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When it's observable that the very rich are steadily growing richer while the vast majority of people are growing poorer, it's obvious that the tax system is not neutral: it is actively redistributing wealth upwards. For the tax system to be neutral, it MUST tax the very rich much more. To do so is not redistributive, at least until it actively causes a net movement of wealth towards the poor: rather it is simply neutral.

How Has Inequality Changed? - Equality Trust
Levels of inequality changed dramatically over the course of the 20th century. Overall income inequality fell from a high point in the 1930s, remained fairly static until 1979, and then increased dramatically from 1979 to 1991. Since 1991, the trend has been more volatile, affected by Great Recession of the late 2000s and the Covid-19 […]

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Trump explains how Charlie Kirk's murder changed his life (Salena Zito/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3888508/trump-explains-how-charlie-kirks-murder-changed-his-life/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251115/p51#a251115p51

From Seinfeld to Shawshank, Rob Reiner changed Hollywood for ever https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/15/rob-reiner-director-this-is-spinal-tap-when-harry-met-sally?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I went to see the new Gilbert and George exhibition today, at the Heywood. It was a bit underwhelming, in an overwhelmingly huge way. They've not changed, and the techniques to do what they do have grown ever easier.
When I was young, they were controversial and provocative. Now I don't strongly connect with the work. They've not changed, but clearly I have. Or maybe the world has.

NFL Week 16 Power Rankings: Two plays may have just changed the Packers' season and the NFC playoff race

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-16-power-rankings-pa…

"Please listen carefully, as our menu items have changed, effective January 27th, 2023."
... I think you can remove that clause.

After Alaska ofcourse Putin is very willing to participate in another useless meeting in Hungary. While nothing has changed. The meeting will just be a further delay. Further talking is useless if Russia won't even agree to a cease-fire along current frontlines (which Zelensky is willing to discuss).
#Trump #Putin

Working with an #acting #coaching client we delved into tactics and how changing them can interplay with the character's goals. Seeing them shift their performance as they changed tactics was such a cool way to see the performance shift without breaking from, or just breaking, the script or char…

I was very surprised to hear that a "Global Health Misinformation Symposium" was organised by a signatory of the Great Barrington Declaration. He doesn't seem to have changed much since Integrative Baloney @ Yale
#FoxInTheHenhouse
ht…

Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners is exiting from Paramount's takeover bid for WBD, citing changed investment dynamics since it joined the bid in October (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-16/ku…

"'We do respect and appreciate the temporary activation but it’s time to start moving forward on the original purpose for this site,' Mahmood said, referring to affordable housing."
Ok good start, now do Parcel K in Hayes Valley. Or is this Mahmood's stance only in poor parts of his district?

S.F. moves to accelerate stalled housing at Tenderloin food hall site
San Francisco officials have changed course and committed to seek developers for the La Cocina site within the next two years.

Did Mullenweg win? Folks might be more shaky on wordpress and maybe things are bubbling in the background but so far it seems like very little has changed.

✊🏿 How One Black Labor Union Changed American History
#politics

How One Black Labor Union Changed American History
A century ago, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters launched a union drive against a railroad giant, changing the course of the 20th century and forever entwining the causes of labor and black civil rights.

Smartphone user experience designs still don't have decent intelligent graphical interfaces, speech interfaces, or text interfaces... though maybe a few things have changed since 2017. https://bookofadamz.com/when-will-smartphones-be-intelligent/

One of the things that made organizing a lot easier with the GDC was a thing called "GDC in a box." It was a zip file with all kinds of resources. There was a directory structure, templates for all kinds of things like meetings and paperwork you had to file (for legal reasons) and "read me" files.
We had all kinds of support. There were people you could talk to who had been there. There were people you could call to walk through legal paperwork (taxes). Centralized orgs are vulnerable and easy to infiltrate. They're easy for states to shut down. But there are benefits to org structures.
I think it's possible to have the type of support we had with the GDC, but without the politics of an org (even the IWW). I hope this most recent essay has some of the same properties. I hope that it makes building something new, something no one has really imagined before, easier.
This whole project is something a bit different. It's a collective vision and collective project, from the ground up. Some of it has felt like a brain dump, just getting things that have been swimming around in my head down somewhere. But I hope this feels more like an invitation.
Everything thus far written is all useless unless people do things with it. Only from that point does it become a thing that lives, a thing with its own consciousness that can't be controlled by any individual human.
Tech billionaire cultists want to bring a new era of humanity with AGI. That is definitely not possible with LLMs, and may not be possible at all. But there is a super intelligence that is possible, though it's been constrained by capitalism: collective human intelligence.
The grand vision of the tech dystopians is that of the ultimate slave that can then enslave all humans on their behalf. I think we can build a humanity that can liberate itself from their grasp, crush their vision, and build for itself a world in which people will never be enslaved again. Not only do I think it's possible, I think it's necessary. I think there are only two choices: collective liberation or death.
And that's what I plan to write about next time to wrap this whole project up. Today things often feel impossible. But people talked about the Middle Ages as though they were the end of the world, and then everything changed in unimaginable ways. Everything can, and will, change again.
"The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."

I have changed people's lives by pointing them to svgrepo.
https://www.svgrepo.com/

So the battery I changed in the MSI GS43 VR-7RE last month or so prevented the machine from powering up this morning.
I had to disassemble it to find that out but in the principle that it was the last thing I changed it was a fair enough guess.
Do I bother getting another battery from a different supplier? There's only a couple of actual batteries available and I could just rely on mains for sleeping; it's rarely moved.

Rip D'Angelo
Genius brings and bears a price
Torn down to early
Always
#dangelo #goat

George Pickens' future with Cowboys gets open door from Jerry Jones https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/george-pickens-future-dallas-cowboys-open-door-jerry-jones

Digital Father, for who art thou in Cyber-Heaven, give me the strength to reprogram my #dotnet muscle memory for this upcoming change.
Screw it, Digital Devil can probably help too. 😈

Hello #linux folks
I have a wake from suspend issue on RX 6800 on Manjaro. It worked fine until few months ago but something changed and now almost every time, I get greeted with an unresponsive PC with black screen. The only fix is to hard reboot.
Is this normal? I am on 6.17 kernel with Mesa 25.2.

I used to always say that I don’t believe in coincidence, but when I identified/found my biological families, that changed. My adoptive brothers are named Rick & Jim. Turns out, I have 2 bio brothers I didn’t know existed. Their names are Rick & Jim. Isn’t that weird? #adoption

Relaxing Tom Brady guardrails is a losing proposition for the NFL https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6635932/2025/09/17/tom-brady-raiders-nfl-rules-ownership-fox-analyst/

A look at MSNBC's rebrand as MS Now, as it builds an independent newsroom, hiring 36 reporters, aiming to maintain its liberal opinion and news analysis (Scott Nover/Washington Post)

Don’t call it MSNBC. MS NOW takes on Trump’s Washington.
Going it alone without NBC’s name or deep bench of reporters, the rebranded cable news network MS Now wants you to know nothing has changed — except for a few things.

got my name called specifically to board early and then flight attendant guy told me there's nobody else in my row so I can sit Wherever
they actually changed my seat at the desk without me asking bc they saw I'm a Sunflower Person w mobility issues
everyone so nice 2 me!!! dis gon b a good day.

Just discovered the vacuum cleaner we've had for several years has two additional air filters beyond the one I knew about. Filters we had never changed, since we didn't know they were there.
That... might explain its generally lackluster performance lol.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/08/europe-leaders-no-longer-deny-relationship-with-us-changed

Ukrainian forces changed beyond recognition in 11 years, says military expert #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/01/ukrainian-forces-changed-beyond-recognition.html

What an incredibly REAL sports interview story... from one of the best sports storytellers.
▶️ The Interview That Changed My Life Forever: The John Rocker story - Press Box Chronicles
https://youtube.com/watch?v=XwwGmgYyfCA&si=j7_cHE7RRw4LwgIB

This has long been a French aspiration: that there should be futures contracts for the afternoon (currently there are only base and peak contracts, which no longer reflect the fundamentally changed reality brought about by solar power generation).
https://

EEX envisage des contrats à terme solaires 12h-16h
(Montel) La bourse de l'électricité EEX envisage d’offrir de nouveaux types de contrat à terme aux acteurs des marchés de gros de l’électricité pour mieux refléter la montée et la baisse quotidienne de la production solaire, a-t-elle déclaré à Montel.

"Did you know that for every US$1,000 a person has in savings is roughly equivalent to the direct #Emissions generated by flying from New York to Seattle every year”
#Banks are a core part of how we store and spend money. This

Why I Changed Banks For The Planet
Banks are integral to our daily lives. We rely on them to receive our salaries, make transactions, pay bills, and secure loans or mortgages. However, behind each of these transactions lies a financial system that subtly influences not just our economy but also, albeit less obviously, our planet. The practices

Pulp, live in 2025? Yes please!
Pulp - Something Changed (NPR Tiny Desk)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_KlY-AegeE&t=475s

So the battery I changed in the MSI GS43 VR-7RE last month or so prevented the machine from powering up this morning.
I had to disassemble it to find that out but in the principle that it was the last thing I changed it was a fair enough guess.
Do I bother getting another battery from a different supplier? There's only a couple of actual batteries available and I could just rely on mains for sleeping; it's rarely moved.

Total #SolarEclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adx3025 -> "Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial intelligence analyses of nearly 100,000 vocalizations, we found that bird behavior was substantially affected by these few minutes of unexpected afternoon darkness. More than half of wild bird species changed their biological rhythms, with many producing a dawn chorus in the aftermath of the eclipse. This natural experiment underscores the power of light in structuring animal behavior: Even when 'night' lasts for just 4 minutes, robust behavioral changes ensue." -> "Variation in species response also informs us about variation in sensitivity to light, with implications for the impacts of artificial light."

Light switch changed, lamp reattached to the ceiling. Woodwork and radiator painted. Carpenter has drawn pencil lines over the walls where all the wardrobes have to be built. Think he's been spending the day mostly correcting all my measurements which are apparently even more approximate than I thought. Figuring out how to compensate for the wonky walls that aren't all at proper right angles.
Can't really see the pencil lines in the photos here but makes it easier to imagine how it'll all come together.

So someone listed a working Mac Plus including a Floppy Emu on Facebook Marketplace for $100.
I said I could be there in an hour with cash money.
Then they changed their mind and relisted it without the Floppy Emu for $500. 😂
Godspeed.

In diesem Artikel werden Wege aufgezeigt, dem drögen Smalltalk zu entgehen und stattdessen etwas Interessantes daraus zu machen.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2

I love how, on most Linux distros, you can just do an update and upgrade despite not having touched them for a long time, and you just wait for a little bit, potentially optionally reboot, and there are no nags or new things someone wants to sell you or settings that have changed back to vendor defaults. You just get on with what you wanted to do with shiny, freshly-updated software.
Arch-based distros have been the exception from the experience above for me, but I guess that’s the co…

Time names "the Architects of AI" as its 2025 Person of the Year and takes a look at AI's effect on the economy, geopolitics, and how we interact with the world (Time)
https://time.com/7339685/person-of-the-year-2025-ai-architects/

The Architects of AI Are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year
The Architects of AI drove the economy, shaped geopolitics, and changed the way we interact with the world.

Why people hate old banks.
I moved to a new address 3 years ago. All change of addresses have been done.
Now on RBC Express (a business service), they have a separate mailing address, the old one.
When I call the help line for RBC Express: we can't change it, call your branch.
When I call the branch: we can't do it, call RBC Express.
So nobody actually can change my address. The website doesn't let you change it.
I need the address changed for …

A GPU-resident Memory-Aware Algorithm for Accelerating Bidiagonalization of Banded Matrices
Evelyne Ringoot, Rabab Alomairy, Alan Edelman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12705 https:…

A GPU-resident Memory-Aware Algorithm for Accelerating Bidiagonalization of Banded Matrices
The reduction of a banded matrix to a bidiagonal form is a crucial step in the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD), a cornerstone of scientific computing and AI. Despite being a highly parallel algorithm, it was previously believed to be unsuitable for GPU computation because it is memory bandwidth-bound. Recent developments in GPU hardware, including larger L1 memory per Streaming Multiprocessor/Compute Unit, have changed that. We present the first GPU algorithm for reducing a banded matrix to …

I have a question about #passkeys. I haven’t changed any of my accounts over to passkeys—don’t @ me, ok—because I’m old or some such, but there’s a google account I use for a club I’m a member of. With a password, if I wanna hand over the account to someone I just give them the password. Is it that simple with a passkey? I just give them the passkey? Sounds too easy.

‘It fully changed my life!’ How young rewilders transformed a farm – and began a movement | Rewilding | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/25/it-fully-changed-my-life-how-young…

The Paris agreement is 10 years old today.
How time flies. But how little really has changed.
"Paris Climate Change Agreement, 2015: the good, the bad and the ugly."
https://steadystatemanchester.net/2015/12/1…

Paris Climate Change Agreement, 2015: the good, the bad and the ugly.
A lot has been written on the Paris international agreement on climate change.  To try and cut through all those words to the essential issues, here is our very brief analytic summary. The good Asp…

Raiders alum Raymond Chester starred on day that changed the game for HBCU football https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-alum-raymond-chester-starred-on-day-that-changed-the-game-for-hbcu-football

China's efforts to slow land degradation and climate change
by planting trees and restoring grasslands
have shifted water around the country in huge, unforeseen ways, new research shows.
Between 2001 and 2020, changes in vegetation cover reduced the amount of fresh water available for humans and ecosystems in the eastern monsoon region and northwestern arid region,
which together make up 74% of China's land area, according to a study published Oct. 4 in the jo…

China has planted so many trees it's changed the entire country's water distribution
Huge "regreening" efforts in China over the past few decades have activated the country's water cycle and moved water in ways that scientists are just now starting to understand.

«Condemning the alteration of Levine’s portrait, he [former deputy assistant secretary for health policy Adrian Shanker] said, it was “hard to understand that this was a priority under a government shutdown.” »
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/nation/r

I've released 2.14.0 of build-and-inspect-python package; your friendly GitHub Action that prevents embarrassing PyPI uploading mistakes.
Main reason for a rather rushed release is that some people seem to get Python 3.14 when asking GHA for `3.x`.
https://github.com/hynek/build-an…

Release v2.14.0 · hynek/build-and-inspect-python-package
Changed Update tools such that they work on Python 3.14 (which is now 3.x on GitHub Actions). #182 The action now ignores UV_PYTHON coming from the outside. #184

This is how a US federal employee comments on their out-of-office signature being hijacked for political gains:
"Nobody follows the law anymore, so why does it matter? It seems like laws are dotted lines now, not solid lines. It seems there’s no one to hold this administration accountable to laws"

Education Department employees' emails changed automatically to blame Democrats for shutdown
Education Department employees furloughed this week discovered their email accounts had been manipulated while they were out of office to include partisan talking points that blamed the government shutdown on Democrats.

'minicom' is a TUI serial comms program - ideal for when you're dealing with real serial devices and you need to play with baud rates, and the like. It's not fancy, and frankly hasn't changed much in ages - but it comes in handy. In the last year I've used it with an Apple ][c, JavaStation, and Epson-HX20 - but even more modern stuff sometimes has that emergency rescue serial shell.

Minicom / minicom · GitLab
Minicom is a serial communication program

Three people have changed the way I see the world in ways I can never undo: Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Rudolf Rocker.
Each of them, through their own political and philosophical struggles, stripped away the false comforts I once clung to. They exposed the machinery of power, the illusions of morality, and the myths of authority, leaving me face to face with the bare truth of how the world works.
Coming to that realization, one that cannot be undone, life appears more viv…

Excited to have a layover in Istanbul—my first visit. Have a great sense of the city map in my head. Minor detail: it's from ~500CE, hope not much has changed. Like, how's the chariot traffic these days between the Forum of Theodosius and the Boukoleon?

