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Lucca, in 50 premiati dal Comitato Paralimpico della Toscana
Consegnate le onorificenze ad atleti e tecnici protagonisti ai campionati europei e mondiali

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As #Russia has unexpectedly returned to the original demands from 2021 #NATO ultimatum, namely rolling back the alliance to the 1997 borders[^1] many people seem to be genuinely surprised. “They said they wanted peace, so why escalate now?”

Yes, this is anything but unexpected. This is a very logical thing to do, under Russian diplomatic framework, which had not changed since 1950’s[^2] Western observers persistently apply the wrong framework, so they get the wrong result, so they are constantly surprised.

Western framework is transactional - we make step back, you make step back and we got a compromise.

Russian framework is precisely the opposite: “if they make step back, they are weak. If they are weak, you make step forward… because they made step back”. Is there anything more logical than that?

Trump is consistently demonstrating that he’s much more concerned about the future and stability of Russia than Putin himself, so of course Putin escalates demand. It would be illogical not to.

[^1]: understandingwar.org/research/…

[^2]: archive.org/details/negotiatin…

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it is similar to the logic of an abusive partner: "if you don't give me what I want, I may kill myself".


Behold a Digital Restoration of 655 Plates of Roses & Lilies by Pierre-Joseph Redouté: The Greatest Botanical Illustrator of All Time

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in reply to andybrwn

I think these rivers are also not subject to a pattern. Everything is more volatile and chaotic.

Global heating is not uniform over the planet. higher levels of temperature increase are experienced at higher latitudes. This dynamic weakens the polar jet streams. They get long and stringy and drift towards the equator and sometimes throw off artic cold air masses. These then come in contact with these atmospheric rivers supercharged with their burden of moisture.

in reply to GhostOnTheHalfShell

@GhostOnTheHalfShell The jet stream impacts (see: arctic amplification) seem to make a huge difference. Stalled out jet stream pattern nails a wet pattern in one place for evern just a few days... flooding. Holds a hot dry windy pattern in place... wildfires. Do it for weeks/months? Absolute disaster (ie civilization ending droughts).

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in reply to AI6YR Ben

Exactly. But I think the absolute disaster is both ends of extremity.

One region is subject to flash droughts and when the air mass laden with all the water it carted away runs into something slightly cold another region is obliterated in floods.

Both of these extreme damages existing productivity. They damage existing infrastructure.

What kind of long-term infrastructure can be built, when we really don’t have an idea of its operating conditions?

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in reply to AI6YR Ben

@ai6yr @GhostOnTheHalfShell That the air holds more moisture as it gets warmer is only news to people who have been paying attention 🙂, but its also the basis for one potential outcome which is glaciation. Basically jet stream stops, moisture precipitates out as snow, albedo goes through the roof, creating a positive feedback loop and you get 10,000 years of ice age.
in reply to Chuck

@ChuckMcManis @ai6yr
The only trick in that would be that the water precipitating out as snow would have to remain snow or that it could fall out as snow in the first place.

These atmospheric rivers are dumping trillions of metric tons of water on the Greenland ice sheet. It is falling as liquid water, not snow or ice.

in reply to GhostOnTheHalfShell

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @ChuckMcManis @ai6yr This week’s forecast for the Sierras has snow at night, rain during the day. It’s pretty bare up there
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @ai6yr
Agreed, if you've read the research there is a big variable in the IPCC (and other) models about clouds. If clouds form in the troposphere you get cooling on the ground, if they form in the stratosphere you get warming. The glacial event scenario starts with tropospheric cloud cover that puts the ground below into a deep freeze and then water precipitating out as snow, which then leaves behind the high albedo.
in reply to Chuck

I am a bit curmudgeonly about climate models, mostly about the climatologists who neglect global biomes with the exclusion perhaps of the Amazon forest.

That may be changing, where they come to accept again that land use is also climate change, and that if you kill the land, you kill the climate, because life just happened to have created the environment we exist in.

They should take a refresher on the great oxidation event..

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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @ChuckMcManis WOOHOO! BLUE GREEN ALGAE, TAKE THAT! WE'RE GOING TO DO IT AGAIN! THE GREAT CARBONATION EVENT!

(ignore me)

in reply to AI6YR Ben

@ai6yr @ChuckMcManis
Yes, the super wealthy have managed to achieve or aspire only to achieve the same level of global influence as Cyanobacteria.

Go for the five mass extinction guys that’s the goal

in reply to GhostOnTheHalfShell

@GhostOnTheHalfShell

Well back when I bought my 3999x Thread Ripper 128 core + 256GB "desktop" I thought I should run something challenging on this and found the IPCC model in R so I fired it up and started playing with it. It was educational to fix a dozen or so nodes in the model and run forward a decade or two.

@ai6yr @andybrwn

in reply to GhostOnTheHalfShell

@GhostOnTheHalfShell Yes. Chaotic polar conditions are like speed wobbles, and it stops weather from staying in the “regular” tracks on which infrastructure was designed, etc. It’s also like natural terraforming and will change the landscape on a pace that humans’ haven’t experienced before. Weeee
in reply to andybrwn

Within known human history. Before 13,000 years ago, the climate was far more volatile. I think it’s gone to both cold and greater temperature.

The mode of living that worked in that kind of volatility is known as hunter gatherer.

Sedentary lifestyles were much less fit for purpose





RE: mastodon.social/@mcnees/115719…

I've always thought of this as the "I'm gonna fuck Dracula 😉" versus "I fucked Dracula ☺️" of physics.


The transition from classical to quantum physics went about as smoothly as you would expect. Happy #QuantumDay!

(Unfortunately, I have no idea who made this classic physics meme. It has been around forever. If you know, please tell me!)





Ragazza di 25 anni cade su un sentiero a Metato, soccorsa da Sast e vigili del fuoco
L'infortunata è stata stabilizzata, quindi è stata trasportata tramite manove su corda per poi congiungersi con l'ambulanza

luccaindiretta.it/cronaca/2025…



Some people think they can have a utopian sci-fi future, but an exclusionary one, built on a reactionary, bigoted society. That's not how it works. That's like trying to build on top of quicksand.

Fascists fundamentally don't believe in science, they don't believe in the openness and honesty needed to make it work, and they will purge society of all the brilliant people because they don't conform to their prejudices. They don't know how to build or create, only how to destroy.

in reply to Nowhere Girl

One of the reasons they're so infatuated by "AI." They're like those guys who prefer blow up dolls to real women. "Now I don't need them for anything anymore."
in reply to Nowhere Girl

reminds me of one of the most chilling lines from Humans (UK Channel 4 show about robots that gain consciousness), when the robot working in the brothel says "what they do to us is what they'd do to you if they had the chance"

There's a very good reason the champions of AI agree with Musk's line that empathy is a malfunction. That's the only way to doublethink their way out of what they're creating.





Do you promise not to make fun of me if I admit that until recently I assumed memcpy was some kind of Python library


Una de las mayores mentiras que nos vienen colando desde la transición es que la convivencia de lo público con lo privado beneficia a ambas partes por igual.

Que las personas que pueden pagarse un seguro privado de salud contribuyen a descongestionar la sanidad pública y a reducir listas de espera. Que los colegios concertados permiten a las administraciones ahorrar en construir y mantener lo que serían escuelas públicas.

Es todo mentira. La única manera de dignificar la sanidad y la educación pública es obligar a los ricos a que tengan que usarlas. Porque los ricos pueden permitirse el privilegio de comprar las políticas que hacen que se deje de invertir en lo público (total, para qué, si no van a usarlo) mientras que consiguen que esos mismos fondos públicos se vayan a financiar sus chiringuitos privados dónde les curan y educan a sus hijes. Así tenemos la mafia de Quirón o las FP privadas llevándoselo gordo.

¿Pero si los ricos tuviesen que llevar a sus hijes a un colegio público? Veríais como bajaban las ratios y no faltaban recursos. Ídem con los centros de salud.

in reply to Shine McShine 🐌

tonterías !
Elon Musk ha dicho que con Optimus y la conducción autónoma se acabará la pobreza y todas tendremos acceso a la mejor sanidad.

forbes.pe/tecnologia/2025-10-2…

Elon Musk asegura que el robot Optimus terminará con la pobreza.

(Edito para comentar que he puesto tonterías en plan ironía. No sea que alguien lea esto y me tache de seguidor de Elon Musk o algo así)

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Happy #QuantumDay to all who celebrate!

Max Planck presented work on blackbody radiation to the German Physical Society #OTD in 1900.

His novel “quantum hypothesis” suggested that matter should be treated as it it emits and absorbs light with frequency f only in discrete chunks of energy E=hf.

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in reply to Robert McNees

Planck’s quantum hypothesis would revolutionize physics, but he initially thought it wasn’t real.

He suspected that the interaction of matter and radiation was tremendously complicated but still governed by the physics known at the time — what we now call “classical physics.”

Invoking quanta of radiation to derive the blackbody emission spectrum was, it seemed to Planck, just a mathematical trick that somehow encapsulated all that complication.

in reply to Robert McNees

If so, it was a trick that *worked*.

Previous efforts to derive the blackbody emission spectrum using classical physics gave nonsensical results at high frequencies. Replace continuous emission with discrete quanta and things work out perfectly.

Evidence for the reality of quanta began with Einstein’s explanation of the photoelectric effect in 1905. The proposal that radiation of frequency f exists only in discrete chunks of energy E=hf was the first result of Einstein’s “Miracle Year.”

in reply to Robert McNees

Many physicists remained skeptical. But Arthur Compton’s 1923 explanation of X-rays scattering off electrons was near-incontrovertible evidence that quanta were real.
in reply to Robert McNees

Here's a great APS Landmarks entry where you can read more about Compton Scattering and the reality of photons.

physics.aps.org/story/v13/st8

in reply to Robert McNees

This sequence of events was a not uncommon narrative in the transformative years of late 19th and early 20th century physics. It would go something like this:

1. An experimental result doesn’t make sense

2. A physicist proposes a radical solution.

3. The solution seems too weird to be real. Everyone assumes it must be a convenient "trick."

4. Eventually, everyone realizes it wasn't a trick, and reality is in fact weirder than they expected.

in reply to Robert McNees

Planck’s hypothesis was in fact a deep statement about the nature of Nature. Electromagnetic adiation of frequency f comes in discrete chunks of energy E=hf. It's not an artifact of a complicated interaction with matter.

Nowadays we refer to the proportionality constant h as "Planck's constant." In the SI system it takes the value h=6.626 x 10⁻³⁴ kg*m²/s, or 4.136 x 10⁻¹⁵ eV*s.

As far as we can tell, h is a fundamental constant that is hardwired into our Universe.

in reply to Robert McNees

The results of Planck’s December 14th lecture were submitted to Annalen der Physik a few weeks later, on January 7th, and published not long after that.

You can see the original (in German) here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ep…

An English translation of Planck’s paper, taken from Dirk ter Haar’s “The Old Quantum Theory,” is available here:
web.archive.org/web/2023052902…

in reply to Robert McNees

Something that isn’t as widely known is that “h” is not the only fundamental constant that was introduced during Planck’s presentation to the German Physical Society #OTD in 1900!

Planck was investigating emission and absorption by blackbodies, so he needed a way to relate energies and temperatures. Thus, he had to introduce what we now refer to as “Boltzmann’s constant.”

#otd
in reply to Robert McNees

That’s right, the factor of “k” that appears in the formula “S = k log W” — the formula engraved on Boltzmann’s memorial! — was actually introduced by Max Planck. Boltzmann expressed his results in terms of the ideal gas constant R.

Image: user Daderot on Wikipedia

in reply to Robert McNees

The transition from classical to quantum physics went about as smoothly as you would expect. Happy #QuantumDay!

(Unfortunately, I have no idea who made this classic physics meme. It has been around forever. If you know, please tell me!)

in reply to Robert McNees

Max Planck and Edgar Allan Poe - separated at birth?

I guess Max was born 9yrs after Edgar died, so maybe a little spookiness at a temporal distance required. 🤣

#Planck #EdgarAllanPoe




Remember in 2010 when Berlin archaeologists found a bunch of Degenerate Art #sculpture and the ashes of loads of burnt paintings that had fallen into the basement of a building bombed to pieces by the Allies near the end of WW2?

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner…

#art

in reply to Martin Rundkvist

The tragicomical aspect here is that the people who finally destroyed all those Degenerate modernist paintings were not the Nazis. They were the Allies.

#art

#Art







CVE Alert: CVE-2025-14647 - code-projects - Computer Book Store - redpacketsecurity.com/cve-aler…

#OSINT #ThreatIntel #CyberSecurity #cve-2025-14647 #code-projects #computer-book-store




Attorney General Bonta Sues Over Trump Administration’s Unlawful New $100K Fee for H-1B Visa oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases…
in reply to Heidi Li Feldman

This has not been getting the proper attention. The new fee is a bomb for many hospital systems.



Antisemitischer Anschlag. Und ich höre wieder dieses bedrückende laute Schweigen. Ist wirklich nicht verstanden, dass diese emotional aufgepeitschten free free palestine- Schreihälse eine zweite, rechtsoffene Front aufgebaut haben? Die Tür heißt Antisemitismus.www.tagesschau.de/ausland/ozea...

Tote und Verletzte durch Schüs...





The Year 2025 for powRSS by @enocc

"As 2025 comes to a close, I want to put together a summary of the things that went on. I’m a strong believer of building in public, and that includes talking about the goals, successes and failures."

enocc.com/2025/12/14/powrss-nu…

#blogs #rss #indieweb



I've just seen an absolutely disgusting article. I said "seen", not "read", because I'm blind and I could not read it.
for your reference, here's the first beautiful sentence of this article:
"ffGE ARrj XRejm XAj bZgui cB R EXZgl, Rmi mjji jrjg-DmygjREDmI XgRDmDmI iRXR XZ DlkgZrj."
I don't know the technology behind this BS, but screen readers see it as scrambled text, kind of encrypted or something like this. I guess it's some font juggling (ChatGPT supposed it's gliph scrambling, where random Unicode values are mapped to random letters — I'll trust her in this because I really don't care about the tech behind it), but if you have a tiny little grain of empathy, never ever ever do this, for goodness sake.
tilschuenemann.de/projects/sac…
#Accessibility #Blindness #Empathy #BadPractices #Web #Text

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in reply to infinite love ⴳ

it's using a custom font to replace the appearance of letters, so that "ffGE ARrj XRejm" looks like LLMs have taken. Like extreme unicrud.
in reply to tedu

@tedu oh. i have Firefox set to disallow pages from setting their own fonts, so that would explain it.
@tedu

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Ein Glas mit einer Flüssigkeit darin steht auf einer hölzernen Oberfläche. Das Glas ist aus transparentem Material gefertigt und ist in Form eines breiten, stumpfen Kegels. In der Flüssigkeit ist ein großes Eisstück zu sehen. Die Flüssigkeit hat einen amberfarbenen Farbton. Das Glas befindet sich im Vordergrund auf einer strukturierten Oberfläche, die aussieht wie Holz, vor einem dunkleren Hintergrund.

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"A 26-year-old Palestinian detainee, arrested months ago in the occupied West Bank by Israeli forces, has died in Israeli custody amid reports of torture and medical negligence, marking the second Palestinian death in Israeli prisons in less than a week"
"There are currently more than 10,800 Palestinians held in Israeli jails, including 450 children, 87 women, and 3,629 held without charge or trial"

qudsnen.co/public/post?id=6688…
@palestine
#IsraeliTortureCamps
#IsraelTerroristState



:akkosad: One Punch Man went back to poor animations, big fights behind walls and close doors, I thought the mental stair case was the absolute bottom of abandonism but this episode still delivered some solid frames.

#opm #onepunchman #anime




CN Sydney "Wir wachen an einem Feiertag auf – und wieder haben einige von uns nicht überlebt." Ron Dekel, Präsident der Jüdischen Studierendenunion Deutschland.