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A useful tidbit that stood out to me in this article:
“Noem [by lying] is training and testing the MAGA base”
Huh − “training and testing”
There’s a dance here: the regime is training its supports in how to think about and talk about current circumstances — but also testing the waters, seeing what sticks, what they’re willing to believe. Recognizing this as a bidirectional dance seems useful. Framing it as “training” instead of “telling” seems useful. Recognizing it as “testing” seems useful.
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/ice-noem-dangerous-playbook

Metropolitana II🔶
城 II🔶
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🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
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Discrete Curvatures and Convex Polytopes
Jes\'us A. De Loera, Jillian Eddy, Sawyer Jack Robertson, Jos\'e Alejandro Samper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11894 https://

Discrete Curvatures and Convex Polytopes
We study Forman--Ricci and effective resistance curvatures on the skeleta of convex polytopes. Our guiding questions are: how frequently do polytopal graphs exhibit everywhere positive curvature, and what structural constraints does positivity impose? For Forman--Ricci curvature we derive an exact identity for the average edge curvature in terms of flag $f$-numbers and establish the existence of infinite families of Forman--Ricci-positive polytopes in every fixed dimension $d\ge 6$. We prove fi…

Reduced Density Matrix Functional Theory And A Reduced Formulation Of Density Functional Theory
H{\aa}kon Richard Fredheim, Simen Kvaal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12242 https://…

Reduced Density Matrix Functional Theory And A Reduced Formulation Of Density Functional Theory
A mathematical framework for reduced density matrix functional theory (RDMFT) is proposed. The work is inspired by and generalizes the work by E.H.~Lieb [E.H. Lieb, Int. J. Quant. Chem. 24(1983), pp.243--277] on density-functional theory (DFT). We introduce a Banach space for density matrices with finite kinetic energy. The dual space is a rich class of single-particle potentials, i.e., Hermitian forms. The ground state energy of an $N$-fermion system with external forces given by any such Herm…

South Australia is getting a major energy upgrade.
Engie and Sungrow just broke ground on the Pelican Point battery storage system—a massive 200MW/400MWh facility that'll power over 29,400 homes while stabilizing the renewable-rich grid.
Expected online in late 2027, it's a key piece of the region's clean energy transition.

Construction begins on Engie’s Pelican Point BESS in South Australia
Sungrow and Engie have started construction on the Pelican Point grid-forming battery energy storage system (BESS) project in South Australia, marking a key step in the state’s clean energy transition.

If Letchworth State Park is the Grand Canyon of New York, Monkey Run is the Letchworth State Park of Tompkins County -- here's a spot you can only get to if you're willing to walk the creek in water shoes
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2026 NFL Mock Draft, top 10 picks: Fernando Mendoza at No. 1, Jeremiyah Love to Vikings https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6873333/2025/12/09/nfl-mock-draft-2026-mendoza-ohio-state/

A day after part of a missile fired by the United States hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility,
the people of Jabo in northwestern Nigeria are in a state of shock and confusion.
Suleiman Kagara, a resident of this quiet and predominantly Muslim farming community in Tambuwal district of Sokoto state, told CNN he heard a loud blast and saw flames as a projectile flew overhead at around 10 p.m. on Thursday.
Soon after, it came crashing down, expl…

Fear and confusion in Nigerian village hit in US strike, as locals say no history of ISIS in area
A day after part of a missile fired by the United States hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility, the villagers of Jabo in northwest Nigeria are in a state of shock and confusion.

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2026 NFL Mock Draft, top 10 picks: Fernando Mendoza at No. 1, Jeremiyah Love to Vikings https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6873333/2025/12/09/nfl-mock-draft-2026-mendoza-ohio-state/