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Vox executives detail how Vox is using Patreon to grow reader revenue and interactions; sign-ups grew 350% in the first two months after Trump's inauguration (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/paywalls/vox-patreon-interview/

How Vox is using Patreon to grow reader revenue and interaction
Explainer journalism brand Vox is using creator platform Patreon to help build a "two-way relationship" with its audience.

The holidays are a great opportunity to pick up these disaster preparedness stocking stuffers
https://www.patreon.com/posts/disaster-75608678

Disaster Preparedness Stocking Stuffers | AI6YR
Get more from AI6YR on Patreon

Remember PayPal‘s Honey scam? It‘s been a minute (a year, in fact), but MegaLag has just published part two to his Patrons and I’m 11 minutes in and it’s already a doozy. Yes, it gets (much) worse.
https://www.patreon.com/MegaLag

Cyberpunk 2077: CD Projekt stoppt VR-Mod wegen Paywall auf Patreon
Die VR-Mod von Luke Ross für Cyberpunk 2077 ist offline – der Publisher duldet keine Paywalls für Fanprojekte und zieht rechtliche Konsequenzen.

Here's how to reduce risk of getting the Flu during holiday travel season.
(This year's strain is extra aggressive. tl;dr get the vaccine and mask consistently.)
https://www.patreon.com/posts/146389612

Aligned, Multiple-transient Events in the First #PalomarSkySurvey / Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-I) may be associated with nuclear testing and reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ae0afe / https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-21620-3 -> Unexpected patterns in historical astronomical observations: https://www.su.se/english/news/unexpected-patterns-in-historical-astronomical-observations-1.855042 -> summary of why these papers are doubtful: https://x.com/MickWest/status/1980690132543107204 - links to deep discussions.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Patrinell Staten:
🎵 Little Love Affair
#PatrinellStaten
https://recordkicks.bandcamp.com/track/little-love-affair

I've been reading biology related books and by sheer hubris and ADHD delusion I thought about switching careers*! Figuring out life's systems feels more fascinating than figuring out how IT systems should be working together.
Then I found out that Alan Turing has touched both fields. I did not know about that! So here I stand with interests between Turing machines and Turing patterns! Always pretty cool to find out about these connections between fields!
* I won’t!
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Turing pattern - Wikipedia

It’s a pattern.
Nov 14, aboard Air Force One, Trump told Bloomberg reporter Catherine Lucey, “Quiet. Quiet, piggy.”
It’s not new. He called Miss Universe Alicia Machado “Miss Piggy” and “Miss Housekeeping.”
He’s called women “fat pigs,” “dogs,” “slobs,” and “disgusting animals.”
This from 2016…
https://

Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com)
It’s a pattern. Nov 14, aboard Air Force One, Trump told Bloomberg reporter Catherine Lucey, “Quiet. Quiet, piggy.” It’s not new. He called Miss Universe Alicia Machado “Miss Piggy” and “Miss Housekeeping.” He’s called women “fat pigs,” “dogs,” “slobs,” and “disgusting animals.” This from 2016…

Once limited to policing the nation’s boundaries,
the Border Patrol has built a surveillance system stretching into the country’s interior
that can monitor ordinary Americans’ daily actions and connections for anomalies instead of simply targeting wanted suspects.
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious, The Associated Press has found.
The …

Border Patrol monitors US drivers and detains Americans for ‘suspicious’ travel
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious. The Associated Press has found that the predictive intelligence program has resulted in people being stopped, searched, and in some cases arrested. A network of cameras scans and records vehicle license plate information, and an algorithm flags vehicles deemed suspicious based on where they came from, where they were going, …