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Münchner Flughafen: Betrieb nach Drohnen-Alarm entspannt sich
Nach Drohnen-Überflügen entspannt sich die Lage am Münchner Flughafen. Tausende Reisende waren betroffen, die politische Debatte um Drohnenabwehr geht weiter.

Varun Shetty, OpenAI's media partnerships head, says OpenAI didn't put too many guardrails in Sora because it didn't want to "be at a competitive disadvantage" (Newcomer)
https://www.newcomer.co/p/openais-sora-2-heralds-the-ai-era

OpenAI's Sora 2 Heralds the AI Era for Social Media & the ‘Attention Economy'
Plus, Ex-Sequoia partner Matt Miller launches a London-based fund & Mira Murati's AI lab releases its first product

Trump presses sanctuary cities to work with ICE, but few are budging (David Nakamura/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/10/07/trump-portland-chicago-sanctuary-lawsuits-immigrants/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251007/p50#a251007p50

@… just saw your story seeds site which is very cool. One gentle nudge: the "humanity learns how to sustainably live on Earth," framing erases all the groups of humans who do already know how to live sustainably, and have been doing do for tens of thousands of years. It's not "humans" who have "learning" to do, but specific groups of humans who have decisions to make.
Admittedly there's some learning to do about sustainably at scale, and about integrating good modern inventions with sustainable traditions, but I think that framing the problem as "we need to deploy existing rich knowledges of how to live sustainably" helps newcomers catch on to the decolonial thread of solarpunk more easily.

Trapping an Atomic Ion without Dedicated Digital-to-analog Converters
Ryutaro Ohira, Masanari Miyamoto, Shinichi Morisaka, Ippei Nakamura, Atsushi Noguchi, Utako Tanaka, Takefumi Miyoshi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04093

Trapping an Atomic Ion without Dedicated Digital-to-analog Converters
Independent control of numerous electrodes in quantum charge-coupled device architectures presents a significant challenge for wiring and hardware scalability. To address this issue, we demonstrate a voltage control method based on time-division multiplexing (TDM). This approach utilizes a single high-update-rate digital-to-analog converter (DAC) to sequentially generate control signals for multiple electrodes, thereby reducing both the number of required DACs and associated wiring. We experime…

3D-CovDiffusion: 3D-Aware Diffusion Policy for Coverage Path Planning
Chenyuan Chen, Haoran Ding, Ran Ding, Tianyu Liu, Zewen He, Anqing Duan, Dezhen Song, Xiaodan Liang, Yoshihiko Nakamura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03011

3D-CovDiffusion: 3D-Aware Diffusion Policy for Coverage Path Planning
Diffusion models, as a class of deep generative models, have recently emerged as powerful tools for robot skills by enabling stable training with reliable convergence. In this paper, we present an end-to-end framework for generating long, smooth trajectories that explicitly target high surface coverage across various industrial tasks, including polishing, robotic painting, and spray coating. The conventional methods are always fundamentally constrained by their predefined functional forms, whic…

Mastodon plans to add Bluesky-like starter packs to suggest accounts to follow for new users, but will allow accounts to opt out of being included in Packs (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/mastodon-is-taki…

Mastodon is taking cues from Bluesky with plans for its own starter 'Packs' | TechCrunch
Mastodon is planning to make it easier for newcomers to discover curated collections of users to follow by launching a new starter packs feature.

Drohnen am Flughafen München: 3.000 Passagiere gestrandet
Nächtliche Aufregung am Münchner Flughafen: Drohnensichtungen führten zu zahlreichen Flugausfällen. Am Morgen wird der Flugbetrieb wieder aufgenommen.
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Picture the human body. Zoom in on a single cell. It lives for a while, then splits or dies, as part of a community of cells that make up a particular tissue. This community lives together for many many cell-lifetimes, each performing their own favorite function and reproducing as much as necessary to maintain their community, consuming the essential resources they need and contributing back what they can so that the whole body can live for decades. Each community of cells is interdependent on the whole body, but also stable and sustainable over long periods of time.
Now imagine a cancer cell. It has lost its ability to harmonize with the whole and prioritize balance, instead consuming and reproducing as quickly as it can. As neighboring tissues start to die from its excess, it metastasizes, always spreading to new territory to fuel its unbalanced appetite. The inevitable result is death of the whole body, although through birth, that body can create a new fresh branch of tissues that may continue their stable existence free of cancer. Alternatively, radiation or chemotherapy might be able to kill off the cancer, at great cost to the other tissues, but permitting long-term survival.
To the cancer cell, the idea of decades-long survival of a tissue community is unbelievable. When your natural state is unbounded consumption, growth, and competition, the idea of interdependent cooperation (with tissues all around the body you're not even touching, no less) seems impossible, and the idea that a tissue might survive in a stable form for decades is ludicrous.
"Perhaps if conditions were bleak enough to perfectly balance incessant unrestrained growth against the depredations of a hostile environment it might be possible? I guess the past must have been horribly brutal, so that despite each tissue trying to grow as much as possible they each barely survived? Yes, a stable and sustainable population is probably only possible under conditions of perfectly extreme hardship, and in our current era of unfettered growth, we should rejoice that we live in much easier times!"
You can probably already see where I'm going with this metaphor, but did you know that there are human communities, alive today, that have been living sustainably for *tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years*?
#anarchy #colonialism #civilization
P.S. if you're someone who likes to think about past populations and historical population growth, I cannot recommend the (short, free) game Opera Omnia by Stephen Lavelle enough: https://www.increpare.com/2009/02/opera-omnia/

Leaked a16z decks: $25B in net returns since its 2009 founding, including $11.2B in 2021, and 56 unicorn investments in the past 10 years, the most of any firm (Eric Newcomer/Newcomer)
https://www.newcomer.co/p/andreessen-horowitz-has-returned

Andreessen Horowitz Has Returned at Least $25 Billion Net to Its Backers Since the Firm's Founding in 2009
The firm has held its $900 million 2012 Fund III at 9.4x net TVPI.