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'He's trying to get perfection out of me': Jets pushing Sauce Gardner for more https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45576147/new-york-jets-sauce-gardner-perfection-new-regime

Insurer Blue Shield of California's new parent company alarms consumer advocates
Blue Shield of California accrued a surplus of more than $4 billion over the decades as it benefited from its former tax-exempt status, according to a regulatory filing.
Last year, regulators approved a request by 💥Blue Shield of California,
the state's third-largest health insurer, to restructure and establish a new parent corporation in Delaware.
The Oakland-based nonprofit go…

Insurer Blue Shield of California's new parent company alarms consumer advocates
Whistleblower demands California regulators rescind restructuring of Blue Shield of California, which established a new corporate parent in Delaware. He...

To Boost Turnout, Ballot Measure Proposes Moving New York City Elections to Even Years (Daniel Nichanian/Bolts)
https://boltsmag.org/new-york-city-even-year-local-elections/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250905/p81#a250905p81

Anyone out their interested in Indigenous history in North America should check out Michael Leroy Oberg's rolling list of new publications. He updates it several times a year and covers a lot of ground.
https://michaelleroyoberg.com/new-publications/

New Publications – Native America: A History

"Plastics Cause Over $1.5 Trillion in 'Health-Related Economic Losses' Per Year Globally"
#Plastic #Plastics #Environment

Plastics Cause Over $1.5 Trillion in 'Health-Related Economic Losses' Per Year Globally | Common Dreams
"Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognized danger to human and planetary health," says a new study published in The Lancet.

There’s a crisis in tech product innovation. From when I got into tech when I was maybe 8 or 9 in the late 80s to around 2010 or so there seemed to be something new and innovative—sometimes even world-changing—out at least once a year.
Now my iPad Pro is 7 years old, and I have literally no idea why I would want to upgrade it.
I don't even know other than "faster but you probably won't notice it" what the current iPad Pro has over the one from 2018.
Fwiw 7 years is the span of time between these two Apple products:

How Clorox is using generative AI for ad creation, brainstorming new products, and analyzing consumer reviews, as part of a five-year, $580M digital overhaul (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/clorox-ai-hidd

Being Bandcamp Friday and all, had to grab a couple things. Picked up the new Exorency, Pseudomaimer, and Emphysema (super gross cover on that one) LPs - three artists I really wanted to give some money to, since I've listened to all three of those albums SO MUCH this year. Two death metal, one grind - an all-metal Bandcamp Friday for me. And it's only for a few more hours, get those last purchases in 💥
Only two more Bandcamp Fridays in 2025 after today -- October 3 and Decem…

80 years later, Hiroshima bombing survivors warn of new nuclear warfare (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/80-years-later-hiroshima-bombing-survivors-warn-new-nuclear-warfare-rcna220177
http://www.memeorandum.com/250806/p117#a250806p117

Investors are finding new opportunities in climate tech despite VC firms decreasing funding in the sector. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

VC firms aren’t putting as much money into climate tech—but some investors see new opportunity
VC investments in climate tech are down for the third year in a row, but investors say the space is narrowing, not disappearing.

@… "Right now, new subscription sign-ups have slowed to around 1–2 per day – a long way off our target of 2,000"
...
"Add in current subs revenue of around €20k/year"
...
"579 people have stepped up and subscribed. Our target is 2,000"
Anyone who has had any interest in Boards would have signed up right now,…

"""
In the sixteenth century, lunacy was a constant theme that was never questioned. It was still frequent in the seventeenth century, but started to disappear, and by 1707, the year in which Le François asked the question ‘Estne aliquod lunae in corpora humana imperium?’ (Does the moon have any influence over the human body?), after lengthy discussions, the university decided that their reply was in the negative. In the course of the eighteenth century the moon was rarely cited among the causes of madness, even as a possible factor or an aggravation. But right at the end of the century the idea reappears, perhaps under the influence of English medicine, which had never entirely forgotten the moon, and Daquin, followed by Leuret and Guislain, all admitted the influence of the moon on the phases of maniacal excitement, or at the least on the agitation of their patients. But what is important here is not so much the return of the theme as the possibility and conditions necessary for its reappearance. It reappears entirely transformed, filled with a new significance that it did not formerly possess. In its traditional form, it designated an immediate influence, a direct coincidence in time and intersection in space, whose mode of action was entirely situated in the power of the stars. But in Daquin by contrast, the influence of the moon acts through a whole series of mediations, in a kind of hierarchy, surrounding man. The moon acts on the atmosphere with such intensity that it can set in motion a mass as heavy as the ocean. The nervous system, of all the parts that make up the human organism, is the part most sensitive to atmospheric variations, as the slightest variation in temperature, humidity or dryness can have serious effects upon it. The moon therefore, given the important power that its trajectory exerts on the atmosphere, is likely to act most on people whose nervous fibres are particularly delicate:
“Madness is an exclusively nervous condition, and the brain of a madman must therefore be infinitely more susceptible to the influence of the atmosphere, which itself undergoes considerable changes of intensity as a result of the different positions of the moon relative to the earth.” [Daquin, Philosophie de la folie, Paris, 1792]
"""
(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

