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Two interesting articles about the dubious financials of OpenAI and the recent NVIDIA earnings report (which regardless of positive outcome triggered a sell-off):
The Structural Collapse: How Google’s Integrated Stack Is Dismantling the OpenAI Thesis
https://shanakaanslemperera.substack…

The Structural Collapse: How Google’s Integrated Stack Is Dismantling the OpenAI Thesis
A leaked internal memo reveals the tectonic shift reshaping artificial intelligence, where platform economics are defeating venture-backed innovation at the exact moment markets assumed the opposite.

The Lurie/Mandelman RV ban is still set to go into effect and tow people's homes on Nov. 1, the same day SNAP expires and at the same time federal agents are in the Bay to terrorize immigrants.
Send a letter to the mayor and BOS asking them to extend the towing deadline:
https://

All Eyes on the Mayor’s RV Ban - No Tows Before Housing!
DSA SF is continuing its opposition to Daniel Lurie’s two-hour restriction on RV parking, which will take effect on November 1st, 2025. We know this policy for what it is - the latest attempt by San Francisco’s oligarch Mayor to exile poor and working class people from the City. While San Francisco has put in place a refuge permit program, it’s deeply flawed. The City’s initial eligibility list excludes many longtime RV residents, and those that are eligible have an uncertain offer of …

Stephen Miller, who has overseen Trump’s hard-line agenda on drugs and immigration, and other top advisers never lost sight of their goal of crushing the cartels.
And in pursuing this goal they were aided in part by a personnel restructuring that removed potential obstacles.

Many of the lawyers and other career officials at the White House National Security Council, Pentagon and Justice Department
who had over the preceding months raised concerns about using lethal force a…

White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.

"And the older your hardware gets, the more likely it will no longer run on Windows or macOS, support will expire, and updates will be missing.With Linux, the opposite is true."
Well.
The opposite of that would be: "And the older your hardware gets, the more likely it will run with Linux"
Hm. No.
Getting Linux for a e.g. HW-wise perfectly running PPC Macs is getting hard these Days. To say the least.
Let's be real: Linux will help a lot, …

Hey all, there are some photos from a hike in the #schwarzwald
Actually we thought that it would just take us less than an hour - but it wasn't simply a straight walk :-D
It was raining from time to time - which was indeed pretty cool. A) there was noone around except us and B) the colors were often just insane. Fully saturated green, the brown from the wood - and sometimes…

"Fragen Sie mal Ihre Töchter."
Ich weiß nicht, ob ich es schwieriger finde, wenn ein #Bundeskanzler zu oft schweigt oder wenn ein raunender #Kanzler mit seinen Äußerungen Verwirrung stiftet.

Stability and optical quality of liquid crystal films as high repetition rate plasma mirrors in staged laser-plasma accelerators
A. Vazquez, A. Jewell, M. Cole, A. Abdi, T. K. Le, A. McIlvenny, N. Czapla, A. J. Gonsalves, K. Nakamura, D. W. Schumacher, Z. Eisentraut, C. B. Schroeder, J. van Tilborg, J. Osterhoff, E. Esarey, L. Obst-Huebl
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Stability and optical quality of liquid crystal films as high repetition rate plasma mirrors in staged laser-plasma accelerators
Staging multiple laser-plasma accelerators (LPAs), each driven by its own laser pulse, is a promising technique for reaching higher particle energies than achievable in a single LPA. However, introducing subsequent laser pulses for post-acceleration in staged LPA geometries presents a significant challenge for conventional optics. Due to the focused, high-intensity nature of the laser beam interacting with the electron beam, the fluence on the coupling mirror surpasses the damage threshold of a…

Panel talking about dark markets on nostr.
Nostr can be quite anonymous and encrypted and connected to payment via bitcoin. Can it therefore do Silk Road? Allow anonymous markets?
Nobody wants to publicly advocate for selling illegal drugs, but yeah, sure, people could do that. There's even protocol types for market places.
Relay owners might get into legal issues if they are forwarding illegal market listings. But this is true in general, there are also illegal images and even illegal text.
Nostr relays and Devs might find themselves in legal trouble anyway, due to the general legal crackdowns on internet requiring age proof and id on websites obstensively to protect kids. These are freedoms we all need to fight for. Perhaps brains will drain to more free jurisdictions? Devs move to where open development is legal? Not the panel at least. They want to say at home.
#nostr #nostrshire #darkMarkets

"Wartungsarbeiten im #Obsidian Vault": ein Praxisbeispiel von Thomas Mathoi: https://www.mathoi.at/2025/10/15/wartungsarbeiten-im-obsidian-vault/

Immigrant justice lawyers representing 13 plaintiffs sued to overturn the first Trump administration's asylum ban in "Noem vs. Al Otro Lado"
The lawsuit was filed in July 2017 by Al Otro Lado, along with the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, the American Immigration Council, and other organizations located near the border.
“Customs and Border Protection officers would confront people literally standing at the line and obstruct them from coming in,” said Melissa…

US Is Legally Obligated to Provide Asylum. SCOTUS May Help Trump End It Anyway.
The federal government is appealing a case from Trump’s first term to reinstate an asylum ban at the southern border.