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Sources: The Free Press hires Adam Rubenstein, who edited Sen. Tom Cotton's infamous "Send in the Troops" op-ed for the NYT in June 2020, as its deputy editor (Alexandra Steigrad/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/06/media/fr

Exclusive | The Free Press taps Adam Rubenstein — once ostracized at NY Times for liking Chick-fil-A — as new deputy editor: 'Proper Republican'
Sources expect Rubenstein will effectively run the Free Press now that Weiss will be busy steering the editorial direction of shows like “60 Minutes,” “Face The Nation” and …

IRS Direct File,
the electronic system for filing tax returns for free,
will not be offered next year,
the Trump administration has confirmed.
An email sent Monday from IRS official Cynthia Noe to state comptrollers that participate in the Direct File program said that
“IRS Direct File will not be available in Filing Season 2026. No launch date has been set for the future.”
The program developed during Joe Biden’s presidency
was credited by users with…

IRS Direct File won't be available next year for submitting tax returns for free
The Trump administration has decided not to offer the IRS' electronic tax filing system for free next year, and its future is unclear. An IRS official informed state comptrollers in an email Monday that "IRS Direct File will not be available in Filing Season 2026." Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said better alternatives exist and the private sector can do a better job. The program, developed during Joe Biden's presidency, was praised for making tax filing easy and economical. However, it face…

Just wrote the rough draft of my next article, it will be called, “Collective Punishment Backfires,” and my subscribers will be the first to read it.
You can subscribe for free and get it first too.
Go to https://stuff.davidaugust.com

David August
Stories, serious articles, satire, tech trends, how to guides and ideas from David August. Actor. Writer. Acting coach.

Picture the human body. Zoom in on a single cell. It lives for a while, then splits or dies, as part of a community of cells that make up a particular tissue. This community lives together for many many cell-lifetimes, each performing their own favorite function and reproducing as much as necessary to maintain their community, consuming the essential resources they need and contributing back what they can so that the whole body can live for decades. Each community of cells is interdependent on the whole body, but also stable and sustainable over long periods of time.
Now imagine a cancer cell. It has lost its ability to harmonize with the whole and prioritize balance, instead consuming and reproducing as quickly as it can. As neighboring tissues start to die from its excess, it metastasizes, always spreading to new territory to fuel its unbalanced appetite. The inevitable result is death of the whole body, although through birth, that body can create a new fresh branch of tissues that may continue their stable existence free of cancer. Alternatively, radiation or chemotherapy might be able to kill off the cancer, at great cost to the other tissues, but permitting long-term survival.
To the cancer cell, the idea of decades-long survival of a tissue community is unbelievable. When your natural state is unbounded consumption, growth, and competition, the idea of interdependent cooperation (with tissues all around the body you're not even touching, no less) seems impossible, and the idea that a tissue might survive in a stable form for decades is ludicrous.
"Perhaps if conditions were bleak enough to perfectly balance incessant unrestrained growth against the depredations of a hostile environment it might be possible? I guess the past must have been horribly brutal, so that despite each tissue trying to grow as much as possible they each barely survived? Yes, a stable and sustainable population is probably only possible under conditions of perfectly extreme hardship, and in our current era of unfettered growth, we should rejoice that we live in much easier times!"
You can probably already see where I'm going with this metaphor, but did you know that there are human communities, alive today, that have been living sustainably for *tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years*?
#anarchy #colonialism #civilization
P.S. if you're someone who likes to think about past populations and historical population growth, I cannot recommend the (short, free) game Opera Omnia by Stephen Lavelle enough: https://www.increpare.com/2009/02/opera-omnia/

In #Australia, households will get at least 3 hours of free power during noon because of #photovoltaics:
"requiring retailers to offer free #electricity to households for at least three hour…

Qualcomm debuts Snapdragon Ride Pilot, a hands-free driver assistance system that is launching with the BMW iX3 and has been validated for use in 60 countries (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/771917/qualcomm-bmw-snapdragon-ride-pilot-a…

Qualcomm teams up with BMW for hands-free driving
Qualcomm jointly developed a hands-free driving system with BMW that will make its debut in the iX3 in 2026.

Bipartite entanglement in a nuclear spin register mediated by a quasi-free electron spin
Marco Klotz, Andreas Tangemann, David Opferkuch, Alexander Kubanek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05255

Bipartite entanglement in a nuclear spin register mediated by a quasi-free electron spin
Quantum networks will rely on photons entangled to robust, local quantum registers for computation and error correction. We demonstrate control of and entanglement in a fully connected three-qubit $^{13}\mathrm{C}$ nuclear spin register in diamond. The register is coupled to a quasi-free electron spin-1/2 of a silicon-vacancy center (SiV). High strain decouples the SiVs electron spin from spin-orbit interaction reducing the susceptibility to phonons at liquid helium temperature. As a result, th…

An easy start for Zohran in NYC would be to make the SBS Bx12 free because few pay as it is. Its de facto free but carries the expence of enforcement.
Convert other bus lines in the city from de facto free to officially free as the loss of income will be negligible if not nil due to no need of enforcement.

Event: Religion and Democratic Ideals: Reproductive Healthcare Access and White Nationalism
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2024, 6 – 7:30PM This event is free and open to the public. A liberal democracy should produce societies that are inclusive, equitable, dynamic, and responsive to the needs of citizens. This series will focus on where religion intersects with democratic ideals and institutions. We will discuss the outcomes we want from a democratic system and how such an…

Bari Weiss says she will continue to lead The Free Press as CEO and editor-in-chief, as she becomes CBS News EIC; Weiss quit the NYT in 2020 (Bari Weiss/The Free Press)
https://www.thefp.com/p/the-future-of-the-free-press

The Future of The Free Press
The Free Press is joining Paramount.

NHS forewarns us about reduced eligibility for COVID jab. Won't end well.
"National Booking Service: Hello Mark [don't be so familiar - Dr Burton to you!].
The rules about who can get the free COVID-19 vaccine have changed this year. You may not be offered it on the day if you're not in a priority group. Staff will confirm on the day. Check here:

COVID-19 vaccine
NHS information about the COVID-19 vaccine, including what the vaccine helps protect against, who should have it and when, how to get it and side effects.

Christian therapist Kaley Chiles
wants the Supreme Court to rule
that
Christian therapists’ free speech rights outweigh a law that bans therapy aimed at changing a minor’s sexual identity.
The case could affect laws in nearly 30 states.
https://www.was…

Christian therapist seeks right to counsel gay teens to change feelings
The Supreme Court will consider whether therapists’ free speech rights outweigh a law that bans therapy that seeks to change sexual identity. Almost 30 states have such bans.

Will the Democrats Become the Party of Free Trade? (Daniel W. Drezner/Drezner's World)
https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/will-the-democrats-become-the-party
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p31#a251006p31

It's the last week of the California Legislative session, and there are a number of #climate & #environment bills awaiting action in the California Senate.
PLease help! #350BayArea has an eas…

Solutions that our communities need - Support these bills!
As Californians concerned about global warming and the climate crisis, it is up to us to make sure that our legislators listen to us and enact legislation that will do everything possible to fight climate change, and to mitigate its effects on all communities, especially those communities most directly affected. Please add your voice to this effort by signing this letter to your State Senator. Feel free to add your experiences and your thoughts about why your Senator needs to support this cl…

It's the last week of the California Legislative session, and there are a number of #climate & #environment bills awaiting action in the California Senate.
PLease help! #350BayArea has an eas…

Solutions that our communities need - Support these bills!
As Californians concerned about global warming and the climate crisis, it is up to us to make sure that our legislators listen to us and enact legislation that will do everything possible to fight climate change, and to mitigate its effects on all communities, especially those communities most directly affected. Please add your voice to this effort by signing this letter to your State Senator. Feel free to add your experiences and your thoughts about why your Senator needs to support this cl…

So they call it "driver engagement", huh... wtf is going on...
https://www.theverge.com/news/771917/qualcomm-bmw-snapdragon-ride-pilot-adas

Qualcomm teams up with BMW for hands-free driving
Qualcomm jointly developed a hands-free driving system with BMW that will make its debut in the iX3 in 2026.

Bari Weiss will report directly to David Ellison as CBS News EIC, not to CBS News president Tom Cibrowski; The Free Press will remain independent (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/06/paramount-skydance-acquires-the-free-press

Paramount Skydance acquires The Free Press for $150M
Bari Weiss' ascent has led to wide speculation about what it could mean for the direction of CBS' news coverage.

F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html
"(...) the developer registration decree will end the F-Droid project and other free/open-source app distribution sou…

Australia’s Seven Network to stream Raiders 2025 preseason games https://www.raiders.com/news/australia-s-seven-network-to-stream-raiders-2025-preseason-games

Brutal similes
Using #AI is an ethical choice.
I know that there cases when an #LLM could make my job easier. Which doesn't mean I'll use one. Just like I won't be buying cheap junk gadgets that could help me with some random stuff a bunch of times before they'll end up on a trash pile.
Yes, sometimes I am curious what an LLM could come up with. But then, there are people who are curious how many donuts they can eat before throwing up. A waste of good donuts.
What world would you rather live in? One where you put a little more effort in your job? Or one where LLM helps with with your job, but you can't enjoy your free time anymore because the capitalists are using LLMs to turn every single aspect of your life into a nightmare, and eventually your employer just makes you do more and more until you're thrown out? But at least you will get a monthly trial of a statistical "friend" to "talk" about your trouble to.
Yeah, you can claim that training models does the most harm, and that's already happened, so not using them doesn't change much, and all the energy spent on it would be wasted. Or use the traditional "others" fallacy — others will use it anyway, others will fuel the vicious circle, so why renounce convenience. It's like when you learn that your dinner is human meat, and you decide to eat it anyway, because not eating it won't bring that human back to life, and if it's wasted, then their death will be for naught.
#AntiCapitalism

Say what you will, I read Sartre, and I don’t need anyone’s permission to think for myself.
#JeanPaulSartre #Sartre #Freedom

