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Russia – the gas station country – is importing fuel for the first time, – Zelenskyy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/03/russia-the-gas-station-country.html

"Queensland’s biggest coal-fired power station could close six years early"
#Australia #Queensland #FossilFuels

After IECharge, which has set up fast #EV charging stations at their solar battery locations (with the lowest price in the French market: €0.25/kWh), there's now another French network offering green electricity directly from the source (also very competitive at €0.30/kWh).

Kallista Energy inaugure la première station de recharge raccordée à des éoliennes
Producteur indépendant d’énergies renouvelables, Kallista Energy a diversifié ses activités en 2022 en lançant le réseau de recharge rapide Yaway...

Megan Lynch @…: "Cleveland State University's student-run alternative radio station WCSB was abruptly shut down Friday and replaced with a jazz station operated by Ideastream Public Media.
They broke the news over Zoom then called the cops to "escort" the students out." - mas.to
https://mas.to/@meganL/115317979725865498

October 3, 2025.
Park Police tore down FLARE encampment at 5:00 AM this morning.
Protest at Union Station, Washington, DC this evening 5:00 PM
https://youtube.com/shorts/t8qtpbQS6Kk?si=mEb3bypUIOQN2iJ5

At 1:09 a.m. EDT on November 2,
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, carrying Haven Demo and 17 other satellites,
including ones that will be operated by South Korea's Agency for Defense Development (ADD),
the Berlin-based company Exolaunch,
Turkey's Fergani Space,
and U.S. weather-forecasting outfit Tomorrow Companies,
and Starcloud, which carried an NVIDIA H100 AI chip to see if it’s possible to build an artificial intelligence-…

Elon Musk Launches Satellite To Test Systems For Private Space Station
SpaceX launched 18 satellites, including Haven Demo, a key test for the world's first private space station.

PBS SoCal laid off 10% of staff, amounting to 10 positions, in October, citing the loss of $4.3M in federal funding (Julian Wyllie/Current)
https://current.org/2025/11/pbs-socal-cuts-10-of-workforce/

PBS SoCal cuts 10% of workforce
The Los Angeles station is absorbing the loss of $4.3 million in federal funding.

My first paycheck was from CBS -- the owned-and-operated station in St. Louis, where I worked as a copyboy in the KMOX-TV newsroom. CBS was the "Tiffany network," the gold standard of broadcast journalism. It is sad to see that come to an end. Billionaire Larry Ellison is buying the company and putting a right-wing kook, Bari Weiss, in charge of CBS News.

Central Asia’s last stable glaciers just started to collapse #CentralAsia

Central Asia’s last stable glaciers just started to collapse
Snowfall shortages are now destabilizing some of the world’s last resilient glaciers, as shown by a new study in Tajikistan’s Pamir Mountains. Using a monitoring station on Kyzylsu Glacier, researchers discovered that stability ended around 2018, when snowfall declined sharply and melt accelerated. The work sheds light on the Pamir-Karakoram Anomaly, where glaciers had resisted climate change longer than expected.

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromTumblr

From David Suzuki
Science Matters - Small or big, new nuclear reactors are not climate solutions
Despite the efforts of industry and its supporters to convince us otherwise, coal, gas and oil are outdated, inefficient, polluting energy sources, especially compared to alternatives. Some people, including politicians, are touting nuclear power as a good alternative. Is it?
it’s far from clean, and it’s rife with problems

🌼🌷🏵️ Q&A: Recruiting flowers to combat weeds and promote biodiversity
#agriculture

Q&A: Recruiting flowers to combat weeds and promote biodiversity
Rebecca Stup '23, MS '26, is a master's student in the lab of Antonio DiTommaso, a weed ecologist and associate dean and director of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station (Cornell AES). DiTommaso's lab has been exploring planting wildflower strips along farmland as a strategy to increase biodiversity, attract pollinators and combat weeds.

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
ARTIX: [Into desk-mounted intercom] Full emergency, full emergency. All crew to operational stations. All crew to operational stations.
[Blake is crawling though a narrow access channel. The ship lurches from another shock-wave. When he recovers, Blake continues to a small panel. He taps it three times and waits.]

Ontario Completes Construction of New Confederation GO Station
Service at Confederation GO Station will begin October 27, 2025
https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1006551/ontario-completes-construction-of-new-confedera…

The Silicon Strip Detector Subsystem for the Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder for the International Space Station (TIGERISS)
John F. Krizmanic (for the TIGERISS Collaboration), Scott Nutter (for the TIGERISS Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01081

The Silicon Strip Detector Subsystem for the Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder for the International Space Station (TIGERISS)
The Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder for the International Space Station (TIGERISS) is under construction and is planned for launch in 2027 and will be attached at the SOX location on the Columbus module on the ISS. TIGERISS will make the first definitive measurements of Ultra-Heavy Galactic Cosmic Rays (UHGCRs; Z >29) on an individual element basis past barium ($^{56}$Ba), through the lanthinides, and to lead ($^{82}$Pb). TIGERISS has a geometry factor of 1.06 m$^2$ sr and is comprised of …

‘Savage’ Russian double-tap strike on railway station in Sumy Oblast injures at least 30, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/04/savage-russian-doubletap-strike-on.html

From the neoclassical station entrance
— with its massive emerald-green sliding steel doors, pyramid-like roof and domed ceiling
— to the wide concrete staircases leading down to the cool, musty underground platform and tracks, the station exudes a peculiar mix of mystery and urban decay.
“Be careful, there’s iron dust, mud and oil everywhere,” says Mamoru Iwai,
Keisei Ueno Station’s stationmaster and my guide inside Hakubutsukan-Dobutsuen (Museum-Zoo) Station,

Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell
A sealed 1930s subway platform beneath Shimbashi Station still holds traces of what the capital looked like before the war.

Cowboys vs. Packers radio coverage: Station, channels, streaming to listen live to NFL Sunday night game broadcast https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/cowboys-packers-radio-coverage-station-channels-li…

The UK 1940s Radio Station
London, United Kingdom
lovely
Listen to The UK 1940s Radio Station from London live on Radio Garden: https://radio.garden/listen/the-uk-1940s-radio-station/eBXwOuxA

Listen to The UK 1940s Radio Station from London live on Radio Garden
Listen to The UK 1940s Radio Station from London live on Radio Garden

"Over 200 arrested at NYC gay cruising site"
Dark times.
Also: Giving me a flashback to George Michael's "Outside", his brilliant disco middle finger to him being arrested for public lewdness in a toilet.
https://www.out.com/news/nyc-gay-sex-arres

'Dark days' return: Over 200 arrested at NYC gay cruising site
The Amtrak Police Department's targeting of a Penn Station cruising site has prompted outcry from the New York region's out elected leaders.

Meta-Learning-Driven Resource Optimization in Full-Duplex ISAC with Movable Antennas
Ali Amhaz, Shreya Khisa, Mohamed Elhattab, Chadi Assi, Sanaa Sharafeddine
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01437

Meta-Learning-Driven Resource Optimization in Full-Duplex ISAC with Movable Antennas
This paper investigates a full-duplex (FD) scenario where a base station (BS) equipped with movable antennas (MAs) simultaneously provides communication services to a set of downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) users while also enabling sensing functionalities for target detection, thereby supporting integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) technology. Additionally, a receiving BS, also equipped with MAs (denoted as BS R), is responsible for capturing the reflected echo. To optimize this setup, we …

I've been using multiple high resolution displays since the first non-passthru GPUs offered multiple outputs (heh, VGA or DVI) and WIndows 98 supported it properly.
Used to be the longest part of enabling/disabling external monitor support on a laptop was waiting for the CRT to warm up. Now, on my W11 laptop docking station it takes a full 20-25 seconds to change modes to multi-desktop. That's ridiculous. I know the things that happen (usb device enumeration etc.) but that'…

Flexible-Sector 6DMA Base Station: Modeling and Design
Yunli Li, Xiaoming Shi, Xiaodan Shao, Jie Xu, Rui Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26086 https://arx…

