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To dig slightly deeper here, I think that there's a feedback loop between "fall in love/wait for your perfect match (and by the way girls the only career you should aspire to is the literally unattainable 'princess'" Disney stuff and this "my characters are complex I'm so sophisticated; they suffer but it's not intolerable and their lives are good enough despite the imperfections" crap that gets praised as so evocative of the human condition. In fact, I think it merely evokes the condition of its authors & fans who were poisoned by the Disney in their youth and who have remained bad as relationships ever since, though this is not exactly their fault. In any case, their white middle-aged wisdom-shaped-but-quite bitter and intricately-constructed-so-it's-hard-to-see-the-really-untrue-character-facets work ends up keeping their audience within the "romance is luck" cult by way of reassuring them that a middling romance with lots of doubt and complications is "just life" even though the author doesn't actually have any broader perspective on what life is than anyone else.
This has turned into a bit of a rant, but I think I'll just add that reading Mama by Nikkya Hargrove just before Dream State helped immensely to see how the distant & awkward parent-child relationships of the latter are not a product of human nature but instead of white western culture & capitalism.
(The defeatism about climate change is a whole nother dimension of wrong about Dream State, by that's a separate rant.)

A Language-Agnostic Logical Relation for Message-Passing Protocols
Tesla Zhang, Sonya Simkin, Rui Li, Yue Yao, Stephanie Balzer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10026

A Language-Agnostic Logical Relation for Message-Passing Protocols
Today's computing landscape has been gradually shifting to applications targeting distributed and *heterogeneous* systems, such as cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. These applications are predominantly *concurrent*, employ *message-passing*, and interface with *foreign objects*, ranging from externally implemented code to actual physical devices such as sensors. Verifying that the resulting systems adhere to the intended protocol of interaction is challenging -- the usu…

Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
DAINER: You drink it first.
[Avon crawls through the service channel. He reaches the hatch leading into the computer room. He quietly opens the hatch, sees the technician, and closes the hatch again. The technician doesn't see this, and continues to check the computer. Avon waits for a bit, and opens the hatch again.]

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This is what moves the Trump effect into the realm of the frightening,
rather than amusing or fascinating.
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$\ast$-$\eta$-Ricci solitons on weak Kenmotsu $f$-manifolds
Vladimir Rovenski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08973 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

$\ast$-$η$-Ricci solitons on weak Kenmotsu $f$-manifolds
Recent interest among geometers in $f$-structures of K. Yano is due to the study of topology and dynamics of contact foliations and generalized A. Weinstein conjectures. Weak metric $f$-structures, introduced by the author and R. Wolak as a generalization of Hermitian structure, as well as $f$-structure allow for a fresh perspective on the classical theory. An important case of such manifolds, which is locally a twisted product, is a weak $βf$-Kenmotsu manifold defined as a generalization of K…

Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
AVON: If I can fire at ground level, the beam radiation should be great enough to cut a narrow channel through the sensor mesh. That would give you eight seconds to get from here to the blockhouse. The mesh would start its repair cycle instantly. Take one step off the channel and you're dead. I know it's a slim chance, but it's the best I can come up with.
BLAKE: Let's try it.

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Preference-based learning for news headline recommendation
Alexandre Bouras, Audrey Durand, Richard Khoury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06334 https://…

Preference-based learning for news headline recommendation
This study explores strategies for optimizing news headline recommendations through preference-based learning. Using real-world data of user interactions with French-language online news posts, we learn a headline recommender agent under a contextual bandit setting. This allows us to explore the impact of translation on engagement predictions, as well as the benefits of different interactive strategies on user engagement during data collection. Our results show that explicit exploration may not…

Hilbert Eisenstein series as Doi-Naganuma lift
Yingkun Li, Mingkuan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01688 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506…

Hilbert Eisenstein series as Doi-Naganuma lift
In this paper, we show that incoherent Hilbert Eisenstein series for a real quadratic fields can be expressed as the Doi-Naganums lift of an incoherent Eisenstein series over $\mathbb{Q}$. As an application, we show when $N$ is odd and square-free, the values at Heegner points of Borcherds product on $X_0(N)^2$ with effective divisors are not integral units when the discriminants are sufficiently large. This generalizes a result of the first author to higher levels. In the process, we explicitl…

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Curvature, macroscopic dimensions, and symmetric products of surfaces
We present a detailed study of the curvature and symplectic asphericity properties of symmetric products of surfaces. We show that these spaces can be used to answer nuanced questions arising in the study of closed Riemannian manifolds with positive scalar curvature. For example, we prove that symmetric products of surfaces sharply distinguish between two distinct notions of macroscopic dimension introduced by Gromov and the second-named author. As a natural generalization of this circle of ide…

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