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Can two Amazons survive? Invisible e-waste is poisoning the world https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/can-two-amazons-survive-invisible-e-waste-is-poisoning-the-world/

Can two Amazons survive? Invisible e-waste is poisoning the world
“I live in Accra, Ghana,” says Isaac Dinwe, who works for Closing the Loop, a Dutch NGO that’s seeking to increase recycling in the electronics industry. “The e-waste problem in my country is so huge we are unable to manage it. Most of our e-waste ends up in city centres. Informal workers extract what they […]

I came home to a letter addressed to both of us by name and I assumed it was mortgage since few things address both of us. I left it for J to indulge her childlike pleasure of opening mail.
It was actually a campaign letter from Reform UK. I assure you neither of us are members so I can only assume they got our names from the edited electoral roll.
I can't remember any other party ever writing to me by name before, it's always just been "occupant" or similar.

The fracturing of the Dutch far-right, after Wilder's reminded everyone that bigots are bad at compromise, is definitely a relief. Dutch folks I've talked to definitely see D66 as progressive, <strike>so there's no question this is a hard turn to the left (even if it's not a total flip to the far-left)</strike> a lot of folks don't agree. I'm going to let the comments speak rather than editorialize myself..
While this is a useful example of how a democracy can be far more resilient to fascism than the US, that is, perhaps, not the most interesting thing about Dutch politics. The most interesting thing is something Dutch folks take for granted and never think of as such: there are two "governments."
The election was for the Tweede Kamer. This is a house of representatives. The Dutch use proportional representation, so people can (more or less) vote for the parties they actually want. Parties <strike>rarely</strike> never actually get a ruling majority, so they have to form coalition governments. This forces compromise, which is something Wilders was extremely bad at. He was actually responsible for collapsing the coalition his party put together, which triggered this election... and a massive loss of seats for his party.
Dutch folks do still vote strategically, since a larger party has an easier time building the governing coalition and the PM tends to come from the largest party. This will likely be D66, which is really good for the EU. D66 has a pretty radical plan to solve the housing crisis, and it will be really interesting to see if they can pull it off. But that's not the government I want to talk about right now.
In the Netherlands, failure to control water can destroy entire towns. A good chunk of the country is below sea level. Both floods and land reclamation have been critical parts of Dutch history. So in the 1200's or so, the Dutch realized that some things are too important to mix with normal politics.
You see, if there's an incompetent government that isn't able to actually *do* anything (see Dick Schoof and the PVV/VVD/NSC/BBB coalition) you don't want your dikes to collapse and poulders to flood. So the Dutch created a parallel "government" that exists only to manage water: waterschap or heemraadschap (roughly "Water Board" in English). These are regional bureaucracies that exist only to manage water. They exist completely outside the thing we usually talk about as a "government" but they have some of the same properties as a government. They can, for example, levy taxes. The central government contributes funds to them, but lacks authority over them. Water boards are democratically elected and can operate more-or-less independent of the central government.
Controlling water is a common problem, so water boards were created to fulfill the role of commons management. Meanwhile, so many other things in politics run into the very same "Tragedy of the Commons" problems. The right wing solution to commons management is to let corporations ruin everything. The left-state solution is to move everything into the government so it can be undermined and destroyed by the right. The Dutch solution to this specific problem has been to move commons management out of the domain of the central government into something else.
And when I say "government" here, I'm speaking more to the liberal definition of the term than to an anarchist definition. A democratically controlled authority that facilitates resource management lacks the capacity for coercive violence that anarchists define as "government." (Though I assume they might leverage police or something if folks refuse to pay their taxes, but I can't imagine anyone choosing not to.)
As the US federal government destroys the social fabric of the US, as Trump guts programs critical to people's survival, it might be worth thinking about this model. These authorities weren't created by any central authority, they evolved from the people. Nothing stops Americans from building similar institutions that are both democratic and outside of the authority of a government that could choose to defund and abolish them... nothing but the realization that yes, you actually can.
#USPol #NLPol

Thinking about Zelensky's proposal , it is maybe kind of smart , he forces Russia to agree with a cease-fire and stop attacking, otherwise elections are impossible. That is probably not acceptable for Russia along current frontlines. So Russia will very likely confirm it's status as agressor for the world and continue fighting?
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Dynamic micromagnetism a la Ericksen-Leslie, allowing the Einstein-de Haas and Barnett effects
Amit Acharya, Siladitya Pal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04393 https://

