Cowboys' playoff odds continue to increase following Week 13 victory https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/cowboys-playoff-odds-continue-to-increase-following-week-13-victory
'Russia is targeting civilians' — Casualties, outages reported following Russian drone strikes on residential buildings in Odesa: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/31/russia-is-targeting-civilians-casualties.html
Broncos' AFC title game odds tumble with Nix hurt https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47660476/broncos-afc-title-game-odds-tumble-following-bo-nix-injury
For aficionados of classic cinema, '2001: A Space Odyssey' endures as a paragon of filmmaking brilliance. Its seamless integration of music and narrative is virtually unparalleled. 🎬✨ Which film do you find yourself returning to repeatedly? #MovieBuff #ClassicFilms #CinematicGenius
This was written by an old friend and I found it pretty packed with good info. It’s also an example of using NotebookLM for research and content development. I found this inspiring enough to give it a try. I’ve found that it is a “Centaur" enabling tech that helps one to create on their own the overall content and leaving details to the NotebookLM tooling.
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SLOs Can’t Catch a Black Swan: A Classification Framework for Thinking About Incidents -Geoff White
"Your SLOs can be green, and your systems can still be falling over. That doesn’t mean SLOs are broken. It means they were never designed to describe every class of risk we encounter in complex systems.
I’ve released version 1.0 of SLOs Can’t Catch a Black Swan as an open, living framework hosted on GitHub.
This is not a book you read once, and it’s not something you consult in the middle of an outage. It’s a way to think more clearly about incidents—across the incident lifecycle.”
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/slos-cant-catch-black-swan-classification-framework-thinking-white-ybc0c/?trackingId=ShCzMMVCQTChcTi8xT19tg==
from my link log —
Mailchimp's Mandrill outage due to PostgreSQL XID wraparound.
https://mailchimp.com/what-we-learned-from-the-recent-mandrill-outage/
saved 2019-04-01
More than 20,000 still without power after massive San Francisco blackout
Roughly 110,000 PG&E customers have service again following a major power outage Saturday in San Francisco
that left homes in the dark,
stalled traffic
and shut down restaurants, shops and holiday lighting displays.
PG&E said on social media that the remaining 21,000 without power on Sunday morning are concentrated in
Golden Gate Park,
the Presidio,
the Richmond…
MEETING WITH TRUMP IN JUST DAYS! Russia in rage strikes Odesa and Mykolaiv: ports in flames!: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/26/meeting-with-trump-in-just.html
Who can stop the Rams? Updated Super Bowl 2026 odds as the NFL playoff race starts to heat up
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/super-bowl-2026-odds-nfl-playoff-picture/
Tracking the NFL playoff picture: Updated chances to clinch open spots, win division titles https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/47248728/2025-nfl-playoff-live-odds-updated-chances-clinch-bracket-projecti…