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The "Real" Microsoft Outlook can still be downloaded here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/install-or-reinstall-classic-outlook-on-a-windows-pc-5c94902b-31a5-4274-abb0-b07f4661edf5

On our Tesla we have noticed that the design and construction has tried new methods to save weight, but that those methods have not withstood the test of time (or weather).
For example we've had to replace some of the ball joints in the front suspension because they were not water proof and ended up corroding - a problem solved back in the 1960s by other car makers.
And now there's this...
"Half of Tesla Model 3s Failed Their Mandatory Inspections in Finland&qu…

Half of Tesla Model 3s Failed Their Mandatory Inspections in Finland
The Tesla Model 3, Model S, and Model X all ranked among the bottom five performers in Finland's mandatory vehicle inspections of 4-year-old cars

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says his new superintelligence team will build "frontier-grade research capability" and Microsoft needs AI self-sufficiency (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-

OpenAI used to prevent Microsoft pursuing AGI. Now, the software giant is free to compete, Mustafa Suleyman says.
A renegotiated deal lets Microsoft independently pursue artificial general intelligence. Suleyman is seizing the moment.

OK fedi hivemind... I'm looking for a flat square of material about 1cm on a side and maybe 1mm thick that is going to survive being boiled in hot nitric/sulfuric acid for a couple of minutes, then rinsed in acetone and water.
I'm thinking a glass or ceramic, but don't have a source for ready made chunks of the right size (microscope coverglasses are too fragile).
You can get pre-diced silicon wafers with chunks the right size (e.g. Ted Pella 16006) but that's ann…

Microsoft Ranked #1 on Forbes’ World’s Best Employers 2025.
...for the second year in a row.
✅ Forbes World's Best Employers 2025 - Top Companies To Work For
https://www.forbes.com/lists/worlds-best-employers/

My wife runs linux, but she keeps a windows 10 VM around for exactly one thing: MS Office 2016. She needs it to ensure that grants from her lab sent to governments are formatted exactly right, something that libreoffice unfortunately still doesn't get right.
But man, even windows 10 has so much absolute garbage running in the background. It's probably time for a windows reinstall, or to see if wine will run it successfully (or something like linoffice:

Installing Microsoft Office in Linux
Installing Microsoft Office in Linux. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Called both our guys; Padilla has no voicemail but I left one for Schiff https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vsumu6csfmj7r7pvdknl4zd2/post/3m5a5nho3ds2q

Indivisible ReSisters Contra Costa ❌👑 (@indivisresistcoco.bsky.social)
URGENT: Call your Senators and say NO VOTE TO REOPEN GOVERNMENT UNLESS HEALTH CARE SUBSIDIES ARE REINSTATED AND SNAP IS FULLY FUNDED AND PAID. Some Senators are ready to cave. We just handed them a nationwide blue wave and they need to act like it. Call 202-224-3121 #shutdown #budget

Learning to Rank with Top-$K$ Fairness
Boyang Zhang, Quanqi Hu, Mingxuan Sun, Qihang Lin, Tianbao Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18067 https://arxiv.org/p…

Learning to Rank with Top-$K$ Fairness
Fairness in ranking models is crucial, as disparities in exposure can disproportionately affect protected groups. Most fairness-aware ranking systems focus on ensuring comparable average exposure for groups across the entire ranked list, which may not fully address real-world concerns. For example, when a ranking model is used for allocating resources among candidates or disaster hotspots, decision-makers often prioritize only the top-$K$ ranked items, while the ranking beyond top-$K$ becomes l…

Controlling an altermagnetic spin density wave in the kagome magnet CsCr3Sb5
Zihao Huang, Chenchao Xu, Yande Que, Yi Liu, Ranjith Shivajirao, Zheng Jue Tong, Amit Kumar, Chao Cao, Guang-Han Cao, Hong-Jun Gao, Bent Weber
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05018

Controlling an altermagnetic spin density wave in the kagome magnet CsCr3Sb5
The interplay of charge and spin orders lies at the heart of correlated electron physics and plays a critical role in the emergence of unconventional quantum phases. Kagome magnets provide a particularly promising platform to investigate these phenomena, owing to their geometrically frustrated lattice structure. However, resolving spin and charge orders microscopically and establishing ways to control them remain fundamental challenges. Here, we demonstrate magnetic field control of an altermag…

Listening to the long ringdown: A novel way to pinpoint the EOS in neutron-star cores
Christian Ecker, Tyler Gorda, Aleksi Kurkela, Luciano Rezzolla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18665