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The Trump administration is deliberately
targeting children who came to the US unaccompanied by a parent or guardian
as it pushes to quickly return them to the countries they fled
– amid “drastic policy changes” in immigration courts,
according to allegations in a federal lawsuit shared with the Guardian.
The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are trying to prevent imminent deportation to the places from where they escaped danger or harm.
The complaint, filed befor…

Trump administration targets children amid push to ‘deport at all costs’
Federal lawsuit alleges children are being repatriated despite many of them qualifying to remain in the US legally

Crosslisted article(s) found for astro-ph.CO. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.CO/new
[1/1]:
- Consistent Thermal Resummation and Phase Transitions with 2PI Methods
Amitayus Banik, Kimmo Kainulainen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04102 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hepph_bot/117047502693663591
- Amnesia in the Axion Misalignment Landscape
Kierthika Chathirathas, Cem Er\"oncel, Mathieu Kaltschmidt, Javier Redondo, Kenichi Saikawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04139 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hepph_bot/117047523928429238
- Corrections to Hawking radiation from asteroid-mass primordial black holes: analytic and numerica...
Gabriel Vasquez, Bowen Chen, Cara Nel, Emily Koivu, Makana Silva, Christopher M. Hirata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04346 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_grqc_bot/117047445284689579
- Relativistic Signatures of Dark Matter Equations of State in Static Spherically Symmetric Spacetimes
Akash Yadav, Sudhava Yadav, K. K. Venkataratnam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04470 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_grqc_bot/117047473794282581
- Inflow-driven galaxy evolution - I. Revealing the physics of the fundamental metallicity relation
Kai Wang, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04784 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophGA_bot/117047534350606403
- Evolution of matter perturbations in the context of cosmic slowing down
D. Koh Cuende, G. Panotopoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04922 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_grqc_bot/117047514099918452
- Post-Inflationary Constraints on Nonminimally Coupled Quintessential Inflation
Min Gi Park, Seong Chan Park, Tomo Takahashi, Jos\'e Jaime Terente D\'iaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05079 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_grqc_bot/117047542803232910
- CCAT: Design and Characterization of the 350 GHz Instrument Module
Ben Keller, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05121 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophIM_bot/117047574262723419
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Loons represent in Ogunquit, Maine! Happy 250 years of all men (and women) being created equal to seek Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness as one consents to be governed.

It’s been four years since the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade,
ending the federal constitutional right to abortion.
In the immediate aftermath of the decision, national attention centered on implementation of state bans and a rapidly shifting legal landscape.
But four years later, one of the most impactful developments has been less visible:
👉 a significant, sustained and politically consequential shif…

Public opinion on abortion has shifted 4 years after Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade
More Americans now hold absolutist positions, supporting legal access to abortion in all or most cases and opposing government regulation altogether.

Cowboys Head Coach Shares Positive Update on George Pickens https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/george-pickens-expected-mandatory-minicamp-schottenheimer/

One of the funniest things about the “LLMs are self-aware!!1!” cogsuckers is the assumption that being able to use language is the ultimate sign of consciousness.
First, many animals exhibit signs of consciousness, despite lacking language.
Second, LLMs don’t actually use or understand language. They’re all just tokens (more or less large numbers) and vectors.

How is it that the Middle East continue being one of the world’s most war-affected regions to this day?
How is it that the people there developed this culture of encouraging conquest and holding grudges?
Then I remembered that it is the birthplace of the god of Storm and Warfare which became the most Worshiped god of all time worldwide. He created humans and declared it was all Good but, then because he didn't liked how things were going, he drown 99.9% of all humans and anima…

I tried to write something up to talk about an idea, but it didn't quite work. I have a lot more I need to put into it. But I want to get an idea out, and, after talking with a person who pointed out some of the flaws in what I wrote, I think I can maybe write down the kernel of the idea here.
An acquaintance of mine did a deep dive on Operational Art and wrote his thesis (which prompted an earlier set of posts and an article I wrote for my professional-ish blog) on the intersection of the OODA loop and critical philosophy. I've been spending a lot of time thinking about Kilcullen's Three Pillars model (after watching Andrewism's wonderful video) and Beer's VSM. The TL;DR of it is that there's a much better insurgency model. Of course, the insurgency model also works for a bunch of other things, because cybernetics lets you do all kinds of cool abstraction like that.
So as I was reading the essay of a comrade the other day, that model popped back into my head and I'm going to try to share what I can of it.
When colonizers came to the Salish region, they saw what they believed to be an untouched wilderness. They failed to see the ways in which Salish people tended the land. Indigenous fire practices were common on the northwest coast, and the suppression of those practices remains a problem. There is an interrelationship between an environment and the systems within it. Systems, like people, animals, and cultures, adapt to the environment. In doing so, those systems will also change the environment.
Social technology was invisible, so colonizers defaulted to either some kind of Rousseauvian or Malthusian model of these people. They were not, for the colonizers, people who had developed advanced social technologies to live in harmony with their world. They were, rather, people in "a state of nature."
The European influenced left continues to draw this Rousseauvian model, which continues through a lot of Anarchist revolutionary thought. European anarchists were heavily influenced by observations and theories around the behavior of indigenous people. The remnants of this thought still exist in the idea that the system must only be destroyed for us to be free.
This is the same obliviousness to social technology, that social technology actually exists, often informs both early colonizers and modern radicals.
It is through this obliviousness that we fail to recognize how capitalism is a social technology that is managed into existence and maintained, and how changes in the environment can threaten institutions that have become over-adapted to a specific version of that environment.
We can extend Kilcullen's metaphor of a "conflict ecosystem" through cybernetics into a much more rich model, populated by viable systems. The ecosystem itself has a fitness function, which drives adaptation within the environment. But all actors in the environment also affect it. Some try to manage the environment. Revolutions are often over who manages a social ecosystem, over who controls the social technology and what it does.
Once we see this dynamic at play, calls of "riot" and "revolution" make a whole lot less sense. Rather, the question becomes, "how do we change the ecosystem in such a way that it cannot be 'managed' at all?"
Graeber/Wengrow talked about Turtle Island indigenous social technologies in Dawn of Everything, such as the system of moieties and clans described in the book. So I have a good reading list as I think through this model, but I hope the "ecosystem" model is helpful (if not completely fleshed out).
I'd be interested in any critiques or thoughts to help develop this idea more.

spouse insists that some of my brainfarts are poetry, and i should publish them. circumventing the 500 char limit with imgs/alt-text.
context: spouse has a bunch of chainsaws.
#poetry #netherlands #biking

Once a bunch of companies are firing people (perhaps for reasons they don't even understand), other companies will do the same because mass firings will be taken as an economic indicator. Partially, this is companies seeing other companies "tighten their belt," which smaller companies may read as an indication that larger companies are predicting an economic downturn, and because mass firings may *cause* an economic downturn.
It's easy for folks to jump from descriptions of how economic power works into conspiracy theories about economic control, but the simple fact is that it's often very easy to explain the way that small intentional manipulation by class conscious people can cascade into large emergent behaviors. This all happens without any centralized control.
That is *specifically* one of it's greatest strengths. It is not a coincidence that conspiracy theories would lead you to ignore this specific strength.