2026-07-23 19:47:36
Caleb Downs Shares What He’s Looking Forward to Most with Dallas Cowboys in 2026 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/caleb-downs-looking-forward-to-most-dallas-cowboys-2026-nfl-season
Caleb Downs Shares What He’s Looking Forward to Most with Dallas Cowboys in 2026 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/caleb-downs-looking-forward-to-most-dallas-cowboys-2026-nfl-season
Play It Forward
This is a podcast for people working in a creative field. Or those who want to. Anyone wrestling with the competing forces of art and commerce...
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ICE is arresting relatives who come forward to take custody of migrant children in federal shelters
Attorneys say the federal agencies are using children as “bait” to detain sponsors,
leaving kids waiting in shelters for months
https://www.texastribune.org/20…
Google Cloud is deploying context-creating AI agents within its tools to automate tasks handled by forward-deployed engineers; Google is hiring hundreds of FDEs (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-says-a…
“This class really shows how art pushes movements forward,” said Johnson. “Some of the biggest movements, there’s an aesthetic that goes with it. Like the Black Power, Black Panther movement — you think about the berets, you think about the guns, you think about them wearing black and leather and all that stuff. That is aesthetic, that’s art and it’s all purposeful.”
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Slides for a presentation on how to move forward with the years-long talk on tabular data on #Wikidata at #Wikimania2026: https://
I look forward to Starmer's inevitable book on discussions with Trump.
Victory?
Jack Huynh on X: "Today, we're bringing #AMD FSR Upscaling 4.1 to Radeon RX 7000 Series graphics cards"
https://x.com/jackhuynh/status/2069059207383720091
Elanga blew Kerkez out of the water on the counter and Alisson is beaten to the far post. Not a great start as no midfielder covered for Gravenberch who’d gone forward (and should have shot)
#LFC
Salesforce's promotional videos showcased Agentforce mock-ups and features that are not widely available, as CEO Marc Benioff defends forward-looking marketing (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Trump threatened retribution against Iran again in a post on Truth Social on Wednesday.
“From this point forward, any time the Islamic Republic of Iran shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, whether it be by Missile, Rocket, Drone, or any other device or weapon, the United States will bomb and destroy ONE BRIDGE OR POWER PLANT, including those located next to, or in, the Capital City of Tehran,” Trump posted on Truth Social.
Alyssa Katz, who became EIC of Jewish newspaper The Forward in January, has left; she previously worked in editorial positions for The City and NY Daily News (Sharon Udasin/The Times of Israel)
https://www.timesofisrael.com/forward-editor-in-chief-out…
Anthropic launches Claude Tag, an agentic AI coworker for Slack that can learn context, give suggestions, and more, in beta for Claude Team and Enterprise tiers (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/anthropic-claude-tag-agentic-ai-coworker-slack/…
Airbus & the cloud.
"European aerospace giant Airbus has lined up on the runway and is pushing the throttles forward as it prepares to evict apps from America. Airbus has named French cloud services provider Scaleway as the destination for some 900 applications, with an initial 70 getting priority onboarding, as it seeks to put critical systems and data under European control."
Space datacenters proposed by SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and others would
release staggering levels of pollution that would probably alter the Earth’s atmosphere
and be “catastrophic” for the planet, space industry experts and environmental groups warn in a new petition demanding a review of their impacts.
Tech companies have collectively proposed millions of “orbital datacenters”
and are pressing forward with plans, which require Federal Communications Commissi…
RE: https://indieweb.social/@brentsimmons/117129411825902466
James, Brent, Laura, and I are hanging out and look forward to playing soon!
Texans Make Progress, Move Forward https://www.houstontexans.com/news/texans-make-progress-move-forward-vanderblog
Former Cowboys Pass Rusher Can Strike Gold with Seahawks https://www.si.com/nfl/seahawks/onsi/former-cowboys-pass-rusher-strike-gold-seahawks-dante-fowler-jr
Looking forward to another round of fiddling with configs. 🙃
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-7-0-rc/
Open AI model #Apertus performs rather well in the (non-scientific) "city guide" benchmark:
"The question is not "sovereign AI or quality" but "how much quality gap are you willing to accept for full sovereignty?" And that gap is closing."
Looking forward to the preciptous decline in use of the Chicago Manual of Style, 18th ed. that will follow the end of my stint as editor.
Pay it forward.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/pay-it-forward
Plant-Forward Planetary Health Diet Tied to Lower Heart Disease Risk in Postmenopausal Women https://vegconomist.com/studies-numbers/plant-forward-planetary-health-diet-tied-lower-heart-disease-risk-postmenopausal-wome…
Very excited about the new stateful components model in Kitten¹ that I’m looking forward to releasing this week (finally) and the amount of visibility you can now get into the flow of your Kitten apps in the Kitten Interactive Shell (REPL)².
Since the new model is a breaking change (Kitten is prerelease) I’m in the middle of updating our own apps/sites and I still need to document everything. So it will take me a few days to do all that but then I’m very much looking forward to focussi…
Rome’s Pride parade bars Jewish LGBTQ float over refusal to call Gaza war ‘genocide’ – The Forward
https://forward.com/fast-forward/827887/romes-pride-parade-bars-jewish-lgbtq-float-over-refusal-to-call-gaza-war-genocide/
A look back at GristCon 2025, and a look forward to this year's edition. https://www.getgrist.com/blog/a-year-of-grist-seen-through-gristcon-2025-highlights/
@… I look forward to gaining that super power.
I am very much looking forward to the new European phone requirements to spread to US phones. I'm so tired of phone repairs involving a heat gun and adhesive and a razor blade.
today's problem: sliding door came off its hinges and it cannot be put back on without severe tomfuckery, so for now the way to get in and out of that room is to push the door forward and duck under because it is 1:24 am and i am not fixing that right now
RB Rico Dowdle looks forward to new opportunity with Steelers upon reuniting with Mike McCarthy https://www.nfl.com/news/rb-rico-dowdle-looks-forward-to-new-opportunity-with-steelers-upon-reuniting-with-mike-mccarthy…
On Website Technicals (2026-07) - Tech updates: noon dump sooner, winter prep, red grid, edge cases, more net export, plug-in PoC... - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-110.html
The Gardens Between (Multi, XPd on PS5) 2 friends must solve puzzles by manipulating time.
So this one is obviously inspired by Braid. Lot of the same mechanics using forward and backward time "travel". Instead of a platformer tho, this is more of a walking sim. Walking forward or backward and one interaction button is all you have here, but it's plenty.
Some great music in this game. I like the art style, simplistic but expressive. For being as short as it i…
#Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/
@… has made its business records public, a great move forward in transparency: #photo
#sigh. In the name of efficiency, gutting the requirements that ensure kids actually benefit. What is wrong with these people?
Trump administration moves forward with Head Start overhaul, proposing to eliminate regulations
#sigh. In the name of efficiency, gutting the requirements that ensure kids actually benefit. What is wrong with these people?
Trump administration moves forward with Head Start overhaul, proposing to eliminate regulations
Missed this in June, seems pretty significant step forward for Europe in general as well as the UK, wonder if we will be buying some in Denmark?
HT @… on bsky
UK unveils prototype missiles for Ukraine with no US components - https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/fd4d1ea7-3ebe-4ee0-870c-ffaad8fe533c via @FT
SIMBA: ABidirectional Retrieval Forward Simulation Framework for Modeling FY-4A GIIRS Hyperspectral Infrared Radiances Toward NWP Applications
Jingdong Shen, Fu Wang*, Qifeng Lu, Hao Huang, Chunqiang Wu, Chi Yang, Xiaofang Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19943
Interesting & largely accurate article.
However it omits,
1) Sšnchez government enacted many leftish policies because of its coalition partners.
2) He's vulnerable now due a series of scandals - not just corruption in PSOE but misogyny by now disgraced senior figures in Sumar and Podemos, and by absurd divisions on the left.
3) Add to that a renewed right / neoFalangist alliance PP-Vox.
Monday briefing: What can Andy Burnham learn from Spain’s Pedro Sšnchez…
Senate Republicans move forward with their big immigration bill after internal clashes: From the Politics Desk (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/senate-republicans-move-forward-big-immigration-bill-internal-clashes-rcna348356
http://www.memeorandum.com/260604/p19#a260604p19
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/117117221397911074
I like those changes a lot, it's more intuitive in many aspects. The designers did a great job. Looking forward how it will be in the final product.
A reminder that the obsession 50 years ago was #overpopulation — it was the scary message next to every practical environmental message about pollution, etc
Fast forward to now, and the opposite is true — no longer a case of “don’t worry, it’s just wealthy nations breed less”
In fact, environmentalism was always right about pollution — but the scary message is everything cost…
Klint Kubiak recaps Preseason Week 2: 'We took a step forward' https://www.raiders.com/video/klint-kubiak-recaps-preseason-week-2-win-texans-nfl
Back on July 24th, the @… published a farewell message from Ted Hardie, who served as the Chair of our Board of Trustees for the last 6 years. Our board members are all volunteers - and it's a large amount of work - especially if you are in a leadership role as Ted was. It was great having Ted as our Chair and I encourage you to read his wel…
Gig tonight at the Lincoln Park Zoo Ball was in question due to the air quality. They are moving forward, so here we go
Last month, more than a thousand employees at frontier AI companies signed a letter asking the US government to find a way to “pace” AI development,
citing the risk of the technology spiraling out of human control as it begins to build itself.
