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power: Western US Power Grid
A network representing the Western States Power Grid of the United States, in which nodes are transforms or power relay points and two nodes are connected if a power line runs between them.
This network has 4941 nodes and 6594 edges.
Tags: Technological, Power grid, Unweighted
https://networks.…

How AI labs are deploying on-site gas generators for power as the US electric grid struggles to keep pace with the growing demands of AI infrastructure (SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/how-ai-labs-are-solving-the-power

Not sure about solving…
How AI Labs Are “Solving” the Power Crisis: The Onsite Gas Deep Dive Read More https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/how-ai-labs-are-solving-the-power

"ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants"
(I can't read the rest - paywall - but.. Seriously?!? Ugh)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/politics/ice-expands-power-agents-warrants.html

Ukraine’s power grid on the brink as blackouts halt Kyiv and Kharkiv metros: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/31/ukraines-power-grid-on-the.html

🌞 Sunlight, water and air power a cleaner method for making hydrogen peroxide
#chemistry

Federal agents were told this week that they have broader power to arrest people without a warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo reviewed by The New York Times.
The change expands the ability of lower-level ICE agents to carry out sweeps rounding up people they encounter and suspect are undocumented immigrants,
rather than targeted enforcement operations in which they set out, warrant in hand, to arrest a specific person.
A week before t…

Who peaked and who just survived in the latest AFC West power rankings? https://raiderramble.com/2026/01/01/who-peaked-and-who-just-survived-in-the-latest-afc-west-power-rankings/

I like ambiguous headlines like this one:
'Trump’s shadow war in Venezuela grows, but country’s strongman leader still clings to power"
Which country's strongman is still clinging to power?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec

#Helen (the energy company of #Helsinki) in 2024 has installed a 148 MW wind power plant.
https://www.helen.fi/en/n…

Trump reportedly gave Maduro ultimatum to relinquish power in Venezuela (Tom Phillips/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/01/trump-maduro-ultimatum-relinquish-power-venezuela
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p41#a251201p41

power: Western US Power Grid
A network representing the Western States Power Grid of the United States, in which nodes are transforms or power relay points and two nodes are connected if a power line runs between them.
This network has 4941 nodes and 6594 edges.
Tags: Technological, Power grid, Unweighted
https://networks.…

Ukraine restores power after nationwide blackout, rolling outages to continue: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/01/ukraine-restores-power-after-nationwide.html

NFL Power Rankings, Week 18: Red-hot Jaguars soar to No. 3, while 49ers replace Bills in top five https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-power-rankings-week-18-2025-nfl-season

Sorting dusty power cables at Update … Achoo!

Each week, Metacurity offers our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush,
This week's selection covers
--Scam compound captive risks it all to expose its inner workings,
--AI is a core source of geopolitical power and security,
--Regulators should jettison checkbox cyber compliance with innovations,
--AI-led cybersecurity superintelligence i…

"Geothermal energy has the potential to reshape global power supply"
#Geothermal #Energy
https://

When the UK's new nuclear power plant Hinkley Point C starts to produce power in 2030, its guaranteed 'strike price' will have risen to ~150 £/MWh (170 €/MWh). Average wholesale electricity prices will probably be around half of that, so that's a 50% subsidy.
At an annual production of 25 million MWh (3.2 GW in baseload), I'd say that's £1.9 billion per year in subsidies.

On Setting Up the SheevaPlug Linux 'Embedded' Computer (2009) - Read how I ran my main Internet services off-grid on solar power with less than 5W: down from more than 600W just two years before! #frugal #offGrid -

Call for Papers: 'Dress Against: Aesthetics of Power and Normativity in Contemporary Cinema' https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/29/call-for-papers-dress-against-aesthetics-of-power-and-nor…

Gotta appreciate the economy of this portion of the latest legal challenge to the DOE's attempt to force the Craig, CO coal power plant to remain open after everyone agreed to close it, and still want it closed! https://coloradosun.com/2026/01/30/craig-tri-state-petit…

Ukraine imposes emergency power cuts amid grid strain: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/31/ukraine-imposes-emergency-power-cuts.html

Calling it “divisive” to document the honest brutality of American slavery and lynching is an attempt to erase the uncomfortable truth of racial terror.
Government efforts to remove such important history from both curricula and public institutions are efforts of deliberate whitewashing, propaganda to protect a mythology of American innocence.
Sanitizing the past protects power, not feelings.
(Clint Smith is always required reading.

