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Quebec hydropower is now flowing to New York City—1.25 GW of clean electricity displacing fossil generation.
Meanwhile, Twelve launched America's first commercial e-jet fuel plant, turning CO2 and renewable power into synthetic jet fuel.
And China brought online a massive solar-battery-hydrogen complex to power industry with renewables.
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@… I dunno. I kind of find this idea a bit <cringe>. Knowing how you like to browse 2nd hand mugs, I am wondering what your feelings about it is:

‘There’s been a lot of attention’: Mug exchange a hit with neighbours, community in Riverview, N.B.
A New Brunswick woman is bringing the community together through a coffee mug library in Riverview.

more kits upgraded today, starting with a v sneaky chinga la migra on my chicago fire kit bc the MLS has Big Feelings about anti-ICE messages #fedifc

from my link log —
It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06437
saved 2020-11-20 https://dotat.at/:/6EPK8.html…

It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister
When the Mersenne Twister made his first appearance in 1997 it was a powerful example of how linear maps on $\mathbf F_2$ could be used to generate pseudorandom numbers. In particular, the easiness with which generators with long periods could be defined gave the Mersenne Twister a large following, in spite of the fact that such long periods are not a measure of quality, and they require a large amount of memory. Even at the time of its publication, several defects of the Mersenne Twister were …

Apple-Tochter Claris: FileMaker soll agentisch werden
Wie geht es weiter bei FileMaker? Die Macher der Datenbanklösung setzen demnächst voll auf KI. Apple-Tochter Claris will sich gegenüber Coding-Agenten öffnen.
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Apple-Tochter Claris: FileMaker soll agentisch werden
Wie geht es weiter bei FileMaker? Die Macher der Datenbanklösung setzen demnächst voll auf KI. Apple-Tochter Claris will sich gegenüber Coding-Agenten öffnen.

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Now, I don't especially like the term "church" so I may use something else... like "coven." You can do what you want. But I happen to have already mapped out an example. (It is exactly that, just an example, so take if it's useful, change if you need, and don't stick to anything too closely.) Oh, this mapping also means that you would, for religious reasons, only be allowed to work under capitalism 4 days a week instead of 5.
Given the increases in productivity over the last 100 years, a 4 day work week is a completely reasonable expectation. If we have to annex Monday for the weekend by force of religion, so be it. It is rightfully ours anyway. If enough people try it, this will probably work. If it doesn't work, it just needs more people.
The Practice of Worship:
It is recommended to break down worship in to three sections: the functional, the communal, and the spiritual. It is also recommended to break these across multiple days. A common structure for some Christian churches is to take 10-15 minutes for announcements (Functional), an hour or two for services (Spiritual), followed by (Communal) coffee, tea, and cookies for an unspecified time up to two hours after. When starting or working with limited time a single compressed model like this may work, but it's not optimal.
- The Functional
The purpose of this section is to address the functional needs of the coven. Block out time (less than 90 minute blocks is recommended) to go through reports and updates from those involved in the Dispensary, Library, Works Committee (infrastructure), and Services Committee (providing services internally and, potentially, externally). Talk through any additional announcements, including those from other covens you may be federated with.
It is helpful to include unstructured communal time, such as shared meals, during or after functional meetings. As the federation grows, more time will be needed. It is recommended to break functional meetings, work parties, and such across multiple days. When a federation becomes sufficiently large, it is recommended to take every Monday, on top of Saturday and Sunday, as a third day of community and worship.
The scope of the functional spans 3 realms (which may be more-or-less fluid): the personal or family, the coven and federation, and humanity itself. It is up to each coven and individual to negotiate how to allocate the three days of the weekend once we have liberated Monday from the work week, but it is important to reserve it for one of these three. However, some people must work on weekends. Medical personnel, for example, cannot conform to a standard work week. While the work week should be universally restricted, which specific days are used will be up to the specific coven and their members.
A functional meeting can start with an agenda like the following:
Functional Invocation
Announcements
Report Backs
Dispensary
Inventory Check
What is low
What is empty
What is expiring
What is needed
Funds status
Library
Inventory Check and Items needing return
Library acquisition requests
Funds status and budget check
Works Committee
Upcoming projects
Subcommittee updates (Following the Works Committee agenda)
New committee formations
Funds status
Services Committee
New capabilities announcements
New needs requests
Subcommittee updates (Following the Works Committee agenda)
New committee formations
Funds status
Task Check
Breaking the Circle
This agenda is a suggestion for those who don't know where to start. It can be adapted or ignored as appropriate.
- The Spiritual
Spirituality is necessarily an undefined space. It is deeply personal. Each individual taking time to share their own personal spiritual experiences can help each connect with each other. This experience of connection can itself be a spiritual experience. It may also be useful to read esoteric, mystical, or philosophical texts together as type of "book club" and share thoughts. Others may draw from their own knowledge or traditions. This is something that must be defined together within a group.
- The Communal
The communal aspect of the practice of worship bind the coven and federation together. Within the community we find joy and release, connection and comfort. The coven is where we turn in times of need, and where we share our hopes and dreams.

Visual-to-auditory sensory substitution may be the supplemental "glue" needed to make brain implants for restoring vision shine: textures and shading, undistorted visual feedback, fill-in for failing electrodes, etc https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm

Just another place we visited in the Fränkische Schweiz. We just walked along a little stream and suddenly passed through this rock-gate with all the lush green on either side.
Just beautiful.
https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2026/caves-and-meadows-d…

After my old RTL-SDRv2 v2 died a week ago when it fell into a puddle, together with the Raspi 4B it was connected to, I replaced my whole ADSB setup tonight with a nice antenna for 1090 MHz, 5 m of quality cable and a nice Flightaware Pro Stick Plus.
Raspi now runs Wiedehopf's readsb https://github.com/wiedehopf/readsb