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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,232,090 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/23/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

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#CatPetPeeves
#HashTagGames

Every single day, the whole debacle with Blake Lemoine feels so much more quaint than the mass delusions we’re uncovering now. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine/

The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
The chorus of technologists who believe AI models may not be far off from achieving consciousness is getting bolder.

iPhone-Analytics: US-Datenschutzklage gegen Apple teilweise gescheitert
Seit 2022 läuft ein Verfahren von Nutzern gegen Apple, weil dort App-Store-Infos trotz Opt-Out erfasst worden sein sollen. Die Klage kommt nicht vom Fleck.

Today I have learnt about the deliriant history of the ultra-far right ex professor Enoch Burke.
The summary of the history is that while this guy was professor he refused to call by her new name a trans student, was finally fired, but keeps going to the school he was fired from in *2022*, and he has been arrested a number of times.
You can learn more about this case in this article from The Irish Times:
Without paywall:

Canadian PM Mark Carney at Davos, on the rupture of the old world order:
https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/speeches/2026/01/20/principled-and-pragmatic-canadas-path-prime-minister-carney-addresses
He goes righ…

“Principled and pragmatic: Canada’s path” Prime Minister Carney addresses the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting
Thank you, Larry.It’s a pleasure – and a duty – to be with you at this turning point for Canada and for the world.Today, I’ll talk about the rupture in the world order, the end of a nice story, and the beginning of a brutal reality where geopolitics among the great powers is not subject to any constraints.

Man this is such a good thread over at Twitter:
https://x.com/moorehn/status/2014050043527876847?s=46

Heidi N. Moore (@moorehn) on X
I get it, but man -- we're mostly just exhausted. It's been 10 years of this. None of our institutions are helping us. Everyone's been in various forms of going broke since 2022 because of inflation and high interest rates. Trump's approval ratings are low and nobody wants him

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#1980sBreakingNews

Remember, using a native HTML `<fieldset>` / `<legend>` gets you better results in SRs than its ARIA equivalent:
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/07/use-legend-and-fieldset.html
My post deals with the inverse of the others I shared — unstyling the nat…

Use Legend and Fieldset
It’s 2022 and people are still afraid to use

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faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

from my link log —
Brimar thermionic products great British valve project.
https://brimaruk.com/menugbvp/about-the-gbvp/
saved 2022-08-11 https://

Spanish judge closes NSO Group spyware probe due to lack of cooperation from Israel https://therecord.media/spanish-judge-closes-nso-group-spyware-probe-israel

A look at AMD's pivot to AI chips in 2022 under CEO Lisa Su, increasing AMD's market value from $90B to $335B in three years, as the chipmaker takes on Nvidia (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/amd-ceo-lisa-su-ai…

Cowboys OG Tyler Booker named to PFWA All-Rookie Team https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/20/cowboys-tyler-booker-pfwa-2025-all-rookie-team/88271155007/

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#MentorAMovieOrPlay

NFL will have a record-tying 10 head-coaching changes. Who's out and who's in? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6983364/2026/01/19/coaching-changes-nfl-record/

Trotz Statistik-Effekten: Merz stellt telefonische Krankschreibung infrage
Die Zahlen zum Krankenstand werden seit 2022 genauer erfasst, wodurch die Zahlen ansteigen. Merz macht jedoch die telefonische Krankschreibung verantwortlich.

Very handy to be able to add a note (for my own memory) when I block someone!

NFL will have 10 head-coaching changes. Who's out and who's in? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6983364/2026/01/19/coaching-changes-nfl-record/

16WW House Suburban Sparrows Ambient (2022-05) - House sparrows outside 16WW or close by. #sparrow #wildlife #fieldRecording -

16WW House Suburban Sparrows Ambient (2022-05)
House sparrows outside 16WW or close by. #sparrow #wildlife #fieldRecording

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#WaitingForSanta

„It’s a path puzzle. You draw a path that enters the grid at the top and exits at the bottom. Along the way, there are 50 sections, each following a different ruleset. Consecutive sections overlap by a few rows, creating short hybrid sections in between.”
This is amazing! The printable PDF-version is 17 pages! 🤯
https://

📢 Freisprüche nach Zugunglück bei Garmisch-Partenkirchen mit fünf Toten
Im Prozess um das Zugunglück bei Garmisch-Partenkirchen im Juni 2022 mit fünf Toten hat das Landgericht München II die beiden Angeklagten freigesprochen. Zwei Bahnmitarbeiter waren unter anderem wegen fahrlässiger Tötung angeklagt.
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Freisprüche nach Zugunglück bei Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Vor dreieinhalb Jahren starben fünf Menschen bei einem schweren Zugunglück in Oberbayern. Die Justiz hat den Fall aufgearbeitet - nun hat das Landgericht München II die beiden Angeklagten freigesprochen.

"Where will the von Neumanns, the Einsteins, and the Gödels of our age migrate after the SCOTUS overrules democracy in 2024 and Gödel’s Loophole is proven to exist? At this time, the two major powers of our time, the United States and China seem unlikely locations for brains to settle and grow in the long term."
(Inadvertently and ironically published on July 4th, 2022)

William Aspray
There was a moment in which Kurt Gödel, Albert Einstein, and John von Neumann were all roaming the halls of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton at the same time. Let that information sink in. Humanity experiences such gatherings of brilliant minds in a remote location of the space-time continuum only every so often; maybe the ancient Greeks and the men of the Renaissance witnessed such periods in time, as did the IAS staff at the end of World War II. How much will we have to wait f…

Grocery prices see biggest spike since 2022 in December (Courtenay Brown/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/13/inflation-cpi-grocery-prices
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p170#a260113p170

Spatiotemporal Evolution of the 2022 March Interplanetary #CoronalMassEjection Revealed by Multipoint Observations of Forbush Decreases: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae1834 -> The path to solar weather forecasts: https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press/z0508_00436.html - space-based measurements of solar eruptions are the first of their kind -> Solar storms could be forecast by monitoring cosmic rays: https://physicsworld.com/a/solar-storms-could-be-forecast-by-monitoring-cosmic-rays/

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,226,420 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/18/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Hot Chip:
🎵 Down (6 Music Session, 17 Aug 2022)
#HotChip
https://hotchip.bandcamp.com/track/down-with-prince-3
https://open.spotify.com/track/5n66WAmKxZjwSGW0PuWTQZ

"Marine protected areas expanded in 2025, but still far from 30% goal"
#Oceans #Environment

Marine protected areas expanded in 2025, but still far from 30% goal
In December 2022, nearly 200 nations committed to protecting 30% of Earth’s lands and waters by 2030. As of 2025, about 9.6% of the world’s oceans are now covered by marine protected areas, according to the latest global tracking data by the World Database on Protected Areas. This marks a 1.2% increase in 2025, up […]

Micron breaks ground in New York for its memory manufacturing complex, announced in 2022, that it says will be the largest semiconductor facility in the US (Glenn Coin/Syracuse Post-Standard)
https://www.syracuse.com/micron/2026/01/mi

Micron breaks ground on massive chipmaking plant that could transform Central NY
The project could be the largest private investment in New York state history.

from my link log —
Faster zlib/DEFLATE decompression on arm64 and x86.
https://dougallj.wordpress.com/2022/08/20/faster-zlib-deflate-decompression-on-the-apple-m1-and-x86/
saved 2022-08-20

Faster zlib/DEFLATE decompression on the Apple M1 (and x86)
DEFLATE is a relatively slow compression algorithm from 1991, which (along with its wrapper format, zlib) is incredibly widely used, for example in the PNG, Zip and Gzip file formats and the HTTP, …

Since ChatGPT came out in late 2022, over *half a million* tech workers have been laid off. That fact, and their voices, aren't really shaping the conversation about AI, and what "AI" really means in culture. So I started to get into it: https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/06/500k-t

500,000 tech workers have been laid off since ChatGPT was released
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1211359 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Trotz Statistik-Effekten: Merz stellt telefonische Krankschreibung infrage

2022 was 20 years ago

Added a zoom level to the Category page on the Exocortex-Log app. Can make the graphs look a lot cleaner now.
Looking back over the last 100 months here, we can see in general my social life is quite seasonal -- Festivals are a lot of social all weekend long and a couple of them in a month really bumps up the hours from my usual habit of sitting alone in a dark room pressing buttons.
The peak in 2019 is a summer filled with Glasto and Noisily and another festival or camping trip I don’t seem to have recorded the name of.
Then clearly visible is the drop-off in social activity as the COVID pandemic hit. Virtual-Social (IE zoom meetings and the like) picked up quite a bit around there but had died back to almost nothing way before the hours spent with actual people started to tick up.
Annoyingly, I have my biggest gap in data right on top of the pandemic there, where I failed to back up for months and then data became corrupted.
When the data-hole is over we see social life still not really returning until the middle of 2021 and not really getting back into stride until summer 2022.
It remains much lower now on average with lower peaks than before the pandemic too. Multiple reasons.
Work is pretty constant all the way though other than the data-hole. Dipping when I take time off for social mostly.
That data-hole is annoying. Back up your data kids.
#lifeLog #app #exocortexLog

