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A languid spiral galaxy appears draped against deep space in a stunning new image from the European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope.
Euclid launched in 2023 on a six-year mission to map the cosmos at scale,
observing billions of galaxies stretching as far away as 10 billion light-years from Earth.
The effort could reveal how galaxies form and evolve and how the universe has expanded over its 13.8-billion-or-so-year history.

Sparkling Galaxy Merger Shines in New Euclid Space Telescope Image
The Euclid Space Telescope is decking the halls with boughs of starlight

I finally got around to adding the Narrator speech recap feature to my 2020 post “Speech Viewer Logs of Lies”:
https://adrianroselli.com/2020/08/speech-viewer-logs-of-lies.html#Update07
Video! We like video! 323kb of video! Big fat video!

Speech Viewer Logs of Lies
The headline is intentional hyperbole, chosen mostly for the sloppy alliteration. When sighted users test with a screen reader it is common to rely on the visual output — checking to see where focus goes, confirming that controls behave, watching the spoken output in a text log. The problem is…

Spectral peak picking improves tactile speech perception https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-28930-6 "The algorithm is suitable for real-time use in wearable sensory substitution devices and could aid the development of effective haptic hearing aids."

DoorDash is a marquee sponsor of SFBike's Winterfest this year 😢 I bought a ticket anyway. It's bleak out here trying to fund nonprofits under capitalism. Hate the game, not the player. https://sfbike.org/winterfest/

Winterfest - San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
Promoting the Bicycle for Everyday Transportation

An interview with Citizen Lab founder Ronald Deibert about the US adopting authoritarian digital practices, the research group's accomplishments, and more (Finian Hazen/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/2

Meet the man hunting the spies in your smartphone
Ronald Deibert and his research group, the Citizen Lab, have rigorously worked to unveil alarming digital threats for the past two decades. Now, he warns, this kind of work is under threat.

Extreme environmental tolerance and space #survivability of the moss, Physcomitrium patens: #moss survived 9 months directly exposed to the elements of #space: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1105940 -> This moss survived 9 months outside the International Space Station and could still grow on Earth: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/international-space-station/we-were-genuinely-astonished-this-moss-survived-9-months-outside-the-international-space-station-and-could-still-grow-on-earth

Photos: Massive winter storm sweeps across the U.S. : The Picture Show : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/24/nx-s1-5685163/photos-massive-winter-storm-sweeps-u-s

Warnung vor Fake-Shops rund um den Black Friday
Vor dem sogenannten Black Friday gibt es Warnungen vor gefälschten Internet-Shops.
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/warnung-vor-fake-shops-rund-um-den-black-friday-100.html

Online-Handel - Warnung vor Fake-Shops rund um den Black Friday
Vor dem sogenannten Black Friday gibt es Warnungen vor gefälschten Internet-Shops.

Raiders coach Pete Carroll speaks to the media — WATCH LIVE https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-coach-pete-carroll-speaks-to-the-media-watch-live-3587395/

Clinton and Obama urge Americans to 'speak out' and take action after Minneapolis shootings (Raquel Coronell Uribe/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/clinton-and-obama-urge-americans-to-speak-out-rcna255860
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p8#a260126p8