Flexible-Sector 6DMA Base Station: Modeling and Design
Six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA) has emerged as a promising new technology for future wireless networks, which can adaptively adjust the three-dimensional (3D) positions and 3D rotations of antennas/antenna arrays for performance enhancement. This paper proposes a novel cost-effective 6DMA-based base station (BS) architecture, termed the \textit{flexible-sector} BS, which allows the deployed antennas to flexibly rotate and move along a circular track, thus enabling common sector rotation …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #DriveTime
Grateful Dead:
🎵 Terrapin Station
#GratefulDead
https://goodknightproductions1.bandcamp.com/track/terapin-station
https://open.spotify.com/track/2gdTkM0hL9KQipAx6aUT6L
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2KW4FxNKVGpVTgIJYolnNY
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg

Soyuz spacecraft blasts off for International Space Station with Russian and American crew (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/science/soyuz-spacecraft-blasts-off-international-space-station-with-russian-american-2025-11-27/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p5#a251127p5

Fuel shortage grips Russian-occupied Crimea as locals sell spots in gas-station lines: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/04/fuel-shortage-grips-russianoccupied-crimea.html

RIS- and Multi-Snapshot-Enabled SISO 3D Position and Velocity Estimation With Single Base Station
Yirun Wang, Yongqing Wang, Yuyao Shen, Gongpu Wang, Chintha Tellambura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23274

RIS- and Multi-Snapshot-Enabled SISO 3D Position and Velocity Estimation With Single Base Station
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) panels can act as cost-effective anchors for radio localization, complementing conventional base station (BS) anchors. This paper investigates joint three-dimensional position and velocity estimation (3D-JPVE) in single-input single-output (SISO) systems with only one BS available. We first theoretically show that 3D-JPVE is infeasible when relying solely on a single RIS or on multiple snapshots alone. To address this, we propose combining RIS deployment…

Extreme environmental tolerance and space #survivability of the moss, Physcomitrium patens: #moss survived 9 months directly exposed to the elements of #space: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1105940 -> This moss survived 9 months outside the International Space Station and could still grow on Earth: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/international-space-station/we-were-genuinely-astonished-this-moss-survived-9-months-outside-the-international-space-station-and-could-still-grow-on-earth

Whew. Drove 326mi in the last 24hrs to take 3 meetings. Exhausted & car running on fumes. Just barely made it into a gas station.
... then Spotify dropped these bangers on me & I think I'll be alright.
🎶 Lay Your Hands on Me - Thompson Twins
https://open.spotify.com/…

from my link log —
Saving Skylab.
https://www.airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/saving-skylab
saved 2025-11-30 https://

Saving Skylab
During launch, the micrometeoroid shield surrounding the Skylab Workshop ripped loose. Designed to protect the workshop from tiny space particles and the sun's scorching heat, its loss caused sunlight to raise internal temperatures to over 130° F, making the station uninhabitable and threatening foods, medicines, films, and experiments that were onboard. Astronaut Rusty Schweickart was responsible for testing a parasol on Earth and developing procedures for deploying it in space in an effort …

Le trafic est perturbé sur l’ensemble de la ligne T11. Le temps d’attente en station peut être prolongé.
Motif : Panne de matériel Š Epinay-Villetaneuse.
🤖 04/11 20:06

cattle: Dairy cattle (1955)
Dominance interactions among a group of dairy cattle at the Iberia Livestock Experiment Station in Jenerette, Louisiana. Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction. The two versions below are equivalent.
This network has 28 nodes and 217 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
https://ne…

They are not on Fedi, but there is a Bluesky account to track the amount of piss on the International Space Station.
What you do with this information is none of my business lol.
#ISS #Bluesky #noxp

ISS Piss Tracker (@iss-piss-tracker.bsky.social)
Tracks the level of the piss tank on the International Space Station in real time. Not affiliated with NASA. Please don't follow me unless you want your feed filled with percentage changes. (It is not as fun as it sounds) FAQ thread is pinned.

Automodelle: Wenn Designer und Marketing komplett versagen!
Meine Meinung, effizient ist nur der Kombi, sorry, station wagon :-)!
https://innovationorigins.com/de/automodelle-wenn-designer-und-marketing-komplett-versagen/

Automodelle: Wenn Designer und Marketing komplett versagen
Lange Zeit waren SUVs so „cool“ wie ein iPhone. Doch diese Zeiten sind vorbei, schreibt Kolumnist Bernd Maier-Leppla. Er kritisiert die Design- und Marketingstrategien der Autohersteller.

