IHSA expands state football playoffs by 128 teams, moves the start of the season one week earlier
https://chicago.suntimes.com/high-school-football/2025/12/16/ihsa-expanded-football-playoffs-illinois?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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IHSA expands state football playoffs by 128 teams, moves the start of the season one week earlier
The playoff expansion will likely allow all football teams with three or four wins in the nine game regular season to make the playoffs. Previously, all five-win and some four-win teams made the field.Michael O'Brien (Chicago Sun-Times)
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At least a dozen people have died in Gaza
as winter storms batter displaced Palestinians
forced to shelter in makeshift tents
among the rubble of collapsing buildings
severely damaged by Israeli bombing.
That rubble is being eyed by
U.S.-based contractors,
who are already vying for
lucrative contracts to rebuild Gaza
under the Trump-backed ceasefire deal.
“People are lining up and treating this the way they they treated reconstruction in Iraq,”
says Aram Roston, whose latest investigation for The Guardian US looks at
how the company behind the notorious Florida immigration detention jail nicknamed
“Alligator Alcatraz” has been involved in rebuilding plans spear-headed by Trump’s so-called
"Board of Peace"
democracynow.org/2025/12/16/fr…
From “Alligator Alcatraz” to Gaza: U.S. Companies Line Up for Lucrative Gaza Contracts Under Trump
At least a dozen people have died in Gaza as winter storms batter displaced Palestinians forced to shelter in makeshift tents among the rubble of collapsing buildings severely damaged by Israeli bombing. That rubble is being eyed by U.S.Democracy Now!
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I'm curious about this:
If there were more tools/resources/services available for small community servers, would you be more inclined to bring your friends/community onto the fediverse?
The classic social media problem of "everyone wants to socialize-very few want to run infrastructure"- that can lead us to the same centralization problem we see in mainstream platforms.
If there was for example a well documented open source self-hostable activitypub implementation specifically made for small communities , I think that would be great for the fediverse.
I'm working on a project I'm really excited to share soon, but I wanted to get some thoughts :D
Feel free to reply with your thoughts!
#buildthefediverse #buildmastodon #fediverse #mastodon #activitypub
- Yes, and I'll invite my friends! (100%, 1 vote)
- Yeah, my servers too big/centralized (0%, 0 votes)
- No, I like my server (0%, 0 votes)
- No, I don't want to think about the tech (0%, 0 votes)
@helge thanks for this, exactly the kind of realism and extra info I'm looking for. I took a quick look at that proposal, I'll take a deeper look into it (and others there) later today when I get a chance
So much to learn about activity pub 
We were having coding.social discussion on this subject in the Social experience design chatroom on Matrix (for the social side of the social web)..
matrix.to/#/#outreach-square:m…
And for the technical side there is also the Common social groundwork channel..
matrix.to/#/#groundwork-matter…
The social channel is noisy, with a lot of #SX philosophy discussion and concepts passing by, so I hope some of the topic above will find its way to our forum at discuss.coding.social 😅
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Healthcare must stop being the first budget casualty, experts tell EU leaders
Europe won’t stay competitive or crisis-ready if health remains the first budget cut.Siofra Gilmore (Euractiv)
The Brief – Mercosur whack-a-mole | Euractiv
It looks like the room for regulatory creativity has finally reached its limits. EU leaders will have to make a decision – it will be historic either wayEuractiv
The Brief – Mercosur whack-a-mole | Euractiv
It looks like the room for regulatory creativity has finally reached its limits. EU leaders will have to make a decision – it will be historic either wayEuractiv
Ukraine military aid holds at $45 billion this year, despite US drawdown
That is, 'if all the commitments of the remaining weeks are fulfilled' said Ukraine's foreign ministerAurélie Pugnet (Euractiv)
Ukraine military aid holds at $45 billion this year, despite US drawdown
That is, 'if all the commitments of the remaining weeks are fulfilled' said Ukraine's foreign ministerAurélie Pugnet (Euractiv)
Healthcare must stop being the first budget casualty, experts tell EU leaders
Europe won’t stay competitive or crisis-ready if health remains the first budget cut.Siofra Gilmore (Euractiv)
The first #PostgreSQL #Edinburgh meetup was a success! Did you miss @vyruss delivering RAGTime with Postgres?
His comprehensive slides on learning about AI power with pgvector and Retrieval-Augmented Generation can be found here:
vyruss.org/computing/slides/po…
cc @PostgresEDI
#postgres #ai #aiops #llmops #llm #aiengineering #programming #opensource #tech #dev #devcommunity
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in reply to Nowhere Girl • • •Guys like Chomsky and Balliard were correct that we live in simulation and hyperreality and most people's worlds are defined by whatever the billionaire class decides to put on TV.
But even the people who made this observation balked at radical authenticity in order to fix it.
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