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Ken Paxton has amassed millions of dollars while in public office | TPR https://www.tpr.org/news/2025-10-10/ken-paxton-has-amassed-millions-of-dollars-while-in-public-office

Ken Paxton has amassed millions of dollars while in public office
Paxton is currently running for the U.S. Senate seat held by John Cornyn.

Browns not mulling QB change despite struggles https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46261767/coach-browns-not-mulling-qb-change-joe-flacco-struggles

Source: cloud startup Vercel has been approached by investors offering to invest hundreds of millions at an $8B-$9B valuation; it was valued at $3B last year (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/cloud-startup-vercel-fields-o…

Cloud Startup Vercel Fields Offers for $9 Billion Valuation
Vercel, a nine-year-old cloud startup that companies use to host and develop websites and artificial intelligence apps, has been approached by investors offering to invest hundreds of millions of dollars at a valuation between $8 billion to $9 billion, according to a person with direct knowledge ...

" by 2050, 1.5 million coastal residents would be at risk, rising to more than 3 million by 2090."
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/15/millions-…

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The Crooked Rugs:
🎵 Melancholy Mind
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https://thecrookedrugs.bandcamp.com/track/melancholy-mind
https://open.spotify.com/track/5OWxZ5rTJCBEAl9yOE8t97

ODI-Bench: Can MLLMs Understand Immersive Omnidirectional Environments?
Liu Yang, Huiyu Duan, Ran Tao, Juntao Cheng, Sijing Wu, Yunhao Li, Jing Liu, Xiongkuo Min, Guangtao Zhai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11549

ODI-Bench: Can MLLMs Understand Immersive Omnidirectional Environments?
Omnidirectional images (ODIs) provide full 360x180 view which are widely adopted in VR, AR and embodied intelligence applications. While multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance on conventional 2D image and video understanding benchmarks, their ability to comprehend the immersive environments captured by ODIs remains largely unexplored. To address this gap, we first present ODI-Bench, a novel comprehensive benchmark specifically designed for omnidirecti…

Millions of litres of oil seeping into UK soil from ageing electricity cables https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/13/uk-electricity-firms-cables-leaking-oil-underground

CFP ACLA 2026: Melancholic Cosmopolitanism: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/09/11/cfp-acla-2026-melancholic-cosmopolitanism

Cowboys' Jerry Jones open to trade before NFL deadline, mulling 'room' for a George Pickens contract extension

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/n…

CFP ACLA 2026: Melancholic Cosmopolitanism: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/09/12/cfp-acla-2026-melancholic-cosmopolitanism