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Wait, Google chooses fascism every time? How shocking. I’m shocked. Are you shocked? Is your cat shocked? https://techpolicy.social/@CenDemTech/115549237847126096

"Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise."
—Claire Danes
#acting #coaching #inspiration

My goal was to drive up to costco and get a few things but that was just barely outside of the range of my car today. I did successfully exercise the thing, though.

I just finished working my way through @…’s TDD book.
The exercise of writing a test framework to run the tests driving the development of my test framework in Python was truly a joy to work through.
Code here in case anyone is curious:

Jeep software update bricks vehicles, leaves owners stranded
https://www.thestack.technology/jeep-software-update-bricks-vehicles-leaves-owners-stranded/

Jeep software update bricks vehicles
“Please exercise extreme caution”

(screenshot) Streaming The vOICe for Windows exercise mode (voice.exe -F11F12 -nocapture) to Meta Quest 2 using Virtual Desktop Streamer, while comfortably lying down; YouTube exercise video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVugtxWmW4E
Can you visualize an image with a filled white square a…

Proprioceptive Misestimation of Hand Speed
Caitlin Callaghan, David J Reinkensmeyer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11664 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11664

Proprioceptive Misestimation of Hand Speed
The accuracy with which the human proprioceptive system estimates hand speed is not well understood. To investigate this, we designed an experiment using hobby-grade mechatronics parts and integrated it as a laboratory exercise in a large remote laboratory course. In a simple joint position reproduction task, participants (N = 191) grasped a servomotor-driven shaft with one hand as it followed a randomized trajectory composed of sinusoidal submovements. They simultaneously attempted to reproduc…

"Air pollution may cut into health benefits from exercise, study finds"
#Polution #AirPollution #Exercise

Love working out? Dirty air means you won’t get full health benefits
The protective benefits of exercise begin to wear off as neighbourhood air pollution levels rise, a study found.

Hey Chicago! Like pizza? Like fair elections? If either of those apply, this is for you:
https://www.citybureau.org/events/the-great-chicago-pizza-election-an-exercise-in-ranked-choice-voting

The Great Chicago Pizza Election: An Exercise in Ranked Choice Voting — City Bureau
Nominate the local pizzeria you think epitomizes what Chicago pizza is all about — tavern-style, thick crust, deep dish, it’s up to you — and we’ll have the top 5 nominees available for you to taste and rank.

Soundscape - Solstice Exercise Mile Walk - A one-mile twenty-minute walk around the local cemetery grounds! #soundscape #fieldRecording #lockdown2020 -

Soundscape - Solstice Exercise Mile Walk
A one-mile twenty-minute walk around the local cemetery grounds! #soundscape #fieldRecording #lockdown2020

The Coach Mark Carroll Podcast
Mark is an expert in exercise science, program design and nutrition for the performance and aesthetic transformation of men and women worldwide...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/coach-mark-carroll/…

Possibly a training exercise for seizing all those oil tankers of the Russian shadow fleet?

Amid rising threats, NATO holds its largest-ever cyberdefense exercise https://therecord.media/nato-holds-largest-ever-cyberdefense-exercise-estonia

Observation of undepleted phosphine in the atmosphere of a low-temperature brown dwarf: #phosphine in a #BrownDwarf suggests it may be too soon to use the molecule as a sign of #AlienLife: https://cen.acs.org/physical-chemistry/astrochemistry/Phosphine-found-brown-dwarfs-atmosphere/103/web/2025/10 / Phosphine, Evidence, and an Exercise in Scientific Restraint: https://www.seti.org/news/wolf-1130c-phosphine-evidence-and-an-exercise-in-scientific-restraint/

Moody Urbanity - Relations V 🪢
情绪化城市 - 关系 V 🪢
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️ Shanghai GP3 400 Pan
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Guess a good night's rest and early morning exercise really does help, sat down and found it in 69 seconds. Issue was the apk del $PHPIZE_DEPS was also delete make, so had to install it again right after:

Many thanks to the potato industry for funding this literature review which shows athletes need carbs after intense exercise!
"Fundamentals of glycogen metabolism for coaches and athletes"
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6019055/
No but seriously, i…

Fundamentals of glycogen metabolism for coaches and athletes
The ability of athletes to train day after day depends in large part on adequate restoration of muscle glycogen stores, a process that requires the consumption of sufficient dietary carbohydrates and ample time. Providing effective guidance to ...

