President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renée Good by Department of Homeland Security officers in Minneapolis “should have not happened,” offering his most direct acknowledgment yet that two of the most consequential deaths of his second term were unjustified, even as he continued to defend the broader aims of his immigration crackdown.
Hundreds of thousands of people have been moved by a video of Minneapolis anti-ICE protestors singing to ICE agents that they can still change their minds.
The clip, posted by Now This Impact, shows thousands of protestors standing outside hotels where ICE and Border Patrol agents are staying and singing, “It’s okay to change your mind/Show us your courage, leave this behind/It’s okay to change your mind/Then you can join us, join us here anytime.” The song was written by Minneapolis community song circle leader Annie Schlaefer.
Minneapolis residents continue to inspire the nation with their virulent yet peaceful opposition to the ICE occupation of their city. The intensity of the fury over the agents’ violent tactics – which resulted in the deaths of at least two peaceful protestors – has backed the administration into a corner, spurring even many Republicans to speak out against the aggressive operation.
Out MSNow host Rachel Maddow praised the Minneapolis movement as “a political shift” driven by “the people” after Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino was demoted to his old job as Border Patrol sector chief in El Centro, California.
“It starts with the people,” Maddow said. “It starts with the protests that we have seen. Principled, peaceful, relentless protest – it works. That is the source of this shift: peaceful, powerful, relentless, principled protest works. It uses democratic means to save democracy. That has what has made all of this political shifting happen.”
The administration has announced a reduction in the number of ICE agents in the city, but residents have made it clear they will continue to protest until the entire operation is over.
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Based on GOD.FORSAKEN-SKIDROW ISO release: sr-godforsaken.iso (4,420,747,264 bytes)
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Game Description
“The Land Forsaken by Gods” is a survival game that incorporates elements of “Diablo”.
On this despairing land abandoned by the gods, darkness is gradually devouring the light. Distorted monsters run wild everywhere, and the night has become a forbidden zone for life. Ancient curses and indescribable evil stir beneath the earth, and only a handful of survivors dare to resist the shackles of fate.
This is your battlefield and your destiny. Warrior, how will you write your own chapter?
Game Features
Class Selection: Find Your Path – From the powerful warrior to the mysterious warlock, from the necromancer who controls the undead to the agile hunter like a shadow, each class has a unique skill tree and growth path. Choose the class that suits you best according to your playing style and unlock higher – order combat potential, making your legend distinct.
Tidal Waves of Monsters: Endless Crisis – Facing the oncoming tidal waves of monsters, there is no chance to catch your breath! Every battle is full of challenges – from ordinary enemies to powerful elites, and then to the earth – shattering bosses. Each opponent will test your operation, strategy, and on – the – spot reaction. Only the toughest warriors can survive.
Survive the Night – In “The Land Forsaken by Gods”, the most dangerous thing is not the wandering monsters, but the darkness after nightfall. The darkness will gradually consume your sanity, and the distorted monsters lurking in the dark will gradually reveal themselves and show their fangs. No matter how brave the survivors are, they can’t survive in the darkness after losing their sanity. Lighting a torch will be the only way for you to survive!
Rich Build Variety – One of the core features of “The Land Forsaken by Gods” is its extremely high degree of freedom. In addition to the exclusive talent tree for each class, you can use any weapon and starting skills. A large number of unique skills and skill expansion effects allow you to have a different combat experience in each game. Similar to the skill runes in “Path of Exile”, they can be freely inlaid on skills to change their effects, making the richness and combination of builds an endless possibility.
Explore the Hidden Secrets of the World – This cursed land hides countless secrets: forgotten ancient ruins, dangerous underground labyrinths, and mysterious documents scattered everywhere. Every exploration may uncover the truth of a lost civilization, but it may also come at an irreparable cost. Only the brave can pierce the fog and discover the hidden truth.
Deep – Dive Equipment System – “The Land Forsaken by Gods” has a truly “Diablo” – like equipment system. Loot is randomly generated, with ever – changing attributes. You can obtain it from monsters, bosses, or merchants, and you can even use the gambling function to get some powerful equipment. There are also hundreds of powerful legendary items waiting for you to discover in the game.
Is anyone else still at the cottage? Yeah, us too. The Heated Rivalry hype doesn’t seem to be going anywhere soon, even if there’s a pretty long wait in store for season two.
After an initial small-time release as a Crave original in November, the super sexy queer ice hockey drama went supernova. It’s now on HBO, the home of The Last of Us and Severance, and reached UK shores in January, on Sky.
Online, the response has been rampant. Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams, who play the red hot rivals in question Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander, are now red hot Hollywood property too (in January, they presented at the Golden Globes). Even Robbie GK and François Arnaud, who play side characters (and lovers) Kip Grady and Scott Hunter, have become the internet’s fixation.
Now that season one has wrapped up, it’s time to start dreaming of season two. Here’s everything we know about Heated Rivalry’s upcoming second season.
