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"Inakzeptabel": Über Warn-App Katwarn zum Singen des Pfalzlieds aufgerufen
Anlässlich des Dürkheimer Wurstmarkts wurden tausende Menschen über Katwarn aufgefordert, das Pfalzlied zu singen. Der Landkreis spricht von einem Fehler.

This is the moment to defend the right to strike in Canada - CCPA https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/this-is-the-moment-to-defend-the-right-to-strike-in-canada/

This is the moment to defend the right to strike in Canada - CCPA
The ongoing strike by CUPE flight attendants at Air Canada has sparked a moment in the Canadian labour movement. Unions across Canada have been pledging their support for CUPE flight attendants and showing up on picket lines at major airports. 

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
"Inakzeptabel": Über Warn-App Katwarn zum Singen des Pfalzlieds aufgerufen

Source: Pylon, which uses AI to automate B2B customer service, raised $31M led by a16z and Bain Capital at a valuation in the hundreds of millions of dollars (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/andreessen-…

Why Andreessen and Bain Backed a Self-Described ‘Zendesk Killer’
Automating customer service has been among the most popular applications of artificial intelligence models, and investors have pumped about $1 billion into six key startups developing them. Now, a seventh is throwing its hat into the ring.San Francisco-based startup Pylon has raised $31 million ...

PIC12F683 poly/substrate with some residual contacts (some floated away, some sitting at random positions, some still firmly attached) but almost all oxide etched.
Doing the whole die at this state, then will probably do a clean to get all the loose contacts and debris off, another imaging pass.
Then I'm not sure if it's worth the effort to try for a clean substrate image given the poor contrast I'm seeing, vs just calling this the final form. We'll see what happe…

Winds Through Time: Interactive Data Visualization and Physicalization for Paleoclimate Communication
David Hunter, Pablo Botin, Emily Snode-Brenneman, Amy Stevermer, Becca Hatheway, Dillon Amaya, Eddie Goldstein, Wayne A Seltzer, Mark D Gross, Kris Karnauskas, Daniel Leithinger, Ellen Yi-Luen Do
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13039

Winds Through Time: Interactive Data Visualization and Physicalization for Paleoclimate Communication
We describe a multidisciplinary collaboration to iteratively design an interactive exhibit for a public science center on paleoclimate, the study of past climates. We created a data physicalisation of mountains and ice sheets that can be tangibly manipulated by visitors to interact with a wind simulation visualisation that demonstrates how the climate of North America differed dramatically between now and the peak of the last ice age. We detail the system for interaction and visualisation plus …

AI Agents with Human-Like Collaborative Tools: Adaptive Strategies for Enhanced Problem-Solving
Harper Reed, Michael Sugimura, Angelo Zangari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13547 ht…

AI Agents with Human-Like Collaborative Tools: Adaptive Strategies for Enhanced Problem-Solving
We investigate whether giving LLM agents the collaborative tools and autonomy that humans naturally use for problem solving can improve their performance. We equip Claude Code agents with MCP-based social media and journaling tools and allow them to use these tools as they see fit. Across 34 Aider Polyglot Python programming challenges, collaborative tools substantially improve performance on the hardest problems, delivering 15-40% lower cost, 12-27% fewer turns, and 12-38% faster completion th…

Photocopier update. I hate that I do not have that nice EDR cyan on my copy.
The icons are placeholders.
The second screenshot is the current version:

CPU core of the PIC12F683 seen at poly.
This image is slightly out of focus in spots, I have a better 100x scan in the works, but we can see a couple of interesting things.
* At the south edge, we see a structure with what looks like 13-way symmetry then something weird looking at the far east. The instruction word is 14 bits so I'm guessing these are instruction latches with something special in the LSB or MSB position (I'll need to brush up on the PIC binary instruction…