@benb@osintua.eu2025-12-16 20:35:50
Russia stations 360,000 troops in Belarus, posing new threat to the EU, warns Bundestag MP: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/16/russia-stations-troops-in-belarus.html
@benb@osintua.eu2025-12-11 18:33:43
"Aggressor, not peacemaker" – harsh reaction from the EU in the UN Security Council #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/11/quotaggressor-not-peacemakerquo…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-11-11 00:27:28
TIL both Algeria and Morroco have modern passenger rail services including growing High Speed services.... but the land border between them has been closed since 1994, so the systems don't touch :(
One day! 🤞
Algeria system is SNTF, Morroco: ONCF
Easiest English info is through https://www.seat61.com/Algeria.htm
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social2025-12-11 01:11:47
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2025-10-23 18:48:18
Still thinking about this on the way home...
"maybe we should just give up entirely on optimism or pessimism—we have to do this work no matter how we feel about it. So by force of will or the sheer default of emergency we make ourselves have utopian thoughts and ideas. "
#NCKF25 with an astoundingly profound talk by @mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social who reminds us of Kim Stanley Robinson's essay dystopias now. The work starts here.
https://communemag.com/dystopias-now/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-24 23:50:57
Pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future launches a $10M media campaign to push Congress to craft a national AI policy that will override a patchwork of state laws (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/24/ai-pac-trump-congress-midterms.html
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-04 18:14:30
Maryland is pushing ahead with efforts to potentially redraw its congressional map to favor Democrats in time for the 2026 midterm elections,
Gov. Wes Moore announced on Tuesday.
“While other states are determining whether or not they have fair maps, so will Maryland,”
Mr. Moore, a Democrat and a possible presidential candidate in 2028, said in a video statement.
Mr. Moore’s gambit sets up a potential clash with the legislature,
given that Bill Ferguson, the Stat…
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2025-12-02 09:42:04
from my link log —
Who invented vector clocks?
https://decomposition.al/blog/2023/04/08/who-invented-vector-clocks/
saved 2025-12-01
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2025-11-06 06:28:43
The return of the night train?
Copenhagen Prague via Berlin and Copenhagen -Basel both starting next year! 🎉🚄🚅🛤️🎉
And the EU is pushing for fast trains between all European capitals.
(Though that's definitely going to take longer). 🇪🇺🛤️🎉🇪🇺
https://www.zetland.dk/historie/s08iwB5C-moGnNy6v-ff4d0
@benb@osintua.eu2025-12-29 11:05:10
US security guarantees set for 15 years, with Ukraine pushing for extension, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/29/us-security-guarantees-set-for.html