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Digital Realty, QTS, and NTT Data warn the data center industry is doing a poor job of combating local opposition; 24 US projects were blocked in January alone (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f45d45fc-c0ea-463c-8edf-38fb99ed5c05

The chaos of an NFL emergency signing: 'You got to roll with it, or you can go home' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6917792/2025/12/25/nfl-emergency-signing-jeff-driskel-commanders/

"I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself. That is the best combination."
—Judi Dench
#acting #coaching #inspiration

To some extent, that’s the job of abstractions:
Maybe I don’t want to have to decide exactly what a button should look like, so I use the OS’s provided Button widget.
Maybe I don’t want to have to decide exactly how integer addition should work, so I use the language’s integer type.
In both cases, part of what the abstraction provides is “just do this thing the standard way.” But…

A ring-billed gull — Larus delawarensis, second winter, I think — at Sandy Point Bird Sanctuary outside New Haven, Connecticut
#naturalist

He witnessed a migrant death at an ICE detention center, then was deported (Jeff Abbott/El Paso Times)
https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/immigration/2026/02/24/a-detainee-at-camp-east-montana-saw-guards-kill-an-immigrant-then-was-deported/88742190007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260224/p123#a260224p123

The mechanics sorted out filling the adblue tank.
The warnings have stopped beeping and the 10 l bottle that was in the back is gone, so presumably I can trust it's in the tank now.
Sounds like much of what I have paid for was for them doing what I did: Looking all around the car for an ad-blue tank hole and taking things apart trying to find it.
But none of that is the correct solution, which is to put it up on the ramp and clamber underneath to find the tank which has some sort of lowering mechanism, to then lower it and fill it and raise it again.
Not a job for me then. Next time it'll maybe be cheaper coz of them knowing what to do now and not spending half a day trying to figure it out.
Apparently there is a second emissions reduction mechanism which doesn't take a wattery bottle of urea, but instead needs a pouch of oily tar stuff.
This is more likely to empty and need replacing next, rather than the piss bottle.
And even for normal cars that haven't been screwed up for wheelchair access this is a mechanics job anyway. And the garage will have to order in the tar pouch especially.
Back in the 90s, my first car cost about 200 quid. Today I paid 200 quid to get someone to fill it up with purified piss for emissions reduction. Oh how things change. 😆

I hope the entire cyber sector just says no.
Hacker who stole 120,000 bitcoins wants a second chance—and a security job
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/hacker-who-stole-120000-bitcoins-wants-a-second-chance-and…

Hacker who stole 120,000 bitcoins wants a second chance—and a security job
Crypto theft was "the worst thing I had ever done."

SanDisk's stock has surged ~1,000% since August, driven by AI demand for its data storage products; SanDisk has a cost advantage due to its JV with Kioxia (Matt Phillips/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/markets/inside-sandisks-tr…

Inside Sandisk’s transformation from thumb drive dinosaur to the hottest trade in AI
Soaring chip prices have fueled a nearly 1,000% run for Sandisk in a matter of months. Industry insiders, prolific hedge fund managers, and even the company itself seem to have been caught off guard. Analysts think the stock still has room to run.