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I randomly bought this book in a quirky bookshop in Copenhagen for the sole reason that it said all the wrong things right on the cover.
(Sales: the single most important profession. NLP™: not natural language processing but neuro-linguistic programming. Meta: the Meta Model™ and Meta Publications™.)
I just started reading it and boy oh boy, I was not disappointed. It's outrageously hilarious.
"Persuasion engineering".

Persuasion engineering by Richard Bandler | Open Library
Persuasion engineering by Richard Bandler, unknown edition,

Dave Jorgenson, who leads WaPo's TikTok and YouTube presence, plans to leave next month to start a company based on his YouTube channel Local News International (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/business/media/dave-jorgenson-v…

Can The Washington Post’s TikTok Guy Make It Without The Post?
Dave Jorgenson is starting his own video company that explains the news, with a twist. Think Jon Stewart meets Ron Burgundy.

I'm walking on a road that's slightly inclined to the right. Suddenly, mid-step I feel that my right leg is starting to slip on the mud. My body starts tilting right, and I'm resignedly thinking that I'm going to hit the mud. But at the very last minute, I stomp my lifted left leg to the right, and miraculously regain balance.
#NinjaSkills

A look at CoreWeave, whose financing strategy involves using GPUs as collateral for large loans, which enabled rapid expansion but resulted in $11.2B in debt (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivast

How CoreWeave’s GPU Bet Made Four Risk-Loving Cryptominers AI Billionaires
Creative financing and an enormous appetite for risk helped CoreWeave’s Michael Intrator ride the AI data center boom to a $6.7 billion personal fortune. But as bubble fears mount, his reliance on billions in debt to supply advanced chips to major AI players puts him in a powerful position.

The Google AdTech monopoly trial is a really big deal, bigger in my mind than the search monopoly.
https://www.bigtechontrial.com/p/its-groundhog-day-for-a-google-breakup

It's Groundhog Day for a Google Breakup
Deliberations on the remedy to Google's Ad Tech monopoly start today. Will Judge Brinkema deliver Google the break-up it evaded in Search?

One early stunner among the NFL's undefeated, plus an incredible catch https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6650195/2025/09/22/nfl-undefeated-teams-the-pulse/

Sergey Shulubin wurde am Strand in Constanța das Fahrrad geklaut. Das ist mies!
#tcrno11 #tcrno11cap104

Improving VQE Parameter Quality on Noisy Quantum Processors with Cost-Effective Readout Error Mitigation
Nacer Eddine Belaloui, Abdellah Tounsi, Abdelmouheymen Rabah Khamadja, Hamza Benkadour, Mohamed Messaoud Louamri, Achour Benslama, Mohamed Taha Rouabah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15072

Improving VQE Parameter Quality on Noisy Quantum Processors with Cost-Effective Readout Error Mitigation
The inherent noise in current Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices presents a major obstacle to the accurate implementation of quantum algorithms such as the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) for quantum chemistry applications. This study examines the impact of error mitigation strategies on VQE performance. We show that, for small molecular systems, an older-generation 5-qubit quantum processing unit (IBMQ Belem), when combined with optimized Twirled Readout Error Extinction (T-…

Once Upon a Time: Interactive Learning for Storytelling with Small Language Models
Jonas Mayer Martins, Ali Hamza Bashir, Muhammad Rehan Khalid, Lisa Beinborn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15714

Once Upon a Time: Interactive Learning for Storytelling with Small Language Models
Children efficiently acquire language not just by listening, but by interacting with others in their social environment. Conversely, large language models are typically trained with next-word prediction on massive amounts of text. Motivated by this contrast, we investigate whether language models can be trained with less data by learning not only from next-word prediction but also from high-level, cognitively inspired feedback. We train a student model to generate stories, which a teacher model…

The never ending justice journey : the trial for the OKC Tibetan Buddhist "community" aka toxic cult, almost a decade later, the survivors are still seeking Justice, now in France
https://www.brusselstimes.com/36129/tc-bru