Tootfinder

#StarTrek Comm Badge for #HomeAssistant Voice Control
https://community.hom…

Ukrainian forces take control of Ternovate on the Zaporizhzhia axis: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/09/ukrainian-forces-take-control-of.html

BZ124 Network Access Control – https://buzzzoom.de/124/
Was ist eigentlich Network Access Control?

Miami elects first woman mayor, ends GOP's 28-year control of City Hall (Kimberly Leonard/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/09/miami-elects-first-woman-mayor-ends-gops-28-year-control-of-city-hall-00683878
http://www.memeorandum.com/251209/p134#a251209p134

5 Linux servers that let you ditch the public cloud and reclaim your privacy - for free
European Union countries are moving away from American tech giants to run their own clouds and servers to control their digital destiny. You can do this, too. Here's how.
💻 https://www.z…

5 Linux servers that let you ditch the public cloud and reclaim your privacy - for free
European Union countries are moving away from American tech giants to run their own clouds and servers to control their digital destiny. You can do this, too. Here's how.

A contender for the most hidden control ever enters the competition!
I just found out by accident that there's a control *hidden* at the Apple logo at the bottom of Apple Music to switch to full screen or the mini player!

Infection Control Matters
In this podcast series, we discuss new research and issues on the topic of infection prevention and control...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/infection-control-matters/

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 12 - Warlord
DAYNA: [Into comm] All launch checks complete.
AVON: [V.O.] Green on all systems.
VILA: [Into comm] Betafarl has just confirmed full clearance on your flight plan.
https://blake.torp…

This Morning Ireland package on age verification and the Irish government’s ill-conceived notions has some contributions from me pointing out that the Australian social media ban for under 16s has been introduced, not on foot of evidence, but by Ministerial Impulse.
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/2256

Federal court blocks key parts of Trump's anti-voting order, restores states' control over elections (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/federal-court-blocks-key-parts-of-trumps-anti-voting-order-restores-states-control-over-elections/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p128#a260109p128

The planet may experience a strong or even a super El Niño later this year,
-- one that could rival the strongest ones in history,
according to new climate data recently released by the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).
A typical El Niño affects regional-to-global weather patterns,
as a warming patch of water in the equatorial Pacific Ocean influences what regions could experience droughts, floods and extreme heat.
During these relativ…

Sources: China is considering how to build fences around its AI know-how amid the AI race and is identifying standout companies to add to an export control list (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/china-warns-ai-startups…

A man blinded by greed, drunk on oil, hungry for more, deaf to the cost.
#Venezuela

"The programs slated to be cut are in CA, CO, IL & MN. The funds are administered through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They include grants given to states for a variety of purposes, including hiring staffs, modernizing data systems and managing disease outbreaks. Some programs are aimed at the needs of specific communities."
Trump Administration to Cut $600 Million in Health Funding From Four States - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/health/trump-public-health-cuts-california.html

I might write a longer blog post if I find time (which, tbh, isn't likely), but... given that I'm seeing a bunch of people who run mailinglists in 2026 having problems, and I think I understand the underlying technicalities quite well, a few notes on running a Mailinglist in 2026:
There is only one way to run a Mailinglist and be compatible with all the stuff you are usually expected to do if you send e-mails in 2026. That is to rewrite the From address to a domain you control.

"A ‘fossil-fuelled war': Trump’s plans to ‘exploit’ Venezuela’s oil reserves sparks climate backlash"
#US #USA #America #Vanezuela

Trump’s push to control Venezuela’s oil sparks climate outrage
Trump says he will bring in large US companies to fix Venezuela’s oil infrastructure, despite growing calls to end fossil fuels.

