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How the EU responds to the illegal invasion of another country and the kidnapping of its president by the United States will determine-
Ah.
Continuing to kiss fascist ass it is then.
https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2026/01/03/kaj…

Kaja Kallas says Maduro 'lacks legitimacy' and calls for restraint
The European Union’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, stated that Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro “lacks legitimacy. “ She urged for restraint and respect for international law regarding Venezuela’s situation. Kallas mentioned discussions with U. S. officials and emphasized the EU’s monitoring of the situation, advocating for a peaceful transition and adherence to the principles of international […]

A new Polymarket account bet $30K on Maduro's capture just hours before Trump's announcement, renewing questions on insider information in prediction markets (Herb Scribner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/03/maduro-capture-bets-trade-prediction-mark…

Someone made a huge profit predicting Maduro's capture. Here's what happened
The winnings come as the rules governing prediction markets are still evolving.

Smart Glasses & VR-Brillen: Die 3 wichtigsten Trends im Jahr 2026
In welche Richtung entwickeln sich VR-Brillen und Smart Glasses? Ein Ausblick auf die Trends, die die Branche 2026 prägen werden.
h…

Example 1: the EU's Kaja Kallas: https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2026/01/03/kaja-kallas-says-maduro-lacks-legitimacy-and-calls-for-restraint/

Kaja Kallas says Maduro 'lacks legitimacy' and calls for restraint
The European Union’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, stated that Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro “lacks legitimacy. “ She urged for restraint and respect for international law regarding Venezuela’s situation. Kallas mentioned discussions with U. S. officials and emphasized the EU’s monitoring of the situation, advocating for a peaceful transition and adherence to the principles of international […]

What I saw as the U.S. bombed Venezuela: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/03/what-i-saw-as-the.html

@… Welcome 🙂

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/us/politics/trump-capture-maduro-venezuela.html
“Inside Venezuela, the effort began with a cyberoperation that cut power to large swaths of Caracas, shrouding the city in darkness to allow the planes, drones and…

Inside ‘Operation Absolute Resolve,’ the U.S. Effort to Capture Maduro
The tactically precise operation successfully extracted Mr. Maduro with no loss of American life, a result heralded by President Trump amid larger questions about the legality and rationale for the U.S. actions in Venezuela.

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If you're an American, please call your reps today. The phone call can be short. Be direct. Tell them to do whatever it takes, impeach, remove, block.
Go to https://5calls.org on your phone, it gives you the numbers to call.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115830256203421976
Always remember what is possible when it's against an ideological enemy or economically viable.

Pause for a moment to enjoy this tiny blep. Okay, now you can resume your doom scrolling...
#Caturday

Oh no: "‘Foldy Bird’ uses your foldable hinge to play Flappy Bird, and it hurts my soul"
"If you don’t end up breaking your phone from a low-stakes rage quit, playing this game enough will surely do that for you."
https://9to5google.com/2026/01/03/flap

‘Foldy Bird’ uses your foldable hinge to play Flappy Bird, and it hurts my soul
You can play Flappy Bird and speedrun wearing out your foldable phone’s hinge at the same time. At this point,...

Looking at EU official statements, Greenland’s accession/invasion by US seems inevitable and we’ll be watching closely.
I’m deeply disappointed by the EU’s leadership on this.
🔗 https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2026/01/03/k…

Biggest insult today: Motherfucking Github rate limited me browsing issues of a software product while being logged out. Git-we steal all your open source code to train our slop machine that management will use to make your life at work worse-hub.

Venezuela’s mission to the U.N. has requested an emergency Security Council meeting
and has asked the Council to condemn the U.S. military strikes against the country.
Venezuela’s ambassador, Samuel Reinaldo Moncada Acosta, said in a letter to the Council’s president:
“The United States of America always uses lies to fabricate wars.
It is an international tyranny imposed with the propaganda of death:
the recent past confirms this.”
Russia and China, allie…

Venezuela Live Updates: Trump Says U.S. Will ‘Run' Country After Capture of Maduro
President Trump offered few details about how the United States would oversee Venezuela and for how long, but said its oil industry would “make a lot of money” under U.S. leadership. President Nicolás Maduro and his wife were being taken to New York to stand trial on drug and weapons charges.

