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#photography

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Boris (@bmann.ca)
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End Cover for Initial Value Problem: Complete Validated Algorithms with Complexity Analysis
Bingwei Zhang, Chee Yap
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00162 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.00162 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.00162
arXiv:2602.00162v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We consider the first-order autonomous ordinary differential equation \[ \mathbf{x}' = \mathbf{f}(\mathbf{x}), \] where $\mathbf{f} : \mathbb{R}^n \to \mathbb{R}^n$ is locally Lipschitz. For a box $B_0 \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ and $h > 0$, we denote by $\mathrm{IVP}_{\mathbf{f}}(B_0,h)$ the set of solutions $\mathbf{x} : [0,h] \to \mathbb{R}^n$ satisfying \[ \mathbf{x}'(t) = \mathbf{f}(\mathbf{x}(t)), \qquad \mathbf{x}(0) \in B_0 . \]
We present a complete validated algorithm for the following \emph{End Cover Problem}: given $(\mathbf{f}, B_0, \varepsilon, h)$, compute a finite set $\mathcal{C}$ of boxes such that \[ \mathrm{End}_{\mathbf{f}}(B_0,h) \;\subseteq\; \bigcup_{B \in \mathcal{C}} B \;\subseteq\; \mathrm{End}_{\mathbf{f}}(B_0,h) \oplus [-\varepsilon,\varepsilon]^n , \] where \[ \mathrm{End}_{\mathbf{f}}(B_0,h) = \left\{ \mathbf{x}(h) : \mathbf{x} \in \mathrm{IVP}_{\mathbf{f}}(B_0,h) \right\}. \]
Moreover, we provide a complexity analysis of our algorithm and introduce a novel technique for computing the end cover $\mathcal{C}$ based on covering the boundary of $\mathrm{End}_{\mathbf{f}}(B_0,h)$. Finally, we present experimental results demonstrating the practicality of our approach.
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Why I always go pick the food up myself. https://mastodon.social/@amirbkhan/115826283829344704

Amir Khan (@amirbkhan@mastodon.social)
Attached: 3 images Nothing like starting the year with a WHISTLEBLOWER confession from a BURNED-OUT, disgruntled - and rightfully ANGRY - Big Tech developer. Disgraceful Product strategy. Might be legal but screams immorality! This is Big Tech’s playbook: dehumanize workers, manipulate customers, and call it ‘disruption.’ I don’t care how “good” the service feels. As a consumer and a worker, it’s time to choose and redefine BETTER! Original Reddit post: https://www.reddit.c…

Zählt das noch als knapp verfehlt? 🧐 Teslas große Akku-Revolution bleibt vorerst aus! 🔋 Der 2023 geschlossene Milliardenvertrag mit dem koreanischen Kathoden-Hersteller L&F ist praktisch geplatzt.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11126643

Not a huge fan of David “LNG” Eby but I’m with him on this one. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/eby-alberta-separatist-group-treason-9.7071107?cmp=rss

B.C. premier doubles down on calling Alberta separatist movement seeking U.S. support 'treason' | CBC News
Calgary-based data analyst John Santos warns that that kind of language could push people toward separatism.

"S.F. public health department has to cut $17 million. No one is happy."
Really, "no one"? This is billionaire erasure. Billionaires are thrilled! They love that Mayor Lurie opposes the billionaire tax and the overpaid CEO tax, and is making cuts instead.
https://

S.F. public health dept. has to cut $17 million. No one is happy.
Community organizations facing cuts are fighting back .

On compute as a commodity “people might be open to a new bespoke pickle vendor. So we're pickling some compute and selling that.”
And
“Our mission is to spread the joy of programming, both in people's personal lives and at work.”
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Boris (@bmann.ca)
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Optimism about US democracy, with sports metaphors and statics nerdery: https://open.substack.com/pub/natesilver/p/dont-discount-american-democracys?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Don't discount American democracy's resilience
The U.S. has a highly popular democratic tradition, even as it battles an authoritarian element.

