Tootfinder

MLB viewership rose in 2025: ESPN averaged 1.8M viewers, up 21% YoY; Fox rose 9% to 2.04M viewers, MLB Network up 13%, MLB.TV up 34% to 19.39B minutes, a record (Eric Fisher/Front Office Sports)
https://frontofficesports.com/mlb-national-tv-ratings-rise-b…

MLB National TV Ratings Rise by Double Digits in 2025
While Major League Baseball had solid returns in attendance, the story on television this past season was even better.

Russia’s Ministry of Justice designated Human Rights Watch
an “undesirable organization”
on Nov. 28,
effectively banning the group from operating in the country.
Human Rights Watch noted that Russia had already forced the closure of its Moscow office in 2022.
“Our work hasn’t changed, but what’s changed, dramatically, is the government’s full-throttled embrace of dictatorial policies,
its staggering rise in repression,
and the scope of the war crimes…

Russia declares Human Rights Watch an 'undesirable organization'
Russia’s Ministry of Justice has designated Human Rights Watch an “undesirable organization,” effectively banning the group from operating in the country, on Nov. 28.

Topological non-Abelian Gauge Structures in Cayley-Schreier Lattices
Zolt\'an Guba, Robert-Jan Slager, Lavi K. Upreti, Tom\'a\v{s} Bzdu\v{s}ek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25316

Topological non-Abelian Gauge Structures in Cayley-Schreier Lattices
Recently, novel crystalline constructions known as Cayley-Schreier lattices have been suggested as a platform for realizing arbitrary gauge fields in synthetic crystals with real hopping amplitudes. We show that Cayley-Schreier lattices can naturally give rise to implementable lattice systems that incorporate non-Abelian gauge structures transforming into a space-group symmetry. We show that the symmetry sectors can, moreover, be interpreted as blocks of spin models that can effectively realize…

ACCA, the world's largest accounting body, says it is ending remote exams to combat a rise in students cheating by using AI tools when taking tests (Ellesheva Kissin/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/52e70f3e-d0e8-462c-8ac1-f08a684dfca2

It’s ‘whack-a-mole’: Alarming rise in pet trade fuels wildlife trafficking into California https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/its-whack-a-mole-alarming-rise-in-pet-trade-fuels-wildlife-trafficking-into-california/<…

It’s ‘whack-a-mole’: Alarming rise in pet trade fuels wildlife trafficking into California
In October, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer at California’s Otay Mesa border crossing noticed an odd bulge inside a man’s pants. Jesse Agus Martinez, a U.S. citizen who lives in Tijuana, repeatedly claimed the bump was “pirrin,” a Spanish word for penis. His history of smuggling birds into the U.S. prompted further examination, […]

Raiders trade rumor reveals one offensive player Las Vegas isn't looking to trade https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-trade-rumor-offensive-player-las-vegas-isnt…

#Anarchism

The nominal capacity of this seminar room is 25, I believe. The diagram shows the CO₂ levels with just 9 persons in the room. How is this considered acceptable?

NFL Week 13 power rankings: Rams, Chiefs, Browns on rise; one question facing each team https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6834097/2025/11/25/nfl-power-rankings-week-13-rams-chiefs-browns-myles-garrett/

OTD 5 years ago, I posted this:
So, in the last 24 hours we had
- Zombie minks in Denmark
- almost 400 km/h wind,
- thunderstorms and lightning in Iceland
Either someone is playing an updated version of Jumanji, or some Nordic director is shooting a video clip for a "Thriller"/"Bohemian Rhapsody" remix.

It's 08:00 in the morning, here at 55°N 4°W, and the sun will in theory rise in ten minutes. But it's still dark.
And we're still 24 days away from the turning of the year: it will get still darker before the light begins to return. And, as in every year, the warmth will lag a couple of months behind the light, retarded by the thermal mass of the atmosphere and the earth.
This is not my favourite season.

Very cool approach to sea level rise mitigation:
#ClimateAction

San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle.com)
A new levee coming to Palo Alto will protect from rising seas, restore the bay shoreline and improve water quality. https://bit.ly/4jpAQIr

Ukraine sends a message to Kadyrov: high-rise building in central Grozny damaged #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/13/ukraine-sends-a-message-to.html

Cinemark signs a deal with Imax to add 17 theaters, including four new US Imax laser projection screens, amid a rise in event cinema like Avatar: Fire and Ash (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus…

Cinemark Signs 17-Theater Imax Deal in Latest Premium Play
The rise of event cinema has exhibitors nabbing new Imax locations, even as they have their own branded premium large format screens, in a bid for more assured revenue streams.

