2025-08-25 01:39:01
Russia has made 'significant concessions' amid Trump-led peace talks, Vance says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/25/russia-has-made-significant-concessions.html
Russia has made 'significant concessions' amid Trump-led peace talks, Vance says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/25/russia-has-made-significant-concessions.html
The Piano Taking Center Stage at the 2025 Verbier Festival https://www.pianostreet.com/blog/articles/the-piano-taking-center-stage-at-the-2025-verbier-festival-13705/
And if it worked so well, why isn’t it tasked to make better versions of itself?
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright urges FERC to limit the process for connecting data centers to power grids to 60 days, a process that typically takes years (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-24/trump-a…
#Speicherkapazität der #Batteriespeicher in #Deutschland je Netzanschlussebene von 2010 bis 2025 mit Stand vom 23.10.2025.
Betrachtet werden Datensätze mit Betriebsstat…
The U.S. Is Preparing for War in Venezuela (The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/archive/2025/10/venezuela-trump-caribbean-boats-maduro/684690/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251024/p136#a251024p136
Trump säger i FN att USA ska ta initiativ till ett globalt system för att kontrollera biologiska vapen, baserat på "AI-verifiering som alla kan lita på" och som "många säger är bland det bästa som hänt, men det kan också vara farligt, men det kan också vara väldigt bra."
I try to appreciate when people tell me I'm wrong and suggest a better way to do things. (Most of the time, anyway!)
Weekend list of critical reading links about the state[1] of Tech, AI[2] hype/finance/politics, mostly long form:
Ed Zitron's The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/
How to use computing power faster: on the weird ec…
Ever since I was a little kid I've always preferred to just wear t-shirts over fancier clothes because I find formal wear super uncomfortable.
My headcanon is that the level of formality an article of clothing is appropriate for is directly proportional to how uncomfortable it feels. By subjecting yourself to more discomfort you're demonstrating a greater level of respect for the occasion.
Ties, in this model, are a further gesture of submission (on top of the uncomfortab…
#GiftLink
Covid mRNA vaccines show strong cancer-fighting potential in new study - The Washington Post
https://wapo.st/47s0Ygk
Gentle reminder.
Als extreemrechtse 'bezorgde burgers' zeggen "wij worden niet gehoord" dan bedoelen ze "wij krijgen onze zin niet".
Finally uninstalled #feedly in favour of #freshRss and #capyreader. My wife is interested as well to switch.
Calendar still bugs me a bit. I could check this this weekend maybe.
When I t…
Top court takes aim at fossil fuels in sweeping ruling #fossilfuel
The WGA says a deal combining Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery would be "a disaster" and that it will press regulators to block any such deal (Hannah Miller/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Die Finanzierung für #Draconis ist gesichert
https://www.gameontabletop.com/cf5671/draconis.html#item-updates-85321
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Traits in #PHP are a limited purpose tool, but they do have a purpose.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/beyond-abstract
"Repulsive, yet attractive, with a magnetic personality"
Surgeons remove up to 100 magnets from New Zealand teenager’s intestines
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/24/surgeons-remove-high-power-temu…
I have just finished White Tears by Hari Kunzru. What a ride! Black music/history, appropriation and white guilt, a dash of dark magic realism, all told in a fascinating story structure. All thumbs up.
The #Caturday is requesting food.
This is what he does
Schaut mal, das hat bei Bluesky jemand gepostet. Hier sind doch viele mit #Gärtle. Da gibt es einen Test, wie artenreich der eigene Garten ist.
https://www.uni-jena.de/343288/wie-artenre
If I reply to a migrated account it will never reply to me and I might not ever notice it's migrated unless I view the profile on the source server.
Here is a mastodon suggestion issue with a few ideas to make it more clear the account has migrated.
If you have ideas add them to the issue as a comment!
https://
Democratic candidates can win Rust Belt voters by … attacking the Democratic party
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/09/democrats-rust-belt-economy
"What do you lose by using Facebook", asked a friend who is keen to keep his account there for some reason.
What made me leave was the manipulation. I mean: they started hiding your friends posts in order to show you adverts instead! Feeding you slop from their promoted posts and "viral" messages (that aren't actually boosted by anyone, just picked out by their megaphone to show to everyone).
If you let the algorithm determine what you see than you let it determine what you are, who you become.
