2026-02-10 15:36:07
UK's FCA adds Blockchain.com to its registry of licensed crypto companies; the company withdrew its initial application in 2022 to pivot operations to Lithuania (Jamie Crawley/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/02/10
UK's FCA adds Blockchain.com to its registry of licensed crypto companies; the company withdrew its initial application in 2022 to pivot operations to Lithuania (Jamie Crawley/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/02/10
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,248,560 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/10/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
Chris Crack:
🎵 My 2022 Girlfriend Was A Humiliation Ritual
#ChrisCrack
https://chriscrack.bandcamp.com/album/my-2022-girlfriend-was-a-humiliation-ritual
https://open.spotify.com/track/1zii3vujGihMblQQpZczXg
Candle Media sells a majority stake in ATTN: back to ATTN:'s founders and others; the digital media company was valued at $150M when Candle bought it in 2022 (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/10/candle-media-sells-attn
A fantastic folk duo from Nova Scotia with one of their more powerful tunes for #MusicWomenWednesday this week.
Mama's Broke, "The Ones That I Love" (2022)
https://mamasbroke.bandcamp.com/tra…
"According to the 2025 Eurobarometer on food safety, ‘antibiotic, steroid or hormone residues in meat’ is one of the top food safety concerns for over one-third (36%) of EU citizens, albeit 3 percent points less than in the previous survey in 2022."
Veterinary drug residues in food: what’s the latest in the EU?
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
„Geändert hat sich auch das Meinungsbild dazu, ob ‚wir in Zukunft mehr Wirtschaftswachstum brauchen, auch wenn das die Umwelt belastet‘. Eine große Mehrheit der Befragten (66 Prozent) widersprach dieser Aussage zuletzt. Aber der Anteil jener, die Wirtschaftswachstum notfalls vor Umweltschutz stellen, hat sich seit 2022 um neun Prozentpunkte erhöht.“
RE: https://mastodon.nl/@nrc_nl/116046787301973216
'De aandelen van Kyndryl zijn met 55 procent ingestort tot het laagste niveau voor het bedrijf sinds 2022. Naast de financiële topman legde ook het hoofd juridische zaken zijn taken neer. De senior vicepresident en tevens hoofd financiële administratie nam een andere rol binnen het bedrijf aan.'
Nou ... Gewoon maar niet doen dan?
🙄
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:
👿 How a ‘green gold rush’ in the Amazon led to dubious carbon deals on Indigenous lands
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/how-a-green-gold-rush-in-the-amazon-led-to-dubious-carbon-deals-on-indigenous-lands/
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#FoodNamedAfterPlaces
The Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting Survey - Data Release 1: #MWISP survey was conducted using the PMO 13.7 m telescope at a spatial resolution of approximately 50" and a velocity resolution of 0.16 km/s at 115 GHz. DR1 fully covered 2310 square degrees within the Galactic longitude (l) and latitude (b) range of 9.75 deg =< l=< 229.75 deg and |b| =< 5.25 deg."
Je présume que c’est exactement pourquoi on a ajouté cette alinéa dans la révision de la Loi sur les constructions:
«L’autorité compétente n’est pas responsable des dommages causés par la violation par les maîtres de l’ouvrage et leurs représentants des prescriptions de la présente loi.» (art. 5, al. 37 LC VS)
Comme disait Goethe: «So fühlt man absicht, und man ist verstimmt.»
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 …
Trump’s Department of Justice moved to dismiss a criminal case against his former aide
Steve Bannon,
connected to his refusal to testify before Congress relating to the investigation into the January 6 insurrection.
The controversial hard-right strategist,
an ally of Trump,
was convicted in 2022 on two counts of contempt of Congress
after refusing to appear for a deposition before the House committee that investigated the 2021 attack on the Capitol
a…
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#MusicEggCorns
#HashTagGames
Vuoden 2025 elintarviketurvallisuutta koskevan Eurobarometrin mukaan ”antibiootti-, steroidi- tai hormonijäämät lihassa” ovat yksi suurimmista elintarviketurvallisuutta koskevista huolenaiheista yli kolmannekselle (36 %) EU:n kansalaisista, vaikkakin 3 prosenttiyksikköä vähemmän kuin edellisessä tutkimuksessa vuonna 2022.
Veterinary drug residues in food: what’s the latest in the EU?