Vegetarian Society Reports ‘Significant Rise’ In Brands Adopting Plant-Based Certification https://plantbasednews.org/lifestyle/food/vegetarian-society-rise-plant-based-certification/

Vegetarian Society Reports 'Significant Rise' In Brands Adopting Plant-Based Certification
The UK’s Vegetarian Society has reported seeing a “significant rise” in the number of brands adopting its plant-based certification label

NFL Week 13 power rankings: Rams, Chiefs, Browns on rise; one question facing each team https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6834097/2025/11/25/nfl-power-rankings-week-13-rams-chiefs-browns-myles-garrett/

#jukeboxfridaynight
#takeittothestreets
Two more Canadian tunes from the 80s. Uplifting messages and in the videos, they take their music to the streets.
Rise Up by The Parachute Club
https://youtu.be/qNwuB76pBcc?si=-XsiQPm0c3zTCDIo
Closer Together by The Box
https://youtu.be/AFT1l50CgHo?si=NdYY5_ds4lIxy6xg

Every QB-desperate team's offseason plan: Draft the next NFL superstar or sign, trade for a veteran?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/every-q

"Rise in Chinese off-grid coal plants in Indonesia belies pledge to end fossil fuel support"
#Indonesia #FossilFuels #Energy

Rise in Chinese off-grid coal plants in Indonesia belies pledge to end fossil fuel support
A surge in the supply of Chinese-backed coal-fired power plants built to supply electricity to Indonesia’s fast-growing nickel mining and processing sector is undermining Beijing’s efforts to dial back support for fossil fuels, a study released Nov. 3 has found. In his speech to the U.N. General Assembly four years ago, China’s president, Xi Jinping, […]

from my link log —
What to do once you admit that decentralizing everything never seems to work.
https://hackernoon.com/decentralizing-everything-never-seems-to-work-2bb0461bd168
saved 2019-08-31

What to do once you admit that decentralizing everything never seems to work | HackerNoon
Lots of tech projects these days, especially crypto-networks, aspire to decentralization. Or their evangelists say they do, because they feel they need to. Decentralization is the new disruption—the thing everything worth its salt (and a huge ICO) is supposed to be doing. Meanwhile, Internet progenitors like Vint Cerf, Brewster Kahle, and Tim Berners-Lee are trying to re-decentralize the Web. They respond to the rise…

WTF? Why don't you go like a good sized portion of the civilized world and dump the 'for profit' health care model? Of course the GOP, billionaires, companies that own hospitals and drug companies will scream... Tell them to take a very long off a short pier at the top of a 1,000 metre cliff.
https://flip.it/3sMmr6

Double Double 🛗
成双 🛗
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

NFL Week 6 Team of the Week: Rico Dowdle Stays Hot; Smith-Njigba Continues Rise https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-week-6-team-week-rico-dowdle-stays-hot-smith-njigba-continues-rise

Federated Data Analytics for Cancer Immunotherapy: A Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Platform for Patient Management
Mira Raheem, Michael Papazoglou, Bernd Kr\"amer, Neamat El-Tazi, Amal Elgammal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09155

Federated Data Analytics for Cancer Immunotherapy: A Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Platform for Patient Management
Connected health is a multidisciplinary approach focused on health management, prioritizing pa-tient needs in the creation of tools, services, and treatments. This paradigm ensures proactive and efficient care by facilitating the timely exchange of accurate patient information among all stake-holders in the care continuum. The rise of digital technologies and process innovations promises to enhance connected health by integrating various healthcare data sources. This integration aims to persona…

🤑 Study reveals how financial pressure shapes NFL officiating
#nfl

Study reveals how financial pressure shapes NFL officiating
A new study from The University of Texas at El Paso has uncovered how financial incentives may subtly shape officiating decisions in one of America's most iconic institutions: the National Football League. By analyzing more than 13,000 penalty calls from 2015 to 2023, researchers found that postseason officiating has disproportionately favored the Patrick Mahomes-era Kansas City Chiefs, coinciding with their rise as one of the NFL's most marketable franchises.

CPR renewed for another two years.
Have I mentioned how much I hate bagging mannequins? If they made CPR dummies out of soft fleshy silicone instead of hard plastic they'd seal to the BVM so much better. 50% of the time I squeeze the bag on a dummy it leaks and I barely get any chest rise.

The complexity and effort that went into this scam are amazing.
Inside a Wild Bitcoin Heist: Five-Star Hotels, Cash-Stuffed Envelopes, and Vanishing Funds
https://www.wired.com/story/bitcoin-scam-mining-as-service/

Inside a Wild Bitcoin Heist: Five-Star Hotels, Cash-Stuffed Envelopes, and Vanishing Funds
Sophisticated crypto scams are on the rise. But few of them go to the lengths one bitcoin mining executive experienced earlier this year.

"Despite their promises, governments’ new emission-cutting plans submitted for the Cop30 climate talks taking place in Brazil have done little to avert dangerous global heating for the fourth consecutive year, according to the Climate Action Tracker update.
The world is now anticipated to heat up by 2.6C above preindustrial times by the end of the century"
#ClimateCatastrophe

Heating Costs Expected to Rise 9.2% This Winter (Ivan Penn/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/business/energy-environment/winter-heating-costs-increase.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9U8.tp5D.XSaPh0PKHLzT&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p7#a251217p7

"..in the UK. Populist rhetoric has moved away from talking about immigrants in general and towards the demonisation of particular ethnic or religious groups, and away from a concern about current immigration numbers towards demands for deportation of legal migrants. Associating immigrants and asylum seekers with crime is part of that pattern."

mainly macro: Labour, a supply side explanation for the rise of populism, and the growing acceptability of xenophobic discourse…

Labour, a supply side explanation for the rise of populism, and the growing acceptability of xenophobic discourse in the UK
  I never cease to be amazed at how bad Labour politicians are at politics. It may seem arrogant for an economist to say that, but it’s not ...

Vision Language Models: A Survey of 26K Papers
Fengming Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09586 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09586

Vision Language Models: A Survey of 26K Papers
We present a transparent, reproducible measurement of research trends across 26,104 accepted papers from CVPR, ICLR, and NeurIPS spanning 2023-2025. Titles and abstracts are normalized, phrase-protected, and matched against a hand-crafted lexicon to assign up to 35 topical labels and mine fine-grained cues about tasks, architectures, training regimes, objectives, datasets, and co-mentioned modalities. The analysis quantifies three macro shifts: (1) a sharp rise of multimodal vision-language-LLM…

Essay trying to explain the rise of populism.
It's about an "appeal to common sense" instead of allowing for elitist analytical thinking and theorizing.
https://josephheath.substack.com/p/populism-fast-and-slow

Populism fast and slow
It is natural that a person who is both concerned by the rise of right-wing populism and possessed of a bookish disposition might turn to the academic political science literature in search of a better understanding of the phenomenon.

New study by @… et al. finds that emissions in China and India are projected to grow much less in 2025 compared to the past decade, while emissions in the US and EU are projected to grow this year after years of decline.

Multimodal Policy Internalization for Conversational Agents
Zhenhailong Wang, Jiateng Liu, Amin Fazel, Ritesh Sarkhel, Xing Fan, Xiang Li, Chenlei Guo, Heng Ji, Ruhi Sarikaya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09474

Multimodal Policy Internalization for Conversational Agents
Modern conversational agents like ChatGPT and Alexa+ rely on predefined policies specifying metadata, response styles, and tool-usage rules. As these LLM-based systems expand to support diverse business and user queries, such policies, often implemented as in-context prompts, are becoming increasingly complex and lengthy, making faithful adherence difficult and imposing large fixed computational costs. With the rise of multimodal agents, policies that govern visual and multimodal behaviors are …

Comparative Performance Analysis of Modern NoSQL Data Technologies: Redis, Aerospike, and Dragonfly
Deep Bodra, Sushil Khairnar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08863 https://

Comparative Performance Analysis of Modern NoSQL Data Technologies: Redis, Aerospike, and Dragonfly
The rise of distributed applications and cloud computing has created a demand for scalable, high-performance key-value storage systems. This paper presents a performance evaluation of three prominent NoSQL key-value stores: Redis, Aerospike, and Dragonfly, using the Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark (YCSB) framework. We conducted extensive experiments across three distinct workload patterns (read-heavy, write-heavy), and balanced while systematically varying client concurrency from 1 to 32 clients…