FilmLA: production days for film, TV, and commercials in Los Angeles fell 12.3% in Q4 2025 from Q3; for 2025 overall, production was about half of 2019's volume (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/los-angeles-production-no-rebound-12…

L.A. Production Shows No Sign of a Rebound Yet
L.A. production volume fell in the fourth quarter of 2025, continuing a downward trend that has been in place since 2022.

The inner working of parquette/arrow data in R: #rstats

Unpacking Arrow Datasets – Notes from a data witch
A comment on how Datasets work in Apache Arrow. I’m not really sure who the audience for this one. Am I just talking to myself? Probably.

#Genuary10 #Genuary2026: Polar coordinates
Circular Fold (2022), an animated circle inversion loop. Made with #ThingUmbrella.

I finally deleted my Twitter account. Created in 2010, got a lot of security news value out of it until around 2022. Then something happened and I created an account on Mastodon and stopped posting at Twitter. Now the value became clearly negative, even for holding an old, inactive account.

Tiens, encore une différence intéressante pour les amis français. En Allemagne, les homicides peuvent être prescrit, mais les meurtres, eux, ne sont jamais prescrit. C'est une séquelle des poursuites contre les crimes nazis, souvent élucidés avec beaucoup de retard.

La Cour de cassation estime dans une décision historique que le meurtre de Marie-Thérèse Bonfanti en 1986 est
La position de la Cour de cassation, très attendue, rejaillira sur tout "cold case" similaire, notamment dans certains dossiers du pôle de Nanterre, spécialisé dans les crimes non élucidés.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Alice in Chains:
🎵 Them Bones
#AliceinChains
https://sixdust.bandcamp.com/track/alice-in-chains-them-bones-2022-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/4A065x9kJt955eGVqf813g

Honestly... seems totally doable

Former Alaska representative
❤️#Mary #Peltola announced on Monday she is running for Alaska’s US Senate seat,
handing Democrats a major recruitment victory as the party battles to reclaim the chamber’s majority in this year’s midterm elections.
Peltola, who served as Alaska’s sole House member from 2022 un…

Heute vor 3 Jahren: Am 21. November 2022 warnte der #IAEA-Chef vor großen Risiken für das #Kernkraftwerk #Saporischschja. Die

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#HumaneSocietyAMovie

Cowboys guard Tyler Booker named to PFWA All-Rookie team https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-guard-tyler-booker-named-to-pfwa-all-rookie-team

„Wages not Weapons“ https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10243

from my link log —
ROCkN: Providing GPS-quality timing accuracy with portable optical atomic clocks.
https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2022-01-20
saved 2023-10-05

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,225,590 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/17/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Trotz Statistik-Effekten: Merz stellt telefonische Krankschreibung infrage

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#HowTurkeysLikeToParty

US Big Tech companies have been on an energy-related hiring spree; Workforce.AI says Microsoft has hired 570 people with energy-related expertise since 2022 (Tasmin Lockwood/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/14/big-tech-google-microsoft-energy-hiring-ai.html…

Big Tech is poaching energy talent to fuel its AI ambitions
Hires of energy-related talent by Big Tech was 30% higher in 2025 than pre-AI levels.

Since ChatGPT came out in late 2022, over *half a million* tech workers have been laid off. That fact, and their voices, aren't really shaping the conversation about AI, and what "AI" really means in culture. So I started to get into it: https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/06/500k-t

500,000 tech workers have been laid off since ChatGPT was released
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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#TvTalkShowABookOrPlay

Cowboys guard Tyler Booker named to PFWA All-Rookie team https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-guard-tyler-booker-named-to-pfwa-all-rookie-team

dom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 12 nodes and 61 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

2025 deadliest year for civilians in Ukraine since 2022, UN human rights monitors find (Kris Janowski/admin)
https://ukraine.ohchr.org/en/2025-deadliest-year-for-civilians-in-Ukraine-since-2022-UN-human-rights-monitors-find
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p11#a260113p11

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#CheesyEggCorns
#HashTagGames

My art, but not my video[1] for #Genuary9 #Genuary2026: Crazy Automata
C-SCAPE (2022), a piece of multiple co-evolving cellular automata, running on vertical aspect ratio LCD screen.
Also see:

from my link log —
Fuzzing an eBPF implementation in Rust.
https://secret.club/2022/05/11/fuzzing-solana.html
saved 2022-05-12 https://

Earn $200K by fuzzing for a weekend: Part 1
By applying well-known fuzzing techniques to a popular target, I found several bugs that in total yielded over $200K in bounties. In this article I will demonstrate how powerful fuzzing can be when applied to software which has not yet faced sufficient testing.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Stooges:
🎵 1969
#TheStooges
https://lp-hovercraft.bandcamp.com/track/2022-cover-of-the-stooges-1969

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Kokoroko:
🎵 We Give Thanks (6 Music Session, 8 Aug 2022)
#Kokoroko
https://kokoroko.bandcamp.com/track/we-give-thanks
https://open.spotify.com/track/1whO1RzuS19yG358T4d8G6

Habt ihr ein Amazon Prime Abo, das schon vor 2022 bestand? Dann aufgepasst! 👀
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11139222?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

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#ShowsAboutHobbies

Cowboys’ offensive line needs lots of attention https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-offensive-line-needs-lots-of-attention

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,208,970 troops in Ukraine since 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/01/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

My art, but not my video[1] for #Genuary9 #Genuary2026: Crazy Automata
C-SCAPE (2022), a piece of multiple co-evolving cellular automata, running as a massive projection as part of the ALGORYTHMS group exhibition at Collective, Oslo (August 2023).

Crypto miners like IREN are pivoting to AI data centers amid the AI boom; IREN's stock, down to ~$1 in 2022, is up 300% in 2025, giving it a $13B market cap (Jennifer Hiller/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/e…

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

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#MakeAMovieBoring

For #TextModeTuesday, some fonts from my old demoscene days, recreated in 2022 for an example project of my opensource libraries:
Figlet style text generator using big fonts:
https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/big-font/

from my link log —
Low-latency high-throughput garbage collection.
https://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~steveb/pubs/papers/lxr-pldi-2022.pdf
saved 2022-04-25

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#ProverbsGoneWrong

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

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#OddBenFranklinFacts

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,211,530 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/04/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Mobileye is acquiring Israeli humanoid robot startup Mentee Robotics in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $900M; Mentee was founded in 2022 and has raised $50M (Marissa Newman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

from my link log —
Laura Kuenssberg’s time as BBC Political Editor has been a catastrophic, systemic failure.
https://bylinetimes.com/2022/03/30/laura-kuenssberg-bbc-political-editor-was-a-catastrophic-systemic-failure/

Laura Kuenssberg’s Time as BBC Political Editor has been a Catastrophic, Systemic Failure
Thanks to managers at the BBC, the outgoing Kuenssberg repeated lies rather than challenging them, says former BBC journalist Patrick Howse

Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten ersetzt, Sonderregelungen nach #Solarpaket…

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#HolidayANovelOrPlay

from my link log —
I/O is no longer the bottleneck? (compared to AVX2 vectorized wc)
https://stoppels.ch/2022/11/27/io-is-no-longer-the-bottleneck.html
saved 2026-01-06

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#MetropolitanABookOrPlay

from my link log —
Hardening snmalloc.
https://github.com/microsoft/snmalloc/tree/release_docs/docs/security
saved 2022-05-10 ht…

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#CriticizeWinterASongOrPoem

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#NameAnObjectSong

from my link log —
A Lisp interpreter implemented in Conway’s Game of Life.
https://woodrush.github.io/blog/posts/2022-01-12-lisp-in-life.html
saved 2025-12-12

A Lisp Interpreter Implemented in Conway’s Game of Life
Lisp in Life is a Lisp interpreter implemented in Conway’s Game of Life.

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#HolidayCardSayings

from my link log —
PCIe 6 overview.
https://pcisig.com/blog/evolution-pci-express-specification-its-sixth-generation-third-decade-and-still-going-strong
saved 2022-01-13

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#80sSitcomsTaughtMe

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#StrangersDeepThoughts

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#PetsHolidaySongs

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#HousePlantABookOrPlay

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#HallmarkMoviesForHeadlines

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#BarnYardAnimalsSideHustle

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#CharactersDatingTips

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#MickeyMouseTipsOrThoughts

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#FoodNamedAfterPlaces