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National Guard troops in D.C. to begin carrying firearms (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/national-guard-troops-dc-begin-carrying-firearms-rcna226890
http://www.memeorandum.com/250824/p44#a250824p44

National Guard members in Washington are now carrying weapons
and “detentions may occur leading to arrests,”
according to a statement from the force on Sunday,
deepening the military’s involvement in Donald Trump’s federal takeover of D.C. police.
https://www.washing…

National Guard now carrying weapons in D.C. 
Guard members will carry their service-issued weapons, which may include pistols or rifles, and “detentions may occur leading to arrests,” a spokesperson said.

Ecofash like to claim that the earth is over its human carrying capacity. That's absolutely untrue for 99.9% of the population or so. But the carrying capacity of billionaires is zero.

‘This is not a warning.
Famine has already arrived in Gaza. It is not a metaphor, nor is it a prediction. It is daily.
…
Noor, my eldest sister Tasneem’s daughter, is three; she was born on May 11, 2021. My sister’s son, Ezz Aldin, was born on December 25, 2023 – in the early months of the war.
One morning, Tasneem walked into our space carrying them in her arms. I looked at her and asked the question that wouldn’t leave my mind: “Tasneem, do Noor and Ezz Aldin unders…

‘Did you eat today?’: Voices of Gaza speak of starvation and survival
‘We are starved by the Israeli occupation,’ says Taqwa al-Wawi in Gaza, where all she thinks about is how hungry she is.

Ukraine shoots down Russian Orlan 'mother drone' carrying FPVs for first time, military says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/22/ukraine-shoots-down-russian-orlan.html

The conundrum of progress.

Eine rationalistische begründete Ethik läuft Gefahr, die Grenzen des gesellschaftlich erwarteten oder erlaubten zu sprengen, da sie über dem Zweck keine höhere Instanz kennt. Bleibt sie ohne weitere Einhegung durch gesellschaftlice Strukturen kann sie nahezu beliebig eskalieren:
"A rationalist virtue is “taking ideas seriously”: when you are convinced of a belief, you notice all its implications and act on them. Another rationalist virtue is “agency”: taking actions to pursue your…

Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults?—Asterisk
There’s a lot to like about the Rationalist community, but they do have a certain tendency to spawn — shall we say — high demand groups. We sent a card-carrying Rat to investigate what’s really going on.

Sprint Football Quarterback № 18 Stefano Luis of Coral Gables, Fla runs with the ball and gets tackled in last Saturday's game against Navy
#photo #photography #sports

Earlier this morning the first student moved into Carol B. Bauer Hall at the Living Village—Karen Phan ‘27 M.A.R. from Plymouth, Mass. Welcome to Karen & all the other students moving today and tomorrow!
Learn more about this new regenerative student residence hall.
livingvillage.yale.edu

Cowboys' Kenny Clark eager to take down Packers, hit Jordan Love one month after shocking trade https://www.nfl.com/news/cowboys-dt-kenny-clark-eager-beat-packers-jordan-love-micah-parsons

‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/20/insane-journeys-inside-the-narco-subs-that-cross-oceans-carrying-hundreds-of-millions-of-pounds-of-cocaine

There’s a small difference between MacDonald and many other social media starlets.
She is 79.
“I was 70 when I started [working out],” MacDonald says on a video call from her home in Ontario,
white hair elegantly coiffed.
“I keep thinking I’m in my 30s.”
MacDonald’s workouts are intense,
whether you’re 30 or 70.
She does deadlifts, weighted planks and kettlebell swings,
and casually lifts dumbbells the size of fire extinguishers over her head.

National Guard now carrying weapons in D.C. (Daniel Wu/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/24/national-guard-dc-weapons-armed/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250824/p51#a250824p51

Journalists Olena Hramova and Yevhen Karmazin of Ukraine's Freedom TV were killed in a Russian drone strike Thursday in Donetsk; Oleksandr Kolychev was injured (Tania Myronyshena/The Kyiv Independent)
https://kyivindependent.com/two-ukrain

2 Ukrainian TV journalists killed in Russian drone strike on Kramatorsk
The strike was carried out using a Russian Lancet kamikaze drone, which struck a car carrying the journalists.

Polarity inversion line helicities and solar eruptivity
K. Moraitis, J. K. Thalmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19864 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19864

Polarity inversion line helicities and solar eruptivity
This work examines the relationship between solar eruptivity and the relative helicity that is contained around the polarity inversion line (PIL) of the magnetic field, along with its current-carrying component. To this end, we analyze the evolution of the PIL helicities in a sample of $\sim 40$ solar active regions which exhibited more than 200 flares of class M or higher. The computation of the PIL helicities is accomplished with the help of relative field line helicity, the recently-develope…

Chiesa is easily the MOTM. Was the engine carrying this sluggish team all day, with two brilliant assists to show for it.
Nice to get Isak's account opened up. Would have been nice to see Ekitike continue to perform, and he did, but for the shocking lack of awareness leading to the second yelllow.
Gomez really had a Jekyll & Hyde night... solid out of possession, monstrous with it. He wasn't alone, as the turnovers kept Southampton in the game. Endo was both brilliant…

Rephasing invariant formulae for general parameterizations of flavor mixing matrix and exact sum rules with unitarity triangles
Masaki J. S. Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17866

Rephasing invariant formulae for general parameterizations of flavor mixing matrix and exact sum rules with unitarity triangles
In this letter, we present rephasing invariant formulae $δ^{(αi)} = \arg [ { V_{α1} V_{α2} V_{α3} V_{1i} V_{2i} V_{3i} / V_{αi }^{3} \det V } ] $ for CP phases $δ^{(αi)}$ associated with nine Euler-angle-like parameterizations of a flavor mixing matrix. Here, $α$ and $i$ denote the row and column carrying the trivial phases in a given parameterization. Furthermore, we show that the phases $δ^{(αi)}$ and the nine angles $Φ_{αi}$ of unitarity triangles satisfy compact sum rules $ δ^…

Carrying on our theme of bands with “The” in the name, this week’s pick is a slice of ‘90s nostalgia from The Ernies ... funky, fun, and impossible not to groove to.
Check it out and see what we had to say about the track and the band behind it.
Follow us for your weekly dose of #rock and #metal

The Ernies - Here and Now
One awesome, hand picked song from the world of rock and metal, showcased every week. Nothing more, nothing less! 🤘

Arc Routing Problems with Multiple Trucks and Drones: A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm
Abhay Sobhanan, Hadi Charkhgard, Changhyun Kwon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18105 https://…

Arc Routing Problems with Multiple Trucks and Drones: A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm
Arc-routing problems underpin numerous critical field operations, including power-line inspection, urban police patrolling, and traffic monitoring. In this domain, the Rural Postman Problem (RPP) is a fundamental variant in which a prescribed subset of edges or arcs in a network must be traversed. This paper investigates a generalized form of the RPP, called RPP-mTD, which involves a fleet of multiple trucks, each carrying multiple drones. The trucks act as mobile depots traversing a road netwo…

Ah, what could possibly go wrong with that: «DC National Guard Is Being Trained to Carry Pistols Known to Fire at Random»
https://www.404media.co/dc-national-guard-is-being-trained-to-carrying-pistols-known-to-fire-at-random/

The ugliest parts of MAGA are reversing the policies that helped make DC dramatically safer over the last decade.
✅ US attorney's new policy on charges for carrying rifles and shotguns in DC | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/jeanine-pir

US attorney's new policy on charges for carrying rifles and shotguns in DC
Federal prosecutors in the nation’s capital will no longer bring felony charges against people for possessing rifles or shotguns in the District of Columbia. That's according to new policy adopted by the leader of the nation’s largest U.S. attorney’s office. That office will continue to pursue charges when someone is accused of using a shotgun or rifle in a violent crime or has a criminal record that makes it illegal to have a firearm. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said in a statement that …

Anharmonicity-driven phonon avoided crossing and anomalous thermal transport in nodal-line semimetal ZrSiS
Xin Jin, Qingqing Zhang, Dengfeng Li, Zhenxiang Cheng, Jianli Wang, Xuewei Lv, Xiaoyuan Zhou, Rui Wang, Xianyong Ding, Peng Yu, Xiaolong Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19081

We are in a crisis.
Texas Republicans have thrown out every political norm and launched a mid-year redistricting scheme
—something we’ve never seen before,
all to carve out more seats for Mike Johnson and protect Donald Trump.
At the same time, ICE is carrying out masked raids in neighborhoods across America,
and Trump has already deployed the military to two U.S. cities.
If you think he’ll stop there, you haven’t been paying attention.
The signs of …

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A look at Amazon's Sparrow, Cardinal, Proteus, and other warehouse robots, taking over roles like selecting and picking items, carrying shipping carts, and more (Karen Weise/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/technology/amazon-robotics-automa…

The Robots Fueling Amazon’s Automation
Meet Sparrow, Cardinal and Proteus. They’re the robots that, step by step, are replacing human workers in the company’s warehouses.

If I understand that correctly, a container image is built from a base image by creating a container from the base image and then carrying out operations that build up successive layers in an overlay filesystem and then committing the result.
An overlay filesystem is at the core a sequence of directories that is traversed when looking for a file. The first directory that has the file wins, where deletions are just files with a special bit set.
Now to what I am wondering about:

On The Road - To Xi’An/ Departure 🔜
在路上 - 去西安/ 离 🔜
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Kodak Double-X 5222
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

DC National Guard Is Being Trained to Carry Pistols Known to Fire at Random https://www.404media.co/dc-national-guard-is-being-trained-to-carrying-pistols-known-to-fire-at-random/

Ofcourse Trump is lying about his criminal acts....
#Trump

Officials, locals undercut Trump claims about Venezuela drug boats
Trump says the U.S. is blowing up boats carrying deadly fentanyl to the United States. U.S. and other officials say the route under attack carries cocaine and marijuana to Europe and Africa.

"Federal police are still investigating whether the aircraft was involved in drug trafficking"
I'm sure there is a plausible alternative explanation that covers how a plane can have 180kg of cocaine on it but not be involved in drug trafficking.
Perhaps Mr Yaxley-Lennon has gone off on his hols now and needed an UberSpaceX top-up?

I don’t miss Twitter in my real life, but I still feel its absence at tech events. Did we just stop telling speakers we enjoyed their talks, stop connecting with the people we cross paths with, and stop carrying on the conversation in digital space? I do miss that.

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
An interesting survival mechanism of zooplankton is the production of resistant resting or diapause eggs. Calanoid and harpacticoid copepods, rotifers, and cladocerans (as ephippia) do this when conditions are poor due to overcrowding, predation, drought, or water quality. These eggs can hatch after decades or even centuries in an egg bank. This helps to explain …

#Nature #Hippie #MentalHealth #Meditation

Asymmetric dyonic multi-centered rotating black holes
Shinya Tomizawa, Junichi Sakamoto, Ryotaku Suzuki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17583 https://arxiv.org/…

Asymmetric dyonic multi-centered rotating black holes
We construct an exact solution in four-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory, describing multi-centered rotating black holes carrying both electric and magnetic charges, obtained via dimensional reduction from five-dimensional Einstein gravity. This generalizes the Majumdar-Papapetrou solution to the rotating case, and extends the recent multi-centered rotating black hole solutions of Teo and Wan to configurations with unequal electric and magnetic charges. The resulting spacetimes are fr…

Turns out that what hit flight #UA1093 was most likely a balloon from https://windbornesystems.com - this was brought up first in the thread https://x.com/vk5qi/status/1980386581497409891 and now the company confirms that it's a very strong possibility: https://x.com/johndeanl/status/1980462264974209292. See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZzbS30xdjM for a short video about the company and how it's filling the atmosphere with long-duration balloons carrying weather sensors. They had just been hailed as one of the best inventions of 2025: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318250/windborne-systems-atlas/ ...

#ShamelesslyStolenFromTumblr

Partisans derail train carrying military cargo in Russia, military intelligence source says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/07/partisans-derail-train-carrying-military.html

Trump continues to threaten Venezuela,
sending B-52 bombers to its coast,
deploying more warships to the Caribbean sea
and surging troops in the region.
As the administration continues to bomb boats it says are carrying drugs,
a group of independent UN experts now calls them
"extrajudicial executions."
Colombia's president says it's
"murder."
Trump is retaliating by ending aid to the country
and Bogota…

Proof-Carrying Numbers (PCN): A Protocol for Trustworthy Numeric Answers from LLMs via Claim Verification
Aivin V. Solatorio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06902 https://

Proof-Carrying Numbers (PCN): A Protocol for Trustworthy Numeric Answers from LLMs via Claim Verification
Large Language Models (LLMs) as stochastic systems may generate numbers that deviate from available data, a failure known as \emph{numeric hallucination}. Existing safeguards -- retrieval-augmented generation, citations, and uncertainty estimation -- improve transparency but cannot guarantee fidelity: fabricated or misquoted values may still be displayed as if correct. We propose \textbf{Proof-Carrying Numbers (PCN)}, a presentation-layer protocol that enforces numeric fidelity through mechanic…

The visual of 3 cops leading away an inflatable penis.. #ACAB #NoKings
https://bsky.app/prof…

Semi-Riemannian $\text{spin}^c$ manifolds carrying generalized Killing spinors and the classification of Riemannian $\text{spin}^c$ manifolds admitting a type I imaginary generalized Killing spinor
Samuel Lockman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08477

