Malanka: Ukraine's winter ritual of masks, mischief, and good fortune: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/31/malanka-ukraines-winter-ritual-of.html
Meta has loaded $65 million into two super PACs
to help elect state candidates it views as supportive of the AI and tech industry in California.
The two efforts
— the American Technology Excellence Project
and Mobilizing Economic Transformation Across (Meta) California
— launched last fall, promising to sink tens of millions of dollars into countering what the company cast as a flood of overly burdensome AI bills from state governments.
When MHCLG uses emojis, it feels like "Hello fellow kids... who are also leaseholders somehow."
https://mhclgmedia.blog.gov.uk/2026/01/27/own-a-flat-or-looking-to-buy-heres-what-the-new-leasehold-shake-up-m…
@… Wie ein Fachjournal weibliche #Genitalverstümmelung verharmlost. Oder: #Pomockls beim Schwurbeln auf dem Rücken betroffener Frauen.
Pour résumer : la police belge dispose d’une importante stack logicielle propriétaire et vieillissante. Un projet de modernisation a été confié Š Sopra Steria, mais celui-ci n’a pas abouti, le système ne fonctionnant pas comme prévu. En revanche, une partie logicielle (Focus) développée en interne par une autre équipe a permis de limiter les dégâts et de maintenir certaines fonctionnalités opérationnelles.
#police
Brainwaves meet spatial computing: Cognixion Vision Pro #noninvasive
⚡️ "ENERGY RAMSTEIN": World allocates HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS to save Ukrainian power: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/24/quotenergy-ramsteinquot-world-allocates-hundreds.html
Senate Republican Ron Johnson (Wisconsin) has said that
the U.S. “can’t afford” to implement Donald Trump’s proposal
to send out $2,000 checks to supposedly offset costs of tariffs
— just days after the president wined and dined some of the richest people on the planet at an extravagant black tie dinner in the White House
SBU says drones hit Russian equipment worth hundreds of millions at Belbek airfield in occupied Crimea: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/18/sbu-says-drones-hit-russian.html
Four Republican lawmakers have signed onto
a Democratic-led discharge petition,
which aims to force a vote on a bill to restore tax credits for millions of Americans who receive health insurance through the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Thot credits are set to expire at the end of this year, unless legislation can be passed to extend them.
Ordinarily, the speaker of the House of Representatives can block legislation from being considered.
But a discharge petition,…