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

from my link log —
Evaluating TCP BBRv2 on the Dropbox edge network.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07699
saved 2020-08-19 https://dotat.at/:/FHLM3.html

Evaluating BBRv2 on the Dropbox Edge Network
Nowadays, loss-based TCP congestion controls in general and CUBIC specifically became the de facto standard for the Internet. BBR congestion control challenges the loss-based approach by modeling the network based on estimated bandwidth and round-trip time. At Dropbox, we've been using BBRv1 since 2017 and are accustomed to its pros and cons. BBRv2 introduces a set of improvements to network modeling (explicit loss targets and inflight limits) and fairness (differential probing and headroom for…

GM John Spytek takes control of the Raiders after Pete Carroll’s firing https://raiderramble.com/2026/01/06/gm-john-spytek-takes-control-of-the-raiders-after-pete-carrolls-firing/

Vietnam's parliament passes amendments to its press law that tighten restrictions over information gathering and sharing, weakening confidentiality protections (Francesca Stevens/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

I believe the family are going to wrestle control of the TV remote off me at the 8pm #traitors slot. So here's looking at you, kids. #totp

Full-sharing a #radicale calendar between users is simple with just symlinks. I guess one could do a readonly bind mount instead to get the same but without wrote access? 🤔
Radicale does have configurable rules to control such access, but those have one major flow: the accessible collections of other users won't auto-discover in cients. With symlinks they do, and with bind mounts they …

Papers, please. #discord

Dad and I have an appointment today that matters quite a lot (not medical) and which the other party has rescheduled twice already due to matters at their end beyond their control. If it's put off again due to snow I will be 🤬 This has been dragging on for weeks. We only have to get to Ludlow on more or less main roads so I'm optimistic.

Artificial vibrotactile feedback elicits neural correlates of sense of agency https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12984-025-01850-2

Artificial vibrotactile feedback elicits neural correlates of sense of agency - Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation
The Sense of Agency (SoA) refers to the subjective experience of having control over our own actions and their outcomes. SoA is experienced when there is a

Well it took a while to find it (Twitter) in my purchase history, but I finally went to:
https://reportaproblem.apple.com
And reported Twitter (now “X”) since if they can’t control their program Grok from creating Non-Con porn and CSAM
Will it fix anything? Probably not. But at least I took …

IAD ➼ KEF ➼ LHR

En Australia han implementado el control de edad para acceder a servicios on-line. Desde hoy los menores de edad no pueden acceder a Jira ni a los servicios on-line del gobierno australiano.
JAJAJAJAJAJA

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #ElSonido
Control Machete:
🎵 Grin-gosano
#ControlMachete
https://open.spotify.com/track/5YjZbR1RbgCNeOipoTXBuk

Chain Control to Major Tom
Chain Control to Major Tom
Take your protein pills and put your snow chains on
(Ten) Chain Control (Nine) to Major Tom (Eight, seven)
(Six) Commencing (Five) countdown, engines on (Four, three, two)
Check ignition (One) and may snow's love (Lift off) be with you

That was fast:
Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site
https://www.404media.co/exposed-moltbook-database-let-anyone-take-control-of-any-ai-agent-on-the-site/

Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site
It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured.

Me: Let’s see how the FairPhone folks are doing… maybe I was overly harsh on them and they’ve used the time to wean themselves off of Google… what with being Waag and all…
Also me: fucking what the fuck now?
*sigh* 🤬

Microsoft launches Copilot Cowork, integrating Anthropic's Claude Cowork tech into Microsoft 365 and using Work IQ to ground actions in organizational data (Charles Lamanna/Microsoft 365 Blog)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-

Copilot Cowork: A new way of getting work done | Microsoft 365 Blog
Copilot Cowork turns intent into action across Microsoft 365—automating tasks, coordinating workflows, and keeping you in control. See how.

Report: Cowboys expected to hire defensive staffer from family steeped in SEC wins https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/02/07/cowboys-expected-robert-muschamp-defensive-quality-co…

Student loan debt tops $1.6 trillion
The average tuition has doubled in the past 30 years.
At the same time, new federal caps on how much parents can borrow for college placing higher education further out of reach for some families.
Against that backdrop, a growing number of schools are making college more affordable
by providing free tuition to undergraduate students from low- and middle-income families.
The movement dates back 20 years but has gained momen…

More colleges are offering free tuition. Explore our database.
Explore our database of nearly 1,000 colleges and universities that offer free tuition programs.

