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This white paper provides a comprehensive analysis of modern warfare through five interconnected characteristics that have been prominently displayed throughout the Ukraine conflict:
- The rise of autonomous systems and their impact on force architecture
- The information domain as a critical battleground
- Electronic warfare and spectrum superiority
- The challenges of sustaining logistics in contested environments
- The evolution of air defense strategy
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Lessons from the Ukraine Conflict: Modern Warfare in the Age of Autonomy, Information, and Resilience
As warfare evolves, the Ukraine conflict offers policymakers a blueprint for modern defense strategy—emphasizing autonomy, contested logistics, electromagnetic superiority, and adaptive organizational models.

Flexion, which is building a full autonomy stack for humanoid robots, raised a $50M Series A from DST Global Partners, NVentures, and others, after a $7M seed (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/robotic-brain-building-star…

Exclusive: Founded By Ex-Nvidia Researchers, Flexion Lands $50M To Build The 'Brain' for Humanoid Robots
A startup founded by former Nvidia researchers that’s “building the brain for humanoid and human-capable robots,” Flexion has raised $50 million in funding, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
Verböten:
🎵 Bodily Autonomy
#Verböten
https://splitsingle.bandcamp.com/track/bodily-autonomy
https://open.spotify.com/track/3j0JNT58JZQmuYUDkFch8I

Q&A with Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe on founding Rivian in 2009, production challenges, the VW partnership, autonomy, AI, EVs, chips, CarPlay, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2025/an-interv

An Interview with Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe About Building a Car Company and Autonomy
An interview with Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe about starting a car company, scaling, and building for an autonomous future.

#CommonplaceNotes: mental models, autonomy, a poem.
https://lbj20.blogspot.com/2026/01/commonplace-book-mental-models-autonomy.html HT

Commonplace book: mental models, autonomy, a poem
Doug Belshaw has a thoughtful post about the financial/work advice often being given to young folks today: The financial guidance given to ...

The EU warns of possible action after the US imposes travel bans on five Europeans, saying it will defend its "regulatory autonomy against unjustified measures" (Lorne Cook/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/europe-bret

EU warns of possible action after the US bars 5 Europeans accused of censorship
The European Union's executive is warning of possible action against the U.S. after travel bans were imposed on five Europeans accused of pressuring American technology firms to censor viewpoints. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the five "radical" activists. They include Thierry Breton who is the former EU commissioner responsible for supervising social media rules. The European Commission condemned on Wednesday the U.S. decision and is seeking clarification. It says the EU is within…

I am trying to find a primary source for this, because if it's not wishful thinking it's pretty good.
(Seen on https://www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weekend-in-politics-bulletin-dfd)

Syndicalist unions are fundamentally different from the bureaucratic trade unions that dominate today. Modern unions function as institutional frameworks that negotiate within capitalism, often acting to preserve the system rather than challenge it. They centralize power in hierarchical leadership, limit direct worker control, and prioritize legal contracts and state approval over genuine worker autonomy.
Syndicalism rejects this institutionalized framework. It refuses collective barga…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Boy Harsher feat. Lucy & Cooper B. Handy:
🎵 Autonomy
#BoyHarsher #Lucy #CooperBHandy
https://boyharsher.bandcamp.com/track/autonomy-ft-lucy-cooper-b-handy-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ro7o4RZVhksrTkcpk3rtC

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[3/3]:
- Fraud detection in credit card transactions using Quantum-Assisted Restricted Boltzmann Machines
Jo\~ao Marcos Cavalcanti de Albuquerque Neto, Gustavo Castro do Amaral, Guilherme Penello Tempor\~ao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17660 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/115762703945731580
- Vidarc: Embodied Video Diffusion Model for Closed-loop Control
Feng, Xiang, Mao, Tan, Zhang, Huang, Zheng, Liu, Su, Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17661 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_bot/115762650859932523
- Imputation Uncertainty in Interpretable Machine Learning Methods
Pegah Golchian, Marvin N. Wright
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17689 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/115762577479255577
- Revisiting the Broken Symmetry Phase of Solid Hydrogen: A Neural Network Variational Monte Carlo ...
Shengdu Chai, Chen Lin, Xinyang Dong, Yuqiang Li, Wanli Ouyang, Lei Wang, X. C. Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17703 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatstrel_bot/115762481116668454
- Breast Cancer Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Treatment Response Prediction Using Aligned Longitudinal M...
Rahul Ravi, Ruizhe Li, Tarek Abdelfatah, Stephen Chan, Xin Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17759 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessIV_bot/115762481771898369
- MedNeXt-v2: Scaling 3D ConvNeXts for Large-Scale Supervised Representation Learning in Medical Im...
Roy, Kirchhoff, Ulrich, Rokuss, Wald, Isensee, Maier-Hein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17774 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessIV_bot/115762492258209812
- Domain-Aware Quantum Circuit for QML
Gurinder Singh, Thaddeus Pellegrini, Kenneth M. Merz, Jr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17800 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/115762723607200478
- Visually Prompted Benchmarks Are Surprisingly Fragile
Feng, Lian, Dunlap, Shu, Wang, Wang, Darrell, Suhr, Kanazawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17875 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115762781936221554
- Learning vertical coordinates via automatic differentiation of a dynamical core
Tim Whittaker, Seth Taylor, Elsa Cardoso-Bihlo, Alejandro Di Luca, Alex Bihlo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17877 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsaoph_bot/115762405092703069
- RadarGen: Automotive Radar Point Cloud Generation from Cameras
Tomer Borreda, Fangqiang Ding, Sanja Fidler, Shengyu Huang, Or Litany
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17897 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115762783246540528
- Distributionally Robust Imitation Learning: Layered Control Architecture for Certifiable Autonomy
Gahlawat, Aboudonia, Banik, Hovakimyan, Matni, Ames, Zardini, Speranzon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17899 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessSY_bot/115762532257741954
- Re-Depth Anything: Test-Time Depth Refinement via Self-Supervised Re-lighting
Ananta R. Bhattarai, Helge Rhodin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17908 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115762785868778349
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Bingo: "awareness is growing that digital autonomy is no longer a luxury but a prerequisite for a well-functioning democracy." https://ginaplat.com/posts/20251031-digital-sovereignty-and-gov/ Thanks for this, @…

reclaim conservative phrases and ideas to make them meaningless with the same fervor republicans work to destroy liberal phrases.
be pro-life which I assume means right for food, shelter, and bodily autonomy.
be pro masculinity which I assume means community building and mutual aid.
be MAGA which probably means fighting for immigrants and advancing civil rights.
I'm sure there are problems with this idea but I bet there are good parts we don't get to enjoy.

Boston-based Teradar, which aims to launch a solid-state sensor for autonomous cars in 2028 that it says can outperform lidar and radar, raised a $150M Series B (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/12/tera

Teradar raises $150M for a sensor it says beats lidar and radar | TechCrunch
Teradar's sensor uses the terahertz part of the electromagnetic spectrum, and combines the best traits of radar and lidar sensors without some of the drawbacks.

From BC Humanists
Last fall, we pushed the government to finally fulfill a longstanding promise to regulate dangerous and deceptive unregulated (crisis) pregnancy centres.
These fake clinics cloak their religious agenda to deny people their reproductive autonomy and freedom. Many of these groups are registered charities, meaning your taxes subsidize their donations.
Now, the government has let religious anti-choice groups off the hook with its lack of action in Budget 2025.…

From the article: "He added: “It’s something where it’s moving very quickly and people don’t necessarily have time to absorb it or figure out what to do.”"
That impersonal, natural "it" is moving - Not the people developing the models and selling them (or inflicting them), not the wealthy investors demanding market share, not the sci-fi addled techbros (Muskrats?) imagining that if only we get AGI all problems will be solved tomorrow, - all wanting to be first. Oh…

From the article: "He added: “It’s something where it’s moving very quickly and people don’t necessarily have time to absorb it or figure out what to do.”"
That impersonal, natural "it" is moving - Not the people developing the models and selling them (or inflicting them), not the wealthy investors demanding market share, not the sci-fi addled techbros (Muskrats?) imagining that if only we get AGI all problems will be solved tomorrow, - all wanting to be first. Oh…

There tends to be this implicit assumption that only the state can provide services to the people. It's endemic to liberals. If authoritarians seize power, the thinking goes, there's nothing we can do.
But we have ample examples of the opposite. Trumpism is a specific type of authoritarianism where the state withdraws to allow corporations to control most things. They get a degree of autonomy and, in exchange, bow to the sovereign.
This is common in South American dictatorships (often those backed and supported by the US). So it can be helpful to look to these as examples of how to deal with that type of regime.
#USPol

“The housing crisis is primarily one of affordability rather than solely relating to supply and a range of measures are needed to address them.
“But allowing developers an even greater level of autonomy does nothing to deliver the kind of housing solutions needed by the majority of people affected. It just allows developers and landlords to increase their profits.”
Labour told ‘numbers game’ approach to housing targets is doomed to failure | Morning Star

FPF Holiday Gift Guide for AI-Enabled, Privacy-Forward AgeTech
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-holiday-gift-guide-for-ai-enabled-privacy-forward-agetech/
@…

We’re grateful to Elon Musk for proving once again
why the world needs to log off corporate-owned, centrally-controlled social media platforms
and log on to a better way of being online.
The world needs an open social web through the fediverse and Mastodon.
Calls for public institutions to invest in digital sovereignty are increasing across civil society.
The term "digital sovereignty" means that an institution has autonomy and control over the critical…

The world needs social sovereignty
The world needs to log off corporate-owned, centrally-controlled social media platforms and log on to a better way of being online. The world needs an open social web through the fediverse and Mastodon.

Again, I highly recommend you read this article!
Anarcho-Syndicalism: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know, But Were Too Afraid To Ask – Class Autonomy
https://classautonomy.info/anarcho-syndicalism-everything-you-ever-wanted-…

CES 2026 report: AI, autonomy, and robotic products are still finding their way, country-level booths are growing, Nvidia underpinned much of the show, and more (Steven Sinofsky/Hardcore Software)
https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/237-ces…

237. CES 2026 – “The Future Is Here” and “Innovators Show Up” #CES2026
This was a great show and if you spent enough time on the floor (I did so you don't have to), you could see it really did live up to both marketing taglines 📈💡🔮❤️

We’re grateful to Elon Musk for proving once again
why the world needs to log off corporate-owned, centrally-controlled social media platforms
and log on to a better way of being online.
The world needs an open social web through the fediverse and Mastodon.
Calls for public institutions to invest in digital sovereignty are increasing across civil society.
The term "digital sovereignty" means that an institution has autonomy and control over the critical…

The world needs social sovereignty
The world needs to log off corporate-owned, centrally-controlled social media platforms and log on to a better way of being online. The world needs an open social web through the fediverse and Mastodon.

Rivian says it is building its own 5nm AI chip called the Rivian Autonomy Processor and a foundational "Large Driving Model", to enable fully autonomous driving (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/842213/rivian-ai-autonomous-chip-specs

Rivian is building its own powerful AI chips for autonomous driving
Rivian announced it was building its own AI chips for self-driving features. The company also plans on adding lidar to its upcoming R2 vehicles.

Impressions from a test ride in London in a car using Wayve's self-driving tech; Wayve has raised $1.3B since launch and is testing cars with Level 2 autonomy (John Thornhill/Financial Times)

This article is absolute insanity. The only way I can describe it is being from a Rabidly anti-Canadian American.
And in an overall tone of disrespect for the rule of law, autonomy, democracy, or progressive thought.
"In a strategy of the retrenchment, the dismemberment of Canada becomes a wise decision. Rather than allowing it to continue down a path of anti-American antagonism, the United States could support the Alberta and Quebec separatist movements. A successful secession by Alberta alone would cripple the federal fisc, and drive separatism in other regions due to the resultant decline in their equalization payments which comprises such a substantial part of their provincial budgets. In the end, British Columbia and a unified Maritime province would be admitted to the Union as Democratic states while Alberta and Saskatchewan would be admitted as Republican states; ensuring continued balance in the US Senate.
The rump of Canada, left with only one or two provinces, would finally be able to revise its constitution with ease. Under US pressure, the rump could become a freely associated state similar to Palau, with a new constitution reordering society along American lines. In time, perhaps it too could be annexed.”
#Canada #USA #CanPoli #CdnPoli #51stState #Separatism #Alberta #Quebec
https://defenseanalyses.org/work/our-canadian-problem/
(edit: sorry, wrong link previously)

Q&A with Lyft CEO David Risher on the company's turnaround, AI, paying drivers more, Uber, partnership with Tensor for autonomous vehicle tech, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/811532/lyft-uber-david-risher-interv…

Lyft CEO David Risher on paying drivers more and the shift to robotaxis
How Lyft is thinking about autonomy in the AI era, and why service is the most integral rideshare component.