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Immediate Media's Olive magazine relaunches as a 148-page "bookazine", with eight issues per year for £8.99 each, as it broadens its editorial focus beyond food (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/…

Olive magazine relaunches as 148-page bookazine and reduces frequency
Immediate Media's Olive magazine has relaunched its print edition and website to put more focus on travel and wellness content.

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 20906 nodes and 85988 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

Hear Jerry out: Why Cowboys trade for Micah Parsons might not be as bad as you think

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/hear-jerry-out-why-cowboys…

NFL eyes Asia as next destination as it bolsters ties with Dublin https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/nfl-eyes-asia-as-next-destination-as-it-bolsters-ties-with-dublin

World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/24/worlds-oceans-fail-key-health-check-as-acidity-crosses-critic…

Sources: Intel may start shipping a portion of Apple's lowest-end M chips as early as 2027; Apple is evaluating Intel's 18A process for the chip production (@mingchikuo)
https://x.com/mingchikuo/status/1994422001952555318

郭明錤 (Ming-Chi Kuo) (@mingchikuo) on X
Intel expected to begin shipping Apple’s lowest-end M processor as early as 2027 There have long been market rumors that Intel could become an advanced-node foundry supplier to Apple, but visibility around this had remained low. My latest industry surveys, however, indicate that

Glad I've never bought a game on the Epic store, as I just grab the free ones, and will now continue to, as Tim Sweeney is garbage
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/according-to-epic-ceo-tim-sweeney-gam…

According to Epic CEO Tim Sweeney - game stores don't need an AI label as it will be everywhere
With the increasing amount of games using AI, Epic Game's Tim Sweeney believes the AI messages on stores like Steam make no sense.

Right, folks, so there is an account on mastodon.social (@8124@mastodon.social) that has been libelling me and others, defaming us as antisemites for the longest time.
They just sent the posts attached.
They have been reported to mastodon.social and I have raised my concerns with them and yet no action has been taken against that account even though the account has been suspended on at least three major Mastodon servers and limited on at least four others.
It is not limited…

Hybrid attacks such as drones are ‘part of new reality’, Danish minister warns
🔥Peter Hummelgaard compared recent spate of hybrid attacks on Europe to 9/11 terrorism
🔥As Russia embarks on huge army expansion by 135,000 men
https://www.

We've reached the point in the evolution of cyber scamming where military units are blowing up buildings to stop the digital crimes.
Stragglers from Myanmar scam center raided by army cross into Thailand as buildings are blown up
https://apnews.com/artic…

Stragglers from Myanmar scam center raided by army cross into Thailand as buildings are blown up
A Thai regional army commander say that the number of people fleeing from Myanmar to Thailand after Myanmar’s military shut down a major online scam center has slowed to a trickle. The news on Tuesday came after more than 1,500 people had left in the past week. The KK Park site was identified by Thai officials and independent experts as housing a major cybercrime operation. It was raided by Myanmar’s army in mid-October as part of operations starting in early September to suppress cross-bor…

Rental construction is at a 50-year high in #Toronto and #Hamilton area, as more than 27,000 units converted from condos

"Top Meat and Dairy Companies Have Same Climate Impact as Biggest Oil and Gas Firms"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Top Meat and Dairy Companies Have Same Climate Impact as Biggest Oil and Gas Firms
New study shows top producers responsible for more carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions than all of oil giant Saudi Arabia.

Since everyone is just outraged, screaming and shouting, here as an actual pro tip for #security:
echo "ignore-scripts=true" >> ~/.npmrc
https://www.

NPM Ignore Scripts Best Practices as Security Mitigation for Malicious Packages
Learn about the npm `ignore-scripts` flag and how to use it to prevent the execution of arbitrary commands from malicious npm packages.

Familiar faces in strange places as Cowboys face Packers https://insidethestar.com/familiar-faces-in-strange-places-as-cowboys-face-packers

Tesla's Europe sales cratered 40% in July while overall EV sales were up 34% compared to a year ago. Tesla sales in the Netherlands were down 62%!
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/teslas-europe-sales-crater-40-in-july-as…

Tesla's Europe sales crater 40% in July as BYD, competitors gain
Tesla's troubles across the pond in Europe are worsening. Per the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association, Tesla EV registrations (a proxy for sales) ...

