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Sinking ships and confiscating vessels: Israel's plan to intercept Gaza flotillas revealed
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/sinking-ships-confiscating-vessels-israels-233628878.html

A new study suggests that #dementia may be driven in part by faulty blood flow in the brain.
Researchers found that losing a key lipid causes blood vessels to become overactive,
disrupting circulation and starving brain tissue.
When the missing molecule was restored, normal blood flow returned.
This discovery opens the door to new treatments aimed at fixing vascular problems in …

Scientists found a way to restore brain blood flow in dementia
A new study suggests that dementia may be driven in part by faulty blood flow in the brain. Researchers found that losing a key lipid causes blood vessels to become overactive, disrupting circulation and starving brain tissue. When the missing molecule was restored, normal blood flow returned. This discovery opens the door to new treatments aimed at fixing vascular problems in dementia.

Donald Trump unveiled a new class of so-called “battleships” on Monday,
but his plans are already hitting rough waters on social media.
In remarks from his Mar-a-Lago estate, the president claimed that the two “Trump Class” military vessels would be
the “fastest, the biggest and by far 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built.”
Trump described himself as
a “very aesthetic person” while noting that he,
along with the U.S. Navy,
would wor…

Critics Sink Trump's Bonkers Battleship Plans: 'Got The Design From G.I. Joe'
The president, who claimed to be a "very aesthetic person," said he would join the U.S. Navy in designing the vessels named after him.

Another way of saying those people were just murdered....
"The clips show some of the boats were already stopped at sea when they were detected, and the people onboard were potentially within reach of U.S. forces before they were blown up."

What the Pentagon’s Attack Videos Reveal About the Boat Strikes at Sea
The military has released 21 video clips of U.S. attacks on vessels it says are trafficking drugs. But they tell only part of the story.

NFL Week 4 schedule rankings: Top 5 chaos games, from Ravens-Chiefs to Parsons vs. Cowboys https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6656922/2025/09/26/week-4-nfl-ravens-chiefs-micah-parsons-packers-cowboys-how-to-watch/

NFL Week 4 schedule rankings: Top 5 chaos games, from Ravens-Chiefs to Parsons vs. Cowboys https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6656922/2025/09/26/week-4-nfl-ravens-chiefs-micah-parsons-packers-cowboys-how-to-watch/

Ukraine sanctions nearly 700 vessels tied to Russia’s 'shadow fleet': https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/14/ukraine-sanctions-nearly-vessels-tied.html

"Artist Paddles Across Ocean On World’s First Mushroom Kayak"
#Kayak #Mushrooms
https://happyeconews.com/worlds…

Artist Paddles Across Ocean On World’s First Mushroom Kayak | Happy Eco News
Los Angeles artist Sam Shoemaker completed a 26-mile ocean crossing from Catalina Island to San Pedro in a kayak grown entirely from mushroom mycelium. The 12-hour journey included a whale encounter and demonstrated fungi's potential as a biodegradable plastic alternative, though the 135-pound mushroom kayak remains heavier than commercial vessels.

💉 3D-printed blood vessels could unravel secrets of strokes
#biotech

3D-printed blood vessels could unravel secrets of strokes
3D printed blood vessels on glass that mimic blood vessel anatomy and the fluid dynamics of blood flow could be an invaluable tool in studying the causes of stroke, new research from a University of Sydney team has found and it has already led to important insights.

Thinking about all the citizen data that our government is shipping offshore to AU & elsewhere... there're apparently indications that Russian vessels have been hovering around undersea data cables in the north Atlantic... some suspect they've installed charges on all cables supplying data to Europe. In a future conflict, they could use these to continually disrupt European communications & intelligence. Who's to say that the US/China/others? haven't done the same to …

The SjŸforsvaret (Royal Norwegian Navy) has large QR codes on the sides of their vessels, so when ships return to port they can scan the navy in...

Unlawful Attacks on Venezuelan Vessels (Eric Friedman/New York City Bar Association)
https://www.nycbar.org/press-releases/unlawful-attacks-on-venezuelan-vessels/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p131#a251006p131

A04 - Time Squad
BLAKE: Zen, three sixty degree survey. Put etheric detector beams on maximum. Report any space vehicles within range. Vila, put visual survey on the screen.
ZEN: Negative on all systems. There are no space vehicles within detector range.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/10…

Trump just keeps killing people illegally in international waters, regardless who they are , they deserve a trial, this is not a war situation.
But all Trump allies (or countries that keep pretending they are) stay silent.
#trump #criminal

US forces kill two in strike on alleged drug boat in the Pacific
This is the eighth US strike on alleged drug trafficking vessels near Latin America, the first on the Pacific side.

“This is the last opportunity for Gaza residents who wish to do so to move south. Those who remain in Gaza will be (considered) terrorists and terror supporters.”
– Israeli defence minister Israel Katz
If the Hague were still a thing, this statement alone would be enough for him to hang.

💓 Microcatheter delivers therapies to the tiniest blood vessels
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-microcatheter-therapies-tiniest-blood-vessels.html

Microcatheter delivers therapies to the tiniest blood vessels
EPFL researchers have invented a remarkably small and ultraflexible neurovascular microcatheter. Powered by blood flow, it can safely navigate the most intricately branched arteries in a matter of seconds.

Pirates of the Mediterranean.
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea is being entirely ignored, it seems.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/01/israeli-military-vessels-pro-palestinian-flo…

Israel: "Do not disturb our genocide."
https://flipboard.com/@npr/world-news-fqv71h77z/-/a-QEqS0XHNRFyfZmIPjnTXAg:a:3195441-/0

Activists say Israel's navy has begun intercepting a Gaza-bound aid flotilla
BARCELONA, Spain — Activists on board a flotilla of vessels sailing toward Gaza said late Wednesday that the Israeli navy has begun intercepting their vessels as they approach the besieged Palestinian territory. The Global Sumud Flotilla, with Greta Thunberg, Nelson Mandela's grandson, Mandla …

Mit ein wenig #OSINT russische Drohnen verfolgen. Imposante Recherche von Journalismusstudent:innen.
https://www.digitaldigging.org/p/they-droned-back

Why don’t they capture these vessels and display what they were carrying?
Wouldn’t that be better PR?
Unless maybe it’s all a big scam.
-- @ambientheat.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/ambientheat.bsky.social/post/3lyvo6edkrk27

MJ (@ambientheat.bsky.social)
Why don’t they capture these vessels and display what they were carrying? Wouldn’t that be better PR? Unless maybe it’s all a big scam. 🧐

Israeli naval forces board pro-Palestinian flotilla 75 miles from Gaza
About 20 Israeli naval ships approached the fleet of more than 40 boats carrying aid, activists on board say
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/01/israeli-m…

Sweden’s navy says armed guards are appearing on Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ vessels: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/18/swedens-navy-says-armed-guards.html

Rare view of my desk during video editing.
With appropriate beverage vessels.

Interesting , They Droned Back.
Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels circling off the Dutch and German coast
#drones #germany #netherlands

They Droned Back
Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels circling off the Dutch and German coast

Britain has quietly suspended intelligence cooperation with the US in the Caribbean
because London does not consider the deadly US military campaign against ships accused of drug trafficking to be in line with international law.
That amounts to an extraordinary open fissure in a close working relationship
at a time when the US is increasing its military buildup,
expanding its controversial campaign in the region with an attempt to threaten Venezuela.

Offshore wind farms are about to get a second job: charging stations for electric ships.
Two Danish companies are pioneering this integration at Bornholm, a designated "energy island" in one of Europe's busiest shipping corridors. The concept could provide 17 terawatt-hours of clean power for battery-powered ferries and cargo vessels, saving €2 billion in oil imports while slashing marine emissions.

Offshore wind farms could be used as charging hubs for electric and hybrid ships
Two Danish companies are exploring the possibility of integrating offshore wind with marine electrification – essentially, charging infrastructure for battery powered vessels at sea.

Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/politics/uk-suspends-caribbean-intelligence-sharing-us

Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

Autonomous Soft Robotic Guidewire Navigation via Imitation Learning
Noah Barnes, Ji Woong Kim, Lingyun Di, Hannah Qu, Anuruddha Bhattacharjee, Miroslaw Janowski, Dheeraj Gandhi, Bailey Felix, Shaopeng Jiang, Olivia Young, Mark Fuge, Ryan D. Sochol, Jeremy D. Brown, Axel Krieger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09497

