2026-02-13 23:05:00
Zelensky has to 'get moving' on peace deal, Trump says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/13/zelensky-has-to-get-moving.html
Zelensky has to 'get moving' on peace deal, Trump says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/13/zelensky-has-to-get-moving.html
When the truck pulls away from the building at CERN,
the European particle physics laboratory near Geneva,
all eyes will be on its precious cargo,
a one-tonne device containing some of the most exotic material on Earth.
The 20-minute test run around the campus, pencilled in for later this month,
will mark the world’s first attempt to transport #antimatter,
a substanc…
"At a meeting in the Oval Office last week, a frustrated Mr. Trump pressed Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, about why the United States could not immediately reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
The answer was straightforward: Even one Iranian soldier or militia member zipping across the narrow neck of the strait in a speedboat could fire a mobile missile right into a slow-moving supertanker, or plant a limpet mine on its hull."
I grew up listening to #baseball in English on the radio. Over the summer, it was on more or less constantly in garages, backyards, and workshops across the extended family. I find the combination of cadence, tone, background sound, and trivial banter extremely comforting.
After moving to Québec, I began listening to broadcasts in French and was startled to discover the same mix of things I love i…
A ceaseless urge beneath all appearance; an impulse not merely to persist but to intensify; life as duration, as movement, as an unbroken unfolding in time. As a technology of becoming. Life as sequence - procedural quests of forward momentum.
A language underwrites the motion; lines on lines inscribing themselves across a dark field. Pulses like pixels, moving in canon. Constructions that branch, loop, and repeat. Patterns generate patterns, as though the law of existence were simply…
Packers add Benjamin St-Juste while moving on from another cornerback in Nate Hobbs, AP sources say https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/packers-add-benjamin-stjuste-while-moving-on-from-another-cornerback-i…
On Website Technicals (2026-02) - Tech updates: tweaking 16WW energy management, optimisation, data change, moving goal-posts. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-105.html
If you’re vide-coding MVPs (or pre-MVPs?) that you have no intention of taking further and instead releasing them as proofs of concept and moving on to your next soon-to-be-abandoned MVP, understand that you’re a patsy. A shill.
You’re suggesting the LLM is up to the task when you’re really admitting it failed and you’re too lazy to take it further.
Less critical folks won’t understand that and shitty managers pre-disposed to justifying their sunk costs will reference it as a win…
Dolphins expected to move on from QB Tua Tagovailoa in 2026 via trade or release https://www.nfl.com/news/dolphins-expected-to-move-on-from-qb-tua-tagovailoa-in-2026-via-trade-or-release
NJ Attorney General posted body camera footage and radio audio today of a police-involved shooting in Newark NJ on January 19, 2026. This was part of a narcotics arrest.
I watched. This is a bad shooting. The shooting officer clearly placed himself with gun drawn in front of the moving vehicle, and after 1 shot from the front kept firing from the side. Officer was not injured.
#police …
Building and pushing container images on Codeberg CI
As part of moving my services to EU-based infrastructure, I've been migrating away from GitHub to @… One of the things I needed was a CI pipeline to build a container image and push it to the Codeberg container registry for my @…
"I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have to know where the lens is, what the shot is, and where you're moving. And then you have to trick yourself into an emotional state where you believe this stuff is actually happening."
—Julianne Moore
#acting
The Pentagon admitted that at least ♦️140 U.S. troops have been wounded after Reuters published reporting on American casualties on Tuesday,
broadening the previously known toll of the war
as Democratic lawmakers briefed on the fighting are warning that the Trump administration is moving toward a ground invasion.
Winter? What Winter?
When Our Transport Systems Struggle with Climate Breakdown
Taras Grescoe
"What do Siemens inter-city trains, Montreal's REM light-metro, and urban bike lanes have in common? I believe that the fact that all of these modes have experienced challenges in keeping people moving this winter come back to the same cause: a failure to acknowledge the fact that winter, though in some years it may be milder, has by no means gone away."
Some Snow ❄️
一些雪 ❄️
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
The opening salvo of a war is not "a fast-moving situation." It is the deployment of a pre-assembled target list under zero pressure to outpace an adversary. #minabstrike
Moving day is getting heavy! 📦 🚛
In Episode 7 of Penguins on Tour, the washer, dryer, and the old armchair are officially OUT. Plus, a 2015 MacBook Pro update, move news, and a massive thank you to Operation Rebuild Hope for the amazing cake! 🍰
Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzpmml7xYZQ
Majority of the people I see recommending moving to Matrix are running on the main home server.