Acquiring solar panels at home can be an expensive hassle for people in the US.
But small, simple, plug-in solar panels for use on balconies are soon to become available for millions of Americans,
with advocates hoping the technology will quickly go mainstream.
Balcony solar panels are now widespread in countries such as Germany
– where more than 1m homes have them
– but have until now been stymied in the US by state regulations.
This is set to change, wit…

Bart Fish made a cool Zine about AI including a snippet of one of my essays and sent me a copy. Love it!

You’d think people who post “I asked AI to help me with [thing] but for some reason what it said didn’t work” reflect on their experience.
But no, most will use it over and over again.
The reason for this is that it’s designed to be an obsequious and sycophantic slave-simulator and people get high on the perceived power dynamic.
Truly a remarkable grift.

Which Super Bowl Contenders Do We Trust? https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2025-nfl-power-rankings-week-18-which-super-bowl-contenders-do-we-trust

🕯️ Modder builds all-in-one console with PS5, Xbox Series X, & Switch 2 in a single system — "Ningtendo PXBOX 5" powered by a shared 250W power supply mounted inside a lost-wax chassis

Computing power propagates this temptation of abuse: reducing fellow human beings, or even oneself, into what can be counted, weighed and measured.

This omnipresent, invisible threat is the whole reason tech must be governed and regulated to support sustainability and human dignity.

Anybody happen to know the effective thermal power of a standard gasoline pump?
Like, X gallons per minute * Y joules per gallon of gas = Z kW of potential energy delivered to the vehicle
(this would then have to be scaled by motor efficiency to be a realistic comparison to EVs/EV chargers in terms of, e.g. miles of range delivered per minute of fueling/charging)

power: Western US Power Grid
A network representing the Western States Power Grid of the United States, in which nodes are transforms or power relay points and two nodes are connected if a power line runs between them.
This network has 4941 nodes and 6594 edges.
Tags: Technological, Power grid, Unweighted
https://networks.…

Updated NFL Power Rankings: New 1-32 poll, plus what we learned about each team this season https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47446909/nfl-week-18-power-rankings-poll-32-teams-2025-season-lessons

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Public Enemy:
🎵 Fight the Power
#PublicEnemy
https://jelee.bandcamp.com/album/public-enemy-fight-the-power-jelee-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1yo16b3u0lptm6Cs7lx4AD

Solar panels and crops growing together? It's called agrivoltaics, and it just got a major boost.
DC-based Okovate acquired startup Fundusol to integrate Stanford & Carnegie Mellon tech that optimizes solar arrays for different crops using genetic algorithms. The goal: make solar farming economically viable for rural communities across the US.

from my link log —
Free yourself from the Spotify desktop client with spotifyd.
https://jonathanchang.org/blog/setting-up-spotifyd-on-macos/
saved 2020-10-18

Sources: White House officials discussed antitrust concerns over Netflix's interest in WBD, questioning if a deal would give Netflix too much power in Hollywood (Charles Gasparino/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/11/…

Uppvärmning fungerar. Ju mer specifik den är desto mer effektiv brukar den bli.
Do warm-ups improve muscle strength? https://www.news-medical.net/news/20250911/Do-warm-ups-improve-muscle-strength.aspx

#Containerschiffe verursachen rund 3 Prozent der weltweiten #Emissionen.
Vollständig elektrische Antriebe sind für Ozeanreisen kaum wirtschaftlich, doch eine Kombination aus #Flüssigkraftstoff

Since #Trump’s re-election, warnings that his use of presidential power to advance personal interests is corroding American democracy have grown ever louder.
☑️ All the president’s millions: how the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches

There was no electric power in the whole centre of the Bulgarian capital for more than an hour. Not gonna lie, I was legit scared shitless those fuckers in the government were going to try to pull something against the ongoing protests 😬

NFL Week 18 Power Rankings: Checking in on each head coach as Bills, Steelers tumble https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6925417/2025/12/30/nfl-power-rankings-week-18-coaches-hot-seat-bills-steelers/

Trump has ordered a massive naval deployment off Venezuela’s northern coast.
“You can save yourself and those closest to you,
but you must leave the country now,”
Trump reportedly said,
offering safe passage for Maduro,
his wife and his son
“only if he agreed to resign right away”.
However, Venezuela’s president reportedly refused to step down immediately
and allegedly made a series of counter-demands,
including worldwide immunity from pr…

Sonnet 094 - XCIV
They that have power to hurt, and will do none,
That do not do the thing they most do show,
Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,
Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow;
They rightly do inherit heaven's graces,
And husband nature's riches from expense;
They are the lords and owners of their faces,
Others, but stewards of their excellence.
The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itsel…

• 60 out of 100 times it’ll “sync” and freeze with all 4 LEDs on. The Wii U does a little beep but doesn’t show the controller and no inputs work.
• 38 out of 100 times the same thing will happen but with all LEDs off
  • You need to remove the batteries in order to take the wiimotes out of these states
• 2 out of 100 times the wiimotes actually connect, but show with 1 battery bar and almost no inputs go through (and the ones that do are extremely laggy, except for the power button)
  • The manual states that if this happens you can remove the batteries, wait 3 minutes and connect (without syncing) again. That does fixes it sometimes, but it really only worked once for each wiimote.
  • A truly successful connection only happens after the “low battery one”, and even then it seems to be hard to achieve for the first time.
    • Afterwards you’re supposed to be able to reconnect without syncing and then not encounter the issues anymore. That was true for the pink wiimote, but the blue wiimote had to be synced again. I spent quite a few hours trying and wasn’t able to get a successful connection.
    • If you connect the pink wiimote that was working when the other wiimote is in the 4 LEDs freeze state it’ll break the connection of the other one and make you need to sync it again
      • Now none of my aliexpress wiimotes are synced and idk when I’ll be able to sync them again

Tatsunoko vs. Capcom – Nintendo Power July 2009
https://dkomaran.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/tatsunoko-vs-capcom-nintendo-power-july-2009/

"How Spain’s community solar revolution is helping families power up and costs go down"
#Spain #SolarPower #Energy

NFL Week 18 Power Rankings: Checking in on each head coach as Bills, Steelers tumble https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6925417/2025/12/30/nfl-power-rankings-week-18-coaches-hot-seat-bills-steelers/

As we prepare for 2026, remember we have the power to make our future (Rebecca Solnit/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/30/power-future-politics-trump-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/251230/p23#a251230p23

Global Energy Monitor: over 97 GW of gas-fired power in the US pipeline were explicitly earmarked for data centers in 2025, compared with just 4 GW in 2024 (Molly Taft/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/data-centers-are-driving-a-us-gas-boom/

power: Western US Power Grid
A network representing the Western States Power Grid of the United States, in which nodes are transforms or power relay points and two nodes are connected if a power line runs between them.
This network has 4941 nodes and 6594 edges.
Tags: Technological, Power grid, Unweighted
https://networks.…

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w7wg93yeeo
The preliminary blame is placed on a “power supply fault.”

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
The Isley Brothers:
🎵 Fight the Power (live)
#TheIsleyBrothers
https://timber77.bandcamp.com/track/the-isley-brothers-fight-the-power-timber-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6y8hmDDSBET6hAhdb9351V

NFC East power rankings for Week 18 have Cowboys looking forward to next year https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/nfc-east-power-rankings-nfl-week-18-dallas-cowboys-looking-forward-next-year

The Betrayal of Ukraine: Peace, Power, and the Price of Electricity
How Farage, Musk, Thiel and the Trumps hope to profit from the surrender of Ukraine
https://www.theangrydogs.com/p/the-betrayal-of-ukraine-peace-power

NFL Week 18 Power Rankings: Kyle Shanahan coaching the season of his life as 49ers keep winning without stars

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/prisco-nfl-week-18-power-rankings/

The double standard on executive power is impossible to ignore (Erick Chomskis/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5663325-the-double-standard-on-executive-power-is-impossible-to-ignore/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251230/p11#a251230p11

How the AI data center boom boosted Caterpillar's power and energy unit; generator sales are up 28% YoY through Sept. 2025, after growing 22% to $7.8B in 2024 (Bob Tita/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/caterpillar-generator-sales-…

I am mixed on this one...
On one hand I can see the risk of having Chinese people in China work on (which means "have access to", and often "have privileged access to") US DoD systems.
However, I don't see the other half of the issue - What do do about people who are not in China (perhaps in the US, even US citizens) who are, or have been induced, to use their access to promote the interests of a foreign power?
Given that under Cheato the US is dumbi…

Call for Papers: 'Dress Against: Aesthetics of Power and Normativity in Contemporary Cinema' https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/29/call-for-papers-dress-against-aesthetics-of-power-and-nor…

Your EV could soon power your home—and help stabilize the entire grid.
Hyundai and Kia are rolling out Vehicle-to-Grid and Vehicle-to-Home tech across Korea, Europe, and the U.S., turning electric cars into mobile power banks. The systems let EVs store renewable energy, cut electricity costs, and provide backup power during outages or peak demand.