It won't be an easy path. I think maybe they should consider merger with the Greens and an electoral alliance with PC. Maybe later
MP Zarah Sultana resigns from Labour to co-found a new party with Corbyn | Jeremy Corbyn | The Guardian
https://www.…

GOTO065054 593624 - an 8.5 mag amplitude dwarf nova identified in real time via Kilonova Seekers: #Kilonova Seekers - the GOTO project for real-time citizen science in time-domain astrophysics: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/533/2/2113/7735340?login=false -> A citizen science project has already identified 20 new astronomical discoveries: https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/news/citizen-science-project-identifies-20-new-astronomical-discoveries

Saints QB1 or not, Tyler Shough believes 'this is going to work out' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45891959/new-orleans-saints-nfl-tyler-shough-not-rookie-quarterback-future-competition

Kyiv has a new air raid alert system, Ukraine-wide rollout expected by end of year: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/30/kyiv-has-a-new-air.html

Roblox increases its DevEx rate, letting creators earn 8.5% more when they convert their earned Robux into cash, says creators earned $1B over the past year (David Baszucki/Roblox Corporate)
https://corp.roblox.com/newsroom/2025/09/roblox-rdc-2025

RDC 2025
Unveiling first-of-its-kind AI, new powerful engine capabilities, creators earning 8.5% more, and our path to capturing 10% of all gaming content revenue

New York Post will launch a version of the rightwing tabloid in California in 2026
It comes at a trying time for news outlets in the Los Angeles area.
The storied Los Angeles Times,
the state’s biggest paper and once one of the most influential regional outlets in the US,
lost more than 20% of its newsroomlast January,
months after laying off 74 staffers amid advertising declines in 2023.
On top of losing tens of millions of dollars a year, it also suffe…

Determining our future savings might be a bit difficult. At our old house I knew the cost of filling an oil tank a couple of times a year. That cost went to zero and my Hydro bill went up. Based on the savings I had a 7.5 year ROI on my upfront geothermal install cost. Now I'm in a new home (10 days today) with only monthly averages for Hydro and Enbridge provided by the real estate listing. But that should be enough data to give me an approximate estimate.

Cowboys elated with newest WR https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2025/jul/05/cowboys-elated-with-newest-wr/

Gandi.net want £65 for a year's email hosting. @… is £20. My gandi.net mailbox expires in 16 days. Will I get my shit together to sort out a new account and move all my IMAP folders, or will I run out of time and grit my teeth and just pay £45 to not have to do it for another year?

Long; central Massachusetts colonial history
Today on a whim I visited a site in Massachusetts marked as "Huguenot Fort Ruins" on OpenStreetMaps. I drove out with my 4-year-old through increasingly rural central Massachusetts forests & fields to end up on a narrow street near the top of a hill beside a small field. The neighboring houses had huge lawns, some with tractors.
Appropriately for this day and this moment in history, the history of the site turns out to be a microcosm of America. Across the field beyond a cross-shaped stone memorial stood an info board with a few diagrams and some text. The text of the main sign (including typos/misspellings) read:
"""
Town Is Formed
Early in the 1680's, interest began to generate to develop a town in the area west of Natick in the south central part of the Commonwealth that would be suitable for a settlement. A Mr. Hugh Campbell, a Scotch merchant of Boston petitioned the court for land for a colony. At about the same time, Joseph Dudley and William Stoughton also were desirous of obtaining land for a settlement. A claim was made for all lands west of the Blackstone River to the southern land of Massachusetts to a point northerly of the Springfield Road then running southwesterly until it joined the southern line of Massachusetts.
Associated with Dudley and Stoughton was Robert Thompson of London, England, Dr. Daniel Cox and John Blackwell, both of London and Thomas Freak of Hannington, Wiltshire, as proprietors. A stipulation in the acquisition of this land being that within four years thirty families and an orthodox minister settle in the area. An extension of this stipulation was granted at the end of the four years when no group large enough seemed to be willing to take up the opportunity.
In 1686, Robert Thompson met Gabriel Bernor and learned that he was seeking an area where his countrymen, who had fled their native France because of the Edict of Nantes, were desirous of a place to live. Their main concern was to settle in a place that would allow them freedom of worship. New Oxford, as it was the so-named, at that time included the larger part of Charlton, one-fourth of Auburn, one-fifth of Dudley and several square miles of the northeast portion of Southbridge as well as the easterly ares now known as Webster.
Joseph Dudley's assessment that the area was capable of a good settlement probably was based on the idea of the meadows already established along with the plains, ponds, brooks and rivers. Meadows were a necessity as they provided hay for animal feed and other uses by the settlers. The French River tributary books and streams provided a good source for fishing and hunting. There were open areas on the plains as customarily in November of each year, the Indians burnt over areas to keep them free of underwood and brush. It appeared then that this area was ready for settling.
The first seventy-five years of the settling of the Town of Oxford originally known as Manchaug, embraced three different cultures. The Indians were known to be here about 1656 when the Missionary, John Eliott and his partner Daniel Gookin visited in the praying towns. Thirty years later, in 1686, the Huguenots walked here from Boston under the guidance of their leader Isaac Bertrand DuTuffeau. The Huguenot's that arrived were not peasants, but were acknowledged to be the best Agriculturist, Wine Growers, Merchant's, and Manufacter's in France. There were 30 families consisting of 52 people. At the time of their first departure (10 years), due to Indian insurrection, there were 80 people in the group, and near their Meetinghouse/Church was a Cemetery that held 20 bodies. In 1699, 8 to 10 familie's made a second attempt to re-settle, failing after only four years, with the village being completely abandoned in 1704.
The English colonist made their way here in 1713 and established what has become a permanent settlement.
"""
All that was left of the fort was a crumbling stone wall that would have been the base of a higher wooden wall according to a picture of a model (I didn't think to get a shot of that myself). Only trees and brush remain where the multi-story main wooden building was.
This story has so many echoes in the present:
- The rich colonialists from Boston & London agree to settle the land, buying/taking land "rights" from the colonial British court that claimed jurisdiction without actually having control of the land. Whether the sponsors ever actually visited the land themselves I don't know. They surely profited somehow, whether from selling on the land rights later or collecting taxes/rent or whatever, by they needed poor laborers to actually do the work of developing the land (& driving out the original inhabitants, who had no say in the machinations of the Boston court).
- The land deal was on condition that there capital-holders who stood to profit would find settlers to actually do the work of colonizing. The British crown wanted more territory to be controlled in practice not just in theory, but they weren't going to be the ones to do the hard work.
- The capital-holders actually failed to find enough poor suckers to do their dirty work for 4 years, until the Huguenots, fleeing religious persecution in France, were desperate enough to accept their terms.
- Of course, the land was only so ripe for settlement because of careful tending over centuries by the natives who were eventually driven off, and whose land management practices are abandoned today. Given the mention of praying towns (& dates), this was after King Phillip's war, which resulted in at least some forced resettlement of native tribes around the area, but the descendants of those "Indians" mentioned in this sign are still around. For example, this is the site of one local band of Nipmuck, whose namesake lake is about 5 miles south of the fort site: #LandBack.

PBS is cutting 100 positions, or about 15% of its staff, including 34 immediate layoffs, after Congress stripped $500M in annual funding from public media (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/business/media/pbs-job-cuts.html
…

PBS to Cut 15% of Its Staff
Congress voted this year to strip $500 million in annual funding from public broadcasters, including PBS stations.

Steelers sign general manager Omar Khan to new three-year contract https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-sign-general-manager-omar-khan-to-new-three-year-contract

Raiders’ Coaching Staff Makes Unprecedented Year-Over-Year Leap https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/pete-carroll-coaching-staff-ranking-2025/?adt_ei=[email]

💀 Solving the mystery of a 200-year-old ambush
#history

Solving the mystery of a 200-year-old ambush
A new report reveals that 10 Napoleonic soldiers attacked by Spanish guerrillas were not sent to prison, as previously believed, but killed

CrowdStrike says it investigated 320 cases of North Korean operatives gaining remote IT jobs in the US, Europe, and elsewhere in its 2025 Threat Hunting Report (Matt Kapko/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/crowdstrike-north-korean-operatives/

CrowdStrike investigated 320 North Korean IT worker cases in the past year
Threat hunters saw North Korean operatives almost daily, reflecting a 220% year-over-year increase in activity, CrowdStrike said in a new report.