#OTD in 2022 right before the poorly grounded buzzing audio signal completely went out in the middle of his pedantic #Presidential voting rights speech in #Atlanta , after he'd rambled on for awhile about how great it was to work …
An interview with LastPass CEO Karim Toubba on the company-wide changes after the 2022 data breach, new services such as controls to curb shadow SaaS, and more (Charlie Osborne/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/lastpass-2026-rebuilding-trust-ceo-interview/
#Genuary10 #Genuary2026: Polar coordinates
Circular Fold (2022), an animated circle inversion loop. Made with #ThingUmbrella.
from my link log —
Geometric algebra: what is the inverse of a vector?
https://mattferraro.dev/posts/geometric-algebra
saved 2022-09-18 https://
Iran’s supreme leader has vowed that authorities will not back down in the face of a rapidly growing protest movement,
setting the stage for an intensified violent crackdown on the second day of a nationwide internet shutdown.
Protests have raged in cities and towns across the country in recent days,
posing a threat to the authority of the regime, which has been significantly weakened since the last large protest movement in the country in 2022.
Another round of demon…
Last time in Sweden was midsommmar 2022, in Umeå. And it actually did not get dark. But also I wasn’t really sleepy during those days
This time, it's almost winter solstice and I'm way more north in Luleå. Sunrise at 9:37, sundown at 13:11 😲 We will see how that goes
#AnnerOstseeIssesImmerSchön
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Portishead:
🎵 Wandering Star
#Portishead
https://andrewcolohan.bandcamp.com/track/portishead-wandering-star-cover-2022
https://open.spotify.com/track/7h14W1uQK7sjpVI1oVTobt
Dutch payments group Mollie agrees to acquire London-based fintech GoCardless for €1.5B, set to close in 2026; GoCardless was last valued at $2.1B in early 2022 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7904647c-91ea-4e90-b496-5d249a7a5d91
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).
Abuse in Buddhism: The Law of Silence https://openbuddhism.org/library/videos/2022/elodie-emery-wandrille-lanos-present-buddhism-the-unspeakable-truth/
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#HousePlantABookOrPlay
Etwas für schlaflose Nächte. Hier die Studie der Uni Passau:
Sexueller Missbrauch und körperliche Gewalt. Übergriffe auf Minderjährige durch katholische Geistliche im Bistum Passau 1945 bis 2022
https://www.uni-passau.de/missbrauchsstudie
Appel Š témoin, Š faire tourner, pour que cella atteigne
la #suisse l'#algerie #allemagne #maroc
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,247,580 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/09/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html
Robust forecast aggregation via additional queries
Rafael Frongillo, Mary Monroe, Eric Neyman, Bo Waggoner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05271 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.05271 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.05271
arXiv:2512.05271v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study the problem of robust forecast aggregation: combining expert forecasts with provable accuracy guarantees compared to the best possible aggregation of the underlying information. Prior work shows strong impossibility results, e.g. that even under natural assumptions, no aggregation of the experts' individual forecasts can outperform simply following a random expert (Neyman and Roughgarden, 2022).
In this paper, we introduce a more general framework that allows the principal to elicit richer information from experts through structured queries. Our framework ensures that experts will truthfully report their underlying beliefs, and also enables us to define notions of complexity over the difficulty of asking these queries. Under a general model of independent but overlapping expert signals, we show that optimal aggregation is achievable in the worst case with each complexity measure bounded above by the number of agents $n$. We further establish tight tradeoffs between accuracy and query complexity: aggregation error decreases linearly with the number of queries, and vanishes when the "order of reasoning" and number of agents relevant to a query is $\omega(\sqrt{n})$. These results demonstrate that modest extensions to the space of expert queries dramatically strengthen the power of robust forecast aggregation. We therefore expect that our new query framework will open up a fruitful line of research in this area.
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Wikimedia Foundation names Bernadette Meehan, who was the US Ambassador to Chile from 2022 to 2025, as its new CEO (Deborah Mary Sophia/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regula…
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
#GrindayFriday this week is 2022 self titled LP by Seattle grind/powerviolence trio NURSER. They kinda remind me of Mastiff or Napalm or something like that. No frills, just grinding and violence: https://nurserdeath.bandcamp.com/album
A few months after handing in my thesis and receiving my Master of Science degree in 2022, ChatGPT was released. Essentially, nothing about how I solve problems has changed since then, but I had to continuously observe the brain drain around me. It's weird how the majority of people suddenly treat anything an LLM spits out as truth while I stick to good old search engines (with the additional hurdle of now having to filter LLM garbage from my search results).
Heute vor 9 Jahren: Am 8. Januar 2017 wurde im #Nuklearkomplex #Sellafield, UK, während eines Routineverfahrens die Hand eines Schichtleiters kontaminiert. Die geschätzte Dosis von knapp über 1 Sv überschreitet den gesetzlichen Jahresdosisgrenzwert für die Hand (500 mSv).
I generally hate buying new computing devices and try to make them last as long as possible. I bought a used/refurb iPad 5th Gen in 2022 for $199 and got 2 years of solid use before I upgraded to a 6th Gen in 2024 (for $170) so I could use an Apple Pencil.
I then put the old 5th Gen on my trainer bike as a video player and it still works great.
But sadly, two years in the 6th Gen now has dead spots on the screen. I may need to replace it.
1/n
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 …
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#FamousBiographyASong
Schülertablets in Niedersachsen: Mehr als nur eine Geräteausgabe geplant
Die SPD in Niedersachsen will endlich ihr Wahlversprechen von 2022 einlösen: Tablets für Schüler. Diese sollen in Schulen größere Veränderungen anschieben.
"Literature in Context evolved from two independent projects, one by John O’Brien at The University of Virginia, and one by Tonya Howe, at Marymount University. O’Brien and Howe joined forces in 2017 and successfully applied for a Level II Advancement Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities in collaboration with Christine Ruotolo, Director of Research in the Arts and Humanities at The University of Virginia Libraries (HAA-258768-18). In 2022, the project was awarded a second grant from the NEH ODH (HAA-290349-23), as well as an Open Course Grant from VIVA, Virginia’s academic library consortium. In April 2025, the second federal grant was terminated, along with many others, by DOGE."
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,246,330 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/08/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html
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.
On its own, it’s pretty big —but compared to the 2022 Galaxy Explorer, it’s positively tiny.
#Lego
In 2022, the Japanese team participated in the Aufguss World Match for the first time and won the first in 2023.
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…
Keynote from rstudio::conf 2022: The past and future of shiny. #rstats
Home Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady -…
Abuse in Buddhism: The Law of Silence https://openbuddhism.org/library/videos/2022/elodie-emery-wandrille-lanos-present-buddhism-the-unspeakable-truth/
Ugh, my personal git server uses a pre-2022 version of sshd - and now, when I do anything, I get a warning that I'm not using post-quantum keys.
We should be moving to PQ methods, yes, but I don't think anyone will convince me that mass "store now, decrypt later" quantum attacks will ever really be a thing - the opportunity cost will always be too high.
This is a VPN-advert level of unnecessary caution.
(You can set "LogLevel ERROR" in an ssh_con…
Die Schlangenölverkäufer wollen ihr Geld zurück #security https://www.golem.de/news/it-sicherheit-kaspersky-droht-bsi-mit-klage-in-millionenho…
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…
Just updated our server's downtimes for 2025 and for all-time. Although datasci.social had a downtime of over 10 hours in 2025, our all-time uptime is still way above 99.9%. 🤓
https://community.datasci.social/docs/server/
⚠️ UPDATE 19:42
Winterdienst hat die #Fahradstraße abgestreut 💪🏻 👍🏻
Gilt die folgende Beschlussvorlage - VO/2022/0939 auch für #Fahrradstraßen in #Osnabrück ?
Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…
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/
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,245,290 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/07/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RadcliffeAndMaconie
Lucy Dacus:
🎵 Brando (6 Music Festival 2022)
#LucyDacus
https://lucydacus.bandcamp.com/track/brando
https://open.spotify.com/track/4LAyHW59Qkj42ZMbas3Di4
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 …
"A bid to clean up shipping industry intensified a coral bleaching event on Great Barrier Reef, study says"
#Coral #CoralReef #GreatBarrierReef
The Baltic Sea region is on high alert after a string of power cable,
telecom link and gas pipeline outages since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022,
and the NATO military alliance has boosted its presence with frigates, aircraft and naval drones
The latest incident was made public five days after Finnish police seized a cargo vessel en route from Russia to Israel on suspicion of sabotaging an undersea telecom cable running from Helsinki across the Gulf of Finland to Estoni…
My art, but not my video[1]. The piece is ASCII-SCAPE (2022), a pure text-only version of my C-SCAPE [2] multi-cellular automata piece in which several "organisms" are co-evolving in the same space and forming infinitely changing patterns/structures:
https://art.thi.ng/ascii-scape/
(Reload…
A judge denies Fox's motion to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of Oleksandra Kuvshynova, killed while working for Fox in Ukraine in 2022 (Jeremy Barr/@jeremymbarr)
https://x.com/jeremymbarr/status/2006065989511750010
📸 Mémoire du 14 juin 2018
Sept ans ont passé depuis ce post.
