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“It bears repeating that President Zelenskyy agreed to a Christmas truce,
but Putin declined,
yet he directs soldiers to continue to commit brutal crimes of aggression on one of Christianity’s holiest days.
“Even for countries at war, there is a long history of Christmas ceasefires, including notably during World War I.
Today’s decision by Putin to launch attacks rather than hold fire is a sobering reminder for us all:
Putin is a ruthless murderer who has no inte…

Ranking Member Shaheen, Senators Tillis, Rosen, Barrasso, Coons, King, Moran, Merkley, Van Hollen Statement on Russia’s Christmas Bombing of Ukraine | United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Thom Tillis (R-NC), Jacky Rosen...

Good on Biffa. Their renewed commitment to customer service means they won't 'action' my email. Instead I can use their portal, only I can't because I'm not an existing customer. But that's okay because I can use their phone line instead, which forever send me through a loop of repeating menus and never puts me through to someone. Well done Biffa, you are beyond parody and clearly don't want any new customers. And I thought Veolia were shit. Well they were, but B…

"Dispensing false information in a confident tone, rather than offering no answer when none is readily available, is a major flaw of generative AI, experts say. An audit of the top 10 generative AI model... by the media literacy non-profit NewsGuard revealed that the non-response rates of chatbots went down from 31% in August 2024 to 0% in August 2025. At the same time, the chatbots’ likelihood of repeating false information almost doubled from 18% to 35%"

It needs repeating time and again—the "clash of cultures" isn't about "differing opinions".
One side wants to treat people respectfully and be welcoming and kind and have a fun time.
The other side wants to remove (deny medical care, disenfranchise, lock away, deport, kill, genocide etc.) people they don't like.
This isn't politics, and when someone claims it is and you take them at their word, you've already lost.

How a semiconductor investment boom is turning Arizona into "America's Semiconductor HQ", attracting more than $200B in investments in the last five years (Justine Calma/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/features/825207/semiconduct…

The new silicon valley (literally)
The US wants to make its own chips again. Will it bring back manufacturing jobs? Or guzzle up too much water in the desert? Can the semiconductor industry avoid repeating the same mistakes it made in Silicon Valley?  

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"The study of programming history might not be the solution to all the problems in our industry, for sure. It is also worth pointing out that most university curricula simply do not include any mention whatsoever of such subjects. Maybe it is time to start providing such information to students."
https://dep…

History Repeating
Somehow we all agree about the importance of history in our society. We teach it to our younger ones, we quote it in our speeches, we talk about it during our dinners. Maybe it is because we had to memorize the names of battles fought ages ago, and we expect to capitalize on that fact to appear wise (if not arrogant) to others. We might even agree with history itself, shaking our heads in dismay to some extent, as we see the events unfolding nowadays. A phenomenon which, by all measures, tends …

Squirrels at War: Herbicide
#writingcommunity #visualinspiration Earlier installments can be read from this page. *** That night, in my new room, I had a different version of my repeating anxiety dream. Instead of the Iskan ripping a giant hole in the hull of the Magic…

Recommendations include —
•Avoid repeating misinfo w/o correction
•Leverage trusted sources to counter misinformation & provide accurate health info
•Debunk misinformation often &repeatedly w/ evidence-based methods
**•Fund basic & translational
research on the psychology of health misinformation , including effective ways to counter it **

Sander van der Linden (@profsanderlinden.bsky.social)
Public health is under attack by a deluge of misinformation. We offer a consensus report from the American Psychological Association summarizing what we know & what interventions are effective in countering it. We provide 8 concrete recommendations. Open-access - https://awspntest.apa.org/fulltext/2026-77135-001.pdf

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/18/german-far-right-setting-agenda-as-opponents-amplify-its-ideas-study-finds
Now that proper researchers say what we've been repeating for at least a decade, wi…

A brilliant feature in Mastodon to be able to filter away keywords.
I see you all next week w/r to certain outages. A bit tiring to have a flood of messages repeating basically two things: there's an outage and i didn't know Signal's servers were in the US.
Back to interesting content!

