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During the #COP30 climate conference in Brazil, Australia's opposition party withdrew from the country's net-zero by 2050 target. It now sees net-zero as a potential 'welcome outcome' of using Australia's resources (coal, gas) plus new energy technologies. Reckless.

Liberal Party formally abandons net zero by 2050 climate target
The decision brings the party closer to the Nationals, which ditched its support for the target earlier this month amid internal turmoil over the Coalition's policy.

TRulY He ISS The JIZZY ANORAK

Randy Villegas is an educator, activist, and proud son of immigrants. Born and raised in Kern, California, in a working-class family, Randy knows firsthand the challenges that many Central Valley families face.
His journey - from earning a PhD to teaching and organizing for change - has been rooted in one core belief: that government should work for everyone, not just the powerful few.
With deep ties to our community and a lifelong commitment to justice and equity, Randy is running…

Shootout Strategies: Cowboys’ paths to victory in Week 7 includes speed, stoutness https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/18/dallas-cowboys-3-strategic-paths-victory-w…

Top quotes that demonstrate Al Davis' 'Commitment to Excellence' https://www.raiders.com/news/the-10-best-quotes-that-demonstrated-al-davis-commitment-to-excellence

Bill Belichick quashes New York Giants job speculation, restating UNC commitment https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6808930/2025/11/14/bill-belichick-denies-new-york-giants-job-speculation/

So happy some of the folks from Brooklyn Nine -Nine are making a PI show. They can be much more critical of police work with a show about that.
https://deadline.com/2025/11/brooklyn-nine-nine-duo-dan-goor-pi-comedy-nbc-pilot-1236614348/…

Listening to Pan Sonic's 1999 album A. They have an intense commitment to minimalist techno. Here's the track A-kemia.

Big steps for digital connectivity in the Western Balkans 🌐
This week at the EU–Western Balkans Investment Forum, the European Commission, GÉANT and 4iG Group signed a joint declaration confirming their shared commitment to advancing secure, high-capacity digital infrastructure and strengthening connectivity across the region.
🔗 Read more:

"Richard Tice has 15-year record of supporting ‘net stupid zero’ initiatives"
#Climate #ClimateChange #NetZero

Kolton Miller's pending return in lost year highlights his commitment https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/12/11/kolton-millers-pending-return-in-lost-year-highlight…

Variable aggregation-based formulations for pumped storage hydro model in the day-ahead unit commitment problem
Shaoze Li, Junhao Wu, Zhibin Deng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07751

Variable aggregation-based formulations for pumped storage hydro model in the day-ahead unit commitment problem
Pumped storage hydro (PSH) plants can improve the flexibility of power systems. A well-designed formulation for a PSH model is essential when incorporating the PSH units into a day-ahead unit commitment model. In the literature, the formulation of a PSH model is generally based on the individual PSH unit. This formulation is tight if there is only one PSH unit in the reservoir. However, when there are multiple units sharing the same reservoir in a PSH plant, the existing formulation may introdu…

#MySQL Repository Analysis Reveals Declining Development and Shrinking Contributor Base
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/12/mysql-declining-development/

Some Democrats share Trump's goal of forcing more homeless people into medical care : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/05/nx-s1-5558181/homeless-mental-health-commitment

Filing: Nvidia says it plans to rent $26B worth of servers over the next six years, doubling the cloud spending commitments it disclosed three months ago (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/nvidia-doubles-clou…

Nvidia Doubles Cloud Spending Commitment to $26 Billion
Nvidia said Wednesday it had struck deals to rent $26 billion of servers from cloud providers over the next six years, doubling the cloud spending commitments it disclosed just three months ago. The cloud spending plan implies Nvidia will rent several hundred thousand of its own graphics processing units from cloud providers like Amazon and Google that purchase them. Nvidia said in a

Commitment, n.:
[The difference between involvement and] Commitment can be
illustrated by a breakfast of ham and eggs. The chicken was
involved, the pig was committed.

