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Null is problematic, but why? Let's see why, and let that guide us to new alternatives. #PHP
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/much-ado-about-null

Much ado about null
null is controversial, and often derided. But let's go a bit deeper and understand what it means to mean nothing, and let that guide us to better error handling.

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The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel https://edri.org/our-work/the-eu-is-about-to-sell-our-most-sensitive-data-to-the-us-for-visa-free-travel/

“At minimum, I would expect someone running for…U.S. Senate to have a modicum of curiosity about China & its various threats to global security & American national security.
It has the world’s largest (& certainly most chilling) state surveillance infrastructure.
It ranks nearly dead last in press freedom (178th out of 180 countries) as assessed by Reporters Without Borders. Every human rights index ranks it near…bottom among all countries.”

Darline Graham Doesn’t Know Shit About Taiwan
And she should. She really should.

Everything in life, at some level, is about storytelling, so they say. Yet, telling my own story, about my own work, the reasons/impetus, the processes, the details, mistakes, insights, lessons, connections etc. It is the hardest thing ever.
People don't buy the art, they buy the artist.
As much as I do love writing, I've always strongly disliked writing about my creative works/efforts, probably because I so often wanted The Work™ to stand on its own and also because I so frequen…

Thinking about #tests: assertions and matchers
https://zverok.space/blog/2026-08-16-assertions-and-matchers.html

Caleb Downs May Have Said Too Much About Cowboys Coaching Staff https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/caleb-downs-may-have-said-too-much-about-cowboys-coaching-staff

Here's what prediction markets say about the Steelers: Use Polymarket promo code CBSSPORTS for $20 bonus

https://www.cbssports.com/prediction/news/

Le Monde is considering ways to grant access to AI agents of paying readers while maintaining its block on crawler bots and other unlicensed non-human traffic (Jessica Davies/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/le-monde-blo

Le Monde blocked the bots. Now it’s working out what to do about paying readers showing up as agents
Le Monde is "figuring out" how to maintain its subscription partnership with readers who use AI agents rather than its homepage or app.

O&C – ownership and control – *that’s* the lens by which we should be evaluating data and technology.
Who owns and controls data and technology?
If we want a fair, just world with human rights, freedom, and democracy, the answer to that question must be twofold:
1. Data about and technology for the commons must be owned and controlled by the commons.
2. Data about and technology for people must be owned and controlled by individuals.
That’s it.
Notice …

Two US senators demand answers from TikTok about a "depraved" test that withheld a safety feature from 10% of US users, including a teenager who died by suicide (Olivia Carville/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The Raiders Are About to Find Out If Week 1 Was Real https://raiderramble.com/2026/09/19/the-raiders-are-about-to-find-out-if-week-1-was-real/

The cool thing about running a #libre / #FOSS business is that we don't have to even think about stuff like this: http…

Mathematicians: “Math isn't really about proofs, it's about understanding!”
Physicists: 👀
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/if-math-is-more-than-proof-we-need-to-better-celebrate-the-rest-of-it/…

I just learned about the Laguna Garzón Bridge in Uruguay and it's pretty cool!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguna_Garzón_Bridge
(Also, one of my neighbors is from Uruguay so I'm sort of interested in learning more about it.)

Laguna Garzón Bridge - Wikipedia

And another mail to our administration about another topic. And tomorrow ... I'll write the mails to some politicians about
https://killthecookiebanner.eu/take-action/
Because I prefer acting over complaining.
I'm off for today! (Lord of the Rings 📖 is waiting)…

Mathematician Paul Erdős had a fantasy that he'd die giving a lecture.
He'd prove a result,
someone would ask about a generalization,
he'd respond "I'll leave that to the next generation," and then he'd die.
He passed away at a conference in Warsaw #OTD in 1996,
just after proving a new result. 🧪 🧮

Robert McNees (@mcnees.bsky.social)
Mathematician Paul Erdős had a fantasy that he'd die giving a lecture. He'd prove a result, someone would ask about a generalization, he'd respond "I'll leave that to the next generation," and then he'd die. He passed away at a conference in Warsaw #OTD in 1996, just after proving a new result. 🧪 🧮

The photograph illustrating this piece about #Trump and his 'aide' seems to me to have a chillingly Handmaid's Tale vibe.
#Fascism

Who is Natalie Harp? Trump’s closest and most devoted aide is in the spotlight
Speculation about US president’s executive assistant sparks furious backlash from White House

I did not know about ggplot_build() before. It can come in handy in situations where you want to access computed metrics of a #ggplot. https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/reference/ggplot_build.html…

Build ggplot for rendering. — ggplot_build
build_ggplot() takes the plot object, and performs all steps necessary to produce an object that can be rendered. This function outputs two pieces: a list of data frames (one for each layer), and a panel object, which contain all information about axis limits, breaks etc. The ggplot_build() function is vestigial and build_ggplot() should be used instead.

New blog post! I hate hate *hate* that all different kinds of ML gets conflated to defend cloud-based LLMs. Let's talk about it:
#AI

AI discourse
I have strong feelings about "AI", and I don't think that's much a of a secret. Every time it's brought up, though, it almost always seem...

No life from my Sun3 PSU yet, but some friends convinced me I really needed to put a load on it; so here is my load; right to left about 7A at 5v, (hidden by tape) the 12V around 0.5A, and -5v at about 1A. But nah, I need to go back to tracing the PCB out a bit more.

Maga wants more babies. But they don’t seem too worried about miscarriages in ICE detention
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/19/maga-pro-life-miscarriages-pregnancy-ice-detention?CMP=Share_An…

Maga wants more babies. But they don’t seem too worried about miscarriages in ICE detention
Officials lack data on miscarriages after October 2025. Detained women aren’t getting the prenatal healthcare they need

Maga wants more babies. But they don’t seem too worried about miscarriages in ICE detention
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/19/maga-pro-life-miscarriages-pregnancy-ice-detention?CMP=Share_An…

Maga wants more babies. But they don’t seem too worried about miscarriages in ICE detention
Officials lack data on miscarriages after October 2025. Detained women aren’t getting the prenatal healthcare they need

On 16WW Mains Inlet Water Temperature - Domestic mains water temperature data for 16WW on tap; seasonal min/max about 10C/20C in winter/summer. #dataset #water #temperature -

On 16WW Mains Inlet Water Temperature
Domestic mains water temperature data for 16WW on tap; seasonal min/max about 10C/20C in winter/summer. #dataset #water #temperature

Shopware 6 Hidden Gems #3: sw-expect-packages — let your integration fail fast
Here is a support ticket I have seen in about five different costumes: a middleware pushes orders into Shopware via the Admin API. One day the payloads start failing — or worse, they don't fail, they just silently write incomplete data. After an hour of digging it turns out someone deactivated a plugin on the shop side, or updated it to a version with a different custom field layout.

SFU Public Square
Rethinking Economics with
Dr. Stephanie Kelton
What if the stories we tell about money shape not just our economy, but our collective sense of what's possible?
Internationally renowned economist Dr. Stephanie Kelton has reshaped public conversations about government spending, deficits, and economic policy — through her bestselling book The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy, the documentary Finding the…

when covid happened Grey's Anatomy had a whole season about how terrible it was for medical staff... i think that's exactly what Inside Job would've been like when the Epstein files released

Caleb Downs May Have Said Too Much About Cowboys Coaching Staff https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/caleb-downs-may-have-said-too-much-about-cowboys-coaching-staff

After my previous ramblings about OpenSuse, it's fair to note not all is that bad, as some of the ashes are swept away:
#kalpa #opensuse

"3 in 4 Britons (74%) concerned about climate change today following heatwave summer"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate

3 in 4 Britons (74%) concerned about climate change today following heatwave summer
London, UK. New polling data from Ipsos in the UK, conducted 31st July – 4th August 2026, reveals a significant shift in public concern following a summer of elevated temperatures.

from my link log —
Myths about USB-C.
https://www.electronicdesign.com/industrial-automation/11-myths-about-usb-type-c
saved 2019-09-10

11 Myths About USB Type-C
Due to its popularity, a few myths have now emerged about the USB interface—particularly regarding its latest iteration, USB-C with PD.

I feel there’s nearly a decade of evidence suggesting he doesn’t give a shit about accessibility except as a virtue-signal-slash-cudgel.
Also, his Gutenberg push drove blind users away. But he’ll use that result to blame the WP-a11y team anyway.
This guy is WordPress’s biggest single risk.
https://

Well TACO, how about we talk about your forest fires...
https://currentwildfires.com/en/wildfires-united-states/

New Survey: Privacy Concerns Are A Top Barrier to AgeTech Adoption Among Older Adults
https://fpf.org/press-releases/new-survey-privacy-concerns-are-a-top-barrier-to-agetech-adoption-among-older-adults/

Good-by to Gutenberg? Nope—Shrill Publisher Cries about Xerox Machine Were Wrong
1975 Xerox machine lawsuit: publishers vs libraries amicus briefs AI summary and then AI blog post it.
The exhibits
Exhibit A — the photocopier is a printing press
Exhibit B — the journals will simply die
Exhibit C — one copy replaces all copies
Exhibit D — a censorship apocalypse
Exhibit E — the slippery slope to the end of publishing
Exhibit F — death of the mar…

Maybe someday Boston won't suck to bike in. https://csindie.com/does-mayor-wu-actually-feel-sorry-about-her-dead-co-worker/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=activitypub

Does mayor Wu actually feel sorry about her dead co-worker - Cambridge | Somerville Independent
The mayor of Boston is on the news again. In each interview, her voice is warbling and unsure, yet each word conveys her utter grief over her friend’s death. For weeks, she has told anyone who will listen that she “will never get over it,” and that...

@… about:blank is solitary confinement

Anthropic’s Text Watermarking Proves AI Companies Do Not Care at All About Writing https://www.404media.co/anthropics-text-watermarking-proves-ai-companies-do-not-care-at-all-about-writing/

“Gather ’round, children. Let me tell you about the Dark Mode Toggle Wars…”

A post I wrote about securing an #OpenAPI scheme using Duende IdentityServer gets a decent amount of reads a month (https://duendesoftware.com/blog/202511

#TIL "rejection cake" 'a cake that someone decorates and shares on social media after their application to a university has been rejected, usually as a light-hearted way of showing their disappointment'🤨
https://

Very good blog for people like me, enthusiastic about the potential of AI. You have to take a cold shower now and then 🤔
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/

Great article about the loss of diversity induced by recommender systems (including LLMs):
Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same
"A world that keeps removing the unlikely also removes the things that could have become the next likely. Ecologists have known this for a long time already and even priced it: they call it the insurance value of biodiversity, the standing reserve of rare species that cost energy and contribute nothing, until the clim…

Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same
What 640 London shopping streets, 4,000 Billboard hits, a million films and synthetic AI personas tell us about why everything is flattening into sameness and how to regulate the algorithms behind it.

Carolina Molina, a licensed mental health counselor who assists immigration lawyers with their cases,
was visiting attorneys in Fairfax County, Virginia on Aug. 10
when she witnessed mass deportation agents in unmarked vehicles abducting two Latino men.
When Molina voiced her displeasure from inside her car,
she soon found herself swarmed by a team of agents,
including a masked officer who pointed his weapon in her face and claimed that she “almost ran us over.…

When It Comes to ICE, No One Is Off-Limits
“From the beginning, mass deportation was never about public safety. It was always about targeting anyone and everyone this administration deems undesirable, for whatever reason.”

Will Aaron Donald unretire? What Sean McVay's reaction and NFL history has to say about possible return

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/aaron-donald-return-nfl-history-rams/…

Survey: in a first, Democrats are more concerned than Republicans about AI's growing role in daily life, at 56% to 49%; 75% of Democrats worry about job losses (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20

Democrats are now more worried than Republicans about AI and its impact on jobs
In another shift, Democrats are now more likely than Republicans to predict that AI will lead to fewer jobs over the next 20 years (75% vs. 68%).

One thing I still seem people who have gas cars get wrong about charging is they think about it like "filling up".
But you don't fill up an EV. if you have 50 more miles to drive on a trip you charge to 70 miles not to the full 80% or 100% charge.

Rashan Gary should be worried about Cowboys rookie in hopes for 'dominant' season https://fansided.com/nfl/rashan-gary-should-be-worried-about-cowboys-rookie-in-hopes-for-dominant-season-01kxxvwrjph9

Q&A with California AG Rob Bonta about why David Ellison is "desperate", some Hollywood guilds supporting Paramount's WBD deal, concerns about CNN, and more (Steven Zeitchik/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.

California AG Rob Bonta Says David Ellison Is “Desperate” and “Grasping at Straws”
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Bonta took aim at the Paramount chief and emerging legal rival: “He cannot flee accountability."

#Zeteo #AbdulElSayed

Abdul El-Sayed Hits Back Against His Critics
In a no-holds-barred interview with Mehdi, the Senate candidate talks about not sending money to Israel, being a girl-dad, and the never-ending questions about Hasan Piker.

