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🚀 British ballistics NIGHTFALL – COMING SOON to UKRAINE! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/12/british-ballistics-nightfall-coming-soon.html

🦾 The robots are (almost) coming: MLB players allowed to challenge balls and strikes in 2026
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/sep/23/the-robots-are-almost-coming-mlb-players-allowed-to-challenge-strik…

An unraveling Justice Department appears to be coming apart at the seams (Steve Benen/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/an-unraveling-justice-department-appears-to-be-coming-apart-at-the-seams
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p123#a260113p123

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Elvis Presley:
🎵 In The Ghetto
#NowPlaying #ElvisPresley
https://camanchaca.bandcamp.com/track/elvis-presley-in-the-ghetto-camanchaca-hit-the-road-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/7KWoeBqSdZHEloYKVxssfG

Eyewitnesses say Iranian government forces have begun opening fire,
apparently with automatic weapons and at times seemingly indiscriminately,
on unarmed protesters.
Hospital workers say protesters had been coming in with pellet injuries but now arrive with gunshot wounds and skull fractures.
One doctor called it a “mass-casualty situation.”
Despite the communications blockade, a recurring image has made its way out of Iran:
rows and rows of body bags.

As Iran’s Government Tries to Quell Protests, Accounts of Brutal Crackdown Emerge
As many as 3,000 feared dead as witnesses describe government forces firing on unarmed protesters.

Active IRS Assisted Joint Uplink and Downlink Communications
Qiaoyan Peng, Qingqing Wu, Guangji Chen, Wen Chen, Shaodan Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10045 https://

Active IRS Assisted Joint Uplink and Downlink Communications
In this paper, we investigate an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided wireless communication system, where active IRSs (AIRSs) are deployed to assist communication between a base station (BS) and users of both the uplink (UL) and downlink (DL). We aim to maximize the weighted sum rate (WSR) of UL and DL communications through joint optimization of BS, AIRS beamforming, and AIRS element allocation. First, we study three deployment schemes, namely distributed AIRSs, BS-side AIRS, and user-s…

Visible Light Communication for Vehicular Networks: A Tutorial
Pedro E. G\'oria Silva, Eduardo S. Lima, Jules M. Moualeu, Mohamed Korium, Pedro H. J. Nardelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11123

Visible Light Communication for Vehicular Networks: A Tutorial
The advent of the fifth-generation technology promises to bring about more vertical applications and emerging services that include vehicular networks and intelligent transportation systems (ITSs). To achieve their vision of real-time and safetyapplications, vehicular networks rely on short-range to medium-range communications. One emerging technology that aims to provide reliability and high-data rate in short-range communications is the visible light communications (VLC). Due to its remarkabl…

Time for a social experiment. I have 5 questions:
- What should we work towards as a society?
- What's one thing that doesn't exist now in your community but should?
- What's one action you could take in the coming year to align your life with that goal?
- What's one thing you could achieve in the coming year to get closer to making that thing exist?
- Imagine that we changed everything and you're living in the world you want to see exist. What does the world look like?
I've asked variations of these already (and am still getting great responses), but this time there's a catch. Get together some of your friends (3-5 people) and ask these questions of the group. Come up with *one* answer that everyone in the group agrees on and post it here, then write a bit about your experience.
If you don't know people locally (or otherwise can't do this in person), tag some folks in here or wherever your people are at digitally. Just add some info on if it's online or in person.
For anyone bold enough to actually do this, let me know if you'd be OK with me putting this in an upcoming entry (https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/).

🫰🏿 Snap out of it: Canonical on Flatpak friction, Core Desktop, and the future of Ubuntu
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/11/03/canonical_jon_seager_qa/

Snap out of it: Canonical on Flatpak friction, Core Desktop, and the future of Ubuntu
Ubuntu Summit: Jon Seager, VP of Engineering, talks exclusively to The Reg