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Romania’s oil pipeline operator confirms cyberattack as hackers claim data theft https://therecord.media/romania-conpet-oil-pipeline-ransomware-attack

Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, has given his government’s blessing to an oil pipeline last week
that would cross Alberta and British Columbia and terminate at the Pacific.
But amid fierce debate over the political, environmental and economic implications of the project,
experts warn that the multibillion-dollar project faces immense – and poorly understood – geological hazards.

Ukraine strikes Druzhba oil pipeline again, HUR source says, despite Hungary, Slovakia's appeal: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/03/ukraine-strikes-druzhba-oil-pipeline.html

the identifying as an attack helicopter pipeline
https://jorts.horse/@thePlaceThatMakesYouTraitful/115507083569402138

Sch'glaub' daß ich mir die #Dreigroschenoper mal zur Gemüte führen werde,
was du mal in der Freizeit machst.

Von Tucholsky hab ich auch noch was in der Pipeline
https://de.wik…

Die Dreigroschenoper – Wikipedia

lolcow to horrorcow pipeline

On my way to break read only Friday. Just my lab so just my pipeline I'm breakingggg

Maybe I'm in my own little info bubble but I find it hard to believe that 60% of Canadians would support a new pipeline from Alberta to the west coast. I was disappointed with Carney's negotiation/capitulation to Smith, and I think longterm it's a misstep by the Liberals. Indigenous People will fight it tooth and nail, and we should support them in that effort. B.C. doesn't want a new terminal on their coast. Demand for oil continues to drop and there's a real risk the pipeline is severely underused upon completion. Most of the money made from oil moving through this pipe will leave Canada. Canada's reputation is polluted with this announcement while the majority of countries continue to develop alternative energy solutions. I can understand the support from Alberta as the province doesn't appear to have a strategy for transitioning from an oil dependent economy. But who are the other Canadians that Angus Reid surveyed?
#CanPoli #Pipeline
https://youtu.be/3VISu7l6FhY?si=kgpadeUAXu8DC5uP

Ukraine says it killed dozens of Russian troops who tried to advance through Soyuz gas pipeline near Kupyansk: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/06/ukraine-says-it-killed-dozens.html

Also, I haven't yet added captioning. I'm planning to do that later today. Apologies for not posting it in a completely accessible way, thanks for your patience.
Edit:
Updated. It should be more accessible now.
I usually don't add images to my posts. I realized half way through that I had a bunch more to do. I kind of had to power through before I ran out of dopamine, or I'd never actually post it. Thank you for your patience. I'm working on setting up a good OCR pipeline to make this faster in the future.
Thanks again for your patience, and please feel free to let me know if there are ways I could improve for future posts.

The Narwhal is going to court
Photojournalist Amber Bracken was on assignment for The Narwhal in northern British Columbia in November 2021. Amber was documenting tensions over the construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline through Wet’suwet’en territory when she was arrested by the RCMP.
Amber was handcuffed, held in a cell for three nights and had her camera gear and photographs seized — all for doing her job.

Global Energy Monitor: over 97 GW of gas-fired power in the US pipeline were explicitly earmarked for data centers in 2025, compared with just 4 GW in 2024 (Molly Taft/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/data-centers-are-driving-a-us-gas-boom/

Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom
Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
🧵 👇
#RUSSIA MASSIVE EXPLOSION: DRUZHBA PIPELINE, #TAMBOV Vlog 1247: War in

The ‍Baltic Sea region is on high alert after a string of power cable,
telecom link and gas pipeline outages since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, ‍
and the NATO military alliance has boosted its presence with frigates, aircraft and naval drones
The latest incident was made public five days after Finnish police seized a cargo vessel en route from Russia to Israel on suspicion of sabotaging ‌an undersea telecom cable running from Helsinki across the Gulf of Finland to Estoni…

Construction of TotalEnergies pipeline cuts through coral reefs in Mozambique https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/construction-of-totalenergies-pipeline-cuts-through-coral-reefs-in-mozambique/

Construction of TotalEnergies pipeline cuts through coral reefs in Mozambique
Over the past year, a dredger operated by Dutch company Van Oord cut through a coral reef off the coast of northern Mozambique, part of the construction of French oil and gas giant TotalEnergies’ troubled liquefied natural gas project in Cabo Delgado. Data scientists analyzing satellite imagery and vessel data have found that a massive […]

