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On the one hand, the GOP is doomed if we actually make it to the midterms with real elections. On the other hand, are we going to make it all the way to the midterms with real elections? These people are going to prison, and they will do whatever it takes to ensure that doesn't happen.
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Taniel (@taniel.bsky.social)
JUST IN: Democrats flip a red seat in the Texas Senate. Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards. With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43. Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.

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Japan Daily on Instagram: "Marty Friedman, an American musician based in Japan, visited a junior high school in Chiba at an event organized by local police to promote coexistence with foreigners. Speaking to first-year students, he said that 99.9% of foreigners who come to Japan are not dangerous and are often eager to communicate with Japanese people. He encouraged students to learn foreign languages and approach others without fear. Friedman also shared a personal story about forgetting his wallet in Japan, highlighting the country’s honesty. The event aimed to help young people understand cultural differences as foreign visitors and workers increase. Learning with empathy can reduce tension and improve everyday interactions. Source:TOKYO NP"
2,062 likes, 113 comments - japandaily_jp on December 18, 2025: "Marty Friedman, an American musician based in Japan, visited a junior high school in Chiba at an event organized by local police to promote coexistence with foreigners. Speaking to first-year students, he said that 99.9% of foreigners who come to Japan are not dangerous and are often eager to communicate with Japanese people. He encouraged students to learn foreign languages and approach others without fear. Friedman also shar…

Please, please, please let's be clear about the use or lack of use of cyber to cut off power in Venezuela. I began researching this possibility the second Trump finished his press conference, in which he referenced that the US has "expertise" to cut off power, which most people immediately concluded was cyber.
At this point, I've spoken to a bunch of ICS cyber experts. Given that the Venezuelan government claims the power outage was caused by the destruction of two su…

Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Energía Eléctrica
#Video 📹 | La agresión militar de Estados Unidos (EE.UU.) afectó la operatividad de la subestación Panamericana, encargada de alimentar los circuitos Nueva Granada, Caricuao, Prado de María, Escuela Militar y Coche. El ministro del Poder Popular para la Energía Eléctrica, Jorge Márquez, constató la devastación sufrida en equipos esenciales y en la sala de control, acompañado por trabajadores de CORPOELEC, quienes se mantienen desplegados y trabajando sin descanso para resti…

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This is a good commentary on the news that Stellantis is writing down €22 billion and blaming customers for not buying its electric cars. However, Stellantis has actually been slow to build and offer electric cars. If they don't offer them, how can customers be expected to buy them?

Stellantis s'effondre en Bourse : pourquoi l'excuse de la voiture électrique ne tient pas
Stellantis annonce plus de 22 milliards d’euros de charges exceptionnelles, ce qui provoque sa chute en Bourse. Pour s’expliquer, le groupe pointe une électrification trop rapide, trop optimiste, trop déconnectée de la demande. Le coupable idéal ? C’est un avertissement financier d’une ampleur rare. Stellantis

Invariant Price of Anarchy: a Metric for Welfarist Traffic Control
Ilia Shilov, Mingjia He, Heinrich H. Nax, Emilio Frazzoli, Gioele Zardini, Saverio Bolognani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05843 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.05843 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.05843
arXiv:2512.05843v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The Price of Anarchy (PoA) is a standard metric for quantifying inefficiency in socio-technical systems, widely used to guide policies like traffic tolling. Conventional PoA analysis relies on exact numerical costs. However, in many settings, costs represent agents' preferences and may be defined only up to possibly arbitrary scaling and shifting, representing informational and modeling ambiguities. We observe that while such transformations preserve equilibrium and optimal outcomes, they change the PoA value. To resolve this issue, we rely on results from Social Choice Theory and define the Invariant PoA. By connecting admissible transformations to degrees of comparability of agents' costs, we derive the specific social welfare functions which ensure that efficiency evaluations do not depend on arbitrary rescalings or translations of individual costs. Case studies on a toy example and the Zurich network demonstrate that identical tolling strategies can lead to substantially different efficiency estimates depending on the assumed comparability. Our framework thus demonstrates that explicit axiomatic foundations are necessary in order to define efficiency metrics and to appropriately guide policy in large-scale infrastructure design robustly and effectively.
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Effets indésirables des soins #EIAS et #IA dans la #RDPI #FCRDPI Revue de Presse Internationale de

Ukraine : 2,5 millions d'enfants déplacés, des cours en ligne proposés aux élèves des régions occupées par la Russie
Le président ukrainien Volodymyr Zelensky a salué, hier, le retour de 2 000 enfants ukrainiens qui avaient été enlevés par la Russie. Des milliers d'autres sont encore sous le joug du Kremlin, en Russie ou dans des régions ukrainiennes occupées : des enseignants leur proposent des cours en ligne.