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Much as white southerners acted like the election of a black man as mayor would be the death of the city as they had long known it,
white New Yorkers are now acting like the election of Mamdani will be the death of NYC.
Some of it is religious bigotry,
some of it is class panic,
but all of it is as unfounded as the reaction to the first black mayors a half century ago.

"Too Young to Die"
As the seemingly endless NYC mayoral campaign enters its final weeks, the howls of the Democratic establishment in the city are only getting louder. They've really convinced themselves that the election of a (gasp) Democratic Socialist will mean the absolute destruction of the city. Cops will quit! Billionaires will flee!

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…

Looks like law enforcement disrupted the Rhadamanthys infostealer.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/rhadamanthys-infostealer-disrupted-as-cybercriminals-lose-server-access/

Rhadamanthys infostealer disrupted as cybercriminals lose server access
The Rhadamanthys infostealer operation has been disrupted, with numerous "customers" of the malware-as-a-service reporting that they no longer have access to their servers.

Kamal Ahmed, who previously hosted The Telegraph's The Daily T podcast, leaves to join Fortune as executive editorial director for UK and Europe (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/me

Kamal Ahmed joins Fortune as editorial director for UK and Europe
Kamal Ahmed is leaving The Telegraph to join business publisher Fortune as executive editorial director for UK and Europe.

ICE thugs can't handle a little snow.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/us/gregory-bovino-border-patrol-agents-chicago

Ukraine clears northwest Kupyansk as special operation frees 40 sq km: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/12/ukraine-clears-northwest-kupyansk-as.html

"What fuel will ships burn as they move toward net zero?"
#NetZero #Ships
https://

What fuel will ships burn as they move toward net zero?
This is Part 3 of a short series on efforts to decarbonize the global shipping industry. Part 1 addressed international policy and politics, Part 2 efficiency measures. This part looks at alternative fuels. In mid-October, more than 100 nations will gather at a London meeting to decide whether to enshrine a set of carbon reduction […]

Indian investment app Groww raised ~$748M in its Indian IPO, closing up 29% and giving it a ~$9B market cap; Groww is the first Indian YC-backed startup to IPO (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/12/groww-rais…

Groww raises nearly $750M in IPO as India's retail investing boom continues | TechCrunch
The company's shares opened 12% above their issue price, at ₹112, and closed at ₹128.85, lending it a market cap of ₹795 billion (approximately $9 billion).

Never before have I felt so on a mission with music - to do as much of it as possible, to as high a degree of quality as possible, with whatever faculties and time remain. We never know how long we’ll have - not just of life itself, but the strength to make something within it.
(Apologies for the obviousness and potentially melodramatic tone of my post, as always!)

Have all us Australians hit the tromboncino/cucuzza/zucchini glut yet? Or just me? https://witcheskitchen.com.au/tromboncino-or-zucchini-bake-making-it-up-as-you-go/

Tromboncino (or Zucchini) Bake (making it up as you go)
Tromboncino or zucchini, cheese, eggs, onion of some kind, something tart, something salty, something aromatic, little bit of flour, salt and pepper. Mix together, top with grated cheese, bake. Ser…

Daily #AcWriMo: not as much writing as I wanted but completed first 1/4 of main paper, got final draft from colleague on 2nd, ok comments back from reviews on 3rd AND 4th & 5th paper a colleague is leading now out as preprint online. 🙌
And we found an obscure bug in the model code 🙄
#FediWriMo.

Cardinals preparing to start Jacoby Brissett vs. Colts as Kyler Murray deals with mid-foot sprain https://www.nfl.com/news/cardinals-preparing-to-start-jacoby-brissett-vs-colts-as-kyler-murray-deals-with-mid-foot-sprain

What David said :) 💯
And more so, please remember that @… and I couldn’t hold the verification calls without @… and @…

I used to link to sections of webpages using anchor links, or have jump links pointing to id tags.
I went back to a page where I've done this in the past, and the page has been entirely rewritten with non-semantic HTML. Class descriptors have random suffixes for CSS rather than providing semantic IDs that can be used as jump links as well as, uhhh, semantic organization of a web page.
There's a lot of bad things from the 1980s and 1990s that I am glad to leave behind, but…

Cowboys cling to playoff hopes as Vikings visit with focus on McCarthy's growth https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/cowboys-cling-to-playoff-hopes-as-vikings-visit-with-focus-on-mccarthys-growth

tfw when you floppy drive weighs about 15 times as much as your computer
#retrocomputing

Noem defiant as Democrats decry Trump administration treatment of migrants (Eric Bazail-Eimil/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/11/noem-defiant-as-democrats-decry-trump-administration-treatment-of-migrants-00687101
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p78#a251211p78

Fed Governor Lisa Cook claimed 2nd residence as 'vacation home,' undercutting Trump fraud claims | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/fed-governor-lisa-cook-claimed-2nd-residence-as-vacation-home-undercutting-trump-fraud-claims

Pelissero: Raiders sticking with Geno Smith as starter amid start https://www.nfl.com/videos/pelissero-raiders-sticking-with-geno-smith-as-starter-amid-start-nfl-gameday-kickoff

when the dark web threat monitoring service gets pwnd and lists itself as a breach because it aggregated sensitive personal data as a service and therefore drew a bullseye on its own ass

🤠 Deforestation and disease spread as Nicaragua ignores illegal cattle ranching
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/deforestation-and-disease-spread-as-nicaragua-ignores-illegal-cattle-ranching/

Deforestation and disease spread as Nicaragua ignores illegal cattle ranching
Illegal cattle ranching has torn through Nicaragua’s rainforests in recent years, supplying a growing international market for meat despite calls for better oversight of the industry. Now, the country is feeling the consequences, as disease spreads through the unchecked movement of livestock. Cases of New World screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax), or NWS, a fly that feeds […]

Uspol, genocide
In case you're wondering whether "political violence" is escalating in the U.S.A. right now, of *course* it is as we move into an era of concentration campus and domestic military deployments. But both domestic genocides and purges as well as political violence targeted at individual prominent figures has been a *constant* throughout American history, from gun duels fought between political rivals to massacres of Native Americans in order to steal their land, to pogroms against Catholics, to literal wars on local Black success and political participation, all dating back before the American Revolution to the beginning of colonization. Thanks to Wikipedia, here's a *small sampling* where I attempted to whittle things down to about one event per decade before recent times.
Sources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_United_States
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_massacres_in_North_America
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_political_violence_in_Washington,_D.C.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_racial_violence_in_the_United_States
Killings, woundings, and plots against political figures:
Aaron Burr killing Alexander Hamilton in 1804
Sam Houston beats Rep. William Stanbery in 1832
Attempted Assassination of Andrew Jackson in 1835
Fight between Representatives Churchwell & Cullom in 1854
Caning of Sen. Charles Summer in 1856
Brawl on the House floor in 1858
Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865
Assassination of President James A. Garfield in 1881
Assassination of President William McKinley in 1901
Attempted Assassination of William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz in 1909
Wounding of former President Theodore Roosevelt in 1912
Bombing of the U.S. Senate reception room in 1915
Attempted Assassination of President Herbert Hover in 1928 (in Argentina)
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1947
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1950
The United States Capitol Shooting in 1954
Planned Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1960
Attempted Assassination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1963
Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963
Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968
Weather Underground bombings in 1970, 1971, and 1975
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1972 (Alabama Governor George Wallace was targeted & injured instead)
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1974
Planned Assassination of President Gerald Ford in 1974
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Gerald Ford in 1975
Wounding of President Ronald Reagan in 1981
Attempted Kidnapping of Federal Reserve Board members in 1981
Planned Assassination of President George Bush in 1993 (in Kuwait)
Attempted Assassinations (x3) of President Bill Clinton in 1994
Attempted Assassination of President Bill Clinton in 1996
Anthrax attacks on US senators in 2001
Attempted Assassination of President George W. Bush in 2005 (in the foreign country of Georgia)
Planned Assassination of President-Elect Barrack Obama in 2008
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2009 (in Turkey)
Attempted Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2011
Shooting of Rep. Gabby Gliffords in 2011
Planned Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2012
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2013
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2015
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Donald Trump in 2017
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2018
Pipe bombs mailed to Democratic leaders in 2018, including former President Barack Obama
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2019
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2020
Kidnapping plot against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020
Planned Assassination of Former President George W. Bush in 2022
Planned Assassination of Former President Barrack Obama in 2023
Attempted Assassination of President Joe Biden in 2023
Planned Assassinations (x2) of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Wounding of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Massacres and other mass killings, mostly with genocidal motivations:
The Acoma Massacre in 1599
The Paspaheg Massacre in 1610
The Wessagusset affair in 1623
The Mystic Massacre in 1637
The Pound Ridge Massacre in 1644
The Susquehannock chiefs massacre in 1675
The Apalachee Massacre in 1704
The Massacre at Fort Narhantes in 1712
The Norridgewock Massacre in 1724
The 1745 Massacre at Walden (in 1745)
The 1756 Massacre at Walden (in 1756)
The Killings by the Paxton Boys in 1763
The Yellow Creek Massacre in 1774
The Gnadenhütten Massacre in 1782
The Canyon del Muerto Massacre in 1805
The Battle of Tallushatchee in 1813
The Philadelphia Nativist Riots in 1844
The Bloody Island Massacre in 1850
The Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857
The Sand Creek Massacre in 1864
The Opelousas Massacre in 1868
The Chinese Massacre in 1871
The Election Riot of 1874
The Haymarket Affair in 1886
The Buffalo Gap Massacre in 1890
The Wilmington Massacre in 1898
The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre (in 1906)
The Ludlow Massacre in 1914
The Elaine massacre in 1919
The Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921
The Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921
The Bonus Army Conflict in 1932
The 1937 Memorial Day massacre (in 1937)
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963
The Kent State shootings in 1970
The Greensboro massacre in 1979
The MOVE Bombing in 1985
The 4 O'Clock murders in 1988
The Oklahoma City bombing in 1995
The September 11 Attacks in 2001
The Fort Hood Shooting in 2009
The Holocaust Memorial Shooting in 2009
The Isla Vista killings in 2014
The Charleston Church shooting in 2015
The San Bernardino attack in 2015
The Orlando Nightclub Shooting in 2016
The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting in 2018
The El Paso Walmart shooting in 2019
The January 6th Capitol Attack in 2021
The 2022 Buffalo Shooting (in 2022)

