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Joe Burrow's sideline waffle is the latest surprising athletes' snack https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6930813/2026/01/02/joe-burrow-waffle-athletes-snacks/

Fernando Mendoza Has Surprising Vegas Admission Amid Raiders Rumors https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/fernando-mendoza-admission-draft/

Okay, Proton VPN configured in pfSense thanks to Wireguard. No more restricted access to certain websites.
The number of configuration options in pfSense is surprising for anyone learning to use it.

Surprising results in my 2025 #Jellyfin #rewind results.
My top artist was Zombina and the Skeletones.
#punk

Finished prepping the NESessity NES mainboard for the new front loader mechanism. I got lazy when I installed all the components on the NESessity board and maybe didn't clean the flux off as well as I should have. However, since I've gotten open the NES up, figured I'd do a proper 99% isopropyl alcohol bath and a good scrub. The board is looking great, now to wait for the cartridge slot to come in and get it buttoned up again.

The lake and folly at Wimpole Hall #NationalTrust, during a surprising gap in the drizzle.
#SilentSunday

Raiders’ Mark Davis Gets Surprising Message Amid Dysfunction https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/mark-davis-surprising-message-dysfunction/?adt_ei=[email]

The Vet Who Surprised A Cow
In the course of his duties in August 1977, a Dutch veterinary
surgeon was required to treat an ailing cow. To investigate its internal
gases he inserted a tube into that end of the animal not capable of facial
expression and struck a match. The jet of flame set fire first to some
bales of hay and then to the whole farm causing damage estimate at L45,000.
The vet was later fined L140 for starting a fire in a manner surprising to

I've been working on a toy project that analyzes local ADS-B traffic (next to YUL), and alerts when planes are taking off and landing.
It's surprising to me how much the number of commercial planes at YUL changes throughout the day. There are clearly morning/evening/night rushes.
Looks like there's only one (or two) commercial plane(s) at YUL right now, but in 3 hours, there will be dozens of take-off/landing events in that hour.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115985073055067101
Surprising no one, nothing was delivered though they still claim they'll deliver today. 😂

This piece makes the interesting case that accountants can be a first line of defense against cyber threats.
Research reveals a surprising line of defence against cyber attacks: accountants
https://theconversation.com/research-r

Research reveals a surprising line of defence against cyber attacks: accountants
Researchers found auditors who had dealt with one cyber-breached client became more likely to spot serious weaknesses in systems and controls elsewhere.

Will Super Bowl LX add to memorable list of trick ... https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47781302/super-bowl-lx-trick-plays-patriots-seahawks-mike-vrabel

Cowboys Reveal ‘Confusion’ After LB Logan Wilson’s Surprising Absence https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/logan-wilson-coaching-confusion-unfortunate/

Steelers' Will Howard Has Support From Surprising Raiders Superstar https://www.si.com/nfl/steelers/onsi/news/pittsburgh-steelers-will-howard-support-surprising-raiders-maxx-crosby

RE: #UNIX versions….

Another Maine town just defeated a data center in its backyard. In this Women Talking 'Bout AI podcast, Joline Blais explains how her community rallied to the cause, and why AI is only a small part of the reason these are being built https://www.

"From compost to crops: banana peels show surprising power as eco-friendly fertilizer"
#Bananas #Compost

From compost to crops: banana peels show surprising power as eco-friendly fertilizer | The Optimist Daily
Banana peels could help crops grow taller and stronger, offering a natural alternative to synthetic fertilizers, new research finds.

New shape🚨! "Mathematicians Make Surprising Breakthrough in 3D Geometry with ‘Noperthedron’ "| Scientific American (h/t Amanda Montañez on bsky)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematicians-make…

Mathematicians Make Surprising Breakthrough in 3D Geometry with ‘Noperthedron’
The noperthedron has a surprising property—which disproves a long-standing conjecture

