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'Tied to a motorcycle and dragged' — Russia likely executed another Ukrainian POW, ombudsman says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/tied-to-a-motorcycle-and.html

Two Florida pastors were arrested while praying on top of a
‘Black History Matters’ mural
to stop crews from removing it
The church leaders in St. Petersburg prayed over the ‘Black History Matters’ mural as state transportation workers showed up to paint over it
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Two Florida pastors arrested after praying on top of ‘Black History Matters’ mural to stop crews from removing it
Church leaders in St. Petersburg prayed over the ‘Black History Matters’ mural as state transportation workers showed up to paint over it

The Gist: The Presidential Selection
A run past some of the people trying to get on the ballot for next month's presidential election.
Sample: "Billy Kelleher is what you would receive if you ordered the delivery of approximately two meters of extruded Fianna Fšil."
https://www.thegis…

The Gist: The Presidential Selection
The time is ticking down to pick the candidates to replace Michael D. This is the Gist.

Out & about in the Bernina Range, on our way to the Labyrinth, surrounded by majestic 4000ers (meters)... A dream! 😍
(#ThrowbackThursday, preemptive #FootpathFriday and my personal hiking highlight of 2024)

Bullshit or water, humanity, the choice is yours. Choose wisely. https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/114783392100794507

The Generalized Dirac Equation in the Metric Affine Spacetime
Muzaffer Adak, Ali Bagci, Caglar Pala, Ozcan Sert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23609 https://…

The Generalized Dirac Equation in the Metric Affine Spacetime
We discuss the most general form of Dirac equation in the non$-$Riemannian spacetimes containing curvature, torsion and non$-$metricity. It includes all bases of the Clifford algebra $cl(1,3)$ within the spinor connection. We adopt two approaches. First, the generalized Dirac equation is directly formulated by applying the minimal coupling prescription to the original Dirac equation. It is referred to as the {\it direct Dirac equation} for seek of clarity and to preserve the tractability. Secon…

I cannot see why it should concern anyone whom two free individuals choose to unite with in love. So long as both are grown and consenting, it is a matter that belongs only to their own lives.
When society, or the state, presumes to dictate such matters, it is merely another attempt of authority to intrude into the most personal sphere of human liberty, which should be the foundation of any truly free social order.

Unified study of two-meson and axion-meson production from semileptonic tau decays within resonance chiral framework
Jin Hao, Chun-Gui Duan, Zhi-Hui Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00383

Unified study of two-meson and axion-meson production from semileptonic tau decays within resonance chiral framework
We carry out the joint study of the semileptonic tau decays into the two-meson and axion-meson channels, viz. $τ^-\to (P_1P_2)^-ν_τ$ and $τ^-\to π^-(K^-) aν_τ$ within the framework of resonance chiral theory by including the model-independent axion-gluon-gluon interaction. By utilizing the $π^0$-$η$-$η'$-axion mixing matrix elements from recent studies, we calculate the pertinent two-pseudoscalar boson form factors. To simultaneously fit the experimental spectra measured in the Cabibb…

The MAGA era
— and the three latest Trump appointees to the Court
— has resulted in a new, gruesome project:
❌giving Trump whatever he wants.
🔥This toxic combination of bigotry and fealty has created a Court that uses all its might to attack the less powerful
while coddling those who already have it all — particularly Donald Trump.
It’s a Court with a very clear vision of who matters and who needs protection.
The majority opinion in "Trump v. C…

A corrupted Supreme Court sinks to new lows
The Trumpist majority closed the term with a ruling that could rip the nation apart.

Four in five developers use AI tools in their workflow in 2025
—a portion that has been rapidly growing in recent years.
That said, "trust in the accuracy of AI has fallen from 40 percent in previous years to just 29 percent this year."
The disparity between those two metrics illustrates the evolving and complex impact of AI tools like GitHub Copilot or Cursor on the profession.
There's relatively little debate among developers that the tools are or oug…

Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises
“AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite” lead to more debugging work.