Brian Callahan pleased with Cam Ward's preseason debut, but rookie 'certainly hasn't arrived yet' https://www.nfl.com/news/brian-callahan-pleased-with-cam-ward-s-preseason-debut-but-rookie-certainly-hasn-t-arri…
And when I'm talking about understanding the drives to violence, I did write about something similar recently.
https://write.as/hexmhell/algorithmic-violence
The drives behind this and the shooting last week are pretty radically different, but there's some overlap. People like Kirk are part a huge political machine slowly crushing people all over the world. There's a hopeless rage that would naturally drive even the most calm person to the edge of violence. You can't look at the world honestly and be OK. We want to do something. We want to react. But everything we do is silenced or must rmain silent. So it's easy to understand why someone might choose violence. Very different situation, but everyone is subject to the same national and international influences.
I don't promote violence, not because I disagree with it but because I think it's expensive. It takes time to plan, especially for those trying to get away. Guns are not cheap, nor are bullets, nor is the range time you need to get somewhat good under pressure. It's not cheap for the person doing it, and it's not cheap for the community that has to clean up. The community will face police repression (which, if we're honest, was gonna come anyway). The community will have to post bail, will lose a person for a while, will need to support the family, will go to hearings, will write reports, will do interviews.
Sun Tzu said that deploying one soldier to the front takes 7 in the field. Logistics are a huge invisible cost. Some of that time and energy could be reused. It's never bad to be armed and able to defend if needed. But a lot of that energy and time would be better spent planning a community pantry, a tool library, organizing a union, etc. We are living in a disaster, and we need to invest in thriving through the next crumble.
Kirk is replacable. They're almost all replacable, because they don't really care about human life. We do, so none of us are. It's not really a worth while trade, IMHO.
Joe Davidson, a longtime Washington Post columnist, says he resigned after a column he wrote about Trump's policies was blocked for being "too opinionated" (Corbin Bolies/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/wapo-columni
Brian Callahan assesses Cameron Ward's Titans preseason debut: 'Cam certainly hasn't arrived yet'
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/brian-c
Improving the Elevational Focusing of Fast Orthogonal Row-Column Electronic Scanning (FORCES) Ultrasound Imaging using Retrospective Transmit Beamforming (RTB)
Michael Caulfield, Randy Palamar, Darren Dahunsi, Mohammad Rahim Sobhani, Negar Majidi, Roger Zemp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09056
Ik kon het toch niet laten om de column van Israël lover E. In de Trouw te lezen.
“Gelukkig blijkt het ‘slechts’ etnische zuivering en geen genocide” en dat is volgens hem heel belangrijk want de term ‘genocide’ is volgens hem inherent antisemitisch. Israël mag nooit van genocide beschuldigd worden want daarmee ontken je dat het ooit zelf slachtoffer van genocide was.
Vervolgens blijft een veroordeling van etnische zuivering ook uit en wordt deze goedgepraat … “want 7 oktober”. 🤮
„Als er seine 12-jährige Tochter gefragt habe, woran sie das erinnere, habe sie ohne zu zögern gesagt: „Ein Monster.“ „Es ist nicht verkehrt, wenn man an ein Raubtier erinnert wird“, bestätigt der Chefdesigner der BMW-Gruppe Adrian van Hooydonk. „Und wenn sie dann Platz machen, auch nicht verkehrt“, ergänzt er mit einem Lächeln. Denn das fänden BMW-Kunden bestimmt gut.“
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Recurrence Relations for Some Integer Sequences Related to Ward Numbers
Aleks \v{Z}igon Tankosi\v{c}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04754 https://arxiv.org/pdf…