Heated Rivalry season two is on the way. (Sabrina Lantos/HBO Max)
When is Heated Rivalry season two coming out?
First things first, we know that a second season of Heated Rivalry is on the way; Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams confirmed as such with a sweet viral video back in December. In a recent interview with Deadline, HBO’s boss Casey Bloys appeared to confirm that season three has been greenlit, too.
As for when season two might arrive, there’s good and bad news. The good news is that we’re not talking A Euphoria or Stranger Things wait time. The bad news is that there will still be a wait, of roughly 18 months or so.
In December, the show’s director Jacob Tierney confirmed that season two won’t be released in 2026, as he hadn’t even started writing it at the time of season one dropping. He teased that while it would be released “a little bit later” it is “still going to be soon”.
Jacob Tierney, the showrunner behind Heated Rivalry. (Getty)
In a new interview with the Los Angeles Times, Tierney put a time frame on season two, saying that fans can expect it in spring 2027.
“As much as I appreciate how rabid and interested people are at this point, the first season worked because I trusted my gut with this, and I’m going to do that again,” he said.
During an interview on Today, Storrie also suggested that season two will begin filming this summer, which was backed up by Bloys in his recent Deadline interview.
What will Heated Rivalry season two be about?
Heated Rivalry season one ended with Ilya and Shane turning their risqué post-rink rendezvous into something serious during a weekend at Shane’s cottage. While there, they confessed their love for one another, and began slowly referring to one another as their boyfriend. While at the cottage, Shane’s father also caught them kissing, leading to them coming out to Shane’s parents.
Heated Rivalry is the second book in author Rachel Reid’s Game Changers novel series, while season two of the show is set to focus on the sixth book: The Long Game.
Released in 2022, The Long Game returns to Shane and Ilya’s love story ten years later. While they are still together, the pro sportsmen are still publicly closeted.
Heated Rivalry. (Sabrina Lantos/HBO)
“Ten years. That’s how long Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov have been seeing each other. How long they’ve been keeping their relationship a secret. From friends, from family… from the league,” reads an official synopsis of the book.
“If Shane wants to stay at the top of his game, what he and Ilya share has to remain secret. He loves Ilya, but what if going public ruins everything?”
It sounds like season two will tug even harder on the heartstrings than season one.
In December, Tierney told Entertainment Weekly that while it won’t “be a shock” for fans to know that season two will focus on Ilya and Shane, there will be other characters thrown into the mix.
In his Los Angeles Times interview, Tierney said that there will be “diversions” into other characters’ plots in season two.
“Just like you can’t tell the story without Scott Hunter, you can’t really tell the story without Troy Barrett,” he said.
Troy Barrett is a character in book five of Reid’s series, Role Model, who didn’t appear in season one of the show. He’s another pro hockey player with a queer crush, this time on social media manager, Harris Drover.
As far as Storrie is concerned, season two is an exciting prospect.
“I’m interested to play at the dynamic that develops in The Long Game, which is, now that we’ve established we’re together and we’re choosing this, what does that look like to consistently choose through new obstacles, new self-realizations?” he told Entertainment Weekly.
“We’re in the real leagues now, and it’s cool to watch these people that have been in this heightened reality for so long. The other shoe drops that deepens the love, but that also tests some of their personal limits.”
Who will star in Heated Rivalry season two?
Well, if Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander are there, Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams will be too.
It remains to be seen whether Kip and Scott, and thus Robbie GK and François Arnaud, will appear in season two. That said, there might have been a slight hint in season one: viewers saw a brief look at bartender Kyle Swift, played by Matthew Finlan, who has a crush on Kip in Reid’s 2020 book Common Goal. If he were to play a role in season two, it’s possible that Kip (and Robbie) will appear, too. Kyle also goes on to have a relationship with older hockey player Eric Bennett, though the role of Eric has not yet been cast.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly recently, Finlan said that he knows “just as much as you — or just as little, let’s put it that way” on whether he will appear in season two.
An actor is also yet to be cast in the role of Troy or Harris, if they were to appear in season two.
Tierney recently said that while there has certainly been interest in season two from high-profile Hollywood heavyweights, he’s keen to keep the talent Canadian.
“We need Canadian talent, and we love Canadian talent. It’s not a burden, but it’s also something we literally have to do to get our financing,” he said. Plus, casting relative unknowns was part of the charm of season one, and look how that turned out.
What else do we know about Heated Rivalry season two?
Specific details about Heated Rivalry season two are scarce, but there’s a few things we’ve learnt along the way.
For example, Tierney is pretty keen for the second season to follow a similar format to season one, with just six episodes. “I would always rather tighten the belt than get loosey-goosey… I would rather be like, ‘Let’s see how much story we can pack into these episodes,’” he explained.
Tierney has also confirmed that he will return to direct season two, but will be bringing on a co-writer.
Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie and Shane and Ilya. (Sabrina Lantos/HBO)
We also know that the second season, like the first, won’t be co-produced by HBO and so won’t be “HBO-ified”.
“This is obviously a very successful creative collaboration between Jacob and Crave. I see no reason why we would be involved creatively,” Bloys said recently.
While there’s still well over a year to wait until Heated Rivalry, we can expect a trickle of details to be announced over the coming months. Keep the bed warm at the cottage, boys.
Heated Rivalry is streaming now on HBO, Crave and NOW.
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against Rady Children’s Health on 30 January over its decision to shutter its gender-affirming care program for patients under the age of 19.
Last month, Rady announced the closure of its Center for Gender Affirming Care, effective 6 February.
As per a statement to the East Bay Times, Rady is withdrawing “medical interventions, procedures and prescriptions”, but will maintain “counselling, mental health resources and care coordination”.
Rady Children’s Health is comprised of Children’s Hospital of Orange County and Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego after announcing a merger between their parent companies in January 2025.
In the lawsuit, Bonta argues that Rady’s decision to end care violates conditions placed by the attorney general himself on the merger.
“Rady Children’s Health has chosen to violate its merger agreement and California law in response to the Trump Administration’s illegal campaign against providers of gender-affirming care,” said Bonta in a statement.
“Rady flagrantly disregarded its legal obligations by unilaterally deciding to preemptively comply with the Administration’s demands and cease medically necessary care for roughly 1,450 patients.
“We will not allow Rady to violate its obligations to its patients and the State.
“We will fight to uphold the law and ensure Californians can access gender-affirming care without facing unfair roadblocks.”
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The country’s largest organization that represents doctors has updated its recommendations for gender-affirming care, endorsing certain limitations on surgery for minors.
The American Medical Association (AMA) is now the second major medical organization (following the American Society of Plastic Surgeons) to walk back its full-fledged support for whatever gender-affirming treatments a doctor and a minor’s family determine the minor needs.
“In the absence of clear evidence, the AMA agrees with ASPS that surgical interventions in minors should be generally deferred to adulthood,” AMA said. Surgical interventions, however, are already almost never performed on minors. Trans minors virtually never receive bottom surgery, though some teenagers ultimately do get top surgery or facial procedures.
The AMA still endorses other gender-affirming care for youth, such as puberty blockers and other hormone therapy. So while its new policy doesn’t change much in practice, it will no doubt contribute to the growing stigma around gender-affirming care. It will also no doubt further embolden the anti-trans movement, giving the right a “win” in its crusade against trans existence.
The change comes one day after the ASPS released a statement advising against conducting “gender-related breast/chest, genital, and facial surgery” on people under the age of 19. The ASPS based its statement on two recent reports from the U.K. and the U.S. that were widely criticized by transgender healthcare advocates as being biased.
In its statement, the ASPS admits that it didn’t reach its conclusions through “a formal guideline development process,” independent systematic assessment of existing medical evidence, consultation with consensus panels of medical experts, or strength-of-recommendation determinations weighing the benefits of gender-affirming care against its potential risks.
Rather, the organization admitted that it based its findings wholly on the U.K.’s infamous 2024 Cass Report (which excluded numerous studies demonstrating the benefits of gender-affirming care) and the U.S. Department of Health’s 2025 review (which was anonymously generated in 90 days, underwent no peer-review process, and resulted from a U.S. executive order seeking to ban all gender-affirming care for trans youth).
Both the U.K. and U.S. documents suggested conversion therapy for trans youth, disregarded all research and guidance produced or endorsed by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), and contradicted the best practices in gender-affirming care for trans youth recommended by all major U.S. medical associations.
Despite the limitations of the ASPS’s statement, the organization said it opposes the criminalization of gender-affirming care. It also said that its policy statement “does not seek to deny or minimize the reality of any patient’s distress, and it does not question the authenticity of any patient’s experience.”
In response to the events of the week, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released its own statement emphasizing it still fully endorses gender-affirming care. “The AAP continues to hold to the principle that patients, their families and their physicians — not politicians — should be the ones to make decisions together about what care is best for them,” the statement read, according to the New York Times.
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) also criticized the changes: “There is no definitive age or one-size-fits-all approach for every patient, which is why they are built on case-by-case assessments, involve experts on adolescent development, and are designed to support thoughtful and ethical shared decision-making in a multidisciplinary field.”
Recent studies have shown that trans youth tend to be consistent in their identities, even after a decade. The findings mirror what has overwhelmingly been found in studies on trans adults, that very few people detransition. A 2024 study found that 97% of trans youth don’t regret transitioning, and another study from the same year showed that fewer than 1% of patients who undergo gender-affirming surgical procedures end up regretting it. In fact, rates of regret are higher for people who get tattoos, elective plastic surgeries, bariatric weight loss surgeries, or have children, the study found.
Trans activist Alejandra Caraballo slammed ASPS earlier this week for hypocrisy over the fact that it continues to do thousands of breast reductions per year on cis girls and boys. “These can carry substantial risks of loss of function, sensitivity, and standard surgical risks,” she wrote. “Yet, ASPS isn’t advising against those.”
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Two major medical organisations have partially reversed their support for gender-affirming care for transgender youth – here’s what they did and didn’t say.
The American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) made partial changes to their recommendations on gender-affirming care for trans and non-binary youngsters.
In a statement reported by the New York Times on Wednesday (4 February), the AMA – the largest and only national association which represents nearly 200 medical speciality societies across the country – recommended that any gender-affirming surgeries be delayed until adulthood.
A day prior, the ASPS took a similar position, claiming that there was insufficient research on the benefits of gender-affirming surgeries, according to a literature review published alongside its statement.
Protestors outside the Supreme Court. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
The announcements mark a step back for LGBTQ+ rights across the US and internationally. Activists and campaign groups regularly cite the AMA’s and several other medical institution’s recommendations as evidence that appropriate gender-affirming surgeries are safe and effective.
Gender confirmation surgeries such as phalloplastys, hysterectomys, and baginoplastys, are virtually never performed on trans under-18s. Some teenagers aged 16 and above can undergo procedures like facial feminisation surgery (FFS) or a mastectomy, though these are incredibly rare.
Research has shown that providing appropriate healthcare for trans youngsters not only hugely improves their quality of life, but can reduce suicidality.
Right-wing groups and politicians have, over the past decade, falsely claimed gender-affirming surgeries are incredibly common by conflating them with gender-affirming care, which largely involved physically reversible, safe, and potentially life-saving puberty suppressants, known as puberty blockers.
In reality, cisgender youngsters are far more likely to undergo gender-affirming surgeries than their trans peers, according to research from Harvard.
Last week, a Republican lawmaker in Tennessee went so far as to call for the parents of trans children to be put to death for supporting gender-affirming care.
AMA continues to support puberty blockers, spokesperson says
The AMA said it had not, and did not plan to, U-turn on its support for puberty suppressants, but had instead decided that “surgical interventions in minors should be generally deferred to adulthood”.
Other major medical organisations, including the American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP), told the New York Times that their recommendations remained consistent and did not include a “blanket recommendation for surgery for minors”.
Dr Andrew Racine, AAP’s president, said: “The AAP continues to hold to the principle that patients, their families, and their physicians – not politicians – should be the ones to make decisions together about what care is best for them.”
The Trump administration has bolstered attacks against gender-affirming care provisions across the US over the past year.
While many US states banned hospitals from providing often life-saving gender-affirming care years before Trump started his second term, the president has ramped up those attacks by targeting medical organisations in states where it is still legal.
Those attacks grew after the US Supreme Court ruled to uphold Tennessee’s gender-affirming care ban for trans youngsters, essentially setting a legal precedent that any active or future laws are lawful.
Nearly a quarter of all trans youth in the US live in a state that has banned gender-affirming care in some capacity, according to the Human Rights Campaign.
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Speaking to Graeme Smith on the Boys! Boys! Boys! podcast – streaming now – Cashman sat down to discuss politics, the UK, and putting progressive values at the heart of his work. Asked why queer people who feel politically disillusioned should vote for the Lib Dems, the 34-year-old said it was because the party is made up of people in the queer community.
“80% of Liberal Democrat members – I’m not lying – 80% of Liberal Democrat members are probably part of the LGBTQ community,” Cashman said.
He continued: “Liberalism to me is about being able to be unashamedly yourself and not being judged for it. So, as long as you’re not impacting on someone else’s life, you should be able to live exactly the life that you want.
“And the Lib Dems try to put policies in place that make that happen and allow people to live that sort of life.”
The sexuality and/or gender identity of party members is not information that is collected by the Liberal Democrats so it’s not currently possible to verify Cashman’s claim. However, anecdotally the party is known for being popular with LGBTQ+ people.
Elsewhere in the podcast, Cashman discussed his personal popularity with the LGBTQ+ community. The Liverpudlian, who is straight, said it was “up for debate” if he was the “most well-known Liberal Democrat” but made it clear he was happy to use his platform to help others.
“But if I can serve progressive politics and if I can serve liberalism by being myself and getting a message out through being myself, then I’m more than happy to do that.”
Carl Cashman and Graeme Smith at the Boys! Boys! Boys! Gallery Café in Fitzrovia. (Provided)
Cashman said his gym selfies prompted advice to “be careful” about what he posts on social media. Saying it was something he’d done since he “was 19, 20 years old”, he said: “I didn’t get into politics to change who I am as a person. And I wouldn’t expect anyone to do that. And this is the reason I’m a Liberal. I actually think that the best thing about the world is how different people are.”
As to whether he’s worried what other people will think about him sharing aspects of his personal life with people, including constituents, he said: “If people decide not to elect me as the leader of the council or whatever in the future, then that’s their decision. But I would rather them make that decision based on who I am as a person and not this robotic politician.”
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En 2023, les bandeaux d’information de la chaîne CNews, propriété du groupe Bolloré, ont abordé les thématiques de l’islam et de l’immigration durant 335 jours sur 365, selon Mediapart. Cette présence quotidienne stigmatise systématiquement des populations déjà exposées à un climat d’exclusion durable. Dans le même temps, les principaux concernés demeurent largement absents des plateaux […]
Dans Sous nos peaux, Maïram Guissé, s’adresse à sa fille à travers une lettre ouverte intime et engagée. Elle présente huit femmes noires et métisses qui ont marqué sa vie, figures de transmission et de sororité. L’autrice aborde les réalités auxquelles sa fille pourrait être confrontée : racisme ordinaire, sexisme, discriminations au travail, rapport aux […]
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As several cities consider offering free rides on city buses, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is pushing Congress to shut down the practice.
Politico obtained a proposal for inclusion in the upcoming surface transportation bill that would require cities that get money from the Federal Transit Administration to charge a fare for bus transportation or risk losing federal funding.
“This policy would help ensure the largest federally supported systems are safer and more adequately funded by users,” the proposal says, adding that exemptions could be made for people with disabilities, children, students, and veterans.
Currently, only a few cities offer free bus transport in the U.S., including Kansas City, Missouri; Richmond, Virginia; and Albuquerque, New Mexico. Kansas City, Politico notes, will start charging for buses soon.
Offering free buses is a policy decision that comes with pros and cons. The revenue from fares can be used to expand service networks, for example. The Department of Transportation says that free buses “can result in unsustainable finances for the agency and potential safety issues.”
But it’s unclear why the current administration would want to get involved in what is fundamentally a municipal decision. Politico suggests that the attention brought to the issue by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) may have led to the proposal being floated.
“This proposal makes no sense,” said Rep. Rick Larsen (D-WA), ranking member of the House Transportation Committee. “Transit agencies are pretty good at making their own decisions about how to operate to meet local needs. The FTA should be in a position to support them, not undermine them.”
The Department of Transportation has not commented on the proposal.
Over the past couple of years with the Jenny’s Daily Drivers series, we’ve looked at a number of unusual or noteworthy operating systems. Among them has been ReactOS, an open source clone of a millennium-era Windows OS, which we tried back in November. It’s one of those slow-burn projects we know has been around for a long time, but still it’s a surprise to find we’ve reached the 30th anniversary of the first ReactOS code commit.
The post is a run through the project’s history, and having followed it for a long time we recognize some of the milestones from the various ISOs we downloaded and tried back in the day. At the end it looks into the future with plans to support more up-to-date hardware as well as UEFI, which we hope will keep it relevant.
When we tried it, we found an OS which could indeed be a Daily Driver on which a Hackaday article could be written — even if it wasn’t the slickest experience on the block. It doesn’t matter that it’s taken a while, if you’re used to Windows XP this has become a usable replacement. We came to the conclusion that like FreeDOS it could find a niche in places where people need a modern version of the old OS to run older software, but perhaps as it now moves towards its mature phase it will move beyond that. We salute the ReactOS developers for bringing it this far, and for not giving up.
Adjoints de quartiers dotés de budgets, dialogue chaque mois avec 100 habitantes et habitants tirés au sort, intégration d'un membre de l'opposition dans l'exécutif... Jean-Philippe Vetter, le candidat de la droite aux élections municipales, a présenté sa méthode pour être dans "l'hyper-proximité".
Florida health officials have reportedly paused plans to dramatically restrict access to the state’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program after advocates mounted a legal challenge.
In early January, the Florida Department of Health had proposed scaling back ADAP’s income eligibility from 400% of the federal poverty level to 130%, a change that could cut off lifesaving HIV medication for an estimated 16,000 people, according to an analysis by the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors.
In response, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation filed complaints with the Florida Division of Administrative Hearings alleging the state failed to follow required rule-making procedures when adopting the new criteria.
The nonprofit also filed a second lawsuit on Monday (2 February) seeking public records related to an “undocumented $120 million budget shortfall” which was was cited as motivation for the proposal.
The Florida Department of Health now appears to be stepping back from its 1 March deadline, as reported by WJHG.
It has also issued notices indicating the changes will now go through a formal public process.
Advocates say the pause opens the door for public input and greater transparency around the state’s claimed $120 million budget shortfall.
The proposed ADAP cuts come after the Trump administration moved to slash both domestic and international HIV/AIDS funding last year, in large part by dismantling USAID programs.
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LLM scrapers for AI are even hungry for Debian's continuous integration "CI" data. Due to the ongoing abuse of the open web by LLM scrapers, the Debian CI infrastructure is restricting the publicly accessible data with their web server resources being hammered by bots/scrapers...
Des tirs par arme à feu ont été signalés ce jeudi 5 février, en fin de matinée, place Ginette-Neveu, dans le quartier des Aubiers à Bordeaux. Quatre personnes, dont deux mineurs, ont été interpellées. Cette fusillade, la deuxième en moins de deux mois dans le quartier, n’a cette fois fait aucun blessé.
