2025-12-13 18:30:56
A handful of AFC teams can help the Cowboys' playoff chances in Week 15 https://insidethestar.com/a-handful-of-afc-teams-can-help-the-cowboys-playoff-chances-in-week-15
A handful of AFC teams can help the Cowboys' playoff chances in Week 15 https://insidethestar.com/a-handful-of-afc-teams-can-help-the-cowboys-playoff-chances-in-week-15
TIL the Wikimedia sites are moving away from recording IP addresses with edits.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Temporary_accounts
Help stop the congressional attempt to ban hemp products | U.S. Hemp Roundtable
https://hempsupporter.com/bill/help-stop-the-congressional-attempt-to-ban-hemp-products-2/
Google says Gemini will help power not only a more personalized version of Siri, but also future Apple Intelligence features (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/12/google-gemini-future-apple-intelligence-features/
The 'situational masters' who help make the NFL's most crucial calls https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6880984/2025/12/12/nfl-situational-game-management-experts/
A profile of David Ellison, who is trying to build a media empire that could dwarf even the Murdochs' with help from his father and Oracle founder Larry Ellison (Reeves Wiedeman/Vulture)
https://www.vulture.com/article/larry-david-e…
One of the toughest things to judge when considering a new job or a new role is, basically, “Will this crush my soul?” Here’s a simple list of questions you can ask to help improve the odds that your next gig will be less soul-crushing: https://anildash.com/2026/01/12/will-that-job-…
Duk op the Danish privacy focused and free of big tech event announcement platform is looking for volunteers to help refresh its UX 👇
https://dukop.dk/en/news/42/
Jesus fucking christ.
https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/
Keith Ellison multiple times uses “but fraud!” to skewer feds for failing to provide support that would actually help catch fraud: “If they want to send us some forensic accountants [instead of ICE], that’s a conversation we’re willing to have”
Donald Trump’s administration is preparing to turn to private businesses to help mount offensive cyberattacks against foreign adversaries (Gift Link)
@axbom@axbom.meI did print like a few hundred whistles that a friend of mine will be giving to an org here in Milwaukee to help alert people to the presence of ICE bastards.
Could a person with a Google Account help me test Sign in with Google real quick?
(staging url and instructions removed)
(this is a separate staging database so no data will be available, I'm just testing the sign in)
Edit: Confirmed it works, thanks a lot!
A drastic rise in the reported death toll came as Iranian authorities intensified their crackdown on the protests, now in their second week.
Rights groups were struggling to reach contacts within Iran due to a complete internet shutdown in the country, and warned that the death toll was likely to climb even further.
The brutal crackdown has raised the likelihood of US intervention, with Trump saying he would “rescue” protesters if the Iranian government killed them.
He rei…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Joni Mitchell:
🎵 Help Me
#JoniMitchell
https://notami-jazz.bandcamp.com/track/help-me
https://open.spotify.com/track/0tVzXGFyNPusa1VkHmYDLd
A surprise benefit of mRNA vaccines could be better treatments for cancer, extending lives without the side effects of chemo? Yay for good news! https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/12/covid-mrna-vaccines-cancer-patien…
In 2025, a crack team of moms was sent to prison by a kangaroo court for a crime they didn't commit. These mom’s promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Minneapolis underground. Today, still wanted by the government they survive as wine drinkers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them....maybe you can hire The Wine Moms.
#WineMoms
NFL Mock Draft 2026: Jets, Raiders get their QBs; Cowboys double up on D; Eagles, Steelers go for receiving help https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/nfl-mock-draft-2026-cowboys-eagles-steelers/348604e7a1799eb36bbb8b9e
Is there anything we can do to help #iran
I just sent a very angry note to my Congress Critter who voted to block the resolution to impeach trump.
Sure, it won't pass the Senate, but that's not a reason for Congressional cowardice.
(I was quite ticked off that one D congress critter said that he did not vote for it because they had to do research to figure out if trump had done bad things!!!!!! What utter hogwash!!!)
Call for Participation: Help ACLS Understand Public Scholarship on Religion
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The Publicly Engaged Religion Mapping Project invites scholars, practitioners, and community…
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"Less arguing, more action: will Brazil’s unorthodox approach to Cop30 work?"
#Brazil #COP30 #ClimateSummit
Ethan Mollick makes a good point on BlueSky:
I understand the fear and anger. But also:
1) It is connected to the belief that AI is fake and going to vanish, which means that critics who should be helping shape AI use through policy and collective work are sitting it out
2) Lumping all AI criticism/talk into us vs. "tech bros" doesn't help
#AI
Do you have a long running calculation freezing up your shiny app? {callr} or {crew} might help: https://discindo.org/post/asynchronous-execution-in-shiny/
Mindset For Runners
Practical lessons and tips to help you develop the mental side of your running...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/mindset-for-runners/
A person I'm in touch with in #Gaza has her GoFundMe frozen (although they're still happy to take money from me on her behalf). The way we're currently able to support people in Gaza is chaotic and unsystematic, but it's the best I feel we've currently got.
