Pentagon plan envisions 1,000 troops for Louisiana policing mission
The Trump administration has drafted a proposal to activate 1,000 Louisiana National Guard troops
to serve in a law enforcement mission focused on the state’s “urban centers,”
according to Pentagon planning documents outlining what would be
a significant expansion of the military’s role in policing American citizens.
Among the documents is an unsigned, undated draft memo from Defense Secretary P…
Baerbock für Blauhelm-Mission in der Ukraine nach Friedensschluss
Die frühere Bundesaußenministerin Annalena Baerbock (Grüne) hat sich für eine Blauhelm-Mission zur Absicherung eines möglichen Friedensabkommens in der Ukraine ausgesprochen. Solche Friedensmissionen seien "nötiger denn je zuvor und zwar nicht nur mit Blick auf den europäischen Kontinent", sagte die neue Präsidentin der UN-Generalvers…
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Dual Band Receiver Design for the Black Hole Explorer (BHEX) Mission
Cheukyu Edward Tong, Keara Carter, Paul Grimes, Eugene Lauria, Dan Marrone, Gabriella Montano, Matthew Morgan, Yoshirnori Uzawa, Lingzhen Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10789
NASA’s recent confirmation of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 landing on the Moon signifies a transformative moment in the realm of space exploration.
The private American spacecraft successfully touched down near Mons Latreille in Mare Crisium, marking a milestone for NASA and its commercial partners.
Source: The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel
We're happy to see an official Muni sign at Church/Duboce replace our community-installed one after 3 years! They even reused our mounting hardware 🥺 Make your own sign at https://munisign.org
Squirrels at War: Mission Control
#writingcommunity #visualinspiration Earlier installments can be read from this page. *** Mac and I walked into the Spacers Guild Mission Control Center. A majestic real-time holographic display of the Oran planetary system dominated t…
NASA’s Management of the #Dragonfly Project: https://oig.nasa.gov/office-of-inspector-general-oig/audit-reports/nasas-management-of-the-dragonfly-project/ -> After early struggles, NASA’s ambitious mission to Titan is “on track” for launch: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/09/after-early-struggles-nasas-ambitious-mission-to-titan-is-on-track-for-launch/ -> "A new independent report finds that although NASA's ambitious mission to fly across the surface of Titan is delayed and over budget, the fault is due to the space agency's management rather than the program itself."
Yesterday, playing #ingress2ndsunday I unwillingly choose a really messed up mission series.
6 Missions per Bike took me 2,5 hours.
I really don't get it, why do you pick 6 sequential portals, lay a route south to north over 2 km and choose the last one 1 km south of the starting portal?
> I remember talking to a designer who had left Avalanche to work somewhere else, and hearing his appreciation that the new place challenged him, really, to explain why an idea would be fun. I remember hearing the description for a mission in a weekly demo of new features, and all I could think was “but why is this interesting?”
Design is too often considered a form of magic where iteration will eventually lead to something good.
Writer/professor/activist Lauren Yanks '19 M.Div. recently accompanied a Yale-connected medical mission to Ukraine. Here's a segment about it from Spectrum News in the Hudson Valley! https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/hudson-valley/news/2025/08/25/…
The optical photometric variability of Herbig Ae/Be stars from TESS
Ann Marie Cody, Lynne A. Hillenbrand, Shreya Chandragiri, Marvin Morgan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08633 http…
New Evidence for Extragalactic Einstein Probe Transients associated with Long Gamma-ray Bursts
Qin-Mei Li, Qi-Bin Sun, Sheng-Bang Qian, Fu-Xing Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10267
Pushing the Boundaries in CBRS Band: Robust Radar Detection within High 5G Interference
Shafi Ullah Khan, Michel Kulhandjian, Debashri Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10040 https…
❝Arduino will retain its independent brand, tools, and mission, while continuing to support a wide range of microcontrollers and microprocessors from multiple semiconductor providers as it enters this next chapter within the Qualcomm family.❞ https://ar…
An international group is organizing an observing campaign through the Citizen Science Working Group of the #LUMIO mission: LUMIO is an ESA space mission to observe lunar #impact flashes (LIFs) from space, on the lunar far side (#Geminid meteoroid stream, 13-15 Dec 2025. During the maximum of the stream, the number of visible impact flashes will be higher than during non-shower times, therefore there is a good chance of detecting at least some impact flashes.
Observations can be made using moderately-sized telescopes and a video camera. On the website https://lif.mi.imati.cnr.it/home_page.php there are now a recording of a thorough talk about the project and its slides at https://lif.mi.imati.cnr.it/open_item_page.php?item_idk=LDB-000000001 and slides about the preferred analysis software ALFI at https://lif.mi.imati.cnr.it/open_item_page.php?item_idk=LDB-000000002 -if you want to join in the LGC please sign on by 21 November.
October 23rd, 1989, 36 years ago, on #climate, we got the POV from outside. 🚀🌍👀
Atlantis Commander Donald Williams said:
“The world as we know it is a very fragile place.”
And mission specialist Ellen Baker 👩🚀 on the ozone layer:
“Our world is a beautiful place, and we do need to take care of it. You get an appreciation of how thin the protective layer is above the planet …
Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.ins-det. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.ins-det/new
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- Dual Band Receiver Design for the Black Hole Explorer (BHEX) Mission
Tong, Carter, Grimes, Lauria, Marrone, Montano, Morgan, Uzawa, Zeng
severely disappointed that tom cruise didn't go to space in the newest mission impossible. they kept going underground and i shouted at the television that that's the wrong way. do it, nasa
Darren Palmer's Almost Home
From dream to reality, every home is a story waiting to be told — and beloved Aussie interior designer Darren Palmer is on a mission to tell them...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/darren-palm…
Never before have I felt so on a mission with music - to do as much of it as possible, to as high a degree of quality as possible, with whatever faculties and time remain. We never know how long we’ll have - not just of life itself, but the strength to make something within it.
(Apologies for the obviousness and potentially melodramatic tone of my post, as always!)
SpaceX deutet nach verzögerten Plänen für Mondlandung "einfacheres" Starship an
Der Zeitplan für die Artemis-3-Mission zur bemannten US-Mondlandung ist nicht mehr zu halten. Eine Vereinfachung könnte den Prozess beschleunigen, sagt SpaceX.
Intel CTO Sachin Katti says 18A and Panther Lake are "foundational to our future" and manufacturing is "mission critical, not just for Intel but for" the US (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/technol
AI Adoption Across Mission-Driven Organizations
Dalia Ali, Muneeb Ahmed, Hailan Wang, Arfa Khan, Naira Paola Arnez Jordan, Sunnie S. Y. Kim, Meet Dilip Muchhala, Anne Kathrin Merkle, Orestis Papakyriakopoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03868
Mission erfüllt: Die Halbzeitshow musste geiler sein als in der #ELF - denn auch der #AmericanFootball ist geiler in der #ErimaGFL!
What a story.....
"How a Top Secret SEAL Team 6 Mission Into North Korea Fell Apart.The 2019 operation, greenlit by President Trump, sought a strategic edge. It left unarmed North Koreans dead."
https://www.nytimes.c…
The thing is, Harvard’s lucrative position •could• cut the other way. As @… put it, “What’s the point of having fuck-you money if you never say ‘fuck you?’”
Harvard has that kind of money. They •could• choose to be a mission-based org and fight back. There have been inklings of that in recent months: they’ve said no, they’ve countersued.
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A Hybrid TDMA/CSMA Protocol for Time-Sensitive Traffic in Robot Applications
Shiqi Xu, Lihao Zhang, Yuyang Du, Qun Yang, Soung Chang Liew
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06119 https:…
Comparative Evaluation of Traditional and Deep Learning Feature Matching Algorithms using Chandrayaan-2 Lunar Data
R. Makharia, J. G. Singla, Amitabh, N. Dube, H. Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04775
Comparative Evaluation of Traditional and Deep Learning Feature Matching Algorithms using Chandrayaan-2 Lunar Data
Accurate image registration is critical for lunar exploration, enabling surface mapping, resource localization, and mission planning. Aligning data from diverse lunar sensors -- optical (e.g., Orbital High Resolution Camera, Narrow and Wide Angle Cameras), hyperspectral (Imaging Infrared Spectrometer), and radar (e.g., Dual-Frequency Synthetic Aperture Radar, Selene/Kaguya mission) -- is challenging due to differences in resolution, illumination, and sensor distortion. We evaluate five feature …
The Mina the Hollower demo is now on Xbox (only until September 30!) so even though I played the demo some on the Switch, I figured I'd try some of this Xbox version on the Series X at lunch, and glad I did. Nice to use a controller for it instead of Switch joycons, for one. I guess I could've put the Switch version on the TV and used the wireless PowerA controller with it. But oh well. Anyway, if you have an Xbox, you should try this game, it's a blast. The full version comes ou…
Land of the Free, home of the brave:
«In der Annahme, es könnten nordkoreanische Sicherheitskräfte sein, eröffneten die US-Elitesoldaten mit ihren schallgedämpften Spezialwaffen das Feuer und töteten mehrere Zivilisten.»
