This becomes especially interesting when you understand the history of the church as a quasi-revolutionary organization. One could describe early church history as a mostly-successful attempt to overthrow the Roman empire. I say mostly successful because, in the end, the Roman state mutated the church for it's own ends and basically pulled a Lenin.
The early church was a religion of women and slaves that set up alternative institutions. See, the Roman economic system basically ran through the temples. Temples were basically the banks of their day (thus money changers in the temples and all that). So when the church set up their own institutions, they were actually attacking the economic system of the Roman empire. *That* is why the empire tried to destroy them. The Romans didn't really care about the gods. They would just mutate their beliefs to pull other pagans in. No, it wasn't about the gods. The Christian were fucking with the money.
The whole church as an institution was about dual power, and Paul (one of the early founders of the church) was central to organizing this into a political machine that could actually threaten the dominant order. One could argue that he saw the potential of the church, and used it to solidify his own power.
It all basically worked, right up until Constantine figured out how to flip the whole thing against the most radical elements. He had his people collect up different books of the Bible and modify them in such a way that it favored Rome. The trick here was to highlight the existing antisemitic threads of early church, and destroy the anti-Roman ones. Anti-authoritarian sects were killed as heretics, and centralized sects became aligned under the church.
This strategy of controlling internal dissent probably feels quite familiar. It's basically how the US works.
But this whole time, during the whole lead up to this, Christianity was illegal and it was continuing to grow as a system of dual power. When Romanism merged with Christianity, it created the most authoritarian institution in human history that brutally destroyed all opposition. Even still, several hundred years later it's power broke.
Today Liberalism has separated banking and the church, and has created the illusion of separation of church and state. But the same dual power strategy that allowed the first church to gain enough power to merge with the Roman power structure have now allowed Christian Nationalism to fully merge with Americanism into the Christian Fascism we see today...
@… have you seen this PR for KDE's Kwin that turns it into a 3D VR Desktop. https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/8671
"The surveillance state runs on volunteers: people who do the implementation work for free, out of genuine conviction, with no paper trail connecting them to the money that wrote the laws."
https://www.sambent.com/the-engineer-who-tried-to-put-ag…
“Oh but the real speed gains come from having swarms of them working in parallel”:
1. Conservatively, at this rate I would need 20 “agents” working in parallel to get the speed anywhere near my level.
2. I don’t have 20 changes I want to make to my code, so that isn’t plausible.
3. Have you tried integrating 20 merge conflicts? Hint: It takes longer than you think. But okay, we can just account for that additional slowdown by having *40* agents work in parallel except then …
Replaced article(s) found for q-bio.PE. https://arxiv.org/list/q-bio.PE/new
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- Multi-scale species richness estimation with deep learning
Victor Boussange, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06358 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioPE_bot/114827906343277830
- Speciation by local adaptation and isolation by distance in extended environments
Lara D. Hissa, Flavia M. D. Marquitti, Marcus A. M. de Aguiar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06719 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioPE_bot/115014772512868183
- Sex chromosome stability and turnover across vertebrates: a developmental gene regulatory network...
Wen-Juan Ma, Ricard Fontser\`e, Tristan Cornelis, Paris Veltsos, Qi Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.23624 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioPE_bot/116158604279592691
- Split-or-decompose: Improved FPT branching algorithms for maximum agreement forests
David Mestel, Steven Chaplick, Steven Kelk, Ruben Meuwese
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18634 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/113225219437770040
- Genetic contribution of advantaged ancestors in the biparental Moran model -- finite selection
Camille Coron (MIA Paris-Saclay), Yves Le Jan (LMO)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01178 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathPR_bot/113944371956056819
- Stability analysis and long-time convergence of a partial differential equation model of two-phas...
Luce Breuil (MERGE)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19814 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathAP_bot/116277582769324623
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Confirming Nunki as the closest #CoreCollapse progenitor candidate to the Sun: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.17011 -> it's a pair of 6 M_Sun stars at 69 parsec that will merge into a 10 M_Sun star and thus end as a supernova.
"Hi [Name]"
This doesn't start well. "[Name]" instead of, you know, an actual name. Did an AI write the email, or was it just an incompetently written mail merge program? Maybe the AI wrote the mail merge?
'We're doing hardware for AI'
And that didn't exactly improve your chances.
And finally, what they actually needed is something that I haven't touched since college.
Buh buy.
"The sooner David Ellison takes over that network the better,"
Pete Hegseth said during a morning briefing.
Hegseth's invoking the name of the Paramount Skydance chief executive
— whose company will take control of CNN once its deal to merge with Warner Bros. Discovery is finalized
— amplified the fear many have that the cable news channel will seek to appease the Trump administration
Hegseth made the remarks after blasting CNN's reporting on t…
How much do you think someone would have to pay redhat and canonical to introduce a no-slop policy including all upstream projects (llvm, systemd, kernel, etc)?
Like if you offered them $100M to permanently ban all of their devs from using LLMs, not merge any LLM generated upstream commits, etc. would they do it? $200M?
There’s life beyond VSCode… thought I’d share my dev setup:
• Main monitor: WezTerm¹ running in a three (sometimes four)-way split with Helix Editor² as my main editor, a terminal pane for general commands while working, and Yazi³ usually running in another for working with files/directories in a project.
• Other monitor: Sublime Merge⁴ always running full-screen so I can immediately see exactly what I’ve changed (in real time) as I’m working.
Others (not shown): Br…
“Honoring Mobile OS Text Size”
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/02/honoring-mobile-os-text-size.html
Looks at the new HTML thing proposed from CSSWG (yeah, not confusing) and tries to merge Safari’s propriety hack with Google’s CSSWG proposal and Canary impl…
Different Corners IV ▶️
不同的角落 IV ▶️
📷 ZEISS IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Highspot, which has raised $650M and makes AI-powered sales enablement software, plans to merge with rival Seismic; the combined company will be called Seismic (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/seattle-based…
Hi :gitannex: #git and #gitAnnex crowd. How do I configure git so a `git annex assist` (or the assistant) will *never* stop in a merge conflict? It should just choose one side, I don't care about conflicts.
@…
At sufficiently high energy levels, incompetence and malice become indistinguishable and merge into a single force https://beige.party/@pattykimura/115964654344514184
Bright [C II]158 μm Streamers as a Beacon for Giant Galaxy Formation in SPT2349-56 at z = 4.3: #GiantGalaxies could form just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang: https://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pressreleases/2026/forming-massive-galaxies-in-the-early-universe - new radio observations of molecular gas reveal how dozens of galaxies rapidly merge together in the early Universe.
Report: Canada's Cohere and Germany's Aleph Alpha are in talks to merge; the German government would be willing to become a key customer of a combined company (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactiona
I've been using #navidrome for a few years now. I really liked it.
Over the past two months or so, it keeps crashing. I've never had that happen before, but now half the time when I load the web interface, it's unavailable and I have to manually start it.
I also noticed that merge requests and commits to the project seem to be making heavy use of AI tools.
I d…
Wydaje się dużo - przekombinowanie i masakra, ale - co ważne kroki 1a-1h są zautomatyzowane w GitPod'zie gdzieś w chmurze. Taki "Sprint" to teraz max 1 dzień, a zazwyczaj i 2-3 sprinty na dzień - coś co wcześniej ręcznie zajmowało 2tyg sprint i czasem dłużej. Równolegle uruchamiam kilka takich zadań.
Restrykcyjny CI odrzuca wszelkie błędy, pre-commit hooki sekrety, dziwne formatowanie, martwy kod, CD pozwala na natychmiastowe sprawdzenie merge request'a bez potrzeby dot…
Added performance counters for keeping track of PCIe transfers between the CPU and GPU.
I still need to track allocations, and there's a bunch I can do to merge temporary buffers etc. But one step closer to understanding memory system behavior better.
@…
It's possible that some of the conflicts are our own fault: it's easier to make mistakes in svn's model where you create a branch by copying into a folder and can operate on subfolders. Git is simpler in that way: you have a working copy and commands to switch branches. But I blame svn's merge metadata tracking being less robust that git…
Sources: SpaceX plans to merge with xAI ahead of an IPO; the combined company is expected to price shares at ~$527 each and would have a valuation of $1.25T (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-02/elon-mu…
Crosslisted article(s) found for math.LO. https://arxiv.org/list/math.LO/new
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- Do not throw out the baby: Clarithmetics as alternatives to weak arithmetics
Giorgi Japaridze
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26040 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLO_bot/116316995419379292
- On merge-models
Buffi\`ere, Lin, Ne\v{s}et{\v{r}}il, de Mendez}, Siebertz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26570 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDM_bot/116316992797678948
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Source: SpaceX and xAI are in talks to merge ahead of a planned IPO this year; under the proposed deal, shares of xAI would be exchanged for shares in SpaceX (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/musks-spacex-merger-talks-with-xai-…
JWST observes the assembly of a massive #galaxy at z~4: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13650 -> "NIRCam images and NIRSpec/IFU spectroscopy (R=2700) show that TGSSJ1530 1049 is part of one of the densest-known structures of continuum and line-emitting objects found at these redshifts. [...] Based on the physical separations and velocity differences between the galaxies, it is expected that these galaxies will merge to form a massive galaxy within a few Gyr. The system qualitatively resembles the forming brightest cluster galaxies in cosmological simulations that form early through a rapid succession of mergers."
@hex@kolektiva.social
![T: "I turned off apt instaling recommends and also let it autoremove T: recommends I didn't ask for"
T: "kinda painful, but I want to explicitly know"
T: "anyway then upgraded server to [debian 13] and all sorts of stuff broken"
T: "#1 have to install systemd-cryptdisks"](https://mastodon-usw-cache.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/116/348/199/128/793/510/original/cfd8993e27602138.png)
![Me: "I got hit with the systemd-cryptdisks thing"
Me: "as a matter of fact, i filed a bug!"
T: "libvirt is also all sorts of broken, still figuring that out"
Me: [link to a merge request in debian]
T: "it is in the release notes at least" [link to debian's release notes]
Me: "yeah, i'm why it's in the release notes 🙂"
T: "oh because of you!"
T: "nice"
T: "thanks"
Me: "np"](https://mastodon-usw-cache.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/116/348/199/142/378/180/original/a970801dc1ba1942.png)
