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Ukraine hit by mass blackouts after grid disruption: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/31/ukraine-hit-by-mass-blackouts.html

~13 years ago I knocked on thousands of doors locally to get ~40 homes to install free loft insulation before a government scheme (CERT) ended:
https://www.earth.org.uk/mass-loft-insulation.html

Mass Loft Insulation Project in Norbiton, London (2012)
Helping cut bills and carbon in the neighbourhood before CERT stopped: crowd-conserving? #legwork #loftInsulation #frugal

FBI investigating Austin mass shooting as potential terrorism (Nicole Cobler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/local/austin/2026/03/01/austin-mass-shooting-west-sixth-street
http://www.memeorandum.com/260301/p56#a260301p56

25% of Kyiv's homes are without heating due to Russia's terror. And it's -17°C (1.4°F)
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-hit-by-mass-blackouts-after-grid-disruption/

Austin bar mass shooter possibly motivated by Iran attacks, Quran found in car as FBI eyes terrorism after 2 killed, 14 injured (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/03/01/us-news/austin-mass-shooter-possibly-motivated-by-iran-attacks-quran-found-in-car-as-fbi-eyes-terrorism/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260301/p55#a260301p55

The KKK but with a budget the size of Russia’s military. Running mass detention camps.
Think about that for a minute.
Think about what it could mean, what it •already is•:
https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-abyss
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collins_yeast: Collins yeast interactome (2007)
Network of protein-protein interactions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (budding yeast), measured by co-complex associations identified by high-throughput affinity purification and mass spectrometry (AP/MS).
This network has 1622 nodes and 9070 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

The Trump administration has moved to acquire industrial buildings in at least eight states.
DHS bought two this month:
one in Maryland for $102 million
and another in Arizona for $70 million.

This month ICE officials toured this 920,000-square-foot warehouse in Kansas City, Missouri.
The city council passed a resolution to try to block new detention centers in the city. (Port KC)

One industrial building the federal government plans to overhaul into an immigrant d…

ICE buys warehouses for mass detention network, rattling locals
ICE officials have quietly begun notifying warehouse owners and local officials of their interest in specific properties, prompting efforts to block the projects.

"Concentration camps involve the mass detention of civilians without due process on the basis of political, racial, ethnic, or religious identity. And that is where we’re at right now."
Into the abyss
https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-abyss

Into the abyss
The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.

I am relieved to learn that the mass-murdering dictator #Khamenei can no longer terrorise the #Iran‎ian people. I very much hope for the downfall of the entire regime in favour of a self-determined democracy.
However, the US' ultimate departure from international law through a "preven…

Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei is dead, state media confirms
Following US and Israeli strikes on Tehran, Iran state media confirmed the death of Ali Khamenei. DW has more.

For what it’s worth, I've canceled my OpenAI account due to their collaboration with Trump. Though I'm sure the others aren't that much better, at least Anthropic said no to that one thing…
OpenAI is teetering in many ways, so if we could have a mass boycott of paying for their service, we could send a message.

https://ground.news/article/new-animal-species-that-survived-mass-extinction-event-half-a-billion-years-ago-found-in-a-quarry-in-china_a5e5fb

3 dead, 14 injured in Sixth Street mass shooting; FBI investigating potential terrorism (KEYE)
https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/multiple-people-injured-in-mass-shooting-on-6th-st-austin-police-investigating
http://www.memeorandum.com/260301/p60#a260301p60

Last night Cornell blew out Princeton 87-64 in Newman Arena: here's № 24 Josh Baldwin 6'5" a senior from Everett, Mass. #photo #photography #sports

Heute gab's trotz dem am Mittwoch kaputt gegangenen G-Line mehrere freudige Dinge in Sachen #Fahrrad: Hab's nach mehreren Monaten Abstinenz wegen Terminkonflikten endlich mal wieder zur #CriticalMass #Zürich

UK government wastes police time. Repeat offender
Mass arrests at UK protest in support of hunger-striking detainee | Protests | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/1/25/mass-ar…

Mass arrests at UK protest in support of hunger-striking detainee
Police carried out mass arrests after a peaceful protest outside a London prison in support of hunger-striking detainee.

ICE Is Buying Up Mega Warehouses Across America | The New Republic #ice

ICE Is Buying Up Mega Warehouses Across America
ICE has a plan to install its mass detention centers in small towns across the country.

3 dead, several injured in downtown Austin mass shooting (The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5761330-3-dead-14-injured-in-downtown-austin-mass-shooting/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260301/p9#a260301p9

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fj/116141244443558638
If you’re not a US citizen, Anthropic supports your mass surveillance by the US regime. Thought you might want to know in case you find yourself funding your own future demise from a drone strike or something.

The Japanese government plans to invest ~$1.6B in Rapidus over the next two fiscal years to help it mass-produce 2nm logic chips and potentially challenge TSMC (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Getting serious about data breaches in Kazakhstan
January 23: Kazakhstan Moves to Criminalize Mass Data Breaches
https://meyka.com/blog/january-23-kazakhstan-moves-to-criminalize-mass-data-breaches-2301/

January 23: Kazakhstan Moves to Criminalize Mass Data Breaches | Meyka
Australia-focused take on Kazakhstan data breach law, criminal penalties and $42,500 fines, risks for banks and fintechs, and clear compliance steps for investors.

'Russians are to blame' — Moldovans react to mass power outage after Moldova-Ukraine line malfunction: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/31/russians-are-to-blame-moldovans.html

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth
has threatened Antropic with blacklisting
if the AI company refuses to allow its tools to be used for autonomous drone attacks or mass surveillance
– a chilling show of the Pentagon’s priorities.
In a meeting with the company on Tuesday, Hegseth said that
the company must lift its demands for the safety restrictions by Friday at 5:01 pm.
Otherwise, officials warned, the Pentagon will declare the company a “supply chain ris…

Pentagon Threatens Retaliation If Anthropic Bars Use of AI for Mass Surveillance
Anthropic’s CEO has expressed concerns about the use of AI for autonomous drones and surveillance.

Good to see employees from Google and OpenAI speaking out.
"The Pentagon is negotiating with Google and OpenAI to try to get them to agree to what Anthropic has refused."
#AI

We Will Not Be Divided
Employees of Google and OpenAI stand together to refuse the Department of War's demands to use AI models for domestic mass surveillance and autonomous killing without human oversight.

Die Critical Mass Dresden war heute im Gedenken an Natenom
#Dresden

Nice Time: Hero Of Australian Mass Shooting Thanked With Great Big $1.65 Million Check
https://www.wonkette.com/p/nice-time-hero-of-australian-mass

Just learned of the old unit of mass 'slug':
A slug is defined as a mass that is accelerated by 1 ft/s2 when a net force of one pound (lbf) is exerted on it.
How I got to this from reading the Linux kernel USB HID code...no, weird....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug_(un

OpenAI said it had struck a deal with the Pentagon to supply AI to classified US military networks,
hours after Donald Trump ordered the government to stop using the services of one of the company’s main competitors.
Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, announced the move on Friday night.
It came after an agreement between Anthropic, a rival AI company that runs the Claude system, and the Trump administration broke down after Anthropic sought assurances its technology would not be use…

@…
Findet gleich um 19:00 die nächste Critical Mass-Fahrt ab Domplatz statt?
#münster

California canceled thousands of trucking licenses. One community bore the brunt of the hit - CalMatters #sikhs

California and Trump are in a tug of war over trucker licenses. This group has the most to lose
A third of California truck drivers are believed to be Sikh, members of a religious group that hails from India. They're hurting after a mass cancellation of commercial driver’s licenses.

Mass Russian drone strike on Odesa kills 1, injures 27, more may be under rubble: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/27/mass-russian-drone-strike-on.html

Letter: 100 Google DeepMind and other AI employees urge Jeff Dean to block US military deals that use Gemini for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/tech…

Google Workers Seek ‘Red Lines’ on Military A.I., Echoing Anthropic
More than 100 Google A.I. employees sent a letter to Jeff Dean, a chief scientist, opposing Gemini’s use for U.S. surveillance and some autonomous weapons.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheMorningAfterMix
Radiohead:
🎵 Everything In Its Right Place
#Radiohead
https://massdigital.bandcamp.com/track/radiohead-everything-in-its-right-place-mass-digital-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2kRFrWaLWiKq48YYVdGcm8