Former Player Has Message on Rob Leonard Amid Concerns About Raiders Defense https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/rob-leonard-aq-shipley-defense/

How about this: they’re commiting genocide together as we speak.
How about we nitpick the minutiae once we’ve stopped that? @… https://mastodon.social/@threetails/11

I see therapy as being a lot like theater, and theater akin to politics. When I visited a play a few years ago about black history and culture, created, directed, and played entirely by people of color, it created a space in which a certain reality was true. A reality where “anti-white racism” was rightfully mocked, where black identity was valued, and its oppressors silenced.
When we left the theater we had to face a world where the opposite was true, yet forever carrying a part of th…

Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT) thinks there’s something queer about Secretary Pete Hegseth’s fixation on masculinity.
The congresswoman weighed in on the U.S. military’s plans to test male service members’ testosterone levels,
telling journalist Scott MacFarlane there’s something odd about being so obsessed with manliness while villainizing the LGBTQ community at the same time.
“I think it’s indicative of the fact that there are so many people in this administration that have s…

Congresswoman Says 'Homoerotic' Side Of GOP's Masculinity Mania Can't Be Ignored
Rep. Becca Balint had a list of reasons why Secretary Pete Hegseth’s fixation with making the military more manly looked like a full-on fetish.

(Grin)
‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026/j

‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?
Designers say that as well as offering a degree of protection from surveillance, their clothes make a powerful fashion statement about the importance of privacy

(Grin)
‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026/j

‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?
Designers say that as well as offering a degree of protection from surveillance, their clothes make a powerful fashion statement about the importance of privacy

Source: New York and Connecticut AGs have voiced concerns about the potential settlement agreement with Paramount and are pressing for greater concessions (Jon Passantino/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/ellison-s-settlement-squeeze

Ellison's Settlement Squeeze
Paramount may be closing in on a settlement with California AG Rob Bonta, but at least two states are pushing back, Status has learned, raising new questions about how far regulators are willing to bend in David Ellison’s pursuit of Warner Bros.

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Survey: 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about increased AI use in daily life, up from 37% in 2021, including 55% of those under 30 (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20

Young adults in the U.S. are increasingly wary of AI, concerned it will take jobs
About half of Americans say they're more concerned than excited about AI, and young adults' concern is rising.

"Everyone forgets comedians are actors. There's no question about it. A Robin Williams cannot say the same line every night for 40 weeks and make it sound fresh unless he's doing an acting job."
—Joan Rivers
#acting #coaching

@… @… I remember learning about <style contenteditable> 😅

One of the nice things about not having ads or any kind of revenue from my site is that I no longer get the diamond-pressure bum-hole puckering feeling I used to get when I had a hosting company and a site would go down. I don’t even have monitoring set up and it’s freeing.
But go kick an LLM in the dick for stealing so much of my shit that you can’t read it except in some inaccessible pay-for-wrongness shitty chat venue.

Some of the storm damage I saw biking to work today. This is in my neighborhood about five blocks from my house.
#milwaukee

Wrote a note to the local administration about a certain, rather uncool, bend on one of the cycleways I usually take.
Maybe they improve it ... I'm curious. Keep fingers crossed!

The Biggest Question Nobody Is Asking About The Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-biggest-question-nobody-asking-about

Today, I’m talking with Harvard professor and New Yorker staff writer Dr. Jill Lepore about her new book, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, which comes out on August 25.
Jill is one of the best writers there is at identifying institutional patterns in history, and Decoder is a show about systems, so this book could not possibly be more in our zone.
You build systems by measuring things — gathering information, quantifying it as data, and taking action on it. And Jill’s big…

Dr. Jill Lepore on why AI backlash is vital for the future
Harvard law and history professor and New Yorker writer Dr. Jill Lepore discusses her forthcoming book, ‘The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State’

ICC stands for International Criminal Court.
Think about that for a second. Take all the time you need.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnvnl0elz47o

US announces new sanctions on ICC president and top lawyer
The Trump administration has vowed to dismantle the international court "brick by brick".

does anyone have a good blog / article criticizing bluesky? i remember lots of texts being thrown around on here about it not truly being decentralized. sadly i cannot find them now, would you help me with some links :D?

Patriots smother the Steelers, but is it time to worry about Drake Maye? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7613821/2026/09/20/steelers-patriots-nfl-2026-score-result-takeaways/

One difference between Hegseth Evangelicals & Leonard Leo Catholics.
Evangelicals shout from the rooftops.
Catholics in Leo's circle rarely say what they want outloud.
They just go about undermining democracy, quietly, in the dark. Like termites.
From 2018 - out loud.
-- Tom Carter
https://www.

In Defence of Catholic Integralism
States that do not recognize both natural law and the transformation of law and public reason brought about by the raising of religion to a supernatural good will become confessors of false belief opposed to Christianity, and their great power will turn from supporting Christianity to opposing or ev

The Biggest Question Nobody Is Asking About The Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-biggest-question-nobody-asking-about

"Everyone forgets comedians are actors. There's no question about it. A Robin Williams cannot say the same line every night for 40 weeks and make it sound fresh unless he's doing an acting job."
—Joan Rivers
#acting #coaching

Von Miller candid about joining Cowboys, Super Bowl ‘holiday’; and more https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/von-miller-candid-about-joining-cowboys-super-bowl-holiday-and-more

So exactly a week after reading about the Northern Flicker at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute (https://rtpi.org/trails-hemlock-forests/), one joined me at my house.
This one was a male (I think), yellow-shafted.
More info:

Beautifully filmed, interesting and entertaining nature documentary about why various animals are seeking out consumption of hallucinogenics and why some species are coping better than others...
German: Tierisch High
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/116844-000-A/tierisch-high/

The same people who want historical accuracy when they really mean they don't want to see black people are now saying they don't care about Odyssey not being accurate. Curious.

NFL changes video board rules on field goals after coach's viral post about Patriots https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7611155/2026/09/19/nfl-video-board-rule-change-field-goals-patriots/

If I had to summarise capitalism in one word it would be “enclosure”.
That’s literally everything these bastards are about. Taking something that belongs to us all, building a fence around it, and calling it “mine.” (And if you don’t like it, “say hello to my little friend…”)
That’s literally the whole of their bullshit philosophy.

"I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and it’s impossible to have rational conversations with them about it.
I can’t name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out."
-- Mitchell Hashimoto, of HashiCorp and Ghostty fame

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking
The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.

Sources: SpaceX approached AI coding startup Cognition about a potential acquisition; deal talks are inactive, but the companies are discussing working together (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-19/spacex-at…

Von Miller candid about joining Cowboys, Super Bowl ‘holiday’; and more https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/von-miller-candid-about-joining-cowboys-super-bowl-holiday-and-more

For years Natalie Harp has only been a minor character in the Trump Cinematic Universe.
But all that changed this week when Jon Ossoff, a Democratic senator and possible 2028 presidential contender,
accused Trump in a campaign speech of wanting to “build his ballroom and travel with Natalie” instead of doing his job.
The remark triggered a tsunami of online speculation about the precise nature of the relationship
and a furious backlash.
On Monday Trump lashed ou…

Who is Natalie Harp? Trump’s closest and most devoted aide is in the spotlight
Speculation about US president’s executive assistant sparks furious backlash from White House

Apple’s innovating again, y’all!
#Apple

How do Raiders fans feel about Jackson Powers-Johnson inability to stay healthy? https://raiderramble.com/2026/08/18/how-do-raiders-fans-feel-about-jackson-powers-johnson-inability-to-stay-healthy/

Sources: Beijing allowed ByteDance and Tencent to each receive about 10,000 Nvidia H200 chips at their mainland China facilities in recent weeks (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/6c5650fb-969d-4d4e-80d6-8d11002a8cf7

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/117120453168614178
OTHERING
“From the beginning, mass deportation was never about public safety.
It was always about targeting anyone and everyone this administration deems undesirable,
for whatever reason,”
said Joa…

Raiders HC Klint Kubiak Just Sent a Clear Message About Ashton Jeanty https://raiderramble.com/2026/09/18/raiders-hc-klint-kubiak-just-sent-a-clear-message-about-ashton-jeanty/

Chinese open models like Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8 Max shift the industry's focus back to marginal costs and cost of goods sold, as inference costs scale with revenue (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/whos-afraid-of-chinese-models/

Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models?
Everyone is worried about Chinese models, but the frontier labs will be fine; we need to enable open U.S. alternatives.

Cowboys vs Commanders: 3 things to hate about the Week 2 matchup https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/09/19/dallas-cowboys-vs-washington-commanders-3-reasons-to-…

Filing: SK Hynix plans a ~$29B share buyback, repurchasing and canceling up to 24M treasury shares, in a bid to calm worries about the durability of AI spending (Denny Thomas/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

The worries that artificial intelligence is degrading education have been building for months.
Students are using it for everything, including cheating,
and a recent report out of M.I.T. said it is triggering “cognitive surrender.”
Many university leaders are embracing A.I. with enthusiasm anyway.
As A.I. leaders warn about the dangers of their own technology,
the dissonance between the optimism of university leaders and the fears of many students and professors…

Universities Sound Warnings About A.I. Even as They Embrace It
As A.I. upends education, university leaders have been all over the map about how to respond. It can be very confusing for students.

A Cowboys Fast Start on Offense in WK 2 Starts with the Offensive Line https://insidethestar.com/a-cowboys-fast-start-on-offense-in-wk-2-starts-with-the-offensive-line

I’ve Got a Feeling About Texans-Raiders https://www.houstontexans.com/news/texans-raiders-vanderblog

Super Micro says its independent probe found no evidence its CEO or senior management knew of an alleged scheme to smuggle $2.5B worth of Nvidia chips to China (Amanda Gerut/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/08/20/supermicro-investigation-ceo-nvidia-smuggling/…

Supermicro investigation clears CEO in alleged $2.5 billion smuggling scheme while a criminal trial involving a cofounder is set for next year
The AI-hardware maker’s board found no evidence CEO Charles Liang knew anything about alleged chip smuggling but a pending trial could bring more legal exposure to the beleaguered company.

North Korea has launched about 10 short-range ballistic missiles towards the sea, South Korea’s military said,
a day after Pyongyang shrugged off Donald Trump’s order to scale back US military drills with South Korea
in an apparent attempt to resume diplomacy.
The joint chiefs of staff said the missiles were launched from the region of Pyongyang at around 5pm (08.00 GMT)
on Thursday towards North Korea’s eastern waters.
The military said South Korea had bolstere…

North Korea fires 10 missiles day after Trump curtails South Korea joint drills
Launches, detected by South Korea and Japan, came after US scaled back exercises with South Korea in apparent overture to Kim Jong-un

Republicans are all abuzz about socialism because the party’s political prospects look dire this fall.
Donald Trump’s approval ratings are in the thirties,
Americans are experiencing surging energy prices,
and Trump and other Republicans are engaged in open corruption while cutting vital government programs.
They need something, and in a pinch, socialism has always been the go-to emergency button for the right to push.

Why the GOP loves to use ‘communism’ as an attack
Explaining the Right this week explores why Republicans keep trying to scare people into thinking Democrats want communism.

A long-planned vigil at the Kennedy Center
is expected to draw a significant crowd Friday night,
capping a week in which the performing arts center closed its doors,
and Donald Trump indicated the building may be “ripped down” if his name isn’t added to the institution.

The event, scheduled weeks ago by an advocacy organization called
"Hands Off the Arts", intends to start with a 6:30 p.m. rally featuring musical performances and speeches by former an…

Vigil at the Kennedy Center expected to draw about 1,000 supporters
The event, scheduled weeks ago by an advocacy organization called Hands Off the Arts, intends to start with a 6:30 p.m. rally.

“Stand up if you know someone who’s been affected by community violence,”
Dr. Khalid Griffin prompted the group of Fort Wayne high schoolers. 
Almost all 60 teenagers who had been seated in the center of the downtown church stood up.
The teens, a predominantly Black group of students, were selected as part of a youth program that does violence prevention work with local high schools.
As area business leaders, city officials, judges, and police officers watched and too…

Teens in This Small Indiana City Want to Talk About Shootings. Adults Are Listening.
“Stand up if you know someone who’s been affected by community violence,” Dr. Khalid Griffin prompted the group of Fort Wayne high schoolers.  Almost all 60 teenagers who had been seated in the center of the downtown church stood up. The teens, a predominantly Black group of students, were selected as part of a youth […]

Uber and Lyft were just not meant to be, says Travis Kalanick.
The former Uber CEO said he has no regrets about how he handled a potential acquisition of Lyft.

Uber-Lyft talks in 2014 collapsed over valuation disagreements and cultural mismatches.

Kalanick recently launched robotics company Atoms and raised $1.7 billion for the startup.