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IN THIS HOUSE, WE BELIEVE
- passwords should be random
- data should be backed up
- anonymity should be the default
- dishwashers don’t need wifi
- the drivetrain should be airgapped from the Internet

225 organisations call for Big Polluters to be kicked out of COP30 https://corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/225-organisations-call-big-polluters-be-kicked-out-cop30

225+ organisations call for Big Polluters to be kicked out of COP30 | Corporate Europe Observatory
Over 225 organizations, including CEO, demand: "Kick Big Polluters Out, Don't Invite Them to the COP30 Table!"

Young Woman Accidentally Booked an Airbnb that Turned Out to Be Her Father’s Childhood Home in Italy https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/young-woman-accidentally-booked-an-airbnb-that-turned-out-to-be-her-fathers-chil…

Young Woman Accidentally Booked an Airbnb that Turned Out to Be Her Father’s Childhood Home in Italy
By 1950, around 3.5 million Italians had immigrated to Argentina, and this summer, Flor, a young Argentine planned to visit her father's village

What are you going to do when the regime falls? After calling all your friends, after the great memes, after the parties, what are you going to do to make sure it never happens again? What world should we create?
Taxing billionaires is great and all, but we could build systems where billionaires are impossible. Is hoarding wealth and using it to control people even something we should consider part of a functional and humane system? Any system where one group of people doesn't have rights means that anyone can be stripped of their rights, like has happened with all the US citizens who've been illegally detained and deported by ICE. Does the concept of "rights" that must be defended with violence, that can be stripped away by people who can exercise more violence, even make sense? Or should the bedrock of a functional system be the obligations that we have to each other and to society, that cannot be severed or taken from us, that tell us we *must* defend regardless of whether systemic oppression will impact us or not?
Americans have been so restricted by the limitations of the two party system, only able to choose between options acceptable to different sections of the capitalist class. Would we even be able to imagine what we could do if those restrictions went away?
The fall of the Berlin wall was a surprise. The fall of Assad was faster than anyone expected. One day the government of Nepal was an unrepentant oligarchy, the next it was on fire. Everything can change in an instant, faster than anyone expects. No one can predict revolutionary change. Will you be ready if the opportunity presents itself?
The US cannot be fixed. The economic system is a ponzi scheme that has been patched again and again, but has finally run out of options. Racism, sexism, and Christian nationalism are baked into the system at every level. Trump gutted the system of soft power that held the US economy together, now there is only a slow decline. Even after he's gone, the damage is done. Once we let go of how to fix something that cannot be fixed, we can start to imagine something that cannot be achieved within the current system.
This is a time of opportunity. Do not burrow so deep in terror that you miss your chance to dream.
#USPol

Moonlake AI, which creates tools to "vibe code virtual worlds", including for gaming, animation, and filmmaking, comes out of stealth with a $28M seed (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivast

Gaming Worlds Could Be The Answer To AI’s Data Problem
Stanford PhDs Fan-Yun Sun and Sharon Lee cofounded AI research company Moonlake AI to help people "vibe code virtual worlds."

Jerry Jones teases more Dallas Cowboys trades could be on the way https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/jerry-jones-teases-more-dallas-cowboys-trades-could-be-on-way

Kristi Noem Says ICE Will Be
‘All Over’ Bad Bunny
Super Bowl Halftime Show:
The NFL ‘Sucks and We’ll Win
and God Will Bless Us’
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/kristi-noem-ice-bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-show-1…

Kristi Noem: ICE Will Be 'All Over' Bad Bunny Super Bowl Halftime Show
Kristi Noem says ICE will be "all over" Super Bowl 2026 with every intention to "enfore the law."

