When guards appeared earlier this month outside the room Christian Hinojosa shared with her son and other women and children at the immigrant detention center in Dilley, Texas,
she guessed what they might be after.
She quickly donned her puffy winter jacket, then slipped a manila envelope inside it.
“Thank God the weather was cool,” she said — the jacket didn’t raise suspicions.
Then, she said, she was instructed to leave the room while eight to 10 guards lifted up …
Light Streaks — generative photography
A small selection of long-exposures of randomly generated IFS (aka Iterated Function Systems), a family of very oldskool primitive/trivial fractal functions, but which can produce a fairly wide variety of outcomes. Each image is the result of billions of iterations of a single particle being iteratively transformed (meaning the particle's current position is used as the input for computing its next position etc.) For each iteration & posit…
My son's school, and the school my wife works at have both closed for tomorrow in case of Storm Chandra ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/c5y2l538dw5o )
In the meantime,
Raiders, 49ers, Commanders could have interest in Colts $70 million cut candidate https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-49ers-commanders-interest-colts-70-million-cut-c…
"the drops in sales volumes are largely the results of French and EU car manufacturer’s own strategic choice to prioritise large, more profitable models [.] Despite lower sales volumes, their operating margins have increased. This premiumisation trend is not new, but it has accelerated in recent years, to the point of backfiring, with manufacturers now facing a sharp drop in sales and factories standing idle.
Rolling back the EU’s 2035 targets won’t solve the problem."
Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
DAYNA: There's nothing else. We just don't want to go back, that's all. We're not criminals; we're not hiding. We stay here because we want to.
SERVALAN: You mustn't let me upset you. It's just that I'm fascinated by your life here. I'm so grateful to you. I don't know what I would have done without you up on the surface. You saved my life. And that's a debt I want to repay. So, [caresses Dayna's ch…
Heute endlich das wunderbare Buch von @… aka Heino Falcke "Zwischen Urknall und Apokalypse" zu Ende gelesen. Ich kann es nur empfehlen und habe viel daraus gelernt und finde wunderbar, dass man sich als Wissenschaftler so viele Gedanken zum Glauben macht. Und den vorbildlichen Wunsch nach einem Kommentar im