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Read-out of Majorana qubits reveals their hidden nature – Physics World Mechanism could pave the way for more robust quantum computation, but questions remain over scalability

Scientists @qutech.bsky.social and @icmm-csic.bsky.social have succeeded in reading out the parity of a system of Majorana zero modes – an important step towards making these protected qubits a viable #quantum computing platform. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/read-out-o...

Central Park on Monday was fabulous. 💕

(via Noel Calingasan) #NYC

A New History of the Maya with Dr David Stuart YouTube video by Archaeology with Flint Dibble

LIVESTREAM tomorrow at 4pm UK/11am EST. David Stuart joins me to chat about the Maya

I return from my overlong YouTube hiatus (due to ill health and overwork), so join us for a fun archaeology chat!
www.youtube.com/live/1JfAt4Q...

Communities fight 'corporate' bid for seaweed rights Communities on Ireland's west coast say they will fight to safeguard their traditional seaweed rights against what they describe as a "corporate takeover "of their livelihoods.

Myself and Colin Breen have written in "Maritime Ireland" about seaweed harvesting on Ireland's coastline, in 19th century. These are local rights, well known and established through built features (e.g. wrack walls, kilns, etc). There is no way that such rights be taken over by foreign companies.

People don't want data centers polluting their cities.

They don't want masked thugs terrorizing their neighbors.

They don't want warehouses being turned into ICE prisons.

They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home.

They want their basic needs met.

The FAA quietly created drone no-fly zones around “select locations” and “mobile assets” controlled by DHS.

But how could reporters with drones identify such assets when ICE uses unmarked vehicles?

Watch FPF’s @adamrose.bsky.social explain these restrictions and how they impact journalists.

U.S. Immigration Deportees Held in Secret African Detention Facility Sending migrants to Cameroon skirted judicial orders, lawyers said.

"As the journalists interacted with the migrants, uniformed police barged in and detained the lawyer and four journalists. Police confiscated their cameras, laptops and phones..."

www.wsj.com/world/africa...

Oldest indigo-dyed textiles and nålbinding technique found in Bronze Age Anatolia Excavations at Beycesultan Höyük reveal Bronze Age indigo-dyed textiles and the earliest use of nålbinding in Anatolia.

As someone who has written on the ancient history of indigo for awhile now? This is exciting. archaeologymag.com/2026/02/olde...

This is a portion of the video taken by Perseverance during its touchdown sequence, showing the Skycrane lowering the rover before cutting the bridles and flying away to its destruction.

The video is in real time.

The cover-up just never ends. Rest in peace, Ruben Ray Martinez.

Jewish seniors are offering to hide their Haitian caregivers as Trump's TPS end looms - Jewish Telegraphic Agency "That reminds me of Anne Frank,” said the CEO of one Jewish senior residence reeling as Temporary Protected Status for Haitians is set to end.

"About 500 seniors live at Sinai Residences in Boca Raton, Florida, including many Holocaust survivors.

Recently, some of them asked if they could hide the building’s Haitian staff in their apartments..."

www.jta.org/2026/01/30/u...

Troublemaker is my middle name.

Sanctuary policies are legal. The Supreme Court has been clear for decades that the federal government cannot commandeer state or local governments to enforce federal immigration law. This isn’t “playing with fire.” It’s constitutional law.

As an aside, Schlitz was a two-time clerk for Scalia.

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Seems like a good video for his trial

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him.

“When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

WOW

This woman is unfathomably brave and we all owe her a debt of gratitude for her determination to show the world what Trump's goons did to her.

❗️According to the Slovak Prime Minister, after his meeting with Donald Trump on January 17 at Mar-a-Lago, he was shocked by the mental state of the American president. Robert Fico called Trump psychologically unstable and described him as “dangerous”.

“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”

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Encrypted qubits can be cloned and stored in multiple locations – Physics World “Elegant” result has implications for a quantum internet

Surprising result has implications for quantum multicloud storage and information loss from black holes. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/Zcvr50Y1LOH

To those of you have been saying (justifiably) that this image is chilling, bear in mind: in this split second of time, this is Alex Pretti trying to stand after already being shot once.

MN SOS Simon on DOJ's request for voter information: 'No' Simon, whose office oversees the state's elections and voter processes, called the attorney general's request to access citizens' private data "outrageous."

www.kare11.com/article/news...

You gotta admit, their names sure are a cosmic coincidence.

Crowd is massive, now overflowing Congress Plaza and taking up a block-long stretch of Michigan Avenue.

Reminder: this event was only announced yesterday.

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

❗️Ukraine’s Ministry of Energy has shown how 🇺🇦Ukrainian power engineers continuously restore electricity after Russian strikes.

This helps explain the current fascination with Greenland. (Spoiler alert: its just more techbro pseudointellectual "borderless, crypto-based utopian society" babbling)