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Uspol, genocide
In case you're wondering whether "political violence" is escalating in the U.S.A. right now, of *course* it is as we move into an era of concentration campus and domestic military deployments. But both domestic genocides and purges as well as political violence targeted at individual prominent figures has been a *constant* throughout American history, from gun duels fought between political rivals to massacres of Native Americans in order to steal their land, to pogroms against Catholics, to literal wars on local Black success and political participation, all dating back before the American Revolution to the beginning of colonization. Thanks to Wikipedia, here's a *small sampling* where I attempted to whittle things down to about one event per decade before recent times.
Sources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_United_States
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_massacres_in_North_America
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_political_violence_in_Washington,_D.C.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_racial_violence_in_the_United_States
Killings, woundings, and plots against political figures:
Aaron Burr killing Alexander Hamilton in 1804
Sam Houston beats Rep. William Stanbery in 1832
Attempted Assassination of Andrew Jackson in 1835
Fight between Representatives Churchwell & Cullom in 1854
Caning of Sen. Charles Summer in 1856
Brawl on the House floor in 1858
Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865
Assassination of President James A. Garfield in 1881
Assassination of President William McKinley in 1901
Attempted Assassination of William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz in 1909
Wounding of former President Theodore Roosevelt in 1912
Bombing of the U.S. Senate reception room in 1915
Attempted Assassination of President Herbert Hover in 1928 (in Argentina)
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1947
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1950
The United States Capitol Shooting in 1954
Planned Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1960
Attempted Assassination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1963
Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963
Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968
Weather Underground bombings in 1970, 1971, and 1975
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1972 (Alabama Governor George Wallace was targeted & injured instead)
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1974
Planned Assassination of President Gerald Ford in 1974
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Gerald Ford in 1975
Wounding of President Ronald Reagan in 1981
Attempted Kidnapping of Federal Reserve Board members in 1981
Planned Assassination of President George Bush in 1993 (in Kuwait)
Attempted Assassinations (x3) of President Bill Clinton in 1994
Attempted Assassination of President Bill Clinton in 1996
Anthrax attacks on US senators in 2001
Attempted Assassination of President George W. Bush in 2005 (in the foreign country of Georgia)
Planned Assassination of President-Elect Barrack Obama in 2008
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2009 (in Turkey)
Attempted Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2011
Shooting of Rep. Gabby Gliffords in 2011
Planned Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2012
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2013
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2015
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Donald Trump in 2017
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2018
Pipe bombs mailed to Democratic leaders in 2018, including former President Barack Obama
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2019
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2020
Kidnapping plot against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020
Planned Assassination of Former President George W. Bush in 2022
Planned Assassination of Former President Barrack Obama in 2023
Attempted Assassination of President Joe Biden in 2023
Planned Assassinations (x2) of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Wounding of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Massacres and other mass killings, mostly with genocidal motivations:
The Acoma Massacre in 1599
The Paspaheg Massacre in 1610
The Wessagusset affair in 1623
The Mystic Massacre in 1637
The Pound Ridge Massacre in 1644
The Susquehannock chiefs massacre in 1675
The Apalachee Massacre in 1704
The Massacre at Fort Narhantes in 1712
The Norridgewock Massacre in 1724
The 1745 Massacre at Walden (in 1745)
The 1756 Massacre at Walden (in 1756)
The Killings by the Paxton Boys in 1763
The Yellow Creek Massacre in 1774
The Gnadenhütten Massacre in 1782
The Canyon del Muerto Massacre in 1805
The Battle of Tallushatchee in 1813
The Philadelphia Nativist Riots in 1844
The Bloody Island Massacre in 1850
The Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857
The Sand Creek Massacre in 1864
The Opelousas Massacre in 1868
The Chinese Massacre in 1871
The Election Riot of 1874
The Haymarket Affair in 1886
The Buffalo Gap Massacre in 1890
The Wilmington Massacre in 1898
The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre (in 1906)
The Ludlow Massacre in 1914
The Elaine massacre in 1919
The Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921
The Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921
The Bonus Army Conflict in 1932
The 1937 Memorial Day massacre (in 1937)
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963
The Kent State shootings in 1970
The Greensboro massacre in 1979
The MOVE Bombing in 1985
The 4 O'Clock murders in 1988
The Oklahoma City bombing in 1995
The September 11 Attacks in 2001
The Fort Hood Shooting in 2009
The Holocaust Memorial Shooting in 2009
The Isla Vista killings in 2014
The Charleston Church shooting in 2015
The San Bernardino attack in 2015
The Orlando Nightclub Shooting in 2016
The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting in 2018
The El Paso Walmart shooting in 2019
The January 6th Capitol Attack in 2021
The 2022 Buffalo Shooting (in 2022)

der wikipedia artikel zum thema wurstbrot ist nicht ausreichend belegt
genau mein humor
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurstbrot

Falls jemand hier im Bereich Software Entwicklung / Prototyping unterwegs ist, in Berlin wohnt (oder wohnen wollen würde) und nen Job sucht, wir haben gerade openings. (Nicht nur die explizit ausgeschriebene Junior Stelle, auch Seniors könnten relevant sein) https://artcom.de/?job_description=jun…

Dou you neurodivergent folks ever worry about dementia or alzheimers? I'm 33 and I already can't trust my own brain. I'm afraid I'm going to be an utter mess when I'm 70. But maybe that's not how this works.
#Neurology #ADD

Merke: Keine Dickte ohne #Fleisch .
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleisch_(Typografie)

Is anyone aware of a Cortex-M based microcontroller with a PCIe root complex IP?
Not an apps processor, I'm specifically asking about a M (probably M7 or M85 based).

JWST Observations of SN 2024ggi II: NIRSpec Spectroscopy and CO Modeling at 285 and 385 Days Past the Explosion
T. Mera, C. Ashall, P. Hoeflich, K. Medler, M. Shahbandeh, C. R. Burns, E. Baron, J. M. DerKacy, E. Fereidouni, C. M. Pfeffer, S. Shiber, P. J. Brown, A. Burrow, D. . A. Coulter, M. Engesser, L. Ferrari, G. Folatelli, O. Fox, L. Galbany, M. Guolo, J. T. Hinkle, W. B. Hoogendam, E. Y. Hsiao, M E. Huber, T. de Jaeger, D. O. Jones, S. Kumar, J. Lu, P. A. Mazzali, N. Morrell, M. …

JWST Observations of SN 2024ggi II: NIRSpec Spectroscopy and CO Modeling at 285 and 385 Days Past the Explosion
We present James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NIRSpec 1.7--5.5 micron observations of SN~2024ggi at +285.51 and +385.27 days post-explosion. The late-time nebular spectra are dominated by emission lines from various ionization states of H, Ca, Ar, C, Mg, Ni, Co, and Fe. We also detect strong CO emission in both the first overtone and fundamental vibrational bands. Most atomic features exhibit asymmetric line profiles, indicating an aspherical explosion. Using observed fluxes combined with non-LT…

heise | Wie man Kali Linux unter Apple Silicon virtualisiert
Das Hacker-Linux Kali kann man auf Macs mit M-CPUs komfortabel in einer virtuellen Maschine installieren. Wir zeigen, wie es mit UTM und VirtualBox geht.