Magnetars in Binaries as the Engine of Actively Repeating #FastRadioBursts: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae1023 -> A Unified Explanation for Fast Radio Bursts: https://aasnova.org/2025/12/10/a-unified-explanation-for-fast-radio-bursts/

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My TL is full of people making these connections: white supremacy, oligarchs ending democracy, the US has never been a democracy for everyone, Jim Crow was the model the Nazis followed, etc. All important. All worth repeating over and over.
(“Broken record therapy,” my dad says: just keep saying it until they hear it.)
I’m bookmarking this particularly essay for the way it gathers the pieces in one place, the way it brings the history and the present into a single clear picture.
/end

A supermassive black hole under the radar: repeating X-ray variability in a Seyfert galaxy
Matteo Imbrogno, Andrea Sacchi, Giovanni Miniutti, Francesco Tombesi, Gian Luca Israel, Enrico Piconcelli, Roberta Amato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02832

A supermassive black hole under the radar: repeating X-ray variability in a Seyfert galaxy
In the last few years, a few supermassive black holes (SMBHs) have shown short-term (of the order of hours) X-ray variability. Given the limited size of the sample, every new addition to this class of SMBHs can bring invaluable information. Within the context of an automated search for X-ray sources showing flux variability in the \textit{Chandra} archive, we identified peculiar variability patterns in 2MASX J12571076+2724177 (J1257), a SMBH in the Coma cluster, during observations performed in…

Everytime I use the leaf blower/mulcher I remember that I forgot my mask. I remembered my hearing protection. I will be repeating the effort in one or two weeks when the rest of the leaves drop onto the patio.
Two of the annuals are covered for the winter, and next week, the rose is covered.
Like last year, I will be hanging the Christmas lights before it gets too cold. I also will be putting up a small (1 metre) tree with lights. All the lights will be on remotes, and the wi…

Lately, my life has become an ocean of words—nothing but words, words, words to the vast horizon. This has me longing to just look, just see.
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/just-seeing-vija-celmins

Just Seeing: Vija Celmins
Vija Celmins repeating ocean surfaces

Do you also enjoy "cracking" random Braille inscriptions based on the context, word lengths, repeating letters and the knowledge how "a" is written?

#retired
conservative judge J. Michael Luttig says Trump repeating abuses of Britain before Revolutionary War - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/retired-judge-trump/

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城市化 - 建构城市 🌆
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Propellerheads:
🎵 History Repeating (feat. Shirley Bassey)
#Propellerheads
https://propellerheads.bandcamp.com/album/history-repeating
https://open.spotify.com/track/56jlrdCvA7Ih13L9OMcfDS

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The Global Industry Summit is bringing together an unprecedented coalition to solve a critical challenge: how can developing nations raise living standards without repeating the fossil-fuel mistakes of industrialized countries?
Governments, business leaders, and innovators will collaborate on low-carbon alternatives that deliver prosperity without the pollution. It's about finding climate solutions that work for both people and the planet.

Can an AI-Powered Presentation Platform Based On The Game "Just a Minute" Be Used To Improve Students' Public Speaking Skills?
Frederic Higham, Tommy Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03379

Can an AI-Powered Presentation Platform Based On The Game "Just a Minute" Be Used To Improve Students' Public Speaking Skills?
This study explores the effectiveness of applying AI and gamification into a presentation platform aimed at University students wanting to improve their public speaking skills in their native tongue. Specifically, a platform based on the radio show, Just a Minute (JAM), is explored. In this game, players are challenged to speak fluently on a topic for 60 seconds without repeating themselves, hesitating or deviating from the topic. JAM has proposed benefits such as allowing students to improve t…

Rapid onset of a Comptonisation zone in the repeating tidal disruption event XMMSL2 J140446.9-251135
R. D. Saxton, T. Wevers, S. van Velzen, K. Alexander, Z. Liu, A. Mummery, M. Giustini, G. Miniutti, F. Fuerst, J. J. E. Kajava, A. M. Read, P. G. Jonker, A. Rau, D. -Y. Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02905

Rapid onset of a Comptonisation zone in the repeating tidal disruption event XMMSL2 J140446.9-251135
We report here on observations of a tidal disruption event, XMMSL2 J1404-2511, discovered in an XMM-Newton slew, in a quiescent galaxy at z=0.043. X-ray monitoring covered the epoch when the accretion disc transitioned from a thermal state, with kT~80 eV, to a harder state dominated by a warm, optically-thick corona. The bulk of the coronal formation took place within 7 days and was coincident with a temporary drop in the emitted radiation by a factor 4. After a plateau phase of ~100 days, the …

