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US prices rose 2.7% in the year to November,
according to federal data released
a day after Donald Trump claimed they were falling “very fast” on his watch.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/18/november-us-inflation?CMP=Sh…

The Navy’s largest aircraft carrier’s toilets keep failing
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-carrier-ford-toilets-clogged/

Sources: Salient, which uses AI to automate loan servicing, raised $10M following a $60M Series A in June, pushing its valuation to ~$500M; its ARR hit $25M (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/18/salient

Salient’s quiet AI boom: How this two-year old startup is building a company to survive the bubble burst
Salient cofounder Ari Malik built AI to automate loan servicing, turning collections calls into a high-growth business now valued around $500 million.

Rosie McGee,
handcuffed to Bob Weir, front,
with other members of the 710 Ashbury collective being led out of the house after being arrested by police following a drug raid on the famous Grateful Dead house in Haight Ashbury on OCTOBER 2, 1967.
"By the time a paddy wagon arrived to take us down to the Hall of Justice, a crowd had gathered across the street.
Bob Weir and I were handcuffed together and as we came down the stairs, the crowd cheered.
A broad…

Some might say spending my retirement endlessly revisiting my books, films, and record collection is wallowing in my past, but frankly, I honestly don't remember most of them; it's more like getting trapped in a candy store 😅

Collective Memory in Contemporary Fiction Films
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updated: Thursday, December 18, 2025 - 11:01pmfull name / name of organization: Karine Bertrand,…
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Crypto exchange HashKey closed flat in its Hong Kong debut, after rising as much as 6.6% before falling 8.4% intraday, amid a weakness in digital assets (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/crypto-exchange-hashke…

Edited Collection: Critical Perspectives on the "Flanaverse" of Mike Flanagan
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updated: Friday, December 19, 2025 - 8:38amfull name / name of organization: Whitney S. May and…
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Filing: Reddit says in its lawsuit against Australia's social media ban that it is "a collection of public fora" and social interaction isn't its "sole purpose" (Lauren Edmonds/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-leg…

Reddit is arguing it's a 'collection of public fora' and not a social media company. Here's why.
In a lawsuit challenging an Australian law barring children under 16 from having social media accounts, Reddit argues it's not a social media company.

Edited Collection: Critical Perspectives on the "Flanaverse" of Mike Flanagan
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updated: Friday, December 19, 2025 - 8:38amfull name / name of organization: Whitney S. May and…
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