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If you always have all your digital stuff set to English you may not be aware of how often those of us who use multi-lingual interfaces come across bad auto-translation that force us to do a double-take. (worst case they can of course be very dangerous).

This is from an email log in Gmail today.

The label "Delstat" is presumable from "State" in English, meaning what condition/status the email is in.

But delstat in Swedish essentially refers to U.S.…

Właśnie się zorientowałem, że mobilna wersja #Thunderbird na #Android to chyba tak naprawdę #K9Mail w delikatnie zmienionej kolorystyce.

The United Nations General Assembly will convene its September session in Geneva instead of New York,
following the United States’ refusal to grant entry visas to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and dozens of senior Palestinian officials
President Abbas is expected to address the Assembly in Geneva,
where he will call for international protection, recognition of Palestinian sovereignty,
and accountability for war crimes.
The Geneva session is expected to amp…

UN Assembly Moves to Geneva After U.S. Bars Palestinian Delegation | – IMEMC News
The United Nations General Assembly will convene its September session in Geneva instead of New York, following the United States’ refusal to grant entry visas to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abba…

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In the sixteenth century, lunacy was a constant theme that was never questioned. It was still frequent in the seventeenth century, but started to disappear, and by 1707, the year in which Le François asked the question ‘Estne aliquod lunae in corpora humana imperium?’ (Does the moon have any influence over the human body?), after lengthy discussions, the university decided that their reply was in the negative. In the course of the eighteenth century the moon was rarely cited among the causes of madness, even as a possible factor or an aggravation. But right at the end of the century the idea reappears, perhaps under the influence of English medicine, which had never entirely forgotten the moon, and Daquin, followed by Leuret and Guislain, all admitted the influence of the moon on the phases of maniacal excitement, or at the least on the agitation of their patients. But what is important here is not so much the return of the theme as the possibility and conditions necessary for its reappearance. It reappears entirely transformed, filled with a new significance that it did not formerly possess. In its traditional form, it designated an immediate influence, a direct coincidence in time and intersection in space, whose mode of action was entirely situated in the power of the stars. But in Daquin by contrast, the influence of the moon acts through a whole series of mediations, in a kind of hierarchy, surrounding man. The moon acts on the atmosphere with such intensity that it can set in motion a mass as heavy as the ocean. The nervous system, of all the parts that make up the human organism, is the part most sensitive to atmospheric variations, as the slightest variation in temperature, humidity or dryness can have serious effects upon it. The moon therefore, given the important power that its trajectory exerts on the atmosphere, is likely to act most on people whose nervous fibres are particularly delicate:
“Madness is an exclusively nervous condition, and the brain of a madman must therefore be infinitely more susceptible to the influence of the atmosphere, which itself undergoes considerable changes of intensity as a result of the different positions of the moon relative to the earth.” [Daquin, Philosophie de la folie, Paris, 1792]
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

Deltog i OSSEs parlamentariska församling i Porto på inbjudan av ukrainska delegationen kring hybridkrigföring. Att lyssna till kollegor från frontlinjen i det kognitiva kriget gav skärpa. Systematisk rysk påverkan testas i Ukraina, används mot oss.
https://carlheath.se/reflektioner-…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #90TEEN
Taylor Swift:
🎵 Delicate
#TaylorSwift
https://taylorswiftreimagined.bandcamp.com/track/taylor-swift-delicate-reimagined
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Non-unique decompositions of mixed states and deterministic energy transfers
Zihan Wang, Fei Meng, Oscar Dahlsten
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04235 https://…

Non-unique decompositions of mixed states and deterministic energy transfers
We investigate the impact of non-unique decompositions of mixed states on energy transfer. Mixed states generally have non-unique decompositions into pure states in quantum theory and, by definition, in other non-classical probabilistic theories. We consider energy transfers constituting deterministic energy harvesting, wherein the source transfers energy to the harvester but not entropy. We use the possibility of non-unique decompositions to derive that if source states in a set jointly lead t…

Manchmal fallen mir plötzlich jahrzehntelang nicht mehr gehörte Begriffe aus dem Dialekt meiner frühesten Kindheit ein. Kennt jemand von euch noch das Wort "denk" für "links"?

40 years ago today, the #GratefulDead open 3 days at red rocks, playing afternoon shows in an attempt to avoid the usual evening rain. fun daylight photos/videos. late summer ’85, show #6.
soundboard: https://