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RE: https://techhub.social/@meteopedagogie/115542926657446361
Pois é, pš. Tou a vê-lo da janela, e tš mesmo mau.

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

Inclusive processes in the modified Quark-Gluon String Model
M. N. Sergeenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09284 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09284

Inclusive processes in the modified Quark-Gluon String Model
Inclusive processes at high energies are studied in a non-perturbative approach in QCD using a modified Quark-Gluon String Model. Theoretical and experimental aspects of diffraction dissociation are discussed. In the calculations of cross sections, the parameters of complex nonlinear trajectories of Pomeranchuk and Reggeons are used. Particular attention is paid to elastic and inelastic processes at LHC energies.

»Over 67,000 Fake npm Packages Flood Registry in Worm-Like Spam Attack:
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a large-scale spam campaign that has flooded the npm registry with thousands of fake packages since early 2024 as part of a likely financially motivated effort.«
How do you check if the JavaScript libraries and their libraries on which they are based are now safe?!??
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Over 46,000 Fake npm Packages Flood Registry in Worm-Like Spam Attack
A mysterious npm worm published 46K fake packages in a two-year spam campaign, exposing major security gaps.

This is probably how it happened, yes.

This evening I have been listening to one of @… 's podcasts and thinking about my failure in trying to lead the village's planning working group, and about the cognitive dissonance underlying my Tricycle project. I suspect this essay will be a grim read; it's not well formed in my mind as I sit down to write.

Pain, rehab and unlikely inspiration: Inside Aidan Hutchinson's return to dominance https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46512801/detroit-lions-aidan-hutchinson-motivation-injury-hutch-heroes

PROPL - Workshop on Programming for the Planet welcome by Dominic Orchard @… #icfpsplash25

Formou-se uma tempestade subtropical a noroeste dos Açores.
A NORoeste dos Açores!
A mais de 40ºN!
https://techhub.social/@meteopedagogie/115350289678205724

Météo Pédagogie (@meteopedagogie@techhub.social)
Attached: 1 image Dans l'Atlantique, la tempête subtropicale #Karen s'est formée hier à 44°N, ce qui est inédit. Cette structure hybride se note avec la convection autour de la dépression alors qu'un système frontal, maintenant détache continue à être actif dans un gros creux d'altitude 🐦🔗 https://twitter.com/MeteoPedagogie/status/1976647357631717853 🕐 10/10 15:53

The ideas that finally bubbled up to the surface in The Point of No Return last night have been festering in the back of my brain for months. Because, although it's a bit inchoate, it's only saying out loud what most of us already know.
The job now is no longer to turn the ship around. We don't have the wheel, and those who do will not listen.
The task now is to build lifeboats. To build resilient spaces in which fragments of humanity can survive.

The Point of No Return
I can't stop climate change by myself. I can't create a sustainable future for my village by myself. To do either of these things, everyone else needs to work together. But badgering people, being frustrated with people, being angry with people (and yes, I am angry — very angry — with people I know, and like, and respect, very much) doesn't motivate them to work together. My very frustration, my very sense of urgency, makes me a liability. I should stop.