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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

Before We All Jump on the Get-Schumer Express, Lawrence O'Donnell Would Like a Word...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/11/10/2353201/-Before-We-All-Jump-on-the-Get-Schumer-Express-Lawrence-O-Donnell-would-like-a-word

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

“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/

🇺🇦 #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

Anyone interested in following along with the brain dump before it's completely edified can feel free. It's the same one I've posted before.
Editing support (typos, corrections, questions) is always welcome.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/
Edit:
FYI, I've temporarily renamed it "Rainforest" but WriteFreely doesn't really support changing URLs or titles very well so it's stuck until I finish it. The temporary name is "Rainforest" because it's roughly the opposite of Desert. It is not simply optimistic rather than pessimistic... it's a plan.

"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…

Cowboys offense gets concerning injury news before Week 15 vs Vikings https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-offense-concerning-injury-news-nfl-week-15-vikings

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

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

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

‘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

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…

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.

anybeat: Anybeat social network (2013)
A snapshot of the Anybeat online social network from 2013, before it was shut down. Nodes are users and links represent friendships. The edge direction (i, j) denotes the user i follows user j.
This network has 12645 nodes and 67053 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://ne…

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

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

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…

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.

We have reached the traditional period of „this has to be done before Christmas“

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.

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…

Trump threatens Cuba: Negotiate "BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE" (Avery Lotz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/11/trump-cuba-threat-maduro-venezuela-oil
http://www.memeorandum.com/260111/p18#a260111p18

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

#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

In 2026, I'm gonna go to more #cons and do more #cosplay.
I had some amazing times at #DestinationStarTrek before Paramount nuked Euro cons.
I'd like MORE!

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@beyondmachines1/115695635132911608
Shai-hulud, notepad ,...
I have a log4shell feeling. Can we please have no severe attack before my Christmas holidays?

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

The surname "Adams" should be completely disqualifying in NYC politics from now on. #NYCCouncil
https://www.amny.com/news/speaker-adams-no-vote-daylig…

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.

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…

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

The most San Francisco headline ever.
#SanFrancisco

"Soyons honnêtes avec nous-mêmes : si une chaîne de télévision ou un journal avait commencé Š publier des milliers d'images sexuellement explicites et non consenties de femmes ou, pire encore, d'enfants, les politiciens et les régulateurs seraient prêts Š tout pour les punir."
Mais avec Musk, ça passe crème, ou presque.

🚨An email pops up: “Quick! Can you upload the contract here? My VPN’s down!”
It looks like your colleague. It feels urgent. But is it real? 👀
Smishing messages like these exploit trust and urgency, making us act before we think.
It’s easy to slip into autopilot when we’re busy.
But #digitalmindfulness means slowing down, even if for just a few seconds.
🔗 W…

Everyone should learn this before we join the eurozone, or else ⚔️ 🇧🇬

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

@… 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 …

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

100 of the ~280 linden trees of #Mäkelänkatu in #Helsinki have been cut. Some of the last trunks are being removed right now.
Judging from the growth rings, some of these trees were about 50 years old and had their best days a few decades ago, but also some good summers recently. Trees rarely…

Science fiction suffers from obsolescence a lot. But it's rare it's as fast as this.
#scifi

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

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

#NowPlaying Dreamt a former coworker slaughtered a pig in my backyard pond. Heard a feeble “uh-oh” as he forgot to drain the blood into a bucket. This is what I get for watching an episode of Anthony Bourdain before going to bed. https://www.

#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

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.
@…

Pro tips for #FOSDEM first-timers!
1. Don't make too many plans! First time can be overwhelming, so go with the flow!
2. Pick maybe a couple talks you want to attend, and try to get into that room at latest before the preceding talk, because the most popular talks are near-impossible to get in to. Do this only for the talks where you wish to actively contribute (e.g. ask questions) o…

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

What David said :) 💯
And more so, please remember that @… and I couldn’t hold the verification calls without @… and @…

Novel solution for it getting dark before dinner: eat dinner earlier

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

Nothing like marketing a product 'free' from the OPM #breach years ago. That kind of breach is going to haunt me for a lifetime, but the same people who lost my data decided 10 years of open-sourced commercialized OSINT should cover it 🥴 It took multiple FOIA requests before they even sent me a 70% redacted version of the data they lost 🤦‍♂️
I feel bad for the folks who don't…

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.

When "self-driving" cars were first getting some hype back in ~2015 or so, I told people who asked me that I didn't think they'd be safe, and that I wished the same money were being invested in driver-assistance systems instead.
At the time, advocates were claiming that self-driving cars would be safer than human drivers.
We now have both self-driving cars and some nifty new driver assistance things, and it turns out that the self-driving cars are in fact being developed by corporations whose attention to the bottom line results in danger to others on the road pretty regularly. I don't actually have stats here for whether they're "safer than human drivers" or not, but the opportunity for one bad software update to make *all* self-driving cars dangerous at once kinda makes me doubt that.
Here's an example of Waymo cars getting "more aggressive" as they try to balance between being too timid and obstructing traffic (including emergency vehicles) and being too dangerous:
https://archive.ph/JJuGv
Here's another example of passing stopped schoolbusses leading to a software recall:
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/waymo-issue-voluntary-software-recall-after-close-calls/story?id=128207776
In the first article, Waymo claims 91% fewer serious accidents per mile. Obviously an independent audit would be actually trustworthy, but even if we take that claim at face value, it's meaningless if an update tomorrow causes 100,000 accidents.
Note that they could be using better engineering practices, and the fact that they aren't shows that they don't care enough about the risks. They could be deploying new software versions incrementally and slowly, letting new versions rack up lots of miles only on a few vehicles before pushing them to a fleet. The should also have the equivalent of a simulation unit test for "schoolbus is stopped, what do?" and if a software version fails that test, it doesn't make it to the fleet. Clearly they don't have that.
I feel pretty vindicated in my earlier prediction that this tech is a bad idea in the hands of the current advocates.

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

This week’s @… radio episode promotes today’s Last #BandcampFriday Before New Years
Grab these links and give some #accordion artists a gift of inva…

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…

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

Micah Parsons honored fallen former Cowboys teammate Marshawn Kneeland before MNF https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/11/11/cowboys-micah-parsons-marshawn-kneeland-tribute/87205743007/

I’m reading Civilization Before Greece and Rome, by H.W.F. Saggs. The old saw about how if history doesn’t repeat itself, it certainly rhymes, comes out quite clearly. Hittites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians and hosts of other kingdoms and tribes, were pulling all the same gags 3 and 4 and 5 thousand years ago that Putin and Trump and the rest are doing now, especially the bits about how god’s on their side. Plus ça change, plus c’est le même chose. It’d be funny, if it wasn’t depressing…

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

#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 :)

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

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/

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…

#3GoodThings
Stocking up on refrigerator pickles made from the cut-price, soon-to-be rotten supermarket cucumbers.
Swimming and working out with the kids at the local public pool and gym.
Kid1 spontaneously baking a few dozen cookies (nothing like this has ever happened before!).

Before Toy Story, Pat Hanrahan made this:
https://youtu.be/O0lIlROWro8

Interesting video, with background of what happened in the 90s when USSR went missing in action. The focus on the fleet of Black Sea. This is probably biased based on the side producing the document but nonetheless very interesting.
"How Putin began taking Crimea long before 2014"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDn_0…

Visual Studio 2026 is now generally available! #VisualStudio2026
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-st…

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

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

🦠 Genomes of 24,000 previously unknown microbes revealed by new tools
#microbes

@… 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.

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"

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

OpenAI's Fidji Simo says ChatGPT's "adult mode" is expected to launch in Q1 2026, says OpenAI wants to get better at age prediction before launching the feature (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/842657/openai-chatgpt-adult-mode-debut-q1-…

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

⚒️ Abandoned coal mine drainage identified as a significant source of carbon emissions
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-abandoned-coal-drainage-significant-source.html

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…

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

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…

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

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

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

Sources eye bevy of NFL trades before deadline https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46556471/sources-expect-active-nfl-trade-market-ahead-deadline

Search and browser startup Brave says it has passed $100M in annualized revenue in Q1, and had 100M MAUs as of September, up from 77M at the end of 2024 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/li

Rivers an option to start; Colts in wait-see mode https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47267938/philip-rivers-anticipated-colts-call-daniel-jones-injury

Harbaugh to limit interviews to just a few teams https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47573091/john-harbaugh-limit-coaching-interviews-teams

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