A year ago today, potus said he’d try to release the Epstein files, and that he’d have no problem with it: https://youtu.be/_eT9Lvj-i20
Today, “[gop]…supporting the discharge petition [to release the files]…would be viewed as ‘a very hostile act,’” and that the files are a hoax.
They’re him-from-a-ye…

"""
Traditional politics of assistance and the repression of unemployment were now called into question. The need for reform became urgent.
Poverty was gradually separated from the old moral confusions. Economic crises had shown that unemployment could not be confused with indolence, as indigence and enforced idleness spread throughout the countryside, to precisely the places that had previously been considered home to the purest and most immediate forms of moral life. This demonstrated that poverty did not solely fall under the order of the fault: ‘Begging is the fruit of poverty, which in turn is the consequence of accidents in the production of the earth or in the output of factories, of a rise in the price of basic foodstuffs, or of growth of the population, etc.’ Indigence became a matter of economics.
But it was not contingent, nor was it destined to be suppressed forever. There would always be a certain quantity of poverty that could never be effaced, a sort of fatal indigence that would accompany all forms of society until the end of time, even in places where all the idle were employed: ‘The only paupers in a well governed state must be those born in indigence, or those who fall into it by accident.’ This backdrop of poverty was somehow inalienable: whether by birth or accident, it formed an inevitable part of society. The state of lack was so firmly entrenched in the destiny of man and the structure of society that for a long time the idea of a state without paupers remained inconceivable: in the thought of philosophers, property, work and indigence were terms linked right up until the nineteenth century.
This portion of poverty was necessary because it could not be suppressed; but it was equally necessary in that it made wealth possible. Because they worked but consumed little, a class of people in need allowed a nation to become rich, to release the value of its fields, colonies and mines, making products that could be sold throughout the world. An impoverished people, in short, was a people that had no poor. Indigence became an indispensable element in the state. It hid the secret but most real life of society. The poor were the seat and the glory of nations. And their noble misery, for which there was no cure, was to be exalted:
«My intention is solely to invite the authorities to turn part of their vigilant attention to considering the portion of the People who suffer … the assistance that we owe them is linked to the honour and prosperity of the Empire, of which the Poor are the firmest bulwark, for no sovereign can maintain and extend his domain without favouring the population, and cultivating the Land, Commerce and the Arts; and the Poor are the necessary agents for the great powers that reveal the true force of a People.»
What we see here is a moral rehabilitation of the figure of the Pauper, bringing about the fundamental economic and social reintegration of his person. Paupers had no place in a mercantilist economy, as they were neither producers nor consumers, and they were idle, vagabond or unemployed, deserving nothing better than confinement, a measure that extracted and exiled them from society. But with the arrival of the industrial economy and its thirst for manpower, paupers were once again a part of the body of the nation.
"""
(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

Australia plans to introduce legislation this week requiring streamers with 1M Australian subscribers to spend 10% of their local expenditure on local content (Jake Evans/ABC)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-04/streaming-serv…

Streaming services to be made to produce Australian content
Laws requiring streaming services to produce Australian content have been put back on the table by the federal government, after they were put on hiatus following the US election.

"Bamboo tissue paper may not be as eco-friendly as you think"
#Bamboo #Tissues #Environment

Bamboo tissue paper may not be as eco-friendly as you think
In recent years, Chinese tissue paper made from bamboo has emerged as a trendy choice for eco-friendly shoppers. However, new research suggests these bamboo paper products may not offer significant climate benefits over tissue produced in the United States and, in some cases, may be more detrimental to the environment.

Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
PARTON: Now she's running around loose.
STOT: Well at least we know what to expect, anyway. And after all, what can she do, alone? She is the last one.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/213/163 B7B4

Eagles' famous 'Tush Push' lasts another season: Why changes could be coming to league's controversial play

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/eagles-

I work best with music - when reading I can not listen to music where someone sings as it is distracting. So I have found cyberpunk playlists on YT - this one in one of my favorites when I read/write and automate things. https://youtu.be/WjTXny7-Kxc?si=-R0XN-eR74JBIPms

I’ve seen a lot of bullshit about “AI” but this might just be be the bullshittiest thing yet
https://research.google/blog/exploring-a-space-based-scalable-ai-infrastructure-system-design/

This seems to be a fair piece about Cheney senior and Cheney daughter.
I have long held the Cheneys in contempt. And I still feel that way about the freshly dead dad.
But the daughter, Liz, seems to be a better blend. I still disagree with her on almost everything except on the critical point that we are (supposed to be) a democratic nation of people with equal rights governed by a system of laws under a relatively stable Constitution.

