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There are reports ice morale is low. Proud boys or not, cleaving them away from the organization by encouraging them to see the downsides of staying is doable and worth pursuing.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politi

ICE agents face burnout and frustration amid Trump's aggressive enforcement
As ICE launches a recruitment effort to hire 10,000 more officers, existing staff struggle with long hours, growing public outrage.

US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month (Jasper Ward/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-department-agriculture-says-no-food-aid-benefits-will-be-issued-next-month-2025-10-26/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p34#a251026p34

For the Austrians in the audience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asa0Rxl0Ar4

Wow! Snow!
#WhiteChristmas

Christmas morning snow on Kunanyi/Mount Wellington and central Tasmania
Snow has arrived in the island state on Christmas morning, but hotter conditions are expected around the country, including a scorcher in the west.

Mixture of Thoughts: Learning to Aggregate What Experts Think, Not Just What They Say
Jacob Fein-Ashley, Dhruv Parikh, Rajgopal Kannan, Viktor Prasanna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21164

Mixture of Thoughts: Learning to Aggregate What Experts Think, Not Just What They Say
Open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly specialize by domain (e.g., math, code, general reasoning), motivating systems that leverage complementary strengths across models. Prior multi-LLM approaches either (i) route a query to one or a few experts and generate independently, (ii) aggregate outputs from each model via costly multi-turn exchanges, or (iii) fuse weights into a single model-typically requiring architectural homogeneity. We introduce Mixture of Thoughts (MoT), a simple…

Crypto infrastructure provider Fireblocks acquires Dynamic, which streamlines crypto wallet setup, authentication, and onboarding for 50M accounts, for ~$90M (CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/s1zemqprel

Fireblocks acquires Dynamic, a16z-backed wallet platform, for $90 million
The Israeli digital asset firm, valued at $8 billion, broadens its platform amid industry-wide stablecoin momentum. 

My solution to the problem @… mentions:
1. Make password the •only• login field. No username/email! Just password, and you’re in!
2. Because they now identify users, passwords must to be unique across all users in a system.
3. For security reasons, require passwords to be unique across all sites on the entire Internet. A password can be used at most once in human history.
4. This renders account recovery impossible in many cases.
5. Over time, users are thus able to use fewer and fewer sites, eventually being forced offline altogether.
6. Success!
https://mastodon.social/@jwz/115776511391611416

Will the proposed UK government ID require an Apple/Andoid phone:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-digital-id-scheme-to-be-rolled-out-across-uk
Entrenching that duopoly so far that government services rely on it sounds dan…

New digital ID scheme to be rolled out across UK
A new digital ID scheme will help combat illegal working while making it easier for the vast majority of people to use vital government services. Digital ID will be mandatory for Right to Work checks by the end of the Parliament.

»Überwachung — Die Schweiz zerlöchert ihren Datenschutz:
Die Schweiz galt lange Zeit als Hort des Datenschutzes. Nun drohen ausgerechnet dort totale Überwachung und die Abwanderung von IT-Unternehmen«
Das ist wirklich beängstigend, da die Web-Hoster schon jetzt die Web IP-Logs jegliche Users für ein Vierteljahr zu Aufbewahrung verpflichtend sind. Anscheinend hat niemensch was zu verbergen :-\
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Überwachung: Die Schweiz zerlöchert ihren Datenschutz - Golem.de
Die Schweiz galt lange Zeit als Hort des Datenschutzes. Nun drohen ausgerechnet dort totale Überwachung und die Abwanderung von IT-Unternehmen.

Aggressive traders on Robinhood, whose stock has more than tripled in 2025, are central to the company's success, as critics liken the environment to a casino (Hannah Erin Lang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/robinhood-ceo-vlad-tenev-04e3ab28?st=r…

Traders Are Flooding Markets With Risky Bets. Robinhood’s CEO Is Their Cult Hero.
Brokerage co-founded by Vlad Tenev makes exotic investments available to ordinary investors, seeing aggressive traders as key to company’s success