Is it too soon to tell whether costs of older used PCs have begun to rise, or fall, in relation to their inability to run Windows 11?
With or without refurbishment.
@…
#Microsoft

Geometry-aware Policy Imitation
Yiming Li, Nael Darwiche, Amirreza Razmjoo, Sichao Liu, Yilun Du, Auke Ijspeert, Sylvain Calinon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08787 https://…

Geometry-aware Policy Imitation
We propose a Geometry-aware Policy Imitation (GPI) approach that rethinks imitation learning by treating demonstrations as geometric curves rather than collections of state-action samples. From these curves, GPI derives distance fields that give rise to two complementary control primitives: a progression flow that advances along expert trajectories and an attraction flow that corrects deviations. Their combination defines a controllable, non-parametric vector field that directly guides robot be…

Ok, yeah, I'm not done processing my anger over liberals doing shit like this. So this historian sees a rise in right wing violence, sees the US government carrying out ethnic cleansing, sees a rise in white supremacist terrorism, and then says, "oh yeah... this reminds me of a time right around the 1920s. Hum... yeah, ANARCHISTS fighting the government! Yeah, that's the same thing."
FFS, IT'S THE RED SUMMER! If you want a parallel between today and some horrible time in US history, TALK ABOUT THE RED SUMMER. The point of the language of dehumanization that the right uses, the point of all the anti-black and anti-emigrant rhetoric, is that it leads to genocide. Trump already carried out an act of genocide (#USPol

"Forty per cent of Australian women without kids hesitant to have children because of climate change, survey finds"
#Australia #Climate #ClimateChange

North Korean hackers stole a record $2.02B in crypto in 2025, a 51% YoY rise that takes its cumulative stolen total to $6.75B; individual wallet hacks hit 158K (Chainalysis)
https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/crypto-hacking-stolen-funds-2026/

2025 Crypto Theft Reaches $3.4 Billion
North Korean hackers stole $2.02 billion in cryptocurrency in 2025, a 51% year-over-year increase, pushing their all-time total to $6.75 billion.

While I might debate that The Last Jedi was arguably worse, JFC, I couldn't stop laughing at this unrelenting disassembly of The Rise of Skywalker & the Exegol scene. 😜
▶️ How THIS Scene RUINED Star Wars!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=hlqGtSQC9c0&si=8Ur7_s5jN0X…

"Electromobility remains Growth Driver"
"The VDA anticipates nearly one million (979,000) new registrations of electric passenger cars in Germany in 2026. This represents a 17% increase compared to 2025."
https://www.vda.de/en/press/press-releases

Forecasts for 2026: New car registrations in Germany rise slightly
Electromobility remains growth Driver

"if the Republicans don't do something pretty soon, everybody's health bills under what used to be known as the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare, are going to rise exponentially in January and disproportionately in the red states in poor underserved areas where they vote MAGA Republican"
'Ticking time bomb': Analyst warns Dems 'caving' to Trump may backfire — on GOP - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/government-shutdown-2674286965/

Cowboys Headlines: Making sense of Maxx Crosby buzz; power ranking rise; Trevon Diggs news https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/22/news-headlines-october-21-2025-ma…

I’m reading Civilization Before Greece and Rome, by H. W. F. Saggs. Published in ‘89 so some interpretations are outdated, but a section on the emergence and rise of the god king in Mesopotamia for instance shows how the evangelical butt kissing of 🍊💩 and their efforts to sanctify him have been a part of human behavior for the past 5KY that we have written records of, and likely for a long while before that. Our constitution tries to buck the trend, but the odds for success look slim.

From my lunch walk (this is actually right outside the @… offices)
#Oslo

Picture the human body. Zoom in on a single cell. It lives for a while, then splits or dies, as part of a community of cells that make up a particular tissue. This community lives together for many many cell-lifetimes, each performing their own favorite function and reproducing as much as necessary to maintain their community, consuming the essential resources they need and contributing back what they can so that the whole body can live for decades. Each community of cells is interdependent on the whole body, but also stable and sustainable over long periods of time.
Now imagine a cancer cell. It has lost its ability to harmonize with the whole and prioritize balance, instead consuming and reproducing as quickly as it can. As neighboring tissues start to die from its excess, it metastasizes, always spreading to new territory to fuel its unbalanced appetite. The inevitable result is death of the whole body, although through birth, that body can create a new fresh branch of tissues that may continue their stable existence free of cancer. Alternatively, radiation or chemotherapy might be able to kill off the cancer, at great cost to the other tissues, but permitting long-term survival.
To the cancer cell, the idea of decades-long survival of a tissue community is unbelievable. When your natural state is unbounded consumption, growth, and competition, the idea of interdependent cooperation (with tissues all around the body you're not even touching, no less) seems impossible, and the idea that a tissue might survive in a stable form for decades is ludicrous.
"Perhaps if conditions were bleak enough to perfectly balance incessant unrestrained growth against the depredations of a hostile environment it might be possible? I guess the past must have been horribly brutal, so that despite each tissue trying to grow as much as possible they each barely survived? Yes, a stable and sustainable population is probably only possible under conditions of perfectly extreme hardship, and in our current era of unfettered growth, we should rejoice that we live in much easier times!"
You can probably already see where I'm going with this metaphor, but did you know that there are human communities, alive today, that have been living sustainably for *tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years*?
#anarchy #colonialism #civilization
P.S. if you're someone who likes to think about past populations and historical population growth, I cannot recommend the (short, free) game Opera Omnia by Stephen Lavelle enough: https://www.increpare.com/2009/02/opera-omnia/

Another day done
The world pauses at moon rise
Another night starts.
#dailyhaikuprompt - moon rise
#haiku
#poem

Squirrels at War: Rescue
#writingcommunity #visualinspiration Earlier installments can be read from this page. *** I watched the sun rise on the viewscreen. Soon it was a bright morning, but no attendant showed up with breakfast. I tried opening the door, but it was im…

Substitution Without Copy and Paste
Thorsten Altenkirch (University of Nottingham), Nathaniel Burke (Imperial College London), Philip Wadler (University of Edinburgh)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12304

Substitution Without Copy and Paste
Defining substitution for a language with binders like the simply typed $λ$-calculus requires repetition, defining substitution and renaming separately. To verify the categorical properties of this calculus, we must repeat the same argument many times. We present a lightweight method that avoids repetition and that gives rise to a simply typed category with families (CwF) isomorphic to the initial simply typed CwF. Our paper is a literate Agda script.

«[…] there is a choice to be made. We ought at least to ask if universities exist to sort and qualify, or to form and transform. AI forces the question.»
The end of pretend – AI and the case for universities of formation https://wonkhe.com/blogs/the-end-of-pr

The end of pretend – AI and the case for universities of formation
Jim Dickinson reflects on the end of scarcity, the rise of AI, and the challenge to a system of higher education built on pretence, performance and proxies Jim Dickinson reflects on the end of scarcity, the rise of AI, and the challenge to a system of higher education built on pretence, performance and proxies

Acoustoelectric Amplification in a Piezoelectric-2DEG Heterostructure
Eric Chatterjee, Daniel Soh, Matt Eichenfield
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09248 https://

Acoustoelectric Amplification in a Piezoelectric-2DEG Heterostructure
We provide a quantum mechanical description of phonon amplification in a heterostructure consisting of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) stacked on top of a piezoelectric material. An applied drift voltage effectively creates a population inversion in the momentum states of the 2DEG electrons, giving rise to spontaneous emission of phonons. Once an acoustic wave is launched, the pumped electrons release phonons via stimulated emission, returning to depleted ground states before being pumped…

Trends and Performance Visualization of Clutch Time in Japan's Professional B.League
Shota Shiiku, Jun Ichikawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08597 https://

Trends and Performance Visualization of Clutch Time in Japan's Professional B.League
Reflecting the recent rise in Japanese basketball's competitiveness and pivotal outcomes in international tournaments, clutch-time performance has become increasingly critical. We examine clutch-time performance in Japan's B.League using play-by-play and box-score data from the 2023-24 season. Defining clutch time as the final five minutes with a score margin within five points, we compare efficiency and shot selection between clutch and non-clutch windows. We focus on effective field-goal perc…

Fast Wasserstein rates for estimating probability distributions of probabilistic graphical models
Daniel Bartl, Stephan Eckstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09270 https://…

Fast Wasserstein rates for estimating probability distributions of probabilistic graphical models
Using i.i.d. data to estimate a high-dimensional distribution in Wasserstein distance is a fundamental instance of the curse of dimensionality. We explore how structural knowledge about the data-generating process which gives rise to the distribution can be used to overcome this curse. More precisely, we work with the set of distributions of probabilistic graphical models for a known directed acyclic graph. It turns out that this knowledge is only helpful if it can be quantified, which we forma…

"In 2020, Berlin passed a law that resulted in a five-year rent freeze [...] for 90% of the flats in the city. While the law offered relief to about 1.5 million households who had seen rents rise by an estimated third in the six years prior, it was ruled as unconstitutional in 2021 after Germany’s highest court sided with landlords and property investment lobbyists who had argued it was inappropriate and illegal for the state to meddle with the private market."

