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SHOCKING! MEETINGS WITH TRUMP: FROM ZELENSKYY IN WASHINGTON TO PUTIN IN BUDAPEST: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/20/shocking-meetings-with-trump-from.html

It all should have been stopped the instant he started openly monetizing his hotel blocks from the White House
and sending his children to represent the United States of America at international meetings.
But we decided none of the laws, rules, or norms apply this One Special Boy 🤷‍♂️
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"Labour ministers met fossil fuel lobbyists 500 times in first year of power, analysis shows"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #FossilFuels

Ukraine preparing long-term contract for 25 Patriot systems after meetings in US, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/20/ukraine-preparing-longterm-contract-for.html

Chandler Langevin, a Palm Bay council member elected last year,
claimed that Indians come to America to “drain our pockets” before returning to India,
“or worse … to stay”.
His remarks have sparked widespread anger.
Since 29 September, residents along with regional and national Indian American groups have crowded Palm Bay city council meetings and demanded that he step down.

Will Las Vegas be awarded another Super Bowl this week? https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/football/super-bowl/will-las-vegas-be-awarded-another-super-bowl-this-week-3510481/

yes, confront your bully in high school, have him sit through school meetings for hurtful statements, otherwise he might turn into steven miller

Tua Tagovailoa questions Dolphins' leadership, calls out teammates for skipping meetings https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6711528/2025/10/12/miami-dolphins-tua-tagovailoa-player-meetings/

Labour ministers met fossil fuel lobbyists 500 times in first year of power, analysis shows | Lobbying | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/16/uk-labour-ministers-fossil-fuel-lobbyists-analysis
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The way people share their screens in online meetings has to be a critical security issue in many organisations. Inadvertently showing their calendar or email, or demoing other sensitive content while the screen is being recorded – I’ve seen it all. Many employees need a primer on how to share their screen in a safe and responsible way.

Most meetings are bad, and most attempts to fix it merely reduce the *amount* of meetings, rather than do anything to improve their usefulness.
This is an opportunity for #UX designers aspiring to "do strategy." But hi-fi artifacts won't help you here; their purpose is to document decisions that have already been made.
Lo-fi artifacts only appear skippable when seen alone; i…

Dolphins Mike McDaniel Provides Clarity on Player-Led Meetings https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/mike-mcdaniel-coaches-player-led-meetings/?adt_ei=[email]

Who up Gumping they Speks?

My husband and I have been sick with the flu and completely out of anything going on with society for the past week.
This time of illness has been worse than COVID - I showed up to urgent care last week with a 104.2 F (40.1 C) fever after sleeping for 22 hours straight.
I am still delirious and unable to keep track of meetings or emails, so trying to get caught up on work will be a struggle.
Don’t be like me, get your flu shots if y’all can 😭

Thing is, I’m actually in a good mood today. A nice morning of snow driving, cafe socializing, shoveling, and then some casual meetings.
But these really problematic lies from big vendors and megacorps (and WGs) about accessibility need to be called out when they flood the zone.

@… That’s what I do, but I also see the problem in hybrid work meetings in conference rooms. Definitely something I also recommend, but alas not everyone has multiple monitors.

Inside the Closed-Door Meetings of the N.F.L.’s Billionaire Owners https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/business/nfl-owners-trump.html

Strikes run on pizza.
Turns out they also can begin to end on them.
Several pies, in fact, arrived on North Shore Drive on the brisk Tuesday that was Oct. 18, 2022,
when the strikers first walked out of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newsroom
because the PG had violated federal labor law.
The workers said they would not go back to their jobs until their employer followed the rules.
They had no idea it would take three years
and become the nation’s lon…

Big Tech's EU lobbying hit €151M in 2025, up from €113M in 2023 and €97M in 2021; between January and June 2025, Big Tech had 146 meetings with EU officials (Corporate Europe Observatory)
https://corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/big-tech-lobby-budgets-hit-re…

love my fuckin Tons

Content Anonymization for Privacy in Long-form Audio
Cristina Aggazzotti, Ashi Garg, Zexin Cai, Nicholas Andrews
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12780 https://a…

Geheime Superkraft: Meetings verkürzen

Wann immer es um Veränderungen geht, besteht ein Spektrum, in dem diese diskutierbar sind: Auf der einen Seite, sollten Veränderungen die gewünschten Verbesserungen mit sich bringen. Auf der anderen Seite, müssen sie in den bestehenden Strukturen beschlossen und umgesetzt werden können.
Das bringt Agenten dieser Veränderung in eine Zwickmühle: Machen sie einen zu radikalen Vorschlag, der tatsächliche Veränderung mit sich bringt, wird dieser schnell abgelehnt. Machen sie von Beginn an …

Vision Pro: Webex mit 3D-Modellen in Meetings
Cisco erweitert Webex um 3D-Kollaboration für die Apple Vision Pro. Teams können gemeinsam 3D-Modelle in Echtzeit betrachten und bearbeiten.
https://www.