The ONE thing computers have going for them is that, when you manage to describe exactlly what you want, you get exactly what you want.
The idea that somebody would trade that for a computer that will mostly do something that's kinda like what you want except sometimes it's not is just really fucking baffling.
There are oh so many free ways of not getting what you want, why would you pay for that

Join us for a casual Scrappy Hour bike ride on Sunday, August 31st. 🚴‍♀️
We'll roll out from Rocket Baby just after 9am and head to the Domes... There's about four or five of us so far but we welcome anyone to join us! 🚴
https://www.instagram.com/p/DNvbxVRXHS1/

Scrappy Hour on Instagram: "It’s that time of year again! Ya, you know it! It’s Scrappy Hour BBQ BABY!!! Maybe it will be hot and we can all go swimming. Or maybe it will rain and we can all cower together. Or maybe it will be perfect and we’ll lay in the grass eating hot dogs till we have to roll us out of there. Here’s how it’s going to go down. First we’ll do a ride. We’re gonna do the Domes again, because it’s fun. Meet ups: BAY VIEW Cactus Club- meet 8:30a; wheels up 9:00a EAST SIDE/RW The Daily Bird-meet 9:00a; wheels up 9:15a TOSA Rocket Baby- meet 9:00; wheels up 9:15a Then, we SHBBQ at South Shore Park! We’ll bring some dogs and veggie alternatives. A couple sides. And a cooler of mixed bevies. We’ll bring a couple grills too. Last year our gang showed up with some really delightful offerings! There was homemade bread, and baked goods and side salads. It ruled. So feel free to bring what ever you would like to share with everyone. It will be much appreciated. Bring a baseball mitt and we’ll have a catch. Have a frisbee, bring that too. If it’s hot, good luck keeping me out of that lake, so bring your suit. If you have any questions, as always hit us up and we’ll try to answer. All our love, SH ✌️🚲🏃‍♂️☕️ #coffeeoutsidemke #scrappyhourmke"
107 likes, 8 comments - scrappyhourmke on August 24, 2025: "It’s that time of year again! Ya, you know it! It’s Scrappy Hour BBQ BABY!!! Maybe it will be hot and we can all go swimming. Or maybe it will rain and we can all cower together. Or maybe it will be perfect and we’ll lay in the grass eating hot dogs till we have to roll us out of there. Here’s how it’s going to go down. First we’ll do a ride. We’re gonna do the Domes again, because it’s fun. Meet ups: BAY VIEW …

Just registered for this, it's tonight, Jim and Dennis of The Smithereens will be talking about their debut record Especially for You at the 'Tuesday Night Record Club' that the Springsteen Archives does via Monmouth University in New Jersey. It's free and there's an in person and Zoom option (I obviously grabbed a Zoom ticket). I've talked here before about how much I love this record - this'll be cool to hear.

Tuesday Night Record Club - The Smithereens "Especially for You" with Jim Babjak and Dennis Diken of The Smithereens - Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music
It’s just like book club but with albums! With new advances in technology, the way we consume music through our devices, apps and on demand streaming services like Pandora, Spotify […]

10 Oil-Free Vegan Recipes – From Peanut Curry To Banana Bread #plantbased

10 Oil-Free Vegan Recipes - From Peanut Curry To Banana Bread
If you want to eat more oil-free vegan dishes, these 10 recipes will make great additions to your weekly meal plan

Domain size asymptotics for Markov logic networks
Vera Koponen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04192 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04192

Domain size asymptotics for Markov logic networks
A Markov logic network (MLN) determines a probability distribution on the set of structures, or ``possible worlds'', with an arbitrary finite domain. We study the properties of such distributions as the domain size tends to infinity. Three types of concrete examples of MLNs will be considered, and the properties of random structures with domain sizes tending to infinity will be studied: (1) Arbitrary quantifier-free MLNs over a language with only one relation symbol which has arity 1. In this c…

“the book's thesis: that the AI bubble is driven by monopolists who've conquered their markets and have no more growth potential, who are desperate to convince investors that they can continue to grow by moving into some other sector,”
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115277162069992407…

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Attached: 1 image Like you, I'm sick to the back teeth of talking about AI. Like you, I keep getting dragged into AI discussions. Unlike you‡, I spent the summer writing a book about why I'm sick of writing about AI⹋, which Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish in 2026. ‡probably ⹋"The Reverse Centaur's Guide to AI" -- If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: …

Combinatorial Aspects of Weighted Free Poisson Random Variables
Nobuhiro Asai, Hiroaki Yoshida
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01143 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.…

Combinatorial Aspects of Weighted Free Poisson Random Variables
This paper will be devoted to study weighted (deformed) free Poisson random variables from the viewpoint of orthogonal polynomials and statistics of non-crossing partitions. A family of weighted (deformed) free Poisson random variables will be defined in a sense by the sum of weighted (deformed) free creation, annihilation, scalar, and intermediate operators with certain parameters on a weighted (deformed) free Fock space together with the vacuum expectation. We shall provide a combinatorial mo…