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given

Data-Model Co-Evolution: Growing Test Sets to Refine LLM Behavior
Minjae Lee, Minsuk Kahng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12728 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.1272…

Data-Model Co-Evolution: Growing Test Sets to Refine LLM Behavior
A long-standing challenge in machine learning has been the rigid separation between data work and model refinement, enforced by slow fine-tuning cycles. The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) overcomes this historical barrier, allowing applications developers to instantly govern model behavior by editing prompt instructions. This shift enables a new paradigm: data-model co-evolution, where a living test set and a model's instructions evolve in tandem. We operationalize this paradigm in an int…

Testing 1-2-3. Testing 1-2-3.
You grab that iso. New release, KDE 6.4.5 on an immutable Gentoo. Interesting! No wifi enabled ootb? What? 2014? Yes, I know I can. I even know how. But I won't.
2nd one. Reinstall previously used. All well, until i add 3 regular applications. Desktop files (/usr/share/applications) are installed, but don't link to the correct applications at all.Yes, I know I can. I even know how. But I won't.
QA is a lost art and the rise of alph…

😰 Heat waves linked to rise in sleep apnea cases in Europe
#europe

Heat waves linked to rise in sleep apnea cases in Europe
During heat waves, there is an increase in the number of people suffering with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), according to a study published in the European Respiratory Journal.

What OL Caleb Rogers' Rise Means for the Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-what-caleb-rogers-rise-means

I just woke up from light shining in my face. I assumed it was the rise of the moon, so while reaching for my glasses I swore "What do you want, you moon-faced assassin of joy?"
Turns out it was a streetlamp.
#Babylon5

Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/04/thirsty-work-how-the-rise-of-massive-datacentres-strains-aus…

NFL 'troubled' by sports prediction markets https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47288011/nfl-troubled-rise-sports-prediction-markets

"Scientists thought Great Barrier Reef doomed if global temperatures rise 1.5C – but a new study finds hope"
#Australia #GreatBarrierReef #Coral

The US Senate will vote Thursday on competing bills to address the
imminent expiration of subsidies
for Affordable Care Act health insurance plans,
but neither measure is expected to pass,
greatly increasing the chances that
healthcare costs will soon rise to unaffordable levels for many Americans.

Paramount Skydance plans to increase Paramount prices in the US starting January 15; monthly rates will rise $1, ad-supported tier will rise $30 to $90/year (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/paramount-to-hike-prices-in-early-2026-12…

Paramount+ to Hike U.S. Prices in First Quarter of 2026
David Ellison's Paramount Skydance is planning to spend more on content -- and at the same time, it's going to charge more for streaming.

NFL Week 17 power rankings: Seahawks soar to No. 1 as Broncos, Packers slide https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6911522/2025/12/23/nfl-power-rankings-week-17-seahawks-broncos-packers/

The MAHA-Fueled Rise of Natural Family Planning (Caroline Kitchener/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/us/politics/maha-natural-family-planning.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251109/p32#a251109p32

Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full story https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/oct/09/extreme-heat-deaths-autopsy

Do LLMs "Feel"? Emotion Circuits Discovery and Control
Chenxi Wang, Yixuan Zhang, Ruiji Yu, Yufei Zheng, Lang Gao, Zirui Song, Zixiang Xu, Gus Xia, Huishuai Zhang, Dongyan Zhao, Xiuying Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11328

Do LLMs "Feel"? Emotion Circuits Discovery and Control
As the demand for emotional intelligence in large language models (LLMs) grows, a key challenge lies in understanding the internal mechanisms that give rise to emotional expression and in controlling emotions in generated text. This study addresses three core questions: (1) Do LLMs contain context-agnostic mechanisms shaping emotional expression? (2) What form do these mechanisms take? (3) Can they be harnessed for universal emotion control? We first construct a controlled dataset, SEV (Scenari…

Moody Urbanity - Up Up ⏏️
情绪化城市 - 上面上面 ⏏️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Kentmere Pan 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

"Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply"
#Australia #Technology #Energy

♨️ Underwater thermal vents may have given rise to the first molecular precursors of life
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-underwater-thermal-vents-molecular-precursors.html

Underwater thermal vents may have given rise to the first molecular precursors of life
A study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society has recreated in the laboratory chemical reactions that may have occurred on Earth about four billion years ago, producing the first molecular precursors for the emergence of life.

