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Thirteen years ago, a Brooklyn man’s child molestation conviction pierced a veil of silence in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community,
where many people who dared to report sexual abuse were shunned, expelled from schools and had businesses ruined.
Now the man, Nechemya Weberman, an unlicensed therapist who was sentenced to 103 years in prison, could be on a path to freedom.
Mr. Weberman, 67, is scheduled to appear in court next month, with a judge set to decide whether to comm…

Orthodox Jewish Man Sentenced to 103 Years for Sex Abuse May Go Free
Nechemya Weberman, convicted of molesting a 12-year-old girl in a politically charged case, is seeking a new, shorter sentence with the Brooklyn district attorney’s support.

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
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Having just watched #Jaws for the first time in ages, I was stunned by the famous opening sequence ... but not by its cinematography or acting or editing - but by the never-ending chain of in-your-face #continuity errors in lighting once the girl enters the water: one moment we have a low Sun and a red sky, then we have the Sun near the zenith (with a day for night effect) then low again and so on, for several cycles.
Now #Spielberg, is there supposed to be some hidden message here? Well, there isn't.
(Once it's day, fortunately, this problem is gone, and a great movie unfolds, still fresh after 50 years. And I know, you shouldn't mess with a masterpiece, but Lucas added characters to Star Wars IV, and Cameron corrected a wrong star pattern in Titanic, so may be Spielberg could just, for an anniversary special edition ... o.k., I shut up. ;-)

De maneira geral, as pessoas mostram como são burras em comentšrios sobre notícias em redes sociais. Mas parece que é ainda pior quando são notícias internacionais. Fica um espírito de jogo de futebol somado a um conhecimento nulo de geopolítica. E o cidadão médio parece entender ainda menos de geopolítica do que das outras coisas. Mesmo pessoas que costumam tecer comentšrios relevantes em política nacional comumente falam muita groselha quando assunto é política internacional.

Its nice to encouraging stories like this - and exciting.
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/05/agricu…

Its nice to encouraging stories like this - and exciting.
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/05/agricu…

Hybrid Quantum-Classical Walks for Graph Representation Learning in Community Detection
Adri\'an Mar{\i}n, Mauricio Soto-Gomez, Giorgio Valentini, Elena Casiraghi, Carlos Cano, Daniel Manzano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01918

Hybrid Quantum-Classical Walks for Graph Representation Learning in Community Detection
Graph Representation Learning (GRL) has emerged as a cornerstone technique for analysing complex, networked data across diverse domains, including biological systems, social networks, and data analysis. Traditional GRL methods often struggle to capture intricate relationships within complex graphs, particularly those exhibiting non-trivial structural properties such as power-law distributions or hierarchical structures. This paper introduces a novel quantum-inspired algorithm for GRL, utilizing…

“All my life I’ve wanted to ‘see’ into the soil,” he said. “Maybe now we can.”
Cheap “soilsmology” can apparently let farmers find out what's going on in their soil without disruptive coring or plowing. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/<…