Tootfinder

Let's hope the Senate's not as stupid.
GOP lawmakers axe provision to limit the use of JAGs in civilian roles - Defense One
https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2026/06/gop-lawmakers-axe-provision-limit-use-jags-civilian-roles/413992/

Oh Giles 😢
British actor Anthony Head, known for Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Ted Lasso, dies aged 72 - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-06/anthony-head-dies-aged-72/106767200

Anthony Head, known for roles in Buffy and Ted Lasso, dies
The British actor was well known for roles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Ted Lasso.

These Raiders Rookies Have Clear Paths to Roles https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-these-rookies-have-clear-paths-roles

Trying an old nav pattern with `focusgroup` and `role` on the `<ul>` in Chrome 150 and getting unexpected results:
https://cdpn.io/aardrian/debug/myRpKpg
`focusgroup=menubar`:
• no roles change.
`role=menubar`:
• child `<li>`s lose role.
Both:
• child `&…

An association of thousands of FBI agents and other groups
are backing a lawsuit filed by three bureau employees who were fired last year
for their roles in an investigation into Donald Trump’s efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election.
A legal brief by the FBI Agents Association is one of five filed by outside parties in the last week in support of the agents,
who were terminated as part of a broader personnel purge by FBI Director Kash Patel

Fired FBI agents get broad support in lawsuit against Trump administration
An association of thousands of FBI agents is backing a lawsuit filed by three bureau employees who were fired last year for their roles in an investigation into President Donald Trump’s efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election. A legal brief filed by the FBI Agents Association is one of five filed by outside parties in the last week in support of the agents. They were terminated as part of a broader personnel purge by FBI Director Kash Patel that has targeted employees wh…

These Raiders Rookies Have Clear Paths to Roles https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-these-rookies-have-clear-paths-roles

Marine Biogeochemistry Podcast
I invite marine biogeochemists to discuss different elements and the roles they play, from well-known to less studied. Each episode focuses on one element and a specific topic, aimed at researchers and students...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.g…

A Growing Number of Election Deniers Hold Key Local Roles in Midterms (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/us/politics/a-growing-number-of-election-deniers-hold-key-local-roles-in-midterms.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260806/p15#a260806p15

Filing: Microsoft's product R&D roles declined for the second straight year as the company's total FY2026 headcount fell for the first time since 2016 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsoft-product…

Microsoft R&D jobs drop for second straight year as total headcount falls for first time in a decade
Microsoft's annual report shows the company employed 223,000 people as of June 30, down 5,000 from a year earlier and its first annual decline since 2016. Product R&D roles accounted for most of the drop.

Coupled quintessence from an axion dark sector
Rayff de Souza, Edmund J. Copeland, Jailson Alcaniz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05032 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.05032 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.05032
arXiv:2608.05032v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent observational data arising from the DESI collaboration has hinted at a possible departure from the standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model, preferring instead the presence of a dynamical dark energy component. Specifically, the associated equation of state of the dark energy features a crossing into the so-called phantom regime, which is challenging to accommodate in canonical single scalar-field scenarios. However, this behavior can be effectively described by an interacting dark sector, where the specific dark energy equation of state remains above the phantom divide whilst the dark matter component deviates from the standard cold dark matter evolution. In this work, we explore this possibility in the context of an axion dark sector, where both the dark energy and dark matter are represented by two interacting axion-like fields. We show that given the required mass hierarchy for these fields to play such roles, their dynamics can be effectively placed in the coupled quintessence framework, where their motion follows from a sourced continuity equation in the fluid description. In this regime, we perform a statistical analysis of this scenario with current data, finding that a sub-Planckian dark energy axion decay constant stays well within the observational bounds without the need to fine-tune the associated field's initial conditions. We also perform a comparison with $\Lambda$CDM, where we find that the model provides a better fit to the data while staying competitive from a Bayesian perspective.
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#EroticMusings 62. Do power imbalances exist within the romantic or sexual relationships between your characters? Is this a challenge for you? Does it present unique opportunities?
I'm writing BDSM novels, so power imbalance during a session is the point and centerpiece of the writing.
I like to explore the tension between the kinky roles and the out-of-play roles of charac…

Nice paper about why LLMs can never be fully protected against prompt injection.
#LLM #AI

Prompt Injection as Role Confusion
LLMs can't tell who's speaking. We show they identify roles by writing style, not tags, and exploit this with CoT Forgery, injecting fake reasoning that models mistake for their own thoughts.

Produced and directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt,
“The American Revolution”
is a fantastic, six-part series that focuses almost exclusively on the war.
Burns and his team deftly use war narratives as a trojan horse to subtly
— and sometimes not-so-subtly
— smuggle onto viewers’ screens the message that women, slaves, and Native Americans also played vital roles in the fight for independence.
When “Revolution” was released last autumn,…

4 young Cowboys ready for expanded roles in 2026 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/07/25/4-young-cowboys-ready-for-expanded-roles-in-2026/91005915007/

Overheard at the office: "I'm skeptical. Are you sure your 'wonderful opportunity for many of our employees to grow into new roles as we transition' isn't more like corporate speak for 75% of us will have to abandon any sense of work/life balance to cover the work of the 25% you are about to layoff?"
#OfficeWorkerGripes

crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…

NFL training camp QB battles: Breaking down four competitions, plus veterans that need to watch their backs

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-training-camp-quarterback-battles…

Kwity Paye lining up at 3 different positions for Raiders https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/08/05/kwity-paye-lining-up-at-3-different-positions-raiders/91189499007/

Analysis: the share of entry-level hiring in India's tech sector fell to ~15% in 2025 from 28% in 2024 as companies shifted focus to AI and automation roles (Tanya Pandey/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.i…

India’s tech sector grows with fewer freshers as AI reshapes hiring
The share of entry-level hiring in the sector has fallen to around 15% in 2025 from 28% in 2024 as companies focus more on AI, cloud, cybersecurity and automation-focused roles. Emerging technology roles account for nearly 52% of hiring demand and are expected to touch 60% by the end of 2026, signalling a broader shift away from campus-led pyramid hiring model, experts said.

Boston Consulting Group study suggests 'embedding AI agents into formal organizational roles can reduce managerial oversight in AI-mediated work, and should be understood as a governance decision rather than a mere labeling choice' - i.e. more mistakes get through https://www.emmawiles.com/storage/ai_emplo

Pattern formation: reactivity is not necessary for chemotaxis--driven instabilities
Angela Monti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03685 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.03685 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.03685
arXiv:2608.03685v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A classical result by Neubert, Caswell and Murray states that reactivity of a spatially homogeneous equilibrium is a necessary condition for diffusion-driven (Turing) instability. In this work, we investigate whether the same conclusion remains valid in the presence of chemotaxis. We consider a general reaction--diffusion system coupled with a chemotactic flux and establish necessary conditions for asymptotic instability. We show that the classical requirement of reactivity can be relaxed when the chemotactic contribution is sufficiently strong. In particular, while reactivity remains necessary for Turing instability, it is not a necessary condition for chemotaxis-driven instability. From a computational viewpoint, we extend the matrix-oriented formulation developed for reaction--diffusion systems to the more general class of reaction--diffusion--chemotaxis models. The chemotactic transport term is discretized in a form compatible with the matrix-oriented approximation of the diffusion operator, yielding an efficient numerical framework for the simulation of chemotaxis-driven pattern formation. A geometric interpretation of the instability region is presented, highlighting the distinct roles played by diffusion and chemotaxis. The theoretical and numerical developments are illustrated through two representative examples: a chemotaxis-extended Schnakenberg model, showing how chemotaxis modifies classical Turing patterns, and a predator--prey model, demonstrating that chemotaxis alone can induce pattern formation in the absence of both reactivity and diffusion-driven instability. These results reveal a fundamental difference between diffusion-driven and chemotaxis-driven mechanisms of spatial self-organization and provide new theoretical and computational insights into the role of non-symmetric transport processes in biological pattern formation.
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A federal grand jury indicted two men for their alleged roles in a scheme to steal money from multiple ATMs located in Reno and Sparks, Nevada, using jackpotting devices.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-nv/pr/two-men-indicted-alleged-roles-atm-jackpottin…

Hübsches Projekt zur Reflexion künstlicher Intelligenz, Deepdive in Prompt Injection:
#artificialIntelligence

Prompt Injection as Role Confusion
LLMs can't tell who's speaking. We show they identify roles by writing style, not tags, and exploit this with CoT Forgery, injecting fake reasoning that models mistake for their own thoughts.

OpenAI unveils new Codex plugins for tasks related to public equity investment, banking and sales, and other roles, and plans to integrate Codex into ChatGPT (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

"Librarians as architects: Roles in the age of generative artificial intelligence"
https://doi.org/10.1177/03400352261470840
"This study explores how academic librarians interpret and negotiate their evolving professional identities as generative artificial intelligen…

Heat waves increase wildfire risk—a new study explains how much, and it's not a small number #environment

Heat waves increase wildfire risk—a new study explains how much, and it's not a small number
When heat waves hit the Western United States, the risk of wildfires quickly rises. The prolonged heat dries out vegetation, but that's only part of the cause—heat waves also play other roles in spreading wildfires.

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CMBC Career Opportunities
Coast Mountain Bus Company is hiring for multiple union, and non-union positions in skilled trades, management, and other maintenance roles.

Those on the right side don't need 3 concurrent instances. A single instance can play those roles sequentially.
"Fundamental smarter design" would not be explainable in one share pic.

Australia's Nine Entertainment announces job cuts in its publishing division, impacting 30 editorial roles, as part of a shift to a "digital-first future" (Cameron Micallef/news.com.au)
https://www.news.com…

Worked with an #acting #coaching client on a brand new (to us) piece of text, and learning who the character was even on the ice cold reading (never read before) was inspiring. Some roles are clear instantly from the start, some require we do more homework to start finding them.

Box says it created 13 new AI-focused roles, like AI architect and AI solutions manager, and plans to grow its staff to 3,000 by early 2027, up from 2,900 (Kalley Huang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/technology/box-13-new-types-jobs-ai.html

How Box Created 13 New Types of Jobs Because of A.I.
Box, a Silicon Valley software maker, expects to have more employees, not fewer, as it hires A.I. architects, A.I. solutions managers and other new A.I.-related positions.

Trump's America needs to be flushed. Add this to the list of reasons why:
Disable javascript to bypass the paywall:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/06/23/alleged-antifa-members-texas-get-maximum-sentences-ic…

Alleged antifa members sentenced to decades in prison over ICE protest
Eight people got prison terms ranging from 30 to 100 years for their roles in a protest that turned violent outside an immigration detention center last summer.

New Geneva Convention Allows Use Of Child Soldiers With Signed Permission Slip - The Onion https://theonion.com/new-geneva-convention-allows-use-of-child-soldiers-with-signed-permission-slip/

New Geneva Convention Allows Use Of Child Soldiers With Signed Permission Slip
GENEVA—In an effort to codify parental oversight for underage troops, a new Geneva Convention adopted Thursday reportedly allowed for the use of child soldiers with a signed permission slip from a legal guardian. “This landmark treaty expressly forbids minors from enlisting in combat roles unless sanctioned by their parent or guardian,” said International Committee of […]

Donno what’s worse, the verse itself or DuckDuckGo’s generated explanation of it. @… https://partyon.xyz/@nando161/116925119988965039

Still more reasons the AI boosters are full of as much shit as the AI itself.
#Sexism

Jen Horsburgh (@jenatlionra) on Threads
I just wanted to update my resume. Instead, I accidentally proved how a multi-billion-dollar AI tool hallucinates a glass ceiling for women. I changed a single variable: My name. Here is what happened when "Jennifer" became "Jeff." I fed Gemini, Google's AI tool, my old resume, my current info, case studies, and the kinds of roles I wanted, and asked it to write me a new resume. Simple. Except it wasn’t. The first thing I noticed was the softening.

Foreign Operators and Technical Superintendent of M/V Dali Indicted for Roles in Key Bridge Crash (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/foreign-operators-and-technical-superintendent-mv-dali-indicted-roles-key-bridge-crash
http://www.memeorandum.com/260512/p48#a260512p48

Teens who hacked TfL were known to police years before cyber-attack
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2kx8jr244o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

Teens who hacked TfL were known to police years before cyber-attack
Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair were convicted for their roles in the attack, which led to large costs for Transport for London.

messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata

How does an LLM know the difference between its own thoughts
and someone else's words?
https://role-confusion.github.io/

Prompt Injection as Role Confusion
LLMs can't tell who's speaking. We show they identify roles by writing style, not tags, and exploit this with CoT Forgery, injecting fake reasoning that models mistake for their own thoughts.

I've witnessed this myself: Few CFOs/COOs have the capability of being a CEO/CVO.
▶️ How To Balance the Roles of the C-Suite - Simon Sinek
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Gp8Od0tYCF0&si=xc72DMr9y2b-N5B-

Cowboys long-armed lawmen, once revered, now longshots for key roles https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/06/24/defying-gravity-dallas-cowboys-shavon-revel-devin-moore-…

Craig Abbott believes “Our CSS isn’t opinionated enough”:
https://www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/2026/our-css-isnt-opinionated-enough/
Which of course I agree with and link from on of my posts:

Our CSS isn't opinionated enough
Why styling on semantics and roles could make accessibility harder to skip

Wanna know why #psycholinguistics is so fascinating?
In a 2001 #experiment participants saw sentences like
"While Mary dressed the baby played in the crib."
Then they had to answer the question:
"Did Mary dress the baby?"
Up to 51% of all answers where "Yes!" – and participants were *very* confident about their answers.
🤯
Original paper:
Christianson, Kiel & Hollingworth, Andrew & Halliwell, John F. & Ferreira, Fernanda (2001). Thematic Roles Assigned along the Garden Path Linger. Cognitive Psychology 42(4). 368–407. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1006/cogp.2001.0752
Also a fascinating read:
Ferreira, Fernanda & Bailey, Karl G.D. & Ferraro, Vittoria (2002). Good-Enough Representations in Language Comprehension. Current Directions in Psychological Science 11(1). 11–15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8721.00158

Medical doctor and engineer given two-year sentences for roles in Streameast illegal streaming https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7449045/2026/07/21/streameast-guilty-illegal-streaming/

Amy Langenberg outlines a research agenda using Mahāsāmghika-lokottaravādin nun's Vinaya texts in order to document women's roles as health practitioners in South Asia. This looks like amazing research - "peering around the archival bulge" of patriarchal sources and conclusions.
https://

Sources: Microsoft plans to announce job cuts next week affecting less than 2.5% of its 220,000-person workforce, including roles in sales, consulting, and Xbox (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-job-cuts-layoffs-sal…

Microsoft eyes thousands of new job cuts in coming days
Microsoft is planning job cuts that are expected to affect areas such as sales, consulting, and Xbox as it ramps up AI spending.

Jurassic Park, Hunt For The Wilderpeople, Event Horizon, The Dish, In The Mouth Of Madness, The Hunt For Red October - how many actors have a CV as varied as #SamNeill?
And how many were as consistently brilliant across so many genres and roles, big or small?
I really am gonna miss him.

I am super tired and frustrated, and I probably shouldn’t say this, but do you know any decent Product/Program Management roles where it’s not all about the senseless push toward AI, and maybe more focused on free/open-source software?
#foss #pm

messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata

My latest podcast is all about #SelfCare and the benefits of looking to do less, not more.
Self-care often implies doing additional activities. And this can feel difficult or even overwhelming!
But we can also take care of ourselves by stripping out commitments, tasks and roles.
Ep 216 of My Pocket Psych is available wherever you get your podcasts, or via worklifepsych…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#OperaOn3
- Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier
In tribute to the late soprano Dame Felicity Lott, a chance to hear her in one of her signature roles, the Marschallin, in Der Rosenkavalier from the Royal Opera House in 2004.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002xdwd

A report by LA officials estimates that the Paramount-WBD deal places about 2.5K jobs in LA and 6K jobs globally at risk due to duplicative roles (Erik Hayden/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bu…

Stark Picture Emerges of Paramount-Warner Bros. Job Loss Risk In L.A. County
A new estimate by local officials who are in the process of assessing the impact of David Ellison's $111 billion merger places 2,500 jobs "at potential risk" in the area and 6,000 more globally.

Indie Spunk: Unfiltered
Tune in for unfiltered, sometimes unhinged, always entertaining advice on navigating your film career, communicating with your creative collaborators, stepping into leadership roles, getting your films funded, and building success...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.…

Single-molecule #m6A profiling reveals position-dependent #mRNA regulation and non-canonical roles for Ythdf2 in early embryogenesis
#zebrafish

White House officials appointed
Gregg Phillips in December to lead FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery,
-- one of the agency’s most consequential leadership roles,
-- apparently due to his history of promoting election conspiracy theories, particularly in the aftermath of the 2020 election.
He came under national scrutiny in March after CNN reported on a cache of outlandish comments from his appearances on right-wing podcasts, -- including the bizarre claim that h…

FEMA official who claimed he teleported to Waffle House ousted from agency, sources say
Top FEMA official Gregg Phillips who had drawn scrutiny for bizarre past remarks — including claiming he teleported to a Waffle House — has been pushed out of the agency, four sources tell CNN.

Prompt Injection as Role Confusion
https://role-confusion.github.io/

Prompt Injection as Role Confusion
LLMs can't tell who's speaking. We show they identify roles by writing style, not tags, and exploit this with CoT Forgery, injecting fake reasoning that models mistake for their own thoughts.

crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…

Pass catchers headline list of NFC rookies picked after Day 1 who could earn key roles

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2026-nfl-rookies-nfc/

RE: https://mas.to/@patrickbrosset/116792761131396334
Generally I’ve been frustrated by browser support for ARIA roles in SVG, especially the ARIA Graphics Module / AAM, and forced-colors / WHCM behavior across contexts (inline, embedded, referenced, via `&l…

ZipRecruiter: IT and CS job postings are up 14.2% YoY in April; entry-level roles fell from 8.1% a year ago to 7.4%, while senior roles grew from 38.8% to 43.1% (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-tech-jobs-that-are-safe-…

All Eyes Are on $28.9 Million Playmaker at Cowboys Training Camp https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/caleb-downs-dallas-cowboys-training-camp/

A discrete Boltzmann model with state-dependent power-law relaxation time for nonequilibrium transport in compressible flows
Demei Li, Zhongyi He, Huilin Lai, Yanbiao Gan, Hailong Liu, Pengfei Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18216 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.18216 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.18216
arXiv:2605.18216v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Thermodynamic nonequilibrium effects play a central role in momentum and energy transport in compressible flows. In conventional BGK kinetic models, the relaxation time $\tau$ is taken as a constant, which neglects the dependence of the relaxation process on local macroscopic states. To overcome this limitation, we develop a discrete Boltzmann model with a density- and temperature-dependent power-law relaxation time, termed DTRT-DBM, in which $\tau=\tau_0(\rho/\rho_0)^a(T/T_0)^b$. This formulation extends the discrete Boltzmann framework to flows with spatially varying nonequilibrium intensity. The model is validated by the Sod shock tube and by analytical solutions for viscous stress and heat flux, demonstrating accurate recovery of both macroscopic wave structures and nonequilibrium quantities across shock waves, rarefaction waves, and contact discontinuities. On this basis, phase diagrams of viscous stress and heat flux are constructed to examine how these quantities depend on the power-law exponents $a$ and $b$. The extrema of these quantities depend exponentially on the model parameters and exhibit regime-dependent behaviour. The roles of $a$ and $b$ are not symmetric: the nonequilibrium response is more sensitive to $a$ when density gradients dominate, but more sensitive to $b$ when temperature gradients dominate. Within the parameter range and flow configurations examined here, higher-order viscous stress increases the growth rate of the total viscous-stress extremum, whereas higher-order heat flux reduces the growth rate of the total heat-flux extremum. These results show that the proposed model can capture different higher-order nonequilibrium responses in compressible flows and provides a framework for the modelling and analysis of multiscale nonequilibrium processes.
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NFL training camp storylines: Aaron Donald watch, QB battles, rookie breakouts among NFC questions

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-training-camp-storylines-2026-nfc/

Thomson Reuters says it is cutting "a small number of" engineering roles; a source says it plans to cut up to 500 jobs, or 5.2% of its operations and tech unit (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/thomson-reuters-…

crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheEarlyMusicShow
- Senesino - Handel's castrato
Hannah French traces the life of the Italian castrato Francesco Bernardi (otherwise known as Senesino), for whom Handel wrote many operatic roles during his time working in London.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ylbg

When we encounter something that promises enjoyment or discovery, the brain’s reward system becomes active.
One important pathway runs from the ventral tegmental area,
a dopamine-producing region in the midbrain involved in motivation,
to the nucleus accumbens, a structure that helps generate feelings of reward.
Dopamine is often described as a pleasure chemical, but that is too simple.
One of its key roles is helping the brain identify opportunities worth pursu…

Why you keep buying books you don’t read – and why it feels so good
Why a pile of unread books is not stressful, yet a pile of unread emails is.

Raiders Players Who Have Become More Important https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-players-who-have-become-more-important

How every rookie QB fits with his new NFL team: Wh... https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2026/story/_/id/48742531/2026-nfl-rookie-quarterbacks-team-fits-projections-draft

Vance or Rubio? Trump Muses on Successor as the 'Kids' Fill Bigger Roles. (Katie Rogers/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/us/politics/vance-rubio-trump-succession.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260510/p5#a260510p5

Cowboys Headlines: Malachi's motor; why Jerry didn't hire Aikman in FO https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/05/08/news-headlines-may-7-2026-malachi-l…

Raiders Players Who Have Become More Important https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-players-who-have-become-more-important

AI is reshaping entry-level professional services jobs, as companies redesign hiring, training, and workplace culture rather than simply cut junior roles (Andrew Hill/Financial Times)

Those seeking to join Trump’s second administration had to pass a key litmus test:
Did they believe the 2020 election was stolen from Trump?
With like-minded allies now positioned in key roles throughout the government,
Trump has trained the full arsenal of the federal government on one of his most persistent obsessions:
sowing doubt about the security of the country’s election systems.
Major agencies such as the Justice Department, the F.B.I., the Homeland Secu…

Trump Brings Full Weight of Government to Bolster False Election Claims
Intelligence agencies provided the White House with a trove of declassified documents that President Trump cited on Thursday as evidence of election vulnerabilities.

