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Cable company Altice changes its name to Optimum Communications and will change its NYSE ticker symbol to OPTU on November 19 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/altic…

Altice Changes Corporate Name to Optimum Communications
The cable company (which was once called Cablevision) will begin trading under the ticket OPTU later this month.

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https://connanmockasin.bandcamp.com/track/its-choade-my-dear
https://open.spotify.com/track/3oywgoPXVNr4MgGkP8je54

Pollsters Didn't See the Blue Wave Coming in New Jersey and Virginia (Aaron Zitner/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/pollsters-didnt-see-the-blue-wave-coming-in-new-jersey-and-virginia-dd640214
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p174#a251105p174

"You conservatives tried to kill woke, only for it to mount an impressive comeback," he added. "I hope that leaves you triggered, and I hope no one offers you sympathy for it."
'It's coming for you': Analyst reveals 'terrible news for red America' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/it-s-coming-for-you-analyst-reveals-terrible-news-for-red-america/

Some inspiration to help keep you going, thanks to Authors Against Book Bans: https://www.prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2025/11/22/no-one-is-coming-alan-award-acceptance-speech-on-behalf-of-authors-against-book-bans

canonically, what do Klingons think about communism?

Unreliability in Practical Subclasses of Communicating Systems
Amrita Suresh, Nobuko Yoshida
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03941 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.03…

Unreliability in Practical Subclasses of Communicating Systems
Systems of communicating automata are prominent models for peer-to-peer message-passing over unbounded channels, but in the general scenario, most verification properties are undecidable. To address this issue, two decidable subclasses, Realisable with Synchronous Communication (RSC) and k-Multiparty Compatibility} (k-MC), were proposed in the literature, with corresponding verification tools developed and applied in practice. Unfortunately, both RSC and k-MC are not resilient under failures: (…

Google Maps plans to replace Assistant with Gemini on Android and iOS, giving users a "hands-free, conversational driving experience", in the "coming weeks" (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/11/05/google-maps-gemini-navigation/

Google Maps gets Gemini for conversational navigation & traffic reporting on Android, iOS
In Google Maps, Gemini already exists in place listings, and it’s now coming to the navigation experience on Android and iOS.

Simular, which is building AI agents for Mac and Windows PCs, raised a $21.5M Series A led by Felicis; Simular has released its 1.0 version for macOS (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/02/simular-relea…

Simular's AI agent wants to run your Mac, Windows PC for you | TechCrunch
Simular, a startup building AI agents for Mac OS and Windows, has solved the AI hallucination problem in a compelling way.