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Mission Local and Joe Eskenazi are on this!
The unmaking of Supervisor Alcaraz: A strange and terrible saga https://missionlocal.org/2025/11/the-making-and-unmaking-of-beya-alcaraz-a-strange-and-terrible-saga/

The making and unmaking of Beya Alcaraz: A strange and terrible saga
A near-total vetting failure by the mayor’s office put a political neophyte in an impossible position. It was a crucial misstep for Daniel Lurie.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Traveling Wilburys:
🎵 End of the Line
#TravelingWilburys
https://theroundedsquares.bandcamp.com/track/the-rounded-squares-traveling-wilburys-end-of-the-line
https://open.spotify.com/track/3f6H03kkbkRZVFaWv0RXBK

Australia-based AI infrastructure company Firmus raised AU$500M, or ~$325M, tripling its valuation to AU$6B in two months, after raising AU$330M in September (Tess Bennett/Australian Financial Review)
https://www.afr.com/technology/oliver-curt

Firmus Technologies: Oliver Curtis’ AI infrastructure start-up triples valuation to $6 billion
The AI start-up has tripled its valuation in two months, raising a further $500 million from investors to bankroll its massive data centre developments. 

The Trump administration is providing the names of all air travelers to immigration officials,
substantially expanding its use of data sharing to expel people under deportation orders.
Under the previously undisclosed program, the Transportation Security Administration provides a list multiple times a week to Immigration and Customs Enforcement of travelers who will be coming through airports.
ICE can then match the list against its own database of people subject to deporta…

T.S.A. Is Providing Air Passenger Data to Immigration Agents for Deportation Effort
The Transportation Security Administration is providing passenger lists to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement to identify and detain travelers subject to deportation orders.

TripScore: Benchmarking and rewarding real-world travel planning with fine-grained evaluation
Yincen Qu, Huan Xiao, Feng Li, Hui Zhou, Xiangying Dai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09011

TripScore: Benchmarking and rewarding real-world travel planning with fine-grained evaluation
Travel planning is a valuable yet complex task that poses significant challenges even for advanced large language models (LLMs). While recent benchmarks have advanced in evaluating LLMs' planning capabilities, they often fall short in evaluating feasibility, reliability, and engagement of travel plans. We introduce a comprehensive benchmark for travel planning that unifies fine-grained criteria into a single reward, enabling direct comparison of plan quality and seamless integration with reinfo…

Neue PC-Spiele im Dezember 2025: "Terminator 2D: No Fate"
Im Dezember wird das JRPG "Octopath Traveler 0" veröffentlicht. Zudem gehen "Yakuza 0 Director's Cut" und "Terminator 2D: No Fate" an den Start.

President Trump responds to 'terrible' ambush that killed 3 US troops in Syria: 'We will retaliate' (Geoff Earle/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/13/us-news/president-trump-responds-to-terrible-ambush-that-killed-3-us-troops-in-syria-we-will-retaliate/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p47#a251213p47

Dak Prescott Gets Terrible News Before Cowboys-Vikings https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/dak-prescott-terrible-news-before-vikings/

Deep imaging of the #galaxy Malin 2 shows new faint structures and a candidate satellite dwarf galaxy: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2025/10/aa56569-25/aa56569-25.html -> IAC research reveals hidden structures and a turbulent past in one of the largest spiral galaxies in the Universe: https://www.iac.es/en/outreach/news/iac-research-reveals-hidden-structures-and-turbulent-past-one-largest-spiral-galaxies-universe

Raiders vs. Eagles forecast sets up troubling scenario for fantasy football playoffs https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/philadelphia-eagles/news/raiders-eagles-forecast-troubling-scenario-fa…