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My reaction to the little snippets I caught is similar to @…’s, and of course this is the whole point:
Fascist movements have always, always rested on insecure, mediocre men who feel like the world owes them something and it’s slipping away, who will do •anything• and believe •anything• as an alternative to the nagging feeling that actually they just kind of suck.
1/ https://climatejustice.social/@Brad_Rosenheim/115293541723826815

@… ...we moeten het zeker als afschrikwekkend voorbeeld gebruiken, verder moeten we ons natuurlijk primair richten op Europa, tegelijk zal het afglijden van de VS naar een fascistische staat ook flink invloed op europa hebben of we dat nu willen of niet (is al gaande)

https://apnews.com/article/croatia-protest-far-right-surge-4f76f067fef8ea56f682c79bb5fae61d

Inspections by Taiwan's National Security Bureau (NSB) of five Chinese generative AI apps -- Deepseek, Doubao (豆包), Yiyan (文心一言), Tongyi (通義千問), and Yuanbao (騰訊元寶) -- found violations of users' communication security across several indicators.
https://focustaiwan.tw/cross-strait/2025…

Taiwan warns of biases, data breach in Deepseek, other Chinese AI - Focus Taiwan
The National Security Bureau (NSB) has urged Taiwanese people to be on alert when using Chinese generative artificial intelligence (AI) language models due to potential security breaches and the spread of "disinformation" following recent inspections of five such apps.

Please consider following @… to remind yourself that the history of the world is more complex than what we see in the moment – and for millions of reasons to fight fascists. Even when they are in the guise of nations who used to be anti-fascist.

Sky Sports shuts down its new female-focused TikTok channel Halo after three days, following online backlash for "sexist" posts, saying it "didn't get it right" (Emma Rossiter/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdrz8g7evyxo

Sky Sports axes 'sexist' TikTok channel Halo after three days
The female-focused TikTok channel was dubbed "patronising" and "sexist" by social media users.

Graphene and thin graphite films for ultrafast optical Kerr gating at 1 GHz repetition rate under focused illumination
Amr Farrag, Assegid M. Flatae, Mario Agio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17713 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.17713 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.17713
arXiv:2511.17713v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The ability to address sub-picosecond events of weak optical signals is essential for progress in quantum science, nonlinear optics, and ultrafast spectroscopy. While up-conversion and optical Kerr gating (OKG) offer femtosecond resolution, they are generally limited to ensemble measurements, making ultrafast detection in nano-optics challenging. OKG, with its broadband response and high throughput without phase-matching, is especially promising when used at high repetition rates under focused illumination.
Here, we demonstrate an ultrafast detection scheme using the third-order nonlinearity of graphene and thin graphite films, operating at 1 GHz with sub-nanojoule pulses and achieving 141 fs temporal resolution. Their exceptionally large nonlinear refractive index, orders of magnitude higher than conventional Kerr media, enhances detection efficiency at smaller thicknesses, enables sub-picosecond response, and supports broadband operation. Their atomic-scale thickness minimizes dispersion and simplifies integration with microscopy platforms, optical fibers, and nanophotonic circuits, making them a compact, practical material platform for nano-optical and on-chip ultrafast Kerr gating.
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Cowboys' Brian Schottenheimer praises CeeDee Lamb's work ethic following Week 1 drops https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/dallas-cowboys-brian-schottenheimer-praises-ceedee-lamb-work-ethic-following-week-1-drops…

Je mag in Nederland – en in de VS – geen anti-fascist meer zijn. Als je dat wel bent word je als terrorist beschouwd. Een flinke meerderheid van Nederlanders is hoogstwaarschijnlijk voortaan een terrorist.

Stability and optical quality of liquid crystal films as high repetition rate plasma mirrors in staged laser-plasma accelerators
A. Vazquez, A. Jewell, M. Cole, A. Abdi, T. K. Le, A. McIlvenny, N. Czapla, A. J. Gonsalves, K. Nakamura, D. W. Schumacher, Z. Eisentraut, C. B. Schroeder, J. van Tilborg, J. Osterhoff, E. Esarey, L. Obst-Huebl
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Stability and optical quality of liquid crystal films as high repetition rate plasma mirrors in staged laser-plasma accelerators
Staging multiple laser-plasma accelerators (LPAs), each driven by its own laser pulse, is a promising technique for reaching higher particle energies than achievable in a single LPA. However, introducing subsequent laser pulses for post-acceleration in staged LPA geometries presents a significant challenge for conventional optics. Due to the focused, high-intensity nature of the laser beam interacting with the electron beam, the fluence on the coupling mirror surpasses the damage threshold of a…