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Smart Home: Matter 1.5 kann Kameras und bewässert Beete
Der Smart-Home-Standard Matter bietet erstmals Steuerbefehle für WLAN-Überwachungskameras, für Gießsysteme und für dynamische Stromtarife.
https://www.<…

The CSA says Matter will support video cameras for the first time with Matter 1.5; Amazon and Google have not committed to making their cameras interoperable (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

@ZhiZhu
"Our senators
—particularly those who profess support for the #military and reverence for alliances
—must all say, clearly and publicly, that treaties matter,
that allies matter,
and that American power is strengthened,
not weakened,
by restraint and respect for #law.&qu…

Good analysis from april 2024 by Ian Bond, still valid, "Does it matter if Ukraine loses?"
https://www.cer.eu/publications/archive/policy-brief/2024/does-it-matter-if-ukraine-loses

Does it matter if Ukraine loses?
Ukraine is retreating and Russia is advancing, militarily and politically. Western leaders seem to underestimate both the impact of Ukraine’s defeat and the West’s ability to prevent it.

It doesn't matter that my editor highlights "IdentityFile" and not "IdentifyFile"; I will still typo my .ssh/config, and not notice until I actually try to log into a machine.

Long ago I decided subbed or dubbed doesn''t matter much because I often forget which one I was watching after the fact and end up switching back and forth.
#anime

from my link log —
Do low-level optimizations matter?
https://cantrip.org/sortfast.html
saved 2021-07-18 https://dotat.at/:/GHHBV.html

"The student’s education then becomes not a victory for their own self-improvement or -enrichment, but rather that the teacher conquered the student’s presumed inherent laziness, shiftiness, etc. to instill some kernel of a lesson."
#FediLZ
@…

Although I believe that this case has great merit my prediction is that courts will dismiss it as non-justicable, a matter for "a coordinate branch of government" (in this case, Congress) to handle.
"Arizona attorney general sues U.S. House over seating Grijalva"
htt…

Arizona attorney general sues U.S. House over seating Grijalva
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes and Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva on Tuesday sued the U.S.

DOJ Memo Says It Won’t Prosecute US Troops No Matter How Illegal Trump’s Boat Strike Program Is | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/18/doj-memo-says-it-wont-prosecute-us-troops-no-matter-how-illegal-trumps-boat-strike-program-is/

Sources: OpenAI begins offering its chatbot ads to dozens of advertisers, initially charging per ad view, not per ad click, and asks them for <$1M commitments (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-lines-adver…

OpenAI Lines Up Advertisers, Reveals Key Details Ahead of Ads Launch
OpenAI has started offering its new chatbot ads to dozens of advertisers, according to two people familiar with the matter. To start off, the company is charging on the basis of ad views as opposed to per-ad clicks that are typical at large sellers of search ads like Google and Amazon, the ...

I swear to god it's always some shit with these dudes why do I always have one alcoholic roommate no matter who I'm living with

It is curious how quiet Vance and Rubio are on the Greenland matter.
Not that I would expect them to publicly counter Trumps incoherent rantings but strange that they are not (as far as I am aware) loudly supporting Trumps message. Bessent seems to be more vocal about it.
An optimist would think that perhaps something is going on to remove Trump.
#uspol

