2026-01-22 12:45:05
Really nice article from The Register. If you are into self-hosting.
Debian's FreedomBox Blend promises an easier home cloud • The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/22/debians_freedombox_blend/
Really nice article from The Register. If you are into self-hosting.
Debian's FreedomBox Blend promises an easier home cloud • The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/22/debians_freedombox_blend/
🎗️ North Sea project promises to return carbon to exactly where it came from
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/12/22/climate-change/co2-denmark-north-sea/
🆓
Israel is the only country in history to regularly occupy UN buildings. The constant defamation against the UNRWA had the nice side effect that such occupations don't lead to any condemnation at all.
The law based order never existed, but whatever legitimacy international laws had in false promises alone is falling apart in front of our very eyes.
In a groundhog day loop of explaining why this hierarchical model cannot effectively be represented in the unified flat format they're trying to push. You can absolutely represent it in a flattened way, but it requires breaking out the child components into their own collection.
We end, once again, with the telling pause of disinterest and multitasking, followed by a distracted "mmm hmm" and promises to circle back on it later.
David Seymour is a shitstain. That is all. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/581907/david-seymour-promises-to-reignite-treaty-principles-debate-in-2026
Congress lacks the cajones to respond to this clear rejection of the authority of Congress to make laws.
The proper response would be impeachment and conviction of blondi bondi. But no, our Congress will just roll over and snore.
"Trump over-promises and under-delivers with heavily redacted Epstein cache"
💬 Zohran Mamdani Needs to Create Popular Assemblies
#politics
POSTDOC> 2026-2028 Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford Postdoctoral Fellowship
https://ift.tt/cpoltmn
CFP: [FRISTVERLÄNGERUNG] Variations 28/2021: Gender through technology (25.09.2021) Call…
via Input 4 RELCFP
Bank of England governor
Andrew Bailey said officials
“need to remain very alert”
to how rising geopolitical tensions
could threaten financial stability,
amid growing concerns over Trump's threats to annex Greenland.
"The [resonant computing] Manifesto promises to fix everything that’s wrong on the internet right now. But you look at the authors and the signers, you’ll see the same guys who caused the present problems. These guys made it rich on the Torment Nexus and they’re now claiming they can fix it."
(Original title: The Resonant Computing Manifesto: same AI slop, same AI guys)
Google says it is working on a fix to combat the rise of spam sites in its Discover feed in the UK as fake AI-generated news stories gain visibility in the feed (Rob Waugh/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/google-promi…
"‘Better off with Taiwan’: Honduras joins other Latin American countries rethinking ties with China
US pressure, broken promises by China and corruption scandals have halted Taiwan’s slide to diplomatic irrelevance in the region"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec
»Promise based Web Worker Messaging«
Without the use of the Web Worker with JavaScript in the browser, the Internet would stand still locally on your own device ;)
🧑💻 https://muffinman.io/blog/web-workers-promises/
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft plans to focus on superintelligence that prioritizes human control; he will lead a new superintelligence team (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/11/05/2025/mi…
Trump promises to sign Epstein files bill ahead of House vote today: Live updates | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-news-today-epstein-files-live-updates-b2866880.html
Flattery, threats, and false promises: How Putin influences Trump, and why it doesn't always work: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/30/flattery-threats-and-false-promises.html
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Trump promises $2,000 tariff checks by mid-2026 (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/17/2000-tariff-dividend-trump-check-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/251117/p109#a251117p109
User interface pretending to be human: fraud.
Statistical sentence generation described as “intelligence”: fraud.
Telling people, often children, to commit dangerous or criminal acts: all sorts of crimes.
Scientific papers generated, non-existing cases quoted at court, homework faked, artists ripped-off: fraud and copyright infringement.
Training based on unlicensed works: copyright infringement.
Data centers with tax incentives and special energy pricing: theft.
Promises to investors of AGI: fraud.
Government bailouts with taxpayer money: theft and fraud.
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Media and politicians: This is innovation, don’t get left behind.
Delicious #KristaAllen
S11E06 "Broken Promises"
#BaywatchHawaii #RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx
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"Despite their promises, governments’ new emission-cutting plans submitted for the Cop30 climate talks taking place in Brazil have done little to avert dangerous global heating for the fourth consecutive year, according to the Climate Action Tracker update.
The world is now anticipated to heat up by 2.6C above preindustrial times by the end of the century"
#ClimateCatastrophe
[M]any consumers might not realize the privacy risks just by glancing at the flyer sent to them, according to Florian Schaub, associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Information.
"The privacy policy is very specific that we're going to track everything, including what you do in Incognito Windows. Previously anonymous data may now be identifiable. All those risks are not disclosed here," Schaub said, after reviewing a copy of the flyer.
"AI is the world's most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine....""
'Breaking Bad' Creator Hates AI, Promises New Show 'Pluribus' Was 'Made By Humans' - Slashdot
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/047221/breaking-bad-creator-hates-ai-promises-new-show-pluribus-was-made-by-humans
POSTDOC> 2026-2028 Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford Postdoctoral Fellowship https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20138845/2026-2028-ho-center-buddhist-studies-stanford-postdoctoral-fellowship
Exciting news, friends: I’ll be joining an amazing lineup this week as MC for the Mozilla Festival in Barcelona! If you’ll be there in person, please do say hi, and if not, join online as the schedule promises to be extraordinary. Get the details here: https://www.mozillafestival.org/en/
Symbolic.ai, founded by ex-eBay CEO Devin Wenig and Ars Technica cofounder Jon Stokes, partners with News Corp to offer AI tools to WSJ, Barron's, and others (Ben Sherry/Inc)
https://www.inc.com/ben-sherry/this-ai-startup-just-lan…
@… Promises are cheap, action is expensive. Or so they think.
2000 is less than half of the 5k Berzelius Windrip promises in „It can't happen here“ by Sinclair Lewis from 1935, but apart from that the plot is still identical. And scary
https://journa.host/@w7voa/115520075752150107
US promises Ukraine 'Article 5-like' security, but it's a limited time offer (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/15/us-ukraine-article-5-security-00690826
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p119#a251215p119
140 years ago we were connected
(This Letter was sent to the Times Colonist on November 7 2025) Dear Editor, 140 years ago today (November 7th, 2025) the last spike was driven near Revelstoke BC, completing what is now known as the Canadian Pacific Kansas City railway. It took just 4 years for government and private railway tycoons to complete that cross-continental railway. Today, we have endured 20 years of dithering, broken promises, and outright denial trying to…
https://chrisalemany.ca/b/6B7
I would like to go on record to say that I don't hate LLMs. That would be like disowning maths.
I hate how people sell it with promises that are simply lies and urging people to use it for things that it is unsuitable for, with the commercial LLMs how they train models on stolen data, how users talk themselves into believing they're talking to a human or something human-like while deskilling themselves, how institutions and organizations shoehorn it into every fucking thing, the way it is usurping computing resources and increasing prices for personal computing, how the big companies underhandedly continuously threaten everyone with "if we don't invest enough the Terminators will get us" and how it is used for very obvious large-scale financial fraud. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Has anyone tried @… by @… yet? What do you think of it?
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Is Enerkem's Waste Gasification technology a Failure or a promising Climate Solution?🗑️💨♨️🏭
Gasification of waste and biomass🪵 could be an enormously helpful tool to make valuable circular or renewable chemicals. Yet, the list of failed gasification projects is long.
Enerkem looked like it had finally unlocked successful waste gasification, with the world's only waste-to-Methanol/Ethanol plant operating in Edmonton, Canada🇨🇦, since 2014. But in early 2024, it was shut down.…
Climate action is finally moving from promises to practice. The Global Implementation Accelerator is bridging the gap between national climate plans and real-world results.
Here's what's working: Private capital restoring Brazilian forests. Unilever switching to renewables. H&M and IKEA modernizing Vietnam's grid. Companies in Taiwan pooling demand for clean energy.
