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The 12-Factor App - 15 Years later. Does it Still Hold Up in 2026?
https://lukasniessen.medium.com/the-12-factor-app-15-years-later-does-it-still-hold-up-in-2026-c8af494e8465

Woman’s Prosthetic Leg Swept Out to Sea Is Thrilled its Been Found 10 Months Later https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/womans-prosthetic-leg-swept-out-to-sea-is-thrilled-its-been-found-10-months-later/

Woman's Prosthetic Leg Swept Out to Sea Is Thrilled its Been Found 10 Months Later
Last April, 69-year-old Brenda Ogden lost her custom-made titanium blade-style prosthesis moments before a swim in the North Sea. 

Report: Ex-Canes DE Bain drove in fatal car crash https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/48471125/ex-miami-de-rueben-bain-involved-2024-car-accident-which-1-person-later-died-report-says

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Neon Ion:
🎵 Laugh Now, Cry Later
#NeonIon
https://neonion.bandcamp.com/album/laugh-now-cry-later-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/0yI71nLkl2G7PMdVcFnG4B

On Oct. 4, Marimar Martinez, a teacher’s assistant at a Montessori school, was driving in Chicago when she observed federal immigration agents on patrol.
She had begun to honk her horn to warn her neighbors about their presence when she collided with a Border Patrol vehicle.
Moments later, the agent in the vehicle, Charles Exum, fired multiple shots into Martinez’s car, hitting her again and again.
(Later, Exum bragged to colleagues that he had “fired 5 rounds and she had 7…

Opinion | We Have to Face What ICE Has Done to Us
Any serious push to account for the actions of this government must include recompense and repair for its victims.

“The new legislation, expected later this year, would give ministers a fast-track route for introducing draft laws to align with future European standards designed to ensure a single market in the trade of goods and services.
The new powers would apply to agreements they are planning with the EU on food standards, carbon pricing for industry and electricity trading.
New rules would be introduced as "secondary" legislation, which receives less scrutiny and gives MPs a mo…

UK could adopt EU single market rules under new legislation
The move has raised questions over parliamentary scrutiny of future rules to deliver planned EU deals.

Update from later in the day in MSP:
I’ve heard or uttered variations on the phrase “I’ll believe it when I see it” in numerous conversations through out the day. That seems to be the prevailing sentiment. People are willing to be hopeful, but nobody’s counting their chickens just yet.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116064770547880143
today, 25 years later, you can put a thing in your pocket that needs Wi-Fi or 5G to access your entire music collection that's stored in a datacenter the size of several city blocks and you must pay rent to your cell phone provider and to your music datacenter landlord to access it!
now that's called progress!

If humans keep heating the planet with greenhouse gases, the climate swing could lock Earth into a hothouse trajectory, as parts of the system feed on their own momentum, even if emissions are reduced later.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11022026/e…

Accelerated Global Warming Could Lock Earth Into a Hothouse Future - Inside Climate News
Scientists say warming is increasing faster than at any time in at least 3 million years. There is no guide for what comes next.

New Gist: A Denial of Service Attack
"The state is happy to assert it can achieve incredible and unprecedented feats of change, later, while always arguing that it can't so much as buy a new pair of shoes right now."
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-a-denial-of…

The Gist: A Denial Of Service Attack
The fuel blockade demonstrated state fragility and inability. This is the Gist.

Recently during Star Trek Adventures:
V'Lorr: »Can I use crisis management for this roll?«
GM: »No, you are not managing the crisis. You ARE the crisis.«
*later*
To the First Officer: »Your science officer has gone full Rambo. What do you do?«
#rpg #ttrpg

To read Later
🔁 https://om.co/2026/02/12/living-in-the-petri-dish-of-the-future/

Living in the Petri Dish of the Future
If you missed the brouhaha around a 5,000-word blog post about AI, let me bring you up to speed. But before I do, I want to remind you that sometimes a blog post is not just a blog post. It is real…

Wife is on the phone with grandma.
Kid (in the middle of breakfast) runs over, yells "peepee poopoo star wars panties I love you" then goes back for another bite.
A minute later she runs back and does it again

Er is nog een beetje gerechtigheid.
Britse rechter noemt verbod op pro-Palestijnse actiegroep onwettig https://nos.nl/l/2602252

Britse rechter noemt verbod op pro-Palestijnse actiegroep onwettig
Wel blijft het verbod op de groep in stand tot in ieder geval een hoorzitting later deze maand.

60 years ago yesterday, the watts acid test, one of the more unhinged events of the dead’s era with the merry pranksters & the night the electric kool-aid got its name, a story well-told elsewhere. weird vibes & one of the most acid test-y of the acid test tapes, 15 hard-tripping minutes & not much music, tracks 6-9: https://

One month later, the DHS shutdown shows no signs of ending (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/13/democrats-republicans-dhs-shutdown-00827135
http://www.memeorandum.com/260313/p8#a260313p8

I love a lot of Bob Dylan's stuff, but he and Tom Petty were so close, and if Bob had let Tom produce Bob's later records, they could've been as great as some of these mid period Heartbreakers ones are.

"We care about your privacy!"
Us and our ONE THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FOUR "partners". Hah ha!
Also fuck off!

Just a #Waymo casually violating a red transit-only lane to sneak ahead of law-abiding human drivers. I love progress.

This was easily the worst chromium release in my ~3 years of maintenance. They just broke _everything_, and then turned around an immediately did another release 2 days later (after delaying CVEs by a day). I *just* uploaded packages to the security buildds, and there's already a new release. With no CVEs of course, but maybe there will be some CVEs tomorrow?
Note that it takes half a day just to build the damned thing.

Sources: The Athletic faces internal blowback after rushing to publicly defend reporter Dianna Russini while it had quietly launched a probe into her conduct (Natalie Korach/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/diana-russini-the-athletic-mike-vrabel-investigation

The Athletic Plays Defense
The New York Times-owned sports vertical is facing internal blowback after rushing to defend reporter Dianna Russini, only for it to later be revealed the paper had quietly launched an investigation into her conduct, insiders tell Status.

The #Agile Manifesto is now 25 years old - happy anniversary! 🥳
https://agilealliance.org/25-years-ago-a-manifesto-was-born/

25 Years Ago, a Manifesto Was Born | The Agile Manifesto | Agile Alliance
A concise history of the Agile Manifesto’s creation at Snowbird, told through participant recollections and the pivotal moments that shaped its four values, 25 years later.

Am I hallucinating or was there a time where /dev had your network interfaces? I could *swear* they used to be there (I realized later that they are in /sys/class/net).
This came up b/c my wife and I were setting up her Framework 16 as a dual-boot and Linux initially didn't have internet. I thought something was wrong because I didn't see the wireless device in /dev, but now I also see that's not the case on the desktop.

Extreme weather is hitting baby birds hard in a 60-year study #environment

Extreme weather is hitting baby birds hard in a 60-year study
Decades of data from over 80,000 great tits reveal that extreme weather can shape the fate of baby birds. Cold snaps soon after hatching and heavy rain later in development shrink nestling body mass and reduce survival odds. But moderate warm spells can actually help chicks grow by boosting insect activity and feeding opportunities. Birds that breed earlier in the season seem better protected from these weather shocks.

Microsoft is automatically replacing Secure Boot certificates for older PCs before they expire later this year; Secure Boot was first introduced in 2011 (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/876336/microsoft-windows-secure-boot-certi…

Microsoft is keeping Secure Boot alive with Windows updates
Microsoft is automatically replacing boot-level security certificates on Windows devices before they start expiring later this year.

Roman elites drank from leaded cups because it made water sweeter. Radiation was thought at one time to have healing properties, so people would add uranium to their drinking water. Glowing dishes are still a collectors item. After the discovery of x-rays, shoe stores started installing them and using them on kids feet to size shoes. Lead was added to gasoline to improve engine performance, and paint to make it whiter. We all know about asbestos and DDT.
We look back at all of this and think, "how could people have been so incompetent back then?" Some of these things caused irreparable harm in their generation, some continue to cause harm today almost 100 years later.
If you wonder that, look at the whole #LLM thing and you have your answer.

Well folks,
@… dropped a new #herb release on #RuCoCo and he packed some really nice goodies in it.
Don't claim later that nobody told you 😉

I just learned that Sarah J. Maas went to the same college I did (decades later). Just a random fact I hadn't picked up yet, but maybe I'll move her book to the top of my TBR now...

@…
1. I am enjoying the app so far. I’m still trying to figure out how to handle the different streams given each has their own volume which might led to missing RSS items among too many toots and blueskies.
2. Based on the few days experience, I feel the area where the app could improve is feed fetching: every refresh results in many, many errors, most of them cause by a 60s timeout.
2.1 Additionally, it's not clear if I should retry a refresh immediately, wait, leave the app do it later.
Thanks for the app!

Coast Guard pilot fired then immediately reinstated because he didn’t move DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s personal blankie from one plane to the next plane.
#USCG #CoastGuard #DHS

Coast Guard Pilot Flying Kristi Noem Fired Over a Missing Blanket
A Coast Guard pilot flying a DHS flight was terminated and later reinstated when Kristi Noem's blanket went missing during a flight change.

Slow Horses & Spooks (MI5) are in the same universe — just different time periods. Standish’s real name is actually Sally (S5 E6/7) — she worked as an analyst in The Grid in 2006, with Slow Horses being 20 years later.

Honestly, I’ve been expecting the “mission accomplished” banner since the day they murdered Alex Pretti. Maybe they were hoping for an ICE officer to be shot in retaliation so they could go for martial law, but a few days later when that hadn’t happened and the country was still seething, the writing was on the wall.

Russia filmed its "victory" in Ternuvate with drones — an hour later, Ukrainian forces wiped the group out - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/08/russia-filmed-its-victory-in-ternuvate-with-drones-an-hour-later-ukrainian-forces-wiped-the-group-out/

Democratically elected corrupt and authoritarian leaders screw up the national interests they promised to serve, because they don't care about those.
Depending on their success of convincing the population of the External Enemy, most people sooner or later find out they've been fooled.

In 1405, Admiral Zheng set off from China with the greatest armada in history,
leading three hundred magnificent ships on a thirty year odyssey to distant lands as far afield as Africa.
Later that century, Columbus landed in the New World with three barely seaworthy boats.
Zheng’s armada, for all its grandeur, left virtually no imprint on the world
-- while Columbus changed the entire course of history. 
Why?
The Patterning Instinct provides a new answer to…

The Patterning Instinct: A History of Humanity's Search for Meaning, by Jeremy Lent
Showing how culture shapes values and values shape history, The Patterning Instinct provides a fresh perspective on crucial questions of the human story.

The Raiders' Blueprint for a Perfect Fourth Round https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-blueprint-for-a-perfect-fourth-round

Our brainy cat, Tails, seems to have house trained herself. They've been spending increasing amounts of time outside but as their Petflap hasn't gone in yet it means leaving doors open, which is a bit brisk atm, and getting them back in if we go out, which I *was* expecting to do. Anyway, got them in then a bit later Tails starts yowling to go out. I thought it was just for fun so didn't let her go as I may yet need to go out* and moments later heard

How the Cowboys' 2025 Free Agency Class Has Aged One Year Later https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/how-the-cowboys-2025-free-agency-class-has-aged-one-year-later

Hmph, Youtube is showing a 'This content isn't available. Try again later' with uBO on. Hmph.