Western Stepnohirsk under Ukrainian control as Russia-linked channels cite tough conditions: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/05/western-stepnohirsk-under-ukrainian-control.html

The Cooperator’s Dilemma: How Martin Nowak’s Mathematics of Kindness Became a Blueprint for Control
Martin Nowak wanted to prove that cooperation is the animating force of evolution. He succeeded. His mathematical models, published across decades of work at Oxford, Princeton, and Harvard, demonstrate with formal rigor that cooperation is not an anomaly in a competitive world but a fundamental mechanism by which biological complexity arises. Genomes cooperate. Cells…

The Cooperator’s Dilemma: How Martin Nowak’s Mathematics of Kindness Became a Blueprint for Control | David Boles, Blogs
Martin Nowak wanted to prove that cooperation is the animating force of evolution. He succeeded. His mathematical models, published across decades of work at Oxford, Princeton, and Harvard, demonst…

#OVHcloud #Kubernetes Review: Europe's Quiet Powerhouse
https://www.eucloudcost.com/blog/ovhcloud-

Please, please, please let's be clear about the use or lack of use of cyber to cut off power in Venezuela. I began researching this possibility the second Trump finished his press conference, in which he referenced that the US has "expertise" to cut off power, which most people immediately concluded was cyber.
At this point, I've spoken to a bunch of ICS cyber experts. Given that the Venezuelan government claims the power outage was caused by the destruction of two su…

Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Energía Eléctrica
#Video 📹 | La agresión militar de Estados Unidos (EE.UU.) afectó la operatividad de la subestación Panamericana, encargada de alimentar los circuitos Nueva Granada, Caricuao, Prado de María, Escuela Militar y Coche. El ministro del Poder Popular para la Energía Eléctrica, Jorge Márquez, constató la devastación sufrida en equipos esenciales y en la sala de control, acompañado por trabajadores de CORPOELEC, quienes se mantienen desplegados y trabajando sin descanso para resti…

‘Less lethal’ crowd-control weapons still cause harm – 2 physicians explain what they are and their health effects - Cobb Courier
https://cobbcountycourier.com/2026/02/less-lethal-crowd-control-weapons-still-cause-harm-2-physicians-explain-what-they-are-and-their-health-effects/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Gossip:
🎵 Standing In The Way Of Control
#Gossip
https://masturbeator.bandcamp.com/track/gossip-standing-in-the-way-of-control-masturbeator-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/7B6jxcVkJTHMUE83ZndMjl

don't worry about it

Raising Teens With Collett Smart
It can feel like we have it (mostly) under control until our child gradually emerges into their teen years and so much changes...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/raising-teens/

U.S. to Control Venezuela Oil Sales 'Indefinitely,' Energy Secretary Says (Rebecca F. Elliott/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/business/energy-environment/us-venezuela-oil-control.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p46#a260107p46

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
TARRANT: This is the Liberator, go ahead.
[Obsidian control room]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/303/634 B7B1

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Cruise Control:
🎵 Like A Bell
#CruiseControl
https://503cruisecontrol.bandcamp.com/album/like-a-bell
https://open.spotify.com/track/6yGNYysLj1MXfCApNQWCOb
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Ukraine says it struck Pantsir-S1 system and BK-16 landing craft in Crimea, hitting UAV control points and command posts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/08/ukraine-says-it-struck-pantsirs.html

"Ego depletion was social psychology’s golden child for nearly two decades. People went gaga over the idea that self-control runs on a limited resource that depletes with use. Resist that cookie now, fail at the gym later.
Simple and intuitive, but ultimately unsupported by strong evidence. The cracks in the resource model of self-control, as it came to be known, appeared in the early 2010s."

Congratulations, You've Discovered Fatigue
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.

