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The pandemic production of Steven Soderbergh's "No sudden move" (filmed in autumn 2020, and with support by CDC professionals): https://www.productionhub.com/blog/post/covid-shots-no-sudden-move

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…

Pro-Trump 'failed inventor' fundraising to illegally preserve photos of 2020 AZ ballots - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/jovan-pulitzer/

https://mastodon.social/@fefe_interim/115598749855474597
From: @…

"The student’s education then becomes not a victory for their own self-improvement or -enrichment, but rather that the teacher conquered the student’s presumed inherent laziness, shiftiness, etc. to instill some kernel of a lesson."
#FediLZ
@…

Michel Devoret, a Google Quantum AI chief scientist, John Martinis, who left Google in 2020, and John Clarke win the Nobel in Physics for quantum computing work (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-…

Druckereiwarm: höchste Zeit für die diesjährige Weihnachtedition meiner Kartenaktion (die ich seit 2020 unverändert durchzieh) Jetzt neu bei den Klextras dabei - wie immer kann meine Kunstdruck-Postkarten niemand kaufen sondern nur von mir zur Bestellung dazugeschenkt bekommen, (Mehr dazu auf https://wandklex.art/klextras-10148)

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…

The propaganda is so wild. When I was younger, they'd lie about things 20-30 years prior, with the assumption that people will have forgotten. Now they are constantly attempting to rewrite history that happened a mere 5 years ago, thinking that they're slick.
To quote Orwell: "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

Pew: 62% of US parents say their child under 2 watches YouTube and 84% say their child age 2-4 does; daily use for ages 2-4 grew from 38% in 2020 to 51% in 2025 (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/10/08/how-parents-manage-s…

How Parents Manage Screen Time for Kids
About four-in-ten parents say they could be doing better at managing their kid’s screen time. A larger share – 58% – say they’re doing the best they can.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 04.10.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum

Mandelkekse, mit 100g weniger Zucker im Rezept immer noch ausreichend süß. #nommention
https://www.zuckerzimtundliebe.…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Wheatus:
🎵 Teenage Dirtbag
#Wheatus
https://wheatus.bandcamp.com/album/teenage-dirtbag-2020
https://open.spotify.com/track/25FTMokYEbEWHEdss5JLZS

I saw an article about how good the food options are that are associated with churches. So I went to a Vietnamese place called O BACH across the road from Bunnings in Tuggeranong and had a pretty nice banh mi. Nice crispy bun!
Apologies, I neglected to photograph my food before it disappeared into my cake hole.
#food #canberra

Updated my 2020 MacBookPro to 26.0.1. It never booted right again. After trying everything and talking to Apple Support the answer was “do you have a backup”? I had to wipe the drive and start from scratch. Now I’m trying to restore from a NAS Time Machine backup.
Ugh.

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

Deep Learning Reconstruction of Tropical Cyclogenesis in the Western North Pacific from Climate Reanalysis Dataset
Duc-Trong Le, Tran-Binh Dang, Anh-Duc Hoang Gia, Duc-Hai Nguyen, Minh-Hoa Tien, Xuan-Truong Ngo, Quang-Trung Luu, Quang-Lap Luu, Tai-Hung Nguyen, Thanh T. N. Nguyen, Chanh Kieu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06118

Deep Learning Reconstruction of Tropical Cyclogenesis in the Western North Pacific from Climate Reanalysis Dataset
This study presents a deep learning (DL) architecture based on residual convolutional neural networks (ResNet) to reconstruct the climatology of tropical cyclogenesis (TCG) in the Western North Pacific (WNP) basin from climate reanalysis datasets. Using different TCG data labeling strategies and data enrichment windows for the NASA Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications Version 2 (MERRA2) dataset during the 1980-2020 period, we demonstrate that ResNet can reasonably rep…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheHueyShow
The Who:
🎵 Eminence Front
#TheWho
https://sportellomusic.bandcamp.com/track/the-who-eminence-front-sportello-2020-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/6HhVHZTzhjvS5erfCm4roh

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Future Sound of London:
🎵 Cascade
#TheFutureSoundofLondon
https://fsol.bandcamp.com/album/cascade-2020
https://open.spotify.com/track/6zmrnTNebdcNisk7HTK40L