I remember Cal Berkeley in 1984 when I was trying to park my car somewhere within hoofing distance of campus so I could take a final exam. I drove around the campus perimeter twice trying to find a spot. No parking space was to be found. But I did find an old woodie station wagon parked snap dab in the middle of two parking spaces. A bumper sticker on it read, "Visualize World Peace." I got out of my car long enough to leave a note on the windshield: "Visualize not taking up t…

Defekte Zuggarnitur - Rauchalarm in U-Bahn: Zwei Stationen evakuiert #News #Nachrichten

“The statistics really show that having teams go out there and actually engage people works a lot better than having a static command van that takes up 44 percent of your budget,” -
And SFPD needs over 6 months to conclude they should try that approach instead of the high-tech, high cost command vehicle?
Or were SFPD simply responding to political directives from "tough on (whatever)" politicians chumming for votes?

SFPD spent 44% of Mission overtime budget on 24/7 police bus, captain says
For nearly 200 days, a police bus cost the Mission police station 44 percent of its monthly overtime budget, Captain Sean Perdomo said.

“The statistics really show that having teams go out there and actually engage people works a lot better than having a static command van that takes up 44 percent of your budget,” -
And SFPD needs over 6 months to conclude they should try that approach instead of the high-tech, high cost command vehicle?
Or were SFPD simply responding to political directives from "tough on (whatever)" politicians chumming for votes?

SFPD spent 44% of Mission overtime budget on 24/7 police bus, captain says
For nearly 200 days, a police bus cost the Mission police station 44 percent of its monthly overtime budget, Captain Sean Perdomo said.

auf dem rückweg von konstanz letzte woche in heidelberg und mannheim station gemacht. wenn ich es irgendwann nochmal nach #heidelberg schaffe an einem nicht-sonntag, muss ich in dieses geschäft mit viel #squirrelcontent:

#Klanglicht #Graz:
Station 14 Dreifaltigkeitskirche: ich mag Fassadenlichtspiele. Aber die Installation hatte Null Bezug auf die Fassadenelemente der Kirche und wirkte auf mich wie exakt ein Bildschirmschoner von Windows 3.1 den man auf beliebige Objekte loslassen kann.
15/16: megalange Schlange …

BC Ministry of Transport...
Launching Gantry, 152 Street Station
The Surrey Sprinter launching gantry lifting an elevated guideway segment at 152 Street Station.Date taken: 10-06-2025
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tranbc/albums/72177720298782138

Geography of Chinese Workers Building
the Transcontinental Railroad
https://web.stanford.edu/group/chineserailroad/cgi-bin/website/virtual/

We literally saw/heard him say, "We can do this the easy way or the hard way," ("Nice station you have there. It would be a shame if something was to ... happen to it...") and that Disney must "take action" on Kimmel "or there's going to be additional work for the FCC ahead."
But he never threatened anyone...

FCC chairman unconvincingly claims he never threatened ABC station licenses
Brendan Carr would like you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.

Ça fait plusieurs jours qu'il fait 11,5° dehors Š 4h30 du matin selon ma station météo. Du coup je m'habille en conséquence. Ne serait-il pas temps de changer les piles plutôt ? #glagla

🤚 The escalator is broken again.
👉 The device is undergoing maintenance.
#Poznań Main Station.

Crazy train
#photo #Kyiv

just learned that there's a secret unfinished subway station under our #brooklyn neighborhood. https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com

Inside the eerie, unfinished 1930s subway station under a South Williamsburg street
New York is physically two cities. One is at street level, a grid of mostly brick and steel. The other is underground, a subterranean world of tunnels and tubes—not all of which can be accessed. On…

Paris Gard du Nord Train Station Afternoon Piano (2023-09) - Ambient busy big city train station with a talented chap tickling the public piano. #fieldRecording #travel #Paris -

Paris Gard du Nord Train Station Afternoon Piano (2023-09)
Ambient busy big city train station with a talented chap tickling the public piano. #fieldRecording #travel #Paris

Oil pumping station in Russia's Chuvashia Republic shut down after drone attack: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/27/oil-pumping-station-in-russias.html

On a side note, where are the Chinese-made EV station wagons? That most perfect of form factors seems to be a dying breed (and all of the current models European except for maybe Japanese Subarus, but even they're looking very bubbly-SUVy to me these days) - it's all hatches and inflated SUVs... yuck.

SHAPE. I. A SOM-SED hybrid approach for efficient galaxy parameter estimation leveraging JWST
Zihao Wang, Tao Wang, Ke Xu, Hanwen Sun, Ruining Tian, Qi Hao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00187

SHAPE. I. A SOM-SED hybrid approach for efficient galaxy parameter estimation leveraging JWST
With the launch and application of next-generation ground- and space-based telescopes, astronomy has entered the era of big data, necessitating more efficient and robust data analysis methods. Most traditional parameter estimation methods are unable to reconcile differences between photometric systems. Ideally, we would like to optimally rely on high-quality observation data provided by, e.g., JWST, for calibrating and improving upcoming wide-field surveys such as the China Space Station Telesc…

Broncos vs. Cowboys radio coverage: Station, channel, streaming to listen live to NFL Week 8 game broadcast https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/broncos-cowboys-radio-coverage-station-channels-streaming-lis…

Je n'aurais jamais imaginé que la STM baptiserait une station de métro en honneur de Mary Two-Axe Earley.
Texte d'Isabelle Picard paru dans la Presse sur cette militante des droits des femmes des Premières Nations au Canada.
https://www.lapresse.ca/dialog…

Bienvenue à la station Mary-Two-Axe-Earley
La Société de transport de Montréal a dévoilé mardi matin le nom des futures stations du prolongement de la ligne bleue du métro de Montréal.

🌧 Putting a Dumb #Weather Station on the #Internet | @…

Will the rubbish soon amass on the streets of Duisburg?
The local #H2 station is closing down, meaning the fuel cell trucks won't be able to make their rounds to the incinerator.
Think of all the money that has been wasted on hydrogen for mobility. And now the waste trucks will be a waste, too.

Kein Wasserstoff mehr: Müllfahrzeuge können nicht mehr in Duisburg tanken
„Höchst ärgerlich“ findet Thomas Patermann die Schließung der einzigen öffentlichen Wasserstoff-Tankstelle in Duisburg. Das Archivbild zeigt den Vorstand der Wirtschaftsbetriebe Duisburg (WBD) bei der Vorstellung des ersten Müllfahrzeugs mit Elektroantrieb.

off on a very quick trip to LA and back to top off my points for the year.
#Amtrak #CoastStarlight #Tågskryt

On The Road - To Xi’An/ Quiescence ➰
在路上 - 去西安/ 静止 ➰
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Kodak Double-X 5222
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

cattle: Dairy cattle (1955)
Dominance interactions among a group of dairy cattle at the Iberia Livestock Experiment Station in Jenerette, Louisiana. Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction. The two versions below are equivalent.
This network has 28 nodes and 217 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
https://ne…

Isn’t this the plot of “Gravity”
https://www.wired.com/story/three-astronauts-are-stuck-on-chinas-space-station-without-a-safe-ride-home/?utm_content=bufferf1781&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=aud-dev

Suite Š un défaut de signalisation en gare de Pierrefitte Stains la circulation de vos trains est ralenti. prévoir un temps d'attente allongé en station. L'équipe du T11 s'excuse pour la gêne occasionnée.
🤖 03/12 17:12

Trump's fantasies about medicine: autism and ADHD. I made a YouTube video to clarify my less-than-fluent responses to some of the questions in an interview that I did on TalkTV -a hard right TV station -yuk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTZ-rrfL36

I think I finally get why Randy Clarke is so gung-ho on having the National Guard in the Metro. The military-industrial complex pays his salary, judging by all the ads for things that a normal human being cannot purchase plastered in every station I went through today.

E.W. Scripps agrees to sell its Indianapolis ABC affiliate station WRTV to Circle City Broadcasting for $83M; Scripps agreed to sell WFTX for $40M in September (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/ew-scripps-wrtv-circle-city-broadcasting-sale/

E.W. Scripps to Sell Indianapolis ABC Affiliate WRTV to Circle City Broadcasting for $83 Million
The deal for the Indianapolis ABC affiliate station will close following receipt of regulatory and other customary approvals

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
CHUVASHIA ON FIRE: UKRAINIAN SANCTIONS BURN #RUSSIA Vlog 1180: War in #Ukraine
Another russian oil pumping station was shut down by…

While the #Soyuz docking - https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2025/11/27/three-new-crew-members-aboard-soyuz-dock-to-station/ - came even slightly ahead of time, the ESA presser is now already delayed by 50 minutes.