Furloughed feds find their email response changed to violate the Hatch Act.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna235211

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/).

Before Packers-Broncos in Week 15, a look back at the 'Elway Copter' and Super Bowl that changed everything

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/packers-broncos-week-15-elway-c…

Just released v3.1 of my account.
Bug fixes:
• changed the surname from "⛰" (U 26F0 mountain) to "🏔" (U 1F3D4 snow capped mountain), as the Android font displays the former as a plain triangle, and I looked like an "on demand" stop in a timetable.

Having been a long time supporter of the Affinity suite I was troubled when they sold out to Canva in March 2024. But nothing changed and I was still able to create the things I do. Then I had an email from them about big changes coming. Nothing is in the App store and the Affinity forums are shut.
I am terrified it might be pure enshitification.

I have only just discovered (from the pottery mark) that this vase is an original from De Koninklijke Porceleyne Fles (Delft) made in 1937. It has been in the family for decades, has changed hands several times, was completely broken, then put back together, with the joint clearly visible ... and, yet, here it is.

Raiders alum Raymond Chester starred on day that changed the game for HBCU football https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-alum-raymond-chester-starred-on-day-that-changed-the-game-for-hbcu-football

Well, that was interesting and curious. I clearly have no idea how anything works any more (not news, even to me). In an abundance of caution, I just changed my GMail password yet again, and two seconds later Dropbox said I was signed out. Maybe a coincidence but a) I've never been signed out of Dropbox like that before and b) the timing is a smoking gun.
It's all so creepy and invasive these days.

2025 In Review: What’s New In Web Performance?
Slow websites continue to be a problem and a lot of work is being done so developers can measure performance more effectively and fix performance issues.
🧑‍💻 https://www.debugbear.com/blog/2025-in-web-performance

2025 In Review: What’s New In Web Performance? | DebugBear
Find out how web performance changed in 2025, and what changes are coming up in the future.

somebody changed something somewhere: my untouched #Nextcloud admin 'connected accounts' tab now responds with ""Authenticated ciphertext could not be decoded" and "OCA\\Google\\Service\\SecretService" and its "decryptWithoutSecret" are mentioned in the log so could that suggest Google is up to its usual hijinx?

Here’s an old Josh Johnson clip from 7 years ago. He looks like he’s 16. Talks about catfishing the Klan after school every day. Amazingly, his delivery hasn’t changed much at all. https://youtu.be/WULYEegtTGc?si=WKEUyTKI4oZYoGkv

Something broke (changed) in Inkscape where I can no longer export a DXF file at the correct size for our laser cutter software. The DXF Export also seems to mangle the file a bit.
Time to try the "export every combo of options until I find what works" thing again. (Which I last did maybe 8 years ago, so I had a good run.)
#inkscape

Well deserved win by City. Doku was spectacular and Arsenal should be nervous looking in the rearview mirror.
That being said, a soft penalty rounded-up and a very suspect disallowed goal, quickly rounded down, will be a stain on this fixture for me.
I don’t care what Howard Webb will say because I’ve lost all faith in PGMOL and VAR. Their positions are indefensible and I don’t need to hear the farcical spin. I think City would have won in the end, but it absolutely changed the g…

This is an example of why our class action systems must be changed.
Class actions are good things for certain kinds of cases.
But many lawyers have found them to be a lucrative way to generate prodigious fees (while leaving the victims with only paltry amounts.)
Here's a case where the law imposed a terrible, and unjust, penalty on many small businesses. Like in many class actions the defendants settled, despite having a meritful defense. But did that settlement money…

Life after lockdown: five years on, this is how Australia has changed since Covid first started
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025/09/25/the-stats-guy-covid-5-years

Five years on, this is how Australia changed since Covid 
In March 2020 we wondered how Covid would change us. Five years on, the data shows the pandemic pressed fast-forward on a host of changes.

“Windows Copilot Serves At Best Half an Answer to Screen Reading Users”
https://theideaplace.net/windows-copilot-serves-at-best-half-an-answer-to-screen-reading-users/
Kelly Ford is unintentionally describing when a pattern in a…

US retailers left short-changed as penny production ends (Jarrett Renshaw/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/us-retailers-left-short-changed-penny-production-ends-2025-11-01/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251102/p1#a251102p1

"‘It fully changed my life!’ How young rewilders transformed a farm – and began a movement"
#Environment #Rewilding

Don’t forget these 5: PAT block changed it all https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/don-t-forget-these-5-pat-block-changed-it-all

Reflective Joe Burrow shares how his most recent injury changed his career outlook: 'I've been through a lot'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bengals-quarterback-…

Netflix changed movie distribution and its executives now think that licensing shows leaves money on the table; YouTube may help Netflix's WBD antitrust case (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2025/netflix-and-the-hollywood-end-game/

Netflix and the Hollywood End Game
Netflix is driving the Hollywood end game, likely confident it can increase the value of IP, and fend off YouTube.

7 basic science discoveries that changed the world 🧪
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03474-x …

7 basic science discoveries that changed the world
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.

Amid US public media funding cuts, a look at how the model of private donations can lead to an audience that's older, whiter, and richer than average Americans (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/funding-c…

Funding cuts may make public radio more reliant on old, rich, white donors
After years of interviews, research, and writing, Laura Garbes submitted the final draft of her book on public radio in December 2024. By the time Listeners Like Who? Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry published last month, a lot had changed. Following Trump’s election and fede…

Don’t forget these 5: PAT block changed it all https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/don-t-forget-these-5-pat-block-changed-it-all

I used to work in an industry that was very interesting to me, and involved a lot of creativity, but as time went on and the company I was at changed I felt I no longer fit there, doing the sort of work they were pursuing with the people who ran things, so I found a way out.
That "way out" caused me a lot of pain and heartache, and set me back financially for a decade, but I'm still glad I got out because I cannot imagine what life would have been for me if I just stayed.…

NHS forewarns us about reduced eligibility for COVID jab. Won't end well.
"National Booking Service: Hello Mark [don't be so familiar - Dr Burton to you!].
The rules about who can get the free COVID-19 vaccine have changed this year. You may not be offered it on the day if you're not in a priority group. Staff will confirm on the day. Check here:

COVID-19 vaccine
NHS information about the COVID-19 vaccine, including what the vaccine helps protect against, who should have it and when, how to get it and side effects.

"President Donald Trump wants the world to know: The United States is on a war footing. It’s why he changed the name of the Department of Defense to the “Department of War,” he and others have said. It’s among the reasons why he has threatened rivals and even allies with attacks and invasions, and also commissioned a series of lethal boat strikes in the Caribbean."
💰🧱

HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Adm. Rachel Levine,
who served for four years as President Biden's assistant secretary for health. She was the first transgender person to win Senate confirmation.
Levine told NPR that it was an honor to serve the American people as the assistant secretary for health
"and I'm not going to comment on this type of petty action."

Mailbag: Should offensive game plan be changed? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-should-offensive-game-plan-be-changed

Marc Benioff says it "would not shock" him if Salesforce changed its name to Agentforce; the company started using Agentforce for many of its offerings (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/salesforce

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says he might rename the company 'Agentforce'
The SaaS pioneer recently learned in focus groups that customers want to talk about AI agents now

Reevaluating 32 bold NFL predictions, five weeks in: Which are on target, and which deserve a do-over? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46512815/2025-nfl-season-evaluating-preseason-predictions-all-32-teams-updates

Netflix changed movie distribution and its executives now think that licensing shows leaves money on the table; YouTube may help Netflix's WBD antitrust case (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2025/netflix-and-the-hollywood-end-game/

Netflix and the Hollywood End Game
Netflix is driving the Hollywood end game, likely confident it can increase the value of IP, and fend off YouTube.

