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The similarity to the climate crisis is amazing - robust scientific research has identified a serious, life threatening problem - as well as what is needed to address that problem. But $€₱₹¥£ are flowing from customers who are unaware of the problem, and are seduced by marketing messages - in movies, TV shows, social media, and explicit advertisements. And there is huge profit from practices that are already resulting in injuries, illnesses and death, as well as economic losses. And

The similarity to the climate crisis is amazing - robust scientific research has identified a serious, life threatening problem - as well as what is needed to address that problem. But $€₱₹¥£ are flowing from customers who are unaware of the problem, and are seduced by marketing messages - in movies, TV shows, social media, and explicit advertisements. And there is huge profit from practices that are already resulting in injuries, illnesses and death, as well as economic losses. And

$\eta_{\rm w}$-meson from topological properties of the electroweak vacuum
Gia Dvali, Archil Kobakhidze, Otari Sakhelashvili
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16043 https://

$η_{\rm w}$-meson from topological properties of the electroweak vacuum
We further scrutinize the evidence for a recently suggested pseudo-scalar particle, the electroweak $η_{\rm w}$-meson. Its existence is demanded by matching the removal of the weak vacuum angle $θ_{\rm w}$ by the anomalous $B+L$ - symmetry with a massive pole in the topological susceptibility of the vacuum. We specifically focus on the possibility of the emergence of $η_{\rm w}$ as a collective excitation of the phase of the condensate of the 't Hooft fermion determinant, generated by the el…

The GUAPOS project. VI: the chemical inventory of shocked gas
\'A. L\'opez-Gallifa, V. M. Rivilla, M. T. Beltr\'an, L. Colzi, F. Fontani, \'A. S\'anchez-Monge, C. Mininni, R. Cesaroni, I. Jim\'enez-Serra, S. Viti, A. Lorenzani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16094

The GUAPOS project. VI: the chemical inventory of shocked gas
The study of the chemical composition of star-forming regions is key to understand the chemical ingredients available during the formation of planetary systems. Given that the chemical inventory on interstellar dust grains in the prestellar phases might be altered due to the prostostellar warm-up, an alternative to infer the chemical composition on the grains could be to observe regions affected by shocks associated with molecular outflows. Such shocks can desorb the molecules, and might produc…

Protostars at Subsolar Metallicity - First Detection of Large Solid-state Complex #OrganicMolecules in the Large Magellanic Cloud: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae0ccd -> Scientists Discover Building Blocks of Life in Ice Around a Forming Star in Neighboring Galaxy: https://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/news/marta-sewilo-discovers-building-blocks-life-ice-around-forming-star

Non-Fermi liquid behaviour of CDW instabilities in fractionally-filled moir\'e flatbands
Ipsita Mandal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15996 https://arxiv.o…

Non-Fermi liquid behaviour of CDW instabilities in fractionally-filled moiré flatbands
Spin- and valley-polarized fractionally-filled moiré flatbands are known to host emergent Fermi-liquid phases, when analyzed with the help of a dual description in terms of holes. The dominant Coulomb interactions in an almost flatband endow the fermions with a nontrivial dispersion, when the system is described in terms of the hole operators (rather than the particle operators). In particular, for one-fourth filling, the Fermi surface takes a quasi-triangular shape, which brings about the pos…

«LLMs are copyright removal devices - copy open source (or proprietary!) data into it, and you get copyright free data on the other side that you are free to plagiarize into newly copyrighted works. While this process robs all copyright owners, it is particularly damaging to people involved in sharing communities, since many are particpating not for money but for the love of the game - what librarian Fobazi Ettarh calls “vocational awe”.»
Really good framing by @…
https://www.quippd.com/writing/2025/12/17/AIs-unpaid-debt-how-llm-scrapers-destroy-the-social-contract-of-open-source.html

A silent scenery in four acts...
(Selenium-toned[1] 4x6 salt print (still in final wash) plus previous work-in-progress stages... see alt text for details)
The picture/motif itself is one of my personal favorites and was taken 4 years ago in the Alpstein massif, when clouds were spontaneously forming around us, creating a wonderful light/scene/drama and a dear memory... now also as print which likely will/can outlast myself
[1] The tones will become more neutral once dry...…

🐐 Bundled climate solutions for better production: Scientists listen to West African farmers
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-bundled-climate-solutions-production-scientists.html

Bundled climate solutions for better production: Scientists listen to West African farmers
The rain delays, sorghum withers; when a storm finally breaks, complaints rise again. To break this cycle of uncertainty, scientists from the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, INERA, and the University of Ghana conducted the first large-scale survey on agricultural climate services in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, and Senegal.

This framing doesn’t even touch the crucial forces of ego and identity formation and craving for belonging that are the bedrock of fascist movements like MAGA. Others are thinking productively about that, and it’s at least as important here!
That belief-as-identity phenomenon is also time-based. Somebody posted about those Young Republicans and their Telegram messages grooming and being groomed for fascism, and that’s right: it’s not just the existence of the fascist space; it’s the sustained process of drawing people in over time.
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