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FIFA says parts of 2026 World Cup soccer games will be broadcast live on TikTok and some creators will get access to press conferences and training sessions (Jessica Hopkins/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6954078/2026/01/08/world-cup-tikto…

World Cup match footage to be broadcast live on TikTok, FIFA says
The short form video social media platform has previously collaborated with the 2023 Women's World Cup and the Club World Cup.

FIFA says parts of 2026 World Cup games will be broadcast live on TikTok and some creators will get access to press conferences and training sessions (Jessica Hopkins/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6954078/2026/01/08/world-cup-tiktok-fifa-…

World Cup match footage to be broadcast live on TikTok, FIFA says
The short form video social media platform has previously collaborated with the 2023 Women's World Cup and the Club World Cup.

Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-mortgage-fraud-florida-principal-residences

World Cup 'Pride Match' at Seattle To Feature Teams From Two Countries That Outlaw Homosexuality (Perry Chiaramonte/New York Sun)
https://www.nysun.com/article/world-cup-pride-match-at-seattle-to-feature-teams-from-two-countries-that-outlaw-homosexuality
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p88#a251208p88

this morning I managed to wake up at 7:30, get the 8:18 bus to the pub for 9am Celtic kickoff, had a full irish breakfast, and after the match as people were leaving I got a bunch of 🫵🏼 "see you next week for cup final?"
also learned one of the guys lives in my neighborhood and passes my building on his morning runs haha. god football is the best thing to ever happen to me

NFL playoff bracket, schedule, odds, picks for Wild Card Weekend: Bears win rubber match vs. Packers

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-playoff-bracket-schedule-odds-pi…

Page Match: Spotify synchronisiert Buch und Hörbuch
Mit Page Match ermöglicht es Spotify, nahtlos zwischen dem Lesen eines Buchs und dem Hören eines Audiobooks zu wechseln. Dafür muss man nur ein Foto machen.
https://ww…

I have to time-shift today's match, which might be a mercy!
Having seen the lineups, allow me to say up front that I wish Slot would have started Jones over Mac Allister.
#LFC

Oh, today is my iTunes Match-iversary. I pay Apple ~$30CAD annually for them to store and sync my 30 year old digital music collection of like ... 100GB and counting.
Looks like I wrote about it last year.
Most of my music purchases are Bandcamp/indie these days and uploaded to my home Ampache. https://bsky.ap…

Boris (@bmann.ca)
Oh, today is my iTunes Match-iversary. I pay Apple ~$30CAD annually for them to store and sync my 30 year old digital music collection of like ... 100GB and counting. Looks like I wrote about it last year. Most of my music purchases are Bandcamp/indie these days and uploaded to my home Ampache.

chess: Kaggle chess players (2010)
A network among chess players (nodes) giving the chess match outcomes (edges), for game-by-game results among the world’s top chess players. The direction of edge (i,j) denotes white player (i) and black player (j). Each edge is timestamped (approximate). Edge sign is 1 for a win by white, 0 for draw, and -1 for a win by black.
This network has 7301 nodes and 65053 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Signed, Timestamps

For a #curling addict🥌, the “multiview” in Peacock’s app is a massive bit of awesomeness!
#olympics #olympics2026

Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal — ProPublica #fraud

Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing he called “deceitful and potentially criminal.”

Nik Bonitto Drops True Feelings on Raiders’ Maxx Crosby https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/broncos-nik-bonitto-maxx-crosby/?adt_ei=[email]

In a global first, DAZN will broadcast a live match between two teams in the National League, the fifth tier of English soccer, for free on its TikTok account (Matt Slater/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6783979/2025/11/06/…

English National League game to be streamed live on TikTok in global first
The fixture between arguably the two biggest teams outside the EFL will be streamed live, free of charge, on DAZN's TikTok channel.

NFL playoff picks: Score predictions and matchup analysis for every Wild Card Round game https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-playoff-picks-wild-card-round-2025-nfl-season

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey wants to eliminate the 15-year deadline to prosecute rape in cases with a DNA match. 
The proposal is part of her budget recommendation for the 2027 fiscal year.
Current Massachusetts law bars rape prosecutions in older cases, even when DNA testing has identified a suspect.
An investigation last year by WBUR and ProPublica found that nearly all other states allow more time to charge rapes or similar assaults of adults than Massachusetts.
…

Gov. Healey proposes eliminating deadline to prosecute rapes when there's a DNA match
Current Massachusetts law bars rape prosecutions in cases older than 15 years, even when there’s a DNA match. The governor wants to change it.

