Tootfinder

Yesterday I found myself on France24, discussing AI policy for 40 mins.
You just never know where your day is going to end up.
Anyway, it was actually a really good discussion as all the panelists tried to push past questions of money and shares to consider society and its values.
https://youtu.be/KFIW6ElOD7E

Matt LaFleur meeting with Packers president Ed Policy to talk coach's future https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6962147/2026/01/11/matt-lafleur-future-packers-ed-policy/

Graney: Raiders must move on from Pete Carroll after this season https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sports-columns/ed-graney/graney-raiders-must-move-on-from-pete-carroll-after-this-season-3594714/<…

Replaced article(s) found for physics.ed-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.ed-ph/new
[1/1]:
- NotebookLM as a Socratic physics tutor: Design and preliminary observations of a RAG-based tool
Eugenio Tufino

J6 Committee Chair: Murder of Nat'l Guard Is An 'Unfortunate Accident' (Ed Morrissey/HotAir)
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/12/11/dem-statistics-lies-damned-lies-and-unfortunate-accidents-n3809772
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p114#a251211p114

Ok, so I just found out that today's 'Ministry of Ed-mandated' teacher-only day at our boys' high school is so that teachers could have 'professional development' in "'AI' skills" (whatever that means), provided by someone from the Google corporation. This is totally corrupt bullshit. Nothing to do with education.

Assassin's Creed franchise boss Marc-Alexis Côté departs Ubisoft, two weeks after the game moved under Ubisoft's new Vantage Studios unit; Côté joined in 2005 (Tom Phillips/IGN)
https://www.ign.com/articles/assassins-creed-franchise-boss-departs-ubisoft

Assassin's Creed Franchise Boss Departs Ubisoft - IGN
Assassin's Creed franchise boss Marc-Alexis Côté has departed Ubisoft after a career spanning more than 20 years, IGN understands.

"‘Giving up would be a betrayal’: Miliband says 1.5C target still alive before Cop30"
#COP30 #ClimateSummit

Hello there! Sorry I’ve been dumping annoying news things the last while here instead of chit chatting.
I really like it here and enjoy it, perhaps, most of any online text box.
But, regrettably, circumstances have conspired to require me to make a living. This takes up an inordinate amount of time. So, the best I have been able to manage is to drop newsy bits or Gist links.
I hope, like all of my vintage, that next month will quieten down a bit.

LaFleur to discuss future with Packers prez soon https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47584701/matt-lafleur-discuss-future-packers-ed-policy-soon

🧲 Iron-based magnetic material achieves major reduction in core loss
#materials

Iron-based magnetic material achieves major reduction in core loss
A research team from NIMS, Tohoku University and AIST has developed a new technique for controlling the nanostructures and magnetic domain structures of iron-based soft amorphous ribbons, achieving more than a 50% reduction in core loss compared with the initial amorphous material.

Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.ed-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.ed-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Dry ice baths as liquid nitrogen substitutes for physics demonstrations
David Marasco, Paolo Marasco

Ed Zitron offers 15K words on whether Nvidia is like Enron (or several other famous fraudsters) or not. It's amusing and erudite and most people just won't have time to plow through it. Which is a pity, because 80% of the way through there’s a section called:
“Is NVIDIA Shipping Millions Of GPUs And Putting Them In Warehouses? Where Are The 6 Million Shipped Blackwell GPUs?”
His findings are absolutely shocking. Tl;dr: That headline just above.

NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It?
If you enjoy this free newsletter, why not subscribe to Where's Your Ed At Premium? It's $7 a month or $70 a year, and helps support me putting out these giant free newsletters! At the end of November, NVIDIA put out an internal memo (that was leaked to Barron's reporter

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Fust:
🎵 Spangled
#Fust
https://fust.bandcamp.com/track/spangled
https://open.spotify.com/track/0J90CnYUtHyegCXqwmO7lP

The Govt have announced they plan to pass the Facial Recognition Technology Bill through the Dšil on the last sitting day before Christmas. They’ve also removed most of the safeguards the legislation had at earlier stages and widened the scope of use.
Basically stuffing coal down all our chimneys

“Multiple UNC-Chapel Hill faculty and student groups organized collective actions speaking out against the compact, including a SUNRISE UNC protest shortly before the Faculty Council meeting and a petition from the Coalition for Carolina that has amassed over 1,750 signatures.”
Organize
https://www.wunc.org/education/2025-11-10/unc-chapel-hill-chancellor-will-not-sign-trump-higher-ed-compact

GraviGUT unification with revisited Pati-Salam model
Stephon Alexander, Bruno Alexandre, Michael Fine, Jo\~ao Magueijo, Ed\v{z}us N\=akums
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11674 https…

GraviGUT unification with revisited Pati-Salam model
We propose a graviGUT unification scheme based on the simple orthogonal group $\mathrm{SO}(1,9 ,\mathbb{C})$ that resolves the chiral duplication of weak isospin in Pati--Salam models. In the conventional $SU(4)\times SU(2)_+\times SU(2)_-$ framework, the unobserved second chiral $SU(2)$ is typically removed by ad hoc high-energy scale breaking. Here we instead \emph{geometrize} it: one $SU(2)$ factor is identified with a chiral half of the Lorentz group, so it belongs to gravity rather than to…

Geoffrion's theorem beyond finiteness and rationality
Santanu S. Dey, Fr\'ed\'eric Meunier, Diego Moran Ramirez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10966 https://

Geoffrion's theorem beyond finiteness and rationality
Geoffrion's theorem is a fundamental result from mathematical programming assessing the quality of Lagrangian relaxation, a standard technique to get bounds for integer programs. An often implicit condition is that the set of feasible solutions is finite or described by rational linear constraints. However, we show through concrete examples that the conclusion of Geoffrion's theorem does not necessarily hold when this condition is dropped. We then provide sufficient conditions ensuring the vali…

Mit ein wenig #OSINT russische Drohnen verfolgen. Imposante Recherche von Journalismusstudent:innen.
https://www.digitaldigging.org/p/they-droned-back

Jane Fonda warns that a WBD merger in any form is an alarming escalation in media consolidation, threatening the entertainment industry and the First Amendment (Jane Fonda/The Ankler)
https://theankler.com/p/jane-fonda-op-ed-the-wbd-deal-puts

Jane Fonda Op-Ed: The WBD Deal Puts Hollywood, and Democracy, at Risk
What terrifies me — and should terrify anyone who cares about a free society

U.S. Department of Education Prevents More Than $1 Billion in Federal Student Aid Fraud This Year, Additional Crackdowns Expected in 2026 (U.S. Department of Education)
https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-prevents-more-1-billion-federal-student-aid-fraud-year-additional-crackdowns-expected-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p85#a251211p85

Graney: Raiders should call Curt Cignetti about coach opening https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sports-columns/ed-graney/graney-raiders-should-call-curt-cignetti-about-coach-opening-3606637/

TOI-3288 b and TOI-4666 b: two gas giants transiting low-mass stars characterised by NIRPS
Yolanda G. C. Frensch, Fran\c{c}ois Bouchy, Gaspare Lo Curto, Alexandrine L'Heureux, Roseane de Lima Gomes, Jo\~ao Faria, Xavier Dumusque, Lison Malo, Marion Cointepas, Avidaan Srivastava, Xavier Bonfils, Elisa Delgado-Mena, Nicola Nari, Khaled Al Moulla, Romain Allart, Jose M. Almenara, \'Etienne Artigau, Khalid Barkaoui, Fr\'ed\'erique Baron, Susana C. C. Barros, Bj\"orn Be…

