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NFL Week 17 winners and losers: Steelers, Packers stumble; who’s still alive in playoff race? https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-week-17-winners-and-losers-steelers-packers-stumble-who-s-still-alive-in-playoff-race

Even though they are essential workers,
#paid #care #jobs are
not “good jobs” – that is:
they generally pay low wages and don’t have benefits such as access to healthcare, paid sick days, paid leave, union protections or reti…

Why Raiders HC Pete Carroll Still Has Plenty to be Thankful for https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-pete-carroll-still-has-plenty-thankful-for

Cowboys offense 'still believe' in defensive turnaround https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-offense-still-believe-defensive-turnaround/605528d4bdf83df22ff7d15b

Chipmaker Cerebras Systems raised a $1.1B Series G from Fidelity, Trump Jr.'s 1789 Capital, and others at an $8.1B post-money valuation ahead of its planned IPO (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/30/a-year-…

A year after filing to IPO, still-private Cerebras Systems raises $1.1B | TechCrunch
Cerebras initially filed to go public in September 2024 but ran into several regulatory delays due to foreign investments.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Four Tet:
🎵 Into Dust (Still Falling)
#FourTet
https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/album/into-dust-still-falling

I've been thinking about getting a new action camera since my 14 year old GoPro died. I know people love the Insta360 cams but I'm not a fan of proprietary file formats.
I'm still pissed at GoPro for hardware that stopped working, but I do have a ton of GoPro mounts already and they just use MP4 for their video files.
The Insta360 can shoot in non-360 mode, though I don't know if that still uses the proprietary format.
I guess I gotta go read some reviews.

Pipeline projects such as the one being promoted by Carney and Smith typically end having to skirt the Hecate Strait (see https://paddlingmag.com/stories/columns/still/hecate-strait/) after hitting saltwater at Kitimat (see

Crossing Canada's Most Dangerous Waterway By SUP
What it takes to cross Hecate Strait and live to tell the tale.

Bears still looking for more after statement win over Eagles: 'We haven't hit our pinnacle' https://www.nfl.com/news/bears-still-looking-for-more-after-statement-win-over-eagles-we-haven-t-hit-our-pinnacle

https://mstdn.plus/@gcvsa/115629686468055123 Truth is stranger than fiction. unbelievable, harvard, dominant hegemony privilege etc etc

🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Kllo:
🎵 Still Here
#NowPlaying #Kllo
https://thumper1.bandcamp.com/track/kllo-still-here-thumper-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/27E9SrEZkRdKKsEqWlYeQP

Sauron, the high-end home security startup for "super premium" customers, plucks a new CEO out of Sonos (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/28/from-sonos-to-sauron-new-ceo-takes-on-high-end-home-security-startup-still-in-development/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251228/p42#a251228p42

Impressive story : the heart donor who is still alive and kicking 20 years later and has had a son in the meantime.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-27/qld-domino-transplant-lucinda-simpson-cystic-fibrosis/106127132
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Please help Nour and her kids, if you can.
They are stuck in North Gaza.
A message I got from her on Signal, just now: “The situation is getting worse. The tanks are approaching the checkpoint, and there are preparations to close the road. My family and I cannot evacuate due to lack of money, and our lives are hanging in the balance. Please help me and my daughters. We haven’t slept from the intense fear. Our lives are in danger every moment.”
Please help and share if you c…

Big finance still funds deforestation, 10 years after Paris pact https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/11/big-finance-still-funds-deforestation-10-years-after-paris-pact/

Big finance still funds deforestation, 10 years after Paris pact
A new report by the Forests & Finance Coalition finds that despite years of voluntary climate commitments, banks and other financial institutions have continued to increase their investments in companies linked to deforestation. The value of investments in these companies — in industries such as beef, soy, palm oil and paper — has increased by […]

Good Morning #Canada
Last week I registered with Ontario's Healthcare Connect program to help us get a family doctor in the Barrie area. Our previous family doctor retired in November and we were still covered by the clinic but it's in Brampton, more than 90 minutes away. So I'm now relying on Dougie to keep his promise to find a family doctor for all Ontarians by June 2026. I mean he's done so well with housing, environmental goals, Eglinton Crosstown....
Did you know that 83% of Canadians now report they have regular access to a family doctor which means an approximate 500K improvement in the past two years. That still leaves about 6M of us without a family physician. Family physician shortages are the highest in the territories (>55%), Quebec (21.5%) and British Columbia (17.7%), and the provinces of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia have the fewest family physicians per 100 000 persons in the population.
#CanadaIsAwesome #HealthCare
https://www.cihi.ca/en/taking-the-pulse-measuring-shared-priorities-for-canadian-health-care-2025/primary-health-care-2025/most-canadians-have-a-regular-health-care-provider

