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Seahawks demand everyone's attention with drubbing of 49ers: 'Showing our talents off' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6980206/2026/01/18/seahawks-49ers-playoffs-defense-sam-darnold/

Ukraine has to fight for attention, while Europe is looking at Greenland, Ukraine is suffering enormously, Putin is not forced to do any concession by Trump. Maybe Trump is even helping Putin to force Ukraine to accept a very bad deal…
#ukraine #greenland

Luminate 2025 report: the global music industry hit 5.1T streams, up 9.6% YoY and a single-year record; AI artist Xania Monet had 125M on-demand audio streams (Maria Sherman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/music-listen…

Global music streams hit 5 trillion in 2025
The global music industry hit 5.1 trillion streams in 2025. That’s a new single-year record, up 9.6% from 2024. That’s according to a 2025 Year-End Report from Luminate. They are an industry data and analytics company that provides insight into changing behaviors across music listenership. In the U.S., on-demand audio streams hit 1.4 trillion. That’s a 4.6% increase from last year. But attention is on older music. Less than half all U.S. on-demand audio streams were from tracks released i…

There’s an unwritten rule in publishing,
or so I’ve been told:
don’t write about COVID.
Our collective attention span has been saturated by those endless months holed up in attics and cramped corners of apartments, staring out at a world we could no longer take part in.
When the worst of it passed, we felt an urge to close that chapter, to padlock it behind a heavy latch.
But in doing so, we also tuck away the hard-won lessons of that time:
how quickly s…

Bird flu warnings are being ignored. I’ve seen this pattern before
H5N1 has a 50% fatality rate in humans. Yet we’re dismantling the systems designed to catch it early.

The one thing that does seem clear to me is that this is deeply entangled with the ultra-concentration of wealth and power, something which is both a cause •and• an effect of creators not sharing properly in the rewards of their creations.
If you talk to me about antitrust law with teeth or ending regulatory capture or a wealth tax, well, I don’t know how we get there — but you have my attention.
/end

"Republicans are supposed to deflect attention away from any mentions of Trump and instead focus on Democrats’ handling of the Epstein probe.”
Leaked Republican memo reveals GOP's strategy ahead of Epstein files release: CNN - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/republican-memo-trump-epstein/

Oh no. St. John’s University has banned the HOPE Conference because one person claimed it is anti-police.

A profile of Matthew Belloni, the writer of Puck's What I'm Hearing newsletter and host of The Town podcast, who has become a must-read for Hollywood news (Irina Aleksander/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/business/matthew-belloni-puc…

Matthew Belloni Is Yelling ‘Iceberg!’ on the Hollywood Titanic
Matthew Belloni has grabbed the movie industry’s attention by saying they’re about to sink.

@governorwalz.mn.gov
Pay attention to which direction police are facing
If police are facing, for example, ICE, then they're deployed AGAINST ICE & protecting citizens
Facing the citizens? They're deployed AGAINST citizens & protecting ICE
This is what we see
Choose your citizens to protect

Governor Tim Walz (@governorwalz.mn.gov)
Stay safe and stay peaceful today. Our public safety team has the resources, coordination, and personnel on the ground to maintain public safety and respond if needed. Thanks to local law enforcement for keeping the peace. https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/live-updates/minnesota-protests-ice-shooting-law-enforcement/

TIL that the original Mozilla dinosaur logo was designed by Shepard Fairey, later of Obama "HOPE" poster fame
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/12/the-original-mozilla-dinosaur-logo-artwork/

Colombia passes law to recognise victims of climate displacement.
It accords rights to them and responsibilities to government for both prevention and attention.
A bit unclear just what that will mean in practice
El ley: el Estado deberš reconocer a las víctimas de desplazamiento por cambio climštico | EL ESPECTADOR

Es ley: el Estado deberá reconocer a las víctimas de desplazamiento por cambio climático
Después de varios intentos, la ley fue aprobada en la Plenaria de la Cámara de Representantes en el cuarto debate.

The Empty Cup (from the School of Radical Attention) invited me to write a guest post on Zen and attention, so here is a brief report on my experiences during this winter’s silent retreat.
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/where-are-your-horses

Where Are Your Horses?
A report from a silent retreat for The Empty Cup, a publication of the School or Radical Attention.

Distressing news articles that probably won't get attention in the US - The echos of these #racist acts are heard around the globe, with the continuing normalization of atrocious, abhorent behavior.
New Slovenian law treats entire Romany minority ‘as a security threat’

Distressing news articles that probably won't get attention in the US - The echos of these #racist acts are heard around the globe, with the continuing normalization of atrocious, abhorent behavior.
New Slovenian law treats entire Romany minority ‘as a security threat’

Seeing the discussion, I’d like to clarify:
This post is not a statement on #nuclear energy. I was responding to the specific article that I shared, where @… reported that tech companies are “using AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.”
My point is - cutting corners and trying to “speed up” the construction or operation of nuclear power plants can have CATASTROPHIC effects.
Chernobyl was a disaster of mismanagement, cost cutting, and insufficient safety procedures.
I do not trust AI, a technology that is notoriously probabilistic and inconsistent in outputs (and with famously high error rates) to be reliable and competent for a use case where the risks are this high.
I also do not support the mindset of wanting to “speed up” ANY regulatory processes and safety checks when it comes to constructing nuclear power infrastructure.
Licensing is not a “bottleneck” here. It’s a safety prerogative.
(Thanks @… for bringing this to my attention!)

My takeaways from the bincode situation:
* Assume good intentions (while verifying), never dox (duh).
* Normalize having a non-empty .mailmap in repostiories so that name changes can be done less intrusively without calling attention.
* When doing a full-tree rebase, provide a simple text along with it that gives a filter-branch-or-so command that converts an old history into a bit-identical new one (where the old name/data can sit in a nonspecific regexp).

San Francisco Bar Area companies who are supporting ICE deserve to have more attention.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SanJose/comments/1qfhae0/map_of_bay_area_businesses_contracting_with_ice/

2026 NFL Draft order: Bills, Bears, 49ers and Texans turn their attention to the offseason after playoff exits

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2026-nfl-draft-order-updated-top-p…

Hi, I'm Thomas. Back in 2005 or so I've practically invented in-browser animations with HTML elements.
PLEASE DO NOT ANIMATE USER INTERFACE ELEMENTS FOR NO REASON.
Do not animate icons, change positions of buttons, do "fun liquid glass animations"; definitely under no circumstances move in or fade in whole blocks of text (unless your design goal is that you want people looking at your website to become nauseous).
Only use animation when it's helpful to the user—for example, when they need to pay extra attention to something because there's a risk of data loss or to pass the time while showing that something is going on when there's a process which takes a bit longer.

Jackery is making solar power actually beautiful. At CES, they unveiled solar roof tiles, a home battery system, and even a Solar Gazebo with 2 kW of panels that generates 10 kWh daily.
The gazebo runs $12-15K and pairs with battery storage for backup power. It's not utility-scale, but it's the kind of creative design that could make clean energy irresistible to everyday consumers.

Jackery Brings Creativity & Design To Solar & Energy Storage - CleanTechnica
While walking the floor at CES, Jackery attracted my attention. Jackery started as a portable battery power company 14 years ago. There are many competitors in that space now offering high-quality products. Increasingly, they blur the line between portable battery storage and home storage, with solar-integrated scalable home batteries that can be taken with you when you need them. Jackery’s new HomePower 3600 Plus is a great example.

#neu & #OpenAccess:
"Material Cultures of Archiving: An Introduction to a Global and Historical Practice"
https://doi.org…

“My oldest daughter had a lot of trauma as a child,” Andreatta said.
“Something really terrible happened to her when she was very young that I would hope never would happen to any other child.
And as a result of it, she's a lesbian.
She's gay, and she's married to a woman.
And sometimes that's a little bit of [an] internal struggle for me
because I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.”
After the speech, Andreatta opened the …

California Turning Point USA club in jeopardy after city councilwoman's controversial comments
Comments by Lincoln City Councilmember Holly Andreatta at a Club America meeting at Twelve Bridges High School have drawn attention to the emergence of Turni...

