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Another great year in music! The Tidal rewind looks great this year.
#music

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Melenas:
🎵 Bang
#Melenas
https://troubleinmindrecords.bandcamp.com/track/bang
https://open.spotify.com/track/39Ys9oI5C9zzV4sccQJDSC

AWS launches Nova Forge, a $100,000/year service allowing clients to customize Amazon's AI models at various stages of training and refine open-weight models (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/02/amazon-nova-forge-le…

Amazon to let cloud clients customize AI models midway through training for $100,000 a year
It can cost hundreds of millions or even billions to build a large language model from scratch, and this process is more affordable, Amazon said.

"In Mauritius, an NGO is tracking the sex life of corals to save them"
#Mauritius #CoralReef

In Mauritius, an NGO is tracking the sex life of corals to save them
BLUE BAY, Mauritius — Every October, Blue Bay in southeastern Mauritius, named for its enticing waters, takes on a pinkish hue. The cause: corals releasing millions of eggs and sperm. This type of annual synchronized spawning is crucial to the survival of these corals. Now, scientists are pinning their hopes of saving corals battered by […]

Hackers steal data, extort $350,000 from massage parlor clients
https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-11-03/national/socialAffairs/Hackers-steal-data-extort-350000-from-massage-parlor-cli…

Hackers steal data, extort $350,000 from massage parlor clients
Police have arrested members of a hacking and phishing crime ring that stole data from massage parlor owner phones in order to scam their clients out of millions of won by threatening to release nonexistent “massage videos” if they didn't pay.

There are many, many kinds of faux insurance products out there.
There’s short-term plans.
But more importantly, there’s also a thing called
❌ "healthcare sharing ministries",
which many people are critical of because they pose as insurance products,
when they’re really not there.
They promise a network of doctors and that you can access that network,
but often they don’t cover drugs.
Those doctors may or may not really participa…

Over 20M Americans Set to Lose Healthcare Coverage Jan. 1 After Congress Goes on Recess
Tens of millions of Americans are set to see their health insurance costs soar when subsidies under the Affordable Care Act expire at the end of this year. Health insurance premiums are expected to more than double or even triple for some 20 million people, pricing many out of healthcare coverage entirely. “We’ve done nothing as a country to control healthcare costs,” says Elisabeth Benjamin, vice president of health initiatives at the Community Service Society of New York and member of N…

mist: MIST protein interaction database (2020)
The Molecular Interaction Search Tool (MIST) is a comprehensive resource of molecular interactions, assembled from severla primary sources. MIST currently supports several species, including:.
This network has 3705 nodes and 15167 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

from my link log —
Compressing callstacks: a bitpacked DAG powered by a keyless hashmap.
https://superluminal.eu/compressing-callstacks/
saved 2025-12-01

LinkedIn sues a company called ProAPIs for allegedly operating millions of fake accounts to scrape LinkedIn member data and selling it for ~$15,000 per month (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/linkedin-sues-data-scraping-company

LinkedIn sues software company allegedly scraping data from millions of profiles
ProAPIs, a software company, and its CEO Rahmat Alam allegedly run an operation which LinkedIn says charges customers up to $15,000 per month for scraped user data taken from the social media platform.

"As Floods Worsen, Pakistan Is the Epicenter of Climate Change"
#Pakistan #Climate #ClimateChange

As Floods Worsen, Pakistan Is the Epicenter of Climate Change
This season’s intense monsoon rains caused flooding that killed hundreds and displaced millions of people in Pakistan — an increasingly frequent occurrence. Scientists who study extreme weather warn that Pakistan is more vulnerable to climate change than any other nation.