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Cowboys face a tough decision on Matt Eberflus after another sub-par showing on defense https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/cowboys-face-a-tough-decision-on-matt-eberflus-after-another-subpar-showing-on-defense…

FROQ: Observing Face Recognition Models for Efficient Quality Assessment
\v{Z}iga Babnik, Deepak Kumar Jain, Peter Peer, Vitomir \v{S}truc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17689 https…

FROQ: Observing Face Recognition Models for Efficient Quality Assessment
Face Recognition (FR) plays a crucial role in many critical (high-stakes) applications, where errors in the recognition process can lead to serious consequences. Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) techniques enhance FR systems by providing quality estimates of face samples, enabling the systems to discard samples that are unsuitable for reliable recognition or lead to low-confidence recognition decisions. Most state-of-the-art FIQA techniques rely on extensive supervised training to achieve a…

Tinder Face Verification Will Be Mandatory for New Users in US
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-22/tinder-face-verification-will-be-mandatory-for-new-users-in-us

Aaron Rodgers shares his one regret during time with Packers as Steelers QB prepares to face former team

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/aaron-r

Transcript: Sen. Rand Paul on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Nov. 23, 2025 (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rand-paul-kentucky-republican-face-the-nation-transcript-11-23-2025/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251123/p48#a251123p48

How facial recognition software rejects people with facial differences, who number an estimated 100M worldwide, blocking them from accessing essential services (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/when-face-recognition-doesnt-know-your-face-is-…

When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face
An estimated 100 million people live with facial differences. As face recognition tech becomes widespread, some say they’re getting blocked from accessing essential systems and services.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Roberta Flack:
🎵 The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
#RobertaFlack
https://randomhouseproject.bandcamp.com/track/roberta-flack-the-first-time-ever-i-saw-your-face-random-house-project-retake
https://open.spotify.com/track/0SxFyA4FqmEQqZVuAlg8lf

"‘Leaving the world’s poorest behind’: Nearly 900 million poor people face climate shocks, says UN"
#UN #UnitedNations #Climate

Climate shocks threaten 900 million poor people worldwide: UN report
More than 300 million people live in regions where three or four climate hazards overlap.

Series B, Episode 01 - Redemption
AVON: [Coming up behind him] Why Earth Sector?
BLAKE: Would you rather stay here?
AVON: You make them sound like the only alternatives.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/201/559 B7B2

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Velocity Girl:
🎵 Your Silent Face
#NowPlaying #VelocityGirl
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://velocitygirl.bandcamp.com/track/your-silent-face-your-silent-face-single-2025-remaster

In a world which has become quite insane, it is perhaps most shocking to witness how society moves on with business as usual while monsters are destroying our cities, killing our children, eating our future and all the potential for greatness we once had.
We have become accustomed to entirely too much cruelty and fuckery. Like frogs in a pot of water being slowly brought to boil.
Glory to the heroes who fight, glory to the heroes who dare to venture into warzones and report the t…

A Spit In The Face Of Diplomacy
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

Why the Raiders Face a Unique Challenge vs. Texans https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-face-unique-challenge-texans

If you need more reasons to not give money to Disney—Mickey Mouse and Goofy are tributes to black face actors and “happy negroes” respectively.

Transcript: Rep. Jason Crow on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Nov. 23, 2025 (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jason-crow-colorado-democrat-face-the-nation-transcript-11-23-2025/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251123/p56#a251123p56

Packers to face Cowboys in primetime https://www.packers.com/news/packers-to-face-cowboys-in-primetime-week-4-2025

Nearly half of rural hospitals now operate at a loss.
As new federal budget cuts take effect, analysts warn that hundreds of rural hospitals more may close.
-- threatening to turn vast stretches of the country into health-care deserts.
At the center of this growing crisis lies a rollback in federal health-coverage spending.
Nonpartisan analyses show large Medicaid reductions over ten years.
-- the total is on the order of eight to nine hundred billion dollars f…

Rural Hospitals in the United States Face Collapse
As Medicaid cuts deepen, small-town hospitals across Republican states are closing, leaving millions without access to emergency care.

Russia to face nearly $100 billion deficit in 2026, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/20/russia-to-face-nearly-billion.html

I captured the silent meow!

💸 UK charging industry could face £100m bill under business rate changes
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/02/uk-charging-industry-could-face-100m-bill-under-business-rate-changes

UK charging industry could face £100m bill under business rate changes
Industry bodies say proposals will force site closures, slow investment and cost drivers up to £300 a year more

One thing I wasn't ready for on the bike commute was the bugs. Riding next to the river in summer is wonderful, but now when I head home the bugs are out, and they are tiny little bastards that fly into my face and my arms and get stuck on me. I do not love it. Hoping this works.
#biking #bikeTooter

Five Ukrainian soldiers surrendered. Russian troops shot them lying face-down anyway. - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/23/russia-executes-five-captured-ukrainian-soldiers-near-pokrovsk/

A [golf] ball sliced or hooked into the rough shall be lifted and placed in
the fairway at a point equal to the distance it carried or rolled into the
rough. Such veering right or left frequently results from friction between
the face of the club and the cover of the ball and the player should not be
penalized for the erratic behavior of the ball resulting from such
uncontrollable physical phenomena.
-- Donald A. Metz

*elf barges into Zanta's (zoomer Santa's) snoval office* ZANTA!!! ZANTAAA!!!!
*Zanta startles, his round frameless cosmetic glasses jolt off his face and splash into his Swiss Miss, he mutes his Friday Night Funkin' - 61 vs 67 Kid Meme (Numerical Breakdown Demo) and turns with an irate energy rattling his piercings and messy dyed-white wolf cut*
Zanta: Bro WHAT TF!?
elf: THEY FOUND UR AGARTHA ALT UR SO COOKED THEYRE SAYING NO WONDER HE WISHES EVERYONE A WHITE C…

So, the studios, who seem to lack any imagination want to bring back ... are you hanging on? ... Baywatch.
I suggest "Baywatch Mar the Lago" where large lakes of collagen infused Mar--the-Lago Face" modifications go a-bouncy-a-bouncy in slow motion.

Millions at risk as Myanmar wells surpass WHO arsenic guidelines #Myanmar

Millions at risk as Myanmar wells surpass WHO arsenic guidelines
Twelve million people in Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Delta face serious long-term health risks from the harmful substance, arsenic, in their drinking water.

Good!
"NSW police officer who allegedly assaulted former Greens candidate Hannah Thomas charged with grievous bodily harm" | New South Wales | The Guardian
https://www.theguard…

Current state of mind: accidentally put hoodie on backwards so the hjood would lift up over my face and for 3 long seconds seriously considered just living with it.
And that was AFTER getting back from the gym

That's me booking into 2026. I'm surprised it's taken til now. Life is very in my face just now so I haven't been looking too far ahead but I've just booked for Time by Luxmuralis at Hereford Cathedral in Jan, which will be here in a matter of moments. Time is an immersive lightshow which sounds appeallingly trippy.
https://www.…

Time by Luxmuralis
Tuesday 20 – Saturday 24 January 2026

Sonnet 020 - XX
A woman's face with nature's own hand painted,
Hast thou, the master mistress of my passion;
A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted
With shifting change, as is false women's fashion:
An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling,
Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth;
A man in hue all hues in his controlling,
Which steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth.
And for a woman wert thou f…

As somebody who’s spent about a half a century not caring who Grimes is, is this a photo of her? Does she appear different to usual in this one?
I was kind of expecting a tā moko or something. https://web.brid.gy/r/https://people.c

In a groundhog day loop of explaining why this hierarchical model cannot effectively be represented in the unified flat format they're trying to push. You can absolutely represent it in a flattened way, but it requires breaking out the child components into their own collection.
We end, once again, with the telling pause of disinterest and multitasking, followed by a distracted "mmm hmm" and promises to circle back on it later.