So in another dream I just woke up from, I was talking to someone about "the idea problem" (that it's becoming harder to monitize ideas, from a vox article written by an AI cooked reporter).
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/executive-disorder-white-house-weekly-46-313675864/
Basically, I was arguing that the majority of inventions target men because patriarchy puts economic control in men's hands. As men have started to help more with childcare, there have been more inventions related to childcare. (I don't have any idea if this is true. Seems legit, but I'm just relating my dream. I think I was also oversimplifying a bit to "men" and "women" because of my audience, but anyway it was a dream.) There's actually more low-hanging fruit, I pointed out, related to making care work easier.
So I argued that the real problem was a failure to invest in research into solving that problem. Today there are all these boondoggles built around killing people. What if, instead of all this government research into killing people, we dumped a ton of money into making it easier to support a household? That would be great for the economy. (Being asleep, I seem to have forgotten that working people need money.)
In the blur of being just awake I started thinking about how you could kickstart the US economy by taking the money from the AI boondoggle and other autonomous murder bots and create something like a program to build robots for housekeepers. You'd still be funding tech with government money, so the same horrible people get paid, but you're now actually solving real problems. It wouldn't even matter if it was a boondoggle, honestly. Just dumping money into something other than murdering people is good enough.
I imagined first if there was a program to fund a robot housecleaner, like robot dog with AI some laundry pickup, that would be provided, free of charge, to help people with children. It would work the same as the military boondoggle where a private company makes the government buy a piece of hardware from them and then also pay them to service it for some number of years. But instead of that hardware sitting around waiting to kill someone, it would be getting brought to people's houses to help them.
Then I thought, hey, you could even boost the economy more if you just had government funding for doulas and housecleaners and paid them a living wage. Hey, you could really kickstart the economy by nationalizing healthcare and including doula support as part of all births. Oh, and you could also just include the optional household help for families with children until the kids turn 18.
None of this is perfect (I don't actually think most of this is possible from any state), but the point is that it's actually wildly easy to figure out all kinds of ways to invest in the economy and monitize ideas as long as you aren't entirely focused on the same old "make money from spying on people and killing them." Funny that. Like they said in the podcast, maybe "finding ideas" isn't the problem.
Hope you enjoyed the weird semi-awake brain dump/rant.

We need our military leaders to show their moral courage | Cognoscenti https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2026/01/20/minneapolis-ice-insurrection-act-trump-amerian-soldiers-andrew-carleen?linkId=900232191 …

We need our military leaders to show their moral courage
"It seems it’s only a matter of time before U.S. soldiers are deployed against the American people," writes Navy veteran Andrew Carleen. "When that moment comes, I wonder what kind of moral courage will we see from uniformed leadership?"

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Nina Simone:
🎵 Mississippi Goddam
#NinaSimone
https://moochinaboutltd.bandcamp.com/track/black-lives-matter-speech-mississippi-goddam-part-i
https://open.spotify.com/track/175Ef68hYgpfcm6zeKCH0L

Sources: OpenAI begins offering its chatbot ads to dozens of advertisers, initially charging per ad view, not per ad click, and asks them for <$1M commitments (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-lines-adver…

OpenAI Lines Up Advertisers, Reveals Key Details Ahead of Ads Launch
OpenAI has started offering its new chatbot ads to dozens of advertisers, according to two people familiar with the matter. To start off, the company is charging on the basis of ad views as opposed to per-ad clicks that are typical at large sellers of search ads like Google and Amazon, the ...

Location is everything, except when it’s the Cowboys DC Matt Eberflus https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/21/location-dallas-cowboys-dc-matt-eberflus/87874865007/

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"

If I see one more article written by an American rightly criticizing and raising the alarm on Trump's "maniacal" and “obsessive" tendencies without mentioning his expansionist fantasies also include the second largest country in the world which sits directly to his North... as if we don't matter or have a say, I'm going to F— lose it... seriously.
"He is at risk of alienating friends in not only Europe but also India, whose leader he also snubbed for failing to nominate him for a Nobel Prize, as well as South Korea, Japan, Australia.”
No offence to Australia… but... AUSTRALIA?!
CANADA IS PART OF NORAD. WE HAVE CANADIAN SOLDIERS COMMANDING AMERICAN TROOPS FGS.
Sorry for the yelling….
Happy #MLKDay I guess.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/trump-letter-to-norway/685676/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Raiders, Tom Brady experience Fernando Mendoza's magic before No. 1 NFL Draft pick https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-tom-brady-fernando-mendoza-1-nfl-draft-pick/d9abd526ee10…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Tyler Ballgame:
🎵 Matter of Taste
#TylerBallgame
https://tylerballgame.bandcamp.com/track/matter-of-taste
https://open.spotify.com/track/54t1dWYSvY6XaBdFdhV20C

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nemeciii/115928748530883810
We (Americans) are in for a world of hurt, no matter what happens.

Sitting here writing, idly watching the #Bitcoin bulls&bears dragging the price back and for across the said-to-matter $90K line. I don’t know who these people are but I’m sure there are chat-rooms where the ones who can influence the price (bulls mostly) strategize on how best to do so.
There’s a line of thought that says that the value of Btc cannot naturally be steady; too many holders…

Having just watched #Jaws for the first time in ages, I was stunned by the famous opening sequence ... but not by its cinematography or acting or editing - but by the never-ending chain of in-your-face #continuity errors in lighting once the girl enters the water: one moment we have a low Sun and a red sky, then we have the Sun near the zenith (with a day for night effect) then low again and so on, for several cycles.
Now #Spielberg, is there supposed to be some hidden message here? Well, there isn't.
(Once it's day, fortunately, this problem is gone, and a great movie unfolds, still fresh after 50 years. And I know, you shouldn't mess with a masterpiece, but Lucas added characters to Star Wars IV, and Cameron corrected a wrong star pattern in Titanic, so may be Spielberg could just, for an anniversary special edition ... o.k., I shut up. ;-)

black lives matter crowd cares about renee good
“all lives matter” people justify her killing
Very interesting

Traffic pollution alters the atmospheric electric field, study finds #environment

Traffic pollution alters the atmospheric electric field, study finds
A new study shows that traffic-related pollution in a major urban area in central Israel produces immediate, measurable changes in the atmospheric electric field, while particulate matter creates slower, delayed effects. The research also identifies a strong weekend signal, with reduced emissions leading to a marked weakening of the electric field.

☝🏻 "If you keep running in circles, the speed doesn't matter.” — Karin Janke

We need to start contemplating this. It’s not easy to picture; if it is easy, you’re doing it wrong. But we need to do it. We need to imagine this while we still have the capacity to imagine.
We need to make sure that there is, somewhere in this authoritarian noise, a red line whose crossing actually matters because we •make• it matter.
If enough people know where their red line is, and if enough people are prepared to take action if the regime crosses it, well, •that• helps Minnesota — and the whole world.
/end

Ya know who gets to rename the Department of Defense if anyone does? The US Congress.
Ya know who gets to rename the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts if anyone does? The US Congress.
Ya know who history will never be kind to no matter what he tries to rename? A 79 year old dunce.
#USpol

Will Colts, Daniel Jones run it back in 2026? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47624055/indianapolis-colts-daniel-jones-2026-outlook

The White House on Thursday emailed HHS leadership asking for the resignation of a top aide to FDA Commissioner Marty Makary whom he had sought to promote, according to two administration officials granted anonymity to discuss a sensitive personnel matter.
Makary pushed back on the request to force policy and research staffer Sanjula Jain-Nagpal out of the agency, officials told POLITICO.
“She is an employee at the FDA, and that has not changed,” HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon sai…

CBS News and The Free Press announce Things That Matter, a series of town halls and debates, starting in early 2026, with Sam Altman, J.D. Vance, and others (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Bari Weiss’ Next CBS News Move: Town Halls With JD Vance, Sam Altman and Debates About God and Feminism
The news division is also planning a town hall with Maryland Gov. Wes Moore in the 'Things That Matter' series, with Bank of America lined up as a sponsor.

Remember folks, no matter what they do – be it committing genocide or raping Palestinian prisoners – Israel are our allies. The US loves Israel no matter what. The UK loves Israel no matter what. Germany loves Israel no matter what. And if you have a problem with any of this, you’re a fucking antisemite and probably Hamas. https://

Smart Home von Ikea: 21 neue Matter-Geräte kommen in die Regale
Ikea hat ein neues Sortiment an Lampen, Sensoren, Fernbedienungen und Steckern mit dem Smart-Home-Standard Matter angekündigt.
https://www.

https://www.space.com/astronomy/dark-universe/dark-matter-obeys-gravity-after-all-could-that-rule-out-a-5th-fundamental-force-in-the-universe

Your Digital Reputation
Honest, practical conversations with the leaders getting social media right in the moments that matter most...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/your-digital-reputation/

Do you guys think the recent memory price surge would have an effect on the pricing of the Fairphone 6? I really want to get one but I'm in Australia until February and the only way to get it is by shipping it to the other side of the planet which obviously comes at a cost. But it wouldn't matter if it's going to be 100€ more next year anyways. 😩
#Fairphone

Oklahoma Black Lives Matter leader indicted on alleged misuse of donations (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/11/oklahoma-city-black-lives-matter-leader-indicted/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p142#a251211p142

> Our conclusion is clear: AI is promising for quality assurance and marker training, but for the moment it’s nowhere near ready to take over high stakes marking.
https://ofqual.blog.gov.uk/2026/01/14/using-ai-in-mar…

Using AI in marking: why technical capability, fairness, and transparency all matter
Ofqual has published new research exploring artificial intelligence’s potential role in marking, as well as its current capabilities and constraints. Rather than providing definitive answers, the published working paper offers an overview of the topic, shares our current thinking, highlights …

PCIe any% speedrun, day 6: Almost at minimum-viable-baseline-happy-path status!
It's still 2.5 GT/s only, I haven't implemented up-negotiation to 5 GT/s speed yet (or tested that on the SoC side for that matter).
Configuration reads and writes work; they're translated to APB bus transactions and bridged to an APB register block that reports a bunch of hard coded default values and lets you change a few things like BARs.

The Pentagon plans to cut its participation in elements of NATO’s force structure
and a range of the alliance’s advisory groups,
-- the latest sign of the Trump administration’s drive to scale back the U.S. military presence in Europe,
according to multiple officials familiar with the matter.

The impending move will affect about 200 military personnel
and diminish U.S. involvement in nearly 30 NATO organizations,
including its "Centers of Excellence&…

Pentagon moves to cut U.S. participation in some NATO advisory groups
The planned exit marks the Trump administration’s latest move to scale back Washington’s military investment in Europe’s defense.

I was experiencing unusually high VRAM usage on the RX 7800 XT (GPU choking and cr@pping itself) in Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (and in a couple of other games). So I decided to use the AMD Cleanup Utility and reinstall the current 25.12.1 drivers. When I started the game again, the ray tracing settings in it were grayed out, and there's NO fixing it, no matter what I tried 😆 And the VRAM issue wasn't fixed 😄
(Grayed out RT settings aslo seem to be a problem on the 9000 s…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Tyler Ballgame:
🎵 Matter of Taste
#TylerBallgame
https://tylerballgame.bandcamp.com/track/matter-of-taste
https://open.spotify.com/track/54t1dWYSvY6XaBdFdhV20C

I think it’s good actually to detangle yourself from nostalgia traps, doesn’t matter if it’s Star Trek or Star Wars or Harry Potter.
https://aftermath.site/star-trek-skydance-trump-paramount-ellison/

The English in this article is so poor, there are several paragraphs I had to read several times to get any sense out of them. AI or the four(!) reporters named? Interesting topic, but nothing much added in this piece.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/13/politic…

Pentagon bought device through undercover operation some investigators suspect is linked to Havana Syndrome
The Defense Department has spent more than a year testing a device purchased in an undercover operation that some investigators think could be the cause of a series of mysterious ailments impacting spies, diplomats and troops that are colloquially known as Havana Syndrome, according to four sources briefed on the matter.

