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Olivia Nuzzi's book, American Canto, is seeing slow initial sales, with the hardcover edition ranked No. 6,709 on Amazon's bestseller list early Wednesday (Harmeet Kaur/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/us/olivia-nuzzi-american-canto-release-cec…

​​Does scandal sell? Not for Olivia Nuzzi’s book so far
Olivia Nuzzi’s memoir, “American Canto,” hit bookstores this week. “We ordered a lot and so far, people have not been beating down the door,” said one bookseller.

Remember how grumpy I was with CSS making things `inert` (for CSS carousels)?
Well, CSSWG is doubling down, using it to justify more wrongness.
Brian notes the false equivalency:
https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/13040#issuecomment-3487102861

[css-ui] `interactivity: focusable` · Issue #13040 · w3c/csswg-drafts
Motivation The ability to make elements focusable via CSS has come up before by @frivoal. There is already precedent in controlling focusability via CSS, just not directly, but as a side effect of ...

Looks like Plankey lost his nomination to head CISA and we head into 2026 with no real leader at the cyber agency.
Sean Plankey nomination to lead CISA appears to be over after Thursday vote
https://cyberscoop.com/sean-plankey-cisa-nomination-stalled-senate-ho…

Sean Plankey nomination to lead CISA appears to be over after Thursday vote
Sean Plankey’s nomination to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency looks to be over following his exclusion from a Senate vote Thursday on a panel of Trump administration picks.

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 ...

Dick is dead.
#deadDick

War Criminal Dick Cheney Dead at 84, With Blood of Millions on His Hands
Cheney’s legacy more than outlives him; he reshaped the very structures of war and authoritarianism at home and abroad.

It is not clear that Trump’s image can be featured on a coin.
An 1866 law enshrined a tradition that only deceased people could appear on U.S. currency to avoid the appearance that America was a monarchy.
The Trump admin is planning to do it anyway.
-- Alan Rappeport

Treasury Plans to Mint $1 Commemorative Trump Coin
The coin, bearing President Trump’s face, would honor the 250th birthday of the United States.

NATO and the drones. This weekend, drones were flying spy missions over a Belgian Air Force base. Said the country's Defense Minister: "A helicopter and police vehicles chased the drone, but lost it after several kilometers.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/02/…

Drones spotted above Belgian airbase were ‘spying’ on military planes, defense minister says
Several drones spotted above a Belgian airbase over the weekend were there “to spy” on military fighter jets, the country’s defense minister said Sunday, at a time when European nations are on high alert for airspace intrusions.

Researchers claim that prompts framed as riddle-like poems could skirt AI chatbots' safety features designed to block production of explicit or harmful content (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/838167/ai-chatbots-can-be-wooed-…

AI chatbots can be wooed into crimes with poetry
New research suggests riddle-like poems are remarkably effective at circumventing AI safety features. 

The Supreme Courtsaid on Friday that it will take up its latest gun rights case
and consider striking down a strict regulation on where people can carry firearms in Hawaii.
Trump’s administration had urged the justices to take the case.
The court will consider Hawaii’s law that bans guns on private property,
including businesses like stores and hotels,
unless the owner has specifically allowed them verbally or with a sign.

Supreme Court will consider overturning strict Hawaii gun law
The Supreme Court says it'll take up its latest gun rights case and consider striking down strict regulations on where people can carry firearms in Hawaii. President Donald Trump’s Republican administration had urged the justices to take the case, arguing the law violates the court’s 2022 ruling that found people have a right to carry firearms in public under the Second Amendment. The Hawaii law bans guns on private property unless the owner has specifically allowed them. The law also prohi…

At the White House dinner on Thursday night, Big Tech executives put on an uncanny display of fealty to Donald Trump by taking turns praising his leadership (Brian Barrett/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/tech-ceos-donald-trump-white-house/

Tech CEOs Praise Donald Trump at White House Dinner
At a White House dinner Thursday night, America’s tech executives put on an uncanny display of fealty to Donald Trump.