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Ist das normal? Muss das so?

I first saw Arcadia in college and have continued to be amazed by Stoppard’s intellectual wit ever since. RIP
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/nov/29/tom-stoppard-playwright-of-dazzling-wit-and-playful-erudition-dies-aged-88

New York becomes the first US state to require retailers to disclose use of algorithmic pricing tied to personal data; 10 states are considering similar bills (Tim Balk/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/nyregio

N.Y. Law Could Set Stage for A.I. Regulation’s Next ‘Big Battleground’
The new law seeks to prevent retailers from ripping off consumers by using artificial intelligence and their personal data to charge them higher prices.

i was an easy mark as a college freshman, but seeing (& subsequently reading) "arcadia" absolutely turned my head inside-out, a profound transformational experience trying to unpack the entwined structure & emotional power. https://c.im/@didgebaba/115634163088750612

Arrived for #HänselUndGretel Vienna State Opera House

Persistent environmental toxins already accumulate in animal tissues during the fetal stage, research finds https://phys.org/news/2025-11-persistent-environmental-toxins-accumulate-animal.html

Persistent environmental toxins already accumulate in animal tissues during the fetal stage, research finds
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) begin to accumulate in the tissues of mammals already during the fetal stage, according to new research from the University of Oulu, Finland. The animal-model study found that environmental toxins had built up in the tissues of sheep raised in clean organic production, and that the same substances were transferred in notable amounts to the developing fetuses' adipose tissue.

Just finished "The Daughters of Ys", a graphic novel written by M.T. Anderson and illustrated by Jo Rioux. Is apparently a telling on an ancient Breton legend, which explains some of the narrative devices and plot choices. The drawings are beautiful and the tale is interesting, but takes a royalty-focused and -friendly perspective I've grown unfond of at this stage in my life.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Tom Stoppard died. Well, that sucks. ☹️
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/theater/tom-stoppard-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.408.7Kdu.WtBN0ktwCbcc&smid=url-share

Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88
Drawing comparisons to the greatest of dramatists, he entwined erudition with imagination in stage works that won accolades on both sides of the Atlantic.

RIP. I still somedays wonder if England is a
conspiracy of cartographers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/theater/tom-stoppard-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.408.oLlI.bsuFiedfqyJ5&smid=…

Once, at the National Student Drama Festival, where I was volunteering as a techie, there was a show that involved a butcher's knife, and they had decided to use a real one and "blunt" it by covering the edge in sellotape.
Turns out this was not a very effective way of rendering the knife safe.

Experience: I was stabbed in the back with a real knife while performing Julius Caesar
Our student theatre group had the bright idea of using actual knives on stage for authenticity. The blade missed my aorta by about a centimetre

"In 1971, Led Zeppelin played one of the most iconic songs of all time, Stairway to Heaven, live for the very first time on the Ulster Hall stage in Belfast."

RIP Isaiah Whitlock Jr.
The 71 yr old actor was perhaps best known for playing the corrupt Senator Clay Davis in the Baltimore based HBO series The Wire.
Born on September 13, 1954, in South Bend, Indiana, after numerous football injuries kept him off the gridiron he found the stage. His first Hollywood film roles did not occur until the early 1990s earning small roles in Gremlins 2: The New Batch and #Goodfellas

To Centre Stage
We put a spotlight on Australia's incredible calisthenics performers, volunteers, coaches and community...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/to-centre-stage/

Big Picture: 10 Cowboys-Lions Storylines https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/big-picture-10-cowboys-lions-storylines

The two curves you see here should be the same. Obviously, they are not.
If you are at #39c3 and want to learn about the unusual things I found in Greenhouse Gas Emission Databases, come to stage One at 11:00

So, decided to make the `sisyphus-client` Docker image a multi-stage build because it was a really large image. Ended up taking it from 1.3GB to 708MB which isn't too shabby. Unfortunately, that's about as small as I'm gonna be able to get it with all of the encoding binaries/libraries that I have to install.
Still, pretty solid reduction in container size.
#homelab …

