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Apple unveils iOS changes in Japan to comply with local law, including alternative app stores and payment options, a new fee structure, and new default controls (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/17/japan-app-store-feature-updates/

Japan App Store Gets Alternative Marketplaces, Third-Party Payments and More
Apple today introduced several changes to the App Store in Japan to meet the requirements of the Mobile Software Competition Act (MSCA) that goes...

from my link log —
Attempting cross translation unit taint analysis for Firefox.
https://attackanddefense.dev/2025/12/16/attempting-cross-translation-unit-static-analysis.html
saved 2025-12-17

Drone production, air defense sustainment — Germany backs Ukraine with $1.4 billion in defense agreements: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/18/drone-production-air-defense-sustainment.html

Sooooo excited I just managed to snag tickets to see Alan Menken in Dublin in February.
The musical theatre geek inside me is living his best life right now :)
🎶🥳🎶

TikTok unterzeichnet Deal zum Verkauf von Anteilen der US-Tochter an Investoren
Um eine Sperre in den USA zu vermeiden, verkauft TikTok etliche Anteile der US-Tochter an US-amerikanische und internationale Investoren. Das ist nun bestätigt.

Brad Pitt’s F1 movie had me glued to my seat. I could use more of this.

The national press seem to be lurching into consciousness about what’s going on here in MSP.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/us/immigration-agents-protesters-roof-minnesota.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9U8.phsq.6oS2iAdJ067Z&smid=nytcore-ios-share

A look at Track Star, a YouTube music quiz show that has become a stop on the celebrity promo trail and has started creating documentary-style music features (Jessica M. Goldstein/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/arts/music/track-star-youtub…

How Track Star Became a YouTube and TikTok Music Phenomenon
“Track Star” is the YouTube series that brings out the music lover in celebrities and civilians alike.

Sometimes people leave art in the Free Little Art Gallery, which is awesome! And I don’t care if it’s a crayon drawing on paper or yarn tied to sticks, if it’s art, it stays.
But… we do have to curate, and we do have *some* standards, and any offensive items are swiftly removed.

Suspected Brown shooter Valente is found dead, authorities say
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/19/brown-mit-shooter-dead-valente.html

@… I share some small affinity for ColdFusion 😅 when Java was the alternative

The SSDs in my storage cluster that I bought for a bit under $800 a while back are now over $1300, a >50% price increase.
I'm only at 60% ish usage so hopefully I can keep my rate of data growth in check until the bubble pops. Otherwise I'm either gonna have to pay scalper prices for more NVMe or add some spinning rust back in.
At the rate things are going I've probably got a year or two before things get tight.

Anyone using UTM/QEMU with a NT 3.51 VM?
I’m looking for correct network settings. It detects NE2000 ISA and assigns an IP but I can’t ping anything.
UTM mentions to set IRQ to 9 but that’s not an option I see (it’s set to 2).
Mainly I want to access a FTP server on the host computer to transfer files.
👉 I know how to use search engines, therefore please only make suggestions if you are personally familiar with this, thank you. 👈

"But as you can see, the programs do come at a cost... we estimate about $27.4m a year goes to the administrative costs and also the projected fare revenue reduction."
I'm waiting for the slide where they estimate the much higher cost of all the unmetered parking spaces across the city, and of turning off meters at 6pm and on Sundays. I'm sure that'll definitely be later in this presentation, right?

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Dan Bongino Says He Will Step Down From F.B.I. in January (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/us/politics/dan-bongino-steps-down-fbi.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p151#a251217p151

‼️Die #Petition
"Weitere Erforschung der Augenerkrankung Glaukom sowie Entwicklung neuer Therapien vom 01.08.2025"
hat bisher 56 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29944 Unterschriften bis zum 09.12.2025.

🆓⚡ Kostenlos Schnellladen – jetzt nutzen!
#Fastned schenkt euch kostenloses Schnellladen bis Weihnachten 🎄
📍 Neue Fastned-Station Werl-Büderich (A44 / A445, östlich von Dortmund)
🔌 12 Ultra-Fast-Charger
⚡ 300 km in ca. 10 Minuten
🥖 Edeka & Bäckerei direkt dabei
⏰ Aktion läuft nur bis Donnerstag nächster Woche – also ran an die Säule, solange’s gratis ist 😎…

The sustainable, sovereign, and open Torment Nexus.

Colleagues out here still assigning book reviews.

Reichweiten-Angst schwierig.

Amazing that I can't find anything online about wheelchair converted diesel Citroen Berlingo and their adblue slot.
Just lots of people saying to find it in the place it used to be in.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@david_colquhoun/115731267106245836
More on the organiser of the "Global Health Misinformation Symposium" here:

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EU niet eens over bevroren Russische tegoeden, kiest nu voor gezamenlijke Oekraïne-lening
#EU #Oekraine

You wouldn't #HTTP status code a #train.

Helmut Barz fragt: Was, wenn Wähler und Wählerinnen gar nicht ihren eigenen Vorteil maximieren wollen, sondern den Nachteil anderer? Sein Artikel erklärt, wie relative Deprivation und Statusangst die Demokratie untergraben – und warum wir dringend ein neues „Wir“ brauchen. #Demokratie #Sozialpsychologie

Making my way through the week

Met Office: 2026 will bring heat more than 1.4C above preindustrial levels https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/18/met-office-2026-will-bring-heat-more-than-14c-above-preindustrial-levels

Didn't watch. The trump speech was just to say a bunch of lies people can easily see are wrong?

😎 Social media research tool can lower political temperature—it could also lead to more user control over algorithms
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-social-media-tool-political-temperature.html

Social media research tool can lower political temperature—it could also lead to more user control over algorithms
A new tool shows it is possible to turn down the partisan rancor in an X feed—without removing political posts and without the direct cooperation of the platform.

The US Senate confirms FDIC acting chairman Travis Hill to lead the agency, which regulates stablecoin issuers and impacts how the crypto industry is banked (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/12/11/s…

Two Trump Appointees Confirmed to Take Over Core Crypto Regulators CFTC, FDIC
In a package of confirmations, the U.S. Senate approved Mike Selig to lead the CFTC and Travis Hill to run the FDIC, both with major potential reach into crypto.

1,700 losses per day! Russian infantry is being wiped out by drones, especially near Pokrovsk: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/17/losses-per-day-russian-infantry.html

KI-Update Deep-Dive: Wie wir in den Redaktionen KI einsetzen
Von der automatischen Transkription bis zur Bildgenerierung – KI-Werkzeuge sind in den heise-Redaktionen angekommen. Aber es bleibt alles in menschlicher Hand.

OMG, I didn’t think they would attempt a second pass at corporate suicide, but they are!
Grab the popcorn folks!
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@slembcke/115742185079110692

Donald Trump is worried that Republicans aren’t as afraid of him as they used to be.
Despite his self-billing as a dealmaker,
the president has only ever had one tool to control his party: fear.
GOP politicians have been afraid of career damage and literal physical harm if they crossed him.
Trump is not above reminding elected officials that he has unhinged followers who are known to be violent.
But as his approval ratings fall and the 2026 midterm elections …

Republicans are quiet quitting on Trump
The White House chief of staff says the president has “an alcoholic’s personality”

@… @… it’s beautiful!! 😍😍😍

Something that just drives me up the wall about this particular area of Git (merge conflicts) is that, beyond the all-too-typical Git problem of sloppy terminology, this is bad feature design. In most situations, “use ours” and “user theirs” are •both• the wrong answer! There are two doors, and they’re •both• trapdoors.
If you have a merge conflict, that means that you changed something •and• somebody else changed something, and your job is to •synthesize• both changes. To use one is to discard the other, which is usually not what you want!
The thing Git (and every Git GUI) ought to surface is a three-way merge: show me what I changed and what they changed ••relative to the nearest common ancestor••. Yes yes yes, I know it’s possible to finagle that into view with Git. It should be the danged default. It is what I should see first. It is what I should see if I have no idea what I’m doing.
1/ https://hachyderm.io/@jeremydmiller/115741417416659492

