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UPDATE: 7:42 p.m.: Protesters have spent the past hour or so gathered at the site of the police barricade at the intersection of Plaza Avenue and LK Wood Boulevard. As they were chanting, a U-Haul truck parked across the street. The occupants exited the vehicle and rolled up the vehicle’s rear door to reveal… a drum set.
Yes, the members of Arcata punk band Gooseneck have arrived at Cal Poly Humboldt and plan to bring the noise for the demonstrators. They are setting up now, but seem to be having trouble with their generator.. We will update when their shredding is commences.
— Andrew Goff
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2024/apr/27/cal-poly-humboldt-issues-hard-closure-campus-law-e/

Trump benefits from an unequal system. Still, he can’t outrun justice.
To the surprise of many pundits, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s state prosecution alleging falsification of business records has withstood Trump’s antics better than the others.
Justice Juan Merchan has demonstrated what equal justice under the law really means.
He rejected Trump’s baseless immunity claims and attempt to block probative evidence; he disallowed Trump’s specious defenses such…

Trump benefits from an unequal system. Still, he can’t outrun justice.
Yes, the former president has gotten some breaks — but not enough to dodge accountability.

UPDATE: 7:42 p.m.: Protesters have spent the past hour or so gathered at the site of the police barricade at the intersection of Plaza Avenue and LK Wood Boulevard. As they were chanting, a U-Haul truck parked across the street. The occupants exited the vehicle and rolled up the vehicle’s rear door to reveal… a drum set.
Yes, the members of Arcata punk band Gooseneck have arrived at Cal Poly Humboldt and plan to bring the noise for the demonstrators. They are setting up now, but seem to be having trouble with their generator.. We will update when their shredding is commences.
— Andrew Goff
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2024/apr/27/cal-poly-humboldt-issues-hard-closure-campus-law-e/

In my head, the title is pronounced “Zhakob hazh Zhumped the Zhark.” Which explains… well, nothing, I guess.
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/03/jakob-has-jumped-the-shark.html
Yes, that is the bear from Jakob’s clearly spurious alternative text exa…

Jakob Has Jumped the Shark
Yes, that is the bear from Jakob’s clearly spurious alternative text example and yes, that is The Fonz after jumping the shark. If you have been following the saga of Jakob Nielsen, there a few quotes I could use here: Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster (Nietzsche).…

Nonlinear quasinormal mode detectability with next-generation gravitational wave detectors
Sophia Yi, Adrien Kuntz, Enrico Barausse, Emanuele Berti, Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung, Konstantinos Kritos, Andrea Maselli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09767

Nonlinear quasinormal mode detectability with next-generation gravitational wave detectors
In the aftermath of a binary black hole merger event, the gravitational wave signal emitted by the remnant black hole is modeled as a superposition of damped sinusoids known as quasinormal modes. While the dominant quasinormal modes originating from linear black hole perturbation theory have been studied extensively in this post-merger "ringdown" phase, more accurate models of ringdown radiation include the nonlinear modes arising from higher-order perturbations of the remnant black hole spacet…

zoomies: A tool to infer stellar age from vertical action in Gaia data
Sheila Sagear (Lucy), Adrian M. Price-Whelan (Lucy), Sarah Ballard (Lucy), Yuxi (Lucy), Lu, Ruth Angus, David W. Hogg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09878

zoomies: A tool to infer stellar age from vertical action in Gaia data
Stellar age measurements are fundamental to understanding a wide range of astronomical processes, including galactic dynamics, stellar evolution, and planetary system formation. However, extracting age information from Main Sequence stars is complicated, with techniques often relying on age proxies in the absence of direct measurements. The Gaia data releases have enabled detailed studies of the dynamical properties of stars within the Milky Way, offering new opportunities to understand the rel…

Nonlinear quasinormal mode detectability with next-generation gravitational wave detectors
Sophia Yi, Adrien Kuntz, Enrico Barausse, Emanuele Berti, Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung, Konstantinos Kritos, Andrea Maselli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09767

Nonlinear quasinormal mode detectability with next-generation gravitational wave detectors
In the aftermath of a binary black hole merger event, the gravitational wave signal emitted by the remnant black hole is modeled as a superposition of damped sinusoids known as quasinormal modes. While the dominant quasinormal modes originating from linear black hole perturbation theory have been studied extensively in this post-merger "ringdown" phase, more accurate models of ringdown radiation include the nonlinear modes arising from higher-order perturbations of the remnant black hole spacet…

Stellar Mergers or Truly Young? Intermediate-Age Stars on Highly-Radial Orbits in the Milky Way's Stellar Halo
Danny Horta (Lucy), Yuxi (Lucy), Lu, Melissa K. Ness, Mariangela Lisanti, Adrian M. Price-Whelan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09777

Stellar Mergers or Truly Young? Intermediate-Age Stars on Highly-Radial Orbits in the Milky Way's Stellar Halo
Reconstructing the mass assembly history of the Milky Way relies on obtaining detailed measurements of the properties of many stars in the Galaxy, especially in the stellar halo. One of the most constraining quantities is stellar age, as it can shed light on the accretion time and quenching of star formation in merging satellites. However, obtaining reliable age estimates for large samples of halo stars is difficult. We report published ages of 120 subgiant halo stars with highly-radial orbits …

Gauging Centrifugal Instabilities in Compressible Free-Shear Layers Via Nonlinear Boundary Region Equations
Omar Es-SAhli, Adrian Sescu, Yuji Hattori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02435

Gauging Centrifugal Instabilities in Compressible Free-Shear Layers Via Nonlinear Boundary Region Equations
Curved free shear layers emerge in many engineering problems involving complex flow geometries, such as the flow over a backward facing step, flows with wall injection in a boundary layer, the flow inside side-dump combustors, or wakes generated by vertical axis wind turbines, among others. Previous studies involving centrifugal instabilities have mainly focused on wall-flows where Taylor instabilities between two rotating concentric cylinders or Görtler vortices in boundary layers, resulting …

I'm rereading Wilkie Collins chronologically and these days I'm on The Moonstone. A great deal of the plot hinges on various members of the gentry being deeply in debt. Despite the fact that all the laws, all their violent enforcement, are in their favor, after all, they write the laws, they absolutely can't escape their debts without finding some way to pay them.
Their laws provide them with all their wealth through the violence of enclosure and slavery. They provide them with endless serfs,* servants, and employees by (a) making it illegal to be unemployed and (b) taking away every possibility of employment other than wage labor, and yet, even with their frictionless ability to legislate whatever they want they've given themselves no escape from debt other than payment or imprisonment. Why?
I can't think of any reason besides the stability of the capitalism they all rely on for their obscene wealth. Yes, they take everything from their slaves, their colonies, and their working class, but to be able to repudiate debts would take everything from the finance industry on which their wealth also depends. There'd be no one to sell to them. They'd have nothing to do with their money without the vast luxury economy which supplies everything that makes their wealth worthwhile.
So as a class from time to time they'd sacrifice some of their peers to the violence of law enforcement because it was necessary to save the whole system from collapse. But none of this adds up to a respect for the rule of law or a system of equality under the law, either of which would also cause collapse.
Capital's control over the social narrative was relatively primitive in the mid 19th century, and it's easy for us to spot the contradictions, but nothing's changed at its core. Even now the law applies to the ruling class as necessary to stabilize capitalism and to the working class, slaves, and colonial subjects as necessary to control and continue their violent exploitation. Things look a lot better now on the surface because they've had to evolve that way to preserve stability, not because anything is different in essence.
And for all that it's a really banging novel, highly recommended! This, along with The Woman In White and (my personal fave) No Name are just pure Victorian fun (bracketing the ocean of bloodthirsty imperialist capitalism on which their entire society floats, as does ours).
#WilkieCollins #VictorianLiterature #TheMoonstone #Capitalism
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* Speaking metaphorically.