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Three people were found dead on Mt. Baldy on Monday,
days after a winter storm blanketed the peaks of the San Gabriel Mountains with snow.
At around 11:30 a.m., search and rescue teams responded to a request to find an injured man, 19,
who had fallen 500 feet while hiking near Devil’s Backbone,
a sharp ridge flanked by steep drops that leads to the summit,
the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release.
A friend who had been traveli…

Three hikers found dead on Mt. Baldy. Harsh weather blocks recovery
Three people died on Mt. Baldy, and powerful Santa Ana winds have prevented helicopters from recovering their bodies, authorities said Tuesday.

Cowboys’ win streak sparks bold statement from Brian Schottenheimer https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-win-streak-sparks-bold-statement-brian-schottenheimer

Day 9: Eniko Fox
Edit: added a store link for Kitsune Tails.
We're back to videogames, and with another author who's on the fediverse: @…
Fox has developed a few games, but the one that I've played and love is Kitsune Tails. It's a sapphic romance take on Super Mario Bros. 3, and (critically for a platformer) it's got very crisp controls and runs smoothly. I think one thing a lot of indie platforms devs struggle with is getting those fundamentals right, because on the technical side they require very challenging things like optimization of your code and extremely careful input handling that go beyond the basic skills necessary to put together a game. From following her on Twitter and now the Fediverse, it's clear that Fox is a deeply competent programmer, and her games reflect that. Beyond the fundamentals, Kitsune Tails has a very sweet plot with a very cool twist in the middle, and without spoilers, that twist made both the levels and gameplay very difficult to design, but Fox rose to that challenge and put together a wonderful game. Particularly past the plot twist (but in subtle ways before it) Fox is able to build beyond SMB3 mechanics in ways that gracefully complement the original, and the movement in the game ends up being difficult but extremely satisfying, with an excellent skill/speed response allowing for both slower, easier approaches that work for a range of players and high-skill extremely-fast options for those who want to push themselves.
There have been plenty of people I follow with indie game projects that are kinda meh in the end, and I'll still boost them without much comment if they're decent. Fox' work is actually amazing, which is why if you've followed me for a while you'll know I tend to mention it periodically, and which is why she makes this list of authors I respect.
You can buy Kitsune Tails here: #20AuthorsNoMen

Sonnet 121 - CXXI
'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed,
When not to be receives reproach of being;
And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed
Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing:
For why should others' false adulterate eyes
Give salutation to my sportive blood?
Or on my frailties why are frailer spies,
Which in their wills count bad what I think good?
No, I am that I am, and they that level
At my abuses re…

Baltic companies secretly fueling Russia’s shadow fleet: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/baltic-companies-secretly-fueling-russias.html

hey do you want to see a video that will leave you completely speechless, vying and yet failling to find a comprehensible, rational explanation for what's happening on the screen? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv9xwEKCH_g
[cw: blood, nothing on screen has been seriously injured]

Bloody Sunday: Government spent over £4m on Soldier F case
https://share.google/lI7OO5pkDz9xpi6eG
The British gov. has now spent 4M and 53 years defending a self-confessed killer for an atrocity it paid for, which it investigated and publicly announced as unjustified and unjustifiable.
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Bloody Sunday: Government spent over £4m on Soldier F case
David Johnstone says he found it "incredulous that there is this level of point scoring" following the trial.

For some time, I had the feeling that even the 9000 series may become irrelevant pretty fast. IMO, this move places the 7000 and 9000 series on the very long-term support list. But it's a bloody sacrifice, what they do to the 6000 series owners :/ Strangely, I feel for AMD having to make thеsе kinds of tough decisions. They must've absolutely stretched out their resources right now.
AMD Abandons "Fine Wine"- No Optimized Game Drivers for RDNA 1 and 2 - Daniel Owen

UMG and Stability AI announce a partnership to develop music creation tools powered by "responsibly" trained AI (Marc Schneider/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/umg-stability-ai-partnership-develop-music-creation-tools/

UMG Partners With Stability AI to Develop Music Creation Tools for Artists, Producers
Following its Udio settlement, UMG teams up with Stability AI to build responsibly trained AI tools that empower artists and protect copyrights.

Cowboys' Dak Prescott makes bold claim following franchise's disappointing year https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-dak-prescott-makes-bold-claim-following-franchise-disappointing-year