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Pickens on CeeDee Lamb, Dak Prescott, Brian Schottenheimer and 'fresh air' with Cowboys https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/pickens-on-ceedee-lamb-dak-prescott-brian-schottenheimer-and-fresh-air-with-cowboys…

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 71 nodes and 148 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

Russia's waves of airstrikes, particularly on sites close to NATO territory to the west of Ukraine,
have frequently pushed the alliance to scramble fighter jets.
Poland has scrambled fighters several times this month as Moscow carried out fresh strikes on Ukraine,
and Romania —which also borders Ukraine —has repeatedly reacted to drone attacks close to the border.
NATO members are collectively obliged to respond to attacks on other alliance nations under Article 5 …

NATO Scrambles Fighter Jets Amid 'Massive' Russian Attacks
Ukraine's air force said on Monday Russia had fired 426 drones and 19 cruise missiles at the country overnight, as well as five hypersonic ballistic missiles.

Exclusive: Newly discovered photos and video shed fresh light on Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/22/politics/kfile-trump-epstein-photos-footage
http://www.memeorandum.com/250722/p143#a250722p143

The Fresh And Safe Podcast
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Depth, Confidence, Competition: Raiders’ Young Core Brings Fresh Hope https://raiderramble.com/2025/08/20/depth-confidence-competition-raiders-young-core-brings-fresh-hope/

11 Vegan Summer Lunches #plantbased

11 Vegan Summer Lunches
It's that time of year again and you're probably ready for some fresh ideas for vegan summer lunches. Here are eleven to try.

Dieses Gericht mundet auch mit Udon vortrefflich. #nommention
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/10

Coconut-Gochujang Glazed Chicken With Broccoli Recipe (Gift Recipe)
Gochujang, a staple of Korean cooking, is a fermented red chile paste made from spicy Korean chile peppers and glutinous rice. Here, it’s combined with coconut milk, which mellows the spicy gochujang into a creamy sauce. Fresh ginger is the key ingredient, infusing the sauce with brightness and spice that balance the rich coconut. This recipe calls for broccoli as the vegetable accompaniment, but cauliflower or brussels sprouts would also work. The sauce can be made in larger batches and used…

One of the reasons I love FOSS and small commercial developers is that they don’t have teams of quasi-competitive coders and/or “product managers” who have formal incentives to make visible changes to software
E.g. Apple keeps changing their decor with apparently no real goal or concept of there being objectively better or worse visual styles. Someone made Liquid Glass & probably got a bonus for doing so. Quality of UX be damned, the look must always be fresh & new.

Federico Viticci :ticciseal: (@viticci@macstories.net)
Attached: 1 image Pocket Casts for iOS 18 on the left, Apple Podcasts for iOS 26 on the right. Between the illegible glass and the tab bar that disappears on scroll, I honestly have no idea who can take a look at this and say "Yes, that'll do it. That's good." Liquid Glass is a mess so far, *especially* on iOS. Actually pushing me to use apps without Liquid Glass.

I continue my practice of writing back to posts on social media. Also its antidote: writing back to works of art served up at random. It’s a little like surfing, taking the waves as they come. It’s a little like dancing. It’s one way to reclaim my attention, one way to stay alive to the present.
https://

A Logic For Fresh Labelled Transition Systems
Mohamed H Bandukara, Nikos Tzevelekos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14538 https://arxiv.or…

A Logic For Fresh Labelled Transition Systems
We introduce a Hennessy-Milner logic with recursion for Fresh Labelled Transition Systems (FLTSs). These are nominal labelled transition systems which keep track of the history, i.e. of data values seen so far, and can capture fresh data generation. In particular, FLTSs generalise the computations of Fresh-Register Automata, which in turn are one of the simplest classes of history-dependent automata operating on infinite input alphabets. Each automaton comes equipped with a finite set of regist…

George Pickens excited to 'run better plays' with Cowboys, says he and CeeDee Lamb are like the 'Mario Bros.'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/n…

Clothing subscription service Rent the Runway gives up around 86% ownership to three lenders in exchange for $240M in debt relief and $20M in fresh financing (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-21/rent-the-…

krass wie wandelbar fresh torge ist

Did Zelensky wear a suit? President's outfit at White House meeting sparks fresh debate: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/19/did-zelensky-wear-a-suit.html

