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The Continuous Call Team Catch Up
This is the podcast feed for all things NRL and The Continuous Call Team...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-continuous-call-team-catch-up/

It's snuck up on me (thanks for the nudge @… ) but tonight's our October #Libre / #FOSS catchup! If you want to be part of Aotearoa NZ's open …

Good enough is enough: once noninvasive BCIs catch up with invasive BCIs for (maybe 2x) natural bps, the market for invasive BCI devices will mostly collapse. #BCI #NeuroTech

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/seven-needles-800000-haystacks

A look at the current state of humanoid robotics and challenges like generalization and completing long tasks, which may take years or even decades to overcome (Kai Williams/Understanding AI)
https://www.understandingai.org/p/why-humanoid-robots-wont-catch-up

Why humanoid robots won’t catch up to human workers any time soon
A deep dive into the current state of humanoid robotics.

Environmental science moves fast, but policy can take decades to catch up https://www.earth.com/environment/environmental-science-moves-fast-but-policy-can-take-decades-to-catch-up/

Environmental science moves fast, but policy can take decades to catch up
Ecological discoveries take an average of seven years to reach international policy, revealing a major gap between science and environmental action.

Chiefs' Tyquan Thornton suffers gruesome injury on key 55-yard catch vs. Raiders https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7661086/2026/10/04/chiefs-tyquan-thornton-injury-catch-raiders/

Goldstein was doing more than holding his own.
He was taking the table apart, and in a way almost no one had seen before.
Almost every hand, he raised before any of the shared cards were dealt, to $400 or $500.
Most of the time, for one stretch an estimated 19 hands out of 20, he bet without looking at his cards.
Then he would bet as much as $35,000 on the river.
By the time the game finally broke, at a quarter to seven, the July sun was coming up over the d…

The Tell: Tom Goldstein’s Double Life
Tom Goldstein argued before the Supreme Court and won nearly $100 million at poker. His double life was about to catch up with him.

Egads - it's that time again - tomorrow evening (8/9 Sept, 20:00 NZST) is our monthly FOSS/open source/Libre catch up - we meet at https://meeting.iridescent.nz - all are welcome - we'd love to stress-test our video conferencing system, which should be able to handle 150 simultaneous participants... We …

Running old photos from the control room today -- heading off-grid for a week later this month I also need to catch up on corporate identity, paperwork, sysadmin, R&D and whatnot
#photo #photography #selfie

Lyft begins to offer Waymo rides in Nashville at no additional cost, the second city where it is offering robotaxi trips, as it plays catch up with Uber (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

It's rolled around again! Tomorrow evening, 20:00 NZST, is our next virtual #Libre / #FOSS meeting. All welcome - https://meeting.iridescent.nz

@… if the assumption is that no one frontier lab will dominate because the others catch up quickly (let alone the Chinese open-weight models), it's a rational choice. Sell the shovels, don't go panning for gold in the back country.

Friday Links 26-29
A bit of a catch-up from recent weeks today.
I recommend the two Book Overflow episodes about The Pragmatic Programmer and with Uncle Bob.
The long post from Charity about Slop is also worth a read.
https://christof.damian.net/2026/09/friday-lin…

Normally I go to the Benalla Street Art Festival but this year it coincided with some guy chopping my chest open. Did an overnighter to catch up with the new art work this week. #BenallStreetArtFestival
It was minus 4 when I woke up but the art work was worth it. Here's a few examples

India plans to invest up to $25B in its nascent deep tech industry, as it looks to catch up with the US and China, after investing $11.6B over the past decade (Priyanka Salve/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/29/india-investment-billions-tech-ai-us-china.html…

India readies $25 billion for Deep Tech investment as U.S. and China race ahead
In a bid to cut its reliance on foreign tech, India tries to catch up with China and the U.S. by readying an investment of $25 billion in Deep Tech startups.

Playing catch-up on open tabs…
Tetra has another one in its ‘designing for …’ series, this one for those with no or limited mobility:
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2026/08/19/designing-for-no-or-limited-mobility/

Designing for people with no or limited mobility - TetraLogical
People with limited or no mobility use a wide range of assistive technology, alternative input devices, and accessibility settings to interact with digital content. As you design your websites and mobile apps, how can you ensure they work well for them? This post explores important considerations for designing for people with moving disabilities.