12:21 Minuten über viel zu viel "synchronen Austausch" (aka remote meetings)
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/markus-albers-die-optimierungsluege-warum-wir-keine-zeit-fuer-die-arbeit-haben-100.html

Ein Ausfall bei AWS hat weltweit für Chaos gesorgt – Zoom-Meetings platzten, Online-Behördendienste fielen aus, Apps standen still. Doch iX-Autor Martin Gerhard Loschwitz sieht den Vorfall nicht nur als technisches Problem, sondern als Symptom eines viel größeren Missstands. ⚙️
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Reviewing my sample ballot for Concord's municipal elections Tuesday; my recommendations:
- Mayor: I like both Byron and Kate West. Vote your conscience.
- Councilor-at-large: Fisto is my first choice, then either Amanda Grady Sexton or Fred Keach. Definitely not Robert Washburn, though.
- Ward 6 Councilor: Vote Aislinn Kalob!
- School Board: Vote Cara Meeker!
- Sale of Eastman: Kinda wish we could know who it'd be sold to first, but sure, why not
- Social districts: Sure, although I'll want to follow this up by attending the city council meetings where they work out the details, and make sure they limit them to individual fully-pedestrianized city blocks (e.g. Bicentennial Square, Eagle Square)
- Keno: It is currently prohibited. It is necessary to vote YES on this question to continue to prohibit it (because otherwise new state law would require it to be allowed by-right), so I say yes, do that, vote to prohibit it.

Morning all! It's a bit of a 'catch up' day in the office today. No client meetings, just event promotion, community admin, and some podcast and video editing.
Wishing everyone a productive day, whatever you're up to!

Whew. Drove 326mi in the last 24hrs to take 3 meetings. Exhausted & car running on fumes. Just barely made it into a gas station.
... then Spotify dropped these bangers on me & I think I'll be alright.
🎶 Lay Your Hands on Me - Thompson Twins
https://open.spotify.com/…

This week was packed with #metaphor related events. Three days of the #MetaphorsOfReligion conference of @…, then two very promising meetings with other metaphor project…

Tua apologizes for comments: 'Made a mistake' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46607089/tua-tagovailoa-apologizes-dolphins-teammates-comments

Spatially-Augmented Sequence-to-Sequence Neural Diarization for Meetings
Li Li, Ming Cheng, Hongyu Zhang, Juan Liu, Ming Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09505 https://

Can AI agents understand spoken conversations about data visualizations in online meetings?
Rizul Sharma, Tianyu Jiang, Seokki Lee, Jillian Aurisano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00245

Followed up my 18h long trip to Paris by cramming the day with as many meetings with friends and former colleagues as possible, virtually from the second I arrived. 😍
Also the perfect way to stay awake to try to minimize the jet lag, but now it's soon time to crash. 💤 😂

In light of recent events, catnip is no longer allowed at Scrum meetings

This one is maybe a bit niche even for #Orgmode pros:
#UOMF: Generate a List for the next Upcoming Recurring Meeting Instances
https://

NFL Week 9 picks against the spread: Why we like the home-underdog Bills vs. Chiefs https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6758162/2025/10/30/nfl-week-9-picks-predictions-betting-2025/

An account of working at Cursor for 60 days: a largely in-person culture, few scheduled meetings, aggressive recruiting, heavy internal product testing, more (Brie Wolfson/Colossus)
https://joincolossus.com/article/inside-cursor/

NFL Week 9 picks against the spread: Why we like the home-underdog Bills vs. Chiefs https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6758162/2025/10/30/nfl-week-9-picks-predictions-betting-2025/

No surprised.
"The government published its planning and infrastructure bill in March. Before and after the bill’s publication the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, and housing minister Matthew Pennycook have met dozens of developers in numerous meetings. The body representing professional ecologists, meanwhile, has not met one minister despite requests to do so."
Developers met ministers dozens of times over planning bill while ecologists were shut out.

Ex-Tory MP Ben Howlett says he paid £100 for a 50% stake in influential X account PoliticsUK, which he used for posts that aligned with his clients' interests (Democracy for Sale)
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-our-fake-chinese-ai-investor<…

Just before heading to his meetings with the leader of China,
the president of the United States issued some comments about nuclear weapons, or “nuclear,” as he tends to call them.
He wants to resume nuclear-bomb tests, something no nuclear state except North Korea has done since the last century.
But his reasoning is a bit confused:
In the space of one short announcement, he managed to get a lot wrong, which is worrisome,
because he’s the only person in Ameri…

Morning all! It's a bit of a 'catch up' day in the office today. No client meetings, just event promotion, community admin, and some podcast and video editing.
Wishing everyone a productive day, whatever you're up to!

If this doesn't convince you people to ditch ALL AMERICAN SERVICES ecosystem, what will?
https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff/115248992415556991

Players Lounge: Last Seven Meetings https://www.dallascowboys.com/podcast/players-lounge-last-seven-meetings

NFL could award Super Bowl 63 in 2029 to Las Vegas at March meetings https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/nfl-could-award-super-bowl-63-in-2029-to-las-vegas-at-march-meetings-3511454/

Hill returns to Dolphins' facility, speaks to team https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46477683/tyreek-hill-returns-dolphins-facility-speaks-team

You're not ready for "agentic" workflows if you don't even have "agendic" meetings

"Struggling to stay awake in a meeting? Here’s what to do"
Someone needs to send this link to the White House. 😁
#sleep #meetings #health #joke

Der Versuch, während des Board-Meetings zu meditieren, scheiterte grandios. 😡

Sean Payton vs. Pete Carroll record: Full head-to-head results between Broncos, Raiders veteran coaches https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/sean-payton-pete-carroll-record-head-head/80e98be462aa5656b6acc491

An extended CIR process with stochastic discontinuities
Claudio Fontana, Simone Pavarana, Thorsten Schmidt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15752 https://arxiv.o…

NFL owners put to rest concerns over Tom Brady’s role with Fox, Raiders https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/nfl-owners-put-to-rest-concerns-over-tom-bradys-role-with-fox-raiders-3511516/

I have been invited to a meeting at work titled “How to effectively schedule and hold meetings.”
By declining the meeting I feel I have mastered its core lessons.