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Live Drums, Honey Bees, Recording Studio Music Video
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Live Drums, Honey Bees, Recording Studio Music Video
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ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation. (Mississippi Free Press)
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/a-long-way-from-home-mississippi-father-faces-deportation/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p157#a251010p157

Minimizing the Weighted Makespan with Restarts on a Single Machine
Aflatoun Amouzandeh, Klaus Jansen, Lis Pirotton, Rob van Stee, Corinna Wambsganz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09589

Minimizing the Weighted Makespan with Restarts on a Single Machine
We consider the problem of minimizing the weighted makespan on a single machine with restarts. Restarts are similar to preemptions but weaker: a job can be interrupted, but then it has to be run again from the start instead of resuming at the point of interruption later. The objective is to minimize the weighted makespan, defined as the maximum weighted completion time of jobs. We establish a lower bound of 1.4656 on the competitive ratio achievable by deterministic online algorithms. For the…

This week's #ThursdayFiveList is @…'s #MusicOfTheMountains:
1. Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, “Man on the Silver Mountain”—

Here's the promo I made for the #MaggieSpeaks show on Saturday, if you're looking for something to do!
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A profile of Singapore-based Megaspeed, which bought $2B of Nvidia chips and is under US probe for possibly helping Chinese companies evade export controls (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/technology/nvidia-chips-china-megaspeed.html

A Mystery C.E.O. and Billions in Sales: Is China Buying Banned Nvidia Chips?
An executive of a Singaporean firm called Megaspeed socialized with Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. Now the company is being scrutinized by U.S. officials for its ties to China.

Neue Alterserkennungsvorschrift: Bluesky weiterhin in Wyoming und South Dakota
Nachdem Bluesky sich aus Mississippi zurückgezogen hat, kann der Kurznachrichtendienst dank mehr Freiheit bei der Altersverifizierung anderswo bleiben.

Fresh (pre-)release from my upcoming folk song album: "Wreck-less"
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We Warned About the First China Shock. The Next One Will Be Worse. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/opinion/china-shock-economy-manufacturing.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WU8.7_Fm.02mGY1X6vQ8p&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p56#a250714p56

Bluesky says it will comply with age-verification laws in South Dakota and Wyoming because they strike the "right balance", after exiting Mississippi (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/10/blue

Bluesky will comply with age-verification laws in South Dakota and Wyoming after exiting Mississippi | TechCrunch
Bluesky says the age-verification laws strike "the right balance," so it won't have to exit the states as it did in Mississippi.