Girls Talk, ‘Boys Talk: Rounding up the Broncos https://www.dallascowboys.com/podcast/girls-talk-boys-talk-rounding-up-the-broncos

Kitty has a question to ask.
(probably a dirty one)

What we learned in NFL Week 12: Rams look dangerous, Eagles searching for consistency https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6832299/2025/11/24/nfl-week-12-takeaways-rams-eagles-cowboys/

Oh great, we've reached the time of the year when people start driving around in their cars with frosty, iced, misted up windows. Awesome!
Scrapers aren't expensive, people! Look out for each other!

> Let's be clear what's happening: the person is outright baiting people using this AI slop into correcting the post, incorporating said corrections without attribution to the people who corrected the post and then took the credit for said corrections silently.
https://social.treehouse.systems/@am…

Good Morning #Canada
No nonsense news or fun facts this morning. I'm taking a few days off due to a busy schedule and a compressed family gathering. My oldest daughter has scheduled radiation treatments this morning and early on Boxing Day, so we're having a Christmas Eve dinner and exchanging gifts early tomorrow. I might post if something snark-worthy pops up but otherwise look for the next Good Morning post on the 26th.
I hope all Canadians have a safe and happy holidays.
#CanadaIsAwesome #MerryChristmas

Day 28: Samira Ahmed
As foreshadowed, we're back to YA land, which represents a lot of what I've been enjoying from the library lately.
I've read "Hollow Fires", "This Book Won't Burn", and "Love, Hate, and other Filters" by Ahmed, along with "Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know" which is quite different. All four are teen ~romances with interesting things to say about racism & growing up as a South Asian Muslim, but whereas the first three are set in small-town Indiana, the third is set in France and includes a historical fiction angle involving Dumas and a hypothetical Muslim woman who was (in this telling) the inspiration for several Lord Byron poems.
Ahmed's novels all include a strong and overt theme of social justice, and it's refreshing to see an author not try to wade around the topic or ignore it. Her romances are complex, with imperfect protagonists and endings that aren't always "happily ever after" although they're satisfying and believable.
My library has a plethora of similar authors I've been enjoying, including Adiba Jaigirdar (who appeared earlier in this list), Sabaa Tahir ("All my Rage" is fantastic but I'm less of a fan of her fantasy stuff), Sabina Khan ("The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali"), and Randa Abdel-Fattah ("Does My Head Look Big In This?"; from an earlier era). Ahmed gets the spot here because I really like her politics and the way she works them into her writing. Her characters are unapologetic advocates against things like book bans, and Ahmed doesn't second-guess them or try to make things more palatable for those who want to ban books (or whatever). Her historical fiction in "Mad..." is also really cool in terms of "huh that could actually totally be true" and grappling with literary sexism from ages past.
#30AuthorsNoMen

Cowboys Headlines: Injury news as 3 return, Payton won't call Broncos' plays? Madden re-up https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/23/cowboys-welcome-back-3-to-practi…

How to factory reset your cat

Why would you undergo surgery to look like a cheap blow-up sex doll, and my second question is why would you hire someone like that to head up a government office?

A look at the "explosion" of LA media upstarts, like the LA Local News Initiative, which has $18M in funding, SFGate's Southland, and nonprofit LA Public Press (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/…

“More of everything”: In Los Angeles, an “explosion” of new efforts aim to up the city’s local news game
A well-funded coalition building out neighborhood news, a new newsletter from an expanding for-profit site, and a nonprofit breaking through on social media are just a few examples of the latest bids to deliver more local news to the city.

Desert is trying to come up with sunrise colors that look completely fake

MAGA is melting down across the US, and here I am in Norway just enjoying the show. Keep falling apart.
#MAGA #US #Fascism

A look at Huawei's efforts to build an independent Chinese chip supply chain; through vehicles like Hubble, it has invested in 60 chip companies since 2019 (Itsuro Fujino/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/

Huawei's web of chipmaking firms scales up independent supply chains
Affiliates invest in takeovers and capacity buildups in line with China's national ambitions

When It Hits the Fan - The Prince Andrew Crisis
Possibly more discord and disagreement than I have ever heard before between the hosts Yelland and Lewis on this one.
I think I have to agree with Yelland here that royal PR is in a total mess and the upcoming generation (George, Charlotte and Louis) are going to have to force their parents to shake things up.

