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The three-year strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ends after a Third Circuit court panel ruled the paper had acted in bad faith; the paper plans to appeal (Riddhi Setty/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_…

The nation's longest strike is over—but the battle isn't.
Journalists at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette are ready to return to work.

#GiftLink: "Daniel Metzger, a senior fellow at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, said the judge’s opinion offered “very detailed guidance for designing cases that can overcome the challenges this one faced.”
**The Kids Who Sued Trump Just Lost Big in Court. Or Did They?** - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/climate/climate-lawsuit-children-montana-trump-health.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uU8.XGvS.JzTmLO-wpAR7&smid=url-share

I'm having a great time watching the #sumo. There's a tournament at the Royal Albert Hall in London and the Beeb's showing it. The bouts are fast and furious fun.

Columbia faculty received notification from the university that we can submit claim forms asking for part of the $20 million Columbia is paying out to Jewish or Israeli members of the community who have been victims of antisemitism.
Quite a few of my Jewish colleagues are trying to figure out if they qualify
-- because of what happened to them when they expressed opposition to the genocide in Gaza
- Peter Woit (Not Even Wrong)

The Situation at Columbia XXXV
A quick update on what has been going on here at Columbia in recent months: The campus has been rather quiet this semester, about to get much more so as the semester ends and we go into winter brea…

Ohio Linux Fest (Open Libre Free) conference **is still on** in Columbus Ohio!
The conference will be a 1-day event held on December 6th at the conference center in Sonesta Downtown Columbus (south across the street from the convention center).
I'll post a follow-up once registration opens; should be in the next few days, so stay tuned for that!
#Ohio

There’s this place we walk by pretty regularly that’s semi-abandoned. The owner replaces parts when they fall off and there are lights at night, but the front and back have been left to return to nature. This chunk of land is worth ~$2.5M Canadian, so an odd situation. Anyhow, I enjoy watching the progress of the informal small-scale rewilding.
#Photography

"When your number's up, your number's up", my mum used to say:
November 16, 2012. Patrick Edlinger, a celebrated climber who had braved all dangers with his bare hands, accidentally dies by falling down the stairs at home.

All right, if I'm making you ANOTHER bookcase at least I'm getting some more clamps out of it.
#woodworking

Hyundai Data Breach Leaked 2.7 Million Social Security Numbers
https://www.jalopnik.com/2023359/hyundai-data-breach-leaked-millions-social-security-numbers/

Hyundai Data Breach Leaked 2.7 Million Social Security Numbers
We're looking at a data breach at Hyundai, as well as dealers' climbing new-car inventories and more.

A look at censorship at student papers in Texas, Iowa, and Oklahoma; at two colleges, students started independent papers after conflicts with administrators (Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/news/one-battle-after-another-student-news…

One battle after another: Student papers in crisis.
On university campuses, student papers are fighting their own administrations—and sometimes the government—for the right to report.