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Btw. Apologies for being very slow to catch up with various replies received over the past days... 🙏

The EU expects to launch a formal bidding process for its AI gigafactories in early 2026 and close it in summer 2026, as the bloc seeks to catch up with the US (Mauro Orru/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/eu-to-open-…

A scary Halloween tale of an insider threat that underscores the importance of setting up anomaly scanning to catch unusual behavior.
Caught an insider threat today. Never thought it would actually happen to us.
https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/com…

Time to catch up with some #39c3 talks. Kicked it off with the excellent «The Heartbreak Machine: Nazis in the Echo Chamber» (original talk is in German, but an English translation is offered. Stay for the QA bit for a fun surprise 😆)
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-the-heartbreak-machine-nazis-in-the-echo-chamber

Diarycast - Summer Catch-up (2020-09-25) - Lots of catching up after one (UK) break rather than three, D3, a sound walk and bats, and more! #podcast #soundscape #lockdown2020 -

Diarycast - Summer Catch-up (2020-09-25)
Lots of catching up after one (UK) break rather than three, D3, a sound walk and bats, and more! #podcast #soundscape #lockdown2020

Designed a new t-shirt. You should get one and go running wearing it*.
https://davidaugust.threadless.com/designs/i-am-a-bomb-technician-if-you-see-me-running-try-to-catch-…

Kyle Tharp, a progressive writer and researcher writes the "Chaotic Era",
a newsletter about politics, media and online influence.
Tharp launched the Chaotic Era in January, just days before Trump’s second inauguration.
Over the past year, he has tracked the surge in liberal media projects, mapped the rise of
left-leaning creators on platforms like YouTube and
analyzed the narratives that managed to break through the digital noise

US startups are increasingly adopting Chinese open source AI models, as some capabilities of Chinese models start to catch up with those of frontier US labs (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/silicon-valley-building-free-chinese-ai-r…

More of Silicon Valley is building on free Chinese AI
Surveying the state of America’s artificial intelligence landscape earlier this year, Misha Laskin was concerned

Heads up Mastodon! I am doing a small European tour with Peter Gordon (Love of Life Orchestra) at the end of November. We'll play Glasgow, London, Cologne, and Brussels. These shows will be great fun, and a very rare chance to catch me playing live music outside the US.
If we know each other here, let me know if there's a possibility to meet up in person at one of these shows?!
Tickets and info here:

All we're asking is for y'all to catch up on some history so you understand what you're coming into. Even #NoKings grew from #50501Movement, which started as a decentralized protest before being taken over by the nonprofit industrial complex. Antifa networks were doxxing fash hard through the first Trump admin, but those networks go all the way back to the 80's... And they inherited an even older tradition. If you really want to get down to it, the whole "no kings" thing in Europe was at the very least heavily influenced by indigenous folks in the so-called Americas. There's a lot of history that's lead to this moment, and it's kind of all relevant to understanding how we got here and how we actually get out.

Some metal thing i photographed last week. I can't even remember what it was, just snapping stuff whilst trying to catch up with the kid. #randomCrap

Last hour or so to sign up to today's UVCON! Catch up with recent work and what's coming next https://hcommons.social/deck/@universalviewer@glammr.us/115542995946017876

Watch this 4min video to catch up on the 30 YEARS of Trump's Russian money laundering that led to the selling out of Ukraine for Putin.
#trumpsmoneylaundering #trump #Russia

Tony Jefferson Intercepts Deep Pass https://www.chargers.com/video/tony-jefferson-highlight-intercepts-deep-pass-vs-raiders-week-13-2025

Finally saw this. @… (and me 🙇‍♂️) featured on @… 's talk "The Future is federated" in #fediday2025 (3-5 Oct 2025)
Link…

Per replies, something I need to clarify:
We often use the word “neurotypical” to mean “neither autistic nor ADHD.” That might be useful as a shorthand, I guess, but it’s that mode of thought I’m specifically arguing against here: creating a single catch-all category defined as a negative, calling it “normal,” and assuming that it fits most people.
That doesn’t stand up to empirical scrutiny, and I don’t think it’s particularly healthy or helpful.
11/

Not really had a chance to catch up with the budget, but did see coverage of the tractor protest. Farmers angry at the government, rather than the wealthy who parasitically turned their livelihood into a tax-avoidance vehicle.

Wind Against Tide
A weekly podcast by Dave Standing. discuss everything fishing and catch up on the weeks events...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/wind-against-tide/

Have to get up a 5:15 tomorrow morning to catch a train to hamburg :(
But on the other hand: Tattoo consultation in the evening. Ending on a high note.

