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Border Patrol Posed As Humans Hiring Day Laborers
-- As A Ruse to Kidnap Them
Memo Torres breaks down immigration raids and related news in Southern California today
https://lataco.com/daily-memo-december-5th-b…

DAILY MEMO: Border Patrol In Disguise Try to Hire Day Laborers to Kidnap Them ~ L.A. TACO
Border Patrol raided five Home Depots, chased a man into a bus, and a flower vendor into a gas station, who were among at least 13 people kidnapped around the Southland, with most of the focus in Orange County today.

Extinctions ‘already happening’ in Wales as report lists 3,000 at-risk species https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/extinctions-already-happening-in-wales-as-report-lists-3000-at-risk-species/
…

Extinctions ‘already happening’ in Wales as report lists 3,000 at-risk species
Nearly 3,000 species in the country of Wales, in the U.K., are now found in just a handful of locations, according to a recent report. These species include hundreds of plants, fungi and mosses, as well as 25 bird, six mammal, five freshwater fish and one amphibian species. The report, produced by Natural Resources Wales […]

AI is Dunning-Kruger as a service
«A cognitive bias, where people with little expertise or ability assume they have superior expertise or ability. This overestimation occurs as a result of the fact that they don’t have enough knowledge to know they don’t have enough knowledge.»
🤯 https://…

MAGA Land as graceful and dignified as usual after a bad night - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/11/07/maga-land-as-graceful-and-dignified-as-usual-after-a-bad-night/

Matt Gutman is leaving ABC News to join CBS News as chief correspondent on January 5, reporting across the network as well as lead correspondent for 48 Hours (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/matt-gutman-joins-cbs-news-chief-correspon…

Matt Gutman Departs ABC News For New Post At CBS News
Matt Gutman is leaving ABC News for a new post at CBS News, where he will be chief correspondent, reporting across the network as well as lead correspondent for 48 Hours. Gutman also will contribute to future seasons of 60 Minutes, and will serve as fill-in anchor. He will start in Jan. 5 and will […]

internet_as: Internet AS graph (2006)
A symmetrized snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from BGP tables posted by the University of Oregon Route Views Project. This snapshot was created on 22 July 2006.
This network has 22963 nodes and 48436 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted

https://www.cablefax.com/regulation/on-hold-court-pauses-fcc-data-breach-rules-as-agency-takes-new-look
Court Pauses FCC Data Breach Rules as Agency Takes New Look

Court Pauses FCC Data Breach Rules as Agency Takes New Look
The FCC is going to take another look at those data breach rules, and it sounds like they may be toast.

In Canada, the CBC might be the kind of entity to help run / coordinate “public service social media” as described in this Tech Policy Press article https://www.techpolicy.press/public-service-social-media-as-a-democratic-safeguard/
With interop…

Noem warns far-left Antifa is 'just as sophisticated' as Hamas, MS-13, ISIS (Steven Nelson/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/08/us-news/noem-warns-far-left-antifa-is-just-as-sophisticated-as-ms-13-hamas-they-have-an-agenda-to-destroy-us/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p145#a251008p145

Schlag gegen "Crime as a Service": Polizei kappt kriminelle Rufnummern
Mit einem massiven Schlag gegen Cyberbanden haben Karlsruher Ermittler und die BaFin mehr als 3500 von Betrügern genutzte Telefonnummern abgeschaltet.

The US CFTC launches a pilot program allowing BTC, ETH, and USDC to be used as collateral in US derivatives markets (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/12/08/cftc-launches-digital-assets-pilot-allowing-bitcoi…

BTC, ETH, USDC as Collateral in CFTC Crypto Pilot
Acting Chair Caroline Pham has unveiled a first-of-its-kind U.S. program to permit tokenized collateral in derivatives markets, citing "clear guardrails" for firms.

The board of the Wikimedia Foundation has selected Bernadette Meehan to replace Maryana Iskander as CEO of the foundation starting 20 January 2026. Meehan is a career diplomat of the United States and most recently served as the ambassador to Chile. Iskander announced back in May that she would be stepping down.

Wikimedia Foundation appoints Bernadette Meehan as Chief Executive Officer – Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation today announced the appointment of Bernadette Meehan as Chief Executive Officer.

