2026-02-11 18:16:37
Russian TV threatens to burn Europe: SOLOVYOV's nuclear ultimatums and plans to strike BRITAIN: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/11/russian-tv-threatens-to-burn.html
Russian TV threatens to burn Europe: SOLOVYOV's nuclear ultimatums and plans to strike BRITAIN: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/11/russian-tv-threatens-to-burn.html
Yesterday on our bike ride we almost got a sun burn and two weeks ago I was snowshoeing in the mountains! It's wild 😉
Today we have light rain, so I'm not sure if I want to get out for some activity or let it be a true #silentSunday .
Some background and video of the snowshoe-day can be found here:
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
HEALTH:
🎵 BURN THE CANDLES
#HEALTH
https://youwillloveeachother.bandcamp.com/track/burn-the-candles
https://open.spotify.com/track/008XFP2RlbYymbD3oS7Z7f
The First Thing They Burn: Why War Always Comes for Beauty
When the Mongol army sacked Baghdad in 1258, they did not stop at killing the Caliph. They threw the contents of the House of Wisdom into the Tigris. Manuscripts on astronomy, medicine, mathematics, philosophy, and poetry turned the river black with ink for days. Killing people was not enough. What those people had made, what they had thought and dreamed and rendered into form, that had to be annihilated too.
OMG... Bondi stepped right into that one. 😜
Rep. Balint (D-VE):
“This is not a game, Secretary!”
AG Bondi:
“I’m Attorney General”
Rep. Balint:
“My apologies, I couldn’t tell”
#PamBondi #beccabalint
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Disclosure:
🎵 When a Fire Starts to Burn
#Disclosure
https://nathandalton.bandcamp.com/track/disclosure-when-a-fire-starts-to-burn-nathan-dalton-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1SU92PvmDTowaZGmo5oI82
Trump wants regime change in Iran.
You know what would be a useful tool?
A US-run Farsi-language news outlet broadcasting into Iran.
We had one of those, but last year Trump sent Kari Lake to burn it to the ground.
https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/judge-rul
Last week, while debugging a SwiftUI performance issue, I was running instruments and found that my profiles were plagued with noise.
Godot while idling was using so much CPU time that it was skipping entire frames while rendering.
I set out to fix those, 0.5% here, 0.5 there, and the Godot Editor (and Xogot) no longer skip frames.
People had been complaining that Godot would burn your battery in an hour if you left it idling, it no longer does.
Details:
Drinking water at risk long after wildfires, study warns #environment
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Yeah Yeah Yeahs:
🎵 Down Boy
#NowPlaying #YeahYeahYeahs
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv
U.S. burns through precision munitions, air defense interceptors in Iran (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/04/us-iran-air-defense-missile-burn-rate/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzcyNjAwNDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzczOTc5MTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NzI2MDA0MDAsImp0aSI6IjkzYmE2ZTBhLTQxN2QtNGFjNy1hZjQzLTg0YzAxMmI5MzRhMiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9uYXRpb25hbC1zZWN1cml0eS8yMDI2LzAzLzA0L3VzLWlyYW4tYWlyLWRlZmVuc2UtbWlzc2lsZS1idXJuLXJhdGUvIn0.7zWgUB1BYS0MWnUoBZZrchKWdOg-lbA4Tq2LPqQXhW8
http://www.memeorandum.com/260304/p44#a260304p44
"Humans burn themselves—and survive burns—with a frequency likely much greater than any other animal. Most animals avoid fire completely, while in contrast, humans live alongside fire and most humans will experience minor burns throughout their lives."
Exposure to burn injuries played key role in shaping human evolution, study suggests
Sources: Sam Altman has excluded OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar from some key financial meetings; Friar began reporting to Fidji Simo instead of the CEO in August 2025 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-ceo-cfo-diverge-ipo-timing
"Reducing aircraft soot might not actually reduce the climate effects of contrails"
#Aviation #Emissions #Climate
I have to say I find it weird how people who would usually defend stuff like Burp as "legitimate dual use tools" are now criticizing Anthropic for building a dual-use tool and at least trying to mitigate the harms.
I mean sure, it might just be marketing, or a shakedown of software- and exploit developers alike to get them to burn tokens, or an evil plan to make the world less secure, or something. Might all be the case.
I personally tend to believe that most people are…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Goat:
🎵 Let It Burn (edit)
#Goat
https://goat.bandcamp.com/album/let-it-burn
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Mtygyf5dpRo8nYTzDFqi2
Happy Easter to all who celebrate. I was at a bonfire yesterday, a tradition in my home area. The bonfires are supposed to burn away winter and scare off evil spirits and potentially also witches. This fire looks very much like a witch's hat 🔥
#Easter #HappyEaster
After a successful 5 minutes 55 seconds Translunar Injection Burn the daily #ArtemisII press conference should come at the bottom of the hour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Pq35gm4qA
Author of Careless People gagged by Meta. Let the company burn. Actual link (paywalled): https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/sarah-wynn-williams-careless-people-meta-nrffdfpmf
I read someone's post about their job where Agentic AI use is tracked for performance reviews, so they’re now dumping every question they can into the LLM just to pad their metrics and burn as many tokens as they can in the process.
All I can say is... I think maybe a lot of people have had the same idea. 😇
#AgenticAI
> I am watching ICE agents shoot a nurse in Minneapolis, and half the country believes the verified video of his previous encounter with federal agents is a deepfake. I am watching the infrastructure of verification get systematically dismantled by an administration that understands, perhaps better than anyone, that ambiguity is power. I am watching the epistemic commons burn while we argue about whether the fire is real....
Supreme Court considers case involving FBI operative ready to burn everyone - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/01/craig-monteilh-fbi-aclu-supreme-court-00805402
Burn should be off for that.🟨🟨
Simon H👀per doesn’t see it that way.
#LFC
Digging Wells While Houses Burn: Academic Responsibility and the Study of Religion
https://ift.tt/EQv0hHD
In a provocative article titled Digging Wells While Houses Burn (2006), David Gordon White argues…
via Input 4 RELCFP
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Ratboys:
🎵 Burn It Down
#Ratboys
https://ratboys.bandcamp.com/track/burn-it-down
https://open.spotify.com/track/1XRzX7BOyUOfsLmKFxP8EI
Small Artemis plushie from #SailorMoon over there 🥹
@… https://
My latest calls included: “Fewer agents is not enough. More oversight is not enough. Demoting people is not enough. Destroy ICE and CBP. Wipe them out. Burn them, bury them, and salt the earth. Eradicate them like a cancer.”
wonder if he would even burn https://www.themonastery.org/blog/why-some-catholics-want-peter-thiel-burned-at-the-stake
“My father warned us, ‘When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind,’” Bernice King, the daughter of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., wrote of Pretti’s murder. “What we are witnessing now (masked raids, people taken without due process, vigilante, Gestapo, and slave patrol-like tactics, normalized under the color of law) is a moral crisis.”
#Trump
Did you know: 75yrs ago, blatant racists in the American govt & military illegally imprisoned US citizens based purely on their race... & Congress did nothing about it.
This has all happened before.
Listen to Maddow's FREE limited podcast, "Burn Order":
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddo…
Half my writing process right now is whispering ‘oh no’ as the story takes a turn I didn’t plan. The other half is anxiety-inducing levels of caffeine. #writerslife #creativeprocess #writing
Different Corners II ▶️
不同的角落 II ▶️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Think about how expensive Uber has become. Now look at this chart (sorry; borrowed it from Reddit; assuming it’s not completely wrong), and draw the simplest conclusion about how much this LLM stuff is going to cost when you’re not getting a handout to subsidize it.
Heck, if a straight line is too hard for you, just ask the LLM.
In a conversation at this year's
Billionaire's convention
—aka the World Economic Forum
—Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned that AI will lose public support
unless it's used to "do something useful that changes the outcomes of people and communities and countries and industries."
"We will quickly lose even the social permission to take something like energy,
which is a scarce resource,
and use it to generate these tokens,
@… Obviously I don’t have anywhere near the same context as you do, but just the little amount I’ve been exposed by watching Japanese and Korean TV makes me… laugh? But in a sad way.
“What if you don’t get married!?!”
Yes. What if?
What? The world is going to burn down?
Please tell me, “what” great danger you might imagine will come of that.
…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Kacey Musgraves:
🎵 Slow Burn
#KaceyMusgraves
https://juicebox914.bandcamp.com/track/kacey-musgraves-slow-burn-jbx-retouch
https://open.spotify.com/track/6ET9kf9riLETWs9lePUEAI
In 2024, Europe spent circa €375 billion on imports of fossil fuels. [consumptive: burn it, and only CO2 remains]
In stark contrast, investment in renewable power and grids remains comparatively low: Europe spent €100 billion on those in 2025. [delivering clean energy for decades, and avoiding CO2]
The more I zoom into ORMs, the more I’m convinced you need to be a lot smarter to operate them correctly and deterministically than you need to be to write some SQL and map rows on structs/classes.
Case in point, I wrote myself a package to make transaction management explicit and when adding SQLAlchemy ORM support: holy autobegin, Batman!
Add `autobegin=False` to your sessionmaker/Session and watch your app burn.
The best view from the #ArtemisII mission so far came at noon UTC today when a solar-wing-mounted camera broastcast this view of Earth some 70,000 km away next to the ESM engines for a while. The Orion and the ESM are on their way back to perigee now - and around 23:45 UTC the trans-lunar injection burn is expected.
🔥 Triggering self-combustion in fat cells for weight loss
#medicine
Breathtaking.
"NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft’s window after completing the translunar injection burn"
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/hello-world/
Hm, post-burn? Das weckt in mir ja erstmal gewisse Widerstände. Und irgendwelche Teenie-Ängste ... Die ersten beiden Folgen Starfleet Academy waren trotzdem ganz ok. Bin gespannt, in welche Richtung sich das entwickelt ...
oh wow artist GloomyPunks rebooted his brutal slow burn social horror webcomic CatGirl https://xcancel.com/gloomypunks/status/2025737511247458370
Future headline?
Trump orders Hogsbreath to convert US Navy ships to burn coal.
I hate when the Prevacid wears off without warning.
I get surprise reflux that makes my lungs & eustachian tubes burn. I cough & cough & cough. SWMBO comes running because she thinks I’m dying. I wish I was dying. I find my British* Gaviscon, chew a few tabs with a mouthful of water and gargle at length to try to splash something with a pH >7 on all the burning parts. Ultimately it takes ~10 minutes for my lungs to rev up the phlegm production enough to feel normal.
can you burn a luigi board
You're on your own, you're dodgy and you have money to burn
Wirtz!!!!! Unselfish from Salah, who hasn’t been great today, overall, but understood that Burn coming to double him meant he was abandoning Wirtz in space. 🧠
#LFC
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Fred again..; Jamie T:
🎵 Lights Burn Dimmer
#NowPlaying #Fredagain;JamieT
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://eskibeatz.bandcamp.com/track/fred-again-jamie-t-lights-burn-dimmer-eskibeatz-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2kH5fiDaoj2Tn4hBRXSYjQ
While the Artemis II Wet Dress Rehearsal is back on track, we get a rare report about a #Falcon9 not working as planned - and the rocket being grounded for now. "During today’s Falcon 9 launch of Starlink satellites, the second stage experienced an off-nominal condition during preparation for the deorbit burn," reports https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2018485314508198331: "The vehicle then performed as designed to successfully passivate the stage. The first two MVac burns were nominal and safely deployed all 25 satellites to their intended orbit. Teams are reviewing data to determine root cause and corrective actions before returning to flight".
Donald Trump hates clean energy.
Obviously, the president hates lots of things:
Immigrants, the media, NATO, and sound monetary policy, to name just a few.
But of all Trump’s many grievances, none is quite so petty and pathological as his loathing of wind energy.
The attacks on solar panels and electric cars can be chalked up to his belief in the holy gospel of hydrocarbons.
-- But the windmill thing is personal.
Independent journalist Philip Bump traces …
@… @…
A baker guards a secret oven’s heat,
its whirling racks, its spindle’s measured beat.
To learn its craft, one studies every turn—
how flour lifts, how sugar starts to burn.
Describe the method, line b…
Digging Wells While Houses Burn: Academic Responsibility and the Study of Religion #acrel #Religidons #AARSBL
Gee. Such a shock that it's ALABAMA at the center of this travesty of American justice & morality.
Listen to more about this in Maddow's FREE limited podcast, "Burn Order":
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-presents-burn-order
Original post:
Anti Trump protesters burn American flags in Switzerland ahead of president’s Davos trip | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/trump-davos-protests-american-flags-burned-switzerland-b2904402.html
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Maara:
🎵 Burn Up
#Maara
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://maara.bandcamp.com/track/burn-up
https://open.spotify.com/track/7IDM2o1fXjqfipwjRFf8Dv
Ukrainian FLAMINGO reached St. Petersburg as elite RF divisions burn near Kursk!: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/14/ukrainian-flamingo-reached-st-petersburg.html
Digging Wells While Houses Burn: Academic Responsibility and the Study of Religion https://relcfp.com/cfp/religion/academia/ethics/2026/02/18/digging-wells-burning-houses/
💗 Do marathons damage your heart? Decade-long study shows no long-term cardiac harm
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-marathons-heart-decade-term-cardiac.html
"Looking at the connection between #capitalism and oxygen"
He's right. So long as there's any fuel left and any oxygen left, capitalism will continue to burn everything in its path — until there's nothing left
Drilled: Drilling Deep: John Vaillant on the Climate-Fire Nexus
Episode webpage:
"I burn my decency for someone else’s future. I burn my life, to make a sunrise that I know I’ll never see... so what do I sacrifice? EVERYTHING!"
▶️ Star Wars: Andor Main Theme | EPIC VERSION (Season 2 Soundtrack Tribute)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WXJTDneceg
On January 23 NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On – Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) observatory executed its final engine burn, successfully entering its final orbital position at Lagrange point 1 which allows the satellite to continuously monitor the sun and space weather before it reaches our planet: #SOLAR1
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Idle Hands:
🎵 Burn The Flag
#IdleHands
https://mackeyslaw.bandcamp.com/track/burn-the-flag
Digging Wells While Houses Burn: Academic Responsibility and the Study of Religion https://relcfp.com/cfp/religion/academia/ethics/2026/02/18/digging-wells-burning-houses/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Dream Nails:
🎵 The Spirit Does Not Burn
#DreamNails
https://open.spotify.com/track/6UDUZ4njadK1vCKaWlbtOD
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
Dream Nails:
🎵 The Spirit Does Not Burn
#DreamNails
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://open.spotify.com/track/6UDUZ4njadK1vCKaWlbtOD
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
Hildegard Of Bingen (1098-1179), Bill Taylor, Guy Sigsworth, Stevie Wishart, Emily Burn, Clemmie Franks, Emily Levy, Victoria Couper, Jocelyn West, Vivien Ellis & Sinfonye:
🎵 O Frondens Virga (tutti)
#BillTaylor
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Kacey Musgraves:
🎵 Slow Burn
#KaceyMusgraves
https://juicebox914.bandcamp.com/track/kacey-musgraves-slow-burn-jbx-retouch
https://open.spotify.com/track/6ET9kf9riLETWs9lePUEAI
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Radiohead:
🎵 Burn The Witch
#NowPlaying #Radiohead
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Tarrus Riley:
🎵 Burning Desire
#TarrusRiley
https://peckingsrecords.com/track/burning-desire
https://open.spotify.com/track/7cFbAwj08BeDAZ9JH1NOrn
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Chemicals:
🎵 Chemical Burn
#Chemicals
https://badchemicalsband.bandcamp.com/track/burn-it-down
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Disclosure:
🎵 When A Fire Starts To Burn
#Disclosure
https://nathandalton.bandcamp.com/track/disclosure-when-a-fire-starts-to-burn-nathan-dalton-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Oqv1VJeJHgUP2050W2mMt
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Disclosure:
🎵 When A Fire Starts To Burn
#Disclosure
https://nathandalton.bandcamp.com/track/disclosure-when-a-fire-starts-to-burn-nathan-dalton-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1SU92PvmDTowaZGmo5oI82
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
TRAITRS:
🎵 Burn In Heaven
#TRAITRS
https://traitrs.bandcamp.com/album/burn-in-heaven
https://open.spotify.com/track/3JouCwLvnyyKE58ZYJqdxQ
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
Hildegard Of Bingen (1098-1179), Emily Burn, Clemmie Franks, Emily Levy, Victoria Couper, Jocelyn West, Vivien Ellis & Stevie Wishart:
🎵 O Frondens Virga (solo)
#HildegardOfBingen10981179 #EmilyBurn #ClemmieFranks
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
The Suicide Commandos:
🎵 Burn It Down
#TheSuicideCommandos
https://open.spotify.com/track/37JUgoNzhsbUgW7OTOtiVM
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Yppah feat. Anomie Belle:
🎵 Film Burn
#Yppah #AnomieBelle
https://yppahmusic.bandcamp.com/track/film-burn-feat-anomie-belle
https://open.spotify.com/track/56fonqFGvKsBMLc3ngRuH8
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown
Carmilla Sioux:
🎵 If You Dare, I Burn
#CarmillaSioux
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Ragana:
🎵 Burning Structures
#Ragana
https://ragana.bandcamp.com/track/burning-structures
https://open.spotify.com/track/1msUGuYo3AkNobmKhYD5je
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Dream Nails:
🎵 The Spirit Does Not Burn
#DreamNails
https://open.spotify.com/track/6UDUZ4njadK1vCKaWlbtOD
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Disclosure:
🎵 When a Fire Starts to Burn
#Disclosure
https://nathandalton.bandcamp.com/track/disclosure-when-a-fire-starts-to-burn-nathan-dalton-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1SU92PvmDTowaZGmo5oI82
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
The Boomtown Rats:
🎵 Born to Burn
#TheBoomtownRats
https://open.spotify.com/track/0Tgw9gsUvqOQqND31PMeKQ
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Daughter:
🎵 Burn It Down
#Daughter
https://open.spotify.com/track/0EzwdrNoxZLpeXeU6r9VqH