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28 Points Later -- On November 20, President Trump's Secretary of the Army presented ... (Molly McKew/Great Power)
https://www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-later
http://www.memeorandum.com/251122/p7#a251122p7

I love this time of year intellectually. The weeks of the Analemma Apparent.
(Mornings are getting shorter but afternoons are getting longer, faster.) @…

Solar Detroit (@detroit.solar.v.cx)
The sun will rise in #Detroit #Michigan tomorrow at 7:59, 26 seconds later than the day before. It will set at 17:04, 31 seconds later than the day before.

Samsung rolls out a Perplexity TV app, which works alongside Samsung's Vision AI Companion, on its 2025 TVs; 2023 and 2024 TV models will get it later this year (Artie Beaty/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-get-perplex…

How to get Perplexity AI Pro for free on your Samsung TV - and what it can do
The new Perplexity TV app is rolling out to Samsung's 2025 TVs first, with older models getting it later this year.

I heard a helicopter early this morning, which isn’t something I hear often where I live… found out later it may have been ICE. 😡
#milwaukee #westAllis #ICE

Many hours of debugging later:
Two bytes remaining... 🥲
(it's the FPT, must be something shtoopid)
➤ bdiffstat x230_clean.rom fixtures/x230_cleaned_simple.rom
2 / 12582912 bytes differ (1.58946e-05%)

I ate way too much south indian food, and 12 hours later I'm *still* full.
I'm definitely going back there..

Als ik later groot en volwassen ben, dan wil ik manager worden.

Bari Weiss gushed about the popularity of El Salvador’s president,
who describes himself as the “world’s coolest dictator,”
and how safe he’s made the Central American nation
– without noting he’s suspended basic civil liberties,
has been accused of making deals with gang leaders,
and has thrown thousands of innocent people in jail without giving them a fair trial.
Months later, on Sunday night, Weiss squashed a CBS News story on the treatment of immigran…

Bari Weiss Spiked CBS Story on CECOT After Praising Bukele
Weiss praised El Salvador’s brutal leader, Nayib Bukele, while her blog published jokes about Trump sending immigrants to the CECOT prison.

When you notice that you could have departed an hour later, and arrive at the destination only 3 minutes later…
EDIT: Actually, I was looking at the next month's timetable. So I didn't miss the better connection for two weeks in a row after all.

This is a good start but the subway should curve south down 19th Ave, meet up with Daly City BART and continue on the BART tracks down to Millbrae. That part is essential; a branch to Outer Richmond could be added later as a nice-to-have.
https://musubi3.github.io/sfmta-geary-subway…

44,000 Riders, Zero Trains: A Case for the Geary Subway
A data-driven analysis proving why the Geary corridor, with 44,000+ daily riders, is the most underserved transit route in San Francisco.

Closing #Taiwan w/ a run in the mountains, Jazz and food. 👏 #photography
And now, an 18hrs flight later, I’m back in Germany.

ive got a couple of those "learn to recognize nazi symbols" infographics saved but I don't feel like alt texting them rn. maybe later

Wiiiii. #NothingOS4 #Android16
https://9to5google.com/2025/11/19/noth

The corruption was weird af tho
What the fuck?
I do have a journalctl log but I couldn’t really find the reason everything failed on it.

Zu Testzwecken läuft PixelFed jetzt erst einmal auf einem lokalen Rechner auf der Instanz https://pixelfed.pixelgalaxy.net
Sobald ein geeigneter VPS verfügbar ist, werde ich die Instanz auf der Hauptdomain installieren. Der Installationsprozess mit YunoHost war relativ einfach. Der Teufel liegt aber wie…

PixelGalaxy.NET - Testing
Testserver for later instance PixelGalaxy.NET

Dreamt I saw the flickering ghost of Roy Ross in a video of a show I attended. Some middle school friends of mine were a three-piece called TARP, sounding like a cross between Ascension (aka Stefan Jaworzyn/Tony Irving) and Dead C. They played a competition in a high school cafeteria and were really tight, but I didn’t see Roy then. Only later in the video.