Stephen Miller suggested Trump wields absolute power over decisions to send in the National Guard,
before suddenly stopping speaking in an awkward interview moment
While plenary authority suggests absolute power,
the U.S. system of separation of powers uses checks and balances to ensure that no branch, including the president, can exercise complete control.
Just before Miller turned silent,
he referred to “Title 10 of the U.S. code”,
which sets out the co…

What is plenary authority, the dictator phrase that caused Stephen Miller to stop talking during CNN interview
Miller suggests Trump wields absolute power over decisions to send in National Guard, before suddenly stopping speaking in awkward interview moment

Oh dear lord, my husband offered me a taste of a new non-alcoholic beer with grapefruit — that was probably the worst thing I've tasted in a long, long time. All my facial features kind of gathered around the nose.
Beer and grape — that's a hard no. I've not had this much facial exercise in a long time! I was so surprised how every thought I had in my brain just fled, like they couldn't stand the taste either. What a monstrosity. The beer. The husband is nice.

#ShamelesslyStolenFromReddit
Some poor slob stuck in a "Corporate Team Building Exercise" where they're required to write their "superpower" on the board.
If I had to engage in that exercise - I suspect I may put something like
Leverage Synergy between Verticals to Achieve a Forward Looking Vision of Client Focused Solutions Designed to Maxim…

"Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise."
—Claire Danes
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Here is yet another example of the maga-klan's goal of suppressing free speech and freedom of exercise of religion (except for speech and religion that conforms to maga-land.)
"ICE director demands Mass. church remove ‘ICE was here’ nativity scene"
https://www.

ICE director demands Mass. church remove ‘ICE was here’ nativity scene
ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons is calling for the removal of a nativity scene at a Catholic church in Mass. that protests U.S. immigration policies.

Former 2nd-round picks pending return could lead Cowboys to explore trade at WR https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/11/cowboys-precarious-position-jonathan-mingo/86622836007/

💦 Sperm microRNAs may enable transmission of exercise benefits from fathers to children
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-sperm-micrornas-enable-transmission-benefits.html

Sperm microRNAs may enable transmission of exercise benefits from fathers to children
In a recent study published in Cell Metabolism, a research paper provides the first evidence that sperm microRNAs act as carriers of epigenetic information, enabling the intergenerational transmission of paternal exercise capacity and metabolic health, thereby exerting profound effects on offspring development.

it is with great lack of sadness that I must announce that exercise does actually improve your mood
damn

Bosie’s passionate plea for lover Oscar Wilde in Love Letters exhibition https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/bosies-passionate-plea-for-lover-oscar-wilde-in-new-exhibition/

Bosie’s passionate plea for lover Oscar Wilde in Love Letters exhibition - The National Archives
A passionate plea for clemency from Oscar Wilde’s lover Lord Alfred Douglas goes on show in The National Archives’ Love Letters exhibition, opening in January. The letter addressed to Queen Victoria on 25 June 1895 begs her to exercise her “power of pardon” in the case of the poet and dramatist who was beginning a […]

Physio signed me off since I told her that the wrist is more or less back to normal now.
She still wants me to keep doing the exercises for some undefined amount of time. Will into the new year be enough? Dunno. Will do that at least.
Need to get more exercise in general once this bedroom is finished building and I get the flat back to myself most days. Will have the fabled Tredmil Desk in the bedroom then so that'll help.

Without physical exercise, there are so many things I want to do, to have, to practice, to learn and to enjoy.
But, with physical exercise, these are all gone. There is only things which must be done. Focus is such an automatic mode of thinking.
Physical exercise is indeed a magnificent 'drug'.
#MentalHealth

It would be a terrible mistake to see this cash call as merely a painful exercise in annual budgeting. Instead, it is a historic opportunity to shift the balance of power between Europe and Russia by exposing the Kremlin’s financial frailty... it is also a bargain
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/10/30/why-funding-ukraine-is-a-giant-opportunity-for-europe?giftId=MGZkNzE2NjYtY2M2YS00NWU1LWI3YTctOGU5ZDAxZTExOGE2&utm_campaign=gifted_article

On a day full of conversations about big AI tech and the decisions museum, libraries and archives have to make at the intersection of licensing data for AI and their values, the AI Afterlives workbook seems like a thought-provoking exercise #FF2025

"5 Tricks to Make Your Run Faster, Healthier and More Fun"
The grumpy old man in me hates the clickbait-y title, but it's an otherwise nice overview of different types of runs (tempo, strides, progression, etc.) and their intent. I wish I had something like this when I was starting out.

5 Tricks to Make Your Run Faster, Healthier and More Fun
Speed work isn’t just for serious runners. Up your pace just a little for a more efficient workout.

RISE: Adaptive music playback for Realtime Intensity Synchronization with Exercise
Alexander Wang, Chris Donahue, Dhruv Jain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17112 https://

RISE: Adaptive music playback for Realtime Intensity Synchronization with Exercise
We propose a system to adapt a user's music to their exercise by aligning high-energy music segments with intense intervals of the workout. Listening to music during exercise can boost motivation and performance. However, the structure of the music may be different from the user's natural phases of rest and work, causing users to rest longer than needed while waiting for a motivational section, or lose motivation mid-work if the section ends too soon. To address this, our system, called RISE, a…

Brain-Robot Interface for Exercise Mimicry
Carl Bettosi, Emilyann Nault, Lynne Baillie, Markus Garschall, Marta Romeo, Beatrix Wais-Zechmann, Nicole Binderlehner, Theodoros Georgio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11306

Brain-Robot Interface for Exercise Mimicry
For social robots to maintain long-term engagement as exercise instructors, rapport-building is essential. Motor mimicry--imitating one's physical actions--during social interaction has long been recognized as a powerful tool for fostering rapport, and it is widely used in rehabilitation exercises where patients mirror a physiotherapist or video demonstration. We developed a novel Brain-Robot Interface (BRI) that allows a social robot instructor to mimic a patient's exercise movements in real-t…

Sometimes it is handy to use archives formats that do not confuse our windows friends. Or perhaps you want a quick listing, or to update files without reading and writing the entire thing (i.e. non-solid archives).
Zip or 7z can be handy. The problem is that with their Windows hertitage they do not (reliably) retain certain UNIX-y 'things'. Be that permissions or symlinks.
Here is an example symlink workaround. Permissions left as an exercise for the reader:

A simple shell‑based workaround for archiving projects with symlinks in formats that don’t preserve them (e.g. .7z or certain .zip files). It generates a script that records all symlinks, excludes them from the archive, and later recreates them after extraction.
A simple shell‑based workaround for archiving projects with symlinks in formats that don’t preserve them (e.g. .7z or certain .zip files). It generates a script that records all symlinks, excludes ...

"Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise."
—Claire Danes
#acting #coaching #inspiration

AI-Based Stroke Rehabilitation Domiciliary Assessment System with ST_GCN Attention
Suhyeon Lim, Ye-eun Kim, Andrew J. Choi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00049 https://

AI-Based Stroke Rehabilitation Domiciliary Assessment System with ST_GCN Attention
Effective stroke recovery requires continuous rehabilitation integrated with daily living. To support this need, we propose a home-based rehabilitation exercise and feedback system. The system consists of (1) hardware setup with RGB-D camera and wearable sensors to capture Stroke movements, (2) a mobile application for exercise guidance, and (3) an AI server for assessment and feedback. When Stroke user exercises following the application guidance, the system records skeleton sequences, which a…

What are you going to do when the regime falls? After calling all your friends, after the great memes, after the parties, what are you going to do to make sure it never happens again? What world should we create?
Taxing billionaires is great and all, but we could build systems where billionaires are impossible. Is hoarding wealth and using it to control people even something we should consider part of a functional and humane system? Any system where one group of people doesn't have rights means that anyone can be stripped of their rights, like has happened with all the US citizens who've been illegally detained and deported by ICE. Does the concept of "rights" that must be defended with violence, that can be stripped away by people who can exercise more violence, even make sense? Or should the bedrock of a functional system be the obligations that we have to each other and to society, that cannot be severed or taken from us, that tell us we *must* defend regardless of whether systemic oppression will impact us or not?
Americans have been so restricted by the limitations of the two party system, only able to choose between options acceptable to different sections of the capitalist class. Would we even be able to imagine what we could do if those restrictions went away?
The fall of the Berlin wall was a surprise. The fall of Assad was faster than anyone expected. One day the government of Nepal was an unrepentant oligarchy, the next it was on fire. Everything can change in an instant, faster than anyone expects. No one can predict revolutionary change. Will you be ready if the opportunity presents itself?
The US cannot be fixed. The economic system is a ponzi scheme that has been patched again and again, but has finally run out of options. Racism, sexism, and Christian nationalism are baked into the system at every level. Trump gutted the system of soft power that held the US economy together, now there is only a slow decline. Even after he's gone, the damage is done. Once we let go of how to fix something that cannot be fixed, we can start to imagine something that cannot be achieved within the current system.
This is a time of opportunity. Do not burrow so deep in terror that you miss your chance to dream.
#USPol

