Tootfinder

Ukraine parliament backs nearly $10 billion defense budget increase in first reading: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/ukraine-parliament-backs-nearly-billion.html

PLpol, pseudoliberalism
Tell me, is a "liberal" the kind of person to claim that a woman must not become a president, as she'll get mad with power? Does a "liberal" declare their tolerance for specific people by using insulting names for them? Does a "liberal" call certain minorities "loafers"? Does a "liberal" support dismantling public services for "cost reduction"? Yet these are the views held by the voters of PO/KO, the Polish party often called "liberal".
It is not a liberal party, and it won't be one, because they have too much to lose. For years now, they exist only as an alternative to the "conservative" PiS party — not as something truly opposite, but as a comfortable alternative that's not all that different. So the Polish can gladly focus their contrarian, hateful nature into voting against one or the other party, without having to worry too much that some immoral rainbow force will try to shatter the bubble of their worldview.
#PLpol

Oh hey, it's #ScreenshotSaturday , here's the latest mockup from the video game adaptation of Battle of Tarot I'm working on with some lovely people.
Everything is still a work-in-progress and not final at all, but trying to get the visual style nailed down.
#GameDev

Das ist ein Skandal:
Lehrer ohne Job: Ministerium übersah jahrelang 1.440 Stellen - SWR Aktuell -
https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/lehrerstellen-unbesetzt-wegen-computer-problemen-100.html

Peinliche Computer-Panne: Mehr als tausend Lehrerstellen 20 Jahre übersehen
Über 20 Jahre fällt niemandem auf, dass hunderte Lehrerstellen unbesetzt sind. Das Kultusministerium ist peinlich berührt, kann nun aber kräftig einstellen.

NIR filter transformations across the HR diagram: JWST, Roman, and Euclid
M. J. Durbin, R. L. Beaton, A. J. Monson, B. Swidler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13627

NIR filter transformations across the HR diagram: JWST, Roman, and Euclid
We present new color transformations between select near-infrared filters on JWST/NIRCam, Euclid/NISP, Roman/WFI, HST, and ground-based $izY+IJHK_S$, for a total of 105 unique filter combinations. Additionally, we apply these transformations to predict the color-magnitude relation of the tip of the red giant branch as seen with JWST, Euclid, and Roman based on theoretical results for HST and 2MASS filters; for JWST we find good agreement with empirical results in the literature. We also find ty…

The Education Hub – Conversation With The Experts
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Finally Free – The Last Three Head Home – Ask You to Keep Mobilizing
#FreedomFlotilla

On the Siemens KG34NA10GB Upright Fridge/Freezer: Review (2008) - Why we felt cheated after upgrading our upright fridge-freezer to save energy and for more freezer space. #frugal #fridge #freezer -

On the Siemens KG34NA10GB Upright Fridge/Freezer: Review (2008)
Why we felt cheated after upgrading our upright fridge-freezer to save energy and for more freezer space. #frugal #fridge #freezer

Der Pumpkinführer
bot by @…
This is a joke, not a threat: please don't extraordinarily rendition me to a black site.
#satire #potus45

Advancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Structured Enterprise and Internal Data
Chandana Cheerla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12425 https://

Advancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Structured Enterprise and Internal Data
Organizations increasingly rely on proprietary enterprise data, including HR records, structured reports, and tabular documents, for critical decision-making. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have strong generative capabilities, they are limited by static pretraining, short context windows, and challenges in processing heterogeneous data formats. Conventional Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) frameworks address some of these gaps but often struggle with structured and semi-structured data.…

Ultra-High-Definition Reference-Based Landmark Image Super-Resolution with Generative Diffusion Prior
Zhenning Shi, Zizheng Yan, Yuhang Yu, Clara Xue, Jingyu Zhuang, Qi Zhang, Jinwei Chen, Tao Li, Qingnan Fan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10779

Ultra-High-Definition Reference-Based Landmark Image Super-Resolution with Generative Diffusion Prior
Reference-based Image Super-Resolution (RefSR) aims to restore a low-resolution (LR) image by utilizing the semantic and texture information from an additional reference high-resolution (reference HR) image. Existing diffusion-based RefSR methods are typically built upon ControlNet, which struggles to effectively align the information between the LR image and the reference HR image. Moreover, current RefSR datasets suffer from limited resolution and poor image quality, resulting in the referenc…

