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This is a public service announcement for all the dollar-store Sherlock Holmes’s out there who clearly have nothing better to do than to concoct conspiracy theories about people from Gaza on the fediverse who are faced with genocide and famine:
Stop.
Have some humanity.
Case in point, do not do what Daniel (@helmet91@mastodon.social) is doing here:

Day 19 (a bit late): Alice Oseman
As I said I've got 14 authors to fit into two days. Probably just going to extend to 30? But Oseman gets this spot as an absolute legend of queer fiction in both novel & graphic novel form, and an excellent example of the many truths queer writers have to share with non-queer people that can make everyone's lives better. Her writing is very kind, despite in many instances dealing with some dark stuff.
I started out on Heartstopper, which is just so lovely and fun to read, and then made my way through several of her novels. The one I'll highlight here which I think it's her greatest triumph is "Loveless", which is semi-autobiographical and was at least my first (but no longer only) experience with the "platonic romance" sub-genre. It not only helped me work through some crufty internal doubts about aro/ace identities that I'd never really examined, but in the process helped improve my understanding of friendship, period. Heck, it's probably a nice novel for anyone questioning any sort of identity or dealing with loneliness, and it's just super-enjoyable as a story regardless of the philosophical value.
To cheat a bit more here on my author count, I recently read "Dear Wendy" by Ann Zhao, which shouts out "Loveless" and offers a more expository exploration of aro/ace identities, but "Loveless" is a book with more heart and better writing overall, including the neat plotting and great pacing. I think there are also parallels with Becky Albertalli's work, though I think I like Oseman slightly more. Certainly both excel at writing queer romance (and romance-adjacent) stuff with happy endings (#OwnVoices wins again with all three authors).
In any case, Oseman is excellent and if you're not up for reading a novel, Heartstopper is a graphic novel series that's easy to jump into and very kind to its adorable main characters.
I think I've now decided to continue to 30, which is a relief, so I'm tagging this (and the next post that rounds out 20) two ways.
#20AuthorsNoMen
#30AuthorsNoMen

Q&A with AMD CEO Lisa Su on AI accelerators, US manufacturing, becoming AMD CEO in 2014, aiming to surpass Nvidia, OpenAI, Tesla, xAI, China, ROCm, and more (Lauren Goode/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/lisa-su-runs-amd-and-is-out-for-nvidias-blood/…

Lisa Su Runs AMD—and Is Out for Nvidia’s Blood
While everyone else has been talking about Nvidia’s GPUs, Lisa Su has discreetly turned AMD into a chipmaking phenom. And as the US-China tech war rages, she’s at the center of it all.

Moody Urbanity - Oracles II 🈳
情绪化城市 - 谕 II 🈳
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Write Letters to Voters
Letter Writing · Volunteer organized for Vote Forward
Tuesdays and Saturdays
10am PDT 1 more time
- In Person in Mountain View, CA
This event's address is private.
Sign up for more details.
https://www.mobilize.us/peoplefor/event/66

Write Letters to Voters - In Person in Mountain View, CA · People For the American Way
Join me every week for a letter and postcard writing party at my house in Mountain View. Bring friends, food to share if you can (it's a potluck!), and enthusiasm for writing. Let's turn out voters and win the future. Looking forward to seeing you!

New on blog: "How we incidentally uncovered a 7-year old bug in gentoo-ci"
"""
“Gentoo CI” is the service providing periodic linting for the Gentoo repository. It is a part of the Repository mirror and CI project that I’ve started in 2015. Of course, it all started as a temporary third-party solution, but it persisted, was integrated into Gentoo Infrastructure and grew organically into quite a monstrosity.
It’s imperfect in many ways. In particular, it has only some degree of error recovery and when things go wrong beyond that, it requires a manual fix. Often the “fix” is to stop mirroring a problematic repository. Over time, I’ve started having serious doubts about the project, and proposed sunsetting most of it.
Lately, things have been getting worse. What started as a minor change in behavior of Git triggered a whole cascade of failures, leading to me finally announcing the deadline for sunsetting the mirroring of third-party repositories, and starting ripping non-critical bits out of it. Interesting enough, this whole process led me to finally discover the root cause of most of these failures — a bug that has existed since the very early version of the code, but happened to be hidden by the hacky error recovery code. Here’s the story of it.
"""
#Gentoo

Majestic Trinity: Trettachspitze, Mädelegabel, Hochfrottspitze.
(Picture taken two weeks ago. If you zoom in & squint you can make out the crosses on the three summits...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

This was a very nice loop between #ohlstadt and #garmischpartenkirchen!
Beautiful views to the #mountains, an excellent way, almost no major roads and we also escaped a little rain…

GPT-5 surrendered to the hackers in 24 hours and gave out a "recipe" for a bomb, more likely 4o
https://itc.ua/en/news/gpt-5-surrendered-to-the-hackers-in-24-hours-and-gave-out-a-recipe-for-a-bomb-more-likely-4o/

GPT-5 surrendered to the hackers in 24 hours and gave out a "recipe" for a bomb, more likely 4o
Two different teams of researchers tested GPT-5's weaknesses using, among other things, multi-step "narrative" attacks. As a result, the most advanced

As a survivor of the type of stochastic terrorism that people like Charlie Kirk carry out, and also a survivor of gun violence, I've had a bit to think about.
I still understand the anger, the frustration, that leads someone to snap. I'll always have compassion, if also paired with some frustration, for the person who shot me and her husband. That makes sense to me. I refused to testify because it never made sense to punish a tool who acted out of ignorance.
What doesn't make as much sense to me are the upper class grifters, the stochastic terrorists, who turn a profit of off setting people like that up to kill. I always wanted to see people like that, people who were clearly profiting off of bringing evil into the world, held accountable.
But the way I always want to see them held accountable, is by being forced to live in a world where everyone is free. Charlie Kirk got out easy, and that is a bit sad. He should have had to suffer through our victory. He should have had to watch the fall of Western Civilization, the collapse of all the things he held dear, all the things he tried to uphold. I wish that he had lived long enough to understand the suffering he inflicted on the world. He should have lived long enough to have to do real work, to have to figure out how to feed himself, house himself, in a world that has no market for the hate that he brings.
As much as I had rather that he starved, I would never shed a tear for the opening of a new public urinal.
Rest in piss. Charlie Kirk.