"I'm so freakin' tired, dude..."

I wondered what the Ceauşescus were up to these days. https://sfba.social/@skykiss/115420725296644745

♾️🇺🇦 Vote Midterms (@skykiss@sfba.social)
Attached: 1 image Demolition of East Wing—traditionally the First Lady’s domain—has already begun, despite this lack of approval. The illegal ballroom expects to exceed $250 MILLION. The obscene gold ballroom that dwarfs the core of the white house itself. The re-making of a nation's identity. The controversy illegal construction lacks formal approval from the National Capital Planning Commission, which oversees federal construction projects in Washington, DC Look at how ugly this is. …

Seriously, though, USians, before you tell someone from the Middle East to “check your privilege”, why don’t you open up your US passport, have a good look at it, and then check your own goddamn privilege before putting your whole foot in your mouth publicly? Maybe also look up intersectionality while you’re at it and realise that it’s not a fucking pissing contest. I’ll take lessons in privilege from you when every last one of you conscientiously objects to bombing the shit out of our side …

Added a zoom level to the Category page on the Exocortex-Log app. Can make the graphs look a lot cleaner now.
Looking back over the last 100 months here, we can see in general my social life is quite seasonal -- Festivals are a lot of social all weekend long and a couple of them in a month really bumps up the hours from my usual habit of sitting alone in a dark room pressing buttons.
The peak in 2019 is a summer filled with Glasto and Noisily and another festival or camping trip I don’t seem to have recorded the name of.
Then clearly visible is the drop-off in social activity as the COVID pandemic hit. Virtual-Social (IE zoom meetings and the like) picked up quite a bit around there but had died back to almost nothing way before the hours spent with actual people started to tick up.
Annoyingly, I have my biggest gap in data right on top of the pandemic there, where I failed to back up for months and then data became corrupted.
When the data-hole is over we see social life still not really returning until the middle of 2021 and not really getting back into stride until summer 2022.
It remains much lower now on average with lower peaks than before the pandemic too. Multiple reasons.
Work is pretty constant all the way though other than the data-hole. Dipping when I take time off for social mostly.
That data-hole is annoying. Back up your data kids.
#lifeLog #app #exocortexLog

NFC East roundtable: Can the defending champs take the division crown again? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46683318/nfc-east-roundtable-2025-week-7-eagles-cowboys-commanders-giants

"In a safety culture, you look at the system, you don't just thump the individual who screwed up." https://sf.streetsblog.org/2025/11/21/commentary-munis-near-disaster-is-about-more-than-a-sleeping-train-ope…

Commentary: Muni's Near-Disaster is About More than a Sleeping Train Operator - Streetsblog San Francisco
The incident demands a thorough review of management, because the train operator wasn't the only one asleep on the job

Look, very few people will care about this but I wrote it up anyway https://www.zachleat.com/web/markdown-code-wrapper/

this is bill and hillary clinton at yale law school 1972, this is what they used to look like. u will grow old too, u will change too

"I think the new web aesthetic is about getting active again. Platforms encourage passivity. They want us to stay still and scrolling, looking at what the algo wants to show us. Like, swipe, repeat. But the new web aesthetic is non-linear. It encourages you to move from one site to another, to dive down rabbit holes, and crucially, to continue sharing what you find..
..sites that reflect a person’s process, not just their conclusions. It’s working with the garage door up."…

toward a new aesthetic
Lately I’ve been thinking about what being online looks like. The actual look of it. The aesthetic. As I continue to think and write and talk about escaping...