Today's 5W QRP #HamRadio #POTA activation of US-4857 Jordan Lake Educational State Forest was fun radio therapy. Successful QSOs on 30 meters, 20 meters, and 17 meters. Ironically, I set up a 40m end-fed half-wave antenna, and then only one of the 10 QSOs was on a resonant ban…

Elton John - "Tumbleweed Connection" (1970)
Always amazed by the sonic brilliance of this crackly original UA pressing. Just astounding.
#NowPlaying #EltonJohn #vinyl

Adaptive Source-Channel Coding for Multi-User Semantic and Data Communications
Kai Yuan, Dongxu Li, Jianhao Huang, Han Zhang, Chuan Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24247 https:…

Adaptive Source-Channel Coding for Multi-User Semantic and Data Communications
This paper considers a multi-user semantic and data communication (MU-SemDaCom) system, where a base station (BS) simultaneously serves users with different semantic and data tasks through a downlink multi-user multiple-input single-output (MU-MISO) channel. The coexistence of heterogeneous communication tasks, diverse channel conditions, and the requirements for digital compatibility poses significant challenges to the efficient design of MU-SemDaCom systems. To address these issues, we propos…

Urgent demonstration in solidarity with Global Sumud Flotilla in front the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MSZ) in Warsaw, Poland, 2 October 2025.
Hundreds of people expressed outrage over passive stance of Polish ministry in light of recent interceptions of the flotilla ships on international waters.
During the demonstration two activists spillt red paint and smashed the window in the entrance to the ministry. The crowd marched for several hours through the city centre despite police trying (and quickly failing) to stop them. The march concluded in front of the police station the activists had been taken to and turned into a solidemo.
#photography #reportage #palestine #warsaw #poland

And about time too!
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/translink-public-washroom-metrotown-skytrain-station
TransLink officially opens first public washroom at Metrotown SkyTrain Station

TransLink officially opens first public washroom at a SkyTrain station
More washrooms are being planned.

"Gas station country" no more – Drones and sanctions destroyed Russian oil industry | Special report: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/27/ampquotgas-station-countryampquot-no-more.html

Detroit announces the return of trains at their central station (or at least very near it) bus station a potential extension of the Wolverine Amtrak train from Chicago all the way to Windsor/Toronto
Canadian extension would require some Canadian funds, in the current political climate I have my doubts. But glad to see Detroit re-investing into better transport infrastructure.

They coulda looked at my lawn if they wanted to know you can't kill moss...
Scientists put moss on the outside of the International Space Station for 9 months — then kept it growing back on Earth | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/space/scientists-put-moss-on-the-outside-of-the-international-space-station-for-9-months-then-kept-it-growing-back-on-earth

FLARE USA returns to Columbus Circle
https://www.washingtonian.com/2025/10/14/anti-trump-encampment-returns-to-union-station-after-bizarre-permit-revocation-saga/

Anti-Trump Encampment Returns to Union Station After Bizarre Permit Revocation Saga - Washingtonian
A 24-hour anti-Trump protest encampment outside Union Station has had its event permit reinstated after it was cleared by US Park Police and National Park Service employees earlier this month. The continuous encampment, which is run by FLARE USA, had been operating with a permit in Columbus Circle since May 1. In the early-morning hours

Cowboys Rookie RB Gets Good News From OC Klayton Adams https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/klayton-adams-jaydon-blue/?adt_ei=[email]

🍄 Subway station study reveals fungal communities
#subway

Subway station study reveals fungal communities
Subways don't just bring people together. They're also a hub of microbial activity, including fungi. Over the course of a year, an international team of researchers collected air samples from 15 stations in the Beijing subway network, one of the largest in the world, and cataloged the fungal species they found.

For railway enthusiasts and ruin hunters alike,
these so-called "phantom stations" that have ceased service
offer a glimpse into Tokyo’s past.
Hidden from daily view and often closed to the public, they mark moments of transition in the capital’s transit history
— from the early years of railway and subway construction to the rapid postwar rebuild.
More than curiosities, they stand as weathered industrial records of how Tokyo has expanded, reconfigur…

Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell
A sealed 1930s subway platform beneath Shimbashi Station still holds traces of what the capital looked like before the war.

The FCC launches a Congressionally mandated review of its media ownership rules, including a rule limiting a company from owning over two stations in a market (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/09/fcc-media-ownership-jimmy-kimmel-1236566037/…

FCC Launches Review Of Rules On Network Mergers, Local Station Ownership
The agency is mandated by Congress to review its rules every four years.

cattle: Dairy cattle (1955)
Dominance interactions among a group of dairy cattle at the Iberia Livestock Experiment Station in Jenerette, Louisiana. Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction. The two versions below are equivalent.
This network has 28 nodes and 217 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
https://ne…

Secure Beamforming in Multi-User Multi-IRS Millimeter Wave Systems
Anahid Rafieifar, Hosein Ahmadinejad, S. Mohammad Razavizadeh, Jiguang He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25406 htt…

Secure Beamforming in Multi-User Multi-IRS Millimeter Wave Systems
We study the secrecy rate maximization problem in a millimeter wave (mmWave) network, consisting of a base station (BS), multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) (or reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs)), multiple users, and a single eavesdropper. To ensure a fair secrecy rate among all the users, we adopt a max-min fairness criterion which results in a mixed integer problem. We first relax discrete IRSs phase shifts to the continuous ones. To cope with the non-convexity of the rel…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
The Weather Station:
🎵 Airport
#TheWeatherStation
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://theweatherstation.bandcamp.com/track/airport-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/0jHuokxBzpv5m80H0VlvAD

Trump's fantasies about medicine: autism and ADHD. I made a YouTube video to clarify my less-than-fluent responses to some of the questions in an interview that I did on TalkTV -a hard right TV station -yuk.
https://youtu.be/iTZ-rrfL36U

A Graph-based Hybrid Beamforming Framework for MIMO Cell-Free ISAC Networks
Yanan Du, Sai Xu, Jagmohan Chauhan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25385 https://arx…

A Graph-based Hybrid Beamforming Framework for MIMO Cell-Free ISAC Networks
This paper develops a graph-based hybrid beamforming framework for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) cell-free integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) networks. Specifically, we construct a novel MIMO cell-free ISAC network model. In this model, multiple dual-function base station (BS) transmitters employ distributed hybrid beamforming to enable simultaneous communication and sensing, while maintaining physical separation between the transmitters and the radar receiver. Building on this…

Cowboys vs. Eagles radio coverage: Station, channel, streaming to listen live to NFL Week 12 game broadcast https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/cowboys-eagles-radio-coverage-station-channels-streaming-liste…

Time to continue my #rail travel stories. It's a few years since I was at the seaside last, since the travel's too long for me now. Before, I used to visit Świnoujście and Kołobrzeg a few times. The route to Kołobrzeg is quite straight, whereas Świnoujście gets interesting because of Szczecin on the way there.
So over all these years, using regional Poznań – Świnoujście trains, I've made all these variations:
• a direct train that reversed on Szczecin Główny station (i.e. the main station in Szczecin)
• a direct train, except that I got off at Szczecin Dąbie to stretch my legs, and then entered the same train 40 minutes later as it stopped at the same station again
• a direct train that passed through Główny and used a roundabout track to reverse
• a direct train, except that I got off at the first stop at Szczecin Dąbie, and changed trains to "Błękitny" that went faster from Szczecin to Świnoujście
• the "Orkan" train that used the rail bypass to go straight from Szczecin Zdunowo to Szczecin Załom, and skip all the other Szczecins (except I only went as far as Goleniów back then)

The killing of two unarmed Palestinians by Israeli soldiers in the northern West Bank city of Jenin
has provoked international outrage
after video footage of the incident went viral on Friday.
Credited to the local Palestine TV station, the footage shows two young Palestinian men surrendering to Israeli soldiers
and lying on the ground in front of a garage under soldiers’ instructions.
They then appear to be directed by the soldiers to go back inside the garag…

Outrage after footage of Israeli soldiers executing two Palestinians in Jenin goes viral
Human rights organizations call the killing of two unarmed Palestinians in Jenin by Israeli soldiers an “extrajudicial execution.”

3 Russian Mi-8 helicopters, radar station destroyed in occupied Crimea, Ukraine's HUR says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/21/russian-mi-helicopters-radar-station.html

#Rotterdam centraal station

Police arrest a man suspected of shooting at Sacramento's ABC affiliate a day after protesters gathered to condemn the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel's show (Olivia Empson/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/s

More From Translink
Starting Tuesday, Nov. 4, the Waterfront Station Expo Line elevator will be out of service as we replace it with a more reliable model. Elevator replacements are also underway at Stadium–Chinatown, Nanaimo, and 22nd Street stations.
Plus a number of other announcements
https://

Lordy, they cost $850k ea!
Even some Catholics disliked saints' statues at Massachusetts police station. A judge agreed.
https://religionnews.com/2025/10/17/even-catholics-in-quincy-mass-dislike-plan-to-post-violent-saints-at-police-station/

Performance Evaluation of eLoran Spatial ASF Corrections Based on Measured ASF Map
Jaewon Yu, Pyo-Woong Son
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26018 https://arxiv.…

Performance Evaluation of eLoran Spatial ASF Corrections Based on Measured ASF Map
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of spatial ASF correction methods in the Korean eLoran system using measured ASF maps. Three correction scenarios were evaluated under identical simulation settings: no correction (S0), local correction using true ASF values (S1), and wide-area correction using a single reference station value (S2). Simulation results show that S1 consistently achieved the lowest positioning errors, while S0 exhibited the largest errors with extensive high-error regions. S2…

Joint UE positioning and distributed sensing in the upper mid-band exploiting virtual apertures
Soroush Mesforush, Murat Bayraktar, Nuria Gonz\'alez-Prelcic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25557

Joint UE positioning and distributed sensing in the upper mid-band exploiting virtual apertures
Networks exploiting distributed integrated sensing and communication (DISAC) nodes can provide enhanced localization and sensing performance, further emphasized when operating with large arrays and bandwidths available in the upper mid-band (also known as FR3). In this paper, we consider a DISAC system operating at FR3 where a single base station (BS) acts as the transmitter and several vehicular user equipments (UEs) act as the receivers. We tackle the design of the signal processing chain at …

Dynamic energy prices at a public DC #EV charging station? Payable directly by card? And yes, this is in Germany.
Heise says it works well. I'm looking forward to better price dynamics (currently, it's capped at the low and high end, which keeps charging prices relatively high)

Dynamische Stromtarife für Elektroautos: Nachfrage zum Angebot locken
Dynamische Stromtarife für E-Autos an Ladesäulen verbinden Ad hoc-Zahlen ohne Vertrag mit schnellem Laden. Das funktioniert in der Praxis erstaunlich gut.

Video shows Russian drone hitting Sumy gas station — 4 injured, including journalist: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/30/video-shows-russian-drone-hitting.html

The wooden full-size mock-up unveiled at New Haven’s Union Station on November 24
represents the interior of half of a coach, with seats, finishes and a wheelchair-accessible toilet.
Visitors can tour it on Tuesdays until January 6.
The first of the coaches are expected to be delivered in late 2026.

Connecticut commuter train coach mock-up on show
USA: Connecticut Department of Transportation has unveiled a mock-up of coaches to be supplied by Alstom for CTrail commuter rail services.

From Bill McKibben
America: A (Fracked) Gas Station With Nukes
One part of the Trump plot to wreck America gets clearer
https://open.substack.com/pub/billmckibben/p/america-a-fracked-gas-station-with?utm_campa…

America: A (Fracked) Gas Station With Nukes
One part of the Trump plot to wreck America gets clearer

Cowboys vs. Giants radio coverage: Station, channel, streaming to listen live to NFL Week 2 game broadcast https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/cowboys-giants-radio-coverage-station-channels-streaming-listen…

How a focus on video helped News UK's Talksport transform from a radio station to a multi-platform sports brand, with 35M to 45M YouTube views per month (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

How Youtube revenue is fuelling Talksport's transformation into video brand
News UK's director of digital for broadcasting shared how Talksport's new studio has helped it progress in becoming a more video-based brand.

Ukrainian drone strike disrupts operations at Russian oil pumping station in Chuvashia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/27/ukrainian-drone-strike-disrupts-operations.html