We call on FIFA and UEFA to immediately suspend Israel from all international football competitions until it ends its war crimes and mass atrocities in Palestine and fully complies with international law.
Football is about respect, solidarity, and fairness. Not sports-washing genocide.
Sign the petition below!

If you set limits for a scale (e.g. x-axis) in ggplot, how would you like data outside of that range be handled? There is the oob parameter for that and a set of functions to use with it: https://scales.r-lib.org/reference/oob.html

Uncertainty Awareness and Trust in Explainable AI- On Trust Calibration using Local and Global Explanations
Carina Newen, Daniel Bodemer, Sonja Glantz, Emmanuel M\"uller, Magdalena Wischnewski, Lenka Schnaubert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08989

Uncertainty Awareness and Trust in Explainable AI- On Trust Calibration using Local and Global Explanations
Explainable AI has become a common term in the literature, scrutinized by computer scientists and statisticians and highlighted by psychological or philosophical researchers. One major effort many researchers tackle is constructing general guidelines for XAI schemes, which we derived from our study. While some areas of XAI are well studied, we focus on uncertainty explanations and consider global explanations, which are often left out. We chose an algorithm that covers various concepts simultan…

For the Ithaca 5 and 10 this Sunday I staked out E Fall Street near Ithaca Falls and where the Cinemapolis movie theater used to be
#photo #photography #running

I think that if we use fraud, stock manipulation, money laundering, and other financially related crimes - and perhaps brew in sex related crimes - measured on a per-capita basis, my guess is that Palm Beach, Florida will come out near the top of the list of most criminal cities in the US of A.
So send in ICE? I know of a Slovakian who lives there who snuck in the the US on false visa claims, worked as a nude model (too skinny to be interesting), and has been associated with known int…

In wake of Jalen Carter's ejection, his Eagles (and Georgia) teammate had biggest game of NFL career to date

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/in-wake

"Women in Mexico step up to protect the island farms traditionally inherited by men"
#Mexico #Women

Women in Mexico step up to protect the island farms traditionally inherited by men
This story is a collaboration between The Associated Press and Mongabay. MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Jasmín Ordóñez looks out at the water as the wooden boat she is in crosses a narrow channel that connects a labyrinth of chinampas, island farms that were built by the Aztecs thousands of years ago. “Let’s close our eyes […]

My partner and I were out to dinner last night. Five teen girls showed up. They sat down ordered food, then chatted, laughed, and engaged with each other. A bit later five teen boys came in, sat down a table over from the girls, and each one was hunched over the table with their face in their phones… I’m not even sure they spoke to each other.
We left about 10 minutes after the boys arrived but goddamn I hope they stopped staring at their phones.

This fall, Texas requires public schools to display the 10 commandments in classrooms.
I’ve made a PDF that largely conforms to the specifications required by Texas SB10, and you can download a printable (I recommend a color printer) version you can print out, frame or laminate, and donate.
Get the PDF: https://p…

…oooohhhhh this s____t FINALLY might start hitting the fan! I, and many others, have been pointing out the monopoly that BC company ConAir has over firefighting contracts for Canadian governments for years.
Coulson Aviation has been doing firefighting aircraft for decades and has never been picked by its own home province on a long term contract.
The bias has been glaring.
Looks like they're going to fight it out in Court in Saskatchewan!
#BCWildfire #BCPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/government-overpaid-firefighting-planes-manufacturer-says-1.7630608

Just finished "Beasts Made of Night" by Tochi Onyebuchi...
Indirect CW for fantasy police state violence.
So I very much enjoyed Onyebuchi's "Riot Baby," and when I grabbed this at the library, I was certain it would be excellent. But having finished it, I'm not sure I like it that much overall?
The first maybe third is excellent, including the world-building, which is fascinating. I feel like Onyebuchi must have played "Shadow of the Colossus" at some point. Onyebuchi certainly does know how to make me care for his characters.
Some spoilers from here on out...
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I felt like it stumbles towards the middle, with Bo's reactions neither making sense in the immediate context, nor in retrospect by the end when we've learned more. Things are a bit floaty in the middle with an unclear picture of what exactly is going on politics-wise and what the motivations are. Here I think there were some nuances that didn't make it to the page, or perhaps I'm just a bit thick and not getting stuff I should be? More is of course revealed by the end, but I still wasn't satisfied with the explanations of things. For example, (spoilers) I don't feel I understand clearly what kind of power the army of aki was supposed to represent within the city? Perhaps necessary to wield the threat of offensive inisisia use? In that case, a single scene somewhere of Izu's faction deploying that tactic would have been helpful I think.
Then towards the end, for me things really started to jumble, with unclear motivations, revelations that didn't feel well-paced or -structured, and a finale where both the action & collapsing concerns felt stilted and disjointed. Particularly the mechanics/ethics of the most important death that set the finale in motion bothered me, and the unexplained mechanism by which that led to what came next? I can read a couple of possible interesting morals into the whole denouement, but didn't feel that any of them were sufficiently explored. Especially if we're supposed to see some personal failing in the protagonist's actions, I don't think it's made clear enough what that is, since I feel his reasons to reject each faction are pretty solid, and if we're meant to either pity or abjure his indecision, I don't think the message lands clearly enough.
There *is* a sequel, which honestly I wasn't sure of after the last page, and which I now very interested in. Beasts is Onyebuchi's debut, which maybe makes sense of me feeling that Riot Baby didn't have the same plotting issues. It also maybe means that Onyebuchi couldn't be sure a sequel would make it to publication in terms of setting up the ending.
Overall I really enjoyed at least 80% of this, but was expecting even better (especially politically) given Onyebuchi's other work, and I didn't feel like I found it.
#AmReading

Master Equation for Quantum Self-Organization of Atoms and Molecules in Cavities
Tom Schmit, Catalin-Mihai Halati, Tobias Donner, Giovanna Morigi, Simon B. J\"ager
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07853

Master Equation for Quantum Self-Organization of Atoms and Molecules in Cavities
Quantum gases of atoms and molecules in optical cavities offer a formidable laboratory for studying the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of long-range interacting systems. Multiple scattering of cavity photons mediate interactions, and the emerging phases of matter are determined by the interplay of photon-mediated forces, dissipation, and quantum and thermal fluctuations. Control of these dynamics requires a detailed understanding of the mechanisms at play. Due to the number of degrees of freedom, …

