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US needs 'answers' before next meeting with Zelensky, Trump says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/11/us-needs-answers-before-next.html

“It’s only a matter of time before people die”: Trump cuts hit food inspections https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/11/its-only-a-matter-of-time-before-people-die-trump-cuts-hit-food-inspections/

Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It https://www.404media.co/man-charged-for-wiping-phone-before-cbp-could-search-it/

‘Absolutely appalled’: Judge blasts ICE for failing to feed detainee before court - oregonlive.com
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/12/absolutely-appaled-judge-blasts-ice-for-failing-to-feed-detainee-before-court.html

Sources: Nvidia's H200 chips for China, mainly manufactured in Taiwan, will travel to the US for an unusual national security review before they are exported (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech…

Baudrillard (the author of Simulation and Simulacra in 1981, the inspiration for The Matrix movies) predicted Internet bubbles and the influence of algorithms and AI 30 years ago.
https://theconversation.com/how-the-fr

Jets honor late Mangold with tribute before game https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46906394/jets-honor-late-nate-mangold-field-tribute-game

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Dean Johnson:
🎵 Before You Hit the Ground
#DeanJohnson
https://deanjohnsongs.bandcamp.com/track/before-you-hit-the-ground
https://open.spotify.com/track/1hkgNqWRMUyj6ywqiXe4Nm

"Netflix asks partners to consider the following guiding principles before leveraging GenAI in any creative workflow..."
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/10/netflix/

#Cars
I saw a #lamborghini on my way somewhere this morning, which I’d never seen around here before, and then on my way home I saw a #Maserati. Again not something I’ve seen around here before. What was…

Breathless, I make it to the sweet spot and turn to face the monument.
Before I can fix the camera to the tripod, the scene before me stops me completely.
I’ve reached the monument not only at the edge of sunrise, but on the brink of the metaphysical
- as if I am the final piece in a vast jigsaw;
I, myself, a conduit that draws together time, space, history, light, and landscape.
In their coalescing, for the briefest of moments, I glimpse the sacred
and ga…

Hahaha, the US can fuck right off. You couldn’t pay me enough to visit that shithole country.
#USA

DOJ Withheld Proof They Knew Their Assault of LaMonica McIver Was "Bad" before They Charged Her - emptywheel
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/09/doj-withheld-proof-they-knew-their-assault-of-lamonica-mciver-was-bad-before-they-charged-her/

Just FYI if you feel like you need to reply to me in a condescending way I will block you before you can say "work across the aisle"

I've been working on this one for a while. The multi-trillion-dollar AI industry? Their *most advanced platforms* are controlled by a plain text format that John Gruber made up for his blog, and then bounced off of a 17-year-old Aaron Swartz, before sharing it with the world for free. *That* is the internet. Here's the amazing (true!) story of how Markdown took over the world.

I guess I’d put it this way: there is a •capacity for action• unlike anything I’ve seen before from my peers.
Maybe I’m just succumbing to my own chronic optimism, but I really do feel like some kind of sleeping giant has awakened.

polblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…

Cowboys’ George Pickens Gets Clear Message From Coach Before Vikings Game https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/brian-schottenheimer-george-pickens-message-vikings-game/?adt_ei=[email]

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115860306349312295
First train cancelled due to weather in Hannover.
They canceled the train 15 minutes before it was supposed to leave. Let's see if it will work in 4 hours.

habe einen datensatz mit vorher/nachher bildern in ordnern namens "pre" und "post"
problem ist dass "before" im alphabet nach "after" kommt
"pre" kommt nach "post"
"davor" kommt nach "danach"
"avant" kommt nach "apres"
wär doch viel besser wenn die alphabetische sortierung zur semantik passen würde

Wrote a satirical article. Gonna post it soon.
Please subscribe (free) to my ghost thingy to see it before everyone else.
Go here to subscribe:
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/
I hope it is as funny to everyone who reads it as it seemed like to me when I wrote it. 😲😝

This article was published literally only 18 days before Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/02/female-defence-ministers-tweet-photograph

I made connections between Frantz Fanon's idea of "psychic alienation" and Rollo May's view of the potentialities of power before realizing that they were contemporaries, both psychiatrists, and probably communicated with each other at some point in their lives
Then I remembered that Hannah Arendt and Isaac Asimov were ALSO contemporaries in the mid 20th century.
Of the four, it is wild to see how Asimov is so clearly outclassed in his understanding of human int…

Aaaand we're back. But I don't think everything is fixed. It's just running and I shouldn't touch anything again before I have at least 6 hours on hand... is essentially the current status.

50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band in cupertino, the hometown of apple computers, about 6 months before apple formed. wonder if jobs & woz were there. with the 1st circulating version of a garcia/hunter classic. audience tape: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bonpoh12P5w [1/2]

wondering why/how iec 559 was published 3 years before ieee 754
the histories talk a lot about the wrangling in the ieee committee but nothing about international standards
did the iec just pick up the draft when it seemed close enough to a done deal? seems oddly presumptuous for an oldskool bureaucracy

Crossing over, near Rossgundscharte.
(Picture from June 2025. Ahead lies the upper end of Rappenalptal, Germany's southernmost valley, and the Lechtal Alps in Tyrol further in the distance)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography

Starting your week by getting your DUX in a row ;-)
#retrocomputing #hpux
https://hachyderm.io/@thejpster/115521<…

If you declare that an article should be "accepted with revisions" before proceeding to propose a complete overhaul while expressing reservations that this is even possible, you're really recommending at least "revise and resubmit" if not an outright "reject." Please change your recommendation.
The editors thank you.

As I've noted before, the hit to US capital, from Venezuela gaining control of its oil, long preceded the Chšvez-Maduro years.
Graph shows share of Venezuelan GDP going to USA shareholders from late 1950s to mid 80s. Then slow increase til Chšvez govt at turn of century. Then increase under Maduro.
Entender la intervención estadounidense en Venezuela | ctxt.es

@… Yep, I was on 15.7 before the upgrade but time marches on and eventually not-upgrading will be effectively impossible. This was on a non-critical machine (hence the 1920x1200 external display). I’m just surprised how bad the design is now, both in aesthetics and usability

My eyes are suggesting that El Cheato may not have long before either a stroke or other disabling failure.
Should such an event occur, I do not wish for his death. Rather I would prefer that he and JD get into a 25th Amendment match that results in the effective immobilization of the R-party.
But should Cheato die in office, I am wondering what would be an appropriate way to honor his passage into the underworld.
Given his NYC history, perhaps a parade of garbage scows in …

Very unique look at a cardiac arrest handled almost flawlessly. EMS arrives while the pt is A&Ox4, he arrests in front of them and CPR is started within seconds, first shock after like one cycle of compressions. ROSC achieved so fast they don't even get drugs or an airway established before he wakes back up.
And the whole thing is caught from multiple camera angles with a HIPAA release from the pt.

How Putin began taking Crimea long before 2014 - YouTube
#crimea

u should generally give that thing the psychs said was inherently broken about u a fair shot before agreeing

I finally decide to spend an hour playing video games before bed and I have 10 gigs worth of updates that I need to run in order to even launch the game. 😒

#MusicWomenWednesday this week is Portland, Oregon's HERR GOD. They have a couple EPs, one even from May, before the two songs they put out in June here. Some of it's fairly sad.. kind of a bedroom lofi slowcore shoegaze kinda thing. Nice simple songs, catchy as hell. Like a sadder, slower That Dog. Love that tape hiss!

“Multiple UNC-Chapel Hill faculty and student groups organized collective actions speaking out against the compact, including a SUNRISE UNC protest shortly before the Faculty Council meeting and a petition from the Coalition for Carolina that has amassed over 1,750 signatures.”
Organize
https://www.wunc.org/education/2025-11-10/unc-chapel-hill-chancellor-will-not-sign-trump-higher-ed-compact

«Condemning the alteration of Levine’s portrait, he [former deputy assistant secretary for health policy Adrian Shanker] said, it was “hard to understand that this was a priority under a government shutdown.” »
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/nation/r

Git has not blown my mind on this scale in many years. What a way to do Friday.
What I didn't internalise before I radically restructured this monorepo is that it has some boilerplate documentation with small but crucial changed placeholders in each project. The rename detection is scattering the files around like confetti on every operation.

Noticed that @… had left her coffee as she was running late. So, I poured it from her cup into her YETI travel mug and ran after her before she caught the bus lol 😅
#Coffee disaster avoided

In tonight's #sourdough science - we did cheese covered pretzel dogs before - but this time we tried for *stuffed*

Final listening session with Danny Gotham before the tracks go to mastering.
#mastomusic #mandolin #guitar

I think today's worker is the owner of the company, he certainly is the assessor.
He worked a lot later than those without the vested interest there. 😆 I finished work at my job before he did! 🤭
All the wood was sanded down and remaining nude wood given some paint. We have a test plank in the foreground of the first picture here which is painted with a second coat of paint. Seems likely we lose all the wood grain when doing that, and so will prefer the paler look where it's obviously made of wood not paint.
Won't really know for sure till it's dry. Prefer the colour a bit darker like that but if we're hiding the wood grain we might as well have used MDF instead of pine. We're after something clearly made of wood.
Another area is test-painted with just the clearcoat top varnish as a second layer. That's likely to be right, just a bit more shiny and protected.
The carpenter proper is back from holiday and starts tomorrow. He has a lot of drawers and doors to build and edging to attach to make the door panels. Still hoping at least the carpentry will be pretty much all done by the end of the week but likely some painting and touching up still to do next week. Hopefully by the end of Tuesday because I'm not really able to be here all day each day for most of the two weeks after that.

Transcript of a talk by Cory Doctorow @… on the topic of AI and its near -term effects on society. Long. Summary of an upcoming book.
Many good thoughts in it, some I haven't found described so well before, some new to me. I'm quite aligned on his points about copyright, and he's tying this up better than I have seen in other places. I don…

My Anglo-Canadian student assistant pronounced “Géopolis” (the name of a university building) in the English fashion, and I had to ask her to repeat it twice before I finally got it…

My Anglo-Canadian student assistant pronounced “Géopolis” (the name of a university building) in the English fashion, and I had to ask her to repeat it twice before I finally got it…

1 Decision Raiders Must Make Before Choosing Next Head Coach https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-decision-must-make-before-choosing-next-head-coach

absolutely unacceptable that I woke up before 7am. no thank you. let's try that again

Google tests AI-powered overviews on some publications' Google News pages; publishers like Der Spiegel, El País, and WaPo in commercial partnerships get paid (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/goog

Mars - The Search Begins (1974): #Mars, including speculation on what form that life might take, many of the core ideas are still current 1/2 century on. The film was made just before NASA's Viking landers were launched in 1975 to begin the search but after the great success of the orbiter Mariner 9 - Olympus Mons was still called Nix Olympica and model makers believed that the sky over the Martian landscape was a deep blue.

2027 is the planned manned moon landing.
Extende moon stays may require large, energized "shower rooms". For extravehicular personnel equipment. No demonstrations of dust-repellant clothes and tools have been done.
It will be a serious problem BEFORE it's fixed.
#Space #SpaceTechnology

Popular Mechanics article on the PRIMA retinal implant from Science Corp. https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a69948833/photovoltaic-retina-implant-trial-results/ "restored vision is not by any means immediate for tho…

@… I did take minutes of meetings, years ago, before my hearing became too poor.
The rate of increase of twist of my sense of humour is inversely equal to the rate of loss of hearing.
I have a twisted sense of humour …

Tata Power just flipped the switch on their biggest solar project ever—a massive 1.4 GW solar farm in Rajasthan that'll generate enough clean electricity annually to power millions of homes.
The power heads to three Indian states, using cutting-edge bifacial panels for maximum efficiency. A huge win for India's renewable energy push.

I really do wonder how well the dogs are expected to comply with this.
#odd #Canberra

🔭 A 400-Year-Old Ring that Unfolds to Track the Movements of the Heavens
https://www.openculture.com/2025/11/a-400-year-old-ring-that-unfolds-to-track-movements-of-the-heavens.html

Auf dem ersten Server habe ich jetzt erstmal fail2ban installiert. So richtig eingängig ist die Konfiguration nicht. Erstmal, dass `before=` und `after=` genau gegenteilige Bedeutungen haben von dem, was man von systemd gewohnt ist. Ist halt 6 Jahre älter als systemd :-).
Aber dann auch solche Unklarheiten wie, dass ich sowohl im Jail wie auch in der Action den Port angeben … muss? kann?
Ich habe jetzt mit dem Jail `sshd` angefangen. Mein sshd lauscht auf einem Nicht-Standard-Por…

Power back here, but not before we got to make cheese toasties by candlelight.
Occasional electrical flickers still, which results in frequent oven-clock-resetting, with the usual pleasure/pain of trying to get it to sync with the microwave...
#StormBram #DomesticAppliancesWithNTPSupportPlease

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 07 - Assassin
PIRI: But I never saw him before today. This woman came and bought me from the slave compound and gave me to him. He said - he said that he wanted me to help him to celebrate after he'd finished a job that he had to do.
AVON: That's all he said?

Even if I wanted to go the earthly version of hell I would say fuck no to providing my social media posts.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dz0g2ykpeo

Just a reminder, before the ACA, insurance could cancel your insurance if you got sick, years into a policy, claiming a preexisting condition. Blue Cross did this to me in 2005.
Trump calls for giving federal health insurance money ‘directly to the people’ as shutdown talks drag on https://ground.news/article/trump-calls-for-giving-federal-health-insurance-money-directly-to-the-people-as-shutdown-talks-drag-on_c1f8ec

I came home to a letter addressed to both of us by name and I assumed it was mortgage since few things address both of us. I left it for J to indulge her childlike pleasure of opening mail.
It was actually a campaign letter from Reform UK. I assure you neither of us are members so I can only assume they got our names from the edited electoral roll.
I can't remember any other party ever writing to me by name before, it's always just been "occupant" or similar.

If you ever get the chance to see the film based on these events, Pride, grab it. We saw it this year at the indie cinema in Kington and loved it. What a story and what a cast - it even has Bill Nighy in it which means the instant seal of approval from me. But what stuck with me was the sheer scale of AIDS deaths and how it was hidden at the time. It was years before I realised just how destructive it had been.
@…

i have a question. #meshcore, why? in case of disasters? why not a #ham license, or cb / pmr radios, or even a proper freifunk-style p2p wifi based backbone for high bandwidth backhaul before going the last-mile? all of these seem to me better suited for a disaster than meshcore.
/cc

Philip Rivers thought 'ship had sailed' on NFL return before Colts called: 'Another opportunity to play' https://www.nfl.com/news/philip-rivers-ship-had-sailed-nfl-return-colts-riley-leonard-2025

Took this photo earlier this year with a QuickTake 150.
The wild thing is that the OG Mac was released only 11 years before the QuickTake came out… 30 years ago.

Coinbase plans to launch a platform to let individual investors buy digital tokens before they are listed on its exchange, reviving 2017 and 2018's ICO craze (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/f…

Heavy is the head that bows the crown. Or something…
https://apnews.com/article/bbc-director-resigns-trump-speech-editing-3aab83138d58c92db1bb00e77e568876

Cowboys’ Schottenheimer Makes Concerning Admission About Starter Before Week 15 https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/schottenheimer-concerning-admission-starter-week-15/?adt_ei=[email]

How Putin began taking Crimea long before 2014: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/10/how-putin-began-taking-crimea.html

Long winter nights, red light on, UV burner on... So have missed making my own prints, and so glad to be able to pick this up again (and also working with older techniques, which are new to me), all after more than three decades... Still some more kinks to work out before I can share some proper prints, e.g. experimenting with different exposure times, toners (gold/selenium), fixers, concentrations... All very much like a science experiment and meticulous log keeping has been key (as have be…

The A.I. insurance market is in its infancy, but Mr. Kvist says mainstream insurers are lining up to back him.
One of his clients is a job recruiting company that uses A.I. to sift through candidates.
“Which is great, but you can now discriminate at a scale we’ve never seen before,” Mr. Kvist said.
“It’s a breeding ground for class-action lawsuits.”
Mr. Kvist believes the work he is doing now will lay the foundation for more complex A.I. insurance policies to come.

I'm so glad not every country is throttling scientific research!
An international team have created a simple blood test that can be carried out at home and sent in by post to discover early brain changes consistent with Alzheimer ➡️ 10 - 20 yrs before dementia sets in.
[from Goteborgs-posten

The Holy Mountain (1973) is profoundly bizarre, some would probably find much of this disturbing, and I'm glad I'm finally watching it 😂
#film

League says Ravens TE Isaiah Likely lost control of ball before third step on overturned TD https://www.nfl.com/news/league-says-ravens-te-isaiah-likely-lost-control-of-ball-before-third-step-on-overturned-td

My Anglo-Canadian student assistant pronounced “Géopolis” (the name of a university building) in the English fashion, and I had to ask her to repeat it twice before I finally got it…

There are many key lessons for higher education in @…'s Enshittification. One is about mission:
"...the double edged nature of vocational awe. Sure Googlers [faculty] had been willing to pull long hours, putting work before personal life and health, in order to realize the company's [university's] mission, but the quid pro quo those workers expected was for the company [university] to take that mission as seriously as they did."
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/

okay today is improving
I don't appreciate how I never get any confirmation that anyone is coming out before they get here lol but is ok

Sources: China added AI chips from Chinese groups to its government-approved list of suppliers for the first time, before Trump's move to allow Nvidia exports (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/83c6521e-fe42-49e2-a9fe-eda97168b316

This is good advice received from a local retrofit organisation. I'm always amazed by how many people don't appear to understand this simple fact.
MONTHLY TOP TIP
Did you know how much of a difference closing curtains and blinds can make ?
In summer leaving window coverings closed can reduce the heat input to prevent overheating and in the winter closing them before dark can keep heat from escaping and keep your home feeling cosy.

Observation of a mixed close-packed structure in superionic water: #ice just got weirder: https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2026-01-08-exotic-form-ice-just-got-weirder - multiple atomic stacking patterns coexisting in overlapping configurations never seen before in this phase of water.

😠 Defunct Pennsylvania oil and gas wells may leak methane and metals into water
#pollution

Jerry Jones made sure Micah Parsons wouldn't haunt his dreams before 2028 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/11/09/dallas-cowboys-gm-jerry-jones…

@… ah,
<https://moosefs.com/>
For a melancholy moment, I was reminded of Wuala. In the good old days, before LaCie got its hand on it.

Think tanker altered Ukraine war map before big Polymarket payout | Responsible Statecraft
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/isw-polymarket-ukraine-war-map/

#ThrowbackThursday Platinum printing session at the now defunkt Oregon College of Art and Craft. The pictures are from an unforgettable winter hike in the Eagle Creek valley, just a few days prior (and 6 months before a wild fire consumed the entire valley)...
(Also see my prev. message for my new darkroom setup :)

The working plan would only guarantee a future Senate vote on enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies,
not an extension of the credits that Democrats have made a key demand in exchange for their votes.
Even if the Senate passes the new funding measure, it would have to go back to the House for another vote before going to Donald Trump’s desk for his signature.

Betting exchange Matchbook plans to launch a prediction market platform in the UK in January 2026 as a "road test" before a planned US launch as early as March (Justina Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

ran out of food again bc Walmart just straight up Did Not Bring My Groceries so I rescheduled for the morning and idk! Hopefully they bring them! gotta try n go to sleep before I get too much hungrier bc then I won't be able to sleep!
aaaaaaaAAAAAAAAA

A smooth filament origin for distant prolate galaxies seen by JWST and HST: #DarkMatter in ways never before possible.

Trump says Venezuela can’t have elections before US rebuilds
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5681435-trump-venezuela-election-rebuild-maduro-ouster/

Financial documents show Anthropic expects to break even in 2028, while OpenAI projects ~$74B in operating losses that year before turning a profit in 2030 (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-anthropic-profitability-e9f5bcd6

Ofcom: UK porn traffic has now settled at a "lower level" since the start of age checks; VPN users rose to a peak of 1.4M in mid-August and now stand at 900K (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/10/uk-porn-traf…

NFL pays tribute to Marshawn Kneeland before Raiders-Broncos TNF game https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/nfl-pays-tribute-marshawn-kneeland-before-raiders-broncos-tnf-game

John Harbaugh plans to wait until next week before beginning interviews: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6954335/2026/01/08/john-harbaugh-head-coach-interviews/

Google tests AI-powered overviews on some publications' Google News pages; publishers like Der Spiegel, El País, and WaPo in commercial partnerships get paid (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/goog

NFL wild-card round's best arrivals, featuring Bryce Young, Puka Nacua https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47554790/nfl-wild-card-weekend-fashionable-arrivals