Tootfinder

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…

Similarweb: generative AI platforms were averaging ~7B monthly web visits as of September 2025, up 76% YoY, rivaling the traffic of major social networks (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/chatbots-are-now-riva…

Chatbots are now rivaling social networks as a core layer of internet infrastructure
New data from Similarweb reveals massive spikes in traffic and app downloads, while the user base expands to include older generations.

Trump Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime https://jacobin.com/2025/10/trump-classifies-anti-capitalism-as-a-political-pre-crime/

Trump Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime
Donald Trump’s new security directive labels anti-capitalist beliefs as a predictor of political violence. The irony: left-wing structural analysis actually pushes people away from lone-wolf attacks and toward mass organizing for change.

Ukrainian lawmaker exposed as leading criminal group, anti-corruption agencies say: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/05/ukrainian-lawmaker-exposed-as-leading.html

“Pete Hegseth, much like the president he serves, sees himself as, essentially, above the law, as unconstrained by legal procedure.”
Foreign policy analyst Matt Duss discusses the brewing conflict within the Trump administration over the leadership of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,
including his involvement in a leaked announcement of U.S. strikes on Yemen in March
and the chain of command behind U.S. strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean.

Will Hegseth Go? Defense Secretary Faces Anger from Congress over Boat Strikes, Signal Chat
“Pete Hegseth, much like the president he serves, sees himself as, essentially, above the law, as unconstrained by legal procedure.” Foreign policy analyst Matt Duss discusses the brewing conflict within the Trump administration over the leadership of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, including his involvement in a leaked announcement of U.S. strikes on Yemen in March and the chain of command behind U.S. strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean. Legal experts say th…

Cardinals QB Jacoby Brissett to start vs. Seahawks as Kyler Murray (foot) continues to heal up https://www.nfl.com/news/cardinals-qb-jacoby-brissett-to-start-vs-seahawks-as-kyler-murray-foot-continues-to-heal-up

from my link log —
Germicidal ultraviolet could make airborne diseases as rare as those carried by water.
https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-to-clean-the-air
saved 2025-09-23

Seeing the light
Germicidal ultraviolet could make airborne disease as rare as those carried by water.

"Apple Watch and Mac Mini No Longer Advertised as 'Carbon Neutral'"
#Apple #Technology
https://www.

Apple Watch and Mac Mini No Longer Advertised as 'Carbon Neutral'
As spotted by the French blog WatchGeneration, the Apple Watch and Mac mini are no longer advertised as "carbon neutral" products on...

Sources: The Free Press hires Adam Rubenstein, who edited Sen. Tom Cotton's infamous "Send in the Troops" op-ed for the NYT in June 2020, as its deputy editor (Alexandra Steigrad/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/06/media/fr

Exclusive | The Free Press taps Adam Rubenstein — once ostracized at NY Times for liking Chick-fil-A — as new deputy editor: 'Proper Republican'
Sources expect Rubenstein will effectively run the Free Press now that Weiss will be busy steering the editorial direction of shows like “60 Minutes,” “Face The Nation” and …

come as you are as you were as i want you to be

Here's yet another step in the emasculation of Congress.
Here El Cheato is running a protection racket in which he imposes high tariffs but then offers relief to from those tariffs to companies that jump to a Cheato's tune-of-the-day, in this case, a reduction in certain drug prices under Medicare (presumably Part D?)
Congress should be setting these policies and doing so in a way available to all drug makers, not just certain ones favored by Cheato. But no, Congress jus…

Certain obesity drugs will cost as little as $149 and Medicare will start covering them under White House deals
Certain blockbuster obesity drugs will be available for as little as $149 per month and more Medicare enrollees will have access to them under two deals announced Thursday by the Trump administration.

Andrew Beck's first catch as a Jet goes for a TD vs. Cowboys https://www.nfl.com/videos/andrew-beck-s-first-catch-as-a-jet-goes-for-a-td-vs-cowboys

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves | WIRED #ICE

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

#HoldTheLine

Shutdown progress in doubt as Democrats grow emboldened from election wins
Elections this week that energized Democrats and angered President Donald Trump have cast a chill over efforts to end the record-breaking government shutdown, raising fresh doubts about the possibility of a breakthrough despite the punishing toll of federal closures on the country. Trump has increased pressure on Senate Republicans to end the shutdown — now at 37 days, the longest in U.S. history — calling it a “big factor, negative” in the poor GOP showings across the country. Democrat…

If #Greenland has grasped that who operates your critical infrastructure is important, why not Europe?
Excellent interesting post by @cryopolitics.com as ever.
#DigitalSovereignty
https://www.cryopolitics.com/2025/12/04/as-greenland-rejects-starlink-china-and-russia-tighten-military-ties/

Growing up, I considered becoming a medical illustrator due to its combination of scientific and artistic rigor. Neither is on display in this derivative AI image shared by a surgeon too lazy to find the real thing.
https://www.

"He [potus] spoke of a necessary confrontation with an “enemy from within” and proposed using our own cities as “training grounds” for troops. This rhetoric dangerously blurs the line between soldier and police officer, a distinction that has been a cornerstone of American liberty for over two centuries and is enshrined in federal law. It is a radical departure that treats dissent as insurgency and American communities as battlefields."

"An Enemy From Within": Trump's Plan to Turn the Military on American Citizens
Donald Trump called American cities "training grounds" for our troops. We need to take that threat seriously.

The USA has only a million elevators, about as many as Italy, and they cost four times as in Switzerland.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250827193631/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/opinion/elevato…

Opinion | Why Are Housing Costs So High? The Elevator Can Explain Why.
An illness led Stephen Smith to study why America has so few elevators. What he learned explains why housing costs are so high.

Jason Proctor is contributing to the CBC's live blog scroll from a legal perspective and as always, his stuff is illumniating. I'll paste his report in because it can get lost in the scroll easily.
"Creditors circle as cull looms
Jason Proctor
I'm Jason Proctor, a reporter with CBC Vancouver who looked into a series of lawsuits facing the owners of Universal Ostrich Farms Inc.
Last month, I spoke with three creditors who are watching today's ruling with great interest — and some skin in the game.
B.C. Supreme Court judges have ordered the farm's owners to repay debts worth more than $250,000 but, up until now, the creditors have been unable to collect. Normally in this kind of situation, a creditor would move to seize the business assets — but because in this case those assets are ostriches caught up in a legal battle, that's been challenging, to say the least.
All three creditors have tried to garnish the CFIA to intercept any money the agency might pay out as compensation for killing the birds (potentially up to $3,000 a bird, the CFIA says) but it remains to be seen how that will work. The creditors, however, told me they are anxious to recoup their losses.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/livestory/bc-ostrich-farm-decision-scoc-9.6968394?ts=1762453717737

Jonathan Taylor runs for 3 touchdowns and Daniel Jones throws for 2 as Colts rout Raiders 40-6 https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/jonathan-taylor-runs-for-3-touchdowns-and-daniel-jones-throws-for-2-as-colts-ro…

Accessibility is not a popularity contest and open surveys aren’t research.
https://fosstodon.org/@matcha/115455586804252676
I can tell you that the survey results do not reflect my approach:

"For nearly 20 years, the [#SNP] has acted, in many respects, as a bulwark to the worst of Westminster – or so the story goes. Not good policy, just not as bad as Westminster. Just enough to hold power without disrupting the status quo.
When the SNP had the political capital to finally scrap the regressive Council Tax – something they had previously promised to do – they baulked. On LGBT ri…

Exciting news, friends: I’ll be joining an amazing lineup this week as MC for the Mozilla Festival in Barcelona! If you’ll be there in person, please do say hi, and if not, join online as the schedule promises to be extraordinary. Get the details here: https://www.mozillafestival.org/en/

Mozilla Festival 2025 | Ethical AI, Open Source & Digital Rights in Barcelona
Join MozFest 2025 in Barcelona, Nov 7–9 — the global AI policy summit, digital rights event & open source festival for a healthier internet.

