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Christmas Coronation Chickpea Naan Wraps #plantbased

Christmas Coronation Chickpea Naan Wraps
These coronation chickpea naan wraps are quick and tasty with no fuss, making them perfect for Boxing Day and the week after Christmas

CPB announces a $1.1M grant to establish a regional journalism collaboration led by Minnesota Public Radio, funding two editors overseeing four reporters (Tyler Falk/Current)
https://current.org/2025/10/cpb-grants-1-1m-to-form-upper-midwest-newsroom/

CPB grants $1.1M to form Upper Midwest Newsroom
Minnesota Public Radio will lead the collaboration.

Sobria Ebrietas & Iliaque – Carnation
#ambient

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Many aquatic animals are described as "filter feeders" but this is not functionally correct since it would require water forced through a mesh. Instead, most zooplankton, including copepods, are suspension feeders. They create feeding current gyres using appendages, and use spiny modified ones (maxillae) to intercept individual algal particles and move …

Current Listening: https://eyebeemania.net/2025/12/30/current-listening.html

Current Listening
I’m working my way through some of Compact Grey’s Sets on …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Chromatics:
🎵 On the Wall
#Chromatics
https://open.spotify.com/track/1XiPbxVSCgMLO0QsUPazBt

«In that way, every time Black Friday rolls around, we reach the bottom stage of the Tower, where that obscene cemetery lies. Twisted and deranged by consumerism, people become the “hyperorganisms.” They no longer relate to each other as human beings, but become creatures of pure consumption, willing to step over a man having a heart attack to reach the electronics aisle.»
I never had heard of Thomas Ligotti before, but now I'm intrigued.
Black Friday, Red Tower
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/black-friday-red-tower

Disappeared to a Foreign Prison (Sarah Stillman/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/01/disappeared-to-a-foreign-prison?currentPage=all
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p5#a251130p5

OpenAI starts to sell extra credits for Sora, which currently has a limit of 30 free gens per day; 10 video gens will retail for $4 through Apple's App Store (Anna Washenko/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/openai-now-sel

OpenAI now sells extra Sora credits for $4, plans to reduce free gens in the future
OpenAI is looking to turn Sora into a moneymaker, first by selling extra credits, later with licensing options.

Extropic, which says its chips using probabilistic bits can be 10,000x more energy efficient than current AI chips, shares its first chip with some AI labs (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/extropic-aims-to-disrupt-the-data-center-bonanza/…

Extropic Aims to Disrupt the Data Center Bonanza
A startup hopes to challenge Nvidia, AMD, and Intel with a chip that wrangles probabilities rather than ones and zeros.