Texas clears the way for petrochemical expansion as experts warn of health risks (Grist)
https://grist.org/energy/texas-clears-the-way-for-petrochemical-expansion-as-experts-warn-of-health-risks/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p6#a260107p6
Cowboys' Kenny Clark issues 6-word response to Rico Dowdle's 'buckle up' comment https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-kenny-clark-issues-6-word-respons…
Sources: Anthropic plans to raise $10B led by Singapore's GIC and Coatue Management at a $350B valuation before the new investment, up from $183B in September (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-ra…
Kindle Scribe Colorsoft: Amazon liefert Tablet ab 10. Dezember in den USA aus
Amazon liefert seine neuen Kindle Scribe-Modelle ab dem 10. Dezember aus – allerdings erstmal nur in den USA.
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Irked because my watch showed 7.5 km (not that I was looking at it desperately or anything…) 😉
An afternoon meeting prevented my running in daylight on the greenway, so I headed over to one of the high schools to use their track. (My favorite track at the middle school is still all torn apart for some sort of culvert work. 😤)
One end is all pine trees and the fragrant smell each lap was lovely.
4/1 minute run/walk intervals for 7.46 km in 57:43, average pace of 7:44/km.
Obamacare subsidies extension clears procedural hurdle in the House
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/07/aca-subsidies-extension-congress.html
The fifth #AAS press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dHXMm3pbWU about Asteroids, Low-Mass Stars, and a Mystery from History covered the papers Lightcurves, Rotation Periods, and Colors for Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s First Asteroid Discoveries (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae2a30 with https://rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-record-breaking-asteroid-pre-survey and https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2601/ and https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2026-01-07-nsf-doe-vera-c-rubin-observatory-spots-record-breaking-asteroid-pre-survey), Dearth of Photosynthetically Active Radiation Suggests No Complex Life on Late M-Star Exoplanets (https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02548 with https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LlyzaK1wTk0hnqNGRCEMNe8BZEaMMFde), A Plasma Torus around a Young Low-mass Star (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ade39a with https://carnegiescience.edu/naturally-occurring-space-weather-station-elucidates-new-way-study-habitability-planets-orbiting-m) and Barnard's mysterious star near Venus - a strange interloper noted during a satellite search (https://scicomm.xyz/@cosmos4u/115849624944298844).
Coordinator candidates to watch as the Washington Commanders start their search https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6950743/2026/01/07/commanders-offensive-defensive-coordinator-candidates/
The #Kilauea #volcano on #Hawaii has calmed down, but the stream on https://www.