On the chromatic number of random triangle-free graphs
Clayton Mizgerd, Will Perkins, Yuzhou Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01376 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

On the chromatic number of random triangle-free graphs
We study the chromatic number of typical triangle-free graphs with $Θ\left( n^{3/2} (\log n)^{1/2} \right)$ edges and establish the width of the scaling window for the transitions from $χ= 3$ to $χ= 4$ and from $χ= 4$ to $χ= 5$. The transition from $3$- to $4$-colorability has scaling window of width $Θ(n^{4/3} (\log n)^{-1/3})$. To prove this, we show a high probability equivalence of the $3$-colorability of a random triangle-free graph at this density and the satisfiability of an inst…

Oh my!
Affinity is now free - just need a Canva account to run it and if you want the AI extras, a Canva Pro account.

Look, say what you will about about all the practical good and bad of all the things the Obama admin did — and please DO NOT say it in my replies, I’m aware, I do not need your input, instant timed mute, thank you — but just take a minute to watch this video. This is a crash course in how every anti-fascist politician should be campaigning right now.
Just copy the guy. Steal from the best. Do it. He’s giving you the answer key for your campaign homework; it’s right there, and it’s free for you to use. Take it. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:esrrgaktqbyod6pcd7fvh66x/post/3m4naj4t4322p

You are cordially invited to the Fall 2025 Chicago-Kent Law Review Symposium, "Unsealing Schedule A."
The conference will be held via Zoom on Friday, Sept. 26.
Registration is free and open to the public: https://studentorgs.kentlaw.iit.edu/ck…

Why a sports betting company sponsored trains for Eagles' home opener vs. Cowboys https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6598106/2025/09/04/fanduel-eagles-cowboys-trains-septa/

Yes, I'm sure if you're tired of being ridiculed as a public figure things will go much better for you in the *checks notes* United Kingdom...
https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/115099995291652362

Aure Free Press :verified: (@Free_Press@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image Musk Move To UK Ridiculed in the US, Elon Musk sets his sight on the UK Musk says he "would like to help fund legal actions against corrupt officials who aided and abetted the rape of Britain, per the official government inquiry." #AureFreePress #News #press #headline #UK #Musk #Twitter #x #Fediverse #socialmedia #Politics

"Spain has broken the ruinous link between power prices and volatile fossil fuels, something its European neighbours are desperate to do. Spain risks sliding back into costly gas reliance amid post-blackout fears. Boosting grids and batteries will help Spain break free from fossil dependency for good."
It looks like the link is only partially broken, not through planning but due to scale.
Decoupled: how Spain cut the link between gas and power prices using

Decoupled: how Spain cut the link between gas and power prices using renewables | Ember
Spain has some of the lowest wholesale electricity prices in Europe, largely owing to the country’s strong solar and wind growth which reduced the influence of expensive coal and gas power on the electricity market.

Nicht neues OS: FSFs LibrePhone-Projekt will Android befreien
Die Free Software Foundation hat erste Details zum LibrePhone Projekt veröffentlicht. Ziel sei dabei nicht die Entwicklung eines Smartphone-Betriebssystems.

Santa Clara county in California is home to San Jose, and many other SFbay area towns and communities.
They are establishing NO-ICE zones, following Chicago's lead.
https://sanjosespotlight.com/santa-clara-county-will-create-ice-free-zones/

Santa Clara County will create ICE-free zones - San José Spotlight
Santa Clara County leaders will establish ICE-free zones throughout Silicon Valley — raising physical barriers and locking gates to prevent federal immigration agents from using county properties for surveillance and arrests.

OpenAI starts to sell extra credits for Sora, which currently has a limit of 30 free gens per day; 10 video gens will retail for $4 through Apple's App Store (Anna Washenko/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/openai-now-sel

OpenAI now sells extra Sora credits for $4, plans to reduce free gens in the future
OpenAI is looking to turn Sora into a moneymaker, first by selling extra credits, later with licensing options.

Please don't upload my code on GitHub
This is a call to free/libre and open source software developers to not upload the work of others to GitHub.
🚫 #NoGitHub

Anonymous help:
#OpenSource #FreeSoftware

Why a sports betting company sponsored trains for Eagles' home opener vs. Cowboys https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6598106/2025/09/04/fanduel-eagles-cowboys-trains-septa/

Paramount acquires Bari Weiss' The Free Press for $150M; Weiss will take control of CBS News's editorial vision, aiming for "news that reflects reality" (Joe Flint/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/paramou

Colorado voters overwhelmingly supported a pair of ballot measures that aim to ensure every public school child in the state is able to access free meals at their schools.
Proposition MM increases taxes on wealthy households earning more than $300,000 annually.
The measure supplements a previously passed referendum from 2022 that also called for increases in taxes in order to help fund schools, but which fell short of its funding goals.
The tax increases will affect around …

Colorado Passes Measures to Feed All Public School Kids by Taxing the Wealthy
Excess funds from the school meals program would be redirected toward the state-managed SNAP program.