Interestingly enough, these NATO exercises includes Danish, German and French troops. And that's all.
A quite limited subset of NATO, innit?
https://flipboard.com/@euronews/africanews-ku85rbgbz/-/a-DUjxJt7_Qn-r3yYbkt4QGA:a:893…

Denmark leads NATO exercise with 550 troops in Greenland
Denmark is leading a major NATO military exercise in Greenland with more than 550 troops from Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden and Norway, the Danish …

State Field Coverage: A Metric for Oracle Quality
Facundo Molina, Nazareno Aguirre, Alessandra Gorla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03071 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

State Field Coverage: A Metric for Oracle Quality
The effectiveness of testing in uncovering software defects depends not only on the characteristics of the test inputs and how thoroughly they exercise the software, but also on the quality of the oracles used to determine whether the software behaves as expected. Therefore, assessing the quality of oracles is crucial to improve the overall effectiveness of the testing process. Existing metrics have been used for this purpose, but they either fail to provide a comprehensive basis for guiding or…

I met a guy on last weekend’s ride that said “That’s my HSA bike” and when asked what that is he said “My doctor said I’ve got pre-diabetes and needed to get more exercise so I was able to use HSA funds to get this bike” and damn that’s a heck of a hack.
#bikeTooter #cycling

"After the 8-bit MOS Technology 6502 that powered the Apple II around 1980, Macs used the 16-bit (later 32-bit) Motorola 68000 around 1990, then 32-bit (later 64-bit) IBM PowerPC around 2000, later settling with Intel’s 32-bit x86 and 64-bit x86-64 around 2010.
We are in 2020, not even around 2020 anymore, and we should be able to spend an insane amount of money to buy Macs powered by ARM architecture CPUs – “finally!”, as some of those headlines online would scream."

Eternally Finally
It is hardly possible these days to browse any blog or news website commenting the latest trends in the Apple galaxy, without reading references to the mythical, yet entirely foreseeable, ARM-based Mac. The existence of this not-yet-announced piece of otherwise overpriced hardware is entirely predicted by a closer reading of technology history in that same galaxy, an exercise usually (sadly) abhored by many.

Daisy: An Exercise Environment for Learning Information Modeling
Presented by Jessica Belicia Cahyono, joint work with Youyou Cong, Hidehiko Masuhara
#icfpsplash25

BREAKING:
Reverend Bizarre – They Used Dark Forces/Teutonic Witch
is truly awesome. Like, 29 minutes of solid riffs, bass and percussion, repeated beyond any reason, yet miraculously not boring at all.
Oh, that's just one song. The rest of the album is pretty good too.
Unfortunately, it's not on bandcamp and I don't know of any good music service these days, so I guess finding it is left as an exercise for the reader.
#MusicRecommendation #DoomMetal

Supreme Court justices like to talk about the Constitution's separation of powers
and how it limits the exercise of official authority.
But Chief Justice John G. Roberts and his conservative colleagues have given no sign so far they will check Donald Trump's one-man governance by executive order.
To the contrary,
the conservative justices have repeatedly ruled for Trump on fast-track appeals
and overturned federal judges who said the president had exceed…

Tariffs and birthright citizenship will test whether Trump's power has limits
The Supreme Court's conservatives have yet to put limits on Trump's broad claims of executive power.

The Apple Watch does a great job at encouraging you to workout. Closing that exercise ring as often as I can helps me know I’m pushing myself a little bit.

