2025-12-15 05:44:45
Jerry Jones says Cowboys missing playoffs would be huge 'disappointment' https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/jerry-jones-says-cowboys-missing-playoffs-would-be-huge-d…
Jerry Jones says Cowboys missing playoffs would be huge 'disappointment' https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/jerry-jones-says-cowboys-missing-playoffs-would-be-huge-d…
AWS signs a two-year supply deal with Rio Tinto to access its Arizona copper mine, the US' first new source in 10 years, as AI data centers create huge demand (Ryan Dezember/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.
Feeling helpless? Don’t. All of this resistance makes a real and concrete difference. Honestly, the fact that this huge chunk of local residents is giving a visible, sustained “HELL NO” all the time is basically the •only• thing holding them back at this point — but it •is• making a difference.
If there were a sense of blanket permission, a sense that nobody is watching and nobody cares, a sense that there will never be consequences…we’d be in a whole different circle of hell right now.
Millions of Americans have a huge financial stake in the next few weeks of Senate negotiations over the Affordable Care Act's enhanced tax credits.
Absent a deal, health care coverage costs could double next year for people who rely on ACA exchange plans.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/1…
Website that leaked thousands of ICE agents’ personal information is down after huge ‘Russian cyberattack,’ founder says | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-information-leak-website-down-russia-cyberattack-b2900713.html
As usual, I just look at somewhere in ngscopeclient and more massive speedups fall out.
Today it's the AC couple filter (10x speedup), average (5.6x), and base (2.4x so far from trivial block swaps, but the inner loop is still on the CPU so I expect a huge speedup once I get *that* in a shader).
I can't imagine how fast things are going to get once I have a sizeable fraction of the filter library GPU accelerated.
CBS News report on ICE officer's injuries drew 'huge internal concern' (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jan/15/cbs-news-ice-officer-injuries
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p158#a260115p158
I've said it before and I'll say it again: #CongestionPricing is too little, too late. It's even worse since Hochul watered down the fees.
But pedestrianizing huge portions of Manhattan? Now *that* is the shit!
Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Since 2011, millions of tons of a brown algae called Sargassum has washed onto beaches in the Caribbean. The rotting seaweed releases toxic hydrogen sulfide, smelling of rotten eggs, impacting tourism and shore access. It was initially thought Saharan iron dust was the cause, but new #science
@… the results are a huge surprise to me.
If I had known this a year or so ago, I could have (should have) avoided the currently fucked-up situation.
FORZA RAYO
#fedifc
I went to see the new Gilbert and George exhibition today, at the Heywood. It was a bit underwhelming, in an overwhelmingly huge way. They've not changed, and the techniques to do what they do have grown ever easier.
When I was young, they were controversial and provocative. Now I don't strongly connect with the work. They've not changed, but clearly I have. Or maybe the world has.
“Core Thesis: The target I care about is simple: can you make space-based, commodity compute cost-competitive with the cheapest terrestrial alternative? That's the whole claim. Not "space is big." Not "the sun is huge." Not "launch will be cheap." Can you deliver useful watts and reject the waste heat at a price that beats a boring Crusoe-style tilt-wall datacenter tied into a 200–500 MW substation? If you can't beat that, the rest is just vibes.”
…
From #AnnafromUkraine @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
🧵 👇
#RUSSIA ARMY TRAPPED IN MOLDOVA, #ATLANT AERO HUGE STRIKE IN TAGANROG Vlog 1288: War in Ukraine
1,500 Russian soldiers wit…
NFL Week 16 odds: Eagles can clinch NFC East with win vs. Commanders https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/47257516/2025-nfl-week-16-schedule-betting-odds-lines-point-spreads
Europe's EV market is experiencing a major shakeup.
Volkswagen Group is surging while the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance sees its share decline. Tesla, BMW, Geely, Stellantis, and Mercedes are all jockeying for position too.
The twist? The top 8 automakers now control less of the market than before—meaning smaller players are gaining ground in the race to electrify.
