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Banijay and RedBird IMI-owned All3Media announce a merger, creating a production giant with $8B in annual revenue, in a deal expected to close in H2 (Peter White/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/03/banijay-all3media-deal-done-1236742713/

Banijay & All3Media Deal Done: Merger Creates $8B Production Group
The pact, which has been in the works for some time, will bring together the producers of series including The Traitors, Big Brother, Survivor and Peaky Blinders.

The complex part regarding our understanding of Rosa Park's history, is that several others, such as Claudette Colvin, had done her protest before Parks.
Irene Morgan had done it in 1944, but certain states simply ignored the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in her favor. There was a deliberate choice to make Rosa Parks the face of the campaign, since she could handle the heat better. It'd also be much harder to dig up any dirt about her: Rosa Parks was a well-respected woman in her 40s with…

'Not enough' work being done in Kyiv as city faces heating emergency, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/01/not-enough-work-being-done.html

#SpringBoot Done Right: Lessons From a 400-Module Codebase
https://medium.com/all-things-software/spring-boot-done-right-lessons-fro…

@… well, I’ve done it but escaped unscathed, I wonder if I have safesearch on or something

Mexico is “a country that has done nothing but cooperate with US interests on all levels”, Thomas Payan said.
“And here he is rubbing Mexico’s nose in what is essentially a very deep wound in Mexico’s history … it’s seared in Mexico’s memory.”
According to Payan, the statement also speaks volumes as to how Trump would like his presidency to be remembered.
“He wants to go down as a great president who expanded the American Empire,” he said.
“It’s just sheer 19th-centu…

Vikings WR Justin Jefferson: 'I definitely felt like we would've done better' if Sam Darnold returned https://www.nfl.com/news/vikings-wr-justin-jefferson-i-definitely-felt-like-we-would-ve-done-better-if-sam-d…

Done... 😎

Microscope bench workstation upgrade is almost done - now has the CPU from the VM server, the RAM from the soldering bench workstation, a new motherboard, and SSD previously retired from the storage cluster. So the motherboard and heatsink were the only new purchases and I effectively have a brand new workstation.
But I also need a new fan because the Supermicro BMC doesn't like how low the RPM on the Noctua case fan is and some quick poking at ipmitool didn't fix it so I'm…

Shot ...and chaser (and it's only Tuesday): Two new 8x6" prints done over the weekend, from one of my fave repeat hikes in the Allgäuer Alps...
Alpsee and view into the Lechtal Alps (November 2021)
Himmeleck mountain pass with Großer Wilder (October 2023)
I find the aesthetics of the Kallitype process are so nicely complementing the timelessness of these places...
For some of the next prints I will be switching to Rochelle salt as developer for supposedly even…

Got paid for a writing project that isn't going forward in its current form (paused) but feels good to be paid for the work I've done, and maybe it can have a slightly different life elsewhere too.
#writing

Finishing term has done wonders for the dishes.

"Personal Knowledge Management is for Life, Not Just for Work"
#PKM

Court ordered money to go to Planned Parenthood, so not much to be done about it.
MAGA senator declares war on RFK as pro-lifers mutiny - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/josh-hawley-2676658698/

So I guess the Strait of Hormuz isn't going to open itself, and the US isn't just going to walk away, and a lot more damage will be done to energy infrastructure all around the Gulf, and the chatter of the past 48 hours was just that... talking down the markets. Buckle up, this could get interesting. https://ww…

Oil prices rise in choppy trade as Trump addresses the U.S. on Iran war
Oil rose in volatile trading as Trump in his address to the nation on Iran war said that he expected the conflict to last another two to three weeks.

The wave of progressive independent news and media outlets genuinely keeps me going with hope for the world sometimes.
(I credit @… with starting the trend / giving others a template for how it can be done, but of course such publications have always existed in some form)

It's done, I successfully defended my #PhD! 🤩
My amazing colleagues @… made this gorgeous hat for me 😍

In Her Era
For the woman who's done playing small with her health, her success, or her potential...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/in-her-era/

🇳🇴 Norway has reached the milestone of one million electric cars.
Bra jobbet! [Well done!]
#EV

Over én million elbiler på norske veier
I løpet av helgen passerte vi én million elbiler på norske veier. Det viser ferske tall fra Statens vegvesen.

@… Duncan Jones posted this video over on BSky, and I thought you might enjoy it as much as I did. I am slain by what a difference having these professional ovens makes - you can control both the heat and the humidity. Beautiful to see all these steps that I have taught myself done with such grace and precision by a pro!

I found a really nice co-working space near me. It's 30€ for a single day or 250€ for an entire month of access. Coffee and water are free. I have never done co-working before so I can't compare.
What do you guys think of that price?
#Freelance #Freelancer

Not much has been mentioned of late about the progress for the California High Speed Rail project.
(I am a big supporter of the project; I was with some of the principals on election night when the voters chose to endorse the project.)
Below is a fairly recent video about the progress and financing.
I often drive the section between Bakersfield and Fresno - and I can see much that has been done (and I've walked on what seems to me to be rail/signal/power ready "gui…

What’s that? Yes, I am trying to get some work done with a fully grown cat wearing a cone perched on my shoulder like a parrot.
Yes, it is quite inconvenient…
#CatsOfMastodon

This is the story of my whole life. Aside from my wives and kids of course.
And in writing this I came to realize that other than a scattering of travel alone (work, dead relatives, eclipse chase) I have not done the “in public alone, not lonely” thing very much for a long time. Odd that it seems so familiar still. Now I really miss it…
ht…

Okay, removed the second MiSTer and made room for the OG Mega Drive/Genesis. Got it hooked up, found the right power adapter and SCART cable, and even cleaned it up a bit. Think I'm done futzing around with the shelf for the time being.
#retrogaming #nes

I don't suppose there's a filter to transform a #Convo site into some sort of #WordPress theme? Or a skilled hand who's done it before?

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 07 - Killer
AVON: All right Cally, get us out of here fast! [They teleport. There is an explosion]
[Liberator]
BLAKE: Well done.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/207/563

I will once again repeat what I think is a nationally winning campaign for a US opposition party (should any care to exist), now with Berlatsky’s improved phrasing:
❝If elected, I will fight like hell to:
- destroy Donald Trump, everything he has done, and everything he stands for,
- tax the living shit out of billionaires, and
- use that money to repair the damage they’ve done to the US.❞
Not saying that’s everything that needs to happen, or an entire political philosophy, or the solution to everything. Only saying that I think that — simply that — would win elections. Try it and see. You cowards. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:htdsafwakqmzvuk2oivijzn6/post/3midafsxk3k2p

The administration has done real damage to climate action,
experts say.
But in many ways, renewables are unstoppable.
https://grist.org/climate-energy/trump-is-trying-to-kill-clean-energy-the-market-has-other-plans/

Trump is trying to kill clean energy. The market has other plans.
The administration has done real damage to climate action, experts say. But in many ways, renewables are unstoppable.

Cowboys’ Dak Prescott Will Intervene in George Pickens Free Agency ‘If I Need To’ https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/dak-prescott-intervene-george-pickens-free-agency/

I realise on the fediverse this is maybe asking for a flaming, but yesterday out of sheer curiosity I tried Claude for a simpleish coding task that I'd been putting off (largely inspired by @… 's latest on #theclimatebrink). The performance of Claude was seriously impressive. I am convinced the AI cycle is more than hype (and have been for a while), the chatbots have been a huge attention hogger, misleadingly so, while the serious work has been done elsewhere. (We are developing ML tools to supplement parts of our climate model workflows).
Now I'm wondering if there is any serious EU competition to Anthropic? - Mistral's codestral perhaps?
Because this kind of performance changes everything and we can't afford to lag behind...
#AIcoding #ML
Edit: here is the climate brink post I mentioned
https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-ai-augmented-scientist

Our world is run by monsters. Like, literal monsters.
I've seen plenty of films and books where the "monster" might harm or destroy only a handful of humans before being vanquished, and yet, our governments have killed how many?
The people in charge have done damage to our world we cannot reverse.
The real monsters live among us, not in stories or fantasy.
How do we end these monsters?

Las Vegas Raiders fans are seeing their patience rewarded https://raiderramble.com/2026/02/03/las-vegas-raiders-fans-are-seeing-their-patience-rewarded/

For most human societies, for 10s of 1000s of years (unlike the typical current western version) death was a process, not an event. The rituals surrounding a death existed to guide the decedent from this world to whatever came next. Rituals done wrongly, or not at all, could result in the dead returning, often cranky or angry or worst case, malevolent. This often happened in times of political or religious or medical turmoil, resulting in pandemics of

Just ran a successful non-interactive build and test cycle of ngscopeclient in a Debian VM with a PCIe passthrough GPU.
Just start the VM from the snapshot, paste a handful of shell commands into a SSH session, and I get this.
Still need to work out how to actually spawn the VM, specify the hash I want to build, shut it down and revert when done, etc.
Took only three and a half minutes on this instance (16GB RAM, 16 vCPU, GTX 1630) which is pretty decent considering there w…

Also, talk to anyone at Oracle about what their AI middleman/debt strategy has done to their focus & agility.
▶️ Oracle: How Larry Ellison Destroyed a $900B Tech Empire - Junk Bond Investor
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9v2eZKsEJMI&si=B8uxtXzBYKTqJm2Y

Here's the story of how my factual queries to Google's AI system Gemini* led to it making up an elaborate fictional narrative about why and how the school bombing in Iran was done for good reasons…
https://woborders.blog/2026/03/01/gemini-fanfic-iran/

Worse than useless: Google Gemini synthesizes pro-military fan fiction about school attack in Iran
Without a doubt, the most horrifying event of the first day of the new US–Israeli war on Iran was the air strike on a girls’ primary school in Minab (Wikipedia), in the southwestern province …

RE: https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/116332667717903322
I really think that we _are_ starting to build those tools. I'm party to a lot of discussions about how to use these tools well, and a lot of that starts to look like systems design: what are controls? What are the feedback loops? Where do we need to add new frictions? Where do we need to eliminate old bottlenecks?
We are still very, _very_ early in this.
But the work is getting done, and a lot of us 'haters' need to get in the drivers seat and start putting up useful critique like mttaggart's. I don't agree with the entire article, but it's solid work and solid case report. It’s very good stuff. We need a lot more of these conversations.
And we need to let people hate it. Not to be confused with obstinate blocking, but to have the feelings of hating it, of disliking the processes it engenders, of finding those new footings — or rejecting the bad ones. We can't look at this clearly unless we have the space to hate it.

This is really cool, thanks for letting us know about it. It reminded me I'd forgotten about Globle so I had a go at that too. Now just waiting for the new Squaredle and I'm done for today.
@… https://

#FOSDEM was awesome as always! Lots of action around the Perl and Raku table. Well done to everyone who volunteered! It was a blast!
We had stickers for #perl, #rakulang , @…

＂… something with FreeBSD in September 2012 … probably toying with 9.0 on a PowerPC iMac with failing graphics hardware. Not because I was a glutton for punishment (like, the horror of a command-line loader, and the certainty that hardware was failing) – because there was nothing good to be done with the Mac, and I was curious about non-Apple alternatives to Microsoft Windows. …＂
Source: <

Justin Jefferson: 'I definitely feel like we would have done better' if Vikings kept Sam Darnold

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/justin-jefferson-sam-darnold-vikings/

In writing a piece on the Anthropic ban, which I struggled to keep to 2,000 words, I left out an analysis of how other tech companies, including Huawei and Kaspersky, have done just fine despite their US bans.
Yesterday, Kaspersky announced it hit record revenues
https…

I have no doubt the US can do several rounds of strikes and probably/hopefully Iran can't do anything meaningful striking back. But if the strikes are done, what's next... Hoping Iranian protestors take over government?
#iran #usa

'Not a done deal': California vows 'vigorous' review of Paramount-Warner Bros takeover (Coral Murphy Marcos/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/27/california-paramount-warner-bros
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p119#a260227p119

The newspaper stories, and internet commentary, conflating an opposition to war with Iran to "support for the Iranian regime" is very familiar. And it's largely being done by people who remember 2003.

I've only ever done one April Fool's prank on my theatre website, and it went over with a resounding thud.

Anthropic expands its agentic plugins, which let enterprise users automate department-specific workflows, from Claude Code to its new general-use tool Cowork (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/30/anthropic-brings-agentic-plugins-to-cowork/

Anthropic brings agentic plug-ins to Cowork | TechCrunch
The company says you can use plug-ins to "tell Claude how you like work done, which tools and data to pull from, how to handle critical workflows, and what slash commands to expose so your team gets more consistent outcomes."

Along those lines, I'm gonna take my own advice and work on some writing. Just finished sewing my pants, gonna switch to writing after kids are in bed tomorrow.
I've been in a writing group and I got some great feedback on a couple of things I wrote. I'll probably re-publish with updates soon. Also gonna try to finish another project I've had in my head for a bit, we'll see how it goes.
Good luck to everyone, see you all when I'm done.

This is how my weekends usually go:
- Get the laundry done
- Get the dishes done
- Get the dogs to the dog wash
- Get the groceries done for the week
- Do something that brings you joy
I'm always surprised when I get to that fifth item successfully.

Lots of people ask about e-readers here so I am going to do the same. I have a TON of readings to do lately for classes. Mostly PDFs of research documents. Think published scholar journal documents, so two column (mostly), tiny font. Lately I've been printing them and reading them on the couch as its easier than reading with a laptop. Plus I can highlight passages with is helpful. While I love using a kindle to read books, its never done well with PDF documents, not to mention moving th…

I’ve just retreated to my little think tank so I can get some work done in peace, and now I’m being serenaded by 120 decibels of bathroom renovation noise in Dolby Surround coming from the apartment next door. 🫠
ANC is a godsend.

@… The people at Wolfram have done a gorgeous visualisation of the trajectory

got actual writing done 🥳

The Damage from Tariffs Has Already Been Done
https://newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/the-damage-from-tariffs-has-already

We don't praise government when it works, so I want to call out the UK's ETA app (I used the Android version): it exceeded every expectation in the best possible way. The whole thing was done in about a minute, and I had an ETA in about two. (Now I can actually get into the UK!)

Done. Wir sind uns ziemlich sicher, dass er das Buch »Was ist was Band 53 – Das Auto« erinnert, erschienen 1974.
Fediverse! Ich suche ein Kinderbuch, an das sich mein Bruder vage erinnert. Dürfte aus 2. Hälfte 1970ern sein. Was mein Bruder erinnert: »Buch mit Zukunft, selbstschwebende Autos und so. Größe/Dicke ca. wie Was-ist-Was-Bücher. Und der Schimpanse ohne Fell auf den Knien.« Es muss Text drin gestanden sein, kein Bilderbuch, weil mein Bruder immer von mir daraus vorgelesen haben…

How the Raiders Will Add by Subtracting https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-must-take-advantage-of-this-update-geno-smith-market

California AG Rob Bonta says Paramount-WBD "is not a done deal" as CA DOJ "has an open investigation" and the companies haven't "cleared regulatory scrutiny" (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.holl…

California Attorney General Plants Flag on Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger: “Not a Done Deal”
If the Justice Department and foreign regulators approves the deal, it'll be up to state attorneys general to challenge the merger.

Justin Jefferson: Vikings 'would have done better' if Sam Darnold stayed https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7013686/2026/02/01/vikings-justin-jefferson-sam-darnold-seahawks-super-bowl/

Even if ICE CBP presence in the Twin Cities goes back to pre-Dec levels (which to be clear it •has not• yet done), we will be living with this for a long time. The world will be moving on, the national press will forget about us no doubt, but we’ll be living with this.
Nobody here thinks we’re done. But a lot of us are cautiously hopeful that we are now entering a time where this is some room for repairing and rebuilding.
Cautiously hopeful. But vigilant.
/end

Big Tech Should Pay for What It Has Done to Us
"The truth is, it’s hard for profit-motivated companies to decide to make less money. So we can raise the cost of bad behavior. It worked with smoking. You can still smoke, but it could cost $15 a pack and you often can’t find a place where it’s allowed these days."

Opinion | Big Tech Should Pay for What It Has Done to Us
We are beginning an era where the social-media companies are finally held accountable for their harm.

This change in the token window arrangements from Claude is great! I always leave work on time now, because I've always run out of tokens and the end of the day is when I most need the second opinion! Pretty sure I'm actually getting more done by bailing on time and having something to immediately pick up next morning

I'm going to have to disagree. You should know not to get "smart" appliances at this point. Your fridge with a touch screen is going to show you ads, your vacuum with 'smart' features is going to stop working when the company shuts off its servers, and your wifi-enabled oven is going to do abusive stuff if you put it online. Which this genius did.

Welp, that was non-trivial, but I've just managed to upgrade one of my Peertube instances from 7.3.0 -> 8.0.2 (includes an upgrade from PostgreSQL 13 -> 17)! Very impressive bit of kit, this! Well done Framasoft and friends!

I think a thing most people do not understand about chatbots is HOW SIMPLE THE UNDERLYING MODELS are.
It's really just statistics of how close words are to each other in a huge ass amount of written text, with a sprinkle of classification and labeling (done by humans).
And then it autocompletes your prompt. That's it, that's really all there is to it.

Daring Fireball: The Names They Call Themselves
#USpol

The Names They Call Themselves
*Fascist* and *Nazi* weren’t slurs that were applied to the Italians and Germans by their political or military opponents. That’s what they called themselves. The job won’t be done, this era of madness will not end, until we make *the names Trump’s regime calls themselves* universally acknowledged slurs.

Today I learned how to use socat to pipe IPv4 traffic to my #homelab that's accessible only over IPv6 (thanks 1&1 and DS-Lite).
Set the DNS A record to a VPS I already have, spin up a reverse proxy on the VPS via docker, point the right domains to a socat docker container which TCP6's the IPv4 traffic the right way. Don't forget to add an IPv6 network to the socat container. Done.

"What can—and cannot—be done to save the world’s glaciers"
#Glaciers #Climate #ClimateChange

What can—and cannot—be done to save the world’s glaciers
Glaciers are often treated as scenic features or scientific curiosities. In fact, they are critical infrastructure. Though they cover roughly a tenth of the Earth’s land surface, meltwater from glaciers and seasonal snowpacks supports drinking water, agriculture, industry, and energy production for close to half the global population. That support system is now shrinking, fast. […]

A set of loft finds; 'Wagon trail' pattern tea set from 'Washington pottery'; looks like it was a pretty common 60s pattern.
#pottery

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Neil Young:
🎵 The Needle and the Damage Done
#NeilYoung
https://purnimaciao.bandcamp.com/track/neil-young-the-needle-and-the-damage-done-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/7gaHuCPO76zceg54cJNalE

I really should be sleeping, but I'm a little fired up by @… 's NDP Party Leadership acceptance speech. As @… shared: great speech.
There's important work to be done in Canada. This must be the time. Carney was a necessary step, bu…

Well done, San Diego.
Join the resistance on March 28th.
#resist #nokings

I've only ever done one April Fool's prank on my theatre website, and it went over with a resounding thud.

'Just following orders':
Kristi Noem Blames Her Actions on Trump and Stephen Miller
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/noem-says-everything-ive-done-has-been-directed-by-trump-and-stephen-miller-report/

Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
ORAC: The chances are that had the game continued as it should have done, I would have won control of the galaxy on a probability of ten thousand four hundred and fifty to one.
TARRANT: Orac, it was only a game.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/304/19

'The damage has been done': As Trump claims victory on Greenland, Europe loses trust (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/-damage-done-trump-claims-victory-greenland-europe-loses-trust-rcna255406
http://www.memeorandum.com/260122/p150#a260122p150

Another evening of filter refactoring and optimization, a few more nice performance jumps.
I've now done a first pass (remove deprecated method signatures, add explicit input location, add NVTX trace data, do easy GPU optimization if I see an obvious low effort win) on all filters A-F alphabetically plus a few later on that were priorities for one reason or other.
90 down (of which 23 were optimized and the rest just refactored), 115 to go.
Some of the remaining ones sh…

Okay, RPM Challenge is done. I made a terrible album aptly titled "Space Farts" which you probably do not want to listen to.
I made it for me, so if anyone else listens, cool... and if not, that's okay too.
https://peteprodoehl.bandcamp.com/album/space-farts

Video: Go inside the Indianapolis restaurant where NFL deals get done https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7076065/2026/02/28/nfl-st-elmo-steak-house-video/

Becoming an EU member is a bureaucratic process that takes some time, it can't be done in a year. But there are many ways to strengthen ties (economic, military) while being on that road. It shouldn't be framed as a "problem" that full memberschip is not possible quickly...
#Ukraine #EU

It's very sad, after more than a year of the current government, to read triumphalist press releases where they state they've basically done their job.
It at least acknowledges that longer sentence lengths contribute to an increase in prison population. i.e. prison overpopulation is broadly a policy choice that's independent of the number of actual cells.

Government action to avert summer prison disaster
The prison system would have collapsed entirely by summer if not for the Government’s decisive action to keep the public safe, new analysis has revealed.

my wife: "I'll be done with work at 4:45, then we can hang out"
me:

How is Gboard's emoji kitchen done? It's too old (and too good) to be AI? But it's like thousands of images?! It couldn't have been done by hand?! But how was it done by a robot??

@… ahahahaha I laughed, well done

The offenses of Trump’s second-term cabinet members tend to be ones of loyalty or sycophancy,
rarely of independent thought.
Whatever damage the secretaries inflict on their country or their reputations is done on the president’s orders and on his behalf.
In Trump’s first term, sacrificing cabinet members meant firing them, or pushing them to resign.
In the second term, it means keeping them in the job for as long as those shields retain even marginal power.
Th…

Opinion | Trump’s Shields Are Down
Personnel once meant policy; now it means flattery.