Even if you think it's better at finding shiny things than you, even if you think it builds the parasocial relationships that you want, even if you think it's saving you time to let the robot manage your reading-list: if you are letting Facebook, or any algorithm written by advertisers, do your reading selection then you are letting Facebook decide who you are.
On behalf of the advertisers who bribe them the most.
This is why you gotta use RSS. You gotta use the chronological timelines not the "for you" feeds. You gotta build follow relationships that you choose and understand because otherwise, you are letting the corporation and it's systems determine these things. You are abdicating some control of your very self to the machine.
Not to mention that we have to stop feeding money to the evil multi-trillion dollar companies built to control and manipulate us through our relationships with our friends. They have enough money, they need less participation not more.
#fediverse #algorithm
I wrote about Tex Mex gravy, the definitive sauce for cheese enchiladas.
So El Cheato wants to pay the military during the government shutdown.
OK. (But I do wonder why the military rather than people who guard nuclear stockpiles or provide emergency health care.)
The personal costs for the DoD are about $0.5 BILLION per day. Yup, half a $billion per day.
That's taxpayer money - money from you and me.
And where is it coming from? Where is the mandatory appropriation by Congress?
Vuosi lisää aikaa metsien tuhoamiselle – Euroopan komissio haluaa jälleen lykätä metsäkatoasetusta https://wwf.fi/uutiset/2025/09/vuosi-lisaa-aikaa-metsien-tuhoamiselle-euroopan-komissio-haluaa-jalleen-lykata-metsakat…
Unabhängigkeitstag: Papst bekundet Solidarität mit Ukraine
Papst Leo XIV. hat den Menschen in der Ukraine seine Nähe versichert. "Mit einem Herzen, das von der Gewalt, die Ihr Land verwüstet, verwundet ist, wende ich mich an Sie an Ihrem Nationalfeiertag", schrieb Leo XIV. in einer Botschaft an den ukrainischen Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj. Dieser veröffentlichte das Schreiben anlässlich des Unabhängigkeitstages seines Lande…
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The WaffleHouse Dairies
I hear that Micheal CaneSugar won an oscar for that.
#WaffleAMovieShowOrPlay
#HashtagGames
from my link log —
Teacher effects on student achievement and height: a cautionary tale.
https://www.nber.org/papers/w26480
saved 2019-11-27 https://…
Windows 11 Update ist durch, Telemetrie abgeklemmt wo es geht, Backupsoftware mit täglichen, inkrementellen Backups auf ein externes Medium aufgesetzt ✅
Damit sollten Vaddern und ich erst mal Ruhe haben...
Mit gesundem Menschenverstand, vertrauenswürdigen Anbietern und klaren Regeln ist der datenschutzkonforme Einsatz von generativer KI längst möglich. Wir müssen es nur wollen. Generative KI ist eine Jahrhundertchance – und wir sollten aufpassen, sie nicht im Klein-Klein selbst auferlegter Zurückhaltung zu verspielen. schreibt Peter Buxmann in der #FAZ -
Vertrauenswürdige Anbieter - genau da li…
Cute comics of R functions by @…: https://allisonhorst.com/r-packages-functions
Trump 'growing incredibly impatient' with Russia, Vance says as Moscow refuses to end fighting: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/25/trump-growing-incredibly-impatient-with.html
Added myself to this open letter demanding Rails Core hard fork Rails/remove DHH.
Consider adding yourself.
https://github.com/Floppy/plan-vert-letter
Sources detail Intel's two-week roller-coaster ride, from Trump demanding CEO Lip-Bu Tan step down to the US government becoming Intel's biggest shareholder (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/inside-intels-tri
Kumulativer Zubau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 23.08.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen minus Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Zusatzlesestoff: Warum
Kid was watching the Christmas episode of Paisley's Corner and it reminded me about a theory me and my brothers came up with when we were little: the Santa hats you can buy in stores are cheap knockoffs.
*Real* santa hats have the little white ball on the end attached by a snap so you can quickly swap them out.
Why would you need that, you may ask? Well, if you're working at the north pole your nose is going to be constantly running from the cold weather. And that white b…
Seven days ago... At 2200m, enjoying some of the last blueberries of the year (and the colors of their bushes/environment)
#ThrowbackThursday #NaturePhotography #Photography
#thaHomanFiles
Excellent commentary by Lawrence.
https://youtu.be/ge9SfSn7i2M?si=2n9kT_JATHfbS74F
It's been a day with a lot of input. The absolute opposite of this where I was completely alone.
#FootpathFriday #photography #nature
House lawmakers flirt with COVID-era work levels (Kate Santaliz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/24/house-votes-johnson-government-shutdown
http://www.memeorandum.com/251024/p124#a251024p124
Rob Jetten of een debat waar ik geen zij ij heb.. Sja .... Dan maar naar de buren.
Polizeiruf 110: Black Box - hier anschauen
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/polizeiruf-110/black-box/mdr/Y3JpZDovL21kci5kZS9zZW5kdW5nLzI4MjA0MC80MDgwODEtMzg4NDk4
”Fredspriset är bara en möjlighet om du stoppar den här konflikten [i Gaza]. Och då måste du sätta press på Israel så att de slutar”, säger Macron i en intervju med BFM, med tydlig adressat Trump.
Top ten bits of advice for new conference speakers.
https://peakd.com/php/@crell/advice-for-new-speakers
Q&A with Stability AI CEO Prem Akkaraju on taking over from Emad Mostaque, his movie background, data and copyright, working with creative industries, and more (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/fc4cb659-bf01-4f68-a828-40ff98c24e51
BREAKING: Kash Patel reveals that Charlie Kirk shooter had an account on "ContractAffinity", a porn website dedicated to private military contractor-based content, especially to Blackwater's popular kamikaze drones.
'Devastating': Judge rules Trump's anti-discrimination agency engaged in discrimination - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-administration-2674231415/
Just got my medical insurance letter about the rates for next year....
22%
(This is for a Medicare "medigap" plan. - I learned to stay far, far away from those suck-'em-in-then-screw-em "Medicare Advantage" plans.)
Polen will seine Marine aufrüsten
Polen steht kurz vor der Entscheidung über den Kauf neuer U-Boote im Ausland. Dafür lägen sechs Angebote vor, darunter ein deutsch-norwegisches, sagte Verteidigungsminister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz in Warschau. Das meldete die Nachrichtenagentur PAP. Wenige Tage zuvor hatte Ministerpräsident Donald Tusk eine Vergabe des Auftrags bis Jahresende angekündigt. Die Rede…
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DHH wrote a post with the title "Calling someone a 'nazi' is a permission slip for violence"—about two weeks after he wrote a post with the title "Words are not violence"
Netherlands, OSCE seek investigation into Russian torture of Ukrainian POWs: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/25/netherlands-osce-seek-investigation-into.html
Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke je Bundesland pro 10000 Einwohner in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.08.2025.
Mehr zu #Steckersolar:
The hardest part of the PIC12F683 project, now that I have all this data, is putting it down and just filming the discussion section.
I want to show the high level architecture of the relevant blocks and dig deep enough to illustrate the relevant concepts, but I don't need a full netlist or GDS extraction. I think.
I swear I don't have a problem, I can quit whenever I want. If the video ends up six hours long people will still watch it right?
Trump administration says it won't tap emergency funds to pay food aid (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/24/snap-food-aid-shutdown-usda-00622690
http://www.memeorandum.com/251024/p121#a251024p121
Beste #EenVandaag
Je kunt jaren uitzendingen vullen met groepen die niet goed vertegenwoordigd zijn in de Tweede Kamer.
De echt zinnige vraag dan ook vooral: hoe kun je 150 politici op een goede manier voorzien van de juiste informatie?
Wreckless - a lyric poem
#lyrics #poem
https://muz4now.com/2018/wreckless-lyric-poem/
Greece extradites Moldova's once most powerful oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/25/greece-extradites-moldovas-once-most.html
What's gooooood #BlackwaterNation! ✈️🌍🔥💥🫡🤑 Our next line of "kamikaze" drones will come with a cornucopia of fresh 🌸, clean 🧼, off-the-chain🏅new innovations, but one the fun-loving🤡 fans won't want to overlook is the brand new speaker 🔊 settings, allowing your drones to play audio of your choice! We are soon to select ONE SONG to be included as a default, which woul…
Anzahl von Stromspeichern als #Notstromaggregate in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 23.10.2025.
Betrachtet werden #Stromspeicher mit aktivem Betriebsstatus und vorhandenem Inbetrieb…
Ukraine's sea drones 'paralyze' Russian Black Sea oil hubs, HUR source says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/25/ukraines-sea-drones-paralyze-russian.html
It's supposed to be payday for many federal workers. Instead, they're getting nothing (NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/24/nx-s1-5581505/government-shutdown-federal-employees-paycheck
http://www.memeorandum.com/251024/p123#a251024p123
5 Tools to Amp Up Your Keyboard Rig
#DigitalPiano #MusicianTips
https://muz4now.com/2020/5-tools-to-…
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,105,490 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/25/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html
Deutschlandkarte mit der Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke je Bundesland pro 10000 Einwohner in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.08.2025 in einer Farbskala-Darstellung.
Mehr zu #Steckersolar
Trump Says He's Cutting Off Trade Negotiations With Canada (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/us/politics/trump-trade-negotiation-canada.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251024/p8#a251024p8
Finding Flow
- composed when my life was anything but flowing -
#NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2020/finding-flow-nowplaying/
The Kyiv Independent raises $7,900 to help repair war-damaged homes in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/25/the-kyiv-independent-raises-to.html
#Stromspeicherkapazitäten je #Speichertechnologie in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 23.10.2025.
Betrachtet werden Datensätze mit Betriebsstatus „aktiv“ und vorhan…
Zelensky discusses Russian airspace provocations with Macron, Rutte at UN: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/25/zelensky-discusses-russian-airspace-provocations.html
What makes a sound musical? https://muz4now.com/2020/what-makes-a-sound-musical/
Now Is Not the Time for Federal Judges to Be Removing ICE Skeptics From Jury Selection (Mike Fox/Slate)
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/10/ice-trial-dc-jury-immigration-agents-judge.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251023/p132#a251023p132
Ukraine shoots down Russian Su-34 bomber over Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Air Force says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/25/ukraine-shoots-down-russian-su.html
Die #Kernfusionskollektoranlage hat heute 0,166 kWh Energie eingefangen.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: 58 Grad
Diese #Balkonsolaranlage wurde durch das Berliner SolarPLUS-Programm gefördert.
Einspeiseverlust: 5.05 %
Reagan ad that infuriated Trump set to run during World Series (Ryan Mancini/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5572251-ontario-ad-trump-tariffs-world-series/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251024/p129#a251024p129
Denmark shuts down airport over suspicious drone sightings for 2nd time this week: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/25/denmark-shuts-down-airport-over.html
🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Retröt: Vorsorge für den Ernstfall: Was in den Notfallordner gehört.
Ein #Unfall oder eine plötzliche Erkrankung können dazu führen, dass man keine eigenen Entscheidungen mehr treffen kann. Doch wer kümmert sich dann um wichtige Angelegenheiten?
Ein #Notfallordner
As Moscow tests NATO, US, Europe seem totally fine with shooting down Russian fighter jets: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/25/as-moscow-tests-nato-us.html
White House tightens the clemency process as Trump resumes pardons (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/white-house-clemency-process-trump-pardons-rcna239549
http://www.memeorandum.com/251024/p122#a251024p122
Major Russian chemical plant reportedly halts operations after Ukrainian drone attack: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/25/major-russian-chemical-plant-reportedly.html
🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Retröt: #Klimawandel verstehen: Die wichtigsten Fakten als Bild.
Die #Klimakrise lässt sich in wenigen Diagrammen verdeutlichen. Nüchterne Daten zeigen, wie die Emission von
How the scope of Trump's White House ballroom plans has expanded: From the Politics Desk (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/scope-trumps-white-house-ballroom-plans-expanded-politics-desk-rcna239679
http://www.memeorandum.com/251024/p120#a251024p120
Ukraine battlefield briefings may have shifted Trump's view of Russia's war, WSJ reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/25/ukraine-battlefield-briefings-may-have.html
Russian fuel crisis escalates as half of gas stations in occupied Crimea halt gasoline sales: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/25/russian-fuel-crisis-escalates-as.html
'How well they burn' — Ukraine destroys 2 Russian An-26 transport aircraft, radar stations in occupied Crimea, HUR says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/25/how-well-they-burn-ukraine.html