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caida_as: CAIDA AS graphs (2004-2007)
A sequence of 122 network snapshots denoting Autonomous System (AS) relationships on the Internet, from 2004-2007, inferred using the Serial-1 method from RouteViews BGP table snapshots and a set of heuristics.
This network has 24078 nodes and 98112 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

Trump refugee plan seeks 7,000 Afrikaners — and virtually no one else
If the administration succeeds, almost all people admitted to the U.S. as refugees — as many as 7,000 from a maximum potential pool of 7,500 — could be Afrikaners,
a group not traditionally eligible for the program but one that Donald Trump says has been tyrannized by South Africa’s Black majority.
The remainder may be chosen because of their ability to speak English or their views on “free speech,” peo…

Trump refugee plan seeks 7,000 Afrikaners — and virtually no one else
The Trump administration’s rush to process thousands of White South Africans as refugees coincides with plans for overall admissions set as low as 7,500.

Colts' Shane Steichen says Daniel Jones' play is 'as good as it gets,' Indianapolis QB off to 3-0 start

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/colts-s…

As Tomahawk pressure vanishes, Russia escalating strikes on Ukraine's energy sector, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/21/as-tomahawk-pressure-vanishes-russia.html

Books Say NFL Field is 'as Wide Open as We've Seen in a Long Time' https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/books-say-nfl-field-as-wide-open-weve-seen-long-time

As soon as you saw the name 'Tony Blair' on it you knew it would be as corrupt and abusive as fuck. And of course you were right.
My heart bleeds for #Gaza. This 'peace plan' is an epic, dystopian betrayal.
#GazaPeace

Pro-Trump Tech Billionaires Are Poised to Cash In on Gaza's 'Peace' Deal
Documents show Tony Blair’s Ellison-funded institute designed Gaza’s recovery plan on data-driven lines echoing Oracle-Palantir war systems.

Fresh chapter as archives gain accredited status https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/fresh-chapter-as-archives-gain-accredited-status/

Fresh chapter as archives gain accredited status - The National Archives
Six contrasting archives from different parts of Britain have won accredited status for the first time. They range from records about one of the grandest religious buildings in England, York Minster, to the local history of Hackney Borough, whose earliest document dates from 1356. Bradford’s National Science and Media Museum archives, which charts exciting developments […]

"Global warming could reach 2.3°C as early as 2040, S&P warns"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https://www.

Everett Randle, a former partner at Kleiner Perkins, joins VC firm Benchmark as general partner, following a slew of personnel departures at Benchmark (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/benchmark-names-ev…

Benchmark Names Everett Randle as New General Partner 
Everett Randle, a former partner at Kleiner Perkins investing out of its growth-stage funds, has joined Benchmark as the firm’s newest general partner, the early-stage firm announced Monday. At Kleiner, Randle worked on investments including enterprise search startup Glean and legal AI startup Harvey, earning him a top spot on The Information’s Next General Partners list in 2024. The hiring

As UK politics turns both right and left, how do we get degrowth onto the agenda?
By Mark H Burton In the series, Prospects for Degrowth The last few weeks have seen two opposing developments in British politics, both in the context of the Starmer Labour government and its failure to address the real issues facing people and planet. On the one hand we have seen the continuing rise of the far right Reform UK party…

As UK politics turns both right and left, how do we get degrowth onto the agenda?
By Mark H Burton In the series, Prospects for Degrowth The last few weeks have seen two opposing developments in British politics, both in the context of the Starmer Labour government and its failu…

So in another dream I just woke up from, I was talking to someone about "the idea problem" (that it's becoming harder to monitize ideas, from a vox article written by an AI cooked reporter).
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/executive-disorder-white-house-weekly-46-313675864/
Basically, I was arguing that the majority of inventions target men because patriarchy puts economic control in men's hands. As men have started to help more with childcare, there have been more inventions related to childcare. (I don't have any idea if this is true. Seems legit, but I'm just relating my dream. I think I was also oversimplifying a bit to "men" and "women" because of my audience, but anyway it was a dream.) There's actually more low-hanging fruit, I pointed out, related to making care work easier.
So I argued that the real problem was a failure to invest in research into solving that problem. Today there are all these boondoggles built around killing people. What if, instead of all this government research into killing people, we dumped a ton of money into making it easier to support a household? That would be great for the economy. (Being asleep, I seem to have forgotten that working people need money.)
In the blur of being just awake I started thinking about how you could kickstart the US economy by taking the money from the AI boondoggle and other autonomous murder bots and create something like a program to build robots for housekeepers. You'd still be funding tech with government money, so the same horrible people get paid, but you're now actually solving real problems. It wouldn't even matter if it was a boondoggle, honestly. Just dumping money into something other than murdering people is good enough.
I imagined first if there was a program to fund a robot housecleaner, like robot dog with AI some laundry pickup, that would be provided, free of charge, to help people with children. It would work the same as the military boondoggle where a private company makes the government buy a piece of hardware from them and then also pay them to service it for some number of years. But instead of that hardware sitting around waiting to kill someone, it would be getting brought to people's houses to help them.
Then I thought, hey, you could even boost the economy more if you just had government funding for doulas and housecleaners and paid them a living wage. Hey, you could really kickstart the economy by nationalizing healthcare and including doula support as part of all births. Oh, and you could also just include the optional household help for families with children until the kids turn 18.
None of this is perfect (I don't actually think most of this is possible from any state), but the point is that it's actually wildly easy to figure out all kinds of ways to invest in the economy and monitize ideas as long as you aren't entirely focused on the same old "make money from spying on people and killing them." Funny that. Like they said in the podcast, maybe "finding ideas" isn't the problem.
Hope you enjoyed the weird semi-awake brain dump/rant.

Wealthy As F*ck - The Podcast
This podcast is for the woman who didn't hustle for a six-figure household income just to feel financially stuck...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/wealthy-as-fck/

Don’t get me wrong: I think it is •still• worth haranguing congress to use the powers they have and crank all these legal gears as hard as they can. It’s perhaps worth it now more than ever as the MAGA coalition falters and politicians look to their own post-Trump survival. There are battles to win there.
I’m just saying we shouldn’t pin our primary hopes on the legal system. Massive, relentless popular opposition is the bedrock here.

Jonah Laulu’s Emergence as a DFS Sleeper on the Raiders Defensive Line https://raiderramble.com/2025/09/21/jonah-laulus-emergence-as-a-dfs-sleeper-on-the-raiders-defensive-line/

I freelanced for @… for 10 years, writing 37 articles/features
They were an amazing team, interested in global #justice, #labor, &

As Equal Times closes, the work continues
This is it. Our final article. Equal Times, the global labour news platform, will cease to publish as of December 2025. The website – which was, for more than a decade, an invaluable resource on the realities of work, society, fundamental rights, and more: the victories secured, the innovations introduced, but also the many indignities, injustices and stubborn anachronisms endured – will remain online, but no new content will be added. We launched back in autumn 2012 with a simple mission …

Google Safe Browsing has started blocking websites using #Mailcow for self-hosting email. Google calls them dangerous, and they're right: dangerous to their data-driven business model.
Yet most people still use #Google services. They talk about privacy, even attend

The similarity to the climate crisis is amazing - robust scientific research has identified a serious, life threatening problem - as well as what is needed to address that problem. But $€₱₹¥£ are flowing from customers who are unaware of the problem, and are seduced by marketing messages - in movies, TV shows, social media, and explicit advertisements. And there is huge profit from practices that are already resulting in injuries, illnesses and death, as well as economic losses. And

The similarity to the climate crisis is amazing - robust scientific research has identified a serious, life threatening problem - as well as what is needed to address that problem. But $€₱₹¥£ are flowing from customers who are unaware of the problem, and are seduced by marketing messages - in movies, TV shows, social media, and explicit advertisements. And there is huge profit from practices that are already resulting in injuries, illnesses and death, as well as economic losses. And

A look at the system for distribution of direct media subsidies developed for the government of Denmark, which spends ~0.2% of its GDP on direct media subsidies (Rasmus Kleis Nielsen/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2…

As the U.S. starves its public media, Denmark wants to figure out a better way to subsidize private news publishers
"A foundation can pick winners on the basis of its own values and priorities and support them from private sources. But if the state does the same with public funds, we risk the appearance (or even worse, the reality) of politicians picking winners on the basis of their own ad hoc, pa…

We either get rid of 2,000-year-old fairy tales passing as truth or 21st century weapons or watch as the combination of the two destroys our species.

My new piece.
'As UK politics turns both right and left, how do we get degrowth onto the agenda?'
The problem is that neither of the two main British left alternatives (#GreenParty and nascent #YourParty) appears to be sufficiently facing up to the fundamental issue of

As UK politics turns both right and left, how do we get degrowth onto the agenda?
By Mark H Burton In the series, Prospects for Degrowth The last few weeks have seen two opposing developments in British politics, both in the context of the Starmer Labour government and its failu…

Today I cycled past three young girls (I shall guess in the 10 to 11 age range). As I passed them, one gave a little chuckle and the girl next to her whispered, "Ikke le!" [Don't laugh!]. She said more but I could not make it out, as I was moving away from them. As I got a bit further, one of them half shouted, "Erlend Loe". I ignored it, then they repeated, "Erlend Loe". Finally they shouted "Erlend Loe" a bit louder.

