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"The GOP is now brazenly lying about the breadth and popularity of the No Kings movement, and the fact that the millions who will turn out are Americans citizens and residents who oppose authoritarian, fascist policies and officials and want to save our democracy and the rule of law. They are scared, and we are getting to them."

The Resistance Finds Its Footing
Five reasons to smile and cheer in these difficult and troubling times

Ken Paxton has amassed millions of dollars while in public office | TPR https://www.tpr.org/news/2025-10-10/ken-paxton-has-amassed-millions-of-dollars-while-in-public-office

Ken Paxton has amassed millions of dollars while in public office
Paxton is currently running for the U.S. Senate seat held by John Cornyn.

Trump has been meddling with Intel,
which now apparently includes mulling
⭐️"the possibility of the US government taking a financial stake in the troubled chip maker,"
the Wall Street Journal reported.
Trump and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan weighed the option during a meeting on Monday at the White House

These talks have only just begun
—with Intel branding them a rumor
—and sources told the WSJ that Trump has yet to iron out how the potential …

US may purchase stake in Intel after Trump attacked CEO
Trump’s attacks on Intel CEO may stem from beef with Biden.

Wiedemann-Franz behavior at the Weyl points in compressively strained HgTe
Abu Alex Aravindnath, Yi-Ju Ho, Fabian Schmitt, Dongyun Chen, Johannes Kleinlein, Wouter Beugeling, Hartmut Buhmann, Stanislau U. Piatrusha, Laurens W. Molenkamp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12339

Wiedemann-Franz behavior at the Weyl points in compressively strained HgTe
Weyl semimetals, with their unique electronic band structure, have drawn significant interest for their potential to explore quantum anomalies in condensed matter systems. In this study, we investigate the large positive magneto-thermal conductance associated with the gravitational anomaly -- one of the predicted anomalies -- for a Weyl semimetal based on a compressively strained HgTe layer. We clearly identify the Weyl regime in our device and accurately extract the thermal conductance by perf…

If there's a shooting in your apartment building, would you feel helped if your building were razed in response? When there's a shooting a block from a police station, do we destroy the whole block including the police station? Whatever Frey's excuse of the moment for destroying the makeshift homes of unhoused people, it is collective punishment— of the victims no less.
(Comment posted on @…

RIP Marilyn Hagerty, Great and Humble Chronicler of Upper Midwestern Eats - Racket
Plus south Minneapolis mass shootings, DJ calls for Saloon boycott, and a Robert Redford local angle in today's Flyover news roundup.

Just finished "Once For Yes" by Allie Millington. A phenomenal book dealing with tragedy, gentrification, grief, and community, it's preposterously poetic, but unfortunately has a twisted neoliberal politics lurking behind the scenes that makes me hesitate to recommend it. I enjoyed it greatly, especially the tightly choreographed prose, and the plot was both very well-paced and touching. It's fun for adults but also written for kids, which makes it all the more frustrating that despite touching on gentrification, it valorizes someone who is objectively a pretty scummy landlord, and fails to interrogate land ownership or rent in the slightest. It wouldn't be nearly the same story without the way things wrap up, but that doesn't make me comfortable with the larger messages it's sending, even if I think its messaging about grief is good, including for children.
#AmReading

When Language Overrules: Revealing Text Dominance in Multimodal Large Language Models
Huyu Wu, Meng Tang, Xinhan Zheng, Haiyun Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10552 https://

When Language Overrules: Revealing Text Dominance in Multimodal Large Language Models
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a diverse range of multimodal tasks. However, these models suffer from a core problem known as text dominance: they depend heavily on text for their inference, while underutilizing other modalities. While prior work has acknowledged this phenomenon in vision-language tasks, often attributing it to data biases or model architectures. In this paper, we conduct the first systematic investigation of text domin…

Cowboys' Jerry Jones open to trade before NFL deadline, mulling 'room' for a George Pickens contract extension

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/n…

De ongeveer 30.000 werknemers van de lokale overheid gebruiken nu niet langer Microsofts mailserversoftware Exchange en mailclient Outlook. Het gaat om ambtenaren op alle niveaus, maar ook om politiemensen en rechters. De minister van Digitalisering Dirk Schrödter verklaart dat de deelstaat onafhankelijk wil worden van grote techbedrijven en de digitale soevereiniteit wil waarborgen. "Nu kunnen we ook zeggen: missie geslaagd op het gebied van e-mailcommunicatie."

Duitse deelstaat voltooit migratie van Exchange en Outlook naar opensource
De Duitse deelstaat Sleeswijk-Holstein is voor de eigen e-mailomgeving geheel over van Microsoft Exchange en Outlook naar Open-Xchange en Thunderbird. De migratie weg van Microsoft is in april vorig jaar ingezet en heeft volgens de premier van deze deelstaat een voorbeeldfunctie.

This Saturday, millions of people are going to say no, and insist that every American has a right to dissent.
It’s going to be big
— there will be enormous rallies in major cities, and smaller but still meaningful ones in towns around the country.
There will be families, and dogs, and people in silly costumes.
They’re going to march, and stand together, and listen to speeches, and hold up signs
Trump and his allies will spin their absurd conspiracy theories,…

Ahead of No Kings Protest, Trump and GOP Try to Delegitimize All Dissent
There is no such thing as genuine progressive public opinion, and therefore mass and mobilized opposition to Trump doesn't count.