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UCLA baseball signs pitcher Fabio Bundi from Zurich, Switzerland
https://www.latimes.com/sports/ucla/story/2025-11-12/ucla-baseball-pitcher-fabio-bundi-switzerland?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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UCLA baseball signs pitcher Fabio Bundi from Zurich, Switzerland

UCLA signs pitcher Fabio Bundi, who attended Monterey Peninsula College and hails from Switzerland.
Eric Sondheimer (Los Angeles Times)
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Trump Administration to Drastically Cut Housing Grants (Jason DeParle/New York Times)

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Trump Administration to Drastically Cut Housing Grants

By Jason DeParle / New York Times. View the full context on memeorandum.
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Japanese technology giant SoftBank said Tuesday it has
sold its stake in Nvidia,
raising $5.8 billion
to pour into other investments.

It also reported its profit nearly tripled in the first half of this fiscal year from a year earlier.

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Attorney General Bonta Submits Comment Letter Strongly Urging the Trump Administration to Withdraw Its Illegal Proposal to Rescind the Public Lands Ru... oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases…

Attorney General Bonta Submits Comment Letter Strongly Urging the Trump Administration to Withdraw Its Illegal Proposal to Rescind the Public Lands Rule

OAKLAND – Co-leading a multistate coalition of six attorneys general, California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a comment letter opposing the U.S.
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"With my signature, the federal government will now resume normal operations and my administration, and our partners in Congress, will continue our work to lower the cost of living, restore public safety... and make America affordable again for all Americans," Trump has said.

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Tread harder daddy byteseu.com/1535638/ #PoliticalHumor #PoliticalHumor #Politics #USPolitics
Tread harder daddy

Tread harder daddy

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Rainfall warning issued for Metro Vancouver's North Shore, Howe Sound
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/metro-vancouver-rainfall-warning-howe-sound-9.6977083?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Trump signs bill to reopen the government after the
43-day Republican shutdown.

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Trump signs funding bill into law, ending record-long government shutdown

Congress this week passed legislation that will keep the government open through Jan. 30, with some programs like SNAP food benefits funded through September.
Sahil Kapur (NBC News)

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End of federal shutdown includes nationwide ban on hemp products that get people high
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/federal-shutdown-end-hemp-ban/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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I've been trying to express exactly this discomfort with modern interface design and especially LLM design and this lady nailed it back in *1993*

("A Small Matter of Programming", Bonnie A. Nardi)

What interests me about these scenarios is not that they make fantastic, unrealistic promises, or that the instructions given by the user are couched in simple English, or that they embody such a grand vision. Rather, it is interesting that it is the programmer who is to control all of the computational magic. As Tesler says, programmers will endow computer-agents with their basic capabilities, even meeting such exciting challenges as pro gramming the computer to know what users will think before they think it! By comparison, notice the relationship of the end user to the computer; the end user is engaged in the most humdrum activities: making queries regarding a phone conversation, asking the computer to set up an appointment, requesting articles from the library. Now contrast this vision of the computer-agent with what Alan Kay envisions for educational software: children writing simulations of complex natural phenomena such as bi ological and physical systems to better understand how they function. Kay's colleagues have created a simulation construction kit for children so that they can build their own simulations. The construction kit lets children write simple scripts that model animal behavior. Using the kit they can change parameters to see how changing conditions affect the animal. This use of computers is an instance of what Tesler called the "personal implement": the children are doing nothing more or less than programming.

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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)
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This neatly encompasses my frustration with the Free Software movement: vast amounts of effort on licenses that allow programmers to exercise a set of rights, zero effort in creating a system where everybody is able to exercise those rights, and therefore learns why they are valuable and demands them. And then three decades wondering why ‘you can learn C and spend weeks studying this program and then make a small improvement, then all you have to do is maintain a fork forever or argue with upstream and make them accept it’ is somehow not capturing hearts and minds.

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The Trump administration wants to rescind a 2009 finding that climate change endangers public health.

Physicians and epidemiologists argue the move ignores mounting evidence linking climate change to heat deaths, epidemics, air pollution and mental health crises.
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Want to make America healthy again? Stop fueling climate change

From extreme heat to mosquito-borne illnesses, climate change is making people sicker and more vulnerable to disease. Health scientists explain what individuals and governments can do about it.
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“The BULAVA unit destroyed a Russian Molniya Strike UAV. The pilot with the callsign “Boiler” used to be a plumber — now he’s a bomber taking out enemy equipment.” – Wild Hornets Company 12.11.2025 byteseu.com/1535631/ #Ukraine #UkraineWarVideoReport #UkraineWarVideos #UkraineWarVideoReport
"The BULAVA unit destroyed a Russian Molniya Strike UAV. The pilot with the callsign “Boiler” used to be a plumber — now he’s a bomber taking out enemy equipment." - Wild Hornets Company 12.11.2025

“The BULAVA unit destroyed a Russian Molniya Strike UAV. The pilot with the callsign “Boiler” used to be a plumber — now he’s a bomber taking out enemy equipment.” – Wild Hornets Company 12.11.2025

BULAVA unit, 3rd MBtl of the Presidential Brigade. Velyka Novosilka direction.
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Sri Lankan freshwater fishers keen to turn invasive species threat into an opportunity
https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/sri-lanka-invasive-fresh-water-fishing-snakehead-ec53bc5cefdfb2ce0234949d8c6236e8?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Wow, I thought the clouds and rain would once again obstruct my view of the aurora but this is amaaaaazing. :rolleyes: :h2g2:
Just a photo taken at night showing a gray sky and clouds above some trees. Might have edited a TAD using Snapseed app so that the sky has many different blogs and streaks of bright light.

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An update on today’s ER visit for those worried.

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No. 18 Notre Dame's Hannah Hidalgo gets NCAA record 16 steals in Irish's 85-58 win over Akron
https://chicago.suntimes.com/college-sports/2025/11/12/no-18-notre-dames-hannah-hidalgo-gets-ncaa-record-16-steals-in-irishs-85-58-win-over-akron?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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No. 18 Notre Dame's Hannah Hidalgo gets NCAA record 16 steals in Irish's 85-58 win over Akron

Notre Dame had 30 steals among Akron's 38 turnovers, resulting in 41 points. Notre Dame's 20 turnovers led to 13 points for Akron.
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Boebert says she's voting for Epstein bill (Ryan Mancini/The Hill)

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Boebert says she's voting for Epstein bill

By Ryan Mancini / The Hill. View the full context on memeorandum.
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Bulls humiliated and humbled in Detroit by undermanned Pistons
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Bulls humiliated and humbled in Detroit by undermanned Pistons

Missing four key starters on Wednesday, all the Pistons did was hand the Bulls a fourth straight loss. More than that it was the biggest embarrassment of the young season.
Joe Cowley (Chicago Sun-Times)
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2 Nobel Prize Laureates express concern over decline in number of science papers by Japanese researchers

November 13, 2025 KYOTO – Shimon Sakaguchi and Susumu Kitagawa, the two Japanese scientists awarded the Nobel Prize this year, expressed concern over t…
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