2026-01-18 07:56:08
100-Year-old D-Day Hero Fulfills Final Wish to be Awarded Campaign Medal From France After Helping Liberate Her https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/100-year-old-d-day-hero-fulfills-final-wish-to-be-awarded-campaign-medal/
100-Year-old D-Day Hero Fulfills Final Wish to be Awarded Campaign Medal From France After Helping Liberate Her https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/100-year-old-d-day-hero-fulfills-final-wish-to-be-awarded-campaign-medal/
Speaking of volleyball...
All abilities invited to relaxed grass volleyball Come and Try day
https://region.com.au/your-invite-to-play-all-abilities-welcomed-to-relaxed-grass-volleyball-come-and-try-day/930794/
WR Woods inks 1-day deal to retire with Rams https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47958747/wr-robert-woods-signs-one-day-deal-retire-rams
The increasingly dominant role of climate change on #LengthOfDay variations: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2406930121 (and a newer paper, stupidly paywalled) -> Climate change slows Earth's spin - day lengthening unprecedented in 3.6 million years: https://www.univie.ac.at/en/news/detail/climate-change-slows-earths-spin-day-lengthening-unprecedented-in-36-million-years and https://baug.ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/news/2026/03/climate-change-slows-earths-spin-day-lengthening-unprecedented-in-3-point-6-million-years.html
Cowboys Day 3 NFL Draft Target is Perfect Replacement for Brock Hoffman https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-day-3-nfl-draft-target-perfect-replacement-brock-hoffman
World Computer Day: 80 Jahre ENIAC
Vor 80 Jahren wurde ENIAC der Welt vorgestellt. Nicht der erste, aber der wichtigste Computer seiner Zeit.
https://www.heise.de/news/World-Computer-D
Legendary linebacker to announce Raiders NFL Draft Day 2 picks https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/04/16/matt-millen-to-announce-raiders-nfl-draft-day-2-picks/89650007007/
"How to Trump-proof the presidency"
Presidents Day - by Jennifer Rubin - The Contrarian
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/presidents-day
Apocalypse (Any Day) Now -- Who is the Antichrist, anyway? And why is Peter Thiel so obsessed with him? (Greg Olear/PREVAIL)
https://gregolear.substack.com/p/apocalypse-any-day-now
http://www.memeorandum.com/260317/p53#a260317p53
Am Sonntag ist wieder DI.day in #Karlsruhe, diesmal am #ZKM
https://zkm.de/de/2026/04/digital-inde
Foggy, troubled day-
To-day life, let's lift our heads
To the clouds instead.
#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku
Well, today was the day I'd prepared to do my monthly run to the local recycling centre, twelve miles away, on the big cargo bike. The bike is all loaded up and ready to go. But the weather forecast, which last night was saying grey but dry, is now suggesting snow all day; so I think I may change my plans.
Bother.
Adobe patches a zero-day in Acrobat DC, Reader DC, and Acrobat 2024, which hackers have been actively exploiting for at least four months (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/adobe-fixes-pdf-zero-day-sec…
Trump administration deepens quest to stamp out the events of Jan. 6
Trump’s effort to reframe what happened on Jan. 6 appears, in many ways, to be an attempt to shape public perceptions.
The details of what happened that day remain accessible and documented in an expansive universe of videos, accounts and court filings.
The day he was inaugurated last year, Trump pardoned most Jan. 6 defendants, some of whom are now seeking elected office.
The president also commu…
It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"Sól is the shield of the clouds
and shining ray
and destroyer of ice."
Icelandic rune poem
🏛️ Sunna aka Sól in her Chariot, pyrography on pine by Debra Arnold, 2009
Paramount says it is "prepared to engage" with WBD on takeover talks during a seven-day negotiating window, but doesn't say whether it will raise its bid (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/param…
London mayor urged to reverse Met’s decision to hand capital to ‘Tommy Robinson’ on Nakba Day | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/london-mayor-urged-reverse-mets-decision-hand-capital-tommy-robinson-nakb…
Dallas Cowboys Attend Oregon Pro Day For Close Look at Elite Ball-Hawk Safety https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/dallas-cowboys-attend-oregon-pro-day-dillon-thieneman
This remains much harder to talk about, family violence I hadn't really had in my mind for a long time. I had several entries from most days, writing after each treatment, fragments of thoughts that I may expand on later.
CW for the lined text: abuse dynamics, gun violence, #PTSD/#CPTSD stuff
https://hexmhell.writeas.com/decisions-ptss-5-day-1-entry-2
I think often of a story my composer friend Todd Harper told of the days when he taught 4th grade.
He brought in a piece music every day to play for the kids — widely varied in style, origin, and era, almost always something unfamiliar to them.
One day he brought in an Erik Satie march that they all •hated•. It’s a sort of wildly repetitive and maddening, bores its way into your brain, and the kids flipped out.
So he started playing it again every day.
2/
Valentine's Day | Chattanooga Times Free Press
https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/feb/14/valentines-day/
Valentine's Day | Chattanooga Times Free Press
https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/feb/14/valentines-day/
When you have unreasonably complex expressions in swift, every day is Xmas!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5ADGENmv3A
Couldn't get over the fact that I dropped my toast on the ground this morning and was grumpy all day.
Apparently I'm lack toast intolerant.
I tootled into Downpatrick (its cathedral said to be the burial place of the man himself) late on St. Patrick's day, in the Land Rover.
I was struck by some senses of Irish identity: people with shamrock face-paint, tricolours wrapped around the shoulders, even the odd wave to my old green car, but also the more sinister: republican scarves and sunglasses on a cloudy day.
Let's hope the positive aspects of being Irish remain the norm, particularly in this place, yeah?
Trump Says Israel and Lebanon Agreed to 10-Day Ceasefire (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-16/trump-says-israel-lebanon-agree-to-10-day-ceasefire
http://www.memeorandum.com/260416/p65#a260416p65
Former linebacker Matt Millen to announce Raiders' Day 2 draft picks in Pittsburgh https://www.raiders.com/news/matt-millen-to-announce-raiders-day-2-2026-draft-picks-in-pittsburgh-pennsylvania-april-24
MSC-2026: day two. UKRAINE – at the conference #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/14/msc-day-two-ukraine-at.html
Tip of the day: Things won't compile if you don't hit return!
"I think my high-school acting career lasted a day."
—Dennis Farina
#acting #coaching #inspiration
Tomorrow: Admitted PhD student visit day.
Me, today: Getting Claude to write code to get Claude to run experiments to test a conjecture I've had, yeeting cash at it so I can run more in parallel, but trying to stay in Tier 1 so this doesn't goes beyond fun money.
What a world.
Today is the day we figured we'd go see this new movie about this 'Mario' person everyone keeps talking about
Only day 1 in but I am also 100% in the process of falling in love with listenbrainz
https://listenbrainz.org/user/STHayden/
sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…
Termijncontracten voor Brent Crude Oil Last Day Financial Futures (BZW00): koersen en nieuws - Google Finance
https://www.google.com/finance/quote/BZW00:NYMEX
Oil price looks interesting...
Shelley Caroll (and likely other Toronto councillors) are joining Doug Ford on asking for an injunction the Al Quds Day protests and linking it to acts of violence against synagogues.
Is there anything out there showing us that the two are related?
I'm happy to be proven wrong, I just don't see the connection.
Every single day it feels like microblogging was a mistake
57.4 kWh today, a new record by a massive margin. Exported 12.1 of that because I was generating 10.9 kW at peak while burning closer to 5.
Tomorrow is looking to be a nice day and I'm also gonna be hopping up on the roof to wipe some of the pollen off the array which should buy me a few percent more generation as well, so we'll see how much I end up getting then.
Fourteen months after
Robert F Kennedy Jr was sworn in
as US health secretary,
the country’s prime public health agency over which he presides
is in a state of disarray.
Eighty per cent of the top director positions at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stand vacant,
with no permanent leader to drive policies affecting the health of millions of Americans.
No one is in place to coordinate the agency’s day-to-day work fighting infecti…
Brits Travel to Town Called Lover to Send Valentine’s Day Cards From World’s Most Romantic Post Office https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/brits-travel-to-town-called-lover-to-send-valentines-day-cards/
Former linebacker Matt Millen to announce Raiders' Day 2 draft picks in Pittsburgh https://www.raiders.com/news/matt-millen-to-announce-raiders-day-2-2026-draft-picks-in-pittsburgh-pennsylvania-april-24
Mamdani rips Palestinian 'genocide' at St. Patrick's Day event -- after he botches answer on unified Ireland (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/03/17/us-news/nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-rips-genocide-in-palestine-at-st-patricks-day-event/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260317/p105#a260317p105
NFL teams celebrate Valentine's Day on social media https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-teams-celebrate-valentine-s-day-on-social-media-2026
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Morgan Delt:
🎵 Some Sunsick Day
#MorganDelt
https://morgandelt.bandcamp.com/track/some-sunsick-day
https://open.spotify.com/track/7kXJUbAAPx2Bc4tKASpV5T
Amazon shares close up 1.2%, snapping a nine-day slide that wiped out $450B in market valuation over concerns about Amazon's plan to spend $200B in 2026 capex (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/17/amazon-stock-losing-streak.html
I bike from Minneapolis to St. Paul for work every day. Minneapolis is 11 miles from St. Paul. My bike ride is <4 miles. Riddle me that, Guardian!
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@InsiderTreat/116089171966892358
First day at YouTube, wish me luck 🤞
On the first day of the #PTSD intensive, we talked about the shooting. I had felt like I was done with that, that it didn't have anything left for me. But there was something still that filled me with rage... that is still confusing and enraging.
It wasn't actually being shot. I wasn't even the possibility of death. I had been prepared to die. I always knew that was possible. It was something else.
I remember Marc Hokoana's face as he pepper sprayed pacifists, smiling and taunting, joyfully hurting people who he knew were refusing to respond. I remember their flags, the kek flag, literally a Nazi battle flag replaced in 4chan colors with the clover 4chan logo instead of the swastika. How many people have been tortured, have died? How much suffering, that these people not only welcomed but celebrated, joyfully participated in.
The cruelty was the point. It was the plan, the plan he posted to Facebook, the same plan as they have always had, of torturing people until someone responds and then murdering them. Inflicting trauma, responding with overwhelming force, showing how "big and strong" they are because they can always escalate.
Try to stop someone from peppers praying people, they shoot you. Shoot back, like Michael Reinoehl, and they send a death squad for you. But we keep standing up, so they keep escalating to the slightest imagined infraction. Now they just murder you for being in a car, for filming at a protest, for existing.
The bar for what justifies murder or torture will continue to move lower until there is no one left, or until they can no longer escalate.
The feeling of helplessness is still not the biggest thing though. It's the joy with which they inflict this on us. That's it. That's the thing.
CW: gun violence, abuse dynamics
https://hexmhell.writeas.com/the-creature-ptss-5-day-1
At least 13 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/16/at-least-injured-in-russian.html
"…Trump has now implored other nations, which he neglected to consult or involve in advance of the precipitous attack, to provide military assistance. Such help is not forthcoming."
potus spent a year alienating friends he now wants as friends. Every day potus is potus is a danger to the US.
https://
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Dry Cleaning:
🎵 Hit My Head All Day
#DryCleaning
https://drycleaning.bandcamp.com/track/hit-my-head-all-day
https://open.spotify.com/track/0JIKmYZmtDKqXAU37ZqwbN
Robert Woods retires: Veteran wide receiver signs one-day contract with Rams, stepping away after 13 seasons
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/robert-woods-retires-nfl/
Raspberry Pi stock rose as much as 42% on Tuesday in a record two-day rally, amid demand for single-board computers to run low-cost AI agents like OpenClaw (Danilo Masoni/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/raspberry-pi-soars-40-c…
Watch live: Trump meets with Irish leader, participates in Friends of Ireland event (The Hill)
https://thehill.com/video-clips/5787467-watch-live-donald-trump-micheal-martin-white-house-st-patricks-day/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260317/p67#a260317p67
A 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon has come into effect,
-- pausing fighting in the devastating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah that has killed more than 2,100 Lebanese people and displaced over 2.1 million.