Life on Different Paths II🚶🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️
生活诸多路径 II🚶🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️FOMAPAN Action 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Google signs two 20-year power purchase agreements worth $3B to access hydroelectric power from Brookfield's renewables arm, delivering up to 670MW of power (Martha Muir/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d8bef8a3-5988-4080-ad7d-61bc9885e6ba

Wie #TimoBoll das Tischtennis geprägt hat: Rückblick auf einen grossartigen und fairen Sportler und seine Weltkarriere
#Sport #Tischtennis

Timo Boll geht - mehr als eine Weltkarriere
Timo Boll beendet an diesem Wochenende seine Laufbahn. Deutschlands bester Tischtennis-Spieler aller Zeiten war auch abseits der Platte ein besonderer Star.

ICME 2025 Grand Challenge on Video Super-Resolution for Video Conferencing
Babak Naderi, Ross Cutler, Juhee Cho, Nabakumar Khongbantabam, Dejan Ivkovic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12269

ICME 2025 Grand Challenge on Video Super-Resolution for Video Conferencing
Super-Resolution (SR) is a critical task in computer vision, focusing on reconstructing high-resolution (HR) images from low-resolution (LR) inputs. The field has seen significant progress through various challenges, particularly in single-image SR. Video Super-Resolution (VSR) extends this to the temporal domain, aiming to enhance video quality using methods like local, uni-, bi-directional propagation, or traditional upscaling followed by restoration. This challenge addresses VSR for conferen…

US ethnic cleansing and what to do about it
Reposting link to source article instead of screenshot of tweet that had no alt text:
Data on arrests shows that ICE was heavily engaged in racial profiling in LA, because their arrest numbers fell by ~66% after that were ordered to stop making arrests based just in factors like skin color, with place, or language spoken.
#ICE #USPol

‘Blackballed’: Black HR Employee Sues Disney For Firing Her After She Exposed the Company's Hiring Preference for Indian and Asian Candidates While Axing More Black Employees
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/06/11/black-hr-employee-sues-disney/

Filmreifes Stripfing - „So geht man nicht mit Menschen um!“ #News #Nachrichten

The BBC reports 2024-25 revenue up 9% YoY to £5.9B, £3.8B license fee income after an inflationary price rise, and a £132M deficit, down from £263M in 2023-24 (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b221217d-1f95-41b1-92d3-d8626caedf24

Discovery of Faint Nebulosity Around a Z Camelopardalis-type Cataclysmic Variable in Antlia: Nova Shell or Ancient Planetary Nebula?
Howard E. Bond (Penn State University, STScI), Dana Patchick (Deep Sky Hunters Consortium), Daniel Stern (MEA Observatory), Jonathan Talbot (Stark Bayou Observatory), John R. Thorstensen (Dartmouth)
https://

Discovery of Faint Nebulosity Around a Z Camelopardalis-type Cataclysmic Variable in Antlia: Nova Shell or Ancient Planetary Nebula?
We report our discovery of a faint nebula surrounding a previously little-studied 15th-mag variable star, ASASSN-19ds, in the southern-hemisphere constellation Antlia. Spectra verify that the star is a cataclysmic variable (CV). Using new and archival photometry, we confirm that ASASSN-19ds is an eclipsing binary with an orbital period of 0.139 days (3.34 hr). Moreover, its out-of-eclipse brightness shows a "sawtooth" light curve with an amplitude of $\sim$1~mag and an interval between peaks th…

Unser HR-System: kennt all meine Ferientermine
Auch unser HR-System: gibt mir einen Task mit Fälligkeit während meinen Ferien und mahnt mich gleich zweimal 🙄

Methodological Advances and Challenges in Indirect Treatment Comparisons: A Review of International Guidelines and HAS TC Case Studies
Matthias Monnereau, Ana Jarne, Axel Benoist, Cl\'emence Fradet, Maurice Perol, Thomas Filleron, Louise Baschet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11587

