What’s inside the latest CONNECT magazine edition?
From the EuroHPC #supercomputing award and #TNC26 updates to stories of global collaboration, this special edition celebrates the impact and expertise of our #Research
The cover of this week's edition of Science..
The details say it all - everything that Trump's shadow touches is broken.
https://www.science.org/
Let's do what we can to preserve science (which is an international endeavour) and support our US colleagues until the US gets rid of Trump!
Nielsen: viewership of YouTube on TVs in the US inched down from a high of 13.4% in July to 12.6% in September, but still leads other distributors (Sam Gutelle/Tubefilter)
https://www.tubefilter.com/2025/10/23/youtube-tv-screen-decline-nielse…
Concise and useful overview of the Russian occupation of Ukrainian land:
"What is the Donbas, the piece of Ukrainian land that Putin wants so badly?"
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/23/world/ukraine-donbas-region-explained-intl
My #HamRadio #POTA fun today was activating US-1904 Myakka River State Park on 20m and 17m, with 5W CW, on my new edition o…
2025 NFL playoff hunt: Buying and selling 18 potential Super Bowl contenders https://www.nfl.com/news/2025-nfl-playoff-hunt-buying-and-selling-18-potential-super-bowl-contenders
Any sufficiently advanced disaster preparedness is indistinguishable from revolutionary dual power. This essay is a bit of a transition between the theory I've written earlier, and more concrete plans.
Even though I only touched on my life on the commune, it was hard not to write more. These are such weird spaces, with so much invisible opportunity. But they're also just so unique and special. For all the stress and uncertainty of making sure you stayed on Lorean's (the head priestess), there were also those long summer nights with the whole community (except the old lady) gathered around a fire, talking and drinking. There was almost a child-like play to the whole time.
There were so Fridays I'd come home with a couple of gallons of beer from the real world, folks would bring things from the garden, someone would grill a steak, everyone who didn't cook would clean up, and we'd just hang out and have fun. So many evenings I'd go over to Miles place with a guitar, or with his guitar, and we'd pass it around over a few beers, talking about philosophy, Star Wars, or some book or other. It's hard not to write about the strange magic of that space.
My partner and I bonded over similar experiences, mine on a weird little religious commune in California and theirs as a temporary worker at Omega Institute. Both had exploitation, people on weird power trips, frustrating dynamics, but also a strange magic and freedom. Both were sort of fantasy worlds, but places that let us see through this one, let us imagine something that something else is possible behind the veil.
There are many such veils.
Perhaps it's fitting that this is more meandering, as a good wander can help the transition between lots of hard thinking and lots of hard working.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/evaluating-options
Editing feedback (especially typos, spelling, grammar) is always welcome, as are questions and even wider structural advice. I've been adding the handles of folks who provide feedback to the intro in a "thank you" section. If you do help and wouldn't like to be added, please let me know.
❌ Ethics
❌ A moral leg to stand on
✅ Most deadly military in the world
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/18/media/trump-mbs-saudi-prince-abc-mary-bruce-oval-office
Shedeur Sanders' first NFL start: What should we expect from Cleveland Browns rookie quarterback? https://www.nfl.com/news/shedeur-sanders-first-nfl-start-what-should-we-expect-from-cleveland-browns-rookie-quarterback