As His Popularity Tanks, Donald Trump Turns to Power - WhoWhatWhy
https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/us-politics/as-his-popularity-tanks-donald-trump-turns-to-power/

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…

🔥 Die #Nordsee heizt sich doppelt so schnell auf wie vor 2013.
Marine #Hitzewellen nehmen stark zu. Seit 1982 stieg die #Wassertemperatur um 0,38 °C pro Jahrzehnt, Hitzewellen wurden …

Amplified warming and marine heatwaves in the North Sea under a warming climate and their impacts
Abstract. The northeast Atlantic and adjacent regions, such as the North Sea, are among the fastest-warming areas in the world. However, the role of climate change and internal variability in marine heatwaves (MHWs) in this region remains poorly understood. This study aims to quantify the relevant changes in sea surface temperature (SST) and MHWs in the North Sea, as well as to identify the leading patterns of interannual MHW variability over more than 4 decades (1982–2024). Our results indi…

Chinese Hospital Ship Visits Jamaica as US Gunboats Ply Caribbean (Jim Wyss/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-05/chinese-hospital-ship-visits-jamaica-as-us-gunboats-ply-caribbean
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p94#a251205p94

Topic Modeling as Long-Form Generation: Can Long-Context LLMs revolutionize NTM via Zero-Shot Prompting?
Xuan Xu, Haolun Li, Zhongliang Yang, Beilin Chu, Jia Song, Moxuan Xu, Linna Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03174

Topic Modeling as Long-Form Generation: Can Long-Context LLMs revolutionize NTM via Zero-Shot Prompting?
Traditional topic models such as neural topic models rely on inference and generation networks to learn latent topic distributions. This paper explores a new paradigm for topic modeling in the era of large language models, framing TM as a long-form generation task whose definition is updated in this paradigm. We propose a simple but practical approach to implement LLM-based topic model tasks out of the box (sample a data subset, generate topics and representative text with our prompt, text assi…

https://socket.dev/blog/gem-cooperative-emerges-as-a-community-run-alternative-to-rubygems-org

“The gates of hell are now opening” – who said it best, Satan or the Israeli defense minister?
To the morally-vacuous West: these are the monsters you call your friends and allies. Hang your heads in shame, you decaying husks of humanity. This is your genocide every bit as much as Israel’s. And it will haunt you forever.
https://www.

Filmempfehlung für alle, die Auto fahren.
#auto #unfall
https://www.morethanacyclist.org/home/blin…

Our New Film - Blind SPOT — MORE THAN A CYCLIST
We are proud to launch our second film, in conjunction with Will Pope; Blind Spot. Credits Written and Directed by Will Pope Produced by Allegra Venturi Featuring Gabriel Fogarty Graveson as Jake Lucia Bonbright as Sarah Patrick O'Halloran as Michael Mike Kelson as Officer Reid

Lemurs are being eaten as an urban delicacy in Madagascar https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/lemurs-are-being-eaten-as-an-urban-delicacy-in-madagascar/

Lemurs are being eaten as an urban delicacy in Madagascar
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In Madagascar’s cities, a quiet but lucrative market is reshaping the future of one of the world’s most imperiled groups of animals. Lemurs—already the most threatened mammals on the planet—are being sold as a kind of urban delicacy, […]

I liked the Fox Bay and still mourn it's passing but it's nice to see something opening in that space. I'll be checking it out.
"The venue's first public event on Dec. 5 will feature local artists Chris Haise Band and Zach Pietrini, as well as Nashville-based alt-pop trio VEAUX. This event also serves as a fundraiser, with profits given back to local Milwaukee music programs, according to a Nov. 5 news release announcing the opening."
#WhitefishBay #Milwaukee #TheArgo

Who could have predicted that having a masked domestic-military force which routinely refuses to identify itself, would have downsides.
https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-warns-of-criminals-posing-as-ice-urges-agents-to-id-themselves/

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

"What has not changed in 50 years is the fact we are still using centralized architectures, prone to government intrusion and privacy leaks. Maybe it is time to think about a “Post Cloud” era where information is distributed instead of centralized. Of course this raises questions of trust, cryptography, security and collaboration, but the technology to build such systems already exists. It is more of a question of policy and education than of technology."

