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Traditional politics of assistance and the repression of unemployment were now called into question. The need for reform became urgent.
Poverty was gradually separated from the old moral confusions. Economic crises had shown that unemployment could not be confused with indolence, as indigence and enforced idleness spread throughout the countryside, to precisely the places that had previously been considered home to the purest and most immediate forms of moral life. This demonstrated that poverty did not solely fall under the order of the fault: ‘Begging is the fruit of poverty, which in turn is the consequence of accidents in the production of the earth or in the output of factories, of a rise in the price of basic foodstuffs, or of growth of the population, etc.’ Indigence became a matter of economics.
But it was not contingent, nor was it destined to be suppressed forever. There would always be a certain quantity of poverty that could never be effaced, a sort of fatal indigence that would accompany all forms of society until the end of time, even in places where all the idle were employed: ‘The only paupers in a well governed state must be those born in indigence, or those who fall into it by accident.’ This backdrop of poverty was somehow inalienable: whether by birth or accident, it formed an inevitable part of society. The state of lack was so firmly entrenched in the destiny of man and the structure of society that for a long time the idea of a state without paupers remained inconceivable: in the thought of philosophers, property, work and indigence were terms linked right up until the nineteenth century.
This portion of poverty was necessary because it could not be suppressed; but it was equally necessary in that it made wealth possible. Because they worked but consumed little, a class of people in need allowed a nation to become rich, to release the value of its fields, colonies and mines, making products that could be sold throughout the world. An impoverished people, in short, was a people that had no poor. Indigence became an indispensable element in the state. It hid the secret but most real life of society. The poor were the seat and the glory of nations. And their noble misery, for which there was no cure, was to be exalted:
«My intention is solely to invite the authorities to turn part of their vigilant attention to considering the portion of the People who suffer … the assistance that we owe them is linked to the honour and prosperity of the Empire, of which the Poor are the firmest bulwark, for no sovereign can maintain and extend his domain without favouring the population, and cultivating the Land, Commerce and the Arts; and the Poor are the necessary agents for the great powers that reveal the true force of a People.»
What we see here is a moral rehabilitation of the figure of the Pauper, bringing about the fundamental economic and social reintegration of his person. Paupers had no place in a mercantilist economy, as they were neither producers nor consumers, and they were idle, vagabond or unemployed, deserving nothing better than confinement, a measure that extracted and exiled them from society. But with the arrival of the industrial economy and its thirst for manpower, paupers were once again a part of the body of the nation.
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

Lunar eclipse this evening. Parts of the country will see a blood red moon as the moon is eclipsed by the Earth and Raleigh scattering in our atmosphere causes red light to shine on the moon, which will reflect it back. In Glasgow, the red moon will be eclipsed by clouds.

🫧 Peatlands' 'huge reservoir' of carbon at risk of release, researchers warn
#peat…

Peatlands' 'huge reservoir' of carbon at risk of release, researchers warn
Peatlands make up just 3% of Earth's land surface but store more than 30% of the world's soil carbon, preserving organic matter and sequestering its carbon for tens of thousands of years. A new study sounds the alarm that an extreme drought event could quadruple peatland carbon loss in a warming climate.

Spatially focused magnetic hyperthermia: comparison of MRSh and sLLG equations
Zs. Isz\'aly, A. Husztek, B. Mehmeti, Z. Erd\'elyi, \'A. Sz\"o\H{o}r, M. B\'eres, J. Kor\'ozs, V. Bacs\'o, I. N\'andori, I. G. M\'ari\'an
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04361

Spatially focused magnetic hyperthermia: comparison of MRSh and sLLG equations
Magnetic hyperthermia with metallic nanoparticles is a therapeutic strategy that relies on heating cancer cells to levels sufficient to damage or destroy them. After injection, the nanoparticles accumulate in tumor tissues, where they transfer energy from the applied time-dependent magnetic field to the surrounding medium, thereby increasing the local temperature. This heating effect can be spatially focused (superlocalized) by combining AC and DC magnetic fields. Heat generation arises either …

Timer wrap around strikes again:
''The root cause was traced to a software timing bug. The software function that switches the signal amplifier on and off relies on an internal timer. This timer is constantly counting up and restarts from zero once every 16 months. If the function happens to be using the timer at the exact moment it restarts, the amplifier remains switched off, and Juice’s signal is too weak to detect from Earth.'

Juice team resolves anomaly on approach to Venus
The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) is on track for its gravity-assist flyby at Venus on 31 August, following the successful resolution of a spacecraft communication anomaly that temporarily severed contact with Earth.The issue, which emerged during a routine ground station pass on 16 July, temporarily disrupted Juice’s ability to transmit information about its health and status (telemetry).Thanks to swift and coordinated action by the teams at ESA’s European Sp…

Probing the Moon from Future Asteroid Impacts: A Review
Yifei Jiao, Bin Cheng, Hexi Baoyin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01436 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.0143…

Probing the Moon from Future Asteroid Impacts: A Review
The Earth--Moon system has been experiencing impacts from asteroids and comets for billions of years. The Moon, as an airless body, has preserved a distinct record of these events in form of impact craters and ejecta deposits, offering valuable insights into the impact history and surface evolution of the Moon. However, the ancient impact relics can only provide limited information to the lunar interior structure, with an absence of the Moon's immediately dynamic response to the impact events. …

PRESOL: a web-based computational setting for feature-based flare forecasting
Chiara Curletto, Paolo Massa, Valeria Tagliafico, Cristina Campi, Federico Benvenuto, Michele Piana, Andrea Tacchino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01799

PRESOL: a web-based computational setting for feature-based flare forecasting
Solar flares are the most explosive phenomena in the solar system and the main trigger of the events' chain that starts from Coronal Mass Ejections and leads to geomagnetic storms with possible impacts on the infrastructures at Earth. Data-driven solar flare forecasting relies on either deep learning approaches, which are operationally promising but with a low explainability degree, or machine learning algorithms, which can provide information on the physical descriptors that mostly impact the …

Degree sequences realizing labelled perfect matchings
Joseph Briggs, Jessica McDonald, Songling Shan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01110 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Degree sequences realizing labelled perfect matchings
Let $n\in \mathbb{N}$ and $d_1 \geq d_2 \geq d_n\geq 1$ be integers. There is characterization of when $(d_1, d_1, \ldots, d_n)$ is the degree sequence of a graph containing a perfect matching, due to results of Lovász (1974) and Erdős and Gallai (1960). But \emph{which} perfect matchings can be realized in the labelled graph? Here we find the extremal answers to this question, showing that the sequence $(d_1, d_2, \ldots, d_n)$: (1) can realize a perfect matching iff it can realize $\{(1, n)…

Alien Earth is getting a solid meh from me.
I'm a big Alien fan, but this wasn't for me.
Everybody is so annoying! I'm halfway through and I might give up on it.
Maybe I'm just not the target audience.
It feels more like Aliens YA.
#AlienEarth #film

“Public reports indicate that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is pushing senior Department of Defense (DoD) officials to increase operational coordination in law enforcement activities,”
reads the letter, which TNR obtained.
It warns that this “continues to erode the line between defense activities and law enforcement.”
The defense secretary surely will throw this letter in the garbage.
But, as hopeless as the prospects for real congressional oversight look …

“Alarming”: Trump’s Threat of Troops in Cities Just Got Much Scarier
Top Democrats are demanding that the Pentagon release documentation of internal conversations about future militarization of domestic law enforcement.