Even more adventures of Peaches the peach at #39c3

On stage now @mathewlowry.bsky.social talking through additional tooling of custom feeds to collaborate on sharing content across organizations.
#EuroSkyLive https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post

Sonnet 015 - XV
When I consider every thing that grows
Holds in perfection but a little moment,
That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows
Whereon the stars in secret influence comment;
When I perceive that men as plants increase,
Cheered and checked even by the self-same sky,
Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease,
And wear their brave state out of memory;
Then the conceit of this inconstant stay
Sets you most rich i…

Thanks to @… for teaching me the word “lustration” today.
Failure to undertake sufficiently wide-reaching lustration and vetting of the Minneapolis Police is in my view one of the major failure of city government after the murder of George Floyd. It’s one of the reasons I’m still bitter about Mayor Frey, notwithstanding his excellent words on the national stage these past couple of months. https://mastodon.online/@xankarn/115955982521903310

The Ravens' season is riding on Week 18. Lamar Jackson's future could be, too: Pick Six https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6909520/2025/12/29/lamar-jackson-ravens-contract-trade/

Big Picture: 10 Cowboys-Lions Storylines https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/big-picture-10-cowboys-lions-storylines

#39C3 Shitty Robot Battle: Please call it "Hebocon" again and let it happen on the big stage 😆! Sooo many people, soo much fun!!😂

This is called genocide denial. It is “an integral part of genocide” and includes “propaganda while the genocide is going on.”
“Denial is considered a genocidal process, the final stage, and a catalyst or indicator of future atrocities.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_denial

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Orbital:
🎵 One Perfect Sunrise
#Orbital
https://nikkomavridis.bandcamp.com/track/orbital-one-perfect-sunrise-stage-van-h-nikko-mavridis-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Tu9pNTOWRw8Qi5CFhcW5y

The FIFA tournament may create some new American fans, but at what cost?
Exorbitant ticket prices have cut out the game’s grassroots.
Onerous demands on cities have siphoned public money.
Fifa has boosted an openly corrupt administration at every turn.
Now wanton federal violence has made it difficult to justify having the World Cup here at all.
Safety, justice, freedom, the continued functioning of society
– these are all under threat.
Even to ma…

I'm kind of okay with the ending.

What's the current state of XMPP and OpenID Connect? My web search returned that ejabberd is still considering if and how to implement and Prosody has experimental alpha-stage support via a module. I couldn't find anything conclusive in regards to XMPP clients. What's with Gajim(?) and Conversations? Or other clients? Are there any web clients supporting OIDC?
#jabber

Trenches take center stage in 3-round Raiders mock draft https://raiderramble.com/2026/01/20/trenches-take-center-stage-in-3-round-raiders-mock-draft/

Russia seeks to set stage for new offensive, potentially threatening Sumy, Ukraine warns: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/11/russia-seeks-to-set-stage.html

from my link log —
DDR5 memory specification released.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15912/ddr5-specification-released-setting-the-stage-for-ddr56400-and-beyond
saved 2020-07-17

The X-Ray Dot: Exotic Dust or a Late-Stage #LittleRedDot? https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09778 -> A Potential New Piece of the “Little Red Dot” Puzzle: https://astrobites.org/2026/01/26/x-ray-dot/

Serial entrepreneur Hamed Bahmani on early-stage building in neurotech https://www.neurofounders.co/post/serial-entrepreneur-hamed-bahmani-on-early-stage-building-in-neurotech

Serial Entrepreneur Hamed Bahmani on Early-Stage Building in Neurotech
Few people dare to start a company, and even fewer attempt it in a technically complex field like neurotechnology. Yet Dr Hamed Bahmani has now done it three times. After launching a clinical-stage company focused on myopia and another targeting Alzheimer’s through the visual system, he is doubling down on complexity. His latest venture has just emerged out of stealth, but early hints suggest it draws on decades spent at the forefront of neuro-innovation.Born in Iran, Bahmani studied engineer…

Global health impacts of plastics systems set to double by 2040 #health

Global health impacts of plastics systems set to double by 2040
The adverse health impacts associated with emissions across the full life cycle of plastics could double by 2040 unless immediate action is taken, new research suggests. The study identified health harms at every stage of the life cycle of the plastics we use: from the extraction of fossil fuels, the feedstocks for more than 90% of plastics, and material production to their eventual disposal or release to the environment.

The scary thing is that we're still in the FA stage. 2026 will be a very unfortunate FO.

Sources: Netflix ramps up a charm offensive in its pitch to WBD and is sowing doubts about the inevitability of Paramount's bid from an antitrust standpoint (Charles Gasparino/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/11/2…

Exclusive | Netflix steps up charm offensive to buy Warner Bros. Discovery even after Trump favors rival bid from Paramount
The emergence of Netflix as a serious contender comes as the bidding war enters its next stage.

They'll be playing the side stage at Lollapalooza.
#santaclaus #merrychristmas

#Billionaires #Capitalism #AntiCapitalism #ZohranMamdani

It's February, Chicago, 1916, second-string kids from New Orleans, like The Stones at the Marquee, get there to fill a spot, it's fricken freezing, promoter gets overcoats from Sally Ann, all oversized. March lands a gig at Schiller's Cafe. Nick says to ramp it up, invents a new dance fitting the bustle. Gig is white band, lower East Side, what's chances that drunk in the back is Irish? Jazz it up boys, he shouts! Wtf? sez Nick, but he liked the sound of it…
By spring, every teen in Chicago was wearing an oversized overcoat. Louis told Papa Joe in '22 he couldn't play that stuff. Papa Joe said get your ass on that stage and blow.
#GodspeedBrewery may have a Schiller's Moment Wed Jan 28th 6-9 😊

I suspect that my VS Code is completely "borken" as I cannot imagine how so many people are productive using it.
1. The selection behavior I have shared earlier continues to manifest sporadically. A restart fixes it. Sometimes.
2. I can't recall any keyboard shortcuts as they don't use any historical paradigms and they are all of the place.
3. Frequently used functionality (e.g. stage changes) has no shortcuts.
I am sure this is will be unpopular opinion.
It's been my experience so far. Very frustrating and I almost gave up a few times already.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheEssay
- Watching from the Wings
During his acting career, Michael Goldfarb spent a lot of time watching from the wings, waiting to go on stage. In this episode he talks about Maxim Gorky's play Summerfolk.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001xwdx

Our annual family holiday outing. Musical theatre 🎭

Absolute highlight of day 2 of #39C3: The Maybe Talent Show! Volunteers from the audience performing things on stage they only barely know how to do and getting huge mounts of applause for it 😂

Marcus Elliot Quintet feat. Dwight Adams at Blue Llama
#jazz

Removing the United States as
co-host of the 2026 World Cup
would hurt for pretty much everyone.
Fans would miss out on seeing the sport’s pinnacle in their home towns (or somewhere nearby).
Cities and businesses small and large would lose the financial benefits they had banked on.
It would be a logistical and political nightmare on an international scale,
the likes of which have never been seen before in sports.
It would be eminently sad.

We just attended another travel show. This time: #mountainbiking in #ligurien from Harald Philipp.
The visuals were pretty cool. And riding such trails UPHILL was pretty impressive, too. Definitely only doable with an ebike.

Here's my take on the adaptation of Wicked from stage to screen in my latest Human Meme podcast episode:
https://humanmeme.com/wicked-the-bespoke-voice-and-the-echo-of-the-ghost

'We support Hamas' chants put Mamdani's Israel stance at center stage (Jason Beeferman/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/09/we-support-hamas-chants-put-mamdanis-israel-stance-at-center-stage-00720393
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p113#a260109p113

“What happened was, a faucet started dripping. And then I managed to route around the malignant machineries of late-stage capitalism. These days, that’s almost always a story worth telling.” https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/12/18/Humanist-Plumbing

Humanist Plumbing

Starting at the Bank of NH Stage in Concord in a few minutes: https://www.ccanh.com/show/25000510

Insider Drops Major Raiders HC Update After Davis Webb News https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/insider-hc-update-broncos-davis-webb/

What's next for Broncos after AFC Championship defeat? Bo Nix recovery and hunt for RB take center stage

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/whats-next-for-broncos-after-afc-…

Dorts! I assume he's still over there on Twitter threatening to spill the beans about all the sordid back stage goings-on at #TOTP but never actually spilling any beans at all.

