Tootfinder

"Misery for many as rain falls for 40 days in some parts of UK"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Weather

Mike Tomlin parts ways with Steelers leaving just one NFL head coach who's been on job for at least 10 years

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/mike-tomlin-…

From RI State senator Sam Zurier:

Thinking Machines parts ways with CTO Barret Zoph, with Soumith Chintala taking over the role; sources say the termination is due to "unethical conduct" (Kylie Robison/@kyliebytes)
https://x.com/kyliebytes/status/2011572331798548899

Kylie Robison (@kyliebytes) on X
BREAKING: Thinking Machines has terminated its CTO, Barret Zoph, due to unethical conduct according to two sources familiar with the matter. CEO Mira Murati announced the news at an all-hands with employees today. Soumith Chintala will be taking over as CTO.

There’s this place we walk by pretty regularly that’s semi-abandoned. The owner replaces parts when they fall off and there are lights at night, but the front and back have been left to return to nature. This chunk of land is worth ~$2.5M Canadian, so an odd situation. Anyhow, I enjoy watching the progress of the informal small-scale rewilding.
#Photography

Drone and missile strikes hit Belgorod, knocking out power in parts of the city: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/15/drone-and-missile-strikes-hit.html

"The trick.... is to make sure that each limited mechanical part of the Web, each application, is within itself composed of simple parts that will never get too powerful."
—Tim Berners-Lee, Weaving The Web

Scary Events (A Poem in Six Parts) by Brendan Reynolds
"The following poem was composed entirely using material found within Missing 411: Western U.S. and Canada by David Paulides and is dedicated to poet and cookbook author Ronald Johnson."
https://keep-planning.net/text/014

Great research and sloppy work by the Kremlin 😀
"Where's Putin? How The Kremlin Hides His Location With Three Nearly Identical Offices"
https://www.rferl.org/a/kremlin-trickery-putin-offices-secrecy-investigation/33586451.html

Where's Putin? How The Kremlin Hides His Location With Three Nearly Identical Offices
Russian President Vladimir Putin has three nearly identical offices in different parts of the country and the Kremlin has been dishonest about his location many times in recent years, Systema, RFE/RL’s Russian investigative unit, has discovered.

A trial date has been set for Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC.
On Thursday, Judge Roy K. Altman of the Southern District of Florida set a provisional start date of ⭐️February 15, 2027, for a two-week trial. 
The lawsuit was filed following the release of an episode from Panorama,
the BBC's investigative documentary series, titled
"Trump: A Second Chance?"
In it, the BBC cut together two parts of Trump's January 2021 speech to …

Date set for Trump's $10 billion lawsuit over BBC documentary
A federal judge has set the date for the president's push to punish a news organization he dislikes, again.

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 …

Thoughts on keeping parts (assets *and* #nix code) of your public :nixos: #NixOS config private?
https://dis…

Public, reusable flake with private parts
I am looking for a way to have a public flake that is reusable as inputs in other flakes, but some parts of the flake are private. I think this is a very common thing, people sharing their config, but don’t want to share their secrets of course or some network settings. If those private parts are just plain files, then agenix or sops can be used, encrypted versions of those secrets are published (still kinda meh, but okay). The problem arises if some nix code should be concealed as well. Her…

So no fun...

A silent scenery in four acts...
(Selenium-toned[1] 4x6 salt print (still in final wash) plus previous work-in-progress stages... see alt text for details)
The picture/motif itself is one of my personal favorites and was taken 4 years ago in the Alpstein massif, when clouds were spontaneously forming around us, creating a wonderful light/scene/drama and a dear memory... now also as print which likely will/can outlast myself
[1] The tones will become more neutral once dry...…

Just finished "Far Sector" written by N. K. Jemisin and illustrated by Jamal Campbell. I don't normally go for Marvel/DC comics stuff and this was a good reminder why. Jemisin's authorship was the draw for me here, as well as some curiosity about what I might be missing out on by avoiding the classic comics lineage. I won't go into too much detail about particulars, but suffice to say it ends up feeling to me line a very neoliberal story dressed up in a veneer of radicalism, which is not what I'd expected of Jemisin. Particularly in light of current events, the "good cops" aspects of the storyline ring truly hollow. There's still a lot of neat parts, but I guess I also wound up disappointed by the sci-fi aspects in a lot off ways. I truly think Jemisin is capable of better than this, based on her other (excellent) work.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

"When I think about the future I try to stay in touch with my not-knowing-ness. If I latch on to any particular story about the future I immediately start censoring out parts of the present that don’t conform to my vision. I cut people out of my story, or I cast them as enemies, I make myself into The Good Guy on The Good Guys Team.
If you don’t know what the future holds, and you expect it to be vastly different from the present, where do you put your time and energy today? ...&qu…

I sure do enjoy spending four to seven hours watching Stargate in the evening during the darkest parts of Winter. Too bad they didn't make more of it.

😶😶😶
This can’t be real…right?
And yet the parts that are verifiable (about the DUI) check out.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/1qbbhv7/been_trying_to_share_this/

"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
—Tim Curry
#acting

If humans keep heating the planet with greenhouse gases, the climate swing could lock Earth into a hothouse trajectory, as parts of the system feed on their own momentum, even if emissions are reduced later.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11022026/e…

Accelerated Global Warming Could Lock Earth Into a Hothouse Future - Inside Climate News
Scientists say warming is increasing faster than at any time in at least 3 million years. There is no guide for what comes next.

Federal court blocks key parts of Trump's anti-voting order, restores states' control over elections (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/federal-court-blocks-key-parts-of-trumps-anti-voting-order-restores-states-control-over-elections/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p128#a260109p128

Yet another major Korean cyber incident
Kyowon Group shuts down internal network after suspected ransomware attack
https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2026-01-12/business/tech/Kyo…

Kyowon Group shuts down internal network after suspected ransomware attack
Kyowon Group said on Monday it had shut down parts of its internal network after detecting what it believes to be a ransomware attack and is investigating whether any customer data was compromised.

"Why is the UK so rainy this year and how is the climate crisis making matters worse?"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate

'Dr. Aaron Thierry‪ @thierryaaron.bsky.social: "This is not just a slight warming; it is a fundamental change in how people will have to survive on the continent.
Once regions in Africa enter a state of almost continuous heatwaves, the human body will have no window of time to recover." '

Heat with no end: climate model sets out an unbearable future for parts of Africa
#Africa #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Little Stevie Wonder:
🎵 Fingertips, Parts 1 & 2
#LittleStevieWonder

🤏 CRAFT printing method makes affordable, realistic replicas as structurally complex as a human hand
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-craft-method-realistic-replicas-complex.html

CRAFT printing method makes affordable, realistic replicas as structurally complex as a human hand
Researchers have developed a new method for 3D printing objects with very different properties, including levels of hardness and transparency, on a pixel-by-pixel basis while using commonly available materials and inexpensive 3D printers. The method, described in the journal Science by researchers from The University of Texas at Austin, Sandia National Laboratories and two other national laboratories, could lend itself to the creation of realistic models of body parts for medical students to pr…

Sonnet 037 - XXXVII
As a decrepit father takes delight
To see his active child do deeds of youth,
So I, made lame by Fortune's dearest spite,
Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth;
For whether beauty, birth, or wealth, or wit,
Or any of these all, or all, or more,
Entitled in thy parts, do crowned sit,
I make my love engrafted to this store:
So then I am not lame, poor, nor despis'd,
Whilst that this shadow doth such su…

"Tree planting can combat urban heat, but some neighborhoods are falling behind"
#Trees #Environment
https://

Tree planting can combat urban heat, but some neighborhoods are falling behind
Sydney communities may be missing out on crucial tree planting projects intended to combat urban heat, leaving western and eastern parts of Greater Sydney with less protection from extreme heat, a University of Sydney-led study has revealed. In a surprising finding, the researchers found that while Greater Sydney's total tree canopy increased by 4.2% from 1.514 billion square meters to 1.578 billion square meters between 2016 and 2022, this growth was not evenly distributed.

I’m somewhat annoyed by big parts of the “AI” discourse (“it’s useless” is patently wrong/wishful thinking and “it’s morally wrong” won’t convince anyone) so this banger by Cory Doctorow was godsend:
> [S]ome people will be on the workers' side because of politics or aesthetics. […] But if you want to win over all the people who benefit from your labor, you need to understand and stress how the products of the AI will be substandard.

More than 100 human #remains found in #grave #robbing case: ‘Horror movie come to life’

More than 100 human skulls and body parts found in Pennsylvania grave robbing case
Jonathan Gerlach faces nearly 500 charges in Pennsylvania after officers found at least 26 mausoleums and vaults had been forced open since early November

In break from recent tradition, the Department of Homeland Security will help safeguard the American People by shutting down *.
https://apnews.com/article/homeland-security-shutdown-ice-funding-7bf62bc50ca0a6a6013a714bee2ffdb4

What to know about Homeland Security shutdown starting this weekend
Another shutdown for parts of the federal government is expected this weekend. Funding for the Department of Homeland Security is set to expire Saturday as lawmakers debate new restrictions on President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda. The White House has been negotiating with the Democrats, but the two sides failed to reach a deal by the deadline. Unlike the record 43-day shutdown last fall, the closures will be narrowly confined, as only agencies that are part of Homeland Secu…

The Trump administration recently dropped its
National Security Strategy
and, like all things Trump,
it’s equal parts nonsense and vitriol.
It signals a self-defeating retreat from any sort of global leadership
and the regime’s open promotion of white nationalism at home and abroad.
The document is extremely light on the “strategy” part,
but is chock full of naked racism and Great Replacement rhetoric.
If you fed a low-rent knockoff version o…

We're the baddies now. Our new Security Strategy shows it.
It's a gift to the Kremlin and a middle finger to our erstwhile allies.

It can help me relax/recover by doing a thing that has an end and requires focus and not too much decision-making.
I've been tempted by the newer MARUTOYS/Kotobukiya kits for awhile, so I gave in and bought the Ramune NOSERU, and the similarly colored 30MS Rydira.
After doing some minimal painting, I'm now tempted to fully paint the interior of the NOSERU. But there are a lot of moving parts, so I think it is safer if I leave it unpainted. (panel line accents maybe?)

Wow, you *really* produce bad #quality if your #EV (with much less moving parts) is worse than all the non-electric #vehicles of a list. 😲
Avoid buying

2/3
Had planned to fit it in a real fish can,
but decided would be better, and simpler, to print the can too and make it bigger.
After some refinement in blender, I printed it on My A1 mini.
(had a few problems on the guitar supports)
I fit tested the parts
Then sanded, repared, replaced parts, broked parts, moaning, re-repaired, re-sanded...
it is made of 5 part :
-Fish can base
-can lid
-6 monsters
-crab clamp with keyboard
-c…

If civilization—as we know it—should happen to survive there will definitely be dramatizations made of the shit show for the entertainment of the survivors. Let’s imagine it’s all resolved in the next 10-15 years, and imagine further that what emerges is acceptable to a majority of fediversians. Who among the currently known performers would you pick to play the parts of the actual political participants today?

Russian missile parts factory in flames after Ukrainian drone attack, media report: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/04/russian-missile-parts-factory-in.html

Over the past couple weeks, I've been designing a spool with some particular features in #FreeCAD, encompassing 6 parts to 3d-print. I've been manually re-orienting them when I print them.
Now that it's working, I realized that I could use the FreeCAD Assembly workbench to create a good packing of the parts in the right orientation for printing, saving anyone else who wants to prin…

Geometry study (shadows are weird).
Back story: In some parts of Vancouver, if you’re putting up a new building (typically condo/retail) you can get tax breaks or more square feet or some such bonus if you preserve the original facade. This place was torn down quite a while ago but the facade, propped up by the metal framework, remains. A policy misfire in this case because it was a really crappy brick frontage and would not be missed.

Did a reverse install of Gentoo today. Installed dwm alongside KDE, made sure all was running well. Then deinstalled all KDE parts, did a deep clean and switched profile to just desktop (from desktop-plasma). Smooth, and keeping all settings, applications and tweaks as they were. Easily beats a 4 hour reinstall 😅
#gentoo

"The Zersetzung is working. He is taking himself apart, piece by piece, and replacing the parts with synthetic fillers because the world has told him his own parts are defective."
"The Colonization of Confidence" by Robert Kingett (@…) is one of the best pieces of writing about "AI" I have ever seen. Read it over lun…

currently living vicariously through my son as he departs Heuston station, Dublin. 🚊
WHY CANT CANADA HAVE NICE THINGS LIKE THIS ISLAND OF 5 MILLION PEOPLE. 😭 😭
(Ireland density 75ppl/km2
Vancouver Island, inhabited parts: 50-150)
#publictransport #rail #train #ireland

If you are buying a new computer, there's no need to throw the old one away. I was really surprised last year how many items found another owner.
Nothing to get rich of, but avoid unnecessary e-waste
https://www.locked.de/how-i-gave-my-old-computer-parts-a-s…

The final trailer for #ProjectHailMary is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0XN3-n-2Lo. And a few have seen parts of the actual movie, some 30 minutes of it: https://gizmodo.com/we-saw-a-huge-chunk-of-project-hail-mary-and-expectations-couldnt-be-higher-2000718974

Just One More
This podcast is all about the truth behind growth — the messy, honest, life-changing parts we don't usually talk about. I'm Brooke McIntosh, an endurance athlete and speaker...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/just-o

"“Put simply, our Constitution does not allow the President to impose unilateral changes to federal election procedures.”
In major rebuke, federal judge blocks key parts of Trump’s anti-voting order  - Democracy Docket
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/judge-permanently-blocks-core-parts-trump-elections-executive-order/

https://www.aaronmate.net/p/noam-chomskys-wife-responds-to-epstein

Noam Chomsky's wife responds to Epstein controversy
"Noam’s overly trusting nature, in this specific case, led to severe poor judgment on both our parts... we express our unrestricted solidarity with the victims."

Animals dying in Kenya as drought conditions leave many hungry https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/02/animals-dying-in-kenya-as-drought-conditions-leave-many-hungry/

Animals dying in Kenya as drought conditions leave many hungry
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Drought conditions have left over 2 million people facing hunger in parts of Kenya, with cattle-keeping communities in the northeast the hardest hit, according to the United Nations and others. In recent weeks, images of emaciated livestock in the arid area near the Somali border have shocked many in a region […]

A swift little brown creeper, Certhia americana, on a cloudy San Juan Island morning
#naturalist

What you do if you actually should do more boring things… 😇🤓
And now back to the future—eh—more boring things… 🥴
#LEGO #BackToTheFuture #DeLorean

My latest toy arrived. I started testing USB cables. Old cables to be recycled. I can also mark the cables that can handle power delivery.
Work backpack had every cable checked and tagged. A couple were retired.
A box of computer parts will be cleared out later of old or broken cables.

My neighbor has a dog that barks constantly day and night.
They leave it in their back patio which faces the side of our house.
Day and night I get to hear the high pitch constant barking. Occasionally I sic the county on them who tells them they cannot leave it back there yipping.
They bring it inside for a few days then its back out again as they can't stand it barking either but he is attached to the damn thing.
One should not piss off nerds. Here are the parts …

FIFA says parts of 2026 World Cup games will be broadcast live on TikTok and some creators will get access to press conferences and training sessions (Jessica Hopkins/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6954078/2026/01/08/world-cup-tiktok-fifa-…

World Cup match footage to be broadcast live on TikTok, FIFA says
The short form video social media platform has previously collaborated with the 2023 Women's World Cup and the Club World Cup.

"The last hit song of Belgian singer Stromae, called “Santé”, is a tribute to all those workers behind the scenes in our modern world; the ones growing or catching the food we eat; the ones transporting us; the ones building and cleaning our facilities; those who more often than not, we simply do not see.
How long until Stromae releases an update to this song including software workers among those groups? Not very long."

Divide Et Impera
Divide and Conquer is a common technique for algorithm design: quicksort, discrete Fourier transforms, and even MapReduce are common examples of such a technique. It consists in breaking down a problem into smaller parts, so as to solve the whole of the problem. It is also a common technique in politics, known and applied since before the times of the Roman Empire. It consists in breaking down society into smaller parts, so as to rule the whole of society.

'debootstrap' is one of my favourite parts of debian - and you can use it from other distros as well! It lets you setup a debian install in a directory for use with a container/chroot/etc .
My most recent two uses are 1) Building up a new debian install on an existing machine running a different distro in an LVM LV on the running system and configoring it, ready to go on reboot 2) Installing a very old debian chroot for some testing.

Hey Fedi maybe you can help me
Tonight my players will be ambushed by two cyborgs.
I am looking for a picture or a nice cyborg/robots knowing that it's amateur-made with spare parts from Russia.

Why the Raiders' Turnaround is Bigger Than Tom Brady https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-turnaround-bigger-than-tom-brady

My 2p worth of opinion on this is that the vibes are worse because social media means we are constantly comparing our own lives to the supernormal stimulus of the carefully groomed parts of celebrities lives that we are allowed to see, and consequently feel bad.
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/vibe…

Vibecession: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
...

Russian attack on Odesa damages critical infrastructure, leaves parts of the city without power and water: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/12/russian-attack-on-odesa-damages.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
zakè:
🎵 Cantus for Winter in Six Parts (pt 1)
#zakè
https://open.spotify.com/track/6eeSIfs8gruZkAV2cTWuOq

Artist #BoramieSao will be visiting campus on January 24. We're putting up her painting that's part of our collection AND borrowing its companion piece as part of the exhibition "We, Too, Are Made of Wonders." The two paintings are mirror images, one dark, one light. Read on to learn a little more about the artist and her work.

Only one way to go here, always forward... just as in life!
(This is the equally stunning & adventurous ridge between Feigenkopf and Große Klammspitze, the summit ahead, almost touching the clouds — if you zoom in, you can just about make out the summit cross... One of my fave hikes ever. Picture is from early May 2022)
#SilentSunday

I live in California.
California was extorted from Mexico by the so-called "Mexican War" or 1846.
President, US Grant - yes that Grant from the Civil War - said that the 1846 Mexican War was the most unjust war he had ever seen. And Grant was right, it was a pretext war to take land from Mexico.
So I am wondering when Mexico will do a snatch and grab on El Cheato and take over the running of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and parts of Nevada and Utah.

Trump has two parts of brain,
left and right.
In the left side,
there is nothing right.
In the right side,
there is nothing left.
#trump #left #right

Dutch media: ASML has sold parts to a subsidiary of a Chinese army supplier, per Chinese import and export data; ASML says it can't confirm the report (Toby Sterling/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/asml-c

there's something very amusing to me in how the `go` keyword is among the least essential parts of the Go language
it could've been a part of the standard library, like every other language does it, and absolutely nothing of value would be lost
(`select` is a different and much more complicated story)

I made a #HamRadio antenna that I really like, and wanted to share the design and process so others can do it too. It's a carefully-tuned linked dipole that is light and has served me well for #POTA activations. It's now in its second iteration and so far I'm very happy with it.
…

Hackers reportedly breach developer involved with Russia’s military draft database https://therecord.media/hackers-reportedly-breach-developer-involved-in-russian-military-database

"These “prediction markets” take Zuckerberg’s “here are 12 photographs of eggs” philosophy to its logical endpoint. A way to capture one of the few parts of the human experience they haven’t been able to ingest into their mega-platforms. Here are 12 photographs of opinions, bet on which ones will come true."
(Original title: Here are 12 photographs of eggs... you can bet on)

Here are 12 photographs of eggs... you can bet on
Read to the end for the only place you should go when your wife becomes a sex addict and starts cheating on you with everybody

I hear parts of America are having winter now. Come to California: our high taxes guarantee mild Decembers.

This is the year of the set piece. A big part of Arsenal winning close games is their ability to conjure a moment when other parts of the attack are misfiring. Long throws back in vogue as well.
#LFC are near the bottom of the league on both sides. Can’t defend them and can’t score them.
Watching back the tying goal is an agony. Zonal marking can absolutely work, but it hasn’t at all for LF…

reclaim conservative phrases and ideas to make them meaningless with the same fervor republicans work to destroy liberal phrases.
be pro-life which I assume means right for food, shelter, and bodily autonomy.
be pro masculinity which I assume means community building and mutual aid.
be MAGA which probably means fighting for immigrants and advancing civil rights.
I'm sure there are problems with this idea but I bet there are good parts we don't get to enjoy.

Federal judge strikes down parts of Trump executive order on citizenship verification for voter registration (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/federal-judge-strikes-down-parts-trump-executive-order-citizenship-verification-voter-registration
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p132#a260130p132

Isotopic evidence for volatile loss driven by South Pole-Aitken basin–forming impact: #Moon Is Asymmetrical: https://eos.org/articles/primordial-impact-may-explain-why-the-moon-is-asymmetrical - analysis of surface samples from the Chang’e-6 mission suggests that an asteroid may have vaporized parts of the lunar mantle, suppressing volcanic activity on the farside of the Moon.

On X, a senior U.S. Justice Department official is promoting a post that praises #colonization as “one of the greatest things that ever happened to the backwards parts of the world.”👇
https://bsky.app/profile/anna…

Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social)
On X, a senior U.S. Justice Department official is promoting a post that praises colonization as “one of the greatest things that ever happened to the backwards parts of the world.”👇

Sumatra's flood crisis: How deforestation turned a cyclonic storm into a likely recurring tragedy https://phys.org/news/2025-12-sumatra-crisis-deforestation-cyclonic-storm.html

Sumatra's flood crisis: How deforestation turned a cyclonic storm into a likely recurring tragedy
Cyclone Senyar hit South and Southeast Asian countries in late November. In Indonesia, the island of Sumatra, especially its northern parts, took the worst hit.

FIFA says parts of 2026 World Cup soccer games will be broadcast live on TikTok and some creators will get access to press conferences and training sessions (Jessica Hopkins/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6954078/2026/01/08/world-cup-tikto…

World Cup match footage to be broadcast live on TikTok, FIFA says
The short form video social media platform has previously collaborated with the 2023 Women's World Cup and the Club World Cup.

Putin’s Pokrovsk claim unravels as Ukraine holds parts of the city and Russia’s advance slows: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/09/putins-pokrovsk-claim-unravels-as.html

Vikings release Adam Thielen: Minnesota parts ways with veteran WR, who wants larger role before retiring

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/vikings-release-adam-thielen-retirement/

A sufficiently comfy cat is indistinguishable from genAI :neocat_confused:

🎉 How FOSS Won and Why It Matters
#software

Shortly after 10 a.m., the California Highway Patrol announced on X that #Highway101 is #closed from Winchester in Goleta to State Route 1
“due to debris flow and flooding for an unknown duration.”
#CHP advises motorists to u…

Flash Flood Warning Issued for Parts of Santa Barbara County as 101 Closes for ‘Unknown Duration’
Debris flow and flooding close Highway 101 in both directions through Goleta Saturday morning.

"This tragedy could have been prevented": Russia kills 25 Ukrainian civilians with missile produced with US, German, Dutch parts (VIDEO) - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/19/this-tragedy-could-have-been-prevented-russia-kills-25-ukrainian-civilians-with-missile-produced-with-us-german-dutch-parts/

"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
—Tim Curry
#acting

The additional spectrum on the #HamRadio 60m band for US operators, and the reduced power limitation that applies to the current channel 3, is not yet effective. Don't start transmitting outside your station privileges because you heard about the FCC releasing an order.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the amendments of parts 2, 25, 74, 78, 87, 90, and 101 o…

A teardown of Huawei's Mate 70 Pro and Pura 80 Pro shows 57% of components were made in China; similarly priced Huawei phones in 2023 had 32% Chinese components (Takehiro Hasegawa/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/china

Huawei boosts ratio of Chinese parts in new smartphones to 60%
Teardown shows sharp rise in domestic components after US export restrictions

Sanctions and parts shortages push Russia’s civil aviation to the brink as engine failures surge: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/22/sanctions-and-parts-shortages-push.html

The race for the next mayor of Los Angeles has become even more intense as
Council Member Nithya Raman officially launched her campaign on Saturday.
Her announcement came just hours before the city’s filing deadline.
Nithya Raman said Los Angeles needs a leader who will take full responsibility for the challenges the city faces.
Raman represents District 4, which stretches from parts of the San Fernando Valley to neighborhoods like Los Feliz, the Hollywood Hills, and…

Who Is Nithya Raman? Meet The Latest Candidate In Los Angeles Mayor’s Race
Nithya Raman has officially joined the 2026 Los Angeles mayoral race just before the filing deadline. She brings experience in homelessness, housing, and community planning.

Wildfires are polluting the air far more than thought #environment

Wildfires are polluting the air far more than thought
Scientists have discovered that wildfires release far more air-polluting gases than previously estimated. Many of these hidden emissions can transform into fine particles that are dangerous to breathe. The study shows wildfire pollution rivals human-made emissions in some parts of the world. This helps explain why wildfire smoke can linger and worsen air quality long after the flames are gone.

"Brazil fast-tracks paving controversial highway in Amazon with new licensing rule"
#Brazil #AmazonRainforest #Trees

Brazil fast-tracks paving controversial highway in Amazon with new licensing rule
Brazil’s Senate approved an environmental licensing bill that could expedite major infrastructure projects, including paving a highway that cuts through one of the most intact parts of the Amazon Rainforest in northwestern Brazil. The BR-319 highway runs through 885 kilometers (550 miles) of rainforest, connecting Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, with Rondônia state farther […]

German car parts supplier Bosch plans to invest €2.5B in AI by the end of 2027 and unveils AI-based driver-assist systems with features like automatic parking (Dominic Chopping/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai…

"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
—Tim Curry
#acting

US approves $185 million sale of spare parts for Ukraine’s vehicles and weapon systems: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/07/us-approves-million-sale-of.html

Relative to many, my life is very good,
-- in that I am alive and housed, fed, sometimes employed.
I am healthy and loved.
Still, I am about to lose my entire mind over the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) website,
and the fact that someone,
probably a bot farmer,
has already used my 16-year-old son’s identity to establish a fraudulent account.
This is a common scam,
one that was fortunately detected before any money changed …

FAFSA Is Breaking Me
I think I have been holding it together in the face of everything we can’t stop talking about—the killing and the dying, the explosions and the terror, the eggs and the bird flu and the shameless ghouls ruining the good parts of our country, the weapons and the

AMD unveils two Ryzen AI Max chips, the 392 with 12 cores and the 388 with 8 cores, both offering 40 graphics compute units and 60 teraflops of performance (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/855463/amd-strix-halo-ai-max-plus-388-…

AMD heard you like powerful gaming portables — so here are new Strix Halo chips
AMD’s announcing two lower-end Ryzen AI Max Plus parts with full-fat graphics but fewer CPU cores, specifically aimed at gaming devices.

"Climate change is now warming the deepest parts of the Arctic Ocean"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Arctic

Climate change is now warming the deepest parts of the Arctic Ocean
While it is well known that climate change is heating the world's oceans, it was thought that the deep sea was safe from its effects—until now. Researchers have discovered that a rapidly warming part of the Atlantic is leading to the heating up of Arctic Ocean depths.

Anthropic says it found Opus 4.6 "brings more focus to the most challenging parts of a task without being told to" and "thinks more deeply and more carefully" (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6

Claude Opus 4.6
We’re upgrading our smartest model. Across agentic coding, computer use, tool use, search, and finance, Opus 4.6 is an industry-leading model, often by wide margin.

Syrskyi: Ukraine presses offensive on parts of the front, Russia made no significant gains in January: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/06/syrskyi-ukraine-presses-offensive-on.html

Sources: Masayoshi Son plans with the White House to build "Trump Industrial Parks" in the US to produce AI infrastructure parts, funded by Japan's trade deal (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/trump-softbank-ma

Roblox launches a 4D creation feature in open beta, allowing creators to generate interactive objects with individual moving parts rather than static 3D models (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/04/robloxs-4d-creation-fea…

Roblox's 4D creation feature is now available in open beta | TechCrunch
Roblox's highly anticipated 4D creation feature has officially arrived in open beta.