Insider Expects Raiders to Take Big Swing on 30-Year-Old Head Coach https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/head-coach-rumors-davis-webb-broncos/
🫧 Peatlands' 'huge reservoir' of carbon at risk of release, researchers warn
#peat…
The US used to be really dirty: Environmental cleanup laws have made a huge difference #UnitedStates
Personal Details of Thousands of Border Patrol and ICE Goons Allegedly Leaked in Huge Data Breach (Tom Latchem/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/personal-details-of-thousands-of-border-patrol-and-ice-goons-allegedly-leaked-in-huge-data-breach/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p101#a260113p101
Google rolls out Nano Banana image editing upgrades in Photos, including a "help me edit" feature that lets users make edits using text or voice prompts (Elyse Betters Picaro/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/your-google-
What I want is less buggy updates, software that starts to run a bit faster and isn't a resource hog along with fixing those 'NOT RESPONDING' messages multiple times an hour. From what I see these updates are just putting a layer of lipstick on a bloated pig.
https://www.
One good thing about having dinner at 16:30 is that you have a HUGE stretch of evening left over afterward to watch Stargate
Today's open-source part of our VFX Pipeline is #mongodb
We're using the Deadline render manager and it came with mongodb as its backend. Over time I've started to use it for other pipeline needs: keeping track of dependencies between comps and cg (and between Houdini scenes and their abc/usd files) for example. This helps a lot with consolidating and pruning the huge amount of …
When I was walking down from the mountains recently I noticed the frost on the trees and branches -- and some single leafs that were still around.
I really liked this extra touch of color in the grey surrounding. And that it's just a little detail on the huge mountain.
#photography #winter
'pigz' is a fast parallel compressor - it splits the normal compressors over however many threads you want; it's really great when you have a HUGE file that needs to be less huge.
https://zlib.net/pigz/
Cowboys super kicker Aubrey defiant about rare misses: 'Nothing needs to change' https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/15/cowboys-kicker-brandon-aubrey-postgame-quotes-week-1…
"Datacentres demand huge amounts of electricity. Could they derail Australia’s net zero ambitions?"
#Australia #NetZero #Climate
RE: https://mastodon.social/@CentralBylines/115543613034480430
This is the big problem with action on climate change: the people in a position to lose out have huge financial resources, and they're more than willing to use them, even with the si…
Low-maturity #tech orgs fetishize ideas.
Their process goes like this: a senior stakeholder has an idea, then the engineers build it. Only then can the team go and "validate" it.
The main outcome of this process is ANXIETY, because people know they are making a huge bet, but the risks aren't being acknowledged.
Subscribe to the Product Picnic, and be the first to rea…
Apparently Mayor Lurie is making a "safe streets" announcement Monday at 11 at City Hall. Hopefully the announcement is that he's resigning. That would be a huge win for safe streets. #sfpol
RE: #nwsl
"US is establishing a naval base at Ushuaia, south Argentina
"Approved by US/Israel client Javier Milei while Biden was in White House
"Will cement US dominance of South Atlantic and Antarctic
"US client regime in London already has huge airbase on nearby Malvinas (Falklands)"
https://
Today an upgrade of Debian 10 to 13 and PostgreSQL 11 to 18. Nothing weird except some mosquitto plugin hassle and a huge misjudgment of to be allocated disk space for the new database. 67Gb is not my perceived 6.7Gb... I misread it several times.
And this is working, but it's slow progress.
Mastodon in particular has UX problems that will be very hard to overcome that prevent mass adoption, foremost is that actual conversations (aka replies) are unreliable and slow due to the way posts are distributed. Quote post support was a huge first step to remedy this. I hope we'll see more updates on it.
Bluesky got a big chunk of former Twitter users, especially in some niches like for scientists and activists; they have great performance, reliable threading and replies and really amazing featuers like fully custom feeds—but suffer from intransparent moderation and frankly insufferable leadership (still leagues better than Twitter or Facebook though).
(There's more than these, but these are what I use.)
Where the Raiders' Belief in Young Wideouts Truly Is https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-where-belief-young-wideouts
Just finished "The Raven Boys," a graphic novel adaptation of a novel by Maggie Stiefvater (adaptation written by Stephanie Williams and illustrated by Sas Milledge).
I haven't read the original novel, and because of that, this version felt way too dense, having to fit huge amounts of important details into not enough pages. The illustrations are gorgeous and the writing is fine; the setting and plot have some pretty interesting aspects... It's just too hard to follow a lot of the threads, or things we're supposed to care about aren't given the time/space to feel important.
The other thing that I didn't like: one of the central characters is rich, and we see this reflected in several ways, but we're clearly expected to ignore/excuse the class differences within the cast because he's a good guy. At this point in my life, I'm simply no longer interested in stories about good rich guys very much. It's become clear to me how in real life, we constantly get the perspectives of the rich, and rarely if ever hear the perspectives of the poor (same applies across racial and gender gradients, among others). Why then in fiction should I get more of the same, spending my mental bandwidth building empathy for yet another dilettante who somehow has a heart of gold? I'm tired of that.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
The OpenAI deal gives Disney a fair amount of oversight and control over how its IP is used, including a joint steering committee to monitor user creations (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/11/openai-disney-sora
@… @… you know what else is huge and will fuck you up for the stupidest reasons?
Ex wives.
The Ruby ecosystem is going through some pretty hefty turmoil in an attempt to rescue and restore the integrity of their community.
I’m even seeing some good efforts in PHP-land to better distance itself from the vacuum of stable leadership in WordPress too.
Is there any such movement in JavaScript (the same problems exist)? The biggest pattern I’m seeing is a *huge* centralization in project funding!
It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Three nights remained before Luna's bright horns would meet and form her orb; then she shone in fullest radiance and with form complete gazed down upon the sleeping lands below."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 7. 179
🏛️ Selene figurine, 2nd - 3rd century CE, private collection
Jets vs. Jaguars prediction: Trevor Lawrence has Jags rolling, but will they cover that huge number?
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jets-vs-jaguars-where-to-watch-pick-odds-p…
Eagles missed huge chance to close out the NFC East https://insidethestar.com/eagles-missed-huge-chance-to-close-out-the-nfc-east
'It burns for 3 days' — Ukrainian drone strike sparked huge fire at Russia's Temryuk Seaport, SBU source says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/09/it-burns-for-days-ukrainian.html
Great to see @… running with #ProtocolsForPublishers
Chad is a huge open protocols advocate, and fortunately he's not completely engineering brained and has been spending time at the Internet Governance Forum and other important venues that are m…
Salesforce makes Slack's new AI-powered Slackbot generally available, helping users answer workflow questions, draft documents, schedule meetings, and more (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/slackbot-ai-agent-upgrade/
The nature extinction crisis is mirrored by one in our own bodies. Both have huge implications for health https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/31/nature-extinction-crisis-mirrored-in-our-bodies-huge-health…
I did a huge grafana upgrade from something like v7.x to v12..3.0 and now the load average is often between 15 and 30!
It's not obvious to me why though.
The VM it's on has 2 CPUs and 8G RAM of which about 4G is free. The average CPU use is just 18%. This would make me suspect iowait but it rarely budges from 0%.
Now, periodically the two CPUs are totally pegged though this only lasts a short time and the service still seems responsive. Maybe it's that?
End of chapter 1.
Since first moment I spoke with Desther I felt a strange feeling. Something didn't go right with him.
PD: I did all henchmen tales too. That guys gave a good rewards.
Chapter 2 here I go.
#neverwinter_nights #videogames
#MusicMonday: Artemas - "superstar"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a09amGO7a5w
Not huge on the mixtape overall, but this one stuck with me anyway. That damn chorus is …
Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Most cladocerans have a bivalve carapace, but one genus is very different. Leptodora is globally distributed in the north, large (~2 cm), elongated, and effectively transparent, leading it to be coined "ghost flea" by a colleague. It is a primitive genus and is the only cladoceran with a nauplius stage. Highly predaceous with a huge eye, it preys on juv…
I'm seeing hangs in 'meld' at the moment with a couple of (large but not huge) log files; hmm - just 100% in the python.
Switched to kdiff3 for the moment.
A Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University:
“The Government of Canada could easily decide that it was going to use LinkedIn or Instagram or wherever it posts, and journalists would switch to following them there because they want to access what they’re saying,” he continued. “There was zero audience for Truth Social when
Trump created and started using it, but the audience went to the politician. Carney and his government could take a principled position by leaving X and its horrible spawn, Grok, and his audience of journalists and politicos would go with them.”
“Apparently, our political leaders simply choose not to.”
YES!! #Fediverse #SocialWeb #Mastodon
As always a huge thank you for the Senator's @… ongoing activism. It WILL happen. (and by it I mean, government going to the social web... Bluesky is just a temporary blip until it too goes fascist or we get some proper digital sovereignty laws in place.)
https://mstdn.ca/@Paulatics/115861469408403689
“‘People demanding that AIs have rights would be a huge mistake,’ said Bengio.”
Yes, but not because “Frontier” AI models already show signs of “self-preservation,” but because it’s a huge scam aiming to make a few people even richer, who don’t care about destroying everything else.
https://www.
“‘People demanding that AIs have rights would be a huge mistake,’ said Bengio.”
Yes, but not because “Frontier” AI models already show signs of “self-preservation,” but because it’s a huge scam aiming to make a few people even richer, who don’t care about destroying everything else.
https://www.
“‘People demanding that AIs have rights would be a huge mistake,’ said Bengio.”
Yes, but not because “Frontier” AI models already show signs of “self-preservation,” but because it’s a huge scam aiming to make a few people even richer, who don’t care about destroying everything else.
https://www.
Embarrassing Loss Aside, the Raiders Actually Scored One Huge Win https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-embarrassing-loss-denver-broncos-nfl-draft-scored-one-huge-win
*Corporate stupidity entry No. 120023:*
The intranet sends out eMail notifications for new articles. The eMail contains just a teaser text but a huge meaningless header picture. You have to click and authenticate to read the full content. Like it's a click-bait platform that lives off the advertising and data tracking and not the corporate Intranet.
In the second of two episodes to mark the centenary of quantum physics,
we hear how the boundary between the quantum and classical worlds causes huge inconsistencies
—and a debate about the nature of reality itself.
Our guest today,
Vlatko Vedr,
explains his radical vision for fixing those problems and building a consistent understanding of the universe
In a message to members, the WGA says Disney's licensing deal with OpenAI "appears to sanction" OpenAI's "theft of our work", and it plans to meet with Disney (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/…
This graffiti covered bunker in on top of a huge earth berm and would have been used to target two pairs of 16 inch guns had German ships approached the coast in WWI or WWII.
#photo #photography #military
Alice Guo, Chinese national who ran huge scam centre while Philippines mayor, sentenced to life in prison
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/20/alice-guo-chinese-nat…
FB Adam Prentice on importance of Broncos' run game: 'It's going to be huge' https://www.denverbroncos.com/video/fb-adam-prentice-on-importance-of-broncos-run-game-it-s-going-to-be-huge
Re-grading Sam Darnold, Milton Williams and the top 2025 NFL free-agent contracts https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6802961/2025/11/13/nfl-2025-free-agent-grades-sam-darnold-milton-williams/
104 year old Eddy Goldfarb has invented over 800 iconic toys- some of my favorites, too. He made Stompers, which were HUGE for me as a kid (I still have several). He also made talking teeth, Kerplunk, just TONS of stuff.
Cool piece via Moss and Fog (the embedded YouTube video here is a cool watch, also): https://
I should have bought that mini PC earlier last year. Unfortunately there were a number of must-do projects and should do projects that popped up that sucked up a huge amount out of our bank account.
Must do
- Furnace & AC - End of life. Went with a good heat pump with a furnace backup to handle those cold days.
- Hot water tank - end of life and Insurance wouldn't pay for repairs if it flooded the basement. The new tank is much more energy efficient.
- Ga…
GitHub plans to launch Agent HQ, a hub to let developers access third-party AI coding agents, including Claude and OpenAI's Codex, in the coming months (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/githubs-huge-agent-hq-…
China's efforts to slow land degradation and climate change
by planting trees and restoring grasslands
have shifted water around the country in huge, unforeseen ways, new research shows.
Between 2001 and 2020, changes in vegetation cover reduced the amount of fresh water available for humans and ecosystems in the eastern monsoon region and northwestern arid region,
which together make up 74% of China's land area, according to a study published Oct. 4 in the jo…
Just to underline that:
A huge portion of the MAGA authoritarian takeover plot rested on the false assumption that they could provoke a violent domestic conflict at a whim and jump straight to martial law. It seems they believed their own BS about how cities are hotbeds of unrestrained chaos and iT’S tHe LEft tHaT’s REALLY viOLeNT!!1!
They thought they were picking a fistfight. They didn’t expect to just get mocked, shamed, and videoed into social oblivion. They are both reviled and a laughingstock now.
Believe it or not they were worried about German Battleships approaching the New England coast in WWI so they built a huge earth berm at what is now Odiorne Point State Park with two tunnels under it -- that circle you can see once held a turret with two 16 inch battleship guns
#photo #photography
Ranking seven NFL Week 14 games with huge playoff implications: Lions-Cowboys, Chiefs-Texans loom large
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ranking-seven-week-nfl-…
This utter arsehole is happy to posture but as leader of the world's 6th richest country he won't contribute to the vital fund to protect and restore tropical rainforests.
This utter arsehole postures on climate while greenlighting huge energy guzzling data centres.
This utter arsehole is happy to expand aviation while witterring about 'climate consensus'
Starmer warns 'consensus is gone' on fighting climate change as leaders gather at COP30 - BBC News…
The OpenAI deal gives Disney a fair amount of oversight and control over how its IP is used, including a joint steering committee to monitor user creations (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/11/openai-disney-sora
Insider Drops Huge Prediction About Raiders Head Coach Search https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/insider-drops-prediction-head-coach-search/
4 huge takeaways from Cowboys' shocking Week 13 win vs Chiefs https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/4-huge-takeaways-dallas-cowboys-shocking-week-13-win-chiefs
The methane menace
Oil executives weighing a potential investment in #Venezuela’s fields may want to check out the view from space.
Satellites have detected enormous amounts of #methane billowing from the country’s abandoned oil rigs,
rusty pipelines and other dilapidated energy infrastructure.
…
A UK judge jails a Chinese woman to 11 years and 8 months in prison for laundering bitcoin linked to a £5B investment scheme in which UK seized 61K bitcoin (Upmanyu Trivedi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Super Bowl 2026 odds: Colts see huge shift after Daniel Jones' injury https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6876048/2025/12/09/super-bowl-2026-odds-betting-colts-patriots-rams/
My new business cards finally came in the mail!
#photo #photography #foxwork #fox
Cowboys' DeMarvion Overshown trolls college rival after huge upset on Dallas' day off https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/cowboys-demarvion-overshown-trolls-college-rival-huge-upset-dallas-day-off
View from the north end of Dryden Lake with the kind of perfectly clear we had so much of in the drought this summer
#photo #photography #dryden
French lawmakers vote to raise France's digital services tax on US tech giants to 6%, up from 3%; the French government opposes the move, fearing US retaliation (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/french-lawmakers-progress-tax…
We're already looking ahead to the NFL divisional round, plus Texas' big win https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6962549/2026/01/12/nfl-wild-card-49ers-patriots-bills-the-pulse/
One Huge Reason Why Chip Kelly's Offense Did Not Work with Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-one-huge-reason-why-chip-kelly-offense-did-not-work-with
Broncos Playmaker in Concussion Protocol After Huge Cowboys Win https://www.si.com/nfl/broncos/onsi/news/broncos-marvin-mims-concussion-protocol-huge-cowboys-win
Week 8 Injury Report: Broncos have huge edge over Cowboys https://insidethestar.com/week-8-injury-report-broncos-have-huge-edge-over-cowboys
How the huge data center buildout is heating up local politics in US towns across red and blue states on issues like water, electricity, and noise (Evan Halper/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/06/da…
NFL wild-card odds, spreads: Rams huge favorites; Packers-Bears and Bills-Jaguars nearly even https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6942325/2026/01/05/nfl-wild-card-week-odds-rams-packers-bears/
Wild-card round: Rams huge favorites; Packers, Bills, Texans road favorites https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/47499366/2025-nfl-playoffs-wild-card-round-schedule-betting-odds-lines-point-spreads-pr…
Source: the US Department of Commerce plans to allow the export of Nvidia's old H200 chips to China, seeking a compromise over controlling exports to China (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/08/2025/commerce-t…
Quinnen Williams 'huge fan' of Cowboys' high-octane offense https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/quinnen-williams-huge-fan-cowboys-high-octane-offense/d7f0c9dd97947ceb076e0b90
Cowboys dealt huge blow over potential Maxx Crosby trade https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-dealt-huge-blow-over-potential-maxx-crosby-trade/e8eadc136febc3784e8c3217
Cowboys' Dak Prescott details 'huge' benefit of stellar run game https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-dak-prescott-details-huge-benefit-stellar-run-game/189ba46d876214…