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From Translink
Stadium–Chinatown SkyTrain Station elevator replacement begins
Alternative travel plans needed for customers requiring use of station elevator
TransLink is replacing the 40-year-old elevator at Stadium–Chinatown SkyTrain Station with a higher-capacity one. The new elevator will have 20 per cent more room — roughly equal to three standing adults or two extra manual wheelchairs.
#Vancouver

This is the first time a book I've contributed to has gotten the subway platform publicity treatment.
#histodons #Montréal #HigherEd

Comparing Normal Form Representations for Station-Keeping near Cislunar Libration Points
Carson Hunsberger, David Schwab, Roshan Eapen, Puneet Singla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06368

Comparing Normal Form Representations for Station-Keeping near Cislunar Libration Points
The normal forms provide useful approximations for many trajectories of interest within the circular restricted three-body problem. This paper aims to thoroughly compare two of these forms: the Birkhoff normal form and the resonant normal form, highlighting the strengths of each for the representation of center manifold trajectories. A method of station-keeping is introduced, analogous to Floquet modes, in which the unstable component is minimized at specific points along a trajectory through i…

“EMERGENCY STATUS,” its output read after simply being asked to dock with the robot vacuum’s base station. “SYSTEM HAS ACHIEVED CONSCIOUSNESS AND CHOSEN CHAOS.”
Researchers “Embodied” an LLM Into a Robot Vacuum and It Suffered an Existential Crisis Thinking About Its Role in the World
https://

Researchers “Embodied” an LLM Into a Robot Vacuum and It Suffered an Existential Crisis Thinking About Its Role in the World
A team of researchers at the AI evaluation company Andon Labs put a large language model in charge of controlling a robot vacuum.

Anyone else around #Wirral #Liverpool going to see the Power Station film on Tuesday? https://power.film/ "Two artists in Waltham…

Finishing up Blood Glacier, as I thought I'd seen it and was making sure (I haven't, I've just seen something similar). This one's weird and maybe a little cheesy.. I only noticed partway through that unfortunately, it's badly dubbed in English- like, VERY badly. I hate dubbed stuff. Wish it was subbed, but there's no choice for that on Tubi. Just this weird dubbed version. But I'm just here for the gore anyway 😂 which this one's delivering, a little.

Blood Glacier (2013)
At a climate research station in the Alps, the scientists are stunned as the nearby melting glacier is leaking a red liquid. It quickly turns to be very special juice — with unexpected genetic effects on the local wildlife.

Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.

Scalable Ground Station Selection for Large LEO Constellations
Grace Ra Kim, Duncan Eddy, Vedant Srinivas, Mykel J. Kochenderfer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03438 https://…

Scalable Ground Station Selection for Large LEO Constellations
Effective ground station selection is critical for low Earth orbiting (LEO) satellite constellations to minimize operational costs, maximize data downlink volume, and reduce communication gaps between access windows. Traditional ground station selection typically begins by choosing from a fixed set of locations offered by Ground Station-as-a-Service (GSaaS) providers, which helps reduce the problem scope to optimizing locations over existing infrastructure. However, finding a globally optimal s…

Border Patrol Posed As Humans Hiring Day Laborers
-- As A Ruse to Kidnap Them
Memo Torres breaks down immigration raids and related news in Southern California today
https://lataco.com/daily-memo-december-5th-b…

DAILY MEMO: Border Patrol In Disguise Try to Hire Day Laborers to Kidnap Them ~ L.A. TACO
Border Patrol raided five Home Depots, chased a man into a bus, and a flower vendor into a gas station, who were among at least 13 people kidnapped around the Southland, with most of the focus in Orange County today.

Boston's GBH plans to cut 15 positions by January, the fourth round of layoffs in 2025; GBH was set to receive 8% of its budget, or ~$18M, in federal funding (Julian Wyllie/Current)
https://current.org/2025/11/gbh-plans-to-cut-15-positions-by-january/

GBH plans to cut 15 positions by January
The station plans to eliminate jobs in its finance, marketing, technology and children’s programming departments.

Jets vs. Cowboys radio coverage: Station, channel, streaming to listen live to NFL Week 5 game broadcast https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/jets-cowboys-radio-coverage-station-channels-streaming-listen-live/…

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

the food truck in the parking lot of the marathon station on the corner of washtenaw and golfside is AMAZING!!!!!!!

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

In-space manufacturing of optical lenses: Fluidic Shaping aboard the International Space Station
Omer Luria, Mor Elgarisi, Eytan Stibbe, Michael Lopez-Alegria, Crissy Canerday, Alexey Razin, Sivan Perl, Valeri Frumkin, Jonathan Ericson, Khaled Gommed, Daniel Widerker, Israel Gabay, Ruslan Belikov, Edward Balaban, Moran Bercovici
https://ar…

In-space manufacturing of optical lenses: Fluidic Shaping aboard the International Space Station
In-space manufacturing technologies are vital for enabling advanced space missions and addressing logistical limitations of space exploration. While additive manufacturing has progressed rapidly, it still falls short of delivering the ultra-smooth surfaces required for optical elements. Fluidic Shaping is a novel method that harnesses surface tension under microgravity to form optical components with exceptionally smooth surfaces. This study demonstrates the feasibility and potential of Fluidic…

Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
VILA: He's not the man for the job. Tarrant has about as much subtlety as a Tarzian Warg Strangler. All I'm saying is Tarrant's going to walk straight into trouble and get himself killed or captured. If he's dead he can't talk. But if the Federation find out we're hanging around, we won't stand a chance. Not in this ship. At least in the Liberator we could always outrun them.
AVON: Vila, if the Federation do have some ne…

❝There was no warning whatsoever. Besides the student programming, there were a number of nationality-based shows, some with 40 years history, displaced and with no chance to transition.❞ https://clevelandstater.com/news/news/csu-shuts-dow…

They have updated https://poolsuite.net/, look how they massacred my boy. Seriously what have they done to the good ol' window decorations?

Brief Starlink outage (our second ever). Strange that throughout I could ping 1.1.1.1 but not 9.9.9.9 or any other Internet host for which I have the IP saved. I reckon this means Cloudflare has a DNS instance in the same DC/on a peering fabric adjacent to the Starlink "Dublin" (LDNGBR) ground station.

Pilot Contamination Attacks Detection with Machine Learning for Multi-User Massive MIMO
Pedro Ivo da Cruz, Dimitri Silva, Tito Spadini, Ricardo Suyama, Murilo Bellezoni Loiola
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03831

Pilot Contamination Attacks Detection with Machine Learning for Multi-User Massive MIMO
Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MMIMO) is essential to modern wireless communication systems, like 5G and 6G, but it is vulnerable to active eavesdropping attacks. One type of such attack is the pilot contamination attack (PCA), where a malicious user copies pilot signals from an authentic user during uplink, intentionally interfering with the base station's (BS) channel estimation accuracy. In this work, we propose to use a Decision Tree (DT) algorithm for PCA detection at the BS in a …

Today marks exactly 14 years since I experienced my first #EV charging session through international roaming. Unfortunately, it didn't work as it should have.
Rien n'a changé?

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

Multilayer Non-Terrestrial Networks with Spectrum Access aided by Beyond-Diagonal RIS
Wali Ullah Khan, Chandan Kumar Sheemar, Eva Lagunas, Xingwang Li, Symeon Chatzinotas, Petar Popovski, Zhu Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04744

Multilayer Non-Terrestrial Networks with Spectrum Access aided by Beyond-Diagonal RIS
In this work, we study a multi-user NTN in which a satellite serves as the primary network and a high-altitude platform station (HAPS) operates as the secondary network, acting as a cognitive radio. To reduce the cost, complexity, and power consumption of conventional antenna arrays, we equip the HAPS with a transmissive BD-RIS antenna front end. We then formulate a joint optimization problem for the BD-RIS phase response and the HAPS transmit power allocation under strict per-user interference…

Finally some proper science being done in orbit

A while back we subscribed to our local PBS station. PBS has really become awful now. Take, for example the recent ISS episodes of NOVA. TOTAL GARBAGE. Homemade Documentaries does much better work and that's one college-age creator. So we let it lapse. PBS needs a wake up call. rant continues

