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This story seems to be slipping between the cracks.
Apparently the Air Force has decided to undertake the conversion of that bribe 747 to FFOTUS - an amount that will probably well exceed a $billion or far more - under cover of a classified project to do something else.
This is a clear violation of the US Anti-deficiency act. It is theft of taxpayer money. And it violates the requirement that money only be spent after appropriation by Congress.
i have not seen any journal…

What Will It Cost to Renovate Trump’s ‘Free’ Air Force One? Don’t Ask.
To hide the cost of renovating the plane Qatar donated to President Trump, the Air Force appears to have tucked it inside an over-budget, behind-schedule nuclear modernization program.

Flexible XL-MIMO via Array Configuration Codebook: Codebook Design and Array Configuration Training
Haiquan Lu, Hongqi Min, Yong Zeng, Shaodan Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20369

Flexible XL-MIMO via Array Configuration Codebook: Codebook Design and Array Configuration Training
XL-MIMO emerges as a promising technology to achieve unprecedented enhancements in spectral efficiency and spatial resolution, via orders-of-magnitude increase in the antenna array size. However, the practical issues of high hardware cost and power consumption pose great challenges towards the cost-effective implementation of XL-MIMO. To address such challenges, this paper proposes a novel concept called array configuration codebook (ACC), which enables flexible XL-MIMO cost-effectively and imp…

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Habt ihr auch manchmal den Drang einfach mal los laut rauszuschreien, alles kurz und klein zu hauen ?
In moment ist mir danach, schade das es keine Orte gibt, wo man mal so richtig mal die Sau rauslassen kann. Ohne Rücksicht auf Verluste ... oh moment, so einen Ort gibt es ja, den nennt man ja "das Internet" Wo man sich gehen lassen kann, ganz ohne seinen Namen preiszugeben .. das ist doch cool oder ?
In meinen Augen, ist das das widerwertigste was es gibt. Aber nur mein…

from Cascadia Journal
The Seattle Times reports that two wildland firefighters working on the Bear Gulch fire in Washington's Olympic mountains were arrested by federal border agents
https://www.msn.com/en-us…

#ContemporaryContradictions #HashTagGames
Rules: include as many contradictions s you'd like. Can be profound or trivial. Each contradiction is stated via exactly 1 or 2 questions, no statements and not more than 2 questions. Try to group yours into a single post, rather than one post per contradiction, so that it's easier to see more voices when scrolling the hash tag.
Why does "race" work according to the "one drop rule" if you have Black ancestors, but according to "blood quantum" if you have Indigenous ancestors? Who benefits from this arrangement?
Why do we think of seeds as merely a reproduction mechanism for trees, instead of thinking of trees as merely a reproduction mechanism for seeds, especially since some plants can spend millennia as seeds but can survive for only part of a year after sprouting? Are metabolic activity or structural complexity really so important?
If Columbus discovered America, did Batu Khan discover Europe? What is an "Age of Discovery?"
Why don't corporations in the US try to lobby the government for a single-payer healthcare system where the government foots the bill for healthcare instead of companies paying to deeply subsidize their employees' healthcare? What benefit do they gain that's worth that cost, which in other countries is paid for via taxes?
Why is the cost of renting (which gets you zero equity) anywhere close to the cost of a mortgage (which eventually gets you ownership)? If the costs are similar but the benefits are so different, why does anyone ever rent?
Why do we obsess over the fruit/vegetable classification of tomatoes, but not corn, okra, cucumbers, zucchini, etc.?

Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç ist mein neuer Apichatpong Weerasethakul, und ich meine das zunächst mnemotechnisch. (Dank an @… für die Leseempfehlung.)

"So if ChatGPT destroys literacy and law, then ChatGPT is going to kill God. By this I don’t mean that the bearded guy in the sky is going to be found dead of a gunshot wound to the chest, but that monotheistic religion as we have traditionally understood it will not be able to function in a post-literacy regime."
(Original title: ChatGPT is going to kill God)

ChatGPT is going to kill God
I hate generative AI. I hate how it’s destroying writing pedagogy and giving students even more excuses not to read (because they can just read a “summary”). I hate how whiny and …

Achieving Optimal Performance-Cost Trade-Off in Hierarchical Cell-Free Massive MIMO
Wei Jiang, Hans D Schotten
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20704 https://arx…

Achieving Optimal Performance-Cost Trade-Off in Hierarchical Cell-Free Massive MIMO
Cell-free (CF) massive MIMO offers uniform service via distributed access points (APs), which impose high deployment costs. A novel design called hierarchical cell-free (HCF) addresses this problem by replacing some APs with a central base station, thereby lowering the costs of fronthaul network (wireless sites and fiber cables) while preserving performance. To identify the optimal uplink configuration in HCF massive MIMO, this paper provides the first comprehensive analysis, benchmarking it ag…

One of our friends just got hit with one of El Cheeto/RFK's drug price increases:
From a few $ a month to nearly $300,000/year for a single life sustaining drug.
El Presidente Naranja killed, or put onto the road to death, more Americans during his first term than were killed in WW-I.
This term the immediate and pending death toll caused by trump/RFK-jr policies may be quite higher.
(By "pending death" I mean death in the future caused by polices in effe…