N.F.L. Said It Will Look Into Steve Tisch’s Ties to Epstein https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/sports/nfl-steve-tisch-epstein-giants.html

Denne artikel fremstiller det som om, der i dag, i hŸjere grad, stemmes på personer end på den fŸrte politik. Det må siges at udgŸre et demokratisk problem, da vi så ender med, at det er de personer der bedst kan promovere sig, der vinder, fremfor dem, der vil fŸre en fornuftig politik. Politik er trods alt mere partier end personer. #DKPol

Her er de største profiler, der ikke stiller op igen
Det kan være et problem for nogle partier, at de har mistet deres profiler, vurderer politisk kommentator.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
D’Angelo:
🎵 Alright
#DAngelo
https://crazyups.bandcamp.com/track/alright-f-alcott
https://open.spotify.com/track/6aoDP6J8OfYlCPasrZqjeS

ACARS drama
Ground to Air Message:
WE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO REACH YOU REGARDING YOUR PLANES EXTENDED WARRANTY
Area: Washington DC, USA
Type: Airbus A320neo
A: #⁠a68bc80691f
F: #⁠fc25519c061

datewithdeath – 0H00x001222223333344d45N67777 8 ° 8 °8 i###pppAABCD,,,D,EF.F.F.F×
https://povertyelectronics.bandcamp.com/album/0h00…

What’s everyone getting sworn in on?
I’m going with the Dial-a-Pirate code wheel from Monkey Island.
https://www.oldgames.sk/codewheel/secret-of-monkey-island-dial-a-pirate

By any measure, the F.B.I.’s search of an election center in Fulton County, Ga., last week was extraordinary.
Agents seized truckloads of 2020 ballots, as Trump harnessed the levers of government to not only buttress his false claims of widespread voter fraud,
but also to try to build a criminal case against those he believes wronged him.
What happened the next day was in some ways even more unusual, The New York Times has learned.
Behind closed doors, Tulsi Gabbard,…

Gabbard Arranges Trump Call With FBI Agents After Georgia Election Center Search
Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, brokered the call and President Trump directly questioned frontline agents on the inquiry, The Times has learned.

Frontier AI labs' policies around military use of their AI tools are incoherent, vague, and often prone to change, allowing leadership to preserve "optionality" (Sarah Shoker/fishbowlification)
https://sarahshoker.substack.com/p/a-few-observations-on-ai-co…

Looking to replace the default Android calculator app with something F/OSS that can do base conversions, display bits in a value, etc. Any suggestions?

ICE lies.
CBP lies.
DHS lies.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/02/portland-venezuelans-shot-border-patrol-court

Ein neues #Förderprogramm für #Geothermie erleichtert Kommunen den Einstieg in eigene Wärmeprojekte.
Durch die Absicherung des Fündigkeitsrisikos verbessert sich die #Investitionssicherheit

Neue Geothermie-Förderung setzt wichtigen Impuls für kommunale Wärmeversorgung | Windkraft-Journal
Der Landesverband Erneuerbare Energien Niedersachsen/Bremen (LEE NDS/HB) begrüßt das Ende 2025 von der Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) gemeinsam mit Munich Re und dem Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie auf den Weg gebrachte Programm für Tiefengeothermieanlagen zur kommunalen Wärmeversorgung. (WK-intern) - Insbesondere die Absicherung der Fündigkeit geothermischer Bohrungen stellt einen entscheidenden Meilenstein für den Hochlauf der

Sjældent har 1. marts fŸltes så meget som et skift fra vinter til forår 🥰🪻🌷

Deerhoof - Sparrow Sparrow f/w Overrated Species Anyhow (Official Audio)

• YouTube
• YouTube Music
• Invidious

Trump Had Unusual Call With F.B.I. Agents After Election Center Search (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/politics/trump-fbi-phone-call-georgia-gabbard.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p57#a260202p57

WOW! Flamingo missiles strike Russia – blackouts in Belgorod, Murmansk, Severomorsk 🚀: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/01/wow-flamingo-missiles-strike-russia.html

Schedule F won’t fix government’s performance management problems, report finds - Government Executive
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2026/01/schedule-f-wont-fix-governments-performance-management-problems-report-finds/411107/

{purrr} has some lesser known functions that make handling of failing function calls easier: safely, quietly, possibly: #rstats

Wrap a function to capture errors — safely
Creates a modified version of .f that always succeeds. It returns a list with components result and error. If the function succeeds, result contains the returned value and error is NULL. If an error occurred, error is an error object and result is either NULL or otherwise.