Anything to deflect the narrative!
Adelita Grijalva elected but not yet sworn in.
Epstein files not released.
Hundreds of thousands will lose health care under the Republican budget.
Foreign governments buying gold and not USD.
But what is the MSM reporting?
Democrats shut down the Government.
Blue cities unsafe.
Tylenol unsafe.
Circumcision unsafe.
And now we get to talk about this?

mekka okereke :verified: (@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)
Attached: 1 image Some of y'all are pointing out that Trump ran the FBI on Jan 6, and had run it for ~1,400 days straight at this point. But this doesn't have to pass your discerning eye. It has to work on people that believe that Haitians eat your dogs, and that raw milk and Ivermectin is better than vaccines.🤷🏿‍♂️ You live in a world where the Ivermectin sipping, Black people hating, anti-vaxxers have consolidated enough power that they don't have to even pretend to care what …

Kevin Durant's Boardroom, a site focused on athletes and other entertainers, plans to launch a print magazine this month, with quarterly issues starting in 2026 (Daniel Kaplan/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Boardroom Plans Print Magazine Launch as Kevin Durant-Backed Start Up Branches Out
The company run by Rich Kleiman is testing the waters with a U.S. Open-themed cover feature in August and plans to publish quarterly beginning in 2026.

Heh yes. Pretty much this.
"Much more will be written about proposals to build massive undersea walls to hold up Antarctic ice sheets, drill bore holes in Greenland to pump out lubricating meltwater, or scatter glass beads over glaciers. As informed and erudite I'm sure this will be, I don't think it will be as effective as simply yelling "What the hell do you think you are doing?!”"
@… reads through the lines and interprets our recent #Geoengineering paper into plain english in this entertaining blogpost
https://www.technosphere.earth/new-report-concludes-polar-geoengineering-is-dangerous/

Spotify’s Royalty Threshold Is Conscious Parallelism Reshaping the Music Business—But Not in a Good Way
https://thetrichordist.com/2025/08/07/

Spotify’s Royalty Threshold Is Conscious Parallelism Reshaping the Music Business—But Not in a Good Way
Spotify’s 1,000-stream royalty threshold isn’t just a cost-saving measure—it’s a redistribution scheme that cuts out millions of tracks while still using them to drive engagement, ads, and algorith…

Renationalisation of train operating companies will be complete in 2027 (Louise Haigh's legacy) but it's important to note that the profitable rolling stock leasing companies will remain private, continuing to leach money out of the system.
Most of Great Britain’s major rail operators are back in public hands – is it working? | Rail industry | The Guardian

Lesser Goldfinch, standing on a sunflower stalk, while hiding in the foliage. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. September, 2025. #laarboretum #bird #birds

Weird. I was out this afternoon and had coffee and cake and did a little food shopping. Got home and started to prepare dinner and I came over dizzy, light headed and nauseous. In the end I had to go to bed and lie down. Feeling better after an hour lying still.

"...a steady decline in the proportion of the adult population who believe the monarchy is good for Britain, falling from 60% in July 2019 to 51% in March 2024, according to You Gov."
And if you break out the Scottish part of the same poll, it is obvious that Scots want an independent republic. Only 34% think it's good for Scotland...

"2024 was the third year in a row in which all of the extremist-related killings in the United States were carried out by… right-wingers."
Charlie Kirk Killing and How Political Violence Comes From the Right
https://zeteo.com/p/charlie-kirk-killing-political-violence

SoK: Scope and Mission of CS&Law
Joan Feigenbaum, Daniel J. Weitzner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08723 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08723

SoK: Scope and Mission of CS&Law
We systematize the intellectual scope of the ACM Computer Science and Law Symposium (CS&Law). In particular, we address the meaning and importance of the word ''and'' in the name of the symposium. We identify previously published papers (from CS&Law and other forums) that exemplify different aspects of the CS&Law scope and note that the scope is expected to evolve as the symposium and the community grow and change. To round out our systematization of the still nascent research area, we also dis…

The emergence of globular clusters and globular-cluster-like dwarfs: #cosmological simulations in which both dark-matter-free GCs and dark-matter-rich dwarf galaxies naturally emerge in the Standard Cosmology. We show that these objects inhabit distinct locations in the size–luminosity plane and that they have similar ages, age spread, metallicity and metallicity spread to globulars and dwarfs in the nearby Universe. About half of our simulated globulars form by means of regular star formation near the centres of their host dwarf, with the rest forming further out, triggered by mergers. The latter are more tidally isolated and more likely to survive to the present day. Finally, our simulations predict the existence of a new class of object that we call ‘globular-cluster-like dwarfs’ (GCDs)."

The judicial cases in OKC are closely linked to the silence and lack of accountability of Tibetan Buddhist Heads of Nyigmapa Lineages in 🇫🇷🇧🇪🇵🇹. To grasp the full extent of responsibility and complacency, check out this documentary. #TibetanBuddhism #Responsibility

How to see two bright, once-in-a-lifetime comets with your naked eye
The comets, C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) and C/2025 R2 (SWAN), are already showing off their green tails to cameras and telescopes.
But the best chances to see them with the naked eye from the northern hemisphere should be in the second half of the month.

“What stands out about these two is their potential brightness,” said Erika Gibb, an astrobiologist at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
“For sky-gaz…

How to see two bright, once-in-a-lifetime comets with your naked eye
Comet Lemmon and Comet SWAN will be closest to Earth as a new moon sets up prime viewing conditions. Add in a meteor shower and we may get spectacular sky gazing.

I'm putting water out for the birds but they're ignoring it. I've used shallow bowls and an old ice cube tray and put them in various parts of the garden that I see the birds in most often. What am I doing wrong? I really want them to drink, bathe etc as they are undoubtedly suffering in these conditions.

