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The EU warns of possible action after the US imposes travel bans on five Europeans, saying it will defend its "regulatory autonomy against unjustified measures" (Lorne Cook/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/europe-bret

EU warns of possible action after the US bars 5 Europeans accused of censorship
The European Union's executive is warning of possible action against the U.S. after travel bans were imposed on five Europeans accused of pressuring American technology firms to censor viewpoints. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the five "radical" activists. They include Thierry Breton who is the former EU commissioner responsible for supervising social media rules. The European Commission condemned on Wednesday the U.S. decision and is seeking clarification. It says the EU is within…

Jerry Jones teases possible Cowboys moves before NFL trade deadline https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/jerry-jones-teases-possible-cowboys-moves-before-nfl-trade-deadline

NFL facing possible nightmare playoff scenario in Week 17 that could kill the drama in final week of season

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-fac

Zelenskyy floats terms for peace plan, signaling possible withdrawal from eastern Ukraine (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/volodymyr-zelenskyy-floats-terms-peace-plan-signaling-possible-withdrawal-eastern-ukraine/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p17#a251224p17

🧑‍🏭 It’s Still Possible to Rebuild a Working-Class Majority
#politics

It’s Still Possible to Rebuild a Working-Class Majority
Labor organizing can’t succeed at scale without a supportive legal and political environment, created by majoritarian coalitions that can win reforms, confront corporate power, and prove to skeptical workers that progressive governance delivers.

Pulp giant RGE admits possible deforestation breach in Bornean wildlife habitat https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/pulp-giant-rge-admits-possible-deforestation-breach-in-bornean-wildlife-habitat/

Pulp giant RGE admits possible deforestation breach in Bornean wildlife habitat
JAKARTA — One of the world’s biggest pulp and paper companies has acknowledged to Mongabay a potential breach of its no-deforestation commitment in its supply chain, raising questions about the company’s attempt to regain sustainability certification under the Forest Stewardship Council. A new report by U.S.-based campaign group Rainforest Action Network (RAN) alleges that Singapore-based […]

Brandon Aiyuk injury update: 49ers' John Lynch offers grim update on wide receiver's possible return

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/brandon

Meanwhile, in extinction-stage capitalism… https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/115430539119947586

⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯ (@cryptadamist@universeodon.com)
Attached: 1 image new startup idea from Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz's a16z¹: a tool to let you control thousands of #socialmedia accounts that look "as human as possible" ¹ Owners of large stakes in #Substack, The Privatized Public Square (AKA “X” AKA “The Everything App”), and (soon) #TikTok #DoubleSpeed #AI #grok #psyop #a16z #MarcAndreessen #SlugsOfA16z #uspol #disinformation #BenHorowitz #nerdreich #broligarchy #broligarchs #X

We think the industry turned away from design, but most people have simply never seen design done before, so they don't believe it's possible.
We need to show them, and we can't sit around waiting for permission.
If we want to prove that design isn't just decoration, we need to stop doing decorative work. Think backwards from valuable goals, and direct your energy down the path that leads you towards that value, rather than "just words" or "just pic…

In practice, seems like this amounts to a (very large) tax on businesses that hire employees on H1B visas,
One that goes far beyond any possible fee for administrative/processing costs into major revenue raising reserved for Congress (based on objections to executive taxation going back to James I)
https://

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
WHOA. I am genuinely *shocked.* [contains quote post or other embedded content]

If your immediate response is to suggest data pipes are fatter, video is to blame, images must be the highest resolution possible, font files are doing this, etc., then you might not understand who you’re actually serving and why this is a concern.
https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/1156014307…

. @… "I'm submitting PRs to as many PECL projects as possible."
Meanwhile, she sells csh by the seashore.
#longhornphp

Followed up my 18h long trip to Paris by cramming the day with as many meetings with friends and former colleagues as possible, virtually from the second I arrived. 😍
Also the perfect way to stay awake to try to minimize the jet lag, but now it's soon time to crash. 💤 😂

Customize what happens when you start R: #rstats #environment

"New data reveals how Australia’s threatened reptiles and frogs are disappearing – and what we have to do"
#Australia #Climate #ClimateChange

New data reveals how Australia’s threatened reptiles and frogs are disappearing – and what we have to do
Australia is home to many endangered reptiles and frogs. This national snapshot shows their numbers have dropped sharply. But it’s possible to reverse this trend.

It’s apparent to anyone with a bit of education in technological history that this sort of thing must be possible. We have waste streams with higher concentrations of key elements than the "ore" we derive them from.
This is part of why I religiously recycle plastics even though right now they don’t really get recycled. At some point, the piles of unrecycled plastics will be a better raw material for new plastics than the dregs of petroleum we have left.

»The research, based on a survey of 1,150 workers, is the latest analysis to suggest that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in some magic productivity boom and instead has just increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.”«
Read in the most recent @… newsletter. The researc…

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appears polished but lacks real substance, offloading cognitive labor onto coworkers. Research from BetterUp Labs and Stanford found that 41% of workers have encountered such AI-generated output, costing nearly two hours of rework per instance and creating downstream productivity, trust, and colla…

um guys not to alarm you or anything but im currently experiencing gender euphoria for the first time in my life and I didn't even know it was possible and I cried a little bit???
#lore

Got a Surface Laptop Studio 2? Or just need a 100W USB-Power Delivery charger?
My new favorite charger is the "Anker Prime Charger, 160W 3-Port (140W on a single port). Perfect for a power-hungry laptop smartphone.
https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Charger-Compa

The TikTok deal is the worst of all possible outcomes, shifting ownership of TikTok to Trump's allies, while maintaining the supposed problematic links to China (Karl Bode/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/19/tiktok

TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse
There were rumblings about this for a while, but it looks like the Trump TikTok deal is done, and it’s somehow the worst of all possible outcomes, amazingly making all of the biggest criticis…

I just sent this open letter on drastically speeding up UK #heatPump installation, especially in winter, to the UK's energy minister and the CEO of Octopus which is the UK's largest retail energy supplier:
https://www.

Home Heat Pumps: 2-day Installation Open Letter (2025)
Distress winter replacements of a gas boiler with heat pump are possible and needed... #heatpump #netZero #winter

"Oh Shit", said the AI, "good you asked me, you're in very deep shit and time is of the essence. What you need to do now *immediately* is:
- increase the share of renewables as much as possible, as quickly as possible.
- build decentralised storage.
- electrify everything.
- stop deforestation, plant trees, renaturalise.
- turn me off."

Series C, Episode 13 - Terminal
ZEN: The information you require has been stored via a coded route, and retrieval is not possible without the correct security command sequence.
CALLY: And that sequence is known only to Avon, I imagine.
ZEN: Confirmed.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/313/100

#biketooter #ontario #complain

Contrary to Neuralink Blindsight's lack of evidence concerning applicability to people born blind, there is the 2012 paper titled "'Visual' acuity of the congenitally blind using visual-to-auditory sensory substitution" https://journals.plos.org/plosone/arti

‘Visual’ Acuity of the Congenitally Blind Using Visual-to-Auditory Sensory Substitution
Sensory Substitution Devices (SSDs) convey visual information through sounds or touch, thus theoretically enabling a form of visual rehabilitation in the blind. However, for clinical use, these devices must provide fine-detailed visual information which was not yet shown for this or other means of visual restoration. To test the possible functional acuity conveyed by such devices, we used the Snellen acuity test conveyed through a high-resolution visual-to-auditory SSD (The vOICe). We show that…

Période : en semaine de 09h Š 16h45.
Dates : du lundi 20 au vendredi 24 octobre.
La gare de Dourdan La Forêt n'est pas desservie. Report possible sur les lignes de bus de ville.
Les horaires du calculateur d'itinéraire tiennent compte des travaux.
Motif : travaux sur le réseau ferroviaire.
#Info_Travaux
🤖 24/10 09:00

The EU launches an antitrust probe into SAP over its ERP software maintenance and support services, with a potential fine of ~10% of its annual global sales (Makini Brice/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

A fragment of a Chinese rocket stage - 2024-173L - 'landed' in Western Australia on 18 October: #SpaceJunk

There is NOTHING sacred: Zelenskyy warns of possible Russian Christmas STRIKE #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/22/there-is-nothing-sacred-zelenskyy.html

After #Trump finally crashes and burns (I'm still saying I don't think he makes it to the mid terms, and I think it's more than possible he won't make it to the end of the year) we'll hear a lot of people say, "the system worked!" Today people are already talking about "saving democracy" by fighting back. This will become a big rally cry to vote (for Democrats, specifically), and the complete failure of the system will be held up as the best evidence for even greater investment in it.
I just want to point out that American democracy gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile, who, before being elected was already a well known sexual predator, and who made the campaign promise to commit genocide. He then preceded to commit genocide. And like, I don't care that he's "only" kidnaped and disappeared a few thousand brown people. That's still genocide. Even if you don't kill every member of a targeted group, any attempt to do so is still "committing genocide." Trump said he would commit genocide, then he hired all the "let's go do a race war" guys he could find and *paid* them to go do a race war. And, even now as this deranged monster is crashing out, he is still authorized to use the world's largest nuclear arsenal.
He committed genocide during his first term when his administration separated migrant parents and children, then adopted those children out to other parents. That's technically genocide. The point was to destroy the very people been sending right wing terror squads after.
There was a peaceful hand over of power to a known Russian asset *twice*, and the second time he'd already committed *at least one* act of genocide *and* destroyed cultural heritage sites (oh yeah, he also destroyed indigenous grave sites, in case you forgot, during his first term).
All of this was allowed because the system is set up to protect exactly these types of people, because *exactly* these types of people are *the entire power structure*.
Going back to that system means going back to exactly the system that gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile *TWICE*.
I'm already seeing the attempts to pull people back, the congratulations as we enter the final phase, the belief that getting Trump out will let us all get back to normal. Normal. The normal that lead here in the first place. I can already see the brunch reservations being made. When Trump is over, we will be told we won. We will be told that it's time to go back to sleep.
When they tell you everything worked, everything is better, that we can stop because we won, tell them "fuck you! Never again means never again." Destroy every system that ever gave these people power, that ever protected them from consequences, that ever let them hide what they were doing.
These democrats funded a genocide abroad and laid the groundwork for genocide at home. They protected these predators, for years. The whole power structure is guilty. As these files implicate so many powerful people, they're trying to shove everything back in the box. After all the suffering, after we've finally made it clear that we are the once with the power, only now they're willing to sacrifice Trump to calm us all down.
No, that's a good start but it can't be the end.
Winning can't be enough to quench that rage. Keep it burning. When this is over, let victory fan that anger until every institution that made this possible lies in ashes. Burn it all down and salt the earth. Taking down Trump is a great start, but it's not time to give up until this isn't possible again.
#USPol

These Japanese paper / box cutters are kinda awesome.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08LVBHRBN?ref=c

Free software communities offer ethical alternatives to the centralised platforms by the web giants:
It is possible to find trusted services that respect your privacy
https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/

De-google-ify Internet - Main Page
The web giants centralize our digital lives in exchange for their services The Free Software community offers alternative ethical services The Framasoft network intends to prove itby hosting them

What Raiders’ Ashton Jeanty Has in Store Next https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-what-ashton-jeanty-has-next-

An effective control of large systems of active particles: An application to evacuation problem
Albina Klepach, Egor E. Nuzhin, Alexey A. Tsukanov, Nikolay V. Brilliantov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19972

An effective control of large systems of active particles: An application to evacuation problem
Manipulation of large systems of active particles is a serious challenge across diverse domains, including crowd management, control of robotic swarms, and coordinated material transport. The development of advanced control strategies for complex scenarios is hindered, however, by the lack of scalability and robustness of the existing methods, in particular, due to the need of an individual control for each agent. One possible solution involves controlling a system through a leader or a group o…

Listening to this just a few more times before 2025 is over, as should perhaps be customary, or just as much as possible during the year
https://youtu.be/uq-gYOrU8bA

A Characterization of Triangle-Free Cyclic Graphs With Self-Loops Of Rank 3
Johnny Lim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20158 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.20158

A Characterization of Triangle-Free Cyclic Graphs With Self-Loops Of Rank 3
Let $G_S$ be a self-loop graph as the graph obtained by attaching a self-loop at every vertex in $S \subseteq V(G)$ of a simple graph $G.$ If $G=C_n$ is the cycle graphs of order $n$ and $S \neq \emptyset,$ we show that there are no rank 3 self-loop graphs $(C_n)_S$ for $n\geq 5.$ As a consequence, we determine and construct all possible rank 3 triangle-free self-loop cyclic graph of order at least 4 from $(C_4)_S$ via graph join operations. This provides a partial solution to the characterizat…

A little request for @… : it would be great, when we type an answer to a post, to be able to see that post while we write.. #Tusky
Important edit: Actually this is already possible!! Just click the t…

Muse-it: A Tool for Analyzing Music Discourse on Reddit
Jatin Agarwala, George Paul, Nemani Harsha Vardhan, Vinoo Alluri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20228 https://

Muse-it: A Tool for Analyzing Music Discourse on Reddit
Music engagement spans diverse interactions with music, from selection and emotional response to its impact on behavior, identity, and social connections. Social media platforms provide spaces where such engagement can be observed in natural, unprompted conversations. Advances in natural language processing (NLP) and big data analytics make it possible to analyze these discussions at scale, extending music research to broader contexts. Reddit, in particular, offers anonymity that encourages div…

"[Yaxley Lennon] was invited and welcomed to Israel because his brand of populist, racist, Islamophobic, extreme-right politics is now a natural fit. Perhaps not in the minds of all Israelis, but certainly a sufficient number to make possible an accommodation that would have been considered almost unimaginable a few decades back."
Tommy Robinson’s red carpet welcome speaks volumes about today’s Israel | The National

This is fucking spectacular. Huntington’s is a monstrous prion disease that runs in families as a simple single-gene dominant mutation. I.e. 50/50 inherited. Until genetic testing was possible, children of victims didn’t know whether they would be struck until they were, usually in middle age. https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArt…

Yea I can’t imagine why anyone thought this dipshit was defending rape…I mean aside from the over half a dozen posts where he defended rape as “not immoral”, literally said “No. In fact, the word "rape"…didn't even exist until the 1800s.” and arguing that being “owned”* wasn’t “horrific”
Complete mystery why people went after him, must be some weird BlueSky thing. 😂
JFC

🗜️ Introducing oavif: faster target quality image compression
#software

Flipping particles with nodal circulations by general relativity under the presence of an inner perturber
Gonzalo Carlos de El\'ia, Macarena Zanardi, Carla Florencia Coronel, Agust\'in Dugaro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19641

Flipping particles with nodal circulations by general relativity under the presence of an inner perturber
From a secular Hamiltonian up to the quadrupole level with general relativity (GR), we study nodal circulations with orbital flips of test particles of the Habitable Zone (HZ) around a solar-mass star, which are perturbed by an inner planetary-mass companion. Nodal circulations with orbital flips of an HZ test particle with eccentricity e2 are possible for any mass m1 and eccentricity e1 of the inner perturber and a suitable inclination i2. In particular, the greater the values of m1 and e2 , t…

It is cold in northern parts of the world. Studded tyres are awesome. If you do not have them, forgot to mount them or cannot afford to invest for your usage, I am here for you.
The number of times I have been caught out and unicycled on snow and ice is quite high. If I can do it, you can do it. Just take it easy! Oh and wear a helmet, even if you do not normally. That kind of a fall is exactly what they are for.

Playing CHESS with stars. I. Search for similar stars in large spectroscopic data sets
J. E. Mart\'inez Fern\'andez, S. \"Ozdemir, R. Smiljanic, M. L. L. Dantas, A. R. da Silva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19443

Playing CHESS with stars. I. Search for similar stars in large spectroscopic data sets
Context: Massive amounts of spectroscopic data obtained by stellar surveys are feeding an ongoing revolution in our knowledge of stellar and Galactic astrophysics. Analysing these data sets to extract the best possible astrophysical parameters on short time scales represents a considerable challenge. Aims: The differential analysis method is known to return the most precise results in the spectroscopic analyses of F-, G-, and K-type stars. However, it can only be applied to stars with similar p…

The TikTok deal is the worst of all possible outcomes, shifting ownership of TikTok to Trump's allies, while maintaining the supposed problematic links to China (Karl Bode/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/19/tiktok

TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse
There were rumblings about this for a while, but it looks like the Trump TikTok deal is done, and it’s somehow the worst of all possible outcomes, amazingly making all of the biggest criticis…

It's all an illusion.

CORS Simulator — A set of examples to demonstrate fundamental CORS concepts.
What’s you reaction when you see yet another CORS error in the browser? For a long time mine was to hate CORS. Then I started going DEEP on it, and discovered that much of the dynamism of modern websites wouldn’t be possible without CORS.
📺 https://www.

Although 'The Beast in Me' looks like a proper piece of TV, it is being held back by Clare Danes. Is it possible to recast her as a relatively happy person, with a curious and inquisitive mindset?
A pity she accepted this role; such an excellent actress.10 minutes into episode 2 and I've parked it on the NAS. Let's see if I get to it again. Have my sincere doubts.

Un projet d’assassinat visant un opposant russe Š Vladimir Poutine déjoué en France - Le Parisien
https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/un-possible-projet-dassassinat-visant-un-o…

Un projet d’assassinat visant un opposant russe à Vladimir Poutine déjoué en France
INFO LE PARISIEN. Quatre hommes âgés de 26 à 38 ans ont été interpellés lundi par la DGSI, soupçonnés d’avoir voulu s’attaquer à Vladimir Ossetchkine, un opposant à Vladimir Poutine installé à Biarritz. L’antiterrorisme s’est saisi de l’enquête.

468 nets unrouted. Still have to do the FPGA flash, the power supply, bulk caps for the FPGA, and a few other odds and ends but the entire SoC subsystem is basically routed.
So at this point I can already say definitively that routing the STM32MP2 in TFBGA436 on an OSHPark 4-layer board is extremely doable as long as you aren't trying to max the IOs. Using the DDR may or may not be possible (I'm not trying here) but the internal RAM and HyperRAM are enough for a lot of applicat…

Sources: SAG-AFTRA "is building a war room to oppose" the WBD-Netflix merger, including plans for a potential strike (James Franey/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/22/media/hollywood-actors-union-could-strike-over-ne…

Exclusive | Hollywood actors' union secretly plotting possible strike over Netflix-WBD merger: sources
Hollywood actors could go on strike over the planned Netflix-Warner Bros. Discovery tie-up, with their trade union secretly plotting a possible work stoppage in the New Year over fears the merger c…

This weekend will be a bit sad. It is the last weekend for the farmers market. We will miss the fresh local products until next May. I made it a point to pay cash so that they don't have a portion go to the credit card company. I go to our local bakery several times a week and buy fresh bread, rolls, and treats. Again, paying cash. When possible, I try to patronize small independent businesses.
Do I pay a bit more? Probably, but there is a huge difference in the quality, and th…

This is a truly fascinating use of LLMs. I hope we get to see this soon.
https://github.com/DGoettlich/history-llms
A family of 4 billion (B) parameter LLMs based on the Qwen3 architecture trained on 80B tokens of historical data up to knowledge-cutoffs : 1913, 1929, 1933, 1939…

GitHub - DGoettlich/history-llms: Information hub for our project training the largest possible historical LLMs.
Information hub for our project training the largest possible historical LLMs. - DGoettlich/history-llms

This widely-linked story is, I think, much ado about nothing. Anyone who's seen the inside of an Amazon warehouse immediately thinks “Shouldn’t robots be doing this?” and that includes every Amazon biz and engineering leader, starting like 25 years ago. There is no doubt that the whole warehouse sector would love to replace humans with robots. It’s hard. So what’s new? Is it possible LLM fairy dust will solve the problem? Unconvinced.

Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents
Amazon is leaning into automation plans that will enable the company to avoid hiring more than half a million US workers, according to leaked documents.

Netanyahu plans to brief Trump on possible new Iran strikes (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/netanyahu-plans-brief-trump-possible-new-iran-strikes-rcna250112
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p26#a251220p26

Maximal operators of $T$ means with respect to the Vilenkin system
G. Tutberidze
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19321 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19321

Maximal operators of $T$ means with respect to the Vilenkin system
In this paper we prove and discuss some new $\left( H_{p},weak-L_{p}\right) $ type inequalities of maximal operators of $T$ means with respect to Vilenkin systems with monotone coefficients. We also apply these results to prove a.e. convergence of \ such $T$ means. It has also been proven that these results are the best possible in a special sense. As applications, both well-known and new results are highlighted.

Buy a house so you can spend as much of your waking life as possible in a hardware store.

#Theia, the giant impactor that created the Moon, and Earth were neighbors! Read more about Theia's likely "birthplace" in the inner Solar System here: https://www.mps.mpg.de/theia-and-earth-wer

Raiders’ Bye Week Brings a Huge Boost for Duo's Untapped Potential https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-luke-steckel-michael-mayer-brock-bowers

#zellij still not allowing to resize panes with the mouse is pretty much the only thing keeping me from switching over from #tmux 😅
https://

Feature: Resize Panes with the Mouse · Issue #1262 · zellij-org/zellij
Make it possible to resize panes with the mouse. It would also be great, if a sort of snapping is possible, similar to how i3/sway does it. If you select with alt, the cursor snaps to the closest b...

Stephen A. Smith Makes Bold Cowboys’ Dak Prescott Claim https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/stephen-a-smith-dak-prescott-claim/?adt_ei=[email]

We can now add "6. Vibe-Code as Much as Possible" to this list

Jets' Fields returns to practice, to start if cleared https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46378047/jets-justin-fields-returns-practice-start-cleared

Oh look, and Signal has just told me that Jack Dorsey has joined Signal.
(a) Signal telling people on your contacts that they’ve joined Signal is a privacy violation.
(b) When the fuck did I add Jack Dorsey’s number to my contacts? Must’ve been ages ago; don’t even remember meeting him back in the day but it’s possible I guess.
🤷‍♂️
CC @…@…

One of the things that made organizing a lot easier with the GDC was a thing called "GDC in a box." It was a zip file with all kinds of resources. There was a directory structure, templates for all kinds of things like meetings and paperwork you had to file (for legal reasons) and "read me" files.
We had all kinds of support. There were people you could talk to who had been there. There were people you could call to walk through legal paperwork (taxes). Centralized orgs are vulnerable and easy to infiltrate. They're easy for states to shut down. But there are benefits to org structures.
I think it's possible to have the type of support we had with the GDC, but without the politics of an org (even the IWW). I hope this most recent essay has some of the same properties. I hope that it makes building something new, something no one has really imagined before, easier.
This whole project is something a bit different. It's a collective vision and collective project, from the ground up. Some of it has felt like a brain dump, just getting things that have been swimming around in my head down somewhere. But I hope this feels more like an invitation.
Everything thus far written is all useless unless people do things with it. Only from that point does it become a thing that lives, a thing with its own consciousness that can't be controlled by any individual human.
Tech billionaire cultists want to bring a new era of humanity with AGI. That is definitely not possible with LLMs, and may not be possible at all. But there is a super intelligence that is possible, though it's been constrained by capitalism: collective human intelligence.
The grand vision of the tech dystopians is that of the ultimate slave that can then enslave all humans on their behalf. I think we can build a humanity that can liberate itself from their grasp, crush their vision, and build for itself a world in which people will never be enslaved again. Not only do I think it's possible, I think it's necessary. I think there are only two choices: collective liberation or death.
And that's what I plan to write about next time to wrap this whole project up. Today things often feel impossible. But people talked about the Middle Ages as though they were the end of the world, and then everything changed in unimaginable ways. Everything can, and will, change again.
"The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
VILA: Uh, I think I'll have a chat with Orac. [Breaks off]
DAYNA: We may have one advantage.
VILA: Really?
DAYNA: Us. [Indicates herself and Patar] It's just possible she doesn't know we're here.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/430

Vladimir Putin demanded that Ukraine hand over full control of Donetsk Oblast to Russia as a condition for ending the war during a phone call with Donald Trump this week
After this call, in a shift of rhetoric, Trump indicated he would not supply Ukraine with long range cruise missiles

Putin reemphasized full Donetsk control as key to any deal while signaling possible compromises on Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts in Trump call, WP reports
Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded that Ukraine hand over full control of Donetsk Oblast to Russia as a condition for ending the war during a phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump this week, The Washington Post reported on Oct. 18, citing two senior U.S. officials.

Prosecutors probe possible leak as Zelensky ally reportedly flees prior to searches: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/10/prosecutors-probe-possible-leak-as.html

McCarthy nears return as Wentz fights pain in loss https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46705844/vikings-hopeful-mccarthy-back-week-9-blowout-loss

Lions Player Gives Honest Message About Raiders Stint https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/lions-player-honest-message/?adt_ei=[email]

Report: Cowboys' $92M CB facing possible surgery for familiar injury https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/18/report-cowboys-cb-daron-bland-possible-foot-surgery/87836500007/

Période : en semaine de 09h Š 16h45.
Dates : du lundi 20 au vendredi 24 octobre.
La gare de Dourdan La Forêt n'est pas desservie. Report possible sur les lignes de bus de ville.
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Motif : travaux sur le réseau ferroviaire.
#Info_Travaux
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Internal memo: Sam Altman told OpenAI employees last month that Google's recent progress in AI could "create some temporary economic headwinds for our company" (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI CEO Warns of ‘Headwinds’ From Resurgent Google
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told colleagues last month that Google’s recent progress in artificial intelligence could “create some temporary economic headwinds for our company,” though he added that OpenAI would emerge ahead. After OpenAI researchers heard that Google had created a new AI that appears ...

A divided three-judge panel of the DC appeals court declines to reinstate an FTC subpoena of Media Matters as part of an antitrust probe into ad boycotts (Wendy Davis/MediaPost)
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/41013…

Court Preserves Block On FTC Probe Of Media Matters
A divided federal panel has preserved a preliminary injunction that prohibits the FTC from investigating the watchdog Media Matters and its possible role in what the agency described "potentially unlawful advertiser boycotts."

A flesh-eating fly once eradicated is moving back toward the U.S. #UnitedStates

A flesh-eating fly once eradicated is moving back toward the U.S.
California researchers are preparing for the possible return of the New World screwworm, a parasitic fly that feeds on living flesh and once devastated U.S. livestock. By monitoring traps and educating veterinarians and farmers, they hope to stop the pest before it gains a foothold.

Patrick Mahomes, Chiefs are most dangerous wild cards of all in NFL playoff race https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6832253/2025/11/23/chiefs-colts-patrick-mahomes-nfl-playoff-race/

“More music is being released today (in a single day) than was released in the calendar year of 1989,” Page explained.
“More of that music is being done by artists themselves, meaning there’s even more demand for music production software.”
It’s true,
the rise in musicians goes hand-in-hand with the rise of music-making software and music-distributing platforms.
Now that making high-quality recordings is possible from the palm of your hand
— and sharing them i…

In 2024, More Music Is Released in a Day Than in All of 1989 Combined
As more music is being made than ever before, the music industry economy is rapidly changing. In 2024, More Music Is Released in a Day Than in All of 1989...

Week 16 NFL playoff picture: A team-by-team look at every possible scenario https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6891435/2025/12/18/week-16-nfl-playoff-picture-a-team-by-team-look-at-every-possible-scenario/

ESPN analyst gives Raiders bleak outlook for possible head coach search in 2026 https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/espn-analyst-raiders-bleak-outlook-possible-head-coach-s…

ATTACK ON NATO: POSSIBLE? 🚨 EU Intel Data! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/08/attack-on-nato-possible-eu.html

Well, that’s a first.
#Signal #SignalDown

Cowboys, 49ers suggested as possible trade partners for 81-sack edge rusher https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-49ers-suggested-possible-trade-partners-trey-hendrickson/b7d…

Week 16 NFL playoff picture: A team-by-team look at every possible scenario https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6891435/2025/12/18/week-16-nfl-playoff-picture-a-team-by-team-look-at-every-possible-scenario/

A notorious flesh-eating fly
that once wreaked havoc on U.S. livestock
is inching closer to California again.
#NewWorldScrewworm
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025

A flesh-eating fly once eradicated is moving back toward the U.S.
California researchers are preparing for the possible return of the New World screwworm, a parasitic fly that feeds on living flesh and once devastated U.S. livestock. By monitoring traps and educating veterinarians and farmers, they hope to stop the pest before it gains a foothold.

WBD's "unsolicited interest" statement indicates that it is willing to sell its valuable studio and streaming business instead of splitting itself into two (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/wbd-sale-mul…

The possible sale of Warner Bros. just got a lot more interesting
Warner Bros. Discovery rejected Paramount's bid — now it wants more bidders for some or all of the company.

Sources: Kalshi told investors that its trading volume grew six times in the last six months and it is on an annualized pace for $600M to $700M in net revenue (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/las-vegas-kalshi-king

In Las Vegas, Kalshi Is King
For 15 years, Goldman Sachs’ private tech conference in Las Vegas has been the event for taking the pulse of startup dealmaking. Years ago, it was possible to run into founders such as Uber’s Travis Kalanick and Instagram’s Kevin Systrom raising money for their then-small startups. The ...

Joe Burrow injury updates: Bengals QB has possible return game, but there's no 'definitive return date'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/joe-bur

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

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

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

George Pickens discusses long-term Dallas Cowboys future, possible contract extension https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/george-pickens-discusses-long-term-dallas-cowboys-future-possible-contract-extension

Mahomes begins rehab, eyes Week 1 return https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47337180/chiefs-mahomes-begins-rehab-eyes-possible-week-1-return

Raider Star Gives Blunt Words on Potential George Pickens Move https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/possible-cowboys-george-pickens-move/?adt_ei=[email]

Bengals eager to continue winning ways vs. Jets after thrilling Week 7 victory: Let's put 'teams to bed' https://www.nfl.com/news/bengals-eager-to-continue-winning-ways-jets-put-teams-to-bed

Why The Raiders’ Bye Week Couldn’t Have Come at a Better Time https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-adam-butler-rob-leonard-maxx-crosby

Lions vs. Buccaneers prediction: Can Baker Mayfield maintain MVP-caliber play in possible playoff preview?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/lions-vs-bucca…

Ravens' John Harbaugh thinks turnaround is possible despite 1-5 start: 'We still believe we can do it'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ravens-

Jets' Glenn 'evaluating everything,' including QB1 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46966929/jets-glenn-evaluating-everything-including-possible-qb-change