Getting ready for the premiere of "The Adventures of Dirk Balsäk" next week, and I'm revisiting the project files for E1. Had to copy back onto a fast drive from an external, and a year and a half later certain things have broken. For the life of me couldn't figure out why certain clips were not rendering, and it's because I used an effect that I no longer have installed!!
#FCPX

In a groundhog day loop of explaining why this hierarchical model cannot effectively be represented in the unified flat format they're trying to push. You can absolutely represent it in a flattened way, but it requires breaking out the child components into their own collection.
We end, once again, with the telling pause of disinterest and multitasking, followed by a distracted "mmm hmm" and promises to circle back on it later.

Bills, Chargers, Jaguars clinch playoff berths thanks to Colts' loss https://www.nfl.com/news/bills-chargers-jaguars-clinch-playoff-berths-thanks-to-colts-loss

Holy shit

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/12/21/documents-reveal-harvard-salient-complaint/

Racial Slurs and Nazi Symbols: Inside the Complaint That Shut Down The Harvard Salient | News | The Harvard Crimson
Screenshots and message logs obtained by The Crimson appear to show Salient leaders casually using racial slurs, defending extremist rhetoric, and dismissing internal concerns — conversations that later became central to the board’s decision to suspend the magazine.

I love it when kids get told "no" and plow ahead anyway. #Iowa #bannedbooks #libraries

When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them
Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

The US is imposing visa restrictions on five Europeans, including Thierry Breton, accusing them of pressuring US tech companies to censor certain US viewpoints (Fatima Hussein/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/state-depart…

US bars five Europeans accused of censoring Americans
The State Department is barring five Europeans it accuses of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints. Secretary of State Marco Rubio did not name them, identifying them only as “radical” activists and “weaponized” nongovernmental organizations. The five Europeans were later identified by Sarah Rogers, the under secretary of state for public diplomacy, in a series of posts on social media. They include a former EU commissioner and the leaders…

Yawn. Infrastructure week, all over again.
Trump commits to Moon landing by 2028, followed by a lunar outpost two years later - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/12/trump-commits-to-moon-landing-by-2028-followed-by-a-lunar-outpost-two-years-later/

Dak Prescott seeking redemption in Denver, knows Cowboys must have grit to win https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/dak-prescott-seeking-redemption-in-denver-knows-cowboys-must-have-grit-to-win

A month later, Trump has yet to follow through on Canada tariff threat (Ari Hawkins/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/23/canada-tariffs-trump-00663710
http://www.memeorandum.com/251123/p61#a251123p61

"The Art of a Good #Poster" by @… https://errantscience.com/blog/2…

In 1967, physicist Andrei Sakharov proposed a set of conditions that must be satisfied to explain the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe,
including violation of the combined charge conjugation and parity (CP) symmetry.
CP symmetry was once thought to be universally conserved,
until this view was overturned in 1964 with the discovery of CP violation in the decay of neutral kaons.
This landmark result later earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1…

Nobel Prize in Physics 1980
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1980 was awarded jointly to James Watson Cronin and Val Logsdon Fitch "for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons"

Sourdough crepes. Egg and bacon, tea and coffee. Mahjong later #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/JxUABj2N6QrX32Vj7

up late spinning charles lloyd disks that i'm likely to lend to a friend tomorrow (oops i mean later today)
#nowplaying #jazz #charleslloyd

Cyber spies use fake New Year concert invites to target Russian military https://therecord.media/cyber-spies-fake-new-year-concert-russian-phishing

Gaining one second. Progress is progress. @… https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app

Solar Detroit (@detroit.solar.v.cx)
The sun will rise in #Detroit #Michigan tomorrow at 7:59, 28 seconds later than the day before. It will set at 17:03, 29 seconds later than the day before.