Mazi Smith very demanding of himself in 2025 https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mazi-smith-very-demanding-of-himself-in-2025

Statistics of Current and Vorticity Structures in Relativistic Turbulence
Zachary Davis, Luca Comisso, Colby Haggerty, Joonas N\"attil\"a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09126

Statistics of Current and Vorticity Structures in Relativistic Turbulence
Coherent structures created through turbulent cascades play a key role in energy dissipation and particle acceleration. In this work, we investigate both current and vorticity sheets in 3D particle-in-cell simulations of decaying relativistic turbulence in pair plasma by training a self-organizing map to recognize these structures. We subsequently carry out an extensive statistical analysis to reveal their geometric and structural properties. This analysis is systematically applied across a ran…

Preheating and gravitational waves in large-field hilltop inflation
Diganta Das, Shreyas Revankar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07442 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Preheating and gravitational waves in large-field hilltop inflation
The combined Planck, BICEP/Keck Array and BAO measurements of the scalar spectral index and the tensor-to-scalar ratio from the cosmic microwave background observations severely constrain or completely rule out several models of inflationary potentials. On the other hand, the data seems to favor concave potentials over convex ones. In this paper, we study preheating and gravitational waves after inflation in a large-field, regularized hilltop potential where inflation takes place in the concave…

OpenAI introduces "Auto", "Fast", and "Thinking" settings for GPT-5 in ChatGPT's model picker, with "Auto" similar to the GPT-5 model router announced earlier (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/12/chat

ChatGPT's model picker is back, and it's complicated | TechCrunch
GPT-5 was supposed to get rid of all the complicated AI models to choose from in ChatGPT, but that's not how it's panned out.

Welcome back - been busy the last days with meeting friends etc 🙂
But I wanted to show some more #photos from the #Lotharsteig in the #nationalparkschwarzwald . Different from …

Lots of reports of folks, in and out of the media, being suspended, or fired, or cancelled, for the radical, subversive act of exercising their First Amendment rights to speak freely. A guy who said a few deaths is a small price to pay to support the Second Amendment meets a suspiciously karmic death. I’d argue the 1st is more valuable than the 2nd. I don’t see anyone in the media defending 1A. Why is that?

Holy shit they made THE Tele I would buy
Ultra Luxe Vintage 50s
https://www.guitarworld.com/gear/electric-guitars/fender-american-ultra-luxe-vintage

“We’ve redefined the balance between heritage and innovation”: Fender debuts the American Ultra Luxe Vintage range – taking on its boutique rivals and rolling out its new Heirloom relic’ing process
The latest entry to the American Ultra ecosystem offers subtle Heirloom finishes and Pure Vintage pickups, and looks to make a mark in the boutique modern-meets-vintage guitar market

»Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse:
The decentralized network will offer full control over who can quote your posts.«
I am curious to see how this affects the behavior of the @… users. I cannot classify this as good or bad and have no opinion in this regard. What is yours?
:mastodon:

Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse
Mastodon is rolling out quote posts, allowing you to repost someone else’s content and add extra context. The decentralized network will offer full control over who can quote your posts.

We were just in La Ciotat, France, for a couple of days. Fun getaway. We flew on Lufthansa. A friend of mine found out I was there and messaged me asking if I could bring back a kilogram of Robusta coffee for him. I couldn't comply, so by way of letting him know, I just sent him this:
#humor #witz

I hadn’t realized Dr Demento was retiring. I’m glad to find out so I can listen to his show on a Sunday as is apropos.
It was a Sunday evening in the early 80s when I found his show, lazing in my grandfathers office (which was also where the TV and radio were, when I ran across “so long mom (I’m off to drop the bomb)” by Tom Lehrer. Two performers who would be influential in my life.
🫡

Dr. Demento

Fascinating observations on EVs from David Fickling:
- High adoption rates in developing countries
- EVs pencil out unsubsidized
- Oil & gas are ~1/3 of all imports to In India and Pakistan
- Switching half of India’s car fleet to EVs could eliminate its current account deficit
- Rich countries are sabotaging their own energy transitions

Every day a problem with linux on the desktop:
"Sep 2 2003 22:44:32
Messing around with /dev/hda and got myself into trouble. There is
some sort of error with fdisk, can't re-read the partition table,
so changes don't really seem to take (though have succeeded in
deleting /dev/hda2). Then got trigger happy with dd and zeroed out
the boot sector on hda1. Had to boot from a win95 recovery floppy
and "a:\tools\sys c:" before I could bo…

Alone at the (seeming) end of the world. The Hochjoch Hospiz at the end of the Rofental, near the former confluence of three (formerly) major glaciers in the central Alps: Hintereisferner, Kesselwandferner and Hochjochferner. Vernagtferner is also nearby, which at times interrupted the outflow of these other glaciers, caused an ice lake to form, which when it burst led to widespread destruction in the valleys below (several times since the early 1600s). These days all of these glaciers are s…

Scenes from the way home on a foggy San Francisco summer night. The bougainvillea is growing beautifully, hopefully we don’t have to use that fire escape.

Let's conclude the "checks&balances" of US democracy are truly gone, nobody can or will stop Trump in militarizing Washington DC. The rest of the world is watching the fascist dictator Trump in action.
Apparently city government is no longer relevant or in charge...Democrats in Congress don't lift a finger, they should walk out and obstruct everything in government they can....
#trump

Gibt es Empfehlungen für eine gute Analyse der Causa #LahavShani? Z.B. fände ich es aufschlussreich wer die #MünchnerPhilharmoniker wann eingeladen hat? Und was der Satz "Lahav Shani has spoken out in favour of peace and reconciliation several times in the past, but in …

Flanders Festival Ghent cancels the concert on Thursday 18 September

Did it turn out that the railway pass bought in KD ticket office doesn't work with the barcode scanners used in KW? Perhaps.
Did I immediately start scanning and analyzing the barcodes? Of course.
Well, KD tickets have two codes: a QR code with binary mash encoded in base64 (unnecessarily), which unfortunately I don't have time to analyze, and a code128 barcode with the ticket series and number, encoded as:
AA000000000 (0)
On the other hand, KW/PR have only code128 with the series and number, but without the digit in parentheses (perhaps a checksum?), even though it is printed on the pass:
AA000000000
#rail

Soil runoff from logged forests releases more reactive carbon, undermining climate mitigation efforts #environment

Soil runoff from logged forests releases more reactive carbon, undermining climate mitigation efforts
The global demand for wood-based products is constantly increasing, creating a challenge for the logging industry. In an attempt to keep up in a sustainable manner, the industry replaces logged areas with tree farms and nurseries to eventually replenish supplies. This use and regrowth of wood has also been thought to help maintain a carbon sink. While this may be true to some extent, a new study has found that an important source of carbon loss is often being left out of the equation.

I had been happily reading and posting on my phone all morning with single digit battery charge.
Emboldened and reckless, I went to take a screenshot of my phone at 1% battery and it shut down as it was playing the screenshot sound effect.

As we continue down this path of escalating nihilistic meme violence, it can feel like the worst things have become viral. We are drowning in the memetic effluent of a capitalist media that profits by maximizing engagement. But I wonder if anyone remembers "Pay it Forward?"
A movie came out in 2000 about a kid who started a viral kindness campaign. The idea was that you do something nice for someone else with the expectation that they do the same in the future. I never really saw the movie, but I do remember the time. There were a few weeks, maybe a few months, where people started doing it. People would just be randomly nice, and everything actually just started feeling better.
Over time, the world caught up. Capitalism consumed the whole thing, and life went back to normal. 9/11 happened the next year, and the US started down the path of becoming the most twisted and evil version of itself. But there was a short time that doing nice stuff was a viral meme, a thing that people just started doing.
Gun violence doesn't have to be the only viral meme we have. We can make good things happen too.

Day 20: bell hooks.
Despite having decided to continue to 30, number 20 feels important, and hooks gets the spot in part because I haven't yet included a non-fiction feminist author, which feels like an obvious thing to include on such a list. The one category of author being bumped out of the first 20 here is anime writers, but I'll follow up with one of them, along with more academics and mangaka who I've been itching to include.
In any case, hooks is absolutely legendary as a feminist writer for good reason, and as a teacher I've especially appreciated her writing on pedagogy like "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" and "Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom". These have challenged me to teach at a higher level, and while I'm not sure I've completely succeeded, they're important to me. They also pair well with Paolo Friere's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed", but hooks always seems to be focused on very practical advice and it's incredibly direct in her writing, even though her advice isn't always straightforward to implement. In fact, that's one of the things I value about her writing: when the truth is complicated or the real work is messy interpersonal relationships that need to be negotiated with each student, she's not afraid to say so and give good advice for navigating those waters instead of trying to dispense simple-seeming platitudes or formulas for success that paper over the deeper issues. Her concern has always been truth, rather than simplicity or audience comfort and the popularity it might seem to entail, which I think is part of why her legacy endures so well.
#20AuthorsNoMen
#30AuthorsNoMen

Cornfield supporting dairy farm in the valley connecting Dryden and Richford, NY -- we're looking at the hills of Hammond Hill State Forest
#photo #photography #landscape

Tua Tagovailoa, Tyreek Hill and the Dolphins offense looked lost in a Week 1 blowout. Can they turn it around?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/tua-tag…

On The Road - To Xi’An/Human Intervention 🚶
在路上 - 去西安/人类遗迹 🚶
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Sling TV debuts shorter-term packages aimed at sports fans: a day pass for $4.99, a weekend pass for $9.99, and a week pass for $14.99 (Austin Karp/Sports Business Journal)
https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2025/08/12/s…

Sling TV offering new products ahead of football
Dish-owned Sling TV will begin offering day, weekend and weeklong passes for fans to dip in and potentially dip out of the service. A day pass for Sling TV, which is a first-of-its-kind for a vMVPD, will run fans $4.99 for a 24-hour window. Weekend passes go for $9.99 and weeklong passes for $14.99.

"there is nothing whatsoever in the JTAC* assessment which backs up any of the claims being put out in a panic by government ministers."
*JTAC = assessment of the government’s Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre which forms the basis of the proscription of Palestine Action.
Yvette Cooper is Lying - Craig Murray

Yvette Cooper is Lying - Craig Murray
Yvette Cooper has continually lied about Palestine Action in a panicked attempt to defend the proscription of a direct action protest group which is opposing a Genocide in which Cooper’s government is deeply complicit. Cooper and other government ministers have repeatedly claimed: Palestine Action attacks people, not just weapons-making equipment Palestine Action is funded by […]

“…across social media, extraordinary scenes keep surfacing - unarmed men & women staring down heavily armed masked men. People getting out of their cars or running out of restaurants to confront ICE agents.
…not lone individuals who suddenly snap. This is grassroots non-violent resistance. When the rule of law has failed in the courts and in democracy, ordinary people have stepped up to defend their neighbours.”

Rethinking the Role of the Bystander
Trump's storm troopers couldn't be more menacing, even if they adopted the Death's Head symbol of the SS.

OpenAI is adding Connectors for Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Contacts in ChatGPT for Pro users, with Plus, Team, Enterprise, and Edu plans to follow (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/arti

Check out this compelling rebuttal of Soteria International's claims regarding the OKC case. Get informed about the facts and perspectives presented in the article by visiting: https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rebuttal-of-soteria.html

Rebuttal of Soteria International's Claims on the OKC Case - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
Rebuttal of Soteria International’s Claims on the OKC Case As a victim of the Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) cult and an advocate for justice, I find Soteria …

this week in stupid: September 13 edition: folks, if you’re a MAGA, and you’re determined to mace the shit out of protestors who showed up to an anti-ICE demonstration, it helps to know which end of the doohicky the spray comes out of.
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/this-week-in-stupid-september-13

Wow, it's finally Friday, and don't leave for the weekend until you've checked out today's Metacurity for the top infosec news you should know, including
--Apple sent a new round of spyware notifications to affected users,
--Akira is exploiting critical flaw in SonicWall,
--Vietnamese government warns of National Credit Information Center hack,
--UK ICO warns that kids are hacking their schools,
--Opposition to EU Chat Control scanning of encrypte…

Apple sent a new round of spyware notifications to affected users
Akira is exploiting critical flaw in SonicWall, Vietnamese government warns of National Credit Information Center hack, UK ICO warns that kids are hacking their schools, Opposition to EU Chat Control scanning of encrypted messages grows, New infostealer dubbed ModStealer stays invisible, much more

"Study busts big bad myth that wolves are growing fearless of humans"
#Wolves #Animals
https:…

Study busts big bad myth that wolves are growing fearless of humans
After years of being hunting to near-extinction, wolves are making a comeback in some of their historical ranges in Europe and North America. With their return comes a growing concern that the predators are moving too close to human settlements, becoming bolder and less fearful of people. Researchers set out to see if that’s true, […]

I know no one really wants to know or do this, but it’s been bugging me a lot…. Could someone give me a proper pronunciation for Ghislaine? (As in the convicted child trafficker). I have heard it a million different ways and nothing sticks.
I simultaneously don’t want to give her the respect of knowing how to pronounce her name, but I can only mispronounce it out of disrespect if I know how it is supposed to sound in the first place. 🤦‍♂️ 😤 😬
So ya, if someone is willing….

Speculative politics
As an anarchist (okay, maybe not in practice), I'm tired of hearing why we have to suffer X and Y indignity to "preserve the rule of law" or "maintain Democratic norms." So here's an example of what representative democracy (a form of government that I believe is inherently flawed) could look like if its proponents had even an ounce of imagination, and/or weren't actively trying to rig it to favor a rich donor class:
1. Unicameral legislature, where representatives pass laws directly. Each state elects 3 statewide representatives: the three most-popular candidates in a statewide race where each person votes for one candidate (ranked preference voting would be even better but might not be necessary, and is not a solution by itself). Instead of each representative getting one vote in the chamber, they get N votes, where N is the number of people who voted for them. This means that in a close race, instead of the winner getting all the power, the power is split. Having 3 representatives trades off between leisure size and ensuring that two parties can't dominate together.
2. Any individual citizen can contact their local election office to switch or withdraw their vote at any time (maybe with a 3-day delay or something). Voting power of representatives can thus shift even without an election. They are limited to choosing one of the three elected representatives, or "none of the above." If the "none of the above" fraction exceeds 20% of eligible voters, a new election is triggered for that state. If turnout is less than 80%, a second election happens immediately, with results being final even at lower turnout until 6 months later (some better mechanism for turnout management might be needed).
3. All elections allow mail-in ballots, and in-person voting happens Sunday-Tuesday with the Monday being a mandatory holiday. (Yes, election integrity is not better in this system and that's a big weakness.)
4. Separate nationwide elections elect three positions for head-of-state: one with diplomatic/administrative powers, another with military powers, and a third with veto power. For each position, the top three candidates serve together, with only the first-place winner having actual power until vote switches or withdrawals change who that is. Once one of these heads loses their first-place status, they cannot get it again until another election, even if voters switch preferences back (to avoid dithering). An election for one of these positions is triggered when 20% have withdrawn their votes, or if all three people initially elected have been disqualified by losing their lead in the vote count.
5. Laws that involve spending money are packaged with specific taxes to pay for them, and may only be paid for by those specific revenues. Each tax may be opted into or out of by each taxpayer; where possible opting out of the tax also opts you out of the service. (I'm well aware of a lot of the drawbacks of this, but also feel like they'd not necessarily be worse than the drawbacks of our current system.) A small mandatory tax would cover election expenses.
6. I'm running out of attention, but similar multi-winner elections could elect panels of judges from which a subset is chosen randomly to preside in each case.
Now I'll point out once again that this system, in not directly confronting capitalism, racism, patriarchy, etc., is probably doomed to the same failures as our current system. But if you profess to want a "representative democracy" as opposed to something more libratory, I hope you'll at least advocate for something like this that actually includes meaningful representation as opposed to the current US system that's engineered to quash it.
Key questions: "Why should we have winner-take-all elections when winners-take-proportionately-to-votes is right there?" and "Why should elected officials get to ignore their constituents' approval except during elections, when vote-withdrawal or -switching is possible?"
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#Democracy

Friends hang out in front of Ithaca High School after the Ithaca 5 and 10 last Sunday
#photo #photography #friends

Ok, yeah, I'm not done processing my anger over liberals doing shit like this. So this historian sees a rise in right wing violence, sees the US government carrying out ethnic cleansing, sees a rise in white supremacist terrorism, and then says, "oh yeah... this reminds me of a time right around the 1920s. Hum... yeah, ANARCHISTS fighting the government! Yeah, that's the same thing."
FFS, IT'S THE RED SUMMER! If you want a parallel between today and some horrible time in US history, TALK ABOUT THE RED SUMMER. The point of the language of dehumanization that the right uses, the point of all the anti-black and anti-emigrant rhetoric, is that it leads to genocide. Trump already carried out an act of genocide (#USPol

I took this #photo when I thought that I'd be almost there. - Because I had mostly looked about the elevation. But as you might see on the photo, the way flattens a bit towards the summit.
Well, it was a great trail - it just took longer then I assumed.
Some more context and a video are on my blog:

"""
Once the distinctions had been made, and the first punishments applied, the venereal were accepted into the hospital. And they were crammed inside. In 1781, 138 men occupied 60 beds in the Saint-Eustache quarter of Bicêtre, and in the Miséricorde in the Salpêtrière there were 125 beds for 224 women. Patients in the terminal stages of the disease were simply left to die. 'Grand Remedies' were applied to the others: never more, and rarely less than six weeks of care, starting of course with blood-letting and purging, then a week of baths for two hours per day, then purging again, followed by a full and complete confession to bring this first part of the treatment to a close. Rubbing with mercury could then begin, with all its efficacy. Each course of treatment lasted one month, and was followed by two more purges and one final bleeding to chase out the remaining morbific humours. Fifteen days of convalescence were then granted. After he had definitively made his peace with God, the patient was declared cured and sent away.
This 'therapeutic' demonstrates a rich tapestry of fantasy, and above all a profound complicity between medicine and morality, which give their full meaning to these purification practices. For the classical age, venereal disease was less a sickness than an impurity to which physical symptoms are correlated. Accordingly, medical perception is ruled by ethical perception, and on occasion even effaced by it. The body must be treated to remove the contagion, but the flesh must be punished, for it is the flesh that attaches us to sin. Mere corporal punishment was not enough: the flesh was to be pummelled and bruised, and leaving painful traces was not to be feared, as good health, all too frequently, transformed the human body into another opportunity for sinful conduct. The sickness was to be treated, but the good health that could lead to temptation was to be destroyed.
"""
(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

An unintended consequence of Trumpian authoritarianism is a massive awakening of citizens to the values and benefits of American democracy, and a determination to protect it.
In June, under the banner of
“No Kings,”
more than 5 million people, in more than 2,000 cities and towns, in all 50 states, participated in one of the largest protests in U.S. history.
Every week since, protests have continued with thousands of participants in small and large cities, blue and re…

It Turns Out Americans Value Their Constitutional Rights
Resistance to authoritarianism spurs passion for democratic values and the determination to protect them.

Free agent RB/KR Nyheim Hines ready to put knee injury behind him after two years away: 'The story is in my hand' https://www.nfl.com/news/free-agent-rb-kr-nyheim-hines-ready-to-put-knee-injury-behind-h…

Google launches Preferred Sources in the US and India, allowing users to personalize the news in Search's "top stories" section by selecting favorite outlets (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/757979/google-search-preferr…

Google is adding a new way to personalize the news you see
Google is rolling out a new “preferred sources” feature that lets you choose which outlets you want to see the most in Search’s “top stories” section.

Google launches Preferred Sources in the US and India, allowing users to personalize the news in Search's "top stories" section by selecting favorite outlets (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/757979/google-search-preferr…

Google is adding a new way to personalize the news you see
Google is rolling out a new “preferred sources” feature that lets you choose which outlets you want to see the most in Search’s “top stories” section.

Ben Meiselas is a very busy man.
His “pro-democracy” channel MeidasTouch,
which he runs with his younger brothers Jordan and Brett,
puts out 15 or more videos a day, most of them presented by Meiselas himself.
The prolific output is part of the reason The MeidasTouch has become one of the most listened-to podcasts in the US,
routinely beating the mighty Joe Rogan in both video and audio,
and even overtaking Fox News in YouTube views.
Rogan and oth…

7AM, out and about on a stunning rainy morning walk between layers of fog and clouds... absolute silence...
#MorningWalk #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

How the US democracy is designed to avoid representation
Right now in the US, a system which proclaims to give each citizen representation, my interests are not represented very well by most of my so-called representatives at any level of government. This is true for a majority of Americans across the political spectrum, and it happens by design. The "founding fathers" were explicit about wanting a system of government that would appear Democratic but which would keep power in the hands of rich white landowners, and they successfully designed exactly that. But how does disenfranchisement work in this system?
First, a two-party system locked in by first-post-the-post winner-takes-all elections immediately destroys representation for everyone who didn't vote for the winner, including those who didn't vote or weren't eligible to vote. Single-day non-holiday elections and prisoner disenfranchisement go a long way towards ensuring working-class people get no say, but much larger is the winner-takes all system. In fact, even people who vote for the winning candidate don't get effective representation if they're really just voting against the opponent as the greater of two evils. In a 51/49 election with 50% turnout, you've immediately ensured that ~75% of eligible voters don't get represented, and with lesser-of-two-evils voting, you create an even wider gap to wedge corporate interests into. Politicians need money to saturate their lesser-of-two-evils message far more than they need to convince any individual voter to support their policies. It's even okay if they get caught lying, cheating, or worse (cough Epstein cough) as long as the other side is also doing those things and you can freeze out new parties.
Second, by design the Senate ensures uneven representation, allowing control of the least-populous half of states to control or at least shut down the legislative process. A rough count suggests 284.6 million live in the 25 most-populous states, while only 54.8 million live in the rest. Currently, counting states with divided representation as two half-states with half as much population, 157.8 million people are represented by 53 Republican sensors, while 180.5 million people get only 45 seats of Democratic representation. This isn't an anti-Democrat bias, it's a bias towards less-populous states, whose residents get more than their share it political power.
I haven't even talked about gerrymandering yet, or family/faith-based "party loyalty," etc. Overall, the effect is that the number of people whose elected representatives meaningfully represent their interests on any given issue is vanishingly small (like, 10% of people tops), unless you happen to be rich enough to purchase lobbying power or direct access.
If we look at polls, we can see how lack of representation lets congress & the president enact many policies that go against what a majority of the population wants. Things like abortion restrictions, the current ICE raids, and Medicare cuts are deeply unpopular, but they benefit the political class and those who can buy access. These are possible because the system ensures at every step of the way that ordinary people do NOT get the one thing the system promises them: representation in the halls of power.
Okay, but is this a feature of all democracies, inherent in the nature of a majority-decides system? Not exactly...
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#uspol #democracy

Jets-Broncos: New York lets clock run out before halftime in unthinkable move https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6710820/2025/10/12/broncos-vs-jets-london-takeaways-results-nfl/

Daffodil in Ithaca's concrete jungle in the second week of April; my dirty secret is I'm sitting on hundreds if not thousands of undeveloped photos of daffodils -- I'll post plenty of them in next year's daffodil season, but why wait?
#photo #photography

At no other time in modern history has a country so thoroughly turned its back on its core national strengths.
With devastating cuts to science and health research,
the administration is turning its back on a history of being powered and renewed by the innovation and vision of immigrants.
What America may find is that we have squandered the greatest gift from the Manhattan Project
— which, in the end, wasn’t the bomb
— but a new way of looking at how science a…

Opinion | Trump Is Squandering the Greatest Gift of the Manhattan Project
The U.S. risks not just being left behind, but out of the game entirely.

"""
But there is no certainty that madness was content to sit locked up in its immutable identity, waiting for psychiatry to perfect its art, before it emerged blinking from the shadows into the blinding light of truth. Nor is it clear that confinement was above all, or even implicitly, a series of measures put in place to deal with madness. It is not even certain that in this repetition of the ancient gesture of segregation at the threshold of the classical age, the modern world was aiming to wipe out all those who, either as a species apart or a spontaneous mutation, appeared as 'asocial'. The fact that the internees of the eighteenth century bear a resemblance to our modern vision of the asocial is undeniable, but it is above all a question of results, as the character of the marginal was produced by the gesture of segregation itself. For the day came when this man, banished in the same exile all over Europe in the mid-seventeenth century, suddenly became an outsider, expelled by a society to whose norms he could not be seen to conform; and for our own intellectual comfort, he then became a candidate for prisons, asylums and punishment. In reality, this character is merely the result of superimposed grids of exclusion.
The gesture that proscribed was as abrupt as the one that had isolated the lepers, and in both cases, the meaning of the gesture should not be mistaken for its effect. Lepers were not excluded to prevent contagion, any more than in 1657, 1 per cent of the population of Paris was confined merely to deliver the city from the 'asocial'. The gesture had a different dimension: it did not isolate strangers who had previously remained invisible, who until then had been ignored by force of habit. It altered the familiar cityscape by giving them new faces, strange, bizarre silhouettes that nobody recognised. Strangers were found in places where their presence had never previously been suspected: the process punctured the fabric of society, and undid the familiar. Through this gesture, something inside man was placed outside of himself, and pushed over the edge of our horizon. It is the gesture of confinement, in short, which created alienation.
"""
(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

Chargers WR Tre Harris holding out as one of 30 unsigned second-round picks https://www.nfl.com/news/chargers-wr-tre-harris-holding-out-as-one-of-30-unsigned-second-round-picks

The Los Angeles field office director for the Department of Homeland Security
testified on Monday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers
desperately needed the help of military personnel in carrying out arrests.
The question is whether Donald Trump‘s deployment of armed forces goes against U.S. law that generally prohibits the president from using the military to police domestic affairs.
Ernesto Santacruz Jr. testified at the start of a three-day trial in S…

Trial to start over National Guard deployment to Los Angeles
A federal judge in San Francisco will hear arguments on whether military troops deployed this summer by the Trump administration to Los Angeles violated a federal law that bars troops from conducting law enforcement duties within the country. Judge Charles Breyer will decide whether the Posse Comitatus Act, an 1878 law that prevents the president from using the military as a domestic police force, was violated by the 4,700 California National Guard members and Marines sent following protests. T…

Crypto markets crashed after Trump threatened an extra 100% tariff on China, triggering $19.1B in liquidations, 10x the liquidations during the FTX crash (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/10/1…

Crypto Price Drop Continues: $16B in Longs Liquidated as BTC, ETH Sell-Off Extends
Trump’s 100% tariff warning on China ignited a global sell-off that wiped out $16 billion in leveraged crypto longs and pushed Ethena’s USDe to a rare sub-$1 print.

Ash prowling in Downtown Ithaca -- I post my photos to NextDoor #cats

Child harm/death mention; Columbus
On Indigenous People's Day here in America, it's a great time to:
1. Remember that Columbus was a monster. Anyone who feeds toddlers to dogs actually deserves to burn in hell for eternity. Nothing else about this man should be remembered before this fact.
2. If you're in a colonized country, check out the website(s) for your local indigenous tribe (s) to remind yourself that they're still here. For me, that includes #LandBack, etc.
Me, I'm hopeful for a future in which the US is a distant memory and the hundreds of surviving nations on this territory flourish like budding plants after the winter snow.

The president did say that under the new order of things in Washington,
the police will be “allowed to do whatever the hell they want”
to secure the streets.
But that’s just performative pro-police rhetoric, right?
It may sound like the actual legitimization of police brutality.
But that couldn’t happen here.
After all, the leaders of our major institutions would speak out,
forcefully and in unison, against it.
Here in the United States of Ame…

Trump Isn’t Liberating D.C. He’s Subduing It.
We’ve seen this happen in other countries. We thought it couldn’t happen here. It is.

Xavier Worthy injury: Chiefs WR doubtful vs. Eagles after dislocating shoulder in collision with Travis Kelce

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/xavier-

🛠️ Colombia Against the Fossil Fuel Age
#energy

Colombia Against the Fossil Fuel Age
Colombia’s energy transition is not just playing out in policy papers — it’s unfolding in oil fields, coal towns, and courtrooms. Jacobin spoke with engineers, unionists, and President Petro himself about trying to realize a post-extractivist economy.

Finished "Lobizona" by Romina Garber. I have extremely mixed feelings about this book. It's a powerful depiction of the fear of living as an undocumented child/teen and it has interesting things to say about rejection, belonging, and the choice between seeking to be recognized for who you are and wanting you blend in enough to be accepted as normal. However, it's also an explicit homage to Harry Potter, and while it doesn't include antisemitic tropes or glorify slavery or even have any anti-trans sentiments I can detect, to me the magical school setup felt forced and I thought it would have been a better book had it not tried to fit that mould. Also, it would have been a super interesting situation to explore trans issues, and while it's definitely fine for it not to do that, the author's praise of Rowling's work has me wondering...
There's a sequel that I think could in theory be amazing, but given the execution of the first book, I think I'll wait a bit before checking it out. By putting her main character in opposition to both ICE in the human world and the magical authorities in the other world, Garber explicitly sets the stage for a revolution standing between her protagonist and any kind of lasting peace. But I'm not confident she's capable of writing that story without relying on some kind of supernatural deus ex machina, which would be disappointing to me, since "a better world if only possible through divine intervention" is an inherently regressive message.
Overall, #OwnVoices fantasy centering an undocumented immigrant is an excellent thing, and I've certainly got a lot of privilege that surely influences my criticism. However, #OwnVoices stuff has a range of levels of craft and political stances, and it can be excellent for some reasons and mediocre for others.
On that point, if anyone reading this has suggestions for fiction books grappling with borders and the carceral state, Is be happy to hear them.
#AmReading

A basin full of icy meltwater
perched above Juneau
has broken through its glacial barrier
and begun flooding down toward Juneau Alaska
— the latest in what have become yearly outburst floods that hit this region.

As scientists flew by helicopter to assess the situation
at what’s called Suicide Basin,
Juneau officials warned residents
to evacuate parts of the city
that have been prone to repeated flooding.
They predicted the peak f…

An Alaskan glacier is bursting. Can new barriers block the flood?
In Juneau Alaska, officials built a Hesco barrier wall to try to protect neighborhoods from floodwaters pouring out of Mendenhall Glacier.

A photojournalist at the US Federal Court in New York on Tuesday had to be taken to a hospital on a stretcher after an immigrationenforcement official shoved another person into him,
causing him to fall and hit his head on the floor at a US federal courthouse in New York City.
Gothamist reports that photojournalist Vural Elibol of the Turkish-based Anadolu Agency had to be hospitalized after a confrontation involving multiple masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) offici…

Journalist Taken Out of Courthouse in Stretcher After Shove From Masked ICE Agent | Common Dreams
Photojournalist hospitalized after altercation with ICE officials at US Federal Court in New York. Second incident in a week. DHS silent.