Found in a default syslog-ng config:
stats(freq(1));
That will log daemon statistics every freakin' second every minute every hour every day every month every year forever. Nice way to exercise the disk I guess. ftw

Right; mail server upgraded to #debian Trixie; I did it by recreating it in a local VM first; package install to match, and then tested a restore from my encrypted backups - which was a good exercise in its self. Then a dist-upgrade; fixing up Dovecot was the hairiest bit - they've randomly changed the name of a bunch of options. mail_location is now mail_driver/home/path/inbox_path and t…

"Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise."
—Claire Danes
#acting #coaching #inspiration

... so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those
who wish to tyrranize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent,
and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious
and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
-- Voltarine de Cleyre

🏃 Team sports can lower blood pressure and improve function in patients with chronic diseases
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-team-sports-blood-pressure-function.html

Team sports can lower blood pressure and improve function in patients with chronic diseases
New research from the University of Copenhagen shows that team sports are a highly effective and potentially life-extending form of exercise for patients with high blood pressure and COPD. Even after a relatively short training period involving team sports, participants showed significantly improved blood pressure.

Shrapnel fell onto CHP vehicle during U.S. military live-fire exercise over I-5, agency says (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-19/u-s-military-live-fire-demonstration-dropped-shrapnel-on-chp-vehicle
http://www.memeorandum.com/251019/p68#a251019p68

Breathing and Semantic Pause Detection and Exertion-Level Classification in Post-Exercise Speech
Yuyu Wang, Wuyue Xia, Huaxiu Yao, Jingping Nie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15473 …

Breathing and Semantic Pause Detection and Exertion-Level Classification in Post-Exercise Speech
Post-exercise speech contains rich physiological and linguistic cues, often marked by semantic pauses, breathing pauses, and combined breathing-semantic pauses. Detecting these events enables assessment of recovery rate, lung function, and exertion-related abnormalities. However, existing works on identifying and distinguishing different types of pauses in this context are limited. In this work, building on a recently released dataset with synchronized audio and respiration signals, we provide …

#today I pushed out two podcast episodes from the (previous) #KEHS talks, attended an AGM of an org that wants to merge with a couple of others for better lobbying clout, and remembered to do most of my daily exercise...

Multifractal features of multimodal cardiac signals: Nonlinear dynamics of exercise recovery
A. Maluckov, D. Stojanovic, M. Miletic, Lj. Hadzievski, J. Petrovic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23317

Multifractal features of multimodal cardiac signals: Nonlinear dynamics of exercise recovery
We investigate the recovery dynamics of healthy cardiac activity after physical exertion using multimodal biosignals recorded with a polycardiograph. Multifractal features derived from the singularity spectrum capture the scale-invariant properties of cardiovascular regulation. Five supervised classification algorithms - Logistic Regression (LogReg), Suport Vector Machine with RBF kernel (SVM-RBF), k-Nearest Neighbors (kNN), Decision Tree (DT), and Random Forest (RF) - were evaluated to disting…

When #OVH states their event is held entirely in English but then you come to the two hour keynote and it's entirely in French without any bullet points or subtitles. So that was a damn lie. Hardest listening comprehension exercise of this year.
Very French, I'll have to make sure to take @…

Quick exercise: What are you, if you're anti-antifascist?

I understand that there are people that use The Bible to guide them and get spiritual and mental support. But I also see the people that shout loud about relying on The Bible, and those most often use it as a weapon, as a tool to exercise power on others, and to do so they just ignore most of the teachings of Jesus.¹
So we have to distinguish if someone wants to use The Bible to relieve themselves or suppress others. Two opposite ways.
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¹aka “all the woke stuff”

Another whine about cookies. NO I WON'T PAY TO REJECT cookies. You may have good articles, but I reject your two options and exercise the third... I ignore your site!

A Note on the Paper "Localization of Zeros of Polar Polynomials on the Unit Disk"
Renato Alvarez-Nodarse, Kenier Castillo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01703 https://

A Note on the Paper "Localization of Zeros of Polar Polynomials on the Unit Disk"
In this note we show that the only result of [Rocky Mountain J. Math. 54 (2024), no. 4, 995--1004] is nothing more than a misformulated version of an exercise from classical texts, presented with a flawed proof. To place the matter on firmer ground, we provide instead a direct solution of a more general problem.

Policy Learning for Social Robot-Led Physiotherapy
Carl Bettosi, Lynne Ballie, Susan Shenkin, Marta Romeo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11297 https://arxiv.or…

Policy Learning for Social Robot-Led Physiotherapy
Social robots offer a promising solution for autonomously guiding patients through physiotherapy exercise sessions, but effective deployment requires advanced decision-making to adapt to patient needs. A key challenge is the scarcity of patient behavior data for developing robust policies. To address this, we engaged 33 expert healthcare practitioners as patient proxies, using their interactions with our robot to inform a patient behavior model capable of generating exercise performance metrics…

Disruptive Mobilities: Unsettling Law, Space, and Identities through Movement https://www.socialifeoflaw.com/post/disruptive-mobilities-unsettling-law-space-and-identities-through-movement

Disruptive Mobilities: Unsettling Law, Space, and Identities through Movement
The onset of the pandemic generated a powerful, universal newfound currency for mobility. Around the world, many yearned to exercise their freedom of movement, even those who had long settled into sedentary lives. In this context, this seminar series asks: what does mobility mean in today’s times?While the practice of mobility has been normalised as the physical movement across space, its conceptual understanding reveals a more complex relationship between the body, agency, and the State. At …

RE: https://mapstodon.space/@mapasmilhaud/115600761677151116
This is a curious exercise in speculative (although based on solid foundations) demography.

#DearLazyWeb: As part of #DisasterPreparedness organizing in the past, our group did a table top exercise to identify gaps in our response capabilities. We were fortunate enough to have someone who worked in public health make one and GM it for us.
I found some from FEMA with some quick searching. Assuming a group of 5-10 people organizing for themselves (and maybe folks in their neighborhoods), are there any exercises/table top simulations like these that other folks would recommend?
#DisasterPrep #Disaster #CommunityOrganizing

Scores of volunteers are training to protect their noncitizen neighbors from the potential deployment of military troops in New York City.
Organizers said they are building on what they’ve learned from the experience of resistance in Los Angeles, Portland, and Chicago,
where masked and unidentified agents have often used excessive force and broken federal laws to carry out the Trump administration’s devastating campaign against immigrants.
“We need to exercise repeatedly w…

Scores of NYC volunteers prepare for potential military deployment to their communities
Organizers report signs of an impending immigration enforcement after Trump threatened action against New York City if Zohran Mamdani won the mayoral race

"Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise."
—Claire Danes
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise."
—Claire Danes
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Standing atop a seven-ton military truck with his wife, Vance watched the largest Marine exercise in a decade on Oct. 18,
featuring F-18 and F-35 flyovers,
parachute landings,
Navy Seals swimming ashore,
offshore destroyers and amphibious ships,
simulated village explosions,
and MH-60 helicopters dropping additional Seals over the water.
-- all to distract attention from the massive "No Kings" protests happening all across the country.

Highway shuts down as Marines’ show sparks clash with Newsom
The Marines said in an earlier statement that the event would take place "on approved training ranges and comport with established safety protocols."

Disruptive Mobilities: Unsettling Law, Space, and Identities through Movement
https://ift.tt/2SG9CiQ
The onset of the pandemic generated a powerful, universal newfound currency for mobility. Around the…
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Disruptive Mobilities: Unsettling Law, Space, and Identities through Movement
The onset of the pandemic generated a powerful, universal newfound currency for mobility. Around the world, many yearned to exercise their freedom of movement, even those who had long settled into sedentary lives. In this context, this seminar series asks: what does mobility mean in today’s times?While the practice of mobility has been normalised as the physical movement across space, its conceptual understanding reveals a more complex relationship between the body, agency, and the State. At …

Good Morning #Canada
If you are a vintage Canadian, you will remember a 1973 commercial comparing the health of a 30-year-old Canadian to a 60-year-old Swede or taking a #BodyBreak with Hal Johnson and Joanne McLeod. The nonprofit organization #ParticipACTION has either motivated you to start an exercise program or caused you to feel guilty about being a couch potato. From 1971 to 2001, ParticipACTION operated independently, with government support, and focused on improving the health of Canadians through physical activity. It disappeared for a few years but was relaunched in 2007 as a nonprofit with guaranteed support from the federal government (funding and administrative).
Every year, they release the ParticipACTION Report Card, and for 2025, the data shows a failing grade in most categories. I acknowledge my contribution, or lack thereof. Despite the well documented positive impact of exercise, we are falling short.
#CanadaIsAwesome #GetActive
https://www.participaction.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2025_ParticipACTION_Report_Card_Summary.pdf