LLMs in Coding and their Impact on the Commercial Software Engineering Landscape
Vladislav Belozerov, Peter J Barclay, Askhan Sami
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16653

LLMs in Coding and their Impact on the Commercial Software Engineering Landscape
Large-language-model coding tools are now mainstream in software engineering. But as these same tools move human effort up the development stack, they present fresh dangers: 10% of real prompts leak private data, 42% of generated snippets hide security flaws, and the models can even ``agree'' with wrong ideas, a trait called sycophancy. We argue that firms must tag and review every AI-generated line of code, keep prompts and outputs inside private or on-premises deployments, obey emerging safet…

A couple fresh peas
Somehow break free from their pod
And into my mouth.
#dailyhaikuprompt - fresh peas
#haiku
#poem

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
DJ Fresh:
🎵 Gold Dust (feat. Ms. Dynamite)
#DJFresh
https://robotechdnb.bandcamp.com/track/dj-fresh-gold-dust-rmx
https://open.spotify.com/track/3uIGef7OSXkFdqxjFWn2o6

Der #WDR berichtet von illegaler Duldung der #Falschparker durch die Stadt Essen.
Statt ihren Pflichten zum Schutz der Bürgerschaft nachzukommen, redet sie sich mit dreisten Strohmanargumenten raus: Das Ordnungsamt könne nicht permanent nur einen Ort abdecken. Eine Forderung, die niemand stellt un…

WDR Lokalzeit Ruhr | 18.07.2025
Themen: Jahrelanger Ärger um zugeparkten Gehweg in Essen | Volunteers bei den Hochschul-Games | 15 Jahre nach A40 Still-Leben | Studiogespräch: Ralph Kindel, damals der Chef-Organisator des Stilllebens | Nachbarschaftsinitiative Fresh und die Kraft der Blumen | Ihre Bestellung bitte: Nettester Mc Donalds-Mitarbeiter ever | Reporter Stefan Göke berichtet vom Festival "Bermudadreieck" | Wetter

"That's Dad if you wake him up before noon."

Collective effects of neighbouring melting ice objects
Sof\'ia Angriman, Detlef Lohse, Roberto Verzicco, Sander G. Huisman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16926

Collective effects of neighbouring melting ice objects
We present a study on the melting dynamics of neighbouring ice bodies by means of idealised simulations, focusing on collective effects. Two vertically aligned, square-shaped, and equally sized ice objects (size on the order of centimetres) are immersed in quiescent fresh water at a temperature of 20 °C. By performing two-dimensional direct numerical simulations, and using the phase-field method to model the phase change, the collective melting of these objects is studied. While the melting of…

Bustling 🫜
攒动 🫜
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️FOMAPAN Action 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Thinking about this 1997 Edmund White quote on Fresh Air today, talking about casual gay sex in the 1970s.
Nor did all this sex preclude intimacy. For those who never lived through that period, and most of those who did, are dead, the phrase "anonymous sex" might suggest unfeeling sex, devoid of emotion. And yet, as I can attest, to hole up in a room at the baths with a body, after having opened it up and wrung it dry, to lie, head propped on a guy's stomach just where the tan line bisects it, smoke a cigarette, and talk to him late into the night and early into the morning about your childhood, his unhappiness and love, your money worries, his plans for the future. Well, nothing is more personal, more emotional.
(This is him reading a quote from his novel The Farewell Symphony)

Pros of taking the roll out of the freezer in the evening (rather than the previous morning, when you eat the previous roll): it's fresh in the morning.
Cons: you have to remember to take it out.
(Read: you need to set a reminder in the calendar.)

