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"I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself. That is the best combination."
—Judi Dench
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"What is an ocean but a multitude of drops." — David Mitchell
Final tweaks (version 11 by now) of the tone curve for digital negatives for my current combination of emulsion & developer: It's pretty impressive how even minute changes to black & white points of the curve have quite noticeable impact on the rest. I've also been experimenting with reducing emulsion from 8 8 1 drops to 7 7 1 drops, but that makes that 1 drop of contrast agent ~13% stronger (too st…

Time to investigate my dad's turntable; a Pioneer PL-15R; so at 33.33RPM, and with a disk with 64 edges, that should be 33.33/60*64=35.6Hz - so seeing 35.7Hz off my hacky photodiode sensor makes me very happy; although it's varying a little, but my scopes frequency counter is based off it's display, so hmm. And it's FFT won't go down that low really.

Convex combination of first and second eigenvalues of trees
Hitesh Kumar, Bojan Mohar, Shivaramakrishna Pragada, Hanmeng Zhan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10036 https://

this combination pot store & "prison style bootcamp" on delancey street never fails to make my brain grind. all i can imagine is allen ginsberg overseeing workouts & screaming POT IS FUN!!!! at you while you're on the elliptical or some shit. (and yes, i get that weed & exercise go together just fine. it's more the bootcamp part.) #nyc

In which I build Unicode character tables and fail to serialize large automata, “Losing 1½ Million Lines of Go“:
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/01/14/Unicode-Properties
(And in which I find myself sliding into the

A coworker was telling us he'd been "fowling" (rhymes with "bowling") this weekend. We, naturally, heard that to be "foaling" and were initially quite confused.
It seems to be a very highly regionalized combination of American football, bowling, and cornhole gaining popularity in and around Detroit.
https://www.

Graney: Raiders’ Brady-Spytek combination need to get it right this time https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sports-columns/ed-graney/graney-raiders-brady-spytek-combination-need-to-get-it-right-this-tim…

I've searched, and I can't find the combination. But I bet you know who I'm talking about when I mention Chthulu Barbie.

Biased review now I've returned the library book: you don't learn much about Putin or his mentality; you do learn about defence ministers vs. generals & who has power; there's many lists with numbers of troops in various brigades & divisions; brief summaries of various wars which are helpful only in combination with Wikipedia; you don't learn much about the Russian or Ukrainian peoples' reaction to wars, aside from the occasional anecdote which rather centres the author

Chinese hackers targeting ‘high value’ North American critical infrastructure, Cisco says https://therecord.media/china-hackers-apt-cisco-talos

Tricks for using Google Gemini Live AI scene description in combination with The vOICe visual-to-auditory sensory substitution for the blind #blind

Designer [jokingly]: “We could call it Cloid, it’s a combination of clanker and droid! Haha”
Manager: “Oh that’s so cool!”
Designer: “But—“
Manager: “SHIP IT”

Slowly starting down a bit of a rabbit hole, even though I really don't have time between work, school, and everything that needs done at the new house.
Since taking my first college math course a while ago, I've been taking notes in a combination of Markdown and LaTex for the equations. At first I was just checking my notes into a Forgejo repository, and viewing them via browser. Then we moved, the computer hosting some of my home services suddenly failed, and I realized I wan…

If you're following my #publiicvoit blog via Atom feed:
I might have found a fix for my broken feed format: https://github.com/novoid/lazyblorg/issues/24
Please report back a…

"Give me the peatiest thing you have that I can't get in the US." She did not disappoint. (Peaty whisky Philip Wadler, a winning combination, 10/10 would recommend.)

Rare Colours Blues II🔷🔷
稀有的色彩蓝 II🔷🔷
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Harman Phoenix 200 II (FF)
#filmphotography #Photography #Art

The immediate causes of the #Iran #protests were a combination of worsening government #austerity and a dramatic #currency crisis,
the fallin…

The Economic Roots of Iran’s Protests
The protests in Iran that began last month were triggered by the collapse of the country's currency. But the challenge for Iranian leaders now is economic as much as it is political.

Why OpenAI is a prime example of the ethical limits of capitalism https://theconversation.com/why-openai-is-a-prime-example-of-the-ethical-limits-of-capitalism-270407

Why OpenAI is a prime example of the ethical limits of capitalism
Money and morality are a challenging corporate combination.