#PSA Since I've just been asked again if I could use more topic-specific accounts and not mix my photography with other topics — Unfortunately, nope! I'm on a single user managed instance and cannot create new accounts on this server nor do I want to create an account for every single topic I'm interested in or posting about. However, you can filter my posts by hashtags, which I'm tr…

En Albanie, l’OPA du clan Trump sur l’île sauvage de Sazan pour construire un hôtel de luxe
https://www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/article/2025/10/11/en-albanie-l-opa-du-clan-trump-sur-l-ile-de-sazan_6645725_4500055.html

En Albanie, l’OPA du clan Trump sur l’île de Sazan
Avant-poste militaire au temps de la guerre froide, cette île de Méditerranée à la végétation luxuriante et aux eaux turquoise a longtemps été laissée à l’abandon. Mais son potentiel touristique n’a pas échappé à Jared Kushner. Fort de ses réseaux d’influence, où se mêlent allègrement géopolitique et intérêts privés, le gendre de Donald Trump a obtenu sans peine le feu vert des autorités albanaises pour édifier au cœur de cet environnement protégé un complexe hô…

Cohomological invariants of $\mathscr{M}_{3,n}$ via level structures
Andrea Di Lorenzo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09661 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.09661

Cohomological invariants of $\mathscr{M}_{3,n}$ via level structures
We show that mod $2$ cohomological invariants of the moduli stack $\mathscr{M}_{3,n}$ of smooth pointed curves of genus three contain a free module with generators in degree $0$, $2$, $3$, $4$ and $6$, formed by the invariants of the symplectic group $\mathrm{Sp}_6(2)$. We achieve this by showing that the torsor of full level two structures $\mathscr{M}_{3,n}(2) \to \mathscr{M}_{3,n}$ is versal. Along the way, we prove that the invariants of the stack of del Pezzo surfaces of degree two contain…

personally i'm not planning to migrate from github any time soon. the people who i'd've lost on ethical grounds have self-selected out long ago, i have basically no lock-in besides very heavy reliance GH Actions (which have no viable replacement besides gitlab maybe) and i'm counting on the process of corporate death to take a few years until it starts to cause actual immediate problems

SN 2021lwz: Another Exotic Luminous and Fast Evolving Optical Type Ic Broad-Lined Supernova ?
F. Poidevin, S. L. West, C. M. B. Omand, R. K\"onyves-T\'oth, S. Schulze, L. Yan, T. Kangas, I. P\'erez-Fournon, S. Geier, J. Sollerman, P. J. Pessi, C. M. Guti\'errez, T. -W. Chen, K-Ryan Hinds, R. Marques-Chaves, R. Shirley, C. Jimenez Angel, R. Lunnan, D. A. Perley, N. Sarin, Y. Yao, R. Dekany, J. Purdum, A. Wold, R. R. Laher, M. J. Graham, M. M. Kasliwal, T. Jegou Du Laz

SN 2021lwz: Another Exotic Luminous and Fast Evolving Optical Type Ic Broad-Lined Supernova ?
Context. Current large-scale, high-cadence surveys, such as the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), provide detections of new and rare types of transients and supernovae whose physical origins are not well understood. Aims. We investigate the nature of SN 2021lwz at a redshift z=0.065, an overluminous supernova (SN) of absolute magnitude, $M_{g} \sim -20.1$ AB, falling in the lower range of superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) luminosities, and discovered in a faint dwarf galaxy with an absolute magni…

Two sets of integers such that all elements of the sumset of the two sets are perfect squares
Ajai Choudhry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07806 https://arxiv.…

Two sets of integers such that all elements of the sumset of the two sets are perfect squares
This paper is concerned with the problem of finding two sets of integers, $\{a_1, a_2, \ldots$, $a_m\}$ and $\{b_1, b_2, \ldots, b_n\}$, such that all the $mn$ sums $a_i+b_j, i=1, \ldots, m, j=1, \ldots, n$, are perfect squares. A method is known for generating numerical examples of such sets when $m=2$ or 3 and $n$ is arbitrary. When both $m$ and $n$ exceed 2, only one two-parameter solution with $(m, n)=(4, 4)$ has been published. In this paper we obtain several multi-parameter solutions of t…

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
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VILA: [O.O.V.] Somewhere a long way away.
TARRANT: [O.O.V.] Why do you say that?
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If you ever wonder why I'm so beautiful, it's because I'm from Coleford, the home of Ribena.

Let me tell you what I learned from putting a KKK leader behind bars.
I'm Shannon Taylor. I've been a prosecutor for over 30 years, and I'm running for Congress in one of the most competitive seats in the country. 𝗜'𝘃𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁. 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗜'𝘃𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗶𝗻.
Republican Congressman
Rob Wittman seems to think he can take away our healthcare,
give a massive tax cut to his billionaire donors, and then lie straight to our face away to it. …

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I'm reading a piece of code which is certainly BASED ON code I wrote in 1986, which is so terrible, that, even though I know exactly what it does, I cannot understand it.
And although I know this is not exactly my code, I'm pretty certain that my code must have been pretty much as bad as this!
#Lisp #Shamed

Voor fotografieliefhebbers en ook voor lui die een haat/liefde-verhouding koesteren met het huidige Leica (comme moi): over de heel speciale kwaliteit van Leica-lenzen:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7scYd5bI-Co

A new critical exponent for semi-linear damped wave equations with the initial data from Sobolev spaces of negative order
Dinh Van Duong, Tuan Anh Dao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07802

A new critical exponent for semi-linear damped wave equations with the initial data from Sobolev spaces of negative order
In this paper, we would like to study critical exponent for semi-linear damped wave equations with power nonlinearity and initial data belonging to Sobolev spaces of negative order $\dot{H}_m^{-γ}$. Precisely, we obtain a new critical exponent $p_c(m,γ) := 1 + \frac{2m}{n+mγ}$ for $m \in (1, 2], \,γ\in \left[0, \frac{n(m-1)}{m} \right)$ by proving global (in time) existence of small data Sobolev solutions when $p \geq p_c(m,γ)$ and blow-up of weak solutions in finite time even for small da…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Dead Pioneers:
🎵 A.I.M
#DeadPioneers
https://deadpioneers.bandcamp.com/track/a-i-m
https://open.spotify.com/track/0sLqdDxUhrZE9Fg0Zt3Vdn

Do Rocky Planets around M Stars Have Atmospheres? A Statistical Approach to the Cosmic Shoreline
Jegug Ih, Eliza M. -R. Kempton, Hannah Diamond-Lowe, Joshua Krissansen-Totton, Megan Weiner Mansfield, Qiao Xue, Nicholas Wogan, Matthew C. Nixon, Benjamin J. Hord
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08253

Do Rocky Planets around M Stars Have Atmospheres? A Statistical Approach to the Cosmic Shoreline
Answering the question "do rocky exoplanets around M stars have atmospheres?" is a key science goal of the JWST mission, with 500 hours of Director's Discretionary Time (DDT) awarded to address it. Theoretically, the so-called "Cosmic Shoreline" may not hold around M stars due to their harsher XUV environment, possibly resulting in most rocky planets lacking significant atmospheres -- a hypothesis that remains to be statistically tested through judicious target selection. We identify target sel…

Pardonne moi, je dois partir d'ici.
Ne m'oublie pas, je dois m'enfuir d'ici.

On the proportion of derangements in affine classical groups
Jessica Anzanello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07093 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.07093

On the proportion of derangements in affine classical groups
We derive explicit formulas for the proportion of derangements and of derangements of $p$-power order in the affine unitary group $AU_m(q)$ over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_{q^2}$ of characteristic $p$. Both formulas rely on a result of independent interest concerning integer partitions: we obtain a generating function for partitions $λ=(λ_1, \dots, λ_m)$ into $m$ parts, for which $λ_1=1$ or there exists $k \in \{2, \dots,m\}$ such that $λ_{k-1}>λ_k=k$. Moreover, when $p$ is odd, we conj…

Ghislaine Maxwell doing the famous monologue from Michael Clayton to Trump's team. "I'm not the gal you kill, I'm the gal you buy."

#NowPlaying #French

Subspace Leakage Error Randomized Benchmarking of M{\o}lmer-S{\o}rensen Gates
R. T. Sutherland, A. C. Hughes, J. P. Marceaux, H. M. Knaack, C. M. L\"oschnauer, R. Srinivas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09508

Subspace Leakage Error Randomized Benchmarking of Mølmer-Sørensen Gates
We demonstrate a new technique that adapts single-qubit randomized benchmarking to two-qubit Mølmer-Sørensen gates. We use the controllable gate phase to generate Cliffords that act on a two-state subspace, enabling benchmarking of two-qubit gates without single-qubit operations. In addition to quantifying the gate infidelity, the protocol provides valuable information about the type of error by distinguishing between those that conserve the two-state subspace and those that result in leakage…

i'm embracing my jet lag by scouring flights to europe for an extended (six week!) trip next spring, starting in stockholm to visit my daughter and her kids / my grandchildren
man i don't like connecting after an overnight flight i'm always exhausted and i get cranky but there are NO nonstops from detroit to anywhere in scandinavia #alas
i s'pose i could take a 4½ hour train…

Quantum dots emission enhancement via coupling with an epsilon-near-zero sublayer
S. Stengel, A. B. Solanki, H. Ather, P. G. Chen, J. I. Choi, B. M. Triplett, M. Ozlu, K. R. Choi, A. Senichev, W. Jaffray, A. S. Lagutchev, L. Caspani, M. Clerici, L. Razzari, R. Morandotti, M. Ferrera, A. Boltasseva, V. M. Shalaev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.…

Quantum dots emission enhancement via coupling with an epsilon-near-zero sublayer
Quantum emitters operating at telecom wavelengths are essential for the advancement of quantum technologies, particularly in the development of integrated on-chip devices for quantum computing, communication, and sensing. Coupling resonant structures to a near-zero-index (NZI) environment has been shown to enhance their optical performance by both increasing spontaneous emission rates and improving emission directionality. In this work, we comparatively study emission characteristics of colloid…

Entwicklung der #Nabenhöhen von Windkraftanlagen an Land in Deutschland mit Stand vom 09.08.2025.
Die kleinste registrierte #Nabenhöhe misst 1.0 m.
Die größte registrierte Nabenhöhe misst 179.0 m.
Anmerkung: Erste Versuche einer

The CEERS Photometric and Physical Parameter Catalog
Isa G. Cox, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Micaela B. Bagley, Steven L. Finkelstein, Caitlin Rose, Ali Ahmad Khostovan, Katherine Chworowsky, Olivier Ilbert, Anton M. Koekemoer, Henry C. Ferguson, Pablo Arrabal Haro, Bren E. Backhaus, Mark Dickinson, Adriano Fontana, Yuchen Guo, Andrea Grazian, Norman A. Grogin, Santosh Harish, Nimish P. Hathi, Benne W. Holwerda, Kartheik G. Iyer, Lisa J. Kewley, Allison Kirkpatrick, Dale D. Kocevski, Rebecca…

The CEERS Photometric and Physical Parameter Catalog
We present the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey (CEERS) catalog, including space-based photometry, photometric redshifts, and physical parameters for more than 80,000 galaxies. The imaging used for this catalog comes from the CEERS survey, which has NIRCam coverage over ~100 sq. arcmin of the Extended Groth Strip (EGS) in seven filters from 1.15$μ$m to 4.44$μ$m. Alongside these data, we also include ancillary HST imaging in seven filters from 0.435$μ$m to 1.6$μ$m. We used Sourc…

I know I should look in the hashtags of things I'm interested in but the problem is I don't fucking know what I'm interested in in a way that I want to encounter people who hashtag it other than fedifc for the football dweebs

When NVIDIA is talking about a “600 kW rack”, does this mean, one single rack will need 600 kW of electricity, or is this some 600 marketing kilowatts by just braindead adding up some specs to gain a number as big as possible? Why I'm asking: I'm electrical engineer trying to wrap my head around 600 kW for a single rack and the massive copper cables needed for this. Even with 800 V DC, we're talking about 750 amps. Per rack! 🤯
Or am I just missing something obvious?

Have a last minute day trip to Goulburn tomorrow. So a very long day today to get enough work done to cover while I'm away.
Now have been booked in for a tech support call on Friday afternoon for a very non-tech friend in FNQ. Could be interesting. Life is never dull.
Oh and I have virtually no voice again - I'm not sick, just a bit drained of energy, and very very squeaky. So much so that, at times, my voice must only be audible to bats. Hopefully my prodigal voice wil…

Loop functions of sunset graphs in 2 1 space-time dimensions
N. Kaiser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08704 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08704

Loop functions of sunset graphs in 2+1 space-time dimensions
In these notes the relativistic $n$-body phase-phase is calculated iteratively in $2+1$ space-time dimensions for all $n$. The obtained result shows a simple power-law behavior $α_n (μ-M)^{n-2}/μ$ with a dependence only on the total mass $M=m_1+\dots + m_n$. As a consequence of this feature, the $(n-1)$-loop integrals $J_n(-q^2)$ associated to sunset graphs with $n$ internal lines can be expressed through of elementary (arctangent and logarithmic) functions, modulo polynomial terms in $q^2$ …

Optimal control of stochastic networks of $M/M/\infty$ queues with linear costs
Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli, Ioannis Lestas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08572 https://

Optimal control of stochastic networks of $M/M/\infty$ queues with linear costs
We consider an arbitrary network of $M/M/\infty$ queues with controlled transitions between queues. We consider optimal control problems where the costs are linear functions of the state and inputs over a finite or infinite horizon. We provide in both cases an explicit characterization of the optimal control policies. We also show that these do not involve state feedback, but they depend on the network topology and system parameters. The results are also illustrated with various examples.

Modeling FO-limits for monadically stable sequences
S. Braunfeld, J. Ne\v{s}et\v{r}il, P. Ossona de Mendez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08960 https://arxiv.o…

Modeling FO-limits for monadically stable sequences
We show that given a monadically stable theory $T$, a sufficiently saturated $\mathbf M \models T$, and a coherent system of probability measures on the $σ$-algebras generated by parameter-definable sets of $\mathbf M$ in each dimension, we may produce a totally Borel $\mathbf B \prec \mathbf M$ realizing these measures. Our main application is to prove that every FO-convergent sequence of structures (with countable signature) from a monadically stable class admits a modeling limit. As another…

So #Zope released new versions of their packages, with pkg-resources style namespace removal.
Totally normal way to do the bumps:
1. At first, keep the existing testing hack (writing `__init__.py`).
2. Notice that the next package fails because it expects test paths relative to `zope` subdirectory. Skip it for now.
3. While doing the next package, realize you could remove that hack and simply run tests within the `zope` subdirectory! Go back and update all the previous packages, including the one that failed before.
4. Back to bumping. Notice that in the very next package you've had an even better solution: instead of `cd`, you just called `python -m unittest -s …`. Go back and update all the previous packages.
5. Back to bumping. The very next package turns out to actually expects test paths relative to the top-level site-packages directory. Well, you can use a hybrid of the `__init__.py` hack with `python -m unittest -s …`.
#Gentoo #Python

Bounded lattice tiles that pack with another lattice
Sigrid Grepstad, Mihail N. Kolountzakis, Emmanuil Spyridakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07972 https://…

Bounded lattice tiles that pack with another lattice
Suppose L and M are full-rank lattices in Euclidean space, such that vol(L) < vol(M). Answering a question of Han and Wang from 2001, we show how to construct a bounded measurable set F (we can even take F to be a finite union of polytopes) such that F+L is a tiling and F+M is a packing. If we do not require measurability of F it is often possible that a set F can be found tiling with both L and M even when L and M have different volumes, for instance if their intersection is trivial. We also s…

Hyperpfaffian Correlations for Beta-Ensembles: Beta an Even Square Integer
Christopher D. Sinclair, Jonathan M. Wells
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05487 https://

Hyperpfaffian Correlations for Beta-Ensembles: Beta an Even Square Integer
We give a hyperpfaffian formulation for correlation functions in $β$-ensembles of $M \times M$ random matrices when $β= L^2$ is an even square integer. More specifically, to the $m$th correlation function $R_m : \R^m \rightarrow [0, \infty)$ we associate the $L$-vector valued function $ω_m : \R^m \rightarrow Λ^L \R^{L(M-m)}$ such that $R_m(\mathbf y)$ is given by the Vandermonde determinant in $y_1, \ldots, y_M$ times the hyperpfaffian of $ω_m.$ The partition function of the ensemble was p…

When I'm on the road and set up Airplay from my Mac on the random “smart” TV in the hotel/Airbnb/etc, about half the time my browsers lose the ability to play video. Searching the Internet turns up many similar problems, but not this one. Happens all the time. This just a well-known fail?
#MacOS #airplay

Precision Test of Bound-State QED at Intermediate-Z with Kaonic Neon
Manti S., Sgaramella F., Abbene L., Amsler C., Artibani F., Bazzi M., Borghi G., Bosnar D., Bragadireanu M., Buttacavoli A., Carminati M., Clozza A., Clozza F., Del Grande R., De Paolis L., Dulski K., Fabbietti L., Fiorini C., Fri\v{s}\v{c}i\'c I., Guaraldo C., Iliescu M., Indelicato P., Iwasaki M., Khreptak A., Marton J., Moskal P., Napolitano F., Nied\'zwiecki S., Ohnishi H., Piscicchia K., Principato F., Sc…

Look, all I'm saying is maybe Etsy witches aren't such a bad investment. 👀

"But I personally never had a traumatic head injury and I'm not wearing a helmet. Therefore the logical conclusion is that helmets do not prevent traumatic head injury."
I have a traumatic logic injury now.

"Full Moon at Magome"
von Hasui Kawase
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasui_Kawase

Buccaneers CB Jamel Dean explains hefty pay cut: 'It was just more like I'm comfortable here' https://www.nfl.com/news/buccaneers-cb-jamel-dean-explains-hefty-pay-cut-comfortable-here

Best $m$-term trigonometric approximation in weighted Wiener spaces and applications
Moritz Moeller, Serhii Stasyuk, Tino Ullrich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07336 https://

Best $m$-term trigonometric approximation in weighted Wiener spaces and applications
In this paper we study best $m$-term trigonometric approximation of functions belonging to multivariate weighted Wiener spaces. It has {recently been observed} that best $m$-term trigonometric widths in the uniform and Wiener norm together with nonlinear recovery algorithms stemming from compressed sensing serve to control the optimal sampling recovery error in various relevant spaces of multivariate functions. We use a collection of old and new tools as well as novel findings to extend these r…

#ClevelandRocks
#OTD in 1973 For $6 At The Door with Mott The Hoople & #Aerosmith at the 2,000 capacity John Carroll Jesuit college gym . If I'm not mistaken, school alum and future

Competitive Online Transportation Simplified
Stephen Arndt, Benjamin Moseley, Kirk Pruhs, Marc Uetz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08381 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Competitive Online Transportation Simplified
The setting for the online transportation problem is a metric space $M$, populated by $m$ parking garages of varying capacities. Over time cars arrive in $M$, and must be irrevocably assigned to a parking garage upon arrival in a way that respects the garage capacities. The objective is to minimize the aggregate distance traveled by the cars. In 1998, Kalyanasundaram and Pruhs conjectured that there is a $(2m-1)$-competitive deterministic algorithm for the online transportation problem, matchin…

Localizing the Ising CFT from the ground state of the Ising model on the fuzzy sphere
Kay Joerg Wiese
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09482 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Localizing the Ising CFT from the ground state of the Ising model on the fuzzy sphere
We locate the phase-transition line for the Ising model on the fuzzy sphere from a finite-size scaling analysis of its ground-state energy. This is similar to what was used to locate the complex CFT of the 5-state Potts model in dimension $d=2$ [PRL 133 (2024) 077101]. There it was shown that a CFT is characterized by a stationarity condition for the measured effective central charge. Our strategy is to write the ground-state energy as $E_{\rm GS}(N)/N_m = E_{0} + E_1 /N_m + E_{3/2}/N_m^{3/2}+ …

UK retailer M&S resumes click and collect services after a cyberattack on April 22, set to cost it ~£300M; M&S restarted online delivery orders on June 10 (James Davey/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co

On $(\delta,f)$-derivations and Jordan $(\delta,f)$-derivations on modules
Gusti Ayu Dwi Yanti, Indah Emilia Wijayanti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07609 https://

On $(δ,f)$-derivations and Jordan $(δ,f)$-derivations on modules
Let $R$ be a ring with identity, $M,N$ right modules over $R$. An additive mapping $δ$ from $R$ to $R$ is called derivation on ring $R$ if it satisfies the Leibniz condition. If $δ$ is a derivation on $R$ and $f:M \rightarrow N$ is a module homomorphism over $R$, then an additive mapping $d:M \rightarrow N$ is called a $(δ,f)$-derivation if it satisfies $d(xa)=d(x)a+f(x)δ(a)$ for all $x \in M$ and $a \in R$. An additive mapping $δ: R \rightarrow R$ is called Jordan derivation on ring $R$ i…

Cryogenic geometric anti-spring vibration isolation system
L. Feenstra, S. Dom\'inguez-Calder\'on, K. van Oosten, H. S. M. Bohemen, T. Benschop, M. Brinkman, M. Li, E. Hennes, R. Cornelissen, B. J. Hensen, A. Bertolini, M. P. Allan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09010

Cryogenic geometric anti-spring vibration isolation system
The combination of low temperature and low vibration levels is key for ultrasensitive sensing applications such as scanning probe microscopy, large-mass quantum mechanics, and gravitational wave detection. Unfortunately, closed-cycle cryostats using pulse tube or GM coolers introduce strong low-frequency vibrations starting at 1 Hz. Mass-spring systems allow passive isolation, but for low-frequency applications the required spring constants and masses become impractical. Blade-based geometric a…

Sums of squares of integers from residue classes
Daejun Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08106 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08106

Sums of squares of integers from residue classes
A subset $\mathcal{A}\subseteq\mathbb{Z}$ is called $s$-almost square universal if every sufficiently large positive integer can be written as a sum of at most $s$ squares of integers from $\mathcal{A}$. In this article, we study the minimal number $\mathrm{ASU}(\mathcal{A}_{d,m})$ with this property, where $\mathcal{A}_{d,m}$ denotes the residue class of $d$ modulo $m$, with $m\in\mathbb{N}$ and $d\in\mathbb{Z}$. We further prove that $\mathcal{A}_{d,m}$ is $s$-square universal for some $s\in\…

Series C, Episode 09 - Sarcophagus
VILA: I think I'm going to win this time, Avon.
DAYNA: Congratulations. [Avon pauses by the board to remove three black pieces and shift one white piece.]
VILA: You can't. Oh. Yes, you can.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/309/16 B7B4

Materials folks: I'm looking for a removable sacrificial masking material that:
* Can be applied as a thixotropic gel and cures quickly, preferably under UV
* Sticks reasonably well to silicon, tin plated copper and epoxy-glass composites
* Can be removed with no residue
* Will survive repeated brief exposure to concentrated or fuming nitric and sulfuric acids at ~80C followed by washing in cold acetone
I'm currently using a Dymax peelable UV polyurethane…

Today I have been sharing my suspension rig with some rope friends. Here I'm doing a single Jesus Sandal suspension; I'm using natural hemp rope for the main wrap, for comfort, but using a synthetic strop to supplement the lift rope, for strength.
#BDSM

Obesity & diet
I wouldn't normally share a positive story about the new diet drugs, because I've seen someone get obsessed with them who was at a perfectly acceptable weight *by majority standards* (surprise: every weight is in fact perfectly acceptable by *objective* standards, because every "weight-associated" health risk is its own danger that should be assessed *in individuals*). I think two almost-contradictory things:
1. In a society shuddering under the burden of metastasized fatmisia, there's a very real danger in promoting the new diet drugs because lots of people who really don't need them will be psychologically bullied into using them and suffer from the cost and/or side effects.
2. For many individuals under the assault of our society's fatmisia, "just ignore it" is not a sufficient response, and also for specific people for whom decreasing their weight can address *specific* health risks/conditions that they *want* to address that way, these drugs can be a useful tool.
I know @… to be a trustworthy & considerate person, so I think it's responsible to share this:
#Fat #Diet #Obesity

I picked the wrong weekend to replace windows.
https://m.ai6yr.org/@BakerRL75/115368351540130611

Solar Flux Atlases: The new HARPS-N Quiet Sun Benchmark and Ca II H & K Lines Continuum Normalisation
F. Hanassi-Savari, A. G. M. Pietrow, M. K. Druett, M. Cretignier, M. Ellwarth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07912

Solar Flux Atlases: The new HARPS-N Quiet Sun Benchmark and Ca II H & K Lines Continuum Normalisation
Context. Solar flux atlases observe the spatially integrated light from the Sun, treating it as a star. They are fundamental tools for gaining insight into the composition of the Sun and other stars, and are utilized as reference material for a wide range of solar applications such as stellar chemical abundances, atmospheric physics, stellar activity, and radial velocity signals. Aims. We provide a detailed comparison of solar activity in some of the well-known solar atlases against the new Hig…

Entanglement Assisted Non-local Optical Interferometry in a Quantum Network
P. -J. Stas, Y. -C. Wei, M. Sirotin, Y. Q. Huan, U. Yazlar, F. Abdo Arias, E. Knyazev, G. Baranes, B. Machielse, S. Grandi, D. Riedel, J. Borregaard, H. Park, M. Lon\v{c}ar, A. Suleymanzade, M. D. Lukin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09464

Entanglement Assisted Non-local Optical Interferometry in a Quantum Network
The sensitivity of non-local optical measurements at low light intensities, such as those involved in long baseline telescope arrays, can be improved by using remote entanglement. Here, we demonstrate the use of entangled quantum memories in a quantum network of Silicon-vacancy centers in diamond nano-cavities to experimentally perform such non-local phase measurements. Specifically, we combine the generation of event-ready remote quantum entanglement, photon mode erasure that hides the "which-…

Evidence for optical pulsations from a redback millisecond pulsar
A. Papitto, F. Ambrosino, M. Burgay, R. La Placa, C. J. Clark, C. Ballocco, G. Illiano, C. Malacaria, A. Miraval Zanon, A. Possenti, L. Stella, A. Ghedina, M Cecconi, F. Leone, M. Gonzalez, H. Perez Ventura, M. Hernandez Diaz, J. San Juan, H. Stoev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508…

Evidence for optical pulsations from a redback millisecond pulsar
Recent detections of optical pulsations from both a transitional and an accreting millisecond pulsar have revealed unexpectedly bright signals, suggesting that the presence of an accretion disk enhances the efficiency of optical emission, possibly via synchrotron radiation from accelerated particles. In this work, we present optical observations of the redback millisecond pulsar PSR J2339-0533, obtained with the SiFAP2 photometer mounted on the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo. Data accumulated dur…

The reflex instability: exponential growth of a large-scale $m=1$ mode in astrophysical discs
Aur\'elien Crida, Cl\'ement Baruteau, Jean-Fran\c{c}ois Gonzalez, Fr\'ed\'eric Masset, Paul Segr\'etain, Philippine Griveaud, H\'elo\"ise M\'eheut, Elena Lega
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07859

The reflex instability: exponential growth of a large-scale $m=1$ mode in astrophysical discs
We report the finding of a linear, non-axisymmetric, global instability in gas discs around stars, which may be relevant to other astrophysical discs. It takes the form of an $m=1$ mode that grows in the disc density distribution while the star-barycentre distance rises exponentially with a characteristic timescale that is orders of magnitude longer than the orbital period. We present results of hydrodynamical simulations with various codes and numerical methods, using either barycentric or ste…

Series C, Episode 08 - Rumours of Death
AVON: I can't. Please, I can't.
SHRINKER: I'm going to start by burning out your eyes.
AVON: Please.
SHRINKER: And you're going to start by telling me your name. Now that's not too difficult, is it? Who are you?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/308/26

Entwicklung des Rotordurchmessers von Windkraftanlagen an Land in Deutschland mit Stand vom 09.08.2025.
Der kleinste registrierte #Rotordurchmesser misst 0.2 m.
Der größte registrierte Rotordurchmesser misst 200.0 m.
Anmerkung: Erste Versuche einer #Datenanalyse. 😁 Hin…

No, you heard me wrong.
I said I'm into resting.

The Distribution of Quenched Galaxies in the Massive z = 0.87 Galaxy Cluster El Gordo
Rachel Honor, Seth Cohen, Timothy Carleton, Steven Willner, Maria del Carmen Polletta, Rogier Windhorst, Dan Coe, Christopher Conselice, Jose Diego, Simon Driver, Jordan D'Silva, Nicholas Foo, Brenda Frye, Norman Grogin, Nimish Hathi, Rolf Jansen, Patrick Kamieneski, Anton Koekemoer, Reagen Leimbach, Madeline Marshall, Rafael Ortiz III, Nor Pirzkal, Massimo Ricotti, Aaron Robotham, Michael Rutkows…

The Distribution of Quenched Galaxies in the Massive z = 0.87 Galaxy Cluster El Gordo
El Gordo (ACT-CL J0102$-$4915) is a massive galaxy cluster with two major mass components at redshift $z=0.87$. Using SED fitting results from JWST/NIRCam photometry, the fraction of quenched galaxies in this cluster was measured in two bins of stellar mass: $9<\log{({M_*}/\mathrm{M}_{\odot})}<10$ and $10\leq\log{({M_*}/\mathrm{M}_{\odot})}<12$. While there is no correlation between the quenched fraction and angular separation from the cluster's overall center of mass, there is a correlation be…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #ElSonido
Mexican Institute of Sound:
🎵 México
#MexicanInstituteofSound
https://mexicaninstituteofsound1.bandcamp.com/track/m-xico
https://open.spotify.com/track/7p4VHeroqCBJJL0RbCf8yx

A near-linear time approximation scheme for $(k,\ell)$-median clustering under discrete Fr\'echet distance
Anne Driemel, Jan H\"ockendorff, Ioannis Psarros, Christian Sohler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07008

A near-linear time approximation scheme for $(k,\ell)$-median clustering under discrete Fréchet distance
A time series of complexity $m$ is a sequence of $m$ real valued measurements. The discrete Fréchet distance $d_{dF}(x,y)$ is a distance measure between two time series $x$ and $y$ of possibly different complexity. Given a set of $n$ time series represented as $m$-dimensional vectors over the reals, the $(k,\ell)$-median problem under discrete Fréchet distance aims to find a set $C$ of $k$ time series of complexity $\ell$ such that $$\sum_{x\in P} \min_{c\in C} d_{dF}(x,c)$$ is minimized. In …

JWST imaging of omega Centauri: II. Evidence for a split white dwarf cooling sequence in the near-infrared
M. Scalco (Indiana University), M. Salaris (Liverpool John Moores University, INAF-OAAb), L. R. Bedin (INAF-OAPD), S. Blouin (University of Victoria), E. Vesperini (Indiana University), P. Bergeron (University of Montreal), M. Libralato (INAF-OAPD), M. Griggio (STScI), A. Burgasser (UniCA SanDiego), D. Nardiello (UniPD, INAF-OAPD), A. Bellini (STScI), J. Anderson (STScI), R. Geras…

JWST imaging of omega Centauri: II. Evidence for a split white dwarf cooling sequence in the near-infrared
We present a detailed analysis of the white dwarf cooling sequence (WD CS) in omega Centauri based on combined Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and JWST observations. Our analysis confirms the previously reported split - based on HST observations in ultraviolet filters - in the upper part of the WD CS, consistent with the presence of two distinct WD populations, and extends it to a significantly fainter and cooler limit (down to ~8000 K), corresponding to cooling ages of about 1 Gyr. We used artifi…

Evidence for an intrinsic luminosity-decay correlation in GRB radio afterglows
S. P. R. Shilling, S. R. Oates, D. A. Kann, J. Patel, J. L. Racusin, B. Cenko, R. Gupta, M. Smith, L. Rhodes, K. R. Hinds, M. Nicholl, A. Breeveld, M. Page, M. De Pasquale, B. Gompertz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07276

Evidence for an intrinsic luminosity-decay correlation in GRB radio afterglows
We present the discovery of a correlation, in a sample of 16 gamma-ray burst 8.5 GHz radio afterglows, between the intrinsic luminosity measured at 10 days in the rest frame, $L_{\mathrm{Radio,10d}}$, and the average rate of decay past this time, $α_{>10d}$. The correlation has a Spearman's rank coefficient of $-0.70 \pm 0.13$ at a significance of $>3σ$ and a linear regression fit of $α_{>10d} = -0.29^{+0.19}_{-0.28} \log \left(L_{\mathrm{Radio,10d}} \right) + 8.12^{+8.86}_{-5.88}$. This fin…

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

Detection of Millimeter-Wavelength Flares from Two Accreting White Dwarf Systems in the SPT-3G Galactic Plane Survey
Y. Wan, J. D. Vieira, P. M. Chichura, T. J. Maccarone, A. J. Anderson, B. Ansarinejad, A. Anumarlapudi, M. Archipley, L. Balkenhol, P. S. Barry, K. Benabed, A. N. Bender, B. A. Benson, F. Bianchini, L. E. Bleem, F. R. Bouchet, L. Bryant, E. Camphuis, M. G. Campitiello, J. E. Carlstrom, C. L. Chang, P. Chaubal, A. Chokshi, T. -L. Chou, A. Coerver, T. M. Crawford, C. Daley…

Detection of Millimeter-Wavelength Flares from Two Accreting White Dwarf Systems in the SPT-3G Galactic Plane Survey
Blind discoveries of millimeter-wave (mm-wave) transient events in non-targeted surveys, as opposed to follow-up or pointed observations, have only become possible in the past decade using cosmic microwave background surveys. Here we present the first results from the SPT-3G Galactic Plane Survey -- the first dedicated high-sensitivity, wide-field, time-domain, mm-wave survey of the Galactic Plane, conducted with the South Pole Telescope (SPT) using the SPT-3G camera. The survey field covers ap…

YSES 2b is a background star: Differential astrometric M-dwarf measurements in time
Matthew Kenworthy, Tomas Stolker, Jens Kammerer, William Balmer, Arthur Vigan, Sylvestre Lacour, Gilles Otten, Eric Mamajek, Christian Ginski, Mathias Nowak, Steven Martos, Jason Wang, Emily Rickman, Markus Janson, Alexander Bohn, Mariangela Bonavita
https://

YSES 2b is a background star: Differential astrometric M-dwarf measurements in time
We wish to confirm the nature of YSES 2b, a purportedly faint companion of the young star YSES 2. We used on-sky observations from SPHERE and GRAVITY to measure the astrometric position of 2b with respect to the star YSES 2, and examined the competing hypotheses of (i) a bound substellar companion versus (ii) a distant unrelated background source with a non-zero proper motion. YSES 2b appears to be a late-type M-dwarf star over 2 kiloparsecs behind the star YSES 2. It has a transverse velocity …

Series D, Episode 08 - Games
VILA: [V.O.] Belkov's living quarters.
TARRANT: We'll be right there.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/408/409 B7B2

TL;DR: what if nationalism, not anarchy, is futile?
Since I had the pleasure of seeing the "what would anarchists do against a warlord?" argument again in my timeline, I'll present again my extremely simple proposed solution:
Convince the followers of the warlord that they're better off joining you in freedom, then kill or exile the warlord once they're alone or vastly outnumbered.
Remember that even in our own historical moment where nothing close to large-scale free society has existed in living memory, the warlord's promise of "help me oppress others and you'll be richly rewarded" is a lie that many understand is historically a bad bet. Many, many people currently take that bet, for a variety of reasons, and they're enough to coerce through fear an even larger number of others. But although we imagine, just as the medieval peasants might have imagined of monarchy, that such a structure is both the natural order of things and much too strong to possibly fail, in reality it takes an enormous amount of energy, coordination, and luck for these structures to persist! Nations crumble every day, and none has survived more than a couple *hundred* years, compared to pre-nation societies which persisted for *tends of thousands of years* if not more. I'm this bubbling froth of hierarchies, the notion that hierarchy is inevitable is certainly popular, but since there's clearly a bit of an ulterior motive to make (and teach) that claim, I'm not sure we should trust it.
So what I believe could form the preconditions for future anarchist societies to avoid the "warlord problem" is merely: a widespread common sense belief that letting anyone else have authority over you is morally suspect. Given such a belief, a warlord will have a hard time building any following at all, and their opponents will have an easy time getting their supporters to defect. In fact, we're already partway there, relative to the situation a couple hundred years ago. At that time, someone could claim "you need to obey my orders and fight and die for me because the Queen was my mother" and that was actually a quite successful strategy. Nowadays, this strategy is only still working in a few isolated places, and the idea that one could *start a new monarchy* or even resurrect a defunct one seems absurd. So why can't that same transformation from "this is just how the world works" to "haha, how did anyone ever believe *that*? also happen to nationalism in general? I don't see an obvious reason why not.
Now I think one popular counterargument to this is: if you think non-state societies can win out with these tactics, why didn't they work for American tribes in the face of the European colonizers? (Or insert your favorite example of colonialism here.) I think I can imagine a variety of reasons, from the fact that many of those societies didn't try this tactic (and/or were hierarchical themselves), to the impacts of disease weakening those societies pre-contact, to the fact that with much-greater communication and education possibilities it might work better now, to the fact that most of those tribes are *still* around, and a future in which they persist longer than the colonist ideologies actually seems likely to me, despite the fact that so much cultural destruction has taken place. In fact, if the modern day descendants of the colonized tribes sow the seeds of a future society free of colonialism, that's the ultimate demonstration of the futility of hierarchical domination (I just read "Theory of Water" by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson).
I guess the TL;DR on this is: what if nationalism is actually as futile as monarchy, and we're just unfortunately living in the brief period during which it is ascendant?

Magnetic White Dwarf -- M Dwarf Binaries in Pre-polar Phase as Special Population of Long-Period Radio Transients
Yuan-Pei Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09224 https://

Magnetic White Dwarf -- M Dwarf Binaries in Pre-polar Phase as Special Population of Long-Period Radio Transients
Long-period radio transients (LPTs) are a new class of coherent radio sources with periods ranging from minutes to hours. Recently, two LPT sources, ILT J1101+5521 and GLEAM-X J0704-37, with periods of 2-3 hours has been confirmed to originate from white dwarf (WD) -- M dwarf (MD) binaries. In this work, we propose that at least some LPTs originate from the magnetic WD -- MD binaries in the pre-polar phase. The asynchronism between the WD's rotation and the binary's orbital motion allows for th…

Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
DORIAN: How long before we make planet fall?
SLAVE: One hour, Master. That is Earth standard time, of course. I hope that is satisfactory.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/401/45 B7B3

Lyman-Alpha Emission from K and M Dwarfs: Intrinsic Profiles, Variability, and Flux in the Habitable Zone
Sarah Peacock, Travis S. Barman, R. O. Parke Loyd, Adam C. Schneider, Allison Youngblood, Kenneth G. Carpenter, Evgenya L. Shkolnik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09029

Lyman-Alpha Emission from K and M Dwarfs: Intrinsic Profiles, Variability, and Flux in the Habitable Zone
Lyman-$α$ (Ly$α$) is the most prominent ultraviolet emission line in low-mass stars, playing a crucial role in exoplanet atmospheric photochemistry, heating, and escape. However, interstellar medium (ISM) absorption typically obscures most of the Ly$α$ profile, requiring reconstructions that introduce systematic uncertainties. We present intrinsic Ly$α$ profiles for 12 high radial velocity K and M dwarfs, where Doppler shifting minimizes ISM contamination, allowing direct measurements of $\…

Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
TARRANT: Yeah, very interesting. After he vanished, they started finding the bodies. He was never a simple scientist, Avon.
VILA: What was he?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/411/245 B7B3

Series D, Episode 10 - Gold
AVON: No, you're not. [Avon turns off his comm-link. Louder, to the others on the planet surface: ] They're on their way.
[A group of black clad people arrive.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/410/389 B7B4

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
BLAKE: Why not?
RICHIE: We've left documents in the city with your signature on them. Forged, of course, but convincing enough to implicate you in everything we've been doing.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/62 B7B2

Series D, Episode 07 - Assassin
CANCER: You could give that little bitch a message for me. You can tell her I'll be saving her to the last. [Tarrant leaves]
[Control room]
AVON: Come on, woman, come on!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/407/307 B7B2

Series B, Episode 06 - Trial
ZEN: Fourteen minutes. Attack run will commence in nine minutes and thirty seconds.
BLAKE: How long before they see us?
AVON: Nine minutes and twenty-five seconds.
[Hearing room]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/206/490 B7B5

Series D, Episode 08 - Games
VILA: Yeah, but what's going on?
GERREN: That's the pressure container. An electro-magnetic field produces such high pressure that everything except the feldon crystals is reduced to a fine dust.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/408/211 B7B3

Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
TARRANT: Yes, a little.
AVON: There are no lighting systems that I can find. I suggest we leave here while there's enough light to see where we're going.
TARRANT: No.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/551 B7B5

Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
KAYN: That's where the fault was, in the limiter, there. And there it is repaired. If you survive, so should he.
BLAKE: Is there any way we can thank you?
KAYN: You could try getting caught.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/552 B7B2

Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
AVON: Open the main locks.
[Exterior. View of Liberator hold opening]
AVON: Visual. [A view of space from the interior of the hold is displayed on the main viewscreen.]
VILA: Ramp fully open.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/162 B7B6

Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
BLAKE: That's right.
RO: The name's forbidden. You can't cling to the past. Paura shouldn't have spoken it.
BLAKE: Huh! He probably thought he had nothing to lose - under the circumstances.
RO: Circumstances?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/316

Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
AVON: What for? They could take us out quite easily with their technology.
TARRANT: Damn their technology. Is that all you care about? What about Cally? How did she come to be here? Why are they holding her?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/310/249 B7B3…

Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
AVON: Dayna told me you had enemies.
MELLANBY: I've been hiding here for a long time.
AVON: What was your crime?
MELLANBY: It wasn't a crime. But there's still a price on my head: three million credits.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/301/198…

Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
BLAKE: You heard him, he's got the girl. Do you believe that he won't kill her?
AVON: Nope.
BLAKE: That's why I want to go to Exbar. I don't expect any of you to come with me, I just want you to put me down, that's all.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/165

Series A, Episode 05 - The Web
[They move back into the adjoining room.]
BLAKE: What was the original purpose of the project?
NOVARA: Genetic engineering. The main aims were to halt the ageing process in humans. To find a way to maintain continuous life.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/105/398…

Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
ZEN: Unchanged.
TARRANT: So, we have five minutes before they link, four while they transfer cargo, less than twelve before they break orbit.
VILA: Bit of a know-all, aren't you? [Tarrant winks and smiles.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/305/230

Series A, Episode 09 - Project Avalon
MUTOID: If there isn't one in detention?
TRAVIS: Then detain one!
MUTOID: Yes, Commander. [Travis goes to an adjoining area - Avalon is restrained in an interrogation machine.]
TRAVIS: [To scientist] Any problems?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/109/91

Series A, Episode 11 - Bounty
TARVIN: Why? What's he done to you?
TYCE: He didn't give up. He fought. Blake shamed him.
SARKOFF: And in the end lost, it was inevitable.
TARVIN: Inevitable. I am the better man.
TYCE: You? Selfish, greedy, vicious-
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/111/492

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
VILA: So what's that supposed to tell us?
AVON: That recording told Orac something. If we want to know what it is, we have to check every frame.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/119…

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
P.A.: [V.O.] Security clear on cell unit M-three for Justice Department access.
VARON: I'm Tel Varon, Justice Department. I've been assigned to defend you.
BLAKE: I don't need a defence. I'm going to plead guilty.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/157