Tootfinder

I did a year after high school on a tall ship and travelled around the South Pacific.
I came back and debated between chef & marine biologist (because I thought I could swim with dolphins as a job).
Chose university, failed 2nd year organic chem, switched to CompSci major, hired by Nortel.
Answering a prompt from The Recurse Center

Interim HC Mike Kafka previews Week 18 vs. Cowboys https://www.giants.com/video/interim-hc-mike-kafka-previews-week-18-vs-cowboys

Proud of my sister Gera, who developed a wonderful butterfly garden in the center of Tiel, the Netherlands, together with gardener Edwin Barendrecht and dozens of volunteers. On BBC2 tonight, 20:00 CET.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002px60

BBC Two - Monty Don’s Rhineland Gardens, Series 1, Episode 3
Monty‘s travels take him to the Netherlands and the world's biggest display of tulips.

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/kennedy-center-new-years-eve-concerts-canceled-after-addition-trumps-name-2025-12-30/

#Nicholas #Tartaglione
--the former NY cop sentenced to life in prison for the brutal murder of 4 men...
Is the same dirty ex-cop who was put in #Epstein's cell with him at the Metropolitan Correctional Center

Wrote a paradox flaw today …
Network confused: #rpg

Hard to be artistic director of a dead institution. More of Trump's "winning."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2026/01/28/kennedy-center-kevin-couch-resigns-svp-artistic-programming/

Interim HC Mike Kafka reviews Week 17 vs. Raiders https://www.giants.com/video/interim-hc-mike-kafka-reviews-week-17-vs-raiders

🥵 Reservoir thermal energy storage offers efficient cooling for data centers
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-12-reservoir-thermal-energy-storage-efficient.html

Reservoir thermal energy storage offers efficient cooling for data centers
The rise of artificial intelligence, cloud platforms, and data processing is driving a steady increase in global data center electricity consumption. While running computer servers accounts for the largest share of data center energy use, cooling systems come in second—but a new study by researchers at the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR), formerly known as NREL, offers a potential solution to reduce peak energy consumption.

Power prices surge in Virginia, home to the world's largest data center hub; record demand is expected during the winter storm, partly due to data center needs (Tim McLaughlin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/po

Russia destroys $100M EBRD-financed logistics center, kills four truck drivers hours after rejecting European peace plan - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/25/russia-destroys-100m-ebrd-financed-logistics-center-kills-four-truck-drivers-hours-after-rejecting-european-peace-plan/

I wonder if it is just an effect of old hardware, but boy, the new @… OS release is a crashfest on my 2011 Mac Mini. The App Center crashed on me at least 7 times before I had enough and downloaded Zorin (because I’ve also wanted to give that a spin). It looked very nice, though, and it’s nice that Flatpaks show up now by default.
BTW: Elementary is …

Mark Carney says that the center of gravity in the global economy is shifting.
He’s right.
US autohegemonicide makes the US less important. It already has.
Carney on when he last spoke to potus: https://youtube.com/shorts/tiFlQahla9I

With Trump struggling to stay awake at meetings, the prevailing image is of a driver asleep at the wheel.
Opinion polls suggest that Americans are turning against him.
Republicans are heading for the exit ahead of congressional contests next November that look bleak for the party.
“He came into office and, like a blitzkrieg,
was violating laws and the constitution,”
said Larry Jacobs,
director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the…

I haven't seen these in person yet but I guess these are at the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center.
#bikeTooter #mke #milwaukee

Die Trump-Regierung will das renommierte US-#Klimaforschungszentrum #NCAR zerschlagen.
Der Vorwurf: Es sei ein Zentrum des „Klimaalarmismus“. NCAR spielt eine zentrale Rolle bei der Erforschung von #Wetter

Trump admin threatens to break up major climate research center
Major research institution dismissed as a source of “climate alarmism.”…

There’s an obvious unfinished task here… @… https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app

Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath.bsky.social)
President John F. Kennedy didn’t name the Kennedy Center for himself. Eisenhower signed legislation to create a “National Cultural Center.” Eisenhower and Kennedy fundraised for it. Congress and Johnson only named it in honor of Kennedy after he was assassinated. www.kennedy-center.org/our-story/

We are all in this together. Mural in Clarion Alley, San Francisco.
#streetart #solidarity

