Tootfinder

The Netflix-WBD deal should quiet concerns, for now, from CNN employees worried about the prospect of Paramount combining CBS News and CNN in a WBD acquisition (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/business/media/cnn-net…

CNN Is Excluded From Netflix’s Warner Bros. Deal for Now
The prospect of Paramount’s buying Warner Bros. Discovery had led CNN journalists to wonder if the channel may be combined with CBS News. Instead, CNN will remain in a separate corporate entity.

"I think my high-school acting career lasted a day."
—Dennis Farina
#acting #coaching #inspiration

🔋 Feeding off spent battery waste, a novel bacterium signals a new method for self-sufficient battery recycling
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-spent-battery-bacterium-method-sufficient.html

Feeding off spent battery waste, a novel bacterium signals a new method for self-sufficient battery recycling
A unique bacterium that thrives in highly acidic environments feeds on spent battery "waste," making it a promising new method for self-sufficient battery recycling, according to new research from Boston College chemists.

Oura just told me to get ready for bedtime at 5am in the morning so I guess computers can get jet lag now too. #agi
(Yes, I’m physically back home; expect an exciting stamina release that was ready before I left but was too chicken to push before travel.)

"The website, called Fight Chat Control, was set up by Joachim, a 30-year-old software engineer living in Aalborg, Denmark. He made it after learning of a new attempt to approve a European Union proposal to fight child sexual abuse material (CSAM) — a bill seen by privacy activists as breaking encryption and leading to mass surveillance."
One-man spam campaign ravages EU ‘chat control’ bill

One-man spam campaign ravages EU ‘chat control’ bill
A software developer from Denmark is having an outsized influence on a hotly debated law to break open encrypted apps.

"The man said he did not know Gisèle Pelicot had been drugged. Her ex-husband, who admitted drugging and raping her and inviting strangers to join him, testified that the man knew."
Ex-Husband Contradicts a Man Appealing Conviction in Pelicot Rape Case - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/world/europe/gisele-pelicot-rape-trial-appeal-france.html

Remember when we learned to carefully filter user input, especially before executing that input, and ESPECIALLY when we also learned that deserializing an object from user input had BETTER not have a dangerous constructor? In like 2002?
THAT WAS COOL.
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2

Introducing #Mistral 3
#LLM

Ich könnte mir vorstellen, dass CyberGhost diese Geschichte lieber nicht verbreitet sehen würde …
CyberGhost DMCAs Our Story About Their Bogus DMCA (Yes, Really) https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/07/cyberghost-dmcas-our-story-about-their-bogus…

Trump Set to Unveil $12 Billion Aid for Farmers Hit by Trade War (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-08/trump-set-to-unveil-12-billion-aid-for-farmers-hit-by-trade-war
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p72#a251207p72

Kid: Dad!?! The (no longer maintained) software that school wants me to use is throwing a "Code C" error on the video we took in class (on a brand new iPhone). Can you help?
Me: I don't know who suggested you use this software. I don't know why. If the software company is telling you to pay for an upgrade, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career (in scientific software)

Kiez-Moment: Tauben im Gourmetrausch https://weddingweiser.de/kiez-moment-tauben-im-gourmetrausch/

#2 Indiana is about to upset #1 Ohio State in the BIG-10 Championship on FOX. With 13 sec left in the 4thQ, it looks over.
Indiana Coach Curt Cignetti, formerly coach of James Madison U, has brought the Hoosiers to this point in just 2 years.
(1/2)

I only watched this movie during the month of December but I watch it a lot in December.

Biscuit day. Marie made them, with bacon and egg, tea and coffee. Seeing Lawrence locally tonight! #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/SRiRpCYirzwhkKJA9

Wie unfassbar schwer es ist, torffreie Erde zu kaufen. Könnte ich mich nur aufregen...

