2025-11-16 23:09:36
Buzz: Tucker goes off for Buccaneers; Packers lose Jacobs, Ridley's season over https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/40699880/fantasy-football-injuries-position-battles-nfl-news-analysis
Buzz: Tucker goes off for Buccaneers; Packers lose Jacobs, Ridley's season over https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/40699880/fantasy-football-injuries-position-battles-nfl-news-analysis
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Fani Willis gives full-throated defense of 2020 election subversion case (Ella Lee/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5653469-willis-testifies-trump-election-case/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p114#a251217p114
In Ukraine, the fog of war is enhanced with atmospheric fog.
It is not only the physical battles that are affected by this fog, but also the global speculation about a scene most journalists refuse to visit and report from.
Like blind men describing an elephant that lives in the next town away from them, they publish lies and rumors they can not substantiate.
Giorgio is actually on the ground in Ukraine, reporting the truth he witnesses first-hand.
The Russians would…
Eric Moody's notebook: Who got the ball on Sunday? https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/40699880/fantasy-football-injuries-position-battles-nfl-news-analysis
🥏 From gladiators to mock naval battles, what were the major sports events in the ancient world?
https://theconversation.com/from-gladiators-to-mock-naval-battles-what-were-the-major-sports-events-in-the-ancient-…
Petition of Right, (1628)
was a petition sent by the English Parliament to King Charles I,
complaining of a series of breaches of law.
The petition sought recognition of four principles:
🔸no taxation without the consent of Parliament,
🔸no imprisonment without cause,
🔸no quartering of soldiers on subjects,
🔸and no martial law in peacetime.
After dismissing his second Parliament,
Charles imposed a "forced loan", an effective tax wh…
Hunter Biden disbarred in Connecticut after gun, tax conviction complaints (Ella Lee/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5649873-hunter-biden-disbarred-connecticut/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p104#a251215p104
Week 14 features 3 division battles for first place and 3 high-profile prime-time games https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/week-14-features-3-division-battles-for-first-place-and-3-highprofile-primetime-games
Alphabet passed $100B in quarterly revenue for the first time, in Q3; Sundar Pichai says "AI Overviews drive meaningful query growth" and AI Mode has 75M DAUs (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/google-posts-
Packers' Jacobs pulls through 'flu game' in big way https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46577466/packers-josh-jacobs-battles-illness-huge-game-win-vs-bengals
"Perhaps, having lost so many [cultural] battles at home, it is easier on the ego to look abroad for societies to redeem. The attack on Europe is a disguised self-reproach"?
Maga’s strange rage against Europe - https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/3e97fb8e-4b48-41f0-b193-ed599f3f60b3 via @FT
NPR fights Trump's executive order against public media : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/05/g-s1-100844/npr-battles-trump-executive-order-in-court
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Alphabet passed $100B in quarterly revenue for the first time, in Q3; Sundar Pichai says "AI Overviews drive meaningful query growth" and AI Mode has 75M DAUs (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/google-posts-
Guardian: Face transplants promised hope. Patients were put through the unthinkable https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/27/face-transplant-patients-results-outcomes "negative data is often buried, driven by funding battles and inst…
My guess here at a distance is that it’s a terrible mistake to think of “Harvard” as a single anthropomorphic entity with a single mind. There are surely terrible internal battles raging at Harvard right now: between those who think it’s truly for education and those who think it’s truly for ROI, between those protecting the dollars and those protecting the brand reputation, between those cowering at the short-term financial risk of angering an authoritarian and those who see the long-term risks of capitulating.
What does “Harvard” think? Harvard is a bunch of different people. I wish them luck, and wisdom. Heaven knows they’ll need it.
/end
Finished the DLC of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. What a great mystlike game. Don't let the boss battles and kicking the living sh!t out of Nazis and fascists deter you from having an excellent time going into every nook and cranny and soaking up the Indy experience. I've finished the game, and I haven't even halved the things you could see and collect in the Vatican level alone! A solid 9/10 only because it doesn't have a third-person view at least as an option.
…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Battles:
🎵 Titanium 2 Step (feat. Sal Principato)
#Battles
https://battles.bandcamp.com/track/titanium-2-step
https://open.spotify.com/track/1ddMlDaOhtrXMgESmfPlRL
"On October 7, 1571, one of the greatest battles in the history of humanity began. On this date, more than 75% of the galleys, galleasses, galleots and frigates available in all the fleets of the world, 580 ships and more than 100,000 men, gathered in Lepanto.... The Battle of Lepanto is usually considered the bloodiest naval battle of all time."
#WesternEurope
This was reeaaally good. Especially the last one. I literally yelled, "YESSSS!" when they got to #1.
▶️ The 4 Most Powerful, Epic Battles in Star Trek are Actually Better Than Star Wars
https://youtube.com/watch?v=v_GGV7Bb1ik&si=f5AK4twofi4gU2Dy…
Interconnected Contests
Marcin Dziubi\'nski, Sanjeev Goyal, Junjie Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11452 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11452
Raiders vs. Eagles prediction: Las Vegas battles, but Philadelphia bounces back to end losing streak
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/raiders-vs-eagles-where-to-watch-pick-od…
Day 30: Elizabeth Moon
This last spot (somehow 32 days after my last post, but oh well) was a tough decision, but Moon brings us full circle back to fantasy/sci-fi, and also back to books I enjoyed as a teenager. Her politics don't really match up to Le Guin or Jemisin, but her military experience make for books that are much more interesting than standard fantasy fare in terms of their battles & outcomes (something "A Song of Ice and Fire" achieved by cribbing from history but couldn't extrapolate nearly as well). I liked (and still mostly like) her (unironically) strong female protagonists, even if her (especially more recent) forays into "good king" territory leave something to be desired. Still, in Paksenarion the way we get to see the world from a foot-soldier's perspective before transitioning into something more is pretty special and very rare in fantasy (I love the elven ruins scene as Paks travels over the mountains as an inflection point). Battles are won or lost on tactics, shifting politics, and logistics moreso than some epic magical gimmick, which is a wonderful departure from the fantasy norm.
Her work does come with a content warning for rape, although she addresses it with more nuance and respect than any male SF/F author of her generation. Ex-evangelicals might also find her stuff hard to read, as while she's against conservative Christianity, she's very much still a Christian and that makes its way into her writing. Even if her (not bad but not radical enough) politics lead her writing into less-satisfying places at times, part of my respect for her comes from following her on Twitter for a while, where she was a pretty decent human being...
Overall, Paksenarrion is my favorite of her works, although I've enjoyed some of her sci-fi too and read the follow-up series. While it inherits some of Tolkien's baggage, Moon's ability to deeply humanize her hero and depict a believable balance between magic being real but not the answer to all problems is great.
I've reached 30 at this point, and while I've got more authors on my shortlist, I think I'll end things out tomorrow with a dump of also-rans rather than continuing to write up one per day. I may even include a man or two in that group (probably with at least non-{white cishet} perspective). Honestly, doing this challenge I first thought that sexism might have made it difficult, but here at the end I'm realizing that ironically, the misogyny that holds non-man authors to a higher standard means that (given plenty have still made it through) it's hard to think of male authors who compare with this group.
Looking back on the mostly-male authors of SF/F in my teenage years, for example, I'm now struggling to think of a single one whose work I'd recommend to my kids (having cheated and checked one of my old lists, Pratchett, Jaques, and Asimov qualify but they're outnumbered by those I'm now actively ashamed to admit I enjoyed). If I were given a choice between reading only non-men or non-woman authors for the rest of my life (yes I'm giving myself enby authors as a freebie; they're generally great) I'd very easily choose non-men. I think the only place where (to my knowledge) not enough non-men authors have been allowed through to outshine the fields of male mediocrity yet is in videogames sadly. I have a very long list of beloved games and did include some game designers here, but I'm hard-pressed to think of many other non-man game designers I'd include in the genuinely respect column (I'll include at least two tomorrow but might cheat a bit).
TL;DR: this was fun and you should do it too.
#30AuthorsNoMen
Right now! WHAT’S HAPPENING in POKROVSK? Battles near KURSK — Russians still suffer LOSSES!: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/31/right-now-whats-happening-in.html
Google Cloud launches Gemini Enterprise, designed to help employees automate tasks and generate content across departments, priced at $30 per user per month (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-09/google-cloud-b…
Coverages, edge play, key battles for Cowboys in Wk 12 against Eagles https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/11/23/red-zone-play-3-key-battles-dallas-cowboys-week-12-eagles/873993960…
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"The study of programming history might not be the solution to all the problems in our industry, for sure. It is also worth pointing out that most university curricula simply do not include any mention whatsoever of such subjects. Maybe it is time to start providing such information to students."
https://dep…
Fantasy football buzz: What to expect from Taylor, other Colts if Rivers starts https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/40699880/fantasy-football-injuries-position-battles-nfl-news-analysis
Judge orders Abrego Garcia's immediate release from ICE custody (Zach Schonfeld/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5644176-judge-orders-abrego-garcias-immediate-release-from-ice-custody/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p76#a251211p76
Supreme Court rejects Project Veritas' appeal on Oregon law
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5540474-project-veritas-supreme-court-challenge/
Choose Your Battles: Distributed Learning Over Multiple Tug of War Games
Siddharth Chandak, Ilai Bistritz, Nicholas Bambos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20147 https://
Oh! The video games I played in October all begin with 'B':
The Biggleboss INCident; Blackwell Unbound; The Blackwell Convergence; The Blackwell Deception; Backpack Battles.