Chiefs vs. Colts on Sunday: Patrick Mahomes aims to avoid rare third straight loss in pivotal test

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/chiefs-vs-colts-where-to-watch-pick-odds-pre…

The Key Disadvantage Raiders Face vs. Browns https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-key-disadvantage-face-browns

"The specific mechanism of action that underlies the curing of autism post RFK-Jr.-face-punch is not yet understood by science, but the conclusion could not be more clear: 𝐧𝐨 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐅𝐊 𝐉𝐫. 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦."
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/study-re

Study Reveals Autism Cure: Punching RFK Jr. in the Face
autism cure is surprisingly simple A joint study out of Shangri-La Polytechnic Institute and the University of Atlantis-Brigadoon has concluded that no cases of autism persist after patients punch Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the face. We do not suggest people punch RFK Jr. without his consent. However, we do

Anyone want to guess the time?
Hints:
1. Base three
2. Look at the state of the teeth
P.S. Full explanation:
#WristCheck

ReDepress: A Cognitive Framework for Detecting Depression Relapse from Social Media
Aakash Kumar Agarwal, Saprativa Bhattacharjee, Mauli Rastogi, Jemima S. Jacob, Biplab Banerjee, Rashmi Gupta, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17991

ReDepress: A Cognitive Framework for Detecting Depression Relapse from Social Media
Almost 50% depression patients face the risk of going into relapse. The risk increases to 80% after the second episode of depression. Although, depression detection from social media has attained considerable attention, depression relapse detection has remained largely unexplored due to the lack of curated datasets and the difficulty of distinguishing relapse and non-relapse users. In this work, we present ReDepress, the first clinically validated social media dataset focused on relapse, compri…

On the Variational Costs of Changing Our Minds
David Hyland, Mahault Albarracin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17957 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17957

On the Variational Costs of Changing Our Minds
The human mind is capable of extraordinary achievements, yet it often appears to work against itself. It actively defends its cherished beliefs even in the face of contradictory evidence, conveniently interprets information to conform to desired narratives, and selectively searches for or avoids information to suit its various purposes. Despite these behaviours deviating from common normative standards for belief updating, we argue that such 'biases' are not inherently cognitive flaws, but rath…

AEAS: Actionable Exploit Assessment System
Xiangmin Shen, Wenyuan Cheng, Yan Chen, Zhenyuan Li, Yuqiao Gu, Lingzhi Wang, Wencheng Zhao, Dawei Sun, Jiashui Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17832

AEAS: Actionable Exploit Assessment System
Security practitioners face growing challenges in exploit assessment, as public vulnerability repositories are increasingly populated with inconsistent and low-quality exploit artifacts. Existing scoring systems, such as CVSS and EPSS, offer limited support for this task. They either rely on theoretical metrics or produce opaque probability estimates without assessing whether usable exploit code exists. In practice, security teams often resort to manual triage of exploit repositories, which is …

Tinder plans to expand its facial verification feature to all new US users in the coming months, following its rollout in seven countries and in California (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/22/tinder…

Tinder will require new users in the US to verify their identity with a selfie  | TechCrunch
The facial verification feature, known as Face Check, requires new users to verify their identity by submitting a short video selfie.

Enhancing the NAO: Extending Capabilities of Legacy Robots for Long-Term Research
Austin Wilson, Sahar Kapasi, Zane Greene, Alexis E. Block
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17760 http…

Enhancing the NAO: Extending Capabilities of Legacy Robots for Long-Term Research
Many research groups face challenges when legacy (unsupported) robotic platforms lose manufacturer support and cannot accommodate modern sensing, speech, and interaction capabilities. We present the Enhanced NAO, a revitalized version of Aldebaran's NAO robot that uses upgraded microphones, RGB-D and thermal cameras, and additional compute resources in a fully self-contained package. This system combines cloud and local models for perception and dialogue, while preserving the NAO's expressive b…

How is "pro life" coming along?
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/pregnancy-behind-bars-proves-deadly-for-women-and-their-babies

DoubleGen: Debiased Generative Modeling of Counterfactuals
Alex Luedtke, Kenji Fukumizu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16842 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16842…

DoubleGen: Debiased Generative Modeling of Counterfactuals
Generative models for counterfactual outcomes face two key sources of bias. Confounding bias arises when approaches fail to account for systematic differences between those who receive the intervention and those who do not. Misspecification bias arises when methods attempt to address confounding through estimation of an auxiliary model, but specify it incorrectly. We introduce DoubleGen, a doubly robust framework that modifies generative modeling training objectives to mitigate these biases. Th…

