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New policy. Delete Bluesky app every weekend. Like mini @darthbluesky.bsky.social hibernations. See you nice people on Monday.

Wait until you see the new tariffs on inflatable costumes. Ten bazillion per cent.

YYZ-SEA please ⚾️ gods

composable-custom-extensions/src/api.adoc at main · riscv/composable-custom-extensions This task group will propose ISA extension(s) and non-ISA hardware and software interop interfaces to enable routine reuse and composition of a subcategory of custom extensions called composable ex...

Today's work -- first w-i-p draft of a CX API for a CX Runtime for uniform services for accelerator CX libraries for RISC-V Composable Custom Extensions.

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Since Plaintiffs’ Monday morning filings and the Court’s initial hearing that afternoon, the Trump administration has continued its purposeful defiance of the lawful bounds of its power to create a federal military occupation of Illinois.1 Indeed, in the past few days, the President has repeated his disdain for any guardrails on those powers. A few hours after the Monday hearing in this case, Trump issued an after-the-fact memorandum invoking 10 U.S.C. § 12406 to federalize National Guard troops that Secretary Hegseth had already deployed into Illinois. That same day, Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller asserted the authoritarian view that the President has “plenary authority”—sweeping and unlimited power—to federalize National Guard troops and dispatch them to American cities like Chicago. The next day, Trump told press in the Oval Office that he might just invoke the Insurrection Act to “get around” judicial orders blocking his unlawful troop deployments, like the one last weekend in Oregon. Then just yesterday, Trump himself posted on social media that the Governor of Illinois and Mayor of Chicago should be jailed. These were not empty threats. They were made even as defendants dispatched a third state’s National Guard to Illinois in federalized status, this time from California, and without any new deployment order specific to Illinois. This lawless targeting by the President and his administration of people and places he does not favor will not stop without court intervention. The Court can and should stop this authoritarian march. We remain a nation of laws, we have no king, and the President has no such “plenary authority” to federalize National Guard troops and deploy them into the streets of Illinois. The Court should enter a preliminary injunction against defendants’ federalization and deployment of any state’s National Guard, or deployment of U.S. military, into Illinois over the objection of its Governor.

"We have no king," Illinois says, updating the court on all the authoritarian things Trump has said since Monday.

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YYZ-SEA please ⚾️ gods

A Viral Neuraminidase-Specific Sensor for Taste-Based Detection of Influenza Influenza has caused the deadliest pandemics in history, thereby prompting advances in our ability to ensure vigilance at all stages of future outbreaks. Quarantining patients early is crucial when it...

Just published, a study describing a taste-based flu test yes, chewing gum that could tell you if you have influenza. The gum contains a sensor that detects the flu enzyme neuraminidase & releases a compound called thymol that changes taste when the virus is present.
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“Memory interfaces … rely on parallel, bi-directional buses, with separate command and data … at different frequencies …

We believe on-package memory needs to undergo a similar revolution by adopting a unidirectional, serialized, point-to-point interconnect like UCIe, as proposed in this paper.”

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Silicon One P200 51.2Tbps full duplex deep buffer router processor, Oct 8, 2025 newsroom.cisco.com/c/r/newsroom...
P200 blogs.cisco.com/sp/cisco-sil...
End-to-end security
Deep buffering
DS www.cisco.com/c/en/us/prod...
8200 DS www.cisco.com/c/en/us/prod...

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The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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XAI’s financing would be split between about $7.5 billion of equity and as much as $12.5 billion of debt in the SPV, the people said. The vehicle will be used to buy Nvidia processors, and Musk’s artificial intelligence startup would then rent the chips out for five years, allowing Wall Street financiers to recoup their investment. The unique deal structure, backed by the GPUs as opposed to the company, could provide a playbook for tech firms looking to decrease debt exposure.

A bunch of these circular AI deals are treating GPUs like they're real estate or Treasury bonds or something, rather than rapidly depreciating equipment with a high risk of obsolescence well within 5 years due to energy inefficiency and rising electricity costs.
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“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”

👆With thanks to the staff trying to make OSC “Experiences” save face for Kinga Surma, it does not.

Ford and Surma and the OSC Board betrayed Ontario’s kids.

We had one of the great science museums of the world. It changed lives.

Now we don’t. It doesn’t.

Renew and reopen OSC in 2026.

We are sincerely curious.

Please detail for us:
1) floor space of CFSGX vs. shuttered OSC?
2) # exhibits at CFSGX vs. OSC?
3) # on site educators / presenters at CFSGX vs. OSC?
4) # hours per visitor at CFSGX vs. OSC?
5) # students per month at CFSGX vs. (10/23) OSC?

@saveosc.bsky.social

Cf. arxiv.org/abs/1803.06617

Quoting aggregate compute capability in GW is not a healthy sign.

Can we at least go back to questionable dense TOPS, exaflops, etc.?

Immergut: I'm handling this on expedited basis, but defendants haven't provided new info.

SHE RULES FROM THE BENCH: I grant the plaintiffs motion for a second TRO based on reasons stated in previous order...

Initial conditions:
m1=29.9 m2=3.4 m3=15.7 (solar masses)
v1x=-4.292 v1y=-2.816 v2x=1.861 v2y=2.299 v3x=5.073 v3y=4.874 (km/s)
x1=26.0 y1=-11.0 x2=12.0 y2=35.0 x3=6.0 y3=0.0 (AU from center)
Music: First Step (Interstellar) – Zimmer

In sum, the President is certainly entitled "a great level of deference," Newsom II, 141 F.4th at 1048, in his determination that he "is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States." 10 U.S.C. § 12406(3). But "a great level of deference" is not equivalent to ignoring the facts on the ground. As the Ninth Circuit articulated, courts must "review the President's determination to ensure that it reflects a colorable assessment of the facts and law PAGE 22 - OPINION AND ORDER Case 3:25-cv-01756-IM Document 56 Filed 10/04/25 Page 23 of 31 within a 'range of honest judgment.'" Id. at 1051 (quoting Sterling, 278 U.S. at 399). Here, this Court concludes that the President did not have a "colorable basis" to invoke § 12406(3) to federalize the National Guard because the situation on the ground belied an inability of federal law enforcement officers to execute federal law. Id. at 1051-52. The President's determination was simply untethered to the facts. c. Whether there is a Rebellion or Danger of Rebellion Defendants also aroue that the Sentember 28 2025 federalization order is authorized

If a federal judge, appointed by Trump, can call him “simply untethered to facts,” our White House press corps can as well.

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Furthermore, this country has a longstanding and foundational tradition of resistance to government overreach, especially in the form of military intrusion into civil affairs. “That tradition has deep roots in our history and found early expression, for example, in . . . the constitutional provisions for civilian control of the military.” Laird v. Tatum, 408 U.S. 1, 15 (1972); see also James Madison, Address to the Constitutional Convention (1787), reprinted in 1 Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, at 465 (Max Farrand ed., 1911) (“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”). This historical tradition boils down to a simple proposition: this is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law. Defendants have made a range of arguments that, if accepted, risk blurring the line between civil and military federal power—to the detriment of this nation.

"This country has a longstanding and foundational tradition of resistance to government overreach, especially in the form of military intrusion into civil affairs. ...

"This historical tradition boils down to a simple proposition: this is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law."

CONCLUSION For the above reasons, this Court GRANTS Plaintiffs' Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, ECF 6, and temporarily enjoins Defendants' September 28, 2025, Memorandum ordering the federalization and deployment of Oregon National Guard service members to Portland. The TRO expires in fourteen days on October 18, 2025, and the parties are ORDERED to comply with the attached TRO. The Defendants' request to stay or administratively stay the Temporary Restraining Order, see Defendants' Opposition to Plaintiffs' Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, ECF 35 at 41, is DENIED. IT IS SO ORDERED DATED this 4th day of October, 2025 at 3:40 p.m. pacific daylight time. /s/ Karin J. Immergut Karin J. Immergut United States District Judge

NEW: Judge Immergut BLOCKS Trump's federalization of the Oregon National Guard, writing that the govt has "made a range of arguments that, if accepted, risk blurring the line between civil and military federal power—to the detriment of this nation." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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The West Island at Ontario place viewed from the water. A tree-lined rocky shoreline on Toronto’s waterfront.

The West Island at Ontario place viewed from the water. A tree-lined rocky shoreline on Toronto’s waterfront. Black fencing surrounds the perimeter.

A juvenile black-crowned night heron perched on a rock on the Toronto shoreline.

The West Island at Ontario place viewed from the water. A tree-lined rocky shoreline on Toronto’s waterfront. Some leaves have turned orange.

A year ago today I paddled around the West Island at Ontario Place - all summer looking at the trees from the water.

Unknowingly this was the last evening they stood, as they were cut down that night.

Favorite tie of former speaker John Bercow?

floorplan of the latest TT ASIC multi project chip

We just packed 237 of your projects into our most packed ASIC to date and submitted it for manufacture. Let’s take a look inside…

454 Single Port OpenRAM Testchip - Tiny Tapeout Testchip of single port SRAM macro using two phase clocking

It’s great to see people using our service to test bigger mixed signal designs like OpenRAM. In this test, Jesse put a tiny 16x32 RAM inside a 4 tile digital design.

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OOPSLA 2026 deadline is just a week away! Can you please help us get the word out by sharing? Thanks!
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