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The Woman in the Coldplay Concert Kiss Cam Video Is Ready to Talk (Lisa Miller/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/style/coldplay-concert-couple-kiss-cam-woman.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9k8.4WUA.p_pxWtYdrWmG&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251218/p122#a251218p122

When I posted the previous post, I wondered how long it would take for this image to show up in the replies. The answer, thanks to @…, was 24 minutes.
Fediverse, you’re all right.
https://mastodon.social/@jef/115387823731511343

pbhstat: A Python package for calculating the primordial black hole abundance
Philippa S. Cole, Jacopo Fumagalli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14326 https://a…

pbhstat: A Python package for calculating the primordial black hole abundance
We present pbhstat, a publicly available Python package designed to compute the mass function and total abundance of primordial black holes (PBHs) from a given primordial power spectrum. The package offers a modular framework using multiple statistical approaches, including Press-Schechter theory, peaks theory, and formalisms based on the non-linear compaction function. Currently, the implementation is limited to scenarios with nearly Gaussian initial conditions.

Source: OANN fired Vish Burra, a producer of The Matt Gaetz Show, after he posted a cartoon that executives deemed "highly offensive" and "antisemitic" (Corbin Bolies/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/matt-gaetz-producer-fired-at…

Matt Gaetz Producer Fired at OAN Over Antisemitic Posts | Exclusive
Vish Burra’s posts characterizing Jewish people as “vermin” were “highly offensive” and “antisemitic,” a source tells TheWrap

Online influencer Andrew Tate,
a self-described misogynist who has millions of young male followers,
was facing allegations of sex trafficking women in three countries
when he and his brother left their home in Romania to visit the United States.
“The Tates will be free,
Trump is the president.
The good old days are back,”
Tate posted on X before the trip in February
— one of many times he has sung the president’s praises to his fans.
But…

The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.

The blogerati have discovered algorave (via @…) https://interconnected.org/home/2025/12/11/live

"To be very clear, Gemini 3 isn’t perfect, and it still needs a manager who can guide and check it. But it suggests that “human in the loop” is evolving from “human who fixes AI mistakes” to “human who directs AI work.” And that may be the biggest change since the release of ChatGPT."

Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3
From chatbots to agents

How to identify the #artist who did a #painting.
#artHistory

How To Recognise Famous Painters According To The Internet
Art history has never been so easy! A redditor DontTacoBoutIt posted this series of famous paintings and gave short but hilariously accurate explanations on how to recognize their authors. Commenters on Reddit and Imgur also started sharing their own ideas for artist identification. Check out the following examples, and don't hesitate to add your own!

A protest does not become a rebellion merely because the protestors advocate for myriad legal or policy changes, are well organized, call for significant changes to the structure of the U.S. government, use civil disobedience as a form of protest, or exercise their Second Amendment right to carry firearms as the law currently allows.
Nor does a protest become a rebellion merely because of sporadic and isolated incidents of unlawful activity or even violence committed by rogue particip…

"Not Guilty"
A not-at-all-subtle reminder to Trump that he's just the president — and that means his power is limited. And: The Seventh Circuit keeps troop deployment blocked in Illinois.