Ugh, my personal git server uses a pre-2022 version of sshd - and now, when I do anything, I get a warning that I'm not using post-quantum keys.
We should be moving to PQ methods, yes, but I don't think anyone will convince me that mass "store now, decrypt later" quantum attacks will ever really be a thing - the opportunity cost will always be too high.
This is a VPN-advert level of unnecessary caution.
(You can set "LogLevel ERROR" in an ssh_con…

collins_yeast: Collins yeast interactome (2007)
Network of protein-protein interactions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (budding yeast), measured by co-complex associations identified by high-throughput affinity purification and mass spectrometry (AP/MS).
This network has 1622 nodes and 9070 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

So bad people are almost being paid to attend. Republican clubs buying the tickets en mass and offering them for free.
🤣🤣🤣
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movies/articles/melania-trumps-film-struggles-sell-234538656.html

Melania Trump's Film Struggles To Sell Tickets, As Insiders Expose Alleged Plot To Shore Up Sales For First Lady
Poor ticket sales for the first lady Melania Trump's documentary have reportedly led to a rescue effort by the GOP.

Artificial intelligence could become “a weapon of mass destruction of jobs” without proper controls, London mayor Sadiq Khan has warned.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/london-mayor-ai-mass-destroyer-of-jobs

London Mayor warns AI could become ‘mass destroyer of jobs’ in the capital
Artificial intelligence could become “a weapon of mass destruction of jobs” without proper controls, London mayor Sadiq Khan has warned.

Even if you're gearing up for a monster winter storm, take the time to check out today's Metacurity for the most crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--Acting CISA head got grilled on mass firings at the agency,
--EU's CIRCL launches GCVE system,
--DeFi project EVM was exploited for $6m,
--Attackers exploit patch bypass for FortiGate flaw,
--Cisco fixes Unified Communications and Webex Calling RCE flaw,
--Mass spam wave …

Acting CISA head got grilled on mass firings at the agency
EU's CIRCL launches GCVE system, DeFi project EVM was exploited for $6m, Attackers exploit patch bypass for FortiGate flaw, Cisco fixes Unified Communications and Webex Calling RCE flaw, Mass spam wave emanates from unsecured Zendesk support systems, much more

Global greening: Study shows Earth's green wave is shifting northeast #environment

Global greening: Study shows Earth's green wave is shifting northeast
A team of scientists led by the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ), and Leipzig University has developed a new method to track Earth's greenness—a key indicator of vegetation health and activity—by calculating its center of mass.

The First Radio View of a Type Ibn Supernova in SN 2023fyq - understanding the Mass-loss History in the Last Decade before the Explosion: #Supernova Reveal Star’s Final Years: https://as.virginia.edu/news/first-radio-signals-rare-supernova-reveal-stars-final-years

The Trump administration has said it will issue nearly 65,000 additional H-2B guest worker visas through September,
-- effectively doubling the maximum number that can be issued in a year.
Trump has broadly moved to drastically cut legal avenues of immigration, and he has directed a mass deportation campaign that has brought aggressive ICE crackdowns to American cities.
Another visa for skilled workers through another program, known as the H-1B, has been imperiled by the …

Trump Officials Move to Double Number of H-2B Guest Visas This Year
It was a rare move by the Trump administration to expand a foreign worker program, amid a sweeping effort to drastically cut immigration.

Mass surveillance is gross. "AI-enhanced" mass surveillance is even worse, and Flock Safety (funded by Horowitz's a16z & Y Combinator) is exceptionally scummy, insecure, incompetent, and lying about it:
https://youtu.be/vU1-uiUlHTo?t=442

Russia's mass missile attack targets Kyiv ahead of upcoming Trump-Zelensky meeting: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/27/russias-mass-missile-attack-targets.html

chatcontrol e oscuramento: la guerra alla crittografia è in aumento. A causa di una losca collaborazione tra Stati Uniti e Unione Europea.
Sorveglianza di massa statale
Dopo la denuncia di Snowden nel 2013, ampie porzioni di Internet sono diventate crittografate, consentendo comunicazioni private e sicure. Non tutti hanno accolto con favore questo cambiamento. In particolare, l'FBI e altre agenzie governative statunitensi hanno combattuto quella che viene spesso definita la &q…

" Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials can access certain personal data points in the Medicaid system for deportation proceedings. The available data is limited to six categories: citizenship, immigration status, address, phone number, date of birth, and Medicaid ID"
Major ruling handed down in fight against Trump's mass deportations - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-court-2674835867/

There are investigations linking specific no-name Twitter accounts with less than 30 followers as the source of Musk's and Trump's disinformed beliefs. We are able to trace Trump's conspiracy beliefs of the gold being stolen in Fort Knox to just some random account on Twitter claiming it.
Whoever runs that account has more influence than you. You don't even need Russia or China to plant disinformation on a mass-scale, apparently all it takes is some Twitter Account.

