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Sources: Starz lays off 7% of staff, 10 months after separating from Lionsgate; it laid off 10% of staff in 2023 (Nellie Andreeva/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/03/starz-layoffs-post-separation-lionsgate-1236761926/

Starz Lays 7% Of Staff 10 Months After Separation From Lionsgate
Starz has undergone a round of layoffs today, which impacted 7% of the company's employees.

How Donald Trump broke Congress and rendered 'separation of powers' meaningless in just a year (Eric Garcia/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-republicans-house-senate-congress-b2902163.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p36#a260120p36

@… the already improved UX looks good, to me.
When drafting a reply to a public toot, the word 'Public' is prominent (first screenshot).
When drafting a mention, the separation is clear (second shot).
Without being blasé about privacy: if a person accidentally publishes in either of those contexts, it's human error.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown
Provision:
🎵 Ideal
#Provision
https://provision.bandcamp.com/track/ideal-separation-by-provision

from my link log —
Technical issues of separation in function cells and value cells: Lisp-1 vs Lisp-2.
https://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/Technical-Issues.html
saved 2026-02-12

Transition and Separation Agreement

Gloom & Bloom V ☁️🌺
黑暗绽放 V ☁️ 🌺
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 400 Plus, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Comcast completes the separation of most of its cable networks into a separate entity called Versant Media, led by Mark Lazarus as CEO (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news…

Versant CEO Touts “Scale, Strategy and Leadership to Grow” as Comcast Completes Separation
The owner of MSNBC and CNBC will start trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol VSNT.

Booster separation during the #Vulcan launch ... but as ULA is just confirming in https://x.com/ulalaunch/status/2021893224907083949 and e.g. https://bsky.app/profile/derek.space/post/3menpvsm7wk2u and https://bsky.app/profile/gewoonlukas.bsky.social/post/3menp65czzc2c had already noted one of the boosters had suffered some anomaly - which however didn't affect the mission.

It strikes me that #ICE is the clearest possible illustration of the importance of the principle of the separation of powers in a democracy.
The executive should not be empowered to directly control any agency which is capable of exercising deadly coercive force against citizens.

🚨Job Alert!🚨 Geochronology and Thermochronology Lab Manager, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Manage and operate laser-ablation U/Th-Pb and U/Th-He laboratories and accompanying mineral separation facilities. #geology ⚒️🧪

Judge orders U.S. to return families affected by Trump's family separation policy who were deported (Camilo Montoya-Galvez/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-family-separation-policy-deported-judge/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260206/p110#a260206p110

The Co-Parent Diaries
Your go-to podcast for navigating life after separation, building healthy two-home families, and raising emotionally strong kids...
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Well worth reading this longish piece by Paula Symons
I came here in 1988 from the UK to get away from Thatcher. Then I watched at a distance as they tore themselves away from Europe - and look what that did to them.
I have always wondered why Quebec keeps harping on separation when clearly remaining has worked well.

The Case for Sticking Around - Alberta Views
I’m calling on us to do something un-Canadian: and stand up for the country we love—and reject the idea of a sovereign Alberta

Watched a couple of episodes of #DeArktiskeReddere on DR (public broadcaster on Denmark) yesterday (series about #Greenland's search and rescue team - though they do a lot of emergency air ambulance type work too).
It's a really gripping and well filmed piece of work, sensitive on the difficult topics too and shows really well how different authorities work together.
I imagine it would be uncomfortable watching for USians who seem to imagine some kind of stone age society seeing healthcare emergencies dealt with so professionally with such excellent equipment (and for free at point of delivery).
I also find it hard to explain that the categories and separation between "Danes" and "Greenlanders" isn't always so clear cut and I think the programme got that over well.
It's filmed mostly in Danish but with Swedish, Norwegian and quite a bit of English, so may not travel easily but it's a really well done piece of TV and if you are at all interested in Greenland, it's worth seeking out.
De arktiske reddere https://www.dr.dk/drtv/serie/de-arktiske-reddere_450849

Many of us learned to survive by staying slightly absent from our own lives.
Not apathy. Not burnout. Something quieter.
A low-grade separation that let us function when feeling everything became too much.
It protected us. But survival is not the same as being alive.
What does it look like to come back?
…

The Long Dissociation and the Cost of Nonchalance: Why We Feel Numb, Detached, and Distant
An essay on how prolonged overwhelm teaches us to care less—and how we gently relearn presence, desire, and participation in our own lives.