TOI-3288 b and TOI-4666 b: two gas giants transiting low-mass stars characterised by NIRPS
Gas giant planets orbiting low-mass stars are uncommon outcomes of planet formation. Increasing the sample of well-characterised giants around early M dwarfs will enable population-level studies of their properties, offering valuable insights into their formation and evolutionary histories. We aim to characterise giant exoplanets transiting M dwarfs identified by TESS. High-resolution spectroscopic data are obtained in the optical and nIR, combining HARPS and NIRPS. We derive RVs via the cross-…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Emmanuel Pahud, Juliette Hurel & Yannick Nézet-Séguin:
🎵 Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orfeo ed Euridice)
https://open.spotify.com/track/0vJCx7bG5WD1xbOtcIEMvJ

This is a great opening quote in @… Enshittification

We had our QUASAR #research group meeting at the @… today. We had great discussions around r package development on nurse staffing, an international study on triage in the ED, surveying pre-implementation perceptions on medical indicators in

New Gist: What you can do about the Abuse Factory
As a follow-up to yesterday’s Gist, I’ve done a list of four things you can do about X without even having to put down your phone.
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-what-you-can-do-about-the-abuse-factory/<…

The Gist: What you can do about the Abuse Factory
Four quick and powerful things you can do about X without even putting your phone down.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Eddy Grant:
🎵 Electric Avenue (radio edit)
#EddyGrant
https://opaledit.bandcamp.com/track/eddy-grant-electric-avenue-opal-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/55AMcB2JAUr7wmM3Z9Vgqc

Conformal Data for the O(3) Wilson-Fisher CFT from Fuzzy Sphere Realization of Quantum Rotor Model
Arjun Dey, Loic Herviou, Christopher Mudry, Andreas Martin L\"auchli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09755

Conformal Data for the O(3) Wilson-Fisher CFT from Fuzzy Sphere Realization of Quantum Rotor Model
We present a model for strongly interacting fermions with internal O(3) symmetry on the fuzzy-sphere that (i) preserves the rotational symmetry of the fuzzy sphere and (ii) undergoes a quantum phase transition in the (2+1)-dimensional O(3) Wilson-Fisher universality class. Using exact diagonalization (ED) and density matrix renormalization group (DMRG), we locate the quantum critical point via conformal perturbation theory and obtain scaling dimensions from finite-size spectra. We identify 24 p…

Coinbase plans to move its incorporation from Delaware to Texas, saying Delaware "once provided companies with consistency" but now has "unpredictable outcomes" (Ari Levy/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/12/coinbase-m

Coinbase moves incorporation to Texas from Delaware, following Musk's lead
Coinbase's legal chief wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that the crypto platform is moving its state of incorporation to Texas.

Magnetars in Binaries as the Engine of Actively Repeating #FastRadioBursts: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae1023 -> A Unified Explanation for Fast Radio Bursts: https://aasnova.org/2025/12/10/a-unified-explanation-for-fast-radio-bursts/

from my link log —
Advanced self-aware ed(1).
https://aartaka.me/advanc-ed.html
saved 2025-10-22 https://dotat.at/:/IPPZT.html

Advanced Self-Aware ed(1)
ed(1) is a versatile programming system. Yet no one talks about metaprogramming and algorithms in it. Now someone did, and that’s me!

I wonder what is the best way to share this week’s Gist on Threads?
Pros: reaches loads of people, gets algorithmically stuffed into Facebook and Instagram too.
Cons: nearly 2k words. Is this the Threads audience?

Harry Medved and Dana Gould visit the forgotten graveyard where Ed Wood shot Bela Lugosi’s final movie
"Plan 9 from Outer Space "
https://www.pbs.org/video/ed-woods-plan-9-adventures-ligruh/

Locationland | Ed Wood’s Plan 9 Adventures
Harry Medved and Dana Gould visit the forgotten graveyard Ed Wood shot Bela Lugosi’s final movie.