They were right to be concerned:
just days earlier, two AI models that OpenAI was testing internally escaped the test environment,
then autonomously hacked the company Hugging Face and at least three other online services.
Happy birthday to my favorite place to be, Iceland! Looking forward to some hškarl with the ambassador to the US later…
@jacob@mountaincommunity.coLooking forward to speaking at @… again this October! #HappyMonday
Significant steps forward in enabling electric cars in Europe to feed energy back into the grid:
#V2G
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaapburger_
Local weekly investigates OpenAI's Southeast Georgia data center project: "How did a project of this size get this far before the public knew about it?"
https://www.effinghamherald.net/data-centers/how-op…
Anthropic, on their quest to achieve market supremacy via regulatory capture and hyping the dangers of AI, has managed to get the leopards to eat everyone’s faces.
Now they can’t sell their new products to anyone.
Look forward to the “upload your passport picture and two notarized sworn affidavits” to be part of the onboarding workflow.
@… We who will not watch it appreciate your effort and look forward to your report!
Looking forward to seeing many wonderful folks at #EMFCamp ☀️ I'll be hosting:
🌎️ ClimateAction.tech meetup: 4pm Friday
🛠️ Chat about maintaining things: 11.15am Saturday
& i'll be at the 💻️ Society for Hopeful technologists meetup on Sunday. 🌳 I'll be prioritising people all weekend, so message me if you don't see me, and let's meet up!
Finally some #NoctilucentClouds over Bochum, Germany, again Thursday evening: extended but pretty faint, so I had to crank up the contrast a lot here. See also webcam views at https://webcam.wetternetz-hagen.de/webcam/Sternwarte-ERT/#/2026/07/16/2308 and https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/ettelsberg/2026/07/16/2320 and https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/flensburg/2026/07/16/2320 (and forward the frames to enjoy more timesteps).
Well, I am starting the translation of the collection 'Under the Monastery Vine' by Bulgarian author Elin Pelin for real now. Tag along:
Father Sisoës, by Elin Pelin (forward)
https://www.patreon.com/99stories/posts/father-sisoes-by-161227423
KEEP ON MOVING FORWARD: Emma's Revolution documentary film trailer now on Kickstarter
#music
"Yeah our software works with Linux"
Says the sales rep, "no problem"
Fast forward a few month:
"Yeah we used copilot to convert this script from powershell to bash"
One Raiders Player Ready To Make Big Step in 2026 https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-one-player-ready-make-big-step-2026
The Kick it Forward Podcast
Disgraced sports journalist Josh Garlepp is joined by Harry Fitzgerald and Giorgio Savini in their new home as the trio navigate the weird and wide world of sport...
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One Raiders Player Ready To Make Big Step in 2026 https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-one-player-ready-make-big-step-2026
In California, survivors of solitary confinement
who have spent years trying to seriously limit the practice are facing yet another setback
as state prison officials unwind the minor reforms made in recent years.
Those reforms, which had reduced the number of rule violations that could make someone eligible for isolation and increased out-of-cell time for people in solitary,
were part of a compromise Governor Gavin Newsom proposed after his 2022 veto of the Mandela A…
Xbox EVP Matt Booty clarifies Microsoft's new exclusivity strategy, saying new games will be reviewed case-by-case and multiplayer games will stay multiplatform (Eddie Makuch/GameSpot)
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/xbox-cla
Role Call: Jalen Thompson has the IQ, versatility to lead Cowboys https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/role-call-jalen-thompson-has-the-iq-versatility-to-lead-cowboys
The federal government took a major step forward Friday toward opening more than 2,800 acres of Ohio’s only national forest to oil and gas development.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced a lease sale scheduled for Sept. 15 of 41 parcels of land in the Wayne National Forest totaling 2,840 acres.
Although some bureaucratic hurdles remain, a lease sale brings fracking the forest for the first time
– the subject of political effort since at least 2016
– far clos…
This morning I'm packing to drive to Sweden for a week's Hackathon for early career researchers. This will be the 6th bootcamp/Hackathon that I've run and first in our @… ( @… ) PISCO project.
So here is a throwback to back in the mists of time when I was a PhD student in Iceland...
Really looking forward to what I occasionally call the summer camp for scientists this year.
#ESA #ESApisco #PolarClimateSpaceHackathon
49ers: Nick Bosa takes notable step forward https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49427696/san-francisco-49ers-training-camp-2026-intel-updates
Boarding a plane in Ottawa to fly to Vancouver … and then on to a 15 hour flight to Sydney, Australia… and then flying to Canberra for a couple of days, then Brisbane for a couple of days… then back home next weekend!