Semi-Riemannian $\text{spin}^c$ manifolds carrying generalized Killing spinors and the classification of Riemannian $\text{spin}^c$ manifolds admitting a type I imaginary generalized Killing spinor
We classify Riemannian $\text{spin}^c$ manifolds carrying a type I imaginary generalized Killing spinor, by explicitly constructing a parallel spinor on each leaf of the canonical foliation given by the Dirac current. We also provide a class of Riemannian $\text{spin}^c$ manifolds carrying a type II imaginary generalized Killing spinor, by considering spacelike hypersurfaces of Lorentzian $\text{spin}^c$ manifolds. We carry out much of the work in the setting of semi-Riemannian $\text{spin}^c$-…

Safe, Untrusted, "Proof-Carrying" AI Agents: toward the agentic lakehouse
Jacopo Tagliabue, Ciro Greco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09567 https://a…

Safe, Untrusted, "Proof-Carrying" AI Agents: toward the agentic lakehouse
Data lakehouses run sensitive workloads, where AI-driven automation raises concerns about trust, correctness, and governance. We argue that API-first, programmable lakehouses provide the right abstractions for safe-by-design, agentic workflows. Using Bauplan as a case study, we show how data branching and declarative environments extend naturally to agents, enabling reproducibility and observability while reducing the attack surface. We present a proof-of-concept in which agents repair data pip…

Secret Service says it disrupted illicit cellular network threatening UN conference https://therecord.media/secret-service-cellular-network-disruption

The Trump administration reportedly plans to mobilize up to 1,700 National Guard troops across 19 states in the coming weeks
a dramatic expansion of the controversial operation that’s seen federal agents and Guard troops carrying out activities across Washington, D.C.
The troops, who will largely come from Republican-controlled states,
will serve in support of the administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations
The Guardsmen assisting ICE will be carryi…

Trump mobilizing up to 1,700 National Guardsman in 19 states to widen law and order crackdown
Deployments reportedly set to take place largely in Republican-controlled states

Under Attorney General Bondi, critics see a Justice Dept carrying out Trump's revenge tour (Sarah N. Lynch/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/under-attorney-general-bondi-critics-see-justice-dept-carrying-out-trumps-2025-09-16/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250916/p35#a250916p35

Ok, yeah, I'm not done processing my anger over liberals doing shit like this. So this historian sees a rise in right wing violence, sees the US government carrying out ethnic cleansing, sees a rise in white supremacist terrorism, and then says, "oh yeah... this reminds me of a time right around the 1920s. Hum... yeah, ANARCHISTS fighting the government! Yeah, that's the same thing."
FFS, IT'S THE RED SUMMER! If you want a parallel between today and some horrible time in US history, TALK ABOUT THE RED SUMMER. The point of the language of dehumanization that the right uses, the point of all the anti-black and anti-emigrant rhetoric, is that it leads to genocide. Trump already carried out an act of genocide (#USPol

AVweb, Aviation Consumer, IFR. KITPLANES, Aviation Safety are all gone. A dark time for aviation. A beacon of hope: Russ Niles has created a new site: AVBrief.
https://avbrief.org/so-long-avweb-hello-avbrief/
If you fly, or if you want to fly, or if you love flying, sign up…

thank you, miccosukee tribe for being the last line against fascism in america, and sorry for once again carrying that burden

In Pocatello, Idaho, a law passed in 1912 provided that "The carrying
of concealed weapons is forbidden, unless same are exhibited to public view."

Sources: French regulator ACPR is carrying out anti-money laundering checks on Binance and others, as it seeks to determine eligibility for EU MiCA licenses (Claudia Cohen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Drone near-misses trigger self-exploding Russian troops
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/08/03/russians-carrying-ammo/

Eight #police cars were deployed to subdue a #Baltimore high school student carrying a bag of #Doritos—which #AI misidentified as a …

Planeamento, gente! Planeamento!
https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/115129488982195331

Final ICFP keynote on Proof-Carrying Neuro-Symbolic Code by Ekaterina Komendantskaya
#icfpsplash25
https://share.google/G4C1iRyA0qE5m5Mi2

I got a new computer and I’m IN LOVE 🥰
#mntpocketreform
#mntre

Maria Greeley was reportedly detained by agents, despite carrying documentation proving her citizenship. https://ground.news/article/us-citizen-says-ice-detained-her-said-her-passport-isnt-real

'Generated by hundreds of landfills across the country, leachate – the liquid that drains through landfill waste carrying a cocktail of chemicals – is regularly tankered to sewage treatment works, where it mixes with domestic sewage and industrial effluent to create sludge, also described as “biosolids”.'
Thousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farms | Farming | The Guardian

I had a bit of a problem. When I was carrying an open chocolate bar in my table, the paper would sometimes unfold and pieces would fall into the recesses of the bag. Lately, after getting wet in the rain, it became so loose That I had to put the whole thing into a plastic bag. But still, I was pondering over a more permanent solution.
Then, I accidentally discovered it. One day I forgot to break the chocolate bar into pieces before packing it. When I took it out, it occurred to me that as long as it's in one piece, it won't fall out of the paper wrapping! 🤦
Such a #LifeHack.