On the evening of December 30,
a blackout occurred in the Russian suburbs of Moscow,
leaving more than 100,000 people without power.
Traffic lights and street lighting are not working, and dozens of buildings are without power.
https://…

Which Super Bowl Contenders Do We Trust? https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2025-nfl-power-rankings-week-18-which-super-bowl-contenders-do-we-trust

NFL Week 18 betting power ratings: How the market is treating starters resting, plus how all 32 teams stack up

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-18-betting-power-ratings…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Prince and The New Power Generation:
🎵 7
#PrinceandTheNewPowerGeneration
https://vibratingorgans.bandcamp.com/track/vinyl-prince-and-the-new-power-generation-7-acoustic-version-1992

Cyberattack was not the cause of the emergency situation in the energy system - Ministry of Digital Transformation
https://unn.ua/en/news/cyberattack-was-not-the-cause-of-the-emergency-situation-in-the-ene…

"How Batteries, Not Natural Gas, Can Power the Data Center Boom"
#Batteries #Energy #Technology

'Without power, without heat' — EU allocates over $170 million for Ukraine amid Russian attacks on energy: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/29/without-power-without-heat-eu.html

Nvidia invests $2B in Synopsys' common stock and announces a strategic partnership to accelerate computing and AI engineering products, including deploying CUDA (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/01/nvidia-takes-2-billion-stake-in-synopsys.htm…

⚓ Research on Integrated Modularization of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide System for Aircraft Carrier Nuclear Power
#energy

The architect of the London Eye wants to build a vast tidal power station in a 14-mile arc off the coast of Somerset
that could help Britain meet surging electricity demand to power artificial intelligence – and create a new race track to let cyclists skim over the Bristol Channel.
Julia Barfield, who designed the Eye and the i360 observation tower in Brighton, is part of a team that has drawn up the £11bn proposal.
It would use 125 underwater turbines to harness the power o…

power: Western US Power Grid
A network representing the Western States Power Grid of the United States, in which nodes are transforms or power relay points and two nodes are connected if a power line runs between them.
This network has 4941 nodes and 6594 edges.
Tags: Technological, Power grid, Unweighted
https://networks.…

Call for Papers: 'Dress Against: Aesthetics of Power and Normativity in Contemporary Cinema' https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/29/call-for-papers-dress-against-aesthetics-of-power-and-nor…

From power brokers to protesters: NYC landlords prepare for battle under Mamdani (Janaki Chadha/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/30/landlords-rent-freeze-new-york-mamdani-00669756
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p13#a251130p13

An interview with Google DeepMind Nobel laureate John Jumper on the creative "off-label" uses for AlphaFold, combining AlphaFold's power with LLMs, and more (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyrev…

Falcons hire Ian Cunningham as GM; NBA, MLB Power Rankings; Top 25 stories of 2025 NFL season

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/falcons-hire-ian-cu…

"Australian State Secures Federal Support to Achieve 100% Net Renewables Goal by 2027"
#Australia #Energy #Renewables

Filing: SpaceX is seeking FCC approval to launch 1M satellites into space; SpaceX claims the fleet will orbit the Earth and use the sun to power AI data centers (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-de…

power: Western US Power Grid
A network representing the Western States Power Grid of the United States, in which nodes are transforms or power relay points and two nodes are connected if a power line runs between them.
This network has 4941 nodes and 6594 edges.
Tags: Technological, Power grid, Unweighted
https://networks.…

Trump administration orders to keep an ageing, unneeded Michigan
coal-fired power plant online
has cost ratepayers from across the US midwest about $113m so far,
according to estimates from the plant’s operator and regulators.
Still, the US energy department last week ordered the plant to remain open for another 90 days.

🍾 Drop-to-deploy: How bistable mechanics unfold structures in under a second
#structures

Kyiv permanently loses one of its thermal power plants after January strikes: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/01/kyiv-permanently-loses-one-of.html

Trump says he would 'absolutely' denaturalize some citizens if he had the power (ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/trump-admin-live-updates/?id=127993391&entryId=127993580
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p67#a251201p67

Brookfield is launching a cloud company called Radiant and a new $10B AI fund, and plans to acquire up to $100B in land, data centers, and power assets for AI (Miles Kruppa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/brookfield-start-cloud-b…

Stephen Miller has amassed unprecedented power for a deputy White House chief of staff.
He exerts extraordinary influence over an unusually large swath of the government,
from immigration to criminal justice to even the military’s operations on American soil
❌Much of what defines public life in the Trump era
—masked kidnappings on U.S. streets,
standoffs between ICE goons and protesters,
military patrols in U.S. cities
—has been authored by Miller.

🕯️ Large-scale network failure: will the power system withstand January 31?: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/31/largescale-network-failure-will-the.html

Battery recycling and cathode production startup Redwood expands its Series E to $425M, sources say at a $6B valuation, adds Google as a new strategic investor (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/28/redwood-attra…

😅 New research finds Americans deeply concerned about US democracy
#usa

Ukraine’s political system is bracing for a “mini-revolution”
as the county’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy,
is forced to adapt to life without
his closest adviser, chief enforcer and most loyal associate,
Andriy Yermak,
who resigned on Friday
after his apartment was searched
as part of a widening anti-corruption probe.
Yermak was widely believed to control a network of Telegram channels
that poured dirt on those who crossed him,
a…

'Russians are to blame' — Moldovans react to mass power outage after Moldova-Ukraine line malfunction: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/31/russians-are-to-blame-moldovans.html

The people who tried to overturn the 2020 election have more power than ever – and they plan to use it.
Bolstered by the president,
they have prominent roles in key parts of the federal government.
🔸Harmeet Dhillon, a lawyer who helped advance Donald Trump’s claims of a stolen election in 2020, now leads the civil rights division of the justice department.
An election denier, 🔸Heather Honey, now serves as the deputy assistant secretary for election integrity in the …

Media: Top officials unite to oust Ukrainian chief of staff Yermak amid internal power struggle: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/01/media-top-officials-unite-to.html

power: Western US Power Grid
A network representing the Western States Power Grid of the United States, in which nodes are transforms or power relay points and two nodes are connected if a power line runs between them.
This network has 4941 nodes and 6594 edges.
Tags: Technological, Power grid, Unweighted
https://networks.…

The power of culture: Why the Patriots quoted a 1979 film on the road to the Super Bowl https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7006862/2026/01/30/mike-vrabel-mack-hollins-the-warriors-super-bowl-patriots/

While the pictures of Trump flanked by underage girls are hard to look at,
it’s disturbing in another way to see how women who want to earn power from him feel they must look now.
In 2025,
💥“Mar-a-Lago face”
entered the lexicon,
a term used to describe the combination of plastered-on makeup and aggressive plastic surgery
that makes women look like inflatable sex dolls,
as Trump’s apparent sexual tastes have morphed MAGA aesthetics into something inh…

The Epstein Dancers
are coming in January
to the
Trump-Kennedy Center for the Performaning Arts

NFL Power Rankings, Week 13: Patriots crack top five; Eagles, Bills, Steelers and Bucs all tumble https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-power-rankings-week-13-2025-nfl-season

The U.S. attorney’s office in Washington said last week that it would consider,
“when appropriate,”
taking advantage of a judge’s order expanding its power to use local juries to charge serious federal crimes.
A federal judge ruled on Nov. 20
that because of the complexities of local laws in the District of Columbia,
judges in Federal District Court in Washington must accept indictments for federal crimes
that prosecutors secured from a local grand jury.

A new report from the grassroots organization #RootsAction aims to do what a promised “autopsy” from the Democratic National Committee ultimately did not:
publicly reckon with the failures of the Democrats’ 2024 presidential campaign.
While the Democratic Party’s official postmortem assessment was pulled from public release earlier this month, RootsAction’s
“

The No Kings Coalition is activating an immediate and ongoing nationwide digital organizing effort
leading up to our next mass mobilization on March 28,
including a flagship event in the Twin Cities.
Sign Up Here:
https://www.nokings.org/#signup