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I can't help but wonder if "...democracy-under-threat messaging might not work on voters in places such as the Central Valley. It hearkens back to 2024, when Democrats repeatedly — and unsuccessfully — warned that then-candidate Trump posed a risk to Democracy." is key to Democratic losses.
I have heard too few Democratic messages that clearly offer a meaningful message of how a #DemocraticParty

Will Prop. 50 burst state Dems’ bubble?
Advocates warn messaging that works in places like SF doesn’t cut it elsewhere.

I can't help but wonder if "...democracy-under-threat messaging might not work on voters in places such as the Central Valley. It hearkens back to 2024, when Democrats repeatedly — and unsuccessfully — warned that then-candidate Trump posed a risk to Democracy." is key to Democratic losses.
I have heard too few Democratic messages that clearly offer a meaningful message of how a #DemocraticParty

Will Prop. 50 burst state Dems’ bubble?
Advocates warn messaging that works in places like SF doesn’t cut it elsewhere.

bible_nouns: Bible noun phrases
A network of noun phrases (places and names) in the King James Version of the Bible. Each node is a noun phrase, and an edge exists if the noun phrases co-occur in a Bible verse. Edge weight denotes how often the two words co-occur.
This network has 1773 nodes and 9131 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted

Not sure about other places, but for those contributing, the PVD food drive we're contributing to says the things they are most short on are:
- cooking oil
- instant mashed potatoes
- instant coffee
- instant cake mix
(Unsurprisingly, food pantries are full of canned goods…)

An interesting 4-part series of articles about ore formation processes (published on Hackaday, of all places):
Introduction And Magmatic Processes
https://hackaday.com/2025/08/13/ore-formation-introduction-and-magmatic-processes/
Hydro…

Ore Formation: Introduction And Magmatic Processes
Hackaday has a long-running series on Mining and Refining, that tracks elements of interest on the human-made road from rocks to riches. What author Dan Maloney doesn’t address in that series…

Reddit starts a limited test of verified profiles, an opt-in feature that places a gray checkmark beside the usernames of notable people or businesses (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/reddit-is-testing-verification-badges/

Reddit is testing verification badges | TechCrunch
Verified users will actually be notable figures, not just people who paid for the checkmark.

Transcript of a talk by Cory Doctorow @… on the topic of AI and its near -term effects on society. Long. Summary of an upcoming book.
Many good thoughts in it, some I haven't found described so well before, some new to me. I'm quite aligned on his points about copyright, and he's tying this up better than I have seen in other places. I don…

Oh this is a corker.
#fungi

Quinnen Williams places blame for Cowboys’ defensive struggles on players https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/quinnen-williams-places-blame-dallas-cowboys-defensive-struggles-on-players

I don’t suppose there are any Wii Fit U mods that bring back the missing minigames from Wii Fit Plus right?
I guess they chose only the ones they thought were the best ones to bring back which is fair enough I guess, but some of the ones I like are missing
I’d be very cool if they kept everything from Wii Fit Plus, PLUS the new ones in U
(don’t really wanna get plus on wii mode bc then it’ll be two separate games and leaderboards and stuff, and then I probably won’t want to switch between both modes during a playtime and also I’d probably forget to switch for minigames that are available in both places)
#WiiU

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#Radio3sAmericanRoadtrip
- Live from Philadelphia
In the second leg of Radio 3’s journey across America, Petroc Trelawny visits Philadelphia to explore the stars and places shaping Philly's vibrant classical musical life today.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002pfw3

DarkSky International is proud to announce the certification of its 250th International #DarkSky Place with the recent designation of Lapalala Wilderness Nature Reserve in South Africa: https://darksky.org/news/250-international-dark-sky-places-2/ - while Lapalala marks this incredible milestone, the celebration is shared by all 250 locations worldwide that have joined DarkSky’s most recognized and beloved program; together, these places form a growing global network where pristine dark skies can be experienced and are actively protected.

