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Frankie ✅

Germany will seek to revive relations with France and Poland

Friedrich Merz, Germany's likely next head of government, is already trying to shape foreign policy. He is especially concerned about Germany's ailing relationships with France and Poland.

dw.com/en/germany-will-seek-to

Deutsche Welle · Germany will seek to revive relations with France and PolandBy Christoph Hasselbach
#news#politics#germany
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Futurist Jim Carroll

"Doing the wrong thing for the wrong reason never has a snowball-in-hell chance of being the right thing!" = Futurist Jim Carroll

It takes a lot to piss off Canadians.

Suffice it to say, a sleeping giant woke up from the snow, looked around, and didn't like what it saw. Lots of folks don't understand the depth of pride and identity that is embedded deep into the soul of our nation. They don't understand the visceral depth of anger that most Canadians feel right now.

Ponder that word: visceral.

There will be a lot of information in the days, months, weeks (years?) to come. I'll be working hard to temper my comments, moderate my opinions, and manage my emotions. This will be tough. I will note that my next keynote will be for the Texas farming and agricultural industry.

Anyway, there is a lot to think about and a lot to share. A good starting point is to appreciate that yes, this is a zero-sum game. There will be losers, and there will be losers. There are no winners, except for those who wish to see the destruction of a century of global trade based on mutual trust and respect.

The big issue is - what is the pathway out? That's complicated. 
The best I can offer you is this insight, being shared online, by one Prof. David Honig of Indiana University. 

Read the last line.

It's in my post today.

**#Trade** **#Relations** **#Trust** **#Leadership** **#Understanding** **#Perspective** **#Complexity** **#Diplomacy**

jimcarroll.com/2025/02/daily-i

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Chuck Darwin

A handful of mini-revolutions have already occurred.

One came in the mid-2000s,
when Ruth #Britto, Freddy #Cachazo, Bo #Feng and Edward #Witten discovered the “#recursion #relations,”
equations that let physicists condense hundreds of pages of Feynman diagrams to mere lines.

Around the same time, Arkani-Hamed joined the hunt for a new conceptual perspective on particle physics,
after a couple of thought experiments led him to doubt that space and time are truly well-founded physical concepts.

Several years later, he and Trnka discovered the amplituhedron.

The amplituhedron is a curvy shape whose contours encode the number and orientation of particles involved in an interaction.

Its volume gives the amplitude for that interaction to occur.

This volume equals the sum of amplitudes of all the Feynman diagrams depicting the various alternative ways the interaction could play out,
but in this case you calculate the answer without reference to those spatiotemporal dynamics;

all you need is the list of momentums of the particles that exist before and after the interaction.

“However the scattering happens, it’s controlled by this real structure,”
said Vijay Balasubramanian, a physicist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies quantum gravity.

“You don’t have to talk about space-time.”

The surprising discovery brought new people into the search.

But the amplituhedron worked only for a theory of particles that came hand in hand with exotic partner particles,
a simplifying balance called supersymmetry.

(Generally speaking, one quantum “theory” describes one specific set of rules for one specific set of particles.
As such, there are many quantum theories, some for real particles and others for fictitious ones.)

“You’re a little bit suspicious that maybe the amazing things you’re seeing have nothing to do with the real world,” said Giulio Salvatori,
a physicist who would later join the group.

In the following years, Arkani-Hamed’s team identified a second type of shape,
the “#associahedron,” that worked in a similar way.

It had flat sides, and its volume gave scattering amplitudes for the particles of a simplified quantum theory,
one that’s easier to study.

The particles in this theory carry a type of charge called “color” that is also carried by the quarks and gluons in real-world atomic nuclei.

(This charge has nothing to do with actual colors, but the mathematics of how charges combine to make color-neutral composite particles resembles how red, green and blue light together make white.)

The particles of this theory also lack supersymmetric partners.

The associahedron therefore represented a major step toward the real world.

But the shape gave only partial answers, producing amplitudes for only the shortest sequences of subatomic events.

Sensing a breakthrough was close, Arkani-Hamed recruited Salvatori and Hadleigh Frost at the University of Oxford,
young physicists who had been independently advancing the understanding of the associahedron’s strange shapes,
along with the mathematicians Pierre-Guy Plamondon and Hugh Thomas.

In 2019, the gang started looking for a geometrical route to all of these amplitudes.

Then the pandemic hit,
and the team left our space-time to work in the digital ether of Zoom.

They would emerge two years later with a second revolutionary way of doing quantum physics.

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Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈

#SouthDakota's Puppy Killing Gov. #KristiNoem #banished by 2 more #SouthDakota #Indian #tribes, now banned from nearly 20% of her state.

And there is a long #history of #rocky #relations between #NativeAmericans in the #state and the #government dating back to the #WoundedKnee #Massacre in 1890

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #SouthDakota #IndigenousPeople #Spirituality #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide

cbsnews.com/news/gov-kristi-no

CBS News · Gov. Kristi Noem banished by 2 more South Dakota tribes, now banned from nearly 20% of her stateSix tribes have banned South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem over comments she made about tribal leaders benefitting from drug cartels.
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Ariel Kroon

Y'all I wrote about my #cats this week for my @solarpunkpresents article bc I'm a hopeless #cat lady and also a chronic overthinker, so of course I'm super conflicted about straight-up owning another living being.

Anyone else feel like this, tho? #Ethics where #pets are concerned are so squishy. I'm glad that the word #kahu exists honestly, shoutout to #Hawaiian people for being mad wise about #relations with non-human #animals.

Thoughts?

tinyurl.com/3fac6w59

Solarpunk PresentsSolarpunks and companion animals — Solarpunk PresentsUsing the language of “ownership” to describe humans’ relationship to their companion animal(s) assumes a subject-object relationship, or a hierarchical binary that positions all human animals as superior to non-human animals. Instead of the baggage-laden term of “owner,” then, I propose solarpunks
#solarpunk#solarpunks
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Matt Willemsen

Have polls shown 70% of Americans believe same-sex marriage should be legal?
Yes.
A May Gallup poll found 71% of U.S. adults said same-sex marriage should be valid, matching the result from one year earlier.
The poll conducted May 1-24, 2023, asked: “Do you think marriages between same-sex couples should or should not be recognized by the law as valid, with the same rights as traditional marriages?”
wisconsinwatch.org/2023/10/fac #majority #samesex #marriage #legal #relations #VALID

Wisconsin Watch · Have polls shown 70% of Americans believe same-sex marriage should be legal?By Tom Kertscher / Wisconsin Watch
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Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈

#Mauritius is the latest #nation to #decriminalise #samesex #relations in a #divided #continent.

The decision boosts the trend in the #SouthernAfricanDevelopmentCommunity (#SADC) #region towards #decriminalisation. 9 out of 16 #memberstates – do not #prohibit #gay and #lesbian #sexual #relations.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Africa #Mauritius #Decrminialization

theconversation.com/mauritius-

The ConversationMauritius is the latest nation to decriminalise same-sex relations in a divided continentThe trend towards decriminalising same sex relations in the SADC region contrasts with moves towards harsher punishment in other parts of Africa.
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