Which is fine, it's the easy path to get started but be aware that roots your identity in that homeserver.
My _personal_ take is that I consider public community chat to be ephemeral, which is why I've never been particularly concerned about using Discord.
Other than encouraging use of a forum for long form & persistent writing that can be discovered / linked over tim…
Easily the most frustrating thing about moving into a technical architect role mid career is that I'm absolutely hopeless at diagrams. I've been a remote, disabled worker for more than a decade, I can't draw digitally and there is nobody to whiteboard for. Even when my body still worked I drew at a standard that introduced uncertainty to circuit diagrams. It's a necessary skill and I'm working on it but it's a painful gap in the toolbox and will be for quite some time.
A look at countries that moved to ban social media for kids in recent months, including Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Malaysia, Spain, Indonesia (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/06/social-media-ban-children-countries-list/
"So the next time that you see a spectacular image of the #nightsky from the #ISS, remember that, although it is a better view (maybe a lot better, if you live in NYC or another light polluted area), the show that the #astronauts
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Joe Hisaishi, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Joe Hisaishi:
🎵 Merry-Go-Round of Life (Howl's Moving Castle)
#JoeHisaishi #RoyalPhilharmonicOrchestra
"Conceptualising transition is a theoretical exercise which outlines how a departure from capitalism may transpire grounded in conjunctural analysis – a historically and geographically situated study of material conditions and social forces. Strategy, by contrast, is a step-by-step plan of action for a specific organisation based on that theory of transition and that conjunctural analysis."
Let’s move on from Erik Olin Wright’s modes of transformation | degrowth.info
from my link log —
An update on upki: TLS certificate revocation checking with CRLite in Rust.
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/an-update-on-upki/77063
saved 2026-02-19 …
“By moving the usual ‘deterrence’ part to the top and focusing on offense, which is usually only lightly referred to in past unclassified strategies, the administration has greatly emphasized that pillar, which will clearly get it the most attention in the short term,” Ari Schwartz, managing director of cybersecurity services and policy at Venable LLP, told CSO.
My latest CSO piece.
Weathering the Cold, and Big Ideas on Death
From winter weather to podcasts, music, and essays that linger, this week moves from weather reports to deeper reflections. A powerful piece on death reminds me how easily the everyday can turn quietly profound.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com…
Read in my local #Willowdale facebook group. So glad those people can't block... fourplex anymore.
Imagine the outrage if a 3 million dollar home was to be built and would require letters, public consultations, etc, etc. But yet, when it's 4 families moving in, they would LOVE the opportunity to join a meeting and scream at this idea.
I don't understand figure skating.
Like, I don't understand how it's physically possible. You're on an extremely slippery surface that you can't even stand on, but you're standing on thin steel blades. And then you're moving _backwards_. And then you're *jumping* and *spinning* without getting dizzy and falling over. And then you're landing without snapping your ankles and still moving.
Most other sports have nothing on that.
Hrmm, seems like I need to check a few things out about the PCB as I have somehow lost all of my saves on that cart. However, I also feel like absolute crap which means I'm moving over to the SD2SNES and starting over. I'm thinking about streaming FF6 and just chilling after work because _reasons_.
#retrogaming
The people who insist on waiting for some court's ruling before calling out and condemning a genocide are not just moving the goal post, deep down they must understand that by the time that court has come to a decision that displeases our ruling class, their representatives will have been silenced and their institution defamed to give the ideological basis to dismiss the court's ruling entirely.
Why did the Raiders trade Maxx Crosby? Las Vegas star finally lands on contender with deal to Ravens https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/why-raiders-trade-maxx-crosby-ravens/a9765aa00800679f7e681c18
Source: Patriots to move DC Williams to new role https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47912522/patriots-move-dc-williams-new-role-source-says
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Deep Sea Diver:
🎵 Keep It Moving
#DeepSeaDiver
https://thedeepseadiver.bandcamp.com/track/keep-it-moving
https://open.spotify.com/track/2YmYYrGgYbQMuHAqHSAjZF
The Mare Orientale is moving more and more to the center of the Moon for the #ArtemisII crew, here in the latest image https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55191470911/in/album-72177720307234654 zoomed in on the right,
RE: #BoneConduction: One of the most moving art pieces and concepts I know of is (wa…
I'm home on a Friday night and #FlashFillFriday has been on my list for all of last year so here we go!
1. Reply with a story prompt to this post. This can be anything from just a kink to a specific pairing with a kink and a brief plot outline.
