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Donald Trump’s hateful, falsehood-filled rant on Thursday
blaming immigrants for crime, “social dysfunction” and economic hardship
is refuted by a wide range of immigration statistics,
which show clearly that immigrants dramatically bolster the US economy
and commit crimes at far lower rates than people born in the US.

Salesforce: online Black Friday sales grew 6% YoY to $79B globally, including $3B in US sales driven by AI agents; Adobe: US online sales rose 9.1% to $11.8B (Joan Verdon/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joanverdon/2025/…

Black Friday Data Shows Online Sales Strong, Store Results Mixed
U.S. ecommerce sales jumped 9.1% on Black Friday according to Adobe, but the verdict is still out on how well physical stores performed.

Russian artillery strike hits children's hospital in Kherson, 9 injured: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/russian-artillery-strike-hits-childrens.html

A look at Daily Mail owner Jonathan Harmsworth's decades-long push to add the Telegraph to his family empire, his vision for the title, and more (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/29/w…

Tom Stoppard died. Well, that sucks. ☹️
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/theater/tom-stoppard-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.408.7Kdu.WtBN0ktwCbcc&smid=url-share

Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88
Drawing comparisons to the greatest of dramatists, he entwined erudition with imagination in stage works that won accolades on both sides of the Atlantic.

"Year-end ‘good news’ as flat-headed cats reappear in Thailand after 29-year absence"
#Thailand #Animals

Year-end ‘good news’ as flat-headed cats reappear in Thailand after 29-year absence
Flat-headed cats haven’t gone extinct in Thailand after all. A population is clinging on in the peat swamp forests of Princess Sirindhorn Wildlife Sanctuary, in the country’s south, after eluding detection for nearly three decades. Camera traps set up by wildcat NGO Panthera and Thailand’s Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) picked […]

Der Podcast "Nicht mehr mein Land" ist ganz gut, aber die wirklich wichtige und Botschaft ist die letzte Folge! es sind die kleinen Dinge in Alltag, der #Alltagsrassismus, die Flapsigkeiten, die den Unterschied und die Wirkung machen. Und das sind imho die Dinge die unsere Gesellschaft spalten.

Imagine being so depraved that you will spread FUD about and defame a young woman in Gaza who is volunteering to help others who are also being forced to endure genocide and famine in Gaza.
That’s exactly what these two accounts are doing:
• @… (CC mastodon.de admin, @…

Where Hundreds of Undocumented Migrants Have Died in Custody - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/world/asia/where-hundreds-of-undocumented-migrants-have-died-in-custody.html

We're seeing The Running Man at 10pm tonight. hahaha

Fast echt.

"strncpy() is a weird function with a crappy API."
good thing I don't do C 🙃
Seriously though - projects defining their own strc(o)py do mean flaws in a standard library.
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/12/29/no-strcpy-either/

no strcpy either
Some time ago I mentioned that we went through the curl source code and eventually got rid of all strncpy() calls. strncpy() is a weird function with a crappy API. It might not null terminate the destination and it pads the target buffer with zeroes. Quite frankly, most code bases are probably better off completely … Continue reading no strcpy either →

Unsure what Mac application is the shittiest, but Discord is certainly in the top 5

Aw dang... They only sent one leg for my cat kit.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/afp_ai_commissioner_barrett_speech/
“Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) is working on an AI to interpret emojis and the slang used online by Generation Z and Generation Alpha, so it can understand them when they disc…

Australian police building AI to translate emoji used by ‘crimefluencers’
: Five Eyes intel alliance has created a team to target these scum who prey on kids

"There is no such thing as ‘changing the world without taking power’, but the taking of power is a more complex process than storming the gates of government and implanting a new regime; ..."
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/10/29/minority-influence-how-ca…

Minority influence: how can degrowth step up?
A contribution to the ecosocialism vs horizontalism debate. by Anna Gregoletto and Mark H Burton* A debate is in progress between alternative strategy prescriptions for degrowth. On the one side, w…

Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown.
“When we compare the total terrestrial water storage data with climate datasets, the trends broadly correlate,” said Mohammad Shamsudduha, professor of water crisis and risk reduction at UCL.

ライトユーザーだと、マストドン公式アプリ使ってる人が多いよね。
WebUIがアプリ並み（あるいはそれ以上）の機能を持っているということは知らないし、特に必要だと思ってない。
サードパーティーアプリが使えるということも、考えたこともない。

Microsoft's Q1 earnings, showing that it had a $3.1B net loss from its OpenAI stake, imply OpenAI lost $11.5B during the quarter based on Microsoft's 27% stake (Matt Rosoff/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/microsoft_earnings_q1_26_open…

Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter
: Satya has also delivered Sam most of the cash he promised

Sweden's Gripen jets are coming to Ukraine — here's how they could impact the war: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/swedens-gripen-jets-are-coming.html

A Russian military victory in Ukraine would cost Europe twice as much as a Ukrainian victory,
according to a new study by Corisk and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs published on Nov. 25.
The study outlined two military and economic scenarios for Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine
and highlighted the choices available to Europe as the United States pushes a peace plan that may be unfavorable to Ukraine and Europe as a whole.

Russian victory would cost Europe twice as much as supporting Ukraine, study finds
A Russian military victory in Ukraine would cost Europe twice as much as a Ukrainian victory, according to a new study by Corisk and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs published on Nov. 25.

Someone kindly reached out to ask if I would consider speaking about Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org/) at the Social Web Devroom being organised by the Social Web Foundation at FOSDEM.
My answer is no.
And I feel it’s important for those of us who care about such things to understand why:

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

South Africans Were Promised Job, but Ended Up ‘Going to War’ for Russia - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/world/africa/south-africa-russia-ukraine-fighters-zuma.html

If you want see some bad things happening to Nazis, this is a good read

@… 私はのえたん！（？）

New York becomes the first US state to require retailers to disclose use of algorithmic pricing tied to personal data; 10 states are considering similar bills (Tim Balk/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/nyregio

N.Y. Law Could Set Stage for A.I. Regulation’s Next ‘Big Battleground’
The new law seeks to prevent retailers from ripping off consumers by using artificial intelligence and their personal data to charge them higher prices.

18 year-old street singer detained additional 13 days by Russian authorities for 'petty hooliganism': https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/yearold-street-singer-detained-additional.html

Ukraine’s political system is bracing for a “mini-revolution”
as the county’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy,
is forced to adapt to life without
his closest adviser, chief enforcer and most loyal associate,
Andriy Yermak,
who resigned on Friday
after his apartment was searched
as part of a widening anti-corruption probe.
Yermak was widely believed to control a network of Telegram channels
that poured dirt on those who crossed him,
a…

WFT?
Fox Contributor Questions Trump’s Plan to Eliminate Income Tax: ‘The Math Doesn’t Really Work There’
https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/fox-contributor-questions-trumps-plan-to-eliminate-income-tax-the-math-doesnt-really-work-there/

Unpopular opinion, "collaborative" word processing is bad.
People should have ownership of their writing and changes to documents should be requested and not be a fait accompli.

おはようございます（今日の分）

Ukraine attacks 2 oil depots, destroys military equipment in Russian-occupied Crimea, SBU source confirms: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/ukraine-attacks-oil-depots-destroys.html

Microsoft 365 and Azure suffer outages; users report problems accessing sites and services, and the company says it is investigating (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/29/microsoft-hit-with-azure-365-outage-ahead-of-quarte…

Microsoft hit with Azure, 365 outage ahead of quarterly earnings report
Microsoft users reported outages for Azure and 365 services a week after many customers of Amazon Web Services suffered hours of downtime.

The leading vaccine regulator at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a far stricter course for federal vaccine approvals,
following claims from his team that Covid vaccines were linked to the deaths of at least 10 children.
Experts suggest the announcement will make the vaccine approval process significantly more difficult.
Dr Vinay Prasad, whose vaccine policy direction has been supported by the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, told FDA staff that…

Using devices as long as they work is literally the exact opposite of “hoarding”, which would be buying a new phone every year and ending up with a hoard of them.
Let’s not use words that were deliberately used in bad faith to blame consumers for problems producers have.

New Marine-Led Air Defense Unit Formed in Ukrainian Navy: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/29/new-marineled-air-defense-unit.html

今回のエリックサウス監修ビリヤニ（セブンイレブン／東京・埼玉・千葉・神奈川の地域限定らしい）、こんな感じだよ。
このご時世で、販売価格を598円に抑えているのは凄いね。
キーマカレーは食べやすいし、別になっているバターチキンの旨さと甘さも変化があって楽しいし、毎回買いたくなるぐらい美味しいよ。
#gochisou_photo

Apollo Global reaches a deal to sell AOL to Bending Spoons, sources say in a deal valued at ~$1.5B; AOL has about 30M MAUs across its email and web properties (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/29/aol-bending-spoons-deal

AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for roughly $1.5B
For AOL, a deal means they will finally have a long-term home, after changing hands many times in recent years.

Gretchen Carlson and Julie Roginsky,
who pursued sexual harassment lawsuits against former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes and co-launched the non-profit Lift Our Voices,
said that seeing the Epstein files was imperative.
The information, in turn, could guide appropriate next steps.
“I think that the possibilities are endless as to what could be the result.
I think there could be more criminal charges.
I think that there could be accountability, not only for indi…

haha lol nope

バブ曽根ちゃん #心

Amazon opens Project Rainier, an $11B AI data center on 1,200 acres in Indiana that trains and runs Anthropic's AI models using 500K Amazon Trainium 2 chips (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/29/amazon-opens-11-bi…

Amazon opens $11 billion AI data center in rural Indiana as rivals race to break ground
Amazon has opened a date center on 1,200 acres of land in Indiana dedicated to training and running models from Anthropic.

After a Washington Post report this week alleged that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered defense officials to “kill everybody” traveling on a boat that was being surveilled , two senators
– Republican Roger Wicker and Democrat Jack Reed –
released a statement saying the Senate armed services committee will be investigating the boat strikes.
“The Committee is aware of recent news reports – and the Department of Defense’s initial response
– regarding alleged fol…

Echoes of the FLORIDA TALKS: Putin REJECTS a CEASEFIRE! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/29/echoes-of-the-florida-talks.html

How to use generative AI ethically and tastefully
Thread 👇

おはようございます（昨日の分）

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…

How Vance brokered a truce between Trump and Musk
As Trump’s first year in office comes to a close, both he and his Trump world allies have learned hard lessons about Musk’s unusual influence.

The people who tried to overturn the 2020 election have more power than ever – and they plan to use it.
Bolstered by the president,
they have prominent roles in key parts of the federal government.
🔸Harmeet Dhillon, a lawyer who helped advance Donald Trump’s claims of a stolen election in 2020, now leads the civil rights division of the justice department.
An election denier, 🔸Heather Honey, now serves as the deputy assistant secretary for election integrity in the …

'Nothing like this has ever happened here': https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/nothing-like-this-has-ever.html

The most surprising thing about this story is that Microsoft showed at least a little bit of backbone https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/google-amazon-israel-contract-secret-code

Sources: legal AI startup Harvey raised $150M led by a16z at an $8B valuation, up from a $5B valuation in June, bringing its total raised to over $1B (Iain Martin/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2025/10/29/le…

AI Startup Harvey Raises $150 Million At $8 Billion Valuation
The San Francisco-based startup that provides AI tools for lawyers has raised a new round of funding, its third in 2025 alone, led by Andreessen Horowitz.

At a time when the majority of Americans distrust big tech
and believe artificial intelligence will harm society,
Silicon Valley has built its own network of alternative media
where CEOs, founders and investors
are the unchallenged and beloved stars.
What was once the province of a few fawning podcasters
has grown into a fully fledged ecosystem of publications and shows
supported by some of the tech industry’s most powerful.

Is Russia’s ‘flying Chornobyl’ a real threat?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/is-russias-flying-chornobyl-a.html

US to cut some troops on NATO's eastern flank, Romania says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/us-to-cut-some-troops.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…

Russia–North Korea Partnership Boosted by New Bridge: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/russianorth-korea-partnership-boosted-by.html

Baltic companies secretly fueling Russia’s shadow fleet: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/baltic-companies-secretly-fueling-russias.html

Development of the System of Psychological Assistance for Veterans: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/development-of-the-system-of.html

Trump, Putin hold phone call following Zelensky's visit to Florida: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/29/trump-putin-hold-phone-call.html

Explosions reportedly rock Russia's Khanskaya military airfield: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/29/explosions-reportedly-rock-russias-khanskaya.html

Polish jets intercept Russian reconnaissance plane over Baltic Sea: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/polish-jets-intercept-russian-reconnaissance.html

Zelenskyy–Trump: Agreement in Florida. Is peace closer than it seems?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/29/zelenskyytrump-agreement-in-florida-is.html

India partners with sanctioned Russian firm to produce passenger aircraft: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/india-partners-with-sanctioned-russian.html

Ukraine reportedly strikes oil refinery, chemical plant in western Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/ukraine-reportedly-strikes-oil-refinery.html

Russian TV spreads fear: preparing Russians for a "great war" with the West: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/russian-tv-spreads-fear-preparing.html

Two oil depots ablaze in Russian-occupied Crimea after overnight drone strikes: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/two-oil-depots-ablaze-in.html

Russian forces executed 2 Ukrainian POWs in Donetsk Oblast, prosecutors say: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/29/russian-forces-executed-ukrainian-pows.html

Ukraine’s military command denies presence of Russian troops in Myrnohrad: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/ukraines-military-command-denies-presence.html

Chart of the week: Ukraine’s deal market holds steady despite investor hesitation: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/chart-of-the-week-ukraines.html

Ukrainian military: Pokrovsk not encircled, but Russian drones control all exits: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/ukrainian-military-pokrovsk-not-encircled.html

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

Lithuania closes 2 Belarus border crossings for a month after airspace violations: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/lithuania-closes-belarus-border-crossings.html

JUST IN! SSU strikes Crimea! Powerful explosions at the enemy — "Pantsir-S2" destroyed: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/just-in-ssu-strikes-crimea.html

British man arrested in Kyiv for ‘preparing to commit terrorist attacks,’ Ukraine says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/british-man-arrested-in-kyiv.html

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

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

Ukrainian intelligence 'eliminates' Russian officer accused of war crimes in Kyiv Oblast: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/ukrainian-intelligence-eliminates-russian-officer.html

🇭🇺 Why is Orbšn scaring Europe with a "war with Russia"? Oil depots burning in Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/why-is-orbn-scaring-europe.html

🔥 Ukraine has stopped the encirclement of POKROVSK — Russia "besieged" the city for a YEAR!: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/ukraine-has-stopped-the-encirclement.html

Will Ukraine receive unprecedented guarantees? Trump reveals details of conversation with Putin: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/29/will-ukraine-receive-unprecedented-guarantees.html

Russian stormtrooper lasts no more than 12 days! Ukrainian forces smash invaders, Gripen on the way!: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/russian-stormtrooper-lasts-no-more.html

Belgorod dam strike triggers flooding that could stall Russian advance near Vovchansk, analyst says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/belgorod-dam-strike-triggers-flooding.html

Ukraine war latest live: Putin more committed than ever to continuing war, US intelligence report says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/ukraine-war-latest-live-putin.html

Ukraine's military retracts claim that Russian troops entered outskirts of Myrnohrad, Donetsk Oblast: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/ukraines-military-retracts-claim-that.html

Resilience of Ukraine’s Small and Medium Businesses Amid the War: Challenges, Policy, and the Future: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/resilience-of-ukraines-small-and.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

After scandal erupts, controversial Ukrainian colonel denies sharing 'classified' front-line maps on TikTok: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/after-scandal-erupts-controversial-ukrainian.html

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

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

Vegetables. Monetary policy. Facebook: How one post about a central bank decision fired up Ukraine's top economists: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/vegetables-monetary-policy-facebook-how.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

❗️🇺🇸Trump: We're very close #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/29/trump-were-very-close-shorts.html

ANTI-UKRAINIAN BLOCK: why does ORBAN need it? #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/antiukrainian-block-why-does-orban.html

SSU and partisans disrupt RUSSIAN plans in CRIMEA #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/ssu-and-partisans-disrupt-russian.html

PUTIN sabotages one point of the PEACE PLAN! Trump is angry! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/29/putin-sabotages-one-point-of.html

🪖 12 days – that's how long a Russian STORMTROOPER lives at the front #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/days-thats-how-long-a.html

⚡ Russia destroyed a CHILDREN'S hospital in KHERSON – it is now in RUINS #short: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/russia-destroyed-a-childrens-hospital.html

❗️Zelenskyy: Security guarantees are the key milestone in achieving lasting peace #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/29/zelenskyy-security-guarantees-are-the.html<…