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This language suggests there's light at the end of the Trump tunnel.
There's nothing but tunnel.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/09/06/trump-policies-recession-fears-golden-age/

Staatsfonds beteiligt? DLC für "Assassin's Creed Mirage" spielt in Saudi-Arabien
Zwei Jahre nach dem Release bekommt "Assassin's Creed Mirage" einen neuen, kostenlosen DLC. "Valley of Memory" spielt in Saudi-Arabien.

Jaguars HC Liam Coen on Trevor Lawrence's stumble to six: 'That's an unbelievable individual effort' https://www.nfl.com/news/jaguars-hc-liam-coen-on-trevor-lawrence-s-stumble-to-six-that-s-an-unbelievable-i…

Mass Spectra of $qq\bar{q}\bar{q}$, $ss\bar{s}\bar{s}$ and $qq\bar{s}\bar{s}$ Tetraquarks using Regge Phenomenology
Vandan Patel, Juhi Oudichhya, Ajay Kumar Rai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04496

Mass Spectra of $qq\bar{q}\bar{q}$, $ss\bar{s}\bar{s}$ and $qq\bar{s}\bar{s}$ Tetraquarks using Regge Phenomenology
In this paper, we explore the mass spectra of $qq\bar{q}\bar{q}$, $ss\bar{s}\bar{s}$ and $qq\bar{s}\bar{s}$ tetraquarks by employing Regge phenomenology. We calculate the range for ground state masses of $qq\bar{s}\bar{s}$ tetraquarks, and estimate the Regge parameters for their trajectories in $(J,M^2)$ plane. Using these Regge parameters we have calculated range for the excited state masses of $qq\bar{q}\bar{q}$, $ss\bar{s}\bar{s}$ and $qq\bar{s}\bar{s}$ tetraquarks in $(J,M^2)$ plane. Also, …

"A federal appeals court on Monday refused to throw out an $83.3 million jury verdict against U.S. President Donald Trump for damaging the reputation of the writer E. Jean Carroll in 2019 when he denied her rape claim.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan rejected Trump's argument that the January 2024 verdict should be overturned because he deserved presidential immunity from Carroll's lawsuit."

Trump fails to overturn E. Jean Carroll's $83 million verdict
A federal appeals court on Monday refused to throw out an $83.3 million jury verdict against U.S. President Donald Trump for damaging the reputation of the...

I've had a few of these thoughts stuck in my craw all day because I watched this liberal historian talk about the Galleanisti.
https://youtube.com/shorts/93yHEn8BYE4
Basically, she says that "of course the government had the right to target them." Then she goes on to talk about how it became an excuse to carry out a bunch of attacks on other marginalized people. Now, the Galleanisti had been bombing the houses of politicians and such. I get where she's coming from saying that one of their targets "was in the right" to try to catch them. But there's some context she's not talking about at all.
These were Italian anarchists, so they were not white and they were part of an already marginalized political group. Basically all of Europe and the US was trying to wipe out anarchists at the time. Meanwhile, the sitting president at the time showed the first movie in the White House. That movie was KKK propaganda, in which he was favorably quoted. The US was pretty solidly white supremacist in the 1920's.
Like... A major hidden whole premise of the game "Bioshock: Infinite" is that if you went back to the US in the 1920's, and you had magic powers, you would absolutely use them to kill as many cops as possible and try to destroy society. There's a lot of other stuff in there, I don't want to get distracted, but "fuck those racists," specifically referring to the US in the 1920's, was a major part of a major game.
Those Italian anarchists were also stone cutters. They carved grave stones. But the dust from that can kill you, much like black lung for coal miners. So they were dying from unsafe working conditions, regularly raising money to support dying coworkers and then carving gravestones for those same coworkers.
Now, I personally think insurrectionary anarchism is a dead end. I disagree with it as a strategy. We've seen it fail, and it failed there. But of course it makes sense that they wanted to blow up the government.
...And that's the correct way to structure that. When you say, "of course they were in the right" you're making a very clear political statement. You could easily say, "the cops in Vichy France had every right to hunt down the French Resistance." You would technically be correct, I guess. But it would really say something about your politics if you justified the actions of Nazi collaborators over those fighting against the Nazis.
And you may say, "oh, but the Nazis didn't have justification for anything. They invaded a sovereign nation, so their government wasn't legitimate anyway."
To which I would reply, "have you considered a history book about the US?"

Kid1 is preparing to DM his first ever D&D campaign (he'll run it starting in the fall). He's been constantly bouncing ideas off me for the past few weeks. He's come up with what's IMHO a setting that's fun and should work well, both in the prepped parts and on the fly: he's modelling the campaign on Gormenghast. I suspect some of his more bizarre ideas will fall away once play begins. Still, it's been great listening to him dream up a custom version of a part…

The hacking group responsible for recent attacks on M&S, Qantas and others has ramped up its efforts to phish companies across sectors.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/security/m-s-hackers-gear-up-new-attacks

M&S hackers gear up for new attacks, and RaaS provider continues cyber showdown
The hacking group responsible for recent attacks on M&S, Qantas and others has ramped up its efforts to phish companies across sectors.

This is a good article on Greater Manchester's transition to publicly managed bus services from the total mess of Thatcher's privatised free market.
This is who's really paying for Greater Manchester's publicly-run bus network - Manchester Evening News

This is who's really paying for Greater Manchester's publicly-run bus network
City region officials have defended the system after a Tory MP said it was "£226 million in the red" in its first year

Several sections of Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution
appear to have been removed from the official U.S. government website,
as pointed out by sleuths on the internet and as seen by TechCrunch.
These sections largely relate to the powers that Congress has and does not have,
as well as limitations on the powers of individual states.
The removal includes sections relating to habeas corpus,
the powers that protect citizens from unlawful detention. 
S…

Key sections of the US Constitution deleted from government's website | TechCrunch
Internet sleuths say the U.S. Constitution's website is now missing key sections from its website, including a key legal provision relating to habeas corpus, which protects citizens from unlawful detention.

Check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Chinese espionage campaign targeted House staffers ahead of trade talks,
--Ethical hackers uncover catastrophic flaws in restaurant chain's platforms,
--Salesloft Drift hack began last March,
--Customer data stolen in Wealthsimple breach,
--Trump to formally nominate Harman for NSA/Cybercom slot,
--Don't trust XChat's e…

Chinese espionage campaign targeted House staffers ahead of trade talks
Ethical hackers uncover catastrophic flaws in restaurant chain's platforms, Salesloft Drift hack began last March, Customer data stolen in Wealthsimple breach, Trump to formally nominate Harman for NSA/Cybercom slot, Don't trust XChat's encryption, Czech Republic warns of Chinese tech, much more

GPT-5's system card says gpt-5-thinking has a hallucination rate of 4.5% with browsing enabled, compared to gpt-5-main's 9.6%, GPT-4o's 12.9%, and o3's 12.7% (Cecily Mauran/Mashable)
https://mashable.com/article/openai-gpt-5-hallucinates-less-syst…

OpenAI says GPT-5 hallucinates less — what does the data say?
Web access is key here.

Crimea's Striletska Bay 'practically empty' of Russian Black Sea Fleet ships, Ukraine's partisans say: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/08/crimeas-striletska-bay-practically-empty.html

'Aaron Fritschner, deputy chief of staff for Rep. Beyer (D-Va.) observed that Trump's tariff letter to S. Korea was a violation of the KORUS trade agreement between S. Korea and the U S that was ratified by Congress in 2007, under Bush's administration. "The Constitution gives control of trade policy entirely to Congress, POTUS has no legal authority to do this"'
'Utter buffoon': 'Senile' Trump mocked over letters he had 'no legal authority' to send - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump/trump-mocked-senile/

Multiplicative dependence in the denominators of points of elliptic curves
Attila B\'erczes, Subham Bhakta, Lajos Hajdu, Alina Ostafe, Igor E. Shparlinski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05462

Multiplicative dependence in the denominators of points of elliptic curves
Let $E_1, \ldots, E_s $ be $s$, not necessary distinct, elliptic curves over $\mathbb Q$. Given $s$ non-torsion $\mathbb Q$-rational points $P_i \in E_i(\mathbb Q)$ and arbitrary $\mathbb Q$-rational points $Q_i \in E_i(\mathbb Q)$, $i =1, \ldots, s$, we give an upper bound on the frequency of $s$-tuples \[ (n_1P_1+Q_1,\ldots, n_sP_s+Q_s) \in E_1(\mathbb Q) \times \ldots \times E_s(\mathbb Q) \] with $n_1, \ldots, n_s$ in an arbitrary interval of length $N$, whose denominators or $x$-coordinate…

I went to Chicago and got shot.
COVID vaccine is available here. Can't get it at home, in Georgia.

I'm a huge believer in having a hobby that forces you to focus on one thing. This summer I'm learning how to draw and paint wildflowers. It's absorbing and relaxing and even if the results are a bit rough, it forces you to really *look* at small details.
https://mastodon.art/@reinderdijkhuis/114815896842271008
reinderdijkhuis@mastodon.art - It's @ajroach42 's recent threads about addictive behavior in (mostly) kids (but he talks about adults and elders as well) that prompted me to evaluate my own online behavior, again. The line "… they'd rather do nothing, when doing nothing is causing them a great amount of distress, than have to put the work in to do something else" hit hard. More and more these past few months, that's been me, unless I make a very deliberate effort not to go down that path.

Xbox's absent landord execs are only part of a much bigger problem.
Microsoft's continued job slashing reveals a troublesome disdain for creativity, expertise, and the human touch.
https://www.eurogamer.net/xboxs-absent-landord-execs-…

Xbox's absent landord execs are only part of a much bigger problem
Microsoft's continued job slashing at Xbox and beyond reveals a troublesome disdain for the human touch.

was just reminded where i was 15 years ago today, at all tomorrow's parties' last stand at kutsher's (or maybe just kutsher's last stand), the only place i've ever encountered an out-of-order sign on a mattress. probably one of my last proper blog posts. https://jessejarnow.com/2010/09/all-to

It's not that our politicians don't know what's needed to slow #ClimateChange. It's that they don't care.
Their two priorities are
1. winning the next election, under the UK's absurdly dysfunctional, archaic and undemocratic system;
2. pleasing the big donors, who include the

We surveyed British MPs – most don’t know how urgent climate action is
New study finds both MPs and the public underestimate how quickly global emissions must be cut.

On Araki-Type Trace Inequalities
Po-Chieh Liu, Hao-Chung Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05242 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.05242

On Araki-Type Trace Inequalities
In this paper, we prove a trace inequality $\text{Tr}[ f(A) A^s B^s ] \leq \text{Tr}[ f(A) (A^{1/2} B A^{1/2} )^s ]$ for any positive and monotone increasing function $f$, $s\in[0,1]$, and positive semi-definite matrices $A$ and $B$. On the other hand, for $s\in[0,1]$ such that the map $x\mapsto x^s g(x)$ is positive and decreasing, then $ \text{Tr}[ g(A) (A^{1/2} B A^{1/2} )^s ] \leq \text{Tr}[ g(A) A^s B^s ]$.

An analysis of Github's recent studies on "AI" agents for software development
(Original title: Jussi Pakkanen: Let's properly analyze an AI article for once)
https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2025/08/lets-properly-analyze-ai-article-…

Let's properly analyze an AI article for once
Recently the CEO of Github wrote a blog post called Developers reinvented . It was reposted with various clickbait headings like  GitHub CEO...

Brian Schottenheimer's thoughts, takeaways from Cowboys' joint practice https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/brian-schottenheimer-s-thoughts-takeaways-from-cowboys-joint-practice

"What's slimy, green and flourishing thanks to climate change?"
#Canada #Climate #ClimateChange

What's slimy, green and flourishing thanks to climate change? | CBC News
Canada's lakes are changing because of warming caused by the burning of fossil fuels. Here's why scientists are concerned.

H.E.S.S. observations of SN 2024ggi
Jowita Borowska-Naguszewska (for the H.E.S.S. Collaboration), Robert Brose (for the H.E.S.S. Collaboration), Bernardo Cornejo (for the H.E.S.S. Collaboration), Jonathan Mackey (for the H.E.S.S. Collaboration), Robert Daniel Parsons (for the H.E.S.S. Collaboration), Fabian Sch\"ussler (for the H.E.S.S. Collaboration)
http…

H.E.S.S. observations of SN 2024ggi
Supernova (SN) explosions interacting with dense circumstellar medium are considered to be very promising sites for efficient cosmic-ray (CR) acceleration and subsequent emission of neutral-pion-decay gamma rays. These environments share similarities with already detected gamma-ray novae, but with much greater available energy content, so it is important to characterize their emission in the very-high-energy range. We present the results of H.E.S.S. observations of one such candidate source - S…

Die Zustell-Prognose von https://www.post.at/s/sendungsdetails ist wohl getrost zu vergessen.
Zwei Pakete an mich wurden am Dienstag aufgegeben: Oberösterreich und Wien. Bei beiden stand schon am Dienstag zum Lieferdatum "Voraussichtlich: heute".
Das erste kam gestern Nachmittag an,…

Sources: Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff on Tuesday's morning call, saying she wants to "win" and ending by saying "let's do the fucking news" (Max Tani/@maxwelltani)
https://x.com/maxwelltani/status/1975550180427743310

Max Tani (@maxwelltani) on X
Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
VILA: Now what? There's nothing left to throw out!
AVON: Let's check with Orac. Come on!
[Shuttle, bridge]
AVON: What's the position now, Orac?
ORAC: Remaining flight time: five minutes and forty seconds.

Josh Jobe Gets Under Raiders QB Aidan OConnell's Pass For INT https://www.seahawks.com/video/2025-preseasons-week-1-highlight-josh-jobe-gets-under-raiders-qb-aidan-oconnell-s-pass-for-int

UMaine has published a profile of my lab's efforts to harness new media for environmental causes, from my colleague Joline Blais's efforts to keep Maine's lakes healthy to the What Uses More tool for comparing AI's eco footprint to other activities. https://u…

This is only true for some flavors of "big accounts."
A number of the people I follow with thousands of followers are ONLY on the #Fediverse and most of the rest are only here and on Bluesky. I routinely block people here and on Bluesky (and across the bridge) who pull in the sewage from X and dump it in either place.
I'm not really interested in following people that wa…

La nueva canción de De Saloon: «Nunca Nunca»
#DeSaloon #Singles

There was a time when, if you were lucky enough to get a piece of software stable and working well, it continued to be stable and work well.
Now we have relentless updates, whose problems are exemplified by an overnight update of my Mac to OS X 15.6 doing a factory reset of the settings of many of my programs.
Let's not even go into the behavioral changes that get pushed that invalidate all your muscle memory in order to boost some product manager's performance review.
I like stability, but it's just another casualty of this endless churn.

'Don't even consider' Microsoft?
To digital natives, Microsoft's IT stack makes Google's look like a model of sanity. A millennial does battle with Redmond's enterprise tools and comes away reeling.
[…] Probably the single most common argument against switching to Linux is the absolute non-negotiable requirement of many organizations to have Microsoft Exchange. […]
🤦

To digital natives, Microsoft's IT stack makes Google's look like a model of sanity
Comment: A millennial does battle with Redmond's enterprise tools and comes away reeling

2,750 store global mall retailer with over 200 stores in UK files another #Chapter11 #bankruptcy proceeding , it's second since #prepandemic 2018.
Claire’s Holdings LLC retail brand focused on

Dienstag: S-pushTAN-Verfahren unzureichend, Trump bremst BYD in Mexiko aus
Kundenauthentifizierung zu schwach BYD-Werk in Brasilien eröffnet Kritik vom Verkehrsminister Gegenwind für Schiedsverfahren Gericht verwirft Gutscheine

Goeie zaak. Ik weet nog maar al te goed dat mijn zoontje van 6 maanden oud wekenlang in het ZH lag en wens dat niemand toe.
Eerste baby's ingeënt tegen het gevaarlijke RS-virus https://nos.nl/l/2581625

Eerste baby's ingeënt tegen het gevaarlijke RS-virus
Jaarlijks belanden een paar duizend baby's in het ziekenhuis na infectie. Dankzij de prik kan dit nu grotendeels voorkomen worden.

Chicago has natural defenses. Texas boys will look up, get a crick in their necks, and fall into the river.

Trump is attending the U.S. Open on Sunday as a guest of Rolex despite imposing steep tariffs on the Swiss watchmaker’s home country
-- and with organizers seeking to keep any audience booing of him from being seen on the TV broadcast.
Trump has built the bulk of his second term’s domestic travel around attending major sports events rather than hitting the road to make policy announcements or address the kind of large rallies he so relished as a candidate
⭐️Let's make th…

Trump's US Open visit lead to boos, long security lines
President Donald Trump attended the U.S. Open on Sunday, drawing boos from the crowd. His presence delayed the men's final due to heightened security, causing long lines for many people who didn't make it in before play started. Trump briefly appeared before the event, receiving mixed reactions from the then-mostly empty Arthur Ashe Stadium. During the National Anthem, he was shown on the big screen, which increased the volume of boos. Boos got more intense later in the match. Organizers delaye…

Things are moving fast in cyber world, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical developments you should know, including
--ShinyHunters is extorting Red Hat, LAPSUS$ teen in UK custody may be connected,
--Jaguar Land Rover to resume production at some sites,
--Apple faces French probe over Siri recordings,
--SEC probes AppLovin's data collection practices,
--Google's CodeMender is a security Swiss army knife,
--Prankster tells W…

ShinyHunters is extorting Red Hat, LAPSUS$ teen in UK custody may be connected
Jaguar Land Rover to resume production at some sites, Apple faces French probe over Siri recordings, SEC probes AppLovin's data collection practices, Google's CodeMender is a security Swiss army knife, Prankster tells WSU students their degrees no longer count, much more

Oh hey, good things do happen even in the darkest times. Yarvin is taking about fleeing the country.
The thinks that Trump's fascism is failing (which it is) and tha Trump is incapable of doing what it takes to actually hold power. He's afraid of vengeance, which is honestly unlikely given how completely useless the democrats actually are. But I'm glad he's afraid. I hope he runs away to Russia, gets drafted and deployed to Ukraine, and eats a drone.
I also hope he can somehow convince Thiel to be afraid, but I think that's unlikely.
The fact is that if Trump fails, which I think he will (and Yarvin thinks it could be soon), it won't be because of Democratic leadership. It will be because of antifascist organizing and community resistence. We will have, once again, kept ourselves safe while the DNC argued over how much of their values they should abandon and how much of the left to sacrifice to "get votes."
#USPol

Chinese silicon wafer manufacturers like Eswin have rapidly gained market share by undercutting global leaders, such as Japan's Shin-Etsu Chemical, on price (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology…

In silicon wafers, China's emerging local stars rattle global giants
Japan has long led in key chip material, but Chinese rivals like Eswin catch up

Trump reportedly told Zelensky he's not responsible for US arms halt to Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/08/trump-reportedly-told-zelensky-hes.html

Now having a debate about whether. Kim Larsen's version of Kringsat av Fjender counts as "positive" and indeed "European"...
what do you think? On Qobuz:
#DancingWithTheEuropeans 🇬🇧 that @qobuz brought to my attention today -> surely there are some slightly more uplifting variants? We have a continent wide music contest every year after all!
Husband suggest Joost's Europapa 🇳🇱or perhaps TransEurope Express 🇩🇪 and kids came up with From Paris to Berlin by Infernal  🇩🇰, but pretty sure there are other options.
Will make a playlist for a party with this as theme so #Fedibrain - what would you add?

2025 NFL preseason, Week 1: What We Learned from Thursday's tripleheader https://www.nfl.com/news/2025-nfl-preseason-week-1-what-we-learned-from-thursday-s-tripleheader

Brian Schottenheimer's thoughts, takeaways from Cowboys' joint practice https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/brian-schottenheimer-s-thoughts-takeaways-from-cowboys-joint-practice

It's raining men in Putin's Russia.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15165663/Publisher-famous-Soviet-newspaper-Pravda-falls-death-seventh-floor-window.html

The H.E.S.S. Gravitational Wave and Gamma-Ray Burst Follow-Up Programs
Bernardo Cornejo (on behalf of the H.E.S.S. Collaboration), Halim Ashkar (on behalf of the H.E.S.S. Collaboration), Matteo Cerruti (on behalf of the H.E.S.S. Collaboration), Ilja Jaroschewski (on behalf of the H.E.S.S. Collaboration), Pierre Pichard (on behalf of the H.E.S.S. Collaboration), Santiago Pita (on behalf of the H.E.S.S. Collaboration), Fabian Schussler (on behalf of the H.E.S.S. Collaboration)

The H.E.S.S. Gravitational Wave and Gamma-Ray Burst Follow-Up Programs
Multi-wavelength and multi-messenger astrophysics have experienced rapid growth over the past decade, seeking a complete picture of different cosmic phenomena. Transient sources, in particular, benefit from the input of multi-messenger observations, offering complementary perspectives on the same event while maximizing the detection probability of a rapidly fading signal. In this context, Gravitational Wave (GW) detections serve as perfect triggers for potential counterpart detections. Notably,…

Subthreshold poles in electron-positron annihilation. $\rm D_s^ \rm D_s^-$ final state
Peter Lichard, Josef Jur\'a\v{n}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05181

Subthreshold poles in electron-positron annihilation. $\rm D_s^+\rm D_s^-$ final state
We present the evidence of a subthreshold pole in the $e^+ e^-\rightarrow \rm D_s^+\rm D_s^-$ process, which can be interpreted as an excited (2p) state of the $\rm D_s^+\rm D_s^-$ molecule with a binding energy of (28.1$^{+12.1}_{-9.3}$)~MeV.

"If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose."
-Anthony Hopkins
#acting #coaching

Trump celebrated the start of his long-awaited tariffs Thursday,
— though economists say the cost of the import taxes will probably get passed on to U.S. consumers and businesses.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the federal government could collect $50 billion a month in tariff revenue,
which Trump administration officials hope will be a boon to the U.S.'s dismal financial health.

U.S. stocks finished mixed Thursday, as investors appeared unbothered by the …

Trump’s tariffs take effect, potentially upending global trade and prices
New import taxes kick in on goods from dozens of U.S. trading partners.

Isaiah Pola-Mao picks up on Lock's read with INT https://www.nfl.com/videos/isaiah-pola-mao-picks-up-on-lock-s-read-with-int

Hmm. There's an unsecured "Bedroom Speaker" on my wifi scan. Wonder how much mischief that's asking for.

"It's now been a week, and I checked again: Joshua's 'HIGHLY secure' server is still running a version of Apache with multiple known critical vulnerabilities. And even with plenty of time to fix the issue, he still hasn't."
https://micahflee.com/icebl…

ICEBlock handled my vulnerability report in the worst possible way
Last week, I wrote about how Joshua Aaron's ICEBlock app, which allows people to anonymously report ICE sightings within a 5-mile radius, is – unfortunately, and despite apparent good intentions – activism theater. This was based on Joshua's talk at HOPE where he made it clear that he isn't taking the advice

Chiefs-Jaguars on 'Monday Night Football': What We Learned from Jacksonville's 31-28 win https://www.nfl.com/news/chiefs-jaguars-on-monday-night-football-what-we-learned-from-jacksonville-s-31-28-win

Jensen Huang says AMD's deal to offer 10% of itself to OpenAI is "surprising" and "imaginative" considering AMD was "so excited about" its next-generation chip (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/08/nvidia-huang-amd-open-ai.html

Nvidia's Huang says he's surprised AMD offered 10% of the company in 'clever' OpenAI deal
The deal includes a warrant for OpenAI to buy up to a 10% stake in AMD.

Have been on this bus an hour since leaving Manchester airport. It's still in Manchester. It's supposed to be an *express* bus to Leeds. According to the timetable it's faster (and certainly cheaper) than the train.
Beginning to have some serious doubts about public transport in UK.
Regretting my choices.

Ukraine's ambassador to the US to be dismissed, source says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/08/ukraines-ambassador-to-the-us.html

Cowboys All-Pro Tyler Smith proves he's one of team's key leaders https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-all-pro-tyler-smith-proves-hes-one-of-teams-key-leaders

There was once a machine that told you "you want this" and "this is good." It said, "there can be no better system and it's foolish to try to build one." That machine has long since failed to function. Now you choke on fumes as it is consumed by the wild flames of an abandoned cause.
That machine could not possibly work anymore because the evidence of it's falsehood has become too overwhelming.
No, only abject terror now can keep you from plotting your escape, from creating an alternative. No, the illusion has long since broken. All that's left now is triggering fight, flight, freeze as hard as possible. Most will be paralyzed, and those who fight can be used as an excuse to escalate the terror.
These are the final stages of a dying sun, expanding and consuming it's children before the final supernova.
There is no longer a stable system, no longer a system with a future. All that remains is the spectacle that hopes to distract you long enough that you too can be consumed, that it may sustain itself a few moments longer.

Spent the afternoon looking at exhibits about resistance and protest at the Chicago History Museum.
https://www.chicagohistory.org/

250 years, wars on multiple continents, millions sworn to protect and uphold it, and Mango Zedong decides to Barbara Streisand Effect it by removing key sections.
At least the Seize-her Geezer is bad at being a monstrous dictator.

https://techcrunch.com…

Key sections of the US Constitution deleted from government's website | TechCrunch
Internet sleuths say the U.S. Constitution's website is now missing key sections from its website, including a key legal provision relating to habeas corpus, which protects citizens from unlawful detention.

The Supreme Court on July 8 lifted a federal judge's order pausing the Trump administration's large-scale staffing cuts and agency restructuring,
boosting the president's campaign to bleed the federal bureaucracy to death
In an unsigned and brief opininon, the justices said they are not ruling on the legality of a specific reorganization plan.
But, the court said, the judge was wrong to stop the administration from moving ahead with such plans.
The mass fe…

Supreme Court lets Trump move forward with large-scale staff cuts for now — USA TODAY
A U.S. district judge in San Francisco had temporarily blocked large-scale federal layoffs known as "reductions in force."

A deep dive on Huawei's Ascend AI chip production, SMIC, TSMC, US export controls, HBM bottlenecks, China's HBM issues, Huawei's data center chips, and more (SemiAnalysis)
https://semianalysis.com/2025/09/08/hu

Huawei Ascend Production Ramp: Die Banks, TSMC Continued Production, HBM is The Bottleneck
Compute is the lifeblood of AI. He who controls the spice controls the universe the compute will control the production of tokens and reap the benefits of AI. Without compute you do not have a seat…

There is no "illegal immigration crisis." It's a fraud.
Immigrants built the United States of America.
At the beginning of the 20th century, around 75 percent of Chicago residents were either immigrants or first-generation.
The right-wing demonizing of immigrants is pure evil.

Cowboys All-Pro Tyler Smith proves he's one of team's key leaders https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-all-pro-tyler-smith-proves-hes-one-of-teams-key-leaders

NFL's longest playoff droughts that could end this year, plus a new season of Netflix's best NFL show is here

https://www.cbssports.com…

Because this has shown up trending every couple of days for the last week or so, these are not clowns from #Portland. These are clowns from Germany in 2007. #PDX has it's own creative resistence. Let's celebrate the real things they're doing right now.
If you see this picture with the wrong info, please help correct it and don't boost it. It's a great picture. I understand wanting it to be what's happening right now.
I'm just pulling all this info from the other folks who've been debunking it. Thanks to everyone who works hard to keep us all honest.
Receipts:
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/police-injured-in-germany-as-radicals-disrupt-2557545.php

A number of companies, including many of the country's most quintessentially American brands,
have warned that growing anti-Americanism as a result of Donald Trump's tariffs
could end up hurting their success overseas.
Experts believe that the trend,
if it translates into a broad-based shift in consumer behavior,
could prove to be a significant headwind for the companies
while taking a significant toll on the broader U.S. economy.

Major US Brands Sound Alarm Over Rising Anti-American Sentiment
A number of all-American companies have noted an uptick in anti-U.S. sentiment linked to ongoing trade and political tensions.

You don't want to miss today's extra-packed Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know today, including
--Microsoft enabled Israeli spy agency's mass surveillance of Palestinians' mobile calls,
--Cisco's registered web users disclosed in a likely Salesforce breach-related vishing attack,
--Google confirms customer theft in Salesforce breach-related incident,
--Broadcom chip flaw exposes millions of Dell laptops to attack, …

Microsoft enabled Israeli spy agency's mass surveillance of Palestinians' mobile calls
Cisco's registered web users disclosed in a likely Salesforce breach-related vishing attack, Google confirms customer theft in Salesforce breach-related incident, Broadcom chip flaw exposes millions of Dell laptops to attack, MSFT's Project Ire can ID malware with AI, much more

Index Ventures is set to receive $11B in proceeds after Figma's IPO, Google's Wiz acquisition, and Meta's investment in Scale AI, which paid out shareholders (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/figm

I don't know how stupid you have to be to believe sending the National Guard into a metropolitan city is going to stop crime, but we're certainly assembling a data set.

Jake Ferguson's fiancée Haley Cavinder drops 2-word reaction on cozy sideline moments from Cowboys vs Eagles [PICS] https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/news-jake-ferguson-s-fiancee-haley-cavinder-drops-2…

Chiefs vs. Jaguars Week 5 inactives: Players ruled out for Monday's game https://www.nfl.com/news/chiefs-vs-jaguars-week-5-inactives-players-ruled-out-for-monday-s-game

My blog -- which I haven't updated since 2019 -- was off the air for an unknown amount of time due to a Debian update that removed MariaDB. Finally got around to fixing that today. It "only" has posts going back to 2005, when I switched to Drupal. Before that I posted hundreds of entries over several years using software I wrote for myself. Somewhere I might have those files.

Data shows WLFI's sharp drop was driven by shorting and dumping across exchanges, not Justin Sun's token movements; WLFI blames phishing-related compromises (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/09/0

WLFI News: If They Can Do it to Sun, Who's Next?' Say Insiders as WLFI Claims Freeze Was to 'Protect Users'
Onchain data shows WLFI’s sharp drop was driven by shorting and dumping across exchanges – not Justin Sun's token movements – while the project says wallet freezes targeted phishing-related compromises, not market participants.

Jerry Jones on looking at trades, Dak Prescott's play and more https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/jerry-jones-on-looking-at-trades-dak-prescott-s-play-and-more

Historian Timothy Snyder lists eerie similarities between how Stalin came to power and how Stephen Miller came to power.
https://snyder.substack.com/p/stalinism-and-stephen-miller-video
So now I'm watching "The Death of Stalin" streaming.

Nebraska's Mike Flood got an earful from voters.
He's still standing by Trump's agenda
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/07/nx-s1-5493449/mike-flood-town-hall-trump-a…

Tory Horton hype train builds steam with TD in Seahawks rookie WR's preseason debut https://www.nfl.com/news/tory-horton-hype-train-builds-steam-with-td-in-seahawks-rookie-wr-s-preseason-debut

SignalFire: as the AI talent race explodes, Anthropic is hiring engineers 2.68x faster than losing them, above OpenAI's 2.18x, Meta's 2.07x, and Google's 1.17x (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles…

The Senate has confirmed Herschel Walker as ambassador to the Bahamas. He is a perfect representative of the Trump administration, an embarrassing ignoramus.

Kirk Cousins felt 'misled' when Falcons drafted Michael Penix Jr.: Knowing Atlanta's plan 'would've affected my decision' https://www.nfl.com/news/kirk-cousins-felt-misle…

The U.S. could tumble into recession before seeing Trump’s promised golden age
The labor market has basically stalled since Trump kicked off his “Liberation Day” tariff offensive in April.
Some on Wall Street are mulling the likelihood of a recession.

“The odds are close to 50/50, maybe more,” said Neil Dutta,
head of economic research at Renaissance Macro Research in New York.
“The case for a slowdown is pretty compelling.”

Administration officials dismiss …

Analysis | The U.S. could tumble into recession before seeing Trump’s promised golden age
The U.S. economy is at risk of entering a recession before President Trump’s promised golden age, with weak job growth and high inflation blamed on his policies.

Trump is a mob boss who operates by threats and intimidation, so his claim that furloughed fed employees will not necessarily get back pay should be viewed as such.

Sources: NIST withheld publishing an AI safety report and several other AI documents at the end of Biden's term to avoid clashing with the Trump administration (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-biden-administrations-u…

Inside the US Government's Unpublished Report on AI Safety
The National Institute of Standards and Technology conducted a groundbreaking study on frontier models just before Donald Trump's second term as president—and never published the results.

Every time a credulous reporter chases a bogus marketing stunt like "Maxwell House" renaming to "Maxwell Apartment," journalism in general loses more credibility points. In a world that includes Fox and Newsmax, journalism can't afford that.

Eagles takeaways from preseason opener: Tanner McKee shows he's top-32 QB in NFL; Will Shipley proves he's RB2

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/…

And it turns out that what we thought was the bottom, wasn't the bottom.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/10/07/federal-workers-not-entitled-back-pay-after-shutdown-budget-office-says/

Trump signs an EO clearing a path to add alternative assets like PE and cryptocurrencies into 401(k)s, instructing the US Secretary of Labor to review guidance (Sarah Min/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/07/trump-orde

Trump signs order allowing alternative assets like cryptocurrencies, private equity in 401(k)s
The executive order directs the U.S. Secretary of Labor to review fiduciary guidance on private market investments in 401(k) and other defined-contribution plans that are governed by ERISA.

Durbin to Bondi
in this morning's Senate hearing:
"Although you've been a registered foreign agent for Qatar,
you didn't recuse yourself from signing off on Trump's solicitation of a free jet from the royal family,
even though this gift was clearly illegal.
Connections to Bondi seem to yield more favorable outcomes for defendants."

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Durbin to Bondi: "Although you've been a registered foreign agent for Qatar, you didn't recuse yourself from signing off on Trump's solicitation of a free jet from the royal family, even though this gift was clearly illegal. Connections to Bondi seem to yield more favorable outcomes for defendants."

The most dense substance on earth is the mind of an antivax weirdo.

Meta updates Reels on Facebook to prioritize showing fresher and more-relevant content, and adds AI search suggestions and friend bubbles like on Instagram (Katelyn Chedraoui/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/news/social-media/fac

Facebook's Algorithm Update Aims to Show You Newer Reels You'll Actually Like, Even if It's AI
Facebook's vice president of product, Jagjit Chawla, talks about how the platform treats AI-generated content and how you can see less of it.

NFL Power Rankings, Week 6: Lions leapfrog Bills and Eagles to claim No. 1 spot; Chargers keep falling https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-power-rankings-week-6-2025-nfl-season

Adding RSS support to @openvibe.social is a great idea, but the implementation drowns the unified feed that is the real reason for using the app in the first place.

Actual profile of an Instagram bot:
"Passionate about creating, inspiring, and making a difference. Exploring new horizons every day"

Trump tried to pull this crap with the 2020 Census and was stopped by people who insisted on obeying the law.

As Amazon Prime Day begins, some merchants say they can't afford to offer discounts due to Trump's tariffs; Adobe expects $23.8B in sales across the four days (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Malort is Chicago's answer to lutefisk and haggis.

FDT #chicago