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Urban Solitude III 🈳
城市孤独 III 🈳
📷 Pentax MX
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buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
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Long; central Massachusetts colonial history
Today on a whim I visited a site in Massachusetts marked as "Huguenot Fort Ruins" on OpenStreetMaps. I drove out with my 4-year-old through increasingly rural central Massachusetts forests & fields to end up on a narrow street near the top of a hill beside a small field. The neighboring houses had huge lawns, some with tractors.
Appropriately for this day and this moment in history, the history of the site turns out to be a microcosm of America. Across the field beyond a cross-shaped stone memorial stood an info board with a few diagrams and some text. The text of the main sign (including typos/misspellings) read:
"""
Town Is Formed
Early in the 1680's, interest began to generate to develop a town in the area west of Natick in the south central part of the Commonwealth that would be suitable for a settlement. A Mr. Hugh Campbell, a Scotch merchant of Boston petitioned the court for land for a colony. At about the same time, Joseph Dudley and William Stoughton also were desirous of obtaining land for a settlement. A claim was made for all lands west of the Blackstone River to the southern land of Massachusetts to a point northerly of the Springfield Road then running southwesterly until it joined the southern line of Massachusetts.
Associated with Dudley and Stoughton was Robert Thompson of London, England, Dr. Daniel Cox and John Blackwell, both of London and Thomas Freak of Hannington, Wiltshire, as proprietors. A stipulation in the acquisition of this land being that within four years thirty families and an orthodox minister settle in the area. An extension of this stipulation was granted at the end of the four years when no group large enough seemed to be willing to take up the opportunity.
In 1686, Robert Thompson met Gabriel Bernor and learned that he was seeking an area where his countrymen, who had fled their native France because of the Edict of Nantes, were desirous of a place to live. Their main concern was to settle in a place that would allow them freedom of worship. New Oxford, as it was the so-named, at that time included the larger part of Charlton, one-fourth of Auburn, one-fifth of Dudley and several square miles of the northeast portion of Southbridge as well as the easterly ares now known as Webster.
Joseph Dudley's assessment that the area was capable of a good settlement probably was based on the idea of the meadows already established along with the plains, ponds, brooks and rivers. Meadows were a necessity as they provided hay for animal feed and other uses by the settlers. The French River tributary books and streams provided a good source for fishing and hunting. There were open areas on the plains as customarily in November of each year, the Indians burnt over areas to keep them free of underwood and brush. It appeared then that this area was ready for settling.
The first seventy-five years of the settling of the Town of Oxford originally known as Manchaug, embraced three different cultures. The Indians were known to be here about 1656 when the Missionary, John Eliott and his partner Daniel Gookin visited in the praying towns. Thirty years later, in 1686, the Huguenots walked here from Boston under the guidance of their leader Isaac Bertrand DuTuffeau. The Huguenot's that arrived were not peasants, but were acknowledged to be the best Agriculturist, Wine Growers, Merchant's, and Manufacter's in France. There were 30 families consisting of 52 people. At the time of their first departure (10 years), due to Indian insurrection, there were 80 people in the group, and near their Meetinghouse/Church was a Cemetery that held 20 bodies. In 1699, 8 to 10 familie's made a second attempt to re-settle, failing after only four years, with the village being completely abandoned in 1704.
The English colonist made their way here in 1713 and established what has become a permanent settlement.
"""
All that was left of the fort was a crumbling stone wall that would have been the base of a higher wooden wall according to a picture of a model (I didn't think to get a shot of that myself). Only trees and brush remain where the multi-story main wooden building was.
This story has so many echoes in the present:
- The rich colonialists from Boston & London agree to settle the land, buying/taking land "rights" from the colonial British court that claimed jurisdiction without actually having control of the land. Whether the sponsors ever actually visited the land themselves I don't know. They surely profited somehow, whether from selling on the land rights later or collecting taxes/rent or whatever, by they needed poor laborers to actually do the work of developing the land (& driving out the original inhabitants, who had no say in the machinations of the Boston court).
- The land deal was on condition that there capital-holders who stood to profit would find settlers to actually do the work of colonizing. The British crown wanted more territory to be controlled in practice not just in theory, but they weren't going to be the ones to do the hard work.
- The capital-holders actually failed to find enough poor suckers to do their dirty work for 4 years, until the Huguenots, fleeing religious persecution in France, were desperate enough to accept their terms.
- Of course, the land was only so ripe for settlement because of careful tending over centuries by the natives who were eventually driven off, and whose land management practices are abandoned today. Given the mention of praying towns (& dates), this was after King Phillip's war, which resulted in at least some forced resettlement of native tribes around the area, but the descendants of those "Indians" mentioned in this sign are still around. For example, this is the site of one local band of Nipmuck, whose namesake lake is about 5 miles south of the fort site: #LandBack.

Commuting day today. Walking to the train station.
#goodmorning #tgif

I finally got rid of the old bed I’d kept since moving in, so the room feels pretty empty right now.
I’m in the process of reorganizing everything and plan to turn this space into my own anarchist sanctuary.
Soon, I’ll add a bookshelf and more anarchist art to the wall, right next to the communist hammer and sickle symbol.
#Declutter

Oil exploration in the Congo basin rainforest could be a disaster for nature and the climate https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/07/opening-up-the-congo-basin-rainforest-could-be-a-disaster-for-na…

Many people do not understand how cooked the German “left” is.

#silentSunday #RockyMountainNationalPark
#sunrise in Moraine Park. October 2015

what a day what a night ...ends at 8pm or 10 ;-)

Rams LB Jared Verse thinks he left 'around 10 sacks on the field' in rookie year: 'That's not happening no more' https://www.nfl.com/news/rams-lb-jared-verse-thinks-he-left-around-10-sacks-on-the-field-in-rookie…

The Difference between the Left and Right Invariant Extended Kalman Filter
Yixiao Ge, Giulio Delama, Martin Scheiber, Alessandro Fornasier, Pieter van Goor, Stephan Weiss, Robert Mahony
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04568

The Difference between the Left and Right Invariant Extended Kalman Filter
The extended Kalman filter (EKF) has been the industry standard for state estimation problems over the past sixty years. The Invariant Extended Kalman Filter (IEKF) is a recent development of the EKF for the class of group-affine systems on Lie groups that has shown superior performance for inertial navigation problems. The IEKF comes in two versions, left- and right- handed respectively, and there is a perception in the robotics community that these filters are different and one should choose …

Series B, Episode 07 - Killer
AVON: We'll find a way. Come on. [They set off towards dome.]
[Liberator's control room.]
CALLY: [Entering] They're down.
JENNA: What?
CALLY: Avon and Vila, they're a mile from the Q-Base.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/207/8 …

#NES progress update: the NESessity v1.4 power/AV board with NESRGB support is finished, got everything soldered and it's ready to go. Still waiting some other parts to come in including the actual NESRGB. The ports from left to right: S-Video, RGB, 12V DC, stereo audio, and composite video. The long 8-pin header is where the some of the outputs of the NESRGB connect to the video outputs o…

Malísima – The Art of Slowly Being The Only One Left
https://www.clongclongmoo.org/2025/06/06/malisima-the-art-of-slowly-being-the-only-one-left/

I really really love Reykjavík #iceland

From @… - False UFO stories created by military... sometimes intentionally terrorizing their own soldiers https://n…

How False UFO Stories Were Created - Sometimes Deliberately - by the US Military - Slashdot
Last year's Pentagon report reviewing UFO reports "left out the truth behind some of the foundational myths about UFOs," reports the Wall Street Journal. "The Pentagon itself sometimes deliberately fanned the flames, in what amounted to the U.S. government targeting its own citizens with disinforma...

Making my way back to the base camp after Forest Frolic 2025 in the James Kennedy State Forest through a mostly flat and ferny forest
#photo #photography #forests

We have booked a stay in a self-catering cottage in Gloucestershire for a week over the summer. We've just been sent the welcome pack and it reads a little bit like solving an old school adventure game.
There is a keysafe at the cottage - located on the left pillar of the porch when you walk up the path. The key safe code is XXXX.
Use the small key in here to open the wooden box on your left as you walk in to the porch. Inside that you will find a large key which is for the main door.
Please make sure you leave this key in the wooden box on your departure as this is the only key to the property.

The need for a unifying left Alternative Economic Strategy,
#AES.
Look, here's a start we made on it last year.
https://gettingreal.org.uk/full-report/ in case you STILL hav…

Full Report | Getting Real about the Crises Facing the UK
Read the full report The pdf version will open in your browser or pdf reader. Or Download the print version Complete wit

The U.S. Army is being ordered to terrorize the American people.
https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3ltfvcmozn22o

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
Military documents confirm that the LA operation today was a “show of presence” intended to send a message to LA residents about the power of the federal government. After staging with armed soldiers and Border Patrol agents on horse, they packed up and left after a short walk. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

In iOS 26 beta 3, Apple dials back the degree of translucency in many UI elements, following user complaints about Liquid Glass (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/ios-26-beta-3-dials-back-liquid-glass/

iOS 26 beta 3 dials back Liquid Glass | TechCrunch
The early version in the first developer beta of iOS 26 and the accompanying updates for Apple's other devices still left room for improvement in terms of usability, accessibility, and legibility.