The implications are interesting enough when we apply this to systems like capitalism or national governments, but there are other very interesting implications when applied to systems like race or gender.
Like, as a cis man the only way I can be free to express and explore my own masculinity is if the masculinity I participate in is one which allows anyone the freedom to leave. Then I have an obligation to recognize the validity of nom-masculine trans identity as a necessary component of my own. If I fail to do this, then I trap myself in masculinity and allow the system to control me rather than me to be a free participant in the system.
But if it's OK to escape but not enter, that's it's own restriction that constrains the freedom to leave. It creates a barrier that keeps people in by the fear that they cannot return. So in order for me to be free in my cis masculine identity, I must accept non-masculine trans identities as they are and accept detransitioning as also valid.
But I also need to accept trans-masc identities because restricting entry to my masculinity means non-consensually constraining other identities. If every group imposes an exclusion against others coming in, that, by default, makes it impossible to leave every other group. This is just a description of how national borders work to trap people within systems, even if a nation itself allows people to "freely" leave.
So then, a free masculinity is one which recognizes all configurations of trans identities as valid and welcomes, if not celebrates, people who transition as affirmations of the freedom of their own identity (even for those who never feel a reason to exercise that same freedom).
The most irritating type of white person may look at this and say, "oh, so then why can't I be <not white>?" Except that the critique of transratial identities has never been "that's not allowed" and has always been "this person didn't do the work." If that person did the work, they would understand that the question doesn't make sense based on how race is constructed. That person might understand that race, especially whiteness, is more fluid than they at first understood. They might realize that whiteness is often chosen at the exclusion of other racialized identities. They would, perhaps, realize that to actually align with any racialized identity, they would first have to understand the boot of whiteness on their neck, have to recognize the need to destroy this oppressive identity for their own future liberation. The best, perhaps only, way to do this would be to use the privilege afforded by that identity to destroy it, and in doing so would either destroy their own privilege or destroy the system of privilege. The must either become themselves completely ratialized or destroy the system of race itself such being "transracial" wouldn't really make sense anymore.
But that most annoying of white person would, of course, not do any such work. Nevertheless, one hopes that they may recognize the paradox that they are trapped by their white identity, forced forever by it to do the work of maintaining it. And such is true for all privileged identities, where privilege is only maintained through restrictions where these restrictions ultimately become walls that imprison both the privileged and the marginalized in a mutually reinforcing hell that can only be escaped by destroying the system of privilege itself.

Trump calls to shoot on US citizens
Donald Trump followed Hegseth’s call to embrace the virtues of lethality as a doctrine with a suggestion buried in an hour-long campaign-style speech that the gathering of officers and senior enlisted advisers should consider targeting US cities and civilian populations as a training exercise
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/30/pete-hegseth-war-diversity-efforts-military?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

"Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise."
—Claire Danes
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Standing atop a seven-ton military truck with his wife, Vance watched the largest Marine exercise in a decade on Oct. 18,
featuring F-18 and F-35 flyovers,
parachute landings,
Navy Seals swimming ashore,
offshore destroyers and amphibious ships,
simulated village explosions,
and MH-60 helicopters dropping additional Seals over the water.
-- all to distract attention from the massive "No Kings" protests happening all across the country.

Highway shuts down as Marines’ show sparks clash with Newsom
The Marines said in an earlier statement that the event would take place "on approved training ranges and comport with established safety protocols."

I remember one of Creed's song, 'One Last Breath'. The lyric is:
'Hold me now
I'm six feet from the edge and I'm thinking
Maybe six feet ain't so far down'
I feel, yes, it is my life. Physical exercise and sunshine are the twin angels who hold me from falling to the cliff.
Even so, falling to the cliff is a real danger which I often face. Why, since the angels do not always hold me tightly.
Six feet ain't so far down indee…

"Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise."
—Claire Danes
#acting #coaching #inspiration

A protest does not become a rebellion merely because the protestors advocate for myriad legal or policy changes, are well organized, call for significant changes to the structure of the U.S. government, use civil disobedience as a form of protest, or exercise their Second Amendment right to carry firearms as the law currently allows.
Nor does a protest become a rebellion merely because of sporadic and isolated incidents of unlawful activity or even violence committed by rogue particip…

"Not Guilty"
A not-at-all-subtle reminder to Trump that he's just the president — and that means his power is limited. And: The Seventh Circuit keeps troop deployment blocked in Illinois.