More than 1,400 dead across Asia after ‘rare’ cyclone & typhoon converge https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/more-than-1400-dead-across-asia-after-rare-cyclone-typhoons-converge/

More than 1,400 dead across Asia after ‘rare’ cyclone & typhoon converge
At least 1,400 people have died as a result of flooding and landslides across Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia, with many more still missing. The unusual combination of a tropical typhoon and two tropical cyclones is behind the mounting humanitarian disaster. Scientists and meteorologists note that Cyclone Senyar formed just north of the equator, […]

I managed to get out and I can confirm snow and ice on forest roads.
But it was fine. It all was a bit more technically challenging than usual.
Maybe I've got to clean my bike tomorrow.
#cycling #mountainbiking

Growing up, I considered becoming a medical illustrator due to its combination of scientific and artistic rigor. Neither is on display in this derivative AI image shared by a surgeon too lazy to find the real thing.
https://www.

Oracle says it plans to raise $45B to $50B in 2026 to build additional capacity for its cloud infrastructure through a combination of debt and equity sales (Vincent Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

Just finished "Check, Please" volume 2 by Ngozi Ukazu. I had read volume 1 earlier and enjoyed it; as I said at the time I'm a bit uncomfortable with such an uncomplicated portrayal of a subculture that's usually quite toxic, and even though it gets addressed a little bit in volume 2, it's not really unpacked very much. I do see the value in aspirational contemporary fiction here though, so I'm definitely happier about this angle than I was after volume 1. In any case, hockey, baking, and gay romance continues to be a very entertaining combination from Ukazu's pen, and overall I enjoyed the series quite a lot!
#AmReading #ReadingNow

"I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself. That is the best combination."
—Judi Dench
#acting #coaching #inspiration

There are just too many patents granted. Example 33,444,592: This company literally sticks a microwave oven on top of a fridge and gets a #patent for that.
https://www.danby.com/microfridge-patent-a

Assembling GW231123 in Star Clusters through the Combination of Stellar Binary Evolution and Hierarchical Mergers: #BlackHole mergers: https://www.gssi.it/communication/news-events/item/26044-gssi-astrophysicists-reveal-the-role-of-star-clusters-in-black-hole-mergers

I'm eating schezwan peppercorn potato chips. My mouth is a combination of ow and yum. Seriously, these things are delicious even if they make my lips numb.

Because I constantly hear myths about the good old compact cassette here's a longer post dispelling them:
1. They can sound as good as CDs
2. They don't wear out
3. You can't use a pencil to wind them
4. You can go to specific tracks automatically
5. You don't need to carry around extra batteries
I will elaborate below:
1. Sound Quality
Many higher-end decks can record cassettes on metal tape with various Dolby noise reduction settings; especially the combination of metal tape and Dolby S will make tapes that are pretty much indistinguishable from listening to a CD.
Even normal or chrome tape with Dolby B (around since the 1970s) will give great results; likely indistinguishable from a CD when played in a car or while out and about with a personal player.
Some extremely high-end tape decks produce better than CD results in some regards (for example some Nakamichi models go to 26KHz with frequency response, while CD are inherently limited to top out at 22KHz).
It's true that the dynamic range of CDs is much better than either vinyl records or tapes. However, unless you're super into classical music there's likely not much music for which this truly matters, as 99% is mastered to use much less dynamic range than provided by any audio media format. (If you're super into classical music you probably want SACD or other high-res lossless sources anyway, not CDs.)
2. Yes, it will wear out mechanically but you will wear out mechanically before it does. Please watch VWestlife's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dgJ4hRHBiw
3. European and American pencils are too thin to engage the cassette reel cogs. (You'd need to get a Japanese pencil. People mostly used BIC pens for this purpose which have the right thickness.)
4. Most (nice) decks and personal players from the early-to-mid nineties onwards have track skip features (e.g. Sony has AMS, Automatic Music Sensor), which allow precise winding to a specific track.
Some decks even did this in the early 80s!
5. My late-90s Walkman has seventy-eight (78) hours of playback on one (1) single AA battery.
Anyway, the main reason why I like them is they're fun to use and recording them is very deliberate instead of algorithms selecting music for me. :)

49ers' 'For the Faithful' look tops NFL Week 18 uniforms https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47457646/nfl-2025-week-18-uniforms

@… TiL about the Petersen Graph, which is the exact combination of mathematics and pentagrams that I feel epitomises The Laundry Files.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petersen

Petersen graph - Wikipedia

Flood risks in delta cities are increasing, Shanghai study finds #Shanghai

Flood risks in delta cities are increasing, Shanghai study finds
New research shows how the combination of extreme climate events, sea-level rise and land subsidence could create larger and deeper floods in coastal cities in future.

Why is the data in the Epstein email dumps full of errors? "=" all over the place (and apparently not as an artefact of quoted-printable encoding). Did the FBI not have digital preservation technology... six years ago?
Ah, it's a combination of QP and then another process that doesn't understand it.

What’s up with all those equals signs anyway?
For some reason or other, people have been posting a lot of excerpts from old emails on Twitter over the last few days. The most vital question everybody’s asking themselves is: What’s …

Since the so-called ceasefire came into effect in Gaza on October 10,
Israel has been consolidating its control of over 50% of Gaza and
—according to new research by Forensic Architecture
—physically altering the geography of the land.
Through a combination of the construction of military infrastructure alongside the destruction of existing buildings,
Israel appears to be laying the groundwork to establish a permanent presence in the majority of the Gaza Strip.

Your theme breaks while deploying in a new directory? Our StaticThemePathBuilder might solve your problem! Have a look.
https://winkelwagen.de/2026/01/28/shopware-6-deployer-and-broken-themes/

Shopware 6, Deployer and broken themes
We run deployer to deployer our Shopware 6 shops in combination with shopware-cli and Shopware’s deployment-helper. But we had one problem, during deployment the old theme breaks, because com…

I've spent the past year learning Morse code, and it's ended up being a great deal of fun. I've had a lot of questions. I've tried to share what I've learned with others as I've gone along.
To celebrate the end of the year, I wrote a combination of information, story, and advice. How to get started, mobile apps and websites, books, getting on the air, learning to send, POTA, SST, keys and keyers. I'm not fluent or expert yet, but that means that I still remember what's hard!

Want to see some fluffs at #39c3 ?
chaosfurs will do two fursuitwalks on day 2 and 3
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/en/assembly/detail/chaosfurs

An evening discussing falling enrollment in #STEM courses at universities across Europe, especially traditional studies like chemistry, geology and meteorology. I wonder if young people are unaware of just how interesting #STEM careers to be? Or do they have the perception it's "too hard" compared to other subjects where easier grades may be had? Or is it simply they think they can have "better"* jobs in other fields?
#AcademicChatter
*Where better might mean higher paid, more prestigious, more certain of employment, or less workload or some combination of all of these... ?

Lonely Mountains Downhill: feeling stylish
One of the things I really appreciate in a game is if it makes me look good, full of style, skilled in a way that I'm not in real life. Elaborate swordplay leading to combination hits; parkour across a cityscape; flying through buildings and structures with no effort and no fear. Many games make me feel stylish - or maybe the correct word is cool?

Well, I ended up with 337 components for my "minimal" STM32MP2 Kintex-7 PCie testbed lol.
I could have simplified a bit if I deleted some of the test points, LEDs, etc but I think this is a reasonable combination of parts.
Let's see if I can actually lay this out on oshpark 4L...

Rhode's Law:
When any principle, law, tenet, probability, happening, circumstance,
or result can in no way be directly, indirectly, empirically, or
circuitously proven, derived, implied, inferred, induced, deducted,
estimated, or scientifically guessed, it will always for the purpose
of convenience, expediency, political advantage, material gain, or
personal comfort, or any combination of the above, or none of the
above, be unilaterally and unequ…

Been playing with https://gamenative.app on my new AYN Thor and have gotten pretty good at coaxing the games in my Steam library into running.
Probably the trickiest one to get working so far that actually worked has been Grim Fandango Remastered, which took a glibc container and an unusual combination of enviro…

One of our favorite year-end features is the #UniversityOfGeorgia photographers' round-up of their favorite photos of the past year. Even when our museum isn't in it, it's fun to see their great work and to read their thoughts on the combination of art and luck that makes for a great photo.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Arthur Russell:
🎵 That's Us/Wild Combination
#ArthurRussell
https://arthurrussell.bandcamp.com/track/thats-us-wild-combination
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Kh2MJAy65AfHFdGqBg1Jw