House Homeland Security chairman keeps attention on cyber issues https://therecord.media/andrew-garbarino-legislation-cyber-policy-outlook

During an Air Force One gaggle, President Trump said "Quiet, quiet, piggy" to a female Bloomberg reporter when she asked him about the Jeffrey Epstein emails (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/trump-quiet-piggy-jeffrey-epstein-1236621364/…

“Quiet, Piggy”: Donald Trump Lashes Out At Female Reporter Who Asked About Jeffrey Epstein Files
The White House posted a video to its website of Donald Trump‘s recent gaggle with reporters on Air Force One, but one brief moment has drawn media attention. That came on Friday, when one female reporter attempted to ask the president about the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. She appeared to be attempting to […]

AAR> Buddhist Art-making and Bodily Ethics in Queer and Trans Bangkok
https://ift.tt/EvFfbhC
Online Workshop: Technology & Society in Japan and Beyond (Fri: Nov 07, 2025) Susanne Brucksch…
via Input 4 RELCFP

#SMBC is onto something: #fun 😆

The Page Isn’t Dead, Your Attention Is Under Siege
Every few years we are invited to attend the same funeral. Someone declares that nobody reads anymore, that the printed page is finished, that books are an aging technology destined to become a museum object while the living culture migrates to earbuds and short video. It is a tempting story because it flatters our sense that we are witnessing a clean break with the past, a decisive turn of the wheel.

The Page Isn’t Dead, Your Attention Is Under Siege | David Boles, Blogs
Every few years we are invited to attend the same funeral. Someone declares that nobody reads anymore, that the printed page is finished, that books are an aging technology destined to become a mus…

"Tesla’s driver-assistance features can steer, brake and navigate a vehicle, but drivers are supposed to be ready to take over at any moment."
Funny how no one ever talks about driver reaction time as a real weakness in this protocol. And that's assuming the driver is actually paying attention while not doing any of the driving, a questionable assumption at best.
Calif. DMV ready to block Tesla sales if 'Autopilot' issue not solved

"Tesla’s driver-assistance features can steer, brake and navigate a vehicle, but drivers are supposed to be ready to take over at any moment."
Funny how no one ever talks about driver reaction time as a real weakness in this protocol. And that's assuming the driver is actually paying attention while not doing any of the driving, a questionable assumption at best.
Calif. DMV ready to block Tesla sales if 'Autopilot' issue not solved

Finished "Life, and Death, and Giants" by Ron Rindo.
Gabriel, 18 lbs at birth, his unwed Amish mother shunned for refusing to name the father, dies in labor. Gabriel lives w/ family & friends, liminally between English & Amish communities.
Exceptionally kind, incredibly athletic (a giant at over 8' tall), Gabriel attracts a lot of attention from the world. His exceptional kindness is life-altering for so many.
Tragic, but beautiful.
4/5 stars ⭐⭐⭐…

Life, and Death, and Giants
A heart too big for this world. A life that changes eve…

I have just learned that my toot escaped containment and had been reposted on bluesky (with credit) and is getting a ton of attention there too.
This is really cool, thank you all for so giving my random observation so much attention.
I’ve been enjoying reading the discussions here, apologies that I haven’t had the time to engage with most of you! I try to read every reply I get.

Why Raiders Paid Close Attention to Indiana-Oregon Game https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-paid-close-attention-indiana-oregon-game

Ever wondered about #arithmetics in #JavaScript?
"For the most part, Javascript #numbers are double-precision floating point, so need to be treated the same as you would floating point…

You've heard of James Joyce. You've heard of Samuel Beckett. You've heard of Carl Jung.
Have you heard of Lucia Joyce?
I had not, until this morning, when her life (and her FIFTY YEARS incarcerated in psychiatric institutions) was brought to my attention by an (of course) female friend.
If this story does not make you an all-men-are-bastards #feminist, you have no…

Lucia Joyce - Wikipedia

Cowboys should be paying attention to Trey Hendrickson health status https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-should-be-paying-attention-trey-hendr…

Can I complain about required, subject-agnostic university writing courses? Part of the crisis in the humanities is that our institutions appear to have decided that we don't teach writing. But we do. Or maybe their problem is that we also teach troublesome substance? I haven't seen any evidence that the writing courses on my campus pay any attention to ideas, it seems to be all form all the time.

When people can’t tell what’s real, it can blur their understanding of animal behavior, welfare, and conservation needs. It can also divert attention – and support – away from organizations doing the real work to protect wildlife.
https://scz.org/blog/the-reality-of-ai-animal-content

Avatar 3 is showing in high frame rate or 3D or 3D with high frame rate. I haven't been paying close attention, but the last time I saw HFR was for The Hobbit (and to me it looked odd).
So is HFR back now? Or is it just for James Cameron's big budget?
#AvatarFireAndAsh #vfx

Also, if you like that as a game - the look and feel - may I direct your attention in this direction as well (from a different dev):
(It is unfortunately true that it does not play on modern macOS - it's still a 32-bit Intel executable, and unfortunately playback in CrossOver is not great but does run on #SteamDeck )
https://store.steampowered.com/app/297120/Heavy_Bullets/

We dont deserve crop circles. The aliens crossed incomprehensible void to show us their neat doodles and we go credit them to attention seeking farmers and hillbillies

"Narcoterrorist" is not simply corruption of language, it is corruption of thought. Terrorists seek attention for political ends. Narcotics traffickers seek secrecy and personal gain. They're not even in the same galaxy.

»Over 67,000 Fake npm Packages Flood Registry in Worm-Like Spam Attack:
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a large-scale spam campaign that has flooded the npm registry with thousands of fake packages since early 2024 as part of a likely financially motivated effort.«
How do you check if the JavaScript libraries and their libraries on which they are based are now safe?!??
🧑‍💻

Over 46,000 Fake npm Packages Flood Registry in Worm-Like Spam Attack
A mysterious npm worm published 46K fake packages in a two-year spam campaign, exposing major security gaps.

Attention! Attention!
We have snow in GA. All residents please proceed to drive your vehicles at top speed and buy as much bread and milk as you can. THIS IS NOT A DRILL!
#SnowInGA

Panel on Buddhist museums and exhibitions hosted by the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life
https://ift.tt/yQ4j1CV
Online Workshop: Technology & Society in Japan and Beyond (Fri: Nov 07, 2025) Susanne Brucksch…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Why the Greenland obsession, you wonder? Well, be sure to pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. https://youtube.com/shorts/pY2EdvwMGzo?si=dmq-7jmtF-FBu27v

Key Epstein Deadline Arrives as Attention Turns to Venezuela (Catherine Bouris/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/key-epstein-deadline-arrives-as-attention-turns-to-venezuela/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260104/p41#a260104p41

My attention span's not short enough for TikTok

Excellent analysis and well-argued analysis of the current rupture in Spanish anarcho-syndicalism. Definitely worth your attention:
https://anarchistunionjournal.org/2023/12/07/a-new-rupture-in-spanish-anarcho-syndicalism/

Really feeling the slowness of #fsharp compilation process. I am surprised they haven't made more progress in this area but I am sure I am not understanding the full complexities involved - or perhaps it's not a big enough issue to warrant too much attention. Either way. The only thing that's missing for this beautiful ecosystem of f#/.net world in my book.

Does anybody have a connection at Signal who could receive some urgent app design feedback? The app has several very specific problems / limitations / design quirks that are causing major headaches for neighbor groups trying to communicate here in Minneapolis.
(I’ll eventually try to write up some feedback through normal channels so it can go through the normal user feedback pipeline — but I’m sure any fixes that arrive that way will arrive far too late to be useful to us, so I’m not even bothering now. If there’s any chance of having some issues prioritized, I’d sure appreciate it.)
[ETA: I already tagged Mer__edith, but I’m sure she’s far too busy and her mentions are far too crowded for her to give this attention]

I have not updated my main Mac to the new OS. I have updated my laptop, and regret it. I am concerned about security updates but I believe Apple provides security updates for not-too-old versions.
This UI, though, I just do not feel comfortable with it. I am hoping I can skip this major version and that the next one will be more in line with Apple's historical attention to getting UIs right.
Please don't respond with discussion about the UI, but: please do respond if I am making a security mistake by holding off on the update.

"Oil residues can travel over 5,000 miles on ocean debris, study finds"
#FossilFuels #Oceans #Pollution

Oil residues can travel over 5,000 miles on ocean debris, study finds
When oily plastic and glass, as well as rubber, washed onto Florida beaches in 2020, a community group shared the mystery online, attracting scientists' attention. Working together, they linked the black residue-coated debris to a 2019 oil slick along Brazil's coastline. Using ocean current models and chemical analysis, the team explains in Environmental Science & Technology how some of the oily material managed to travel over 5,200 miles (8,500 kilometers) by clinging to debris.

Which QB Prospects Raiders Need to Give Genuine Attention To https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-which-qb-prospects-need-give-genuine-attention

Attention social.
The Chargers are hopeless.
Bang bang, Niners gang.
Trump is a loser.
That is all.
#LosAngeles #49ers #Chargers

AAR> Panel on Buddhist museums and exhibitions hosted by the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life, AAR, Boston
https://ift.tt/aBjzyln
Online Workshop: Technology & Society in Japan and Beyond (Fri: Nov 07, 2025) Susanne Brucksch…
via Input 4 RELCFP

For Saint Augustine of Hippo, writing in North Africa in the fourth century,
authentic attention placed us in relation with the divine.
For Saint Ignatius of Loyola, holed up in his cave in Catalonia in the 1520s,
what he called “attentive contemplation” was both a daily practice and a moral imperative.
During the Enlightenment, close attention emerged as a virtue essential to knowledge and disciplined investigation,
-- as demonstrated in 1740, when the natural…

Opinion | The ‘Attention Economy’ Is a Lie
It started in a laboratory. No one could have predicted where it would end.

This shows that Trump is on Putin's side, not on the side of Europe and Ukraine. The whole Greenland affair diverts attention/ troops from Ukraine, all in Putin's interest.
""I think he's ready to make a deal," Trump said of the Russian president. "I think Ukraine is less ready to make a deal." Asked why U.S.-led negotiations had not yet resolved Europe's largest land conflict since World War Two, Trump responded: "Zelensky."

Encouraging to see rising focus on barriers to attractive public EV charging in 🇩🇪, particularly the widespread practice of discriminatory pricing despite 🇪🇺 #AFIR legislation.
Hopefully, this will lead to a healthy, transparent market where EV drivers find it easy and attractive to charge in public.

German price discrimination for charging electric vehicles
It is encouraging that, with regard to public EV charging in Germany, there is increasing legal attention being paid to the functioning of the market. A new legal expert opinion by Becker Büttner Held on the state of the current market with a view to attractive charging prices has been published, co

Witch: I will grant your wish, but you will be cursed with the knowledge of how you die.
Me: Hahaha jokes on you I already know

Google makes improvements to Veo 3.1's Ingredients to Video feature to make videos more expressive, and adds native vertical video generation and 4K upscaling (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/861257/google-veo-3-1-ai-video…

Google’s Veo now turns portrait images into vertical AI videos
Google is making its Veo 3.1 AI video model pay closer attention to the reference images you want generated clips to be based on.

to reorient attention to the sonic properties of the canon

Maxx Crosby trade rumor should have Cowboys, Eagles, Lions paying attention https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/maxx-crosby-trade-rumor-cowboys-eagles-lions-paying-attention/14e3555a2…

Report Calls Attention To Capitalism's Destruction Of The Press And Media System https://thedissenter.org/report-calls-attention-to-capitalisms-destruction-of-the-press-and-media-system/

Gloom & Bloom ☁️🌺
黑暗绽放 ☁️ 🌺
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Attention detectives: If the AI software you're using specifically tells you not to use it in court filings, then don't bloody use it in court filings. #WrongfulConvictions

Cleveland detective ‘misled’ judge about use of AI in murder investigation, ruling says
Judge Richard McMonagle reaffirmed a prior ruling tossing out evidence for a case in which a suspect was identified via artificial intelligence.