@… I’ll add that later after I raise a seed round for this first

Interstellar’s second life: how Christopher Nolan’s most divisive film became his most loved https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oct/21/interstellar-christopher-nolan-film-memes-divisive-most-loved?CMP=S…

Slightly dramatic day. Husband has a scary fall in the bathroom. Help him up, provide ice pack for his wrist and a cuppa while he regains his equanimity. Wee one is here so try to keep him occupied while looking after husband. Hospital is at least 5 hour wait. Rush to walk-in clinic before x-ray closes. X-ray taken but no one in attendance who is officially qualified to read it. WrIst is splinted. We go home. Grand-dog arrives. 3 hours later - phone call from clinic - DO NOT REMOVE SPLINT. T…

🗾 Japan’s new PM faces sumo-sized dilemma: will Takaichi defy the sport’s ban on women?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/12/japan-pm-sumo-wrestling-ban-women

Japan’s new PM faces sumo-sized dilemma: will Takaichi defy the sport’s ban on women?
Women are banned from entering the ‘sacred’ dohyo. Sanae Takaichi is undecided on whether to attend a trophy presentation later this month

Well worth a read.
https://kyivindependent.com/we-are-f-king-fascists-pussy-riot-memoir-looks-at-everything-wrong-with-russia/

‘We are f–king fascists’ — Pussy Riot memoir looks at everything wrong with Russia
Upon being released from prison in December 2013 after serving time for “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred,” Russian political activist Maria Alyokhina observes that she and her fellow Pussy Riot punk group members “arrived in a different country.” Outwardly, Russia sought to convey to the world during this period that it was a serious global power through events such as the Sochi Winter Olympics. The reality, as Alyokhina writes, was completely different: just a few months lat…

Nextdoor:

Decided to be lazy today and only do a small rehab-cycling later with my wife.
Yes I'm not always super sporty ;)

Right, Cliff's it. I'm going back to #HazbinHotel that my daughter's trying to get me into.
See y'all later. #TOTP

RE: https://mastodon.social/@distrowatch/115742888274934353
1. SirDice gave a reason – "… it was likely trashed because people kept making it political."
2. vermaden acknowledged the reason
3. vermaden's later statement – &quo…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Expansions
Kamera:
🎵 I'm off, see you later...
#Kamera
https://notyetremembered.bandcamp.com/track/im-off-see-you-later

2 months later my beard grew up in a weird shape... I dislike it. I have beard balds, in a shorthand, my beard is a mess
Is not completely closed. 😭
Time to shave it for this xmas
#beard #beards #mess

Der Irland-Krimi: Die Toten von Glenmore Abbey • Fernsehfilm Deutschland 2019
#MagdaleneAsylums (#MagdaleneLaundries)**. Een donkere periode in Ierland
Aanrader, ondanks dat het Duits is en in Engeland speelt. Het onderwerp is er eigenlijk te belangrijk voor.
*
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Irland-Krimi:_Die_Toten_von_Glenmore_Abbey
** https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalenenheim
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Santas and elves rob Montreal grocery store to ‘give food to the needy’ | Canada | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/19/montreal-grocery-store-santas-elves-robbery

Dak Prescott seeking redemption in Denver, knows Cowboys must have grit to win https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/dak-prescott-seeking-redemption-in-denver-knows-cowboys-must-have-grit-to-win

Today, students startet working on their term project (we're in week 6 of 14). They create a learning mate based on a given structure. So, basically they need to come up with a good system prompt to make the mate do what they expect.
After 10 minutes: „Wait, we only need to input the prompt here? That’s all?“
An hour later: „D'oh, it acts strange! We tried this and that and whatnot, and it still isn’t what we need. Can we have another week?“

PSA for users of #Fedora Linux 41 and 42:
The jump from #Linux 6.16.y to 6.17.y will soon happen in updates-testing; a few days later the new #kernel series will become a regular update.