1 frustrating thing still alludes Cowboys rookie RB https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/1-frustrating-thing-still-alludes-cowboys-rookie-rb/cfd01bcb73d4171fa28187cc

The old Stone Temple Albums really hold up well. "Purple" still slaps.

Only 6 Circa Survivor entries still alive for $18.7M prize https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/betting/only-6-circa-survivor-entries-still-alive-for-18-7m-prize-3601089/

I finally managed to build a image for my #Raspberrypi using #disko.
The Pi boots with UEFI and has a LUKS paritition containing BTRFS.
There is still a lot to do but I'm getting really close to a usable state.
I still find it very satisfying to build these kind of thing…

When you stand up for trans people, it will change nothing.
They will still come for us.
When you stand up for black and brown people and immigrants, it will change nothing.
They will still come for us.
When you stand up for women, it will change nothing whatsoever. They are in full and complete power.
They will still come for us.
They will still drag us away.
They will still punish you for your actions.
Stand anyway.

The Idiot Tendency on the left are still going strong, it seems, in Germany at least. (Only Corbyn and the three or four MPs who won't talk to each other still take the preposterous position that countries seeking to defend themselves are dangerous for peace.)
https://www.

Germany raised its citizens to hate war. Now it wants us to enlist in the army – but we say no
The war in Ukraine is a crime. But European leaders should be working for peace, not preparing young people to fight and die, says German academic Mithu Sanyal

I love what Tauri has done, a lightweight version of Electron, where you author the backend code in Rust.
But while I love Rust, I do not love it for app building, and I wanted to have that HTML-model for programming but available in Swift.
I used assorted AI tools to port Tauri to Swift (it still reuses the big chunks of code from Tauri), but now you can write HTML desktop apps in Swift:

GitHub - velox-apps/velox: Velox is a port of Tauri to Swift.
Velox is a port of Tauri to Swift. Contribute to velox-apps/velox development by creating an account on GitHub.

There's still room to tune - shallow memory throughput is definitely suboptimal due to latency issues I need to chase - but with deep memory ngscopeclient ThunderScope is getting some pretty impressive performance.
2 channels @ 50M point memory depth (100M points per trigger) streaming at 7.5 WFM/s over LAN from across the building through a router. 40Gbase-SR4 from client to core switch and from core switch to router, then back to core switch, then 10Gbase-SR to the machine host…

Although the growth rate (%) of global CO2 emissions has gone down, the increase in absolute terms is still pretty much a straight line:
On average, we're increasing the amount of CO2 that we dump in the atmosphere by around 450 million tonnes every year. Making the climate crisis worse faster.
#emissions

It's been two days, but I'm still excited to announce structlog 25.5.0!
It contains A LOT, but the main BLOCK of features is that the active ConsoleRenderer is now a) mutable and b) easily obtainable which allows for interactive adjustments w/o reconfiguring everything.
https://github.com/hynek/struct…

Release 25.5.0 · hynek/structlog
Highlights Huge release! There's plenty of important little bug fixes and new features, but the headliner is definitely the improved ergonomics of structlog.dev.ConsoleRenderer. We have finally acc...

I recently found myself comparing the articles about the Louisiana Purchase on Britannica (that flag-bearer of acceptability in K-12 education) and Wikipedia (still forbidden in many schools). It was…illuminating.
The Britannica is better written. It flows well. It is approachable. It proceeds from broad overview to coherent detail in a way that helps meet the reader where they’re at. The professional editorial oversight shows.
1/

Ukraine war latest live: Ukraine says it still holds parts of Pokrovsk, Myrnohrad situation 'difficult': https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/29/ukraine-war-latest-live-ukraine.html

The LLMs are useful for some tasks, I'm currently tidying up, proof reading and editing a document written by many international co-authors.
The LLM I'm using can very quickly correct grammar and spelling mistakes and produces much easier to understand text from occasionally tortured paragraphs. It still needs an experts eye (mine!) to check no mistakes have been introduced or complexities over-simplified.
This is actually the first time I've used an LLM for this task. It's making it much faster and less painful.
It also explains a lot about academic publishing lately..

