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Here's one way to respond to the decline in church membership in the US...
"Two new ‘churches’ show Santa Cruz may be leading the next wave of psychedelics"
https://lookout.co/two-new-churches-show-santa-cruz-may-be-l…

Two new ‘churches’ show Santa Cruz may be leading the next wave of psychedelics
Two local churches – Holy Trinity of Divine Church and the Rising Phoenix Entheogenic Temple – now make it easy to become a member and “buy” a wide assortment of raw mushrooms, gummies, chocolates and capsules. Together, they make a Santa Cruz a national leader in envisioning what psychedelic legality might look like.

The Raiders are gifted a shot at their future QB in new wave of mock drafts https://raiderramble.com/2025/12/28/the-raiders-are-gifted-a-shot-at-their-future-qb-in-new-wave-of-mock-drafts/

THE WAVE
#thewave #arizona

The Wave
🏜️ The Wave – Die Sandsteinwelle im Grenzgebiet Utah/Arizona Die Wave liegt im Gebiet der Coyote Buttes North, einem Teil des Paria Canyon–Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness Area an der Grenze zwischen Utah und Arizona. Sie gehört zu den spektakulärsten und zugleich empfindlichsten Felsformationen im gesamten Südwesten der USA. Was sie so

Several Indian tech workers say they are buckling under deadline pressure and worry about layoffs, with many fearing conditions will worsen with the rise of AI (Parth Mn/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/india-tech-workers-crisis-suicide/

Death of an Indian tech worker
A wave of suicides and widespread AI-fueled layoffs reveal a workforce under extreme pressure.

US warns of more Nigeria strikes
as Abuja talks of
‘joint ongoing operations’
Pete Hegseth says there are
‘more to come’
as Nigerian foreign minister Yusuf Tuggar
confirms his country provided intelligence for first wave
Tuggar also says strikes against group accused by Donald Trump of attacking Christian communities will be an ‘ongoing process’
In an interview with the BBC,
Tuggar insisted the strikes had
“nothing to do with a parti…

"People worldwide are being targeted by a massive spam wave originating from unsecured Zendesk support systems, with victims reporting receiving hundreds of emails with strange and sometimes alarming subject lines."
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/…

Zendesk ticket systems hijacked in massive global spam wave
People worldwide are being targeted by a massive spam wave originating from unsecured Zendesk support systems, with victims reporting receiving hundreds of emails with strange and sometimes alarming subject lines.

#WCAG AA (ja?) bei https://Unix-Freunde.mro.name dank 🌊

OK, this is wild
Throngs of people arriving in every direction, signs, cars honking, wave after wave of protesters
…at the NEIGHBORHOOD TRAIN STOP. I’m not even downtown yet.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Sicko:
🎵 Wave Motion Gun
#Sicko
https://sicko.bandcamp.com/track/wave-motion-gun-3
https://open.spotify.com/track/2tS78EyAjMJgrOoNvAkD2J

Merry Christmas from the guy who thinks he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/26/us-warns-of-more-nigeria-strikes-as-abuja-talks-of-joint-ongoing-operations

US warns of more Nigeria strikes as Abuja talks of ‘joint ongoing operations’
Pete Hegseth says ‘more to come’ as Nigerian foreign minister confirms his country provided intelligence for first wave

Amazon is lining up another wave of job cuts next week, according to reports, while Autodesk has confirmed 1,000 roles are to go in sales-related redundancies.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/amazon-to-lay-off-thousands-mor…

Amazon to lay off thousands more while Autodesk confirms 1,000 jobs to go
Amazon is lining up another wave of job cuts next week, according to reports, while Autodesk has confirmed 1,000 roles are to go in sales-related ...