RTL reports 2025 revenue down 3.8% YoY to €6.02B, adjusted EBITDA of €661M, paying streaming subscribers up 19% to 8.1M, and streaming revenue up 26% to €509M (Scott Roxborough/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

RTL Group Bets on Streaming Pivot as Sky Deal and HBO Max Partnership Reshape Business
RTL says its streaming platform RTL+, which now boasts more than 8 million subscribers, will cross into profitability later this year.

Almost 600 lines of OpenAPI documentation later and I'm done. I think I'll package the `/doc` endpoint with the Docker images since I can just copy over the static directory and have it live in the container. I'll add directions on how to add the docs to the standalone binaries as well which should cover that use case. Overall, it turned out pretty well.
#sisyphus

Annual reminder to Canadian citizen/permanent resident authors, editors, translators, photographers, illustrators, and narrators: if you've published a book in the last 5 years, you may be eligible for the Public Lending Right Program from the Canada Council for the Arts. The program pays $50 to $4,500 based on the number of books you have at Canadian lending libraries. I've always earned more from PLRP than I have in royalties.
Registration opens later this month.

The Public Lending Right (PLR) Program
It pays to have your books in Canada’s libraries! Learn more about the Public Lending Right Program

Look on the bright side. It doesn't say "Yes / Maybe Later".

RE: https://xoxo.zone/@Ashedryden/116207780699420362
If I had a cat for every item on my "read later" list, I would be smothered in my sleep. :3

Job interview.
Karen: “what do you mean you’re a queer?”
Lawyer: "How would you like to own that business?"
Source: https://www.threads.com/@attorneyryan/post/DVvDsaiFe45

2026-01-14: Il giorno in cui telnet morì
Il 14 gennaio 2026, il traffico #telnet globale osservato dai sensori di GreyNoise è crollato. Una riduzione sostenuta del 59%, diciotto ASN completamente silenziosi e cinque paesi completamente scomparsi dai nostri dati. Sei giorni dopo, la CVE-2026-24061 è scomparsa. La coincidenza è una delle possibili spiegazioni.

ok, so I set out to fix a small bug in roundl for 80-bit x86 floats. The final tally is four toolchain bugs (two already mentioned here, one bitfield bug on arc and a clang crash on arm because it didn't like the way I wrote a function), transitioning to a new Zephyr SDK and new Arm Toolchain for Embedded compilers. Thirty commits later, I've managed to get things working again. Phew.

POSTDOCTORAL POSITION> University of Toronto, Department for the Study of Religion & The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies
https://ift.tt/NWaGujy
Slave subjectivities in the Iberian Worlds (15th- 20th centuries) Date: October 31,…
via Input 4 RELCFP

„Buy now, pay later“: Jeder Siebte verliert den Überblick
Jetzt kaufen, später bezahlen: Was beim Online-Shopping verlockend klingt, hat Tücken, warnt die BaFin. Vor allem junge Leute geraten in Turbulenzen.
https://…

Charles Darwin's Address Book published for the first time!
Full of surprises and new information.
One of Darwin's water-cure doctors was charged with manslaughter!
The fireworks manufacturer he ordered from later blew himself up!
https://darwin-online.org.uk…

Working with an #acting #coaching client and had them try a rehearsal technique that was new to them on one of the later takes. Suddenly, the emotional distance between them and the other character changed, a vulnerability emerged and it was beautiful to see. We may keep parts for performance.

NFL Draft prospect Rueben Bain Jr. involved in fatal car accident in 2024, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-draft-prospect-rueben-bain-jr-fatal-car-accident/

Robinhood launches a public testnet for Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum Layer 2 network on Arbitrum supporting 24/7 trading, with a broader rollout later in 2026 (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/

Robinhood (HOOD) starts testing its own blockchain as crypto push deepens
The Robinhood Chain, built on Ethereum-based Arbitrum, aims to become key plumbing for around-the-clock trading and plugging tokenized stocks into DeFi.

