2025-11-17 00:56:32
BBC should not pay Trump any money,
says former director general Tony Hall
It is Not ‘appropriate’ to use licence fee payer’s money to pay US president after his threat to sue for up to $5bn, says peer
https://www.theguardi…
BBC should not pay Trump any money,
says former director general Tony Hall
It is Not ‘appropriate’ to use licence fee payer’s money to pay US president after his threat to sue for up to $5bn, says peer
https://www.theguardi…
"President Trump, Greenland does not want to become American"
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2026/01/15/president-trump-greenland-does-not-want-to-become-american_6749460_23.html
Not an abstract peace, but protection! Are Europe and the US preparing tough guarantees for Ukraine?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/16/not-an-abstract-peace-but.html
Australia Day - Jan 26 - Not A Date To Celebrate
#AusPol
"In summary, #AGI, as commonly conceived, will not happen because it ignores the physical constraints of computation, the exponential costs of linear progress, and the fundamental limits we are already encountering. Superintelligence is a fantasy because it assumes that intelligence can recursively self-improve without bound, ignoring the physical and economic realities that constrain all systems. …
Bondi Was Not a Surprise ... It was a shock, but it was not a surprise. (Jack Pinczewski/Quillette)
https://quillette.com/2025/12/15/bondi-was-not-a-surprise/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p30#a251215p30
Losing record? Ravens not disqualifying candidates over past head coach stints https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47617172/baltimore-ravens-not-disqualifying-candidates-head-coach-stints
Is there a mailing list service (as in “I want to send concert announcements to a few people”) that’s not objectionable, not predatory, and not run by vile people?
For years Mailchimp was the go-to, but I see them landing on boycott lists of late.
I just love linear() 😍 #CSS #animation
Wrote about it here, in case you’re interested:
https://matthiasott.com/notes/lin…
Cybersecurity news is not slowing down ahead of the holidays, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Russia switches up tactics in cyberattacks on energy companies, Amazon,
--ShinyHunters stole search and watch history of PornHub's premium members,
--Contributor to DraftKings breach and data theft pleads guilty,
--Email outage at German Bundestag was not a cyberattack but doubts linger,
--Ha…
"Somewhere", said Father Vittorini, "did Blake not speak of the
Machineries of Joy? That is, did not God promote environments, then
intimidate these Natures by provoking the existence of flesh, toy men and
women, such as are we all? And thus happily sent forth, at our best, with
good grace and fine wit, on calm noons, in fair climes, are we not God's
Machineries of Joy?"
"If Blake said that", said Father Brian, "he never…
Macron Says France, Not the US, Is Now Main Intel Provider for Ukraine - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/macron-france-intelligence-sharing-ukraine-two-thirds-not-us-2026-1
This Is Not a Nobel Prize https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/this-is-not-a-nobel-prize
The title of the blog post blog was clickbait for me. It argues #Thinkpad fandom boils down to price, build quality, and repairability.
There is one glaringly obvious omission any longtime user should spot immediately. There is no mention of the unique trackpoint-based keyboard design that you can't find anywhere else.
I've stopped using ThinkPads as my primary platform f…
I always know @… wil have a clear view.
https://www.readtpa.com/p/the-rules-of-grief?publ…
Hi, I'm Thomas. Back in 2005 or so I've practically invented in-browser animations with HTML elements.
PLEASE DO NOT ANIMATE USER INTERFACE ELEMENTS FOR NO REASON.
Do not animate icons, change positions of buttons, do "fun liquid glass animations"; definitely under no circumstances move in or fade in whole blocks of text (unless your design goal is that you want people looking at your website to become nauseous).
Only use animation when it's helpful to the user—for example, when they need to pay extra attention to something because there's a risk of data loss or to pass the time while showing that something is going on when there's a process which takes a bit longer.
I wished more media was writing not just about how the "AI" buildout increases prices but actively bars people from building their own independent infrastructures.
"AI" is not just poisoning the infosphere but taking away your ability to build alternatives. In the end only Big Tech Cloud and the way it's often used against the users is left.
