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Weekly Climate Solutions Digest #25!! 💖🌊✨
https://www.forpeopleandpla.net/weekly-climate-solutions-digest-25/?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social&src=mstdn

Weekly Climate Solutions Digest
Welcome Day and night meet as equals this week. The light feels freshly washed. In low marshes, spring peepers try out their first chorus, small notes that somehow fill the cold air. So much of our selection shares that feeling of beginnings that are also completions. Two East Coast wind

⚠️ AI can generate a feeling of intimacy that exceeds human connections
I discovered 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 for myself in my ill-fated research project of 2021!
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-ai-generate-intimacy-exceeds-human.html

AI can generate a feeling of intimacy that exceeds human connections
People can develop emotional closeness to artificial intelligence (AI)—under certain conditions, even more so than to other people. This is shown by a new study conducted by a research team led by Prof. Dr. Markus Heinrichs and Dr. Tobias Kleinert from the Department of Psychology at the University of Freiburg and Prof. Dr. Bastian Schiller from Heidelberg University's Institute of Psychology. Participants felt a sense of closeness especially when they did not know that they were communicatin…

If you are new to organised left-wing politics, pick a flavour of revolutionary socialism.
This is my fave, it may not be yours but it's a great place to start learning what *you* believe or don't believe in.
https://marxist.com/manifesto-of-the-r

Manifesto of the Revolutionary Communist International
The following is the text of the Manifesto of the Revolutionary Communist International which, following an exhaustive discussion, was approved by a unanimous v

Selber im Landtag ständig blau machen, aber von anderen fordern:
* 1h unbezahlte Mehrarbeit
* 1 Karenztag bei Krankschreibung
* weniger Teilzeit
* Abschaffung telefonische Krankschreibung
* Abbau Rente mit 63
Genau mein Humor!
https://www.zeit.de/p…

Bayern: SPD fordert von Markus Söder wegen Fehlens im Landtag Diäten zurück
Die bayerische SPD wirft dem Ministerpräsidenten vor, vergangenes Jahr nur bei fünf von 30 Landtagssitzungen gewesen zu sein. Er erhalte Tausende Euro "fürs Blaumachen".

RE: https://journa.host/@theintercept/116341108333633352
Oh, to be the traffic engineer who has to testify on behalf of the city that yes, a giant inflatable penis could distract drivers enough to cause a crash 🤡

Proton Energy Dependence of Radiation Induced Low Gain Avalanche Detector Degradation
Veronika Kraus, Marcos Fernandez Garcia, Luca Menzio, Michael Moll
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01800 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.01800 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.01800
arXiv:2602.01800v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Low Gain Avalanche Detectors (LGADs) are key components for precise timing measurements in high-energy physics experiments, including the High Luminosity upgrades of the current LHC detectors. Their performance is, however, limited by radiation induced degradation of the gain layer, primarily driven by acceptor removal. This study presents a systematic comparison of how the degradation evolves with different incident proton energies, using LGADs from Hamamatsu Photonics (HPK) and The Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona (IMB-CNM) irradiated with 18 MeV, 24 MeV, 400 MeV and 23 GeV protons and fluences up to 2.5x10^15 p/cm2. Electrical characterization is used to extract the acceptor removal coefficients for different proton energies, whereas IR TCT measurements offer complementary insight into the gain evolution in LGADs after irradiation. Across all devices, lower energy protons induce stronger gain layer degradation, confirming expectations. However, 400 MeV protons consistently appear less damaging than both lower and higher energy protons, an unexpected deviation from a monotonic energy trend. Conversion of proton fluences to 1 MeV neutron-equivalent fluences reduces but does not eliminate these differences, indicating that the standard Non-Ionizing Energy Loss (NIEL) scaling does not fully account for the underlying defect formation mechanisms at different energies and requires revision when considering irradiation fields that contain a broader spectrum of particle types and energies.
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The city’s chief, Brian O’Hara, confirmed the man had died following the incident, describing him as a white male and a resident of Minnesota.
The man was also a “lawful gun owner” with a permit to carry the weapon, O’Hara said, adding that the victim’s name was known to police but would yet be released.
ICE shooting latest: ‘American citizen’ shot and killed by federal agents in another Minneapolis shooting | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ice-shooting-minneapolis-latest-updates-b2907013.html

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August de Boeck, Brussels Philharmonic & Marc Soustrot:
🎵 Fantasy on two Flemish Folk Songs
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