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After he dropped off his sons on the morning of September 12,
two Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers approached the 38-year-old in his car.
He put the vehicle in reverse and attempted to flee.
One officer continued to chase him on foot and eventually fired his weapon,
striking Villegas-Gonzalez, who crashed into a delivery truck
and was pronounced dead an hour later.
Officials of the Department of Homeland Security would later say that Villegas…

Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.

Et tu, Fastned?
Fastned, one of the larger North-Western European CPOs, is one of the last to switch to the discriminatory pricing model, the German disease.
https://www.electrive.com/2026/01/20/fastned-app-users-now-get-10-ev-charging-discount/<…

Fastned app users now get 10% EV charging discount - electrive.com
Fastned is introducing a new price offer for registered app users. Effective immediately, there is now a ten percent discount per kilowatt-hour on all

Slightly dramatic day. Husband has a scary fall in the bathroom. Help him up, provide ice pack for his wrist and a cuppa while he regains his equanimity. Wee one is here so try to keep him occupied while looking after husband. Hospital is at least 5 hour wait. Rush to walk-in clinic before x-ray closes. X-ray taken but no one in attendance who is officially qualified to read it. WrIst is splinted. We go home. Grand-dog arrives. 3 hours later - phone call from clinic - DO NOT REMOVE SPLINT. T…

B10 - Voice from the Past
ORAC: Requires minimum of two hours eradication therapy. Maximum five minute treatment periods interspersed with one hour rest periods. Hence, minimum rehabilitation period of twenty-six hours.
JENNA: [Sighs] Oh, no.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/159 B7B4

"Astronomers have made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a runaway black hole 10 million times larger than the sun, rocketing through space at a staggering 2.2 million miles per hour (1,000 kilometers per second).
That not only makes this the first confirmed runaway supermassive black hole, but this object is also one of the fastest-moving bodies ever detected..."

James Webb Space Telescope confirms 1st 'runaway' supermassive black hole rocketing through 'Cosmic Owl' galaxies at 2.2 million mph: 'It boggles the mind!'
"The forces that are needed to dislodge such a massive black hole from its home are enormous."

Fascinating bit of trivia about "My Sharona"
https://www.musicradar.com/artists/it-was-

“It was like getting hit in the head with a baseball bat. I fell in love with her instantly. And when that happened, it sparked something”: The new wave classic and No.1 hit that was written in one hour and recorded in one take
“I still make a very good living off of that one song - easily over $100,000 a year"

I used to live in a house by the freeway. When I went anywhere, I had
to be going 65 MPH by the end of my driveway.
I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights. Now it looks
like I'm the only one moving.
I was pulled over for speeding today. The officer said, "Don't you know
the speed limit is 55 miles an hour?" And I said, "Yes, but I wasn't going
to be out that long."
I put a new engine in my car, but didn…

Our #grid #LoadProfile by quarter for last year (one representative month shown for each):

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/115931269344558718
An "issue" forced
Air Force One to turn around
and return to Maryland
less than an hour after takeoff Tuesday night
as it was headed for Davos, Switzerland,
with Trump aboard

Beer lovers and planet lovers, unite! Pubinno's smart tap system is revolutionizing draft beer service by slashing waste and boosting keg yields.
The results? Over 1.4 billion liters of water saved, plus industry awards for sustainability. It adjusts foam levels, works with any glass, and even handles nitro beers and sodas.
Best part: going green saves venues money too.

Happy Hour Clean Technology Special: Pubinno Smart Tap at CES - CleanTechnica
As another week comes to a close, many of us are looking forward to pouring ourselves a cold one. However, like many aspects of our lives, there are environmentally smarter ways to consumer our beverage of choice. At the end of one of the long days at CES, many people were also looking to take a break, and Pubinno’s demo offered a welcome and resource-conserving way serve up a well-poured draft beer.

Today was another one of those days where I was in pain for over 12 hours. These days suck so bad. I did get a few hours of relief this evening though and even worked for over an hour today.

The one-of-a-kind Star Trek Deep Space Nine 2-hour documentary, "What We Left Behind" is available for FREE.
Beginning w/ Max "Rom" Grodénchik & Andy "Garek" Robinson, this's a must-see for any Star Trek fan.
▶️ What We Left Behind: Looking Back at #StarTrek #DS9

Slowly getting into a rhythm to start the day with doing a print each morning, each time still tweaking either negatives, concentrations and/or durations of different processing stages to adjust tones/hues... A new adventure with some back and forth each time!
This print is of Langkofel / Sassolungo, one of my favourite mountain massifs, just such interesting features and so many dear memories, here seen from the east (around half and hour before sunset)...