Methodological Advances and Challenges in Indirect Treatment Comparisons: A Review of International Guidelines and HAS TC Case Studies
To evaluate methodological challenges and regulatory considerations of indirect treatment comparisons (ITCs) with the analysis of international health technology assessment guidelines and French Transparency Committee (TC) decisions. We conducted a pragmatic review of ITC guidelines from major health technology assessment (HTA) bodies and multistakeholder organizations. Then, we analyzed TC opinions published between 2021-2023. We extracted data on ITC methodology, therapeutic areas, acceptabil…

Too little sleep, too hot, stagnant air with no breeze, and definitely rudely humid. When it became clear what a struggle this would be, I opted to run for HR zones instead. This included several walking breaks to bring my HR back down. My fitness needs the work.
#Running

00:50—Good night #Fediverse! 😴💤
Domestic! Wife Material! Marry Me! Someone! Anyone!
https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/114672309461436816

We've been visited by a humming bird hawk moth, aka bee moth. Its a moth, not a bird, but it feeds by hovering while sipping nectar from deep-throated flowers, like a humming bird.
I managed to get these pictures. I'll try to get some more over the weekend.
#Bloom #mothstodon

hr
with care

A highly-compact and ultra-fast homogeneous electromagnetic calorimeter based on oriented lead tungstate crystals
L. Bandiera, V. G. Baryshevsky, N. Canale, S. Carsi, S. Cutini, F. Dav\`i, D. De Salvador, A. Gianoli, V. Guidi, V. Haurylavets, M. Korjik, A. S. Lobko, L. Malagutti, A. Mazzolari, L. Montalto, P. Monti Guarnieri, M. Moulson, R. Negrello, G. Patern\`o, M. Presti, D. Rinaldi, M. Romagnoni, A. Selmi, F. Sgarbossa, M. Soldani, A. Sytov, V. V. Tikhomirov, E. Vallazza

A highly-compact and ultra-fast homogeneous electromagnetic calorimeter based on oriented lead tungstate crystals
Progress in high-energy physics has been closely tied to the development of highperformance electromagnetic calorimeters. Recent experiments have demonstrated the possibility to significantly accelerate the development of electromagnetic showers inside scintillating crystals typically used in homogeneous calorimeters based on scintillating crystals when the incident beam is aligned with a crystallographic axis to within a few mrad. In particular, a reduction of the radiation length has been mea…

Wer könnte denn ein passender Nachfolger mit viel Erfahrung im #Verkehr für den Vorsitzenden des Vorstandes der Deutschen Bahn AG, Dr. Richard Lutz, sein?
#DeutscheBahn #Fernverkehr

Synthesis and anisotropic magnetism of singlecrystalline GdPt2Si2
Gustavo Gomes Vasques, Mateus Dutra, Pedro Caetano Sabino, Juliana Gon\c{c}alves Dias, Julian Andr\'es Mun\'evar Cagigas, Adriano Reinaldo Vi\c{c}oto Benvenho, Marcos A. Avila
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12170

Synthesis and anisotropic magnetism of singlecrystalline GdPt2Si2
Single crystals of GdPt$_2$Si$_2$ were grown using the Sn flux method, crystallizing in the CaBe$_2$Ge$_2$-type tetragonal structure with space group $P4/nmm$. Electrical resistivity, specific heat, and magnetization data revealed the presence of a double magnetic transition with $T_N \approx 8.4$~K and $T_0 \approx 6.8$~K. Analysis of the specific heat data suggest amplitude-modulated and equal-moment antiferromagnetic orderings, respectively. Field-induced magnetization and magnetic susceptib…

Some developers say GPT-5 excels at technical reasoning and planning coding tasks and is cost-effective, but Claude Opus and Sonnet still produce better code (Lauren Goode/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/gpt-5-coding-review-software-engineering/

Developers Say GPT-5 Is a Mixed Bag
Software engineers are finding that OpenAI’s new GPT-5 model is helping them think through coding problems—but isn’t much better at actual coding.

