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What computer programmers look like; Ada Lovelace in 1843. https://petapixel.com/2026/01/16/only-known-daguerreotype-photos-of-computer-pioneer-ada-lovelace-join-uk-national-portrait-gallery-collection/…

A lot of journalistic pieces contain too little information. But here's one that is chock full of interesting stuff, not details, but hooks for deeper inquiry. That stuff goes far beyond the topics in the headline. For instance I had never previously considered subway cars as a potential form of spyware.
"After F-35 “Kill Switch”, Now Europe Perturbed By Chinese “Kill Switch” That Could Cripple Its Transport Infra'

After F-35 “Kill Switch”, Now Europe Perturbed By Chinese “Kill Switch” That Could Cripple Its Transport Infra
The debate about a “kill switch” in Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter jets was hardly over when a new worry is pestering Europe. Do Chinese electric buses plying across multiple cities in Europe come with a similar “kill switch” that allows Beijing to deactivate them remotely? In the last month, multiple European countries, […]

49ers Players Surprise William F. James Boys Ranch and FLY Youth at Levi's® Stadium https://www.49ers.com/video/49ers-players-surprise-william-f-james-boys-ranch-and-fly-youth-at-levis-stadium

Natürlich.
Aber dass sie es offen aussprechen...
https://www.twz.com/air/f-35-software-could-be-jailbreaked-like-an-iphone-dutch-defense-minister

F-35 Software Could Be Jailbreaked Like An iPhone: Dutch Defense Minister
The F-35's vendor locked software is becoming a greater concern as relations between the U.S. and longtime allies falter.

#WhiteTown #Leicesterval

Leicesterval: Leicester Indiepop Weekender 2026
Last year's debut weekender went well enough that we're giving it another go, our unlucky for someone thirteenth gathering of DIY greatness in all. Saturday 28th February upstairs from 2pm to around 10.30pm (and there's going to be a dinner break this year!), Sunday 1st March downstairs from 3pm to around 8.45pm followed by an indiepop disco upstairs to midnight. Saturday: JETSTREAM PONY Led by Aberdeen/Trembling Blue Stars/Luxembourg Signal singer Beth Arzy alongside former Wedding Present/…

Today’s eye candy, remarkable underwater photos: #photography

N.F.L. Playoff Predictions: Vibes Only https://www.nytimes.com/video/the-athletic/100000010647045/nfl-playoff-predictions-vibes-only.html

Reading Yegge’s rant and the much shorter and more polished https://siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-fatigue-is-real (“AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it”), I keep coming back to this, which I published in 2020 and is sort of at the center of my thinking about everything:

AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it | Siddhant Khare
You're using AI to be more productive. So why are you more exhausted than ever? The paradox every engineer needs to confront.

Which street will S.F. name for Claude? Vote here in the official poll. https://missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-claude-albino-alligator-street-name-poll/

S.F. is naming a street after Claude. Vote for which one in the official poll.
The city wants your input on which street should be renamed after Claude, the albino alligator who died this month. Take our official poll.

@chadfowler.com's second post in his new Phoenix Architecture blog, called The Death and Rebirth of Programming.
Lots of quotable quotes, so hard to choose. "Soft skills" more important than ever, and this is all be a shock to people who self-identify as programmers.
https://aicoding…

NY-based Octane, which offers "instant" financing for large recreational and lifestyle purchases, raised a $100M Series F at a post-money valuation of $1.3B (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/re

Exclusive: Octane Lands $100M Series F At $1.3B Valuation To Help People Finance Large Lifestyle And...
Octane, a startup that offers “instant” financing for large recreational and lifestyle purchases, has raised $100 million in a Series F round with a post-money valuation of $1.3 billion, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.

Is Trump stupid (yes, he is) enough to attack Venezuela?🤬
So what's in it for US? Oil? Bauxite? Gold?🤔
Will be Ukraine left just with support mostly by EU?😬
Fucking "interesting times" as Sir Pratchett would say.

Heute vor 65 Jahren: Am 16. Januar 1961 ereignete sich am Luftwaffenstützpunkt Royal Air Force #Lakenheath eine nukleare Beinahe-Katastrophe. Durch menschliches Versagen fing eine F-100 Super Sabre der US-Luftwaffe, beladen mit einer Mark-28-#Wasserstoffbombe, Feuer.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/115901713757694096
Yaaaaaaaas

Le trafic est ralenti entre Bibliothèque F. Mitterrand et Pontoise et entre Bibliothèque F. Mitterrand et Viroflay Rive Gauche dans les 2 sens de circulation.
Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X du RER C.
Motif : individus sur les voies (entre Champ de Mars et Avenue du Président Kennedy).
🤖 17/11 13:59

In which Claude Opus invades my open-source hobby project. The experience was… surprising.
Fairly raw anecdata here, analysis and reactions still to come: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/02/06/Q-Plus-C-Ch1

Quamina + Claude, Case 1

@… F. Scott Fitzgerald sounds like I really don’t like a guy named Scott Fitzgerald

TIL that -f on the Windows ping command sets "don't fragment" bit rather than flood mode

The Netherlands in talks to supply new missiles and bombs for Ukraine’s F-16s: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/16/the-netherlands-in-talks-to.html

🏒 Photographing Professional Hockey with the Sigma 135mm f/1.4 Art
... I'm a believer because I shoot indoor sports with the Sony 135mm f/1.8
https://petapixel.com/2025/12/06/photographing-professional-hockey-with-the-sigma-135mm-f…

Photographing Professional Hockey with the Sigma 135mm f/1.4 Art
Sometimes it is the least obvious choice that produces the most striking results. That is why I ended up photographing a hockey game in the Swiss National

"'We do respect and appreciate the temporary activation but it’s time to start moving forward on the original purpose for this site,' Mahmood said, referring to affordable housing."
Ok good start, now do Parcel K in Hayes Valley. Or is this Mahmood's stance only in poor parts of his district?

S.F. moves to accelerate stalled housing at Tenderloin food hall site
San Francisco officials have changed course and committed to seek developers for the La Cocina site within the next two years.

My husband and I have been sick with the flu and completely out of anything going on with society for the past week.
This time of illness has been worse than COVID - I showed up to urgent care last week with a 104.2 F (40.1 C) fever after sleeping for 22 hours straight.
I am still delirious and unable to keep track of meetings or emails, so trying to get caught up on work will be a struggle.
Don’t be like me, get your flu shots if y’all can 😭

Wow, I had been running out of patience with Yegge’s uncritical #GenAI boosterism, but this is epic: “The AI Vampire.”
As usual with Yegge, it could have been edited down to half its size, but go read it anyhow. I’m going to adopt that “AI Vampire” phrase and start using it, a lot.

The AI Vampire
This was an unusually hard post to write, because it flies in the face of everything else going on.

@case.bsky.social is Waiting for the Future to Load!
Which also happens to be a mini test of the @leaflet.pub thread viewer.
https://blog.bmannconsulting.com/3majxlbcqcs2z

Real estate agent brothers
Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander
– known as ‘closers’
– are on trial in New York for
sex trafficking
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/15/alexander-brothers-trial?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

How the Media Shape Our Thinking (Christopher F. Rufo)
https://christopherrufo.com/p/how-the-media-shape-our-thinking
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p55#a251217p55

Melvins & Napalm Death "Tossing Coins Into The Fountain Of F*ck"

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Sieh an, nicht nur ich finde die Verkehrsführung über die schmale und volle Sporergasse nicht so toll, sondern auch Anwohnende, die da tatsächlich mit dem Auto durchmüssen. Eine Mitzeichnung ist leider nicht möglich.
https://www.<…

Groenland-scenario toont kwetsbaarheid Nederlandse F-35: Amerika zit aan de knoppen | Argos - onderzoeksjournalistiek - HUMAN/VPRO
#VPRO #Argos #F35

Det er fŸrst halvveis ned i denne saker det kommer noen nyanseringer; fŸrste halvdel setter opp tradisjonell kateterundervisning og aktivitetsbasert læring som motsetninger — det er de ikke nŸdvendigvis. Det er helt klart elever (og studenter) trenger en lærer som kan stoffet de underviser i og setter rammene og grunnprinsippene for læring. Men det er også riktig at vi lærer mer og raskere gjennom å aktiveres; passiv klasseromsundervisning kan fungere på kort sikt (som å forberede til en eks…

Vil ha mer tradisjonell matteundervisning framfor utforsking i klasserommet
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Tæller SÅ meget ned til juleferien nu! Trææææt af at stå tidligt op om morgenen.
Men men, også sjove ting i dag, bl.a. kort interview på P1 om polariserede grupper der skriver julekort til hinanden. Det bliver fŸrst sendt mellem jul og nytår, jeg skal nok sige til.
#polarisering #tolerance

Luttons ensemble pour les droits des enfants et contre les violences sexistes et sexuelles !
Un appel du cœur pour que les violences Š l'encontre des enfants mineurs soient prises au sérieux et deviennent une réelle priorité de nos sociétés.
https://chardonsbleus.org/luttons…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Edent/115728381442231616
F-droid it!

ICE on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/icegov.bsky.social
Verified.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@icegov.bsky.social)
Protects America through criminal investigations and by enforcing immigration law to preserve national security and public safety. ➡️Visit us at ICE.gov ➡️Join our team at join.ICE.gov Privacy policy: http://go.dhs.gov/U

RE: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediGarden/116082350446529495
Here's a wishlist item for Fediverse clients: it should be a one-click path to view the Local Feed page of an OP's server (where public) and if it is really niche, to subscribe to the feed like a hashtag.

More pollution and higher energy costs: critics condemn Trump’s anti-environment agenda https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/10/trump-anti-environment-agenda-pushback
Under Trump, EPA’s enforcement of environmental laws collapses, re…

The Men's Fertility Nutrition Podcast
Explores what really affects sperm health and male fertility, and what men can actually do about it, hosted by Alex Hardy...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/mens-fertility-nutrition/…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Adam F:
🎵 Stand Clear (feat. M.O.P.)
#AdamF
https://djspot.bandcamp.com/track/stand-clear-feat-adam-f-prod-by-adam-f
https://open.spotify.com/track/1KLURvcUTKUnA3zmEbbVKs

@…
So to reiterate this conversation:
You: Passkeys don't have problems A, B, C and D!
Me: Actually B is still a problem.
You: Yeah well, B is also a problem for passwords! And so is F and G!
Me: Yes, but B is still a problem.
You: But if I hacked the pentagon, then Z would also be a problem for passwords!
I'm not a…

Amazing.
The UAW has this guy’s back. He’s unlikely to actually lose his job. @… https://flipboard.social/@NewsDesk/115894772482908975

Thanks to the wonderful (you all should sign up to his newsletter) @… I learned about Green Beaver (https://greenbeaver.com), a Canadian personal care company.

All-Natural Canadian Skincare and Oral Care Products
Proudly Canadian! Try Green Beaver's all-natural and organic products, including aluminum-free antiperspirant, toothpaste, sunscreen, lip balm, soap, skincare, deodorant and more.

In a move that surprised exactly no one, FBI won’t share Alex Pretti shooting evidence, Minnesota authorities say
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/16/fbi-alex-pretti-minnesota-authorities-information-sharing

FBI won’t share Alex Pretti shooting evidence, Minnesota authorities say
State’s governor had demanded impartial inquiry into the shooting of the VA nurse by federal immigration agents

That is f*****g stupid. When there is bad weather like that it should be work at home and stay off the roads.
https://flip.it/ROgm38

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Carl Maria von Weber, Maximiliano Martín, Scottish Chamber Orchestra & Alexander Janiczek:
🎵 Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 73, J. 114: II. Adagio ma non troppo
https://open.spotify.com/track/1iEKONe1ilOeslSs6QgYKP

What @… said: https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/15/wikipedia-at-25/
You know, I am occasionally shocked when someone I think of as smart or admirable or n…

Wikipedia at 25: What the web can be
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

"F.B.I. Searches Home of #Washington Post #Journalist in a Leak Investigation
It is exceedingly rare, even in investigations of the unauthorized disclosure of #classified information…

F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist in a Leak Investigation
It is exceedingly rare, even in investigations of the unauthorized disclosure of classified information, for federal agents to search a reporter’s home.

"Go away! I'm trying to f***ing work here! Go away!"
Me, every time I try to use an Adobe or Microsoft app after an install or upgrade or update. NOBODY WANTS YOUR STUPID POPUPS, SOFTWARE PEOPLE!

I tried to disable the "Game Bar" that pops up when you press Windows G... what a rabbit hole. I'm rarely on Windows and I know to stay away now. All search results on all those useless Windows sites are wrong. Microsoft removed the option to disable the hotkey from its system settings! On Windows Pro you could use a group policy. After some f-word-riddled Copilot prompting the bot admitted that there's no way to disable the hotkey except for editing the registry.

