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Ukraine’s military intelligence chief Budanov makes surprise visit to Zaporizhzhia front-line positions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/25/ukraines-military-intelligence-chief-budanov.html

High 5: Five positions to evaluate over the final games https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/high-5-five-positions-to-evaluate-over-the-final-games

Eight Sleep adds an outage mode to its smart beds after complaints they were stuck at sweltering temperatures and in inclined positions during the AWS outage (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/804289/eight-sleep-smart-bed-aws-o…

Eight Sleep adds ‘outage mode’ to smart beds after AWS problems left them frozen
Eight Sleep devices were bricked by Amazon’s server issues on Monday, with users reporting smart bedsstuck at high temperatures and inclined positions.

Do you have the ability to write code for Apple platforms? Do you know what MDM / device management is? Do you understand what Compliance is? Do you care about being able to use a Mac or iPad or iPhone for work or school?
Does the idea of dealing with the bugs that can crop up from things like "this needs to be reliably managed like a server, but a human randomly sleeps it mid-process and when it wakes up it's in a different country!" sound interesting to you?
If so - come be my direct co-worker!
Need to be able to be based in/work within the US, but the team itself is fully remote. Multiple positions open.
Feel free to DM me with questions
https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200628824-0836/software-engineer-test-infrastructure

Literally every app has different rounded corners and UI elements in completely different positions
A Mac from idk 1992 has a 10 times better and 100 times more consistent UI then whatever this is

Today I've figured out how to reply when another couch philosopher tells you that obviously "there are job offers, it's just people who are too lazy to work". You just ask them "then why aren't you changing jobs?"
Free market is clear on this: if the supply of job positions exceeds demand, wages rise. And if employers lack employees, then they're ready to pay more, so you benefit from changing jobs! Isn't capitalism just great?
#AntiCapitalism

From Greta's book. 🎯

After a few intense weeks — first at #icfpsplash25 in Singapore, then four days of interviewing candidates for tenure-track positions as part of the faculty appointment committee (Lärarförslagsnämnd) at the University of Gothenburg — I’m now in Budapest for (mostly) vacation.
Tomorrow (2025-10-27) I’ll give a talk at the local Type Theory Seminar (invited by Ambrus Kaposi). Looking f…

Once again, Trump acts to hurt anyone who stands in his way.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-vetoes-boebert-miccosukee-tribe-alligator-alcatraz-ac59b3ab03fb6f3b09d65b0223f1b495

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…

High 5: Five positions to evaluate over the final games https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/high-5-five-positions-to-evaluate-over-the-final-games

football just like me fr
#fedifc #claptoncfc

Ah, good thing Ireland didn’t bet a major chunk of its economy on US Big Tech creating jobs or anything.
*phew!*
#BigTech #USA #AI

TIOBE Software CEO Paul Jansen shares the numbers for November 2025 in its programming popularity index. It seems like C# is almost caught up with Java with a less than 1% difference between the fourth and fifth positions. Python continues to stand in a very comfortable first place.
"TIOBE Index for November 2025 - Is C# going to surpass Java for the first time in history?"

"Don’t get me wrong: My ego is not so large that I believe I played a significant role in putting Trump into office. What I mean is that it took the collective action of thousands of people in similar positions, working nine-to-five jobs, figuring out how they were going to pay for their kid’s daycare or fund their retirement, to get us where we are today. I was a part of that—until I decided I could no longer be."
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/my-last-day-as-an-accomplice-of-the-republican-party-miles-bruner

L. Nortmann, A. Reiners and S. Dreizler are advertising 3 PhD positions in Exoplanet Science at @… in the fields of exoplanet atmospheres, radial velocity measurements, and astronomical instrumentation.
ad:

Eagles Star Floated as Raiders Target to Help Maxx Crosby https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/eagles-star-floated-help-maxx-crosby/?adt_ei=[email]

one of the coolest things about the #bcndp convention has been the use if this little ballot book for voting for elected positions within the party.
They announce the number and colour of the page, you rip out the paper and use it to make your selection.
Then the committee folks go around with ballot boxes like offerings at church 😆
Democracy is cool wherever it happens and in all its iterations.
#bcndp #democracy

Chen is one of 12
San Francisco immigration court judges who have been fired by the DOJ this year,
leaving a skeleton staff of just nine judges to handle the workload of 21.
None have been replaced, but the Trump administration has advertised open positions, as “deportation judges.”
https://c.im/@cdarwin/11562…

I am being a bit cheeky, but I really do think this is a powerful psychological force that shapes orgs far more than we realize: it can be emotionally damaging to have people tell you “no” or question your ideas, and leadership means getting that •all the time•. People in management / executive positions — who are in fact very much people, all too human — will go to great lengths to protect their own psyches from the injury of pushback.
This is a •powerful• force in orgs.
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Like, how is Arne Slot to blame for missing that many chances? You put the players into positions to win. LFC didn’t play well and yet were still statistically better in every facet, but the scoreline.
It’s ragged, sure, but it will get better. There is too much quality in the squad to stay this uneven.
I think the more fruitful conversation is how to better blend the new players in. Is it too much, too soon? Has Salah finally hit the age wall?

Maybe Taylor Swift is always MAGA. She was just good hiding it.//
Trump “see some of himself in Swift, a staunch businesswoman who releases multiple editions of her albums to generate extra revenue and secure high chart positions ……It’s telling that Swift’s attention right now… on blocking Spanish star Rosalía from scoring a No 1 album with Lux, by releasing a new streaming-exclusive variant”

Ukrainian Forces strike Russian drone operator positions in Donetsk region, repel assaults near Pokrovsk: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/24/ukrainian-forces-strike-russian-drone.html

The Philippines just secured its first fixed-bottom offshore wind auctions—a major leap for clean energy in Asia.
The GEA-5 program targets 3.3 gigawatts of capacity, focusing on proven technology that can move to construction faster. This strategic approach positions the country as one of Asia's fastest-advancing offshore wind markets.

First Fixed-Bottom Offshore Wind Project Auctions In The Philippines Secured - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. At the 2025 APAC Wind Energy Summit of the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) last September, the Philippines made its strongest commitment yet to building a commercial offshore wind industry (OSW). This month, a breakthrough Green Energy Auction Program Round ... [continued]

Because #accessibility is out of scope for Baseline, devs may not know how poorly supported a feature is and miss an opportunity to vote for things that are barriers to users and risks to orgs.
“Vote for the web features you want to see”
https://

Kiper's updated 2026 Big Board: Ranking the top 25 NFL draft prospects, plus position reports https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2026/story/_/id/46573669/2026-nfl-draft-rankings-mel-kiper-big-board-top-prospects-play…

Cowboys new $96 million addition headlines calls for familiar, exciting scheme change https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/11/05/new-96m-dallas-cowboys-quinnen-williams-t…

It's time, for a new job.
I'm an experienced software developer, who prefers Python, and C . Though I'd also like to learn a new, modern language, like e.g. Rust.
Yes, I've been using AI for code completion. Yes I know current versions of my preferred languages. No I have no hard restriction on the industry.
I'm not cheap, I'm good.
If you're aware of any positions in Europe, preferably in Zürich, or remote, let me know.

2 Raiders among leaders in Pro Bowl fan voting by position Week 14 https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/12/02/las-vegas-raiders-brock-bowers-maxx-c…

Just finished "The Word for World is Forest" by Ursula K. Le Guin. Can't believe I didn't read this one earlier, and this strengthens my resolve to finish off the rest of her stuff I have yet to read sooner. I think it benefits somewhat from having read it after "Four Ways to Forgiveness" which gives more of the Hainish context. Certainly none of the blurbs I had read about it did it any measure of justice, which is one reason I hadn't prioritized it. More than being about colonization, it's about a solution to the paradox of tolerance, and both the price and imperfections of that solution. As usual with Le Guin's science fiction, it's a rich companion to anarchist thought.
I think the typical objection to seeing it as an answer to the warlord question would be that it serendipitously positions the indigenous population with more power and a less ruthless opponent than in the imagined scenario, and it uses the League of Worlds as a sort of deus ex machina to foreclose further retribution. Ultimately that's why I think it's more about the paradox of tolerance than anything else, but I also think in regards to the warlord problem that we are too quick to underestimate just how numerous and enthusiastic the opponents of a warlord might be, and to overestimate the strength of technological weapons wielded by frail (and psychologically unarmored) humans.
In any case, Le Guin gives this book's alien humans yet another fascinatingly credible capability, and getting to see the introduction of ansible technology with all its implications is pretty cool too. Maybe not

The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds https://www.404media.co/the-aws-outage-bricked-peoples-2-700-smartbeds/

Had a lovely evening while playing an experimental board game on post-quantum #cryptography with people from Tampere University, the OpenSSL Foundation and Cybernetica.
A fitting end for the 2025 #OpenSSL Conference.

Outside of Speaker Mike Johnson,
there is no bigger poster boy for the rubber-stamp Republican House majority than Jim Jordan.
Jordan’s purpose for running the House Judiciary Committee is to abuse its power to investigate those who tried to hold Donald Trump accountable for alleged crimes.
While Republicans in the House filled their committees with leaders who would be loyal to Trump,
Democrats filled their positions with experienced investigators and legislators who…

Jamie Raskin Outsmarts Jim Jordan And Sets Up A Big Jack Smith Headache For Trump
Jim Jordan wants to investigate Jack Smith, so Jamie Raskin is using Jordan's investigation to try to get Smith to publicly testify about evidence against Trump.

Deconstructing Attention: Investigating Design Principles for Effective Language Modeling
Huiyin Xue, Nafise Sadat Moosavi, Nikolaos Aletras
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11602 htt…

Deconstructing Attention: Investigating Design Principles for Effective Language Modeling
The success of Transformer language models is widely credited to their dot-product attention mechanism, which interweaves a set of key design principles: mixing information across positions (enabling multi-token interactions), sequence-dependent activations (where attention weights adapt to each input), a specific mathematical form (dot-product similarities plus softmax weighting), and coupling of queries and keys to evolving hidden states (grounding attention in the current layer). However, th…

Reid's debut rankings for the 2026 NFL draft: The top 50 players https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2026/story/_/id/47027232/2026-nfl-draft-rankings-jordan-reid-top-prospects-players-positions

Madagascar : désobéissance, fermeture de l’aéroport et soutien aux manifestants, l’appel des militaires du CAPSAT qui pourrait tout faire basculer
https://la…

High-Resolution Optical Correlation-Domain Reflectometry with 100-km Measurement Range
Takaki Kiyozumi, Soshi Yoshida, Yuta Higa, Keisuke Motoda, Sze Yun Set, Shinji Yamashita, Yosuke Mizuno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18400 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.18400 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.18400
arXiv:2511.18400v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In the maintenance of optical fiber networks, there is a growing demand for high-precision measurement of optical loss distribution and fault locations over long distances. In this study, we propose an OCDR method incorporating periodic pseudo-random modulation (PPRM), and demonstrate that it enables the acquisition of loss distribution based on Rayleigh scattering and the positions of reflection points in an approximately 100-km optical fiber, with a spatial resolution of about 19 cm and a measurement time of about 20 seconds.
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PolygMap: A Perceptive Locomotion Framework for Humanoid Robot Stair Climbing
Bingquan Li, Ning Wang, Tianwei Zhang, Zhicheng He, Yucong Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12346 http…

PolygMap: A Perceptive Locomotion Framework for Humanoid Robot Stair Climbing
Recently, biped robot walking technology has been significantly developed, mainly in the context of a bland walking scheme. To emulate human walking, robots need to step on the positions they see in unknown spaces accurately. In this paper, we present PolyMap, a perception-based locomotion planning framework for humanoid robots to climb stairs. Our core idea is to build a real-time polygonal staircase plane semantic map, followed by a footstep planar using these polygonal plane segments. These …

Trump continues his war on competency.
https://apnews.com/article/diplomacy-ambassadors-state-department-1a10058998c86e799ce4e5132a99da18

Donald Trump, who has repeatedly denounced the Affordable Care Act as a “disaster,”
is considering backing an extension of insurance subsidies tied to the health law that are set to expire at the end of the year,
according to a senior White House official.
“Until President Trump makes an announcement himself, any reporting about the administration’s health care positions is mere speculation,” said Kush Desai, a White House spokesman.
Extending the subsidies was at the …

Trump Is Considering a Push to Extend Obamacare Subsidies
President Trump has not made a final decision. But he is under pressure to address the cost of health care, which for many Americans will jump if the subsidies expire.

A new PhD programme “migration, time and urban inequalities” run by seven European universities (including @…) has 15 fully funded PhD positions open: https://www.migrationtime.eu…

A fully funded European PhD training programme (2026–2029)
MITIME is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network focusing on how time shapes migration, inequality, and urban life in post-industrial Europe. We train early-stage researchers in cutting-edge theory, methods and transferable skills, and innovate approac

At Dreamforce 2025, Salesforce unveils Agentforce 360, a unified agentic AI stack to connect humans, AI agents, and more, and positions Slack as an "agentic OS" (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/i

Salesforce makes its Agentforce 360 case to be your AI agent platform
Salesforce announced a series of product updates, a process intelligence acquisition and an Agentforce 360 architecture designed to make the case that it should orchestrate first and third party AI agents. At Dreamforce 2025, Salesforce looked to differentiate itself from what's becoming a crowded agentic AI platform space. The cloud giants are looking to go horizontal with stacks to build, deploy and optimize AI agents. SaaS vendors are expanding into managing AI agents beyond their verticals.…

"Women hold 32% of full-time jobs in the renewable energy sector, IRENA report finds"
#Women #Energy #Renewables

Women hold 32% of full-time jobs in the renewable energy sector, IRENA report finds
New data from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) shows women account for only 19% of renewable energy senior leadership positions globally and almost half of the women surveyed report some form of gender-based discrimination in the workplace.

Donovan Wilson is ‘50-50′ for Cowboys-Cardinals as Dallas works through injuries at safety https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/cowboys/2025/11/01/donovan-wilson-safety-dallas-cowboys-injury-update-arizona…

Raiders Mailbag: Jamal Adams answers fan-submitted questions https://www.raiders.com/news/mailbag/raiders-mailbag-jamal-adams-answers-fan-submitted-questions

Good performance, but the scoreline flatters LFC. Brighton was unlucky and lacked clinically when they were otherwise dangerous.
Ekitike is the obvious MOTM. Jones was also excellent, as was Alisson.
Wirtz and Gravenberch were good early, but diminished as the game dragged on. LFC really need more depth at DM. The lack of rotation there and in some other positions looks to have begun taking a toll.
I’m begging for Chiesa to get played on the right while Salah is off to AFCO…

Ukrainian troops pull back from positions near Pokrovsk to avoid encirclement: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/09/ukrainian-troops-pull-back-from.html

Trump administration abruptly recalls over two dozen career ambassadors
The Trump administration has recalled more than two dozen
career diplomats from ambassador positions and other senior posts around the world
as it works to enforce adherence with Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda.

The directive has infuriated State Department personnel
who say it will leave key embassies without critical leadership
and may effectively end the careers of many ambass…

Trump administration abruptly recalls over two dozen career ambassadors
A senior State Department official called it a bid to ensure adherence to the “America First” agenda while others called it a devastating blow to America’s diplomatic corps.

Raiders Mailbag: Jamal Adams answers fan-submitted questions https://www.raiders.com/news/mailbag/raiders-mailbag-jamal-adams-answers-fan-submitted-questions

Eagles trading WR John Metchie III to Jets for CB Michael Carter II https://www.nfl.com/news/eagles-jets-trade-john-metchie-michael-carter-ii

Positions of Need | Cowboys Storyline https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gerxjHnS08

Reddit launches Interactive Ads, letting brands create immersive, participatory experiences directly in the Reddit feed, now testing with select advertisers (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/reddit-interactive-ad-format-paramount-runni…

EXCLUSIVE: Reddit Unveils Interactive Ad Format, Piloted by Paramount
Reddit debuts a new interactive ad format that lets brands build custom, participatory experiences—as the platform, buoyed by surging ad spend, positions itself as a creative playground for advertisers seeking deeper engagement and broader reach.

Study: 15 TikTok accounts posting AI videos of sexualized underage girls have nearly 300K followers and 2M likes; TikTok says 14 accounts don't violate rules (Clare Duffy/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/tech/tiktok-ai-videos-children-report

Videos of sexually suggestive, AI-generated children are racking up millions of likes on TikTok, study finds
AI-generated videos showing what appear to be underage girls in sexualized clothing or positions have together racked up millions of likes on TikTok, even though the platform’s rules prohibit such content, according to new research from an online safety non-profit.

"Scientists develop new floating box array for offshore PV"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Scientists develop new floating box array for offshore PV
Researchers have tested a 9 x 11 floating box array for offshore photovoltaics in a large wave flume, under regular and irregular wave sequences. They have placed wireless gyroscopes on three of the boxes, representing the front, middle, and rear positions.

Matchup rankings: Upgrade Daniel Jones, downgrade Travis Kelce https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/46759782/fantasy-football-rankings-tips-nfl-week-9-matchups-qb-rb-wr-te

Lawyers who care should run for positions in their respective state bar ethics committees.
We need to hold these people accountable, and make sure they never practice law again.
https://…

60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.

Well deserved win by City. Doku was spectacular and Arsenal should be nervous looking in the rearview mirror.
That being said, a soft penalty rounded-up and a very suspect disallowed goal, quickly rounded down, will be a stain on this fixture for me.
I don’t care what Howard Webb will say because I’ve lost all faith in PGMOL and VAR. Their positions are indefensible and I don’t need to hear the farcical spin. I think City would have won in the end, but it absolutely changed the g…

Gavin Newsom, the California governor,
announced the appointment of two prominent scientists
who left the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in recent months over conflicts with the Trump administration to state positions.
Dr Susan Monarez, the former director of the CDC, will lead California’s new public health initiative, the Public Health Network Innovation Exchange (PHNIX).
In August, Monarez was fired by the Trump administration less than a month in…

Big Blue Kickoff Live 12/23 https://www.giants.com/video/big-blue-kickoff-live-12-23-prep-for-raiders

Cowboys move Diggs to IR, elevate CB to replace him, also RB for Week 8 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/11/cowboys-roster-moves-see-back-to-ir-two-wrs-called-in…

Matchup rankings: Upgrade Harold Fannin Jr., downgrade Jameson Williams https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/47389017/fantasy-football-rankings-tips-nfl-week-17-matchups-qb-rb-wr-te

How the Cowboys could address their biggest needs early in the NFL Draft https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6916492/2025/12/24/cowboys-nfl-draft-expert-needs/

Early offseason needs for all 32 NFL teams: Positions to upgrade, draft prospects to watch, more https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47013074/2026-nfl-offseason-needs-free-agency-draft-prospects

Dallas Cowboys preview with Logan Paulsen and who's at Fred Smoot's Christmas dinner? https://www.commanders.com/video/dallas-cowboys-preview-with-logan-paulsen-and-who-s-at-fred-smoot-s-christmas-dinner

Raiders need more from rookie WRs vs. Chiefs in Week 7 https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/10/18/raiders-need-more-from-rookie-wrs-vs-chiefs-in-week-7/86768034007/

Matchup rankings: Upgrade Tetairoa McMillan, downgrade Dak Prescott https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/47012514/fantasy-football-rankings-tips-nfl-week-12-matchups-qb-rb-wr-te

Ideal 2026 NFL Draft fits for Jets, Giants and other projected last-place finishers https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6729297/2025/10/19/nfl-draft-2026-projections-jets-giants-last-place-teams/

Tyler Smith to start at left tackle for the remainder of 2025 season https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/tyler-smith-to-start-at-left-tackle-for-the-remainder-of-2025-season

Ideal 2026 NFL Draft fits for Jets, Giants and other projected last-place finishers https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6729297/2025/10/19/nfl-draft-2026-projections-jets-giants-last-place-teams/

Mailbag: Should players speak up? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-should-players-speak-up

Mailbag: Should players speak up? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-should-players-speak-up

Cowboys lose RB to IR, add two WRs to 54-man roster ahead of facing Panthers in Week 6 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/11/cowboys-roster-moves-see-back-to-ir-tw…