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OTTL context inference comes to the #Filter Processor
https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/ottl-context-inference-come-to-filterprocessor/

Texas suppresses voting further despite some of the lowest turnout numbers in US in every election.
Change in Primary Voting Rules Leads to Confusion in 2 Texas Counties as Voters Are Turned Away https://ground.news/article/change-in-primary-voting-rules-leads-to-confusion-in-2-texas-counties-as-voters-are-turned-away

"Climate change is slowing southern right whale birth rate, 33-year study finds"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Whales #Animals

Climate change is slowing southern right whale birth rate, 33-year study finds
Southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) off Australia’s southern coast are having calves less often than they used to. A new study links this slowdown to warming water and shrinking sea ice in the Southern Ocean. The study, conducted by researchers at Australian, South African and U.S. institutions and published this month in Scientific Reports, tracked […]

These chunky toggle switches are nice - they can have upto 4 sets of contacts, each of which seem to have a bunch of poles each. These are momentary but there are some latching. Given the 'under license from Ericsson' label I assume they came off some comms kit originally. Now, I've just got to figure out how to mount them to something other than a panel.
#electronics

Week 18 NFL top storylines: Conference seeding, final playoff spots, Black Monday and more https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6934211/2026/01/04/week-18-nfl-storylines-playoffs-black-monday/

Week 18 NFL top storylines: Conference seeding, final playoff spots, Black Monday and more https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6934211/2026/01/04/week-18-nfl-storylines-playoffs-black-monday/

"People are trying BPC-157 and TB-500 for healing injuries by stimulating new blood vessel growth, oxytocin for improving eye contact (one OpenAI researcher called it “Ozempic for autism”), epitalon for sleep and retatrutide — a next-generation weight-loss drug still in clinical trials — for everything from appetite suppression to increased focus."

‘Chinese Peptides’ Are the Latest Biohacking Trend in the Tech World
The gray-market drugs flooding Silicon Valley reveal a community that believes it can move faster than the F.D.A.

Russia says a crypto regulatory framework will come into force July 1, 2027; it will ban privacy coins like monero and cap retail investor purchases at ~$4K (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/01/29

Russia plans to cap retail crypto buys at $4,000 as it brings digital assets into the legal fold
Qualified investors in Russia will face mandatory testing but gain unrestricted access to top tokens like BTC and ETH. Privacy tokens will be banned.

Get comfortable cuz this is gonna take a while.
☑️ Daniel Dale Counts Down Donald Trump's 'Top 25 Lies of 2025'
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/cnns-daniel-dale-counts-down-donald-trumps-top-25-lies-of-2025/…

CNN’s Daniel Dale Counts Down Donald Trump’s ‘Top 25 Lies of 2025’
CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale recounted 25 of Donald Trump's "top lies of 2025," although the journalist confessed it was hard to choose "only 25."

The context is probably important too, and a bit more nuanced. The general actually wasn't playing as Iran but as a rebel faction that arose due to instability. You know, like how the US got ISIS after toppling Saddam? So like... not necessarily the Iranian regime but something much more challenging that comes after a major earthquake or, like... I don't know... the US kills the supreme leader and Iranian proxies create a decentralized network that threatens international trade.
Definitely unimaginable. Everything is definitely going to go well and exactly as simulated, definitely leading to a Blue force victory.
Yeah, I'm gonna get back to writing fiction and doing art, and ignoring this mess for the moment.