Igor Stravinsky - "The Firebird" (1960) (London Symph. Orch., Dorati cond.)
I just discovered that the old vinylrecords(at)a.gup.pe account no longer works, so switching to the new @…
#NowPlaying

Energy Efficient Multi Robot Package Delivery under Capacity-Constraints via Voronoi-Constrained Networks
Alkesh K. Srivastava, Jared Michael Levin, Philip Dames
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14127

Energy Efficient Multi Robot Package Delivery under Capacity-Constraints via Voronoi-Constrained Networks
We consider the problem of delivering multiple packages from a single pickup depot to distinct goal locations using a homogeneous fleet of robots with limited carrying capacity. We propose VCST-RCP, a Voronoi-Constrained Steiner Tree Relay Coordination Planning framework that constructs sparse relay trunks using Steiner tree optimization and then synthesizes robot-level pickup, relay, and delivery schedules. This framework reframes relays from incidental byproducts into central elements of coor…

Numerical and analytical modeling of heat equation in current-carrying conductors using the heat equation implemented using Finite-JAX
Arturo Rodriguez, Christopher Harris, Avinash Potluri, Noah L. Estrada, Alan M. Hernandez, Vyom Kumar, Francisco O. Aguirre Ortega, Vineeth Vijaya Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24162

Numerical and analytical modeling of heat equation in current-carrying conductors using the heat equation implemented using Finite-JAX
Current-carrying conductors inevitably experience resistive heating due to the finite electrical conductivity of the material. The resulting temperature distribution within the wire has essential implications for structural integrity, efficiency, and long-term reliability of electronic and power systems. In this work, we model the spatiotemporal evolution of heat in a current-carrying wire using the classical heat conduction equation. In a two-dimensional formulation, heat transport is consider…

The seed-carrying stalk of the linden diaspore ensures autorotating flight
Annette Cazaubiel, Andreas Carlson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05106 https://arxi…

The seed-carrying stalk of the linden diaspore ensures autorotating flight
The dispersal of seeds by wind is one of the most evolved mechanisms plants use to invade new territories. Linden trees grow diaspores with a curved bract acting as a wing, where the seed pods are connected underneath by a stalk. Besides the seed-carrying capacity, the other functions of the stalk remain unknown. We demonstrate that the stalk of linden (genus Tilia L.) diaspores plays an essential role in their flight. The stalk length to wing span ratio is found to be the key parameter for fac…

Once upon a time in Switzerland, heading into the vast land of (rapidly declining) ice, leading through a sea of colors... "Like walking through a painting" never felt more true than on that tour...
(Alt text for more detail)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

Ukrainian forces blow up Russian fuel train near Tokmak, severing rail line in occupied Zaporizhzhia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/19/ukrainian-forces-blow-up-russian.html

One thing this article doesn’t get into: what’s next.
So national guard is gardening in the capital carrying guns.
But what follows having armed state militias deployed to a capital in most scenarios in history? Nothing awesome.

Scenes from Trump's National Guard Deployment to D.C.
Their presence has terrified some, relieved others, and left even the troops themselves confused.

Down time: Plane issue delays Packers for 5 hours https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46642424/packers-flight-phoenix-delayed-more-five-hours

Two trump-appointed judges on a three judge panel declares that federal goons and lawyers are exempt from and need not obey judicial orders.
One more giant step towards dictatorship.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-depor

Appeals court tosses contempt finding against Trump in prison deportations
A split appeals court panel is tossing out a judge’s contempt finding against President Donald Trump’s administration in a case over deportations to an El Salvador prison. The Friday decision comes after planes carrying Venezuelan migrants landed at the prison even after U.S District Judge James E. Boasberg said in court they must return to the United States. Boasberg had found probable cause to believe Trump administration officials rushed deportees out of the country before they could cha…

Over 1,200 arrested in Africa-wide cybercrime crackdown, Interpol says https://therecord.media/africa-interpol-cybercrime-crackdown

It's difficult to choose a favorite.
(I wasn't there except in spirit.)

Here's your annual warning to beware hanging out in person with Defcon attendees, because many of them have returned with asymptomatic COVID infections.
As in every year since 2021, Defcon is a super spreader event. Many COVID infections are NOT symptomatic: not showing symptoms does not guarantee not carrying the highly contagious virus.

Tokenization Strategies for Low-Resource Agglutinative Languages in Word2Vec: Case Study on Turkish and Finnish
Jinfan Frank Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14238 https://

Tokenization Strategies for Low-Resource Agglutinative Languages in Word2Vec: Case Study on Turkish and Finnish
Tokenization plays a critical role in processing agglutinative languages, where a single word can encode multiple morphemes carrying syntactic and semantic information. This study evaluates the impact of various tokenization strategies - word-level, character-level, n-gram, and Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) - on the quality of static word embeddings generated by Word2Vec for Turkish and Finnish. Using a 10,000-article Wikipedia corpus, we trained models under low-resource conditions and evaluated th…

Pirro's office won't pursue gun charges over carrying rifles, shotguns (Salvador Rizzo/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/19/pirro-dc-rifle-shotgun-charges/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p145#a250819p145

The last thing you see before being defederated

DAZN launches its NHL.TV streaming platform in nearly 200 countries, excluding Canada and the US, where the games stream on ABC, ESPN, and TNT (David Satin/The Streamable)
https://thestreamable.com/dazn-nhl-tv-international-deal

DAZN secures the rights to NHL.TV, carrying every NHL game live and on-demand
International viewers will be able to watch a wide selection of NHL games with the launch of the service.

Kentucky Republican Rand Paul raised concerns about the legality of the Trump administration’s strikes on boats that it claims are carrying drug traffickers,
as well as Trump's statement that the United States might conduct direct attacks on Venezuela’s territory.
“When you kill someone, you should know, if you’re not at war, not in a declared war,
you really need to know someone’s name at least,” Paul said.
“You have to accuse them of something.
You have …

You mean to tell me the folks carrying out the genocide of the indigenous Brown people whose land they occupy are racist? No, never!
#israel #racism #ChrisSmalls

Farhad (@faab64@freefree.ps)
Attached: 1 image US Activist Chris Smalls Assaulted by Israeli Forces While Held Hostage After Gaza Aid Mission Chris Smalls, co-founder of the Amazon Labor Union and part of the #Handala Gaza aid mission, was reportedly assaulted by seven Israeli officers while held hostage after the ship was intercepted and taken to Ashdod. He was choked and kicked, with visible injuries to his neck and back, treatment not applied to other hostages. #Gaza #FreedomFlotilla @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel@a.g…

So will the BBC give a prime News at 10 slot to this?
No because unlike a munitions factory blowing up in the USA, this is brown people and not in the Imperial centre.
Mexico floods leave at least 27 dead and more missing - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/arti…

Mexico floods leave at least 27 dead and more missing
Heavy rainfall has caused river banks to burst and triggered landslides, carrying away homes and cars.

Kazakhstan tightens at the Russian border, detaining 2,500 trucks carrying Chinese goods amid sanctions enforcement: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/15/kazakhstan-tightens-at-the-russian.html

Being me in the summer:
• no clothes left that can be removed
• keep cooling yourself using water
Being me in the fall:
• keep changing between summer and fall clothes (and carrying two sets on me)
• but at least I can cool myself using air
• regularly suffering a cold

Oscar Peterson - "Oscar Peterson Collates" (1952)
#NowPlaying #OscarPeterson #NormanGranz

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…

On Sept. 2, Donald Trump did something shocking even for him:
ordering the cold-blooded murder of 11 people.
With his active approval, they were summarily executed by an air strike on a boat carrying them off the coast of Venezuela.
Trump said that the vessel was manned by “Tren de Aragua Narco terrorists” from Venezuela carrying illegal drugs to the U.S.
He also said, “We have tapes of them speaking” and that “we knew exactly who was in that boat” and “exactly wha…

Trump’s State Terrorism Against Venezuela Will Endanger American Lives
If the champion of the rules-based international order turns to violence as a first resort, so will other countries

Actually, I do want to come back to masculinity under patriarchy and whiteness under white supremacy because I think it's worth talking more about. The "man" under patriarchy (at least "Western" patriarchy) is represented as power and independence. The man needs nothing and thus owes nothing to anyone. The man controls and is not controlled, which is intimately related to independence as dependence can make someone vulnerable to control. The image of "man" projects power and invulnerability. At the same time "man" is a bumbling fool who can't be held accountable for his inability to control his sexual urges. He must be fed and cared for, as though another child. His worst behaviors must be dismissed with phrases such as "boys will be boys" and "locker room talk." The absurdity of the concept of human "independence" is impossible to understate.
Even if you go all Ted Kaczynski, you have still been raised and taught. This is, perhaps, why it is so much more useful to think in terms of obligations than rights. Rights can be claimed and protected with violence alone, but obligations reveal the true interdependence that sustains us. A "man" may assert his rights. Yet, on some level, we all know that the "man" of patriarchy acts as a child who is not mature enough to recognize his obligations.
White violence and white fragility reflect the same dichotomy. "The master race" somehow always needs brown folks to make all their shit and do all the reproductive labor for them. For those who fully embrace whiteness, the "safe space" is a joke. DEI shows weakness. Yet, when presented with an honest history adults become children who are incapable of differentiating between criticism and simple facts. *They* become the ones who must be kept safe. The expectation to be responsible for one's own words and actions, one of the very core definitions of being an adult, is far too much to expect. Their guilt needs room, needs tending, needs caring. White people cannot simply "grow the fuck up" or, as they may say of slavery, "fucking get over it."
And again, interestingly, it is *rights* that they reference: "Mah Freeze PEACH!" I find it hard to distinguish between such and my own child's assertion that anything she doesn't like is "not fair!" No, these assertions fail to recognize the fundamental fabric of adult society: the obligations we hold to each other.
At the intersection of all privilege is the sovereign, the ultimate god-man-baby. Again, referencing the essay (https://hexmhell.writeas.com/observations-on-domination-and-trump)
> This is where it becomes important to consider the ideology behind the sovereign ritual. Participation within the sovereign ritual denotes to the participants elements of the sovereign. That is, all agents of the sovereign are, essentially, micro dictators. By carrying out the will of the sovereign, these micro dictators can, by extension, act outside of the law.
While law enforcement is the ultimate representative of sovereign violence, privileges allow a gradated approximation of the sovereign. Those who are "closer" in privilege to the sovereign may, for example, be permitted to carry out violence against those who are father away. The gradation of privilege turns the whole society, except for the least privileged, into a cult that protects the privilege system on behalf of the most privileged. (And immediately Malcolm X pops to mind as having already talked about part of this relationship in 1963 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf7rsCAfQCo.)

“This is the last opportunity for Gaza residents who wish to do so to move south. Those who remain in Gaza will be (considered) terrorists and terror supporters.”
– Israeli defence minister Israel Katz
If the Hague were still a thing, this statement alone would be enough for him to hang.

I will be strong. I will persevere. I will stop myself from carrying a small brush on me, so I could sweep the train's floor before sitting down.

Jesus. The russian federation disrupted GPS signals for the President of EU’s plane and he’s trying to make jokes about it. 😳🤦‍♂️
https://apnews.com/article/europe-leyen-plane-radar-russia-jammed-51fa78294c2d0464dce5fd24dd4f273b …

Russia is suspected of jamming navigation on EU leader’s plane above Bulgaria, an official says
A plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was hit by GPS jamming over Bulgaria in a suspected Russian operation. A spokesperson confirmed the incident on Monday. The plane landed safely at Plovdiv airport. Von der Leyen will continue her planned tour of the European Union’s nations bordering Russia and Belarus, according to the commission's spokesperson Arianna Podestà. Von der Leyen, a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Moscow’s war in Ukraine,…

'We blew it up. And we’ll do it again’.
‘I don’t give a shit what you call it.’
These words, of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President J.D. Vance, respectively,
refer to the first of five US bombings of boats in international waters near Venezuela in the last month,
which have reportedly killed twenty-seven people overall.
Washington claims the boats were carrying drugs destined for US shores but has offered no proof;
evidence indica…

Gabriel Hetland, Murder in the Caribbean — Sidecar
The campaign against Venezuela.

“Terracotta’s porous surface
allows water to slowly evaporate,
carrying heat away and cooling the space around it,”
says Adithya Pradyumna,
an environmental health researcher at Azim Premji University in Bengaluru.
Drawing on this principle, architects in India’s sprawling metro areas
are turning to terracotta for new passive cooling solutions
that range from clay refrigerators to perforated tiles,
ventilated screens, and facades
that al…

Terracotta Is a 3,000-Year-Old Solution to Fighting Extreme Heat
Companies are adapting this humble clay-based ceramic to keep people cool—without electricity

Trump Says U.S. Attacked Boat Carrying Venezuelan Gang Members, Killing 11 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/us/politics/trump-venezuela-boat-drugs-attack.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250903/p44#a250903p44

The U.S. government's unprecedented use of National Guard troops in Los Angeles to protect officers carrying out Trump's immigration crackdown
-- was illegal and should be ended
-- a lawyer for the state of California told a federal judge on Tuesday.
The lawyer,
Meghan Strong of the California Attorney General's Office,
said evidence presented from the landmark trial that began on Monday showed that ⭐️soldiers had violated a 19th century law that bars t…

The Los Angeles field office director for the Department of Homeland Security
testified on Monday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers
desperately needed the help of military personnel in carrying out arrests.
The question is whether Donald Trump‘s deployment of armed forces goes against U.S. law that generally prohibits the president from using the military to police domestic affairs.
Ernesto Santacruz Jr. testified at the start of a three-day trial in S…

Trial to start over National Guard deployment to Los Angeles
A federal judge in San Francisco will hear arguments on whether military troops deployed this summer by the Trump administration to Los Angeles violated a federal law that bars troops from conducting law enforcement duties within the country. Judge Charles Breyer will decide whether the Posse Comitatus Act, an 1878 law that prevents the president from using the military as a domestic police force, was violated by the 4,700 California National Guard members and Marines sent following protests. T…

The 17-year-old son watched as ICE ripped his father from him.
“It all felt like a lot to bear,” David told the Youth Media Project.
“He’s my role model, my biggest supporter. I rely on him a lot.”
The officer took all of Hector’s belongings, including $200 in cash he was carrying.
They did, however, forget to confiscate his phone, which Hector kept on him during his detainment.
David watched his dad step into the backseat of the blacked-out SUV.
As it sped …

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.
A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

Texas National Guard troops arrive in Illinois over leaders’ objections
Photographs Tuesday showed Texas National Guard troops carrying rifles and riot shields at the Joliet Army Reserve Training Center in Elwood, Illinois,
about 50 miles southwest of downtown Chicago.
In a statement over the weekend, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) said 400 Texas troops were ordered to deploy to Illinois and other states,
calling the move an “invasion.”

The Trump administration…

Texas National Guard troops arrive in Illinois over leaders’ objections
The arrival of Texas National Guard troops came ahead of a Thursday hearing in Illinois’s lawsuit seeking to stop the Trump administration from deploying into the state.

The future of the Baltic Security Initiative, a separate programme created to boost the armed forces of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, is a
under threat

An SUV carrying ICE agents had been blocked in traffic by a man on a scooter for about 30 seconds
when suddenly the agents tossed canisters out their windows that quickly began expelling smoke onto the streets, Denton said.
Aside from “people yelling at them, telling them to leave, and a lot of honking,
no one was attacking the agents,” said Denton, who lives in Logan Square.
“There was no reason for them to do that,” he added.
“It’s upsetting to see people bei…

On multiple occasions, demonstrators sitting on the ground attempting to block ICE vehicles from carrying detainees into the Broadview facility
have been repelled by heavily armed ICE agents
using physical force, chemical munitions and rubber bullets,
evoking combat scenes

The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it would review a Hawaii law that forbids gun owners from bringing firearms on private property without the property owner’s explicit permission.
If the law falls, the court could make it significantly harder for states and cities to keep guns out of everyday life.
💥Wolford v. Lopez traces its origins to the Supreme Court’s recent decisions that rewrote the nation’s gun-related jurisprudence.
The court’s conservative majority fir…

The Supreme Court Could Make It Easier to Bring a Gun Everywhere
The justices just took up a challenge to a Hawaii law that bars people from carrying guns on private property against the owner’s wishes.

A jet carrying the European Commission president to Plovdiv, in Bulgaria, on Sunday had its GPS navigation services disabled, a spokesman for the commission told The Telegraph.
The plane was forced to circle the airport for an hour before the pilot landed using analogue maps in what officials said was “undeniable interference”.

Ursula von der Leyen’s plane forced to land blind after ‘Russia jams GPS’
Ursula von der Leyen’s plane has been targeted by suspected Russian interference, forcing her pilot to land using paper maps.

Pressure mounts on Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government to take a stronger stance against Israel.
From Genoa, Trieste and Ravenna in the north, to Salerno and Taranto in the south,
in recent weeks port workers across Italy have succeeded in obstructing ships believed to have been carrying weapons for Israel,
as opposition to the country’s war in Gaza intensifies.
The dockers’ determination to block weapons and stifle trade
has been a crucial component of the pr…

Two Delta Air Lines regional jets collided while on the taxiway at LaGuardia airport in New York, injuring at least one person in what the airline described as a “low-speed collision”.
The wing of an aircraft carrying 32 people getting ready to take off Wednesday night to Roanoke, Virginia, hit the fuselage of an aircraft arriving from Charlotte, North Carolina, with 61 people aboard, according to a statement from Delta