It is always fun when somebody, when estimating something, does not round the estimation :-) From the other side, it is not that cool it means like hour and half of waiting :-(

I'm finally trying printing with Spiderflex (77-82A shore) filament. The print speeds remind me of my first 3d printer. Two tiny parts totaling under 3g took about an hour, printing with a maximum speed of 10mm/s. But having really flexible TPE is really handy; there's really no reasonable alternative!
Now I have new feet for my KX3, and honestly they might be better than the originals (sorry Elecraft!) They are at least as grippy on the table surface, and they are a closer fit on the …

GM John Spytek Offers Genuine Hope at the Franchise’s Darkest Hour https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/gm-john-spytek-offers-genuine-hope-franchise-s-darkest-hour-las-vegas

I think I would prefer a 26- or 29-hour day. I *could* try keeping one without respect to the clock, although I would necessarily fall out of phase, which could disrupt dinner

Finished "The Memory Collectors" by Dete Meserve.
A company has developed technology to transport your consciousness into your past, but only for one hour and without any precision as to when. Some go to see a lost loved one. Others to briefly escape the pain of future traumas.
Four strangers find themselves marooned on the same day and begin to discover a connection.
Strong start but devolves into an all too neat saccharine finish.
3/5 ⭐⭐⭐

The Memory Collectors
Four strangers time travel to the past and find themsel…

"Have a Bleedin Guess: The Story of Hex Enduction Hour". A whole #book on one album. And after reading, the album is still as unfathomable as before. By Paul Hanley, former drummer of #TheFall
And, of course, a very got reason to listen to some more Fall albums.

#Juche4ever propagandists are going to love this one, a full hour of top-tier “propaganda,” woohoo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GAWD8zWiNA

I was just listening to "Strong Songs", one of my favorite podcasts, but it was re-airing an episode of "Aria Code", a podcast I haven't heard before, about single opera arias.
This half hour episode from 2021 is looking at Nessum Dorma, intersecting it tightly with vignettes by an ICU doctor describing moments from the first year of the pandemic. It's very much worth a listen - uplifting, emotional, hopeful. Vincero!

Puccini's Turandot: Hope Never Sleeps | Aria Code | WNYC Studios
“Nessun Dorma” has long been opera’s crossover hit. But in the last year, it’s become something more -- an anthem of hope.

#caturday

"As a result, if Trump mobilizes the U.S. presence on the ground — or flies in special forces — the U.S. could seize control of Nuuk “in half an hour or less,” Mortensgaard said. “Mr. Trump says things and then he does them,” said Danish Member of European Parliament Stine Bosse. “If you were one of 60,000 people in Greenland, you would be very worried.”

How Trump gets Greenland in 4 easy steps
And worryingly for the Danes, it looks like he’s started …

One of my favorite mastodon features is the time-based muting. Someone's posting through (suffering, lol) a football game, and I have less than zero interest in sportsball? But I generally enjoy following them? Mute them for 1 hour (or 6 hours), and my screen is no longer littered with crap about touchzonegoalruns.
Or maybe you don't want to see my stupid replies to a dumb horror movie from 40 years ago? Mute me for an hour or two, and voila!

The Strangers' Choir is a one day choir in India inspired by Gaia Music Collective. It is open to all levels of singing and experience and requires no preparation. Everything you hear and see has been learned, practiced and performed within a three hour period.
https://youtu.be/gm-N2cyGS8k?si=E5iGrq

Scott Wiener is trying to change the slogan from "Abolish ICE" to "Abolish and replace ICE."
I guess he figures there still needs to be *some* agency that deports international students who criticize Israel, a Trump regime priority he's bolstered in California by co-authoring #AB715.

'writing is more than just the process by which you obtain a piece of text, right? it's also about finding out what you wanted to say in the first place, and how you wanted to say it. this post existed in my head first as a thought, then it started to gel into words, and then i tried pulling those words out to arrange them in a way that (hopefully) gets my point across. ... i alone can get the thought out and writing is how i do that.'

A Cool Earth-sized Planet Candidate Transiting a Tenth Magnitude K-dwarf From K2
#exoplanets

A Cool Earth-sized Planet Candidate Transiting a Tenth Magnitude K-dwarf From K2
The transit method is currently one of our best means for the detection of potentially habitable "Earth-like" exoplanets. In principle, given sufficiently high photometric precision, cool Earth-sized exoplanets orbiting Sun-like stars could be discovered via single transit detections; however, this has not previously been achieved. In this work, we report a 10-hour long single transit event which occurred on the $V=10.1$ K-dwarf HD 137010 during K2 Campaign 15 in 2017. The transit is comparativ…

My StoryGraph 2025 reading wrap-up was generated two hours before the new year and one hour before I finished another book — so it’s not reflected in the stats.
Anyway if you’re curious where I spend my free time:
https://app.thestorygraph.com/wrap-up/2025/aardrian

An hour-long piece on how the adaptation of "The Wizard of Oz" to an #immersive show in the #Sphere is a glorious failure (artistically at least): #fulldome planetarium production.

One of my contractors used an #LLM for a first draft of a client deliverable today.
I don’t allow #AI use for any client-facing work (and try to prohibit it for internal work too, but it’s been… tricky). This person knows it - I’ve worked with them for years, and they are usually very thoughtful and wouldn’t take a shortcut like this. So seeing the obvious AI copy was very confusing.
Thankfully we had a call scheduled this morning, so I decided to handle it there.
The contractor showed up very obviously sick, they told me they took most of past week off but had to force themselves to finish this draft because the deadline is EOD. I asked if they used #AI to draft the document, they immediately confessed and apologized.
Since the deliverable is client-facing, I asked them to explain their ideas to me in conversational language and then used my notes of what they said to help them rewrite the document. We worked through the whole thing in an hour, and I’ve asked them to go rest and recover.

I made an experimental flan, where instead of using sugar in the custard mix, I converted that sugar to caramel (in addition to the caramel coating the bowl) and then dissolved that caramel into the cooling scalded milk.
The experiment was a success, if you like caramel.
I did this one from memory. 1.5c sucrose split into two parts, 4 cups milk, 4 large eggs, 1 yolk, 1/4 t salt, 1 T vanilla, 350-375F, 1 hour in a baño maria, lay a sheet of aluminum foil on it for most of that ti…

I've been working on a toy project that analyzes local ADS-B traffic (next to YUL), and alerts when planes are taking off and landing.
It's surprising to me how much the number of commercial planes at YUL changes throughout the day. There are clearly morning/evening/night rushes.
Looks like there's only one (or two) commercial plane(s) at YUL right now, but in 3 hours, there will be dozens of take-off/landing events in that hour.

@… I dream, quite regularly, of a friend I lost touch with decades ago. In these dreams, I am often lost at his parents' home.
I awoke from one such dream an hour or so ago. Very lost. Every time this happens, I resolve to make contact. Each time, the resolution becomes a little stronger.
I know what my New Year's Resolution is.
May…

As 19 States Raise Minimum Wage
the Federal Rate is Stuck at $7.25
"One Fair Wage" noted that
“tipped workers can still legally be paid as little as $2.13 an hour,
a system advocates describe as a direct legacy of slavery.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/minimum-

'A National Disgrace': 19 States to Raise Minimum Wage But Federal Rate Stuck at $7.25 | Common Dreams
One Fair Wage noted that "tipped workers can still legally be paid as little as $2.13 an hour, a system advocates describe as a direct legacy of slavery."

In the last, guttering hours of the year, it’s tradition to look back on the last 12 months’ #TTRPG activity and reflect. You can read last year’s summary at https://dice.camp/@davej/113747664699824381…

Now available for viewing for free on Youtube: "Sunrise - At the Frontiers of Feasibility"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPIW-Ev4sbA
A one-and-a-half hour documentary on how an international consortium led by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research is planning the…

I've spent the past year learning Morse code, and it's ended up being a great deal of fun. I've had a lot of questions. I've tried to share what I've learned with others as I've gone along.
To celebrate the end of the year, I wrote a combination of information, story, and advice. How to get started, mobile apps and websites, books, getting on the air, learning to send, POTA, SST, keys and keyers. I'm not fluent or expert yet, but that means that I still remember what's hard!

One man’s “The newsreels are dead.” is another man’s IT MAY BE COLD IN SASKATCHEWAN BUT HERE AT THE INTERNATIONAL PROSPECT CUP, FANS ARE HOPING FOR SOMETHING HOT ON THE ICE #HeatedRivalry #TheHour #BenWishaw

There was a writer in 'Life' magazine ... who claimed that rabbits have
no memory, which is one of their defensive mechanisms. If they recalled
every close shave they had in the course of just an hour life would become
insupportable.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

RE: #survey on #eurosky. What are your expectations for the project?
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