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NATO Is Having a Military Exercise.
The U.S., Its Largest Member, Won’t Be There.
The operation, Steadfast Dart, comes as Trump has been accused of undermining the alliance
It will be watched closely to see how well the allies manage without their most important partner

It’s important to drink plenty of water

Why explosive plays might be the NFL's most important stat https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7010925/2026/01/30/explosive-plays-nfl-seahawks-patriots-scoop-city/

It is just weird and creepy how Putin lies about everything.
Thankfully there is a journalist on the ground in Ukraine who provides the receipts to verify the truth.
He shares the friend link to bypass the paywall, because he knows how important it is to get this news out.
It is important that this evidence of warcrimes is shown to the world. Please boost and share.

Immensely important, and core, question. Love how @… breaks it down for us. Definitely something I wish people talked more about.

What makes something data?

“This off-loading of the concerns of dataset construction to a different group of researchers and culture of disdain for data and those who get their h…

while I always have champagne handy probably keeping JD from the seat is more important.

#TIL
`sudo apt clean` can free dozens GB of diskspace within seconds without loosing anything important.
It only deletes cached .deb package files from /var/cache/apt/archives.
I run #Debian #Linux

now I'm looking at the world of portable monitors. Lots of 15.6" 4K screens out there for very cheap. Do these actually work for regular use or are they limited in some important way?

Why there is no tsunami of waste #EV batteries. And look at the EV share in Ukraine 🇺🇦. Why it is important to get V2G/V2L working for older EVs right now.

What I want to know is: That's the "motherfucker index" before and after being sober.
Tell us the important stuff, people, come on!
https://noc.social/@todayilearned/115810550802374948

Somehow I've got that problem that just reading a book feels like I'm neglecting "important" work. My task list is long and there is always some "productive" stuff I could do. I intellectually understand that reading is important and not just a recreational activity. Also I understand recreation is important. Still there is this nagging feeling when I pick up a book and read.
Do you have the same issue? How did or would you address it?

Wetlands efficiently remove nitrogen pollution from surface water, leading to cost savings for municipalities https://phys.org/news/2025-10-wetlands-efficiently-nitrogen-pollution-surface.html

Certification of #aircraft in #Canada requires i.a. proof of certain safety factors in cold weather. That is important to the Canadian authority, for obvious reasons. If a manufacturer can't prove that, certification will be held up.

Why the Raiders' Last Two Games Are Their Most Important https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-last-two-games-are-their-most-important

in all this merry djb bashing 1 thing i didn't hear from the people representing the interests of the #nsa, is why is it important that when the nsa wants 2 use naked pqkems, they have to be #IETF standardized? why do we need a naked

"Why hosting the UN climate summit in the Amazon was so important, despite the disappointing outcome"
#UN #UnitedNations #ClimateSummit

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Snoro/115808780049090136
Important post. People don't like being told what to do, and implications for climate is significant

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Snoro/115808780049090136
Important post. People don't like being told what to do, and implications for climate is significant

Important Update: Knives are Out as Kristi Noem Tries to Throw Stephen Miller Under the Bus and Trump Ignites Republican Rift (Aaron Parnas/The Parnas Perspective)
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/important-update-knives-are-out-as
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p131#a260127p131

If you're an American, I'd like you to watch Alec from Technology Connection here starting at about 1:16:30 (link contains jump to that time).
Ideally of course watch the whole video too, but the end here is I think really important because there's so few people who saying this so clearly.
https://youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM?t=4594

Someone kindly reached out to ask if I would consider speaking about Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org/) at the Social Web Devroom being organised by the Social Web Foundation at FOSDEM.
My answer is no.
And I feel it’s important for those of us who care about such things to understand why:

What's More Important in the NFL: Coaches or Players? | Hangin' With The 'Boys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgz86mXWHj0

"The Economics of Libraries"
https://www.routledge.com/The-Economics-of-Libraries/Martorana-Rizzo/p/book/9781032364285 (erscheint im April)
@…

important #jazz lore research by @… in the newest issue of @…'s LCD. who was the infamous jam interrupter known as The Demon? free jazz pioneer or just a …

