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The full Weekend Reads report is on vacation this week, it will return next week. But we don't want to leave you with nothing. Here is one piece that might have made it into the top 5:
* The Input Stack on Linux
https://venam.net/blog/unix/2025/11/27/input_device…

The Input Stack on Linux
Let's explore and deobfuscate the input stack on Linux. Our aim is to understand its components and what each does. Input handling can be divided into two parts, separated by a common layer. We’ll try to make sense of all this, one thing at a time, with a logical and coherent approach.

Following Clooney's criticism, Bari Weiss invites him to "visit The CBS Broadcast Center" where she is "spending the holidays" to "relaunch the Evening News" (Pat Saperstein/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/bari-

Bari Weiss Invites George Clooney to Visit CBS News After His Remarks
After George Clooney told Variety he felt that Bari Weiss was "dismantling CBS News as we speak,” Weiss responded by inviting him to visit CBS News.

Russia's friends helping each other:
Germany’s far-right AfD invited to join Munich Security Conference 2026, on initiative by JD Vance
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/29/german…

Zelensky invites Putin to Kyiv, rules out talks in Moscow or Belarus: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/30/zelensky-invites-putin-to-kyiv.html

US startups are increasingly adopting Chinese open source AI models, as some capabilities of Chinese models start to catch up with those of frontier US labs (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/silicon-valley-building-free-chinese-ai-r…

More of Silicon Valley is building on free Chinese AI
Surveying the state of America’s artificial intelligence landscape earlier this year, Misha Laskin was concerned

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

Open Access: Bibliothek der Association for Computing Machinery öffnet sich
Ab Januar 2026 sollen alle Publikationen der ACM Digital Library öffentlich zugänglich sein. Das soll Wissen zugänglicher machen und Innovation fördern.

I keep thinking of something I've read years ago:
"Innovation is not the same as progress"
Progress implies a change forward, improvement, for the better.
Innovation is just change for the sake of change. Something new, not necessarily better.
Progress is hard, innovating is much easier.

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

Zelensky rejects Putin's Moscow invitation, signals possible delay in peace talks: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/30/zelensky-rejects-putins-moscow-invitation.html