Jay Alt

Umweltschutz - Wie Kalifornien für die USA die Klimaflagge hoch hält

Donald Trump ist ein Elefant im Raum bei den #COP30 Verhandlungen. Doch gestern nahm sich ein anderer den Raum, um deutlich zu machen: Nein, die USA stehen auch weiter für Klimaschutz: @gavinnewsom.bsky.social
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Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.

“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.

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Lol arxiv.org/abs/2511.06613

Spurred on by new pterosaur paper. I‘ve been meaning to draw something like this for a while now and I wanted to get it down on paper. Pretty rough, may or may not clean it up later on.

One idea I’ve been playing with about our current moment is that part of the impetus for Trumpism comes from a critical fraction of capital owners who decided that dealing with climate isn’t worth the costs. But *not* dealing with it requires rejecting the whole principle of rational policymaking.

In 1990 it was widely believed genres of music could constitute rival and coequal value systems to American capitalism and selling out of them was a betrayal of a real community. Today it is controversial in America for the Pope to say this about Roman Catholicism.

: Reuters Subscribe O Exclusive: US intel found Israeli military lawyers warned there was evidence of Gaza war crimes, former US officials say By Erin Banco, Jonathan Landay and Humeyra Pamuk November 7, 2025 10:17 AM CST • Updated 29 mins ago

The abundance of evidence of the Biden administration just looking the other way and being willing to supply arms to actions they knew violated international law will continue to grow

‼️ Mexico's first woman president, Claudia Sheinbaum, just announced she's pressing charges after being groped in the street:

“If they do this to the president, what happens to all the women in our country?”

the south is a neo-colony
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YouTube video by The Oregonian Portland councilor erupts over homeless budget, looming layoffs

I went back and watched this exchange today, and the response to Smith’s questions (from her colleagues and the O) encapsulates something that holds Portland back.

It is absolutely insane that the City Administrator, who makes $300K+/yr, couldn’t answer this question.

youtu.be/MoMbQ4PMRA4

4 UC Berkeley students arrested on felony vandalism charges for anti-TPUSA art installation UCPD arrested four students early Monday morning for felony vandalism, according to information from campus administrators.

UCPD has charged four UC Berkeley undergrads with *felony vandalism* because they attempted to hang a cardboard bug on Sather Gate.

I think cable is very bad and drives partisan divisions but imo early cable was also the *end* of the historic post 60s era of cultural fragmentation in the US. The personalization aspect of cable was aimed at existing world of magazine based subculture, which cable embrace-extend-extinguished.

Filling out a banking form that asks for my occupation, and in what I am choosing to consider as a sign of the times, "journalist" is not a selectable option, but "cryptocurrency" is

Zoo of Centralities: Encyclopedia of Node Metrics in Complex Networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.05122
Centrality is a fundamental concept in network science, providing critical insights into the structure and dynamics of complex systems such as social, transportation, biological and financia...📈🤖

The ocean has been hoarding heat. Now it is building up a massive 'burp.' Even if humans cut emissions enough to reduce global temperatures, new research shows the Southern Ocean could kick warming back into gear.

File under: The Laws of Thermodynamics are a B****
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Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About WASHINGTON—Having thus far caved on eliminating the filibuster, advancing an adequate climate change agenda, and protecting voting rights, congressional Democrats told reporters Wednesday they were si...

Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, By gift © Rudolf Bauer

Invention (Composition 31) by Rudolf Bauer, 1933
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137744

Whilst its easy to get used to scary graphs, this one made me pause! The 2025 State of the Cryosphere report published yesterday has this one overlaying observations of #AMOC slowdown against model predictions.

The report states that “AMOC shutdown appears all but inevitable”

A long and comprehensive opinion, but this jumped out at me: The judge accused the Federal Protective Service—which was called in to suppress the protests—of lying under oath to slander the regular Portland police.😬

DOJ recently admitted that other FPS claims in this case were objectively false.

Many unhoused Chicagoans uncounted among the disappeared - Chicago Reader The Latino Union of Chicago, via its Adopt a Corner initiative, organizes patrols to watch for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agents at intersections and landmarks wh...

new: at least 26 unhoused chicagoans have been abducted since the start of "operation midway blitz."

the full scope of people disappeared is likely much larger but is obscured by heavy criminalization, social stigma, and fewer eyes and phones around to bear witness.

via @katieprout.bsky.social

Computational Turing Test Reveals Systematic Differences Between Human and AI Language
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04195

Spatiotemporal causal inference with arbitrary spillover and carryover effects: Airstrikes and insurgent violence in the Iraq War Social scientists now routinely draw on high-frequency, high-granularity ''microlevel'' data to estimate the causal effects of subnational interventions. To date, most researchers aggregate these data...

🚨New paper🚨: Are you interested in key debates about civil war and counterinsurgency? Like questions about causal inference but wish you had a better method for dealing with spillover and carryover effects? Then check out our new paper:

arxiv.org/abs/2504.03464

🔄 Updated Arxiv Paper

Title: Impossibility Results of Card-Based Protocols via Mathematical Optimization
Authors: Shunnosuke Ikeda, Kazumasa Shinagawa

Read more: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17595

Is getting so mad you actively seek and adopt archaic vitalist metaphysics a GPT psychosis or just a petit bourgeois reaction

PI Briefing | No. 40 | Kerala ends extreme poverty The Communist Party of India (Marxist) announces that Kerala has become the first Indian state to end extreme poverty.

"On 1 November 2025, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM) announced that the state of Kerala is “extreme poverty–free” — one year ahead of schedule."

The 40th Progressive International Briefing of 2025 is online now.

> the quipucamayoc when you think you've completed your allotment of corvee labor and can return to your village

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

"all the leaves are grey, and the sky is grey" - a dog singing california dreaming.

Rick van der Heijden
Attractors Is All You Need: Parity Games In Polynomial Time
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.03752