Example: Hades attempts to dirty-talk his lover but fails. It just sounds awkward and unsexy.
2. I pick one prompt to write…
On Website Technicals (2026-02) - Tech updates: tweaking 16WW energy management, optimisation, data change, moving goal-posts. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-105.html
Is it just me, or do others find it odd to hear journalists say that the UK 'must' take action to protect 'ex-pats' who have chosen to evade their fair share of taxation by moving to the Gulf?
I think an appropriate response would be to say to them, yes, of course you can return to blighty if you pay off all the taxes you've evaded while you've been away, but if you choose not to, you're on your own.
By 2027, 2.5 million French civil servants will stop using video conference tools from U.S. providers — including Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex and GoTo Meeting — and switch to Visio, a homegrown service.
https://apnews.com/article/europe-digital…
Anyone have thoughts on dropping Ubuntu 22.04 support in the ngscopeclient CI build moving forward since 26.04 is coming out very soon?
We won't be actively going out of our way to break 22.04 (i.e. adding a dependency not available there) but it will no longer be routinely tested.
The main reason is some Vulkan packaging issues that require special handling for 22.10 and older, the CI scripts will be a lot simpler if I can just forget that (the documentation mentions the nec…
"I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have to know where the lens is, what the shot is, and where you're moving. And then you have to trick yourself into an emotional state where you believe this stuff is actually happening."
—Julianne Moore
#acting
Excellent video tutorial on creating animated traces in #QGIS over on #reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/QGIS/comments/…
Cowboys to add depth O-lineman with 24 career starts, maybe sealing fate of fan favorite https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/03/12/cowboys-agree-terms-matt-hennessy-brock-hoffman/8913047400…
Series A, Episode 11 - Bounty
JENNA: Listen, Blake, we've got a problem. There's an unidentified ship moving in on our position.
BLAKE: [V.O.] Federation?
JENNA: Zen says not, but Gan can't make a voice contact. Seems to be closing in all the time.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/111/41
Substack hires former Google exec Mark Swierszcz as its head of partnerships in Canada, its third-largest market worldwide, as it expands beyond the US and UK (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
I was #retrocomputing on modern hardware today. I bought some Jaz drives for moving files to retro machines. I could never get them working on the retro machines. Turns out two out of three drives were no good. So, that explains that frustration.....
Moving away from hyperscalers seems to be a growing trend.
The reason? One respondent didn’t beat about the bush: “The risk of Trump”.
https://www.computing.co.uk/research/2026/…
Following only some news, the world essentially is on fire because an aging, most probably dement, narcissist switched from doing politics as TV show to moving tin soldiers in a sandbox and stirring up everything every hour.
Is there really no mechanism to declare Trump unfit for office and strip him from all commanding powers?
1/x
Lord they coming after me
I've been accused on my mission
Jah knows they shouldn't do
For hanging me they were willing yeah! yeah!
And that's why I've got to get on thru
Lord they coming after me
Lord I got to keep on moving
Lord I got to get on down
Lord I've got to keep on moving
Where I can't be found Lord they coming after me
-- Bob Marley
Dolphins expected to move on from QB Tua Tagovailoa during NFL offseason, per report
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/dolphins-tua-tagovailoa-2026-nfl-offseason/
“By moving the usual ‘deterrence’ part to the top and focusing on offense, which is usually only lightly referred to in past unclassified strategies, the administration has greatly emphasized that pillar, which will clearly get it the most attention”
https://www.
The RPi that runs #yulbbs crashed and wouldn't reconnect early on Thursday (overnight).
This morning I managed to get it running again by playing Apollo 13 and moving devices between USB busses and gently pushing the power supply/consumption until it would init everything safely.
Really bummed that I missed the CF-18s/F-16s escorting the passenger jets on Thursday, though.
Even if ICE CBP presence in the Twin Cities goes back to pre-Dec levels (which to be clear it •has not• yet done), we will be living with this for a long time. The world will be moving on, the national press will forget about us no doubt, but we’ll be living with this.
Nobody here thinks we’re done. But a lot of us are cautiously hopeful that we are now entering a time where this is some room for repairing and rebuilding.
Cautiously hopeful. But vigilant.
/end
Got a new Keychron computer-keyboard recently (replacing one with a busted usb connector, that's another story) . I've got mouse movement on fn J/K/L/I . Fits me perfectly, but mouse-left had an annoying lag. Tried moving switches around, tried using different keys (/so/ confusing). Turns out just using a *different layer* for mousing solved it! So this is definitely a software bug. Noticeable lag on *ONE* key. Could have tried factory reset, but -- BOTHER.
Blaming "user error" seems not a healthy precedent. Are we moving away from the age of blameless postmortems?
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-service-outage-ai-bot-kiro
We weathered Winter Storm Fern just fine, but the week ended somewhere deeper: podcasts, music, and an essay that made me pause and think about death and belief. Sometimes the quiet pieces linger longest.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/weathering-the-cold-and-b…
Human Traces II🚶
人类踪迹 II🚶
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Harman RED 125 (FF)
If you like my work, buy me a coffee or a roll of film from PayPal #filmphotography
Mick Shots: Draft excitement really ramping up https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mick-shots-draft-excitement-really-ramping-up
"I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have to know where the lens is, what the shot is, and where you're moving. And then you have to trick yourself into an emotional state where you believe this stuff is actually happening."
—Julianne Moore
#acting
Google plans to move Chrome to a two-week release cycle, instead of the current four, starting with the Chrome 153 stable release on September 8 (Thomas Ricker/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/888001/google-accelerates-chrome-releases-cut…
Trump said Thursday he should be involved in choosing Iran’s next supreme leader
as the U.S. and Israel hammered the country for a sixth day.
Iran kept up its retaliatory attacks on Israel, American bases and countries around the region.
Speaking to American news website Axios,
Trump ruled out Mojtaba Khamenei,
a front-runner to replace his father,
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
who was killed in the opening strikes of the war.
Trump’s comments were…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Cayetana:
🎵 Scott Get the Van, I’m Moving
#Cayetana
https://longdissonance.bandcamp.com/track/cayetana-scott-get-the-van-im-moving
https://open.spotify.com/track/3hkp5yWJ6Y9ChmaNeZGpiJ
Klint Kubiak talks Maxx Crosby, Tom Brady, draft plans as Raiders introduce new coach https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7036952/2026/02/10/raiders-klint-kubiak-introduce-head-coach-maxx-crosby-tom-brady/
Vikings emerge as favorite to sign Kyler Murray when he's officially released https://www.nfl.com/news/vikings-emerge-as-favorite-to-sign-kyler-murray-when-he-s-officially-released
Another evening of filter refactoring and optimization, a few more nice performance jumps.
I've now done a first pass (remove deprecated method signatures, add explicit input location, add NVTX trace data, do easy GPU optimization if I see an obvious low effort win) on all filters A-F alphabetically plus a few later on that were priorities for one reason or other.
90 down (of which 23 were optimized and the rest just refactored), 115 to go.
Some of the remaining ones sh…
The collapse of response time is leaving defenders with less and less time to respond during incidents
That's one big reason why proactive cyber -- or offensive cyber or active defense -- is now garnering the spotlight.
Check out my latest CSO piece on why leading cyber defenders think defense is no longer enough.
Many thanks to Glenn Gerstell, John Hultquist, Cynthia Kaiser, and Adam Maruyama for their insight.
Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
AVON: That is what I promised.
JENNA: Why, Avon?
AVON: Why not?
CALLY: They are under way, they're moving towards the gap in the defence zone.
AVON: Zen, put it on visual.
ZEN: Confirmed.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/213/501 …
Mick Shots: Draft excitement really ramping up https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mick-shots-draft-excitement-really-ramping-up
The White House is running as fast as it can from regime change and even faster from its demand for “unconditional surrender”.
Trump wants to be done because the conflict is getting too messy,
Gulf allies are certainly privately asking WTAF Trump’s plan is
and more than anything else Trump is realizing that he is triggering what has been the most reliable presidency killer in American politics for more than half a century:
spiking gas prices.
On gas prices, Tr…
On Website Technicals (2026-02) - Tech updates: tweaking 16WW energy management, optimisation, data change, moving goal-posts. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-105.html
An interview with Audrey Cooper, EIC of The Baltimore Banner, on local news decline, growing regionally, paywalls, experimenting with AI, and more (Editor and Publisher)
https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories
More than 40 million borrowers are saddled with federal student debt,
and a record number
— 7.7 million
— have defaulted on their loans,
For some borrowers, moving abroad and out of reach of debt collectors can be tempting.
In interviews, people who made this decision cited relieving the psychological burden of student debt as a motivator,
as well as having a higher quality of life,
even on a lower salary,
outside the United States.
Man…
Giant trees and legendary tall tales! 🐧🌲
Episode 10 of Penguins on Tour is LIVE. We’re hanging with Paul Bunyan at Trees of Mystery, cruising the 101 through the heart of the Redwoods, and finally kicking back in Eureka.
The scale of these trees is unreal! 🪓🐂
#PenguinsOnTour #Humboldt
Mundane Things V 🌀
普通物件 V 🌀
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
Klint Kubiak talks Maxx Crosby, Tom Brady, draft plans as Raiders introduce new coach https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7036952/2026/02/10/raiders-klint-kubiak-introduce-head-coach-maxx-crosby-tom-brady/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Moby:
🎵 God Moving Over the Face of the Waters
#Moby
https://brandonmatuja.bandcamp.com/track/fantasy-on-mobys-god-moving-over-the-face-of-the-waters
https://open.spotify.com/track/5KOwUa8gL7ysVDgb2Akf5q
Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
JENNA: Jenna.
BLAKE: [V.O.] Blake. We haven't made contact with the rebels yet. We're moving. Reference three three four zero. I'll call in again when we get there.
JENNA: Right.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/328 B7B3
Why the Raiders Are Clearly on the Right Track https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-are-clearly-on-right-track
Anyone have suggestions on CI platforms/dashboards besides github actions?
I'm looking at using CDash potentially for ngscopeclient moving forward but need to work out specifics of how the jobs will actually be launched etc.
(I liked CDash years ago when I used it for my thesis but havent touched it in forever)
Senator Chuck Schumer,
the New York Democrat and minority leader,
knew things were moving in his direction in the spending showdown on Wednesday afternoon when he got a surprise phone call in his Capitol office suite.
It was Donald Trump, not a frequent contact in these days of hyper-polarized politics.
“He says, ‘Chuck, I hate shutdowns. I don’t like shutdowns. We’ve got to stop them,’”
Mr. Schumer said in an interview as he recalled his conversation with Mr. T…
Source: Pack to cut OL Jenkins, open up $19.5M https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48156082/source-packers-cut-ol-elgton-jenkins-open-195m
Jerry Jones' actions with George Pickens contradict comments on Cowboys WR https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/jerry-jones-actions-george-pickens-contradict-comments-dallas-cowboys-wr
Cowboys’ Push to Make Brandon Aubrey NFL’s Highest-Paid Kicker Hits Snag https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/cowboys-moving-toward-second-round-tender-for-brandon-aubrey
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…
Cowboys' Jerry Jones 'absolutely' open to trading in first round of 2026 NFL Draft https://www.nfl.com/news/cowboys-jerry-jones-absolutely-open-to-trading-in-first-round-of-2026-nfl-draft
The Pentagon is doubling its Middle East fleet of Air Force A-10 attack planes,
which can support advancing ground troops,
even as President Trump says he wants to end the Iran war in two to three weeks.
The Air Force is dispatching 18 A-10s to join roughly a dozen A-10s already in the region that U.S. commanders have used to attack Iranian boats and Iran-backed militias in Iraq, two Pentagon officials said on Wednesday.
The slow-moving A-10 “Warthog” is a so-called cl…
The Trump administration is moving forward with its plan to convert former industrial warehouses around the US
into massive immigration detention facilities capable of holding thousands of people at a time.
In rural Western Maryland, near Hagerstown, the Department of Homeland Security purchased a giant warehouse for over $100 million
and claims the retrofitted facility will hold upwards of 1,500 human beings.
In this on-the-ground report filmed outside the Hagersto…
The impact of athletic defensive tackles could sway how teams address their defensive lines moving forward
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-draft-defensive-tackles-combine-…
Tradewinds: Cowboys haven't been shy on moving assets in recent years https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/02/25/dallas-cowboys-could-be-open-for-busin…
Pam Bondi is the second Cabinet member to be fired from the Trump administration within a month,
after Kristi Noem was removed from her position as Secretary of Homeland Security on March 5.
“He is very angry,” an administration official told Politico. Adding, “and he’s going to be moving people
White House insiders told Politico that the president is frustrated with his secretaries for commerce and labor,
-- Howard Lutnick and Lori Chavez-DeRemer,
-- and is con…
Earth is hotter than at any time in the last 125,000 years,
but the news media is moving on,
trying to keep on top of a fire hose of pressing news
—from the daily chaos of the Trump administration to the breaking developments in the war on Iran.
The shift in attention started during the COVID-19 pandemic and,
despite a temporary rebound,
has gathered pace in recent years:
Since its peak in 2021, global news coverage of climate change has dropped 38 p…