Wow this is huge too. This would solve problems I was discussing last weekend with our drummer.
#NAMM2026 #GearSquad #Music #Drums

Yamaha Releases EAD50 Electronic Acoustic Drum Module
A new high-spec model for use from home to the stage - News Releases - Yamaha Corporation

Chinese state media: China launches three VC funds of $7.1B each to back early-stage "hard technology" startups valued below ¥500M, or about $71M (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa…

Just, wow. Driving a Maserati, too. Daddy’s money? https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-aide-charged-over-staging-fake-trump-whore-attack/

MAGA Fanatic Got Fetish Artist to Stage Bonkers Anti-Trump Attack: Feds
A 26-year-old law student allegedly paid $500 for an expert to cut her body in a planned assault.

Mind the gap: Revealing sidewalk networks at scale
pdf: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2632-072X/ae35b9/pdf
Nice to see important research on the both most important and neglected mode of transport 🚶

First stage of the STEP Fusion plant build consultation in the planning process they're intending to get it running in the 2040's; This is an old Coal power station site in West Burton they're reusing:
(I expect others to have got fusion working first, but still promising)
https://stepfusion.com/consultation/

STEP Fusion - Consultation
STEP Fusion’s first stage of public consultation runs from 14 January through to 11 March 2026

as foretold
I made the rings on my beard out of 5 gum wrappers hehe

Black Coffee from lnbits likes internet of things, but doesn't like the way it tends to work with centralised servers and spying companies running them.
But what if your coffee pot and lights and smart plugs were nostr instead?
Nobody can cut your machine off, it has it's own keys and encryption, you could even ruin your own relay to talk to it instead of using public relays.
Remote control without having to expose the home network.
You could even make it require zaps and so make a vending machine.
Demonstration by sending lightning requests to the coffee pot on stage works better than the mikes that have been feeding back this afternoon 😆
#nostr #nostrshire #internetOfThings

Last year I saw Nick Cave live on his „Wild God“ tour. The show I saw in Berlin was one of the best concerts I’ve been to.
I‘m happy that his recently released „Live God“ album captures something of that concert atmosphere, even if it’s only acoustically and not the stage presence of a 68 year old man running around on stage in full goblin mode.

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 03 - Cygnus Alpha
KARA: Gan.
[Gan steps back. The spear misses him and hits Kara. The fight continues. Blake is struggling with one of the priests. Vila stabs the priest.]
BLAKE: Don't just stand there Vila. Run.
h…

Okay internet, Macron in glasses. Yay or nay??
#importantQuestion

URGENT! Russia can stage a PROVOCATION! Risky guarantees from TRUMP?: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/02/urgent-russia-can-stage-a.html

I do not support or condone malicious hacking, destruction of private data, or the unwilling sharing of private data.
Unless it's Nazis. Then screw 'em.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/hacktivist-deletes…

Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live onstage during hacker conference | TechCrunch
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacist websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.

Full list of every Super Bowl halftime performer in history: Bad Bunny to headline 2026 show at Super Bowl LX

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/every-super-bowl-halftime-performer-in…

Hard Knocks spotlights KaVontae Turpin’s impact beyond stats https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/23/kavontae-turpin-takes-center-stage-in-hard-knocks-episode-4/87894019007/

Latin American VC funding rose 14.3% YoY in 2025 to $4.1B, with early-stage investment up 31.9% YoY to nearly $2B and late-stage/growth deals reaching $1.63B (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/vcs-bullish-latam-startup-…

LatAm Startup Funding Rebounds In 2025 As Mexico Sees Surge In Investment And VCs Remain Bullish On Region
Latin America startup investment climbed by 14.3% in 2025, driven by a boost in both early- and late-stage funding, Crunchbase data shows. 

