Tootfinder

'Not enough' work being done in Kyiv as city faces heating emergency, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/01/not-enough-work-being-done.html

Cowboys' Matt Eberflus opens up on why things 'didn't work out' with Trevon Diggs https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-matt-eberflus-opens-up-why-things-didnt-work-trevon-diggs

Show Your Work: The Math Behind My Claim that 92% of ICE's Detention Growth Comes from People with No Criminal Convictions (Austin Kocher)
https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/show-your-work-the-math-behind-my
http://www.memeorandum.com/260131/p64#a260131p64

Robert Saleh used to think Brian Daboll was a jerk. Now they work together https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7010712/2026/01/31/titans-robert-saleh-brian-daboll-cam-ward/

𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝗺𝗲 𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗡𝗮𝘃𝘆 𝗦𝗘𝗔𝗟 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲?
My name is Matt Maasdam
and I’m running for Congress
to flip Michigan’s 7th congressional district.
I’m not a politician.
I’m a father, a husband, and a Navy SEAL.
I carried the nuclear football for President Obama
– now I’m running for Congress to continue serving my country. 
But this race won’t be easy. Experts are already calling MI-07 one of the most competitiv…

Matt Maasdam for Congress
Matt Maasdam is running for Congress to bring a different kind of leadership– one rooted in hard work, courage, and integrity. I believe in the Michigan Dream– where if you work hard, you can build a good life and get ahead.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Marie Davidson:
🎵 Work It
#MarieDavidson
https://djtonyofrance.bandcamp.com/track/marie-davidson-work-it-soulwax-remix-vs-dj-tony-o-version-128-bpm
https://open.spotify.com/track/6WfL1pwMyFf3IvFWLnre4P

#Containerschiffe verursachen rund 3 Prozent der weltweiten #Emissionen.
Vollständig elektrische Antriebe sind für Ozeanreisen kaum wirtschaftlich, doch eine Kombination aus #Flüssigkraftstoff

Electric container ships won’t work – but a fleet of auxiliary battery ships could clean up shipping
Could container ships ever go electric? The best option might be a fleet of attendant battery vessels to power these giants directly.

FYI: If your #Mastodon #domainverification doesn't work, check if you do have upper case letters in your URL as this won't work as of this #bug report from 2022:

On compute as a commodity “people might be open to a new bespoke pickle vendor. So we're pickling some compute and selling that.”
And
“Our mission is to spread the joy of programming, both in people's personal lives and at work.”
[contains quote post or other embedded content] https://bsky.app/pro…

Boris (@bmann.ca)
On compute as a commodity “people might be open to a new bespoke pickle vendor. So we're pickling some compute and selling that.” And “Our mission is to spread the joy of programming, both in people's personal lives and at work.” [contains quote post or other embedded content]

I am mixed on this one...
On one hand I can see the risk of having Chinese people in China work on (which means "have access to", and often "have privileged access to") US DoD systems.
However, I don't see the other half of the issue - What do do about people who are not in China (perhaps in the US, even US citizens) who are, or have been induced, to use their access to promote the interests of a foreign power?
Given that under Cheato the US is dumbi…

Trump Signs Defense Bill Prohibiting China-Based Engineers in Pentagon IT Work
The measure, which emerged in response to a ProPublica investigation, bars Microsoft engineers in China and other adversarial countries from servicing sensitive Pentagon cloud computing systems.

dbpedia_genre: DBpedia work-genre network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between artists and their works on one side and genre classifications on the other, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 266717 nodes and 463497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Charlotte Day Wilson:
🎵 Work
#NowPlaying #CharlotteDayWilson
https://latenighttales.bandcamp.com/track/charlotte-day-wilson-work
https://open.spotify.com/track/1knUACOt5yfNAYn7gnYQVt

TidyX: screencasts explaining different aspects of the R language and the coding process. #rstats

TidyX
TidyX is a screen cast where we discuss how Data Science topics and code work line-by-line, explaining what they did and how the functions they used work. We also break down the visualizations they create and talk about how to apply similar approaches to other data sets. The objective is to help more people learn R and get involved in the TidyTuesday community. The hosts are Ellis Hughes (@ellis_hughes) and Patrick Ward (@OSPpatrick). Ellis has been working with R since 2015 and has a backgr…

All the windowed doors up now, though some adjustment of hinges is still needed. Lots of the trim to fake the panels painted. There's struts everywhere.
No work being done tomorrow, two men in on Wednesday and Friday.
He still seems to think it might be finished by the end of the week. I still find myself doubting it.
Very glad to have a day off building and off work and off having to get up in the mornings tomorrow. I can lie in bed until noon if I want for the first time since October I think.