Could President Trump Be Punished for Killing Suspected Drug Traffickers on the High Seas? | Albert W. Alschuler | Verdict | Legal Analysis and Commentary from Justia
https://verdict.justia.com/2025/11/04/could-president-trump-be-punished-for-killing-suspected-drug-traffickers-on-the-high-seas

Le gourou Robert Spatz bientôt arrêté?
Vu d'ici on attend de la Justice Française qu’elle passe Š la vitesse supérieure dans une affaire qui prédate les années 2000, scandaleux après le fracas de la justice belge.
https://www.7sur7.be/fai…

Le gourou Robert Spatz bientôt arrêté?
Robert Spatz, 81 ans, vit en Espagne, où il pourrait être interpellé à la demande d’un juge français. Il était le gourou de la secte Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC).

Would-be Brett Kavanaugh assassin sentenced to eight years in prison (Kaelan Deese/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/3835822/would-be-brett-kavanaugh-assassin-sentenced-eight-years-prison/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251004/p68#a251004p68

Enjoying London but realizing I really want to spend more time here, like a month in an apartment. What neighborhood would I want to be in? Reasonably central but still a real neighborhood. Gay-friendly would be nice. Comfortable and a little quieter would be welcome.

Ministers may be 'complicit in Israel's war crimes'
Also in the article, Israeli death squad soldiers using teenage boys for target practice.
| Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ministers-may-be-complicit-israels…

Mark Davis Confirms That Tom Brady Was 'Supposed to Be' Raiders QB in 2020 https://www.si.com/nfl/mark-davis-confirms-tom-brady-was-supposed-to-be-raiders-qb-in-2020

🛍️ Why plastic bags will be gone from California groceries by the end of 2025
#plastics

Why plastic bags will be gone from California groceries by the end of 2025
"Paper or plastic?" Your days are numbered. The question that millions of shoppers have heard for years when they roll up to the checkout aisle at grocery stores will soon be a thing of the past.

i love how apt tells me
N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repository can be applied. See apt-secure(8) manpage for details.
but the fuckin manpage does not tell you how to accept anything explicitly. it does not even have the word "accept" in it

#NorthDakota 's "low population, energy resources, cold climate and lax business regulations" attract data centers according to InForum
http…

Data centers are sprouting across North Dakota. How many are there and where will the next ones be planted?
The existing facilities that power AI and cryptocurrency will consume more power than what's generated by the Hoover dam alone, contributing to a demand that's expected to grow in coming years.

A relatively cool lunar farside mantle inferred from Chang’e-6 basalts and remote sensing: #moon may be colder than the near side: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/sep/far-side-moon-may-be-colder-near-side

"The greatest statistical analysis is nothing if it can’t be implemented by people. But people learn in different ways. Some like good stories, others like pictures. Only a few like equations..."
https://management.curiouscatblog.net/

RUSSIA WHICH WILL NEVER BE SHOWN ON TV! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/02/russia-which-will-never-be.html

Wow. So much implicit trickle down economics. https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2019002510/how-excited-should-we-be-about-the-amazon-announcement Come on, Paul, AWS and Microsoft having…

On 31 March 2026, University College London will be hosting a Festschrift Symposium for Professor M. Angela Sasse, to recognise and celebrate her contributions to the field of Computer Science and human-centred security specifically. We are seeking scientific contributions to a volume that will be presented at the event. Submissions will be selected by a committee of her students and colleagues, with accepted papers being made available online following the event.
Submissions are limit…

Non-speaking teen with autism — once thought to be intellectually disabled — accepted at MIT
#Autism

Non-speaking teen with autism — once thought to be intellectually disabled — accepted at MIT
Viraj Dhanda's norm-shattering acceptance was made all the more poignant because he was considered intellectually challenged for the first 14 years of his life.