Guardian: Face transplants promised hope. Patients were put through the unthinkable https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/27/face-transplant-patients-results-outcomes "negative data is often buried, driven by funding battles and inst…

The U.S. attorney in Miami, who is running a sprawling investigation into former officials who investigated President Trump,
has been granted an unusual request to convene an extra grand jury at the federal courthouse in Fort Pierce, Fla.
The location ensures that just one judge can oversee it: Aileen M. Cannon.
That raises a question with intriguing political and legal overtones.
Judge Cannon could again end up as a key player in a Trump-centric case,
this one…

As Trump’s Inquisitors Face Scrutiny, a Divisive Figure Could Play a New Role
The prosecutor running an inquiry into those who investigated President Trump has established a grand jury under Judge Aileen M. Cannon, whose scuttling of the documents case made her a White House favorite.

Details on Greta’s torture at the hands of the Israelis:
https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25LgKq/greta-thunberg-they-kicked-me-every-time-the-flag-touched-my-face

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”
– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

BASFuzz: Towards Robustness Evaluation of LLM-based NLP Software via Automated Fuzz Testing
Mingxuan Xiao, Yan Xiao, Shunhui Ji, Jiahe Tu, Pengcheng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17335

BASFuzz: Towards Robustness Evaluation of LLM-based NLP Software via Automated Fuzz Testing
Fuzzing has shown great success in evaluating the robustness of intelligent natural language processing (NLP) software. As large language model (LLM)-based NLP software is widely deployed in critical industries, existing methods still face two main challenges: 1 testing methods are insufficiently coupled with the behavioral patterns of LLM-based NLP software; 2 fuzzing capability for the testing scenario of natural language generation (NLG) generally degrades. To address these issues, we propos…

And you don't need to accept the trap of authoritarian masculinity on logic alone, the proof is right there in male influencers like Andrew Tate and their followers. These dipshits get so obsessed with gatekeeping they don't realize that the gates they're tending keep them in, that the more walls they put up to protect their privilege, the smaller their identity can be. They huddle in tiny pens, terrified of crossing imaginary bounds that they imposed *on themselves.*
They have built their own torture chambers and locked themselves inside, and for what? They turn themselves into dragons, hoarding what they see as valuable while repressing every emotion including joy. And if they let themselves experience joy, they would, perhaps, realize that all these privileges are inconsistent with it. They might, perhaps, recognize that they have built up these privileges so they don't have to admit that their suffering and fear are not, in fact, admirable. They might have to face the fact that they have lived lives that are deeply pathetic, might have to face the fact that only empathy can give one access to deep satisfaction, might have to face the fact that they have lived their whole lives on a treadmill, going nowhere.
But I assume that they won't ever do that, because to do so would force them to face the enormity of the emotional debt, the pain and suffering they have inflicted on the world, and those are big feelings. It's far easier to hide in a hole, forever alone, making up silly rules to keep everyone inside scared and keep everyone outside from seeing in.

#silentSunday
White tail deer. May 2018

Activist gets 8 days in jail for the grave crime of… “squeaking near the face" : r/Sakartvelo
https://www.reddit.com/r/Sakartvelo/comments/1p3ywa2/activist_gets_8_days_in_jail_for_the_grave_crime/

"A 2003-style heatwave today would kill nearly 18,000 Europeans, new study warns"
#Europe #Climate #ClimateChange

Europe could face higher death toll if historic heatwaves struck today
Applying historical heatwave patterns to current climate conditions shows a worrisome death toll, a new study reveals

NFL Week 8 picks: Our experts face off on Vikings vs. Chargers, Cowboys at Broncos and more

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-8-betting-picks-pre…

XaaS Containers: Performance-Portable Representation With Source and IR Containers
Marcin Copik, Eiman Alnuaimi, Alok Kamatar, Valerie Hayot-Sasson, Alberto Madonna, Todd Gamblin, Kyle Chard, Ian Foster, Torsten Hoefler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17914

XaaS Containers: Performance-Portable Representation With Source and IR Containers
High-performance computing (HPC) systems and cloud data centers are converging, and containers are becoming the default method of portable software deployment. Yet, while containers simplify software management, they face significant performance challenges in HPC environments as they must sacrifice hardware-specific optimizations to achieve portability. Although HPC containers can use runtime hooks to access optimized MPI libraries and GPU devices, they are limited by application binary interfa…

Cowboys fans need to face a harsh Micah Parsons reality after losing to the Bears https://fansided.com/nfl/cowboys-fans-harsh-micah-parsons-reality

Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
LAUREN: There's no need. I can handle it, Dayna.
MELLANBY: All right, but don't take any chances.
LAUREN: I won't.
DAYNA: Keep your head down.
LAUREN: I always do.
[On the beach]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/301/377 B…

2025 NFL Thanksgiving schedule: Packers, Lions face off, Cowboys host Chiefs as part of holiday triple-header

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2025-nfl-th…

Colleges Face a Reckoning: Is a Degree Really Necessary? (Alan Blinder/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/us/value-of-higher-education-attainment-rates-graduation.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p37#a251022p37

Multi-Agent Amodal Completion: Direct Synthesis with Fine-Grained Semantic Guidance
Hongxing Fan, Lipeng Wang, Haohua Chen, Zehuan Huang, Jiangtao Wu, Lu Sheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17757

Multi-Agent Amodal Completion: Direct Synthesis with Fine-Grained Semantic Guidance
Amodal completion, generating invisible parts of occluded objects, is vital for applications like image editing and AR. Prior methods face challenges with data needs, generalization, or error accumulation in progressive pipelines. We propose a Collaborative Multi-Agent Reasoning Framework based on upfront collaborative reasoning to overcome these issues. Our framework uses multiple agents to collaboratively analyze occlusion relationships and determine necessary boundary expansion, yielding a p…

Measles is often seen as a routine childhood illness
— a fever, a rash, and recovery
— but complications are common.
Even when it doesn’t kill,
measles can cause lasting damage.
It weakens the immune system,
making people vulnerable to other infections for months or years.
That means children who seem to recover may still face serious health risks long after the illness is gone.
In some countries, measles has re-emerged in recent years,
…

Measles leaves children vulnerable to other diseases for years
Measles causes more than an acute illness: it suppresses immune memory and increases the risk of complications for years.

Cowboys Won’t Have to Face Key Broncos Defender After NFL Decision https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/dre-greenlaw-suspension-upheld/?adt_ei=[email]

UPDATE: Pokrovsk, Ukraine.
Over 20% of Ukraine's GDP comes from the Pokrovsk region. There are 127 official mines in the region, providing the true incentive for Putin's push to steal it.
In the maze of mineshafts and tunnels, an invisible war is being waged in horrifying conditions.
The idea of US "peace" plan is absurdist fiction that fits in with the Kremlin lies of Russia controlling Pokrovsk.
Information wars are being waged in your face. Defend…

Raiders’ Wake-Up Call: The Harsh Reality They Must Face Now to Save the 2026 Season https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-wake-up-call-harsh-reality-they-must-face-now-save-the-2026-season

Hybrid Reputation Aggregation: A Robust Defense Mechanism for Adversarial Federated Learning in 5G and Edge Network Environments
Saeid Sheikhi, Panos Kostakos, Lauri Loven
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18044

Hybrid Reputation Aggregation: A Robust Defense Mechanism for Adversarial Federated Learning in 5G and Edge Network Environments
Federated Learning (FL) in 5G and edge network environments face severe security threats from adversarial clients. Malicious participants can perform label flipping, inject backdoor triggers, or launch Sybil attacks to corrupt the global model. This paper introduces Hybrid Reputation Aggregation (HRA), a novel robust aggregation mechanism designed to defend against diverse adversarial behaviors in FL without prior knowledge of the attack type. HRA combines geometric anomaly detection with momen…

V2V-GoT: Vehicle-to-Vehicle Cooperative Autonomous Driving with Multimodal Large Language Models and Graph-of-Thoughts
Hsu-kuang Chiu, Ryo Hachiuma, Chien-Yi Wang, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang, Min-Hung Chen, Stephen F. Smith
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18053