The Wave
#thewave #wave #utah #arizona

PixelMan (@pixelman@pixelgalaxy.net)
The Wave #thewave #wave #arizona #utah #landscapephotography

Wave of Ukrainian drones targets Moscow in reported overnight strike: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/15/wave-of-ukrainian-drones-targets.html

Sources: podcast companies like AudioBoom, Wave Sports, and Studio71 are discussing potential sales and investments, seeking to cash in on creator economy hype (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-11-24/…

Selfie aus dem Reinraum: Dreharbeiten für Sat1regional führten ein Kamerateam jetzt in einen unserer Kontrollräume. Von dort hatten unsere Gäste einen guten Blick in unsere Reinräume. Dort arbeiten Wissenschaftler*innen und Ingenieur*innen in Reinraumkleidung und unter saubersten Bedingungen an Weltrauminstrumenten.
Eines dieser Instrumente ist das Submillimetre Wave Instrument (SWI) der ESA-Mission JUICE. Während das eigentliche Instrument an Bord von JUICE in den vergangenen Wochen d…

“WaveRoll Studio is a VS Code extension […] for viewing and playing MIDI files with an interactive piano roll visualization.”
It seems that there’s more #music and #MIDI stuff available for #Emacs, bu…

Silver surged past $75 an ounce for the first time on Friday,
propelled by strong industrial and investment demand,
persistent supply shortfalls,
its recent designation as a U.S. critical mineral,
and a wave of momentum-driven buying.

Scattering in Time-Varying Drude-Lorentz Models
Bryce Dixon, Calvin M. Hooper, Ian R. Hooper, Simon A. R. Horsley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.19322 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.19322 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.19322
arXiv:2511.19322v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Motivated by recent experiments, the theoretical study of wave propagation in time varying materials is of current interest. Although significant in nearly all such experiments, material dispersion is commonly neglected in theoretical studies. Yet, as we show here, understanding the precise microscopic model for the material dispersion is crucial for predicting experimental outcomes. Here we study the temporal scattering coefficients of four different time-varying Drude-Lorentz models, exploring how an incident continuous wave splits into forward and backward waves due to an abrupt change in plasma frequency. The differences in the predicted scattering are unique to time-varying media, and arise from the exact way in which the time variation appears in the various model parameters. We verify our results using a custom finite difference time domain algorithm, concluding with a discussion of the limitations that arise from using these models with an abrupt change in plasma frequency.
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D-Wave Quantum agrees to acquire Quantum Circuits, a developer of error-corrected gate-model technology, for $550M, with $300M in stock and the rest in cash (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/markets/d-wave-quantum-agrees-to…

D-Wave Quantum agrees to acquire Quantum Circuits for $550 million to boost gate-model development
D-Wave’s crashing the gate.

Understanding the New Wave of Chatbot Legislation: California SB 243 and Beyond
https://fpf.org/blog/understanding-the-new-wave-of-chatbot-legislation-california-sb-243-and-beyond/
@…

Even if you're gearing up for a monster winter storm, take the time to check out today's Metacurity for the most crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--Acting CISA head got grilled on mass firings at the agency,
--EU's CIRCL launches GCVE system,
--DeFi project EVM was exploited for $6m,
--Attackers exploit patch bypass for FortiGate flaw,
--Cisco fixes Unified Communications and Webex Calling RCE flaw,
--Mass spam wave …

Acting CISA head got grilled on mass firings at the agency
EU's CIRCL launches GCVE system, DeFi project EVM was exploited for $6m, Attackers exploit patch bypass for FortiGate flaw, Cisco fixes Unified Communications and Webex Calling RCE flaw, Mass spam wave emanates from unsecured Zendesk support systems, much more

> “because the account creation country was incorrect on a very small subset of old accounts, due to IP ranges changing over time.”
Being a thing I would have told them in the first 10 minutes of this being suggested. IPv4 ranges over a 20 year period are going to have been transferred.

