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How about let’s not?
#apple #liquidAss

I strongly think that government should be where they can reach people; especially for emergencies but also for boring normal civics and politics.
This includes websites, TV, radio, print media, social media and whatever the future brings.
(Do not confuse abuse of this, as currently practiced by some western governments, with it being inherently bad.)
https://mstdn.social/@Nickiquote/115689504321086580

Apparently ICE abducted parents and just left their young kids just sitting there alone, unassisted and unattended — in not one but •two• separate incidents in the Twin Cities in the last few days.
In one case, they left school-age kids alone in the house after a pre-dawn raid. In another, they snatched a father driving his kids home and just left the kids there in the car.
In both cases, the kids are OK — but only because strangers came along to help.

Apparently quantum physics is taught in gradeschool these days, and why the heck not! I also learned today how Kepler was nearly finished his ultra-laborious book when he learned Lord Napier had just discovered how logarithms would have made those calculations SO much simpler.
Kepler's book, published posthumously, was banned anyway, but whatever…
Quantum Technology : Education Resources
https://resources.perimeterinstitute.ca/products/quantum-technology

Sonnet 123 - CXXIII
No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change:
Thy pyramids built up with newer might
To me are nothing novel, nothing strange;
They are but dressings of a former sight.
Our dates are brief, and therefore we admire
What thou dost foist upon us that is old;
And rather make them born to our desire
Than think that we before have heard them told.
Thy registers and thee I both defy,
Not wondering at the present nor …

Statistical Analysis of Target Parameter Estimation Using Passive Radar
Mats Viberg, Daniele Gerosa, Tomas McKelvey, Thomas Eriksson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07948 https://

Statistical Analysis of Target Parameter Estimation Using Passive Radar
A passive radar system uses one or more so-called Illuminators of Opportunity (IO) to detect and localize targets. In such systems, a reference channel is often used at each receiving node to capture the transmitted IO signal, while targets are detected using the main surveillance channel. The purpose of the present contribution is to analyze a method for estimating the target parameters in such a system. Specifically, we quantify the additional error contribution due to not knowing the transmi…

And so the #Crew11 will return prematurely - but not in a hurry as there is no emergency - from the ISS: in https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-5-januar-2026/#Jan08 I wrote it up (in German) while the presser was still going on.

Splat the Net: Radiance Fields with Splattable Neural Primitives
Xilong Zhou, Bao-Huy Nguyen, Lo\"ic Magne, Vladislav Golyanik, Thomas Leimk\"uhler, Christian Theobalt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08491

Splat the Net: Radiance Fields with Splattable Neural Primitives
Radiance fields have emerged as a predominant representation for modeling 3D scene appearance. Neural formulations such as Neural Radiance Fields provide high expressivity but require costly ray marching for rendering, whereas primitive-based methods such as 3D Gaussian Splatting offer real-time efficiency through splatting, yet at the expense of representational power. Inspired by advances in both these directions, we introduce splattable neural primitives, a new volumetric representation that…

Those people you see in videos blowing whistles, honking, video recording everything ICE does? They’re not just full-time activists who are used to this kind of thing, who tail ICE all day. They’re random retirees from down the street who heard the whistles and came outside even though the sidewalk’s a bit dicey. They’re mid-career professionals who were on their way home from a long day at work and heard the honking. They’re parents who are afraid their kid is going to be late for their violin lesson but they just have to be out there because this is too important.