Effects of eye closure on the spiking activity of human lateral geniculate neurons #LGN

Effects of eye closure on the spiking activity of human lateral geniculate neurons - Nature Communications
The LGN is a critical stage between the retina and visual cortex, but the properties of human LGN neurons are not fully understood. Here the authors report that they closely resemble those in monkeys and that closure of one eye increases the activity of putative inhibitory neurons connected to that eye.

the scene is now (always was, always will be) tucked into the vibey corner stage at the francis kite club, keeping the far east side bountiful in boho folk-jazz, including my languid fave, "marigold" #nyc

Trump's erasing the history of Social Security
and setting the stage for its destruction.
Sign Social Security Works' emergency petition:
https://sswk.io/

Social Security Works PAC
The Social Security Works PAC, led by Jon "Bowzer" Bauman, was created in 2017 to elect leaders who will expand Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

Giants' Dart clears protocol ahead of Pats game https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47121465/giants-dart-clears-concussion-protocol-ahead-patriots-game

⚔️ARMED FORCES COMMANDER PREPS OFFENSIVE, TRUMP – SANCTIONS:UAE talks. New stage of the war in 2026: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/24/armed-forces-commander-preps-offensive.html

Here’s an interesting little curio. Was hanging at a friend's place and the conversation wandered to ancient times; when she was 16, an upstate-New-York girl, she took off with a carload of friends and went to Woodstock. She pulled out an original program, dropped from a helicopter near stage-front, and her ticket, uncanceled because by the time they got there the systems had broken down.

Halle Berry bashes Gov. Gavin Newsom at NYT summit just before he takes stage: 'Should not be our next president either' (Victor Nava/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/03/us-news/halle-berry-bashes-gov-gavin-newsom-at-nyt-summit-just-before-he-takes-stage/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251203/p144#a251203p144

Impeach him!
Trump refused to eat sushi in Tokyo and instead opted for McDonald's
https://www.irishstar.com/news/politics/trump-refused-eat-sushi-tokyo-36599444#Echobox=1769355001

Trump refused to eat sushi in Tokyo and instead opted for McDonald's
President Trump displays his cultural insensitivity live on stage at the World Economic Forum, social media users reflect the president's personal history in Japan

Whispers In The Wings
This podcast is a must-listen for stage managers, theatre enthusiasts, and anyone aspiring to pursue a career in the industry...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/whispers-in-the-wings/
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #LateJunction
Karl Burke:
🎵 Cage on a Stage
#KarlBurke

The Diamond Ring in Cygnus X - advanced stage of an expanding #bubble of ionised carbon: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/11/aa56159-25/aa56159-25.html -> A sparkling ‘Diamond Ring’ in space - astronomers in Cologne unravel the mystery of a cosmic ring: https://uni-koeln.de/en/university/news/news/news-detail/a-sparkling-diamond-ring-in-space-astronomers-in-cologne-unravel-the-mystery-of-a-cosmic-ring

some excellent notes on the recent stash of boredoms recordings surfaced by @…. https://archive.org/search?query=subject:"boredoms%2…

The Family Stone Band, Joelle James highlight Sunday’s gameday entertainment https://www.raiders.com/news/the-family-stone-band-joelle-james-highlight-gameday-entertainment-raiders-vs-giants-122825

Neuromodulation through multisensory stimulation for visual field deficits in the subacute stage of disease (MULTICAMPO) https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT07358832 using "spatio-temporally congruent, cross-modal audio-visual stimuli",

A 3,000-year high: Alaska’s Arctic is entering a dangerous new fire era #Alaska

A 3,000-year high: Alaska’s Arctic is entering a dangerous new fire era
For thousands of years, wildfires on Alaska’s North Slope were rare. That changed sharply in the 20th century, when warming temperatures dried soils and fueled the spread of shrubs, setting the stage for intense fires. Peat cores and satellite data reveal that fire activity since the 1950s has reached record levels. The findings suggest the Arctic is entering a new, more dangerous fire era.

The World Economic Forum in Davos is now dominated by tech giants, whose interests shunt aside topics like climate change, as Trump and AI take center stage (Peter S. Goodman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/business/davos-trump.html

A.I., Big Tech and Trump Shine Most Brightly at the Davos Spectacle
The World Economic Forum is now dominated by global technology companies whose interests shunt aside most others.

The Family Stone Band, Joelle James highlight Sunday’s gameday entertainment https://www.raiders.com/news/the-family-stone-band-joelle-james-highlight-gameday-entertainment-raiders-vs-giants-122825

Brees, Rivers lead list of 2026 HOF semifinalists https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47095411/drew-brees-philip-rivers-top-2026-hall-fame-semifinalists

Brazil’s federal police on Saturday arrested former president Jair Bolsonaro over suspicion he was plotting to escape and avoid starting a 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt.
The decision laid bare some of the country’s divisions, with many uncorking Champagne outside the far-right leader’s prison to celebrate as his supporters prepared a religious act in his favor.
In a dramatic and unexpected twist in the final stage of a long and divisive criminal trial, feder…

Brazil’s Supreme Court orders arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro
Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered the arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro over claims he was planning to escape before starting his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt. Bolsonaro, who has been under house arrest, was taken to the federal police headquarters in Brasilia on Saturday after his ankle monitor was reportedly violated. Justice Alexandre de Moraes cited a video by Bolsonaro's son urging supporters to protest, which he said showed intent to create chaos. Bolsonar…

Bidding wars for Mac Jones, Fernando Mendoza? Setting stage for 2026 NFL QB carousel https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6896384/2025/12/19/nfl-quarterbacks-2026-draft-trade-free-agency-fernando-mendoza-mac-jones/

Drew Brees, Philip Rivers, Larry Fitzgerald lead Pro Football Hall of Fame modern era semifinalists https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/drew-brees-philip-rivers-larry-fitzgerald-lead-pro-football-hall-of-fa…

Sources: General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning, is in late-stage talks to raise several hundred million dollars at a $2B valuation (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/a-new-world-model-startup-is-quietly

A new world model startup is quietly raising big money
General Intuition is building a general-purpose AI agent and world model.

As Trump threatens Iran, Venezuela, Mexico, Greenland and more,
renowned historian Alfred McCoy says the United States is
“an empire in decline,”
following a predictable pattern
of militarism abroad and political instability at home
as it loses power and influence on the world stage.
“American politics become increasingly contorted and irrational,”
says McCoy.
“I think the thing to do is to realize that we are an empire in decline, …
…

“Empire in Decline”: Historian Alfred McCoy on U.S. Aggression in Venezuela, Iran & Beyond
As President Trump threatens Iran, Venezuela, Mexico, Greenland and more, renowned historian Alfred McCoy says the United States is “an empire in decline,” following a predictable pattern of militarism abroad and political instability at home as it loses power and influence on the world stage. “American politics become increasingly contorted and irrational,” says McCoy. “I think the thing to do is to realize that we are an empire in decline, … and it will continue for another decade…

NFL Week 17 playoff picture: Packers earn berth after Vikings eliminate Lions; Broncos chasing AFC top seed

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2025-nfl-playoff-picture-standings-race/…

Bidding wars for Mac Jones, Fernando Mendoza? Setting stage for 2026 NFL QB carousel https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6896384/2025/12/19/nfl-quarterbacks-2026-draft-trade-free-agency-fernando-mendoza-mac-jones/

In short, we just watched the US put a gun to its head and commit the equivalent of hegemonic suicide on the world stage.
Nothing will be the same ever again.
"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen"
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/p

Sources: Apple now needs to fight for TSMC production capacity amid the AI boom; Nvidia was likely TSMC's top customer in at least one or two quarters in 2025 (Tim Culpan/Culpium)
https://www.culpium.com/p/exclusiveapple-is-fighting-for-tsmc

Apple is Fighting for TSMC Capacity as Nvidia Takes Center Stage
[Exclusive] A 15-year relationship helped TSMC grow and Apple leap ahead of rivals, but now it's struggling to get enough capacity as it competes with Nvidia for supply

Payton looking to join Reid, more on list of coaches who reached Super Bowl with different teams https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47694818/nfl-coaches-super-bowls-multiple-teams