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This weekend, lawmakers got their first look inside “Alligator Alcatraz,”
-- the makeshift immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., called the conditions
“disturbing and vile,”
a description Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem challenged
…

A look at the controversy around ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention center
This weekend, lawmakers got their first look inside “Alligator Alcatraz,” the makeshift immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., called the conditions “disturbing and vile,” a description Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem challenged. John Yang speaks with Miami Herald reporter Ana Ceballos about the controversy surrounding the facility.

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

Russian strike hits central Sumy just hours before Trump-Putin summit: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/15/russian-strike-hits-central-sumy.html

Only to split it into smaller chunks, the reason: Pulling 8 #USB #cables one by one through one of those #LEGO

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/14/russian-hackers-control-norwegian-dam-norway
Russian hackers seized control of Norwegian dam, spy chief says

Mike Novogratz's Galaxy says it has secured $1.4B in debt financing to expand its Helios data center in West Texas, aiming to boost AI and HPC capabilities (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/08/15/galaxy-secur…

GLXY News: Galaxy Lands $1.4B for Helios Data Center Expansion as CoreWeave Commits to 800 MW
The firm, led by Mike Novogratz, projected its deal with AI cloud firm CoreWeave could generate $1 billion annual revenue over 15 years.

Causal evidence of racial and institutional biases in accessing paywalled articles and scientific data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08299
Nice setup - one more reason why it's a good idea to not put papers behind paywalls or data behind "data available upon request"

Ukraine contracts 'tens of thousands' interceptor drones: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/ukraine-contracts-tens-of-thousands.html

Sources: xAI was part of a US government AI initiative alongside OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, but was removed after Grok posted antisemitic content in July (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/xai-grok-government-contract-hitler/

xAI Was About to Land a Major Government Contract. Then Grok Praised Hitler
Internal emails obtained by WIRED show a hasty process to onboard OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI providers to the federal government. xAI was on the list—until MechaHilter happened.

So today, to start hiding the absolute stellar cable management, I started adding another wall behind it: