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"It was a hell of a move for a mayor who will next year be asking the city’s voters for more power, including the ability to unilaterally hire and fire people."
Yes, and if he's dumb enough to still put that on the ballot, the city's voters need to say no. Again.
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The making and unmaking of Beya Alcaraz: A strange and terrible saga
A near-total vetting failure by the mayor’s office put a political neophyte in an impossible position. It was a crucial misstep for Daniel Lurie.

A Deep Q-Network based power control mechanism to Minimize RLF driven Handover Failure in 5G Network
Kotha Kartheek, Shankar K. Ghosh, Megha Iyengar, Vinod Sharma, Souvik Deb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05762

A Deep Q-Network based power control mechanism to Minimize RLF driven Handover Failure in 5G Network
The impact of Radio link failure (RLF) has been largely ignored in designing handover algorithms, although RLF is a major contributor towards causing handover failure (HF). RLF can cause HF if it is detected during an ongoing handover. The objective of this work is to propose an efficient power control mechanism based on Deep Q-Network (DQN), considering handover parameters (i.e., time-to-preparation, time-to-execute, preparation offset, execution offset) and radio link monitoring parameters (T…

Cuba reconnects power grid after partial failure left Havana, much of west in dark | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cuba-power-grid-partial-collapse-9.7001975?cmp=rss

"South Africa court halts natural gas power plant project, cites climate commitments"
#SouthAfrica #FossilFuels #Energy

📉 Cuba hit with fifth blackout in less than a year with 10m people in the dark
#cuba

After #Trump finally crashes and burns (I'm still saying I don't think he makes it to the mid terms, and I think it's more than possible he won't make it to the end of the year) we'll hear a lot of people say, "the system worked!" Today people are already talking about "saving democracy" by fighting back. This will become a big rally cry to vote (for Democrats, specifically), and the complete failure of the system will be held up as the best evidence for even greater investment in it.
I just want to point out that American democracy gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile, who, before being elected was already a well known sexual predator, and who made the campaign promise to commit genocide. He then preceded to commit genocide. And like, I don't care that he's "only" kidnaped and disappeared a few thousand brown people. That's still genocide. Even if you don't kill every member of a targeted group, any attempt to do so is still "committing genocide." Trump said he would commit genocide, then he hired all the "let's go do a race war" guys he could find and *paid* them to go do a race war. And, even now as this deranged monster is crashing out, he is still authorized to use the world's largest nuclear arsenal.
He committed genocide during his first term when his administration separated migrant parents and children, then adopted those children out to other parents. That's technically genocide. The point was to destroy the very people been sending right wing terror squads after.
There was a peaceful hand over of power to a known Russian asset *twice*, and the second time he'd already committed *at least one* act of genocide *and* destroyed cultural heritage sites (oh yeah, he also destroyed indigenous grave sites, in case you forgot, during his first term).
All of this was allowed because the system is set up to protect exactly these types of people, because *exactly* these types of people are *the entire power structure*.
Going back to that system means going back to exactly the system that gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile *TWICE*.
I'm already seeing the attempts to pull people back, the congratulations as we enter the final phase, the belief that getting Trump out will let us all get back to normal. Normal. The normal that lead here in the first place. I can already see the brunch reservations being made. When Trump is over, we will be told we won. We will be told that it's time to go back to sleep.
When they tell you everything worked, everything is better, that we can stop because we won, tell them "fuck you! Never again means never again." Destroy every system that ever gave these people power, that ever protected them from consequences, that ever let them hide what they were doing.
These democrats funded a genocide abroad and laid the groundwork for genocide at home. They protected these predators, for years. The whole power structure is guilty. As these files implicate so many powerful people, they're trying to shove everything back in the box. After all the suffering, after we've finally made it clear that we are the once with the power, only now they're willing to sacrifice Trump to calm us all down.
No, that's a good start but it can't be the end.
Winning can't be enough to quench that rage. Keep it burning. When this is over, let victory fan that anger until every institution that made this possible lies in ashes. Burn it all down and salt the earth. Taking down Trump is a great start, but it's not time to give up until this isn't possible again.
#USPol