Seven! Back up to 7 handstand push-ups after three weeks, proving, I suppose, to myself the first time wasn't a fluke. Five more in the second set got me to a new two-set record. Today I surpassed twice as many handstand push-ups as last year. (I've done 214 year-to-date, typically on Wednesdays.)
#calisthenics

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.CY. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/new
[2/2]:
- Scaffolding Collaborative Learning in STEM: A Two-Year Evaluation of a Tool-Integrated Project-Ba...
Caterina Fuster-Barcelo, Gonzalo R. Rios-Munoz, Arrate Munoz-Barrutia

#Manchester's filthy air.
A long way to go.
"All in all, the measures will get Greater Manchester’s air to 40.3 micrograms of nitrogen dioxide in one cubic metre of air.
"The UK legal limit is officially 40, but results under 40.4 are rounded down, making TfGM’s plan compliant.
"But the World Health Organisation’s recommended limit is just 10."
…

Clean air zone signs are down, but our pollution 'is like smoking 150 cigarettes a year'. Now what?
The charging clean air zone was cancelled after a spectacular U-turn in 2022 - and led to more arguments and thousands of stickers being slapped on signs. Now there's a new plan, Ethan Davies examines what it involves - and why it's only a start

I Visited My Family for the New Year #inspiration #photography #photoseries

I Visited My Family for the New Year
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

"Researchers launch five-year study on floating solar for farm dams"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Researchers launch five-year study on floating solar for farm dams
AgEcon Australia has launched a five-year research project to assess the feasibility of floating PV systems on farm irrigation dams in Australia, aiming to reduce water loss, lower on-farm energy costs, and create new income streams for landholders.

Had a possible new client there who sent me their NDA so we could talk more in detail on the project before signing contracts. But it included, no joke, conflict of interest and non-compete clauses for up to a year... for an NDA!
They wouldn't remove them, so I walked.
Always read every agreement.

As the AI talent wars reach a fever pitch,
Mark Zuckerberg is offering top tier recruits to Meta’s new superintelligence lab
pay packages of up to $300 million over four years,
with more than $100 million in total compensation for the first year.
https://bsky.app/profile/wired.com/pos

at the music inn, glorious old west village instrument shop, for the freewheelin' 86-year-old peter stampfel's release of the brilliant "song shards" with wise/weird/heavy homilies, recent classics, & new dream songs ("I never could have thought of it"). https://peterstampfel.bandcamp.com/al…

The multi-physics analysis, design and testing of CUSP, a CubeSat mission for space weather and solar flares x-ray polarimetry
Giovanni Lombardi, Sergio Fabiani, Ettore Del Monte, Andrea Alimenti, Riccardo Campana, Mauro Centrone, Enrico Costa, Nicolas De Angelis, Giovanni De Cesare, Sergio Di Cosimo, Giuseppe Di Persio, Abhay Kumar, Alessandro Lacerenza, Pasqualino Loffredo, Gabriele Minervini, Fabio Muleri, Paolo Romano, Alda Rubini, Emanuele Scalise, Enrico Silva, Paolo Soffitta, Da…

The multi-physics analysis, design and testing of CUSP, a CubeSat mission for space weather and solar flares x-ray polarimetry
The space-based CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) mission aims to measure the linear polarization of solar flares in the hard X-ray band by means of a Compton scattering polarimeter. CUSP is a project in the framework of the Alcor Program of the Italian Space Agency aimed at developing new CubeSat missions. As part of CUSP's Phase B study, which began in December 2024 and will last one year, we present the current development status of the design solutions adopted for the mission's most critical…

NATO's daddy in action.
ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court. His family is suing.
https://www.tpr.org/border-immigration/2025-06-25/ice-arrested-a-6-year-o…

ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court. His family is suing.
A Honduran mother and her two children — ages 6 and 9 — sued the Trump administration over their arrest at Los Angeles Immigration Court, the first lawsuit challenging the arrests of children under a new ICE directive targeting courthouses.

