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After the Republican midterm disappointments of 2022,
Peter Thiel called for a party that could unite “the priest, the general, and the millionaire”
— a formula that reads, with hindsight, as a precise blueprint for Trump’s second administration:
Christian nationalism, military force deployed at home and abroad, and a financial oligarchy powerful enough to steer the state.
By the election of 2024, the gospel of nostalgia and the gospel of progress had concluded a shor…

The Rise of the Digital Oligarchy
AI has pushed society into a period of tumult and confusion. What comes next will determine if humanity remains the author of its own story.

Internal figures show Business Insider's paid subscribers have consistently declined, from about 185K at the end of 2022 to 135K at the end of 2025, a 27% drop (Oliver Darcy/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/business-insider-subscription-decline-data
…

Business Insider’s Subscriber Spiral
Internal figures obtained by Status show that the digital publication’s subscription business is not only failing to grow, but contracting at a jarring rate—raising questions about the company’s trajectory.

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,265,130 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/27/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Cortical Labs, the Australian #biotech company that grew 800,000 human neurons on a chip and taught them to play #Pong in 2022, has answered the internet's oldest hardware question: Can it run #Doom? It can. The c…

Reaching the End of the ICEV Domination: 35 Years of Battery Electric Vehicles in Norway
#EV

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 7 nodes and 14 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

Unity confirms plans to shut down its ironSource advertising network on April 30; the two merged in 2022 in a $4.4B all-stock deal (Sophie Shulman/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjezb14o11g

Unity shuts down ironSource ad network, selling Supersonic three-and-a-half years after $4.4 billion merger
The moves leave little of the Israeli ad-tech firm within Unity, marking a quiet unwind of one of the sector’s most high-profile mergers. 

from my link log —
Interesting JavaScript bugs caught by no-constant-binary-expression in ESLint.
https://eslint.org/blog/2022/07/interesting-bugs-caught-by-no-constant-binary-expression/
saved 2023-11-09

Interesting bugs caught by no-constant-binary-expression - ESLint - Pluggable JavaScript Linter
A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.

Die Episode von Ex-Podcast[1] #allesgesagt mit #MarinaWeisband @… @afelia.bsky.social (2022-11) hat mir sehr gut gefallen.

at_migrations: Austrian internal migrations (2002-2022)
A network of migrations between municipalities in Austria, from 2002 to 2022. A weighted directed link from source to target indicates a migration flow from these two municipalities. Edges are annotated with migration volume (number of people), nationality, sex, and year.
This network has 2115 nodes and 2908569 edges.
Tags: Social, Economic, Travel, Weighted, Politlcal, Timestamps, Metadata

On UK Central Heating Season (2022) - Home heating dates. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-survey-UK-central-heating-on-off-dates.html

On UK Central Heating Season (2022)
Home heating dates.

Milestone
2022

#Requiescat For Jesse Jackson.

Heute vor 4 Jahren: Am 14. April 2022 berichtete die Internationale Atomenergie-Organisation #IAEA laut Reuters, dass der #Iran eine neue Werkstatt in #Natanz startet, um dort mit Maschinen aus dem geschlossen…

The dog and I are looking forward to it! (She doesn't really know that yet.) https://www.alxnow.com/2026/04/17/alx-dog-walk-to-draw-2000-walkers-with-dogs-saturday-in-old-town/

ALX Dog Walk to draw 2,000 walkers with dogs Saturday in Old Town | ALXnow
Old Town will go to the dogs tomorrow (Saturday) as the ALX Dog Walk returns. The event, first held in 2022, combines the causes of animal welfare and sustainability for a two-mile walk through Old Town and a celebration with activities at Oronoco Bay Park. The event runs from 7-11 a.m., with the walk starting

After a volatile morning, European stock markets are still in the red – but off their earlier lows – after steep losses in Asia-Pacific markets overnight.
The oil price is still trading over the $100 mark, on track for its highest close since 2022.
Here’s the situation:
UK’s FTSE 100 share index: down 112 points or -1.1% at 10,172 points
Germany’s DAX share index: down 350 points or -1.5% at 23,241 points
France’s CAC share index: down 152 points or 1.9% at 7,840…

Seit mindestens 2015 ist klar, dass #SHA1 kaputt ist
Seit 2022 sagt #NIST, man soll SHA1 nicht nutzen
Seit 2025 ist angekündigt, dass #Debian SHA1 ab Februar 2026 nicht mehr akzeptiere…

Oil prices surpass $100 a barrel for first time since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/09/oil-prices-surpass-a-barrel.html

Safety Adderley joins Colts, ending retirement https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48485763/safety-nasir-adderley-signs-colts-ending-retirement

Ik heb in 2022 een backup gemaakt van twitter. Ik kwam het weer tegen, maar alle links die daarin gebruikt zijn liepen via t.co en zijn nu vrijwel onbruikbaar :-(

Heute vor 4 Jahren: Am 14. April 2022 sank das russische Kriegsschiff #Moskva nach ukrainischen Beschuss. Laut ukrainischen Angaben war die Moskva in der Lage, #Atomsprengköpfe zu tragen und hatte zum Zeitpunkt ihres Untergangs möglicherweise zwei Atomsprengköpfe bei sich gehabt.

Nach Krebs-Schock - Ed Sheeran: „Der schlimmste Tag in meinem Leben“ #News #Nachrichten

Jets Sign G Dylan Parham https://www.newyorkjets.com/news/jets-sign-guard-dylan-parham-free-agency-03-13-2026

Humanity Has Altered an Asteroid’s Orbit Around the Sun https://www.404media.co/humanity-has-altered-an-asteroids-orbit-around-the-sun/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RadcliffeAndMaconie
The Stooges:
🎵 1969
#TheStooges
https://lp-hovercraft.bandcamp.com/track/2022-cover-of-the-stooges-1969

Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 14. April 1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die 37. Atombombe "Palanquin". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

On Website Technicals (2022-09) - Tech updates: TX down, spelingg, bad words, structured data. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-64.html

On Website Technicals (2022-09)
Tech updates: TX down, spelingg, bad words, structured data.

at_migrations: Austrian internal migrations (2002-2022)
A network of migrations between municipalities in Austria, from 2002 to 2022. A weighted directed link from source to target indicates a migration flow from these two municipalities. Edges are annotated with migration volume (number of people), nationality, sex, and year.
This network has 2115 nodes and 2908569 edges.
Tags: Social, Economic, Travel, Weighted, Politlcal, Timestamps, Metadata

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,270,400 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/05/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Robert Glasper:
🎵 Let It Ride (6 Music Session, 13 Apr 2022)
#RobertGlasper
https://thefruitionexperience.bandcamp.com/track/let-it-ride-robert-glasper-fruition-trio-12-13-15
https://open.spotify.com/track/6PFFOfhu61KGhOEjhdePIS