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News stories have a new home https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/news-stories-have-a-new-home/

News stories have a new home - The National Archives
We have launched a new home and improved design for our news stories and document releases.

Vårt intag av dem har minskat stadigt sen 70 talet men
“We have updated the tolerable weekly intake (TWI), setting it at 0.6 picograms per kilogram of body weight. Updated dietary exposure estimates from European countries indicate that the new TWI is exceeded in all age groups,” https://www.efs…

Have your say – dioxins and related PCBs
Dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs are toxic chemicals that persist in the environment for years and accumulate at low levels in the food chain, usually in the fatty tissues of animals. Their presence in food and feed has declined since the 1970s thanks to the efforts of public authorities and industry.In their draft scientific opinion, EFSA experts confirmed the conclusion of the Authority’s previous assessments that dietary exposure to dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs is a health concern.“We have u…

Overall, states, nonprofits, local governments and unions have filed hundreds of lawsuits against the Trump administration, according to an Associated Press tracker.
Not all of them have been successful:
149 resulted in executive actions partially or fully blocked,
while the court left the action in effect in 102 cases with more than 100 still pending

Tracking the lawsuits against the Trump administration | AP News
Hundreds of lawsuits have been filed during President Donald Trump’s second administration. The suits challenge his executive orders as well as actions taken by his administration, including Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE. The courts have agreed to block the president in a number of cases, and the administration is seeking appeals as well.

Kalshi and Polymarket have partnered with social media accounts purporting to be breaking news reporters, some of which have repeatedly posted false information (Jordy Fee-Platt/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6876922/2

Kalshi, Polymarket are partnering with X accounts claiming to be sports insiders
As Polymarket and Kalshi continue to grow in popularity, they have worked with social media accounts claiming to be breaking news reporters.

Why the Raiders Have Zero Ashton Jeanty Concerns https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-have-zero-ashton-jeanty-concerns

Late #Caturday

Cowboys will have to go through Micah Parsons and more to enter NFC Playoff Picture https://fansided.com/nfl/cowboys-will-have-to-go-through-micah-parsons-and-more-to-enter-nfc-playoff-picture-01kbb5vs6n53

Kalshi and Polymarket have partnered with social media accounts purporting to be breaking news reporters, some of which have repeatedly posted false information (Jordy Fee-Platt/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6876922/2

Kalshi, Polymarket are partnering with X accounts claiming to be sports insiders
As Polymarket and Kalshi continue to grow in popularity, they have worked with social media accounts claiming to be breaking news reporters.

I mean what?
What?
I don't have any idea how you'd embed 7 tablet screens into a semi-circular pine table, let alone also have some kind of telescopic central column?
Even if I knew how I don't have the money for seven individual in-console embedded tabled place-settings.
This is madness. I should be asleep.

We Have Descended into Utter Madness (David Rothkopf/Need to Know)
https://davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/we-have-descended-into-utter-madness
http://www.memeorandum.com/251129/p54#a251129p54

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

💔 Endurance athletes have a four times higher risk of irregular heartbeat, and this may be why
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-athletes-higher-irregular-heartbeat.html

Endurance athletes have a four times higher risk of irregular heartbeat, and this may be why
Exercise is one of the best things we can do for a healthy heart. Yet research shows that endurance athletes have up to a four times higher risk of atrial fibrillation (an irregular or fast heartbeat) than non-athletes. This heart condition increases risk of both heart failure and stroke.

Real conspiracies tend to come out, but some of them take a while. Information on the Iran/Contra scandal broke out about 5 years after the conspiracy started. That would have taken several hundred people to carry out, so it was somewhat hard to hide. Even so, they largely got away with it.
The moon landing conspiracy theory would have taken thousands of people, so it would have come out more quickly. Since we have an example of a real secret program of a similar scale as what would be required to fake a moon landing (that is, the Manhattan project), we know that the fake moon landing conspiracy theory is not true. (There's also the literally tons of evidence in the form of rocks and other samples, and all kinds of other ways to debunk the claim.)
Could Kash Patel's FBI have been trying really hard to entrap people into carrying out terrorist attacks in order to justify #Trump's occupation of DC? Could they have helped a guy plan an attack then just failed to arrest him? There are reasonable scenarios that fall in between malice and incompetence while still indicating some level of false flag.
Could someone have just snapped and ambushed some guardsmen without any involvement from the FBI? Yeah, totally. The US is a country full of guns with a completely non-functional mental health system. Someone coming from a country that the US destroyed, twice, could have a lot of untreated trauma. Might they see the national guard as a threat (even if that wasn't totally true)? Yeah, they were deployed to threaten people (even when they were just picking up trash). The point was to incite this kind of response. It's completely reasonable to believe that the FBI would not need to be involved at all, that this would just be the stochastic response they were looking for.
So the point here is that everything is on the table, nothing is really known, nothing should be surprising, and no matter what it's Trump's fault. This is exactly the escalation he was looking for. If he didn't get it naturally, he would also have had ways of making it happen.
He will use this in exactly the same way as the Reichstag fire, to drive a wedge between liberals and radicals. Don't fall for it.
Edit:
There are plausible reasons to not believe the official narrative at all right now, or maybe ever. The official narrative is also plausible, but there are plausible reasons to disagree with the response even if the official story is true. It is unnecessary to resort to conspiracy thinking in order to account for what happened and to disagree with the response. But it is also understandable why someone might jump immediately to a conspiracy given the circumstances.

I just finished Guild Wars: Prophecies. It took me 19.5 years.
I created my first character way back when the game was new, but I never finished the campaign. The upcoming Reforged update got me interested again. Together with a friend and 3 very friendly strangers we played through the remaining 3 missions.
From boss tactics to tounge-in-cheek comments about the dated cutscenes It was just the perfect MMO game night for me.

#TeleCommunications Benefits Of Being In #Brooklyn Circa 1912
Via The Brooklyn Eagle Newspaper back when the borough could brag it has 80,000 Telephones !
#VintageAdvertising

Patriots are just fourth Super Bowl team ever to have this stunning loss on their regular-season schedule

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/super-bowl-patriots-make-history-shockin…

"Brits heading for Spain may soon have to wear a face mask again due to the huge surge in flu and Covid cases."
Everyone else will be exempt or what? 🥴
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2140229/spain-covid-flu-alert-new-rules-hospitals…

"Hundreds of road signs and billboards in France have been decorated with fake flames. Here’s why"
#France #Climate #ClimateChange

Why hundreds of road signs in France have been decorated with ‘flames’
Flames have been glued to a number of road signs and billboards across France, as activists beg ‘stop climate sabotage’.

So… talk to me about #Zotero … How do you use it? WHY do you use it versus other tools? What do you like most?
I realize I am maybe 15 or 20 years late to the Zotero party, but 3 things have me interested now:
- I’m taking on a project at work that involves a good amount of research
- I have some ideas for papers and maybe a book that would benefit from more structured organizatio…

I have an idea. If we used people to do work, rather than paying for AI agents, then we wouldn’t need to pay for them to not work. Also, we wouldn’t have goodness knows how much electricity used on it.
#ai #ukpolitics

I've got a weird belly today.
Can't be 100% sure what caused it but I suspect might be boiled potatoes. I have a weird issue with potatoes... fine roasted, but boiled or mash, and it sometimes sets my stomach off.
Anyone have any thoughts on why this might be?
#Food #Pain #Potatoes

We have a 20-point plan, 90% completed by our two teams, – Zelenskyy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/28/we-have-a-point-plan.html

We’re at a point where these sorts of simple genetic disorders are going to be falling to CRISPR-Cas9 treatments one after another in an accelerating fashion until we run out of targets.
They raise troubling questions about access to care and cost. Ask why we still have people with active Sickle Cell disease, years after the CURE was demonstrated.
The reason is that no one is stepping up with the megabuck per patient. @…

If I don't force-close my morse code drill app, sometimes it just starts playing even if I'm nowhere near my phone. Often sitting a good distance away charging in the middle of the night. The author of the app has looked for and failed to find any logical cause for this problem.
It's a google Pixel, and maybe I'm seeing a variation on something others have been seeing:

Yeah right.

It’s funny how many people have no idea how to buy used stuff for non-inflated prices.
Here’s some tips to get you started (for eBay):
1. The first thing about eBay is that most things listed as “buy now” are overpriced—otherwise someone else would have bought it already. You have to always look at sold listings to see what things are actually worth.
2. Use saved searches specifically limited in price and distance.
3. Always sort by newly listed for “Buy Now” and ending soonest for auctions.
4. Look for older buy now listings and make offers. The older the listing the lower you offer. Some tools like flippah.net show you the listed date directly without having to dig deep on the eBay website. You can make offers even when the button isn’t there, just send a message.
5. Never buy anything from sellers with 0 feedback or less than a 98% or so rating.
A general thing to remember is that unless you buy new stuff or see a listing from a store (some categories have a lot of stores, e.g. cameras) you’re likely to deal directly with a private seller and a human being. Be polite and respectful but don’t be afraid to say no. Don’t make insulting offers.

Super Mario World: lost in chocolate
I have got further than ever before, but that's not saying much. I own Super Mario World on multiple systems - SNES, GBA, Wii, Wii U, 3DS - as well as having emulated it on the Raspberry Pi, the iMac, and (shh) my work laptop. I have played the start of it many times over, knowing to go left at the first map screen and turn on the yellow switch, then progressing right up the map to Donut Plains.

What the Raiders Have To Prioritize in Free Agency https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-what-have-prioritize-in-free-agency

On Making Christmas Greener - Twelve top tips that the Internet gave to me - for a green Xmas... Have fun, save money, do the right thing by the planet - triple win! #greenXmas - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-…

On Making Christmas Greener
Twelve top tips that the Internet gave to me - for a green Xmas... Have fun, save money, do the right thing by the planet - triple win! #greenXmas

Okay, could someone point me to a good #NoAI / #NoLLM manifesto to link to?
Like, I've tried searching but apparently "NoAI" and "NoLLM" have already been claimed by LLM companies, and the queries with the f-word… okay, I should not have tried these.

"Spoiler alert: unless there happens to be some breakthrough in physics that will drive more gigahertz to our CPUs, more crypto to those GPUs, more watts to our batteries, and more money to cloud providers, we most probably will not see any difference between the computer you are using today and the one you will receive as a gift in Christmas 2033. Get used to this fact."

Return to Innocence
The pages of this magazine have often orbited around the subject of retrocomputing. Take, for example, the editions about sustainability, computer museums, hardware, hobbies, gaming, operating systems, or the one about BASIC published last summer. If you pay attention, you most probably have realized how much retrocomputing has grown in popularity in the past few decades, with more and more people learning on YouTube or TikTok how to replace the batteries or leaking capacitors from the motherbo…

I figure even if it is someday possible for the transhumanists to upload themselves into a machine, it will be a nightmare attempting to later transplant themselves into the new improved updated wow machine that will someday replace it!
Folks who balk about Mastodon not letting you migrate your entire presence elsewhere likely have never tried to extricate their personal workflow from a 15 year old laptop! 😅
That is, of course, AFTER previously spending an hour or so to weed out the about:config AI functions and add no-AI search engines to the fresh Firefox install 😞
Yes, I have contemplated installing Emacs and nothing else. Would seem the only sensible thing to do, but 'sensible' was never listed on my report card.

Why is it always the wrong people who have imposter syndrome? Never these guys. @… https://mastodon.cloud/@OpenForumEurope/115983249451853950…

OpenForum Europe (@OpenForumEurope@mastodon.cloud)
Attached: 1 image The morning continues with insightful panels and further talks exploring open source investment, economics and EU industrial policy! Stay tuned to explore “Europe's Software Challenges”, “Europe as the World’s Home for Open Source” and “Open Source and Economic Security”. Follow this thread for highlights from the conference in real time.

Millionen Kundendaten vom Wired-Magazin im Netz – Diebstahl bei Condé Nast?
Have I been Pwned listet einen Data Breach für Wired, der sensible Daten von 2,3 Millionen Nutzern umfasst. Mutmaßlich könnten weitere Millionen folgen.

Why Did These Authors Have Their School Visit Canceled? They Were Talking About Their Book About Book Bans. https://bookriot.com/the-day-the-books-disappeared-school-visit-cancelation/

Why Did These Authors Have Their School Visit Canceled? They Were Talking About Their Book About Book Bans.
Country Club Elementary School in California's Bay Area canceled an author visit moments before it began. Why? It covered book bans.

I have been using Codex extensively to fix crashes. Usually when I get an obscure crash I go “well there goes my afternoon”. These days, I paste the stack trace into codex and go “fix this”, and it does a remarkable job at finding clues I miss, and to find the root causes.
It doesn’t always work, but it has a very solid hit rate. What seemed like a daunting uphill mountain of despair is now a quick sweeping job.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/bookmarks-firefox#w_how-to-use-keywords-with-bookmarks
https://old.reddit.com/r/Safari/comments/pmu979/possible_to_have_keyword_shortcuts_like_firefox/
https://safarikeywordsearch.aurlien.net

Reform have written to me. Wow, what a push poll. “Rising crime”, “mass immigration” (not devolved), but no mention of transport, let alone the environment (unless that’s what they mean by high energy prices).
Also, why only one set of choices for who I’m voting for? Have Reform forgotten that in a Scottish election you have two votes (constituency and list)?

#linux #openwrt
Q: I am starting with open wrt. My problem is that I want to reach it over my LAN. The default ip is 192.168.1 but I have 192.168.0 as a default and I can not change it (ISP restriction). I have googled and youtubed it but I still can't get it to work. I can log in to t…

Where Hundreds of Undocumented Migrants Have Died in Custody - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/world/asia/where-hundreds-of-undocumented-migrants-have-died-in-custody.html

Check out my latest article - "Do YOU have AI anxiety?"
#changemakers

Do You Have AI Anxiety? Understanding Fear, Capitalism, and the Future
AI and climate change trigger similar fears about the future. Learn how to transform anxiety into empowerment by understanding the systems beneath both crises and envisioning the world you want to build.

In our latest research into IT trends we asked a simple question: is AI a bubble? Given all the talk of impending doom, on the face of it the results seem quite positive for AI, but there are several red flags.
https://www.computing.co.uk/research/2026/is-…

Is AI a bubble? IT leaders have their say
In our latest research into IT trends we asked a simple question: is AI a bubble?

chat, have you ever used a SOIC clip and not regretted it?

Laptop backup day. I have a reminder for the last Sunday of each month. It doesn't take much time and being a Sunday I am normally not using my laptop.
Simple batch script using XCOPY. Low tech and it works. Upside is that any other machine & O/S can read the contents of the drive. I cycle between two drives (Eventually I will buy a third). Cheap insurance in case of a machine failure.
Why? Well I have the condo newsletters I write with the templates, photos and ba…

China's draft AI rules have measures to protect kids, like time limits and parental consent, ban gambling promotion content, and add suicide chats restrictions (Osmond Chia/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8dydlmenvro

Artificial intelligence: China plans rules to protect children and tackle suicide risks
The draft regulations are aimed to address concerns around chatbots, which have surged in popularity in recent months.

Ranking 15 HoF Finalists by Career AV, do Witten, Woodson have a shot? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/30/ranking-15-hof-finalists-by-career-av-do-witten-woodson-…

The tug-of-war over space shuttle Discovery is becoming more volatile.
Discovery — the crown jewel of the Smithsonian Institution's Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia
— is the subject of a political battle over whether the shuttle should remain part of the National Air and Space Museum's collection
or be relocated to Houston, home to NASA's Johnson Space Center.
New correspondence between the space agency, Ted Cruz and the Smithsonian shows both the p…

The Smithsonian might have to cut space shuttle Discovery into pieces
"You'd be doing irreparable damage."

Few Raiders Have More on the Line Than Michael Mayer https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-few-have-more-on-line-than-michael-mayer

Andy Reid plans to return as Chiefs coach in 2026: 'If they'll have me back, I'll come back'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/andy-reid-plans-return-kansas-cit…

Anyway, more immediately, the corner cushion and long cushion have arrived.
Both a bit understuffed from what would be ideal. Creased, but maybe that'll drop out. Says not to iron it.
Can't even open the long one for adding more stuffing. Would have to unstitch and restitch.
Comfy though. This is the best bed I've ever had for lazing around in bed watching TV and I haven't even added the projector yet.

I now need to find all those online profiles where I have described myself as an "inactive" pilot and remove the word "inactive" from them. After a hiatus of a dozen years, I just passed both the ground and air work portions of a flight review, and once again have a current "license to learn."
#aviation

💸 Nvidia plows $2B into Synopsys to make GPUs a must-have for design, simulation customers
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/12/01/nvidia_synopsys_2b/

Nvidia plows $2B into Synopsys to make GPUs a must-have for design, simulation customers
: You could do that on a CPU, but who can say no to a 30x GPU speed boost?

It seems like 75% of new followers have chuffed(.)org and gaza-verified(.)org URLs in their profiles.
THEY GET INSTANT BLOCKS.
AFAICT, those are scams being run by a mix of Russian mobsters and spoiled rich kids. I do not care enough to determine otherwise.
I do care about the brutality inflicted upon the Palestinian people for many decades. I care about the millennia of bigotry inflicted upon Jews. In short: I have more immediate problems. I hope they can find peace w/o i…

The thing is,
if it’s them today,
it’s us tomorrow,
so we have to keep going.
We have to keep this up
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/30/new-york-city-ice-trump-protest?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

They have 1 hour and 24 minutes to get it from Pennsylvania to Arizona 😅

Another lovely post by Nicky Case @…:
https://blog.ncase.me/on-depression/

Vitamin D & Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants
An accessible deep dive into the science (⏱️ 28 min read)

New Bills coach Joe Brady emphatically backs Keon Coleman: 'I have no doubt that he's going to be successful'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/keon-co

Raiders fans will have to exercise more patience with coaching search https://raiderramble.com/2026/01/29/raiders-fans-will-have-to-exercise-more-patience-with-coaching-search/

Right, folks, so there is an account on mastodon.social (@8124@mastodon.social) that has been libelling me and others, defaming us as antisemites for the longest time.
They just sent the posts attached.
They have been reported to mastodon.social and I have raised my concerns with them and yet no action has been taken against that account even though the account has been suspended on at least three major Mastodon servers and limited on at least four others.
It is not limited…

🔫 Earth needs more energy: Atlanta's Super Soaker creator may have a solution
#energy

Earth needs more energy: Atlanta's Super Soaker creator may have a solution
The old warehouse strip, reborn as the Lee + White development, is a popular destination for anyone seeking a bite or a beverage on the Atlanta Beltline's Westside Trail. But steps from the breweries and eateries inhabiting much of the space, serious science is taking place.

'He belongs': RB Malik Davis proving what Cowboys have known https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/11/29/cowboys-malik-davis-week-13-postgame-quotes-thanksgiving-dr…

Firearms have been the leading cause of death for Gen Z since 2017,
when the youngest zoomers were kindergarten age and the oldest could not yet legally drink alcohol.
Since 2013, when the last of Gen Z turned 1, more than 64,000 zoomers have been killed by firearms
https://www.the…

Gun Violence Is Gen Z’s Leading Cause of Death
CDC data shows that Gen Z bears a disproportionate share of our national gun violence crisis.

Raiders will have more cap space than expected this offseason https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-will-have-more-cap-space-than-expected-this-offseason-3614127/

In #FreeCAD, what can I do from the UI and from Python macros to cause all the topological naming links to be recreated in the current shape?
I have a Part Design Body that for which I can mark it to recalculate and then recalculate and it's fine, but if I modify a driving parameter trivially, including by an inconsequential .001mm, suddenly it tells me that I have an invalid edge …

Baker Mayfield: Buccaneers 'blessed' to have shot at NFC South title after Sunday's loss to Dolphins https://www.nfl.com/news/baker-mayfield-buccaneers-blessed-to-have-shot-at-nfc-south-title-after-sunday-s-loss…

Currently have two deliveries, one with USPS and it’s currently in Pennsylvania and one with UPS which is in New Jersey.
Both claim delivery is today in Arizona. 🥴

Raiders have had by far NFL's worst head coach hires of past 5 years https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/01/29/raiders-have-had-by-far-nfls-worst-head-coach-hires-of…

The people who tried to overturn the 2020 election have more power than ever – and they plan to use it.
Bolstered by the president,
they have prominent roles in key parts of the federal government.
🔸Harmeet Dhillon, a lawyer who helped advance Donald Trump’s claims of a stolen election in 2020, now leads the civil rights division of the justice department.
An election denier, 🔸Heather Honey, now serves as the deputy assistant secretary for election integrity in the …

The second floor and up in Upson have lobbies on the side of the building facing Hoy road: that curved building in the center is Rhodes Hall where you can find my den-away-from-my-den
#photo #photography #buildings

whyyyyyy do I still have to block people who post AI slop imagery into my timeline

Cowboys connected to DC candidate fans have been waiting for https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-connected-dc-candidate-fans-have-been-waiting-for

USAID’s dismantling is estimated to have already killed 600,000 people,
⇔ of them children.
Officials simply deny any harm,
while halting data monitoring and firing inspectors general who’d have documented it
https://www.newyork…

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
Atul Gawande writes about the short documentary “Rovina’s Choice,” by Thomas Jennings and Annie Wong, which tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

⚠️ Africa's forests have switched from absorbing to emitting carbon, new study finds
#africa

Deforestation has turned Africa's forests from carbon sinks to carbon sources, new study finds
New research warns that Africa's forests, once vital allies in the fight against climate change, have turned from a carbon sink into a carbon source.

Several crew members of a ship that collided with a bridge in Baltimore
almost two years ago
are still being held in the US
by federal authorities
despite the fact that
no criminal charges have been brought against them.
In the early hours of 26 March 2024,
the MV Dali departed the port of Baltimore bound for Sri Lanka.
While navigating the Fort McHenry channel,
the 1,000ft-long Singapore-flagged cargo vessel
lost power before strik…

Why NFL uniform rules have players feeling like a 'mannequin' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47420076/nfl-uniform-violations-players-feeling-mannequin

You better look if you have some of this type of Teac cassette tapes in your attic

The western US is in a snow drought. Here's how a storm made it worse
https://theconversation.com/the-western-us-is-in-a-snow-drought-and-storms-have-been-making-it-worse-272549

The western US is in a snow drought, and storms have been making it worse
A major atmospheric river brought record precipitation to the Pacific Northwest, yet the snow and water supply still suffered. It’s a growing problem.

Behind the scenes, some of the most powerful people around Trump have been trying to persuade him to attack Venezuela
— and remove its president, Nicolšs Maduro
— in what would be an extraordinary escalation of months-long military build-up in the Caribbean.
Those in favour of the strikes say they could bring democracy and prosperity to Venezuela
and provide a way for the eight million people who have fled the country in the past ten years to return.
These includ…

Will Trump invade Venezuela — and what comes next?
Pressure is ramping up on Maduro’s regime, amid reports Trump has spoken to the leader by phone. Inside the White House, advisers are pushing for the US to do more

If you're a YouTuber or have some other platform, please take a hint from Technology Connections and tell the truth to your audience.

NFL news roundup: Bears LB Noah Sewell believed to have suffered torn Achilles in loss to 49ers https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-monday-dec-29

Raiders Have Nowhere Left to Fall — How Can They Fix a Broken Franchise? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/nowhere-left-to-fall-how-can-tlas-vegas-fix-a-broken-franchise-mark-davis-pete-carroll

In an interview with MS NOW’s Alex Witt over the weekend,
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland)
indicated that a nationwide
general strike might be the next thing needed in order to oppose
Donald Trump’s authoritarianism.
Raskin made clear to viewers of the program that he didn’t believe a general strike, on its own, could bring about huge changes,
but rather that it had to be done in conjunction with other actions.
“We’re not going to have one magic soluti…

Raskin says nationwide general strike may be needed to stop Trump
“I think the people of Minnesota have shown us…the direction we may need to go,” the Maryland Democrat said.

