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Let Me Tell You About My Strange Fascination
Simone de Beauvoir was polyamorous (kinda epic), and embraced an open relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre. She is best known for her writings on feminist existentialism, especially The Second Sex, which explores how society shapes and limits women’s freedom.
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It's frustrating to see such high turnover in the city planning office. I encourage the city to take the complaints of its exiting planners more seriously and put greater effort into their retention. It shouldn't be taking this long to get form-based zoning in place. We could have hundreds more units in place by now if our planners were allowed to simply do their jobs.
#NHPolitics #NHHousing

As startups flood the market with AI shopping agents, Amazon is playing defense by blocking agents' access to its site and investing heavily in its own tools (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/24/amazon-faces-a-dilemma-fight…

Amazon faces 'leader's dilemma' — fight AI shopping bots or join them
Agents like OpenAI's Instant Checkout and Perplexity's Instant Buy threaten to reshape the e-commerce landscape.

I found MAKE celebrating Palmer Luckey to be disgusting, and I let them know it.
I never thought I would see MAKE celebrating evil people like him.
Feel free to let dale@make.co know if you're not a fan of this sort of thing.
https://makethings.make.co/p/what-a-luckey-man

What a Luckey Man
A controversial but intriguing maker is making the podcast rounds; Maker Faires are happening all around the world

Was discussing w/ friends how I think Mamdani would perform as mayor. I was curious to see what prediction markets had to say. Surprised that only Kalshi had any on post-election acts; Polymarket and Manifold only on election itself. (I don't really use them; is this typical?)

Would love to get more folks to vote up this ticket to add this car to A Better Route Planner
#cars

Mountaintop Guru: You see it's All Clear! You were meant to be here.
Emerson: Even with all the ear hair?
Lake: Yeah. What about that?
Palmer: I'm not with those guys.

🏮 'Chinese lantern' structure shifts into more than a dozen shapes for various applications
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-chinese-lantern-shifts-dozen-applications.html

'Chinese lantern' structure shifts into more than a dozen shapes for various applications
Researchers have created a polymer "Chinese lantern" that can snap into more than a dozen curved, three-dimensional shapes by compressing or twisting the original structure. This rapid shape-shifting behavior can be controlled remotely using a magnetic field, allowing the structure to be used for a variety of applications.

Polymarket says it received an amended US CFTC designation, letting it operate a prediction market in the US with a fully regulated exchange structure (Oliver Knight/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/11/25/polymarket-secur…

Source: Erebor, a digital bank co-founded by Palmer Luckey, raised $350M led by Lux Capital at a $4.35B post-money valuation; it secured FDIC approval last week (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/22/palmer-luckey-digital-bank

Scoop: Palmer Luckey's digital bank valued at over $4 billion
Investor excitement the stablecoin banking startup is reaching AI levels.