Tootfinder

Lego says its Smart Brick is "here to stay" but "does not mean that we're leaving our core proposition behind", after criticism of abandoning non-digital play (Tom Phillips/IGN)
https://www.ign.com/articles…

LEGO Says Smart Brick Is 'Here to Stay,' and Responds to 'Questions and Concerns' Around Abandoning Non-Digital Play - IGN
A day on from the official reveal of LEGO Smart Brick, the company has responded to concerns that its big announcement poses a risk to its core basis in physical play.

Ever wondered what it would be like to live in a neighborhood that wasn’t designed around cars?
Well - in most of the country that’s actually illegal.
But in Tempe, AZ there’s a new development called Culdesac
that has managed to make it happen.
This community is designed around alternative transit first,
which means more land is freed up for housing, retail and open space
- and it seems to be working
As more modes of transportation become avail…

"How the oceans’ coral reefs could be the secret weapon to tackle food insecurity around the world"
#Oceans #Environment #Coral

Healthy coral reefs could feed millions every year, finds study
Overfishing and global warming are depleting food from our oceans, but rebuilding reef life could help provide millions of meals every year.

last night around 10 PM the line to get into necto (local disco) went all the way down the block and around the corner. the temperature was in the teens (like, ten below celsius), headed toward single digits. i saw a lot of bare legs and bare shoulders in that line. brrrr!!!!

Soundscape - Solstice Exercise Mile Walk - A one-mile twenty-minute walk around the local cemetery grounds! #soundscape #fieldRecording #lockdown2020 -

Soundscape - Solstice Exercise Mile Walk
A one-mile twenty-minute walk around the local cemetery grounds! #soundscape #fieldRecording #lockdown2020

So, I still have not updated my iPhone to v26 because I hate everything I’ve seen about the “Liquid Glass” and Apple still had a v18 update last time around.
But I expect I will be forced to upgrade since Safari with Lockdown Mode on in v18 chokes on almost every page, redrawing a couple of times before giving up. I also see this in a couple of apps which are probably just thin wrappers around Safari WebViews. Turning off lockdown mode for the site ends the problem.

In my #HamRadio #POTA adventure today, I got my inverted-V linked dipole caught in twigs today and it died. The silicon wire winds easily around a tight radius, which is nice for putting it on the winder, but also winds around twigs easily, and that fine wire breaks easily. Easier than…

Who Calls 1-800-GAMBLER? Around Big Sports Events, It’s Often Young Men. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/us/sports-gambling-addition-super-bowl.html

Just suspended/defederated the zhub.link domain that appears to be a white supremacist/hate speech instance whose admin is going around harassing Palestinians and allies on the fediverse and is/was apparently also hosting an account disseminating CSAM (https://hear-me.social/@admin/11266673170955…

How Raiders' Plan Against Broncos is Different the Second Time Around https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-plan-against-broncos-different-second-time-around

Bleh. Just saw a friend who found out they couldn’t be followed by one of their friends because (unbeknownst to both parties) the moderators of their friend’s instance had defederated from their own instance. All of this, for people who barely know what any of these terms mean. What they experience is, “Two people you’ve never met have a beef you’ve never heard about over an issue you don’t know about, so your friend can’t see you. And there’s no fix.” It’s just terrible all around.

Minneapolis Public Schools have cancelled all school through the end of the week “due to safety concerns related to today’s incidents around the city.”

So Korea's Coupang's cyber insurance gives it coverage of only around $682,000.
https://www.chosun.com/english/market-money-en/2025/12/08/KXCKOF2BYJEFHJQJDYZI6MQZSE/

Coupang's 1 Billion Won Insurance Falls Short After 33.7 Million Data Breach
Coupangs 1 Billion Won Insurance Falls Short After 33.7 Million Data Breach Critics demand higher insurance limits as current minimums fail to cover massive breaches, with calls to increase coverage up to 100 billion won

Screen at a gas station pump. I did not wait around for the boot sequence to finish.

