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Patrick Mahomes contract: How Chiefs created much-needed salary cap flexibility by restructuring QB's deal

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/patrick-mahomes-chiefs-contract-restruct…

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

Microsoft shares fell ~10% on Thursday following an earnings report that disappointed some investors, the stock's sharpest daily decline since March 2020 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/29/microsoft-market-cap-earnings.html

Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020
As investors sold shares of Microsoft on Thursday, the $3.2 trillion company dragged down the software complex and the S&P 500 index.

RE Mike Lee’s execrable proposal for "Pirates of the Caribbean "
a few days ago
—it’s bad, but
sadly in line with the right-wing movement to expand private actors’ privilege to use violence.
Darrell Miller wrote about this in what we called
“the new outlawry”
https://www.

THE NEW OUTLAWRY - Columbia Law Review
Introduction From subtle shifts in the procedural mechanics of self-defense doctrine to substantive expansions of justified lethal force, many red-state legislatures across the country are delegating larger amounts of “violence work” to the private sphere. In the wake of antiracism protests in summer 2020, Republican-dominated legislatures proposed a slew of such measures. The measures provide […]

Layoff announcements pass 1.1 million, most since pandemic | WKRG.com
https://www.wkrg.com/national/layoff-announcements-top-1-1-million-most-since-2020-pandemic/

from my link log —
Firefox's low-latency WebAssembly compiler.
http://wingolog.org/archives/2020/03/25/firefoxs-low-latency-webassembly-compiler
saved 2020-03-26

GMIMS-DRAGONS: A Faraday Depth Survey of the Northern Sky Covering 350–1030 MHz / A Three-dimensional Model for the Reversal in the Local Large-scale #Interstellar Magnetic Field: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ae2471 / https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae28d1 -> New map of the Milky Way’s magnetism offers insights into cosmic evolution / Two new studies reveal structural complexity in the galaxy: https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2026/01/29/new-map-of-the-milky-ways-magnetism-offers-insights-into-cosmic-evolution/ / https://www.ucalgary.ca/news/mapping-magnetic-field-milky-way

“Federal prosecutors said the man accused of planting pipe bombs in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 5, 2021, told investigators he felt compelled to ‘speak up’ for people who believed the 2020 election was stolen.”
“Cole said he was disillusioned by the election outcome and sympathetic to claims by President Donald Trump and allies that it had been stolen.”
#RightWing

DC pipe bomb suspect says someone needed to 'speak up' about stolen election claims
Man accused of Jan. 6 pipe bombs allegedly confessed he felt compelled to "speak up" for those who believed 2020 election was stolen, prosecutors say.

mist: MIST protein interaction database (2020)
The Molecular Interaction Search Tool (MIST) is a comprehensive resource of molecular interactions, assembled from severla primary sources. MIST currently supports several species, including:.
This network has 35093 nodes and 747063 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Strategy for Identifying Vera C. #Rubin Observatory #Kilonova Candidates for Targeted #GravitationalWave Searches: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae244e -> How Many Kilonovae Will Rubin Observatory Help Us Spot? https://aasnova.org/2026/02/04/how-many-kilonovae-will-rubin-observatory-help-us-spot/

Election law experts are questioning the legality of the FBI’s unprecedented seizure of 2020 election ballots in Fulton County, Ga.
in a raid that has further inflamed fears of federal interference in the upcoming midterm elections. 
There is widespread doubt that the records will produce any evidence of prosecutable criminal activity,
and not just because the 2020 election results have been recounted, audited, and litigated to death already. 
But, they warn, 2020 i…

FBI’s Fulton County raid may have been illegal, legal experts warn. But it definitely raises fears for 2026
This is a test run for 2026... Trump could try to seize voting machines or otherwise interfere with state ballot tabulation processes in swing districts around the country.

from my link log —
From its name, to its hazy origins, to its drug interactions, there's a lot going on with Grapefruit.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/grapefruit-history-and-drug-interactions
saved 2020-10-07

Detection of an NH3 Absorption Band at 2.2 μm on Europa: #Europa, Recent Study Shows: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/science-news/2026/01/29/nasas-galileo-mission-points-to-ammonia-at-europa-recent-study-shows/

From subtle shifts in the procedural mechanics of
self-defense doctrine
to substantive expansions of justified lethal force,
legislatures are delegating larger amounts of
“violence work”
to the private sphere.
These regulatory innovations layer on top of existing rules that broadly authorize private violence
—both defensive and offensive
—for self-protection and the ostensible maintenance of law and order.
Yet such significant authority…

THE NEW OUTLAWRY - Columbia Law Review
Introduction From subtle shifts in the procedural mechanics of self-defense doctrine to substantive expansions of justified lethal force, many red-state legislatures across the country are delegating larger amounts of “violence work” to the private sphere. In the wake of antiracism protests in summer 2020, Republican-dominated legislatures proposed a slew of such measures. The measures provide […]