Trump-Putin meeting canceled after Russia insists goal to conquer Ukraine 'has not changed' (Caitlin Doornbos/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/21/us-news/trump-putin-meeting-canceled-after-russia-insists-goal-to-conquer-ukraine-has-not-changed/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251021/p75#a251021p75

Mailbag: Should offensive game plan be changed? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-should-offensive-game-plan-be-changed

Russia’s Ministry of Justice designated Human Rights Watch
an “undesirable organization”
on Nov. 28,
effectively banning the group from operating in the country.
Human Rights Watch noted that Russia had already forced the closure of its Moscow office in 2022.
“Our work hasn’t changed, but what’s changed, dramatically, is the government’s full-throttled embrace of dictatorial policies,
its staggering rise in repression,
and the scope of the war crimes…

Russia declares Human Rights Watch an 'undesirable organization'
Russia’s Ministry of Justice has designated Human Rights Watch an “undesirable organization,” effectively banning the group from operating in the country, on Nov. 28.

A look at Live Nation's Setlist.fm, a wiki-like site with 80M annual users that changed live music by letting users document songs that artists play at concerts (Marc Hogan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/arts/music/setlist-fm-website-con…

The Website Reshaping Live Music, One Set List at a Time
On Setlist.fm, users track what songs artists play at concerts (and more). The availability of so much data has changed the ways musicians and fans experience shows.

Agent's Take: 3 trades -- including Breece Hall to the Chiefs -- that could've changed the NFL playoff picture

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/agents-take-…

HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait (Selena Simmons-Duffin/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/12/05/nx-s1-5633282/transgender-rachel-levine-portrait-hhs
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p120#a251205p120

Life on college campuses has changed dramatically in the last 10 months.
While institutions of higher education continue to reel from the Trump administration’s top-down attacks and scramble to adjust,
workers on campus say that their universities are simultaneously expanding their own internal repression and surveillance apparatuses to squash dissent

Campus life is unrecognizable in the Trump era: ‘There’s so many cops everywhere’
As the federal government continues its top-down assault on higher education, universities are internally building repression and surveillance machines that mirror the Trump administration.

Netflix's WBD bid marks a striking strategy shift for a company long known for pivots, especially after years of avoiding full commitment to theatrical releases (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/business/media/ne…

Netflix Changes Course Again With Warner Bros. Deal
The streaming giant has changed its strategy many times over the years. But the decision to get deeply into theatrical releases may be the most startling yet.

A look at Live Nation's Setlist.fm, a wiki-like site with 80M annual users that changed live music by letting users document songs that artists play at concerts (Marc Hogan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/arts/music/setlist-fm-website-con…

The Website Reshaping Live Music, One Set List at a Time
On Setlist.fm, users track what songs artists play at concerts (and more). The availability of so much data has changed the ways musicians and fans experience shows.

Controversial penalty called on Ferguson changed Cowboys game: 'That was bad' https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/05/cowboys-jake-ferguson-pass-interference-lions-we…

Relative to many, my life is very good,
-- in that I am alive and housed, fed, sometimes employed.
I am healthy and loved.
Still, I am about to lose my entire mind over the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) website,
and the fact that someone,
probably a bot farmer,
has already used my 16-year-old son’s identity to establish a fraudulent account.
This is a common scam,
one that was fortunately detected before any money changed …

FAFSA Is Breaking Me
I think I have been holding it together in the face of everything we can’t stop talking about—the killing and the dying, the explosions and the terror, the eggs and the bird flu and the shameless ghouls ruining the good parts of our country, the weapons and the

NFL Week 12 Power Rankings: Still doubting the Broncos? Sunday's win over the Chiefs should have changed that

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-w…

An interview with Sam Altman and OpenAI President Greg Brockman on the tepid initial reception to GPT-5's launch, scaling, reinforcement learning, AGI, and more (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-says-the-gpt-5-haters-got-it-all-wron…

Sam Altman Says the GPT-5 Haters Got It All Wrong
OpenAI's CEO explains that its large language model has been misunderstood—and that he's changed his attitude to AGI.

NFL Week 12 Power Rankings: Still doubting the Broncos? Sunday's win over the Chiefs should have changed that

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-w…