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Victory! Court Ends Dragnet Electricity Surveillance Program In Sacramento | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/01/victory-court-ends-dragnet-electricity-surveillance-program-in-sacramento/

FOSS4G 2026 Travel Grant Program is Now Open
#foss4g

Dozens of US universities and colleges have announced new AI departments and programs over the last two years; an AI program is now MIT's second-largest major (Natasha Singer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/technology/college-compute…

College Students Choosing A.I. Majors Over Computer Science
At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major.

The Trump administration has said it will issue nearly 65,000 additional H-2B guest worker visas through September,
-- effectively doubling the maximum number that can be issued in a year.
Trump has broadly moved to drastically cut legal avenues of immigration, and he has directed a mass deportation campaign that has brought aggressive ICE crackdowns to American cities.
Another visa for skilled workers through another program, known as the H-1B, has been imperiled by the …

Trump Officials Move to Double Number of H-2B Guest Visas This Year
It was a rare move by the Trump administration to expand a foreign worker program, amid a sweeping effort to drastically cut immigration.

Bills QB Josh Allen will be ready for offseason program after surgery on broken bone in right foot https://www.nfl.com/news/bills-qb-josh-allen-will-be-ready-for-offseason-program-after-surgery-on-broken-bone-in-right-foot…

Staying true to my one trick pony ethos.
SwiftTerm, running a poor man's Evolution email client written in TermKit using MailFoundation and MimeFoundation:

comment:
A superfluous element of a source program included so the
programmer can remember what the hell it was he was doing
six months later. Only the weak-minded need them, according
to those who think they aren't.

How Animaj, a startup in Disney's Accelerator Program, uses AI to drastically speed up the animation process, while also claiming to let artists stay in control (Corinne Reichert/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-sof…

300,000 AI-Animated Poses in an Instant: My Visit to Disney and the New Reality for Cartoons
Disney checked out "thousands of AI companies" before backing one that keeps animators in the driver's seat.

High school program that produced this was rugpulled by Trump admin as "DEI."
Mind-boggling.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-may-have-come-up-with-new-way-to-detect-treat-lyme-disease-60-minutes-transcri…

Huge thanks to Cédric @… and Jerry Gamblin @… and the #FOSDEM participants for the great construc…

GCVE-BCP-08 - GCVE GNA Directory File (draft)
This version includes feedback from @cedric , @jgamblin, and participants of the informal FOSDEM workshop in Brussels who are familiar with the CNA model and the CVE Program. Regarding the integration of CNA-related fields, no decision has yet been made on how these should be represented in the JSON structure. The current idea is to introduce a dedicated namespace in which the complete original CNA entry could be embedded without modification. And a new one for GCVE to avoid some legacy …

hmm, #freesoftwareadvent - I think I'd go for 'perf' for my first one; it's a good simple way to see where your CPU time is going inside a program or the kernel; it's got about a million options for deeper stuff, but a simple 'perf top' (as root) or 'perf record' followed by 'perf report' can give you a lot of hints, especially with the -g …

Regional temperature records broken across the world in 2025 #environment

Regional temperature records broken across the world in 2025
Central Asia, the Sahel region and northern Europe experienced their hottest year on record in 2025, according to AFP analysis based on data from the European Copernicus program.

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
CALLY: It would be quicker if we took Orac down with us.
AVON: It would be stupid to compound the risk.
CALLY: Risk! They're dying down there, dying by the thousands,.
TARRANT: Orac stays, Cally.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/301…

Aka the whole program is a sort of long con to funnel money to companies that did Space Shuttle stuff and to Musk.
A lot of it is now financed by shutting down actual science and research at NASA.

Fisherman Creates First Program that Let’s Doctors Give Angling Prescriptions for Anxiety – Now Wins King’s Award https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/fisherman-creates-first-program-that-lets-doctors-give-angling-prescriptions-f…

Fisherman Creates First Program that Let's Doctors Give Angling Prescriptions for Anxiety – Now Wins King’s Award
After fishing cured his own mental health struggles, he started an angling program, Tackling Minds, that is now prescribed by doctors.

there should be a program called `unrv32c` that decompresses the RISC-V instructions from stdin to stdout

How Animaj, a startup in Disney's Accelerator Program, uses AI to drastically speed up the animation process, while also claiming to let artists stay in control (Corinne Reichert/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-sof…

300,000 AI-Animated Poses in an Instant: My Visit to Disney and the New Reality for Cartoons
Disney checked out "thousands of AI companies" before backing one that keeps animators in the driver's seat.

Medicare to use AI to pre-authorize certain treatments in 6 states including NJ in 2026. Why? To reduce costs.
Also known as rationing healthcare. By a computer.
#medicare #AI #rationing

6 States to Pilot Prior Authorizations for Original Medicare
Under a new pilot program slated to launch in January 2026, Original Medicare recipients in six states will need to secure prior authorizations for cert...

It's been a while since I've done this 😅

Washington's cap and invest program is turning polluter payments into billions for transit and air quality projects.
In Kenya's drylands, builders are using compressed earth blocks that keep homes cooler while cutting emissions and costs.
Real progress, happening now.
Sign up for the For People And Planet climate solutions digest:

Weekly Climate Solutions Digest
Welcome In the north, the morning light rests on frost like sugar on cedar needles. Far south, cicadas stitch a warm hum through eucalyptus shade. Nature holds its own quiet poise, and that balance is our theme this week. So many of these stories are about keeping what matters and

Germany's Federal Administrative Court rules that German government should publish a Climate Protection Program with effective measures to bridge the massive gap with its 2030 targets.
https://background.tagesspiegel.de/ene

The January wildfires that ripped through Los Angeles forced the state to spend billions in disaster aid
-- and delay tax filings for LA residents.
The cost of Medi-Cal,
the state-run health insurance program for low-income residents, ballooned to $6 billion more than anticipated.
Donald Trump’s on-again-off-again tariff policies rocked the stock market,
which California heavily relies on for tax revenue.
And the state lodged a flurry of lawsuits again…

Your one-minute guide to California’s budget outlook this year
Spoiler alert: California’s deficit grows, uncertainty looms, and state leaders may have fewer options than before to tackle it.

Every Twitter post I see is like “federal feeding people program has decided to stop feeding people” and the top reply is MAGA Super Solider (UnVaxxed) Patriot1776 saying “finally”

bluecampaign is a DHS program
https://mastodon.social/@botgov/115809422076017261

A distressing story about how #car battery #recycling (not of the electric car ones!) poisons workers and people across the planet, and companies have known this for 3 decades.
Lead, the ignored matter.

The Auto Industry’s Lead Recycling Program is Poisoning People
We documented the toxic fallout of a green technology.

The Public Media Bridge Fund, formed due to CPB cuts, raises $66.5M of its $110M goal and launches disaster recovery and restructuring programs for stations (Austin Fuller/Current)
https://current.org/2026/01/public-media-bridge-fund-announ…

Public Media Bridge Fund announces new emergency and disaster programs
The Public Media Bridge Fund has raised $66.5 million of its $110 million goal so far, according to Program Officer Allie Vanyur.

Edtech company settles with FTC in wake of data breach https://therecord.media/illuminate-education-data-breach-settlement-ftc

Raiders Target Fernando Mendoza Makes Decision on Combine After Skipping Senior Bowl https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/fernando-mendoza-combine-senior-bowl-pro-day/

Trump weighs major new strike on Iran as nuclear discussions show no progress (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2026/01/28/politics/trump-threats-iran-nuclear-program-military-strike
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p131#a260128p131

Shopify’s shuttered Indigenous entrepreneurship program will relaunch independently through an Indigenous-owned organization (Centre for Native Nation Builders)
https://betakit.com/shopifys-shuttered-indigenous-entrepreneurship…

Of interest to experimental petrologists, upcoming virtual workshop "to discuss and plan to address systematic bias in predictive models caused by the way trace element partitioning data is currently published." #geology #geochemistry ⚒️

Overview
This workshop overview page outlines a February–March 2026 virtual event for experimental petrologists, editors, and program managers to address systemic bias in trace element partitioning data by advocating for publication of raw analytical data to support FAIR principles, improve model accuracy, and establish community-driven data standards.

Yesterday, yt-dlp started failing when downloading and automatically extracting audio to mp3.
sudo pacman -Syu
yt-dlp updated and working again. Arch is awesome. It took less than 24 hours to get the program update.
By the way, Google: screw you and your updates to "improve" YT.
#archlinux

Exporting E3 now. Every shot upscaled and repaired where necessary; captions combed through and corrected, timing confirmed; all cast and music credits confirmed; render integrity confirmed by going through frame by frame; project files backed up to 2 external drives.
Waiting on my collaborator's approval, and then I can attach the word FINAL to the file name!
😮‍💨
#VideoEditing

from my link log —
Computer animation in 1961: the Stanford card stunt program. (YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN1opFMXJbY
saved 2020-02-20 https://

San Franciscans! Here's a petition you can sign asking Mayor Lurie and the board of supervisors to fund social housing. You might have seen the flyers around the city.
We voted to fund it with 2020's Prop I, but for obscure reasons of state law, the use of the revenue wasn't legally binding, only intended. And then-Mayor Breed refused to do it. But we can fund it now!

Fund San Francisco's Social Housing Program with Prop I Property Transfer Tax Revenue, as Promised!
In 2020, San Francisco voters passed Prop I which levied a transfer tax on properties worth over $10 million dollars. The Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution assuring voters it was their intention to spend the revenue from the new tax on a Social Housing Program. Social Housing is housing that is municipally-owned (or non-profit owned), permanently affordable, and available to a wider mix income than traditional public housing. Mayor Breed overruled the Board of Supervisors a…

From gravelinfluencer.bsky.app:
> The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."

"He said chain migration is a “dirtier” way of characterizing what he called “a bedrock of our immigration process when it comes to family reunification.”"
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/09/nyregio

"For every dollar we spend protecting nature, we spend $30 destroying it: Report"
#Nature #Climate #ClimateChange

For every dollar we spend protecting nature, we spend $30 destroying it: Report
For every US$1 the world invests in protecting nature, it spends US$30 on destroying it. This stark imbalance is the central finding of a new UN Environment Program (UNEP) report released today. It calls for a major shift in global financing of nature-based solutions and phasing out harmful investments to deliver high returns, reduce risk exposure, and enhance resilience.

I do wish the media would stop confusing ebikes with motorbikes that have an electric motor. The first bike photo in this story is obviously a motorbike with a throttle
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-23/e-bike-safety-program-takes-off…

E-bike injuries involving children rise as schools look to safety course solution
E-bikes have become a regular sight in Sydney's coastal suburbs. Their surge in popularity among school-aged children has been matched by a rise in injuries.

Germany launches €45 million UkraineConnect program to mobilize private investment in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/16/germany-launches-million-ukraineconnect-program.html

Good Morning #Canada
Last week I registered with Ontario's Healthcare Connect program to help us get a family doctor in the Barrie area. Our previous family doctor retired in November and we were still covered by the clinic but it's in Brampton, more than 90 minutes away. So I'm now relying on Dougie to keep his promise to find a family doctor for all Ontarians by June 2026. I mean he's done so well with housing, environmental goals, Eglinton Crosstown....
Did you know that 83% of Canadians now report they have regular access to a family doctor which means an approximate 500K improvement in the past two years. That still leaves about 6M of us without a family physician. Family physician shortages are the highest in the territories (>55%), Quebec (21.5%) and British Columbia (17.7%), and the provinces of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia have the fewest family physicians per 100 000 persons in the population.
#CanadaIsAwesome #HealthCare
https://www.cihi.ca/en/taking-the-pulse-measuring-shared-priorities-for-canadian-health-care-2025/primary-health-care-2025/most-canadians-have-a-regular-health-care-provider

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@badsamurai/115805037293062852
B’ad Samurai’s BS lists are invaluable resources for your threat hunting program and for enhancing your protective controls. Have a look!

20 states sue Trump over cuts to HUD housing program for homelessness | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/20-states-sue-trump-over-cuts-to-hud-housing-program-for-homelessness/

Was in Japan übrigens so nebenbei zum Thema gemacht wird:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DSqy86IAJPZ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Japan Daily on Instagram: "For the first time in Japan, foreign nationals have begun driving local bus routes under the Specified Skilled Worker program to address severe labor shortages. Tokyo Bus launched the initiative on December 23 in Tokyo and Okinawa, hiring five drivers from the Philippines after long-term training. The company says even higher wages have not attracted enough domestic drivers, making outside talent necessary. New drivers initially operate with support from Japanese staff and are expected to work independently after several months. Industry leaders hope the move will stabilize bus services and ensure passenger safety. Public understanding and continued training will be important as Japan adapts to workforce shortages in essential public services. @YAHOO"
85 likes, 11 comments - japandaily_jp on December 24, 2025: "For the first time in Japan, foreign nationals have begun driving local bus routes under the Specified Skilled Worker program to address severe labor shortages. Tokyo Bus launched the initiative on December 23 in Tokyo and Okinawa, hiring five drivers from the Philippines after long-term training. The company says even higher wages have not attracted enough domestic drivers, making outside talent necessary. New drivers initially ope…

Real conspiracies tend to come out, but some of them take a while. Information on the Iran/Contra scandal broke out about 5 years after the conspiracy started. That would have taken several hundred people to carry out, so it was somewhat hard to hide. Even so, they largely got away with it.
The moon landing conspiracy theory would have taken thousands of people, so it would have come out more quickly. Since we have an example of a real secret program of a similar scale as what would be required to fake a moon landing (that is, the Manhattan project), we know that the fake moon landing conspiracy theory is not true. (There's also the literally tons of evidence in the form of rocks and other samples, and all kinds of other ways to debunk the claim.)
Could Kash Patel's FBI have been trying really hard to entrap people into carrying out terrorist attacks in order to justify #Trump's occupation of DC? Could they have helped a guy plan an attack then just failed to arrest him? There are reasonable scenarios that fall in between malice and incompetence while still indicating some level of false flag.
Could someone have just snapped and ambushed some guardsmen without any involvement from the FBI? Yeah, totally. The US is a country full of guns with a completely non-functional mental health system. Someone coming from a country that the US destroyed, twice, could have a lot of untreated trauma. Might they see the national guard as a threat (even if that wasn't totally true)? Yeah, they were deployed to threaten people (even when they were just picking up trash). The point was to incite this kind of response. It's completely reasonable to believe that the FBI would not need to be involved at all, that this would just be the stochastic response they were looking for.
So the point here is that everything is on the table, nothing is really known, nothing should be surprising, and no matter what it's Trump's fault. This is exactly the escalation he was looking for. If he didn't get it naturally, he would also have had ways of making it happen.
He will use this in exactly the same way as the Reichstag fire, to drive a wedge between liberals and radicals. Don't fall for it.
Edit:
There are plausible reasons to not believe the official narrative at all right now, or maybe ever. The official narrative is also plausible, but there are plausible reasons to disagree with the response even if the official story is true. It is unnecessary to resort to conspiracy thinking in order to account for what happened and to disagree with the response. But it is also understandable why someone might jump immediately to a conspiracy given the circumstances.

"SNAP benefits reduced the depth and severity of poverty experienced by recipient households, especially among children, who experience higher poverty rates than the population at large."
But the gop would rather have kids in poverty.
https://www.

Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
AVON: It will, if the program carries a built-in life-support system: a machine to do the work of the organs.
DAYNA: [Glancing toward Astrid's door] Like his?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/311/454 B7B3

Just watched Russell Howard Live at the London Palladium on SBS on Demand (Australian catch up).
Husband and I cried - there were some very very funny bits. Definitely recommended.
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-program/russell-ho…

Watch Russell Howard: Live at the London Paladium
Watch Russell Howard: Live at the London Paladium for free with SBS On Demand, your ultimate destination for diverse entertainment. Stream now!

A revised M.Div. program strengthening the School’s historic commitment to professional education in ministry while substantially updating it for a changing landscape—one of many great reasons to apply to YDS.
Learn more about the revised M.Div. program here. Application deadline Feb. 1.

From SPEC
We are writing today to share some difficult news. #Vancouver City Council has eliminated funding for the citywide Repair Café program in its newly approved 2026 budget. Because Repair Cafés operate through a City contract, the loss of this funding will significantly erode SPEC’s ability to deliver these events at their current scale. The cuts mean that several of the planned 2026 Repai…

The One-Year Jewish Studies Program at Paideia - The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20134939/one-year-jewish-studies-program-paideia-european-institute-jewish

The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) is now a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Program-Root, thus becoming a central point of contact within the CVE program for national/EU authorities, EU CSIRTs network members, and cooperative partners falling under ENISA’s mandate.
htt…

Don't miss today's packed Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you need to know, including
--DOGE workers shared SSN data with outsiders, derailed DISA operations,
--UK launches national fraud reporting service,
--China blames Taiwan for cyberattacks,
--EU proposes freezing out Chinese tech suppliers,
--New Zealand launches Manage My Health breach probe,
--Curl ends its bug bounty program due to AI flood,
--Cloudflare fixes WAF…

DOGE workers shared SSN data with outsiders, derailed DISA operations
UK launches national fraud reporting service, China blames Taiwan for cyberattacks, EU proposes freezing out Chinese tech suppliers, New Zealand launches Manage My Health breach probe, Curl ends its bug bounty program due to AI flood, Cloudflare fixes WAF flaw, much more

Den 24-25 november är det Internetdagarna, och jag leder ett spår med tre pass på temat digital suveränitet, kontinuitetshantering och prepping. Från världen till hemmet.
Kanske ses vi på internetdagarna? Grymt fint program i år.
https://internetdagarna.se/program-2025/

Sparky has been working as part of Antares canine search-and-rescue unit since 2013.
She also helped develop a training program for search dogs.
Over the years of service, Sparky has participated in hundreds of search operations,
saved people's lives
&helped find the bodies of more than 200 people

Angel Studios says Angel Guild, its program through which members are given a say on which projects the studio produces, has two million paid subscribers (Zac Ntim/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/angel-studios-two-million-paying-guild-members-12…

Angel Studios Says It Has Surpassed Two Million Paying Guild Members
The company had last reported surpassing one million members in March 2025.

We’re still collecting more program and session ideas from across the #ESEAP community for the #Wikimedia ESEAP Conference 2026 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan 🇹🇼 (15–17 May 2026)!
🔗 More info and submission form:

ESEAP Conference 2026/Program/Submissions - Meta-Wiki

Border Patrol and other federal law enforcement agencies are conducting a massive surveillance network monitoring the actions of millions of Americans.
These agencies are not protecting Americans from threats. They are the threat.
https://apnews.co…

Experts Question Denmark's Vaccine Program as a Model for the U.S. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/world/europe/denmark-vaccine-schedule-rfk.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251229/p24#a251229p24

Do you read/watch #DemocracyNow #Democracy

The Free Press published this article on Medical Aid in Dying in Canada. It's a timely follow-up to my post this weekend.
https://www.thefp.com/p/determined-to-die?r=1iyjsn
Also available at

Determined to Die
Kiano Vafaeian was not terminally ill—and did not need to be to end his own life under Canada’s assisted suicide program.

Back in Brussels for #FOSDEM week! Full program from Tuesday to Monday 😅
Also: brought almost a kg of stickers for the #Perl and #rakulang booth.

Five notable players from NFL's International Player Pathway program https://www.nfl.com/news/five-notable-players-nfl-international-player-pathway-program

Lest we forget: "The U.S. exit from Afghanistan happened during former President Joe Biden's term, but it was set in motion by the first Trump administration, which signed a deal with the Taliban in 2020 to withdraw after two decades in the country."
A history of ‘Operation Allies Welcome,’ which allowed Afghans U.S. entry : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/27/nx-s1-5622991/afghan-refugee-program-national-guard-shooting-suspect

Q&A with Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis on AGI, next breakthroughs like continual learning, his vision for AI glasses, whether AI progress is slowing, more (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/google-deepmind-ceo-demis-hassabis-946…

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on AI’s Next Breakthroughs, What Counts As AGI, And Google’s AI Glasses Bet
The leader of Google's AI program weighs in on the cutting edge of AI research, Google's plans to put the technology in its products, and the imperative of publishing AI-generated protein structures.

"Eliminates computer-program blowing gliches" 🤔

Massachusetts is about to see major savings from clean energy. A new analysis shows the state's SMART 3.0 solar-plus-storage program could save ratepayers $313 million annually by 2030.
The key? Pushing out inefficient natural gas plants, cutting reliance on fossil fuels during winter, and slashing 1.6 million metric tons of CO2 per year.

Solar and storage program forecast to save all Massachusetts ratepayers $313 million per year
Solar plus storage can also offer winter reliability improvements and limit gas consumption, finds a report from Synapse Energy Economics and the Solar Energy Industries Association.

Just discovered 'stdbuf' - a program in coreutils that lets you change the output buffering of a command; e.g. to force linebuffering in a pipeline of a program that would otherwise have become larger buffered, for when you want the output immediately.

Charlottesville, VA is the latest city with smarter elected leaders than San Francisco (where we continue to double down on partnering with ICE-collaborating Flock Security).
https://www.29news.com/2025/12/17/charlottesville…

Charlottesville ends Flock camera pilot program over privacy concerns
The decision comes after months of concern from city council about data privacy.

For every dollar we spend protecting nature, we spend $30 destroying it: Report #nature

For every dollar we spend protecting nature, we spend $30 destroying it: Report
For every US$1 the world invests in protecting nature, it spends US$30 on destroying it. This stark imbalance is the central finding of a new UN Environment Program (UNEP) report released today. It calls for a major shift in global financing of nature-based solutions and phasing out harmful investments to deliver high returns, reduce risk exposure, and enhance resilience.

ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking 'Bounty Hunter' Firms (Dell Cameron/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-bounty-hunter-spy-program/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p110#a251125p110

Short-range kamikaze drones are one of the fastest moving facets of the defense sector today —
The Marine Corps "Organic Precision Fires-Light" (OPF-L) program, is designed to provide dismounted Marine infantry rifle squads with a man-packable, easy-to-operate precision strike drone to engage adversaries beyond line of sight.
A recent announcement of a $23.9-million contract to provide the U.S. Marine Corps with more than 600 "Bolt-M" drones is the next phas…

Inside Anduril’s Bolt-M Kamikaze Drone Program
We go in-depth with Anduril on their machine learning-infused loitering munition that the USMC just ordered, including how they intend to produce it at scale.

https://dafilms.com/program/1746-visegrad-visions-25-years-25-films?utm_source=newsletter-int&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=visegrad_visions

Visegrad Visions: 25 Years, 25 Films - dafilms.com
A program celebrating 25 years of the International Visegrad Fund

Full renewal of state and local cyber grants program passes in House https://therecord.media/state-local-cyber-grants-program-house-passage

And we can always supply them with a program that makes identical files
into links to a single file.
-- Larry Wall in <199709292012.NAA09616@wall.org>

Congratulations to YDS student Tyler Fair! Part of our social-work dual-degree program, he has been selected as a Behavioral Health Scholar at UConn, where he will enter a year-long program and receive specialized coursework, intensive practicum placements, and faculty mentorship (not to mention a stipend).
Divinity and social work are a potent pairing. Find out more about this and our other dual- and joint-degree programs here:

Trump Admin Reinvents US Digital Services Program After Elon Musk Fired All Their Actual Tech Experts | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/23/trump-admin-reinvents-us-digital-services-program-after-elon-musk-fired-all-their-actual-tech-experts/

"participating artists will have “full control” over how their likeness and music are used, though it doesn’t share how."
Sure.
https://www.theverge.com/news/829189/warner-music-group-suno-ai-licensing-deal

The state department is proposing to suspend 38 universities including Harvard and Yale
from a federal research partnership program because they engage in diversity, equity and inclusion hiring practices,
according to an internal memo and spreadsheet obtained by the Guardian.
The memo, dated 17 November, recommends excluding institutions from
the Diplomacy Lab – a program that pairs university researchers with state department policy offices
– if they “openly en…

The curl project plans to end its HackerOne bug bounty program at the end of January, citing a surge in low-quality AI-generated vulnerability reports (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securi…

Trump administration moves to reinterview refugees admitted to US under Biden (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/11/24/politics/trump-refugee-program-interviews-biden
http://www.memeorandum.com/251124/p109#a251124p109

Airlines Will Shut Down Program That Sold Your Flights Records to Government https://www.404media.co/airlines-will-shut-down-program-that-sold-your-flights-records-to-government/

Next week perhaps: https://ail.angewandte.at/program/sounds-of-the-living-conny-frischauf/

Sounds of the Living | AIL

How does a solar company thrive when policy support wavers?
ReVision Energy in New England has the answer: prioritize people over profit. The B Corp became employee-owned, built an electrical apprenticeship program, and focused on community relationships rather than transactional sales.
Now they're seeing a surge in demand as tax credits expire.

US solar installer adapts business model as policy support shifts
ReVision Energy leverages a relationship-driven model and workforce innovation to navigate evolving clean energy policies and sustain long-term growth across the northeastern United States.

❌Mobile Fortify,
the new app used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to use face recognition technology (FRT) to identify people during street encounters,
is an affront to the rights and dignity of migrants and U.S. citizens alike.
That's why a coalition of privacy, civil liberties and civil rights organizations are
🔥demanding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
shut down the use of Mobile Fortify,
release the agency's privacy anal…

Rights Organizations Demand Halt to Mobile Fortify, ICE's Handheld Face Recognition Program
Mobile Fortify, the new app used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to use face recognition technology (FRT) to identify people during street encounters, is an affront to the rights and dignity of migrants and U.S. citizens alike. That's why a coalition of privacy, civil liberties and...

In an interview with MS NOW’s Alex Witt over the weekend,
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland)
indicated that a nationwide
general strike might be the next thing needed in order to oppose
Donald Trump’s authoritarianism.
Raskin made clear to viewers of the program that he didn’t believe a general strike, on its own, could bring about huge changes,
but rather that it had to be done in conjunction with other actions.
“We’re not going to have one magic soluti…

Raskin says nationwide general strike may be needed to stop Trump
“I think the people of Minnesota have shown us…the direction we may need to go,” the Maryland Democrat said.

State department to cut 38 universities from research program over DEI policies | US universities | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/19/universities-state-department-dei-research-program

State department to cut 38 universities from research program over DEI policies (Joseph Gedeon/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/19/universities-state-department-dei-research-program
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p64#a251119p64

After physician residency applicants submit and certify their rank order list,
there isn’t much else left to do but wait on "Match Day". 
In a few weeks
—as was the case in 2024—
overwhelming majority of senior applicants from U.S. allopathic and osteopathic medical schools will find a training position
through the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) Main Residency Match. 
But how does the system decide?
It all comes down to a
N…

ABC MD Hugh Marks criticizes attacks on the Australian broadcaster as "opportunistic" over claims its Four Corners program distorted Trump's January 6 speech (Krishani Dhanji/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.co…

Amazon's Zoox announces that users in San Francisco can now sign up for its Zoox Explorers program to take free rides in its robotaxis in select neighborhoods (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/zoox-begins-offering-robotaxi-rid…

Zoox begins offering robotaxi rides in San Francisco, facing off with Waymo
Riders can sign up to join the "Zoox Explorers" program to take free rides on the company's box-shaped vehicles in certain San Francisco neighborhoods.

"Continuum of Care"
is the federal government’s flagship program to support state and local governments and non-profits in funding housing and other services for individuals at risk of or experiencing homelessness.
The program is built on the principle that getting unhoused people housed can get them on a path to address other challenges.
But in the past months, the Trump administration has tried to issue sweeping policy shifts to the program,
some of which…

DOJ Memo Says It Won’t Prosecute US Troops No Matter How Illegal Trump’s Boat Strike Program Is | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/18/doj-memo-says-it-wont-prosecute-us-troops-no-matter-how-illegal-trumps-boat-strike-program-is/

FDA voucher program has become vehicle for political interference in drug review decisions, staffers say (Lizzy Lawrence/STAT)
https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/19/fda-voucher-program-political-interference/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p47#a251219p47

A new Trump administration program is sidestepping the regulatory system that's overseen the nuclear industry for half a century.
The program will fast-track construction of new and untested reactor designs built by private firms,
with an explicit goal of having at least three nuclear test reactors up and running by the United States' 250th birthday, July 4, 2026.
If that goal is met, it will be without the direct oversight of America's primary nuclear regulat…

Trump's rush to build nuclear reactors across the U.S. raises safety worries
A new program at the Department of Energy is pushing the development of nearly a dozen new reactor designs at breakneck speed.

Meta say it has frozen its third-party Horizon OS headset program, announced in 2024 with Asus and Lenovo as the first partners to build headsets (Ben Lang/Road to VR)
https://www.roadtovr.com/meta-horizon-os-third-party-headset-cancelled-asus-lenovo/

Meta "Pauses" Third-party Headset Program, Effectively Cancelling Horizon OS Headsets from Asus & Lenovo
Meta has “paused” its initiative to bring third-party Horizon OS headsets to the market. The company says it has shifted focus to “building the world-class first-party hardware and software needed to advance the VR market.” The News A little over a year and a half ago, Meta made an “industry-altering announcement,” as I called the …

Once limited to policing the nation’s boundaries,
the Border Patrol has built a surveillance system stretching into the country’s interior
that can monitor ordinary Americans’ daily actions and connections for anomalies instead of simply targeting wanted suspects.
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious, The Associated Press has found.
The …

Border Patrol monitors US drivers and detains Americans for ‘suspicious’ travel
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious. The Associated Press has found that the predictive intelligence program has resulted in people being stopped, searched, and in some cases arrested. A network of cameras scans and records vehicle license plate information, and an algorithm flags vehicles deemed suspicious based on where they came from, where they were going, …

By this spring, the World Food Program still had not received funding,
ran low on supplies
and was forced to stop feeding many of Kenya’s refugees.
In Kakuma, the third-largest camp in the world,
WFP cut rations to their lowest in history,
trapping most of the 308,000 people in the camp with almost nothing to eat. 
They began to starve,
and many — mostly children
— died because their malnourished bodies couldn’t fight off infections
Moth…

Inside the Trump Administration’s Man-Made Hunger Crisis
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

USDA Secretary Says
All SNAP Recipients Must Reapply,
Dubiously Citing Fraud
“Forcing millions to reapply is a deliberate effort to shrink the program and leave families hungry,” said one lawmaker
https://truthout.org/articles/usda-sec

USDA Secretary Says All SNAP Recipients Must Reapply, Dubiously Citing Fraud
“Forcing millions to reapply is a deliberate effort to shrink the program and leave families hungry,” said one lawmaker.