The Epstein Files are wild. While I’m 99.9% sure I don’t know any of the evil folks listed in them I actually know two people here in Milwaukee who did work for a guy who is mentioned in them.
One was part of a cleaning crew for a house (mansion) the guy owned, and another built a web site for a business the guy owned.
I wonder how many degrees of separation the average person has.

The first #Ariane 64 flight is well underway (and has just reached the target orbit)- here is the booster separation from an onboard cam, see https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/02/04/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-4-februar-2026/#Feb12 (scroll down ... a lot) for more timesteps from the webcast.

Acquired a new phone for work.
Just need to get a new SIM card for it and tell my employer to update phone numbers in their system.
This way, I can have a better separation between work and private (Phone off -> I'm completely unavailable no real work-related apps on my private phone).
Sadly, "right to be unavailable" it's not (yet) in law in The Netherlands.
Luckily, my employment terms does have other clauses that effectively allow me to do this…

This new Icelandic film looks like a winner. I love their films - so much dry wit and such an interesting culture and language! https://thelovethatremains.film/trailer

The Love That Remains Trailer
Tenderly captures a year in the life of a family as the parents navigate their separation. Through both playful and heartfelt moments, the film portrays the bittersweet essence of faded love and shared memories amidst the changing seasons.

If Browns, Kevin Stefanski are parting ways, he'll be leaving a lot of bad things behind https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6940480/2026/01/04/kevin-stefanski-browns-bengals-season-finale/

I explained something for a friend in a simple way, and I think it's worth paraphrasing again here.
You cannot create a system that constrains itself. Any constraint on a system must be external to the system, or that constraint can be ignored or removed. That's just how systems work. Every constitution for every country claims to do this impossible thing, a thing proven is impossible almost 100 years ago now. Gödel's loophole has been known to exist since 1947.
Every constitution in the world, every "separation of powers" and set of "checks and balances," attempts to do something which is categorically impossible. Every government is always, at best, a few steps away from authoritarianism. From this, we would then expect that governments trand towards authoritarianism. Which, of course, is what we see historically.
Constraints on power are a formality, because no real controls can possibly exist. So then democratic processes become sort of collective classifiers that try to select only people who won't plunge the country into a dictatorship. Again, because this claim of restrictions on powers is a lie (willful or ignorant, a lie reguardless) that classifier has to be correct 100% of the time (even assuming a best case scenario). That's statistically unlikely.
So as long as you have a system of concentrated power, you will have the worst people attracted to it, and you will inevitably have that power fall into the hands of one of the worst possible person.
Fortunately, there is an alternative. The alternative is to not centralize power. In the security world we try to design systems that assume compromise and minimize impact, rather than just assuming that we will be right 100% of the time. If you build systems that maximially distribute power, then you minimize the impact of one horrible person.
Now, I didn't mention this because we're both already under enough stress, but...
Almost 90% of the nuclear weapons deployed around the world are in the hands of ghoulish dictators. Only two of the countries with nuclear weapons not straight up authoritarian, but they're not far off. We're one crashout away from steralizing the surface of the Earth with nuclear hellfire. Maybe countries shouldn't exist, and *definitely* multiple thousands of nuclear weapons shouldn't exist and shouldn't all be wired together to launch as soon as one of these assholes goes a bit too far sideways.

