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Third earthquake hits Afghanistan as death toll rises above 2,200
South-east of country rocked as rescuers struggle to find survivors of first quake
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/04/third-earthquake-…

Because I'm setting up materials again, and my blog on "Taming Brightspace for Linux" is serving as an aide-memoire, here are some details on using BrightSpace from Linux, bypassing as much as possible of its user interface by using webdav: https://brendanhalpin.net/blog/posts/wo…

"At his party conference in Birmingham, 5 Houses* said Rayner’s actions “scream of entitlement”.
Crisis engulfs Labour as Angela Rayner is forced to step down as deputy PM | Labour | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

as_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…

Trump Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime https://jacobin.com/2025/10/trump-classifies-anti-capitalism-as-a-political-pre-crime/

Trump Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime
Donald Trump’s new security directive labels anti-capitalist beliefs as a predictor of political violence. The irony: left-wing structural analysis actually pushes people away from lone-wolf attacks and toward mass organizing for change.

"Bamboo tissue paper may not be as eco-friendly as you think"
#Bamboo #Tissues #Environment

Bamboo tissue paper may not be as eco-friendly as you think
In recent years, Chinese tissue paper made from bamboo has emerged as a trendy choice for eco-friendly shoppers. However, new research suggests these bamboo paper products may not offer significant climate benefits over tissue produced in the United States and, in some cases, may be more detrimental to the environment.

Sources: StubHub and Netskope plan to start formally marketing their IPOs as soon as Monday; StubHub could raise $1B , and Netskope is seeking to raise ~$1B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-04/stubhu…

As mysterious drone sightings increase, this is what Russia has to gain from them: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/04/as-mysterious-drone-sightings-increase.html

"""
In the sixteenth century, lunacy was a constant theme that was never questioned. It was still frequent in the seventeenth century, but started to disappear, and by 1707, the year in which Le François asked the question ‘Estne aliquod lunae in corpora humana imperium?’ (Does the moon have any influence over the human body?), after lengthy discussions, the university decided that their reply was in the negative. In the course of the eighteenth century the moon was rarely cited among the causes of madness, even as a possible factor or an aggravation. But right at the end of the century the idea reappears, perhaps under the influence of English medicine, which had never entirely forgotten the moon, and Daquin, followed by Leuret and Guislain, all admitted the influence of the moon on the phases of maniacal excitement, or at the least on the agitation of their patients. But what is important here is not so much the return of the theme as the possibility and conditions necessary for its reappearance. It reappears entirely transformed, filled with a new significance that it did not formerly possess. In its traditional form, it designated an immediate influence, a direct coincidence in time and intersection in space, whose mode of action was entirely situated in the power of the stars. But in Daquin by contrast, the influence of the moon acts through a whole series of mediations, in a kind of hierarchy, surrounding man. The moon acts on the atmosphere with such intensity that it can set in motion a mass as heavy as the ocean. The nervous system, of all the parts that make up the human organism, is the part most sensitive to atmospheric variations, as the slightest variation in temperature, humidity or dryness can have serious effects upon it. The moon therefore, given the important power that its trajectory exerts on the atmosphere, is likely to act most on people whose nervous fibres are particularly delicate:
“Madness is an exclusively nervous condition, and the brain of a madman must therefore be infinitely more susceptible to the influence of the atmosphere, which itself undergoes considerable changes of intensity as a result of the different positions of the moon relative to the earth.” [Daquin, Philosophie de la folie, Paris, 1792]
"""
(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

I'd like to publish conference proceedings as epub rather than pdf, as they're more accessible, can include videos etc. They're basically standardised bundles of HTML as far as I can tell, that can be downloaded onto ereaders etc.
However, web browsers can't natively read them, and I somehow can't find a nice and simple, fast and useable javascript thingie for making them readable online. Does it exist?
Every time I look into this sort of thing I don't und…

Cardinals QB Jacoby Brissett to start vs. Seahawks as Kyler Murray (foot) continues to heal up https://www.nfl.com/news/cardinals-qb-jacoby-brissett-to-start-vs-seahawks-as-kyler-murray-foot-continues-to-heal-up

Grading Brian Schottenheimer's 1st game as the Cowboys head coach https://insidethestar.com/grading-brian-schottenheimers-1st-game-as-the-cowboys-head-coach

Ollama on Windows 11 vs WSL: two brilliant ways to use local #LLMs
https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/ollama-on…

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves | WIRED #ICE

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

Just published: A volume on “Professions as Religious Metaphors” in our @… Metaphor Papers series that I had the pleasure to edit. It’s a nice collection of short case studies on a wide arrange of professions that are used as metaphors of the divine. (My internal working title for it was “God’s jobs” 😉.)

The USA has only a million elevators, about as many as Italy, and they cost four times as in Switzerland.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250827193631/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/opinion/elevato…

Opinion | Why Are Housing Costs So High? The Elevator Can Explain Why.
An illness led Stephen Smith to study why America has so few elevators. What he learned explains why housing costs are so high.

Jonathan Taylor runs for 3 touchdowns and Daniel Jones throws for 2 as Colts rout Raiders 40-6 https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/jonathan-taylor-runs-for-3-touchdowns-and-daniel-jones-throws-for-2-as-colts-ro…

CAD model of the #tricycle subframe. The chain ring is very nearly as big as the front wheel (80 teeth!). It drives an epicyclic gearbox mounted in the nose of the vehicle, which also has a disc brake. The epicyclic will drive a secondary chain via a sprocket mounted to the left hand spoke flange, but this is not yet shown. There will be no ratchet on the secondary chain, so the disk brake on the…

Accessibility is not a popularity contest and open surveys aren’t research.
https://fosstodon.org/@matcha/115455586804252676
I can tell you that the survey results do not reflect my approach:

“Last night, as everyone in my house went to sleep, I took a deep breath and edited the Wikipedia page for #TIFF, the Tag Image File Format. It no longer reads ‘created by Aldus’; it reads ‘…created by Stephen Carlsen, an engineer at Aldus.’” https://

Mr TIFF
For as long as I have published my books, one of my overarching goals was to give credit to those who actually invented the hardware and software that we use. It has taken 10,000+ hours to create that accurate record of their work but I'm not complaining. The as-close-to-possible

Sonnet 075 - LXXV
So are you to my thoughts as food to life,
Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground;
And for the peace of you I hold such strife
As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found.
Now proud as an enjoyer, and anon
Doubting the filching age will steal his treasure;
Now counting best to be with you alone,
Then better'd that the world may see my pleasure:
Sometime all full with feasting on your sight,
And by…

People Inc. signs an AI licensing deal with Microsoft, and reports digital revenue up 9% YoY to $269M, ad revenue down 3% to $161M, and referral traffic down (Jessica Davies/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/people-inc-s

People Inc. strikes Microsoft AI licensing deal as Google’s AI Overviews hit programmatic ad revenue
People Inc. has struck an AI licensing deal with Microsoft to be part of the tech giant’s pay-per-usage AI content marketplace. 

Echo State Networks as State-Space Models: A Systems Perspective
Pradeep Singh, Balasubramanian Raman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04422 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Echo State Networks as State-Space Models: A Systems Perspective
Echo State Networks (ESNs) are typically presented as efficient, readout-trained recurrent models, yet their dynamics and design are often guided by heuristics rather than first principles. We recast ESNs explicitly as state-space models (SSMs), providing a unified systems-theoretic account that links reservoir computing with classical identification and modern kernelized SSMs. First, we show that the echo-state property is an instance of input-to-state stability for a contractive nonlinear SSM…

«Our project [#openstreetmap] is constantly under a threat from technical people, who see it as a database, or a fixed structure, or an API to work with – and not as a community of people with specific knowledge who make the map as a by-product of understanding the world.»
So we'll put by @… ❤️🙏

Reminder - Can FFOTUS really claim Mar the Lago as his permanent residence? Because of an agreement with the City of Palm Beach he can reside there only because he is listed as an "employee". And I do wonder whether there is proof - bona fide employment, such as a W9, 1099s, payment of worker's comp and FICA taxes etc?

Poland deploys air defences as Russia launches new strikes on Ukraine | Russia-Ukraine war News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/5/poland-deploys-air-defences-as-russia-launches-new-strikes-on-ukraine?traffic_source=rss

As long as (even old) web standards remain supported, The vOICe vision BCI has unlimited lifetime as a web app and will run on future smartglasses & headsets that do not even exist yet https://www.seeingwithsound.com/webvoice/webvoice.htm How future-proof will your Neuralink B…

🔥 Die #Nordsee heizt sich doppelt so schnell auf wie vor 2013.
Marine #Hitzewellen nehmen stark zu. Seit 1982 stieg die #Wassertemperatur um 0,38 °C pro Jahrzehnt, Hitzewellen wurden …

Amplified warming and marine heatwaves in the North Sea under a warming climate and their impacts
Abstract. The northeast Atlantic and adjacent regions, such as the North Sea, are among the fastest-warming areas in the world. However, the role of climate change and internal variability in marine heatwaves (MHWs) in this region remains poorly understood. This study aims to quantify the relevant changes in sea surface temperature (SST) and MHWs in the North Sea, as well as to identify the leading patterns of interannual MHW variability over more than 4 decades (1982–2024). Our results indi…

Democrat Spanberger Wins Governor Race As Virginians Reproach Trump (Jim Saksa/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/democrat-spanberger-wins-governor-race-as-virginians-reproach-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p155#a251104p155

Sehr lesenswert: Der Verband »Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe« #CISPE bewertet das neue 🇪🇺 »Cloud Sovereignty Framework« in einem Statement als Fehlschlag:
> No Such Thing as “75% Sovereign” – Europe Needs a Clear Definition of “Sovereign Cloud” - The #EU

Who could have predicted that having a masked domestic-military force which routinely refuses to identify itself, would have downsides.
https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-warns-of-criminals-posing-as-ice-urges-agents-to-id-themselves/…

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/06/as-censure-increases-over-war-in-gaza-israel-finds-support-among-pacific-islands
LOL

Squirrels at War: Wild Card
#writingcommunity #visualinspiration Earlier installments can be read from this page. *** The destruction of the Lion’s Tooth left us stunned. Then Maven said, “It’s not quite as bad as it looks. The cannon shells that hit Floating Seed were…

Leaked ‘Gaza Riviera’ plan dismissed as ‘insane’ attempt to cover ethnic cleansing
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/01/leaked-gaza-riviera-plan-dismissed-as-insane-attempt-to-cover-ethnic-cleansing

And a Zinnia to round out today's stick of photos -- shot on the same day as the other Ithaca photos with the Sony 90mm macro lens that DxO says is Sony's best lens
#photo #photography #flowers

Source: Anthropic projects revenues of up to $70B in 2028, up from ~$5B in 2025, and expects to become cash flow positive as soon as 2027 (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-projects-70-billio…

Anthropic Projects $70 Billion in Revenue, $17 Billion in Cash Flow in 2028
Anthropic this summer hiked its most optimistic growth forecasts by roughly 13% to 28% over the next three years and projected generating as much as $70 billion in revenue in 2028, up from close to $5 billion this year, according to a person with knowledge of the company’s financials. The ...

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
While crustaceans are common as #zooplankton, insects are very rare, but one group is found globally in freshwaters. Chaoborus (phantom midge or glassworm) spend the majority of their life as predaceous plankton, but are familiar to many when the adults emerge lake…

Greens ‘on track’ to supplant Labour as favourite party in London
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/04/greens-on-track-to-supplant-labour-as-favourite-party-in-london-says-zack-polanski

I expect this thread to piss off absolutely •everyone•. Whatever.
It’s essential in these times of horror to see as clearly as we can, and aim true with our criticism.
/end

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
DERAL: Is that all it takes, then? A sample of blood?
FRANTON: It's the genetic print we need. All body cells with a nucleus carry that. The white cells are here. As long as they're capable of differentiation, they're capable of growth, into another you.
https://blake.torpid…

G7 convenes emergency meeting as Russia intensifies strikes on Ukraine’s energy grid: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/04/g-convenes-emergency-meeting-as.html

Understanding the New Wave of Chatbot Legislation: California SB 243 and Beyond
https://fpf.org/blog/understanding-the-new-wave-of-chatbot-legislation-california-sb-243-and-beyond/
@…

Ukrainian drone strikes have cut Russia’s oil-refining volume by as much as one-fifth,
posing a challenge to Russia’s federal budget,
which relies on oil and gas revenue for as much as half of its spending
The military campaign aligns with diplomatic pressure from Donald Trump,
who has focused on pressuring countries to reduce their purchases of Russian energy.
However, the payload of these drones is significantly less than the Tomahawk cruise missile,
whi…

Why the White House Is Considering Tomahawks for Ukraine
The move makes sense for U.S. strategy, but it may cause heartburn for isolationist and Pacific-focused Pentagon leaders.