2026-01-14: The Day the Telnet Died https://www.labs.greynoise.io/grimoire/2026-02-10-telnet-falls-silent/

I might have to explore C RAAI concept sooner or later for #GitRaven.
It is getting difficult manually free-ing memory used via libgit2. I am having to think about and write if checks for all the edge cases across my GitManager class.
ChatGPT suggested this after I mentioned this issue and it sounds like it's useful.

What I think Germany is doing right for public HDV charging:
- Early grid applications w/ forward-looking capacity
- Not one electricity price, but many. How do you give users access to these?
- Tenders for the best offer for the user, not recouping costs later with high prices
https://www.

"Battery storage awarded 576 MW in UK top-up capacity market auction"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Batteries

Battery storage awarded 576 MW in UK top-up capacity market auction
Battery energy storage system (BESS) and demand-side response assets both secure roughly 8% of capacity agreements, according to provisional results, but nuclear leads the pack in first UK capacity market auction of 2026. Results from larger T-4 auction expected later in the month, with generators and energy storage assets vying for multi-year contracts.

Okay, I think I fixed the bug in my code that runs right before midnight each night so we'll see if it does the right thing tonight. Look for a new post/link later tonight!

New Amtrak trains coming soon to Pacific Northwest, but not in time for World Cup
Summer capacity in the region will remain limited due to a railcar shortage. New trainsets are still expected later in the year.
first new Airo train in revenue service will happen on the Amtrak Cascades line in late summer or fall.
In total, eight new trainsets, two new locomotives, & a spare cab car are coming to the Pacific Northwest. Amtrak placed a large order for new trains in 2021…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheCraigCharlesFunkAndSoulShow
Larry Graham:
🎵 Sooner Or Later
#LarryGraham
https://oneluvfmproductions.bandcamp.com/track/larry-graham-sooner-or-later
https://open.spotify.com/track/0mjXSVZhfiDIsANbj8bGgi

I was a little hopeful here: https://w3c.social/@w3cdevs/116375525807612315
Until I read:

Looks interesting but
1) can't book til 28 Feb
2) bloody "Teams"
"Our upcoming online public seminar explores how the UK now uses less energy than almost anyone anticipated 20 years ago, but opportunities to act on this potential were largely missed"
Decarbonising the UK 20 Years Later Tickets, Wednesday, Mar 11 from 1 pm to 2 pm GMT | Eventbrite

Decarbonising the UK 20 Years Later
The UK now uses less energy than almost anyone anticipated 20 years ago, but opportunities to act on this potential were largely missed.

When asking someone to do something it's important to be clear about everything you are asking them to do, and when you are asking them to do it, up front.
Increasingly I'm asked to do something, I look at my schedule and other commitments and agree to the ask, and then weeks later am informed that "as part of X (what I agreed to) everyone is expected to do Y (something time consuming that wasn't mentioned before)" or "we need you to provide X (something necessary the day of the event) a week in advance (when there was no indication of this early deadline at the initial ask)".
This means that the calculations someone made regarding whether they could participate are based an incomplete understanding of what is required. That's not fair and it either results in forcing the participant to deprioritize something else or makes them push back on something they never agreed to and potentially withdraw.

In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.
13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.
The law didn't change.
https://torrentfreak.com/uploading-pir…

My latest toy arrived. I started testing USB cables. Old cables to be recycled. I can also mark the cables that can handle power delivery.
Work backpack had every cable checked and tagged. A couple were retired.
A box of computer parts will be cleared out later of old or broken cables.