Pittsburgh PA #OTD 1976
#Steeltown #NYE with #Elvis

Und wieder einmal ist der Tag des Jahres da, wo sich Nerds und Geeks aus ganz Europa hoffnungsvoll in die Hände der Deutschen Bahn begeben und ihre Reise ins gelobte Congress Center Hamburg antreten.
Auf ihrem Weg suchen sie nach Gleichgesinnten und rufen hierzu Hashtags mit ihrer Zugsnummer ins weite Netz hinaus.
#39c3

Kennedy Center renamed the 'Trump-Kennedy Center,' White House says (Joey Garrison/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/18/trump-kennedy-center-takeover-white-house/87829719007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251218/p120#a251218p120

Internal documents: Amazon's data center operations total 900 facilities in 50 countries, including AWS colocation facilities, higher than commonly understood (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

🔀 Molecular switch links early-life stimulation to lasting memory changes
#molbio

Molecular switch links early-life stimulation to lasting memory changes
Researchers have identified a molecular mechanism that helps explain why growing up in a stimulating environment enhances memory. In contrast, a lack of stimulation can impair it. The team from the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint research center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH), was led by researcher Ángel Barco.

Plot for future movie:
Erin Brokovich goes to Oregon, does battle with Jeff Bezos?
#amazon #datacentre #AI #water #contamination #environment #safety #movie #cancer
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/amazon-data-center-oregon

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:

From @… #KSLNews, a story by Gail Miller about her husband.
"Larry H. Miller served on various community boards, where he'd get stipend checks that he'd cash and store away in a suitcoat pocket tucked in a closet of their home. It was money they&…

'It is our problem': Gail Miller donates $10M to bolster Salt Lake homeless services
Gail Miller plans to donate $10 million to Shelter The Homeless, with most of it going to capital improvements for the Gail Miller Resource Center and other area shelters.

The Donald J Trump and John F Kennedy Memorial Center.
"Memorial" Center. A death foretold?

Tomorrow we have a Symposium at the Advanced Medical BIOimaging core facility #AMBIO of the @… , to celebrate our 10 year anniversary. There will be lots of great talks about microscopy stuff (single-molecule spatial omics, multi scale microscopy, light sheet,…

S-cones (which respond to short wavelengths) are very few in the fovea center
so causing a so-called S-cone blind spot
(Williams et al., 1981)
but they peak in number on the foveal slope at about 12% of the population
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK11515/

S-Cone Pathways by Helga Kolb
There are differences in the genetic structure and locus of the S-cone visual pigment compared with the L- and M-cone pigments (Nathans et al., 1986), yet the S-cones are common to all vertebrate retinas and always form a consistent 8-10% of the cone photoreceptor population (Marc, 1982; Kolb and Lipetz, 1991).The S-cones are however, very few in the fovea center so causing a so-called S-cone blind spot (Williams et al., 1981) but they peak in number on the foveal slope at about 12% of the popu…

Gastrulation of the blastulation
The blastulation of the morula gives the blastula.
The morula is like a mulberry of cells;
the blastula has a liquid-filled center...
-- Tom Sharp,
A tiny quote from Tom Sharp's (poet, scientist, and, and, and...) excellent web site:
https://sharpgiving.com/index.html

Sharpgiving Press - poetry and prose by famous writers
Sharpgiving presents poetry and prose by famous writers

Board of Kennedy Center votes to change its name to Trump-Kennedy Center, White House says - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kennedy-center-board-votes-to-rename-institution-trump-kennedy-center-white-house-says/

City sidewalks, busy sidewalks.
#SanFrancisco

Dear folks at Frank's Red Hot™ marketing department:
#Shitpost #ShitPosting #IPutThatShitOnEverything <…

trynamic trio meetup

"Britain’s 300-hectare Seed Processing Center Opens to Build Climate-Resilient Forests"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Trees #Environment

Britain's 300-hectare Seed Processing Center Opens to Build Climate-Resilient Forests | Happy Eco News
Britain's largest seed processing center opened in Cheshire to produce seeds for climate-resilient forests. The facility processes four tonnes of seeds annually and can store them for up to 20 years.

Green light.
#photography

Andy Reid on 5-5 Chiefs turning season around: 'You’ve got to take care of the small things' https://www.nfl.com/news/andy-reid-on-5-5-chiefs-turning-season-around-you-ve-got-to-take-care-of-the-small-things

(For those who don’t know: Minneapolis-St. Paul is among other things an internationally renowned center of choral music.)