X's new location transparency feature unleashes questions about origins of MAGA accounts
A new feature on X has stirred confusion, anger and a wave of online sleuthing after users discovered that the platform was suddenly displaying the surprising locations where certain accounts are based

People urged to wear masks when they are ill as UK faces ‘tidal wave’ of flu | Flu | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/09/nhs-leader-calls-for-revival-of-mask-wearing-amid-tidal-wave-of-flu<…

Preferential Accretion onto the Secondary Black Hole Strengthens Gravitational-wave Signals: #GravitationalWaves mystery: https://www.colorado.edu/today/2026/01/07/new-study-examines-gravitational-wave-mystery

Trump announces cancellation of 'second wave of attacks' on Venezuela (Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/4412584/trump-announces-cancellation-of-second-wave-of-attacks-on-venezuela/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p27#a260109p27

Guest star #JeffreyByron
Season 1 Episode 3 "Heat Wave"
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Baywatch

Rain one minute, heat wave the next: How climate 'whiplash' drives unpredictable fire weather https://phys.org/news/2026-01-minute-climate-whiplash-unpredictable-weather.html

Rain one minute, heat wave the next: How climate 'whiplash' drives unpredictable fire weather
After a weekend of extreme heat and windy conditions, more than 30 blazes were still burning in Victoria and New South Wales as of Sunday evening, including major fires in the Otways, near the town of Alexandra in central Victoria, and on the NSW-Victoria border near Corryong.

Brown Pelican flying low over the waves. Fiscalini Ranch Preserve, Cambria, California, USA. October, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 MC14. #fiscaliniranchpreserve #cambriacalifornia

Time to investigate my dad's turntable; a Pioneer PL-15R; so at 33.33RPM, and with a disk with 64 edges, that should be 33.33/60*64=35.6Hz - so seeing 35.7Hz off my hacky photodiode sensor makes me very happy; although it's varying a little, but my scopes frequency counter is based off it's display, so hmm. And it's FFT won't go down that low really.

DJ Lagway leads wave of quarterbacks entering transfer portal; Steelers win to maintain lead over Ravens

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/dj-lagw…

Fascinating bit of trivia about "My Sharona"
https://www.musicradar.com/artists/it-was-

“It was like getting hit in the head with a baseball bat. I fell in love with her instantly. And when that happened, it sparked something”: The new wave classic and No.1 hit that was written in one hour and recorded in one take
“I still make a very good living off of that one song - easily over $100,000 a year"

> Or as Mamdani put it in his soaring speech last night: “I am young, despite my best efforts to grow older. I am Muslim. I am a democratic socialist. And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this.”
Hell yes. We need more of this. So, so, *so* much more of this.
https://zeteo.com/p/first…

🌊 It’s a Blue Wave, Baby!
Peter Rothpletz on Zohran Mamdani’s historic win, the Democrats’ electoral sweep, and Graham Platner’s viral response to the passing of Dick Cheney.

Still missing for Europe: a website monitoring local communities against data centers.
„$64 billion in U.S. data center projects have been blocked or delayed by a growing wave of local, bipartisan opposition. What was once quiet infrastructure is now a national flashpoint — and communities are pushing back.“
https://www.datacenterwa…

Atomic magnetometry based on the ground-state Hanle effect in an elliptically polarized light wave
D. V. Brazhnikov, A. O. Makarov, K. S. Kozlova, A. N. Goncharov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18710

A wave of important guarantees for Ukraine: what Stammer and Macron signed ✍️🌍 #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/09/a-wave-of-important-guarantees.html

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Rogue Wave:
🎵 Lake Michigan
#NowPlaying #RogueWave
https://conorqryan.bandcamp.com/track/lake-michigan-rogue-wave-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/30lubdu2sSFsZsGQJVGjRG

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsForeverDark
Mogwai:
🎵 Sine Wave
#Mogwai
https://mogwai.bandcamp.com/track/sine-wave
https://open.spotify.com/track/0B4gVHTHqZbwrbDQzwcWGA

@… Y2k38 is the second wave. Bigger than Y2K because today everything is software — and everything depends on time. And as with second waves, most people don’t see it coming. We should change that.