Das war 2019 unter #Trump!
Können wir bitte den #USA nicht mehr in den Ar…
Implementing the PRIDE technique for the JUICE mission at the University of Tasmania
Oliver James White, Guifr\'e Molera Calv\'es, Jasper Edwards
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02888
Free Moon Study and Observation Program
For Windows 7 to 11 and Linux
Already downloaded near 2 millions worldwide. Used in several books, foreign observatories, by CNRS research professors, websites, TV shows, astronomical magazines and to prepare the Chandraayan 1 lunar mission. Used by the European Space Agency (ESA) in the framework of the NELIOTA program. Recommended by the French Ministry of National Education.
https://www.ap-i.net/avl/en/start
«Hayek, whose company is the world’s largest watchmaker, said the CEOs’ visit sent a signal of weakness. Instead, he suggested that Switzerland — the seventh-largest investor in the US — should retaliate by threatening to cut investment, or ditch a deal to buy US-made F-35 jets.
“Are we William Tell,” he quipped in reference to the Swiss hero of folklore, “or are we a vassal?”»
Vanderbilt University Faculty Senate has passed a resolution opposing Trump's "Compact" and "any similar proposal compromising the mission, values, and integrity of the University" in a packed emergency session. #Vanderbilt
Polen beruft UN-Sicherheitsrat ein
Nach dem Abschuss russischer Drohnen im polnischen Luftraum hat Polen eine Dringlichkeitssitzung des Sicherheitsrats der Vereinten Nationen beantragt. Die südkoreanische UN-Mission, die im September den Vorsitz im Rat innehat, teilte mit, ein Termin für das Treffen werde derzeit abgestimmt.
Polen hatte am Mittwochmorgen gemeldet, dass mehrere russische Drohnen übe…
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Updating my team mission:
"We do bones, motherfucker"
Delving into the depths of NGC 3783 with XRISM II. Cross-calibration of X-ray instruments used in the large, multi-mission observational campaign
XRISM collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08649
I bought a fidget spinner for fun. It is fun. Mission accomplished.
#diary
'while the British government “may not agree with the flotilla’s mission, they have a responsibility to their citizens.'
“They have not said a single word in public,” she said. “It’s inexcusable. They are meant to care about international law.”
US and UK 'immensely let down' families of detained Gaza flotilla activists | Middle East Eye
What is happening here? F-35s for fighting against drugs traffickers is very strange. An attack against Venezuela would be a good distraction for Trump from everything that is going wrong elsewhere.
https://www.twz.com/air/10-f-35s-deploying
Agile Tradespace Exploration for Space Rendezvous Mission Design via Transformers
Yuji Takubo, Daniele Gammelli, Marco Pavone, Simone D'Amico
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03544
Drop Site uncovered new information about individuals, donor networks, and businesses helping Canary Mission, a pro-Israel organization serving the U.S.'s deportation and repression efforts.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-miss
A new volunteer-led organization called
"Grandparents for Vaccines" launched Sunday on National Grandparents Day
with a mission to share firsthand experiences of life before vaccines were widely available.
https://kottke.org/25/09/0047471-a-new-volunteer-led-…
Study of Lobster and Kirkpatrick-Baez Designs for a Small Mission dedicated to Gravitational Wave Transient Localization
John Rankin, Sergio Campana, Giovanni Pareschi, Daniele Spiga, Stefano Basso, Marta Maria Civitani, Paolo Conconi, Vincenzo Cotroneo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05002
Mission erfüllt: Die Halbzeitshow musste geiler sein als in der #ELF - denn auch der #AmericanFootball ist geiler in der #ErimaGFL!
UN: Mindestens 214 Zivilisten im September in der Ukraine getötet
Im September sind in der Ukraine nach Angaben der Vereinten Nationen im russischen Angriffskrieg mindestens 214 Zivilistinnen und Zivilisten getötet und fast 1.000 weitere verletzt worden. Damit sei der September ein verheerender Monat für die Zivilbevölkerung gewesen, teilte die UN-Mission zur Menschenrechtsbeobachtung in der Ukraine mit. Auch Angriffe auf die…
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Towards systematic search for white dwarf binaries with multiband photometry
Alice Perego, Astrid Lamberts, Mathias Schultheis, Nelson Christensen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09348
Space-Force-Raumgleiter testet Laserkommunikation und Quantensensoren im All
Der US-Raumgleiter X-37B startet heute zur 8. Mission für zwei neue Tests: Kommunikation im Weltraum per Laser und Unabhängigkeit von GPS durch Quantentechnik.
