Taliban causing ‘irreversible damage’ to whole education system in Afghanistan [The Guardian]

America's Most Exciting High Speed Rail Project Gets $3 Billion Grant From Feds [slashdot.org]

UN Security Council to discuss Gaza ceasefire after Guterres invokes rare rule [AXIOS]

Google unveils Gemini, an AI model with Ultra, Pro, and Nano tiers, and plans a paid chatbot version in 2024; Google says Gemini Ultra beats GPT-4 on most tests [TechMeme]

Everything you need to know about Gemini, Google’s new generative AI model [Quartz]

Qubit by qubit, the quantum computers of tomorrow are coming into being [Vox]

7 most in-demand programming languages for 2024 [TheNextWeb]

The Perfect Gift Is a Cookbook — Plus a Few Key Extras [Eater]

What Google's Gemini A.I. Can Do for BusinessesHere's how the new A.I. model from Google compares to ChatGPT. [Inc.]

Google takes its best shot against OpenAI with new Gemini AI models [Fast Company]

Why Writers Absolutely, Positively, Unquestionably Need an iPad [Medium]

Amazon Is Offering Students $25 Flights Home for the Holidays [Entrepreneur]

Google Just Launched Gemini, Its Long-Awaited Answer to ChatGPT [WIRED]

MacBreak Weekly 898 [TWIT]

Introducing Gemini: our largest and most capable AI model [Google Blog]

Google at EMNLP 2023 [Google Research]

Beowulf (translated by Francis B. Gummere) [Poetry Foundation]

‘Shocked and delighted’: Astronomers find six planets orbiting in resonance [Astronomy Magazine]

Data Lab Dialogues Podcast ep. #28—Application Lifecycle Management with Ingo Pfeiffer [SAP] #SAP

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 1031 & BENKYO RADIO 1031. As you know, Alex Keller’s codename in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 1 is 3-1. He is also in COD MW II & COD MW III. Here is some wiki/fandom info on him. Here is video 2 in the Night City Archives, discussing the grim future of the world of Cyberpunk 2077 and its DLC, Phantom Liberty.

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