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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,201,230 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/25/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

"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…

I'm curious - what San Francisco media has covered this? Admittedly something I have not been looking for. But a quick search doesn't find many news articles - but it appears to be a nationwide problem. Sure, FDA has published their alert (2022) but that's not a great tool to reach people who need to know about risks.
The FDA has warned against this ‘natural remedy’ for joint pain. San Francisco immigrants still trust it

Why Christian McCaffrey trade helped 49ers, not the Panthers https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47010772/nfl-carolina-panthers-christian-mccaffrey-bryce-young-trade

Good overview of hybrid warfare by Russia.
#AP

Russia wants to drain Europe's security resources with sabotage campaign, officials say | AP News
The Associated Press has tracked 145 cases of sabotage and disruption that Western officials blame on Russia since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine. They say Moscow wants to drain Europe’s investigative resources.

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

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.

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

FTC orders crypto platform Nomad to distribute $37.5 million after 2022 theft https://therecord.media/ftc-settlement-nomad-platform-return-customers-cryptocurrency

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 …

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

#OTD 2022.

Sequoia announces that Alfred Lin and Pat Grady will be elevated to firm stewards, succeeding Roelof Botha, who led Sequoia solo since 2022 (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/04/sequoia-capital-roelof-botha-pat-grady-alfred-lin

Sequoia Capital transitions to new leadership
Alfred Lin and Pat Grady will become Sequoia's new stewards.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Elliott Smith:
🎵 Baby Britain
#ElliottSmith
https://loganlynn.bandcamp.com/track/baby-britain-elliott-smith-cover-2022
https://open.spotify.com/track/3pwj90XGAD6I0jO3q6fkCx

A most unexpected spin-off.

"More than 100,000 applications for UK heat pump subsidy"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #HeatPumps #Energy

More than 100,000 applications for UK heat pump subsidy
Latest boiler upgrade scheme (BUS) data reveals more than 100,000 applications for heat pump grants have been made since support scheme launched in May 2022. Demand has significantly increased in 2025, and the scheme was expanded in early November to include an air-to-air heat pump grant.