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Asante Samuel Jr. Could Thrive in Matt Eberflus’ Cowboys Defense https://insidethestar.com/asante-samuel-jr-could-thrive-in-matt-eberflus-cowboys-defense

Continuing a bit with the #photos from our #schwarzwald #vacations : (unknowingly) we walked along the Western-way. It was pretty cool because the trail was very diverse as you can see on the photo…

"How a Teaching-Focused Institution Approaches AI Literacy"
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/future-of-work/2025/ai-literacy-at-a-teaching-focused-institution
"At the Institute of Inner-City …

🐝 Flowering time and pollinator visits together shape which plants thrive each season
#flowers

Flowering time and pollinator visits together shape which plants thrive each season
A new paper in Annals of Botany indicates that pollination can have a dramatic effect on how plants grow and change. The study shows that when plants and pollinators become uncoordinated, even for a brief time, they can change who reproduces best and change plant diversity. The paper offers new insights into how evolution works in real time.

Micah Parsons trade: James Franklin explains why the former Penn State star will 'thrive' with Packers

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/micah-p

What you truly need to vibe and thrive is simple, some good food to nourish your body, clean water to keep your spirit flowing, a little movement to keep the energy dancing, and a cozy spot to rest your head. When you’re living in community, sharing the love and looking out for each other, all that falls beautifully into place.
What you don’t need is a giant screen flashing noise at you, the newest shiny gadgets or games, or getting caught up in the endless swirl of political drama. Re…

Sources: Tempo, a stablecoin-focused blockchain developed by Stripe and Paradigm, raised a $500M Series A led by Greenoaks and Thrive Capital at a $5B valuation (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/10/17/stripe-para…

Exclusive: Stripe-backed blockchain startup Tempo raises $500 million round led by Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital and Greenoaks
The Series A values the Matt Huang-led Tempo at $5 billion and includes participation from Sequoia, Ribbit, and SV Angel.

Me too!
https://mastodon.social/@cmconseils/115487186656267241

Source: OpenAI employees sold shares to a consortium of investors including Thrive Capital, SoftBank, Dragoneer, Abu Dhabi's MGX, and T. Rowe Price (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-hits-500-billion-valuation…

Adaptations that let Culex pipiens mosquitoes thrive in the London Underground turn out to have a much more ancient origin, in Egypt
Ancient origin of an urban underground mosquito https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ady4515

Europe’s Original Climate-Resilient City Has a Lesson for Us All
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-10-25/amsterdam-750th-anniversary-showcases-centuries-of-climate-adaptation

Amsterdam 750th Anniversary Showcases Centuries of Climate Adaptation
On Amsterdam’s 750th anniversary, it continues to be a leader in climate adaptation — showing how a city can thrive in overcoming existential challenges.

The Holistic Health Podcast
Each week Nat and Amie will bring you accessible, practical and insightful information on how to upgrade your health, self and environment to truly thrive...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/holistic-health…

Bats are one of the few animals that I genuinely don't enjoy being around.... but I still want them to thrive!
This is really great news that a Canadian researcher might have found a treatment for white-nose syndrome!
" B.C.-based scientist Cori Lausen, nicknamed Bat Lady by her peers, believes a probiotic formula may be capable of saving them. This cocktail is a blend of four bacterial strains that suppress the fungus. These bacteria are naturally found in some bats, but not all. ”
#Bats #health #nature
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bats-white-nose-syndrome-probiotic-9.6948885

Sometimes innovation is quite simple 🙂
""Our measurements show that wheat and grass-clover mixtures grow just as well between vertical solar panels as in open fields. At the same time, the panels produce electricity in a daily pattern that better matches energy demand. It's a win-win,"
#solarpanels

Double harvest: Vertical solar panels and crops thrive side by side
Imagine a field where solar panels and crops coexist—with no trade-off. It sounds like science fiction, but that's precisely what researchers from Aarhus University have now documented in a full-scale agrivoltaic pilot project in the Danish countryside.

Jets' Braelon Allen, Vikings' Jordan Mason and these other young RBs could thrive in feature-back role

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jets-br

From David Suzuki
The suicidal insanity of non-stop growth
Air, water and land are polluted and degraded as the climate heats to catastrophic levels, yet we continue to burn fossil fuels and devastate carbon sinks.
It’s malignant. It’s suicidal. And it’s unfair. The obscenely wealthy hoard money and resources, amassing billions of dollars, luxury yachts, mansions and private jets while others starve and struggle to survive.

The suicidal insanity of non-stop growth
The planet offers everything we need to survive and thrive, but not if we continue to wastefully exploit it.

The Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams era finally gains momentum after win versus Dallas https://trojanswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/2025/09/22/caleb-williams-ben-johnson-thrive-bears-cowboys/86287044007/

A profile of Joshua Kushner, including Thrive Capital's investments in GitHub and Stripe and its role in reinstating Sam Altman as OpenAI CEO in November 2023 (Jeremy Stern/Colossus)
https://joincolossus.com/article/joshua-kushner-thrive-new-world/

🎶 Study finds big crowds hurt live-stream engagement
#media

Study finds big crowds hurt live-stream engagement
Most content platforms thrive on user engagement, but a professor at the University of Miami Patti and Allan Herbert Business School has discovered that too much of it can be harmful.

"There’s this kind of secret language that rats are communicating in with each other that we don’t hear,”
says Emily Mackevicius,
a neuroscientist and a co-author of the study.
“They’re very social,” adds Ralph Peterson, another study co-author.
“They’re rugged, and they’re New Yorkers themselves: persistent and resilient and able to thrive in a very extreme environment.”

Translational tilings: structured or wild?
Rachel Greenfeld
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25576 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.25576

Translational tilings: structured or wild?
The study of the structure of translational tilings has captivated mathematicians, scientists, and the general public for centuries and continues to thrive at the crossroads of analysis, combinatorics, dynamics, logic, number theory, and geometry. This vibrant field seeks to uncover the delicate divide between rigid structures and unpredictable, ``wild'' behaviors that arise when sets fill space by translations without gaps or overlaps. We provide an overview of this study and recent developmen…

Australia's first national report on indoor air quality reveals urgent need for action #Australia

Australia's first national report on indoor air quality reveals urgent need for action
The "State of Indoor Air in Australia 2025" report, led by QUT's ARC Training Center for Advanced Building Systems Against Airborne Infection Transmission (THRIVE), highlights the health, well-being and economic risks posed by poor indoor air quality across homes, workplaces, schools, hospitals and public buildings.

Food forests are key to Afro-descendant communities' sustainable land management and conservation efforts in Latin America. Recognizing and supporting their practices is crucial for biodiversity and carbon sequestration. #climatechange #climatesolutions

It's like a web there is no escape from
It's got you trapped, and you long for freedom
Every wish, every dream was granted
Never knowing what they demanded
You see the wall, how it's getting higher
You want to fight, but you're all divided
It's not a world anyone can thrive in
Is this the world we were meant to grow in?
Somebody tell me, where are we going?

Podcast recommendation: The @… Podcast "How to fix the Internet" talks with @…, founder of the @…

Podcast Episode: Building and Preserving the Library of Everything
All this season, “How to Fix the Internet” has been focusing on the tools and technology of freedom – and one of the most important tools of freedom is a library. Access to knowledge not only creates an informed populace that democracy requires, but also gives people the tools they need to thrive....

People CEO Neil Vogel calls Google a "bad actor" for refusing to pay publishers for AI content and says Google Search drives 25%-30% of visits to People sites (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/09/11/media-in…

Google’s AI is the ‘worst’ for stealing content, says People CEO
But Google-owned YouTube could provide a model for media and AI to coexist and thrive, says internet industry pioneer Bill Gross.

From Service-Oriented Computing to Metaverse Services: A Framework for Inclusive and Immersive Learning for Neurodivergent Students
Rachid Hamadi (School of Computer Science and Engineering UNSW Sydney Australia), Abdelmounaam Rezgui (School of Information Technology Illinois State University Normal IL USA), Ali Darejeh (School of Computer Science and Engineering UNSW Sydney Australia)

From Service-Oriented Computing to Metaverse Services: A Framework for Inclusive and Immersive Learning for Neurodivergent Students
The metaverse offers immersive and adaptive learning environments for neurodivergent students to thrive and reach their full potential. In this paper, we propose a generic framework that leverages metaverse services as an evolution beyond traditional service-oriented computing, enabling more interactive, personalized, and engaging educational experiences. By integrating AI-driven adaptability, multimodal interaction, and privacy-first service design, the framework ensures that learning remains …

Console, which uses AI agents in Slack to resolve lower-level IT support tickets, raised a $23M Series A led by DST Global Partners and Thrive Capital (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/console-ai-for-it-raises-series-a

Console, AI For IT Startup, Raises $22 Million From DST, Thrive
One-year-old startup Console works with Ramp, Flock Safety and Scale AI. CEO Andrei Serban has raised a $23 million Series A to go beyond IT into HR and finance.

