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"Do your own research" is counter productive when you don't know how to research...
https://www.vice.com/en/article/scientists-explain-why-doing-your-own-research-leads-to-buying-conspiracies/

Scientists Explain Why ‘Doing Your Own Research’ Leads to Believing Conspiracies
Researchers found that people searching misinformation online risk falling into “data voids” that increase belief in conspiracies.

Rivian says it is building its own 5nm AI chip called the Rivian Autonomy Processor and a foundational "Large Driving Model", to enable fully autonomous driving (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/842213/rivian-ai-autonomous-chip-specs

Rivian is building its own powerful AI chips for autonomous driving
Rivian announced it was building its own AI chips for self-driving features. The company also plans on adding lidar to its upcoming R2 vehicles.

do you like to develop on #android and sideload your APK freely on devices you own? https://github.com/sam1am/anyapk

I don’t know if this is a sick burn (by a FOSDEM organiser spilling the truth about FOSDEM) or an own goal.
🤷‍♂️ https://pleroma.debian.social/objects/f49df30a-d65e-4195-833d-29b7481b3aba

Family rift: Top Democrat's own daughter publicly opposes her on shutdown deal (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/family-rift-top-democrats-own-daughter-publicly-opposes-her-shutdown-deal
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p89#a251111p89

"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different."
—Ian Mckellen
#acting #coaching

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Anthony Naples:
🎵 On Your Own Again
#AnthonyNaples
https://anthonynaples.bandcamp.com/track/on-your-own-again

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Sepalot:
🎵 My Own Way
#NowPlaying #Sepalot
https://sepalot.bandcamp.com/track/my-own-way
https://open.spotify.com/track/1fZWCdpLnT98Lf5DeGkMSB

A small town in Alberta has its own 'ramen library'
#Canada

A small town in Alberta has its own 'ramen library'
So many options! 🍜

"It’s a matter now of humanity getting to the point where it’s now qualifying to make some of its own decisions in relation to its own information. That’s why we’ve come to a new moment of integrity."
#buckminsterfuller
https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/big-ideas/only-integrity-is-going-to-count/

Stop Paying Rent on Your Own Words!
Stop paying rent on your own words. For decades, writers were taught that “real” authors have representation, an agent, sometimes even a manager, as if legitimacy were a credential issued by an industry gatekeeper. That belief was formed in an older media economy: fewer publishers, fewer channels, slower production cycles, and a cultural aura around scarcity. In 2026, the belief is not merely old fashioned.

Stop Paying Rent on Your Own Words! | David Boles, Blogs
Stop paying rent on your own words. For decades, writers were taught that “real” authors have representation, an agent, sometimes even a manager, as if legitimacy were a credential issued by an ind…

Received a non-function CO alarm from Amazon and they won’t even let me drop it off for return without having to print my own label.
Fucking sacks of shit.

Sources: Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave in the coming months to found his own startup; a source says he is in early talks to raise funds (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c586eb77-a16e-4363-ab0b-e877898b70de

Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to exit and launch own start-up
Turing Award winner seeks to depart as Mark Zuckerberg makes ‘superintelligence’ push

I wish dependencies would stop embedding their own arguments parser in a package that didn’t need a CLI to begin with.
Eleventy has *three* different dependencies with pretty hefty (and outdated) CLI argument parser libraries 😭
Is there an `overrides`-style feature that works for libraries? (afaik this feature is only for app-level code)

when the dark web threat monitoring service gets pwnd and lists itself as a breach because it aggregated sensitive personal data as a service and therefore drew a bullseye on its own ass

:paw:

Anyone know anything about solidagent.io?
They appear to be an EU hosted AI agent - in the sense that they have the trained models on their own platforms, rather than using an API so presumably queries etc stay on their servers.
Their statements of #privacy etc look good and the test queries I posted (on quite complex #coding problems) were very impressive, but I don't think it's strictly FOSS otherwise.
Would be happy to hear if others have good/bad experience with them as they seem quite new.
https://www.solidagent.io/privacy

Stanford researchers pitted their own AI model called Artemis against professional penetration testers, and the AI system beat the humans in finding bugs at a cost of only $60 per hour.
AI Hackers Are Coming Dangerously Close to Beating Humans

The continuous attempts by our media to explain Trump's actions as promoting US interests - just because he says "America First" - are unbelievable.
Trump promotes his own interests. When raking in a billion for the family happens to align with US interests: fine with him. When it doesn't: so what.

Just how run-down must a raging narcissist be
to snooze through tributes to his own greatness?
At a cabinet meeting last Tuesday,
President Trump didn’t merely close his eyes and achieve a droopy stillness universally recognized as a vertical nap.
He did so during a gathering convened at least in part so he could bathe in his acolytes’ flattery.
They batted their eyes at him;
his eyelids fluttered shut.
He might want to think twice about letting the …

Opinion | Trump’s Approval Ratings Have Declined. So Has His Vigor.
Trump’s travails look more and more like Biden’s.

School communities — parents, educators, and neighbors — are working overtime right now to provide escorts and legal observers, every single day at every single school.
That is a •massive• operation. It is operation of a scale that ordinary people with their own lives can reasonably be expected to take up. But we’re taking it up anyway. We’re making it happen.
9/

“‘Fascism thrives on indifference and ignorance,’ it warned. Freedom requires ‘being alert and on guard against the infringement not only of our own freedom but the freedom of every American. If we permit discrimination, prejudice, or hate to rob anyone of his democratic rights, our own freedom and all democracy is threatened.’”
https://

January 9, 2026
Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S.

New Mini-Gist: Power’s Walled Cities
A Democracy where politicians are in constant office, but do not respond to citizens’ wishes (or even just their own voters’ interests) but just advance the policies that suit monied lobbies is a disaffection machine.
https://www.thegist.ie/mini-gist-powers-wa

Mini-Gist: Power’s Walled City
Yesterday’s plan to control internet has already dwindled down to a pilot, with no MyGovID integration. This is the Gist.

Woo hoo! You all get to start adding stuff to Cosmik Network’s Semble: a social bookmarking tool built on ATProto, so all your data is stored in your own account https://semble.so
I’ve been using it for weeks, have it as a PWA on my phone, and it’s been great to just get the basics of saving links somewhere.

I regularly warn that content on Forbes is pay-for-play.
Here an overlay vendor shares prompts to feed an LLM for testing code, demonstrating LLMs on their own can’t do it without extensive coaching _and_ that coaching needs to be correct (the examples have issues):
https://www.

AI Prompts For Web Accessibility Testing
Accessibility should never be treated as just a compliance checkbox; it should be about creating digital experiences that work for everyone.

Britain will never help the US invade Greenland, says defence secretary after Trump claims ‘we need to own it’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/britain-us-greenland-trump-invasion-denmark-b2897866.html
Ondertussen lijkt Vance de opmerkingen van Trump wat af te zwakken. (📽️)
'... take the [Russian & Chinese] threads seriously.' klinkt heel anders.

Roblox actually doing their own thing before the ban went into effect shows how messy this will be. Ineffective government-issued age-gates and moves from undesignated platforms to develop their own will just result in unending confusion.

BREAKING: Workers should own factories.

For any political party with principles around LBGTQ , freedom of speech etc , X, Whatsapp and Facebook are no longer platforms for discussion. Everybody should leave, there are better alternatives. Many people find it difficult however, also in my own party (D66, Netherlands).

Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings

Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/world-in

I wasn't surprised to see Rob Sanderson quoted in this, because rich vs aligned semantics - specifically , wanting both at the same time - is *such* a cultural heritage data interoperability problem #MuseTech
From: @…

Pieter Colpaert (@pietercolpaert@mastodon.social)
Attached: 2 images There’s a tension between being semantically rich (using your own terms and definitions), and being semantically aligned, in which you try to reuse terms from other vocabularies. I think we need a new concept: eventual #interoperability. I propose to start rich with your own vocabularies, and only make alignments when there’s a concrete reason for building those. https://pietercolpaert.be/interoperability/2026/01/08/eventual-interoperability #knowledgegraphs #apis #li…

Trump now a tyrant restrained only by 'my own morality.' We stop him with our own. (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/trump-powers-venezuela-ice-shooting-20260111.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260111/p59#a260111p59

I am these cost 25¢ per song years old.
I wonder how much the artists got paid being played on these compared to Spotify or any of the other streaming services? Assuming they did in fact get paid.
Think how annoying it is when some AH plays their phone on speaker. Now imagine a diner full of tables all playing their own tunes on speaker (the only way you could).

As mentioned yesterday, I think I changed now all startscreens and default searches to qwant.com
I used Bing for a long time (and it was ways better than I often heard) and changed to Ecosia last year. Which was also absolutely fine.
Now I try a (European) company that doesn't only focus on privacy but also builds on an own index (I know they still mix in bing and need bing for monetization). One step at a time...

A look at censorship at student papers in Texas, Iowa, and Oklahoma; at two colleges, students started independent papers after conflicts with administrators (Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/news/one-battle-after-another-student-news…

One battle after another: Student papers in crisis.
On university campuses, student papers are fighting their own administrations—and sometimes the government—for the right to report.

Pelican is putting out a 12" EP 'Ascending' on January 9 with Flickering Resonance era tracks. The last two had a limited release in 2024, and the title track was left off Flickering Resonance as they felt it was more its own thing. Didn't know if I was gonna like Geoff Rickly's (from Thursday) vocals on the 'vocal version' of 'Cascading Crescent', but it rips: <…

Snazzy packaging, but I was disappointed to find that there's nothing in it having to do with green eggs. It's just Spam.

"Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards" …and the pattern is everywhere.
https://www.theverge.com/policy/859902/apple-google-run-by-cowards

I sure hope Nvidia is using their own chips to model when their bubble will burst and are informed about what to do when chip demand screeches to a near-halt…
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/11/softbank-sells-its-entire-stake-in-nvidia-for-5po…

SoftBank sells its entire stake in Nvidia for $5.83 billion
SoftBank is looking to capitalize on its "all in" bet on ChatGPT maker OpenAI.

Rest in Peace
US Constitution
Effective March 4, 1789
Terminated January 8, 2026
On January 8, 2026 trump declared himself dictator (but avoided using that word):
'In a new interview with the New York Times, Trump said the only constraint to his power as president of the US is “my own morality, my own mind”.'
<…

Musk said that Tesla’s Full Self-Driving would finally be ready for unsupervised operation by the end of year.
Nope.
☑️ Is it even worth mentioning that Elon Musk blew past his own Full Self-Driving goals again? | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/news/858782/elon-

Is it even worth mentioning that Elon Musk blew past his own Full Self-Driving goals again?
Elon Musk missed his deadline to make FSD unsupervised before the end of the year, and for Tesla’s robotaxis to reach 50 percent of the population.

We need more folks who understand POSSE and why it's crucial to a) personal digital sovereignty, b) functional open (democratic) societies, and c) a free and open Internet: Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere.
canonical: https://indieweb.org/POSSE
popular media:

This episode of Ideas is powerful. Still - and not to minimize the experience of veterans - I'd really love a parallel series focused on the moms and dads, partners, and kids who stayed behind.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/canadian-war-museum-v…

Not a war story: this is about what comes after | CBC Radio
Canada’s veterans have a conflicted relationship with Remembrance Day, an idea that may be shifting as older war vets leave us. In a two-part series, IDEAS shares postwar experiences from The Canadian War Museum’s oral history project called In Their Own Voices. *This is a two-part series.

More and more #PublicTransit agencies have their own reloadable plastic cards instead of paper tickets. I have a collection from numerous cities. What almost all of them #fail in, is writing the name of their #city

What I've Learnt
A podcast from journalist Deborah Blashki-Marks, a unique platform for International and national talent to delve deep into their own challenges, successes, failures, and life lessons...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/what-i

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/policy/859902/apple-google-run-by-cowards
> Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?

I don’t need international law’: Trump says power constrained only by ‘my own morality’
#news

‘I don’t need international law’: Trump says power constrained only by ‘my own morality’
President says morality ‘the only thing that can stop me’ in New York Times interview on limits to his authority

I'm using ChatGPT so much as a tourist this trip. Today's example: where can I go on a walk from my hotel? It found me a nice a promising suburban garden I never would have found on my own. Also got the wrong direction (it's west, not east) but it was enough to find my way.

Making #goulash, but with #Sichuan peppercorns was a brilliant idea.
I love #cooking myself. 🍲
Over the years, I have developed a certain fusion cuisine of my own.

