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Saw this in a Sam’s Club in suburban Atlanta: Bijan Robinson who is a star running back for the Atlanta Falcon’s is prominently featured on the box of this 75” TCL flat screen TV.
PLEASE respond with your location and the name of the retailer, and the picture on the box if you live in a different area.
PLEASE boost for reach.
I’m very curious if this is a national deal for TCL or if they have many local deals with local stars featured. If this TV is sold internationally who…

Mongabay's environmental journalism packed a serious punch in 2025.
Their reporting exposed illegal Amazon activities, spotlighted conservation wins in Colombia and Mexico, and tackled wildlife trafficking. The impact? Real indictments in Brazil, policy recommendations, and action from major orgs like WWF.
Over 870 documented impacts—all empowering communities to protect their land and ecosystems.

How Mongabay's journalism made an impact in 2025
The guiding star at Mongabay isn’t pageviews or clicks; it’s meaningful impact. As 2025 draws to a close, we look back at some of the ways Mongabay’s journalism made a difference this year. Empowering Indigenous and local communities A Mongabay Latam investigation found 67 illegal airstrips were cut into the Peruvian Amazon to transport drugs, […]

“‘We had to destroy the village to save it’ is not a new American rationalization, and the imperial boomerang can and will, if we don’t stop it, bring it to bear on the American populace.”
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/local-law-enforceme…

Local Law Enforcement's Challenge: Uphold the Law, Even Against the Feds
in the absence of action, civilians will fill the void I do want to write something not so serious, maybe even funny, here soon. But today, I think the police have to do a very hard and necessary thing: defend Americans against their federal government. If any other group arrived

Overall, states, nonprofits, local governments and unions have filed hundreds of lawsuits against the Trump administration, according to an Associated Press tracker.
Not all of them have been successful:
149 resulted in executive actions partially or fully blocked,
while the court left the action in effect in 102 cases with more than 100 still pending

Tracking the lawsuits against the Trump administration | AP News
Hundreds of lawsuits have been filed during President Donald Trump’s second administration. The suits challenge his executive orders as well as actions taken by his administration, including Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE. The courts have agreed to block the president in a number of cases, and the administration is seeking appeals as well.

I think the police have to do a very hard and necessary thing: defend Americans against their federal government.
I make the case for why local law enforcement officers may need to arrest feds:
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/local-la

Local Law Enforcement's Challenge: Uphold the Law, Even Against the Feds
in the absence of action, civilians will fill the void I do want to write something not so serious, maybe even funny, here soon. But today, I think the police have to do a very hard and necessary thing: defend Americans against their federal government. If any other group arrived

Microsoft to bring Copilot Actions, which can use apps to complete certain tasks on local files in Windows 11, to the Windows Insider Program and Copilot Labs (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/microsoft-test-copilot-manus-windows-11.html

Microsoft will test a Copilot AI feature that performs work on local files in Windows 11
Early adopters will be able to tell Microsoft's Copilot assistant to take action on files stored on their Windows 11 PCs.

At the #Willowdale Climate Action roundtable organized by my local Toronto city councillor Lily Cheng
I’m torned on those events. I wonder how much of it is just to give good conscience to the councillor.
While she keeps voting against more dense neighborhoods and in favor of pro-parking policies

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

"If any other group arrived into a neighborhood carrying long guns, deploying chemical weapons, violently engaging and then taking people away with no warrants nor apparent legal reason, we would dispatch SWAT, as SWAT has the training to defuse and deescalate such situations."
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Local Law Enforcement's Challenge: Uphold the Law, Even Against the Feds
in the absence of action, civilians will fill the void I do want to write something not so serious, maybe even funny, here soon. But today, I think the police have to do a very hard and necessary thing: defend Americans against their federal government. If any other group arrived

I don't know if REACH GREEN is really going to plant 10,000 trees but I'm going to ride my bike anyway this month so I'll just log my miles...
https://www.reachgreen.org/

REACH GREEN | Inspiring Local Action for a Greener Future
Join REACH GREEN to protect parks and trails, empower communities through sustainability events and expert resources. Be a part of climate action today!

Quantum $f$-divergences and Their Local Behaviour: An Analysis via Relative Expansion Coefficients
Paula Belzig, Shreyas Iyer, Graeme Smith, Peixue Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06183

Quantum $f$-divergences and Their Local Behaviour: An Analysis via Relative Expansion Coefficients
Any reasonable measure of distinguishability of quantum states must satisfy a data processing inequality, that is, it must not increase under the action of a quantum channel. We can ask about the proportion of information lost or preserved and this leads us to study contraction and expansion coefficients respectively, which can be combined into a single \emph{relative expansion coefficient} for study. We focus on two prominent families: (i) standard quantum $f$ divergences and (ii) their local …

From what I have read and continue to study, the transitional phase in anarcho-syndicalism involves the organized syndicates and unions acting as the foundational organs for the new society. These unions are democratically structured and federated at local, regional, national, and international levels. During the transition, they engage in direct action such as strikes and boycotts to challenge capitalist control, while simultaneously building the capacity for worker self-management.
U…

"Teachers unions leverage contracts to fight climate change"
#Education #Climate #ClimateChange

Teachers unions leverage contracts to fight climate change
As federal support and financial incentives for climate action wither, this sort of local action is becoming more difficult but also more urgent, advocates say.

The chanciness of time
John M. Myers, Hadi Madjid
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08611 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.08611 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.08611
arXiv:2511.08611v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Digital network failures stemming from instabilities in measurements of temporal order motivate attention to concurrent events. A century of attempts to resolve the instabilities have never eliminated them. Do concurrent events occur at indeterminate times, or are they better seen as events to which the very concept of temporal order cannot apply? Logical dependencies of messages propagating through digital networks can be represented by marked graphs on which tokens are moved in formal token games. However, available mathematical formulations of these token games invoke "markings"-- global snapshots of the locations of tokens on the graph. The formulation in terms of global snapshots is misleading, because distributed networks are never still: they exhibit concurrent events inexpressible by global snapshots. We reformulate token games used to represent digital networks so as to express concurrency. The trick is to replace global snapshots with "local snapshots." Detached from any central clock, a local snapshot records an action at a node during a play of a token game. Assemblages of local records define acyclic directed graphs that we call history graphs. We show how history graphs represent plays of token games with concurrent motions, and, importantly, how history graphs can represent the history of a network operating while undergoing unpredictable changes.
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Discovering interpretable piecewise nonlinear model predictive control laws via symbolic decision trees
Ilias Mitrai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10411 https://

Discovering interpretable piecewise nonlinear model predictive control laws via symbolic decision trees
In this paper, we propose symbolic decision trees as surrogate models for approximating model predictive control laws. The proposed approach learns simultaneously the partition of the input domain (splitting logic) as well as local nonlinear expressions for predicting the control action leading to interpretable piecewise nonlinear control laws. The local nonlinear expressions are determined by the learning problem and are modeled using a set of basis functions. The learning task is posed as a m…

In Asia's Sundarbans, women are becoming the guardians of the world's largest mangrove forest—and it's changing everything.
Through self-help groups, local women are planting mangrove saplings along degraded coastlines, protecting their communities from cyclones and rising seas while earning income.
It's climate action that actually works for the people who need it most.

Roots of Resilience: The Women Preserving Asia's Ancient Mangrove Forest
Local collectives in the Sundarbans are leading the charge to restore a vital marine ecosystem.

Classicized dynamics and initial conditions in field theories with fakeons
Damiano Anselmi, Gianluca Calcagni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05276 https://arxi…

Classicized dynamics and initial conditions in field theories with fakeons
Theories with purely virtual particles (fakeons) do not possess a classical action in the strict sense, but rather a "classicized" one, obtained by integrating out the fake particles at tree level. Although this procedure generates nonlocal interactions, we show that the resulting classicized equations of motion are not burdened with the need to specify infinitely many initial conditions. The reason is the inherent link between the fakeonic system and the parent higher-derivative local system: …

Constraint Qualification for Generic Parameter Families of Constraints in Optimization
Naoki Hamada, Kenta Hayano, Hiroshi Teramoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02381 https://

Constraint Qualification for Generic Parameter Families of Constraints in Optimization
Constraint qualifications (CQs) are central to the local analysis of constrained optimization. In this paper, we completely determine the validity of the four classical CQs -- LICQ, MFCQ, ACQ, and GCQ -- for constraint map-germs that arise in generic four-parameter families. Our approach begins by proving that all four CQs are invariant under the action of the group $\mathcal{K}[G]$ and under the operation of reduction. As a consequence, the verification of CQ-validity for a generic constraint …

Nonsingular Schwarzschild-de Sitter black holes in finite conformal quantum gravity
Diego A. Mart\'inez-Valera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05466 https://

Nonsingular Schwarzschild-de Sitter black holes in finite conformal quantum gravity
In this work, we prove that the classical Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime is an exact solution of a class of weakly non-local, UV finite conformal quantum gravity theories, without the necessity of including a cosmological constant term in the action, thus associating the effective cosmological constant $Λ$ appearing in the metric with the coupling constants of the quantum gravity theory. Furthermore, exploiting the inherent conformal symmetry of the theory, we take advantage of the natural …

Hey, reminder about #BlackOutTheSystem and #MassBlackout. (#Trump to go, there's a way to make that happen. Mass economic action sends the absolutely clearest message there is in the one language American power speaks. From November 25th through December 1st, they're calling for a mass coordinated economic action.
You don't have to feel helpless anymore. There are things you can do that actually hurt the system and can force it to comply.
Here's some info from the announcement page:
The Mass Blackout is a nationwide economic action, coordinated across aligned organizations, calling Americans to:
- Stop online or in-store shopping (except for small businesses)
- Stop work
- Stop streaming, cancel subscriptions, no digital purchases
- Remove the regime
If you must spend: support small, local businesses only. Pay in cash.
#USPol #FiftyFiftyOne #50501movment #NoKings

Concordia researchers are transforming urban living in Montreal by modeling a sustainable solar-powered 15-minute city, enhancing community bonds and reducing greenhouse gas emissions through local agriculture and green transportation.
https://www.enn.com/articles/…

Non-singlet vector current in lattice QCD: $\mathrm{O}(a)$-improvement from large volumes
Tim Harris, Harvey B. Meyer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06869 https://

Non-singlet vector current in lattice QCD: $\mathrm{O}(a)$-improvement from large volumes
In previous work, we determined the improvement coefficients $c_\mathrm{V}$ and $c_{\tilde{\mathrm{V}}}$ required for the massless $\mathrm{O}(a)$-improvement of the local and point-split discretizations of the non-singlet vector current for $N_\mathrm{f}=3$ non-perturbatively $\mathrm{O}(a)$-improved Wilson fermions and the Lüscher-Weisz gauge action, using ensembles of large-volume configurations generated by the Coordinated Lattice Simulations (CLS) initiative. A new estimate for the mass-d…