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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

NextEra Energy and Google sign a 25-year power supply deal, which includes restarting the 615MW Duane Arnold nuclear plant in Iowa, shut down in 2020 (Vallari Srivastava/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/nexter…

Bahn zieht Reißleine: Cargo-Chefin Nikutta muss gehen
Seit 2020 hat Sigrid Nikutta versucht, DB Cargo zu sanieren. Nach Kritik der Gewerkschaft und einem verheerenden Gutachten zieht der Konzern Konsequenzen.
https://…

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…

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

»The Privacy Theater of Hashed PII:
A 2020 MacBook Air can hash every North American phone number in four hours«
Good article that clearly shows that only hashing alone is not yet data safe. That's where HMAC belongs at the SHA-2 min. but also not to save passwords and the same.
🤷 https://

The Privacy Theater of Hashed PII
It takes a 2020 Macbook Air four hours to hash every North American phone number

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

Donald Trump, the most Florida Man ever, was elected president.
If you asked an LLM to write a Carl Hiaasen novel, you might get Trump:
a hacky, unimaginative version of the wealthy, callous, scheming grifters of the Hiaasenverse.
Back in 2020, Hiaasen wrote Trump into Squeeze Me,
a tremendous and madcap addition to his canon:
Fever Beach is the first Hiaasen novel since Squeeze Me,
and boy, does Hiaasen ever have MAGA's number.
The book revol…

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…

Yes, you can do insane things in the smartd.conf file. https://infosec.exchange/@atax1a/115436609310786604

this is my favorite review ever

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Kate Bush:
🎵 The Kick Inside
#NowPlaying #KateBush
https://iwannabekate.bandcamp.com/track/the-kick-inside-2020-remaster

Tijdens het tweede gesprek van Kaag deze week in de media vraag ik me af of, en zo ja welke rol Kaag nog op de achtergrond speelt bij het conflict in Gaza.
#Gaza #kaag #Buitenhof

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

Friday Links 25-23
A few interesting articles about AI this week. A good interview with Jane Goodall from 2020, and a weird assembler tutorial game.
Also check out the link from Jason at the bottom, I could have copied them all.
https://christof.damian.net/2025/10/fri…

Friday Links 25-23
A few interesting articles about AI this week. A good interview with Jane Goodall from 2020, and a weird assembler tutorial game. Also check...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Shannon and the Clams:
🎵 Sleep Talk
#ShannonandtheClams
https://shaneb.bandcamp.com/track/sleep-talk-shannon-the-clams-2020
https://open.spotify.com/track/0YRi3Gq2kkqfuaZ2L4rynD

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…

The Atlanta Fed estimates delays faced by claimants in COBOL-based unemployment insurance systems cut US GDP by at least $40B between March 13 and year-end 2020 (Bryce Elder/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7610a755-27e3-4792-a337-27d9b301000b

A song for protesters in the US. Thanks for "going outside... [to] help organize something better, something beautiful."
John K. Samson, "Fantasy Baseball At The End Of The World" (2020)
https://johnksamsonmusic.bandcamp.com/albu…

@…

Amigas y amigos, en este su programa menos favorito de la internet, les traemos los nuevos lanzamientos musicales. Y hoy comenzamos con Tame Impala y su 5to šlbum de estudio, el sucesor de «The Slow Rush» del 2020, que lleva por título «Deadbeat».
https://album.link/s/5WulAOx9ilWy1h8UGZ1gkI

Ever heard of Eric Schmitt?
He’s the junior US senator from Missouri, a Republican, naturally.
He was elected in the 2022 election.
Prior to that he was the Show Me State’s attorney general.
In that position, he championed Trump’s Big Lie about the 2020 election and supported failed lawsuits that tried to overturn the election results.
He signed an amicus brief that contended LGBTQ people were not protected by workplace discrimination bans.
He filed l…

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

mist: MIST protein interaction database (2020)
The Molecular Interaction Search Tool (MIST) is a comprehensive resource of molecular interactions, assembled from severla primary sources. MIST currently supports several species, including:.
This network has 50 nodes and 41 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Sources: The Free Press hires Adam Rubenstein, who edited Sen. Tom Cotton's infamous "Send in the Troops" op-ed for the NYT in June 2020, as its deputy editor (Alexandra Steigrad/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/06/media/fr

Exclusive | The Free Press taps Adam Rubenstein — once ostracized at NY Times for liking Chick-fil-A — as new deputy editor: 'Proper Republican'
Sources expect Rubenstein will effectively run the Free Press now that Weiss will be busy steering the editorial direction of shows like “60 Minutes,” “Face The Nation” and …

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)

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 04.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

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.

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…

August 2025 was the third-warmest August globally, behind only 2023 and 2024, with an average surface air temperature of 16.60°C, 1.29°C above the estimated 1850-1900 average used to define the pre-industrial level.
https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-temper…

John Swinney's independence strategy backed by SNP members
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czxwx02xp8yo
Ahh ...
De verkiezingen in Schotland gaan volgend jaar weer ergens over.

Predicting Module-Lattice Reduction
L\'eo Ducas, Lynn Engelberts, Paola de Perthuis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10540 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10540…

Predicting Module-Lattice Reduction
Is module-lattice reduction better than unstructured lattice reduction? This question was highlighted as 'Q8' in the Kyber NIST standardization submission (Avanzi et al., 2021), as potentially affecting the concrete security of Kyber and other module-lattice-based schemes. Foundational works on module-lattice reduction (Lee, Pellet-Mary, Stehlé, and Wallet, ASIACRYPT 2019; Mukherjee and Stephens-Davidowitz, CRYPTO 2020) confirmed the existence of such module variants of LLL and block-reduction…

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.

You know what they say about Stupid Games...
#Sysadminnery https://infosec.exchange/@atax1a/115385546828585134

Uspol, genocide
In case you're wondering whether "political violence" is escalating in the U.S.A. right now, of *course* it is as we move into an era of concentration campus and domestic military deployments. But both domestic genocides and purges as well as political violence targeted at individual prominent figures has been a *constant* throughout American history, from gun duels fought between political rivals to massacres of Native Americans in order to steal their land, to pogroms against Catholics, to literal wars on local Black success and political participation, all dating back before the American Revolution to the beginning of colonization. Thanks to Wikipedia, here's a *small sampling* where I attempted to whittle things down to about one event per decade before recent times.
Sources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_United_States
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_massacres_in_North_America
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_political_violence_in_Washington,_D.C.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_racial_violence_in_the_United_States
Killings, woundings, and plots against political figures:
Aaron Burr killing Alexander Hamilton in 1804
Sam Houston beats Rep. William Stanbery in 1832
Attempted Assassination of Andrew Jackson in 1835
Fight between Representatives Churchwell & Cullom in 1854
Caning of Sen. Charles Summer in 1856
Brawl on the House floor in 1858
Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865
Assassination of President James A. Garfield in 1881
Assassination of President William McKinley in 1901
Attempted Assassination of William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz in 1909
Wounding of former President Theodore Roosevelt in 1912
Bombing of the U.S. Senate reception room in 1915
Attempted Assassination of President Herbert Hover in 1928 (in Argentina)
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1947
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1950
The United States Capitol Shooting in 1954
Planned Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1960
Attempted Assassination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1963
Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963
Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968
Weather Underground bombings in 1970, 1971, and 1975
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1972 (Alabama Governor George Wallace was targeted & injured instead)
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1974
Planned Assassination of President Gerald Ford in 1974
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Gerald Ford in 1975
Wounding of President Ronald Reagan in 1981
Attempted Kidnapping of Federal Reserve Board members in 1981
Planned Assassination of President George Bush in 1993 (in Kuwait)
Attempted Assassinations (x3) of President Bill Clinton in 1994
Attempted Assassination of President Bill Clinton in 1996
Anthrax attacks on US senators in 2001
Attempted Assassination of President George W. Bush in 2005 (in the foreign country of Georgia)
Planned Assassination of President-Elect Barrack Obama in 2008
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2009 (in Turkey)
Attempted Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2011
Shooting of Rep. Gabby Gliffords in 2011
Planned Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2012
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2013
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2015
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Donald Trump in 2017
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2018
Pipe bombs mailed to Democratic leaders in 2018, including former President Barack Obama
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2019
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2020
Kidnapping plot against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020
Planned Assassination of Former President George W. Bush in 2022
Planned Assassination of Former President Barrack Obama in 2023
Attempted Assassination of President Joe Biden in 2023
Planned Assassinations (x2) of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Wounding of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Massacres and other mass killings, mostly with genocidal motivations:
The Acoma Massacre in 1599
The Paspaheg Massacre in 1610
The Wessagusset affair in 1623
The Mystic Massacre in 1637
The Pound Ridge Massacre in 1644
The Susquehannock chiefs massacre in 1675
The Apalachee Massacre in 1704
The Massacre at Fort Narhantes in 1712
The Norridgewock Massacre in 1724
The 1745 Massacre at Walden (in 1745)
The 1756 Massacre at Walden (in 1756)
The Killings by the Paxton Boys in 1763
The Yellow Creek Massacre in 1774
The Gnadenhütten Massacre in 1782
The Canyon del Muerto Massacre in 1805
The Battle of Tallushatchee in 1813
The Philadelphia Nativist Riots in 1844
The Bloody Island Massacre in 1850
The Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857
The Sand Creek Massacre in 1864
The Opelousas Massacre in 1868
The Chinese Massacre in 1871
The Election Riot of 1874
The Haymarket Affair in 1886
The Buffalo Gap Massacre in 1890
The Wilmington Massacre in 1898
The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre (in 1906)
The Ludlow Massacre in 1914
The Elaine massacre in 1919
The Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921
The Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921
The Bonus Army Conflict in 1932
The 1937 Memorial Day massacre (in 1937)
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963
The Kent State shootings in 1970
The Greensboro massacre in 1979
The MOVE Bombing in 1985
The 4 O'Clock murders in 1988
The Oklahoma City bombing in 1995
The September 11 Attacks in 2001
The Fort Hood Shooting in 2009
The Holocaust Memorial Shooting in 2009
The Isla Vista killings in 2014
The Charleston Church shooting in 2015
The San Bernardino attack in 2015
The Orlando Nightclub Shooting in 2016
The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting in 2018
The El Paso Walmart shooting in 2019
The January 6th Capitol Attack in 2021
The 2022 Buffalo Shooting (in 2022)

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 release of a second consecutive poor #JobsReport confirmed the reality that Mr. Trump has been trying to avoid. The labor market is stalling [as a result] of his agenda. The data showed the first net loss of jobs since [2020], when the pandemic was raging.”

The low-lying light tetraquark states with quantum numbers $J^{P}=0^{ }$, $1^{ }$ and $2^{ }$
Hao Wu, Mao-Jun Yan, Chun-Sheng An, Cheng-Rong Deng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07836

The low-lying light tetraquark states with quantum numbers $J^{P}=0^{+ }$, $1^{+}$ and $2^{+}$
The low-lying light tetraquark states are investigated in the non-relativistic quark model (NRQM) including the pseudoscalar meson exchange, where two different confinement potential schemes, the Cornell potential and the linear potential, are employed, along with the instanton-induced interaction serving as the residual spin-dependent interaction. The numerical results show agreement with masses of $f_{0}(500)$, $f_{0}(1370)$, $f_{0}(1500)$, $f_{0}(2020)$, $f_{0}(2200)$, $h_{1}(1170)$, $h_{1}(…

Teruglezen | Zo verliep het anti-immigratieprotest in Amsterdam - NU.nl
https://www.nu.nl/binnenland/6372144/teruglezen-zo-verliep-het-anti-immigratieprotest-in-amsterdam.html
Misschien wel t belangrijkste nieuws van vandaag: ⬇️ 😎😎
-Vluchtelingenclubs kregen ton door actie tegen haat-
Link naar de in het artikel genoemde actie:
https://www.degoedezaak.org/sponsorloop-draai-dit-extreemrechtse-protest-om-in-steun-voor-het-goede-doel/
Doneren mag nog steeds!
(Via @… )

"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?

🇺🇦 #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

According to a fresh Gallup poll this week, 43 percent of Americans regard the Supreme Court as
“too conservative,”
against 36 percent who feel that the Roberts court is an even-tempered administrator of justice.
That 43 percent is a new high, per Gallup:
“Before the court shifted to a 6-3 conservative advantage after Amy Coney Barrett replaced Ruth Bader Ginsburg in October 2020,
no more than 33% had ever characterized it as too conservative.”
But then,…

The Democrats’ Most Formidable Foe Is Not Donald Trump
Stopping and reversing the degradation of the Trump era will require a more radical strategy—and a bigger target.

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Grappig dat Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer op precies hetzelfde punt uit komt als waar ik vsn de week tegenaan liep toen ik moest constateren dat mensen vsn rond mijn bouwjaar ('62) heel ver uit elkaar lopen bij de oude grote gebeurtenissen (nazisme, Israel) em vooral in heel ander tempo zich kunnen aanpassen.
Ilja heeft dan gelijk dat de 'jongeren' daarbij onvoldoende kennis, aandacht hebben. (want 'lang geleden',logisch)
#Buitenhof

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

Dominion Voting settles its lawsuit against OANN for defamation over 2020 election rigging claims (Jeremy Barr/@jeremymbarr)
https://x.com/jeremymbarr/status/1974233050373398656

Jeremy Barr (@jeremymbarr) on X
Another 2020 media lawsuit just got resolved: Dominion Voting Systems has ended their lawsuit against OAN

wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…

A Computer-Assisted Proof of the Optimal Density Bound for Pinwheel Covering
Akitoshi Kawamura, Yusuke Kobayashi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06533 https://a…

A Computer-Assisted Proof of the Optimal Density Bound for Pinwheel Covering
In the covering version of the pinwheel scheduling problem, a daily task must be assigned to agents under the constraint that agent $i$ can perform the task at most once in any $a_i$-day interval. In this paper, we determine the optimal constant $α^* = 1.264\ldots {}$ such that every instance with $\sum_{i} \frac{1}{a_i} \ge α^*$ is schedulable. This resolves an open problem posed by Soejima and Kawamura (2020). Our proof combines Kawamura's (2024) techniques for the packing version with new …

Long-term monitoring of a dynamically new comet C/2020 V2 (ZTF)
Goldy Ahuja, K. Aravind, Shashikiran Ganesh, Said Hmiddouch, Mathieu Vander Donckt, Emmanuel Jehin, Devendra Sahu, T. Sivarani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05902

Long-term monitoring of a dynamically new comet C/2020 V2 (ZTF)
Comet C/2020 V2 (ZTF) is categorized as a dynamically new long-period comet, making its first approach to the inner Solar system. We have observed this comet for around 32 months (from January 2022 to July 2024) at heliocentric distances from 5.41 au (pre-perihelion) to 5.26 au (post-perihelion) through various telescopes, employing photometric (60 epochs) and spectroscopic techniques (5 epochs). Using these observations, we derived the production rates of different molecules such as CN$(0-0)$,…

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…

Comment on "A Note on Over-Smoothing for Graph Neural Networks"
Razi Hasson, Reuven Guetta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04178 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Comment on "A Note on Over-Smoothing for Graph Neural Networks"
We comment on Cai and Wang (2020, arXiv:2006.13318), who analyze over-smoothing in GNNs via Dirichlet energy. We show that under mild spectral conditions (including with Leaky-ReLU), the Dirichlet energy of node embeddings decreases exponentially with depth; we further extend the result to spectral polynomial filters and provide a short proof for the Leaky-ReLU case. Experiments on edge deletion and weight amplification illustrate when Dirichlet energy increases, hinting at practical ways to re…

5 oktober 2025 | VPRO
#Buitenhof

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

Grieks monument eindelijk 'bevrijd': voor het eerst in halve eeuw geen stellingen rond Parthenon | VRT NWS: nieuws
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2025/10/11/parthenon-stellingen-weggehaald/
... Maar je moet wel snel zijn. 😅
(Vanaf volgend jaar schijnen ze 'definitief' weg te zijn...)

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…

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
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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…

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

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 …

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Gewoon een uur de tijd nemen om een partijleider te laten uitpraten en kritisch te bevragen.
Mogen we daar meer van?
(Of nee ... We vullen de tv wel met kletsprogramma's. 🙃)
Fijn dat er even duidelijk in het links/rechtsigheid gedoken wordt waar Volt gewoon anders in de race staat.
Met daardoor andere keuzes dan traditioneel links/rechts.
#TK2025 #Volt

The FCC votes to confirm a $920K fine against the operator of a New Jersey pirate radio station from November 2023 to January 2024, under the PIRATE Act of 2020 (Inside Radio)
https://www.insideradio.com/free/fcc-issue

FCC Issues Near-Million Dollar Fine Against New Jersey Pirate.
The FCC has affirmed a $920,000 fine against Masner Beauplan for operating “Radio Leve Kanpe” on 91.7 FM in Irvington and Maplewood, NJ from November 2023 to January 2024. Field

The last time an American President ordered the militia of one state to invade another over its governor’s objections, his name was Abe. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nwnlnixtjh3qhkwpz2uy5uwv/post/3lxv6uvxpxc2e

Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social)
When President Trump used 32 U.S.C. § 502(f)(2) in 2020, that was to have out-of-state National Guard troops sent to D.C.—which has no sovereignty of its own. Sending the un-federalized TX National Guard into IL without the latter’s consent raises *serious* Article IV problems that 2020 … didn’t.

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En zie daar het grote verschil dat Nieuwsuur maakt vandaag. Daar een lang item over een Israëlische vrouw em een Palestijnse man die Eem paar km uit elkaar wonen..
Achteraan ook bovenstaand stukje.
De bijeenkomst werd gehouden door de Israëlische ambassade en CJO.
Zeker zolang Israel genocide pleegt is het onbestaanbaar dat Schoof zich daar vertoont.
#RodeLijn #NLpol #Gaza

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…

Absence of eigenvalues of electromagnetic Dirac operators
Naiara Arrizabalaga, Lucrezia Cossetti, Matias Morales
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03627 https://a…

Absence of eigenvalues of electromagnetic Dirac operators
In this work, we develop the method of multipliers for electromagnetic Dirac operators and establish sufficient conditions on the magnetic and electric fields that guarantee the absence of point spectrum. Our results can be viewed as a generalization of those obtained by Cossetti, Fanelli and Krejčiřík (2020), which treated the purely magnetic case. We also emphasize that, in the massless case, our approach covers Coulomb-type potentials of the form $V(x) = \frac{1}{|x|} \big(ν\ma…

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Aangezien dit geen functionele data deling is (DDG blokkeert de trackers en de app functioneert al jaren zo), is het duidelijk de vraag wat het doel dan wel is.
De verbinding met de overheid zelf zal alle nodige informatie geven.
#Overheid #DigiD #Datagraaien

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.

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…

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 …

The Gaza War Is Over, So Now a State Commission of Inquiry Into Oct. 7 Must Begin - #HaaretzEditorial - #Haaretz.com
#Gaza #netanyahu

#Tatort: #Trailer: Siebenschläfer - #ARD #MDR
#crimi #krimi