Ich würde es mir anschauen, das Rhinozeros im Raum von Itamar Gov in #Magdeburg
Ist leider nur ein bisschen weit weg.
https://www.itamargov.com/projects/the-rhi

The Rhinoceros in the Room. Or: A Tale of Banality and Evil | itamar gov
Eugène Ionesco’s absurdist play 'Rhinoceros' from 1959 depicts a sleepy French town whose inhabitants gradually metamorphose into rhinoceroses and come to peacefully accept the destruction and violence that this collective transformation entails. The piece was a response to the rise of authoritarian ideologies in the period leading up to WWII, and it explored broader themes of conformity, collective and individual responsibility, mass movements, mob mentality, and morality. The concept of �…

Mass shooting at packed bar near UT-Austin leaves 3 dead, 14 wounded (Nicholas McEntyre/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/03/01/us-news/texas-bar-shooting-leaves-multiple-dead-injures-up-to-20-at-bufords-backyard-beer-garden/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260301/p20#a260301p20

Here is yet another example of the maga-klan's goal of suppressing free speech and freedom of exercise of religion (except for speech and religion that conforms to maga-land.)
"ICE director demands Mass. church remove ‘ICE was here’ nativity scene"
https://www.

ICE director demands Mass. church remove ‘ICE was here’ nativity scene
ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons is calling for the removal of a nativity scene at a Catholic church in Mass. that protests U.S. immigration policies.

The fucking LLMs are going to cause a mass extinction of web stuff simply due to price hikings, aren't they?

"Is tyre pollution causing mass deaths in vulnerable salmon populations?"
#Cars #Vehicles

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Joseph Haydn, Hilde Haraldsen Sveen, Marianne Beate Kielland, Jonas Degerfeldt, Gabriel Suovanen, Oslo Philharmonic Choir, Oslo Philharmonic & Manfred Honeck:
🎵 Mass in C major, Missa in tempore belli 'Paukenmesse' H.22.9

So there has been a school shooting in British Columbia - and I guess since I spent so much time living and working in the states, I forgot that these are horrifying and traumatizing events - which may just be down to the coverage in the media in the US versus Canada.
That's not to say that the coverage here has been good - quite the opposite in fact - but I will get to that at the moment.
I will qualify this in that I will freely admit that I have no expertise in either mass …

Marty Baron says "I firmly believe" Jeff Bezos prioritizes his other interests over WaPo; Jim VandeHei says "I have no clue what their strategy was or is" (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/05/mass-layoffs-wash…

Despite Supreme Court Wins, Elite D.O.J. Unit Has Seen Mass Turnover (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/us/trump-solicitor-general-supreme-court.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p16#a251201p16

Anthropic says new DOD "contract language" made "virtually no progress" on preventing Claude's use for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/26/anthropic-rejects-pentagon-ai-terms

Anthropic says Pentagon's "final offer" is unacceptable
The company is facing a Friday night deadline to comply or face potentially huge consequences.

🧲 Low-field MRI is safe, feasible and more comfortable for breast screening, finds study
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-field-mri-safe-feasible-comfortable.html

Low-field MRI is safe, feasible and more comfortable for breast screening, finds study
Researchers at Mass General Brigham have demonstrated the technical feasibility of using ultra-low field (ULF) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for breast imaging. With further refinement and evaluation, the technology could offer an alternative to existing breast cancer screening methods and may reduce barriers to screening. Results are published in Scientific Reports.

'Potential nexus to terrorism': FBI, APD give update on West 6th Street mass shooting (Austin American-Statesman)
https://www.statesman.com/news/local/article/bufords-austin-6th-street-shooting-21948608.php
http://www.memeorandum.com/260301/p44#a260301p44

Coast-to-coast coral assessment reveals Thailand’s reefs losing complexity https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/coast-to-coast-coral-assessment-reveals-thailands-reefs-losing-complexity/

Coast-to-coast coral assessment reveals Thailand’s reefs losing complexity
Marine scientists compiling the most holistic “snapshot” of Thailand’s coral reefs to date have uncovered evidence of a long-suspected reality: Thailand’s coral reefs are losing structural complexity. Home to more than 300 species of reef-building corals, Thailand’s reefs have been hit repeatedly by mass coral bleaching triggered by extreme marine heat waves. The stress of […]

interactome_figeys: Figeys human interactome (2007)
A network of human proteins and their binding interactions. Nodes represent proteins and an edge represents an interaction between two proteins, as inferred using a mass spectrometry‐based approach.
This network has 2239 nodes and 6452 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

The mass distribution in and around the Local Group: #MilkyWay is embedded in a ‘large-scale sheet’ and this explains the motions of nearby galaxies: https://www.astronomie.nl/nieuws/en/a-flat-surrounding-of-the-milky-way-explains-the-motion-of-nearby-galaxies-4796

Mass attack that plunged Kyiv into darkness cost Russia over $130 million, Ukrainian intelligence says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/23/mass-attack-that-plunged-kyiv.html

Micron introduces the first mass-produced PCIe 6.0 SSDs, with read speeds up to 28GB/s, double that of PCIe 5.0 SSDs, optimized for AI/data center deployments (Aaron Klotz/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.

First PCIe 6.0 SSD enters mass production with 28GB/s speeds, 5.5 million IOPS, and liquid cooling — Micron 9650 Series SSDs support air and liquid cooling
Micron's new drive is so fast that it fully benefits from liquid cooling, but air cooling is still supported

Hackers Say They've Hacked Match Group, Maker of Hinge, OkCupid
https://www.404media.co/match-group-hacked-tinder-okcupid-hinge/

Hackers Say They've Hacked Match Group, Maker of Hinge, OkCupid
Match Group says it is investigating claims that a mass of internal data was hacked from its popular dating apps.

From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history
How effective is protesting❓
According to historians and political scientists: ⭐️VERY ⭐️
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/d

The Feds keep saying "We did not" or "We will not" buy this or that empty warehouse for use as an ICE prison.
What they are hiding is that in order for a warehouse to be an ICE/CBP prison that the warehouse need not be "owned" by the Feds.
Rather the warehouse could be bought by a maga-friend, like Elon or Ellison etc and then leased to the government.
The Feds would not bey lying when they say they are not buying the warehouse. But they will …

ICE is quietly buying warehouses for its detention expansion
At least 20 communities with large warehouses across the U.S. have become stealth targets for Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s $45-billion expansion of detention centers. Communities are objecting to mass detentions and raising concerns that the facilities could strain water supplies and other services while reducing local tax revenue. In many cases, mayors, county commissioners, governors and members of Congress learned about ICE’s ambitions only after the agency bought or leased spac…

The Pentagon says it has offered compromises to Anthropic, including putting in writing that laws already bar the military from mass surveillance of Americans (Jennifer Jacobs/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pentagon-anthropic-feud-ai-militar…

interactome_figeys: Figeys human interactome (2007)
A network of human proteins and their binding interactions. Nodes represent proteins and an edge represents an interaction between two proteins, as inferred using a mass spectrometry‐based approach.
This network has 2239 nodes and 6452 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Deadly H5N1 Bird Flu Confirmed in Antarctica After Mass Skua Die Off
https://scitechdaily.com/deadly-h5n1-bird-flu-confirmed-in-antarctica-after-mass-skua-die-off/

Metacurity operates beyond the infosec news echo chamber to unearth sources and stories that the big guys overlook.
Check out today's issue for infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Pentagon challenges Anthropic over mass surveillance, autonomous weapons curbs,
--UK moves to tighten online safety laws after xAI's Grok debacle,
--Iran is spying on and retaliating against protestors,
--DHS is seeking to spy on anti-ICE soc…

Pentagon challenges Anthropic over mass surveillance, autonomous weapons curbs
UK moves to tighten online safety laws after xAI's Grok debacle, Iran is spying on and retaliating against protestors, DHS is spying on anti-ICE social media posters, Threat actors abuse DNS queries in ClickFix attacks, Tulsa airport confirms attacker access, much more

Sensor Tower: TikTok's US DAUs are at ~95% of the week of Jan. 19, with engagement metrics showing little sign of a mass exodus since its Jan. 23 US takeover (Matthew Chin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/16/tiktok-us-

Much ado about nothing? TikTok's U.S. usership steadies after turbulent start
TikTok's U.S. joint venture seems to have survived a turbulent rollout relatively unscathed, as concerns of a mass user exodus now appear overstated.

🪸 Calm seas can drive coral bleaching, research reveals
#ocean

Calm seas can drive coral bleaching, research reveals
New research by Monash University and the ARC Center of Excellence for the Weather of the 21st Century analyzed close to three decades of weather data during the coral bleaching season and identified the prevalence of "doldrum days," and the absence of the trade winds, as a key factor in the mass bleaching events threatening the Great Barrier Reef.

ICE buys warehouses for mass detention network, rattling locals (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/01/30/ice-warehouse-detention-dhs-immigration/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzY5NzQ5MjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzcxMTMxNTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3Njk3NDkyMDAsImp0aSI6IjZlZjUwNWU0LTYwMWUtNDE1NS05MTUzLTM0YzUwYjA5NTFhNCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9pbnZlc3RpZ2F0aW9ucy8yMDI2LzAxLzMwL2ljZS13YXJlaG91c2UtZGV0ZW50aW9uLWRocy1pbW1pZ3JhdGlvbi8ifQ.wwdMU-sDKq1OzB99HFBHBsuqBxmHCcI2YsJ3zVAr7eg&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p88#a260130p88

'Mass obstruction' — Draft officers injured in Odesa following confrontation with 'civilian group': https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/16/mass-obstruction-draft-officers-injured.html

The No Kings Coalition is activating an immediate and ongoing nationwide digital organizing effort
leading up to our next mass mobilization on March 28,
including a flagship event in the Twin Cities.
Sign Up Here:
https://www.nokings.org/#signup

No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power belongs to the people.

A scam website is actively approaching victims of the Odido data breach in the Netherlands, inviting them to join a mass claim against the telecom company for a one-off payment of €50.
https://nltimes.nl/2026/02/20/fake-sit

Fake site targeting victims of Odido data leak with compensation scam
A website is actively approaching victims of the Odido data breach, inviting them to join a mass claim against the telecom company for a one-off payment of €50. The site has plenty of red flags indicating that this is a scam, the Consumentenbond told RTL Z.

Senate Democrats are considering a deal that would head off a partial government shutdown
and give the party time to negotiate new restrictions on immigration operations
in response to the killings of US citizens Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis.
The talks, confirmed to the Guardian by a Senate aide, come after Senate Democrats demanded a series of reforms on federal agents involved in Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign,
including a prohibition on weari…

collins_yeast: Collins yeast interactome (2007)
Network of protein-protein interactions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (budding yeast), measured by co-complex associations identified by high-throughput affinity purification and mass spectrometry (AP/MS).
This network has 1622 nodes and 9070 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

How to get away with mass murder: 4 tactics Ethiopia used to hide Tigray atrocities from the world
https://theconversation.com/how-to-get-away-with-mass-murder-4-tactics-ethiopia-used-to-hide-tigray-atrocities-from-the-world-275298

Chinese automakers delay plans to mass-produce self-driving vehicles as Beijing becomes more cautious, after a fatal Xiaomi crash in March caused public concern (Keith Bradsher/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/business/china-autonomous-cars-dr…

China Delays Plans for Mass Production of Self-Driving Cars After Accident
After years of planning for cars that would let drivers take their hands off the wheel and eyes off the road, China’s regulators have become more cautious.

Gravitational forces from the pulsar have stretched the Jupiter-mass world into a bizarre lemon shape.
James Webb Space Telescope data reveals that its atmosphere contains He, C2 and C3, with little H, O or N.
Clouds of carbon soot likely condense and fall as diamonds.
https://

Day Twenty-Six of the Protests: Government Commits Violence, Denies Responsibility, and Continues Mass Arrests (Hrana)
https://www.en-hrana.org/day-twenty-six-of-the-protests-government-commits-violence-denies-responsibility-and-continues-mass-arrests/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p59#a260123p59

Russia launches mass attack on Ukraine, triggers emergency power outages: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/07/russia-launches-mass-attack-on.html

Some former employees blame xAI's staff exodus on xAI's focus on NSFW Grok and disregard for safety, constantly playing catch up to OpenAI, infighting, and more (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

What’s behind the mass exodus at xAI?
Internal sources spoke with The Verge about the recent restructuring at xAI and the direction Elon Musk is taking the company.

Mass Recall of U.S. Ambassadors Leaves Unprecedented Global Vacancies (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/mass-recall-of-u-s-ambassadors-leaves-unprecedented-global-vacancies-b031a9ac
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p108#a251222p108

Russian mass drone attack leaves Sumy without power: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/08/russian-mass-drone-attack-leaves.html

US judge throws out immigration board's ruling endorsing Trump mass detention policy (Nate Raymond/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-judge-throws-out-immigration-boards-ruling-endorsing-trump-mass-detention-2026-02-19/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p139#a260218p139

Sources: Samsung enters the final qualification phase to supply its HBM4 chips to Nvidia, and targets mass production in February; Samsung's shares jumped 3.2% (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A push by the Department of Justice to open an investigation into the widow of Renee Nicole Good
after her tragic killing at the hands of a federal immigration officer
has sparked a mass resignation of federal prosecutors in Minnesota, reports say.
According to reports, at least a dozen federal prosecutors across Washington and Minnesota have indicated their plans to resign.
This includes six federal prosecutors in the state who left their jobs on Tuesday,
and a…

DOJ Push to Investigate Renee Good’s Widow Sparks Mass Resignation
Rather than open an investigation into Good’s killer, top DOJ officials want to look into her grieving widow.

A push by the Department of Justice to open an investigation into
👉the widow of Renee Nicole Good
after her tragic killing at the hands of a federal immigration officer
💥has sparked a mass resignation of federal prosecutors in Minnesota, reports say.
According to reports, at least a dozen federal prosecutors across Washington and Minnesota have indicated their plans to resign.
This includes six federal prosecutors in the state who left their jobs on Tuesday,

DOJ Push to Investigate Renee Good’s Widow Sparks Mass Resignation
Rather than open an investigation into Good’s killer, top DOJ officials want to look into her grieving widow.

The key to defeating Trump? Mass non-cooperation (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/15/defeat-trump-mass-non-cooperation
http://www.memeorandum.com/260215/p32#a260215p32

Zoe Weissman came to Brown from Parkland, Florida,
where she was a student at the middle school adjacent to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
during the mass shooting that occurred there in 2018.
“Because I’ve already processed all the grief and the sadness before,”
says Weissman about surviving a second school shooting in her young life,
“my most predominant emotion right now is, honestly, anger …
because we are the only country where this happens, a…

“We’re Angry”: Brown Univ. Student & Parkland Survivor Zoe Weissman Demands Action on Gun Violence
The two victims in Saturday’s mass shooting at Brown University have been identified: freshman Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and sophomore Ella Cook. We speak to another sophomore, Zoe Weissman, who came to Brown from Parkland, Florida, where she was a student at the middle school adjacent to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the mass shooting that occurred there in 2018. “Because I’ve already processed all the grief and the sadness before,” says Weissman about surviving a second s…

Kash Patel's use of jet delayed FBI team's mass shooting response, whistleblower tells top senator (Carol Leonnig/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/news/senator-slams-kash-patel-for-use-of-fbi-jet-asks-for-investigation
http://www.memeorandum.com/260224/p83#a260224p83

Students at universities in Iran have held a third consecutive day of protest
just over a month after the violent suppression by security services of mass street demonstrations left thousands dead.
The protests came amid tensions between Iran and the US.
Washington has built up military forces and pressure in the Middle East as it negotiates with Tehran
– with the next round in Geneva on Thursday.
Donald Trump has warned “really bad things will happen” if there …

HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files:
Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.
The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.
Maria has been accused over the years of fabricating her story that she had gone to the FBI.
After finding the document in the trove, I called her.
She broke down in tears.
“I’ve waited 30 years. I…

The West's Embrace Of Mass Third-World Migration Is Civilizational Suicide (Shawn Fleetwood/The Federalist)
https://thefederalist.com/2025/12/17/the-wests-embrace-of-mass-third-world-migration-is-civilizational-suicide/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p43#a251217p43

Sean Casten, Rep IL-06
The mass protests in MN yesterday,
the collapsing poll numbers,
the decency of the protesters
-- It all scares them.
They are shooting their way out
and don't care who they hit.
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:2

Trump admin broke spending deal agreement to halt mass layoffs, judge says (Hassan Ali Kanu/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/17/government-mass-lawyoffs-hearing-00695923
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p117#a251217p117

Some Republican lawmakers call for mass expulsion of American Muslims (Matthew Choi/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/15/republicans-muslim-mass-expulsions/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p130#a251215p130