Cooper Rush relying on experience, Lamar Jackson's input as he prepares for first start with Ravens https://www.nfl.com/news/cooper-rush-relying-on-experience-lamar-jackson-s-input-as-he-prepares-for-first-start-with-r…

Andrew Beck's first catch as a Jet goes for a TD vs. Cowboys https://www.nfl.com/videos/andrew-beck-s-first-catch-as-a-jet-goes-for-a-td-vs-cowboys

word_assoc: Edinburgh word associations
A network of word associations showing the count of such associations as collected from subjects, from the Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus (EAT). Each node represents a word, and a directed edge (i, j) denotes that word i was used as a stimulus to which word j was given as a response. Multiple edges are allowed.
This network has 23132 nodes and 312342 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted, Multigraph

"""
In melancholy, the spirits are carried away by an agitation, but a weak agitation that lacks power or violence, a sort of impotent upset that follows neither a particular path nor the aperta opercula [open ways], but traverses the cerebral matter constantly creating new pores. Yet the spirits do not wander far on the new paths they create, and their agitation dies down rapidly, as their strength is quickly spent and motion comes to a halt: ‘non longe perveniunt’ [they do not reach far]. A trouble of this nature, common to all delirium, does not have the power to produce on the surface of the body the violent movements or the cries to be observed in mania and frenzy. Melancholy never attains frenzy; it is a madness always at the limits of its own impotence. That paradox is explained by the secret alterations in the spirits. Ordinarily, they travel with the speed and instantaneous transparency of rays of light, but in melancholy they become weighed down with night, becoming ‘obscure, thick and dark’, and the images of things that they bring before consciousness are ‘in a shadow, or covered with darkness’. As a result they move more slowly, and are more like a dark, chemical vapour than pure light. This chemical vapour is acid in nature, rather than sulphurous or alcoholic, for in acid vapours the particles are mobile and incapable of repose, but their activity is weak and without consequence. When they are distilled, all that remains in the still is a kind of insipid phlegm. Acid vapours, therefore, are taken to have the same properties as melancholy, whereas alcoholic vapours, which are always ready to burst into flames, are more related to frenzy, and sulphurous vapours bring on mania, as they are agitated by continuous, violent movement. If the ‘formal reason and causes’ of melancholy were to be sought, it made sense to look for them in the vapours that rose up from the blood to the head, and which had degenerated into ‘an acetous or sharp distillation’. A cursory glance seems to indicate that a melancholy of spirits and a whole chemistry of humours lies behind Willis’ analyses, but in fact his guiding principle mostly reflects the immediate qualities of the melancholic illness: an impotent disorder, and the shadow that comes over the spirit with an acrid acidity that slowly corrodes the heart and the mind. The chemistry of acids is not an explanation of the symptoms, but a qualitative option: a whole phenomenology of melancholic experience.
"""
(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

"For nearly 20 years, the [#SNP] has acted, in many respects, as a bulwark to the worst of Westminster – or so the story goes. Not good policy, just not as bad as Westminster. Just enough to hold power without disrupting the status quo.
When the SNP had the political capital to finally scrap the regressive Council Tax – something they had previously promised to do – they baulked. On LGBT ri…

"Indoor wood burning stoves may cause as much damage lungs as cigarettes, study warns"
#AirPollution #Health

Indoor wood burning stoves may cause as much damage lungs as cigarettes, study warns | LBC
Burning wood indoors could cause damage in a similar way to cigarette smoke, researchers have warned, after a new study linked the growing popularity of domestic wood burning to lung damage.