“Users should be able to use any car with any charger and service. In addition to technical standards and grid codes,
we need user choice in legislation.”
That's what I wrote last week about #V2G (bidirectional charging).
https:/…

Out of the sandbox: How to scale vehicle-to-grid in Europe
RAP expert, Jaap Burger, recommends steps for Member States to create a healthy ecosystem for vehicle-to-grid charging to scale.

Two Weeks of Surveillance Footage From ICE Detention Center ‘Irretrievably Destroyed’ https://www.404media.co/two-weeks-of-surveillance-footage-from-ice-detention-center-irretrievably-destroyed/

The Seeing Center (2005.5)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (183,746 reviews)
"This Best Picture-winning Tour de Force follows Moses Jackson, a good-hearted African-American PhD from Brooklyn, as he moves to a rural southern school to introduce some rowdy, expressive, redneck kids to the joys of learning, overcoming racial and economic divides in the process."

Applications Now Open! Rare Book School Summer 2026 #acrel https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20139027/applications-now-open-rare-b…

faa_routes: FAA Preferred Routes (2010)
A network of air traffic routes, from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) National Flight Data Center (NFDC) preferred routes database (www.fly.faa.gov). Date of extraction is prior to 2010. Nodes represent airports or service centers, and a directed edge is the preferred route between airport i and airport j.
This network has 1226 nodes and 2615 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted

Gloom & Bloom V ☁️🌺
黑暗绽放 V ☁️ 🌺
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 400 Plus, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

before anyone says Elon's cancer-inducing data center in Tennessee is "conservatives getting what they deserve", remember that it's in *Memphis*, Tennessee, a large city with a 60% BIPOC and mostly politically liberal population, in general the privileged *never* get what they deserve and the the idea that they do is used to divide the working class against the supposed "backwards" populations who "deserve" right-wing policies

I of course goofed and left out the explanation of Lorentz Contraction from the obvious place in Part 3 where I should have talked about it.
So I've slotted it in here:
https://wrog.dreamwidth.org/71271.html#hrel3_lorentz
along with a new diagram to make super…

Study: AI's 2025 power demand could hit 23GW, above 2024 Bitcoin mining levels, and AI carbon emissions could hit 32.6M to 79.7M tons, compared to NYC's 50M (Justine Calma/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/845831/ai-chips-data-center-power-water

AI’s water and electricity use soars in 2025
AI data centers are using growing amounts of electricity and water, research shows, although companies aren’t divulging many details.

Nice work on this headline.
https://www.arlnow.com/2025/12/18/performing-arts-venue-across-the-potomac-from-arlington-may-be-renamed-the-trump-kennedy-center/

Center for the Study of Apparent Thought

Christmas Eve jazz concert at Kennedy Center canceled after Trump name added to building | PBS News
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/christmas-eve-jazz-concert-at-kennedy-center-canceled-after-trump-name-added-to-building

Series D, Episode 10 - Gold
TARRANT: I've never seen currency of that size.
DAYNA: Neither have I.
VILA: I just can't believe my eyes.
SOOLIN: Avon, why didn't you tell us that you knew who it was who was setting us up?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/410/416 B7B6…

FASPE and the Center for Public Theology/Public Policy at YDS recently hosted a day-long clergy symposium on Public Theology in a Time of Authoritarianism. Videos of the main sessions now available, including this recording of Session 4! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fURT5QnOt4

Millions of Brazilians unknowingly eat toxic, endangered shark: How Mongabay broke the story https://news.mongabay.com/podcast/2025/12/millions-of-brazilians-unknowingly-eat-toxic-endangered-shark-how-mongabay-br…

Brazilian government serves shark to infants, prisoners and more: How Mongabay broke the story
Mongabay senior editor Philip Jacobson joins Mongabay’s podcast to discuss a two-part investigation published this year in collaboration with the Pulitzer Center about how state governments in Brazil have been procuring shark meat — which is high in mercury and arsenic — served to potentially millions of schoolchildren and thousands of public institutions. With Mongabay’s […]

Time is running out to get your talk submitted to speak at SCaLE 23x, March 5-8, 2026, at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California
https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/cfp

New student computer lab down the hall is pretty nice!
https://www.pfw.edu/news-center/refurbished-kettler-computer-lab-offers-new-options

Refurbished Kettler computer lab offers new options | Purdue University Fort Wayne
The start of the spring semester at Purdue University Fort Wayne will give students a chance to take advantage of a refurbished computer lab in Kettler Hall, Room 217.