V2V-GoT: Vehicle-to-Vehicle Cooperative Autonomous Driving with Multimodal Large Language Models and Graph-of-Thoughts
Current state-of-the-art autonomous vehicles could face safety-critical situations when their local sensors are occluded by large nearby objects on the road. Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) cooperative autonomous driving has been proposed as a means of addressing this problem, and one recently introduced framework for cooperative autonomous driving has further adopted an approach that incorporates a Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) to integrate cooperative perception and planning processes. Howe…

SLICET5: Static Program Slicing using Language Models with Copy Mechanism and Constrained Decoding
Pengfei He, Shaowei Wang, Tse-Hsun Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17338 https…

SLICET5: Static Program Slicing using Language Models with Copy Mechanism and Constrained Decoding
Static program slicing is a fundamental technique in software engineering. Traditional static slicing tools rely on parsing complete source code, which limits their applicability to real-world scenarios where code snippets are incomplete or unparsable. While recent research developed learning-based approaches to predict slices, they face critical challenges: (1) Inaccurate dependency identification, where models fail to precisely capture data and control dependencies between code elements; and …

I Quit My Job in the Face of Pro-Trump Censorship (Alan Greenblatt/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/10/22/alan-greenblatt-quit-governing-censorship-00617039
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p42#a251022p42

Republicans struggle to explain shutdown of the House
“This shutdown strategy is old and Republicans need to have new tactics,”
Rep. Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas)
told House Republicans on a private call Tuesday afternoon,
as federal agencies passed their third week without funding.
Her critique highlighted the growing struggles that House Republicans face in their effort to try to force Democrats into opening up the federal government.

Ahead of the shutdown,…

Republicans struggle to explain shutdown of the House
Speaker Mike Johnson’s initial strategy to jam the Senate has not worked, but he refuses to change tactics.

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
AVON: Don't overreact. Remember, this is for your beloved leader.
JENNA: Well, I hope Blake appreciates this.
BLAKE: Renounce. Renounce.
ORAC: Renounce what? Tell us what.
BLAKE: Freedom. Freedom Party.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/127

Chiefs face crucial test vs. Colts on Sunday as Patrick Mahomes looks to avoid rare third straight loss

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/chiefs-vs-colts-where-to-watch-pick-odd…

Q&A with Roblox co-founder and CEO David Baszucki on using face scans to verify age, having a chat function on Roblox, AI content moderation at scale, and more (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/podcasts/hardfork-roblox-child-safety.html

We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.
This week the company announced that it would require users to undergo an A.I.-powered age estimation process in order to chat with others on the platform. Will this change reassure parents?

As Trump's Inquisitors Face Scrutiny, a Divisive Figure Could Play a New Role (Charlie Savage/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/us/politics/trump-florida-cannon-grand-jury.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3U8.kSLN.NlMCzOeXR41W&smid=tw-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251123/p39#a251123p39

Tensions over right-wing antisemitism have burst to the forefront of Republican politics,
and show signs of becoming a fierce point of contention in the midterms and beyond.
For years, Jewish Republicans often denied that the right had a serious problem with antisemitism,
pointing instead to anti-Jewish bigotry on the left and celebrating President Trump’s support for Israel.
But now that problem is staring them directly in the face.
Tensions over antisemitism in…

Why Republicans Are Fighting About the Nazis
Tensions over right-wing antisemitism have burst to the forefront of Republican politics, and show signs of becoming a fierce point of contention in the midterms and beyond.

Series A, Episode 06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
PRELL: Perhaps they had trouble getting them to work, sir.
TRAVIS: And why did they take you and your men out of here?
PRELL: I suppose they thought it was safer with us out of the way.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/106/263 B7B2

Prompts as Software Engineering Artifacts: A Research Agenda and Preliminary Findings
Hugo Villamizar, Jannik Fischbach, Alexander Korn, Andreas Vogelsang, Daniel Mendez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17548

Prompts as Software Engineering Artifacts: A Research Agenda and Preliminary Findings
Developers now routinely interact with large language models (LLMs) to support a range of software engineering (SE) tasks. This prominent role positions prompts as potential SE artifacts that, like other artifacts, may require systematic development, documentation, and maintenance. However, little is known about how prompts are actually used and managed in LLM-integrated workflows, what challenges practitioners face, and whether the benefits of systematic prompt management outweigh the associat…

