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Famous Cognitive Psychology Experiments that Failed to Replicate
A quick reference
https://aethermug.com/posts/famous-cognitive-psychology-experiments-that-failed-to-replicate

Famous Cognitive Psychology Experiments that Failed to Replicate
A quick reference

Who failed in Anthony Richardson saga? Colts QB coach toes the line after No. 4 pick loses position battle

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/who-fai…

Let's be clear; the Senate Dems' government funding bill received a majority, 47-45, but was blocked by a GOP filibuster.
The Senate GOP's funding bill failed, receiving 44 yes votes to 48 no votes.
Please make sure you report accurately.
@nytimes.com @talkingpointsmemo.com @washingtonpost.com
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Lee Fink (@leekfink.bsky.social)
Let's be clear; the Senate Dems' government funding bill received a majority, 47-45, but was blocked by a GOP filibuster. The Senate GOP's funding bill failed, receiving 44 yes votes to 48 no votes. Please make sure you report accurately. @nytimes.com @talkingpointsmemo.com @washingtonpost.com

😞 Famous cognitive psychology experiments that failed to replicate
#science

Famous Cognitive Psychology Experiments that Failed to Replicate
A quick reference

Cowboys legend says 'No. 1 key' to success is what team failed to do in 2024 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-legend-key-to-success-is-what-team-failed-to-do-in-2024

MAGA Megachurch Pastor Named In Lawsuits Alleging That He Failed To Prevent Molestations By Fellow Pastor - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/09/maga-megachurch-pastor-named-in-lawsuits-alleging-that-he-failed-to-prevent-molestations-by-fellow-pastor/

In a 30-minute test, Meta Ray-Ban Display was as spotty as Zuckerberg's failed demos, with the wristband occasionally failing to register finger swipes (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/technology/personaltech/meta-smar…

Seeing Through the Reality of Meta’s Smart Glasses
Mark Zuckerberg’s glitch-filled unveiling of computerized glasses revealed a company that may struggle to deliver on its promise for the future of computing.

Why The Houston Landing failed, including the lack of a clear identity, leadership lacking fundraising and nonprofit experience, and trouble generating revenue (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/what-went-wrong-at-the-houston-landing/

The excellent @… (https://erinkissane.com) has written a lot about the idea of “governance” in tech: the human networks and processes that surround the things that we build. Erin has proposed — and I agree, though I long failed to see it! — that governance is the gaping hole in the way we build OSS, shared infra, and the whole technology commons.
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Reminder: Trump files bs lawsuits.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/18/trump-bob-woodward-lawsuit-dismissed/

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Saint Etienne:
🎵 Heart Failed (In The Back Of A Taxi)
#NowPlaying #SaintEtienne
https://thelovertonesx.bandcamp.com/track/saint-etienne-heart-failed-in-the-back-of-a-taxi
https://open.spotify.com/track/3EFUJF9xf5lRnwMbZI3LU6

"Zonal pricing is dead – here’s how the UK should change its electricity system instead"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy

Zonal pricing is dead – here’s how the UK should change its electricity system instead
‘Zonal pricing’ failed to win the government’s support, but Britain has other options.

I used the #PrincessLamplighter for a trip to the grocery store, which I recorded on #Strava or … actually I should say that I tried to record it. The recording failed, thus it is not on Strava and as all Strava users know, that means it never actually happened and so my family wi…

One of the comments lodged in my mind from 50-some years ago was that the toxicology studies we were basing product approvals on failed to consider interactions between multiple substances - and apparently not much has been done in that area
https://www.

One of the comments lodged in my mind from 50-some years ago was that the toxicology studies we were basing product approvals on failed to consider interactions between multiple substances - and apparently not much has been done in that area
https://www.

