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UK delivers 350 ASRAAM air-to-air missiles to Ukraine as part of record £4.5 billion aid package: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/17/uk-delivers-asraam-airtoair-missiles.html

European Union and Mercosur bloc of South American nations sign landmark free trade agreement (Nayara Batschke/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/mercosur-european-union-trade-agreement-south-america-b779460da4b7ecb6aa15d322976fa70d
http://www.memeorandum.com/260117/p40#a260117p40

The Los Angeles Times Guild reached a tentative agreement with management after more than three years of bargaining, averting a strike authorized by members (Tess Patton/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/los-angeles-times-guild-averts-strike-tentative-agree…

LA Times Guild Averts Strike With Tentative Agreement After 3 Years of Bargaining
The union of journalists will meet Monday to outline the proposed deal with management "on all outstanding issues in the contract"

I wrote a book review of "Geopolitics at the Internet’s Core" by Fiona Alexander, Laura DeNardis, Ph.D., Nanette Levinson, and Francesca Musiani. It initially seems to be a dense technical history of Internet Protocol—that constellation of technical specifications and social agreements that makes the internet work. But this would be a profound misreading.
What Alexander, DeNardis, Levinson, and Musiani have actually written is something far more elegiac: a cenotaph for a bygo…

wikiconflict: Wikipedia edit wars (2009)
A network representing editorial interactions among editors of the English Wikipedia. Nodes are editors, and an edge denotes an edit conflict between the two editors. Edge are timestamped and signed. A positive sign indicates the users have agreement on the edit, and the negative sign indicates a disagreement (a reversion) on the edit.
This network has 118100 nodes and 2917785 edges.
Tags: Social, Conflict, Signed, Timestamps
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"Parents would have to sign a nondisclosure agreement if their child was admitted."
What kind of school is this? Just because of the #Musk name, people accept the weirdest sh…, ahem, conditions?
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Immer wieder faszinierend, wie hart Unionspolitiker*innen rhetorisch agieren, wenn es zB gegen Grüne geht - und wie empfindlich sie dann umgekehrt sind, wenn sie selbst mal sprachlich angegriffen werden.

Drone production, air defense sustainment — Germany backs Ukraine with $1.4 billion in defense agreements: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/18/drone-production-air-defense-sustainment.html

Trump admin broke spending deal agreement to halt mass layoffs, judge says (Hassan Ali Kanu/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/17/government-mass-lawyoffs-hearing-00695923
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p117#a251217p117

Memo: after Sinclair bought an 8% stake, Scripps says it's exploring stations sales with "many" broadcasters but talks with Sinclair didn't lead to an agreement (Al Tompkins/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2025…

Scripps tells staff a Sinclair takeover is unlikely despite surprise stock purchase - Poynter
A memo to staff from CEO Adam Symson downplayed Sinclair’s intentions, even as Scripps shares surged nearly 40%