The disclosure of a SEAL Team 6 mission into North Korea in 2019 has heightened interest in
when the executive branch must tell congressional oversight committees about important military and intelligence operations.
The Trump administration did not inform Congress of what happened.
But in 2021, the Biden administration decided to brief top congressional officials.
The difference in approach raises the question of whether the Trump team improperly or illegally withheld…
The #Juno spacecraft is still alive in #Jupiter orbit! Here is its radio carrier as observed today with the 20-meter dish in Bochum, Germany: #SwRI, hoping to learn more about its fate. If Juno gets a mission extension it would look like this: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-5184.html
The Optical and Mechanical Design of POEMMA Balloon with Radio
Eric Mayotte (for the JEM-EUSO Collaboration), Austin Cummings (for the JEM-EUSO Collaboration), Paul Degarate (for the JEM-EUSO Collaboration), Neville DeWitt Pierrat (for the JEM-EUSO Collaboration), Johannes Eser (for the JEM-EUSO Collaboration), William Finch (for the JEM-EUSO Collaboration), Julia Burton-Heibges (for the JEM-EUSO Collaboration), Tobias Heibges (for the JEM-EUSO Collaboration), Eric Mentzell (for the JE…
The case for an Astrometric Mission Extension of Euclid - Extending Gaia by 6 magnitudes with Euclid covering one-third of the sky: #Euclid Has 8 Extra Years of Fuel - A Scientist Has A Brilliant Plan To Use It: https://www.universetoday.com/articles/euclid-has-8-extra-years-of-fuel-a-scientist-has-a-brilliant-plan-to-use-it
The ASPIICS solar coronagraph aboard the Proba-3 formation flying mission. Scientific objectives and instrument design
A. N. Zhukov, C. Thizy, D. Galano, B. Bourgoignie, L. Dolla, C. Jean, B. Nicula, S. Shestov, C. Galy, R. Rougeot, J. Versluys, J. Zender, P. Lamy, S. Fineschi, S. Gunar, B. Inhester, M. Mierla, P. Rudawy, K. Tsinganos, S. Koutchmy, R. Howard, H. Peter, S. Vives, L. Abbo, C. Aime, K. Aleksiejuk, J. Baran, U. Bak-Steslicka, A. Bemporad, D. Berghmans, D. Besliu-Ionescu, S…
A missile strike in the Caribbean and National Guard deployments are pushing the armed forces beyond their traditional mission.
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/archive/2025/09/the-military-wasnt-built-to-fight-crime/6…
The simulation chain for the Terzina Cherenkov telescope on board the NUSES space mission
M. Abdullahi, R. Aloisio, F. Arneodo, S. Ashurov, U. Atalay, F. C. T. Barbato, R. Battiston, M. Bertaina, E. Bissaldi, D. Boncioli, L. Burmistrov, F. Cadoux, I. Cagnoli, E. Casilli, D. Cortis, A. Cummings, M. D'Arco, S. Davarpanah, I. De Mitri, G. De Robertis, A. Di Giovanni, A. Di Salvo, L. Di Venere, J. Eser, Y. Favre, S. Fogliacco, G. Fontanella, P. Fusco, S. Garbolino, F. Gargano, M. Gilib…
More than 2 million people across Italy rallied in over 100 cities Friday for a one-day general strike to support the residents of Gaza and a humanitarian aid mission, Italy’s largest union said.
Italian unions proclaimed the strike after the Global Sumud Flotilla that was trying to break Israel’s naval blockade to deliver aid to Gaza was intercepted by Israeli naval forces Wednesday night.
Protests and demonstrations have sprung up all over Europe and globally since then,
Qualcomm buys open-source electronics firm Arduino.
“Qualcomm said Arduino
‘will retain its independent brand, tools and mission.’”
(I wonder how long that independence will last)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific
POEMMA-Balloon with Radio: An Overview
J. Eser (for the JEM-EUSO collaboration), A. V. Olinto (for the JEM-EUSO collaboration), G. Osteria (for the JEM-EUSO collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04302
Education Secretary Linda McMahon has been clear about her desire to shut down the agency she runs.
She’s laid off half the staff and joked about padlocking the door.
She calls it “the final mission.”
But the department is not behaving like an agency that is simply winding down.
Even as McMahon has shrunk the Department of Education,
she’s operated in what she calls
“a parallel universe”
to radically shift how children will learn for years to come.…
@cdarwin@c.im
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