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It's not that our politicians don't know what's needed to slow #ClimateChange. It's that they don't care.
Their two priorities are
1. winning the next election, under the UK's absurdly dysfunctional, archaic and undemocratic system;
2. pleasing the big donors, who include the

We surveyed British MPs – most don’t know how urgent climate action is
New study finds both MPs and the public underestimate how quickly global emissions must be cut.

I can't believe Science In Action is ending! We're going to miss you @… !
A very serious warning encoded in this final episode for everyone to listen to.
How science got here, and where next
Episode webpage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct6yg7

Colts DT Buckner headed to IR with neck injury https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46883081/colts-dt-deforest-buckner-headed-ir-neck-injury

5 reasons to submit your idea for #TNC26 Call for Proposals - Part 2
Next June, Helsinki 🇫🇮 will welcome our global R&E community under the theme Digital Sisu—inspired by the Finnish concept of “sisu:” inner strength, perseverance, and determination when things get tough.
In our digital era, sisu is about taking action, meeting challenges with courage, creativity, and collaboration to…

VLA-Reasoner: Empowering Vision-Language-Action Models with Reasoning via Online Monte Carlo Tree Search
Wenkai Guo, Guanxing Lu, Haoyuan Deng, Zhenyu Wu, Yansong Tang, Ziwei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22643

VLA-Reasoner: Empowering Vision-Language-Action Models with Reasoning via Online Monte Carlo Tree Search
Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) achieve strong performance in general robotic manipulation tasks by scaling imitation learning. However, existing VLAs are limited to predicting short-sighted next-action, which struggle with long-horizon trajectory tasks due to incremental deviations. To address this problem, we propose a plug-in framework named VLA-Reasoner that effectively empowers off-the-shelf VLAs with the capability of foreseeing future states via test-time scaling. Specifically, VLA-…

"this new arms race is halting attempts to tackle the climate crisis as countries scramble to secure critical minerals for the next generation of weapons.
The study found that at least 38 minerals and metals, including lithium, cobalt, graphite and rare earth elements that form the basis of the energy transition are being stockpiled by the Pentagon with potentially devastating effects on climate action"
1, 2, 3, 4, WAR! What is it good for?

5 reasons to submit your idea for #TNC26 Call for Proposals - Part 1
Next June, Helsinki 🇫🇮 will welcome our global R&E community under the theme Digital Sisu—inspired by the Finnish concept of “sisu:” inner strength, perseverance, and determination when things get tough.
In our digital era, sisu is about taking action, meeting challenges with courage, creativity, and collaboration to…

From Next Token Prediction to (STRIPS) World Models -- Preliminary Results
Carlos N\'u\~nez-Molina, Vicen\c{c} G\'omez, Hector Geffner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13389 h…

From Next Token Prediction to (STRIPS) World Models -- Preliminary Results
We consider the problem of learning propositional STRIPS world models from action traces alone, using a deep learning architecture (transformers) and gradient descent. The task is cast as a supervised next token prediction problem where the tokens are the actions, and an action $a$ may follow an action sequence if the hidden effects of the previous actions do not make an action precondition of $a$ false. We show that a suitable transformer architecture can faithfully represent propositional STR…

“Overwhelmingly, the reason people care is the belief that the Democrats [winning] control of the House of Representatives next year is the only possible meaningful impediment to Donald Trump’s implementation of his authoritarian agenda,”
said David Welch with the Democratic central committee of Butte county, where Chico is located.
Denney, who chairs the Democratic Action Club of Chico,
has been traveling to the far reaches of the district in north-eastern California to ta…

Do Dallas Cowboys play today? Schedule for Week 11 game https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/do-dallas-cowboys-play-today-schedule-nfl-week-11-game

President Trump plans to sue the BBC "for anywhere between a billion and $5B" next week, after the BBC rejected his compensation demands over a misleading edit (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/n

Next week I will participate with the @… @… @… Horizon funded research projects in a policy briefing in Brussels, with MEP Group on Climate Change, Biodiversity & Sustainable Development @eupolarcluster.bsky.social
Remote participation possible if you're interested in what we have to say about Polar Science for Global Action and Strengthening Climate Preparedness through EU Leadership
https://polarres.eu/polarresevents/polar-science-for-global-action/

Seventy percent of Americans oppose to US military action in Venezuela, CBS News/YouGov poll finds
Trump administration labels Maduro as member of foreign terrorist organization
as US prepares for next phase of operations
https://www.

'The oldest defendant was 83-year-old the Reverend Susan Parfitt, from Bristol, who is partially deaf.
She gently held onto a hand rail in the courtroom as Judge Snow came down from the bench to sit next to her, so she could hear him"'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c051g2

Palestine Action: Dozens in court over alleged support of banned group
About 2,000 people are likely to be charged, meaning 400 trials could need to be held.

‘Neutrality should not be an option’: why are so many artists now speaking out on Gaza? https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/sep/10/neutrality-shou…

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

Me and my new #yubikey5 part 2:
Now we get to the nitty-gritty parts. I'm using #mbsync to sync multiple #imap accounts to local

Republican Speaker Mike Johnson thinks the “No Kings” rally planned for next week is a “Hate America” rally meant to extend the government shutdown
—something someone who has never been to a “No Kings” event would say. 
The “No Kings” rally is a nationwide action with a very simple goal:
oppose the blatantly authoritarian tilt of the Trump administration.
The protests are supported by groups like the Human Rights Campaign,
the American Civil Liberties Union,

Mike Johnson Blames Shutdown on “No Kings” Protest in Absurd Rant
The House speaker is blaming the Republican-led government shutdown on Americans protesting Donald Trump. Make that make sense.

#Friday night firing massacre begins purge of #FederalWorkers including key #CDC medical experts at #HHS National Center for