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@… This is me again 😅
Using DoH, I get a weird EOF error during the dnshttp.Response conversion of the HTTP response.
The response was sent using the dnshttp.ResponseWriter implementation.
Digging into the implementation of the ResponseWriter, I see that you truncate the two leading bytes (response size) of TCP answers:

SORRY FOR THE LATE RESPONSE.
APPRECIATE YOUR PATIENCE.
SORRY FOR THE RESPONSE.
APPRECIATE YOU.
SORRY, RESPONSE.
APPRECIATE.
SORRY.

Response to President Trump’s Unauthorized Use of “Danger Zone”
Late Saturday, Oct. 18, Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video on his Truth Social account that portrayed him dumping brown sludge on a crowd of protesters while wearing a crown and flying overhead in a jet labeled “King Trump.”
The music accompanying the video clip was Kenny Loggins’ hit recording “Danger Zone,” from the 1986 motion picture Top Gun (it was also used in the 2022 sequel Top Gun: Maverick).
 

Response to President Trump’s Unauthorized Use of “Danger Zone” - Kenny Loggins
Late Saturday, Oct. 18, President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video on his Truth Social account that portrayed him dumping brown sludge on a crowd of protesters while wearing a crown and flying overhead in a jet labeled “King Trump.” The music accompanying the video clip was Kenny Loggins’ hit recording “Danger Zone,” from the …

Response to President Trump's Unauthorized Use of "Danger Zone" (Kenny Loggins)
https://kennyloggins.com/response-to-president-trumps-unauthorized-use-of-danger-zone/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p60#a251020p60

WhatsApp is testing imposing per-month limits on how many messages individual users and businesses can send to unknown people without getting a response (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/17/what

WhatsApp will curb the number of messages people and businesses can send without a response | TechCrunch
The company said the controls are designed to be effective against people and businesses that blast messages and spam people.

Anyone else noticing the new Mona jumps the timeline scroll position, thereby losing your place sometimes when you tap towards the bottom end of the timeline? (Seeing it on iPhone usually when I try to tap the bookmark icon on a post towards be bottom of the screen.)
I don’t have the auto-scroll on new posts feature on. This is very much in response to a tap.
CC @…

:finger_point:⁠boop

"Ryan Clifford Goldberg, a former incident response supervisor at Sygnia Consulting Ltd., and Kevin Tyler Martin, who was a ransomware negotiator for DigitalMint, pleaded guilty to one count each of conspiracy to interfere with commerce by extortion."
ht…

Film maker Duncan Jones is not happy with BlueSky, and thinks "we should built a new app" 🙄 Look at the response I got when I asked why not the Fediverse. I can't understand why Masto is seen that way.

from my link log —
International maps of cities coloured by street/road/ave/etc.
https://erdavis.com/2019/09/20/the-beautiful-hidden-logic-of-cities-worldwide/
saved 2019-10-21

The Beautiful Hidden Logic of Cities –Worldwide
The response to The Beautiful Hidden Logic of Cities was way more positive than I ever expected! There’s been some demand for prints–they’re available now on Society6. If you̵…

Congress lacks the cajones to respond to this clear rejection of the authority of Congress to make laws.
The proper response would be impeachment and conviction of blondi bondi. But no, our Congress will just roll over and snore.
"Trump over-promises and under-delivers with heavily redacted Epstein cache"

Revolutionizing brain‒computer interfaces: overcoming biocompatibility challenges in implantable neural interfaces https://jnanobiotechnology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12951-025-03573-x

"Keep up what you're doing and soon you won't be able to care if the women are even alive", I muttered as I read the report.
(Unkind I know, but that's my visceral response. Unkind to women that is.)
#USA #opinion #unkind

Just received a chirpy #RoyalMail asking how it did with my delivery.
0/10 - I told you not to deliver today because I am not home.
So ... there is a fair chance that my item will get ruined by getting wet. I used the "you had one job" words in my response.

Exposing a lot of political naivety and gullibility in the process, I guess.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/oct/19/gaza-ceasefire-israel-hamas-rafah-hostages-middle-east-cr…

@… SORRY FOR THE LATE RESPONSE.
APPRECIATE YOUR PATIENCE.

What is bias but the broken autoimmune response of cisheteropatriarchy?

Orban says he wrote to Putin, fearing Russia’s response to EU plan to use frozen assets for Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/18/orban-says-he-wrote-to.html

South Korea’s government is mobilizing an all-hands response to a data breach at e-commerce giant Coupang. The CEO was forced to resign and might face charges.
When has any US company or CEO been held to this level of accountability for a breach?
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/1063937…

Korea launches government-wide probe into Coupang data breach - The Korea Herald
South Korea’s government is mobilizing an all-hands response to a data breach at e-commerce giant Coupang affecting more than 33 million users, establishing an

McKinsey expects the European demand-side flexibility market to grow to €12 billion by 2030, with a €2 billion residential portion.
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/electric-power-and-natural-…

word_assoc: Edinburgh word associations
A network of word associations showing the count of such associations as collected from subjects, from the Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus (EAT). Each node represents a word, and a directed edge (i, j) denotes that word i was used as a stimulus to which word j was given as a response. Multiple edges are allowed.
This network has 23132 nodes and 312342 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted, Multigraph

Sources: Salesforce's Slack tells customers in China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan that they must migrate their accounts to partner Alibaba before February (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/salesforces-slack-stop-…

Salesforce’s Slack to Stop Direct Service in China, Farm Out to Alibaba
Salesforce’s Slack has told customers in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan that they must migrate their accounts to partner Alibaba Group before February, if they want to continue with instant-messaging service, according to a Slack customer in mainland China and an Alibaba Cloud employee. The move is in response to a privacy and data security law that came into effect this year in

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers stormed through Santa Ana, California, in June, panicked calls flooded into the city’s emergency response system.
Recordings of those calls, obtained by ProPublica, captured some of the terror residents felt as they watched masked men ambush people and force them into unmarked cars.
In some cases, the men wore plain clothes and refused to identify themselves.
There was no way to confirm whether they were immigration agents o…

How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challenges to their arrests and tactics.

I’ve seen students panic and ••delete their entire local clone•• of a project (discarding all of their unpushed work!!) because they were so sure they’re ruined everything when they encountered a tiny merge conflict.
Of course I try to counter this — warning them up front about what a merge conflict looks like, helping them overcome their fear of asking for help, doing hands-on exercises with intentionally creating merge conflicts — but the fact “OMG DELETE EVERYTHING” could •ever• be a newcomer’s response to a minor merge conflict is a blaring klaxon of design failure.
/end

Trump's response to 'No Kings' marches only proved the protesters' point (Stephen Collinson/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/20/politics/trump-no-kings-protests-vance-cia-analysis
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p5#a251020p5

"I'm an idiot.. At least this one [bug] took about 5 minutes to find.."
(Linus Torvalds in response to a bug report.)
> I'm an idiot.. At least this [bug] took about 5 minutes to find..
Disquieting ...
(Gonzalo Tornaria in response to Linus Torvalds's mailing about a kernel bug.)
> I'm an idiot.. At least this [bug] took about 5 minutes to find..
We need to find some new terms to describe the rest of us mere mortals
then.

PEN America elects novelist Dinaw Mengestu as president, as the organization navigates free speech challenges across the US and criticism of its Gaza response (Jennifer Schuessler/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/arts/dinaw-mengestu-pen…

Dinaw Mengestu Will Be New President of PEN America
The novelist Dinaw Mengestu will lead the literary group at a time of escalating threats to free expression at home and abroad.

Scientific Advice Mechanism to the European Commission
December 2025
SAPEA (2025). Artificial intelligence in emergency and crisis management: Rapid evidence review report.
Downloadable from https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17737962

hey do you ever think about how npm's response to a Very Good Phishing Campaign (resulting in a wide range takeover) that used authentication updates with a few day deadline a premise...
... was to _actually_ deploy (pretty widely reviled) authentication updates with a few day deadline.

FCC spikes Biden-era cyber regulations prompted by Salt Typhoon telecom breaches https://therecord.media/fcc-removes-biden-era-cybersecurity-rules-telecoms-salt-typhoon

An interesting write up of an interview with the Edinburgh Spokes cycle campaign.
"Spokes also started producing cycle maps at that point [in the 80s]. Partly you produce a cycle map to show people where the nice places are, whether it's off road routes, quiet streets or whatever, to just show them that it is possible."
"But it's also a campaigning tool, because the map shows you the gaps."

"If your campaigning doesn't generate a response, you're not being radical enough": Active travel campaigners Spokes on making spaces bike friendly
road.cc chat with the organisation as they release their new cycle map of West Lothian and discuss meaningful cycle campaigning after nearly 50 years

Academic Labor: Research and Artistry (ALRA) Special Issue on art and engagement as critical response
https://ift.tt/3EH12Qn
updated: Thursday, December 18, 2025 - 10:59pmfull name / name of organization: Academic Labor:…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Good website #uber guys...
I needed to update my password. Then I couldn't go back (yes yes, outside of my browser's back button)

Characterizing IceTop Response to Low-Energy Air Showers
Yanee Tangjai (for the IceCube Collaboration), Agnieszka Leszczynska (for the IceCube Collaboration), Tatphicha Promfu (for the IceCube Collaboration), Achara Seripienlert (for the IceCube Collaboration), Serap Tilav (for the IceCube Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10485

Characterizing IceTop Response to Low-Energy Air Showers
This study evaluates the response of the IceTop tanks to low-energy air showers in the GeV to TeV energy range based on simulated and measured count rates. Correlating this response with primary cosmic rays provides a tool to study Galactic and solar cosmic-ray flux modulations, particularly for solar particle events. We present long-term behavior of the IceTop scaler rates for a range of discriminator thresholds to better understand and calibrate the detector's response to changing environment…

Cowboys’ Dak Prescott Spotlights George Pickens Response to Controversy https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/dak-prescott-spotlights-george-pickens-response-controversy/

Six of nine universities that were asked to sign an agreement in exchange for funding advantages have rejected the offer ahead of Today’s deadline for response
Within a day of the call,
University of Virginia and Dartmouth College rejected the compact,
joining ranks with MIT,
Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania and the
University of Southern California.
The University of Texas at Austin was invited to sign on and the chair of the University o…

White House hits road block in effort to get top colleges to sign deal
Six of nine universities that were asked to sign an agreement in exchange for funding advantages have rejected the offer ahead of Monday’s deadline for responses

Empowering LLM Agents with Geospatial Awareness: Toward Grounded Reasoning for Wildfire Response
Yiheng Chen, Lingyao Li, Zihui Ma, Qikai Hu, Yilun Zhu, Min Deng, Runlong Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12061

Empowering LLM Agents with Geospatial Awareness: Toward Grounded Reasoning for Wildfire Response
Effective disaster response is essential for safeguarding lives and property. Existing statistical approaches often lack semantic context, generalize poorly across events, and offer limited interpretability. While Large language models (LLMs) provide few-shot generalization, they remain text-bound and blind to geography. To bridge this gap, we introduce a Geospatial Awareness Layer (GAL) that grounds LLM agents in structured earth data. Starting from raw wildfire detections, GAL automatically r…

Checking on the Ceres FPGA board sims for @… that I had running while I was away. We're looking at a PCIe differential pair layer transition plus AC coupling capacitor.
With no cutout (green trace) response is awful: -3 dB insertion loss at 9.1 GHz, and -10 dB return loss at only 2.8 GHz.
Adding the cutout in the gerbers (blue trace) ma…

Survey Response Generation: Generating Closed-Ended Survey Responses In-Silico with Large Language Models
Georg Ahnert, Anna-Carolina Haensch, Barbara Plank, Markus Strohmaier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11586

Survey Response Generation: Generating Closed-Ended Survey Responses In-Silico with Large Language Models
Many in-silico simulations of human survey responses with large language models (LLMs) focus on generating closed-ended survey responses, whereas LLMs are typically trained to generate open-ended text instead. Previous research has used a diverse range of methods for generating closed-ended survey responses with LLMs, and a standard practice remains to be identified. In this paper, we systematically investigate the impact that various Survey Response Generation Methods have on predicted survey …

One thing I keep seeing is code that talks to an API and just assumes that the response will be a 200 with a body that matches the form it expects.
I would love to have that confidence.

Don’t comply with fascism, Chicago is showing the way:
Immigration crackdown inspires uniquely Chicago pushback that’s now a model for other cities
https://apnews.com/article/chicago-immigration-protest-arrests-agent…

Chicago's pushback to immigration crackdown grows, inspiring other cities
As an unprecedented immigration crackdown enters a third month, a growing number of Chicago residents are fighting back against what they deem a racist and aggressive overreach of the federal government. The Democratic stronghold’s response has tapped established activists and everyday residents from wealthy suburbs to working class neighborhoods. They say their efforts are a uniquely Chicago response that other cities President Donald Trump has targeted for federal intervention want to model…

Variational Inference for Count Response Semiparametric Regression: A Convex Solution
Virginia Murru, Matt P. Wand
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12356 https://

Variational Inference for Count Response Semiparametric Regression: A Convex Solution
We develop a version of variational inference for Bayesian count response regression-type models that possesses attractive attributes such as convexity and closed form updates. The convex solution aspect entails numerically stable fitting algorithms, whilst the closed form aspect makes the methodology fast and easy to implement. The essence of the approach is the use of Pólya-Gamma augmentation of a Negative Binomial likelihood, a finite-valued prior on the shape parameter and the structured m…

😧 Astringent, sharper mind: Flavanols can trigger brain activity for memory and stress response
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-astringent-sharper-mind-flavanols-trigger.html

Astringent, sharper mind: Flavanols can trigger brain activity for memory and stress response
Astringency is a dry, puckering, rough, or sandpapery sensation in the mouth caused by plant-derived polyphenols. Polyphenols, including flavanols, are well known for risk reduction in cardiovascular diseases.

scPPDM: A Diffusion Model for Single-Cell Drug-Response Prediction
Zhaokang Liang, Shuyang Zhuang, Xiaoran Jiao, Weian Mao, Hao Chen, Chunhua Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11726

scPPDM: A Diffusion Model for Single-Cell Drug-Response Prediction
This paper introduces the Single-Cell Perturbation Prediction Diffusion Model (scPPDM), the first diffusion-based framework for single-cell drug-response prediction from scRNA-seq data. scPPDM couples two condition channels, pre-perturbation state and drug with dose, in a unified latent space via non-concatenative GD-Attn. During inference, factorized classifier-free guidance exposes two interpretable controls for state preservation and drug-response strength and maps dose to guidance magnitude…

The Israeli military said it had begun "resuming enforcement of the Gaza ceasefire"
after it says it was violated by Hamas,
signaling a possible end to strikes on the territory.
“The IDF will continue to uphold the ceasefire agreement
[when convenient]
and will respond firmly to any violation of it"

Jeffrey Epstein's brother stuns with response to email about Trump sex act with 'Bubba' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epstein-2674299704/

Debating degrowth: A response to Jason Hickel.
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-10-02/debating-degrowth-a-response-to-jason-hickel/
We (coordinators of the DegrowthUK website) will possibly write something about this. Broadly…

Debating degrowth: A response to Jason Hickel
We really believe that degrowth is a more complex, substantial and significant concept and movement than its treatment in the Hickel interview. We think that the degrowth movement has a very important role to play in the challenging political context.

So if your software is not a thing people have already written a lot of times "AI" can't help doing it?
I thought for coding it was supposed to be super capable now?

CIRSense: Rethinking WiFi Sensing with Channel Impulse Response
Ruiqi Kong, He Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11374 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11374

CIRSense: Rethinking WiFi Sensing with Channel Impulse Response
WiFi sensing based on channel state information (CSI) collected from commodity WiFi devices has shown great potential across a wide range of applications, including vital sign monitoring and indoor localization. Existing WiFi sensing approaches typically estimate motion information directly from CSI. However, they often overlook the inherent advantages of channel impulse response (CIR), a delay-domain representation that enables more intuitive and principled motion sensing by naturally concentr…

Non-traditional data in pandemic preparedness and response: identifying and addressing first and last-mile challenges
Mattia Mazzoli, Irma Varela-Lasheras, Sonia Namorado, Constantino Pereira Caetano, Andreia Leite, Lisa Hermans, Niel Hens, Polen T\"urkmen, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Leo Ferres, Ciro Cattuto, Daniela Paolotti, Stefaan Verhulst
https://

Non-traditional data in pandemic preparedness and response: identifying and addressing first and last-mile challenges
The pandemic served as an important test case of complementing traditional public health data with non-traditional data (NTD) such as mobility traces, social media activity, and wearables data to inform decision-making. Drawing on an expert workshop and a targeted survey of European modelers, we assess the promise and persistent limitations of such data in pandemic preparedness and response. We distinguish between "first-mile" (accessing and harmonizing data) and "last-mile" challenges (transla…

So Trump is targeting NY's AG with bullshit charges. The AG is sending me emails that look like every single other generic Democrat "we need $15 to fight!" nonsense email, which makes me much less inclined to actually send her money.

POLL: 42% of liberals approve of law-breaking in response to disagreeing with a government action (Ryan Shucard/Cygnal)
https://www.cygn.al/poll-42-of-liberals-approve-of-law-breaking-in-response-to-disagreeing-with-a-government-action/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p66#a251016p66

Topology optimization of nonlinear forced response curves via reduction on spectral submanifolds
Hongming Liang, Matteo Pozzi, Jacopo Marconi, Shobhit Jain, Mingwu Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07900

Topology optimization of nonlinear forced response curves via reduction on spectral submanifolds
Forced response curves (FRCs) of nonlinear systems can exhibit complex behaviors, including hardening/softening behavior and bifurcations. Although topology optimization holds great potential for tuning these nonlinear dynamic responses, its use in high-dimensional systems is limited by the high cost of repeated response and sensitivity analyses. To address this challenge, we employ the spectral submanifolds (SSMs) reduction theory, which reformulates the periodic response as the equilibria of …

first ballot vote! (required at all non leadership conventions)
"should a leadership election be called"
I sense a positively negative response ;)
#bcndp #bcpoli

Anxiety and insomnia linked to sharp drops in key immune cells #health

Anxiety and insomnia linked to sharp drops in key immune cells
Natural killer cells act as the immune system’s rapid-response team, but the stress of anxiety and insomnia may be quietly thinning their ranks. A study of young women in Saudi Arabia found that both conditions were linked to significantly fewer NK cells—especially the circulating types responsible for destroying infected or abnormal cells. As anxiety severity increased, NK cell levels dropped even further, suggesting a stress-driven weakening of immune defenses.

Blackouts in Russia fair response if Moscow targets Ukraine's grid, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/09/blackouts-in-russia-fair-response.html

Israeli politicians cast doubt on government’s commitment to ceasefire
Israel reportedly halts supply of aid into Gaza as it launches ‘massive wave of attacks’ – Middle East crisis live
Following Israeli airstrikes on Gaza earlier today, more senior ministers have made remarks casting doubt on the government’s commitment to the ceasefire deal
Amichai Chikli, Israel’s diaspora affairs minister and a vocal hardliner, said:
“As long as Hamas exists, there will be war.”

RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/115558063750826117
Nice list of tips and if you are interested in a really quick first response use the hashtag '# neuhier' wenn du Deutsch sprichst or '# newhere' and '# introduction' when you s…

Just finished "I'm Awful, Thanks" by Lara Pickle. A good story that serves as a guide to managing emotions, although it's actually a cute story too, not just framing for the mental health discussion.
That said, I feel like it doesn't get far enough into the details of accepting self-control as our only form of real control vs. understanding that some events outside our control aren't fair or are others' attacks, and trying to manage our own emotions as our only response is a disservice to ourselves and others. Even further, I suspect that the HR resolution depicted here, while not impossible, is less frequent than much worse outcomes, which is part of a larger pattern of systemic assaults on our mental health that aren't totally solvable with individual emotional regulation.
Sure, leveling up one's control of ones own emotions and learning to accept and manage a range of emotions is super useful and it's a good thing overall, but the systemic problems of late stage capitalism are real, and making it seem like everyone is responsible for managing their own mental health in the face of these problems helps avoid confronting them.
Still, it's a good book overall, with vibrant art and a well-structured plot.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Last night was the second anniversary of the time that somebody hit-and-run -ed my house, destroying the gas main riser and sending me out in the pouring rain and dark, barefoot, to hold the roaring gas leak closed with my palm like that apocryphal Dutch kid and the dam.
https://westseattleb…

UPDATE: Gas-leak response after hit-run driver crashes into house
9:18 PM: Avoid the area of 37th/100th in Arbor Heights for a while - a driver hit a house and a natural-gas leak is reported to have resulted. Police have blocked off 37th. They are telling dispatch it's a hit-and-run - the driver subsequently took off. So far the vehicle is described only as

So I have been using Twitter just for browsing for the last year or so, with little to no posting (mainly just replies)
I got prompted to re-roll my security keys (because they are killing off the old domain)
but it now keeps asking me to re-roll or verify my email but nothing works.
I sent a support ticket, but I doubt I will get a response (And if I do, I will get a 💩 emoji response), so I really believe that is me done with Twitter.

"AI-powered oil spill prediction system can improve emergency response accuracy by up to 25%"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

AI-powered oil spill prediction system can improve emergency response accuracy by up to 25%
Oil spills can be among the most devastating environmental disasters, with the potential to severely damage marine ecosystems, disrupt coastal communities, and impose lasting economic damage. Traditional numerical models, such as MEDSLIK-II, simulate the movement and transformation of oil particles in seawater, but their accuracy has been limited by dependence on expert judgment for tuning critical physical parameters. This manual calibration process, while informed by experience, is not always…

🇨🇭Greetings from Sweden, Mr. President!
(Response to the « Sweden (not Switzerland) » Campaign from VISITSWEDEN)

I was really having trouble giving a shit about either of the two candidates in the Labour Deputy Leadership election, and I had to scroll quite a long way down the wikipedia page, but I found something in the end.

MINORITIES NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS REJECTION OF GREED ADVOCACY OF THE SOCIETAL WHOLE TRUE DEMOCRACY OMG WHAT ARE WE TO DO
#ReleasetheEpsteinfiles
✅ MAGA Melts Down Over Mamdani’s Mayoral Victory: “New York City Has Fallen” | Vanity Fair

MAGA Melts Down Over Mamdani’s Mayoral Victory: “New York City Has Fallen”
The right-wing decries the “major Islam problem in America” as Trump himself vows to retaliate against New York City. The incoming mayor’s response: “To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.”

"Developing a library strategic response to Artificial Intelligence" https://doi.org/10.29173/elucidate847
"We all understand that [AI] is likely to impact library and information work profoundly, so it is important to try and be more than reactive and think strategically about the op…

Paxton probes UNT over students' response to Charlie Kirk death
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/10/16/texas-ag-ken-paxton-to-investigate-unt-for-not-disciplining-students-accused-of-celebrating-charlie-kirk-killing/

While immigrants do contribute to rising housing demand,
they are not the primary drivers of increasing housing costs.
Instead, factors such as housing shortages,
restrictive zoning laws,
and shifts in housing preferences in the wake of the pandemic
are the more dominant forces behind rising prices.
Furthermore, immigrant workers are essential to the housing supply, making up a crucial segment of the construction workforce that can address shortages and …

Vance Blames Immigrants, Biden in Response to Affordability Questions
There is no significant relationship between immigration rates and rising housing costs in the US, experts have said.

Decoupling …… again
A response to the recent article in the Guardian and the report from ECAU on which it is based.
http://degrowthuk.org/2025/12/16/decoupling-again/

Decoupling …… again
An article appeared in The Guardian on Thursday, December 11th, entitled “Economic growth no longer linked to carbon emissions in most of the world, study finds” 1. The Guardian appears…

Prepared mind, fast response: A temporal decoupling framework for adaptive knowledge orchestration in open-domain dialogue
Jinling Gan, Churong Liang, Runnan Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08175

Prepared mind, fast response: A temporal decoupling framework for adaptive knowledge orchestration in open-domain dialogue
The latency-quality tradeoff is a fundamental constraint in open-domain dialogue AI systems, since comprehensive knowledge access necessitates prohibitive response delays. Contemporary approaches offer two inadequate solutions: lightweight instruct models achieve sub-second latency but lack reasoning depth, while tool-augmented ReAct agents enhance factuality through external knowledge at the cost of synchronous execution that blocks interaction during re- trieval processes. PMFR is thus propos…

Reliability Sensitivity with Response Gradient
Siu-Kui Au, Zi-Jun Cao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09315 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09315

Reliability Sensitivity with Response Gradient
Engineering risk is concerned with the likelihood of failure and the scenarios when it occurs. The sensitivity of failure probability to change in system parameters is relevant to risk-informed decision making. Computing sensitivity is at least one level more difficult than the probability itself, which is already challenged by a large number of input random variables, rare events and implicit nonlinear `black-box' response. Finite difference with Monte Carlo probability estimates is spurious, …

Cowboys' Kenny Clark issues 6-word response to Rico Dowdle's 'buckle up' comment https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-kenny-clark-issues-6-word-respons…

Trump vows response after US service members killed in Syria attack (Ryan Mancini/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5647829-syria-attack-trump-response/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p49#a251213p49

In response to the Russian Federation’s night attack, the AFU destroyed the “Shahed” base in Donetsk: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/06/in-response-to-the-russian.html

An LLM generates a statistically typical response.
If you ask an LLM whether the world is round, it generates what would be a typical response to the question of whether the world is round. (It will probably be correct, because the typical answer to that question is the correct one.)
If you ask an LLM to provide examples of its own bias, it will generate what would be a typical response to a request to provide examples of bias.
In neither case is the LLM sharing any knowledge or insight other than what is typical.
2/

Major brands were replaced by direct-response advertisers during commercial breaks of CBS News' December 13 town hall with Erika Kirk, moderated by Bari Weiss (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/advertisers-wary-cbs-news-…

Big Advertisers Appear Wary of CBS News' Bari Weiss Town Hall Format
Many major advertisers appeared to sit out a new CBS News town hall format moderated by Bari Weiss and featuring a conversation with Erika Kirk

As 2025 nears its end I wonder...
1. In 2050 will Israel still be a country or a smoking (and possibly radioactive) ruin? (I fully support the peaceful, safe existence of Israel. However, the genocidal acts of its government [as distinct from the citizens of Israel] are inviting a very strong, possibly nation-ending, response from others. I also fully support the peaceful, safe existence of a sovereign state for those in Gaza and the West Bank.)
2. Will the United States still …

Donald Trump deeply misjudged his response to the deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner,
and he's incapable of understanding why.
https://bsky.app/profile/mirror.co.uk/post/3ma4h4dojyc26

The Mirror (@mirror.co.uk)
Donald Trump deeply misjudged his response to the deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner, and he's incapable of understanding why. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/9-unhinged-donald-trump-moments-36410478?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1765898033

US federal prosecutors allege that three cybersecurity professionals carried out ransomware attacks on at least five US companies in 2023 using ALPHV ransomware (Matt Kapko/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/incident-response-ransomware-professionals-charge…

Prosecutors allege incident response pros used ALPHV/BlackCat to commit string of ransomware attacks
The alleged cybersecurity turncoats attacked at least five U.S. companies while working for their respective employers, officials said.

Unión del Barrio has been doing “know your rights” workshops
and training people on how to spot ICE and report to the community when they do see them.
Cardona said it is important to document ICE raids and kidnappings to help people understand what they have been seeing and the way ICE goes about these operations.
Advocates have also been organizing patrols and responding to reported ICE activity.
Cardona said there have been many instances where community members in L…

Racial Profiling Is ICE’s New Norm. Activists Are Mobilizing in Response.
Arizonans long endured grim racial profiling under SB 1070. Now the Supreme Court has greenlighted its use nationwide.

Trump administration hits back at lawsuit over White House ballroom (Aaron Pellish/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/15/trump-administration-response-lawsuit-white-house-ballroom-00692245
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p139#a251215p139

Russia warns of 'appropriate' response if US sends Tomahawks to Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/02/russia-warns-of-appropriate-response.html

A response to the Financial Times: A few points of clarification about degrowth - resilience
By Tim Parrique
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-09-24/a-response-to-the-financial-times-a-few-points-of-clari…

A response to the Financial Times: A few points of clarification about degrowth
As the ecological situation worsens, we don’t have the luxury of snubbing potential solutions. Let’s not be the ones who died of an illness because the name of the remedy sounded silly.

Let our people go! Zohran Mamdani victory spurs Staten Island pols to renew bid to pull out of NYC (Rich Calder/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/11/15/us-news/staten-island-pols-renew-bid-to-pull-out-of-nyc-in-response-to-mamdani-winning-mayoral-race/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251115/p52#a251115p52

The agency told ProPublica it has made no decision on whether to vaccinate hens and has no timeline on when it might announce one
— though it is “proactively assessing” the possibility.
Avoiding the question of airborne spread appears to be in the USDA’s
“best interests,” said Michelle Kromm, an animal health consultant
who directed Jennie-O Turkey’s bird flu response in past outbreaks.
“If this is a major risk factor, then vaccine is absolutely a critical mit…

Managed security services provider LevelBlue to acquire cybersecurity firm Cybereason, which raised $850M in total funding and undergone multiple restructurings (Greg Otto/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/cybereason-levelblue-acquistion/

LevelBlue to acquire Cybereason in latest cybersecurity industry consolidation
LevelBlue announced Tuesday it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Cybereason, a Boston-based cybersecurity firm specializing in extended detection and response platforms and digital forensics. 

The USDA told ProPublica it has made no decision on whether to vaccinate hens
and has no timeline on when it might announce one
— though it is “proactively assessing” the possibility.
Avoiding the question of airborne spread appears to be
in the USDA’s “best interests,”
said Michelle Kromm, an animal health consultant who directed Jennie-O Turkey’s bird flu response in past outbreaks.
“If this is a major risk factor, then vaccine is absolutely a critical…

NATO sees no major Russian military response if Ukraine receives Tomahawks: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/15/nato-sees-no-major-russian.html

Indivisible Launches its Largest Primary Program in Response to Senate Democrats Surrendering on the Shutdown Vote (Indivisible)
https://indivisible.org/statements/indivisible-launches-its-largest-primary-program-response-senate-democrats-surrendering
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p93#a251111p93

The Japanese government says it formally requested that OpenAI refrain from infringing on Japanese IPs, such as anime, calling them "irreplaceable treasures" (Verity Townsend/IGN)

Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are 'Irreplaceable Treasures' That Japan Boasts to the World - IGN
The Japanese government has made a formal request asking OpenAI to refrain from copyright infringement. This comes as a response to Sora 2’s ability to generate videos featuring the likenesses of copyrighted characters from anime and video games.

ICE agent points firearm at woman in car filming in Santa Ana, prompting police response (Sierra Van Der Brug/Orange County Register)
https://www.ocregister.com/2025/11/10/ice-agent-points-firearm-at-woman-in-car-filming-in-santa-ana-prompting-police-response/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p67#a251111p67

German chancellor warns Putin won’t stop at Ukraine, urges united European response: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/14/german-chancellor-warns-putin-wont.html

Molly interviews the founders of @…
Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin,
about the origins and evolution of their grassroots political movement,
which emerged in response to Donald Trump's 2016 election.
As former congressional staffers,
they leveraged insider knowledge to empower everyday Americans
—from nurses …

A large number of armed Customs and Border Patrol agents responded to the crowd by hurling smoke grenades, shooting pepper balls and deploying at least three rounds of tear gas over the area,
even with children and seniors in the area.
At least four protesters were detained.
“When you’re using these tactics, you are asking people to be hospitalized,”
said Oscar Sanchez, a member of a rapid response network that tracks immigration enforcement activity.
He said h…

Feds ram SUV after chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd
The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood. Two men being pursued were arrested as were two bystanders. The crash drew dozens of neighbors who protested the tactics of immigration agents.

Two Democratic senators have announced that they will attempt to block any pending civilian nominations before the Senate
in response to what they describe as the Trump administration’s “failure to provide a briefing to lawmakers” on the release of the files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
Senators Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Ben Ray Lujšn of New Mexico, who both sponsored the Epstein Files Transparency Act,
said in a statement on Tuesday that “there can be no business as usual …

Within minutes of federal agents with ICE, the DEA and FBI arriving at the workplace,
a rapid response network mobilized to confront the agents carrying out an immigration raid at the Bro-Tex distribution center.
As community members rallied to halt the raid,
federal agents cordoned off the area and began trying to clear protesters.
Agents used pepper balls, OC canisters and pepper spray on the crowd
as they tried to clear a path for a convoy of their vehicles, s…

Insight from the Bro-Tex Raid: What Activists Saw While Confronting ICE - UNICORN RIOT
Unicorn Riot heard from two locals who mobilized in response to an immigration raid in St. Paul on the morning of Nov. 18.

Trump vs BBC
Donald Trump is suing the BBC for $10 billion
over a documentary he claims removed portions of his speech on Jan 6, 2021,
in which he urged supporters to protest the 2020 election results peacefully.
Lawsuit's claims
The lawsuit accuses the BBC of defamation and violations of Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act,
seeking $5 billion in damages for each claim.
BBC's response
The BBC says it will defend the lawsu…

Trump sues BBC for $10B over edited Jan. 6 speech
President Donald Trump is suing the BBC for $10 billion over a documentary that edited his Jan. 6, 2021, speech at the Capitol Ellipse.

The privately funded National Trust for Historic Preservation last week asked the U.S. District Court to block Trump’s project.
“No president is legally allowed to tear down portions of the White House without any review whatsoever
— not President Trump, not President Biden, and not anyone else,” the lawsuit states.
“And no president is legally allowed to construct a ballroom on public property without giving the public the opportunity to weigh in.”
Trump had the East W…

Trump administration says White House ballroom construction is a matter of national security
The Trump administration says in a court filing that the president’s White House ballroom construction project must continue for unexplained national security reasons. It also says a preservationists’ organization that wants it stopped has no standing to sue. The court filing Monday was in response to a lawsuit filed last Friday by the National Trust for Historic Preservation asking a federal judge to halt President Donald Trump’s project until it goes through multiple independent reviews…

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…

On Friday Oct. 10, MIT President Sally Kornbluth formally rejected the Trump administration's proposed compact in an email to the U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon.
This decision came after mounting pressure from many MIT organizations, students and faculty alike, that called on the Institute to formally reject the compact.
MIT is the first university to openly decline the compact.
The Institute’s Response
In her response to Secretary McMahon, President Kornbl…

BREAKING: MIT rejects federal compact | The Tech
On Friday Oct. 10, MIT President Sally Kornbluth formally rejected the Trump administration's proposed compact in an email to the U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon.