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SoundCloud evolves into a more social platform with the introduction of new community-oriented features, including playlists based on friends' likes (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/09/soundclou…

SoundCloud gets more social by adding a way to see the songs your friends like | TechCrunch
SoundCloud is evolving into a more social platform with new features like playlists based on the likes of friends or favorite artists you follow.

Trump’s administration simply will not stop setting up snitch lines,
urging federal staff to rat on each other for the crime of being anti-Trump
or in favor of the virtues of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
https://www.rollingstone.com/pol…

Trump’s Government Is a Den of Snitches, ‘Freaks,’ and Paranoid Tyrants
The Department of Health and Human Services is the latest agency to ask government employees to snitch about diversity practices.

🚂 Scientists build an 'evolution engine' to rapidly reprogram proteins
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-scientists-evolution-rapidly-reprogram-proteins.html

Scientists build an 'evolution engine' to rapidly reprogram proteins
In medicine and biotechnology, the ability to evolve proteins with new or improved functions is crucial, but current methods are often slow and laborious. Now, Scripps Research scientists have developed a synthetic biology platform that accelerates evolution itself—enabling researchers to evolve proteins with useful, new properties thousands of times faster than nature.

SoundCloud evolves into a more social platform with the introduction of new community-oriented features, including playlists based on friends' likes (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/09/soundclou…

SoundCloud gets more social by adding a way to see the songs your friends like | TechCrunch
SoundCloud is evolving into a more social platform with new features like playlists based on the likes of friends or favorite artists you follow.

Serbia sends humanitarian aid to Russia's Kursk Oblast worth around $6 million, Moscow claims: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/09/serbia-sends-humanitarian-aid-to.html

Scientists thought this Argentine glacier was stable. Now they say it's melting fast #Argentina

Scientists thought this Argentine glacier was stable. Now they say it's melting fast
An iconic Argentinian glacier, long thought one of the few on Earth to be relatively stable, is now undergoing its "most substantial retreat in the past century," according to new research.

Saints' Tyler Shough makes most of opportunity in preseason debut amid QB battle https://www.nfl.com/news/saints-tyler-shough-makes-most-of-opportunity-in-preseason-debut-amid-qb-battle

"Scientists develop new floating box array for offshore PV"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Scientists develop new floating box array for offshore PV
Researchers have tested a 9 x 11 floating box array for offshore photovoltaics in a large wave flume, under regular and irregular wave sequences. They have placed wireless gyroscopes on three of the boxes, representing the front, middle, and rear positions.

There are frameworks like {golem} and {rhino} to make shiny development more robust, but I like the concept of {shinytest2} in providing a testing framework for pure shiny. https://rstudio.github.io/shinytest2/index.html