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Jerry Jones Shares What Micah Parsons' Agent Told Him When Presented With Deal https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/jerry-jones-expresses-appreciation-micah-parsons-amid-heated-contract-talks

❝Americans are democracy’s equivalent of second-generation wealth. They were born into democracy and have no appreciation of what life is like without it.❞
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/14/wang-jian-china-journalist-reports-united-states-donald-trump-xi-jinping

Sask-watch: Saskatchewan bigfoot appreciation society.
cc: @… discuss

In appreciation of all great work being done on 15, I decided to go with 14.3, with the 'latest' branch. All pkgs available, my dots for River working flawlessly, very happy with all that.
Not always is the latest thing the best thing to happen for you.
#freebsd

SAG-AFTRA praises California Governor Gavin Newsom for signing new legislation to protect a performer's likeness, saying it takes action "against AI abuse" (Alyssa Ray/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/sag-aftra-statement-new-law-agai…

SAG-AFTRA Praises Governor Newsom for Taking Action 'Against AI Abuse' With New Law: 'California Stands With Performers'
SAG-AFTRA voiced their appreciation for California lawmakers on Monday, after new legislation was signed to protect a performer's likeness.

I wonder if the US will eventually overcome it's cultural (wilful?) obliviousness to irony, because it's settling in drifts as far south as Te Wāiponamu (the South Island) of Aotearoa (NZ).
Perhaps, one day, they might develop an appreciation of irony as I have since emigrating. And even savour it.

Dallas Cowboys kick off Heroes Appreciation Day with World War 2 aircraft flyover https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-kick-off-heroes-appreciation-day-world-war-2-aircraft-flyover

I’ll celebrate a Nazi’s death any day of the week, though you won’t catch me putting it in Google Calendar. Knowing them, they’d probably reschedule it to ‘Nazis Appreciation Day’ and then sell my joy as an ad preference.
#CharlieKirk #Nazism

Ich bin der festen Überzeugung, dass es mehr Fred Sinowatz Appreciation braucht! (Steintafel in Kalkofen Baxa)

#ListeningClub Now entering the African Head Charge Appreciation session…

1! https://metalhead.club/@harriolkn/115152196049867275

October 23rd, 1989, 36 years ago, on #climate, we got the POV from outside. 🚀🌍👀
Atlantis Commander Donald Williams said:
“The world as we know it is a very fragile place.”
And mission specialist Ellen Baker 👩‍🚀 on the ozone layer:
“Our world is a beautiful place, and we do need to take care of it. You get an appreciation of how thin the protective layer is above the planet …

Shuttle to Land 3 Hours Earlier Because of Winds
The five astronauts aboard the shuttle Atlantis prepared Sunday to return to a planet they now view with increased awareness of its fragility, planning to touch down today at Edwards Air Force Base at 9:33 a.m., three hours earlier than planned.

Very pleased to share that my article on #censorship and federally supported information is out in the Summer issue of "Documents to the People." Much appreciation to the peer reviewers and editor for asking good questions and helping to improve it.

Bootstrapping Liquidity in BTC-Denominated Prediction Markets
Fedor Shabashev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11990 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.11990

Bootstrapping Liquidity in BTC-Denominated Prediction Markets
Prediction markets have gained adoption as on-chain mechanisms for aggregating information, with platforms such as Polymarket demonstrating demand for stablecoin-denominated markets. However, denominating in non-interest-bearing stablecoins introduces inefficiencies: participants face opportunity costs relative to the fiat risk-free rate, and Bitcoin holders in particular lose exposure to BTC appreciation when converting into stablecoins. This paper explores the case for prediction markets deno…

Basic scientists' disproportionate impact amid applied drift reveals structural asymmetry in science
Rikuei Kaku, Mikako Bito, Keita Nishimoto, Ichiro Sakata, Kimitaka Asatani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01530

Basic scientists' disproportionate impact amid applied drift reveals structural asymmetry in science
Despite broad acclaim for basic research, science is undergoing an applied shift that marginalizes basic scientists. This gap reflects an incomplete understanding of their distinctive roles, which prevents translating philosophical appreciation into effective support. We introduce a scalable metric--the application score--to position research along the basic-applied spectrum and apply it to 62 million publications (1970-2023) to reveal the distinctive contributions of basic scientists. We find …

Some ways white people could learn to be a little !@#!@# less racist, without vague shit like ‘mind your privilege’:
- Seek out Black and native artists
- Remember their !@#!@# names, accurately
- Share your appreciation of their work
- Learn to have a good day when you spot folks having a good time and keep moving
- Learn another language, enough to be bad in it, then try to get by in it once in a while.
- Train your expectations so that people who aren't white being good at stuff isn't surprising.
- Train your expectations so people being good at stuff _they_ consider good is something you can appreciate, even if you don't like it for yourself.
- Stop trying to fix everything yourself

We recently hosted Heroes Appreciation Day to recognize our military members!🇺🇸 | ​⁠@usaa https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Rrjpq4AC0Gw