@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-24 23:15:34
Mr. Pretti, wearing brown, is filming with his cellphone
when agents approach m,
then bring him to the ground.
An agent begins shoving the demonstrators,
and squirts pepper spray at their faces.
At this moment,
Mr. Pretti has both hands clearly visible.
One is holding his phone, while he holds the other up to protect himself from pepper spray.
He moves to help one of the protesters who was sprayed, as other agents approach and pull him from be…
@arXiv_physicsoptics_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-11-25 09:22:12
Manipulation of the orbital angular momentum of soft x-ray beams by consecutive diffractive optics
Nazir Khan, Rahul Jangid, Taras Stanislavchuk, Aaron Stein, Oleg Chubar, Andi Barbour, Andrei Sirenko, Valery Kiryukhin, Claudio Mazzoli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17768 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.17768 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.17768
arXiv:2511.17768v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Production and manipulation of orbital angular momentum (OAM) of coherent soft x-ray beams is demonstrated utilizing consecutive diffractive optics. OAM addition is observed upon passing the beam through consecutive fork gratings. The OAM of the beam was found to be decoupled from its spin angular momentum (SAM). Practical implementation of angular momentum control by consecutive devices in the x-ray regime opens new experimental opportunities, such as direct measurement of OAM beams without resorting to phase sensitive techniques, including holography. OAM analyzers utilizing fork gratings can be used to characterize the beams produced by synchrotron and free electron lasers sources; they can also be used in scattering experiments.
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@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2026-01-24 13:23:21
Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
TARRANT: [Adjusts pillow] How's that, darling? More comfortable?
DAYNA: Oh yes. Much better. Thank you, darling.
[INTERIOR. Ultraworld confinement cell. Dayna removes a small object from her mouth.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/310/540 B7B3
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-01-24 16:46:04
Follow the dramatic developments in Minneapolis.
#minnesota
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-11-25 09:31:47
I have long lived by the principles of community, voluntary cooperation, and decentralized member-driven governance. Before knowing the term anarcho-syndicalism, I often imagined unions as truly democratic organizations, where delegates are elected and revocable at any moment, rooted in direct workers’ self-management and direct participation in controlling economic and social life, independent from both state authority and capitalist ownership.
Discovering anarcho-syndicalism about a…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-24 20:37:36
Hundreds at scene of ICE shooting chanting name of the victim
Hundreds of protesters have packed the intersection near where the shooting took place and are chanting the name Alex Pretti
https://www.startribune.com/ice-raids-minnesota/601546426
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-24 21:52:49
Agents shot and killed a 37-year-old US citizen at about 9am on Saturday,
with other observers watching and videotaping their actions,
in an area called Eat Street,
a corridor of largely immigrant-owned restaurants and businesses.
Footage appears to show the moment man is shot dead by federal agent in Minneapolis – video
It’s the second killing in the city after 37-year-old Renee Good was shot and killed by a federal agent in south Minneapolis on 7 January.
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2026-01-23 22:34:49
Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
AVON: What makes you think that?
SERVALAN: I was hiding over there. I heard every word.
AVON: I see. Go on. [Hands the glass to Servalan]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/301/351 B7B6
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-24 20:57:53
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-24 19:59:30