Incidentally, the very nice schematic of cryosphere changes over both ice sheets was drawn by @… Tak! 🙏 for translating a complex topics into something I hope everyone can understand...
New paper out today in @nature Geosciences:
The Greenlandification of Antarctica
Readcube pdf: https://rdcu.be/eJiqJ

"Things will be moved around" = "You'll just be doing more work, with no more pay"

Apache Flink is uniquely positioned to serve as the backbone for AI agents, equipping them with the powerful new tool of stream processing. At Berlin Buzzword 2025, Steffen Hoellinger discussed how Flink jobs can be transformed into “Agents”—autonomous, goal-driven entities that dynamically interact with data streams, trigger actions, and adapt their behaviour based on real-time insights.
Watch the full session: #bbuzz returns on 7-9 June 2026: https://tickets.plainschwarz.com/bbuzz26/c/8Hvk0ZvJA/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
Dead Bars:
🎵 Be Me
#DeadBars
https://deadbars.bandcamp.com/track/be-me
https://open.spotify.com/track/2PLSZPTIlBaZjkS1SLwQ13

Joint equidistribution of newforms
Asbj{\o}rn Christian Nordentoft, Radu Toma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01602 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.01602

Joint equidistribution of newforms
Let $Y_1$ be a compact arithmetic hyperbolic surface associated to a maximal quaternion order, let $Y_q$ be a cover associated to an Eichler suborder of prime level $q$, and let $ι_q$ be embedding of $Y_q$ as the Hecke correspondence into $Y_1 \times Y_1$. Let $μ_1$ and $μ_q$ be the invariant probability measures on $Y_1$ and $Y_q$, respectively. If $F$ is a newform on $Y_q$, we conjecture that the pushforward measure $(ι_q)_\ast(\lvert F \rvert^2 μ_q)$ converges weakly to the uniform meas…

Tight Bounds for Cycle-Edge Decompositions and Covers
Saieed Akbari, Jonny Aloni, Arash Beikmohammadi, Alexander Clow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01901 https://

Tight Bounds for Cycle-Edge Decompositions and Covers
An old conjecture of Gallai states that every $n$ vertex graph can be decomposed, that is $E(G)$ can be partitioned, into $\lceil \frac{n}{2}\rceil$ or fewer paths. In response to this conjecture, Lovász proved in 1968 that every $n$ vertex graph can be decomposed into $\lfloor \frac{n}{2}\rfloor$ or fewer cycles and paths. We study a related conjecture which states that every $n$ vertex graph can be decomposed into $n-1$ or fewer cycles and edges. We prove this conjecture for all graphs with …

Impressive, Helix robot doing the dishes, extrapolate a few years and we could see amazing things in robotics.
#helix

“The more things change, the more they stay the same.”
Worth a thought.
And a listen.
https://youtu.be/ylAsLCtkkj8?si=HRe_MC4xd-vUfiCM

This is spot on for what makes extremism of any stripe so appealing.
https://youtu.be/mRtGg9F5xyA

Dang it! Apparently I forgot and missed the deadline to apply to be a NASA astronaut.
Again.
https://www.usajobs.gov/job/779261100

will my parents be more or less racist about bad bunny halftime than kendrick lamar halftime, take ur bets now!!

“When a military makes life unsustainable via bombing, forced starvation, demolition, disease, drone attacks, and endless terror, emigration cannot be ‘voluntary’ by definition"
#GazaGenocide
#EthnicCleansingOfPalestine

Leaked documents detail Trump’s ethnic cleansing plan for Gaza
A leaked document details the Trump administration’s plan to forcibly relocate the population of Gaza. Included in a “relocation package” would be $5,000, four years of rent subsidies, and a year of food subsidies.

@… First I've heard of this - very exciting! https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/jeremy-hansen-moon-1.7649455

In 4 months, Canadian Jeremy Hansen will blast off to the moon — where he'll also be a human guinea pig | CBC News
If all goes to plan, next February could see the return of humans to the moon. Four people — NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen — will see it as no one has before. And they will also be collecting valuable health data on themselves.