This is such bullshit. https://flipboard.com/@gothamist/gothamist-igeoft02z/-/a-_nxSrwdoRKC3GZ6B4c7IQA:a:3807498986-/0

Why getting a COVID shot in NY could be a hassle this year
New York pharmacies and doctors’ offices are starting to get requests for the latest, federally approved COVID shots, but getting a shot could be …

I literally do not know how Brennan will have the time to run all these games.
If Matt Mercer is stepping back I think that means other cast shakeups are coming to. I don't believe Matt will just disappear and adding 1 more person at the table feels like too many people.
Critical Role Sets Brennan Lee Mulligan as Game Master for Next Core Campaign as He Signs New Three-Year Deal With Dropout (EXCLUSIVE)

WhichYear 6/30/25
3566 pts
9.0 avg. years off
3️⃣ ⚪ ⚪ ⚪ 1️⃣
https://whichyr.com

Which Year - Photo Year Guessing Game
Guess the year real-world photos were taken. Test your history knowledge with a daily challenge featuring a new set of photos each day.

100-year Dispute Finally Settles Looting of Last German Emperor–by Building New Museum Collection https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/100-year-dispute-finally-settles-looting-of-last-german-emperor-by-buildin…

100-year Dispute Finally Settles Looting of Last German Emperor–by Building New Museum Collection
The family's many possessions will be managed by 3 members on a 9-member board called the Hohenzollern Art Property Foundation.

Giants TE Theo Johnson was in his 'groove' before season-ending injury, feels 'huge difference' in Year 2 https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-te-theo-johnson-was-in-his-groove-before-season-ending-…

Elon Musk’s team of Texas lobbyists during the 2025 legislative session did not rival those of huge energy and telecommunications companies,
which typically employ dozens of people to represent them.
⭐️But Musk and his companies still hired more lobbyists this year than any other since 2021, according to data from the Texas Ethics Commission.
❌Musk, the billionaire businessman behind carmaker Tesla and aerospace company SpaceX, influenced several new Texas laws this year. …

Elon Musk Hired a Dozen Texas Lobbyists This Year. State Law Keeps the Extent of Their Influence Under Wraps.
Musk, the billionaire businessman behind Tesla and SpaceX, influenced several new Texas laws this year. How his lobbyists came about these wins, however, is more of a mystery.

""The [newly formed] Debcrafters’ […] team will take the lead on syncing & merging packages from Debian, reviewing proposed migration issues, upstreaming Ubuntu deltas, and take ownership of major transitions […]""
Makes me wonder how many similar efforts Canonical/Ubuntu already announced over the years to improved the interaction with Debian – and what became of them.

NYT began bundling its digital subscription with The Economist in the UK earlier in 2025; the bundled price is less than an annual digital sub to The Economist (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/01/2025/new-yo…

New York Times teams up with Economist in play for worldwide readers
The US paper quietly rolled out the bundled subscription with the UK-based finance and business-focused publication earlier this year.

#StackOverflow 2025 Developer Survey
https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025

Have to say, I'm impressed with Wahoo customer service.
Battery cover to my heart rate monitor broke a couple of years ago; I thought they might be able to send me a replacement cover, but after contacting them they sent me a completely new device.
This week the battery in my 4 year old Bolt 2 cycling computer failed and the device will no longer charge. After contacting them, they are now sending me a new Bolt 3 computer as a goodwill gesture.

Imaging the positron annihilation line with 20-year INTEGRAL/SPI observations
Hiroki Yoneda, Thomas Siegert, Saurabh Mittal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01066 https://

Imaging the positron annihilation line with 20-year INTEGRAL/SPI observations
The e$^+$ e$^-$ annihilation line at 511 keV provides a unique probe for studying the distribution and origin of positrons in our Galaxy. The SPI spectrometer on INTEGRAL has observed this gamma-ray line for two decades. We analyze 20 years of INTEGRAL/SPI observations to produce the most sensitive all-sky map of the 511 keV line emission to date, aiming to reveal new features and provide refined measurements of known sources. We perform image deconvolution using the RL algorithm and employ boo…

Investigating Document Type, Language, Publication Year, and Author Count Discrepancies Between OpenAlex and Web of Science
#OpenAccess

Investigating Document Type, Language, Publication Year, and Author Count Discrepancies Between OpenAlex and Web of Science
Bibliometrics, whether used for research or research evaluation, relies on large multidisciplinary databases of research outputs and citation indices. The Web of Science (WoS) was the main supporting infrastructure of the field for more than 30 years until several new competitors emerged. OpenAlex, a bibliographic database launched in 2022, has distinguished itself for its openness and extensive coverage. While OpenAlex may reduce or eliminate barriers to accessing bibliometric data, one of the…

People in Ireland really think a banged-up 20-year-old Dell server rack is worth €800! When I was in the DC business *we paid asset recovery firms to take excess racks away.*
Fine, you convinced me: I'll buy new. Absolutely ridiculous country.

From @…
Cheerful Earful Podcast Festival
MELBOURNE Dates: 3–5 October · Venue: Stupid Old Studios
Returning for its second year in Australia, Cheerful Earful’s Melbourne edition brings back fan favourites like TOFOP, Do Go On, and Plumbing the Death Star, alongside late-night hangouts and special guests at the Stupid Old Studios hub.

The world's funniest podcast festival returns - Cheerful Earful 2025 expands into the US
The beloved podcast festival returns with 15 days of live shows, over 50 podcasts, and a debut in New York City

4th-year Cowboys DE shows hunger, patience in angling for new deal https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/09/03/cowboys-sam-williams-approach-return-injury/85943136007/

For the first time this year, I've been trying out keeping a basic list in a spreadsheet of TV and movie premieres (and I started a new tab for ones coming out next year, too) -- just to keep up with things. This is the last half of the 2025 now, so here's everything I have from yesterday til the end of the year.
I won't necessarily watch ALL of this, but it's things I might be interested in, and I find that it's helped to have a basic guide as to what comes out wh…

Steelers sign GM Khan to new 3-year contract https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45660160/steelers-gm-omar-khan-contract-2028-new-deal

"Warming due to tropical deforestation linked to 28,000 ‘excess’ deaths per year"
#Deforestation #Trees

Warming due to tropical deforestation linked to 28,000 ‘excess’ deaths per year - Carbon Brief
Warming driven by deforestation caused an extra 28,000 heat-related deaths per year across Africa, South America and Asia over 2001-20, new research finds.

Former Raiders, Giants star Darren Waller coming out of retirement with new team https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/former-raiders-giants-star-darren-walle…

Our new house has a 28 year old furnace and no air conditioning, so we're in the process of collecting quotes. 3rd one just received.... holy crap....
#Homeownership #StickerShock

Broncos LB Nik Bonitto lands 4-year, $106 million contract extension https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6590839/2025/09/04/broncos-nik-bonitto-new-contract/

Cowboys' Tyler Guyton bringing new intensity, ready for breakout year https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-tyler-guyton-bringing-new-intensity-ready-breakout-year

The NYT is making deals with other US news outlets: Philly Inquirer premium subscribers get access to the Cooking app and the Star Tribune bundled in Games (Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/publishe

Publishers like The Philadelphia Inquirer are bundling New York Times content into their subscriptions
The New York Times has been experimenting with these deals with other U.S. publishers over the last year.

Sources: Meta aims to launch its next-gen Llama AI model, Llama 4.X, by the end of 2025; the TBD team developing Llama 4.X is also trying to fix Llama 4 bugs (Jyoti Mann/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-superintelligen…

Meta races to launch latest Llama AI model by year-end, sources say
Meta plans to launch its latest AI model, called Llama 4.X, by year-end, two people familiar with the matter told Business Insider.

Here we are, in another moment rife with apocalyptic intensity, in a city trying to hold the line against the president it birthed through a shattering of democratic traditions and constitutional breaches.
Still, I can’t help but wonder what will put an end to this nostalgic moment.
We got a glimpse of what that might look like during New York’s Democratic mayoral primary on June 24, when the 33-year-old democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani crushed the former governor Andrew Cuomo. …

Opinion | Why Are We Doomed to Keep Reliving the ’90s?
The characters that dominated the end of the last millennium have an outsize influence on the current one.

Raiders Notes: Jack Jones Finds A New Home, Tyree Wilson Year 3, And More https://raiderramble.com/2025/07/27/raiders-notes-jack-jones-finds-a-new-home-tyree-wilson-year-3-and-more/

Tom Brady Year 2, YouTube Year 1 and the biggest NFL media storylines for the 2025 season https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6592165/2025/09/03/nfl-tom-brady-youtube-netflix-2025-preview/

Rapoport: Jake Ferguson's four-year Cowboys extension includes $52M in new money https://www.nfl.com/videos/rapoport-jake-ferguson-s-four-year-cowboys-extension-includes-52m-in-new-money-back-together-weekend

"Nepal launches plan to boost science, awareness to save dholes"
#Nepal #Animals #Dholes

Nepal launches plan to boost science, awareness to save dholes
KATHMANDU — Nepal has launched a species action plan focused exclusively on conserving the endangered dhole (Cuon alpinus), also known as the Asiatic wild dog. The new 262.9 million rupee ($1.9 million) five-year plan, targets key conservation challenges by trying to strike a balance between improving scientific understanding of the species and promoting awareness among […]

Sources: Amazon is paying $20M to $25M a year to use NYT's editorial content in a multi-year deal for its AI platforms, which is ~1% of NYT's total 2024 revenue (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Trailer for the new Cat in the Hat movie coming next year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz8pLlPhSeY
I'm a Seuss fanatic so of course I'm gonna see this one way or another, I see all the Seuss stuff haha. Bill Hader voicing the cat, and with Matt Berry and Pa…

Jaylen Warren contract: Steelers RB agrees to two-year extension, eyes more touches in new-look backfield

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jaylen-

Sources: Amazon is paying $20M to $25M a year to use NYT's editorial content in a multi-year deal for its AI platforms, which is ~1% of NYT's total 2024 revenue (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/amazon-

Fresh start in Big D: Dak Prescott embraces new era for the Cowboys https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/fresh-start-big-d-dak-prescott-embraces-new-era-cowboys/2a68d0bf20d9ba41c2888452

Raiders Star Floated as Browns Target in Bold Trade Idea https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/star-browns-bold-trade-scenario/?adt_ei=[email]

Measles is on the rise in Kentucky.
Health officials in the state confirmed that the disease has spread to Fayette County,
marking the seventh case of the highly contagious illness in Kentucky since the beginning of the year.
Previous cases had been reported in Woodfood County.
There are five active measles cases in the Bluegrass State, four of which are connected to the current outbreak,
while another unrelated measles case was reported in Todd County last week,…

New State Reports Measles Outbreak as RFK Jr. Guts Vaccine Access
Measles have reached a record peak, but Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn’t want to vaccinate people.

2025 NFL Protector of the Year candidates: Top 10 offensive linemen who could win league's new award https://www.nfl.com/news/2025-nfl-protector-of-the-year-candidates-top-10-offensive-linemen-who-could-win-league-s-n…

Cowboys' Swiss-army knife cuts $7.5 million new deal ahead of 2025 season opener https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/09/03/cowboys-hunter-luepke-contract-extension/85952759007/

Las Vegas Raiders: New Year, New Beginnings – A New Tyree Wilson https://raiderramble.com/2025/06/11/las-vegas-raiders-new-year-new-beginnings-new-tyree-wilson/

Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp, who has held that position since 2020, says he will step down and lead a new S&S imprint that will publish six books a year (Elizabeth Harris/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/books/review/jona…

Jonathan Karp to Step Down as Head of Simon & Schuster
Jonathan Karp, the chief executive since 2020, will oversee a new imprint that publishes six books year.

Source: OpenAI raised $8.3B at a $300B valuation, months ahead of schedule, as part of plans to raise $40B this year; 5M business users pay for ChatGPT (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/business/dealbook/openai-ai-mega-funding-deal.html…

OpenAI Raises Another Funding Deal, From Dragoneer, Blackstone and More
The venture capital round values the ChatGPT maker at $300 billion, and underscores the fierceness of the A.I. money race.

Cowboys $21 million re-investment took a year but is paying off under new system https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/30/malik-hooker-standout-cowboys-new-system-2025/85430305007/

Kader Kohou injury: Dolphins lose starting CB for year as team begins season with completely new secondary

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/kader-k

Montana ranked second worst in the country in terms of prevalence of mental illness and access to care, according to the non-profit Mental Health America.
Two-thirds of adults in Montana also lived in homes with guns, the highest rate in the country, according to a 2016 study from RAND, a thinktank.
The owner of the Firefly Café in Anaconda told the Associated Press that she locked up her business after a friend alerted her to the shooting.

“We are Montana, so guns are not new to…

Sources: Sweden-based AI-powered app builder Lovable is set to raise $150M led by Accel at a ~$1.8B valuation, as investors rush to back "vibe coding" startups (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/01bc8e7e-6c45-4348-b89f-00e091149531

Swedish AI ‘vibe-coding’ start-up Lovable valued at almost $2bn
Two-year-old group nears more than $150mn in new funding as investors swarm around AI coding businesses

Cowboys defense won't face Stafford in joint practice with Rams https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-defense-wont-face-stafford-in-joint-practice-with-rams

UFL adds new billionaire co-owner Mike Repole, who promises big changes https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6529260/2025/07/31/ufl-new-owner-mike-repole-changes/

Filing: StubHub, which is planning a September IPO, says revenue grew 3% to $828M in H1, missing its earlier projection of $885M, with adjusted EBITDA down 7% (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/stubhub-missed-financial-t…

StubHub Missed Financial Targets Ahead of IPO
Even as StubHub makes a renewed push to go public, its business isn’t expanding as quickly as it had hoped. In the first half of this year, the ticketing app fell short of revenue and profit projections it shared with lenders earlier this year, in part due to new U.S. ticket pricing rules. The ...

Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that U.S. Space Command will be located in Alabama,
reversing a Biden-era decision to keep it at its temporary headquarters in Colorado.
The long-expected decision from Trump caps a four-year tug of war between two states and opposing administrations about where to locate U.S. Space Command,
an intense fight because the headquarters would be a significant boon to the local economy.
Alabama and Colorado have long battled to claim Space…

Trump will announce Space Command moves from Colorado to Alabama
President Donald Trump’s administration will announce U.S. Space Command will be located in Alabama, reversing a Biden-era decision to keep it at its temporary headquarters in Colorado. That's according to two people familiar with the announcement. The people say Trump is expected to speak Tuesday afternoon and will give the new location. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to confirm the plans ahead of the official announcement. A Pentagon website set up to livestream the remarks …

Dallas Cowboys trade 6-foot-4 24-year old to New Orleans Saints https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-trade-6-foot-4-24-year-old-new-orleans-saints/1186f7e86387e929e6eb8fa…

Sources: North Carolina, Belichick ban Pats' staff https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/46159090/unc-belichick-ban-patriots-staff-program

Nintendo reports Q1 revenue up 132% YoY to ~$3.8B, operating profit up 4.4% to ~$378M, and 5.82M Switch 2 sales, more than double of Switch 1 in its first month (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/nintendo-earnings-q1-2025.html

Nintendo doubles quarterly revenue as Switch 2 sales hit 5.8 million units
Nintendo shares have rallied roughly 40% so far this year on excitement over the firm's new Switch 2 hybrid console.

Tzeporah Berman’s campaign group believes Cop30 will help its initiative to phase out oil, coal and gas take shape
The fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty initiative aims to sidestep slow-moving UN climate talks by gathering together nations, cities and companies that want to rapidly phase out oil, coal and gas.
At the coming Cop30 summit in Belém, it hopes to gather support so it can launch negotiations for a new treaty next year.
The group’s founder, Tzeporah Berman, expl…

BREAKING NEWS: Cowboys extend Jake Ferguson to 4-year deal https://insidethestar.com/breaking-news-cowboys-extend-jake-ferguson-to-4-year-deal

Source: over a dozen people at Thinking Machines Lab were approached by Meta; one offer was $1B over a multi-year span; not a single person has taken the offer (Kylie Robison/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-ai-recruiting-spree-thinking-m…

Meta’s AI Recruiting Campaign Finds a New Target
Meta approached more than a dozen staffers at Mira Murati’s AI startup to discuss joining its new superintelligence lab. One received an offer for more than $1 billion.

Mathematicians are excited about how Cairo’s work will inspire new research. “I am certain that, from now on, whenever we come upon a problem of similar flavor, we will try to test it against Cairo-like constructions,” Oliveira said.
He and others in the harmonic analysis community will also have to reckon with a changed landscape.
In harmonic analysis, there’s a constellation of questions about how the energy of a wave concentrates.
If a conjecture known as Stein’s conje…

At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery | Quanta Magazine
After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture.

Jets sign 40-year-old kicker Nick Folk following release of Caden Davis

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jets-sign-40-year-old-kicker-nick-folk-following-re…

Giants WR Jalin Hyatt on transforming body to rebound after dismal Year 2: ‘That’s what darkness does to you’ https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-wr-jalin-hyatt-on-transforming-body-to-rebound-after-dismal-y…

Steelers, DeShon Elliott officially agree to new three-year contract for safety to remain in Pittsburgh

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/steeler

Meyers' future with Raiders unclear amid talks https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46149505/jakobi-meyers-unsure-how-contract-talks-raiders-play-out

Jets WR Garrett Wilson sees bright future ahead for TE Mason Taylor: 'He came in ready' https://www.nfl.com/news/jets-garrett-wilson-sees-bright-future-ahead-for-mason-taylor-he-came-in-ready