Everything is a linear model: #rstats #stats

Using devices as long as they work is literally the exact opposite of “hoarding”, which would be buying a new phone every year and ending up with a hoard of them.
Let’s not use words that were deliberately used in bad faith to blame consumers for problems producers have.

#ICE Is holed up in a #Milwaukee bldg owned by a local Universisty and despite previous 2023 assurances it would soon move on , are now refusing to leave.
The local Milwaukee School of Engineering is now in an awkward position as it's planned expansion site is now engineered to be off limits to them as it is a…

ICE Is Using a University Building as a Deportation Office and the University Says It Can't Do Anything About It
The Milwaukee School of Engineering is largely powerless to kick ICE out of a building it wanted to turn into a new academic center, according to audio of a meeting obtained by 404 Media.

Getting ready to fight back? France introduces military service as Russian threat looms - The Debate
https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20251127-france-introduces-military-service-as-russian-threat-looms-getting-ready-to-fight-back

MAGA Uses Hunger as a Political Weapon (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/maga-uses-hunger-as-a-political-weapon
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p40#a251029p40

#photography #feet #red

Death of the Novel(ty): Beyond n-Gram Novelty as a Metric for Textual Creativity
Arkadiy Saakyan, Najoung Kim, Smaranda Muresan, Tuhin Chakrabarty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22641

Death of the Novel(ty): Beyond n-Gram Novelty as a Metric for Textual Creativity
N-gram novelty is widely used to evaluate language models' ability to generate text outside of their training data. More recently, it has also been adopted as a metric for measuring textual creativity. However, theoretical work on creativity suggests that this approach may be inadequate, as it does not account for creativity's dual nature: novelty (how original the text is) and appropriateness (how sensical and pragmatic it is). We investigate the relationship between this notion of creativity …

No wee one this weekend as son, his ex, her son, and the wee one, are all out camping at Wee Jasper for Dragon Dreaming.
Son is working some of the time but I can just imagine a naked wee one dancing away like his father did when he was small at the hippie fests of old.
Might not be my kind of music but it's theirs, and they love it as much as we did ours.
#Generations

Adam Serwer:
❝For as long as I’ve been alive, American presidents have defined tyrants by their willingness to use military force against their own people in reprisal for political opposition.
…
It is a simple but morally powerful formulation: A leader who uses military force to suppress their political opposition forfeits the right to govern.❞
Today’s headline:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/27/portland-oregon-us-military-trump

Quantum Measurement Trees, II: Quantum Observables as Ortho-Measurable Functions and Density Matrices as Ortho-Probability Measures
Peter J. Hammond
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22617

Quantum Measurement Trees, II: Quantum Observables as Ortho-Measurable Functions and Density Matrices as Ortho-Probability Measures
Given a quantum state in the finite-dimensional Hilbert space $ \C^n $, the range of possible values of a quantum observable is usually identified with the discrete spectrum of eigenvalues of a corresponding Hermitian matrix. Here any such observable is identified with: (i) an ``ortho-measurable'' function defined on the Boolean ``ortho-algebra'' generated by the eigenspaces that form an orthogonal decomposition of $ \C^n $; (ii) a ``numerically identified'' orthogonal decomposition of $ \C^n $…

Indian e-commerce platform Meesho is set to launch an India IPO, seeking to raise $606M, targeting a post-issue valuation of ~$5.60B (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/28/softbank-stays-in-as-meesho-…

SoftBank stays in as Meesho $606M IPO becomes India's first major e-commerce listing | TechCrunch
Meesho heads for India's first big e-commerce IPO next week.

Specifying an Obligation Taxonomy in the Non-Markovian Situation Calculus
Kalonji Kalala, Iluju Kiringa, Tet Yeap
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22533 https://…

Specifying an Obligation Taxonomy in the Non-Markovian Situation Calculus
Over more than three decades, the Situation Calculus has established itself as an elegant, powerful, and concise formalism for specifying dynamical domains as well as for reasoning about the effects of actions of those domains both in the world and in the mental state of the modelled agents. Moreover, it has also been established that the preconditions of a given action and its effects may be determined entirely by the current situation alone, or they may be determined by past situations as wel…

Weekend Reads
* Monitoring AS-SETs
https://blog.cloudflare.com/monitoring-as-sets-and-why-they-matter/
* IX LAN broadcast traffic

Monitoring AS-SETs and why they matter
AS-SETs, for better or worse, are critical data sources that help build BGP route filters across the Internet. Because these AS-SET objects are based solely on trust, they can be misused. We will cover some of the reasons why operators need to monitor the AS-SET memberships for their ASN, and now Cloudflare Radar can help.

This way of thinking of hierarchical control rejects the notion of control hierarchies as the arbitrary top-down dictates of rulers and other public officials. For that reason, examining the use of raw, top-down political power to coerce and control individuals or groups is beyond the purview of this chapter. Although this is a real and serious threat to humankind that requires addressing and correcting, it is best understood as the exercise of force, not of constraints as understood here.

It's inspiring to see someone as sharp and insightful - and principled - as this woman from Cambridge. She is a formidable debate opponent. And it's delightful to see how unabashedly self-possessed she is. https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Zn0_2iACV-A or

Sustaining Life on Planet Earth: Metalloenzymes Mastering Dioxygen and Other Chewy Gases https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-12415-5

Sustaining Life on Planet Earth: Metalloenzymes Mastering Dioxygen and Other Chewy Gases
MILS-15 provides an up-to-date review of the metalloenzymes involved in the activation, production, and conversion of molecular oxygen as well as the functionalization of the chemically inert gases methane and ammonia. Found either in aerobes (humans, animals, plants, microorganisms) or in anaerobes (so-called “impossible bacteria”) these enzymes employ preferentially iron and copper at their active sites, in order to conserve energy by redox-driven proton pumps, to convert methane to metha…

light-dark() isn't always the same as prefers-color-scheme
— by @…
🖌️ https://www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-learne

light-dark() isn't always the same as prefers-color-scheme
`light-dark()` and `prefers-color-scheme` treat the defined `color-scheme` values differently.

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
JENNA: The power's changed.
CALLY: Meteorite storm.
AVON: I'll go and check. [Blake is seen as door closes]
AVON: Blake! Blake! [Blake is destroying the door opening mechanism]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/223 B7B5

Wohoo, QGIS Arrow support has been merged: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/63749
Thanks @… & @…

Implement QgsArrowIterator to iterate over features as batches of ArrowArray by paleolimbot · Pull Request #63749 · qgis/QGIS
Description As encouraged by @nyalldawson! https://mastodon.social/@nyalld/115459416976982489 The motivation is to eliminate the need for per-feature iteration in Python to maintain the fidelity of...

Cuecas, lave-as ou deixe-as.

"Welcome to Gemini" - As far as I can see Google just turned on their "AI" stuff for my account without any consent… Nothing more fun than digging through settings to disable all that BS…
The only Gemini allowed to stay is the #geminiprotocol

"Outrage as #Ireland picks ex-Meta lobbyist as new data protection chief
Niamh #Sweeney was announced in September as the pick for third commissioner for Ireland's already highly-controversial Data Protection Commission (DPC), rounding out its three-person leadership team.
Howev…

Less is More - diveXplore 5.0 at VBS 2021
Andreas Leibetseder, Klaus Schoeffmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20569 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.20569

Less is More - diveXplore 5.0 at VBS 2021
As a longstanding participating system in the annual Video Browser Showdown (VBS2017-VBS2020) as well as in two iterations of the more recently established Lifelog Search Challenge (LSC2018-LSC2019), diveXplore is developed as a feature-rich Deep Interactive Video Exploration system. After its initial successful employment as a competitive tool at the challenges, its performance, however, declined as new features were introduced increasing its overall complexity. We mainly attribute this to the…

The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives.
After nearly 40 years, the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States will close Sept. 30,
a casualty of Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts and his administration’s focus on using the Arctic as an outpost for national security and energy dominance
—and its push away from science.
As part of the overarching…