WTAF.
“Maduro is being transported to New York, where he will face charges in Manhattan federal court, according to people briefed on the matter. US Attorney General Pam Bondi says the Venezuelan leader has been indicted on drugs and weapons charges.
• Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez said”
…….
How does a judge accept a case like this!?
If this sham is allowed to go ahead I’ll lose so much respect for the American justice system. And in New York no less… how many blocks from the UN. What an embarrassment and total disrespect for the UN.
#venezuela #usa #uspoli
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/venezuela-explosions-caracas-intl-hnk-01-03-26?cid=ios_app

Here's my tabulated preview of sky and space events (and round anniversaries) of the #NewYear, compiled from numerous sources and own calculations: https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/bedeutendes-am-himmel-im-jahr-2026/

Michael Winiarski: Yankee-imperialismen tillbaka i full skala https://www.dn.se/varlden/michael-winiarski-yankee-imperialismen-tillbaka-i-full-skala/

Michael Winiarski;: Trump är en ny krigspresident
Donald Trump vann många röster på vallöftet att han som president skulle göra slut på USA:s ”eviga krig” och försök till regimförändringar…

Das erste #FotoDerWoche des neuen Jahres kommt bei mir aus dem winterlichen Wald im Wildtal.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2026/01/photo-of-the-week-i…

Photo of the week: In the winter forest - X
Seltsam, wie wir versuchen, den - fast, aber nicht ganz mit der Wintersonnenwende zusammenfallenden - Jahreswechsel als Einschnitt und Neuanfang zu empfinden. Klar, Ferien und Feiertage tragen dazu bei, die verschiedenen Rituale auch. Dennoch geht trotz aller Böller und Feuerwerke der weltpolitische

It is now a joke, one of the many variations out there now:

I suggest we call this “The Epstein Files War”.
#Epstein #Venezuela

Sources: NYT and WaPo learned of the Venezuela raid soon before it was scheduled to begin but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops (Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/01/03/2026/new-york-times-w…

News organizations held off on reporting Venezuela raid
The American news organizations held their stories over concerns about endangering US troops.

With few Epstein files released, conspiracy theories flourish and questions remain
"I know from survivors and survivors' lawyers that when they had these conversations with FBI agents, they specifically named other men who they were trafficked to or who showed up at the island or who covered up for this abuse," Khanna said. "There were lawyers of the survivors present there. There are dozens of these interview memorandums. The DOJ has not released a single one."
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/02/nx-s1-5662638/epstein-files-release-trump-conspiracy-2026

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Senkung der Luftverkehrsteuer zum 01. Juli 2026 vom 24.11.2025"
hat bisher 1253 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 28747 Unterschriften bis zum 21.01.2026.
https://

Tech workers in Silicon Valley are increasingly experimenting with gray-market peptide drugs from China, legal for personal use, for improving focus and more (Jasmine Sun/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/bus…

‘Chinese Peptides’ Are the Latest Biohacking Trend in the Tech World
The gray-market drugs flooding Silicon Valley reveal a community that believes it can move faster than the F.D.A.

International Legion Has Been Disbanded: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/03/international-legion-has-been-disbanded.html

Hey @…, what even is the purpose of you, man?

Let's face it: Trump's attack on Venezuela is about fossil fuels* once more. Another reason to resume working on the energy transition this coming Monday!
*) Confirmed by Trump himself:

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Grok-Skandal: KI von xAI generiert sexuelle Deepfakes von Frauen und Kindern

idk instead of hoping that your Big Tech software vendor—who had many data leaks before and was sued many times for abusing customer data—doesn't steal your data for AI training you could maybe not store your data in a Big Tech cloud

Dass Merz auf Arme, Linke, Minderheiten, Nicht-Deutsche, Nicht-Weiße losgeht, aber Reiche in Ruhe lässt und Trump mit Samthandschuhen zuwinkt, ist kein Wunder und auch kein Zeichen von Schwäche, sondern Absicht. Er ist extrem rechtskonservativ.