I say it again: they need to keep the dementia patient busy, so they give him something familiar to play with
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@AmandaMarcotte/115746731024779684

German videos – titled Balaclava Kitchen – started in 2014 and ran for months before YouTube took down the channel for violating its guidelines.
But it offered a glimpse of how far-right groups have seized on cultural production – from clothing brands to top 40 music – to normalise their ideas,
in a process that researchers say has hit new heights in the age of social media.
“It’s frightening, honestly,”
said Katherine Kondor, a researcher with the Norwegian Center fo…

What Trump Did to the Kennedy Center Triggered a Level-Five Lib Meltdown (Matt Vespa/Townhall)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/12/19/trump-kennedy-center-n2668160
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p51#a251219p51

#Memphis: there’s a free brake light repair clinic this Saturday! Don’t be giving #Trump’s #tAsKfOrCe nazis a reason to pull you over; make sure your lights are good.
Volunteers will be replacing brake and…

Fat Putin destroyed yet another institution, The Kennedy Center, with his ego, poor taste & stupidity.
Meanwhile, on pg 2 of the following Epstein document:
"Donald J. #Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey #Epstein."

Original post:

TikTok's first awards show, held on December 18, handed out 14 awards, including Creator of the Year for Keith Lee; at the event, none of the screens worked (Kirsten Chuba/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Inside the TikTok Awards: Paris Hilton and a Labubu Cannon Take Center Stage While Tech Issues Plague Inaugural U.S. Show
The event, which streamed live from the Hollywood Palladium on Thursday, handed out 14 awards and battled problems with its video screens.

I donated to the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School https://www.brennancenter.org/
Due to the dire threats to the USA from the current administration and the Republican party I am donating as much money as I spend on myself this year to protect us from those threats to our way of life.

Brennan Center for Justice | Home
Defend Democracy. Reform Justice. Protect the Constitution. The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law works to build an America that is democratic, just, and free.

If you ever wanted to know how these #AI datacenters can be financed, here is the explanation:
A creditworthy tech company (Meta, in this example) creates a "special purpose vehicle" #SPV, a box, where they put all the risk and all the debts coming with it.
Then they create a financia…

Western Honeybee on an African Daisy. Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge, California, USA. December, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 90mm F3.5 Macro. #descansogardens #honeybee #bee …

States Should Adopt the Wealth Proceeds Tax to Raise New Revenue | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
https://www.cbpp.org/blog/states-should-adopt-the-wealth-proceeds-tax-to-raise-new-revenue

Elon Musk says xAI plans to develop a 500 megawatt data center in Saudi Arabia with state-backed AI startup Humain; the data center will rely on Nvidia chips (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-1…

We don't need no stinking atmosphere.
From: @…
https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/news-i8koidj5z/…

Trump’s takeover of the
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
reached its inevitable apogee on Thursday afternoon
when it was announced that the center’s board of trustees had voted to rename it
the Trump-Kennedy Center.
Even though Mr. Trump had already been calling it that for months in trollish posts online,
he acted shocked that his handpicked board had thought to do this for him.
Trump had called into a meeting of the board, which is no…

Kennedy Center Board Moves to Rename It the Trump-Kennedy Center
The board for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced that it would now be named the Trump-Kennedy Center, although a formal change may have to be approved by Congress.

I just spoke to WGME CBS/Fox last night about a data center proposed for an old Maine mill. Lewiston's climate and water resources are a better fit than in the southern US, but city managers still overestimate the benefits to local economies—about 20 jobs post-construction, many remote.

Center left wins Portugal presidential election first round, exit poll says (Aitor Hernšndez-Morales/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/far-right-wins-portugal-presidential-election-first-round-exit-poll-says/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260118/p67#a260118p67

"Google plans to power a new data center with fossil fuels, yet release almost no emissions"
#Google #Emissions #Climate

Google plans to power a new data center with fossil fuels, yet release almost no emissions
As AI data centers spring up across the country, their energy demand and resulting greenhouse gas emissions are raising concerns. With servers and energy-intensive cooling systems constantly running, these buildings can use anywhere from a few megawatts of power for a small data center to more than 100 megawatts for a hyperscale data center. To put that in perspective, the average large natural gas power plant built in the U.S. generates less than 1,000 megawatts.

Reminder: You can let Mozilla know what you think about AI and other stupid shit.
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/building-ai-the-firefox-way-shaping-what-s-next-together/td-p/109922
(Edited to fix li…

Building AI the Firefox way: Shaping what’s next together
Hi everyone, We recently shared how we’re approaching AI in Firefox with user choice and openness at the center of everything we build. We’ve heard from many of you who’d prefer not to have AI in your browser at all, and we get it: We will soon provide additional settings for you to control how AI i...

The AI boom is driving an unprecedented wave of data center construction, but there aren't enough skilled workers in the US, such as electricians, to keep up (Caroline Haskins/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/why-there-arent-enough…

The Real AI Talent War Is for Plumbers and Electricians
The AI boom is driving an unprecedented wave of data center construction, but there aren’t enough skilled tradespeople in the US to keep up.

“This precedent could result in people facing terrorism charges for doing very simple mainstream activism.”
There is no doubt a police officer was shot at the Texas protest.
Prosecutors have brought charges against people they say helped the alleged shooter escape.
But the case has drawn considerable alarm because of the way that prosecutors have sought to create a criminal enterprise
– a “North Texas antifa cell”
– among a group of demonstrators who were uninv…

TL;DR: ; yes.
Did the Trump-Kennedy Center board violate federal law by renaming facility? | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kennedy-center-donald-trump-rename-performing-arts-b2887327.html

"Spiritual humility and ecological wisdom alike teach us that it’s time to let go of anthropocentrism—the idea that human beings are the center of the universe. Instead, we can rejoice that all creatures belong to Jesus … "
—Professor and alum Carolyn Sharp ’94 M.A.R., ’00 Ph.D. writing in the new issue of Reflections, in her piece "Let There Be Life! A Sermonic Call to Ecological Witness"

Trump Administration Live Updates: Kennedy Center Adds Trump's Name to Facade (Helene Cooper/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12/19/us/trump-news
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p60#a251219p60

Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer says Amazon canceled a $150M advance for a Texas AI data center campus; FRMI fell 34% on Dec. 12 after saying a tenant had canceled (Dakin Campbell/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/fermi-america-amazon-tenant-t…

Mystery solved: Amazon is the prospective tenant in talks with data center developer rocked by stock plunge
"The lead negotiator for Amazon called me on Thursday," Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer told Business Insider. The deal would pay more than $20 billion over the next 20 years, he said.

Recent polling shows the majority disapprove of how ICE operates.
But to truly stop the damage requires going further
– it means eradicating the security logic that ever made people think that arming a secret police on an ethnic cleansing mission could ever make them safe.
Formed in 2003, during the embarrassing and disastrous national excesses of the post-9/11 era
– when the nation launched two ill-fated forever wars, and demonized Muslim immigrants
– ICE’s ma…

Series A, Episode 13 - Orac
BLAKE: Well, get it open.
ENSOR: Key, now where did I put the key?
[Scene: Servalan and Travis reach the laboratory door]
SERVALAN: Blast it open.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/113/336 B7B4

The job's not done until he renames everything after himself.
Excuse me while I go take a trump.
From: @…
https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/1

😿 The Crisis of the Portuguese Left
#politics

The Crisis of the Portuguese Left
The Portuguese Socialist Party once seemed to be a model for Europe’s center left, gaining support while its sister parties were in decline. But this year’s election was a crushing defeat that saw the Socialists fall behind the far-right group Chega.

"Microplastics found in rural woodland at higher levels than in city centers"
#Microplastics #Plastic #Plastics

Microplastics found in rural woodland at higher levels than in city centers
Air-polluting microplastics have been found in rural environments in greater quantities than in urban locations, researchers say. Scientists led by the University of Leeds detected up to 500 microscopic particles of plastic per square meter per day in an area of woodland during the three-month study—almost twice as much as in a sample collected in a city center. The findings are published in the journal Environmental Pollution.