🐪 Mathematical models reveal a 'hidden order' in dryland vegetation worldwide
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-mathematical-reveal-hidden-dryland-vegetation.html

Mathematical models reveal a 'hidden order' in dryland vegetation worldwide
If you've ever traveled through drylands, you may have noticed striking vegetation patterns—stripes, spots, or rings—scattered across otherwise barren landscapes. From "tiger bush" in West Africa to the enigmatic "fairy circles" of Namibia, these patterns have long inspired wonder and scientific curiosity.

Please stop with the “do LLMs have fee-fees?” bullshit
This presupposes LLMs are alive which in turn means that for every prompt an LLM baby is born and after answering is snuffed out, dying horribly
Like the whale in the Hitchhiker’s Guide

Race to the No. 1 pick: Raiders lead, Giants have a path, Jets eliminated https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6921789/2025/12/29/nfl-draft-2026-top-pick-raiders-giants-jets/

Donald Trump launched another attack against Federal Reserve chair #Jerome #Powell on Monday, calling the central banker a “fool” and once again suggesting he would like to fire him.
“I mean, Biden reappointed him. It’s too bad. You would have thought he wouldn’t have done that,” Trump said, without any acknowledgmen…

⛰️ In the Andes, elections ride on political frustrations and social movements
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/in-the-andes-elections-ride-on-political-frustrations-and-social-movements/

In the Andes, elections ride on political frustrations and social movements
The Andean Republics, like many nations in Hispanic America, have a historical tradition of electing charismatic presidents who use their electoral success to subjugate legislatures and dominate political parties. Over the last couple of decades, presidential candidates have extended this approach by abandoning legacy parties to create new political instruments that would be considered campaign […]

NFL Playoff Simulator: Which Week 13 games have biggest impact on playoff races, No. 1 draft pick chances? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6840894/2025/11/30/nfl-playoff-chances-standings-draft-odds-week-13/

'Always have class, and be humble': Some of the late John Madden's most memorable quotes https://www.raiders.com/news/always-have-class-be-humble-most-memorable-quotes-late-john-madden-nfl-2021

Acquiring solar panels at home can be an expensive hassle for people in the US.
But small, simple, plug-in solar panels for use on balconies are soon to become available for millions of Americans,
with advocates hoping the technology will quickly go mainstream.
Balcony solar panels are now widespread in countries such as Germany
– where more than 1m homes have them
– but have until now been stymied in the US by state regulations.
This is set to change, wit…

Unpopular opinion, "collaborative" word processing is bad.
People should have ownership of their writing and changes to documents should be requested and not be a fait accompli.

How widespread sports betting affects NFL players: 'People have said they’d kill me' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7003985/2026/01/29/nfl-player-poll-sports-betting-fantasy-football/

Oh no I feel a desire to order a Commodore 64 Ultimate which makes no sense because I already have 4 OG Commodore 64's, the SX and a 128

'Sunday Night Football' betting tips: Broncos should have their way with Commanders https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/47100684/nfl-week-13-odds-lines-spread-betting-picks…

Is there some actual study on the "life expectancy" of magnetic media such as cassette tapes or floppy disks?
E.g. I have a pre-recorded compact cassette that is 50 years old and works just fine (and sounds great!), and floppy disks from the early 80s that read with no problems.
Yet when I search for this topic everyone always claims "10–20 years" is what to expect from magnetic media.

Stefanski mum on future, 'privileged' to have job https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47446171/kevin-stefanski-mum-future-privileged-browns-coach

For more than a decade, dozens of journalists and human rights activists have been
🆘 targeted and hacked by governments all over the world.
Cops and spies in Ethiopia, Greece, Hungary, India, Mexico, Poland, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates, among others, have used sophisticated #spyware to compromise the phones of these victims, who at times have also faced real-world

Meet the team that hunts government spyware
For years, Access Now’s Digital Security Helpline has been aiding journalists and dissidents who have been targeted with government spyware. This is how they operate.

Why NFL division winners automatically get playoff home game and why this shouldn't change

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-division-winners-playoff-home-game/