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For those in San Jose: July 4th at Plaza de Cesar Chavez park:
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50501 San Jose Independence Day Picnic and March
This 4th of July, pack a picnic lunch and join us in the park for a day of family fun and first amendment free speech! Time: Friday, July 4th, 12 noon to 2 p.m.  Place: Plaza De Cesar Chavez Park, San Jose Activities: Live Music Guest Speakers Face Painting Letter Writing Lawn Games  Banner Painting March to City Hall at the End! Our linktree:  www.linktr.ee/sanjose50501 Go to our Bluesky account for more info and shareable flyers: https://bsky.app/profile/50501sanjose.bsky.social

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MASS MOBILISATION IN GALWAY NEEDED! 
The far-right are attempting to descend on Galway for a march through town concluding with speakers at Galway County Council. 
We cannot let them enter our communities and continue their spread of hatred, disinformation, and racism.
Meet at Galway County Council at 2:30pm this Saturday, Aug. 2nd . Tell your friends, family, unions, community groups and organisations.

Ramp raised a $500M Series E-2 led by Iconiq Growth at a $22.5B valuation, says it has 40,000 businesses as clients, with $700M in annualized revenue in March (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-finance-app-ram…

Call for Papers: „Kunstbäume in Text und Bild der Vormoderne 2.0. – Kommunikation in ökologischen Verflechtungen“ an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, vom 30. Oktober bis 1. November 2025
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Browns owner Jimmy Haslam says there's no panic following disappointing 2024 season https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6523164/2025/07/29/cleveland-browns-owner-jimmy-haslam/

Indian software services provider Tata Consultancy Services plans to cut 2% of its global workforce, or about 12,000 employees, by March 31, 2026 (Moneycontrol)
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business

Intercepting 3I/ATLAS at Closest Approach to Jupiter with the Juno spacecraft
Abraham Loeb, Adam Hibberd, Adam Crowl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21402 https://

Intercepting 3I/ATLAS at Closest Approach to Jupiter with the Juno spacecraft
The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is expected to arrive at a distance of $53.56(\pm 0.45)$ million ${\rm km}$ ($0.358\pm 0.003$~au) from Jupiter on March 16, 2026. We show that applying a total thrust $Δ$V of $2.6755{\rm km~s^{-1}}$ to lower perijove on September 9, 2025 and then execute a Jupiter Oberth Maneuver, can bring the Juno spacecraft from its orbit around Jupiter to intercept the path of 3I/ATLAS on March 14, 2026. A close fly-by might be able to probe the nature of 3I/ATLAS far bette…

On the off chance that the U.S. Government removes it from the web, this is the March 25, 2025 testimony of the U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard that Iran is _not_ currently developing nuclear weapons and it is at least 2 to 3 years from having a bomb ("breakout").
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The Economist reports revenue up 2% YoY to £368.5M for FY ending March 31, operating profit up 2% to £48.1M, subscribers up 3% to 1.25M, and digital subs up 8% (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/economi…

Subscriptions growth fuels record revenue year for The Economist
The Economist grew profit, revenue and subscription numbers last year after five years of investing in staff and tech.

MASS MOBILISATION IN GALWAY NEEDED! 
The far-right are attempting to descend on Galway for a march through town concluding with speakers at Galway County Council. 
We cannot let them enter our communities and continue their spread of hatred, disinformation, and racism.
Meet at Galway County Council at 2:30pm this Saturday, Aug. 2nd . Tell your friends, family, unions, community groups and organisations.

CFP: Kunstbäume in Text und Bild der Vormoderne 2.0. – Kommunikation in ökologischen Verflechtungen, Frankfurt am Main (13.07.2025)
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It all fits. Suppose you’re corporate leadership. You’re laying people off / refusing to hire because you have no clue what things will look like even 1 or 2 years in the future, and you are •terrified•.
Meanwhile, your investors, your gullible trend-chasing investors, are already mentally dividing companies into “pre-AI” and “post-AI.” And not only do you have no idea how to be “post-AI,” but you have no idea whether you’ll be solvent next year. What do you tell them?!??
Obviously you tell them you’re not hiring because you’re having such incredible success with AI! Maybe even you’re going to lay off all the senior people! They’ll love that!
Now you’re not failing and flailing — you’re leading the march into the future! Yay!

The unusual spectrum of the X-ray transient source XRISM J174610.8-290021 near the Galactic center
A. Yoshimoto, S. Yamauchi, M. Nobukawa, H. Uchiyama, K. K. Nobukawa, Y. Aoki, M. Ishida, Y. Kanemaru, M. Shidatsu, T. Hayashi, Y. Maeda, H. Matsumoto, Y. Tsuboi, H. Suzuki, H. Nakajima, Q. D. Wang, S. Eguchi, T. Yoneyama, T. Dotani, E. Behar, Y. Terada, N. Suzuki, M. Yoshimoto

The unusual spectrum of the X-ray transient source XRISM J174610.8-290021 near the Galactic center
The Galactic center region was observed with the XRISM X-ray observatory during the performance verification phase in 2024 and a point-like X-ray source was detected with the X-ray imager Xtend at a position of (RA, Dec)=(17h46m10.8s, -29°00'21''), which is thus named XRISM J174610.8-290021. This source was bright in February to March and showed time variations in count rate by more than one order of magnitude in one week. The 2-10 keV X-ray luminosity was ~$10^{35}$ erg/s for the assumed dist…

Call for Papers: „Kunstbäume in Text und Bild der Vormoderne 2.0. – Kommunikation in ökologischen Verflechtungen“ an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, vom 30. Oktober bis 1. November 2025
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Russia frees Ukrainian journalist Vladislav Yesypenko, detained since March 2021, and Belarus frees Belarusian journalist Ihar Karnei, detained since July 2023 (Lauren Wolfe/Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/06/russia-and-bel

Russia and Belarus release two journalists who had been detained for years - Committee to Protect Journalists
Paris, June 23, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release of Ukrainian journalist Vladislav Yesypenko and Belarusian journalist Ihar Karnei, who had been unjustly detained for years by Russia and Belarus, respectively.   Russia freed Yesypenko on June 20 after he served a five-year prison sentence on charges of possessing and transporting explosives, which he denied. Karnei, detained for nearly 2...

🪦 Novel synthetic drug 100 times stronger than fentanyl responsible for Riverside overdose
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-23/novel-synthetic-drug-100-times-stronger-than-fentanyl-re…

Novel synthetic drug 100 times stronger than fentanyl responsible for Riverside overdose
Authorities recently determined that a Riverside man overdosed in March on carfentanil, an illegally manufactured fentanyl that is 100 times more potent than fentanyl.

The IDF has begun preparations to establish a humanitarian zone that will accommodate 350,000 Gaza residents.
The zone will be established in southern Gaza in line with a cabinet decision on Saturday night, implementing the humanitarian separation plan aimed at distinguishing Gaza residents from Hamas terrorists.
At Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's insistence, the establishment of humanitarian zones will also proceed during any ceasefire, should one occur.
According …

Report: Israel considering partial withdrawal, ceasefire to be announced over weekend
According to the Saudi channel A-Sharq, the Israeli delegation has refused to withdraw from areas captured after March 2. Meanwhile, the IDF has begun

Yesterday, I watched "The Match" (승부), a movie that is now available on streaming platforms after it ran in cinemas in March. It tells the story of two Korean Go players who were both considered best in the world at some point: Cho Hun-hyun and Lee Chang-ho, a master and a student who later overtook the master. Side note: Lee Chang-ho was later followed by Lee Sedol as the world's best player who was then followed by AlphaGo. 1/2

Chiefs acquire DT Derrick Nnadi from Jets, per source: Why they're bringing him back https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6572749/2025/08/24/derrick-nnadi-trade-chiefs-jets/

Call for Papers: „Kunstbäume in Text und Bild der Vormoderne 2.0. – Kommunikation in ökologischen Verflechtungen“ an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, vom 30. Oktober bis 1. November 2025
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Lunar Orbital VLBI Experiment: motivation, scientific purposes and status
Xiaoyu Hong, Weiren Wu, Qinghui Liu, Dengyun Yu, Chi Wang, Tao Shuai, Weiye Zhong, Renjie Zhu, Yonghui Xie, Lihua Zhang, Liang Xiong, Yuhua Tang, Yongliao Zou, Haitao Li, Guangli Wang, Jianfeng Xie, Changbin Xue, Hao Geng, Juan Zhang, Xiaojing Wu, Yong Huang, Weimin Zheng, Lei Liu, Fang Wu, Xiuzhong Zhang, Tao An, Xiaolong Yang, Fengxian Tong, Leonid I. Gurvits, Yong Zheng, Minfeng Gu, Xiaofei Ma, Liang Li, Peiji…

Lunar Orbital VLBI Experiment: motivation, scientific purposes and status
The Lunar Orbital VLBI Experiment (LOVEX) is a scientific component of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Project (CLEP) Chang'E-7. The spaceborne component of LOVEX is implemented onboard the relay satellite QueQiao-2, which was launched on 2024 March 20, and later placed into an elliptical selenocentric orbit. The LOVEX-specific payload consists of an X-band cryogenic receiver, a hydrogen maser frequency standard, and VLBI data formatting and acquisition electronics. Several components of the QueQ…

Nintendo says it sold 3.5M Switch 2 consoles globally in its first four days, a record for any of its hardware; Nintendo aims to sell 15M units by March 2026 (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A Prediction for Maximum Supercooling in SU(N) Confinement Transition
Prateek Agrawal, Gaurang Ramakant Kane, Vazha Loladze, John March-Russell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10091 …

A Prediction for Maximum Supercooling in SU(N) Confinement Transition
The thermal confinement phase transition (PT) in $SU(N)$ Yang-Mills theory is first-order for $N\geq 3$, with bounce action scaling as $N^2$. Remarkably, lattice data for the action include a small coefficient whose presence likely strongly alters the PT dynamics. We give evidence, utilizing insights from softly-broken SUSY YM models, that the small coefficient originates from a deconfined phase instability just below the critical temperature. We predict the maximum achievable supercooling in $…

Von #work, die #Gewerkschaftszeitung @workzeitung@instagram.com
Die rechte Mehrheit im #Bundesrat betreibt eine Politik nach dem Motto: «

work, die Gewerkschaftszeitung on Instagram: "Die rechte Mehrheit im Bundesrat betreibt eine Politik nach dem Motto: «Ätschbätsch, Volkswille!» work-Autor Clemens Studer zeigt im Video, wie FDP und SVP skrupellos ihre Interessen durchdrücken. 😤 #bundesrat #svp #fdp #work #unia"
2,149 likes, 87 comments - workzeitung on March 24, 2025: "Die rechte Mehrheit im Bundesrat betreibt eine Politik nach dem Motto: «Ätschbätsch, Volkswille!» work-Autor Clemens Studer zeigt im Video, wie FDP und SVP skrupellos ihre Interessen durchdrücken. 😤 #bundesrat #svp #fdp #work #unia".

Green\'s Mapping and Julia Sets
Ilia Binder, Paul F. X. M\"uller, Peter Yuditskii
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04207 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.0420…

Greenś Mapping and Julia Sets
In March 1999, the first named author (Binder) posed the problem of showing that a ``good direction'' $ψ\in [0,2]$ exists, for any Green's mapping $T:H\rightarrow\tilde Ω$, i.e., \begin{equation}\label{binder} \int\limits_0\limits^{1} |T''(re^{iπψ})|dr <\infty, \quad\text{ for at least one } \quad ψ\in [0,2]. \end{equation} Presently this problem is open even in the special case where $\partial Ω$ is a uniformly perfect subset of the real line. In this paper we obtain a posi…

A new type-1 transition in NGC 1346 revealed by (spectro)polarimetry
F. Marin, D. Hutsem\'ekers, S. Jorstad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08589 https://…

A new type-1 transition in NGC 1346 revealed by (spectro)polarimetry
We present the first photo- and spectropolarimetric observations of the changing-look active galactic nucleus NGC~1346 taken with the Perkins telescope (November 2022, March 2025) and VLT/FORS2 (August and September 2024), which have revealed a new spectral transition. We find that NGC~1346 has reverted to its former (2001) type-1 spectral state after having been a type-2 active galactic nucleus from 2004 to 2022. More and more intense broad H$β$ (3720 $\pm$ 310 km.s$^{-1}$ full width at half …

Development of superfluid helium-3 bolometry using nanowire resonators with SQUID readout for the QUEST-DMC experiment
DMC Collaboration, E. Leason, L. V. Levitin, S. Autti, E. Bloomfield, A. Casey, N. Darvishi, N. Eng, P. Franchini, R. P. Haley, P. J. Heikkinen, A. Jennings, A. Kemp, J. March-Russell, A. Mayer, J. Monroe, D. M\"unstermann, M. T. Noble, J. R. Prance, X. Rojas, T. Salmon, J. Saunders, J. Smirnov, R. Smith, M. D. Thompson, A. Thomson, A. Ting, V. Tsepelin, S. M. Wes…

Development of superfluid helium-3 bolometry using nanowire resonators with SQUID readout for the QUEST-DMC experiment
Superfluid helium-3 bolometers can be utilised for dark matter direct detection searches. The extremely low heat capacity of the B phase of the superfluid helium-3 at ultra-low temperatures offers the potential to reach world leading sensitivity to spin dependent interactions of dark matter in the sub-GeV/c$^2$ mass range. Here, we describe the development of bolometry using both micron scale and sub-micron diameter vibrating wire resonators, with a SQUID amplifier-based readout scheme. Charact…

NFL won grievance against NFLPA over fake injuries in February, denies it concealed ruling https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6500152/2025/07/17/nfl-grievance-nflpa-fake-injuries/

Fermi-GBM Observations of GRB 230307A: An Exceptionally Bright Long-Duration Gamma-ray Burst with an Associated Kilonova
S. Dalessi, P. Veres, C. M. Hui, S. Bala, S. Lesage, M. S. Briggs, A. Goldstein, E. Burns, C. A. Wilson-Hodge, C. Fletcher, O. J. Roberts, P. N. Bhat, E. Bissaldi, W. H. Cleveland, M. M. Giles, M. Godwin, R. Hamburg, B. A. Hristov, D. Kocevski, B. Mailyan, C. Malacaria, O. Mukherjee, L. Scotton, A. von Kienlin, J. Wood

Fermi-GBM Observations of GRB 230307A: An Exceptionally Bright Long-Duration Gamma-ray Burst with an Associated Kilonova
On March 7th, 2023 the \textit{Fermi} Gamma-ray Burst Monitor observed the second highest fluence gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever, GRB~230307A. With a duration beyond 100~s, GRB~230307A contains a multitude of rapidly-varying peaks, and was so bright it caused instrumental effects in the GBM detectors. The high fluence of this burst, (6.02 $\pm$ 0.02)$\times$10$^{-3}$ erg cm$^{-2}$, prompted rapid follow-up across the electro magnetic spectrum including the discovery of an associated kilonova. GRB~2…

Supershear-subshear-supershear rupture associated with the 2025 Mandalay Earthquake in Myanmar
Shiro Hirano, Ryosuke Doke, Takuto Maeda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09652

Supershear-subshear-supershear rupture associated with the 2025 Mandalay Earthquake in Myanmar
We investigate the complex rupture dynamics of the 2025 Mandalay Earthquake (Mw 7.7), which occurred along the Sagaing Fault in Myanmar on March 28, 2025, at 06:20 UTC. The earthquake involved a near-vertical strike-slip rupture of approximately 400 km, with 2 to 6 meters of shallow slip. A unique video recording of surface rupture, captured 124 km south of the epicenter, provided crucial near-fault data that would have otherwise been unavailable. Analysis of the video and other data revealed…

Optimality of empirical measures as quantizers
March T. Boedihardjo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02615 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.02615

Optimality of empirical measures as quantizers
A common way to discretize a probability measure is to use an empirical measure as a discrete approximation. But how far from being optimal is this approximation in the p-Wasserstein distance? In this paper, we study this question in two contexts: (1) optimality among all uniform quantizers and (2) optimality among all (non-uniform) quantizers. In the first context, for p=1, we provide a complete answer to this question up to a polylog(n) factor. From the probabilistic point of view, this resol…

A portrait throughout perihelion of the NH$_2$-rich interstellar comet 2I/Borisov
Sophie E. Deam, Michele T. Bannister, Cyrielle Opitom, Matthew M. Knight, Ryan Ridden-Harper, Darryl Z. Seligman, Alan Fitzsimmons, Aur\'elie Guilbert-Lepoutre, Emmanuel Jehin, Laurent Jorda, Michael Marsset, Youssef Moulane, Philippe Rousselot, Pierre Vernazza, Bin Yang

A portrait throughout perihelion of the NH$_2$-rich interstellar comet 2I/Borisov
The interstellar comet 2I/Borisov is the first interstellar object where compositional characterisation was possible throughout its entire perihelion passage. We report all 16 epochs of a comprehensive optical observation campaign with ESO VLT's integral field spectrograph MUSE, spanning 126 days from 2019 November 14 to 2020 March 19. The spatial dust emission of 2I/Borisov was predominantly smooth, with no seasonal effect. A jet-like feature was consistently visible. The gas production morpho…

Veteran LB Von Miller, Washington Commanders finalizing 1-year deal: Reports https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6499101/2025/07/16/von-miller-washington-commanders-signing-reports/

EV Charging Cost by the Numbers.
I charge my car at home almost nightly wirh a Level 2 Flo 30A/240V charger.
I noticed today that they have added an "estimated rate" for my address based on my utility (BC Hydro) charge so that it can estimate the cost of the charging.
Their estimate is $0.11400/kWh. I drive alot. 160km a day when I am commuting to work and then 50-100km in the evening 4-5 days a week Dashing. Thanks to dashing I have a solid record of odometer readings.
We have both tiered and time of day pricing so it's complicated to do this manually. I do most of my charging during the lowest rate overnight. I have the Flo charger set to only charge at full 30A power between 11PM and 7AM to match the overnight rate, then 15A in "off peak" (standard rate) and to turn off completely during on-peak 4PM to 9PM times.
I think their estimate is quite accurate considering the overnight rate is usually $0.14 - $0.05/kWh. Ill include my latest electrical bill. (we are billed monthly)
Here are the numbers.
A "full tank" of battery is 65kWh
Monthly: eg. March (full time commuting plus dashing) 4668km
30 charging sessions
853.4kWh
$97 ($2.07/100km)
Last 12 months: 56,107km
8793kWh
$1,002 ($1.78/100km)
There are a few free charges at work in there (15 in the year?) but any saving is eaten up by $6/day parking cost.
As a comparison if I drove our 2014 Prius C hybrid 56,000km at its general fuel mileage of 5L/100km and an average price of $1.60/L that would be $2,800. So I am saving by more than half, and probably more than that, compared to one of the best mileage hybrids out there.
It makes less and less sense to buy a gas car.
(We have 222,607km on the 2019 Hyundai Kona and about 250,000 on the Prius)
#EV #ElectricCar #cost #electricity #bchydro #bcpoli #endfossilfuels

Translation Studies
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NFLPA executive committee backs director Lloyd Howell following concerns about conflict of interest https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6491352/2025/07/13/lloyd-howell-nflpa-carlyle-group/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Edward Elgar, Hallé & Mark Elder:
🎵 Pomp and Circumstance March No 2 in A minor, Op 39
#EdwardElgar #Hallé #MarkElder
https://open.spotify.com/track/1WKPyxSvxcivB2JoqSiDrZ

IXPE Observations of the Blazar Mrk 501 in 2022: A Multiwavelength View
L. Lisalda, E. Gau, H. Krawczynski, F. Tavecchio, I. Liodakis, A. Gokus, N. Rodriguez Cavero, M. Nowak, M. Negro, R. Middei, M. Perri, S. Puccetti, S. G. Jorstad, I. Agudo, A. P. Marscher, B. Ag\'is-Gonz\'alez, A. V. Berdyugin, M. I. Bernardos, D. Blinov, G. Bonnoli, G. A. Borman, I. G. Bourbah, C. Casadio, V. Casanova, A. J. Castro-Tirado, E. Fern\'andez-Garc\'ia, M. Garc\'ia-Comas, T. S. Grish…

IXPE Observations of the Blazar Mrk 501 in 2022: A Multiwavelength View
The blazar Markarian 501 (Mrk 501) was observed on three occasions over a 4-month period between 2022 March and 2022 July with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). In this paper, we report for the first time on the third IXPE observation, performed between 2022 July 9 and 12, during which IXPE detected a linear polarization degree of $Π_X=6\pm2$ per cent at a polarization angle, measured east of north, of $Ψ_X=143^\circ\pm11^\circ$ within the 2-8 keV X-ray band. The X-ray polarizati…

NFLPA executive director Lloyd Howell Jr. was not advised to resign from firm seeking NFL minority ownership: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6486656/2025/07/10/nflpa-lloyd-howell-jr-carlyle-group/

Bills running back James Cook reports to mandatory minicamp amid desire for new contract: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6416090/2025/06/10/bills-james-cook-reports-mandatory-minicamp-contract/