Europe Agrees to $105 Billion Funding Plan for Ukraine - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/world/europe/russia-eu-ukraine-frozen-assets.html

It’s “fun” when the only instructions for some retrocomputing thing are in the form of an un-narrated video using Chinese on-screen text
People, please write blog posts again

Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) agree to buy WildBrain's 41% stake in Peanuts Holdings for ~$457M, raising Sony's slice to 80% (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/sony-acquire-peanuts-457-mil…

Sony to Own Control of Peanuts in $457 Million Deal With WildBrain
Sony will own 80% of Peanuts Holdings after acquiring the 41% stake in the entity from WildBrain.

Trump tells America: 'I'm fixing' Biden's mess in chart-filled primetime address (Ryan King/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/17/us-news/trump-tells-america-im-fixing-bidens-mess-in-chart-filled-primetime-address/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p149#a251217p149

from my link log —
Always-on processor magic: how “Find My” works while iPhone is powered off.
https://naehrdine.blogspot.com/2021/09/always-on-processor-magic-how-find-my.html
saved 2021-09-30

Always-on Processor magic: How Find My works while iPhone is powered off
Wireless and firmware hacking, PhD life, Technology

Happening now in the waiting room at the music store where Kid2 to takes lessons: a kid who's maybe 4 coloring while belting out Bowie's "Starman" as loud as possible.

Ok sooo... How minimal do i want to make this stm32mp2 fpga test board?
I'm tempted to go bare bones, no ddr, minimal bom, entirely from parts i have on the shelf to keep costs down.
On one hand it'll be a waste of potential, on the other hand I have plenty of "real" projects coming up and the main goal is to de-risk them. I'm probably never going to use the ddr and it'll increase layout complexity a lot.

Sources: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative cuts ties with FWD.us, an immigration advocacy group founded by Mark Zuckerberg, eliminating FWD.us' main funding source (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Het is gedaan ....
Bron: @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu — Bluesky
#EU #Oekraine

É impossível suicidar-se parando a respiração.

🛌 Wissen fürs Kopfkissen: 📖
Kann #Geoengineering gegen die #Erderwärmung helfen?
Wenn technische #Klimalösungen zur Beeinflussung des

Geoengineering: Rettung vor der Erderwärmung oder gefährliches Spiel mit dem Klima?
Geoengineering als Klimaretter? Warum Experten vor Risiken warnen und was wirklich gegen die Erderwärmung hilft.

Zelensky supports online voting in future presidential election: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/18/zelensky-supports-online-voting-in.html

Wow!
The first SwiftGodot-based game is on the AppStore:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/terminal-madness-revelations/id6740811766

Terminal Madness - Revelations App - App Store
Download Terminal Madness - Revelations by Codepassion S.L. on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Terminal…

I want to reiterate, per my earlier thread, that what the ACLU is bringing to court is a small fraction of what’s actually happening on the ground. These are only the incidents for which they have the best documentation, the ones most presentable in court.
You don’t even hear about 95% of the illegal stuff ICE is doing in MN — not in court, not on social media, certainly not on the news. This is the tip of the illegal action iceberg (pun intended, no apologies).
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115720161014479157

Judge Convicted of Obstructing Agents as They Sought Undocumented Immigrant - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/us/judge-hannah-dugan-trial-verdict.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…

Pittsburgh journalists vote to end country's longest strike and notify the PG they are returning to work - Pittsburgh Union Progress
The Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh’s most momentous gathering since the formation of a strike picket line more than three years ago began last week in the manner of all big strike meetings — with the arrival of a half dozen boxes of pizza. Pepperoni, plain and a vegetarian option. Strikes run on pizza. Turns out […]

The US Senate confirms Trump pick Michael Selig as chairman of the CFTC, as lawmakers consider legislation to give the agency more control over digital assets (Lydia Beyoud/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Senate Confirms Selig as Chief of CFTC and Hill to Run the FDIC
The US Senate on Thursday night confirmed Michael Selig as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Travis Hill as chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., installing permanent chiefs of two agencies that play critical roles overseeing financial markets and banks.

Judge Convicted of Obstructing Agents as They Sought Undocumented Immigrant (Julie Bosman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/us/judge-hannah-dugan-trial-verdict.html?unlocked_article_code=1.908.Jdrz.4vUiqabVFmqs
http://www.memeorandum.com/251218/p135#a251218p135

from my link log —
Resizable arrays in optimal time and space.
https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~imunro/cs840/ResizableArrays.pdf
saved 2025-12-18 ht…

Universal Music Group partners with music creation platform Splice to build "advanced commercial AI tools" for musical artists (Ethan Millman/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/mu

Universal Music Group and Splice Ink AI Partnership
The new pact is the latest AI music development for the world's largest music company after settling a lawsuit with Udio in October.

Avoid gunfire in the bathroom tonight.

Bondi beach shows IS is taking advantage of a new kind of terrorist
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/12/the-islamic-state-is-taking-advantage-of-a-new-kind-of-terrorist

Larry Summers and OpenAI say he has resigned from the OpenAI board, after a US House committee released his emails with Jeffrey Epstein (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/19/epstein-larry-summers-openai

Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board amid Epstein revelations
Summers said this week he would step back from public commitments amid the latest Epstein news.

Live Updates: Suspect in Brown University Shooting Is Found Dead in New Hampshire (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12/18/us/brown-shooting-suspect?unlocked_article_code=1.908.MMfX.fVTrogr3Nd-_&smid=nytcore-ios-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251218/p134#a251218p134

While fascist ideas never found a foothold among the majority of Americans,
they exerted considerable influence during the period between the first and second world wars.
Extremist groups like
the Silver Shirts,
the Christian Front,
the Black Legion and
the Ku Klux Klan claimed hundreds of thousands of members.
Together they glorified a white Christian nation purified of Jews, Black Americans, immigrants and communists.
During the 1930s and …

America faced domestic fascists before and buried that history
Although thousands of Americans embraced fascist ideas during the interwar years, a new study examines why the US has had little appetite to remember that past.

from my link log —
MuseAir: A portable hashing algorithm that heavily optimized for performance and quality, incorporating structures never before implemented.
https://github.com/eternal-io/museair
saved 2025-12-18

GitHub - eternal-io/museair: A portable hashing algorithm that heavily optimized for performance and quality, incorporating structures never before implemented.
A portable hashing algorithm that heavily optimized for performance and quality, incorporating structures never before implemented. - eternal-io/museair

Linus: I guess it's wrong always to be worrying about tomorrow. Maybe
we should think only about today.
Charlie Brown:
No, that's giving up. I'm still hoping that yesterday will get
better.

Memo: the TikTok US deal is set to close on Jan. 22; terms include retraining the recommendation algorithm on US user data and Oracle overseeing data protection (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

TikTok U.S. Deal to Close Next Month: Oracle and Silver Lake Confirmed in Buyer Consortium
Abu Dhabi's state investment fund will also be a managing investor.

Sources: US FTC is probing Instacart's AI pricing tool, after a study showed different prices for the same items at the same stores; CART drops 8% after hours (Jody Godoy/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/ftc-…

Facing Trump's wrath, Jack Smith requests public hearing in House GOP probe (April Rubin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/19/jack-smith-trump-jim-jordan-public-hearing
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p40#a251219p40

The Færdselsstyrelsen
(Danish Road Traffic Authority)
is becoming the first agency to pilot SIA Open,
a government-wide project by Statens IT
(Danish Governmental IT Agency)
designed to replace Microsoft services with open source alternatives.
With this, they are not stopping at just Office apps.
Færdselsstyrelsen will be replacing both the Windows operating system and Microsoft's suite of applications
(Word, Excel, Teams, and Outlook)

Denmark Begins Its Exit from Microsoft — and This Is Just the Start
The move is part of a government-wide effort to reduce dependency on Microsoft software. The traffic department's move is just the beginning.

