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Empire crumbling? Putin's allies "falling," West unites around Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/08/empire-crumbling-putins-allies-quotfallingquot.html

Facts vs. Feelings: Patience is a virtue. Until it isn't. https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/46524778/fantasy-football-start-sit-add-drop-week-6

Chargers QB Justin Herbert returns to practice Thursday following surgery on non-throwing hand https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/chargers-qb-justin-herbert-returns-to-practice-thursday-following-surgery-on-no…

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.

Aaron Rodgers has 'full confidence' Steelers will recover to win AFC North following loss to Browns https://www.nfl.com/news/aaron-rodgers-has-full-confidence-steelers-will-recover-to-win-afc-north-following-loss-to…

Watching empires fall
Following figures in flames
It's fireplace TV.
#dailyhaikuprompt - fireplace
#haiku
#poem

Rund 15 % der britischen Bevölkerung waren laut einer Umfrage bereits von der #Flut eingeschlossen – oft wegen Fehleinschätzungen.
Viele wissen nicht, dass sich #Gezeiten täglich verschieben und sich örtlich stark unterscheiden. Gerade auf

Misunderstanding the tide is putting millions at risk on UK coasts – here’s what you need to know
Four in ten people surveyed were unaware that tides come in twice daily, that they vary in timing each day, and that they differ in height across the country.

Re: discourse about #FediSoWhite
I'm a white man. Was on Twitter throughout #BLM and gained an awful lot of free education from Black folks on there. That was the start of me consciously following diverse folks which is a strategy that's improved my life immensely.
Back on Twitter before the Muskening, there was a lot of diversity. Black Twitter was a thing, and not just first-world (anyone else remember "O jewa ke eng?"). When I went looking for people to follow to diversify my feed, I found them in abundance.
That's why it's so clearly false to me when people claim that the fediverse is secretly diverse, and why anyone making that claim sounds suspect to me. Sure there are a ton of great Black and other POC folks you can find on here, if you look hard. But it's nowhere near the levels of diversity and community that were on Twitter. Which you would know had you been following those people before, so now I have to assume you weren't, and wonder why you feel qualified to make statements about diversity even though you haven't made an effort to engage with diverse voices before?
Also, if you were actually following some of the excellent POC voices on here, you'd know that across different servers and interest groups, almost every group has had a discussion of #FediSoWhite at some point. If all the Black people you follow are independently talking about the lack of community and diversity here, you've either got to believe them or start putting on your clown makeup, and the later is absolutely a choice.

When you're trying to get #Google to help them fix a problem they have in relaying an email to a list (they are forwarding as if it they are originating your non-GMail email, thus incurring an SPF failure) their helpful support team to the rescue (see image attached).
FYI... the second thing they want is a screen cap of the client SMTP config.
Very temped to send a screenshot wit…

Optimistic DaRon Bland injury update provided by Cowboys' Brian Schottenheimer https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/optimistic-daron-bland-injury-update-provided-dallas-cowboys-brian-schottenheimer