Et pourtant, la justice n’a toujours pas terminé son travail.
En Belgique, le jugement définitif est tombé en 2022. Mais en 2025, certaines indemnisations sont encore bloquées. Des victimes attendent toujours que leur souffrance soit reconnue dans les faits, pas seulement dans les mots.
En France, l’affaire OKC/Spatz a été relancée en 2017, réouverte officiellement en 2021. Et aujourd’hui ? Toujours aucune mis…
I don't do much black metal, but I dig black mixed with death and doom. Just ran across Germany's PALE SPEKTRE and they're perfect for #BlackMetalMonday, along with Wellington, New Zealand's VICISSITUDE, as I noticed them both from a split they did together. Both bands are pretty great blackened death/doom.
Pale Spektre's 2022 LP:
"Graphic Design with #ggplot2": All material from this 2 day workshop can be found at https://rstudio-conf-2022.github.io/ggplot2-graphic-design/
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,240,680 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/01/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
from my link log —
C chrono-compatible low-level date algorithms.
http://howardhinnant.github.io/date_algorithms.html
saved 2022-10-04 https://<…
Oz is a Turkish-American with ties to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,
and has been accused of denying the Armenian Genocide.
As a result, Armenian-American voters in Pennsylvania played a key role in defeating him in his tight 2022 U.S. Senate race,
during which Oz refused to explicitly recognize the 1915 mass killings of Armenians.
California Governor Gavin Newsom’s press office echoed concerns of ulterior motives,
saying it is reviewing reports of Oz …
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
Meituan reports Q3 revenue up 2% to $13.4B and a $2.3B adjusted net loss, worse than $1.9B est., its first loss since 2022, amid a price war with JD and Alibaba (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…
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#SciFiSuburbanLife
Global Net: three Chinese firms ranked among the world's top 20 chipmaking equipment manufacturers in 2025, up from one in 2022, with Naura Tech rising to fifth (Fumie Yaku/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,210,630 troops in Ukraine since 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/03/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html
New Social D record next year (May 2026, no day announced yet)-- their first in 15 years. I've always kinda had a soft spot for the D. Hearing some of the new songs they've been playing live and I dig em. Supposedly the first single will come out next month (January).
I assume these will be on the record.
"Tonight" live in 2022: https://
Peter Chernin sells North Road to France's Mediawan; sources: the agreement, paid mostly in stock, values the independent film and TV studio at ~$900M (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/business/north-road-mediawan-deal.html
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#SellOutAShowOrMovie
No Fishing on this morning walk...
(From a beautiful and positively frozen Sunday AM in late 2022... I shared those images already back then, but hey...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography
Russia’s Ministry of Justice designated Human Rights Watch
an “undesirable organization”
on Nov. 28,
effectively banning the group from operating in the country.
Human Rights Watch noted that Russia had already forced the closure of its Moscow office in 2022.
“Our work hasn’t changed, but what’s changed, dramatically, is the government’s full-throttled embrace of dictatorial policies,
its staggering rise in repression,
and the scope of the war crimes…
from my link log —
In-place construction for Rust.
https://y86-dev.github.io/blog/safe-pinned-initialization/in-place.html
saved 2022-10-06
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
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
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#FactsOrMythsAboutFruit
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#PlantASeedASong
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…
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#PersonalSpaceABook
Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1202874 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
from my link log —
Fuzzing an eBPF implementation in Rust.
https://secret.club/2022/05/11/fuzzing-solana.html
saved 2022-05-12 https://
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#WoreOutWeekendASong
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,234,040 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/25/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html
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#RecipesAfterDark