TIL: “tenure density”
https://mstdn.social/@jmccyoung/115769188515830950

Addendum: and the first thing we need to do to shore up our own borders, is have a long talk with Alberta about ending this separation talk and coming together as Canadians. #canpoli #cdnpoli #usa #nato #norad #russiaUkraineWar #theAmericanFascist

«Mit der Ratifikation der UNO-Konventionen hat sich die Schweiz zu einer inklusiven Schule verpflichtet, die alle Kinder gemeinsam besuchen können», sagt er. Studien zeigen laut dem Anwalt, dass Kinder mit Behinderungen in der Regelschule oft besser lernen und ihre sozialen Fähigkeiten stärker entwickeln. Der Fall wäre weltweit der erste, in dem der UNO-Ausschuss für Kinderrechte die Separation behinderter Kinder in Sonderschulen für unzulässig erklärt.
https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/kanton-aargau-widersetzt-sich-uno-befehl-424643919910

"New process achieves 97% silver recovery from end-of-life solar panels"
#SolarPower #Enegy #Renewables #SolarPower

New process achieves 97% silver recovery from end-of-life solar panels
Australian researchers have developed a new separation technique that employs the same crushing and flotation principles used in mineral processing to recover more than 97% of silver from end-of-life solar panels.

Raw With J
Each week, Jacintha Field sits down with thought leaders, parents, experts, and real people to dive into life's messier moments: parenting, separation, burnout, grief, rebuilding, and learning to feel again...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/raw-wi

Soft Uniform Spaces and Soft Uniform Continuity: Induced Topologies, Separation, and Compactness-Type Results
S. Ray
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.19106 https://

Crosslisted article(s) found for math.DG. https://arxiv.org/list/math.DG/new
[1/1]:
- Uniformly elliptic boundary value problems
Matti Lyko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22748 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathKT_bot/116141657345878486
- Generalization of lattice Dirac operator index
Aoki, Fujita, Fukaya, Furuta, Matsuo, Onogi, Yamaguchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22858 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_heplat_bot/116141725507327217
- Coupling between Phase Separation and Geometry on a Closed Elastic Curve: Free Energy Minimizatio...
Hanchun Wang, Ronojoy Adhikari, Michael E. Cates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22977 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatsoft_bot/116141667150815220
- Properties of hypersurface singular sets of solutions to the $\sigma_k$-Yamabe equation in the ne...
Jonah A. J. Duncan, Luc Nguyen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.23190 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathAP_bot/116141941100166351
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A Novel Explicit Filter for the Approximate Deconvolution in Large-Eddy Simulation on General Unstructured Grids: A posteriori tests on highly stretched grids
Mohammad Bagher Molaei, Ehsan Amani, Morteza Ghorbani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21166 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21166 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21166
arXiv:2602.21166v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Explicit filters play a pivotal role in the scale separation and numerical stability of advanced Large Eddy Simulation (LES) closures, such as dynamic eddy-viscosity or Approximate Deconvolution (AD) methods. In the present study, it is demonstrated that the performance of commonly used explicit filters applicable to general unstructured grids highly depends on the grid configuration, specifically the cell aspect ratio, which can result in poor filter spectral properties, ultimately leading to large errors and even solution divergence. This study introduces a novel, efficient explicit filter for general unstructured grids, addressing this shortcoming through a combination of a face-averaging technique and recursive filtering. The filter parameters are then determined through a constrained multi-objective optimization, ensuring desirable spectral properties, including high-wavenumber attenuation, filter-width precision, filter stability and positivity, and minimized dispersion and commutation errors. The AD-LES of turbulent channel flow benchmarks using the new filter demonstrate a noticeable improvement in turbulent flow predictions on highly stretched boundary-layer-type grids, particularly in reducing the log-layer mean velocity profile mismatch, compared to simulations using conventional filters. The analyses show that this enhancement is mainly attributed to the sufficient level of attenuation near the Nyquist wavenumber achieved by the new filter in all spatial directions across various grid configurations, among others. The new filter was also successfully tested on unstructured prism grids for the 3D Taylor-Green vortex benchmark.
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