A healthy (in body and mind),
active, frugal, sociable, mostly offline citizen
who is highly educated and informed, in full control of their data, avoiding Big Tech’s platforms and algorithms,
with a positive self-esteem and self-image,
is probably persona non grata for the tech billionaires.
But a small, insignificant nuisance, like a fly
– they don’t care about ONE.
But imagine having thousands,
then hundreds of thousands,
then millio…

A new way to describe the Fediverse and its opposition to Big Tech
I may have finally found a compelling, accessible way to describe the Fediverse - and make it appealing to people not familiar with it.

Control of the effective value of the critical current of the RF SQUID by the high-frequency electromagnetic field
V. I. Shnyrkov, V. Yu. Lyakhno, O. A. Kalenyuk, D. G. Mindich, O. O. Leha, A. P. Shapovalov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08072

"As a result, if Trump mobilizes the U.S. presence on the ground — or flies in special forces — the U.S. could seize control of Nuuk “in half an hour or less,” Mortensgaard said. “Mr. Trump says things and then he does them,” said Danish Member of European Parliament Stine Bosse. “If you were one of 60,000 people in Greenland, you would be very worried.”

How Trump gets Greenland in 4 easy steps
And worryingly for the Danes, it looks like he’s started …

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Ghinzu:
🎵 Out of Control
#NowPlaying #Ghinzu
https://open.spotify.com/track/7FBw6kSua2hIgthzY7U9B2

National Rifle Association's Change on Gun Control in 1970s | TIME #history

When the NRA Supported Gun Control
Not only did the NRA support gun control for much of the 20th century, its leadership in fact lobbied for and co-authored gun control legislation

I got called a leftist on FB today because I was advocating for age-appropriate sex education, more affordable birth control, and reduced prenatal healthcare costs to help lower the teen birth and abortion rates.

An anomaly onboard the #Proba3 mission’s Coronagraph spacecraft led to loss of contact between the spacecraft and ground control: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Work_ongoing_to_restore_contact_with_Proba-3_s_Coronagraph - the root cause of the anomaly is under investigation and mission teams are working hard to recover the situation.

Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.ins-det. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.ins-det/new
[1/1]:
- Shallow Trap States Control Electrical Performance of Amorphous Oxide Semiconductor Thin-Film Tra...
Mattsson, Lee, Malmberg, Parker, Vogt, Kim, Hong, Yun, Ha, Lee, Cheong, Wager, Graham
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.06329 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsappph_bot/116039613646926885
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“Gaza’s total population ‘fell by about 254,000 people, a 10.6% decline compared with pre-conflict estimates’, the research notes.”
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb/02/more-than-100000-civilians-killed-war-crimes-out-of-co…

Equilibria: Fair Multi-Tenant CXL Memory Tiering At Scale
Kaiyang Zhao, Neha Gholkar, Hasan Maruf, Abhishek Dhanotia, Johannes Weiner, Gregory Price, Ning Sun, Bhavya Dwivedi, Stuart Clark, Dimitrios Skarlatos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08800 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.08800 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.08800
arXiv:2602.08800v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Memory dominates datacenter system cost and power. Memory expansion via Compute Express Link (CXL) is an effective way to provide additional memory at lower cost and power, but its effective use requires software-level tiering for hyperscaler workloads. Existing tiering solutions, including current Linux support, face fundamental limitations in production deployments. First, they lack multi-tenancy support, failing to handle stacked homogeneous or heterogeneous workloads. Second, limited control-plane flexibility leads to fairness violations and performance variability. Finally, insufficient observability prevents operators from diagnosing performance pathologies at scale.
We present Equilibria, an OS framework enabling fair, multi-tenant CXL tiering at datacenter scale. Equilibria provides per-container controls for memory fair-share allocation and fine-grained observability of tiered-memory usage and operations. It further enforces flexible, user-specified fairness policies through regulated promotion and demotion, and mitigates noisy-neighbor interference by suppressing thrashing.
Evaluated in a large hyperscaler fleet using production workloads and benchmarks, Equilibria helps workloads meet service level objectives (SLOs) while avoiding performance interference. It improves performance over the state-of-the-art Linux solution, TPP, by up to 52% for production workloads and 1.7x for benchmarks. All Equilibria patches have been released to the Linux community.
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Meta and Garmin show an early demo of using Meta's wrist-based neural band inside of a car to control an infotainment system, as part of Garmin's Unified Cabin (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/wearables/metas-emg-w…

Meta's EMG wristband is moving beyond its AR glasses
At CES 2026, Meta is offering its first look at how its neural band could be used to control devices outside of its smart glasses lineup.

Groundwater contamination was top of mind when Medcalf heard about a new draft bill crafted by the House of Representatives in January.
The bill would amend large portions of the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act
— a series of EPA regulations meant to police the manufacturing, processing and use of chemical substances,
including such contaminants as those found at Jones Road.
In 2016, Congress reformed the act, commonly referred to as

After Years of Gains, GOP Pushes to Roll Back Chemical Regulations
In Texas, environmental activists and experts raise the alarm about the impact on the state's petrochemical industry.

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
TARRANT: This is the Liberator, go ahead.
[Obsidian control room]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/303/634 B7B1

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Gossip:
🎵 Standing in the Way of Control
#Gossip
https://masturbeator.bandcamp.com/track/gossip-standing-in-the-way-of-control-masturbeator-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/7B6jxcVkJTHMUE83ZndMjl
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The Next Era of Nuclear Arms Control (U.S. Department of State)
https://statedept.substack.com/p/the-next-era-of-nuclear-arms-control
http://www.memeorandum.com/260206/p92#a260206p92

Control of cortical population activity with patterned microstimulation #BCI

If you are using #DuckDuckGo and hate the AI bollocks, there is https://noai.duckduckgo.com (AI Images are not always filtered out, but you can report it as AI)

DuckDuckGo - Protection. Privacy. Peace of mind.
The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.

Lady News - Power & Control
A feminist podcast centring lived experience, investigative storytelling, and the voices mainstream media overlooks...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/lady-news-power-control/

Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
BLAKE: [Later. Flight deck. Vila is on watch, sleeping] Vila, come on, wake up Vila.
VILA: unh
BLAKE: That message, did you log it?
VILA: What message?
BLAKE: Well, I thought I heard a call sign numerative.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/112

Magnetic Phase Control of a Thick SNS Weak Link: Proposed experimental scheme
Aleksey Turchanov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07862 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512…

Venezuela live updates: U.S. vows to control Venezuela’s oil ‘indefinitely’ as UK helps Trump seize two tankers | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russian-oil-tankers-seized-live-trump-putin-venezuela-marinera-b2896561.html

Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.ins-det. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.ins-det/new
[1/1]:
- Shallow Trap States Control Electrical Performance of Amorphous Oxide Semiconductor Thin-Film Tra...
Mattsson, Lee, Malmberg, Parker, Vogt, Kim, Hong, Yun, Ha, Lee, Cheong…

“Perhaps, nothing is abnormal about Operation Epic Fury. It’s what ‘forever wars’ America does; especially when led by a psychologically impaired president. Perhaps, however, something more disturbing is at issue. America is in decline … What is ‘epic’ about American ‘fury’ is that [it] is the murderous folly of a flailing, failing empire.”

Epic Fury: Attack of the Coalition of the Genocidal Couple
…control oil … control nations. – Attributed to Henry Kissinger, 1970s The future of our security -and our planet- is held hostage to our dependence on

China says it will investigate Meta's $2B Manus acquisition to assess compliance with laws on export controls, tech import and export, and overseas investment (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/08/china-investigate-meta-acquisition-manus-export.html<…

Meta faces China probe over acquisition of AI agent startup Manus
China to probe Meta's acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Manus to assess its compliance with export control laws.

From Mission Control to Patriot: How AFU experience strengthens NATO defenses: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/01/from-mission-control-to-patriot.html

Nuclear Arms Control Era Comes to End Amid Global Rush for New Weapons (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/us/politics/new-start-nuclear-arms-control.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p15#a260205p15

A researcher says an exposed Moltbook database could have let anyone take control of AI agents on the site and post anything; the database has now been closed (Matthew Gault/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/exposed-moltbook-database-le…

Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site
It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured.