Ukrainian military holds defensive lines around Pokrovsk as Russia steps up assaults: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/08/ukrainian-military-holds-defensive-lines.html

Frozen fog
...spontaneously forming all around us on our evening walk, as if by magic.
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #BlackAndWhite

"I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have to know where the lens is, what the shot is, and where you're moving. And then you have to trick yourself into an emotional state where you believe this stuff is actually happening."
—Julianne Moore
#acting

Spoilers: "we can still turn this around and claw our way back to being who we should be"
Is This The End of the Free World? - Paul Krugman
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/is-this-the-end-of-the-free-world

#AdventOfSystemSeeing Day 5, still trying to catch up with @…

Advent(ure) in System Seeing — Day 5 — Key Systems Concept: Feedback
Let’s gather some of the thoughts that have been percolating around systems. Let’s assume that you are designing the introductory page of…

#caturday

LECTURE> “Kashmir and Śaivism in and Around the Late Eighth Century” By John Nemec https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20140650/seminar-talk-kashmir-and-saivism-and-around-late-eighth-century-john…

Though a lot of that same calculus could also kick in around Minnesota.

Live code duo Epiploke (Lucy aka heavy lifting I) have a gig in Lyon France 2nd May, and looking for gigs to make a mini tour on the way there.. E.g. Netherlands, west side of Germany, maybe London.. lmk if you are putting something on around then !

Not the final lights but ones with batteries I have lying around. They'll have lights chasing up and down the length of the windows and changing colour and warping when it's done next year.
Make 'em flash with the materialisation noise as an alarm clock maybe 😆

Thanks, everybody who’s stuck around through my personal #ListeningClub extravagance
That was Lydia Grace by the Sursiks (2007)
https://davidminnick1.bandcamp.com/album/lydia-gr…

Senate Judiciary plans hearings around Jack Smith probe (Hailey Fuchs/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/12/08/congress/senate-judiciary-plans-smith-hearings-00681147
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p110#a251208p110

OpenAI and Perplexity, armed with significant AI capabilities, have targeted the shopping domain. And have run into many problems around data access and semantics.
This raises three thoughts:
First, companies which are bullish about AI “changing everything”, are stumbling in maybe the most traditional, mundane domain: shopping. This doesn’t inspire confidence in their technology.
1/5
#ai

Spot on Trevor Noah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6evARV6JE0 this is what we need the folks who think 'colonisation is good' everywhere in the world, particularly in the US and, my priority, here in Aotearoa NZ. His point about Columbus Day around 6:00 in is spot on.

What is #auth? It's more complicated than you probably thought, even though #software #developers sling the word around all the time.
🎅 Since it's the holiday season, give yourself an eas…

Security Lingo Explained: Auth
Learn and understand the key difference between Authentication (AuthN) and Authorization (AuthZ)

Oh, almost forgot #silentsunday!
My last hike led me to this summit which is usually very well visited.
But given the weekday & weather, I was totally alone while I was up there. Noone around. No human made sound. Just me and nature. It felt so much like real freedom.
#hiking

God bless the creative people of Norfolk, with their “public safety” posters around Sandringham estate 👏👏

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Pulp:
🎵 The Man Comes Around
#NowPlaying #Pulp
https://pulpmusic.bandcamp.com/track/the-man-comes-around
https://open.spotify.com/track/7gQtvYYJwLLypRFXJFx5KK

#GrindayFriday for this week is the debut demo of Philly grind/powerviolence freaks AGONESIAC. It's 7 songs, and no song is even a minute long save track 6, which is just over two. You can listen to the whole demo in just around 8 minutes. 😂👊
https://

A look at the auction for the Oscars' TV rights, as sources say Netflix is out, NBCUniversal gains ground, and YouTube and ABC remain active bidders (Matt Donnelly/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/oscars-tv-rights-nbcuniversal-a…

Oscar TV Rights Auction: NBCUniversal Leads Charge to Nab Telecast
NBCUniversal is in the lead to nab TV rights to the Oscars starting in 2029 as the Motion Picture Academy shops around for a new deal.

@… The most obvious candidates would be BZip2 (Method 12) or XZ (Method 95). BZip2 is pretty widespread, well supported by a range of tools and was first introduced into the Zip APPNOTE.TXT (the official Specification) in 2001. Despite being around for almost 25 years in the spec, MS be like 🤷. Indeed for a long time Apple did not even support Deflate…

In nur acht Jahren starben rund 62.000 Afrikanische #Pinguine vor der Küste #Südafrika​s an #Nahrungsmangel.
Grund war das Zusammenspiel aus

62,000 Penguins Starved to Death Off South Africa's Coast Last Decade. Here's Why.
A brutal confluence of environmental change and human fishing habits left tens of thousands of adult African penguins off South Africa's coast without enough food to survive, reducing their population by around 95 percent in just eight years, a new study reveals.

“…TSMC announced they have a spintronic memory chip with an access time of 1ns and a storage time of a decade. This means faster mistakes with longer regrets, basically the epitome of progress.”-Sabine Hossenfelder, physicist, author of science books, and host of a science YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@SabineHossenfelder

Sabine Hossenfelder
As simple as possible, but not any simpler! Science and technology updates and summaries. No hype, no spin, no tip-toeing around inconvenient truths. Currently 5 videos a week (Tue-Wed-Thu and Sat-Sun). Early access for channel members. Sabine Hossenfelder has a PhD in physics. She is author of the books "Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray" (Basic Books, 2018) and "Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions" (Viking, 2022). Views are my own and do not repr…

Git has not blown my mind on this scale in many years. What a way to do Friday.
What I didn't internalise before I radically restructured this monorepo is that it has some boilerplate documentation with small but crucial changed placeholders in each project. The rename detection is scattering the files around like confetti on every operation.

This is so cool, a hydro-foiling dinghy! Saw this Waszp cruising around the waterfront the other evening was captivating.

Artist #BoramieSao will be visiting campus on January 24. We're putting up her painting that's part of our collection AND borrowing its companion piece as part of the exhibition "We, Too, Are Made of Wonders." The two paintings are mirror images, one dark, one light. Read on to learn a little more about the artist and her work.

Waymo plans to issue a voluntary software recall over how its robotaxis operate around school buses following an NHTSA investigation opened in October (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/05/waymo-to-issue…

Waymo to issue software recall over how robotaxis behave around school buses | TechCrunch
The voluntary recall comes as scrutiny by federal regulators and local school district officials increases.

"Bitcoin is crashing hard, reaching historic lows of well below the $70,000 mark. At the time of writing, the token is hovering just above $63,000, levels we haven’t seen since October 2024."
"According to Coindesk, the average cost to mine one Bitcoin is currently around $87,000 — far higher than its current going rate, making it an extremely unprofitable proposition."
🥳🥳🥳

Bitcoin Is Crashing So Hard That Miners Are Unplugging Their Equipment
Bitcoin's plunge has made it far less economical to mine the digital token. Some companies are starting to unplug their equipment.

Ethical Considerations Around Machine Learning-Engaged Online Participatory Research - poster from Zooniverse community at #FF2025 https://zenodo.org/records/17779992

So I understand the striations in rocks at the beach in New Hampshire come from heating and cooling deep in the Earth: some of them get etched by seawater and you can see flakes coming off
#photo #photography #rock

After Neuralink, Max Hodak is building something even wilder https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/05/after-neuralink-max-hodak-is-building-something-stranger/ (heading for the Borg, Silicon Valley people indeed often sound as confident as LLMs, but …

After Neuralink, Max Hodak is building something even wilder | TechCrunch
"You could really, in a very fundamental sense, talk about redrawing the border around a brain," Hodak says, "possibly to include four hemispheres, or a device, or a whole group of people."

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mathling/115679368241457715
Wow. Imagine having turkeys wandering around on your roof, instead of seagulls!

Because I constantly hear myths about the good old compact cassette here's a longer post dispelling them:
1. They can sound as good as CDs
2. They don't wear out
3. You can't use a pencil to wind them
4. You can go to specific tracks automatically
5. You don't need to carry around extra batteries
I will elaborate below:
1. Sound Quality
Many higher-end decks can record cassettes on metal tape with various Dolby noise reduction settings; especially the combination of metal tape and Dolby S will make tapes that are pretty much indistinguishable from listening to a CD.
Even normal or chrome tape with Dolby B (around since the 1970s) will give great results; likely indistinguishable from a CD when played in a car or while out and about with a personal player.
Some extremely high-end tape decks produce better than CD results in some regards (for example some Nakamichi models go to 26KHz with frequency response, while CD are inherently limited to top out at 22KHz).
It's true that the dynamic range of CDs is much better than either vinyl records or tapes. However, unless you're super into classical music there's likely not much music for which this truly matters, as 99% is mastered to use much less dynamic range than provided by any audio media format. (If you're super into classical music you probably want SACD or other high-res lossless sources anyway, not CDs.)
2. Yes, it will wear out mechanically but you will wear out mechanically before it does. Please watch VWestlife's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dgJ4hRHBiw
3. European and American pencils are too thin to engage the cassette reel cogs. (You'd need to get a Japanese pencil. People mostly used BIC pens for this purpose which have the right thickness.)
4. Most (nice) decks and personal players from the early-to-mid nineties onwards have track skip features (e.g. Sony has AMS, Automatic Music Sensor), which allow precise winding to a specific track.
Some decks even did this in the early 80s!
5. My late-90s Walkman has seventy-eight (78) hours of playback on one (1) single AA battery.
Anyway, the main reason why I like them is they're fun to use and recording them is very deliberate instead of algorithms selecting music for me. :)

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@hyphacoop/115685327547429897
They likely won't like my answers. 😅
FWIW a 7B param LLM costs around 55MWh to train and test, and about 300Wh per query. Then factor that 52% of the answers are unusable, so like Lay's potato chips, NOBODY does only one prompt.

Szoboszlai is back to MOTM performances. I thought he was absolutely terrific. With Gravenberch as his backstop and Wirtz and Bradley floating around in triangular support, he was able to keep #LFC in possession and deny Arsenal a lot of possession.
Frimpong is so ridiculously fast and can certainly dribble, but the question is the final ball. It does make you want to see him on the right and Ngu…

One of my favourite poems. I'm not much of a poetry fan, but #PamAyers really hits the nail.
I often wonder what it must be like to be so strong,
Infallible, articulate, self-confident and wrong.
They Should Have Asked My Husband

My mom has been staying with us for over a month for the holidays, and to skip a bit of the winter in Lithuania, and I have to say, it's been nice having her around. I think the last time we've been together for this long was 27 years ago. A wild realization...

Rimer Cardillo, Uruguayan-American artist exhibition "Deep Ecology" at the Plains Art Museum #Fargo #NorthDakota

Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
VILA: Well, if we don't move around too much ...
KERRIL: It hardly seems worth trying to stay alive a few minutes longer. [removes gunbelt]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/405 B7B2

Ukraine Update: Villains in fine clothes from around the world pretend to be decent humans with hearts while they continue to ignore the criminal cruelty and warcrimes of Russia's ongoing genocide of Ukraine.
The truth is hard to deny if you will only see what is so obviously happening.
The failure of the west to stand up to Russia and the unending cruelty that defines the Russian ethos demonstrates how worthless and unreliable the west is.
As an American, I find each d…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Badly Drawn Boy:
🎵 Once Around the Block
#BadlyDrawnBoy
https://open.spotify.com/track/2TnNFFgZhaBzEEobxDy5uV

The Pentagon Pizza Index is Elevated. Speculation is that Russia is evacuating it's Israel embassy in advance of an attack on Iran.
https://www.pizzint.watch/

Pentagon Pizza Index - Real-Time OSINT Dashboard
Track pizza popularity around the Pentagon as a geopolitical indicator. The conspiracy theory that's taking OSINT by storm.

Le développement des petits réacteurs modulaires (SMR) sera confronté Š des dépassements de coûts et Š des retards importants similaires Š ceux qui affectent les centrales nucléaires traditionnelles. Et ils ne mettront pas fin au problème des déchets nucléaires, selon Climate Action Network Europe.

Aaron Rodgers hopes Steelers' win over Ravens will quiet the outside noise around Mike Tomlin

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/aaron-rodgers-steelers-ravens-mike-tomlin/

Ordered a refurb Samsung S20 FE from Newegg, arrived today. I question the "Grade A - Excellent" rating that Reebeio gave it. Has mars all around the edge of the case and the back. Also has what looks to be a pressure crack in the back panel next to the cameras, like someone sat on it while in some kind of protective case and just put enough weight on it to crack the phone case a tiny bit.
However, the screen looks perfect and it powers on and boots to initialization mode no …

Football Dreams, Government Overreach, and Small Businesses Pushing Back
From Super Bowl ticket shock to Oklahoma policy changes, this post reflects on football fandom, small-business fights, and why new transparency rules around asset forfeiture matter for civil liberties and everyday people more than most realize.

Football Dreams, Government Overreach, and Small Businesses Pushing Back – Bob Mueller
Super Bowl prices, Oklahoma reforms, and a look at why asset forfeiture transparency and licensing laws matter to regular people.

Highly recommend Albertan Senator Paula Simons’ @… passionate response to Alberta Separatists and for all Canadians.
“…Alberta’s current crop of separatists don’t just want to leave Canada. They seem to want to opt out of the 21st century entirely.
But Albertans aren’t quitters. So let’s not quit Canada. Let’s fight to make it better, fairer and more prosperous for everyone, Albertans included.”
https://albertaviews.ca/the-case-for-sticking-around/
P.S. I wonder if we are cousins 4 times removed or so. lol ... Both my maternal grandparents were born in the same general area of what is now Ukraine.

I suspect that most people do not recognize how terrible this proposal is.
It is a return to the patronage system of the 1860s where people were hired into and fired from government positions, not on merit, but on loyalty and patronage.
If you think the Federal bureaucracy is slow and sometimes indifferent now, just wait until those bureaucrats operate not out of concern for the country and its citizens but for their jobs and salaries.
"Trump admin moves to finalize re…

Trump admin moves to finalize return of Schedule F
Officials estimate that around 50,000 federal workers will be stripped of their civil service protections beginning in around a month, as unions, employee associations and good government groups decry their positions’ politicization.

There's a video going around social media today showing an individual in Minneapolis being killed by American "ICE" personnel. In many cases, there's no content warning, and it (and other videos) will automatically play in most apps and browsers by default.
If you happen across it, or other traumatic videos, and it causes intrusive thoughts, I've seen credible sources saying that real and good advice to counter them is to play Tetris.

terrorists_911: 9-11 terrorist network
Network of individuals and their known social associations, centered around the hijackers that carried out the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. Associations extracted after-the-fact from public data. Metadata labels say which plane a person was on, if any, on 9/11.
This network has 62 nodes and 152 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata

I mean, seriously: how many of the hateful, inflammatory lies that the racists hurl at immigrants accurately apply to this group that’s roving around all day abducting people? (“Are we the baddies?”)

Empire crumbling? Putin's allies "falling," West unites around Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/08/empire-crumbling-putins-allies-quotfallingquot.html

I'm a fan of holding people (and companies) accountable so today when a company truck sped around me when I dared to actually drive within the speed limit I made a point to contact the company and complain.
Sure, there's a chance nothing will happen but it won't stop me from trying. If I see bad behavior I will call it out.

Waymo
– the driver-less taxi company is about to get a $16bn cash injection to further expand its business to cities all around the world.
Smaller American metro areas like Sacramento and Nashville are next up to get Waymo service,
as are global capitals like London and Tokyo.
Fleets of robotaxis are seeming more and more inevitable.
It all can start to feel rather nihilistic.
Last year, the CEO of Waymo told a live audience that society will accept a …

Sources: China is considering how to build fences around its AI know-how amid the AI race and is identifying standout companies to add to an export control list (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/china-warns-ai-startups…

The US military has always had a massive global advantage against enemies by having bases all over the world. There are bases in every NATO country. This would appear to be a powerful threat to anyone willing to oppose American hegemon, and under normal conditions it would be.
But a lot of those kids serving on those bases joined, not because they love America but, because they needed a ticket out of poverty. They joined for the education, for the money, maybe a bit for the adventure, but, more than anything, to escape the ghetto or podunk backwater that trapped them. Under normal times, this is the best deal they could expect. Maybe they risk their lives, usually they sit around being bored for a few years, and they get to come out with respect and paid college.
But what they are being offered is normal in most of the countries they're stationed in. Free healthcare, cheap or free education, is just what citizens in a lot of countries have come to expect. If the US attacked a NATO country, how many would snap up citizenship if they were given a chance to defect? Bonus points for taking some hardware with you, I'm sure.
But there are some who love their country. There are some patriotic Americans on those bases. Some of them joined specifically to protect the US from all enemies, foreign *and* domestic. Given a chance to fulfill that oath or violate international law, what happens?
There are a good number of former military folks too who now are unsafe in the countries they served, who would do just about anything for citizenship in any EU country and almost any NATO ally. Some of those folks know things they swore an oath to never share, but the country they swore an oath to has betrayed them. Today there's no value in leaking those secrets, but in a war between the US and NATO allies things would be different. Some of those former military folks still believe in their oath, and know exactly who the real enemy is. What happens when there's a real threat of war, when they can use their knowledge to fulfill that oath to protect the US against those domestic threats?
There are a bunch of civilian tech workers who have become targets of the regime. Some of them had clearance, or know about the skeletons in the closet. They know about critical infrastructure, classified systems, all sorts of things that would be extremely valuable to an opponent. But the opponents of the US have always been a frightening *other*, never familiar societies these folks look up to, have visited, have thought about moving to, are trying to escape to.
All I'm saying here is that invading Venezuela and kidnapping the president has a very different calculus than does attacking Greenland. I don't know if Trump or his people are able to understand that, but if he and his folks aren't then I hope European leaders are. But more than that, I hope it never comes down to finding out.
But perhaps we should all think about what we would do to make sure things ended quickly if American leadership ever made such an incredible mistake.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Rufus Thomas:
🎵 Stop Kicking My Dog Around
#RufusThomas
https://open.spotify.com/track/7w8LwDnkhxvscw73b9N5hK

#Renee #Nicole #Good was an award-winning poet and a mother to three children who had only recently moved to the Twin Cities.  
She had just dropped her six-year-old son off at school in Minneapolis
before she was shot to death by…

Protesters Gather After ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
Protesters gathers around the nation after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis on Wednesday.

Having failed to adapt the cats to my sleep schedule I’m considering adapting to theirs.
I will be changing my office hours to short bursts of activity between midnight and 6am where I will mostly fuck around and beg for food.

LECTURE> “Kashmir and Śaivism in and Around the Late Eighth Century” By John Nemec https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20140650/seminar-talk-kashmir-and-saivism-and-around-late-eighth-century-john…

Snowflake agrees to acquire Observe, an observability platform built on Snowflake databases; the deal was previously reported to be valued at around $1B (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/08/snowflake-announces-…

Snowflake announces its intent to buy observability platform Observe | TechCrunch
Snowflake is bolstering its data stack to make the platform better suited to the sheer volume of data produced by AI agents.

terrorists_911: 9-11 terrorist network
Network of individuals and their known social associations, centered around the hijackers that carried out the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. Associations extracted after-the-fact from public data. Metadata labels say which plane a person was on, if any, on 9/11.
This network has 62 nodes and 152 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata

Federal immigration officers shot and wound 2 people in Portland, Oregon
The FBI’s Portland office said it was investigating an “
agent involved shooting”
that happened around 2:15 p.m. local time.
Portland’s police chief encouraged calm.

NFL Week 14 takeaways: What We Learned from Sunday's 12 games https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-week-14-takeaways-what-we-learned-from-sunday-s-12-games

Scientists at NeurIPS, which drew a record 26,000 attendees this year, say key questions about how AI models work and how to measure them remain unresolved (Jared Perlo/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-progress-surges-resea…

AI progress surges while researchers struggle to explain It
Academics, start-up founders and researchers representing industrial titans from around the globe descended on San Diego for the top gathering in AI.

The noted banjo player Béla Fleck has canceled three performances scheduled for next month with the National Symphony Orchestra, or NSO, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Fleck, who has won 18 Grammy Awards and often performs with symphonies around the country,
is the latest artist to cancel engagements at the Kennedy Center amidst many administrative and curatorial changes at the Washington, D.C. arts complex.

terrorists_911: 9-11 terrorist network
Network of individuals and their known social associations, centered around the hijackers that carried out the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. Associations extracted after-the-fact from public data. Metadata labels say which plane a person was on, if any, on 9/11.
This network has 62 nodes and 152 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata

Are sports cards in another 'junk wax era'? What the numbers tell us https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7028558/2026/02/07/sports-cards-junk-wax/

Anduril cofounder Palmer Lucked defended the use of AI technology to make life-and-death decisions in war on Sunday.
A group of defense tech startups that includes Anduril,
along with traditional defense companies,
is developing autonomous AI weapons and tools for use in conflicts around the world,
-- worrying some who say the technology is not ready for such high-stakes environments.
"When it comes to life and death decision-making, I think that it is too …

Anduril's Palmer Luckey makes an ethical case for using AI in war: 'There is no moral high ground in using inferior technology'
For "life and death decision-making," Anduril cofounder Palmer Luckey says it's "too critical" to not use the most advanced technology.

Border Patrol Posed As Humans Hiring Day Laborers
-- As A Ruse to Kidnap Them
Memo Torres breaks down immigration raids and related news in Southern California today
https://lataco.com/daily-memo-december-5th-b…

DAILY MEMO: Border Patrol In Disguise Try to Hire Day Laborers to Kidnap Them ~ L.A. TACO
Border Patrol raided five Home Depots, chased a man into a bus, and a flower vendor into a gas station, who were among at least 13 people kidnapped around the Southland, with most of the focus in Orange County today.

NFL news roundup: Latest league updates from Wednesday, Jan. 7 https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-wednesday-jan-7

On the one hand, it does little to accuse the MAGA right of hypocrisy,
because they expressly reject moral and logical consistency,
aiming only for dominance and retribution.
On the other, it’s worth examining the way they bamboozled a majority of Americans into
believing conservatives are simply fighting for the principles of free expression and intellectual diversity.
The key to understanding this is recognizing how the right worked around the limitations …

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