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https://varnelis.net/on-robert-a-m-stern-1939-2025/

On Robert A. M. Stern (1939-2025) - varnelis.net
I was saddened to hear that Robert A. M. Stern passed away on Thanksgiving. I had the privilege of working with Bob on The Philip Johnson Tapes. Those aren’t idle words: it truly was a privilege.Robert Stern and myself, with martinis. I first met Bob at the Philip Johnson symposium at Yale. I was rather ... Rea…

plant_pol_robertson: Robertson plant-pollinator web
A bipartite network of plants and pollinators, from southwestern Illinois, USA.
This network has 1884 nodes and 15265 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/plant_pol_robertson

French Judge Investigating Robert Spatz (81) Requests Spain’s Judicial Assistance
https://openbuddhism.org/justice/2025/french-judge-investigating-robert-spatz-81-requests-spains-judicial-assistance/

French Judge Investigating Robert Spatz (81) Requests Spain’s Judicial Assistance
Elodie Emery reports in ‘Le Monde’ that French judge has requested judicial assistance from the Spanish authorities in relation to an ongoing investigation into allegations of physical and sexual…

Your regular reminder that marginal income & capital gains tax rates are too low
-- and this poses an existential threat to 🇺🇸 democracy
https://bsky.app/profile/robertscotthorton.bsky.social/post/3lzu3j77n622p

Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social)
Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.' https://fortune.com/2024/09/17/oracle-larry-ellison-surveillance-state-police-ai/

from my link log —
Independently verifying Golang's reproducible builds.
https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/verifying_go_reproducible_builds
saved 2025-10-30

How The Minnesota Star Tribune bolstered its shoe-leather reporting by using ChatGPT to analyze handwritten Faux Cyrillic journal entries of a mass shooter (Tom Scheck/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2025/minnesota-star-tribun…

How the Minnesota Star Tribune used AI to bolster its shoe-leather reporting to background a mass shooter - Poynter
A team of journalists relentlessly tracked the shooter’s digital and paper trail. But AI provided deeper insight into her thoughts before the shooting.

More than a dozen states including New York, California and Delaware prohibit the reporting of #medicaldebt on a consumers’ #credit report.
The #Drumpf administration is coming for

Trump administration moves to overrule state laws protecting credit reports from medical debt
The Trump administration is moving to overrule state laws that protect consumers’ credit reports from medical debt. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has drafted an interpretative rule related to the Fair Credit Reporting Act. This rule suggests that the FCRA should preempt state laws on debt reporting to credit bureaus like Experian, Equifax, and Trans Union. This repeals Biden-era regulations allowing states to implement their own credit reporting bans. More than a dozen states, incl…

We need to stop the endless reporting of whatever claims cybercriminal threat actors make on their leak sites because, in many (most?) cases, they are untrue, and yet so many outlets report them anyway.
In this case, HSBC denies the breach, and yet that doesn't stop folks from writing "news" reports about it. These outlets are taking the frequently false word of cybercriminals at face value and clogging up my news feeds.

Ukraine reportedly strikes oil refinery, chemical plant in western Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/ukraine-reportedly-strikes-oil-refinery.html

A profile of Shirish Dšte, a White House reporter for HuffPost, whose treatment by top Trump officials stands out, with regular insulting and disparaging texts (Erik Wemple/New York Times)
https://www.

When This Reporter Comes Calling, the White House Insults Go Flying
The administration often criticizes journalists, but the treatment of Shirish Dáte, a reporter for HuffPost, stands out.