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Open Market: Top options for OLB shift in Cowboys' defense https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/open-market-top-options-for-olb-shift-in-cowboys-defense

A Healthy Shift
Dedicated to helping shift workers and night shift workers take control of their health, well-being, and performance...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/a-healthy-shift/

Germany is facing calls to withdraw its billions of euros’ worth of gold from US vaults,
spurred on by the shift in transatlantic relations and the unpredictability of Donald Trump.
Germany holds the world’s second biggest national gold reserves after the US,
of which approximately €164bn (£122bn) worth
– 1,236 tonnes
– is stored in New York.
Emanuel Mönch,
a leading economist and former head of research at Germany’s federal bank, the Bundesbank,

Still trying to explain Trump's tariffs as economic policy, instead of tools to gain leverage on countries and companies 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤦 https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/trumps-new-tariffs-shift-focus-balance-payme…

Japan's Sakana AI launches Sakana Chat, its first consumer chatbot, marking a shift from its business focus as competition to localize generative AI intensifies (Tsubasa Suruga/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Sakana AI enters chatbot race with Japan-tailored model
Tokyo-based startup bets on cultural alignment to stand out in crowded field

"Antarctic penguins have radically shifted their breeding season – seemingly in response to climate change"
#Antarctic #Penguins #Climate

CrowdStrike’s latest annual Global Threat Report finds AI-driven attacks up, zero-day exploitation surging, and nation-state actors doubling down on cloud and edge device compromise.
Find out more in my latest CSO piece on what CrowdStrike is calling the shift toward evasive adversaries.
https…

The rise of the evasive adversary
CrowdStrike’s latest annual Global Threat Report finds AI-driven attacks up 89%, zero-day exploitation surging, and nation-state actors doubling down on cloud and edge device compromise.

Gabbard plans to shift coveted, CIA-backed high-tech fund to her office (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/23/in-q-tel-odni-cia-control-00840302
http://www.memeorandum.com/260323/p113#a260323p113

Popular media shows Santa's sleigh as red no matter which way it's flying, or even when it's standing still.
It's not. When it's parked, it's green. But most observers only see it flying away after making a delivery, hence the red shift.
And if you're lucky to see it inbound it's blue with a hint of UV-A. Wear sunglasses.

Perplexity's retreat from ads signals a strategic shift as it recognizes its product is not for a mass audience and expects growth to come from enterprise sales (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/perplexity-ads-shift-search-google/

Perplexity’s Retreat From Ads Signals a Bigger Strategic Shift
The AI search startup once predicted advertising would be a massive business. Now it's betting on a smaller, more valuable audience.

William Safire's Rules for Writers:
Remember to never split an infinitive. The passive voice should never be
used. Do not put statements in the negative form. Verbs have to agree with
their subjects. Proofread carefully to see if you words out. If you reread
your work, you can find on rereading a great deal of repetition can be
avoided by rereading and editing. A writer must not shift your point of
view. And don't start a sentence with a conjunct…

Broken #shift6mq #postmarketos phone - oops I did it again...
Be very careful with #qbootctl because it can brick your phone.

If it's not in your vault, it's not your gold.
‘Repatriate the gold’: German economists advise withdrawal from US vaults | Germany | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/24/repatriate-the-gol…

Posted 55 weeks ago, and always relevant. Especially on calls with three coaching clients today.
tl;dr—
Moods are always tangled with assessments (opinions/interpretations). When you want to shift (or nurture) a mood, you can examine the assessments associated with it… See if they’re grounded or not… See if their actions you can take about them or not.
In my experience that simple process reliably moves moods. 
(Want to know more? Let me know!)

Your Moods and This Moment
If you've followed my work or writing for any length of time, you've probably noticed that I've written a lot recently about moods. And that working with moods is a central element of the ontological coaching I do with my clients.

#RedHat is looking for a senior engineer to drive a Red Hat-wide cryptography strategy: https://redhat.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/jobs/job/…

Principal Product Security Engineer
Job Title: Principal Product Security Engineer, Cryptographic Architect Red Hat's products form the foundation of the enterprise IT landscape, and the trust in those products is built on cryptography. As the cryptographic landscape faces its greatest shift in a generation—the transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC)—Red Hat is building out our portfolio team to govern our cryptographic future. We are forming a Portfolio Crypto Team, a strategic partnership between Product Security and …

Rethink Efficiency Side of Neural Combinatorial Solver: An Offline and Self-Play Paradigm
Zhenxing Xu, Zeyuan Ma, Weidong Bao, Hui Yan, Yan Zheng, Ji Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20730 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20730 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20730
arXiv:2602.20730v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We propose ECO, a versatile learning paradigm that enables efficient offline self-play for Neural Combinatorial Optimization (NCO). ECO addresses key limitations in the field through: 1) Paradigm Shift: Moving beyond inefficient online paradigms, we introduce a two-phase offline paradigm consisting of supervised warm-up and iterative Direct Preference Optimization (DPO); 2) Architecture Shift: We deliberately design a Mamba-based architecture to further enhance the efficiency in the offline paradigm; and 3) Progressive Bootstrapping: To stabilize training, we employ a heuristic-based bootstrapping mechanism that ensures continuous policy improvement during training. Comparison results on TSP and CVRP highlight that ECO performs competitively with up-to-date baselines, with significant advantage on the efficiency side in terms of memory utilization and training throughput. We provide further in-depth analysis on the efficiency, throughput and memory usage of ECO. Ablation studies show rationale behind our designs.
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Perplexity's retreat from ads signals a strategic shift as it recognizes its product is not for a mass audience and expects growth to come from enterprise sales (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/perplexity-ads-shift-search-google/

Perplexity’s Retreat From Ads Signals a Bigger Strategic Shift
The AI search startup once predicted advertising would be a massive business. Now it's betting on a smaller, more valuable audience.

I was wondering when the question of international gold storage in New York would come up.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/24/repatriate-the-gold-german-economists-advise-withdrawal-from-us-vaults

‘Repatriate the gold’: German economists advise withdrawal from US vaults
Shift in relations and unpredictability of Donald Trump make it ‘risky to store so much gold in the US’, say experts

US offshore wind project killed:
The United States and French ‌energy major TotalEnergies said on Monday they would redirect nearly $1 billion from offshore wind leases to U.S. oil and natural gas production.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/ce

From that observer who was taken yesterday, shared here with permission, because we could all use a good laugh. (Note: Whipple is the fed bldg that’s ICE’s MSP HQ)
❝So here’s my story about returning to the world…
When they let you out of Whipple, they give you back your personal effects (minus your phone). And just send you out the front door with whatever you were wearing when you came in.
So I’m walking out the front door of Whipple, probably looking like an ice agent coming off shift, and pulling all of my random shit out of my bag/dropping it in the snowbank, etc.… And I can hear the protesters at the gate, taunting me… “oh did you drop your phone, you piece of shit?” “You’re TERRIBLE!” “Fucking Nazi!” And I was just loving it, actually. But when I got closer and used my big voice “You assholes are barking up the wrong tree…. These MF’ers just released me!” The crowd went absolutely crazy.❞

VW in talks with Israel's Iron Dome maker to shift from cars to missile defence (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1e41e6db-792f-4f60-b567-adb6458fb072
http://www.memeorandum.com/260324/p135#a260324p135

Amidst all the buzz around things like Gas Town and Ralph, etc. there are some bits of actual substance that promise to actually empower coders — and potentially shift the power dynamic away from Big AI, while making it easier to create software just by describing ideas in plain text. I've been thinking of the idea as "codeless" software creation, for lack of a better term (the jargon doesn't matter, I just needed a name to talk about it) and would love your thoughts!

Codeless: From idea to software
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

I recently chatted with Tabitha Fritz of the Canadian Business History Association about my research on the wealth management strategies of the Wendat couple and snowshoe and moccasin manufacturers Marguerite Vincent La8inonkie (1783-1865) and Paul Picard Honda8onhont (1788-1871).
From the 1830s, they shift from investment in land to investment in mortgages, whereby they provided capital to their French-Canadian neighbours in exchange for annual interest payments.

"This is a mycelial movement of transformation—a tectonic shift from 'power-over' to 'power-with' bursting beneath the cracks of crumbling institutions."
Insight from Sam King '22 M.A.R. of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology in his new piece "Reimagining the Law of the Jungle." https://

We had the first over 100°F (38°C) day here almost TWO MONTHS before it normally happens, while it was still WINTER. Topping out at 108°F (42°C).
Wonder when they’ll shift from “there’s no climate change” to “climate change is caused by the woke”.

Paradigm Shift in the Palmetto State: A New Approach to Online Protection-by-Design
https://fpf.org/blog/paradigm-shift-in-the-palmetto-state-a-new-approach-to-online-protection-by-design/
@…

Sources: Meta aims to enter the stablecoin space in H2, with plans to integrate a vendor to administer stablecoin-backed payments and implement a new wallet (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is planning stablecoin comeback in the second half amid U.S. regulatory shift
The Facebook owner’s stablecoin integration involves planning a third party vendor to help administer stablecoin-based payments and a new wallet to be implemented, sources said.

Paradigm shifts always have a tipping point, where we collectively shift from one to the other.
I think the Mark Carney/Trump speeches at Davos might be one of those moments we can all collectively look back at and know, "yep, that's when that happened *officially*”

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #20thCenturyRadicals
Christina Kubisch & Christina Kubisch:
🎵 Five Electrical Walks - V. Night Shift
#ChristinaKubisch

$T^{-3}$-shift in a short-baseline atomic interferometer-gravimeter
D. N. Kapusta, A. E. Bonert, A. N. Goncharov, V. I. Yudin, K. N. Adamov, A. V. Taichenachev, M. Yu. Basalaev, M. D. Radchenko, O. N. Prudnikov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21202

The point-guard mentality didn't just make Sam Darnold better. It's a useful mental trick https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6990248/2026/01/23/the-point-guard-mentality-didnt-just-make-sam-darnold-be…

High-Dimensional Robust Mean Estimation with Untrusted Batches
Maryam Aliakbarpour, Vladimir Braverman, Yuhan Liu, Junze Yin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20698 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20698 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20698
arXiv:2602.20698v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study high-dimensional mean estimation in a collaborative setting where data is contributed by $N$ users in batches of size $n$. In this environment, a learner seeks to recover the mean $\mu$ of a true distribution $P$ from a collection of sources that are both statistically heterogeneous and potentially malicious. We formalize this challenge through a double corruption landscape: an $\varepsilon$-fraction of users are entirely adversarial, while the remaining ``good'' users provide data from distributions that are related to $P$, but deviate by a proximity parameter $\alpha$.
Unlike existing work on the untrusted batch model, which typically measures this deviation via total variation distance in discrete settings, we address the continuous, high-dimensional regime under two natural variants for deviation: (1) good batches are drawn from distributions with a mean-shift of $\sqrt{\alpha}$, or (2) an $\alpha$-fraction of samples within each good batch are adversarially corrupted. In particular, the second model presents significant new challenges: in high dimensions, unlike discrete settings, even a small fraction of sample-level corruption can shift empirical means and covariances arbitrarily.
We provide two Sum-of-Squares (SoS) based algorithms to navigate this tiered corruption. Our algorithms achieve the minimax-optimal error rate $O(\sqrt{\varepsilon/n} \sqrt{d/nN} \sqrt{\alpha})$, demonstrating that while heterogeneity $\alpha$ represents an inherent statistical difficulty, the influence of adversarial users is suppressed by a factor of $1/\sqrt{n}$ due to the internal averaging afforded by the batch structure.
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1 Way to Solve the Raiders' Pass-Rush Conundrum https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-1-way-to-solve-pass-rush-conundrum

Marc Andreessen claiming that he "doesn't do introspection" is just another building block in the attempt to shift the definition of "person" in a way to allow "AI"s to gain rights.

'Structural shift'— EU ban on Russian gas set to harm Moscow long term, despite loopholes: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/07/structural-shift-eu-ban-on.html

Left-leaning French alternative media startups surged over the past decade amid the country's rightward shift and consolidation of billionaire media ownership (Christopher Clark/Nieman Reports)
https://niemanreports.org/french-media-blast-mediapart-lag…

France’s Independent Press Fights Back - Nieman Reports
Alternative media startups in France see themselves as a bulwark against billionaires and the far right. Can they survive? 

Cowboys Noticeable Absence at Christian Parker Introduction Signals Power Shift https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/cowboys-noticeable-absence-at-christian-parker-introduction-signals-power-shift

Comments by heads of Amazon, Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI and others, many delivered at the World Economic Forum in Davos, reveal a shift of narrative from optimistic inevitability towards recognition of geopolitical tensions, energy scarcity, economic bubbles and the race to make AI truly useful.
https://www.

Big tech leaders opine on the future of AI
Big tech leaders have been opining this week, on the future of AI, taking on the bubble talk, resource constraints and opportunities.

"In short, [the bond markets] fret that the government might shift towards the interests of working people. They are relying on the spectre of market chaos to exorcise that spectre."
Majority want major shift left– but can the opportunity be seized? | Morning Star
https://www.

>People: "Why did you learn programming if you don't wanna work in IT anymore?"
>Me: "So I can make stuff that makes my life easier"
(made a little script that helps me to calculate how much wheel torque I have at redline for each gear - allowing me to calculate whether I should shift earlier or not)

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@Hex/116261543716154268
The idea behind this comes from the intro to Ostrom's Governing the Commons. She points out that the Tragedy of the Commons happens when actors can be modeled as prisoners with no coordination. By increasing communication, we can create opportunities to shift away from the tragedy. Today, the climate crisis is very much a grand Tragedy of the Commons problem. A solution would be to build a (bottom up) coordinated carbon budget, and a community like described could be a low effort first step towards that.

Are you keeping up with the shift in how research data is managed and shared?
Next week, Microsoft and LLPA are hosting two free webinars showing how cloud platforms can make good research data practices easier to implement and sustain.
🔗 Save a seat for the 24 March webinar: https://events.geant.org/event/2119/

Extreme rainfall is worsening algal blooms along South Korea's coast #SouthKorea

Extreme rainfall is worsening algal blooms along South Korea's coast
Extreme rainfall is reshaping coastal waters along South Korea's shoreline, flushing nutrients from land into the sea and fueling the growth of algal blooms. A new multi-year study, published in Frontiers in Marine Science, tracked water quality in and around a major river estuary and shows how intense downpours can shift where and when these blooms appear, with consequences for marine ecosystems and coastal communities.

„One tactic of fascism is to shift the scales of political alignment: centrists become stalwarts of the radical left; moms become ‚domestic terrorists.‘ Everyone with a whistle becomes antifa. And actually, that last part is correct—or at least it should be. A general strike has been called for Friday, January 23. With luck, thousands of Minnesotans will join in on what many further left are already doing: stopping business as usual and withdrawing their consent from fascism. Among many thin…

One of my New Year's resolution is about watching (and reviewing) a bit more movies this year. So I thought I might as well share (some of) those reviews here:
https://letterboxd.com/njamster/film/late-shift-2025/
This (fictional) film follows the protagonist throu…

A ★★★★★ review of Late Shift (2025)
Pretty much what I expected after watching the trailer: A very stressful, yet extremely well-made movie with an important message. Guess this won't be for everyone (and especially: not every mood), but for what it [i]wants[/i] to be, it's absolutely perfect! At first, I was a bit worried about it being too black-and-white when absolutely everybody seemed angry, hostile and impatient. But in the end, the script turned out a lot more nuanced than I thought (most evident in the "lost watch" subplo…

Big Insurers Try to Shift Blame for High Health Costs to Hospitals and Drug Makers (Reed Abelson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/health/health-insurers-obamacare-congress.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260122/p144#a260122p144

Germany U-turns, Won't Intervene on Israel's Behalf in ICJ Gaza Genocide Case - @…
https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/2026-03-19/ty-article/germany-u-turns-wont-intervene-on-israels-behalf-in-icj-gaza-genocide-case/0000019d-05c2-d65b-abfd-95deeaff0000
Archive https://archive.ph/P3UBr
This marks a shift from Germany's January 2024 stance, when it backed Israel in the case. Berlin says its decision not to intervene stems from its own ICJ defense in a case accusing it of violating international law by supporting Israel's war in Gaza

curtis sliwa has a new substack where he talks abt how listening to the chainsmokers healed his soul from the stress of campaigning against mamdani and cuomo, and ofc brings up the one cab story again for the millionth time
https://curtissliwa.substack.com/p/the-beats-tha…

America's power grid is going through a massive shift. Solar and wind will jump to 21% of electricity generation by 2027, while fossil fuels drop to 72%.
Utility-scale solar is leading the charge, especially in Texas, paired with expanding battery storage to smooth out fluctuations. Coal's taking the biggest hit—down 5% annually.

Solar Power Generation Drives Electricity Generation Growth Over The Next Two Years - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Electricity generation by the U.S. electric power sector totaled about 4,260 billion kilowatthours (BkWh) in 2025. In our latest Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), we expect U.S. electricity generation will grow by 1.1% in 2026 and by 2.6% in 2027, when it reaches ... [continued]

The vibe shift in the EU and Canada over the weekend is unlike anything I've ever seen.
US hegemony in military and economic alliances is effectively dead.
History will look back and wonder how the elites in power not only did nothing to stop it but cheered it on willingly!
https://bsky.app/profi…

finally looked it up and
shift >
is how to increase the video speed on youtube. why i wait so long to look this up? the UI can be so slow!
#youtube

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Bob Marley & The Wailers:
🎵 Night Shift
#BobMarley #TheWailers
https://tributetobobmarleyandthewailerswiththeithrees.bandcamp.com/track/night-shift
https://open.spotify.com/track/3Q3FAtRyQBPdxoFNNNgUu1

"German renewable energy shift slowed in 2025"
#Germany #Energy #Renewables

German renewable energy shift slowed in 2025
The share of renewables in German power production almost stagnated in 2025, data showed Monday, as concerns grow about a shift away from green policies under conservative Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

Der #Golfstrom könnte uns vor einem #Kipppunkt im #Klimasystem warnen.
In einer hochauflösenden Simulation verschiebt er sich erst langsam, dann plötzlich um über 200 km nach Norden – rund…

Abrupt Gulf Stream path changes are a precursor to a collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation - Communications Earth & Environment
The northward shift and rapid displacement of the Gulf Stream provide an indirect early warning of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation weakening and collapse, revealed by both high-resolution ocean simulations and historical observations.

"Does your #AI Agent need a Workflow Agent?"
Hilarious and informative episode of:
"In Bed With The Right: Episode 122 – Tech’s Vibe Shift and AI Discourse"
Episode webpage: https://rss.com/podc…

Episode 122 -- Tech's Vibe Shift and AI Discourse | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
A few months ago, as part of the research for his forthcoming book What Tech Calls Governing, Adrian took a drive down Highway 101 from San Francisco to Palo Alto and back. This episode is about what the billboards along that stretch of highway tell us about Silicon Valley, about our tech elites, and about how technology is remaking society (it's not in the way you think).If you'd like to buy Adrian's book, it's available for pre-order in the German edition only for now.If you'd like to check o…

Unfortunately, I’m hearing what @… said through other channels as well: it appears to be nothing more than a geographic shift. Someone just posted that Roseville (north / northeast suburb) is “swimming in ICE” right now.
Godspeed to the suburbs right now. I hope we’ve been able to pass along enough of what we learned here in the heart of the city. The sprawl is going to make rapid response a lot harder out there….
(If you can’t view post: it just says ICE was swarming the southwest MSP suburbs yesterday.)
https://mspsocial.net/@paulference/115928364896531961

Q&A with recently departed OpenAI VP of Research Jerry Tworek, who claims OpenAI's shift toward more conservative ways made high-risk, pioneering work harder (Core Memory)
https://www.corememory.com/p/he-left-openai-jerry-tworek

He Left OpenAI To Think Bigger - EP 53 Jerry Tworek
Are all the AI superpowers playing it too safe?

Apple Podcasts' fresh leap into video podcasts accelerates the podcast industry's shift from an audio-centric medium to a decidedly video-focused one (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

Probing Graph Neural Network Activation Patterns Through Graph Topology
Floriano Tori, Lorenzo Bini, Marco Sorbi, St\'ephane Marchand-Maillet, Vincent Ginis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21092 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21092 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21092
arXiv:2602.21092v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Curvature notions on graphs provide a theoretical description of graph topology, highlighting bottlenecks and denser connected regions. Artifacts of the message passing paradigm in Graph Neural Networks, such as oversmoothing and oversquashing, have been attributed to these regions. However, it remains unclear how the topology of a graph interacts with the learned preferences of GNNs. Through Massive Activations, which correspond to extreme edge activation values in Graph Transformers, we probe this correspondence. Our findings on synthetic graphs and molecular benchmarks reveal that MAs do not preferentially concentrate on curvature extremes, despite their theoretical link to information flow. On the Long Range Graph Benchmark, we identify a systemic \textit{curvature shift}: global attention mechanisms exacerbate topological bottlenecks, drastically increasing the prevalence of negative curvature. Our work reframes curvature as a diagnostic probe for understanding when and why graph learning fails.
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On one hand, "carbon footprint" was made up by oil companies to shift the blame. On the other, commons management benefits from collaboration and social pressure. On that note, I've been thinking about starting a Lemmy community called "carbon challenge" where you can post about crazy things you do to reduce your fossil fuel consumption. For example, we moved apartments entirely by bike (like 10 trips with a bakfiets).
Would you join a community like that?
Yes
No

Who are the Dallas Cowboys Main Targets in the 2026 NFL Draft? https://insidethestar.com/who-are-the-dallas-cowboys-main-targets-in-the-2026-nfl-draft

SHIFT
Peter Hislop explores what it takes to leave the familiar behind and step into lives of moral ambition, resilience, and wild potential...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/shift/

Sources: Amazon plans to move its Prime Day sale from July to late June; the shift affects its financial reporting, with event sales coming in Q2 rather than Q3 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-12/ama…

Amazon Plans to Shift Annual Prime Day Sale to June From July
Amazon.com Inc. is moving up its annual Prime Day sale to June from July, according to people familiar with the matter, shifting the schedule for an event that’s become a big part of the e-commerce economy.

Ukraine sees shift in Russia's peace talks delegation as 'pseudo-historical lectures' end, foreign minister says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/27/ukraine-sees-shift-in-russias.html

Raiders poaching Broncos staff could shift balance in AFC West https://raiderramble.com/2026/01/07/raiders-poaching-broncos-staff-could-shift-balance-in-afc-west/

WeirNet: A Large-Scale 3D CFD Benchmark for Geometric Surrogate Modeling of Piano Key Weirs
Lisa L\"uddecke, Michael Hohmann, Sebastian Eilermann, Jan Tillmann-Mumm, Pezhman Pourabdollah, Mario Oertel, Oliver Niggemann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20714 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20714 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20714
arXiv:2602.20714v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reliable prediction of hydraulic performance is challenging for Piano Key Weir (PKW) design because discharge capacity depends on three-dimensional geometry and operating conditions. Surrogate models can accelerate hydraulic-structure design, but progress is limited by scarce large, well-documented datasets that jointly capture geometric variation, operating conditions, and functional performance. This study presents WeirNet, a large 3D CFD benchmark dataset for geometric surrogate modeling of PKWs. WeirNet contains 3,794 parametric, feasibility-constrained rectangular and trapezoidal PKW geometries, each scheduled at 19 discharge conditions using a consistent free-surface OpenFOAM workflow, resulting in 71,387 completed simulations that form the benchmark and with complete discharge coefficient labels. The dataset is released as multiple modalities compact parametric descriptors, watertight surface meshes and high-resolution point clouds together with standardized tasks and in-distribution and out-of-distribution splits. Representative surrogate families are benchmarked for discharge coefficient prediction. Tree-based regressors on parametric descriptors achieve the best overall accuracy, while point- and mesh-based models remain competitive and offer parameterization-agnostic inference. All surrogates evaluate in milliseconds per sample, providing orders-of-magnitude speedups over CFD runtimes. Out-of-distribution results identify geometry shift as the dominant failure mode compared to unseen discharge values, and data-efficiency experiments show diminishing returns beyond roughly 60% of the training data. By publicly releasing the dataset together with simulation setups and evaluation pipelines, WeirNet establishes a reproducible framework for data-driven hydraulic modeling and enables faster exploration of PKW designs during the early stages of hydraulic planning.
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The last couple of days have been relatively quiet in Minneapolis. ICE seems to have been much less active in the city, though everyone (including me) is sort of afraid to talk about that too much lest we jinx it.
They seem to have been more active in the suburbs, and maybe that’s all it is: a geographic shift.
Maybe the cold is keeping them inside. (A bunch of them are from places like TX and VA, and I’m sure they don’t know how to dress.)
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“Even though AI might not be at the point where it will overtake all these entry-level jobs now,
by the time I graduate, it likely will,” Mathew Ramirez said.
Ramirez is not alone in reshaping his career out of anxiety over AI.
As students like him are reconsidering their majors over concerns that AI may disrupt their employment prospects,
more established workers
– some with decades of experience
– are rethinking their trajectories because they’re encoun…

Sources: the US Senate's crypto market structure bill is likely to be delayed by several weeks as key lawmakers shift focus to potential housing legislation (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-21/…

This simple diet shift cut 330 calories a day without smaller meals #nutrition

This simple diet shift cut 330 calories a day without smaller meals
People who switch to a fully unprocessed diet don’t just eat differently—they eat smarter. Research from the University of Bristol shows that when people avoid ultra-processed foods, they naturally pile their plates with fruits and vegetables, eating over 50% more food by weight while still consuming hundreds fewer calories each day. This happens because whole foods trigger a kind of built-in “nutritional intelligence,” nudging people toward nutrient-rich, lower-calorie options.

NFL command center part of replacement ref plan https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48253174/sources-nfl-command-center-assist-replacement-refs-used

Incentives or Obligations? The U.S. Regulatory Approach to Voluntary AI Governance Standards
https://fpf.org/blog/incentives-or-obligations-the-u-s-regulatory-approach-to-voluntary-ai-governance-standards/

If humans keep heating the planet with greenhouse gases, the climate swing could lock Earth into a hothouse trajectory, as parts of the system feed on their own momentum, even if emissions are reduced later.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11022026/e…

Accelerated Global Warming Could Lock Earth Into a Hothouse Future - Inside Climate News
Scientists say warming is increasing faster than at any time in at least 3 million years. There is no guide for what comes next.

"Replacing 1m petrol cars with EVs could cut Australia’s reliance on foreign fuel by 1bn litres a year"
#Australia #EV #ElectricVehicles

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116074874092696186
I think this cultural shift actually started around 2008–2010, with the advent of crypto and the metastasizing of complex web frameworks that started to replace native apps.

Apple Podcasts' fresh leap into video podcasts accelerates the podcast industry's shift from an audio-centric medium to a decidedly video-focused one (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

Is MAGA in its cringe era? (Kara Voght/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2026/03/17/maga-cringe-vibe-shift/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260317/p50#a260317p50

A look at the AP's shift into video to generate DTC revenue; a source says US papers make up under 10% of its overall revenue and non-media clients are growing (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/associated-press-launc…

The Associated Press, With Long Ties to Print, Ramps Up Video Shows
The Associated Press, With Long Ties to Print, Ramps Up Live-Streamed Video Shows

Sources: OpenAI appoints new leaders to oversee Stargate after deciding to rent more AI servers from cloud providers, and splits its computing effort in three (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI Names New Infrastructure Leaders Following Stargate Strategy Shift
OpenAI has appointed new leaders to oversee its Stargate computing initiative after deciding to rent more AI servers from major cloud providers rather than build its own data centers, according to two people familiar with the changes. As part of its reorganization, OpenAI has divided its ...

Shift Happens
Brought to you by the Staff Health team at NSW Ambulance and hosted by paramedics Katie Horky and Timothy Graham...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/shift-happens/

A Raiders power shift featuring John Spytek’s partnership with Tom Brady https://raiderramble.com/2026/01/06/a-raiders-power-shift-featuring-john-spyteks-partnership-with-tom-brady/

I •do• actually expect to see some kind of shift over the next week. I don’t think their “Victory! Now we’re leaving(ish)!” press conference last week was something we can take at face value, but I also don’t think it was just a ruse.
After they murdered Alex Pretti, the writing was on the wall. One killing of a white observer they could try to write off; two is a pattern. They’re losing support they desperately need — from politicians, from the press, from judges, from less-extreme right-wingers — and the longer they continue doing what they’ve been doing, the further they dig themselves in a hole. I’ve been expecting for a while that they would declare MISSION ACCOMPLISHED and change strategy.

After years of failing to produce a profitable augmented reality platform,
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is pounding one of the final nails into the coffin of its metaverse efforts
— the ones that were once so central to its vision that it renamed the entire company after them.
This week, the Wall Street Journalreported Meta was laying off some 1,500 employees from its Reality Labs division,
-- the department working on Meta’s virtual reality products.
As part of the …

Meta Lays Off Thousands of VR Workers as Zuckerberg’s Vision Fails
The company has laid off some 1,500 virtual reality developers as part of a broader shift toward AI wearable devices.

"Australia rooftop solar installs rise as households shift to larger systems"
#Australia #SolarPower #Energy

Australia rooftop solar installs rise as households shift to larger systems
Australia’s rooftop solar market climbed by 22% in the past month with the latest data revealing that 334 MW of small-scale PV capacity was installed on household and business roofs across the country in December 2025.

A look at The Sun's video strategy, which includes a shift to longform news and sponsored lifestyle content; it has 6.4M YouTube subscribers on its main channel (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

Sun grows video audience to 1bn+ monthly views with 25 new shows
The Sun's Jon Lloyd on a year of aggressive expansion into video.

Sources: OpenAI plans to launch Sora AI in ChatGPT soon to help boost weekly active users, now at 920M, short of the 1B goal the company targeted last year (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-plans-launch-sora-vide…

OpenAI Plans to Launch Sora Video AI in ChatGPT in Strategy Shift
OpenAI plans to soon launch its Sora AI-generated video capabilities in ChatGPT, according to people with knowledge of the effort. The strategy shift could increase the chatbot’s usage as well as its costs. The move comes about five months after OpenAI released a Sora mobile app, which lets ...

So the collective trauma reaction against the Church, so deep for those of us coming from the tradition of the European Left, alienates us from those indigenous comrades of ours who refused to let their identities be erased. It alienates us from Black and Latin American comrades who, in some cases, have subverted that same religion from a tool of oppression to a tool of resistance.
It also alienates us from our pagan, Jewish, and even Christian ancestors. Rather than a rejection of the genocides, crusades, and pogroms carried out to solidify the hegemony of the Church, a chauvinistic atheism affirms it under another name. Likewise it affirms the patriarchs who burned witches and destroyed midwifery to shift power over to male doctors.
The "Enlightenment" paradigm of "Reason," that led through secularism to the anti-religious antagonism of Bill Maher and the New Atheists, is laced with an Islamophobia and anti-Semitism rooted in the same church they claim to reject. And anyone who has been paying attention can see that it opens the door to the far right anti-Semitism and Islamophobia that also grows from that same root...

Stephen Miller's Big Shift: Mother-Shooting Goons Replace VA Nurses and Psychologists (emptywheel)
https://www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/11/stephen-millers-big-shift-mother-shooting-goons-replace-va-nurses-and-psychologists/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260111/p11#a260111p11

Earth is hotter than at any time in the last 125,000 years,
but the news media is moving on,
trying to keep on top of a fire hose of pressing news
—from the daily chaos of the Trump administration to the breaking developments in the war on Iran.
The shift in attention started during the COVID-19 pandemic and,
despite a temporary rebound,
has gathered pace in recent years:
Since its peak in 2021, global news coverage of climate change has dropped 38 p…

The Planet Is Overheating, But You Might Not Know It From the News - Inside Climate News
Since 2021, global media coverage of climate change has dropped 38 percent. Blame wars, political chaos and Jeffrey Epstein.

The post-boomer GOP is coming -- 2028 will define it (Peter Giunta/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5782988-republican-party-generational-shift/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260315/p41#a260315p41

The biggest risk to Canada comes from its prickly southern neighbor.
The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)
— a regional trade pact Trump signed in his first term that allows many goods to cross North American borders duty-free
— comes up for renewal this year.
Trump is almost sure to demand changes meant to shift manufacturing to the United States
— and might threaten to pull out of the deal altogether,
especially if he is inclined to punish Carney for…

Trump's protectionist trade policies allow China to swoop in
America’s top trading partners are responding to President Trump’s trade policies by trying to take their business to China and elsewhere.

India's JioHotstar restructures its subscriptions, adding monthly options and raising prices on some tiers, in response to a shift toward large-screen viewing (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/indian-s…

Indian Streaming Giant JioHotstar Raises Prices, Adds Monthly Plans
Indian streaming giant JioHotstar raises Super and Premium tier prices while introducing monthly plans across all tiers.

Treating the US like a rogue state would be a seismic shift in international relations — a shift that slow-moving world will resist. But the US •is• a rogue state at this point, and other nations need to start treating it as such. Like…yesterday.

Hegseth says potential $200 billion Iran war spending request could shift: 'Takes money to kill bad guys' (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/19/hegseth-iran-war-budget.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260319/p40#a260319p40

Samsung says it is considering a shift toward multi-year contracts for memory chips that may help stabilize supply and ease concerns about a shortage (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-18/…

Q&A with Kathleen Kennedy about the highs and lows of her 14 years at Lucasfilm, going back to producing, the future of Star Wars, exploring AI tools, and more (Mike Fleming Jr/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/kathleen-kennedy-exit-interview-1236665253/

A Shift In The Force For Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy: The Exit Interview
Not two hours after wrapping Star Wars: Starfighter, Kathleen Kennedy was ready to discuss the long-in-the-works transition of Lucasfilm.

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 mini and nano, aimed at agents, coding, and multi-modal workflows, and offering near GPT-5.4-level performance at a much lower cost (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/gpt-5-4-mini-and-nano/

OpenAI's GPT-5.4 mini and nano launch - with near flagship performance at much lower cost
The latest GPT-5.4 mini model delivers benchmark results surprisingly close to the full GPT-5.4 model while running much faster, signaling a shift toward smaller AI models powering real-world applications.

As AI and agents are adopted to accelerate development, cognitive load and cognitive debt are likely to become bigger threats to developers than technical debt (Margaret-Anne Storey)
https://margaretstorey.com/blog/2026/02/09/cognitive-debt/

How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt
The term technical debt is often used to refer to the accumulation of design or implementation choices that later make the software harder and more costly to understand, modify, or extend over time...

Sources: the Trump administration is weighing a substantial shift in its cyberstrategy, including by enlisting private companies to assist with cyberattacks (Adam Sella/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/us/politics/us-cyberwarfare-privat…

U.S. Weighs Expanding Private Companies’ Role in Cyberwarfare
The proposal raises a host of questions about the legality and practicality of bolstering the involvement of the private sector in offensive cyberoperations.