Tootfinder

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

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

Fifty years into the era of mass incarceration,
states like Arkansas, Montana, California, and Colorado
are pushing to build new prisons
and expand immigrant detention.
In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa talks with
Nicole Porter of
"The Sentencing Project"
about how federal and state governments are
doubling down on new prison construction and ICE contracts
to expand the prison-industrial complex,
what…

Nicole Porter: The US is ‘by far the world’s number one jailer’
“There really isn't an issue with mass incarceration in other countries,” Nicole Porter of The Sentencing Project tells us. “The United States by far is the world's number one jailer.”

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Gang Starr:
🎵 Mass Appeal (radio version)
#GangStarr
https://polymathics.bandcamp.com/track/gang-starrs-mass-appeal-polymathic-tribute-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3lGBvPUgO7MJltUnBlOpe9

Ah, the future is great.
A Waymo robotaxi blocked an ambulance from responding to the scene of a mass shooting in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, EMS and Waymo officials confirmed.
“A driverless vehicle was stopped in the area while our crews were responding to this morning’s shooting, and it did briefly interfere with access for one ambulance,” Austin-Tr…

Waymo Says It Has Nothing to Say After Its Self-Driving Taxi Blocked an Ambulance Responding to a Mass Shooting
Footage shows a Waymo robotaxi blocking an ambulance with its lights flashing as it tried to reach the scene of a deadly shooting.

The fifth #AAS press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dHXMm3pbWU about Asteroids, Low-Mass Stars, and a Mystery from History covered the papers Lightcurves, Rotation Periods, and Colors for Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s First Asteroid Discoveries (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae2a30 with https://rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-record-breaking-asteroid-pre-survey and https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2601/ and https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2026-01-07-nsf-doe-vera-c-rubin-observatory-spots-record-breaking-asteroid-pre-survey), Dearth of Photosynthetically Active Radiation Suggests No Complex Life on Late M-Star Exoplanets (https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02548 with https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LlyzaK1wTk0hnqNGRCEMNe8BZEaMMFde), A Plasma Torus around a Young Low-mass Star (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ade39a with https://carnegiescience.edu/naturally-occurring-space-weather-station-elucidates-new-way-study-habitability-planets-orbiting-m) and Barnard's mysterious star near Venus - a strange interloper noted during a satellite search (https://scicomm.xyz/@cosmos4u/115849624944298844).

🚄 Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings
(could we drop our frames for a second and ask if the 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙 problem with America is that we're not like that?)
https://aethermug.com/posts/culture-is-the-mass-synchronization-of-framings
…

When Anthropic’s AI isn’t being used to mass murder schoolgirls in Iran, it’s helping Mozilla improve Firefox.
So it’s not all bad, surely.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/hardening-firefox-anthropic-red-team/

Hardening Firefox with Anthropic’s Red Team  | The Mozilla Blog
For more than two decades, Firefox has been one of the most scrutinized and security-hardened codebases on the web. Open source means our code is visible,

…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.
6/

Sources: Samsung Foundry has frequently delayed the timeline for its plant in Taylor, Texas, with its mass production plans moving from early 2026 to early 2027 (Lee Jae-Lim/Korea Joongang Daily)
https://koreajoongan…

Exclusive: Mass production at Samsung’s Taylor plant pushed back to next year
Mass production at Samsung Electronics’ Taylor plant, once expected as early as this year, has been pushed back to early next year, with the company appearing to distinguish between the start of production and full-scale mass production.

Another app to delete
"Spain hits back at Pavel Durov over mass Telegram post on social media ban plan" | Spain | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/05/spain-hits-back-at-pavel-…

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

learned today that mass market paperbacks sometimes had full color advertising in the middle. #books

one of the biggest misconceptions about microchips people have is that the process is anything close to "fully automatic"
it really isn't. i mean, some operations are, but look at this video! there's a human like every other step of the process. and it's not like this is some expensive unique device. they're making mass-market LEDs by the reel

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…

Judge Voids Mass Layoffs at Voice of America - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/us/politics/judge-kari-lake-voa-layoffs.html

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…

Mass shooting at Salt Lake City church meetinghouse kills at least 2, police say (Kim Bojórquez/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/08/salt-lake-city-shooting-utah-lds-church
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p1#a260108p1

on the reality of the covid pandemic : that never ended
🔁 https://brennan.day/the-pandemic-never-ended-we-only-pretend-it-did/

The Pandemic Never Ended. We Only Pretend it Did
Six years into COVID-19, the world has moved on while the virus continues to disable millions. An examination of the ongoing pandemic, long COVID, and our collective failure to prevent a mass disabling event.

Confession moment: I really like Mass Effect, but the design of the Citadel was kind of hugly.

Spain hits back at Pavel Durov over mass Telegram post on social media ban plan
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/05/spain-hits-back-at-pavel-durov-over-mass-telegram-post-on-social-media-ban-plan

1 killed, 4 injured as Russia targets Kyiv, Lviv in mass attack across Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/08/killed-injured-as-russia-targets.html

By combining retinal imaging, genetics, and big data,
physician-researchers from Harvard Medical School, Mass Eye and Ear, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
have found that they can estimate how likely a person is to develop eye and systemic diseases in the future.
⭐️They found significant associations between the thinning of different retinal layers and increased risk of developing ocular, cardiac, pulmonary, metabolic, and neuropsy…

On a related note, a reminder of the timeline of 2020:
Things didn’t turn chaotic and violent immediately after the police murdered George Floyd.
Things didn’t turn chaotic and violent when the video became public.
Things didn’t turn chaotic and violent when the protests started.
Things turned chaotic and violent when they brought charges against Chauvin, and the police flipped out and went on a rage-fueled bender of mass tear-gassing the peaceful protests.

Judge Voids Mass Layoffs at Voice of America (Minho Kim/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/us/politics/judge-kari-lake-voa-layoffs.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260307/p72#a260307p72

Two judges on the Fifth Circuit gave Trump exactly what he wants to enact mass detentions
https://www.lawdork.com/p/fifth-circuit-immigration-detention-ruling

Each week, Metacurity offers our free and paid subscribers a digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--CISA's year-long turmoil under Gottumukkala,
--Meta smart glasses expose underpaid annotators to intimate data,
--Border Patrol surveils SoCal civilians,
--DHS nominee faces ethics allegations,
-- LLMs enable deanonymization,
--Tile s…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 2/28/26
CISA's year-long turmoil under Gottumukkala, Meta smart glasses expose underpaid annotators to intimate data, Border Patrol surveils SoCal civilians, DHS nominee faces ethics allegations, LLMs enable deanonymization, Tile server flaws enable mass tracking

Under Bari Weiss and anchor Tony Dokoupil, CBS Evening News has become state propaganda, costing CBS News respect as mass media's audience shrinks (Jeff Jarvis/Katie Couric Media)
https://katiecouric.com/news/opinion/tony-dokoupil-first-week-cbs-eve…

An Expert's Analysis of Tony Dokoupil's First Week Anchoring "CBS Evening News"
It's the last nail in the coffin of CBS News as respected journalism.

Why does this shit make it into mass media as if it is anything to take seriously?
This is on exactly on the same level as Mayan-calendar apocalypse stuff.
Not only is it complete bullshit, it also takes away time and space from the actual issues with "AI", like widespread theft ripping off authors and artists, the largest investment bubble in history threatening the economy, even more aggregation of wealth in the hands of a few tech billionaires, the deskilling of people and the utter bankruptcy of education; just to name a few.

~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

Radially symmetric transition-layer solutions in mass-conserving reaction-diffusion systems with bistable nonlinearity
Xiaoqing He, Quan-Xing Liu, Dong Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.06779

A UK climate security report backed by the intelligence services was quietly buried until now #UnitedKingdom

A UK climate security report backed by the intelligence services was quietly buried until now
Last autumn, a UK government report warned that climate-driven ecosystem collapse could lead to food shortages, mass migration, political extremism and even nuclear conflict. The report was never officially launched.

AI-Led Growth Conceals an Economy Built on Debt and Inequality https://jacobin.com/2026/01/artificial-intelligence-economy-debt-inequality/

AI-Led Growth Conceals an Economy Built on Debt and Inequality
Despite rising inequality, poor job numbers, and Donald Trump’s mass deportations, the economy grew by a remarkable 4.3% last year, mostly thanks to the AI industry. This success masks an economy highly dependent on debt and state subsidies.

Once you head north from Hampton Beach the coastline becomes a lot less busy: here's a rocky coastline near Rye, NH
#photo #photography #landscape

So USA citizens can mass-demonstrate, riot in the streets if you must…. and depose #theAmericanFascist. For god sakes, what will it take for you to force him to resign along with his whole crew?
any day now..
Really.
That would be great.
Signed,
The rest of the normal-people world.
#usa

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Juliet:
🎵 Avalon
#NowPlaying #Juliet
https://massdigital.bandcamp.com/track/juliet-avalon-mass-digital-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1FJy9Yy3HmJpE0znPlbYh7

Ukrainian drone strike ignites Armavir oil depot amid mass drone attacks across Russia and Crimea: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/08/ukrainian-drone-strike-ignites-armavir.html

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement pulled all of its detainees out of the Cumberland County Jail,
many of them were moved to a field office in Burlington, Massachusetts,
about 100 miles from Portland, Maine.
The facility is designed for administrative processing,
but immigration attorneys say it has been holding some people for more than 10 days
-- raising concerns about due process and access to legal counsel.
Lisa Parisio,
policy director at…

ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.

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.

A Waymo robotaxi stopped in the middle of a road and blocked an ambulance near a mass shooting site in Austin; Waymo confirms it was en route for rider pickup (Nicole Cobler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/local/austin/2026/03/02/waymo-vehicle-blocks-…

Waymo robotaxi blocks EMS responding to Austin mass shooting
The incident raises questions about whether the cars are equipped to operate near emergency situations.

Following an attack on several Wikimedia projects that comprised a large number of accounts, Wikis are now back to read and write access. Compromised accounts made automated mass edits across pages with the edit summary "Закрываем проект", among potentially other edits.
The issue was identified and fixed. Many functions have gone back to normal.

Wikis in read only mode
Wikimedia's Status Page - Wikis in read only mode.

@…
Can you explain why we should compare environmental problems like AI data centres with intentional civilisational mass killings?

Donald Trump orders mass US pullout from international organisations (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3f785a72-f5e7-4418-86e4-a02997b861f9
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p52#a260108p52

My joke last week, at the suggestion Anthropic relocate to the UK, was that it would be contingent on its objection to mass-surveillance not being extended to UK citizens. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czx7915nn8qo

Sir Sadiq invites embattled AI firm Anthropic to expand in London
The letter from London's mayor came as the US moved to designate the company a supply chain risk.

Massachusetts Church Keeps Anti-ICE Nativity Scene, Defying Diocese Leaders - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/us/massachusetts-church-ice-nativity-scene.html

Where applicable, mass production is trivial for noninvasive software-based BCIs running on existing mass market devices #BCI

Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on X
Neuralink will start high-volume production of brain-computer interface devices and move to a streamlined, almost entirely automated surgical procedure in 2026. Device threads will go through the dura, without the need to remove it. This is a big deal.

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/

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

Consider three of the biggest developments in our politics right now:
🔸We just learned that the economy lost 92,000 jobs in February, a capstone to a terrible year in terms of job creation.
🔸Trump has fired widely despised Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, a key architect of his mass deportations.
🔸And reports are indicating that the killing of scores of Iranian schoolchildren might have been the handiwork of the United States.
What links all these things?

Donald Trump’s Presidency Is in Free Fall
Republicans typically lead on the economy, national security, and immigration. Trump is squandering the GOP’s traditional strength on all three.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalLive
- The Armed Man - A Mass for Peace from Germany
Al Ryan with concert recordings of distinctive settings of the church mass, today with music by Karl Jenkins, plus music from the recent Belfast International Chamber Music Festival.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002rtgk

Oil is the absolute enemy, and that should be completely clear at this point. Advocate hard for a Dutch style traffic plan and Dutch bike infrastructure. Push hard for mass transit. Fight car infrastructure with everything you can. Abolish free parking.
Every dollar you spend on gas, every dollar that goes to roads and free parking, is a dollar that will be spent murdering civilians to steal their oil.
Free parking is the most important subsidy to car culture. The more expensive you can make parking, the fewer cars will be on the road, the safer cities will be, and the less money will be available for the gang of thieves directing the military.
#FuckCars

'It's like the Day of Judgment out here.' New England residents trapped in Middle East as war escalates. (Nick Stoico/The Boston Globe)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/06/metro/mass-residents-trapped-in-middle-east-as-war-widens/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260306/p107#a260306p107

Fascinating leak: YGGtorrent, France's largest public torrent tracker with 6.6M users, has been fully compromised. Mastodon-Server, Money laundering via Tornado Cash, DDoS attacks on competitors, suspected credit card skimming, mass user tracking, all documented with source code, DB dumps and server logs. Full dossier: https://yggleak.top/…

a good sign of fascism is words losing all meaning

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.

#CMOM Since the Canada/Finland women's hockey game was postponed due to mass 🤮 on the Fin team (hope they recover soon!) I'm into mixed doubles Curling.
Canada currently up 5-1 on the home team!
#Olympics #Canada
https://gem.cbc.ca/curling-canada-vs-italy-mixed-doubles-round-robin-30048?autoplay=1

Mass drone attack hits Russia's Krasnodar region, causing Sochi flight delays and a fire at the Novorossiysk oil terminal: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/02/mass-drone-attack-hits-russias.html

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.

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

Sam Altman says rushing the DOD deal was wrong as "the issues are super complex, and demand clear communication" but we were "trying to de-escalate things" (Katherine Li/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-ame

Sam Altman says OpenAI will tweak its Pentagon deal after surveillance backlash
Sam Altman posted an internal memo that OpenAI is working with the Pentagon to "make some additions" to their agreement.

A free-floating-planet microlensing event caused by a Saturn-mass object: #FreeFloatingPlanets – lonely wanderers in the Milky Way: https://en.uw.edu.pl/free-floating-planets-lonely-wanderers-in-the-milky-way/

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalLive
- Beethoven's Missa Solemnis from Milan
Al Ryan reaches the climax of his week focused on performances of distinctive settings of the mass with Beethoven, and he also casts an eye on festive chamber music from Belfast.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002rssk

Thinking about the US war on "misguided religion" and remembering that half the political support for Israel in the US is from people who believe that jews will, necessarily, mass-convert to Christianity at some future point.
Get ready for seven years of this.

In the wake of immigration agents’ killings of three US citizens within a matter of weeks,
the Department of Homeland Security is quietly moving forward with a plan to
expand its capacity for mass detention by using a military contract to create
what Pablo Manríquez, the author of the immigration news site Migrant Insider calls 
“a nationwide ‘ghost network’ of concentration camps.”
On Sunday, Manríquez reported that “a massive Navy contract vehicle,
once v…

US military helping Trump to build massive network of ‘concentration camps,’ Navy contract reveals
The Department of Homeland Security is using a repurposed $55 billion Navy contract to convert warehouses into makeshift jails and plan sprawling tent cities in remote areas.

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

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

#today - the joys of being on campus at uni: watching my friend give a practice run of the talk he will be giving in Canada very soon summarising much of what he has been doing for the 3 years that I have known him, then topping up my coffee and catching ~1.5 talks on mass spectrometry!

Now that I remember it, I got better pictures of daffodils towards the end of the season last year because the strident yellow threw off my exposure
#photo #photography #flowers

How Jeff Bezos has forced WaPo into severe decline in Trump's second term, including today's mass layoffs that seem to transform it into a kind of Politico-lite (Ruth Marcus/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-c…

How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post
Ruth Marcus on the latest round of layoffs at the Washington Post and what the impact has been on the newspaper and its staff since it was bought by Jeff Bezos in 2013.

Sources: OpenAI is negotiating more safeguards with the DOD intended to prevent domestic mass surveillance using its AI, as it prepares to implement the deal (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f8592f27-a1be-4299-8c76-6e1947d5beb6

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

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

US AI giants OpenAI and Anthropic appear untroubled by their technologies being used for mass surveillance of non-Americans, including Europeans, according to recent public statements.
https://www.euract…

The missile hit during the school’s morning session.
In Iran, the school week runs from Saturday to Thursday, so when US and Israeli bombs began falling at around 10am on Saturday, classes were under way.
At a point between 10am and 10.45am, a missile directly hit Shajareh Tayyebeh school, in Minab, southern Iran, demolishing its concrete building and killing dozens of seven to 12-year-old girls.
Photographs and verified videos from the site, which the Guardian has not publ…

Old Railroad bed converted to trail by Massabesic Lake east of Manchester, NH where I wandered as a cub
#photo #photography #landscape

Austin mass shooter Ndiaga Diagne entered US during Clinton admin., became citizen under Obama -- despite string of busts (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/03/01/us-news/austin-mass-shooter-ndiaga-diagne-became-citizen-despite-string-of-busts/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260301/p97#a260301p97

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

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

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

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

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

OpenAI is amending its hastily arranged deal to supply artificial intelligence to the US Department of War (DoW) after the ChatGPT owner’s chief executive admitted it looked 🔸“opportunistic and sloppy”.
The contract prompted fears the San Francisco startup’s AI could be used for ♦️domestic mass surveillance but its boss, Sam Altman, said on Monday night the startup would explicitly bar its technology from being used for that purpose
or being deployed by defence department intelli…

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

A profile of June Paik, CEO of Seoul-based chip startup FuriosaAI, valued at ~$700M, whose AI chip dubbed "RNGD" is slated to enter mass production this month (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/furiosa-chip-n…

Are you overwhelmed by the sheer mass of news stories surrounding the two biggest cyber-related stories of the day, OpenAI's deal with the Pentagon, and the cyber activity surrounding the Iran war?
Don't miss today's monster Metacurity that summarizes all the developments in these two arenas and more, including
--OpenAI, Pentagon revise AI deal's surveillance limits, but commitments may be hollow,
--Israel spent years hacking Tehran's traffic cameras and …

OpenAI, Pentagon revise AI deal's surveillance limits, but commitments may be hollow
Israel spent years hacking Tehran's traffic cameras and phone networks, Iranian hacking groups' efforts have been negligible and opportunistic, Internet collapse in Iran has cut off hackers, Gulf ships bombarded with GPS attacks, Starlink has sustained Iran's Handala hackers, much more

⚡ Newly identified brain circuit and cells link prior experiences to appetite
#brain

Newly identified brain circuit and cells link prior experiences to appetite
Our past experiences shape how much we eat and where and what we choose to eat. Using preclinical models, researchers from Mass General Brigham and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have identified brain cells that translate contextual information into appetite control.

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.

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

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

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.

Communities have changed how resistance is conducted
— away from the myth of the solitary activist hero
and toward
shared capacity.
As Grace Lee Boggs taught us,
“Movements are born of critical connections rather than critical mass.”
Political exhaustion took on new meaning.
It was no longer treated as a personal struggle, but as shared terrain
— produced by oppressive systems and requiring collective response.
The question shifted from…

Anti-ICE Organizing Is Creating Counter-Institutions Based on Care
Rapid-response networks and mutual aid are not charity. They’re shared infrastructure for collective care and survival.

Sources: OpenAI and the DOD have agreed to add more surveillance protections to a recent AI deal; Sam Altman approached DOD's Emil Michael to rework the deal (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/03/openai-pentagon-ai-surveillance

Scoop: OpenAI, Pentagon add more surveillance protections to AI deal
It follows widespread backlash that domestic mass surveillance was still a real risk under the old terms.

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

Trump’s narrow support among the public has vanished.
Despite his aggressive attacks on the press, his administration continues to leak like a sieve
and what is discovered in those leaks is reported, however unfavorable it may be to him.
Heavy-handed attempts are met with social revolts, ranging from mass protests to grand juries to consumer boycotts.
Ordinary American citizens are filming, berating, and obstructing masked ICE thugs,
often not as a matter of …

We Are Going to Win
Trump's revolution will fail, but we still have a long and painful road ahead of us.

What Maduro's ouster means for Trump's mass deportation campaign (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/01/04/immigrants-venezuela-maduro-trump-deportation/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260104/p53#a260104p53

'The worst damage we have seen' — Ukraine's energy crisis deepens after latest mass Russian attack: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/04/the-worst-damage-we-have.html

Sources: OpenAI agreed to follow laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, and the DOD didn't budge from its demands over bulk analyzing data (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

How OpenAI caved to the Pentagon on AI surveillance
Amidst fallout from a dramatic standoff between the Department of Defense and Anthropic, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a new contract with the Pentagon. But everything wasn’t what it seemed.

A fun tactic of extremists is to argue that they don't hate out-groups, they just blah blah blah.
The pinnacle of this was the antebellum argument that enslaved people were happier and healthier enslaved,
and that enslavers were motivated bu their charitable natures.
It was BS then, and it's BS now.
https://<…

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Q: Pope Leo cited Matthew 25:35 to critique Donald Trump's mass deportation agenda. How would you respond to Pope Leo in scripture? MIKE JOHNSON: Sovereign borders are biblical and right and just. It's not because we hate the people on the outside. It's because we love the people on the inside.

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