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"Exploring an Energy Infrastructure Fund for Industrial Decarbonisation", our new Common Futures report for the Dutch National Programme for Industrial Decarbonisation (NPVI).
https://www.commonfutures.com/en/projects/…

Exploring an Energy Infrastructure Fund for Industrial Decarbonisation
Exploring an Energy Infrastructure Fund for Industrial Decarbonisation

Defector reports Year 5 revenue up 1% YoY to $4.65M, including $3.8M from subscriptions; all 19 original co-founders continue to work at the worker-owned outlet (Defector)
https://defector.com/defector-annual-report-year-five

Defector Annual Report, September 2024 – August 2025 | Defector
Published on November 19, 2025 Purpose of this report Defector celebrated our fifth birthday in September 2025. It is a great honor, and something of a burden, to be publishing a fifth Annual Report. The year-to-year story of our business is one of general stability—an incredible luxury in digital media—with incremental and hard-won improvements. But…

Man who refers to himself as an ‘alpha-male’ actually just a dickhead
A man from Rochdale who refers to himself as an ‘alpha-male’ is in fact just a bit of a dickead sources have revealed.
The news follows reports of a man in Rochdale who refers to himself in the third person, wears a comically oversized watch and constantly has to remind himself and others that he is the dominant male in every group scenario.

Russian negotiator Dmitriev to reportedly meet US envoys in Davos: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/19/russian-negotiator-dmitriev-to-reportedly.html

The ranking Democratic members of two congressional oversight committees
announced on Monday that they had started an investigation into reports of misconduct by federal agents during immigration arrests across the country,
focusing on the detainment of American citizens.
The investigation, a joint effort between the House Oversight Committee and the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations,
will inquire how long American citizens have been held and whether the…

Congressional Democrats Investigate Arrests of Americans During Raids
Representative Robert Garcia and Senator Richard Blumenthal started an inquiry to examine reports of misconduct by immigration agents, focusing on the arrests of citizens.

So in another dream I just woke up from, I was talking to someone about "the idea problem" (that it's becoming harder to monitize ideas, from a vox article written by an AI cooked reporter).
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/executive-disorder-white-house-weekly-46-313675864/
Basically, I was arguing that the majority of inventions target men because patriarchy puts economic control in men's hands. As men have started to help more with childcare, there have been more inventions related to childcare. (I don't have any idea if this is true. Seems legit, but I'm just relating my dream. I think I was also oversimplifying a bit to "men" and "women" because of my audience, but anyway it was a dream.) There's actually more low-hanging fruit, I pointed out, related to making care work easier.
So I argued that the real problem was a failure to invest in research into solving that problem. Today there are all these boondoggles built around killing people. What if, instead of all this government research into killing people, we dumped a ton of money into making it easier to support a household? That would be great for the economy. (Being asleep, I seem to have forgotten that working people need money.)
In the blur of being just awake I started thinking about how you could kickstart the US economy by taking the money from the AI boondoggle and other autonomous murder bots and create something like a program to build robots for housekeepers. You'd still be funding tech with government money, so the same horrible people get paid, but you're now actually solving real problems. It wouldn't even matter if it was a boondoggle, honestly. Just dumping money into something other than murdering people is good enough.
I imagined first if there was a program to fund a robot housecleaner, like robot dog with AI some laundry pickup, that would be provided, free of charge, to help people with children. It would work the same as the military boondoggle where a private company makes the government buy a piece of hardware from them and then also pay them to service it for some number of years. But instead of that hardware sitting around waiting to kill someone, it would be getting brought to people's houses to help them.
Then I thought, hey, you could even boost the economy more if you just had government funding for doulas and housecleaners and paid them a living wage. Hey, you could really kickstart the economy by nationalizing healthcare and including doula support as part of all births. Oh, and you could also just include the optional household help for families with children until the kids turn 18.
None of this is perfect (I don't actually think most of this is possible from any state), but the point is that it's actually wildly easy to figure out all kinds of ways to invest in the economy and monitize ideas as long as you aren't entirely focused on the same old "make money from spying on people and killing them." Funny that. Like they said in the podcast, maybe "finding ideas" isn't the problem.
Hope you enjoyed the weird semi-awake brain dump/rant.

Don't miss today's Metacurity for a concise round-up of the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--UK's NCSC warns of Russian-aligned hacktivist groups,
--UK and China enter a forum to discuss cyberattacks,
--Makina Finance lost $4.2m in an exploit,
--Ingram Micro report ransomware attack affecting 42k,
--Minnesota DHS breach affected 304k,
--SK Telecom appeals $91m fine,
--NexShield malvertising campaign crashes b…

UK's NCSC warns of Russian-aligned hacktivist groups
UK and China enter a forum to discuss cyberattacks, Makina Finance lost $4.2m in an exploit, Ingram Micro report ransomware attack affecting 42k, Minnesota DHS breach affected 304k, SK Telecom appeals $91m fine, NexShield malvertising campaign crashes browsers, much more

NFL Week 12 Betting Report: 'There’s an Influx of Anti-Chiefs Money' https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-week-12-betting-report

As a legal journalist covering the Justice Department,
I had never encountered anything quite like my exchange with Lindsey Halligan. Neither had my editor.
Over the last several days, he and I spoke with multiple former federal officials and journalists who cover the justice system.
None could recall a similar instance in which a sitting U.S. attorney reached out to chastise a reporter about matters concerning grand jury testimony in an active case.
After I reach…