I know @… will love this.
https://iconfactory.world/@Iconfactory/115702261621012226

The work of our alums is one of the most inspiring expressions of our commitment to serving church and world. And no event showcases that quite like our annual alumni awards.
If you couldn't be with us for our recent Convocation & Reunions, or you want to relive the moment, here's video of the 2025 awards ceremony and Andover Newton's Spirit of the Hill award presentation.

If you ever thought the Nationals were interested in regional or rural communities.
" Warming above 1.5C will cause widespread crop failures and food insecurity, more extreme weather events, and the loss of between 70 and 90 per cent of the world's coral reefs"
https://share.google/4dQtUrWlU49vaQgBc

Can we tackle climate change without net zero? Here's what it really means
The Coalition is debating whether to dump its commitment to the net zero climate target. Here's what that term actually means.

Persuasion with Verifiable Information
Maria Titova, Kun Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08251 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08251

Persuasion with Verifiable Information
This paper studies a game in which an informed sender with state-independent preferences uses verifiable messages to convince a receiver to choose an action from a finite set. We characterize the equilibrium outcomes of the game and compare them with commitment outcomes in information design. We provide conditions under which a commitment outcome is an equilibrium outcome and identify environments in which the sender does not benefit from commitment power. Our findings offer insights into the i…

Odontoceti: Ultra-Fast DAG Consensus with Two Round Commitment
Preston Vander Vos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01216 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01216

Odontoceti: Ultra-Fast DAG Consensus with Two Round Commitment
Users of blockchains value scalability, expecting fast confirmations and immediate transaction processing. Odontoceti, the latest in DAG-based consensus, addresses these concerns by prioritizing low latency and high throughput, making a strategic trade-off in security by operating with a 20% fault tolerance instead of the established 33% level. It is the first DAG-based protocol to achieve commitment in just two communication rounds, delivering median latency of 300 milliseconds while processin…

B-O-B-B-O-B-B-O-B... Bob Myers reveals they also pulled in Dave Roberts, coach of the Los Angeles Dodgers to help select Bob Chesney.
▶️ Bob Myers talks Bob Chesney search, UCLA's financial commitment, much more
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZkdfsjV61Rg&si=K6lvwyJ…

End to war 'depends on Russia's commitment to peace,' Ukraine, US agree: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/06/end-to-war-depends-on.html

While the world debates climate action, Chinese cities are already doing it.
Shenzhen leads with massive EV adoption and vehicle-to-grid tech. Wuhan built "sponge cities" that absorb floodwater naturally. Dalian is scaling hydrogen energy. Guangzhou and Qingdao are tackling food waste and carbon management.
These aren't pilot programs—they're blueprints other cities can follow.

Shoutout to KubeEvents for being a Media Sponsor of SCaLE 23x! Your commitment to the Kubernetes community enhances our event. Learn more at #SCaLE23x

The Role of Commitment in Optimal Stopping
Jos\'e Correa, Evangelia Gergatsouli, Bruno Ziliotto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24132 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

The Role of Commitment in Optimal Stopping
We investigate the role of commitment in optimal stopping by studying all the variants between Prophet Inequality (PI) and Pandora's Box (PB). Both problems deal with a set of variables drawn from known distributions. In PI the gambler observes an adversarial order of these variables with the goal of selecting one that maximizes the expected value against a prophet who knows the exact values realized. The gambler has to irrevocably decide at each step whether to select the value or discard it…

Netflix's WBD bid marks a striking strategy shift for a company long known for pivots, especially after years of avoiding full commitment to theatrical releases (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/business/media/ne…

Netflix Changes Course Again With Warner Bros. Deal
The streaming giant has changed its strategy many times over the years. But the decision to get deeply into theatrical releases may be the most startling yet.

Centrism is the unwavering commitment to perfect being the enemy of the good, where good is whatever the Overton Window says it is.

