
2025-08-20 15:04:00
cat-related immobility syndrome
Ukraine preparing long-term contract for 25 Patriot systems after meetings in US, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/20/ukraine-preparing-longterm-contract-for.html
「メンタルヘルスと釣り」
Laut einer Umfrage befürwortet eine Mehrheit der Deutschen (Staatsbürger? In Deutschland wohnende mit oder ohne Aufenthaltsstatus? Deutsche Staatsbürger, die in der Schweiz wohnen oder in Malta oder Dubai?) ein SozialMedia-Verbot für Kinder (Kinder? Also bis zum 14. Geburtstag?) haben will.
Diese Befragten sind ja auch Eltern, also Erziehungsberechtigte von Kindern. Die sorgen dann doch sicher dafür, dass ihre eigenen Kinder bereits jetzt kein SocialMedia verwenden. Es ist technisch garnich…
Holy sh*t, what timing. The National Nuclear Security Administration, or NNSA, is furloughing 1,400 people on a day that I broke the story that a foreign threat actor infiltrated the NNSA's Kansas City manufacturing plant.
This story broke after my exclusive on how foreign threat actors infiltrated the NNSA''s Kansas City plant went live.
Looking for suggestions how to defend your democracy?
Some great suggestions here. Keep talking to strangers, participate in society and, for Europeans, *Keep Regulating #UStech"
Intro in Danish, Interview with @… in English starts at 6 mins.
#DigitalSovereignty #SovereignSocialMedia
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/115401865282856120
Langsomme samtaler: Timothy Snyder: Trump forestiller sig et militært diktatur, hvor han selv skal være diktatoren
Episode webpage: https://samtaleromusa.podbean.com/e/timothy-snyder-trump-forestiller-sig-et-militært-diktatur-hvor-han-selv-skal-være-diktatoren/
DOJ prosecutor investigating New York Attorney General Letitia James seen posing for photos outside of her home (Kara Scannell/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/08/19/politics/ed-martin-letitia-james-brooklyn-new-york-house
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p151#a250819p151
Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke je #Bundesland in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.09.2025.
Die Angaben zur Schweiz sind Sonderfälle, zum Beispiel in Kreuzlingen und Neuhausen am Rheinfa…
Meerderheid Tweede Kamer wil meer grenscontroles, hebben allemaal rapport Rekenkamer niet gelezen kennelijk, zo oerdom , pure symboolpolitiek...
https://www.rekenkamer.nl/actueel/nieuws/2025/06/03/binnengrenscontro…
#proTip
You know how you’ll be walking along, minding your own business, and all of a sudden there’s a stone in your shoe? It’s only a little one and you can shake your foot without hardly breaking stride and get it to somewhere it doesn’t hurt so much or even hardly at all. But then it moves and you’ve gotta shake your foot again. Guess what. You can stop and take off your shoe and tip out the…
Lebe stets so, dass die 💩fD Dich als Quasselwissenschaftler und Heulsusenprojekt bezeichnet.
Proud member of #SciCommSupport.
ht…
So, noch ein Versuch ... ich habe ein paar Gedanken zu politischen Blasen und Ignoranz aufgeschrieben. Und hoffe, dass ich darauf hier hinweisen kann, ohne erneut minutenlangen Stillstand in meinem Blog zu provozieren ...
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2025/
"There’s this kind of secret language that rats are communicating in with each other that we don’t hear,”
says Emily Mackevicius,
a neuroscientist and a co-author of the study.
“They’re very social,” adds Ralph Peterson, another study co-author.
“They’re rugged, and they’re New Yorkers themselves: persistent and resilient and able to thrive in a very extreme environment.”
Calling All Musicians: Mini Concerts at the Internet Archive https://blog.archive.org/2025/08/20/calling-all-musicians-mini-concerts-at-the-internet-archive/
While Silicon Valley is training their models on everybody’s copyrighted content and seems to get away with it, UMG is obviously using AI to flood YouTubers with automated copyright claims. Including people like Rick Beato who is doing interviews with the musicians who wrote those songs and talk about them. What does UMG think happens after people watch those videos? Exactly. They open Spotify and listen to the artist. It’s free advertising to >5 million subscribers.
TIL Hugo has had built-in support for Tailwind CSS 4 for a while!
I made this my Sunday project; lmk about breakage. ;)
https://gohugo.io/functions/css/tailwindcss/
gestern gabs in einem zu verschlagwortenden bilderbuch sowohl #catcontent als auch #squirrelcontent! 🙃
I'm trying to figure out how to make the Windows build of ngscopeclient determine if it was launched from within a terminal (in which case it should log messages to stdout) or not (in which case it should not spawn a terminal).
