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Dak Prescott gets unfairly harsh grade following Cowboys' Week 14 loss https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dak-prescott-unfairly-harsh-grade-dallas-cowboys-week-14-loss

Ultrathin bismuth-yttrium iron garnet films with tunable and compensated magnetic anisotropy
Hanchen Wang, William Legrand, Davit Petrosyan, Min-Gu Kang, Emir Karad\v{z}a, Hiroki Matsumoto, Richard Schlitz, Michaela Lammel, Myriam H. Aguirre, Pietro Gambardella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07465

Ultrathin bismuth-yttrium iron garnet films with tunable and compensated magnetic anisotropy
We report on the epitaxial growth of nm-thick films of bismuth-substituted yttrium iron garnet (BiYIG) by high-temperature off-axis radio-frequency magnetron sputtering. We demonstrate accurate control of the magnetic properties by tuning of the sputtering parameters and epitaxial strain on various (111)-oriented garnet substrates. BiYIG films with up to -0.80\% lattice mismatch with the substrate remain fully strained up to 60~nm-thick, maintaining a high crystalline quality. Transmission elec…

So this is percolating and the results so far are not surprising.
I'd vote NO, for the following reasons:
- oil demand continues to decline and risk is high we'll end up with an expensive underutilized pipeline. Therefore high risk we'll end up subsidizing any private entity that builds this thing.
- why would we invest public dollars to support infrastructure for a product where 75% of the profit leaves Canada? There has to be a net benefit, beyond steel sales and jobs, for this project to be considered.
- Indigenous land rights must be respected. They will be left with the rusting pipeline decades in the future, and it's impact on the land.
- the B.C. government must also have a final vote as they have to give up land and provide support.
- we don't need additional oil tankers on our west coast.
- and most importantly, with this MOU, Canada pretty much declared we aren't serious about protecting the environment or fighting climate change. We're oil whores. Harsh but....
#CanPoli #ClimateAction

finally had a moment today where I bumped into something and it knocked my phone out of my hand and the fact that I have my gay little wriststrap stopped it from flying directly into the sidewalk so
I am vindicated

DACIP-RC: Domain Adaptive Continual Instruction Pre-Training via Reading Comprehension on Business Conversations
Elena Khasanova, Harsh Saini, Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Xue-Yong Fu, Cheng Chen, Shashi Bhushan TN
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08152

DACIP-RC: Domain Adaptive Continual Instruction Pre-Training via Reading Comprehension on Business Conversations
The rapid advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled their adoption in real-world industrial scenarios for various natural language processing tasks. However, the high inference cost of large-scale LLMs makes their deployment impractical, necessitating the use of smaller models. Despite their efficiency, smaller LLMs lack robust zero-shot instruction-following capabilities across diverse domains, limiting their adaptability to dynamic user requirements. Traditional fine-tuning ap…

RIP, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa.
https://deadline.com/2025/12/cary-hiroyuki-tagawa-dead-mortal-kombat-actor-1236636368/

Russian missile barrage disrupts internet, customs databases in Ukraine https://therecord.media/russian-missile-barrage-disrupts-internet-ukraine

Cowboys playoff chances spiral further as new odds paint harsh reality https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-nfl-playoff-chances-spiral-further-new-odds-paint-harsh-reality

An interview with Laura Poitras about her new film, Cover-Up, which examines the career of Seymour Hersh and the role of investigative journalism (A.J. Goldmann/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/the-interview/cover-up-laura-poitras-invest…

In 'Cover-Up,' Laura Poitras investigates Seymour Hersh.
The filmmaker on her twenty-year project, the “crisis” in investigative journalism, and how truth-telling can still change the world.

Hierarchically Engineered Titanium Suboxide Films for High-Efficiency Solar Thermal Conversion
Silpa S, Ann Eliza Joseph, Srinivas G, Harish C Barshilia, Vinayak B Kamble
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03710

Hierarchically Engineered Titanium Suboxide Films for High-Efficiency Solar Thermal Conversion
We report the development of broadband solar absorber coatings based on titanium suboxide composite thin films on aluminium substrates. The films are fabricated via scalable DC magnetron sputtering using a Ti target, followed by post-annealing in a fixed $O_2$ partial pressure of 0.45 mbar. By tuning deposition time and annealing temperature, a composite phase of $Ti_2O_3$ and $TiO_2$ was achieved. The Raman mapping of the films substantiates the distribution and coexistence of the two phases. …