Tootfinder

MockK: Under the cover
#Kotlin

This seems most auspicious: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/12/yes-new-york-will-soon-be-under-new-management-but-zohran-mamdani-is-just-the-start anti-trust specialist Khan on M…

Historic week ahead in Europe.
#eu

Europe Under Attack
Thoughts on next week's Battle of Brussels, Starmer's dangerous dithering, how Ireland's neutrality is costing it friends, can Europe break the Chinese siege, and why we are past peak human

I love a good news story about agrivoltaics (farming under solar panels) - let's hope it does take off! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2en1yyp4d9o

Will farming under solar panels take off?
Farming under solar panels is still in the early stages in India, but will it catch on?

Under The Knife: https://eyebeemania.net/2026/01/15/under-the-knife.html

Under The Knife
This time tomorrow, I could be under the knife. I will …

BREAKING: Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai found guilty under national security law (Hong Kong Free Press HKFP)
https://hongkongfp.com/2025/12/15/breaking-hong-kong-tycoon-jimmy-lai-found-guilty-under-national-security-law/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251214/p54#a251214p54

Google agrees to pay $8.25M to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging its AdMob SDK illegally collected data from children under age 13 (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/google-youtube-lawsuit-settle

Google to pay $8.25 million to settle lawsuit alleging children’s privacy violations
Google has agreed to pay $8.25 million to settle a class-action lawsuit centered on claims that it habitually and illegally collected data from devices belonging to children under age 13.

The UK Treasury is drafting new rules
to regulate cryptocurrencies
under legislation set to come into force in 2027, The Guardian reported Sunday.
The move would place digital asset firms under the supervision of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA),
subjecting them to the same standards as other traditional financial products such as stocks and shares.
Regulators are seeking to address gaps in consumer protection as the market has expanded rapidly,
especia…

UK Treasury to implement regulation for Bitcoin and crypto by 2027 - EUROPE SAYS
Key Takeaways

⚠️ An important wetland in Ghana is under siege. Researchers investigate the real issues
https://theconversation.com/an-important-wetland-in-ghana-is-under-siege-researchers-investigate-the-real-issues-269016<…

An important wetland in Ghana is under siege. Researchers investigate the real issues
In Ghana, the degradation of wetlands is widespread and many are in poor condition.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
Broken Water:
🎵 River Under the River
#BrokenWater
https://brokenwatermusic.bandcamp.com/track/river-under-the-river
https://open.spotify.com/track/3fqTgXovwAEbSq8FxKIIPd

Measured the gap under the dresser desk.
The clearance under the desk is 61cm.
What to make of the measurements diagram for that chair then?
The seat is at 46cm but how high are those arms? More or less than 15cm? 🤔
Probably approximately that, yeah.

Nielsen: Tony Dokoupil's CBS Evening News debut week averaged 4.17M total viewers, a 23% drop from ~5.4M in the year-earlier period; 25-54 viewership fell 23% (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/cbs-evening-news-tv-ratings-ton…

CBS Evening News' Viewership Slips in First Week Under Tony Dokoupil
CBS Evening News' Viewership Slips in First Week Under Tony Dokoupil

Of course.
In texts, D4 supe Alcaraz wrote of paying workers 'under the table' https://missionlocal.org/2025/11/alcaraz-text-message-under-the-table-taxes-animal-connection/

In text exchange, new D4 supe writes of paying workers ‘under the table,’ skimping on taxes
New texts raise more questions about Mayor Daniel Lurie’s vetting of newest supervisor, Beya Alcaraz

Fuck the United States of America.
And Israel, of course.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk. https://norden.social/@stephie_hamburg/115555340426223090

Week 11 NFL player props, picks, odds: Back Matthew Stafford Under 278.5 passing yards in Sunday NFL prop bets

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/week-11-nf…

"Indeed, this budget would put ICE as the 14th most well-funded military in the world, right between Ukraine and Israel. "
I think this is just ICE and does not include the FBI or ATF or National Guard or other federal police forces.
https://www.techdirt.com/2…

Some of the little things that don’t make the news really get under my skin.
ICE agents blow through stop signs, speed, drive recklessly.
They take off their license plates (illegally), cover their license plates (illegally), •swap• license plates (illegally). We’ve seen the same vehicle show up with different plates on different days There are photos circulating of the •same• license plate number on multiple ICE vehicles side by side.