The agreement was announced earlier by Donald Trump, who said he had spoken with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Lebanese president Joseph Aoun, and invited both leaders “for meaningful talks” at the White House.
Both leaders welcome…
Raiders Receive Blunt Take for Day 2 of NFL Draft https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/blunt-take-day-2-nfl-draft/
Adam Peters open to intradivisional draft day trade but says Commanders 'more likely' to stay at No. 7 https://www.nfl.com/news/adam-peters-commanders-2026-draft-nfc-east-trade-more-likely-stay-no-7
Raiders GM John Spytek swings two Day 2 trades in 3-round mock draft https://raiderramble.com/2026/03/15/raiders-gm-john-spytek-swings-two-day-2-trades-in-3-round-mock-draft/
Tesla agrees to stop using the term "autopilot" to market its electric vehicles in California to avoid a 30-day suspension by the state's DMV (Rachel Swan/San Francisco Chronicle)
https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/tesla-autopilot-2135939…
Coco Gauff has had the news on in the background almost every day.
The 21-year-old says she “likes to stay informed” and admits it’s been “tough” waking up to news of harsh immigration crackdowns and the killing of protesters back home.
“Everything going on in the US, obviously I’m not really for it.
I don’t think people should be dying in the streets just for existing.
I don’t like what’s going on,”
Gauff said in Dubai on Sunday, referring to the killings of Al…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
ballboy:
🎵 A Day in Space
#ballboy
https://ballboy.bandcamp.com/track/a-day-in-space
https://open.spotify.com/track/3eij3k0oJZtSCyvMscN9Pb
Latest NFL draft buzz: What we're hearing on Caleb Downs' range, Day 2 steals, DT class, more https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2026/story/_/id/48495253/2026-nfl-draft-latest-buzz-steals-news-downs-tyson-sad…
Trump wants a Tax Day victory lap in Las Vegas. The city's economy isn't cooperating. (Megan Messerly/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/16/trump-tax-day-victory-lap-las-vegas-00875118
http://www.memeorandum.com/260416/p20#a260416p20
Cowboys Visit Hints at Potential Unexpected Day 2 Target in 2026 Draft https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/dallas-cowboys-visit-hints-potential-unexpected-day-2-target-2026-draft
Apple's stock dropped 5% on Thursday, its worst day since April, following FTC scrutiny of Apple News and reports about delays with Siri (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/apple-stock-worst-day-ftc-siri.html
Trump announced on Thursday that the leaders of Israel and Lebanon had agreed to begin a 10-day cease-fire at 5 p.m. Eastern time.
If it indeed takes effect, the cease-fire could remove a major hurdle to the broader peace talks with Iran.
https://www.nytimes.com/live…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Dry Cleaning:
🎵 Secret Love (Concealed in a Drawing of a Boy)
#DryCleaning
https://drycleaning.bandcamp.com/track/hit-my-head-all-day
Sources: Amazon plans to move its Prime Day sale from July to late June; the shift affects its financial reporting, with event sales coming in Q2 rather than Q3 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-12/ama…
Cowboys Rumor Targets Draft Day Move Against NFC East Rival https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/draft-day-move-against-giants/
Another day, another Trump trollsuit bites the dust.
This time it was his $10 billion defamation claim against the Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch
for an article describing a “bawdy” drawing he penned — allegedly! — for Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003.
Just one day after the story was published, Trump’s lawyer Alejandro Brito filed suit in Florida alleging
“overwhelming financial and reputational damages to President Trump,
expected to be in the…
Cisco stock falls 12% as rising memory prices put pressure on the networking company's margins; it is the stock's worst day since 2022 (Lola Murti/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/cisco-stock-has-worst-day-since-2022-a…
5 unsung Cowboys who deserve Valentine's Day cards after 2025 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/02/14/5-unsung-cowboys-deserve-valentines-day-cards-2025/88663463007/
Trump has repeatedly startled the world by applying 19th-century methods to modern security problems, like a latter-day William McKinley.
Sadly for Mr Trump, the world keeps startling him in return.
Time and again threats and shows of force fail to work quite as expected, leaving his officials unable to hide their puzzlement.
On February 19th, days before America and Israel pounded Iran, Fox News interviewed Steve Witkoff, Trump’s all-purpose diplomatic fixer.
Mr W…
Criminal enterprises in Southeast Asian scam hubs are recruiting "AI face models" to facilitate crypto and romance scams; some demand 100 video calls per day (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/models-are-applying-to-be-the-face-of-ai-scams…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Elbow:
🎵 One Day Like This
#Elbow
https://vocalauthority.bandcamp.com/track/one-day-like-this-a
https://open.spotify.com/track/1OZSVl0JJ1MBzibpuhmmXb
As Donald Trump ramped up his threats against the people he is supposed to be working for,
his administration’s extreme immigration enforcement led Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to admit that anyone
— U.S. citizen or otherwise
— should be prepared to have to prove their citizenship to DHS agents.
Asked Thursday about U.S. citizens being asked to provide proof of citizenship in Minnesota
and whether that is “targeted enforcement,”
Noem said the f…
Cowboys' Jordyn Tyson Interest Opens Door For Shock Pick in NFL Draft https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-jordyn-tyson-interest-opens-door-for-shock-pick-nfl-draft
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Tom Waits:
🎵 Day After Tomorrow
#TomWaits
https://antirecords.bandcamp.com/track/day-after-tomorrow-live
https://open.spotify.com/track/6oMfjYG14uBJjwA661zVxz
Amazon begins three-hour deliveries in ~2K US cities and towns and one-hour deliveries in hundreds of those areas, after 2025 pilots; 90K products are eligible (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/17/amazon-rolls-out-1-ho…
The Opt-Out Project
This is a user-friendly guide to retrieving your digital life from the Tech Giants.
In a post per day over three weeks,
I'll walk you through a process for changing your digital habits and services to set you up for success in 2025 and beyond.
https://www.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Liz Cooper:
🎵 New Day
#LizCooper
https://lizcooper.bandcamp.com/track/new-day
https://open.spotify.com/track/4zgE9tLze004ikoT989voo
An Afghan man who fought with U.S. forces and was legally evacuated to the U.S. after the fall of Kabul
died this week within a day of being arrested by federal immigration officers in Texas, according to his family.
The reported death would be at least the 24th in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody this fiscal year, which began in October.
The administration is on track for the deadliest year in ICE detention in more than two decades.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Brian Eno:
🎵 Deep Blue Day
#BrianEno
https://prfmonthlytributeseries.bandcamp.com/track/deep-blue-day
https://open.spotify.com/track/50mL6pbI0uI6YX1xbSer7g
Amazon Pharmacy plans to bring same-day prescription delivery to ~4,500 cities by end of 2026, adding ~2,000 new communities to its network (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/amazon-pharmacy-to-expand-same-day-de…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Courtney Barnett:
🎵 Another Beautiful Day
#CourtneyBarnett
https://courtneybarnett.bandcamp.com/track/another-beautiful-day
https://open.spotify.com/track/7CCT73woQlTe6XT8y9Hdn5
The French government is pressing the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to
release the 86-year-old French widow of a military veteran from immigration custody after she was detained earlier this month.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detained
Marie-Therese Ross in Alabama on 1 April after she overstayed her 90-day visa, according to DHS.
Ross is now being held at a federal immigration detention facility in Louisiana.
She is among the t…