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« Oskar », colonel ukrainien : « Une mobilisation massive serait une décision impopulaire, mais nécessaire »
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/08/27/oskar…

« Oskar », colonel ukrainien : « Une mobilisation massive serait une décision impopulaire, mais nécessaire »
Agé de 34 ans, Vassyl Matiïv, dit « Oskar », appartient à une nouvelle génération de commandants émergeant à la faveur d’une réorganisation profonde de l’armée ukrainienne. Il raconte l’évolution des techniques d’assaut et insiste sur le besoin de renforts afin de tenir dans la durée.

Ukraine reports killing Russian colonel leading assaults in Kharkiv Oblast: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/26/ukraine-reports-killing-russian-colonel.html

Seahawks sing Darnold's praises after GW drive https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46384322/seahawks-darnold-calmly-directs-winning-drive-vs-cardinals

Atomically clean free-standing two-dimensional materials through heating in ultra-high vacuum
Philipp Irschik, David Lamprecht, Shrirang Chokappa, Clemens Mangler, Carsten Speckmann, Thuy An Bui, Manuel L\"angle, Lado Filipovic, Jani Kotakoski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19371

Atomically clean free-standing two-dimensional materials through heating in ultra-high vacuum
Surface contamination not only influences but in some cases even dominates the measured properties of two-dimensional materials. Although different cleaning methods are often used for contamination removal, commonly used spectroscopic cleanliness assessment methods can leave the level of achieved cleanliness ambiguous. Despite two decades of research on 2D materials, the true cleanliness of the used samples is often left open to interpretation. In this work, free-standing monolayer graphene and…

Day 5: Robin Wall Kimmerer
I'm taking these liberty of changing my hashtag and expanding the intent of this list to include all non-men, although Kimerer is a woman so I'll get to more gender diversity later... I've also started planning this out more and realized that I may continue a bit beyond 20...
In any case, Robin Wall Kimmerer is an Indigenous academic biologist and excellent non-fiction author whose work touches on Potawotomi philosophy, colonialism (including in academic spaces), and ideas for a better future. Anyone interested in ecology, conservation, or decolonization in North America will probably be impressed by her work and the rich connections she weaves between academic ecology and Indigenous knowledge offer a critical opportunity to expand your understanding of the world if like me you were raised deeply enmeshed in "Western" scientific tradition. I suppose a little background in skepticism helped prepare me to respect her writing, but I don't think that's essential.
I've only read "Braiding Sweetgrass," but "Gathering Moss" and her more recent "The Serviceberry" are high on my to-read list, despite my predilection for fiction. Kimmerer incorporates a backbone of fascinating anecdotes into "Braiding Sweetgrass" that makes it surprisingly easy reading for a work that's philosophical at its core. She also pulls off an impressive braided organization to the whole thing, weaving together disparate knowledges in a way that lets you see both their contradictions and their connections.
The one criticism I've seen of her work is that it's not sufficiently connected to other Indigenous philosophers & writers, and that it's perhaps too comfortable of a read for colonizers, and that seems valid to me, even though (perhaps because I am a colonizer) I still find her book important.
An excellent author in any case, and one doing concrete ideological work towards a better world.
#20AuthorsNoMen

Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
SERVALAN: All very clever, Section Leader. But now, perhaps, I should tell you something. Shortly before he died, Colonel Astrid sent me a report. What it said gave me serious doubts about your loyalty. Serious enough for me to leave precise instructions with my Supreme Command. If you persist with this treachery, this planet will be blasted into outer darkness where it belongs.
GROSE: Madam President, if your reconstituted Federation was worth a...…

I got into the rabbit hole that is the youtube channel "Scary Interesting". It's basically just a calmly-narrated podcast about diving and cave exploration accidents. It's 50% about naive people who had it coming and 50% about ultra-experienced cave divers who died anyways.

Efficient Kernelized Learning in Polyhedral Games Beyond Full-Information: From Colonel Blotto to Congestion Games
Andreas Kontogiannis, Vasilis Pollatos, Gabriele Farina, Panayotis Mertikopoulos, Ioannis Panageas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20919

Efficient Kernelized Learning in Polyhedral Games Beyond Full-Information: From Colonel Blotto to Congestion Games
We examine the problem of efficiently learning coarse correlated equilibria (CCE) in polyhedral games, that is, normal-form games with an exponentially large number of actions per player and an underlying combinatorial structure. Prominent examples of such games are the classical Colonel Blotto and congestion games. To achieve computational efficiency, the learning algorithms must exhibit regret and per-iteration complexity that scale polylogarithmically in the size of the players' action sets.…

Video tutorials for modern ideas and open source tools. #python

Code. Simply. Clearly. Calmly.
Short and simple video lessons that start from scratch. Tools and thoughts that might make your professional life more enjoyable.

Zionism is, and always has been, a genocidal, settler colonial project.
It is the justification for and the ideology behind the literal genocide that is being committed by Israel right now, at this very moment, against the Palestinian people. A genocide that is being live streamed in posts here and elsewhere by its victims.
To equate all Jews with Zionism, as Zionists do – in other words, to state that all Jews are genocidal settler-colonialists – is antisemitic.
(Equally, …