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U.S. citizen detained by ICE in L.A. says she wasn't given water for 24 hours
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-citizen-detained-ice-l-says-wasnt-water-24-hours-rcna224493

U.S. citizen detained by ICE in L.A. says she wasn't given water for 24 hours
A U.S. citizen who was detained by immigration agents and accused of obstructing an arrest, before her case was ultimately dismissed, said she is still traumatized by what happened.

GPT-5 surrendered to the hackers in 24 hours and gave out a "recipe" for a bomb, more likely 4o
https://itc.ua/en/news/gpt-5-surrendered-to-the-hackers-in-24-hours-and-gave-out-a-recipe-for-a-bomb-more-likely-4o/

GPT-5 surrendered to the hackers in 24 hours and gave out a "recipe" for a bomb, more likely 4o
Two different teams of researchers tested GPT-5's weaknesses using, among other things, multi-step "narrative" attacks. As a result, the most advanced

Perhaps worth noting usxports, past references, if the same function, appear to have been under .mil names
https://mastodon.social/@botgov/115191994244102322

@… the window from the timeline I measured was ~5 hours but to solve the root issue would require architecture changes to npm publish workflows — but until something changes upstream, yeah — more alerts! more emails! I want to know every time a build dependency in my projects is compromised as soon as possible so that I can make the best choices for my projects
Fro…

This weekend, it was Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Flooding after up to 350 mm (14 inches) of rain within 24 hours. Way more than a used-to-be-1-in-1000-years event.
#ClimatechangeisWaterchange

Heavy Rains in Wisconsin Lead to Flooding and Early Closure of State Fair
Record-setting rainfall caused intense flooding in and around the Milwaukee area starting on Saturday night.

The day I first heard a Shahed drone buzzing overhead: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/the-day-i-first-heard.html

⏰ London Stock Exchange considers 24-hour trading to stimulate market
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/21/london-stock-exchange-24-hour-trading-boost-market

Office Hours With Sohan & Hameda
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

going through my months-old screenshots and this motherfucker is a recurring pattern

32°C as a nightly low temperature in Shanghai, city of 30 million. Climate change hitting hard now.
https://bsky.app/profile/extremetemps.bsky.social/post/3lw2gy4h3jk2k

Extreme Temperatures Around the World (@extremetemps.bsky.social)
Deadly heat in CHINA. Suffocating heat 24 hours with record hot nights. In particular brutal Minimum of 32.2C at Shanghai which is the hottest night in history for one of the oldest observatories in Asia Nearly all countries in the world have broken heat records in the past weeks. Unprecedented

@… https://collectedephemera.substack.com

Collected Ephemera | Jay Hinman | Substack
A deep dive into the paper, magazines and marginal collectables I've accumulated over the years, especially 60s & 70s political rabble-rousing, underground music, smut, hippy/biker stuff, postcards and much else. Click to read Collected Ephemera, by Jay Hinman, a Substack publication. Launched 2 hours ago.

It's end-of-the-season tournament time and the sportsball team I coach will be playing 2 to 3 games in the next 24 hours and up to 6 games over the weekend. I'm already exhausted and I'm only just putting on my uniform.

"The Daily Beast’s newsletter The Swamp revealed Monday how Cruz was caught touring the Parthenon in Athens, Greece, 24 hours after the Guadalupe River burst its banks, sweeping away dozens of lives in an unspeakable horror whose full effects are still unfolding."
Ted Cruz’s Claim He Returned to Texas as ‘Fast as Humanly Possible’ Crumbles
https://www.thedailybeast.com/vacationing-ted-cruzs-as-fast-as-humanly-possible-return-claim-crumbles/

"A tree a minute for 24 hours: the young Victorian forest that was planted in a day"
#Australia #Trees #Environment

Listen to 8 hours of sound dedicated to Palestine - and act -
#DoingGood #EndGenocide
https://

Listen to 8 hours of sound dedicated to Palestine - and act - CDM Create Digital Music
Music and sound are not action -- at least, not normally. But sound can recenter you, rewire your brain, and let you catch your breath before that action. So I find myself returning to this eight-hour broadcast by London's Sister Midnight FM, which includes Palestinian artists who have long been featured on CDM, including Muqata'a, bint mbareh, and Dakn.

I think I'll hold my $MSFT, thank you very much.

✅ Microsoft market cap tops $4 trillion after hours on earnings beat - CNBC
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/30/microsoft-market-cap-tops-4-trillion-after-hours-on-earnings-bea…

Microsoft officially tops $4 trillion in market cap, joining Nvidia in exclusive club
The software giant reported better-than-expected quarterly results and said Azure's annual revenue topped $75 billion.

The shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis was the fourth deadly shooting in the city in just over 24 hours.
In total, the string of violence has left at least five people dead and 25 injured, according to the police.

Live Updates: Motive Sought in Minneapolis Catholic School Shooting That Killed 2 Children and Injured 17
Of the 17 injured, 14 were children and three were adults in their 80s. Officials were looking at the social media content of the suspect, who was also dead.

And another thing for those of you that get discouraged trying to learn music:
my brain is a weird old thing… The first day I try something new it's just a massive struggle but give it 24 hours to percolate, and the next day it's like 100% easier

More #sliceoflife -- I took this water bottle after nobody claimed it after 24 hours; I think people might have been afraid it was contaminated with PFAS or something; it's made of metal and coated with enamel, but when I opened it I used my hand to waff smells towards my nose like I would in a chemical lab -- the square in the background is poyo_party's Lana from Pokémon Sun and …

“A string of bands have pulled out of a UK music festival hours before they were due to perform after Irish band The Mary Wallopers said they were ‘cut off’ for displaying a Palestinian flag.
The Last Dinner Party, Cliffords and The Academic announced on Saturday that they would no longer be performing at the Victorious festival in Portsmouth following Friday’s incident.
…
Rock band The Last Dinner Party said they would boycott the festival in a statement shared on their Inst…

Bands pull out of UK music festival after The Mary Wallopers say they were ‘cut off’
Irish folk group displayed Palestinian flag on stage in Portsmouth

Mr. President, is the ceasefire in the room with us?
“The launches came after 4 a.m. local time in Tehran, the time Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran would stop its attacks if Israel ended their airstrikes.”
https://apnews.com/live/iran-israel-war-updates-6-2…

Ceasefire status is unclear after Israel reports continued missiles from Iran
U.S. President Donald Trump said on social media Monday that Israel and Iran have agreed to a “complete and total ceasefire” to be phased in over 24 hours.

I increasingly think that we need mandatory formal training for PhD students in “research as a profession” (as it exists in other countries, apparently).
Yes, submitting a paper to a conference (in particular as a first author) constitutes an commitment to present the paper if it’s accepted. When working with coauthors, no, you can’t tacitly assume that they’ll take care of it.
And yes, a workshop on Monday from 09:00 to 12:30 takes place during “normal working hours.”

ServiceNow reports Q2 revenue up 22.5% YoY to $3.22B, vs. $3.12B est., and net income up 47% YoY to $385M, fueled by AI growth; NOW jumps 7% after hours (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/23/servicenow-now-q2-earnings-2025.html

ServiceNow lifts guidance on AI growth
"Every business process in every industry is being refactored for agentic AI," said ServiceNow chair and CEO Bill McDermott in a release.

The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-doge-social-security-takeover-leland-dudek

The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security
DOGE has ignored urgently needed reforms and upgrades at the Social Security Administration, according to dozens of insiders and 15 hours of candid interviews with the former acting chief of the agency, who admits he sometimes made things worse.

Mass evacuations in flood-hit Punjab hit 300,000 following alerts by India https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/09/mass-evacuations-in-flood-hit-punjab-hit-300000-following-alerts-by-india/

Mass evacuations in flood-hit Punjab hit 300,000 following alerts by India
SHER SHAH, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say nearly 300,000 people have been evacuated in the past 48 hours from flood-hit areas of eastern Punjab province, bringing the total number displaced since last month to 1.3 million. Authorities on Wednesday were struggling to divert overflowing rivers onto farmlands to protect major cities, as part of one […]

Rädda Valhallabadet! I have spent so many enjoyable hours of my life in this lovely public swimhall from the 1950s. Goteborg would not be Goteborg without it. Please sign this petition to save it from unnecessary demolition:
https://www.mittskifte.org/petitions/radda-valhallabadet

Rädda Valhallabadet!
Valhallabadet är inte bara en byggnad med stora kulturhistoriska och arkitektoniska värden utan Göteborgs första och enda demokratiska centralbad med en halv miljon besökare varje år.  Att riva ett fullt fungerande badhus för att bygga ett nytt på samma ställe strider dessutom mot de klimatmål- och hållbarhetsmål som vi har förbundit oss att leva upp till nationellt såväl som lokalt.

This is why massive cuts to NOAA and the National Weather Service are so dangerous. You can expect more of this with the increasingly anti-science policies given climate driven intense storms and increased unpredictability.
#science #weather

Our brains 🧠 are funny sometimes.. now that we own a black car for the first time (as of three weeks ago)… and now that I have driven it for 24 hours over the past week (up to Nova Scotia and back)….
… I am suddenly noticing how many black cars there are on the roads of New England and Atlantic Canada! 😃😮🤯
I had never really paid attention… but now I am seeing them everywhere!

Four NFL trades made in less than 24 hours, plus landing spots for Anthony Richardson and other backup QBs

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/four-nf

About 24 hours later this fan is up and running again. I’m ready to be a guest on Repair Shop.

About 65 hours in to Xenoblade 3. Having a great time. I think the story is not the best in the world but the gameplay is really great.
#videogames

Spilling the autistic tea!
One of my biggest autistic traits is that I talk to myself for up to six hours a day, and have done so my entire life, all 24 years.
I just love talking to myself, it’s my way of stimming and fully owning my queer, neurodivergent self with pride, I suppose.
The more you know!
#ActuallyAutistic

24 hours inside Pokrovsk as Russia closes in on key Ukrainian city: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/19/hours-inside-pokrovsk-as-russia.html

The ultimate life hack is to record your condo board meeting town hall on a AI note taker and read the summary after.
2.5 hours saved.
#condolife

"all babies must be conceived the old-fashioned way, through two minutes of vigorous thrusting and fluid exchanges, followed by a good two hours of gnawing disappointment and regret."
Heritage Foundation Wants You To F*ck For America!
https://www.wonkette.com/p/heritage-foundation-wants-you-to

#Israel must be stopped by any means necessary. By sanctions or by force. Israel is starving the entire Gaza population with the stated intent of wiping it.
https://www.

Request below.
One of our users was lost trying to use Godot's Tile/Terrain support - we had adapted that system to the iPad.
The most effective way of using it today in Godot or Xogot is to spend a few hours looking for explanations on YouTube, and this was not great.
Miroslav took a stab at using our "Guide the user" idiom to try to simplify this process and steer users towards making it work.
The request is: are there other things you find hard to do …

And 2.5 hours later, Starlink is back. The service rather unimpressively promises 99.9% uptime, or about 9 hours of outages a year. So they can do this about once a quarter and still meet their sandbagged goal.

Especially with service businesses, there’s a sweet spot between “not busy enough to survive” and “the line is too long.”
Went to order a pick-up pizza from the best local place, which happens to be run by a family out of a half-apartment-half-household-paint-store, and was previously only open on Thursday nights and Saturday afternoons. They’ve been hit by the influencers lately, and started offering Uber Eats.
They were sold out for the day when I got the urge, a couple hours a…

Cowboys teammates have been voicing support of Micah Parsons for past 24 hours https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/01/teammates-are-supportin…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#SundayMorning
- Your perfect Sunday soundtrack
Sarah Walker with three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh, whether you’re here for the first time or every week with your morning cuppa.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002h7vp

STOCK ANALYSTS: Ignore Musk’s behavior, geniuses are just eccentric sometimes, it’s OK, his repeated failures will soon give way to 10000x growth
MUSK: After listening to Ace of Base on repeat for 72 hours straight while huffing jet fuel, I now understand that I am destined to merge with the AI resurrection of Hitler to become Machine Jesus who saves the white race after 1000 years of continuous stock market crashes, which are of course necessary and a good idea. Libturds have hidden this truth from your mind

Me: why am I so tired at 1:30a?
Earlier me: flew to Iceland, slept a couple of hours on the plane, landed at 6a, did some stuff, did some shopping, took a short nap, more shopping, drinking, dinner, more drinking, and around 29k steps.

I ordered a thing from Amazon while I was away from home. Bizarrely their delivery to a nearby counter was much swifter than their delivery to the address I was at, so I chose the counter.
They failed to deliver to the counter two days in a row because the business the counter was at lied about their opening hours. I had to cancel the order.
(1/3)

Friends, tips and thoughts please.
I'm moving my daughter from Paris to Glasgow in a few weeks. I look forward to it, but I also dread it a little. Hurray for Scotland, meh for long distance travel.
Are there any fun things to do along the way that don't take too long? Any tips or recommendations?

Over 24 hours, Trump's authoritarian-style vision comes into focus (again) (Steve Benen/MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/24-hours-trumps-authoritarian-style-vision-comes-focus-rcna212838
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p80#a250613p80

A gay school superintendent US citizen was detained and traumatized by CBP personnel at Houston airport returning from vacation.
#lgbtq #cbp #ice

Outrage after CBP detains gay VT superintendent for hours
Local officials and national lawmakers are expressing anger over U.S. citizen Wilmer Chavarria’s “deeply disturbing” encounter while returning from vacation with his husband.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/mit-student-prints-ai-polymer-masks-to-restore-paintings-in-hours/

Good Morning #Canada
Today is move in day, so what better day to share some horror stories about unscrupulous movers. Everyone has horror stories about moving from one home to another, and even our meticulously planned event has had some hiccups. Like the truck being 4.5 hours late when we moved out and getting our keys for the new house 8 hours after the deal closed. But we didn't hire anyone from this CBC investigation, so it's all good.
#CanadaIsAwesome #MovingSucks
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/marketplace-moving-companies-1.6371262

Seems like old news now, but war.gov arrives
https://mastodon.social/@botgov/115158020378882617

Air quality in Iowa is now "unhealthy." The air is hazy and when I stick my nose outside, I can smell smoke.

Turning a paddock into a forest in just 24 hours - a filmmaker's inspiring climate action story. Individual and community efforts like tree planting can make a big impact in fighting climate change. #climatechange #climatesolutions

If #AI is allegedly so good for worker productivity and improving efficiency across organizations, why are the AI companies making their own employees work 72 hour workweeks?
If the tech actually helped them get more done faster, wouldn’t they have SHORTER workweeks? Why aren’t they using their own tools to help their employees?
Context: #Anthropic earlier this year, and they told me that this is a job with far longer work hours than any other place they’ve worked at.
They are also pulling 60 hour weeks there, they have zero tolerance for remote work, because the culture is “you don’t want to be left behind”. This person basically disappeared from social life once they took this job. I had never seen them so tired before.

As he departed Washington for the NATO summit in The Hague on Tuesday, Trump said both Israel and Iran had violated the cease-fire.
This was just hours after Trump had announced that the cease-fire had gone into effect.
Trump was enraged that the truce was seemingly crumbling so quickly.
“We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing.
Do you understand that?” Trump told reporters.
…

Trump Enraged as Iran-Israel Cease-Fire Wobbles
Israel accused Iran of violating the truce hours after agreeing to it.

Chinese Livestreaming 'Virtual Human' Salespeople Are Outselling Their Human Counterparts https://www.404media.co/chinese-livestreaming-virtual-human-salespeople-are-outselling-their-human-counterparts/

Finally some information about this strange guy who ride like a train in front of the whole pack. Source: dotwatcher.cc
Nicolas Chatelet #tcrno11cap46: The Quiet Master of Suffering
Nicolas Chatelet isn’t new to long, brutal efforts. In 2020, the Parisian maths teacher rode 11 reps of Plateau de Beille, climbing 21,165 metres in 24 hours – the highest known vertical gain. He fue…

"Any tutorial on how to set it up currently?"
I've got you. Just follow these simple instructions.

9 killed, 81 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/08/killed-injured-in-russian-attacks.html

Understanding Human Daily Experience Through Continuous Sensing: ETRI Lifelog Dataset 2024
Se Won Oh, Hyuntae Jeong, Seungeun Chung, Jeong Mook Lim, Kyoung Ju Noh, Sunkyung Lee, Gyuwon Jung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03698

Understanding Human Daily Experience Through Continuous Sensing: ETRI Lifelog Dataset 2024
Improving human health and well-being requires an accurate and effective understanding of an individual's physical and mental state throughout daily life. To support this goal, we utilized smartphones, smartwatches, and sleep sensors to collect data passively and continuously for 24 hours a day, with minimal interference to participants' usual behavior, enabling us to gather quantitative data on daily behaviors and sleep activities across multiple days. Additionally, we gathered subjective self…

Leeds former head teacher faces no charges following terrorism arrest for holding up a graphic from a satirical magazine.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz9kdq84j3lo

Leeds former head teacher's terror arrest shock over protest cartoon
Jon Farley is held by police under the Terrorism Act for six hours over a placard he was carrying.

Raiders are officially in the market for a quarterback https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/08/23/raiders-in-market-for-quarterback-injury-aidan-oconnell-waiver-wir…

An Audio-centric Multi-task Learning Framework for Streaming Ads Targeting on Spotify
Shivam Verma, Vivian Chen, Darren Mei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18735

An Audio-centric Multi-task Learning Framework for Streaming Ads Targeting on Spotify
Spotify, a large-scale multimedia platform, attracts over 675 million monthly active users who collectively consume millions of hours of music, podcasts, audiobooks, and video content. This diverse content consumption pattern introduces unique challenges for computational advertising, which must effectively integrate a variety of ad modalities, including audio, video, and display, within a single user experience. Traditional ad recommendation models, primarily designed for foregrounded experien…

In Georgian London, a young Scotswoman purloins a handful of handkerchiefs to buy food.
235 years later, her several greats-grandson sits at a computer in the Antipodes, trying out #Daggerheart via Discord in the morning’s ungodly wee hours.
They told the Scotswoman her actions would have far-reaching consequences. She could never have imagined time zones, let alone how they’d affect h…

Eating a whole cheese pizza when you’re lactose intolerant is a choice…
That I made 2 hours ago.

Guess the provider, or for half the points the country. Bought a new sim card, took 1-2 hours to activate and pre pay 30 days, then 1 hour of usage, and then it got blocked (according to customer service - another 2h of suffering: unfounded suspicion of terrorism, no less). Unblocking takes at least 5 days, while the 30 days prepaid are ticking. Fuckers. The terrorists have won.😡

Rose Mulet found my video with 12 views talking about her and she fucking commented on it.
Girl, stop googling yourself and go outside for a few hours.

Still rocking this for my #WristCheck. I actually really like this one.
On the one hand there is a lot going on on that dial bit it remains readable and everything present serves a purpose. No extraneous text* or logos, so while it is busy, it's also clean.
* Ok, ok maybe the tiny "JAPAN MOVT" at the bottom is pointless but it's so small it's almost not r…

Sonnet 063 - LXIII
Against my love shall be as I am now,
With Time's injurious hand crush'd and o'erworn;
When hours have drain'd his blood and fill'd his brow
With lines and wrinkles; when his youthful morn
Hath travell'd on to age's steepy night;
And all those beauties whereof now he's king
Are vanishing, or vanished out of sight,
Stealing away the treasure of his spring;
For such a time do I now fortify …

I had a terrible idea some seconds ago, lucky us all that I did not share it.
Had to do with a "useless feature request" I had...like tied to security of the Mastodon account...making you being able to "lock down" your Mastodon account for 24 hours or more...where every toot gets delayed...
but this idea I had to scrap.
Reason: (#)UnnecessaryComplexity
#DumbFeatureRequests

what's the inverse of sweatin' to the oldies? is it sweatin' to the newbies? either way, cool your head with 3 hours of (mostly) new music, including some fresh live tapes, on last night's frow show on @…. https://wfmu…

Just who are these hammock-dwelling emperors who have 23 hours of free time a week?!

Size distribution of decaying foam bubbles
Ildoo Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18049 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.18049

Size distribution of decaying foam bubbles
The most studies on the stability of foam bubbles investigated the mechanical stability of thin films between bubbles due to the drainage by gravity. In the current work, we take an alternative approach by assuming the rupture of bubbles as a series of random events and by investigating the time evolution of the size distribution of foam bubbles over a long time up to several hours. For this purpose, we first prepared layers of bubbles on Petri dishes by shaking soap solutions of a few differen…

DSA-NRP: No-Reflow Prediction from Angiographic Perfusion Dynamics in Stroke EVT
Shreeram Athreya, Carlos Olivares, Ameera Ismail, Kambiz Nael, William Speier, Corey Arnold
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17501

DSA-NRP: No-Reflow Prediction from Angiographic Perfusion Dynamics in Stroke EVT
Following successful large-vessel recanalization via endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) for acute ischemic stroke (AIS), some patients experience a complication known as no-reflow, defined by persistent microvascular hypoperfusion that undermines tissue recovery and worsens clinical outcomes. Although prompt identification is crucial, standard clinical practice relies on perfusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) within 24 hours post-procedure, delaying intervention. In this work, we introduce the…

Batteries are now cheap enough to unleash solar’s full potential, getting as close as 97% of the way to delivering constant electricity supply 24 hours across 365 days cost-effectively in the sunniest places.
https://ember-energy.org/latest-insigh…

Solar electricity every hour of every day is here and it changes everything | Ember
Batteries are now cheap enough to unleash solar energy’s full potential, getting as close as 97% of the way to delivering constant electricity supply 24 hours across 365 days cost-effectively in the sunniest places.

I think I want to try a ZX Spectrum Next setup on MiSTer to see if I should get the Kickstarter hardware. Does anyone know of any packs that combine the free/demo Next software so I don’t have to spend hours scraping it from various places on the net? I have found packs of the classic Spectrum software.

Microsoft Q4: revenue up 18% YoY to $76.4B, Microsoft 365 Commercial products and cloud revenue up 16%, net income up 24% to $27.2B; MSFT jumps 6% after hours (Microsoft)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/fy-2025-Q4/press-release-webcast

12 killed, 69 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/07/killed-injured-in-russian-attacks.html

We spoke to several people on the House GOP whip team Tuesday night who were expressing alarm about what they’re seeing on their whip cards.
These sources said that they were racking up no’s from lawmakers who they didn’t expect would be opposed to the bill.
Again, it is likely the bill passes in the next 24 hours
but as we learned with the Trump’s failed effort to repeal the ACA in 2017 nothing is pre-ordained in this business,
and we just have to keep working as ha…

The House Needs To Hear A Roar Of Disapproval From The American People Today - Let's Get To Work Everyone!
Paid Subscribers Gather Tonight at 7pm ET, DNC "Organizing Summer" Meeting at 8pm ET

Outrage after border agents subject detained gay Vermont superintendent to hours of 'psychological terror' (Christopher Wiggins/Advocate)
https://www.advocate.com/news/vermont-gay-citizen-detained-cbp
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p148#a250723p148

Last Thursday, the movers ultimately arrived and did an awesome job, emptying the house and garage in 3 hours. The house sale closed with no issues on Friday at 5pm. Today, Monday the 23rd, our house purchase should close mid to late afternoon. Tomorrow, the moving truck arrives to dump our possessions into various rooms. We're almost there...
#NewBeginnings #FeelinGood
https://youtu.be/Edwsf-8F3sI?si=FDM6ees_yO_DqqCE

Flash floods in Pakistan kill 8 and 58 are rescued after deluge swept away dozens https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/06/flash-floods-in-pakistan-kill-8-and-58-are-rescued-after-deluge-swept-away-dozens/

Flash floods in Pakistan kill 8 and 58 are rescued after deluge swept away dozens
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Flash floods triggered by pre-monsoon rains swept away dozens of tourists in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing at least eight people. The nationwide death toll from rain-related incidents rose to 18 over the past 24 hours, officials said. Nearly 100 rescuers in various groups rescued a total of 58 people and […]

How hopeful is every NFL fan base? We have the answers. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6592993/2025/09/03/nfl-hope-o-meter-the-pulse/

IBM reports Q2 revenue up 8% YoY to $16.98B, vs. $16.59B est., and software revenue up 10% to $7.39B, vs. $7.49B est.; IBM drops 5% after hours (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-23/ibm-po…

From glaciologist Melaine Le Roy on Bluesky:
MORE THAN 24H ABOVE ZERO ON TOP OF MONT BLANC!
The station located at Colle Major, 4750 m, on Mont Blanc recorded a maximum of 3.7°C on 28/06, while the minimum today, 29/06, was 1.1°C, more than 24 hours above zero!
But don't worry, it's summer... 🙃😱
Data source @meteovalledaosta

Threat intel experts have told me that CISOs should be prepared for DDoS attacks in terms of Iranian threats.
"'313 Team' claimed responsibility for a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack on Trump’s Truth Social platform just hours after the U.S. strikes."

Iranian-Aligned Hackers Claim Responsibility for Attack on Trump’s Truth Social Platform
A group of Iranian-aligned hackers has reportedly attacked something President Donald Trump holds dear — his Truth Social platform.

crypto.gov has arrived
https://mastodon.social/@botgov/114948514901920888

Russian attacks kill 7, injure 28 in Ukraine over the past 24 hours: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/19/russian-attacks-kill-injure-in.html

It's Robert Reich.
Congress just passed Donald Trump's big, ugly megabill.
Republicans stole from the poor and gave to the rich.
They must pay the price at the ballot box.
The midterm elections start now,
and Inequality Media Civic Action is launching a major effort to make sure the working people screwed over by this bill know who's to blame.
We want to raise $200,000 in the next 24 hours to get started.
Please, chip in $50, $25, or e…

Help Robert Reich get the truth out.
Anything you can give will help us spread the truth, keep you informed, and stop our slide towards fascism.

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Raiders announce first big wave of cuts as they work toward 53-man roster https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/08/25/raiders-first-big-wave-18-waived-released-53-man-roster-cuts…

4 killed, 37 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/05/killed-injured-in-russian-attacks.html

How about we stop producing and using plastic? This is getting absurdily ridiculous..
"Scientists have discovered that waxworm caterpillars can break down polyethylene plastic, one of the most common and persistent pollutants on Earth. These “plastivores” metabolize plastic into body fat within days, offering a striking potential solution to the global waste crisis. But there’s a twist: on a plastic-only diet, the caterpillars weaken and die quickly."
These “plastivore…

These “plastivore” caterpillars can devour a plastic bag in just 24 hours
Scientists have discovered that waxworm caterpillars can break down polyethylene plastic, one of the most common and persistent pollutants on Earth. These “plastivores” metabolize plastic into body fat within days, offering a striking potential solution to the global waste crisis. But there’s a twist: on a plastic-only diet, the caterpillars weaken and die quickly.

MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 24% YoY to $591.4M, vs. $553.9M est., net loss down 14% to $47M, and increases its full-year guidance; MDB jumps 28% after hours (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj…

New site from the GSA "GO.gov will serve as a single travel management solution for all civilian Federal agencies [...]"
https://mastodon.social/@botgov/114863580250597448

Italy's Meloni backs Ukraine security plan that gives allies 24 hours to send troops if Russia invades again, Bloomberg reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/20/italys-meloni-backs-ukraine-security.html

A Qantas Airlines flight that left from Perth, Australia, on Monday night
returned to the same city the next morning after more than 15 consecutive hours in the air
— thanks to turmoil in the Middle East.
The flight, QF33, which was supposed to land in Paris,
was among a number of airplane journeys that were disrupted
after attacks in the region involving the United States, Israel and Iran prompted officials to temporarily close air space in the region.

15-Hour Qantas Flight Takes Passengers From Perth to Perth Amid Mideast Closures
Flights on Monday and Tuesday were delayed and diverted because of temporary air space closures in the region.

At least 2 killed, 33 injured across Ukraine in Russian attacks over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/at-least-killed-injured-across.html

A new report from global energy think tank Ember says
🔥batteries have officially hit the price point that lets solar power deliver affordable electricity almost every hour of the year in the sunniest parts of the world
https://ember-ene…

Solar electricity every hour of every day is here and it changes everything | Ember
Batteries are now cheap enough to unleash solar energy’s full potential, getting as close as 97% of the way to delivering constant electricity supply 24 hours across 365 days cost-effectively in the sunniest places.

Why Russia's war won't end yet: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/27/why-russias-war-wont-end.html