Peak neoliberalism. https://kolektiva.social/@adub/115395745174476749

Local divers pick away at Lake Malawi’s underwater garbage problem https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/local-divers-pick-away-at-lake-malawis-underwater-garbage-problem/

Local divers pick away at Lake Malawi’s underwater garbage problem
CAPE MACLEAR, Malawi — On a clear August morning, three scuba divers disappeared under the waters of Lake Malawi. Above them, serenity: The clear water rippled gently, spick-and-span Cape Maclear Beach was empty of tourists and the shoreline trees stood calm. Half an hour later, having covered an area just 30 meters (100 feet) from […]

Progress! Now 3 VMs to upgrade to Trixie in the next day or two, plus my office workstation and core router which are scheduled for upgrade during the maintenance outage later.
And I only have 8 VMs to switch over to the new storage setup before I can work on upgrading the hypervisor.

TIL that there's an Internet movie airplane database.
https://impdb.fandom.com/wiki/Richard_III

Former Microsoft employee Andrew Harris says the software giant dismissed his warnings about a critical flaw because it feared losing government business.
Russian hackers later used the weakness to breach the National Nuclear Security Administration, among others.
https://www.

Whistleblower Says Microsoft Dismissed Warnings About a Security Flaw That Russians Later Used to Hack U.S. Government
Former employee says software giant dismissed his warnings about a critical flaw because it feared losing government business. Russian hackers later used the weakness to breach the National Nuclear Security Administration, among others.

Embracing physical and financial well-being in our later years isn't just a goal—it's a fulfilling journey! I'm devoted to helping seniors truly thrive. It's NEVER too late to start. What activities keep you vibrant and engaged? Let's share and inspire each other! 😊 #SeniorWellness #AgeWell #StayActive

World War I Message in a Bottle Found in Australia and Delivered to Families More Than a Century Later https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/world-war-i-message-in-a-bottle-found-in-australia-and-delivered-to-familie…

World War I Message in a Bottle Found in Australia and Delivered to Families More Than a Century Later
Letters from WWI soldiers that were placed in a bottle and thrown into the ocean were recently found in Australia and delivered to relatives.

A modern coreutils fork that replaces the obsolete "no" answer with "maybe later". And loops until you give up.

The other day my wife and I were talking about Charli XCX, how she's so popular. My wife hadn't heard her stuff. I had, last year, when everyone was raving about it. It's very popular. No shade to her fans.
So for fun, a little later, I put on just the first couple minutes of Charli's 'Brat' (that I found to be unlistenable) and I was like, hey listen to this.
My wife was like, what the FUCK is THAT?!? 😂😂

I'm enjoying these posts so much I don't want to read them right away so I can keep them as a treat for later https://stonetools.ghost.io/visicalc-apple2/

In one case, it turns out that an all-male client group was giving vicious beratings (undeserved!) to a female project manager when they had her cornered alone. I had no idea.
In the moment, I found those men kind of obnoxiously self-confident in their ignorance, but nothing worse. Later they want on a Trumpian scorched earth campaign trying not to pay everyone for work already done and threatening lawsuits willy nilly. They turned out to be horrible people. Missing that early red flag of misogyny cost us all — but especially that manager.
2/

Ty Burns, Republican Oklahoma state rep. of the 35th District, just convicted of domestic abuse against his wife & daughter & resigned his seat.
#Republicans #crime
From: @…

The Intellectualist (@the_intellectualist_official) on Threads
🚨 Republican Rep. Ty Burns pleaded guilty to domestic abuse after court records said he tried to gouge his wife’s eye and later ran his wife and daughter off the road. He still holds his Oklahoma House seat. https://open.substack.com/pub/theintellectualistofficial/p/republican-lawmaker-pleads-guilty

SBA told laid-off employees they could get their jobs back. It rescinded that offer a day later (Jory Heckman/Federal News Network)
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/11/sba-told-laid-off-employees-they-could-get-their-jobs-back-it-rescinded-that-offer-a-day-later/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p98#a251119p98

Imagine going to a dinner party twenty years ago and being informally photographed, and then seeing the photo years later in a news article alongside a caution that "there is no accusation that [x] also abused children".

