During a Palm Sunday mass in St Peter’s Square, the pope said the conflict between Iran, Israel and the US was “atrocious” and that Jesus could not be used to justify war.
“This is our God: Jesus, king of peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war,” he told tens of thousands of worshippers.
“He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them.”
Quoting a Bible passage, Leo added:
“‘Even though you make many prayers, I will not li…
Israël is making everybody it's enemy, even the Catholic Church.
Catholic officials were prevented from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, as they made their way to celebrate the Palm Sunday Mass.
https://www.custodia.o…
Die Critical Mass Dresden war heute im Gedenken an Natenom
#Dresden
Anti-war activists in the '60s and early '70s did not just organize headline-grabbing mass marches.
They patiently worked together to build a vast anti-war infrastructure
– legal groups, GI coffeehouses, alternative newspapers and national anti-war coalitions
– that could sustain a wide range of future actions.
In working towards that goal,
anti-war activists benefited from the rich social fabric of associational life in the US
– a fabric that has…
Heute gab's trotz dem am Mittwoch kaputt gegangenen G-Line mehrere freudige Dinge in Sachen #Fahrrad: Hab's nach mehreren Monaten Abstinenz wegen Terminkonflikten endlich mal wieder zur #CriticalMass #Zürich
The First Radio View of a Type Ibn Supernova in SN 2023fyq - understanding the Mass-loss History in the Last Decade before the Explosion: #Supernova Reveal Star’s Final Years: https://as.virginia.edu/news/first-radio-signals-rare-supernova-reveal-stars-final-years
Another day, another of the little one's things repaired with a hot air tool and a bit of poking.
So many people assume broken plastic is unrepairable garbage because it's hard to glue.
But if it's a thermoplastic, as almost all mass market plastic goods are, all you need to do is gently heat up the pieces until they soften and push them back together to form a solid weld. Filler rod can help in some cases but isn't always necessary or useful depending on the natu…
For what it’s worth, I've canceled my OpenAI account due to their collaboration with Trump. Though I'm sure the others aren't that much better, at least Anthropic said no to that one thing…
OpenAI is teetering in many ways, so if we could have a mass boycott of paying for their service, we could send a message.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@fj/116141244443558638
If you’re not a US citizen, Anthropic supports your mass surveillance by the US regime. Thought you might want to know in case you find yourself funding your own future demise from a drone strike or something.
The No Kings Coalition is activating an immediate and ongoing nationwide digital organizing effort
leading up to our next mass mobilization on March 28,
including a flagship event in the Twin Cities.
Sign Up Here:
https://www.nokings.org/#signup
collins_yeast: Collins yeast interactome (2007)
Network of protein-protein interactions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (budding yeast), measured by co-complex associations identified by high-throughput affinity purification and mass spectrometry (AP/MS).
This network has 1622 nodes and 9070 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted
„As the state imposed a sweeping information blackout and advanced claims blaming foreign agents for the violence, this brutality has nonetheless been met with a striking absence of sustained outrage in spaces that otherwise position themselves as opponents of state violence. Among Western progressives, the response has largely been silence.“
Trump insiders explode over Stephen Miller's shadow rule... and reveal how 'puppet master' overrides the president: 'He needs to be fired'
Donald Trump's brass-knuckles enforcer Stephen Miller played a pivotal role in Kristi Noem's downfall.
Now her successor, another novice to the Department of Homeland Security, faces an equally perilous task to lead the mass deportation agenda with one of the President's most powerful aides breathing down his n…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Joseph Haydn, Hilde Haraldsen Sveen, Marianne Beate Kielland, Jonas Degerfeldt, Gabriel Suovanen, Oslo Philharmonic Choir, Oslo Philharmonic & Manfred Honeck:
🎵 Mass in C major, Missa in tempore belli 'Paukenmesse' H.22.9
@…
Findet gleich um 19:00 die nächste Critical Mass-Fahrt ab Domplatz statt?
#münster
Gemeinsam mit vielen anderen habe ich den Offenen Brief von @… gegen die "Chat-Kontrolle 1.0" an das Europäische Parliament unterschrieben.
Auch in der #ePrivacy Verordnung darf die Überwachung der Messenger nicht umgesetzt werden.
My friend’s band Friday; “The Memory of Water” at Burbage Saturday; shoveling and hot dish for Pats/Broncs with neighbors yesterday. Today, Marie’s Mass cornbread, egg and bacon, tea and coffee, and Arkham Horror tonight! #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/uJiaNu5tgDJNWZf66
Calibrations for the Sasaki volume on odd spheres and the no-gap problem
Jonas Matuzas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22961 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.22961 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.22961
arXiv:2602.22961v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: For each odd sphere $S^{n}$ with $n=2m 1\ge 5$, we consider the Sasaki volume functional $\mathrm{Vol}^S(V)=\int_{S^{n}}\sqrt{\det(I (\nabla V)^{\top}(\nabla V))}\,d\mathrm{vol}$ on smooth unit tangent vector fields $V$. Using the Brito--Chacon--Naveira calibration $\omega=a\wedge\Theta$ on the unit tangent bundle $E=UTS^{n}$, we establish the universal calibrated lower bound $\mathrm{Vol}^S(V)\ge c(m;1)\,\mathrm{vol}(S^{n})$, where $c(m;1)=4^{m}/\binom{2m}{m}$. In the relaxed (integral-current) setting, we show that the section-constrained stable mass in $E$ equals the calibration value and is attained by an $\omega$-calibrated mass-minimizing integral $n$-cycle in the section class.
We also analyze the equality case on smooth graphs. If a smooth graph is $\omega$-calibrated on an open set, then it satisfies the rigidity system $\nabla_V V=0$ and $\nabla_X V=\lambda X$ for all $X\perp V$, hence is locally a radial distance-gradient field. In particular, for $m\ge 2$ there is no smooth unit field on $S^n$ whose graph is $\omega$-calibrated everywhere.
Finally, we construct an explicit smooth recovery sequence (presented in detail for $S^5$ and then extended to all odd dimensions) and prove a uniform nonvanishing estimate for the polar-shell normalization in the patching construction. As a consequence, $\inf_{V}\,\mathrm{Vol}^S(V)=c(m;1)\,\mathrm{vol}(S^{n})$, so there is no Lavrentiev gap.
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The Self-Replication Phase Diagram: Mapping Where Life Becomes Possible in Cellular Automata Rule Space
Don Yin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25239 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.25239 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.25239
arXiv:2603.25239v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: What substrate features allow life? We exhaustively classify all 262,144 outer-totalistic binary cellular automata rules with Moore neighbourhood for self-replication and produce phase diagrams in the $(\lambda, F)$ plane, where $\lambda$ is Langton's rule density and $F$ is a background-stability parameter. Of these rules, 20,152 (7.69%) support pattern proliferation, concentrated at low rule density ($\lambda \approx 0.15$--$0.25$) and low-to-moderate background stability ($F \approx 0.2$--$0.3$), in the weakly supercritical regime (Derrida coefficient $\mu = 1.81$ for replicators vs. $1.39$ for non-replicators). Self-replicating rules are more approximately mass-conserving (mass-balance 0.21 vs. 0.34), and this generalises to $k{=}3$ Moore rules. A three-tier detection hierarchy (pattern proliferation, extended-length confirmation, and causal perturbation) yields an estimated 1.56% causal self-replication rate. Self-replication rate increases monotonically with neighbourhood size under equalised detection: von Neumann 4.79%, Moore 7.69%, extended Moore 16.69%. These results identify background stability and approximate mass conservation as the primary axes of the self-replication phase boundary.
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Senate Democrats are considering a deal that would head off a partial government shutdown
and give the party time to negotiate new restrictions on immigration operations
in response to the killings of US citizens Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis.
The talks, confirmed to the Guardian by a Senate aide, come after Senate Democrats demanded a series of reforms on federal agents involved in Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign,
including a prohibition on weari…
There are investigations linking specific no-name Twitter accounts with less than 30 followers as the source of Musk's and Trump's disinformed beliefs. We are able to trace Trump's conspiracy beliefs of the gold being stolen in Fort Knox to just some random account on Twitter claiming it.
Whoever runs that account has more influence than you. You don't even need Russia or China to plant disinformation on a mass-scale, apparently all it takes is some Twitter Account.
The mass distribution in and around the Local Group: #MilkyWay is embedded in a ‘large-scale sheet’ and this explains the motions of nearby galaxies: https://www.astronomie.nl/nieuws/en/a-flat-surrounding-of-the-milky-way-explains-the-motion-of-nearby-galaxies-4796
Good to see employees from Google and OpenAI speaking out.
"The Pentagon is negotiating with Google and OpenAI to try to get them to agree to what Anthropic has refused."
#AI
"It is also that these are not all working-class struggles around which a global proletariat could possibly be cobbled together. The class composition of the mass protests in Iran (now), Ukraine (in 2013-14), or Venezuela (since 2013) clearly don’t flow from the manuals of marxist revolutionaries. I’ve argued elsewhere that the world is undergoing a “class reconfiguration” in which ecological struggles and climate vulnerability will be playing a newly unifying role."
So there has been a school shooting in British Columbia - and I guess since I spent so much time living and working in the states, I forgot that these are horrifying and traumatizing events - which may just be down to the coverage in the media in the US versus Canada.
That's not to say that the coverage here has been good - quite the opposite in fact - but I will get to that at the moment.
I will qualify this in that I will freely admit that I have no expertise in either mass …
chatcontrol e oscuramento: la guerra alla crittografia è in aumento. A causa di una losca collaborazione tra Stati Uniti e Unione Europea.
Sorveglianza di massa statale
Dopo la denuncia di Snowden nel 2013, ampie porzioni di Internet sono diventate crittografate, consentendo comunicazioni private e sicure. Non tutti hanno accolto con favore questo cambiamento. In particolare, l'FBI e altre agenzie governative statunitensi hanno combattuto quella che viene spesso definita la &q…
This morning, the Israeli Police prevented the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Head of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land,
together with the Custos of the Holy Land, the Most Reverend Fr. Francesco Ielpo, OFM, the official Guardian of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre,
from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, as they made their way to celebrate the Palm Sunday Mass.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth
has threatened Antropic with blacklisting
if the AI company refuses to allow its tools to be used for autonomous drone attacks or mass surveillance
– a chilling show of the Pentagon’s priorities.
In a meeting with the company on Tuesday, Hegseth said that
the company must lift its demands for the safety restrictions by Friday at 5:01 pm.
Otherwise, officials warned, the Pentagon will declare the company a “supply chain ris…
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalLive
- Vox Luminis sing Bach's B minor mass
Linton Stephens showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond, including Bach’s monumental B minor mass performed by Vox Luminis and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002q0hp
A striking report in The Wall Street Journal suggests Trump may be moving to marginalize Stephen Miller’s influence.
But Trump appears to think the difficulty can be cured by a few optical tweaks, when the real culprit is a deeper ideological one.
Trump wants to “lower the profile of his mass deportation effort,”
the Journal reveals.
He wants voters to think the targets of these deportations are
“bad guys,”
not noncriminal undocumented residents.
…
A possible shutting-down event of mass accretion in an #ActiveGalacticNucleus at z ∼ 1.8: https://academic.oup.com/pasj/article/77/6/1350/8313806?login=false -> Distant Galaxy Fades 20-Fold in Just Two Decades ― Rapid Decline in Gas Supply to Its SuperMassive Black Hole: https://subarutelescope.org/en/results/2026/03/24/3688.html
🚄 Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings
(could we drop our frames for a second and ask if the 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙 problem with America is that we're not like that?)
https://aethermug.com/posts/culture-is-the-mass-synchronization-of-framings
…
OpenAI said it had struck a deal with the Pentagon to supply AI to classified US military networks,
hours after Donald Trump ordered the government to stop using the services of one of the company’s main competitors.
Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, announced the move on Friday night.
It came after an agreement between Anthropic, a rival AI company that runs the Claude system, and the Trump administration broke down after Anthropic sought assurances its technology would not be use…
More than 3,100 anti-authoritarian protests are scheduled across the US and at least 15 other countries on Saturday.
All these events will take place under a single banner: No Kings.
Formally launched in June to fight back against Trump administrationpolicies, the No Kings movement has grown with astonishing speed
– its second and most recent mass protest in October drew an estimated 7 million participants.
Organizers expect Saturday’s events to be the biggest prote…
Florida sheriffs, including right-wing Grady Judd,
criticize Trump’s mass deportation efforts:
“There are those here that are working hard, they have kids in college, are in school, they’re going to church on Sunday, they’re not violating the law, and they’re living the American dream,” he told council members.
In a sensational turn of events in the fight against Chat Control,
a majority in the European Parliament voted today to end the untargeted mass scanning of private communications.
In doing so, the Parliament firmly rejected the error-prone and unconstitutional surveillance practices of recent years.
Pressure is now mounting on EU governments to respect the MEPs’ vote and bury untargeted mass surveillance in Europe once and for all.
A push by the Department of Justice to open an investigation into the widow of Renee Nicole Good
after her tragic killing at the hands of a federal immigration officer
has sparked a mass resignation of federal prosecutors in Minnesota, reports say.
According to reports, at least a dozen federal prosecutors across Washington and Minnesota have indicated their plans to resign.
This includes six federal prosecutors in the state who left their jobs on Tuesday,
and a…
A push by the Department of Justice to open an investigation into
👉the widow of Renee Nicole Good
after her tragic killing at the hands of a federal immigration officer
💥has sparked a mass resignation of federal prosecutors in Minnesota, reports say.
According to reports, at least a dozen federal prosecutors across Washington and Minnesota have indicated their plans to resign.
This includes six federal prosecutors in the state who left their jobs on Tuesday,
Mass delays and cancellations, seemingly endless small repairs disrupting traffic in key commuting areas, and overcrowding are just some of the issues facing passengers who rely on Deutsche Bahn in their daily lives.
Since coming into power in early 2025, the government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz has repeatedly promised to fund major rail projects that had already been planned.
Of the €500 billion ($585 billion) in controversial new debt taken on by his administration
👉 €15…
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