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Here’s the lightning sketch of Paul’s Treatise Against Efficiency that I’ve never written:
1. Efficiency is asymptotically inefficient: as costs approach zero, the cost of further reducing them approaches infinity.
2. Efficiency prioritizes the measurable over the difficult-to-measure.
3. Efficiency prioritizes what those in power see (or imagine) over on-the-ground reality.
4. Following from 2 and 3, efficiency reduces the amount and quality of information flowing into a human system.
5. Efficiency foments institutional inflexibility.
6. By removing slack, efficiency causes small failures to cascade more readily and increases the risk of catastrophic failure.
7. Following rom 4, 5, and 6, efficiency trades small costs for massive risks: from failures, from missed opportunities, and from inability to adjust.
8. Efficiency, when pushed, strangles the emergent phenomena that in the long term create all new things of value.
9. Thus, although it can be a by-product of evolution, efficiency as a goal in itself strangles evolution.
10. Efficiency as a goal strangles joy.

Raiders Reshuffle Depth Chart Following Kolton Miller Injury https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-kolton-miller-pete-carroll-john-spytek-charles-grant

Stable Cinemetrics : Structured Taxonomy and Evaluation for Professional Video Generation
Agneet Chatterjee, Rahim Entezari, Maksym Zhuravinskyi, Maksim Lapin, Reshinth Adithyan, Amit Raj, Chitta Baral, Yezhou Yang, Varun Jampani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26555

Stable Cinemetrics : Structured Taxonomy and Evaluation for Professional Video Generation
Recent advances in video generation have enabled high-fidelity video synthesis from user provided prompts. However, existing models and benchmarks fail to capture the complexity and requirements of professional video generation. Towards that goal, we introduce Stable Cinemetrics, a structured evaluation framework that formalizes filmmaking controls into four disentangled, hierarchical taxonomies: Setup, Event, Lighting, and Camera. Together, these taxonomies define 76 fine-grained control nodes…

Solar Low Energy X-ray Spectrometer on board Aditya-L1: Ground Calibration and In-flight Performance
Abhilash R. Sarwade, Ankur Kushwaha, M. C. Ramadevi, Monoj Bug, Kiran Lakshmipathaiah, Smrati Verma, Vaishali Sharan, K. Sankarasubramanian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26292

Solar Low Energy X-ray Spectrometer on board Aditya-L1: Ground Calibration and In-flight Performance
The Solar Low-Energy X-ray Spectrometer (SoLEXS) on board India's Aditya-L1 mission was launched on 2 September 2023 and commenced solar observations on 13 December 2023 following successful aperture cover deployment. Operating from the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point, SoLEXS has been providing continuous Sun-as-a-star soft X-ray spectroscopy across 2-22 keV with 170 eV resolution at 5.9 keV and 1-second temporal cadence since 6 January 2024. The instrument employs two Silicon Drift Detectors with …

UK State, dancing to Garage's agenda, announces yet more cruelty to people fleeing persecution.
Families of those granted asylum will face
tougher English language standards and a test of financial resources.
Imagine doing that during the Uganda or Kosovo emergencies.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/article…

UK to tighten family member rules for asylum cases
Yvette Cooper will outline her plans when MPs return to Parliament after the summer break.

Sadly, my band project „Nine Inch Screws“ didn’t really take off…

techforce now, parked like most other new exec branch names
https://mastodon.social/@botgov/115463785142497722

Instead of the CHIPS Act money being tied to Intel actually building fabs,
the money is now tied to the government buying into Intel.
That is a different thing.
The specific deal is also different from the concept of the government getting shares as part of a grant to build fabs.
According to the SEC filing, there is less emphasis on fab building and more emphasis on government ownership.
The actual Intel deal is a major change to CHIPS Act purposes
and…

The U.S. Now Owns 10% Of Intel. What That Means For America's Chip Supply.
Featured Videos The U.S. Now Owns 10% Of Intel. What That Means For America's Chip Supply. S&P 500 Hits High; Cameco, Rubrik, Micron Among Stocks …

I grew up with a lot of male cousins who loved watching sports. I understand that some people enjoy gambling for emotions, but I don't.
That's why I like books. Instead of gambling for feelings, a book takes my emotions on a journey, rips them to shreds in the middle in an unpredictable way, then grinds my feelings into a fine paste that they feed to their goat, which is sacrificed in a bloody feral ceremony whose carnage further defiles said emotional residue
Or you can …

Garnet fire burns into grove of giant sequoias; several behemoths are in flames
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-09-08/garnet-fire-burns-into-grove-of-giant-sequoias-several-trees-are-in-flames

Garnet fire burns into grove of giant sequoias; several behemoths are in flames
A fire burning in Fresno County has reached the McKinley grove of giant sequoias. Several trees are in flames and specially trained firefighters are on their way to put them out.