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I have been intermittently sick, and working on a grant proposal and doing household stuff with the family all week. It's not the best recipe for a relaxing week on holiday. So now I'm going to do some fun stuff. Saturday morning science - which means looking at pretty data and reading new papers and editing student's paper.
... And wondering where I went so wrong that I have to do the actual science in my free time rather than at the office

Having just watched #Jaws for the first time in ages, I was stunned by the famous opening sequence ... but not by its cinematography or acting or editing - but by the never-ending chain of in-your-face #continuity errors in lighting once the girl enters the water: one moment we have a low Sun and a red sky, then we have the Sun near the zenith (with a day for night effect) then low again and so on, for several cycles.
Now #Spielberg, is there supposed to be some hidden message here? Well, there isn't.
(Once it's day, fortunately, this problem is gone, and a great movie unfolds, still fresh after 50 years. And I know, you shouldn't mess with a masterpiece, but Lucas added characters to Star Wars IV, and Cameron corrected a wrong star pattern in Titanic, so may be Spielberg could just, for an anniversary special edition ... o.k., I shut up. ;-)

"6 universities reject White House funding deal with attached demands. Multiple other schools have yet to respond "
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/16/us/trump-universities-compact-funding
So the Trump admin is trying their "quiproquo" technique with US…

4 universities decline White House offer for expanded access to federal funding in exchange for demands. Here’s what we know
The battle for academic freedom and institutional sovereignty in higher education continues to play out as another university has rejected a White House offer for expanded access to federal funding in return for agreeing to a series of demands.

Finally, the #Epstein files!
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/18/politics/epstein-documents-redaction-process

😂 ICE arrests police officer in Chicago suburb and accuses him of being in US illegally! 😂
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/16/politics/ice-arrests-chicago-suburb-police-officer-hanover-park

If a book hasn't made it to a second edition, it doesn't have a first edition either (grumble, XML, grumble, grumble, library catalog, grumble, grumble, grumble).

volume 2 of the 7th edition of the unix documentation has the long-form tutorial and reference material (vol 1 has the man pages)
the table of contents lists each paper with its title, author(s), and a brief blurb
for instance
UNIX Assembler Reference Manual.
D. M. Ritchie.
The ultimate dead language.

October: AI and Trust / Dumb Ransomware, Big Chaos
Toronto Area Security Klatch
https://www.task.to/schedule/v3f7p4b6zhdyhz4…

Meta launches prompt-based sound separation model SAM Audio in its Segment Anything Playground, letting users isolate individual sounds from complex recordings (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/16/meta-pla…

Meta Platforms transforms audio editing with prompt-based sound separation - SiliconANGLE
Meta Platforms transforms audio editing with prompt-based sound separation - SiliconANGLE

For live updates on #NoKings:
https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/no-kings-protests-trump-news-10-18-25

Protesters rally against the Trump administration at ‘No Kings’ events across the country
“No Kings” organizers say more than 2,500 demonstrations are planned nationwide today in protest of President Donald Trump’s administration. Follow for live updates.