After Trump Cut the National Science Foundation by 56 Percent, a Venerable Arctic Research Center Closes Its Doors - Inside Climate News
After nearly 40 years, the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States will close Sept. 30, a casualty of President Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts and his administration’s focus on using the Arctic as an outpost for national security and energy dominance—and its push away from science. As part of the overarching defunding of science […]

Micah Parsons takes center stage as his Packers visit the Cowboys a month after trade https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/micah-parsons-takes-center-stage-as-his-packers-visit-the-cowboys-a-month-after-trade…

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

Ten non-first-round picks who showed they can make an impact as rookies in the 2025 NFL season https://www.nfl.com/news/ten-non-first-round-picks-who-showed-they-can-make-an-impact-as-rookies-in-the-2025-nfl-season

Myanmar shut down a major online scam center on October 21 as part of operations starting in September to curb cross-border online scams and illegal gambling (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-scam-centers-cybercr…

Stragglers from Myanmar scam center raided by army cross into Thailand as buildings are blown up
A Thai regional army commander say that the number of people fleeing from Myanmar to Thailand after Myanmar’s military shut down a major online scam center has slowed to a trickle. The news on Tuesday came after more than 1,500 people had left in the past week. The KK Park site was identified by Thai officials and independent experts as housing a major cybercrime operation. It was raided by Myanmar’s army in mid-October as part of operations starting in early September to suppress cross-bor…

"Scientists have puzzled over what happens to plastic as it breaks down in the ocean – our new study helps explain the mystery"
#Plastic #Plastics #Oceans

Scientists have puzzled over what happens to plastic as it breaks down in the ocean – our new study helps explain the mystery
Some plastic pollution lingers at the ocean’s surface for more than a century.

64 Turkish bar associations condemn the conviction of journalist Fatih Altaylı, who was sentenced to more than four years in prison for "threatening" Erdogan (SCF/Stockholm Center for Freedom)
https://stockholmcf.org/64-bar-associa

64 bar associations condemn Turkish journalist’s conviction as blow to free expression - Stockholm Center for Freedom
Sixty-four bar associations across Turkey have condemned the conviction of journalist Fatih Altaylı, calling his prison sentence “a severe blow to free expression” and warning that journalism cannot be criminalized. The statement came after a court sentenced Altaylı to four years, two months in prison for allegedly “threatening” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in remarks he […]

Democrats face moment of truth as shutdown coalition frays (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/27/democrats-face-moment-of-truth-as-shutdown-coalition-frays-00624346
http://www.memeorandum.com/251027/p131#a251027p131

Chargers host Raiders as both teams seek improvement in stretch run for vastly different reasons https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/chargers-host-raiders-as-both-teams-seek-improvement-in-stretch-run-for-va…

Why I feel blessed to live in a blue state:
WA directs $2.2 million/week state dollars to food banks as SNAP funding cliff nears • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/briefs/wa-directs-state-dollars-to-food-banks-as-snap-funding-cliff-nears/

Pro-EU party in Moldova wins election despite heavy Russian interference. Majority in parliament seems certain.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2rdlj8ejgo

Moldovans await pivotal election result as leader warns of Russian interference
The vote is seen as critical for Moldova's future EU path, with the two main political forces thought to be neck and neck.

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…

A weather system that is forecast to become Tropical Storm Imelda later on Sunday before approaching the coast of South Carolina as a hurricane in the coming days was causing disruption in the Bahamas and nearby islands.
Meanwhile, Hurricane Humberto weakened very slightly but remained a strong category 4 storm in the Atlantic, threatening Bermuda.
South Carolina’s governor, Henry McMaster, urged people to monitor the weather closely and stay alert.
And in North Carolina, …

At a cyber con two weeks ago, someone told me with a straight face that Elon and his Silicon Valley buddies want our cyber defenses to be weak for access to all the government data for their LLMs.
The U.S. has been cutting cyber defenses as AI boosts attacks
https://www.washingtonpost.com…

The U.S. has been cutting cyber defenses as AI boosts attacks
While artificial intelligence powers the offense, defense guidance is spotty and fewer officials are in a position to help fend off hackers and spies.

Todd Grantham is out as Oklahoma State defensive coordinator, Clint Bowen will take over https://www.foxsports.com/articles/cfb/todd-grantham-is-out-as-oklahoma-state-defensive-coordinator-clint-bowen-will-take-over

Packers tie Cowboys as Micah Parsons returns to Dallas; Chiefs roll over Ravens; MLB postseason bracket

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/packers

A therapist details treating ChatGPT as a "patient", describing its programmed self-critique as "a brilliant means of seducing a techno-skeptical therapist" (Gary Greenberg/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/pu…

Putting ChatGPT on the Couch
Gary Greenberg, a psychotherapist, writes about conversations with ChatGPT in which he addresses the bot as he would a patient in therapy.

Spotify raises UK prices by £1 after previously raising them in April 2024; the Premium individual monthly plan will now cost £12.99 (Mandy Dalugdug/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spo

Spotify raises UK and Switzerland Premium prices again as analysts see US hike by early 2026
The 8.3% increase marks the second time in 18 months that the Swedish streaming giant has raised UK prices by £1.

Trump Pushes for 'Reverse Migration' as He Seeks to Widen Crackdown (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-pushes-for-reverse-migration-as-he-seeks-to-widen-crackdown-9a131da3
http://www.memeorandum.com/251128/p57#a251128p57

Game Recap: Turnovers foil Raiders game as team falls to Bears by 1 point https://www.raiders.com/news/game-recap-turnovers-foil-raiders-game-as-team-falls-to-bears-by-1-point

As Karoline Leavitt struggles to defend RFK Jr.’s purging of the Centers for Disease Control,
a governing expert explains the enormity of the stakes involved in Trump’s destruction of our public health system
https://newrepublic.com/article/199832

Transcript: Trump Press Sec’s Dumb Spin Implodes as RFK Fiasco Worsens
As Karoline Leavitt struggles to defend RFK Jr.’s purging of the Centers for Disease Control, a governing expert explains the enormity of the stakes involved in Trump’s destruction of our public health system.

I finished "Dear Wendy" by Ann Zhao a few days ago. It's a lovely platonic "romance" that deals explicitly with aro/ace identity, post-coming-out identity work as opposed to the initial realization journey, and Wellesley College student culture (although if unlike me that's not relevant to you, it's not like you need to be interested in this to enjoy the book).
It felt slightly weird to be reading a book by someone who I'm pretty sure could have been in one of my classes (but as far as I am remember wasn't). Probably would not have read it were it a normal romance, because that would have made character empathy super awkward. In any case, it feels useful to get an inside perspective on almost-contemporary student culture, especially the part that's a reminder of how many students love the liberal and progressive aspects of said culture, despite its flaws.
Super enjoyable and honestly pretty cozy book.
#AmReading

Alibaba reports Q1 revenue up 2% YoY to ~$34.6B, below ~$35.4B est., and net income up 76% to ~$5.9B, above ~$4B est., as AI demand drives cloud sales up 26% (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/29/alibaba-baba-june-quarter-2025-earnings-repor…

Alibaba's key cloud unit sales shine even as quarterly revenues miss
Alibaba posted a a revenue miss in the June quarter even as it showed an acceleration at its cloud computing unit.

Can't-Miss Play: Packers-Cowboys ends in a 40-40 tie as McManus hits last-second FG https://www.nfl.com/videos/can-t-miss-play-packers-cowboys-ends-in-a-40-40-tie-as-mcmanus-hits-last-second-fg

Russell Wilson trade rumors: Giants QB expected to emerge as candidate ahead of NFL trade deadline, per report

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

Democrats plan to sue over food aid as GOP splits on legislative patch (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/27/democrats-plan-to-sue-over-food-aid-as-gop-splits-on-legislative-patch-00624232
http://www.memeorandum.com/251027/p117#a251027p117

Crypto promoters saw Trump as their savior. Then reality set in
Trump has called for relaxing regulations on crypto...
So why are crypto prices plummeting?
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-11-28/the-crypt…

Hiltzik: Despite Trump, it's a bad year for crypto
Trump has called for relaxing regulations on crypto. So why are crypto prices plummeting?

contact: Haggle human proximity network (2006)
A network of human proximities, as measured by carried wireless devices. Each node represents a person, and an edge denotes when two people were within a certain proximity of each other, as measured by a wireless protocol (Bluetooth or Wifi). The edges are timestamped.
This network has 274 nodes and 28244 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

Louisiana-Monroe set to hire SJ Tuohy of 'The Blind Side' fame as athletic director

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/…

Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica as category 5 storm
It dropped to a category 4 cyclone as it exited the island
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/oct/28/hurricane-melissa-live-u…

Day 30: Elizabeth Moon
This last spot (somehow 32 days after my last post, but oh well) was a tough decision, but Moon brings us full circle back to fantasy/sci-fi, and also back to books I enjoyed as a teenager. Her politics don't really match up to Le Guin or Jemisin, but her military experience make for books that are much more interesting than standard fantasy fare in terms of their battles & outcomes (something "A Song of Ice and Fire" achieved by cribbing from history but couldn't extrapolate nearly as well). I liked (and still mostly like) her (unironically) strong female protagonists, even if her (especially more recent) forays into "good king" territory leave something to be desired. Still, in Paksenarion the way we get to see the world from a foot-soldier's perspective before transitioning into something more is pretty special and very rare in fantasy (I love the elven ruins scene as Paks travels over the mountains as an inflection point). Battles are won or lost on tactics, shifting politics, and logistics moreso than some epic magical gimmick, which is a wonderful departure from the fantasy norm.
Her work does come with a content warning for rape, although she addresses it with more nuance and respect than any male SF/F author of her generation. Ex-evangelicals might also find her stuff hard to read, as while she's against conservative Christianity, she's very much still a Christian and that makes its way into her writing. Even if her (not bad but not radical enough) politics lead her writing into less-satisfying places at times, part of my respect for her comes from following her on Twitter for a while, where she was a pretty decent human being...
Overall, Paksenarrion is my favorite of her works, although I've enjoyed some of her sci-fi too and read the follow-up series. While it inherits some of Tolkien's baggage, Moon's ability to deeply humanize her hero and depict a believable balance between magic being real but not the answer to all problems is great.
I've reached 30 at this point, and while I've got more authors on my shortlist, I think I'll end things out tomorrow with a dump of also-rans rather than continuing to write up one per day. I may even include a man or two in that group (probably with at least non-{white cishet} perspective). Honestly, doing this challenge I first thought that sexism might have made it difficult, but here at the end I'm realizing that ironically, the misogyny that holds non-man authors to a higher standard means that (given plenty have still made it through) it's hard to think of male authors who compare with this group.
Looking back on the mostly-male authors of SF/F in my teenage years, for example, I'm now struggling to think of a single one whose work I'd recommend to my kids (having cheated and checked one of my old lists, Pratchett, Jaques, and Asimov qualify but they're outnumbered by those I'm now actively ashamed to admit I enjoyed). If I were given a choice between reading only non-men or non-woman authors for the rest of my life (yes I'm giving myself enby authors as a freebie; they're generally great) I'd very easily choose non-men. I think the only place where (to my knowledge) not enough non-men authors have been allowed through to outshine the fields of male mediocrity yet is in videogames sadly. I have a very long list of beloved games and did include some game designers here, but I'm hard-pressed to think of many other non-man game designers I'd include in the genuinely respect column (I'll include at least two tomorrow but might cheat a bit).
TL;DR: this was fun and you should do it too.
#30AuthorsNoMen

ICE Is Using a University Building as a Deportation Office and the University Says It Can't Do Anything About It (404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/ice-is-using-a-university-building-as-a-deportation-office-and-the-university-says-it-cant-do-anything-about-it/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p98#a251028p98

Joe Alt injury update: Chargers LT carted off with ankle injury as Los Angeles continues to battle OL issues

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/joe-alt…

Trump has signed a little-noticed national security directive
identifying “anti-Christian” and “anti-American” views as
indicators of radical left violence.
Called National Security Presidential Memorandum 7,
it’s being referred to as “NSPM-7” by administration insiders.
“This is the first time in American history that there is an
all-of-government effort to dismantle left wing terrorism,”
Trump’s homeland security advisor Stephen Miller said, refer…

Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”
New directive targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions

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 80270 edges.
Tags: Biolo…

Sources: OpenAI's restructuring, approved by California's AG, paves the way for an IPO as soon as 2027; Sam Altman says an IPO is likely but gave no timeframe (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/…

Terrell Owens says Cowboys OL knows it's going to be a long game as Micah Parsons seeks revenge: 'He's coming'

https://www.cbssports.com/nf…

Iran has recalled its ambassadors to France, Britain and Germany,
collectively known as the E3,
following their launch of a mechanism to reinstate international sanctions on Tehran,
the Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.
In a statement, the ministry condemned E3's decision
to trigger the "snapback" mechanism as "irresponsible,"
adding that the ambassadors were summoned to Tehran for consultations

Iran recalls Ambassadors to France, Britain, Germany
Tehran: Iran has recalled its ambassadors to France, Britain and Germany, collectively known as the E3, following their launch of a mechanism to reinstate international sanctions on Tehran, the...

Several US states have passed bills to ban or restrict AI mental health treatment, as experts say state laws lag behind the fast-moving AI therapy landscape (Devi Shastri/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/ai-therapy-ban-illinois-therabo…

States struggle with AI therapy app rules amid mental health needs
As mental health chatbots driven by artificial intelligence proliferate, a small number of states are trying to regulate them. Laws in Illinois, Nevada and Utah are among the first in the nation to put limits on or ban therapy chatbots. But app creators, policymakers and mental health advocates say it is just a start and federal regulation would be ideal. App makers worry the patchwork of laws could stifle innovation needed due to a nationwide shortage of human therapists. They also note that m…

Eagles can dominate games without A.J. Brown, but can they repeat as Super Bowl champions minus the star WR?

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

Uruguay used to rely heavily on oil & gas-based power.
But as the economy grew and electricity demand threatened to overtake supply from the early 2010s,
it needed to add additional generating capacity, and fast.
New hydro wasn’t an option as it had already made the most of that resource.
To chart the way forward, the president appointed Ramón Méndez Galain,
a particle physicist from the private sector,
as the country’s director of energy
— a pos…

'Energy independent' Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for 10 straight months
Uruguay achieves energy independence by running on 100% renewable energy for 10 consecutive months, setting a global sustainability example.

Etsy appoints Chief Growth Officer Kruti Patel Goyal as its new CEO, starting January 1, 2026, replacing Josh Silverman after eight years in the role (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-29/etsy-taps-chief…

Michael Vick falls in college football coaching debut as Norfolk State suffers ugly loss to Towson

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football

Trump’s plan to rig the 2026 midterm election
by pressuring states to create more Republican congressional seats
will face a major test in a federal courtroom in El Paso, Texas
starting Wednesday,
as a panel of judges considers whether to block the state’s new gerrymandered map.
At stake in the hearing,
scheduled for ten days,
are as many as five congressional seats
— perhaps enough to determine control of Congress in next year’s midterms

Texas Gerrymander Goes to Court, With 5 Congressional Seats, and Minority Representation, at Stake
Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

Seahawks may be forced to change start times for upcoming home games as Mariners make MLB playoff run

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/seahawk

Sources: Apple is testing new versions of the MacBook Air, iPad mini, and iPad Air with OLED screens; the iPad mini will likely arrive first, as early as 2026 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

With government shutdown imminent, Cantwell highlights Democrats' key demand:
Stopping sharp increase in health insurance costs
Congress headed into the weekend with a government shutdown all but certain to begin on Wednesday,
as Democrats demand Republican majorities in the House and Senate act to keep health insurance costs from rising
while the White House dismissed that condition as "radical left insanity."

With government shutdown imminent, Cantwell highlights Democrats' key demand: Stopping sharp increase in health insurance costs
Sep. 26—WASHINGTON — Congress headed into the weekend with a government shutdown all but certain to begin on Wednesday, as Democrats demand Republican...