"The fragility of Africa’s coasts is further exacerbated by the deteriorating condition of its marine ecosystems... under mounting pressure from both climate anthropogenic stressors, including unregulated development, dam-induced sediment trap habitat degradation"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02965-z

dbpedia_recordlabel: DBpedia artist-label affiliations
Bipartite networks of the affiliations (contractual relations) between artists and the record labels under which they have performed, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 186758 nodes and 233286 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
http…

A US Federal Judge ordered the release of the people DHS now plans to hold anyway, illegally under both US and International Law.
15 of the people arrested at Broadview yesterday were clergy, peacefully protesting; bringing assistance to and advocating for the downtrodden quite literally _is_ their job.
But DHS/ICE/CBP brings only lawlessness and violence.
DHS and all its components and collaborators are a clear and present danger to the American People and the US Consti…

FIDE allows Russian, Belarusian youth chess players to compete under national flags: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/15/fide-allows-russian-belarusian-youth.html

Btw: I do care about every comment under my photos. Even if its just a "wow" or an emoji. All (positive) reactions make me smile.
Please never underestimate the impact of your reactions.

Ana Tudor rolling into the comments with corrections and useful #CSS values context (trousers!):
https://css-tricks.com/headings-semantics-fluidity-and-styling-oh-my/#…

Headings: Semantics, Fluidity, and Styling — Oh My! | CSS-Tricks
A few links about headings that I've had stored under my top hat.

Damning Poll Reveals Americans Struggling to Buy Holiday Gifts Under Billionaire Trump
https://archive.ph/qDrFS

Over the past two months the U.S. has blown up at least 20 boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific.
“80 people have been killed in what are extrajudicial executions under international law,” says Juan Pappier, Americas deputy director at Human Rights Watch.
The Pentagon claims the boats were carrying drugs but officials have acknowledged they don’t know who has been killed.
The U.S.now has 15,000 military personnel in the region.

“Gunboat Diplomacy”: U.S. War in Latin America Feared as Hegseth Launches “Operation Southern Spear”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced the launch of Operation Southern Spear to target suspected drug traffickers in South America, Central America and the Caribbean. The U.S. now has 15,000 military personnel in the region. Over the past two months the U.S. has blown up at least 20 boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific. “80 people have been killed in what are extrajudicial executions under international law,” says Juan Pappier, Americas deputy director at Human Rights Watch. Th…

Our puritanical streak strikes again...
Many of us endure pain. Pain from many causes. Often intense, often of long duration.
In the race to prevent opioid adiction the US Federal government has denied many of us who are careful users, who have no history of abuse, access to an effective remedy.
Now the puritans want to deny another method of meeting pain. Why, because they want to control our lives and our bodies (sound familiar?)
The bill to fund the government w…

THC gummies and drinks face ban under provision in government spending bill
The bill prohibits products containing over 0.4 milligrams of THC per container.

FIND A PUB
THAT NEEDS YOU
The government's signalled a potential u-turn on pub rates — but nothing's confirmed yet. Pubs still need your support. Find your local. See what they're up against. Buy a pint.
https://www.ismypubfucked.com/

Pressure grows on No 10 as Burnham backs Tory call for social media ban for children | Social media | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jan/11/kemi-badenoch-says-tories-would-ban-under-16s-from-addictive…

(Adaptive) Scaled gradient methods beyond locally Holder smoothness: Lyapunov analysis, convergence rate and complexity
Susan Ghaderi, Morteza Rahimi, Yves Moreau, Masoud Ahookhosh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10425 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.10425 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.10425
arXiv:2511.10425v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper addresses the unconstrained minimization of smooth convex functions whose gradients are locally Holder continuous. Building on these results, we analyze the Scaled Gradient Algorithm (SGA) under local smoothness assumptions, proving its global convergence and iteration complexity. Furthermore, under local strong convexity and the Kurdyka-Lojasiewicz (KL) inequality, we establish linear convergence rates and provide explicit complexity bounds. In particular, we show that when the gradient is locally Lipschitz continuous, SGA attains linear convergence for any KL exponent. We then introduce and analyze an adaptive variant of SGA (AdaSGA), which automatically adjusts the scaling and step-size parameters. For this method, we show global convergence, and derive local linear rates under strong convexity.
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🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Kenny Dope feat. Róisín Murphy:
🎵 Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
#NowPlaying #KennyDope #RóisínMurphy
https://bbemusic.bandcamp.com/album/born-under-punches-and-the-heat-goes-on
https://open.spotify.com/track/7nRizuGswM9vrhUk8CNF9I

I won’t stay silent while any #LGBTQIA person lives under oppression, the fight doesn’t end until we’re all free.
:bisexual_pride: 🏳️‍⚧️ :genderfluid_flag: :nonbinary_flag: :heart_trans: 🏳️‍🌈
#NonBinary

I'm finally trying printing with Spiderflex (77-82A shore) filament. The print speeds remind me of my first 3d printer. Two tiny parts totaling under 3g took about an hour, printing with a maximum speed of 10mm/s. But having really flexible TPE is really handy; there's really no reasonable alternative!
Now I have new feet for my KX3, and honestly they might be better than the originals (sorry Elecraft!) They are at least as grippy on the table surface, and they are a closer fit on the …

"Permitting Parking in Driveways" is at Monday's SFBOS land use committee.
I plan to comment against this. It seems to allow driveways to be unlimited width and to remain even after garages are converted to ADUs. This is nakedly an inducement to more driving at the expense of green space, stormwater drainage, active transportation, and public transit.

David Loggan spent 12 years sketching & engraving the town & colleges of Cambridge before publishing his book of plates in 1690 as 'Cantabrigia Illustrata'. Background: https://www.museumofcambridge.org.uk/2025/10/david-loggans-views-of-ca…

David Loggan’s views of Cambridge: An extraordinary visual testimony of 17th century Cambridge
By Dr N. Henry The Museum of Cambridge has on display, on the first floor, an antique print of David Loggan’s views of Cambridge from the east and the west. This print was once part of Cantabrigia …

The House at Number 48: When Antony Easton's father passes away, he begins a ten-year quest to uncover his family’s dark past and reclaim their fortune, stolen under the Nazis. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002l461 An excellent example of researching and retelling a family tragedy to the next…

BBC Radio 4 - The History Podcast, The House at Number 48, 1. Made in Britain
A man’s quest to uncover his family’s dark past & reclaim a fortune stolen under the Nazis

Updating some proc file drivers that work perfectly well under Linux 2.6. Many, many changes since then and the code is messy to boot, having its origins in 1.8

Metropolitana VI - Up Above and Down Under ⬆️⬇️
城 VI - 上面和下面 ⬆️⬇️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

No Jim McMahon, it's perfectly OK to disincentive car use, especially where aviation is concerned.
'Manchester Airport shouldn't become like Gatwick' - Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ne

'Manchester Airport shouldn't become like Gatwick'
The airport has come under fire in parliament

"Carmina Burana: Songs From The Original Manuscript" - Studio der Frühen Musik (1968)
#NowPlaying #StudioDerFruhenMusik #ThomasBinkley

RE: https://ioc.exchange/@eprint/115894813350411669
it's under embargo, but i can disclose sphinx is not affected :)

This is hands down the most wholesome "Stranger Things" fact ever https://piefed.social/c/television/p/1661852/this-is-hands-down-the-most-wholesome-stranger-things-fact-ever

This is hands down the most wholesome "Stranger Things" fact ever
Federated, open‑source, ad‑free, and fully under your control. Build or join a community that reflects your values with no corporate overlords. This instance is run by the founder of PieFed. [Mobile apps for PieFed](https://piefed.social/post/1258559)

A massive (but not unusual) sneezing fit followed by hiccups certainly wakes you up in the morning. I hope Wednesday is good to you. I'm bringing together the findings from one part of a small sample set we've processed and then moving onto the microscopes to analyse the other part. I enjoy both aspects but tragically it's the admin that really makes my heart sing 😄 I spent years fighting it but now I accept I was born under the admin star.

It’s striking how dramatically our mindset has shifted in under 30 years. Before the 90s, people were frustrated by the need to buy products they weren’t able to build themselves. Today, despite having unprecedented access to tools, materials, and even electronics development, many people prefer plug-and-play solutions.
In essence, we once valued understanding how things worked. Now, we often prioritize convenience and mental ease. Even remembering a few keyboard shortcuts feels excessi…

Sonnet 078 - LXXVIII
So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse,
And found such fair assistance in my verse
As every alien pen hath got my use
And under thee their poesy disperse.
Thine eyes, that taught the dumb on high to sing
And heavy ignorance aloft to fly,
Have added feathers to the learned's wing
And given grace a double majesty.
Yet be most proud of that which I compile,
Whose influence is thine, and born of thee:
In o…

💡 Why hashes over timestamps?
- Timestamps can be manipulated
- Backup restores mess up mtime
- Hashes reliably detect real content changes
🚀 Result: 32,000 files completely scanned in under 30 seconds – syncing only the delta!