Trump's rug pull came without notice to the National Symphony Orchestra.

Worked on some more #Gentoo global #jobserver goodies today.
Firstly, Portage jobserver support patch: #PyTest jobs will also be counted towards total job count.
Again, it's not a perfect solution, but it works reasonably. The plugin still starts -n jobs as specified by the arguments, but it acquired job tokens prior to executing every test, therefore delaying actual testing until tokens are available. It doesn't seem to cause noticeable overhead either.

"Environmentalists decry ‘crushingly disappointing’ Pfas action plan for UK"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #PFAS #ForeverChemicals

Im using case_when() quite a lot, case_match() is new to me: #rstats

A general vectorised switch() — case_match
This function allows you to vectorise multiple switch() statements. Each case is evaluated sequentially and the first match for each element determines the corresponding value in the output vector. If no cases match, the .default is used. case_match() is an R equivalent of the SQL "simple" CASE WHEN statement. Connection to case_when() While case_when() uses logical expressions on the left-hand side of the formula, case_match() uses values to match against .x with. The following two statement…

My kingdom for competent defending. Asking unseriously if Konate is match fixing.
#LFC

This is true. Especially good wool socks for anyone living climates with cold winters. https://mastodon.green/@juliette/115635128700362435

Stopping Lions on 4th downs among Cowboys keys to Thursday victory https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/03/gibbs-goff-4th-downs-dallas-cowboys-detroit-lions-week-14/87594165007/…

The Vet Who Surprised A Cow
In the course of his duties in August 1977, a Dutch veterinary
surgeon was required to treat an ailing cow. To investigate its internal
gases he inserted a tube into that end of the animal not capable of facial
expression and struck a match. The jet of flame set fire first to some
bales of hay and then to the whole farm causing damage estimate at L45,000.
The vet was later fined L140 for starting a fire in a manner surprising to

Screen, Match, and Cache: A Training-Free Causality-Consistent Reference Frame Framework for Human Animation
Jianan Wang, Nailei Hei, Li He, Huanzhen Wang, Aoxing Li, Haofen Wang, Yan Wang, Wenqiang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22160 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.22160 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.22160
arXiv:2601.22160v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Human animation aims to generate temporally coherent and visually consistent videos over long sequences, yet modeling long-range dependencies while preserving frame quality remains challenging. Inspired by the human ability to leverage past observations for interpreting ongoing actions, we propose FrameCache, a training-free three-stage framework consisting of Screen, Cache, and Match. In the Screen stage, a multi-dimensional, quality-aware mechanism with adaptive thresholds dynamically selects informative frames; the Cache stage maintains a reference pool using a dynamic replacement-hit strategy, preserving both diversity and relevance; and the Match stage extracts behavioral features to perform motion-consistent reference matching for coherent animation guidance. Extensive experiments on standard benchmarks demonstrate that FrameCache consistently improves temporal coherence and visual stability while integrating seamlessly with diverse baselines. Despite these encouraging results, further analysis reveals that its effectiveness depends on baseline temporal reasoning and real-synthetic consistency, motivating future work on compatibility conditions and adaptive cache mechanisms. Code will be made publicly available.
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Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal — @…
#Trump

After physician residency applicants submit and certify their rank order list,
there isn’t much else left to do but wait on "Match Day". 
In a few weeks
—as was the case in 2024—
overwhelming majority of senior applicants from U.S. allopathic and osteopathic medical schools will find a training position
through the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) Main Residency Match. 
But how does the system decide?
It all comes down to a
N…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Chick Corea, Sandu Sura & Django Club Trio:
🎵 Got a Match
#ChickCorea #SanduSura #DjangoClubTrio

How falcon thieves are targeting the UK’s protected birds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/08/wildlife-matters-and-it-may-be-causing-untold-harm-upon-nature-in-the-uk

Can anyone recommend a tool for basically mass unfollowing Fediverse/Mastodon accounts or otherwise managing your followings?
I'm following almost 2000 accounts and while my feed is very much alive and buzzing, it feels like it doesn't really match my interests. It's too generic.
I need to weed out what I actually care about. Is there anything that can help with that?
#Mastodon

Just finished "Match Point!" by Maddie Gallegos, an excellent graphic novel about racquetball, dumpster diving, best friends, and pressure from Dad. The characters and their fromance are super cute, and while I'm sure some might find the ending too happy, I'm usually fine with seeing the aspirational version of relationships because it can serve as a good role model, while other narratives can help explain how to handle worse outcomes.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Got a gov loveletter in response to my request for "#gender" and name change.
My new name is supposed to match my "#gender".
Since I'm having my "gender" removed, what would be a suitable name?
"NULL", nil, undefined, ... [object Object]? kek…

X unveils Bluesky-like "Starterpacks" to help users find accounts that match their interests, curated by X and rolling out in the coming weeks (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/21/x-copies-blues…

X copies Bluesky with a 'Starterpacks' feature that helps you find who to follow | TechCrunch
X says the new feature, similar to Bluesky's Starter Packs, will arrive in the coming weeks.

my therapist let me push therapy up by a couple hours so it wouldn't overlap with the Celtic match and she's extremely real for that thank u taliesha

When you say you need hope about climate change, what do you really need?
Maybe it's proof your actions matter.
Maybe it's permission to want a better future.
Maybe it's feeling less alone.
Your brain treats hope like a prediction. When reality doesn't match, hope breaks.
But agency doesn't break.
Community doesn't break.
Imagination doesn't break.
What if we stopped chasing hope and built something stronger?
Read …

How to Stay Hopeful About Climate Change: A Scientific Look at the Brain’s Hope Circuit
A science-backed exploration of why hope collapses during the climate crisis. Learn the neuroscience behind fragile hope, the psychology of despair, and the durable alternatives—like agency, imagination, and possibility—that truly sustain long-term climate engagement.

I can NOT get over this man’s hair on @buzzrtv Match Game ‘77. If you are this man or know him I feel I should ask you some questions

chess: Kaggle chess players (2010)
A network among chess players (nodes) giving the chess match outcomes (edges), for game-by-game results among the world’s top chess players. The direction of edge (i,j) denotes white player (i) and black player (j). Each edge is timestamped (approximate). Edge sign is 1 for a win by white, 0 for draw, and -1 for a win by black.
This network has 7301 nodes and 65053 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Signed, Timestamps

Deciding Who is the Perfect Fit for the Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-deciding-who-is-perfect-fit

NFL Week 13 bold predictions: Patriots duo reaches new heights; 49ers shut down Myles Garrett https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-week-13-bold-predictions-patriots-duo-reaches-new-heights-49ers-shut-down-myles-garrett

JUST-DUB-IT: Video Dubbing via Joint Audio-Visual Diffusion
Anthony Chen, Naomi Ken Korem, Tavi Halperin, Matan Ben Yosef, Urska Jelercic, Ofir Bibi, Or Patashnik, Daniel Cohen-Or
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22143 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.22143 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.22143
arXiv:2601.22143v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Audio-Visual Foundation Models, which are pretrained to jointly generate sound and visual content, have recently shown an unprecedented ability to model multi-modal generation and editing, opening new opportunities for downstream tasks. Among these tasks, video dubbing could greatly benefit from such priors, yet most existing solutions still rely on complex, task-specific pipelines that struggle in real-world settings. In this work, we introduce a single-model approach that adapts a foundational audio-video diffusion model for video-to-video dubbing via a lightweight LoRA. The LoRA enables the model to condition on an input audio-video while jointly generating translated audio and synchronized facial motion. To train this LoRA, we leverage the generative model itself to synthesize paired multilingual videos of the same speaker. Specifically, we generate multilingual videos with language switches within a single clip, and then inpaint the face and audio in each half to match the language of the other half. By leveraging the rich generative prior of the audio-visual model, our approach preserves speaker identity and lip synchronization while remaining robust to complex motion and real-world dynamics. We demonstrate that our approach produces high-quality dubbed videos with improved visual fidelity, lip synchronization, and robustness compared to existing dubbing pipelines.
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Parallel Neuron Groups in the Drosophila Brain
Robert Worden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10525 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.10525 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.10525
arXiv:2512.10525v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The full connectome of an adult Drosophila enables a search for novel neural structures in the insect brain. I describe a new neural structure, called a Parallel Neuron Group (PNG). Two neurons are called parallel if they share a significant number of input neurons and output neurons. Most pairs of neurons in the Drosophila brain have very small parallel match. There are about twenty larger groups of neurons for which any pair of neurons in the group has a high match. These are the parallel groups. Parallel groups contain only about 1000 out of the 65,000 neurons in the brain, and have distinctive properties. There are groups in the right mushroom bodies, the antennal lobes, the lobula, and in two central neuropils (GNG and EB). Most parallel groups do not have lateral symmetry. A group usually has one major input neuron, which inputs to all the neurons in the group, and a small number of major output neurons. The major input and output neurons are laterally asymmetric. Parallel neuron groups present puzzles, such as: what does a group do, that could not be done by one larger neuron? Do all neurons in a group fire in synchrony, or do they perform different functions? Why are they laterally asymmetric? These may merit further investigation.
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Did you know that SpaceShip .com, who is a Domain Registrar plus a bunch of other hosting services, has something called "Alf AI"?
Yes, I am going to bug them to sponsor ATmosphereConf - what a perfect match!
https://www.spaceship.com/alf-ai-assistant/

OpenAI will match ads to conversation topics using some personalization data, but claims it will not sell user data or expose user conversations to advertisers (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-testing-ads-us/

Ads Are Coming to ChatGPT. Here’s How They’ll Work
OpenAI says ads will not influence ChatGPT’s responses, and that it won’t sell user data to advertisers.

Elizabeth Holmes
— who, not incidentally, stole hundreds of millions of dollars from investors
— is lobbying for a pardon from President Trump.
And why not?
Game knows game. Grift knows grift.
Of all the powers a president wields, few match his awesome pardon authority.
It is sweeping and life-changing. Idiosyncratic, resting wholly on personal whim, and irrevocable.
Once granted, it is impossible to reverse.
The power to pardon is also, like a…

@Chevrolet was built for the fan, no matter how bad their team is 😂#ad grateful to partner with chevy after they saw me buy my truck, match made in heaven 🤝 https://www.tiktok.com/@annieagar5/video/7

The Trump administration is providing the names of all air travelers to immigration officials,
substantially expanding its use of data sharing to expel people under deportation orders.
Under the previously undisclosed program, the Transportation Security Administration provides a list multiple times a week to Immigration and Customs Enforcement of travelers who will be coming through airports.
ICE can then match the list against its own database of people subject to deporta…

T.S.A. Is Providing Air Passenger Data to Immigration Agents for Deportation Effort
The Transportation Security Administration is providing passenger lists to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement to identify and detain travelers subject to deportation orders.

Had to time-shift the match.
The change to the diamond 4-4-2 provided some needed stability. It is a more conservative setup from Slot, who prefers a more aggressive shape and ultimately wants to allow his attacking midfield to be able to freely rotate and drift into spaces, causing overloads, vacancies, and defensive confusion.
But when a team is in a rut and needs to stop the bleeding, the old standard works. Everyone knows a 4-4-2 and confusion in duties is largely eliminated.…

my perfect beautiful boys
#fm24

For months, the Trump administration has been accusing its political enemies of mortgage fraud for claiming more than one primary residence.
Donald Trump branded one foe who did so “deceitful and potentially criminal.”
He called another “CROOKED” on Truth Social and pushed the attorney general to take action.
But years earlier, Trump did the very thing he’s accusing his enemies of, records show.
In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a “Bermuda style” home in Palm Beach,…

Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing he called “deceitful and potentially criminal.”

me: wow my new football book got here. I should take some time today to keep reading my current football book. but first I gotta finish watching this danish football match cuz I got distracted watching football chant YT shorts on my phone. and I kinda wanted to keep playing football manager...
also me: sometimes I wonder if im really autistic or if im just making it up

It wouldn't be a proper #LFC match without me once yelling at my TV to "call the penalty, you cowards!" Graeme Le Saux suggesting "Wirtz's leg actually came into Trossard" had me apoplectic.
Trossard already being on a yellow does not excuse a body check with no touch on the ball.
Ah, but the touch was heavy? So was the touch on Konate's penalty vs Leeds. In …

yknow what? why not.
why not watch north korean women's football at 3:30am
#fedifc