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Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge (Popular Information)
https://popular.info/p/tennessee-public-libraries-close
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p42#a251125p42

Charm.io: TikTok Shop reached $10B in US sales across 600K creators between January and October, up from $5B YoY; global sales are on par with eBay's (Emmett Lindner/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/business/media/tiktok-shop-black-frida…

Faux Jewels and Slimming Belts: Why Shopping on TikTok Is a Lot Like QVC
The popular app’s online marketplace is growing rapidly in the United States, driven by TikTok’s popularity and influencer advertisements that look a lot like TV infomercials.

The Washington Post reports on 996,
"a term popularized in China that refers to a rigid work schedule in which people work from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week..."
https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/10/25/0…

Some Startups Are Demanding 12-Hour Days, Six Days a Week from Workers - Slashdot
The Washington Post reports on 996, "a term popularized in China that refers to a rigid work schedule in which people work from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week..." As the artificial intelligence race heats up, many start-ups in Silicon Valley and New York are promoting hardcore culture as a way ...

Charm.io: TikTok Shop reached $10B in US sales across 600K creators between January and October, up from $5B YoY; global sales are on par with eBay's (Emmett Lindner/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/business/media/tiktok-shop-black-frida…

Faux Jewels and Slimming Belts: Why Shopping on TikTok Is a Lot Like QVC
The popular app’s online marketplace is growing rapidly in the United States, driven by TikTok’s popularity and influencer advertisements that look a lot like TV infomercials.

Over the 2 years since the previous elections, popular support for the 4 right-far-right coalition parties in the Netherlands consistently went downhill, from 56% shortly after the elections to 50% at the start of their coalition government in July 2024 to 31% now.
Data: https://peilingwijzer.tomlouwerse.nl/

Laatste Peilingwijzer – Peilingwijzer
De Peilingwijzer combineert de Tweede Kamerpeilingen van Ipsos I&O & Verian/EenVandaag

Popular media shows Santa's sleigh as red no matter which way it's flying, or even when it's standing still.
It's not. When it's parked, it's green. But most observers only see it flying away after making a delivery, hence the red shift.
And if you're lucky to see it inbound it's blue with a hint of UV-A. Wear sunglasses.

any interest in having a fully-in-browser cross-compiler like https://openbsd.llvm.moe/ but for more popular platforms? (linux, freebsd, windows, etc)

xmas brunch is the always popular smoked salmon on brown bread
not on the bucks fizz yet this year because we had a bit of a sesh yesterday when watching die hard and knives out (the original one to remind ourselves what fun it is before watching the new one)

Republicans bet frenzied redistricting push can outrun historic trends (Paul Kane/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/25/redistricting-house-trump-popularity/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251025/p44#a251025p44

Computer programmer and electronics enthusiast Harishankar Narayanan detailed a startling find he made about his $300 smart vacuum:
-- it was transmitting intimate data out of his home.
Narayanan had been letting his iLife A11 smart vacuum — a popular gadget that’s gained mainstream media coverage — do its thing for about a year, before he became curious about its inner workings.
" I decided to monitor its network traffic, as I would with any so-called smart device.” Wit…