Good Morning #Canada
In July 1871, the City of Victoria officially became the capital of British Columbia, when the province joined the rest of Canada. At the time, the city was larger than Vancouver and had served as the most important settlement in the area for decades. The Colony of Vancouver Island also stamped their little feet and demanded that Victoria be designated as the capital in return for the island to join with the mainland to become part of Canada. Captain James Cook was the first British person to set foot on Vancouver Island in 1778, and in 1843, Fort Victoria was established by the Hudson's Bay Company. There is a long history of Vancouver Island serving as a naval base, and today, Victoria is the home of Canada’s Pacific Coast naval and military headquarters in nearby Esquimalt. Victoria is a top tourist destination and is regularly rated top 5 worldwide as an awesome place to live.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianCapitals
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/victoria-bc

My contribution to #footpathFriday !
This was a really nice walk. Just as I like it: small paths along a nice mountain.
But I also remember that it was the time I was suffering from something called "frozen shoulder". It was a bit of a challenge to take off /on the backpack. As a wrong movement cause some REAL pain.
But this is over as well and I just try to rec…

'Betrayal': Ranchers furious as Trump plans to spend US taxes to buy Argentinian beef - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/betrayal-ranchers-furious-as-trump-uses/

This is a great milestone to see for Mastodon, in evolving towards its new community-focused governance structure. I’m optimistic about what this portends for the platform and how its features & future evolve. (And it’s fun that I was there for the photo being taken!) https://

Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures | TechCrunch
Eugen Rochko is stepping down as CEO of decentralized social network Mastodon. Felix Hlatky will now become the executive director as the company becomes structured as a nonprofit government by a board.

Stop Breaking TLS
#infosec

Campus AI vs. Commercial AI: How Customizations Shape Trust and Usage of LLM as-a-Service Chatbots
Leon Hannig (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany), Annika Bush (TU Dortmund University, Germany), Meltem Aksoy (TU Dortmund University, Germany), Steffen Becker (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany), Greta Ontrup (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
https://

Campus AI vs. Commercial AI: How Customizations Shape Trust and Usage of LLM as-a-Service Chatbots
As the use of LLM chatbots by students and researchers becomes more prevalent, universities are pressed to develop AI strategies. One strategy that many universities pursue is to customize pre-trained LLM as-a-service (LLMaaS). While most studies on LLMaaS chatbots prioritize technical adaptations, we focus on psychological effects of user-salient customizations, such as interface changes. We assume that such customizations influence users' perception of the system and are therefore important i…

as_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…

Trump Vows to 'Eradicate' Hamas as Fragile Gaza Truce Resumes (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-20/trump-vows-to-eradicate-hamas-as-fragile-gaza-truce-resumes
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p91#a251020p91

🎜 It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine 🎝 -- R.E.M.
As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity;
"Let's rewrite the entire operating system around AI."
https://…

As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity
Microsoft wants you to ditch your old OS so you can try its new one stuffed with overbearing, if not invasive, AI features.

SegDINO3D: 3D Instance Segmentation Empowered by Both Image-Level and Object-Level 2D Features
Jinyuan Qu, Hongyang Li, Xingyu Chen, Shilong Liu, Yukai Shi, Tianhe Ren, Ruitao Jing, Lei Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16098

SegDINO3D: 3D Instance Segmentation Empowered by Both Image-Level and Object-Level 2D Features
In this paper, we present SegDINO3D, a novel Transformer encoder-decoder framework for 3D instance segmentation. As 3D training data is generally not as sufficient as 2D training images, SegDINO3D is designed to fully leverage 2D representation from a pre-trained 2D detection model, including both image-level and object-level features, for improving 3D representation. SegDINO3D takes both a point cloud and its associated 2D images as input. In the encoder stage, it first enriches each 3D point …

Very good overview of the effectiveness of Honeywell PTM7950 phase-change thermal compound compared to traditional thermal pastes https://www.igorslab.de/en/overhyped-honeywell-ptm7950-in-lab-test-and-as-game-changer-for-graphics-cards/4…