"More worrying still... is the trend of wealthy donors funding far-right and racist movements that are the tip of the spear against net zero policies"
#Fascism
#ClimateEmergency
#Kleptocracy

Still all about that jet set life style

For all you nature lovers (especially herpetological sorts, i.e. lizards, and more specifically, geckos here in Aotearoa) get a load of this: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-strange-beautiful-lizard-at-the-bottom-of-the-world/ Stunning. I tried t…

I still have an SF YIMBY coffee mug from when I was a member, with the former slogan, "Legalize Housing." So much for that. Every SF YIMBY–endorsed member of the Board of Supervisors voted for this cruel RV ban with tacit YIMBY approval, criminalizing people's homes and banishing them from the city.
Can't speak for other #YIMBY movements around the world, but the SF version ha…

Tow trucks are coming for S.F.’s RVs. Their residents struggle for reprieve.
With San Francisco's RV parking ban starting on Nov. 1, dozens of RV dwellers say they were missed in a city-wide count of RVs parked on public streets.

After months without working search, I deleted the elasticsearch 8 container and created a new one with elasticsearch 9. Currently hydrating it with tootctl search deploy. 12.721.688 documents, 2 hours left.
I hate self hosting. (Still thankful to everyone who makes it possible.)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Four Tet:
🎵 Into Dust (Still Falling)
#FourTet
https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/album/into-dust-still-falling

FFS now it's Bohemian Rhapsody.
You can still report "someone causing a noise nuisance" to the council, right?

Two days, two Mar-a-Lago summits – but Trump still has nothing concrete to announce on Ukraine or Gaza | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-netanyahu-ukraine-zelensky-gaza-b2891841.html

and sometimes, the night is right for a dank weird al soundboard from peak "in 3-D" era, including "polkas on 45" & the unreleased "it's still billy joel to me" https://heads.social/@livetapes/112588634048300479

Still the BEST damned comedy news show on the Interwebs... Have I Got News For You always hits hard! 🤣
▶️ Trump's Big Melt Down! THIS Benny Johnson Fact Will Surprise You! Kristi Noem's TSA Video - HIGNFYUS
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ge2P_RpbX_4&si=BYJq9ldQy…

Any Nederlanders please feel free to correct me. I'm still very much getting a handle on all this.

Discusses the significant helium discovery in the 1.1 Ga Midcontinent Rift, in northern #Minnesota ⚒️🧪 #geology (h/t Chris Rowan)
https://

Still, even before this the only reason I didn’t refund this game is that I left it open while having lunch and when I thought about refunding it was already 1 hour past Steam’s 2h limit
Like, from the very start of the game you’re told to “uncover the code” of the revolution and then “the code” is a fucking huge blue arrow. I’m all for making things clearly visible, but at this point just use quest markers?

"Profit before planet: Big fashion brands’ sustainability disclosures still abysmal, report reveals"
#Fashion #FastFashion #Sustainability

🤩 the beats and scratching in this live version 🤩
I still think this is their peak period and that Extricate is one of the most under-appreciated Fall albums. 
#music #PostPunk #Fall

Another CD just joined my #navidrome !
I really have to hold myself back at ebay 😄 But I'm still running cheaper than a Spotify account

Streaming metrics underwent a rethink in 2025, as Netflix and Disney pivoted away from subscriber numbers to revenue per user, engagement, and other metrics (Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/streaming-report-card-2025-1236651338/

Streamer Report Card: Streaming Reached A Profit Turning Point In 2025, But Major Players Still Wonder How To Measure Success
Deadline takes a look at how the major streaming services fared in 2025 and the challenges ahead in 2026