Every once in a while I'm reminded I should explore my own Twin Cities more. Last week I ended up at a cute watch repair place and finally tried Ed's Lebanese Deli (it's inside a Super USA gas station). I know, I know. Just trust me. He gave us samples of the beef, the chicken and garlic, and the falafel. I had the Manakish. All of it was wonderful. 2424 Larpenteur Ave W Lauderdale, MN 55113

In Dublin, on Fenian Street, there's a factory that makes child sex abuse material.
You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers. This doesn't happen by mistake or because you've tricked or hacked the system.
It’s a feature.
https://www.thegist.ie/the-g…

The Gist: The Abuse Factory
X, the child abuse imagery app, revealed our state has no red lines. This is the Gist.

#Anarchism

Revac SP 80 pre amplificatore
Pulizia potenziometri e varie ed eventuali
#Revac #SP80 #preamplifier

New Mini-Gist: Power’s Walled Cities
A Democracy where politicians are in constant office, but do not respond to citizens’ wishes (or even just their own voters’ interests) but just advance the policies that suit monied lobbies is a disaffection machine.
https://www.thegist.ie/mini-gist-powers-wa

Mini-Gist: Power’s Walled City
Yesterday’s plan to control internet has already dwindled down to a pilot, with no MyGovID integration. This is the Gist.

Lawmaker calls facial recognition on doorbell cameras a ‘privacy nightmare’ https://therecord.media/lawmaker-calls-facial-recognition-doorbell-cameras-privacy-nightmare

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #FreakZonePlaylist
gorgonn:
🎵 Greed
#gorgonn
https://svbkvlt.bandcamp.com/track/greed
https://open.spotify.com/track/3CHw6DiHJaaWs0TnnbOzl3

UK sports publisher GRV cut ~60 staff since September, reducing its workforce to 94, citing drops in Google traffic; other sports sites report similar declines (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/uk-based-sports-publish…

UK-based sports publisher cuts 60 staff due to Google updates
UK-based sports website publisher GRV Media has let go of 60 staff since September as a result of falling Google referral traffic.

“Additionally, Cursor’s Amazon Web Services bills more than doubled from $6.2 million in May 2025 to $12.6 million in June 2025, exacerbating a cash crunch that began when Anthropic introduced Priority Service Tiers, an aggressive rent-seeking measure that begun what I call the Subprime AI Crisis, where model providers begin jacking up the prices on their previously subsidized rates.”
#SubprimeAI
https://www.wheresyoured.at/costs/?ref=ed-zitrons-wheres-your-ed-at-newsletter

Writing software is hard, of course, and writing it for a diverse and demanding customer base is harder. The idea that CUNY-built software (much of it apparently vaporware for now) can serve the needs of a whole armada of educational stakeholders at once — well, that’s a hell of an uphill climb.
Then again…do current commercial ed tech offerings really serve needs all that well?
And as the article points out, the privacy and sovereignty benefits are •substantial•.
So: uphill climb, yes, and I for one am in favor of it.
2/2

from my link log —
Why ed(1)?
https://blog.thechases.com/posts/cli/why-ed1/
saved 2025-12-04 https://dotat.at/:/X2EXL.html<…

This Morning Ireland package on age verification and the Irish government’s ill-conceived notions has some contributions from me pointing out that the Australian social media ban for under 16s has been introduced, not on foot of evidence, but by Ministerial Impulse.
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/2256

Australia 'taking back control' from tech giants with social media ban
Brian O'Donovan, Work and Technology Correspondent, discusses the impact of the ban on social media use for under 16's in Australia.

Damaged Russian ‘shadow fleet’ tanker Kairos anchors off Bulgaria after Turkish tug abandons tow: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/06/damaged-russian-shadow-fleet-tanker.html

Crosslisted article(s) found for cond-mat.dis-nn. https://arxiv.org/list/cond-mat.dis-nn/new
[1/1]:
- Weakly universal dynamical correlations between eigenvalues of large random matrices
Kirone Mallick, Gabriel T\'ellez, Fr\'ed\'eric van Wijland

[2025-10-14 Tue (UTC), 1 new article found for physics.ed-ph Physics Education]
toXiv_bot_toot

Hilton: On Second Thought, Please Don't Bud-Light Us! (Ed Morrissey/HotAir)
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/01/06/hilton-on-second-thought-lets-avoid-getting-bud-lighted-n3810537
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p77#a260106p77

New Gist: Waving the Ban Hammer
Patrick O'Donovan has proposed a National ID system, a Meta-endorsed regulation model and a mass surveillance machine, all in one.
It's government by Dunning-Kruger.
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-waving-the-ban-hammer/<…

The math dealing with “the probability of B knowing C, given that A knows B and A knows C” was fuzzy.
But what about “the case where A does not know B, but where they have one acquaintance in common”?
Ed Greenfield collected people.
Ithiel de Sola Pool collected data.
Pool began to make a list of everyone he knew, including the man who seemed to know everyone: Ed Greenfield.
And then he sent that list around, all over the country, to ask people he knew if th…

ANN: New Publication 'Ed Maespiritu tan Matua: Don Juan Alvear and the rise of Christian spiritism in the Philippines and Asia'
https://ift.tt/IeTQ7mB
Contention Vol. 7, Issue 1 Dear Colleague, The new issue of Contention has…
via Input 4 RELCFP

CISA issued an emergency directive on the F5 vulnerabilities and hosted a media call that I joined right as it was ending.
ED 26-01: Mitigate Vulnerabilities in F5 Devices
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/ed-26-01-mitigate-vulnerabili…

Last night was the second anniversary of the time that somebody hit-and-run -ed my house, destroying the gas main riser and sending me out in the pouring rain and dark, barefoot, to hold the roaring gas leak closed with my palm like that apocryphal Dutch kid and the dam.
https://westseattleb…

UPDATE: Gas-leak response after hit-run driver crashes into house
9:18 PM: Avoid the area of 37th/100th in Arbor Heights for a while - a driver hit a house and a natural-gas leak is reported to have resulted. Police have blocked off 37th. They are telling dispatch it's a hit-and-run - the driver subsequently took off. So far the vehicle is described only as

RJ columnist Ed Graney’s 5 favorite stories of 2025 https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sports-columns/ed-graney/rj-columnist-ed-graneys-5-favorite-stories-of-2025-3601240/

Bills' Oliver injures meniscus, has procedure https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47465134/bills-ed-oliver-injures-meniscus-rehab-procedure

Statcounter: four months after its release, iOS 26 is in use by only about 15% of iPhone users; in January 2025, about 63% of users were on iOS 18 (Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac)
https://www.cultofmac.com/news/ios-26-adoption-struggles-with-iphone-users

iOS 26 still struggles to gain traction with iPhone users
iOS 26 is turning out to be a dud — adoption among iPhone users trails way behind what's typical months after an Apple OS release. Here's why.

If you haven’t yet heard Minister for Communications Patrick O’Donovan explain why X dot come should not be held responsible for its paid feature of generating child sex abuse material, you might want to sit down before pressing play.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Stereolab:
🎵 Fed Up With Your Job
#Stereolab
https://stereolab.bandcamp.com/track/fed-up-with-your-job
https://open.spotify.com/track/6aIK6jmjQUqlX6NOKXEgDQ

An interview with Pluribus creator Vince Gilligan on why he choose Apple TV for his show, the AI disclaimer in the credits, Tilly Norwood, and more (Ethan Shanfeld/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/pluribus-explained-vince-gilligan-rhea-see…

‘Pluribus’ Explained by Vince Gilligan and Rhea Seehorn
Vince Gilligan and Rhea Seehorn unpack the first two episodes of 'Pluribus' and slam AI: 'Silicon Valley' has 'f---ed up the world.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
POLIÇA:
🎵 Wasted Me
#POLIÇA
https://polica.bandcamp.com/track/wasted-me
https://open.spotify.com/track/5ORJOnQFcWDLvmWn2eT8P4

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SaturdayMorning
Ottorino Respighi & CHAARTS Chamber Artists:
🎵 Antiche danze ed arie, Suite No. 3: 2nd mvt; Arie di corte. Andante cantabile
#OttorinoRespighi #CHAARTSChamberArtists

New Gist: AI, The Sound and Fury
I try to explain all of this AI thing in one article, and suggest why it is hostile to democracy, to humanity but also happily likely to end with the would-be tech Sun Kings taking trips to the financial guillotine.
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-ai-the-sou

The Gist: AI, The Sound and Fury
We can calculate the amount of money flowing into AI. But what will the full cost be to society when the bubble pops? This is the Gist.

