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National Guardsmen say morale is 'falling fast' during Trump deployment - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/national-guard-trump-deployment/

There was once a machine that told you "you want this" and "this is good." It said, "there can be no better system and it's foolish to try to build one." That machine has long since failed to function. Now you choke on fumes as it is consumed by the wild flames of an abandoned cause.
That machine could not possibly work anymore because the evidence of it's falsehood has become too overwhelming.
No, only abject terror now can keep you from plotting your escape, from creating an alternative. No, the illusion has long since broken. All that's left now is triggering fight, flight, freeze as hard as possible. Most will be paralyzed, and those who fight can be used as an excuse to escalate the terror.
These are the final stages of a dying sun, expanding and consuming it's children before the final supernova.
There is no longer a stable system, no longer a system with a future. All that remains is the spectacle that hopes to distract you long enough that you too can be consumed, that it may sustain itself a few moments longer.

Stimulated Brillouin Amplification with Flying Focus
Zhaohui Wu, Xiaoming Zeng, Zhaoli Li, Xiaodong Wang, Xiao Wang, Jie Mu, Yanlei Zuo, Kainan Zhou, Hao Peng, C. Riconda, S. Weber
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04121

Stimulated Brillouin Amplification with Flying Focus
Material damage thresholds pose a fundamental limit to chirped pulse amplification (CPA) in high-power laser systems. Plasma-based amplification via stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) offers a damage-free alternative, yet its effectiveness has been hindered by instabilities that constrain interaction length. In this study, we report the first experimental demonstration of SBS amplification driven by a flying focus in a 3-mm plasma channel. The flying focus is generated using chromatic aberra…

Welp.
The toolchain is cursed but I have the Trion devkit talking FMC/APB at 75 MHz to a STM32H750. I can probably push further (maybe 100 MHz PCLK?), this isn't failing timing, but it's good enough for the purpose.

Interplay of Altermagnetic Order and Wilson Mass in the Dirac Equation: Helical Edge States without Time-Reversal Symmetry
Yu-Hao Wan, Peng-Yi Liu, Qing-Feng Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03969

Interplay of Altermagnetic Order and Wilson Mass in the Dirac Equation: Helical Edge States without Time-Reversal Symmetry
We investigate topological phases in three-dimensional topological insulator (3DTI) thin films interfaced with altermagnetic (AM) orders. Starting from a modified Dirac equation, we elucidate the interplay between the Wilson mass, arising from lattice regularization, and the altermagnetic mass, and show how this interplay fundamentally alters the band topology and boundary modes. In particular, we demonstrate that coupling a 3DTI thin film to AM order induces a topological phase transition: alt…

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In melancholy, the spirits are carried away by an agitation, but a weak agitation that lacks power or violence, a sort of impotent upset that follows neither a particular path nor the aperta opercula [open ways], but traverses the cerebral matter constantly creating new pores. Yet the spirits do not wander far on the new paths they create, and their agitation dies down rapidly, as their strength is quickly spent and motion comes to a halt: ‘non longe perveniunt’ [they do not reach far]. A trouble of this nature, common to all delirium, does not have the power to produce on the surface of the body the violent movements or the cries to be observed in mania and frenzy. Melancholy never attains frenzy; it is a madness always at the limits of its own impotence. That paradox is explained by the secret alterations in the spirits. Ordinarily, they travel with the speed and instantaneous transparency of rays of light, but in melancholy they become weighed down with night, becoming ‘obscure, thick and dark’, and the images of things that they bring before consciousness are ‘in a shadow, or covered with darkness’. As a result they move more slowly, and are more like a dark, chemical vapour than pure light. This chemical vapour is acid in nature, rather than sulphurous or alcoholic, for in acid vapours the particles are mobile and incapable of repose, but their activity is weak and without consequence. When they are distilled, all that remains in the still is a kind of insipid phlegm. Acid vapours, therefore, are taken to have the same properties as melancholy, whereas alcoholic vapours, which are always ready to burst into flames, are more related to frenzy, and sulphurous vapours bring on mania, as they are agitated by continuous, violent movement. If the ‘formal reason and causes’ of melancholy were to be sought, it made sense to look for them in the vapours that rose up from the blood to the head, and which had degenerated into ‘an acetous or sharp distillation’. A cursory glance seems to indicate that a melancholy of spirits and a whole chemistry of humours lies behind Willis’ analyses, but in fact his guiding principle mostly reflects the immediate qualities of the melancholic illness: an impotent disorder, and the shadow that comes over the spirit with an acrid acidity that slowly corrodes the heart and the mind. The chemistry of acids is not an explanation of the symptoms, but a qualitative option: a whole phenomenology of melancholic experience.
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

Die 'gläserne Decke' für Ü50 existiert nicht trotz, sondern wegen Vorurteilen. 64,3% Beschäftigungsquote bei 55-59-Jährigen beweist: Sie sind da, sie arbeiten - aber Karriere? Fehlanzeige. Zeit für strukturellen Wandel statt Lippenbekenntnissen, meint Marcus K. Reif. #Altersdiskrimierung, #Ageism

Eros and filmmaker Aanand L. Rai clash over plans to re-release the Tamil-language version of 2013 Indian film Raanjhanaa with an AI-enabled alternative ending (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/eros-aanand-l-…

Eros-Aanand Rai Dispute Over AI-Altered 'Raanjhanaa' Ending Escalates
Eros International and director Aanand L. Rai clash over AI-altered 'Raanjhanaa' ending, with both sides citing legal rights and creative ethics.

Expedition & Expansion: Leveraging Semantic Representations for Goal-Directed Exploration in Continuous Cellular Automata
Sina Khajehabdollahi, Gautier Hamon, Marko Cvjetko, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Cl\'ement Moulin-Frier, C\'edric Colas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03863

Expedition & Expansion: Leveraging Semantic Representations for Goal-Directed Exploration in Continuous Cellular Automata
Discovering diverse visual patterns in continuous cellular automata (CA) is challenging due to the vastness and redundancy of high-dimensional behavioral spaces. Traditional exploration methods like Novelty Search (NS) expand locally by mutating known novel solutions but often plateau when local novelty is exhausted, failing to reach distant, unexplored regions. We introduce Expedition and Expansion (E&E), a hybrid strategy where exploration alternates between local novelty-driven expansions an…

'Already feeling it in Texas': Mayors in Trump-voting states warn his policies imperil residents - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/send/trump-mayors/