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Political instability in Chechnya: the leader's death threatens the clan order #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/20/political-instability-in-chechnya-the.html…

As Trump threatens Iran, Venezuela, Mexico, Greenland and more,
renowned historian Alfred McCoy says the United States is
“an empire in decline,”
following a predictable pattern
of militarism abroad and political instability at home
as it loses power and influence on the world stage.
“American politics become increasingly contorted and irrational,”
says McCoy.
“I think the thing to do is to realize that we are an empire in decline, …
…

“Empire in Decline”: Historian Alfred McCoy on U.S. Aggression in Venezuela, Iran & Beyond
As President Trump threatens Iran, Venezuela, Mexico, Greenland and more, renowned historian Alfred McCoy says the United States is “an empire in decline,” following a predictable pattern of militarism abroad and political instability at home as it loses power and influence on the world stage. “American politics become increasingly contorted and irrational,” says McCoy. “I think the thing to do is to realize that we are an empire in decline, … and it will continue for another decade…

"EU-US Data Transfers: Time to prepare for more trouble to come", #maxschrems…

EU-US Data Transfers: Time to prepare for more trouble to come
As instability in the US legal system becomes undeniable and the US shows open signs of hostility towards the EU, it is time to reconsider where our data is flowing

Ubisoft closes its mobile-focused Halifax studio weeks after majority of the workers voted to unionize, as CWA Canada says it is "demanding information" (Chris Kerr/Game Developer)
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/ubis…

Ubisoft closes Halifax studio weeks after devs vote to unionize
Workers at the Canadian studio voted to unionize in December in search of security in an era of 'studio closures, layoffs, and increasing instability.

Saldanha said
his brain? WACK
his eyes? WACK
his arms? WACK
me? I'm tight as FUCK
#fedifc

STM32MP2 update: seems like running components at Fmax using odd clock dividers is problematic, I'm measuring about a 45% duty cycle on MCO in some of my testing.
Was having a bit of instability that mostly seems to have gone away when I doubled the PLL multiplier and the output divider so I'm generating 400 MHz for the M33 as 2400/6 rather than 1200/3.

The corruption was weird af tho
What the fuck?
I do have a journalctl log but I couldn’t really find the reason everything failed on it.

Optical clocks with accuracy validated at the 19th digit
K. J. Arnold, M. D. K. Lee, Zhao Qi, Qichen Qin, Zhang Zhao, N. Jayjong, M. D. Barrett
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07346 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.07346 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.07346
arXiv:2512.07346v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We report a comprehensive evaluation of all known sources of systematic uncertainty for two independent $^{176}$Lu$^ $ single-ion optical references, finding total systematic uncertainty of $1.1\times10^{-19}$ and $1.4\times10^{-19}$ for the two individual systems and $9.6\times10^{-20}$ for the difference. Through direct comparison via correlation spectroscopy, we demonstrate a relative frequency agreement of $-2.4\pm(5.7)_\mathrm{stat}\pm(1.0)_\mathrm{sys}\times10^{-19}$, where `stat' and `sys' indicate the statistical and systematic uncertainty, respectively. The comparison uncertainty is statistically limited after approximately 200 hours of averaging with a measurement instability of $4.8\times10^{-16}(\tau/\mathrm{s})^{-1/2}$.
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