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#Rotterdam centraal station

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/

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

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.

Sources: Bay Area radio station KCBS-AM, which faced MAGA backlash over ICE coverage, scaled back political reporting after Brendan Carr's threats of a probe (Byron Tau/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-media-fcc-kcbs-5dbed5c466771d53e2c7…

How a local radio station weathered Trump's media attacks
Six days into President Donald Trump's new administration, the San Francisco Bay-area radio station KCBS-AM and other outlets reported on local immigration raids. The brief story quickly drew the ire of conservative influencers who attacked KCBS’ report as endangering agents’ lives. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr accused KCBS of failing to operate in the public interest and said he was opening an investigation. Current and former staffers say KCBS began taking steps…

Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
VILA: You can say goodbye to one bolt hole.
BLAKE: How far is it?
AVON: One hundred and fifty hours. [To Zen] Confirm.
ZEN: Flight time is six hundred forty three hours.
AVON: Direct flight.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/120 B7B4…

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

🍄 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.

San Francisco Bay car on the Capitol Corridor. Coast Starlight was one station away on time and now delayed almost an hour (so far). Second time I’ve been delayed by drawbridge malfunction.

#Sentinel6B "was delivered into orbit just under an hour after liftoff, and at 07:54 CET ESA’s European Space Operations Centre in Germany received the all-important signal via the Inuvik ground station in Canada, indicating that Sentinel-6B is alive and well": https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-6/Sentinel-6B_launched_to_extend_record_of_sea-level_rise

@… Website claims they have it at the Cascades station location, which is fairly easily accessed by the MAX.

I want to see Cloudflare screen of death somewhere outside. Like some huge screen serving ads in the city centre or showing metro departure times on the station. This *must* be happening somewhere in the world.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Corey Harris:
🎵 Station Blues
#CoreyHarris
https://open.spotify.com/track/3EslkE2cZXvv4oiNDZbh3W

Drei #Astronauten der aktuellen Shenzhou-21-Mission befinden sich derzeit ohne intaktes Rückkehrfahrzeug auf der chinesischen #Raumstation #Tiangong.
Ihr vorgesehenes

Three astronauts are stuck on China’s space station without a safe ride home
“This does not meet the release conditions for a safe manned return.”…

🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
The Weather Station:
🎵 Window
#NowPlaying #TheWeatherStation
https://theweatherstation.bandcamp.com/track/window
https://open.spotify.com/track/0ytUz2JhGYQhN9d4oYyU2o

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…

I am finding the changes to be rather slow, still, and a lot of people noticing the changes.
But the train outside the station is already getting bigger faster for me and I am increasingly sure it won't stop.
@… http…

Amsterdam – Julianaplein - Amstelstation
#kamafotos

Apropos of a gas station exploding in my neighborhood: Fossil fuel infrastructure is an ecological disaster every day, especially when there isn't an accident, when everything is "working" "safely."
https://theonion.com/millions-of-barre

Millions Of Barrels Of Oil Safely Reach Port In Major Environmental Catastrophe
PORT FOURCHON, LA—In what may be the greatest environmental disaster in the nation’s history, the supertanker TI Oceania docked without incident at the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port Monday and successfully unloaded 3.1 million barrels of dangerous crude oil into the United States.

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…

Nexstar and Sinclair, who said they'd preempt Kimmel, are lobbying the FCC over regulatory issues; Nexstar needs FCC approval for its $6.2B Tegna acquisition (Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/09/nexstar-jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk-1236547382/

Nexstar’s Decision To Drop Jimmy Kimmel’s Show From Its ABC Stations Indefinitely Comes As It Seeks FCC Approval For Major Merger — Update
The station group is seeking FCC approval of a major merger.

A horrible experience is when you notice a really bad smell, and start checking all your clothes in case it was you. Then you realize you're sitting in a rail station's waiting room, where leftover odors like that happen.

Eco-Movement, which holds a quasi-monopoly on EV charging point data in Europe, has been acquired by Dow Jones.
https://www.dowjones.com/press-room/dow-jones-acquires-eco-movement/

Dow Jones Acquires Eco-Movement
Latest acquisition advances Dow Jones’s energy business with industry-leading data  NEW YORK – [September 18, 2025] – Dow Jones today announced it has acquired Eco-Movement, a leading global platform for EV charging station data. Eco-Movement will operate as part of OPIS, Dow Jones’s growing energy business.  Headquartered in Utrecht, Netherlands, Eco-Movement is a leading charge […]

Distributed Deep Learning with RIS Grouping for Accurate Cascaded Channel Estimation
Saifur Rahman, Syed Luqman Shah, Salman Khan, Jalal Khan, Muhammad Irfan, Maaz Shafi, Said Muhammad, Fazal Muhammad, Mohammad Shahed Akond
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14062

Distributed Deep Learning with RIS Grouping for Accurate Cascaded Channel Estimation
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) panels are envisioned as a key technology for sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks, providing a cost-effective means to enhance coverage and spectral efficiency. A critical challenge is the estimation of the cascaded base station (BS)-RIS-user channel, since the passive nature of RIS elements prevents direct channel acquisition, incurring prohibitive pilot overhead, computational complexity, and energy consumption. To address this, we propose a deep l…

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

For a few days now, the IQAir app has reported anormal levels of pollution around me (mainly due to level of PM2.5 particles).
The “hazardous” status is certainly wrong and due to a single station.
May be this particular station has been damaged by tear gas emanations from a few days ago ? 🫢😮
#Madagascar

German/French TV station #ARTE has an interesting mini series about the history and rivalry of 3 major economic centers: Amsterdam, London, New York.
https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/069809-001-A

Updated with additional ideas:
- White Park
- around the Centennial
- around the backside of CHS
- along Bow Brook until it joins the Turkey River
- up to the Heights and around the Concord Municipal Airport
- along that new trail going in on the other side of the river
- to Granite State Candies and back
- watch a movie at Red River Theater
- to the Post Office on the other side of the river
- to the bus station... take the bus to Boston?

Texas is making a list of transgender Texans using DMV data | KUT Radio, Austin's NPR Station https://www.kut.org/politics/2025-12-15/texas-trans-transgender-drivers-license-id-list-privacy

Texas is making a list of transgender Texans. It’s using driver's licenses to help.
A year after the state blocked transgender Texans from updating their state IDs, it has collected information on more than 100 people who have tried. Officials won’t say what they’re using the list for.

Russia is importing gas and selling more crude than ever. What kind of gas station only imports gas?
Better question, why does Europe continue to support the Russian warcrimes and genocide by purchasing Russian oil and LPG?
Spoiler: some rich bastards decided it was better to make money than to be a decent human being, and we all get fucked as a result.
Georgio is a reported in Ukraine who reports from the trenches of democracy - where US media is not allowed to venture or …

Ukraine Targets the Core of Russia’s Terror Regime
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
SERVALAN: He'll soon come round. Travis is very strong. [She goes to inspect Travis.]
JARRIERE: Oh, he once worked for you?
SERVALAN: Yes.
JARRIERE: And now he's an outlaw? Uh, what happened?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/211/202 B7B2…

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

Rot und blau.

E.W. Scripps' board unanimously rejects Sinclair's unsolicited acquisition proposal of $7 per share in cash and stock, offered in November (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/scripps-rejects-sinclair-unsolicited…

Scripps Rejects Sinclair Unsolicited Acquisition Offer
The board of E.W. Scripps Co. unanimously rejected the unsolicited acquisition proposal submitted by Sinclair, the second-biggest U.S. TV station owner groups.

Searching For Sarah MacDiarmid
It’s been over 35 years since the night Sarah MacDiarmid vanished from the Kananook railway station on Wednesday, 11 July 1990...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/searching-for-sarah-macdi…

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

Enbee at Den Gamle By in Aarhus.

A long day, but worth every second of it.
While I’m hearing a cock crowing in the background, I’m heading to experience a hopefully great train/bus ride to Poland via Ostrava.
Security guards arriving at the station with supermarket bags containing their wives’ homemade lunches. They call those bags *“sitovka”*—they use them for everything: as a swim bag, for example. I wouldn’t be surprised if they used it to go skiing!
Homeless drunks at the main station comforting each o…

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

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.

Moody Urbanity - Passer By 🚶‍♂️
情绪化城市 - 路人 🚶‍♂️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Kentmere Pan 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

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

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

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/…

Disappointing how many people think "soldered down" means "can't be upgraded" when it actually means "buy a hotplate, a hot air station, a few templates, some BGA balls, a couple pairs of nice tweezers, an LCD microscope, and a gallon of flux"

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

The impact of observation losses on IVS-R1/R4 VLBI sessions
Tiege McCarthy, Lucia McCallum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11436 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.1143…

The impact of observation losses on IVS-R1/R4 VLBI sessions
Global VLBI observations, to measure Earth orientation and station positions, are organised into 24-hour sessions. Each session has a bespoke schedule created, optimised for the particular time period and the station network that is available during it. Due to various factors, whether it be station outages, sensitivity issues or source effects, not all scheduled observations are available, or of sufficient quality, to be included in the final geodetic analysis. In this paper we derive statistic…

Heading South
But not for the warmth.. Tomorrow I'm taking the first stage of the journey to Antarctica, ironically enough though, I'm heading south by first heading north, to Oslo, where the Norwegian Polar Institute have organised an almost direct flight from Oslo to Troll station with a short stopover in Cape Town. Bags almost packed and ready to go... I'm super excited and also suffering a little trepidation.
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/12/11/heading-south/

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…

Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning Models to Upscale Evapotranspiration in the U.S. Midwest
Aleksei Rozanov, Samikshya Subedi, Vasudha Sharma, Bryan C. Runck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11505

Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning Models to Upscale Evapotranspiration in the U.S. Midwest
Evapotranspiration (ET) plays a critical role in the land-atmosphere interactions, yet its accurate quantification across various spatiotemporal scales remains a challenge. In situ measurement approaches, like eddy covariance (EC) or weather station-based ET estimation, allow for measuring ET at a single location. Agricultural uses of ET require estimates for each field over broad areas, making it infeasible to deploy sensing systems at each location. This study integrates tree-based and knowle…

This is the reason why more people in The Netherlands are going by car instead of public transit.
I can literally go to my gf by car that lives 40km away for the same amount as public transport from the city here to the station at home (about 10km or so).

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…

Good Morning #Canada
As #Halloween creeps up on us, we continue to highlight haunted abandoned towns. Today, we are in Rowley Alberta, a failed railway town near the gates of Hell. Maybe near Drumheller.... I wasn't paying attention. Settled around 1910, it once had about 500 residents but declined after the closure of its train station in 1965, and the construction of new highways bypassing the town. Today, it's a mix of private homes and preserved historical buildings, and the remaining 9 evil residents have worked to maintain its historic charm. They have added new features and even host monthly pizza nights to lure in unsuspecting tourists. Don't go in the old shed with all the sharp farm tools....
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianGhostTowns
https://youtu.be/6huskbX8Hh8?si=oowVXFI_s2RwVipM

I am going dual monitors for work. The docking station that was provided had only one HDMI port, but two DP ports. The problem is all of my monitors have HDMI inputs only. I remembered that last year I bought a DP to HDMI adapter and wondered if that would work.
I plugged it all in and it didn't detect the second monitor. I figured the laptop might need a reboot to detect the change. After the reboot it saw the second monitor.
The second is one I borrowed from my wife s…

"Thanks to a series of relay stops (to swap electric tractors, drivers and trailers), each electric truck travels a daily distance of 810 km on the North loop and 704 km on the South loop. This system makes it possible to cover long distances without stopping the load."
https://www.renault-…

From Translink
Oakridge–41st Avenue Canada Line Station to close early for one month
Next phase of night construction necessary for roof work and station entrance demolition
The Canada Line’s Oakridge–41st Avenue Station will be closing early at 11pm from Sunday to Thursday nights for one month, to allow for ongoing upgrade work.
Early closures will take place at 11pm from December 14 to January 15.
Early closures on Sunday to Thursday nights only
Excludes De…

Always something.
Sourdough bread with brie, a big coffee with good company. That’s how I started my morning: breakfast in a French bakery in Poland.
Next to us, a lady who takes French breakfast to a Slavic level in a fancy way: coupe champagne, assortment bread, lightly salted butter, and cheese—but the cigarette was missing. Actually, what she had was actually what I wanted. After saying goodbye to my friend, I headed to find the train station and a supermarket—with success! On…

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

Time to harness the sun! ☀️🛰️
We are LIVE for today's 3D printing stream, and we're adding more solar arrays to the Tiangong space station model. Powering the space race, one layer at a time (and still running smooth on Linux, naturally 🐧).
Tune in to watch the model grow: 👇 https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus

Leaving Vienna for #DectWorld (Munich) in the small morning hours.
Pros: Every street is a pedestrian area when there are barely any cars.
Cons: Train station bakeries open way after the first train leaves.

❝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…

There were also dragon's teeth just by London Road station in Guildford. I was fascinated by their raison d'être at the time and used to appreciate them every time I walked by.
Dragon’s teeth and elf garden among 2025 additions to English heritage list | #Heritage | The Guardian

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…

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.

The additional spectrum on the #HamRadio 60m band for US operators, and the reduced power limitation that applies to the current channel 3, is not yet effective. Don't start transmitting outside your station privileges because you heard about the FCC releasing an order.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the amendments of parts 2, 25, 74, 78, 87, 90, and 101 o…

“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.

