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Role of thalamus in human conscious perception revealed by low-intensity focused ultrasound neuromodulation https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-66832-3 these findings "underscore the modulatory potential of thalamocortical networks in shaping visual experience";

Taking notes from the successes and failures of the Russian revolution, a group of anarchists (including Nestor Makhno, a Ukrainian anarchist militant who was critical in defeating the Tzar's army and who later also fought the Red Army) wrote a document titled the "Organizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists." This document came to be known as "The Platform." It remains one of the most important first-hand revolutionary documents, outlining a clear revolutionary plan.
I've taken this, the Viable System Model from cybernetics, and my own organizing experience, to describe an organization to confront the current set of crises.
This continues to build on the stuff I have been writing, but it's a lot less high level theory and a lot more specific.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/a-solarpunk-fractal-microservices
As always, editing notes (typos, grammar, spelling, etc) are always welcome, as are any questions. My ADHD brain tends to go a lot faster than anything else, so I have a tendency to drop words and have a lot of trouble catching them later. Between my ADHD and mild dyslexia, it can be pretty hard for me to catch when autocorrect gives me the wrong word.
A lot of folks have already been super helpful in offering their editing support, and I'm really grateful. Writing this has felt collaborative, and it should. On the one hand this comes from my own experience and research, but on the other I'm also voicing things that have come from conversations here. This has all been a bit of my voice and a bit of the federated world, and I'm really appreciating that.

Based on another report I just read from Iran's PressTV (state-sponsored service with an expired encryption cert today), this sounds like a giant DDoS attack.
Iran says repelled ‘one of world’s most complex’ cyberattacks on national infrastructure
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Iran Says Repelled ‘one Of World’s Most Complex’ Cyberattacks On National Infrastructure - Iran Front Page
Iran’s Minister of Information and Communications Technology said the country faced “one of the most complex cyberattacks” globally in recent days, targeting critical infrastructure linked to a domestic telecom operator.

The atmosphere of fear surrounding Trump’s cult of personality has kept Republicans from criticizing him
even when they think he’s wrong.
But consider the list of issues on which notable Republican officeholders and influencers are now breaking with Trump,
or at the very least fighting amongst themselves in ways that weaken his movement:
After months of resisting the release of the Epstein files, Trump faced a revolt from his own party in Congress,
where both ho…

Why MAGA is coming apart at the seams
Turns out they're not in it for Trump, they're in it for themselves.

Über die Gründung von Broadcom und deren Mitgründer Henry Samueli: #techhistory

Henry Samueli: Champion of Digital Broadband
In 1991, the few people who had Internet access at home mainly relied on slow dialup lines. Henry Samueli envisioned faster digital broadband. In research at UCLA and at Broadcom, which he cofounded in 1991, Samueli and his team revolutionized digital modems, enabling today's high-speed communications. Awarded the 2025 IEEE Medal of Honor, Samueli's journey from a curious middle schooler to a tech pioneer is inspiring.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115766665024442971
The author (Edmund Berkeley) is the co-founder of the ACM (I’m a member), he definitely did some other good stuff like being a peace activist and coming up with concepts that highly influenced the personal computer revolution 25–30 years after the book was published.
But the extreme toxic positivity about computers that “will solve all social problems” because “humans are so irrational” remains a huge problem with AI stans since the late 1940s.

Human-centered identity systems were never designed for the coming wave of autonomous AI agents. With identity failures the leading cause of most major cyber incidents, CISOs must quickly rethink how to account for the identities of new AI agents.
Check out my latest CSO piece.
Many thanks to Jim Alkove of Oleria, Ric Smith of Okta, Steve Stone of SentinelOne, Pete Clay of Aireon, Vijay Gajjala of Oleria, Carey Frey of TELUS, and Ely Kahn of SentinelOne.
Rethinking identit…

Rethinking identity for the AI era: CISOs must build trust at machine speed
Human-centered identity systems were never designed for the coming wave of autonomous AI agents. CISOs face a reckoning over how to rebuild identity systems to counter the risks.

Roadmap: Emerging Platforms and Applications of Optical Frequency Combs and Dissipative Solitons
Dmitry Skryabin, Arne Kordts, Richard Zeltner, Ronald Holzwarth, Victor Torres-Company, Tobias Herr, Fuchuan Lei, Qi-Fan Yang, Camille-Sophie Br\`es, John F. Donegan, Hai-Zhong Weng, Delphine Marris-Morini, Adel Bousseksou, Markku Vainio, Thomas Bunel, Matteo Conforti, Arnaud Mussot, Erwan Lucas, Julien Fatome, Yuk Shan Cheng, Derryck T. Reid, Alessia Pasquazi, Marco Peccianti, M. Giudici, M. Marconi, A. Bartolo, N. Vigne, B. Chomet, A. Garnache, G. Beaudoin, I. Sagnes, Richard Burguete, Sarah Hammer, Jonathan Silver
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18231 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.18231 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.18231
arXiv:2511.18231v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The discovery of optical frequency combs (OFCs) has revolutionised science and technology by bridging electronics and photonics, driving major advances in precision measurements, atomic clocks, spectroscopy, telecommunications, and astronomy. However, current OFC systems still require further development to enable broader adoption in fields such as communication, aerospace, defence, and healthcare. There is a growing need for compact, portable OFCs that deliver high output power, robust self-referencing, and application-specific spectral coverage. On the conceptual side, progress toward such systems is hindered by an incomplete understanding of the fundamental principles governing OFC generation in emerging devices and materials, as well as evolving insights into the interplay between soliton and mode-locking effects. This roadmap presents the vision of a diverse group of academic and industry researchers and educators from Europe, along with their collaborators, on the current status and future directions of OFC science. It highlights a multidisciplinary approach that integrates novel physics, engineering innovation, and advanced researcher training. Topics include advances in soliton science as it relates to OFCs, the extension of OFC spectra into the visible and mid-infrared ranges, metrology applications and noise performance of integrated OFC sources, new fibre-based OFC modules, OFC lasers and OFC applications in astronomy.
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This was "a nightmare scenario," said a firefighter with the Joshua Tree National Park, who also spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.
During the last government shutdown six years ago, the revelation that vandals appeared to have chopped down a few of the Dr. Seuss-esque trees grabbed national headlines.
In this instance, the firefighter estimates more than a thousand trees were torched.
Brendan Cummings, conservation director for the Center…

After years of patient investment, China is on the cusp of a robotics revolution.

If embodied intelligence
— think AI-powered robots that can navigate the real world
— is the next frontier of AI, then China appears poised to dominate.
Though the United States still has distinct advantages in software, advanced AI chips and foundational research, China leads in robot hardware, deployment and policy support.

Last year, China installed nearly 300,000 robots in its fact…

The Chinese robots are coming
China is miles ahead in the race to dominate a technology that could define the 21st century.