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Interesting piece on the #Arctic #SeaIce and it's (improving) representation in global climate models by Gavin Schmidt over on @realclimate, I'm not entirely sure all of the improvement is for the right reasons, there are probably compensating biases, it would be interesting to see if the models get the regional signal correct in different parts of the Arctic, but overall I agree with this piece, there have been some big steps forward in global models, the regional level is often not very well represented though.
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2025/05/predicted-arctic-sea-ice-trends-over-time/

Tibetan #Buddhism and systemic abuses : Slovenian media report that EBU-member ‘Shenpen Rinpoche’ was arrested in #France

OK, so here is purportedly ICE doing a raid ... and the news media quietly accepts, from "agents" who displayed no proof that they were actually Federal agents, much less their identity.
How can we know that these masked men (most of 'em are men) are actually who they claim to be?

ICE arrests several workers from South Park restaurant
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents made arrests Friday afternoon at Buona Forchetta, an Italian restaurant in the South Park neighborhood of San Diego.

Business owners confront ICE agents during arrest at Great Barrington job site (Heather Bellow/The Berkshire Eagle)
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/southern_berkshires/ice-arrests-berkshires-great-barrington/article_f90f2550-5409-46c9-93a2-5d8daab8c82f.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p15#a250531p15

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced sweeping leadership changes Thursday
as part of an effort to dramatically ramp up arrests of illegal migrants. 
The “leadership realignment” comes as Trump administration officials push for ICE to make
a “minimum” of 3,000 arrests per day
– up from the 1,800 per day quota the White House initially demanded in January. 
As part of the shake-up, Kenneth Genalo is out as the head of ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Ope…

ICE shakes up agency with 'leadership realignment' in push for a 'minimum' of 3,000 migrant arrests per day 
As part of the shake-up, Kenneth Genalo is out as the head of ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) division – the branch tasked with executing arrests and deportations. 

Statement issued by Revs. Barber and Wilson-Hartgrove. https://ourmoralmoment.substack.com/p/we-must-arrest-the-attention-of-the

We Must Arrest the Attention of the Nation
After arrest at US Capitol, we have been released. We are OK, but all is not well.

„Stephen Miller, a senior White House official, told Fox News that the White House was looking for ICE to arrest 3,000 people a day, a major increase in enforcement.
The agency had arrested more than 66,000 people in the first 100 days of the Trump administration, an average of about 660 arrests a day.“
Es muss aufhören, dass dieses Land als Partner gesehen wird.
Top Officials Overseeing Deportations Leave Their Roles at ICE - The New York Times

It's publication day for 'Space Syntax - Selected papers by Bill Hillier', edited by my wonderful Bartlett School of Architecture colleague Laura Vaughan with John Peponis and Ruth Conroy Dalton.
The book brings together Hillier's groundbreaking work spanning half a century with current commentaries by international researchers
It is available #openAccess by
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Amazon Fire Sticks enable “billions of dollars” worth of streaming piracy - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/amazon-fire-sticks-enable-billions-of-dollars-worth-of-streaming-piracy/

Statement by YDS Dean Greg Sterling.
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We are relieved that two members of the YDS community, Rev. William Barber and Rev. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, are safe and unharmed following their arrest while praying in the Capitol Rotunda yesterday. We applaud them for their courage in standing up for Christian values and doing so in accordance with the venerable tradition of nonviolent action.

Rev. William Barber arrested in Capitol Rotunda after praying against Republican-led budget
(RNS) — While arrests of protesters at the Capitol is not unusual, the response to Barber’s prayer was unusually dramatic: After issuing verbal warnings, dozens of officers expelled everyone in the Rotunda — including credentialed press.