dpa zur #ldk25 - Kämpferisch und inhaltlich stark.
https://www.badische-zeitung.de/oezdemir-heizt-wahlkampf-zur-landtagswahl-2026-in-baden-w…
Primakov: a ‘well-known PMC’ opened Russian Houses in the Central African Republic and Mali: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/13/primakov-a-wellknown-pmc-opened.html
Mexico's welcome tariff action against China (Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3914971/mexico-welcome-tariff-action-against-china/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p17#a251213p17
Hands-on with Claude Cowork: looks well positioned to bring the powerful capabilities of Claude Code to a wider audience, but risks of prompt injections remain (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/12/claude-cowork/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Caroline Polachek:
🎵 Welcome to My Island
#CarolinePolachek
https://stereonuke.bandcamp.com/track/caroline-polachek-welcome-to-my-island-stereonukes-after-work-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/4bp2wYweUPvsBrQfntdYcr
Nobody mentioned cars and motorbikes?
"Half of pedestrians feel unsafe walking in Barcelona, new survey finds"
https://www.catalannews.com/society-science/item/half-of-pedestrians-feel-unsafe-walking-in-b…
Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at China’s secret cyberattack training platform, #Bithumb’s crypto booboo and Taiwan bringing some reality into the chip relocation conversation.
OpenAI quietly adopted Anthropic's "skills" mechanism in ChatGPT and Codex; ChatGPT's skills include creating and modifying spreadsheets, docx files, and PDFs (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/12/openai-skills/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Love and Rockets:
🎵 Welcome Tomorrow
#LoveandRockets
https://theblogthatcelebratesitself.bandcamp.com/album/welcome-tomorrow-love-and-rockets-in-another-view
https://open.spotify.com/track/06g1n71Fr6SNJ0bVhWAEZF
GPT-5.2 models match GPT-5 and 5.1 with a 400K context window and 128K max output tokens, but have a newer knowledge cutoff of Aug. 31, 2025 vs. Sept. 30, 2024 (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Newsletter)
https://simonw.substack.com/p/gpt-52-and-useful-patterns-for-…