
2025-06-18 10:10:29
Union-Intersection Union-Find for Decoding Depolarizing Errors in Topological Codes
Tzu-Hao Lin, Ching-Yi Lai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14745 https://
Union-Intersection Union-Find for Decoding Depolarizing Errors in Topological Codes
Tzu-Hao Lin, Ching-Yi Lai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14745 https://
The Union Army and #Juneteenth 1865 | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/spotlight-primary-source/union-army-and-juneteenth-1865
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/
Humans, Machine Learning, and Language Models in Union: A Cognitive Study on Table Unionability
Sreeram Marimuthu, Nina Klimenkova, Roee Shraga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12990
Die Union ist ein rechter Sauhaufen!
What happens when stakeholders along the #supplychain join forces to eliminate #gender-based violence? Find out how investigations by WorkerRights and empowering #women
Avoid #Krogers until they agree to pay their workers.
#UnionStrong
https://masto.nyc/@GetMisch/1146944853
Captain of a rifle section of Union re-enactors explains Civil War firing tactics at Gettysburg last weekend
#photo #photography #military
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/
#Philippines workers outraged by union busting at #Lululemon sportswear factory
If you're fortunate enough to have discretionary income, the LA Tenants Union is helping those in LA targeted by LAPD, DHS, and ICE.
I can't give more details, but know that union members have spent their own money to provide food, water, and medical care to those who need it.
https://gofund.me/4f0c850f…
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 4585 nodes and 4694 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Weighted, Temporal
Arithmetic Circuits with Division
Silas Cato Sacher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12246 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.12246
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.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
European Baroque Orchestra, European Union Baroque Orchestra, Johann Sebastian Bach & Lars Ulrik Mortensen:
🎵 Brandenburg concerto No 3 in G major BWV 1048
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://open.spotify.com/track/3eLjMNo0p4ZGG8ypDW7RGf
Teachers union president Randi Weingarten resigns from DNC (Holly Otterbein/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/15/weingarten-dnc-00407364
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p83#a250615p83
Soviet Union: Goodnight guys, see you tomorrow…
Last online 33 years ago.
#Communism #StateSocialism #Socialism
Replaced article(s) found for econ.GN. https://arxiv.org/list/econ.GN/new
[1/1]:
Why do we need to complement the European Union Regional Innovation Scoreboard with an artificial...
Goodness, does this mean we can expect a strongly-worded letter next? https://mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApartheid/114675920702558762
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 …
Enabling Syscall Intercept for RISC-V
Petar Andri\'c, Aaron Call, Ramon Nou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10217 https://arxiv.org/pd…
#Zypern kämpft weiter mit massiven Problemen in der #Abfallwirtschaft.
Rund 700 illegale #Mülldeponien verschmutzen
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…
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
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
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
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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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…
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 ✍️
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).
"I do not want to be the one who keeps questioning why we are not enlarging our tent and actively trying to engage more of our communities.”
Teachers union president Randi Weingarten resigns from DNC - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/15/weingarten-dnc-00407364
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…
Einfach mal so¹ CDU-Politikys öffentlich fragen²: „Wie viele Antifaschisten gibt es in der Union? … Sind die anderen vorwiegend ignorant oder Faschisten?“ und genießen, wie sie sich winden.³ Mit etwas Glück gibts auch einen kleinen Brain-Tilt beim einen oder anderen.
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¹optimalerweise im Kontext des üblichen rechten Sermons über die böse Antifa
²ich entgendere die Frage ganz bewußt nicht, wir wollen die angesprochenen ja nicht dadurch ablenken,d aß wir einen anderen Reflex b…
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
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…
#Agile Development was invented in the Soviet Union.
🇺🇦 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
🚛 To Unionize Amazon, Disrupt the Flow
#union
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.12098 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…
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.
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…
Via AltNationalParkService on FB:
**Honored to announce: 12.1 million in attendance**, even small towns: Manistee, Oneonta, Pasco County, Stowe, Bennington, Union Gap, Bellingham, Casper, Jackson, Driggs, Petoskey, Traverse City, Big Rapids, Alton, South Bend, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, Des Moines, Topeka, Great Bend, Hays, Lenexa, Garden City, Lawrence, Wichita, Pierre, Rapid City, Spearfish, Watertown, Brookings, Sioux Falls.
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…
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…
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.
Another great photo!
Members of the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist trade union #CNT marching in Madrid in 2010.
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil…
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
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…
Demand that the European Union does not leave millions of dogs and cats unprotected against illegal breeding! #AnimalRights
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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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…
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 …
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…
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 …
I try a new (for me) DNS system today: THE EU DNS https://www.dns0.eu/
Let’s see if this works
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/
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…
A beautifully-made union banner from the May Day march :-)
#Nottingham
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/
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.”…
Union soldiers fire their rifles at Gettysburg National Military Park
#photo #photography #history #gettysburg
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…
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".
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04802 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…
Scattering theory on Riemann surfaces I: Schiffer operators, cohomology, and index theorems
Eric Schippers, Wolfgang Staubach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08160
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09881 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…
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…
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
Viele europäische #Landwirt*innen zeigen mehr #Klimaskepsis als andere Berufsgruppen, vor allem in wohlhabenderen Ländern mit geringerem #Klimarisiko.
Das erschwert
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…
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/
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
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
The overflow in the Katona Theorem
Peter Frankl, Jian Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05704 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.05704
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…
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…
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…
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: @…
Smoke from Canadian fires reaches Europe: EU climate monitor #Canada
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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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
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.
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…
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
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”
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…
„Ein Vorteil von Tempo 30 ist, daß es Dobrindt bzw die Union ärgert.“
„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