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«Imagine a carpenter who couldn’t figure out how to adjust their table saw, or a surgeon who shrugged and said something like, “I’m just not a scalpel person.” We would never accept that. But in the field of knowledge work, “I’m just not a tech person” has become a permanent identity instead of a temporary gap to be filled»
Tech is partially to blame, but totally agree on the "permanent identity" bit of where people refuse to learn the tools of their trade
/HT @…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/please-learn-how-to-use-your-computer/

Fox News, ABC News, CBS News, CNN, and NBC News issue a joint statement declining to agree to the Pentagon's new requirements: "the policy is without precedent" (Brian Stelter/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/media/pentagon-hegseth-pre…

Media outlets, including Fox News and CNN, refuse to sign Pentagon’s press access rules
The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will not sign.

Source: Meta is acquiring AI chip startup Rivos, as it seeks to reduce reliance on Nvidia; Rivos was reportedly seeking new funding at a $2B valuation in August (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-30/met…

Enviadas as notas da quinta (e última disciplina). Agora tenho que decidir se faço os gabaritos e revisão final das provas de amanhã ou se é melhor dormir e deixar pra fazer isto após acordar. Não estš tão tarde assim, mas não dš pra dizer que não estš tarde. 🤔

📉 Sensors reveal surprising drop in methane emissions after flooding in coastal wetlands
#wetlands

Sensors reveal surprising drop in methane emissions after flooding in coastal wetlands
University of Toledo environmental researchers trooped through the woods and wetlands of the Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge for a week in early June. Their mission? To outfit an approximately 16-acre site with nearly 300 sensors that will constantly monitor a slew of metrics related to the soil, water and plants, including the flow of sap through trees.

The fracturing of the Dutch far-right, after Wilder's reminded everyone that bigots are bad at compromise, is definitely a relief. Dutch folks I've talked to definitely see D66 as progressive, <strike>so there's no question this is a hard turn to the left (even if it's not a total flip to the far-left)</strike> a lot of folks don't agree. I'm going to let the comments speak rather than editorialize myself..
While this is a useful example of how a democracy can be far more resilient to fascism than the US, that is, perhaps, not the most interesting thing about Dutch politics. The most interesting thing is something Dutch folks take for granted and never think of as such: there are two "governments."
The election was for the Tweede Kamer. This is a house of representatives. The Dutch use proportional representation, so people can (more or less) vote for the parties they actually want. Parties <strike>rarely</strike> never actually get a ruling majority, so they have to form coalition governments. This forces compromise, which is something Wilders was extremely bad at. He was actually responsible for collapsing the coalition his party put together, which triggered this election... and a massive loss of seats for his party.
Dutch folks do still vote strategically, since a larger party has an easier time building the governing coalition and the PM tends to come from the largest party. This will likely be D66, which is really good for the EU. D66 has a pretty radical plan to solve the housing crisis, and it will be really interesting to see if they can pull it off. But that's not the government I want to talk about right now.
In the Netherlands, failure to control water can destroy entire towns. A good chunk of the country is below sea level. Both floods and land reclamation have been critical parts of Dutch history. So in the 1200's or so, the Dutch realized that some things are too important to mix with normal politics.
You see, if there's an incompetent government that isn't able to actually *do* anything (see Dick Schoof and the PVV/VVD/NSC/BBB coalition) you don't want your dikes to collapse and poulders to flood. So the Dutch created a parallel "government" that exists only to manage water: waterschap or heemraadschap (roughly "Water Board" in English). These are regional bureaucracies that exist only to manage water. They exist completely outside the thing we usually talk about as a "government" but they have some of the same properties as a government. They can, for example, levy taxes. The central government contributes funds to them, but lacks authority over them. Water boards are democratically elected and can operate more-or-less independent of the central government.
Controlling water is a common problem, so water boards were created to fulfill the role of commons management. Meanwhile, so many other things in politics run into the very same "Tragedy of the Commons" problems. The right wing solution to commons management is to let corporations ruin everything. The left-state solution is to move everything into the government so it can be undermined and destroyed by the right. The Dutch solution to this specific problem has been to move commons management out of the domain of the central government into something else.
And when I say "government" here, I'm speaking more to the liberal definition of the term than to an anarchist definition. A democratically controlled authority that facilitates resource management lacks the capacity for coercive violence that anarchists define as "government." (Though I assume they might leverage police or something if folks refuse to pay their taxes, but I can't imagine anyone choosing not to.)
As the US federal government destroys the social fabric of the US, as Trump guts programs critical to people's survival, it might be worth thinking about this model. These authorities weren't created by any central authority, they evolved from the people. Nothing stops Americans from building similar institutions that are both democratic and outside of the authority of a government that could choose to defund and abolish them... nothing but the realization that yes, you actually can.
#USPol #NLPol

Automatic Building Code Review: A Case Study
Hanlong Wan, Weili Xu, Michael Rosenberg, Jian Zhang, Aysha Siddika
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02634 https://a…

Automatic Building Code Review: A Case Study
Building officials, particularly those in resource-constrained or rural jurisdictions, face labor-intensive, error-prone, and costly manual reviews of design documents as projects increase in size and complexity. The growing adoption of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Large Language Models (LLMs) presents opportunities for automated code review (ACR) solutions. This study introduces a novel agent-driven framework that integrates BIM-based data extraction with automated verification usin…

Às vezes eu me atrapalho por imbecilidades. Queria jantar, mas o microondas utiliza a mesma tomada que a mšquina de lavar e ainda faltavam dez minutos para a lavagem de roupas terminar. Então decidi aproveitar esses dez minutos para adiantar coisas do trabalho. Comecei a fazer uma tarefa e aí caí numa pira de querer terminar, de não conseguir largar aquilo antes de acabar. Ou seja, só uma hora e quinze minutos depois que eu fui esquentar a comida e, por isso, só agora estou jantando. Jš era …

Improving radial velocity precision with CARMENES-PLUS:An upgrade of the near-infrared spectrograph cooling system
R. Varas, R. Calvo-Ortega, P. J. Amado, S. Becerril, H. Ruh, M. Azzaro, L. Hernandez, H. Magan-Madinabeitia, S. Reinhart, D. Maroto-Fernandez, J. Helmling, A. L. Huelmo, D. Benitez, J. F. Lopez, M. Pineda, J. A. Garcia, J. Garcia de la Fuente, J. Marin, F. Hernandez, J. Aceituno, J. A. Caballero, A. Kaminski, R. J. Mathar, A. Quirrenbach, A. Reiners, I. Ribas, W. Seifert, …

Improving radial velocity precision with CARMENES-PLUS:An upgrade of the near-infrared spectrograph cooling system
CARMENES is a dual-channel high-resolution spectrograph at the 3.5 m Calar Alto telescope designed to detect low-mass planets around late-type dwarfs by measuring their radial velocities (RVs). High thermal stability in both the visible (VIS) and near infrared channels is essential to achieve the precision required for these measurements. In particular, stabilising the NIR channel to the millikelvin level, which operates at cryogenic temperatures (140 K), poses significant engineering challenge…

Replaced article(s) found for nlin.AO. https://arxiv.org/list/nlin.AO/new
[1/1]:
- Manipulating phases in many-body interacting systems with subsystem resetting
Anish Acharya, Rupak Majumder, Shamik Gupta