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Week 14 opponent: What the Cowboys are saying https://www.detroitlions.com/news/week-14-opponent-what-the-cowboys-are-saying-schottenheimer-williams-diggs

3 things to know about Raiders’ opponent: Chiefs suffer through atypical season https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/3-things-to-know-about-raiders-opponent-chiefs-suffer-through-atypical-season-3603101/

Lions vs. Cowboys | Week 14 opponent preview https://www.detroitlions.com/video/lions-vs-cowboys-week-14-opponent-preview

94.1% accuracy is definitely the exception to the rule for me, but the moves looked clear and obvious. I had wondered about whether patience against the pinned queen was accurate but reasoned it had to be.
Opponent allowing the pin on the queen was their undoing, obviously, but they still played with 82.5% accuracy. In most of my games, I'd be delighted to score that high.
#chess

Grand jury indicts N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James, a Trump opponent, on bank fraud charges (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/ny-attorney-general-letitia-james-trump-opponent-indicted-grand-jury-b-rcna236737
http://www.memeorandum.com/251009/p130#a251009p130

Opponent Shaping in LLM Agents
Marta Emili Garcia Segura, Stephen Hailes, Mirco Musolesi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08255 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08255

Opponent Shaping in LLM Agents
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being deployed as autonomous agents in real-world environments. As these deployments scale, multi-agent interactions become inevitable, making it essential to understand strategic behavior in such systems. A central open question is whether LLM agents, like reinforcement learning agents, can shape the learning dynamics and influence the behavior of others through interaction alone. In this paper, we present the first investigation of opponent shapin…

3 things to know about Raiders’ opponent: Texans defense dominant https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/3-things-to-know-about-raiders-opponent-texans-defense-dominant-3597901/

Suddenly, Trump’s effort to rig the 2026 midterms with corrupt gerrymanders appears in trouble.
A panel of judges just blocked the GOP gerrymander in Texas, which had added five seats.
In Indiana, Republicans currently lack the votes to redraw their congressional map.
Trump is angry about all this.
He lashed out at Indiana Republicans, threatening primaries and calling one opponent “weak” and “pathetic.”
So is the scheme dead?
-- No.
Several as…

Trump’s Plot to Rig 2026 Is Falling Apart, and Boy Is He Mad About It
As the Trump-GOP scheme to gerrymander the midterms suddenly faces big new setbacks, a Democratic operative who’s leading in these fights explains why the battle isn’t over—and what must happen now.

Been re-reading Langdon Winner's "The Whale and the Reactor".
Winner published this in 1988 and it still 100% applies. His criticism of "values" discourse, of certain strategies of trying to defend important structures by adopting the language and thinking of the opponent. The focus on numbers while devaluing experience. The hollowness of the decentralization discourse.
Damn.

Buccaneers QB Baker Mayfield doesn't expect 'clean play' from Saints: 'I do not like them' https://www.nfl.com/news/buccaneers-baker-mayfield-doesnt-expect-clean-play-saints-i-do-not-like-them

Likewise, in today's UK, we say, "There is no immigration question".
"The Danes’ unified refusal to indulge hate and their insistence that there was no 'Jewish question' overtook their more powerful opponent, dashing their plans and even changing some of the German occupiers’ mindsets."
The Danes Resisted Fascism, and So Can We | The Nation

The Danes Resisted Fascism, and So Can We
Danish resistance didn’t arrive all at once during World War II. But taken as a whole, the Danes’ actions are a testament to what’s possible when we work together to fight fascism.

George Pickens fined more for taunt than player who punched opponent https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/george-pickens-fined-more-taunt-than-player-who-punched-opponent

Raiders Week 6 opponent set to get their best OT back from injury https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/10/08/raiders-week-6-opponent-set-to-get-their-best-ot-back-from-inju…

Saw a clip of a preacher retelling an anecdote about a chess grandmaster being shown a painting of the devil having apparently defeated his opponent at chess for his soul. The grandmaster studied the painting and saw that there was still a path to avoid a checkmate. So the painting contained a secret inspirational message of hope!
Yet when people accurately model the game state from Die Schachspieler and feed it into chess analysis algorithms, Mephistopheles always wins

Game of Life - Board position and Paul Morphy - Chess Forums
There is an painting "Checkmate" that depicts Satan playing against a young man. The board position is supposed to appear hopeless but it is said that Paul Morphy when seeing the painting studied the picture, called for a chess board to be set up and some time after declared the young man has not yet...

The right opponent at the right time for #LFC but one game does not a trend make. Away at Brentford will be a challenge.
* Szoboszlai was my MOTM before the goal. Unquestionably afterwards.
* Wirtz was great, a pair of assists and worked so well with Szoboszlai & Jones.
* Ekitike must always start. He plays with a sophistication far beyond his years, combining well with Wirtz.

Ciattarelli should run again. he's my fav political opponent ATM.
#newJersey #uspol

Just finished "The Word for World is Forest" by Ursula K. Le Guin. Can't believe I didn't read this one earlier, and this strengthens my resolve to finish off the rest of her stuff I have yet to read sooner. I think it benefits somewhat from having read it after "Four Ways to Forgiveness" which gives more of the Hainish context. Certainly none of the blurbs I had read about it did it any measure of justice, which is one reason I hadn't prioritized it. More than being about colonization, it's about a solution to the paradox of tolerance, and both the price and imperfections of that solution. As usual with Le Guin's science fiction, it's a rich companion to anarchist thought.
I think the typical objection to seeing it as an answer to the warlord question would be that it serendipitously positions the indigenous population with more power and a less ruthless opponent than in the imagined scenario, and it uses the League of Worlds as a sort of deus ex machina to foreclose further retribution. Ultimately that's why I think it's more about the paradox of tolerance than anything else, but I also think in regards to the warlord problem that we are too quick to underestimate just how numerous and enthusiastic the opponents of a warlord might be, and to overestimate the strength of technological weapons wielded by frail (and psychologically unarmored) humans.
In any case, Le Guin gives this book's alien humans yet another fascinatingly credible capability, and getting to see the introduction of ansible technology with all its implications is pretty cool too. Maybe not

The Trump administration plans to allow new oil and gas drilling off the California coast for the first time in roughly four decades
The proposed lease sales in the Pacific Ocean would primarily be off Santa Barbara County, Calif.,
where a small amount of drilling is already occurring, according to two of the people familiar with the Interior Department’s draft plan

Trump Is Said to Propose Opening California Coast to Oil Drilling
Gov. Gavin Newsom, a chief critic of the president and an opponent of oil exploration in the Pacific, called the proposal “dead on arrival.”

I had only just decided that my unplayable first WWF letter tray should be called a "boing" (as opposed to an "ognib") when my opponent played a first-tray bingo.

Pete Carroll, Raiders Facing This Familiar Hurdle in Week 13 https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-pete-carroll-facing-this-familiar-hurdle-week-13

Cowboys vs. Jets preview, prediction: Dak Prescott looks to keep rolling against winless opponent

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys-vs-jets-week-5-preview-prediction/…

👀 Defensive regression. If you review most of the goals this season, it usually isn’t that LFC don’t have enough people behind the ball. It’s that depth & injuries have been more undermining than expected. Little choice but to play those out of form or out of position.
Missing out on Guehi was massive, as was the injury to Leoni, and the decision to sell Quansah now looks bad. I think Trent, when he wanted to, was a better defender than his reputation, but defensively, he’s not mis…

Behind Enemy Lines: Previewing the Raiders next opponent with Chiefs Wire https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/10/18/raiders-vs-chiefs-week-7-preview-behind-enemy-lines/86769981007/

Back in the day, Trump told the press: If you need someone to get vicious toward an opponent, you get Roy Cohn
Alas, his favorite thug-fixer-lawyer has been dead since 1986 (having perished just six weeks after he was disbarred for fraud).
Now he has Cohn 2.0,
courtesy of slavish Pam Bondi,
who is systematically destroying the credibility of the Justice Department,
converting it into a Trump defense firm,
and spitting venom at anyone with the temerity to a…

What TV channel is Cowboys vs. Broncos on today? Time, TV schedule for NFL Week 8 game https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/26/where-to-watch-cowboys-vs-broncos-today-tv-ch…

Been starting a habit of writing down story/game ideas as I have them even though most of them will never seriously get started, let alone finished. It's been fun since writing things down gives me a chance to think them through a bit more than just pondering them in my head. Anyways, here's a #GameDesign idea:
"Grand" - is a "reverse metroidvania" in which as a grandparent, you slowly lose movement options as the story progresses, requiring more and more convoluted routes through the map to reach the same areas. You do still explore "new" areas in memory mode (and unlock movement options like a bike in your memories) before traversing the areas again in the diegetic present. The story follows your quest to protect a grandchild from the machinations of a Kafkaesque state, first trying to track them down within the system and then trying to get them released. Each "boss" is "fought" through an abstracted conversation system where memories, keepsakes, and various kinds of emotional/logical appeals wear down your opponent's nihilism and/or fear until they're willing to help you. Normal "enemies" are just people on the street who might bump into you and drain some of your stamina as you pass by if you don't issue a properly-timed "excuse me" or the like.

'Lights-out' Eagles defense swats Jared Goff, Lions offense into oblivion https://www.nfl.com/news/lights-out-eagles-defense-swats-jared-goff-lions-offense-into-oblivion

Venezuelan opposition politician María Corina Machado
has won the Nobel peace prize
for her dogged struggle to rescue the South American country from its fate as
“a brutal, authoritarian state”.
Machado, 58, a conservative often described as Venezuela’s Iron Lady,
has spent the last year living in hiding
after her political movement was widely believed to have beaten the country’s president, Nicolšs Maduro,
in the July 2024 presidential election.

The Eagles want to bury their rivals, and the Cowboys are fighting to save their season https://insidethestar.com/the-eagles-want-to-bury-their-rivals-and-the-cowboys-are-fighting-to-save-their-season

Everything hinges on the subjective interpretation of condition #4: "Making an obvious action which CLEARLY IMPACTS ON THE ABILITY OF AN OPPONENT TO PLAY THE BALL"
Webb: "Only Donnarumma truly knows if he was impacted by this and we have to look at the factual evidence."
I'm screaming at Owen to ask, "if only he knows, what evidence do you see that he is clearly impacted?"
If none, the condition isn't met and thus the on-field decision …

Bari Weiss
– a staunch Zionist and a fierce opponent of supposed wokeness and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives
– famously left the New York Times opinion section,
claiming she had been bullied by her colleagues for her beliefs.
She started a Substack newsletter and eventually founded the wildly successful website Free Press.
Her rise has been meteoric. She “has ascended the mountain of journalism on a slingshot”, Jessica Testa of the New York T…

Spagnola: Meaning of Dak on the stretch run https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/spagnola-meaning-of-dak-on-the-stretch-run

Spagnola: Meaning of Dak on the stretch run https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/spagnola-meaning-of-dak-on-the-stretch-run

Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval handily defeated Vice President JD Vance’s half-brother Tuesday, according to the Associated Press.
Pureval, a Democrat, trounced Cory Bowman, securing an early and humiliating lead over the Republican challenger.
An initial vote tally found that Pureval had won 12,694 votes, compared to Bowman’s meager 2,835,

JD Vance’s Half-Brother Suffers Humiliating Loss in Mayoral Race
The voters of Cincinnati roundly rejected Cory Bowman in favor of his Democratic opponent.

Even The Dallas Cowboys Felt Sorry For The 2025 Las Vegas Raiders https://raiderramble.com/2025/11/18/even-the-dallas-cowboys-felt-sorry-for-the-2025-las-vegas-raiders/

Panthers' Dowdle eyes Dallas after career game https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46502346/panthers-dowdle-rushes-206-yards-win-eyes-cowboys-next

A.J. Brown names one thing Eagles, Cowboys have in common ahead of Week 12 matchup https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/philadelphia-eagles/news/aj-brown-one-thing-eagles-cowboys-common-week-12-matchup/fb…

Ceedee, Dak on must-win vs. Eagles: 'It's a playoff game' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/ceedee-dak-on-must-win-vs-eagles-it-s-a-playoff-game

Ceedee, Dak on must-win vs. Eagles: 'It's a playoff game' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/ceedee-dak-on-must-win-vs-eagles-it-s-a-playoff-game

Matt Eberflus: Focus On Your Job And The Opponent | Dallas Cowboys 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgasCpN_Hlo

Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes Gets Blunt Words From Raiders’ Pete Carroll https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/pete-carroll-message-chiefs-patrick-mahomes/?adt_ei=[email]

Potent dual threat among 3 things Cowboys should hate about Chargers https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/20/cowboys-chargers-preview-things-to-hate-week-16/87844685007/

Game Preview: Raiders clash with the Cowboys under the bright lights of Monday Night Football https://www.raiders.com/news/game-preview-raiders-clash-with-the-cowboys-under-the-bright-lights-of-monday-night-football…

Game Preview: Raiders clash with the Cowboys under the bright lights of Monday Night Football https://www.raiders.com/news/game-preview-raiders-clash-with-the-cowboys-under-the-bright-lights-of-monday-night-football…

If the Cowboys Win in Week 6, Expect These 4 Things to Happen https://insidethestar.com/if-the-cowboys-win-in-week-6-expect-these-4-things-to-happen