Everyone focused on the amount spent on Wirtz & Isak, but the real story was the last minute jilting from Crystal Palace on Guehi while having sold Quansah to afford offensive firepower. Any stability whatsoever on defense would have the team in such a better place. Is that now 3 or 4 games with points dropped in stoppage time?
It’s not just Konate, but he’s a massive liability. Gomez should start instead, at least temporarily, but now Bradley’s suspension means more disruption.
How many characters do you recognize from this massive animation of comics, cartoons, tv-series, movies, etc?
#animation
https://floor796.com/
From that observer who was taken yesterday, shared here with permission, because we could all use a good laugh. (Note: Whipple is the fed bldg that’s ICE’s MSP HQ)
❝So here’s my story about returning to the world…
When they let you out of Whipple, they give you back your personal effects (minus your phone). And just send you out the front door with whatever you were wearing when you came in.
So I’m walking out the front door of Whipple, probably looking like an ice agent coming off shift, and pulling all of my random shit out of my bag/dropping it in the snowbank, etc.… And I can hear the protesters at the gate, taunting me… “oh did you drop your phone, you piece of shit?” “You’re TERRIBLE!” “Fucking Nazi!” And I was just loving it, actually. But when I got closer and used my big voice “You assholes are barking up the wrong tree…. These MF’ers just released me!” The crowd went absolutely crazy.❞
Development and characterization of hybrid MCP-PMT with embedded Timepix4 ASIC used as pixelated anode
Riccardo Bolzonella, Jerome Alozy, Rafael Ballabriga, Nicol\`o Vladi Biesuz, Michael Campbell, Viola Cavallini, Angelo Cotta Ramusino, Massimiliano Fiorini, Edoardo Franzoso, Marco Guarise, Xavi Llopart Cudie, Gabriele Romolini, Alessandro Saputi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01886 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.01886 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.01886
arXiv:2602.01886v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present a novel single-photon detector based on a vacuum tube incorporating a photocathode, a microchannel plate (MCP), and a Timepix4 CMOS ASIC functioning as a pixelated anode. Designed to handle photon rates up to 1 billion per second across a 7 cm$^2$ active area, the detector achieves outstanding spatial and temporal resolutions of 5-10 $\mu$m and below 50 ps r.m.s., respectively.
The Timepix4 ASIC comprises approximately 230,000 pixels, each integrating analog and digital front-end electronics. This enables data-driven acquisition and supports data transmission rates up to 160 Gb/s. External FPGA-based electronics manage both configuration and readout.
In order to test the timing performance of the Timepix4 ASIC we performed preliminary characterization of an assembly bonded to a 100 $\mu$m thick n-on-p silicon sensor using a pulsed infrared laser, which demonstrated a per-pixel timing resolution of 110 ps, with cluster-based averaging methods improving to below 50 ps.
Six prototype detectors incorporating different MCP stack configurations and end-spoiling depths were produced by Hamamatsu Photonics. We report on their characterization, including dark count rates, gain, and spatial and timing resolutions, assessed both in laboratory conditions and during a test-beam campaign at CERN's SPS facility.
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Eine extreme #Kältewelle mit Temperaturen bis zu minus 55 Grad hat weite Teile #Russlands lahmgelegt.
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Exactly right about the idle server scenario! But here's the part I find most elegant about this approach:
The target server computes absolutely nothing.
With classic rsync --checksum, both source AND target need to calculate checksums for every file. That means:
- Double the CPU load (both machines working)
- Double the …
There are a lot of takeaways from this:
1. Organizing locally gives you a massive advantage because you will always know your local area better than ICE ever can.
2. Be agile. You can always change tactics faster than a centralized organization.
3. Organize now. The sooner you build your networks, the sooner you can learn.
4. Identify ICE facilities and organize monitoring them directly.
But I think the most interesting one that's not explicitly in there, one that's hinted at the last one, is to go on the offensive. ICE is already afraid. If we all take the anger we have at the murder of #ReneGood, find the local ICE facility that they'll stage from, and bring that anger to #OccupyICE we might be able to just shut the whole thing down preemptively. Completely stop all ICE operations across the US. If they want to fight, they can fight *with everyone, all at once.*
Shut down their ability to operate at all. They have a logistics pipeline. They need cars, they need oil in those cars, they need to be able to move those cars to target areas. They also need money to pay those agents. All of those can be disrupted.
The regime needs your money and labor to maintain the illusion of legitimacy. They chose a bad time because you can hit both of those at once *right now* with a combination of #GeneralStrike and #TaxStrike, and then #BoycottEverything.
The regime is weaker than it's ever been. It's flailing. Their own base is demanding the release of the #EpsteinFiles. Their last gasp attempt to prevent the radical change that's coming is just to ethnically cleanse the US back to the 50's (which is what they always meant by "Make America Great Again"). Trump will do anything to stay in power, even if it means killing everyone on Earth in the process. But Americans can end it now by going on the offensive.
Now is the time.
#USPol