The text I have conveys the •meaning• of the diagram, and it’s better than nothing:
❝Three different trees showing possible interpretations of 1000 - 100 - 10 - 1. In the first tree, subtraction happens from left to right. In the second tree, it happens from right to left. In the third tree, we first compute 1000 minus 100, then 10 minus 1, then subtract those two results.❞
That’s probably the best I can do in the current format. But if there were a way to make convey more of the spatial sense, I’d do it!

I normally don't use ChatGPT, but I asked him to generate a poster for the "Alien v Predator II" movie I posted about recently. Here is the prompt:
"Dear CharGPT, could you please create a fake movie poster for me?
At the top, the movie title "Alien v. Predator"
In the middle, at left the head of Elon Musk in profile, facing right, grimacing, with bared fangs, drooling. 🧵‍>

going through my months-old screenshots and this motherfucker is a recurring pattern

Financial Times editorial: ”European states must show Israel that its actions bear consequences. They should ban trade with settlements and sanction extremist settler entities. They should halve offensive weapons sales to Israel and sanction ultranationalists in the government …
Finally, they should lead the way in formally recognising a Palestinian state, before there is nothing left to recognise.” #Gaza

Israel is destroying the foundations of a Palestinian state
The Netanyahu government must be held to account over Gaza and the West Bank

What a trip down memory lane tonight watching the first two parts of #liveaidat40 It was part nostalgia but also part education as the politics washed over me at the time. I was 13/14, and if Simon le Bon was on screen all other thoughts left the room. I find it fascinating now watching docus about the 80s and understanding the background to the happy, if sheltered, life I led.

This is the Rock House on the Obey River at Camp Country Lad in Tennessee. I learned some courage there as a boy, getting up the nerve to jump off the Big Rock on the left.

Wouldn't it be cool it around the USA, and around the world, at 7pm Eastern US time, on this coming June 14, that everyone everywhere does a synchronized mass Braveheart mooning of FFOTUS while wearing underwear emblazoned with "TA" on the left side and "CO" on the right?
Hey, if Improve Anywhere can organize pant-less subway events around the world, we ought to be able to do this.
Example:

At first it looked like--defiant Martyr-to-Nazis--Bonhoeffer's left arm (in the X-tian 2 arm cross) was a brotherhood fist, and the right was flipping off the Nazis. The statue is right outside St. Peter's Church in Hamburg, though, so no. His right hand is giving a Jesus-style blessing. https://bne.so…

NBC News Story
How a Harvard initiative studying the Israeli-Palestinian conflict collapsed “Nobody came to our defense,” said Hussein Rashid, the program’s former assistant dean, who resigned from his post in January and left at the end of June. “Our students were fantastic — our administrators were cowards.”…The next day, Rashid sent his own scathing resignation letter, accusing Harvard of failing to intervene on behalf of the program against what he viewed as months…

Hussein RashidNBC News Story
How a Harvard initiative studying the Israeli-Palestinian conflict collapsed “Nobody came to our defense,” said Hussein Rashid, the program’s former assistant dean, who resigned from his post in Ja…

On the exceptional set in the $abc$ conjecture
Runbo Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02885 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.02885

On the exceptional set in the $abc$ conjecture
The $abc$ conjecture states that there are only finitely many triples of coprime positive integers $(a,b,c)$ such that $a+b=c$ and $\operatorname{rad}(abc) < c^{1-ε}$ for any $ε> 0$. Using the optimized methods in a recent work of Browning, Lichtman and Teräväinen, we showed that the number of those triples with $c \leqslant X$ is $O\left(X^{56/85+\varepsilon}\right)$ for any $\varepsilon > 0$, where $\frac{56}{85} \approx 0.658824$. This constitutes an improvement of the previous bound $O\…

lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Timestamps

I'm fortunate to have an office at work with a door that closes.
I'm also fortunate to be mostly left alone for much of the day. Few people come and knock on my door, which I keep closed because the two across the hall are _constantly_ on the phone or zoom meeting.
But I guarantee within 20 seconds of me farting, especially if its really bad, THAT's when someone knocks.

How some news organizations are using AI models powered by retrieval-augmented generation to surface the most newsworthy elements from very large datasets (Josh Axelrod/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/the-good

The good, the bad, and the completely made-up: Newsrooms on wrestling accurate answers out of AI
"If we sit on the sideline and observe, I think the risk is too high that we are gonna be left behind."

Bounds for spectral projectors on the three-dimensional torus
Pierre Germain, Simon L. Rydin Myerson, Daniel Pezzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05573 https://

Bounds for spectral projectors on the three-dimensional torus
We study $L^2$ to $L^p$ operator norms of spectral projectors for the Euclidean Laplacian on the torus in the case where the spectral window is narrow. With a window of constant size this is a classical result of Sogge; in the small-window limit we are left with $L^p$ norms of eigenfunctions of the Laplacian, as considered for instance by Bourgain. For the three-dimensional torus we prove new cases of a previous conjecture of the first two authors concerning the size of these norms; we also ref…

Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
BERSHAR: We do not come to the surface any more than we have to. The air is not very pleasant.
TARRANT: I've noticed. [Troopers come out of hiding, guns drawn.]
DAYNA: [Looks as Bershar] You?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/303/316 B7B4…

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

UMaine has published a profile of my lab's efforts to harness new media for environmental causes, from my colleague Joline Blais's efforts to keep Maine's lakes healthy to the What Uses More tool for comparing AI's eco footprint to other activities. https://u…

#PhDCongratulations! Ziwen Huang of the #IMPRS “Solar System School” has successfully defended her PhD thesis “Investigating small-scale dynamics: Analysis and Interpretation of Solar Orbiter observations” at @…

If this was tech, all the thought leaders in the astronomy field would write articles like “aliens are inevitable” and “if you don’t believe in aliens you will be left behind”.
https://sites.psu.edu/astrowright/2025/08/06/more-avi-and-3i-atlas/

Bursting at the seams: the star-forming main sequence and its scatter at z=3-9 using NIRCam photometry from JADES
C. Simmonds, S. Tacchella, W. McClymont, E. Curtis-Lake, F. D'Eugenio, K. Hainline, B. D. Johnson, A. Kravtsov, D. Pusk\'as, B. Robertson, A. Stoffers, C. Willott, W. M. Baker, V. A. Belokurov, R. Bhatawdekar, A. J. Bunker, S. Carniani, J. Chevallard, M. Curti, Q. Duan, J. M. Helton, Z. Ji, T. J. Looser, R. Maiolino, M. V. Maseda, I. Shivaei, C. C. Williams

Bursting at the seams: the star-forming main sequence and its scatter at z=3-9 using NIRCam photometry from JADES
We present a comprehensive study of the star-forming main sequence (SFMS) and its scatter at redshifts $3 \leq z \leq 9$, using NIRCam photometry from the JADES survey in the GOODS-S and GOODS-N fields. Our analysis is based on a sample of galaxies that is stellar mass complete down to $\log \left(M_{\star}/M_{\odot}\right) \approx 8.1$. The redshift evolution of the SFMS at an averaging timescale of 10 Myr follows a relation, quantified by the specific star-formation rates (sSFR$_{10}$), of $\…

Spelling reform gone awry. #English
The radical 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet – and left thousands of children unable to spell | Education | The Guardian

Until today, I had never, in my life, felt the urgent need to use an electrical fan at home. The cat is not happy. I was not happy to go out in the middle of the morning and buy one. I just hope in 10 years I won't need a space suit to walk outside.

Cowboys TE Jake Ferguson leaves practice after being hit in the back https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/cowboys-te-jake-ferguson-leaves-practice-after-being-hit-in-the-back

Baby's first unun!
My #AmateurRadio journey continues with making some of my own equipment...
I wanted to be able to connect either an EFHW or an EFRW to my KX3, but move the actual antenna away from the radio, so that I can POTA with other people close enough to talk, while keeping the antennas for the different out of each others' near field so they don't interere. To …

Go on, lean on me... A wallupine? Porcuwall?

Go on, lean on me... A wallupine? Porcuwall?