I’ve worked over the past year to reduce the amount of noise in my consciousness on a daily basis.
By that I mean - information noise, not literal sounds “noise”. (That problem was solved long ago by some good earplugs and noise canceling earphones.)
I’ve gotten used to spending less time on social media, regularly blocking most apps on my devices (anything with a feed news, most work communication apps, etc.), putting my phone and other devices aside for extended periods of time. Often go to work places with my iPad explicitly having its WiFi turned off and selecting cafes that don’t offer WiFi at all.
Negotiated better boundaries at work and in personal life where I exchange messages with people less often but try to make those interactions more meaningful, and people rarely expect me to respond to requests in less than 24 hours. Spent a lot of time setting up custom notification settings on all apps that would allow it, so I get fewer pings. With software, choosing fewer cloud-based options and using tools that are simple and require as few interruptions as possible.
Accustomed myself to lower-tech versions of doing things I like to do: reading on paper, writing by hand, drawing in physical sketchbooks, got a typewriter for typing without a screen. Choosing to call people on audio more, trying to make more of an effort to see people in person. Going to museums to look at art instead of browsing Pinterest. Defaulting to the library when looking for information.
I’m commenting on this now for two reasons:
1. I am pretty proud of myself for how much I’ve actually managed to reduce the constant stream of modern life esp. as a remote worker in tech!
2. Now that I’ve reached a breaking point of reducing enough noise that it’s NOTICEABLE - I am struck by the silence. I don’t know what to do with it. I don’t know how to navigate it and fill it. I made this space to be able to read and write and think more deeply - for now I feel stuck in limbo where I’m just reacquainting myself with the concept of having any space in my mind at all.

Iran's president says moving the capital Tehran is now a necessity as the water crisis deepens. That'll be moving 16 million people (metro area) then, almost equal to the entire population of the Netherlands.
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202511209098

Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain.

3 days ago the RSS feed of planet.ubuntu.com stopped working due to a TLS cert error.
I THINK it's due to them overhauling & moving it to a github-hosted replacement, but as this was done just by redirecting DNS the new host doesn't have a TLS cert with the correct name. If so, this means that people following the old RSS feed can't do so any more and they got no notice that this was going to happen.
I don't know for sure though because my query remains unansw…

🤯 How India's unplanned hydropower dams and tunnels are disrupting Himalayan landscapes
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-india-unplanned-hydropower-tunnels-disrupting.html

How India's unplanned hydropower dams and tunnels are disrupting Himalayan landscapes
Uttarakhand, referred to as the land of gods, is also known as the energy state of India. It is home to several fast-flowing rivers at high altitudes that serve as the perfect backdrop for harnessing energy from water to produce hydroelectric power.

me: it's good code!
them: *look inside*
them: it's incomprehensible regular expressions!

{ if (match[1] !== undefined) { return match[1]; } else if (match[2] !== undefined) { …" target="_blank"> { if (match[1] !== undefined) { return match[1]; } else if (match[2] !== undefined) { …" onerror="this.style.display='none'" class="media" >

Enviei para meus alunos da minha segunda turma as notas e situação final de cada um. Faltam só três turmas agora. Mas, infelizmente, estas duas que eu jš fechei são justamente as mais ršpidas pra corrigir. As próximas me darão mais trabalho. Mas vamos que vamos.

Tetyana Berezhna voted in as new Culture Minister: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/21/tetyana-berezhna-voted-in-as.html

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
VILA: You're in charge now, are you?
AVON: Can you think of anyone more suitable? Yourself, perhaps? [Exits]
VILA: And why not? [Shouts after Avon] I'm as good as you are. [Sotto voce] Better probably.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/177<…

https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/mastodon-ceo-steps-down-as-the-social-network-restructures/

I know a few people on here as well as myself will FEEL this cartoon.

“W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 approved as ISO/IEC international standard”
https://www.w3.org/press-releases/2025/wcag22-iso-pas/
ISO/IEC 40500:2025 (no cost):

W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 approved as ISO/IEC international standard
WCAG 2.2 is now ISO/IEC 40500:2025. This standard enables more countries to formally adopt WCAG 2.2. ISO/IEC 40500:2025 is free from the ISO website. Supporting resources and translations are free from the W3C website.

Ukraine risks losing key partner or its dignity, warns Zelenskyy,
as Trump sets Thanksgiving deadline to accept deal
US president says ‘Thursday is an appropriate time’ in radio interview as Ukrainian leader weighs up US proposal
Ursula von der Leyen and European Council president António Costa have insisted on Friday that Ukraine must have a central role in deciding its future
and said European leaders would hold discussions on the US-drafted proposal on Saturday.

China is racing ahead of the rest of the world in the adoption of robovans, despite limitations like slow speeds; Neolix has deployed 10,000 robovans so far (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

China races ahead in robovans even as autonomous delivery challenges remain
Neolix says it has deployed 10,000 of the self-driving vehicles in industry milestone

Bryce Young comes up clutch again as Panthers take control of NFC South race https://www.nfl.com/news/bryce-young-comes-up-clutch-again-as-panthers-take-control-of-nfc-south-race

Russian attack stalls as Ukraine destroys assault group in Kharkiv border village: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/21/russian-attack-stalls-as-ukraine.html

After #Trump finally crashes and burns (I'm still saying I don't think he makes it to the mid terms, and I think it's more than possible he won't make it to the end of the year) we'll hear a lot of people say, "the system worked!" Today people are already talking about "saving democracy" by fighting back. This will become a big rally cry to vote (for Democrats, specifically), and the complete failure of the system will be held up as the best evidence for even greater investment in it.
I just want to point out that American democracy gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile, who, before being elected was already a well known sexual predator, and who made the campaign promise to commit genocide. He then preceded to commit genocide. And like, I don't care that he's "only" kidnaped and disappeared a few thousand brown people. That's still genocide. Even if you don't kill every member of a targeted group, any attempt to do so is still "committing genocide." Trump said he would commit genocide, then he hired all the "let's go do a race war" guys he could find and *paid* them to go do a race war. And, even now as this deranged monster is crashing out, he is still authorized to use the world's largest nuclear arsenal.
He committed genocide during his first term when his administration separated migrant parents and children, then adopted those children out to other parents. That's technically genocide. The point was to destroy the very people been sending right wing terror squads after.
There was a peaceful hand over of power to a known Russian asset *twice*, and the second time he'd already committed *at least one* act of genocide *and* destroyed cultural heritage sites (oh yeah, he also destroyed indigenous grave sites, in case you forgot, during his first term).
All of this was allowed because the system is set up to protect exactly these types of people, because *exactly* these types of people are *the entire power structure*.
Going back to that system means going back to exactly the system that gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile *TWICE*.
I'm already seeing the attempts to pull people back, the congratulations as we enter the final phase, the belief that getting Trump out will let us all get back to normal. Normal. The normal that lead here in the first place. I can already see the brunch reservations being made. When Trump is over, we will be told we won. We will be told that it's time to go back to sleep.
When they tell you everything worked, everything is better, that we can stop because we won, tell them "fuck you! Never again means never again." Destroy every system that ever gave these people power, that ever protected them from consequences, that ever let them hide what they were doing.
These democrats funded a genocide abroad and laid the groundwork for genocide at home. They protected these predators, for years. The whole power structure is guilty. As these files implicate so many powerful people, they're trying to shove everything back in the box. After all the suffering, after we've finally made it clear that we are the once with the power, only now they're willing to sacrifice Trump to calm us all down.
No, that's a good start but it can't be the end.
Winning can't be enough to quench that rage. Keep it burning. When this is over, let victory fan that anger until every institution that made this possible lies in ashes. Burn it all down and salt the earth. Taking down Trump is a great start, but it's not time to give up until this isn't possible again.
#USPol

Memo: WSJ's Emma Tucker hires Axios EIC Aja Whitaker-Moore as co-deputy EIC, promotes David Crow to the same role, and hires Dan Colarusso to lead biz/finance (Corbin Bolies/@corbinbolies)
https://x.com/corbinbolies/status/1991980144186327535

Corbin Bolies (@CorbinBolies) on X
NEW: WSJ editor Emma Tucker sent a memo to staff saying she hired Axios EIC Aja Whitaker-Moore as a deputy EIC and Dan Colarusso as "coverage chief for Business, Finance and Economics"

"As people’s access to the world is so much influenced by what’s digitally accessible, and as we’re seeing the undermining of whatever might have previously passed as authentic, it’s absolutely essential that we are offering the user buttressing evidence that proves the authenticity of what they’re looking at."

Maxx Crosby to the Dallas Cowboys? Six reasons it's not as crazy as it sounds https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/columnist/nate-davis/2025/10/21/maxx-crosby-cowboys-trade-rumors-jerry-jones/86822754007/

EU convenes emergency summit on Ukraine as Trump's 28-point plan triggers European pushback - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/22/eu-convenes-emergency-summit-on-ukraine-as-trumps-28-point-plan-triggers-european-pushback/

Two new #degrowth articles:
Neither of the two main British left alternatives (Greens and the proto- Your Party) appears to be sufficiently facing up to the fundamental issue of ecological overshoot.

As UK politics turns both right and left, how do we get degrowth onto the agenda?
By Mark H Burton In the series, Prospects for Degrowth The last few weeks have seen two opposing developments in British politics, both in the context of the Starmer Labour government and its failu…

Really bad stuff is continuing to happen. The White House is now circulating a draft of a bill that would vastly expand Trump’s authority for exactly these types of bombings.
We’ve also had another one of these strikes, and it appears just as dubious as the first one.
And Trump announced that strike with an absolutely deranged tweet that should raise alarms everywhere, but isn’t.
Meanwhile, Democrats just introduced a measure to restrain Trump and the prospects for getti…

Transcript: Trump Drug Boat Bombings Get Worse as Damning Info Emerges
As Trump’s military attacks on supposed drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea get worse, a legal expert explains what we know and what we don’t—and why we may be headed toward even darker lawlessness.

Two new #degrowth articles:
Neither of the two main British left alternatives (Greens and the proto- Your Party) appears to be sufficiently facing up to the fundamental issue of ecological overshoot.

As UK politics turns both right and left, how do we get degrowth onto the agenda?
By Mark H Burton In the series, Prospects for Degrowth The last few weeks have seen two opposing developments in British politics, both in the context of the Starmer Labour government and its failu…

Trump, Lula Seek Meeting in Malaysia as Brazil Eyes Tariff Cut (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-22/trump-lula-seek-meeting-in-malaysia-as-brazil-eyes-tariff-cut
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p44#a251022p44

Raiders rookie running back grows as receiver, blocker https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-rookie-running-back-grows-as-receiver-blocker-3584488/

Sea Turtles Rebounding Worldwide as Nests and Habitat are More Protected, Says 2025 NOAA Study https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/sea-turtles-rebounding-worldwide-as-nests-and-habitat-are-being-protected-says-2025-noaa-st…

Sea Turtles Rebounding Worldwide as Nests and Habitat are Being Protected, Says 2025 NOAA Study
With new protections and conservation efforts, sea turtle populations are rebounding worldwide, even as oceans change, says 2025 NOAA study.

hiv_transmission: HIV transmission network (1988-2001)
A set of networks of HIV transmissions between people through sexual, needle-sharing, or social connections, based on combining 8 datasets collected from 1988 to 2001. Metadata includes test results of several diseases, as well as demographic variables such as age, ethnicity, and gender. Networks come in two flavors: egodyads and altdyads. Egodyads are the network among study-participants and their direct partners. Altdyads are the…

Is Russell Wilson done as Giants' starting QB? It's time for New York to turn the page to Jaxson Dart

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/is-russell-w…

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.

Trump Taps Louisiana Governor Landry as Greenland Envoy (Jennifer A Dlouhy/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-22/trump-taps-louisiana-governor-landry-as-greenland-envoy
http://www.memeorandum.com/251221/p69#a251221p69

Raiders coach Pete Carroll left in awe as Chiefs deliver lopsided shutout https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/raiders-coach-pete-carroll-left-in-awe-as-chiefs-deliver-lopsided-shutout

Cowboys Legend Sends Strong Message to George Pickens https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/strong-message-george-pickens-staying-dallas/?adt_ei=[email]

Through mid-October, IHS had published far fewer posts on Facebook promoting vaccine clinics this year than last.
And in those posts as well as other notices, it replaced language touting immunization’s benefits
with wording that frames both routine childhood vaccinations and annual flu and COVID-19 shots as a personal choice,
advising patients to consult health care providers about their “options regarding vaccines.”
Current and former IHS clinicians told ProPublica…

The Indian Health Service Is Flagging Vaccine-Related Speech. Doctors Say They’re Being Censored.
Officials have deemed terms like “immunizations” and “vaccines” risky “buzzwords” that require approval to be used in social media posts, pamphlets and presentations.

Any sufficiently advanced disaster preparedness is indistinguishable from revolutionary dual power. This essay is a bit of a transition between the theory I've written earlier, and more concrete plans.
Even though I only touched on my life on the commune, it was hard not to write more. These are such weird spaces, with so much invisible opportunity. But they're also just so unique and special. For all the stress and uncertainty of making sure you stayed on Lorean's (the head priestess), there were also those long summer nights with the whole community (except the old lady) gathered around a fire, talking and drinking. There was almost a child-like play to the whole time.
There were so Fridays I'd come home with a couple of gallons of beer from the real world, folks would bring things from the garden, someone would grill a steak, everyone who didn't cook would clean up, and we'd just hang out and have fun. So many evenings I'd go over to Miles place with a guitar, or with his guitar, and we'd pass it around over a few beers, talking about philosophy, Star Wars, or some book or other. It's hard not to write about the strange magic of that space.
My partner and I bonded over similar experiences, mine on a weird little religious commune in California and theirs as a temporary worker at Omega Institute. Both had exploitation, people on weird power trips, frustrating dynamics, but also a strange magic and freedom. Both were sort of fantasy worlds, but places that let us see through this one, let us imagine something that something else is possible behind the veil.
There are many such veils.
Perhaps it's fitting that this is more meandering, as a good wander can help the transition between lots of hard thinking and lots of hard working.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/evaluating-options
Editing feedback (especially typos, spelling, grammar) is always welcome, as are questions and even wider structural advice. I've been adding the handles of folks who provide feedback to the intro in a "thank you" section. If you do help and wouldn't like to be added, please let me know.

Cowboys' Dak Prescott 'humbled' to near passing Tony Romo as Dallas' all-time pass yards leader

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys…

Raiders name backup QB for Texans game as Geno Smith returns https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-name-backup-qb-for-texans-game-as-geno-smith-returns-3598543/

Top Heritage Officials Flee to Mike Pence's Nonprofit as Think Tank Fractures (Josh Dawsey/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/top-heritage-officials-flee-to-mike-pences-nonprofit-as-think-tank-fractures-28765f2b
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p26#a251222p26

Samsung names mobile chief TM Roh as co-CEO and DX division head; Roh was serving as consumer business acting head since April after co-CEO Han Jong-Hee's death (Heekyong Yang/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/samsung-el…

New reporting on Monday detailed just how much US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has spent on weaponry since Donald Trump took office
—weapons that have been purchased as the administration has turned federal agents on US cities such as Chicago and Portland, illustrating how the president is treating increasingly armed ICE officers as his
“private military,” as one progressive critic said.
The agency spent $71,515,762 on small arms from January 20—the day Trump began his…

Trump’s ICE jacks up weapons spending by 700%—including ‘guided missile warheads’
“ICE was always going to be Trump’s private military to deploy domestically against Americans,” said one critic.

soc_net_comms: Networks with group metadata
Snapshots of LiveJournal, Friendster, Orkut, and YouTube online social networks, as well as DBLP and Amazon. Node metadata represents a post hoc definition of a 'community' that a node belongs to, derived from topical labels of the node or interest-based 'groups' that a node links to.
This network has 334863 nodes and 925872 edges.
Tags: Online, Social, Collaboration, Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Metadat…

Fighting intensifies around Myrnohrad as analysts label the city a ‘gray zone’: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/20/fighting-intensifies-around-myrnohrad-as.html

Terry Bradshaw bails on Steelers, Aaron Rodgers as Super Bowl contenders: 'That's not a great football team'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/t…

4 Raiders remain as Hall of Fame trims list of nominees for 2026 class https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/10/22/4-raiders-remain-as-hall-of-fame-trims-list-of-nomine…

Sources: Chinese DRAM chipmaker CXMT plans a Shanghai IPO as soon as Q1 2026, targeting an up to ~$42B valuation and aiming to raise between ~$2.8B and ~$5.6B (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

Pete Carroll says 'the competition is on' at quarterback as Raiders offense continues to struggle

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/pete-ca

wiki_users: Wikipedia user interaction (2011)
A network derived from interactions between editors of the English language Wikipedia, as derived from the edit histories of 563 wiki pages related to politics. A positive sign indicates positive links such as trust or similarities, and a negative sign indicates distrust or disagreement.
This network has 138592 nodes and 740397 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed

The most prominent American voice at the COP Climate Summit in Belém was that of the California governor, Gavin Newsom.
During the five days he spent in Brazil, Newsom described Donald Trump as an “invasive species”
and condemned his rollback of policies aimed at reducing emissions and expanding renewable energy.
Newsom, long considered a presidential hopeful, argued that,
as the US retreated, California would step up in its place as a
“stable, reliable” climat…

Sources: Chinese chipmaker YMTC considers an IPO in China at an up to ~$40B valuation as soon as 2026, in what could be one of China's biggest IPOs in years (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-22/…

Matt Eberflus finally unlocks Caleb Williams' potential as Bears QB torches ex-coach's Cowboys defense