The planet may experience a strong or even a super El Niño later this year,
-- one that could rival the strongest ones in history,
according to new climate data recently released by the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).
A typical El Niño affects regional-to-global weather patterns,
as a warming patch of water in the equatorial Pacific Ocean influences what regions could experience droughts, floods and extreme heat.
During these relativ…

<woot> Man, i wish knghtbrd were here to grab that for his sig list.
[...several hours later...]
<Knghtbrd> woot don't know me vewy well, do he?
<Knghtbrd> muahahahaha

Volgens mij is mijn dagelijkse rondje met de #trike nu voorzichtig gegroeid naar zo'n 20 km. Ik moet ze bijna al gaan plannen. Mijn benen en uithoudingsvermogen vinden het prima, mijn hart protesteert alleen in het begin een beetje en ook dat wordt steeds minder en steeds later. :blobcat_winking: Allemaal bruggen, vaarten, bossen en volgens mij het hele Pirellipad.

My #silentSunday is from last week. Maybe I'll also add a blog post later.
Anyways - enjoy some snow for which I went to the mountains for you :)
Enjoy!
#photography #mountains

Cry Later: The Culture That Taught You Not to Grieve
The commands arrive early. They arrive in childhood, in the voices of parents and teachers and coaches and older relatives, and they are delivered with the same authority as instructions about traffic and hot stoves. Cry later. Hold it in. Do not show your emotions. Do not embarrass us. Be strong. Be brave. Be a man. There will be time for that later.

Cry Later: The Culture That Taught You Not to Grieve | David Boles, Blogs
The commands arrive early. They arrive in childhood, in the voices of parents and teachers and coaches and older relatives, and they are delivered with the same authority as instructions about traf…

Sorry im posting so much, im just scared as hell abt the jewel heist later today >///<

Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
LEITZ: Well, I suppose it's better to die bravely in the field than to face execution later.
[Exterior - groups of citizens and guards, plus Dayna and Tarrant]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/403/213 B7B4

Documentation continues. Done with the `queue` and `worker` endpoints, probably about 50% of the way done with this. I still need a good way to package all of this up with the binary which means putting the `openapi.yaml` file somewhere on the net so it can be pulled if need be. I'll deal with that later...lol
#openapi

Some guy dressed in camo driving a black pickup truck was creeping around the neighborhood today, systematically photographing people’s houses. Neighbors spotted him at one intersection earlier, then a few blocks over a few hours later.
Just another normal one here in Minneapolis.

Source: Chinese AI startup Zhipu anonymously released its new AI model on OpenRouter under the name Pony Alpha; Zhipu plans to launch GLM-5 later this week (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/chinas-zhipu-rolls-new-ai-mo…

China’s Zhipu Rolls Out New AI Model in Stealth Mode
Zhipu, one of China’s prominent AI developers, has anonymously released its new large language model under a different name on OpenRouter, a popular AI model marketplace for developers. Pony Alpha, a new open-source LLM launched on OpenRouter a few days ago, is Zhipu’s new model, known as GLM-5, in disguise, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. In a post on X,

Shares of Kyndryl, the US company that will take control of the Dutch DigID digital identity app (if government doesn't prevent this) crash as the CFO leaves and the quarterly report is postponed.

De koers keldert van Kyndryl, het bedrijf dat Solvinity wil kopen
De koers van het Amerikaanse bedrijf Kyndryl is meer dan gehalveerd op Wall Street. Dat volgde op het nieuws dat de financiële topman van de IT-dienstverlener maandag opstapte en het bedrijf zijn volledige kwartaalrapport later indient, melden persbureaus. Kyndryl is een afsplitsing van IBM. Het bedrijf kwam recent in Nederland in het nieuws omdat Kyndryl het van oorsprong Nederlandse bedrijf…

I love how easy Macs are to use ;)
https://support.apple.com/en-us/118449

Trump Can't Shake Claims Over Jan. 6 Capitol Attack Years Later (Zoe Tillman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-01/trump-can-t-shake-claims-over-jan-6-capitol-attack-years-later
http://www.memeorandum.com/260401/p67#a260401p67

Maxx Crosby fallout: Ravens might have just set ugly precedent for NFL offseason trades

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ravens-maxx-crosby-trade-fallout-raiders-nfl-reaction…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Neon Ion:
🎵 Laugh Now, Cry Later
#NeonIon
https://neonion.bandcamp.com/album/laugh-now-cry-later-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/6hu1LZjhlLxr9qY7cX6x1L

Alternate history novel idea: a handful of people in a crowd in an outlying Roman province yell slightly louder.
The people's choice is clear.
Jesus goes free. Lacking a martyr to rally around, his disciples fade into obscurity a generation later.
Barabbas is crucified.
What happens next? Does he become the centerpiece of a new religion? Does western Europe become majority Jewish? Do the crusades etc still happen? Lots of interesting concepts to explore.