This morning, I tried putting WB0RLJ's latest POTA activation on as background while reading my normal morning catch-up. It's interesting hearing to a really good operator while not actually focusing on the task of listening.
He can pull a call sign out of a pileup that is just noise to me, but sometimes I copy the same call sign that he does when he has quite a few callers. So that's progress for me.…

Trying to catch up on my Instagram feed but I keep getting distracted by this 1,282-page novel I’m reading about the CIA. It sucks how book authors manipulate you by designing such addictive products

'Farbe: Blau (kein Himmel)' #FotoVorschlag
Color blue (no sky)
Wow thanks to #immich search, I found a photo that I didn't know I took.. A lot of years ago.
#FlowersOfMastodon

Sources: Netflix has discussed adding streamers like Peacock and Fox One as it seeks to compete with YouTube and Roku in becoming a one-stop shop for TV content (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/business/media/ama…

Netflix, YouTube and Amazon Want You to Watch Everything From One App: Theirs
YouTube is racing to catch up to Amazon, which already offers users the chance to subscribe to services like HBO Max from within its app. Netflix is increasingly open to the idea, too.

I'm watching JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 5x19 "Birth of the "Green"" https://trakt.tv/shows/jojo-s-bizarre-adventure/seasons/5/episodes/19

Birth of the "Green"
After Jolyne and her companions catch up to the man who has the bone, they notice strange plant growths emerging from the nearby fallen prisoners.

I tried Phanpy as another mastodon frontend. They overuse gradients in the UI, but Catch-Up feature is awesome
Some of you, lovely people, post too little and some too much :v

With each successive era of AI, from early scaling, to reasoning, to agentic, open models have taken half as long to catch up to the first closed model (SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/are-open-models-catching-up

Are Open Models Catching Up?
Comparing open vs. closed models across the eras of frontier models

Southern California’s great beer heist was almost completely ignored
Perhaps you can forgive the media and general public for not taking seriously
one of the largest beer heists in California history.
For more than a week, there wasn’t much news or fanfare that thieves
stole more than 40,000 pounds of Milwaukee-founded Pabst Blue Ribbon, or PBR, beer from a Montclair distribution center.
Police from Montclair, a city about 35 miles east of Los Angeles in San Be…

Southern California's great beer heist was almost completely ignored
Your morning catch-up: Someone really loves Pabst Blue Ribbon, Gov. Newsom drops most of a plan to limit utility wildfire liability, and other big stories.

Went to bed late (for me) last evening around 11 pm. Then couldn’t sleep until after midnight. Woke around 5 am, went back to sleep until 7 am. I was going to get up, but went back to sleep again and didn’t wake until nine. I never usually sleep that late, but I guess my body needed to catch up!

Something I tell myself several times a day: stop trying to write replies to emails so quickly. It takes Outlook a few seconds to catch up, meaning that the "a" in "Dear" will only result in the email being archived.
Also, WTF MS? Can't you produce a less shitty web app?

BSDs still need a modern init system that is not a pile of shell scripts. 😬 Now would be a good time to catch up.
https://social.bsdlab.au/objects/29af8064-9c12-4687-87af-701ddde19acd

Jason Tubnor 🇦🇺 (@tubsta@bsdlab.au)
Sounds like we are going to have an influx of new #BSD users. Shame the DE makers pinned to #SystemD as it has made it hard to move things along to give these new users a comparable experience #sys...

Raiders 2026 Training Camp Updates: Veterans report for camp https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-2026-training-camp-updates-nfl-preseason-transactions-news-highlights

NFC East Training Camp Preview: News, Roster Moves, and Storylines Across the Division https://www.si.com/nfl/commanders/onsi/nfc-east-news-training-camp-cowboys-giants-eagles-commanders

Bad Bad Hats, #Minnesota based indie band, at the #NorthDakota Museum of Art (Grand Forks) Concerts in the Garden NDMOA.com.
On Wed Aug 19 they'll be in Grand Marais, catch them if you're up on the North Shore!

Justice Department's $3 billion 'BIDEN' grants come with an immigration catch (Perry Stein/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/08/06/new-biden-grants-are-only-available-cities-that-team-up-with-federal-agents-pursue-undocumented-immigrants/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260806/p113#a260806p113

Ranking the top 10 NFL players at every position, plus best training camp battles and red flags for contenders

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-position-rankings-training-camp-batt…

Google rolls out Gemini 4 Argon to a small group of cybersecurity partners and says it outperforms GPT-6 Astra on certain coding and knowledge work benchmarks (Madison Mills/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/30/google-gemini-4

Google unveils long-awaited Gemini 4
The model could be a huge catch-up for the company's AI push.

By allowing higher emissions, you are not giving European car manufacturers more breathing space; rather, you are penalising innovation. And if you fall behind in the global race, this is no way to catch up.

For those of you not attending Black Hat/DEF CON next week, I will be teaching a course for O'Reilly Media on August 5 and 6 based on my new book about the NIST 2.0 Cybersecurity Framework for O'Reilly Media.
Although O'Reilly typically makes its courses available only to large corporate clients, individual attendees are able to sign up for a free trial to catch the course if they sign up fewer than ten days in advance.
Check out the link for the course here and click on the button that says "Sign Up for a Free Trial."
https://www.oreilly.com/live-events/cybersecurity-risk-management-with-the-nist-20-framework/0636920081497/

The challenges John Ternus inherits as he replaces Tim Cook on Sept. 1 amid rising component costs, staff retention issues, efforts to catch up in AI, and more (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

How Meta founded FAIR in 2013, fell behind as it was distracted by the metaverse, and is spending an unprecedented amount of money trying to catch up (Harry McCracken/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91587899/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai-personal-s…

Mark Zuckerberg is buying Meta a seat at the AI table. Does he know what to do with it?
After the metaverse bust, Zuckerberg is spending billions to reinvent Meta as an AI giant. First, he’ll have to translate his vision of “personal superintelligence” into products people actually want.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
The Leaf Library:
🎵 Catch Up, Isobel
#TheLeafLibrary
https://shop.fikarecordings.com/track/catch-up-isobel

LJ Martin, Will Echoles, other prospects who impressed in Week 3: NFL Draft film room https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7615905/2026/09/21/nfl-draft-2027-risers-lj-martin-dylan-stewart/

At his first Cursor all-hands, Musk said Grok needs to catch up, AI will become impossible for humans to control, Anthropic is leading the AI race, and more (Grace Kay/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/cursor-officially-enters-musk-era

Inside Musk’s First Address to Cursor: Grok Is Falling Behind
Earlier this month, on the day SpaceX announced it had completed its $60 billion acquisition of Cursor, Elon Musk called into an all-hands video meeting with the coding startup’s staff. Musk told them that SpaceX’s AI unit had fallen behind competitors and that he wasn’t used to losing. Unlike ...

A look at China's push to catch up with US AI chips; sources: its Vice Premier warned AI companies that anyone who resisted using local chips was a traitor (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-ai-chips-ra…

Sources: Netflix discussed adding streamers like Peacock and Fox One as it seeks to compete with YouTube and Roku in becoming a one-stop shop for TV content (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/business/media/amazon-…

Netflix, YouTube and Amazon Want You to Watch Everything From One App: Theirs
YouTube is racing to catch up to Amazon, which already offers users the chance to subscribe to services like HBO Max from within its app. Netflix is increasingly open to the idea, too.

Mistral and other European AI startups accuse US rivals of using safety concerns to entrench their dominance, rejecting Anthropic's calls to pace the frontier (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/europes-ai-firms-playing-ca…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PacificNotions
Andrew Tuttle & Darren Cross:
🎵 Wave Ghoster Catch Up
#AndrewTuttle #DarrenCross

The Segway is here to stay, you know! Once someone invents something, the cat's out of the bag! Oh you don't use a Segway? Watch out, or this amazing new technology will leave you (slightly) behind! You'd better invest now you know! This technology is poised to revolutionize personal transportation! If you don't get in early, you'll never catch up and make the big bucks (unless you can manage a brisk jog or have a car or something). I don't know what they're teaching in PE these days, but they definitely need to start teaching how to ride a Segway! It's completely intuitive, you see! Should athletes be allowed to ride Segways around the track instead of running laps? Of course! After all, sports are already starting to shift to Segway leagues. These things *are* the future! They're totally safe,* even around cliffs!
*Remember to always wear your helmet when riding, and be prepared to land on your feet like a cat if user error results in an unexpected temporary levitation event. Segway, inc. is not liable for damages caused by failure to deploy superhuman reflexes at a moment's notice.
This post contains some hyperbole, but not a much as you might think. For the curious: #AI #LLMs #GenAI