Sturgeon’s law remains my biggest reassurance against LLM world takeover. As far as I can tell, that law is as solid as gravity. Humans on average not giving a shit IS the training material poison pill.
yes, I have just looked at random GitHub code again, why do you ask

Samesies.
As I was with the Metaverse. As I will have been with "AI".
It's as if there was a pattern of people with domain experience valuing good solutions who call out bullshit tend to be right.
https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/115174150692070811

«Hayek, whose company is the world’s largest watchmaker, said the CEOs’ visit sent a signal of weakness. Instead, he suggested that Switzerland — the seventh-largest investor in the US — should retaliate by threatening to cut investment, or ditch a deal to buy US-made F-35 jets.
“Are we William Tell,” he quipped in reference to the Swiss hero of folklore, “or are we a vassal?”»

It's worth remembering that the civil war was a slave revolt:
#USPol

It's funny how "AI" tools are simulteanously marketed as "agents" that can run fully in the background and do stuff but whenever they do something bad it's the user at fault for not supervising the software that doesn't work.
Even when it’s directly used and the user has the chance to review everything—it’s extremely dangerous, especially at tasks it is doing fine like 95% of the time and/or when the bad things are only subtly wrong.
Imagine other tools being like this, like a steering wheel that turns the car 95 out of a 100 times. 2% of the time it steers into the other direction. 3% of the time it steers 5x as much as normally.

This utter arsehole is happy to posture but as leader of the world's 6th richest country he won't contribute to the vital fund to protect and restore tropical rainforests.
This utter arsehole postures on climate while greenlighting huge energy guzzling data centres.
This utter arsehole is happy to expand aviation while witterring about 'climate consensus'
Starmer warns 'consensus is gone' on fighting climate change as leaders gather at COP30 - BBC News…

Starmer warns 'consensus is gone' on fighting climate change as leaders gather at COP30 - follow live
Prince William says the climate threat is "fast approaching", as the UN warns it is now "virtually impossible" to keep the 1.5C global limit.

i feel like my general feelings re: Rigol and people swearing by their Tek are best summarized with the old "rifle is fine" copypasta. as in: if you are skilled in the art you will get things done just as well with the rigol as you will with a tek in the same cateogry that's 10 times* the price. and if you aren't, goddess bless you either way also
* referring me to US secondary markets is classist and i will not be elaborating on this observation

En noticias futbolísticas que importan: Deportes Concepción vuelve a primera división de Chile después de vencer a Cobreloa en la final de la liguilla ppr el ascenso.
https://chile.as.com/futbol/concepcion

Kimi K2 Thinking is impressive, it is as at least as good as other top foundation models, fully openweights, 1 trillion parameters but only using 32B in a MoE setting. Also you can download and reuse it for free.
https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2

GitHub - MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2: Kimi K2 is the large language model series developed by Moonshot AI team
Kimi K2 is the large language model series developed by Moonshot AI team - MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2

That’s almost certainly the better strategy for them, even if the cynical view is true and they really are an investment org and not an educational institution at heart. We know that caving to bullies just marks you as a target. We know that, as @… said, those who resist grow in stature, and those who capitulate emerge as shadows of themselves (https://www.theindex.media/p/donald-trump-can-t-make-cowards-of-us-all). If Harvard is a brand, well….
But investment is a fear-driven world, and there’s a lot of fear circulating.
5/

Raiders hit the reset button as Pete Carroll unleashes the youth movement https://raiderramble.com/2025/12/08/raiders-hit-the-reset-button-as-pete-carroll-unleashes-the-youth-movement/

Ireland’s Minister for justice, (who is about to spend the next year or so constantly saying things for media attention as he jockeys to remain top of mind in FF member’s heads) has also said he wants to break encryption (as soon as he finds out what it is. A kind of cupboard? A vase of some sort? A nut, perhaps, of Asian origin?)

Fabio Manganiello (@fabio@manganiello.social)
Another day, another Western country that clumsily tries to find legal ways to put backdoors in end-to-end encrypted services.In the case of the UK it’s allegedly to protect kids (the oldest excuse...

"At $4.5bn each year extreme weather is costing Australia three times as much compared with 1990s, insurers say"
#Australia #Climate #ClimateChange

Picture the human body. Zoom in on a single cell. It lives for a while, then splits or dies, as part of a community of cells that make up a particular tissue. This community lives together for many many cell-lifetimes, each performing their own favorite function and reproducing as much as necessary to maintain their community, consuming the essential resources they need and contributing back what they can so that the whole body can live for decades. Each community of cells is interdependent on the whole body, but also stable and sustainable over long periods of time.
Now imagine a cancer cell. It has lost its ability to harmonize with the whole and prioritize balance, instead consuming and reproducing as quickly as it can. As neighboring tissues start to die from its excess, it metastasizes, always spreading to new territory to fuel its unbalanced appetite. The inevitable result is death of the whole body, although through birth, that body can create a new fresh branch of tissues that may continue their stable existence free of cancer. Alternatively, radiation or chemotherapy might be able to kill off the cancer, at great cost to the other tissues, but permitting long-term survival.
To the cancer cell, the idea of decades-long survival of a tissue community is unbelievable. When your natural state is unbounded consumption, growth, and competition, the idea of interdependent cooperation (with tissues all around the body you're not even touching, no less) seems impossible, and the idea that a tissue might survive in a stable form for decades is ludicrous.
"Perhaps if conditions were bleak enough to perfectly balance incessant unrestrained growth against the depredations of a hostile environment it might be possible? I guess the past must have been horribly brutal, so that despite each tissue trying to grow as much as possible they each barely survived? Yes, a stable and sustainable population is probably only possible under conditions of perfectly extreme hardship, and in our current era of unfettered growth, we should rejoice that we live in much easier times!"
You can probably already see where I'm going with this metaphor, but did you know that there are human communities, alive today, that have been living sustainably for *tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years*?
#anarchy #colonialism #civilization
P.S. if you're someone who likes to think about past populations and historical population growth, I cannot recommend the (short, free) game Opera Omnia by Stephen Lavelle enough: https://www.increpare.com/2009/02/opera-omnia/

Kyler Murray done as Cardinals QB? Steelers, Jets among possible landing spots along with Kingsbury reunion

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/kyler-murr…

Public service announcement:
I am blocking the babka.social instance as the person who runs it (Serge) is a Zionist and a genocide/denier, who conflates being Jewish with being Zionist (“Zionism is a belief that more than 80% of Jews have. Talking about Zionists is talking about Jews.” – https://babka.social/@serge/1151605…

LLMs as Policy-Agnostic Teammates: A Case Study in Human Proxy Design for Heterogeneous Agent Teams
Aju Ani Justus, Chris Baber
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06151 https://

LLMs as Policy-Agnostic Teammates: A Case Study in Human Proxy Design for Heterogeneous Agent Teams
A critical challenge in modelling Heterogeneous-Agent Teams is training agents to collaborate with teammates whose policies are inaccessible or non-stationary, such as humans. Traditional approaches rely on expensive human-in-the-loop data, which limits scalability. We propose using Large Language Models (LLMs) as policy-agnostic human proxies to generate synthetic data that mimics human decision-making. To evaluate this, we conduct three experiments in a grid-world capture game inspired by Sta…

Network-level Censorship Attacks in the InterPlanetary File System
Jan Matter, Muoi Tran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06626 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06626

Network-level Censorship Attacks in the InterPlanetary File System
The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) has been successfully established as the de facto standard for decentralized data storage in the emerging Web3. Despite its decentralized nature, IPFS nodes, as well as IPFS content providers, have converged to centralization in large public clouds. Centralization introduces BGP routing-based attacks, such as passive interception and BGP hijacking, as potential threats. Although this attack vector has been investigated for many other Web3 protocols, such as…

Myanmar's children suffer as US aid cuts take hold | AP News #hunger

Myanmar's children suffer as US aid cuts take hold
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program. But in Myanmar, families tell The Associated Press their loved ones have died as a direct result of the aid cuts. In one case, the father of a 2-year-old boy says his son died in May of malnutrition after the family's food rations stopped arriving as a result of the aid cuts. In more than 60 interviews, the AP documented widespread suffering across M…

Senate Majority Leader John Thune quickly swatted down a Democratic offer to reopen the government and extend expiring health care subsidies for a year, calling it a “nonstarter” as the partisan impasse over the shutdown continued into its 38th day.
https://www.

WATCH: Senate meets as Republicans reject Democratic offer to end shutdown
Senate Majority Leader John Thune quickly swatted down a Democratic offer to reopen the government and extend expiring health care subsidies for a year, calling it a “nonstarter” as the partisan impasse over the shutdown continued into its 38th day.

Continuing a bit with the #photos from our #schwarzwald #vacations : (unknowingly) we walked along the Western-way. It was pretty cool because the trail was very diverse as you can see on the photo…

Structuring Reasoning for Complex Rules Beyond Flat Representations
Zhihao Yang, Ancheng Xu, Jingpeng Li, Liang Yan, Jiehui Zhou, Zhen Qin, Hengyun Chang, Ahmadreza Argha, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Minghuan Tan, Yujun Cai, Min Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05134

Structuring Reasoning for Complex Rules Beyond Flat Representations
Large language models (LLMs) face significant challenges when processing complex rule systems, as they typically treat interdependent rules as unstructured textual data rather than as logically organized frameworks. This limitation results in reasoning divergence, where models often overlook critical rule dependencies essential for accurate interpretation. Although existing approaches such as Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning have shown promise, they lack systematic methodologies for structured …

Ooh, didn't realise you can also listen to the European Correspondent as well as read it. This morning: Norway's election, the ending of foreign post to the US, and the lives of Syrians in Germany a decade after "Wir schaffen das"...
https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/s/listen

I got to thinking, on @… Hunt's EpsilonTheory podcast today, about how capitalism hates satiation…which reminded me of Leopard Kohr's 70-year-old observations about "remedial consumption"… which I was surprised to find nowhere on the Interwebs…except here, from an almost half as ancient NewBottomLine essay:

Am I the only one who thinks that the timing of this backsliding & heel-dragging about climate action is driven specifically by trying to appease Trump, by responding directly to his pushing of American LNG?
Any concrete evidence?
#mastodaoine

LNG ‘can’t happen fast enough’, says Taoiseach as Cop30 grapples with ending fossil fuels
Martin indicates that liquefied natural gas a security imperative for Ireland

Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
VILA: The air's as fresh as ever. Do you know what that means?
KERRIL: We're going to die of exhaustion.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/452 B7B2

SID: Multi-LLM Debate Driven by Self Signals
Xuhang Chen, Zhifan Song, Deyi Ji, Shuo Gao, Lanyun Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06843 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

SID: Multi-LLM Debate Driven by Self Signals
Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited impressive capabilities across diverse application domains. Recent work has explored Multi-LLM Agent Debate (MAD) as a way to enhance performance by enabling multiple LLMs to discuss and refine responses iteratively. Nevertheless, existing MAD methods predominantly focus on utilizing external structures, such as debate graphs, using LLM-as-a-Judge, while neglecting the application of self signals, such as token logits and attention, that arise during …

Four takeaways from Wednesday, from offensive "ownership" to happy returns as they prepare for Cowboys https://www.panthers.com/news/four-takeaways-from-wednesday-from-offensive-owner…

Explosions reported in Kremenchuk as Russia launches barrage of missiles, drones towards central Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/07/explosions-reported-in-kremenchuk-as.html

Protected areas hit hard as Mekong countries’ forest cover shrank in 2024 https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/protected-areas-hit-hard-as-mekong-countries-forest-cover-shrank-in-2024/

Protected areas hit hard as Mekong countries’ forest cover shrank in 2024
BANGKOK — The Mekong countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam lost a combined area of tree cover of nearly a million hectares in 2024, or an area almost the size of Lebanon. That’s according to Mongabay’s analysis* of satellite data published by the Global Land Analysis and Discovery (GLAD) laboratory at the University of Maryland, […]

A two scalar triplets model as common origin for dark matter, neutrino masses, baryon asymmetry and inflation
Sin Kyu Kang, Raymundo Ramos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07107 https…

A two scalar triplets model as common origin for dark matter, neutrino masses, baryon asymmetry and inflation
We propose an extension of the standard model (SM) by two SU(2) triplet scalars and an inert SU(2) doublet. We demonstrate that this setup can simultaneously produce an inflaton and baryon asymmetry in the early universe, provide a dark matter candidate and explain the smallness of neutrino masses. The two triplets are particularly important as they become mediators for the production of dark matter and the generation of lepton asymmetry, as well as contribute an inflaton. The inert doublet res…

aus der reihe "amüsante buchtitel" heute: "»Vrummmummmmm FVISH!« : Soundscapes as Part of Constant Conversations in Action-Adventure Video Game Heterotopias" http://omeka.buechner-verlag.de/items/show/39

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#OperaOn3
- Mozart's The Magic Flute
Mozart's The Magic Flute from the Royal Opera, starring Lucy Crowe as Pamina, Amitai Pati as Tamino and Huw Montague Rendall as the lovable bird catcher Papageno.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002lnk8

Holy Crap. Today's ride home was insane. My chain came off, had to pull over to fix it, simple, no issue. But then as I had to wait at a stoplight this pickup truck took off when the light turned green and these two bins slide right out the back onto the road! As the bins hit a box of nails explodes and these little nails with orange discs fly everywhere. (Stock photo included because it was such chaos I did not get a photo.)
1/5

Piers Morgan's Uncensored launches its first spin-off, History Uncensored, hosted by former CNN anchor Bianca Nobilo, airing weekly on YouTube and as a podcast (PodcastingToday)
https://podcastingtoday.co.uk/piers-morgan-launches-h…

Piers Morgan launches History Uncensored as first podcast spin-off series - PodcastingToday
Piers Morgan Uncensored is launching its first ever spin-off series, History Uncensored, presented by former CNN anchor and reporter Bianca Nobilo.

Evan Spiegel says Snap is restructuring around small squads of 10 to 15 people to compete better; Snapchat now brings in $700M in ARR from 15M paying users (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/08/snap-breaks-into-startup-squads-…

Snap breaks into 'startup squads' as ad revenue stalls | TechCrunch
CEO Evan Spiegel just announced the company is restructuring around small "startup squads" of 10 to 15 people to regain agility against larger competitors.

Ok, yeah, I'm not done processing my anger over liberals doing shit like this. So this historian sees a rise in right wing violence, sees the US government carrying out ethnic cleansing, sees a rise in white supremacist terrorism, and then says, "oh yeah... this reminds me of a time right around the 1920s. Hum... yeah, ANARCHISTS fighting the government! Yeah, that's the same thing."
FFS, IT'S THE RED SUMMER! If you want a parallel between today and some horrible time in US history, TALK ABOUT THE RED SUMMER. The point of the language of dehumanization that the right uses, the point of all the anti-black and anti-emigrant rhetoric, is that it leads to genocide. Trump already carried out an act of genocide (#USPol

Air Traffic Controllers Start Resigning as Shutdown Bites
https://www.thedailybeast.com/air-traffic-controllers-start-resigning-as-shutdown-bites/

NFL Week 2 betting power ratings: React but don't overreact as Chiefs, Lions, 49ers among those moving down

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

Apropos of nothing, Claude is advertised as “Describe what you need, and Claude handles the rest.” and not as “Describe what you need, and Claude makes suggestions which after your careful consideration mayhaps do what you asked but possibly not.”
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115684309967311298

internet_as: Internet AS graph (2006)
A symmetrized snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from BGP tables posted by the University of Oregon Route Views Project. This snapshot was created on 22 July 2006.
This network has 22963 nodes and 48436 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted

Christian nationalist pastor
Joel Webbon urges Christians to
join ICE and serve as
"God's appointed avenger"
to round up and deport immigrants:
"You can join ICE today and make Jesus smile as you,
with a gun,
pack foreigners into the back of a van to be kicked out of the country.
That is a godly, glorious endeavor"

Joel Webbon Tells Christians To Join ICE And 'Make Jesus Smile' By Enacting ‘God’s Vengeance’ on Immigrants
Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon urges Christians to join ICE and serve as "God's appointed avenger" to round up and deport immigrants: "You can join ICE today and make Jesus smile as you, with a gun, pack foreigners into the back of a van to be kicked out of the country. That is a godly, glorious endeavor."

Trump Faces Big Decisions as Voters Turn On Him Over Affordability (Damian Paletta/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-faces-big-decisions-as-voters-turn-on-him-over-affordability-a8589828
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p40#a251208p40

Broncos facing brutal stretch run as they seek first AFC West title and top playoff seed in a decade https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/broncos-facing-brutal-stretch-run-as-they-seek-first-afc-west-titl…

Anthropic launches a Slack integration for Claude Code, expanding on the existing Claude app for Slack, launching in beta as a research preview (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/08/agentic-coding-comes-slack-…

Agentic coding comes to Slack as Anthropic launches Claude Code integration - SiliconANGLE
Agentic coding comes to Slack as Anthropic launches Claude Code integration - SiliconANGLE

Evolutionary Profiles for Protein Fitness Prediction
Jigang Fan, Xiaoran Jiao, Shengdong Lin, Zhanming Liang, Weian Mao, Chenchen Jing, Hao Chen, Chunhua Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07286

Evolutionary Profiles for Protein Fitness Prediction
Predicting the fitness impact of mutations is central to protein engineering but constrained by limited assays relative to the size of sequence space. Protein language models (pLMs) trained with masked language modeling (MLM) exhibit strong zero-shot fitness prediction; we provide a unifying view by interpreting natural evolution as implicit reward maximization and MLM as inverse reinforcement learning (IRL), in which extant sequences act as expert demonstrations and pLM log-odds serve as fitne…

What if we viewed AI notetaking not as a solution but as a symptom of deeper workplace dysfunction?
(👆an AI assisted post ;-)
https://www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11-nine-risks-caused-by-ai-notetakers

Nine risks caused by AI notetakers — Careful Industries
AI transcription tools are not currently mature or reliable enough to be regarded as an always on, single-source of truth for meeting notes. Nine common risks, and six possible mitigations.

Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
VILA: He's not the man for the job. Tarrant has about as much subtlety as a Tarzian Warg Strangler. All I'm saying is Tarrant's going to walk straight into trouble and get himself killed or captured. If he's dead he can't talk. But if the Federation find out we're hanging around, we won't stand a chance. Not in this ship. At least in the Liberator we could always outrun them.
AVON: Vila, if the Federation do have some ne…

"As forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours"
#Butterflies #Insects #Environment

Sources: UEFA's next soccer broadcast rights sale could fetch £4.3B per year, up from £2.9B per year in the 2024 deal, as it targets streaming platforms (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c5y8njv2ylvo

European clubs as Uefa looks to streaming services
The top European clubs could cash in on streaming rights as Uefa look to land around £4bn in their next TV deal.

Extremist Hired As Florida's First In-School Chaplain - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/10/desantis-hires-extremist-as-first-in-school-chaplain/

Robinhood is set to join Indonesia's retail investment boom after agreeing to acquire local brokerages PT Buana Capital Sekuritas and PT Pedagang Aset Kripto (Prima Wirayani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Robinhood Set to Enter Indonesia Market as Retail Investors Boom
Robinhood Markets Inc. is set to enter the Indonesian market after signing deals to acquire two local brokerages, underscoring the appeal of the Southeast Asian country’s growing ranks of retail investors.

Trey Hendrickson landing spots: Where could the Bengals pass rusher end up as he faces free agency?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/trey-he

Mamdani Moves to 'Trump-Proof' New York as ICE Tensions Rise (Myles Miller/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-08/mamdani-moves-to-trump-proof-new-york-as-ice-tensions-rise
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p87#a251208p87

Broncos beat Raiders 24-17 to extend winning streak to 10 games as Geno Smith injured https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/broncos-beat-raiders-2417-to-extend-winning-streak-to-10-games-as-geno-smith-injured

As of September 2025, the domains gup.pe and immers.space
seem to have expired
and a.gup.pe has been replaced with a WordPress installation full of SEO-targeted content about Mastodon.
Is this the end of Guppe Groups as a service?
If so, I would like to remind you that there are still monthly and annual financial donors to the service via Guppe Groups on OpenCollective.
...
upstream registry sold it off before it expired. My registrar said I had till 9/15…

Guppe is dead? · Issue #118 · immers-space/guppe
Hey @wmurphyrd 👋 I notice as of September 2025, the domains gup.pe and immers.space seem to have expired and a.gup.pe has been replaced with a WordPress installation full of SEO-targeted content ab...

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

Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
ARLE: No hurry.
BERG: Let's get back and report.
ARLE: We've got nothing to report. If we could get back and tell Kasabi what's INSIDE the zone-
BERG: She said as far as the security boundary.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/205/4

I've had a few of these thoughts stuck in my craw all day because I watched this liberal historian talk about the Galleanisti.
https://youtube.com/shorts/93yHEn8BYE4
Basically, she says that "of course the government had the right to target them." Then she goes on to talk about how it became an excuse to carry out a bunch of attacks on other marginalized people. Now, the Galleanisti had been bombing the houses of politicians and such. I get where she's coming from saying that one of their targets "was in the right" to try to catch them. But there's some context she's not talking about at all.
These were Italian anarchists, so they were not white and they were part of an already marginalized political group. Basically all of Europe and the US was trying to wipe out anarchists at the time. Meanwhile, the sitting president at the time showed the first movie in the White House. That movie was KKK propaganda, in which he was favorably quoted. The US was pretty solidly white supremacist in the 1920's.
Like... A major hidden whole premise of the game "Bioshock: Infinite" is that if you went back to the US in the 1920's, and you had magic powers, you would absolutely use them to kill as many cops as possible and try to destroy society. There's a lot of other stuff in there, I don't want to get distracted, but "fuck those racists," specifically referring to the US in the 1920's, was a major part of a major game.
Those Italian anarchists were also stone cutters. They carved grave stones. But the dust from that can kill you, much like black lung for coal miners. So they were dying from unsafe working conditions, regularly raising money to support dying coworkers and then carving gravestones for those same coworkers.
Now, I personally think insurrectionary anarchism is a dead end. I disagree with it as a strategy. We've seen it fail, and it failed there. But of course it makes sense that they wanted to blow up the government.
...And that's the correct way to structure that. When you say, "of course they were in the right" you're making a very clear political statement. You could easily say, "the cops in Vichy France had every right to hunt down the French Resistance." You would technically be correct, I guess. But it would really say something about your politics if you justified the actions of Nazi collaborators over those fighting against the Nazis.
And you may say, "oh, but the Nazis didn't have justification for anything. They invaded a sovereign nation, so their government wasn't legitimate anyway."
To which I would reply, "have you considered a history book about the US?"

Paramount's WBD bid is backfiring in DC; a Trump official says Paramount seems to "believe the worst possible tropes" about corruption in the administration (Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/08/2025

Finger-pointing in Washington as Paramount goes hostile
The Ellisons “leaned into the stereotypes” of a politicized regulatory process in its aggressive pursuit of for Warner Bros.

Nearly a million people evacuate as Super Typhoon Fung-wong threatens the Philippines : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/09/g-s1-97091/nearly-a-million-people-evacuate-as-super-typhoon-fung-wong-threatens-the-philippines

Predicting biggest overreactions for NFL Week 6: Browns go to Shedeur Sanders as QB1? Chiefs missing playoffs?

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

Trump Voices Disappointment in Zelenskiy as Peace Talks Drag (Hadriana Lowenkron/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-08/trump-says-he-s-disappointed-with-zelenskiy-as-peace-talks-drag
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p62#a251207p62

House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday he’ll schedule the swearing in of the new Arizona Democratic House member “as soon as she wants.”
Adelita Grijalva won a special election for a House seat on Sept. 24,
but has been unable to actually represent her district in Congress until the speaker officially swears her into office.
Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, has so far refused to accommodate her request to officially take office while the House is not conducting legislativ…

WATCH: Delay swearing in Rep. Grijalva 'has nothing to do' with Epstein petition, Johnson says
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday he’ll schedule the swearing in of the new Arizona Democratic House member "as soon as she wants."

Fremantle names James Duffen as CEO of its "AI native" Imaginae Studios, launched in April; Duffen is managing director of investment group Aurelius Advisers (Scott Roxborough/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Fremantle Names Boss of New AI Label Imaginae Studios
James Duffen, who joins Fremantle from investment group Aurelius Advisers, will take over as CEO of the new "AI native studio", which will operate as a stand-alone group within the indie production giant.

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…

As Trump Defunds Infrastructure, Water Systems Serving Millions Face Flood Risk - WhoWhatWhy
https://whowhatwhy.org/science/environment/as-trump-defunds-infrastructure-water-systems-serving-millions-face-flood-risk/

A study finds that as few as 250 malicious documents can produce a "backdoor" vulnerability in an LLM, regardless of model size or training data volume (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison

A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
Anthropic research on data-poisoning attacks in large language models

Why Raiders' Wide Receivers Are in Precarious Fantasy Football Situation https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/as-vegas-wide-receivers-fantasy-football-situation

Trump on Wednesday said the Illinois governor and Chicago mayor, both Democrats, should be jailed as they oppose his deployment of National Guard troops for his immigration and crime crackdown in the nation’s third-largest city.
The officials said they would not be deterred.
The Republican president made the comment in a social media post, the latest example of his brazen calls for his opponents to be prosecuted or locked up
— a break from longtime norms as the Justice Depar…

Trump says Illinois governor and Chicago mayor should be jailed
President Donald Trump says the Illinois governor and Chicago mayor, both Democrats, should be jailed as they oppose his deployment of National Guard troops for his immigration and crime crackdown in the nation’s third-largest city. The Republican president made the comment in a social media post Wednesday. It's the latest example of his calls for his opponents to be prosecuted or locked up Trump wrote on Truth Social that Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker “should be in jail for fa…

Social Security considers pausing more work, as shutdown takes a toll on employees
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2025/11/social-security-considers-pausing-more-work-as-shutdown-takes-a-toll-on-employees/

Q&A with Willie Shubert, VP of Programs at environmental news outlet Mongabay, about its global newsroom, publishing news daily in many languages, and more (Rhett Butler/Mongabay)
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/buil

Building a global newsroom for a planet in crisis: A conversation with Willie Shubert
For Willie Shubert, journalism is a kind of cartography. “I studied geography,” he says. Mapmaking taught him how to see the world as a system. That systems view now guides his work as Executive Editor and Vice President of Programs at Mongabay, as he helps steer the environmental news organization through one of the most […]

As US schools adopt AI, a look at the growing use of AI-powered monitoring tools like GoGuardian to scan students' chatbot conversations for signs of self-harm (Janne Knodler/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

AI Chatbot Surveillance Tools Are Quietly Watching Kids In Class
As US educators embrace AI in the classroom, firms are selling software to flag mentions of self-harm, raising concerns over privacy and control.