Indiana pipeline fuels Raiders rebuild in latest 3-round mock draft https://raiderramble.com/2026/01/24/indiana-pipeline-fuels-raiders-rebuild-in-latest-3-round-mock-draft/

Russian attempt to storm Kupiansk using gas pipeline 'thwarted,' 40 soldiers 'eliminated,' Ukraine's 7th Corps says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/05/russian-attempt-to-storm-kupiansk.html

California sues Trump administration over allegedly 'unlawful' pipeline restart approval years after oil spill (Brie Stimson/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-sues-trump-administration-allegedly-unlawful-pipeline-restart-approval-years-oil-spill
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p113#a260123p113

"Bulgaria installs 1.4 GW of solar in 2025"
#Bulgaria #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Bulgaria installs 1.4 GW of solar in 2025
Bulgaria installed over 1 GW of solar for the third consecutive year in 2025 and is forecast to add over 2 GW this year thanks to a large pipeline of utility-scale projects.

iOS 26.3: Diese neuen Features hat Apple in der Pipeline
Die verbesserte Siri muss womöglich noch warten, dafür gibt es bessere Android-Transfers und andere Goodies. Ein Überblick zu iOS 26.3.
https://www.

10 years ago today was my first day as a solo digital accessibility consultant.
Yes, that’s me on a balance ball on bubble wrap. I hadn’t quite filled my sales pipeline yet.
https://aardrian.tumblr.com/post/136608190926/day-1-of-my-new-freelanc…

Pipeline projects such as the one being promoted by Carney and Smith typically end having to skirt the Hecate Strait (see https://paddlingmag.com/stories/columns/still/hecate-strait/) after hitting saltwater at Kitimat (see

Crossing Canada's Most Dangerous Waterway By SUP
What it takes to cross Hecate Strait and live to tell the tale.

Feels like a golden era for women’s soccer and what a perfect time to have Emma Hayes at the helm. She has an embarrassment of riches in young talent coming through the pipeline, but even so she seems to have them wholly aligned on vision and tactics.
#uswnt

"Severe drought across Western and Midwestern Canada has wiped out pasturelands, leaving ranchers unable to maintain their herds."
severe drought. weird. I'm
sure that's fine. let's build another global warming pipeline so Premier Smith doesn't threaten to leave Canada.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #abpoli #bcpoli #climatechange #endfossilfuels
https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/canadian-butchers-feeling-pressure-as-beef-prices-stay-high-amid-historically-low-cattle-herds/

Disease agency sounds alarm over Europe’s thin pipeline of new antibiotics | Euractiv
https://www.euractiv.com/news/disease-agency-sounds-alarm-over-europes-thin-pipeline-of-new-antibiotics/

Endlich wieder ein paar Fahrradfotos für #Pixelfed in die Pipeline geworfen.

Netflix, of course, have made their billions by upending the traditional pitch-session-to-cinema pipeline that had sustained the film industry for decades. They have signed up legions of the classiest directors, hogged nearly all the audience-friendly documentaries and premiered one water-cooler series after another.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/05/what-does-netflix-hope-to-achieve-by-buying-warner-bros?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Once again, Trump acts to hurt anyone who stands in his way.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-vetoes-boebert-miccosukee-tribe-alligator-alcatraz-ac59b3ab03fb6f3b09d65b0223f1b495

What happened in Gramzow is just awful, and I really hope they can remove all the oil
There something interesting linguistically, though. They're all using “die PCK Schwedt,” which sounds odd. Apparently, “PCK” has lost the property of being an acronym for “das Petrol-Chemische Kombinat” but turned into a modifier or even only arbitrary first part of the name “die Raffinerie.” Similar as people use “der Radio” or “der Fernseh” skipping “apparat.”

