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Brian Schottenheimer doesn't care to hurt feelings, only championships https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-brian-schottenheimer-doesnt-care-hurt-feelings-only-championships

Microsoft's FY 2025 report excludes the names of rivals, breaking from a common industry practice; its last report designated 25 companies as competitors (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/31/microsoft-competitors-filings.html

Microsoft ends tradition of naming competitors in regulatory filings
Apple, Meta and Nvidia still mention their rivals in annual reports. It's a practice that Alphabet, Amazon and Tesla gave up years ago.

I wonder - what if companies around the US adopted and publicized a hiring policy such as the following:
We <company name> require that all employees exercise good judgement. We <company name> have concluded that prior employment with ICE is irrebuttable proof of bad judgement. As a consequence we <company name> will not hire any candidate for employment who has previously worked for, consulted with, or otherwise been associated with ICE.

Last night I dreamed that the great computer scientist, Niklaus Wirth, had died by suicide because he was convinced his intellect was failing, because a simple financial calculation was failing, because he'd caught an exception and just returned zero instead of handling it, because he'd written sketch code and meant to come back and deal with it later but had not done so.
Which is almost certainly all arrant nonsense, but what a BIZARRE thing to dream about.

Whenever someone calls it “unfair” to expropriate and reimburse the wealth made through now frowned upon horrors, such as the holocaust, slavery, or colonialism, because the people who inherited that wealth today aren't responsible for the actions of their ancestors, ask them the following:
Do you think it's fair to expropriate the modern day private prison owners, corporations who engage in neocolonialism or companies that profit off of the illegal occupation of the West Bank …

Filing: neobank Chime plans to sell 26M shares in its IPO at $24 to $26, giving it a valuation between $10.3B and $11.1B; its two co-founders own 4% to 5% each (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/chime-sets-ipo-…

Chime Sets Tentative IPO Price at Around $10.7 Billion
Banking app Chime plans to sell shares in an initial public offering at a price that would value it at between $10.3 billion and $11.1 billion, on a fully-diluted basis, the company said in a new securities filing Monday. The company set the price range ahead of a roadshow to meet investors over the next week, ahead of its IPO. The per-share price of the range, between $24 and $26, is more

(Did you know that in the original stage version of The Sound of Music, the thing that finally breaks Captain von Trapp’s engagement to the baroness isn’t the vague, wishy-washy “noble unstated feelings” scene that’s in the movie (and which never worked in my view, despite the actors giving it their all); it’s that the baroness tries to convince him to go along with the Nazis because there’s nothing he can do, and he decides he can’t marry a woman with no convictions. They cut the song from the film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Way_to_Stop_It)

Four flight attendants on the Alaska Airlines
737 MAX 9 plane that experienced a mid-air cabin panel blowout in January last year
are suing Boeing
for physical and emotional injuries.
In separate lawsuits, they are seeking compensation for past and future economic damages,
citing physical and mental injuries, emotional distress and other financial costs.
"Each of the four flight attendants acted courageously, following their training and putting their …

Confinement Reveals Hidden Splay-Bend Order in Twist-Bend Nematics
Szymon Drzazga, Piotr Kubala, Lech Longa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21655 https://arxiv.…

Confinement Reveals Hidden Splay-Bend Order in Twist-Bend Nematics
Using extensive Monte Carlo (MC) and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, we investigate how spatial confinement affects molecular organization within thin films of the nematic twist-bend ($\mathrm{N_{TB}}$) phase. Our simulations show that confinement markedly amplifies the otherwise elusive splay-bend order, primarily by suppressing the intrinsic three-dimensional heliconical structure characteristic of bulk $\mathrm{N_{TB}}$. Remarkably, when the $\mathrm{N_{TB}}$ phase is confined between…

Runway and Luma AI say they are talking to robotics and self-driving car companies about their video models and expect these revenue sources to eclipse studios (Rocket Drew/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/runway-luma-target-sales-r…

Runway, Luma Target Sales to Robotics Companies
Imax on Monday announced that it would screen the winning films from Runway’s AI-generated film festival at some of its theaters. Netflix recently said it had used AI to generate a scene in one of its shows for the first time: a building collapsing in The Eternaut, an Argentine sci-fi show.Both ...