"This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you! You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I'm one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!"…

@… They may never be deleted, but you may no longer be able to access them when Trump orders Microsoft to lock all Swiss accounts…

Complex spectral variability and hints of a luminous companion in the Be star black hole binary candidate ALS 8814
Kareem El-Badry, Matthias Fabry, Hugues Sana, Tomer Shenar, Rhys Seeburger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01545

Complex spectral variability and hints of a luminous companion in the Be star + black hole binary candidate ALS 8814
The emission-line binary ALS 8814 was recently proposed as a Be star + black hole (BH) binary based on large-amplitude radial velocity (RV) variations of a Be star and non-detection of spectroscopic features from a luminous companion. We reanalyze low- and medium-resolution LAMOST spectra of ALS 8814 and show that the system's spectroscopic variability is considerably more complex than previously recognized. Inspection of the system's trailed spectra reveals the presence of a second set of abso…

Det här kan gott Sverige följa efter istället för handelns egna riktlinjer som en hel del butiker inte följer. Det kommer så klart inte bli någon revolutionerande hälsoeffekt men jag ser det ändå som en rimlig åtgärd.
Sen borde man definiera det efter koffeinhalt istället för "energidryck" som ingen verkligen har lyckats definiera.
Energy drinks to be banned for under-16s in England

Energy drinks to be banned for under 16s
Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting said he was acting on concerns for children's health.

Today I will be spending the entire afternoon shopping. In Civic. I promised a friend weeks ago that I would accompany her. Today is that day. At least there'll be coffee. And possibly food.
#Friendship #Canberra #Australia

This is such bullshit. https://flipboard.com/@gothamist/gothamist-igeoft02z/-/a-_nxSrwdoRKC3GZ6B4c7IQA:a:3807498986-/0

Why getting a COVID shot in NY could be a hassle this year
New York pharmacies and doctors’ offices are starting to get requests for the latest, federally approved COVID shots, but getting a shot could be …

How Synthesia is combining multiple AI voice and video models to improve avatar realism with natural gestures and accent preservation (Rhiannon Williams/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/0

Synthesia’s AI clones are more expressive than ever. Soon they’ll be able to talk back.
The uncanny valley is narrowing. Are we ready for what comes next?

Dak Prescott can be this season's Joe Burrow amid Cowboys turmoil https://fansided.com/nfl/dak-prescott-can-be-this-season-s-joe-burrow-amid-cowboys-turmoil

Moonlake AI, which offers tools to help users "vibe code virtual worlds", including for gaming, animation, and filmmaking, comes out of stealth with a $28M seed (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivast

Gaming Worlds Could Be The Answer To AI’s Data Problem
Stanford PhDs Fan-Yun Sun and Sharon Lee cofounded AI research company Moonlake AI to help people "vibe code virtual worlds."

Now with Eagles, former Chiefs pass rusher happy to be on 'right side' as Philly attempts Super Bowl repeat

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/now-w…

I’ve said it before, but chatbot user interfaces that pretend to be human or human-like need to be banned.
It’s a deceitful, dehumanizing and deeply unethical scam.

I began posting this around year 2000.... It still seems quite valid.
The First Law of the Internet
Every person shall be free to use the Internet in any way that is privately beneficial without being publicly detrimental.
The burden of demonstrating public detriment shall be on those who wish to prevent the private use.
Such a demonstration shall require clear and convincing evidence of public detriment.
The public detriment must be of such deg…

'I'm leaving,' Trump said. 'There's no reason to be here any more': inside the meeting that brought Nato to the brink (Jens Stoltenberg/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/04/im-leaving-trump-said-theres-no-reason-to-be-here-any-more-inside-the-meeting-that-brought-nato-to-the-brink
http://www.memeorandum.com/251004/p25#a251004p25

"Four legal experts argue that Belgium has the legal basis and political legitimacy to seize the stockpile of contraceptives that the Trump administration is threatening to destroy."
USAID contraceptives in Belgium: 'This stock in perfect condition must be seized to meet urgent needs'
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2025/10/04/usaid-contraceptives-in-belgium-this-stock-in-perfect-condition-must-be-seized-to-meet-urgent-needs_6746094_23.html

Brutal similes
Using #AI is an ethical choice.
I know that there cases when an #LLM could make my job easier. Which doesn't mean I'll use one. Just like I won't be buying cheap junk gadgets that could help me with some random stuff a bunch of times before they'll end up on a trash pile.
Yes, sometimes I am curious what an LLM could come up with. But then, there are people who are curious how many donuts they can eat before throwing up. A waste of good donuts.
What world would you rather live in? One where you put a little more effort in your job? Or one where LLM helps with with your job, but you can't enjoy your free time anymore because the capitalists are using LLMs to turn every single aspect of your life into a nightmare, and eventually your employer just makes you do more and more until you're thrown out? But at least you will get a monthly trial of a statistical "friend" to "talk" about your trouble to.
Yeah, you can claim that training models does the most harm, and that's already happened, so not using them doesn't change much, and all the energy spent on it would be wasted. Or use the traditional "others" fallacy — others will use it anyway, others will fuel the vicious circle, so why renounce convenience. It's like when you learn that your dinner is human meat, and you decide to eat it anyway, because not eating it won't bring that human back to life, and if it's wasted, then their death will be for naught.
#AntiCapitalism

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
DERAL: Are you sure we're totally immune? [Servalan mixes liquids in a beaker.]
SERVALAN: I'd hardly be doing this if we weren't.
DERAL: The man may suspect. Don't forget, all Aurons are telepathic.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/32…

A fire will be lit in Galway this September as
Misleór Festival of Nomadic Cultures returns for its seventh annual gathering.
It celebrates and brings together nomadic voices from Traveller, Roma, Sšmi, Inuit, and other indigenous communities in a crossroads of cultures.
https://…

Misleór Festival of Nomadic Cultures will light a fire in Galway this month - This is Galway
A fire will be lit in Galway this September as Misleór Festival of Nomadic Cultures returns for its seventh annual gathering. Find out more about the festival programme here...

Pete Carroll: 'All I ask is for them to be the best they can be' https://www.raiders.com/video/pete-carroll-raiders-week-1-vs-patriots-presser-nfl-09032025

New paper out today in @… Geosciences:
The Greenlandification of Antarctica - it's a comment piece showing hpw Antarctica's ice is increasingly similar to Greenland's - drawing on a mass of work from various @… climate projects and with substantial @… implications
Readcube pdf: https://rdcu.be/eJiqJ

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
dazegxd:
🎵 don't be stupid (feat. AF1shawty)-
#dazegxd
https://dazegxd.bandcamp.com/album/dont-be-stupid-angel-voice
https://open.spotify.com/track/39xZLjFOjWVk54cD7ewiPi

All the love for Andor and no one ever talks about how fuckin awesome it would be to be an interplanetary antiquities dealer

If Texas guardsman enter Illinois without IL authorization, & so are not legally a military force to the state of Illinois, & if they emerge from Great Lakes base carrying a gun that’s properly of the TX NG’s arsenal, do they both break law by not being licensed in IL to carry a firearm arm _&_ is the firearm itself contraband to & in state of IL, so could guardsman be charged, as any civilian would be, both w/some sort of illegal possession of a firearm arm _&_ possessio…

I find many folks today are fearful of confrontation. They see it as a proxy for violence. Confrontation is precisely not violence. In fact, in many cases, it's the only viable gambit for initiating communication with a goal of achieving understanding, defusing frustration. It may also be the only way to *avoid* future violence.
I think we should all be practicing confrontation, and get good at it. That's how the world becomes better. By avoiding it, we're just stockpiling…

On the second partial Global Euler-Poincare characteristics for Galois cohomology
Yufan Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03218 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.032…

On the second partial Global Euler-Poincare characteristics for Galois cohomology
Let $K$ be a number field, let $S$ be a finite set of primes of $K$ containing all archimedean primes, and let $G_{K,S}$ denote the Galois group of the maximal extension of $K$ unramified outside $S$. In this paper, we study the second partial Euler-Poincare characteristic $χ_{2}(G_{K,S},M)$ for a finite $G_{K,S}$-module $M$, without imposing the condition that the order of $M$ is an $S$-unit. By adjoining a further finite set of primes of $K$, which can be chosen to be disjoint from any presc…

Commanders LB Luvu won't be suspended, NFL says https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46853462/washington-commanders-lb-frankie-luvu-suspended

Note that this isn’t a criticism about anyone working on the Mastodon code or the many selfless people who host servers and spend time on moderation and money on hosting.
I’m not saying all this to be an asshole.
I care about people, software and the web and it’s really annoying that there isn’t a well working alternative to commercial platforms that I can recommend to “normal” people.
I’ve been using Mastodon for close to nine years now I think and I just don’t see it getting where it needs to be.

