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NFL holds moment of silence for Charlie Kirk before Commanders-Packers game https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6621151/2025/09/11/nfl-charlie-kirk-moment-of-silence-packers-commanders/

From David Suzuki
Want climate action? You’re part of a silenced majority
Most people worldwide want action on climate change. A significant majority would even be willing to give up some of their income to help. You wouldn’t learn that from most mainstream media or politicians.

And when I'm talking about understanding the drives to violence, I did write about something similar recently.
https://write.as/hexmhell/algorithmic-violence
The drives behind this and the shooting last week are pretty radically different, but there's some overlap. People like Kirk are part a huge political machine slowly crushing people all over the world. There's a hopeless rage that would naturally drive even the most calm person to the edge of violence. You can't look at the world honestly and be OK. We want to do something. We want to react. But everything we do is silenced or must rmain silent. So it's easy to understand why someone might choose violence. Very different situation, but everyone is subject to the same national and international influences.
I don't promote violence, not because I disagree with it but because I think it's expensive. It takes time to plan, especially for those trying to get away. Guns are not cheap, nor are bullets, nor is the range time you need to get somewhat good under pressure. It's not cheap for the person doing it, and it's not cheap for the community that has to clean up. The community will face police repression (which, if we're honest, was gonna come anyway). The community will have to post bail, will lose a person for a while, will need to support the family, will go to hearings, will write reports, will do interviews.
Sun Tzu said that deploying one soldier to the front takes 7 in the field. Logistics are a huge invisible cost. Some of that time and energy could be reused. It's never bad to be armed and able to defend if needed. But a lot of that energy and time would be better spent planning a community pantry, a tool library, organizing a union, etc. We are living in a disaster, and we need to invest in thriving through the next crumble.
Kirk is replacable. They're almost all replacable, because they don't really care about human life. We do, so none of us are. It's not really a worth while trade, IMHO.

Current Situation:
The Gifford Fire moderated today
but continues to burn in the rugged Garcia Wilderness,
advancing toward the Huasna Valley and the community of Pozo.
This steep, inaccessible terrain has no recorded fire history,
making containment challenging.
Crews are strengthening control lines along Avenales Ranch Road, the Salinas River bed, Hi Mountain Road, Caldwell Trout Creek, and the Huasna River.
These efforts will continue tonight.

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Cybercriminals are using AI to execute highly targeted attacks at scale, causing people to unwittingly send money and sensitive information or simply open themselves up to theft.
Hackers are now able to rent generative AI large language models created in the underground cybercrime community to help formulate text-based scams.
But just as generative AI is enhancing and scaling social engineering attacks, so too is it giving defenders a leg up.

The hacking underworld has removed all of AI's guardrails, but the good guys are closing in
Fake Taylor Swift ads and malicious QR codes are just some of the newest ways cybercriminals are using AI as the cat-and-mouse cybersecurity game heats up.

From Keywords to Clusters: AI-Driven Analysis of YouTube Comments to Reveal Election Issue Salience in 2024
Raisa M. Simoes, Timoteo Kelly, Eduardo J. Simoes, Praveen Rao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07821

From Keywords to Clusters: AI-Driven Analysis of YouTube Comments to Reveal Election Issue Salience in 2024
This paper aims to explore two competing data science methodologies to attempt answering the question, "Which issues contributed most to voters' choice in the 2024 presidential election?" The methodologies involve novel empirical evidence driven by artificial intelligence (AI) techniques. By using two distinct methods based on natural language processing and clustering analysis to mine over eight thousand user comments on election-related YouTube videos from one right leaning journal, Wall Stre…

It is slowly getting published:
Proofs for my special issue on Camp Memories (all texts are already published online first)
A first view on the TOC !!
https://journals.sagepub.com/home/mss
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SF is learning the wrong lesson from speed cameras I'm afraid. There's no evidence these cameras are slowing drivers outside of the specific spots they're placed; that they'll slow outlier speeders most likely to kill; or that road diets wouldn't achieve better results for less money.

Commentary: Speed Cameras are a Good Start for Safe Streets - Streetsblog San Francisco
But all tools, not just speed cameras, must be used to achieve Vision Zero

Bari Weiss
– a staunch Zionist and a fierce opponent of supposed wokeness and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives
– famously left the New York Times opinion section,
claiming she had been bullied by her colleagues for her beliefs.
She started a Substack newsletter and eventually founded the wildly successful website Free Press.
Her rise has been meteoric. She “has ascended the mountain of journalism on a slingshot”, Jessica Testa of the New York T…