Ok so Meetup and Eventbrite are both owned by the same PE firm now.
As I have been saying for many years now … both of those platforms are no go any more.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/02/bending-spoons-agrees-to-buy-eventbri…

Customer engagement service MoEngage raised $180M in a follow-on Series F, split into a $57M primary and $123M secondary round, weeks after raising $100M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/16/week…

Weeks after raising $100M, investors pump another $180M into hot Indian startup MoEngage | TechCrunch
The deal valued MoEngage at "well over" $900 million post-money.

Brutal.
Aristotle on Democracy - Existential Comics
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/633

Aristotle on Democracy
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

I miss the limits. Forces concise communication. Long posts/threads should be a post on your site. https://mastodon.social/@randahl/115733189272793078

2026: END OF WAR OR ESCALATION? Miltech by Minister FEDOROV. Ukraine through AMERICAN Eyes: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/15/end-of-war-or-escalation.html

Eager for Center Stage, Patel Casts Aside Caution in Statements as F.B.I. Leader (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/us/politics/kash-patel-fbi.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p136#a251215p136

😱 Fear is the Heart of All Bad Things
#school

Fear is the Heart of All Bad Things
when you choose to drive your kid to school instead of letting them walk or take the bus, you're endangering them

Xiaomi releases MiMo-V2-Flash, an open-weight MoE model with 309B total and 15B active parameters, saying it excels in reasoning, coding, and agentic scenarios (Xiaomi Mimo)
https://mimo.xiaomi.com/blog/mimo-v2-flash

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #WordsAndMusic
Antonio Vivaldi, Giuliano Carmignola, Venice Baroque Orchestra & Andrea Marcon:
🎵 Concerto for violin and orchestra in F, RV295: II. Larghetto
#AntonioVivaldi
https://open.spotify.com/track/4dnMjzaTtKVnyNl6gVgIa2

What is this “sleeping in” of which you speak?
#caturday

Pat Tillman’s Brother Pleads Guilty to Setting Post Office Fire https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/us/richard-tillman-post-office-fire.html

Trump gave the middle finger to a heckler during a campaign tour at a Ford plant in Michigan Jan. 13,
-- mouthing "F you" in what the White House described as
"an appropriate and unambiguous response."
The ruffian was touring a Ford F-150 assembly facility in Dearborn when a worker on the plant floor shouted what sounded like
“pedophile protector”
as Trump stood on an elevated walkway
Trump turned toward the person and appeared to respond…

Trump flips off 'lunatic' heckler at Ford plant in Detroit
A cell phone video shows Trump flipping off a heckler at a Ford facility in what the White House says was 'an appropriate' response

Le trafic est ralenti de Biblio. F.Mitterrand vers Champ de Mars.
Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X du RER C.
Motif : panne d'un train.
🤖 17/11 08:58

Na ob das was bringt... 🤔
https://www.change.org/p/rote-karte-f�%BCr-donald-trump
"Hiermit wird der DFB aufgefordert, die Teilnahme an dieser Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft abzusagen."

Petition unterschreiben
Rote Karte für Donald Trump!

In which I build Unicode character tables and fail to serialize large automata, “Losing 1½ Million Lines of Go“:
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/01/14/Unicode-Properties
(And in which I find myself sliding into the

How far is the peace and who pays for the war in Ukraine? #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/15/how-far-is-the-peace.html

Gov. Tim Walz Urges Minnesotans To Keep Calm, Carry Phones. Trump Freaks The F*ck Out. (Doktor Zoom/Wonkette)
https://www.wonkette.com/p/gov-tim-walz-urges-minnesotans-to
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p98#a260116p98

There’s this place we walk by pretty regularly that’s semi-abandoned. The owner replaces parts when they fall off and there are lights at night, but the front and back have been left to return to nature. This chunk of land is worth ~$2.5M Canadian, so an odd situation. Anyhow, I enjoy watching the progress of the informal small-scale rewilding.
#Photography

Sensor Tower: ChatGPT had 73M DAUs in India as of last week, up 607% YoY and more than double the US, boosted by its free plans, far above Gemini's 17M DAUs (Munsif Vengattil/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/with-free…

I saw @…’s share of the No Jobs for Horses article (2016) https://alphorisms.medium.com/no-jobs-for-horses-e0748…

A Touchdown, Then Tragedy, for a Man Who ‘Gave All He Could Give’ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/us/marshawn-kneeland-dallas-cowboys.html