TIL from my Italian coworker that Italian TV broadcasts Trading Places every Christmastime and if it didn't happen it would be like, national news https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/why-do-italians-watch-trading-places-every-christmas.html<…

Trading Places: An unexpected Christmas tradition in Italy
It wouldn't be Christmas in Italy without Una Poltrona per Due on tv. Italy is home to some of the world's oldest and most spectacular Christmas traditions that have illuminated and enriched the Italian festive season for centuries. It also has some more unexpected modern-day traditions and few...

If you are free tonight, there are still some places open in the Our Brilliant Ruin One-Shot
#TerryCon

"New England warming faster than most places on Earth, study finds"
#NewEngland #Climate #ClimateChange

Bomb threats force closures at some New Jersey polling places (News 12 New Jersey)
https://newjersey.news12.com/bomb-threats-force-closures-at-some-new-jersey-polling-places
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p38#a251104p38

Deadly Asian floods are no fluke. They're a climate warning, scientists say #Asia

Deadly Asian floods are no fluke. They're a climate warning, scientists say
Southeast Asia is being pummeled by unusually severe floods this year, as late-arriving storms and relentless rains wreak havoc that has caught many places off guard.

Decoding the dark proteome: Deep learning-enabled discovery of druggable enzymes in Wuchereria bancrofti
Shawnak Shivakumar, Jefferson Hernandez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07337

Decoding the dark proteome: Deep learning-enabled discovery of druggable enzymes in Wuchereria bancrofti
Wuchereria bancrofti, the parasitic roundworm responsible for lymphatic filariasis, permanently disables over 36 million people and places 657 million at risk across 39 countries. A major bottleneck for drug discovery is the lack of functional annotation for more than 90 percent of the W. bancrofti dark proteome, leaving many potential targets unidentified. In this work, we present a novel computational pipeline that converts W. bancrofti's unannotated amino acid sequence data into precise four…

Meetup ElasticFR #100 - BNP Paribas, Mon, Jan 26, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup
https://www.meetup.com/elasticfr/events/311284356/?from=ref

Meetup ElasticFR #100 - BNP Paribas, Mon, Jan 26, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup
Meetup exceptionnel ! **Places limitées** avec obligation de réserver à l'avance. Merci de penser à libérer vos places minimum la veille de l'évènement, si vous ne pouvez p

The abominations by #ICE continue to increase. #CHN_Action has simple letter to Congress asking them not provide more funding to ICE and DHS until they take responsibility for their abusive behavior - and change their approach. It's easy to send to your Congresspeople; it's easy to customize. You …

Demand Congress stop funding DHS’ and ICE’s inhumane and lethal tactics amidst ongoing investigations.
Reckless disregard for human life is rampant in the Trump administration’s attacks on immigrants and their neighbors and supporters. From Chicago to California, immigrants have been killed during ICE raids and traffic stops. And there have been at least eleven non-fatal shootings by ICE and Border Patrol agents in places around the country, including another two victims in Portland, Oregon.   The killing of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agents in Minneapolis is not an isolated tragedy, bu…

The abominations by #ICE continue to increase. #CHN_Action has simple letter to Congress asking them not provide more funding to ICE and DHS until they take responsibility for their abusive behavior - and change their approach. It's easy to send to your Congresspeople; it's easy to customize. You …

Demand Congress stop funding DHS’ and ICE’s inhumane and lethal tactics amidst ongoing investigations.
Reckless disregard for human life is rampant in the Trump administration’s attacks on immigrants and their neighbors and supporters. From Chicago to California, immigrants have been killed during ICE raids and traffic stops. And there have been at least eleven non-fatal shootings by ICE and Border Patrol agents in places around the country, including another two victims in Portland, Oregon.   The killing of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agents in Minneapolis is not an isolated tragedy, bu…

If voting didn't matter they wouldn't try so hard to stop us from doing it. Go vote.
And after you've done your civic duty, don't forget to also sabotage the gears of capitalism/fascism.
https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/115491654406302339