I still think of that quote from one of the characters of Kotaro Uchikoshi's games, where one of the character gives their own definition of what family means
> "Family is the most ordinary relationship"
That is the entire definition. And honestly, if your relationship with your family is not ordinary, mundane, casual, maybe those people are not actually your family

Closer to home here are the kind of 𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑝𝑠𝑖𝑠 flowers you find up and down the creek in Monkey Run; I think every natural area in Tompkins has its own characteristic 𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑝𝑠𝑖𝑠.
#photo #photography #flowers

RE: https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c/115705131669115328
Wow! They stole sooo much less ($2.2 million) than Home Depot stole from its own employees in wage theft in just one state ($72.5 million).
Imagine if we went after the biggest thieves instead. …

put in a maintenance request, texted the management company, texted the heat repair guy directly, called mgmt company and left a message, please I am begging you I don't like having to wear winter clothes inside my own house

when im older i hope im just sitting around all day roasting bitches like this

"Actuellement, l'Europe est en train de se suicider par peur de la mort. Au lieu d'avoir peur de tout, l'Europe devrait partir de deux hypothèses certes discutables : la Russie est trop faible pour conquérir l'Europe, et les États-Unis sont trop faibles pour dominer le monde."
https:…

Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere
#POSSE

The #EV roaming system in Europe is increasingly being hit by hidden fees and absurd price discrimination.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaapburger_

In principle, EV roaming enables every driver to charge anywhere on a single invoice, with information about the different prices and charging options available in advance, for example in an app. For… | Jaap Burger
In principle, EV roaming enables every driver to charge anywhere on a single invoice, with information about the different prices and charging options available in advance, for example in an app. For an operator, it is a method of attracting more customers to its stations. In recent years, a clear trend has emerged: providers who want to offer roaming at other charging points to their own customers, but at the same time keep roaming customers from others out with absurd price mark-ups and tari…

Series C, Episode 08 - Rumours of Death
SULA: I'm not deaf, Hob.
HOB: Just not listening, is that it? I'm not fighting my own men to protect Servalan. Or to protect anyone else, for that matter. D'you understand me, Sula?
SULA: Perfectly.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/308/394

It is 2025 and someone working for ICANN whose job role is "Security, Stability and Resiliency Research" turned on an out-of-office autoresponder which sent 91 emails to the North American Network Operators Group mailing list, responding to every post including its own.

I'm honestly very happy with my own instance: social.linux.pizza

I endorse this newsletter post from Molly White (of Web3IsGoingJustGreat fame):
Curate your own newspaper with RSS
#noalgorithms

"But catastrophes also tend to reveal deficits in society, and the patterns of destruction and abandonment that followed the fire—which have roots in America’s past and its present—tell us something about the country’s future, too."
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2025/

What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century
Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.

Ah, the old "UK must build its own tech infrastructure [...] and sell it to foreign multinationals" business cycle.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/07/accenture_acquires_palantir_uk_rival_faculty/

British Palantir rival, whose founder touted UK tech sovereignty, sells to Accenture
: Let the co-opetition commence

"We did not leave because we wanted to.
We were forced to leave.
Pushed away from our own doorsteps, from our quiet mornings, from dreams that were growing gently inside us.
We did not abandon our homeland, we are still within it.
But we became displaced inside its borders, moving through its wounds, searching for a place where the heart could breathe without fear, only to find that no corner felt safe, and every space we turned to seemed empty" --

We carry our homeland in our eyes, even as we walk away from the cities that...
We did not leave because we wanted to. We were forced to leave. Pushed away from our own doorsteps, from our quiet mornings, from dreams that were growing gently inside us. We did not abandon our homeland, we are still within it. But we became displaced inside its borders, moving through its wounds, searching for a place where the heart could breat...

RUSSIA ABANDONS ITS OWN – the Kremlin did not stand up for Maduro’s Venezuela | Wrap-Up Analytics: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/05/russia-abandons-its-own-the.html

In the NYT interview published yesterday, Trump openly admitted that his thirst for Greenland is not about military necessity, national security or business opportunities but simply his psychological need to own it.
I think that Trump is looking to secure his legacy as the (in his own mind at least) greatest president ever and adding Greenland would not only make America greater, literally, but also make it a bit bigger than Canada. In other words, a pure vanity project.

I got energized by a blog post by Jorge Castro, the tireless promotor of Bluefin and all things OCI.
That's how I got busy the last couple of days in setting up Aurorix, my own take on Aurora (the KDE sister of Bluefin).
It's been an incredible lot of fun, and the result is something that works very well for me. Expect more details later on in this journey.
Now, don't worry, Slackware with Mango is superb and Gentoo (after losing it's KDE flavor for me) will be…

when the dark web threat monitoring service gets pwnd and lists itself as a breach because it aggregated sensitive personal data as a service and therefore drew a bullseye on its own ass

George Pickens is his own biggest threat to a future with the Cowboys https://fansided.com/nfl/george-pickens-own-biggest-threat-future-cowboys

If this morning you had asked me if I thought I would be working on a 20-year-old Mitsubishi pickup truck this evening, I would have looked at you like you had just sprouted a third head, because I don't own a 20-year-old Mitsubishi pickup truck, and I'm not employed as a mechanic. And yet, somehow, life brought me to such a junction anyway.
3 hours of work. Job done. Out of my life again. 🎉

follow me on my own gotosocial instance: @…

The remote option is great, but it’s not actually an answer to the school safety question. I would like to know:
What •action• are the schools, the city, and the state of MN taking to directly protect students? Who is defending our students and our educators? Is that part of this NG deployment — or is the community on their own?
4/

Despite worries by some that vendor reports on AI cyber threats are merely hype to sell new defensive tools, most cyber defenders and threat intel experts say CISOs who dismiss AI in the attack chain do so at their own risk.
Check out my latest CSO piece.
Many thanks to Marcus Hutchins, Steve Stone of SentinelOne, Billy Leonard of Google Threat Intelligence Group, the folks at Anthropic, Rob T. Lee of SANS Institute, Morgan Adamski of PwC, Joe Levy and Alexandra Rose of Sophos, …

Ignoring AI in the threat chain could be a costly mistake, experts warn
While some researchers dismiss reports of AI-driven cyberattacks as merely marketing messages, threat intel experts counter that CISOs ignore mounting evidence of AI use in the threat chain at their own peril.

Well this is disappointing.

Yes, digital sovereignty for all things in Canada is a good idea.
That doesn’t mean insulating us from the world: open collaboration with others still fits with this.
Buying from a vendor with nothing of our own (especially from an American vendor) is not the way.
https://bsky.app/profile/nicktser…

Nick Tsergas (@nicktsergas.ca)
omg. Meta clearly trying to polarize the issue of digital sovereignty by running this in the Hub.

"The United States condemns the Houthis' ongoing unlawful detention of current and former local staff of the U.S. Mission to Yemen,"
U.S. State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott said in a statement.
"The Houthis' arrests of those staff,
and the sham proceedings that have been brought against them,
are further evidence that the Houthis rely on the use of terror against their own people
as a way to stay in power"
Pigott said

The Washington Post's new Your Personal Podcast, which offers AI-generated customizable podcasts, was developed under a multiyear agreement with ElevenLabs (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/the-washington-post-debu…

The Washington Post debuts AI-personalized podcasts to hook younger listeners
The Washington Post used AI to build a pick-your-own-format news podcast, letting listeners choose the topics, hosts and duration.

when your research project takes on a life of it's own 😅
David Teie - Music for Cats
#musicforcats #giftsforcats
https://www.musicforcats.com

Right-wing media villainize and blame Renee Good for her own death in Minneapolis ICE shooting (Gideon Taaffe/Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/right-wing-media-villainize-and-blame-renee-good-her-own-death-minneapolis-ice-shooting
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p107#a260109p107

Pro tip: The very LAST person you should ever be taking financial/career advice from is a billionaire. Why?
1️⃣ They typically have an extreme competitive, narcissistic mindset focused on their own success, not yours. Advice they give is usually oriented toward helping them attain their goals.
(1/3)

Google unveils Private AI Compute, a cloud platform providing a "secure, fortified space" to run AI tools on devices, similar to Apple's Private Cloud Compute (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/818364/google-private-ai-compute

Google is introducing its own version of Apple’s private AI cloud compute
Google is rolling out Private AI Compute to use the cloud for AI requests while keeping on-device levels of privacy, a similar feature to Apple. 

Anarcho-syndicalist. non-binary person. they/them, also bisexual.
I took down one of my Moomin posters and hung up my two favorite flags in my living room instead. It feels good making my own place look like me.
I know my mom doesn’t like it, but this is my apartment and I’m not going to hide who I am just to make someone else comfortable.
:bisexual_pride: 🏳️‍⚧️ :genderfluid_flag: :nonbinary_flag: :heart_trans: 🏳️‍🌈

theme from the A-team starts playing
https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/former-special-counsel-jack-smith-to-start-law-firm-with-other-former-prosecutors

Former special counsel Jack Smith will start law firm with other former prosecutors
Former special counsel Jack Smith and three other former prosecutors who investigated President Donald Trump and the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol are starting their own law firm, which will launch in January, Law.com reports.