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RoundMidnight
- Matt Carmichael and the WDR Big Band in concert
This Friday night, Soweto presents concert highlights from gifted Glasgow based saxophonist Matt Carmichael and Grammy-award winning German public broadcast ensemble, the WDR Big Band.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002lcs8

"I hate your face!" ->
New Age Band - SNL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkBbiy57TH4

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #WoPop
ピンキーとキラーズ:
🎵 Soran Bushi 70
#ピンキーとキラーズ

To anybody who tries to find out an mp3 file's bitrate with the command line tool file*: the bitrate file determines might be completely wrong.
Better use ffprobe for this as shown here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/773526/fast-test-for-audio-…

Ready for the week-end. #PutinHuylo, and Heroiam slava!
#Ukraine

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Viss/115670725187255890
Sounds like a good idea to me. :elmo_fire:

Nun stand ein Ausflug nach #Osaka an. Zunächst ging es dort am Bahnhof auf das Umeda Sky Building. Die Aussichtsplattform ist zwischen zwei Gebäude gehängt - ebenso wie Fahrstuhl und Rolltreppen dorthin. Man hat eine weite Aussicht auf große Teile Osakas und der Umgebung. #UmedaSkyBuilding

I got hooked on a German youtube channel where I'm obviously not the target demographic. It's called Flipps and it's aimed at - I think? - Gen Z movie buffs. But it radiates love for cinema. While its presentation is hectic the videos are well-produced and long nevertheless. They contain a lot of background info and film history from a time when their audience's parents hadn't even met.
And a recent episode even recommended the famous "No VFX is just invisible …

https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/journalist-israel-gaza-nova-gabriele-nunziati/

A Journalist Asked Why Israel Isn’t Paying to Rebuild Gaza. It Cost Him His Job.
Italy’s Nova news agency confirmed it let reporter Gabriele Nunziati go for asking a European official about Israel at a press conference.

terrorists_911: 9-11 terrorist network
Network of individuals and their known social associations, centered around the hijackers that carried out the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. Associations extracted after-the-fact from public data. Metadata labels say which plane a person was on, if any, on 9/11.
This network has 62 nodes and 152 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata

NFL Week 14 Team of the Week: Josh Allen and Puka Nacua Headline Squad https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-week-14-team-week-josh-allen-puka-nacua-headline-squad

those of you who have recommended Nordic Power Profiler II: in your experience, do the digital channels of the logic analyzer work?

Un train stationne Š Mairie de Montreuil vers Pont de Sèvres en raison d'une manoeuvre de train retardée .
🤖 08/11 01:04

Un train stationne Š Châtillon-Montrouge vers Saint-Denis – Université et Asnières - Gennevilliers Les Courtilles en raison d'un bagage oublié dans un train .
🤖 08/10 14:13

Période : Š partir de 21h45
Dates : en semaine, du lundi 20 octobre au vendredi 14 novembre, sauf vendredi 31 octobre, lundi 10 et mardi 11 novembre.
Le trafic est interrompu entre Paris Saint-Lazare <> La Défense.
Les clients souhaitant se rendre dans les gares de Pont Cardinet Š Bécon les Bruyères sont invités Š emprunter la ligne L, axe Paris Saint-Lazare <> Nanterre Université.
Renforcement de lignes régulières :
- Bus 178 et 275 entre Bécon les B…

Gestern im PopUp im Shopville des Zürcher HB: 12 Reparaturaufträge an einem Tag: das Projekt nimmt Fahrt auf 😍
Weitersagen und vorbeikommen:
#repair

💡 First fully recyclable, sub-micrometer printed electronics could reshape how displays are made
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-fully-recyclable-micrometer-electronics-reshape.html

First fully recyclable, sub-micrometer printed electronics could reshape how displays are made
Electrical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated the ability to print fully functional and recyclable electronics at sub-micrometer scales. The technique could impact the more than $150 billion electronic display industry and its environmental impact while providing a toehold for U.S. manufacturing to gain traction in a vital and quickly growing industry.

Reform oder Rückzug? Die Vereinten Nationen am Wendepunkt in ihrem 80. Gründungsjahr. 🎂 🇺🇳
Die #DGVN lädt zu einer Veranstaltung anlässlich des 80-jährigen Bestehens der Vereinten Nationen ein.
Mit dabei sind Kira #Kruglikova, Olivier

Ich meine früher gab's sogar noch Seminare von 18-20 Uhr, zumindest an den Unis wo ich war...
@…

Aber kein Mordversuch - Extrem-Raser (20) muss 30 Monate ins Gefängnis #News #Nachrichten

picked this up at the show at p.i.t. & having my mind straight up splattered. coltrane & dolphy (with tyner, garrison, & jones) at birdland in '62, preserved off the radio by #jazz hustler boris rose. dizzying fire & grace by all players at all moments. @…

December 2025 issue of the Journal of Chinese Religions now published
https://ift.tt/46drDW9
Mining the Logs: Sources on Blue Humor URL …
via Input 4 RELCFP https://ift…

Lecanemab: Qualitätsinstitut nicht überzeugt von neuem Alzheimer-Medikament
Ein neues Medikament für Menschen, die an Alzheimer-Demenz erkrankt sind, ist seit 1. September in Deutschland verfügbar. Doch der Nutzen ist unklar.

Période : en semaine Š partir de 23h45.
Dates : du lundi 03 au Vendredi 14 novembre.
Le trafic est interrompu entre Melun et Montereau via Moret et entre Melun et Montargis via Moret. Les trains au départ et Š destination de Montereau circulent via Champagne-sur-Seine.
Un service de bus de remplacement est mis en place, avec desserte des gares intermédiaires.
Les horaires du calculateur d'itinéraire tiennent compte des travaux.
Motif : travaux sur le réseau …

Mutual entropy and thermal area law in C*-algebraic quantum lattice systems
Hajime Moriya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05823 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.05823…

Mutual entropy and thermal area law in C*-algebraic quantum lattice systems
We present a general definition of quantum mutual entropy for infinitely extended quantum spin and fermion lattice systems. Using this, we establish a thermal area law in these infinitely extended quantum systems. The proof is based on the local thermodynamical stability (LTS), a variational principle in terms of the conditional free energy. Our thermal area law in quasi-local C*-systems applies to general interactions with well-defined surface energies. We also examine the quantum mutual entro…

Marjorie Taylor Greene doubles down on break with Republicans over health care in shutdown fight
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/marjorie-taylor-greene-doubles-break-republicans-health-care-shutdown-rcna236282

Returning home, photographer Yelena Yemchuk finds beauty in a country at war: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/returning-home-photographer-yelena-yemchuk.html

How TSMC, Intel, and Amkor are transforming Phoenix into the US' chip hub, investing tens of billions and showing the difficulties of large-scale US projects (Peter S. Goodman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/business/tsmc-phoenix-fab.html

18,000 Reasons It’s So Hard to Build a Chip Factory in America
The transformation of Phoenix into a semiconductor hub by Taiwan’s TSMC illustrates the difficulties of large-scale projects in the United States.

Meanwhile, on the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in China... um... NOPE. NOPENOPENOPE. HELLLLLNOPE.
#nope #china

sat down and wrote some code from scratch for the first time in who knows how long and rediscovering that wow, this sucks, this is why I don't do this for my day job

One way my Mom failed me (because it's always the mother's fault of course... ) is that she always made sure I got fed on a regular schedule whether I wanted or had even thought about it myself. A mark of a terrible parent...
As an adult, I've never worked out how to reliably eat. I understand the theory, that's not the problem. I can cook well enough to satisfy myself. That's also not the problem. I always have food in the kitchen.

Marjorie Taylor Greene pushes English-language law ahead of Bad Bunny Super Bowl
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5541257-marjorie-greene-english-official-language/

🫧 Peatlands' 'huge reservoir' of carbon at risk of release, researchers warn
#peat…

Peatlands' 'huge reservoir' of carbon at risk of release, researchers warn
Peatlands make up just 3% of Earth's land surface but store more than 30% of the world's soil carbon, preserving organic matter and sequestering its carbon for tens of thousands of years. A new study sounds the alarm that an extreme drought event could quadruple peatland carbon loss in a warming climate.

Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds - The Washington Post
https://archive.ph/nK8i1

football: NCAA college football 2000
A network of American football games between Division IA colleges during regular season Fall 2000.
This network has 115 nodes and 613 edges.
Tags: Social, Sports, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/football
Ridiculogram:

"Acting is experience with something sweet behind it."
—Humphrey Bogart
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Cowboys Should BUCKLE UP vs Panthers | Media Mash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga7g8q4gYcU

Jusqu'au 11 novembre, le trafic est interrompu entre Michel-Ange - Molitor et Franklin D. Roosevelt en raison de travaux.
Bus de remplacement entre Michel-Ange–Molitor et Franklin-D. Roosevelt
#Info_Travaux
🤖 08/11 04:49

Dance with Somebody - Radio Version by Mando Diao
https://lynkify.in/song/dance-with-somebody-radio-version/rBwxZf48

Australia broadens its social media ban for under-16s to include Reddit and Kick, which join Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Snapchat, TikTok, X, and YouTube (Clare Armstrong/ABC)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-04/reddit-and-kick-added-to-c…

Reddit and Kick added to child social media ban
Reddit and Kick will be included in the world-first social media ban for children under 16, which begins next month.

How revenue decisions shape #technicaldebt
https://www.hyperact.co.uk/blog/how-revenue-decisions-shape-technical-debt

JOURNAL> December 2025 issue of the Journal of Chinese Religions now published
https://ift.tt/On1RYqN
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Wie funktioniert das? - Kitzbühel: Wenn Schnee fehlt, gibt es Geld zurück #News #Nachrichten

When Storytelling Is Called 'Terrorism': How My Friend and Fellow Journalist Was Targeted by ICE (Sam Judy/The Barbed Wire)
https://thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/04/how-my-friend-and-fellow-journalist-was-targeted-by-ice/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p171#a251105p171

Bericht: US-Regierung verlangt Ablehnung von Visa-Bewerbern mit Zensur-Historie
Bewerber für ein US-Arbeitsvisum sollen strenger überprüft werden. Bei jeglicher Beteiligung an "Zensur" freier Meinungsäußerung sollen sie abgelehnt werden.

🐮 A once-in-a-generation discovery is transforming a Michigan dairy farm
#michigan

A once-in-a-generation discovery is transforming a Michigan dairy farm
At first glance, the 400 acres of soybeans growing on the Preston family's dairy farm in southern Michigan looks like a typical field. But these aren't ordinary soybeans. They represent a breakthrough partnership with Michigan State University that's saving the family tens of thousands of dollars a month in livestock feed costs—and it could change the dairy industry forever.

Risque de forte affluence Š bord des trains. Les trains suivant passent de long Š court : - POME, départ Montargis 06h32, arrivée Paris Gare de Lyon 07h59. -GAMO, départ Paris Gare de Lyon 08h16, arrivée Montargis 09h55. - POMA (151944), départ Montargis 11h02, arrivée Paris Gare de Lyon 12h42. Retrouvez tous les horaires de vos trains sur nos applications de mobilité.
🤖 08/10 04:30

Pictures of Pam Bondi's notes for her interrogation: https://bsky.app/profile/denisedwheeler.bsky.social/post/3m2n7gvwiqc2w

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#EssentialClassics
- The ideal mix of classical music
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ldsr

Paris-based CRM unicorn Brevo, formerly known as Sendinblue, raised €500M and says it surpassed €200M in ARR in 2025 (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/new-unicorn-brevo-raises-583m-to-challenge-crm-giants/

New unicorn Brevo raises $583M to challenge CRM giants | TechCrunch
Brevo, a customer relationship management company headquartered in Paris, is now a unicorn.

elec: Wikipedia adminship vote (2008)
A network of votes on Request for Adminship (RfA) elections from a 2008 snapshot of Wikipedia. Nodes represent editors, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that editor i voted on editor j. Edge sign indicates the direction of the vote: positive = for, and negative = against. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 7118 nodes and 103675 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed, Timestamps

🚑 Can we do better than involuntary hospitalization?
#psychiatry

Can we do better than involuntary hospitalization?
Researchers at Stanford and a Pennsylvania county are investigating new methods to minimize costly and harmful psychiatric holds.

