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U.S. scales back troops on NATO’s eastern flank
The United States has informed its NATO allies that it will scale back its troop presence along Europe’s eastern border with Ukraine as it focuses on security priorities elsewhere in the world, Romania’s defense ministry said on Wednesday.
The U.S. Army later confirmed the move but denied it was a sign of lessened commitment to NATO.
Depending on operations and exercises, around 80,000-100,000 U.S. troops are usually present…

Boston's GBH launches a $225M fundraising campaign to sustain its operations over the next three years following the end of federal funding for public media (Dan Kennedy/Media Nation)
https://dankennedy.net/2025/10/01/gbh-anno…

GBH announces $225 million fundraising initiative to offset government cuts
Today marks the end of government funding for public media, and Boston’s GBH is announcing a major fundraising initiative to fill the gap. Susan Goldberg, the operation’s president and …

What @… said:
Providing employment after deployment = supporting troops
Providing housing = supporting troops
Destigmatizing mental health care = supporting troops
Preventing armed conflict = supporting troops
You know what’s NOT supporting troops? Starting wars as political cover for a failing president. Deploying National Guard just to terrorize people and provoke a backlash. Issuing illegal orders. •That• is not supporting troops.
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I just finished Guild Wars: Prophecies. It took me 19.5 years.
I created my first character way back when the game was new, but I never finished the campaign. The upcoming Reforged update got me interested again. Together with a friend and 3 very friendly strangers we played through the remaining 3 missions.
From boss tactics to tounge-in-cheek comments about the dated cutscenes It was just the perfect MMO game night for me.

Orban says Ukraine 'is not a sovereign country' following alleged Hungarian drone incursion: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/29/orban-says-ukraine-is-not.html

Primer to get you started with Optimization and Mathematical Programming in R #rstats

CRAN Task View: Optimization and Mathematical Programming
This CRAN Task View contains a list of packages that offer facilities for solving optimization problems. Although every regression model in statistics solves an optimization problem, they are not part of this view. If you are looking for regression methods, the following views will also contain useful starting points: MachineLearning, Econometrics, Robust Packages are categorized according to the following sections. See also the “Related Links” and “Other Resources” sections at the end.

messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata

❝ Move slow and feel things ❞
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Filing: Fox News seeks to dismiss Newsmax's antitrust lawsuit filed in Wisconsin, after a Florida judge dismissed an earlier version of the case in September (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/11/fox-moves-to-dismiss-second-newsmax-anti…

Fox News moves to dismiss second Newsmax antitrust lawsuit
Attorneys for Fox News Media are seeking to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit filed by cable rival Newsmax in Wisconsin federal court, the second such case involving the two right-of-center news outlets.

Romania to develop joint drone production with Ukraine to protect NATO's eastern flank, Romanian FM says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/01/romania-to-develop-joint-drone.html