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Source: Erebor, a digital bank co-founded by Palmer Luckey, raised $350M led by Lux Capital at a $4.35B post-money valuation; it secured FDIC approval last week (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/22/palmer-luckey-digital-bank

Scoop: Palmer Luckey's digital bank valued at over $4 billion
Investor excitement the stablecoin banking startup is reaching AI levels.

Aligned, Multiple-transient Events in the First #PalomarSkySurvey / Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-I) may be associated with nuclear testing and reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ae0afe / https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-21620-3 -> Unexpected patterns in historical astronomical observations: https://www.su.se/english/news/unexpected-patterns-in-historical-astronomical-observations-1.855042 -> summary of why these papers are doubtful: https://x.com/MickWest/status/1980690132543107204 - links to deep discussions.

Filmed and edited another segment of the PIC video (intro to reading standard cell planar CMOS with whiteboard examples plus deconstructing actual photos of an inverter, NAND2, and GDCAP), now an hour 38 minutes.
Still need to do circuit analysis of the SRAM, flash/EEPROM, config fuses, whatever else I might want to dig into, and add some conclusions.

Comedian Ben Palmer sets up a fake ICE site to report "suspicious" people.
Here's one woman from Florida.
▶️ She thinks I'm with ICE - Ben Palmer
https://youtube.com/watch?v=aJtZXfZZva8&si=G1ZO1SP0ng0ccFP2

3D Near-Field Beam Training for Uniform Planar Arrays through Beam Diverging
Ran Li, Ziyi Xu, Ying-Jun Angela Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16055 https://

3D Near-Field Beam Training for Uniform Planar Arrays through Beam Diverging
In future 6G communication systems, large-scale antenna arrays promise enhanced signal strength and spatial resolution, but they also increase the complexity of beam training. Moreover, as antenna counts grow and carrier wavelengths shrink, the channel model transits from far-field (FF) planar waves to near-field (NF) spherical waves, further complicating the beam training process. This paper focuses on millimeter-wave (mmWave) systems equipped with large-scale uniform planar arrays (UPAs), whi…

Heute vor 56 Jahren: Am 21. November 1969 testen die #USA die Atombombe "Planer". Operation Mandrel war eine Serie von 53 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1969/70 hauptsächlich auf der Nevada Test Site in Nevada unterirdisch durchgeführt wurde.

Trump Tried to Get 'the Grim Reaper' Laid at Mar-a-Lago (Ewan Palmer/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-tried-to-get-his-grim-reaper-russell-vought-laid-at-mar-a-lago/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251021/p22#a251021p22

As Kalshi and Polymarket race to scale during a Trump-era regulatory opening, critics warn that expanding gambling in the US could have unintended consequences (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The NHL reaches multiyear licensing agreements with prediction market startups Kalshi and Polymarket, the first major US league to allow use of its trademarks (Alexander Osipovich/Wall Street Journal)
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Polymarket and Kalshi surpassed $2B in notional trading volume in the week ending Oct. 19, exceeding the previous peak during the 2024 US presidential election (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20