New audacious scam #spam: Claims to be an invite to a "Team meeting" for a whole organization in MS Teams. Payload links don't go to MS, but rather to the CloudFlare-obfuscated ctrk.klclick3.com which redirects to eclicks.chantersselfstorage.co.uk which doesn't answer & may be a failed(?) DNS hijacking; the main domain looks like a UK business,while their web and mail is at Host…

Why has the Raiders' running game failed to catch fire? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46311229/las-vegas-raiders-running-game-ashton-jeanty-week-3-washington-commanders

Meta CTO says the technical issues during live demos of its new smart glasses were due to a self-inflicted DDoS and a bug that put Zuckerberg's glasses to sleep (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/781730/meta-explains-live-ai-s…

Meta’s failed smart glasses demos had nothing to do with the Wi-Fi
‘We DDoS’d ourselves, basically.‘

Double-failed Dutch government coalition still refuses to call Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza a genocide. Let alone take all possible actions against the perpetrator as the Genocide Convention requires. Which means the Netherlands is complicit.
https://nos.nl/l/2582967

Schoof verdedigt Israëlstandpunt kabinet • Nu niets extra's voor goedkopere boodschappen
Het is de tweede dag van de Algemene Politieke Beschouwingen. Premier Schoof geeft antwoord op gestelde vragen.

Ukrainians fear Trump will shift responsibility for ending war onto Kyiv after failed talks with Putin: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/ukrainians-fear-trump-will-shift.html

The SSA finally addressed the whistleblower's complaint regarding how DOGE dealt with the database it copied.
Interestingly, they do not address the whistleblower's main complaint, which is that DOGE failed to obtain an authorization to operate as mandated under FISMA because, in fact, DOGE did not. That would have required a number of rigorous security steps and review by experts, a process that can take six months or more.

Trump admin says Social Security database wasn’t “leaked, hacked, or shared”
SSA tells Senate that NUMIDENT is safe after troubling whistleblower allegations.

Commanders Coach Has Strong Words for Raiders’ Brock Bowers https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/commanders-coach-brock-bowers/?adt_ei=[email]

Israel's Qatar attack was a costly failure (Barak Ravid/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/16/israel-qatar-strike-failed-hamas-survive
http://www.memeorandum.com/250916/p41#a250916p41

""A great and very successful day in Alaska!" Trump began. "The meeting with President Vladimir Putin of Russia went very well, as did a late night phone call with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine, and various European Leaders, including the highly respected Secretary General of NATO.""
'Self-own of embarrassing proportions': Critics mock Trump's failed summit spin - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-failed-summit/

Good to see at least some politicians realizing that you need to provide solutions that the voters need, not policies that the big donors like, the policies shaped by years of mindless repetition of Milton Friedman's failed economic hypotheses, policies based on "everyone knows - it's common sense" rather than actually looking at what works and what doesn't.
(And Friedman's nonsense has been a mantra since the 1970s, so everyone has heard the nonsense pre…

Good to see at least some politicians realizing that you need to provide solutions that the voters need, not policies that the big donors like, the policies shaped by years of mindless repetition of Milton Friedman's failed economic hypotheses, policies based on "everyone knows - it's common sense" rather than actually looking at what works and what doesn't.
(And Friedman's nonsense has been a mantra since the 1970s, so everyone has heard the nonsense pre…

ADI / Linear Tech LTC4367 power protection controller, from one of my failed 48V IBC designs that blew up from inductive spikes when I applied power.
I didn't do extensive circuit analysis but it looks like one particular net is blown out in several places. Guessing this is the same pin that cratered on the package.
Besides the damage, some other features of interest:
* Colored fringes on large top metal features. Maybe spin-on glass top metal or something.
* The LT…

Imagine that a cease-fire would be implemented along current frontlines and it would hold for several years, Ukraine would become a EU member, economic integration with the EU would follow which would be beneficial to the union as a whole. Putin can not allow that to happen, especially because he can never be so succesful with his own failed state Russia (economically at least).
Putin prefers uncertainty, instability for Ukraine.

Ich will in diesem Jahr erneut über das Problem der sterbenden Wälder berichten. Unser Bericht bei @… klingt lapidar: der Wald ist kein CO2-Speicher mehr, sondern ein Emittent, so wie Industrie, Verkehr oder der Gebäudesektor. Doch es ist dramatisch: Ohne funktionierende Wälder werden wir die Klimaziele nie erreichen.
Ich freue mich, hier über Input von Euch oder Zusa…

Forest abandonment and poor management threaten Europe's precious carbon sink
Carbon sequestration is one of the most important functions of a forest. Over the past 20 years, European forests have failed to fulfil this role.