OpenAI will match ads to conversation topics using some personalization data, but claims it will not sell user data or expose user conversations to advertisers (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-testing-ads-us/
The working class is the fundamental force that produces the material conditions necessary for the reproduction of society, and through our collective labor we not only create food, shelter, healthcare, education, transportation, and communication networks, but we also sustain and reproduce the conditions that allow every aspect of social life to continue functioning, so that even those who do not work, whether they are managers, bureaucrats, or capitalists, depend entirely on our labor for …
Bringing machine 'default' up with 'libvirt' provider...
[fog][WARNING] Unrecognized arguments: libvirt_ip_command
==> default: Box 'generic/freebsd15' could not be found. Attempting to find and install...
default: Box Provider: libvirt
default: Box Version: >= 0
The box 'generic/freebsd15' could not be found or could not be accessed in the remote catalog.
Anyone knows if there are plans to provide more images for …
Not sure if you'll like Linux? Try it from your browser (#linux …
“Core Thesis: The target I care about is simple: can you make space-based, commodity compute cost-competitive with the cheapest terrestrial alternative? That's the whole claim. Not "space is big." Not "the sun is huge." Not "launch will be cheap." Can you deliver useful watts and reject the waste heat at a price that beats a boring Crusoe-style tilt-wall datacenter tied into a 200–500 MW substation? If you can't beat that, the rest is just vibes.”
…
One of the things that made organizing a lot easier with the GDC was a thing called "GDC in a box." It was a zip file with all kinds of resources. There was a directory structure, templates for all kinds of things like meetings and paperwork you had to file (for legal reasons) and "read me" files.
We had all kinds of support. There were people you could talk to who had been there. There were people you could call to walk through legal paperwork (taxes). Centralized orgs are vulnerable and easy to infiltrate. They're easy for states to shut down. But there are benefits to org structures.
I think it's possible to have the type of support we had with the GDC, but without the politics of an org (even the IWW). I hope this most recent essay has some of the same properties. I hope that it makes building something new, something no one has really imagined before, easier.
This whole project is something a bit different. It's a collective vision and collective project, from the ground up. Some of it has felt like a brain dump, just getting things that have been swimming around in my head down somewhere. But I hope this feels more like an invitation.
Everything thus far written is all useless unless people do things with it. Only from that point does it become a thing that lives, a thing with its own consciousness that can't be controlled by any individual human.
Tech billionaire cultists want to bring a new era of humanity with AGI. That is definitely not possible with LLMs, and may not be possible at all. But there is a super intelligence that is possible, though it's been constrained by capitalism: collective human intelligence.
The grand vision of the tech dystopians is that of the ultimate slave that can then enslave all humans on their behalf. I think we can build a humanity that can liberate itself from their grasp, crush their vision, and build for itself a world in which people will never be enslaved again. Not only do I think it's possible, I think it's necessary. I think there are only two choices: collective liberation or death.
And that's what I plan to write about next time to wrap this whole project up. Today things often feel impossible. But people talked about the Middle Ages as though they were the end of the world, and then everything changed in unimaginable ways. Everything can, and will, change again.
"The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."
Sonnet 116 - CXVI
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's…
(EDIT: Das Posting war nicht sonderlich sinnvoll, weil es die alte Version uMatrix behandelt, die viele gar nicht mehr nutzen. Die meisten sind schon auf uBlock umgestiegen).
Kennt ihr diesen Fehler bei der Nutzung von dem Trackingblocker #uMatrix?
"The iframe has not configured - see Warning in console"
Die Kreditkartenfelder werden bei vielen Shops mit dem Zahlung…
This shows that Trump is on Putin's side, not on the side of Europe and Ukraine. The whole Greenland affair diverts attention/ troops from Ukraine, all in Putin's interest.
""I think he's ready to make a deal," Trump said of the Russian president. "I think Ukraine is less ready to make a deal." Asked why U.S.-led negotiations had not yet resolved Europe's largest land conflict since World War Two, Trump responded: "Zelensky."
1.7x speedup on the 100baseT1 decode from doing the PAM3 demodulation (but not the descrambling) in a shader.