Part of why #Trump has always been so hard to pin down politically is that he was always representing highly conflicting interests. Now, as that eats him alive, the GOP is fracturing in to two main groups: the Pinochet/Franco wing and the Hitler wing.
The Pinochet/Franco wing (let's call them PF) are lead by Vance. PF are also a coalition with some competing interests, but basically it's evangelical leaders, Opus Dei (fascist catholics), tech fascists (Yarvinites), pharma, and the other normal big republican donors. They support Israel, some because apartheid is extremely profitable and some because they support the genocide of Palestinian in order to bring the end of the world. They are split between extremely antisemitic evangelicals and Zionists, wanting similar things for completely different reasons. PF wants strong immigration enforcement because it lets them exploit immigrants, they don't want actual ethnic cleansing (just the constant threat). They want H1B visas because they want to a precarious tech work force. They want to end tariffs because they support free trade and don't actually care about things being made here.
The Hitler wing are lead by Nick Fuentes. I think they're a more unified group, but they're going to try to pull together a coalition that I don't think can really work. They're against Israel because they believe in some bat shit antisemitic conspiracy theory (which they are trying to inject along side legitimate criticism of Israel). They are focused on release of the #EpsteinFiles because they believe that it shows that Epstein worked for Mossad. They don't think that the ICE raids are going far enough, they oppose H1Bs because they are racists. They want a full ethnic cleansing of the US where everyone who isn't "white" is either enslaved for menial labor, deported, or dead. But they're also critical of big business (partially because of conspiracy theories but also) because they think their best option is to push for a white socialism (red/brown alliance).
Both of them want to sink Trump because they see him as standing in the way of their objectives. Both see #Epstein as an opportunity. Both of them have absolutely terrifying visions of authoritarian dictatorships, but they're different dictatorships.with opposing interests. Even within these there may be opportunities to fracture these more.
While these fractures decrease the likelihood of either group getting enough people together, their vision is more clear and thus more likely to succeed if they can make that happen. Now is absolutely *not* the time to just enjoy the collapse, we need to keep up or accelerate anti-fascist efforts to avoid repeating some of the mistakes of history.
Edit:
I should not that this isn't *totally* original analysis. I'll link a video later when I have time to find it.
Here it is:
#USPol

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Revisiting FRB 20121102A: milliarcsecond localisation and a decreasing dispersion measure
M. P. Snelders, J. W. T. Hessels, J. Huang, N. Sridhar, B. Marcote, A. M. Moroianu, O. S. Ould-Boukattine, F. Kirsten, S. Bhandari, D. M. Hewitt, D. Pelliciari, L. Rhodes, R. Anna-Thomas, U. Bach, E. K. Bempong-Manful, V. Bezrukovs, J. D. Bray, S. Buttaccio, I. Cognard, A. Corongiu, R. Feiler, M. P. Gawro\'nski, M. Giroletti, L. Guillemot, R. Karuppusamy, M. Lindqvist, K. Nimmo, A. Possenti, W…

Revisiting FRB 20121102A: milliarcsecond localisation and a decreasing dispersion measure
FRB 20121102A is the original repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source and also the first to be localised to milliarcsecond precision using very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI). It has been active for over 13 years and resides in an extreme magneto-ionic environment in a dwarf host galaxy at a distance of ~1 Gpc. In this work, we use the European VLBI Network (EVN) to (re-)localise FRB 20121102A and its associated persistent radio source (PRS). We confirm that the two are co-located -- impro…

A broadband study of FRB20240114A with the Effelsberg 100-m radio telescope
P. Limaye, L. G. Spitler, N. Manaswini, J. Ben\'a\v{c}ek, F. Eppel, M. Kadler, L. Nicotera, J. Wongphechauxsorn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08367

A broadband study of FRB20240114A with the Effelsberg 100-m radio telescope
We present Effelsberg 100-m telescope observations of the hyperactive repeating fast radio burst source FRB 20240110A, discovered by CHIME/FRB in January 2024. Using the Ultra BroadBand (UBB) receiver, spanning 1.3-6.0 GHz, we detected over 700 unique bursts across four observing epochs. A comprehensive analysis of their temporal and spectral properties reveals four distinct spectro-temporal morphologies, including simple, complex and frequency-drifting structures. No bursts were detected acros…

Revealing the Temporally Stable Bimodal Energy Distribution of FRB 20121102A with a Tripled Burst Set from AI Detections
Yidan Wang, Jing Han, Pei Wang, Di Li, Hanting Chen, Yuchuan Tian, Erbil Gugercinoglu, Jianing Tang, Zihan Zhang, Kaichao Wu, Xiaoli Zhang, Yuhao Zhu, Jinhuang Cao, Mingtai Chen, Jiapei Feng, Zhaoyu Huai, Zitao Lin, Jieming Luan, Hongbin Wang, Junjie Zhao, Chaowei Tsai, Weiwei Zhu, Yongkun Zhang, Yi Feng, Aiyuan Yang, Dengke Zhou, Jianhua Fang, Jiaying Xu, Chenhui Ni…

Revealing the Temporally Stable Bimodal Energy Distribution of FRB 20121102A with a Tripled Burst Set from AI Detections
Active repeating Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), with their large number of bursts, burst energy distribution, and their potential energy evolution, offer critical insights into the FRBs emission mechanisms. Traditional pipelines search for bursts through conducting dedispersion trials and looking for signals above certain fluence thresholds, both of which could result in missing weak and narrow-band bursts. In order to improve the completeness of the burst set, we develop an End-to-end DedispersE-ag…