From polling and special elections over the past year, we’ve seen two important trends:
Democrats are strongly over-performing in general elections (to the tune of 10-15 points),
and Democratic leadership is incredibly unpopular, even among Democratic voters.
This combination means that there will be a lot of support
— in enthusiasm, money, and votes
— for primary challenges to Democratic incumbents,
and the usual Democratic fretting about electability …

absolute banger on Bluesky if you missed it https://bsky.app/profile/rianjohnson.bsky.social/post/3mb6is5pgi222

Oh heck am I tired now (not even 6pm). But I had a bad night and got up at 5am to ensure to be on time in the office for a rather important business meeting ...

I‘m from West Germany, I never learned Russian or even how to read Cyrillic script. But since Russia‘s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 I must have had so much much exposure that I can now read this important message on a sign at #39C3. Learning through osmosis in times of crisis.

I hope we get some kind of community notes on #mastodon. If others will not marks posts with important information I would like to.

I handles many of important extensions, I’m liking it so far. But no safari extensions unfortunately, so missing my favourite blocker.
It is wicked fast though. https://social.vivaldi.net/@ianbetteridge/115634295732705020

Turned on #Christmas Pandora playlist for the first time this year. And of course the first song was all about it being ok to abuse peers for being different and having the authority figure ignore it until he needs you for something important for him, not because it's wrong.
The "Now that we know your difference is useful we'll stop treating you like shit and pretend it never happened" is a perfect topper.
Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a great lesson for children. /sarcasm
#autistic #neurospicy

sa_companies: South African companies (1919)
A bipartite network of the affiliations between a small group of individuals and five important companies in South African finance, around 1919.
This network has 11 nodes and 13 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/sa_comp

Minor good news for libraries: "A Victory for IMLS as Court Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Dismantle Agency"
IMLS is the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which funds leadership training and R&D in libraries in the US. A small % of library funding but important.
but I believe everyone is gone and grants cancelled so not sure what happens if funding returns-- who gets employed?

Wow, Apple's issues with one of their most important core values (#UX, #UI design) does seem to be worse than I'd have expected.
More and more complaints do pop up in my bubble.
Latest example:

@… @… @… I would also be very interested in the slides. A very important topic right now!

Thank you local public institution for only making important operational announcements on foreign, corporate-owned social media. Those of us who haven't given our data to these entities and who are naive enough to imagine you'd put important announcements on your website salute you!

A scientifically important fMRI study of a deceased salmon won an IgNobel Prize a while back. It’s still important.
Bennett et al. "Neural Correlates of Interspecies Perspective Taking in the Post-Mortem Atlantic Salmon: An Argument For Proper Multiple Comparisons Correction" Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results, 2010

I bought the Pearl Jam album Vitalogy in 1994 and on the very first track, Eddie Vedder emphatically told me many times that I needed to spin the black circle. And all these years later, I've never forgotten that important advice

Visit our newly redesigned modern galleries, and you'll find a sculpture by John Rhoden, part of a gift of several works by this important artist. Read on to find out more about how this gift came to pass...
https://georgiamuseum.org/museum-receives-sculptures-by-joh…

The paradox of Nazism being both the most capitalist thing possible, defining itself as explicitly anticommunist, while masquerading as "socialism" is difficult to resolve until you understand one thing: fascism pivots around antisemitism (and its extension, conspiratorial thinking).
I'm, of course, not talking about the redefinition of "antisemitism" into meaning any criticism of Israel but rather an anti-Jewish conspiracy narrative rooted in Roman Christianity.
This is critical to understand as MAGA fascism pivots between capitalist and pseudo-anticapitalist with Trump in the middle. Hitler did the same thing. Strasserism helped the Nazis gain power by pulling in the Left. In the Nazis case they killed the Stasserists pretty quickly. Now, I think we're seeing an attempt to make the opposite pivot happen in MAGA. But it's all the same thing.
Fascism can infinitely fail to address the needs of the people while dismissing it's own responsibility for creating the problem by maintaining a permanent enemy.
This is why it's important to understand antisemitism and how to fight it. It's especially important now because the apparatus of violence in Israel is itself a tool of global fascism, and we finally have an opportunity to dismantle the whole thing. But we have to be aware of how fascists can pivot around to block this.
I've been reading Safety Through Solidarity, and I think it's especially relevant at this time.
https://www.akpress.org/safety-through-solidarity.html

Berlin talks: Zelenskyy makes important statement on peace plan: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/15/berlin-talks-zelenskyy-makes-important.html

Archaeologists Unearth Wall Section at Important Silk Road City Which Traded in ‘Heavenly Horses’ https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/archaeologists-unearth-wall-section-at-important-silk-road-city-which-traded-in-heavenl…

I share this because it’s important to understand that the impulse to turn to AI seems strongest when a worker is stretched thin, burnt out, sick, or otherwise unable to meet a deadline.
I’ve seen this before, and experienced it myself in 2024 / early 2025 before I quit using LLMs.
I think those of us who are against LLMs and want to reduce society’s dependence on these tools need to contend with that and look for solutions both for individual situations and on a larger scale.

With FreeTube on my Secureblue desktop, I sometimes search for GrapheneOS videos and sort the results by the most recent uploads, and today, I came across a video that shows you how to install GrapheneOS on a Galaxy S20 FE.
It’s important to note that this setup is strongly adviced against, not supported or recommended. What’s being shown in that video is an unofficial port, and unfortunately, it misrepresents what GrapheneOS stands for.
Running an unlocked bootloader on unsuppo…

Ballot Box Scotland 2025 in review: council by-elections
"remember the most important aspect of STV – that the nice simple language used for FPTP of “gain/loss/hold” isn’t as applicable here. Whoever vacated one of three or four seats is not always the same as the overall winner at the last election. It’s entirely possible for the vacating party, the party that had a first preference lead, and the party that would have won a single seat election ... to all be different"

It’s important to put Ukraine’s current situation in the context of history. And it’s important to know that history is still controversial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor The past isn’t even past.
https://social.vivaldi.net/@Ann1944/115590607854450930

Raiders Announce Unfortunate Update on Important Starter https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/michael-mayer-injury-update/?adt_ei=[email]

From David Suzuki
Economic reporting could mislead one into believing that budget deficits are the most important challenge governments face. Its an excuse to curtail spending on necessary benefits, including health care, education, social security, climate action and more. Is it true that countries such as Canada and the US can’t afford these services?

The UNFCCC makes it needlessly difficult to download emission data📊📈
The UNFCCC🇺🇳 is most famously known for being the organizer of the climate conferences (COPs). However, they also play an important role in collecting and managing emission data.
https://i…

Dell reports Q3 revenue up 11% YoY to $27.01B, vs. $27.13B est., Infrastructure Solutions revenue up 24% to $14.1B, and Client Solutions revenue up 3% to $12.5B (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/25/dell-earnings-report-q3-2026.html

"But it didn't have to for #Cook. He could have, and should have, backed out of the event. Obviously. The fact that he didn't either suggests horrible judgement on his part or worse, cowardice. This is a man and leader of one of the biggest and most important businesses in the world who had long been thought to have a great moral compass.
He has lost his way."

"Farage has already changed the UK (for the worse) more than any other living politician. What might the country look like after a period with him in office?" Which says it all on why it is important to try to improve the UK economy
How to get the UK out of its economic hole - https://on.ft.com/4iq4UmP

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)?

