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Sen. Murkowski, feeling 'cheated' by Trump actions against wind and solar, says she'll go to bat for Alaska projects (Alex DeMarban/Anchorage Daily News)
https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2025/07/18/sen-murkowski-feeling-cheated-by-trump-actions-against-wind-and-solar-says-shell-go-to-bat-for-alaska-projects/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250719/p31#a250719p31

Abuse in Buddhism: The Law of Silence https://openbuddhism.org/library/videos/2022/elodie-emery-wandrille-lanos-present-buddhism-the-unspeakable-truth/

‘Abuse in Buddhism: The Law of Silence’
In a brief video in English, the French filmmakers Élodie Emery and Wandrille Lanos introduce their documentary ‘Abuse in Buddhism: The Law of Silence’ (Arte, 2022). It can be watched here.

We'll kick off this year's edition of #bbuzz with our keynote speaker @…!
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Ultra-low-resistivity nitrogen-doped p-type Cu2O thin films fabricated by reactive HiPIMS
Ji\v{r}\'i Rezek, Jan Koloros, Ji\v{r}\'i Hou\v{s}ka, Radom\'ir \v{C}erstv\'y, Stanislav Haviar, Jemal Yimer Damte, David Kolenat\'y, Pavel Baroch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15275

Ultra-low-resistivity nitrogen-doped p-type Cu2O thin films fabricated by reactive HiPIMS
We have successfully fabricated the nitrogen-doped cuprous oxide thin films on the amorphous standard soda-lime glass by reactive high-power impulse magnetron sputtering. The energy of film-forming particles was controlled by the value of pulse-averaged target power density, which has a significant impact on the elemental composition, structure and optoelectrical properties of the films. We have shown that the high-energy regime is more suitable for preserving Cu2O structure and leads to contin…

Einschränkung Bahnverkehr Zürich wegen Fahrleitungsstörung
Der Bahnverkehr auf der Strecke Zürich Oerlikon - Zürich HB ist zwischen Zürich Oerlikon und Zürich Hardbrücke eingeschränkt.
Der Grund dafür ist eine Fahrleitungsstörung.
Die Einschränkung dauert bis zirka 08:00.
Betroffen sind die Linien S, S15, S16 und S21.
Es sind Verspätungen, Ausfälle und Umleitungen zu erwarten.

War is an unconscionable horror. The illusions of "international law" and "rules of war" have lead us to believe that war can be clean, managed, and "civilized."
But wars are fought by humans and humans are messy. Humans are not well suited to following orderly rules. Humans respond to their environment. Humans in extraordinary situations can be extraordinarily vindictive and brutal. Sufficiently traumatized humans can act without a conscience, spreading trauma like an infection. If humans respond to their situation, then there can be no "civilized" war because war is itself an situation outside of the society. It is a place that promotes antisocial behavior and punishes pro-social behavior. War cannot be expected to follow "international law" because it is what fills the void created by the failure of "international law" (so long as we rely on nations).
To call for war is to inflict atrocities on civilians. It is to kill the parents and children who serve, and to destroy the combatants who survive. It is to infect both sides with a trauma that will spread if untreated, when soldiers come home or when they become mercenaries in other wars.
And yet... there are times when the brutality, the incompetence, the evil becomes so unbearable that no other option exists, when taking up arms is simply bringing symmetry to an existing asymmetric conflict. There are times when the worst possible thing is inescapable, though it can never be justified.
In this new era of war, in the scramble of conflict under the collapsing of the (poorly named) "Pax Americana," I hope that we, the people, can understand that war is not a tool to fulfill an objective. It is not part of a larger strategy. It is not an extension of deplomacy.
War is a failure.
While it may be the only way to deal with the irrational - the genocidal, the slaver, the dictator - it is still a failure. It is a failure to build a world in which these people can't control armies and economies, can't turn populations in to cults and bend nations to their will.
And we will continue to have such wars until we unite against those who would use as as pawns, who would control our lives and lead us to our deaths. We will have these wars until we unite, as one world, against those rulers. This is what I mean, and what a lot of other people mean, when we say, "No War, but Class War."

@… I think it’s partially a question of motivation for me. Everyone around me speaks English, so learning German is… low on the list.
I hope to take more classes, and learn more, and eventually become proficient. But I think fluency, or thinking in German, is probably never going to happen for me.
I’m OK with that, most days. 🙃

District judge presses forward with mass-firings challenge following SCOTUS's order (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)
https://www.lawdork.com/p/illston-mass-firings-post-scotus-order
http://www.memeorandum.com/250719/p19#a250719p19