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/116076167774984883
A lot of people are dumping on this piece without having read it. My favorite quote: “dollar-signs appear in their [employers’] eyeballs, like cartoon bosses. I know that look. There’s no reasoning with the d…

Epstein ranch in New Mexico bought by family of 'Trump Republican' candidate (Sara Braun/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/16/epstein-ranch-new-mexico-purchase-republican-candidate
http://www.memeorandum.com/260216/p89#a260216p89

I’ve been looking for this as a feature - offline feed reading in @himmel.app (haven’t tried the app myself yet)
[contains quote post or other embedded content] https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post/3m6wr2o3pbs2b

Actually kinda like the new styling on the Safari tab & tool bars. *ducks for cover*

Sex work bad, child porn…good?
https://icy.wyvern.rip/notes/aheg34oje1zfy3x9

:privTri: Volpeon :areon3NSmol: (@volpeon)
Weird how payment processors haven't cut Twitter off yet. It's almost as if there are multiple standards

Based on the evidence from the Ayatollahs and MAGAs, I’m starting to think that when a person is accused of being a “terrorist” that’s probably evidence that they’re an admirable person.

RE: #Fediverse are being remorselessly crawled by mindless brute-force bots. If your instance…

Quoth @… in https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/15/note-on-sms-marketing: “But there are an infinite number of things in life that ca…

News flash: Billionaires are unpopular. But, the strength of the sentiment and how fast the needle has moved were both surprises to me. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/opinion/billionaires-politics-money.html

Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
The first rule of dark money is to quit blabbing about it. Did they think people would thank them for it?

In case you’re wondering, blowing snow / sleet rain highway drive between London and Hamilton ON at 5am SUCKED. https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post/3madnld664k2v

Boris (@bmann.ca)
In case you’re wondering, blowing snow / sleet rain highway drive between London and Hamilton ON at 5am SUCKED.

Will purchase: #music

130 Tracks of Guitar Per Song? Sunn O))) Is Back, and Going Big.
The hard-to-categorize duo recorded its new, self-titled album surrounded by nature. It’ll be the band’s first on the storied Seattle label Sub Pop.

Unusual GenAI application: Snarky answers to shitty emails.
#genAI

I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do
I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do

Why, how do you transport yours?
#caturday

Geometry study (shadows are weird).
Back story: In some parts of Vancouver, if you’re putting up a new building (typically condo/retail) you can get tax breaks or more square feet or some such bonus if you preserve the original facade. This place was torn down quite a while ago but the facade, propped up by the metal framework, remains. A policy misfire in this case because it was a really crappy brick frontage and would not be missed.

From that well-known hotbed of leftist radicalism, the daily Bloomberg markets newsletter.
That (paywalled) column is at https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-02-11/the-insurance-crisis-is-about-to-get-even-worse

Been watching S2 of Wednesday. Darker, nastier, less well-written. S1 was morbid (obviously) but still kind of light-hearted. Every modern production (it seems) has excellent acting and strong visuals. But the demand for good TV writing apparently exceeds the supply.

Seems like an important story: #climate

Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been ‘flat or falling’ for 21 months - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the final quarter of 2025, likely securing a decline of 0.3% for the full year as a whole.

This picture from https://studio8502.ca/@mos_8502/116047090400689262
Caution - it's not as simple as this comic says - I think. Here is the upstream source, which I find really hard to understand:

Stre-e-e-tch.
#caturday

Take the good news where you can find it: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/12/orsted-rhode-island-wind-project-trump

I must be weird, am one of the apparently 0.02% for whom #Pluribus isn’t doing much, 6 episodes in (haven’t seen latest). I mean Rhea Seehorn is great but she’d be greater if they gave her a chance to be anything but angry-and-rude for even a minute here or there. Also, how about another character with a character? Will watch the last 3 shows despite massive suspension-of-disbelief failure, hopin…

The Summoning of Bertrand Russell: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/641

The Summoning of Bertrand Russell
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

BC Greens will let their deal with the NDP govt lapse next month for what seem to me pretty good reasons: https://bcgreens.ca/leaders-statement-will-not-renew-carga/
Current seats (out of 93): NDP 47, Conservatives 39, Green 2, right-wingnuts 5. So Eby’s gotta manage…

Leader’s Statement: BC Greens Will Not Renew CARGA
Emily Lowan states the BC Greens will not renew CARGA with the BC NDP, highlighting their legislative majority. Read more!