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Trump’s takeover of the
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
reached its inevitable apogee on Thursday afternoon
when it was announced that the center’s board of trustees had voted to rename it
the Trump-Kennedy Center.
Even though Mr. Trump had already been calling it that for months in trollish posts online,
he acted shocked that his handpicked board had thought to do this for him.
Trump had called into a meeting of the board, which is no…

Kennedy Center Board Moves to Rename It the Trump-Kennedy Center
The board for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced that it would now be named the Trump-Kennedy Center, although a formal change may have to be approved by Congress.

»Importing vs fetching JSON:
This year, JSON module imports became baseline 'newly available', meaning they're implemented across browser engines.«
— by @…
Although I don't know for what and in what context to use in the browser, but it's good that I now know about this.
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Importing vs fetching JSON
They behave differently, so make sure you pick the right one.

Bitcoin dropped below $100K for the first time since June on Tuesday; ETH also fell as much as 15% on Tuesday, and many altcoins are down 50% this year (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-04/bitc…

Bitcoin (BTC) Falls Below $100,000 With Risk Appetite Muted After Wipeout
Bitcoin has wiped out its summer rally, giving back gains made during Wall Street’s euphoric embrace and a surge in institutional buying.

TwitterX """users""" might have to join Fedi now. (Although, can someone set up a silo'd server, so they don't infect other servers)
#twitter #x #grok

Elon Musk’s X could be banned in Britain over AI chatbot row
Sir Keir Starmer brands deepfakes on social media site ‘disgusting and not to be tolerated’

Auch 2026 geht meine Beschäftigung mit dem Marchfeld weiter - noch zum Ausklang des letzten Jahrs konnte ich mein Nachwort zum Europa Erlesen Marchfeld-Band in einer leicht erweiterten Form als Gastbeitrag in Wolfgang Schmales Blog "Mein Europa" nun auch einem digital lesenden Publikum zur Verfügung stellen - vielen Dank für diese Möglichkeit!

Europa Erlesen: Marchfeld - Wolfgang Schmale
Schlachtfeld und Kornkammer – so lauten die gängigen Klischees über jene Region, die zuweilen als Kernland Österreichs betrachtet wird, in der Alltagswahrnehmung der meisten Bewohner*innen der Alpenrepublik aber als langweilig und öd abgestempelt wird. Jedoch: Theodor W. Adorno, Ingeborg Bachmann, Paul Celan, Jeannie Ebner und andere waren fasziniert von einer Landschaft, die mit ihren Sanddünen und Steppen die Weiten Asiens beschwor und in der 1927 das erste Naturschutzgebiet Österreic…

Johan Althusius heeft een ontluusterende ervaring met AI, waar hij toch al niet van hield: Nooit hebben we zo gelachen als op deze kerstfoto. De vreugde in onze ogen is kunstmatig, verdoofd, hol | de Volkskrant
https://archive.ph/nirhp

Incoherent repumping scheme in the $^{88}$Sr$^{ }$ five-level manifold
Valentin Martimort, Sacha Guesne, Derwell Drapier, Vincent Tugaye, Lilay Gros-Desormeaux, Valentin Cambier, Albane Douillet, Luca Guidoni, Jean-Pierre Likforman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08710 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.08710 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.08710
arXiv:2512.08710v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Laser-cooled trapped ions are at the heart of modern quantum technologies and their cooling dynamics often deviate from the simplified two-level atom model. Doppler cooling of the $^{88}$Sr$^{ }$ ion involves several electronic levels and repumping channels that strongly influence fluorescence.In this work, we study a repumping scheme for the $^{88}$Sr$^{ }$ ion by combining precision single-ion spectroscopy with comprehensive numerical modeling based on optical Bloch equations including 18 Zeeman sublevels. We show that, although the observed fluorescence spectra retain a Lorentzian lineshape, their width and amplitude cannot be explained by a two-level atom description. Moreover, we find the optimal repumping conditions for maximizing the photon scattering rate.
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Insider Puts Tom Brady on Notice After Raiders Fire Pete Carroll https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/tom-brady-after-fire-pete-carroll/

Trump has claimed at the press conference now under way in Florida that the United States is going to run Venezuela for the time being -- although it’s unclear how that would be done.
“We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition,” Trump said.
He has given no details.
He just called Maduro a dictator and a drug kingpin
Trump said his secretary of state,