Nachdem die USA letztes Jahr B-2-Tarnkappenbomber und F-35-Tarnkappenjets für Luftschläge auf den #Iran verwendeten, ist man sich bei #Welt TV sicher, dass dieses Jahr (ungetarnte) B-52-Bomber (von 1952) und (ebenfalls ungetarnte) F-15-Kampfjets (von 1972) zum Einsatz kämen. 🤡

Fuck it, let’s play #Returnal Tower of Sisyphus #PS5 https://www.youtube.com/live/G7490Fwr12Y?feat…

I see that Amazon will be releasing a fresh DVD of the long absent from streaming movie Dogma in a few days.
Where else can one see Alanis Morissette as god?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogma_(film)

Dogma (film) - Wikipedia

Useless prick could care less about saving people from ICE or ensuring americans keep their health coverage, but:
https://skyview.social/?url=https:%2F/bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vlpy6zuqqu…

A BlueSky thread by Emissary Of Night | ليلى on Skyview
Doesn't seem like this should be his job

@…
pkg repos -el | sort -f
pkg repos -e | grep -B 1 url

Four Cozy Vegan Winter Soups To Get You Through The Coldest Nights #plantbased

Four Cozy Vegan Winter Soups To Get You Through The Coldest Nights
From loaded baked potato to lemony chickpea orzo, these cozy vegan winter soups are budget-friendly, delicious, and easy to make

@… Does this screenie exhibit a bug? Note the lonely "Followers" text at the bottom.
Best of the New Year to you and yours, and thanks for all the fine work!

Chytré domšcnosti pohledem žen. Žšrovky s Ninou Fšrovou • mujRozhlas
https://www.mujrozhlas.cz/zarovky/chytre-domacnosti-pohledem-zen-zarovky-s-ninou-farovou
Chytré domšcnosti podle výrobců usnadňují pršci, šetří čas a zvyšují pohodlí…

the volume of the #39c3 talks opening animation is so f'ing annoyingly loud

Any of you smart people ever mocked Composer in a test? If so, how did you do you do it?
https://github.com/composer/composer/discussions/12755
@…

How can I mock Composer? · composer composer · Discussion #12755
I'm writing some code that adds to the psr4 namespaces, and I'd like to write some tests for it. I tried: $package = mock(RootPackageInterface

Hungary’s Famous Thermal Baths Are Saving the Country’s Famous Grasslands from Desertification https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/hungarys-famous-thermal-baths-are-saving-the-countrys-famous-grasslands-from-desertification/…

Hungary's Famous Thermal Baths Are Saving the Country's Famous Grasslands from Desertification
The Water Guardians blocked several channel switches along a canal, and brought thousands of gallons of spa water streaming down onto the land

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SundayMorning
Ralph Vaughan Williams, John Fletcher, André Previn & London Symphony Orchestra:
🎵 Concerto for Bass Tuba and Orchestra in F minor, IRV 92 (2nd mvt, Romanza)
#JohnFletcher
https://open.spotify.com/track/6jUAm9OWG1bMS7tiRO1kwy

La circulation est momentanément arrêtée de Biblio. F.Mitterrand vers Juvisy Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X du RER C.
Motif : prolongation des travaux sur le réseau ferroviaire dans le secteur de Bibliothèque François Mitterrand
🤖 03/12 05:44

Thread of videos from @betaworks.com Demo Day last month, focused on new interfaces for computing enabled by or used for LLMs.
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Boris (@bmann.ca)
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It’s only February, and the November elections are already in peril.
When I think back to the days and weeks before Jan. 6, 2021, one thing that’s clear is that many of us suffered from a failure of imagination.
We knew President Trump’s lies and conspiracy mongering were dangerous,
but it’s hard to think of a single person who predicted that a MAGA mob would storm the Capitol.
Very few people anticipated the sheer scale and scope of the effort to overturn the electi…

Opinion | This Is Not a Drill
What Is the F.B.I. doing raiding an election office in Georgia?

Cruelty. Cruelty and power.
With a budget the size of Russia’s military.
Abolish ICE. End it.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/02/caregiver-detained-ice-dallas-maher-tarabishi-wael

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown
D.A.F.:
🎵 El Que (Terence Fixmer Leather Remix)
#DAF
https://mannequinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mnq-169-d-a-f-el-que-terence-fixmer-remixes

Any super smart #php folks here know how to mock built-in functions like ‘glob’?
I know I could wrap calls to it in a class that I could mock, but I hate adding code just for a test.
Please boost!

In which I compare the AI bubble to the Kansas Experiment: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/02/27/Kansas-and-GenAI
(Tl;dr: In 2011, Kansas slashed taxes based on Tea-Party theories that this would stimulate growth and make everyone better off. It di…

Kansas and AI

Kuwait 'mistakenly' shoots down 3 US F-15s: Pentagon (Tara Suter/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5762574-kuwait-shoots-down-us-jets/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260302/p46#a260302p46

The first RESOUNDING FAILURE of the Russian special services in 2026 #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/02/the-first-resounding-failure-of.html

Good lord, Usenet still exists?!? https://newsgrouper.org/tops

Mexico moves to combat pollution following Guardian investigations https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/01/mexico-moves-to-combat-pollution-following-guardian-investigations

RE: https://phpc.social/@Crell/115998212669441825
Great post, and exactly how I feel

Excellent lazy-Sunday reading: “Asteroids that spin really fast” by astrophysicist Stacy McGaugh: https://tritonstation.com/2026/02/01/asteroids-that-spin-really-fast/
The Vera Rubin scope is discovering huge numbers of asteroids and some of them are weird. …

This is not a drill
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/c.im/@cdarwin/115997939397192690

La circulation est momentanément arrêtée de Juvisy vers Biblio. F.Mitterrand Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X du RER C.
Motif : prolongation des travaux sur le réseau ferroviaire
🤖 03/12 04:58

From the excellent Standard Ebooks, “Read 20 of the best books entering the public domain in 2026”. Seriously, check ’em out.
https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026

We’ll all be better off for this. Thanks @… !
https://www.threads.com/@evanprodromou/post/DS6GRm6EZ12

Evan Prodromou (@evanprodromou) on Threads
In 2026, I'm going full time on the Social Web https://evanp.me/2025/12/30/working-full-time-on-the-social-web/

Quality 'Learing' daycare targeted in Minneapolis 'fraud' video blames designer for typo -- as worker snaps at Post reporter: 'Get the f-k out of here' (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/29/us-news/quality-learing-daycare-targeted-in-minneapolis-fraud-video-blames-designer-for-typo-as-worker-snaps-at-post-reporter-get-the-f-k-out-of-here/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251230/p12#a251230p12

Idly working on my Quamina state-machine-based pattern matcher. (https://github.com/timbray/quamina)
Hit a bug that smells like an infinite loop. Looked closer. Hmm, seems like my code traversing a dinky little 4-state automaton thinks it needs to consider 25,165,824 possible state transitions. Need …

GitHub - timbray/quamina: Home of Quamina, a fast pattern-matching library in Go
Home of Quamina, a fast pattern-matching library in Go - timbray/quamina

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Hitkidd & GloRilla:
🎵 F.N.F (Let’s Go)
#Hitkidd #GloRilla
https://primetimemusiq.bandcamp.com/track/palance-x-f-n-f-lets-go-8-jw-blaze-x-hitkidd-x-glorilla-remix

…and that’s a wrap.
Great series.
#StrangerThings

I always blame Chief Justice Roberts personally for every evil thing Trump does.
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/c.im/@cdarwin/115828303474605896

No, Gander is not a “rug pull”.
The crowd equity funding is closing, I think with ~2400 or so Canadian investors including myself, all on the same terms.
Some people didn’t sign paperwork when they got the chance at an earlier offering.
Join us at #ATmosphereConf in Vancouver in late March if you’d like to meet the Gander team in person

ATmosphereConf News
News from the ATProtocol Community Conference, aka ATmosphereConf. March 26th - 29th, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Fuck you Google: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/115827988336467719

New Epstein files reveal he may have trafficked girls to others despite official denials (Victoria Bekiempis/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/02/epstein-files-new-batch
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p55#a260202p55

GOG @gog.com is getting acquired by its original co-founder Michał Kicińsk
the idea for GOG in 2007 “bring classic games back to players, and make sure that once you buy a game, it truly belongs to you, forever.”
https://www.gog.com/blog/gog-is-getting-ac

GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder: What it means for you | GOG.COM
Hey everyone, GOG Team here.

In 1859, Richard Carrington observed the 1st solar flare
--an eruption so powerful it spawned brilliant auroras
& knocked out telegraph lines around the world.
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/c.im/@cdarwin/116001931890633097

Good piece from Timothy Snyder argues that Trump is failing at fascism: #USpol

Fascist Failure
The State of Trump

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Stereolab:
🎵 Flashes in the Afternoon
#Stereolab
https://stereolab.bandcamp.com/track/flashes-in-the-afternoon
https://open.spotify.com/track/7gPnOSaYRgpoSkAAIQWix9

Brazilian influencer who defended US immigration crackdown arrested by ICE (Tom Phillips/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/02/rightwing-brazilian-influencer-junior-pena-arrested-by-ice
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p54#a260202p54

The Trump regime is part of a long project,
funded by an ever-changing group of filthy rich right-wing White people.
One of their first overt steps was taking control of SCOTUS.
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/c.im/@cdarwin/115828…

In which I’m reminded that I had (note past tense) an Amazon Wish List with additions (books & music) from 2006-2010. Remembered almost none. Ordered one from the public library.
See https://www.404media.co/amazon-wishlist-address-private-third-party/

Amazon Change Means Wishlists Might Expose Your Address
Amazon is allowing gift senders to choose items from third-party sellers, which could open recipients up to new privacy risks.

Blocking the work of MSF is absolutely depraved. Israel continues to fumble its way out of the community of civilized nations.
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-hamas-palestinians-ceasefire-war-news-286106d7a5a911704cdcf1c93…

Israel to halt operations of several humanitarian groups in Gaza starting in 2026
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian organizations for failing to meet its new rules to vet international organizations working in Gaza. The Ministry of Diaspora Affairs said on Tuesday that the organizations that will be banned on Jan. 1 did not meet its new requirements for sharing staff, funding and operations information. It accused Doctors Without Borders, known as MSF by its French acronym, of failing to clarify the roles of some staff that Israel accused of cooperation with H…

DHS's account of two Venezuelans shot by border patrol falls apart in court: 'A smear campaign' (Sam Levin/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/02/portland-venezuelans-shot-border-patrol-court
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p148#a260202p148

Jasper @raedisch.net is joining us at #ATmosphereConf in Vancouver as his first trip to Canada.
Suggested movies or shows referencing Canada and/or Vancouver?
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Boris (@bmann.ca)
Jasper @raedisch.net is joining us at #ATmosphereConf in Vancouver as his first trip to Canada. Suggested movies or shows referencing Canada and/or Vancouver? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Maybe a roving band of angry orcas will take them all down. https://mstdn.social/@edwilk/115811938936066718

Ed Wilk antifascist (@edwilk@mstdn.social)
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RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/116132712269085120
Update: They opened!

Qobuz’s policy on AI-generated music.
#music #genAI

1/ I hate Bitcoin with a probably-unhealthy intensity and have a hook set up so I get notified on big moves (e.g. down 5.3% today). When they come in I glance at the chart and occasionally get stuck for a few minutes. Stock markets have been explained as an argument between buyers & sellers as to the correct value of the underlying real-world thing. But…
#Bitcoin

Saskatchewan winter study.
#photography

RE: https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/115860760450549489
Quick guess, but I’ve read between 1/4 & 1/3 of these

Got spring crocuses if you want ’em: #Photography

Def my fave Marvel movie of the past few years
https://social.vivaldi.net/@ianbetteridge/115815324355263722

Hey @… here's a screenie of a page linked from masto in Phanpy. How do I get it to open in a real browser so I can come back to it later? This is totally fatal to the way I work.

You know, if I believed that Trump & Bibi gave a single solitary feeble little fuck about the people of Iran, I might… well, why bother completing that sentence.
#USPol #war

Really good video from UK Greens leader. Stop running: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Q80HKccRoqY
[Disclosure: Member of BC Green Party.]

The “Just coffee, black” meme brutally deconstructed: https://knowyourmeme.com/videos/433740-just-coffee-black
h/t @…

Blacksky is interesting: https://blackskyweb.xyz
Also, they have transparent finances, which I care about really a lot: https://opencollective.com/blacksky

Build Community Online with Decentralized Tools | Blacksky
Decentralized tools to build community online. The intercommunal net where communities govern, pool funds and stay safe on their own terms.

Vancouver city council calls on feds to address headlight brightness | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-vehicle-headlight-brightness-safety-concerns-9.7061810

Vancouver city council calls on feds to address headlight brightness | CBC News
Advocates say car headlights are not only too bright, but also too high up on larger vehicles, sometimes aiming at eye level. They say the lights blind other drivers, cyclists and pedestrians.

#genAI

Much-needed action by the IETF: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9945.html
Tl;dr: Sand has historically been thrown in the gears by disruptive assholes, and the remediation process was ultra-heavyweight and slow.
Axiom: Anything public-facing requires investment in moderation guardra…

Amazon may be in fairly big legal trouble here: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/amazon-bu…

Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy
California Attorney General Rob Bonta alleged Amazon led a price-fixing conspiracy of online retailers to inflate prices across the entire economy. And he's demanding an immediate halt.

IBM crashes because we’re gonna YOLO a replacement for banking and credit-card back-ends, replacing billions of lines of COBOL with vibe code. Uh…
https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/ibm-crashes-11-as-anthropic-threatens-cobol-empire

IBM Crashes 11% as Anthropic Threatens COBOL Empire
Anthropic's AI disrupts IBM's mainframe business, sending shares down 11% on threat

@… Fediverse says hi!

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.

Peeking inside the process of how raw camera sensor data gets turned into an image that looks something like what you see: https://maurycyz.com/misc/raw_photo/
h/t @…

Very decent year-end reading recommendations, featuring the contradictions of capitalism and whodunnits: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-12-30/capitalism-and-crime-books-that-got-me-through-the-year

A report from down in the photography trenches in Minneapolis: https://www.dpreview.com/interviews/6336791578/john-abernathy-pierre-lavie-protest-photographers-ice-minneapolis-thrown-leica

Taking action against AI harms - Anil Dash
https://anildash.com/2026/02/23/taking-action-ai-harms/
What Anil said.

Taking action against AI harms
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Ouch. What smells like a combination of corruption, arrogance, and ignorance in Vancouver civic staff around planning for False Creek South. https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/02/17/Vancouver-Handling-False-Cre…

Vancouver’s Handling of False Creek South Is Officially a Scandal | The Tyee
The city’s auditor general found ‘serious mismanagement of public funds’ and more to criticize.

Gregor Macdonald's “Cold Eye Earth” is an excellent big-picture newsletter on energy trends and why it’s so freaking difficult to reduce global emissions. There are grounds for optimism, but still… https://www.coldeye.earth?r=wabr

Cold Eye Earth | Gregor Macdonald | Substack
tracking the progress of energy transition. Click to read Cold Eye Earth, by Gregor Macdonald, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

Hey, FTC is appealing the Meta (Facebook/Insta/WhatsApp) antitrust case: https://apnews.com/article/ftc-meta-appeal-antitrust-752463c7783ba14b00b686fe0c933f88
(Disclosure: I’m an expert witness for FTC in this litigation.)

FTC says it will appeal Meta antitrust decision
The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday it will appeal the November ruling in favor of Meta in its antitrust case against the social media giant. The FTC said it continues to allege that, for more than a decade, Meta has illegally maintained a monopoly in social networking through anticompetitive conduct. The FTC says Meta bought the significant competitive threats it identified in Instagram and WhatsApp. Meta prevailed over the existential challenge to its business that could have forced the…