From Translink
Westham Island Bridge Repair Update
January 22, 2026
Delta, BC – Earlier this week, a marine vessel hit the Westham Island Bridge, causing damage that required the bridge to be closed to vehicle traffic. TransLink owns and maintains the bridge, and crews moved quickly to assess the damage and pursue the fastest possible repair.
TransLink has now received an updated assessment from our structural engineer following today’s inspection work.
In a groundhog day loop of explaining why this hierarchical model cannot effectively be represented in the unified flat format they're trying to push. You can absolutely represent it in a flattened way, but it requires breaking out the child components into their own collection.
We end, once again, with the telling pause of disinterest and multitasking, followed by a distracted "mmm hmm" and promises to circle back on it later.
Elon Musk and Sam Altman clashed on X after Musk shared a post about a man who committed a murder-suicide following delusional conversations with ChatGPT (Theo Wayt/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/musk-altman-tussle-reports-…
"#Gamification in #Libraries: A Bibliometric Study"
https://doi.org/10.18785/slis.1301.12
The Navy’s largest aircraft carrier’s toilets keep failing
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-carrier-ford-toilets-clogged/
Rosie McGee,
handcuffed to Bob Weir, front,
with other members of the 710 Ashbury collective being led out of the house after being arrested by police following a drug raid on the famous Grateful Dead house in Haight Ashbury on OCTOBER 2, 1967.
"By the time a paddy wagon arrived to take us down to the Hall of Justice, a crowd had gathered across the street.
Bob Weir and I were handcuffed together and as we came down the stairs, the crowd cheered.
A broad…
Oh happy task. #acadamicchatter
This week: Scatec locked in a 25-year deal for Africa's largest solar-plus-storage project in Egypt. Vattenfall greenlighted Germany's largest 1.6 GW offshore wind cluster. Brooklyn is building a 9.46 MWh battery-backed EV charging depot.
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A district court judge denies Texas AG Ken Paxton's request for a restraining order preventing Samsung from collecting data on TV watchers (Ryan Autullo/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-telecom-law/sa…
Thirty-six horses were killed in a barn fire in North Carolina on Sunday afternoon.
The blaze broke out around 12:45 p.m. at the Callicutt Stables on Highway 220 Alternate in Randolph County, multiple fire departments said.
By the time firefighters got to the stable, the 15,000-square-foot barn was already engulfed in flames.
Several fire departments were called in to battle the blaze.
Crews were at the stable for five hours on Sunday.
Despite firefighters’ effor…