The annual meeting of the nation’s governors that has long served as a rare bipartisan gathering is unraveling
after Donald Trump excluded Democratic governors from White House events.
The National Governors Association said it will no longer hold a formal meeting with Trump when governors are scheduled to convene in Washington later this month,
after the White House planned to invite only Republican governors.
On Tuesday, 18 Democratic governors also announced they …

Governors won't hold Trump meeting after White House only invited Republicans
The National Governors Association is not going to hold a formal meeting with President Donald Trump. This decision comes after the White House planned to invite only Republican governors to the event. Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt, a Republican, shared this in a letter to fellow governors on Monday. The NGA's mission is to represent all 55 governors, so the association will no longer facilitate the event. The NGA is scheduled to meet in Washington from February 19th to 21st. Representatives fo…

Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
LEITZ: Well, I suppose it's better to die bravely in the field than to face execution later.
[Exterior - groups of citizens and guards, plus Dayna and Tarrant]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/403/213 B7B4

Privacy Protections Coming Sooner Rather Than Later to the Sooner State
https://fpf.org/blog/privacy-protections-coming-sooner-rather-than-later-to-the-sooner-state/
@…

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright,
a former fracking executive,
was accused on Tuesday of manipulating global markets
after he posted a striking claim on social media:
The American Navy, he wrote, had “successfully escorted an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz to ensure oil remains flowing.”
The post on X was deleted minutes later,
after “oil prices slid at their steepest pace in years,” according to the Wall StreetJournal.
The White House pres…

Trump Energy Chief Accused of Manipulating Oil Markets With Deleted Post About Strait of Hormuz | Common Dreams
"The fusion of war-making and market manipulation by top Trump officials isn't entirely without precedent," said one observer, "but the speed and brazenness does seem new."

Sources: Apple delayed the release of its smart home display, planned for this month, until later this year to let the company finish work on the new Siri (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Initial release done for the Sisyphus server, had to do it manually for the time being which is slightly annoying. I'll deal with the pipeline much later. Posted AMD64 and ARM64 binaries for Windows, Linux, And macOS. Got a lot done over the last few days, now time to relax...lol
https://git…

…if we’re watching for a mass turn in popular sentiment against a would-be authoritarian, then it’s the vibes that matter. The guts lead and the facts follow later, if at all.
It’s significant that a mainstream (if salacious) news outlet is running this story at all. It’s significant that it’s making the rounds in my fairly fact-focused TL. I’m interested in who’s repeating this, who’s joking about it, whether it becomes an acceptable SNL gag, whether centrist pundits feel the need to start refuting it.
Vibes.
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An interview with early Twitter executive Jason Goldman on the platform's early free-speech-maximalist decisions, underinvestment in trust and safety, and more (Charlie Warzel/The Atlantic)

What Is Twitter’s Legacy, 20 Years Later?
An early Twitter exec reckons with the monster he helped create.

New statue humiliating Trump and Epstein debuts at National Mall
The statue replicates a scene in 'Titanic' from 1997, when the film's main characters stand together on the ship -- before it collides with an iceberg and crashes
https://www.irishst…

New humiliating Trump and Epstein 'Titanic' statue debuts at National Mall
The statue is named "King of the World" and replicates Titanic from 1997, when the film's main characters stand together on the ship before it later collides with an iceberg and crashes

Airbnb expands its Reserve Now, Pay Later feature globally, after a US pilot for domestic travel saw a 70% adoption rate for eligible bookings (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/airbnb-expands-its-reserve-now-pay-later-globally/

Airbnb expands its "Reserve Now, Pay Later" globally | TechCrunch
The feature allows users to cancel eligible bookings if there is a change of plans -- without losing money upfront.

In 1984, Bernhard Goetz, a white man, shot four Black teenagers on a New York City subway train after one of them approached him asking for money.
He permanently paralyzed one of the teens and admitted during his interrogation that
he wanted to “kill them all.”
Nearly 40 years later, in the same setting, Daniel Penny, a white man, killed Jordan Neely, a Black man,
with a chokehold after Neely was experiencing a mental health crisis.
Despite the facts, both Goet…

VIDEO: Why does white rage have a grip on our criminal legal system? - ACLU of Socal
Watch historian and author Heather Ann Thompson in conversation with ACLU SoCal’s Summer Lacey.

ICE List:
The small European website exposing US immigration agents
The Netherlands-based site uses public information and tips to reveal identities of agents involved in crackdowns across US
It started as a cheeky response on social media to the US secretary for homeland security.
Months later, however, a
Europe-based project to unmask US immigration and custom enforcement (ICE) agents has racked up millions of views and mobilised hundreds of volunteers.

Meta will offer Muse Spark in private preview via API to select partners, and plans to offer paid API access to a wider audience at a later date; META jumps 8% (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/08/meta-debut

Meta debuts new AI model, attempting to catch Google, OpenAI after spending billions
Meta debuted its first major large language model, Muse Spark, spearheaded by chief AI officer Alexandr Wang, who leads Meta Superintelligence Labs.

Democratic lawmakers will try to pass the war powers resolution introduced by New York representative Greg Meeks via unanimous consent later this morning,
when the House of Representatives meets for a pro forma session.
There is a press conference scheduled for after.
In a statement on today’s push, Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, said:
“House Republican leadership remains completely silent on the president’s unhinged behavior.
Instead, they continue…

Q&A with UpScrolled founder Issam Hijazi, who says the non-algorithmic social app hit 5M users, mainstream apps were censoring pro-Palestinian content, and more (Katie Drummond/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-upscrolled-…

He Started a Social Network Alone. Then 5 Million People Signed Up
Issam Hijazi launched UpScrolled after users alleged censorship on other platforms. Nine months later, its user base is soaring—while Hijazi tries to catch up with his own success.

A year later, the cost of ‘tariff mania’
U.S. markets recorded one of the most volatile years in history, marked by extreme swings and modest gains driven by a handful of stocks for tech companies largely inoculated from import duties.
Federal customs duties brought in tens of billions of dollars.
But a study published this week by the European Central Bank found that U.S. importers and consumers, -- not foreign exporters, -- bore the brunt of the costs that paid for it

Right-wing podcaster and former Trump White House political strategist 
Steve Bannon 
on Monday said that Donald Trump’s
deployment of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to airports was
a preview of what could be expected later this year at polling places across the country.
During a Monday episode of his “War Room” podcast,
Bannon said that the Trump administration 
“can use what’s happening with these ICE [agents] at the airports,
we …

Steve Bannon calls ICE at airports a good ‘test run’ for deployment to 2026 midterm polls
The comments marked the second time in just two months that Bannon has floated having ICE illegally monitor US elections.

The justice department told the House Oversight Committee that Pam Bondi will not appear at the 14 April deposition
as she was "subpoenaed in her capacity as Attorney General,"
a committee spokesperson confirmed to the BBC.
Bondi was removed from her role as America's top law enforcement officer by Donald Trump last week.
Some members on the committee say they will push for Bondi to answer questions at a later date.
Nancy Mace, a Republican member…

Bondi will not testify on Epstein files next week, DoJ says
Bondi will not face a congressional committee because she is no longer the US attorney general, the justice department told the panel.