Ravens' Harbaugh: NFL catch rule 'clear as mud' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47249620/ravens-john-harbaugh-says-nfl-catch-rule-clear-mud

How David Sacks emerged as a key advocate for tech, crypto, and AI in the Trump administration, leveraging his tech expertise and All-In media presence (Ben Smith/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/08/2025/david-sacks-rules-for-success-i…

David Sacks’ rules for success in Trump’s Washington
He’s emerged as perhaps the most effective representative of America’s business community in Trump’s new Washington. How?

As the federal government begins to implement President Trump’s new national security directive
to investigate the so-called
radical left as domestic terrorists,
a little known FBI organization,
located in an affluent and leafy suburb of Northern Virginia,
is at the center of it all.
Based just seven miles from CIA headquarters,
the Threat Screening Center
has a secret budget and a classified personnel count.
The nondescript cluster of g…

Secretive Watchlisting Center Executing NSPM-7
“We’re expanding the watchlist,” FBI director says amid 300% increase in domestic terror investigations.

A profile of Techmeme, which turns 20 this week yet oddly works and looks as it did in 2005, as its executive-heavy readership expands amid the AI boom (Fred Vogelstein/Crazy Stupid Tech)
https://crazystupidtech.com/2025/09/08/at-20-techmeme-has-never-been-hotter…

Gabe Rivera's 20-year-old headline site, Techmeme, has never been hotter.
Journalism is getting battered now. But thanks to the AI boom, Gabe Rivera's 20-year-old headline site Techmeme has never been hotter. Media companies should take notes.

During a Mumbai trade visit, UK PM Keir Starmer hailed India's digital ID program, Aadhaar, as a "massive success" as the UK plans to introduce digital ID cards (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ce22e78c-4a0c-49ca-a658-f2167df7f31d

The third-party app store known as AltStore,
one of the first companies to offer an alternative app marketplace in the European Union,
is preparing to connect its platform with the open social web known as the fediverse.
The move would connect users on other open social apps,
like Mastodon or Meta’s Threads,
with updates from apps in a new way.
In addition, the startup is announcing its first funding round from outside investors,
with a $6 million Se…

Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse | TechCrunch
The alternative app marketplace AltStore has raised $6 million and launched a Mastodon server.

Nvidia is aggressively opposing Republican-led proposals to limit AI chip sales to China, labeling supporters as "AI doomers", an unconventional lobbying blitz (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/technology/nvidia-china-chip-s…

Nvidia Accuses Rivals of Being A.I. Doomers as US Debates Sale of Chips to China
Rankling national security experts, the chipmaker has stepped up attacks on lawmakers who are pushing restrictions.

As Republicans try to pin blame for shutdown damage on Democrats,
they are hailing a federal bureaucracy they normally bash as wasteful and overreaching.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/us/poli

Shutdown Politics Has Republicans Singing Government’s Praises
As Republicans try to pin blame for shutdown damage on Democrats, they are hailing a federal bureaucracy they normally bash as wasteful and overreaching.

A look at an "etiquette camp" for young founders in San Francisco, which teaches them how to dress, act, and talk, amid shifting expectations for tech founders (Lisa Bonos/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/07/te…

Tech bros head to etiquette camp as Silicon Valley levels up its style
As Silicon Valley grows in power and prominence, some insiders say it’s time for the tech industry to remake its slobby image. An etiquette camp for founders showed how.

Source: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and more are set to unveil the Agentic AI Foundation to build open-source AI agent standards as soon as this week (Aaron Holmes/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai…

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Agree to Develop Agent Standards Together
For AI agents to work properly in automating white-collar tasks, the companies developing the agents and the companies running the enterprise apps those agents use will need to agree on technical standards for how these technologies connect to each other.Some leading companies are preparing to ...

Sources: xAI nears a deal to raise $20B in equity and debt, tied to the Nvidia GPUs that xAI plans to use in Colossus 2; Nvidia is investing as much as $2B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-07/musk-s-…

Samsung's Galaxy XR gets beta support for Google's realistic avatar system for video calls, a Travel Mode, and a built-in PC remote desktop feature (David Heaney/UploadVR)
https://www.uploadvr.com/samsung-galaxy-xr-android-xr-likeness-beta-travel-mode…

Samsung Galaxy XR Gets Realistic Face-Tracked 'Likeness' Avatars
Samsung Galaxy XR's Android XR now has a Persona-like realistic avatar system for video calls, called Likeness, as well as a Travel Mode and a built-in remote desktop app.