✊ The Zohran Mamdani method can work beyond New York. Take the fight to the right | Aditya Chakrabortty
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/05/zohran-mamdani-new-york-city-mayor-us-trump

The Zohran Mamdani method can work beyond New York. Take the fight to the right
For too long, the centre has been adopting the language of the right but deploying it with greater civility – to disastrous ends, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

Israel bans 25 humanitarian aid groups from working in Gaza | The National
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25730978.israel-suspend-work-several-humanitarian-organisations-gaza/

Microsoft is increasingly shrill in its desperation to get people to love it's 'AI' service, 'Copilot'... https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/11/28/you-heard-wrong-users-brutually-reject-microsof…

Can you do a favor for my friend @…? He was already having a lousy enough week with his car and his city falling apart when state troopers arrested his wife @… for protesting against the murder of Alex Pretti. (Arrested for what? AFAICT, they were just looking to make an example of some protestors. Just good old harassment via the legal system.)
Now the family has lost work and impending legal bills on top of that new transmission. I’m sure they’d appreciate it if you can chip in a few bucks:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-miriam-recover-from-legal-fees-and-lost-work

Wishing everyone here a happy new year. 2025 was a rough year for me, with #LongCovid but I also had a lot of positive things happen. Going back to work fulltime, improved health, and finishing my first half marathon to name a few.
Lastly, I had some friends and former colleagues pass away from other various health issues, struggles with mental health, and one amazing human who was t…

My hobby: unfollowing developers who complain that generative “AI” doesn’t work to write code
No shit Sherlock

On Mac, open up a terminal and type or copy-paste: ßh
(Doesn't work on Linux)

WFT?
Fox Contributor Questions Trump’s Plan to Eliminate Income Tax: ‘The Math Doesn’t Really Work There’
https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/fox-contributor-questions-trumps-plan-to-eliminate-income-tax-the-math-doesnt-really-work-there/

A look at how David Sacks' work on AI and crypto in Trump's WH benefits his investments, those of Silicon Valley friends, and the All-In podcast he co-hosts (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/3…

Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
David Sacks, the Trump administration’s A.I. and crypto czar, has helped formulate policies that aid his Silicon Valley friends and many of his own tech investments.

2016: Figma auto-saves your work.
2026: Figma auto-steals your work.
Figma admins, take a look at the setting that Figma silently opted your entire team into, and think about whether the labor of your designers should be handed away for free, just so Figma can turn around and pitch AI powered layout creation to product managers.

I took drugs at work, got drowsy at work, may have fallen asleep at work. My back does feel better now so that's a plus.

Preparing for another work week

Work, Housing and Health: Northampton Behind the Numbers https://edintone.com/work-housing-health/ In 1924, the boot and shoe industry dominated Northampton’s workforce. The Boot and Shoe O

Work, Housing and Health: Northampton Behind the Numbers - Miscellanea Edintone
In 1924, the boot and shoe industry dominated Northampton’s workforce. The Boot and Shoe Operatives Trade Union had 13,104 members; officials estimated that only 5% of adult workers were outside the union.

I hate to state the obvious, but your biggest advantage in the current job market is showing up and being human, imperfections and all.
Your goal is to connect with the human(s) on the other side.
If you're trying to game the system by regurgitating ChatGPT responses as your own, you've already surrendered your edge.

A.I. Is Causing Meltdowns in American Offices. It’s Only Getting Worse.
A.I. and ChatGPT were supposed to revolutionize work. They’re only creating chaos.

ngscopeclient v0.1.1 is out! This is the last release in the v0.1.x series and we'll now be starting a lot of major refactoring and backend work in preparation for v0.2.
https://www.ngscopeclient.org/news/2025-12-31-v0p1p1-release.html

"Phrack article from 2002" o.O
lots of work to do in #FreeBSD 🧐
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-escaping-containment-a-security-analysis-of-free…

I really didn’t want to go to the supermarket today, but that didn’t work out now did it lol

So far, listening while doing other work, this week's #ListeningClub has seemed like a death metal album that slowly morphed through milder and milder genres until we got to this delicate bit 🧚‍♀️

Somebody with an old Samsung Tab 2 (gt-5110)? What to do with it in 2026?
I've tried to install #customRom but it didn't work...
https://xdaforums.com/t/gt-5110-which-odi…

What a paragraph. From
https://restofworld.org/2026/india-tech-workers-crisis-suicide/

"A woman's work is never done", is a saying especially relevant when applied to women's rights. Someone is always trying to take them away from us - we can never relax and think that fight is over. Please sign this Holyrood petition. https://petitions.parliament.scot/petitions…

Petition: Ensure abortion services are available up to 24 weeks across all parts of Scotland
Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to ensure abortion services are available up to the twenty-fourth week of pregnancy across all NHS health boards in Scotland.

@… @… Work smarter, not harder!

@… @… Work smarter, not harder!

from my link log —
Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/
saved 2025-11-30

Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.

Why don’t self driving cars work outside of Silicon Valley?
It’s all written in Rust.

Oh and the accompanying nunchuck’s accelerometer sucks. But at least my original nunchucks still work.

I've got a monero wallet, I've never actually received any funds on it. I'd like to recevied a few things to see how it feels/work. Anyone willing to share some small bits as an experiment?
42LrZz5HykaA7VEpLXeRVYLEbNRtfxqrZXA5zrPucPkARaPDx5pTBCbZya6vKapPkx1my1TcKjpUPLASFchtrtKQRbWqNjj
#xmr #monero

Here's what bothers me about AI-generated code, and I'm going to use my own fuck-up as an example. I was calling a DBus interface from C , which I'd already done elsewhere in the code. So I cut & pasted, and adjusted variable names.. It didn't work. So naturally I assumed something was wrong on the other end. I added delays to make sure the other side had enough time to bring up interfaces, I wrote some introspection code to ensure the interface was available, etc.

Just before Thanksgiving, our Intro to Museum Studies students organized their own pop-up exhibition focusing on portraits from our collection. Because it was only up for three days, we put it online so that everyone can see their hard work. https://georgiamuseum.org/online-exhibit…

Ukraine should just create 52 “Great World Peace Prize Of The Week Winner” trophies (and certificates) and promote one Ukrainian delegate at the White House to award one every week to Trump in a nice ceremony.
By all I can see from current events this should totally work.
#Trump #Ukraine…

🤦🏻 Golf lesson: Study shows political polarization hurts performance at work
#politics

Golf lesson: Study shows political polarization hurts performance at work
Few workers face more scrutiny than professional athletes. Every movement is measured, every outcome quantified, and every performance evaluated against objective standards. So when UC Berkeley Haas researcher Tim Sels wondered how America's deepening political polarization was affecting workers' performance, he turned to one of the most comprehensive data sets on individual human performance: the PGA Tour.

ICE has purchased “a smorgasbord of spy technology: social media monitoring, cellphone location tracking, facial recognition, remote hacking tools, and more … the government openly says it will use [these] capabilities to target people who oppose ICE’s actions [including] anti-ICE protesters.”
#ICE #protest

ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.

I tried installing Clawd Bot / Molt Bot / OpenClaw (https://openclaw.ai) on a Mac that isn't a daily driver, but couldn't get it to work. 🤷‍♂️

In my opinion, organisations involved in developing military capabilities shouldn't operate as charities.
https://www.ukauthority.com/articles/turing-institute-to-work-on-ai-tools-for-national-security-and-defence-analy…

Turing Institute to work on AI tools for national security and defence analysis | UKAuthority

Cowboys Hall of Fame icon set to help fix Dolphins' front office https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/01/cowboys-hof-qb-troy-aikman-to-work-with-dolphins-front-office/87…

From @… over on BlueSky:
“SCTV is on Internet Archive if you'd like to enjoy the early work of Catherine O'Hara and her fellow sketch comedy gods.
S1: https://archive.org/detail…

Had to bring back the 16th note run in measures 4 and 5 because it just didn't sound right with the song. Experimented with the tab to try and make it somewhat playable with my hands, think it should work. Also need to get the rest of the song "charted" out and playable so I can tweak it as this originally wasn't a "bass guitar" piece...lol
#music

RIP Tom Stoppard. I’m grateful for his masterpiece "Arcadia", and proud of the work we did on it. It's a deep reflection on the nature of truth, love, and art, those who run roughshod over it - very relevant today.
https://theater-u34.de/arkadien/

From Translink
UPDATE: The Pattullo Bridge will be closed southbound tonight (Dec. 1) from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. To complete this current phase of work, an additional overnight closure is required.

With her permission, I'm sharing some more art Wan Leen Siow did for the album - just because I really like her work and want others to see it! =)

'They don't consider their work heroic' — 4 energy workers die amid Kyiv repairs following Russian attacks: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/29/they-dont-consider-their-work.html

lol. My wife just got a work HR system email telling her she’s a good fit for the opening REPORTING TO HER that she’s trying to fill.

Hey #GearSquad , does anyone have recommendations for DAWs that work with Linux?
Cc @…
https://

The Replicated Man: AI and the Ghost in the Archive
I finally did it. I committed the act of digital suicide. It was a gesture of clinical curiosity and personal dread. I took twenty years of archives, every Boles Blogs entry, every "Best of" compilation, the discarded drafts, the love letters to lost eras, and I fed the entire body of work into the AI maw. My digital soul, offered up for digestion and analysis...

The Replicated Man: AI and the Ghost in the Archive | David Boles, Blogs
I finally did it. I committed the act of digital suicide. It was a gesture of clinical curiosity and personal dread. I took twenty years of archives, every Boles Blogs entry, every “Best of&#…

RE: https://mas.to/@Canadian_Eh/115993376621520335
it was originally Oak, and I toyed with it a bit as it was an advance over Eric's Inheritance Thing, a suite of C macros a collegue had developed at Cognos after we'd hit the limits of Eiffel. This was a good move as I was approached in 1995 with headhunters hoping for five years Java experience and lo, thanks to Oak, I had that!
Trouble was, I'd never work for anyone with an HR dept who would ask such a stupid uninformed requirement.

📣 My favourite app of 2025 was BorrowBox and I'd like to encourage you all to use it. Sign up with your library card and you can get access FOR FREE to a mind-boggling array of magazines inc New Scientist, History Extra, The Rugby Paper and loads loads more across every area of interest, plus ebooks and my new discovery, audiobooks. I love audiobooks when I'm at work and am currently majoring on #TheRiversOfLondon

Like financial transactions, barter transactions are treated as taxable supplies for VAT purposes as well in the EU.
Italy has considered that handing over personal details in exchange for services, as e.g. in the case of Facebook, is barter, and therefore VAT-able. If they succeed in making that work, other EU member states are bound to follow. Big tech platforms are worried, especially as the EU Commission agrees with the Italian stance. Interesting.

Interesting. In parallel, I set up a Docker container "exactly" as a Distrobox container to get ROCm running on Bazzite. And in the Docker container I get
> Memory critical error by agent node-0 (Agent handle: 0x5578c3d90580) on address 0x7f851f8a1000. Reason: Memory in use.
when running `clinfo` after "Max work group size" while in the Distrobox container it works without this error. It would be nice if I could find out what the differences are between the…

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
TARRANT: Thanks to Orac it sounds as if the Liberator is still intact. A trip to Xaranar wouldn't take too long.
GROFF: Escape is impossible. While the energy isolators are on, your handguns won't work and it is not possible to put the gravity generator into the negative field mode.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#MusicMap
- Schoenberg's Transfigured Night
Redemptive love is Sarah Mohr-Pietsch's destination with Schoenberg's heartfelt early work. Along the way, Sarah stops for music including JS Bach, Wagner and Dolly Parton.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qhbb

AI in everything, and the cracks are showing more and more. The copy-editing process is totally broken right now, in top-tier publishers. IT DOESN'T WORK

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Caroline Polachek:
🎵 Welcome to My Island (George Daniel & Charli XCX remix)
#CarolinePolachek
https://stereonuke.bandcamp.com/track/caroline-polachek-welcome-to-my-island-stereonukes-after-work-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/4bp2wYweUPvsBrQfntdYcr

Nevis, which develops AI agents to automate wealth advisers' grunt work, raised a $35M Series A from Sequoia and others at a $200M valuation, after a $5M seed (Biz Carson/Bloomberg)

@… Does this screenie exhibit a bug? Note the lonely "Followers" text at the bottom.
Best of the New Year to you and yours, and thanks for all the fine work!

Your Tax Dollars at Work:
ICE plans $100 million
‘wartime recruitment’ push
targeting gun shows, military fans for hires

A strategy document shared among immigration officials details plans to use influencers and geo-targeted ads to supercharge their push to hire thousands
https://www.<…

ICE plans $100 million ‘wartime recruitment’ push targeting gun shows, military fans for hires
An internal ICE document shared among immigration officials details plans to use influencers and geo-targeted ads to rapidly hire thousands of deportation officers.

dutch_criticism: Dutch literacy criticism (1976)
A network of criticisms among Dutch literary authors in 1976. The directed edge (i,j) denotes that an author i passed judgment on author j's work in an interview or review.
This network has 35 nodes and 81 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://

It’s been hours… when I started digging into TinyUSB it was light out, now it’s dark out and I’m exhausted, but my code works!
In large part thanks to the work of @…

Rubio Says 'Much Work' to Be Done After Talks With Ukrainian Officials (Cassandra Vinograd/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/us/politics/ukraine-yermak-rubio-russia.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p50#a251130p50

Bucs new OC Zac Robinson 'fired up' to work with 'true igniter' Baker Mayfield again https://www.nfl.com/news/bucs-new-oc-zac-robinson-fired-up-to-work-with-true-igniter-baker-mayfield-again

First day on the new job, a successful project well done, and lots of great things happening lately - this all feels so good and right! 🧡
I use #Arch on my work laptop btw.
Seize the moment, folks. Every damn moment.
And enjoy having some queer fun! 🥳🏳️‍🌈
Also, hack the planet! ✨👩‍💻✨👩‍💻✨

• 60 out of 100 times it’ll “sync” and freeze with all 4 LEDs on. The Wii U does a little beep but doesn’t show the controller and no inputs work.
• 38 out of 100 times the same thing will happen but with all LEDs off
  • You need to remove the batteries in order to take the wiimotes out of these states
• 2 out of 100 times the wiimotes actually connect, but show with 1 battery bar and almost no inputs go through (and the ones that do are extremely laggy, except for the power button)
  • The manual states that if this happens you can remove the batteries, wait 3 minutes and connect (without syncing) again. That does fixes it sometimes, but it really only worked once for each wiimote.
  • A truly successful connection only happens after the “low battery one”, and even then it seems to be hard to achieve for the first time.
    • Afterwards you’re supposed to be able to reconnect without syncing and then not encounter the issues anymore. That was true for the pink wiimote, but the blue wiimote had to be synced again. I spent quite a few hours trying and wasn’t able to get a successful connection.
    • If you connect the pink wiimote that was working when the other wiimote is in the 4 LEDs freeze state it’ll break the connection of the other one and make you need to sync it again
      • Now none of my aliexpress wiimotes are synced and idk when I’ll be able to sync them again

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/115639842170295353
OMG it turns out this is due to the Mac APFS filesystem’s default case-mapping behavior, so things like SSH and LS work (bleccch).
(h/t @stoey.bsky.social over on bsky)

More than 600 government files released under 20-year rule https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/more-than-600-government-files-released-under-20-year-rule/

More than 600 government files released under 20-year rule - The National Archives
More than 600 documents have been released by the Cabinet Office today under the 20-year rule. Most are correspondence and work on government policies during Sir Tony Blair’s Labour administration 2004-2005. They include a file about Kim Philby’s archive and another relating to the successful Olympics 2012 bid. There is material relating to the tsunami […]

Hansen’s disease (leprosy)
is treatable today in large part because of the work of Alice Ball,
a 23-year-old chemist whose breakthrough turned a toxic folk remedy into the world’s first effective treatment.

A young Black scientist discovered a pivotal leprosy treatment in the 1920s − but an older colleague took the credit
Historians are working to shine a light on Alice Ball’s legacy and contributions to an early treatment of a dangerous and stigmatizing disease.

Using devices as long as they work is literally the exact opposite of “hoarding”, which would be buying a new phone every year and ending up with a hoard of them.
Let’s not use words that were deliberately used in bad faith to blame consumers for problems producers have.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#NewMusicShow
- Can you hear me now?
Experimental music including Ruth Morley's Reef, Karen Power's Can you hear me now? and a work for worldless chorus written in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qgzg

Google updates Gemini in Chrome with a new side panel, an auto browse feature that can navigate pages and take actions for AI Pro and AI Ultra users, and more (Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/work-life/google-chrome-auto-browse/

Your Google Chrome browser just got a useful autopilot feature - here's how it works
Google's new Auto Browse feature aims to handle your digital chores by taking actions on your behalf.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@CyReVolt/115949854980894769
so at least they are still hiring and people want to work

FEMA reinstates workers put on leave for criticizing the White House (Emily Peck/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/01/fema-workers-criticizing-white-house
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p111#a251201p111

🗜️ The Silicon Valley Stack Doesn’t Work Here: Why Africa Will Lead the Post-Bloat Web
https://paulallies.medium.com/the-silicon-valley-stack-doesnt-work-here-why-africa-will-lead-the-post-bloat-web-e7c34b577c61

The Silicon Valley Stack Doesn’t Work Here: Why Africa Will Lead the Post-Bloat Web
For years, we’ve followed the global tech narrative: Bigger is better. We import heavy-duty JavaScript ecosystems from the US, implicitly…

Donald Trump signed into law this month a measure that 👉 prohibits anyone based in China and "other adversarial countries" from accessing the Pentagon’s cloud computing systems.
The ban, which is tucked inside the $900 billion defense policy law,
was enacted in response to a ProPublica investigation this year that exposed how Microsoft used China-based engineers to service the
Defense Department’s computer systems for nearly a decade
— a practice that left s…

Trump Signs Defense Bill Prohibiting China-Based Engineers in Pentagon IT Work
The measure, which emerged in response to a ProPublica investigation, bars Microsoft engineers in China and other adversarial countries from servicing sensitive Pentagon cloud computing systems.

New OC McDaniel 'geeked' to work with Herbert https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47746871/chargers-oc-josh-mcdaniel-geeked-work-justin-herbert

The assumption is that one day large language models and other related AI technologies fostered by Google Gemini and OpenAI ChatGPT actually will be a great and infallible productivity tool for genuine work.
It already is decent for providing basic overviews of highly-covered, well-sourced topics, even as hallucinations and sycophancy continue to dog the tech, particularly in situations where accountability is more critical.
Despite today's downsides,
many companies ar…

Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, with estimates that it has no road to profitability by 2030 — and will need a further $207 billion in funding even if it gets there
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?

🤦‍♂️ COP30 climate pledges favor unrealistic land-based carbon removal over emission cuts, says report
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-cop30-climate-pledges-favor-unrealistic.html

COP30 climate pledges favor unrealistic land-based carbon removal over emission cuts, says report
An analysis of national climate plans released today at the COP30 climate summit in Brazil warns that countries are failing to carry out core work required to reduce emissions by halting and reversing deforestation and forest degradation, and are instead pushing unrealistic carbon removal schemes, such as large-scale tree planting.

Blocking the work of MSF is absolutely depraved. Israel continues to fumble its way out of the community of civilized nations.
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-hamas-palestinians-ceasefire-war-news-286106d7a5a911704cdcf1c93…

Israel to halt operations of several humanitarian groups in Gaza starting in 2026
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian organizations for failing to meet its new rules to vet international organizations working in Gaza. The Ministry of Diaspora Affairs said on Tuesday that the organizations that will be banned on Jan. 1 did not meet its new requirements for sharing staff, funding and operations information. It accused Doctors Without Borders, known as MSF by its French acronym, of failing to clarify the roles of some staff that Israel accused of cooperation with H…

Sources: Kubiak to try to reach deal with Raiders https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47799456/sources-seahawks-kubiak-try-reach-deal-raiders-hc

"What's been happening in Minneapolis has been so egregious and awful and so destructive to our community,"
shop owner Gilah Mashaal said of federal agents' use of aggressive tactics.
It was obvious to her and Neary how the shop would protest.
They pulled out their knitting needles and got to work.
Neary created the pattern that has now become the well-known
"Melt the ICE" hat,
a red beanie-shaped cap topped with a braided tassel.…

Russia’s Ministry of Justice designated Human Rights Watch
an “undesirable organization”
on Nov. 28,
effectively banning the group from operating in the country.
Human Rights Watch noted that Russia had already forced the closure of its Moscow office in 2022.
“Our work hasn’t changed, but what’s changed, dramatically, is the government’s full-throttled embrace of dictatorial policies,
its staggering rise in repression,
and the scope of the war crimes…

Russia declares Human Rights Watch an 'undesirable organization'
Russia’s Ministry of Justice has designated Human Rights Watch an “undesirable organization,” effectively banning the group from operating in the country, on Nov. 28.

-- Jared Sullivan:
I scoop ice cream to pay my bills while running for the United States Senate.
That should not be rare.
In a country divided on almost everything, one view cuts across party lines:
working-class Americans are fed up with a political system that does not understand their lives.
They are right. Today, fewer than three percent of members of Congress come from the manual labor and service jobs that most Americans work,
a disparity documente…