How easy would it be for those of you in Gaza who are in need of help to organise a co-operative on the ground to suppo…
#TuneTuesday theme is "Memorable line", making it the easiest #tunetuesday ever!
Frank Zappa - Don't Eat The Yellow Snow (Visualizer)
I had made an appointment with the car repair place, but I needed to cancel it. So I called there, and an AI answered. Transcript from memory.
AI: "How can I help you?"
Me: "I need to cancel my appointment on Thursday."
AI: "Sure, what is your name and the exact date of your appointment?"
Me: "Vrandečić. That's V-R-A—"
AI: "Thank you. Your appointment has been cancelled. Can I help you otherwise?"
Me: "…
Very bummed to hear the news that friend John Collier is dealing with prostate cancer, and about to undergo radiation treatments. Great guy and sitting on an absolute wealth of musical knowledge. Radiation is a rough road for anyone, but John could really use some funding to get through copays and car repair, to support him through the treatment process. Hang in there John, you got this.
The 'situational masters' who help make the NFL's most crucial calls https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6880984/2025/12/12/nfl-situational-game-management-experts/
Die Kollegen haben #buttplugio #haxkoleaks
In Kyiv, I saw how art can help hold a city together in the shadow of war https://theconversation.com/in-kyiv-i-saw-how-art-can-help-hold-a-city-together-in-the-shadow-of-war-269129
#Upcoming Help kickstart a release of “Symphony No. 4” by Glenn Branca! This piece has never been released because there was never a good enough recording. A live performance from 1983 has been found, featuring Glenn’s custom built Harmonic Series instruments with Stefan Wischerth, Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore, Dan Witz, the late Barbara Ess, Margaret DeWys, Amanda Linn, and Greg Letson.
This #charitable "roof replacement" for a poor retiree is heartwarming. Acts like this is one of the few things I like about YouTube monetization.
Watch this video & help these guys out.
▶️ He Refused to Open the Door… So We Did Something CRAZY
We are looking for motivated volunteers to help make #bbuzz a success! Whether you're interested in being a stage host, assisting with registration, or helping with build-up and break-down, we would love to have you on board.
Learn more about our volunteering options: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/helping-hands/
Somehow I must emit a signal identifying me as a person with helper syndrome. Was just on my way to grocery shopping and saw an old lady with her shopping trolley and a walking cane pausing in a passageway. I would walk past her but she spoke up and asked whether I could help her drag her trolley a bit.
Of course I could. I helped her get home safe and carried her trolley all the way to her door.
What always puzzles me is, why do people ask me? There were plenty of other people…
Series A, Episode 09 - Project Avalon
AVALON: I won't help you. You can't force me to help you.
TRAVIS: Don't be naive. I can force you to do anything. It isn't necessary, though. You're already helping me. Just by being here you've set in motion a chain of events that's been absolutely predetermined.
https://
"20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple" – Paris Buttfield-Addison
https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/
I just added a recipe for backing up your #Discourse using restic, and a bunch of other updates, to my guide to Discourse deployment, as part of working on deploying a new Discourse instance. A bunch of plugins that I used to recommend adding are now in the core, which simplified the install.
Why people hate old banks.
I moved to a new address 3 years ago. All change of addresses have been done.
Now on RBC Express (a business service), they have a separate mailing address, the old one.
When I call the help line for RBC Express: we can't change it, call your branch.
When I call the branch: we can't do it, call RBC Express.
So nobody actually can change my address. The website doesn't let you change it.
I need the address changed for …
Puunkuoren mikrobit puhdistavat myös ilmaa poistamalla kasvihuonekaasuja ja myrkyllisiä kaasuja.
Tree bark microbes also clean the air by removing greenhouse and toxic gases https://phys.org/news/2026-01-tree-bark-microbes-air-greenhouse.html
I guess no-one should ever buy Apple gift cards. https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/
What might help Buffalo and Kansas City, plus new kickoff questions and a quick mock for 2026 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6801805/2025/11/12/nfl-mock-top-5-2026-draft-chiefs-bills-kickoff-scoop-city/
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalMixtape
- Classical music for your journey
Half an hour of back-to-back classical music to help you unwind at the end of the day, with works by John Barry, Max Richter, Mel Bonis, and Grieg.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002pgf1
Through research and dumb luck, I have put together this list of Canadian Mastodon admins that may be interested in the previous message in this thread.