No Need for Real 3D: Fusing 2D Vision with Pseudo 3D Representations for Robotic Manipulation Learning
Run Yu, Yangdi Liu, Wen-Da Wei, Chen Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16532 h…

No Need for Real 3D: Fusing 2D Vision with Pseudo 3D Representations for Robotic Manipulation Learning
Recently,vision-based robotic manipulation has garnered significant attention and witnessed substantial advancements. 2D image-based and 3D point cloud-based policy learning represent two predominant paradigms in the field, with recent studies showing that the latter consistently outperforms the former in terms of both policy performance and generalization, thereby underscoring the value and significance of 3D information. However, 3D point cloud-based approaches face the significant challenge …

What They're Saying: Texans readying to face 'truly dynamic tight end' Brock Bowers https://www.raiders.com/news/what-they-re-saying-houston-texans-face-truly-dynamic-tight-end-brock-bowers

YouTube launches its likeness detection tech, letting eligible creators in its Partner Program request the removal of AI-generated content with their likeness (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/21/youtubes-likeness-d…

YouTube’s likeness detection technology has officially launched | TechCrunch
YouTube's likeness detection technology is now available. Creators can request the removal of AI content using their face and voice.

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NFL Week 16 picks: Our experts face off on Steelers against Lions, Patriots at Ravens and more

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-16-expert-picks-head-t…

At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban Gender Affirming Care,
they said trans people are
"at the root of the evils we face"
and are
"a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.”
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
-- Alejendro Caraballo

Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net)
At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban GAC, they said trans people are "at the root of the evils we face" and are "a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.” Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.

Elementary school Eagles fans hit punching bags of Cowboys players https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/11/21/eagles-cowboys-elementary-kids-fans-video/87399349007/

Transcript: Sen. Mark Kelly on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Oct. 19, 2025 (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mark-kelly-arizona-democrat-face-the-nation-10-19-2025/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251019/p37#a251019p37

Prosecutor: A. Brown could face 30 years if guilty https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46999335/prosecutor-antonio-brown-face-30-years-prison-guilty

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Mick Shots: Cowboys World https://www.dallascowboys.com/podcast/mick-shots-10-22-25

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Why did Republicans close ranks around Donald Trump in 2016,
when they could have salvaged their old party and rebuilt after losing?
From the vantage point of today, it’s easy to dismiss the notion. “That’s just what parties do, of course, particularly Republicans in their era of hyperpartisanship.”
But the people who might say that have forgotten how unsettled Republicans were a decade ago.
The idea that they might be forced to withdraw support from Trump and accep…

MAGA Disarray And The Accumulated Debt Of Corruption
They'd bring America down rather than face accountability, but accountability is not optional.

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How will the Browns contain Brock Bowers? https://www.clevelandbrowns.com/news/how-will-the-browns-contain-brock-bowers-burning-questions

Payton: No intent to offend Wilson with comment https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46688956/broncos-sean-payton-says-mean-offend-russell-wilson

Cowboys' roster malpractice highlighted by NFC Pro Bowl Games honorees https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-roster-malpractice-highlighted-nfc-pro-bowl-games-honorees

Raiders Give Houston a Problem, But Can't Finish Turnaround https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-give-houston-problem-cant-finish-turnaround

Javonte Williams ready for Broncos revenge game, but no animosity ahead of Week 8 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/javonte-williams-ready-denver-broncos-revenge-game-no-animosity-nfl-week-8

3 Bold Predictions for Raiders' Matchup vs. Texans https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-3-bold-predictions-matchup-vs-texans

HC Sean Payton on facing the Cowboys' offense: 'We're at work right now preparing for it' https://www.denverbroncos.com/video/hc-sean-payton-on-facing-the-cowboys-offense-we-re-at-work-right-now-preparing-for…

Raiders' Showdown With Browns Calls Back to Shedeur Sanders Decision https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-showdown-browns-calls-back-shedeur-sanders-decision

What I'm hearing about Brandon Aiyuk, Joe Burrow's status and Shedeur Sanders' first start https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6828031/2025/11/22/nfl-rumors-news-joe-burrow-brandon-aiyuk-shedeur-sanders/