Just finished "How I Made It to Eighteen" by Tracy White. It's a graphic novel with relatively simple art, but that ends up suiting the subject matter well: it's an autobiography focused on a stay in a mental hospital dealing with depression and bulimia.
It doesn't get as deep into mental hospital mechanics as I might have liked, instead focusing on the author's life, but in presenting both her own life, some flashbacks, and some perspectives from her friends, it's quite interesting. As is typical of real life, there's no neat resolutions to the various threads of interest because they're not imaginary plot lines constructed to wrap up neatly but instead are events that actually happened.
In any case as is par for autobiographical graphic novels, it was super interesting.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Arm Angles in American Sign Language: The Textbook That Teaches What Other Textbooks Ignore
Watch any native signer and then watch an intermediate student. The difference is not in the handshapes. It is not in the facial expressions, though those matter. The difference lives in the arms. The native signer's shoulders engage when emphasis requires it. The elbows extend and contract with meaning. The signing space expands for formal address and contracts for intimacy.…

Arm Angles in American Sign Language: The Textbook That Teaches What Other Textbooks Ignore | David Boles, Blogs
Watch any native signer and then watch an intermediate student. The difference is not in the handshapes. It is not in the facial expressions, though those matter. The difference lives in the arms. …

We're eating good tonight! >:3

My initial #PineTime died a year ago after a good year of all-day usage. @… ghosted my warranty case forever and now I just bought a new one. It is now (after one week!) stuck on the just-backlit black screen, no matter what I do. Pressing the button until the doctor …

Sources: Coinbase is preparing to launch a prediction market powered by Kalshi to allow its clients to bet on events such as elections and sports (Yueqi Yang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/coinbase-launch-prediction-market-po…

Coinbase to Launch Prediction Market Powered by Kalshi
Coinbase is preparing to launch a prediction market to allow its crypto clients to bet on events such as elections and sports, according to two people familiar with the matter. The market will be powered by prediction market company Kalshi and will put Coinbase in a booming but increasingly ...

Ena is a big tent movement. movement upwards as the tornado takes the circus. It's a good circus tho, so no matter what we had fun

I reinstalled MX Linux on my father's mini PC because because it wouldn't connect to the Internet or the local network. After half an hour of scratching my head, I still didn't know why.
After reinstalling and configuring everything (network printer, email, accounts for various websites, etc.), I realized that the IP address I had assigned to it was already taken.
It doesn't matter how much you know about system or network administration if you're a complete m…

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“It’s only a matter of time before people die”: Trump cuts hit food inspections https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/11/its-only-a-matter-of-time-before-people-die-trump-cuts-hit-food-inspections/

“It’s only a matter of time before people die”: Trump cuts hit food inspections
American inspections of foreign food facilities hit historic lows this year.

When you say you need hope about climate change, what do you really need?
Maybe it's proof your actions matter.
Maybe it's permission to want a better future.
Maybe it's feeling less alone.
Your brain treats hope like a prediction. When reality doesn't match, hope breaks.
But agency doesn't break.
Community doesn't break.
Imagination doesn't break.
What if we stopped chasing hope and built something stronger?
Read …

How to Stay Hopeful About Climate Change: A Scientific Look at the Brain’s Hope Circuit
A science-backed exploration of why hope collapses during the climate crisis. Learn the neuroscience behind fragile hope, the psychology of despair, and the durable alternatives—like agency, imagination, and possibility—that truly sustain long-term climate engagement.

If I see another Bad gateway swear I'll kick the server no matter where it is

"A new investigation of Elon #Musk’s X by Sky News found that every account set up by reporters, 'no matter their political orientation, was fed a glut of rightwing content', much of which was extreme. The experts it consulted believe this pattern could have resulted only from an algorithm engineered for this purpose, and that 'an algorithmic bias must be decided by senior people at …

Chiefs OT Simmons mum on reason for absence https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47027215/chiefs-ot-simmons-keeping-reason-22-day-absence-house

"...'fire' does not matter, 'earth' and 'air' and 'water' do not
matter. 'I' do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality
and remembers words. The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his
fellows esteem him. He looks upon the great transformations of the
world, but he does not see them as they were seen when man looked upon
reality for the first time. Their names come to his lips and he smiles
as …

Hue-Lampen mit Matter direkt in Apple Home einbindbar – aber nicht alle
Die beliebten smarten Lampen von Philips sind bekannt dafür, für HomeKit die Hue-Bridge zu benötigen. Das gilt aber nicht mehr für neuere Modelle.

Mailbag: Thoughts on Lamb, Pickens benching? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-thoughts-on-lamb-pickens-benching

@… I picked 3 years, not because I’m convinced I’ll have a job in 3 years, but because I’m convinced I have a place to eat and sleep (family) no matter what my financial future looks like.

Searches for Light #DarkMatter and Evidence of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering of Solar #Neutrinos with the #LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment: https://lz.lbl.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/12/LZ_Paper_Preprint_WS2025_v6.0_20251208.pdf / New Results from the LZ Dark Matter Experiment (recording of a talk): https://sanfordlab.org/lz-2025-result -> LZ Sets a World’s Best in the Hunt for Galactic Dark Matter and Gets a New Look at Neutrinos from the Sun’s Core: https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2025/12/08/lz-sets-a-worlds-best-in-the-hunt-for-galactic-dark-matter/

Android-Handy TCL Nxtpaper 70 Pro: Matter Bildschirm wird flimmerfrei
TCLs Nxtpaper-Mobiltelefone können E-Ink nachahmen und SD-Karten aufnehmen. Das neue 70 Pro ist zudem flimmerfrei, rechnet aber langsamer.

The U.S. Department of Justice said Sunday it is investigating a group of protesters in Minnesota who disrupted services at a church where a local official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement apparently serves as a pastor.
A livestreamed video posted on the Facebook page of Black Lives Matter Minnesota -- one of the protest’s organizers -- shows a group of people interrupting services at the Cities Church in St. Paul by chanting
“ICE out” and “Justice for Renee Good.”

DOJ vows to press charges after activists disrupt church where Minnesota ICE official is a pastor
The U.S. Department of Justice says it is investigating a group of protesters in Minnesota who disrupted services at a church where a local official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement apparently serves as a pastor. A livestreamed video posted on the Facebook page of Black Lives Matter Minnesota shows a group of people interrupting services at the Cities Church in St. Paul by chanting “ICE out.” The protesters allege that one of the church’s pastors also leads the local ICE fiel…

One pattern you can always count on: if you ever explain a technology by describing how the human and social aspects matter more than the obscure technical details, a certain cohort of dudes who are inept at socialization will lash out about their insecurities by trying to condescend. Who here thinks I wrote ~5000 words on Markdown but I don’t know what plain text files are?

ASPI 12.11.2025
Resilient critical infrastructure is its own deterrence
"The ability to absorb disruption and keep operating isn’t just a technical virtue; it’s a signal. If an adversary believes that disruption will be temporary and costly to sustain, the incentive to strike is reduced."
ht…

Mace unveils measure renaming DC's Black Lives Matter Plaza to honor Charlie Kirk (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5643290-black-lives-matter-plaza-mace-kirk/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251210/p132#a251210p132

SBS News In Depth
In under ten minutes each episode, we'll help you make sense of the news stories that matter to you from Australia and the world...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/sbs-news-in-depth/

🥳 New Kitten Release!
🚨 Breaking change: You can now add arbitrary JavaScript in script blocks in Kitten Markdown Pages front-matter (and the imports property is gone).
You can also use JavaScript string interpolation and all special Kitten tags (e.g., conditional tags, etc.) in Kitten Markdown Pages.
📦 https://kitten.small-web.org

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Sources: Pinduoduo and Temu owner PDD fires dozens following a fistfight between employees and Chinese officials probing fraudulent deliveries on its platform (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-17/pd…

PDD Fires Dozens of Workers After Fistfight With China Officials
PDD Holdings Inc. fired a government relations team in Shanghai following a fistfight between employees and Chinese regulators who were performing checks at the e-commerce company, according to people familiar with the matter.

I've read the following rhetorical question recently:
If “vote blue no matter who” doesn't apply to Zohran Mamdani, what does it actually mean?
...and despite all of us understanding the implication, let me actually try to give an answer, as the slogan emerged specifically from US politics, but this phenomenon hasn't.
This specific statement asking people to always vote for the democratic party, no matter who the candidate is, has always been thrown…

Rather than intending to face and atone for that history, we intend to bear down on that ideology and that belief system -- no matter how strongly and clearly Dr. King warned us of the misery we bring on ourselves and everyone else by behaving this way
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%…

Mailbag: Thoughts on Lamb, Pickens benching? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-thoughts-on-lamb-pickens-benching

It's up there... In the trees.

ICE Out of MN!
Solidarity Event
Saturday, December 20
11:30am – 2pm CST
East Lake Street & Bloomington Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55407
https://www.mobilize.us/indivisibletwincities/event/877268/

ICE Out of MN! · Indivisible Twin Cities
In Minnesota, we care about our neighbors, no matter how much money we have, the color of our skin or where we were born. And right now our immigrant neighbors are facing unprecedented attacks from Donald Trump and the ICE machine that is tearing apart families. That’s why we’re coming together to say Minnesota ♥️ our immigrant neighbors! We will raise our voices to say YES to our immigrant neighbors and NO to bigotry, racism and ICE attacks. We'll march from near Mercado Central, a…

Two easy questions to keep in mind when considering using an LLM for anything, if you’re going to do that:
1. Does it matter if it’s wrong?
2. Is it useful to have examples of what’s typical?
Those two cut through a lot of noise.
/end

would it be unfair to some people who would have to resign even when it later comes to light that they’re innocent?
yes, but that absolutely doesn’t matter in any way—the chance that they’re guilty is a way bigger threat to the functioning of high offices and an ongoing distraction https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115537904470408038

Seahawks demand everyone's attention with drubbing of 49ers: 'Showing our talents off' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6980206/2026/01/18/seahawks-49ers-playoffs-defense-sam-darnold/

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?’”

DOGE did not find $2T in fraud, but that doesn’t matter, Musk allies say - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/doge-did-not-find-2t-in-fraud-but-that-doesnt-matter-musk-allies-say/

ClearPotential - Revealing Local #DarkMatter in Three Dimensions: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09989 -> Paper Explainer: https://www.physicsmatt.com/blog/2025/12/11/paper-explainer-clearpotential-revealing-local-dark-matter-in-three-dimensions

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Stereolab:
🎵 Transmuted Matter
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https://stereolab.bandcamp.com/track/transmuted-matter
https://open.spotify.com/track/5uC8IfgKCq9RJucC3hNkOM

Let's Talk Health
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Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) plans to force a vote Wednesday censuring
Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.)
and removing him from several committees, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Democrats have repeatedly threatened such a move against the embattled Florida Republican,
but only as a retaliatory tactic to quash GOP censure measures. Mace wants to do it for real

Republican to force vote on ousting GOP Rep. Cory Mills from committees
Republicans have fumed as Democrats have repeatedly withdrawn their censure measures against the embattled Floridian.

Source: Tencent tells staff that Yao Shunyu, an ex-OpenAI researcher who joined in September, is now its chief AI scientist, reporting to President Martin Lau (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/tencent-name…

Tencent Names Former OpenAI Researcher Chief AI Scientist
Tencent Holdings internally announced that Yao Shunyu, a researcher who joined from OpenAI in September, is now serving as a chief AI scientist overseeing the Chinese tech giant’s large language model department as well as its newly established AI infrastructure department, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Yao’s major role, part of Tencent’s office of the CEO and president,

Trump administration says White House ballroom construction is a matter of national security (Darlene Superville/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-white-house-ballroom-national-security-de9756118bbfca8f40af9cf89db6af5b
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p120#a251215p120

