In good news, AGCL powder looks like magic that will be saving lives daily
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-develop-spray-on-powder-that-instantly-seals-life-threatening-wounds/
It's really hard to take McGill University's austerity talk seriously when they're dumping millions of dollars on union-busting law firms, anti-labor consultancy firms, and private police to intimidate its students.
#McGillUniversity #TheRover
The find of Gomorra - Le Origini on ilCorSaRoNeRo and the accompanying English subs on Opensubtitles.org fills me with more pleasure than the find of a new distro to install.
I know, I know, but everyone wants to know the origin story of Pietro Savastano. Don't we? I do!
Only the initiated will understand this 😜
#italia
Trump says federal government 'should get involved' with running elections in states (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-colombia-petro-congress-shutdown-ice-immigration-live-updates-rcna256876/rcrd98532?canonicalCard=true
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p125#a260203p125
A new Polymarket account bet $30K on Maduro's capture just hours before Trump's announcement, renewing questions on insider information in prediction markets (Herb Scribner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/03/maduro-capture-bets-trade-prediction-mark…
(LinkedIn) Generative human intelligence for images anyone? https://www.linkedin.com/posts/petermeijer_the-voice-for-android-apps-on-google-play-activity-7413499467846500352-sfcJ
evening peace: brian eno & j. peter schwalm perform "4-D music" inside a volcano in spain in 2001, studio-quality radio broadcast. https://archive.org/details/01.-part-i
A set of loft finds; 'Wagon trail' pattern tea set from 'Washington pottery'; looks like it was a pretty common 60s pattern.
#pottery
This is genuinely terrifying. Google Scholar is pushing "AI Powered Scholar Search."
What's scariest about this is that it will almost certainly turn up results that feel *right* -- they'll mention relevant topics and let a researcher craft a perfectly unassailable reference list.
But what it will prevent the researcher from doing is the actual research of finding relevant publications: discovering connections, framing questions, identifying contrasts…
Peter Steinberger rebrands his AI agent project to OpenClaw, its second name change after Anthropic forced a shift from Clawdbot to Moltbot (Ron Schmelzer/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronschmelzer/2026/01/30/mo…