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I love that everyone has different unique tastes. And many people will probably find some of the things on my favorite albums list this year to be bizarre and unpleasant. But some of the things on some of these other (mainstream AND indie) 'best albums of 2025' lists.. whew. I can't even imagine listening to these ONCE, much less multiple times 😂

The Trump administration is providing the names of all air travelers to immigration officials,
substantially expanding its use of data sharing to expel people under deportation orders.
Under the previously undisclosed program, the Transportation Security Administration provides a list multiple times a week to Immigration and Customs Enforcement of travelers who will be coming through airports.
ICE can then match the list against its own database of people subject to deporta…

T.S.A. Is Providing Air Passenger Data to Immigration Agents for Deportation Effort
The Transportation Security Administration is providing passenger lists to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement to identify and detain travelers subject to deportation orders.

UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration's demand for 'lists of Jews' (Alice Speri/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/13/upenn-trump-jews-list
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p127#a260113p127

Here's my BEST ALBUMS OF 2025:
https://bzangygroink.co.uk/archives/2025/12/31/albums-of-the-year-2025/
And here's my other lists going back back to 2004:

Albums Of The Year 2025
Well, another absolute fucker of a year, wasn’t it? I retreated a lot this year, into comfort eating, into old Stargate and definitely into music. This list originally had 92 albums on it. It…

Now using an app made in Google AI studio that let me quickly summarize my timeline, a list or a hashtag for a certain period. Using Gemini 3 Flash. A timesaver to quickly get an overview of what is happening on Mastodon. All possible because of Mastodons open API's.
#mastodon #API

Relevant code in kubectl doing the completions: #kubernetes #zsh #shell #completion

I rarely make electronic shopping lists, so I only discovered today that the Notes app has a handy feature that converts kilograms into tons. Even when using the comma as decimal separator! It doesn’t recognize “dl” (customary in Switzerland), though, and come to think of it, it has none of the features demoed by Doug Engelbart in 1968.

A breakdown of 2026 Oscars nominations by movie and by studio: Warner Bros. leads with 30 nominations, Neon gets 18, Netflix earns 16, and Apple has six (Deadline)
https://deadline.com/lists/2026-oscar-nominations-list/

2026 Oscar Nominations List
The 2026 Oscar nominations were revealed Thursday, January 22 for the 98th Academy Awards.

Material para el inicio de una nueva «guerra santa» en el rock: Billboard publicó su listado de las 50 mejores bandas de rock según su staff.
https://www.billboard.com/lists/best-rock-bands/
El top 10:
1 The Beatles
2 The Rolling Stones
3 Led Zeppelin
4…

Everyday #Emacs #orgmode task: merge two tables
I'm grading, and want to merge the class list with the list of assignment submissions. Include the two lists as named tables, and a tiny R-snippet will produce a merged table (also named).

When i don't have time to read all the posts in a Mastodon list, i now use a Gemini App (made in Google AI Studio) to quickly make a summary and overview of the highlights, shared links etc.
Mastodon lists are a great way to organize your Mastodonfeed by the way.
#mastodonlists #AI