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🌍 The climate crisis demands urgent action. But which actions are best?
Decision makers face tough trade-offs:
Policy A lowers emissions at home but increases reliance on imports.
Policy B cuts emissions long-term but raises unemployment short-term.
Policy C boosts jobs now but increases emissions in the near term.
None of these choices are simple. A policy that looks good locally may increase global emissions, or its effects may depend on what other countries d…

Ashton Jeanty's best plays in hat trick vs. Bears https://www.raiders.com/video/ashton-jeanty-best-highlights-hat-trick-bears-nfl

Sampling Complexity of TD and PPO in RKHS
Lu Zou, Wendi Ren, Weizhong Zhang, Liang Ding, Shuang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24991 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Sampling Complexity of TD and PPO in RKHS
We revisit Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) from a function-space perspective. Our analysis decouples policy evaluation and improvement in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS): (i) A kernelized temporal-difference (TD) critic performs efficient RKHS-gradient updates using only one-step state-action transition samples; (ii) a KL-regularized, natural-gradient policy step exponentiates the evaluated action-value, recovering a PPO/TRPO-style proximal update in continuous state-action spaces.…

It is notable that the state and local police are all friendly witnesses for the plaintiffs in these cases
https://bsky.app/profile/kyledcheney.bsky.social/post/3m4dzxfbwak2q

Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social)
HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

Kid2 had pizza day yesterday. The school decided to order from a new place that offers "healthy pizza." The kids apparently poured onto the playground after lunch, having barely touched the stuff, chanting "We want [corporate pizza chain]!" While I may not agree with their taste in pizza, I'll take collective action any day. And the kids won! The school sent around an email last night saying they were going back to the old place and that they'd pay for a pizza par…

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-…

Kriegstüchtige Geheimdienste https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10177

"A group of about two hundred protestors, waving the union jack and St George's flags and carrying placards opposing the government's digital ID plans, had to be separated from the pro-Palestinian demonstrators by police."
That is a sentence that I never expected to read!
https://www.bb…

Arrests at protest supporting Palestine Action near Labour conference
Merseyside Police says arrests were made on suspicion of supporting the proscribed group.

"Protestival". Wat een geweldig concept ('geweldig' natuurlijk in strikt figuurlijke zin).
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/28/australia-protestival-newcastle-rising-tide-music-climate…

Australia’s ‘protestival’: kayaks, music, a push for climate change action – and the risk of arrest
Fossil fuel protesters are making their annual pilgrimage to the NSW city of Newcastle to draw attention to climate policy failure. Police will be there too, with a ‘zero tolerance approach’

David Sacks,
the Trump administration’s A.I. and crypto czar,
has helped formulate policies that aid his Silicon Valley friends
and many of his own tech investments.
Since January, Mr. Sacks, 53, has occupied one of the most advantageous moonlighting roles in the federal government,
influencing policy for Silicon Valley in Washington while simultaneously working in Silicon Valley as an investor.
Among his actions as the White House’s artificial intelligen…

Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
David Sacks, the Trump administration’s A.I. and crypto czar, has helped formulate policies that aid his Silicon Valley friends and many of his own tech investments.