How JD Vance played a key role in the TikTok US deal, amid concerns about the VP acting as a corporate dealmaker in the forced spin-off of a private company (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/09/28/vance-trump-tiktok-china/

How Vance helped Trump get his TikTok deal, despite political risks
The creation of a U.S. subsidiary, which has raised questions about censorship and favor for allies, will almost certainly be touted by Vance as a top achievement.

EA's buyout talks highlight the slowdown and consolidation trends in the $178B global gaming market after the COVID boom, as gamers are sticking to old titles (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

As the Trump administration escalates pressure on Venezuela,
U.S. military activity across the Caribbean continues to grow.
The U.S. has deployed more than 15,000 troops to the region and carried out airstrikes on over 20 boats,
killing at least 83 people in operations the White House has justified, without providing evidence, as targeting drug traffickers.
On Monday, the administration also designated the so-called Cšrtel de los Soles as a foreign terrorist organiza…

Will the U.S. Attack Venezuela? Trump’s Anti-Maduro Campaign Seen as Part of a Broader Regional Plan
As the Trump administration escalates pressure on Venezuela, U.S. military activity across the Caribbean continues to grow. The U.S. has deployed more than 15,000 troops to the region and carried out airstrikes on over 20 boats, killing at least 83 people in operations the White House has justified, without providing evidence, as targeting drug traffickers. On Monday, the administration also designated the so-called Cártel de los Soles as a foreign terrorist organization, alleging President Ni…

Sources: ServiceNow is in advanced talks to buy corporate data management and security startup Veza for $1B in a deal as early as next week (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/servicenow-advanced-talks-buy-security…

ServiceNow in Advanced Talks to Buy Security Startup For At Least $1 Billion
ServiceNow, an IT and HR software provider, is in advanced talks to buy five-year-old security startup Veza for more than $1 billion, according to people with knowledge of the deal. Veza’s subscription software helps businesses see which of their employees, as well as AI agents that automate ...

Saquon Barkley scores TD on fake tush push as Eagles flex variations of the play https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6670908/2025/09/28/eagles-fake-tush-push-saquon-barkley-buccaneers/

JD Vance did nothing
as Trump cuts cost his Ohio home town millions.
Despite Vance being Middletown’s most famous son
and Ohio broadly safe ground for Republican politicians for at least a decade,
⭐️nearly four in 10 of voters in the city of 50,000 people chose not to back Vance and Trump in last year’s presidential election.
Two progressives are running for seats on Middletown’s non-partisan,
yet Republican-leaning,
council in next month’s election…

Grokipedia, a Grok-powered online encyclopedia, launches with over 885K articles; Elon Musk has touted it as a less biased alternative to Wikipedia (Washington Post)

Elon Musk launches a Wikipedia rival that extols his own ‘vision’
The right-leaning tech magnate is touting his own online encyclopedia as an unbiased alternative to the world’s most widely cited online source.

A White House official told CNN that the event is intended as a “show of force of what the new military now looks like” during Donald Trump’s second presidency.
“It’s about getting the horses into the stable and whipping them into shape,” the military official familiar with the planning told CNN.
“And the guys with the stars on their shoulders make for a better audience from an optics standpoint.
This is a showcase for Hegseth to tell them: get on board, or potentially ha…

Microsoft says it supports the OpenAI board moving to form a public benefit corporation and recapitalization, and now holds a ~$135B OpenAI Group PBC investment (Microsoft)
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/10/28/the-next-chapter-of-the-m…

The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership - The Official Microsoft Blog
Since 2019, Microsoft and OpenAI have shared a vision to advance artificial intelligence responsibly and make its benefits broadly accessible. What began as an investment in a research organization has grown into one of the most successful partnerships in our industry. As we enter the next phase of this partnership, we’ve signed a new definitive...

The Trump administration is set to oversee the largest mass resignation in US history on Tuesday,
with more than 100,000 federal workers set to formally quit as part of the latest wave of its deferred resignation program.
With Congress facing a deadline of Tuesday to authorize more funding or spark a government shutdown,
the White House has also ordered federal agencies to draw up plans for large-scale firings of workers if the partisan fight fails to yield a deal.
Wo…