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/matt-eb…

Chip Kelly on Myles Garrett: 'As good as we're going to face out there' https://www.raiders.com/video/chip-kelly-myles-garrett-browns-nfl-week-12

board_directors: Norwegian Boards of Directors (2002-2011)
224 networks of the affiliations among board directors due to sitting on common boards of Norwegian public limited companies (as of 5 August 2009), from May 2002 onward, in monthly snapshots through August 2011. Some metadata is included, such as director and company names, city and postal code for companies, and gender for directors. The 'net2m' data are bipartite company-director networks, while the 'net1m' ar…

Google DeepMind hires former Boston Dynamics CTO Aaron Saunders as VP of hardware engineering, as Demis Hassabis envisions Gemini to become a sort of robot OS (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-hires-cto-boston-dynamics-demis-hassabis-…

Google DeepMind Hires Former CTO of Boston Dynamics as the Company Pushes Deeper Into Robotics
DeepMind's chief says he envisions Gemini as an operating system for physical robots. The company has hired Aaron Saunders to help make that a reality.

Mastodon’s creator, Eugen Rochko,
is stepping down as CEO of the open source, decentralized social network and X riva
as part of the organization’s transition to a nonprofit structure,
announced at the beginning of the year.
The change is Mastodon’s most significant leadership overhaul to date, and one designed to ensure Mastodon’s longevity

Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures | TechCrunch
Eugen Rochko is stepping down as CEO of decentralized social network Mastodon. Felix Hlatky will now become the Executive Director as the company become structured as a nonprofit government by a board.

Micah Parsons offers blunt reaction after Packers loss to Browns: 'It's hard as hell to win football games'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/mi…

budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 121755 edges.
Tags: Biol…

AI dictation startup Wispr Flow raised $25M, after raising a $30M Series A in June, taking its total funding to $81M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/20/as-its-voice-dectation-app-takes-off-wispr-secures-25m…

As its voice dictation app takes off, Wispr secures $25M from Notable Capital | TechCrunch
Voice AI company Wispr is raising $25 million in funding merely months after its $30 million Series A.

Chiefs notch first win of 2025 season at Giants' expense; MLB Power Rankings shake up as AL races intensify

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/chiefs-

The Trump administration has ordered federal employees not to share photos of the East Wing of the White House being demolished to make way for the president’s $250 million vanity project.
“As construction proceeds on the White House grounds, employees should refrain from taking and sharing photographs of the grounds, to include the East Wing, without prior approval from the Office of Public Affairs,” a Treasury official wrote.
Crews began tearing down the East Wing’s covered ent…

Federal Workers Given Secret Order as Trump Tears Down Part of the White House
The administration doesn’t want federal employees documenting the demolition.

budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 121755 edges.
Tags: Biol…

Mastodon founder and CEO Eugen Rochko is stepping down from the decentralized social network as part of its shift to a nonprofit structure overseen by a board (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/mastodon-ceo-steps-down-as-t…

Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures | TechCrunch
Eugen Rochko is stepping down as CEO of decentralized social network Mastodon. Felix Hlatky will now become the executive director as the company becomes structured as a nonprofit government by a board.

Nearly half of rural hospitals now operate at a loss.
As new federal budget cuts take effect, analysts warn that hundreds of rural hospitals more may close.
-- threatening to turn vast stretches of the country into health-care deserts.
At the center of this growing crisis lies a rollback in federal health-coverage spending.
Nonpartisan analyses show large Medicaid reductions over ten years.
-- the total is on the order of eight to nine hundred billion dollars f…

Rural Hospitals in the United States Face Collapse
As Medicaid cuts deepen, small-town hospitals across Republican states are closing, leaving millions without access to emergency care.

Google says its Willow quantum chip using a new Quantum Echoes algorithm ran computations 13,000x faster than supercomputers, aiding drug and materials research (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/technology/googles-quantum-computer-…

Google’s Quantum Computer Makes a Big Technical Leap
Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer.

Trump’s praise for Mamdani upends Republican talking points
as they bond over New York, working class and FDR
President and mayor-elect refused to be drawn into talking about their differences despite repeated attempts to nudge them into conflict

Source: OpenAI's compute margin has jumped to about 70% in October from about 52% at the end of 2024 and roughly 35% in January 2024 (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-getting-efficient-running…

OpenAI Is Getting More Efficient at Running Its AI, Internal Financials Show
As OpenAI discusses raising an unprecedented investment round of up to $100 billion, it can crow about some key improvements to how it runs its business. While its total computing costs are still high as a percentage of revenue, it is wringing more revenue out of every dollar it spends to run ...