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Everything here is built for one type of weather.
And most of the time it works.
But when it doesn’t, it really doesn’t work.
L.A. has spent over a century advertising its perfect Mediterranean climate.
Now increasingly frequent severe weather events are triggering citywide soul-searching about who deserves protection,
what neighborhoods get resources,
which elected officials are to blame,
and whether the promise of this place still holds.
So…

Climate Change Is Killing the Myth of Los Angeles
For over a century, the city has drawn people with the promise of perfect weather. Now floods and fires threaten its very survival.

Observation and modeling of a geo-effective event observed on 2011 May 28 from the solar surface to 1au
Nishu Karna, Tatiana Niembro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05334 https://

Observation and modeling of a geo-effective event observed on 2011 May 28 from the solar surface to 1au
In this study, we present a comprehensive observational and modeling study of a geo-effective event with D_ST index of -80 nT observed on 2011 May 28 when a coronal hole was bordering an active region. We analyze HMI and EUV images and found that this event involved two filament eruptions ~8 hours apart from two different active region closed to each other. We produce 3D magnetic field configurations for the active regions that are consistent with the observations and employ numerical models to…

Door Dasher Life Fun Facts: This might be useful to think of when you're rating your Dasher.... Who's at fault in this situation?
Let's say I accept an offer for McDonalds.
I head straight there... pull up to the store, and as I walk in the app buzzes again with a 2nd order for the same McDs.
Naturally, I accept. (not accepting reduces my Acceptance rate and potentially my ability to get new offers).
Now I have two orders at the same place! Great! Efficient!
The first order comes up quickly, I put it in my bag, 'pick it up' in the app, and wait for the 2nd order.
Now the fun begins. The restaurant says the 2nd order will be 10 minutes beyond the pickup time. I notify the app, and both customers of the wait... and I wait... and wait... if I remove the 2nd order from my app it affects my completion rate *and* means the customer has to wait for another dasher to come along.
Eventually the 2nd order is ready and I head out to make the deliveries. Both of course now late.. the first potentially cold (even in an insulated bag) *and* late.
In addition, sometimes, often a day or two later, the dasher will receive a “Contract Violation” for the lateness. 3 Contract Violations in a short period and you can be deactivated.
So... there ya go. It happens. I'm never sure what the best course of action is... unless both orders are immediately ready, which you can never predict, someone will end up losing; the store, customer, dasher, or a mix of all three.
#DasherLife #GigWork #DoorDash #Uber
P.S. It's worth noting that Door Dash is the only service I know of that is this strict. Uber Eats does not have mechanisms like this (at least in my experience). Never used Skip, so can't say on that.

Hydrodynamic Mechanism of Colloidal Propulsion through Momentum Exchange
Javier Diaz, Ignacio Pagonabarraga, Carles Calero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06163 https://

Hydrodynamic Mechanism of Colloidal Propulsion through Momentum Exchange
Propulsion of colloidal particles due to momentum transfer from localized surface reactions is investigated by solving the exact unsteady Stokes equation. We model the effect of surface reactions as either a {\it force dipole} acting on the fluid or a {\it pair force} acting on both the colloid and the fluid. Our analysis reveals that after a single reaction event the colloid's velocity initially decays as $\sim t^{-1/2}$, followed by a long-time tail decay $\sim t^{-5/2}$. This behavior is dis…

Well THAT'S fun!
https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/massive-climate-induced-earthquakes

Reid owns 4th-down flop as K.C. playoff hopes dim https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47244348/andy-reid-owns-failed-fourth-calls-chiefs-playoff-hopes-fade-loss-texans

Flood risks in delta cities are increasing, Shanghai study finds #Shanghai

Flood risks in delta cities are increasing, Shanghai study finds
New research shows how the combination of extreme climate events, sea-level rise and land subsidence could create larger and deeper floods in coastal cities in future.

"Deadliest climate disasters of 2025 revealed as experts warn women and the poorest ‘hit the hardest’"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Climate-fuelled extreme weather in 2025 hit women the hardest - report
Women carry an “unequal burden” of the world’s deadliest extreme weather events, a new report warns.

Äntligen händer något kul #Mamdani

There's a word at the beginning and end of Dawn of Everything that feels self-referential right now: Kairos.
> We began this book with a quote which refers to the Greek notion of kairos as one of those occasional moments in a society’s history when its frames of reference undergo a shift – a metamorphosis of the fundamental principles and symbols, when the lines between myth and history, science and magic become blurred – and, therefore, real change is possible. Philosophers sometimes like to speak of ‘the Event’ – a political revolution, a scientific discovery, an artistic masterpiece – that is, a breakthrough which reveals aspects of reality that had previously been unimaginable but, once seen, can never be unseen. If so, kairos is the kind of time in which Events are prone to happen.
> Societies around the world appear to be cascading towards such a point. This is particularly true of those which, since the First World War, have been in the habit of calling themselves ‘Western’. On the one hand, fundamental breakthroughs in the physical sciences, or even artistic expression, no longer seem to occur with anything like the regularity people came to expect in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet at the same time, our scientific means of understanding the past, not just our species’ past but that of our planet, has been advancing with dizzying speed. Scientists in 2020 are not (as readers of mid-twentieth-century science fiction might have hoped) encountering alien civilizations in distant star systems; but they are encountering radically different forms of society under their own feet, some forgotten and newly rediscovered, others more familiar, but now understood in entirely new ways.
Reading this as I write something very inspired by this work feels especially serendipitous, especially at this time. When they wrote the book, I think that kairos felt more serendipitous itself. But as the frequency of opportunity increases, the veil between realities feels more malleable... that perhaps we can poke a finger through and open a portal to a completely different future than the one we've felt locked into for such a long time.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/the-coordinated-swarm-lyhr