Real conspiracies tend to come out, but some of them take a while. Information on the Iran/Contra scandal broke out about 5 years after the conspiracy started. That would have taken several hundred people to carry out, so it was somewhat hard to hide. Even so, they largely got away with it.
The moon landing conspiracy theory would have taken thousands of people, so it would have come out more quickly. Since we have an example of a real secret program of a similar scale as what would be required to fake a moon landing (that is, the Manhattan project), we know that the fake moon landing conspiracy theory is not true. (There's also the literally tons of evidence in the form of rocks and other samples, and all kinds of other ways to debunk the claim.)
Could Kash Patel's FBI have been trying really hard to entrap people into carrying out terrorist attacks in order to justify #Trump's occupation of DC? Could they have helped a guy plan an attack then just failed to arrest him? There are reasonable scenarios that fall in between malice and incompetence while still indicating some level of false flag.
Could someone have just snapped and ambushed some guardsmen without any involvement from the FBI? Yeah, totally. The US is a country full of guns with a completely non-functional mental health system. Someone coming from a country that the US destroyed, twice, could have a lot of untreated trauma. Might they see the national guard as a threat (even if that wasn't totally true)? Yeah, they were deployed to threaten people (even when they were just picking up trash). The point was to incite this kind of response. It's completely reasonable to believe that the FBI would not need to be involved at all, that this would just be the stochastic response they were looking for.
So the point here is that everything is on the table, nothing is really known, nothing should be surprising, and no matter what it's Trump's fault. This is exactly the escalation he was looking for. If he didn't get it naturally, he would also have had ways of making it happen.
He will use this in exactly the same way as the Reichstag fire, to drive a wedge between liberals and radicals. Don't fall for it.
Edit:
There are plausible reasons to not believe the official narrative at all right now, or maybe ever. The official narrative is also plausible, but there are plausible reasons to disagree with the response even if the official story is true. It is unnecessary to resort to conspiracy thinking in order to account for what happened and to disagree with the response. But it is also understandable why someone might jump immediately to a conspiracy given the circumstances.

Ekitike has such a quick release. Capable of snapping one off with real power and surprising a keeper.
#LFC

Dear friends,
Please forgive one more post related to this, but I’m excited to share my new album, 'Habitations', with you!
A friend listened to a few of my thoughts/the album and summarised it as "inhabited worlds - human sanctuaries and tragedies, insect colonies and their swarm intelligences, bird migrations across continents, the microcosms of mind and memory, the metal nests of decaying cities…tracing the often-surprising beauty of the perilous journey home - t…

TBPN signs a partnership with the NYSE, giving the video podcast the same on-floor access enjoyed by major financial networks such as CNBC (Sam Becker/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91452867/insid

Inside the NYSE’s surprising partnership with TBPN, the LA-based video podcast dominating tech media
The podcast will gain access to events, executives, and IPO action in New York, while the exchange taps into TBPN’s fast-growing tech audience.

George Orwell's Surprising Stance on Hypocrisy #Orwell

George Orwell's Surprising Stance on Hypocrisy
George Orwell was deeply concerned about hypocrisy—but in the opposite way you might expect. That’s what struck me about halfway through writing my new book The Hypocrisy Trap. Orwell spent his career hacking away at humbug and falsehoods and famously warned how language gets corrupted by “a gap

RE: https://en.osm.town/@seav/115944704453132773
Speaking of this poll, the results are not at all surprising and I suspect that this actually follows a power law distribution for the general population.
I personally go with the last option because I have l…

Jets Get Surprising Message Involving Raiders QB Geno Smith https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/jets-surprising-message-geno-smith/

Australia's renewable energy boom is coming—and it could solve a surprising problem.
Over the next decade, we'll build more clean energy infrastructure than the past 30 years combined. But where will thousands of construction workers live in regional towns already facing housing shortages?
A new RE-Alliance report shows worker accommodation can become lasting community assets: refurbished aged-care homes, workforce villages transformed into suburbs.

SwitchedOn podcast: Renewable construction boom can help fix regional housing crisis
RE-Alliance’s national director, Andrew Bray, discusses how the energy transition can deliver important consumer benefits, particularly in housing.

4 most surprising Dallas Cowboys players entering Week 16 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/4-most-surprising-dallas-cowboys-players-entering-week-16

"A program that has not been specified cannot be incorrect; it can only be surprising"

TBPN signs a partnership with the NYSE, giving the video podcast the same on-floor access enjoyed by major financial networks such as CNBC (Sam Becker/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91452867/insid

Inside the NYSE’s surprising partnership with TBPN, the LA-based video podcast dominating tech media
The podcast will gain access to events, executives, and IPO action in New York, while the exchange taps into TBPN’s fast-growing tech audience.

Having just lost many millions making the disasterous bomb film #Megalopolis 86 yr old widower Francis Ford Coppola’s still got pieces of his once vast real estate empire, ranging from a #DaysInn in #Atlanta to plans to convert the…

Inside Francis Ford Coppola’s real estate empire 
The award-winning director may be selling off watches and pleading poverty after his “Megalopolis” flop, but he still holds a surprising collection of assets.

Fuck, no, Apple. I was forced to update to iOS 26 due to lack of security updates for 18 on devices that can run 26 (i.e., due to extortion) but you’re not infecting my Mac with Liquid Ass.
Notice the dark pattern of pestering you in hopes you will accidentally hit the “Restart” button even though you’ve specifically turned off auto updates. Microsoft-level disrespect for consent here.
(Not surprising from a company that gives golden awards to fascists.)

RE: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediGarden/115587663680180965
I think there are many like me, who have an account on mastodon.social and then a second account on a smaller local server.
I've noticed there are a surprising …

I realized that a lot of my AI discussions are explaining the difference between hiking a mountain and taking a lift.
If you’ve done both, you know the difference between getting to a summit view efficiently and discovering a mountain.
Apparently though, surprising amount of people literally do not see a difference and I find myself unable to explain it.

Minnesota Vikings fire general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah after four seasons

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/vikings-fire-kwesi-adofo-mensah-general-manager/

"Surprising number of foods contain microplastics. Here’s how to reduce the amount you consume"
#Plastic #Plastics #Microplastics

Surprising number of foods contain microplastics. Here’s how to reduce the amount you consume
Microwaving food in glass containers is a good idea to prevent microplastics leaching into your food.

NFL Makes Surprising Punishment Decision on Raiders QB Geno Smith https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/geno-smith-middle-finger-fine/?adt_ei=[email]

I’d love to have accounts tagged with their owners’ general location. Nation. State. Time zone. Context matters. @… https://

Bill Cole (@scconsult.com)
WOW. Definitely worthy of an exemption from my usual policy towards X screengrabs. This change is surprising and I hope other platforms also adopt a general location as the norm in a profile. I'm sure it would have been hilarious back when the place wasn't Elon's toy. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

> “because the account creation country was incorrect on a very small subset of old accounts, due to IP ranges changing over time.”
Being a thing I would have told them in the first 10 minutes of this being suggested. IPv4 ranges over a 20 year period are going to have been transferred.

X's new location transparency feature unleashes questions about origins of MAGA accounts
A new feature on X has stirred confusion, anger and a wave of online sleuthing after users discovered that the platform was suddenly displaying the surprising locations where certain accounts are based

It shouldn't be surprising at all that Megyn Kelly and other republicans think 15-year-old girls are fair game for sexual predation. They're the ones who've been fighting to keep the age of consent to marry at 12 years. I wish someone would start asking republican legislators (and democrats, too, of course) who have teenage daughters how they'd feel about their own daughters being targeted.

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Stuns Scientists with Surprising Bright Outburst and Ancient Origins https://ground.news/article/interstellar-comet-3i-atlas-stuns-scientists-with-surprising-bright-outburst-and-ancient-origins_cafba4

X-Ray Polarimetry of Accreting White Dwarfs - A Case Study of EX Hydrae: #WhiteDwarf system: https://news.mit.edu/2025/first-look-innermost-region-white-dwarf-system-1120 - X-ray observations reveal surprising features of the dying star’s most energetic environment.

Can't believe anything these criminals say.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wacky-number-economists-cry-foul-190154737.html

@… to discontinue P2 Solo #sequencer
this is surprising, although I can imagine selling sequencer integrated with computer (P2i) is way more profitable (and you get to charge for support on annual basis), so probably P2S reduces their profit from larger seque…

ONT P2 Solo To Be Discontinued
So, the Oxford Nanopore P2 Solo has been discontinued, and a lot of people seem to be rather upset.

Reason Emerges for Trevon Diggs’ Release By Cowboys – Report https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/trevon-diggs-reason-realease-timing/

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/115576976293440370
Depressing stuff. But not at all surprising, to be honest. Most people simply do not understand the very basics of technlology. They're users in the purest form of the concept.
And t…

Having had a while to work with it, I think my big takeaway from the new windowing stuff on iPadOS is that… it pretty much _never_ does what I want with window management? It *should* work like MacOS, but it doesn’t, and it doesn’t in wildly unpredictable and surprising ways?

