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Locker Talk: Jonathan Taylor and Zaire Franklin, Colts vs. Raiders postgame https://www.colts.com/video/locker-talk-jonathan-taylor-and-zaire-franklin-colts-vs-raiders-postgame

Electric cargo ships crossing oceans could be just 3 years away. CATL's marine division has already supplied batteries for 900 vessels and is making big strides with sodium-ion tech.
Falling battery prices are finally making long-range electric shipping economically viable—a huge step toward zero-carbon ocean freight.

CATL Expects Oceanic Electric Ships in 3 Years - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. News in batteries and electrification has been coming fast and furious lately. Recently, Su Yi, the head of CATL’s marine division, stated, “CATL’s marine business already covers inland rivers, lakes, and coastal waters, and is now advancing toward ocean-going applications.” ... [continued]

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.

Modeling Emission-Line Surface Brightness in a Multiphase Galactic Wind: An O VI Case Study
Zirui Chen, Zixuan Peng, Kate H. R. Rubin, Timothy M. Heckman, Matthew J. Hayes, Yakov Faerman, Crystal L. Martin, S. Peng Oh, Drummond B. Fielding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02443

Modeling Emission-Line Surface Brightness in a Multiphase Galactic Wind: An O VI Case Study
We present a fast and robust analytic framework for predicting surface brightness (SB) of emission lines in galactic winds as a function of radius up to $\sim 100$ kpc out in the circum-galactic medium. We model multi-phase structure in galactic winds by capturing emission from both the volume-filling hot phase (T $\sim 10^{6-7}$ K) and turbulent radiative mixing layers that host intermediate temperature gas at the boundaries of cold clouds (T $\sim 10^4$ K). Our multi-phase framework makes sig…

BTW, zwei Jahre nach Inkrafttreten des #Plastiktütenverbot​s in #Vermont ist deren Nutzung um 91 Prozent zurückgegangen.
Laut einer Studie der University of Vermont wird das Gesetz von rund 70 Prozent der Befragten positiv bewertet. Der Erfolg wird auf die einfache Umsetzung, g…

Vermont plastic bag use dropped 91% following ban, researchers find | Gund Institute for Environment | The University of Vermont

Supercondutivity of Nb-Ta-Ti-Zr-Hf high entropy alloy polycrystalline and amorphous thin films
P. Hruska, Z. Janu, J. Cizek, F. Lukac
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22278 https://…

Supercondutivity of Nb-Ta-Ti-Zr-Hf high entropy alloy polycrystalline and amorphous thin films
We studied the superconductivity of high-entropy Hf-Nb-Ta-Ti-Zr alloy films affected by structural order. While films deposited from the same target on a substrate with a room temperature are amorphous, and if superconducting, only at temperatures below 1.9 K, films deposited on a substrate with a temperature of 740 $^o$C and 630 $^o$C are superconducting with a critical temperature of 6.61 K and 6.63 K, respectively. The observed effect of structural order on superconductivity can be explained…

PSA: Alle Schweizer:innen die die Unterlagen nicht per Post geschickt haben: Heute ist Abstimmung, ab an die Urne! Erbschaftssteuer fürs Klima ist zwar nicht Eat the Rich, aber das nächstbeste was wir machen können.
#chvote25 #Abstimmung

Ich hatte ja Sorge, dass die Sprachbarriere Europa und insbesondere Deutschland zurückhält. Jetzt bin ich froh darum. Wir haben selber ne Wagenladung voll Probleme, wir müssen nicht noch importieren. https://silvan.cloud/@gersande/115647757482315486

One of my favorite mastodon features is the time-based muting. Someone's posting through (suffering, lol) a football game, and I have less than zero interest in sportsball? But I generally enjoy following them? Mute them for 1 hour (or 6 hours), and my screen is no longer littered with crap about touchzonegoalruns.
Or maybe you don't want to see my stupid replies to a dumb horror movie from 40 years ago? Mute me for an hour or two, and voila!

A House of Dynamite (Netflix)
is an expertly crafted political thriller about living 18 minutes from nuclear annihilation.
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, it shares thematic DNA with two of her previous films, The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty.
The film tightens the tension in the first 18 minutes, releases it just enough to breathe, then resets and winds you up again—and then again.
There is no climax. That frustrates some viewers, but the ending makes the point: …