生成で好きなのはこれ
「どっちの方がエッチかな？」

Trump has made various comments during this news conference showing that this military operation was at least in part about gaining more access to oil in Venezuela.
Asked about the potential presence of U.S. forces in Venezuela, Trump said that there would be a “presence in Venezuela as it pertains to oil.”

Venezuela Live Updates: Trump Says U.S. Will ‘Run' Country After Capture of Maduro
President Trump offered few details about how the United States would oversee Venezuela and for how long, but said its oil industry would “make a lot of money” under U.S. leadership. President Nicolás Maduro and his wife were being taken to New York to stand trial on drug and weapons charges.

John Pilger had a documentary about Venezuela - a good crash course for why they invaded today.
And you can watch it for free on YouTube now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyWVh4kRyg4

Movie genre(s): Action, Suspense

European national security advisors arrive in Kyiv, Coalition of the Willing talks to be held later in the day: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/03/european-national-security-advisors-arrive.html

International law is what the US wipes its ass with.

Q&A with Kara Swisher on the economics of the AI boom, the upcoming IPOs of SpaceX and OpenAI, Elon Musk, the tech industry's Trump pivot, robotics, and more (Mishal Husain/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-kara-swisher-weekend-interview/

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
39C3: Die Krux mit der digitalen Souveränität | c’t uplink

That's it Tahoe, I'm going back

「父さんな、会社を辞めて〇〇で食っていこうと思うんだ」の本物だ

Shortly after 10 a.m., the California Highway Patrol announced on X that #Highway101 is #closed from Winchester in Goleta to State Route 1
“due to debris flow and flooding for an unknown duration.”
#CHP advises motorists to u…

Flash Flood Warning Issued for Parts of Santa Barbara County as 101 Closes for ‘Unknown Duration’
Debris flow and flooding close Highway 101 in both directions through Goleta Saturday morning.

Via @… on Bluesky.

France is outright rejoicing in this illegal coup. Just echoing pure propaganda.
Full participation really:

Russia intensifies assaults in Pokrovsk sector, but there is no breakthrough, Ukrainian officer says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/03/russia-intensifies-assaults-in-pokrovsk.html

Grok-Skandal: KI von xAI generiert sexuelle Deepfakes von Frauen und Kindern
Über den Grok-Account heißt es, es sei durch ein Versagen zu "vereinzelten Fällen" gekommen, in denen KI-Bilder fast nackter Minderjähriger entstanden seien.

timeline cleanser (sound on)

Reddit surpasses TikTok as the fourth most-visited social media service in the UK, likely driven by changes to Google's search algorithms and AI deals (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/03/re…

RE: https://mas.to/@SmudgeTheInsultCat/115835239820757608
Literally Silicon Valley…

Thousands of mail-in ballots could be discounted under new post office policy
A recent change to how the U.S. Postal Service says it postmarks letters could discount the ballots of thousands of last-minute voters.

Many Americans have long assumed that tax returns, ballots and other mailed documents sent on deadline would be marked as sent the day they are dropped in a mailbox.

But the Postal Service announced Dec. 24 that it was making no such guarantees about postmarks. <…

Thousands of mail-in ballots could be discounted under new post office policy
The Postal Service is no longer guaranteeing when it will postmark mail, which could jeopardize some ballots that arrive after Election Day.

おはようございます。仕事始めですねー。

🔥 BUDANOV KNOWS! Servicemen, money, resources: what will Russia lack in 2026?: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/03/budanov-knows-servicemen-money-resources.html

Man the EU message on the Venezuelan oil raid is as disappointing as I have come to expect.
Just another side of the same coin.

Tesla-Auslieferungen im Sinkflug – Musk sieht Zukunft woanders
Tesla wirkte einst als Taktgeber der Autobranche. Doch jetzt wird der von Elon Musk geführte Vorreiter von der Realität eingeholt.
https://www.

(In that movie the President is caught trying to have sex with an underage girl and starts a war by means of fake propaganda imagery to distract from it.)

Dating apps are pivoting to Asia as swipe-right fatigue hits the West; India, China, and Indonesia ranked among the top five markets by downloads in 2025 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/6269bc1f-0380-4150-8bad-8ead98ba1b48

@… 登録を閉じることで持続性を確保してるんだよ。まあ、ユーザーを拡大することで力を保っているSNSに慣れていると理解しにくいかもしれないけど。
招待で登録できるので、ユーザーは緩やかに増え続けているよ。

Ukraine reacts to U.S. operation in Venezuela and Maduro’s capture: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/03/ukraine-reacts-to-us-operation.html

Trump has claimed at the press conference now under way in Florida that the United States is going to run Venezuela for the time being -- although it’s unclear how that would be done.
“We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition,” Trump said.
He has given no details.
He just called Maduro a dictator and a drug kingpin
Trump said his secretary of state,

Our propaganda networks are out in force recycling the “fucking for virginity” line from the Iraq war era to whitewash their new war.

Silvester-Rekord bei Datennutzung
Die Menschen in Deutschland haben zum Jahreswechsel wieder viele digitale Neujahrsgrüße verschickt. Warum die Nutzung erneut gestiegen ist.
https://www.heise.de/news/Silvest…

Didn't realize that Wag the Dog (1997) was a documentary

NEWSFLASH: Trump on Venezuela: “We are going to run the country”: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/03/newsflash-trump-on-venezuela-we.html

The Groq deal shows the challenges Nvidia faces as options to deploy its cash flood narrow; its annual free cash flow has risen from $4.2B in 2020 to $80B now (Dan Gallagher/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tec…

今年もよろしくお願いします！

New protest laws are impacting political demonstrations
While serving in the Florida state legislature, #Randy #Fine helped pass legislation that provides some 🆘 protection under certain circumstances to 🔥drivers who hit protesters blocking roadways.
In Congress, the Republican representative has introduced a s…

How new protest laws are impacting political demonstrations
More than a dozen states have passed laws regulating protests in recent years, raising concerns among free-speech advocates.

Digitalminister Wildberger: Bei Staatsmodernisierung "brutal fokussieren"
Weniger Bürokratie, sinnvollere Strukturen: Das Digitalministerium will die Verwaltung entwirren – und sammelt dafür Hinweise auf einem neuen Portal.

[cat at breakfast meme]
I should buy more personal devices

Bloom amid ruin: Ukraine’s struggle through the journey of one rose: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/03/bloom-amid-ruin-ukraines-struggle.html

A look at AVA, an AI chatbot developed by Alaska's court system to provide aid in the probate process, which has been plagued by delays and hallucinations (Jared Perlo/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/alaskas-court…

Alaska's court system built an AI chatbot. It didn’t go smoothly.
Alaska’s courts spent more than a year building an AI chatbot to help with probate, revealing how difficult it is to deploy AI in government services.

Santa Barbara County authorities recovered the body of a man who was reportedly swept off a flooded roadway in Goleta Valley on Saturday.
The man was driving near the 1100 block of North San Marcos Road shortly before noon when his vehicle reportedly became stuck on a flooded part of the road that passes over Maria Ygnacio Creek, according to Captain Mike Gray with the Santa Barbara County Fire Department.
The man then exited his vehicle, Gray said, and he was subsequently washed…

Relevant paper btw: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7828932/

Russia redeploys Tu-95MS bombers closer to Ukraine amid airstrike warnings: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/03/russia-redeploys-tums-bombers-closer.html

A profile of June Paik, CEO of Seoul-based chip startup FuriosaAI, valued at ~$700M, whose AI chip dubbed "RNGD" is slated to enter mass production this month (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/furiosa-chip-n…

The horrors of Russian occupation: Isolation, economic decline, and repression |: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/03/the-horrors-of-russian-occupation.html

Apropos of nothing, a scientifically proven way to help your brain deal with stressful situations is to play Tetris.

Local non-governmental organizations who organize and help survivors on the worst day of their lives are the backbone of disaster preparedness, response, and recovery in California.
By joining together and creating a "Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters" ( #VOAD ) group,
they start to take steps to communicating, cooperating, collaborating and coordinating future response and rec…

Ukraine’s National Guard details new Russian infiltration tactics near Pokrovsk: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/03/ukraines-national-guard-details-new.html

if you need it, please take care of your mental health, which may be in the form of adding more mute words and blocking news accounts or all the way to a social media sabbatical
you don't owe it to anyone to follow the news and it's not your fault what bad people do

Ventura County Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster ( #VCVOAD )
is a collaborative of nearly 50 local non-profit agencies,
faith-based organizations,
volunteer groups,
public institutions,
and private entities
dedicated to improving outcomes for people affected by disasters.
VC-VOAD helps communities respond to and recover from major disasters guided by our f…

About | Ventura County VOAD

Peace deal must include British, French military presence in Ukraine, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/03/peace-deal-must-include-british.html

Ukraine says Russia preparing January offensive in Sumy, Luhansk and Kharkiv regions: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/03/ukraine-says-russia-preparing-january.html

If only there was a way to deal with people breaking international laws and charters with some sort of fair trial, like maybe we could call it International Court of Justice idk

Zelensky names First Deputy Foreign Minister Kyslytsya as new Presidential Office deputy head: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/03/zelensky-names-first-deputy-foreign.html

This could be the EU’s finest hour but no lol

SHOCK! The US has conducted a military operation in Venezuela – is this the end of Maduro's regime?: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/03/shock-the-us-has-conducted.html

Fact Check: Viral Video Does NOT Show Caracas, Venezuela Under Missile Bombardment -- 2025 Israel Footage: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/03/fact-check-viral-video-does.html

it’s anachronisms all the way down
(also check out the date in the title bar)

John Bolton: Putin's strategy: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/03/john-bolton-putins-strategy.html

BAKERY in the frontline KHERSON works even under SHELLING #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/03/bakery-in-the-frontline-kherson.html

⚡️MADURO’s detention is ZELENSKYY’s first reaction #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/03/maduros-detention-is-zelenskyys-first.html

On TWO points, no compromise was reached with Russia, – Zelenskyy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/03/on-two-points-no-compromise.html

In Russia, there are more and more CEASEFIRE SUPPORTERS, explains Budanov #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/03/in-russia-there-are-more.html

❗️ Looting legalized by Russia: Ukrainians are being deprived of their homes! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/03/looting-legalized-by-russia-ukrainians.html

LIVE | TRUMP, guarantees, and an even more aggressive Russia – CHALLENGES we didn't expect in 2026!: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/03/live-trump-guarantees-and-an.html

YEAR OF DRONES – Ukraine trained 5,000 drone operators in 2025: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/03/year-of-drones-ukraine-trained.html

⚡️ Records set by Ukrainian sappers: 45,000 hectares cleared of mines in 2025! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/03/records-set-by-ukrainian-sappers.html

'We don't believe that happened' — Trump dismisses Putin’s claim of Ukrainian attack on his residence: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/05/we-dont-believe-that-happened.html

Truck carrying Russian troops blown up in Krasnodar Krai, Ukraine's intelligence says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/05/truck-carrying-russian-troops-blown.html

Smashed shops, no water, and cooking food on open fires: HELLISH life under Russian occupation: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/04/smashed-shops-no-water-and.html