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Epic #semiconductors. I am part of a German-Taiwanese research collab: “Exploring Silicon Urbanism: Bilateral Workshops and Fieldtrips in Dresden and Hsinchu.” With trips to clean rooms and affected communities.
Photo-documentation upcoming! #sts

Sources: OpenAI has become more guarded about publishing research on AI's economic harms, prompting at least two economic research staffers to leave (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-economic-research-team-ai-jobs/

OpenAI Staffer Quits, Alleging Company’s Economic Research Is Drifting Into AI Advocacy
Four sources close to the situation claim OpenAI has become hesitant to publish research on the negative impact of AI. The company says it has only expanded the economic research team’s scope.

Reading Heschel Today: Resonances and Dissonances (The Inaugural Interfaith Lecture Honouring Professor Edward K. Kaplan (Z”L)
https://ift.tt/EB3jew1
ResearchGate: Publishers Take Formal Steps to Force Copyright Compliance A summary of…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Back in April, District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers delivered a scathing judgment
finding that Apple was in “willful violation” of her 2021 injunction
intended to open up iOS App Store payments.
That contempt of court finding has now been almost entirely upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals,
a development that Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney tells Ars he hopes will
“do a lot of good for developers and start to really change the App Store situation worldwi…

Apple loses its appeal of a scathing contempt ruling in iOS payments case
But Sweeney warns iOS devs are still afraid of “totally illegal” retaliation by Apple.

In the new episode of the YDS "Quadcast," Todne Thomas, Associate Professor of Divinity and Religious Studies, discusses her research on a Tennessee church burning and the value of ethnographic study of religious life in America. https://on.soundcloud.com/FIMvxhQcpbjefku4fs

I just sent a very angry note to my Congress Critter who voted to block the resolution to impeach trump.
Sure, it won't pass the Senate, but that's not a reason for Congressional cowardice.
(I was quite ticked off that one D congress critter said that he did not vote for it because they had to do research to figure out if trump had done bad things!!!!!! What utter hogwash!!!)

Infuriated Dems help GOP quash another Trump impeachment vote
"This is not a team effort," fumed one House Democrat. "It puts us in a difficult position."

In episode 179, I talked to Victoria Ruby-Granger about her research into how hoarding behaviours develop

On 16WW Data Collections and Graphs - Open for research #dataset - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-data.html

On 16WW Data Collections and Graphs
Open for research #dataset

mist: MIST protein interaction database (2020)
The Molecular Interaction Search Tool (MIST) is a comprehensive resource of molecular interactions, assembled from severla primary sources. MIST currently supports several species, including:.
This network has 6618 nodes and 185239 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

A YouGov survey estimates 9% of UK adults, or 4.7M people, watched sports via illegal streams in the six months to October, about 200K people more than in 2023 (Adam Leventhal/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6742752/2025/11/09/illegal-stream…

Illegal streaming: Research reveals rise in piracy and desire for scrapping of 3pm blackout
A new audio documentary from The Athletic reveals the data behind the growing use of illegal streams to watch Premier League football