2026-02-10 03:37:32
Russian ArBat battalion commander 'Abrek' killed in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/10/russian-arbat-battalion-commander-abrek.html
Russian ArBat battalion commander 'Abrek' killed in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/10/russian-arbat-battalion-commander-abrek.html
Uber übernimmt Lieferdienst Getir in der Türkei
Abu Dhabi steigt beim Lieferdienst Getir aus und verkauft an den Beförderungsvermittler Uber. Dem gehört schon ein Konkurrent.
https://www.heis…
Sources: Apple made ~55M iPhones in India in 2025, up 53% YoY from 36M in 2024, ~25% of total iPhone production as it shifts away from China to avoid tariffs (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
»Risiko durch KI-Brillen — Die US Air Force verbietet Smart Glasses:
Die US Air Force reagiert auf moderne Wearables und verbietet Soldaten ab sofort das Tragen von Smart Glasses mit Kamera- oder KI-Funktionen. Modelle wie die Ray-Ban Meta stellen laut den neuen Regeln ein zu großes Sicherheitsrisiko dar.«
Ich sage mal so, dies spricht für sich weshalb der KI nicht blind zu vertrauen ist.
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Tuesday is a scam
RE: https://mastodon.social/@annaecook/116202289359508737
It’s sports betting but the horses can bet
2026 NFL free agency: Top 10 remaining free agents include 2024 sacks leader, former No. 1 overall pick, more
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/top-10-remaining-2026-nfl-free-agents-m…
Y no fue por la historia.
Solo Margot Robbie logra salvarla del desastre total. Yo la nomino desde ya a peor película y peor dirección en los Razzies 2027
1½★ 👉🏻 #Cinemastodon
A real “my shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt” sort of moment
#uspol
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/09/melania-trump-epstein-speech-puzzle
Dems weigh how hard to push in Virginia (Punchbowl News)
https://punchbowl.news/article/campaigns/dems-va-push/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p137#a260109p137
Accounting for the effects of year-to-year climate variation on population growth rate can substantially decrease the size of a species' expected geographic range— by an average of 22% in this simulation study with a new method for range modeling
https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.30.621023
The Department of Justice estimates that American police officers shoot 10,000 pet dogs in the line of duty each year.
It is impossible to ascertain a reliable number, however, because most law enforcement agencies do not maintain accurate records of animal killings.
The tally may be substantially higher, and some suggest it could reach six figures.
How did it get so late? I have achieved close to nothing today.
#wristCheck
Ok, this is pretty epic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_GFGA1amUU One person recreates the best 20ish minutes of music ever. The final Abby Road medley.... Crikey, impressive effort, Fathom.
I totally randomly found another Pocket Operator album after I got my stuff into Fairplayer and was checking out the site!
https://fairplayer.band/player/release/zero@music.ryanparsley.com
Some guy plays “Cavatina” on a piano for two elephants. They join in. Just what it says on the tin. https://youtu.be/_qsqNU4frAA?si=OKCUWHcQPeK12pwS
After so many years being a front-end dev, I got to say that huge bulk of the work is just upgrading dependencies. It never ends.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Iain Ballamy:
🎵 Harmonique
#IainBallamy
https://open.spotify.com/track/2qZuc4lwUZy9DIpxXc0frI
Isotopic evidence for volatile loss driven by South Pole-Aitken basin–forming impact: #Moon Is Asymmetrical: https://eos.org/articles/primordial-impact-may-explain-why-the-moon-is-asymmetrical - analysis of surface samples from the Chang’e-6 mission suggests that an asteroid may have vaporized parts of the lunar mantle, suppressing volcanic activity on the farside of the Moon.
San Jose State University showing how its done https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:m65ifh7vn5zdgs7izcmht4gy/post/3mgnxh7pka22s
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Trump admin blocked from freezing billions child care funds, judge rules
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/10/trump-child-care-fund-freeze-billions
"UNITED NATIONS, April 9 (IPS) - In 2025, at least 326 humanitarians were recorded as killed across 21 countries, bringing the total number of humanitarians killed in three years to over 1,010... Of those over 1,000 deaths, more than 560 were in #Gaza and the West Bank, 130 in Sudan, 60 in South Sudan, 25 in Ukraine and 25 in [the Democratic Republic of the Congo]."
TMS-evoked phosphenes and oculomotor responses in visual-snow syndrome #neuroscience
Memo: CNN CEO Mark Thompson names CNN's digital chief, Alex MacCallum, as COO, assuming responsibility for consumer strategy, performance tracking, and more (Oliver Darcy/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/cnn-alex-maccallum-mark-thompson-succession-plan
RE: https://mastodon.social/@rania40/116039370774117523
Folks, @…, like @…
Le trafic est ralenti de Brétigny vers Biblio. F.Mitterrand.
Rendez-vous sur la rubrique "Recherche Itinéraire", pour retrouver un itinéraire prenant en compte cette perturbation.
Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X du RER C.
Motif : incident sur un train de marchandises
🤖 10/02 05:20
And speaking of @… , send an email to their president robin.sparkman@propublica.org with text similar to the following:
Dear Robin Sparkman,
I am writing to you in solidarity with the ProPublica Guild. It is past time that you agree to a fair contract, complete with the protections these workers need to continue producing award-winning journalism…
Rußland ist wirtschaftlich auf Kante, die USA schotten sich ab, wenn Europa sich einig wäre und wollte, weltoffen, begeisternd, innovativ, könnte es da wirklich auch inhaltlich profitieren – und andere Länder mitnehmen, Beziehungen zu den Vereinigten Staaten von Afrika oder einzelnen afrikanischen, amerikanischen, asiatischen Staaten intensivieren.
Und selbstverständlich sollten wir – unabhängig vom wirtschaftlichen Nutzen – an guten Beziehungen (auf Augenhöhe, nicht paternalistisch) z…
My last morning in Hanoi. Heading to the airport this afternoon for the long drag home. #travel
Great new local arts event calendar from the editors of McSweeney's
https://www.sanfranciscoisdead.com/
The key growth opportunity in heavy-duty vehicle electrification lies in the integration (or symbiotic combination) of routing, financing, access, energy, contract, and fleet management.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaapburger_
We Grow
A podcast about community, planting trees, biodiversity and making a difference in your local area...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/we-grow/
Pope Leo sends 80 generators, thousands of medicines to Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/10/pope-leo-sends-generators-thousands.html
Deutsche Telekom erhöht DSL-Tarife für Bestandsverträge von vor April 2023
Die Deutsche Telekom hebt Preise an. Betroffen sind DSL-Verträge, die vor April 2023 geschlossen wurden.
https://www.
I am once again asking to not take my shitposts (too) seriously.
I think it's pretty obvious when I seriouspost vs shitpost, no?
Alibaba led a ~$293M funding round for ShengShu, just two months after the creator of the Vidu AI video generator raised ~$88M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-10/alibaba-leads-300-million-bet-on-ai-vi…
Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer under investigation for 'inappropriate' relationship with employee (Josh Christenson/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/01/09/us-news/labor-secretary-lori-chavez-deremer-under-investigation-for-inappropriate-relationship-with-employee/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p141#a260109p141
Ukraine says strike on Rostov drone depot destroyed about 6,000 Russian FPV drones: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/10/ukraine-says-strike-on-rostov.html
Trying out Mistral's Le Chat (chat.mistral.ai, French, but speaks English too ;) as AI Assistant now, as an alternative to the US Department of War partner, OpenAI's ChatGPT.
https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/
The timing of this exhibit feels resonant – and a bit ominous.
In January, news broke that Kerouac’s 37-metre-long first-draft scroll of
"On the Road" will be up for auction.
When it was last for sale in 2001, Carolyn Cassady
– Neal Cassady’s former wife
– denounced the auction as “blasphemy”, saying the scroll belonged in a library, not a private collection.
"Jack loved public libraries,” she said at the time, adding:
“If they auction…
#muddledMaunderings of a doddering fool. Caveat Lector. (1/5)
NASA has just provided the timeline for the return of #Crew11: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2026/01/09/nasa-spacex-set-target-date-for-crew-11s-return-to-earth/ - Wednesday, Jan. 14, 20:30 UTC Hatch closing, 22:00 Undocking, Thursday, Jan. 15, 7:50 Deorbit burn, 8:40 UTC Splashdown.
Zou Trump een exit strategie bedacht hebben voor de oorlog die hij en Netanyahu begonnen? 🤔
Trump zegt dat oorlog ‘vrij snel’ voorbij kan zijn, Iran is het daar niet mee eens
#Trump #Netanyahu #Iran
Meet New York's 'Bodega Boys,' the Yemeni shopkeepers caught in Trump's immigration crackdown
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/02/10/meet-new-york-s-bodega-boys-the-yemeni-shopkeepers-caught-in-trump-s-immigration-crackdown_6750321_4.html
The Knight First Amendment Institute and Protect Democracy sue the Trump admin for its policy targeting noncitizens whose work the government deems "censorship" (Shannon Bond/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/09/nx-s1-5741213/trump-censorship-…
Les gares de Saint-Michel-sur-Orge, Ste-Geneviève-Bois, Épinay-sur-Orge et Savigny-sur-Orge en direction de Versailles Château, de St-Quentin en Yvelines et de Pontoise ne sont pas desservies jusqu'Š 06h.
Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X du RER C.
Motif : incident sur un train de marchandises.
🤖 10/02 05:05
RE: https://social.ridetrans.it/@Andres4NY/116042732155064940
I'm mad at myself that I missed the obvious "new reports in meow"
RE: https://mstdn.social/@stux/115867195061819774
Most fitting YouTube comment:
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
Bad Bunny America or Epstein America. Make your choice.
La palabra chilena del día #582
Wena, la adiviné en 4/6!
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Juega en #LaDelDiaCL
The two best feelings in the world are:
1. Helping another person
2. Learning something new
Interesting how both big tech with “AI” and “conservatives” do not want you to do either.
Ukraine says no counteroffensive near Hulyaipole, debunks Russian front-line maps: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/10/ukraine-says-no-counteroffensive-near.html
Unable to help the Iranian regime in defending the country against the US-Israeli attacks, Russia can of course easily and cheaply make life miserable for oil & gas producers in the Gulf, by supporting an Iranian drone attack now and then. And it stands to gain a lot from the resulting high prices.
Sources: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell warned bank CEOs about Anthropic's Mythos model's risks at an urgent meeting Tuesday (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Trump calls for a one-year 10% cap on credit card interest in a Truth Social post (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-calls-for-one-year-cap-on-credit-card-interest-2026-1
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p143#a260109p143
@…, on page 133 of Enshittification you mention the cadre of Polish mathematicians at Bletchley Park, Jerzy Różycki, Henryk Zygalski, and Marian Rejewski as instrumental in breaking the Enigma code. I’ve never heard of them. Do you (or anyone else seeing this) know of any books telling their stories? I know there are books about the whole Bletchley Park endeavor…
Intercepted call reveals Russian soldiers shot civilians near Pokrovsk, Ukrainian intelligence says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/10/intercepted-call-reveals-russian-soldiers.html
As NASA moves closer to launch of the #Artemis II test flight, the agency soon will roll its #SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft to the launch pad for the first time at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin final integration, testing, and launch rehearsals: #VehicleAssemblyBuilding to Launch Pad 39B.
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Yes Minister S1 E3 The Economy Drive - Video Dailymotion
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4vb181
... en de rol van ambtenaren in de economie.
Les gares de Saint-Michel-sur-Orge, Ste-Geneviève-Bois, Épinay-sur-Orge et Savigny-sur-Orge en direction de Versailles Château, de St-Quentin en Yvelines et de Pontoise ne sont pas desservies jusqu'Š 06h.
Rendez-vous sur la rubrique "Recherche Itinéraire", pour retrouver un itinéraire prenant en compte cette perturbation.
Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X du RER C.
Motif : incident sur un train de marchandises.
🤖 10/…
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This is what intellectual arson leads to. Fortunately, no one was injured! #antisemitism #Judenhass
BYD and Vinfast are going to eat the US automakers' lunch the same way cloth and clothing makers were wiped out decades ago.
Wasserman rebrands as The Team as Casey Wasserman's talent and management agency intensifies its efforts to find a buyer (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/wasserm…
Dear @… and @… , can the EC please take tough measures against this member state for seizing money from and blackmailing a European partner country under attack by Russia?
[and, all others, reposting would be great]…
My ADHD finds that phase of a hobby when you learn your way around extremely pleasing.
Soaking about the knowledge like a sponge reading books & articles & forum posts & old newspapers & research papers, watching videos, digesting the wisdom of people from many decades.
(Why would you deny yourself this by asking a chatbot?!)
The final trailer for #ProjectHailMary is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0XN3-n-2Lo. And a few have seen parts of the actual movie, some 30 minutes of it: https://gizmodo.com/we-saw-a-huge-chunk-of-project-hail-mary-and-expectations-couldnt-be-higher-2000718974
Vietnam urges people to work from home to save fuel as Iran war disrupts supplies (Khanh Vu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/vietnam-urges-people-work-home-save-fuel-iran-war-disrupts-supplies-2026-03-10/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260310/p1#a260310p1
Bored? Search is:poll to find random polls* to fill out
*Not to be confused with Poles
IOC bars Ukrainian athlete’s helmet honoring athletes killed during war: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/10/ioc-bars-ukrainian-athletes-helmet.html
U.S. orders more diplomats to leave Middle East (Adam Taylor/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/09/us-diplomats-middle-east-iran/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260309/p144#a260309p144
funnily enough these are great tapes despite the somewhat silly “CD” name and marketing
"F*cking B*tch": What ICE Agents Did Right After Minnesota Shooting (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/post/205132/ice-agents-minnesota-shooting-fucking-bitch
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p140#a260109p140
Turns out blocking people just because of sus vibes is great actually
Heads-up, if you’re in the US check your fridge, there’s a recall of literally deadly cheese https://www.delish.com/food-news/a69945915/pecorino-romano-recall-class-i-listeria-ambriola/
cyberpunk hacker to clanker fluffer pipeline
Programmers used to distrust corporations. But now they’re willing unpaid fluffers for “AI” tech giants.
https://bsky.app/profile/amyhoy.bsky.social/post/3mbzt7bqtck2g
Just blocked someone who complained that I block people to easily
My guy, you don’t have a right to my time
I wonder how many emails those tech CEOs get about them allowing X and Grok in their app stores, with an image attachment of them naked