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Harassing ICE: How the L.A. protesters are reinventing themselves | U.S. | EL PAÍS English https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-06-23/harassing-ice-how-the-la-protesters-are-reinventing-themselves.html

Harassing ICE: How the L.A. protesters are reinventing themselves
The pushback against immigration raids is evolving into an organic movement that is making things more difficult for officers in charge of Trump’s deportation drive

Active RIS Enabled NLoS LEO Satellite Communications: A Three-timescale Optimization Framework
Ziwei Liu, Junyan He, Shanshan Zhao, Meng Hua, Bin Lyu, Xinjie Zhao, Gengxin Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20424

Active RIS Enabled NLoS LEO Satellite Communications: A Three-timescale Optimization Framework
In this letter, we study an active reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) assisted Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications under non-line-of-sight (NLoS) scenarios, where the active RIS is deployed to create visual line-of-sight links for reliable communication. To address the challenges of high energy consumption caused by frequent beamforming updates in active RIS, we propose a three-timescale optimization framework that jointly designs the transmit beamforming, RIS beamforming, and…

Ranking the top 10 NFL offseasons: Bears and Patriots among teams who set themselves up for success

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ranking

AOC and Republican Tim Burchett introduced a bill to stop members of congress from enriching themselves
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D) agrees:
it's "time to ban Congressional Stock trading"
Sign the petition to ban corrupt congressional stock trading
>> https://bantt.us

The tangle-valued 1-cocycle for knots
Thomas Fiedler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17738 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.17738

The tangle-valued 1-cocycle for knots
This paper contains the strongest and at the same time most calculable knot invariant ever. Let $Θ$ be the topological moduli space of all ordered oriented tangles in 3-space. We construct a non-trivial combinatorial 1-cocycle $\mathbb{L}$ for $Θ$ that takes its values in $H_0(Θ;\mathbb{Z})$. The 1-cocycle $\mathbb{L}$ has a very nice property, called the {\em scan-property}: if we slide a tangle $T$ over or under a given crossing $c$ of a fixed tangle $T'$, then the value of $\mathbb{L}$ …

In between other stuff I've been running sims to dial in the ARC6 connector launch to back-side diff pairs.
After sweeping lots of variations I've concluded it's impossible to get it matched using 0.45 / 0.25mm ViP. You can't get above about 90 ohm Zdiff no matter how far you pull back the ground planes, just because of coupling between the vias themselves.
Orange trace is a first test using 0.35 / 0.15mm ViP which seems much happier. Slightly overshot so I need a…

As I'm learning Dutch, I'm reminded that the idea that there are people who believe that the bible is to be taken literally. The idea that a several hundred year old translation of a collection of texts in multiple languages, that were themselves translated multiple times between languages, before the whole thing was translated to Latin, then being translated to English, could somehow perfectly reflect the original text... Yeah, it's only possible to believe that if you have no idea how languages work and have never learned another language.
Like, just from linguistic drift alone if the bible were written in King James English you're losing *so* much context. But Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek translated to Latin, then to English, then to English again?
There are so many things that erg can't be translated, even as a beginner. Dutch and English are two of the closest languages that exist, they're both Germanic languages and they're the closest to each other (other than Friesian). You can't really be much closer, and yet, there are so many things you can't mutually represent. Hebrew and Latin, Aramaic and Latin, Latin and English, Greek and English, these aren't even the same families at all... They're extremely distant. There's absolutely no way to represent concepts from one to another without another book's worth of explanation.
And that ignores all the cultural context, which is mostly lost and a library and decade of education to get the stuff that we *do* know.
Only monolingual Americans could come up with an idea so incredibly asinine.

New Journalism Curriculum Module Teaches Digital Security for Border Journalists.
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/new-journalism-curriculum-module-teaches-digital-security-border-journalists

New Journalism Curriculum Module Teaches Digital Security for Border Journalists
SAN FRANCISCO – A new college journalism curriculum module teaches students how to protect themselves and their digital devices when working near and across the U.S.-Mexico border. “Digital Security 101: Crossing the US-Mexico Border” was developed by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Director...

Hey! We just came back from a nice afterwork cycling.
Currently we do an hour of easy cycling every day.
Especially after work it really a blessing.
As I'm STILL behind with the recent trips I just browsed the archives for some beautiful memories of a hike last year.
This trail doesn't offer epic vistas but the trail itself is just a gem.
The blog: