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What if dinner was public infrastructure - again?
"food charity Nourish Scotland are pushing for the reintroduction of public diners to Scotland: diners subsidised by the state to provide affordable, nutritious, and filling meals that are accessible to everyone regardless of their financial status.
“There's an element of universality, dignity, and quality that comes with something being a public institution or a part of public infrastructure,” said Anna Chworow"

What if dinner was public infrastructure?
A Scottish charity wants to reintroduce state-subsidised diners for all—a potentially a big ask in the current political climate.

«if you have to choose a “pedia” to trust, you might choose the one assembled by a bunch of pedantic nerds saying “well, ACTUALLY” to each other until the heat death of the universe, over the one assembled by an LLM controlled by an insecure Nazi salute-throwing billionaire»
A Review of Grokipedia, Using Myself as Test Subject | Whatever
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/30/a-review-of-grokipedia-using-myself-as-test-subject/

“Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the U.N. … disparaged Albanese personally, calling her a ‘witch.’”
https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-israel-gaza-human-rights-albanese-e1a4fbde166e34bc8d305bfbf6e2bd51

UN investigator delivers Gaza report virtually due to US sanctions
An independent U.N. investigator is taking world nations to task for not standing up to the U.S. over sanctions it imposed on her. The sanctions prompted the expert to give a report to the U.N. by video on Tuesday. Francesca Albanese is an Italian human rights lawyer assigned to explore human rights abuses in the Palestinian territories. She told the U.N. General Assembly by video that the U.S. sanctions are “spiteful” and attack the world body's independence and integrity. The U.S. has acc…

The Two Ronnies: "The Confusing Library" https://youtu.be/AYxmPHLU9oA 📘📕🙃

Uniqueness of the asymptotic limits for Ricci-flat manifolds with linear volume growth
Zetian Yan, Xingyu Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00420 https://arxi…

Uniqueness of the asymptotic limits for Ricci-flat manifolds with linear volume growth
Under natural assumptions on curvature and cross section, we establish the uniqueness of asymptotic limits and the exponential convergence rate for complete noncollapsed Ricci-flat manifolds with linear volume growth, which are known to only admit cylindrical asymptotic limits. In dimension four, these assumptions hold automatically, yielding unconditional uniqueness and convergence. In particular, our results show that all asymptotically cylindrical Calabi--Yau manifolds converge exponentially…

"for the rest of us who don’t have the technical knowledge and time to follow his accomplishments, his advice is to “Never use your primary WiFi network for IoT devices” and to “Treat them as strangers in your home.” "
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/manufacturer-issues-remote-kill-command-to-nuke-smart-vacuum-after-engineer-blocks-it-from-collecting-data-user-revives-it-with-custom-hardware-and-python-scripts-to-run-offline

Here’s the lightning sketch of Paul’s Treatise Against Efficiency that I’ve never written:
1. Efficiency is asymptotically inefficient: as costs approach zero, the cost of further reducing them approaches infinity.
2. Efficiency prioritizes the measurable over the difficult-to-measure.
3. Efficiency prioritizes what those in power see (or imagine) over on-the-ground reality.
4. Following from 2 and 3, efficiency reduces the amount and quality of information flowing into a human system.
5. Efficiency foments institutional inflexibility.
6. By removing slack, efficiency causes small failures to cascade more readily and increases the risk of catastrophic failure.
7. Following rom 4, 5, and 6, efficiency trades small costs for massive risks: from failures, from missed opportunities, and from inability to adjust.
8. Efficiency, when pushed, strangles the emergent phenomena that in the long term create all new things of value.
9. Thus, although it can be a by-product of evolution, efficiency as a goal in itself strangles evolution.
10. Efficiency as a goal strangles joy.

Some months ago, Trump ordered the halt of minting pennies. OK. Now there is a #Penny shortage coming. Fine.
Problem is: There is no accompanying #law.
"Without the production of new pennies, cash transactions would need to be rounded to the nearest nickel. There are some states and loca…

"Over 200 arrested at NYC gay cruising site"
Dark times.
Also: Giving me a flashback to George Michael's "Outside", his brilliant disco middle finger to him being arrested for public lewdness in a toilet.
https://www.out.com/news/nyc-gay-sex-arres

'Dark days' return: Over 200 arrested at NYC gay cruising site
The Amtrak Police Department's targeting of a Penn Station cruising site has prompted outcry from the New York region's out elected leaders.