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Week 2 NFL picks: Patrick Mahomes enters uncharted territory; Bears, Dolphins remain searching for answers

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/week-2-

Poland shoots down drones over its territory amid Russian attack on Ukraine, prime minister says (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/10/poland-shoots-down-drones-over-its-territory-amid-russian-attack-on-ukraine-says-military
http://www.memeorandum.com/250909/p182#a250909p182

Homeland Security meme nudges 'Painter of Light' Thomas Kinkade into dark territory
https://religionnews.com/2025/07/10/homeland-security-meme-nudges-painter-of-light-thomas-kinkade-into-dark-territory/

It’s frightening to see the constant propaganda in action, nudging people ever more into territory that we’d have thought of as unthinkable only a few years ago.

Electricity bills may rise 20% in parts of PJM Interconnection's 13-state territory as the largest US power grid struggles to meet AI and data center demand (Laila Kearney/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/bo…

In largest drone breach into NATO territory, Russia appears to be probing Polish resolve: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/10/in-largest-drone-breach-into.html

Poland said on Wednesday it shot down Russian drones that entered its airspace during a huge attack on targets in Ukraine, calling it an “act of aggression” by Moscow.
It was the first time that Russian drones had been shot down over the territory of a NATO country

NATO Says It Scrambled Fighter Jets to Shoot Down Russian Drones Over Poland
The incursion was the first time alliance planes had engaged enemy targets in NATO airspace. Poland’s leader called it “a large-scale provocation.”

14 Russian drones entered Poland's airspace in the southeast of the country, ~250 km from Warsaw. Visible on the map are the Ukrainian cities Lviv and Lutsk.
https://bsky.app/profile/euanmacdonald.bsky.social/post/3lyhfpbbryk2w

Euan MacDonald (@euanmacdonald.bsky.social)
Map showing reported Russian drone incursions into Poland. Does not look random (14 drones): It looks like a deliberate attempt by fascist Russia to test NATO air defenses over a part of Polish territory used as a transit point for Western aid to democratic Ukraine.

"..some residents in #Ballymena have started to mark their front doors to indicate their nationality to avoid attack.."
I lived in this town, Ian Paisley's home town and DUP core territory, for 3 years as a teenager. Not been back.
It was characterised by narrow-mindedness and bigotry then in the 60s.
The last place to concentrate migrants, if that is what has happene…

Police injured, houses burned in second night of riots in Northern Ireland
Rioters said to target ‘foreigners’ in Northern Ireland town following alleged sexual assault of local teenage girl.

So you've been following the Skydance/Paramount merger. Did you know about administration's claim they were getting $20m in PSAs? Another not widely publicized story: Trump did this successfully with the Qatari jet. The United States was talking to Qatar about leasing or buying, but then Trump wished aloud that maybe it could be a gift . . . and then it was a gift. We're getting dangerously close to "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?" territory.
Been d…

It was such a pathetic moment in the show, along the lines of "we heard your criticism about competing in a country that criminalises gay people... so we incorporated rainbow colours into our shirts". Yet it's somehow sadder even that was too much.
https://kotaku.com/te…

Team Liquid 'Disappointed' CEO's Story About Growing Up Gay Was Censored From Esports Documentary In Saudi Ara
Amazon Prime’s Level Up documentary addresses the backlash the organization faced, but not in every territory

ISW explains why Putin's proposal is so bad for Ukraine and Europe.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-august-8-2025

Pro-Ukraine partisans sabotage railways in Russia's Volgograd, occupied Crimea, group claims: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/proukraine-partisans-sabotage-railways-in.html

Isolated Amazon tribe seen near logging bridge site, alarming rights group
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-08-28/isolated-amazon-tribe-seen-near-logging-bridge-site-alarming-rights-group

Isolated Amazon tribe seen near logging bridge site, alarming watchdog
Members of Peru’s Mashco Piro tribe have been seen entering another Indigenous groups village in the Amazon as a logging company operates heavy equipment near their territory, according to an Indigenous group

Highlight: Saquon Barkley infiltrates Cowboys' territory on 16-yard burst https://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/video/highlight-saquon-barkley-infiltrates-cowboys-territory-on-16-yard-burst

Poland shoots down drones over its territory amid Russian attack on Ukraine, prime minister says.
In the United States, Democratic Senator Dick Durbin said repeated violations of Nato airspace by Russian drones were a sign that “Vladimir Putin is testing our resolve to protect Poland and the Baltic nations.“
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/10/poland-shoots-down-drones-over-its-territory-amid-russian-attack-on-ukraine-says-military?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Good Morning #Canada
The Webster–Ashburton Treaty was signed August 9, 1842, and resolved several border issues between the United States and the British North American colonies (the region that very soon would become the Dominion of Canada). The treaty would end disputes and controversies over the vague indefinite terms and text of the old peace agreement of the Treaty of Paris of 1783, which ended the American Revolutionary War. Specifically, it defined borders between Maine and New Brunswick, territory surrounding Lake Superior, and reaffirmed the western border on the 49th parallel. More importantly, it began a period of peace and friendly diplomacy between the two countries... until Americans decided a moronic spray tanner, suspected abuser of women, convicted felon, golf cheat, and narcissistic conman should be their president.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/webster-ashburton-treaty

'If someone doesn't like it, we'll close it' — Poland's Duda calls out Ukraine, allies over attitudes toward key military aid hub: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/if-someone-doesnt-like-it.html

“...Scotland ceased to exist as a state in international law and was absorbed into a still-extant England, cosmetically renamed ‘Great Britain’. Scotland’s legal status today, more than three centuries later... is that of territory absorbed into a larger country. A territory with only limited self-government and with its resources exploitable and exploited by the larger country for its own benefit and purposes.”
Prof Robert Black, law professor

Israel’s defense minister has outlined plans to pack hundreds of thousands of Palestinians into a closed zone of the Gaza Strip along the border with Egypt
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-gaza-displaceme…

Israel outlines plans to pack Gaza's population into a closed border zone
Israeli media reports that the country’s defense minister has outlined plans to pack hundreds of thousands of Palestinians into a closed zone of the Gaza Strip along the border with Egypt. It appears to be the latest version of plans by the Israeli government to maintain lasting control over the territory and relocate much of its population of some 2 million. Critics say that would amount to forcible displacement in violation of international law because Israel’s offensive and blockade have…

Carroll feels at home in trip back to Seattle https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2025/aug/09/carroll-feels-at-home-in-trip-back-to-seattle/

NZ has a vast sea territory but lags behind other nations in protecting the ocean #NewZealand

NZ has a vast sea territory but lags behind other nations in protecting the ocean
For the past fortnight, the city of Nice in France has been the global epicenter of ocean science and politics.

Generative AI for Object-Oriented Programming: Writing the Right Code and Reasoning the Right Logic
Gang Xu, Airong Wang, Yushan Pan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05005 https://

Generative AI for Object-Oriented Programming: Writing the Right Code and Reasoning the Right Logic
We find ourselves in the midst of an explosion in artificial intelligence research, particularly with large language models (LLMs). These models have diverse applications spanning finance, commonsense knowledge graphs, medicine, and visual analysis. In the world of Object-Oriented Programming(OOP), a robust body of knowledge and methods has been developed for managing complex tasks through object-oriented thinking. However, the intersection of LLMs with OOP remains an underexplored territory. E…

«Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia»
Good timing, a day after the global Starlink outage.
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/musk-ordered-shutdown-starlink-satellite-service-ukraine-retook-territory-russia-2025-07-25/

TIL Trump wants Ukrainian minerals from #Putin & to build a resort in Russian occupied Crimea.

☑️ Russia offered U.S. a deal for minerals in Ukrainian territory it seized

Russia offered U.S. a deal for minerals in Ukrainian territory it seized
Russian officials proposed to Trump administration officials an agreement for the U.S. to make money off critical minerals and metals under Moscow’s control.

Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection includes
--Will the US rival China in dystopian surveillance?,
-- Trump cedes disinformation territory to US adversaries,
--When piracy tools cause infrastructure threats,
--AI is wearing down democracy,
--AI engineers who get paid $100 mil…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 6/21/25
Will the US rival China in dystopian surveillance?, Trump cedes disinformation territory to US adversaries, When piracy tools cause infrastructure threats, AI is wearing down democracy, AI engineers who get paid $100 million

... my pony escaped. he's been doing Normal Canadian C things in Seattle, but decided to self-deport. and now I have to journey to the heart of the Silicon Forest and convince the AI within to declare me President of Cascadia so I can offer this territory to King Charles to get my pony back. nbd

"June likely to be among Europe's hottest on record as heatwave brings new temperature highs"
#Europe #Climate #ClimateChange

June heatwave pushes Europe into record-breaking territory
Last month is likely to be one of Europe’s hottest Junes on record as extreme heat driven by climate change affects millions across the continent

Leaked ‘Gaza Riviera’ plan dismissed as ‘insane’ attempt to cover ethnic cleansing
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/01/leaked-gaza-riviera-plan-dismissed-as-insane-attempt-to-cover-ethnic-cleansing

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday that her administration is investigating contamination from a #SpaceX facility near the Mexican border in South Texas, and planning its next course of action: https://www.krgv.com/news/mexico-probes-contamination-from-spacex-rocket-explosion-that-landed-in-its-territory. Possible SpaceX debris causing environmental concern on Mexican side of the border: https://www.krgv.com/videos/possible-spacex-debris-causing-environmental-concern-on-mexican-side-of-the-border/ (with video).

Moir\'e excitons and exciton-polaritons: A review
Sa\'ul A. Herrera-Gonz\'alez, Hugo A. Lara-Garc\'ia, Giuseppe Pirruccio, David A. Ruiz-Tijerina, Arturo Camacho-Guardian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05204

Moiré excitons and exciton-polaritons: A review
Distinguished by their long lifetimes, strong dipolar interactions, and periodic confinement, moiré excitons provide a fertile territory for realizing interaction-driven excitonic phases beyond conventional semiconductor systems. Formed in twisted or lattice-mismatched van der Waals heterostructures, these excitons are shaped by a periodic potential landscape that enables the engineering of flat bands, strong interactions, and long-lived localised states. This has opened pathways to explore st…

"This report investigates the corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project of displacement and replacement of the Palestinians in the occupied territory. While political leaders and governments shirk their obligations, far too many corporate entities have profited from Israel’s economy of illegal occupation, #apartheid and now,

