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Trump refugee plan seeks 7,000 Afrikaners — and virtually no one else
If the administration succeeds, almost all people admitted to the U.S. as refugees — as many as 7,000 from a maximum potential pool of 7,500 — could be Afrikaners,
a group not traditionally eligible for the program but one that Donald Trump says has been tyrannized by South Africa’s Black majority.
The remainder may be chosen because of their ability to speak English or their views on “free speech,” peo…

Trump refugee plan seeks 7,000 Afrikaners — and virtually no one else
The Trump administration’s rush to process thousands of White South Africans as refugees coincides with plans for overall admissions set as low as 7,500.

Tubi joins Roku in striking partnerships with top creators like MrBeast and Jomboy Media to repackage their content on FAST channels (Caitlin Huston/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/tubi-roku-youtube-1236405292/

Top Creators’ Shows Find Second Life Off YouTube
Tubi and Roku are increasingly picking up creators' already shot videos to repackage them on FAST channels.

Vaccine-supporting Cassidy declines to speak against RFK Jr. (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/23/bill-cassidy-refuses-to-speak-against-rfk-jr-00666410
http://www.memeorandum.com/251123/p45#a251123p45

Interesting "shoe on the other foot" angle:
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25487128.minister-refuses-say-holyrood-loss-means-keir-starmer-go/

RoboSeek: You Need to Interact with Your Objects
Yibo Peng, Jiahao Yang, Shenhao Yan, Ziyu Huang, Shuang Li, Shuguang Cui, Yiming Zhao, Yatong Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17783

RoboSeek: You Need to Interact with Your Objects
Optimizing and refining action execution through exploration and interaction is a promising way for robotic manipulation. However, practical approaches to interaction driven robotic learning are still underexplored, particularly for long-horizon tasks where sequential decision-making, physical constraints, and perceptual uncertainties pose significant chal lenges. Motivated by embodied cognition theory, we propose RoboSeek, a framework for embodied action execution that leverages in…

Last night Marienplatz, Munich #ChristmasMarket

#DavidHasselhoff #RebeccaCarlton
Season 5 Episode 10 "I Spike"
#RandomBaywatch

"Unauthorized Bread": a novel by Cory Doctorow [long read] (2020)
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-near-future-tale-of-refugees-and-sinister-iot-appliances/?utm_sour…

Under Siege By DHS Nazis, Charlotte Refuses To Hush, Hush. Sweet!
https://www.wonkette.com/p/under-siege-by-dhs-nazis-charlotte

His attack on Somali refugees is horrible and racist, but I have to admit, with years in my eyes sir, that nobody knows more about money laundering than Donald Trump.