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Where to watch Colts vs. Rams: TV channel, live stream, prediction, pick, odds, spread

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/where-to-watch-colts-vs-rams…

Got another payment ring. Blue this time. I'll put a different card on this than the black one.
I really love how easy these are. They are always right there to hand (obviously).
Sort of like Apple or Google pay but I'm not tied to their ecosystems and I never have to worry about batteries. 100% water proof, which was great for buying ice creams on the beach during our holidays this year.

Trump's hand bruise renews attention to his health -- and his heart (Elizabeth Cooney/STAT)
https://www.statnews.com/2025/08/26/trump-hand-bruise-chronic-venous-insufficiency/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250827/p2#a250827p2

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Elvis Presley:
🎵 Hound dog
#NowPlaying #ElvisPresley
https://djrc1.bandcamp.com/track/100-elvis-presley-hound-dog-from-grease-rc-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/0JOw67rq2X6NDz5AJP9uIG

On my usual runs I pass this piece which is my favorite work of street art in Berlin.
Now there's construction on the parking lot next to it and this artwork might soon disappear :(

In any case, day 2: Ursula K Le Guin.
As I've said elsewhere, part of her science fiction thesis is that "human" can encompass much more than what we mere Terrans think of it as, and that moral standing extends broadly throughout the universe. This is the antithesis of Tokens fantasy, wherein "race" is real and determines moral standing. For Le Guin, it's barely okay to intervene in complex alien politics unless you carefully ensure you're not causing systemic harms; for Tolkien, it's okay to ambush and murder orc children, because they are by nature evil.
Add to her excellent politics Le Guin's masterful worldbuilding and unparalleled range of plots, and you have the one author I loved as a decidedly liberal and naïve teen and love even more now that I'm an adult. She's an absolute legend and deserves a very high place on any list of women authors (or list of authors, period.).
For a short story, try "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" which you can read here: https://www.utilitarianism.com/nu/omelas.pdf
For fantasy "A Wizard of Earthsea" (also has a nice graphic novel adaptation), or for science fiction, "The Left Hand of Darkness" or if you want a more anarchist flavor, "The Dispossessed."
I'll close this with an amazing quote from her:
"""
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
"""

Evaluating Compiler Optimization Impacts on zkVM Performance
Thomas Gassmann, Stefanos Chaliasos, Thodoris Sotiropoulos, Zhendong Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17518 https://

Evaluating Compiler Optimization Impacts on zkVM Performance
Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) are the cornerstone of programmable cryptography. They enable (1) privacy-preserving and verifiable computation across blockchains, and (2) an expanding range of off-chain applications such as credential schemes. Zero-knowledge virtual machines (zkVMs) lower the barrier by turning ZKPs into a drop-in backend for standard compilation pipelines. This lets developers write proof-generating programs in conventional languages (e.g., Rust or C++) instead of hand-crafting …

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.

See it. Say it. Sorted: Agentic System for Compositional Diagram Generation
Hantao Zhang, Jingyang Liu, Ed Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15222 https://arxi…

See it. Say it. Sorted: Agentic System for Compositional Diagram Generation
We study sketch-to-diagram generation: converting rough hand sketches into precise, compositional diagrams. Diffusion models excel at photorealism but struggle with the spatial precision, alignment, and symbolic structure required for flowcharts. We introduce See it. Say it. Sorted., a training-free agentic system that couples a Vision-Language Model (VLM) with Large Language Models (LLMs) to produce editable Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) programs. The system runs an iterative loop in which a …

Good night all! 💤
#WristCheck (kinda)