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Now, for any person with a shred of moral dignity, there's some time during US history where you would have to admit that an insurrection or rebellion was necessary. Only complete scum bag fascists would try to argue that a slave revolt wasn't an absolute good, and that it was a bad thing when those revolts were crushed. Anyone with a shred of moral decency has to admit that there is at least one point in US history where the nation was doing something so incredibly evil, that it would have been good if people would have rose up and stopped it.
Today we're talking about the displacement and genocide of people in Gaza. We can look at any number of genocide on US soil carried out by the US government. Who, with any moral clarity, wouldn't point to those and want to believe that they would have resisted, violently if necessary, against those slaughters. Who, that today condemns slavery, could look at John Brown and not wish to have the moral integrity to fight and die along side of him?
Every liberal who actually believes in justice, who isn't just virtue signaling out of guilt, should be able to point to a time in history where they would absolutely agree with the most militant resistance. For those folks, I always wonder, when did that evil end? Where is your line? Have you thought about that?

Updated comparison of the UHECR energy spectra measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory and the Telescope Array
Douglas R. Bergman, Toshihiro Fujii, Kozo Fujisue, Keitaro Fujita, Jihyun Kim, Diego Ravignani, Felix Riehn, Markus Roth, Francesco Salamida, Yoshiki Tsunesada, Valerio Verzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05530

Updated comparison of the UHECR energy spectra measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory and the Telescope Array
The Pierre Auger and Telescope Array joint Working Group on the UHECR energy spectrum was established in 2012 to analyze energy scale uncertainties in both experiments and to in vestigate their systematic differences, particularly in the spectral shape of the flux measurements. Previous studies have indeed shown that, within systematic uncertainties, the energy s pectra measured by the two observatories are consistent below~$10\,\mathrm{EeV}$. However, at higher energies, a significant differen…

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Eagles acquire John Metchie III from Texans, adding depth at WR: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6559051/2025/08/17/eagles-john-metchie-texans-trade/

New Arabic records from Cairo on supernovae 1181 and 1006
J. G. Fischer (U M\"unster, Germany), H. Halm (U T\"ubingen, Germany), R. Neuh\"auser (U Jena, Germany), D. L. Neuh\"auser (indep. scholar)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04127

New Arabic records from Cairo on supernovae 1181 and 1006
The remnant of the historical supernova SN 1181 is under discussion: While the previously suggested G130.7+3.1 (3C58) appears too old (3000-5000 yr), the unusual star IRAS 00500+6713 with a surrounding nebula (Pa-30) has an expansion age not inconsistent with a SN Iax explosion in AD 1181 under the assumption that neither acceleration nor deceleration occurred. Previously, only reports from China and Japan were known, pointing to an event near the northern circumpolar region. Any further report…

A fast machine learning tool to predict the composition of astronomical ices from infrared absorption spectra
Andr\'es Meg\'ias, Izaskun Jim\'enez-Serra, Fran\c{c}ois Dulieu, Julie Vitorino, Bel\'en Mat\'e, David Ciudad, Will R. M. Rocha, Marcos Mart\'inez Jim\'enez, Jacobo Aguirre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.043…

A fast machine learning tool to predict the composition of astronomical ices from infrared absorption spectra
Current observations taken by James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) allow us to observe the absorption features of icy mantles that cover interstellar dust grains, which are mainly composed of $\mathrm{H_2O}$, $\mathrm{CO}$, and $\mathrm{CO_2}$, along with other minor species. Thanks to its sensitivity and spectral resolution, JWST has the potential to observe ice features towards hundreds of sources at different stages along the process of star formation. However, identifying the spectral features…

Physics-informed GNN for medium-high voltage AC power flow with edge-aware attention and line search correction operator
Changhun Kim, Timon Conrad, Redwanul Karim, Julian Oelhaf, David Riebesel, Tom\'as Arias-Vergara, Andreas Maier, Johann J\"ager, Siming Bayer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22458

Physics-informed GNN for medium-high voltage AC power flow with edge-aware attention and line search correction operator
Physics-informed graph neural networks (PIGNNs) have emerged as fast AC power-flow solvers that can replace classic Newton--Raphson (NR) solvers, especially when thousands of scenarios must be evaluated. However, current PIGNNs still need accuracy improvements at parity speed; in particular, the physics loss is inoperative at inference, which can deter operational adoption. We address this with PIGNN-Attn-LS, combining an edge-aware attention mechanism that explicitly encodes line physics via p…

Microsoft Azure/Cloud/AD considered harmful (twice, again)...
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