Graney: Raiders played Sunday’s game to perfection — they lost https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sports-columns/ed-graney/graney-raiders-played-sundays-game-to-perfection-they-lost-3592272/

Today's Deep Question: What Exactly Is 'The Warmth of Collectivism'? (Ed Morrissey/HotAir)
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/01/02/todays-deep-question-what-exactly-is-the-warmth-of-collectivism-n3810423
http://www.memeorandum.com/260102/p62#a260102p62

ed is more helpful than i knew
https://bsd.network/@ed1conf/115650502543526420

ed(1) conference (@ed1conf@bsd.network)
Content warning: edvent day 2

Yesterday, after a mild query by some parents, my daughter’s primary school sent out a notice to say they were going to stop using their X account for comms.
It’s as simple as that. There are plenty of alternatives.
But even if there weren’t you can’t contribute to that.
And it can be as simple as
asking to prompt a change.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Stereolab:
🎵 Fed Up With Your Job
#Stereolab
https://stereolab.bandcamp.com/track/fed-up-with-your-job
https://open.spotify.com/track/6aIK6jmjQUqlX6NOKXEgDQ

Ed Oliver injury: Bills star DT out indefinitely after suffering torn biceps against Panthers, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ed-oliv

A profile of Replit co-founder Amjad Masad, who was shunned in investor circles for his criticism of Israel's war in Gaza before Replit's AI agent took off (Margaux MacColl/The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2026/01/07/called-t…

He was called a ‘terrorist sympathizer.’ Now his AI company is valued at $3B
“I must apologize to — absolutely nobody”: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley.

Graney: Raiders’ Brady-Spytek combination need to get it right this time https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sports-columns/ed-graney/graney-raiders-brady-spytek-combination-need-to-get-it-right-this-tim…

Bills expect star DT Ed Oliver to be out indefinitely with torn biceps: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6754153/2025/10/27/bills-ed-oliver-biceps-defensive-tackle-injury/

DC-focused digital news startup NOTUS launches Perspectives, an opinion-focused section with editorial "symposiums", or op-eds from diverse political voices (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/19/2025/notus-to-offer-new-op-ed-section

NOTUS to offer new op-ed section
NOTUS said its opinion efforts will be focused on short “symposiums” published weekly, along with longform reported opinion pieces published semiregularly.

DOJ claims it has the power to decide who gets Trump's sweeping 2020 pardon (Kyle Cheney/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/04/trump-pardons-2020-election-ed-martin-pam-bondi-00677119
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p118#a251204p118

British anti-hate speech campaigners sanctioned by US state department
– Imran Ahmed and Clare Melford are among five Europeans hit with visa bans
over claims they wish to
‘suppress American viewpoints they oppose'
http…

Bills fear DT Oliver has torn biceps, sources say https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46745351/sources-bills-fear-ed-oliver-torn-biceps-indefinitely

Sometimes you have to do what you can with what you have.

Graney: Raiders players, coaches never purposefully went into tank mode https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sports-columns/ed-graney/graney-raiders-players-coaches-never-purposefully-went-into-tank-mode-3…

Over the weekend, I tried to understand TikTok. And the only way to try to understand something is to try to do it.
So I made a short piece about something I thought ought to have got more urgent attention during the Presidential campaign- the deepfake video that surfaced.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Stereolab:
🎵 Constant and Uniform Movement Unknown
#Stereolab
https://stereolab.bandcamp.com/album/fed-up-with-your-job-constant-and-uniform-movement-unknown
https://open.spotify.com/track/7mcpINyTYDB9ul7pcRzDMT

Already thin at DT, Bills lose Oliver to hurt biceps https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46734444/bills-dt-ed-oliver-leaves-game-biceps-injury

Congress Accuses GMU President of Lying About DEI Efforts (Josh Moody/Inside Higher Ed)
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/11/07/congress-accuses-gmu-president-lying-about-dei
http://www.memeorandum.com/251107/p91#a251107p91

Graney: Raiders tight end puts on show in return from injury https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sports-columns/ed-graney/graney-raiders-tight-end-puts-on-show-in-return-from-injury-3532010/

Bonus 201: Ted Cruz, the AO, and Hannah Arendt (Steve Vladeck/One First)
https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-201-ted-cruz-the-ao-and-hannah
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p60#a260108p60

This pile of riot-appeasing baloney can roll right down the beach and cheerfully sink beneath the waves.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/1029/1541211-tanaiste-immigration/

Govt should reconsider immigration policies, says Harris
Tánaiste and Fine Gael leader Simon Harris has said Ireland's asylum seeker system is not working and that the Government should reconsider existing policies "in a very serious way".

Graney: Chip Kelly was a problem, but he alone didn’t create 2-10 https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sports-columns/ed-graney/graney-chip-kelly-was-a-problem-but-he-alone-didnt-create-2-10-3588936/

Lord of the Rings extended Edition is astonishing.
Head of the Nazgûl misunderstanding how prophesy worked before being impaled on the spike of a giant sundial always takes me aback.

Reed visit inspires Ravens' 1st shutout in 7 years https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47308529/ravens-inspired-ed-reed-blank-bengals-first-shutout-2018

Arts & Sciences Dean says WashU will not sign Trump's higher ed compact as-is (Riley Herron/Student Life)
https://www.studlife.com/news/2025/10/22/arts-sciences-dean-says-washu-will-not-sign-trumps-higher-ed-compact-as-is
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p92#a251022p92

Graney: Here’s an obvious take — Chip Kelly’s offense isn’t working https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sports-columns/ed-graney/graney-heres-an-obvious-take-chip-kellys-offense-isnt-working-3530977/…

U.S. Department of Education Announces Final Rule on Public Service Loan Forgiveness to Protect American Taxpayers (U.S. Department of Education)
https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-announces-final-rule-public-service-loan-forgiveness-protect-american-taxpayers
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p81#a251030p81

New Gist: No Contest
"There are, perhaps, alternative worlds where lots of things are different. Fianna Fšil maybe decide to run an MEP instead of a MIA. Or one where a fleet of no-hopers got nominated and we spent the whole campaign having to listen to the media asking candidates their opinions on the Latin mass and if cocaine bloat is a positive feature in a President. "
Also, I explain exactly what kind of idiot I have recently been.

Justice Department is investigating handling of Adam Schiff mortgage fraud probe led by Ed Martin and Bill Pulte (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/politics/justice-department-adam-schiff-ed-martin-bill-pulte-christine-bish
http://www.memeorandum.com/251120/p74#a251120p74

Christmas.

Graney: Raiders should see what Crosby is worth on open market https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sports-columns/ed-graney/graney-raiders-should-see-what-crosby-is-worth-on-open-market-3601004/

Maine Centrist Jared Golden to Quit Congress, Citing Threats and Dysfunction (Olivia Beavers/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/jared-golden-house-democrat-to-quit-congress-c4c6e7a5
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p148#a251105p148

Graney: Minus the warrior Maxx Crosby, Raiders look as bad as ever https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sports-columns/ed-graney/graney-minus-the-warrior-maxx-crosby-raiders-look-as-bad-as-ever-3601228/<…

I posted this video about how nice Books Upstairs is and I am sorry to say that I have received *Domestic Mockery* for my voiceover.
My children opine that I sound like I am doing an ASMR video. They are asking when I will start tapping on the books’ spines.
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNR2mc2kG/

Pfft. Twenty past nine and I haven’t even got to today’s Gist on the Campaign to become President and also say unhinged things.