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#OTD: 13 years ago, I visited the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart.
It is one of Germany's temples to “das Auto”. Architectural gems, this one is by UN Studio.

COMPAct: Computational Optimization and Automated Modular design of Planetary Actuators
Aman Singh, Deepak Kapa, Suryank Joshi, Shishir Kolathaya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07197

COMPAct: Computational Optimization and Automated Modular design of Planetary Actuators
The optimal design of robotic actuators is a critical area of research, yet limited attention has been given to optimizing gearbox parameters and automating actuator CAD. This paper introduces COMPAct: Computational Optimization and Automated Modular Design of Planetary Actuators, a framework that systematically identifies optimal gearbox parameters for a given motor across four gearbox types, single-stage planetary gearbox (SSPG), compound planetary gearbox (CPG), Wolfrom planetary gearbox (WP…

ByteDance launches Seedream 4.0, an AI image model it claims can beat Google's viral "nano banana" model in prompt adherence, alignment, and aesthetics (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article…

ByteDance unveils new AI image model to rival Google DeepMind’s ‘Nano Banana’
ByteDance claims that Seedream 4.0 beat Gemini 2.5 Flash Image for image generation and editing on its internal evaluation benchmark.

Generalised actuator disk theory: wake development with turbulent entrainment
Majid Bastankhah, Peter E. Hydon, Carl Shapiro, Dennice F. Gayme, Charles Meneveau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08213

Generalised actuator disk theory: wake development with turbulent entrainment
Classical actuator disk theory, developed more than a century ago, provides an idealised description of turbine rotor performance. It treats a rotor as an infinitesimally-thin permeable disk and applies the governing flow equations over a streamtube encompassing the disk. A well-known limitation of the theory is its assumption of ideal flow downstream of the disk, which restricts its applicability to short downwind distances before turbulence and mixing processes governing the wake evolution ta…

First off - Skate Story looks like my kind of aesthetic game jam
https://youtu.be/hbQzl5ofo6U
Second off - helllloooo Blood Cultures

The US supreme court agreed on Tuesday to decide the legality of Trump’s sweeping global tariffs,
setting up a major test of one of the Republican president’s boldest assertions of executive power that has been central to his economic and trade agenda.
The justices took up the justice department’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling that
Trump overstepped his authority in imposing most of his tariffs under a federal law meant for emergencies.
The court acted swiftly aft…

i put so much active effort over the years into communicating closer to an average person, not sounding like some stuffy pretentious academic like when i was 15, but now i sorta wanna relearn aspects of that. the aesthetic of being a smart person people should listen to, at least depending on where its applied, is a tool like any other

Israel and Hamas agree to 'first phase' of plan to end fighting and release hostages, Trump says (Samy Magdy/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/egypt-gaza-talks-kushner-witkoff-israel-hamas-news-10-08-2025-ac80d3ed50ff2a9b4106ab5e13156651
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p144#a251008p144

Surrogate-Enhanced Modeling and Adaptive Modular Control of All-Electric Heavy-Duty Robotic Manipulators
Amir Hossein Barjini, Mohammad Bahari, Mahdi Hejrati, Jouni Mattila
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06313

Surrogate-Enhanced Modeling and Adaptive Modular Control of All-Electric Heavy-Duty Robotic Manipulators
This paper presents a unified system-level modeling and control framework for an all-electric heavy-duty robotic manipulator (HDRM) driven by electromechanical linear actuators (EMLAs). A surrogate-enhanced actuator model, combining integrated electromechanical dynamics with a neural network trained on a dedicated testbed, is integrated into an extended virtual decomposition control (VDC) architecture augmented by a natural adaptation law. The derived analytical HDRM model supports a hierarchic…

Officials including
US Sen. Dick Durbin (Ill.),
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, and
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson
—all Democrats—have condemned the deployment.
”No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate,” Pritzker said in a statement ahead of the deployment.
“We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois Nat…

'Illegal... Unconstitutional... Dangerous... Wrong': Texas National Guard Troops Invade Illinois | Common Dreams
"Illinois will not let the Trump administration continue on their authoritarian march without resisting," vowed Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker.