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NFL asks Supreme Court to regulate prediction markets at the state level https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7671964/2026/10/08/nfl-supreme-court-prediction-markets-kalshi/

Compared with the babies who didn't experience sugar rationing,
the babies who were sugar-rationed for their first 1,000 days were
69 percent less likely to develop liver cancer in their adult lives.
They also saw reduced incidence of prostate cancer (52 percent lower),
lung cancer (41 percent lower),
rectal cancer (40 percent lower),
and breast cancer (36 percent lower).
The sugar-rationed babies also tended to show longer telomeres
– the…

These Babies Grew Up With Strict Sugar Limits. Decades Later, The Results Are Dramatic.
It was January 1940, and the United Kingdom had a serious problem.

Cosmological constraints and standard sirens forecasts for non-dynamical dark energy in Horndeski gravity
Marcello Miranda, Ruchika, Ivan De Martino, Daniele Vernieri, Salvatore Capozziello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04079 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.04079 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.04079
arXiv:2608.04079v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We investigate an analytically tractable sector of the Extended Cuscuton model, a non-dynamical dark-energy realization within the framework of viable Horndeski gravity. We focus on four benchmark submodels and constrain them with current background probes, namely cosmic chronometers, Type-Ia supernovae, and BAO, while imposing theoretical viability, Lunar Laser Ranging, and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis bounds. We then forecast third-generation bright-standard-siren constraints with Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer networks, considering prompt-emission, afterglow, and kilonova counterparts. Current data already restrict the viable parameter space to small departures from $\Lambda$CDM and do not remove the calibration-driven offset between the CC SN and CC BAO determinations of $H_0$. In principle, future bright sirens substantially sharpen the constraints, especially for kilonova catalogues and extended detector networks. Across the forecast configurations, the relative uncertainty on $H_0$ remains below $13.18\%$ and can reach $0.21\%$ in the most constraining cases, while $\Omega_\Lambda$ is recovered at the percent level in the best cases. These results show that third-generation standard sirens can provide a precise complementary test of non-dynamical dark energy beyond $\Lambda$CDM.
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In Q2 2026, server-led eSSDs reached 48% of NAND flash shipments as AI workloads shifted from training to inference, driving 5x YoY industry revenue growth (Counterpoint Research)
http://www.counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/server-led-ess…

Server-Led eSSDs Hit 48% of NAND Shipments; YMTC Enters Global Top Three
AI inference workloads drove enterprise SSDs to 48% of global NAND shipments in Q2 2026, nearly double the 26% share a year earlier.

Trump sounds like a carny salesman, not a president.
That’s because he is a carny salesman.
He’s shilling hard because the Republican Party he is selling for the midterms is about as appetizing as his patented explosive diarrhea lettuce.
Republican polling is currently hitting impressive new lows.
Trump’s approval is hovering around 36 percent in the FiftyPlusOne aggregate,
and the same site’s Senate forecast just hit a new high of a 61 percent likelihood of …

“Trump Dividend” is the new Trump Steaks
The con artist in chief’s latest scam.

Trump postpones 50% tariffs on Canadian goods (Courtenay Brown/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/19/trump-canada-tariffs-50-percent-postponed
http://www.memeorandum.com/260819/p5#a260819p5

RE: https://mstdn.social/@amydiehl/117164018918957773
"Black women accounted for roughly 123,000 of the 165,000 who exited the labor force, Roy found — about 75 percent of the entire decline, though Black women make up only about 14 percent of women in the labor force. That’s a more than five-fold overrepresentation in July’s labor-force exit, according to analysis by Roy. 'The story is not only that women left,' Roy said. 'It is that the labor-market exit was highly concentrated among Black women. That is a critical economic signal.'"
And, of course, Trump wants to stop tracking race on the census and probably the rest of the government records to hide the harm he's doing to groups he hates.