I've seen various sources saying to check if GetConsoleWindow() returns null, or if $PROMPT is set. Nothing seems to be working.
Anyone have better ideas? I don't want to have a terminal spawn every time ngscopeclient starts, but I also don'…
"60 Minutes" Witkoff Kushner interview on Gaza deal takeaways
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/20/israel-gaza-hamas-cbs-60-minutes-witkoff-kushner
Lehrerin ist über 15 Jahre krankgeschrieben, will aber nicht zum Amtsarzt https://www.lawblog.de/archives/2025/08/19/lehrerin-ist-ueber-15-jahre-krankgeschrieben-will-aber-nicht-zum-amtsarzt/
Why did I cover up the colors stuck inside my head?
from my link log —
Linux sched_ext schedulers and tools.
https://github.com/sched-ext/scx
saved 2025-10-19 https://dotat.at/:/R3L2A.html
Russische Gasfabrik stoppt Annahme von kasachischem Gas
Der ukrainische Generalstab bestätigte, Drohnenangriffe auf die Erdölraffinerie in Nowokuibyschewsk im Gebiet Samara und eine Gasverarbeitungsanlage bei Orenburg ausgeführt zu haben. Nach bei Telegram veröffentlichten Angaben des kasachischen Energieministeriums musste das Werk die Annahme von Erdgas aus dem nahen Kasachstan vorübergehend stoppen. Die kasachische Gasvers…
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De weg naar een glas Palestijns bier is moeizaam.‘Maar ons bier is een product dat het verhaal van Palestina kan vertellen’ | de Volkskrant
https://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/de-weg-naar-een-glas-palestijns-bier-is-moeizaam-maar-ons-bier-is-een-product-dat-het-verhaal-van-palestina-kan-vertellen~bf1f414d/#Echobox=1760929523
Mas... oito, Tio Sam ?
-- palíndromo
Die meisten Leute sind total geschockt, wenn sie rausfinden, dass ich ein echt schlechter Elektriker bin.
#flachwitzfreitag
Sodele, bin grade seit langem mal wieder in #Zürich #Bus gefahren. Beim #BromptonGLine hat sich ein Bremsbelag verklemmt und ist auch komplett runtergebremst. Was davon Ursache und was Wirkung ist, ist unk…
DEEP DISCOG DIVE: Madonna by Mic The Snare
#music
#NowPlaying for some wakeup music - The Cars' masterpiece from 1984, 'Heartbeat City'.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQxo8OvVvJ1UqHvsuYGZXb…
too much etherealslop
♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Las Pecadoras (45) The Chameleons (26) Los Prisioneros (21) Stereolab (18) Blind Melon (17). #myweekcounted 590 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…
Wisdom is the domain of the wiz.
Posting is the ptomaine of the whiz. Don't point them upwind, much.
Here's my latest Prairie Voice article about being traced and tracked online and how to stop it:
https://open.substack.com/pub/boles/p/fighting-the-algorithm?r=17i29e&utm_campaign=post&utm_…
Okay, now click on the bluetooth symbol— oh, wait, you're colorblind. Click on the tooth symbol.
Langsomme samtaler: Timothy Snyder: Trump forestiller sig et militært diktatur, hvor han selv skal være diktatoren
Episode webpage: https://samtaleromusa.podbean.com/e/timothy-snyder-trump-forestiller-sig-et-militært-diktatur-hvor-han-selv-skal-være-diktatoren/
⚡ Is World War III on the horizon? Russian Fleet ablaze, NATO advances!: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/20/is-world-war-iii-on.html
Election security advice from Putin (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2025/08/19/election-security-advice-from-putin-00515121
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p141#a250819p141
The main reasons for me to use Safari on macOS despite being behind on web standards is integration with its iOS siblings and performance.
However: bookmark sync is unreliable and relatedly reading list is so janky too that I switched to GoodLinks. And somehow the UI gets increasingly sluggish until I restart it like an old Windows system.
I guess it's time for an experiment.
montag abend in der kneipe nach der orchesterprobe gelernt: es gibt jetzt auch #nfc-aufkleber auf biergläsern. 🤨
[dir darin kodierte URL bzw. das umleitungsziel funktioniert allerdings nicht mehr. das nimmt dem ganzen doch arg den witz.]
The Radical Legacy of the “Poorest President in the World” | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-10-19/radical-legacy-poorest-president-world
Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke je Bundesland pro 10000 Einwohner in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.09.2025.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Steckersolaranlage überwachen
from my link log —
Upcoming Rust language features for kernel development.
https://lwn.net/Articles/1039073/
saved 2025-10-20 https://dotat.at/:/J064N…
Selenskyj fordert weiteres Treffen der "Koalition der Willigen"
Nach seinem Besuch in den USA hat der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj eindringlich an die Verbündeten seines Landes appelliert, keine Beschwichtigungspolitik gegenüber Russland zu fahren. "Die Ukraine wird Terroristen niemals eine Belohnung für ihre Verbrechen gewähren, und wir zählen auf unsere Partner, diese Position zu unterstützen", schrieb Selensky…
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Dat in een volgende Tatort een van de bad girls ineens aan de goeie kant staat.
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Je mehr ich vom #srmr2025 mitbekomme, desto mehr denke ich, dass das #tcrno11 im Vergleich nur eine harmlose Spazierfahrt war.
#ultracycling
BitGo's S-1 shows it had net income of $12.6M on revenue of $4.19B in H1 2025, compared with net income of $30.9M on revenue of $1.12B a year earlier (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Der Zug, den ich nehmen wollte, fällt aus. Vermutlich komme ich damit 15 Minuten früher an.*
* Klingt paradox, ist aber so - gefahren wäre ich mit dem ICE, der in Freiburg um 6.19 losfährt, über Mannheim fährt und Stuttgart gegen 9.00 erreicht. Statt dessen musste ich jetzt in Freiburg warten und nehme den (meist sehr vollen) Zug um 6.44 über Karlsruhe-Bruchsal, der planmäßig 8.45 in Stuttgart sein soll.
:neocat_sad:
This would have bee useful yesterday I guess..
But for anyone else tempted to take the plunge and install linux
have a look at @… 's guide
#EndOf10 #LinuxInstall
https://mastodon.social/@iFixit/115374647198059236
Trump bypasses the Senate -- and the courts -- to install loyal US attorneys (Erica Orden/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/19/trump-us-attorneys-senate-confirmation-bypass-00515124
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p133#a250819p133
A US judge temporarily orders Meta not to respond to DHS subpoenas seeking Instagram users' info after their accounts posted an ICE agent's name (Alfred Ng/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/19/judge-te…
She Cried “Mexicanas!” First. - by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
https://alisav.substack.com/p/she-cried-mexicanas-first?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1x3q1h&fbclid=IwY2xjawM8SQZleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFFaGt3ZExaQ1cwd0NIc29hAR4km572vmFCnQIq31Pzw_J8Ldt59PGCfLptbt0uGO2I26xhHX5d0RCv8pB9kg_aem_jFkStcR-k0qxQNoT0SDJPQ&triedRedirect=true
Russland meldet Vordringen in Regionen Donezk und Saporischschja
Russische Truppen verdrängen nach Angaben des Verteidigungsministeriums in Moskau ukrainische Streitkräfte aus den Ortschaften Tschunyschyne in der Region Donezk und Poltawka in der Region Saporischschja. Zudem sei in der Region Tschernihiw ein von den USA geliefertes Himars-Raketenwerfersystem mit einer Iskander-M-Rakete zerstört worden, teilt das Ministerium w…
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Für den #Neubau und Ausbau von #Bahnstrecken fehlen laut #Bundesverkehrsministerium bis 2029 rund 2,5 Milliarden Euro.
Das vorgesehene
'morgen!
'The city is dead': D.C. restaurant reservations drop amid federal crackdown (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/08/19/dc-restaurants-business-down-police-crackdown/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p137#a250819p137
AWS says "the underlying DNS issue" is mitigated and most "operations are succeeding normally" after a huge US-EAST-1 outage; some services are still "impacted" (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/802486/aws-o
Friedenspreisträger Schlögel: Europa in "neuer Vorkriegszeit"
Der diesjährige Friedenspreisträger des Deutschen Buchhandels, Karl Schlögel, sieht Europa in einer "neuen Vorkriegszeit". Es falle einer friedensgewohnten Generation schwer, sich in einer solchen Situation zurechtzufinden, sagte der Osteuropa-Historiker bei der Preisverleihung in der Paulskirche in Frankfurt am Main. Schlögel rief dazu a…
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No wonder ICE isn't going after actual gansters:
Marco Rubio betrayed drug gang informants to seal El Salvador prison deal, report says | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/marco-rubio-el-salvador-cecot-informants-b2848182.html
Zelensky gives Trump golf putter from Ukrainian soldier who lost leg in combat (Caitlin Doornbos/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/us-news/zelensky-gives-trump-golf-putter-from-ukrainian-soldier-who-lost-leg-in-combat/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p147#a250819p147
China says Xiaomi will issue a software update for 115K SU7 EVs to fix assisted driving safety issues, its second recall-related fix since the 2024 launch (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/chinas-xiaomi-f…
President Trump signs a proclamation requiring companies to pay an annual $100,000 fee for H-1B visas, a move that could significantly impact the tech industry (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tele…
Trump tariffs and green energy rollbacks push household electricity bills up 10% (Dharna Noor/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/19/electricity-bills-increase-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p143#a250819p143
Sources: US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is exploring government equity stakes in return for CHIPS Act funding from Micron, TSMC, Samsung, and others (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/t…
Pirro's office won't pursue gun charges over carrying rifles, shotguns (Salvador Rizzo/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/19/pirro-dc-rifle-shotgun-charges/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p145#a250819p145
EliseAI, which provides AI tools for healthcare and housing industries, raised a $250M Series E led by a16z, doubling its valuation to $2.2B from August 2024 (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcar
Cornhusker Clink: A New Partnership with DHS and the State of Nebraska to Expand Detention Space (Department of Homeland Security)
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/08/19/cornhusker-clink-new-partnership-dhs-and-state-nebraska-expand-detention-space
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p142#a250819p142
Trump blasts appeals court for halting Resolution Copper land transfer (Ernest Scheyder/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-blasts-appeals-court-halting-resolution-copper-land-transfer-2025-08-19/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p134#a250819p134
China introduces new rules to curb monks' and clergy's use of livestreaming and AI for unlicensed online preaching and commercial activities, following scandals (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3f0f240b-c002-4726-a757-01ded711a5a8
Texas lawmaker in redistricting fight spends night in Capitol to avoid police monitor (Gerardo Gomez/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/texas-lawmaker-redistricting-fight-spends-night-capitol-avoid-police-monitor-2025-08-19/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p146#a250819p146
xAI launches Grok 4 Fast, a multimodal model with a 2M context window and a unified architecture that combines reasoning and non-reasoning modes (xAI)
https://x.ai/news/grok-4-fast
US destroyers head toward waters off Venezuela as Trump aims to pressure drug cartels (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-destroyers-maduro-drug-cartels-e33794ebc24d9031e536d132ce205b4c
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p148#a250819p148
Microsoft says it will bring a $3.3B data center in Wisconsin online in early 2026 and calls it "the world's most powerful AI datacenter" (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.c…
Sources: OpenAI plans to spend ~$100B on backup servers from cloud providers through 2030, in addition to the $350B already projected for server rentals (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-spend-100-bil…
GOP states pour National Guard troops into D.C. as Trump tightens control (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/19/trump-dc-national-guard-republican-states/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p132#a250819p132
Trump Wants to Paint Border Wall Black So It's Too Hot to Touch (Alicia A. Caldwell/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-19/trump-wants-to-paint-border-wall-black-so-it-s-too-hot-to-touch
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p140#a250819p140
Jeanine Pirro bragged about helping Trump and GOP while a Fox News host (Jeremy Barr/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/19/jeanine-pirro-trump-republicans-fox/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p136#a250819p136
ICE Wrongly Suggests Lawmaker Doxxed Agents, and Racist Threats Follow (Ana Ley/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/nyregion/ice-connecticut-legislator-threats.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250820/p2#a250820p2
Noem: Trump wants border wall painted black so it is too hot to climb (Filip Timotija/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5460626-noem-trump-wants-border-wall-painted-black-so-it-is-too-hot-to-climb/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p150#a250819p150
Elon Musk Pledged to Start a Political Party. He Is Already Pumping the Brakes. (Brian Schwartz/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/elon-musk-third-political-party-69bf9bd8?st=rwQXkq&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p144#a250819p144
Adult Supervision From Europe Gone, Trump Reverts To Blaming Ukraine For Getting Invaded (S.V. Date/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-fox-news-putin_n_68a4d6efe4b0d42cc1e37e3e
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p139#a250819p139
Detentions of D.C. delivery drivers leave immigrant communities on edge (Didi Martinez/NBC4 Washington)
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/detentions-of-dc-delivery-drivers/3976806/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p138#a250819p138
Federal Agents Are the New Proud Boys (Melissa Gira Grant/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/article/199263/federal-agents-dc-takeover-proud-boys-far-right-violence
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p135#a250819p135
After Putin Call, Trump Rang Orban Over Ukraine EU Membership (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-19/after-putin-call-trump-rang-orban-over-ukraine-eu-membership
http://www.memeorandum.com/250820/p1#a250820p1
Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-kings-day-protests-likely
http://www.memeorandum.com/251019/p1#a251019p1
US drops probe of gun-sales payment company backed by Donald Trump's son (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/64305e28-b781-44ee-bf99-06c21a1b3319
http://www.memeorandum.com/250820/p3#a250820p3