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Three reasons the Bears have gone from worst-to-first and why it won't last

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/three-reasons-the-bears-have-gone-from-w…

Reasons to Believe Fernando Mendoza is Franchise QB the Raiders Have Needed https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-reasons-believe-fernando-mendoza-franchise-qb-have-needed

Anthropic's Claude Cowork launch has revived fears about disruption that weighed on SaaS stocks in 2025; Morgan Stanley SaaS index is down 15% so far in 2026 (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

arxiv_collab: Scientific collaborations in physics (1995-2005)
Collaboration graphs for scientists, extracted from the Los Alamos e-Print arXiv (physics), for 1995-1999 for three categories, and additionally for 1995-2003 and 1995-2005 for one category. For copyright reasons, the MEDLINE (biomedical research) and NCSTRL (computer science) collaboration graphs from this paper are not publicly available.
This network has 8361 nodes and 15751 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration…

One of the biggest reasons now that I think I may stay as a freelancer and not job hunt is that I don't want to be forced to use some "productivity" suite like #google #docs or #microsoft

Just email someone. I always like it when people email me about some weird blog post or project I’ve done.
https://goodinternetmagazine.com/why-i-email-complete-strangers/

Why I email complete strangers
The first time I emailed a stranger, I swear my cursor hovered over Send for a full five minutes. I had plenty of justifiable reasons to remain hesitant. Not wanting to take up their time, feeling bothersome, worried my question was a silly one... A hundred disparate excuses leading back

"The FBI director’s trip is not for ‘personal’ reasons [*certainly not!*], and was planned ‘months ago [*of course it was!*],’ an agency spokesperson said"
FBI Director Kash Patel takes agency jet to Italy and plans to attend Olympic hockey games | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kash-patel-fbi-jet-winter-olympics-b2924039.html

Charging. Travelling. Offarming. Gatherstepping. "Act of shooting" trash.
Terrible refereeing are one of the many reasons I stopped watching the NBA a long time ago.
▶️ The NBA is letting offenses do whatever they want
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8NWDEbashT

Now the reality is that all speech has that affiliation-building aspect and the argument-building aspect, but the scale of each varies a _lot_.
This thread itself is doing both! I'm making some concrete persuasive points here, but I'm also setting up an affiliation here. I want more people to join this "thinking well about the world" club and conversation. I want us to end up collectively in a better place than we're at. We gotta band together to do that. But also that means we need to communicate like we're in public and talking to people who don't all agree, and some of whom are hostile, and some of whom are real boneheads for various reasons.

I’m old enough that it took me years to adopt a screen name. I had been given something of an embarrassing nickname (Dr. Bill) on various BBS’s because of my tendency to expound at length and in depth on a variety of topics.
I adopted the one I’ve stuck with since when I needed to have an AIM account for reasons. No one has ever questioned my choice. I could make a trademark case for it if necessary. @…

@… it's also a large part of the reason for me thanking people a few weeks ago. I chose to refrain from giving reasons at the time:
<https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperri<…

keytool decodes the keystore, the cert passes tests and while sslchecker.com says it is missing Org, it says the same about every cert we've used the past three years.
I do, I truly, honestly and with all my heart loath this industry that has eaten my life for 50 years with shit like this. Always shit like this, ten million variables where just one is off by a little bit, go fish. I fucking hate it, I want out.
But I also hate to leave a friend in a lurch, out of business, for reasons unknown, so torn between "fuck it" and "crying".
I was just updating a fucking certificate.

"A few reasons to feel hopeful about the climate in 2026"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https://<…

A few reasons to feel hopeful about the climate in 2026
This roundup of The Conversation’s climate coverage was first published in our award-winning weekly climate action newsletter, Imagine. 2025 was a brutal year for the climate: record temperatures, ever…

arxiv_collab: Scientific collaborations in physics (1995-2005)
Collaboration graphs for scientists, extracted from the Los Alamos e-Print arXiv (physics), for 1995-1999 for three categories, and additionally for 1995-2003 and 1995-2005 for one category. For copyright reasons, the MEDLINE (biomedical research) and NCSTRL (computer science) collaboration graphs from this paper are not publicly available.
This network has 40421 nodes and 175692 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaborati…

A.J. Brown names one thing Eagles, Cowboys have in common ahead of Week 12 matchup https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/philadelphia-eagles/news/aj-brown-one-thing-eagles-cowboys-common-week-12-matchup/fb…

Mastodon doesn’t support closed caption files. Bluesky does, but the sizing is poop.
But you can use open captions _and_ link to a transcript.
Embedding a transcript as alt text instead of linking it? Probably don’t do that for reasons: https://adrianroselli.com/2024/04/long-alt.html…

Long Alt
TL;DR: Keep your image alternative text brief, devoid of special characters, empty of URLs, and ideally in one language. Here We Go Sometimes you can have too much alternative text, particularly for an . I don’t mean there is a limit to what is allowed, I mean there is a…

Germany's population is estimated to decline by 10% by 2070, from 83.5 to 74.7 million. One of the reasons is emigration; over 250,000 people per year leave #Deutschland.
https://www.

An H1B visa filing list indicates Will Lewis' base salary as WaPo CEO was $3M per year in 2025, or enough to pay ~27 of the 300 reporters who were laid off (Gene Weingarten/The Gene Pool)
https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/three-million-reasons-to-facepalm

Three Million Reasons to Facepalm
— So.

The New York Times reported that
Meta is considering adding face recognition technology to its smart glasses.
According to an internal Meta document,
the company may launch the product
“during a dynamic political environment
where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us
would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
This is a bad idea that Meta should abandon.
If adopted and released to the public,
it would …

Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans
Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.

arxiv_collab: Scientific collaborations in physics (1995-2005)
Collaboration graphs for scientists, extracted from the Los Alamos e-Print arXiv (physics), for 1995-1999 for three categories, and additionally for 1995-2003 and 1995-2005 for one category. For copyright reasons, the MEDLINE (biomedical research) and NCSTRL (computer science) collaboration graphs from this paper are not publicly available.
This network has 40421 nodes and 175692 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaborati…

If the USA – well, Trump – allows the Russians to take back (even part of) Ukraine, in spite of the treaty that guaranteed Ukraine's independence, just because it once was part of the Soviet Union and because of the Russian speakers who live there, and if Israel is allowed to 'take back' a region where Israelites lived thousands of years ago, then Mexico could surely claim back large swathes of the current USA, for historical reasons and because of the many Spanish speakers who l…

A.J. Brown throws subtle shade at Saquon Barkley as Eagles' off-field drama continues

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/aj-brown-eagles-off-field-drama-saquon-barkley/…

Three Million Reasons to Facepalm (Gene Weingarten/The Gene Pool)
https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/three-million-reasons-to-facepalm
http://www.memeorandum.com/260211/p136#a260211p136

I also think that Standing Rock has already brought this up for some of the folks I'd otherwise be talking to. I'm definitely not early to the party here.
I'm just coming back to this from recently finishing "Safety Through Solidarity" (a book everyone should read) and thinking about my own identity.
One of the things that came up in the book was the potential intersection between Haredim and anarchists on prison reform and abolition. Yet, we tend to neglect this opportunity for collaboration, I think for such reasons as I'm talking about.
Edit:
https://www.akpress.org/safety-through-solidarity.html

One of the reasons I am cranky about LLMs is that they take some of the joy out of casual, flamboyant bullshitting-as-a-spectator-sport
For example, the telling of "tall tales", the game commercially known as "Balderdash" (in my extended family we played it as "Fictionary" and used the OED), "slideshow karaoke", bluffing at Scrabble, and this:

Analyzing What Tom Brady, Raiders Saw from Fernando Mendoza https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/l/las-vegas-analyzing-tom-brady-saw-from-fernando-mendoza

Added a zoom level to the Category page on the Exocortex-Log app. Can make the graphs look a lot cleaner now.
Looking back over the last 100 months here, we can see in general my social life is quite seasonal -- Festivals are a lot of social all weekend long and a couple of them in a month really bumps up the hours from my usual habit of sitting alone in a dark room pressing buttons.
The peak in 2019 is a summer filled with Glasto and Noisily and another festival or camping trip I don’t seem to have recorded the name of.
Then clearly visible is the drop-off in social activity as the COVID pandemic hit. Virtual-Social (IE zoom meetings and the like) picked up quite a bit around there but had died back to almost nothing way before the hours spent with actual people started to tick up.
Annoyingly, I have my biggest gap in data right on top of the pandemic there, where I failed to back up for months and then data became corrupted.
When the data-hole is over we see social life still not really returning until the middle of 2021 and not really getting back into stride until summer 2022.
It remains much lower now on average with lower peaks than before the pandemic too. Multiple reasons.
Work is pretty constant all the way though other than the data-hole. Dipping when I take time off for social mostly.
That data-hole is annoying. Back up your data kids.
#lifeLog #app #exocortexLog

3 reasons why Cowboys hired Christian Parker as defensive coordinator https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/why-cowboys-hired-christian-parker-defensive-coordinator/5393db8e4f4d0d9c3535d9c7

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115894798045761296
It should be noted that Ted Nelson here has a bit of a naive viewpoint, as the reasons for how a machine is designed and why it exists are because people made it and people literally always have an agenda.
In other words, a machine exists because it does something that a person actively decided it should—it is the embodiment of non-neutrality.

For reasons I am revisiting an old classic: Manabe and Stouffer, 1980.
The field of climate science is now effectively mostly about proving how correct those first simulations of the gigantic carbon experiment in the atmosphere were.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247488071_Sensitivity_of_a_Global_Climate_Model_to_an_Increase_of_CO2_Concentration_in_the_Atmosphere

“Trump’s America is not merely indifferent to Europe – it’s positively hostile to it. That has enormous implications for the continent and for Britain, which too many of our leaders still refuse to face.
…
The motive hardly matters: whether the US regards the EU as an enemy for transactional or ideological reasons, it now sees it as an enemy.
…
[Mark] Rutte warns of war, urging Europe to prepare itself, yet he has nothing to say about the one-time ally across the Atlantic…

3 Reasons Why Everyone Has "Something To Hide" - good article from @…
https://ghost.thenewoil.org/3-reasons-why-e…

There are no good reasons to subsidize stadiums. Governments keep doing it. https://reason.com/2026/01/30/there-are-no-good-reasons-to-subsidize-sports-stadiums-governments-keep-doing-it-anyway/

There are no good reasons to subsidize stadiums. Governments keep doing it.
“If we stop funding all sports stadiums tomorrow, then the world wouldn't change hardly at all," says one economist. 

What the actual fuck?
The 13yo kept wanting to know if #Mamdani has seen K-pop Demon Hunters (don't ask me why, but he was bugging me to look it up all afternoon while we were out; I was discussing Mamdani w/ the family for other reasons:

> Without 230’s protections, smaller platforms—the ones that might actually compete with the giants—get destroyed first. They can’t afford the vexatious lawsuits. They can’t afford buildings full of lawyers. The big players survive, and their market position gets locked in even harder.
h…

Section 230 Turns 30; Both Parties Want It Gone—For Contradictory Reasons
Here’s what’s strange about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the law that made the open internet possible: Both sides of the traditional political spectrum hate it. But fo…

Jake Broe: Trump's reasons for participating in peace talks – attention and publicity #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/24/jake-broe-trumps-reasons-for.html

I did. But that's just me.
☑️ 625 Billion Reasons to Buy the Dip in Microsoft Stock Right Now | The Motley Fool
https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/02/03/625-billion-reasons-to-buy-the-dip-in-microsoft-st/

625 Billion Reasons to Buy the Dip in Microsoft Stock Right Now | The Motley Fool
Microsoft stock is getting hammered following its recent earnings report.

Isn't it funny how weather can affect our emotions, even when it makes no logical sense?
Fog is rare in my desert home, but it is my favorite weather condition. No, I don't like smog. Fog.
I was contemplating why I was suddenly so joyful this morning and realized it was that I was driving through real, vision-obscuring fog. As a child, I loved to play pretend in the fog, imagining myself in the sky among the clouds. There are so many mythical and fantastical reasons one …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Ishmael Ensemble & Rider Shafique:
🎵 Reasons (Live from The Mount Without)
#IshmaelEnsemble #RiderShafique
https://open.spotify.com/track/0afUusMZLIOvAJNdAoDRQm

Guardian faffing around the issue.
The government should clearly overturn Javid's cruel decision to strip this victim of grooming of her citizenship.
But they won't, being on human rights, even worse than the last Tory government.
Ministers cannot go on ignoring the Shamima Begum case, for two important reasons | Shamima Begum | The Guardian

Amazing development; Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands) steps away from providing iphones and samsung phones for employees, switching to the more managable, sustainable and more cost efficient #fairphone instead:

A good friend of mine has the Muppet character "Beaker" as his avatar. For reasons.
He offers me advice. I offer him advice. We chat. These are #ChatsWithBeaker

Wondering if this is related to them messing with GPS in the same area?
FAA Closes El Paso Airspace for 10 Days Citing ‘Special Security Reasons’
FAA GPS Notice https://ground.news/article/faa-closes-el-paso-airspace-for-10-days-citing-special-security-reasons

"There's so many good domestic reasons to do this. Without C-11, Canadian companies could defend their fellow Canadians from American data-theft and cash ripoffs by making alternative clients, jailbreaks, and other add-ons that disenshittified America's defective tech" -- @…
This is good advice to Canada, but it's equally good advise…

The privately funded National Trust for Historic Preservation last week asked the U.S. District Court to block Trump’s project.
“No president is legally allowed to tear down portions of the White House without any review whatsoever
— not President Trump, not President Biden, and not anyone else,” the lawsuit states.
“And no president is legally allowed to construct a ballroom on public property without giving the public the opportunity to weigh in.”
Trump had the East W…

Trump administration says White House ballroom construction is a matter of national security
The Trump administration says in a court filing that the president’s White House ballroom construction project must continue for unexplained national security reasons. It also says a preservationists’ organization that wants it stopped has no standing to sue. The court filing Monday was in response to a lawsuit filed last Friday by the National Trust for Historic Preservation asking a federal judge to halt President Donald Trump’s project until it goes through multiple independent reviews…

BC Greens will let their deal with the NDP govt lapse next month for what seem to me pretty good reasons: https://bcgreens.ca/leaders-statement-will-not-renew-carga/
Current seats (out of 93): NDP 47, Conservatives 39, Green 2, right-wingnuts 5. So Eby’s gotta manage…

Leader’s Statement: BC Greens Will Not Renew CARGA
Emily Lowan states the BC Greens will not renew CARGA with the BC NDP, highlighting their legislative majority. Read more!

New talk abstract dropping. I just hope I can write a talk to live up to it by *checks watch* *gulp* Monday.

The Trump admin argument that masks "are for officer safety reasons" is actually an admission
https://www.lawdork.com/p/tom-homan-masks-trump-admin-accountability

Icelandair, in begging you to remember my info. I honestly can’t tell if they don’t remember my phone number, passport, and other info because they don’t keep it or because they’re just bad at the whole web thing (I suspect the latter for other reasons).

What we're seeing with #theforkiverse has worked before and can work again. Community leaders have proven they can build communities in places like discord and it would be super cool if there were clear reasons for them to choose fediverse platforms.
Not sure if there are clear ways to promote it. Perhaps more focus on instance customization (tbh plugins would help).

"the drops in sales volumes are largely the results of French and EU car manufacturer’s own strategic choice to prioritise large, more profitable models [.] Despite lower sales volumes, their operating margins have increased. This premiumisation trend is not new, but it has accelerated in recent years, to the point of backfiring, with manufacturers now facing a sharp drop in sales and factories standing idle.
Rolling back the EU’s 2035 targets won’t solve the problem."

Maintaining the 2035 target: Ensuring a viable future for Europe’s automotive industry - I4CE
In the run up to the publication of the European Commission’s proposals for an automotive package on 10 December, car manufactures have stepped up the calls to relax the CO2 standards and the 2035 phase-out of new combustion-engine vehicles by including some flexibilities. They highlight the challenges the industry has faced in recent years, growing competitive pressure from China, and insufficient demand for electric vehicles in Europe as reasons for the sector needing more time for the tra…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Jay Som:
🎵 A Million Reasons Why
#JaySom
https://jaysom.bandcamp.com/track/a-million-reasons-why
https://open.spotify.com/track/3nwZl5zlo4xs9HLPYhZn4P

The Trump admin argument that masks "are for officer safety reasons" is actually an admission (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)
https://www.lawdork.com/p/tom-homan-masks-trump-admin-accountability
http://www.memeorandum.com/260215/p35#a260215p35

Why the Raiders' Coaching Vacancy is Appealing https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-coaching-vacancy-is-appealing

Aggression among 3 things Cowboys must improve before facing Chargers https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/18/aggression-among-3-things-cowboys-must-improve-before-f…

One of the things that made organizing a lot easier with the GDC was a thing called "GDC in a box." It was a zip file with all kinds of resources. There was a directory structure, templates for all kinds of things like meetings and paperwork you had to file (for legal reasons) and "read me" files.
We had all kinds of support. There were people you could talk to who had been there. There were people you could call to walk through legal paperwork (taxes). Centralized orgs are vulnerable and easy to infiltrate. They're easy for states to shut down. But there are benefits to org structures.
I think it's possible to have the type of support we had with the GDC, but without the politics of an org (even the IWW). I hope this most recent essay has some of the same properties. I hope that it makes building something new, something no one has really imagined before, easier.
This whole project is something a bit different. It's a collective vision and collective project, from the ground up. Some of it has felt like a brain dump, just getting things that have been swimming around in my head down somewhere. But I hope this feels more like an invitation.
Everything thus far written is all useless unless people do things with it. Only from that point does it become a thing that lives, a thing with its own consciousness that can't be controlled by any individual human.
Tech billionaire cultists want to bring a new era of humanity with AGI. That is definitely not possible with LLMs, and may not be possible at all. But there is a super intelligence that is possible, though it's been constrained by capitalism: collective human intelligence.
The grand vision of the tech dystopians is that of the ultimate slave that can then enslave all humans on their behalf. I think we can build a humanity that can liberate itself from their grasp, crush their vision, and build for itself a world in which people will never be enslaved again. Not only do I think it's possible, I think it's necessary. I think there are only two choices: collective liberation or death.
And that's what I plan to write about next time to wrap this whole project up. Today things often feel impossible. But people talked about the Middle Ages as though they were the end of the world, and then everything changed in unimaginable ways. Everything can, and will, change again.
"The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."

Greenland thoughts from Antarctica..
Greenland is all over the press at the moment for all the wrong reasons. But Greenland is also on my mind, not just because of geopolitics, but also because the Copernicus Climate service has just put out their annual global climate highlights for 2025 with some disturbing messages about Antarctica. Understanding Greenland can help us to understand also what is happening here.
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2026/01/14/greenland-thoughts-from-antarctica/

Just one of the reasons I will not use #Meta products.
And why I am so disappointed in the number of good people - people I know and respect, people who are outraged at this #censorship- who still use #Instagram

Just one of the reasons I will not use #Meta products.
And why I am so disappointed in the number of good people - people I know and respect, people who are outraged at this #censorship- who still use #Instagram

This aged so well. For all the wrong reasons.
▶️ 'The Star Wars That I Used To Know' - Gotye 'Somebody That I Used To Know' Parody - teddiefilms
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qJlbPXZEpRE&si=BurO-dduJjGZfoKk

Why this is the worst crypto winter ever: AI crowds out crypto for mindshare and power grid access, crypto is mainstream, gold beats BTC as a safe haven, more (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-02-05/10-reasons-th…

3 things to love about the Cowboys playing the Chargers in Week 16 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/19/3-things-for-the-dallas-cowboys-…

How Kubiak Hire Can Help Raiders' Roster Take Its Next Step https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-klint-kubiak-hire-help-roster-take-next-step

"By examining several widely used AI models designed for cancer detection, the researchers found that performance varied depending on patients’ self-reported gender, race, and age. They also identified multiple reasons why these disparities occur."
What AI Learned From Cancer Slides Shocked Researchers
https://scitechdaily.com/what-ai-learned-from-cancer-slides-shocked-researchers/

None of the age verification options are perfect in terms of protecting information, providing access to everyone, and safely handling sensitive data.
That’s just some of the reasons that EFF is against age-gating mandates,
-- and is working to stop and overturn them across the United States and around the world.
http…

So, You’ve Hit an Age Gate. What Now?
This blog also appears in our Age Verification Resource Hub: our one-stop shop for users seeking to understand what age-gating laws actually do, what’s at stake, how to protect yourself, and why EFF opposes all forms of age verification mandates. Head to EFF.org/Age to explore our resources and...

arxiv_collab: Scientific collaborations in physics (1995-2005)
Collaboration graphs for scientists, extracted from the Los Alamos e-Print arXiv (physics), for 1995-1999 for three categories, and additionally for 1995-2003 and 1995-2005 for one category. For copyright reasons, the MEDLINE (biomedical research) and NCSTRL (computer science) collaboration graphs from this paper are not publicly available.
This network has 8361 nodes and 15751 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration…

Here are 7 reasons why the Bears are the NFL's comeback kings https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47583384/chicago-bears-caleb-williams-comeback-ben-johnson

⚡️ PUTIN broke HITLER'S record! The loss of 1.2 million soldiers and absurd REASONS for the war: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/11/putin-broke-hitlers-record-the.html

Department of Justice Violates Epstein Files Law By Failing to Inform Congress of Reasons Behind Redactions (Aaron Parnas/MeidasTouch News)
https://meidasnews.com/news/department-of-justice-violates-epstein-files-law-by-failing-to-inform-congress-of-reasons-behind-redactions
http://www.memeorandum.com/260104/p61#a260104p61

Just suspended/defederated the zhub.link domain that appears to be a white supremacist/hate speech instance whose admin is going around harassing Palestinians and allies on the fediverse and is/was apparently also hosting an account disseminating CSAM (https://hear-me.social/@admin/11266673170955…

Laurie Penny is very near the top of my list of favorite living writers. She has started a how-to-write-well series, entitled (for obvious reasons) “How to Write Like A Person”; intro here: https://open.substack.com/pub/lauriepenny/p/ho…

How to Write Like A Person
Announcing a new seminar for 2026.

An interview with Dave Jorgenson, who launched WaPo's TikTok channel in 2019, about taking WaPo's video audience with him, launching long-form content, and more (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

How Dave Jorgenson took the Washington Post video audience with him
A former senior video producer of The Washington Post has said one of the reasons he left was because video was not “getting the support”.  

There is apparently a “crisis in film reviewing” ongoing. For the same reasons everything is circling the drain.
#HeardOnTheBeeb

The extraordinary courage of Germany’s wartime ‘traitors’
With Nazi informers everywhere, any dissident risked betrayal
– and the prospect of being hanged ‘like slaughtered cattle’ for ‘defeatism’
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-ex

The extraordinary courage of Germany’s wartime ‘traitors’
I once interviewed the late Enoch Powell for this magazine (the article never appeared, for reasons I forget). One thing he said on that occasion stuck with me. He remarked that loyalty to one’s country should be unconditional. I asked him what he thought people should do if their country were taken over by a

"The reasons for Starmer’s exceptional servility are well understood. He has pinned disproportionate hopes for the revival of Britain’s floundering economy on trade with the US, an activity which is now conducted purely at Trump’s caprice.
"Above all, his “coalition of the willing” striving to prolong the Ukraine war depends on US military, intelligence and logistical support for the foreseeable future."

Super Bowl 2026: Five reasons why Seahawks won NFC to reach big game, including historic rebuild

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/super-bowl-2026-five-reasons-why-seahawks-won-nf…

GWI: LinkedIn's 2025 revenue rose to $17B from $7B in 2020 as users doubled to 1.3B; 4.7% of US users checked more than once per day in 2025, from 3.9% in 2020 (Stu Woo/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-te…

Schottenheimer's red-zone woes among 3 key takeaways from Cowboys loss https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/16/cowboys-vikings-week-15-major-takeaways/87784002007/

From where I was sitting Wednesday, it looked like
the attorney general pretty much dared the House Democrats to impeach her.
Here’s how the New York Daily News put it, summarizing the AP’s coverage of her testimony before the House Judiciary Committee:
"Attorney General Pam Bondi launched into a passionate defense of President Donald Trump Wednesday
as she tried to turn the page from relentless criticism of the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epste…

Pam Bondi is daring the Democrats to impeach her
The reasons for her contempt are secondary to the contempt itself.

Raiders' Fernando Mendoza No. 1 draft pick outcome given 3 reasons to believe by ESPN https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-fernando-mendoza-1-draft-pick-3-reasons-beli…

bag_of_words: Bag of words (2008)
Five text collections in the form of bags-of-words, i.e. a bipartite document–word network. Left nodes are documents and right nodes are words. Edge weights are multiplicities. .
This network has 13919 nodes and 746316 edges.
Tags: Informational, Text, Bipartite, Weighted, Metadata
https://

Five NFL teams that could make a leap in 2026: Raiders, Ravens lead the way for different reasons

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/five-nfl-teams-that-could-make-a-lea…

Why the U.S. went after Maduro (Neal Rothschild/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/03/maduro-capture-reasons-us-venezuela
http://www.memeorandum.com/260103/p59#a260103p59

Clearly, Pam Bondi's performance was strategic.
It was part of her goal of deflecting attention away from Trump and the fact that his name appears more than a million times in files related to Jeffrey Epstein that were released by the Department of Justice, according to Raskin.
She beclowned herself and perhaps it worked.
Most headlines were a variation of the Daily News’: “Bondi shouts down Democrats in hearing on Epstein files release delays.” 
At one point, t…

Pam Bondi is daring the Democrats to impeach her
The reasons for her contempt are secondary to the contempt itself.

Offseason failures among 5 top reasons Cowboys' 2025 season derailed https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/11/5-things-went-wrong-dallas-cowboys-2025/88102574007/

"There are good reasons to think that many of the adverse effects of Trump's tariffs have simply been delayed, and we should expect them to show up in 2026."
Here are 4 reasons Trump’s worst economic damage may be yet to come - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-inflation-guardian/

2025 NFL playoff picture: One reason for hope for seven teams on the bubble, including Cowboys, Chiefs

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-playoff-picture-reasons-for-hope-…

Sleeping on the job used to be frowned upon.
But a Pew Research Center survey found that 34% of Americans take daily naps.
According to experts, 30 minutes or less of catnapping can “restore alertness, enhance performance and reduce mistakes and accidents” in the workplace.
In the 1960s, President John F. Kennedy caught some extra z’s in early afternoon to keep up his stride.
And NASA pilots take in-flight naps as short as 26 minutes to enhance performance and alertn…

Midday Power Naps: 7 Reasons To Sleep On The Job In 2025
Scientific-backed research shows that midday power naps at work can be a game changer in your mental alertness, energy and productivity—even the company's bottom line.

Five reasons why the Patriots made 2026 Super Bowl: Mike Vrabel, Drake Maye, free agent spending spree, more

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/five-reasons-why-the-patriots-made-…

Expert lists 4 reasons 'moron' Trump can't save US economy with Venezuelan oil - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/donald-trump-venezuelan-oil/

Chargers host Raiders as both teams seek improvement in stretch run for vastly different reasons https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/chargers-host-raiders-as-both-teams-seek-improvement-in-stretch-run-for-va…

The joy and promise of the Internet is that marginal and marginalized people can find each other
and form communities.
If you're the only goth klezmer fan in Toad Suck, Arkansas, you can find others.
If you're het up about a neglected social issue, you can find others.
The trouble is a lot of communities used to be marginalized for extremely good reasons,
and it probably would have been better if they stayed that way.
Dumb pipes can't tel…

bag_of_words: Bag of words (2008)
Five text collections in the form of bags-of-words, i.e. a bipartite document–word network. Left nodes are documents and right nodes are words. Edge weights are multiplicities. .
This network has 67963 nodes and 3710420 edges.
Tags: Informational, Text, Bipartite, Weighted, Metadata
https://…

Reasons for every eliminated NFL team to be optimistic: Premium draft picks, young quarterbacks and more

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/one-reason-for-each-nfl-non-play…

arxiv_collab: Scientific collaborations in physics (1995-2005)
Collaboration graphs for scientists, extracted from the Los Alamos e-Print arXiv (physics), for 1995-1999 for three categories, and additionally for 1995-2003 and 1995-2005 for one category. For copyright reasons, the MEDLINE (biomedical research) and NCSTRL (computer science) collaboration graphs from this paper are not publicly available.
This network has 31163 nodes and 120029 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaborati…

Giants' top choice for HC has outstanding record vs Cowboys, NFC East https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/14/cowboys-john-harbaugh-giants-nfc-east-record/88178396007/

The NFC playoff bracket is set: Reasons for optimism for the Seahawks, 49ers, Bears and Rams https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47544226/2025-nfl-playoffs-bracket-reset-divisional-round-schedule-afc-nfc

It is hard to imagine a worse decision than the Supreme Court’s ruling on Thursday
allowing Texas to use its new congressional maps designed to elect five more Republicans to the House of Representatives.
In a 6-3 decision, the six conservative justices have opened the door to states being able to adopt unconstitutional laws on voting
— with immunity from judicial review for at least one election.
At the urging of President Trump, Texas’ Republican-controlled state L…