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It's fascinating that we largely went from a network of personal computers processing data locally that could access an open hypertext system linking together millions of websites…
…to phones with proprietary closed apps that often largely are little more than little windows to timesharing mainframes.

Panthers quarterback Bryce Young ruled out vs. Jets with ankle injury https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6731324/2025/10/19/bryce-young-panthers-ankle-injury-update/

The Trump administration announced on Tuesday an aggressive plan to continue dismantling the Education Department,
ending the agency’s broad role in supporting academics at elementary and high schools and in expanding access to college.
Those responsibilities, which had been overseen by the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Office of Postsecondary Education,
will instead be largely taken over by the Labor Department.
Additional changes include movin…

Trump Administration Announces Steps to Dismantle Education Department
Responsibilities for K-12 and college programs, among others, will be moved to other federal agencies.

The media is largely ignoring the trauma of millions. Here's why. (Margaret Sullivan/American Crisis)
https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/the-media-is-largely-ignoring-the
http://www.memeorandum.com/251014/p54#a251014p54

Analysis: music copyright's global value rose 5.2% YoY to a record $47.2B in 2024; the revenue split favored labels and artists at 62%, above songwriters' 38% (Will Page/Pivotal Economics)
https://pivotaleconomics.com/undercurrents/music-copyright-2025

Global Value of Music Copyright Hits New All-Time High, Nearly Doubling in a Decade to $47.2bn in 2024 — Pivotal Economics
The global value of music copyright reached $47.2bn in 2024. That's up just $2.3bn (5.2%) on the prior year; growth is slowing largely because this is the first year where the pandemic effects have vanished.

Open-Access Scientific Game-Theory Paper Shows Religion Worth a Damn
Fear of supernatural PUNISHMENT can harmonize human societies with nature: an evolutionary game-theoretic approach
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-05734-7?ref=404media.co
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Fear of supernatural punishment can harmonize human societies with nature: an evolutionary game-theoretic approach - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Human activities largely impact the natural environment negatively and radical changes in human societies would be required to achieve their sustainable relationship with nature. Although frequently overlooked, previous studies have suggested that supernatural beliefs can protect nature from human overexploitation via beliefs that supernatural entities punish people who harm nature. Studies of folklore and ethnology have shown that such supernatural beliefs are widely found. However, it remains…

Steam hit a new record with over 41.6M concurrent users on October 12, a surge largely sparked by the release of Battlefield 6 (Kosta Andreadis/TweakTown)
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/108287/steam-just-broke-its-concurre…

I wrote this this morning:
"Tomorrow, about 2,600 protests plan to peacefully show the world, the administration and themselves that the United States remains a nation predicated on having No Kings.
Can the president come down hard on these protests with the military?"
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/no-su…

No Surrender
No Soldiers in the Streets, No Kings in This Land For all the military violence there has been in the world during my life, my tactic for surviving it has taken me next to no effort: not being there at the time. By largely luck, I have not yet been

Cars and RVs surged into Yosemite national park throughout the weekend,
as visitors from around the world came to enjoy the crisp autumn weather,
undeterred by a lack of park services and the absence of rangers.
National parks have largely been kept open through the lapse in US federal funding that has left workers furloughed and resources for the parks system more scarce than usual.
But as the US government shutdown enters its third week and legislators warn that the…

Ukraine has a coastline of ~1,729 miles (~2,782km), and a very small navy. Russia blockaded them and end up with a bunch of their ships becoming coral reefs, and largely withdrawing from the Black Sea.
Venezuela has a coastline of 1,700 miles (~2,800km), and a very small navy. The US is gonna blockade them and…

Trump orders blockade of oil tankers into Venezuela
President Donald Trump says he is ordering a blockade of all “sanctioned oil tankers” into Venezuela, ramping up pressure on the country’s authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro. The moves comes after U.S. forces last week seized an oil tanker off Venezuela’s coast, an unusual move that followed a buildup of military forces in the region. In a post on social media Tuesday night announcing the blockade, Trump alleged Venezuela was using oil to fund drug trafficking and other crimes. The bu…