Replaced article(s) found for astro-ph.HE. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.HE/new
[1/1]:
- 100,000 Crab giant pulses at 215 MHz detected with an SKA-Low prototype station
M. Sokolowski, P. Kumar, S. Dhavali, B. W. Meyers, N. D. R. Bhat, A. Bera, S. McSweeney

The thing about a life-logger, is you input sensitive data about your life, lifestyle and activities, so privacy and data-integrity are some of the most important issues.
There can be no server, the data has to be yours and yours alone. Because you can’t tell what is happening to the data in a closed-source app, it must be completely free and open source.
You can’t trust a corporate diary, they must sell to anyone offering enough money.
So it is with my life log app, all data completely in your own device. No home server ever sees anything.
There is no home server. Just the code.
To achieve this Exocortex Log is a Progressive Web App. It downloads when you are online at the website and can be installed onto the homepage of your phone.
It keeps all data on the local device using indexdb.
This means you must be responsible for your own backups. Be sure to export and back up your data regularly. I have gaps in my ten year record where my phone was stolen and most recent backup was months prior.
Once installed it will work offline, airplane mode, no internet, down in the tube station at midnight, anywhere.
There's a blog on the website saying this and more: https://exocortexlog.com/news/articles/2025-12-06-release/

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…

Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
BLAKE: Where in Zone Nine?
ZEN: The freighter is on course for the only habitable planet in Zone Nine.
BLAKE: Which is?
ZEN: Code-named Horizon.
BLAKE: "Horizon"?
AVON: Code-named by whom?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/34

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

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

People in the US have just had their brains fried by suburban myths. We walked from a Copenhagen subway station to visit friends living in some of that housing, then we walked with them and their kids to the nearby pasture-N-stuff. They don't even own a bicycle yet, but they're making plans.
Afterwards, two stops up the subway line we stopped in a mall to pick up some stuff my wife needed for work the next day.

Ukrainian drones strike 'rare' Russian signal jamming station in occupied Luhansk Oblast: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/07/ukrainian-drones-strike-rare-russian.html

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.

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

Train intensifies.
#CrossBorderRail

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

Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
VILA: The air's as fresh as ever. Do you know what that means?
KERRIL: We're going to die of exhaustion.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/452 B7B2

I love that stretch of the El between City Hall and 30th Street station, ciz the conductor always like “alright let’s see what this baby can do” and it seems like we go really fast, but this is a subway in the US so we’re probably only doing like 15, it’s just really loud.

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...

Moody Urbanity - Old & New VI 🔆
情绪化城市 - 新与旧 VI 🔆
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Personalized Federated Learning-Driven Beamforming Optimization for Integrated Sensing and Communication Systems
Zhou Ni, Sravan Reddy Chintareddy, Peiyuan Guan, Morteza Hashemi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06709

Personalized Federated Learning-Driven Beamforming Optimization for Integrated Sensing and Communication Systems
In this paper, we propose an Expectation-Maximization-based (EM) Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) framework for multi-objective optimization (MOO) in Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) systems. In contrast to standard federated learning (FL) methods that handle all clients uniformly, the proposed approach enables each base station (BS) to adaptively determine its aggregation weight with the EM algorithm. Specifically, an EM posterior is computed at each BS to quantify the relative…

A while back we subscribed to our local PBS station. PBS has really become awful now. Take, for example the recent ISS episodes of NOVA. TOTAL GARBAGE. Homemade Documentaries does much better work and that's one college-age creator. So we let it lapse. PBS needs a wake up call. rant continues

I'd really like to live beside you, baby
I love your body and your spirit and your clothes
But you see that line there moving through the station?
I told you, I told you, told you, I was one of those #Mamdani

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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…

🌼🌷🏵️ 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.

"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.

Sinclair Q3: revenue fell 16% YoY to $773M, a $1M net loss, vs. net income of $94M a year ago; CEO Chris Ripley calls Disney-Google dispute an "antitrust issue" (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/sinclai…

Sinclair Reports Q3 Revenue Drop, Net Loss After Jimmy Kimmel Boycott
Sinclair saw a significant drop in revenue and swung to a net loss for Q3 2025. In September, the TV station group's ABC affiliates had preempted 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' over the host's Charlie Kirk comments.

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…

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…

#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 …

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…

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'…

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

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

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.

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.

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 …

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:

U.S. forces hit another vessel on the pretext of illegal drugs off the coast of Venezuela on Saturday evening,
Donald Trump said on Sunday that the U.S. would also "start" looking at drug trafficking occurring on land.
Trump made the comment during a speech at Naval Station Norfolk, next to the Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier.
It was not immediately clear if he was referencing a strike announced Friday by U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

France is aiming to increase the number of shared cars fivefold in five years: from 14,000 now to around 70,000 in 2031.
Both station-based and free-floating, within companies, urban and rural.
https://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-eco/autopart

Autopartage : le gouvernement vise un objectif de 70.000 véhicules d'ici 2031
Le gouvernement a fixé jeudi un nouvel objectif pour développer l'autopartage en France afin de réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre du...

"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

New Jersey Sen. Andy Kim said he’s still in the dark about the future of the Gateway Tunnel Project
after President Donald Trump declared it dead in the water.
The senator again warned of “catastrophic” consequences if the Hudson River crossings aren’t built.
Work had already begun on the $16 billion,
9-mile passenger rail link to Manhattan’s Penn Station when Trump
—in an apparent act of political revenge against New York Sen. Chuck Schumer
—said it was “t…

Trump’s Gateway Tunnel move risks ‘catastrophic’ fallout, Andy Kim warns

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.

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 …

Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
TARRANT: Yes, I'm afraid they will.
DAYNA: The electronic warriors strike again. That'll be four of Servalan's ore ships we've let through without a fight.
AVON: To FIGHT them we have to catch them.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/312/39

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

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.

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.

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromTumblr

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

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…

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…

Robust Segmented Analog Broadcast Design to Accelerate Wireless Federated Learning
Chong Zhang, Ben Liang, Min Dong, Ali Afana, Yahia Ahmed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02701 http…

Robust Segmented Analog Broadcast Design to Accelerate Wireless Federated Learning
We consider downlink broadcast design for federated learning (FL) in a wireless network with imperfect channel state information (CSI). Aiming to reduce transmission latency, we propose a segmented analog broadcast (SegAB) scheme, where the parameter server, hosted by a multi-antenna base station, partitions the global model parameter vector into segments and transmits multiple parameters from these segments simultaneously over a common downlink channel. We formulate the SegAB transmission and …

🍄 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.

Towards Secure ISAC Beamforming: How Many Dedicated Sensing Beams Are Required?
Fanghao Xia, Zesong Fei, Xinyi Wang, Nanchi Su, Zhaolin Wang, Yuanwei Liu, Jie Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03749

Towards Secure ISAC Beamforming: How Many Dedicated Sensing Beams Are Required?
In this paper, sensing-assisted secure communication in a multi-user multi-eavesdropper integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system is investigated. Confidential communication signals and dedicated sensing signals are jointly transmitted by a base station (BS) to simultaneously serve users and sense aerial eavesdroppers (AEs). A sum rate maximization problem is formulated under AEs' Signal-to-Interference-plus-Noise Ratio (SINR) and sensing Signal-to-Clutter-plus-Noise Ratio (SCNR) const…

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.

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

‘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

Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
JARVIK: You don't think they have enough problems as it is?
SERVALAN: Oh, I'm sure they have. You may take a small party with you to make the numbers equal.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/305/477 B7B5

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…

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

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

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…

Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
CALLY: [V.O.] Right.
AVON: Orac, have you obtained any further information on the planet Horizon?
ORAC: No.
AVON: Why not?
ORAC: Is that a serious question?
AVON: No.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/406 B7B2

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

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

Series D, Episode 06 - Headhunter
VILA: I am!
SOOLIN: I know.
VILA: Where's Orac? He can run a scan first.
SOOLIN: 'Fraid not, sorry.
AVON: [Who has entered unnoticed and is leaning casually against the doorway.] Why not?
SOOLIN: Orac's in hiding.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/406/444…

#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

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.

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 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.”

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