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Good Morning #Canada
December 8th, 1869, Timothy Eaton opened a small dry-goods and haberdashery business at 178 Yonge Street in the city of Toronto. From that humble start grew a national retail chain that eventually would bring Christmas Window Displays that attracted crowds for 100 years, and the tradition continues today. The heyday for the window displays was the 1940s to 1980s when Eatons and Simpsons competed for children's noses pressed up against their windows. But every store, large or small, had their own creative display in December. In the 1990s retail chains started to falter and disappear and some displays, like those from Woodwards and Ogilvys, were preserved by museums. I remember our annual visit to Eatons and Simpsons on Yonge Street in the early 60s, when Mom and Dad would load up the car with 7 kids and we'd tour the Christmas displays.
#CanadaIsAwesome #HappyHolidays
https://www.tvo.org/article/walking-in-a-window-wonderland-a-brief-history-of-torontos-department-store-christmas-displays

Apple-Brief: EU-Gesetze widersprechen sich und machen Plattformen unsicher
Apple wirft der Europäischen Union vor, dass sich ihre Digitalgesetze gegenseitig in die Quere kommen und mobile Plattformen für Verbraucher unsicherer machen.

Trump DOJ sued over alleged Tom Homan bribe recording - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/07/trump-doj-sued-over-alleged-tom-homan-bribe-recording/

In keeping with a brief return to my telecom/cable/satellite/media analysis roots, my latest piece commissioned by TechTarget takes a look at how AI is being integrated into 5G, mostly to push more compute power down to more devices.
Many thanks to Scott Lawrence of Verizon Business, Joe Madden of Mobile Experts, and the utterly delightful Ray Liu of Origin AI for their insights.

5G and AI: What enterprises need to know | TechTarget
Learn how combining 5G and AI can speed up and extend intelligent, distributed wireless applications in manufacturing, healthcare and other industries.

Supreme Court issues a stay,
with three dissenting
-- and Brett Kavanaugh separately
concurring to note
that hunger tends to be brief
https://bsky.app/profile/stevevladeck.bsky.social/post/3m53b7ge55k2l

Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social)
#BREAKING: The Trump administration is asking #SCOTUS for an immediate “administrative” stay of a Rhode Island district judge’s order that is otherwise requiring it to resume the distribution of SNAP benefits from other funding sources no later than the end of today.

Full die PIC12F683 100x scan at M3 with a little bit of passivation remaining.
There's a few small particulates on the surface from my somewhat crude "rub it with a swab" cleaning to remove residual undercut glass fragments.
Plan is to give it ~10 more seconds in HF to get more glass residue off, then maybe a very brief sonication (like 2-3 seconds), then image again to see if it cleaned up at all.
Depending on how things go I might end up just continuing to e…

Un très court article sur l'agriculture urbaine Š Québec aux années 1970 (avec, en prime, un bref rappel des années 1930).
« Une mauvaise herbe est une plante qui a maîtrisé toutes les compétences de survie, sauf celle d’apprendre Š grandir dans le rang. Soyez une mauvaise herbe... »

QUÉBEC DISPARUE | Les enfants du premier jardin communautaire en 1977
À la demande générale, Le Soleil, en collaboration avec les Archives de la Ville de Québec, présente une série consacrée à des facettes disparues de la ville de Québec. Chaque semaine, elle rappellera le souvenir d’un immeuble, d’un commerce, d’un secteur ou d’un boisé disparu. À partir d’une image ancienne, un montage vidéo vous amène jusqu’à notre époque.

Linear Recurrent Sequences, Markov Chains and Their Applications in Graph Theory
Rebecca Carter, M. Ram Murty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03537 https://arxi…

Linear Recurrent Sequences, Markov Chains and Their Applications in Graph Theory
After a brief review of the key theorems concerning recurrent sequences, we give an explicit computation of the inverse of the Vandermonde matrix. This will then be used to derive sub-exponential decay error terms in the ergodic theorem of Markov chains. Finally, we apply these results to give estimates for the diameters of directed graphs.

Coupa, a Thoma Bravo-owned supply chain tech company, acquires procurement tech startup Scoutbee, with the deal expected to close by the end of October (Colin Campbell/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/supply-chain-dea

Exclusive: Thoma Bravo-backed supply chain tech firm Coupa acquires Scoutbee
Supply chain technology is increasingly consolidating as AI transforms firms' capabilities and draws additional investor interest.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Brief Encounter:
🎵 What About Love
#BriefEncounter
https://expansionsingles.bandcamp.com/album/brief-encounter-what-about-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/6s1Ra3fY858UsePjIswHex