Which NFC team has edge for No. 1 seed? Rams lead way but six teams have real shot to rise up

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfc-team-no-1-seed-rams-six-teams-nfl-playoffs/…

AI and the railway mania
Michael Roberts.
"A widely cited study from MIT found that so far, 95 per cent of generative AI projects produce no return in productivity growth or profits. To justify the required investment, annual data-centre revenues would need to rise from $20bn today to about $2trn.  Existing revenues will fall short by $800bn.."

AI and the railway mania
The AI bubble continues. The Magnificent Seven of tech media continue to drive the US stock market, along with the AI companies. The ten largest US companies by stock market value, holdin…

Drake Maye’s rise looks real, and it could change the AFC’s complexion: Pick Six https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6732294/2025/10/20/drake-maye-patriots-bills-afc-east/

Dallas Cowboys' NFL power rankings roundup shows team surging at right time https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-nfl-power-rankings-roundup-team-surging-right-time

Google says it is working on a fix to combat the rise of spam sites in its Discover feed in the UK as fake AI-generated news stories gain visibility in the feed (Rob Waugh/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/google-promi…

Google promises Discover 'fix' as more fake AI stories top rankings
Google has promised it is working on a "fix" for spam sites in its Discover app after more fake news stories topped the rankings in the UK.

Topological Magnon-Plasmon Hybrids
Tomoki Hirosawa, Pieter M. Gunnink, Alexander Mook
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07916 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07916

Topological Magnon-Plasmon Hybrids
We study magnon-plasmon coupling in effectively two-dimensional stacks of van der Waals layers in the context of the band structure topology. Invoking the quasiparticle approximation, we show that the magnetic dipole coupling between the plasmons in a metallic layer and the magnons in a neighboring magnetic layer gives rise to a Berry curvature. As a result, the hybrid quasiparticles acquire an anomalous velocity, leading to intrinsic anomalous thermal Hall and spin-Nernst effects in ferromagne…

"Millions of buildings at risk from sea level rise, analysis finds"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https://ph…

Millions of buildings at risk from sea level rise, analysis finds
Sea level rise could put more than 100 million buildings across the Global South at risk of regular flooding if fossil fuel emissions are not curbed quickly, according to a new McGill-led study published in npj Urban Sustainability.

Layoffs rise to recession-like levels through October, new report says (Abha Bhattarai/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/06/job-cuts-accelerate-october-layoffs-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251106/p10#a251106p10

Internal memo: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declares a "code red" to shift more resources into improving ChatGPT amid rising competition, delaying other plans like ads (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI CEO Declares ‘Code Red’ to Combat Threats to ChatGPT, Delays Ads Effort
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday told employees he was declaring a “code red” to marshall more resources to improve ChatGPT as threats rise from Google and other artificial intelligence competitors, according to an internal memo. As a result,OpenAI plans to delay other initiatives, such as ...

🏀 Andrew Wiggins: how a shy NBA player negotiated growing up a star in the social media era
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/nov/04/andrew-wiggins-how-a-shy-nba-player-negotiated-growing-up-a-star-in…

Andrew Wiggins: how a shy NBA player negotiated growing up a star in the social media era
In an extract from his new book on the rise of Canadian basketball, Oren Weisfeld examines the pressures of being a teenage star in the modern game

Super Bowl 2026 Odds: Chiefs Favored, Colts Make Leap https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/super-bowl-lx-2026-odds

Thermoelectric Enhancement of Series-Connected Cross-Conjugated Molecular Junctions
Justin P. Bergfield
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07694 https://arxiv.org/…