As I am still working through the ansible infoblox scripting, I have a new problem. Progress was made (Great!) but here is where I am stuck now and have been a few days. I THINK its both an Ansible AND an Infoblox WABI issue, but not sure either how to diagnose or solve. For some reason, ansible keeps trying to use WABI v 2.7.3 even though I specify v 2.13.6 in my code. I can see it in the error output. ""Failed on object search with url https://grid.master/wapi/v2.7.3/record%...…

Having utterly failed to develop an elite, the Right has recently been working very hard on the triumph of the midwit mindset.

Would that #SFMTA, #MayorLurie and the #SFBOS paid attention to information like this and moved to develop an integrated plan.
What we have is BOS Resolution ( and I appreciate the efforts of

Would that #SFMTA, #MayorLurie and the #SFBOS paid attention to information like this and moved to develop an integrated plan.
What we have is BOS Resolution ( and I appreciate the efforts of

My guess on FFOTUS' reactions to the Epstein materials is based less on what trump did and more based on what he failed to do.

"UK taxpayers on hook as failed Cumbria coalmine investors sue government"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #CoalMine

Finished series 10 of #taskmaster.
The contestants started showing signs of life in the final episodes, but it was def the dullest series thus far. The chaotic energy and wicked banter were sorely missing.
In the end, Daisy was my favorite contestant. She honestly attempted the tasks, but if she failed the task she would show some chaotic emotion.
Katherine felt 100% out …

Why Report Failed Interactions With Robots?! Towards Vignette-based Interaction Quality
Agnes Axelsson, Merle Reimann, Ronald Cumbal, Hannah Pelikan, Divesh Lala
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10603

Why Report Failed Interactions With Robots?! Towards Vignette-based Interaction Quality
Although the quality of human-robot interactions has improved with the advent of LLMs, there are still various factors that cause systems to be sub-optimal when compared to human-human interactions. The nature and criticality of failures are often dependent on the context of the interaction and so cannot be generalized across the wide range of scenarios and experiments which have been implemented in HRI research. In this work we propose the use of a technique overlooked in the field of HRI, eth…

Can Travis Hunter succeed where his head coach failed? https://insidethestar.com/can-travis-hunter-succeed-where-his-head-coach-failed

Context:
freebsd-update(8), upgrade, ARM64, aarch64, end-of-life FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1mlk75y/fetching_1_metadata_files_failed_when_i_try_to/
cc @…

Canadian law enforcement seizes $40.5M in digital assets after shutting down TradeOgre crypto exchange, making it the largest Canadian crypto seizure to date. (Mat Di Salvo/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/340310/canada-confiscates-56m-bitcoin-xrp-c…

Canada Seizes $56M in Bitcoin, XRP and Other Crypto as It Shutters Exchange TradeOgre
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police say the exchange failed to comply with money laundering regulations and also confiscated Ethereum and Litecoin, among other digital assets.

The Convicted Criminal failed in Alaska despite his repeated claims he would not.

"AI is a tool (sorry!) that people who are bad at their jobs will use badly and that people who are good at their jobs will maybe, possibly find some uses for. People who are terrible at their jobs (many executives), will tell their employees that they “need” to use AI, that their jobs depend on it, that they must become more productive, and that becoming an AI-first company is the strategy that will save them from the old failed strategy, which itself was the new strategy after other f…

The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work
AI is not going to save media companies, and forcing journalists to use AI is not a business model.

Learn-As-you-GO (LAGO) Trials: Optimizing Trials for Effectiveness and Power to Prevent Failed Trials
Ante Bing (Department of Mathematics,Statistics, Boston University), Donna Spiegelman (Department of Biostatistics, Yale University), Judith J. Lok (Department of Mathematics,Statistics, Boston University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11479

Learn-As-you-GO (LAGO) Trials: Optimizing Trials for Effectiveness and Power to Prevent Failed Trials
The Learn-As-you-GO (LAGO) design provides a rigorous framework for adapting the intervention package based on accumulating data while the trial is ongoing. This article improves the flexibility of the LAGO design by incorporating statistical power as an optimization criterion (power goal) in LAGO optimizations. We propose the unconditional and conditional power approaches to add a power goal. Both approaches estimate the power at the end of the LAGO trial using data from prior stages, and incr…

Android: #Obtanium (instead of #FDroid app) is really awesome for managing app updates.
However, this method has an issue when the naming schema of the #apk files change on the server side, and you're using a…

