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Shopify joined Substack in October, the latest and the biggest company to do so and a sign that brands take Substack seriously as a marketing channel (Allison Smith/Modern Retail)
https://www.modernretail.co/marketing/shopify-jus…

Shopify just became the biggest company to launch a Substack newsletter
Shopify has launched a Substack newsletter called "In Stock," becoming the largest company on the platform.

“The real question, then, is not ‘what can we do?’, but ‘what are we afraid to do?’ Whose comfort are we protecting when we ask safe questions? Whose illusions do we preserve through politeness? Solidarity is not an optic; it is a disruption. It is noisy, uncomfortable, often isolating. It pulls reputation apart rather than polishing it.
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We are too fluent in the language of outrage, too comfortable in the posture of virtue. History will not absolve spectatorship, even when specta…

When solidarity becomes spectacle
Francesca Albanese’s visit to South Africa exposed a truth we prefer not to face: that our moral witness has hardened into ritual. We watch, we clap, we call it solidarity.

Nike quietly sold its digital products subsidiary RTFKT on December 16 for an undisclosed sum, roughly one year after Nike shuttered the NFT unit (Matthew Kish/Oregonian)
https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2026/01/n…

Nike sells RTFKT: Digital products subsidiary quietly offloaded in December
The sale comes as CEO Elliott Hill refocuses Nike on sports and questions persist about Converse’s future after a 30% sales drop.

More than 520 chemicals found in English soil, including long-banned medical substances https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/03/chemicals-found-english-soil-toxins-medical-substances-farming

"chatbots over-rely on this kind of sensory-immaterial conjunction because[IT] impresses people passing superficially over a text--exactly the kind of fake-deep crowd-pleaser for which L.L.M. output is being fine-tuned."
(Original title: Will A.I. writing ever be good?)
https://maxread.substa…

Will A.I. writing ever be good?
Some notes on A.I. writing

RamPINN: Recovering Raman Spectra From Coherent Anti-Stokes Spectra Using Embedded Physics
Sai Karthikeya Vemuri, Adithya Ashok Chalain Valapil, Tim B\"uchner, Joachim Denzler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06020

RamPINN: Recovering Raman Spectra From Coherent Anti-Stokes Spectra Using Embedded Physics
Transferring the recent advancements in deep learning into scientific disciplines is hindered by the lack of the required large-scale datasets for training. We argue that in these knowledge-rich domains, the established body of scientific theory provides reliable inductive biases in the form of governing physical laws. We address the ill-posed inverse problem of recovering Raman spectra from noisy Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS) measurements, as the true Raman signal here is suppre…

Obamacare subsidies extension clears procedural hurdle in the House
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/07/aca-subsidies-extension-congress.html

Neu entdeckter Asteroid rotiert in Rekordgeschwindigkeit
Das Vera C. Rubin Observatory hat bereits spektakuläre Bilder geliefert. Darauf haben Forscher einen Asteroiden gefunden, der schwindelerregend schnell rotiert.

from my link log —
The late arrival of 16-bit CP/M.
https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/the-late-arrival-of-16-bit-cpm
saved 2026-01-04

The Late Arrival of 16-bit CP/M
How CP/M 2.2’s Success Delayed the 8086 Port — and Whether It Really Mattered

A profile of Replit co-founder Amjad Masad, who was shunned in investor circles for his criticism of Israel's war in Gaza before Replit's AI agent took off (Margaux MacColl/The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2026/01/07/called-t…

He was called a ‘terrorist sympathizer.’ Now his AI company is valued at $3B
“I must apologize to — absolutely nobody”: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley.