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Level Up With Momo
A podcast for dancers who want to grow with more intention, confidence, structure, and longevity in their dance journey...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/level-up-with-momo/

Late in 2024, Elon Musk endorsed Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland. We document that after this, Tesla sales rose by up to 30 percent in right-leaning districts relative to left-leaning ones [..] Divestment in second-hand markets shows no partisan differences, consistent with resale requiring a larger identity cost from Tesla’s image shock than non-purchase. Our lower bound-estimate for the overall loss in Tesla sales is [..] worth at least €241 million."

Document: The Guardian US posted FY 2026 revenue up 25% YoY to a record $81M and profit up 41% to $34.5M; digital reader donations make up 70.7% of revenue (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/26/the-guardian-us-record-revenue

Scoop: The Guardian posts record U.S. revenue of $81M
The outlet's nonprofit structure, combined with its global perspective and commitment to free access, has helped usher in an unprecedented level of reader donations.

Eli Lilly is preparing a phase 2 trial for VERVE-102, a one-time gene editor acquired from Verve Therapeutics. The highest dose cut LDL cholesterol by 62% in patients, a reduction sustained for up to 18 months across 35 participants.
The treatment permanently switches off PCSK9, a cholesterol-producing gene, using base editing that flips a single DNA letter without breaking the double helix.
#news

The "Level Up" With Duayne Pearce Podcast
My purpose is to create a new residential building industry...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/level-up-3/

Prompt engineering is a moving target. Here's my rundown on how GPT-5.5 and Claude 4.7 reward clarified output over magical incantations, and what it means for AI literacy https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonippolito_the-lates…

Babi

Bodie Island lighthouse has some nice walking and hiking trails. #OBX #lighthouse #hatteras

#TheGuardian article on "Why is #smoking so addictive – and what are the best ways to give up?"
”people often claim they feel better when they have a cigarette, but that’s a misunderstanding of what happens. Smoking basically brings you back to the baseline level you should…

Why is smoking so addictive – and what are the best ways to give up?
That first cigarette can lead to a lifetime of dependency, as well as cancer, strokes, heart attacks … Here’s why smokers crave their nicotine hit – and how they can fight back

Chuck Norris didn't die, we just weren't invited to the next level.
Hope he meets up with Bruce.
#rip #chucknorris

Today's Gist covers the efforts required to try to stand up the appearance of widespread far right activity in Ireland.
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-sunshine-and-lollipops/

“The barrier to creating software has genuinely dropped. That is not hype. What it means for professional engineers is not that their skills are less valuable, but that the skills that matter have shifted up the stack, as they have in every previous transition.
The developers who thrived after the move from assembly to C were not the ones who could write the most clever assembly. They were the ones who understood what the machine needed to do and could express that intent clearly in a higher-level language. The developers who thrived after the move to managed languages and frameworks were not the ones most resistant to garbage collection. They were the ones who saw the freed-up cognitive capacity as an opportunity to solve harder problems.
The developers who will thrive in the agentic era are the ones who understand this as another step in the same arc and invest accordingly. Not in resisting the tools. Not in deferring to them uncritically. In developing the judgment, clarity, and systems thinking that make the tools maximally effective.
That means writing better specs. Investing in test infrastructure. Developing genuine architectural understanding rather than surface familiarity. Building the taste to evaluate output rigorously. Practicing problem decomposition until it becomes second nature.
The era of programming as primarily a keystroke activity is over. The era of programming as primarily a thinking and judgment activity has been accelerating for decades and just shifted into a higher gear.”
#AITransition
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https://addyosmani.com/blog/factory-model/

I'm getting stack frames corrupted (or else I'm hitting the wrong stack frames) and I can't see why. My brain is far too messed up to deal with this level of shit just now!
#PostScarcitySoftware
#TheJoyOfSoftwareEngineering

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116328504299888679
Wow, next level security /s
I often make fun of developers for coming up with engineering recommendations that are essentially obfuscated versions of “don’t write bugs!,” but here’s a system avoiding security flaws by literally telling itself “don’t have security flaws!.”

Taking photos of paintings on my phone is made trickier by the device's attempts to normalize everything. If your artist has decided to break the norms of lighting, exposure and colour balance, the phone will do its level best to fix it up for them. It's so annoying.

Finally managed to weed eat and cut the lawn today and got the last of the gravel moved so that we can get a bobcat in here to level the yard!! Yaaayy!!
Also did some cleaning out on the pond. Turns out the moss is great… until it REALLY latches in and makes space for grass. There was so much into the stream that it was backing up into the top pond, causing it to overflow, and the whole system lose water!
When I pulled up the moss, it pulled much of the gravel with it! So lesson learned. Very light on the moss, no more gravel in the stream, keep things neat and tidy!
In all though, the pond cleared up fast thanks to the barrel filters and all is good!
#pandemicpond #gardening #pondlife #spring #portalberni #backyardPond #PoolPond

The Leading Learning Podcast
For school leaders who are ready to level up and scale their school improvement journey...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-leading-learning/

This is not a set up, this actually happened, I'm so sorry. Don't read on if you're not a 13-year-old schoolboy, or at least have an equivalent level of humour.
If you leave iPlayer running in a background tab, eventually it pauses itself. I forgot I'd left it running (muted) after doing the Spandau Ballet screengrab earlier, and flipped back to that tab just now to find it had freeze-framed like this.
So for all those asking "is this song about nuclear war or ...." I think we have an answer.
#TOTP