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Having a bit of a Daisy Ridley week. First, did Magpie a couple days ago, and now doing The Marsh King's Daughter, thanks to @…'s rec. 👊
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The Marsh King's Daughter (2023)
Helena, a woman living a seemingly ordinary life, hides a dark secret—her father is the infamous 'Marsh King', the man who kept her and her mother captive in the wilderness for years. After a lifetime of trying to escape her past, Helena is forced to face her demons when her father unexpectedly escapes from prison.

“We have to break the cycle of ‘invent here, scale there.” It's an old habit, way past its sell-by date.
It's an uphill battle, but maybe Ford can pull it off.
Ford’s Car of the Future, Hatched in a Skunk Works Near Los Angeles
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12…

Ford’s Car of the Future, Hatched in a Skunk Works Near Los Angeles
Desperate to catch up with Chinese automakers, Ford is redesigning its fleet with a Silicon Valley-style team. Is it too late?

"Anyhow, there will be a crash and a hangover. I think the people telling us that #genAI is the future and we must pay it fealty richly deserve their impending financial wipe-out. But still, I hope the hangover is less terrible than I think it will be."
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CAGE: An Internal Source Scanning Cryostat for HPGe Characterization
G. Othman, C. Wiseman, T. H. Burritt, J. A. Detwiler, M. P. Held, R. Henning, T. Mathew, D. Peterson, W. Pettus, G. Song, T. D. Van Wechel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.06289 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.06289 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.06289
arXiv:2602.06289v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The success of current and future-generation neutrinoless double beta decay experiments relies on the ability to eliminate or reduce extraneous backgrounds. In addition to constructing experiments using radiopure materials and handling in underground laboratories, it is necessary to understand and reduce known backgrounds in data analysis. The Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless double beta Decay is searching for this decay using 76Ge-enriched high-purity germanium detectors submerged in an active liquid argon veto. A significant background in LEGEND is surface events from shallowly-impinging radiation on detector surfaces. In this paper we introduce the Collimated Alphas, Gammas, and Electrons (CAGE) scanning system, an internal-source scanning vacuum cryostat, designed to perform studies of surface events on sensitive surfaces of HPGe in a surface-lab. CAGE features a collimated radionuclide source inside a movable infrared shield that is able to perform precision scans of detector surfaces by utilizing three independent motor stages for source positioning. This allows detailed studies of pulse shapes as a function of source position and incident angle, where defining features can be extracted and exploited for removing surface backgrounds in data analysis in LEGEND. In this paper, we describe CAGE and demonstrate its performance with a commissioning run with 241Am. The commissioning run was completed with the source at normal incidence, and we estimate a beam spot precision of 3.1 mm, which includes positioning uncertainties and the beam-spot size. Using the 59.5 keV gamma population from 241Am, we show that low-energy photon events near the passivated surface feature risetimes that increase with radial distance from the detector center. We suggest a specific metric that can be used to discriminate low-energy gamma backgrounds in LEGEND with similar characteristics.
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A day that will live in infamy. https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2001/winter/crafting-day-of-infamy-speech.html

FDR’s “Day of Infamy” Speech
Crafting a Call to Arms Winter 2001, Vol. 33, No. 4 | Our Heritage in Documents Enlarge The USS Arizona seen burning after the attack by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the morning of December 7, 1941. It was 1 p.m. in Washington. (Franklin D. Roosevelt Library) View in National Archives Catalog In the early afternoon of December 7, 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt was just finishing lunch in his oval study on the second floor of the White House, preparing to work on his stamp album, when…

Bristol Myers Squibb, an industry stalwart in need of a hit, is betting a pill called Cobenfy can become the first approved medicine for the millions of Americans diagnosed with psychosis related to Alzheimer’s disease.
That case rests almost entirely on a single clinical trial, conducted before the DVD was invented, in which its striking benefits were derailed by damning side effects.
Later this year, Bristol will get the results from three pivotal studies designed to make good …

Why Bristol Myers Squibb believes a decades-old drug can treat Alzheimer’s 
Why Bristol Myers Squibb is banking on a decades-old drug to help secure its future.

So where’s actually the correct place to send a feature request to #KDE Plasma Addons?
Its GitLab readme says that I should “report bugs and feature requests in KDE's bugtracker under the plasmashell category”, but that requires me to choose a Component and there’s no “Plasma Addons” component or anything like that.
The bugs.kde page also says that I should, if I’m “not sure this is actually a bug, instead post about it at https://discuss.kde.org”.
So if each place tells me to post it somewhere different, where should I post it?

Designers are always inventing new titles. Web designer, UI designer, UX designer, UX/UI designer, Product designer, UX/AI designer (???)
These are all the same!
As long as your work is mediated entirely by Figma and Jira, you are just a production artist.
Fighting with PMs over who "gets" to do strategy (usually: neither of you) won't help you. Lean into the core #design

Without UX governance, your app turns to "sludge"
Break out of the feature delivery mindset and attend to the architecture and maintenance of the product.

“Clawdbot can execute Terminal commands, write scripts on the fly and execute them…”
I don’t even trust myself to do those things before 9am most days!
I just do not think I can be convinced I need a “digital assistant” in my life or on my computers (with elevated permissions, no less). https://mastodon…

Federico Viticci :ticciseal: (@viticci@macstories.net)
Attached: 1 image An open-source AI agent running on my Mac mini server is the most fun and productive experience I've had with AI in a while. Clawdbot by @steipete@mastodon.social is a personal AI assistant that you can infinitely tweak. It runs in any messaging app (!), has access to skills, can use the shell, and – notably – it can improve itself because it's completely open to customization. My story: Clawdbot Showed Me What the Future of Personal AI Assistants Looks Like https://ww…

Chargers 1-Round Mock Draft: Selecting the pass rusher of the future https://raiderramble.com/2025/12/16/chargers-1-round-mock-draft-selecting-the-pass-rusher-of-the-future/