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US-based Refinery29 closes its UK office, lays off staff, and shuts down the UK operation of its Black women-focused sub-brand Unbothered (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/lifestyle-brand-refinery29-closes-uk-o…

Lifestyle brand Refinery29 closes UK office and lays off journalists
Lifestyle, fashion and wellness site Refinery29 has made an unknown number of cuts in the shutting of its UK office.

The Efficiency Frontier: Classical Shadows versus Quantum Footage
Shuowei Ma, Junyu Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06218 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06218…

The Efficiency Frontier: Classical Shadows versus Quantum Footage
Interfacing quantum and classical processors is an important subroutine in full-stack quantum algorithms. The so-called "classical shadow" method efficiently extracts essential classical information from quantum states, enabling the prediction of many properties of a quantum system from only a few measurements. However, for a small number of highly non-local observables, or when classical post-processing power is limited, the classical shadow method is not always the most efficient choice. Here…

Counting isomorphism classes of elliptic curves over $\mathbb{F}_q(t)$
Jun-Yong Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06754 https://arxiv.o…

Counting isomorphism classes of elliptic curves over $\mathbb{F}_q(t)$
We determine the precise number of isomorphism classes of elliptic curves over $\mathbb{F}_q(t)$ with $\text{char}(\mathbb{F}_q) = 3,2$. The key idea is to obtain the exact unweighted number of rational points on the classifying stacks $\mathcal{B} Q_{12}$, $\mathcal{B} Q_{24}$ and $\mathcal{B} Z$, where $Q_{12}$ and $Q_{24}$ denote the dicyclic groups of orders 12 and 24, respectively, and $Z$ denotes the non-reduced group scheme of order 2. This computation, inspired by the classical work of …

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But there is no certainty that madness was content to sit locked up in its immutable identity, waiting for psychiatry to perfect its art, before it emerged blinking from the shadows into the blinding light of truth. Nor is it clear that confinement was above all, or even implicitly, a series of measures put in place to deal with madness. It is not even certain that in this repetition of the ancient gesture of segregation at the threshold of the classical age, the modern world was aiming to wipe out all those who, either as a species apart or a spontaneous mutation, appeared as 'asocial'. The fact that the internees of the eighteenth century bear a resemblance to our modern vision of the asocial is undeniable, but it is above all a question of results, as the character of the marginal was produced by the gesture of segregation itself. For the day came when this man, banished in the same exile all over Europe in the mid-seventeenth century, suddenly became an outsider, expelled by a society to whose norms he could not be seen to conform; and for our own intellectual comfort, he then became a candidate for prisons, asylums and punishment. In reality, this character is merely the result of superimposed grids of exclusion.
The gesture that proscribed was as abrupt as the one that had isolated the lepers, and in both cases, the meaning of the gesture should not be mistaken for its effect. Lepers were not excluded to prevent contagion, any more than in 1657, 1 per cent of the population of Paris was confined merely to deliver the city from the 'asocial'. The gesture had a different dimension: it did not isolate strangers who had previously remained invisible, who until then had been ignored by force of habit. It altered the familiar cityscape by giving them new faces, strange, bizarre silhouettes that nobody recognised. Strangers were found in places where their presence had never previously been suspected: the process punctured the fabric of society, and undid the familiar. Through this gesture, something inside man was placed outside of himself, and pushed over the edge of our horizon. It is the gesture of confinement, in short, which created alienation.
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

If you think GrapheneOS isn’t private and secure, check out this comparison chart covering GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, IodéOS, /e/os, LineageOS, and Stock Android.
https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm
It shows how much more GrapheneOS focuses on security and privac…

Discovering Laura Valborg Aulin: A Composer of Swedish Romanticism https://ourmindonmusic.wordpress.com/2025/08/05/discovering-laura-valborg-aulin-a-composer-of-swedish-romanticism/

Discovering Laura Valborg Aulin: A Composer of Swedish Romanticism
Explore the music and legacy of Swedish Romantic composer Laura Valborg Aulin in this blog post, which introduces her expressive string quartets and invites readers to discover one of classical mus…

Testing for Renamability to Classes of Clause Sets
Albert Brandl, Christian G. Ferm\"uller, Gernot Salzer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05044 https://

Testing for Renamability to Classes of Clause Sets
This paper investigates the problem of testing clause sets for membership in classes known from literature. In particular, we are interested in classes defined via renaming: Is it possible to rename the predicates in a way such that positive and negative literals satisfy certain conditions? We show that for classes like Horn or OCC1N, the existence of such renamings can be decided in polynomial time, whereas the same problem is NP-complete for class PVD. The decision procedures are based on hyp…

Here's a bonus image to make up for the slow days: one of those purple coneflowers which is quickly disappearing from the landscape as fall closes in on us
#photo #photography #flowers

Conformal Prediction for Long-Tailed Classification
Tiffany Ding, Jean-Baptiste Fermanian, Joseph Salmon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06867 https://

Conformal Prediction for Long-Tailed Classification
Many real-world classification problems, such as plant identification, have extremely long-tailed class distributions. In order for prediction sets to be useful in such settings, they should (i) provide good class-conditional coverage, ensuring that rare classes are not systematically omitted from the prediction sets, and (ii) be a reasonable size, allowing users to easily verify candidate labels. Unfortunately, existing conformal prediction methods, when applied to the long-tailed setting, for…

ProvideQ: A Quantum Optimization Toolbox
Domenik Eichhorn, Nick Poser, Maximilian Schweikart, Ina Schaefer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07649 https://…

ProvideQ: A Quantum Optimization Toolbox
Hybrid solvers for combinatorial optimization problems combine the advantages of classical and quantum computing to overcome difficult computational challenges. Although their theoretical performance seems promising, their practical applicability is challenging due to the lack of a technological stack that can seamlessly integrate quantum solutions with existing classical optimization frameworks. We tackle this challenge by introducing the ProvideQ toolbox, a software tool that enables users to…