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A 90-Second Crash Course in Trump’s Betrayal of American Soy Farmers – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/food/2025/10/trump-soy-bean-farmer-bailout-china-argentina/

Researchers have found the
fine particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution released by wildfires
is even more toxic than air pollution from other sources.
One possible reason is the high level of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
mixed with various levels of other known neurotoxic particles that can be found in smoke,
including heavy metals.
These particles can reach the brain via the olfactory nerve
and pass through the blood–brain barrier,
…

I år har jeg for fŸrste gang dyrket noget hamp. Det gik rigtig fint, efter en lidt slŸv start, hvor kun to af de fire frŸ jeg havde kŸbt kom til at spire og/eller overleve.
Jeg har efterhånden fundet ud af efterbehandlingen også: indtil videre klipper jeg kun de stŸrste blade af, og tŸrrer/carboxylerer dem i air fryeren, hvorefter de bliver fintmalet i kaffekværnen.
Så bliver det til en ingrediens enten i en sjov kakao, ellers smager det også dejligt i en vegansk carbonara.

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In melancholy, the spirits are carried away by an agitation, but a weak agitation that lacks power or violence, a sort of impotent upset that follows neither a particular path nor the aperta opercula [open ways], but traverses the cerebral matter constantly creating new pores. Yet the spirits do not wander far on the new paths they create, and their agitation dies down rapidly, as their strength is quickly spent and motion comes to a halt: ‘non longe perveniunt’ [they do not reach far]. A trouble of this nature, common to all delirium, does not have the power to produce on the surface of the body the violent movements or the cries to be observed in mania and frenzy. Melancholy never attains frenzy; it is a madness always at the limits of its own impotence. That paradox is explained by the secret alterations in the spirits. Ordinarily, they travel with the speed and instantaneous transparency of rays of light, but in melancholy they become weighed down with night, becoming ‘obscure, thick and dark’, and the images of things that they bring before consciousness are ‘in a shadow, or covered with darkness’. As a result they move more slowly, and are more like a dark, chemical vapour than pure light. This chemical vapour is acid in nature, rather than sulphurous or alcoholic, for in acid vapours the particles are mobile and incapable of repose, but their activity is weak and without consequence. When they are distilled, all that remains in the still is a kind of insipid phlegm. Acid vapours, therefore, are taken to have the same properties as melancholy, whereas alcoholic vapours, which are always ready to burst into flames, are more related to frenzy, and sulphurous vapours bring on mania, as they are agitated by continuous, violent movement. If the ‘formal reason and causes’ of melancholy were to be sought, it made sense to look for them in the vapours that rose up from the blood to the head, and which had degenerated into ‘an acetous or sharp distillation’. A cursory glance seems to indicate that a melancholy of spirits and a whole chemistry of humours lies behind Willis’ analyses, but in fact his guiding principle mostly reflects the immediate qualities of the melancholic illness: an impotent disorder, and the shadow that comes over the spirit with an acrid acidity that slowly corrodes the heart and the mind. The chemistry of acids is not an explanation of the symptoms, but a qualitative option: a whole phenomenology of melancholic experience.
"""
(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

Maduro Says War With Venezuela Would Stain Trump’s Hands with Blood - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/world/americas/maduro-trump-venezuela-war.html

Interview with Lovable CEO Anton Osika on competition, staying in Europe, and more; the company now has 2.3M active users, including 180K paying subscribers (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/01/lovables-ceo-is…

Lovable's CEO isn't too worried about the vibe-coding competition | TechCrunch
Lovable specializes in helping people build apps and websites, especially people with no coding experience. It's one of the standouts in the popular AI category known as vibe-coding, which lets users guide AI models as they produce code, websites, or whole applications.

Weekend Reads
* Monitoring AS-SETs
https://blog.cloudflare.com/monitoring-as-sets-and-why-they-matter/
* IX LAN broadcast traffic

Monitoring AS-SETs and why they matter
AS-SETs, for better or worse, are critical data sources that help build BGP route filters across the Internet. Because these AS-SET objects are based solely on trust, they can be misused. We will cover some of the reasons why operators need to monitor the AS-SET memberships for their ASN, and now Cloudflare Radar can help.

Ikea möbelt Smart Home mit mehr Matter-Technik auf: Über 20 neue Geräte geplant
Ikea will das Smart-Home-Sortiment massiv ausbauen, von ZigBee zu Thread wechseln und via Matter-Standard auch andere Markengeräte steuern.

eBike Nerdery
So the full decision matrix is:
- BBS02 48V 500W (750W) (a minor upgrade); would let me use a better battery and have a better margin when the battery gets low.
- BBSHD 48V or 52V (1000W); can be run with an extra spicy 52V battery for more power
- TSDZ8 48V 750W (1200W peak), the reengineered TSDZ2 with actual thermal capacity
- TSDZ16 48V 1000W (not sure what peak but geez that's a lot of motor)
- DM02 48V 500W (A team that made the TSDZ2 split off and went to make better motors)
- DM01 48V 1000W — I've not read up on it much but it's that same team I'm sure making a solid motor.
Also-rans:
- BBS02 36V 500W (existing motor); A spare would be nice so I can refurb mine without having to be without my bike.
- TSDZ2 48V 500W (I have one); tends to overheat and I ride hard. Not a winner.
- CYC motors: rather spendy. Nice stuff though.
- M625, M615, M225, M255: newer Bafang motors; more expensive, no real benefit, CAN bus is not well supported by third parties yet.
Pros of the Bafang BBS series: lots of parts available on the market. Lots of display options
Pros of the Tongsheng TSDZ series: Torque sensor!
Pros of the ToSeven DM series: Torque sensor, better build quality.

Renormalization-Free Galaxy Bias in Unified Lagrangian Perturbation Theory
Naonori Sugiyama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04142 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.041…

Renormalization-Free Galaxy Bias in Unified Lagrangian Perturbation Theory
We present a renormalization-free framework for modeling galaxy bias based on Unified Lagrangian Perturbation Theory (ULPT). In this approach, the biased density fluctuation is built solely from Galileon-type operators associated with the intrinsic nonlinear growth of dark matter. This ensures the bias expansion is well defined at the field level, automatically satisfies statistical conditions of vanishing ensemble and volume averages, and removes the need for ad hoc renormalization. We derive …