That doesn’t mean we’re done with them, not Minneapolis and not the rest of the county. It means they’re changing strategies.
What strategy? Probably something less visible, less likely to be filmed. (I’m worried about prisons, meat packing plants, farms, rural areas.) And probably something that doesn’t go into force until Congress caves and funds DHS.
Who knows what exactly. But there’s still a crap ton of ICE agents in MN — and just today, folks saw a mysterious military-looking caravan barreling across the city.
8/

Raiders complete 2nd interview with Seahawks OC Klint Kubiak. Now what? https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/02/01/raiders-complete-2nd-interview-with-seahawks-oc-klint…

'Not a done deal': Democrats start to sweat over Virginia's redistricting referendum (Adam Edelman/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/not-done-deal-democrats-start-sweat-virginias-redistricting-referendum-rcna263726
http://www.memeorandum.com/260322/p14#a260322p14

Joey Aguilar shifts focus to NFL, done pursuing eligibility case for seventh college season https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7075919/2026/02/27/joey-aguilar-tennessee-ncaa-eligibility-nfl/

OK so that's today's round of hardware maintenance done, box rebooted, and got all of my stuff set up about the way I left off.
And now I have the Xeon 4310 and 128GB of DDR4 3200 RDIMMs available.
Still pending:
* (blocked until new heatsink arrives) Swap VM server Xeon 5310 for the other 8362
* See if that lets me use the other 128GB of RAM on the VM server, if not troubleshoot further
* See if I can possibly squeeze another pcie passthrough GPU in the VM…

How does an NFL player decide to retire? 'I'm not done' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47985245/how-does-nfl-player-decide-retire-im-not-done-stories-second-chances

"Trump has all his work done for him by placid European centrists who went along with the policy of trashing international law."
https://bsky.app/profile/democracynow.org/post/3md7h7tlw7v2f

Democracy Now! (@democracynow.org)
"Trump has all his work done for him by placid European centrists who went along with the policy of trashing international law." https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/22/yanis_varoufakis

#TACO
Trump backpedals on threats against Greenland, but allies say damage has been done | PBS News
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trump-backpedals-on-threats-against-greenland-but-allies-say-damage-has-been-done

Things have been a •lot• quieter in Minneapolis the last 5 days. There have been only a handful of kidnappings. (“Only a handful of kidnappings!” Words I can’t believe I’m actually saying….) Some days 1. Some days 0. (0 known, anyway.)
Things are •much• quieter. I am doing things I’ve been neglecting for weeks, months. I am posting about programming again.
And…not “but!”…and—
Nobody here, nobody, thinks we’re done with ICE and CBP.
1/

Three major reports out this month say President Trump has done serious damage to American democracy at remarkable speed since his return to the White House.
An annual report from V-Dem, an institute at Sweden's University of Gothenburg, concluded democracy had deteriorated so much in the U.S. that it lowered the country's democracy ranking from 20th to 51st out of 179 countries.
The U.S. landed between Slovakia and Greece.
Meanwhile, Bright Line Watch, which surveys …

Vibe coding provides a tantalizing answer in that situation: maybe it’s too varied to •abstract•, but not too varied to •plagiarize• and call it good.
This is something subtly different from abstraction. It’s not “do this in the standard way.” Instead, it’s “just rip off whatever other people are doing right now.”
A lot of people really want that — and tbh, a lot of them are not wrong to want it. I personally love the craft of programming, but let’s face it, a lot of software out there just needs to look like everything else and be done with it.

I feel like—from all sides—this case is The Big Moment for SCOTUS.
Have they completely abdicated or is there any semblance of separation of powers and rule of law?
If they side with Trump it feels like a death knell of sorts.
... If we aren’t there already.
-- Kendyl Hanks
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NEW: The birthright citizenship arguments will show what Donald Trump has done to the United States. Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship is at the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The case will test his anti-immigrant authoritarian project — and the court. Today, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/birthright-citizenship-arguments-preview

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency was facing growing pressure on Thursday over its crackdown in Minnesota, a day after the state’s chief judge condemned its agents for violating nearly 100 court orders and warned that “ICE is not a law unto itself.”
Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, whom Mr. Trump put in charge of the ICE operation in Minnesota earlier this week, was holding a news conference early on Thursday morning.
The judge’s extraordinary broadsidecame on Wednesd…

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Tom Homan, trying to find common ground with local officials, conceded that not “everything that has been done here has been perfect.”