I have the new AirPods Pro 3 - and they're awful in airplane cabins at pressure. There's a widely reported squealing problem as soon as ascent and pressurization happens - does anyone know when/if Apple will acknowledge this?

https://www.wired.com/story/doxers-posing-as-cops-are-tricking-big-tech-firms-into-sharing-peoples-private-data/

Doxers Posing as Cops Are Tricking Big Tech Firms Into Sharing People's Private Data
A spoofed email address and an easily faked document is all it takes for major tech companies to hand over your most personal information.

Finally started watching #bloodofmyblood tonight and saw our daughter as an extra! This is the second time she's done extras work and it's just as much of a kick to see her on screen as it was last time!

Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
VILA: Obsidian. Even the name sounds nasty. Do you know why it escaped the galactic war?
CALLY: If it did.
VILA: Well, Zen says there's no sign of any battle fleet wreckage on the surface.
CALLY: Not as far as we can see.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/303/48

Soll ich? Glaube das könnte eine kollapswichtige Fähigkeit sein
https://meinbildungsurlaub.de/kurse/3339/motorsagenkurs-mit-zertifikat-as-baum-1-module-a-b

So Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein" is what they would call a "visual feast". Lavish production barely does it justice. Thoroughly enjoyed it, and it is as poignant as one would hope. Well worth it!
The only thing that grated on me was the weirdly unnatural composited lighting. I've seen this in other films and it bums me out. Gives me the same vibes as AI generated Art… Makes me wonder why it was decided to go that route, rather than lighting things pra…

This new Linux platform will let you update your next car at home - as soon as 2027
Toyota, Honda, and Mazda are building a new open-source car platform that runs everything from entertainment to navigation - and could even power self-driving.
https://www.

This new Linux platform will let you update your next car at home - as soon as 2027
Toyota, Honda, and Mazda are building a new open-source car platform that runs everything from entertainment to navigation - and could even power self-driving.

https://bsky.app/profile/ericwbailey.website/post/3m27zvanqsc2d
Over on Bluesky from @…

Eric Bailey (@ericwbailey.website)
"Again and again, accessibility as a topic in web standards is treated as simultaneously too trivial for specialists' technical opinions to be given weight, but also too difficult to get right without a specialist volunteering to tackle the tricky details." https://alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-threat-model-for-accessibility-on-the-web/

welcoming the winter hours with the fallen angels, live on WLIR, march '73. almost as cozy as the gram/emmylou duos is all the contextual ephemera inside the sleeve. @…

Wikimedia Foundation appoints Bernadette Meehan as Chief Executive Officer
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/12/09/wikimedia-foundation-appoints-bernadette-meehan-as-chief-executive-officer/

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.

On Monday, Trump said
neither bidding party
“are friends of mine.”
He added that he had not spoken to his son- in-law Jared Kushner about the Paramount bid.
Netflix’s bid has already drawn sharp criticism from bipartisan lawmakers and Hollywood unions
over concerns that it could lead to job cuts as well as higher prices for consumers.
“While it is perhaps a sad commentary on the US that Paramount thinks its closeness to the occupant of the Oval Office wil…

NTV Kenya: Warner Bros fight heats up as Paramount counters Netflix with $108bn hostile bid
Paramount Skydance on Monday launched a hostile bid worth $108.4 billion for Warner Bros Discovery,

I love Deerhoof’s Actually, You Can not just as a great, fun album but as a time capsule from an optimistic moment. In late 2021, we seemed to be emerging from the shadows of Trump and Covid-19—who’d have thought the Four Seasons presser and the vaccines, respectively, didn't end them? The music bottles up joyful, radical imaginings of a better world that were in the air since the George Floyd rebellion, not yet extinguished by the reactionary “crime” panic to come.

End of an era. I remember when that exhibit went in. That said, it’s in bad shape and has been for some time. #okc #oklahoma

Omniplex Mouth Exhibit to Undergo Full Dental Reconstructive Surgery... - The Lost Ogle
One of my favorite things about Science Museum Oklahoma – or as I’ll forever call it, the Omniplex – is that it essentially serves as two museums in one. Not only does it function as a modern-day children’s science museum with hands-on learning exhibits that keep wondrous kids entertained and engaged, but thanks to its…

»Why Shortened URLs Pose a Security Risk«
On Mastodon / Fediverse, shortening the URL is not necessary at all, because they are not marked in their full length. Apart from the shorter tracking, their data collection frenzy as well as their timing is also very inconvenient.
🚫 https://…

Why Shortened URLs Pose a Security Risk - Acer Corner
Shortened URLs are widely used in the digital world. They are small, concise links that replace long web addresses, making them easier to share across social media, emails, and text messages. Popular services like Bitly and TinyURL have become household names for this reason. Despite their convenience, shortened URLs also…

Nachdem sich auch Liam Neeson als $EXPLETIVE herausstellt, zur ewigen Diskussion ob man Kunst und Künstler nicht trennen müsse:
Wenn man das müsste und könnte, dann würde Kunst nicht in über die Person und Persönlichkeit von Künstlern beworben und verkauft.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Hayden:
🎵 Bad as They Seem
#Hayden
https://hayden4.bandcamp.com/track/bad-as-they-seem
https://open.spotify.com/track/13pcMVbQ5jOVJK7QN4ADSy

"Another priority is the issue of free speech, which they regard as very important. The way to understand this, I think, is that it's mostly a question about moderation on social media and that they don't like that."
I think you are much too kind here, @… .

New U.S. security strategy calls for regime change in Europe
In this video, I discuss the new U.S. national security strategy, which, to put it mildly, is concerning for Europe. It's largely a document about how the Trump administration sees it as a requirement for continued transatlantic cooperation that MAGA movements come to power in European countries. Watch the

lazygit is perfection and that sadly means i will never learn jj
https://www.bwplotka.dev/2025/lazygit/

The (lazy) Git UI You Didn't Know You Need
When my son was born last April, I had ambitious learning plans for the upcoming 5w paternity leave. As you can imagine, with two kids, life quickly verified this plan 🙃. I did eventually start some projects. One of the goals (sounding rebellious in the current AI hype cycle) was to learn and use neovim for coding. As a Goland aficionado, I (and my wrist) have always been tempted by no-mouse, OSS, gopls based, highly configurable dev setups.

Wrote a satirical article. Gonna post it soon.
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David August
Stories, serious articles, satire, tech trends, how to guides and ideas from David August. Actor. Writer. Acting coach.

On 30 April, 1993, CERN published the complete source code to the #WWW protocols developed by @…, as well as his client and server software with this statement: “CERN relinquishes all intellectual property rights to this code, both source and binary and permission is given to anyon…

Google says it is working on a fix to combat the rise of spam sites in its Discover feed in the UK as fake AI-generated news stories gain visibility in the feed (Rob Waugh/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/google-promi…

Google promises Discover 'fix' as more fake AI stories top rankings
Google has promised it is working on a "fix" for spam sites in its Discover app after more fake news stories topped the rankings in the UK.

Crypto markets crashed after Trump threatened an extra 100% tariff on China, triggering $19.1B in liquidations, 10x the liquidations during the FTX crash (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/10/1…

Crypto Price Drop Continues: $16B in Longs Liquidated as BTC, ETH Sell-Off Extends
Trump’s 100% tariff warning on China ignited a global sell-off that wiped out $16 billion in leveraged crypto longs and pushed Ethena’s USDe to a rare sub-$1 print.

word_assoc: Edinburgh word associations
A network of word associations showing the count of such associations as collected from subjects, from the Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus (EAT). Each node represents a word, and a directed edge (i, j) denotes that word i was used as a stimulus to which word j was given as a response. Multiple edges are allowed.
This network has 23132 nodes and 312342 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted, Multigraph

NFL: Baltimore Ravens lose again without Lamar Jackson as Dallas Cowboys suffer upset loss to Carolina Panthers https://www.skysports.com/nfl/news/12040/13449168/nfl-baltimore-ravens-lo…

Senate Republicans Introduce Bill To Rename Street In Front Of White House As The "Charlie Kirk Patriot Way" - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/10/senate-republicans-introduce-bill-to-rename-street-in-front-of-white-house-as-charlie-kirk-patriot-way/

Danish intelligence classifies Trump's America as a security risk (Antoaneta Roussi/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/danish-intelligence-classifies-donald-trump-america-as-security-risk/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p34#a251211p34

when the dark web threat monitoring service gets pwnd and lists itself as a breach because it aggregated sensitive personal data as a service and therefore drew a bullseye on its own ass

Prosecutors probe possible leak as Zelensky ally reportedly flees prior to searches: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/10/prosecutors-probe-possible-leak-as.html

Announced pick for No. 2 at NSA won’t get the job as another candidate surfaces
https://therecord.media/announced-nsa-deputy-director-pick-joe-francescon-not-taking-job

Announced pick for No. 2 at NSA won’t get the job as another candidate surfaces
Joe Francescon, announced in August as the NSA's new deputy director, will not be filling the role, sources told Recorded Future News, and the Trump administration has another pick in mind.

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…

Just finished "The Word for World is Forest" by Ursula K. Le Guin. Can't believe I didn't read this one earlier, and this strengthens my resolve to finish off the rest of her stuff I have yet to read sooner. I think it benefits somewhat from having read it after "Four Ways to Forgiveness" which gives more of the Hainish context. Certainly none of the blurbs I had read about it did it any measure of justice, which is one reason I hadn't prioritized it. More than being about colonization, it's about a solution to the paradox of tolerance, and both the price and imperfections of that solution. As usual with Le Guin's science fiction, it's a rich companion to anarchist thought.
I think the typical objection to seeing it as an answer to the warlord question would be that it serendipitously positions the indigenous population with more power and a less ruthless opponent than in the imagined scenario, and it uses the League of Worlds as a sort of deus ex machina to foreclose further retribution. Ultimately that's why I think it's more about the paradox of tolerance than anything else, but I also think in regards to the warlord problem that we are too quick to underestimate just how numerous and enthusiastic the opponents of a warlord might be, and to overestimate the strength of technological weapons wielded by frail (and psychologically unarmored) humans.
In any case, Le Guin gives this book's alien humans yet another fascinatingly credible capability, and getting to see the introduction of ansible technology with all its implications is pretty cool too. Maybe not

Why the Raiders' Biggest Hurdle Is Easy to Find https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/as-vegas-biggest-hurdle-easy-find

As Australia bans under-16s from social media platforms, TikTok-powered video app Lemon8, friends-only photo app Yope, and others rise up the App Store charts (Nasteho Said/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Alternative Social Media Apps Surge as Australia Teen Ban Starts
Alternative social media platforms have surged in popularity in Australia Wednesday, as the nation’s landmark ban for under-16s drives children to non-restricted apps.

📉 Lloyds profits plunge 36% as it feels impact of UK car finance scandal
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/23/lloyds-profits-plunge-as-it-feels-impact-of-uk-car-finance-scandal

Lloyds profits plunge 36% as it feels impact of UK car finance scandal
Bank’s drop in quarterly earnings comes after it put aside further £800m to cover expected wave of driver claims

"‘Little lungs are paying’: 1.6m claimants head to high court as carmakers finally face punishment for Dieselgate"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Cars

'One Love': Cowboys honor Marshawn Kneeland with vigil, tributes and memorial fund as team mourns together

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

"nothing is said about #Russia as a challenge or a potential enemy of the United States." — @…
And I feel confident that this is because #MAGA does not …

New U.S. security strategy calls for regime change in Europe
In this video, I discuss the new U.S. national security strategy, which, to put it mildly, is concerning for Europe. It's largely a document about how the Trump administration sees it as a requirement for continued transatlantic cooperation that MAGA movements come to power in European countries. Watch the

“History will not remember him as a king, or a savior. History will remember him as a small, ugly, sick man who happened to seize great power, who wielded it recklessly, and who left behind a trail of destruction, corruption and cowardice unmatched in American history.”
-- Rick Wilson

Boston Globe editor Nancy Barnes steps down from her role but will remain on staff as editor-at-large; she joined the paper as the first female editor in 2023 (Aidan Ryan/The Boston Globe)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/12/business/nanc…

Boston Globe editor Nancy Barnes to step down
In a note to the Globe newsroom, Barnes said she is stepping down at the end of next week and will stay on staff as an editor-at-large.

Zelenskiy Floats Referendum Over Territory as US Seeks Deal (Olesia Safronova/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-11/zelenskiy-floats-referendum-over-territory-as-us-pressure-mounts
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p60#a251211p60

Trump’s White House budget chief, Russ Vought,
just ominously posted on X that
“reductions in force”
(laying off federal workers)
have begun, as the government shutdown enters its 10th day.
He offered no further details, but we’ll bring you more as soon as we get it.

Army Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd, an Army officer with Indo-Pacific experience but no digital warfare experience, emerges as potential Cyber Command, NSA pick
https://therecord.media/cyber-command-nsa-potential-pick-lt-gen-joshua-rudd

Army officer with Indo-Pacific experience emerges as potential Cyber Command, NSA pick
Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd, the No. 2 at U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, has emerged as a potential pick to lead U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, multiple people familiar with the search told Recorded Future News.

Azerbaijan releases Russian propagandist as tensions with Moscow ease: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/10/azerbaijan-releases-russian-propagandist-as.html

Aircraft Carrier Moves Into the Caribbean as U.S. Confronts Venezuela (Eric Schmitt/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/us/politics/aircraft-carrier-moves-into-the-caribbean-as-us-confronts-venezuela.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p92#a251111p92

Copy-paste now exceeds file transfer as top corporate data exfiltration vector
https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1ouc0dn/copypaste_now_exceeds_file_transfer_as_top/?mid=1#cid=3238623

1Password founders sold a $75M stake as part of a $100M secondary sale, valuing the company at $6.8B, the same valuation as its $620M Series C in January 2022 (Jeff Stone/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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 317080 nodes and 1049866 edges.
Tags: Online, Social, Collaboration, Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Metada…

DOJ sues Georgia county as Trump pushes debunked 2020 election fraud claims
The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Fulton County, Georgia,
over records related to the 2020 election,
escalating the Trump administration’s efforts to boost the president’s
false claims that his loss to Joe Biden was rigged.

Citing a need to investigate “compliance with federal election law,”
the lawsuit demands Georgia election officials turn over
“all used a…

DOJ sues Georgia county as Trump pushes debunked 2020 election fraud claims
President Donald Trump has increasingly pressured his administration to find widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, despite those claims having been debunked and dismissed in dozens of cases by the courts.

Trump says he wants a new owner for CNN as part of any sale of Warner Bros. Discovery: 'A very dishonest group of people' (Charles Gasparino/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/10/media/trump-says-he-wants-a-new-owner-for-cnn-as-part-of-any-sale-of-warner-bros-discovery/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p1#a251211p1

OpenAI launches GPT-5.2, its "best model yet," in Instant, Thinking, and Pro variants, with significant improvements in writing, coding, and reasoning (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-gpt-launch-gemini-code-red/

OpenAI Launches GPT-5.2 as It Navigates ‘Code Red’
The ChatGPT-maker is releasing its “best model yet” as it faces new pressures from Google and other AI competitors.

Puck: Disney offered YouTube the same rates as major distributors at least for ESPN, but YouTube wants to pay less; Disney is losing $30M/week without YouTube (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/11/11/youtube-tv-rate-report-disney-losses/

YouTube TV deal reportedly hung up on ESPN pricing as Disney loses $30 million a week
According to a new report, YouTube TV is seeking even better rates on Disney channels than other providers, while Disney is losing money.

As the Pentagon, particularly the Army, cozies up to Silicon Valley
four big tech executives with no military background, were directly commissioned to be lieutenant colonels, in the Army
-- and they will not recuse themselves from business dealings with the Department of Defense.
Earlier this month, the Army announced Detachment 201,
the name being a reference to HTTP code,
for the newly commissioned executives
from Palantir, Meta and OpenAI.
The ne…

Tech Executives Commissioned as Senior Army Officers Won't Recuse Themselves from DoD Business Dealings
The new formation is set to recruit tech executives to work on major Army challenges, but the service has not articulated exactly what those individuals would do -- instead focusing on recruiting talent and creating jobs around them.

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Wes Moore Won a Key White House Post Claiming He Was 'Touted as a Foremost Expert' ... (Andrew Kerr/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/wes-moore-won-a-key-white-house-post-claiming-he-was-touted-as-a-foremost-expert-on-radical-islam-and-was-studying-for-an-oxford-phd-but-his-thesis-is-missing-and-theres-no-evidence/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p52#a251211p52

Judges in Latin America are struggling to rule on cases of AI-generated images even as courts increasingly adopt AI tools to clear case backlogs (Juliana Bedoya/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/latin-america-judges-ai-crimes/

Courts don’t know what to do about AI crimes
AI-generated images and videos are stumping prosecutors in Latin America, even as courts embrace AI to tackle case backlogs.

Vanity Fair announces new hires, including Ta-Nehisi Coates as senior staff writer and Adrienne Green as executive editor, plus new contributing editors (Vanity Fair)
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/vanity-fair-annou…

'Vanity Fair' Announces New Hires
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Adrienne Green, José Criales-Unzueta, Marisa Meltzer, and more join the magazine

As reports emerged of a White House memorandum suggesting that furloughed federal workers might not receive back pay, Trump
– who ostentatiously posed as the champion of American workers during last year’s presidential election campaign
– was quick to twist the knife.
“I would say it depends on who we’re talking about,” he told reporters.
“There are some people that really don’t deserve to be taken care of, and we’ll take care of them in a different way.”
On Fri…

word_assoc: Edinburgh word associations
A network of word associations showing the count of such associations as collected from subjects, from the Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus (EAT). Each node represents a word, and a directed edge (i, j) denotes that word i was used as a stimulus to which word j was given as a response. Multiple edges are allowed.
This network has 23132 nodes and 312342 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted, Multigraph

Hyundai Data Breach Leaked 2.7 Million Social Security Numbers
https://www.jalopnik.com/2023359/hyundai-data-breach-leaked-millions-social-security-numbers/

Hyundai Data Breach Leaked 2.7 Million Social Security Numbers
We're looking at a data breach at Hyundai, as well as dealers' climbing new-car inventories and more.

Indian IT giant TCS cut 19,755 jobs in the quarter ended September 30, as strained US relations and a rapid shift to AI reshape India's $280B IT services sector (Harshita Swaminathan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Tata Consultancy Services Makes Steepest Ever Job Cuts
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. made its steepest-ever job cuts as strained ties with the US and a rapid shift toward artificial intelligence reshape the country’s $280 billion IT services sector.

Republicans have consistently used “just joking!”
as a shield to downplay and defend Trump’s indefensibly incendiary and bigoted rhetoric.
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-just-joking

He's never "just joking"
And Republicans know it, even as they play dumb.

Sources: Intel is in advanced talks to acquire AI chip startup SambaNova for about $1.6B including debt; the deal could come together as soon as next month (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-12/intel-nears…

Mike Flood, (R-NE), wasn’t received as expected by his Constituents on 10/4. Met with Boos & chants of “Tax the Rich” & “Vote Him Out”they’re not happy about Medicaid & SNAP cuts

JUST Wait ‘till they 👀 their ACA INCREASES!
Vote for ACA subsidies Mike & end the GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN
https://

Guardrails of Democracy (@demguardrails.bsky.social)
Mike Flood, (R-NE), wasn’t received as expected by his Constituents on 10/4. Met with Boos & chants of “Tax the Rich” & “Vote Him Out”they’re not happy about Medicaid & SNAP cuts JUST Wait ‘till they 👀 their ACA INCREASES! Vote for ACA subsidies Mike & end the GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

Menulog, acquired by Just Eat in 2015, plans to shut down in Australia on November 26, leaving Uber Eats and DoorDash as the country's main food delivery apps (Tegan Jones/SmartCompany)
https://www.smartcompany.com.au/hospitality/menulog-australia-closing/…

Menulog to shut down after 20 years, 120 jobs cut
Menulog will shut down in Australia after 20 years, cutting 120 jobs as Just Eat Takeaway retreats from the local food delivery market.

Sources: in recent months, Tencent aggressively hired AI researchers from ByteDance, including offering to double their salaries, and reorganized its AI team (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tencent-poaches-bytedance-…

Tencent Poaches ByteDance Researchers as China AI Race Heats Up
Throughout the past couple of years, as AI fever swept China’s technology sector, one giant—Tencent—seemed to mostly be sitting on the sidelines. The company, which owns the hugely popular WeChat app, didn’t seem enthusiastic to win a fierce race in the country to develop cutting-edge AI models, ...

Australians are abandoning travel to the US,
and boycotting World Cup matches there next year,
as the Trump administration flags new rules
that will soon require visitors to ❌hand over their social media history
when applying to enter the country.
In a notice published on Tuesday,
the US Customs and Border Protection agency (CBP)
said tourists to the US
from 42 countries including Australia would have to
🔥reveal all of their social media …

Betting exchange Matchbook plans to launch a prediction market platform in the UK in January 2026 as a "road test" before a planned US launch as early as March (Justina Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Matchbook to Launch UK Prediction Markets Ahead of US Entry
Matchbook, a sports betting exchange, is launching a prediction market platform in the UK as it prepares to compete with rivals Kalshi and Polymarket in the US.

Donald Trump on Wednesday further inserted himself into the drama around the sale of Warner Bros. Discovery,
saying he believes CNN
— one of several cable networks owned by WBD
— should be sold as part of any deal.
While the president doesn't have the power to unilaterally block a merger he doesn't like
— unless there are serious national security concerns pertaining to foreign investments
— his comments do have the ability to sway the decisions of…

Trump says CNN "should be sold" as part of WBD deal
The president said it was "imperative" that CNN gets a new owner in any transaction.

Search and browser startup Brave says it has passed $100M in annualized revenue in Q1, and had 100M MAUs as of September, up from 77M at the end of 2024 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/li

The Little-Known Search and Browser Startup Generating $100 Million in Annualized Revenue
Consumer-focused AI developers such as OpenAI and Perplexity are jockeying for a share of the browser market, now dominated by Google’s Chrome. But before they have a chance of dethroning Chrome, they first have to surpass Brave.Brave has been around for a decade and passed $100 million in ...

The Trump administration began what could be a contentious process
to rework the trade deal that governs North American business this week,
as it began hearings about the
U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement that Trump signed into law in 2020 during his first term.
Farmers, academics, trade groups and others assembled in a government building south of the National Mall on Wednesday
for the first of three days of hearings
to share their assessment of the deal.

Groups Express Anixety as Trump Threatens to Derail U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Pact
Hearings that began Wednesday in Washington reflected anxiety over the future of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade pact and whether the president could end up scrapping it.

Canada-based legaltech company Clio raised a $500M Series G at a $5B valuation, along with $350M in debt, and says it has completed its $1B vLex acquisition (Josh Scott/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/clio-secures-500-million-usd-series-g-as-it-comple…

Clio secures $500-million USD Series G as it completes vLex acquisition | BetaKit
BC legaltech firm nabs $5-billion valuation plus $350 million in debt to help close deal.

Trump orders Defense Dept. to issue military paychecks during shutdown

Trump said that the Pentagon would repurpose money to make payroll,
as military service members were poised to miss paychecks on Wednesday.
Most other government workers will not be paid.
https://www.…

Trump orders Defense Dept. to issue military paychecks during shutdown
Trump said that the Pentagon would repurpose money to make payroll, as military service members were poised to miss paychecks on Wednesday. Most other government workers will not be paid.

German chipmaker Infineon reports Q4 revenue up 1% YoY to €3.94B, vs. €3.91B est., a €231M net profit, and expects 2026 sales growth as AI demand keeps booming (Mauro Orru/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Google adds Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, aka Nano Banana, to Search's AI Mode and Google Lens, on Android in the US for those with an account opted into Search Lab (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/10/11/google-lens-ai-mode-nano-banana/

Nano Banana image editing comes to AI Mode and Google Lens
Nano Banana has been a hit in the Gemini app, and Google is now bringing image editing and generation to AI Mode, as well as Google Lens.

This week, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem staged a bizarre photo op in Portland that appeared designed to bolster Trump’s effort to deploy Oregon’s National Guard against ICE protesters in the city.
Noem stood on a rooftop observing protesters below, and MAGA influencers hailed it as a moment of extraordinary heroism against a powerful, implacable enemy.
“Noem just stared down violent Antifa rioters on the roof of a Portland ICE facility,” one wrote.
Alas, it turn…

How Right-Wing Influencers Are Shaping the Guard Fight in Portland
President Trump and his administration are amplifying the voices of pro-White House podcasters and streamers eager to ratify the president’s description of Oregon’s largest city as a “hellscape.”

Sources: China is considering a $28B to $70B incentives package, which will operate separately from the $50B Big Fund III, to support its chipmaking industry (John Liu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12…

New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that
Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data 💥in an abortion investigation,
contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and the Johnson County Sheriff that she was
“being searched for as a missing person,” and that“it was about her safety.” 
The new information shows that deputies had initiated a "death investigation" of a "non-viable fetus," logged evidence of a woman’…

Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.
New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and the Johnson County Sheriff that she was “being searched for as a missing person,” and that “it was about her safety.” The new information shows that deputies had initiated a "death investigation" of a "non-viable fetus," collected evidence of a woman’s self-managed abortion, and consulted…