Long; central Massachusetts colonial history
Today on a whim I visited a site in Massachusetts marked as "Huguenot Fort Ruins" on OpenStreetMaps. I drove out with my 4-year-old through increasingly rural central Massachusetts forests & fields to end up on a narrow street near the top of a hill beside a small field. The neighboring houses had huge lawns, some with tractors.
Appropriately for this day and this moment in history, the history of the site turns out to be a microcosm of America. Across the field beyond a cross-shaped stone memorial stood an info board with a few diagrams and some text. The text of the main sign (including typos/misspellings) read:
"""
Town Is Formed
Early in the 1680's, interest began to generate to develop a town in the area west of Natick in the south central part of the Commonwealth that would be suitable for a settlement. A Mr. Hugh Campbell, a Scotch merchant of Boston petitioned the court for land for a colony. At about the same time, Joseph Dudley and William Stoughton also were desirous of obtaining land for a settlement. A claim was made for all lands west of the Blackstone River to the southern land of Massachusetts to a point northerly of the Springfield Road then running southwesterly until it joined the southern line of Massachusetts.
Associated with Dudley and Stoughton was Robert Thompson of London, England, Dr. Daniel Cox and John Blackwell, both of London and Thomas Freak of Hannington, Wiltshire, as proprietors. A stipulation in the acquisition of this land being that within four years thirty families and an orthodox minister settle in the area. An extension of this stipulation was granted at the end of the four years when no group large enough seemed to be willing to take up the opportunity.
In 1686, Robert Thompson met Gabriel Bernor and learned that he was seeking an area where his countrymen, who had fled their native France because of the Edict of Nantes, were desirous of a place to live. Their main concern was to settle in a place that would allow them freedom of worship. New Oxford, as it was the so-named, at that time included the larger part of Charlton, one-fourth of Auburn, one-fifth of Dudley and several square miles of the northeast portion of Southbridge as well as the easterly ares now known as Webster.
Joseph Dudley's assessment that the area was capable of a good settlement probably was based on the idea of the meadows already established along with the plains, ponds, brooks and rivers. Meadows were a necessity as they provided hay for animal feed and other uses by the settlers. The French River tributary books and streams provided a good source for fishing and hunting. There were open areas on the plains as customarily in November of each year, the Indians burnt over areas to keep them free of underwood and brush. It appeared then that this area was ready for settling.
The first seventy-five years of the settling of the Town of Oxford originally known as Manchaug, embraced three different cultures. The Indians were known to be here about 1656 when the Missionary, John Eliott and his partner Daniel Gookin visited in the praying towns. Thirty years later, in 1686, the Huguenots walked here from Boston under the guidance of their leader Isaac Bertrand DuTuffeau. The Huguenot's that arrived were not peasants, but were acknowledged to be the best Agriculturist, Wine Growers, Merchant's, and Manufacter's in France. There were 30 families consisting of 52 people. At the time of their first departure (10 years), due to Indian insurrection, there were 80 people in the group, and near their Meetinghouse/Church was a Cemetery that held 20 bodies. In 1699, 8 to 10 familie's made a second attempt to re-settle, failing after only four years, with the village being completely abandoned in 1704.
The English colonist made their way here in 1713 and established what has become a permanent settlement.
"""
All that was left of the fort was a crumbling stone wall that would have been the base of a higher wooden wall according to a picture of a model (I didn't think to get a shot of that myself). Only trees and brush remain where the multi-story main wooden building was.
This story has so many echoes in the present:
- The rich colonialists from Boston & London agree to settle the land, buying/taking land "rights" from the colonial British court that claimed jurisdiction without actually having control of the land. Whether the sponsors ever actually visited the land themselves I don't know. They surely profited somehow, whether from selling on the land rights later or collecting taxes/rent or whatever, by they needed poor laborers to actually do the work of developing the land (& driving out the original inhabitants, who had no say in the machinations of the Boston court).
- The land deal was on condition that there capital-holders who stood to profit would find settlers to actually do the work of colonizing. The British crown wanted more territory to be controlled in practice not just in theory, but they weren't going to be the ones to do the hard work.
- The capital-holders actually failed to find enough poor suckers to do their dirty work for 4 years, until the Huguenots, fleeing religious persecution in France, were desperate enough to accept their terms.
- Of course, the land was only so ripe for settlement because of careful tending over centuries by the natives who were eventually driven off, and whose land management practices are abandoned today. Given the mention of praying towns (& dates), this was after King Phillip's war, which resulted in at least some forced resettlement of native tribes around the area, but the descendants of those "Indians" mentioned in this sign are still around. For example, this is the site of one local band of Nipmuck, whose namesake lake is about 5 miles south of the fort site: #LandBack.

Pete Carroll, Geno Smith return to Seattle with Raiders https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/pete-carroll-geno-smith-return-to-seattle-with-raiders

👾 Invasion intensifies on Karipuna Indigenous land in the Brazilian Amazon
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/08/invasion-intensifies-on-karipuna-indigenous-land-in-the-brazilian-amazon/

Invasion intensifies on Karipuna Indigenous land in the Brazilian Amazon
Illegal invasions in the Karipuna Indigenous Territory in the northwest of the Brazilian Amazon have started to advance again, Karipuna leaders told Mongabay following an alert by global nonprofit Survival International. “This year has been very difficult because there are a lot of people on our territory,” André Karipuna, the chief of the Karipuna people, […]

Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/musk-ordered-shutdown-starlink-satellite-service-ukraine-retook-territory-russia-2025-07-25/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p27#a250725p27

Imagine if the Federal Government actually invested in #AffordableHousing. Building government owned rent controlled apartments, providing land for leasehold housing where property value are not driven by the market or providing funding for multiplexes development where individual families hold shares in the building. Imagine a federal housing factory in every province or territory that builds modular homes that can only be purchased by families, not investors.

In which I spend months in apparently unexplored parts of the nondeterministic-finite-automaton territory and get a good result. Once again, of interest only to people who care about ε-closures. (Those people are my people.)
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

QRS: Finite-state Struggles

Lithuania finds drone that entered from Belarus.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/08/1/7524392/

Lithuania finds drone that entered from Belarus
The UAV that entered Lithuania’s airspace from the territory of Belarus on 28 July was found on the fifth day of the search.

All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory... :-)
-- Larry Wall in <1991Jul13.010945.19157@netlabs.com

Four Ukrainian soldiers rescued after hiding in occupied territory for years: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/05/four-ukrainian-soldiers-rescued-after.html

Seahawks' offense begins preseason with drive-ending interception https://www.si.com/nfl/seahawks/game-day/seahawks-offense-begins-preseason-with-drive-ending-interception-01k23ptbk1zr

Report: Trump Told Zelensky To Cede Territory To Putin - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/08/report-trump-told-zelensky-to-cede-territory-to-putin/

A plan circulating in the White House to develop the “Gaza Riviera”
as a string of high-tech megacities
has been dismissed as an “insane” attempt to provide cover for the large-scale ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian territory’s population.
On Sunday the Washington Post published a leaked prospectus for the plan,
🆘 which would involve the forced displacement of Gaza’s entire population of 2 million people
⚠️ and put the territory into a US trusteeship for at l…

And those 2 million people go where?
Concentration camps?
Gas chambers?
https://flipboard.com/@euronews/world-news-frvv3r54z/-/a-Fh13g3HKQfuQzk_Boqoemg:a:89340020-/0

Israeli military calls Gaza City evacuation 'inevitable'
Aid groups have warned that an expanded military offensive could worsen the humanitarian crisis in the territory, where most of its over 2 million …

Direct vascular territory segmentation on cerebral digital subtraction angiography
P. Matthijs van der Sluijs, Lotte Strong, Frank G. te Nijenhuis, Sandra Cornelissen, Pieter Jan van Doormaal, Geert Lycklama a Nijeholt, Wim van Zwam, Ad van Es, Diederik Dippel, Aad van der Lugt, Danny Ruijters, Ruisheng Su, Theo van Walsum
https://arxiv.or…

Direct vascular territory segmentation on cerebral digital subtraction angiography
X-ray digital subtraction angiography (DSA) is frequently used when evaluating minimally invasive medical interventions. DSA predominantly visualizes vessels, and soft tissue anatomy is less visible or invisible in DSA. Visualization of cerebral anatomy could aid physicians during treatment. This study aimed to develop and evaluate a deep learning model to predict vascular territories that are not explicitly visible in DSA imaging acquired during ischemic stroke treatment. We trained an nnUNet …

WTF, @… ???
You removed my thread? There was literally NO reason! I stated only facts which you can look up on Wikipedia, if you like.
I have to assume that you are actively removing threads about Israel which are NOT antisemitic.
Edit: THEY ACTUALLY FORWARDED ME A LINK WITH ANTISEMITIC PROPAGANDA WTF:

Palestine Shrinking / Expanding Israel - Visualizing Palestine
This interactive infographic describes the military, legal and financial tools that have been utilised in the gradual transformation of historic Palestine into 'Greater' Israel, mapping the extent of the territory now defined as Israeli 'state land', on which Palestinians — even those holding Israeli citizenship — are now largely excluded from living.

