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CAD model of the #tricycle subframe. The chain ring is very nearly as big as the front wheel (80 teeth!). It drives an epicyclic gearbox mounted in the nose of the vehicle, which also has a disc brake. The epicyclic will drive a secondary chain via a sprocket mounted to the left hand spoke flange, but this is not yet shown. There will be no ratchet on the secondary chain, so the disk brake on the…

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."

Navigating the herd.
(There were 170 highland cattle, sometimes just a few inches away... quite a few blocking the path with their calves and feeling agitated so we had to navigate/bypass through the talus fields higher up, giving these beauties more space...)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography

On The Road - To Xi’An ⛅️
在路上 - 去西安 ⛅️
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️Kentmere Pan 200
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

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.

A06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
BLAKE: Lock the door! [Vila slides a bolt just as a guard reaches the door.]
BLAKE: Get down, both of you. [Blake blasts the guard through the door. Blake, Vila and Avon push a cabinet in front of the doorway to block it.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/106/99 B…

Late February in my (first) freshman year and I am literally flunking out of the University of Michigan’s Residential College because I hated it so I set up a cot in some high school friends' dorm room across campus and didn’t attend any classes so why not hitchhike to Boulder and back over the week-long winter break. Here we are with our thumbs out, beginning our trip on State St. in front of the Michigan Union.
People, Nebraska is fucking cold in February.

You can't say Ithaca isn't building housing: here are (left to right) Harolds Square and Asteri looming in the background with murals on the side of the Press Bay Alley retail development
#ithaca #buildings

Wilders wil aandacht en ophef creëren, toch vind ik dat we verontwaardigd moeten blijven over dit soort puur fascistische uitingen.
#politiek #wilders #fascisme

Tweet von Geert Wilders, der eine geteilte Illustration zeigt. Unter dem Bild steht PVV, für seine rechtsextreme Partei und PvdA.
Das sind die Sozialdemokraten (Arbeitspartei)
Der Tweet lautet "Aan U de keuze op 29/10", was übersetzt "Ihre Wahl am 29/10" bedeutet.
Via @…

Rare view of my desk during video editing.
With appropriate beverage vessels.

We biked next to a section of the Menomonee River that has a railway bridge over it and you can see the debris left from the flood back in August. Yes, the river was as high as the bridge!
#mke #milwaukee #water

@samsabin.bsky.social has the scoop on Jen Easterly's new gig. And huge shout out to Huntress.
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-fu

A free two-generated left distributive algebra of elementary embeddings
Andrew D. Brooke-Taylor, Scott Cramer, Sheila K. Miller Edwards
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02244 https://…

A free two-generated left distributive algebra of elementary embeddings
The set-theoretic large cardinal axiom known as I3 posits the existence of a non-trivial rank-to-rank embedding from an initial segment of the universe of sets into itself. Laver showed that the algebra generated by a single such embedding under the operation of application is in fact the free left distributive (LD) algebra on one generator. This and associated theorems using the set-theoretic structure of the embeddings yielded numerous results about general LD algebras under the assumption of…

"Call me naive, but even after the mass pardons, I didn’t expect to see January 6 rioters WORKING IN THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT. Yet here we are. Our tax dollars are paying the salary of Jared Wise, who called for violence against police. He’s now an adviser to Ed Martin (the “no MAGA left behind” guy)!"
https://www.instagram.co…

Liz Oyer on Instagram: "Call me naive, but even after the mass pardons, I didn’t expect to see January 6 rioters WORKING IN THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT. Yet here we are. Our tax dollars are paying the salary of Jared Wise, who called for violence against police. He’s now an adviser to Ed Martin (the “no MAGA left behind” guy)!"
98K likes, 6,169 comments - lawyer_oyer on July 2, 2025: "Call me naive, but even after the mass pardons, I didn’t expect to see January 6 rioters WORKING IN THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT. Yet here we are. Our tax dollars are paying the salary of Jared Wise, who called for violence against police. He’s now an adviser to Ed Martin (the “no MAGA left behind” guy)!".

The reason why people left to Bluesky or never started on Mastodon in the first place is that it still feels like a clunky web app from 2015 (and native phone apps are broken in many waysj, plus being brigaded by the HOAs here is exactly a fun and welcoming experience.

If the Olympic committees (worldwide and in the US) had any integrity they would cancel the 2028 Olympics in LA or move them to another less repressive country. For instance, China is now less repressive than the US and it has Olympic venues left over from the last time.
"Trump announces he will lead White House taskforce for 2028 LA Olympics"

Would you buy a used car from this man?
George Osborne says UK has been left behind in cryptocurrency boom | Cryptocurrencies | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/04/george-osborne-uk-cryptocurrency-boom-left-beh…

Lepton Flavor Violating Higgs Decays in a Minimal Doublet Left-Right Symmetric Model with an Inverse Seesaw
M. Zeleny-Mora, R. Gait\'an, R. Mart\'inez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01220

Lepton Flavor Violating Higgs Decays in a Minimal Doublet Left-Right Symmetric Model with an Inverse Seesaw
In this work , we study the Lepton Flavor Violation (LFV) of Higgs decays in the context of the Doublet Left-Right Symmetric model (DLRSM), based on the gauge group $SU\left(2\right)_{L}\otimes SU\left(2\right)_{R}\otimes U\left(1\right)_{B-L}$. The enlarged gauge and Higgs sectors induce new charged currents interactions. Spontaneous symmetry breaking occurs in two stages, with a new scale arising from the vacuum expectation value $v_{R}$ of the right-handed doublet. We consider scenarios wher…

A new zero-density estimate for $\zeta(s)$ and the error term in the Prime Number Theorem
Chiara Bellotti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02041 https://arxiv.or…

A new zero-density estimate for $ζ(s)$ and the error term in the Prime Number Theorem
We will provide a new type of zero-density estimate for $ζ(s)$ when $σ$ is sufficiently close to $1$. In particular, we will show that $N(σ,T)$ can be bounded by an absolute constant when $σ$ is sufficiently close to the left edge of the Korobov-Vinogradov zero-free region. As a consequence, we provide the optimal error term in the prime number theorem of the form $$ ψ(x)-x \ll x\exp \left\{-(1-\varepsilon) ω(x)\right\},\qquad ω(x):=\min _{t \geq 1}\{ν(t) \log x+\log t\}, $$ where $ν(t…

#ShamelesslyStolenFromTheFacebook

On the Pure States of the Replica Symmetry Breaking ansatz
Simone Franchini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02990 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.02990

On the Pure States of the Replica Symmetry Breaking ansatz
We discuss the concept of Pure State of the Replica Symmetry Breaking ansatz in finite and infinite spin systems without averaging on the disorder, nor using replicas. Consider a system of n spins $σ\inΩ^{n}$ with the usual set $Ω=\left\{ -1,1\right\}$ of inner states and let $G:\,Ω^{n}\rightarrow\left[0,1\right]$ a Gibbs measure on it of Hamiltonian $\mathcal{H}$ (also non random). We interpret the pure states of a model $\left(Ω^{n},μ\right)$ as disjoint subsets $Ω^{n}$ such that the c…

🚨 Never in my lifetime would I have thought there would be open calls for secession and independence of a State from the USA, and that being a possible outcome based on current facts...
But here we are.
""With the American republic thus dismantled, there is no meaningful legal barrier left to secession.”
The question of whether California’s future belongs inside or outside the United States remains a choice, but it is no longer a difficult one."
#california #uspoli

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.
[Post by @newseye on Bluesky: …

News Eye (@newseye.bsky.social)
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.

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

@… I just came across this and thought I’d check with you to see if it’s accurate, instead of just shitposting it like I usually do with stuff.

After a new low, Geno Smith, Pete Carroll and the Raiders have nowhere to look but in https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6692390/2025/10/05/las-vegas-raiders-loss-indianapolis-colts/

Is anyone familiar with The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher? I picked one up at a book swap, by total fluke the first in the series, and so far it's actually quite good. Given the premise I wasn't sure which way it would go.
This was an emergency book as I'd left my *actual* book in my work bag: Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai, which I'm really enjoying #books

The #ISE2025 lecture is over. Today our students will write the final exam. FIngers crossed. Meanwhile - as our favorite coffee place is on vacation - Cappuccino and Zupfkuchen (highly recommended) together with the @… TA team at Intro Café :)

Railroad track by the waterfront in Ithaca, NY; that's the clubhouse for Cornell's rowing team with the big C in the background
#photo #photography #ithaca

My SSD: bro this 3‑min song weighs more than Skyrim. MP3s crying in 128kbps: why he flexing tho. #Bandcamp for the win!
https://bandcamp.com/pmarg

One of the Republican talking points during this shutdown is that Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer has been pulled left by the far left of his party,
but that is bullshit.
The force that is moving Democrats to fight is coming from the party itself,
and this is a reality that Republicans are loath to admit.
Democrats who are committed to fighting for healthcare in Congress
Include the centerists and moderates that Republicans have traditionally counted on …

Democrats Are Angry, Fighting, And Winning
Democratic supporters have been urging their party to fight harder against Trump. The party finally listened, got angry, and they are winning.

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

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

Highlight: A.J. Brown's first catch of 2025 helps seal the win over Dallas https://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/video/highlight-aj-brown-first-catch-of-2025-helps-seal-the-win-over-dallas

Im using case_when() quite a lot, case_match() is new to me: #rstats

A general vectorised switch() — case_match
This function allows you to vectorise multiple switch() statements. Each case is evaluated sequentially and the first match for each element determines the corresponding value in the output vector. If no cases match, the .default is used. case_match() is an R equivalent of the SQL "simple" CASE WHEN statement. Connection to case_when() While case_when() uses logical expressions on the left-hand side of the formula, case_match() uses values to match against .x with. The following two statement…

Halifax mural festival

I've been trying to get the Department of Education to answer a question about my student loans since June. I submitted it in June and once every 2-3 weeks, I add something new to the support submission but I get nothing back. I know that there's probably nobody left in their support department (the orange dipshit fired them all) but I still can't believe it's taking this long to get a response.

Agent's Take: The Steelers wide receiver curse is real; can George Pickens change the narrative with Cowboys?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/agents…

Schloss Johannisberg, Rheingau Musik Festival: Alexander Malofeev, Klavier
I'm left to wonder about his finale, Skrjabin's Fantasie h-Moll op. 28. The hall got warm by the end. I suspect it got to this otherwise superb young pianist (along with a cellphone ringing during Listz's Funérailles). He played the Fantasie for 3–4 minutes. It's described as lasting ca. 9 minutes and requiring the full, immense skill of the performer while stretching the limits of the instrument…

The front-yard garden. You don't need much space to grow an awful lot.
#gardening #BloomScrolling

Nice, finally
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/312002/the-rose-field-the-book-of-dust-volume-three-by-pullman-philip/9780241458693

The Rose Field: The Book of Dust Volume Three
‘Lyra: what will you do when you find this place in the desert, the opening to the world of the roses?’ ‘Defend it,’ Lyra said. ‘Die defending it.’ When readers left Lyra in The Secret Commonwealth she was alone, in the ruins of a deserted city. Pantalaimon had run from her – part of himself – in search of her imagination, which he believed she had lost. Lyra travelled across the world from her Oxford home in search of her dæmon. And Malcolm, loyal Malcolm, too journeyed far …

More of this, please. (Spotted on Reddit.)
#HoesUnion

Global Well-posedness for the periodic fractional cubic NLS in 1D
Alexandre Megretski, Nikolaos Skouloudis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01204 https://arxiv.o…

Global Well-posedness for the periodic fractional cubic NLS in 1D
We consider the defocusing periodic fractional nonlinear Schrödinger equation $$ i \partial_t u +\left(-Δ\right)^αu=-\lvert u \rvert ^2 u, $$ where $\frac{1}{2}< α< 1$ and the operator $(-Δ)^α$ is the fractional Laplacian with symbol $\lvert k \rvert ^{2α}$. We establish global well-posedness in $H^s(\mathbb{T})$ for $s\geq \frac{1-α}{2}$ and we conjecture this threshold to be sharp as it corresponds to the pseudo-Galilean symmetry exponent. Our proof uses the $I$-method to control th…

If I've understood the Labour Party rulebook correctly, there are 12 days left until the deadline for submitting leadership challenges for an election at this year's party conference. If the content of Angela Rayner's legal advice does exonerate her, that's long enough for her to publish it and get it digested by the press corps, no?

Heading for Garbage w/ Starcrawler at First Avenue, #Minneapolis!

Sunset

The generalized Tur\'an number for K_3 in graphs without suspensions of a path on five vertices
Doudou Hei, Xinmin Hou, Yue Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03851 https://

The generalized Turán number for K_3 in graphs without suspensions of a path on five vertices
Given graphs $H$ and $F$, the generalized Turán number $\ex(n, H, F)$ is defined as the maximum number of copies of $H$ in an $n$-vertex graph that contains no copy of $F$. The suspension $\widehat{F}$ of a graph $F$ is obtained by adding a new vertex that is adjacent to every vertex of $F$. Mubayi and Mukherjee (2023, DM) conjectured that $\ex(n, K_3, \widehat{P_k})=\left\lfloor \frac{k-2}{2}\right\rfloor \cdot \frac{n^2}{8}+o(n^2)$, where $P_k$ is a path on $k\ge 4$ vertices. Using…

It\^{o}-Stratonovich Conversion in Infinite Dimensions for Unbounded, Time-Dependent, Nonlinear Operators
Daniel Goodair
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03424 https://

Itô-Stratonovich Conversion in Infinite Dimensions for Unbounded, Time-Dependent, Nonlinear Operators
We prove that a solution, in a variational framework, to the Stratonovich stochastic partial differential equation with noise $G\left(t, Ψ_t\right) \circ dW_t$ is given by a solution to the Itô equation with Itô-Stratonovich corrector $\frac{1}{2}\sum_{i=1}^\infty D_uG_i\left(t, Ψ_t\right)\left[G_i(t,Ψ_t)\right]dt$. Here $G_i$ denotes the action of $G$ on the $i^{th}$ component of the cylindrical noise, and $D_uG_i$ its Fréchet partial derivative in the Hilbert space for which the Itô fo…

Learning quadratic neural networks in high dimensions: SGD dynamics and scaling laws
G\'erard Ben Arous, Murat A. Erdogdu, N. Mert Vural, Denny Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03688

Learning quadratic neural networks in high dimensions: SGD dynamics and scaling laws
We study the optimization and sample complexity of gradient-based training of a two-layer neural network with quadratic activation function in the high-dimensional regime, where the data is generated as $y \propto \sum_{j=1}^{r}λ_j σ\left(\langle \boldsymbol{θ_j}, \boldsymbol{x}\rangle\right), \boldsymbol{x} \sim N(0,\boldsymbol{I}_d)$, $σ$ is the 2nd Hermite polynomial, and $\lbrace\boldsymbolθ_j \rbrace_{j=1}^{r} \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ are orthonormal signal directions. We consider the ex…

Sources: xAI CFO Mike Liberatore left the company around the end of July, after joining in April (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/xais-cfo-steps-down-the-latest-in-a-string-of-executive-departures-e778fce7

I had an air filter attached to the rear of my #Kombi, and then I realized that I couldn't shift. One of the cords that I had used to secure the hepa filter was on the derailleur. It was an easy thing to fix, but it reminded me just how much I hate derailleurs (and any kind of external gears in general).

Chirality transfer in lyotropic twist-bend nematics
Anna Ashkinazi, Hemani Chhabra, Anouar El Moumane, Maxime M. C. Tortora, Jonathan P. K. Doye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03544

Chirality transfer in lyotropic twist-bend nematics
Using molecular simulations and classical density functional theory, we study the liquid-crystalline phase behaviour of a series of bent rod-like mesogens with a controlled degree of chirality introduced through a twist at the centre of the particle. In the achiral limit, isotropic, uniaxial nematic, twist-bend nematic and smectic phases form as the packing fraction increases. On introducing chirality, the symmetry between the right- and left-handed twist-bend phases is broken. The phase with t…

How the US got left behind in the global electric car race
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8ex2l58en4o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

I was messing about being a tourist outside Buckingham Palace today, and I took this by happy chance. I like the feel of it.
#BlackAndWhite #photography

The International Max Planck Research School for Solar System Science becomes a permanent institution in Göttingen and Braunschweig
The Solar System School, the joint graduate school of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, the University of Göttingen, and the Technical University of Braunschweig, is now a permanent fixture in doctoral training in Göttingen and Braunschweig. The Max Planck Society will continue the International Max Planck Research School for Solar Syste…

bag_of_words: Bag of words (2008)
Five text collections in the form of bags-of-words, i.e. a bipartite document–word network. Left nodes are documents and right nodes are words. Edge weights are multiplicities. .
This network has 67963 nodes and 3710420 edges.
Tags: Informational, Text, Bipartite, Weighted, Metadata
https://…

#photography #feet #red

The Solar System School is now permanent! 🥳🥳
The unique graduate program offers students from all over the world the opportunity to obtain a doctorate in solar system research. 🛰️☀️🔭
Joint PR @…

By the by, that “nuclear reactor on the moon:” story is another distraction from them ending what ever is left of democracy in Texas and from the president being a pedophile.

How popular media gets love wrong
Okay, so what exactly are the details of the "engineered" model of love from my previous post? I'll try to summarize my thoughts and the experiences they're built on.
1. "Love" can be be thought of like a mechanism that's built by two (or more) people. In this case, no single person can build the thing alone, to work it needs contributions from multiple people (I suppose self-love might be an exception to that). In any case, the builders can intentionally choose how they build (and maintain) the mechanism, they can build it differently to suit their particular needs/wants, and they will need to maintain and repair it over time to keep it running. It may need winding, or fuel, or charging plus oil changes and bolt-tightening, etc.
2. Any two (or more) people can choose to start building love between them at any time. No need to "find your soulmate" or "wait for the right person." Now the caveat is that the mechanism is difficult to build and requires lots of cooperation, so there might indeed be "wrong people" to try to build love with. People in general might experience more failures than successes. The key component is slowly-escalating shared commitment to the project, which is negotiated between the partners so that neither one feels like they've been left to do all the work themselves. Since it's a big scary project though, it's very easy to decide it's too hard and give up, and so the builders need to encourage each other and pace themselves. The project can only succeed if there's mutual commitment, and that will certainly require compromise (sometimes even sacrifice, though not always). If the mechanism works well, the benefits (companionship; encouragement; praise; loving sex; hugs; etc.) will be well worth the compromises you make to build it, but this isn't always the case.
3. The mechanism is prone to falling apart if not maintained. In my view, the "fire" and "appeal" models of love don't adequately convey the need for this maintenance and lead to a lot of under-maintained relationships many of which fall apart. You'll need to do things together that make you happy, do things that make your partner happy (in some cases even if they annoy you, but never in a transactional or box-checking way), spend time with shared attention, spend time alone and/or apart, reassure each other through words (or deeds) of mutual beliefs (especially your continued commitment to the relationship), do things that comfort and/or excite each other physically (anywhere from hugs to hand-holding to sex) and probably other things I'm not thinking of. Not *every* relationship needs *all* of these maintenance techniques, but I think most will need most. Note especially that patriarchy teaches men that they don't need to bother with any of this, which harms primarily their romantic partners but secondarily them as their relationships fail due to their own (cultivated-by-patriarchy) incompetence. If a relationship evolves to a point where one person is doing all the maintenance (& improvement) work, it's been bent into a shape that no longer really qualifies as "love" in my book, and that's super unhealthy.
4. The key things to negotiate when trying to build a new love are first, how to work together in the first place, and how to be comfortable around each others' habits (or how to change those habits). Second, what level of commitment you have right now, and what how/when you want to increase that commitment. Additionally, I think it's worth checking in about what you're each putting into and getting out of the relationship, to ensure that it continues to be positive for all participants. To build a successful relationship, you need to be able to incrementally increase the level of commitment to one that you're both comfortable staying at long-term, while ensuring that for both partners, the relationship is both a net benefit and has manageable costs (those two things are not the same). Obviously it's not easy to actually have conversations about these things (congratulations if you can just talk about this stuff) because there's a huge fear of hearing an answer that you don't want to hear. I think the range of discouraging answers which actually spell doom for a relationship is smaller than people think and there's usually a reasonable "shoulder" you can fall into where things aren't on a good trajectory but could be brought back into one, but even so these conversations are scary. Still, I think only having honest conversations about these things when you're angry at each other is not a good plan. You can also try to communicate some of these things via non-conversational means, if that feels safer, and at least being aware that these are the objectives you're pursuing is probably helpful.
I'll post two more replies here about my own experiences that led me to this mental model and trying to distill this into advice, although it will take me a moment to get to those.
#relationships #love

Louise Haigh, Angela Rayner: which (somewhat left) woman will the tabloids go for next? Probably Bridget Phillipson
Meanwhile Nigel Garage (thank you spellchecker) gets a free pass.

‘I take full responsibility’: Angela Rayner’s resignation letter in full | Angela Rayner | The Guardian
https:…

Lesbian Hanky Codes (partial list)

House Dems Trash America At Radical Summit In Mexico (Melissa O'Rourke/The Daily Caller)
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/04/house-dems-trash-america-radical-left-wing-summit-mexico-city/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250805/p14#a250805p14

A Tennessee special election to replace a Republican congressman who stepped aside this summer
has resulted in crowded primaries for both major parties,
a new test for one of three districts that GOP lawmakers drew as safely red in 2022 by dividing left-leaning Nashville.
The race to fill the seat vacated by former U.S. Rep. Mark Green could gauge the popularity of Donald Trump’s authoritarian second-term agenda, especially with suburban Republican voters.
There had be…

Special election in Tennessee draws a crowd in both parties
A Tennessee special election to replace a Republican congressman who stepped aside this summer has attracted crowded primaries for both major parties. The departure of former U.S. Rep. Mark Green has resulted in the contested primary Tuesday in one of three districts that GOP lawmakers drew as safe red seats in 2022 by dividing left-leaning Nashville. Eleven Republicans are running in the 14-county district, with most attention centering on state Reps. Jody Barrett and Gino Bulso and former Ten…

My 9mm goes bang again: here's the front entrance to Harold's Square framed by Paris Baguette which isn't from Paris but rather from South Korea
#photo #photography #ithaca

Moody Urbanity III 🟨
情绪化城市 III 🟨
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

What a story.....
"How a Top Secret SEAL Team 6 Mission Into North Korea Fell Apart.The 2019 operation, greenlit by President Trump, sought a strategic edge. It left unarmed North Koreans dead."
https://www.nytimes.c…

How a Top Secret SEAL Team 6 Mission Into North Korea Fell Apart
The 2019 operation, greenlit by President Trump, sought a strategic edge. It left unarmed North Koreans dead.

we’re bowling!

#silentSunday
Cormorant. May 2023

Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
ZEN: Confirmed. Main drive standing by. The ship is now in free space. Main drive activated.
TARRANT: Zen, standard by eight. Put the rear scanner on the main screen.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/304/377 B7B3

As the left grapples for its counter to the rightwing media ecosystem,
two blonde suburban moms
– who admit they look “Fox-coded” – offer one inroad.
Across all platforms, they have several million followers, including 1.3m on YouTube and nearly 1m on Instagram.
On the weekly Apple podcast charts in early October, they ranked as the second-most listened to among society and culture shows.
On YouTube’s charts, their news show, IHIP news, ranked 18th among podc…

Nondegeneracy of bubble solutions to the Choquard equation in two dimension
Jinkai Gao, Xinfu Li, Shiwang Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02286 https://arxiv…

Nondegeneracy of bubble solutions to the Choquard equation in two dimension
In this paper, we study the following Choquard equation with exponential nonlinearity \begin{equation*} -Δu=\left(\int_{\R^{2}}\frac{e^{u(y)}}{|x-y|^α}dy\right)e^{u(x)},\quad \text{~in~}\R^{2}, \end{equation*} where $α\in (0,2)$. Although the classification of solutions to this equation has been established recently, the nondegeneracy of its solutions remains open. Here, we prove the nondegeneracy by combining the integral representation of solutions with the spherical harmonic d…

An effective analytic recurrence for prime numbers: from asymptotics to explicit bounds
Benoit Cloitre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02690 https://arxiv.org/p…

An effective analytic recurrence for prime numbers: from asymptotics to explicit bounds
We present an explicit and effective recurrence formula for prime numbers, bridging arithmetic and analytic approaches. Building upon foundational work by Gandhi (1971), Golomb (1976), and Keller (2007), we establish the effective bound $s_n \le 2p_n$ for all $n \ge 1$ within the Golomb-Keller analytic recurrence. This transforms their asymptotic formula into an explicit recurrence using twice the n-th prime as the exponent: $$ p_{n+1} = \left\lceil \left( -1 + ζ(2p_n) \prod_{j=1}^{n} \left(1 …

Stabilizers and NIP arithmetic regularity
G. Conant, C. Terry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04271 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04271

Stabilizers and NIP arithmetic regularity
We give a new proof of the NIP arithmetic regularity lemma for finite groups (due to the authors and Pillay), which describes the approximate structure of "NIP sets" in finite groups, i.e., subsets whose collection of left translates has bounded VC-dimension. Our new proof avoids sophisticated ingredients from the model theory of NIP formulas (e.g., Borel definability and generic compact domination). The key tool is an elaboration on an elementary lemma due to Alon, Fox, and Zhao concerning the…

📰 Newspaper boycott made people in UK city more left wing, study shows
#politics

Newspaper boycott made people in UK city more left wing, study shows
A study of the Liverpool boycott of The Sun newspaper following the Hillsborough disaster has found that the boycott shaped people's perceptions of political parties and made people more left wing.

On The Road - To Xi’An 🗿
在路上 - 去西安 🗿
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️Kentmere Pan 200
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Notable injuries, news from Sunday's Week 5 games: Vikings QB Carson Wentz (left shoulder) questionable to return vs. Browns https://www.nfl.com/news/2025-nfl-season-week-5-notable-injuries-news-from-sunday-games

Highlight: Jalen Hurts rushes for an 8-yard touchdown vs. Dallas Cowboys https://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/video/highlight-jalen-hurts-rushes-for-an-8-yard-touchdown-vs-dallas-cowboys

Series A, Episode 11 - Bounty
JENNA: If you hand over this ship, you'll lose a fortune.
TARVIN: Me? How can I lose?
JENNA: Oh, I'd expect a share.
TARVIN: Of what?
JENNA: Three hundred million credits. Give or take the odd ten million.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/111/376

At the behest of Donald Trump, Texas is pushing to gerrymander congressional maps to add as many as five seats for Republicans
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/05/texas-redistricting-voter-maps-democrats-e…

Asymptotic behavior of the least energy solutions to the Choquard equation in dimension two
Jinkai Gao, Xinfu Li, Shiwang Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02139 https://

Asymptotic behavior of the least energy solutions to the Choquard equation in dimension two
In this paper, we are interested in the following planar Choquard equation \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -Δu=\displaystyle\left(\int\limits_Ω\frac{u^{p+1}(y)}{|x-y|^α}dy\right)u^{p},\quad u>0,\ \ &\mbox{in}\ Ω, \quad \ \ u=0, \ \ &\mbox{on}\ \partial Ω, \end{cases} \end{equation*} where $Ω$ is a smooth bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^2$, $α\in (0,2)$ and $p>1$ is a positive parameter. Unlike the higher-dimensional case, we prove that the least energy solutions $u_{p}$ n…

Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
JENNA: But you've been against it all until now.
AVON: I know, but I'm still going down. Vila?
JENNA: [To Cally] You know what all this is about, don't you?
CALLY: [Nodding] I think I can guess.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/319

Penn № 17 Noah Millikan recovers after a pitch and looks towards home plate at Cornell's Booth Field
#sports #photo #photography

Eagles edge Cowboys in wild, lightning-delayed NFL season opener https://theprovince.com/sports/football/nfl/eagles-edge-cowboys-in-wild-lightning-delayed-nfl-season-opener/wcm/18…

Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
PLAXTON: If they've any left.
ATLAN: Oh yes, they have, but not for long. How soon can this be fitted to our space choppers?
PLAXTON: Napier. [Napier exits.]
ATLAN: Well?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/304 B7B5

Top Trump administration adviser Stephen Miller was accused of spreading dangerous “propaganda” Saturday night
regarding the federal judge who ruled that the White House could not deploy 200 National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon.
The White House deputy chief of staff accused U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut,
who was appointed by Trump during his first term, of “legal insurrection”
after she found that the president’s claims about violent protests at a U.S. Immig…

White House Responds With 'Authoritarian Propaganda' as Judge Blocks National Guard in Portland | Common Dreams
Top Trump adviser Stephen Miller accused Judge Immergut of "legal insurrection" for blocking National Guard deployment to Portland. Miller claimed left-wing terrorism and called for dismantling networks.

Moody Urbanity II 🟩
情绪化城市 II 🟩
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Kelly of Woon Jai Ceramics selling little bowls at the Ithaca Farmer's Market
#ithaca #photo

Series A, Episode 09 - Project Avalon
CHEVNER: Well, I think we should be well inside the main Centre now. Let's give it a go.
BLAKE: Vila, you're in business again.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/109/248 B7B3

The vote means 600 workers at the parks,
including park rangers, researchers, educators, fee collectors and first responders, among others,
will be represented by the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE).
Labor organizers have been trying to form a union at the parks for years but did not have the necessary support
until this year when the Trump administration’s mass firings left the parks service in turmoil

Another view of a pond at Oakley Corners State Park south of Route 38B near Newark Valley, NY
#photo #photography #landscape

Dan Jones is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains
after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid
led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building.
🔥Armed federal agents in military fatigues busted down their doors overnight,
🆘 pulling men, women and children from their apartments,
some of them naked, residents and witnesses said.
❌Agents ap…

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
DURKIM: There isn't.
SERVALAN: And if you want to keep your job you'll find it.
DURKIM: Why won't you face the facts?
SERVALAN: Because I'm not convinced. And even if I were, there would be nothing I could do about it.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/213/33

Grafitti-covered bridge in Monkey Run near sunset when the creek is in shadow but some of the surrounding hills are still illuminated.
#photo #photography #wideangle

20 year DOJ vet lead counsel on critical terrorism case,
fired b/c he once worked in career role for Lisa Monaco.
They are simply strangling the DOJ.
1/3 of leadership has left.
And the cost here has to be reckoned in public safety.
Everything gets sacrificed to absurd views of loyalty and revenge.
…

Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social)
20 year DOJ vet lead counsel on critical terrorism case, fired b/c he once worked in career role for Lisa Monaco.They are simply strangling the DOJ. 1/3 of leadership has left. And the cost here has to be reckoned in public safety. Everything gets sacrificed to absurd views of loyalty and revenge.