At the behest of Donald Trump, Texas is pushing to gerrymander congressional maps to add as many as five seats for Republicans
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/05/texas-redistricting-voter-maps-democrats-e…

Evaluation of Stress Detection as Time Series Events -- A Novel Window-Based F1-Metric
Harald Vilhelm Skat-R{\o}rdam, Sneha Das, Kathrine Sofie Rasmussen, Nicole Nadine L{\o}nfeldt, Line Clemmensen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03240

Evaluation of Stress Detection as Time Series Events -- A Novel Window-Based F1-Metric
Accurate evaluation of event detection in time series is essential for applications such as stress monitoring with wearable devices, where ground truth is typically annotated as single-point events, even though the underlying phenomena are gradual and temporally diffused. Standard metrics like F1 and point-adjusted F1 (F1$_{pa}$) often misrepresent model performance in such real-world, imbalanced datasets. We introduce a window-based F1 metric (F1$_w$) that incorporates temporal tolerance, enab…

Czech Republic plans to abandon Ukraine after delivering 850,000 shells as Russian intimidation fractures EU unity - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/05/czech-republic-plans-to-abandon-ukraine-after-delivering-850000-shells-as-russian-intimidation-fractures-eu-unity/

Kirk Morrison continues to forge path as 'the eyes and the ears' of the Raiders https://www.raiders.com/news/kirk-morrison-continues-to-forge-path-as-the-eyes-and-the-ears-of-the-raiders

FAA to throttle back flights in parts of the US as shutdown worsens air traffic controller shortages (Sam Ogozalek/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/05/faa-to-throttle-back-flights-in-parts-of-the-us-as-shutdown-worsens-air-traffic-controller-shortages-00638346
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p132#a251105p132

Researchers find OpenAI's o1 can analyze languages like a human expert, including inferring the phonological rules of made-up languages without prior knowledge (Steve Nadis/Quanta Magazine)
https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-a-first-

In a First, AI Models Analyze Language As Well As a Human Expert | Quanta Magazine
If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

Nothing less than a global general strike in as many countries as possible and in as many industries as possible to going to stop Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.
We have the power to stop this if we stop it all. Ground it to halt, even for a day. That’s our power. Whether we choose to use it remains to be seen.

How the world is responding to Israel’s interception of the Gaza flotilla
Italian unions call for general strike as global protests grow and multiple governments criticise Israel.

Former All-Pro LB Quincy Williams says he's been benched as Jets' shakeup continues https://www.nfl.com/news/former-all-pro-lb-quincy-williams-says-he-s-been-benched-as-jets-shakeup-continues

petster: Pet owner social networks (2016)
A network of friendships among users on catster.com and dogster.com. Node represents a user, and edge exists if two users self-identify as friends on either website. The dogster/catster network also contains family links between dog and dog, cat and cat, as well as dog and cat.
This network has 623766 nodes and 15699276 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

As Jalen Carter faces potential suspension for spitting on Dak Prescott, Eagles sign Pro Bowl player after win against Dallas Cowboys https://bolavip.com/en/nfl/nfl-news-as-jalen-carte…

Scorability, a college sports recruiting marketplace for athletes and coaches, raised $40M led by Bluestone Equity Partners, bringing its total funding to $51M (Jessica Golden/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/30/scorability…

Startup Scorability wants to revolutionize college sports recruiting as NIL takes off
Scorability now boasts 1.2 million athletes and 3,000 college sports program users.

Geno Smith's early-season struggles continue as Raiders are blown out by Colts https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/geno-smiths-earlyseason-struggles-continue-as-raiders-are-blown-out-by-colts

Andrew Cuomo meets with Al Sharpton in apparent attempt for endorsement as speculation mounts in NYC mayoral race (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/09/05/us-news/andrew-cuomo-meets-with-al-sharpton-to-court-endorsement-as-amid-nyc-mayoral-race/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250905/p94#a250905p94

Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults in several states,
warns a law enforcement bulletin issued last month by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The bureau urges agencies to ensure officers clearly identify themselves and to cooperate when civilians ask to verify an officer’s identity—including by allowing calls to a local police precinct

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

hiv_transmission: HIV transmission network (1988-2001)
A set of networks of HIV transmissions between people through sexual, needle-sharing, or social connections, based on combining 8 datasets collected from 1988 to 2001. Metadata includes test results of several diseases, as well as demographic variables such as age, ethnicity, and gender. Networks come in two flavors: egodyads and altdyads. Egodyads are the network among study-participants and their direct partners. Altdyads are the…

As Czechs head to polls, Ukraine's ammunition supply is on the line: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/03/as-czechs-head-to-polls.html

George Pickens' first catch as a Cowboy comes on opening drive vs. Eagles https://www.nfl.com/videos/george-pickens-first-catch-as-a-cowboy-comes-on-opening-drive-vs-eagles

Ravens as Super Bowl champs? Joe Burrow as MVP? The Athletic staff’s NFL predictions for 2025 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6582021/2025/09/04/nfl-predictions-super-bowl-awards-experts-poll/

Sources: plans for X Money, a nationwide peer-to-peer payments service integrated into X, have stalled as DFS NY and other state regulators raise concerns (Theo Wayt/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/elon-musks-x-money…

Elon Musk’s X Money Plans Stalled by Regulators, Staff Turnover
For decades, one of Elon Musk’s biggest ambitions has been using technology to disrupt and replace traditional banks and payments processors. One of his management obsessions, meanwhile, has been pushing his employees to build things as quickly and cheaply as possible. Inside X, those two ideals ...

ICE raids in Chicago could start as early as Friday, but are expected to begin Saturday, Democratic Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker warned. 
The Department of Homeland Security asked the Pentagon for access to Naval Station Great Lakes
- the largest military base in Illinois
- to base an operation, The Washington Post reported. 
The request said that around 250 federal agents and 140 vehicles would utilize the base. 
National Guard troops could also be sent in t…

Trump readies SIEGE of Chicago as feds prepare for massive immigration raid in showdown with crime-plagued city
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement is gearing up for a massive immigration raid of Chicago - the city President Donald Trump said he'd selected for the next federal military takeover.

hiv_transmission: HIV transmission network (1988-2001)
A set of networks of HIV transmissions between people through sexual, needle-sharing, or social connections, based on combining 8 datasets collected from 1988 to 2001. Metadata includes test results of several diseases, as well as demographic variables such as age, ethnicity, and gender. Networks come in two flavors: egodyads and altdyads. Egodyads are the network among study-participants and their direct partners. Altdyads are the…

Raiders WR grateful to earn starting role as rookie: ‘It means a lot’ https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-wr-grateful-to-earn-starting-role-as-rookie-it-means-a-lot-3438076/

Putin rages as explosions destroy Russian chemical plants, West arms Ukraine! | Weekly Wrap-Up: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/03/putin-rages-as-explosions-destroy.html

Can the Eagles repeat as Super Bowl champs? The keys to Philadelphia's 2025 title defense

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/can-the-eagle…

Pete Carroll and Mike Vrabel begin their new coaching stints as Raiders open season at Patriots https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/pete-carroll-and-mike-vrabel-begin-their-new-coaching-stints-as-raiders-open…

Ravens as Super Bowl champs? Joe Burrow as MVP? The Athletic staff’s NFL predictions for 2025 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6582021/2025/09/04/nfl-predictions-super-bowl-awards-experts-poll/

Brock Purdy was the NFL’s darling as Mr. Irrelevant. Who will he be as a $265 million man? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6585778/2025/09/04/brock-purdy-contract-49ers-2025-season/

Shares of Asian AI-linked companies fall, tracking declines in US peers, as investors worry about stretched valuations; SoftBank falls 9% , Advantest 7% (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/05/softbank-ai-stocks-slide-on-valuation-jitters-.ht…

SoftBank shares plunge 10% as Asian AI-linked stocks slide on valuation jitters
The AI-led rally has pushed the S&P 500's forward P/E above 23—its highest since 2000, according to FactSet.

NFL Week 10 betting power ratings: Bills leap as several top teams lose, plus how all 32 teams stack up

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-wee

As he approaches his final summit as the UN chief,
António Guterres reflects on
humanity’s progress in attempting to limit global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels,
why Indigenous voices must be listened to
and how he remains positive in the face of the climate crisis.
https://…

‘We must change course’: a stark climate warning from the UN chief
Podcast Episode · Science Weekly · 11/04/2025 · 16m

NFL: Arizona Cardinals beat Dallas Cowboys 27-17 as Marvin Harrison Jr stars and Jacoby Brissett delivers in Kyler Murray's absence https://www.skysports.com/nfl/news/12118/1

Bitcoin dropped below $100K for the first time since June on Tuesday; ETH also fell as much as 15% on Tuesday, and many altcoins are down 50% this year (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-04/bitc…

Bitcoin (BTC) Falls Below $100,000 With Risk Appetite Muted After Wipeout
Bitcoin has wiped out its summer rally, giving back gains made during Wall Street’s euphoric embrace and a surge in institutional buying.

Jakobi Meyers trade grades: Jaguars bolster WR room as Raiders collect future picks

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jakobi-meyers-trade-grades-j…

Former Cowboys 1st Round Pick ‘As Close To Being Cut As You Can Be’ https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/mazi-smith-close-being-cut/?adt_ei=[email]

Source: AI contractor marketplace Mercor has received investment offers valuing it as high as $10B, just six months after raising $100M at a $2B valuation (Katie Roof/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/mercor-field…

Mercor Fields $10 Billion-Valuation Offers in ‘Pre-emptive’ Onslaught
The frothiness of the artificial intelligence boom is starting to look like 1999…or 2021. Startups are again receiving unsolicited investment interest months or even weeks after announcing a fundraising, sometimes at prices that would more than double their valuation. The latest is Mercor, a ...

Giants sell minority ownership to Koch family as deal earns highest valuation for sports franchise, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/giant…

Pinterest shares dropped 20% on Wednesday after forecasting Q4 revenue below estimates as advertising took a hit from retailers dealing with tariffs (Jaures Yip/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/05/pinterest-stock-earnings-tariffs-ads.html

Pinterest plunges 20% after weak results as tariffs drag on ad revenue
Third-quarter sales in the U.S. and Canada came in at $786 million, missing analyst projections.

Fading Philly? If Eagles fall short in bid to repeat as Super Bowl champs, here are 5 reasons why

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/fading-

Myles Garrett injury: Browns star pass rusher misses practice as opener vs. Bengals approaches

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/myles-g…

Jimmy Wales says Wikipedia's "Gaza genocide" page failed to meet its standards of neutrality; the article is listed as "protected" until 21:47 UTC on November 4 (Xander Elliards/The National)
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25591165

Wikipedia row erupts as Jimmy Wales intervenes on 'Gaza genocide' page
WIKIPEDIA founder Jimmy Wales has intervened over the platform’s article on Gaza genocide ...

Steelers build on lead in AFC North on Sunday despite not playing as Bengals, Browns and Ravens stumble

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/steeler

Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Code.org, IBM, and other companies pledged new commitments for AI in education as part of a White House event hosted by Melania Trump (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/04/melania-trump-ai-in-education-the-robots-ar…

Melania on AI in education: "The robots are here"
The White House sees AI in K-12 education as a key part of ensuring American competitiveness in the field.

Niners RB Christian McCaffrey, who missed 13 games last season, listed as limited with calf injury in practice report https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-rb-christian-mccaffrey-listed-as-limited-with-calf-injury-in-practice-report…

Barclays: hyperscalers have announced a total of 46 GW of AI data center capacity, which at full utilization will consume as much energy as ~44.2M US households (Robin Wigglesworth/Financial Times)
https://on.ft.com/4qCvVap

Travis Kelce says he got 'one more ring' from engagement to Taylor Swift as Chiefs TE enters last year of deal

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/new…

How ideology-driven AI chatbots like Grok and Gab's Arya position themselves as alternatives to mainstream chatbots accused of liberal bias (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/busines

Right-Wing Chatbots Turbocharge America’s Political and Cultural Wars
Once pitched as dispassionate tools to answer your questions, A.I. chatbots are now programmed to reflect the biases of their creators.

Brian Daboll announces offensive coordinator Mike Kafka will return to role as Giants' play-caller

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/brian-d

Motorola Edge 70 review: the new £699 ultra-thin device has a silicone back and great battery life, but the OS is full of ads; the phone won't launch in the US (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/813377/motorola-edge-70-review

Motorola’s Edge 70 is the blueprint for future thin phones
The Motorola Edge 70 is almost as thin as an iPhone Air, but still packs a 4,800mAh battery.

Meta rolls out a tool that lets users attach up to 10,000 characters of text to Threads posts, building upon the 500-character text limit for posts (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/770391/meta-threads-text-dumps-attachments-10000-…

You can now attach 10,000 character blogs to your Threads posts
Threads now allows users to add text attachments to their posts that can include as many as 10,000 characters.