📢 Big #openrouter announcement ‼️
1 million free BYOK requests per month 10/1/2025
Starting October 1st, every customer gets 1,000,000 “Bring Your Own Key” (BYOK) requests per month for free. The change is automatic for all existing BYOK users. For customers exceeding 1m req/month, requests will be charged at the usual rate of 5%.

Simple analyticity criteria for repulsive multi-body potentials
Tyler Helmuth, Marcus Pappik, Will Perkins
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04287 https://arxiv.o…

Simple analyticity criteria for repulsive multi-body potentials
We prove a simple, explicit lower bound on the radius of a zero-free disk for Gibbs point processes defined by finite-range, repulsive multi-body interactions. Our lower bound improves on those previously known, and we demonstrate that it is essentially sharp in the generality with which our arguments apply. The key ingredient is a multi-body generalization of integral identities for point densities of Gibbs point processes in the spirit of earlier work of Michelen and Perkins.

🖨️ Open Printer is an open source inkjet printer with DRM-free ink and roll paper support
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Open-Printer-is-an-open-source-inkjet-printer-with-DRM-free-ink-and-roll-paper-support.1…

Open Printer is an open source inkjet printer with DRM-free ink and roll paper support
The Open Printer features a modular and highly repairable design, and while it uses the popular HP 63 cartridges, it lacks DRM blocks that lock out third-party cartridges. It also allows printing on paper rolls, so you can either use the in-built cutter to make A4 sheets, or print longer items like banners. The Open Printer will be launched via a crowdfunding campaign soon.

I think I'm contractually obligated to visit and write a blog post about this
https://abc7chicago.com/post/metra-testing-new-caf-car-fall-free-snacks-drinks-riders/17882128/

(via my friend Matthew)
There's a Medicare tele-health cliff at the end of this month that will impact other health insurance plans beyond just Medicare.
This post ⤵️ will walk you through how to effectively advocate for tele-health in ways that actually influence the outcome; regardless if you have R or D reps.
(this is a free post)
https://www.patreon.com/posts/139596270?pr=true

@… laufen eure Server mit Ökostrom?
https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/tools/green-web-dataset/get-verified/

Predictions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Galactic Exoplanet Survey. III. Detectability of Giant Exomoons of Wide Separation Giant Planets
Matthew Lastovka, B. Scott Gaudi, Samson A. Johnson, Matthew T. Penny, Eamonn Kerins, Nicholas J. Rattenbury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03492

Predictions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Galactic Exoplanet Survey. III. Detectability of Giant Exomoons of Wide Separation Giant Planets
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) will conduct a Galactic Exoplanet Survey (RGES) to discover bound and free-floating exoplanets using gravitational microlensing. Roman should be sensitive to lenses with mass down to ~ 0.02 $M_{\oplus}$, or roughly the mass of Ganymede. Thus the detection of moons with masses similar to the giant moons in our Solar System is possible with Roman. Measuring the demographics of exomoons will provide constraints on both moon and planet formation. We con…

You Can Buy This 100-year-old Convent for a Promise–That You Preserve its History https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/europe-on-the-prairie-will-sell-you-its-100-year-old-convent-for-a-promise-that-you-preserve-i…

You Can Buy This 100-year-old Convent for a Promise–That You Preserve its History
The building itself will be signed over to the new ownership for free, as long as they come with a plan to develop and maintain it. 

Google partners with Reliance to offer free AI Pro access to Jio 5G users in India for 18 months; Perplexity has a similar deal with Bharti Airtel (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/30/goog

Google partners with Ambani's Reliance to offer free AI Pro access to millions of Jio users in India | TechCrunch
The offer will first roll out to Jio users aged 18 to 25 before expanding to all subscribers nationwide.

Tonight!
Mayor Lurie doesn't have the authority to overturn car-free Market Street. This is only a temporary violation of car-free Market Street, one we can and will reverse!

WESLEY GUILD HOSPITAL IS FREE AT LAST GLORY BE TO GOD

One of these days, Ibou will accidentally put a free header on target. 🙃
#LFC

Unlike most interpretations of quantum mechanics, #QBism respects the fundamental autonomy of the cat. 😸
https://theconversation.com/qbism-quantum-mechanics-is-not-a-description-of-objective-reality-it-reveals-a-world-of-genuine-free-will-200487

Yeah, I knew some lovely people who worked at Twitter too. And did you know they once had unfettered API access and anyone could create their own client? Some of us loved that so much we built things that helped legitimise them as an open platform. And then one day they just switched that off.
Legitimacy is gold to venture-capital-funded startups. They need people with it to convince everyday folks that this latest iteration of the same old rug pull is different. Until they’ve grown s…

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Attached: 1 image I can't wait to use Bluesky, but I will not be joining Bluesky. As much as I trust and respect the Bluesky executives and board members I am acquainted with, I believe the service itself is insufficiently enshittification-resistant to trust: https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/14/fire-exits/#graceful-failure-modes If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: h…

Freie Alternative zu Google und Apple: Free Software Foundation plant LibrePhone
Die Free Software Foundation (FSF) will mit dem LibrePhone Projekt eine freie Alternative zu Android und iOS entwickeln. Es wäre nicht der erste Anlauf der FSF.

Coupling free-surface geometry and localized ion dose for continuum models of radiation-induced nanopatterning
Tyler P. Evans, Scott A. Norris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01503 h…

Coupling free-surface geometry and localized ion dose for continuum models of radiation-induced nanopatterning
A first-principles understanding of the self-organization of highly regular, nanometer-scale structures atop irradiated semiconductor surfaces has been sought for decades. While numerous models exist which explain certain aspects of this phenomenon, a unified, physical model capable of explaining all details of pattern formation has remained elusive. However, it is increasingly apparent that such a model will require understanding the dual influence of the collision cascade initiated by ion imp…

Will we see you tomorrow at Tech Pizza Monday? VICTORY CAFE whoops, that was too loud, Victory Cafe, 440 Bloor St. W., 6 PM. With any luck, we will have some printouts of the paper we will discuss at on tje following Monday. Come for the pizza, also, stay for the pizza, not to mention the discussions about free and open technology for a free and open society. #Toronto

I started watching the "Affinity Studio" announcement (#Affinity

Louise Haigh, Angela Rayner: which (somewhat left) woman will the tabloids go for next? Probably Bridget Phillipson
Meanwhile Nigel Garage (thank you spellchecker) gets a free pass.

‘I take full responsibility’: Angela Rayner’s resignation letter in full | Angela Rayner | The Guardian
https:…

Because, in theory, I have free will, I’m gonna re-fry last night’s leftover fries and douse them in hot sauce and eat them for lunch.

"Freedom of speech is skeptical power: it is always a challenge. And it affirms truth: it is always a search. Without skepticism of power and affirmation of truth, we will not have freedom of speech. The me speakers push us to embrace their power and treat everything they say as truth. They will call this “free speech.”
https://

Free Speech and Me Speech
A helpful distinction

Neural Network Acceleration on MPSoC board: Integrating SLAC's SNL, Rogue Software and Auto-SNL
Hamza Ezzaoui Rahali, Abhilasha Dave, Larry Ruckman, Mohammad Mehdi Rahimifar, Audrey C. Therrien, James J. Russel, Ryan T. Herbst
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21739

Neural Network Acceleration on MPSoC board: Integrating SLAC's SNL, Rogue Software and Auto-SNL
The LCLS-II Free Electron Laser (FEL) will generate X-ray pulses for beamline experiments at rates of up to 1~MHz, with detectors producing data throughputs exceeding 1 TB/s. Managing such massive data streams presents significant challenges, as transmission and storage infrastructures become prohibitively expensive. Machine learning (ML) offers a promising solution for real-time data reduction, but conventional implementations introduce excessive latency, making them unsuitable for high-speed …

A Square-Root Free Algorithm for Computing Real Givens Rotations
Carlos F. Borges
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19431 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.19431

A Square-Root Free Algorithm for Computing Real Givens Rotations
We develop an accurate square-root-free algorithm for constructing real Givens rotations. On processors that support the fused multiply-add operation in hardware, the algorithm is competitive with square-root based algorithms using a hardware square-root. Unlike the square-root-free algorithms in \cite{Hsieh1993,GENTLEMAN1973,Barlow1987,Hammarling1974ANO,Ling1989EfficientLL,Hanson,Hanson2}, our approach will construct the Givens rotation directly and is therefore applicable to a much wider vari…

Bears QB Caleb Williams' four-TD game vs. Cowboys earns Chicago fans free hot dogs https://www.nfl.com/news/bears-qb-caleb-williams-four-td-game-vs-cowboys-earns-chicago-fans-free-hot-dogs

Spotify adds new features for free users globally, allowing them to search for and play any song they want; the company reported 433M ad-supported MAUs in Q2 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/15/spotify-will-now-let-free-users-pic…

Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch
On Monday, the company announced that free users globally will now be able to search and play any song they want or play a song shared by a friend or an artist they follow on social media.

@… Boycotting software, especially when it is open source, because of the personal views of a single individual is small-minded and pointless. Nothing will change. The person in question does not care at all about your boycott, so I do not care either and will use a great free piece of software that will continue to exist whether I or anyone else boycotts that per…

Just mulling the truth of this:
❝The irony is that…the few who resist him…emerge larger, not smaller. They grow in stature, even if only by contrast.❞
Like…Jimmy Kimmel, a pretty OK late night host, is going to be remembered forever as a Hero of the Free Press — while Tim Cook, zillionaire CEO of one of the most important tech companies in history, will be dogged to his grave by the humiliating image of him French kissing Trump’s ass in public. It’s wild.

»Freie Alternative zu Google und Apple — Free Software Foundation plant LibrePhone:
Die Free Software Foundation (@…) will mit dem LibrePhone Projekt eine freie Alternative zu Android und iOS entwickeln. Es wäre nicht der erste Anlauf der FSF.«
Da bin ich mal gespannt was sich da ergibt und wie es von den Mobile-Herstellern eingesetzt oder verweigert wird.

