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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116052642108873770
“…what we’re witnessing is the express repetition of a project on the scale of the larger concentration camp systems in history—the Soviet Gulag, the Nazi concentration camps, and Chinese labor camps in the People’s Republic of China. The administration is actively aspiring to a system of that magnitude to reshape society to its racial, political and cultural preferences for generations to come.
This is not just a fantasy. It is something for which the administration has acquired the funding and a path forward. It lacks only the personnel and enough detention spaces.”

OK, das ist ziemlich cool: Der Macher des sowieso ganz großartigen Podcasts #SearchEngine - @… - hat zusammen mit @… und

Credit Bureaus Are Leaving More Mistakes on Frustrated Consumers' Reports Under Trump's CFPB (Joel Jacobs/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/credit-report-mistakes-cfpb-experian-transunion
http://www.memeorandum.com/260310/p30#a260310p30

I created a new repo/tool today to evaluate and collect the rapidly changing tooling configurations that everyone is trying to figure out (using statistical experimental design) I used Claude/Gastown to both make it and operate it and have some initial comparison data on opus/sonnet and Python/TS/Go etc. for a small test. I’d be happy for some github stars if people think it could be useful.

GitHub - adrianco/retort: Platform Evolution Engine. Distill the best from the combinatorial mess.
Platform Evolution Engine. Distill the best from the combinatorial mess. - adrianco/retort

i need to shop for a new suitcase — this one is only a couple years old and it's already full! (of stickers, i mean)
also, it's too big. i am going to travel light on this trip I SWEAR I AM 😤

I realize that in 2026, saying the WaPo op-ed page has gotten dumber than a bag of bricks is not saying something novel, but "Your salted caramel mocha latte is destroying society", invoking Edmund Burke, might set a benchmark for the year even though we're only 3 months in.

"The practical experience gained from this project shows that heat pumps can be reliably used for grid-friendly load shifting – without restricting the heat supply to households."
100 residential heat pumps in Germany delivered power system flexibility to TSOs TenneT and TransnetBW

ViFlex Pilot Project is a success | Viessmann Climate Solutions
The ViFlex pilot project demonstrates that heat pumps can be used as flexible consumers in redispatchs. Read more here.

In december hebben de besturen van de digitale expertisenetwerken van D66, VVD, GL-PvdA en CDA elkaar opgezocht en consensus bereikt. Bij het bekijken van het coalitieakkoord "Aan de slag" zien zij genoeg inhoudelijke punten terug, om het een succes te mogen maken. Bijgaand het document waarover de vier besturen consensus hebben gevonden.

Inbreng besturen landelijke Digitale Expertisenetwerken | Wouter Teepe | 10 comments
In december hebben we met de besturen van de digitale expertisenetwerken van D66, VVD, GL-PvdA en CDA elkaar opgezocht en consensus bereikt op enkele onderwerpen die in een coalitieakkoord zouden moeten staan. Bij het bekijken van het coalitieakkoord "Aan de slag" zien we genoeg inhoudelijke punten terug, om het een succes te mogen noemen. Door constructief samen te werken, krijg je altijd meer voor elkaar. Bijgaand het document waarover de vier besturen consensus hebben gevonden. D66 VVD Groe…

CAGE: An Internal Source Scanning Cryostat for HPGe Characterization
G. Othman, C. Wiseman, T. H. Burritt, J. A. Detwiler, M. P. Held, R. Henning, T. Mathew, D. Peterson, W. Pettus, G. Song, T. D. Van Wechel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.06289 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.06289 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.06289
arXiv:2602.06289v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The success of current and future-generation neutrinoless double beta decay experiments relies on the ability to eliminate or reduce extraneous backgrounds. In addition to constructing experiments using radiopure materials and handling in underground laboratories, it is necessary to understand and reduce known backgrounds in data analysis. The Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless double beta Decay is searching for this decay using 76Ge-enriched high-purity germanium detectors submerged in an active liquid argon veto. A significant background in LEGEND is surface events from shallowly-impinging radiation on detector surfaces. In this paper we introduce the Collimated Alphas, Gammas, and Electrons (CAGE) scanning system, an internal-source scanning vacuum cryostat, designed to perform studies of surface events on sensitive surfaces of HPGe in a surface-lab. CAGE features a collimated radionuclide source inside a movable infrared shield that is able to perform precision scans of detector surfaces by utilizing three independent motor stages for source positioning. This allows detailed studies of pulse shapes as a function of source position and incident angle, where defining features can be extracted and exploited for removing surface backgrounds in data analysis in LEGEND. In this paper, we describe CAGE and demonstrate its performance with a commissioning run with 241Am. The commissioning run was completed with the source at normal incidence, and we estimate a beam spot precision of 3.1 mm, which includes positioning uncertainties and the beam-spot size. Using the 59.5 keV gamma population from 241Am, we show that low-energy photon events near the passivated surface feature risetimes that increase with radial distance from the detector center. We suggest a specific metric that can be used to discriminate low-energy gamma backgrounds in LEGEND with similar characteristics.
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Commissioning of a fast fine-step electron-energy-scan system for electron-ion crossed-beams experiments
B. Michel D\"ohring, Alexander Borovik Jr., Kurt Huber, Alfred M\"uller, Stefan Schippers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09393