"Judges are the societal bulwarks called to punish people who commit cruel crimes, especially those involving children. Judge James B. Gosnell failed to answer that calling in a major way."
Dylann Roof's Judge Arrested On Child Porn Charges And Denied Bond - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/09/dylann-roofs-judge-arrested-on-child-porn-charges-and-denied-bond/

“…across social media, extraordinary scenes keep surfacing - unarmed men & women staring down heavily armed masked men. People getting out of their cars or running out of restaurants to confront ICE agents.
…not lone individuals who suddenly snap. This is grassroots non-violent resistance. When the rule of law has failed in the courts and in democracy, ordinary people have stepped up to defend their neighbours.”

Rethinking the Role of the Bystander
Trump's storm troopers couldn't be more menacing, even if they adopted the Death's Head symbol of the SS.

Failed US peace effort left Ukraine worse off, expert argues: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/failed-us-peace-effort-left.html

Failed superconductivity in a Mott spin liquid material
Yuxin Wang, Vladimir Dobrosavljevi\'c, Eun Sang Choi, Yohei Saito, Atsushi Kawamoto, Andrej Pustogow, Martin Dressel, Dragana Popovi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10832

Failed superconductivity in a Mott spin liquid material
A central challenge for understanding unconventional superconductivity in most strongly correlated electronic materials is their complicated band structure and presence of competing orders. In contrast, quasi-two-dimensional organic spin liquids are single-band systems with superconductivity arising near the bandwidth-tuned Mott metal-insulator transition in the absence of other orders. Here, we study chemically substituted $κ$-organics in which superconducting fluctuations emerge in the phase…

Under current policies, the Netherlands will miss its own Climate Law 2030 target (emissions -55% compared to 1990), says the government's PBL institute. The additional measures announced this spring by the (now double-failed) right-far-right coalition are insufficient.
https://www.pbl.nl/pu…

Klimaat- en Energieverkenning 2025
De broeikasgasuitstoot in Nederland daalt naar verwachting in het basispad met 45-53 procent in 2030 ten opzichte van 1990.

Gluing doubly periodic Scherk surfaces into minimal surfaces
Hao Chen, Yunhua Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12859 https://arxiv.org/p…

Gluing doubly periodic Scherk surfaces into minimal surfaces
We construct minimal surfaces by stacking doubly periodic Scherk surfaces one above another and gluing them along their ends. It is previously known that the Karcher--Meeks--Rosenberg (KMR) doubly periodic minimal surfaces and Meeks' family of triply periodic minimal surfaces can both be obtained by gluing two Scherk surfaces. There have been hope and failed attempts to glue more Scherk surfaces. But our analysis shows that this is impossible: Such a glue construction can only produce the trivi…

I've made Near Miss of the Day on @…
I can honestly say that this is nothing that I have ever aspired to!
https://road.cc/content/news/near-miss

Near Miss of the Day 932: Experienced cyclist says this near-collision "was by far the scariest I've had while cycling"
"I was certain that a high-speed collision was imminent," said the cyclist who was wearing a bright orange jersey when the driver somehow failed to spot him at a roundabout

For the things that make you go hmmm department [1]
[1] see items (4) and (5)

Is the client vendor now responsible for you getting scammed when their agent gives away your financial information to scam sites?
https://guard.io/labs/scamlexity-we-put-agentic-ai-browsers-to-the-test-they-clicked-they-paid-they-fa…

"Scamlexity": When Agentic AI Browsers Get Scammed
We Put Agentic AI Browsers to the Test - They Clicked, They Paid, They Failed

Okay, finally got CTFreak back up and running so that I don't have to deploy my website manually anymore. When I did the homelab updates/consolidation, the old CTFreak server ended up not making the cut...however, we're back.
#homelab #ctfreak

The role of electron interactions in a failed insulator revealed by shot noise
Mateusz Szurek, Hanqiao Cheng, Zilu Pang, Yiou Zhang, Sergei Urazhdin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05481

The role of electron interactions in a failed insulator revealed by shot noise
In materials known as failed insulators, electrical resistivity increases as temperature decreases, yet does not diverge - a phenomenon inconsistent with single-particle theories. We investigate the origin of this behavior by measuring shot noise in nanojunctions of nitrogen-doped beta-Ta, a prototypical failed insulator. Junctions as short as 8 nanometers exhibit hot-electron shot noise, indicating strong electron interactions. We show that charge hopping mediated by these interactions explain…

Investigating Language Model Capabilities to Represent and Process Formal Knowledge: A Preliminary Study to Assist Ontology Engineering
Hanna Abi Akl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10249

Investigating Language Model Capabilities to Represent and Process Formal Knowledge: A Preliminary Study to Assist Ontology Engineering
Recent advances in Language Models (LMs) have failed to mask their shortcomings particularly in the domain of reasoning. This limitation impacts several tasks, most notably those involving ontology engineering. As part of a PhD research, we investigate the consequences of incorporating formal methods on the performance of Small Language Models (SLMs) on reasoning tasks. Specifically, we aim to orient our work toward using SLMs to bootstrap ontology construction and set up a series of preliminar…

Trump emerged today from his summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin without a deal and without much to say.
Trump rarely misses a chance to take advantage of a global stage.
But when he stood next to Putin at the conclusion of their three-hour meeting,
Trump offered few details about what the men had discussed.
Stunningly, for a president who loves a press conference,
he took no questions from the reporters assembled at a military base in Alaska.
In his br…

Trump Leaves Alaska Empty-Handed
Trump rolled out the red carpet for Putin but failed to make a deal.

UK economy saw zero growth in July
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c203edl1zq3o
"Faced with economic stagnation the elites are panicking. Wild eyed in the control room, they thrash around seeking to fix the unfixable, pushing all the buttons, pulling all the levers, to n…

UK economy saw zero growth in July
The economy failed to grow following the biggest contraction in manufacturing output for a year.

Kitten’s installation server was down for the last two days. In case you tried to install it and it failed, that’s why.
Issue’s now been fixed.
#Kitten

> The failure of Putin’s summer offensive should now help to debunk the persistent myth of inevitable Russian victory. For far too long, international perceptions of the war in Ukraine have been distorted by exaggerated notions of Russia’s military might. Perhaps most notoriously, this has led US President Donald Trump to criticize Ukraine for daring to defend itself against a far larger aggressor, while suggesting that Russia is somehow uniquely accustomed to waging and winning wars.

So #Zope released new versions of their packages, with pkg-resources style namespace removal.
Totally normal way to do the bumps:
1. At first, keep the existing testing hack (writing `__init__.py`).
2. Notice that the next package fails because it expects test paths relative to `zope` subdirectory. Skip it for now.
3. While doing the next package, realize you could remove that hack and simply run tests within the `zope` subdirectory! Go back and update all the previous packages, including the one that failed before.
4. Back to bumping. Notice that in the very next package you've had an even better solution: instead of `cd`, you just called `python -m unittest -s …`. Go back and update all the previous packages.
5. Back to bumping. The very next package turns out to actually expects test paths relative to the top-level site-packages directory. Well, you can use a hybrid of the `__init__.py` hack with `python -m unittest -s …`.
#Gentoo #Python

Hunt, Corbett injuries make Panthers' failed comeback sting even more https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46264207/nfl-carolina-panthers-bryce-young-austin-corbett-robert-hunt

Radioactive water from UK nuclear bomb base leaked into sea, files show https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/09/radioactive-water-bomb-base-scotland-leak-sea-files

Backing up the SSD to my external hard drive. The first try failed as, for some reason, #mxlinux wouldn't mount the drive. Did a reboot with the drive in, and it works. After it is done, I will reboot back to Windows and verify that the backup is readable! So far, so good.

And please GTFO with Dawkins, there surely are people in the field who aren’t awful failed human beings

Russia’s summer offensive failed: Kremlin’s fake broken!: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/02/russias-summer-offensive-failed-kremlins.html

NSA: Volt Typhoon was ‘not successful’ at persisting in critical infrastructure https://therecord.media/china-typhoon-hackers-nsa-fbi-response

What Hard Lesson Raiders Must Learn from Missed Opportunity https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-pete-carroll-los-angeles-chargers-geno-smith-jakobi-meyers-brock-bowers

Today, I failed at fixing my temperature sensor setup. Tomorrow, I want to switch them to bthome and instead of sending data via MQTT use ESP Bluetooth proxies. Lower energy consumption, more stability. Maybe. #homeassistant

National TV news largely failed to connect the record-breaking eastern U.S. heat dome to climate change (Evlondo Cooper/Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/broadcast-networks/national-tv-news-largely-failed-connect-record-breaking-eastern-us-heat-dome
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p60#a250702p60

Opposition pans Netanyahu as a 'failed prime minister' who 'lies with brazen audacity' | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/opposition-pans-netanyahu-as-a-failed-prime-minister-who-lies-with-brazen-audacity/

Nepal says it is blocking most major social media platforms, including Facebook, X, and YouTube, after the companies failed to register with the government (Binaj Gurubacharya/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/nepal-ban-social-media-plat…

Nepal blocks Facebook, X, YouTube and others for failing to register with the government
Nepal's government says it is blocking most social media platforms, including Facebook, X and YouTube, because they failed to register with the government. Nepal's Minister for Communication and Information said about two dozen platforms were repeatedly notified to register. TikTok, Viber, and three other platforms are allowed to operate because they have registered. The government has introduced a bill in parliament to ensure social platforms are managed responsibly. Rights groups criticize th…

Russian operation in Sumy region FAILED! Ukrainian Armed Forces successfully stopped the enemy: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/russian-operation-in-sumy-region.html

Donald Trump presents himself as strong, indomitable, and always forceful.
But when disaster strikes — whether hurricane, flash flood, or pandemic — he’s oddly helpless.
To hear Trump tell it, he has infinite power to do good and no power to do bad
-- and anyone who says otherwise is an enemy of the country.
To believe in MAGA is to believe in his simultaneous omnipotence and impotence, depending on whichever is convenient for partisan purposes.
This dynamic h…

Disasters are for the greater glory of Trump
He cannot fail. He can only be failed.

Guard [.] io says a new era of scam complexity is on the way because AI-powered browsers can interact with phishing pages and malicious prompts without human detection.
https://guard.io/labs/scamlexity-we-put-agentic-ai-browsers-to-t…

"Scamlexity": When Agentic AI Browsers Get Scammed
We Put Agentic AI Browsers to the Test - They Clicked, They Paid, They Failed

Optimally Tensile Strained La3Ni2O7 Films as Candidate High-Temperature Superconductors on Designer Ba1-xSrxO (001) and SrO-SrTiO3 Substrates
Liangliang Liu, Junhao Peng, Zhuangzhuang Qiao, Shuo Cai, Huafeng Dong, Yu Jia, Zhenyu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13820

Optimally Tensile Strained La3Ni2O7 Films as Candidate High-Temperature Superconductors on Designer Ba1-xSrxO (001) and SrO-SrTiO3 Substrates
Recent experiments have observed superconductivity up to 48 K in La3Ni2O7-derived films under compressive strain imposed by the SrLaAlO4 substrate, while such films on the SrTiO3 substrate with tensile strain have failed to reach the superconducting state. Here we propose to broadly expand the choices of materials platforms to achieve high-Tc superconducting La3Ni2O7 films by proposing designer substrates of Ba1-xSrxO (x = 0 - 1) that allow to continuously tune the strain in the films from bein…

Secret Service failed to stop Trump assassination attempt, Senate report says (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/13/trump-assassination-attempt-senate-investigation/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250713/p14#a250713p14

Former Google staffers and others detail why Google's 2013 effort to build Motorola smartphones in Texas failed, as Trump pushes Apple to make iPhones in the US (Verne Kopytoff/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/07/05/what-ap

As Trump pushes Apple to make iPhones in the U.S., Google’s brief effort building smartphones in Texas 12 years ago offers critical lessons
Motorola's failed bet on assembling phones in the U.S. offers important lessons for Apple today.

potus wants the federal government to take control of 61.4 square miles (159.03 square kilometers) of DC.
The same federal government that failed to maintain control of a single car (~119 sq. feet/11 sq. meters) being operated by Big Balls, is going to take control of an entire city.
Sure Jan.
Bluster and military cosplay aren’t going to make us forget his name is all over the Epstein files.

Trump threatens federal takeover of Washington DC after attack on ex-DOGE worker
Two 15-year-olds have been arrested in Washington for an attempted carjacking and beating of Edward Coristine, a prominent member of the Department of Government Efficiency. The incident happened early Sunday in Logan Circle. Police say a group of teenagers tried to carjack Coristine and his significant other. Coristine was attacked until officers intervened. The attack has renewed calls from President Donald Trump for federal control over Washington, citing crime concerns. Trump threatened to …

Insiders describe Linda Yaccarino's tumultuous partnership with Elon Musk and say the two failed to gel as Musk's blunt style clashed with Yaccarino's polish (Financial Times)

Browns embracing harsh reality after failed Deshaun Watson trade: What it means for Shedeur Sanders, others

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/b…

Micah Parsons tries to impress Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders with failed splits https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/micah-parsons-tries-impress-dallas-cowboys-cheerleaders-failed-splits

Current polls in the Netherlands suggest dramatic losses for the four parties of the failed right-far-right coalition in the October elections: PVV VVD BBB NSC down from 88 to 52 seats, out of 150.

"Radioactive water from UK nuclear bomb base leaked into sea, files show"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Water

OpenAI's failed Windsurf deal signals broader M&A challenges for OpenAI until it renegotiates its deal with Microsoft (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/openai-windsurf-google/

An OpenAI Acquisition Turns Into a Google 'Hackqusition'...
A rough few weeks may signal some real talent trouble for OpenAI – at the worst possible time

CBS Sports Analyst Calls Out Raiders After Loss to Chargers https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/cbs-sports-calls-out-loss-chargers/?adt_ei=[email]

Texas Democrat: Government failed 'at every level' amid deadly flooding (Filip Timotija/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5398481-lloyd-doggett-criticizes-texas-flooding-response/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250712/p53#a250712p53

“What Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s family is going through is just unimaginable,”
says Baltimore-based journalist Baynard Woods,
“but it is also what we’ve all allowed to happen over generations of letting the drug war and our deference to police departments erode the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution,
which should protect us all from illegal search and seizure,
such as these seizures that ICE is committing all around the country right now.”

What the government can do to you without due process
The Trump administration is pushing immigrants into a legal black hole created by America’s failed drug war.

Insiders describe Linda Yaccarino's tumultuous partnership with Elon Musk and say the two failed to gel as Musk's blunt style clashed with Yaccarino's polish (Financial Times)

Back with the Packers, failed head coach Nathaniel Hackett expected to provide 'cool perspective' in new role

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/b…

How Google, Meta, and Apple's pledges to spend billions on new Silicon Valley housing failed to meet expectations; Apple spent $1.6B by July 2024, the most (Nicole Friedman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/tech-compa…

Trump Failed To Deliver His 'No Tax' Promises And Is Now Just Lying That He Did (S.V. Date/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-tax-lies_n_686ee78fe4b045e0e37ea265
http://www.memeorandum.com/250710/p76#a250710p76

Slovakia continues to block EU's 18th Russia sanctions package, media reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/09/slovakia-continues-to-block-eus.html

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem, whose department oversees FEMA’s work,
issued a new agency rule this year requiring all contracts and grants costing over $100,000 to be personally approved by her.
As floodwaters were rising in Texas, Noem failed to respond to such requests over the weekend,
taking four days to approve the spending that could have saved lives.
As of Wednesday evening, 120 people in Texas have been killed by the massive flo…

DHS Head Kristi Noem Prioritized Instagram Pics Over FEMA Requests for Response to Texas Floods
It took Noem four days to respond to requests from FEMA, delaying access to some search and rescue tools.

2025 NFL roster cuts: These are the most surprising players who failed to make their respective teams

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2025-nf

Google says it revised its Android Earthquake Alerts algorithm after it failed to send the highest-level Take Action warnings to 10M people in Turkey in 2023 (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c77v2kx304go

Google failed to warn 10 million of Turkey earthquake severity
The tech giant said only 469 serious warnings were sent out ahead of the 7.8 magnitude quake.

How AlphaFold2 and the rise of generative AI kickstarted a new AI drug discovery boom after a spate of startups from the mid-2010s failed to live up to the hype (Financial Times)

A US appeals court blocks FTC's "click-to-cancel" rule, which was set to take effect on July 14, saying it failed to conduct a preliminary cost-benefit analysis (Jody Godoy/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustr