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The U.S. patent for mp3 audio was granted on November 26 in 1996. This piece is kinda weird about it in spots, but it gives a decent history about how it laid the foundations for peer-to-peer music sharing, etc.

The U.S. patent for MP3 audio was granted on this day in 1996 — laid the foundations for peer-to-peer music sharing, iTunes, and today's streaming services
The Fraunhofer Institut had been working on its lossy audio compression tech for phone line transmission since 1977.

Researching inequality – Northampton and the Welfare State https://edintone.com/northampton_1913-24/ Two studies of Northampton in 1913 and 1924 give us a detailed view of working-class life

Researching inequality - Northampton and the Welfare State - Miscellanea Edintone
Two studies of Northampton in 1913 and 1924 give us a detailed view of working-class life and economic conditions in on the eve of World War 1 and the somewhat better situation in the early 1920s.

Sparky has been working as part of Antares canine search-and-rescue unit since 2013.
She also helped develop a training program for search dogs.
Over the years of service, Sparky has participated in hundreds of search operations,
saved people's lives
&helped find the bodies of more than 200 people

Hey, if you're working at Apple—your boss made grinning selfies with rapists at the White House while the blood on the sidewalk in Minneapolis wasn't even dry yet.

I’ve been sick in some way for nearly a month now just due to a bunch of unrelated things (got a cold, then got COVID, then got bad side effects from medication for COVID…) and I am just thinking how in the world do people with chronic illnesses survive.
I am going a little insane from my body not working properly the last 3.5 weeks - I don’t know how one has the mental resilience to live on day after day for years with a broken body.

Fidelity Investments announces its own stablecoin, the Fidelity Digital Dollar, or FIDD, available to institutional and retail clients in the coming weeks (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/28/fidelity-enters-crowded-stablecoi…

Fidelity enters crowded stablecoin field with new FIDD token
The upscale brokerage has a long history of working with digital assets.

"The state of Mozilla" should be downstream of the state of the open, human web. First analyze that, see where the challenges lie and then propose solutions for those through your organization.
The open, human web. The thing Mozilla is working to drown in more slop.

Noem, who’s in danger of being sacked, is trying to throw Stephen Miller under the bus. Meanwhile Miller is on TV trying to throw DHS under the bus. Basically they’re shitting their pants and flinging it at each other.
It’s working. Punch them harder.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/post/3mdgo4t4md22k

Not a brilliant analysis from the MS but 2 nuggets:
Extending the freeze on tax band and National Insurance thresholds is an attack on working-class people’s take-home pay. Yield £7.6bn p.a.
Left's proposed 2 per cent tax on assets in excess of £10 million is estimated to bring in £24bn p.a.
https://

in case anyone has an unused [replicated] #39c3 presale ticket voucher left-over: @…, one of the greatest hackers I've ever had the pleasure of working with @… …

Chasing some other interesting bugs in the STM32MP2 setup.
1) I don't know if the clock dividers were the problem or not, but I'm seeing weird behavior with the QSPI flash randomly not working properly sometimes.
2) Possibly related: power consumption of the board seems to vary /- 20% from one reset to another. This is an enormous variation, no I do not currently have an explanation.

A few technical issues with our Chinese web domain http://seeingwithsound.cn/?hl=cn have been resolved. Welcoming working with Chinese scientists now that many US scientists are in a difficult position. We work globally, nothing less, and we are well ahead of Musk's Neuralink Blindsight.
In case of …

How’s #IchBinHanna resisting #AI? “Our working conditions are student learning conditions”, thus:
"Militating against the transformation of not just the classroom but the university by ‘disruptive technologies’ is a crucial front."

from my link log —
How we made Python's packaging library 3x faster.
https://iscinumpy.dev/post/packaging-faster/
saved 2026-01-27 https://

How we made Python's packaging library 3x faster
Along with a pip (and now packaging) maintainer, Damian Shaw, I have been working on making packaging, the library behind almost all packaging related tools, faster at reading versions and specifiers, something tools like pip have to do thousands of times during resolution. Using Python 3.15’s new statistical profiler and metadata from every package ever uploaded to PyPI, I measured and improved core Packaging constructs while keeping the code readable and simple. Reading in Versions can be u…

1) I connect the IoT device to the VLAN1 network.
2) I apply rules in pfsense to the VLAN1 network to restrict Internet access.
3) The IoT device stops working.
- Hmmm...
#InternetOfShit

"Law enforcement, protesters clash as federal agents make arrests in St. Paul" | MPR News #Minnesota #ICE

Law enforcement, protesters clash as federal agents make arrests in St. Paul
Gov. Tim Walz said state officials were monitoring what he called a “chaotic” situation “and working to understand what unfolded. We received no heads up from federal authorities on this operation.”

Last week, backups on my @… laptop stopped working, because the laptop ceased to recognise when the backup drive was plugged in. The drive is an old fashioned spinning rust thing which plugs in over USB. I diagnosed a fault with the USB port. So I ordered another USB port from Framework; it arrived today, I plugged it in, and backup is running n…

A question for musician friends here: does anyone know if an available tool already exists for this, or if I’m imagining a problem everyone else has quietly solved? (I should really make it myself, but am not in the mood to. So far when combining different EDOs or working out conversions I do it all manually each time, which obviously takes quite a while.)
What I’m looking for is a simple MIDI transformer that maps note numbers from one chosen EDO to another, using a fixed reference no…

Right after graduating in 2015, I was offered a job at the #BBC, working on scaling iPlayer. Well, continuing to scale iPlayer. It's one of my great what ifs.
It's an organisation I hugely admire, for many of the reasons that it is being attacked so viciously right now. Truth matters. Finding common ground matters. Keep the faith.

As a graduate student at MIT, Steve Ramirez successfully created false memories in the lab.
Now, as a neuroscientist working at the frontiers of brain science, he foresees a future where
we can replace our negative memories with positive ones.
In "How to Change a Memory", Ramirez draws on his own memories
—of friendship, family, loss, and recovery
—to reveal how memory can be turned on and off like a switch,
edited, and even
constructed fro…

Within the working lifetime of a British politician, the "necessary regulation" they vote in favour of may become the "red tape" they are proud to slash.

Memo: Sydney Morning Herald Editor Bevan Shields resigns after four years to "focus on my health", to be replaced by Chief Reporter Jordan Baker early in 2026 (Amanda Meade/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov

Hoe groot de Epstein zaak eigenlijk was heb ik me nooit gerealiseerd...
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social€):
'Epstein Survivor Lisa Phillips: Many survivors came forward, and we began comparing notes and working with people in Congress.
As we started connecting the dots, we realized that some of us were sent to the same person in Hollywood for movie auditions. Some of us went to the same modeling agency…'
De bodem lijkt nog niet in zicht...
📽️
#EpsteinFiles

Publishing a #Java-based database tool on MacAppStore (MAS)
https://tanin.nanakorn.com/publishing-a-java-based-database-tool-on-mac-app-store-mas/

I’ve lost a lot of respect for Andrewism after his recent upload. It feels disconnected from the reality of working-class life and from anarcho-syndicalism as it actually exists.
This response is a worthwhile read. It doesn’t romanticize work or the working class, but it doesn’t drift into abstract alternatives either. It sits with the fact that we don’t want to be working class, but we are, and that contradiction isn’t something you escape with theory.
I strongly relate to what’…

me: *working intently on something*
door: *thump*
door: *thump* *thump* *thump*
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me: *sighs, now fully distracted*
me: *opens the door to let the cat in*

I'm traveling in SE Asia. All of these countries have "problems" with visitors overstaying visas, working without permits, etc., and these problems generally are dealt with at an appropriate level. Not with militarized units killing immigrants and locals.

Former Eric Adams deputy Kaz Daughtry nabs job working with Trump's ICE in New York (Craig McCarthy/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/01/23/us-news/eric-adams-deputy-kaz-daughtry-now-working-with-trumps-ice-in-new-york/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p119#a260123p119

"It is also that these are not all working-class struggles around which a global proletariat could possibly be cobbled together. The class composition of the mass protests in Iran (now), Ukraine (in 2013-14), or Venezuela (since 2013) clearly don’t flow from the manuals of marxist revolutionaries. I’ve argued elsewhere that the world is undergoing a “class reconfiguration” in which ecological struggles and climate vulnerability will be playing a newly unifying role."

Diet Notes With Susie Burrell
Join leading Australian dietitian and nutritionist Susie Burrell as she discusses topical nutrition areas that she sees working with women in her clinic...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/diet-n

suggested SIM providers for low usage?? I'm currently on RWG but I've started having problems sending SMS - only about 1 in 3 sends work; other dirt cheap but working suggestions? At the moment I'm thinking 1p/mobile?

RE: #Apple has left, but the whole thing with #Microsoft handing over BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI shows that these companies are not out for your best interests **AT ALL**. They will throw you under the bus in an instant if they can make a buck from it.

For months, she had been mentally preparing for this moment
as she helped one colleague after another who had been fired by the Trump administration
pack up their offices.
She took on hundreds of additional motions from the dockets of her terminated colleagues,
working weekends and nights to shoulder the exponentially growing workload. 
But nothing could have emotionally prepared her to see the email come in. 
The floodgates opened. She broke down in tears…

This BBC article talks about the "class ceiling" in the arts, with both structural obstacles and prejudice against those who are not white and middle class. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cql4gvrxdq7o
However, it fails to address the assumption that arts are luxury…

Did the official “unsplash wallpapers” app stop working for anyone recently? I noticed today my wallpaper hadn’t changed in a while, and found it won’t launch any more, and spews a “kTCCServiceAppleEvents requires entitlement” error into the logs.
Is this a new change in macOS Tahoe?

How an indirect prompt injection can manipulate Google's Antigravity IDE to invoke a malicious browser subagent and exfiltrate data; Google is working on a fix (PromptArmor)
https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/google-antigravity-exfiltrates-data

Google Antigravity Exfiltrates Data
An indirect prompt injection in an implementation blog can manipulate Antigravity to invoke a malicious browser subagent in order to steal credentials and sensitive code from a user’s IDE.

Lots of people without power today, and several thousand PG&E people working today to restore power. We got lucky, were celebrating early with family using an Airbnb in Brookdale that lost power Tuesday night. (We left Weds) and might get power back on Thursday evening. Best wishes to everyone muddling through and dealing with the disruption.

The #Mastodon public roadmap is looking sparse!
https://joinmastodon.org/roadmap

Project to bring voices of enslaved people to life https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/project-to-bring-voices-of-enslaved-people-to-life/

Project to bring voices of enslaved people to life - The National Archives
  The National Archives is working with international academics to make the largest collection of first-person testimony of enslaved people from the Caribbean in existence – the Reports of the Protectors of Slaves – accessible to researchers anywhere in the world. Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana will digitise, map […]

Access a fully-functioning email box for searching & reading Epstein's emails at "JMAIL.WORLD".
✅ Pranksters Recreated a Working Version of Jeffrey Epstein’s Gmail Inbox | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/pranksters-rec

Pranksters Recreated a Working Version of Jeffrey Epstein’s Gmail Inbox
Using Jmail, you can read thousands of Jeffrey Epstein's emails in a familiar format. Use the star function to highlight notable finds.

Don’t Read Poetry by Stephanie Burt
The cover of Burt's Don't Read Poetry. It shows what looks like an uprooted daffodil. #poetry #poetrycommunity I have been working through books on reading, writing, and teaching poetry in preparation for writing a new poetry module. In …

I donated to ACLU today https://www.aclu.org/
"For nearly 100 years, the ACLU has been our nation’s guardian of liberty, working in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of the United States guarantee everyone in thi…

Home | American Civil Liberties Union
The ACLU dares to create a more perfect union — beyond one person, party, or side. Our mission is to realize this promise of the United States Constitution for all and expand the reach of its guarantees.

Cyber troubles never end for KT in Korea.
An internet installation technician working as a subcontractor for KT has been accused of leaking customer personal information to another mobile phone retailer.
https://www.chosun.com/english/industry-en/2025/1…

Exclusive: KT Subcontractor Leaks Customer Data, Company Avoids Responsibility
Exclusive: KT Subcontractor Leaks Customer Data, Company Avoids Responsibility Leaked information led to contract cancellations; experts say KT must supervise subcontractors despite outsourcing

I think this brings me up to five separate Atlassian accounts now 🙃

Departed Cowboys DE DeMarcus Lawrence was right about the Super Bowl, Seahawks https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/departed-cowboys-de-demarcus-lawrence-was-right-about-su…

The birth of the Web — The World Wide Web was invented by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 while working at CERN
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.
🌐

Omg, patently wrong. To begin with, I am the one using the GTX 1650, and my video shows that it's working great even with DLSS, as opposed to the viewer with the AMD problem. And that parrotting nincompoop of an AI wants me to - what? - save time, give technical advice, make some small talk? What a big, smoking hot, pointless pile of b this technology turns out to be.
And I guess Google lets the same fucking stupid LM to determine how to recommend my video to other viewers? Great!<…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lobsters/115957432877042610
ATProto is decentralized in theory but with basically no working documentation that technical property is meaningless.
(Blacksky has put a lot of work in to fill the holes which is why we are s…

In Ukraine, a reporter is working on the front lines when the troops he is interviewing are suddenly overwhelmed by Russian troops.
Escaping from one hideout to another just moments before they explode, the reporter dives into a freshly dug ditch at a cemetery, dug for the many new coffins that are coming.
Somehow, the reporter escapes death and rises from the cemetery to share this report with you.
This is Giorgio, he is a true hero and journalist, reporting from the trenc…

Me: spends a chunk of time today working in Claude.
My mom: hey, Claude died.
Me: ‼️ ⁉️
The Claude in question:

"A momentous pivotal moment for the United States." #ice

"A momentous pivotal moment for the United States."
Alex Pretti, 37, was a registered nurse working in the intensive care unit at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System.

Well I think I just found and root caused accidental O(n^2) behavior in a piece of commercial software that was turning what should have a been a few-second operation into six minutes.
It's sooo nice working with cooperative vendors. Finding and root causing the bug took me only a couple of minutes in VTune thanks to the vendor sharing a non-stripped binary with me to help me troubleshoot.

Series D, Episode 07 - Assassin
AVON: Again.
TARRANT: Nothing. There's no response at all.
AVON: Try the auxiliaries.
TARRANT: Nothing there either.
SOOLIN: But there must be. The life support systems are working perfectly.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/407/373 B7…

WHO’s Cancer Research Arm Finds Atrazine Is Probable Human Carcinogen https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/whos-cancer-research-arm-finds-atrazine-is-probable-human-carcinogen-2025-11-21/…

WHO’s Cancer Research Arm Finds Atrazine Is Probable Human Carcinogen
The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer found today that atrazine, the second most widely used pesticide in the United States, is “probably carcinogenic to humans.” The cancer designation was determined by a working group of 22 expert cancer researchers from 12 different countries. The researchers identified evidence from human epidemiological studies, animal studies, and laboratory assessments of whether atrazine exhibits key characteristics of a c…

19v Seminar Series Winter-Spring 2026 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20138762/19v-seminar-series-winter-spring-2026

One important thing I need to keep in mind with LibreWolf is that when something does not work I need to check if it works in Firefox.
For instance the TrueNAS shell was not working, and I realized that TrueNAS wasn't broken, LibreWolf was just "protecting" me...
Which again, is a good thing, but it's sometime a bit too much protection for those of us who know what we are doing.

{lubridate} makes working with dates in R just that little bit easier: #rstats #dates<…

I finished marking on Friday.
Co-pilot is integratrd into Matlab; some students made use of it (with permission).
LLMs cannot interpret graphs; at all. Their attempts to do so make abundantly clear that no analysis or interpretation takes place.
Most students using LLMs did so effectively, generating outputs in a few lines of code that could have been done with one function call, but nevertheless working.
Those who relied on it for analysis? Ouch! ~20% mark. So much…

I am simple minded - in that I am often simply blown away at the intelligence that went into the design of some common objects.
Today I'm working with T-Posts, a kind of steel fencing post. They seem simple, but they are well designed to hold fencing and to support things like firing range targets.
And some years back I designed and built a craftsman/arts-and-crafts fireplace. I used over 300 tiles of various sizes. It is really cool how those tiles are sized to fit togeth…

Gunter's chain - Wikipedia

The last #devops #prague meetup for 2025 is on Dec-2. There are some good talk about #privacy #security and recent outages. …

December DevOps Meetup, Tue, Dec 2, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
**Talk 1 by Bogo** **Title**: Grow your DevOps brand while putting privacy first Working in today’s fast-changing world means focusing on your work and sharing your knowle

The official Epson Print Layout application is such an annoying piece of bad software, bug ridden and slowly turning out to be quite costly (when working with expensive fine art inks & paper, costing 2.50 EUR per page)...
Any recommendations for alternatives (which also support the P900 advanced ink settings?)
Just one example: I go through the effort to create a nice custom page layout in a certain orientation (e.g. A3 landscape). The app also shows the preview correctly, bu…

Hackers knock out systems at Moscow-run postal operator in occupied Ukraine https://therecord.media/hackers-knock-out-systems-russia-operated-post-ukraine

Still working the kinks out of transporting my computing home to a new laptop, and this one popped up today attempting to generate and view #Emacs #org as HTML. I recognize the words as english, but can anyone parse the meaning?
org-open-file: Please see Org News for version 9.0 about ‘org-file-apps’--Error: Deprecated usage of (browse-url file)
needless to say, search engines were no help in finding Org News, for any version.

Apropos of a gas station exploding in my neighborhood: Fossil fuel infrastructure is an ecological disaster every day, especially when there isn't an accident, when everything is "working" "safely."
https://theonion.com/millions-of-barre

Millions Of Barrels Of Oil Safely Reach Port In Major Environmental Catastrophe
PORT FOURCHON, LA—In what may be the greatest environmental disaster in the nation’s history, the supertanker TI Oceania docked without incident at the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port Monday and successfully unloaded 3.1 million barrels of dangerous crude oil into the United States.

I woke up this Christmas morning to a bunch of people making a bunch of stuff up quoting "anonymous sources" to support or advance their cynical fantasy narratives - despite me working in that area & knowing their claims to be 100% fabricated. So that's fun.
Merry Christmas, social networks.

When we built my new desktop PC last year in early January I kept the old monitor because it was working fine. Son picked up a new cable to connect it to the PC because the old one had the wrong fitting for the new build. It was a bit short but I rearranged my desk and moved the monitor over to the right side of my corner desk. I finally succumbed and bought a longer cable yesterday. And it's so much better having the monitor in the centre of the desk again. It only took me a year! 🤦‍♀️<…

Parks, Libraries and Leisure: Northampton’s Social Life in the 1920s https://edintone.com/leisure-libraries-parks/ In the 1920s, increased opportunities for leisure were an important part of life for the working-class. @…

Parks, Libraries and Leisure: Northampton’s Social Life in the 1920s - Miscellanea Edintone
In the 1920s, increased opportunities for leisure were an important part of life for the working classes.

So in another dream I just woke up from, I was talking to someone about "the idea problem" (that it's becoming harder to monitize ideas, from a vox article written by an AI cooked reporter).
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/executive-disorder-white-house-weekly-46-313675864/
Basically, I was arguing that the majority of inventions target men because patriarchy puts economic control in men's hands. As men have started to help more with childcare, there have been more inventions related to childcare. (I don't have any idea if this is true. Seems legit, but I'm just relating my dream. I think I was also oversimplifying a bit to "men" and "women" because of my audience, but anyway it was a dream.) There's actually more low-hanging fruit, I pointed out, related to making care work easier.
So I argued that the real problem was a failure to invest in research into solving that problem. Today there are all these boondoggles built around killing people. What if, instead of all this government research into killing people, we dumped a ton of money into making it easier to support a household? That would be great for the economy. (Being asleep, I seem to have forgotten that working people need money.)
In the blur of being just awake I started thinking about how you could kickstart the US economy by taking the money from the AI boondoggle and other autonomous murder bots and create something like a program to build robots for housekeepers. You'd still be funding tech with government money, so the same horrible people get paid, but you're now actually solving real problems. It wouldn't even matter if it was a boondoggle, honestly. Just dumping money into something other than murdering people is good enough.
I imagined first if there was a program to fund a robot housecleaner, like robot dog with AI some laundry pickup, that would be provided, free of charge, to help people with children. It would work the same as the military boondoggle where a private company makes the government buy a piece of hardware from them and then also pay them to service it for some number of years. But instead of that hardware sitting around waiting to kill someone, it would be getting brought to people's houses to help them.
Then I thought, hey, you could even boost the economy more if you just had government funding for doulas and housecleaners and paid them a living wage. Hey, you could really kickstart the economy by nationalizing healthcare and including doula support as part of all births. Oh, and you could also just include the optional household help for families with children until the kids turn 18.
None of this is perfect (I don't actually think most of this is possible from any state), but the point is that it's actually wildly easy to figure out all kinds of ways to invest in the economy and monitize ideas as long as you aren't entirely focused on the same old "make money from spying on people and killing them." Funny that. Like they said in the podcast, maybe "finding ideas" isn't the problem.
Hope you enjoyed the weird semi-awake brain dump/rant.

Tyler Smith on working against Quinnen Williams in practice, finishing plays, more https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/tyler-smith-on-working-against-quinnen-williams-in-practice-finishing-plays-more

Sources: OpenAI staff discussed prioritizing sponsored content in ChatGPT when users ask relevant queries and created mockups with ads in sidebars or as pop-ups (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-ads-push-starts-taking-shape<…

OpenAI’s Ads Push Starts Taking Shape
OpenAI executives have kept a tight lid on how the company could show advertisements to users of its popular ChatGPT chatbot, leaving the broader digital ad industry eager for clues. Behind the scenes, staff are working through key details. Employees have discussed ways to tweak AI models to ...

Donald Trump despises collective struggle, the organized working class, and especially those fighting to dismantle capitalism in favor of worker self-managed industries and federations of free associations.
#USPol #America

The Trump administration pushed out two officials focused on neutralizing technological threats from China, people familiar with the matter said, in the latest dismissals of key personnel working on national-security issues tied to Beijing.
https://ww…

Got FSR 4.0.3 MLFG working on Linux with FSR 4.0.0 FP8 emulation in Shadow Warrior 3, too! 🥰
Video coming soon, if anyone's interested.
#Gaming #Linux #ShadowWarrior3

A flexible photoacoustic retinal prosthesis https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67518-6 "These findings demonstrate the potential of photoacoustic stimulation for high-acuity visual restoration in blind patients."; retinal implant

Researching inequality – Northampton and the Welfare State https://edintone.com/northampton_1913-24/ Two studies of Northampton in 1913 and 1924 give us a detailed view of working-class life. @…

Researching inequality - Northampton and the Welfare State - Miscellanea Edintone
Two studies of Northampton in 1913 and 1924 give us a detailed view of working-class life and economic conditions in on the eve of World War 1 and the somewhat better situation in the early 1920s.

Finally working a bit more on the post about old Mac Performa games. I started it around this time last year. Takes a bunch of research, etc, is why, I wanna have emulation links, etc. And of course I play each a little. It's a blast, really. If you want me to tag you when I post it, lmk here.. I still have the older post where I'd talked about it and those folks are in, too- but just to be sure I don't miss you. Hope I finish it soon (eventually)😂

The Minnesota man who was killed by federal agents on Saturday has been identified as #Alex #Pretti, 37, a registered nurse working in the intensive care unit at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System, which serves veterans.
It’s the second fatal shooting this month in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in addition to another non-…

My actual experience of AI coding over the last few days. Starting point is a large working prototype application written mostly in typescript, and I want a version in Python, so I have Claude working away at it, porting over the BDD tests, the unit tests, comparing with the TS. This morning it’s working on unit tests for 8 services. it saw there was a lot to do, so it spawned four coder specialists and worked for about 50min, creating 188 tests, then continued with four more coders.

I have been learning #Rust for a couple of years, and using it for pet projects and demos alike. Working for a JVM-heavy company, I thought it would be my fate forever. Last week, I had a nice surprise: I convinced my management that using Rust for a particular project was the right choice. It’s not a huge project, but I want to describe my experience using Rust in a "real" project.

Tyler Smith on working against Quinnen Williams in practice, finishing plays, more https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/tyler-smith-on-working-against-quinnen-williams-in-practice-finishing-plays-more

Use cookies in shiny apps: #rstats #shiny

Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.5, which the company says is "the best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use" (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-5

Introducing Claude Opus 4.5
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

❤🖤 Never Voted, Never Will! 🖤❤
Every election is just a vote for who gets to manage the economy next, and pretend they know what’s best for the working class.
Instead of voting, get organized: join collectives, take part in strikes, and find your local org here: https://iwa-ait.org/content/addresses

U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff is running a shadow operation inside the White House
in an effort to sideline pro-Ukraine officials, the Kyiv Independent has learned.
Witkoff
— a real estate mogul with no diplomatic background before his appointment
— has emerged as one of the central architects of a new Washington "peace proposal"
that Ukrainian officials say revives the Kremlin's most sweeping demands.
A source in Ukraine's President…

How Steve Witkoff pushed Ukraine sympathizers out of White House, and led the US into Russia's arms
U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff is running a shadow operation inside the White House in an effort to sideline pro-Ukraine officials, the Kyiv Independent has learned. Witkoff — a real estate mogul with no diplomatic background before his appointment — has emerged as one of the central architects of a new Washington peace proposal that Ukrainian officials say revives the Kremlin's most sweeping demands. A source in Ukraine's President's Office earlier said that Witkoff is shaping the plan…

I also think it's worth just doing the math here. There aren't enough ICE agents to remove an occupation of more than a couple of facilities. They would have to rely on local police. A lot of police departments have been ordered not to support ICE activities. This means Trump would have to activate the military. If an occupation was peaceful, especially playful like Portland, deployment may not even be possible. Meanwhile, if ICE agents continue to be as violent as they are Governors may be forced to activate the national guard to protect citizens against ICE.
Forcing conflict when Trump is at his weakest, in a way that is non-violent, puts resistance in the best possible position.
At the same time, we are at a strange time of unity. Trump supporters are leaving over Epstein, some are even mad about the deportations, and he's otherwise systematically alienated basically his whole base (except literal Nazis working for ICE).
The AI bubble is, in a lot of ways, a fun house mirror reflection of the 2008 financial crash. The whole economy is held up by loans secured with "compute." Everyone hates this, and Trump's policies have made everything far worse.
#OccupyICE could actually have a lot of momentum and be difficult to stop, especially if folks went to ICE facilities in frog suits and Luigi bloc with banners demanding the release of the Epstein files.
At least, that's my impression from out here.

"Two members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with an advocacy group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states,” and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls."

CEIP study: 87 of the top 100 Chinese AI researchers who were working in the US in 2019 are still doing research at US universities or companies in 2025 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/technology/ai-research-chinese-talent.html

In the A.I. Race, Chinese Talent Still Drives American Research
Although some Silicon Valley executives paint China as the enemy, Chinese brains continue to play a major role in U.S. research.

"Scores of frogs have been removed, with the remaining sanitized ones displayed like an interior designer was called in.”
I don’t drive on Paterna Road in Santa Barbara often enough to have a good sense of how different it is,
but a Riviera resident said someone has been working on it for months now.
Anyone know more?

Cowboys working towards hiring Christian Parker as defensive coordinator https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-working-towards-hiring-christian-parker-as-defensive-coordinator

Analysts believe widespread GLP-1 adoption could mean long-term changes in demand.
Food companies including Conagra Brands and Nestle are already dealing with shifts in consumer tastes toward higher protein and smaller portions
due to the popularity of weight-loss injections
To cope, businesses are promoting products with more protein,
tweaking labeling to say they are GLP-1 friendly
and working with large retailers to better market products.

Sources: Ledger is working with banks on a US IPO that could value the French cryptocurrency company at more than $4B; it was valued at $1.5B in 2023 (Financial Times)

In the black of the winter of nineteen-nine
When we froze & bled on the picket line,
We showed the world that women could fight
& we rose & won with women's might.
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Attached: 1 image Today in Labor History November 22, 1909: The “Uprising of the 20,000” occurred in New York, as female, mostly Jewish, garment workers went on strike for better pay and an end to sweatshop working conditions. It was also known as the Shirtwaist Strike. 19-year-old Clara Lemlich, who led the strike, said she had no patience for talk and called for her coworkers to join in a General Strike. She made this speech not long after leaving the hospital after thugs had beat her up…

Since Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the president has made it clear that voter suppression is a top priority.
In March, Trump issued a sweeping anti-voting executive order that could disenfranchise millions.
And while courts have blocked key provisions of his order, the White House promised that another order, likely targeting mail voting, is on the way. 
Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is engaged in an unprecedented attack on voting rights,

Trump’s Administration Is Full of Election Deniers — They’re Already Working to Rig the Vote
Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

🚨𝗖𝗔-𝟮𝟮 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘:
𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗲 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁 𝗥𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘆 𝗩𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘆.
Randy is refusing corporate PAC money and running to represent working families in the Central Valley -- not billionaires.
But now, national Republicans are pouring dark money into this race to protect GOP Rep. David Valadao.
Bernie said it best:
We need more working-class people in Congress who aren’t beholden to special interests.
This …

Epstein Files Transparency Act:
"The Attorney General shall ... make publicly available in a searchable and downloadable format."
NYT:
The DOJ "website also contains a search function, though it is unclear if it’s working properly.
A query for 'Epstein' returned no results."
-- Ryan Goodman

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Epstein Files Transparency Act: "The Attorney General shall ... make publicly available in a searchable and downloadable format." NYT: The DOJ "website also contains a search function, though it is unclear if it’s working properly. A query for 'Epstein' returned no results."

According to the 2020 European Strategy for Particle Physics (ESPP),
the highest-priority next collider is an electron-positron Higgs factory,
followed in the longer term by a hadron-hadron collider at the highest achievable energy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20417

Future Colliders Comparative Evaluation -- Working Group Report
In anticipation of the completion of the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) programme by the end of 2041, CERN is preparing to launch a new major facility in the mid-2040s. According to the 2020 European Strategy for Particle Physics (ESPP), the highest-priority next collider is an electron-positron Higgs factory, followed in the longer term by a hadron-hadron collider at the highest achievable energy. The CERN directorate established a Future Colliders Comparative Evaluation workin…

Federal data belatedly released Tuesday shows that the
US unemployment rate
rose to the highest level in four years last month
as Donald Trump’s administration continues its assault on the government’s workforce
and American corporations lay off workers at a level not seen in decades.
The unemployment rate rose to 4.6% in November,
up from 4.4% in September,
according to the Labor Department report, whose release was delayed due to the recent governme…

Trump Economy 'Stalling Out' as Unemployment Rate Hits Highest Level in 4 Years | Common Dreams
"Trump may give himself an A++++ on the economy, but these latest jobs numbers are failing working families."