While quantum computers continue to slowly grind towards usefulness, some are pursuing a different approach—analog quantum simulation. This path doesn’t offer complete control of single bits of quantum information, known as qubits—it is not a universal quantum computer. Instead, quantum simulators directly mimic complex, difficult-to-access things, like individual molecules, chemical reactions, or novel materials. What analog quantum simulation lacks in flexibility, it makes up for in feasibility: quantum simulators are ready now.
“Instead of using qubits, as you would typically in a quantum computer, we just directly encode the problem into the geometry and structure of the array itself,” says Sam Gorman, quantum systems engineering lead at Sydney-based start-up Silicon Quantum Computing.
Yesterday, Silicon Quantum Computing unveiled its Quantum Twins product, a silicon quantum simulator, which is now available to customers through direct contract. Simultaneously, the team demonstrated that their device, made up of fifteen thousand quantum dots, can simulate an often-studied transition of a material from an insulator to a metal, and all the states between. They published their work this week in the journal Nature.
“We can do things now that we think nobody else in the world can do,” Gorman says.
The powerful process
Though the product announcement came yesterday, the team at Silicon Quantum Computing established its Precision Atom Qubit Manufacturing process following the startup’s establishment in 2017, building on the academic work that the company’s founder, Michelle Simmons, led for over 25 years. The underlying technology is a manufacturing process for placing single phosphorus atoms in silicon with sub-nanometer precision.
“We have a 38-stage process,” Simmons says, for patterning phosphorus atoms into silicon. The process starts with a silicon substrate, which gets coated with a layer of hydrogen. Then, using a scanning-tunneling microscope, individual hydrogen atoms are knocked off the surface, exposing the silicon underneath. The surface is then dosed with phosphine gas, which adsorbs to the surface only in places where the silicon is exposed. With the help of a low temperature thermal anneal, the phosphorus atom is then incorporated into the silicon crystal. Then, layers of silicon are grown on top.
“It’s done in ultra-high vacuum. So it’s a very pure, very clean system,” Simmons says. “It’s a fully monolithic chip that we make with that sub-nanometer precision. In 2014, we figured out how to make markers in the chip so that we can then come back and find where we put the atoms within the device to make contacts. Those contacts are then made at the same length scale as the atoms and dots.”
Though the team is able to place single atoms of phosphorus, they use clusters of ten to fifty such atoms to make up a so-called register for these application-specific chips. These registers act like quantum dots, preserving quantum properties of the individual atoms. The registers are controlled by a gate voltage from contacts placed atop the chip, and interactions between registers can be tuned by precisely controlling the distances between them.
While the company is also pursuing more traditional quantum computing using this technology, they realized they already had the capacity to do useful simulations in the analog domain by putting thousands of registers on a single chip and measuring global properties, without controlling individual qubits.
“The thing that’s quite unique is we can do that very quickly,” Simmons says. “We put 250,000 of these registers [on a chip] in eight hours, and we can turn a chip design around in a week.”
What to simulate
Back in 2022, the team at Silicon Quantum Computing used a previous version of this same technology to simulate a molecule of polyacetylene. The chemical is made up of carbon atoms with alternating single and double bonds, and, crucially, its conductivity changes drastically depending on whether the chain is cut on a single or double bond. In order to accurately simulate single and double carbon bonds, the team had to control the distances of their registers to sub-nanometer precision. By tuning the gate voltages of each quantum dot, the researchers reproduced the jump in conductivity.
Now, they’ve demonstrated the quantum twin technology on a much larger problem—the metal-insulator transition of a two-dimensional material. Where the polyacetylene molecule required ten registers, the new model used 15,000. The metal-insulator model is important because, in most cases, it cannot be simulated on a classical computer. At the extremes—in the fully metal or fully insulating phase—the physics can be simplified and made accessible to classical computing. But in the murky intermediate regime, the full quantum complexity of each electron plays a role, and the problem is classically intractable. “That is the part which is challenging for classical computing. But we can actually put our system into this regime quite easily,” Gorman says.
The metal-insulator model was a proof of concept. Now, Gorman says, the team can design a quantum twin for almost any two-dimensional problem.
“Now that we’ve demonstrated that the device is behaving as we predict, we’re looking at high-impact issues or outstanding problems,” says Gorman. The team plans to investigate things like unconventional superconductivity, the origins of magnetism, and materials interfaces such as those that occur in batteries.
Although the initial applications will most likely be in the scientific domain, Simmons is hopeful that Quantum Twins will eventually be useful for industrial applications such as drug discovery. “If you look at different drugs, they’re actually very similar to polyacetylene. They’re carbon chains, and they have functional groups. So, understanding how to map it [onto our simulator] is a unique challenge. But that’s definitely an area we’re going to focus on,” she says. “We’re excited at the potential possibilities.”
In a world overrun by fake news, Professor Juana María Rodríguez is unflinchingly committed to facts.
Since 2016, the University of California, Berkeley professor has mobilized students to preserve LGBTQ+ stories on one of the world’s most extensive historical records: Wikipedia.
Through a unique course taught in partnership with Wiki Education, Rodríguez and her students produce entries for the site that cover niche LGBTQ+ subjects, many of which have fallen through the cracks due to contributor bias. And as the Trump administration works overtime to erase LGBTQ+ history from the national consciousness, Rodríguez knows that the best defense is putting cold, hard facts in front of as many readers as possible.
“We can really change the narrative of how some of these stories are told,” Rodríguez told LGBTQ Nation, explaining that her students are involved in both editing existing pages and creating new ones.
“The Trump administration can erase the T from Stonewall, but we can point them to 20 academic sources that talk about the centrality of trans people to Stonewall and to other uprisings,” she explained.
In essence, she added, “We bring the receipts.”
Creating lifelong Wikipedians
Professor Juana Maria Rodriguez teaching a Fall 2025 Wikipedia course | Brandon Sánchez Mejia/UC Berkeley
Rodríguez has taught the course in nine different iterations over the past decade. Her students have tackled everything from Transfemicide (a page that has now been translated into four languages) to Indigenous Drag Performers to lesser-known activists like Adela Vázquez to the stories of historic, now-shuttered queer bars like Esta Noche and Jewel’s Catch One.
One student, Alexia Guerra Cardona, spoke on a Berkeley podcast about the course’s incredible impact on her. A child of Guatemalan immigrants who fled civil war, Cardona said she is most proud of the content she produced on trans asylum seekers from Mexico and Central America because it helped her feel closer to her own ancestral history. She attended a predominantly white school growing up, where Central American history was never centered.
“You need to know where you come from in order to understand where you’re going or what you want to do,” she said.
Rodríguez has loved watching her students – who often start the course feeling extremely anxious about the responsibility before them – gradually feel empowered to be disseminators of knowledge rather than passive consumers of it.
It is no small accomplishment, she said, to ensure accurate, inclusive information is available to anyone who needs it.
“My goal is always to create Wikipedians,” she said. “To know that they can read something and maybe what they read doesn’t quite reflect what they learned from this class, and they can go in and change that… to make them better or more inclusive or more representative… It feels great for everybody.”
We did that
Professor Juana Maria Rodriguez teaching a Fall 2025 Wikipedia course | Brandon Sánchez Mejia/UC Berkeley
Rodríguez emphasized that Wikipedia editing isn’t the wild west. There are strict standards, and some of the larger pages are locked down to experienced editors only. Beyond that, editors constantly communicate with one another to ensure that pages provide accurate information.
“There’s the Wikipedia that we see, and then behind that, every page has a talk page where people talk about issues.”
She said her students have experienced pushback at times, such as when one wanted to add information about same-sex desire in Imperial China to the page on the Han Dynasty.
“The Wikipedia page on the Han dynasty, you can imagine, is very well sourced, it’s very reputable. It had absolutely nothing about same-sex anything… So they brought the receipts, they added a very small section, but now that section exists there.”
But at first, the student received a note warning them of the page’s high quality. But Rodríguez said it only motivated them to ensure accuracy even more. “It was like, OK, we received the warning. We’re going to make sure that we’re bringing high-quality receipts.”
“And we did that.”
Now, anyone who reads about the Han Dynasty will know that, as the page explains, “bisexuality was the norm” among nobility, among whom there was “openness to bisexuality or homosexuality.”
It may seem small, but it is moments like these that affirm that LGBTQ+ people have always been here.
Fighting fire with fact
Professor Juana Maria Rodriguez teaching a Fall 2025 Wikipedia course | Brandon Sánchez Mejia/UC Berkeley
Many college students today have no doubt come from the increasing number of K-12 schools (largely in red states) that have taken active steps to suppress curriculum that teaches LGBTQ+ issues or even acknowledges that LGBTQ+ people exist at all.
Over the past several years, GOP-led governments at the state level have authorized a slew of book bans and curriculum restrictions under the guise of “parental rights” in education.
According to the Movement Advancement Project, 19 states have at least one LGBTQ specific school censorship law, while only 8 have a law mandating LGBTQ+-inclusive curricula. The organization estimates that 39% of LGBTQ+ youth between the ages of 13 and 17 live in states with censorship laws, compared to 26% that live in states with inclusive laws and 35% that live in states with no LGBTQ+-specific curricular statutes.
The second Trump administration has also taken extraordinary steps to prevent Americans from learning anything about LGBTQ+ history or identities.
In 2025, alone, among many other anti-LGBTQ+ actions, the administration removed all references to transgender people from the National Park Service webpage on the Stonewall National Monument; renamed the USNS Harvey Milk (named for the assassinated gay activist) after a straight person; repeatedly attempted to cut federal funding to schools with diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs; instructed schools operated by the Department of Defense to purge curriculum related to immigration, gender, and sexuality; and declared the federal government would no longer recognize the existence of trans people at all.