Six former surgeons general warn that RFK Jr. is ‘endangering the health of the nation’
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/six-former-surgeons-general-warn-rfk-jr-endangering-health-nation-rcna236169

Du 8 novembre au 11 novembre, le trafic sera interrompu entre Michel-Ange - Molitor et Franklin D. Roosevelt en raison de travaux.
Bus de remplacement entre Michel-Ange–Molitor et Franklin-D. Roosevelt
#Info_Travaux
🤖 08/11 04:45

💉 GLP-1 drugs help protect against sleep apnea, study says
#glp1

GLP-1 drugs help protect against sleep apnea, study says
Weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound might help protect people from health risks related to sleep apnea, a new study says.

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-HOAC: 23 November - 30 November
https://ift.tt/u20gjXZ
Mining the Logs: Sources on Blue Humor URL …
via Input 4 RELCFP https://ift.t…

interactome_stelzl: Stelzl human interactome (2005)
A network of human proteins and their binding interactions. Nodes represent proteins and an edge represents an interaction between two proteins, as inferred via high-throughput Y2H experiments using bait and prey methodology.
This network has 1706 nodes and 6207 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Trump admin goes to SCOTUS to try and stop order that it pay full SNAP benefits this month: DOJ asks the justices for an order by 9:30 p.m. Friday — as USDA was in the middle of completing its process for making full payments, under a court order to finish Friday.
https://www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admin-goes-to-scotus-to-try

🐦‍⬛ A 'bird's eye view' of how human brains operate
#brain

A 'bird's eye view' of how human brains operate
A new study provides the best evidence to date that the connection patterns between various parts of the human brain can tell scientists the specialized functions of each region.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- BBC Proms 2025: Arvo Pärt at 90
Acclaimed interpreters of the Estonian composer's music Tõnu Kaljuste and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir celebrate his work at an atmospheric Late Night prom.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mkd5

Ab Ende März 2026 will die Schufa einen großen Schritt in Richtung Transparenz gehen: Verbraucher sollen ihren neuen Score kostenlos einsehen können – ein Wert, der bei Verträgen und Krediten eine wichtige Rolle spielt. 🌐
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-1109950…

🦠 Microbes may remove more than half of groundwater methane, curbing global emissions
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-microbes-groundwater-methane-curbing-global.html

Microbes may remove more than half of groundwater methane, curbing global emissions
Groundwater commonly contains methane, but the amount of this important greenhouse gas that can escape to surface waters or the atmosphere is highly uncertain. A team from the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry and University of Jena has shown that microbes in groundwater significantly reduce methane emissions, as revealed in a study published in PNAS.

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-AmIndian: 23 November - 30 November
https://ift.tt/Lwu2OUC
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🏔️ Weathering of the Southern Andes plays a critical role in balancing CO₂ emissions
#geology

Weathering of the Southern Andes plays a critical role in balancing CO₂ emissions
The towering peaks of the Southern Andes are not just shaping the skyline of South America—they are also quietly influencing Earth's atmosphere.

🍬 Crown jewel of dental restoration technology may be in sight with 3D printing
#dentistry

Crown jewel of dental restoration technology may be in sight with 3D printing
University of Texas at Dallas researchers have developed a technology that enables same-day, 3D-printed dental restorations made of zirconia, the gold-standard material for permanent dental work.

Jewish Life in Contemporary sub-saharan Africa
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⚖️ Underweight children cost NHS as much per child as children with obesity, study finds
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-underweight-children-nhs-child-obesity.html

Underweight children cost NHS as much per child as children with obesity, study finds
The NHS incurs an estimated £340 million in additional health care costs annually due to weight-related health problems in children—but it is not just obesity driving the costs. New research from the University of Oxford reveals that underweight children need comparable medical support as those who are severely obese, challenging assumptions about childhood health priorities.

🦫 California learns from its beaver reintroductions
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/10/california-learns-from-its-beaver-reintroductions/

California learns from its beaver reintroductions
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Tásmam Koyóm, a high Sierra meadow in California, U.S. returned to the Mountain Maidu people in 2019, is once again wet where once it had been dry. Rivulets now snake through hip-high grasses and willow thickets, feeding a […]

⏰ Study indicates rising temperatures may increase the health burden of shorter sleep duration
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-temperatures-health-burden-shorter-duration.html

Study indicates rising temperatures may increase the health burden of shorter sleep duration
As Australia braces for another scorching summer, new research led by Flinders University sleep experts reveals that rising temperatures are silently chipping away at our sleep and with it, our health.

Christian Arabic intensive course at Westminster College, Cambridge (UK), 6–15 January 2026
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💥Landmines that sparked Thai-Cambodia clash were likely newly laid, experts say
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/16/asia-pacific/politics/landmines-thailand-cambodia-clash/
🆓

Land mines that sparked Thai-Cambodia clash were likely newly laid, experts say
Cambodia denies Thailand's accusation that it laid the mines along parts of their joint frontier.

⚖️ Catalonia’s Socialist president: tackling inequality can blunt separatist and far-right voices
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/16/catalonia-socialist-president-salvador-illa-ta…

Catalonia’s Socialist president: tackling inequality can blunt separatist and far-right voices
In an interview, Salvador Illa tells of ‘pragmatic approach’ as he seeks to persuade voters about benefits of coexistence with Madrid

🎣 Feds seize $15 billion from alleged forced labor scam built on “human suffering”
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/feds-seize-15-billion-from-alleged-forced-labor-scam-built-on-human-suffering/

Feds seize $15 billion from alleged forced labor scam built on “human suffering”
Scams like this one net billions from well-educated victims.

🌳 Los Angeles without palm trees? An aesthetic, economic and climate debate grips California
https://english.elpais.com/lifestyle/2025-10-19/los-angeles-without-palm-trees-an-aesthetic-economic-and-…

Los Angeles without palm trees? An aesthetic, economic and climate debate grips California
Despite having the most trees of any city in the United States, LA barely invests in its greenery. And with many palms on their last legs, the city needs to decide what kind of trees in wants in future

Part of an outcropping of disordered daisies on the jeep trail in Shindagin Hollow State Forest
#photo #photography #flowers

How Private Equity Made Piracy Great Again
#culture #media

🧧 Chinese criminals made more than $1 billion from those annoying texts
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/chinese-criminals-made-more-than-1-billion-from-those-annoying-texts/ar-AA1OtOzx

🧺 Woven baskets aren’t just aesthetically pleasing – materials science research finds they’re sturdier and more resilient than stiff containers
https://theconversation.com/woven-bask

Woven baskets aren’t just aesthetically pleasing – materials science research finds they’re sturdier and more resilient than stiff containers
3D woven baskets are geometrically sophisticated, with some incredible properties that engineers can use to design materials and technology.

№ 20 Ruby van der Heide from Ho-Ho-Kus, N.J of the Columbia Lions at Cornell's Newman Arena this October 25
#photo #photography #sports

🌡️ Government told to prepare for 2C warming by 2050
#uk

Government told to prepare for 2C warming by 2050
The Climate Change Committee said the UK should make climate change adaptions beyond the Paris Agreement.

🎲 TextBandit: Evaluating Probabilistic Reasoning in LLMs Through Language-Only Decision Tasks
#llm

TextBandit: Evaluating Probabilistic Reasoning in LLMs Through Language-Only Decision Tasks
Large language models (LLMs) have shown to be increasingly capable of performing reasoning tasks, but their ability to make sequential decisions under uncertainty only using natural language remains underexplored. We introduce a novel benchmark in which LLMs interact with multi-armed bandit environments using purely textual feedback, "you earned a token", without access to numerical cues or explicit probabilities, resulting in the model to infer latent reward structures purely off linguistic cu…

🏘️ 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

⏰ Fear of desynchronization: Why doesn’t Europe abolish daylight saving time?
https://english.elpais.com/society/2025-10-24/fear-of-desynchronization-why-doesnt-europe-abolish-daylight-saving-time.html

Fear of desynchronization: Why doesn’t Europe abolish daylight saving time?
EU member states have failed to reach consensus on the risks of maintaining time according to geography