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RE: https://retro.pizza/@SKleefeld/115697051330750103
Longread van Matt Gurney over onlangs gehouden Halifax International Security Forum*
Het laat heel indringend zien hoe de verhouding met de VS veranderd is en hoe de VS waarschijnlijk niet in staat is om de verandering snel ongedaan te maken. -zelfs al zou de VS dat over een paar jaar willen-
* 'Funded by NATO, the Canadian government and private-sector sponsors, the event is a major part of Canada’s “soft power” offering to our allies — we host the big party and show everybody a good time.'

The Bears in Iowa? Bill aims to lure NFL team with stadium incentives https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7037791/2026/02/10/chicago-bears-iowa-stadium-bill/

ActBlue, a payment platform for online donations, is increasing its investments in left-leaning media and content creators through grant-like sponsorships (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/21/2025/actblue-quietly-sponsors-p…

Exclusive: ActBlue quietly sponsors progressive content creators
The Democratic fundraising platform has offered its support to a major podcaster as he seeks to build a podcast network.

I just sponsored the #junit team. Go sponsor your #opensource dependencies!
https://github.com/sponsors/junit-team

Not sure what to make of this survey given its sponsors, but it's true that water management in the UK is a mess. We have no clue who's using what. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/30/water-shortages-could-derai…

Water shortages could derail UK’s net zero plans, study finds
Tensions grow after research in England finds there may not be enough water for planned carbon capture and hydrogen projects

The only flavour of decentralisation there’s no room for at FOSDEM is the kind that won’t speak at a conference that allows itself to be sponsored by, and thereby whitewashes, a surveillance capitalist like Google that is complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
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DAE see lower-than-expected GitHub Sponsors payouts? (link is to the official but application-required maintainer community https://maintainers.github.com/ so you might not have access)

With YIMBYs like this, who needs NIMBYs?
*yes, SF YIMBY endorsed the two sponsors of this ordinance, Matt Dorsey and Bilal Mahmood
https://missionlocal.org/2026/01/sf-soma-store-ban-drug-crime-deterrence/

S.F. supervisors vote to expand late-night store ban to parts of SoMa  
Board of Supervisors committee elevated a proposed store-closure ordinance, following public support from some community stakeholders

Digital asset treasuries increasingly rely on in-kind contributions, with sponsors using their own crypto instead of cash, shifting risk to retail investors (Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

ICE got rebranded as Gestapo and now hunts Black and poor workers for the crime of existing while the rich toast their cruelty and call it law, and these Nazi strut around thinking a badge makes their violence patriotic.
Welcome back Nazi Germany, this time with Wi‑Fi and corporate fascist sponsors.
#ICE #USA

NSF supported Summit on #Graphite, University of Peradeniya, April 27-May 1, 2026 #geology #SriLanka ⚒️🧪

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The main portal about sponsors and supporters of the aggression
https://war-sanctions.gur.gov.ua/en/
Een vrij kort, maar ongetwijfeld belangrijk deel van Nederlandse onderdelen die hun weg vinden naar Rusland...
Via @…

"Permitting Parking in Driveways" is at Monday's SFBOS land use committee.
I plan to comment against this. It seems to allow driveways to be unlimited width and to remain even after garages are converted to ADUs. This is nakedly an inducement to more driving at the expense of green space, stormwater drainage, active transportation, and public transit.

This is so much more of a shitshow than even I realized. Alan Wong was making major amendments and sending them to his prospective co-sponsors in literally the last *hour* before the deadline.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/01/sf-great-highway-ballot-measure-…

Roadkill: S.F. measure to reintroduce cars to Great Highway ‘crashes and burns’
San Francisco requires only four supervisors to put a ballot measure before voters. That low bar was too high for Supervisor Alan Wong.

As a response to the ever-increasing enshittification of Firefox through AI, I just became a recurring sponsor for the @… project. We desperately need a viable alternative built for the future.
#firefox #servo #FOSS #AI