In response to Donald Trump’s executive orders, even some universities have cracked down on LGBTQ+ curricula. In September, for example, a lecturer at Texas A&M University was fired for acknowledging trans people exist. The school also recently announced it has ended its Women’s & Gender Studies program for being too “woke.”
And a Catholic college in Illinois, Benedictine University, removed pages from its website claiming to offer safe spaces for diverse communities after anti-trans groups called out the school for hosting an event to honor the Trans Day of Remembrance.
Rodríguez believes that the fact that her students create extensively researched entries that must be written in a neutral tone is especially powerful under the current climate. “It’s persuasive because the facts are on our side,” she said.
Rodríguez credits Wiki Education as an indispensable partner in the project. “They do all the trainings, they train professors, and they train students.” She has also since joined one of their boards and has served as a mentor for other professors who want to do this work.
She hopes more classrooms take up projects like hers and that more students feel empowered to engage in this kind of active learning and knowledge-sharing, which allows their work to go far beyond the classroom.
“It’s not like they’re giving me a paper that only I’m reading,” she said. “They really are writing for the world.”
Who they write for
Professor Juana Maria Rodriguez chats with a student | Brandon Sánchez Mejia/UC Berkeley
Rodriguez acknowledges that Wikipedia is not the “be-all end-all” source of information, but that it offers a great jumping-off point for people who need to build a foundation of knowledge on a topic.
That said, millions of people worldwide rely on Wikipedia for information. Rodríguez said her students’ pages have racked up millions of views, which isn’t surprising, considering the encyclopedia behemoth’s monthly pageviews number in the billions. It is consistently ranked among the top 10 most visited websites in the world.
Many readers of the site no doubt lack access to world-class academic resources like those available in the Berkeley library for students to draw from. It is critical work, Rodríguez said, to reproduce this information in an easy-to-find, digestible manner that isn’t hidden behind a paywall.
“One of the things that I tell my students is that they’re writing for the teenager in Arkansas, and in Lagos, Nigeria,” Rodríguez said. “They’re writing for the person in Scotland who maybe just met a trans person for the first time, and they want to know more about it. They’re writing for activists. They’re writing for each other.”
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As Erin in the Morning reports, Bonta filed the lawsuit against Rady Children’s Hospital on Friday, just 10 days after the San Diego hospital announced that it would close its Center for Gender-Affirming Care and, beginning February 6, no longer provide medically necessary gender-affirming care to patients under the age of 19.
According to the East Bay Times, in a statement following its January 20 announcement, Rady cited pressure from the Trump administration, which has threatened to block research and educational grants as well as Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement to institutions that provide gender-affirming care to minors.
“Taken together, these developments affect our role and responsibilities as a provider participating in federal programs such as Medicaid and Medicare, which are essential to caring for children and families in our communities,” the statement read.
Critics say Rady’s move was premature, as at least two of the rules aimed at cutting funding to hospitals that provide gender-affirming care to minors remain proposals, the East Bay Times reported. And there is no federal law banning gender-affirming care for minors, which is legal in California.
But as Erin in the Morning notes, Bonta’s strategy does not rely on state or federal civil rights law. Rather, in his complaint, Bonta argues that Rady has violated the legally binding conditions it agreed to when he approved its merger with the Children’s Hospital of Orange County in 2024.
In a January 30 press release announcing the lawsuit, Bonta’s office explained that the conditions the California AG placed on the merger “included a requirement that Rady maintain existing levels of specialty healthcare services — including gender-affirming care — through 2034.” They also required the hospital “to obtain approval from the Attorney General before it reduced or eliminated gender-affirming care.”
“Rady Children’s Health has chosen to violate its merger agreement and California law in response to the Trump administration’s illegal campaign against providers of gender-affirming care,” Bonta said in a January 30 statement. “Rady flagrantly disregarded its legal obligations by unilaterally deciding to preemptively comply with the administration’s demands and cease medically necessary care for roughly 1,450 patients. We will not allow Rady to violate its obligations to its patients and the State. We will fight to uphold the law and ensure Californians can access gender-affirming care without facing unfair roadblocks.”
As attorney and trans advocate Rachel See told Erin in the Morning, Bonta’s decision to focus his lawsuit exclusively around Rady’s alleged breach of the merger’s conditions is strategic, allowing him to avoid questions about federal nondiscrimination or constitutional claims, and remain in state court.
“It doesn’t matter why Rady chose to preemptively comply with demands it expects to receive from the federal government. According to the AG, the only thing that matters is that they violated the merger conditions,” See explained. “There’s no federal question and no easy way for the Trump administration’s Department of Justice to interfere.”
While See noted that this particular lawsuit could only have been brought “under California law, because of the California AG’s unique power to approve mergers between California nonprofit hospitals,” Bonta’s strategy could nonetheless provide attorneys general in other states in their efforts to combat the administration’s attacks on gender-affirming care for minors.
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