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I, an atheist, would defend these Christians from persecution.
The MAGA regime, ostensibly Christian nationalists, are the persecutors.
https://www.christianitytoday.com/2025/06/ice-arrests-church-leaders-christians-fleeing…

ICE Goes After Church Leaders and Christians Fleeing Persecution
On Tuesday, Iranian asylum-seekers were detained in Los Angeles, adding to the count of church members taken despite lawful status.

The first rider, Nicolas Chatelet, has crossed all of Spain and is now entering France.
https://www2.followmychallenge.com/live/tcrno11/?lat=43.342627&lng=-1.786442&z=12.92&b=0&p=0

Transcontinental Race No11 // #TCRNo11 2025
Follow riders as they race across Europe, beginning in Santiago de Compostela, Spain and ending in Constanta, Romania

❝When I see felonies dismissed, that tells me either the federal officers have filed affidavits that are not truthful and that has been uncovered, or US attorneys reviewing the cases realize the evidence does not support the charges. … It seems this is a way to detain people, hold them in custody, instill fear and discourage people from exercising their first amendment rights.❞
— legal expert Cristine Soto DeBerry
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Can we please stop making non-Christians the boogeyman? The school was wrong from the get-go, and the comment about Satanic symbols didn't help their case.
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/a-dispute-over-a-students-parking

A dispute over a student's parking spot shows how schools keep failing Religious Freedom 101
A New York school told a Christian girl she couldn't paint Bible verses in her parking spot because then they'd have to "approve a Satanic symbol"

A test of seven AI chatbots' abilities to identify news photos' location, date, and photographer showed all failed to consistently identify photos' provenance (Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/why-ai-models-are-bad-at-verifyi…

Why AI models are bad at verifying photos
Many of the latest large language models, including OpenAI’s recently released GPT-5, tout an impressive capability: reasoning about images. We have seen viral trends of AI models geolocating obscure vacation pictures, impressive demos of LLMs correctly analyzing blurry or cropped photos, and promising results on benchmark tests. These seem to be fueling punditry on whether […]

Quantum melting a Wigner crystal into Hall liquids
Aidan P. Reddy, Liang Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21000 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21000

Quantum melting a Wigner crystal into Hall liquids
Recent experiments have shown that, counterintuitively, applying a magnetic field to a Wigner crystal can induce quantum Hall effects. In this work, using variational Monte Carlo, we show that magnetic fields can melt zero-field Wigner crystals into integer quantum Hall liquids. This melting originates from quantum oscillations in the liquid's ground state energy, which develops downward cusps at integer filling factors due to incompressibility. Our calculations establish a range of densities i…

#DNA evidence hit finds 18 year old charged with multiple felonies for #rape and sexual assaults made on female victim he stalked late one evening along #ContraCosta

FYI, here’s the exact language of 50 U.S.C. § 1702(b) which spells out how media mail is exempt:
https://kind.social/@wbwolf/115103183358864928

Testing a Computed Tomography Imaging Spectrometer for Earth Observations on the HEIMDAL Stratospheric Balloon Mission
Mads Juul Ahleb{\ae}k, Albertino Antonio Almeida Bach, Loui Collin-Enoch, Christian Cordes, Boas Hermansson, Christian Hald Jessen, S{\o}ren Peter J{\o}rgensen, Tobias J{\o}rgensen, Viktor Ulrich Kanstrup, Laurits Tv{\ae}rmose Nielsen, Jes Enok Steinm\"uller, Mads Svanborg Peters, Jonathan Merrison, Ren\'e Lynge Eriksen, Christoffer Karoff, Mads Toudal Frandse…

Testing a Computed Tomography Imaging Spectrometer for Earth Observations on the HEIMDAL Stratospheric Balloon Mission
Stratospheric High Altitude Balloons (HABs) have great potential as a remote sensing platform for Earth Observations that complements orbiting satellites and low flying drones. At altitudes between 20-35 kms, HABs operate significantly closer to ground than orbiting satellites, but significantly higher than most drones. HABs therefore offer a unique potential to deliver high spatial resolution imaging with large area coverage. Another two imaging parameters that are important for Earth Observat…

Caoilinn Hughes - following in Joyce's railway tracks.
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/aug/26/train-travel-following-in-james-joyce-tracks-to-trieste