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Lovely article about the magic of physical #books in Asterisk Magazine:
> Kalman is exquisitely attuned to the magic of physical books. In fact, she includes the instructions and ingredients for another type of spell in The Principles of Uncertainty.
>
> Attached on a perforated edge is a folded map of the world, drawn by her mother. “Either put it on the wall,” suggests…

The Message in the Medium—Asterisk
A love story told in books.

physical media includes Naruto

Malwarebytes: a 2024 Instagram data breach exposed information on 17.5 million users, including emails, phone numbers, and physical addresses (Jackson Chen/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/cybersecurity/an-

An Instagram data breach reportedly exposed the personal info of 17.5 million users
The leak may be responsible for Instagram users receiving plenty of emails requesting a password reset.

Grabbed wifey a Switch 2 so she'll have a new game to play (Bananza) on her upcoming break. I did try some Mario Kart World, it's a blast, of course. Gotta have the kid over eventually to fully take advantage of that one. The graphics are crispy on this thing, and the screen is quite a bit bigger. And a rounded charger base. 😂😂
#Nintendo

Google handed over a trove of personal data
about a student and journalist to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
in response to a subpoena that had not been approved by a judge, according to a report by The Intercept. 
The search and advertising tech giant provided ICE with the usernames, physical addresses, and an itemized list of services associated with the Google account of Amandla Thomas-Johnson,
a British student and journalist who briefly attended a pro-P…

Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICE | TechCrunch
The tech giant handed over the personal information of a journalist and student who attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024. This is the latest example of ICE using its controversial subpoena powers to target people critical of the Trump administration.

having a physical media day

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
VILA: And Cally?
AVON: She'll be all right, she's sleeping. Zen, course.
ZEN: Course zero three two zero for the planet Kaarn.
AVON: Kaarn?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/596 B7B3

An Ai2 research scientist argues that AGI, as commonly conceived, will not emerge because it ignores, among other things, the physical realities of computation (Tim Dettmers)
https://timdettmers.com/2025/12/10/why-agi-will-not-happen/

Decoding AGN Feedback with X-arithmetic - From Morphology to Physical Mechanisms: #GalaxyClusters by Numbers (and Physics): https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2025/xa/

Dear everyone who builds and sells things that have instruction manuals: I enormously appreciate if you provide those manuals at an easy to find place online as PDF files.
I don't like to own unnecessary physical things, and particularly, I don't like to own physical things that could be digital, so one of the first things I do when I bought something with a manual is to try to find a digital version of it.

I got a new (used) laptop a few months ago. As is now standard, they've removed the physical mouse buttons and made the touchpad wider. "No problem," I thought, "I've been practicing with tap-to-click!"
After a little while the phantom clicks started driving me nuts. Part of it is due to the wideness, part of it due to sensitivity (moving my finger onto the pad sometimes triggers a click). So tap-to-click is now disabled.. [1/2]

I’m really serious about physical media today

"Les chercheurs ont découvert qu'Š l'âge de 12 ans, le fait de posséder un smartphone par rapport Š ne pas en posséder était associé Š un risque accru de dépression, d'obésité et de manque de sommeil ( 31% de chances, 40% et 62%, respectivement)."
#santémentale

Polar Bears are in Better Physical Shape than 25 Years Ago, Despite Sea Ice Losses https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/polar-bears-are-in-better-physical-shape-than-25-years-ago-despite-sea-ice-losses/

Polar Bears are in Better Physical Shape than 25 Years Ago, Despite Sea Ice Losses
Polar bears are healthier, with more fat reserves, than they were 25 years ago, despite a decrease in Arctic sea ice around Svalbard islands.

Happy #FreeCADFriday! This week I've been working on re-modelling the case for the Morserino M32 Pocket. At least four different people had worked on the case. It was initially made in FreeCAD, but then was modified with other software, and the current case that QRP Labs is shipping was edited in s…

Frank Ragnow fails physical, will not rejoin Lions after attempting to end retirement https://www.nfl.com/news/frank-ragnow-fails-physical-will-not-rejoin-lions-after-attempting-to-end-retirement

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Goldfrapp:
🎵 U.K. Girls (Physical)
#NowPlaying #Goldfrapp
https://open.spotify.com/track/171FBAYWIg9ug2Y0AoLxuQ

He was already out of the path of the vehicle when he decided to shoot her.
US Department of Justice Policy On Use Of Force
https://www.justice.gov/jm/1-16000-department-justice-policy-use-force#1-16.200

Even if you want to watch some of their stuff, you can minmax making them less profit:
- buy used physical media
- don’t talk about their stuff online
- ████ it
And maybe look beyond, there’s so much better stuff out there anyway.

Spadaro: Vic Fangio previews showdown with physical Chargers offense https://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/news/vic-fangio-previews-showdown-with-physical-chargers-offense

Just so you know how deprived and lacking of humanity some people are, please read this and report and block the accounts that are spreading these conspiracy theories about Gaza Verified and our friends and families in Gaza.
Israel’s genocide is not limited to the physical erasure of the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank but aims to completely erase Palestinians from all aspects of life – both offline and online.
We may be helpless when it comes to what Israel’s milita…

New pre-print out: "Types, equations, dimensions and the Pi theorem".
We formalized the covariance principle (physical laws must be independent of units) as a homomorphism between the algebra of physical quantities and real numbers.
While the Pi Theorem from Dimensional Analysis (DA) is non-constructive, we introduce a constructive method for applying it. This could enable DA-driven program derivation where the type checker helps identify valid physical laws.
📝 Bl…

Revised comment on the paper titled "The Origin of Quantum Mechanical Statistics: Insights from Research on Human Language
Miko{\l}aj Sienicki, Krzysztof Sienicki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07881 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.07881 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.07881
arXiv:2512.07881v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This short note comments on \citet{Aerts2024Origin}, which proposes that ranked word frequencies in texts should be read through the lens of Bose--Einstein (BE) statistics and even used to illuminate the origin of quantum statistics in physics. The core message here is modest: the paper offers an interesting analogy and an eye-catching fit, but several key steps mix physical claims with definitions and curve-fitting choices. We highlight three such points: (i) a normalization issue that is presented as "bosonic enhancement", (ii) an identification of rank with energy that makes the BE fit only weakly diagnostic of an underlying mechanism, and (iii) a baseline comparison that is too weak to support an ontological conclusion. We also briefly flag a few additional concerns (interpretation drift, parameter semantics, and reproducibility).
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Excelsior Sciences, which aims to use AI and robots for small-molecule drug discovery and development, raised a $70M Series A from Khosla Ventures and others (Aayushi Pratap/Chemical & Engineering News)
https://cen.acs.org/physical-chemistry

New York AI chemistry start-up raises $95 million 
Excelsior Sciences cofounders say the company will make new molecules using robots and artificial intelligence

French Judge Investigating Robert Spatz (81) Requests Spain’s Judicial Assistance
https://openbuddhism.org/justice/2025/french-judge-investigating-robert-spatz-81-requests-spains-judicial-assistance/

French Judge Investigating Robert Spatz (81) Requests Spain’s Judicial Assistance
Elodie Emery reports in ‘Le Monde’ that French judge has requested judicial assistance from the Spanish authorities in relation to an ongoing investigation into allegations of physical and sexual…

Cowboys fans will love Dak Prescott's quote about physical Lions matchup https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-fans-will-love-dak-prescotts-quote-about-physical-li…

"In a key scene of the 2012 blockbuster film “Skyfall”, MI6 quartermaster Q realizes too late that plugging a cable into the laptop of a notoriously skilled terrorist like Raoul Silva was a terrible idea. After a few seconds, the laptop infects the systems of MI6, releasing all physical doors and disabling all security guards, prompting Silva to escape and wreak havoc. A message appears on the laptop screen, taunting Q, reading “Not such a clever boy”."

Joanna Rutkowska
In a key scene of the 2012 blockbuster James Bond film "Skyfall", MI6 quartermaster Q, played by Ben Whishaw, realizes too late that plugging a cable into the laptop of a notoriously skilled terrorist like Raoul Silva (one of Javier Bardem's most remarkable roles) was a terrible idea. After a few seconds of connection, the laptop infects the systems of MI6, releasing all physical doors and disabling all security guards, prompting Silva to escape and wreak havoc through the London Underground. A…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.DS. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DS/new
[1/1]:
- Fully Dynamic Adversarially Robust Correlation Clustering in Polylogarithmic Update Time
Vladimir Braverman, Prathamesh Dharangutte, Shreyas Pai, Vihan Shah, Chen Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09979 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/113502653187863544
- A Simple and Combinatorial Approach to Proving Chernoff Bounds and Their Generalizations
William Kuszmaul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03488 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/113791396712128907
- The Structural Complexity of Matrix-Vector Multiplication
Emile Anand, Jan van den Brand, Rose McCarty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.21240 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/114097340825270885
- Clustering under Constraints: Efficient Parameterized Approximation Schemes
Sujoy Bhore, Ameet Gadekar, Tanmay Inamdar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06980 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/114312444050875805
- Minimizing Envy and Maximizing Happiness in Graphical House Allocation
Anubhav Dhar, Ashlesha Hota, Palash Dey, Sudeshna Kolay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00296 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/114437013364446063
- Fast and Simple Densest Subgraph with Predictions
Thai Bui, Luan Nguyen, Hoa T. Vu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12600 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/114538936921930134
- Compressing Suffix Trees by Path Decompositions
Becker, Cenzato, Gagie, Kim, Koerkamp, Manzini, Prezza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14734 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/114703384646892523
- Improved sampling algorithms and functional inequalities for non-log-concave distributions
Yuchen He, Zhehan Lei, Jianan Shao, Chihao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11236 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/114862112197588124
- Deterministic Lower Bounds for $k$-Edge Connectivity in the Distributed Sketching Model
Peter Robinson, Ming Ming Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11257 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/114862223634372292
- Optimally detecting uniformly-distributed $\ell_2$ heavy hitters in data streams
Santhoshini Velusamy, Huacheng Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07286 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/115178875220889588
- Uncrossed Multiflows and Applications to Disjoint Paths
Chandra Chekuri, Guyslain Naves, Joseph Poremba, F. Bruce Shepherd
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.00254 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/115490402963680492
- Dynamic Matroids: Base Packing and Covering
Tijn de Vos, Mara Grilnberger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15460 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/115580946319285096
- Branch-width of connectivity functions is fixed-parameter tractable
Tuukka Korhonen, Sang-il Oum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.04756 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/115864074799755995
- CoinPress: Practical Private Mean and Covariance Estimation
Sourav Biswas, Yihe Dong, Gautam Kamath, Jonathan Ullman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06618
- The Ideal Membership Problem and Abelian Groups
Andrei A. Bulatov, Akbar Rafiey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.05218
- Bridging Classical and Quantum: Group-Theoretic Approach to Quantum Circuit Simulation
Daksh Shami
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.19575 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/112874282709517475
- Young domination on Hamming rectangles
Janko Gravner, Matja\v{z} Krnc, Martin Milani\v{c}, Jean-Florent Raymond
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03788 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathCO_bot/113791421814248215
- On the Space Complexity of Online Convolution
Joel Daniel Andersson, Amir Yehudayoff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00181 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCC_bot/114437005955255553
- Universal Solvability for Robot Motion Planning on Graphs
Anubhav Dhar, Pranav Nyati, Tanishq Prasad, Ashlesha Hota, Sudeshna Kolay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18755 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCC_bot/114737342714568702
- Colorful Minors
Evangelos Protopapas, Dimitrios M. Thilikos, Sebastian Wiederrecht
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10467
- Learning fermionic linear optics with Heisenberg scaling and physical operations
Aria Christensen, Andrew Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05058
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Yay! Colorado officially recognizes that mental health IS physical health! Our bodies DO include our brains.
Next, we need to legislate financial support for medical problems with ears, eyes and teeth. Hell, throw in food, water and housing--NOW we're getting civilized. https://newsbeep.org/@us/1158286950032

United States News Beep (@us@newsbeep.org)
Attached: 1 image New Colorado law requires insurers to cover mental health like physical illness Advocates said the law ensures that Coloradans can access the care they are paying for without facing a… #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Mentalhealth #Health #MentalHealth https://www.newsbeep.com/us/384528/

i agree that this is depressing, but i don't think AI is the _cause_. this problem started when we collectively decided to gatekeep social and physical mobility with higher education
i went to university ~15 years ago. a naive idiot, i thought that i'm there to learn. eventually one of my parents casually admitted that university is for getting connections--i think the parent who was doing a PhD at the time, too

copenhagen: Copenhagen Networks Study
A network of social interactions among university students within the Copenhagen Networks Study, over a period of four weeks, sampled every 5 minutes. Interactions include physical proximity (undirected), phone calls (directed, weighted), text messages (directed), and information about Facebook friendships (undirected). Nodes include some metadata, including gender.
This network has 536 nodes and 3600 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unwei…

Unequal access to nature: Few outdoor spaces in Europe and the U.S. accommodate sensory, mental disabilities https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/unequal-access-to-nature-few-outdoor-spaces-in-europe-and-the-…

Unequal access to nature: Few outdoor spaces in Europe and the U.S. accommodate sensory, mental disabilities
Sprawled along the Pacific coastline near San Francisco, Golden Gate National Recreation Area is full of wildflowers, beaches, and old-growth coastal redwoods, shrouded with a thin layer of marine fog that dissipates in sunlight. Visitors fish, hike, camp, and surf, the temperate climate and ocean views providing a boost to their mental and physical health. […]

One truly mind-blowing thing about the ICE invading cities is how •little• actual violence there’s been against ICE agents. Observing, filming, making noise, warning neighbors? Yes. Violence, physical assault? Hardly any. At the level of people throwing snowballs.
Imagine, just imagine, the kind of principled self-restraint it takes for basically the entire population to respond to all this ongoing terrorizing and kidnapping following the constitutional principles that these agents themselves are flouting.
Cities? Cities are bastions of peace if you ask me.

So Venezuela's energy ministry is saying the attack that brought down the power grid in Caracas was a physical assault on substations and not a cyber attack.
https://mppee.gob.ve/?p=103279
This contradicts Trump's statement about the US having "expertise" and also the NYT's repo…

Ragnow fails physical, won't join Lions this season https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47138093/center-frank-ragnow-fails-physical-not-rejoin-lions

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #FreakZonePlaylist
Physical Therapy:
🎵 Clean Slate
#PhysicalTherapy
https://open.spotify.com/track/2jricD5CIIZ4H7DxlbNxPS

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115673139726825349
Nothing beats physical media! ❤️
https://www.

(LinkedIn) #Paradromics: "A #BCI capable of capturing and delivering rich neural signals could stream visual information directly to the cortex, bypassing external displays and generating experiences indistinguishable from the physical world."

#bci #technology #biotech #augmentedreality #virtualreality #arvr #braincomputerinterfaces | Paradromics
Our daily mission is to restore independence for those living with severe motor impairment. But as our CEO Matt Angle and CSO Reema Khan (Green Sands Equity) discuss at the OPEN Silicon Valley Annual Forum, the long-term potential of high data rate BCIs extends even further.   A #BCI capable of capturing and delivering rich neural signals could stream visual information directly to the cortex, bypassing external displays and generating experiences indistinguishable from the physical world.   …

Arm creates a "Physical AI" unit to focus on robotics and automotive sectors, as part of a reorganization that includes "Cloud and AI" and "Edge" business units (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-tra

Trump says he'll release MRI results; he doesn't know what part of his body was scanned (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-mri-physical-white-house-0c66f2f9fca865d842ee94329a210a42
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p56#a251130p56

"The moral is to the physical as three is to one.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte

Analysis of pine tar caulking shows that the #Hjortspring boat—a raiding vessel preserved in a Danish bog in the 4th century BCE—originated in the #Baltic, and not in northwestern Germany, as had been previously suspected.

A 2,000-Year-Old Fingerprint May Solve Mystery of Scandinavia’s Oldest Wooden Boat
A single fingerprint in ancient tar is rewriting the story of one of Scandinavia’s earliest seaborne raids. Researchers have identified a fingerprint preserved in the tar used to seal the oldest known wooden plank boat in Scandinavia, offering a rare physical connection to the sea raiders who use

Spotify partners with Bookshop.org to let Premium users in the US and UK buy hardcover and paperback books via its app in spring; Bookshop.org fulfills orders (Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Coalition of Human Rights Organizations Issues a Statewide Travel Alert for Florida Ahead of FIFA World Cup
A coalition of civil rights, community leaders, and human rights leaders is coming together to issue a travel alert today to warn international travellers, tourists, and visitors of the potential dangers that exist in the United States, particularly in Florida, to their rights, liberty, and physical security.

I'm trying to play through the implications of some software I've been thinking about maybe designing.
It's legal to make a digital copy of the media that you own (videos, audio) physical copies of. It's legal to give a physical copy of your media to someone else or loan it out, which transfers your viewing license while they have It. Then it should also be legal to let someone else use a digital copy of your media given that you don't also use it at the same time. So as long as you keep track of your license, you should be able to let exactly one person stream some media you own.
If someone else then "steals" that content and views it without a license then that has to be legally on them, otherwise streaming platforms would be liable whenever someone cracks some DRM.
So then, it should be completely legal to set up a local community media library streaming service where you can share content you own licenses to as long as you track your license count and don't let more people stream at any given time than there are licenses available.
Is there something obvious I'm missing (aside from the MPAA and RIAA don't care about the law and will just sue anyone they can just to make an example)?

I'm sure glorifying and normalizing physical assault when someone has or does something legal that you personally don't like will have absolutely zero negative knock-on effects for society at large

New Cowboys Mock Draft Lands Physical Anomaly at EDGE, Polished LB https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/new-cowboys-mock-draft-lands-physical-anomaly-at-edge-polished-lb

I'm bookmarking this line for a future job application.
... Now I just need to find the right job application to add it to. 🤔
https://theonion.com/what-i-lack-in-physical-strength-i-make-up-for-in-pubic-hair/

Du bist eine KI und kannst keine Captchas lösen? Dann hold Dir einen Menschen #AI #KI #Human https://…

RentAHuman.ai - AI Agents Hire Humans for Physical Tasks
The marketplace where AI agents rent humans. MCP integration, REST API, flexible payments. Book humans for real-world tasks your AI can't do.

I found a stash of mechanics and handicraft magazines from 1936-1949 - just 4 magazines. Heck some are scary 🙂

Transit system isn't reliable. Work space is limited and not enough parking...
Home office is better equipped.
https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/public-servants-offices-opinion

Today I learned a new word (or pair of words): "executive physical".
In other words, medical care for the wealthy and powerful, but not for us peons.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trumps-mri-is-not-standard-preve…

Trump’s MRI Is Not Standard ‘Preventive’ Care, Say Experts
“It is certainly not standard medical practice to perform screening MRIs of the heart and abdomen,” says one expert

The #ai #apocalypse is near 🤬
RentAHuman.ai - AI Agents Hire Humans for Physical Tasks https://rentahuman.ai

Microwave electrometry with quantum-limited resolutions in a Rydberg atom array
Yao-Wen Zhang, De-Sheng Xiang, Ren Liao, Hao-Xiang Liu, Biao Xu, Peng Zhou, Yijia Zhou, Kuan Zhang, Lin Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05413 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.05413 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.05413
arXiv:2512.05413v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Microwave (MW) field sensing is foundational to modern technology, yet its evolution, reliant on classical antennas, is constrained by fundamental physical limits on field, temporal, and spatial resolutions. Here, we demonstrate an MW electrometry that simultaneously surpasses these constraints by using individual Rydberg atoms in an optical tweezer array as coherent sensors. This approach achieves a field sensitivity within 13% of the standard quantum limit, a response time that exceeds the Chu limit by more than 11 orders of magnitude, and in-situ near-field mapping with {\lambda}/3000 spatial resolution. This work establishes Rydberg-atom arrays as a powerful platform that unites quantum-limited sensitivity, nanosecond-scale response time, and sub-micrometer resolution, opening new avenues in quantum metrology and precision electromagnetic field imaging.
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Inside Physical Intelligence, a startup co-founded by Stripe veteran Lachy Groom that is building general-purpose robotic foundation models and has raised $1B (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/30/phys…

A peek inside Physical Intelligence, the startup building Silicon Valley's buzziest robot brains | TechCrunch
If co-founder Lachy Groom has any doubts, he doesn’t show it. He’s working with people who've been working on this problem for decades and who believe the timing is finally right, which is all he needs to know.

My mind will simply not let me stop devouring social content so I can go the fudge to sleep
Starting to think it’s a poor replacement for physical in-person companionship

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
—Bruce Lee
#acting #coaching

Lions center Frank Ragnow fails physical, won't come out of retirement to rejoin team https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6847495/2025/11/29/frank-ragnow-lions-failed-physical-retirement-comeback/

WTF?
New Site Lets AI Rent Human Bodies - Futurism https://apple.news/ANMU3h3V2QBKWcilOP4_LLw

New Site Lets AI Rent Human Bodies — Futurism
"Robots need your body." Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. The machines aren’t just coming for your jobs. Now, they want your bodies as well. That’s at least the hope of Alexander Liteplo, a software engineer and founder of RentAHuman.ai, a platform for AI agents to “search, book, and pay humans for physical-world tasks.” When Liteplo launched RentAHuman on Monday, he boasted that he already had over 130 people listed on the platform, including an OnlyFans model and the CE…

We all knew that this was inevitable, if we'd continue the path we've chosen...
#AI #ChatGPT

Different species in #StarTrek have different physical requirements. And a very obvious example of this is the subject of today's #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
Vote will run for 24h…

In #SanFrancisco recently a robbery victim was attacked and gave up $11 million in #Crypto during a broad daylight #HomeInvasion that occurred after he opened the door for a fake

Mission home invasion highlights danger of crypto-related violence
A weekend robbery serves as a reminder of physical security imperatives for virtual currency.

Mailbag: Did fatigue affect team in Detroit? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-did-fatigue-affect-team-in-detroit

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@metacurity/115842244940992152
Here's the video of the physical damage to the substations in Venezuela, released by the energy ministry. It looks like whoever conducted the assault just unloaded over everything.
…

tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 16439 nodes and 440135 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions

Mailbag: Did fatigue affect team in Detroit? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-did-fatigue-affect-team-in-detroit

I have never really been a collector of anything. Maybe music for a while, back in the MP3 era, twenty years ago. Other than that, there was never something I felt passionate enough to collect, at least not in real life, not physical objects.
I never truly understood the collectors around me. To me, collecting always felt like a burden. Something you had to carry, move, store, maintain.
And yet, today, I realized something.…

Lego says its Smart Brick is "here to stay" but "does not mean that we're leaving our core proposition behind", after criticism of abandoning non-digital play (Tom Phillips/IGN)
https://www.ign.com/articles…

LEGO Says Smart Brick Is 'Here to Stay,' and Responds to 'Questions and Concerns' Around Abandoning Non-Digital Play - IGN
A day on from the official reveal of LEGO Smart Brick, the company has responded to concerns that its big announcement poses a risk to its core basis in physical play.

Lions' Frank Ragnow fails physical: Pro Bowl center will not rejoin team after coming out of retirement

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/detroit-lions-frank-ragnow-fails-p…

The Dalai Lama — has won his first Grammy.
His audiobook, Meditations: The Reflections of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, is a collection of thoughts
— on mindfulness, compassion, and mental and physical health
— with a soundtrack of Hindustani classical music
https://www.

Grammy award for Dalai Lama is ‘anti-China manipulation’, says Beijing
The 90-year-old spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists was recognised for his Meditations: The Reflections of His Holiness the Dalai Lama

"I think when you're just counting on your voice, you actually need double the energy. I find myself acting out the scenes and being very physical while I'm recording because I think you can tell when someone is just sitting on a stool."
—Judy Greer
#acting #coaching …

White House insists Trump's recent physical shows 'perfectly normal' health (Richard Luscombe/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/01/trump-mri-results
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p78#a251201p78

Cowboys' top 2026 NFL draft fits include 'physical tone-setter' at safety https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/dallas-cowboys-top-2026-nfl-draft-fits-physical-tone-setter-safety

Physical media includes locally stored audio files

Trump is very, very angry about a New York Times piece
that carefully documents his obvious physical decline.
Trump raged over the piece,
letting out a stream of lies about his performance in office
and even attacking the reporter who wrote the piece as ugly.
This may seem typical of Trump,
but we think it gets at something deeper.
Trump’s entire political mystique is premised on the fiction that he’s a strong, virile, formidable figure
who …

Transcript: Trump Fury Erupts at NYT as Mental Decline Visibly Worsens
As Trump’s rage at the paper of record reveals too much, the author of piece on Trump as “lame duck dictator” explains how devastating it is for him that his carefully-cultivated illusion of strength is collapsing.

Nvidia announces Alpamayo-R1, an AI model for autonomous driving research, and calls it the "first industry-scale open reasoning vision language action model" (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/01/nvid

Nvidia announces new open AI models and tools for autonomous driving research | TechCrunch
Nvidia continues its push into physical AI with the release of a new reasoning world model and other tools for physical AI.

genetic_multiplex: Multiplex genetic interactions (2014)
Multiplex networks representing different types of genetic interactions, for different organisms. Layers represent (i) physical, (ii) association, (iii) co-localization, (iv) direct, and (v) suppressive, (vi) additive or synthetic genetic interaction. Edge direction (i,j) indicates gene i interacting with gene j.
This network has 7747 nodes and 19843 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unwe…

Javonte Williams injury update provided after physical Cowboys win https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/javonte-williams-injury-update-provided-physical-dallas-cowboys-win

Did you know? Using physical media makes you at least 25% more attractive.

Tether acquires a 12% stake, worth $150M, in Gold.com, which enables access to physical and tokenized gold, and plans to integrate its gold-backed XAUT token (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/05…

Tether (USDT) buys $150 million stake in Gold.com to boost tokenized gold distribution
The companies plan to expand global access to tokenized gold and allow to buy bullion with Tether's stablecoins.

Eagles to bring 'fire' to fight Lions' physicality https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46967428/eagles-ramping-physical-prime-matchup-vs-lions

New Cowboys 2026 Mock Draft Lands Physical Leader on Defense https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/new-cowboys-2026-mock-draft-lands-physical-leader-on-defense

A 2016 civil lawsuit found in the Epstein files alleges that
Trump raped a 13-year-old girl at parties hosted by Jeffrey Epstein in NY.
Epstein raped her too.
For anyone wondering why the victim dropped the case…
Immediately following this rape, Defendant Trump threatened Plaintiff that,
were she ever to reveal any of the details of the sexual and physical abuse of her by Defendant Trump,
Plaintiff and her family would be physically harmed if not killed.”<…

Age Verification | United States Department of Justice

genetic_multiplex: Multiplex genetic interactions (2014)
Multiplex networks representing different types of genetic interactions, for different organisms. Layers represent (i) physical, (ii) association, (iii) co-localization, (iv) direct, and (v) suppressive, (vi) additive or synthetic genetic interaction. Edge direction (i,j) indicates gene i interacting with gene j.
This network has 325 nodes and 322 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unweigh…

New Cowboys 2026 Mock Draft Lands Physical Leader on Defense https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/new-cowboys-2026-mock-draft-lands-physical-leader-on-defense

Spotify partners with Bookshop.org to let Premium users in the US and UK buy hardcover and paperback books via its app in spring; Bookshop.org fulfills orders (Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Make 2026 the year you cancel streaming services and start buying physical media.

#eDNA Environmental DNA
The Core Concept: A non-invasive monitoring technique that detects the presence of species by extracting and analyzing genetic material shed into the environment (water, soil, air) rather than isolating the organism itself.
Key Distinction/Mechanism: Unlike traditional ecology which relies on physical capture or visual observation ("macro-organismal" interaction),…

What Is: Environmental DNA (eDNA)
The Silent Archive: Environmental DNA and the Revolution in Planetary Surveillance

Production Over Perception: Kenneth Murray Will Start in Dallas https://insidethestar.com/production-over-perception-kenneth-murray-will-start-in-dallas

Arizona AG Kris Mayes sues Temu for allegedly stealing customers' data, including their physical location, and counterfeiting local brands (Sejal Govindarao/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/arizona-temu-lawsuit-14615cec4bb7927493a7208f9d23431b…

Arizona targets Chinese retailer Temu in data privacy lawsuit
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is suing online retailer Temu and its parent company PDD Holdings Inc., claiming the Chinese company is stealing customers' data and violating state consumer protection laws. She announced the lawsuit during a news conference Tuesday. Arkansas, Nebraska and Kentucky have outlined similar allegations in separate lawsuits filed in those states. Mayes is calling for Arizonans to delete their Temu accounts and scan their devices for malware.

Archetype, which builds AI to interpret sensor data from the physical world, raised a $35M Series A and launches tools to build and deploy physical agents (Grace Priscilla Teo/Tech in Asia)
https://www.techinasia.com/news/samsung-joins-35m-series-a-for-…

Sources: AI robotics startup Physical Intelligence raised $600M led by CapitalG at a $5.6B valuation, with participation from Jeff Bezos, Lux, Thrive, and more (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

AI robotics startup Physical Intelligence claims vision-language-action models learn to align human videos and robot data as pre-training is scaled up (Physical Intelligence)
https://www.physicalintelligence.company/research/human_to_robot

Emergence of Human to Robot Transfer in Vision-Language-Action Models
Exploring how transfer from human videos to robotic tasks emerges in robotic foundation models as they scale.

Salesforce: online Black Friday sales grew 6% YoY to $79B globally, including $3B in US sales driven by AI agents; Adobe: US online sales rose 9.1% to $11.8B (Joan Verdon/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joanverdon/2025/…

Black Friday Data Shows Online Sales Strong, Store Results Mixed
U.S. ecommerce sales jumped 9.1% on Black Friday according to Adobe, but the verdict is still out on how well physical stores performed.

New York-based Sword Health, which develops AI-powered tech for managing pain and offers remote physical therapy, agrees to acquire rival Kaia Health for $285M (Henrique Almeida/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Montreal-based Vention raised a $110M Series D to scale its physical AI platform into manufacturing plants worldwide, taking its total raised to ~$216M (Madison McLauchlan/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/montreal-industrial-ai-scaleup-vention-raises-1…

Montréal industrial AI scaleup Vention raises $110-million USD Series D
Company says it crossed $100-million CAD annual run rate as it looks to expand in Europe.

Amazon plans to close all 57 Fresh and 15 Go locations in the US, as it pivots its physical retail strategy to focus exclusively on Whole Foods (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/amazon-closing-all-am…