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Been starting a habit of writing down story/game ideas as I have them even though most of them will never seriously get started, let alone finished. It's been fun since writing things down gives me a chance to think them through a bit more than just pondering them in my head. Anyways, here's a #GameDesign idea:
"Grand" - is a "reverse metroidvania" in which as a grandparent, you slowly lose movement options as the story progresses, requiring more and more convoluted routes through the map to reach the same areas. You do still explore "new" areas in memory mode (and unlock movement options like a bike in your memories) before traversing the areas again in the diegetic present. The story follows your quest to protect a grandchild from the machinations of a Kafkaesque state, first trying to track them down within the system and then trying to get them released. Each "boss" is "fought" through an abstracted conversation system where memories, keepsakes, and various kinds of emotional/logical appeals wear down your opponent's nihilism and/or fear until they're willing to help you. Normal "enemies" are just people on the street who might bump into you and drain some of your stamina as you pass by if you don't issue a properly-timed "excuse me" or the like.
One of the toughest things to judge when considering a new job or a new role is, basically, “Will this crush my soul?” Here’s a simple list of questions you can ask to help improve the odds that your next gig will be less soul-crushing: https://anildash.com/2026/01/12/will-that-job-…
US to help enforce Ukraine cease-fire and lead monitoring under draft security guarantees: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/06/us-to-help-enforce-ukraine.html
Maryland will use Claude across its agencies to help residents apply for food aid, Medicaid, and more, and deploy Percepta tools to speed up housing permits (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/13/maryland-ai-housing-government-benefits
Celebrate a quarter century of #NorthBeach Citizens non profit org with upcoming big bash at Bimbo's 365 Club 0n Columbus
https://northbeachcitizens.org
Better yet, join the event as a sponsor and help thi…
#uspol #greenland #dkpol I believe that Trumps interest in Greenland is mainly a vanity project to help him build a legacy for his presidency. As such he is presumably on a deadline, either hoping to a…
Two battery-electric street sweepers equipped with bidirectional charging technology could help to power operations on the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge in the event of a power outage.
https://www.microgridkn…
Anonymous help:
#OpenSource #FreeSoftware
In episode 207 I share advice from six former podcast guests on what they do to improve or maintain their own mental health. Hear what Dr Jan Eppingstall does to help keep herself on track
#gratitude #MentalHealth
Please complain about Schumer and his cohort. Please give the mushy centrists black eyes. Please light a fire under all the politicians.
But…please also look for work you can do that doesn’t center around elections. Start local. Help people. Throw sand in the gears. Whatever it is, do work that counts.
Create a context in which there •has• to be an anti-fascist opposition party, because that’s the work so many people are already doing. •That• is what the cynicism is trying to stop you from doing.
/end
Practice using AI they said, it will help they said.
Just had to stop myself from berating the code assistant for forgetting what it just suggested then telling me the suggestion does the opposite of what I asked for it to do
Each week, Metacurity offers our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection includes,
--A journalist's talks with an Iranian hacking leader ended with murder,
--Hackers attacked Aeroflot's still-insecure infrastructure,
--The war on disinformation has been dismantled,
--Trump's DOJ uses Americans' own data …
Emails: Michael Wolff gave advice to Jeffrey Epstein about Trump, including suggesting Epstein could "help finish him" at the end of Trump's 2016 campaign (Erik Wemple/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us/michael-wolff-epstein-trum…
My Congress Critter - Panetta (not even a shadow of his father) voted to stop the impeachment of El Cheato.
Panetta just lost my vote.
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/11/trump-impeachment-vote-house-al-green-democrats
Iran foreign minister says country ready for negotiations
but also ‘fully prepared for war’
Abbas Araghchi warns adversaries against ‘miscalculation’ as Trump mulls military response to protest crackdown
‘The streets are full of blood’: Iranian protests gather momentum as regime cracks down
Iranian student killed during protests was shot in head ‘from close range’
Unpredictable Trump weighs up Iranian pleas for help against calls for r…
The VysionQuest Podcast With Rick Cowley
Join Rick Cowley for guided meditations, reflections, and conversations designed to help you reconnect with your true direction and live a life aligned with your soul's purpose...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-vy<…
Boston- and Tel Aviv-based Converge Bio, which uses AI trained on molecular data to help pharma and biotech companies develop drugs, raised a $25M Series A (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/13/ai-d
I posted this before without explanation. Tyler was the cousin of a friend of mine. Anything you can chip in to help pay for burial expenses is appreciated. https://www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-tyler-pastors-funeral-and-family-support
Series A, Episode 11 - Bounty
CALLY: But the elections were rigged.