“My expectation is that within 10 years,
almost all new data centers will be built in space
purely because of the constraint that we’re facing on energy terrestrially”
https://spectrum.ieee.org/nvidia-h100-space?share_id=9034975

NVIDIA's H100 GPU Takes AI Processing to Space
Could space-based data centers be the answer to Earth's energy and cooling challenges? NVIDIA's H100 GPU is leading the charge in orbit.

Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
DAYNA: Vila. This place is like some kind of underground maze.
VILA: We seem to have hit on some sort of a hangar. This is not a good place to be, Dayna.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/263 B7B2

ESPN’s Chip Kelly Prediction Could Be Bad News for Raiders https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/chip-kelly-head-coach-espn/?adt_ei=[email]

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
The Beach Boys:
🎵 Be True To Your School (Single Version)
#TheBeachBoys
https://goodknightproductions1.bandcamp.com/track/be-true-to-your-school
https://open.spotify.com/track/37o6qDvBt3WBejQdFKNSui
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'I heard they stab people': Ja'Marr Chase hilariously explains why he won't be jumping into the Dawg Pound

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/i…

How to Be a Good Citizen of a Bad Country How to Be a Good Citizen of a Bad Country (M. Gessen/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/opinion/israel-dissidents.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yU8.L_MV.Bxqm38npyM-k&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p41#a251103p41

Just registered for this, it's tonight, Jim and Dennis of The Smithereens will be talking about their debut record Especially for You at the 'Tuesday Night Record Club' that the Springsteen Archives does via Monmouth University in New Jersey. It's free and there's an in person and Zoom option (I obviously grabbed a Zoom ticket). I've talked here before about how much I love this record - this'll be cool to hear.

Tuesday Night Record Club - The Smithereens "Especially for You" with Jim Babjak and Dennis Diken of The Smithereens - Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music
It’s just like book club but with albums! With new advances in technology, the way we consume music through our devices, apps and on demand streaming services like Pandora, Spotify […]

An Italian law requiring porn sites, including Pornhub, YouPorn, and OnlyFans, to verify the ages of their users will go into effect on November 12 (Jackson Chen/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/cybersecurity/ita

Italy will be the latest country to require age verification for porn sites
Italy will require users to verify their age before getting on porn sites, starting on November 12.

Roger Goodell would love a Taylor Swift Super Bowl halftime show: 'She would be welcome any time'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/roger-g

Series D, Episode 10 - Gold
TARRANT: Have we got a choice? [A small explosion goes off nearby.]
DAYNA: Looks as though we have.
TARRANT: Let's get up there.
[At the top of the ladder.]
DAYNA: Avon! Soolin!
TARRANT: [*inaudible*]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/410/127

JB Pritzker:
“He has other aims other than fighting crime.
It’s an attack on the American people.
Should he be sending troops in? No.
The other aims are that he’d like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections.”
https://bsky.app/profile/newscurrentno…

NewsCurrentNow (@newscurrentnow.com)
JB Pritzker: “He has other aims other than fighting crime. It’s an attack on the American people. Should he be sending troops in? No. The other aims are that he’d like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections.”

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Maria Minerva:
🎵 I Could Be Your Best Friend
#MariaMinerva
https://mariaminerva.bandcamp.com/track/i-could-be-your-best-friend
https://open.spotify.com/track/62HdzV365BAdKKIdntNs8K

Computer programmers be like:
1. LLMs generate code for me and sometimes it even works
2. This is also true when I write code manually
3. Computer programming is clearly the hardest of all possible human endeavors, you have to be a complete genius like I am to it because it is really, really hard
4. Therefore LLMs are geniuses
5. They will certainly work really well for all these lesser fields you don’t have to be genius for like I am, like writing summaries of text or medical research or making art or…

NFL trade deadline: Jets have NFL's longest playoff drought, which just got longer but might be worth it

