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Jelani Cobb, Taylor Lorenz, Jack Shafer, and Max Tani discuss why trust in media has hit a record low, press freedom, AI, journalists on social media, and more (Harper's)
https://harpers.org/archive/2025/11/wh

Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust the Media?, by Jelani Cobb, Taylor Lorenz, Jack Shafer, Max Tani
Anatomy of a credibility crisis

A year into Trump’s second term
MAGA’s internal contradictions can no longer be ignored.
The movement that had promised an end to foreign adventurism has found itself torn between an alliance of ideological noninterventionists and realists and a hawkish national security establishment.
Trumpism promised a revival of domestic manufacturing,
yet neither the president nor his advisers have decided whether this means tariffs, industrial policy, reviving organized labor,…

Opinion | The Strange Death of Make America Great Again
Trump has begun to recede from the movement he created.

From 1977 to 1979,
June Jordan and Toni Morrison were both a part of "The Sisterhood",
a group of Black women writers who met in a New York City apartment to eat and drink together while discussing liberation.
Whether addressing genocide, imperialism or the American literary establishment,
the writers in the group,
which included Alice Walker and Ntozake Shange,
saw their work as a means to make interventions against dominant narratives of colon…

Toni Morrison on Fascism and Censorship
In this reprint of "Peril" and "Racism and Fascism," Toni Morrison warns of the creative depths of fascism's reach.

"Polanski calls for sports boycott of Israel."
Ayoub Khan also called it correctly in a BBC interview: it (the Aston Villa decision) is both a safety issue and a matter of opposing genocide.
But depressing that the Canary can't write an article without citing Twitter and contributing to its SEO rankings.
And yes Preston is a third rate political commentator who can't string a thought together.

Zack Polanski says kick Israel out of all sports
Polanski has establishment media rattled as he endorses a 'general boycott of Israeli sports teams' - just like the cultural boycott of Russia

Det här är nog lie exakt rätt sätt att använda avgudadyrkansbegreppet i judisk lag https://poddtoppen.se/podcast/1749394340/the-beinart-notebook/what-will-establishment-jewish-leaders-sacrifice-to-defeat-mamdani

What Will Establishment Jewish Leaders Sacrifice to Defeat Mamdani? - The Beinart Notebook
A list of ways to help Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. This Friday’s Zoom call will be at 1 PM Eastern, our usual time. We’ll talk about the New York mayoral race’s ramifications for the Israel-Palestine debate nationally. Our guests will be Palestinian-American Georgia State Representative, and gubernatorial candidate, Ruwa Romman, who was denied the chance to speak at last year’s Democratic convention, and former Obama speechwriter Ben Rhodes, co-host of the podcast, Pod Save…

I voted for what you might call the "anti-establishment" voice for president. He wore a kaffiyeh and talked of environment and how the BCNDP could meet this incredibly challenging moment.
Glad I was able to support him. he came second by a large margin but I am grateful that support is there.
#bcndp #bcndp #democracy

The leftwing independent candidate Catherine Connolly has a won landslide election victory and been declared Ireland’s next president.
She pledged to be a “president for all” after securing 63% of the first preference votes, a stunning result that shook the political establishment and will make her the republic’s 10th head of state.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/25/catherine-connolly-ireland-presidential-election-leftwing?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Reports of Socialism’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated https://jacobin.com/2025/11/mamdani-socialism-democrats-sanders-establishment/

Reports of Socialism’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Centrists have been declaring the socialist movement dead for years in spite of the victories it has racked up. But Zohran Mamdani’s win makes its rise undeniable.

In Frankfurt/M. trifft sich wieder das #Establishment zur #Buchmesse.
Während es draußen stürmt und ich schon wieder das #Balkongemüse in Sicherheit bringen musste, greife ich li…

The Contrarian on #Mamdani , powerful
https://open.substack.com/pub/contrarian/p/why-the-establishment-didnt-get-mamdani…

All the more reason to support and send money to Graham Platner. The “Dem Establishment" needs to learn that they are no longer the leaders of the Democratic Party as they have sold out the party and the country to their Billionaire donors . https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gvda6fem6r7selm4gzjjww4a/post/3m365lfrsrs25

COUNTDOWN: 1 day to No Kings 2
Today's Action: commit to being there
It MUST be important to go to No Kings.
Because Trump, Mike Johnson and the MAGA establishment have all declared they don't want you to go
Local No Kings:
noon 10/18,
Alameda Park,
1400 Santa Barbara St.
#NoKings

Indivisible Santa Barbara (@indivisiblesb.bsky.social)
COUNTDOWN: 1 day to No Kings 2 Today's Action: commit to being there It MUST be important to go to No Kings. Because Trump, Mike Johnson and the MAGA establishment have all declared they don't want you to go Local No Kings: noon 10/18, Alameda Park, 1400 Santa Barbara St. #NoKings #indivisiblesb

Snufkin is often seen as a free spirit who values personal freedom and dislikes material possessions or hierarchical control. He is a carefree, anti-establishment character who despises private property and the trappings of capitalism, as evidenced by his habit of tearing down "private property" signs.
He embodies a philosophy of simplicity, independence, and living in harmony with nature, making him appear anti-hierarchical and anti-capitalist in spirit. This aligns with hi…

A cacao rush drives ‘alarming’ deforestation in Liberia #Liberia

A cacao rush drives ‘alarming’ deforestation in Liberia
A rush to plant cacao in southeastern Liberia is destroying large tracts of rainforest. According to satellite data as well as interviews with local environmental advocates and government officials, the establishment of new plantations in regions that border Côte d’Ivoire is causing extensive deforestation and spurring conflicts over land. While some of the plantations are […]

Restricting #JuryTrials
"It will make only a marginal difference to the problem it seeks to solve.
"But it is fair to suppose that the main motive for the change is increasing the power of the state at the expense of the people by stripping out a check on the power of the Establishment."
MPs are right to rebel over jury plans | Morning Star

Autonomous Legged Mobile Manipulation for Lunar Surface Operations via Constrained Reinforcement Learning
Alvaro Belmonte-Baeza, Miguel Cazorla, Gabriel J. Garc\'ia, Carlos J. P\'erez-Del-Pulgar, Jorge Pomares
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12684

Autonomous Legged Mobile Manipulation for Lunar Surface Operations via Constrained Reinforcement Learning
Robotics plays a pivotal role in planetary science and exploration, where autonomous and reliable systems are crucial due to the risks and challenges inherent to space environments. The establishment of permanent lunar bases demands robotic platforms capable of navigating and manipulating in the harsh lunar terrain. While wheeled rovers have been the mainstay for planetary exploration, their limitations in unstructured and steep terrains motivate the adoption of legged robots, which offer super…

Can you imagine what could be happening in Gaza right now if the Democrats, through countless administrations over the last 75 years, hadn’t stood up for what’s right against Israel’s settler colonialism, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing and seen the establishment of a two-state solution?
#democrats #republicans

If you haven't re-watched your 720p pirated copy from 2016 of The Matrix lately, do it now, if only for the showy dialogue at the beginning. So full of hope and righteousness, pure 90s bullet-time fuck-the-establishment attitude.
#Movies #SciFi

Conservatives Shocked, Shocked To Find Nazis In This Establishment
https://www.wonkette.com/p/conservatives-shocked-shocked-to

Quantum-Resistant Cryptography via Universal Gr\"obner Bases
Sergio Da Silva, Aniya Stewart
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10429 https://arxiv.org/pdf/251…

Quantum-Resistant Cryptography via Universal Gröbner Bases
In this article, we explore the use of universal Gröbner bases in public-key cryptography by proposing a key establishment protocol that is resistant to quantum attacks. By utilizing a universal Gröbner basis $\mathcal{U}_I$ of a polynomial ideal $I$ as a private key, this protocol leverages the computational disparity between generating the universal Gröbner basis needed for decryption compared with the single Gröbner basis used for encryption. The security of the system lies in the diffic…

✊🏽 How Labor and the Left Can Bolster Zohran Mamdani
#labor

How Labor and the Left Can Bolster Zohran Mamdani
If Zohran Mamdani wins, he will face fierce resistance from business elites and the political establishment. Unions and grassroots member organizations like the Democratic Socialists of America can play a key role in helping him overcome this opposition.

Die Älteren unter Euch in Wien mögen sich an das Restaurant Beograd im 4. als ein eher illustres Establishment für spätnächtliche Besuche erinnern. Nun, es ist jetzt sehr aufgeräumt und clean, Atmosphäre total anders, aber das Essen sehr, sehr gut. Sarma zum Niederknien und Nachspeisen, aber hallo. #nommention

Saw an AI-enhanced news page that categorised the Embassy of China as "anti-establishment" and I think we maybe have taxonomy problem as much as an AI problem.

#Intel actually provides decent public documentation on their boot flow and #firmware images:

Introduction to Key Usage in Integrated Firmware Images
This document provides background information on manifesting and signing of Intel and OEM components and the establishment of the Chain of Trust.

Kampf um die digitale Souveränität https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10186

Poland Enacts National Ban on Fur Farming, Operations to Cease by 2033 https://vegconomist.com/society/poland-enacts-national-ban-fur-farming-operations-cease-by-2033/

Poland Enacts National Ban on Fur Farming, Operations to Cease by 2033 - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
Poland has enacted a nationwide ban on fur farming, requiring all existing operations to cease by 2033 and prohibiting the establishment of new facilities.

Feebly Interacting Particles: FIPs at LHCb
J. Alimena, J. Boyd, G. Cacciapaglia, A. Casais Vidal, X. Cid Vidal, S. Collaviti, A. De Oyanguren Campos, G. Dalla Valle Garcia, G. Elor, G. Ferretti, D. Gorbunov, E. Goudzovski, J. Hajer, J. Jerhot, B. Kishor Jashal, V. Kholoimov, J. Klaric, F. Kling, E. Kriukova, Y. Kyselov, G. Lanfranchi, C. Langenbruch, A. Merli, M. Ovchinnykov, J. Pfaller, G. Perez, P. Reimitz, I. Sanderswood, L. Shchutska, E. Torro Pastor, Y. Tsai, A. Usachov, L. Vale S…

Feebly Interacting Particles: FIPs at LHCb
With the establishment and maturation of the experimental programs searching for new physics with sizeable couplings at the LHC, there is an increasing interest in the broader particle and astrophysics community for exploring the physics of light and feebly-interacting particles as a paradigm complementary to a New Physics sector at the TeV scale and beyond. FIPs@LHCb continues the successful series of the FIPs workshops, FIPs 2020 and FIPs 2022. The main focus of the workshop was to explore th…

"Noyb said Clearview violated [GDPR] and Austria's criminal provisions for those violations could expose Clearview and its executives to personal liability, including potential jail time."
"Noyb, led by Austrian lawyer Max Schrems [...] says Clearview has disregarded EU decisions as it lacks an EU establishment and has not paid imposed fines. The planned Austrian case seeks to test whether criminal enforcement can succeed where administrative penalties have struggled…

Gaussian Semantic Field for One-shot LiDAR Global Localization
Pengyu Yin, Shenghai Yuan, Haozhi Cao, Xingyu Ji, Ruofei Bai, Siyu Chen, Lihua Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12101

Gaussian Semantic Field for One-shot LiDAR Global Localization
We present a one-shot LiDAR global localization algorithm featuring semantic disambiguation ability based on a lightweight tri-layered scene graph. While landmark semantic registration-based methods have shown promising performance improvements in global localization compared with geometric-only methods, landmarks can be repetitive and misleading for correspondence establishment. We propose to mitigate this problem by modeling semantic distributions with continuous functions learned from a popu…

Much as white southerners acted like the election of a black man as mayor would be the death of the city as they had long known it,
white New Yorkers are now acting like the election of Mamdani will be the death of NYC.
Some of it is religious bigotry,
some of it is class panic,
but all of it is as unfounded as the reaction to the first black mayors a half century ago.

"Too Young to Die"
As the seemingly endless NYC mayoral campaign enters its final weeks, the howls of the Democratic establishment in the city are only getting louder. They've really convinced themselves that the election of a (gasp) Democratic Socialist will mean the absolute destruction of the city. Cops will quit! Billionaires will flee!

Demonstration of quantum error detection in a silicon quantum processor
Chunhui Zhang, Chunhui Li, Zhen Tian, Yan Jiang, Feng Xu, Shihang Zhang, Hao Wang, Yu-Ning Zhang, Xuesong Bai, Baolong Zhao, Yi-Fei Zhang, Huan Shu, Jiaze Liu, Kunrong Wu, Chao Huang, Keji Shi, Mingchao Duan, Tao Xin, Peihao Huang, Tianluo Pan, Song Liu, Guanyong Wang, Guangchong Hu, Yu He, Dapeng Yu

Demonstration of quantum error detection in a silicon quantum processor
Quantum error detection is essential in realizing large-scale universal quantum computation, especially for quantum error correction (QEC). However, key elements for FTQC have yet to be realized in silicon qubits. Here, we demonstrate quantum error detection on a donor-based silicon quantum processor comprising four-nuclear spin qubits and one electron spin as an auxiliary qubit. The entanglement capability of this system is validated through the establishment of two-qubit Bell state entangleme…

Moody Urbanity - Literally 📄
情绪化城市 - 字面上 📄
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400，expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

On energy-momentum conservation in non-minimal geometry-matter coupling theories
Gonzalo J. Olmo, Miguel A. S. Pinto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24890 https://

On energy-momentum conservation in non-minimal geometry-matter coupling theories
In this work, we discuss the conditions that allow the establishment of an equivalence between $f(R,T)=R+λh(T)$ gravity models and General Relativity coupled to a modified matter sector. We do so by considering a $D$-dimensional spacetime and the matter sector described by nonlinear electrodynamics and/or a scalar field.

EEG-Based Framework for Reflexive and Perceptual Assessment in CLIS: Preliminary Study in Healthy Volunteers
Nicoli Leal, Rute Bettencourt, Urbano J. Nunes, Gabriel Pires
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23524

EEG-Based Framework for Reflexive and Perceptual Assessment in CLIS: Preliminary Study in Healthy Volunteers
Despite the general assumption that completely locked-in state (CLIS) patients remain conscious and aware of their environment, the effectiveness of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) in facilitating communication has been limited, as reported both in the literature and in our own findings. This limitation is likely attributable to impairments in executive functions, working memory, and vigilance, which appear to hinder the establishment of reliable BCI-based communication. The main goal of this …

Yes, given the chaos, Your Party supporters should now cut their losses and join the Green Party (E&W).
"This [poll] makes the Green Party the primary opposition party to the neo-fascist Reform UK – and is gaining ground on the static Farage outfit."
Green Party leapfrogs Labour, Tories — the old order is crumbling

Greens overtake Labour, Tories in latest poll to become leading opposition party
The Green Party overtakes both Labour and Tories in new poll — Zack Polanski leading a political surge that’s shaking up the establishment

Former FBI Director James Comey was arguably one of the first consequential establishment figures to comply in advance with Donald Trump.
For his trouble, and his pivotal role in vaulting Trump to power,
he has now been targetedby Trump’s Justice Department for a politically motivated indictment.
The disgusting, undemocratic use of the justice system to further Trump’s petty feuds is ugly and terrifying.
It’s also, in James Comey’s case, a lesson that other elites w…

Comey and the lesson of pre-capitulation
He tried to palliate bad faith Republicans. Now we're all paying the price.

Die vernebelnden Begrifflichkeiten sind ein Wesensmerkmal des rechtskonservativen Diskurses um die Meinungsfreiheit. Denn sie verschleiern, worum es den Wortführern letztendlich geht.
Dafür muss man schon genau hinhören, etwa wenn, Hans-Georg Maassen sagt: «Die Einschränkung der Meinungsfreiheit beginnt damit, dass bestimmte Meinungen oder Themen tabuisiert werden, obwohl sie nicht verboten sind, aber vom herrschenden politisch-medialen Establishment missbilligt werden.» 1/2