based on highly unscientific observation over the past 6 weeks, the t***a dealership i regularly walk by in brooklyn has stopped selling c********ks, no longer on the showroom floor & none parked out back. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116103440455128250
How Pakistan's government is increasingly using in absentia convictions and arrest warrants against Pakistani journalists living overseas, starting in late 2025 (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2026/01/harassed-at-ho
Europe's purchases of Russian gas keep funding the war against Ukraine - now with extra billions for more weapons
https://en.highnorthnews.com/politics/eu-payments-for-russian-ya…
The Commission of Fine Arts,
a panel whose members were all appointed last month by Donald Trump,
unanimously approved a plan for a 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom on Feb. 19,
clearing one of the hurdles on the controversial project.
The seven-member panel also includes former lead architect on the project -- James McCrery, who abstained from voting due to his role.
Trump took to Truth Social to celebrate the approval on the $400 million project, which is…
🦜 Interpol-backed police make nearly 200 arrests in Amazon region gold mining sweep
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/01/interpol-backed-police-make-nearly-200-arrests-in-amazon-region-gold-mining-s…
#Steady #Klimacrew
#BahnMonitor-Projekt: 2. Welche Architektur sollte der Bot haben?
Bevor es ans Coden geht, ist etwas Grübeln über eine sinnvolle Gliederung der Module ratsam. Wie sie…
from my link log —
An update on upki: TLS certificate revocation checking with CRLite in Rust.
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/an-update-on-upki/77063
saved 2026-02-19 …
I Love You, #Redis, But I’m Leaving You for #SolidQueue
https://www.simplethread.com/redis-solidqueue/…
Nuanced and balanced blog about the role AI now plays in Coding, the good, the bad etcetera.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/developers-say-ai-coding-tools-work-and-thats-precisely-what-worries-them/
Traders placed over $1 billion in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war.
On the night of 27 February, the day before the US and Israel would carry out strikes on Iran, an unusual influx of about 150 accounts on Polymarket placed bets that the US would strike Iran the next day.
A New York Times analysis found the bets totaled $855,000, with 16 accounts pocketing more than $100,000 each.
Soon after, a single anonymous Polymarket user, under an account named “Magamyman”, made o…