Thermoelectric Enhancement of Series-Connected Cross-Conjugated Molecular Junctions
We investigate the thermoelectric response of single-molecule junctions composed of acyclic cross-conjugated molecules, including dendralene analogues and related iso-poly(diacetylene) (iso-PDA) motifs, in which node-possessing repeat units are connected in series. Using many-body quantum transport theory, we show that increasing the number of repeat units leaves the fundamental gap essentially unchanged while giving rise to a split-node spectrum whose cumulative broadening dramatically enhance…

NFL QB rankings, Week 16: Aaron Rodgers hurdles Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-qb-rankings-index-week-16-2025-nfl-season

Raiders rookie running back grows as receiver, blocker https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-rookie-running-back-grows-as-receiver-blocker-3584488/

Super Bowl 2026 Odds: Chiefs Favored, Colts Make Leap https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/super-bowl-lx-2026-odds

Semiconductor Meta-Graphene and Valleytronics
Praveen Pai, Aron W. Cummings, Alexander Cerjan, Wei Pan, Fan Zhang, Catalin D. Spataru
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05250 https://…

Semiconductor Meta-Graphene and Valleytronics
Nano-patterned semiconductor interfaces offer a versatile platform for creating quantum metamaterials and exploring novel electronic phenomena. In this study, we illustrate this concept using artificial graphene--a metamaterial featuring distinctive properties including Dirac and saddle points. We demonstrate that introducing additional nano-patterning can open a Dirac band gap, giving rise to what we term artificial hexagonal boron nitride (AhBN). The calculated valley Chern number of AhBN ind…

Dak Prescott Is Playing Like an MVP, and the Cowboys Defense Finally Did Its Part https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/dak-prescott-is-playing-like-an-mvp-and-the-cowboys-defense-finally-did-its-part

CeeDee Lamb returning for Cowboys' division matchup vs. Commanders https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6724296/2025/10/16/cee-dee-lamb-injury-update-status-cowboys/

Flood risks in delta cities are increasing, Shanghai study finds #Shanghai

Flood risks in delta cities are increasing, Shanghai study finds
New research shows how the combination of extreme climate events, sea-level rise and land subsidence could create larger and deeper floods in coastal cities in future.

A profile of Cultured, a profitable art magazine founded in 2012 by collector Sarah Harrelson, who has maintained long-term relationships with major advertisers (Charlotte Klein/New York Magazine)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/an-art-magazine-in-this-ec…

An Art Magazine? In This Economy?
Charlotte Klein writes about the sudden, unlikely rise of ‘Cultured,’ which is throwing big parties at the Guggenheim and featuring bona fide celebrities on its cover.

🏘️ Once Australia’s second priciest city, Melbourne has become more affordable. What happened – and will it last?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/25/once-austra…

Once Australia’s second priciest city, Melbourne has become more affordable. What happened – and will it last?
More homes and less property investor activity has seen Victoria’s capital rise up the affordability rankings

Cuddling capybaras and ogling otters: the problem with animal cafes in Asia https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/27/global-pet-trade-capybaras-bangkok-cafe-animal-cafes-exotic-endangered-species-aoe<…

Emergent Hierarchy in Localized States of Organic Quantum Chains
L. L. Lage, A. B. F\'elix, D. S. Gomes, M. L. Pereira Jr., A. Latg\'e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02231 h…

Emergent Hierarchy in Localized States of Organic Quantum Chains
Organic Quantum Chains (OQCs) represent a newly synthesized class of carbon-based nanostructures whose quasi-one-dimensional nature gives rise to unconventional electronic and transport phenomena. Here we investigate the electronic and transport properties of recently synthesized OQCs [Nature Communications, 12, 5895 (2021)]. Structural stability was first assessed through molecular dynamics relaxation combined with density functional theory (DFT). The optimized coordinates are then used in a t…

"Air pollution may cut into health benefits from exercise, study finds"
#Polution #AirPollution #Exercise

Love working out? Dirty air means you won’t get full health benefits
The protective benefits of exercise begin to wear off as neighbourhood air pollution levels rise, a study found.

Welcome to NFL draft season: 30 questions on the QBs, standout prospects and risers to watch https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2026/story/_/id/47097046/2026-nfl-draft-questions-top-prospects-qb-class-risers

The rise of the 'slower' elite WR: How a new archetype is taking over the NFL

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/slower-elite-wr-new-nfl-receiver-archetype/

Inside the tightest division races in NFL history: Bengals surging, Colts crashing out and Rams on the rise

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/divisio