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

Throughput Maximization for Multiuser Communications with Flexible-Sector 6DMA
Xiaoming Shi, Yunli Li, Xiaodan Shao, Jie Xu, Rui Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10944 https://

Throughput Maximization for Multiuser Communications with Flexible-Sector 6DMA
This paper presents a cost-effective and easily-deployable flexible-sector six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA) architecture for future wireless communication networks, which enables flexible antenna configurations to match users' spatial distribution for capacity enhancement. Different from conventional sectorized base station (BS) with fixed-position antennas (FPAs), the flexible-sector 6DMA-enabled BS employs multiple directional sector antenna arrays that can flexibly move along a common …

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

Gottfrid Svartholm one of the co-founders of the pirate bay website, at his work station.
#Piracy #Privacy #Security

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.

We moved to our neighborhood 7 years ago. Over all that that time I watched people wander across the road in front of the subway station despite the sometimes heavy traffic. I always figured I'd go by one day and see an ambulance or worse. Tonight when I got off the train, I noticed that the city finally did something about it, installing a crosswalk with a beg button and lights.
Maybe it's a metaphor? We're (incredibly, painfully) slow, but we end up doing the right thing …

#OTD 2023: checking out the new underwater mega-bicycle parking facility at Amsterdam Central Station

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…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Weather Station:
🎵 Window
#NowPlaying #TheWeatherStation
https://theweatherstation.bandcamp.com/track/window
https://open.spotify.com/track/0ytUz2JhGYQhN9d4oYyU2o

Ten years ago the pioneering and highly influential British synthpop band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) dedicated their classic song 'Electricity' to ESA astronaut Tim Peake ahead of his #ISS mission - the result was the nice music video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MADAqhrWpD8 using images from the station by A. Gerst taken a year earlier.

🍆 A Hermetic, Transparent Soft Growing Vine Robot System for Pipe Inspection
#robots #machine

A Hermetic, Transparent Soft Growing Vine Robot System for Pipe Inspection
Rehabilitation of aging pipes requires accurate condition assessment and mapping far into the pipe interiors. Soft growing vine robot systems are particularly promising for navigating confined, sinuous paths such as in pipes, but are currently limited by complex subsystems and a lack of validation in real-world industrial settings. In this paper, we introduce the concept and implementation of a hermetic and transparent vine robot system for visual condition assessment and mapping within non-bra…

"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

one of my favorite act of street #protest is when the #nyc group called the up against the wall motherfuckers (or someone affiliated with them) removed the hands from this clock during a 1968 be-in organized by bob fass & #radio

Christian Alvarez (@Chrispyapple@pixelfed.social)
An ornate clock that sits on top of an Information Booth in Grand Central Station, Manhattan, NYC. #NYC #Manhattan #ManhattanNYC #NYC #NYCPhotography #Streetphotography #UrbanExploration #UrbanPhotography #NewYork #Pixelfed #Photography #travels #travelphotos #travelphotography #GrandCentralTerminal #Stairs #architecture #architecturephotography #Fensterfreitag #WindowFriday #TGIF #Photodaily #clock

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…

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

Good Morning #Canada
There are over 100 ghost towns in Saskatchewan, including Saskatoon in early February. One was Bonne Madone, a community founded in 1902 in the scary Rural Municipality of Woooo Boooo. (Editor - it's actually Hoodoo). The area was granted by the federal government to French settlers, the main contingent of which arrived in 1902 from Dauphiné and Franche-Comté, led by fathers Laurent Voisin and Jean Garnier. A convent run by the Sisters of Providence was established there in 1905. Nuns with rulers are very scary. A school was built there in 1908, and the town's chapel was first built in 1910, and the town also had a Royal North-West Mounted Police station and a Post office. It was an active community in the 1920s and the 1930s, but its population dwindled over the next few decades, and by the end of the 1960s, it was abandoned..... and haunted.
BTW - Some provinces have a Ghost Town Trail, like this one.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianGhostTowns
https://www.prairiepast.com/blog/explore-3

Data-Driven Deployment of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces in Cellular Networks
Sina Beyraghi, Javad Shabanpour, Giovanni Geraci, Paul Almasan, Angel Lozano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10190

Data-Driven Deployment of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces in Cellular Networks
This paper presents a fully automated, data-driven framework for the large-scale deployment of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) in cellular networks. Leveraging physically consistent ray tracing and empirical data from a commercial deployment in the UK, the proposed method jointly optimizes RIS placement, orientation, configuration, and base station beamforming in dense urban environments across frequency bands (corresponding to 4G, 5G, and a hypothetical 6G system). Candidate RIS loc…

