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Geno Smith on future ‘expecting to win a lot of games’ with Raiders https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/12/17/geno-smith-future-expecting-to-win-a-lot-of-games-with…

Trump’s call for congressman Thomas Massie’s ouster underscores growing divisions within the Republican Party as it heads into the 2026 midterms,
with the MAGA Mob Boss continuing to test his grip on congressional Republicans and the broader conservative movement.
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Donald Trump Says Republican Must Be Thrown Out of Congress ‘ASAP’
The attack marks Trump’s latest move to punish Republican lawmakers who have opposed his agenda.

Okay, got the new version finished. The BNC connectors are for RGB Sync, and the other two BNC connectors were removed and replaced with a DB9 connector for the glory that is CGA. Kept the RCA audio port on the side of the board because audio will mostly go in directly to the PVM. Overall I'm much more satisfied with this layout and connector choice than the previous version.
#electronics

There is a a very mushy line between education and indoctrination in the UK's approach to religious education. We've had problems ourselves with one of my kids RE teacher declaring that fossils are fake and that the big bang made no sense. I'm perfectly fine with the education part, especially given how important religion is in so many peoples lives. Having knowledge of the basic precepts and practices is an important part of understanding and empathising with others.

UK Supreme Court rules RE taught in NI schools is unlawful
The Christian religious education taught in schools in Northern Ireland is unlawful, the UK Supreme Court has ruled.

This is a subtweet...
People who are not anti-capitalist sometimes wonder: "Why is there a monopoly on X life-critical thing?" (E.g., epipens, insulin, web search).
This one is really simple actually: because monopolies are more profitable than competition, and the foundation of capitalism is that capital = power.
Various societies have recognized the necropolitical outcomes of monopolies and have tried to erect barriers to monopoly; we all know that monopolies are bad, death-and-suffering-causing things. But since these societies mostly remain capitalist, they allow these barriers to be eroded by the power of capital (to do otherwise would be to repudiate capitalism because it puts a limit on the power of money). The barriers are ineffective, and the capital = power equation holds, and monopolies result and get to do their killing & maiming thing (remember: even things like social media monopolies that you wouldn't expect to pay for political assassinations like a mining company still profit from inciting genocides). *Sometimes* there are oligopolies instead of monopolies, but instances of really competitive markets are pretty rare for things that are widely sought-after.
The "government will manage the markets to prevent bad outcomes like monopolies" strategy has failed repeatedly, spectacularly, and almost universally. To actually prevent monopolies you need a population that no longer believes that money should equal power, it's that simple. Sadly, it's actually not that simple, since all of the alternatives which equate something else to power, like "the king" or "party loyalty as judged by the supreme leader" have the same problems or worse. The attitude you need to cultivate is "nobody should have power," which is hard because *all* of the power-systems we have constantly propagandize against this attitude in myriad ways. Still, in the future once we've broken free of this age where hierarchy is accepted, people will look back and wonder whether the historical records are even credible given how much needless death and suffering were endured with little resistance.
#anarchy #capitalism

My requirements (and expectations, after several bad experiences) for dentists is pretty low. Non-painful cleanings, and not recommending unnecessary procedures. My current dentist is...okay. But they had a bunch of "we back the blue!" cards in the waiting room last time, and now they've sent me 4 "please leave is a good review on yelp/google!" emails in the past 4 days. Not great.

Now that took a while... I figured out a big part of how Intel ME (gen 3) hashes work:
CPD entry hashes in MN2 manifests are in LE notation and cover the respective file's _metadata_.
So I expect the metadata to contain hashes of the actual file.

Health insurance prices for next year under the Affordable Care Act
are now available in about a dozen states,
giving Americans their first look at the sharp increases many will pay for coverage
if Congress does not extend subsidies that have made some plans more affordable.
The annual enrollment period for Obamacare is expected to begin Nov. 1,
but the costs for some Americans are becoming publicly available piecemeal through some state marketplaces.
The…

Higher Obamacare Prices Become Public in a Dozen States
Consumers are facing greater costs for their 2026 A.C.A. health coverage as Congress continues to debate whether to extend subsidies that help people afford their premiums.

Various news about a possible future collider,
all pointing to the CERN FCC-ee as the leading proposal.
The Chinese CEPC plan is now on hold, as a decision was reached to not include it in China’s plans for the next five years (2026-30).

As part of the European Strategy for Particle Physics update process, recommendations drafted earlier this month have now been released
As expected, the main recommendation is to pursue the FCC-ee project, which will cost an esti…

Future Collider Update
Various news about a possible future collider, all pointing to the CERN FCC-ee as the leading proposal. For up to date background technical information on proposed colliders, including cost estimat…