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The Trump administration has reportedly set a goal of yanking citizenship away from over a thousand naturalized Americans in fiscal year 2026,
in yet another escalation in the administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown.
New guidance issued on Tuesday directs the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) field offices
to “supply Office of Immigration Litigation with 100-200 denaturalization cases per month” next year, according to The New York Times.
Denatu…

Trump Administration Sets Goal to Denaturalize Thousands of US Citizens in 2026
Immigration officials have reportedly issued guidance setting a quota of 100 to 200 denaturalization cases a month.

OpenEvidence, which makes an ad-supported AI chatbot for medical practitioners, raised $200M at a $6B valuation, up from $3.5B after raising $210M in July (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/business/…

OpenEvidence Raises $200 Million for a ChatGPT for Medicine
The three-year-old artificial intelligence start-up has drawn investor attention, and money, as its use among doctors, nurses and others skyrockets.

Some 22 million Americans are set to lose health insurance subsidies by the end of the year.

These subsidies, known as enhanced premium tax credits, lower costs for people who buy their health insurance through Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces ("Obamacare").
They are at the heart of
the government shutdown that has shuttered the federal government since October 1.
About 80 percent of the people who benefit from them live in states that Donald Trump …

Who will lose out when ACA health insurance subsidies expire?
Here’s a look at who could be affected by the end of the Affordable Care Act credits and how much prices could change.

📈 Study shows the Paris Agreement is working, but not well enough to offset economic growth
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-paris-agreement-offset-economic-growth.html

Study shows the Paris Agreement is working, but not well enough to offset economic growth
Ten years ago, close to 200 nations signed the Paris Agreement, an international treaty designed to cut greenhouse gas emissions and curtail global warming. Under the treaty, most nations made a 15-year promise to reduce emissions.

The 17-year-old son watched as ICE ripped his father from him.
“It all felt like a lot to bear,” David told the Youth Media Project.
“He’s my role model, my biggest supporter. I rely on him a lot.”
The officer took all of Hector’s belongings, including $200 in cash he was carrying.
They did, however, forget to confiscate his phone, which Hector kept on him during his detainment.
David watched his dad step into the backseat of the blacked-out SUV.
As it sped …

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.
A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

In 1952 POLKA got replaced with PAPA in the NATO “Phonetic” alphabet: “ALFA, BRAVO, CHARLIE…” 🎙️
The same year the #accordion reached its peak in imports into the United States at 200,000 instruments a year
It was all downhill from there, with 🪗 imports sliding into the tens of thousands or lower by the 1970s 📉
And the polka craze of the 1930s–1950s slowly giving way to newer popular music as well
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UAT-eOzeY4M&t=990s

college_freshmen: Dutch college freshman (1995)
A small network of friendships among freshmen at Dutch College in 1994-1995. Friendship ties were surveyed at 7 different times over the year, and each edge is timestamped. The direction of an edge indicates that person i named person j, and the edge weight represents their level of friendship, ranging from -1 (risk of conflict) to 3 (best friend).
This network has 32 nodes and 3062 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Tim…

Once again I will say, Fuck AI!
"Driven by explosive AI demand, memory prices are climbing at a pace the industry hasn’t seen in years. Compared with earlier this year, price increases now range from 120% to 200%."
#noAI

Update on the Sony PVM-2530: probably should use RGB before diagnosing color issues (e.g. luma). I did have to get in my custom CMPTR board to do it, but everything lined up perfectly. I do need to fix the geometry a bit, but for right now I think I'll be playing a few games after work.
#electronics

"Study shows the Paris Agreement is working, but not well enough to offset economic growth"
#ParisAgreement
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-paris-agre…

Study shows the Paris Agreement is working, but not well enough to offset economic growth
Ten years ago, close to 200 nations signed the Paris Agreement, an international treaty designed to cut greenhouse gas emissions and curtail global warming. Under the treaty, most nations made a 15-year promise to reduce emissions.

Mercury Crustal Magnetization Indicates a Stronger Ancient Dynamo
Isaac S. Narrett, Benjamin P. Weiss, Sarah C. Steele, John B. Biersteker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02003 https…

Mercury Crustal Magnetization Indicates a Stronger Ancient Dynamo
Mercury is the only other terrestrial planet in the solar system with an active dynamo magnetic field (~200 nT at the equatorial surface). Furthermore, Mercury's ~3.9-3.7 billion-year old (Ga) crust is strongly magnetized (~10 nT at ~30-km altitude), indicating the presence of a past dynamo. However, the source and strength of the field that magnetized this crust are unknown. To address this, we performed three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the ancient solar wind interaction wi…

In 1952 POLKA got replaced with PAPA in the NATO “Phonetic” alphabet: “ALFA, BRAVO, CHARLIE…” 🎙️
The same year the #accordion reached its peak in imports into the United States at 200,000 instruments a year
It was all downhill from there, with 🪗 imports sliding into the tens of thousands or lower by the 1970s 📉
And the polka craze of the 1930s–1950s slowly giving way to newe…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TrainTracks
- Live from Darlington
Elizabeth Alker continues the musical and cultural celebration of a landmark moment: the 200 year anniversary of the birth of the modern railway.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002jv2z

#TrumpVotersDidThis
200,000 children to die this year because of foreign aid cuts | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/child-deaths-trump-aid-cuts-gates-foundation-b2877107.html

State of Local News Report: 40% of local US papers have vanished since 2005, 213 counties have no local outlets, and 200 papers changed owners in the past year (Zach Metzger/Local News Initiative)
https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/projects/s…

The State of Local News

The Impact of AI Adoption on Retail Across Countries and Industries
Yunqi Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15885 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.15885

The Impact of AI Adoption on Retail Across Countries and Industries
This study investigates the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) adoption on job loss rates using the Global AI Content Impact Dataset (2020--2025). The panel comprises 200 industry-country-year observations across Australia, China, France, Japan, and the United Kingdom in ten industries. A three-stage ordinary least squares (OLS) framework is applied. First, a full-sample regression finds no significant linear association between AI adoption rate and job loss rate ($β\approx -0.0026$, $p = …

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TrainTracks
- Live from Pitlochry
Tom Service with a musical and cultural celebration of a landmark moment: the 200 year anniversary of the birth of the modern railway
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002jv2v

Pedro the #Math cat 🐈 is very temporarily a FOIL-wrapped Purrito. 🌯
#cats #CatsOfMastodon #Halloween