Active IRS Assisted Joint Uplink and Downlink Communications
Qiaoyan Peng, Qingqing Wu, Guangji Chen, Wen Chen, Shaodan Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10045 https://

Active IRS Assisted Joint Uplink and Downlink Communications
In this paper, we investigate an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided wireless communication system, where active IRSs (AIRSs) are deployed to assist communication between a base station (BS) and users of both the uplink (UL) and downlink (DL). We aim to maximize the weighted sum rate (WSR) of UL and DL communications through joint optimization of BS, AIRS beamforming, and AIRS element allocation. First, we study three deployment schemes, namely distributed AIRSs, BS-side AIRS, and user-s…

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.

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

A longtime TV news produced at Chicago-based station WGN on Friday was forcefully pinned to the ground and then hauled off in an unmarked van by masked federal agents.
As reported by the Chicago Tribune, WGN producer Debbie Brockman was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a law enforcement action in the city’s Lincoln Square neighborhood on Friday morning, purportedly on the grounds that she was obstructing their work.
Video of the arrest taken by …

ICE Pins Chicago TV News Producer to the Ground, Hauls Her Off in Unmarked Van | Common Dreams
WGN producer Debbie Brockman forcefully arrested by ICE agents in Chicago. Video shows aggressive tactics used in the arrest.

Fun fact: if you try to find a Zgorzelec – Wrocław Główny connection for Saturday morning on PLK Passenger's Portal, you're going to get one with a change in Zgorzelec. Onto a train marked: "Stop for disembarking only, it is not possible to start travel at this station."
#rail #Poland

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

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
AVON: I'm sorry to have to inform you that he is himself all right.
[End of episode. Roll credits.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/623 B7B3

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

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…

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...

MIMO Radar Meets Polarization-Reconfigurable Antennas: A BCRB Perspective
Jinpeng Xu, Shuowen Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10235 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

MIMO Radar Meets Polarization-Reconfigurable Antennas: A BCRB Perspective
In this paper, we investigate a novel multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar system aided by phase shifter based polarization-reconfigurable antennas (PRAs). Specifically, a base station (BS) equipped with multiple PRAs at both the transmitter and the receiver aims to sense the unknown and random angular location parameter of a point target via sending wireless signals and processing the received echo signals reflected by the target, where only prior distribution information about the loca…

TikTok and iHeartMedia partner for the TikTok Podcast Network, with up to 25 new podcasts by TikTok creators focusing on lifestyle, personal stories, and more (Colin Kirkland/MediaPost)
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/articl…

TikTok Takes On Broadcast Radio, Podcasting With Partnership
iHeartMedia and TikTok are collaborating on a new "TikTok Podcast Network," a digital radio station and live event integrations featuring TikTok creators-turned-podcasters.

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…

A Parametric Power Model of Upper Mid-Band (FR3) Base Stations for 6G
Emanuele Peschiera, Sangbu Yun, Youngjoo Lee, Liesbet Van der Perre, Fran\c{c}ois Rottenberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10647

A Parametric Power Model of Upper Mid-Band (FR3) Base Stations for 6G
Increasing attention is given to the upper mid-band or Frequency Range 3 (FR3), from 7 to 24 GHz, in the research towards sixth-generation (6G) networks. Promises of offering large data rates at favorable propagation conditions are leading to novel FR3 base station (BS) architectures, with up to thousands of antenna elements and radio-frequency (RF) chains. This work investigates the power consumption of prospective FR3 BSs and its relation to the delivered data rates. We model the power consum…

"de gemeente Emmen [heeft] alle procedures versneld, vergunningen verleend en grond beschikbaar gesteld om de bouw van het station mogelijk te maken.
[..]
Tennet, dat de vertraging deels zou verklaren doordat de bouwvergunning eerder dan verwacht onherroepelijk werd. "Een meevaller in de juridische procedures wordt nu een excuus om drie tot vijf jaar uitloop te accepteren," "
Ik snap de frustratie goed.

Emmer raad haalt hard uit naar Tennet: 'Vertraging hoogspanningsstation Veenoord is onacceptabel'
"Een meevaller in de procedures wordt nu een excuus om drie tot vijf jaar uitloop te accepteren. Dat is geen overmacht, dat is een verkeerde inschatting en tekortschietend risicomanagement. En dat mag niet op Emmen worden afgewenteld."

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