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Who's surprised? The rats fleeing the sinking ship climb onto an anti-personnel device.
"Ex-Tory minister Nadine Dorries defects to Reform UK"
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj9zld87y1go?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

Former Conservative minister Nadine Dorries defects to Reform UK
The ex-MP told the Daily Mail the Tory Party was dead and its members now "need to think the unthinkable".

London is establishing itself as a center for quantitative finance; filings show trading firms XTX, Qube, and Quadrature each made £1B revenue in the past year (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8a6502c3-f244-4b61-880b-b20cf03299cc

Im using case_when() quite a lot, case_match() is new to me: #rstats

A general vectorised switch() — case_match
This function allows you to vectorise multiple switch() statements. Each case is evaluated sequentially and the first match for each element determines the corresponding value in the output vector. If no cases match, the .default is used. case_match() is an R equivalent of the SQL "simple" CASE WHEN statement. Connection to case_when() While case_when() uses logical expressions on the left-hand side of the formula, case_match() uses values to match against .x with. The following two statement…

Flame Skimmer dragonfly resting on a green branch. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. #laarboretum #dragonfly #flameskimmer

A judge has ruled that, for now,
asylum seekers are not required to pay an annual fee for each year their application is pending.
The ruling was in response to a lawsuit filed by the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP.)
The so-called One Big Beautiful Bill, which became law on July 4, 2025,
instituted a new fee system for people in the immigration system,
including asylum seekers.
The legislation requires that they pay a $100 filing fee and an Annual A…

Judge Rules Asylum Seekers Do Not Have to Pay Annual Fee, For Now
The so-called One Big Beautiful Bill instituted a new fee system for people in the immigration system, including asylum seekers.

Nuclear fusion plasma fuelling with ice pellets using a neuromorphic controller
L. L. T. C. Jansen, E. Petri, M. van Berkel, W. P. M. H. Heemels
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02147

Nuclear fusion plasma fuelling with ice pellets using a neuromorphic controller
In reactor-grade tokamaks, pellet injection is the best candidate for core plasma fuelling. However, density control schemes that can handle the hybrid nature of this type of fuelling, i.e., the discrete impact of the pellets on the continuously evolving plasma density, are lacking. This paper proposes a neuromorphic controller, inspired by the integrate-and-fire neuronal model, to address this problem. The overall system is modelled as a hybrid system, and we analyse the proposed controller in…

Trumpy, ex-Bengals TE, broadcaster, dies at 80 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46817999/bob-trumpy-ex-bengals-te-broadcaster-dies-80

A revamped Inside the NFL, produced by NFL Films, will debut September 8 on Elon Musk's X, with at least 10 short episodes airing weekly on the platform (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

‘Inside the NFL’ Gets Reboot as an X Original Series
Ryan Clark will host the show, which will be reimagined for the Elon Musk-owned platform as a short-form series with new episodes throughout each week of the NFL season.

Spotify says founder Daniel Ek will become Executive Chairman effective January 1, 2026, replaced by CPTO Gustav Söderström and CBO Alex Norström as co-CEOs (Spotify)
https://newsroom.spotify.com/2025-09-30/spotify-announcement-daniel-ek-executive-c…

Spotify Announces Leadership Evolution: Daniel Ek to Become Executive Chairman, Alex Norström and Gustav Söderström to Become Co-CEOs in January 2026 — Spotify
The following press release went live on Business Wire earlier today. You can also find more detail here in Founder & CEO Daniel Ek’s letter to employees. Stockholm and New York — 30 September, 2025 Today, Spotify (NYSE: SPOT) announced that Founder and Chief Executive Officer Daniel Ek will transition to the role of Executive...

An inside look at how Netflix's use of data led to generic "algorithm films" intended for broad appeal, with AI set to further entrench the production style (Phil Hoad/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/20…