PSPACE-completeness of bimodal transitive weak-density logic
Philippe Balbiani, Olivier Gasquet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14949 https://

PSPACE-completeness of bimodal transitive weak-density logic
Windows have been introduce in \cite{BalGasq25} as a tool for designing polynomial algorithms to check satisfiability of a bimodal logic of weak-density. In this paper, after revisiting the ``folklore'' case of bimodal $\K4$ already treated in \cite{Halpern} but which is worth a fresh review, we show that windows allow to polynomially solve the satisfiability problem when adding transitivity to weak-density, by mixing algorithms for bimodal K together with windows-approach. The conclusion is th…

Yes, I use #Monero, almost daily!
But today, I decided to spin up a fresh wallet, feel free to support me, or spoil me a bit for my birthday this Friday, August, 22.
84PZaY3aMkVWKr8164cj5mEA7y3JsSwezbc1uSiSiZRkeqCLYWbi6GgSxoY8GyEa6r9kwPk583JR2PpxPHmqZpCgE7g4CyK
Unlike the hype coins, surveillance “crypto,” scams, government-controlled money, Monero is built on real privacy, r…

calm up with the frow show, 3 hours of new music & fresh perspectives on the sky, from now 'til midnight on @…. https://wfmu.org/playlists/JJ/250819

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RoundMidnight
- Fresh from Chief Adjuah
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Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002h19d

I've returned a few times to this article and find something fresh each time!
"these generalists can dissect unfamiliar challenges, spot first-principles patterns, and make confident design decisions".
Expert Generalists #linkTuesday

The arts and education — when they are at their best, anyway — have in common this deep root: they ask us to see and to think and to feel, to see with fresh eyes, to be aware of our own seeing, to be •active• in our seeing.
In that way, both the arts and education are antidotes to the AI hype cycle, and similar endeavors of capitalism run amok.
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Contact point geometry governs structural build-up at rest in Portland cement-limestone blends
Luca Michel, Antoine Sanner, Franco Zunino, Robert J. Flatt, David S. Kammer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14029

Contact point geometry governs structural build-up at rest in Portland cement-limestone blends
The early stiffening of fresh cement paste plays a key role in shaping and stability during casting and 3D printing. In Portland cement systems, this phenomenon arises from the formation of calcium-silicate-hydrate (C-S-H), which stiffens grain-to-grain contacts. However, the role of powder characteristics such as particle size and morphology remains poorly understood. Here, we vary the fineness and grain shape by blending Portland cement with either coarse or fine limestone, leveraging the aff…

The one great consolation of yard work in this already stifling humidity is the chance to take a short break to pick some fresh and wonderfully ripe blackberries to enjoy with a cool breakfast. 🌱
#gardening #okwx

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Mumu Fresh:
🎵 Work
#MumuFresh
https://maimounayoussef.bandcamp.com/track/work-explicit
https://open.spotify.com/track/3I6qzjgSoHa0wC65d61bXM

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 110 nodes and 718 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

Algorithmic Collusion is Algorithm Orchestration
Cesare Carissimo, Fryderyk Falniowski, Siavash Rahimi, Heinrich Nax
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14766 https://

Algorithmic Collusion is Algorithm Orchestration
This paper proposes a fresh `meta-game' perspective on the problem of algorithmic collusion in pricing games a la Bertrand. Economists have interpreted the fact that algorithms can learn to price collusively as tacit collusion. We argue instead that the co-parametrization of algorithms -- that we show is necessary to obtain algorithmic collusion -- requires algorithm designer(s) to engage in explicit collusion by algorithm orchestration. To highlight this, we model a meta-game of algorithm para…

Norway's largest PTCG database, asked me to help update their community site branding with a new logo, a fresh new banner and a logo for the busy forum, PokéSnakk.
#design #illustration #portfolio #PTCG #branding

Amsterdam-based Tebi, which offers a payments platform for hospitality companies, raised €30M led by CapitalG, after a €20M Series A in October 2024 (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/10/tebi

Tebi, the new startup by Adyen's departed cofounder, raises a fresh $30M from Alphabet's CapitalG | TechCrunch
Co-founded by Adyen's former CTO, Tebi helps restaurants, bars and other hospitality businesses manage their operations with an all-in-one subscription-based platform that can handle payments, reservations, inventory, and more.

@… Ah, I know the feeling.
Out of curiosity, does the source matter? My partner is Romanian and deals much better with sheep/goat cheese, or very fresh cheese such as mozzarella.

Trump Piles Fresh Sanctions on Cuba's Flailing Tourism Industry (Jim Wyss/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-14/trump-piles-fresh-sanctions-on-cuba-s-flailing-tourism-industry
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p110#a250714p110

📝🗃️ 𝗿𝗱𝗼𝗰𝗱𝘂𝗺𝗽: Dump ‘R’ Package Source, Documentation, and Vignettes into One File for use in LLMs #rstats #LLM is on CRAN https://www.ekotov.pro/rdocdum…

rdocdump: Dump R Package Documentation and Vignettes into One File
Dump R Package Documentation and Vignettes into One File

È uscito Sir Oliver Skardy - Biografia legalizzata dal poeta venessian, dai Pitura Freska ad oggi
IN LIBRERIA E IN EDICOLA IL LIBRO SIR OLIVER SKARDY - BIOGRAFIA LEGALIZZATA DAL POETA VENESSIAN, DAI PITURA FRESKA AD OGGI.
http…

Holy Linus Torvalds and Gabe Newel, I just played Clair Obscur on a fresh install of #Bazzite #Linux 🕺 I've always been happy with Linux, but this right here is astounded.
#gaming

Restoration brings back fresh water, wildlife to degraded pšramos in Ecuador https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/restoration-brings-back-fresh-water-wildlife-to-degraded-paramos-in-ecuador/

Restoration brings back fresh water, wildlife to degraded páramos in Ecuador
When the sheep were removed, the páramo — high-altitude ecosystems in the Andes — started to heal. Without their waste, water quality improved. Without their hooves compacting the soil, plants began to grow again. Before long, shy white-tailed deer arrived, drawn by the grasses and shrubs for food and shelter. Not long after, pumas reappeared. […]

Coffee break time! Fuel up with delicious chocolate cake, cherry crumble, and fresh fruits in the partner area, generously sponsored by Qdrant. #bbuzz

Simulation of Impact-induced seismic shaking on asteroid (25143) Itokawa to address its resurfacing process
Sunho Jin, Masateru Ishiguro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13727 https:/…

Simulation of Impact-induced seismic shaking on asteroid (25143) Itokawa to address its resurfacing process
The surface of asteroid (25143) Itokawa shows both fresh and mature terrains, despite its short space weathering timescale of approximately 1000 years, as inferred from recent studies. Seismic shaking triggered by the impact that formed the 8-meter Kamoi crater has been proposed as a possible explanation for the diversity. This study aims to examine whether the seismic shaking induced by the impact could account for the observed spatial variations in space weathering and further constrain the i…

To go back to my previous post, for a plant-based diet to be attractive, we need to help people choose plant based alternatives to meat for more or less all occasions. So meat is no longer the default
That's what we need good chefs for: to help turn traditional foods into vegetarian/vegan alternatives that are tasty and easy to prepare.
Most traditional dishes are surprisingly modern. Our tastes can easily be changed...
As an example, in France, the markets are laden with charcuterie and cheese, BUT ALSO, beautiful fresh fruits and vegetables - a nudge towards the latter would improve human health, animal welfare and reduce emissions...
#PlantBased food.
This site however is outstanding making french cuisine vegan
https://menu-vegetarien.com/

They look so nice and clean when they are fresh out of the post-recapping bath. No more dust or capacitor scum or flux. Almost like the day it came off the assembly line.
The Mac Centris 610 is mine and my son made the other two. I just washed them in alcohol to clean them up for him.
#retrocomputing

Chiefs trading WR Skyy Moore to 49ers in late-round pick swap https://www.nfl.com/news/chiefs-trading-wr-skyy-moore-to-49ers-in-late-round-pick-swap

what if we kissed in the "fresh kills" estuary at staten island 👉👈

good anthology of urbanist writing! fresh takes on topics like land trusts, urban noise, conservative business owners, fun guerrilla urbanist occupations, the ecological value of leaf litter
saw it at dog eared books and impulse bought!
https://

Structural Abstraction and Refinement for Probabilistic Programs
Guanyan Li, Juanen Li, Zhilei Han, Peixin Wang, Hongfei Fu, Fei He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12344 https://