Functional and structural plasticity induced by audiovisual associations and sensory experiences https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00429-025-02951-3 "widespread increases in functional connectivity between the trained region and higher-order frontal…

Functional and structural plasticity induced by audiovisual associations and sensory experiences - Brain Structure and Function
Crossmodal associations and correspondences play important roles in shaping perception and guiding our actions. However, we still have a limited understanding of association-induced changes in the adult human brain. An important question to address is to what extent passive exposure to crossmodal associations leads to functional and structural changes in the brain. Utilizing an audiovisual association paradigm in which motion stimuli presented in the left visual field were paired with auditory …

DOJ Has Lost So Many Lawyers It Might Not Have Enough Left To Help Trump Destroy America - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/08/doj-has-lost-so-many-lawyers-it-might-not-have-enough-left-to-help-trump-destroy-america/

Sonnet 113 - CXIII
Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind;
And that which governs me to go about
Doth part his function and is partly blind,
Seems seeing, but effectually is out;
For it no form delivers to the heart
Of bird, of flower, or shape which it doth latch:
Of his quick objects hath the mind no part,
Nor his own vision holds what it doth catch;
For if it see the rud'st or gentlest sight,
The most sweet favour or deform…

My JS Krups is resisting netbooting. I see it doing a DHCP discover, and I see Kea responding with an offer, but then it just sends another Discover. Hmph. I can get to the serial console and doing boot net from there doesn't help; none of the keyboard shortcuts for network diag etc seem to work (except the one that displays the help for it...). So I took the flash SIM out and now it boots to Net rather than flash by default; alas with the same DHCP behaviour. Time to try isc-dhcp.…

ESWC 2025 has just started with the presentation of the submission numbers to the individual tracks:
research track: 98 papers
resource track: 36 papers
in-use track: 22 papers
Looking forward to great presentations and discussions!
#eswc2025 #semweb

There was once a machine that told you "you want this" and "this is good." It said, "there can be no better system and it's foolish to try to build one." That machine has long since failed to function. Now you choke on fumes as it is consumed by the wild flames of an abandoned cause.
That machine could not possibly work anymore because the evidence of it's falsehood has become too overwhelming.
No, only abject terror now can keep you from plotting your escape, from creating an alternative. No, the illusion has long since broken. All that's left now is triggering fight, flight, freeze as hard as possible. Most will be paralyzed, and those who fight can be used as an excuse to escalate the terror.
These are the final stages of a dying sun, expanding and consuming it's children before the final supernova.
There is no longer a stable system, no longer a system with a future. All that remains is the spectacle that hopes to distract you long enough that you too can be consumed, that it may sustain itself a few moments longer.

Happy #PrideMonth! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
I’m just too fabulously queer and genderfluid to function like anyone expects. My identity is a whole spectrum, shifting and sparkling with every color and every gender. 🌈✨
Some days I’m femme, some days I’m masc, and some days I’m something totally unique and undefined. 💖💙🤍
My

The Bilinear Hilbert-Carleson operator along curves. The purely non-zero curvature case
\'Arp\'ad B\'enyi, Bingyang Hu, Victor Lie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04467

The Bilinear Hilbert-Carleson operator along curves. The purely non-zero curvature case
In this paper, we provide the maximal boundedness range (up to end-points) for the Bilinear Hilbert-Carleson operator along curves in the (purely) non-zero curvature setting. More precisely, we show that the operator $$ BHC_{[\vec{a},\vecα]}(f_1,f_2)(x) := \sup_{λ\in\mathbb{R}} \left|\,p.v.\, \int_{\mathbb{R}} f_1(x - a_1 t^{α_1}) \,f_2(x - a_2 t^{α_2}) \,e^{i\,λ\,a_3 \,t^{α_3}} \,\frac{dt}{t}\right|$$ obeys the bounds $$\|BHC_{[\vec{a},\vecα]} (f_1,f_2)\|_{L^r} \less…

A monomial basis for the holomorphic functions on certain Banach spaces
Thiago Grando, Mary Lilian Louren\c{c}o
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05138 https://…

A monomial basis for the holomorphic functions on certain Banach spaces
In this article, we prove that the monomials form a basis for the space of holomorphic functions $(\mathcal{H}(Z), τ_0)$, where $Z$ denotes either the space $c_0\left(\bigoplus^\infty_{i=1}\ell^i_p \right)$ for some $p\in [1, \infty)$, or the space $d_*(w,1)$, which is the predual of the Lorentz sequence space $d(w,1)$. To achieve this, we first define a fundamental system of compact subsets in $Z$, and, based on this characterization, construct a family of seminorms that generate the topology…

”From the ground, Zaydan saw his mother start to stand up, before a sniper bullet felled her with a shot to the head. ’Because I’m young, I got scared and left my mother,’ he said. ’I ran away.’
Zaydan is one of eight Palestinians who spoke to the Financial Times about their attempt to reach the #Gaza Humanitarian Foundation site in western Rafah over the past week. Their twilight journeys thronge…

How Gaza’s food queues turned into kill zones
Dozens of Palestinians have been shot dead trying to reach a US and Israeli-backed aid distribution scheme

I had this idea for a Cairn lifepath generator where there are three stages of life and you roll 1d6 for your stats at each stage, and also get appropriate items.
It has not been playtested, it's barely been proofread, but I've been having a lot of fun generating guys
perchance.org/lt8m69fg35
#ttrpg #CairnRpg

There are only two commissioners left at the FCC (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/681638/fcc-quorum-starks-simington-departure-brendan-carr
http://www.memeorandum.com/250607/p8#a250607p8

There was no cake left in the rain, just a sunny day gone dark as #Drumpf military men mount horseback, don facemasks and occupy #MacArthurPark for show of force, irking #LA mayor

Federal Agents March Through L.A. Park, Spurring Local Outrage
Federal officials said it was an immigration enforcement operation, though it was unclear if anyone had been arrested. “It’s the way a city looks before a coup,” Mayor Karen Bass said as she condemned the action.

Parallel spin wave for the Villain model
Paul Dario, Wei Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04098 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.04098

Parallel spin wave for the Villain model
In this paper, we study the Villain model in $\mathbb{Z}^d$ in dimension $d\geq 3$. It is conjectured, that the parallel correlation function in the infinite volume Gibbs state, i.e., the map $$ x \mapsto \langle \cosθ(0) \cosθ(x) \rangle_{μ_{\mathrm{Vil}, β}} -\left( \langle \cosθ(0) \rangle_{μ_{\mathrm{Vil}, β}} \right)^2, $$ decays like $|x|^{-2(d-2)}$ as $|x| \to \infty$ at low temperature. The results of Bricmont, Fontaine, Lebowitz, Lieb, and Spencer (19…

Natura Urbana XII 🏡
城市自然 XII 🏡
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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Ballistic Transport for Discrete Multi-Dimensional Schr\"odinger Operators With Decaying Potential
David Damanik (Rice University), Zhiyan Zhao (Universit\'e C\^ote d'Azur)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04988

Ballistic Transport for Discrete Multi-Dimensional Schrödinger Operators With Decaying Potential
We consider the discrete Schrödinger operator $H = -Δ+ V$ on $\ell^2(\mathbb{Z}^d)$ with a decaying potential, in arbitrary lattice dimension $d\in\mathbb{N}^*$, where $Δ$ is the standard discrete Laplacian and $V_n = o(|n|^{-1})$ as $|n| \to \infty$. We prove that the unitary evolution $e^{-i tH}$ exhibits ballistic transport in the sense that, for any $r > 0$, the weighted $\ell^2-$norm $$\|e^{-i tH}u\|_r:=\left(\sum_{n\in\mathbb{Z}^d} (1+|n|^2)^{r} …

"Breaching the target would ramp up the extreme weather already devastating communities around the world. It would also require carbon dioxide to be sucked from the atmosphere in future to restore the stable climate in which the whole of civilisation developed over the past 10,000 years."
This is bogus. Carbon-neutral #CarbonCaptureAndStorage is the modern perpetual…

A spectral condition for Hamilton cycles in tough bipartite graphs
Lianyang Ai, Wenqian Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03778 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.0…

A spectral condition for Hamilton cycles in tough bipartite graphs
Let $G$ be a graph. The {\em spectral radius} of $G$ is the largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. For a non-complete bipartite graph $G$ with parts $X$ and $Y$, the {\em bipartite toughness} of $G$ is defined as $t^{B}(G)=\min\left\{\frac{|S|}{c(G-S)}\right\}$, where the minimum is taken over all proper subsets $S\subset X$ (or $S\subset Y$) such that $c(G-S)>1$. In this paper, we give a sharp spectral radius condition for balanced bipartite graphs $G$ with $t^{B}(G)\geq1$ to gu…

Game-Theoretic Modeling of Vehicle Unprotected Left Turns Considering Drivers' Bounded Rationality
Yuansheng Lian, Ke Zhang, Meng Li, Shen Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03002 …

Game-Theoretic Modeling of Vehicle Unprotected Left Turns Considering Drivers' Bounded Rationality
Modeling the decision-making behavior of vehicles presents unique challenges, particularly during unprotected left turns at intersections, where the uncertainty of human drivers is especially pronounced. In this context, connected autonomous vehicle (CAV) technology emerges as a promising avenue for effectively managing such interactions while ensuring safety and efficiency. Traditional approaches, often grounded in game theory assumptions of perfect rationality, may inadequately capture the co…

Brian Baldinger breaks down Grey Zabel's film from preseason Week 1 https://seahawkswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/seahawks/2025/08/08/seahawks-rookie-left-guard-gre…

Photo of the Day.
Israel threatened reprisals if the press filmed Gaza from above during airdrops.
This is why. A scene of destroyed & burnt out buildings in what is left of Gaza City, the pre-war home to 800,000 people.
Credit to Post photographer Heidi Levine who defied the ban & took this.
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Photo of the Day. Israel threatened reprisals if the press filmed Gaza from above during airdrops. This is why. A scene of destroyed & burnt out buildings in what is left of Gaza City, the pre-war home to 800,000 people. Credit to Post photographer Heidi Levine who defied the ban & took this.

#SelwicksBayGorse

Group of three runners in heavy rain at the Forest Frolic in James Kennedy State Forest -- this was on a plateau at the top of a very steep hill
#running #sports #photo

Welcome to Italian Day on The Drive 2025
#CommercialDrive #vancouver

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This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
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NBC News Story
How a Harvard initiative studying the Israeli-Palestinian conflict collapsed
“Nobody came to our defense,” said Hussein Rashid, the program’s former assistant dean, who resigned from his post in January and left at the end of June. “Our students were fantastic — our administrators were cowards.”…The next day, Rashid sent his own scathin

Hussein RashidNBC News Story
How a Harvard initiative studying the Israeli-Palestinian conflict collapsed “Nobody came to our defense,” said Hussein Rashid, the program’s former assistant dean, who resigned from his post in Ja…

Series B, Episode 07 - Killer
JENNA: A missile?
BLAKE: No, it can't be. They can't have spotted Liberator. We've got the blind down. [launch appears on screen]
JENNA: There it is, look, just leaving the ionosphere.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/207/33 B7B6…

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Someday, I want to erase everything and vanish offline, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
I’m sick of being trapped in this endless cycle of digital puppetry and mental sludge, where every click feeds some shallow algorithm designed to keep you hooked and dumbed down, turning people into another batch of screen-zombies chasing cheap hits and empty dopamine hits.
I want out of this rat race of constant noise and manufactured crises, where reality is warped into a carnival…

Vacation officially started with a cup of ice cream 😊
#vacation #bayern

The IRS open sourced much of its incredibly popular Direct File software as the future of the free tax filing program is at risk of being killed by Intuit’s lobbyists and Donald Trump’s megabill.
Meanwhile, several top developers who worked on the software have left the government and joined a project to explore the “future of tax filing” in the private sector

The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced
Direct File has been open sourced, and its creators have left government to continue working on the "future of tax filing."

ICE seems to have become the chosen employer of Proud Boyz and the rest of the wannabe SS groups.
"Where Have the Proud Boys Gone?"
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/proud-boys-militia-groups-t…

Where Have the Proud Boys Gone?
The Trump administration has left them with little to do.

A 15 second exposure of my field around sunset with the camera resting on a bucket trying to capture the fireflies. I'm going to try again when its darker; I guess it counts as #sliceoflife
#photo #photography

Super sunset at the end of a lovely evening with fun people. (Shot at 10:45 pm)

First detection of circular polarization in 4.7 GHz excited OH masers
Derck P Smits, Paul Fallon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05450 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

First detection of circular polarization in 4.7 GHz excited OH masers
We report the first detection of circular polarization in 4.7 GHz excited OH masers in star-forming regions made using full Stokes measurements with the Green Bank 100m telescope. The Zeeman shift between the two circular components provides a measure of the magnetic field pervading these maser spots. Three different methods are used to determine the shift in velocity between the Right Circular Polarization and Left Circular Polarization components. We find fields with $B \sim 100$ mG using arc…

You see how this works? Shake the jar and make them fight. Flood their zone with resentment and distrust.
We’ve got to figure out how to do this. People are somehow too high-minded for it, maybe? We need to get over that. The right has been doing it against the left for years; it’s time to do the same.
/end

Early preseason takeaways as Burrow impresses, Chargers lose star left tackle https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6542780/2025/08/08/nfl-preseason-week-1-takeaways-bengals-chargers-scoop-city/

Irregular double-phase evolution problem: existence and global regularity
Rakesh Arora, Sergey Shmarev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04924 https://

Irregular double-phase evolution problem: existence and global regularity
We investigate the homogeneous Dirichlet problem for the irregular double-phase evolution equation \[ u_t-\operatorname{div} \left( a(z)|\nabla u|^{p(z)-2} \nabla u + b(z)|\nabla u|^{q(z)-2} \nabla u\right)=f(z),\quad z=(x,t)\in Q_T:=Ω\times (0,T), \] where $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^N$, $N \geq 2$ is a bounded domain, $T>0$, The non-differentiable coefficients $a(z)$, $b(z)$, the free term $f$, and the variable exponents $p$, $q$ are given functions. The coefficients $a$ and …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09833 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_…

Learning Rock Pushability on Rough Planetary Terrain
In the context of mobile navigation in unstructured environments, the predominant approach entails the avoidance of obstacles. The prevailing path planning algorithms are contingent upon deviating from the intended path for an indefinite duration and returning to the closest point on the route after the obstacle is left behind spatially. However, avoiding an obstacle on a path that will be used repeatedly by multiple agents can hinder long-term efficiency and lead to a lasting reliance on an ac…

One sided orthogonal polynomials and a pointwise convergence result for $SU(2)$-valued nonlinear Fourier series
Michel Alexis, Gevorg Mnatsakanyan, Christoph Thiele
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05124

One sided orthogonal polynomials and a pointwise convergence result for $SU(2)$-valued nonlinear Fourier series
We elaborate on a connection between the $SU(2)$-valued nonlinear Fourier series and sequences of left and right orthogonal polynomials for complex measures on the unit circle. We show a convergence result for the associated reproducing kernel. This is a universality type result in the vein of Mate-Nevai-Totik, which turns out to be much simpler in the $SU(2)$ case than in the $SU(1,1)$ case. We then relate a.e. pointwise convergence of the product of left and right polynomials and their square…

I see you good sir...
#brilliantcrank #textism

Yesterday I finally wrote the blog post for the bike and hike recently.
For me it was pretty tough as it was constant incline of around 1000m over around 12km with just one short exception.
The view here is from the summit down to the "plain" where we left the bikes for the final climb.
The blog: https://w…

City Snaps - Chengdu / Freeze Frame II ⌛️
城市抓拍 - 成都 / 静帧 II ⌛️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford Pan 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
JENNA: Well, maybe that's not related.
CALLY: Well, Jenna, remember there was something else - earlier, in the rest room.
JENNA: Complaining of some sort of noise.
AVON: A sort of tone, he said.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/83

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is threatening to remove Democratic lawmakers from office
for fleeing the state
and claiming they could be charged with crimes,
-- escalating tensions overnight
in a showdown over redrawing congressional lines
ahead of the midterm elections.

Most of the Democrats in the Texas state House exited the state Sunday
— many of whom arrived in Chicago in the evening
— to prevent Republicans from overhauling the state’s map t…

Abbott threatens to try to expel Democrats who fled Texas, escalating tensions
The Texas state House is set to reconvene at 3 p.m. CT Monday. Democrats have left the state to try to stop Republicans from moving ahead with enacting a new congressional map that would give the GOP five more safe seats.

ICE in MacArthur park in LA.
ICE has become the new Gestapo Stasi SS. They even wear brown clothing (at least when they are uniform.)
It is a serious situation - our government has gone mad. And our Constitutional "separation of powers" has failed.
But to add a bit of humor - perhaps inappropriate - one might wonder about that cake that was left out in the rain in MacArthur park.

A Novel Schwartz Space for the $\left(k,\frac{2}{n}\right)-$Generalized Fourier Transform
Nelson Faustino, Selma Negzaoui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04064 …

A Novel Schwartz Space for the $\left(k,\frac{2}{n}\right)-$Generalized Fourier Transform
In this study, we introduce the generalized Schwartz space $\mathcal{S}_{k,n}(\mathbb{R})$, designed specifically for the $\left(k,\frac{2}{n}\right)-$generalized Fourier transform $\mathcal{F}_{k,n}:=\mathcal{F}_{k,\frac{2}{n}}$. We establish that $\mathcal{S}_{k,n}(\mathbb{R})$ is invariant under $\mathcal{F}_{k,n}$ and explore its principal properties in detail. Furthermore, by defining the subspace $\mathcal{D}_{k,n}(\mathbb{R})$, consisting of functions with bounded support, we show that t…

The Time Someone Plagiarized Calvin & Hobbes and Nobody Noticed or Cared
#comics

Urban Snaps 📸
城市抓拍 📸
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Fujifilm Neopan SS, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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The first blackberries I noticed this season at the edge of the field by the Belle Sherman Elementary School
#berries #photo #photography

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 02 - Power
VILA: A sort of academy, when I was a boy. They chose me as technical advisor for the escape.
PELLA: Escape? From an academy?
VILA: Perhaps academy was the wrong word.
https://

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