2026-02-02 07:29:29
First time attending the monthly Oily’s Breakfast Club car meet at #Weymouth FC on Sunday. Some cool cars there despite cool/wet weather. #WeirdCarMastodon #carspotting
First time attending the monthly Oily’s Breakfast Club car meet at #Weymouth FC on Sunday. Some cool cars there despite cool/wet weather. #WeirdCarMastodon #carspotting
Is Ukraine entering the "game" in the Middle East? Britain asks Kyiv for assistance.: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/02/is-ukraine-entering-the-ampquotgameampquot.html
Denver-based Northslope, which builds customized AI applications for Palantir OS, raised a $22M Series A led by Friends & Family Capital and Goldcrest Capital (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/all-deals/2026/01/29/exclu…
7th_graders: Vickers 7th Graders (1981)
A small multiplex network of friendships among 29 seventh grade students in Victoria, Australia. Students nominated classmates for three different activities (who do you get on with in the class, who are your best friends, and who would you prefer to work with). Edge direction for each of these three types of edges indicates if node i nominated node j, and the edge weight gives the frequency of this nomination. Students 1-12 are boys and 13-29 ar…
Testimony from an Ogyen Kunzang Choling (OKC) Survivor https://buddhism-controversy-blog.com/2017/10/29/testimony-from-an-ogyen-kunsang-choling-okc-survivor/
I like cats :3
One reason why La Terminal doesn’t encourage tmux for session preservation or mosh is their low fidelity terminal rendering, so I use a tiny “keep the session open” instead. It is a small binary I bundle with LaTerminal.
To get the best of both worlds, I cooked my own “tmux” built on top of headless SwiftTerm, so I get high fidelity rendering - but deploying it seems like an uphill battle:
For those of us shaking our heads over the Carney/Smith deal, this seems relevant and… not terrible? https://www.readtheline.ca/p/ken-boessenkool-carney-and-smith
Yes, I know Carbon Capture is not actually useful (unless something changed?)
Yes, I know they'…
happy new year.
This Week in Sports Trivia: January 29, 2026 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7004386/2026/01/29/this-week-in-sports-trivia-january-29-2026/
@… you might want to double check your reservation because you’re now cancelled
A helper and a patriot:
Alex Pretti’s family and friends
on the life of nurse killed by federal agents
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/29/who-is-alex-pretti-ice-minneapolis-shooting?CMP=Share_iOSApp_O…
I strongly endorse the first part of what @tarheel said here: make plastic more expensive. Bake its human and environmental costs into the price of the products that use it.
I’m not optimistic about that happening under anything like current political conditions, but still important to note what a good idea that would be if we did it.
https://mstdn.io/@tarheel/115651260261673168
Hyperachiever-Business-Bros verlieren ihre Lust an ihren Zettelkasten, und vielleicht ist das ja auch ganz gut so.
https://mela.de/blog/2025/12/29/die-endlose-leere-des-bedeutungslosen-zettelkastens/
Edit: I missed some and will correct it later.
Five of the largest verified accounts of #news organizations in the #Fediverse are:
@…
Apple Vision Pro: Werbebudget um 95 Prozent gekürzt
Nach enttäuschenden Verkaufszahlen zieht Apple die Reißleine: Das Unternehmen kürzt das Werbebudget. Es gibt auch Angaben zu Stückzahlen.
https://www.
A YouTuber hacked a North Korean military computer, revealing footage of North Korean soldiers captured on webcam
https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2026/01/29/PBEH25CATZCELKJLAZRGVBPXFA/
If you use Quarto to make presentations for a professional setting, it is important to choose the right theme, e.g. #rstats
Der Oberbürgermeister von #Erlangen, @…, hat den #did genutzt und ist nun im #Fediverse
Oh, THE LÄND FÄNSHOP got häcked.
Scoop: Trump expects Panama Canal court win for "Donroe Doctrine" (Marc Caputo/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/29/trump-panama-canal-court-ruling-china
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p114#a260129p114
Fascism is the base state to which a high tech society devolves without the active effort to build and maintain liberatory institutions.
50 new year's eves ago tonight, the jerry garcia band exit 1975 in #berkeley, garcia’s final show with inconsistent genius nicky hopkins, greg errico subbing for ron tutt, plus guests bobby weir & mickey hart & matt kelly. the garcia band's only new year's show. now garcialive, vol. 5:
À travers cet article on apprend que VIA va commander 42 locomotives et 320 voitures. Mais ça prendra certainement plusieurs années #viarail
https://www.
Apple reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $143.76B, vs. $138.48B est., net income up 16% to $42.1B, and China net sales up 38% to $25.53B (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/29/apple-aapl-earnings-report-q1-2026.html
Echoes of the FLORIDA TALKS: Putin REJECTS a CEASEFIRE! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/29/echoes-of-the-florida-talks.html
at least back in the day you had to work hard to establish yourself as defense contractor
now you can fire up polymarket and experience fully automated luxury war profiteering
@… I have worked so hard at business mediocrity it’s nice to finally graduate to the next level
Matt Mahan, mayor of San Jose, announces run for governor of California
The former tech entrepreneur joins a sprawling but stagnant field to succeed Gavin Newsom
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/29/matt-mahan-sa…
Im Internet über historische Fakten diskutieren müssen, AI-Ära.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRUs8VjEVW3/?igsh=cHQ0Y3ppbXZrY3Vr
"Setting the stage for the crime begins with sophisticated hackers compromising a freight broker’s load board account, which is an online marketplace where trucking loads are listed and bid on. As typical in many data breaches and other cyberattacks, the accounts are compromised through social engineering and spear phishing. After taking over a freight broker’s account, the criminals then post a fraudulent load listing offering an attractive shipment."
How Hackers And Cargo T…
Does anyone have experience reverse engineering register maps and generally figuring out how to interface to hardware given no documentation other than an upstreamed Linux kernel driver?
I'm sitting here looking at device tree snippets and source code and realizing I have no idea how any of this maps to raw MMIO transactions.
Carney urges US not to meddle in Alberta independence movement (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/29/carney-urges-u-s-not-to-meddle-in-alberta-independence-movement-00755701
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p112#a260129p112
Will Ukraine receive unprecedented guarantees? Trump reveals details of conversation with Putin: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/29/will-ukraine-receive-unprecedented-guarantees.html
Windows 11: Neue Insider-Vorschau mit Dateiexplorer-Optimierungen
Microsoft hat am 1. Dezember neue Insider-Vorschauen für Windows veröffentlicht. Sie bringen Optimierungen für den Dateiexplorer und mehr.
h…
Microsoft shares fell ~10% on Thursday following an earnings report that disappointed some investors, the stock's sharpest daily decline since March 2020 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/29/microsoft-market-cap-earnings.html
Donald Trump said on Sunday that he and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy were “getting a lot closer, maybe very close”
to an agreement to end the war in Ukraine, though both leaders acknowledged that some of the thorniest details remain unresolved.
Trump said it will be clear “in a few weeks” whether negotiations to end the war will succeed.
Zelenskyy said an agreement on security guarantees for Ukraine has been reached.
Trump was sli…
New Marine-Led Air Defense Unit Formed in Ukrainian Navy: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/29/new-marineled-air-defense-unit.html
Pizza Cutter and a Fork: A Bizarre Bid to Break Mangione Out of Jail (Jonah E. Bromwich/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/nyregion/luigi-mangione-break-out-blade.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p117#a260129p117
SK Hynix surpassed Samsung in annual operating profit for the first time in 2025; SK Hynix posted a record profit of ~$33B in 2025 while Samsung posted ~$30.5B (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/29/sk-hynix-beats-samsung-2025-profit-ai-memor…
Defektes Fahrwerk: High-Altitude-Forschungsflugzeug der NASA macht Bauchlandung
Ein NASA-Forschungsflugzeug musste aufgrund eines technischen Defekts mit eingefahrenem Fahrwerk landen. Die Auswirkungen auf den Forschungsbetrieb sind unklar.
This DHS funding battle is part of a bigger question Democrats must answer as they fight to regain power.
Large sections of the Democratic base are now echoing calls to “abolish ICE.”
Some Democratic leaders, like New York Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader,
are pushing back against this with much more tepid, unwieldy, and frankly pretty weak ideas to “restrain, reform, and restrict” the agency.
ICE is just over 20 years old, formed as part of the sec…
House Ethics finds 'substantial evidence' of fraud charges against Florida Democrat (Hailey Fuchs/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/01/29/congress/house-ethics-fraud-evidence-sheila-cherfilus-mccormick-00755641
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p113#a260129p113
Samsung reports Q4 revenue up 24% YoY to ~$65.6B, vs. ~$65.28B est., and operating profit up 200% to ~$14.06B, driven by memory chip price surge and HBM demand (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/29/samsung-record-q4-2025-profit-…
Russia’s fuel market reels as Ukrainian strikes and sanctions drive diesel prices higher despite export bans: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/29/russias-fuel-market-reels-as.html
Gavin Newsom accused the Trump administration official
Dr Mehmet Oz
of discrimination in a civil rights complaint filed with the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Oz, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator, recently visited Los Angeles
and filmed a video alleging that members of the city’s Armenian community orchestrated large-scale healthcare fraud.
The post set off a days-long public quarrel that culminated in the Ca…
Google expands Gemini's hands-free conversational capabilities to walking and cycling modes in Google Maps, available on iOS and rolling out on Android (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/google-maps-now-lets-you-…
Trump, Putin hold phone call following Zelensky's visit to Florida: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/29/trump-putin-hold-phone-call.html
Appfigures: Sora's app downloads dropped 32% month-over-month in December and 45% in January to 1.2M; consumer spending on the app fell 32% MoM as of January (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/openais-sora-app-is-struggli…
The past couple of weeks have shown just how far even Trump has moved to block immigration
and to demonize immigrants in his second term,
erasing the lines around people who traditionally have been seen as special cases.
First, a 19-year-old college student who tried to fly home to surprise her family on Thanksgiving
was shackled by immigration agents and deported,
despite a court order saying she should not be removed from the United States.
And on Friday…
Explosions reportedly rock Russia's Khanskaya military airfield: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/29/explosions-reportedly-rock-russias-khanskaya.html
Waymo says a robotaxi struck a child at 6MPH near an elementary school in Santa Monica on January 23, resulting in minor injuries; the NHTSA opens a probe (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/waymo-robotaxi-hi…
Worried about election interference?
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Zelenskyy–Trump: Agreement in Florida. Is peace closer than it seems?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/29/zelenskyytrump-agreement-in-florida-is.html
The US SEC clarifies its tokenized stock rules, saying they are subject to securities and derivatives rules and issuer approval is required for true ownership (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/01/29
Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father,
who were detained by immigration officers in Minnesota and held at an ICE facility in Texas,
have been released following a judge’s order.
They have returned to Minnesota, according to Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro.
The boy and his dad, Adrian Conejo Arias, who is originally from Ecuador,
were detained in a Minneapolis suburb on Jan. 20.
They were taken to a detention facility in Dilley, Texas.
Katherine Sch…
Russian forces executed 2 Ukrainian POWs in Donetsk Oblast, prosecutors say: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/29/russian-forces-executed-ukrainian-pows.html
Russia says a crypto regulatory framework will come into force July 1, 2027; it will ban privacy coins like monero and cap retail investor purchases at ~$4K (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/01/29
Election law experts are questioning the legality of the FBI’s unprecedented seizure of 2020 election ballots in Fulton County, Ga.
in a raid that has further inflamed fears of federal interference in the upcoming midterm elections.
There is widespread doubt that the records will produce any evidence of prosecutable criminal activity,
and not just because the 2020 election results have been recounted, audited, and litigated to death already.
But, they warn, 2020 i…
Kremlin agrees with Trump that peace is closer, demands Ukraine withdraw from Donbas: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/29/kremlin-agrees-with-trump-that.html
Sources detail how JD Vance, David Sacks, and others brokered a fragile truce between President Trump and Elon Musk, who threatened to fund an America Party (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/29/musk-trump-vance-maga-allia…
US security guarantees set for 15 years, with Ukraine pushing for extension, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/29/us-security-guarantees-set-for.html
Stephen Miller is descended from Russian Jews
—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable.
Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable.
In a series of tweets, interviews in right-wing media, and statements made elsewhere,
Miller has outlined an elaborate worldview that has escaped notice in the mainstream media.
It casts immigrants as a threat to “civilization” in terms …
DeepSeek researchers detail a new mHC architecture they used to train 3B, 9B, and 27B models, finding it scaled without adding significant computational burden (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article
A SERIES OF BLOWS AGAINST RUSSIA! A message from FLORIDA to PUTIN – THE KREMLIN IS SABOTAGING: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/29/a-series-of-blows-against.html
Ukraine war latest live: Ukraine says it still holds parts of Pokrovsk, Myrnohrad situation 'difficult': https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/29/ukraine-war-latest-live-ukraine.html
Talos, which develops digital asset trading infrastructure, raised a $45M extension from Robinhood and others to its $105M Series B, at a $1.5B valuation (Will Canny/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/01/
Bringing art to the cemetery — How 'The Invisible Gallery' reclaims legacy overshadowed by Russian imperialism: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/29/bringing-art-to-the-cemetery.html
Social media app UpScrolled hits #1 on Apple's US app store following allegations that TikTok suppresses anti-ICE videos; its founder says it crossed 1M users (Conor Murray/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/si…
Kremlin aide Ushakov says Trump shocked by alleged drone attack on Putin’s residence as Zelensky denies claim: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/29/kremlin-aide-ushakov-says-trump.html
'A continuous field of battle' — Huliaipole becomes gray zone as fighting intensifies in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Southern Command says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/29/a-continuous-field-of-battle.html
Amazon reported hundreds of thousands of pieces of potential CSAM in AI training data to NCMEC in 2025; child safety officials say Amazon didn't give the source (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-29/amazon-found…
SAP reports Q4 revenue up 3% YoY to €9.68B, adjusted operating profit up 27% YoY to €2.83B, and forecasts 2026 cloud revenue to grow at least 23% YoY to €25.8B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-29/sa…
PUTIN sabotages one point of the PEACE PLAN! Trump is angry! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/29/putin-sabotages-one-point-of.html
Michał Kiciński, co-founder of CD Projekt and DRM-free digital games store GOG, has acquired 100% of the shares in GOG from CD Projekt (Vikki Blake/Eurogamer.net)
https://www.eurogamer.net/gog-and-cd-projekt-founder-micha-kicinski-acquires-10…
❗️Zelenskyy: Security guarantees are the key milestone in achieving lasting peace #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/29/zelenskyy-security-guarantees-are-the.html<…
NEWSFLASH: Trump, Zelenskyy announce energy ceasefire in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/29/newsflash-trump-zelenskyy-announce-energy.html
Ukraine distributes boilers from Italy to support heating for up to 90,000 homes: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/29/ukraine-distributes-boilers-from-italy.html
PUTIN'S COMBAT PENGUINS: Why do their "innovations" make even their own soldiers laugh?: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/29/putins-combat-penguins-why-do.html
🌊 The West sinks Putin’s shadow fleet: France seizes tanker, India rejects Russian oil: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/29/the-west-sinks-putins-shadow.html
Russia’s new “anti-drone” solution – dressing soldiers like giant penguins #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/29/russias-new-antidrone-solution-dressing.html
NATO urges EU NOT TO RESTRICT arms purchases for Ukraine #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/29/nato-urges-eu-not-to.html
LIVE | 2026 WITHOUT ILLUSIONS: Russia enters it EXHAUSTED and ISOLATED: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/01/live-without-illusions-russia-enters.html
'Clearing up the mess' — Ukraine's oil and gas giant gets new supervisory board: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/02/clearing-up-the-mess-ukraines.html
LIVE | NEW PHASE OF WAR: Ukraine tests "FLAMINGO" relative missile and scales up DRONE PRODUCTION: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/02/live-new-phase-of-war.html
War has drained Ukraine’s workforce, but women and veterans are stepping in to fill the void: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/02/war-has-drained-ukraines-workforce.html
Trump: Iran planned to attack America – we stopped it! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/02/trump-iran-planned-to-attack.html
Any comparison of the US-Iran conflict to the Russia-Ukraine war is ignorant: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/02/any-comparison-of-the-usiran.html
US deploys LUCAS attack drones against Iran 'for first time in combat': https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/02/us-deploys-lucas-attack-drones.html
Ukrainian paratroopers claim breakthrough on the Oleksandrivka axis in Donbas: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/02/ukrainian-paratroopers-claim-breakthrough-on.html
With slow progress on battlefield, Russia shifts to terror and sabotage in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/02/with-slow-progress-on-battlefield.html
Ukraine restores power after nationwide blackout, rolling outages to continue: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/01/ukraine-restores-power-after-nationwide.html