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If you've watched a YouTube video in the last few years, you know this is going to work. 😂 Who isn't holding their microphone these days? https://www.threads.com/@chriswelch/post/DOvmOquDkIa

Chris Welch (@chriswelch) on Threads
Nothing's Ear 3 earbuds add some metal flair to the company's signature transparent look. But their biggest new trick is the ability to use the charging case as a microphone for clearer voice calls. ...Is that something you'd do? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-18/nothing-debuts-179-ear-3-earbuds-with-microphone-in-the-charging-case?srnd=phx-technology

Let’s have the “think tank” people go live in America with no single payer insurance and no money to buy any.
#canpoli #cdnpoli
https://journa.host/@winnipegfreepress/115225441978516901

Teaching According to Talents! Instruction Tuning LLMs with Competence-Aware Curriculum Learning
Yangning Li, Tingwei Lu, Yinghui Li, Yankai Chen, Wei-Chieh Huang, Wenhao Jiang, Hui Wang, Hai-Tao Zheng, Philip S. Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13790

Teaching According to Talents! Instruction Tuning LLMs with Competence-Aware Curriculum Learning
Efficient instruction tuning aims to enhance the ultimate performance of large language models (LLMs) trained on a given instruction dataset. Curriculum learning as a typical data organization strategy has shown preliminary effectiveness in instruction tuning. However, current curriculum tuning methods suffer from the curriculum rigidity, since they rely solely on static heuristic difficulty metrics. These methods fail to adapt to the evolving capabilities of models during training, resulting i…

"Going around in Circles: Interrogating Librarians’ Spheres of Concern, Influence, and Control"
https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2025/circles/
"The practice placing one’s anxieties into circles of concern, influence, and control can be found…

Today's track
https://app.crucialtracks.org/entries/1860

J.J. McCarthy injury update: Vikings have particular game circled for starting QB's return, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/j-j-mcc

“my letter wasn’t about that malicious contrarian’s record of racist utterances.
The writers of the original article resigned in protest in September and today there was a mass walkout of journalists at the Pentagon, protesting new “rules” imposed by the Trump Administration….
Press Freedom is not negotiable.
Canadians need to seriously consider whether it is time for Canadian ownership to be a requirement for the canadian press.”
#charliekirk #pressfreedom #cdnpoli
https://chrisalemany.ca/2025/10/16/press-freedom-is-not-negotiable-a-rewrite-under-protest/

This is the manifold typt thing that I am currently roughing together for the 2nd pump from the main pond.
The through pipe will go to the filter and the two offshoots will go to the bottom returns and side sorayers which are both meant to keep the water in the pond moving toward the pump bay and discourage settling on the bottom
#poolpond #diy #backyardproject

Updates to #mastodon complete on my #selfhost.
I think the biggest load on my #footiMac is nginx and my streaming demands. I need to offload that stuff somewhere else.

Heard on the news Gord Downey died eight years ago today. Can't believe it was that long ago already.
RIP Gord
thank you.
#tragicallyhip