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Profile of Dominick McGee, a right-wing X influencer who has amassed 1.5M followers and made $157K since 2023 by spending 11 hours daily posting about politics (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/technol

He’s a Master of Outrage on X. The Pay Isn’t Great.
An online creator went from a “nobody” to a conspiratorial sensation on X. What he gets in return is less clear.

Anisotropy effects on heavy quark dynamics in Gribov modified gluon plasma
Sumit, Jai Parkash, Santosh K. Das, Najmul Haque
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01922

Anisotropy effects on heavy quark dynamics in Gribov modified gluon plasma
In the early stages of relativistic heavy-ion collisions, the momentum distribution of the quark-gluon plasma is anisotropic, leading to instabilities in the system due to chromomagnetic plasma modes. In this work, we consider the anisotropic momentum distribution of the medium constituents to investigate its effects on heavy quark dynamics using the nonperturbative Gribov resummation approach within the framework of the Fokker-Planck equation. Specifically, we study the influence of nonperturb…

Investigating Strange Stars in Rastall Theory
Malick Sallah, M. Sharif
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03220 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.03…

Investigating Strange Stars in Rastall Theory
This study explores the structural formation of various spherically symmetric anisotropic stars within the framework of Rastall theory. To achieve this, we derive modified field equations which are then resolved using the Finch-Skea ansatz, which involve unknown parameters $(A_1,A_2,A_3)$. These parameters are found by using appropriate constraints given by the junction conditions, in addition to observational data from some selected stars. The $\mathbb{EOS}$ given by the $\mathbb{MIT}$ bag mod…

Predicting Post-Surgical Complications with Quantum Neural Networks: A Clinical Study on Anastomotic Leak
Vojt\v{e}ch Nov\'ak, Ivan Zelinka, Lenka P\v{r}ibylov\'a, Lubom\'ir Mart\'inek, Vladim\'ir Ben\v{c}urik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01708

Predicting Post-Surgical Complications with Quantum Neural Networks: A Clinical Study on Anastomotic Leak
Quantum computing represents a transformative leap in computational power, with the potential to revolutionize various fields, including healthcare. In this study, we explore the application of quantum machine learning in medical diagnostics, specifically focusing on the prediction of anastomotic leak, a severe post-surgical complication. By comparing quantum neural networks implemented with different ansatz functions to classical classification approaches-including logistic regression, support…

Amnesty Implores Israel to Stop 'Starvation of Civilians as a Method of War' | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/amnesty-israel-starvation

From The Conversation - Canada
What is modern monetary theory? An economist explains how it could help Canada
Few words spark more anxiety in public debate than “national debt” and “government deficit.” National debt is the total amount of money the government owes, accumulated over years of running deficits. Government deficit is when the government spends more money than it collects in taxes and other revenues.

What is modern monetary theory? An economist explains how it could help Canada
A heterodox school of economic thought known as modern monetary theory has significant implications for how Canadians understand public debt and deficit spending.

From the Rose-DuBois Ansatz of Hot Spot Fields to the Instanton Solution: a Pedestrian Presentation
Philippe Mounaix
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22097 https…

From the Rose-DuBois Ansatz of Hot Spot Fields to the Instanton Solution: a Pedestrian Presentation
This paper gives a pedestrian presentation of some technical results recently published in mathematical physics with non-trivial implications for laser-plasma interaction. The aim is to get across the main results without going into the details of the calculations, nor offering a specialist's user guide, but by focusing conceptually on how these results modify the commonly-held description -- in terms of laser hot spot fields -- of backscattering instabilities with a spatially smoothed laser be…

Music interpretation and emotion perception: A computational and neurophysiological investigation
Vassilis Lyberatos, Spyridon Kantarelis, Ioanna Zioga, Christina Anagnostopoulou, Giorgos Stamou, Anastasia Georgaki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01982

Music interpretation and emotion perception: A computational and neurophysiological investigation
This study investigates emotional expression and perception in music performance using computational and neurophysiological methods. The influence of different performance settings, such as repertoire, diatonic modal etudes, and improvisation, as well as levels of expressiveness, on performers' emotional communication and listeners' reactions is explored. Professional musicians performed various tasks, and emotional annotations were provided by both performers and the audience. Audio analysis r…

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"Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads
Anecdotal evidence suggests a rise in requests to take books off shelves, particularly LGBTQ titles"

Planck Law from a Classical Free Energy Extremum Involving Fisher Information
Carlos A. Gomez-Uribe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00586 https://

Planck Law from a Classical Free Energy Extremum Involving Fisher Information
We derive the Planck law from a classical variational principle over probability densities, without invoking quantum states, quantized oscillator energies, or ensemble averages. We construct a generalized free energy functional involving entropy and Fisher information, with weights determined by the dimensionless ratio of quantum to thermal energy. When extremized under a Gaussian ansatz, this functional yields the exact Planck distribution. The only quantum input is a minimal threshold assumpt…