Somebody Else's Computer As A Service
On November 12, 1990, a 35 year-old Bill Gates introduced his "Information at your Fingertips" concept during his keynote at COMDEX. The PC, he said, would become "more personal," integrating "fax, voice and electronic mail," and providing "easy access to a broad range of information." More or less at the same time, Tim Berners-Lee was giving the final touches to the first web browser and web server software ever put in production. Bill Gates was right; as any Internet user can easily confirm 3…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/06/as-censure-increases-over-war-in-gaza-israel-finds-support-among-pacific-islands
LOL

Greens ‘on track’ to supplant Labour as favourite party in London
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/04/greens-on-track-to-supplant-labour-as-favourite-party-in-london-says-zack-polanski

I expect this thread to piss off absolutely •everyone•. Whatever.
It’s essential in these times of horror to see as clearly as we can, and aim true with our criticism.
/end

@… yeah! I think Letterboxd has replaced a lot of this for me, but you can see I went just about as far with my Letterboxd list as I did with that blog https://letterboxd.com…

Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
VILA: So this all your fault.
AVON: How do you arrive at that conclusion?
VILA: I'd still be on the ship if it wasn't for you.
BLAKE: Shut up. We must conserve the air for as long as possible.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/606 B7B2…

Ukraine is cautiously optimistic as Trump's son-in-law enters peace talks — here's why: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/05/ukraine-is-cautiously-optimistic-as.html

Ukrainian drone strikes have cut Russia’s oil-refining volume by as much as one-fifth,
posing a challenge to Russia’s federal budget,
which relies on oil and gas revenue for as much as half of its spending
The military campaign aligns with diplomatic pressure from Donald Trump,
who has focused on pressuring countries to reduce their purchases of Russian energy.
However, the payload of these drones is significantly less than the Tomahawk cruise missile,
whi…

Why the White House Is Considering Tomahawks for Ukraine
The move makes sense for U.S. strategy, but it may cause heartburn for isolationist and Pacific-focused Pentagon leaders.

Scorability, a college sports recruiting marketplace for athletes and coaches, raised $40M led by Bluestone Equity Partners, bringing its total funding to $51M (Jessica Golden/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/30/scorability…

Startup Scorability wants to revolutionize college sports recruiting as NIL takes off
Scorability now boasts 1.2 million athletes and 3,000 college sports program users.

Former All-Pro LB Quincy Williams says he's been benched as Jets' shakeup continues https://www.nfl.com/news/former-all-pro-lb-quincy-williams-says-he-s-been-benched-as-jets-shakeup-continues

Sources: Forbes has cut ties with dozens of contributing writers; one exec said Forbes needs to ensure the contributor model is "financially sound" (Alexandra Steigrad/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/05/me…

Exclusive | Forbes abruptly fires dozens of contributing writers — as bosses move to ensure news site is 'financially sound'
Dozens of the 108-year-old financial news site’s “contributing writers” – from finance and media to lifestyle, sports and food – were informed late Monday that their contracts wer…

Poland deploys air defences as Russia launches new strikes on Ukraine | Russia-Ukraine war News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/5/poland-deploys-air-defences-as-russia-launches-new-strikes-on-ukraine?traffic_source=rss

Democrat Spanberger Wins Governor Race As Virginians Reproach Trump (Jim Saksa/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/democrat-spanberger-wins-governor-race-as-virginians-reproach-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p155#a251104p155

Geno Smith's early-season struggles continue as Raiders are blown out by Colts https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/geno-smiths-earlyseason-struggles-continue-as-raiders-are-blown-out-by-colts

"Bamboo tissue paper may not be as eco-friendly as you think"
#Bamboo #Tissues #Environment

Bamboo tissue paper may not be as eco-friendly as you think
In recent years, Chinese tissue paper made from bamboo has emerged as a trendy choice for eco-friendly shoppers. However, new research suggests these bamboo paper products may not offer significant climate benefits over tissue produced in the United States and, in some cases, may be more detrimental to the environment.

Data shows WLFI's sharp drop was driven by shorting and dumping across exchanges, not Justin Sun's token movements; WLFI blames phishing-related compromises (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/09/0

WLFI News: If They Can Do it to Sun, Who's Next?' Say Insiders as WLFI Claims Freeze Was to 'Protect Users'
Onchain data shows WLFI’s sharp drop was driven by shorting and dumping across exchanges – not Justin Sun's token movements – while the project says wallet freezes targeted phishing-related compromises, not market participants.

I grew up in a large city in a western democracy, with a socialist city government and it was fine.
There was basically no crime. People didn’t go hungry. Housing was affordable. Rent was regulated. Public transport was amazing. Education was free. Everyone had healthcare. Taxes were practically the same as in the US.
It was also much, much easier to start a business there than in the US. (Literally took an hour!)
People who wanted to get rich still could do it (there’s a few Austrian billionaires even).
I don’t understand how Americans got themselves so brainwashed that “socialism” is used as a term that sort of means “iworse than death”.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ja'Marr Chase likens Joe Burrow to Captain America as Bengals enter critical Bills game as underdogs https://www.nfl.com/news/jamarr-chase-compares-joe-burrow-captain-america-underdog-bengals

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

The stereotype for this kind of self-narrowing is math/tech people avoiding humanities. That certainly happens, but I see it at least as often in the other direction: people avoiding anything that smells like STEM, telling themselves they can’t, building a whole identity around it. It comes out as this weird kind of shame/pride mix — “I’m not a math person” etc — which tends to hide some kind of earlier trauma: bad teacher, bad curriculum, gender role policing, who knows.

Orwell wrote
Nineteen Eighty-Four
not as a prophecy
but as an extrapolation and a warning.
As he explained:
“I do not believe that the kind of society I describe necessarily will arrive.
But I believe, allowing, of course, for the fact that the book is a satire,
that something resembling it could arrive.”

1984 revisited: George Orwell would be relieved at how we’ve done
It’s common to suggest the great dystopian novel was full of warnings that have largely come true. But the evidence shows otherwise

from my link log —
How Google Chrome V8 made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast.
https://v8.dev/blog/json-stringify
saved 2025-08-04 https://

Czech Republic plans to abandon Ukraine after delivering 850,000 shells as Russian intimidation fractures EU unity - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/05/czech-republic-plans-to-abandon-ukraine-after-delivering-850000-shells-as-russian-intimidation-fractures-eu-unity/

Bessent Picks Social Security Chief Frank Bisignano as IRS CEO (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/bessent-picks-social-security-chief-frank-bisignano-as-irs-ceo-b6973798
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p41#a251006p41

petster: Pet owner social networks (2016)
A network of friendships among users on catster.com and dogster.com. Node represents a user, and edge exists if two users self-identify as friends on either website. The dogster/catster network also contains family links between dog and dog, cat and cat, as well as dog and cat.
This network has 623766 nodes and 15699276 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

As mysterious drone sightings increase, this is what Russia has to gain from them: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/04/as-mysterious-drone-sightings-increase.html

'As gritty as they come:' How Ashton Dulin's mindset and preparation paid off for Colts in win over Raiders https://www.colts.com/news/ashton-dulin-mindset-toughness-preparation-week-5-raiders-colts-win-special-teams-…

John Harbaugh: staff changes not 'the answer' as DC Zach Orr draws scrutiny amid Ravens 1-4 start

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/john-ha

Shares of Pony.ai and WeRide fell as much as 15% in their Hong Kong trading debut; Pony.ai raised ~$863M in the secondary offering and WeRide raised ~$309M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-06/pony-wer…

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…

What Parents Need To Know About Measles As Kids Head Back To School (Judy Stone/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2025/09/06/what-parents-need-to-know-about-measles-as-kids-head-back-to-school/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250906/p29#a250906p29

Pokrovsk in Russia's grip as sister city stares down encirclement: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/03/pokrovsk-in-russias-grip-as.html

Zohran Mamdani’s election was not as surprising as his primary win in June,
and since then, Republicans have had time to adjust to the idea of a young, charismatic idol espousing a new and exciting message for the Democratic Party
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/20

MAGA’s Reaction to Mamdani’s Win is a Dark Sign of What’s to Come
Powerful Republicans are turning to old forms of bigotry.

Eagles passed and failed in Week 5 loss to Broncos, as running game ground to a halt by design

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

How the Raiders Plan to Handle Their WR1 Position https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/as-vegas-plan-handle-wide-receiver-position

Jake Tapper Misidentifies D.C. Pipe Bomb Suspect as a '30-Year-Old White Man' (Paul Bois/Breitbart)
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2025/12/04/jake-tapper-misidentifies-d-c-pipe-bomb-suspect-brian-cole-as-a-30-year-old-white-man/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p1#a251205p1

Sources: Dell alerts customers to 15-20% price hikes as soon as mid-December amid surging DRAM costs; Lenovo says current quotes will expire in January 2026 (TrendForce)
https://www.trendforce.com/news/2025/12/05

[Exclusive] Memory Crunch Hits PCs: Dell Hikes Prices 15-20% Mid-December, Lenovo from January 2026
Soaring AI-server memory demand is driving DRAM prices sharply higher—and now PC and notebook makers are feeling the squeeze. Industry sources reveale...

Steelers build on lead in AFC North on Sunday despite not playing as Bengals, Browns and Ravens stumble

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

Ukrainian strikes on Russian military as well as oil and gas facilities #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/05/ukrainian-strikes-on-russian-military.html

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…

The world continues to dawdle politically in its response to the climate crisis
but clean energy is booming,
-- responsible for almost all new energy capacity and drawing double the investment of fossil fuels globally. The market has shifted.
Most starkly, though, Trump has become the planet’s foremost advocate of fossil fuels,
throwing the might of the US presidency into a rearguard battle to keep the world mired in the era of combusted carbon.
There is now no …

Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide (Sarah Betancourt/GBH)
https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2025-12-05/immigrants-kept-from-faneuil-hall-citizenship-ceremony-as-feds-crackdown-nationwide
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p126#a251205p126

Why All Sides Won in the Raiders' Jakobi Meyers Trade https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/as-vegas-all-sides-jakobi-meyers-trade

Shares of Asian AI-linked companies fall, tracking declines in US peers, as investors worry about stretched valuations; SoftBank falls 9% , Advantest 7% (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/05/softbank-ai-stocks-slide-on-valuation-jitters-.ht…

SoftBank shares plunge 10% as Asian AI-linked stocks slide on valuation jitters
The AI-led rally has pushed the S&P 500's forward P/E above 23—its highest since 2000, according to FactSet.

Ukraine eyes Modi–Putin talks as test of Russia’s oil lifeline: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/04/ukraine-eyes-modiputin-talks-as.html

FAA to throttle back flights in parts of the US as shutdown worsens air traffic controller shortages (Sam Ogozalek/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/05/faa-to-throttle-back-flights-in-parts-of-the-us-as-shutdown-worsens-air-traffic-controller-shortages-00638346
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p132#a251105p132

French Prime Minister
Sébastien Lecornu has spoken to reporters,
about an hour after announcing his resignation.
“I was ready to compromise,
but each political party wanted the other political party to adopt its entire program,”
he said from the courtyard of Matignon Palace, the prime minister’s headquarters

Bitcoin dropped below $100K for the first time since June on Tuesday; ETH also fell as much as 15% on Tuesday, and many altcoins are down 50% this year (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-04/bitc…

Bitcoin (BTC) Falls Below $100,000 With Risk Appetite Muted After Wipeout
Bitcoin has wiped out its summer rally, giving back gains made during Wall Street’s euphoric embrace and a surge in institutional buying.

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

G7 convenes emergency meeting as Russia intensifies strikes on Ukraine’s energy grid: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/04/g-convenes-emergency-meeting-as.html

Pinterest shares dropped 20% on Wednesday after forecasting Q4 revenue below estimates as advertising took a hit from retailers dealing with tariffs (Jaures Yip/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/05/pinterest-stock-earnings-tariffs-ads.html

Pinterest plunges 20% after weak results as tariffs drag on ad revenue
Third-quarter sales in the U.S. and Canada came in at $786 million, missing analyst projections.

As the left grapples for its counter to the rightwing media ecosystem,
two blonde suburban moms
– who admit they look “Fox-coded” – offer one inroad.
Across all platforms, they have several million followers, including 1.3m on YouTube and nearly 1m on Instagram.
On the weekly Apple podcast charts in early October, they ranked as the second-most listened to among society and culture shows.
On YouTube’s charts, their news show, IHIP news, ranked 18th among podc…

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…

Sources: Meta plans deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-04/meta-s…

Barclays: hyperscalers have announced a total of 46 GW of AI data center capacity, which at full utilization will consume as much energy as ~44.2M US households (Robin Wigglesworth/Financial Times)
https://on.ft.com/4qCvVap

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 71604 edges.
Tags: Biolo…

Researchers find OpenAI's o1 can analyze languages like a human expert, including inferring the phonological rules of made-up languages without prior knowledge (Steve Nadis/Quanta Magazine)
https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-a-first-

In a First, AI Models Analyze Language As Well As a Human Expert | Quanta Magazine
If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

How ideology-driven AI chatbots like Grok and Gab's Arya position themselves as alternatives to mainstream chatbots accused of liberal bias (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/busines

Right-Wing Chatbots Turbocharge America’s Political and Cultural Wars
Once pitched as dispassionate tools to answer your questions, A.I. chatbots are now programmed to reflect the biases of their creators.

Motorola Edge 70 review: the new £699 ultra-thin device has a silicone back and great battery life, but the OS is full of ads; the phone won't launch in the US (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/813377/motorola-edge-70-review

Motorola’s Edge 70 is the blueprint for future thin phones
The Motorola Edge 70 is almost as thin as an iPhone Air, but still packs a 4,800mAh battery.

The Ninth Circuit affirms a temporary order blocking OpenAI from using "io" as a trademark in some instances while an infringement suit against it proceeds (Kyle Jahner/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-la

Ban Against OpenAI Using ‘io’ Trademark Backed by Ninth Circuit
The Ninth Circuit affirmed a temporary order blocking OpenAI Inc. from using “io” as a trademark in certain circumstances while an infringement suit against it proceeds.

Sources: Charles Schwab is expected to announce a deal to acquire Forge Global, a leading platform for trading stakes in private startups, for as much as $600M (Sujeet Indap/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ffa0dabd-7e87-4327-b788-73e8fb598de3

Thailand, aiming to become the second-largest PCB production hub, is witnessing a tech manufacturing boom as the PCB supply chain shifts from China and Taiwan (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/…

Thailand carves out a less-glamorous AI niche: printed circuit boards
Country aims to be biggest non-China PCB hub as makers race to diversify production

Source: Anthropic projects revenues of up to $70B in 2028, up from ~$5B in 2025, and expects to become cash flow positive as soon as 2027 (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-projects-70-billio…

Anthropic Projects $70 Billion in Revenue, $17 Billion in Cash Flow in 2028
Anthropic this summer hiked its most optimistic growth forecasts by roughly 13% to 28% over the next three years and projected generating as much as $70 billion in revenue in 2028, up from close to $5 billion this year, according to a person with knowledge of the company’s financials. The ...

Freshworks founder Girish Mathrubootham, one of India's most prominent SaaS founders, announced he will step down as executive chair effective December 1, 2025 (Chandra R Srikanth/Moneycontrol)
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Google adds Gemini's Deep Search to Google Finance, which will also have prediction market data from Kalshi and Polymarket for event analysis, first in the US (Aamir Siddiqui/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-finance…

Google Finance wants to become your smartest investing assistant with these new features
Google Finance is getting Deep Search as well as prediction markets data from Kalshi and Polymarket, alongside an international expansion.