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It's sad how often I find articles that do this.
This supposedly "in-depth" piece includes not a single quote from anyone in #Papua, or even #Indonesia. Strangely, quotes one Malaysian, and otherwise, all westerners.
Sadly, it's a common problem for pieces by this particular …

In Indonesia’s Rainforest, a Mega-Farm Project Is Plowing Ahead
The Indonesian government is fast-tracking a massive agricultural project that is turning 7 million acres of tropical forest into rice and sugarcane farms. Critics say it is the world’s largest deforestation project and would upend the lives of thousands of Indigenous people.

Some extra content this morning - how Canadian government money tried to save mink farmers in a dying fur industry.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/mink-farming-canada-agristability-boom-bust-1.5495165

The problem of course is that our problems are complex.
“Advanced AI suffers ‘complete accuracy collapse’ in face of complex problems, study finds” - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/09/apple-artificial-intelligence-ai-study-c…

I have written a write up of the rebranding across the government.
Very much looking forward to the rationing app the Ministry of Plenty is sure to roll out so we can get food.
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/government-rebranding-continues/

Government Rebranding Continues
What’s in a name? Late Friday, after an Oval Office presentation to the press discussing the new secondary name "Department of War" for the former Department of Defense by the President and Secretary of War for Pete Hegseth, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced further secondary names for

https://therecord.media/angus-king-cyber-domain-cuts-cisa
Sen. Angus King (I-ME) on Tuesday said that recent cuts across the government have weakened U.S. cybersecurity even as attacks against infrastructure and business skyrocket.

Sen. King: Cyber domain is a ‘hellscape’ that will be made worse by cuts
King, a leading voice in the Senate on cybersecurity issues, honed in on the thousands of staffers and experts laid off by CISA, saying the agency has lost 30 percent of its staff and most of its seasoned leaders.

Trump began putting the federal government to work for him within hours of taking office in January,
and he’s been collecting and using power in novel ways ever since.
It’s a high-velocity push to carry out his political agendas and grudges.
This past month, hundreds of federal agents and National Guard troops fanned out across Washington
after Trump drew on a never-used law that allows him to take control of law enforcement in the nation’s capital.
He’s thre…

How Donald Trump is weaponizing the government in his second term
President Donald Trump has been using his second term to amass and wield unprecedented power. His supporters, who once criticized government overreach, now back his actions. Trump has targeted universities, media companies, and individuals he dislikes, using executive orders and other means to push his agendas and grievances. Trump has threatened or acted against various entities. He's blocked stadium plans, revoked security clearances and dropped corruption charges for political leverage, amon…

What Really Drives Thermopower: Specific Heat or Entropy as the Unifying Principle Across Magnetic, Superconducting, and Nanoscale Systems
Morteza Jazandari, Jahanfar Abouie, Daryoosh Vashaee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06745

What Really Drives Thermopower: Specific Heat or Entropy as the Unifying Principle Across Magnetic, Superconducting, and Nanoscale Systems
Thermopower, a key parameter in thermoelectric performance, is often linked to either specific heat or entropy, yet the fundamental quantity that governs it has remained elusive. In this work, we present a unified theoretical framework that identifies entropy per carrier, not specific heat, as the universal driver of thermopower across both closed and open systems. Using thermodynamic identities and the Onsager-Kelvin relation, we show that thermopower is universally proportional to entropy per…

Lightweight Intrusion Detection System Using a Hybrid CNN and ConvNeXt-Tiny Model for Internet of Things Networks
Fatemeh Roshanzadeh, Hamid Barati, Ali Barati
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06202

Lightweight Intrusion Detection System Using a Hybrid CNN and ConvNeXt-Tiny Model for Internet of Things Networks
The rapid expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) systems across various domains such as industry, smart cities, healthcare, manufacturing, and government services has led to a significant increase in security risks, threatening data integrity, confidentiality, and availability. Consequently, ensuring the security and resilience of IoT systems has become a critical requirement. In this paper, we propose a lightweight and efficient intrusion detection system (IDS) for IoT environments, leveraging …

Universal quantum control over bosonic network
Zhu-yao Jin, Jun Jing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06560 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06560

Universal quantum control over bosonic network
Perfect transfer of unknown states across distinct nodes is fundamental in the construction of bosonic quantum networks. We here develop a general theory to control an $N$-node bosonic network governed by the time-dependent Hamiltonian, as the universal quantum control theory for continuous-variable systems. In particular, we can activate nonadiabatic passages superposed of initial and target modes by the commutation condition for the Hamiltonian's coefficient matrix in the representation of ti…

Dutch Caribbean islands' government agencies have been knocked offline by ransomware attacks
https://nltimes.nl/2025/08/02/ransomware-attacks-cripple-government-services-across-dutch-caribbean-islands

Ransomware attacks cripple government services across Dutch Caribbean islands
Several major government institutions across the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands were hit by cyberattacks last week, including a ransomware attack on Curaçao’s Tax and Customs Administration that temporarily disabled critical services, NOS reports.