Vom Sandplatz übers Netz: Beim W35 Tennis International in Darmstadt setzen wir auf engagierten Journalismus – unterstützt von KI, aber immer mit Faktencheck. Unsere Berichte erscheinen erstmals auch online und auf Social Media. Hintergründe, Storys und mehr gibt’s im neuen Turnier-Blog. #KI #Tennis

Tennis International: KI, Storytelling, Social Media und Turnierjournalismus beim TCB 2000
Das Damen-Tennisturnier des TCB 2000 Darmstadt steht für sportliche Klasse und journalistisch gute Berichterstattung in unserer Turnierzeitung. Mit neuen digitalen Wegen, KI-Unterstützung und viel …

Last week I introduced you to Nera, one of three siblings, given birth by a homeless cat which found to us in April last year. So here she is, the former homeless cat: say hello to Cinderella, mother of Nera, Nele and Nepomuk. All are still living with us on our property. #caturday #fedicats

Deutschland hat die Marke von einer Million Balkonkraftwerken geknackt! 🌞
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-1043959?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

Another step in the #PoolPond today. Bought the 2 pumps. They are high-efficiency, DC variable speed/power up to 15000L/hr (4000gal/hr) and 105W.
One will be to take water from the pond to the bog filter, and one will do double duty going to the bog filter or to sprayers/jets inside the pond (both decorative and for circulation)
I might get a 3rd pump in time if I find the extra capacity is needed.
#DIY #PondLife #PortAlberni #Pool #Pond #Natural
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0CLB7SJ4Q?psc=1&smid=A7SIQ2Y2T11UM&ref_=chk_typ_imgToDp

Important, informative thread re farmworker pay.
#agriculture

Important, informative thread re farmworker pay.
#agriculture

I don’t know about you 
but my feelings oscillate between intense grief and boiling anger. 
I do not hide my pro-Palestinian sentiments. 
But this goes beyond one side or another. 
This is about our shared humanity. 
Does it still exist? Did it ever exist?
As citizens, our tools are limited. 
As meager as they sometimes appear, we still haveto utilize them. 
So, tell your congressperson to co-sponsor HR 3565
— The Block the Bombs Act
— atte…

Nash maps over large fields
Erik Walsberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10884 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.10884

Nash maps over large fields
In this short note we give some corollaries of the polynomial inverse function theorem for large fields. We prove inverse and implicit function theorems for Nash maps over large fields, characterize large fields as fields satisfying inverse or implicit function theorems, give inverse and implicit function theorems for gt-henselian field topologies, and show that definable functions in various logically tame fields of characteristic zero are generically Nash. We prove a version of Krasner's lemm…

LOS PEPES BERLIN BLACKOUTS
Im Rxxxxhxxs im Bethanien
Wen sieht man?
#lospepes

LOS PEPES + BERLIN BLACKOUTS
Los Pepes (London, UK) & Berlin Blackouts LIVE @ Rxxxxhxxx, Bethaniendamm, Berlin-Kreuzberg Doors: 19:00 From https://www.facebook.com/events/2169950113417686/ [https://www.facebook.com/events/2169950113417686/] Los Pepes: https://lospepes.bandcamp.com/ [https://lospepes.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-the-void] Berlin Blackout: https://berlin-blackouts.bandcamp.com/ [https://berlin-blackouts.bandcamp.com/music]

Have you or your kids ever tried to use YouTube with content restrictions on? Nearly everything is blocked. Google constantly blocked videos that were required for school. My kids have to log out of their google account just to do schoolwork.
This will be bad.
#youtoube #google

YouTube will start using AI to guess your age. If it’s wrong, you’ll have to prove it
YouTube will begin guessing users’ ages using artificial intelligence on Wednesday, as part of an effort to prevent kids from accessing inappropriate content online.

#PhpStorm #JetBrains IDE with 20% Discount Until July 17, 2025 💻🔗 Last chance to save 20% on #PhpStorm individual licenses with code PS4CV-JADFU-F4NNN-GUK37-TWB8D - expires July 17! 💰

Why Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Won’t Release His Elon Musk Emails
#texas

Texas Governor’s Office Says Its Emails With Elon Musk May Be, in Part, Too “Embarrassing” to Release to the Public
We asked Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies. The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not of legitimate concern to the public.”

11 hrs of playing, charting, getting sounds... and 1 hr of video production 😮‍💨

Granulation signatures in 3D hydrodynamical simulations: evaluating background model performance using a Bayesian nested sampling framework
Jens R. Larsen, Mia S. Lundkvist, Guy R. Davies, Martin B. Nielsen, Hans-G\"unter Ludwig, Yixiao Zhao, Luisa F. Rodr\'iguez D\'iaz, Hans Kjeldsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.1169…

Granulation signatures in 3D hydrodynamical simulations: evaluating background model performance using a Bayesian nested sampling framework
Understanding the granulation background signal is of vital importance when interpreting the asteroseismic diagnostics of solar-like oscillators. Various descriptions exist in the literature for modelling the surface manifestation of convection, the choice of which affects our interpretations. We aim to evaluate the performance of and preference for various granulation background models for a suite of 3D hydrodynamical simulations of convection across the HR diagram, thereby expanding the numbe…

With militaries: amateurs focus on weapon systems like tanks & planes. Professionals focus on logistics.
kegseth is a drunk amateur misusing & abusing our soldiers.
“…snafu is…slapdash mission where…welfare of troops has not been…priority…service members described inadequate living conditions at…Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, on…outskirts of Los Angeles…soldiers are sleeping outside on cots…Others cited intermittent issues with food & fuel supplies.”

Guard Soldiers Deployed in Trump's LA Crackdown Aren't Getting Paid Yet
According to more than a dozen Guardsmen across four units who spoke to Military.com, none has received formal activation orders, the critical paperwork that not only authorizes their duty status, but also unlocks pay and Tricare health benefits.

»L.A. Protests Live Updates: Senator Padilla Forcibly Removed After Confronting Noem«
The US has fallen and the Trump dictatorship hierarchy is final!
📰 https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/12/us/la-protests-trump-marines-ice
📰

L.A. Protests Live Updates: Senator Padilla Forcibly Removed After Confronting Noem
A federal judge plans to rule soon on whether to limit the role of the military in the immigration raids that led Senator Alex Padilla to confront the homeland security secretary. He was removed and handcuffed.

About morbid thriftiness (Autism Spectrum Condition)
As you may have noticed, I am morbidly thrifty. Usually I don't buy stuff that I don't need — and if I decide that I actually need something, I am going to ponder about it for a while, look for value products, and for the best price. And with some luck, I'm going to decide I don't need it that bad after all.
One reason for that is probably how I was raised. My parents taught me to be thrifty, so I have to be. It doesn't matter that, from retrospective, I see that their thriftiness was applied rather arbitrarily to some spendings and not others, or that perhaps they were greedy — spending less on individual things so that they could buy more. Well, I can't delude myself like that, so I have to be thrifty for real. And when I fail, when I pay too much, when I get cheated — I feel quite bad about it.
The other reason is that I keep worrying about my future. It doesn't matter how rich I may end up — I'll keep worrying that I'll run out of money in the future. Perhaps I'll lose a job and won't be able to find anything for a long time, Perhaps something terrible will happen and I'm going to need to pay a lot suddenly.
Another thing is that I easily get attached to objects. Well, it's easier to be thrifty when you really don't want to replace stuff. Over time you also learn to avoid getting new stuff at all, since the more stuff you have, the more stuff may break and need to be thrown away.
Finally, there's my environmental responsibility. I admit that I don't do enough — but at least the things I can do, I do.
[EDIT: and yes, I feel bad about how expensive my new phone was, even though it's of much higher quality than the last one. Also, I got a worse deal because I waited too long.]
#ActuallyAutistic

Cheeto Benito
bot by @…
This is for tee hee, not treason: please don't extraordinarily rendition me to a black site.
#satire #potus45

Urban Composition IV 🫟
都市构图 IV 🫟
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Yiding Cao Geld mit PayPal.Me senden
Folgen Sie dem Link PayPal.Me/dingsterdingster und geben Sie den Betrag ein. Es ist bequem und sicher. Sie haben noch kein PayPal-Konto? Kein Problem.

Let's Chat HR & Safety
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Morgan Stanley: hyperscalers will fund about 50% of the $2.9T in future AI infrastructure through 2028, with debt, PE, VC, and other sources making up the rest (Tabby Kinder/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/efe1e350-62c6-4aa0-a833-f6da01265473

Gipfel in Alaska - Trump, Putin und die Vermessung der Welt #News #Nachrichten

📰 Es ist wichtig, gut informiert zu sein – damit wir Entwicklungen und Erfordernisse zu #Klimaanpassung, #Energiewende und #Gesundheitsschutz verstehen und erkennen, wenn uns

Buy Tino Eberl a Coffee. ko-fi.com/tinoeberl
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Why is Windows 10 called Windows 10?
Because it is 10 years old now

Long post, game design
Crungle is a game designed to be a simple test of general reasoning skills that's difficult to play by rote memory, since there are many possible rule sets, but it should be easy to play if one can understand and extrapolate from rules. The game is not necessarily fair, with the first player often having an advantage or a forced win. The game is entirely deterministic, although a variant determines the rule set randomly.
This is version 0.1, and has not yet been tested at all.
Crungle is a competitive game for two players, each of whom controls a single piece on a 3x3 grid. The cells of the grid are numbered from 1 to 9, starting at the top left and proceeding across each row and then down to the next row, so the top three cells are 1, 2, and 3 from left to right, then the next three are 4, 5, and 6 and the final row is cells 7, 8, and 9.
The two players decide who shall play as purple and who shall play as orange. Purple goes first, starting the rules phase by picking one goal rule from the table of goal rules. Next, orange picks a goal rule. These two goal rules determine the two winning conditions. Then each player, starting with orange, alternate picking a movement rule until four movement rules have been selected. During this process, at most one indirect movement rule may be selected. Finally, purple picks a starting location for orange (1-9), with 5 (the center) not allowed. Then orange picks the starting location for purple, which may not be adjacent to orange's starting position.
Alternatively, the goal rules, movement rules, and starting positions may be determined randomly, or a pre-determined ruleset may be selected.
If the ruleset makes it impossible to win, the players should agree to a draw. Either player could instead "bet" their opponent. If the opponent agrees to the bet, the opponent must demonstrate a series of moves by both players that would result in a win for either player. If they can do this, they win, but if they submit an invalid demonstration or cannot submit a demonstration, the player who "bet" wins.
Now that starting positions, movement rules, and goals have been decided, the play phase proceeds with each player taking a turn, starting with purple, until one player wins by satisfying one of the two goals, or until the players agree to a draw. Note that it's possible for both players to occupy the same space.
During each player's turn, that player identifies one of the four movement rules to use and names the square they move to using that rule, then they move their piece into that square and their turn ends. Neither player may use the same movement rule twice in a row (but it's okay to use the same rule your opponent just did unless another rule disallows that). If the movement rule a player picks moves their opponent's piece, they need to state where their opponent's piece ends up. Pieces that would move off the board instead stay in place; it's okay to select a rule that causes your piece to stay in place because of this rule. However, if a rule says "pick a square" or "move to a square" with some additional criteria, but there are no squares that meet those criteria, then that rule may not be used, and a player who picks that rule must pick a different one instead.
Any player who incorrectly states a destination for either their piece or their opponent's piece, picks an invalid square, or chooses an invalid rule has made a violation, as long as their opponent objects before selecting their next move. A player who makes at least three violations immediately forfeits and their opponent wins by default. However, if a player violates a rule but their opponent does not object before picking their next move, the stated destination(s) of the invalid move still stand, and the violation does not count. If a player objects to a valid move, their objection is ignored, and if they do this at least three times, they forfeit and their opponent wins by default.
Goal rules (each player picks one; either player can win using either chosen rule):
End your turn in the same space as your opponent three turns in a row.
End at least one turn in each of the 9 cells.
End five consecutive turns in the three cells in any single row, ending at least one turn on each of the three.
End five consecutive turns in the three cells in any single column, ending at least one turn on each of the three.
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns, end at least one turn in each of cells 1, 3, 7, and 9 (the four corners of the grid).
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns at least one turn in each of cells 2, 4, 6, and 8 (the central cells on each side).
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns, end at least one turn in the cell directly above your opponent, and end at least one turn in the cell directly below your opponent (in either order).
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns at least one turn in the cell directly to the left of your opponent, and end at least one turn in the cell directly to the right of your opponent (in either order).
End 12 turns in a row without ending any of them in cell 5.
End 8 turns in a row in 8 different cells.
Movement rules (each player picks two; either player may move using any of the four):
Move to any cell on the board that's diagonally adjacent to your current position.
Move to any cell on the board that's orthogonally adjacent to your current position.
Move up one cell. Also move your opponent up one cell.
Move down one cell. Also move your opponent down one cell.
Move left one cell. Also move your opponent left one cell.
Move right one cell. Also move your opponent right one cell.
Move up one cell. Move your opponent down one cell.
Move down one cell. Move your opponent up one cell.
Move left one cell. Move your opponent right one cell.
Move right one cell. Move your opponent left one cell.
Move any pieces that aren't in square 5 clockwise around the edge of the board 1 step (for example, from 1 to 2 or 3 to 6 or 9 to 8).
Move any pieces that aren't in square 5 counter-clockwise around the edge of the board 1 step (for example, from 1 to 4 or 6 to 3 or 7 to 8).
Move to any square reachable from your current position by a knight's move in chess (in other words, a square that's in an adjacent column and two rows up or down, or that's in an adjacent row and two columns left or right).
Stay in the same place.
Swap places with your opponent's piece.
Move back to the position that you started at on your previous turn.
If you are on an odd-numbered square, move to any other odd-numbered square. Otherwise, move to any even-numbered square.
Move to any square in the same column as your current position.
Move to any square in the same row as your current position.
Move to any square in the same column as your opponent's position.
Move to any square in the same row as your opponent's position.
Pick a square that's neither in the same row as your piece nor in the same row as your opponent's piece. Move to that square.
Pick a square that's neither in the same column as your piece nor in the same column as your opponent's piece. Move to that square.
Move to one of the squares orthogonally adjacent to your opponent's piece.
Move to one of the squares diagonally adjacent to your opponent's piece.
Move to the square opposite your current position across the middle square, or stay in place if you're in the middle square.
Pick any square that's closer to your opponent's piece than the square you're in now, measured using straight-line distance between square centers (this includes the square your opponent is in). Move to that square.
Pick any square that's further from your opponent's piece than the square you're in now, measured using straight-line distance between square centers. Move to that square.
If you are on a corner square (1, 3, 7, or 9) move to any other corner square. Otherwise, move to square 5.
If you are on an edge square (2, 4, 6, or 8) move to any other edge square. Otherwise, move to square 5.
Indirect movement rules (may be chosen instead of a direct movement rule; at most one per game):
Move using one of the other three movement rules selected in your game, and in addition, your opponent may not use that rule on their next turn (nor may they select it via an indirect rule like this one).
Select two of the other three movement rules, declare them, and then move as if you had used one and then the other, applying any additional effects of both rules in order.
Move using one of the other three movement rules selected in your game, but if the move would cause your piece to move off the board, instead of staying in place move to square 5 (in the middle).
Pick one of the other three movement rules selected in your game and apply it, but move your opponent's piece instead of your own piece. If that movement rule says to move "your opponent's piece," instead apply that movement to your own piece. References to "your position" and "your opponent's position" are swapped when applying the chosen rule, as are references to "your turn" and "your opponent's turn" and do on.
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Sources: the US Navy and Air Force may cancel two nearly complete HR software projects to give firms like Salesforce and Palantir a chance to win similar work (Alexandra Alper/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/how-unraveling…

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Milan-based Jet HR, which provides all-in-one payroll and HR services to SMBs, raised €25M led by Base10 Partners, bringing its total funding to about €42M (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/06/17/base10-25-million-…

Exclusive: Base10 leads €25M round for Italian HR startup Jet HR
The new funds will serve to digitize Italy's costly, complex payroll maze.

Similarweb: UK traffic fell 47% for Pornhub, 47% for XVideos, and 39% for xHamster from July 24, the day before age verification rules took effect, to August 8 (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/618f07cb-3cd8-42ff-af63-29118d305cbe

Ashby, which offers an AI-powered talent platform combining applications, CRM, search, and more, raised a $50M Series D, following a $30M Series C in 2024 (Judy Rider/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/ai-powered-hr-platform-ashby-raise/

Exclusive: With OpenAI and Shopify As Customers, Ashby Raises $50M Series D For AI-Powered Talent Platform
In a Crunchbase News exclusive, San Francisco-based Ashby, provider of an “all-in-one” AI-powered HR platform, says it has raised $50 million in a Series D round of funding, just over a year after raising its $30 million Series C.