Digg, rebooted under original founder Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian, launches its open beta; the site had been open to 67,000 users on an invite-only basis (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/14/digg-launches-its-new-reddit-rival-to-the…

Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public | TechCrunch
Digg, a reboot of an earlier social news site, is now relaunching as a Reddit competitor focused on communities.

Game Preview: Raiders clash with the Cowboys under the bright lights of Monday Night Football https://www.raiders.com/news/game-preview-raiders-clash-with-the-cowboys-under-the-bright-lights-of-monday-night-football…

Take the good news where you can find it: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/12/orsted-rhode-island-wind-project-trump

Garden ponds provide vital habitats – and a revival is under way in Britain https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/dec/04/garden-ponds-provide-vital-habitats-and-a-revival-is-under-way-in-britain

This image was in one of the magazines I had as a kid when I was like 9 or 10 probably. I used to look at it a lot, and I'd imagine these huge mutant turtles hanging out in dark alleys, on old, dirty discarded mattresses under bridges

#BrookeBurns #SimmoneMackinnon #RibHillis

Season 9 Episode 17 "Baywatch Down Under: part 2"

File under: Racist GOP muthafuckers.
https://wisconsinexaminer.com/briefs/wisconsin-gop-mixes-up-black-democratic-candidates-for-governor-in-social-media-post/

Wisconsin GOP mixes up Black Democratic candidates for governor in social media post • Wisconsin Examiner
The initial post made by the state party included a graphic of Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, not former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes.

This one is a good #cartoon on the #socialmediaban by #TheGuardian

#Wordle 1,609 4/6*
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 <1% of 226,291 (16)
⬜⬜🟨🟨🟩 5% of 58 (5)
⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩 25% of 4 (3)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 8% of 24
WordleBot
Skill 70/99
Luck 54/99
I've had a bunch of 4's recently and I've been enjoying them because each step is a clue in the puzzle as I narrow down the answer. 2's & 3's feel like more luck and 5's and 6's are getting nerve racking.
4's are par, but also the sweet spot for fun!
And as it turns out, I was a little lucky today to get it on my 4th guess.
Bot was unintentionally funny on guess 2. I'll put that in my reply to this w/ the starting word under the CW.

Reminder: under GPL/AGPL, “Corresponding Source” includes everything needed to build and modify the work. That means AI prompts, generated scripts, and config files as well. Don’t leave them out.
"The "Corresponding Source" for a work in object code form means all the source code needed to generate, install, and (for an executable work) run the object code and to modify the work, including scripts to control those activities."

Cowboys troubling stat has to be fixed for offense to end recent slump https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-troubling-stat-has-to-be-fixed-offense-end-recent-slump

Details are finally out about what happened to the Scarborough subway extension boring machine that got stuck under the 401
https://globalnews.ca/news/11521835/scarborough-subway-extension-highway-401-closure/

When our potus was not a suspected child rapist/murderer, US was secure for ~80 years with Greenland under Denmark’s protection.
Now our potus is a suspected child rapist/murderer, so Greenland is suddenly in danger of something from russia or china? Hmm.
#USpol #Greenland

Sunrun and HASI just launched a $500M fund to finance 40,000 rooftop solar and battery systems.
Hawaii is building a roadmap to zero-emission transportation by 2045.
Scientists are expanding storm tracking to improve flood forecasts and protect communities.
Progress is building. Sign up for the For People And Planet digest:

Weekly Climate Solutions Digest
Welcome This week opens under a crisp winter sky. Orion holds steady in the evening, and in the warm channels off Hawaii humpback whales rise and breathe, a silver mist in the first light. Our selections turn on two simple threads: how we carry power, and how we live with

'It’s a second front line' — The Ukrainian power plant workers battling to make repairs under Russian attacks: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/15/its-a-second-front-line.html

Giving up territory in Ukraine is also condemning people living there to live under Russian rule, a harsh dictatorship with limited freedoms, no room for opposition, bad economy etcetera. I don't think many people prefer Russia above living in Ukraine as part of the EU in the near future.
#russia #ukraine

Digg, rebooted under original founder Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian, launches its open beta; the site had been open to 67,000 users on an invite-only basis (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/14/digg-launches-its-new-reddit-rival-to-the…

Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public | TechCrunch
Digg, a reboot of an earlier social news site, is now relaunching as a Reddit competitor focused on communities.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Drums:
🎵 Blood Under My Belt
#TheDrums
https://wearethedrums.bandcamp.com/track/blood-under-my-belt
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Nhsz5O0DIS5Mh5E3tlBbp

Under Trump, a Shift Toward 'Absolute Immunity' for ICE (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/us/politics/trump-ice-immunity.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p138#a260115p138

The working class is the fundamental force that produces the material conditions necessary for the reproduction of society, and through our collective labor we not only create food, shelter, healthcare, education, transportation, and communication networks, but we also sustain and reproduce the conditions that allow every aspect of social life to continue functioning, so that even those who do not work, whether they are managers, bureaucrats, or capitalists, depend entirely on our labor for …

The Department of Commerce says the US and Taiwan have reached a trade agreement as part of which Taiwan will invest $250B in chip production capacity in the US (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/15/us-taiwan-chips-deal-china.html

Taiwan will invest $250 billion in U.S. chipmaking under new trade deal
The U.S. and Taiwan have reached a trade agreement to build chips and chip factories on American soil, the Department of Commerce announced Thursday.

✅ Settler colonialism
✅ Apartheid
✅ Ethnic cleansing
✅ Genocide
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/08/yellow-line-that-divides-gaza-under-trump-plan-is-new-border-for-israel-says…

Varnished the shelves. At least until I ran out of varnish anyway. Stained the first half of the bed. The stain takes ages to dry. Will have to flip and stain the other half tomorrow. Varnish on Tuesday if more has arrived. That dries much faster, might even get two coats on both sides during one day. Then I can have a bed on Wednesday?
At which point I will know the maximum height for a mattress. The bed is pretty low because to determine the height of the doors for storage at the end of the bed, I measured my old bed. Which was apparently lower than most, being a waterbed frame with a spring mattress in it.
So total bed height has to be under 50cm and a mattress can take 30 or more of that. But with this low bed I might even have room for a topper.

The US is planning for the long-term division of Gaza into a “green zone” under Israeli and international military control, where reconstruction would start,
and a “red zone” to be left in ruins.
Foreign forces will initially deploy alongside Israeli soldiers in the east of Gaza,
leaving the devastated strip divided by the current Israeli-controlled “yellow line”, according to US military planning documents seen by the Guardian and sources briefed on American plans.
“…

Global Convergence of Four-Layer Matrix Factorization under Random Initialization
Minrui Luo, Weihang Xu, Xiang Gao, Maryam Fazel, Simon Shaolei Du
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09925 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.09925 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.09925
arXiv:2511.09925v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Gradient descent dynamics on the deep matrix factorization problem is extensively studied as a simplified theoretical model for deep neural networks. Although the convergence theory for two-layer matrix factorization is well-established, no global convergence guarantee for general deep matrix factorization under random initialization has been established to date. To address this gap, we provide a polynomial-time global convergence guarantee for randomly initialized gradient descent on four-layer matrix factorization, given certain conditions on the target matrix and a standard balanced regularization term. Our analysis employs new techniques to show saddle-avoidance properties of gradient decent dynamics, and extends previous theories to characterize the change in eigenvalues of layer weights.
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Steelers owner on rebuild: 'I don't like that word' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47611046/steelers-owner-art-rooney-ii-dismisses-idea-rebuild-new-hc

Game Preview: Raiders clash with the Cowboys under the bright lights of Monday Night Football https://www.raiders.com/news/game-preview-raiders-clash-with-the-cowboys-under-the-bright-lights-of-monday-night-football…

I want to remind everyone of the Montana Plan - a viable approach to diminish the force of the Citizens United decision.
I myself have written about the power of each separate State to regulate corporations operating under the laws of that state - especially those corporations created under the laws of that state. This means that each state has the power and authority to regulate and restrict how corporations created under that state's laws spend money, and for what purpose.

Transparent Election Initiative - Our Fight Against Corporate Money in Politics
Join our fight for transparent elections. The Montana Plan uses state constitutional authority to keep corporate money out of politics and restore democracy to the people.

Sources: the MLS-Apple TV deal will end in 2029, three and a half years earlier than planned; compensation averages $250M for the three remaining full seasons (Sportico)
https://www.sportico.com/leagues/soccer/2025/apple-mls-streaming-contract-cha…

Apple TV MLS Streaming Deal Will End in 2029 Under Revised Terms
MLS and Apple's streaming rights agreement will now end three and half years early, letting the league explore new partners after the 2026 World Cup.

Trump's military threat comes as Minneapolis reels under ICE (Nick Halter/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/15/twin-cities-occupied-by-federal-agents-turmoil
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p114#a260115p114

Sources: China has told some tech companies that it will approve Nvidia H200 chip purchases only under special circumstances, such as for university research (Qianer Liu/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/china-restric…

China Restricts Nvidia Chip Purchases to Special Circumstances
The Chinese government this week told some tech companies it would only approve their purchases of Nvidia’s H200 AI chips under special circumstances, such as for university research and development labs, according to two people with direct knowledge of the situation. The latest communication ...

Gaza starvation: children slowly killed by blocked milk and medicine - Canary
https://www.thecanary.co/uncategorized-en/2025/11/12/gaza-starvation-under-siege/

Please complain about Schumer and his cohort. Please give the mushy centrists black eyes. Please light a fire under all the politicians.
But…please also look for work you can do that doesn’t center around elections. Start local. Help people. Throw sand in the gears. Whatever it is, do work that counts.
Create a context in which there •has• to be an anti-fascist opposition party, because that’s the work so many people are already doing. •That• is what the cynicism is trying to stop you from doing.
/end

RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115898886605387956
My computer’s basically a celebrity, constantly buzzing, always dramatic, and surrounded by fans, yet it still can’t keep cool under pressure. 🌡️💫🧊

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.

A look at the erosion of press freedom and independent reporting in Israel, where journalists report escalating censorship, harassment, and self-censorship (Yael Krifcher/Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/12/under-the-rada

Under the radar: Israel steps up censorship and suppression of independent reporting - Committee to Protect Journalists
Two years into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, press freedom inside the country has reached a breaking point. Journalists report escalating censorship, harassment, and self-censorship that, they say, now functions as “part of the war effort.” Independent reporting has sharply declined, leaving the Israeli public with a distorted view of the conflict. An October 2025 report...

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer warns of worsening auto industry under Trump's tariff strategy (Isabella Volmert/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/michigan-governor-gretchen-whitmer-tariff-speech-detroit-fc06ef9c7f0918b94d3ef42cbc604e16
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p77#a260115p77

Filing: Reddit says in its lawsuit against Australia's social media ban that it is "a collection of public fora" and social interaction isn't its "sole purpose" (Lauren Edmonds/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-leg…

Reddit is arguing it's a 'collection of public fora' and not a social media company. Here's why.
In a lawsuit challenging an Australian law barring children under 16 from having social media accounts, Reddit argues it's not a social media company.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Frank Sinatra:
🎵 I've Got You Under My Skin
#FrankSinatra
https://dogmainrecords.bandcamp.com/track/frank-sinatra-ive-got-you-under-my-skin-thee-rui-flip-way-oh
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Packers' Micah Parsons tore ACL vs. Broncos, MRI confirms: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6891657/2025/12/15/micah-parsons-acl-tear-injury-packers/

Halpern Acceleration of the Inexact Proximal Point Method of Rockafellar
Liwei Zhang, Fanli Zhuang, Ning Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10372 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.10372 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.10372
arXiv:2511.10372v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper investigates a Halpern acceleration of the inexact proximal point method for solving maximal monotone inclusion problems in Hilbert spaces. The proposed Halpern inexact proximal point method (HiPPM) is shown to be globally convergent, and a unified framework is developed to analyze its worst-case convergence rate. Under mild summability conditions on the inexactness tolerances, HiPPM achieves an $\mathcal{O}(1/k^{2})$ rate in terms of the squared fixed-point residual. Furthermore, under additional mild condition, the method retains a fast linear convergence rate. Building upon this framework, we further extend the acceleration technique to constrained convex optimization through the augmented Lagrangian formulation. In analogy to Rockafellar's classical results, the resulting accelerated inexact augmented Lagrangian method inherits the convergence rate and complexity guarantees of HiPPM. The analysis thus provides a unified theoretical foundation for accelerated inexact proximal algorithms and their augmented Lagrangian extensions.
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Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) introduced legislation on Wednesday seeking to
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The measure, an amendment to an appropriations package currently under consideration by Congress,
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https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-leg

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http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p100#a251111p100

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“She thinks that she is above…

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