Been working on Corsi-Rosenthal like filters devices and it's really nice to see them just sucking up PM2.5 particles in minutes when put in a room
Trying to make ones that look a bit less like a DIY shitshow and more professional
Really great and happy with these, considering making a little Open Source project for the few designs I made
Image is a prototype I put together but not yet finished the box with varnish or anything but really loving this
(background he…

As the Trump administration ratchets up its targeting of immigrant communities across the Chicagoland area,
elected officials are looking for any tool they can find to protect their residents from militarized raids and roving bands of Border Patrol officers.
Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans banned civil arrests at county courthouses across Chicago this week,
preventing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from arresting and attempting to deport people who …

Elected Officials in Chicago Look for Tools to Squeeze ICE Out of Public Spaces
A city commissioner pledges to leave “no stone unturned” in the city’s fight to slow ICE abductions.

8yo: "Wow, I didn't expect it to look like an anus!"
A: "Go eat your anus at the table."
13yo: "Guys. Shut up."

Got the Heltec V4 GPS working for the car. Cool stuff! Now I just need a smaller battery for the case, and I'll mount and wire it up. I'll look into CAN bus connectivity for it in the future. Turns out it was RX 39 and TX 38 overrides for GPS to work (34 enable). #meshstatic is a fascinating hobby!
Thanks, @…

Anybody familiar with the details of how thread local storage on aarch64 is implemented abi wise?
Like if I'm working on a bare metal embedded platform with two cores and i want some data to be private per core using gcc thread local attributes how do i actually make that work so accesses to that data get a pointer to a per core context object and look it up as an offset into it etc?

What They're Saying: Chiefs 'fired up' for Raiders rivalry week https://www.raiders.com/news/what-they-re-saying-kansas-city-chiefs-andy-reid-patrick-mahomes-fired-up-for-raiders-rivalry-week

A look at military tech startup Shield AI, recently valued at $5.6B, and its new CEO Gary Steele, who aims to grow annual revenue from $300M to $1B by 2028 (Jessica Mathews/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/21/shield-ai-ukraine-defense-tech-gary-steele/

Shield AI took its drones from the ‘Batcave’ to the battlefield. Now the $5.6 billion defense-tech startup’s new CEO says it’s at an inflection point
After eight months spent tweaking its surveillance drone in Ukraine, demand for Shield AI’s V-BAT is ramping up in Europe and Asia.

I’ve worked over the past year to reduce the amount of noise in my consciousness on a daily basis.
By that I mean - information noise, not literal sounds “noise”. (That problem was solved long ago by some good earplugs and noise canceling earphones.)
I’ve gotten used to spending less time on social media, regularly blocking most apps on my devices (anything with a feed news, most work communication apps, etc.), putting my phone and other devices aside for extended periods of time. Often go to work places with my iPad explicitly having its WiFi turned off and selecting cafes that don’t offer WiFi at all.
Negotiated better boundaries at work and in personal life where I exchange messages with people less often but try to make those interactions more meaningful, and people rarely expect me to respond to requests in less than 24 hours. Spent a lot of time setting up custom notification settings on all apps that would allow it, so I get fewer pings. With software, choosing fewer cloud-based options and using tools that are simple and require as few interruptions as possible.
Accustomed myself to lower-tech versions of doing things I like to do: reading on paper, writing by hand, drawing in physical sketchbooks, got a typewriter for typing without a screen. Choosing to call people on audio more, trying to make more of an effort to see people in person. Going to museums to look at art instead of browsing Pinterest. Defaulting to the library when looking for information.
I’m commenting on this now for two reasons:
1. I am pretty proud of myself for how much I’ve actually managed to reduce the constant stream of modern life esp. as a remote worker in tech!
2. Now that I’ve reached a breaking point of reducing enough noise that it’s NOTICEABLE - I am struck by the silence. I don’t know what to do with it. I don’t know how to navigate it and fill it. I made this space to be able to read and write and think more deeply - for now I feel stuck in limbo where I’m just reacquainting myself with the concept of having any space in my mind at all.

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#RealEstate listing photos edited through artificial intelligence create false impressions of homes for sale online. How A.I. slop is making house hunting in #USA even more dishonest and distorted than ever before.

This is cool and all but FireWire 800 had a 9-pin connector, look it up
https://mastodon.nl/@Zatarra/115750978802641327

So my car has been complaining I should put some exhaust emissions neutralizing fluid in it. A thing they call AdBlue I believe.
Bought a big 10l drum of the stuff ready to fill up.
But when I look at where I expect to find the hole for filling it, I just find a capped off tube and a warning sticker "See the GM Citreon Berlingo Blaze manual" for the adblue refilling hole.
Only user manual I have is the one telling me to expect it there.
The car was converted for wheelchair access at some point in its life. I think they are referring to the wheelchair-adaption manual, which the seller did not give me.
🤔
Have been looking around the car as much as I can for a couple of hours this morning to no avail. Where have they hidden this hole to fill up adblue?
Maybe it's under the engine or something now and you have to put the thing on stilts to find it?
🤷
Asked my mechanic about it and he says to bring it in on Monday. Gonna be a pain if I have to rip up the floorboards or something every year to refill that.
#mechanic #car #diesel

Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
LEYLAN: All right... all right. Now... now don't move. Now, just look around and tell me what you see.
KRELL: [V.O.] What? I heard something.
LEYLAN: What is it?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/555 B7B4

@… I… had to look this up

I just woke up from a dream. For every parent there is a time when, with shame, we have to explain how the world actually works... when they become a little too old to keep saying, "I'll explain it when you're older."
Amsterdam is full of reminders of the occupation, of the Holocaust. It's impossible to pretend there hasn't been a great evil here... One that's not in the past, but still very alive in the present.
At some point things will have to change because fascism can't last forever. It is a thing which necessarily contains its own downfall. We will, at that point, have an opportunity to make the world one that we can be proud to tell our children we created. We can stop short and reestablish the status quo that got us here, or we can build a world that we will no longer have to explain to each new generation in shame.
What would it look like?
(Shout out to the comrade who prompted me to be thinking about this.)
There was also a sign in my dream that said, "we created the bike, therefore we can do anything." This may or may not be related.

2025 NFL playoff picture, standings: Predicting where Lions, Buccaneers end up in NFC race after Detroit win

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-playoff-picture-2025-wee…

This Never Post episode on the question of whether "AI" is the esthetics of American Fascism is great. Mike Rugnetta takes you on an enlightening stroll through media theory and the fucked up reality we live in. It's challenging but worth it. https://www.neverpo.st/a-i-and-new-america

🆕 Never Post! A.I. and New American Fascism
Is a generated aesthetic the look of our times?

What They're Saying: Chiefs 'fired up' for Raiders rivalry week https://www.raiders.com/news/what-they-re-saying-kansas-city-chiefs-andy-reid-patrick-mahomes-fired-up-for-raiders-rivalry-week

Just read the 'don't look up' paper on satellite link interception; it's quite fun. The bit that surprises me a bit is that a lot of the traffic they sniffed was encapsulated in DVB-S signals; different lower level protocols, but they were using a standard DVB-S card for it.
https://

#Wordle 1,613 3/6*
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⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩 4% of 136 (2)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 70% of 15,914
WordleBot
Skill 92/99
Luck 79/99
Thought of the word, then spent 4 minutes trying to find any other word, before using it!
There was another word, not sure it would ever have occurred to me, I had to look up its meaning.

NFL playoff picture Week 16: Eagles look to lock up NFC East, finish Cowboys https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/12/20/nfl-playoff-picture-week-16-afc-nfc-seeds-clinching-scenari…

If you are thinking about switching to the #Ladybird web browser, please look at this article by @…: ht…

Ladybird and the Controversy over Inclusivity
What people were upset about, why it blew up, and why some people are still leery of the project to this day.

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…

Trump’s chief of staff acknowledges ‘score settling’ behind prosecutions of political rivals:
‘He will go for it’
– ‘In some cases, it may look like retribution,’
said Susie Wiles in a wide-ranging interview with Vanity Fair
Wiles also suggested the real goal of Trump's boat strikes is to topple Venezuela's Maduro
"He wants to keep on blowing boats up until [president Nicolšs] Maduro cries uncle. And people way smarter than me on that say that he w…

Look up and see the intact false roof.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MidnightInAPerfectWorld
Cleaver Blue:
🎵 Look Up and Make Me Smile
#CleaverBlue

*Me staring at a pair of leggings with elaborate Celtic knotwork on the thighs and calves and wanting*
My brain: “you know this is a scam, right? That would take hours and hours of work on the part of a costumer, like how you used to be? And they’re $30‽ c’mon!”
Me: “shut up brain”

Something nice to look at. I used a portion of the extra pumpkin puree to make pumpkin (with raisin) muffins for my snacks.
They are not too bad, but next time I will add more of my homemade pumpkin pie spice and pumpkin puree as the taste was a bit too subtle for me. I may also add a bit of rolled oats to pump up the fibre.

Every now and then I open my junk drawers (yes, plural) and look at what I have there. While it’s mostly old cables and chargers, there’s enough other stuff that I think «I should go through all that stuff. Someday.» And then I put things back and close it up again…

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

The next cold email that is „just following up to see if you’ve had time to look at our offerings“ I will send an automated email back once every 4 days telling them that I’m just checking in to make sure they know I’m not interested.

Apple wouldn't let me create a developer account from my appleid because it said that my name was made up. Hey assholes. You can ask ChatGPT who I am, or Claude, or look up my web site, or my books. That is so racist. I'm sorry I'm not as white as all the people who work at Apple.

Aurora alert just woke me up. The fog is too thick here, but if you have a clear few of the sky, it might be worth to have a look outside.
#auroraborealis #northernlights

I sometimes write posts which go through twists and turns that make them look haphazard and are met with incomprehension or even scorn from readers who think I've accidentally made them laugh though I actually carefully constructed the piece with phrasing to build up to an often non-sequitur type of punchline.

A look at the erosion of press freedom and independent reporting in Israel, where journalists report escalating censorship, harassment, and self-censorship (Yael Krifcher/Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/12/under-the-rada

Under the radar: Israel steps up censorship and suppression of independent reporting - Committee to Protect Journalists
Two years into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, press freedom inside the country has reached a breaking point. Journalists report escalating censorship, harassment, and self-censorship that, they say, now functions as “part of the war effort.” Independent reporting has sharply declined, leaving the Israeli public with a distorted view of the conflict. An October 2025 report...

"Don’t look up: how Trump’s deregulation drive could obscure the stars and threaten our access to space"
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/sep/26/trump-rocket-launches-executive-order-threatens-sta…

Hangin' With The 'Boys: A Charged-Up Defense https://www.dallascowboys.com/podcast/hangin-with-the-boys-a-charged-up-defense

Oh for fuck’s sake! Like I don’t have enough to do. But no, even paying for something to get a basic service isn’t enough in this fucked up world. https://infosec.exchange/@themoep/115474387322154883

A look at Phreeli, a privacy-focused phone carrier that lets users sign up with only a ZIP code and uses an encryption system based on "zero-knowledge proofs" (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/new-anonymous-phone-carrier…

A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code
Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.

Cowboys vs. Commanders prediction: NFC East rivals look to bounce back in Dak Prescott vs. Jayden Daniels duel

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys…

Holy cow, that's a big dog!!

Game Preview: Broncos look for crucial win vs. Raiders as postseason race heats up https://www.denverbroncos.com/news/game-preview-broncos-look-for-crucial-win-vs-raiders-as-postseason-race-heats-up

Another person who I look up to falling for AI, sigh.
I think it has an allure like organized religion. Promising to free you of that pesky “having to think” part of your life and absolving you from having to make decisions or taking responsibility for your actions.
(Exactly as Weizenbaum wrote in the 1970s, read his book.)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Dizzee Rascal:
🎵 Fix Up, Look Sharp
#DizzeeRascal
https://studiostar.bandcamp.com/track/dizzee-rascal-fix-up-look-sharp-studio-star-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/0uP15QSJzK4Yyn1oAjsZsV

Mike McDaniel on Dolphins' passing attack in loss to Steelers: 'It's not up to standard' https://www.nfl.com/news/mike-mcdaniel-on-dolphins-passing-attack-in-loss-to-steelers-it-s-not-up-to-standard

A look at Flighty, a flight-tracking app that often beats airline updates; downloads went up 3x when the FAA cut air traffic during the US government shutdown (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/fli

Look.. If I get eaten by ghosts, you can't get fed, so we're in this together.

Very unique look at a cardiac arrest handled almost flawlessly. EMS arrives while the pt is A&Ox4, he arrests in front of them and CPR is started within seconds, first shock after like one cycle of compressions. ROSC achieved so fast they don't even get drugs or an airway established before he wakes back up.
And the whole thing is caught from multiple camera angles with a HIPAA release from the pt.

Time for a social experiment. I have 5 questions:
- What should we work towards as a society?
- What's one thing that doesn't exist now in your community but should?
- What's one action you could take in the coming year to align your life with that goal?
- What's one thing you could achieve in the coming year to get closer to making that thing exist?
- Imagine that we changed everything and you're living in the world you want to see exist. What does the world look like?
I've asked variations of these already (and am still getting great responses), but this time there's a catch. Get together some of your friends (3-5 people) and ask these questions of the group. Come up with *one* answer that everyone in the group agrees on and post it here, then write a bit about your experience.
If you don't know people locally (or otherwise can't do this in person), tag some folks in here or wherever your people are at digitally. Just add some info on if it's online or in person.
For anyone bold enough to actually do this, let me know if you'd be OK with me putting this in an upcoming entry (https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/).

NFL insider names Dallas Cowboys ‘team to watch’ at NFL trade deadline https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/nfl-insider-names-dallas-cowboys-team-to-watch-at-nfl-trade-deadline

A look at Apple's iPhone roadmap; sources say the iPhone 18 Pro lineup will get under-screen Face ID, and the front camera will move to the top-left corner (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-apples-ip…

Inside Apple’s iPhone Road Map, From Foldable Screens to Curved Glass Cases
The iPhone family is growing again. Over the next two years, Apple is planning a major expansion of its smartphone product line that could see it selling at least seven new models of its flagship device by fall 2027, up from five iPhone models today, according to multiple people working directly ...

I like to label the important things :3

Carpenter called away to an emergency leak elsewhere today. Trouble with having a carpenter who is also a plumber I guess. 😆
The frames for the window doors look to be mostly completed, the doors that will make the blinds are up (though probably presumably will come down again to have mirrors attached? Maybe?). Lots of holes in wood filled. Stupid natural products. MDF don't have no holes, or grain at all.
Trying to render an image big enough to fill the wall there. 2m x 1m. Keeps crashing my machine. Going to have to try and render it in bits or something.

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.
Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term.
Then they went way down under Biden.
Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic
--Sarah Taber
https://www.fb.org…

Farm Bankruptcies Down… For Now
Farm Bankruptcies’ Downward Trend Not Expected to Continue

Bidding wars for Mac Jones, Fernando Mendoza? Setting stage for 2026 NFL QB carousel https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6896384/2025/12/19/nfl-quarterbacks-2026-draft-trade-free-agency-fernando-mendoza-mac-jones/

A look at Defense Secretary Hegseth's efforts to limit Pentagon press access; sources: he tried to bar an NBC News reporter who had dug up info about his past (Erik Wemple/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/business/media/hegseth-penta…

Inside Hegseth’s Effort to Limit Press Access at the Pentagon
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is at odds with the news media to a degree unseen in modern times, former Pentagon officials say.

Does anyone have a recommendation for an OBD2 reader?
I don’t need anything fancy but would like to look up error codes when check engine light is on.
Ideally it has a screen on it and doesn’t need an app on the phone?
(Please only recommend stuff you personally use and like, looking for recommendations not instructions how to use Google, thank you.)

A look at Cybathlon, an event by ETH Zurich where researchers team up with people with disabilities in a competition to test brain-computer interfaces (Oliver Whang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/scien…

At the Cybathlon, May the Best Brain-Computer Interface Win
Every four years at the Cybathlon, teams of researchers and technology “pilots” compete to see whose brain-computer interface holds the most promise.

👄

I'm all for whimsical, but I want professional software to be serious again.
Just got a message that Photoshop now supports "Nano Banana".
I refuse to look up what that is, though in my headcanon it's one of those Italian brainrot meme "AI" generated animals.

Ranking top 10 NFL offseason acquisitions: Daniel Jones, Sam Darnold putting up MVP seasons

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ranking-top-10-nfl-offseason-acquisi…

One day, I might sit in my local cafe,
caught up in angst,
trying to find euphemisms to explain to my children the wherefores and whys of it all.
Perhaps, one day, to sit in silence and think of nothing will no longer be ease but an act of defiance
— of remembering what it means to belong to a world once rooted in continuity again.
What kind of world allows a family to sit in a parlour and think of nothing?
What kind of world might let them look through …

Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 10 Oct 2025
For Fiona and Tom

Raiders DE Maxx Crosby Rips Into Aqib Talib: ‘Go Look up the Tape’ https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/maxx-crosby-aqib-talib-run-defense/?adt_ei=[email]

Bidding wars for Mac Jones, Fernando Mendoza? Setting stage for 2026 NFL QB carousel https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6896384/2025/12/19/nfl-quarterbacks-2026-draft-trade-free-agency-fernando-mendoza-mac-jones/

A look at Figure AI's new robot, Figure 03, which the company claims will be its first mass-producible humanoid capable of domestic chores and industrial labor (Billy Perrigo/Time)
https://time.com/7324233/figure-03-robot-humanoid-reveal/

The Robot in Your Kitchen
Start up Figure AI is reimagining the future of labor—at home and at work—with its new Figure 03 robot.

You know your jokes are good when even your cat gives you this look.

LOOK: Jaguars' Travis Hunter makes big catch vs. Chiefs on 'Monday Night Football'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/look-jaguars-travis-hu…

‘These are the ones you look forward to’: Broncos eager for prime-time AFC West showdown with Raiders https://www.denverbroncos.com/news/these-are-the-ones-you-look-forward-to-broncos-eager-for-prime-time-afc-wes…

A look at China's AI toy boom, which builds on decades of consumer electronics designed for children, as AI toy companies expand into the US and other markets (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/07/1125191/ai-toys-in-china/…

AI toys are all the rage in China—and now they’re appearing on shelves in the US too
Competition is heating up, with Mattel and OpenAI expected to launch a product for kids this year.

Me everytime I have to look up new slang like skibidi or gyatt

A look at ASML's planned 100-hectare expansion project in Eindhoven, set to create 20,000 jobs and that is focused on expanding production of its EUV machines (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-10-09/asml-gears-…

LaFleur to keep calling plays but must 'look inward' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46945762/packers-coach-matt-lafleur-not-giving-playcalling-duties-push-do-better

Rotisserie Chicken

A look at an "etiquette camp" for young founders in San Francisco, which teaches them how to dress, act, and talk, amid shifting expectations for tech founders (Lisa Bonos/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/07/te…

Tech bros head to etiquette camp as Silicon Valley levels up its style
As Silicon Valley grows in power and prominence, some insiders say it’s time for the tech industry to remake its slobby image. An etiquette camp for founders showed how.