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'Cruel and Unconstitutional': Trump, RFK Jr. Escalate War on Trans Youth With Threat Against US Hospitals | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-transgeneder-care-ban

i wish all people going out on the streets tomorrow during #NoKings day good luck, you are protesting for freedom and democracy.
https://www.nokings.org/

No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power belongs to the people.

Sources: during the bidding process, Paramount promised WBD that its foreign partners and Jared Kushner's fund wouldn't have any voting or governance rights (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/11/paramount-wbd-voting-rights

Scoop: Original Paramount bid for WBD didn't exclude foreign voting rights
Paramount has now made a hostile bid after WBD accepted Netflix's offer.

Adding another post. This one is a bit less polished, but I want to get it out. As things get harder for everyone, I'm seeing a greater tendency to want to grasp onto revolutionary fiction such as #Andor. I think there's value in that, but it has to come with an informed critique.
> We are so thirsty for hope that we will drink it up, even when that hope comes from a fiction and the truth behind the hope is poison. In Andor, we see the worst elements sacrifice themselves for some of the best. The revolution goes through a process of purification, the complicated elements weeding themselves out to make room for the simplified good, as the rebellion unifies. In reality, this tends to be the opposite how things actually work.
> [...]
> [The Urban Guerilla movement of the 60's through the 80's] centered militant revolution. In doing so, they omitted or cut themselves off from the logistic support needed to sustain such revolutionary activity. The trauma of carrying out violence further isolated and radicalized them. Lacking infrastructure for trauma healing, their decay escalated and became unrecoverable. Ultimately, their revolutionary movements both emulated and reinforced the status quo they were trying to resist.
> There emerges a strange historical parallel that is difficult to see from within the dominant paradigm. The competitive politics of electoralism derives from heroic competition, where people (typically men) compete (often violently) for control over a territory or people. Thus the insurrectionary enters into the very same competition as a challenger, not against the system of domination but for control over it. The success of the revolution, then, does not abolish the system of violent domination but changes rather replaces its management.
> Many modern anarchists will be quick to point out the disconnect between ends and means. While authoritarian projects often assert that "the ends justify the means," and Andor implies the same, anti-authoritarian projects assert the ends and the means are not only united but are, in fact, the same.
This is still very much something I'm actively editing, but I'd still love feedback to help me refine it to it's final form. Typo catches and clarifying questions welcome.
#USPol

Euclid preparation. Cosmology Likelihood for Observables in Euclid (CLOE). 6: Impact of systematic uncertainties on the cosmological analysis
Collaboration, Blot, Tanidis, Ca\~nas-Herrera, Carrilho, Bonici, Camera, Cardone, Casas, Davini, Di Domizio, Farrens, Goh, Beauchamps, Ili\'c, Joudaki, Keil, Le Brun, Martinelli, Moretti, Pettorino, Pezzotta, Sakr, S\'anchez, Sciotti, Tutusaus, Ajani, Crocce, Fumagalli, Giocoli, Legrand, Lembo, Lesci, Girones, Nouri-Zonoz, Pamuk, Pourtsid…

Euclid preparation. Cosmology Likelihood for Observables in Euclid (CLOE). 6: Impact of systematic uncertainties on the cosmological analysis
Extracting cosmological information from the Euclid galaxy survey will require modelling numerous systematic effects during the inference process. This implies varying a large number of nuisance parameters, which have to be marginalised over before reporting the constraints on the cosmological parameters. This is a delicate process, especially with such a large parameter space, which could result in biased cosmological results. In this work, we study the impact of different choices for modellin…

Lung Infection Severity Prediction Using Transformers with Conditional TransMix Augmentation and Cross-Attention
Bouthaina Slika, Fadi Dornaika, Fares Bougourzi, Karim Hammoudi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06887

Lung Infection Severity Prediction Using Transformers with Conditional TransMix Augmentation and Cross-Attention
Lung infections, particularly pneumonia, pose serious health risks that can escalate rapidly, especially during pandemics. Accurate AI-based severity prediction from medical imaging is essential to support timely clinical decisions and optimize patient outcomes. In this work, we present a novel method applicable to both CT scans and chest X-rays for assessing lung infection severity. Our contributions are twofold: (i) QCross-Att-PVT, a Transformer-based architecture that integrates parallel enc…

Quantum approximate optimization of bosonic finite-state systems
Shakib Daryanoosh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05576 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.05576…

Quantum approximate optimization of bosonic finite-state systems
There exist numerous problems in nature inherently described by finite $D$-dimensional states. Formulating these problems for execution on qubit-based quantum hardware requires mapping the qudit Hilbert space to that of multiqubit which may be exponentially larger. To exclude the infeasible subspace, one common approach relies on penalizing the objective function. However, this strategy can be inefficient as the size of the illegitimate subspace grows. Here we propose to employ the Hamiltonian-…

Deep learning framework for predicting stochastic take-off and die-out of early spreading
Wenchao He, Tao Jia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04574 https://arxi…

Deep learning framework for predicting stochastic take-off and die-out of early spreading
Large-scale outbreaks of epidemics, misinformation, or other harmful contagions pose significant threats to human society, yet the fundamental question of whether an emerging outbreak will escalate into a major epidemic or naturally die out remains largely unaddressed. This problem is challenging, partially due to inadequate data during the early stages of outbreaks and also because established models focus on average behaviors of large epidemics rather than the stochastic nature of small trans…

Russische Kampfjets: Deutschland und 48 weitere Staaten sehen "Eskalation"
Deutschland und 48 weitere Länder haben die von Estland gemeldete Verletzung seines Luftraums durch russische Kampfjets scharf verurteilt. In einer gemeinsamen Erklärung warfen die Länder Russland eine "gefährliche Eskalation" vor. Ähnliche Vorfälle in Polen und Rumänien ließen auf ein "Muster russischer Provokationen gegen seine Nachbarn" schließen, d…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Putin bietet Verlängerung von Atomwaffen-Vertrag an ++
Russlands Präsident Putin hat eine verlängerte Einhaltung des Anfang kommenden Jahres auslaufenden Atomwaffen-Kontrollvertrags "New START" angeboten. Der UN-Sicherheitsrat kommt zu einer Dringlichkeitssitzung zusammen.

My wife loves Bookgoblin by Elisabeth Wheatley, and she had an early black friday sale starting today.
But the author has a geoblock on her store which excludes Swiss IPs (and VPNs and Proxies). I couldn't let that stop me. And it didn't.
FOR BOOKHALLA!
#bookgoblin #elisabethwheatley