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This summer’s Democratic National Convention could be hit by protests and scenes of chaos that undermine Joe Biden's reelection campaign.
Already, 65-plus organizations in Chicago and elsewhere have formed a coalition to “March on the DNC” when it opens there on Aug. 19.
Activists have sued in federal court, alleging First Amendment violations because the city has only offered permits for demonstrations miles from the United Center, where Biden is scheduled to accept the Dem…

Noting campus protests, Democrats are preparing for intense action at their summer convention
As pro-Palestinian demonstrations escalate on college campuses around the country, critics of President Joe Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war suggest this summer’s Democratic National Convention could be hit by protests and scenes of chaos that undermine his reelection. Already, more than 65 organizations in Chicago and elsewhere have formed a coalition to “March on the DNC” when it opens there on Aug. 19. Protesters preparing for the convention hope to channel the anger on many …

Sources: StubHub aims to go public by late summer but may call off the listing if it can't get close to the $16.5B valuation from a funding round in 2021 (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/stubhub-plan…

StubHub Plans Summer IPO in New Test of Market
Online ticketing marketplace StubHub is aiming to go public by late summer, people close to the company said, setting up another sizable internet initial public offering after Reddit’s IPO last month. And as StubHub has more than $2 billion in debt, many times its estimated profits, the company ...

You can't wave away the ethical quagmire of tech firms violating copyright to train data as just "archiving the web." They're profiting from a tool used to generate fake works by real artists and porn videos of high school classmates https://www.nytimes.com/2024/…

Sources: StubHub aims to go public by late summer but may call off the listing if it can't get close to the $16.5B valuation from a funding round in 2021 (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/stubhub-plan…

StubHub Plans Summer IPO in New Test of Market
Online ticketing marketplace StubHub is aiming to go public by late summer, people close to the company said, setting up another sizable internet initial public offering after Reddit’s IPO last month. And as StubHub has more than $2 billion in debt, many times its estimated profits, the company ...

This is anecdotal, but I now personally know two employees of #AI-related companies whose valuations have imploded within the past month, and they are now looking to bail. One company lost 73% of their (publicly traded) value in a month. The other one is a startup whose founder (according to my friend) has “finally snapped”, and the company is now in freefall.
It feels like the bubble is bursting r…

Nova Group sets up new electricity generation company amid Russian attacks on infrastructure: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/12/nova-group-sets.html

Mahomes, Chiefs deny ex-Cowboys defensive lineman a ring https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/mahomes_chiefs_deny_ex_cowboys_defensive_lineman_a_ring/s1_17100_39954322

Mahomes, Chiefs deny ex-Cowboys defensive lineman a ring
Randy Gregory was just a little over seven minutes away from completing a strange odyssey. The Cowboys' second round pick of the 2015 Draft – 60th overall – was a promising young defensive lineman out of Nebraska. That promise went up in smoke – literally. Dallas drafted him despite his positive test for marijuana at the combine. He played in 12 of the Cowboys' 16 games in his rookie season. Gregory was suspended for violating the league's substance abuse policy for the first 15 weeks of …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.12357 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hept…

Electrodynamics with violations of Lorentz and U(1) gauge symmetries and their Hamiltonian structure
This article aims to study the Lorentz/U(1) gauge symmetry-breaking electrodynamics in the framework of the Standard-Model Extension and analyze the Hamiltonian structure for the theory with a specific dimension $d\leq 4$ of Lorentz breaking operators. For this purpose, we consider a general quadratic action of the modified electrodynamics with Lorentz/gauge-breaking operators and calculate the number of independent components of the operators at different dimensions in gauge invariance and bre…

Anrok, which provides sales tax management tools to software companies, raised a $30M Series B led by Khosla Ventures at a $250M valuation (Kenrick Cai/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2024/04/11/anrok-serie…

Anrok Hits A $250 Million Valuation With A Mundane Idea: Calculating Sales Tax
In 2019, recovering venture capitalist Michelle Valentine came upon an idea she wanted to invest in: a business to handle the rote work of managing sales tax on softwa...

Chromoelectric flux tubes within non-Abelian Proca theory
Vladimir Dzhunushaliev, Vladimir Folomeev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07747 https://

Chromoelectric flux tubes within non-Abelian Proca theory
Flux tube solutions within non-Abelian SU(3) Proca theory with external sources are obtained. It is shown that such tubes have a longitudinal chromoelectric field possessing two components (nonlinear and gradient), as well as a transverse chromomagnetic field whose force lines create concentric circles with the center on the axis of the tube. The scenario of a possible relationship between non-Abelian Proca theory and quantum chromodynamics is considered. In such scenario: (a)~the components of…