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Local community groups? Busting their asses, but they live and die on volunteer support. Legal system? Too slow, too compromised. City, county, state elected officials? Grasping for something they can do. Local police? Useless or worse than useless, of course.
BUT…all the above are formed by, shaped by, and constrained by popular sentiment. An active, defiant citizenry changes how all these institutions behave. Police know, politicians know, and yes, even judges know: they can only stray so far from what people will tolerate.
This active resistance? Hell yeah, it matters. It’s the short-term •and• the long-term.

"Up to 4,700 metric tons of litter flows down the Rhine each year"
#Rhine #Pollution #Litter

Up to 4,700 metric tons of litter flows down the Rhine each year
The river Rhine is estimated to carry between 3,000 and 4,700 metric tons of macrolitter—pieces of litter larger than 25 millimeters in size—towards the North Sea every year, according to research published in Communications Sustainability.

Knife in Maduro’s back: Russia missed US plans in Venezuela, Putin loses Latin America: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/15/knife-in-maduros-back-russia.html

Shedeur Sanders' metrics weren't very good, but what is correctable by next season? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6970820/2026/01/15/shedeur-sanders-low-metrics-what-is-correctable/

Canada’s defence minister has signed an agreement at an international security forum to strengthen co-operation with Denmark on defence matters.
A news release from the Department of National Defence says David McGuinty,
along with defence ministers for Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands
have signed a memorandum of understanding for Canada-Denmark defence cooperation.
The release says the MOU covers areas including defence innovation,
industrial cooperatio…

Canada signs agreement for defence cooperation with Denmark
Canada's defence minister has signed an agreement at an international security forum to strengthen co-operation with Denmark on defence matters.

what matrix communities are you in? I want to use matrix/element more.

No! No! No! No! No!
#LLMs don't hallucinate. LLMs NEVER hallucinate. LLMs CANNOT hallucinate. LLMs don't have the cognitive ability to hallucinate. Any more than they have the cognitive ability to tell the truth, or to understand what truth is or why it matters.
These are things LLMs can NEVER do.
Anyone who tells you different is either a fantasist or a malign actor.

Efficacy of electronic travel aids for the blind and visually impaired during wayfinding #ETA

Efficacy of Electronic Travel Aids for the Blind and Visually Impaired During Wayfinding
Independent traveling remains challenging for blind and visually impaired (BVI) individuals. While the white cane is effective at detecting ground-level obstacles, it provides no information about elevated obstacles or object characteristics. Recent technologies have been designed to support navigation as well as object detection. In our study, we compared the performance of 13 BVI participants who separately used two secondary electronic travel aids (ETAs) versus cane use alone. One ETA was a …

If anybody knows how to convince city leaders and police chiefs that they •can• enforce traffic laws against ICE, or convince ICE officers that they will be prosecuted for their actions, or convince everyone that ICE officers who do not provide proof of identity can legally be treated as unknown assailants and kidnappers, or convince judges that Minneapolis / St. Paul is not “the border,” or…or…or…undo any of these nonsense beliefs, please do that! But it’s the •convincing•, not the being correct, that matters there.

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116076735879153160
Opposition, solidarity and resistance matter more each day.
Building trust and deeper perspective from the bottom up,
in seemingly small ways, matters, as is, for example,
happening with the Peace Walk b…