Alexander Vindman, the whistleblower who triggered Donald Trump's first impeachment,
is considering a run for the United States Senate next year against Florida Republican Ashley Moody.
In an exclusive interview with CBS News Miami, the retired lieutenant colonel said he was approached about running and was discussing it with close friends and advisors.
"I think that the Democrats need to win in some very, very difficult places in order to wrestle control back,&quo…

bible_nouns: Bible noun phrases
A network of noun phrases (places and names) in the King James Version of the Bible. Each node is a noun phrase, and an edge exists if the noun phrases co-occur in a Bible verse. Edge weight denotes how often the two words co-occur.
This network has 1773 nodes and 9131 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted

Very proud to have my research featured in the latest edition of UCL's alumni magazine Portico alongside a stellar group of Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment colleagues including Fiona Zisch, Claire Heaviside and Haim Yacobi
Read the full piece on how the built environment can support or improve our health and wellbeing:

Designing healthier places | Portico Magazine | UCL
For better or worse, our environments shape us. Now, researchers from UCL’s The Bartlett are uncovering new ways for our built environment to support – and improve – our health and wellbeing.

I gave a lightning talk about the use of generative #AI at our engineering offsite this week. My general conclusion is that it is useful in some places but where you are a domain expert the gains might not be there. Just before the talk I came across this study:

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity

Ach ein schöner Beitrag, ich mag ja Stadien und #LostPlaces
https://www.reisereporter.de/reiseziele/lo

Lost Places: In diesen einst beeindruckenden Stadien spielt keiner mehr Fußball
Während die einen Stadien für die nächste Fußball-WM vorbereitet werden, ist in anderen der Jubel längst verhallt. Wir stellen Fußballstadien vor, die heute Lost Places sind.

@… On a pu lire qu’il y avait 200 places dans le sous-sol… Mais on n’a pas encore trouvé une autorisation quelconque.

@… On a pu lire qu’il y avait 200 places dans le sous-sol… Mais on n’a pas encore trouvé une autorisation quelconque.

ELECTION INTERFERENCE
Multiple NJ polling sites have been closed or relocated due to bomb threats.
#NJ #election #BombThreat

Bomb threats force closures at some New Jersey polling places
Paterson Mayor Andre Sayegh said polling sites at School 2 and School 10 in Paterson were shut down after threats were received.

Goldman Sachs: just 33 US counties accounted for 72% of all US data center capacity as of July; places like Umatilla have been transformed by an AWS build-out (David Uberti/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/w…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
Tokyoidaho:
🎵 Other Places, Other Days
#Tokyoidaho
https://tokyoidaho.bandcamp.com/track/other-places-other-days
https://open.spotify.com/track/4pSAy0UoC4W8Sxb255gWyW

@… I suspect the problem is that culture informs language, and in American English we aren't used to people taking the train many places.
I wonder what the Brits would say.
In Danish the word for "drove" would be appropriate. You could say "I drove to SFO" and it could equally mean by car, bus, or train without any further clarifi…

Finished setting up the electric poultry netting today. They don't give you near enough ground stakes, the pins are utterly useless, and I had to add 20 additional fence posts to take out the sag. Still need to trim and rake in a couple of places where we're leaking current to plant matter, but we're very nearly to the point that I'd be happy leaving chickens unattended again after last week. We're under a housing order as of yesterday due to AI (the bird flu kind), so I …

A package of three normal-sized ribeye steaks is now $80, at CostCo—which is cheaper than other places.
I’m sure we’re totally not in a recession.

Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
https://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to-intervene-in-a-system/

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Jamie XX:
🎵 Loud Places
#NowPlaying #JamieXX
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv

Once upon a time, in Canada of all places though you wouldn't know it now, direct science outreach was part of the National Research Council, producing a freely sent quality periodical direct from the scientists themselves that a teen like me would instantly devour, although in all my years I never met anyone else who so much as even knew about it.
https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oon.00001_197402/1

Olha, olha, o Doctorow vem a Lisboa. À WebSummit, of all places... 😂 A Grande Festa dos Unicórnios Voadores.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115498150207973391

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Attached: 1 image I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*! Catch me next in #Miami, #Burbank and #Lisbon! Full schedule with dates and links at: https://pluralistic.net/tour 2/

Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC

This holiday season, maybe consider buying gifts from fair trade places like Ten Thousand Villages or directly from artisans (e.g. @…) rather than from big box stores.
#ShopSmall

Cardinals' firing of Jonathan Gannon says more about them than the head coach https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6943463/2026/01/05/cardinals-jonathan-gannon-fired-arizona-nfl/

In case anyone outside the US was wondering, we had an off-year election yesterday, and things generally went strongly anti-fascist (anti-Republican) at all levels and in most places. Even Mississippi (all states say, "at least we're doing better than Mississippi") lost Republican seats in their legislature. CA suspended their non-partisan redistricting by about 2/3-1/3 vote, bring on the gerrymandering, fuck those guys.
Also, Dick Cheney finally died.

Man, the writing in Cyberpunk 2077 is so ON, in places.
A “mission” where you’re supposed to find something that a friend who died cares about for an Ofrenda.
In addition to the item you find in his garage…
You bring his _partner_, who his mother has kind of…spurned
Someone he really cared about

The Beach
Season 4 Episode 21 "Trading Places"
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #sun #sea

A superior Cobb Salad at the Wooden Spoon in SF. Good ingredients, particularly the maple syrup bacon. But also they tossed the greens with the dressing and then arranged the parts on top. This is the right way to make a salade composée but so many American places give you the dressing on the side. What am I supposed to do, toss it at the table?!

The takeaway sentence here: “[T]wo-thirds of new data centers built or in development [in the US] since 2022 are in places already gripped by high levels of water stress.”
This is particularly pertinent here in #Australia, where already, once-plentiful artesian water’s dwindling, nitrogen- and phosphorus-rich runoff chokes waterways with algae and destroys coral reefs, and

Every damn time I order sandwiches from this cheesesteak place I make the same damn mistake. I have them add "pepper rings" which I think of as the medium-hot peppers most sandwich places use. No, they use Hungarian Hots that are hotter than the average jalapeño.
I can handle heat but this is the wrong context. My own damn fault too...

bible_nouns: Bible noun phrases
A network of noun phrases (places and names) in the King James Version of the Bible. Each node is a noun phrase, and an edge exists if the noun phrases co-occur in a Bible verse. Edge weight denotes how often the two words co-occur.
This network has 1773 nodes and 9131 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted

I've noticed in the last week that google maps has started making mistakes or showing me worse routes/glitching a lot for places I use it for frequently. I wonder if other people are having similar experiences. (And yes I know, g o o g l e bad, but its a service I can't let go yet)

#30DayMapChallenge Day 24: Places and their names. Place name elements are always interesting (and fun) to map. Here the Old Norse 'by' and 'thorp' elements in #Norhamptonshire. Data from Digital Survey of English Place-Names

🧬 HIV mystery uncovered: How the virus reprograms host cells to create perfect hiding places
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-hiv-mystery-uncovered-virus-reprograms.html

HIV mystery uncovered: How the virus reprograms host cells to create perfect hiding places
For over three decades, HIV has played an elaborate game of hide-and-seek with researchers, making treating—and possibly even curing—the disease a seemingly insurmountable obstacle to achieve.

I grew up w/ stories about the #RACIST PRISONS the govt called "#Japanese internment camps" but this is diabolical.
Even scarier are the losers that still think putting people in prison without any reason other than RACE "in the name of security" is perfectly acceptable.

Introducing: Rachel Maddow presents: Burn Order
Rachel Maddow tells the story of one of the most shocking decisions in American history in her new podcast, “Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order.” This six-part series reveals how an executive order authorizing the roundup of innocent Americans came to be – and a bombshell discovery in the unlikeliest of places that would ultimately expose it all. Listen to the trailer now and follow the series. New episodes drop Mondays beginning December 1.

DOJ places on leave 2 prosecutors who said 'mob' of 'rioters' carried out Jan. 6 attack (ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/doj-places-leave-prosecutors-mob-rioters-carried-jan/story?id=126974576
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p67#a251029p67

Oha!
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/nyregion/rare-cuckoo-sighting-long-island.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yU8.h-rs.BT8TA0bludos&smid=url-share

A Rare Visitor to Long Island Is Driving Birders Cuckoo
A common cuckoo, a species native to Europe and Asia, made several recent appearances in Riverhead, N.Y. The birds have been spotted in a handful of places in the lower 48 states, experts said.

Central Ohio city invests **$50K** to join the Midwest passenger rail push, capping a decade of planning and signaling strong local support for connecting Columbus to the national network. 🚆 #OhioRail #PassengerRail

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lucasarts_places/115824361159139329
Instant flashback ❤️‍🔥

What was A practical skill very important when you were a teen (12-18), that is still still very useful today but most current teens no longer are able to do?
Think concrete stuff like remounting a bicycle chain, not abstract stuff like critical thinking.
For me it was definitely going to places without modern navigation aids.
Just look at a map and write down the rough route and asking directions if I couldn't find it.
And if I needed a train, I'd just look at t…

"Six surprising places solar power is taking off"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Six surprising places solar power is taking off
From rooftops and roads to farmers' fields and the open sea, solar power can already be captured almost anywhere. The next frontier? Harnessing the sun's energy in space to power life on Earth.

A word on this campaign:
Obviously ICE advertises elsewhere — duh — and sure, go ahead and boycott all the places that carry their ads if you can. BUT…
…don’t miss the strategy here! The point is not to hit everything at once, and thus hit ineffectively. “Target everything” is the opposite of targeting.
The point is to choose •one• target, hit them so it •visibly• hurts, and thus make every other place that carries ICE ads afraid they’ll be next. https://mastodon.social/@indivisibleteam/115459020985945312

I'm originally from Texas. There are times I'm not really proud to say that.
Why is it always the Decalogue they want posted? Why isn't ever the Beatitudes?
And if posting the Decalogue makes people behave, why aren't churches the safest places around?
https://www.friendlyath…

Texas families file class action lawsuit to halt Ten Commandments display in every school district
As Attorney General Ken Paxton urges districts to disobey federal rulings, church/state watchdogs are pushing for a statewide injunction

@… If you’ll permit me to regale you of a tale:
At Thanksgiving 10 years ago, I first met my wife’s parents. They’d traveled to Las Vegas where she lived at the time, so we’d gone out to a fancy Italian restaurant for dinner.
Now, this was no low end joint. It was one of those places where there’s a gentleman in the bathroom whose job it is to d…

Planning out a UK tour ~ mid-Feb/mid-March 2026. Stopping by U's of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Oxford, Cambridge, King's London, Imperial (say hi if you're at these places!). Anything else going on in that timeframe that I should know about, before I finalize plans?

Without wanting to detract from the main thrust of the article, I find the usage "new species" interestingly anthropocentric.
A new frog species emerges from Peru’s cloud forests — and it’s already at risk
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/a-ne<…

A new frog species emerges from Peru’s cloud forests — and it’s already at risk
Deep within the cloud forests of the San Martín region of Peru lie two places so high, cold and remote that they remained virtually unexplored for decades. In 2022, and again in 2025, monitors from three Indigenous and local associations guided a team of scientists from Peru and France on a series of expeditions to […]

Video games finished in November - only 1: Thank goodness you're here. Once I caught on that you revisit places & people, I enjoyed seeing how their stories develop, especially Colin, Florence & Keri's stories. And Megg's husband's resignation every time he got covered in coal dust again.
#thankgoodnessyourehere

Sigh, really is time to buy a new clock-radio; it's been getting worse for ages (I first posted a picture some years back) but now sometimes by the morning I can't tell what time it is. I wouldn't be surprised if it's a cap somewhere, but I replaced a few a while ago and it hasn't helped.

Finished "All the Sinners Bleed" by S.A. Cosby. Titus Crown, the first black sheriff of a rural VA county, is hunting down a serial killer amidst simmering racial tensions.
While Charon County is fictional, the given geography might make it Surry or Charles City counties, places I've spent a good amount of time working with sheriff's offices. Cosby nails the law enforcement vibe & mirrors my observations of race relations in SE VA.
4/5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐

All the Sinners Bleed
A Black sheriff. A serial killer. A small town ready to…

For some time, I had the feeling that even the 9000 series may become irrelevant pretty fast. IMO, this move places the 7000 and 9000 series on the very long-term support list. But it's a bloody sacrifice, what they do to the 6000 series owners :/ Strangely, I feel for AMD having to make thеsе kinds of tough decisions. They must've absolutely stretched out their resources right now.
AMD Abandons "Fine Wine"- No Optimized Game Drivers for RDNA 1 and 2 - Daniel Owen

I've been really anxious about what would happen with the Dutch election tonight. I'm starting to relax and I hope things keep going the same way.
My kid was playing outside of one of the polling places in Amsterdam. Just before we left, I overheard someone say "Fuck Wilders." I'm glad the polling seems to reflect that sentiment.

Cuddling capybaras and ogling otters: the problem with animal cafes in Asia https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/27/global-pet-trade-capybaras-bangkok-cafe-animal-cafes-exotic-endangered-species-aoe<…

Embrace true happiness, and become one with the socks 🧦

Les parents de Sébastien Lecornu placés sous protection policière - Le Parisien
https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/les-parents-de-sebastien-lecornu-places-sous-protection-policiere-21-10-202…

Les parents de Sébastien Lecornu placés sous protection policière
INFO LE PARISIEN. Ils bénéficient d’une équipe de policiers dédiée depuis le 22 septembre après l’arrivée de leur fils à Matignon. Justifiée ? Les avis divergent.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Caswell:
🎵 Placebo Places
#Caswell
https://caswellofficial.bandcamp.com/track/placebo-places
https://open.spotify.com/track/5H9muwS6ZXpvcordk3viaA

I found this an interesting view on the AI scraping and Hoovering everything disease.
This view focuses on the overhead and costs that such hoovering places on our packet carrying infrastructure.
"The hiQ Decision Legalized Infrastructure Theft - We Need a Federal Fix"
https://

The hiQ Decision Legalized Infrastructure Theft - We Need a Federal Fix
The hiQ ruling erased legal protections against commercial scraping, leaving infrastructure providers to absorb escalating costs. Without federal action defining data misappropriation, a free-rider AI economy could undermine open networks, investment, and long-term data integrity.

Water pounded Santa Barbara’s coastline on November 6 for the first king tides of the year — flooding beaches and parking lots and jumping the walls of usually dry lookouts at places like Butterfly Beach and Campus Point. 
This weekend marks round two of these extraordinarily high tides,
which occur when the sun, moon, and Earth align, pulling the surf to extreme highs and lows.
They are typically at least one foot above the average high tide, according to the California Co…

I gave a lightning talk about the use of generative #AI at our engineering offsite this week. My general conclusion is that it is useful in some places but where you are a domain expert the gains might not be there. Just before the talk I came across this study:

bible_nouns: Bible noun phrases
A network of noun phrases (places and names) in the King James Version of the Bible. Each node is a noun phrase, and an edge exists if the noun phrases co-occur in a Bible verse. Edge weight denotes how often the two words co-occur.
This network has 1773 nodes and 9131 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted

I grew up w/ stories about the #RACIST PRISONS the govt called "#Japanese internment camps" but this is diabolical.
Even scarier are the losers that still think putting people in prison without any reason other than RACE "in the name of security" is perfectly acceptable.

Introducing: Rachel Maddow presents: Burn Order
Rachel Maddow tells the story of one of the most shocking decisions in American history in her new podcast, “Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order.” This six-part series reveals how an executive order authorizing the roundup of innocent Americans came to be – and a bombshell discovery in the unlikeliest of places that would ultimately expose it all. Listen to the trailer now and follow the series. New episodes drop Mondays beginning December 1.

A profile of Klay, whose app will let users remake songs using AI; Klay has raised ~$10M and is the first AI startup to close deals with the three major labels (Abram Brown/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/secretive-startup-klay-jump…

Secretive Startup Klay Jumps Into the Fray Over AI Music
“So here’s a real surprise,” said Ary Attie, holding open a hidden door in the bowels of the Walker Hotel in the city’s Greenwich Village neighborhood. “There used to be a lot more cool, interesting places in New York—and there’s still a few left.” Attie, the 30-year-old founder of Klay, a new ...

Dallas World Cup 2026 guide: What to do, eat and see https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6787755/2025/12/05/dallas-world-cup-2026-guide/

Completely taken by the 2025 Local Deprivation maps on gov.uk:
https://deprivation.communities.gov.uk/maps
These maps are painting such a sad & harsh picture of the country (well, at least of England)! Been spending the past hour or so checking out various places I've be…

A profile of Klay, whose app will let users remake songs using AI; Klay has raised ~$10M and is the first AI startup to close deals with the three major labels (Abram Brown/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/secretive-startup-klay-jump…

Secretive Startup Klay Jumps Into the Fray Over AI Music
“So here’s a real surprise,” said Ary Attie, holding open a hidden door in the bowels of the Walker Hotel in the city’s Greenwich Village neighborhood. “There used to be a lot more cool, interesting places in New York—and there’s still a few left.” Attie, the 30-year-old founder of Klay, a new ...

Wikipedians and other Wikimedians! Vote for the name of the wiki that will have language-independent articles that can be used on Wikipedia and other places when there is a gap!
Candidates are:
* Multilingual Wikipedia
* Wikigenerator
* Proto-Wiki
* Wikiabstracts
* Abstract Wikipedia
Vote here:

Abstract Wikipedia/Abstract Wikipedia naming contest/Names - Meta-Wiki

For a decade, Donald Trump’s rallies were intertwined with his political identity.
His big crowds were how he first got the media and the Republican Party to take him seriously,
and they provided real-time feedback.
Those who followed him closely could watch his positions take shape from one rally to the next
—an offhand comment that got a strong reaction would become a talking point at the next rally,
and then a core part of his pitch.
And he took notic…

The Bubble-Wrapped President
Trump surrounds himself with those who flatter him in places where he is comfortable.

As US government cuts weather forecasting, vulnerable places like Puerto Rico risk losing vital early warnings https://phys.org/news/2025-11-weather-vulnerable-puerto-rico-vital.html

As US government cuts weather forecasting, vulnerable places like Puerto Rico risk losing vital early warnings
Hurricane Melissa devastated Jamaica in late October, killed dozens in Haiti and forced nearly three-quarters of a million Cubans to evacuate. The death toll across the region is still unknown—but Melissa will go down as one of the strongest storms ever recorded.

ESPN places Cowboys' top 2 picks on All-Rookie team for 2025 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/30/tyler-booker-donovan-ezeiruaku-named-to-espns-2025-all-rookie-t…

Manchester’s Local Plan – responding to the consultation | Steady State Manchester
https://steadystatemanchester.net/2025/10/27/manchesters-local-plan-responding-to-the-consultation/
Our draft response notes some glaring prob…

Manchester’s Local Plan – responding to the consultation
Local Plans are what guide the pattern of a land use and and building across a council area.  In the case of Greater Manchester (excluding Stockport), the Joint Strategic Plan, Places for Everyone …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #IndieForeverDiscoWithBethDitto
Lorde:
🎵 Perfect Places
#Lorde
https://iamshmoop.bandcamp.com/track/lorde-perfect-places-shmoop-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/7ARveOiD31w2Nq0n5FsSf8

As Microsoft accelerates its AI buildout in rural Wisconsin, one community's vocal opposition led the company to withdraw plans for a proposed data center site (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/25/microsoft-ai-data-center-rejection-vs-sup…

Why rural Wisconsin is blocking the AI data center boom: 'Horses are skittish'
Tech giants are increasingly facing community backlash as they select places to build mammoth AI data centers.

The distant planet #Uranus next to the Pleiades star cluster this evening - very easy to find in binoculars (or naked eye in dark places): It's one day after opposition / closest approach to Earth now. See also https://bsky.app/profile/cosmos4u.bsky.social/post/3m6apcpkzac2s for a comparision with a picture taken five nights earlier, showing how slowly the planet is moving in the sky, and https://www.facebook.com/bob.king.5059/posts/pfbid02SCaBYyzJsMu2bXqsNiutZtPN9tn6PZ5gf2SogCegF5bSfhsN2Q86Crmvxm3XdnTPl for some more information.

One of our fave local places to go to for a walk in autumn. This year the colors were especially exquisite...
(Beech forests like these covered two thirds of Germany, but by now they've been dramatically reduced, not just due to logging. Also rising temperatures have been increasing their mortality and general vulnerability...)
#SilentSunday

US places sanctions on Colombian president over alleged failure to stop cartels (Cy Neff/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/24/us-sanctions-colombian-president-gustavo-petro
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p17#a251026p17

Democrats had a big year of learning the new online media ecosystem, investing in it and showing up in the right places.
Now they need to grow rapidly
Donors on the left need to take the threat of the rightwing media ecosystem seriously and start investing a lot more in ways to capture that.
https://c.im/@cdarwin/115…

bible_nouns: Bible noun phrases
A network of noun phrases (places and names) in the King James Version of the Bible. Each node is a noun phrase, and an edge exists if the noun phrases co-occur in a Bible verse. Edge weight denotes how often the two words co-occur.
This network has 1773 nodes and 9131 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted

Channeling Revenant Feelings (Eagle Creek, Oregon, 2017)
(Hoping my friends in the US are doing everything in their power to help protect these sacred wilderness places from the onslaught of out of control greed...)
#FootpathFriday #ForestFriday

A digital pass available through the reservation site Recreation.gov includes “America-first pricing” at some parks.
Starting on Jan. 1, nonresidents without an annual pass will have to pay a $100 surcharge to enter 11 of the most-visited places in the system
https://www.<…

National parks announce ‘America-first’ upcharges for foreign visitors
The National Park Service's new America-first pricing policy will see foreign visitors pay more to access popular national parks, including Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon.

Judge Places Hold on I.R.S. Data Sharing With ICE (Andrew Duehren/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/business/irs-ice-migrants-addresses.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3E8.DvbO.HYPMi6WMlpnW&smid=nytcore-ios-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251122/p2#a251122p2

Chile's new Cape Froward national park is a wild expanse of wind-torn coastline and forested valleys that harbours unrivalled biodiversity and has played host to millennia of human history.
“I have been to many exceptional places, and I can tell you that the Cape Froward project is the wildest place I have walked through,”
said Kristine Tompkins, the renowned US conservationist at the heart of the project.
“It’s one of the few truly wild forest and peak territories lef…

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly,
nominated by former President Bill Clinton,
said on Friday that the I.R.S. plan to share information with ICE was too broad.
She said that federal law only allows for the I.R.S. to share tax information with other government officials who are directly involved in an ongoing investigation.
The I.R.S. sent the thousands of addresses to a single ICE official, who Judge Kollar-Kotelly said could not have been personally conducting so many i…

Judge Places Hold on IRS Data Sharing With ICE
A judge halted a federal deportation effort Friday, writing that the tax agency had illegally disseminated the data of some migrants.