House Republicans unveiled a new health care proposal Friday
as they aim to address concerns about rising health insurance costs just weeks before enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies expire.
The legislation would codify and expand health plans for small businesses, fund reductions of premiums for low-income people in the individual health insurance market and increase transparency in prescription drug pricing, according to House Republican leadership aides.
The proposal …
Satellite executives, investors, and researchers say Elon Musk's aim to launch space data centers by around 2029 is highly ambitious, but the idea is plausible (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a5cf86ec-47cb-448f-b4a3-56ca6390ad8e
Benjamin Netanyahu declares aim to end US military aid | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-882871
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Great news for the environment. Keep it up, folks. Zero is a fair value; let’s aim for that and see how close we can get ;)
The US FDA qualifies the first AI drug development tool, AIM-NASH, to help doctors assess a severe form of fatty liver disease in drug trials (Sahil Pandey/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcar
Imagine a future where saying YES to your kids or grandkids doesn't trigger financial stress. Chris and Karen aim for a retirement that fosters independence and generosity without becoming burdensome. By building an extra income stream, they are crafting a transformative legacy! Quite the game-changer, wouldn't you say? 💬 #RetirementPlanning #FinancialFreedom
"When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!"
—Chuck Norris
#acting #coaching
The paragraph
"Amateurs and cranks aim higher, and are currently producing large documents which purport to contain breakthrough results, but which do not survive 5 minutes of expert scrutiny. I continually find it surprising that a non-expert can genuinely believe that they might contribute to research mathematics using only the tools which the experts also have access to. ..."
is taking the words right out of my mouth!!
https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/accelerating-mathematics/
Members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) and of the Many Shields Warrior Society (an Indigenous community security group) have been patrolling the streets of Minneapolis’s Phillips neighborhood since the start of the occupation, and they do not plan to stop.
“We all have a place. My place is to make sure people are fed and get a cup of coffee,” Rice said.
As is the case with many Minneapolis residents who do not imagine themselves as demonstrators — much less radicals — gett…
State and Parameter Estimation for a Neural Model of Local Field Potentials
Daniele Avitabile, Gabriel J. Lord, Khadija Meddouni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07842 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.07842 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.07842
arXiv:2512.07842v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The study of cortical dynamics during different states such as decision making, sleep and movement, is an important topic in Neuroscience. Modelling efforts aim to relate the neural rhythms present in cortical recordings to the underlying dynamics responsible for their emergence. We present an effort to characterize the neural activity from the cortex of a mouse during natural sleep, captured through local field potential measurements. Our approach relies on using a discretized Wilson--Cowan Amari neural field model for neural activity, along with a data assimilation method that allows the Bayesian joint estimation of the state and parameters. We demonstrate the feasibility of our approach on synthetic measurements before applying it to a dataset available in literature. Our findings suggest the potential of our approach to characterize the stimulus received by the cortex from other brain regions, while simultaneously inferring a state that aligns with the observed signal.
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Multi-agent learning under uncertainty: Recurrence vs. concentration
Kyriakos Lotidis, Panayotis Mertikopoulos, Nicholas Bambos, Jose Blanchet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08132 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.08132 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.08132
arXiv:2512.08132v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this paper, we examine the convergence landscape of multi-agent learning under uncertainty. Specifically, we analyze two stochastic models of regularized learning in continuous games -- one in continuous and one in discrete time with the aim of characterizing the long-run behavior of the induced sequence of play. In stark contrast to deterministic, full-information models of learning (or models with a vanishing learning rate), we show that the resulting dynamics do not converge in general. In lieu of this, we ask instead which actions are played more often in the long run, and by how much. We show that, in strongly monotone games, the dynamics of regularized learning may wander away from equilibrium infinitely often, but they always return to its vicinity in finite time (which we estimate), and their long-run distribution is sharply concentrated around a neighborhood thereof. We quantify the degree of this concentration, and we show that these favorable properties may all break down if the underlying game is not strongly monotone -- underscoring in this way the limits of regularized learning in the presence of persistent randomness and uncertainty.
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Aussie Gunners Podcast
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This article suggests that research in 3D rendering contributed to machine- assisted assassinations of children in Gaza.
It is a topic very close to my heart. When I was starting my academic career at the dept. of Digital Storytelling of ZGDV in Darmstadt, Germany, I took a lot of inspiration by colleagues from the Institute of Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California. Their work was funded by DARPA and a lot of it was about military training. Let alone the fact t…
As Trump and Big Tech aim to build SMRs to win the AI race, a look at the issues they face; none of the 50 SMRs under development have a US operating license (Jamie Smyth/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/9f6c4db1-559f-48e1-8c21-ac0bc1a1237c
I wonder how long until we learn that a popular 3rd (or 1st!) party closed-source (or OSS binary distribution) remote desktop or ssh client/terminal has been keylogging or uploading screenshots to its maker or external attacker to achieve some extortion or fraud or hacking aim
If you have a problem with secureblue being open and honest, we’re not the same.
"secureblue is for those whose first priority is using Linux, and second priority is security. secureblue does not claim to be the most secure option available on the desktop. We are limited in that regard by the current state of desktop Linux standardization, tooling, and upstream security development. What we aim for instead is to be the most secure option for those who already intend to use Linux. …
#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
GAN: It will repair before he gets here. [Blake takes aim with his gun.]
VILA: [Grabbing Blake's arm] You'll hit him!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/205/446
A major concept guides the Missionaria Protectiva: Purposeful instruction of the masses. This is firmly seated in our belief that the aim of argument should be to change the nature of truth. In such matters, we prefer the use of power rather than force.
—The Coda
#dunequotes
The full Weekend Reads report is on vacation this week, it will return next week. But we don't want to leave you with nothing. Here is one piece that might have made it into the top 5:
* The Input Stack on Linux
https://venam.net/blog/unix/2025/11/27/input_device…
Some jurisdictions still believe that tighter regulation of cars can encourage innovation and deliver benefits.
The aim here is to improve the efficiency of electric vehicles further.
https://carnewschina.com/2025…
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Aim for 100% you will be lucky if you get 80%; aim for 50% god knows what you will get
The Department of Justice (DOJ) plans to
👉 dismantle protections for trans and intersex people
in federal, state, and local prisons, jails, and youth detention facilities,
according to a government memo obtained by Prism.
The memo, dated Dec. 2, takes aim at existing standards of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA)
that the department says do not comport with the Trump administration’s first-day executive order that,
among other things, targeted protec…
Years ago, I developed a #Kotlin #GUI to help me rename my files in batch. Last week, I was surprised to see that it didn’t work to rename a network volume, though it had in the past. In this post, I aim to describe the issue and its solution.
"When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!"
—Chuck Norris
#acting #coaching
Zero Carbon V2X Tariffs for Non-Domestic Customers
Elisheva S Shamash, Zhong Fan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07308 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.07308 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.07308
arXiv:2512.07308v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: With the aim of meeting the worlds net-zero objectives, electricity trading through contractual agreements is becoming increasingly relevant in global and local energy markets. We develop contracts enabling efficient energy trading using Vehicle to Everything technology which can be applied to regulate energy markets and reduce costs and carbon emissions by using electric vehicles with bidirectional batteries to store energy during offpeak hours for export during peak hours. We introduce a contract based on the VCG mechanism which enables fleets of electric vehicles to export electricity to the grid efficiently throughout the day, where each electric vehicle has its energy consumption and exporting schedules and costs.
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Anthropic plans a 30-second ad during the Super Bowl parodying the prospect of intrusive ads in AI conversations, and will also air a 60-second pre-game ad (Suzanne Vranica/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/bus…
Offshore wind is about to get a major upgrade. Siemens Gamesa is developing a 21.5MW prototype turbine—a massive leap in capacity that could dramatically boost energy production at wind farms.
This isn't just about bigger turbines. It's about meeting renewable energy targets faster and cutting carbon emissions at scale.
But Republicans want you to believe that "college is a scam" & unskilled labor & trade schools are what Americans should aim for.
Uneducated citizens make for voters that #Republicans can easily manipulate.
▶️ I Worked For Hyundai. What I Saw Will Shock You.
If REM sleep cycles are ~90mins, hth did anyone think that an 8hour sleep aim would work?
"PHP is the lingua franca of affordable web hosting options; or, in other terms, the Toyota Corolla of programming languages: boring, solid, easy, and affordable. You can find, almost anywhere in the world, an affordable web hosting with the saint quadrinity of LAMP: Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP; an OS, a web server, a database server, and a scripting language, in an inexpensive package, enabling the masses to go further. Paraphrasing George Clooney, what else?"
Valves and Bandcamp are two companies that are on the spotlight for doing good things (mostly by NOT entering the AI train)
I am happy for them and their users.
But both are for profits and have a CEO who either is already very rich or aim to become so.
I am also a satisfied customer of both those companies. but be attentive. Things can change very quickly!
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"She took aim at changes in the regulatory framework which have allowed private capital access to 'Main Street investors’ pockets, including their retirement funds,' exposing them to more…
The Trump administration is moving to
dismantle the
National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado,
taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs
"When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!"
—Chuck Norris
#acting #coaching
I’m old enough that it took me years to adopt a screen name. I had been given something of an embarrassing nickname (Dr. Bill) on various BBS’s because of my tendency to expound at length and in depth on a variety of topics.
I adopted the one I’ve stuck with since when I needed to have an AIM account for reasons. No one has ever questioned my choice. I could make a trademark case for it if necessary. @…
Trump's birthday card to Epstein
New protest art on National Mall takes aim at Trump and Epstein files - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/01/19/trump-epstein-birthday-card-mall/
Some US college students say they are using AI "humanizer" tools to alter text to avoid cheating accusations; AI detection tools now aim to catch "humanizers" (Tyler Kingkade/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/coll
South Korea, the EU, the UK, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and others aim to build "sovereign AI"; Gartner expects $1.5T in AI spending in 2025, up 50% from 2024 (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.
Wife indicated she has been craving Vlaamse stoofvlees and skolebrŸd. We aim to please...
“I’d try to help any president of the US because I’m a patriot,”
JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon told shareholders.
Even Vanity Fair commented on Dimon’s “unbridled optimism”
despite the new president’s growing list of gaffes.
A decade on, the pair’s relationship has hit rock bottom.
Trump on Thursday took aim at his one-time ally, launching a $5bn (£3.7bn) lawsuit against JP Morgan and Dimon
over claims the bank had unfairly closed his accounts for political re…
IBM and Cisco plan to link quantum computers over long distances and aim to provide a proof-of-concept by 2030, potentially paving the way for quantum internet (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel
ICYMI: Recordings of the morning sessions and the individual sessions from #Eurosky Live (Berlin, 19 Nov. 2025) are on #Vimeo now:
➡️ #FreeOurFeeds initiative, the aim is to build a #european #Bluesky insance:
#SocialMedia #ATProto #Atmosphere
Curious that whenever someone shows me “the cool #AI flow” they built that’s supposed to be impressive, the conversation goes the same way:
Stage 1: “But you don’t understand. You don’t like AI because you haven’t used it right. Let me show you how much you can do it with.”
Stage 2: “Here are the steps in the flow and the instructions I feed to this agent / custom GPT / Claude project. I tell it to do X, reference document Y, and aim for Z.”
Stage 3: “Now, let me show you the results it gives.”
*Writes task, presses to run the prompt.*
Stage 4: “Umm sorry it’s taking a while. It’s fast but not instant. And by the way, the prompt isn’t perfect, you can definitely make it better. I just threw this together real quick the other day. It makes some mistakes, but it’s really good.”
Stage 5: “Uuuuuuh actually don’t look at the output.” *scrolls or stops screen share or pulls device away.*
“You know it’s already doing so well, if I do more prompt engineering it will get really good but I need to give it better instructions. And it ran just fine last night, I don’t know what’s up with it. And this is a cheap model, if we use another model it will be better.”
Stage 6: “You know, you really shouldn’t judge this so much. The technology will improve, it will get there sooner than you know and then you’ll regret not trying it sooner.”
So curious that this keeps happening 🤷♀️
#LLMs #work #tech #AIBubble
Hmm this scheduling is annoying.
An hour of 1999 Top of the Pops at 7pm.
Then two hours of watching men playing with their balls before #TOTP resumes for '86 and '97 at 10pm.
Not sure how much of that I'll be watching but I'll aim to give some of it a go.
@cdarwin@c.im