Freie Alternative zu Google und Apple: Free Software Foundation plant LibrePhone
Die Free Software Foundation (FSF) will mit dem LibrePhone Projekt eine freie Alternative zu Android und iOS entwickeln. Es wäre nicht der erste Anlauf der FSF.

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Nicht neues OS: FSFs LibrePhone-Projekt will Android befreien

The Salt Lake Tribune will launch The Southern Utah Tribune in October, to serve 200K residents via a monthly print paper, a weekly newsletter, and a website (Lauren Gustus/Salt Lake Tribune)
https://www.sltrib.com/news/business/2025/09/26/nonprofit-newspaper-…

"Freie Alternative zu #Google und #Apple: Free Software Foundation plant #LibrePhone"

Cowboys Encouraged To Sign 101-Start Veteran After Latest Injury https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/mark-glowinski-free-agent-proposal-injury/?adt_ei=[email]

Microsoft Windows 10 users will receive free Extended Security Updates in the EEA without enabling Windows Backup, after pressure from the Euroconsumers group (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/785544/microsoft-windows…

Microsoft forced to make Windows 10 extended security updates truly free in Europe
You won’t have to enable Windows Backup to get extended Windows 10 security updates in the European Economic Area.

Somewhere between my original vision for web 1.0 and the rise of social media as part of web 2.0,
we took the wrong path.
We’re now at a new crossroads,
one where we must decide if AI will be used for the betterment or to the detriment of society.
How can we learn from the mistakes of the past?
First of all, we must ensure policymakers do not end up playing the same decade-long game of catchup they have done over social media.
The time to decide the go…

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Freie Alternative zu Google und Apple: Free Software Foundation plant LibrePhone

Spotify adds new features for free users globally, allowing them to search for and play any song they want; the company reported 433M ad-supported MAUs in Q2 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/15/spotify-will-now-let-free-users-pic…

Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch
On Monday, the company announced that free users globally will now be able to search and play any song they want or play a song shared by a friend or an artist they follow on social media.

Snapchat announces it will limit storage for its Memories feature to 5GB for free users and launches paid storage plans, including 100GB for $1.99 per month (Jackson Chen/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/snap

Snapchat introduces a paid storage option for all the Memories hoarders out there
Snapchat users who exceed 5GB of Memories will soon have to pay to hold onto all their favorite Snaps and Stories.

When your opponent is Donald Trump you escalate in response to threats;
you don’t try to appease him.
Jerome Powell must do everything in his power to compel the conventional wisdom of market traders to more adequately “price in” the degradation of the rule of law.
This must include tying the rule of law and the threats to the constitution to the credibility and standing of the Federal Reserve itself.
Powell’s term expires in less than a year anyway.
If defe…

Powell Will Hang Separately: The Federal Reserve Has Already Failed its Duty to Lisa Cook and the Constitution
This is a free Notes on the Crises article. A reminder to readers that the various activities run out of the still-new Notes on the Crises office cost money, while an enormous amount of time and effort goes into my writing and my constant dedication to refresh and deepen my

Google launches Pixel Care , replacing Preferred Care and Fi Device Protection in the US, with upgrades but slightly higher pricing than the previous offering (Will Sattelberg/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/08/27/google-p…

Google Pixel Care+ replaces Preferred Care, includes free screen and battery repairs
Google is upgrading its legacy Preferred Care warranty plan to Pixel Care+, with some big new perks including $0 repairs.

The Federal Reserve System has not been the most craven of the powerful institutions who have attempted to placate Trump to defend themselves,
but it has not been the bravest institution either.
They were quick to concede to Trump on financial regulatory issues in the hopes that would get Trump off their back.
They also ignored the attack on the legal architecture propping up independent administrative agencies in the hopes that other agencies would receive the brunt of Tru…

Powell Will Hang Separately: The Federal Reserve Has Already Failed its Duty to Lisa Cook and the Constitution
This is a free Notes on the Crises article. A reminder to readers that the various activities run out of the still-new Notes on the Crises office cost money, while an enormous amount of time and effort goes into my writing and my constant dedication to refresh and deepen my

How can Cowboys replace Micah Parsons after trade? Looking at options for 2025 and beyond https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/30/micah-parsons-trade-dallas-cowboys-replace-roster-free…

Source: Paramount Skydance is expected to name Bari Weiss as CBS News editor-in-chief in coming days, reporting to David Ellison, as it acquires The Free Press (Alexandra Steigrad/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/02/media/pa

Exclusive | Bari Weiss to lead CBS News as part of major Paramount Skydance shakeup: sources
Weiss will report directly to Paramount Skydance Chief Executive David Ellison as she helps set the editorial direction at the third-place CBS News, a source close to the situation said.

Memo: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is handing off some of his business responsibilities to Judson Althoff, who will become CEO of Microsoft's commercial business (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Walmart members will get free access to Peacock Premium, in addition to Paramount Essential, and be able to switch between the two services every 90 days (Jaewon Kang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…

Hi, this is EDF Action Votes.
Donald Trump is ordering NASA to shut down its
carbon-monitoring satellites
— the very tools we use to track carbon emissions, plant health, wildfire risk, and extreme weather patterns.
This is not about saving money.
It’s about blinding America to the truth of climate change.
If Trump gets his way, we’ll be flying blind in the face of rising disasters
— and Big Polluters will have a free pass to keep hiding the damag…

I just gave to EDF Action Votes!
EDF Action votes is doing everything they can to elect environmental champions who will take climate action.

Q&A with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on why he thinks AI chatbots imperil the web and journalism's future, his company's pay-per-crawl initiative, and more (Fred Vogelstein/Crazy Stupid Tech)
https://crazystupidtech.com/2025/08/30…

Cloudflare's Matthew Prince has a plan to get Google and the AI oliigarchs to pay for your content even though many are used to getting it for free. He might have enough leverage to make them.
AI chatbots are blowing up the 30-year economic relationship publishers have had with search engines. Many think this will kill the web if not addressed. Google needs to change first. It's resisting. Cloudflare's Matthew Prince is going to try and make them.

Q&A with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on why he thinks AI chatbots imperil the web and journalism's future, his company's pay-per-crawl initiative, and more (Fred Vogelstein/Crazy Stupid Tech)
https://crazystupidtech.com/2025/08/30…

Cloudflare's Matthew Prince has a plan to get Google and the AI oliigarchs to pay for your content even though many are used to getting it for free. He might have enough leverage to make them.
AI chatbots are blowing up the 30-year economic relationship publishers have had with search engines. Many think this will kill the web if not addressed. Google needs to change first. It's resisting. Cloudflare's Matthew Prince is going to try and make them.

New Mexico is making child care free.
Beginning in November, it will be the first state in the nation to provide child care to all residents regardless of income, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced this week.
The state has been working to lower child care care costs since 2019, when it created the Early Childhood Education and Care Department

New Mexico will be the first state to make child care free
The program, which is expected to save families $12,000 per child annually, is available to all residents regardless of income.

Samsung rolls out a Perplexity TV app, which works alongside Samsung's Vision AI Companion, on its 2025 TVs; 2023 and 2024 TV models will get it later this year (Artie Beaty/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-get-perplex…

How to get Perplexity AI Pro for free on your Samsung TV - and what it can do
The new Perplexity TV app is rolling out to Samsung's 2025 TVs first, with older models getting it later this year.

Philo adds ad-supported tiers of HBO Max and Discovery to its Core package, raises the price from $28 to $33/month, and plans ad-free upgrades for early 2026 (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/philo-adds-ad-supported-hbo-max-discovery-plus/

Philo Expands Core Subscription Offering With Ad-Supported HBO Max, Discovery+
The Warner Bros. Discovery-owned streaming services will be available in an enhanced package for $33 per month

Cardinal Timothy Dolan on Fox & Friends on Charlie Kirk:
"This guy is a modern day St Paul.
He was a missionary,
he's an evangelist,
he's a hero.
He's one I think that knows what Jesus meant when he said
'the truth will set you free.'"
https://

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Cardinal Timothy Dolan on Fox & Friends on Charlie Kirk: "This guy is a modern day St Paul. He was a missionary, he's an evangelist, he's a hero. He's one I think that knows what Jesus meant when he said 'the truth will set you free.'"

Google updates video editing tool Vids to add AI avatars, automatic transcript trimming, and image-to-video tools, and releases a basic version to all users (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/27/google-vid…

Google Vids adds AI avatars to its video editor and launches a consumer version | TechCrunch
Google is launching a free consumer version of its video editor Vids that will be available without any AI-powered features.

Santa Barbara is gearing up to host its 22nd Annual Harbor & Seafood Festival on October 18, 2025.
Free tours aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Blackfin and Tall Ship Mystic Whaler are offered,
along with harbor rides on Azure Seas and Kelpie.
This year, Santa Barbara Sailing Center will introduce sailing lessons for attendees.
To promote eco-friendly travel, MOVE Santa Barbara County offers a free bike valet for festivalgoers.
Visit before or after you get a sk…

Santa Barbara to Host 22nd Annual Harbor & Seafood Festival on October 18 - edhat
The day-long event at the Santa Barbara Harbor on October 18 is a free community tradition runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

A look at CBS News in the first weeks of Bari Weiss as EIC: weak 60 Minutes ratings, union members' concerns, outreach for potential new anchors, and more (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/bari-weiss-early-cbs-n…

Bari Weiss' Early Weeks at CBS News: '60 Minutes' Miss, Talent Hunt
Bari Weiss has been active in her early weeks at CBS News, but it's not clear her proclivity for snaring newsmakers will translate into revenue

Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material
Any journalist or news organization sanctioned under this policy should immediately sue
-- they will win,
and be lauded as a defender of free speech
The Trump administration unveiled a new, clearly unconstitutional, crackdown Friday on journalists at the Pentagon,
saying it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information
— even unclassified
— that hasn’t been expre…

Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is imposing strict new rules that would severely limit the ability of journalists to report on the Pentagon.