Many of us are in @… and @… ’s situation here: plastics are collected for recycling, but few/none enter the recycling stream. In that situation:
- Robin’s response is the first and best one: use less.
- In addition, I’d advocate for (1) continuing to recycle what you can’t avoid using and (2) give that city gov endless headaches about their failure to recycle. Show there’s demand for recyclability, get whatever tiny fraction does get recycled out of the waste stream, •and• make headaches for people in positions of power for plastic failing to live up to that demand.
I would •not• just stop recycling. Don’t just give up. My 2¢.
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from my link log —
NetBSD on the last G4 Mac mini (and making the kernel power failure proof).
http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2019/06/and-now-for-something-completely.html
saved 2019-06-30

And now for something completely different: NetBSD on the last G4 Mac mini (and making the kernel power failure proof)
(First, as a public service message, if you're running Linux on a G5 you may wish to update the kernel .) I'm a big fan of NetBSD . I've ru...

Here’s the lightning sketch of Paul’s Treatise Against Efficiency that I’ve never written:
1. Efficiency is asymptotically inefficient: as costs approach zero, the cost of further reducing them approaches infinity.
2. Efficiency prioritizes the measurable over the difficult-to-measure.
3. Efficiency prioritizes what those in power see (or imagine) over on-the-ground reality.
4. Following from 2 and 3, efficiency reduces the amount and quality of information flowing into a human system.
5. Efficiency foments institutional inflexibility.
6. By removing slack, efficiency causes small failures to cascade more readily and increases the risk of catastrophic failure.
7. Following rom 4, 5, and 6, efficiency trades small costs for massive risks: from failures, from missed opportunities, and from inability to adjust.
8. Efficiency, when pushed, strangles the emergent phenomena that in the long term create all new things of value.
9. Thus, although it can be a by-product of evolution, efficiency as a goal in itself strangles evolution.
10. Efficiency as a goal strangles joy.

Real-Time Estimation of Equivalent Series Resistance for Predicting Output Capacitor Failures in Boost Converters
Antonino pagano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25046 https://

Real-Time Estimation of Equivalent Series Resistance for Predicting Output Capacitor Failures in Boost Converters
Output capacitors are among the most critical components in power electronic converters, as their degradation directly affects system stability and reliability. A key indicator of capacitor health is the Equivalent Series Resistance (ESR), whose progressive increase is strongly correlated with aging and imminent failure. This paper presents a real-time technique for estimating the ESR of output capacitors in boost converters, with the aim of enabling early fault prediction and condition-based m…

Impossible Cloud Network: A Decentralized Internet Infrastructure Layer
Siu Kei Chung, Francisco Carpio, Andrei Navoichyk, Siarhei Valasovich, Jordan Moore, Slobodan Sudaric-Hefner, Daniel Baker, Thomas Demoor, Maurizio Binello, Christian Kaul, Kai Wawrzinek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04620

Impossible Cloud Network: A Decentralized Internet Infrastructure Layer
The internet faces a sovereignty crisis due to power concentration and data growth among a few hyperscalers, leading to centralization and loss of user control. This consolidation risks censorship and creates single points of failure. While Web3 offers decentralized solutions, they often sacrifice either scalability, decentralization, or security, which are key elements in the blockchain trilemma. These solutions also struggle with limited access to enterprise-grade hardware and frequently rely…

Infinitely many solutions to a conformally invariant elliptic equation with Choquard-type nonlinearity
Mona Almutairi, Mathew Gluck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11263 https://

Infinitely many solutions to a conformally invariant elliptic equation with Choquard-type nonlinearity
The existence of an unbounded sequence of solutions to a conformally invariant elliptic equation having nonlocal critical-power nonlinearity is established. The primary obstacle to establishing existence of solutions is the failure of compactness in the Sobolev embedding. To overcome this obstacle, the problem under consideration is lifted to an equivalent problem on the standard sphere so that the symmetries of the sphere can be leveraged. Two classes of symmetries are considered and for each …