Germany reaffirms commitment to #SKAO as major contract signed: https://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/announcements/2025/8 - OHB Digital Connect will supply 86 highly sensitive receivers for the SKA-Mid radio telescope, currently under construction in South Africa’s Northern Cape; the €10.7m contract is the first to be awarded to Germany since it joined the Observatory just under a year ago.

A strong union, and a strong commitment to healthy work-life balance, makes for a strong company. I encourage Kickstarter management to come back to the table and bargain with the workers @… immediately!

Right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel recently told an audience that he pushed Tesla CEO and fellow billionaire Elon Musk not to give money to charity and instead horde it so it could be used to battle a future “Antichrist.”
According to a Thursday Reuters report, Thiel told attendees of closed-door event in San Francisco last month that he pressed Musk to rescind his commitment to the Giving Pledge, the charitable campaign cofounded by Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates that asks signatories…

Instead of Charity, Peter Thiel Told Elon Musk to Use Billions for Right-Wing Crusade Against 'Antichrist' | Common Dreams
Billionaire Peter Thiel urges Elon Musk to hoard wealth to battle future "Antichrist." Thiel warns against giving to left-wing nonprofits.

"At least four people have turned down their nomination for Cycling UK's annual 100 Women in Cycling award following the charity's decision to exclude transwomen and non-binary people from consideration, citing a Supreme Court ruling."
https://road.cc/content/news/cy…

Several winners of Cycling UK 100 Women in Cycling prize decline award due to exclusion of transwomen
Cycling UK say the decision was made following legal advice but that the rule change "doesn't alter our commitment to transgender and non-binary people"

genuinely excited that the new spotify CEOs will be serious music heads with an ethical commitment to paying musicians & who absolutely love reading liner notes & production credits & whose favorite beefheart albums are... oh, wait... <checking earpiece>
https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/11529

Designing Inferable Signaling Schemes for Bayesian Persuasion
Caleb Probine, Mustafa O. Karabag, Ufuk Topcu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01434 https://arxiv.…

Designing Inferable Signaling Schemes for Bayesian Persuasion
In Bayesian persuasion, an informed sender, who observes a state, commits to a randomized signaling scheme that guides a self-interested receiver's actions. Classical models assume the receiver knows the commitment. We, instead, study the setting where the receiver infers the scheme from repeated interactions. We bound the sender's performance loss relative to the known-commitment case by a term that grows with the signal space size and shrinks as the receiver's optimal actions become more dist…

Kind of ironic, given they’ve not actually stopped whinging about it for the past decade. #auspol https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/115478102222542658

Good riddance. "Six days a week, 24 hours a day, two police officers within it would be paid overtime, which comes out to time-and-a-half." Think what we could've done to actually help people with this money. https://missionlocal.org/2025/09/sfpd-

SFPD nixes 24/7 bus at 16th and Mission, offers varying rationales
The command unit was placed at the BART plaza to demonstrate the city’s commitment to addressing drug use and vending

Netflix's WBD bid marks a striking strategy shift for a company long known for pivots, especially after years of avoiding full commitment to theatrical releases (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/business/media/ne…

Netflix Changes Course Again With Warner Bros. Deal
The streaming giant has changed its strategy many times over the years. But the decision to get deeply into theatrical releases may be the most startling yet.

Being owned by someone used to be called slavery -- now it's called commitment.

Crosslisted article(s) found for quant-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/quant-ph/new
[1/1]:
- String commitment from unstructured noise
Jiawei Wu, Masahito Hayashi, Marco Tomamichel

Now that’s commitment.

The Trump administration is not attacking the "excesses" of "woke" scholarship. They're at war with the very idea of power analysis, with the feeling of deep empathy with the oppressed, with ethical commitment to make a just world.