Dieses Hühnersuppenrezept wäre mir denn doch etwas zu aufwändig, aber womöglich möchte sich ja jemand von Euch die Zeit nehmen. Mir reichen eineinhalb Stunden leichtes Blubbern. #nommention

Chicken Soup From Scratch Recipe (Gift Recipe)
Chicken soup is one of the most painless and pleasing recipes a home cook can master. This soup has all the classic flavors (celery, carrot, parsley) but has been updated for today's cooks, who can't easily buy the stewing hen and packet of soup vegetables that old-fashioned recipes used to call for. A whole bird provides the right combination of fat, salt and flavor. Don't be tempted to use all white meat, as the flavor won't be as round. Because making soup involves the bones and deep tissues…

Maybe it’s the combination of this cocktail:
a) personal unresolved trauma moldering for years
b) trauma/mourning for an emotional fictional narrative
c) emotionally sick for the real life timeline?

A total of six medium sized tourtiere and three baking. First three are cooling down. Meat filling is a combination of mom's and father in law recipes. House smelling like when mom baked. All crusts are home-made.

RE: https://mas.to/@seeingwithsound/115995132429931913
Indeed a simultaneous combination of USB Camera Pro, Google Gemini Live screen sharing and The vOICe for Android works with the USB camera glasses: The vOICe sounds the live camera view while Google Gem…

Why Chiefs are prime landing spot for Cowboys' star WR George Pickens https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/kansas-city-chiefs/news/why-chiefs-prime-landing-spot-cowboys-star-wr-george-pickens/70323…

"He was tearing them up and just shoving them in as fast as he could, like when you see people in a hot-dog eating contest"
I'M DEAD
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/alaska-student-arrested-eating-ai-art-exhibit/…

Meet the Alaska Student Arrested for Eating an AI Art Exhibit
A conversation with Graham Granger, whose combination of protest and performance art spread beyond campus. “AI chews up and spits out art made by other people.”

An unusable weapon
The Sarmat missile is Russia’s next-generation heavy-duty ICBM,
capable of carrying a payload of up to 10 large nuclear warheads,
a combination of warheads and countermeasures, or hypersonic boost-glide vehicles, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Simply put, the Sarmat is a doomsday weapon designed for use in an all-out nuclear war between Russia and the United States.
Dmitry Rogozin, then the head of Russia’s spa…

The missile meant to strike fear in Russia’s enemies fails once again
One of Vladimir Putin’s favorite sabres to rattle seems to have lost its edge.

"I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself. That is the best combination."
—Judi Dench
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Simulation and optimization of the Active Magnetic Shield of the n2EDM experiment
N. J. Ayres, G. Ban, G. Bison, K. Bodek, V. Bondar, T. Bouillaud, G. L. Caratsch, E. Chanel, W. Chen, C. Crawford, V. Czamler, C. B. Doorenbos, S. Emmeneger, S. K. Ermakov, M. Ferry, M. Fertl, A. Fratangelo, D. Galbinski, W. C. Griffith, Z. D. Grujic, K. Kirch, V. Kletzl, J. Krempel, B. Lauss, T. Lefort, A. Lejuez, K. Michielsen, J. Micko, P. Mullan, O. Naviliat-Cuncic, F. M. Piegsa, G. Pignol, C. Pistillo, I. Rien\"acker, D. Ries, S. Roccia, D. Rozp\k{e}dzik, L. Sanchez-Real Zielniewicz, N. von Schickh, P. Schmidt-Wellenburg, E. P. Segarra, L. Segner, N. Severijns, K. Svirina, J. Thorne, J. Vankeirsbilck, N. Yazdandoost, J. Zejma, N. Ziehl, G. Zsigmond
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22960 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.22960 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.22960
arXiv:2601.22960v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The n2EDM experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institute aims to conduct a high-sensitivity search for the electric dipole moment of the neutron. Magnetic stability and control are achieved through a combination of passive shielding, provided by a magnetically shielded room (MSR), and a surrounding active field compensation system by an Active Magnetic Shield (AMS). The AMS is a feedback-controlled system of eight coils spanned on an irregular grid, designed to provide magnetic stability to the enclosed volume by actively suppressing external magnetic disturbances. It can compensate static and variable magnetic fields up to $\pm 50$ $\mu$T (homogeneous components) and $\pm 5$ $\mu$T/m (first-order gradients), suppressing them to a few $\mu$T in the sub-Hertz frequency range. We present a full finite element simulation of magnetic fields generated by the AMS in the presence of the MSR. This simulation is of sufficient accuracy to approach our measurements. We demonstrate how the simulation can be used with an example, obtaining an optimal number and placement of feedback sensors using genetic algorithms.
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2026 Super Bowl uniforms revealed: Patriots to debut new big-game look, Seahawks wearing jersey they're 0-2 in

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2026-su

Hybrid Foveated Path Tracing with Peripheral Gaussians for Immersive Anatomy
Constantin Kleinbeck, Luisa Theelke, Hannah Schieber, Ulrich Eck, R\"udiger von Eisenhart-Rothe, Daniel Roth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22026 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.22026 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.22026
arXiv:2601.22026v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Volumetric medical imaging offers great potential for understanding complex pathologies. Yet, traditional 2D slices provide little support for interpreting spatial relationships, forcing users to mentally reconstruct anatomy into three dimensions. Direct volumetric path tracing and VR rendering can improve perception but are computationally expensive, while precomputed representations, like Gaussian Splatting, require planning ahead. Both approaches limit interactive use.
We propose a hybrid rendering approach for high-quality, interactive, and immersive anatomical visualization. Our method combines streamed foveated path tracing with a lightweight Gaussian Splatting approximation of the periphery. The peripheral model generation is optimized with volume data and continuously refined using foveal renderings, enabling interactive updates. Depth-guided reprojection further improves robustness to latency and allows users to balance fidelity with refresh rate.
We compare our method against direct path tracing and Gaussian Splatting. Our results highlight how their combination can preserve strengths in visual quality while re-generating the peripheral model in under a second, eliminating extensive preprocessing and approximations. This opens new options for interactive medical visualization.
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"I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself. That is the best combination."
—Judi Dench
#acting #coaching #inspiration

While the pictures of Trump flanked by underage girls are hard to look at,
it’s disturbing in another way to see how women who want to earn power from him feel they must look now.
In 2025,
💥“Mar-a-Lago face”
entered the lexicon,
a term used to describe the combination of plastered-on makeup and aggressive plastic surgery
that makes women look like inflatable sex dolls,
as Trump’s apparent sexual tastes have morphed MAGA aesthetics into something inh…

The right hit peak incel in 2025
From Mar-a-Lago face to Elon Musk, MAGA's sexual dysfunction exposed itself

My "grow plants everywhere" mod for #Luanti is progressing!
I just built a routine to do blobby weight regions as the intersection of a bunch of parabolas, where weight increases logarithmically from the edge of the parabola with an adjustable edge region, and we use the geometric average of these weight values within the intersection region. Then I spent a few hours hunched over a biomes vornoi diagram approximating different broad regions like "arid_grasses" and "temperate_trees" so you can just name some combination of these regions (with custom per-region multipliers) and have your plant definition apply within those regions. I was using rectangular min/max heat/humidity values before, but they were pretty awkward to work with.
If anyone on here who plays Luanti wants to check it out let me know and I can prioritize publishing what I've got. I've got growth definitions for most but not all VoxeLibre plants and it wouldn't be hard to put them together for another game. No trees yet, but that's pretty much the next thing to work on.

Weighted Stochastic Differential Equation to Implement Wasserstein-Fisher-Rao Gradient Flow
Herlock Rahimi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17878 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.17878 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.17878
arXiv:2512.17878v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Score-based diffusion models currently constitute the state of the art in continuous generative modeling. These methods are typically formulated via overdamped or underdamped Ornstein--Uhlenbeck-type stochastic differential equations, in which sampling is driven by a combination of deterministic drift and Brownian diffusion, resulting in continuous particle trajectories in the ambient space. While such dynamics enjoy exponential convergence guarantees for strongly log-concave target distributions, it is well known that their mixing rates deteriorate exponentially in the presence of nonconvex or multimodal landscapes, such as double-well potentials. Since many practical generative modeling tasks involve highly non-log-concave target distributions, considerable recent effort has been devoted to developing sampling schemes that improve exploration beyond classical diffusion dynamics.
A promising line of work leverages tools from information geometry to augment diffusion-based samplers with controlled mass reweighting mechanisms. This perspective leads naturally to Wasserstein--Fisher--Rao (WFR) geometries, which couple transport in the sample space with vertical (reaction) dynamics on the space of probability measures. In this work, we formulate such reweighting mechanisms through the introduction of explicit correction terms and show how they can be implemented via weighted stochastic differential equations using the Feynman--Kac representation. Our study provides a preliminary but rigorous investigation of WFR-based sampling dynamics, and aims to clarify their geometric and operator-theoretic structure as a foundation for future theoretical and algorithmic developments.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheMorningAfterMix
Arthur Russell:
🎵 That's Us/Wild Combination
#ArthurRussell
https://arthurrussell.bandcamp.com/track/thats-us-wild-combination
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Kh2MJAy65AfHFdGqBg1Jw

From polling and special elections over the past year, we’ve seen two important trends:
Democrats are strongly over-performing in general elections (to the tune of 10-15 points),
and Democratic leadership is incredibly unpopular, even among Democratic voters.
This combination means that there will be a lot of support
— in enthusiasm, money, and votes
— for primary challenges to Democratic incumbents,
and the usual Democratic fretting about electability …

Signs of a progressive takeover?
Colorado offers some tea leaves for this year's Democratic primaries

NFL Week 17 picks against the spread: Drake Maye, Trevor Lawrence keep rolling https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6916892/2025/12/25/nfl-week-17-picks-predictions-betting-2025/

Chargers finalize deal with Mike McDaniel, per source. What to expect from his offense? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6992884/2026/01/26/mike-mcdaniel-hired-chargers-scheme-film-justin-herbert/

"I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself. That is the best combination."
—Judi Dench
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Former New York City Mayor Eric Adams, rigged City Hall in the waning days of his term with a maze of governmental booby traps primed to stymie his successor, Zohran Mamdani.
Most of those efforts failed through a combination of bad timing, limits on Adams’ power and general ham-fistedness.
But the former mayor managed to lay one tripwire so consequential that it has triggered weeks of legal and political scrambling
— and raised questions about whether it can be disarmed a…

"Trump is keeping coal on life support. How long can it last?"
#US #USA #America #Climate

Trump is keeping coal on life support. How long can it last?
A combination of federal intervention and rising energy demand have stalled coal’s decline, but experts see little hope of a lasting revival.

Efforts to repress climate and environmental protest are growing worldwide
through a combination of new legislation,
novel uses of existing legal processes,
police actions,
vilification of activists,
and both violence and killings.
Acts of repression are likely to expand and intensify
as authoritarian regimes roll back climate policies,
with a particular focus on Trump’s actions in office
criminalizing protest,
increasing police po…

Here's the global playbook being used to crack down on climate protest
A new study finds that repression of environmental protest is rising worldwide and Indigenous land defenders face the greatest risk.

NFL Week 17 picks against the spread: Drake Maye, Trevor Lawrence keep rolling https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6916892/2025/12/25/nfl-week-17-picks-predictions-betting-2025/

There are a lot of takeaways from this:
1. Organizing locally gives you a massive advantage because you will always know your local area better than ICE ever can.
2. Be agile. You can always change tactics faster than a centralized organization.
3. Organize now. The sooner you build your networks, the sooner you can learn.
4. Identify ICE facilities and organize monitoring them directly.
But I think the most interesting one that's not explicitly in there, one that's hinted at the last one, is to go on the offensive. ICE is already afraid. If we all take the anger we have at the murder of #ReneGood, find the local ICE facility that they'll stage from, and bring that anger to #OccupyICE we might be able to just shut the whole thing down preemptively. Completely stop all ICE operations across the US. If they want to fight, they can fight *with everyone, all at once.*
Shut down their ability to operate at all. They have a logistics pipeline. They need cars, they need oil in those cars, they need to be able to move those cars to target areas. They also need money to pay those agents. All of those can be disrupted.
The regime needs your money and labor to maintain the illusion of legitimacy. They chose a bad time because you can hit both of those at once *right now* with a combination of #GeneralStrike and #TaxStrike, and then #BoycottEverything.
The regime is weaker than it's ever been. It's flailing. Their own base is demanding the release of the #EpsteinFiles. Their last gasp attempt to prevent the radical change that's coming is just to ethnically cleanse the US back to the 50's (which is what they always meant by "Make America Great Again"). Trump will do anything to stay in power, even if it means killing everyone on Earth in the process. But Americans can end it now by going on the offensive.
Now is the time.
#USPol