Well, shit... :D
Swearing Actually Seems To Make Humans Physically Stronger - Slashdot
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/12/18/2116258/swearing-actually-seems-to-make-humans-physically-stronger

from my link log —
Happy birthday, BGP.
https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2019-06/bgp30.html
saved 2019-06-07 https://dotat.at/:/…

YouTube streaming the Oscars in 2029 makes Netflix's WBD bid less likely to face antitrust issues, as it shows Netflix might need WBD to compete against YouTube (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/future-of-hollywood-youtube-netflix/

YouTube Hands the Best Acquisition Oscar to Netflix
With YouTube poaching The Academy Awards, it sure feels like Netflix is going to be allowed to buy Warner Bros now...

CEIP study: 87 of the top 100 Chinese AI researchers who were working in the US in 2019 are still doing research at US universities or companies in 2025 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/technology/ai-research-chinese-talent.html

In the A.I. Race, Chinese Talent Still Drives American Research
Although some Silicon Valley executives paint China as the enemy, Chinese brains continue to play a major role in U.S. research.

A broad retreat is underway in the nonprofit world.
After Donald Trump ordered his administration to root out “illegal” diversity, equity and inclusion efforts earlier this year,
opening the door to investigations and funding cuts for offenders,
more than 1,000 charities rewrote their mission statements in forms they filed this year with the Internal Revenue Service,
removing or minimizing language tied to race, inequity and historically disadvantaged communities.<…

Deleting DEI
As the Trump administration ordered agencies to eradicate “illegal” diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, we identified more than 1,000 nonprofits that removed such language from the mission statements in their tax filings.

Rad Power Bikes files for bankruptcy protection as Seattle e-bike maker pursues potential sale – GeekWire
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/rad-power-bikes-files-for-bankruptcy-protection-as-seattle-e-bike-maker-pursues-potential-sale/

EU to Use Joint Bonds to Give Ukraine a €90 Billion Loan (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-19/eu-agrees-to-provide-90-billion-loan-to-ukraine-for-2026-2027
http://www.memeorandum.com/251218/p133#a251218p133

hmm i thought rachelbythebay.com has a complaint about colleagues not following a “make before break” rule when changing things
but i can’t find a post along those lines
i wonder if she used a different term for the idea or if i’m just remembering wrong

TikTok's first awards show, held on December 18, handed out 14 awards, including Creator of the Year for Keith Lee; at the event, none of the screens worked (Kirsten Chuba/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Inside the TikTok Awards: Paris Hilton and a Labubu Cannon Take Center Stage While Tech Issues Plague Inaugural U.S. Show
The event, which streamed live from the Hollywood Palladium on Thursday, handed out 14 awards and battled problems with its video screens.

Sources: OpenAI has held preliminary discussions with investors about raising tens of billions of dollars, and as much as $100B, at a valuation of around $750B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-discuss…

OpenAI Has Discussed Raising Tens of Billions at Valuation Around $750 Billion
OpenAI has held preliminary discussions with some investors about raising new funding at a valuation of around $750 billion, according to three people with knowledge of the discussions. It could raise tens of billions of dollars, and as much as $100 billion, according to two of the people. Talks ...

A new study has found that
eating 50 grams (1.76 ounces) or more of high-fat cheese a day
correlates with a lower risk of developing dementia.
That includes all cheeses with more than 20 percent fat content,
like brie, gouda, cheddar, parmesan, gruyere, and mozzarella.
The extensive, long-term study followed 27,670 adults in Sweden for around 25 years.
The findings establish an association between daily consumption of high-fat cheese
and lower demen…

Cheese Linked to Lower Dementia Risk in 25-Year Study
One of the finest foods available to humanity may carry an unexpected benefit.

EU Weighs Using Joint Debt to Loan up to $106 Billion to Ukraine (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-19/eu-weighs-using-joint-debt-to-loan-up-to-90-billion-to-ukraine
http://www.memeorandum.com/251218/p130#a251218p130

from my link log —
Hardening snmalloc.
https://github.com/microsoft/snmalloc/tree/release_docs/docs/security
saved 2022-05-10 ht…

Epstein had friends listen in on phone calls while Trump talked about sex: NYT reporter - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-epstein-phone/

OpenAI opens app submissions for review and publication in ChatGPT, where users can discover or search for apps in a new app directory (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/developers-can-now-submit-apps-to-chatgpt

Sources: Netflix will pay Barstool a yearly fee "in the eight figures" for its video podcasts; Fanatics has pitched WWE podcasts to Netflix which airs WWE Raw (Ryan Glasspiegel/Front Office Sports)
https://frontofficesports.com/netflix-pa…

Netflix Paying Barstool 8 Figures Per Year Amid Podcast Push
Netflix’s deal with Barstool Sports, announced Wednesday, is a multiyear pact worth eight figures per year, Front Office Sports has learned.

COVID vaccines protect children from severe illness per CDC.
⬇️76% reduced risk of ER visits in kids 9 mo. to 4 years
⬇️56% reduced risk of ER visits in kids 5 - 17 years
-- @drruth.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/atranscendedman.bsky.social/po…

New York Times columnist David Brooks appears in latest Epstein photos (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/18/nyt-david-brooks-epstein-photos-released
http://www.memeorandum.com/251218/p131#a251218p131

US approving Nvidia H200 exports to China is based on the idea that Huawei is a viable competitor, but data shows the gap between Nvidia and Huawei is widening (Chris McGuire/Council on Foreign Relations)
https://www.cfr.org/article/chinas-ai-chip…

China’s AI Chip Deficit: Why Huawei Can’t Catch Nvidia and U.S. Export Controls Should Remain
Executive SummaryOn December 8, the Trump administration announced plans to loosen U.S. export controls on artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China by approving the sale of Nvidia H200 chips—the m…

Renowned historian [Heather Cox Richardson] makes shocking accusation against Trump admin - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2674722639/

On Monday, Nov. 24,
after more than 1,100 days on strike,
Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh members were cheered on by supporters
at a rally in downtown Pittsburgh
before returning to work at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Even though strikers have returned to work, however,
many issues at the center of the strike are still in legal limbo
—and their fight for a fair contract is not over.
In this episode of Working People, we speak with three Newspap…

The longest-running strike in the US is over—and the workers won
After over 3 years on strike, members of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh have returned to work at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. While the legal battle is still unresolved, this is a major victory for the labor movement.

Sources: Riot Games is working on a major overhaul of League of Legends, internally called League Next, for 2027; Riot confirms a big update is in the works (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

WSJ editors rip Trump as 'Golden Age' nowhere in sight - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-economy-2674737389/

The first of at least seven straight days of rain begins Friday in the Bay Area
as an atmospheric river is set to soak the region with a stream of subtropical moisture from Hawaii.
The phenomenon, known as a Pineapple Express, generally brings heavy rain and mountain snow to the West Coast.
“When it reaches the west coast, the Pineapple Express can dump as much as 5 inches of rain on California in one day.”
Friday marks the first of what could be three different round…

Q&A with Sam Altman on OpenAI's "code red" call, enterprise strategy, product ambitions, IPO plans, ChatGPT's personalization plans, and more (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/sam-altman-on-openais-plan-to-win<…

Sam Altman on OpenAI’s Plan to Win, AI Personalization, Infrastructure Math, and The Inevitable IPO
OpenAI's CEO joins Big Technology for a candid discussion covering OpenAI's strategy, its product ambitions, its ability to pay for $1 trillion+ in infrastructure, going public, and much more.

Environmental orgs sue feds over comment removal on reviews of public lands | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/environmental-orgs-sue-feds-over-comment-removal-on-reviews-of-public-lands/

Trump gives federal workers two new days off around Christmas after using Juneteenth to denounce ‘nonworking holidays’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-christmas-eve-federal-holidays-b2887465.html

DHS hit with contempt threat by Trump appointee for covering up 'putrid' ICE facility - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/judge-ice-2674735245/

Soldiers at US-Mexico border lived with ‘leaking raw sewage’
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/soldier-housing-southern-border-mission/