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In which I write about the pretty-awesome experience of attending the MLS quarter-final game with my son and 53,095 other good friends, and how getting interested in fútbol has had the side-effect that I’ve lost most of my interest in football (as in NFL). https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20<…

Good Morning #Canada
You don't have to like numbers to appreciate Statistics Canada, aka StatsCan. Jean Talon could be considered Canada's first official statistician when he arrived in North America in 1665 on a mission for King Louis XIV to conduct Canada's first census in 1666. In 1918, the Statistics Act created the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, a national statistics office that ultimately would become Statistics Canada. Besides conducting the Census of Population and the Census of Agriculture every five years, StatCan has more than 450 active surveys on virtually all aspects of life in Canada. Results are published twice a month and can be accessed via The Daily web page.
One of my favourite web pages is Canada's Population Clock (real-time model). It's fascinating to watch, and our population increased by 11 while I typed this post.
#CanadaIsAwesome #StatsCan
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2018005-eng.htm

Not only Lemmon but also #comet #SWAN has been imaged by Kimiya Yui from the #ISS: in https://x.com/Astro_Kimiya/status/1982242913389015085 it's peeking through the space station's solar arrays. (AFAIK this is a first, *two* comets getting imaged from the ISS at the same time.)

In a post on X, the U.S. military's Africa Command confirmed it had conducted a strike that killed multiple militants at the request of Nigerian authorities.
The strike occurred in “Soboto state,” an apparent reference to Sokoto state, the post said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles…

US hits Islamic State in Nigeria after Trump warnings
President Trump said "numerous perfect strikes" had hit Islamic State militants in the West African nation of Nigeria.

Le trafic est perturbé entre Paris Saint-Lazare et St-Nom-la-Bretèche et entre Paris Saint-Lazare et Versailles Rive Droite dans les 2 sens.
Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X de la ligne L.
Motif : difficulté d'acheminement du conducteur.
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Making this a subtoot so I don't come across as smug or condescending...
My decision to stop using github when they started providing services to ICE back in ~2016 felt awkward at times but has been feeling really good in hindsight right now.
I see a bunch of people now saying "why boycott X company over some "minor" transgression or political capitulation (or over a "neutral" stance on LLM code). The answer is: it shows what their values are, which predicts their future behavior, especially under the tilted playing field of capitalism. I'm by no means perfect at this and I don't think shouting at people to boycott is a good idea for several reasons. People should boycott what they want to, for their own reasons. But I am posting this to try to help others be aware of the upsides of taking action when confronted with "subtle" evidence of corporate unvalues.

WaPo internally releases a beta version of Ripple, its AI product "to curate quality opinion journalism" from across the US and offer context from WaPo stories (Ben Mullin/@benmullin)
https://x.com/benmullin/status/1978870382233858334

Ben Mullin (@BenMullin) on X
new: The Washington Post is rolling out a beta version of Ripple, its A.I.-enabled opinion product. "The intention is to provide a range of recent perspectives from other publishers across America."

Crypto markets crashed after Trump threatened an extra 100% tariff on China, triggering $19.1B in liquidations, 10x the liquidations during the FTX crash (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/10/1…

Crypto Price Drop Continues: $16B in Longs Liquidated as BTC, ETH Sell-Off Extends
Trump’s 100% tariff warning on China ignited a global sell-off that wiped out $16 billion in leveraged crypto longs and pushed Ethena’s USDe to a rare sub-$1 print.

PhySIC: Physically Plausible 3D Human-Scene Interaction and Contact from a Single Image
Pradyumna Yalandur Muralidhar, Yuxuan Xue, Xianghui Xie, Margaret Kostyrko, Gerard Pons-Moll
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11649

PhySIC: Physically Plausible 3D Human-Scene Interaction and Contact from a Single Image
Reconstructing metrically accurate humans and their surrounding scenes from a single image is crucial for virtual reality, robotics, and comprehensive 3D scene understanding. However, existing methods struggle with depth ambiguity, occlusions, and physically inconsistent contacts. To address these challenges, we introduce PhySIC, a framework for physically plausible Human-Scene Interaction and Contact reconstruction. PhySIC recovers metrically consistent SMPL-X human meshes, dense scene surface…

I’d love to have accounts tagged with their owners’ general location. Nation. State. Time zone. Context matters. @… https://

Bill Cole (@scconsult.com)
WOW. Definitely worthy of an exemption from my usual policy towards X screengrabs. This change is surprising and I hope other platforms also adopt a general location as the norm in a profile. I'm sure it would have been hilarious back when the place wasn't Elon's toy. [contains quote post or other embedded content]