In the comparison of foundation models costs are important, especially for companies that want a good businesscase for their AI usage. Kimi K2 Thinking looks like a winner if you look at the price vs performance ratio.
https://artificialanalysis.ai/

Mark Carney says that the center of gravity in the global economy is shifting.
He’s right.
US autohegemonicide makes the US less important. It already has.
Carney on when he last spoke to potus: https://youtube.com/shorts/tiFlQahla9I

Studies showing that "AI" isn't creating the productivity gains that "AI" boosters promised are important but I think that they sadly don't help us win as much as some believe. We're winning at the wrong game:
https://tante.cc/2026/01/25/winning-the-wrong-g…

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Light🕯 is important to the holiday season, so how about a story on bioluminescence? Japanese soldiers during WW2 harvested the ostracod Vargula hilgendorfii "umi-hotaru sea firefly" and dried them. Water was added to a jar for use as glowsticks to discretely read maps. Hakai magazine has a wonderful bioluminescence article, including details on Osamu Sh…

I have long felt that liberal/progressive messaging often tended towards not merely hyperbole, but hyperbole that carried far more than the intended message.
Consider the phrase "Defund the police". That carries a clear message that implies near elimination of police based law enforcement. Few of us want that. Police are an important element of an ordered society.
But pretty much all of us see that police are doing too much and that it is better to restructure police…

this is the singularly most infuriatingly frustrating conversation I have ever had with someone regarding what decentralized social media means and I want to fucking scream
https://skyview.social/?url=https:%2

I'm not ok. The world seems not ok. But community is important and there is still value in doing things just because. Blinky lights are fun, so last weekend I helped wire some controller boxes for an upcoming Burning Man project (maybe unscruz too?)
(and I've just realized that I don't know the project's name or if it has one...)

⚠️ An important wetland in Ghana is under siege. Researchers investigate the real issues
https://theconversation.com/an-important-wetland-in-ghana-is-under-siege-researchers-investigate-the-real-issues-269016<…

Not going backwards is a win.
Given Donald Trump's fraught relationship with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, that's important.
The Mar-a-Lago meeting did not materially move things forward
but nor was there a bust-up like that Oval Office moment in February.
There were however some notable takeaways.
First, Zelenskyy's facial expressions...

On RNZ right now, they're talking about how the software used by pharmacists is not even remotely fit for purpose. Imagine that. Why isn't that sort of thing being sorted by a publicly funded, openly licensed (available to all) system developed by a consortium of companies - that can be scrutinised by anyone - because it's too important to be entrusted to the proprietary gain of any one company. This stuff is a no-brainer. Some things are far too important to be dependent on a pr…

What the Raiders Really Won in Week 17 https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-really-won-in-week-17

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever
encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
-- Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

2025 was a wild ride for me. It was absolutely amazing & I’m not sure I’ll be able to top my non-YT (sorry 🙈) output but I was also permanently stressed out as fuck.
So now, after giving one of my most important speeches for some of the most important people in my life, I’m collapsing to human goo.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@PrototypeFund/115626856685738684
A VERY important topic right now… resilience is so critical!

How Important Are All-Star Games to Draft Stock? | The Draft Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh8dX7qiFCU

The German love for combustion is a perpetuum mobile.
68.5% of Germans believe that their car makers are not fully committed to electric mobility.
Furthermore, 47.8% believe that politicians do not view electric mobility as the technology of the future.
https://…

Zelensky calls UAE trilateral talks important step, says preparations underway for new meeting: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/26/zelensky-calls-uae-trilateral-talks.html

Jones: 'Important' for Cowboys to be competitive https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47325296/jerry-jones-important-cowboys-compete-final-3-games

What the Raiders Need at Quarterback https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-what-need-at-quarterback

The Most Important Foreign Policy Speech in Years (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-henry-farrell.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p38#a260127p38

It’s Ilhan. Last night, I was attacked at a town hall meeting.
A man rushed up to me and sprayed me with an unknown substance from a syringe. Thankfully, my security team acted quickly to take him down.
I’m okay. I’m not going to be intimidated from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win.
But this shows something important. Just a few days ago, I texted you to explain that Trump’s constant racist, hateful attacks and the far-right threats that they bring require me to hire …

sa_companies: South African companies (1919)
A bipartite network of the affiliations between a small group of individuals and five important companies in South African finance, around 1919.
This network has 11 nodes and 13 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/sa_comp

Parks, Libraries and Leisure: Northampton’s Social Life in the 1920s https://edintone.com/leisure-libraries-parks/ In the 1920s, increased opportunities for leisure were an important part of life for the working-class. @…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@PrototypeFund/115626856685738684
A VERY important topic right now… resilience is so critical!

Important blog about a threat few people understand.
"AI bot swarms threaten to undermine democracy. When AI Can Fake Majorities, Democracy Slips Away""
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/ai-bot-swarms-threaten-to-undermine
Underlying …

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/

@… introduced secure #backups: https://signal.org/blog/introducing-se

🛏️ Social standing and isolation shape sleep quality in mice, study finds
#sleep

Stripe agrees to acquire Metronome, which offers APIs to help SaaS companies charge customers based on usage and has raised $128M in total funding (Scott Woody/Metronome)
https://metronome.com/blog/important-company-update

I want to emphasize: the graphic details of what ICE did this morning are •extremely• disturbing. It is important to know what is happening, but that does not necessarily mean having every traumatic detail burned into your brain. Please take care of yourself, and be mindful of how you absorb details as they emerge.

🤝IMPORTANT COOPERATION! Ukraine and Portugal will jointly manufacture marine drones #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/20/important-cooperation-ukraine-and-portugal.html…

Deputy Attorney General Blanche in video:
"I expect that we're going to release more documents over the next couple of weeks."
This is a violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
Smells like more of a coverup
Here's the LAW:
https://bird.makeup/users/atrupar/…

sa_companies: South African companies (1919)
A bipartite network of the affiliations between a small group of individuals and five important companies in South African finance, around 1919.
This network has 11 nodes and 13 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/sa_comp

Is Trump Losing Joe Rogan, America's Most Important Swing Voter? (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/is-trump-losing-joe-rogan-americas-most-important-swing-voter-6d5d0f5e
http://www.memeorandum.com/260117/p27#a260117p27

Starfleet Academy
PILOT DONE! There are some great characters you almost get to meet between what must be super important plot points that are super important.
I hope this show finds time to let those characters breath. I don't expect Kurtzman to let anyone breath ever as he continue to shout "JJ ABRAMS PLEASE LOVE ME".
#startrek

Endangered penguins living off South Africa's coast have likely
starved en masse due to food shortages, a study said,
with some populations dropping by 95% in just eight years.
Fewer than 10,000 breeding pairs of the small, black and white African penguin are left globally,
according to scientists,
and the species was listed as critically endangered last year by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Two of the most important breedi…

A wave of important guarantees for Ukraine: what Stammer and Macron signed ✍️🌍 #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/09/a-wave-of-important-guarantees.html

Asking the Most Important Fernando Mendoza Question https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-asking-most-important-fernando-mendoza-question

sa_companies: South African companies (1919)
A bipartite network of the affiliations between a small group of individuals and five important companies in South African finance, around 1919.
This network has 11 nodes and 13 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/sa_comp

We must make IMPORTANT decisions, – Zelenskyy on sensitive negotiation issues #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/08/we-must-make-important-decisions.html

The Raiders' 3 Most Important Keys to Rebounding vs. Browns https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-3-most-important-keys-rebounding-browns

Because we’re seeing a steady rise of the far right in every aspect of society
It’s more important than ever to figure out how to mitigate this
https://c.im/@cdarwin/115792563432731734

What's the Chargers Most Important Game Left on 2025 Schedule? https://www.chargers.com/news/standings-playoff-odds-2025-omarion-hampton

It has been a bracing moment for American federalism,
with both unprecedented efforts to extend executive control over state and local govts, and
novel forms of subnational resistance.
Where is federalism going?
Paul Nolette and I have edited a new issue of Publius on that question.
Short thread:
Jim Gardner leads off the batting order with an article that raises important questions about whether,
and under what conditions,
federalism can prot…

@… 🎄
https://masto.es/@FediTree/113658815331501695