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Don’t get me wrong: I think it is •still• worth haranguing congress to use the powers they have and crank all these legal gears as hard as they can. It’s perhaps worth it now more than ever as the MAGA coalition falters and politicians look to their own post-Trump survival. There are battles to win there.
I’m just saying we shouldn’t pin our primary hopes on the legal system. Massive, relentless popular opposition is the bedrock here.

Crank Sturgeon / Theo Nugraha – Cranthez !!!
#bync

<https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/codger?s=t> strong matches:
crank | dodo | eccentric | fellow | galoot | miser
😸 OK, I'm probably most of those, except a miser.
The word "galoot" was new to me. <

Somehow Bill Watterson published this Calvin and Hobbes comic strip about generative AI 40 years ago.
#genAI #CalvinAndHobbes

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Catherine Wheel:
🎵 Crank
#CatherineWheel
https://silohalo.bandcamp.com/track/crank-catherine-wheel
https://open.spotify.com/track/6vNHkJiZZtKm4x8ESkfM4Q

@… but I need crank options!!!

While I’ve never considered myself a big Alannis Morisette fan “All I really want is” is definitely on my “oh it just came on, time to crank the volume up” list.
(It just came on while I was listening to WRPS Rockland 😁)

"Here’s a problem that’s highly likely going to get much worse, people [are] outsourcing their thinking to AI. “Many people are becoming reliant on AI to navigate some of the most basic aspects of daily life. A colleague suggested that we might even call the most extreme users “LLeMmings”"
Brilliant. From the Crank.
Read it Now

The Dice — 041
The design of competitive Paris, Jack into ᑕ¥βєяรקค¢є, a signal for world revolution, seeking silence and a clear view without Akutaq. Frito is real, and it’s the scariest movie of 2025.

ugh im so tempted to try drawtober again but i already have my attention pulled by so much. and i dont wanna just crank out a few minutes doodle like i do at church, id wanna get consistent practice with something i wanna get better at, like digital collage

Creative synthesis of kinematic mechanisms
Jiong Lin, Jialong Ning, Judah Goldfeder, Hod Lipson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03308 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510…

Creative synthesis of kinematic mechanisms
In this paper, we formulate the problem of kinematic synthesis for planar linkages as a cross-domain image generation task. We develop a planar linkages dataset using RGB image representations, covering a range of mechanisms: from simple types such as crank-rocker and crank-slider to more complex eight-bar linkages like Jansen's mechanism. A shared-latent variational autoencoder (VAE) is employed to explore the potential of image generative models for synthesizing unseen motion curves and simul…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Catherine Wheel:
🎵 Crank
#CatherineWheel
https://silohalo.bandcamp.com/track/crank-catherine-wheel
https://open.spotify.com/track/6vNHkJiZZtKm4x8ESkfM4Q

Weighted implicit-explicit discontinuous Galerkin methods for two-dimensional Ginzburg-Landau equations on general meshes
Zhen Guan, Xianxian Cao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10283

Weighted implicit-explicit discontinuous Galerkin methods for two-dimensional Ginzburg-Landau equations on general meshes
In this paper, a second-order linearized discontinuous Galerkin method on general meshes, which treats the backward differentiation formula of order two (BDF2) and Crank-Nicolson schemes as special cases, is proposed for solving the two-dimensional Ginzburg-Landau equations with cubic nonlinearity. By utilizing the discontinuous Galerkin inverse inequality and the mathematical induction method, the unconditionally optimal error estimate in $L^2$-norm is obtained. The core of the analysis in thi…

Single-Rod Brachiation Robot: Mechatronic Control Design and Validation of Prejump Phases
Juraj Lieskovsk\'y, Hijiri Akahane, Aoto Osawa, Jaroslav Bu\v{s}ek, Ikuo Mizuuchi, Tom\'a\v{s} Vyhl\'idal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02946

Single-Rod Brachiation Robot: Mechatronic Control Design and Validation of Prejump Phases
A complete mechatronic design of a minimal configuration brachiation robot is presented. The robot consists of a single rigid rod with gripper mechanisms attached to both ends. The grippers are used to hang the robot on a horizontal bar on which it swings or rotates. The motion is imposed by repositioning the robot's center of mass, which is performed using a crank-slide mechanism. Based on a non-linear model, an optimal control strategy is proposed, for repositioning the center of mass in a ba…

Our pick this week is a banger from UK punk rockers Templeton Pek.
Crank that volume, give it a listen and see what we had to say about the track and the band behind it. Go on, it's almost the weekend .. treat yourself!
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Templeton Pek - Red Lights Flash
One awesome, hand picked song from the world of rock and metal, showcased every week. Nothing more, nothing less! 🤘

An adaptive time-stepping strategy for the modified phase field crystal model with a strong nonlinear vacancy potential
Wanrong Hao, Yunqing Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11475

An adaptive time-stepping strategy for the modified phase field crystal model with a strong nonlinear vacancy potential
This paper develops three linear and energy-stable schemes for a modified phase field crystal model with a strong nonlinear vacancy potential (VMPFC model). This sixth-order phase-field model enables realistic crystal growth simulation. Starting from a Crank-Nicolson scheme based on the stabilized-SAV (S-SAV) method, we optimize it via the generalized positive auxiliary variable (GPAV) and modified exponential scalar auxiliary variable (ESAV) methods, thereby reducing computational complexity o…

Solitons in the Korteweg-de Vries Equation
G. Bueno, M. Bonehill
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07207 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07207

Solitons in the Korteweg-de Vries Equation
We propose a numerical solution to the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation using a Crank-Nicolson scheme, and compare its performance to the Fast Fourier Transform method. The properties and interactions of soliton solutions are further examined. Initial conditions were varied to analyse soliton formation in the resulting system. Performing an L$^2$ error analysis demonstrated consistency between numerical methods of solving the KdV equation and analytical solutions.