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Wales' 'forgotten' architect of the welfare state, Jim Griffith's.
https://nation.cymru/news/event-to-commemorate-wales-forgotten-architect-of-the-welfare-state/

Event to commemorate Wales' 'forgotten' architect of the welfare state
Martin Shipton Fifty years after the death of Llanelli MP Jim Griffiths – a man described as “one of the greatest sons of Wales” – a special memorial event will be held in the town. The politician, who has been hailed as the founding father of the welfare state, became the first Secretary of State […]

Cowboys Headlines: NFL world reacts to Micah Parsons news; is it 'worst trade ever'? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/29/news-headlines-august-28-2025-micah-par…

Only 3 years left: The carbon budget for 1. 5 °C is almost gone #carbon

Only 3 years left: The carbon budget for 1. 5 °C is almost gone
At current emission rates, we re just over three years away from blowing through the remaining carbon budget to limit warming to 1.5 C. This new international study paints a stark picture: the pace of climate change is accelerating, seas are rising faster than ever, and the Earth is absorbing more heat with devastating consequences from hotter oceans to intensified weather extremes.

40 years ago this evening, a rainy night in the land of chocolate with the #GratefulDead. the east coast mega-gig returns, a legendary-to-attendees show. garcia goes dapper. early summer ’85, show #9.
soundboard: http://w…

The design of the museum has morphed over the years, from a dark, curvaceous amoeba-like form that echoed the nearby La Brea Tar Pits to a design that retains the curves up top but shifts to rectilinear glass on the galleries level below
After five years of construction, so much debate about its scale, design and ambitions, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art held its first event Thursday night inside the Peter Zumthor-designed building

LACMA opens its new building for a sneak peak: Photos from the first preview
Los Angeles County Museum of Art's long-awaited David Geffen Galleries building opens for a sneak peak Thursday -- the first look inside the raw, empty interior of architect Peter Zumthor's poured concrete creation.

Linus is fascinated by his new toy hedgehog. We’ve had him two and a half years after getting him from https://www.chihuahua-rescue.com/southeast/.
He had been terribly abused. Spent the first 4 or 5 months with us hiding under the bed and was terrified of everything. Sinc…

Nicaragua government tied to illegal land invasions in wildlife refuge, documents suggest https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/nicaragua-government-tied-to-illegal-land-invasions-in-wildlife-refuge-documents-suggest/…

Nicaragua government tied to illegal land invasions in wildlife refuge, documents suggest
A protected wildlife refuge in Nicaragua has suffered a wave of deforestation in recent years, fueled by controversial land deals allowing settlers to clear the rainforest for farming, mining and cattle ranching. Government officials and even some Indigenous community leaders have overseen the land deals in Río San Juan Wildlife Refuge, an ostensibly protected area […]

There’s more: the e-bike means I’m not planning to replace my venerable old car when it finally dies; we’ll become a one-car family.
AFAICT from my research, this is even more important for climate / pollution concerns than the mileage. Just the sunk carbon emissions cost of manufacturing any new car, EV or otherwise, is roughly equivalent to another ~10 years of driving the venerable old gas-powered Civic. 10 years!
If you’re going to be buying a car, buying an EV is better. But unless you’re putting massive mileage on it, there’s a pretty good chance that not buying •any• new car ever — just running the existing one into the ground and shifting primary transportation mode — is the even better choice.

On its 10th anniversary, YouTube Music gets new features, including "Taste Match" playlists similar to Spotify Blend and event notifications through Bandsintown (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/21/yout

YouTube Music celebrates 10 years with new features that help it compete with Spotify | TechCrunch
YouTube Music is rolling out taste match playlists, comments, badges and more.

On the Theoretical Limitations of Embedding-Based Retrieval
Orion Weller, Michael Boratko, Iftekhar Naim, Jinhyuk Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21038 https://

On the Theoretical Limitations of Embedding-Based Retrieval
Vector embeddings have been tasked with an ever-increasing set of retrieval tasks over the years, with a nascent rise in using them for reasoning, instruction-following, coding, and more. These new benchmarks push embeddings to work for any query and any notion of relevance that could be given. While prior works have pointed out theoretical limitations of vector embeddings, there is a common assumption that these difficulties are exclusively due to unrealistic queries, and those that are not ca…