Ready for NFL Week 8? Catch up with our last-minute intel https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46696835/2025-nfl-week-8-predictions-fantasy-sleepers-upsets-bets-stats-matchups

I wrote a story. It starts:
He woke up, looking forward to finally fishing. He’s retired, even though he feels like he could keep doing the work, and now, finally, he has the chance to go out on his boat, with a beer and his rod to catch something. Maybe if he catches enough he can fill the whole freezer set up in the basement. Fresh frozen fish for months.
The rest of it:

To Sea
He woke up, looking forward to finally fishing. He’s retired, even though he feels like he could keep doing the work, and now, finally, he has the chance to go out on his boat, with a beer and his rod to catch something. Maybe if he catches enough he

« J'ai découvert le concept de "catch up culture" »
#TIL

I've got to do some catching up, #strictly crowd. I'll catch up your chats once we have skipped forward to live. Sorry. Busy day.

In a report, the G20's Financial Stability Board says regulators are in the early stages of tracking risks posed to the financial system by AI's rapid adoption (Laura Noonan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

AI’s Growth Leaves Financial Regulators Struggling to Catch Up
Regulators are still at an “early stage” in their efforts to track the risks posed to the financial system by the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence, global financial watchdogs warned on Friday.

My laptop is now back from repairs. Next it's time to catch up on all the stuff I missed in the month-plus amount of time that passed since it died...

Define "catch up on the writing of my favorite authors" as a task!
Also, feel better.

Just got a new monitor, an ASUS ProArt PA32QCV. First time I've had a high density display for my Windows desktop. It's nice!
(Eloi friends, you are welcome to mock me on this one: it took Windows forever to catch up on Retina and it's still behind.)

Spotify starts rolling out Recaps, a new AI feature for audiobooks that summarizes what users have listened to so far, in beta on iOS (Elissa Welle/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/819476/spotify-audiobook-ai-recaps-short-summary

Spotify’s new audiobook recap feature uses AI to remind you of the story so far
Spotify launches AI-generated summaries of audiobooks to catch listeners up on what they’ve already heard.

@… I’m playing catch-up on your weekly updates (you no longer shows in my feed or alerts even though I follow you, which is hella annoying and I still have to debug) and think you were messing with me by generating the abstract of my Atlass post with an LLM.
If so, well done and I’m sorry I’m just seeing it.
If not, then I guess I need bet…

#AdventOfSystemSeeing still trying to catch up to @… and spending too much time watching Donella Meadows videos. I have two more done: Advent(ure) in Systems Seeing — Day 6 — Donella Meadows on Causal Loops

It's that time again! Tomorrow evening (Tue 9/12), 20:00 NZST is our monthly FOSS/Libre Tech catch up. Find us at https://meeting.iridescent.nz - all welcome! We'll be discussing relevant current events, sharing case studies, looking at new technologies, and how to make a living doing this stuff! Our mee…

Morning all! It's a bit of a 'catch up' day in the office today. No client meetings, just event promotion, community admin, and some podcast and video editing.
Wishing everyone a productive day, whatever you're up to!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dimillian/115410641427501093
"Catch-up" soon? 👀

“We have to break the cycle of ‘invent here, scale there.” It's an old habit, way past its sell-by date.
It's an uphill battle, but maybe Ford can pull it off.
Ford’s Car of the Future, Hatched in a Skunk Works Near Los Angeles
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12…

Ford’s Car of the Future, Hatched in a Skunk Works Near Los Angeles
Desperate to catch up with Chinese automakers, Ford is redesigning its fleet with a Silicon Valley-style team. Is it too late?

LOOK: Jaguars' Travis Hunter makes big catch vs. Chiefs on 'Monday Night Football'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/look-jaguars-travis-hu…

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.

Data from 300K pull requests shows OpenAI is catching up to Anthropic in AI coding: Codex has a 74.3% success rate vs. Claude Code's 73.7% in code approvals (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-catching-anthropi…

OpenAI Is Catching Up To Anthropic in AI Coding
OpenAI’s effort to catch up to Anthropic in code-generating artificial intelligence seems to be working.New data show OpenAI’s Codex coding assistant has pulled ahead of Anthropic’s Claude Code assistant in certain coding capabilities. Codex usage among developers is also catching up to Claude ...

The WHO Group Chat
Your weekly pop culture catch-up, mixed by WHO, stirred by you, straight from Australia's biggest celebrity newsroom...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-who-group-chat/

⭐ The Simple Habit That Saves My Evenings | alikhil | software engineering, kubernetes & self-hosting
https://alikhil.dev/posts/the-simple-habit-that-saves-my-evenings/
Spoiler alert:
Here are the two main ideas of it:
* Don’t overwork
*…

Sick today but at least I can crochet and catch up on mastodon. Practice gratefulness, right?

Kamel Ghali on what's 'theoretically possible' in car hacking https://therecord.media/car-hacking-interview-kamel-ghali-click-here-podcast

Tomorrow (Tues, 11 Nov 2025) from 20:00 NZDT we're having a #Libre / #FOSS catch up at https://meeting.iridescent.nz…

#AdventOfSystemSeeing Day 5, still trying to catch up with @…

Advent(ure) in System Seeing — Day 5 — Key Systems Concept: Feedback
Let’s gather some of the thoughts that have been percolating around systems. Let’s assume that you are designing the introductory page of…

Time for a social experiment. I have 5 questions:
- What should we work towards as a society?
- What's one thing that doesn't exist now in your community but should?
- What's one action you could take in the coming year to align your life with that goal?
- What's one thing you could achieve in the coming year to get closer to making that thing exist?
- Imagine that we changed everything and you're living in the world you want to see exist. What does the world look like?
I've asked variations of these already (and am still getting great responses), but this time there's a catch. Get together some of your friends (3-5 people) and ask these questions of the group. Come up with *one* answer that everyone in the group agrees on and post it here, then write a bit about your experience.
If you don't know people locally (or otherwise can't do this in person), tag some folks in here or wherever your people are at digitally. Just add some info on if it's online or in person.
For anyone bold enough to actually do this, let me know if you'd be OK with me putting this in an upcoming entry (https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/).

Cowboys’ Dak Prescott Shares Heartwarming Story About Youngster After Monster Jets Game https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/dak-prescott-ryan-flournoy-jets/?adt_ei=[email]

Morning all! It's a bit of a 'catch up' day in the office today. No client meetings, just event promotion, community admin, and some podcast and video editing.
Wishing everyone a productive day, whatever you're up to!

NFL playoff picture: Postseason probabilities entering Week 17 of the 2025 season https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-playoff-picture-postseason-probabilities-entering-week-17-of-the-2025-season

Trump says the US needs a "Federal Standard" governing oversight of AI instead of "a patchwork of 50 State Regulatory Regimes", otherwise China will catch up (Kate Sullivan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

WoW - What's On Westside
A weekly catch up of events across Melbourne's Glorious West...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/wow-whats-on-westside/

I've had a few of these thoughts stuck in my craw all day because I watched this liberal historian talk about the Galleanisti.
https://youtube.com/shorts/93yHEn8BYE4
Basically, she says that "of course the government had the right to target them." Then she goes on to talk about how it became an excuse to carry out a bunch of attacks on other marginalized people. Now, the Galleanisti had been bombing the houses of politicians and such. I get where she's coming from saying that one of their targets "was in the right" to try to catch them. But there's some context she's not talking about at all.
These were Italian anarchists, so they were not white and they were part of an already marginalized political group. Basically all of Europe and the US was trying to wipe out anarchists at the time. Meanwhile, the sitting president at the time showed the first movie in the White House. That movie was KKK propaganda, in which he was favorably quoted. The US was pretty solidly white supremacist in the 1920's.
Like... A major hidden whole premise of the game "Bioshock: Infinite" is that if you went back to the US in the 1920's, and you had magic powers, you would absolutely use them to kill as many cops as possible and try to destroy society. There's a lot of other stuff in there, I don't want to get distracted, but "fuck those racists," specifically referring to the US in the 1920's, was a major part of a major game.
Those Italian anarchists were also stone cutters. They carved grave stones. But the dust from that can kill you, much like black lung for coal miners. So they were dying from unsafe working conditions, regularly raising money to support dying coworkers and then carving gravestones for those same coworkers.
Now, I personally think insurrectionary anarchism is a dead end. I disagree with it as a strategy. We've seen it fail, and it failed there. But of course it makes sense that they wanted to blow up the government.
...And that's the correct way to structure that. When you say, "of course they were in the right" you're making a very clear political statement. You could easily say, "the cops in Vichy France had every right to hunt down the French Resistance." You would technically be correct, I guess. But it would really say something about your politics if you justified the actions of Nazi collaborators over those fighting against the Nazis.
And you may say, "oh, but the Nazis didn't have justification for anything. They invaded a sovereign nation, so their government wasn't legitimate anyway."
To which I would reply, "have you considered a history book about the US?"

Ready for NFL Week 11? We have sleepers, QB questions, trends to watch and more https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46944804/2025-nfl-week-11-predictions-fantasy-sleepers-upsets-bets-stats-quarterbacks

Mistral launches Devstral 2, a coding model with 123B parameters requiring at least four H100 GPUs, and a 24B parameter Devstral Small for local deployment (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/mistral-ai-surfs-vibe-coding-t…

Mistral AI surfs vibe-coding tailwinds with new coding models | TechCrunch
French AI startup Mistral today launched Devstral 2, a new generation of its AI model designed for coding, as the company seeks to catch up to bigger AI labs like Anthropic and other coding-focused LLMs.

Chinese silicon wafer manufacturers like Eswin have rapidly gained market share by undercutting global leaders, such as Japan's Shin-Etsu Chemical, on price (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology…

In silicon wafers, China's emerging local stars rattle global giants
Japan has long led in key chip material, but Chinese rivals like Eswin catch up