Yep, #pointandclick
I've started the last in the Blackwell series - I'm not finished yet. I know they're older, but maybe I'll write a review of the series when I'm done.
I also played #SteamNextFest Demos: Goblin Sushi (many hours' worth); Nighthawks; Atomic Age; Moon Garden Optimizer; Mystery of Silence; Servant of the Lake; Uncle Lee's Cookbook
There were 5 other demos I played, but I uninstalled them after 10 minutes' play - they weren't for me
Sean Payton vs. Pete Carroll record: Full head-to-head results between Broncos, Raiders veteran coaches https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/sean-payton-pete-carroll-record-head-head/80e98be462aa5656b6acc491
There is no US city that more effectively displays the importance of immigrants to the story of America than San Francisco.
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/national-guard-deployment-immigration-raids-10-23-25-hnk
Drawing Conclusions from Draws: Rethinking Preference Semantics in Arena-Style LLM Evaluation
Raphael Tang, Crystina Zhang, Wenyan Li, Carmen Lai, Pontus Stenetorp, Yao Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02306
From an interview I heard with May Mailman (the lawyer behind President Trump’s battles with Harvard and Columbia), I got the impression that American universities without teachers and professors who teach creationism and climate scepticism (and other crackpottery) are not sufficiently "balanced" and "merit based".
Proper science is apparently "leftist".
The Internet Archive might sound like a thriving organization,
but it only recently emerged from years of bruising copyright battles that threatened to bankrupt the beloved library project.
In the end, the fight led to more than 500,000 books being removed from the Archive’s “Open Library.”
“We survived,” Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle told Ars.
“But it wiped out the Library.”
An Internet Archive spokesperson confirmed to Ars that the archive currently…
Sigils of Nightfall: kostenlose Demo auf Steam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3039980/Sigils_of_Nightfall/
"Sigils of Nightfall is a roguelike deckbuilder where you fight for survival in turn-based battles, shaped by merciless decisions and resource …
Fantasy Football Buzz: When can we expect Puka Nacua, Brock Purdy back in lineup? https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/40699880/fantasy-football-injuries-position-battles-nfl-news-analysis
Fantasy football buzz: Injuries pile up in Week 14, as three QBs and Achane, Ertz go down https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/40699880/fantasy-football-injuries-position-battles-nfl-news-analysis
Trump admin restores library grants after court ruling
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5634856-library-funding-restored-federal-grants/
Trump administration asks to immediately block SNAP distribution order (Zach Schonfeld/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5595137-trump-administration-snap-appeal/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251109/p28#a251109p28
Russia’s new long-range glide bombs aim to terrorize civilians, not win battles, experts say: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/24/russias-new-longrange-glide-bombs.html
Fantasy Buzz: Jones, Colts roll on; Waller's comeback tour continues https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/40699880/fantasy-football-injuries-position-battles-nfl-news-analysis
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to pause order requiring full SNAP payments (Zach Schonfeld/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5596074-trump-doj-appeals-snap-ruling-supreme-court/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251109/p7#a251109p7
Fantasy Football Buzz: Does Jacoby Brissett bring out the best in Marvin Harrison Jr.? https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/40699880/fantasy-football-injuries-position-battles-nfl-news-analysis
Ghislaine Maxwell to ask court to free her from prison
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5632033-ghislaine-maxwell-prison-sentence-challenge/
Colts continue skid as QB Jones limited by injury https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47157620/colts-continue-skid-qb-daniel-jones-battles-injury
Thoma Bravo acquires a majority stake in Java platform Azul, which received a $340M majority investment from Vitruvian Partners and Lead Edge Capital in 2020 (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/11/18/tho…
No perp walk for Comey, Blanche says (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5544577-comey-faces-court-charges-denied/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p50#a251008p50
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Battles:
🎵 Titanium 2 Step (feat. Sal Principato)
#Battles
https://battles.bandcamp.com/track/titanium-2-step
https://open.spotify.com/track/1ddMlDaOhtrXMgESmfPlRL
Notre Dame College Football Playoff snub sparks reaction; NFL divisional battles reshape postseason race
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/new…
We are in the final sprint my friends and just need to leave it all the playing field these next fifteen days.
Donate, call/text, canvass, fight the info battles
- do whatever you can to help us close strong now.
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/we-have…
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Redistricting Battles, Set Off by Trump, Have Few Parallels in U.S. History (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/us/elections/gerrymandering-redistricting-democrats-republicans.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p137#a251105p137
Judge rules in favor of New York clerk, tosses Texas abortion pill lawsuit
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5584536-new-york-texas-abortion-pill-lawsuit/
What to expect from Puka Nacua in his return https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/40699880/fantasy-football-injuries-position-battles-nfl-news-analysis
Texas and Florida Have Become National Models for Using the Police State To Wage Culture War Battles (C.J. Ciaramella/Reason)
https://reason.com/2025/10/06/culture-war-police-state/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p50#a251006p50
Raiders tout 'battle in the trenches' vs Browns which is kind of the problem https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/11/20/raiders-tout-battle-in-trenches-cleveland-brown…
Judge invokes wife on Trump 'bullying' in deportation ruling
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5529332-judge-william-young-trump-deportation-case/
Buzz: A closer look at Baker Mayfield's injury and why he's expected to play Sunday https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/40699880/fantasy-football-injuries-position-battles-nfl-news-analysis
Key Matchups: Stars must shine brighter for a Cowboys' victory https://insidethestar.com/key-matchups-stars-must-shine-brighter-for-a-cowboys-victory
Federal labor unions sue to challenge Donald Trump's shutdown layoff plans
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5529646-unions-sue-trump-administration-shutdown-mass-layoffs/
Kavanaugh's attempted assassin to be sentenced Friday (Zach Schonfeld/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5535544-kavanaugh-assassination-attempt-sentencing/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251004/p69#a251004p69
NFL Week 14 staff picks: Bears-Packers Round 1, decisive battles in AFC North, South https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6858882/2025/12/03/nfl-week-14-picks-bears-packers/
Trump admin says it will provide partial November SNAP benefits (Zach Schonfeld/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5586580-government-shutdown-snap-benefits/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p81#a251103p81
Omarion Hampton's practice window is open -- just in time for the fantasy trade deadline https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/40699880/fantasy-football-injuries-position-battles-nfl-news-analysis
Buzz: Terry McLaurin ready to roll, Christian Watson on verge of return https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/40699880/fantasy-football-injuries-position-battles-nfl-news-analysis
Buzz: A closer look at what to make of Bengals not activating Joe Burrow for Week 12 https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/40699880/fantasy-football-injuries-position-battles-nfl-news-analysis
DOJ opens probe into handling of Schiff mortgage investigation
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5616192-justice-department-probe-schiff-mortgage-investigation/
Buzz: Mahomes' return to excellence, Ferguson's rise and why to trade for McMillan https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/40699880/fantasy-football-injuries-position-battles-nfl-news-analysis
Early-game fantasy headlines: Daniel Jones delivers again; Pats can't hold onto ball https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/40699880/fantasy-football-injuries-position-battles-nfl-news-analysis
Trump asks Supreme Court to let him refire Copyright Office director (Ella Lee/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5575057-trump-supreme-court-review-copyright-director/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251027/p86#a251027p86
DOJ admits full grand jury never reviewed final Comey indictment, further imperiling case
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5612407-comeys-challenge-trump-prosecution/
Buzz: Evans breaks collarbone, Gibbs runs wild, Seahawks split carries on MNF https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/40699880/fantasy-football-injuries-position-battles-nfl-news-analysis
Texas adds to redistricting war deluge at Supreme Court (Zach Schonfeld/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5622226-texas-redistricting-supreme-court/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p126#a251125p126
Fantasy Football Buzz: Is Rashee Rice (two TDs Sunday) a WR1 moving forward? https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/40699880/fantasy-football-injuries-position-battles-nfl-news-analysis
Comey seeks dismissal over 'fundamental errors' in grand jury process (Ella Lee/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5618169-comey-seeks-dismissal-indictment/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251121/p138#a251121p138
Will the Patriots grab the No. 1 seed? Is Tua about to get benched? 5 bold NFL predictions for the second half
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-bold-predictions-second-half-2025-s…
DOJ admits full grand jury never reviewed final Comey indictment, further imperiling case (Ella Lee/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5612407-comeys-challenge-trump-prosecution/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p102#a251119p102