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The 17-year-old son watched as ICE ripped his father from him.
“It all felt like a lot to bear,” David told the Youth Media Project.
“He’s my role model, my biggest supporter. I rely on him a lot.”
The officer took all of Hector’s belongings, including $200 in cash he was carrying.
They did, however, forget to confiscate his phone, which Hector kept on him during his detainment.
David watched his dad step into the backseat of the blacked-out SUV.
As it sped …

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.
A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

I strongly think that government should be where they can reach people; especially for emergencies but also for boring normal civics and politics.
This includes websites, TV, radio, print media, social media and whatever the future brings.
(Do not confuse abuse of this, as currently practiced by some western governments, with it being inherently bad.)
https://mstdn.social/@Nickiquote/115689504321086580

"Natuurlijk kan zo’n Europese troepenmacht de Amerikaanse militaire macht niet weerstaan. Maar dat is het punt niet. Het doel is om de Amerikanen te tonen: jullie willen vazallen van ons maken, en wij pikken dat niet langer. Geen statements, maar daadkracht."

Column | Stuur Europese troepen naar Groenland
Het moment is gekomen waarop Europa moet laten zien dat het bereid is zijn grondgebied te verdedigen. De Europese respons op Donald Trumps claim op Groenland kan er maar één zijn: troepen sturen, laten zien dat je je niet laat intimideren en dat je geopolitiek denkt en handelt. Europeanen, die na tachtig jaar vrede dachten dat ze nooit meer oorlog zouden voeren, moeten dringend naar een andere…

How to survive an Icelandic roundabout
https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/news/2025/11/09/icelandic_author_explains_roundabout_rules_to_confu/

Icelandic author explains roundabout rules to confused tourists
Few would likely dispute that AldaSigmundsdóttir— journalist, publisher, and author — has gone to great lengths to educate foreign visitors about Iceland and its people through witty and informative writing, steering well clear of the well-worn tourist clichés of Gullfoss, Geysir, the Blue Lagoon, and Hallgrímskirkja.

The Anti-Serenity Prayer — #climate

The Anti-Serenity Prayer: On Feeling Deeply in an Age of Numbness
What if caring deeply isn’t weakness but our oldest strength? This essay explores empathy, grief, and acceptance in an age of numbness—inviting us to feel fully, connect honestly, and reclaim compassion as a radical, human act of resistance.

Closed-string mirror symmetry for dimer models
Dahye Cho, Hansol Hong, Hyeongjun Jin, Sangwook Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.06699 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.06699 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.06699
arXiv:2511.06699v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: For all punctured Riemann surfaces arising as mirror curves of toric Calabi--Yau threefolds, we show that their symplectic cohomology is isomorphic to the compactly supported Hochschild cohomology of the noncommutative Landau--Ginzburg model defined on the NCCR of the associated toric Gorenstein singularities. This mirror correspondence is established by analyzing the closed-open map with boundaries on certain combinatorially defined immersed Lagrangians in the Riemann surface, yielding a ring isomorphism. We give a detailed examination of the properties of this isomorphism, emphasizing its relationship to the singularity structure.
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Determination of nuclear quadrupole moments of $^{25}$Mg, $^{87}$Sr, and $^{135,137}$Ba via configuration-interaction plus coupled-cluster approach
Yong-Bo Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07603 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.07603 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.07603
arXiv:2512.07603v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Using the configuration-interaction plus coupled-cluster approach, we calculate the electric-field gradients $q$ for the low-lying states of alkaline-earth atoms, including magnesium (Mg), strontium (Sr), and barium (Ba). These low-lying states specifically include the $3s3p~^3\!P_{1,2}$ states of Mg; the $5s4d~^1\!D_{2}$ and $5s5p~^3\!P_{1,2}$ states of Sr; as well as the $6s5d~^3\!D_{1,2,3}$, $6s5d~^1\!D_{2}$, and $6s6p~^1\!P_{1}$ states of Ba. By combining the measured electric quadrupole hyperfine-structure constants of these states, we accurately determine the nuclear quadrupole moments of $^{25}$Mg, $^{87}$Sr, and $^{135,137}$Ba. These results are compared with the available data. The comparison shows that our nuclear quadrupole moment of $^{25}$Mg is in perfect agreement with the result from the mesonic X-ray experiment. However, there are approximately 10\% and 4\% differences between our results and the currently adopted values [Pyykk$\rm \ddot{o}$, Mol. Phys. 116, 1328(2018)] for the nuclear quadrupole moments of $^{87}$Sr and $^{135,137}$Ba respectively. Moreover, we also calculate the magnetic dipole hyperfine-structure constants of these states, and the calculated results exhibit good agreement with the measured data.
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I'm listening to the music track of the yet to be released Netflix "Train Dreams" by Dessner. (He also did the interesting music for the "Manhunt" series.)
It seems to me that some of the better compositions and performances are in sound tracks and credits of movies and series.
(Such as the "Strange Game" tune by Mick Jagger in the Slow Horses series. But perhaps the greatest are some older things, like the B. Hermann music from Hitchock's …

Airbnb reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to $4.1B, vs. $4.08B est., Nights and Seats booked up 9% to 133.6M, vs. 131.75M est., forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/airbnb-abnb-q3-results-2025.html

Airbnb shares rise on revenue beat, stronger-than-expected forecast
Shares of Airbnb rose in extended trading after the company reporter third-quarter results that beat revenue expectations.