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New Cowboys mock draft boosts DL with Micah Parsons replacement, massive run-stuffer https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/new-dallas-cowboys-mock-draft-boosts-dl-micah-parsons-replacement-massive-run-stuffer

Internal email: xAI lays off hundreds of data annotation team staffers, following a strategic shift to prioritize specialist AI tutors over generalist roles (Grace Kay/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-xai-layoffs-data-annotators-2025-9

Musk's xAI just laid off hundreds of workers tasked with training Grok
XAI laid off at least 500 of the workers on its data annotation team on Friday night.

Yesterday as I unicycled home I came up behind some guy on one of those small electric transport devices that have a single wheel in the middle of a board that is ridden like a skateboard. The guy riding it was not going very fast (and intentionally weaving back and forth). Probably just having fun because it was new, I guess. I was faster than him but since he weaved so much I did not feel comfortable overtaking.

I just used Regedit to clean Microsoft's mess and delete 2 unwanted out of 4 input methods from the language applet menu o.O (This is a clean Win11 install from July. The problem seems to be reported as far back as 2022.)
A week ago, I had to uninstall and re-install OneDrive with the \allusers command line argument to make it stop duplicating itself in the sidebar and get back the share option in the context menu per file or folder. (Also a longstanding bug.)
Copilot is neat…

Resolving stellar populations, star formation, and ISM conditions with JWST in a large spiral galaxy at z $\sim$ 2
Eleonora Parlanti, Giulia Tozzi Natascha M. F\"orster Schreiber, Claudia Pulsoni, Letizia Scaloni, Stavros Pastras, Pascal Oesch, Capucine Barfety, Francesco Belfiore, Jianhang Chen, Giovanni Cresci, Ric Davies, Frank Eisenhauer, Juan M. Espejo Salcedo, Reinhard Genzel, Rodrigo Herrera-Camus, Jean-Baptiste Jolly. Lilian L. Lee, Minju M. Lee, Daizhong Liu, Dieter Lutz,…

Resolving stellar populations, star formation, and ISM conditions with JWST in a large spiral galaxy at z $\sim$ 2
Cosmic noon represents the prime epoch of galaxy assembly, and a sweet spot for observations with the James Webb Telescope (JWST) and ground-based near-IR integral-field unit (IFU) spectrographs. This work analyses JWST NIRSpec Micro Shutter Array (MSA), NIRCam Wide Field Slitless Spectroscopy (WFSS) of K20-ID7, a large spiral, star-forming (SF) galaxy at z=2.2, with evidence for radial gas inflows. By exploiting the synergy with ground-based IFU ERIS observations, we conduct a comprehensive an…

"...This means bigger wheels to accommodate them and the bigger tyres necessary to deliver the grip and traction the car needs. This means beefier suspension to control the unsprung mass, and a stiffer, stronger body to locate that suspension… and that’s the vicious circle of weight increase."
From Evo magazine, Oct 2025.

Edward Enninful's quarterly print magazine, 72, launches with no print ads, but "powered by incredible companies"; at least seven Vogue staffers have joined 72 (Chloe Mac Donnell/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025/s

Check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Chinese espionage campaign targeted House staffers ahead of trade talks,
--Ethical hackers uncover catastrophic flaws in restaurant chain's platforms,
--Salesloft Drift hack began last March,
--Customer data stolen in Wealthsimple breach,
--Trump to formally nominate Harman for NSA/Cybercom slot,
--Don't trust XChat's e…

Chinese espionage campaign targeted House staffers ahead of trade talks
Ethical hackers uncover catastrophic flaws in restaurant chain's platforms, Salesloft Drift hack began last March, Customer data stolen in Wealthsimple breach, Trump to formally nominate Harman for NSA/Cybercom slot, Don't trust XChat's encryption, Czech Republic warns of Chinese tech, much more

Although this story focuses on el-presidente it should be noted that this is also the work of Elon Musk.
Personally I am skeptical of the claims that "big balls" was defending a woman. My guess is that he is an incel who may have only the most distant conception (pun intended) of women.
"Trump threatens to ‘federalize’ DC after attack on Doge staffer"

This is awesome... Milwaukee (and other cities) need more of this kind of thing!
https://www.wpr.org/culture/milwaukee-walkers-point-skatepark-diy-shanahan-skateboarding

Under the bridge: A skatepark grows in Milwaukee
The National DIY Skatepark in Milwaukee's Walker's Point neighborhood started out as an illegal project in the midst of COVID-19. Now, it's a nonprofit with city backing.