Why Raiders' Chip Kelly era should signal a stop to pipeline of college-to-NFL coaches https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6832852/2025/11/25/chip-kelly-raiders-fired-offense-film-review/

This is a tricky balance. Some level of skepticism and counter-culture is good and healthy, both for people and society. But when it goes too far, it always seems to end up in the same place.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2

This blog post links to all my #FreeSoftwareAdvent posts which are revolving around tools used in our VFX pipeline.
https://www.comp-fu.com/2025/12/free-software-advent-2025…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.PF. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.PF/new
[1/1]:
- PipeFusion: Patch-level Pipeline Parallelism for Diffusion Transformers Inference
Jiarui Fang, Jinzhe Pan, Aoyu Li, Xibo Sun, Jiannan Wang

Crack along weld caused #NorthDakota Keystone oil pipeline spill in April, 2025
https://northdakotamonitor.com/briefs/crack-along-weld-caused…

Securing your #OpenTelemetryCollector pipeline
#TLS

The rise of candidates centering gun violence is a result of the growing prevention movement across the US, which has become something of 👉a pipeline for new candidates running for office.
#Maxwell #Frost, the nation’s first gen Z US representative, started off as a volunteer before becoming organizing director for <…

Curious: none of the links to related stories (e.g. "RCMP video footage of raids on Wet'suwet'en pipeline blockade shown in court") inside either of these articles on @…'s #pressFreedom trial in BC are still present on the

OFERA: Blendshape-driven 3D Gaussian Control for Occluded Facial Expression to Realistic Avatars in VR
Seokhwan Yang, Boram Yoon, Seoyoung Kang, Hail Song, Woontack Woo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01748 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.01748 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.01748
arXiv:2602.01748v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We propose OFERA, a novel framework for real-time expression control of photorealistic Gaussian head avatars for VR headset users. Existing approaches attempt to recover occluded facial expressions using additional sensors or internal cameras, but sensor-based methods increase device weight and discomfort, while camera-based methods raise privacy concerns and suffer from limited access to raw data. To overcome these limitations, we leverage the blendshape signals provided by commercial VR headsets as expression inputs. Our framework consists of three key components: (1) Blendshape Distribution Alignment (BDA), which applies linear regression to align the headset-provided blendshape distribution to a canonical input space; (2) an Expression Parameter Mapper (EPM) that maps the aligned blendshape signals into an expression parameter space for controlling Gaussian head avatars; and (3) a Mapper-integrated Avatar (MiA) that incorporates EPM into the avatar learning process to ensure distributional consistency. Furthermore, OFERA establishes an end-to-end pipeline that senses and maps expressions, updates Gaussian avatars, and renders them in real-time within VR environments. We show that EPM outperforms existing mapping methods on quantitative metrics, and we demonstrate through a user study that the full OFERA framework enhances expression fidelity while preserving avatar realism. By enabling real-time and photorealistic avatar expression control, OFERA significantly improves telepresence in VR communication. A project page is available at https://ysshwan147.github.io/projects/ofera/.
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⏳Seems like forever since I pulled out the 90mm/2.8 lens that I used to shoot this African daisy last summer... and yeah, I will reboot my photo processing pipeline one of these days
#photo #photography #flowers

Last night I had a #nightmare.
I dreamt that I've sent a pull request to a project, and it turned out that the whole CI pipeline is just LLMs dynamically slopping random tests against the PR. And of course these tests couldn't pass, and you could do nothing to make the PR actually pass tests.
#AI #LLM #NoAI #slop

legacy code, OH:
junior engineer, bright-eyed: "once your fixes land, my broken job should be fine, right?"
staff engineer, staring into middle distance: "the [redacted] pipeline contains many ancient evils that are best left undisturbed. And yet... here we are."
staff, a few minutes later: "Our team now owns this pipeline; my fingerprints are on the doorframe."
junior: "it looks like your changes just landed! shall I try again? cros…

Explosion hits Russia’s Druzhba oil pipeline: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/03/explosion-hits-russias-druzhba-oil.html

Remember when Hochul was heckled at the Mamdani rally? We need A LOT more of that energy and a lot less of this fossil fuel energy. https://flipboard.com/@gothamist/gothamist-igeoft02z/-/a-qfvbGzu_TYqz3seB3xFi7Q:a:3807498986-/0…

Gov. Hochul OKs key permit for Trump-favored gas pipeline in NYC, North Jersey
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration approved a key water-quality permit Friday for a proposed natural-gas pipeline off the New York City coast, …

Hunderttausende Liter - Riesige Öl-Fontäne: Deutsche Pipeline havariert #News #Nachrichten

China's elite universities are preparing to launch a new undergraduate major in
"embodied intelligence,"
an emerging field that combines AI with robotics.
Seven universities
— including Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Zhejiang University, Beijing Institute of Technology, and Xi'an Jiaotong University
— have applied to offer the new major, according to a public notice published in November by China's Ministry of Education.
These schools…

China's top universities plan to roll out 'embodied intelligence' majors to fuel Beijing's robotics push
Seven Chinese universities plan to launch an "embodied intelligence" major as Beijing races to build a pipeline of robotics and AI talent.

Just discovered 'stdbuf' - a program in coreutils that lets you change the output buffering of a command; e.g. to force linebuffering in a pipeline of a program that would otherwise have become larger buffered, for when you want the output immediately.

"Canada may approve a new oil pipeline. First Nations fear another ‘worst-case scenario’"
#Canada #FossilFuels #Climate

Produktvorschau: Diese Hardware plant Apple wohl für 2026
Das neue Jahr läuft – und Apples Pipeline ist gut gefüllt. Es dürfte zu einigen Änderungen im Angebot kommen. Ein Überblick.
https://www.

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115554649044087489
Der Pipeline von "KI" Forscher zu Rassentheoretikern und Eugenikern ist leider extrem ausgebaut.
Wäre doch ne schöne Gelegenheit für den

cyberpunk hacker to clanker fluffer pipeline

bruges beer pipeline!
https://openinframap.org/#12.79/51.21257/3.2049/A,B,I,L
connecting city-centre and out-of-town sites belonging to the brouwerij de halve maan

⚡ Escape hatch exists: #[AllowDynamicProperties] attribute opts into old behavior. Use ONLY for legacy vendor code or gradual migration with a removal plan. Never use for new code.
📊 Timeline: PHP 8.1 = allowed | PHP 8.2 = deprecated warning | PHP 9.0 = fatal error. Start fixing now!
🎯 Migration strategy: Run PHPStan/Psalm analysis, fix domain models first (critical), then controllers/services, then DTOs. Add static analysis to CI pipeline to prevent regression.

Scotland "..there are 17 live planning applications for hyperscale data centres across the country, with more in the pipeline; enough to increase energy demand by 4,450-4,950 megawatts."
Scottish government face calls for data centre moratorium | Morning Star
https://www.

Does anybody have a connection at Signal who could receive some urgent app design feedback? The app has several very specific problems / limitations / design quirks that are causing major headaches for neighbor groups trying to communicate here in Minneapolis.
(I’ll eventually try to write up some feedback through normal channels so it can go through the normal user feedback pipeline — but I’m sure any fixes that arrive that way will arrive far too late to be useful to us, so I’m not even bothering now. If there’s any chance of having some issues prioritized, I’d sure appreciate it.)
[ETA: I already tagged Mer__edith, but I’m sure she’s far too busy and her mentions are far too crowded for her to give this attention]

Why Raiders' Chip Kelly era should signal a stop to pipeline of college-to-NFL coaches https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6832852/2025/11/25/chip-kelly-raiders-fired-offense-film-review/

Crazy that the same people answer these 2 questions like this.
https://mstdn.ca/@CanadianPolling/115742985914702440
https://

g'damit. why is it that even #ubuntu 25.10 still only has #libsodium v1.0.18? 1.0.20 is even getting stale (actually i just checked v1.0.21 is out since two weeks) and all i need is only 1.0.19, breaks my CI/CD pipeline.

https://resist.bot/petitions/PPPXTK

Congress Must Defend Pipeline Safety Transparency and Ethics Oversight
Text SIGN PPPXTK to 50409 to send this to your officials.

Debugging RTL can be quite the rollercoaster sometimes.
* Please make timing
* Oh wow it did
* But it doesn't work
* Fix the bug
* Now it fails timing
* Pipeline it
* Hope it works now

How do people record images for Mapillary while on a bicycle? GoPro stuck to a helmet? Is that stable enough? Does something in the pipeline do post-processing to correct for camera tilt?
#biketooter #mapillary #camera

HUR reports explosions at rail, pipeline hub in Russia’s Novosibirsk, Bryansk oblasts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/01/hur-reports-explosions-at-rail.html

Mind the gap: Revealing sidewalk networks at scale
pdf: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2632-072X/ae35b9/pdf
Nice to see important research on the both most important and neglected mode of transport 🚶

"Canada may approve a new oil pipeline. First Nations tribes fear another ‘worst-case scenario’"
#Canada #FossilFuels #Energy

Scheisse!
https://mstdn.social/@stekopf/115697063261142737

{dtrack} makes documentation of data wrangling part of the analysis and creates pretty flow charts: #rstats

Coastal First Nations Call on Carney to Defend B.C. Tanker Ban in Pipeline Talks
Coastal First Nations President KΓšwšziɫ Marilyn Slett said she called on Prime Minister Mark Carney in a meeting Tuesday to maintain and protect the oil tanker moratorium in his government’s pipeline talks with Alberta, saying afterwards that “it would take just one spill to destroy our way of life.”
#bcpoli

I rewrote a data analysis pipeline, moving it from #python to #julialang . I am now in love with the threading support in Julia.
The task is very parallelizable but each thread needs random read access to a tens-of-GB dataset. In Python (with multiprocessing, shared stores, etc) data bookkeeping was a nightmar…

Ukraine says it destroyed pipeline Russia used to infiltrate Kupiansk, releases video: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/14/ukraine-says-it-destroyed-pipeline.html

Today's open-source part of our VFX Pipeline is #mongodb
We're using the Deadline render manager and it came with mongodb as its backend. Over time I've started to use it for other pipeline needs: keeping track of dependencies between comps and cg (and between Houdini scenes and their abc/usd files) for example. This helps a lot with consolidating and pruning the huge amount of …

Coursera's buying Udemy: awesome! I love monopolies, and we're one step closer to one now!
I'm just waiting for the AI shoe to drop next. It'll be awesome to pay $19.99/mo to learn randomly-inserted hallucinated non-facts from an LLM running a RAG pipeline over a syllabus thrown together by some associate professor who can barely afford rent from their day job.

Thank God for the good and sane people defending their traditional territories in BC's north coast.
“As the Rights and Title Holders of the Central and North Coast and Haida Gwaii, we are here to remind the Alberta government, the federal government, and any potential private proponent that we will never allow oil tankers on our coast, and that this pipeline project will never happen,” Slett said."
#FirstNations #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Pipeline #ABPoli #BCPoli #CanPoli
https://globalnews.ca/news/11544657/bc-first-nations-dismiss-pipeline-mou/

Back in the day I was working on a team with an ugly ETL pipeline for scraping news articles.
It had a habit of guessing wrong about character encodings, so by the time the data reached my zone of responsibility it was often solidly mojibake.
So two of us wrote a module that tried to guess at the (noisy-channel) transcodings that got us here & reverse them (used a simple "what language is this" filter to evaluate candidates).
Some clever wit -- I think it was…

Seems like the #PeePee strategy fell flat on its face today and it will fade from the headlines.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-vote-no-poilievre-pipeline-motion-9.7008658

Fossil-fuel propaganda is stalling climate action; here's what we can do about it #fossilfuel

Fossil-fuel propaganda is stalling climate action; here's what we can do about it
2025 has been a year of setbacks for Canada's climate policy. In November, the federal and Alberta governments signed a memorandum of understanding to remove strict climate policies in the province and to support the construction of a new pipeline from Alberta to northern British Columbia.

In 15 years, when half of the worlds critical software is LLM-infested, indecipherable vibe-coded spaghetti, and there aren’t enough traditionally-trained software engineers to hire because the entry-level pipeline was strangled in 2025, and people my generation have all retired, well…
Well just remember I said this would happen.
#VibeCoding

✨ AI enhancement adds explanations, examples & best practices automatically
🔧 MCP integration with 27 tools & fully automated pipeline
✅ 1200 tests, MIT licensed, v2.7.0
https://skillseekersweb.com/

Estimating Spatially Resolved Radiation Fields Using Neural Networks
Felix Lehner, Pasquale Lombardo, Susana Castillo, Oliver Hupe, Marcus Magnor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17654 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.17654 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.17654
arXiv:2512.17654v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present an in-depth analysis on how to build and train neural networks to estimate the spatial distribution of scattered radiation fields for radiation protection dosimetry in medical radiation fields, such as those found in Interventional Radiology and Cardiology. Therefore, we present three different synthetically generated datasets with increasing complexity for training, using a Monte-Carlo Simulation application based on Geant4. On those datasets, we evaluate convolutional and fully connected architectures of neural networks to demonstrate which design decisions work well for reconstructing the fluence and spectra distributions over the spatial domain of such radiation fields. All used datasets as well as our training pipeline are published as open source in separate repositories.
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Sable Offshore Corp. has successfully petitioned federal authorities to assume regulatory authority over its Santa Barbara County oil and gas pipelines
-- another move in the company’s attempts to restart production.
The Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration decided on Wednesday that two Santa Barbara County pipelines operated by Sable are interstate pipelines,
removing them from state authority.”
—and subsequently:

Sable Receives Federal Approval to Restart Oil Pipelines
Sable Offshore Corp. says it has received permission to restart pipelines connected to the Santa Ynez Unit, a week after it successfully petitioned to

So this is percolating and the results so far are not surprising.
I'd vote NO, for the following reasons:
- oil demand continues to decline and risk is high we'll end up with an expensive underutilized pipeline. Therefore high risk we'll end up subsidizing any private entity that builds this thing.
- why would we invest public dollars to support infrastructure for a product where 75% of the profit leaves Canada? There has to be a net benefit, beyond steel sales and jobs, for this project to be considered.
- Indigenous land rights must be respected. They will be left with the rusting pipeline decades in the future, and it's impact on the land.
- the B.C. government must also have a final vote as they have to give up land and provide support.
- we don't need additional oil tankers on our west coast.
- and most importantly, with this MOU, Canada pretty much declared we aren't serious about protecting the environment or fighting climate change. We're oil whores. Harsh but....
#CanPoli #ClimateAction

#FreeSoftwareAdvent finale 2025! Without these free and open source projects our pipeline couldn't exist at all:
Python, the VFX world's favourite programming language. And of course... Linux itself 🥳
Happy Holidays!

Werdet Ihr zum Ende jedes Buches auch immer so ungeduldig mit der jeweiligen Lektüre? (Ja, ich bin gestresst von den ganzen Büchern in der Pipeline.)

MAGA-oriented voices say that they want fearless judges
— but many of them seem really to want judges who will do Trump’s bidding,
Mike Davis, the founder of the Article III Project,
a legal nonprofit that, like the Federalist Society, also espouses originalism,
but is more closely aligned with the MAGA movement, said too many of the Federalist Society’s leaders were “missing in action” during the Biden years,
when Trump faced criminal investigations and a length…

The Federalist Society Is Torn Between Its Legal Philosophy and Trump’s Demands
Guided by Leonard Leo, the society built a pipeline for traditional conservative judges. But that might not be enough for President Trump in his second term.

The new pro-Pipeline Minister is working out very well, I see. Tres bien, bien sûre.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #french #carney #tictoc #climate #oil #endfossilfuels

Today's important open-source software in our pipeline for #FreeSoftwareAdvent has been mentioned before. It's the video encoder/decoder #ffmpeg
We're using it to create h264 preview clips. At some point in the past it was essential for decoding proprietary files that clien…

Ukrainian drone attack sets Russian pipeline ablaze in Krasnodar Krai, officials say: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/21/ukrainian-drone-attack-sets-russian.html

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[4/5]:
- Sample, Don't Search: Rethinking Test-Time Alignment for Language Models
Gon\c{c}alo Faria, Noah A. Smith
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03790 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114301112970577326
- A Survey on Archetypal Analysis
Aleix Alcacer, Irene Epifanio, Sebastian Mair, Morten M{\o}rup
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12392 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statME_bot/114357826909813483
- The Stochastic Occupation Kernel (SOCK) Method for Learning Stochastic Differential Equations
Michael L. Wells, Kamel Lahouel, Bruno Jedynak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11622 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/114539065460187982
- BOLT: Block-Orthonormal Lanczos for Trace estimation of matrix functions
Kingsley Yeon, Promit Ghosal, Mihai Anitescu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12289 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathNA_bot/114539035462135281
- Clustering and Pruning in Causal Data Fusion
Otto Tabell, Santtu Tikka, Juha Karvanen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15215 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/114550346291754635
- On the performance of multi-fidelity and reduced-dimensional neural emulators for inference of ph...
Chloe H. Choi, Andrea Zanoni, Daniele E. Schiavazzi, Alison L. Marsden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11683 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/114692410563481289
- Beyond Force Metrics: Pre-Training MLFFs for Stable MD Simulations
Maheshwari, Tang, Ock, Kolluru, Farimani, Kitchin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14850 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicschemph_bot/114709402590755731
- Quantifying Uncertainty in the Presence of Distribution Shifts
Yuli Slavutsky, David M. Blei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18283 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/114738165218533987
- ZKPROV: A Zero-Knowledge Approach to Dataset Provenance for Large Language Models
Mina Namazi, Alexander Nemecek, Erman Ayday
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20915 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/114754394485208892
- SpecCLIP: Aligning and Translating Spectroscopic Measurements for Stars
Zhao, Huang, Xue, Kong, Liu, Tang, Beers, Ting, Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01939 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophIM_bot/114788369702591337
- Towards Facilitated Fairness Assessment of AI-based Skin Lesion Classifiers Through GenAI-based I...
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- PASS: Probabilistic Agentic Supernet Sampling for Interpretable and Adaptive Chest X-Ray Reasoning
Yushi Feng, Junye Du, Yingying Hong, Qifan Wang, Lequan Yu
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- Unified Acoustic Representations for Screening Neurological and Respiratory Pathologies from Voice
Ran Piao, Yuan Lu, Hareld Kemps, Tong Xia, Aaqib Saeed
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- Machine Learning-Driven Predictive Resource Management in Complex Science Workflows
Tasnuva Chowdhury, et al.
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- MatchFixAgent: Language-Agnostic Autonomous Repository-Level Code Translation Validation and Repair
Ali Reza Ibrahimzada, Brandon Paulsen, Reyhaneh Jabbarvand, Joey Dodds, Daniel Kroening
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Anne Gagneux, S\'egol\`ene Martin, R\'emi Gribonval, Mathurin Massias
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"Serbia installs 134.3 MW of solar in 2025"
#Serbia #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Serbia installs 134.3 MW of solar in 2025
Serbia had a record year for solar additions in 2025, led by deployment of large-scale plants. The country has a gigawatt-size project pipeline, although most remain in the earlier stages of development and are not expected to come online this year.

Details of the MOU as reported by CBC. Hot Take:
It's a sh_t show of oil soaked hopeium and climate defeatism.
- Shovels in Ground by 2029 *(may this be forever extended)
- Tanker Ban will be lifted if the project is approved by MPO *(Coastal First Nations setting rhetorical fire to MPO in 3-2-1)
- July 1, 2026 deadline for submission to MPO *(OIL CANADA DAY)
- 75% methane emissions cut on 2014 levels from methane by 2035 *(*shaking head* We are VERY GOOD at hitting 10 year targets *shaking head*)
- "both sides commited to net-zero by 2050” (implied via CCS) *(carbon capture and storage? should be Carney Can't Stop -- Emissions)
- industrial carbon price of $130 -- down from $170
*(Oil Industry - Very Poor)
- Alberta exempt from fed O&G emissions cap and clean electricity regulation *(Woop Coal! Let's Mine the Rockies!)
- No private proponents have been announced. *(Hear No Evil)
- No pipeline path/route has been announced. *(See No Evil)
#TMX #EndFossilFuels #ClimateSellout #ClimateEmergency #CdnPoli #CanPoli #BCPoli #ABPoli
Since multiple Ottawa CBC reporters seem utterly incapable of understanding what First Nations groups are what in BC here are some facts about the Coastal First Nations. It has existed since 2003.
https://coastalfirstnations.ca/about/
"The Great Bear Initiative Society (a non-profit society under the BC Societies Act), also known as Coastal First Nations-Great Bear Initiative (CFN), is an alliance of First Nations on the North Pacific Coast that includes the Gitga’at, Gitxaała, Haida, Heiltsuk, Kitasoo Xai’xais, Metlakatla, Nuxalk and Wuikinuxv First Nations. " Their territories span on the mainland coast of BC from the top of Vancouver Island to the Alaska Border including Haida Gwaii.