TYCE: It was still failure.
BLAKE: [To Cally] That's something you should understand.
TYCE: I thought I could help him.
BLAKE: He must come with us, by force if necessary.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/111/225
NFL Mock Draft 2026: Jets, Raiders get their QBs; Cowboys double up on D; Eagles, Steelers go for receiving help https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/nfl-mock-draft-2026-cowboys-eagles-steelers/348604e7a1799eb36bbb8b9e
Even the most radical-minded regularly fall into the trap of thinking that politicians are leaders. (It’s an easy trap; we call them “leaders” all the time.) I’ve been seeing a lot of that thinking in the complaints in my TL the last couple of days.
Politicians are always lagging indicators of change. They can be a tool of change, they can help systematize change, but they rarely •cause• it.
Politicians follow. People lead.
3/
U.S. House passes bill to combat stadium drones https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47266975/us-house-passes-bill-help-stadiums-combat-drones
Shares of data center real estate company Fermi closed down 34% after a tenant terminated a $150M agreement to help fund an AI campus in West Texas (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e4056c28-3f3e-48cf-ac3f-134fc926047e
“It rained heavily last night.
Our clothes, blankets, mattresses, everything got soaked.
We were freezing… truly freezing.
Living in a tent has become unbearable… feels like a disaster every day.
We try to protect ourselves from the rain, but we still end up sitting in water inside the tent.
We are a family of seven and the tent can’t hold us but we keep trying.
We keep holding on.
Please, we need your help to move somewhere safer.”
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Sources: President Trump is being deployed against the BBC by those who want to defund the broadcaster, as its mandated license fee expires at the end of 2027 (Joel Simon/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/how-donald-trum…
Bonhams says it sold three Bob Ross paintings at an LA auction for $600K , with the proceeds going to support US public broadcasters, and plans to sell 27 more (Jin Yu Young/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us/bob-ross-paintings-auc…
The protest movement in Iran,
now in its second week,
is the most significant unrest the country has experienced in years.
Though triggered initially by a sudden slide in the country’s currency,
protesters soon demanded political reform and called for the downfall of the government.
🔥Iranian authorities have arrested key members of the protest movement that has rocked the country over the last two weeks,
the national police chief has said,
💥as Washi…
Cowboys' Wild Card hopes take hit after NFC offers little help in Week 14 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-wild-card-hopes-take-hit-nfc-offers-little-help-week-14
Chargers fire offensive coordinator Greg Roman: Five candidates to maximize Justin Herbert
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/chargers-fire-…
Google releases fully managed, remote MCP servers to help developers connect AI agents to services such as Maps, BigQuery, Compute Engine, and Kubernetes Engine (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/google-is-going-all-in…
Tom Brady thinks he could pull a Philip Rivers: Retired QB is convinced he can still play in NFL at age 48
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/tom-bra
Jets need Heisman favorite Fernando Mendoza to be answer to their QB woes https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6885343/2025/12/13/fernando-mendoza-jets-heisman-trophy-2026-nfl-draft/
Google rolls out Nano Banana image editing upgrades in Photos, including a "help me edit" feature that lets users make edits using text or voice prompts (Elyse Betters Picaro/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/your-google-
Dallas Cowboys insider shares perfect strategy for 2026 NFL draft https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/dallas-cowboys-insider-shares-perfect-strategy-2026-nfl-draft
Who will win NFL MVP? History says Drake Maye, but Matthew Stafford could break the mold https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6871354/2025/12/12/nfl-mvp-race-matthew-stafford-drake-maye/
Runware, which operates a developer tool platform that generates images, video, and audio in real-time, raised a $50M Series A, taking its total funding to $66M (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/11/runw
Cowboys select back-to-back Buckeyes in new 2026 mock draft https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/13/cowboys-2026-mock-draft-sonny-styles-caleb-downs/87753792007/
Fertility startup Inito, which offers an at-home health diagnostics platform, raised a $29M Series B and plans to use AI-designed antibodies to make new tests (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/fert
Cowboys-Vikings Final injury report: Lamb concussion update, Diggs status https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/12/cowboys-vikings-injury-report-lamb-diggs-week-15/87734043007/…
AWS launches DevOps Agent, an AI-enabled tool designed to help clients quickly identify root causes of outages and implement fixes, available in preview (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/02/amazon-launches-cloud-ai-tool…
Google makes Help Me Write, AI email summaries, and Suggested Replies free to all Gmail users; the features required a Google AI Pro or Ultra subscription (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/01/08/gmail-ai-free-features/