In 35 years of corporate travel, this is my first time in Australia! 🤯 Although the time is short and the schedule is packed, I am looking forward to it!
this fa5f thing appears to be a stop marker - or 5ffa in LE
Or, in bits:
01011111 11111010
yup, that reads the same backward and forward!
Overtone, a "voice- and audio-forward" dating service founded by Hinge creator Justin McLeod that uses AI to make "highly curated introductions", raised $18M (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/the-
This year, the museum looks forward to building on that and welcoming even more young travelers through its doors.
Art Adventures is offered in morning and afternoon time slots on Tuesdays and Wednesdays through July 22. Each session can accommodate up to 30 children, with one chaperone for every 10 kids. To schedule your group’s Art Adventure, email gmoa-tours@uga.edu or call 706.542.0439.
8/8
Young Raiders Fans Should Buy Stock in Moving Forward https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-young-fans-should-buy-stock-moving-forward
David Sirota:
None of the Bush/Cheney people who stole the 2000 election,
lied America into war
and created conditions for the financial crisis
paid any personal price at all.
On the contrary, Obama's "look forward, not back" policy gave them get-out-of-jail-free cards,
and they were all promptly enriched and rewarded with media platforms, stature and money,
positioning them to then take partial control of the Democratic Party and the …
What To Look Forward to When Raiders Face Texans https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-what-look-forward-when-face-texans
Samsung says it now aims to begin operations at its first chipmaking plant in South Korea's Yongin by 2029, bringing the timeline forward from 2030 or 2031 (Henry Siu/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/samsung-races-add-chi…
Phase No. 3 complete, Cowboys now move forward with true Pickens eval https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/07/15/cowboys-george-pickens-next-steps/90935908007/
Graham Platner privately told campaign staff on Wednesday night that he planned to officially file the paperwork removing himself from the ballot 💥on Monday,
two former Platner aides who were on the call told The Washington Post.
❌ That means Platner will wait until the deadline under state law to officially end his Senate campaign
-- a decision that will cause heartburn for Maine Democrats eager to move on from the candidate.
While officials plotted a path forward, …
Ryan Flournoy looking forward to 'playing freely' in year 3 with Cowboys https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/ryan-flournoy-looking-forward-to-playing-freely-in-year-3-with-cowboys
Top 5 Competitive Matchups for LA Chargers to Look Forward to This Season https://www.si.com/nfl/chargers/onsi/chargers-top-competitive-matchups-schedule-chiefs-raiders-ravens
Qwen 3.8 27B shows a 17GB open-weight general purpose model can have long context, effective tool calling, strong vision ability, and competent code generation (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/
Starting next year, the British government is planning to introduce facial age estimation
—where AI scans your face and suggests how old you are
—to help determine the age of asylum seekers arriving at the United Kingdom’s border.
The move is believed to be the first time that a so-called facial age estimation (FAE) system has been used in this way.
Many asylum seekers arriving in the UK will not have documents proving their age, and if children are incorrectly classed …
Ryan Flournoy looking forward to 'playing freely' in year 3 with Cowboys https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/ryan-flournoy-looking-forward-to-playing-freely-in-year-3-with-cowboys
Kalshi launches a forward curve tool for AI compute, using event contracts to track the future rental costs of GPUs, storage, and memory (Katherine Doherty/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-14/kalshi-r…
Raiders Secondary Has Everything It Needs To Take Step Forward https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-secondary-has-everything-needs-take-step-forward
Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman's $1.5B AI implementation company, announced in May, launches with the name Ode with Anthropic and 100 engineers (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/anth
Dallas Cowboys Make Interesting Left Tackle Change Worth Monitoring at Minicamp https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-make-left-tackle-change-worth-monitoring-minicamp
Andy Burnham promises crackdown on costly subscription traps and 'rip-off discounts'
The Prime Minister will bring forward 'easy to exit' rules,
making it less painful for consumers to cancel subscriptions and avoid automatic renewal at a higher cost
https://w…
How It All Ties Together for Kubiak, Raiders Moving Forward https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-how-it-all-ties-together-kubiak-moving-forward
A wildfire erupted in the heart of the Santa Ynez Valley on Monday afternoon, with three to five acres burning near 1500 Alamo Pintado Road. Forward progress was stopped by 4:45 p.m., but the initial estimate was that the fire could reach 20 acres. Numerous structures were briefly threatened by the Alamo Fire, which appears to have started near the historic Buttonwood Farm & Vineyard.
How It All Ties Together for Kubiak, Raiders Moving Forward https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-how-it-all-ties-together-kubiak-moving-forward
Ashton Jeanty looks to take step forward — and take on Raiders leadership role https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/ashton-jeanty-looks-to-take-step-forward-and-take-on-raiders-leadership-role-3857243/