BaNEL: Exploration Posteriors for Generative Modeling Using Only Negative Rewards
Sangyun Lee, Brandon Amos, Giulia Fanti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09596 https://

BaNEL: Exploration Posteriors for Generative Modeling Using Only Negative Rewards
Today's generative models thrive with large amounts of supervised data and informative reward functions characterizing the quality of the generation. They work under the assumptions that the supervised data provides knowledge to pre-train the model, and the reward function provides dense information about how to further improve the generation quality and correctness. However, in the hardest instances of important problems, two problems arise: (1) the base generative model attains a near-zero re…

Two Sides to Every Story: Exploring Hybrid Design Teams' Perceptions of Psychological Safety on Slack
Marjan Naghshbandi, Sharon Ferguson, Alison Olechowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11788

Two Sides to Every Story: Exploring Hybrid Design Teams' Perceptions of Psychological Safety on Slack
While the unique challenges of hybrid work can compromise collaboration and team dynamics, hybrid teams can thrive with well-informed strategies and tools that nurture interpersonal engagements. To inform future supports, we pursue a mixed-methods study of hybrid engineering design capstone teams' Psychological Safety (PS) (i.e., their climate of interpersonal risk-taking and mutual respect) to understand how the construct manifests in teams engaged in innovation. Using interviews, we study six…

The job of the college is to get the best price for the property and not subsidize another college.
"Shannan is hoping the college will sell him the property at less than market value, but the process has been frustrating. He said he was in the process of trying to have a conversation with Algonquin, but was “rebuffed” as recently as Tuesday."
Then there will be the hurdles of getting the accreditation. I love the idea of a trades college, but there is a lot of work an…

Autonomous Mobile Plant Watering Robot : A Kinematic Approach
Justin London
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08607 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08607

Autonomous Mobile Plant Watering Robot : A Kinematic Approach
Plants need regular and the appropriate amount of watering to thrive and survive. While agricultural robots exist that can spray water on plants and crops such as the , they are expensive and have limited mobility and/or functionality. We introduce a novel autonomous mobile plant watering robot that uses a 6 degree of freedom (DOF) manipulator, connected to a 4 wheel drive alloy chassis, to be able to hold a garden hose, recognize and detect plants, and to water them with the appropriate amount…

The Contingencies of Physical Embodiment Allow for Open-Endedness and Care
Leonardo Christov-Moore (Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, Santa Monica, CA), Arthur Juliani (Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, Santa Monica, CA), Alex Kiefer (Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, Santa Monica, CA, VERSES, Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies), Nicco Reggente (Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, Santa Monica, CA), B. Scott Rousse (A…

The Contingencies of Physical Embodiment Allow for Open-Endedness and Care
Physical vulnerability and mortality are often seen as obstacles to be avoided in the development of artificial agents, which struggle to adapt to open-ended environments and provide aligned care. Meanwhile, biological organisms survive, thrive, and care for each other in an open-ended physical world with relative ease and efficiency. Understanding the role of the conditions of life in this disparity can aid in developing more robust, adaptive, and caring artificial agents. Here we define two m…

Jeff Hafley could become NFL's hottest head-coaching candidate; Jaxson Dart scouting report https://www.nfl.com/news/jeff-hafley-could-become-nfl-s-hottest-head-coaching-candidate-jaxson-dart-scouting-report

Sources: Databricks is finalizing a funding round that would value it at $100B, up 61% from December 2024, co-led by Thrive Capital; a16z is set to participate (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/databricks-…

AI in Computational Thinking Education in Higher Education: A Systematic Literature Review
Ebrahim Rahimi, Clara Maathuis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09677 https://

AI in Computational Thinking Education in Higher Education: A Systematic Literature Review
Computational Thinking (CT) is a key skill set for students in higher education to thrive and adapt to an increasingly technology-driven future and workplace. While research on CT education has gained remarkable momentum in K12 over the past decade, it has remained under-explored in higher education, leaving higher education teachers with an insufficient overview, knowledge, and support regarding CT education. The proliferation and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) by educational institu…

Sources: current and former OpenAI employees plan to sell ~$6B in stock to Thrive Capital, SoftBank, and others in a secondary sale that values OpenAI at ~$500B (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

I stand in solidarity with Canada Post CUPW workers as they stand against the austerity measures of the Mark Carney government and every government before.
Canada Post must be reformed, expanded, and allowed to thrive as a public service. Home delivery is not the real reason the service is going bankrupt and it should not be the scapegoat!
Create a National Public Postal Bank!
#CanadaPost #UPW #Strike #Union #Solidarity
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2dn7zl9dp1o

NFL Future Power Rankings: We stacked all 32 teams' long-term expectations https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45920966/2025-nfl-future-power-rankings-projections-32-teams-roster-coaching-quarterback