Tootfinder

As Russia wages its full-scale war against Ukraine, one of its most important missile plants is quietly expanding -- bypassing international sanctions.
The Votkinsk Plant, also known as the Votkinskiy Plant,
— a strategic, state-owned facility serving Russia’s nuclear forces
— has hired thousands of new workers,
added new buildings,
and brought in advanced machinery to significantly increase its missile production.
Ukrainians have felt it firsthand.
Is…

Investigation: Russia expands strategic plant producing ICBMs — with China’s help
Key findings: * Despite international sanctions, Russia's strategic missile plant was able to import complex machinery to dramatically increase missile production. * The Kyiv Independent has identified the equipment supplied to the plant, as well as the supply chains, mostly from China. * We located the plant's new premises, built to house the new machinery. * We obtained a document confirming that the plant received an order to produce intercontinental missiles capable of reaching the U.S.

Chine : la grande panne | Le Dessous des Cartes - ARTE - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHECqUNRRV4

"An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words."
-Sanford Meisner
#acting #coaching #inspiration

@… yeah! I think Letterboxd has replaced a lot of this for me, but you can see I went just about as far with my Letterboxd list as I did with that blog https://letterboxd.com…

Common ownership? Never, so long as society clings to economic monopolies and the machinery of state, true freedom for all remains impossible!
As Rocker argued, only the abolition of all monopolies and the creation of a federation of free communities, where the land and means of production belong to everyone, not privileged minorities, can end exploitation and allow genuine liberty to flourish.
Until then, "common ownership" is just a slogan, not a living reality.

The $1/c$ expansion of general relativity in a $3 1$ formulation, revisited
Mahmut Elbistan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03548 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.035…

The $1/c$ expansion of general relativity in a $3+1$ formulation, revisited
We study the $1/c$ expansion of general relativity within a formulation that is compatible with both the Arnowitt-Deser-Misner and the Kol-Smolkin decompositions. The Einstein-Hilbert action takes a common form for those decompositions as they are dual to each other. We first develop a method to expand this generic form and then push the expansion up to $c^{-3}$ order within this novel approach. Next, we apply our technique to the Arnowitt-Deser-Misner decomposition and expand it up to $c^{-3}$…

Limit Analysis Approach for Optimal Reinforcement Design of Masonry Structures: the Weak Reinforcement Concept
Aguinaldo Fraddosio, Celeste Lasorella, Mario Daniele Piccioni, Elio Sacco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02559

Limit Analysis Approach for Optimal Reinforcement Design of Masonry Structures: the Weak Reinforcement Concept
In this paper, first the non-standard limit analysis 2D problem for reinforced masonry structures is suitably reformulated, giving a innovative computational framework for the evaluation of the strengthening effects of tensile reinforcements. This framework is used for designing optimized reinforcements for masonry structures aimed at improving the structural capacity, but without substantial changes in the typical behavior of masonry structural systems, since the reinforcement layout leaves th…

Control of lumen morphology by lateral and basal cell surfaces
Chandraniva Guha Ray, Markus Mukenhirn, Alf Honigmann, Pierre A. Haas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04316 https://

Control of lumen morphology by lateral and basal cell surfaces
Across development, the morphology of fluid-filled lumina enclosed by epithelial tissues arises from an interplay of lumen pressure, mechanics of the cell cortex, and cell-cell adhesion. Here, we explore the mechanical basis for the control of this interplay using the shape space of MDCK cysts and the instability of their apical surfaces under tight junction perturbations [Mukenhirn et al., Dev. Cell 59, 2886 (2024)]. We discover that the cysts respond to these perturbations by significantly mo…

It’s the moment we’ve feared
—the moment the Supreme Court invoked in giving Donald Trump immunity,
and the moment that marks an authoritarian government at its most vulgar and vicious.
On Monday, Attorney General Pam Bondi signed an order
directing an as-yet-unidentified federal prosecutor to convene a grand jury
to investigate whether prominent officials in Barack Obama’s administration, including Obama himself,
purposely manufactured an intelligence asse…

Bondi’s Obama Grand Jury: The Authoritarian Moment We’ve All Feared
It’s officially happening: the use of the machinery of justice to go on fishing expeditions about political predecessors. Absolute madness.

The bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee unanimously found in 2020 that the ICA was “coherent and well constructed”
-- and reconfirmed that Russia “engaged in an aggressive, multi-faceted effort to influence” the 2016 election in Trump’s favor.
Durham’s work is particularly instructive here.
Durham was a Trump U.S. attorney whom Attorney General William Barr tasked with leading an investigation into the origins of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane probe into alleged Trump-…

Bondi’s Obama Grand Jury: The Authoritarian Moment We’ve All Feared
It’s officially happening: the use of the machinery of justice to go on fishing expeditions about political predecessors. Absolute madness.