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Two things can be true, even if they seem in opposition.
Hitler's race law was based on Jim Crow. Lebensraum was a direct translation of Manifest Destiny to Europe. The genocide of indigenous Americans was the inspiration and roadmap for the Holocaust. Red Summer was a genocide event. Chinese exclusion was a genocide event. The genocide of indigenous Americans continued, and the Dakota Access Pipeline is an example of that continuance.
And... Trumpian fascism is new phase of America that's markedly different than anything that anyone alive had ever experienced. Trump was inspired by Hitler's speeches and read them regularly. He admires Hitler and tries to emulate him. The language he used during his first campaign were developed by Neonazi groups like Aryan Brotherhood working with the KKK. His image was shaped by white and Christian nationalists, as is his platform today. He is a new and more dangerous kind of monster. The death camps are new. The scale of what's happening is new. The concentration of power is new.
These can both be true, and are.
#USPol

From Production Logistics to Smart Manufacturing: The Vision for a New RoboCup Industrial League
Supun Dissanayaka, Alexander Ferrein, Till Hofmann, Kosuke Nakajima, Mario Sanz-Lopez, Jesus Savage, Daniel Swoboda, Matteo Tschesche, Wataru Uemura, Tarik Viehmann, Shohei Yasuda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11402

From Production Logistics to Smart Manufacturing: The Vision for a New RoboCup Industrial League
The RoboCup Logistics League is a RoboCup competition in a smart factory scenario that has focused on task planning, job scheduling, and multi-agent coordination. The focus on production logistics allowed teams to develop highly competitive strategies, but also meant that some recent developments in the context of smart manufacturing are not reflected in the competition, weakening its relevance over the years. In this paper, we describe the vision for the RoboCup Smart Manufacturing League, a n…

Trump, speaking in the Oval Office, said he’s creating a “task force”
to crack down on "crime" in Memphis at the request of the governor.
“We’re going to take care of all of them step by step, just like we did in D.C.,” Trump said.
It’s worth noting that while Gov. Bill Lee of Tennessee, a Republican,
requested the National Guard and some federal assistance,
it was not requested by either the mayor of Memphis or the mayor of surrounding Shelby County, …

President Announces New Deadly Strike on Boat From Venezuela

💋 Budget Car Buyers Want Automakers to K.I.S.S.
#cars

Budget Car Buyers Want Automakers to K.I.S.S.
At a time when budgets matter a whole lot, potential new car buyers are pleading with manufacturers: "Keep it simple, stupid."

One of our car keys finally started to fall apart. A new original from the manufacturer: 350€!!! 350€!!!
Luckily I found a key repair shop today who did it for far less than 100€
I'm so glad that I called a couple of shops today to finally find that shop!!

Deep Generative and Discriminative Digital Twin endowed with Variational Autoencoder for Unsupervised Predictive Thermal Condition Monitoring of Physical Robots in Industry 6.0 and Society 6.0
Eric Guiffo Kaigom
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12740

Deep Generative and Discriminative Digital Twin endowed with Variational Autoencoder for Unsupervised Predictive Thermal Condition Monitoring of Physical Robots in Industry 6.0 and Society 6.0
Robots are unrelentingly used to achieve operational efficiency in Industry 4.0 along with symbiotic and sustainable assistance for the work-force in Industry 5.0. As resilience, robustness, and well-being are required in anti-fragile manufacturing and human-centric societal tasks, an autonomous anticipation and adaption to thermal saturation and burns due to motors overheating become instrumental for human safety and robot availability. Robots are thereby expected to self-sustain their perform…

From Distrust to Retribution: America’s Escalating Spiral: https://blog.rmendes.net/2025/09/11/from-distrust-to-retribution-americas.html

Can any model be fabricated? Inverse operation based planning for hybrid additive-subtractive manufacturing
Yongxue Chen, Tao Liu, Yuming Huang, Weiming Wang, Tianyu Zhang, Kun Qian, Zikang Shi, Charlie C. L. Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10599

Can any model be fabricated? Inverse operation based planning for hybrid additive-subtractive manufacturing
This paper presents a method for computing interleaved additive and subtractive manufacturing operations to fabricate models of arbitrary shapes. We solve the manufacturing planning problem by searching a sequence of inverse operations that progressively transform a target model into a null shape. Each inverse operation corresponds to either an additive or a subtractive step, ensuring both manufacturability and structural stability of intermediate shapes throughout the process. We theoretically…

The lawsuit violates the anti-commandeering doctrine of the Tenth Amendment. See United States v. California, No. 18-16496 (9th Cir. 2019) (sanctuary cities) and Murphy v. NCAA (feds can't tell the states what laws they can write).
DOJ manufactures another lawsuit to block in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants
https://www.lawdork.com/p/doj-manufactures-another-lawsuit

A Design Co-Pilot for Task-Tailored Manipulators
Jonathan K\"ulz, Sehoon Ha, Matthias Althoff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13077 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

A Design Co-Pilot for Task-Tailored Manipulators
Although robotic manipulators are used in an ever-growing range of applications, robot manufacturers typically follow a ``one-fits-all'' philosophy, employing identical manipulators in various settings. This often leads to suboptimal performance, as general-purpose designs fail to exploit particularities of tasks. The development of custom, task-tailored robots is hindered by long, cost-intensive development cycles and the high cost of customized hardware. Recently, various computational design…