@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-01 18:25:15
It did not take a lot of special insight to suspect that recently installed
CBS Newsboss, Bari Weiss,
played some role in the production of a story the outlet ran on Monday, headlined
"Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed's deleted tweets on Sept. 11 attacks invite scrutiny of past remarks."
If you know even a little bit about Weiss,
you know that such a story combines two of her favorite things:
talking about people's old tweets
and b…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-09-03 19:20:53
Shock Defections Challenge Top Democrat Hakeem Jeffries (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/shock-defections-challenge-top-democrat-hakeem-jeffries-3d6282be
http://www.memeorandum.com/260903/p86#a260903p86
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-31 22:36:53
On Friday, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a 3-0 ruling against
Kalshi,
a ruling that in theory gives states the power to regulate the "prediction market" platform.
However strong that sounds,
one can't fairly characterize the decision as authoritative.
While the San Francisco–based court's unanimous ruling represents the most significant curtailment of the
"don't-call-it-gambling"
gambling platform,
@gevoel@mastodon.green2026-08-29 18:48:05
@… kijk je uit? Het blijken gevaarlijke dingen.
Tieners vinden overleden ouders bij hottub in Spanje, mogelijk technisch defect
https…
@arXiv_physicsappph_bot@mastoxiv.page2026-07-22 08:03:29
The Butterfly Defect Effect in Cylindrical Shell Buckling: Non-localized Interactions of Localized Imperfections
Uba K. Ubamanyu, Antoine Blond, John W. Hutchinson, Pedro M. Reis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19245 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.19245 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.19245
arXiv:2607.19245v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We investigate the buckling of axially compressed cylindrical shells containing localized defects, focusing on interactions among multiple defects and between them and the shell edges. Using high-fidelity finite-element simulations, we first characterize the parameter space of single-dimple sensitivity, defect-edge coupling, and pairwise defect-defect interactions. Building on this deterministic baseline, we run stochastic simulations of shells with randomly distributed imperfections whose amplitudes are sampled from a log-normal distribution. Post-buckling deformations form non-axisymmetric, butterfly-shaped patterns whose `wings' reach far across the shell surface. This spatial extent induces unavoidable interactions with neighboring defects and the clamped edges, so that buckling is not necessarily initiated by the deepest defect. A larger defect population raises the likelihood of an extreme defect, producing a statistical size effect: as the mean number of defects grows, the mean knockdown factor decreases asymptotically and its variability decays exponentially. The butterfly defect effect qualitatively explains the scatter in historical experimental data by correlating the knockdown factor with the cylinder length-to-thickness ratio ($H/t$) rather than the radius-to-thickness ratio ($R/t$) alone, thereby establishing $H$ as a key parameter for stability alongside $R$ and $t$. Nonetheless, the knockdown factors obtained here remain well above those reported in historical experiments, indicating that the localized Gaussian dimple, though nearly the worst-case imperfection for spherical shells, is not so for cylinders.
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@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-08-26 19:29:08
Sources: NCAA defectors can't play in NFL in '26 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49733978/sources-ncaa-defectors-play-nfl-team-2026
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-09-03 02:25:46
As Midterms Loom, Democrats Feud Over Defections (Michael Gold/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/us/politics/democrats-defections-internal-feud-midterms.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260902/p144#a260902p144
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-28 23:42:58
Secretary of State Marco Rubio convened representatives from 66 different nations on July 16
for a “ministerial meeting” on the resurgence of “political terrorism.”
The White House described the summit as the launch of “an unprecedented global offensive against the transnational threat of Radical Left terrorism.”
This historic occasion took the form of Rubio, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent taking turns as they said Na…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-22 16:15:52
Britain's Conservative Party leader
Kemi Badenoch has called defectors who left for Reform
“some of the most dishonest people” she has ever met,
as she ruled out allowing
“drama queens” to return to the party
https://www.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-17 20:33:42
Monday's killing in Biddeford Maine
—at least the 11th that agents of the nation's anti-immigrant death squads have committed in the U.S. since the start of Donald Trump's crackdown
—has been met with public outrage,
but nothing indicates that the federal government thinks anything went wrong at all.
As is its custom, ICE told lies about its victim, calling Duršn Guerrero an "illegal alien" in its statement
and suggesting that agents slaught…
