and socio-motor interaction. For MR to enable truly meaningful social experiences, it needs to incorporate multi-modal data streams and multi-agent interaction capabilities. To address this challenge, we present a comprehensive glossary covering key topics such as Virtual Characters and Autonomisation, Responsible AI, Ethics by Desi…

XL-Calibur Polarimetry of Cyg X-1 Further Constrains the Origin of its Hard-state X-ray Emission
Hisamitsu Awaki, Matthew G. Baring, Richard Bose, Jacob Casey, Sohee Chun, Adrika Dasgupta, Pavel Galchenko, Ephraim Gau, Kazuho Goya, Tomohiro Hakamata, Takayuki Hayashi, Scott Heatwole, Kun Hu, Daiki Ishi, Manabu Ishida, Fabian Kislat, M\'ozsi Kiss, Kassi Klepper, Henric Krawczynski, Haruki Kuramoto, Lindsey Lisalda, Yoshitomo Maeda, Hironori Matsumoto, Shravan Vengalil Menon, Aiko Mi…

XL-Calibur Polarimetry of Cyg X-1 Further Constrains the Origin of its Hard-state X-ray Emission
The balloon-borne hard X-ray polarimetry mission XL-Calibur observed the Black Hole X-ray Binary (BHXRB) Cygnus X-1 (Cyg X-1) during its nearly six-day Long Duration Balloon (LDB) flight from Sweden to Canada in July 2024. The XL-Calibur observations allowed us to derive the most precise constraints to date of the Polarization Degree (PD) and Polarization Angle (PA) of the hard X-ray emission from a BHXRB. XL-Calibur observed Cyg X-1 in the hard state and measured a $\sim$19-64 keV PD of ($5.0^…

Senate strikes AI provision from GOP bill after uproar from the states
https://apnews.com/article/congress-ai-provision-moratorium-states-20beeeb6967057be5fe64678f72f6ab0

Senate strikes AI provision from the Republican tax bill after uproar
A proposal to deter states from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade was soundly defeated in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, thwarting attempts to insert the measure into President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts. The Senate voted 99-1 to strike the AI provision after weeks of criticism from both Republican and Democratic governors and state officials. Originally proposed as a 10-year ban on states doing anything to regulate AI, lawmakers later tied it to federa…

Sample-optimal learning of quantum states using gentle measurements
Cristina Butucea, Jan Johannes, Henning Stein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24587 https://…

Sample-optimal learning of quantum states using gentle measurements
Gentle measurements of quantum states do not entirely collapse the initial state. Instead, they provide a post-measurement state at a prescribed trace distance $α$ from the initial state together with a random variable used for quantum learning of the initial state. We introduce here the class of $α-$locally-gentle measurements ($α-$LGM) on a finite dimensional quantum system which are product measurements on product states and prove a strong quantum Data-Processing Inequality (qDPI) on this…

Head of Ukraine's state asset management body submits resignation amid agency revamp: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/30/head-of-ukraines-state-asset.html

Before states banned abortion,
one of the gravest outcomes of early miscarriage could easily be avoided:
👉Doctors could offer a dilation and curettage procedure, which quickly empties the uterus and allows it to close,
protecting against a life-threatening hemorrhage.
⚠️But because the procedures, known as D&Cs, are also used to end pregnancies, they have gotten tangled up in state legislation that restricts abortion.
🆘Reports now abound of doctors hesitat…

A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage
A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.

@… Scanning through the docs, I don’t see anything that would make syncing data between objects easier, but perhaps I’m missing something.
A typical Erlang program deals with this kind of thing in a number of ways, most notably by propagating state up a tree and then down again as required. The important thing is that it’s never ever free, becau…

Classification of global structures of evaporating regular black holes with infinite periods of time
Kensuke Sueto, Hirotaka Yoshino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21315 https://

Classification of global structures of evaporating regular black holes with infinite periods of time
We carry out model independent analyses for global structures of spherically symmetric regular black holes that evaporate and approach the extremal state spending infinite periods of time due to Hawking radiation. We assume the radius of the outer apparent horizon (outer AH) to be a decreasing function of ingoing null coordinate, and consider the three cases, Cases 1, 2, and 3, where the radius of the inner AH is a constant, increases, and decreases, respectively. A complete classification …

When I started law school our very first case was Gideon v. Wainwright - where criminal defendants were given the unambiguous right to have an attorney, even if the state had to pay for it.
Well, here the trumpies are trying to overturn that case.
This is un American.
Deportation is a significant deprivation of rights and the new policy amounts to extending criminal penalties beyond what Congress enacted when it enacted our various Federal criminal laws.
By-the-way, o…

Giuliani out of the hospital after car crash, son says (Tara Suter/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5480670-rudy-giuliani-hospitalized-car-crash/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250901/p80#a250901p80

Visiting Pittsburgh and looking up transit information and it is just hitting me that the SEPTA (Philadelphia) funding crisis, due to the state legislature being shitty, of course also applies to Pittsburgh. "41 bus routes eliminated, 54 bus routes reduced, Silver Line eliminated. There is nothing left to cut from the budget but service."

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

Revisiting Landmarks: Learning from Previous Plans to Generalize over Problem Instances
Issa Hanou, Sebastijan Duman\v{c}i\'c, Mathijs de Weerdt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21564

Revisiting Landmarks: Learning from Previous Plans to Generalize over Problem Instances
We propose a new framework for discovering landmarks that automatically generalize across a domain. These generalized landmarks are learned from a set of solved instances and describe intermediate goals for planning problems where traditional landmark extraction algorithms fall short. Our generalized landmarks extend beyond the predicates of a domain by using state functions that are independent of the objects of a specific problem and apply to all similar objects, thus capturing repetition. Ba…

In Ecuador’s Amazon, Big Oil exploits Indigenous communities in the absence of the state https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/in-ecuadors-amazon-big-oil-exploits-indigenous-communities-in-the-absence-of-the-state/

In Ecuador’s Amazon, Big Oil exploits Indigenous communities in the absence of the state
This story is published in partnership with the Ecuadorian independent media outlet GK. Sitting in a small gray motorboat, Rosa Aranda dips her fingers in the Villano River as she lists the communities she plans to visit over the coming days: Piwiri, Kamunwi and Yutzuyaku. Aranda, 45 years old with long, thick black hair, is […]

NeedleChain: Measuring Intact Long-Context Reasoning Capability of Large Language Models
Hyeonseok Moon, Heuiseok Lim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22411 https://

NeedleChain: Measuring Intact Long-Context Reasoning Capability of Large Language Models
The Needle-in-a-Haystack (NIAH) benchmark is widely used to evaluate Large Language Models' (LLMs) ability to understand long contexts (LC). It evaluates the capability to identify query-relevant context within extensive query-irrelevant passages. Although this method serves as a widely accepted standard for evaluating long-context understanding, our findings suggest it may overestimate the true LC capability of LLMs. We demonstrate that even state-of-the-art models such as GPT-4o struggle to i…

Multi-wavelength Study of HESS J0632 057: New Insights into Pulsar-Disk Interaction
Jaegeun Park (Chungbuk National University), Hongjun An (Chungbuk National University), Chanho Kim (Chungbuk National University), Natalie Matchett (University of the Free State), Kaya Mori (Columbia University), Brian van Soelen (University of the Free State), VERITAS Collaboration, :, A. Archer, P. Bangale, J. T. Bartkoske, W. Benbow, J. H. Buckley, Y. Chen, A. J. Chromey, A. Duerr, M. Errando, M. Es…

Multi-wavelength Study of HESS J0632+057: New Insights into Pulsar-Disk Interaction
We present an analysis of new multi-wavelength observations of the TeV gamma-ray binary HESS J0632+057, conducted using SALT, Swift, NuSTAR, and VERITAS in 2023--2024. By combining these new data with archival observations, we confirm previous suggestions of orbital variability in the source's X-ray spectrum, including increased X-ray absorption at the orbital phase interval of $ϕ\approx0.3\textrm{--}0.4$. The source's X-ray flux within this phase interval seems to have exhibited a significant…

What’s burning in California:
Wolf and Juniper fires are among over a dozen new fires in 72 hours
Fire season has begun with a bang in California,
where more than a dozen wildfires have ignited since Saturday
— the largest of which are in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, authorities said.
Officials warn that the fiery events of the last three days are a prelude of what is to come over the next few months
as the state moves from an usually dry winter…

California's Wolf, Juniper fires among over a dozen in 72 hours
Fire season has begun with a bang in California, where more than a dozen wildfires have ignited since Saturday — the largest of which are located in Riverside and San Bernardino and counties. Here is the latest on the blazes.

Spin vs. position conjugation in quantum simulations with atoms: application to quantum chemistry
N. A. Moroz (Quantum Technology Centre, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University), K. S. Tikhonov (St. Petersburg State University and Russian Quantum Center, Russian Quantum Center), L. V. Gerasimov (Quantum Technology Centre, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Centre for Interdisciplinary Basic Research, HSE University), A. D. Manukhova (Department of Optics, Palacky University), I. B…

Spin vs. position conjugation in quantum simulations with atoms: application to quantum chemistry
The permutation symmetry is a fundamental attribute of the collective wavefunction of indistinguishable particles. It makes a difference for the behavior of collective systems having different quantum statistics but existing in the same environment. Here we show that for some specific quantum conjugation between the spin and spatial degrees of freedom the indistinguishable particles can behave similarly for either quantum statistics. In particular, a mesoscopically scaled collection of atomic q…

LA mayor: Trump administration lawsuit 'an attempt to overturn the will of the city' (Tara Suter/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5380096-la-mayor-trump-administration-lawsuit/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p147#a250701p147

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

Quantum state-transfer and periodicity in discrete-time quantum walk under non-Markovian noise
Monika Rani, Supriyo Dutta, Subhashish Banerjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.24066

Quantum state-transfer and periodicity in discrete-time quantum walk under non-Markovian noise
In quantum communication, quantum state transfer from one location to another in a quantum network plays a prominent role, where the impact of noise could be crucial. The idea of state transfer can be fruitfully associated with quantum walk on graphs. We investigate the consequences of non-Markovian quantum noises on periodicity and state transfer induced by a discrete-time quantum walk on graphs, governed by the Grover coin operator. Different bipartite graphs, such as the path graph, cycle gr…

Balaji revealed his shocking ideas for a tech-governed city
where citizens loyal to tech companies would form a new political tribe clad in
gray t-shirts.
“And if you see another Gray on the street … you do the nod,” he said, during a four-hour talk on the Moment of Zen podcast. “You’re a fellow Gray.”
“Grays should embrace the police, okay? All-in on the police,”
said Balaji Srinivasan.
“What does that mean? That’s, as I said, banquets.
That means …

The Tech Baron Seeking to Purge San Francisco of “Blues”
If Balaji Srinivasan is any guide, then the Silicon Valley plutocrats are definitely not OK.

Making Foreign Aid Great Again (U.S. Department of State)
https://statedept.substack.com/p/making-foreign-aid-great-again
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p141#a250701p141

Entropic characterization of Tunneling and State Pairing in a Quasi-Exactly Solvable Sextic Potential
Angelina N. Mendoza Tavera, Adrian M. Escobar Ruiz, Robin P. Sagar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22684

Entropic characterization of Tunneling and State Pairing in a Quasi-Exactly Solvable Sextic Potential
We analyze the (de)localization properties of a quasi-exactly solvable (QES) sextic potential $V_{\text{QES}}(x) = \frac{1}{2}(x^6 + 2x^4 - 2(2λ+ 1)x^2)$ as a function of the tunable parameter $λ\in [-\frac{3}{4}, 6]$. For $λ> -\frac{1}{2}$, the potential exhibits a symmetric double-well structure, with tunneling emerging for the ground state level at $λ\approx 0.732953$. {For the lowest energy states \( n = 0,1,2,3 \), we construct physically meaningful variational wavefunctions that $i)$ …

Trump administration freezes $6.8 billion in federal education funds -- California is hit hard
Trump is holding back funds to help educate English learners and the children of migrant seasonal workers, among other programs.
State officials are expected to challenge the moves as illegal.
The cuts total $6.8 billion nationwide and at least $811 million in California.

Trump administration freezes $6.8 billion in education funding, California hard hit
The Trump administration enacts funding freeze that education officials put at $6.5 billion — as feds evaluate "priorities and...statutory requirements."

Spectroscopy of drive-induced unwanted state transitions in superconducting circuits
W. Dai, S. Hazra, D. K. Weiss, P. D. Kurilovich, T. Connolly, H. K. Babla, S. Singh, V. R. Joshi, A. Z. Ding, P. D. Parakh, J. Venkatraman, X. Xiao, L. Frunzio, M. H. Devoret
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.24070…

Spectroscopy of drive-induced unwanted state transitions in superconducting circuits
Microwave drives are essential for implementing control and readout operations in superconducting quantum circuits. However, increasing the drive strength eventually leads to unwanted state transitions which limit the speed and fidelity of such operations. In this work, we systematically investigate such transitions in a fixed-frequency qubit subjected to microwave drives spanning a 9 GHz frequency range. We identify the physical origins of these transitions and classify them into three categor…

State Change via One-Dimensional Scattering in Quantum Mechanics
Olivia Pomerenk, Charles S. Peskin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.24090 https://

State Change via One-Dimensional Scattering in Quantum Mechanics
We consider a pair of particles that interact in a one-dimensional setting via a delta-function potential. One of the particles is confined to a one-dimensional box, and the other particle is free. The free particle is incident from the left with specified energy, and it may cause changes in state of the confined particle before flying away to the left or to the right. We present a non-perturbative formulation and computational scheme that determines the probability of any such outcome, as a fu…

Mixed state concurrence for symmetric systems
S. H. Curnoe, D. Gajera, C. Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24772 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Mixed state concurrence for symmetric systems
We present a method to quantify entanglement in mixed states of highly symmetric systems. Symmetry constrains interactions between parts and predicts the degeneracies of the states. While symmetry alone produces entangled eigenstates, the thermal mixed state (density) which contains all of the eigenstate densities weighted by their Boltzmann factors is not necessarily as entangled as the eigenstates themselves because generally the mixed state can be re-expressed as a sum over densities which a…

Gain on ground state of quantum system for truly $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry
Bing-Bing Liu, Shi-Lei Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22728 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Gain on ground state of quantum system for truly $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry
For a truly $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric quantum system, the conventional non-Hermitian Hamiltonian is $H = H_{\rm drive} -iγ|1\rangle\langle1| + iγ|0\rangle\langle0|$, where $Ω$ and $γ$ are real parameters. The three terms respectively represent coherent coupling, loss (on state $|1\rangle$), and gain (on state $|0\rangle$). However, realizing the gain term $+iγ|0\rangle\langle0|$ has remained an outstanding challenge for quantum system, especially on g…

Quantum scarring enhances non-Markovianity of subsystem dynamics
Aditya Banerjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23757 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.23757

Quantum scarring enhances non-Markovianity of subsystem dynamics
Given that any subsystem of a closed out-of-equilibrium quantum system is an open quantum system, its dynamics (reduced from the full system's unitary evolution) can be either Markovian (memory-less) or non-Markovian, with the latter necessarily impeding the process of relaxation and thermalization. Seemingly independently, such non-ergodic dynamics occurs when an initial state has spectral weight on the so-called quantum scar states, which are non-thermalizing states embedded deep in the spect…

High-Performance Fully Passive Discrete-State Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution With Local Local Oscillator
Yu Zhang, Xuyang Wang, Chenyang Li, Jie Yun, Qiang Zeng, Zhiliang Yuan, Zhenguo Lu, Yongmin Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23327

High-Performance Fully Passive Discrete-State Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution With Local Local Oscillator
We propose and demonstrate a fully passive discrete-state continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD), which can eliminate all modulator side channels on the source side, using a local local oscillator (LLO). The CV-QKD system achieves a maximum transmission length of 100 km with a repetition rate of 1 GHz using specially designed phase rotation and discretization methods, and the corresponding secret key bit rate is 127 kbps, as estimated based on the amplitude of prepared states at …

Connection Between Classical and Quantum Descriptions of Spin Waves Using Quantum Circuits
Daniel D. Stancil, Bojko N. Bakalov, Gregory T. Byrd
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22845 …

Connection Between Classical and Quantum Descriptions of Spin Waves Using Quantum Circuits
A quantum computing circuit is presented that approximates a single spin wave quantum on a linear chain of spin 1/2 particles described by a Heisenberg Hamiltonian. The circuit is a product state where each qubit represents a spin. The spin wave motion is represented by opening the cone angle using Y rotations and then adding progressive Z rotations along the chain to represent wave propagation. We show analytically that this product state yields the correct dispersion relation in the limit of …

Phase-Space Topology in a Single-Atom Synthetic Dimension
Kyungmin Lee, Sunkyu Yu, Seungwoo Yu, Jiyong Kang, Wonhyeong Choi, Sumin Park, Taehyun Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.24020

Phase-Space Topology in a Single-Atom Synthetic Dimension
We investigate topological features in the synthetic Fock-state lattice of a single-atom system described by the quantum Rabi model. By diagonalizing the Hamiltonian, we identify a zero-energy defect state localized at a domain wall of the synthetic lattice, whose spin polarization is topologically protected. To address the challenge of applying band topology to the Fock-state lattice, we introduce a topological invariant based on phase-space geometry-the phase-space winding number. We show tha…