Oilfield service companies are moving into the data center business by supplying power and cooling tech as demand from traditional drilling customers weakens (Martha Muir/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/bb16cda6-157b-4d23-9c3b-c2a699d919f3

National Center for Atmospheric Research to Be Dismantled, Trump Administration Says (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/climate/national-center-for-atmospheric-research-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9U8._w4P.koJmi6jHMhtU&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p77#a251217p77

The Liberty Justice Center
is the litigation arm of the
right-wing Illinois Policy Institute.
It has aggressively backed legal attacks on labor unions
(including the landmark Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court case),
attacked gun safety measures,
and promoted policies that undermine public schools, such as taxpayer-funded vouchers.

The Liberty Justice Center received $1 million in 2021 from the Marcus Foundation,
a charitable giving nonprofit run b…

Liberty Justice Center | Supreme Transparency
The Liberty Justice Center is the litigation arm of the right-wing Illinois Policy Institute. It has aggressively backed legal attacks on labor unions (including the landmark Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court case), attacked gun safety measures, and promoted policies that undermine public schools, such as taxpayer-funded vouchers.

Screw It. Let's Rename the Moon. (The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/screw-it-lets-rename-the-moon-trump-institute-of-peace-kennedy-center-coin-epsitein-files
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p44#a251219p44

Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
[Interior Xenon base lounge. Soolin sets out glasses on a tray. She stops, regards the tray and then takes another glass from the shelf. She begins to pour wine into the glasses. Dorian leads the group into the lounge. Dorian grabs her and kisses her.]
SOOLIN: Are you all right?
https://blake.torpi…

The bus stop I get on and off at every day after light snow
#photo #photography #cornell #ithaca …

Republicans Cut Into Greenland Cake in Shocking Kennedy Center Party (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/post/205498/republicans-greenland-cake-us-flag
http://www.memeorandum.com/260121/p87#a260121p87

Washington National Opera Is Leaving the Kennedy Center - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/arts/music/washington-national-opera-kennedy-center.html

OpenAI hires former UK chancellor George Osborne to lead OpenAI for Countries, the global expansion arm of its $500B Stargate data center initiative (Financial Times)

Trump, Hunger Games, and the Kennedy Center (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-hunger-games-and-the-law-of-merited-impossibility
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p54#a251219p54

US companies are gathering for the spoils.
One contender, the Guardian has learned, is Gothams LLC, a politically connected contractor that won a $33m contract to help run the notorious south Florida detention center nicknamed
“Alligator Alcatraz”,
where immigrants are housed in tents and trailers.
Documents and three people familiar with the plans say that the contractor had an “inside track” to secure what might be the most lucrative contract it’s ever had.
Bu…

Sanders pushes for moratorium on AI data center construction (Julia Shapero/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5652830-concerns-ai-data-centers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p69#a251217p69

The Heritage Foundation,
an influential rightwing thinktank currently mired in controversy over its president’s apparent apology for extremism,
has appointed as a director the founder of a secretive all-male network of Christian nationalist fraternal lodges.
Scott Yenor, who was appointed as Heritage’s new director of the
"B Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies"
has recently offered ultra-conservative opinions on
women, marriage and LGBTQ ri…

ICE to open call center to help track migrant children for removal (Laura Romero/Reuters)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/ice-open-call-center-track-migrant-children-removal/story?id=127238019
http://www.memeorandum.com/251106/p70#a251106p70

Americans give Trump low marks on handling of economy as midterms likely to center on affordability (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/16/cnn-poll-americans-trump-economy-affordability-00733331
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p62#a260116p62

Thousands of nurses are set to walk off the job at several of New York City’s largest hospitals on Monday,
staging a strike amid an intense flu season.
The action comes three years after a previous strike that compelled some of the same hospitals to move patients elsewhere and reroute ambulances.
Hospital operations are expected to be disrupted at a number of major private institutions,
including Mount Sinai in Manhattan, Montefiore medical center in the Bronx, and Ne…

From her confinement in a remote detention center in Louisiana,
Bruna Ferreira recounted all the ways she said she has tried to maintain a friendly relationship with the family of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
After all, Ferreira shares a child with Leavitt’s brother.

The Brazilian immigrant selected Leavitt to be her son’s godmother.
She signed off on her son’s trip to the White House Easter egg hunt this spring.
And she said she “moved mount…

Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew rejects White House narrative of her ICE arrest
In an interview, Bruna Ferreira, who chose the White House press secretary as her son’s godmother, contested the portrayal of her as a criminal, absentee mom.