AAR> Buddhist Art-making and Bodily Ethics in Queer and Trans Bangkok https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20132757/aar-paper-buddhist-art-making-and-bodily-ethics-queer-and-trans

I recently watched a Veritasium video that touches on Braess's Paradox[1]: sometimes removing connections (eg roads) makes things faster.
The part that caught my attention was "even though every driver made a rational decision to minimize their own time, collectively it made the situation worse."
IOW, proof that adding up everyone's self interested actions does NOT lead to the best outcome. aka,

Raiders will pay close attention to Friday's Mendoza-Moore showdown https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/01/09/raiders-will-pay-close-attention-to-fridays-mendoza-moor…

If He Builds It, Tear It Down -- The foremost task occupying the attention ... (Hamilton Nolan/How Things Work)
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-builds-it-tear-it-down
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p38#a251213p38

When "self-driving" cars were first getting some hype back in ~2015 or so, I told people who asked me that I didn't think they'd be safe, and that I wished the same money were being invested in driver-assistance systems instead.
At the time, advocates were claiming that self-driving cars would be safer than human drivers.
We now have both self-driving cars and some nifty new driver assistance things, and it turns out that the self-driving cars are in fact being developed by corporations whose attention to the bottom line results in danger to others on the road pretty regularly. I don't actually have stats here for whether they're "safer than human drivers" or not, but the opportunity for one bad software update to make *all* self-driving cars dangerous at once kinda makes me doubt that.
Here's an example of Waymo cars getting "more aggressive" as they try to balance between being too timid and obstructing traffic (including emergency vehicles) and being too dangerous:
https://archive.ph/JJuGv
Here's another example of passing stopped schoolbusses leading to a software recall:
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/waymo-issue-voluntary-software-recall-after-close-calls/story?id=128207776
In the first article, Waymo claims 91% fewer serious accidents per mile. Obviously an independent audit would be actually trustworthy, but even if we take that claim at face value, it's meaningless if an update tomorrow causes 100,000 accidents.
Note that they could be using better engineering practices, and the fact that they aren't shows that they don't care enough about the risks. They could be deploying new software versions incrementally and slowly, letting new versions rack up lots of miles only on a few vehicles before pushing them to a fleet. The should also have the equivalent of a simulation unit test for "schoolbus is stopped, what do?" and if a software version fails that test, it doesn't make it to the fleet. Clearly they don't have that.
I feel pretty vindicated in my earlier prediction that this tech is a bad idea in the hands of the current advocates.

Squirrels at War: Drone Swarm
#writingcommunity #visualinspiration Earlier installments can be read from this page. *** Our attack on the pod ship had revealed our precise location to anyone who was paying attention. Gentle Ripple shifted course and accelerated. It was…

"In the age of virality, our devices offer up individual case studies, allowing us to congregate around them virtually. Although this is useful in helping us understand what happens when a person is plucked from their home, it takes our attention away from the larger story—more than half a million people deported, millions more at risk—and focuses us instead on a tiny part of it."

Don't even boost or repeat the narrative that DHS/ICE provides when they murder someone. They're lying, and you don't need to give their lies more attention.

Luminate's 2025 report: the global music industry hit 5.1T streams, up 9.6% YoY; on-demand US streams hit 1.4T, up 4.6% YoY; Christian/gospel music grew 18.5% (Maria Sherman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/music-liste

Global music streams hit 5 trillion in 2025
The global music industry hit 5.1 trillion streams in 2025. That’s a new single-year record, up 9.6% from 2024. That’s according to a 2025 Year-End Report from Luminate. They are an industry data and analytics company that provides insight into changing behaviors across music listenership. In the U.S., on-demand audio streams hit 1.4 trillion. That’s a 4.6% increase from last year. But attention is on older music. Less than half all U.S. on-demand audio streams were from tracks released i…

This should be getting more attention
Lawsuit: DHS wants
“unlimited subpoena authority”
to unmask ICE critics
DHS is weirdly using import/export rules to expand its authority to identify online critics.
https://arstechnica.com…

Lawsuit: DHS wants “unlimited subpoena authority” to unmask ICE critics
DHS is weirdly using import/export rules to expand its authority to identify online critics.

"This project started as a search problem and ended as something more. The most important result isn’t which neighbourhood tops the rankings - it’s the realisation that platforms now quietly structure survival in everyday urban markets. London’s restaurant scene is no longer organised by taste alone. It is organised by visibility that compounds, rent that rises when discovery arrives, and algorithms that allocate attention long before consumers ever show up. What looks like “choice” is increasingly the downstream effect of ranking systems."
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates

Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30 - DeSmog https://www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/mapped-big-foods-routes-to-influence-at-cop30/

Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30
In the city of Belém, at the mouth of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil has kicked off the COP30 climate conference, a summit framed as a pivotal moment to reduce emissions and keep the Paris Agreement alive. More than 50,000 people are expected to attend, from heads of state to civil society groups. But as attention […]

Matching needs with fits: Early 2026 NFL Draft targets for wild card losers

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/early-2026-nfl-draft-fits-for-every-wild-card-round-loser/

Compost and Stardust — #leadership

The Ecology of Imagination: Seeds, Mystery, and Emergent Change
Imagination is not escape—it’s emergence. This essay explores how attention, intimacy, and mystery nurture new worlds quietly forming in the dark.

Back when I was little, kids used to freak each other out about bad guys they saw or said they saw or heard somebody say they saw: Gang members. Kidnappers. Drug dealers.
Sometimes it was just attention-seeking or scaring each other for fun. Sometimes it was genuinely scary. Sometimes it was even based in reality. Regardless, these are the boogeymen of my childhood.
I’ve had the chance to talk to some little kids this week. You know who’s the playground boogeyman now? ICE.
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FBI Ousts Leader as Patel Fumes Over Attention to Agency Jet Use (Ben Penn/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/fbi-ousts-leader-as-patel-fumes-over-attention-to-agency-jet-use
http://www.memeorandum.com/251101/p54#a251101p54

Instagram launches Your Algorithm, which shows users an AI analysis of their activity to let them customize the topics shaping their Reels recommendations (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/instagram-lets-you-pick-what-shows-up-in-reels/

Instagram Will Start Letting You Pick What Shows Up in Your Reels
In the battle for your attention, Instagram is betting that more control over the algorithm could keep you scrolling on Reels.

Maxx Crosby trade rumor should have Cowboys, Eagles, Lions paying attention https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/maxx-crosby-trade-rumor-cowboys-eagles-lions-paying-attention/14e3555a2…

Pete Buttigieg and Robert Reich have highlighted our plan to
✅ defeat Citizens United:
“Interesting things are happening across the country…
Montana is trying to address this through attention to what a corporation can and can’t do,
because that’s actually decided at the state level.
So instead of working it at the ‘speech’ side of the equation,
💥they’re working at the
‘what is a corporation’ side of the equation.” --Secretary

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I am not equipped to judge the quality or credibility of this investigation — but its claims sure do deserve attention. !! https://toad.social/@davetroy/115849511230107823

As Minneapolis ICE shooting draws national attention, local and federal leaders dig in their heels (Jacob Wendler/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/11/minneapolis-republicans-democrats-dig-in-heels-00721471
http://www.memeorandum.com/260111/p54#a260111p54

Makai Lemon, Ty Simpson and other intriguing 2026 NFL Draft early entrants https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6964294/2026/01/13/nfl-draft-2026-prospects-underclassmen-ty-simpson/

Raiders praised for $3.5 million signing proving to be worth every penny https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-praised-35-million-signing-proving-worth-every-penny/25d5ab2d…

Cowboys to Interview Fired Head Coach for DC Spot on Tuesday https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/jonathan-gannon-interview-fired-head-coach-for-dc-spot-on-tu/

Essential AI, whose CEO co-wrote Google's Attention Is All You Need paper, unveils Rnj-1, an 8B-parameter open model with SWE-bench performance close to GPT-4o (Ashish Vaswani/Essential AI)
https://essential.ai/research/rnj-1

Instagram launches Your Algorithm, which shows users an AI analysis of their activity to let them customize the topics shaping their Reels recommendations (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/instagram-lets-you-pick-what-shows-up-in-reels/

Instagram Will Start Letting You Pick What Shows Up in Your Reels
In the battle for your attention, Instagram is betting that more control over the algorithm could keep you scrolling on Reels.

AAR> Panel on Buddhist museums and exhibitions hosted by the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life, AAR, Boston
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As Americans slept and Donald Trump invaded a sovereign nation and kidnapped its leader,
an inconvenient deadline was looming:
the date for the Department of Justice to explain its controversial Epstein file redactions.
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee noted the timing in a post on X, writing,
“We are sure it’s just a coincidence, but today is the statutory date for the DOJ to explain its redactions in the Epstein file productions.”
“We have not forgott…

Key Epstein Deadline Arrives as Attention Turns to Venezuela
The House Oversight Dems noted the convenient timing of Trump’s surprise attack.

The President Who Never Grew Up (Jonathan Martin/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/12/04/trump-presidency-child-renovations-entertainment-attention-00676183
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p19#a251204p19

A look at Alan's Universe, a YouTube channel for Gen Alpha with 98.3M subscribers that releases long-form, episodic videos as viewers shift to watching on TV (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/arts/television/youtube-alans-universe.html

‘Alan’s Universe’ Shows What It Might Look Like to Win at YouTube
As Gen Alpha’s attention drifts from TV and movies, video creators like Alan Chikin Chow are eager to fill the void.

Could Curt Cignetti draw NFL attention? Las Vegas, with Fernando Mendoza, is a hypothetical fit

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/curt-cig…

AAR> Panel on Buddhist museums and exhibitions hosted by the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life, AAR, Boston https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20132451/panel-buddhist-museums-and-exhibitions…

AWS implemented a 15% price hike for EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML on January 3; Amazon says it "reflects the supply/demand patterns we expect this quarter" (Corey Quinn/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/aws_price_increase/

AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention
: An anomaly or the beginning of a new trend? My bet's on the latter

U.S. Senate investigation has uncovered dozens of credible reports of medical neglect and poor conditions in immigration detention centers nationwide
— with detainees denied insulin, left without medical attention for days and forced to compete for clean water
— raising scrutiny about how the government oversees its vast detention system.
The report released by Sen. Jon Ossoff, a Democrat from Georgia,
is the second in a series of inquiries examining alleged human rig…

Senate report says detainees face neglect in US immigration centers
A U.S. Senate investigation has uncovered numerous credible reports of medical neglect and poor conditions in immigration detention centers across the country. The report, released by Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff, highlights cases where detainees were denied insulin, left without medical attention for days, and forced to compete for clean water. It documents 80 credible cases of medical neglect and widespread complaints about inadequate food and water. Senate investigators say these findings poin…

OMFG.
A post-C section mother who was an asylum seeker seeking a visa for crime victims
-- and who had a newborn baby struggling in the NICU
-- was held in Broadview in Chicago with no medical attention (POST C SECTION),
no breast pump (right after birth),
and no treatment for her diabetes.
MONSTERS.
-- John Pfaff

Her baby was in the NICU. She was in ICE detention.
Before Trump took office, postpartum immigrants were rarely detained by ICE. Nayra Guzmán was detained while her 15-day-old baby was in the NICU.