I translated bondi's statement into what she meant:
#USpol #satire #Comey

Good on Biffa. Their renewed commitment to customer service means they won't 'action' my email. Instead I can use their portal, only I can't because I'm not an existing customer. But that's okay because I can use their phone line instead, which forever send me through a loop of repeating menus and never puts me through to someone. Well done Biffa, you are beyond parody and clearly don't want any new customers. And I thought Veolia were shit. Well they were, but B…

The (No) Value of Commitment
Nathan Hancart
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07994 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07994

The (No) Value of Commitment
I provide a sufficient condition under which a principal does not benefit from committing to a mechanism in economic models represented by a maximisation problem under constraints. These problems include mechanism design, principal-agent models or sender-receiver games. In principal-agent problems, this condition holds if the agent has a finite strategy space and the principal's value function is continuous in the mechanism.

So true.
#freeSpeech

“The Just and Good Governor of the World:” John Hancock’s Congregationalist Roots and Religious Commitment
https://ift.tt/9WGEg8m
Contention Vol. 7, Issue 1 Dear Colleague, The new issue of Contention has…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Pricing Short-Circuit Current via a Primal-Dual Formulation for Preserving Integrality Constraints
Peng Wang, Luis Badesa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05293 https://

Pricing Short-Circuit Current via a Primal-Dual Formulation for Preserving Integrality Constraints
Synchronous Generators (SGs) currently provide important levels of Short-Circuit Current (SCC), a critical ancillary service that ensures line protections trip during short-circuit faults. Given the ongoing replacement of SGs by power-electronics-based generation, which have a hard limit for current injection, it has become relevant to optimize the procurement of SCC provided by remaining SGs. Pricing this service is however challenging due to the integrality constraints in Unit Commitment (UC)…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#Radio3InConcert
- BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at 90
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra looks forward to its 90th anniversary this week, with a celebration of its commitment to contemporary music.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mkzn

'Bondi said in a statement that the indictment "reflects this Department of Justice's commitment to holding those who abuse positions of power accountable for misleading the American people."' I wonder if there are any other people who might be more obviously guilty of abusing positions of power ... 🤔 #uspol

Former FBI director James Comey indicted on two charges
James Comey says he is innocent after being accused of lying to Congress in 2020 while testifying about leaks to the media.

I want to see **ONE SINGLE DEMOCRATIC POLITICIAN** show half the commitment these folks are.
If you can't, you don't deserve the office.
Cc @… @…

There are two reasons that Motability includes “premium” brands:
1/ they are often the ones that meet the needs of the users with features like parking assistance for those who cannot see behind them
2/ the leases are often cheaper than non premium brands as their resale value is so much higher.
The effect of these changes might well be that Mobility actually costs the government MORE money 🤦‍♀️

Motability Scheme makes ambitious goal that half of Scheme vehicles leased from 2035 will be British built
Motability Scheme sets ambition for 50% of all vehicles leased to be British built from 2035  Scheme is a lifeline for disabled people and will now further support the UK economy  With government and industry support, ambitious commitment could create demand for 150,000 vehicles annually, boosting jobs and driving new investment  Premium brand vehicles, including Mercedes Benz and BMW, removed from the Scheme 

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Dear Europeans,
What do we do if Scotland wants to join the EU after a new referendum?
They really showed over the years more commitment.
#Brexit

They should invent some kind of Boy Scouts group for adults that doesn't require a 4-year commitment with the potential for being stop-lossed into an oil war 7000 miles from home

Zelensky: Trump meeting was 'positive' despite lack of Tomahawk commitment (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5564214-ukraine-us-missiles-negotiations/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p135#a251020p135

#DnD is now proven to be good for your mind:
For most people, Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) is simply a niche fantasy table-top game. But around tables cluttered with dice, maps and character sheets, players are doing far more than playing. They're engaging in leisure. Serious leisure, to be exact. Sociologists define serious leisure as a hobby that demands skill, commitment an…

Eight years ago today, my granddaughter, age 1, is demonstrating commitment to the pumpkin carving.
#Halloween

Instead of cancelling something, today I’m subscribing to WIRED magazine. They continue to frankly report on politics and realities in tech today, and restated their commitment in this Katie Drummond editorial. (ironically, I can only find it on Apple News ’s page-by-page magazine edition)
https://apple.news/AlRnIwnkDROuTjFPR4…

Indiana May Reject Degrees That Don’t Commit to American “Values” https://share.google/YRcaOXnvCKLQa8IoV

Ind. May Reject Degrees That Don’t Commit to American “Values”
Indiana may reject proposed degree programs at public institutions that don’t “cultivate civic responsibility and commitment to the core values of American society.” Earlier this month, the Indiana Commission for Higher Education introduced a question on “civic responsibility and commitment” in its new degree proposal form,

• Fossil fuels were not mentioned in the key final decision – petrostates including Saudi Arabia and allies fought fiercely to keep that out.
• A commitment to a roadmap to transition away from fossil fuels was not part of the formal deal
https://www.theguardian.c…

Understanding the Impact of Hydro-Reservoirs and Inverters on Frequency-Constrained Operation
Valeria Aravena, Samuel Cordova, Maximiliano Kairath, Matias Negrete-Pincetic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06422

Understanding the Impact of Hydro-Reservoirs and Inverters on Frequency-Constrained Operation
The increasing participation of renewable energy sources in power systems has entailed a series of challenges resulting from the replacement of conventional synchronous machines with carbon-free Inverter-Based-Resources (IBRs). In this context, the present work contributes to the existing literature on Frequency-Constrained Unit Commitment (FCUC) models by studying the role of hydro-reservoirs in the ongoing decarbonization of power systems. For this purpose, a novel FCUC model is developed, wh…

Israeli politicians cast doubt on government’s commitment to ceasefire
Israel reportedly halts supply of aid into Gaza as it launches ‘massive wave of attacks’ – Middle East crisis live
Following Israeli airstrikes on Gaza earlier today, more senior ministers have made remarks casting doubt on the government’s commitment to the ceasefire deal
Amichai Chikli, Israel’s diaspora affairs minister and a vocal hardliner, said:
“As long as Hamas exists, there will be war.”

The Dedication of Dick Cass Field https://www.baltimoreravens.com/video/dick-cass-field-boys-girls-club-hilton-recreation-center-dedication

Replaced article(s) found for physics.soc-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.soc-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Construct to Commitment: The Effect of Narratives on Economic Growth
Hanyuan Jiang, Yi Man

Retracting their financial commitment to original content, streamers simply aren't spending money on series like this any more.
▶️ Alan Tudyk on why ANDOR was such a special show & why it will be so hard to replicate
https://youtube.com/watch?v=999tjKh1y5g&s…

“The Just and Good Governor of the World:” John Hancock’s Congregationalist Roots and Religious Commitment
https://ift.tt/AEMi7Ig
H-Diplo Roundtable XXV-12 on Fall, _Dien Bien Phu: Un coin d’Enfer_ H-Diplo Roundtable…
via Input 4 RELCFP

AWS announces a commitment to invest up to $50B to build AI and HPC infrastructure for the US government, starting in 2026 and adding nearly 1.3 GW of capacity (Eric Revell/Fox Business)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/amazon-invest…

Amazon to invest up to $50B to build AI infrastructure for US government agencies
AWS announced an investment of up to $50 billion to build AI and supercomputing infrastructure for U.S. government agencies starting in 2026 through a new initiative.

How Surveillance Firms Use ‘Democracy’ As a Cover for Serving ICE and Trump https://www.404media.co/how-surveillance-firms-use-democracy-as-a-cover-for-serving-ice-and-trump/

"Denmark announces one of the world’s most ambitious climate targets, while the rest of the EU looks away"
#Denmark #Climate #ClimateChange

Palantir shifted course to play key role in ICE deportations
Even as Palantir took on extensive data-management contracts for the federal government,
the company said it was not willing to allow its powerful tools to broadly track immigrants across America.

That commitment no longer holds.
Palantir’s software is helping U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement track undocumented immigrants and deport them faster,
according to federal procurement filings and in…

How Palantir shifted course to play key role in ICE deportations
“The truly progressive position on immigration” is “extreme skepticism,” says Alex Karp, a longtime Democrat and the data management company’s chief executive.

On Dynamic Programming Theory for Leader-Follower Stochastic Games
Jilles Steeve Dibangoye, Thibaut Le Marre, Ocan Sankur, Fran\c{c}ois Schwarzentruber
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05667 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.05667 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.05667
arXiv:2512.05667v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Leader-follower general-sum stochastic games (LF-GSSGs) model sequential decision-making under asymmetric commitment, where a leader commits to a policy and a follower best responds, yielding a strong Stackelberg equilibrium (SSE) with leader-favourable tie-breaking. This paper introduces a dynamic programming (DP) framework that applies Bellman recursion over credible sets-state abstractions formally representing all rational follower best responses under partial leader commitments-to compute SSEs. We first prove that any LF-GSSG admits a lossless reduction to a Markov decision process (MDP) over credible sets. We further establish that synthesising an optimal memoryless deterministic leader policy is NP-hard, motivating the development of {\epsilon}-optimal DP algorithms with provable guarantees on leader exploitability. Experiments on standard mixed-motive benchmarks-including security games, resource allocation, and adversarial planning-demonstrate empirical gains in leader value and runtime scalability over state-of-the-art methods.
toXiv_bot_toot

NFL to play regular-season games in Rio de Janeiro starting in 2026 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6665622/2025/09/26/nfl-2026-rio-de-janeiro-maracana-stadium/

Solving Sparse MIQCQPs: Application to the Unit Commitment Problem with ACOPF Constraints
Ignacio G\'omez-Casares, Pietro Belotti, Bissan Ghaddar, Julio Gonz\'alez-D\'iaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18911

Solving Sparse MIQCQPs: Application to the Unit Commitment Problem with ACOPF Constraints
Mixed-Integer Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programs arise in a variety of applications, particularly in energy, water, and gas systems, where discrete decisions interact with nonconvex quadratic constraints. These problems are computationally challenging due to the combination of combinatorial complexity and nonconvexity, often rendering traditional exact methods ineffective for large-scale instances. In this paper, we propose a solution framework for sparse MIQCQPs that integrates semid…

#ARTIS Park in #Amsterdam becomes an Urban Night Sky Place, becoming first zoo in the world to earn #DarkSky certification: https://darksky.org/news/artis-park-becomes-an-urban-night-sky-place-becoming-first-zoo-in-the-world-to-earn-darksky-certification/ - > "ARTIS Park is now the first location in the heart of a European capital to receive this certification—and the first zoo in the world to earn the designation. This recognition honors ARTIS’s commitment to reducing light pollution and highlights the importance of darkness for both nature and people in urban environments."

Raiders meet with Maxx Crosby to reinforce commitment to star pass rusher amid trade rumors: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6740182/2025/10/22/las-vegas-raiders-maxx-crosby-meeting/

Grid Frequency Stability Support Potential of Data Center: A Quantitative Assessment of Flexibility
Pengyu Ren, Wei Sun, Yifan Wang, Gareth Harrison
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01050

Grid Frequency Stability Support Potential of Data Center: A Quantitative Assessment of Flexibility
The rapid expansion of data center infrastructure is reshaping power system dynamics by significantly increasing electricity demand while also offering potential for fast and controllable flexibility. To ensure reliable operation under such conditions, the frequency secured unit commitment problem must be solved with enhanced modeling of demand side frequency response. In this work, we propose a data-driven linearization framework based on decision tree based constraint learning to embed nonlin…

U.S. scales back troops on NATO’s eastern flank
The United States has informed its NATO allies that it will scale back its troop presence along Europe’s eastern border with Ukraine as it focuses on security priorities elsewhere in the world, Romania’s defense ministry said on Wednesday.
The U.S. Army later confirmed the move but denied it was a sign of lessened commitment to NATO.
Depending on operations and exercises, around 80,000-100,000 U.S. troops are usually present…

The Philippines just secured its first fixed-bottom offshore wind auctions—a major leap for clean energy in Asia.
The GEA-5 program targets 3.3 gigawatts of capacity, focusing on proven technology that can move to construction faster. This strategic approach positions the country as one of Asia's fastest-advancing offshore wind markets.

First Fixed-Bottom Offshore Wind Project Auctions In The Philippines Secured - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. At the 2025 APAC Wind Energy Summit of the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) last September, the Philippines made its strongest commitment yet to building a commercial offshore wind industry (OSW). This month, a breakthrough Green Energy Auction Program Round ... [continued]

A Lightweight Approach for State Machine Replication
Christian Cachin, Jinfeng Dou, Christian Scheideler, Philipp Schneider
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17771 https://

A Lightweight Approach for State Machine Replication
We present a lightweight solution for state machine replication with commitment certificates. Specifically, we adapt a simple median rule from the stabilizing consensus problem [Doerr11] to operate in a client-server setting where arbitrary servers may be blocked adaptively based on past system information. We further extend our protocol by compressing information about committed commands, thus keeping the protocol lightweight, while still enabling clients to easily prove that their commands ha…

Replaced article(s) found for physics.soc-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.soc-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Construct to Commitment: The Effect of Narratives on Economic Growth
Hanyuan Jiang, Yi Man

McCarthy nears return as Wentz fights pain in loss https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46705844/vikings-hopeful-mccarthy-back-week-9-blowout-loss

NFL to play regular-season games in Rio de Janeiro starting in 2026 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6665622/2025/09/26/nfl-2026-rio-de-janeiro-maracana-stadium/

Maxx Crosby named Las Vegas Raiders winner for Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award presented by Nationwide https://www.raiders.com/news/maxx-crosby-raiders-winner-for-2025-walter-payton-nfl-man-of-the-year-award-p…

Mastodon announced fiscal sponsorship via WE AID,
a German nonprofit organisation that supports charitable projects within an established legal framework.
This partnership offers donors
tax-deductible contributions in Germany
and ensures verified integrity through WE AID’s oversight.
It also enables Mastodon to operate as a nonprofit entity,
strengthening the commitment to a user-first,
community-driven platform,
free from algorithmic manipul…

Mastodon Joins Forces with WE AID
We're partnering with WE AID as our fiscal sponsor for donations in Europe.

Mastodon announced fiscal sponsorship via WE AID,
a German nonprofit organisation that supports charitable projects within an established legal framework.
This partnership offers donors
tax-deductible contributions in Germany
and ensures verified integrity through WE AID’s oversight.
It also enables Mastodon to operate as a nonprofit entity,
strengthening the commitment to a user-first, community-driven platform,
free from algorithmic manipulation an…

Mastodon Joins Forces with WE AID
We're partnering with WE AID as our fiscal sponsor for donations in Europe.

NFL to play regular-season games in Rio de Janeiro starting in 2026 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6665622/2025/09/26/nfl-2026-rio-de-janeiro-maracana-stadium/

The first Reconstruction
rebuilt freedom and citizenship after the Civil War
—imperfectly, to be sure.
The commitment faded
and with it large parts of the country descended into another century of tyranny.
But the embers of Reconstruction did not fully die out.
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
—eradicating slavery,
promising due process and equal protection under the law
while also enshrining guaranteed citizenship,
and expandin…

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📝 On this #GivingTuesday, we invite you to support our work at the donation link in our bio.
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These funds will support our LakeBack campaign, working to return Maple Bay, on the north side of Onondaga Lake to the Onondaga Nation. We have been working on this campaign for years. We have renewed our demand that the county government fulfill their commitment to return land on the shores of Onondaga Lake.
There is an additional 1% donation added by the fundraising site for all donations that come in on Giving Tuesday! Please support our work today.
!a giving tuesday flyer with a picture of the #Lake back banner drop which happened at Onondaga Lake (#IndigenousRights #LakeBack #LandBack #OnondagaNation