SAG-AFTRA announces a new agreement tailored for serialized microdramas, or "verticals", with budgets under $300K that it plans to circulate later this month (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

SAG-AFTRA Gets In the Verticals Game
The union will be circulating a new agreement for microdramas with budgets under $300,000 later this month.

Sources: Apple's foldable iPad with an 18" screen faces engineering challenges tied to weight, features, and display tech, pushing its debut to 2029 or later (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@… *me, 1000 years later, hooked up to a life-extension machine, still responding to GitHub issues opened in 2020*

Made a poem up in the shower this morning:
This potata
On my plate-a
Could be eaten now, or
Could be eaten later
WDYT? #poetry

I decided to try a short ride today to see how I feel later on. (Back paid and leg-wise.) I did not dress warm enough but was only out for 20 minutes.
I tried to (slowly) ride across some ice to see how that feels and quickly learned I need to avoid all ice. If I do ride more next winter studded tires are a must.
#bikeTooter

AWS to Bare Metal Two Years Later: Answering Your Toughest Questions About Leaving AWS
https://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2025-10-29-aws-to-bare-metal-two-years-later/view

AWS to Bare Metal Two Years Later: Answering Your Toughest Questions About Leaving AWS
Two years after our AWS-to-bare-metal migration, we revisit the numbers, share what changed, and address the biggest questions from Hacker News and Reddit.

RIP to this #SolyTech power supply in one of my old #TigerDirect #Systemax clunkers. It just failed spectacularly with a tick-tick-tick, a large burst of yellow sparks, a loud buzz, and acrid ozoney smoke.…

I signed into a website with my Google account on my Android tablet, and got an email from Google announcing "A new sign-in on Linux"... there's no way this was not bad, right?
(I changed my password 2 minutes later)

60 years ago tonight, the big beat acid test, on the grateful dead’s home turf in palo alto, at a soon-to-open go-go club on the outskirts of town. full chaos, with the dead & prankster band playing at the same time. local historian @… on the big beat:

"The case that turned the justices into art critics"
Andy Warhol would Warhol-ize Goldsmith’s photo and produce an image of Prince as a music icon. Decades later, these two contrasting portraits of Prince would wind up at the Supreme Court, with Goldsmith claiming copyright infringement and Warhol’s foundation claiming “fair use.”

Police were no longer pursuing Marshawn Kneeland at time of crash, report says https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6825131/2025/11/20/marshawn-kneeland-police-crash-report/

On February 3, 2023, a Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed in the small town of East Palestine, Ohio.
Three days later, Norfolk Southern pressured local authorities to dump and burn five tanker cars full of chemicals,
blasting a mushroom cloud of toxic phosgene and hydrogen chloride into the air.
Nearly three years later, residents like Jami Wallace and her family are still suffering the toxic fallout

Residents in this small town ‘left for dead’ after industrial disaster
“It's not fair. We're people, our lives matter. My daughter's life matters. And that's what everybody is telling me: ‘You guys are just the cost of doing business. We can kill a whole community and who cares?’”

The Alps set to lose a record number of glaciers in the next decade, study warns #Alps

The Alps set to lose a record number of glaciers in the next decade, study warns
Glaciers are melting worldwide. In some regions, they could even disappear completely. Looking at the number of glaciers disappearing, the Alps could reach their peak loss rate as early as 2033 to 2041. Depending on how sharply the planet warms, this period may mark a time when more glaciers vanish than ever before. Worldwide, the peak glacier loss rate will occur about ten years later and could rise from 2,000 to 4,000 glaciers lost each year.

Two months later, Russia still can’t clear a single destroyed train in occupied part of Zaporizhzhia Oblast - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/12/two-months-later-russia-still-cant-clear-a-single-destroyed-train-in-occupied-part-of-zaporizhzhia-oblast/

And now that I'm below poly, I think it's time to give my microscope a well-deserved break from the near-constant imaging it's been doing the past few weeks.
369963 photos totaling 203.4 GB. Over a hundred hours of imaging time averaging around 3000 photos an hour. 27 etch cycles, 72 imaging runs.
I'll start shooting some analysis video later today talking about the device floorplan and such. But as a teaser, here's the final image just after stripping poly bu…

Regrading eight NFL trades from last year's deadline: Hindsight on Adams to the Jets, Cooper to the Bills https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46654966/regrading-deals-2024-nfl-trade-deadline-davante-adams-marshon-lattimore

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #90TEEN
Stereolab:
🎵 Three Longers Later
#Stereolab
https://stereolab.bandcamp.com/track/three-longers-later-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/1f5mVDQBg67T6QnrZdjIjx

Mike Johnson is also Speaker of the House that never meets
https://mastodon.social/@scottlayne/114466579220194461

Zer0 Billionaires (@scottlayne@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Mike Johnson was dean of a law school that never opened—named after Judge Paul Pressler, a Southern Baptist leader later accused by multiple men (including a child) of sexual abuse. The school had no students and shut down before launch. #notadragqueen

Police were no longer pursuing Marshawn Kneeland at time of crash, report says https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6825131/2025/11/20/marshawn-kneeland-police-crash-report/

Apple says iPhone Air will go on sale in China on October 22, after initially delaying the launch due to regulatory issues with the device's eSIM-only design (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/13/iphone-air-will-go-on-sal…

Apple announces iPhone Air will go on sale in China later this week - 9to5Mac
Apple is about to launch the iPhone Air in China after about a one-month delay, here are the full details.

"But as you can see, the programs do come at a cost... we estimate about $27.4m a year goes to the administrative costs and also the projected fare revenue reduction."
I'm waiting for the slide where they estimate the much higher cost of all the unmetered parking spaces across the city, and of turning off meters at 6pm and on Sundays. I'm sure that'll definitely be later in this presentation, right?

"The case that turned the justices into art critics"
Andy Warhol would Warhol-ize Goldsmith’s photo and produce an image of Prince as a music icon. Decades later, these two contrasting portraits of Prince would wind up at the Supreme Court, with Goldsmith claiming copyright infringement and Warhol’s foundation claiming “fair use.”

When you beat the later levels, Linux restarts the whole game over but in hard mode. Sure, I've installed MySQL on Debian before, but this time around there's extra challenges - like the GPG signature on <https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.4/en/checking-gpg-signature…

Hoping, if that's the right word, to do The Shop later, with my son's help. I think I'll feel more on top of things when that's done.

I can track web development eras like tree rings, but each ring is move-fast-and-break-things devs saying “we don’t care about Y and you shouldn’t either—here are a bunch of tools that disregard Y” and indie folks saying “no thanks, I do care about Y—those tools aren’t useful if they don’t take Y into account.”
Later it becomes “as an industry we have always thought Y was very important—we should build *new* tools that embrace Y, I wish someone would have said something before”
R…

Sequoia's Shaun Maguire speculated in an X post that a Palestinian student was behind the Brown University shooting; the post was later deleted (Chris Stokel-Walker/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91463942/sequoia-shaun-maguire-brow…

Sequoia's Shaun Maguire accused an innocent Palestinian of being the Brown shooter. Then he doubled down.
Online sleuthing is not, it turns out, among the noted VC's talents.

McVea, Super Bowl champ with Chiefs, dies at 79 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46654366/warren-mcvea-super-bowl-champion-chiefs-dies-79

Elon Musk says Grok 5 would be released "in Q1 sometime", later than a deadline he previously set of releasing the model by the end of 2025 (Theo Wayt/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/elon-musks-xai-delays-grok-5-rele…

Elon Musk’s xAI Delays Grok 5 Release to Next Year
XAI plans to release its next-generation Grok 5 artificial intelligence model in the first three months of next year, CEO Elon Musk said on Friday. That’s later than a deadline Musk had previously set of releasing the model by the end of 2025. In an interview with the investor Ron Baron, who has backed several Musk companies including xAI, Musk said that Grok 5 would be released “in Q1

The man suspected of the shooting at Brown University that killed two students and wounded nine others Saturday
-- and killing an MIT professor days later
-- was found dead in Salem, New Hampshire.
The suspect was identified as Claudio Manuel Neves Valente
Neves Valente had been a PhD program student in physics at Brown.
He is believed to have attended the same university in Lisbon, Portugal, as
Nuno Gomes Loureiro,
Loureiro,
who was a member of …

Suspected Brown shooter Valente is found dead, authorities say
The suspected gunman, Claudio Manuel Nueves Valente, 48, had been a graduate students in physics at Brown University in the early 2000s, authorities said.

