2025 LLM Year in Review: shift toward RLVR, Claude Code emerged as the first convincing example of an LLM agent, Nano Banana was paradigm shifting, and more (Andrej Karpathy/karpathy)
https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/year-in-review-2025/
Trump Frees
MAGA Rep’s
Meth Dealer Son
in Pardon Spree
https://www.newsbreak.com/share/4447337915477-trump-frees-maga-rep-s-meth-dealer-son-in-pardon-spree
Bookmarked: International project RAP Repertorium Auctorum Polemicorum De pace et discordia inter Ecclesiam Graecam et Latinam https://pric.unive.it/projects/rap/home Website of the research project "International project RAP", Alessandra Bucossi, Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy)…
"Jesus and Kathia are not sure what to do now, or where they will sleep if their vehicle is towed. The options for family shelter are limited until her child is born, she said, and she does not want to leave her dog, who also lives in her RV, behind."
https://missionlocal.org/2025…
On Heated Insoles, Cool House, Warm Feet: Review - Learn how I got on with low-cost power-sipping heated insoles, warming my feet to cut my carbon footprint! - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-heated-insoles-REVIEW.html
Seahawks RB Zach Charbonnet has significant knee injury, out for remainder of playoffs https://www.nfl.com/news/seahawks-rb-zach-charbonnet-has-significant-knee-injury-out-for-remainder-of-playoffs
Cursor-developer Anysphere acquires code review startup Graphite and says Graphite will continue operating as an independent product (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/19/cursor-ai-coding-startup-graphite-competition-heats-up/
Seahawks lose RB Charbonnet for rest of playoffs https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47662016/seahawks-rb-zach-charbonnet-knee-rest-playoffs
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) plans to force a vote Wednesday censuring
Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.)
and removing him from several committees, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Democrats have repeatedly threatened such a move against the embattled Florida Republican,
but only as a retaliatory tactic to quash GOP censure measures. Mace wants to do it for real
Broncos-Bills ending reminded Sabres' Lindy Ruff of 1999 Stanley Cup 'no goal' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6981003/2026/01/18/bills-broncos-int-game-sabres-lindy-ruff/