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After some neighbors say they want to be able to drive cars in cycletrack, DC govt replaces it with painted lanes & says basis for action was aesthetics of flexposts.
If the problem is really that flexposts don't look nice, why not replace them with decorative bollards?
https://wapo.st/4dXmJY1

D.C. is removing bike lane barriers for the first time, calling them ugly
The move comes as political leaders across the country begin reversing and undoing bike lane plans.

Massive scandal in Hungary Georg Spöttle, Orban's "best pundit" who has been influencing public opinion for years now, turned out to be a foreign agent (ruzzia), and his handler is colonel Oleg Smirnov (GRU) The Orban-regime is not commenting so far! : r/UkrainianConflict
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkrainianConflict/comments/1la3w2r/massive_scandal_in_hungary_georg_spöttle_orbans/

I noticed that OpenStreetMaps somehow lost Lake Michigan, so I went investigating. Apparently back in April somebody accidentally changed it from a "lake" to a "school" and it's taking months to be fixed across all regions/renderers.
https:/…

Landauer Principle and Thermodynamics of Computation
Pritam Chattopadhyay, Avijit Misra, Tanmoy Pandit, Goutam Paul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10876 https:…

Landauer Principle and Thermodynamics of Computation
According to the Landauer principle, any logically irreversible process accompanies entropy production, which results in heat dissipation in the environment. Erasing of information, one of the primary logically irreversible processes, has a lower bound on heat dissipated into the environment, called the Landauer bound (LB). However, the practical erasure processes dissipate much more heat than the LB. Recently, there have been a few experimental investigations to reach this bound both in the cl…

❝But why does Trump want chaos? Many pundits and, I’m sorry to say, all too many Democrats assume that performative cruelty, both in the form of those ICE arrests and in roughing up demonstrators, will work to Trump’s political advantage.
For what it’s worth, that’s not what the available polling says.❞
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/this-is-not-a-drill
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Why is it, in the year of our lord 2025, pretty much the only way video gets transferred off CCTV systems is a handheld camera pointed at a monitor?

Mr @… pointed me to this https://foks.pub/
"End-to-End Post-Quantum Encrypted Git Hosting"
This sounds quite neat. Not sure if anyone has already done some tests. I'm wondering how this wo…

The fact that most people—even the punditocracy—seem to willfully not remember who was president in 2020 explains a lot of current political discourse on numerous subjects
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:swgxwbir4rrimj57pf75jckf/post/3lrbbdbrl…

Krugman quotes Morris again:
❝If Trump gets away with this, he will absolutely do the same thing during the 2026 & 2028 elections. He will manufacture unrest just like in LA and send federal troops to every major city as a way to intimidate voters and decrease turnout. Functional end to fair elex.❞
And after more along these lines:
❝If you’re a pundit who thinks that this is over the top, you’re part of the problem (and you have been wrong every step of the way.)❞
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/this-is-not-a-drill
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Donald Trump continued his war against America’s most cherished military traditions today when he delivered a speech at Fort Bragg.
It is too much to call it a “speech”; it was, instead, a ramble, full of grievance and anger,
just like his many political-rally performances.
He took the stage to Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA”
—which has become a MAGA anthem
—and then pointed to the “fake news,” encouraging military personnel to jeer at the press.
He mocke…

The Silence of the Generals
As President Donald Trump crossed a dangerous line at Fort Bragg, the brass failed to speak out in the Army’s defense.