Escalating the friction between Washington and one of its closest allies in Latin America,
Donald Trump said Sunday, the United States will slash assistance to Colombia because its leader, Gustavo Petro,
“does nothing to stop” drug production"
The U.S. president warned that Petro “better close up” drug operations “or the United States will close them up for him, and it won’t be done nicely.”
Hours later, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the latest U.S. strik…

Trump announces an end to US aid to Colombia
It's a war of words between President Donald Trump and Colombian leader Gustavo Petro over illegal drugs, with hundreds of millions of dollars in American aid hanging in the balance. Trump says he'll slash U.S. assistance and enact tariffs because Colombia's leftist president “does nothing to stop” drug production and is an “illegal drug leader.” Petro is rejecting the accusations and defending his work to fight narcotics in Colombia, the world’s largest exporter of cocaine. Colombia …

Google brings its vibe coding tool Opal to Gemini on the web, letting users create their own custom apps called Gems; the mini apps can be reused later (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/googles-vibe-coding-tool-opal-comes-to-gemini/

Google's vibe-coding tool Opal comes to Gemini | TechCrunch
The company on Wednesday said it is integrating the tool, which lets you build AI-powered mini apps, inside the Gemini web app, allowing users to create their own custom apps.

When Lee and Yang suggested there's a fundamental difference between left and right, Pauli wrote:
"Ich glaube aber nicht, daß der Herrgott ein schwacher Linkshänder ist."
(I do not believe that the Lord is a weak left-hander.)
Two days later, Wu's experiment showed that Lee and Yang were correct!
-- @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social

Jacopo Bertolotti (@jacopobertolotti.com)
There is a infinite number of stories about Pauli being horrible to other (especially younger) Physicists. His word carried a lot of weight, so people were either psychologically crushed, or abandoned promising research lines just because he liked to be a assh@le.

A look at the risks of BNPL apps like Klarna on users' financial health, as credit cards adopt BNPL features and regulators struggle to categorize BNPL services (Amy X. Wang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.co…

Klarna, Affirm, Afterpay: How ‘Buy Now Pay Later’ Built a New Culture of Consumption
‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ has built a delirious new culture of consumption — and trapped users in a vortex of debt.

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.
Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.
https://bsky.app/profile/rbreich.bsky.

Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social)
CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it. Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

Paxos says it "mistakenly minted" $300T worth of PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin on Wednesday and "burned" the tokens a little over 20 minutes later (Ryan S. Gladwin/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/344463/printing-money-paxos-mints-bur…

Printing Money: Paxos Mints, Then Burns $300 Trillion in PayPal Stablecoins
A fat-finger mistake, or a hack? Crypto traders are confounded after $300 trillion worth of PayPal's PYUSD was minted and then burned.

Matsuo Basho (1644–1694) lived his peculiar life on the conviction that
art could create an awareness that allowed one to see into and communicate the essence of experience.
Throughout his life he searched for the state of being one with the object of his poems,
something he believed a poet needed to reach in order to write truthfully.
This life-long search brought Basho to wandering.
He thought that travelling would lead to a state of karumi (lightness), ess…

In Basho’s Footsteps: Hiking the Narrow Road to the Deep North Three Centuries Later
Matsuo Basho (1644–1694) lived his peculiar life on the conviction that art could create an awareness that allowed one to see into and communicate the essence of experience.

Uber plans to launch data labelling tasks in the US for some drivers to earn extra money, appearing under "digital tasks" in the driver app, later this fall (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20