Ever wondered about #arithmetics in #JavaScript?
"For the most part, Javascript #numbers are double-precision floating point, so need to be treated the same as you would floating point…

Yet one more adverse impact of climate change:
"Greater warmth enables pests to develop faster, produce more generations each year and attack crops for longer as winters shorten. Rising temperatures are also helping pests invade places further from the equator and on higher ground that were previously too cold"
In hindsight, not surprising - but this is the first time I have seen this impact publicly discussed.
‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses superchar…

Yet one more adverse impact of climate change:
"Greater warmth enables pests to develop faster, produce more generations each year and attack crops for longer as winters shorten. Rising temperatures are also helping pests invade places further from the equator and on higher ground that were previously too cold"
In hindsight, not surprising - but this is the first time I have seen this impact publicly discussed.
‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses superchar…

A really surprising thing I learned from the (excellent) Many Minds podcast: we have found only about 300 Neanderthal skeletons in total. Amazing how we've constructed entire histories from so little data (but also how much we can't be sure about).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_

Cowboys need to make Jadeveon Clowney a priority signing this offseason https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-need-to-make-jadeveon-clowney-a-priority-signing-this-offseason

Trump built a surprising voter coalition. One key piece just cracked. (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/11/latino-voters-trump-democrats-00646300
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p119#a251111p119

"These Finnish homes are being heated by a surprising source: Bitcoin"
#Finland #Bitcoin #Energy

These Finnish homes are being heated by a surprising source: Bitcoin
Can the reuse of crypto mining’s waste heat redeem its carbon footprint?

What if we could harvest critical minerals from seaweed instead of digging them out of the ground?
Scientists at NREL and the University of Alaska are studying how seaweed naturally absorbs rare earth elements near Alaska's Bokan Mountain. They're developing cost-effective extraction methods that could lead to large-scale seaweed farms producing these essential minerals—offering a cleaner, more sustainable alternative to traditional mining.

A Phyto Finish: Could Seaweed Be Mined for Critical Minerals? - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Some Seaweeds Accumulate Critical Minerals. NREL Scientists Are Studying Which Ones Do It Best Seaweed: the phyto(mining) frontier? Puns aside, seaweed is emerging as a surprising mining source. NREL chemist Stefanie Van Wychen and a team of five departed Juneau, ... [continued]

Top HC Candidate Makes Surprising Raiders Decision: Report https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/davis-webb-coaching-search-decision-news/

"After a century of putting genetics on a pedestal, the geneticists have some surprising news for us: The vast majority of chronic disease isn’t caused by our genes." #Parkinsons
https://ww…

Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water
Parkinson’s disease has environmental toxic factors, not just genetic.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#MusicMatters
- The President and the Polka
Justin Webb (Today and Americast presenter) explores the surprising relationship between classical music and American political history.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002prfl

Not so surprising given Starmer's ever greater adoption of Reform's pseudo-policies.
Bolton gets first Reform councillor as former Labour member joins party - Manchester Evening News https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ne

Bolton gets first Reform councillor as former Labour member joins party
Sue Haworth, who quit Labour in August this year, has a new party allegiance

Zohran Mamdani’s election was not as surprising as his primary win in June,
and since then, Republicans have had time to adjust to the idea of a young, charismatic idol espousing a new and exciting message for the Democratic Party
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/20

MAGA’s Reaction to Mamdani’s Win is a Dark Sign of What’s to Come
Powerful Republicans are turning to old forms of bigotry.

Yesterday I hooked up a brand new WD Black 8TB HDD to the 2nd PC, which is running Mint 22. No reaction, which isn't surprising for a blank drive. Opened up Disks, and there it was. Cool. Clicked the 3 vertical dot menu at the top of Disks, chose "Format Disk" and did the quick option which completed in a couple seconds.. and nothing happened.
"Hmm? Ok.." Formatted it again the same way.. still no reaction. Ok maybe I need to DC it and connect it again for it t…

Bears' win in Philly sends message: 'We're for real' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47133507/real

Asimov wrote his laws of robotics as a dramic device to show how difficult it is to write laws of robotics. How they always will contradict each other.
His laws are there to illustrate a problem, not as a genuine attempt at the solution. His laws are deliberately wrong.
#ai #anthropic

I just read a fascinating and understandable article that gave me a better understanding of LLMs and how they operate.
LLMs Are Randomized Algorithms
A surprising connection between the newest AI models and a 50-year old academic field
by Udayan Kanade
Nov 13, 2025
18 min read
#LLM #AI #algorithms

ICE continues to terrorize MSP. It continues to be distressing and exhausting; the incredible volume of counter-organizing and community action continues to give me heart.
One thing that’s not surprising but I haven’t seen covered much: ICE is redlining. They swarm over very specific neighborhoods; the abductions (so far) happen almost entirely within clear boundaries. Those boundaries don’t entirely correspond to where immigrants live. They do, however, seem to correspond pretty closely to •political• boundaries that are / are not heavily white.
1/2

nothing is surprising enough anymore

Actually the internet says there are trees that blossom in Nov/Dec. Still looked surprising to me 😄

The western US is in a snow drought. Here's how a storm made it worse #UnitedStates

The western US is in a snow drought. Here's how a storm made it worse
Much of the western U.S. has started in 2026 in the midst of a snow drought. That might sound surprising, given the record precipitation from atmospheric rivers hitting the region in recent weeks, but those storms were actually part of the problem.

ESPN's Ryan Clark has a surprising theory on Micah Parsons' injury https://insidethestar.com/espns-ryan-clark-has-a-surprising-theory-on-micah-parsons-injury

So this is percolating and the results so far are not surprising.
I'd vote NO, for the following reasons:
- oil demand continues to decline and risk is high we'll end up with an expensive underutilized pipeline. Therefore high risk we'll end up subsidizing any private entity that builds this thing.
- why would we invest public dollars to support infrastructure for a product where 75% of the profit leaves Canada? There has to be a net benefit, beyond steel sales and jobs, for this project to be considered.
- Indigenous land rights must be respected. They will be left with the rusting pipeline decades in the future, and it's impact on the land.
- the B.C. government must also have a final vote as they have to give up land and provide support.
- we don't need additional oil tankers on our west coast.
- and most importantly, with this MOU, Canada pretty much declared we aren't serious about protecting the environment or fighting climate change. We're oil whores. Harsh but....
#CanPoli #ClimateAction

Filing: Berkshire Hathaway discloses a $4.3B stake in Alphabet in Q3, a surprising move given Warren Buffett's reluctance toward high-growth, tech-driven stocks (Yun Li/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/14/warren-buffetts-berkshir…

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway reveals new position in Alphabet
Berkshire disclosed a $4.3 billion stake in Alphabet at the end of the third quarter, making the Google parent the conglomerate's 10th largest equity holding.

Fantasy Takeaways from Raiders Surprising Effort vs. Texans https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-fantasy-takeaways-from-surprising-effort-texans

The surprising way to handle a big moment like the NFL playoffs? Change nothing https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6994027/2026/01/24/nfl-playoffs-pressure-handle-big-moments/

The fact that so many on the Fediverse remain so uneducated isn’t surprising. It only reveals how deeply bourgeois ideology continues to shape public consciousness, molding perception to serve the interests of capital, especially US imperialism.
Just as it took decades for many to see the war on terror for what it truly was, and even longer to grasp Palestine’s struggle against imperialism and settler colonialism, the same pattern will repeat.
I wholeheartedly reject imperialis…

A chance to make tech good again
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/10/trump-beginning-of-end-enshittification-make-tech-good-again?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again
The US president is weaponising tech, but his tariffs and Brexit provide a surprising opportunity to gain back digital control of our lives, says science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow

Once this is stable, one can run #Linux on any machine supported by a modern browser.
Linux Ported to #WebAssembly, Boots in a Browser Tab - Slashdot

Cowboys' Brian Schottenheimer earns surprising grade through first 15 weeks https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/cowboys-brian-schottenheimer-earns-surprising-grade-through-first-15-weeks

Philip Rivers expresses no regrets in NFL return despite Colts 0-3 finish: 'It's been an absolute blast'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/phillip-rivers-colts-nfl-return-regret…

You don't want to miss today's Metacurity for a surprising number of critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Pro-Hamas hackers stole plans for Australia's next-gen infantry fighting vehicles,
--Australia, UK, Denmark and Norway raise security concerns about Chinese buses,
--CISA 2015 will extend once US government shutdown ends,
--Chinese cyber company with close ties to Beijing suffered massive hack,
--New NS…

Pro-Hamas hackers stole plans for Australia's next-gen infantry fighting vehicles
Australia, UK, Denmark and Norway raise security concerns about Chinese buses, CISA 2015 will extend once US government shutdown ends, Chinese cyber company with close ties to Beijing suffered massive hack, New NSO Group owner seeks US headquarters, much more

Dak Prescott's surprising message to Cowboys before wild comeback https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/11/24/cowboys-dak-prescott-postgame-quotes-week-12-eagles-comeback/874…

Isto é engraçado.
Aparentemente nós, os lusófonos, lemos a uma velocidade média de 181 palavras por minuto.
(mas é provšvel que quem lê regularmente tenha uma velocidade de leitura superior a isto... duvido que chegue Šs 200, mas provavelmente chegarš Šs 190)
https://irisreading.com/average…

Orcas team up with dolphins to hunt salmon, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/11/orca-killer-whale-dolphin-hunt-salmon-study-british-columbia-canada?CMP=Share_AndroidA…

Orcas team up with dolphins to hunt salmon, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/11/orca-killer-whale-dolphin-hunt-salmon-study-british-columbia-canada?CMP=Share_AndroidA…

I agree with the storyteller: the experience of having a slave is abhorrent, simulated or not, and this story is a window into something •deep• about the present moment. Even without having slaves, we are all in danger of having a •slaver mindset•. It’s a disease that’s running rampant now in billionaire-shaped techno-utopian circles.
I wrote this thread on the topic earlier:
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/113295613785073188
…and even having written that, it’s still shocking — not surprising, exactly, but shocking — to hear those thoughts expressed so baldly by the colleague in the story above.

Microsoft built a simulated marketplace to test hundreds of AI agents, finding that businesses could manipulate agents into buying their products and more (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/05/microsoft-built-a-synthet…

Microsoft built a fake marketplace to test AI agents — they failed in surprising ways | TechCrunch
The research raises new questions about how well AI agents will perform when working unsupervised — and how quickly AI companies can make good on promises of an agentic future.

Finished “Deacon King Kong” by James McBride.
In 1969, an elderly church deacon known as “sportcoat” in his community of the Causeway Housing project in south Brooklyn, approaches & unexpectedly shoots a drug dealer, wounding him.
What happens afterwards is a great character & community driven story of colliding tectonic plates: changing neighborhood demographics, police presence, the destruction of drugs. Stays mostly humorous & light.
5/5 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
…

Deacon King Kong
The funny, sharp, and surprising story of the shooting …

Raiders Request Interview with Surprising Coach https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-request-interview-with-surprising-coach

Fucking amazing. Not surprising at all coming from such unfuckable losers, but still amazing.
https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/115503363869254443

The Raiders are gifted a shot at their future QB in new wave of mock drafts https://raiderramble.com/2025/12/28/the-raiders-are-gifted-a-shot-at-their-future-qb-in-new-wave-of-mock-drafts/

Despite disastrous loss in Week 9, Cowboys had one surprising bright spot https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/despite-disastrous-loss-in-week-9-cowboys-had-one-surprising-bright-spot

"Life after death: How earthworms keep facilitating carbon capture"
#Worms #Environment
https://

Life after death: How earthworms keep facilitating carbon capture
Earthworms don't stop shaping soil processes when they die. A new study shows they can still help store carbon in the soil, even after death. "This is quite surprising," says lead author Tullia Calogiuri. "Most of our knowledge about earthworms comes from their activity while alive, such as burrowing, feeding, and producing feces. Finding that they also play a role after death is exciting."

Richie Incognito Makes Surprising Endorsement for Raiders HC Job https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/sean-mcdermott-richie-incognito-coaching-rumors/

Colts place DeForest Buckner on injured reserve: Why DT's absence is major blow to NFL's most surprising team

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/colts-defores…

Wait, now Sean McDermott is out, too?! Big questions on the Bills' surprising coaching change https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47660627/why-did-bills-fire-coach-sean-mcdermott-next

NFL Week 14 schedule rankings: Top 5 Sunday games with this season's most surprising teams https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6857546/2025/12/05/nfl-week-14-schedule-bears-packers-colts-jaguars/

Where to watch Bears vs. Vikings: TV channel, live stream and preview for Week 11

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/where-to-watch-bears-vs-vikings-tv-channel…

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