Do the often traded sixth- and seventh-rounder picks matter? Plus: Ravens-Dolphins prep https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6765049/2025/10/30/late-round-picks-matter-nfl-draft-scoop-city/

In Colorado, students taunted their Black classmates by playing whipping sounds on their cellphones and saying they should be shot “to make us a better race.”
The only two Black students in a small district in Ohio were called the N-word by white peers starting on their first day.
They got accustomed to hearing slurs like “porch monkey” and being told to go pick cotton.
And at a school in Illinois, white students included Confederate flags in their PowerPoint presentations …

Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discrimination ... don’t matter,” one attorney said.

Kenny Clark on momentum: 'Won't matter' if it halts vs. Lions https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/kenny-clark-on-momentum-won-t-matter-if-it-halts-vs-lions

20 GeV halo-like excess of the Galactic diffuse emission and implications for #DarkMatter annihilation: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07209 -> After nearly 100 years, scientists may have detected dark matter: https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press/z0508_00433.html -> Study claims to provide first direct evidence of dark matter: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/25/study-claims-to-provide-first-direct-evidence-of-dark-matter

Thinking Machines parts ways with CTO Barret Zoph, with Soumith Chintala taking over the role; sources say the termination is due to "unethical conduct" (Kylie Robison/@kyliebytes)
https://x.com/kyliebytes/status/2011572331798548899

Kylie Robison (@kyliebytes) on X
BREAKING: Thinking Machines has terminated its CTO, Barret Zoph, due to unethical conduct according to two sources familiar with the matter. CEO Mira Murati announced the news at an all-hands with employees today. Soumith Chintala will be taking over as CTO.

The privately funded National Trust for Historic Preservation last week asked the U.S. District Court to block Trump’s project.
“No president is legally allowed to tear down portions of the White House without any review whatsoever
— not President Trump, not President Biden, and not anyone else,” the lawsuit states.
“And no president is legally allowed to construct a ballroom on public property without giving the public the opportunity to weigh in.”
Trump had the East W…

Trump administration says White House ballroom construction is a matter of national security
The Trump administration says in a court filing that the president’s White House ballroom construction project must continue for unexplained national security reasons. It also says a preservationists’ organization that wants it stopped has no standing to sue. The court filing Monday was in response to a lawsuit filed last Friday by the National Trust for Historic Preservation asking a federal judge to halt President Donald Trump’s project until it goes through multiple independent reviews…

Meta appoints Dina Powell McCormick, a prominent banking executive and former Republican official, as president and vice chair, reporting to Mark Zuckerberg (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/12/meta-dina-powell-mccormick-president-vice-cha…

Meta taps Dina Powell McCormick as president and vice chairman
Powell McCormick's connections to the global finance community has put her at the center of dealmaking across industries that matter to Meta in the AI era.

Trump illegally blends governance and family business -- particularly in Persian Gulf countries.
Since returning to office, the Trump family and businesses have announced new ventures abroad involving billions of dollars,
made hundreds of millions from cryptocurrency,
and sold tickets to a private dinner hosted by Trump.
Trump is set to host Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, in Washington next week.
He hopes to sign a mutual defens…

Trump Organization Is Said to Be in Talks on a Saudi Government Real Estate Deal
The chief executive of a Saudi firm says a Trump-branded project is “just a matter of time.” The Trump Organization’s major foreign partner is also signaling new Saudi deals.

FBI Director Kash Patel granted waivers to Deputy Director
Dan Bongino and two other newly hired senior FBI staff members,
exempting them from passing polygraph exams normally required to gain access to America’s most sensitive classified information.
People familiar with the matter say his ascent to his position without passing a standard FBI background check was unprecedented.
Bongino was selected for the role at the FBI although he, like Patel, had no prior exper…

FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff
As the FBI’s deputy director, Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau background check is unprecedented, insiders say.