Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab makes Tinker, its API for fine-tuning language models, generally available, adds support for Kimi K2 Thinking, and more (Thinking Machines Lab)
https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/tinker-general-availability/
Tencent Music reports Q3 revenue up 20.6% YoY to $1.19B, online music services revenue up 27.2% YoY to $979M, and subscription revenue up 17.2% YoY to $632M (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/tencent-music-q3-revenue-2025-1236577827…
Einde in zicht voor ’s lands laatste slachterij van eenden: Tomassen Duck-To is zijn vergunning kwijt | de Volkskrant
https://www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/einde-in-zicht-voor-s-lands-laatste-slachterij-van-eenden-tomassen-duck-to-is-zijn-vergunning-kwijt~b3f1c77f/#Echobox=1768213898
Eindelijk komt er dan een eind aan die bak met ellende..
Sources: in recent months, Tencent aggressively hired AI researchers from ByteDance, including offering to double their salaries, and reorganized its AI team (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tencent-poaches-bytedance-…
"Some DHS officials have threatened to quit and are concerned their emails are being monitored, sources say."
Rising tensions and finger-pointing at DHS amid pressure to ramp up deportations
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/rising-tensions-finger-pointing-dhs-pressure-ramp-deportations-rcna248468
Rising tensions and finger-pointing at DHS amid pressure to ramp up deportations (Julia Ainsley/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/rising-tensions-finger-pointing-dhs-pressure-ramp-deportations-rcna248468
http://www.memeorandum.com/251212/p127#a251212p127
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https://themagneticfields.bandcamp.com/track/im-sorry-i-love-you
https://open.spotify.com/track/0galUX4BYUdxNkLR6DRwR6
Raiders' HC requests indicates they're thinking young offensive mind https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/01/12/raiders-hc-requests-indicates-theyre-thinking-young…
Even the most radical-minded regularly fall into the trap of thinking that politicians are leaders. (It’s an easy trap; we call them “leaders” all the time.) I’ve been seeing a lot of that thinking in the complaints in my TL the last couple of days.
Politicians are always lagging indicators of change. They can be a tool of change, they can help systematize change, but they rarely •cause• it.
Politicians follow. People lead.
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Tencent is investing in shooting games, traditionally dominated by Western companies, after the 2024 success of Delta Force, which still has 30M players daily (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-12/tencen…