Structural Abstraction and Refinement for Probabilistic Programs
In this paper, we present structural abstraction refinement, a novel framework for verifying the threshold problem of probabilistic programs. Our approach represents the structure of a Probabilistic Control-Flow Automaton (PCFA) as a Markov Decision Process (MDP) by abstracting away statement semantics. The maximum reachability of the MDP naturally provides a proper upper bound of the violation probability, termed the structural upper bound. This introduces a fresh ``structural'' characterizati…

Try not to laugh reading #Trump's words about #ElonMusk:
"I'm amazed that he's endorsing me because that can't be good for him. I'm abolishing the EV mandate."
"He got a little bit strange."
✅ Puzzled Trump Says He Has No Idea Why Musk Support…

Puzzled Trump Says He Has No Idea Why Musk Supported Him in the First Place
Fresh off his feud with former ally Elon Musk, president Donald Trump has once again said the quiet part out loud. 

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 105 nodes and 343 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

My knee-jerk reaction to this article from @… was a cynical [citation needed] re “artists from all mediums emphatically support the use of AI.”
On further reflection…well, that’s still my response to the eyeball-grabbing lede, yes, but the actual article is what I wish we’d had instead of this inane hype avalanche:
Artists poking at the new thing, playing with it, finding its possibilities, critiquing it, problematizing it, asking us to ask what it is, helping us see it with fresh eyes from many angles. https://infosec.exchange/@adamshostack/114704865574139727

after interacting with bazel, gn feels like a breath of fresh air. horrifying

A look at seven UX issues in the Fediverse web experience, including complex onboarding, the lack of a dedicated DM UI wrapper, and fragmented user discovery (Tim Chambers)
https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/18/113327.html

The Seven Deadly UX Sins of the Fediverse Web Experience (To Fix)
So, confession time: I was recently helping a new client get set up on the Fediverse—guiding them through their first steps into our glorious decentralized galaxy. And seeing it all again through fresh eyes? Reader, it was brutal. So much of what should be table stakes for any social media UX in the year of our Lord 2025 still is missing or deeply broken still. I know progress has been made and a good fight, fought.

Quietschkäse daheim? Dies kann ich empfehlen: #nommention
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/10

Halloumi With Corn, Cherry Tomatoes and Basil Recipe (Gift Recipe)
Seared cubes of halloumi get melty and soft on their insides and dark brown and a little crisp on the surface, making it almost impossible not to devour them all as they come out of the pan. But try to resist, because they’re even better tossed with a quick sauté of summer corn and tomatoes, seasoned with basil. Slivers of red onions, folded in raw at the end, add crunch and sweetness, while a squeeze of fresh lime makes everything tangy and fresh. Although this dish is at its most sublime m…

1935: birth
1955: fresh out of college, first job writing IBM 701 assembler
1965: independent COBOL contractor
1975: buys an Altair after attending a Homebrew meeting, gets into BASIC
1985: unboxes IBM PC, inserts Turbo Pascal diskette
1995: learns HTML and JavaScript, publishes first home page
2005: retired, first steps in Python and Ruby, starts blog
2015: publishes mobile apps written in Objective-C and Java, starts podcast
2025: at age 90, vibe cod…

Mamdani's Government-Run Grocery Store Plan Draws Fresh Scrutiny After What Just Happened in Missouri (Leah Barkoukis/Townhall)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2025/08/13/mamdanis-government-run-grocery-store-plan-draws-fresh-scrutiny-after-what-just-happened-in-missouri-n2661772
http://www.memeorandum.com/250813/p45#a250813p45

Sources: Meta won't propose additional changes to its pay-or-consent model in the EU, and could face fresh antitrust charges and hefty daily fines (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa…

Solace! Spirit cleansing.
(Incredible light on our morning hike today. So very grateful for these experiences, especially these days... 🙏)
#LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #MorningWalk

Got to work with an #acting #coaching client today on material I know really well and they were cold reading. Their second read was like a breathe of fresh air, and the words were new again. I kinda love it.
#ActingCoach

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 71 nodes and 155 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

A fresh look at the nuclear transparency using the generalized parton distributions (GPDs)
The MMGPDs Collaboration, Muhammad Goharipour, Fatemeh Irani, K. Azizi, Dipangkar Dutta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06333

A fresh look at the nuclear transparency using the generalized parton distributions (GPDs)
Color transparency (CT) is a fundamental phenomenon in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) where hadrons produced in high-energy exclusive processes traverse nuclear matter with minimal interactions. Nuclear transparency, which quantifies this attenuation suppression, is a quantity with high sensitivity to CT effects and provides critical insights into QCD dynamics in nuclear environments. In this study, we revisit nuclear transparency using the framework of generalized parton distributions (GPDs). By…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RoundMidnight
- Fresh from Kokoroko
Soweto spins a single from the leading UK seven-piece ahead of their forthcoming album.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002d7hq

Great to see some good news coming out of Peloton. And new products in the roadmap! https://theclipout.com/peloton-fall-refresh/

Grüße gehen raus an @… Danke für das Rezept gestern 🙏🙌

Am I old now that I can smell a fresh college grad tech bro (gender neutral!) from a mile away? I really don't want to hear you talk about implementing tables for PII while I am eating sushi.

Death toll mounts in Israel and Iran as both countries threaten further response after trading strikes overnight
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/202

Ukrainian startup says its drones could work on their own by year’s end, thanks to AI: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/15/ukrainian-startup-says-its-drones.html

Fresh start in Big D: Dak Prescott embraces new era for the Cowboys https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/fresh-start-big-d-dak-prescott-embraces-new-era-cowboys/2a68d0bf20d9ba41c2888452

Raiders May Be Perfect Trade Partner for Explosive QB in Need of Development https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/anthony-richardson-colts-trade-rumors/?adt_ei=[email]

Rashod Bateman aims to 'flip that narrative' of Ravens WRs after extension https://www.nfl.com/news/rashod-bateman-aims-to-flip-that-narrative-of-ravens-wrs-after-extension

It's coffee break time! Head to the partner area for some delicious treats, kindly sponsored by Qdrant. Enjoy cream cheese lemon cake, apple pie, or a selection of fresh fruit. Plus, grab a special treat to celebrate our 15th birthday!
#bbuzz

and a straight-up goose of fresh ginger

AI-powered virtual physical therapy startup Sword Health raised $40M led by General Catalyst at a $4B valuation, up from its $3B valuation from June 2024 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/sword-h…

Sword Health nabs $40M at $4B valuation, pushes IPO plans to at least 2028 | TechCrunch
The digital health startup says it secured the fresh capital to update its valuation and finance acquisitions.

Summary of today's dreams:
1. I changed my shorts but forgot to replace the paper towels in my pockets. I wouldn't have thought my brain would treat this as such a #nightmare. I mean, lack of paper towels, not fresh shorts. The terror when you put your hand in the pocket, and it's empty.
2. I forgot to put my garbage out last night. It was around 7 AM (having precise dreams is important), it was raining and I was hurrying to put them out, worrying it's too late already. Then, I've discovered there's a huge dumpster in front of my gate, filled to the brim with loose cat litter. And I was thinking, the garbage company won't take such a tonnage of loose litter like that.
#dream

Death of top Russian oil executive fuels fresh scrutiny of elite's 'window falls': https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/04/death-of-top-russian-oil.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Juvenile feat. Mannie Fresh & Lil Wayne:
🎵 Back That Thang Up
#Juvenile #MannieFresh #LilWayne
https://elevatedenergy444.bandcamp.com/track/back-that-thang-up-juvenile-mannie-fresh-lil-wayne-sickmix-intro-clean
https://open.spotify.com/track/5jbKpvtoxZB14tbnBafMuL

Joe Milton 'surprised' but 'blessed' for fresh start with Cowboys, praises QB room chemistry https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/joe-milton-surprised-but-blessed-for-fresh-start-with-cowboys-praise…

Spring water washes
The greenest part of the glade
Fresh, cool, clear, and clean.
#dailyhaikuprompt - spring water
#haiku
#poem

Joey Bosa is past calf injury, ready for 'fresh start' in Buffalo https://www.nfl.com/news/joey-bosa-is-past-calf-injury-ready-for-fresh-start-in-buffalo

Fresh polling on Harris, Newsom after LA (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2025/07/02/fresh-polling-on-kamala-newsom-favorability-00436899
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p66#a250702p66

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 83 nodes and 335 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

Old-growth forest logging resumed in Finland – Stora Enso breaking its sustainability promises https://www.greenpeace.org/finland/blogit/metsat/old-growth-forest-logging-resumed-in-finland-stora-enso-bre…

Old-growth forest logging resumed in Finland – Stora Enso breaking its sustainability promises - Greenpeace Suomi
In March we warned that forestry giant Stora Enso’s products may contain traces of old growth forests. Well now we know that they do, with fresh proof from Kainuu, Finland.…

Ukraine’s economic crimes bureau remains leaderless amid government interference: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/ukraines-economic-crimes-bureau-remains.html

Conservatives are asking Trump for another big tax cut
Currently, an investor who bought stock for $1,000 in 1980 and sold it for $10,000 today would owe capital gains taxes on the increase in value of $9,000.
But under the proposal pitched by Grover Norquist and others, the calculation would start by adjusting up the value of the original purchase to account for inflation
— which would reduce the amount of gain that’s taxable after selling the stock.

Although a 199…

Conservatives are asking Trump for another big tax cut
Fresh off passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” some anti-tax advocates hope to push the administration to change how taxable capital gains are calculated.

Filings: Bengaluru-based fintech Cred, which offers rewards for paying credit card bills and more, raised ~$72M at a $3.5B valuation, down from $6.4B in 2022 (The Economic Times)
https://ec…

Cred raises fresh funds from GIC, others; valuation cut by 45% to $3.5 billion
The fintech major was valued at $6.4 billion in 2022 during its last major fund infusion. The current fund infusion is in the form of primary capital, which means that existing investors have not sold any shares in this round. The drop in valuation was in line with the company's plans to list in India over the next two years, people in the know said.

George Kittle happy for former 49ers teammate Deebo Samuel's 'fresh start' in Washington https://www.nfl.com/news/george-kittle-deebo-samuel-happy-fresh-start-former-49ers-teammate-washington

I remember in particular one phone that used an •animated fire background• to indicated the currently highlighted menu item. It was just embarrassing.
The iPhone was such a breath of fresh air. Of course it was eye-catching too — but what really made it soar was the •experience•. You can see it in that famous launch demo when Jobs does the “slide to unlock:” the audience absolutely loses it, so much that he has to repeat it.
Why? Because you could sense, even from the demo, that the experience was wonderful.
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US imposes a 17% duty on fresh Mexican tomatoes (Dee-Ann Durbin/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-tomatoes-duty-commerce-e1b113bfb9458d2443d5bb999795375c
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p123#a250714p123

Fresh threads alert: NFL uniforms get an offseason glow up https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45749683/2025-nfl-offseason-uniforms-throwbacks-helmet-breakdown

Sources: Perplexity is seeking new funding at a $20B post-money valuation, up from a reported $18B in its latest fundraising round in July (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/perplexity-valuation-jumps-to-20-billion-in-latest…

Perplexity's valuation jumps to $20 billion in latest fundraise
AI startup Perplexity's valuation rose to $20 billion in fresh funding talks. It's a $2 billion jump from its last fundraise in July.

Continents have lost so much water to the ocean since 2002 that they have surpassed ice sheets as the biggest contributor to global sea level rise, a new study reveals.
Almost 70% of this loss is due to unchecked groundwater extraction,
which removes water from deep aquifers and eventually transfers it to the ocean, researchers found.
Together with rising rates of evaporation due to climate change, this has caused rapidly drying "hotspots" to merge into four &quo…

'Like a creeping mold that's spreading across the landscape': Separate dry areas around the world are merging into 'mega-drying' regions at an alarming rate, study finds
Unchecked groundwater extraction and climate change have dried continents significantly over the past 22 years, with 101 countries now losing fresh water to the ocean, research reveals.

Sources: Meta won't propose additional changes to its pay-or-consent model in the EU, and could face fresh antitrust charges and hefty daily fines (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa…

Thoughts on the major design overhaul of Apple's OSes with "Liquid Glass" UI elements, which will launch at WWDC and set the stage for fresh hardware products (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloombe…