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New: Podcast ep 192: What if we make mistakes on purpose? The unlikely freedom of doing things badly and letting yourself run out https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-192-make-mistakes-on-purpose

Las Vegas Raiders rookie draws unlikely comparison to Maxx Crosby https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/las-vegas-raiders-rookie-draws-unlikely-comparison-maxx-crosby/…

20-truck monty.
It is unlikely to all be on any one truck or at all on most of them.
The IAEA is not going to be happy. https://defenseofliberty.social/@MalcolmNance/114738718224071490

Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance@defenseofliberty.social)
Attached: 1 image Wait so they saw all these trucks at the #Iranian plant and still #bombed it instead of following where the trucks went and now they don’t know where the #uranium is….is that the gist?

Senate GOP unlikely to release revised megabill text Monday (Jordain Carney/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/23/congress/senate-gop-megabill-text-delay-00418386
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p51#a250623p51

Jazzaria – Incalculable Gumbo
#byncnd

Cowboys' secret weapon bringing 'energy' to practice is unlikely source https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-secret-weapon-bringing-energy-practice-unlikely-source

Sources: Steelers unlikely to trade for TE Smith https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45441995/steelers-unlikely-trade-te-smith-host-wr-davis

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
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- Rewarding the Unlikely: Lifting GRPO Beyond Distribution Sharpening
Andre He, Daniel Fried, Sean Welleck

I am not a car, so it is very unlikely I would be named Car of the Year.

Trump’s tariffs are running up against the limits of nature
The deeper you delve into the weird and wonderful world of aluminum,
the more you realize there are physical limits that make a resurgence of U.S. production unlikely.

Raw supply isn’t the problem.
There is more aluminum in the Earth’s crust than any other metal.
But finding a way of extracting it and turning it into a usable form was something we achieved surprisingly recently. -- Until then, it was the mo…

Trump’s tariffs are running up against the limits of nature
U.S. geography makes it difficult to produce more aluminum — even with a 50 percent tariff for motivation.

Krugman continues:
❝While there is a cadre of Trumpist true believers who will obey the Leader under any circumstances, most of those doing the dirty work of undermining democracy and the rule of law are cowards and opportunists. They’re willing to participate in the destruction of America as we know it because they believe that many others will do the same. As a result, they believe that they are unlikely to face any personal consequences for their actions and may even be rewarded for their lawbreaking.
And what of those who oppose Trumpism? While there are heroes willing to take a stand against tyranny whatever the personal cost, most anti-Trumpists are reluctant to stick their necks out unless they believe that they are part of a widespread resistance that will grant them some measure of safety in numbers.
In other words, the victory or defeat of competitive authoritarianism will depend to a large extent on which side ordinary people believe will win. If Trump looks unstoppable, resistance will wither away and democracy will be lost. On the other hand, if he appears weak and stymied, resistance will grow and — just maybe — American democracy will survive.❞
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Language learning has been part of me since high school. I'm solid in 2 non-English languages, crappy but survivable in 2 others. I've played with & started learning others many times.
I'm real busy rn, but language learning could be a fun thing to do for myself & make me feel like I'm still me.
But I'm stumped about my language picks. I learnt the obvious European languages in school; later tried key Asian languages. What do I want to do now?
African languages? I won't be getting a chance to use them much in Aus, & I'm unlikely to get to a stage where I can read literature.
I tried Slovenian/Slovene on a whim & really love it, but I'll never go there. Is the practical but unfun answer grind out more kanji/hanzi? Or is whimsically learning a language spoken by only 2.5 million people reasonable? I will continue struggling through with Ukrainian, 'cause I think it's important.
#LanguageLearning

"Adolescence has sparked fears over teen slang – but #emoji don’t cause radicalisation" https://theconversation.com/adolescenc

Unlikely intersections in Shimura varieties and beyond: a survey
Christopher Daw
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02900 https://arxiv.org/p…

Unlikely intersections in Shimura varieties and beyond: a survey
The aim of this note is to provide a concise introduction to so-called problems of unlikely intersections for (pure) Shimura varieties and to review the current state-of-the-art. In the process, we will touch upon more general settings and some of the results in those contexts.

Corey Lewandowski?!?
'Of all people!' Senator reveals unlikely ally who chased down feds in scuffle - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/alex-padilla-2672366295/

Bob Iger says Disney will "probably" stop disclosing subscriber numbers like Netflix has "at some point" and says it doesn't plan to spin off its cable channels (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodrep…

Bob Iger Says Disney Unlikely to Follow Comcast and Warner Bros. Discovery In Exiting the TV Channel Business
The CEO also said that Disney+ will "probably" emulate Netflix and stop reporting subscriber numbers at some point, he noted during a CNBC appearance.

"The places that need to worry are those that look vulnerable or unlikely to fight back. Greenland may fall into that category — which suggests that Denmark and the EU need to find ways of letting Trump know that there will be a price to pay if he makes a move on the island"
Trump always chickens out on foreign policy too - https://on.ft.com/458Z5FI v

Cowboys rookie is unlikely to achieve this franchise feat https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-rookie-is-unlikely-to-achieve-this-franchise-feat

Apple Intelligence has labeled a photo I’ve taken of a neighbour’s calico tabby as “American Wirehair”. I’m not an expert, so who knows, but based on geotags it would seem unlikely.

Mass models of galaxy clusters from a non-parametric weak-lensing reconstruction
Tobias Mistele, Federico Lelli, Stacy McGaugh, James Schombert, Benoit Famaey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13716

Mass models of galaxy clusters from a non-parametric weak-lensing reconstruction
We study the CLASH sample of galaxy clusters using a new deprojection method for weak gravitational lensing observations. This method is non-parametric, allowing us to infer mass profiles, or equivalently circular velocities, without having to assume a specific halo profile. While this method assumes spherical symmetry, we show that, on average, triaxiality is unlikely to significantly affect our results. We use this method to study the total mass profiles of the CLASH clusters, as well as the …

Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
AVON: Oh, it was. This was just someone's unsuccessful attempt to develop something similar.
TARRANT: Dorian's?
AVON: It seems unlikely. Did you run the calculations?
TARRANT: Yes. Xenon. Mean anything to you?
AVON: No.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/401/248

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As I look at people around me, rarely I see anyone with such a strong symptoms of pollen #allergy as I have. I suppose it's unlikely that all people with allergies manage to keep to their basements, so I'm wondering: is it that my allergy is unusually strong (or resilient to medicine), or are others taking more medicine than I do.
Today I've taken a third pill already (3.5 times the base dosage in total), and once again I'm starting to have a runny nose. And that's after 2 hours since last pill, spent sitting in trains. If the allergy doesn't kill me, the medicine will…

Some core #urbanism from an unlikely source … 7 News Australia
They've had a slight reputation for "announcing" policies that are not from the government but just from think tanks. But this news report is all good stuff (like the last time, when Parramatta Road was proposed for light rail)
This is completing a "ring road" or circle line of

Singular intersections on families of abelian varieties
Nicola Ottolini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15344 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.1…

Singular intersections on families of abelian varieties
Let $S$ be a smooth irreducible curve defined over $\overline{\mathbb{Q}}$, let $\mathcal{A}$ be an abelian scheme over $S$ and $\mathcal{C}$ a curve inside $\mathcal{A}$, both defined over $\overline{\mathbb{Q}}$. In this paper we prove that the set of points in which $\mathcal{C}$ intersects proper flat subgroup schemes of $\mathcal{A}$ tangentially is finite. This fits in the framework of the so-called problems of unlikely intersections, and can be seen as a variation of the relative Pink co…

On the Efficacy of Ocean Formation with a Primordial Hydrogen Atmosphere
Darius Modirrousta-Galian, Jun Korenaga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10417 https://

On the Efficacy of Ocean Formation with a Primordial Hydrogen Atmosphere
It has been suggested that Earth's present water budget formed from oxidation reactions between its initial hydrogen-rich primordial atmosphere and its magma ocean. Here we examine this hypothesis by building a comprehensive atmosphere-magma ocean model. We find that water formation is unlikely for two reasons. First, any water formed from oxidation reactions in the magma ocean would quickly outgass because of the water-poor atmosphere above. Second, the top boundary layer of the magma ocean be…

The initial evolution of SN 1993J: Piston phase versus standard model
C. -I. Bjornsson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07137 https://arxiv…

The initial evolution of SN 1993J: Piston phase versus standard model
The evolution of SN 1993J is unlikely to be self-similar. Spatially resolved VLBI-observations show that the velocity of the outer rim of the radio emission region brakes at a few hundred days. The reason for this break remains largely unknown. It is argued here that it is due to the transition between an initial piston phase to a later phase, which is described by the standard model. The properties of the reverse shock are quite different for a piston phase as compared to the standard self-sim…

On the calculation of p-values for quadratic statistics in Pulsar Timing Arrays
Rutger van Haasteren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10811 https://

On the calculation of p-values for quadratic statistics in Pulsar Timing Arrays
Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) projects have reported various lines of evidence suggesting the presence of a stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background in their data. One key line of evidence involves a detection statistic sensitive to inter-pulsar correlations, such as those induced by GWs. A $p$-value is then calculated to assess how unlikely it is for the observed signal to arise under the null hypothesis $H_0$, purely by chance. However, PTAs cannot empirically draw samples from $H_0$. As a w…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.DM. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DM/new/
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Small maximal clusters are very unlikely in critical random graphs
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This https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12451 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Small maximal clusters are very unlikely in critical random graphs
We describe a probabilistic methodology, based on random walk estimates, to obtain exponential upper bounds for the probability of observing unusually small maximal components in two classical (near-)critical random graph models. More specifically, we analyse the near-critical Erdős-Rényi model $\mathbb{G}(n,p)$ and the random graph $\mathbb{G}(n,d,p)$ obtained by performing near-critical $p$-bond percolation on a simple random $d$-regular graph and show that, for each one of these models, th…

Jamie Dimon Says China Unlikely to Fold on Tariffs: 'They're Not Scared' - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/jamie-dimon-china-tariffs-trump-trade-war-2025-5

These Kentucky Republicans attempt an unlikely bulwark to Trump (Paul Kane/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/31/trump-mcconnell-rand-paul/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p41#a250531p41

I honestly don’t get how this is possible in 2025.
There’s no excuse for not having protected backups of everything critical. That was true 30 years ago, it is true today. Back then a bigger piece of the risk was hardware, less malware. Today it is unlikely for a disk failure to take your data because we all learned that RAID was worthwhile. But RAID is not a backup and backups today need to be resistant to intentional malicious deletion.

Multicomponent Linear Transport in the Absence of Local Equilibrium
Yu-Jen Chiu, Eric M. Weiner, Ahmad K. Omar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23906 https://

Multicomponent Linear Transport in the Absence of Local Equilibrium
The linear laws of transport phenomena are central in our description of irreversible processes in systems across the physical sciences. Linear irreversible thermodynamics allows for the identification of the underlying forces driving transport and the structure of the relevant transport coefficients for systems that are locally in equilibrium. Increasingly, linear relations are found to describe transport in systems in which a local equilibrium hypothesis is unlikely to hold. Here, we derive a…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08048 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

The origin of the coherent radio flash potentially associated with GRB 201006A
Rowlinson et al. 2023 recently claimed the detection of a coherent radio flash 76.6 minutes after a short gamma-ray burst. They proposed that the radio emission may be associated with a long-lived neutron star engine. We show through theoretical and observational arguments that the coherent radio emission, if real and indeed associated with GRB 201006A and at the estimated redshift, is unlikely to be due to the collapse of the neutron star, ruling out a blitzar-like mechanism. Instead, we show …