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Back from a week abroad, Donald Trump called on the Senate to scrap the filibuster and reopen the government,
an idea swiftly rejected Friday by Republican leaders who have long opposed such a move.
https://apnews.com/article/filibuster-…

Trump says scrap the filibuster to end shutdown, an idea opposed by Republicans
President Donald Trump is calling on the Senate to scrap the filibuster. That's so the Republican majority can bypass Democrats in the Senate and reopen the shutdown federal government. Trump targeted the 60-vote threshold for passing legislation in a social media post. Senate Majority Leader John Thune has strongly opposed changing the filibuster and repeatedly said he is not considering changing the rules to end the shutdown. Republican Sen. John Curtis of Utah quickly took to social media to…

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Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
OFFICER: My apologies, sir; I meant no offence.
CARNELL: I was offensive. Why shouldn't you be?
OFFICER: Sir?
CARNELL: Give me the report. [Flips the folder open and closes it] Do you play chess?
OFFICER: A little, sir.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/374

Day 10 and a Half – Crossing the Finish Line
My trip could have ended better, but only because we’re all pretty much digital addicts. My last bike ride was nothing but rain — 38 km of pure wetness, and not the kind I would like. The result? My phone decided to end its life. RIP iPhone (2022–2025).
As I rolled into Copenhagen, I passed a laundromat. No hesitation: I went straight in, stripped off my wet clothes, and stuffed everything in a dryer. Flip-flops with socks — maybe a si…

I got hooked on a German youtube channel where I'm obviously not the target demographic. It's called Flipps and it's aimed at - I think? - Gen Z movie buffs. But it radiates love for cinema. While its presentation is hectic the videos are well-produced and long nevertheless. They contain a lot of background info and film history from a time when their audience's parents hadn't even met.
And a recent episode even recommended the famous "No VFX is just invisible …

Agora: Bridging the GPU Cloud Resource-Price Disconnect
Ian McDougall, Noah Scott, Joon Huh, Kirthevasan Kandasamy, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05111 ht…

Agora: Bridging the GPU Cloud Resource-Price Disconnect
The historic trend of Moore's Law, which predicted exponential growth in computational performance per dollar, has diverged for modern Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). While Floating Point Operations per Second (FLOPs) capabilities have continued to scale economically, memory bandwidth has not, creating a significant price-performance disconnect. This paper argues that the prevailing time-based pricing models for cloud GPUs are economically inefficient for bandwidth-bound workloads. These mode…

Series B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
BLAKE: [To Vila] That is Rod, Gola's brother. Now that's his brother...
VILA: I see what you mean.
BLAKE: Now is not the right time. [Master of the Duel signals a start, a gong strikes.]
ROD: He who lives be Charl
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/212/489