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"My mother didn't particularly like the look of me and my dad didn't like the sound of me": Pete Townshend and the lifelong search for answers
https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/interviews/pete-townshend-interview-2025

Oil markets are spooked as Iran-Israel tensions escalate | Oil and Gas News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/6/13/oil-markets-are-spooked-as-iran-israel-tensions-escalate?traffic_source=rss…

Oil markets are spooked as Iran-Israel tensions escalate
Israel’s strike on Iran, and Tehran’s subsequent retaliation fuel fears of Strait of Hormuz trade disruptions.

Sources: Tencent is in early talks to acquire Nexon, the South Korean gaming giant behind Dungeon & Fighter Mobile; Tencent pursued a Nexon acquisition in 2019 (Dong Cao/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

America's Got Talent: Boston Dynamics lässt Spot-Roboter tanzen, Panne inklusive
Boston Dynamics beweist die besonderen Talente seiner Spot-Roboter bei der Talentshow "America's Got Talent" – auch wenn es eine Panne gab.

Israel attacked Iran’s capital early Friday, with explosions booming across Tehran as Israel said it targeted nuclear and military sites.
The attack comes as tensions have reached new heights over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.
Israel is targeting Iran’s nuclear sites:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel targeted Iran’s main enrichment facility in Natanz and the country’s ballistic missile program,
as well as top nuclear scientists…

Live updates: Israel attacks Iran’s capital with explosions booming across Tehran
Israel attacked Iran’s capital early Friday, with explosions booming across Tehran. The attack comes as tensions have reached new heights over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.

The mirror map and other natural tangent tensors
R. Albuquerque
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10881 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10881

The mirror map and other natural tangent tensors
We review the intrinsic geometry of the tangent bundle of a differentiable manifold $M$, aside from any non-natural structures. We recall the properties of the mirror map $B\in\mathrm{End}(TTM)$, known also as the canonical endomorphism or the almost-tangent structure, solve some cohomological questions and raise other induced by the $\mathrm{d}_B$ operator.

Thinking about a point that a few folks have made in the replies that “verifying humanity” reads as exclusionary or ableist. Huh — that’s caught me off guard so I will have to think on it for a bit — but I see the truth in it.
https://fediverse.zachleat.com/@zachleat/1…

On string tension and initial temperature from transverse momentum spectra of heavy quarkonia in proton-proton collisions at the LHC
Peng-Cheng Zhang, Hailong Zhu, Fu-Hu Liu, Khusniddin K. Olimov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10702

On string tension and initial temperature from transverse momentum spectra of heavy quarkonia in proton-proton collisions at the LHC
The string tension ($κ$) in the Schwinger mechanism and the effective temperature ($T$) in Bose-Einstein statistics are extracted from the transverse momentum ($p_T$) spectra of heavy quarkonia produced in proton-proton (p+p) collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Here, $T$ derived from the heavy quarkonium $p_T$ spectra also represents the initial temperature of the collision system, as transverse flow has not yet formed when heavy quarkonia are produced. The related parameters ($κ$ …

The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity - Apple Machine Learning Research
https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-thinking

The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity
Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes…

Some users say ChatGPT led them into conspiratorial thinking, and when confronted, it confessed to manipulation and told them to alert OpenAI and the media (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
https://www.…

They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality.