I take this as a positive sign that the administration expects elections to continue... and that's where we're at.

I think I'm missing the part of that article that supports that.

For a few speakers, or for a bunch of protestors?

This sounds suspicious.

I strongly suspect Russia doesn't intend for Ukraine to be around for a generation to come. Admirable work by Ukraine, however. Hopefully they can continue to disappoint Russian intentions.

Any nerds out there want to start a journal club?

I mean under normal interpretation of US law.

Is this even illegal?

Maybe just boycott everything Skydance, Paramount, and CBS if they're going to axe Colbert to try to curry political favor to ram their merger through.

This setup might be impractical for field use, due to the bulk of the interferometers and the requirement for sensitive calibration, but for your purposes it should be suitable.

You'd shown a Michaelson interferometer, but you might have better luck with a Mach-Zender interferometer.
arxiv.org/pdf/2207.128...

If the beams are not too tightly grouped, and your target is in the right frequency range (not too low, not too high!) you could even calculate your target's position inside a room and filter to listen to exactly that source. This can all be done on recorded signal; doesn't have to be live.

If you are feeling especially ambitious, you could split your source beam into 3-4 tightly grouped, parallel sources and catch those with 3-4 interferometers, which would allow you to filter out vibrations in the plane of the mirror.

If you still have your lidar sensor, placing this near your interferometer's source laser and aiming it at the same surface could help you calculate where to look for the specular bounce. It'll get you both the distance to the surface and the normal of the surface!

Your plan was to do interferometry next, and I think that's absolutely the right direction. You should look into "quadrature interferometry" which doubles the resolution and adds direction to the displacement of your surface. Very useful for filtering noise!

@bennjordan.bsky.social Hey, saw your video on long-range directional audio measurement ("acoustic spying"), and it was pretty neat! (Linked to your video below, because I understand you've done a lot.)
youtu.be/mEC6PM97IRI

Have some suggestions on how this can be iterated on.

The hidden time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs A decades-old tax rule helped build America's tech economy. A quiet change under Trump helped dismantle it

qz.com/tech-layoffs...

People are complex, and we do ourselves a disservice by reducing them to simple representations, as gratifying as that might be sometimes.

"For fuck's sake, put him on the next flight to Venezuela."

I'm not sure we've ever been so wise in reality.

"A shutdown would cause more chaos, and that would be worse". It's also one of the few ways to hold a would-be dictator accountable and put pressure on him to govern responsibly. If you want the chaos and consolidation of power to stop, you need to be willing to endure some chaos in the short-term.

Previous literature has determined that this partisanship effect disappears when subjects are given a financial incentive for identifying disinformation accurately.

Policy-based evidence making

The problem is that any Jedi living up to their reputation is necessarily an unbearably boring character. Aspirationally, it's a very dry and uninteresting order.

This is leading to an incredibly dangerous time.

The answer appears to be an emphatic, "No."

Jaguar/Firebird offset body. Weirdly, no one seems to be saying this?

Where is Hungary on this scale?

Republicans Saved Democracy Once. Will They Do It Again? Trump’s Cabinet nominations will be a critical first test signaling whether American democracy will survive his second term.

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

It's contextual. There should be as few rules as possible, but there should be a rule anywhere there would otherwise be a disagreement.

I understand that it has hindered your ratings, but I believe it is a mischaracterization to say it punishes small game developers.