Tootfinder

@… : Es lebe der König!
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/tatort/e

Heather Honey,
a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election,
has been appointed to a senior position in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
in which she’ll help oversee the nation’s election infrastructure.
Honey is a protege of Cleta Mitchell,
a lawyer who tried to help Trump overturn the 2020 election results.
In 2024, ProPublica reported that Honey had played a key role in Mitchell’s behind-the-scenes effort to change Georgia’…

She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election. Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security.
Heather Honey has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security. State election officials and voting experts are concerned.

FBI official connected to Trump 2020 election investigation being pushed out, sources say (MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/kash-patel-fbi-arctic-frost-san-antonio-rcna241007
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p144#a251030p144

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 13 nodes and 63095 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Localised Arrowheads: The building blocks of elastic turbulence in rectilinear, sheared polymer flows
Theo A. Lewy, Rich R. Kerswell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26168 https://

Localised Arrowheads: The building blocks of elastic turbulence in rectilinear, sheared polymer flows
Pressure-driven flow of a dilute polymer solution has been numerically observed to possess a form of elastic turbulence which is organised around the interactions of localised versions of 2-dimensional `arrowhead' travelling waves (Page et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 154501, 2020). As a step to confirming this theoretically, we identify spanwise-localised arrowhead travelling waves by tracking a symmetry-breaking bifurcation of the known spanwise-invariant (2D) arrowhead to a spanwise-periodic st…

Futzing around with Narrator (because of its new Braille viewer, which I am working on testing) and reminded of the new speech log (“Speech Recap”):
Narrator Key Alt X
Wanted to confirm this is also true with Narrator:
https://adrianroselli.com/2020/08/speech…

Speech Viewer Logs of Lies
The headline is intentional hyperbole, chosen mostly for the sloppy alliteration. When sighted users test with a screen reader it is common to rely on the visual output — checking to see where focus goes, confirming that controls behave, watching the spoken output in a text log. The problem is…

KORRIGIERTE GRAFIK FÜR ZU/RÜCKBAU
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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Wenn Parteien anfangen, Firmen zu planen, verschwimmt die Grenze zwischen Gemeinwohlauftrag und Geschäftsmodell. Julia Klöckner & Co. zeigten 2020 im Projekt mit Frank Gotthardt, wie Politik und Wirtschaft ineinanderfließen können – zulasten von Vertrauen und Transparenz.
Michael Bröcker, #Table.Media #CDUApp

Modeling of AR 12760 with GX Simulator and Evidence for the Extended Transition Region in Peripheral Active Region Loops
Therese A. Kucera, Gelu M. Nita, James A. Klimchuk, Gregory D. Fleishman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20979

Modeling of AR 12760 with GX Simulator and Evidence for the Extended Transition Region in Peripheral Active Region Loops
In order to understand solar atmospheric heating it is important to test heating models against spatially resolved data from solar active regions. Here we model a small active region, AR~12760 observed on 2020 April 28, with the GX Simulator package by fitting the EUV intensities in wavebands observed by Solar Dynamics Observatory's Atmospheric Imaging Assembly. We assume the temporally and spatially averaged heating rate along a loop has a power-law dependence on loop length, $L$ and average m…

A senior US official says the recent hack of the US federal court filing system is a continuation of "rudimentary security issues" persisting since 2020 (John Sakellariadis/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/12/federal-courts-hack-se…

The Declarative configuration journey: Why it took 5 years to ignore health check endpoints in tracing
#OpenTelemetry

Weymouth Ambient (2020-08) - Ambient soundscape from a week in Weymouth late in August: boats, beach, amusements, eating... #Weymouth #soundscape #fieldRecording -

Weymouth Ambient (2020-08)
Ambient soundscape from a week in Weymouth late in August: boats, beach, amusements, eating... #Weymouth #soundscape #fieldRecording

Frank Gotthardt ist übrigens gar kein Milliardär, wie oft behauptet, nur ein schnöder Halbmilliardär. 2020 war er noch Milliardär, aber dann ging es wohl bergab, jetzt hat er wohl nur noch etwa 500 Millionen. Vielleicht hätte ihm Jens das erspahn können, aber das bleibt Spekulation.
Zeigt aber jedenfalls, daß auch ganz kleine Fische schlimm beißen können.

Permutation closure for multiple context-free languages
Andrew Duncan, Murray Elder, Lisa Frenkel, Mengfan Lyu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22239 https://arx…

Permutation closure for multiple context-free languages
We prove that the \emph{permutation closure} of a multiple context-free language is multiple context-free, which extends work of Okhotin and Sorokin [LATA 2020] who showed closure under \emph{cyclic shift}, and complements work of Brandstädt [1981, RAIRO Inform. Théor.] (resp. Brough \emph{et al.} [2016, Discrete Math. Theor. Comput. Sci.]) who showed the same result for regular, context-sensitive, recursively enumerable (resp. EDT0L and ET0L) languages. In contrast to Okhotin and Sorokin who…

Unredacted court docs in Smartmatic's Fox News lawsuit show how Maria Bartiromo and other Fox hosts privately aided Trump's bid to overturn the 2020 US election (Isabella Simonetti/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/smartma

I find it kinda funny that the 2020 MacBook Air—my work machine (albeit with 16 GB of RAM)—is now described as being “still capable at handling basic tasks like a champ, including streaming video, browsing, and dealing with documents.”
I haven’t noticed #Emacs slowing down, so what do people do that needs so much more computing power!?

Nonlinear-linear duality for multipath quantum interference
Yi Zheng, Jin-Shi Xu, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13855 https://arx…

Nonlinear-linear duality for multipath quantum interference
In quantum optics, the postselection amplitude of a nondegenerate parametric down-conversion (PDC) process is linked to a beamsplitter (BS) via partial time reversal, up to a normalization coefficient which is related to the parametric gain [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 117, 33107 (2020)]. A special example where the gain is low is reminiscent of Klyshko's advanced-wave picture in quantum imaging. Here, we propose and prove a generalized duality for multiple spatial paths connecting a quantum non…

I’m so proud of my little brother.
I just spoke to him in his dorm room at a top 30 college here in the US, he just arrived for freshman orientation.
He got in on a full ride - tuition, housing, food, books, travel, stipend for daily expenses. Won a competitive scholarship to do so.
More than that, he’s had a tougher road than most to get there:
- he had to suddenly move away from Manila, Philippines (where he grew up) in middle school because of COVID restrictions that didn’t let kids go outside (2020)
- then, just as he adjusted to school and a different language in our home country, Ukraine, Russia invaded (2022)
- he stayed in Greece for a month while I was calling our congressional representative here in NY and negotiating with the US embassy to get them a visa ASAP to enter the US and be with me and my husband. There were no paths for Ukrainian refugees yet, we just wanted them with us temporarily for a few months to figure out what options they even had next.
- he had to wait, not going to school, with no clue where they’d move next, until TPS became available to Ukrainians and they got to stay here in the US
- then he had to continue high school in yet another system, yet another country, amidst news of bombings and destruction back home
- my mother wasn’t allowed to work for months while their documents were pending, so we had to raise money with a public GoFundMe campaign and my husband and I maxed out our credit cards to help them get by
- they shared a one-room cottage for the first year, graciously hosted for free by an elderly local couple
- he saw a therapist who also graciously took him in for free while they didn’t have insurance
- he had to graduate high school amidst news of other immigrant students getting arrested, detained, and deported at their own graduations around the country
- he wasn’t sure if he would even make it to college as this administration publicly considered canceling TPS for Ukrainians and cutting off their pathway to maintaining legal status.
We don’t know what tomorrow holds. But he’s there. He’s on campus. He got to go to college.
I love him so much.

(2020) Economic growth is incompatible with biodiversity conservation #environment

Economic growth is incompatible with biodiversity conservation
The increase in resource consumption and polluting emissions as a result of economic growth is not compatible with biodiversity conservation. However, most international policies on biodiversity and sustainability advocate economic growth. These are the main conclusions of the study "Biodiversity policy beyond economic growth," published this week in the scientific journal Conservation Letters. This contradiction became clear after a review of international scientific and policy work on the sub…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/10/truth-social-trump-ai-chatbot-perplexity/
🤣🤣🤣
New chatbot on Trump’s Truth Social platform keeps contradicting him;
An “answer engine” on Trump’s social media site says the…

New chatbot on Trump’s Truth Social platform keeps contradicting him 
An “answer engine” on Trump’s social media site says the 2020 election wasn’t stolen, tariffs aren’t boosting the stock market and Barack Obama is seen favorably.

Van in voedsel tot via de lucht: hoe (een in de EU sinds 2020 verboden) #pesticide langdurige hersenschade bij kinderen veroorzaakt na blootstelling tijdens zwangerschap https://share.google/jINLtgiyYqx2dPD1x

And then it became "quote tweet" in 2020.
Screenshot from https://www.iphonetricks.org/how-to-use-the-new-twitter-quote-tweets/

from my link log —
The problem with single-threaded shared mutability.
http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2015/05/17/the-problem-with-shared-mutability/
saved 2020-03-03

Changes in varieties of capitalism within the OECD between 2010 and 2020
Zoltan Bartha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19416 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19416

Changes in varieties of capitalism within the OECD between 2010 and 2020
This study aims to reveal different varieties of capitalism and to uncover new patterns of development that emerged between 2010 and 2020. A hybrid model is applied that quantifies three pillars of development (Future - F, Outside - O, Inside - I) using supply-side and demand-side indicators that measure norms, institutions, and policies. Investigating 34 OECD members, this study describes five varieties of capitalism: traditional, dualistic, government-led, open market-based, and human capital…

Newsmax pays $67 million to settle defamation case linked to 2020 election coverage (Maddy Lauria/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/18/nx-s1-5506062/newsmax-pays-67-million-to-settle-defamation-case-linked-to-2020-election-coverage
http://www.memeorandum.com/250818/p60#a250818p60

fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata

Die ePetition 183278 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Berufsbildungsgesetz mit dem Titel
Nachträgliche Anerkennung der Bezeichnung ”Bachelor Professional” für vor 2020 erworbene Fachwirt-Abschlüsse
kann bis zum Montag 15. September 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition …

De VPRO heeft een mooi overzicht van waar wat te zien is van Diana Keaton.
https://www.vprogids.nl/cinema/personen/persoon~b82c0664-936d-3d74-88de-b2491b4c6ecf~diane-keaton~.html
Bik de films zelf een overzicht van alle streamdiensten (en de prijs)

Perturbed Public Voices (P$^{2}$V): A Dataset for Robust Audio Deepfake Detection
Chongyang Gao, Marco Postiglione, Isabel Gortner, Sarit Kraus, V. S. Subrahmanian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10949

Perturbed Public Voices (P$^{2}$V): A Dataset for Robust Audio Deepfake Detection
Current audio deepfake detectors cannot be trusted. While they excel on controlled benchmarks, they fail when tested in the real world. We introduce Perturbed Public Voices (P$^{2}$V), an IRB-approved dataset capturing three critical aspects of malicious deepfakes: (1) identity-consistent transcripts via LLMs, (2) environmental and adversarial noise, and (3) state-of-the-art voice cloning (2020-2025). Experiments reveal alarming vulnerabilities of 22 recent audio deepfake detectors: models trai…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Powerwolf:
🎵 Werewolves of Armenia
#Powerwolf
https://powerwolf.bandcamp.com/track/werewolves-of-armenia-new-version-2020-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/13htaEMCCLphNfJbXIYz3t

Conservative network Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims (Nicholas Riccardi/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/dominion-voting-newsmax-defamation-trump-2020-3b2366dfdae3a8432afe822bf14fe1ef
http://www.memeorandum.com/250818/p70#a250818p70

Analysis and Constructive Criticism of the Official Data Protection Impact Assessment of the German Corona-Warn-App
Rainer Rehak, Christian R. K\"uhne, Kirsten Bock
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06267

Analysis and Constructive Criticism of the Official Data Protection Impact Assessment of the German Corona-Warn-App
On June 15, 2020, the official data protection impact assessment (DPIA) for the German Corona-Warn-App (CWA) was made publicly available. Shortly thereafter, the app was made available for download in the app stores. However, the first version of the DPIA had significant weaknesses, as this paper argues. However since then, the quality of the official DPIA increased immensely due to interventions and interactions such as an alternative DPIA produced by external experts and extensive public disc…

Expressive Power of Graph Transformers via Logic
Veeti Ahvonen, Maurice Funk, Damian Heiman, Antti Kuusisto, Carsten Lutz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01067 https://

Expressive Power of Graph Transformers via Logic
Transformers are the basis of modern large language models, but relatively little is known about their precise expressive power on graphs. We study the expressive power of graph transformers (GTs) by Dwivedi and Bresson (2020) and GPS-networks by Rampásek et al. (2022), both under soft-attention and average hard-attention. Our study covers two scenarios: the theoretical setting with real numbers and the more practical case with floats. With reals, we show that in restriction to vertex properti…

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

Good Morning #Canada
#HappyBirthday to me. It's my 69th, and mentally, I feel young, but parts of my body have exceeded the "best before date." According to bornglorious .com there are 137 "famous" Canadians born on August 24th. Most are nobodies like me - politicians, actors, or NHL players you've never heard of. But there are a few notables. Like Alex Colville (1920-2013), a favourite Canadian conceptual painter. Or chain-smoker René Lévesque (1922-1987), who tried to tear Canada apart. But perhaps the Canadian born on this day with the most impact is Rocky Johnson (1944-2020). Born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Johnson was a Canadian pro wrestler and the first black champion in WWE history. Oh yeah.... he was also the father of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Famous
https://youtu.be/dhdOPhTHeoE?si=U6ddnjhi5-iyXywU

Topological Full Groups of Irreducible Edge Shifts have Solvable Conjugacy Problem
Matteo Tarocchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02582 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Topological Full Groups of Irreducible Edge Shifts have Solvable Conjugacy Problem
In this paper, we solve the conjugacy problem for Topological Full Groups of Irreducible Edge Shifts, introduced by Matui in 2015 and later recontextualized as groups of almost automorphisms of trees by Lederle in 2020. The techniques we use work in a larger class of groups, that of Piecewise-Canonical Homeomorphisms of Edge Shifts (which are essentially the prefix-exchange transformations), which also includes the Houghton groups and the Thompson-like group $QV$, for example. We use strand dia…

The bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee unanimously found in 2020 that the ICA was “coherent and well constructed”
-- and reconfirmed that Russia “engaged in an aggressive, multi-faceted effort to influence” the 2016 election in Trump’s favor.
Durham’s work is particularly instructive here.
Durham was a Trump U.S. attorney whom Attorney General William Barr tasked with leading an investigation into the origins of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane probe into alleged Trump-…

Bondi’s Obama Grand Jury: The Authoritarian Moment We’ve All Feared
It’s officially happening: the use of the machinery of justice to go on fishing expeditions about political predecessors. Absolute madness.

"I wouldn't have done this three months ago, four months ago, I certainly wouldn't have done it a year ago."
He didn't do it from 2017 to 2020, either -- and who was 'in charge' then?

Former Raiders Star Darren Waller Gets Huge Dolphins Injury Update from Agent https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/darren-waller-gets-injury-update/?adt_ei=[email]

Internal memo: Paramount Streaming President and CEO Tom Ryan is stepping down; Ryan became CEO in October 2020 after co-founding Pluto TV (Joe Otterson/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/paramount-streaming-president-ceo-tom-ryan-exit-12…

Paramount Streaming President and CEO Tom Ryan to Step Down
Tom Ryan, president and CEO of Paramount Streaming, is stepping down.

fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata

Superpolynomial convergence in the Riemann Rearrangement Theorem
Stefan Steinerberger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02489 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.02489

Superpolynomial convergence in the Riemann Rearrangement Theorem
Let $x \in \mathbb{R}$ be arbitrary and consider the `greedy' approximation of $x$ by signed harmonic sums: given $a_n = \sum_{k \leq n} \varepsilon_k/k$ with $\varepsilon_k \in \left\{-1,1\right\}$, we set $\varepsilon_{n+1} = 1$ if $a_n \leq x$ and $\varepsilon_{n+1} = -1$ otherwise. Bettin-Molteni-Sanna showed (Adv. Math. 2020) that this procedure has remarkable approximation properties: for almost all $x \in \mathbb{R}$ one has superpolynomial convergence in the sense that for every $k \in …

STRRINGS: STReams in Residual Images of Nearby GalaxieS
E. Sola, D. Chemaly, V. Belokurov, O. M\"uller, A. Ardern-Arentsen, E. Y. Davies, J. Laguna-Miralles, G. Myeong, K. Panagiotakis, H. Zhang, D. Erkal, S. E. Koposov, D. Lang, J. Nibauer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02154

STRRINGS: STReams in Residual Images of Nearby GalaxieS
Tidal features from galaxy mergers, particularly stellar streams, offer valuable insights into galaxy assembly and dark matter halo properties. This paper aims to identify a large sample of nearby stellar streams suitable for detailed modelling and comparison with simulations to enable population-level constraints on halo properties. We visually inspect and compile a tidal feature catalogue for $19,387$ galaxies with redshift $z \leq 0.02$ from the Siena Galaxy Atlas 2020 using original, model,…

Didn't realize this at the time but some time in 2020 my radio show surpassed the length of time it took for the confederacy to be established and die, now it's been more than double the amount lol

From High-Entropy Ceramics (HECs) to Compositionally Complex Ceramics (CCCs) and Beyond
Jian Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05629 https://arxiv.org/pdf/251…

From High-Entropy Ceramics (HECs) to Compositionally Complex Ceramics (CCCs) and Beyond
Over the past decade, the field of high-entropy ceramics (HECs) has rapidly expanded to encompass a wide range of oxides, borides, silicides, and other ceramic solid solutions. In 2020, we proposed extending the concept of HECs to compositionally complex ceramics (CCCs), in which non-equimolar compositions and the presence of long- or short-range order reduce entropy while offering new opportunities to tailor and enhance properties, often beyond those of higher-entropy counterparts. Here, funda…

2020 dwf felt very clever importing a Hong Kong model S20 so he could get the Snapdragon variant instead of the Exynos. Little did he realize 2025 dwf would be trying to install aftermarket firmware and that not being able to read Chinese characters might pose a _slight_ issue

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

The Space Coronagraph Optical Bench (SCoOB): 7. design, fabrication, and first light for a self-coherent camera
Kevin Derby, Kian Milani, Grace C. Hathaway, Joshua Liberman, Kyle Van Gorkom, Ramya Anche, Adam Schilperoort, Corey Fucetola, Brandon Chalifoux, Kuravi Hewawasam, Christopher Mendillo, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Ewan S. Douglas
https://

The Space Coronagraph Optical Bench (SCoOB): 7. design, fabrication, and first light for a self-coherent camera
The 2020 Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics tasked future space observatories with the goal of detecting and characterizing a large sample of Earth-like exoplanets. To achieve this, these observatories will require coronagraphs and wavefront control algorithms in order to achieve $10^{-10}$ or better starlight suppression. The Space Coronagraph Optical Bench (SCoOB) is a vacuum compatible testbed at the University of Arizona which aims to advance and mature starlight suppression techn…

Some leftists have criticized #NoKingsDay2 as useless. Though it was the largest protest in US history, it didn't change anything. I would go further to say that protests like these generally won't change anything. Dictators aren't forced to step down by 2% of the population coming out for one day. If they're forced to step down by protests, those protests are sustained. They are every single day. They are accompanied by general strikes.
We've been watching that happen all over the world. Portland in 2020 gave us a taste of that in the US. The George Floyd Rebellion was the type of resistance that actually brings down dictators like Trump. Occasional protests, no matter how large, can simply be ignored. That is precisely the reason the US developed a militarized police force in the first place. You need more, more than the largest protests in US history, more than Occupy, more than the resistance of the 60's and 70's, more than, and different from, anything we've seen in our lives.
And yet... Each protest has grown, and grown bolder. Some have grown more persistent. If you think of protest as the path to achieve change, you will lose. It is not. But it is a path to escalate. Some people, some otherwise comfortable white folks, came out for their first time. Some people got pepper sprayed for the first time. Some people questioned authority, stood up for the first time, and have had an experience that will radicalize them for the rest of their lives.
Protest is not useful in and of itself. It is training. It's making connections. Authoritarian regimes rely on the illusion of compliance, so visual resistance does actually undermine their power.
Liberals like to teach that non-violence is all about staying peaceful no matter what, that there's some way that morality simply overwhelms an enemy. I remember reading Langston Hughes' A Dream Deferred in high school. I said it was a threat. My teacher said, "you're wrong, he was a pacifist." Pacifism is a threat. If you can spit at me, beat me, shoot me, and I will not move, if I have the strength to absorb violence without flinching, without even rising to violence, what will happen when you push me too far?
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
For peaceful resistance to work, there must be ambiguity. It must not be clear if or when the resistance will stop being peaceful. Peaceful resistance with no possibility of escalation is just cowardice.
My critique then is not so harsh as some other anarchists. If you think that protest alone will work, you're probably going to lose. If you are prepared to escalate, if you are prepared to absorb violence without flinching, then it could be possible for protest alone to topple the dictator. The cracks are already beginning to show.
And then what?
The problems that lead to the George Floyd uprising were never resolved. The problems that lead to Occupy where never resolve. The DAPL was built, protesters were maimed, it leaked multiple times (exactly as predicted). Segregation never went away, it only changed forms. The fact that immigrants have different courts and different rights means that anyone can be arbitrarily kidnaped and renditioned to an arbitrary country. We never did anything about the torture black site. FFS, people can still be stripped of their voting rights and slavery is still legal in the US. The people who control both parties in the US are killing our children and grand children with oil wars and climate change.
Toppling the dictator does nothing to resolve all of the problems that existed before him.
No, #NoKingsDay was absolutely not useless. #NoKings and related protests are extremely useful but they aren't sufficient. But, I think we still need to challenge the movement on two points:
How do you escalate after you're ignored or brutalized?
What do you demand after you win?
#USPol

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

psi: Plant Photosystem I excitation energy transfer network (2020)
Weighted directed network of the light-harvesting Photosystem Ι (PSI) of the plant Pisum sativum. The nodes represent chromophores with different identities (i.e. chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, β-carotene and derivates, lutein, violaxanthin), while edges represent FRET transfer between chromophores. The link directionality connecting nodes in the PSI network depends on the energy levels of the connected chromophores. The…