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Koons’s T-shirt featured half a rainbow pie, with the slogan:
“Equal rights for others does not mean fewer rights for you. It’s not pie.”
She said after some discussion,
the RCMP respectfully asked her to leave the town hall,
as well as two other women at the event that were also wearing T-shirts with slogans that some at the event didn’t like.
“I found it alarming,” Koons said.
“I’m an engaged community member and I often sit at (discussion) tables with pe…

Woman alarmed after being asked to leave Conservative town hall over T-shirt - R.NF
Cowichan businesswoman Kristi Koons said she’s alarmed and concerned over the fact that she and another two women were asked to leave a town hall featuring federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on June 10 because of the T-shirts they were wearing. Koons said she was quiet and respectful at the town hall, which was held at Mellor Hall at the Cowichan Exhibition grounds and attracted more than 1,000 people, before a group of men and RCMP officers approached her and said she was not welco…

The implications are interesting enough when we apply this to systems like capitalism or national governments, but there are other very interesting implications when applied to systems like race or gender.
Like, as a cis man the only way I can be free to express and explore my own masculinity is if the masculinity I participate in is one which allows anyone the freedom to leave. Then I have an obligation to recognize the validity of nom-masculine trans identity as a necessary component of my own. If I fail to do this, then I trap myself in masculinity and allow the system to control me rather than me to be a free participant in the system.
But if it's OK to escape but not enter, that's it's own restriction that constrains the freedom to leave. It creates a barrier that keeps people in by the fear that they cannot return. So in order for me to be free in my cis masculine identity, I must accept non-masculine trans identities as they are and accept detransitioning as also valid.
But I also need to accept trans-masc identities because restricting entry to my masculinity means non-consensually constraining other identities. If every group imposes an exclusion against others coming in, that, by default, makes it impossible to leave every other group. This is just a description of how national borders work to trap people within systems, even if a nation itself allows people to "freely" leave.
So then, a free masculinity is one which recognizes all configurations of trans identities as valid and welcomes, if not celebrates, people who transition as affirmations of the freedom of their own identity (even for those who never feel a reason to exercise that same freedom).
The most irritating type of white person may look at this and say, "oh, so then why can't I be <not white>?" Except that the critique of transratial identities has never been "that's not allowed" and has always been "this person didn't do the work." If that person did the work, they would understand that the question doesn't make sense based on how race is constructed. That person might understand that race, especially whiteness, is more fluid than they at first understood. They might realize that whiteness is often chosen at the exclusion of other racialized identities. They would, perhaps, realize that to actually align with any racialized identity, they would first have to understand the boot of whiteness on their neck, have to recognize the need to destroy this oppressive identity for their own future liberation. The best, perhaps only, way to do this would be to use the privilege afforded by that identity to destroy it, and in doing so would either destroy their own privilege or destroy the system of privilege. The must either become themselves completely ratialized or destroy the system of race itself such being "transracial" wouldn't really make sense anymore.
But that most annoying of white person would, of course, not do any such work. Nevertheless, one hopes that they may recognize the paradox that they are trapped by their white identity, forced forever by it to do the work of maintaining it. And such is true for all privileged identities, where privilege is only maintained through restrictions where these restrictions ultimately become walls that imprison both the privileged and the marginalized in a mutually reinforcing hell that can only be escaped by destroying the system of privilege itself.

Tiens, encore une différence intéressante pour les amis français. En Allemagne, les homicides peuvent être prescrit, mais les meurtres, eux, ne sont jamais prescrit. C'est une séquelle des poursuites contre les crimes nazis, souvent élucidés avec beaucoup de retard.

La Cour de cassation estime dans une décision historique que le meurtre de Marie-Thérèse Bonfanti en 1986 est
La position de la Cour de cassation, très attendue, rejaillira sur tout "cold case" similaire, notamment dans certains dossiers du pôle de Nanterre, spécialisé dans les crimes non élucidés.

Lurie admin "blamed the plan to stall housing at 101 Hyde on the state’s designation of the Tenderloin as a low-resourced area, which puts it down on the priority list for state funding."
SF has the third most billionaires of any city in the world. One of them is our mayor. Not having funds for affordable housing is a choice.

Plans for affordable housing at shuttered S.F. food hall site stuck in limbo 
La Cocina’s space in the Tenderloin was pitched as a community hub with cheap eats, and eventually affordable housing. Neither is happening.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.FL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.FL/new
[1/1]:
- Digital Circuits as Moore Machines
Victor Yodaiken
https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.0522
- From higher-order rewriting systems to higher-order categorial algebras and higher-order Curry-Ho...
Juan Climent Vidal, Enric Cosme Ll\'opez, Ra\'ul Ruiz Mora
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12051 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathCT_bot/111962497341343579
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Mayor Jacob Frey tells ICE to 'get the f-- out of Minneapolis,' rejects DHS self-defense statement (Louis Casiano/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mayor-jacob-frey-tells-ice-get-f-out-minneapolis-rejects-dhs-self-defense-statement
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p98#a260107p98

Rebellion isn't what you think it is.
A simple and vital message more people need to consider, in my opinion.
Someone posted the image below without including any alt text to make this message clearer.
Dick move.
The rebellion will be made accessible, because it is a rebellion against selfish ignorance and laziness - and because I will not stop doing what I can to help the cause.
I am extra irritated because I strongly believe in what the image is depicting…

B-O-B-B-O-B-B-O-B... Bob Myers reveals they also pulled in Dave Roberts, coach of the Los Angeles Dodgers to help select Bob Chesney.
▶️ Bob Myers talks Bob Chesney search, UCLA's financial commitment, much more
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZkdfsjV61Rg&si=K6lvwyJ…

Minimizing smooth Kurdyka-{\L}ojasiewicz functions via generalized descent methods: Convergence rate and complexity
Masoud Ahookhosh, Susan Ghaderi, Alireza Kabgani, Morteza Rahimi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10414 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.10414 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.10414
arXiv:2511.10414v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper addresses the generalized descent algorithm (DEAL) for minimizing smooth functions, which is analyzed under the Kurdyka-{\L}ojasiewicz (KL) inequality. In particular, the suggested algorithm guarantees a sufficient decrease by adapting to the cost function's geometry. We leverage the KL property to establish the global convergence, convergence rates, and complexity. A particular focus is placed on the linear convergence of generalized descent methods. We show that the constant step-size and Armijo line search strategies along a generalized descent direction satisfy our generalized descent condition. Additionally, for nonsmooth functions by leveraging the smoothing techniques such as forward-backward and high-order Moreau envelopes, we show that the boosted proximal gradient method (BPGA) and the boosted high-order proximal-point (BPPA) methods are also specific cases of DEAL, respectively. It is notable that if the order of the high-order proximal term is chosen in a certain way (depending on the KL exponent), then the sequence generated by BPPA converges linearly for an arbitrary KL exponent. Our preliminary numerical experiments on inverse problems and LASSO demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed methods, validating our theoretical findings.
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Anyway, more immediately, the corner cushion and long cushion have arrived.
Both a bit understuffed from what would be ideal. Creased, but maybe that'll drop out. Says not to iron it.
Can't even open the long one for adding more stuffing. Would have to unstitch and restitch.
Comfy though. This is the best bed I've ever had for lazing around in bed watching TV and I haven't even added the projector yet.