Dynamic micromagnetism a la Ericksen-Leslie, allowing the Einstein-de Haas and Barnett effects
A model of dissipative micromagnetics coupled to elasticity is developed, following the procedures of the Ericksen-Leslie theory of nematic liquid crystals allowing for angular momentum due to magnetization. An outcome is the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert theory coupled to material spin. A further power-less augmentation to the angular momentum of the theory with classical kinetic energy density is also considered, which allows for plausible approaches to model the Einstein-de Haas and Barnett effect…

SEPhIA: <1 laser/neuron Spiking Electro-Photonic Integrated Multi-Tiled Architecture for Scalable Optical Neuromorphic Computing
Mat\v{e}j Hejda, Aishwarya Natarajan, Chaerin Hong, Mehmet Berkay On, S\'ebastien d'Herbais de Thun, Raymond G. Beausoleil, Thomas Van Vaerenbergh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07427

SEPhIA: <1 laser/neuron Spiking Electro-Photonic Integrated Multi-Tiled Architecture for Scalable Optical Neuromorphic Computing
Research into optical spiking neural networks (SNNs) has primarily focused on spiking devices, networks of excitable lasers or numerical modelling of large architectures, often overlooking key constraints such as limited optical power, crosstalk and footprint. We introduce SEPhIA, a photonic-electronic, multi-tiled SNN architecture emphasizing implementation feasibility and realistic scaling. SEPhIA leverages microring resonator modulators (MRMs) and multi-wavelength sources to achieve effectiv…

Replaced article(s) found for physics.atom-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.atom-ph/new
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- Imaging atomic scattering potential in centroidal diffraction of elastic electrons
R. Aiswarya, Jobin Jose, Nenad Simonovi\'c, Bratislav P. Marinkovi\'c, Himadri S. Chakraborty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04466 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsatomph_bot/114816830706448493
- Nonadiabatic corrections to electric quadrupole transition rates in H$_2$
Krzysztof Pachucki, Micha{\l} Si{\l}kowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02716 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsatomph_bot/115496115851400980
- Demonstration of magic dressing of $^3$He
Raymond Tat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.02443 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsatomph_bot/115654579955357210
- First observation and measurement of the ${}^{198}\text{Hg}$ bosonic transition in an optical lat...
Zyskind, Laupr\^etre, Shang, Pointard, Le Targat, Lodewyck, Bize
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04920 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsatomph_bot/115666084295921110
- Two-Mode Bosonic State Tomography with Single-Shot Joint-Parity Measurement of a Trapped Ion
Honggi Jeon, Jiyong Kang, Wonhyeong Choi, Kyunghye Kim, Jaehun You, Taehyun Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12628 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/114698759566941964
- Phase-locked amplification enhanced by spin squeezing
Yan Zhang, Jing Zhang, Hou Ian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02278 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/114794342738854491
- Temperature-Dependent Evolution of Coherence, Entropy, and Photon Statistics in Photoluminescence
Tomer Bar Lev, Carmel Rotschild
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01953 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsoptics_bot/114975598886927233
- Application of Quantum Annealing to Computation of Molecular Properties
Pradyot Pritam Sahoo, V. S. Prasannaa, B. P. Das
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12779 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/115055154966701578
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"While not all consumers may wish to adapt their consumption behaviour, all consumers need to be provided access to the tools to enable their participation. Regulatory frameworks must drive, and not hinder, the delivery of such flexibility resources."
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Using Landau quantization to probe disorder in semiconductor heterostructures
Asser Elsayed, Davide Costa, Lucas E. A. Stehouwer, Alberto Tosato, Mario Lodari, Brian Paquelet Wuetz, Davide Degli Esposti, Giordano Scappucci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02794

Using Landau quantization to probe disorder in semiconductor heterostructures
Understanding scattering mechanisms in semiconductor heterostructures is crucial to reducing sources of disorder and ensuring high yield and uniformity in large spin qubit arrays. Disorder of the parent two-dimensional electron or hole gas is commonly estimated by the critical, percolation-driven density associated with the metal-insulator transition. However, a reliable estimation of the critical density within percolation theory is hindered by the need to measure conductivity with high precis…

The German love for combustion is a perpetuum mobile.
68.5% of Germans believe that their car makers are not fully committed to electric mobility.
Furthermore, 47.8% believe that politicians do not view electric mobility as the technology of the future.
https://…