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The Year in Physics
Physicists spotted a “terribly exciting” new black hole,
doubled down on weakening dark energy,
and debated the meaning of quantum mechanics
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-year-in-physics-20251217/

The Year in Physics | Quanta Magazine
Physicists spotted a “terribly exciting” new black hole, doubled down on weakening dark energy, and debated the meaning of quantum mechanics.

People that support Trump are followers of a satanic idol who couldn't be more immoral & less ethical.
✅ How Donald Trump Shifted Kids-Cancer Charity Money Into His Business
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/

Google DeepMind's mechanistic interpretability team details why it shifted from fully reverse-engineering neural nets to a focus on "pragmatic interpretability" (AI Alignment Forum)
https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/StENzDcD3kpf…

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116018578553272595
Fun fact: "Washing machines" are not that good an example because they did not reduce load for women, they shifted types of work around to free men to work in factories and raised expectations…

Spotted another old AT&T #longlines tower, this one in Jamestown, TN. #roadtrip

#ff2025 livestream folk - if you haven't already spotted them, we have excellent transcription by expert transcribers who've seen the slides and abstracts - look for the CC option

China's efforts to slow land degradation and climate change
by planting trees and restoring grasslands
have shifted water around the country in huge, unforeseen ways, new research shows.
Between 2001 and 2020, changes in vegetation cover reduced the amount of fresh water available for humans and ecosystems in the eastern monsoon region and northwestern arid region,
which together make up 74% of China's land area, according to a study published Oct. 4 in the jo…

China has planted so many trees it's changed the entire country's water distribution
Huge "regreening" efforts in China over the past few decades have activated the country's water cycle and moved water in ways that scientists are just now starting to understand.

Palantir shifted course to play key role in ICE deportations
Even as Palantir took on extensive data-management contracts for the federal government,
the company said it was not willing to allow its powerful tools to broadly track immigrants across America.

That commitment no longer holds.
Palantir’s software is helping U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement track undocumented immigrants and deport them faster,
according to federal procurement filings and in…

How Palantir shifted course to play key role in ICE deportations
“The truly progressive position on immigration” is “extreme skepticism,” says Alex Karp, a longtime Democrat and the data management company’s chief executive.

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney
— a former editor at The New York Times
— details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred,
why this was directed from the very top,
how some staff pushed back
and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
https://

Trans News Network (@transnews.network)
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry. https://transnews.network/p/a-directive-from-above-former-nyt-editor-lays-out-how-the-paper-pushes-anti-trans-bigotry

Communities have changed how resistance is conducted
— away from the myth of the solitary activist hero
and toward
shared capacity.
As Grace Lee Boggs taught us,
“Movements are born of critical connections rather than critical mass.”
Political exhaustion took on new meaning.
It was no longer treated as a personal struggle, but as shared terrain
— produced by oppressive systems and requiring collective response.
The question shifted from…

Anti-ICE Organizing Is Creating Counter-Institutions Based on Care
Rapid-response networks and mutual aid are not charity. They’re shared infrastructure for collective care and survival.