
2025-09-12 14:04:00
122nd Airmobile Battalion Disbanded After Decade of Service: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/12/nd-airmobile-battalion-disbanded-after.html
Squint, which uses AI and AR to modernize manufacturing processes, raised a $40M Series B led by The Westly Group and TCV at a $265M valuation (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/08/12/exclusi…
@helmet91@mastodon.social These people are literally faced with genocide and famine and you’re out here acting like a dollar-store Sherlock Holmes.
I’ve told you several times now that I’ve had live video conversations over Signal with Nouran and her brother Yousef.
I don’t know what your problem is but what you’re doing by spreading this FUD is deplorable. I just saw that you wrote this blog post also:
"Amendment is a constitution’s mechanism for the prevention of insurrection—the only way to change the fundamentals of government without recourse to rebellion. Amendment is so essential to the American constitutional tradition—so methodical and so entirely a conception of endurance through adaptation—that it can best be described as a philosophy. It is, at this point, a philosophy all but forgotten."
@… @… look, PHP could *never* (complimentary)
We do not see with eyes alone https://www.horizons-mag.ch/2025/09/04/we-do-not-see-with-eyes-alone/ "Noises, memories, our imagination – they all flow into the images that we form of our surroundings."
The Washington Post names Sara Kehaulani Goo president of the Creator Network, the newest version of its "third newsroom", independent of the editorial newsroom (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2025/08/12/sara-keha…
« Le Grand Détournement » ou comment la politique de l’offre détourne l’argent public au profit des plus riches
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2025/09/12/comment-la-politique-de-l-offre-…
Whoa - 2.5 billion with a 'b'? That's an expensive remodel...
Federal Reserve rebuts Trump admin renovation attacks
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/12/federal-reserve-trump-renovation-attacks.html
US bombs killed 60 African migrants in Yemen strike in April. The victims faced war at home, Saudi gunfire if they attempted to seek asylum to their north, Houthi imprisonment where they stood
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/world/m
Jetzt auch im Zug Richtung #LoFiCon 🤗
1989 Sun Sparcstation Via https://mastodon.social/@aka_pugs/114327869596697912
https://migurski.tumblr.co…
Today I have been sharing my suspension rig with some rope friends. Here I'm doing a single Jesus Sandal suspension; I'm using natural hemp rope for the main wrap, for comfort, but using a synthetic strop to supplement the lift rope, for strength.
#BDSM
„Verbraucherinnen und Verbraucher verlieren den Überblick.“ und: „Die seit einiger Zeit fallenden Strompreise kommen nur langsam bei den Verbraucherinnen und Verbrauchern an.“
https://www.adac.de/rund-ums-fahrzeug/elektromobilitaet/laden/ele…
Charlie Kirk in his own words: 'prowling Blacks' and 'the great replacement strategy' (Chris Stein/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/11/charlie-kirk-quotes-beliefs
http://www.memeorandum.com/250912/p6#a250912p6
with the bar for safe bike infrastructure as low as it is, it's hard to strike the right balance after a project between "hooray! it's so much better!" and "this, that, and the other thing still suck."
Streetsblog SF often errs on the latter side... I'm happier than ever with #ValenciaStreet, but their critiques are not wrong.
This is probably a ridiculous question, but do any people follow me here who know anything about nuclear weapons cybersecurity?
If so, please contact me at Cynthia.507 via Signal.
Crawling our way through the new season of The Bear and it's been nice. On episode 7 now. This one has Josh Hartnett. Did anyone else catch the Weezer b-side they put in there? 'Suzanne'. Great song. Been a pretty good season.
#TheBear
@… @… Yeah kinda surprised they’re able to do that much deformation, so it’s either one of those cool workable aluminum alloys or it’s steel
The Trump administration
elected in 2016
came in riding on a lie about American carnage in American cities.
This was also a period of dramatically declined crime rates and violent crime rates, in particular, across U.S. cities.
So, there is nothing here that is factual in terms of the pretext for the calls here.
What is consistent is Donald Trump’s use of racist rhetoric,
racist ideas, and the use of policing to enact a domestic policy agenda.
Oh what fresh hell is this?
Please make it stop.
#TOTP
Pardoned Insurrectionists Are Using Charlie Kirk’s Death to Call for Civil War – Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/pardoned-insurrectionists-are-using-charlie-kirks-death-to-call-for-civi…
Linux Mint is often shilled as a lightweight distro that runs great on older hardware. Well, turns out the Cinnamon Desktop actually requires a certain amount of GPU performance to render smoothly.
On my old laptop Intel HD Graphics 4000, the entire Desktop only runs at ~30 FPS. The Xfce/MATE Editions run at 60 with occasional drops.
I didn't expect that from Cinnamon. Even KDE Plasma ran better.
This is hilarious.
https://jsdate.wtf/
'nacht allerseits, und schönes wochenende, trotz allem!
Gerade die erste Folge "For all Mankind" gesehen. Wenn man ein paar NASA-Biografien gelesen hat, z.B. von Gene Kranz und Michael Collins, kommen einem ein paar Stellen ziemlich vertraut vor. 😀
"AI Summaries" have infested #ScienceDirect now with their inaccurate but confidently-formulated statements... Fortunately some people are fighting back, like @… who emailed them about it:
Chris Hedge on Kirk death “Martyrs are the lifeblood of violent movements. Any flinching over the use of violence, any talk of compassion or understanding, any effort to mediate or discuss, is a betrayal of the martyr and the cause the martyr died defending.”
Read Full Article https://scheerp…
Okami HD via #Steam for $10 - #SteamDeck verified
Such a crazy good game and a bargain
https://www.humblebundle.com/store/okami-hd
40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead in #oakland, the last of 3 nights at kaiser convention center & possibly the last dead show with liquid lights plus slides/cartoons, etc. late summer ’85, show #11.
soundboard:
Soooo bored of "influencers." Seriously. Make it stop. This is not the way. 🥱
Weekend Reads
* Fingerprinting DPI devices
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09081
* Exportation of China's GFW
https://
#Dänemark plant ein Gesetz, das Gesicht, Stimme und #Körpersprache urheberrechtlich schützt.
Ziel ist es, #Deepfakes zu bekämpfen und
Fun podcast, but I love reading A Way with Words at #WordOrigins #Language
...Bab…
"We got him" -- well, yeah. So much easier when they confess. Makes 'em much easier to "get". Kinda like getting 100% on a test when you have the answer key sitting in front of you...
Considerado uno de los mejores bateristas en la historia del rock, hoy habría cumplido 73 años Neil Peart, el encargado de ponerle letras a gran parte de la música de Rush, quien nació el 12 de septiembre de 1952.
#NeilPeart #CumpleañosRockero
from my link log —
Explicit refinement types.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3607837
saved 2025-08-04 https://dotat.at/:/4F…
Microsoft Windows head Pavan Davuluri says the next Windows version will be more ambient, pervasive and multi-modal, with voice becoming more important (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/w
More right-wing violence: ice shot & killed Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez in Chicago area as noem & dhs start doing extra-judicial executions (killing people without trial).
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ice-agent-shoots-…
Shoulder-Checks and Smoking Weed: The Petty Crimes Being Prosecuted Under Trump’s DC Crackdown – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/the-petty-crimes-being-prosecuted-under-donald-trump-dc-crackdown-takeover-metropolitan-police-department/
Ukraine war latest: German-funded long-range weapons to arrive in Ukraine by late July; NATO chief to visit Washington on July 14 as Trump prepares 'major statement' on Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/13/ukraine-war-latest-germanfunded-longrange.html…
»Over 600 Laravel Apps Exposed to Remote Code Execution Due to Leaked APP_KEYs on GitHub:
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a serious security issue that allows leaked Laravel APP_KEY's to be weaponized to gain remote code execution capabilities on hundreds of applications.«
Never store your access keys in Git, especially not in the code – do programmers need to be taught this?!??
🔓
@… oh my god
Facebook and other social media are flooded with fake AI generated messages like this about Charlie Kirk.
#fakenews #disinformation #charliekirk
Local news streamer Zeam acquires the NewsOn local broadcast streaming service from Sinclair Broadcast Group (Cynthia Littleton/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/zeam-acquires-newson-local-tv-streaming-sinclair-1236487505/
Fraude fiscale : Isabelle Adjani sera jugée en appel le 26 février - Le Parisien
https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/fraude-fiscale-isabelle-adjani-sera-jugee-en-appel-le-26-fevrier-12-09-2025…
Federal judge halts indiscriminate immigration stops in Los Angeles and beyond (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-11/federal-judge-temporarily-halts-alleged-indiscriminate-immigration-stops
http://www.memeorandum.com/250712/p34#a250712p34
A pleasant evening with friends at Perihelion Brewery
Those garlic fries kicked my ass tho
yimbys keep calling it misinformation that #SB79 allows demolition of rent-controlled duplexes and telling others to read the bill. it's right here, plain as day!
30 Jahre MP3: Als die Musik ins Internet kam
Am 14. Juli wird die Audio-Datenreduktion MP3 ein Vierteljahrhundert alt – eine Erfolgsgeschichte aus Deutschland, die noch lange nicht zu Ende ist.
https://www.
Lendbuzz, which uses AI to underwrite auto loans, files for a US IPO and reports H1 2025 revenue up 38% YoY to $172.9M and net income up 98.2% YoY to $11.1M (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/l
Disney and Webtoon strike a deal that brings about 100 Disney comics titles to Webtoon, with characters from Disney, Marvel, 20th Century Studios, and Star Wars (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/webtoon-disney…
Heel angstig dit, zoveel mensen die demonstreren tegen immigranten en waarschijnlijk ook tegen iedereen met een kleurtje…
https://nos.nl/l/2582251
Disposable Masks Used During Covid Left Chemical Time Bomb, Research Suggests - WhoWhatWhy
https://whowhatwhy.org/editors-picks/disposable-masks-used-during-covid-left-chemical-time-bomb-research-suggests/
10 septembre : ingénieur, doctorante en philosophie… Au tribunal, le profil « intello » de neuf prévenus - Le Parisien
https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/bloqu…
The kids are alright
(you can have a Mac for work too, if you want)
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115195863764383592
After Erasing 'Trans' References Under Trump, Stonewall Website Deletes Another Part Of LGBTQ (Hilary Hanson/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stonewall-website-bisexual-delete_n_687270aee4b0566597f99710
http://www.memeorandum.com/250712/p39#a250712p39
I liked the premise of this The Dig podcast, that it was going to tell me why Chicago's left-wing mayor is seemingly so unpopular, but it's very in the weeds and didn't provide much of an overview of the issues. Feels like it's only for people who are already Chicago politics junkies
https://
Fractal Analytics, which became India's first AI unicorn in 2022, files for an IPO in Mumbai to raise about $560M, and could value the company at over $3.5B (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…
"Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project."
—Alex Borstein
#acting #coaching #inspiration
Republicans have abandoned their promise to protect rural America
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/5498512-gop-betrayal-rural-healthcare/
La droite endette, ce n'est pas un scoop
Vidéo - Comment la dette s’est creusée depuis l’arrivée d’Emmanuel Macron au pouvoir
https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/video/2025/09/11/video-comment-la-dette-s…
Trump announces 30% tariffs against EU, Mexico to begin Aug. 1 (Aamer Madhani/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-eu-mexico-66bf84d97dcd69bbd1f1108e42283afd
http://www.memeorandum.com/250712/p33#a250712p33
Sources: DeepSeek R2's launch delay is due to training issues on Huawei Ascend chips, prompting a switch to Nvidia chips for training and Huawei's for inference (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/eb984646-6320-4bfe-a78d-a1da2274b092
Corporations Want To Prevent Workers From Leaving Their Jobs | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-08-12/corporations-want-prevent-workers-leaving-their-jobs
"With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying."
-Johnny Depp
#acting #coaching #inspiration
Heel zorgelijk, meer dan 100.000 mensen in het VK die denken dat problemen daar door immigratie komen. Illustreert hoe net als in de jaren dertig mensen zich door extreem-rechts kunnen laten opzwepen.
https://nos.nl/l/2582251
New Bill Would Give Marco Rubio "Thought Police" Power to Revoke U.S. Passports (Matt Sledge/The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2025/09/13/marco-rubio-revoke-us-passports-terrorism/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250913/p65#a250913p65
Veterans are really getting screwed by Trump
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/12/2338098/-Veterans-are-really-getting-screwed-by-Trump?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=main
ICE memo outlines plan to deport migrants to countries where they are not citizens (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/07/12/immigrants-deportations-trump-ice-memo/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250712/p62#a250712p62
Watch this Texas Democrat leave a Fox News MAGA moron speechless
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/12/2338117/-Watch-this-Texas-Democrat-leave-a-Fox-News-MAGA-moron-speechless
Erg eens:
"Zij zegt te betwijfelen of je de beveiliging van gevoelige mails en bestanden van Nederlandse burgers wel moet overlaten aan de markt.
‘En als je vindt dat dat kan, moeten we dat dan overlaten aan niet-Europese partijen waar we geen grip op hebben? Ik vind dat we veel strategischer moeten nadenken over onze digitale infrastructuur en dit soort zaken veel beter moeten reguleren, bijvoorbeeld door encryptiediensten aan te merken als vitale infrastructuur.’"
…
"Four days ahead of a summit with the Russian president to negotiate peace in Ukraine, the US president expressed frustration at the Ukrainian president's refusal to cede part of his country's territory to Russia."
Trump does not want Zelensky to attend his Alaska meeting with Putin
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/08/12/trump-does-not-want-zelensky-to-attend-his-alaska-meeting-with-putin_6744287_4.html
'Literally said it out loud': How Trump designed his latest 'sinister' move to 'provoke' - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-sinister-move/
Green groups sue Trump administration over report downplaying climate damage
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5449186-environmental-groups-sue-trump/
Trump declines to call for unity after Charlie Kirk killing in stunning move | Donald Trump | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/12/trump-fox-friends-charlie-kirk-shooting
New Video Shows Uvalde School Chief Trying to Negotiate With Gunman - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/uvalde-documents-video-arredondo.html
I smell a lawsuit.
Another one of California's Trump-proofing planks just broke - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/12/california-trump-truck-emission-rules-00506294
Netflix Consumer Products Chief Moves Funko As CEO
https://deadline.com/2025/08/funko-hires-netflix-consumer-products-chief-as-ceo-1236485007/
Mexico extradites 26 top cartel leaders to US amid Trump tariff pressure
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/13/mexico-cartel-us-extradition-trump-administration
Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un vow stronger ties ahead of US-Russia summit
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/08/13/vladimir-putin-and-kim-jong-un-vow-stronger-ties-ahead-of-us-russia-summit_6744325_4.html