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Public Art Museums
#musings

Mekong sand mining risks collapse of SE Asia’s largest freshwater lake, study finds https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/mekong-sand-mining-risks-collapse-of-se-asias-largest-freshwater-lake-study-finds/

Mekong sand mining risks collapse of SE Asia’s largest freshwater lake, study finds
Rampant sand mining in the Mekong River is directly weakening critical seasonal river flows that sustain Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake, new research indicates. The Mekong’s annual wet season flood pulse that feeds water into Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake has been dwindling year by year. Experts have long pointed to upstream hydropower dams in China […]

Making Sense of One of the Biggest Mysteries of Raiders Season https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-making-sense-of-biggest-mysteries-of-season

Tyler Shough for Rookie of Year? The Saints QB is making his case https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47439147/tyler-shough-2025-rookie-year-new-orleans-saints-quarterback-making-case

AI didn't create skewed workplace incentives. They were already aligned towards churning out artifacts to create the illusion of productivity.
Of course, if there is one thing AI is good at, it's making plausible-looking artifacts. Then those artifacts get passed on and become your problem.
HBR is calling this the workslop era.
We must kill the logic underlying workslop: that anything going wrong after a handoff can be blamed on execution problems.

"Workslop" was the logical outcome of productivity maxxing
Local throughput optimization always externalizes costs onto downstream colleagues.

When I visit Germany, there are a few products that I usually bring back. Tempo tissues and a selection of Pom-Bär this time. https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post/3m655gm5sd22q

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Mika Miko:
🎵 Turkey Sandwich
#MikaMiko
https://mikamiko.bandcamp.com/track/turkey-sandwich
https://open.spotify.com/track/25Ilw8ZnYY8Oz95a6Kk6Uz

Sources: Brad Lander is making plans to challenge Goldman (Peter Sterne/City & State New York)
https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2025/10/sources-brad-lander-making-plans-challenge-goldman/409086/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251027/p76#a251027p76

Brian Schottenheimer shares secret making Cowboys hottest team in NFL https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/brian-schottenheimer-secret-making-dallas-cowboys-hottest-team-nfl

Politico Gives Youngkin "The Milk Carton Award for Missing Politicians"; Says His "star faded as he hemmed and hawed about running for president last year" - and Badly Lost the 2025 Elections (Lowkell/Blue Virginia)
https://bluevirginia.us/2025/12/politico-gives-youngkin-the-milk-carton-award-for-missing-politicians-says-his-star-faded-as-he-hemmed-and-hawed-about-running-for-president-last-year-and-badly-lost-the-2025-elections/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251229/p36#a251229p36