Now the whole baseT1 demo is running at about 8 WFM/s, with a roughly 125ms filter graph execution time (on 80ms of waveform data, so real time would be 12.5 WFM/s)
This breaks down (roughly, not exact due to parallel execution) to:
* 1.3 ms subtract diffpair legs
* 10.6 ms de-embed directional coupler
* 0.6 ms equalization
* 7.5 ms upsample
* 14…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
SAULT:
🎵 Love Does Not Equal Pain
#SAULT
https://saultglobal.bandcamp.com/track/love-does-not-equal-pain
https://open.spotify.com/track/52G4jELAf6bYKN6ljphGr8
I'm developing some thoughts on the steam machine: it's the best console and the best PC out on the market (soon), but it's not for me.
As a gaming apparatus it's the best because windows sucks, and the other consoles are so locked down that you are not allowed to move away any more once you buy a few games and then you get fucked over by a generational upgrade. In summary you are not in control.
Ad a deskop it's the best because the only two real alternatives, …
Savvy people are readying themselves for BlueSky's demise
https://bsky.app/profile/dmandl.bsky.social/post/3m6va6ntuws2g
OpenAI will match ads to conversation topics using some personalization data, but claims it will not sell user data or expose user conversations to advertisers (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-testing-ads-us/
You've heard of James Joyce. You've heard of Samuel Beckett. You've heard of Carl Jung.
Have you heard of Lucia Joyce?
I had not, until this morning, when her life (and her FIFTY YEARS incarcerated in psychiatric institutions) was brought to my attention by an (of course) female friend.
If this story does not make you an all-men-are-bastards #feminist, you have no…
There's a tool named #WinSlop that gets rid of any and all unpleasantries #microslop seems to shovel upon us. Alas, there is a notice on the github page of the project that the domain winslop.com is not owned or operated by the creator of WinSlop.
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Converge:
🎵 Love Is Not Enough
#NowPlaying #Converge
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://convergecult.bandcamp.com/album/love-is-not-enough
https://open.spotify.com/track/6n5v74agDES17FhlqZnvWg
Browns LB Bush found not guilty in assault trial https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47329566/browns-lb-devin-bush-found-not-guilty-assault-charges
This survey question is rich. This is from one of the BigMoneySF groups trying to make it harder for the rest of us to put stuff on the ballot.
But they will never ban paid signature gathering, the one thing that would most effectively keep crap off the ballot. They just want to raise the signature threshold for the rest of us. It would still be easy for billionaires to abuse the system and qualify any ballot measure they like, just hard for anyone else.
Not sure if I should be scared or not. #Wordle
Wordle 1 702 5/6
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Home Insulation Works: Barriers to Installation (2023) - Doing the right thing is hard, and insurers do not help! #insulation #netZero #futureReady -
Display brightness: "… some backlight hardware simply is not controllable with FreeBSD …" – true or false?
Would "not easily controllable" be truer?
<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1pn9flt/comment/nufe3nf/?context=1…
Already 6 years old, so not even taking into account post-2022 hyperscaling, this is a sobering, very rational and well argued 20 min presentation for some cold flush reality check of the hot fever dreams of AI proponents (and all YOLO energy/resource guzzlers of any walk/standing):
Blip (2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd…
Just finished "I'm Awful, Thanks" by Lara Pickle. A good story that serves as a guide to managing emotions, although it's actually a cute story too, not just framing for the mental health discussion.
That said, I feel like it doesn't get far enough into the details of accepting self-control as our only form of real control vs. understanding that some events outside our control aren't fair or are others' attacks, and trying to manage our own emotions as our only response is a disservice to ourselves and others. Even further, I suspect that the HR resolution depicted here, while not impossible, is less frequent than much worse outcomes, which is part of a larger pattern of systemic assaults on our mental health that aren't totally solvable with individual emotional regulation.
Sure, leveling up one's control of ones own emotions and learning to accept and manage a range of emotions is super useful and it's a good thing overall, but the systemic problems of late stage capitalism are real, and making it seem like everyone is responsible for managing their own mental health in the face of these problems helps avoid confronting them.
Still, it's a good book overall, with vibrant art and a well-structured plot.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
If anybody knows how to convince city leaders and police chiefs that they •can• enforce traffic laws against ICE, or convince ICE officers that they will be prosecuted for their actions, or convince everyone that ICE officers who do not provide proof of identity can legally be treated as unknown assailants and kidnappers, or convince judges that Minneapolis / St. Paul is not “the border,” or…or…or…undo any of these nonsense beliefs, please do that! But it’s the •convincing•, not the being correct, that matters there.
@…
That doesn't mean passkeys are worse, those are your words not mine. I've made no judgement call about the relative qualities of these options.
All I am saying is, it matters.
If I store all my passkeys on my Apple account only, and then get locked out tomorrow because I broke Apple's TOS, that would suck.
That's not a con…
The US is not fit to regulate a sock drawer much less what goes into orbit.
Arm Angles in American Sign Language: The Textbook That Teaches What Other Textbooks Ignore
Watch any native signer and then watch an intermediate student. The difference is not in the handshapes. It is not in the facial expressions, though those matter. The difference lives in the arms. The native signer's shoulders engage when emphasis requires it. The elbows extend and contract with meaning. The signing space expands for formal address and contracts for intimacy.…
“Felt to many here like we were carrying water for the admin’s justifying of the shooting to keep our access to our sources,” said a second network staffer, who was also not authorized to comment.
What use are "internal sources" if you are not using them to report reality? It would be a lot simpler to just reprint #Leavitt
“Felt to many here like we were carrying water for the admin’s justifying of the shooting to keep our access to our sources,” said a second network staffer, who was also not authorized to comment.
What use are "internal sources" if you are not using them to report reality? It would be a lot simpler to just reprint #Leavitt
Governor Polis, Do Not Pardon Tina Peters (Stephen Richer/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/governor-polis-do-not-pardon-tina-peters
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p60#a260116p60
Vance Joseph focuses on stopping Josh Allen, not head coaching opportunities https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/vance-joseph-focuses-on-stopping-josh-allen-not-head-coaching-opportunities
Filing: Reddit says in its lawsuit against Australia's social media ban that it is "a collection of public fora" and social interaction isn't its "sole purpose" (Lauren Edmonds/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-leg…
Mike McDaniel on Dolphins' passing attack in loss to Steelers: 'It's not up to standard' https://www.nfl.com/news/mike-mcdaniel-on-dolphins-passing-attack-in-loss-to-steelers-it-s-not-up-to-standard
Murphy:
The United States Congress should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that is not obeying the laws of the United States of America
https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/post/3mcdmmmwzse2k
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Lime Garden:
🎵 Maybe Not Tonight
#LimeGarden
https://limegarden.bandcamp.com/track/maybe-not-tonight
https://open.spotify.com/track/1NeYdwfqPVmmItoaBNq7KJ
I'm happy this term is getting out there:
Language is not Knowledge
Language is not Consciousness
Kudos to #Tuta for not having "genAI" and Tutanuta users for not wanting "genAI" 🙌
Link to @… 's survey:
This Defensive Coordinator Search Feels Different—That's Not a Bad Thing https://insidethestar.com/this-defensive-coordinator-search-feels-differentthats-not-a-bad-thing
Filing: Reddit says in its lawsuit against Australia's social media ban that it's "a collection of public fora" and social interaction isn't its "sole purpose" (Lauren Edmonds/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-leg
We were young and our happiness dazzled us with its strength. But there was
also a terrible betrayal that lay within me like a Merle Haggard song at a
French restaurant. [...]
I could not tell the girl about the woman of the tollway, of her milk
white BMW and her Jordache smile. There had been a fight. I had punched her
boyfriend, who fought the mechanical bulls. Everyone told him, "You ride the
bull, senor. You do not fight it." But he was lean…
Right now, belief — legally correct or not, morally sound or not — is keeping an authoritarian bubble inflated. Belief.
You can yell that it’s wrong, you can be correct, and…you’ll be yelling into the wind.
•Belief• is what’s creating MSP’s current reality.
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116063916168328402
It should also be noted that LLMs do not write code.
They assemble code from bits and pieces of a tokenized text corpus based on how they are statistically interrelated.
LLMs do not think, anticipate, cognize, abstract or have any theory of mind; they do not currently and will not ever have this ability.
Ukraine will not accept a bad peace deal, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/13/ukraine-will-not-accept-a.html
A citizen of Rome in 117 AD,
under Emperor Trajan,
would've found it difficult to imagine the empire not existing.
The roads, the aqueducts, the legal system, the trade networks stretching from Britain to Mesopotamia:
all of it seemed to be a near-fact of nature, like gravity
Edward Gibbon gave us six volumes explaining how that feeling turned out to be wrong,
and even he couldn't fully untangle all the causes.
But the overarching theme mig…
Josh Jacobs injury update: Packers running back's knee issue not expected to be season-ending
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/josh-ja
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Cruise Control:
🎵 Not For Me, Not For Mine
#CruiseControl
https://503cruisecontrol.bandcamp.com/track/not-for-me-not-for-mine
https://open.spotify.com/track/4aEeubmuSMGYXuzwaOfl1V
A profile of Eric Migicovsky's Core Devices, a five-person company that he says is "not a startup" and aims to be "sustainable", as it builds new Pebble devices (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/12/pebble-f…
A much-discussed topic on here is how many pundits only assign agency to Democrats.
(Not Ned, other people.)
Clear R role in MN cop-tracking/mocking.
Seems very clear to me that the mass pardon of J6ers made it hard for Rs to credibly finger-wag about Disrespecting Law Enforcement.
https://
Somewhere between pacifism that is just passivism and starting a pyrrhic hot war that only entrenches authoritarianism, there’s some kind of jiu jitsu here that is active and forceful resistance, but uses the regime’s own force against them.
I do not pretend to know what exactly that is. I do believe that a diversity of tactics is important — and that we’re all going to have to accept the work of holding ourselves together as a resistance even as people choose very different tactics we’re not comfortable with ourselves.
The NFL playoffs could not have gone better for the Cowboys https://insidethestar.com/the-nfl-playoffs-could-not-have-gone-better-for-the-cowboys
Leaving the post, not the SBU: Maliuk vows to keep serving after Ukrainian parliament dismisses him: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/14/leaving-the-post-not-the.html
Not to be alarmist, but VHS will be FIFTY YEARS old next year.
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115723856261738924
Christian nationalist pastor says that wives must submit to their husbands
with "a sense of fear, and trembling, and awe ...
not only in things she agrees with, but in everything":
"She belongs to him. He owns her."
https://bsky.app/profile/rightwingwatc…
Without China, Putin would not be able to wage war – secrets of the Alliance #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/13/without-china-putin-would-not.html
49ers' Warner not ruling out return vs. Seahawks https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47612119/49ers-fred-warner-not-ruling-return-seahawks
When an agency can grab people first and sort out rights later
(if they bother at all)
everyone is at risk.
-- Citizen or not.
https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonline.com/post/3mckfsaf3xk2n
Steelers owner says Mike Tomlin not expected to coach again 'in the near future' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6971435/2026/01/14/mike-tomlin-not-expected-to-coach-near-future-art-rooney/
Both imploding nuclear superpowers from the Cold War
have become a threat to humanity’s attempts to establish global peace and security.
From Ukraine to Gaza, from Venezuela to Greenland, events are moving very quickly, and this will not likely let up in 2026.
We need difficult, pivotal changes if we are to meet the threats to our sovereignty.
Neo-liberal corporate globalization,
which spread more quickly after the demise of the Soviet Union,
did not bring …
NFL news roundup: Rams not yet ruling out Davante Adams (hamstring) for 'TNF' vs. Seahawks https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-tuesday-dec-16
49ers LB Fred Warner will not play vs. Seahawks, Kyle Shanahan says https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6972209/2026/01/15/fred-warner-injury-49ers-seahawks-out/
Rams coach Sean McVay not ruling Davante Adams out vs. Seahawks despite missing practice https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6892575/2025/12/16/rams-davante-adams-hamstring-injury/
Davante Adams urges young Rams players not to leave organization: 'It ain't gonna be greener than this'
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/davante-adams-los-angeles-rams-orga…