Suno hires ex-YouTube exec Christian Bowne as head of music business development and ex-Atlantic Records exec Grace James as VP and head of artist marketing (Corbin Bolies/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/suno-hires-grace-james-ch…

Suno Hires Grace James, Christian Bowne for VP Roles
Suno hired Grace James as its vice president and head of artist marketing and editorial and Christian Bowne as head of music business development.

Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.med-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.med-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Improving Punching "Power": Reconsidering the roles of initial strike velocity and effective mass
Joseph L. Natale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18276 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicspopph_bot/116962529330015444
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messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata

Sources: Microsoft security chief Hayete Gallot, who took over in February, has prioritized AI tools, cut several hundred roles, replaced senior execs, and more (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsofts-new…

Microsoft’s New Security Chief Replaces Top Execs to Force an AI Overhaul
Microsoft, the largest cybersecurity software seller in the world, is overhauling that business to cash in on corporate anxieties about AI-powered hacks. Hayete Gallot, who took over Microsoft’s security business in February, has directed more teams to develop AI security products such as those ...

messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata

Raiders training camp preview: Running backs and pass catchers https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-training-camp-preview-running-backs-and-pass-catchers-3854763/

Two Scattered Spider members who pleaded guilty in the UK to an August 2024 cyberattack on Transport for London are jailed for five and a half years (Joe Tidy/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gyg0y6yg2o

Teen hackers jailed after live streaming cyber attack on TfL
Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair were convicted for their roles in the attack, which led to large costs for Transport for London.

In a lengthy Truth Social post on Sunday evening, Donald Trump lambasted two Supreme Court justices he had personally appointed to the bench for not being “loyal” enough to him.
Trump berated Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, deriding their roles in a majority ruling earlier this year that overturned his massive global tariffs.
He also denounced them for appearing skeptical during recent oral arguments over his attempt to issue an executive order last year to reinterp…

Trump Suggests He’ll “PACK THE COURT” in Truth Social Rant Against Justices He Appointed
Trump decried the court’s recent ruling on his tariffs, and a pending ruling on birthright citizenship.

Things I'd like to talk about: what it feels like to know the lives/roles/personalities I have left may be limited.
Maybe only 2, 3 more?
And if I want to look like my own version of Iris Apfel, I'll need to up my game soon
#aging

US Bureau of Labor Statistics data: employment in 18 AI-exposed occupations fell 0.2% between May 2024 and May 2025, while the broader US labor market rose 0.8% (Matthew Boesler/Bloomberg)

“So often we have assigned the sex of an ancient skeleton partly on the basis of our own assumptions about sex and gender roles—if it is buried with a sword, it’s male; with a necklace, it’s female. DNA analysis can help us correct those assumptions and think harder about the roles of men and women in the deep past—and perhaps also about in our own world too.”
Archaeologists Thought This Famous Bronze Age Shaman Was a Guy. Well, She Wasn't
https://gizmodo.com/archaeologists-thought-this-famous-bronze-age-shaman-was-a-guy-well-she-wasnt-2000789963

crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…

As the country’s population rapidly ages
— with adults over 65 set to outnumber children by 2034
— more Americans will find themselves in need of care.
Many families remain wholly unprepared to shoulder the weight of this demographic shift,
even if they must
https://www.

Opinion | This Is One of the Hardest Jobs in America. Millions Are Doing It Alone.
Behind closed doors, millions of Americans are stepping into one of the hardest roles they’ll ever take on: caring for their aging parents.

Opendoor says it is shutting down its India operations and laying off nearly 250 employees, replacing them with smaller, AI-enabled teams in the US (Moneycontrol)
https://www.moneycontrol.com/technology/op

messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata

crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…

Raiders’ Michael Mayer Gets Stark Message for 2026 Season https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/michael-mayer-stark-message-2026-season/

Tom Brady's honest answer on Bill Belichick ends years of NFL speculation https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/tom-brady-bill-belichick-new-heights-patriots-debate/9280d731aba29b6bca5…

crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…