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Vox Media Union says it has reached a tentative three-year agreement with Vox Media, averting a strike (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/vox-media-union-agreement-contract-1236430370/

Vox Media Union Reaches Agreement on Three-Year Contract
Vox Media Union, affiliated with WGA East, announced a tentative agreement with the digital media company after an overnight bargaining session.

WGA East-affiliated Vox Media Union voted to authorize a strike starting June 12 if its demands for higher pay and protections against AI abuse are not met (Jeremy Fuster/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/vox-media-union-authorize-strike-vote/

Vox Media Union Members Vote to Authorize Strike With Midnight Deadline
The WGA East-affiliated Vox Media Union voted to go on strike if a deal on a new contract is not reached by 90%.

Die #SPD wird danach argumentieren sie habe das alles mitgehen müssen, denn sonst hätte die #Union sofort den Schulterschluß mit Rechtsaußen getätigt. Also falls in einem danach noch irgendwas von ihr übrig ist.
#pol

Goodness, does this mean we can expect a strongly-worded letter next? https://mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApartheid/114675920702558762

Henry Clay Frick was a union buster

In 1892, he hired hundreds of Pinkerton detectives
— a private army of thugs with guns
— to quell a strike against a Pennsylvania steel mill.
Ten men were killed, dozens injured, and the situation became so inflamed that the state militia was called in to break the workers’ resistance.
Frick, who made a fortune supplying the coal derivative known as coke
to Andrew Carnegie’s steel company, where Frick later served…

At the Frick, a grand Gilded Age collection shows its intimate side
A five-year, $220-million expansions has transformed the Frick, without changing anything fundamental to the experience.

Hey... you (ᵘˢᶦⁿᵍ ᵗʰᵉ ᴳᵉⁿᵉʳᵃᵗᶦᵛᵉ ᴬᴵ). Write the damn email yourself. Take the notes for the meeting yourself. It's not that hard. Also, stop fooling yourself, you're not THAT busy.
'Tech giants’ carbon emissions up 150% with AI growth'
https://www.

Tech giants’ carbon emissions up 150% with AI growth
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) reported operational emissions of four technology companies increased by average 150%.

@… do you know what these are about? All over the walls at Union Station LA since I was down here about a month ago. I reverse image searched with no luck.

Was der Spiegel zum Sudhof-Bericht und zu Spahn schreibt, ist ziemlich harter Tobak - aber dieser Typus "Macher, der fachlichen Rat ignoriert und lieber auf Beziehungen setzt" scheint in der Union leider nicht selten zu sein.

Spahns Maskendeals: »Jetzt will ich rechtlich verbindlich das Zeug ;-)«
Der Sonderbericht zu den Maskengeschäften wird für Jens Spahn mit jeder Enthüllung gefährlicher. Nun geht es um hemdsärmlige Mails, die Deutschland Hunderte Millionen kosten könnten.

EU importierte für 33 Milliarden Euro russisches Flüssiggas
Seit dem Beginn des russischen Angriffskriegs gegen die Ukraine hat die Europäische Union einem Bericht zufolge für 32,7 Milliarden Euro russisches Flüssiggas importiert. Das berichtet das Magazin Stern, dem Eurostat-Zahlen dazu vorliegen, die das Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) beim Statistischen Bundesamt abgefragt hatte.
Demnach beläuft…
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EU und Deutschland: Russisches Flüssigerdgas - weiter willkommen
Deutschland und die EU wollen nicht mehr, dass der Gasverkauf Putins Krieg finanziert. Doch bei Flüssigerdgas endet die Entschlossenheit. Das kommt weiter in die EU, und am Export verdient Deutschland sogar mit.

Another great photo!
Members of the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist trade union #CNT marching in Madrid in 2010.
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil…

And from the [not] #freemarket annals: 
"And of course, patients don't get to merge to monopoly (that's what governments are for, and we know how Blue Cross feels about single payer care). Workers don't get to merge to monopoly either (that's what unions are for, and no one hates a union more than a health care monopolist)."
PS: CEO says "authorization never sa…

Cross-Channel Unlabeled Sensing over a Union of Signal Subspaces
Taulant Koka, Manolis C. Tsakiris, Benjam\'in B\'ejar Haro, Michael Muma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09773 …

Cross-Channel Unlabeled Sensing over a Union of Signal Subspaces
Cross-channel unlabeled sensing addresses the problem of recovering a multi-channel signal from measurements that were shuffled across channels. This work expands the cross-channel unlabeled sensing framework to signals that lie in a union of subspaces. The extension allows for handling more complex signal structures and broadens the framework to tasks like compressed sensing. These mismatches between samples and channels often arise in applications such as whole-brain calcium imaging of freely…

The Chicago Tribune is offering buyouts to the newsroom's 75 union members; the newsroom last went through buyouts in 2021, when nearly 40 people left (Kaitlin Washburn/Chicago Sun Times)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/business/2025/06/12/chicag…

Chicago Tribune offering newsroom buyouts
The newsroom's union, which ratified its first contract just seven months ago, said in a statement cutting staff as a "short-term profit boost" is unsustainable. It was not immediately known how many positions the company was looking to cut or what dollar amount it's trying to save.

SAG-AFTRA ends the 300 day video game actors strike after reaching a tentative deal for a new Interactive Media Agreement with the major video game companies (Erik Hayden/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

SAG-AFTRA Suspends Strike Against Video Game Companies, Paving Way for Return to Work
The union had taken a stand on artificial intelligence, among other concerns, as it looked to advocate for voice and performance capture workers.

qa_user: User interactions on Q&A websites (2016)
Networks of interactions among users from four online Q&A sites: Stack Overflow, Math Overflow, Super User, and Ask Ubuntu. A directed edge (i,j) indicates a user i responded to user j's post. Edges are timestamped. For each Q&A site, four differently defined networks are provided, based on the definition of an edge: (i) a user answered a question, (ii) a user commented on a question, (iii) a user commented on an answer…

Registered nurses are appalled by this latest executive order that seeks to strip federal employees
-- including 15,000 registered nurses with National Nurses United
-- of their protected union rights.
As union nurses, we know this is union busting

NNU statement on executive order seeking to strip federal employees of their protected union rights
"Registered nurses are appalled by this latest executive order that seeks to strip federal employees of their protected union rights. As union nurses, we know this is union busting. Our nurses have been on the front lines, calling out this administration's attempts to dismantle and privatize our VA system."

🚛 To Unionize Amazon, Disrupt the Flow
#union

To Unionize Amazon, Disrupt the Flow
Organizing logistics behemoths like Amazon and Walmart will require the labor movement to figure out how to disrupt the flow of goods across the supply chain rather than simply organizing individual workplaces — and that requires a major rethinking of organizing strategy.

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Zander Fagerson: Scotland prop ruled out of British & Irish Lions tour - BBC Sport
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/articles/c9q09ry8y21o

Zander Fagerson: Scotland prop ruled out of British & Irish Lions tour
Scotland and Glasgow prop Zander Fagerson is ruled out of the British and Irish Lions' tour to Australia with a calf injury.

Dobrindt argumentiert die Entscheidung des Gerichts, die Zurückweisung an der Grenze sei illegal gewesen, sei eine Einzelfall­entscheidung und daher nicht generell anwendbar.
Nehmen wir diesen Einwand mal kurz ernst. Einzelfall bedeutet: es gab besondere Umstände. Nun, diese können im vorliegenden Fall kaum extern sein, die aktuelle Bedrohungslage hat sich nicht für diese Menschen spontan geändert, Sonnenstand, aktuelle Stimmungslage der Union etc dürfen keinen Einfluß haben, d.h. der …

Die ePetition 181941 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Europäisches Parlament mit dem Titel
Stärkung der Rechte des Europäischen Parlaments
kann bis zum Donnerstag 24. Juli 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird gefordert, die Rechte des Parlaments der Europäischen Union als einziges von…

If you were not already avoiding flying in new (<15 yr old) Boeing planes, this should seal the deal.
#boeing #dreamliner #union #quality #endstagecapitalism
https://prospect.org/economy/2025-06-12-dreamliner-gave-boeing-manager-nightmares-just-crashed-air-india/

Starlink-Alternative: Telekom beteiligt sich am EU-Satellitenprojekt IRIS²
Um unabhängiger von US-Konzernen zu werden, plant die Europäische Union ein eigenständiges Satellitennetz. Die Deutsche Telekom liefert die IT-Infrastruktur.

One of our kids is stuck inside Union Station in DTLA, thanks to Trump's fascist army terrorizing the area in an effort to escalate tensions. I'm enraged. And worried.
#ICE #AbolishICE #protest

I just wrote a letter demanding a fair contract for @Writers Guild of America East members at Vox Media! Write one here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/help-union-members-at-vox-media-win-a-fair-contract

Trump and Bobby Brainworm are galloping down the trail toward Soviet-style repression of science.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repression_of_science_in_the_Soviet_Union

Die Union plant, das #Informationsfreiheitsgesetz auszuhebeln, und noch immer hat sich die SPD-Führung nicht offen gegen diese Forderung positioniert.
Fordere die SPD auf, keine Koalition ohne Transparenz einzugehen.
Jetzt unterzeichnen ✍️​

ICE arrested a California union leader. Does Trump understand what that means?
The arrest of David Huerta, president of SEIU-USWW and SEIU California,
by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Friday
is going to have a major impact on the coming months as deportations continue.
Unions in California are different from those in other places.
More than any state in our troubled country, their ranks are filled with people of color and immigrants.
Whi…

ICE arrested a California union leader. Does Trump understand what that means?
Unions in California are different from many in the U.S. because they are predominately people of color and immigrants. The arrest of a union president in L.A. will likely activate these unions to become powerful forces of nonviolent protest.

Under a new cybersecurity blueprint, the European Union will work more closely with national militaries and the NATO defense alliance to respond to large-scale cyberattacks.
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-arms-cyber-council-military-c…

Europe arms itself against cyber catastrophe
EU to train with militaries, industry and NATO to better fend off large-scale cyberattacks.

Demand that the European Union does not leave millions of dogs and cats unprotected against illegal breeding! #AnimalRights

Demand that the European Union does not leave millions of dogs and cats unprotected against illegal breeding!
While MEPs prepare to vote on a groundbreaking regulation on the welfare of dogs and cats, animal welfare organizations warn: the proposed exemptions could leave millions of animals unprotected.

Wadephul bei Ukraine-Konferenz in Rom
Außenminister Johann Wadephul nimmt heute (12.00 Uhr) in Rom an einer Konferenz zur Sicherheitslage in der Europäischen Union und zum Krieg in der Ukraine teil. Gastgeber ist der italienische Außenminister Antonio Tajani. Neben dem CDU-Politiker werden Vertreter aus Polen, Spanien, dem Vereinigten Königreich, Frankreich und der Ukraine sowie Delegierte von EU- und Nato-Institutionen erwar…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Pistorius zu Gesprächen in Kiew ++
Bundesverteidigungsminister Pistorius will sich in Kiew über die aktuelle Lage in der Ukraine informieren. Bei neuen russischen Drohnenangriffen sind nach ukrainischen Angaben in Charkiw mehrere Menschen verletzt worden.

Amidst the protests against ICE, Trump illegally mobilizing the Marines & the National Guard & arrests occurring all over Los Angeles, including *Union Leader David Huerta* 😳...
...my brilliant, genius niece is walking as a JUNIOR at her high school graduation. 🎉
#classof2025 #graduation

Federal judge blocks dissolution of union at TSA (Erich Wagner/GovExec.com)
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/06/federal-judge-blocks-dissolution-union-tsa/405751/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p140#a250602p140

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.12098 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Union Through UNITY: Cosmology with 2,000 SNe Using a Unified Bayesian Framework
Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) were instrumental in establishing the acceleration of the universe's expansion. By virtue of their combination of distance reach, precision, and prevalence, they continue to provide key cosmological constraints, complementing other cosmological probes. Individual SN surveys cover only over about a factor of two in redshift, so compilations of multiple SN datasets are strongly beneficial. We assemble an up-to-date "Union" compilation of 2087 cosmologically useful SNe …

Politico's editorial union says its new AI tool generates garbled or made-up DC intelligence, including a fictional basket-weaver guild; Politico defends it (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/08/2025/politicos-a…

Politico’s AI tool spits out made-up slop, union says
Unionized staffers say the AI tool violates language in their contract.

Die CDU sowie das Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen verteidigen Waffenlieferungen an Israel und wollen noch weitere liefern! Selbst jetzt scheinen es manche Parteien nicht verstanden zu haben, aber wenigstens leere Worthülsen im Internet teilen wie schlimm man das Leid in Gaza findet (doch keine Verbindung zu seinen Waffen sehen, welche dieses Leid auslösen).

#Agile Development was invented in the Soviet Union.

Nice day for a morning drive to the airport!

On the connectedness of the singular set of holomorphic foliations
Omegar Calvo-Andrade, Maur\'icio Corr\^ea, Marcos Jardim, Jos\'e Seade
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08942 …

On the connectedness of the singular set of holomorphic foliations
Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a codimension 1 singular holomorphic foliation on $\mathbb{P}^3$ and let $Z$ be the union of the 1-dimensional connected components of its singular set; Dominique Cerveau asked in 2013 whether $Z$ is necessarily connected. We prove that if a $k$-dimensional holomorphic foliation on a projective manifold whose determinant bundle of the normal sheaf is ample has a singular set $Z$ of dimension $k-1$, then $Z$ is connected. This can be regarded as providing an obstruction for …

If you were not already avoiding flying in new (<15 yr old) Boeing planes, this should seal the deal.
#boeing #dreamliner #union #quality #endstagecapitalism
https://prospect.org/economy/2025-06-12-dreamliner-gave-boeing-manager-nightmares-just-crashed-air-india/

Immigrant razzia's in Los Angeles: "Caravans of unmarked military-style vehicles and vans loaded with uniformed federal agents streaming through the streets." Dozens arrested in stores. Trade union president arrested while observing. https://www.

I love it when the world catches up with me XD (OK, in this case it's the UK rather than the world.)
Surely the way to stop kids looking at things that aren't appropriate for children on the internet isn't to take those things off the internet - pretty much a decade-long gov policy under both parties, though the new laws only just came into effect. It's to stop kids having unsupervised access to the open internet. Surely the only sane solution is clear... prosecute pa…

Wenn „die da oben“ eh „tun, was sie wollen“ und „sowieso egal ist, wer da an der Regierung ist“, dann kann das dazu führen, daß Menschen „protest-wählen“. Und wenn du deinen internalisierten Rassismus eh noch freier ausleben wolltest und dir Menschenrechte und Demokratie eher egal sind, dann gerne auch ganz rechts außen oder Querfront.
Und jedesmal, wenn die Union, wenn die SPD, wenn irgendeine Partei in Programm, Positionspapier, Äußerungen rechtspopulistischer, putinfreundlicher, … k…

🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Little Dragon:
🎵 Ritual Union
#NowPlaying #LittleDragon
https://bossasaurus.bandcamp.com/track/little-dragon-ritual-union-egon-brainparts
https://open.spotify.com/track/5uTjNzGKCQ50synrf9dWmT

Scattering theory on Riemann surfaces I: Schiffer operators, cohomology, and index theorems
Eric Schippers, Wolfgang Staubach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08160

Scattering theory on Riemann surfaces I: Schiffer operators, cohomology, and index theorems
We consider a compact Riemann surface $\mathscr{R}$ with a complex of non-intersecting Jordan curves, whose complement is a pair of Riemann surfaces with boundary, each of which may be possibly disconnected. We investigate conformally invariant integral operators of Schiffer, which act on $L^{2}$ anti-holomorphic one-forms on one of these surfaces with boundary and produce holomorphic one-forms on the disjoint union. These operators arise in potential theory, boundary value problems, approximat…

qa_user: User interactions on Q&A websites (2016)
Networks of interactions among users from four online Q&A sites: Stack Overflow, Math Overflow, Super User, and Ask Ubuntu. A directed edge (i,j) indicates a user i responded to user j's post. Edges are timestamped. For each Q&A site, four differently defined networks are provided, based on the definition of an edge: (i) a user answered a question, (ii) a user commented on a question, (iii) a user commented on an answer…

OHSAA track: Which central Ohio athletes advanced to state on Day 2 of DII regional? https://www.dispatch.com/story/sports/high-school/track-field/2025/06/01/ohsaa-track-field-stat…

Apple says macOS 26 Tahoe will be the last release of macOS that supports Intel Macs, with future macOS versions only available to Apple Silicon Macs (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/09/apple-will-end-support-for-intel-macs/

Apple will end support for Intel Macs next year, macOS 27 will require Apple Silicon - 9to5Mac
During the Platforms State of the Union at WWDC, Apple just announced that macOS 26 Tahoe will be the last...

Australian Green Party crushed in election after running hard on anti-Israel platform & attacking Labor govt as "complicit in genocide." 1st-choice vote (AU has ranked-vote system) drops from 12.25% to 11.75%, despite gains from Muslim voters. In races where final choice is Green vs Labor, more conservative voters overcome their past distaste for union-dominated Labor & transfers run massively against Greens.
Result: Greens lose at least 2 and maybe all 4 of their seat…

The Greens bet on Gaza and may have lost the House
Greens leader Adam Bandt has suffered a devastating verdict. The party of protest has just discovered it protested far too much.

There are many parallels between the changes happening in academia and those in tech laid out by @….
https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/27/some-animals/#are-more-equal-than-others
Join your faculty union. If you don't have a local union (or even if you do) join the AAUP. Together we can work to make academia what it should be.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04802 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Homotopy types of Hom complexes of graph homomorphisms whose codomains are cycles
For simple graphs $G$ and $H$, the Hom complex $\mathrm{Hom}(G,H)$ is a polyhedral complex whose vertices are the graph homomorphisms $G\to H$ and whose edges connect the pairs of homomorphisms which differ in a single vertex of $G$. Hom complexes play an important role in an algebro-topological approach to the graph coloring problem. It is known that $\mathrm{Hom}(G,H)$ is homotopy equivalent to a disjoint union of points and circles when both $G$ and $H$ are cycles. We generalize this known r…

Viele europäische #Landwirt*innen zeigen mehr #Klimaskepsis als andere Berufsgruppen, vor allem in wohlhabenderen Ländern mit geringerem #Klimarisiko.
Das erschwert

Climate change skepticism of European farmers and implications for effective policy actions - Communications Earth & Environment
The majority of farmers in European Union countries are more skeptical about climate change impact and attribution than the general population, and more so in more innovative and higher-income countries, according to an analysis of European-level surveys.

I try a new (for me) DNS system today: THE EU DNS https://www.dns0.eu/
Let’s see if this works

The European public DNS that makes your Internet safer.
A free, sovereign and GDPR-compliant recursive DNS resolver with a strong focus on security to protect the citizens and organizations of the European Union.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09881 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

On the genera of symmetric unions of knots
In the study of ribbon knots, Lamm introduced symmetric unions inspired by earlier work of Kinoshita and Terasaka. We show an identity between the twisted Alexander polynomials of a symmetric union and its partial knot. As a corollary, we obtain an inequality concerning their genera. It is known that there exists an epimorphism between their knot groups, and thus our inequality provides a positive answer to an old problem of Jonathan Simon in this case. Our formula also offers a useful conditio…

POSTPONED! See reply.
TOMORROW: May 31, 2:00 PM until 6:00 PM
FREEDOM RISING
Union Station, Washington, DC
Art | Music | Freedom
#art #music #resist

Rectangular Duals on the Cylinder and the Torus
Therese Biedl, Philipp Kindermann, Jonathan Klawitter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07170 https://

Rectangular Duals on the Cylinder and the Torus
A rectangular dual of a plane graph $G$ is a contact representation of $G$ by interior-disjoint rectangles such that (i) no four rectangles share a point, and (ii) the union of all rectangles is a rectangle. In this paper, we study rectangular duals of graphs that are embedded in surfaces other than the plane. In particular, we fully characterize when a graph embedded on a cylinder admits a cylindrical rectangular dual. For graphs embedded on the flat torus, we can test whether the graph has a …

WGA East threatens a strike by Vox employees without a new contract that includes The Dodo Union staffers along with better pay, AI protections, and more (Sean Burch/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/vox-media-union-strike-pledge-new-deal-ai-protecti…

Vox Media Union Pledges to Strike Without New Deal Addressing AI, Rising Costs
Vox employees are threatening to strike unless they are given a new media contract that includes better pay and protections against AI.

A beautifully-made union banner from the May Day march :-)
#Nottingham

Skip the usual warmongering posturing from the various indentured 'experts', to
“Luck and misperception played a significant role in near misses in the Cold War conflict between the US & Soviet Union, especially the Cuban missile crisis in 1962,”
“What is claimed in this SDR, and has been the rhetoric under successive governments, is that the UK’s nuclear weapons are an ‘ultimate guarantee’ against attack. But… there is no basis for claiming this level of certainty.”…

Will Britain’s nuclear strategy bring catastrophe? Experts on UK's 'dangerous gamble'
Former defence minister Tobias Ellwood said the UK must expand its nuclear arsenal with tactical bombs to prepare for Putin

The Growing Impact of Unintended #Starlink Broadband Emission on Radio Astronomy in the SKA-Low Frequency Range: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02831 -> "We report 112,534 individual detections of 1,806 unique Starlink satellites, some emitting broadband emission and others narrowband emission. [...] It is shown that in the worst cases, some datasets have a detectable Starlink satellite in ~30% of all images acquired. Emission from Starlink satellites is detected in primary and secondary frequency ranges protected by the International Telecommunication Union".

Bundespolizeipräsident #Romann voll auf Linie mit Union und seinem Chef #Dobrindt. Es gäbe anscheinend genug Personal für die (populistischen) #Grenzkontrollen. Dass er es trotz „genug Personal“ nicht…

Quantitative stability control of the full spectrum of the Dirichlet Laplacian by the second eigenvalue
Alexis de Villeroch\'e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05870

Quantitative stability control of the full spectrum of the Dirichlet Laplacian by the second eigenvalue
Let $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^d$ be an open set of finite measure and let $Θ$ be a disjoint union of two balls of half measure. We study the stability of the full Dirichlet spectrum of $Ω$ when its second eigenvalue is close to the second eigenvalue of $Θ$. Precisely, for every $k \in \mathbb{N}$, we provide a quantitative control of the difference $|λ_k(Ω)-λ_k(Θ)|$ by the variation of the second eigenvalue $C(d,k)(λ_2(Ω)-λ_2(Θ))^α$, for a suitable exponent $α$ and a positive…

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https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2025-05/afd-verfassungsschutz-rechtsextremistisch-verbotsverfahren

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14884 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…

Polar Sparsity: High Throughput Batched LLM Inferencing with Scalable Contextual Sparsity
Accelerating large language model (LLM) inference is critical for real-world deployments requiring high throughput and low latency. Contextual sparsity, where each token dynamically activates only a small subset of the model parameters, shows promise but does not scale to large batch sizes due to union of active neurons quickly approaching dense computation. We introduce Polar Sparsity, highlighting a key shift in sparsity importance from MLP to Attention layers as we scale batch size and seque…

Rand Paul: “It reminded me of a meeting on industrial policy in the Soviet Union, where you have to be nice to the czar, because if you are not nice to the czar, they’ll bequeath exceptions to the iron fist”

GenAI-free WorldCon alternative!
Mia Tsai: on Bluesky: "ConCurrent Seattle, a one-day SFFH con intended to be an alternative program to WorldCon"
Thursday, August 14, 2025
ACT Theatre, downtown #Seattle
> My vision for ConCurrent was simple
> one day of excellent programming; have it be free to attend; run it efficiently; and never use genAI/L…

Mia Tsai (@itsamia.bsky.social)
There’s no way to ease into this news, so here it is. Today, I am announcing ConCurrent Seattle, a one-day SFFH con intended to be an alternative program to WorldCon, scheduled for Thursday, August 14, 2025, at the ACT Theatre in downtown Seattle at 700 Union Street, across from the Sheraton. 1/7

It's only censorship if you dislike it, right?

Europe should counter new Trump tariffs 'immediately,' EU Parliament's Lange says (Rory O'Neill/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/tariffs-trump-european-union-trade-steel-parliament-bernd-lange/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p24#a250531p24

Das teure Pandemie Desaster und #JensSpahn kommt 'ungeschoren' davon und ist Fraktionschef der Union im neuen Bundestag geworden
https://www.zdfheute.de/briefing/spahn-cdu

Update am Morgen: Maskierte Steuerverschwendung
Masken gekauft und wohl Milliarden verbrannt - doch Jens Spahn macht weiter, als wäre nichts gewesen. Und: Ein guter Tag zum Fahrradfahren.

Improving Regulatory Oversight in Online Content Moderation
Benedetta Tessa, Denise Amram, Anna Monreale, Stefano Cresci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04145 h…

Improving Regulatory Oversight in Online Content Moderation
The European Union introduced the Digital Services Act (DSA) to address the risks associated with digital platforms and promote a safer online environment. However, despite the potential of components such as the Transparency Database, Transparency Reports, and Article 40 of the DSA to improve platform transparency, significant challenges remain. These include data inconsistencies and a lack of detailed information, which hinder transparency in content moderation practices. Additionally, the ab…

Microsoft and the CWA reach a tentative contract agreement for ~300 ZeniMax QA workers after two years of talks, marking Microsoft's first US union contract (Josh Eidelson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, 2025 by me
#silentsunday

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04846 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_…

On the Complexity of 2-club Cluster Editing with Vertex Splitting
Editing a graph to obtain a disjoint union of s-clubs is one of the models for correlation clustering, which seeks a partition of the vertex set of a graph so that elements of each resulting set are close enough according to some given criterion. For example, in the case of editing into s-clubs, the criterion is proximity since any pair of vertices (in an s-club) are within a distance of s from each other. In this work we consider the vertex splitting operation, which allows a vertex to belong …

They should base it on NixOS and call it EUnix #EUOS
https://news.itsfoss.com/eu-os/

Checked in at Union Market. Secret back patio garden

The overflow in the Katona Theorem
Peter Frankl, Jian Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05704 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.05704

The overflow in the Katona Theorem
Let $n>2r>0$ be integers. We consider families $\mathcal{F}$ of subsets of an $n$-element set, in which the union of any two members has size at most $2r$. One of our results states that for $n\geq 6r$ the number of members of size exceeding $r$ in $\mathcal{F}$ is at most $\binom{n-2}{r-1}$. Another result shows that for $n>3.5r$ the number of sets of size at least $r$ is at most $\binom{n}{r}$. Both bounds are best possible and the latter sharpens the classical Katona Theorem. Similar results…

Portugal incluído. Nice.
https://flipboard.com/@euronews/green-news-8pjijreoz/-/a-mxqHnas_TPiVM9JgFxN9Ug:a:89340020-/0

EU and six member states take ‘historic step’ by ratifying UN treaty to protect the high seas
The High Seas Treaty has the potential to bring about a significant shift in global ocean conservation efforts. The European Union and six of its …

Es gibt die Guten™ und die Bösen™. Und wer die Bösen sind bestimmen die Guten.¹
Das ist, was in den USA grad passiert. Und was Teile der Union durchaus attraktiv finden.
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¹Wir haben den Rechtsstaat erfunden, weil obiges Autokratie beschreibt. Und wir müssen ihn verteidigen.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.15290 has been replaced.
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On boundary degrees of freedom in three dimensional Anti-de Sitter spacetime and thermofield-double
We will give two representations for thermofield-double (TFD). The first representation is the well-known Kerr-BTZ black hole geometry, which is the solution of Einstein's equation. The second representation is a disjoint union of two circles, which is a solution to two copies of the Schwarzian theory. This representation, in particular, admits the reparametrization modes, which are absent in any two dimensional CFT on a torus, and are essential for (dis-)entangling the TFD. Since the two repre…

Yes, https://nsf-iaa.org is the official website of the Norwegian Syndicalist Federation (NSF), a union that follows anarcho-syndicalist principles.
Please boost their visibility among other anarchists and syndicalists!
You can also find them on Mastodon: @…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13276 has been replaced.
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CW-complexes and minimal Hilbert vector of graded Artinian Gorenstein algebras
I introduce a geometric interpretation of the set of standard graded Artinian Gorenstein algebras of codimension $n$ and degree $d$: the standard locus, which is a subset of the projective space of degree $d$ polynomials in $n$ variables, and I characterize it. Under opportune hypothesis, I prove that the locus of full Perazzo polynomials is the union of the minimal dimensional irreducible components of the standard locus and it is pure dimensional subset. On the other hand, I associate to any …

Vietoris--Rips Shadow for Euclidean Graph Reconstruction
Rafal Komendarczyk, Sushovan Majhi, Atish Mitra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01603 https://

Vietoris--Rips Shadow for Euclidean Graph Reconstruction
The shadow of an abstract simplicial complex $K$ with vertices in $\mathbb R^N$ is a subset of $\mathbb R^N$ defined as the union of the convex hulls of simplices of $K$. The Vietoris--Rips complex of a metric space $(S,d)$ at scale $β$ is an abstract simplicial complex whose each $k$-simplex corresponds to $(k+1)$ points of $S$ within diameter $β$. In case $S\subset\mathbb R^2$ and $d(a,b)=\|a-b\|$ standard Euclidean, the natural shadow projection of the Vietoris--Rips is already p…

Finitary codings and stochastic domination for Poisson representable processes
Yinon Spinka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04797 https://…

Finitary codings and stochastic domination for Poisson representable processes
Construct a random set by independently selecting each finite subset of the integers with some probability depending on the set up to translations and taking the union of the selected sets. We show that when the only sets selected with positive probability are pairs, such a random set is a finitary factor of an IID process, answering a question of Forsström, Gantert and Steif. More generally, we show that this is the case whenever the distribution induced by the size of the selected sets has s…

Smoke from Canadian fires reaches Europe: EU climate monitor #Canada

Smoke from Canadian fires reaches Europe: EU climate monitor
Heavy smoke from intense wildfires in Canada has reached northwestern Europe, the European Union's climate monitoring service said on Tuesday.

We in Game Workers Unite Ireland stand in solidarity with Animation Workers of Ireland, and the international trade union coalition happening to organise against the threat of AI in the animation industry, and we support their call to acton.
Join them Thursday 12 June at 14:00 at the Pâquier in Annecy!!
#Animation

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.07544 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

On Boundaries of $\varepsilon$-neighbourhoods of Planar Sets, Part II: Global Structure and Curvature
We study the global topological structure and smoothness of the boundaries of $\varepsilon$-neighbourhoods $E_\varepsilon = \{x \in \mathbb{R}^2 \, : \, \textrm{dist}(x, E) \leq \varepsilon \}$ of planar sets $E \subset \mathbb{R}^2$. We show that for a compact set $E$ and $\varepsilon > 0$ the boundary $\partial E_\varepsilon$ can be expressed as a disjoint union of an at most countably infinite union of Jordan curves and a possibly uncountable, totally disconnected set of singularities. We al…

masks at protests / demographics
Interestingly, at the May Day gathering I was the only one in a mask.
Thinking about the contrast with the trans protest the other week, where "good" (fitted not floppy) masks were dotted about throughout the crowd, and felt normalised.
Today's march was a less crowded event than the trans protest, so pretty low-risk for covid transmission anyway. But then when we got to the mini-fair after the march, indoors at the Friends' Meeting House, I didn't see anyone masking indoors either.
I wonder about the demographics of that difference. Seems like there's a traditional union/Labour left who share the mainstream denial of present-day covid, and a statistically more disabled & marginalised cohort where trans awareness and disability/illness awareness overlap.
#masks #CovidIsntOver

Hollywood insiders report widespread off-the-books AI experimentation in studios, often hidden due to avoid backlash, despite union contracts limiting AI use (Lila Shapiro/Vulture)
https://www.vulture.com/article/generative-ai-hollywood-movies-tv.html…

Hollywood Already Uses Generative AI (And Is Hiding It)
With dozens of new studios and rapidly evolving tech, generative AI video is more embedded in Hollywood movies and TV than we may realize.

Die Union fordert Krankenhäuser effizienter zu machen. Ich hätte da eine ungewöhnliche Idee: könnten sich Krankenhäuser darauf konzentrieren, eine möglichst effektive Gesundheits­versorgung sicher zu stellen,¹ statt Gewinne machen zu müssen,² könnte das ganz entgegen der neoliberalen Lehre effizienter sein.
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¹z.B. in kommunaler Trägerschaft
²Asklepios Kliniken machte 2024 insgesamt 136 Millionen Euro, Fresenius Helios 772 Millionen Euro, usw, und diese Gewinne werden von un…

eu_procurements_alt: EU national procurement networks (2008-2016)
These 234 networks represent the annual national public procurement markets of 26 European countries from 2008-2016, inclusive. Data is sourced from Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the official procurement portal of the European Union.
This network has 1770 nodes and 3997 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Weighted, Temporal

ich bin unter meinem „Klarnamen“¹ öffentlich dagegen, daß die Union andere² verpflichten will, unter ihrem „Klarnamen“¹ zu agieren. Anonyme wie pseudonyme Kommunikation – nicht nur in privaten Chatgruppen sondern auch gegenüber einer nicht klar gestimmten „Öffentlichkeit“ – ist wichtig. Ein Namenszwang schützt überhaupt nicht gegen die ganze Scheiße, die im Netz passiert.
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¹da geht es um das Ding, das im Perso steht
²und mich

Und schon wieder reden alle nur über den Take der Rechten, hier der Union.

Forscher mahnen Verteidigungsstrategie für Europa an
Vier deutsche Friedensforschungsinstitute plädieren angesichts der veränderten Sicherheitslage für mehr eigenständige Verteidigung in Europa. "Die Europäische Union muss Strategien entwickeln, um ihre Verteidigung auf lange Sicht unabhängig von den USA sicherzustellen", forderten die Wissenschaftler zur Vorstellung ihres Friedensgutachtens 2025 in Berlin.
Es gelte, Lücken …
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Wadephul: Müssen Druck aufrechterhalten ++
Bundesaußenminister Wadephul hat nach einem Treffen mit US-Senator Graham eine gemeinsame harte Linie gegenüber Russlands Präsidenten Putin betont. Friedensforscher mahnen eine Verteidigungsstrategie für Europa an.

Degree functions of graded families of ideals
Steven Dale Cutkosky, Jonathan Monta\~no
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05248 https://arxiv…

Degree functions of graded families of ideals
We express multiplicities and degree functions of graded families of $\mathfrak{m}_R$-primary ideals in an excellent normal local ring $(R,\mathfrak{m}_R)$ as limits of intersection products. Moreover, in dimension 2, we show more refined results for divisorial filtrations. Finally, also in dimension 2, we give an example of a non-Noetherian divisorial filtration $\{I_n\}_{n\geqslant 0}$ of $\mathfrak{m}_R$-primary ideals such that the union of all the sets of Rees valuations of all the $I_n$ i…

"The term anarcho-syndicalism first appeared as a derogatory commentary and an insult against certain working-class militants in the nineteenth century. It was often used to refer as a whole to the trade-union activities of individuals and groups who defined themselves as anarchists."
h…

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Conditional constrained and unconstrained quantization for probability distributions
In this paper, we introduce and develop the concept of conditional quantization for Borel probability measures on $\mathbb{R}^k,$ considering both constrained and unconstrained frameworks. For each setting, we define the associated quantization errors, dimensions, and coefficients, and provide explicit computations for specific classes of probability distributions. A key result in the unconstrained case is that the union of all optimal sets of $ n$-means is dense in the support of the measure. …

On Sunday, voters are casting their ballots in the decisive runoff between
Rafał Trzaskowski, the liberal-centrist mayor of Warsaw,
and Karol Nawrocki, a right-wing historian who has helmed a nationalist effort to rewrite Poland’s role in the Holocaust.
The candidates offer starkly different visions for Poland.
Trzaskowski promises cooperation with the European Union and social changes, such as loosening restrictive abortion laws and allowing civil unions for LGBTQ peo…

Hollywood insiders report widespread off-the-books AI experimentation in studios, often hidden due to avoid backlash, despite union contracts limiting AI use (Lila Shapiro/Vulture)
https://www.vulture.com/article/generative-ai-hollywood-movies-tv.html…

Hollywood Already Uses Generative AI (And Is Hiding It)
With dozens of new studios and rapidly evolving tech, generative AI video is more embedded in Hollywood movies and TV than we may realize.

„Ein Vorteil von Tempo 30 ist, daß es Dobrindt bzw die Union ärgert.“

Perfect $1$-factorisations of $K_{11,11}$
Jack Allsop, Ian M. Wanless
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02455 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.024…

Perfect $1$-factorisations of $K_{11,11}$
A perfect $1$-factorisation of a graph is a decomposition of that graph into $1$-factors such that the union of any two $1$-factors is a Hamiltonian cycle. A Latin square of order $n$ is row-Hamiltonian if for every pair $(r,s)$ of distinct rows, the permutation mapping $r$ to $s$ has a single cycle of length $n$. We report the results of a computer enumeration of the perfect $1$-factorisations of the complete bipartite graph $K_{11,11}$. This also allows us to find all row-Hamiltonian Latin sq…

„Das Bestehen einer akuten Notlage in der Bundes­republik Deutschland begründet sich damit, daß Union und SPD unter Bundeskanzler Merz an der Regierung sind“ – oder so ähnlich… Also zumindest fällt mir gerade keine andere Begründung ein…
Siehe https://plasmatrap.com/notes/a8he5z74xv