Stephen Miller admits border agents who killed Alex Pretti 'may not have been' following 'protocol' (Samuel Chamberlain/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/01/28/us-news/stephen-miller-admits-border-agents-who-killed-alex-pretti-may-not-have-been-following-protocol/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p27#a260128p27
A day after part of a missile fired by the United States hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility,
the people of Jabo in northwestern Nigeria are in a state of shock and confusion.
Suleiman Kagara, a resident of this quiet and predominantly Muslim farming community in Tambuwal district of Sokoto state, told CNN he heard a loud blast and saw flames as a projectile flew overhead at around 10 p.m. on Thursday.
Soon after, it came crashing down, expl…
Amazon plans to cut ~16,000 roles across the company as part of an ongoing effort to reduce organizational layers and bureaucracy, after cuts in October 2025 (Beth Galetti/About Amazon)
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-layoffs-corporate-jan…
twitter_15m: Twitter 15-M movement (2011)
A network representing follower-following relations among Twitter users associated with the 15-M Movement or Anti-austerity movement in Spain, in the period April-May 2011. Metadata include hashtags in the tweets.
This network has 87569 nodes and 6030459 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata
Sean McVay 'pretty numb' following Rams' NFC title game loss to Seahawks: 'We had our chances' https://www.nfl.com/news/sean-mcvay-pretty-numb-following-rams-nfc-title-game-loss-to-seahawks-we-had-our-chances
TIL: the #39c3 DECT network also covers at least part of the Radisson hotel. I was just woken up by a call from someone to my DECT.
Have to switch it off next night.
Well, not much harm done, my alarm would have woken me up soon anyway for my Angel shift at 04:00 in the Cloakroom Lost and Found.
📣📣📣 LLM-powered coding mass-produces technical debt. 📣📣📣
The expectations around them are sky-high, but many organizations are falling behind because of them. 📉
WHY IT MATTERS? CTOs lament slowdowns and production issues traced to company-wide rollouts of LLM-powered coding assistants. The AI promise clashes with the reality of technical debt and security issues. 🐛
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Spotify expands its AI-powered Prompted Playlists beta to Premium subscribers in the US and Canada, following initial testing in New Zealand (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/spotify-brings-ai-powered-prompted-pla…
The Trump administration appeared to acknowledge on Monday that its investigation into
the killing of a Veterans Affairs nurse, Alex Pretti, by federal agents this weekend
was limited to a “use of force” review meant to establish whether government employees had violated training standards.
Such a move, disclosed in court filings, would represent a much narrower inquiry
-- focused on tactics and conduct
-- than one that would examine whether federal agents shoul…