"UK adds 1.9 GW of solar in 12 months"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #SolarPower #Energy

UK adds 1.9 GW of solar in 12 months
Latest government figures record 20.7 GW deployed PV capacity at the end of October 2025, up 10.4% in a 12-month period. Surge in contracts for difference (CfD) supported connections recorded in 2025 with more large ground-mount projects in the pipeline.

For today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent here's a tiny tool we have used in our pipeline: pyRenamer is a simple app to rename/renumber a bunch of files.
Unfortunately it's pretty much an abandoned fork of a Python 2 app that has been abandoned for even longer ago. It still works and for renumbering there's no easier solution at hand. But for file name search & replace …

This is so damning. The top of the CBC story (JP Tasker reporting)
“Smith said she got Carney to back down on most of the Trudeau-era "nine bad laws," as she calls them, that restricted oil and gas development in Alberta.
Carney, meanwhile, says he got Alberta to buy into the Pathways carbon capture project to try and decarbonize the oil pumped out of the province.”
It would be like Putin saying he got Zelenskyy to back down on Donbas and Crimea, but Zelenskyy says Putin agreed to security guarantees from Russia and the USA.
Carney = Capitulator
Also... YOU CAN'T DECARBONIZE OIL.
ffs. what a stupid statement.
Maybe Putin will De-TNT his Ballistic Missiles.
#baitandswitch #climateEmergency #ABPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli #RussiaUkraineWar
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/livestory/alberta-ottawa-memorandum-of-understanding-energy-deal-pipeline-bc-9.6993431

#FreeSoftwareAdvent of our VFX pipeline: the #OpenZFS filesystem.
Our current file server is running the free community edition of #TrueNAS now but up until last year we ran a bare-metal U…

Good #Morning #Canada
You may not like #PeePee but you gotta respect his ability to promote a divided Canada. Today, the Duke of Divisiveness will ask the house to vote on whether they support the Liberal's MOU with the province of Alberta. He knows that there is environmental grumbling amongst the Liberals in Parliament and he thinks this is an opportunity to weaken Carney's leadership image. A vote could cause friction within the Liberal ranks and at the very least put individuals on record so their vote can be used against them in the future. It should be an interesting day.
Recently Angus Reid released survey results showing 50% of Canadians would support a new pipeline. What about you? There is a straight forward question below - Yes or No - but please add any opinions, comments or caveats to support your choice.
Do you support a new pipeline from Alberta to the coast of British Columbia? Please boost for additional reach.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanPoli #PipelineMOU #Pipeline
No, I do not support a new pipeline
Yes, I support a new pipeline

Respect. (Updated with statement)
Guilbeault isn't perfect and had to go along with a lot of things, like TMX under Trudeau. But it is clear there were tradeoffs... I am willing to bet a northern pipeline and tanker ban was one of those tradeoffs for agreeing to buy TMX.
He should join the NDP or Greens.
edit: Montreal Gazette has more:
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Liberals #CPC

Waiting for the announcment and press conference, the CBC live blog has this nugget:
"Alberta's deficit was initially $1.3B in the February budget, then grew to $6.5B by summer and has likely swelled even further with weak oil and natural gas prices."
Is there an Albertan leader of any party willing to utter the words:
"Maybe the vagaries of Oil and Gas prices is not what we should base our provincial budget on. Perhaps it is time to look at something else.”
#ABPoli #Oil #Gas #LNG #OilPipeline #NorthernGateway #HaidaGwaii #BCPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/livestory/alberta-ottawa-memorandum-of-understanding-energy-deal-pipeline-bc-9.6993431

So there are lots of Conservative Albertans that are Big Mad about the Coastal First Nations acting as though they have "a veto”.
(That's not what FPIC means by the way: #ABPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Pipeline #Separatism #Canada #Oil #EndFossilFuels

"Oléoduc" is the best word I have ever seen for oil pipeline!
Also... oily Canada reputation spreading far and wide.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #bitumen #oil #climatechange #abpoli #france
https://mastodon.social/@lemonde/115625149716863385

Leader of the BC Greens @… has some choice words.
"This pipeline will never happen, and we'll make f*ing sure of it”
👍👍
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #BCPoli #Greens #GPC #EndFossilFuels #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency
https://mastodon.social/@emilylowan/115623697970750137