The breakthrough? Aligning business needs with national climate goals creates wins on both sides.
From David Suzuki
A report released today by the David Suzuki Foundation, "Running on Fumes: B.C. LNG’s Overhyped Promises, Risky Future and Public Costs,” shows that the #LNG industry exhibits a pattern of grand promises, under-delivery and hidden costs.
The real winners are foreign multinationals, not British Columbians. Offshored profits, few jobs, higher energy costs and ignored environm…
Symbolic.ai, founded by ex-eBay CEO Devin Wenig and Ars Technica cofounder Jon Stokes, partners with News Corp to offer AI tools to WSJ, Barron's, and others (Ben Sherry/Inc)
https://www.inc.com/ben-sherry/this-ai-startup-just-lan…
"marshmallow testing" isn't testing "grit"
it's a test for learned precarity: whether the child feels like they can trust the promises of adults.
Ballistic response from the West! Britain promises Ukraine weapons that the Kremlin fears: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/12/ballistic-response-from-the-west.html
Ronny Chieng Investigates the Promises of AI, the Most Expensive Circle Jerk Ever | The Daily Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcPthlvzMY8
How Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Google are managing the strain of AI's increased energy demand with their promises of net-zero carbon emissions (Emily Forgash/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20
Tracking Trump’s first-year promises: What he delivered, what he didn’t
https://www.ms.now/news/tracking-trumps-first-year-promises-what-he-delivered-what-he-didnt
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SoundOfCinema
Carter Burwell:
🎵 Good Fortune "Visions of the Hope Your Life Promises"
#CarterBurwell
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Gp1Q53eMkKjaaXUEjE73n
"First, everything — everything — Trump has done on trade has, in addition to its illegality, been a violation of past U.S. agreements with other countries. So we emerge from the trade war as a nation that can no longer be trusted to honor its promises."
"We could have achieved victory by not hitting ourselves in the face in the first place."
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Sweeping Promises:
🎵 Pain Without a Touch
#SweepingPromises
https://sweepingpromises.bandcamp.com/album/pain-without-a-touch
https://open.spotify.com/track/3AZehDLKUwbTefbl1DYt0p
After courting coal miners during his campaign,
Trump has left a trail of broken promises.
Many miners in Appalachia thought they would finally see a commitment to solving the issue of black lung.
Last year, on April 18, 2024, the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) issued its final rule,
"Lowering Miners’ Exposure to Respirable Crystalline Silica and Improving Respiratory Protection",
which aimed to reduce miners’ exposure to an airborne co…
from my link log —
Does the QUIC handshake require compression to be fast?
https://www.fastly.com/blog/quic-handshake-tls-compression-certificates-extension-study
saved 2020-05-19
US promises to unleash 'full range of tools' against Keir Starmer to protect free speech in Britain (James Saunders/GB News)
https://www.gbnews.com/politics/us/x-ban-us-keir-starmer-donald-trump-free-speech-britain
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p96#a260113p96
The #genAI *research* bubble will burst around the same time; it’s largely driven by the economic promises, and it’s becoming increasingly clear that, as for any technology, it’s not going to scale up indefinitely: some *actual* research will be necessary to advance the SOTA.
As @…
The #genAI *research* bubble will burst around the same time; it’s largely driven by the economic promises, and it’s becoming increasingly clear that, as for any technology, it’s not going to scale up indefinitely: some *actual* research will be necessary to advance the SOTA.
As @…
> Like an unattended turkey deep frying on the patio, truly global distributed consensus promises deliciousness while yielding only immolation.
https://fly.io/blog/corrosion/ 👨🍳🤌
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmbientFocus
Rachika Nayer:
🎵 Promises
#RachikaNayer
https://rachika.bandcamp.com/track/promises
https://open.spotify.com/track/5VAWhNvuwMpEgExs1vs8YB
Who are going to be the five D senators who chicken out and sign a blank check to the trumpies?
These wimpy-D's are willing to give away what little power we have left to obtain magic beans - which are worthless promises that the R's will allow a vote on ACA subsidies. A vote? We know that the R's will roll over that vote, that el-cheato won't sign, and that even if enacted, will simply become a bag of cash that el-cheato will use for whatever purpose he wants.
…
Majestic Labs, which makes patent-pending server architecture that promises more memory capacity, raised $100M, including a $71M Series A led by Bow Wave (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/10/majestic-labs-meta-google-ai-funding.html
…
If you want to understand Musk, give this a listen. Great podcast limited series from the CBC: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1353-the-naked-emperor
Q&A with Mohsin Hamid, co-founder of Equator magazine, which aims to be a "post-American" magazine of politics and culture, avoiding a "Western-centric gaze" (Jem Bartholomew/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/the-interview/equator-
I think the root of the “AI” evil is when AI researchers in the 1960s recognized that they outrageously underestimated the complexity of the human mind.
They became humiliated by their promises that AGI was just a few years away—and then went full goblin mode that’s lasting to this day.
Some of the OG researchers took it quite badly that they stalled and weren’t in the limelight anymore.
‣ Marvin Minsky (co-founder of MIT AI lab and arguably the most important early AI bro) went on to visit Epstein’s island multiple times.
‣ Karl Steinbuch, who came up with the German term for computer science ("Informatik")—who also was a literal Nazi (and likely war criminal) in World War II—later wrote articles in ultra-right magazines about things like “equal rights rob women of their children”.
‣ John McCarthy (inventor of Lisp, co-authored document that coined the term “Artificial Intelligence”) was a staunch Republican who years later claimed (in a serious article) that “thermostats have beliefs”.
[one moment, I am receiving more information]
‣ There’s a second Epstein Island AI pioneer? Who also was Chief Learning Officer at… Trump University? That would be Roger Schank (founded one of the first AI companies in the 1980s AI boom, it even had an IPO. Of course the 1980s AI bubble burst).
Obviously all of the above received all the awards in computer science and are very revered people.
"Uruguay Achieves 99% Green Energy After Seeking the Lowest Price for Consumers"
#Uruguay #Energy #Renewables
For all of Donald Trump’s promises of an economic “golden age,”
a spate of weak indicators this week told a worrisome story as the impacts of his policies are coming into focus.
Job gains are dwindling.
Inflation is ticking upward.
Growth has slowed compared with last year.
More than six months into his term, Trump’s blitz of tariff hikes and his new tax and spending bill have remodeled America’s trading, manufacturing, energy and tax systems to his own liking.
Here's everything Elon Musk promised in 2025 - and failed to deliver (Matt Binder/Mashable)
https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-failed-to-deliver-on-2025-promises
http://www.memeorandum.com/251231/p66#a251231p66
'They're not scary' — Ukraine's drone commander 'Madyar' promises blackouts in Russia after new strikes: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/01/theyre-not-scary-ukraines-drone.html
Israel-based RAAAM, whose "GCRAM" on-chip memory tech aims to deliver up to 10x power savings relative to high-density SRAM, raised a $17M Series A led by NXP (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/sjjv3pp1bg
From David Suzuki
Expanding LNG will increase prices and pollution
Higher home heating prices. Pollution. Accelerating climate change. Water shortages. Indigenous rights violations. Who wants that? Apparently the obscenely profitable fossil fuel companies, and unimaginative, short-sighted governments banking on outdated ideas to shore up the economy.
Has industry lived up to its LNG promises? A David Suzuki Foundation report concludes that it hasn’t & isn’t likely to.
The mainstream media said voters wouldn’t go for him
and they said “socialism won’t sell.”
But on the streets of New York, people were done listening to conventional wisdom.
All throughout Manhattan and from East Harlem to Queens, voters told us the same thing:
they’re tired of the old guard, the empty promises, and a system that serves the wealthy instead of the working class.
Trump Promises Executive Order to Block State A.I. Regulations (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/us/politics/trump-executive-order-ai-laws.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p65#a251208p65
Toyota promises electric car with record range, ultra-fast charging capability
https://news.am/eng/news/912532.html
Microsoft built a simulated marketplace to test hundreds of AI agents, finding that businesses could manipulate agents into buying their products and more (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/05/microsoft-built-a-synthet…
“Many questions remain about the fund-raising for this project,
including the amount of each contribution,
the agreement reached with each contributor,
what promises may have been or may yet be made in exchange for what presumably will be substantial contributions,
and why the White House chose to allow donors to remain anonymous,”
Mr. Blumenthal, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, wrote in letters to several donors
Mesh of Spatiotemporal Optical Vortices with Programmable Intensity Nulls
Jinxin Wu, Dan Wang, Qingqing Liang, Jianhua Hu, Jiahao Dong, Jijun Feng, Yi Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18087 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.18087 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.18087
arXiv:2511.18087v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Light carrying transverse orbital angular momentum (T-OAM) in the form of spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOVs) is opening new degrees of freedom for structured light manipulation. Such spatiotemporal wavepackets hold significant potential for optical trapping, analog optical computing, studying photonic symmetry and topology, among others. Up to now, synthesizing of such vortices is limited in one dimension, either in temporal or spatial domain. In this work, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a two-dimensional flexible mesh of spatiotemporal optical vortices (M-STOV) with programmable intensity nulls, and analyze their diffraction patterns for detection. Furthermore, we extend the spectral range of M-STOV via second-harmonic generation while examining the transfer of OAM in this nonlinear process. This study establishes a foundational framework for designing higher dimensional spatiotemporal vortex fields and promises a high-capacity information carrier based on ST optical vortices.
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A look at Search.com, which is building an AI chatbot to be integrated into publisher websites, giving 60% of ad revenue back to its publisher partners (Andrew Byrd/AdMonsters)
https://www.admonsters.com/search-com-has-a-novel-approac…
The Trump administration effectively says that no one should ever work with Americans during wartime; that our promises mean nothing, our word is dust, and we will throw our allies under the bus the moment we want.
In any future armed conflict, who would ever trust us again?
-- @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
https://
The Empty Promises of Trump's Imperial Presidency (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/opinion/snap-hunger-republicans-congress.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p30#a251029p30
Good Morning #Canada
I'm sitting my sunroom sipping coffee and contemplating the year that's past, and thinking about #NewYearsResolutions. I've never previously indulged in making promises to myself that I forget about in a few months, but I might make one for 2026. According to Narrative Research, 48% of Canadians made resolutions in 2025, with most setting goals related to health or finances. More than 71% are confident they’ll reach their 2025 goals. Quebec residents are more likely to have made a resolution for 2025, and resolutions are more likely for Canadians age 34 or younger, with the likelihood decreasing with age.
What about you? Please select an option from the survey below, and please boost for additional data collection. I've included a tune to set the mood.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Poll
Do you make New Years Resolutions?
Amid the Trump administration’s military escalations against Venezuela,
one Florida Republican is salivating at the prospect of a full-scale military invasion,
arguing that a U.S. military invasion would be “very good news for the American economy.”
“Venezuela, for those Americans who do not understand why we need to go in, basically [it’s] for three reasons,”
said Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL), speaking with Fox’s David Asman.
Those three reasons, Salazar exp…
Trump frequently campaigned with coal miners during his 2016 presidential run,
and has since continued to participate in photo-ops using miners as a symbolic backdrop for his energy policies while campaigning and serving in office.
However, despite the president courting the CEOs of the mining industry heavily during his campaign,
miners themselves feel neglected and left behind.
Days after the executive order, on April 11,
just before coal mines were expected t…
#BrandeRoderick
S11E06 "Broken Promises"
#BaywatchHawaii #RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx
#JasonBrooks #BrandeRoderick #DanielCasler
S11E06 "Broken Promises"
#BaywatchHawaii
#BrandeRoderick #JasonBrooks
S11E06 "Broken Promises"
#BaywatchHawaii #RandomBaywatch