The AI boom is driving an unprecedented wave of data center construction, but there aren't enough skilled workers in the US, such as electricians, to keep up (Caroline Haskins/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/why-there-arent-enough…

The Real AI Talent War Is for Plumbers and Electricians
The AI boom is driving an unprecedented wave of data center construction, but there aren’t enough skilled tradespeople in the US to keep up.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Snail Mail:
🎵 Heat Wave
#SnailMail
https://snailmail.bandcamp.com/track/heat-wave
https://open.spotify.com/track/7B0uWqVjMySfDKhtZghBkO

Human-centered identity systems were never designed for the coming wave of autonomous AI agents. With identity failures the leading cause of most major cyber incidents, CISOs must quickly rethink how to account for the identities of new AI agents.
Check out my latest CSO piece.
Many thanks to Jim Alkove of Oleria, Ric Smith of Okta, Steve Stone of SentinelOne, Pete Clay of Aireon, Vijay Gajjala of Oleria, Carey Frey of TELUS, and Ely Kahn of SentinelOne.
Rethinking identit…

Rethinking identity for the AI era: CISOs must build trust at machine speed
Human-centered identity systems were never designed for the coming wave of autonomous AI agents. CISOs face a reckoning over how to rebuild identity systems to counter the risks.

So much for Regime change I guess?//Fear grips Caracas as a new wave of repression is unleashed in Venezuela - The Washington Post https://apple.news/AzjBpBQYEQBavvbmSgYpuUA

Fear grips Caracas as a new wave of repression is unleashed in Venezuela — The Washington Post
Venezuela’s government launched a far-reaching crackdown after Maduro’s ouster, detaining journalists and civilians and sending armed gangs to the streets.

O YouTube preparou pra mim uma lista que só tem músicas maravilhosas, mas é uma completa mistureba de estilos. O YouTube não sabe lidar com pessoas de gostos ecléticos não, as listas dele sempre ficam assim rs.
1. Stay With Me – Miki Matsubara (J-Pop / City Pop)
2. Everybody Wants to Rule the World – Tears for Fears (Pop Rock / New Wave)
3. Take On Me – A-ha (Synthpop / New Wave)
4. Mšscara – Pitty (Rock Alternativo / Pop Rock Brasileiro)
5. Trem Azul – Elis Regina …

Employers slashed more than 150,000 jobs in October,
the largest wave of layoffs in more than 20 years,
a report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas said Nov. 6.
From tech to Hollywood, retailers and utilities,
U.S. companies are intensifying job cuts and workforce reductions that began in 2024,
as they focus on cost savings and leaner operations amid a challenging economic environment.
Firms have pointed to a myriad of causes for their layoffs,
fr…

Layoffs are hitting. See the major companies cutting jobs in 2025.
Verizon, Amazon, Target and Paramount are just a few of the many companies to have announced layoffs in 2025.

Pollsters Didn't See the Blue Wave Coming in New Jersey and Virginia (Aaron Zitner/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/pollsters-didnt-see-the-blue-wave-coming-in-new-jersey-and-virginia-dd640214
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p174#a251105p174

Participate in the war of colors

"[Target] has a new directive for store employees: If a shopper comes within 10 feet of you…smile, make eye contact and greet or wave. If…within four feet — ask whether they need help or how their day is going…"
If shopper comes within 1 foot, store employees must kiss them, gently. If within 2 inches, then the employee must propose, perform and consummate a marriage to the customer.
Bigots are gonna try to deflect while going more broke.

Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.

A rare report in a Chinese state publication of a cyberattack on a Chinese internet platform.
“Short-video platform Kuaishou was hit by a wave of sexually explicit livestreams that temporarily overwhelmed its content moderation systems on Monday evening”
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/2025…

Kuaishou reports cyberattack as explicit content flood livestreams

Preferential Accretion onto the Secondary Black Hole Strengthens Gravitational-wave Signals: #GravitationalWave Background: https://aasnova.org/2025/12/03/boosting-the-gravitational-wave-background/

Tonight (November 21) Carpe Diem Arts has a Fall of Freedom event from 6:00 PM until 9:00 PM at Seekers Church, Takoma Park across the street from the Takoma Metro (Red Line). More details in comments.
#DC #WashingtonDC

Masterful Gambit: Musk Attempts to Monetize Grok's Wave of Sexual Abuse Imagery https://www.404media.co/x-premium-grok-paywall-images-ai-generator/

High-precision luminescence cryothermometry strategy by using hyperfine structure
Marina N. Popova, Mosab Diab, Boris Z. Malkin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.19088 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.19088 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.19088
arXiv:2511.19088v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A novel, to the best of our knowledge, ultralow-temperature luminescence thermometry strategy is proposed, based on a measurement of relative intensities of hyperfine components in the spectra of Ho$^{3 }$ ions doped into a crystal. A $^{7}$LiYF$_4$:Ho$^{3 }$ crystal is chosen as an example. First, we show that temperatures in the range 10-35 K can be measured using the Boltzmann behavior of the populations of crystal-field levels separated by an energy interval of 23 cm$^{-1}$. Then we select the 6089 cm$^{-1}$ line of the holmium $^5I_5 \rightarrow ^5I_7$ transition, which has a well-resolved hyperfine structure and falls within the transparency window of optical fibers (telecommunication S band), to demonstrate the possibility of measuring temperatures below 3 K. The temperature $T$ is determined by a least-squares fit to the measured intensities of all eight hyperfine components using the dependence $I(\nu) = I_1 \exp(-b\nu)$, where $I_1$ and $b = a\nu \frac{\nu}{kT}$ are fitting parameters and a accounts for intensity variations due to mixing of wave functions of different crystal-field levels by the hyperfine interaction. In this method, the absolute and relative thermal sensitivities grow at $T$ approaching zero as $\frac{1}{T^2}$.and $\frac{1}{T}$, respectively. We theoretically considered the intensity distributions within hyperfine manifolds and compared the results with experimental data. Application of the method to experimentally measured relative intensities of hyperfine components of the 6089 cm$^{-1}$ PL line yielded $T = 3.7 \pm 0.2$ K. For a temperature of 1 K, an order of magnitude better accuracy is expected.
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Called both our guys; Padilla has no voicemail but I left one for Schiff https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vsumu6csfmj7r7pvdknl4zd2/post/3m5a5nho3ds2q

Indivisible ReSisters Contra Costa ❌👑 (@indivisresistcoco.bsky.social)
URGENT: Call your Senators and say NO VOTE TO REOPEN GOVERNMENT UNLESS HEALTH CARE SUBSIDIES ARE REINSTATED AND SNAP IS FULLY FUNDED AND PAID. Some Senators are ready to cave. We just handed them a nationwide blue wave and they need to act like it. Call 202-224-3121 #shutdown #budget

Australia heat wave stokes risk of catastrophic bushfires #Australia

'Hectic' bushfires threaten rural towns in Australian heat wave
Bushfires destroyed houses and razed vast belts of forest in southeast Australia on Friday, firefighters said, as hot winds fanned "hectic" conditions in the tinder-dry countryside.

"Wertheimer argues that the famous Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act--which protects companies from liability for content posted by users to their websites--needs to be reinterpreted to exclude “platforms that actively promote content using reinforcement learning-based recommendation algorithms.”"
(Original title: Platform Temperance)

Platform Temperance
Notes on a new wave of the Techlash

Replaced article(s) found for physics.atom-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.atom-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Feynman Diagrams for Matter Wave Interferometry
Jonah Glick, Tim Kovachy

RE: https://mastodon.social/@austinkocher/115870985578248318
"But I’m observing an escalating wave of deaths in ICE custody pouring over the agency’s press release page — intentionally designed to roll out at a time when few will notice. Well, I …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Early
Pixies:
🎵 Wave of Mutilation
#Pixies
https://djsawtooth.bandcamp.com/track/pixie-man-the-pixies-wave-of-mutilation
https://open.spotify.com/track/3UDa3HRIwS4scBYom5K0zl

📉 Lloyds profits plunge 36% as it feels impact of UK car finance scandal
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/23/lloyds-profits-plunge-as-it-feels-impact-of-uk-car-finance-scandal

Lloyds profits plunge 36% as it feels impact of UK car finance scandal
Bank’s drop in quarterly earnings comes after it put aside further £800m to cover expected wave of driver claims

Blue wave.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
The Wave Pictures:
🎵 Alice
#TheWavePictures
https://thewavepictures.bandcamp.com/track/alice
https://open.spotify.com/track/0iMMAgsINvRSQirlvE4VGH

If you've been in the San Francisco Bay Area recently, you might have spotted a giant airship adrift over the Golden Gate Bridge.
The huge airship is the Pathfinder 1,
billed as the "largest aircraft in the world" and developed by the company LTA Research.
Clocking in at 406.5 feet long and 66 feet wide, the Pathfinder 1 is among a class of airships known as "lighter-than-air" or LTA aircraft.
For comparison, a Goodyear blimp is 246 feet lon…

'Largest aircraft in the world' seen over US. What is it doing?
Pathfinder 1 looks like a blimp, but much bigger. It's part of a wave of interest in "lighter-than-air" or LTA aircraft.

A big blue wave for Democrats, and two paths forward (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/05/democrats-blue-wave-progressives-moderates
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p21#a251105p21

Alphabet's stock rose as much as 6.9% on Wednesday, its biggest gain since early September, amid a wave of glowing reviews for Gemini 3 (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-19/alphabet-…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Pixies:
🎵 Wave Of Mutilation
#NowPlaying #Pixies
https://djsawtooth.bandcamp.com/track/pixie-man-the-pixies-wave-of-mutilation
https://open.spotify.com/track/51Z2IzJvLCnZaIpBV0IYRr

Belgorod power plant hit as overnight drone wave hits multiple Russian regions, officials say: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/15/belgorod-power-plant-hit-as.html

ZTF25abjmnps (AT2025ulz) and S250818k - A Candidate #Superkilonova from a Subthreshold Subsolar Gravitational-wave Trigger: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae2000 -> “Superkilonova” A Star So Nice, It Explodes Twice: https://keckobservatory.org/superkilonova/

Holy shit #daBears #BearDown #Chicago

Pro-Russian group claims hits on Danish party websites as voters head to polls https://therecord.media/denmark-election-political-government-websites-ddos-incidents

Major U.S. egg producers
are contending with a growing spate of class action lawsuits
accusing them of fixing prices,
as consumer frustration over the cost of eggs continues to simmer after years of inflation
https://www.reuters.com/legal/governme…

NFL quarterbacks are more powerful than ever — even after their playing days https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6960016/2026/01/13/nfl-quarterbacks-front-office-matt-ryan-tom-brady/

Google sues the Chinese-speaking cybercriminal group known as Darcula, behind an alleged US text message phishing ring, in the US, seeking a restraining order (Kevin Collier/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/google-sues…

Google sues Chinese scam ring over E-ZPass, USPS phishing texts
Google is suing a Chinese-speaking cybercriminal group it says is responsible for a massive wave of scam text messages sent to Americans this year.

How newsletter platforms attracted a wave of writers, comedians, publications, and brands, as publishers and creators relied less on Facebook and Google traffic (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/the-yea

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Rogue Wave:
🎵 Eyes
#NowPlaying #RogueWave
https://roguewave.bandcamp.com/album/eyes
https://open.spotify.com/track/1a9czdo8IX5InOiSOg6xpv

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Rogue Wave:
🎵 Ghost
#RogueWave
https://dayaway.bandcamp.com/track/rogue-wave-2

On Jan. 18, 2026, Chilean President Gabriel Boric declared a state of catastrophe for the Nuble and Biobio regions
as wildfires killed at least 16 people and forced more than 50,000 to evacuate.
A severe summer heat wave and prolonged drought since December created conditions highly favorable to wildfire ignition,
with dry foehn-type winds and 38 C daytime temperatures.
Fire agencies said nearly 4,000 firefighters are battling about 24 active wildfires as blazes have …

Wildfires in Chile Kill at Least 16 People, Force More than 50,000 to Evacuate
At least 16 people are confirmed dead and 20,000 are evacuated as fires rage in two southern regions.

Trump seems to wave the white flag on his US attorneys gambit (Erica Orden/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/13/donald-trump-us-attorneys-senate-confirmation-00689692
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p7#a251213p7

Creation of ultracold heteronuclear p-wave Feshbach molecules
Fan Jia (Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China), Zhichao Guo (Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China), Zerong Huang (Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China), Dajun Wang (Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, State Key Laboratory of Quantum Information Technologies and Mate…

Second Wave of Storm Arrives Late Friday into the Weekend,
Heavier Rain Anticipated for South Santa Barbara County and Santa Ynez Mountains
https://www.readysbc.org/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Soundgarden:
🎵 My Wave
#Soundgarden
https://gordonpike.bandcamp.com/track/my-wave-soundgarden-cover-ft-rob-pittman
https://open.spotify.com/track/6ox3xc5CNTDQiAINfzP8Zw

Sources: OneTrust, which sells privacy and compliance software and was last valued at $4.5B in 2023, is exploring a sale, possibly to private equity buyers (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/onetrus…

OneTrust, Privacy Startup Last Valued at $4.5 Billion, Discusses Private Equity Sale
OneTrust, a nine-year-old startup that benefited from a wave of European and U.S. laws regulating how companies collect and share website data, is exploring a sale—possibly to private equity buyers, according to people familiar with the discussions. The Atlanta-based startup, which sells privacy ...

Seeing Life at the Quantum Limit
Congratulations to
Dr Nicolas Mauranyapin,
winner of QUBIC’s inaugural Scientific Achievement Award - Cell Theme!
Nico has built a quantum-limited microscope, so sensitive it operates at the quantum shot noise limit,
the same benchmark used in gravitational wave detection.
This means it can capture the faintest signals nature allows.
This breakthrough enables real-time observation of living cells without damage,

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Cola Boyy:
🎵 Wave
#ColaBoyy
https://colaboyy.bandcamp.com/track/wave
https://open.spotify.com/track/3kgt667tfdDxt6abq6pPmF

Venezuela live updates as Trump calls off "second wave of attacks" (Joe Walsh/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/venezuela-trump-oil-war-powers-maduro/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p18#a260109p18

A look at Rigetti Computing and D-Wave Quantum, whose shares have surged over 1,900% in the past year as the potential of quantum computing captivates investors (Felice Maranz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Pynch:
🎵 Microwave Rhapsody
#Pynch
https://pynch.bandcamp.com/track/microwave-rhapsody
https://open.spotify.com/track/2OWSgyahaiQqrYUgiU0ELn

Majestic Labs, which makes patent-pending server architecture that promises more memory capacity, raised $100M, including a $71M Series A led by Bow Wave (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/10/majestic-labs-meta-google-ai-funding.html
…

Former Google, Meta executives raise $100 million for high-capacity AI servers startup
The three plan to sell high-memory server technology.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Cure:
🎵 The Hanging Garden
#TheCure
https://mrnoo.bandcamp.com/track/the-cure-the-hanging-garden-doomer-wave
https://open.spotify.com/track/5eypW8gjiQHYiB3PD3hETg

Kennedy Center Says It "Wants Performers Who Aren't Political" Amid Wave of Cancelations (Alex Young/Consequence)
https://consequence.net/2026/01/kennedy-center-non-political-performers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p161#a260108p161

This fall, Americans got to see what it’s like to go without a safety net for the hungry.
With the U.S. government shut down for multiple weeks
and Donald Trump refusing to fund SNAP, the federal food stamp program,
a panic set inamong the more than 40 million people who rely on it.
Families skipped meals,
and babies went unfed.
Food banks ran out of food, and some people turned to dumpster diving.
It was just a glimpse of what’s to come.
Start…

Wave of Tax Cuts Has Left Many States Vulnerable to Trump SNAP and Medicaid Crisis
President Donald Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act will shift billions in costs for SNAP and Medicaid to states. But with 26 having cut or eliminated state income taxes just since 2021, they may not have the money to continue the programs.

TikTok Shop says fraudulent sellers are using AI to create fake brands and nonexistent products; TikTok rejected 70M products and banned 700K sellers in H1 2025 (Dan Whateley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-shop-exec-a…

'It's organized crime': TikTok Shop says it's fighting a new wave of AI scammers
Generative AI is a powerful new tool for fraudsters trying to sell fake products, TikTok Shop's governance leader Nicolas Waldmann said.

The last time Democrats won like this was right before the 2018 blue wave (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/05/democrats-2025-win-midterms-virginia-new-jersey-00637057
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p9#a251105p9

Qualcomm unveils the Dragonwing IQ10 Series, a full-stack robotics architecture integrating hardware, software, and AI for industrial and consumer humanoids (Katie Collins/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/qualcomm-announces-dragonwing-iq10-…

Qualcomm Bets Big on Robotics, Beginning With This Bendy-Backed Humanoid
A new wave of humanoids are coming. Qualcomm is ready to power them.

She Stole the Show:
Six year old
Reina Castillo
Was the Youngest Competitor in the
"Toes in the Cove Longboard Classic"
surfing competition’s history
https://www.independent.com/2025/11/05/six-ye…

A deep dive into co-packaged optics, long promised to transform data center connectivity, covering benefits, challenges, architecture, key companies, and more (Dylan Patel/SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/co-packaged-optics-cpo-book-scaling…

Co Packaged Optics (CPO) – Scaling with Light for the Next Wave of Interconnect
Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) has long promised to transform datacenter connectivity, but it has taken a long time for the technology to come to market, with tangible deployment-ready products only arriving in 2025.

Nintendo reports Q2 revenue of $3.7B, vs. ~$3B est., and net profit of ~$667M, vs. ~$412M est.; it now expects 19M Switch 2 sales by March 2026, up from 15M (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/04/nintendo-raises-switch-2-sales-fo…

Nintendo hikes Switch 2 sales forecast to 19 million units as flagship console momentum grows
Nintendo is riding a wave of momentum after launching its latest console called the Switch 2.

The rise of candidates centering gun violence is a result of the growing prevention movement across the US, which has become something of 👉a pipeline for new candidates running for office.
#Maxwell #Frost, the nation’s first gen Z US representative, started off as a volunteer before becoming organizing director for <…

Chinese AI firms are leading a wave of IPOs in Hong Kong, where at least 25 companies debuted in December 2025, the busiest month for deals since November 2019 (Jeanny Yu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

More than 100 detained in holiday immigration raids across Central Coast, sparking outrage
Federal immigration agents took people from their homes, job sites, businesses and on the streets as they ran errands,
#Santa #Maria City Councilmember Gloria Soto said.
She said at least 87 people were taken by age…

More than 100 detained in holiday immigration raids across Central Coast, sparking outrage
A year-end wave of immigration raids in California's Central Coast led to the apprehension of 147 people, sparking outrage from elected officials and immigra...