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Military law establishes a strong presumption that military orders are lawful and must be obeyed.
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Dear JAG: What Do I Do if I Get Unlawful Orders to Blow Up Civilian Boats
Orders are presumed to be lawful, but that presumption is rebuttable rather than conclusive.

Computing Invariant Zeros of a MIMO Linear System Using State-Space Realization
Jhon Manuel Portella Delgado, Ankit Goel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24105 https://

Computing Invariant Zeros of a MIMO Linear System Using State-Space Realization
Poles of a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) linear system can be computed by solving an eigenvalue problem; however, the problem of computing its invariant zeros is equivalent to a generalized eigenvalue problem. This paper revisits the problem of computing the invariant zeros by solving an eigenvalue problem. We introduce a realization called the invariant zero form in which the system's invariant zeros are isolated in a partition of the transformed dynamics matrix. It is shown that the invaria…

Robustness of One-to-Many Interdependent Higher-order Networks Against Cascading Failures
Cheng Qian, Dandan Zhao, Bo Zhang, Ming Zhong, Jianmin Han, Shenghong Li, Hao Peng, Wei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23716

Robustness of One-to-Many Interdependent Higher-order Networks Against Cascading Failures
In the real world, the stable operation of a network is usually inseparable from the mutual support of other networks. In such an interdependent network, a node in one layer may depend on multiple nodes in another layer, forming a complex one-to-many dependency relationship. Meanwhile, there may also be higher-order interactions between multiple nodes within a layer, which increases the connectivity within the layer. However, existing research on one-to-many interdependence often neglects intra…

Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
#resist #NarcissistInChief

The fracturing of the Dutch far-right, after Wilder's reminded everyone that bigots are bad at compromise, is definitely a relief. Dutch folks I've talked to definitely see D66 as progressive, <strike>so there's no question this is a hard turn to the left (even if it's not a total flip to the far-left)</strike> a lot of folks don't agree. I'm going to let the comments speak rather than editorialize myself..
While this is a useful example of how a democracy can be far more resilient to fascism than the US, that is, perhaps, not the most interesting thing about Dutch politics. The most interesting thing is something Dutch folks take for granted and never think of as such: there are two "governments."
The election was for the Tweede Kamer. This is a house of representatives. The Dutch use proportional representation, so people can (more or less) vote for the parties they actually want. Parties <strike>rarely</strike> never actually get a ruling majority, so they have to form coalition governments. This forces compromise, which is something Wilders was extremely bad at. He was actually responsible for collapsing the coalition his party put together, which triggered this election... and a massive loss of seats for his party.
Dutch folks do still vote strategically, since a larger party has an easier time building the governing coalition and the PM tends to come from the largest party. This will likely be D66, which is really good for the EU. D66 has a pretty radical plan to solve the housing crisis, and it will be really interesting to see if they can pull it off. But that's not the government I want to talk about right now.
In the Netherlands, failure to control water can destroy entire towns. A good chunk of the country is below sea level. Both floods and land reclamation have been critical parts of Dutch history. So in the 1200's or so, the Dutch realized that some things are too important to mix with normal politics.
You see, if there's an incompetent government that isn't able to actually *do* anything (see Dick Schoof and the PVV/VVD/NSC/BBB coalition) you don't want your dikes to collapse and poulders to flood. So the Dutch created a parallel "government" that exists only to manage water: waterschap or heemraadschap (roughly "Water Board" in English). These are regional bureaucracies that exist only to manage water. They exist completely outside the thing we usually talk about as a "government" but they have some of the same properties as a government. They can, for example, levy taxes. The central government contributes funds to them, but lacks authority over them. Water boards are democratically elected and can operate more-or-less independent of the central government.
Controlling water is a common problem, so water boards were created to fulfill the role of commons management. Meanwhile, so many other things in politics run into the very same "Tragedy of the Commons" problems. The right wing solution to commons management is to let corporations ruin everything. The left-state solution is to move everything into the government so it can be undermined and destroyed by the right. The Dutch solution to this specific problem has been to move commons management out of the domain of the central government into something else.
And when I say "government" here, I'm speaking more to the liberal definition of the term than to an anarchist definition. A democratically controlled authority that facilitates resource management lacks the capacity for coercive violence that anarchists define as "government." (Though I assume they might leverage police or something if folks refuse to pay their taxes, but I can't imagine anyone choosing not to.)
As the US federal government destroys the social fabric of the US, as Trump guts programs critical to people's survival, it might be worth thinking about this model. These authorities weren't created by any central authority, they evolved from the people. Nothing stops Americans from building similar institutions that are both democratic and outside of the authority of a government that could choose to defund and abolish them... nothing but the realization that yes, you actually can.
#USPol #NLPol

Synchronization transitions and spike dynamics in a higher-order Kuramoto model with L\'{e}vy noise
Dan Zhao, J\"urgen Kurths, Norbert Marwan, Yong Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24554

Synchronization transitions and spike dynamics in a higher-order Kuramoto model with Lévy noise
Synchronization in various complex networks is significantly influenced by higher-order interactions combined with non-Gaussian stochastic perturbations, yet their mechanisms remain mainly unclear. In this paper, we systematically investigate the synchronization and spike dynamics in a higher-order Kuramoto model subjected to non-Gaussian Lévy noise. Using the mean order parameter, mean first-passage time, and basin stability, we identify clear boundaries distingusihing synchronization and inc…

Next Point-of-interest (POI) Recommendation Model Based on Multi-modal Spatio-temporal Context Feature Embedding
Lingyu Zhang, Guobin Wu, Yan Wang, Pengfei Xu, Jian Liang, Xuan Song, Yunhai Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22661

Next Point-of-interest (POI) Recommendation Model Based on Multi-modal Spatio-temporal Context Feature Embedding
The next Point-of-interest (POI) recommendation is mainly based on sequential traffic information to predict the user's next boarding point location. This is a highly regarded and widely applied research task in the field of intelligent transportation, and there have been many research results to date. Traditional POI prediction models primarily rely on short-term traffic sequence information, often neglecting both long-term and short-term preference data, as well as crucial spatiotemporal cont…

Meta cuts roles in its Risk unit citing a shift from manual reviews to a "consistent and automated process" that is delivering "reliable compliance outcomes" (Jyoti Mann/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-job-cut…

Meta told some employees their jobs are being replaced by tech
An internal memo explaining the cuts said "many routine decisions can now be handled efficiently by technology."

AGN hosting jets. I: A semi-analytical model for the evolution of radio galaxies
Pau Beltr\'an-Palau, Manel Perucho, Jos\'e Mar\'ia Mart\'i
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24939

AGN hosting jets. I: A semi-analytical model for the evolution of radio galaxies
Three-dimensional simulations of relativistic jets are a useful tool to understand the evolution of jets and radio galaxies in detail. However, computationally demanding as they are, their use is limited to a relatively small number of representative cases. When comparing to the distribution of large samples of objects in the luminosity-distance plane (P-D plane), the most efficient approach is to use analytical or semi-analytical models that reproduce the evolution of the main parameters gover…

CATL is making major moves on two continents. The world's largest EV battery maker is partnering with Stellantis on a carbon-neutral 50 GWh factory in Spain, creating thousands of jobs.
Meanwhile, they're restarting a lithium mine in China that could impact global prices and potentially lower battery costs by 2026.

CATL Battery Factory in Spain, Lithium Mine in Yichun - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. CATL is the largest EV battery producer in the world. It continues to progress, with the latest news being a factory under construction in Spain and restarting of a lithium mine in China. CATL + Stellantis Battery Factory in Spain ... [continued]