Turning point in Paris! West prepares to take Ukraine's security under control: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/07/turning-point-in-paris-west.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown
Los Microwaves:
🎵 Coast to Coast
#LosMicrowaves
https://kutmah.bandcamp.com/track/lush-covert-gary-numan-down-in-the-park-live-absolute-body-control-invisible-touch-private-entertainment-the-dream-los-microwaves-coast-to-coast-the-make-up-can-i-hear-you-say-yeah-esg-my-love-fo
https://open.spotify.com/track/3CwsrOBjNBLRId8HpNyCAC

We speak with economist
Michael Hudson,
who details how Trump opted to attack Iran despite progress at indirect U.S.-Iran negotiations.
“The whole reason that America has attacked Iran has nothing to do with its getting an atom bomb,”
but instead the aim was U.S. control of oil, says Hudson.
The Trump administration may have been after the ability to “turn off the power” to countries that don’t follow U.S. foreign policy, he says

A War for Oil: Economist Michael Hudson on U.S. Quest to Control the World’s Oil Trade
We speak with economist Michael Hudson, who details how President Trump opted to attack Iran despite progress at indirect U.S.-Iran negotiations. “The whole reason that America has attacked Iran has nothing to do with its getting an atom bomb,” but instead the aim was U.S. control of oil, says Hudson. The Trump administration may have been after the ability to “turn off the power” to countries that don’t follow U.S. foreign policy, he says.

Russia expands internet blackouts under pretense of drone threats, but real goal appears to be information control: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/07/russia-expands-internet-blackouts-under.html

US 'winning decisively' against Iran, will achieve 'complete control' of airspace within days, Hegseth says (Anders Hagstrom/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-winning-decisively-against-iran-achieve-complete-control-airspace-within-days-hegseth-says
http://www.memeorandum.com/260304/p49#a260304p49

Samsung upgrades its Family Hub refrigerators with AI features, such as voice control to open and close the door and Gemini-powered AI Vision to track inventory (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/853758/shut-the-fridge-door

Shut the fridge door!
Voice control opening and closing comes to Samsung’s Family Hub smart fridges.

This week’s media atrocity
The New York Times published a story Wednesday about how Trump is undermining trust in our elections
and pushing dishonest schemes to rig the midterms.
Yet in the middle of the story, NYT wrote:
“Democrats are sounding alarms
— and sometimes sounding downright alarmist
— as they war-game for extreme subversion scenarios.”
By describing legitimate concerns as “downright alarmist,” they undercut their own story
-- and …

Trump’s Push for Election Power Raises Fears He Will ‘Subvert’ Midterms
The president appears to be undermining Americans’ faith in the outcome, at a moment when Republicans face an uphill climb to keep control of Congress.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Janet Jackson:
🎵 Control
#JanetJackson
https://scension.bandcamp.com/track/janet-jackson-control-scension-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5vywtoD7fO1CP0B2wtm6I6

Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
BLAKE: Yes, there've been massive rocket attacks from space, ground assaults, every kind of attack. Control still operates untouched.
VILA: Armies can't do it, space fleets can't do it, but we can, is that it?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/205/58…

Democracy experts believe there is no longer any doubt about Trump’s desire to interfere with this fall’s elections.
“We should not be waiting for the next shoe to drop,”
said Wendy Weiser, vice-president for democracy at the Brennan Center for Justice.
🆘“There is a full-blown effort to seize control of some of the mechanisms of our elections and to lay the foundation for interfering in upcoming elections.”
The president has no power over federal elections,
and …

Kupyansk-Vuzlovyi under full Ukrainian control as infiltrating Russian groups are cleared out: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/31/kupyanskvuzlovyi-under-full-ukrainian-control.html

Largest federal employee union calls for Noem, Miller's resignations (ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/minneapolis-ice-shooting-live-updates-doj-investigating-apparent/?id=129340693&entryId=129600588&userab=abcn_du_cat_topic_feature_holdout-474*variant_b_redesign-1939,abcn_popular_reads_exp-497*variant_c_3days_filter-2078,abcn_ad_cadence-481*control-a-1962,abcn_news_for_you_exp-496*variant_a_control-2074,otv_web_content_rec-445*variant_c_trending-1851&userab=abcn_du_cat_topic_feature_holdout-474*variant_b_redesign-1939,abcn_popular_reads_exp-497*variant_b_7days_filter-2077,abcn_ad_cadence-481*control-a-1962,abcn_news_for_you_exp-496*variant_a_control-2074,otv_web_content_rec-445*variant_b_less_popular_bias-1850
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p142#a260127p142

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Control Freaks:
🎵 Not My Fault
#ControlFreaks
https://thecontrolfreaks.bandcamp.com/track/not-my-fault
https://open.spotify.com/track/6WGwZlzQXHBS0reVAKrJTI

Sources: Chinese officials are reviewing Meta's purchase of Manus for possible technology export control violations (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/62f8f2c5-95c7-4437-b0f1-b8ecd507c330

The LAPD has been sending officers to train with Israeli security forces since the 1980s,
and ramped up the trips after the 9/11 attacks,
based on what officials have said is a shared goal of fighting extremism.
Since 2014, the inspector general's report found, 18 LAPD officials took trips to Israel that cost a combined $87,000.
The department sent an unnamed deputy chief and seven other employees to Israel for an event called "Command and Control Counter-Te…

The LAPD sent officers to train in Israel. Officials can't explain what they learned
The Police Commission's Office of the Inspector General found that the LAPD lacks a system for tracking employees who train with foreign law enforcement agen...

Series C, Episode 09 - Sarcophagus
TARRANT: Don't try and bluff your way with me, Avon. I know what's been needling you right from the start. With Blake gone, you thought you'd got it made, didn't you? Thought you'd got control of this ship and a crew of three who'd say, "Yes, Avon. Whatever you want, Avon." [Cally puts the bookscreen down.] But you reckoned without me. [Cally starts toward the artifact.]
AVON: That wouldn't be too difficult…

Kupiansk slips from Russian control – fighting rages in Pokrovsk: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/30/kupiansk-slips-from-russian-control.html

Scoop: U.S. and Russia agree to observe New START nuclear pact after expiration (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/05/new-start-arms-control-us-russia-extend
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p54#a260205p54

Anthropic starts rolling out Remote Control for Claude Code, letting users control a session begun in the terminal from the Claude mobile app or the web (Claude/@claudeai)
https://x.com/claudeai/status/2026418433911603668

Claude (@claudeai) on X
New in Claude Code: Remote Control. Kick off a task in your terminal and pick it up from your phone while you take a walk or join a meeting. Claude keeps running on your machine, and you can control the session from the Claude app or https://t.co/er6Blrr63e

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Gossip:
🎵 Standing in the Way of Control
#Gossip
https://masturbeator.bandcamp.com/track/gossip-standing-in-the-way-of-control-masturbeator-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/7B6jxcVkJTHMUE83ZndMjl

🎲 NUCLEAR BLACKMAIL TRAP: can Trump CONTROL the situation, or the Kremlin plays its OWN GAME?: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/06/nuclear-blackmail-trap-can-trump.html

Boston Dynamics partners with Google DeepMind to integrate Gemini Robotics models into Atlas robots, boosting their object-manipulation capabilities and more (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-boston-dynamics-gemini-powered-robot-atlas/

Google Gemini Is Taking Control of Humanoid Robots on Auto Factory Floors
Google DeepMind and Boston Dynamics are teaming up to integrate Gemini into a humanoid robot called Atlas.

Rep. Doug LaMalfa of California dies, reducing GOP's narrow control of the House to 218-213 (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/rep-doug-lamalfa-dies-california-house-304d9772c6e2d11f03109e2dae1eeb9d
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p71#a260106p71

OpenAI launches Frontier, an AI agent management platform that provides shared context, onboarding, and permission boundaries, available to select customers (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/874…

OpenAI Frontier is a single platform to control your AI agents
OpenAI launches its Frontier platform to manage AI agents for enterprises.