"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different."
—Ian Mckellen
#acting #coaching

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
P.M. Dawn:
🎵 My Own Personal Gravity
#PMDawn

One of the few good developments happening over the past 24 hours...
Cyber information sharing law would get extension under shutdown deal bill
https://cyberscoop.com/cisa-2015-shutdown-extension-continuing-resolution/

Cyber information sharing law would get extension under shutdown deal bill
The Cybersecurity and Information Sharing Act of 2015 would go from expired to extended through Jan. 30.

My bet is that this will show up on South Park real soon...
"DHS head reportedly authorized purchase of 10 engineless Spirit Airlines planes that airline didn’t own "
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/08/kristi-noem-spirit-airline…

Democrats are holding their own in the redistricting wars: From the Politics Desk (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/democrats-are-holding-redistricting-wars-politics-desk-rcna243335
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p113#a251111p113

Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by His Own Hubris
On topic after topic, Trump made clear that he thinks he is the arbiter of any limits to his authorities, not international law or treaties.
"My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”
“I don’t need international law,”
he added.
“I’m not looking to hurt people.”
When pressed further about whether his administration needed to abide by international law,
Trump said,

Trump Addresses Venezuela, Greenland and Presidential Power in New York Times Interview
On topic after topic, President Trump made clear that he would be the arbiter of any limits to his authorities, not international law or treaties.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Gil Scott-Heron:
🎵 A Legend in His Own Mind
#GilScottHeron

US lawmakers remove provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act for 2026 that would have ensured military members' right to repair their own equipment (Boone Ashworth/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-military-almost-got-…

The Military Almost Got the Right to Repair. Lawmakers Just Took It Away
The final language of the annual bill that funds the US military is in. It removes provisions that would have helped ensure service members’ ability to fix their own equipment.

Pope Leo Confronts Trump on His Own Terms (David Gibson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/opinion/pope-leo-trump-world-order-peace.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260111/p3#a260111p3

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, authorized the purchase of Spirit Airlines jets before discovering the airline didn’t actually own the planes – and that the aircraft lacked engines.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/08/kristi-noe…

Intel unveils the Arc B390 integrated GPU, offering improved gaming performance, and says it will power gaming handhelds built by MSI, Acer, Microsoft, and more (Madeline Ricchiuto/IGN)
https://www.ign.com/articles/exclusive-intel-is-making…

Exclusive: Intel Is Making Its Own Handheld Gaming PC Chips at CES 2026 - IGN

Evanston, Illinois Mayor Daniel Biss says what he has seen of federal immigration raids amounts to an “invasion from our own federal government.”
His office is now launching investigations into reports of federal agents brutalizing and threatening community members.
“They appear to have just started beating people up for no reason,”
Biss says.
“If that was anybody except for a federal agent, they would be under arrest.”

“My Community Is Under Invasion from Our Own Federal Gov’t”: Evanston Mayor Decries ICE Raids in Illinois
Amid federal immigration raids in the Chicagoland area, the mayor of one Chicago suburb is on the frontlines of the anti-ICE protest movement. Mayor Daniel Biss says what he has seen of federal immigration raids in Evanston, Illinois, amounts to an “invasion from our own federal government.” His office is now launching investigations into reports of federal agents brutalizing and threatening community members. “They appear to have just started beating people up for no reason,” Biss says…

Lenovo introduces Qira, a system-level, cross-device AI assistant for both its computers and Motorola smartphones, arriving later this quarter (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/lenovo-and-motorola-are-releasing…

Lenovo and Motorola are releasing their own on-device AI assistant
If the world didn't already have one too many digital assistants, Lenovo is adding another one to the pile.

Trump went rogue on Truth Social on Tuesday,
contradicting his own administration’s decision a day earlier to fund SNAP benefits during the shutdown
—and potentially violating a court order in the process.
Trump’s announcement caught members of his own team off guard,
with four people with knowledge of the matter telling Politico they aren’t clear whether his post means that USDA now won’t abide by the court order.
If Trump follows through on his threat,
it…

Trump Shocks His Own Team With Decision to Defy Courts on Funding SNAP
Donald Trump says he won’t fund the food aid program until the shutdown ends—leaving members of his own administration in the dark about what happens next.

Amazon unveils a Fire TV UI redesign with rounded corners, 20 app slots, and Alexa integration, and launches $899 Ember Artline TV series with colorful frames (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/amazon-revamp…

Amazon revamps Fire TV, launches its own 'Artline' televisions with frames at CES | TechCrunch
Fire TV's new interface focuses on your content and offers easier, speedier navigation, Amazon says.