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"Humans burn themselves—and survive burns—with a frequency likely much greater than any other animal. Most animals avoid fire completely, while in contrast, humans live alongside fire and most humans will experience minor burns throughout their lives."
Exposure to burn injuries played key role in shaping human evolution, study suggests

Exposure to burn injuries played key role in shaping human evolution, study suggests
Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping how our bodies heal, fight infection, and sometimes fail under extreme injury, according to new research.

Waymo says its fleet hit 170M miles as of December 2025, and its Waymo Driver system was involved in 92% fewer serious-injury crashes than human drivers (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/transportation/896837/waymo-170-mill…

Waymo hits 170 million miles while avoiding serious mayhem
Waymo released a new analysis of its robotaxi fleet after driving over 170 million driverless miles. The company says it still manages to avoid most serious crashes or injuries.

ICE hasn’t gone; they’re just finding ways to operate that are less visible, finding targets with fewer eyes watching:
https://sahanjournal.com/immigration/mobile-home-parks-immigration-enforcement-ice-minnesota/
Don’t forget the people ICE is targeting. Don’t let them become invisible.

11 reported injured in southern Russia as separate drone strike hits oil refinery: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/21/reported-injured-in-southern-russia.html

An executive jet the Department of Homeland Security has told the White House’s Office of Management and Budget it needs for immigrant deportation flights and Cabinet officials’ travel
Plans
features a bedroom with a queen bed, showers, a kitchen, four large flat-screen TVs and even a bar, according to images of the aircraft obtained by NBC News.
DHS recently began leasing the Boeing 737 Max 8,
which DHS officials have described as a luxury jet,
but now Immigrat…

'No expense has been spared': Inside a luxury jet DHS wants to buy for deportations
WASHINGTON — An executive jet the Department of Homeland Security has told the White House’s Office of Management and Budget it needs for immigrant deportation flights and Cabinet officials’ travel features a bedroom with a queen bed, showers, a kitchen, four large flat-screen TVs and even a bar, according to images of the aircraft obtained by NBC News.

Is there some general theory — just in the hand-wavy “these underlying principles could apply” form of macroeconomics and not necessarily even any kind of falsifiable model — that backs up the notion that increased coupling of risks induces higher investor payouts? or something along those lines?
I feel like “coupling increases the magnitude of failure” and ”coupling increases risk” are more or less self-evident assertions (though of course deserving of study). By some kind of symmetry, it •feels• like coupling could increase payouts too — the billionaires certainly act as though it does! — but that seems less self-evident to me.

Denmark 'substantially increases' Greenland troops as Trump won't rule out using force: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/19/denmark-substantially-increases-greenland-troops.html

A federal judge ❌ refused Monday to temporarily block the Trump administration from enforcing a new policy requiring a week’s notice before members of Congress can visit immigration detention facilities.
🆘U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb in Washington, D.C., concluded that the Department of Homeland Security didn’t violate an earlier court order when it reimposed a seven-day notice requirement for congressional oversight visits to Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities.
Last …

Judge won't block DHS policy on lawmaker access to ICE facilities
A federal judge has refused to temporarily block the Trump administration from enforcing a new policy requiring members of Congress to give a week’s notice before they can visit immigration detention facilities. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb concluded that the Department of Homeland Security didn’t violate an earlier court order when it reimposed a seven-day notice requirement for congressional oversight visits to Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities. Cobb said she wasn’t ruling …

Russia injures at least 15 in missile and drone attacks across Odesa, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/21/russia-injures-at-least-in.html

A federal judge has accused the #Trump administration of
⚠️terrorizing immigrants and recklessly violating the law
in its efforts to deport millions of people living in the country illegally.
Citing the deaths of Renee #Good and Alex #Pretti

Federal judge slams Trump administration's immigration crackdown in scathing decision
A federal judge has accused the Trump administration of terrorizing immigrants and recklessly violating the law in its efforts to deport millions of people living in the country illegally. Citing the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota, the judge said in a scathing decision late Wednesday that the White House had also “extended its violence on its own citizens.” U.S. District Judge Sunshine Sykes in Riverside, California ordered the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to prov…