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What’s disgusting is speaking to a Palestinian person in Gaza this way.
Maybe Mastodon server admins should check for basic humanity before allowing people on. Unless that’s not a necessary prerequisite for membership in your community, of course. https://lemmy.ca/comment/20336687

Jets' projected as landing spot for Cowboys' $20 million free agent https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/31/jets-projected-as-landing-spot-for-cowboys-20-million-…

NFL playoff schedule, projected bracket: Here's what to know in both conferences https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47440678/nfl-playoff-schedule-bracket-afc-nfc-tv-dates-locations-2026

~13 years ago I knocked on thousands of doors locally to get ~40 homes to install free loft insulation before a government scheme (CERT) ended:
https://www.earth.org.uk/mass-loft-insulation.html

Mass Loft Insulation Project in Norbiton, London (2012)
Helping cut bills and carbon in the neighbourhood before CERT stopped: crowd-conserving? #legwork #loftInsulation #frugal

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.

A Cartography of Open Collaboration in Open Source AI: Mapping Practices, Motivations, and Governance in 14 Open Large Language Model Projects
Johan Lin{\aa}ker, Cailean Osborne, Jennifer Ding, Ben Burtenshaw
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25397

A Cartography of Open Collaboration in Open Source AI: Mapping Practices, Motivations, and Governance in 14 Open Large Language Model Projects
The proliferation of open large language models (LLMs) is fostering a vibrant ecosystem of research and innovation in artificial intelligence (AI). However, the methods of collaboration used to develop open LLMs both before and after their public release have not yet been comprehensively studied, limiting our understanding of how open LLM projects are initiated, organized, and governed as well as what opportunities there are to foster this ecosystem even further. We address this gap through an …

"Many corporate interests that have donated to the president’s pet project have business before his administration."
Trump’s Team Offers to Keep Some Ballroom Donors Incognito - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/us/politics/trumps-team-offers-to-keep-some-ballroom-donors-incognito.html

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.

"strncpy() is a weird function with a crappy API."
good thing I don't do C 🙃
Seriously though - projects defining their own strc(o)py do mean flaws in a standard library.
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/12/29/no-strcpy-either/

no strcpy either
Some time ago I mentioned that we went through the curl source code and eventually got rid of all strncpy() calls. strncpy() is a weird function with a crappy API. It might not null terminate the destination and it pads the target buffer with zeroes. Quite frankly, most code bases are probably better off completely … Continue reading no strcpy either →

Cowboys urged to re-sign projected $153 million impending free agent before offseason https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-re-sign-projected-153-million-impending-free-a…