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-tra

Series A, Episode 09 - Project Avalon
BLAKE: Does it support any intelligent life?
AVON: Does the Liberator? [Blake and Jenna exchange looks.] There are humanoid creatures called subterrons. They live in caves. Quite what that says for their intelligence, I really wouldn't know.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/109/24

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
William Bell:
🎵 I Forgot To Be Your Lover
#WilliamBell
https://wtcf.bandcamp.com/track/william-bell-i-forgot-to-be-your-lover
https://open.spotify.com/track/3a19dv4IRhGjkyvgdUxEDu

It certainly is true that tuition went up at an accelerating rate during the neoliberal era (and if you add in room and board, the increase is even more dramatic).
What happened?
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:ehnqmnnf65kuqb4flmd4cqp4/post/3m27ogp…

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
GINKA: [On screen] The first six have arrived, Madam.
SERVALAN: Get them out of those suits.
GINKA: Should I proceed with the scanning process first?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/329 B7B4

“Many questions remain about the fund-raising for this project,
including the amount of each contribution,
the agreement reached with each contributor,
what promises may have been or may yet be made in exchange for what presumably will be substantial contributions,
and why the White House chose to allow donors to remain anonymous,”
Mr. Blumenthal, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, wrote in letters to several donors

Donors to Trump’s Ballroom Are Asked Why They Chose to Remain Incognito
Senator Richard Blumenthal is requesting information from business interests whose donations were not disclosed by the White House.

Cowboys to be without at least three OL vs. Jets https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46479075/cowboys-least-three-offensive-linemen-vs-jets

Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
DURKIM: There isn't.
SERVALAN: And if you want to keep your job you'll find it.
DURKIM: Why won't you face the facts?
SERVALAN: Because I'm not convinced. And even if I were, there would be nothing I could do about it.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/213/33

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge,
after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
-- Lex Menamin
https://bsky.app/profile/lexi…

Lex McMenamin (they/them) (@leximcmenamin.com)
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 12 - Deliverance
ENSOR: Energy cells...
BLAKE: They're here. They're quite safe. [He replaces them in Ensor's pocket.]
ENSOR: M-Must...get to my father. Without them, has only a few days to live.
CALLY: Gently, gently. Shhh.

20 year DOJ vet lead counsel on critical terrorism case,
fired b/c he once worked in career role for Lisa Monaco.
They are simply strangling the DOJ.
1/3 of leadership has left.
And the cost here has to be reckoned in public safety.
Everything gets sacrificed to absurd views of loyalty and revenge.
…

Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social)
20 year DOJ vet lead counsel on critical terrorism case, fired b/c he once worked in career role for Lisa Monaco.They are simply strangling the DOJ. 1/3 of leadership has left. And the cost here has to be reckoned in public safety. Everything gets sacrificed to absurd views of loyalty and revenge.

Patriots WR Stefon Diggs expects Sunday night's return to Buffalo to be 'a little bit emotional' https://www.nfl.com/news/patriots-wr-stefon-diggs-expects-sunday-night-s-return-to-buffalo-to-be-a-little-bit-emotion…

Amidst the mayhem of the Johnson/Truss/Sunak years I once posted on X that I could not tweet as fast as new scandals occurred.
I feel the same about Trump’s America today
– where every day brings some new outrage, that would normally be enough to bring any other President down.
Republican members of Congress would be baying for blood if a Democrat President committed even a fraction of the outrages which Donald Trump seems to get away with, time and again.

The Madness of King Donald
After the recent bewildering slew of Trump administration outrages, Alexandra Hall Hall questions conservative commentator and fierce Trump critic Bill Kristol

Chagas disease, long considered only a threat abroad, is established in California and the Southern U.S.
“The disease is definitely underdiagnosed,” said Hernandez, the Kaiser cardiologist.
“If we screened for it and caught it early, most patients could be cured.
The problem is we don’t, and people end up dying or requiring terrifically expensive care,” including organ transplants and surgery.

Chagas disease: The deadly disease you've never heard of is here
Chagas disease is deadly, pervasive and more prevalent in the U.S. than you'd think. It's not just brought here by people from nations where the disease is endemic, but by bloodsucking kissing bugs native to the U.S. And it may be sickening far more people than we know.