Autonomous Soft Robotic Guidewire Navigation via Imitation Learning
In endovascular surgery, endovascular interventionists push a thin tube called a catheter, guided by a thin wire to a treatment site inside the patient's blood vessels to treat various conditions such as blood clots, aneurysms, and malformations. Guidewires with robotic tips can enhance maneuverability, but they present challenges in modeling and control. Automation of soft robotic guidewire navigation has the potential to overcome these challenges, increasing the precision and safety of endova…

Biology-driven assessment of deep learning super-resolution imaging of the porosity network in dentin
Lauren Anderson, Lucas Chatelain, Nicolas Tremblay, Kathryn Grandfield, David Rousseau, Aur\'elien Gourrier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08407

Biology-driven assessment of deep learning super-resolution imaging of the porosity network in dentin
The mechanosensory system of teeth is currently believed to partly rely on Odontoblast cells stimulation by fluid flow through a porosity network extending through dentin. Visualizing the smallest sub-microscopic porosity vessels therefore requires the highest achievable resolution from confocal fluorescence microscopy, the current gold standard. This considerably limits the extent of the field of view to very small sample regions. To overcome this limitation, we tested different deep learning …

The #GazaGenocide continues.
"The Israeli military has dismantled an entire humanitarian flotilla seeking to break its siege on war-ravaged Gaza, arresting hundreds of activists from dozens of vessels."
Last remaining boat in Gaza humanitarian flotilla intercepted by Israel | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

Last remaining boat in Gaza humanitarian flotilla intercepted by Israel
The Israeli navy has intercepted all the ships that formed the 44-strong Global Sumud Flotilla.

#Containerschiffe verursachen rund 3 Prozent der weltweiten #Emissionen.
Vollständig elektrische Antriebe sind für Ozeanreisen kaum wirtschaftlich, doch eine Kombination aus #Flüssigkraftstoff

Electric container ships won’t work – but a fleet of auxiliary battery ships could clean up shipping
Could container ships ever go electric? The best option might be a fleet of attendant battery vessels to power these giants directly.

20 unidentified vessels 3 NM ahead of the Global Sumud Flotilla— possible blockade.
Watch livestream here: #SUMUD

LadderMoE: Ladder-Side Mixture of Experts Adapters for Bronze Inscription Recognition
Rixin Zhou, Peiqiang Qiu, Qian Zhang, Chuntao Li, Xi Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01651 …

LadderMoE: Ladder-Side Mixture of Experts Adapters for Bronze Inscription Recognition
Bronze inscriptions (BI), engraved on ritual vessels, constitute a crucial stage of early Chinese writing and provide indispensable evidence for archaeological and historical studies. However, automatic BI recognition remains difficult due to severe visual degradation, multi-domain variability across photographs, rubbings, and tracings, and an extremely long-tailed character distribution. To address these challenges, we curate a large-scale BI dataset comprising 22454 full-page images and 19859…

Good Morning #Canada
Before #WWII, Canada could still be considered a tiny nation in terms of our influence on world affairs. But after the conflict broke out, we contributed well beyond expectations and our navy was an example. The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) started the war with only 13 vessels, but when WWII ended, we had the 4th largest navy in the world. By 1945 the RCN had 450 ships in all, plus many smaller auxiliary units. This 1945 figure breaks down as follows: 2 cruisers, 17 destroyers, 68 frigates, 112 corvettes, 67 minesweepers, 12 escort ships, 75 Fairmile motor launches. During WWII, Canadian shipyards built a total of 4,047 naval vessels and 410 merchant ships for a grand total of 4,457 ships. The naval vessels included over 300 anti-submarine warships, as well as thousands of landing craft, escort ships, minesweepers, and tugs.
#CanadaIsAwesome #RemembranceDay
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Royal-Canadian-Navy/Second-World-War

Ukrainian sea drones on Wednesday hit and disabled
a tanker involved in trading Russian oil
as it sailed through Ukraine’s exclusive economic zone in the Black Sea
to the Russian port of Novorossiysk.
The attack is the third sea drone strike in two weeks
on vessels part of Russia’s
“shadow fleet” of unregulated and often western-sanctioned ships helping Moscow export oil to fund the war.

Ooh, I feel more US sanctions on the UN coming up. https://flipboard.com/@bbcnews/top-stories-hc55lmo2z/-/a-WOBuTLhPRXugyid_r6rXUg:a:3199692-/0

US strikes on alleged drug boats violate law, UN human rights chief says
The UN's human rights chief has condemned US military strikes on vessels allegedly carrying drugs in the Caribbean and Pacific, saying the lethal attacks violate international law and amount to "extrajudicial killing". Volker Türk said on Friday that more than 60 people have reportedly been killed …

Falsification-Driven Reinforcement Learning for Maritime Motion Planning
Marlon M\"uller, Florian Finkeldei, Hanna Krasowski, Murat Arcak, Matthias Althoff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06970

Falsification-Driven Reinforcement Learning for Maritime Motion Planning
Compliance with maritime traffic rules is essential for the safe operation of autonomous vessels, yet training reinforcement learning (RL) agents to adhere to them is challenging. The behavior of RL agents is shaped by the training scenarios they encounter, but creating scenarios that capture the complexity of maritime navigation is non-trivial, and real-world data alone is insufficient. To address this, we propose a falsification-driven RL approach that generates adversarial training scenarios…

Hegseth says U.S. has "only just begun" sinking alleged drug vessels (Avery Lotz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/02/hegseth-boat-strikes-venezuela-cabinet-meeting
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p99#a251202p99

Untangling Vascular Trees for Surgery and Interventional Radiology
Guillaume Houry, Tom Boeken, St\'ephanie Allassonni\`ere, Jean Feydy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23165 http…

Untangling Vascular Trees for Surgery and Interventional Radiology
The diffusion of minimally invasive, endovascular interventions motivates the development of visualization methods for complex vascular networks. We propose a planar representation of blood vessel trees which preserves the properties that are most relevant to catheter navigation: topology, length and curvature. Taking as input a three-dimensional digital angiography, our algorithm produces a faithful two-dimensional map of the patient's vessels within a few seconds. To this end, we propose opti…

Electric cargo ships crossing oceans could be just 3 years away. CATL's marine division has already supplied batteries for 900 vessels and is making big strides with sodium-ion tech.
Falling battery prices are finally making long-range electric shipping economically viable—a huge step toward zero-carbon ocean freight.

CATL Expects Oceanic Electric Ships in 3 Years - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. News in batteries and electrification has been coming fast and furious lately. Recently, Su Yi, the head of CATL’s marine division, stated, “CATL’s marine business already covers inland rivers, lakes, and coastal waters, and is now advancing toward ocean-going applications.” ... [continued]

For years, Donald Trump has fantasized about lawlessly killing drug dealers
In his second term, he’s made the fantasy a reality,
killing putative "drug dealers" in a likely illegal airstrike campaign on vessels in international waters.
Yet at the same time, Trump last week pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez,
who had just started serving a 45-year federal prison sentence for helping to traffic
💥 hundreds of tons of cocaine💥 into t…

Trump follows through on an especially ugly campaign promise
He's talked about executing drug dealers for a decade.

Airstrikes by the United States of America on boats in the Caribbean and in the Pacific violate international human rights law.
The U.N. human rights chief said Friday that
U.S. military strikes against boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean allegedly carrying illegal drugs from South America are
“unacceptable” and must stop.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, called for an investigation into the strikes, in what appeared to mark t…

UN human rights chief says US strikes on alleged drug boats are 'unacceptable'
The U.N. human rights chief says U.S. military strikes on vessels allegedly carrying illegal drugs from South America are unacceptable and must stop. The condemnation on Friday appeared to mark the first from a U.N. organization. U.S. President Donald Trump has justified the attacks as necessary to stem drug flow into the U.S. Volker Türk, the rights chief, calls for an investigation, noting over 60 reported deaths since early September. The strikes reportedly violate international human right…

Washington Post edit board:
There’s a name for attacks on civilian ships on the high seas:
Piracy.
That’s also an unfortunately plausible description of the Trump administration’s bombings of vessels around South America that it says are carrying drugs.
-- Max Boot
https://www.

The new pirates of the Caribbean
Attacks against alleged drug boats are lawless.

A new genome study offers significant insight, pinpointing the introduction of domestic cats into Europe from North Africa.
The research indicates that domestic cats first arrived on the continent roughly 2,000 years ago, coinciding with the early imperial Roman era.
This migration was likely facilitated by burgeoning maritime trade,
with some of these early feline travellers possibly brought by sailors to hunt mice on ships.
These vessels plied the Mediterranean, carr…

Domestic cats first arrived in Europe with Romans, analysis of ancient DNA shows
The study has pinpointed a key moment in feline history