Still holding my peace.
#lfc

Day 30: Elizabeth Moon
This last spot (somehow 32 days after my last post, but oh well) was a tough decision, but Moon brings us full circle back to fantasy/sci-fi, and also back to books I enjoyed as a teenager. Her politics don't really match up to Le Guin or Jemisin, but her military experience make for books that are much more interesting than standard fantasy fare in terms of their battles & outcomes (something "A Song of Ice and Fire" achieved by cribbing from history but couldn't extrapolate nearly as well). I liked (and still mostly like) her (unironically) strong female protagonists, even if her (especially more recent) forays into "good king" territory leave something to be desired. Still, in Paksenarion the way we get to see the world from a foot-soldier's perspective before transitioning into something more is pretty special and very rare in fantasy (I love the elven ruins scene as Paks travels over the mountains as an inflection point). Battles are won or lost on tactics, shifting politics, and logistics moreso than some epic magical gimmick, which is a wonderful departure from the fantasy norm.
Her work does come with a content warning for rape, although she addresses it with more nuance and respect than any male SF/F author of her generation. Ex-evangelicals might also find her stuff hard to read, as while she's against conservative Christianity, she's very much still a Christian and that makes its way into her writing. Even if her (not bad but not radical enough) politics lead her writing into less-satisfying places at times, part of my respect for her comes from following her on Twitter for a while, where she was a pretty decent human being...
Overall, Paksenarrion is my favorite of her works, although I've enjoyed some of her sci-fi too and read the follow-up series. While it inherits some of Tolkien's baggage, Moon's ability to deeply humanize her hero and depict a believable balance between magic being real but not the answer to all problems is great.
I've reached 30 at this point, and while I've got more authors on my shortlist, I think I'll end things out tomorrow with a dump of also-rans rather than continuing to write up one per day. I may even include a man or two in that group (probably with at least non-{white cishet} perspective). Honestly, doing this challenge I first thought that sexism might have made it difficult, but here at the end I'm realizing that ironically, the misogyny that holds non-man authors to a higher standard means that (given plenty have still made it through) it's hard to think of male authors who compare with this group.
Looking back on the mostly-male authors of SF/F in my teenage years, for example, I'm now struggling to think of a single one whose work I'd recommend to my kids (having cheated and checked one of my old lists, Pratchett, Jaques, and Asimov qualify but they're outnumbered by those I'm now actively ashamed to admit I enjoyed). If I were given a choice between reading only non-men or non-woman authors for the rest of my life (yes I'm giving myself enby authors as a freebie; they're generally great) I'd very easily choose non-men. I think the only place where (to my knowledge) not enough non-men authors have been allowed through to outshine the fields of male mediocrity yet is in videogames sadly. I have a very long list of beloved games and did include some game designers here, but I'm hard-pressed to think of many other non-man game designers I'd include in the genuinely respect column (I'll include at least two tomorrow but might cheat a bit).
TL;DR: this was fun and you should do it too.
#30AuthorsNoMen

I feel bad for the yard cats. I wish I would have been able to trap the mama while she was still pregnant. (I took this photo through the fence, pointing into the neighbor's yard)

Hummm.
So I was thinking about how with a couple of caster-boards and straps, the bed could be upturned and stowed in the studio. Probably? I should have figured for a fold-away really.
Still. Could work...
Then, without a bed in there, the place could turn into a dining room.
I was thinking about a shape of a table for a dinner party in there.
Oh my god.
This semi-circle table curve of wood and attachable table-legs and fold-able stools might just fit, like, under the bed normally?
Looks perfect for a card-game or a Dungeon Master setup.
Could that table and it's legs and it's chairs all fit under the bed? Probably not at it's current height. But I want to raise it a bit anyway.
🤔
Oh my god, look at this though. The projector is pointed at the wall behind the throne surrounded by the seats for the council of seven.
This could be built.
Not right away, but eventually?

No Fishing on this morning walk...
(From a beautiful and positively frozen Sunday AM in late 2022... I shared those images already back then, but hey...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

Fortunately, incapacitating "AI" is fairly easy. It's all still just computers & code.
I mean, I like the analogy but it has a limit. AI is like 2-digit years: a bad idea that many people always knew was shoddy but no one fixed until everyone did because they had to.
I don't know what the equivalent might be for "AI" but I expect that sometime next year we'll start seeing BIG stumbles that result in orgs running away (individually) from it.

The Netherlands dodged a bullet tonight. If we didn't dodge it in quite the way you liked, you can still be relieved. Big picture, folks.

Geno Smith’s injury not as serious as feared, but status still in doubt https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/geno-smiths-injury-not-as-serious-as-feared-but-status-still-in-doubt-3601279/

Hello Frankfurt community,
I'm reaching out for assistance. The @… meetup is still in need of a venue for our upcoming event on January 22nd. We're a small group of 10-15 attendees, so we're looking for a cozy space to host our meetup. While not required, the ability to provide drinks and light snacks would be a plus.
Can anyone recommend a …

@… I was guessing 65. And I was *still* too optimistic. Dang.

I’ve been thinking about the premise of this article on and off for weeks: “We Are Post ISO Now” https://petapixel.com/2025/11/10/we-are-post-iso-now/
I’m not so sure, in particular because chromatically splotchy demosaicing artifacts are still present in when using even the…

We Are Post ISO Now
A camera's ISO range matters a lot less than it used.

"...no deaths were tallied in Cuba, more than 735,000 evacuated residents slowly returned home as the military helped to rescue people in isolated communities."
Cuba has for years done an excellent job in protecting people from hurricanes. But the impacts will still be a huge challenge to the besieged island. #EndTheBlockade!
Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba take stock after Hur…

Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba take stock after Hurricane Melissa destruction
Recovery efforts are under way across Jamaica after Melissa rips off roofs, cuts electricity and unleashes floodwaters.

I distributed a few hundreds of my stickers ISO8601ultras, "We do not test on animals, we test in production" and "Nett hier. Aber waren Sie schon mal in Ankh-Morpork?" in almost all sticker boxes around #39C3 this morning.
If you still don't find one, write to me, we can meet between talks.

just had an incredible realization abt one of my favorite songs
I have also been to that specific photo booth
#lore

RIP. I still somedays wonder if England is a
conspiracy of cartographers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/theater/tom-stoppard-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.408.oLlI.bsuFiedfqyJ5&smid=…

The US *loves* soldiers and veterans! Virtuous! Service! 🇺🇲🦅
The US *hates* homeless people. Lazy! Dirty! Want a handout!
But... ~1 in every 20 US homeless folk is a Black or hispanic veteran. 🤷🏿‍♂️
-- @…

mekka okereke :verified: (@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)
Attached: 2 images Happy #BlackHistoryMonth ! Still not talking about Black History. Still talking about white US History. The US *loves* soldiers and veterans! Virtuous! Service! 🇺🇲🦅 The US *hates* homeless people. Lazy! Dirty! Want a handout! But... ~1 in every 20 US homeless folk is a Black or hispanic veteran. 🤷🏿‍♂️ In the USA, the phrase "support our troops!" is a euphemism that does mean military jingoism, but doesn't mean supporting all of our troops. 1/N #B…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Barry Can’t Swim:
🎵 Still Riding
#BarryCantSwim
https://barrycantswim.bandcamp.com/album/still-riding
https://open.spotify.com/track/24lxj6jz97JPWQR5VKl0iZ

Grammarly rebrands as Superhuman after its acquisitions of Superhuman Mail in June and Coda in December 2024; the standalone writing tool Grammarly still exists (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/808472/grammarly-superhuman-ai-rebrand-rel…

Grammarly is changing its name to Superhuman
Grammarly is rebranding to become Superhuman, an AI agent-powered work platform that combines its writing tool with Coda and Superhuman Mail.

We used to say that the Crypto hype and the AI hype were different. That crypto was just a bunch of grifters stealing people's money but AI had at least some actual tech.
Looking at how the AI companies manipulate each other's stock value I am not sure that statement is still true.

I missed the group bike ride today (still got that nerve pain) but honestly the weather was wet, cold, and foggy and it looked miserable outside so I've not left the house at all because yuk winter rain.

Something is still borked with my IPC. It seems like a significant percentage of cross-core log messages step on others and never get sent.

Trump takes aim at Putin’s oil lifeline — China and India still hold the key: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/trump-takes-aim-at-putins.html

The Wikipedia article is pretty good, but it’s overwhelming. It flows poorly. It lurches from big picture to over-specific details in a way that makes it hard to approach the article if you don’t already know the material.
The cacophony of voices behind it, though well-synthesized, still shows.
2/

"You scored 9 out of 10. Nicely done! Your knowledge is impressive. But there's still room to improve! Of everyone who has taken the quiz, 6 percent had more correct answers, and 91 percent had fewer correct answers."
Got a lucky guess on one.
https://missionl…

It's 08:00 in the morning, here at 55°N 4°W, and the sun will in theory rise in ten minutes. But it's still dark.
And we're still 24 days away from the turning of the year: it will get still darker before the light begins to return. And, as in every year, the warmth will lag a couple of months behind the light, retarded by the thermal mass of the atmosphere and the earth.
This is not my favourite season.

I've been working on a bit of a larger project. It is still very much a work in progress. It's an attempt to combine blog and mastodon posts with other things I've written in the past, along with some original analysis, into a zine. I'm probably about 2/3 of the way through.
It's primarily focused on political theory and critique, which, I think, deviates a bit from how a lot of other folks view the world. It's pretty explicitly anarchist, though I don't think I've actually put the word "anarchism" or referenced the ideology anywhere so explicitly.
I'd love feedback (especially around editing and flow) if anyone would be willing to put eyes on it and tell me what they think:
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/

NFL futures: Rams still Super Bowl favorites; 49ers close gap https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/43748901/super-bowl-2026-odds-win-nfl-betting

They told the poor white man:
"You may be starving,
you may be broke,
but at least you aren't one of Them."
It worked.
The poor whites stopped fighting the rich.
They started guarding the rich.
They accepted their poverty -- because they had been given a false sense of superiority.
The "Divide and Rule" algorithm was born.
350 years later, the campaign is still running.
The Elite are still terrified of Unity…

MikeDunnAuthor (@MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social)
Attached: 1 image Andre Gonsalves The most effective marketing campaign in history was launched in 1676. The product was Racism. Before that year, the Elites in America had a massive problem. In the colony of Virginia, poor white indentured servants and black slaves were friends. They worked the same fields. They lived in the same shacks. They even married each other. They realized they had the same enemy: The rich plantation owners. So, they united. Led by a man named Nathaniel Bacon, this…

"Chart: Check out how fast China is shifting to renewables"
#China #Energy #Renewables

Chart: Check out how fast China is shifting to renewables
China still emits more planet-warming pollution than any other country, but its furious build-out of wind and solar means the nation is scaling back on…

Fox News reports DEI still ravaging US military - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/10/26/fox-news-reports-dei-still-ravaging-us-military/

Oh and the accompanying nunchuck’s accelerometer sucks. But at least my original nunchucks still work.

A profile of Klay, whose app will let users remake songs using AI; Klay has raised ~$10M and is the first AI startup to close deals with the three major labels (Abram Brown/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/secretive-startup-klay-jump…

Secretive Startup Klay Jumps Into the Fray Over AI Music
“So here’s a real surprise,” said Ary Attie, holding open a hidden door in the bowels of the Walker Hotel in the city’s Greenwich Village neighborhood. “There used to be a lot more cool, interesting places in New York—and there’s still a few left.” Attie, the 30-year-old founder of Klay, a new ...

‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/28/change-course-now-humanity-has-missed-15c-climate-target-says-un-head

How tech worker activism has grown more cautious as companies crack down and once-privileged workers realize they don't have much leverage (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/busines

Despite Crackdown on Activism, Tech Employees Are Still Picking Fights
They increasingly see themselves as rank-and-file workers who have traditional gripes with their companies.

2025 NFL Black Friday bets: Are the Bills still a top discount Super Bowl pick? Could Packers be top prize?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2025-nf

The (former) graffiti guy at work used his finger to write something in the dust on one of the warehouse doors. I looked at it and said "I cannot decipher even a single character of what you wrote."
Graffiti Guy: "I still got it!"

Looking at the ARMv8-A ARM and I see implementer ID 0x44 is DEC.
I'm... very confident DEC has never built an ARMv8 CPU core.
Is this just copy-pasted from earlier docs because DEC had an ARM architecture license in years past? Or is this license still valid and held by DEC's successors (I think DEC -> Compaq -> HP -> HPE, does HPE make custom ARM cores?)

Salesforce: online Black Friday sales grew 6% YoY to $79B globally, including $3B in US sales driven by AI agents; Adobe: US online sales rose 9.1% to $11.8B (Joan Verdon/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joanverdon/2025/…

Black Friday Data Shows Online Sales Strong, Store Results Mixed
U.S. ecommerce sales jumped 9.1% on Black Friday according to Adobe, but the verdict is still out on how well physical stores performed.

"Conservation wins in 2025 that pushed us closer to the 30×30 goal"
#Conservation #Environment
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Conservation wins in 2025 that pushed us closer to the 30x30 goal
The “30 by 30” biodiversity target to protect 30% of the Earth’s land and ocean by 2030 is fast approaching — and the world is far off the pace needed for success: Less than 10% of oceans and just 17.6% of land and inland waters enjoy some sort of protection.   Still, 2025 saw some […]

Super Bowl 2026 odds entering Week 18 with No. 1 seeds and division titles still up for grabs

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/super-bowl-2026-odds-week-18-no-1-seeds-divis…

Experimental credit based flow control in TS.NET plus ngscopeclient for reduced buffer bloat and much better performance over LANs.
This is 2x 50M points (100M points per trigger) updating at around 8.3-8.5 Hz over 10/40GbE.
The TS.NET side of this isn't merged and there's still some bugs to chase but it's looking *really* good.

NFL Week 18 playoff clinching scenarios: Four divisions and both top seeds still up for grabs

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-18-playoff-clinching-s…

The moment that will stick with me the most
—the video that still gives me chills
—came during an otherwise unremarkable baseball day early in the summer.
It was June 14, and the pop artist #Nezza was getting ready to sing the national anthem at Dodger Stadium.
A week earlier, ICE and DHS agents had descended en masse on Los Angeles work sites,
grabbing immigrants and U.S. citiz…

Defiance in a Time of Cowardice
She sang the national anthem in Spanish as deportation forces assaulted L.A. Now she’s headed to Sundance.

A profile of Klay, whose app will let users remake songs using AI; Klay has raised ~$10M and is the first AI startup to close deals with the three major labels (Abram Brown/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/secretive-startup-klay-jump…

Secretive Startup Klay Jumps Into the Fray Over AI Music
“So here’s a real surprise,” said Ary Attie, holding open a hidden door in the bowels of the Walker Hotel in the city’s Greenwich Village neighborhood. “There used to be a lot more cool, interesting places in New York—and there’s still a few left.” Attie, the 30-year-old founder of Klay, a new ...

Washington folks: anybody know the history of WAC 308-330-500 and adjacent statutes? What was the rationale?
When did it stop being enforced? And why? It's clearly a dead law, I've never seen a bicycle license plate in the ten years I've lived here. Although I guess a cop in a bad mood could probably still ticket you for violating it if they really wanted to.

“Opening locks” might not sound like scintillating social media content,
but Trevor McNally has turned lock-busting into online gold.
A former US Marine Staff Sergeant, McNally today has more than 7 million followers and has amassed more than 2 billion views
just by showing how easy it is to open many common locks by slapping, picking, or shimming them

10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea.
It’s still legal to pick locks, even when you swing your legs.

Can Caleb Williams still become first Bear to throw for 4,000 yards, 30 TDs in 2025? https://www.nfl.com/news/can-caleb-williams-still-become-first-bear-to-throw-for-4-000-yards-30-tds-in-2025

Trump administration orders to keep an ageing, unneeded Michigan
coal-fired power plant online
has cost ratepayers from across the US midwest about $113m so far,
according to estimates from the plant’s operator and regulators.
Still, the US energy department last week ordered the plant to remain open for another 90 days.

Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica as category 5 storm
It dropped to a category 4 cyclone as it exited the island
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/oct/28/hurricane-melissa-live-u…

Overall, states, nonprofits, local governments and unions have filed hundreds of lawsuits against the Trump administration, according to an Associated Press tracker.
Not all of them have been successful:
149 resulted in executive actions partially or fully blocked,
while the court left the action in effect in 102 cases with more than 100 still pending

Tracking the lawsuits against the Trump administration | AP News
Hundreds of lawsuits have been filed during President Donald Trump’s second administration. The suits challenge his executive orders as well as actions taken by his administration, including Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE. The courts have agreed to block the president in a number of cases, and the administration is seeking appeals as well.

The Senate voted Wednesday to end the national emergency that Donald Trump declared to impose tariffs on imports from Canada.
Four Republicans joined with all Senate Democrats to approve the measure, which passed 50 to 46.
It was the second bipartisan vote against Trump’s tariffs in as many days — the Senate also voted Tuesday to block tariffs on Brazilian goods,
— though neither move will take effect, because they would still need to be approved by the House
— whi…

Senate votes to block tariffs on Canada
While symbolic, it is the Senate’s second rebuke of Trump’s trade policies in as many days.