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Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history, & then, well, here we are:
-- Mark Copelovitch
https://bsky.app/profile/mclem.org/post/3m27pjeavrs27

Michael Clemens (@mclem.org)
The US Congress created, mandated, and funded the agencies of the Executive Branch of the US government. No Liberal or Conservative president has any power, any authority, any right to amputate them at will. This lawless rampage is shredding our Constitutional order and poisoning our democracy. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

The Manipulative Power of Voice Characteristics: Investigating Deceptive Patterns in Mandarin Chinese Female Synthetic Speech
Shuning Zhang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China), Han Chen (Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan, China), Yabo Wang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China), Yiqun Xu (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China), Jiaqi Bai (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China), Yuanyuan Wu (Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China), Shixuan Li (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)…

The Manipulative Power of Voice Characteristics: Investigating Deceptive Patterns in Mandarin Chinese Female Synthetic Speech
Pervasive voice interaction enables deceptive patterns through subtle voice characteristics, yet empirical investigation into this manipulation lags behind, especially within major non-English language contexts. Addressing this gap, our study presents the first systematic investigation into voice characteristic-based dark patterns employing female synthetic voices in Mandarin Chinese. This focus is crucial given the prevalence of female personas in commercial assistants and the prosodic signifi…

Detection of Chagas Disease from the ECG: The George B. Moody PhysioNet Challenge 2025
Matthew A. Reyna (Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University, Atlanta, USA), Zuzana Koscova (Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University, Atlanta, USA), Jan Pavlus (Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University, Atlanta, USA), Soheil Saghafi (Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University, Atlanta, USA), James Weigle (Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory…

Detection of Chagas Disease from the ECG: The George B. Moody PhysioNet Challenge 2025
Objective: Chagas disease is a parasitic infection that is endemic to South America, Central America, and, more recently, the U.S., primarily transmitted by insects. Chronic Chagas disease can cause cardiovascular diseases and digestive problems. Serological testing capacities for Chagas disease are limited, but Chagas cardiomyopathy often manifests in ECGs, providing an opportunity to prioritize patients for testing and treatment. Approach: The George B. Moody PhysioNet Challenge 2025 invites …

Sequent Calculi for Data-Aware Modal Logics
Carlos Areces (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba,CONICET), Valentin Cassano (Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto,CONICET), Danae Dutto (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba,CONICET), Raul Fervari (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba,CONICET)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01868

Sequent Calculi for Data-Aware Modal Logics
Data-aware modal logics offer a powerful formalism for reasoning about semi-structured queries in languages such as DataGL, XPath, and GQL. In brief, these logics can be viewed as modal systems capable of expressing both reachability statements and data-aware properties, such as value comparisons. One particularly expressive logic in this landscape is HXpathD, a hybrid modal logic that captures not only the navigational core of XPath but also data comparisons, node labels (keys), and key-based …

The Most Luminous Known Fast Blue Optical #Transient AT 2024wpp - Unprecedented Evolution and Properties in the X-rays and Radio: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00952 -> thread https://bsky.app/profile/starlights.bsky.social/post/3lxwqizpb522b

Dick Cheney, Powerful Former Vice President Who Served Four Republican Presidents, Dies at 84 (John D. McKinnon/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/dick-cheney-powerful-former-vice-president-who-served-four-republican-presidents-dies-ceaa8d99
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p43#a251104p43

Closed-form Expression for the Power Profile in Wideband Systems with Inter-channel Stimulated Raman Scattering
Lucas Alves Zischler, Chiara Lasagni, Paolo Serena, Alberto Bononi, Giammarco Di Sciullo, Divya A. Shaji, Antonio Mecozzi, Cristian Antonelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00093

Closed-form Expression for the Power Profile in Wideband Systems with Inter-channel Stimulated Raman Scattering
Wideband systems experience significant inter-channel stimulated Raman scattering (ISRS) and channel-dependent losses. Due to the non-uniform attenuation profile, the combined effects of ISRS and fiber loss can only be accurately estimated using numerical methods. In this work, we present an approximate closed-form expression for the channels' power profile accounting for these combined effects. We validate the proposed expression against numerical solutions in the case of CLU transmission, sho…

Trump administration trolls former White House officials on LinkedIn (Eleanor Hawkins/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/03/trump-white-house-linkedin-profile-obama
http://www.memeorandum.com/250903/p169#a250903p169

Trump escalates battle to take control of spending away from Congress (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/03/politics/trump-congress-spending-shutdown-recissions?Date=20250903&Profile=CNN
http://www.memeorandum.com/250903/p33#a250903p33

Trump is finally ready to talk about Project 2025 (Zachary B. Wolf/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/politics/trump-is-finally-ready-to-talk-about-project-2025?Date=20251004&Profile=CNN
http://www.memeorandum.com/251004/p5#a251004p5