2025-12-30 12:14:47
Updated NFL Power Rankings: New 1-32 poll, plus what we learned about each team this season https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47446909/nfl-week-18-power-rankings-poll-32-teams-2025-season-lessons
Updated NFL Power Rankings: New 1-32 poll, plus what we learned about each team this season https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47446909/nfl-week-18-power-rankings-poll-32-teams-2025-season-lessons
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Salin:
🎵 Being Here
#Salin
https://open.spotify.com/track/4lZq5b9huH9hE9SHJs0qEA
Die monatliche #Energieerzeugung meiner #Kernfusionskollektoranlage im Vergleich zu Prognosedaten aus einer Simulation.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: 58 Grad
👉 So berechnest Du die Jahresertragsprognose:
Klage gegen Google-KI: Falsche Such-Infos können Unterlassung rechtfertigen
Das Landgericht Frankfurt stuft KI-Fehler als potenzielle Wettbewerbsbehinderung ein. Firmen können sich so mit dem Kartellrecht gegen falsche KI-Texte wehren.
Is there some actual study on the "life expectancy" of magnetic media such as cassette tapes or floppy disks?
E.g. I have a pre-recorded compact cassette that is 50 years old and works just fine (and sounds great!), and floppy disks from the early 80s that read with no problems.
Yet when I search for this topic everyone always claims "10–20 years" is what to expect from magnetic media.
On Mac, open up a terminal and type or copy-paste: ßh
(Doesn't work on Linux)
I love what Tauri has done, a lightweight version of Electron, where you author the backend code in Rust.
But while I love Rust, I do not love it for app building, and I wanted to have that HTML-model for programming but available in Swift.
I used assorted AI tools to port Tauri to Swift (it still reuses the big chunks of code from Tauri), but now you can write HTML desktop apps in Swift:
This shocks people. They are even more shocked when you show them that computers in general haven't had a positive impact on productivity.
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115468156431719681
Sources: Granola, which makes an AI-based note-taking app, aims to raise $100M led by Index Ventures at a $1B valuation, up from a $250M valuation in May 2025 (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20
Democratic fundraising SMS spam:
“Life hasn’t always been easy. As the proud daughter of a union pipefitter and an F-16 fighter jet, I crawled my way up the broken glass of the capitol building steps to rein in greedy corporate lima bean cartel criminals. In this 10,000-word biographical essay, I will…”
Republican fundraising SMS spam:
“Stop ignoring us, you utter shitsack. Click here to pledge your firstborn daughter to Trump: […] Can he count on you? This is your last chance!”
confession: for several years i had assumed, unquestioningly, that "SMP Minecraft" is for "symmetric multiplayer"
@… @… I’ll pay you $5 to get on board with the idea
"US law enforcement has been investigating allegations by former Meta Platforms Inc. contractors that Meta personnel can access WhatsApp messages, despite the company’s statements that the chat service is private and encrypted"
https://www.bloomberg…
Mailing Lists? In this day and age!?
I've been pointed to Groups.io and Gaggle Mail as alternatives to Google Groups for a mailing list, but I've love to hear about others.
Google Groups tends to be a default for many people doing a mailing list because it's free and well known, but I want to offer an alternative to Google and other big US-based tech companies.
Any other suggestions?
(Thanks to @…
geil hightech agenda
vielleicht bekomme ich jetzt geld um den taschenrechner fertig zu stellen
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
Until now, Social Security disability benefits got easier to qualify for as a person reached 50 and above. The Trump plan would end that.
New Work World: The administration contends that injured laborers have more access to technology and more nonphysical job options than in the past.
Red State Blues: Under the plan, millions — particularly in states that voted for Trump — could find it more difficult to qualify for disability benefits in the future.
Die Zeit hat heute einen Artikel "Wo Menschen mit Ihrem Nachnamen 1890 wohnten – und wo heutzutage", der nur für Abonnenten zugänglich ist.
Die Suche nach Nachnamen könnt ihr auch unter
https://nvk.genealogy.net/
durchführen.
@axbom@axbom.meTonight would have been a great night to have been #livestreaming my #Wikipedia editing… my Watchlist had all sorts of fun! A spammer, an actual edit war with a few editors teaming to stop someone who kept trying to add some opinionated text, an editor doing some amazing cleanup of reference…
@… Schön, dass ihr da seid! <3
OMG
at work we're asked to demonstrate enthusiasm "For the Party (AI)" on the regular
a couple of heroes have started to respond to internal sloplicking posts -- especially when slop themselves -- with a simple response
"sir this is a Wendy's"
Unpopular urbanist opinion: Low density explains far less of U.S. car dependence than most urbanists think. It's much more about underfunding of bus service, missing sidewalks, lack of safe bike lanes, and other things that are less sexy than gleaming new highrises, which will in fact fail to achieve much mode shift on their own.
What the Raiders Need Greg Olson to Show Immediately https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-what-need-greg-olson-show-immediately
RE: https://tyrol.social/@steff/115982765230336049
Bahnen sind einfach sehr sehr beliebt. Baut mehr Bahnen!
40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead in #oakland, opening their shortest new year’s run ever, just 2 shows.
soundboard: https://
This week's theme is songs that made you realize why others liked an artist. As a young adult, I was perplexed by Björk. I dated a few women in the 90s who loved her and I was slow and uninterested in listening to much beyond my usual selection of punk and ska. And then I heard this song and my opinion shifted radically and has never gone back.
Björk, "It's Oh So Quiet" (1995)
Le trafic est perturbé entre Dourdan La Forêt et Brétigny dans les 2 sens.
Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X du RER C.
Motif : panne d'un passage Š niveau dans le secteur de La Norville (dysfonctionnement sur les infrastructures du réseau ferroviaire).
🤖 30/12 20:32
on Kubuntu now.
#Helen (the energy company of #Helsinki) in 2024 has installed a 148 MW wind power plant.
https://www.helen.fi/en/n…
In Blow to 'Fetal Personhood' Push, Alabamian Serving 18 Years After Stillbirth Gets New Trial | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/criminalization-of-pregnancy
It seems that the #Telugu & #SouthIndian film wave hasn't reached #Indonesia?
When people refuse to accept me as an American, the Indian films/stars/songs they reference and I assume I know are a…
Guten Morgen! *räkelt sich im Bett und drückt sich noch vor dem letzten Wohnungsputz des Jahres*
It's a bit hard to read because my daughter's camera is pretty bad, but the section of the pantry that the cat is sleeping in is labeled "random". #CatsOfMastodon
smth smth aaah I am only one person, so many cool things happening in parallel at @… 🥴
FOSDEM::attend(DevRoom::Rust, me.clone()); // compile error
Unfortunately, I am not Clone just yet.
I assume I cannot implement that in a thread-safe manner.
What a great dialog by A. A. Milne between aunt and niece about a colorful hat:
Aunt: “Oh, it’ll suit you all right, and it would have suited me at your age. A bit too dressy for me now, though wearing better than some other people, I daresay. I was never the one to pretend to be what I wasn’t. If I’m fifty-five, I’m fifty-five—that’s what I say.”
“Fifty-eight, isn’t it, auntie?”
“I was just giving that as an example,” said Mrs. Stevens with great dignity.
Kinderen gemarteld en seksueel misbruikt in zijn sekte: Belg die al twintig jaar ongestoord in Spanje woont, moet straks misschien toch voor de rechter verschijnen
https://www.
“I get that Tsoding and Valigo are probably writing tongue in cheek but really, if Emacs is so useful you can’t live without it, why are you complaining? You can, after all, change anything you don’t like.”
Or add anything you’re missing, for that matter. If you know #Emacs, why try anything else?
“I get that Tsoding and Valigo are probably writing tongue in cheek but really, if Emacs is so useful you can’t live without it, why are you complaining? You can, after all, change anything you don’t like.”
Or add anything you’re missing, for that matter. If you know #Emacs, why try anything else?
“I get that Tsoding and Valigo are probably writing tongue in cheek but really, if Emacs is so useful you can’t live without it, why are you complaining? You can, after all, change anything you don’t like.”
Or add anything you’re missing, for that matter. If you know #Emacs, why try anything else?
Kalshi and Polymarket have partnered with social media accounts purporting to be breaking news reporters, some of which have repeatedly posted false information (Jordy Fee-Platt/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6876922/2
Darüber redete der Wedding von April bis Juni https://weddingweiser.de/darueber-redete-der-wedding-von-april-bis-juni/
George Carlin once said the govt doesn't want a well-informed, educated population capable of critical thinking.
Q: Does any of this anti-education sentiment sound familiar?
☑️ Why Republicans hate higher education
https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/article2848448…
The health tracking app says that I'm not getting enough antioxidants, so I'm trying to rectify that.
#Food #HealthTracking
Starting a thread on people I've met in relation with #fosdem2026 .
On the plane :
- @…
- @…
After #LinusTorvalds recommending #Fedora, I would recommend you to check out #secureblue!
Most of my posts are sponsored by Procrastination™
Political Upset™ made many others available
"Op plekken waar een warmtenet niet de meest geschikte oplossing is stimuleren en normeren we, per 2029, de uitrol van hybride, slimme warmtepompen."
Nee, in 2029 nog aan de slag met hybride (dus afhankelijk van gas) is geen vooruitgang. Dit houdt juist afhankelijkheid in stand.
Datentransfer in die USA: Klage gegen EU-Datenschutzrahmen geht vor den EuGH | heise online
https://heise.de/-10965140
Un train stationne entre Mairie de Montreuil et Porte de Montreuil vers Mairie de Montreuil en raison d'une manoeuvre de train retardée Š Mairie de Montreuil.
🤖 31/10 10:32
The @… newsletter is really dangerous ... every week I'm adding services to my self-hosted stack because of them... #selfhosting #self-hosting
How Social Security has gotten worse under Trump (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/29/trump-social-security-cuts-customer-service/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251230/p5#a251230p5
Israel bans 25 humanitarian aid groups from working in Gaza | The National
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25730978.israel-suspend-work-several-humanitarian-organisations-gaza/
»Quantitativ übersteigen diese digitalen Literalitäten aus Flirts, Nachrichten, Foren und Versandhandelskommentaren in ihren Lese- und Schreibakten längst den Zeitschriften- und Buchkonsum. Das Paradox steigender Textproduktion und zunehmenden Textkonsums bei gleichzeitig sinkenden Leser:innenzahlen gedruckter Bücher und Zeitungen bildet einen wenig beachteten Hintergrund der Entwicklungen hin zu ChatGTP und LLMs.«
Quelle: Christoph Engemann - Die Zukunft des Lesens (2025)
Biggest need for all 32 NFL teams ahead of the trade deadline: Packers, Cowboys may be looking for DB help
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/biggest…
I fucking don't want to live in interesting times https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jan/30/brian-may-says-us-is-currently-too-dangerous-for-queen-to-tour-there
How the AI data center boom boosted Caterpillar's power and energy unit; generator sales are up 28% YoY through Sept. 2025, after growing 22% to $7.8B in 2024 (Bob Tita/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/caterpillar-generator-sales-…
Please remember: when an officer stops somebody based on racial profiling to challenge their immigration status, the correct and proper term for that is a “Kavanaugh stop.”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/12/brett-kavanaugh-stops-immigration-racial-profiling-ice.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
I somehow tricked myself into drinking a lot more water by switching from a water bottle to a mug.
I keep a mug full of water at my desk and I just seem to be constantly sipping from it.
Hydrate, y'all!
Trump’s defense secretary,
Pete Hegseth, said Monday that
the Pentagon will investigate Mark Kelly,
a Democratic senator from Arizona and retired Navy officer,
for his role in making a video reminding service members of their duty to disobey unlawful orders.
In targeting Kelly
-- and another prominent Democratic critic of the administration,
Rep. Eugene Vindman of Virginia,
-- the Defense Department has been co-opted into the president’s norm-shatte…
@axbom@axbom.meReal talk about how ”AI” is accelerating climate change and having adverse effects on previous and ongoing efforts by others. Brilliantly researched and presented by Heidi Lim. It’s an hour, summarising three months of research. Worth the watch.
https://yt.axbom.com/?id=MRiRmxnwlCo
39C3: Wenn Moleküle zu kryptografischen Funktionen werden
Chemikerin Anne Lüscher zeigte auf dem 39C3, wie sich synthetische DNA für Datenspeicherung und fälschungssichere Authentifizierung nutzen lässt.
https://w…
Maxx Crosby Gives Cryptic Response on Raiders Situation https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/maxx-crosby-cryptic-response-situation/
❓ Hat schon jemand konkrete Details zum Staatsvertrag zur Reform des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks (#Reformstaatsvertrag)?
Welche #Sender fallen weg?
Wieviele MA verlieren den Job?
Was genau für „Doppelstrukturen“ werden abgebaut?
I keep thinking about trying mint or kubuntu but I have ubuntu working and I don't really care about what the UI looking like too much. As long as it works. I like the basics which tend to be best supported.
The Trump administration helps Tenet Media's Lauren Chen return to the US; she lost her visa after a 2024 indictment alleging illicit funding from Russia's RT (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/lauren-chen-t
Arrests made in New York after protesters appear to foil ICE raid with barricade of bodies and garbage bags | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-new-york-chinatown-raid-b2875026.html
How Trump is trying to MAGAfy the world (Stephen Collinson/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/12/30/politics/trump-venezuela-netanyahu-israel-argentina-analysis
http://www.memeorandum.com/251230/p4#a251230p4
Fat Putin will never back down on his drive to "Make America White Again".
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3mdmgqmusjc2c
I'm really tired of this weather
»In Asien haben sie jetzt Maschinen, damit stellen sie billige Schuhe her. Die werden sich aber hier bei uns nicht durchsetzen. Diese Schuhe taugen nämlich nichts, die sind nach einem Jahr kaputt und müssen ersetzt werden. Wenn ICH hier Lederschuhe nähe, halten die ein Leben lang.«
Ein erfundener Schuster fünfzehn Jahre bevor er seinen Laden zumachen musste.
An in-depth look at TPUv7 Ironwood, the latest generation of Google's TPU, and how it positions Google as a serious challenger to Nvidia's AI chip dominance (Dylan Patel/SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/tpuv7-google-takes-a-swing-at-the
2026 NFL Draft order: Raiders hold top pick entering Week 18 after loss to Giants https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-nfl-draft-order-round-1-needs-for-all-32-teams
What @… said:
Providing employment after deployment = supporting troops
Providing housing = supporting troops
Destigmatizing mental health care = supporting troops
Preventing armed conflict = supporting troops
You know what’s NOT supporting troops? Starting wars as political cover for a failing president. Deploying National Guard just to terrorize people and provoke a backlash. Issuing illegal orders. •That• is not supporting troops.
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/115634994186527377
Russia intensifies attacks on New Year's Eve! Should Putin expect a backlash?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/31/russia-intensifies-attacks-on-new.html
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…
Homeland Security seeks emergency demolition of historic buildings in D.C. (Paul Schwartzman/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/12/30/homeland-security-plan-demolish-buildings-st-elizabeths/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251230/p14#a251230p14
Was looking at the Chaos Communications Congress agenda & this session caught my eye:
A cool civilian terrestrial backup for GPS Satellite that is interference resistant.
✅ Who cares about the Baltic Jammer?
https://
✨ New Year and CAROLS during air raid sirens – UKRAINE celebrates #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/31/new-year-and-carols-during.html
Nothing says grieving widow like tight leather pants
https://www.youtube.com/live/GgIH1SIV9m0?si=_4zhBHB7NVfUxCMN
Chairman Comer Announces Hearings on Rampant Fraud in Minnesota's Social Services Programs (United States House Committee on Oversight ...)
https://oversight.house.gov/release/chairman-comer-announces-hearings-on-rampant-fraud-in-minnesotas-social-services-programs/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251231/p47#a251231p47
⚡️ Attack on PUTIN'S RESIDENCE – debunking the FAKE NEWS! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/30/attack-on-putins-residence-debunking.html
Extrajudicial killings within the Russian military are becoming more widespread,
according to an investigation published by the Russian independent outlet Verstka.
The practice of "nullifying" (Russian: "obnulenie")
— the Russian military's term for executing its soldiers
— increasingly involves sending personnel on deadly assualt missions without proper protection
🛡️ INVISIBLE TO THE ENEMY'S “EYES”: How the AFU SURVIVE and PREVAIL under a swarm of Russian DRONES: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/30/invisible-to-the-enemys-eyes.html
US judge blocks Trump move to end protected status for thousands from Honduras, Nepal and Nicaragua (Ted Hesson/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-judge-blocks-trump-move-end-protected-status-thousands-honduras-nepal-2025-12-31/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251231/p51#a251231p51