2026-01-14 14:03:20
Sweden and Finland push EU to bar port services for Russian energy shipments: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/14/sweden-and-finland-push-eu.html
Sweden and Finland push EU to bar port services for Russian energy shipments: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/14/sweden-and-finland-push-eu.html
A push by the Department of Justice to open an investigation into the widow of Renee Nicole Good
after her tragic killing at the hands of a federal immigration officer
has sparked a mass resignation of federal prosecutors in Minnesota, reports say.
According to reports, at least a dozen federal prosecutors across Washington and Minnesota have indicated their plans to resign.
This includes six federal prosecutors in the state who left their jobs on Tuesday,
and a…
Jerry Jones Continues His Push For Expanded State Revenue https://insidethestar.com/jerry-jones-continues-his-push-for-expanded-state-revenue
Maryland residents bristle at Wes Moore's redistricting push (Brakkton Booker/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/15/maryland-residents-bristle-at-wes-moores-redistricting-push-00690336
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p91#a251215p91
OpenAI says it issued a request for proposals to US-based hardware manufacturers as it seeks to push into consumer devices, robotics, and cloud data centers (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-15/o…
Big day for Silent Push, which released today a "magnum opus" on bulletproof hosting providers and announced its purchase of Canadian preemptive cyber defense vendor Hyas.
https://www.silentpush.com/white-papers-and-reports/bph-white-paper-2025/<…
"The skyscraper, the apotheosis of form following finance and function"
—Jenny Diski, LRB
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v36/n15/jenny-diski/post-its-push-pins-pencils
Irgendwie der Soundtrack dieser Tage:
You'll be back, time will tell
You'll remember that I served you well
Oceans rise, empires fall
We have seen each other through it all
And when push comes to shove
I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love
[…]
So don't throw away this thing we had
'Cause when push comes to shove
I will kill your friends and family
To remind you of my love
You'll be bac…
I read this fascinating thread while listening to Qobuz and by sheer coincidence, this track came on and it seems horribly appropriate:
#IfYouTolerateThisYourChildrenWillBeNext Manic Street Preachers on Qobuz https://open.qobuz.com/track/55341288
https://mastodon.social/@sellathechemist/116075306722957554
@… - The Russians cannot be trusted. At best the Russians will buy time, and then have another go.
When will European governments call a spade a spade and really push to disconnect from Russian oil and gas? If that means buying it from the US interim so be it. But then really push hard for energy and military security.
Russia is NOT going away. Nor is its hatred of Europe which is why the've been waging war on us in myriad ways for the last 20 years.
4/end
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/14/alexei-navalny-poisoning-death-russia-frog-toxin
A push by the Department of Justice to open an investigation into
👉the widow of Renee Nicole Good
after her tragic killing at the hands of a federal immigration officer
💥has sparked a mass resignation of federal prosecutors in Minnesota, reports say.
According to reports, at least a dozen federal prosecutors across Washington and Minnesota have indicated their plans to resign.
This includes six federal prosecutors in the state who left their jobs on Tuesday,
Some more `git subtree push` quirks:
• `git subtree push` (obviously) does not push :gitannex: #gitAnnex files to the remote. Syncing annexed files there is unergonomic.
• git subtree push` also strips commit signatures (e.g. GPG and as such #OpenTimeStamps timestamps). The truth lies…
Today, Wikipedia turns 25 years old. It's never been more important — or under more attack from authoritarians. Here's what to know about how we got here, and what we can do to push for its future and support them as they start to demand fair support from the AI companies that are profiting off of the community. There's no better example than Wikipedia of the web we make together.
Solar power just hit a new milestone. Chinese researchers broke the 10% efficiency barrier for selenium solar cells for the first time, reaching 10.3%.
What makes this exciting: selenium cells have wider bandgaps and high efficiency potential. The team used optimized contacts, light-driven crystallization, and special annealing techniques.
The result? Stable devices that lost minimal efficiency after 1,000 hours of testing.
The resignations came as a result of a push by top Justice Department officials to investigate #Good’s #widow,
a move that has sparked outrage over the seeming mission to punish a family already grieving the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent’s brutal and public killing of Good.
They also come after …
Climate change is straining Alaska’s Arctic. A new mining road may push the region past the brink https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/climate-change-is-straining-alaskas-arctic-a-new-mining…
Staggering cost of Pentagon push to change DoD to 'Department of War' revealed - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/pentagon-name-change-cost/
"Six federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned on Tuesday over the Justice Department’s push to investigate the widow of a woman killed by an ICE agent and the department’s reluctance to investigate the shooter, according to people with knowledge of their decision."
"Chance of El Niño forming in Pacific Ocean may push global temperatures to record highs in 2027"
#Climate #ClimateChange
Ich kannte Malte persönlich. Sein Tod kam nicht überraschend, er war schon lange krank und hatte sich aus der Öffentlichkeit zurück gezogen, aber trotzdem - dass Du nicht mehr da bist, Malte, hinterlässt ein Gefühl der Leere.
India partners with Alibaba.com to help Indian startups and small businesses reach overseas buyers, highlighting its selective engagement with Chinese platforms (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/13/india-…
Trump claims victory on affordability as public anxieties persist (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/02/15/trump-economy-white-house-push/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260215/p8#a260215p8
FTC push for age verification a ‘major landmark’ for spread of the tool https://therecord.media/ftc-push-for-age-verification-a-major-landmark-for-implementation
In wat voor land leven we dat zo'n docent niet op staande voet ontslagen wordt??
https://www.gelderlander.nl/binnenland/oud
#RedHat just shipped its first RPM signed with #PostQuantum #Cryptography, completing a major push across multiple teams to make this happen.
`ipmitool-1.8.19-10.el10_1` from
Irish will push to keep Freeman amid NFL interest https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/47258216/notre-dame-ad-push-retain-freeman-amid-nfl-interest
Notification permissions are unable to survive an existence of KPIs.
Like literally any app I have that has a company behind it is unable to resist push notifications spam over time.
High 5: Five crucial players for postseason push https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/high-5-five-crucial-players-for-postseason-push
Ukrainians reject wartime elections despite US push, poll shows: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/15/ukrainians-reject-wartime-elections-despite.html
Journalists of color on being laid off amid Trump’s anti-DEI push:
It's not just a coincidence
Black and brown former employees from CBS, NBC and Teen Vogue talk about the effects of being let go
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/d
Today’s one small action to push SF progressives away from the embrace of car brain.
All candidates who have filed in that district oppose the park, so it’s an easy call that she would be my first place vote if I lived there, regardless. But unless that stance changes, am I spending my precious time on her campaign? Nah. #sfpol
psst! you! do you write Go?
check this out: https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/blob/aad2224095c5a956d0d46334699c489e37412d7a/ext/seq/push_coro.go
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsRaveForever
Nightcrawlers:
🎵 Push The Feeling On (The Dub Of Doom)
#Nightcrawlers
https://maxchapman.bandcamp.com/track/nightcrawlers-push-the-feeling-on-max-chapman-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/5FgksYa3NCAO9ggJTuD5Q7
art by Daniel Warren Johnson
#FuckICE
The Office producer Ben Silverman's Propagate Content raised $50M from Ares Management at a $200M valuation, up 33% from 2023, as part of a creator-economy push (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/mormon-w…
Some Democrats push for a fight over DHS funds after ICE shooting in Minneapolis (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/democrats-push-fight-dhs-funds-ice-shooting-minneapolis-rcna253799
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p125#a260113p125
Seen in a nearby chat window: “another reason to de-Google is that everything runs more slowly with their needing to push AI into it. In this case, google meet...”
Alpaca, which builds software to let companies offer stocks, ETFs, and other financial instruments, raised a $150M Series D led by Drive at a $1.15B valuation (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/14/alpaca-fundraise-series-d-brokerage-infrastruct…
High 5: Five crucial players for postseason push https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/high-5-five-crucial-players-for-postseason-push
Zelensky visits Germany for talks with US, European officials amid peace push: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/14/zelensky-visits-germany-for-talks.html
Josh Allen's tush pushers carry Bills to playoff win: 'Closest-to-God experience' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6962283/2026/01/11/josh-allen-bills-tush-push-playoff-victory/
Three US prosecutors quit their jobs after being pressed to investigate the widow of Renee Good. The failure to investigate the ICE agent shooter was involved.
#uspol #ReneeGood #ICE
3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim's Widow (Ernesto Londoño/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/us/3-prosecutors-quit-after-push-to-investigate-ice-shooting-victims-widow.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p86#a260113p86
AI / LLM sycophancy as a liability:
'A 2025 study by Fanous et al. tested GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet, and Gemini 1.5 Pro across math and medical domains. The results: these systems changed their answers nearly 60% of the time when challenged by users'
https://
More on why trusting AI to decide literally anything is a horrible idea.
https://www.randalolson.com/2026/02/07/the-are-you-sure-problem-why-your-ai-keeps-changing-its-mind/
@axbom@axbom.meSix Prosecutors Quit Over DOJ Push to Investigate Renee Good’s Widow - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/Wxi6l
WhatsApp says Russia tried to fully block platform, push users to state app https://therecord.media/whatsapp-russia-blocked-state
In South Korea's competition to develop an indigenous AI model, three of the five finalists used foreign open-source code, which they argue is practical (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/…
The push to impeach,
-- in particular the current breakout push among Dems for #Noem
-- but also more generally,
⭐️is NOT just about taking the long shot of flipping a couple of Massie types to get it through now.
🔥It's also about creating and holding them to a pre-commitment to do it when Dems have the House.
How two seismic Week 15 injuries impacted the NFL: Barnwell on Parsons, Mahomes and the fallout https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47304899/2025-nfl-week-15-injuries-acl-patrick-mahomes-micah-parsons-chiefs-packers…
Dak Prescott trolls Eagles ahead of Cowboys' final NFL Playoff push https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dak-prescott-trolls-eagles-ahead-dallas-cowboys-final-nfl-playoff-push
Push for greater ICE training grows on some Republicans (Eric Bazail-Eimil/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/15/ice-training-republicans-shootings-00732583
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p147#a260115p147
Nvidia announces it has acquired SchedMD, the developer of Slurm, an open-source workload management system for HPC and AI (Arsheeya Bajwa/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/nvidia-buys-ai-software-provider-schedmd-expan…
"Opponents of AfD lawmakers say that their push to publish sensitive details about national security could benefit Russian military planning."
AfD Pushes to Publish German Information That Officials Say May Help Russia - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/world/europe/germany-far-right-afd-russia-security-secrets.html
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 …
Inside the push to knock Newsom off his perch as 2028 frontrunner (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/14/gavin-newsom-liabilities-2028-primary
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p14#a251215p14
2025 NFL fantasy football waiver wire, Week 16: Top 15 pickups for playoffs boost https://www.nfl.com/news/2025-nfl-fantasy-football-waiver-wire-week-16-top-15-pickups-for-playoffs-boost
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Lizzo:
🎵 Tempo (feat. Missy Elliott)
#Lizzo
https://bakkinger.bandcamp.com/track/lizzo-ft-missy-elliott-tempo-bakkingers-push-the-tempo-remix
NSA, Cyber Command nominee defends record during Senate hearing https://therecord.media/nsa-cyber-command-nom-joshua-rudd-senate-hearing
Judge skeptical of DHS push to ID anonymous accounts documenting ICE (Alfred Ng/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/14/judge-instagram-account-documenting-ice-00730455
http://www.memeorandum.com/260114/p158#a260114p158
Robinhood launches a public testnet for Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum Layer 2 network on Arbitrum supporting 24/7 trading, with a broader rollout later in 2026 (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/
New Hampshire:
"Citing security, Republicans push to exclude student ID cards from voting verification" - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=153804
Most Americans oppose Trump's push on Greenland, poll shows (Finya Swai/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/15/trump-greenland-poll-00731009
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p83#a260115p83
Draft-day steal? Safety devalued, could best prospect reach Cowboys? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/15/devalued-position-cowboys-safety-2026-draft-steal/88166442007/
Russian forces push to Kostiantynivka’s outskirts, with new gains reported near Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/04/russian-forces-push-to-kostiantynivkas.html
Trump threatens to block ExxonMobil from Venezuela
after CEO calls country ‘uninvestable’
Trump says the company is
'playing too cute’
after CEO responds sceptically to his push for oil investment
after deposing Nicolšs Maduro
https://www.
Vikings expected to add veteran quarterback in 2026 offseason to push J.J. McCarthy https://www.nfl.com/news/vikings-expected-to-add-veteran-quarterback-2026-offseason-push-jj-mccarthy
Ukraine stalls Russian push near Hulyaipole amid heavy losses: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/02/ukraine-stalls-russian-push-near.html
On Oct. 4, Marimar Martinez, a teacher’s assistant at a Montessori school, was driving in Chicago when she observed federal immigration agents on patrol.
She had begun to honk her horn to warn her neighbors about their presence when she collided with a Border Patrol vehicle.
Moments later, the agent in the vehicle, Charles Exum, fired multiple shots into Martinez’s car, hitting her again and again.
(Later, Exum bragged to colleagues that he had “fired 5 rounds and she had 7…
Should Eagles' tush push be banned? Reader poll shows narrow divide https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6862534/2025/12/04/eagles-tush-push-ban/
Ukraine war latest: Russia intensifies push on Chasiv Yar, Ukrainian military says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/12/ukraine-war-latest-russia-intensifies.html
RapidFort, which develops tools for securing software supply chains, raised a $42M Series A led by Blue Cloud and ForgePoint, taking its total funding to ~$51M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/03/ra
Democratic lawmakers repeatedly called on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign
as they confronted her on Trump’s immigration crackdown during a heated House Homeland Security Committee hearing Thursday.
Congressmember Delia Ramirez, announced that she would begin taking steps for her impeachment.
The Department of Homeland Securityis “operating as a criminal organization” under Noem’s leadership, Ramirez tells Democracy Now!
“She thinks that she is above…
Six Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim's Widow (Ernesto Londoño/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/us/prosecutors-doj-resignation-ice-shooting.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p91#a260113p91
Sources: Fluidstack, an AI cloud provider that is aiding Google's effort to expand access to its TPUs, is in talks to raise $700M led by Situational Awareness (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-cloud-pr…
GOP leaders throw cold water on Trump's credit-card push (Jordain Carney/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/01/13/congress/trump-credit-cards-thune-johnson-00725061
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p147#a260113p147
Differing results for Abdul Carter and Drake Maye, plus what fans think about tush push https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6859180/2025/12/03/abdul-carter-giants-drake-maye-patriots-tush-push/
Google unveils WAXAL, a new open speech dataset for 21 African languages to ease speech technology development; African institutions own the dataset (Damilare Dosunmu/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/google-waxal-african-languages-ai-sovereignty/…
Lions confronting a lost 2025: 'If we're not in the dance ... it's a failure' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47592746/lions-searching-answers-miss-nfl-playoffs-disappointing-2025
Dems weigh how hard to push in Virginia (Punchbowl News)
https://punchbowl.news/article/campaigns/dems-va-push/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p137#a260109p137
Taiwan opens its largest AI supercomputing data center using Nvidia's Blackwell chips, a major effort in its push for sovereign AI and chip industry innovation (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/ta…
Joe Burrow aims to push Bengals into playoff race with help of reinforced cleat https://www.nfl.com/news/joe-burrow-aims-to-push-bengals-into-playoff-race-with-help-of-reinforced-cleat
Your Tax Dollars at Work:
ICE plans $100 million
‘wartime recruitment’ push
targeting gun shows, military fans for hires
A strategy document shared among immigration officials details plans to use influencers and geo-targeted ads to supercharge their push to hire thousands
https://www.<…
How the US government is adopting AI: NASA reports 420 AI use cases in 2025, up from 18 in 2024, HHS reports 398, Energy 325, DOJ 295, Interior 234, and DHS 205 (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/09/trump-administration-ai-p…
Internal messages: Amazon pushes in-house AI coding assistant Kiro for production code, prompting criticism and causing ~1,500 staff to push for Claude Code (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-engineer…
Election officials are "very concerned" about Trump voting push, says David Becker (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/election-officials-very-concerned-about-trump-voting-push-says-david-becker/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260208/p42#a260208p42
Steelers escape Ravens' late push, win AFC North title https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47506780/pittsburgh-steelers-escape-baltimore-ravens-late-push-win-afc-north-title-week-18-playoffs
David Sacks says Trump's AI EO aims to ease companies' compliance burden and that the administration is working with Congress on a common AI oversight standard (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12…
Republican leaders push back on Trump's openness to using the military to take Greenland (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republican-leaders-push-back-trump-openness-military-greenland-rcna252814
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p95#a260107p95
Sources say President Trump's efforts to block state-level AI regulations through a preemption proposal are facing significant opposition on Capitol Hill (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/02/ai-preemption-push-stalls-trump-pressure
Meituan agrees to buy Dingdong, a Chinese fresh grocery e-commerce company, for $717M in cash; Dingdong had 7M monthly transacting users as of September 2025 (Cao Li/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3342
Virginia Democrat gives profanity-laced response to Cruz's criticism of the state's redistricting push (Rachel Wolf/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/virginia-democrat-gives-profanity-laced-response-cruzs-criticism-states-redistricting-push
http://www.memeorandum.com/260207/p69#a260207p69
AOC and Warren join forces in high-profile child care push ahead of midterms (Amanda Becker/The 19th)
https://19thnews.org/2026/02/aoc-warren-child-care-midterm-elections/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p74#a260212p74
TSA is giving airline passenger data to ICE for deportation push: NYT (Dan Mangan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/12/ice-deportation-airline-passengers-tsa.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251212/p123#a251212p123