"data compiled and published by Israel’s own government makes clear that it has been starving Gaza. Between March and June, Israel allowed just 56,000 tonnes of food to enter the territory, Cogat records show, less than a quarter of Gaza’s minimum needs for that period"
#GazaGenocide
#GazaStarvation

When even an organisation as reprehensible as the Catholic Church finds your behaviour unacceptable. Say the word, Popey, say the word: genocide.
#israel #genocide #Gaza

Good Morning #Canada
Today is World Population Day, established by United Nations as a result of the massive interest people had in Five Billion Day in 1987. It's a good day to get an update on Canada’s population growth, which was aggressive in 2023 when we hit 40M, and then hit 41M just a few months into 2024. The #StatsCan Real Time Tracker is not working for some reason, but we still have their Quarterly Estimates data. At the end of June, there were 41,548,787 of us strolling around Canada, with every province and territory showing growth.
#CanadaIsAwesome #INeedMySpace
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1710000901

Maybe it wasn’t a waste of time after all.
““We were able to win the following concession: That the United States could offer Article 5-like protection, which is one of the real reasons why Ukraine wants to be in NATO,” Witkoff told CNN’s “State of the Union.”
But the question is, what about the territory?
#RussiaUkraineWar
https://apnews.com/article/trump-witkoff-ukraine-russia-putin-war-048aa829a69b4020ca368577bfe18aee

The disclosure of a SEAL Team 6 mission into North Korea in 2019 has heightened interest in
when the executive branch must tell congressional oversight committees about important military and intelligence operations.
The Trump administration did not inform Congress of what happened.
But in 2021, the Biden administration decided to brief top congressional officials.
The difference in approach raises the question of whether the Trump team improperly or illegally withheld…

Trump Didn’t Notify Congress About a High-Stakes SEALs Mission. That Could Be an Issue.
The Trump administration failed to tell lawmakers about a 2019 SEAL Team 6 incursion into North Korean territory that went awry.

"We've been here before" and "this is terrifying and new territory."

Trump is giving Putin at least some weeks (and maybe forever) to conquer more territory in Ukraine. A cynical play.
#ukraine #putin #trump

Putin made maximalist claims to Ukrainian territory in Trump summit: Sources (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/16/putin-trump-summit-territory-claims-donetsk
http://www.memeorandum.com/250816/p53#a250816p53

"Transportation for Palestinians in the Bethlehem and Hebron governorates to Jericho in the Jordan Valley would go through a new underground tunnel Israel is planning to build to bypass the wilderness east of Jerusalem. What this means is that the entire space between Jerusalem and the edges of the Jordan Valley would become accessible to Israelis only."
Israel is building a tunnel to cut off Palestinians from the heart of the West Bank – Mondoweiss

Israel is building a tunnel to cut off Palestinians from the heart of the West Bank
Israel is constructing tunnels that Palestinians will be required to pass through in the heart of the West Bank, making large parts of the occupied territory accessible only to Israelis. The aim is to remove the Palestinian presence around Jerusalem.

Donald Trump is also considering selling Alaska back to Russia in order to help Putin with his quest to restore the glory of the tsarist empire. And he will advise Zelenskyy to sell the Eastern oblasts to Russia in exchange for peace and to use the proceeds of the sale to build Ukraine into a modern state. This may look like speculation, but hey, it's Trump.

This seems significant.
"As well as the UK prime minister, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, Italy’s PM, Giorgia Meloni, and the Finnish president, Alexander Stubb, will all accompany Zelenskyy in the Oval Office."

I don't get it. Don't these fools realize that San Francisco Bay lacks sharks and killer whales, and there are even swimming competitions from Alcatraz. It's just not secure.
Now on the other hand, building a jail on the Farallons, 26 miles into the Pacific, great white shark territory, killer whales now and then. Much more challenging to escape from than Alcatraz...

I don't get it. Don't these fools realize that San Francisco Bay lacks sharks and killer whales, and there are even swimming competitions from Alcatraz. It's just not secure.
Now on the other hand, building a jail on the Farallons, 26 miles into the Pacific, great white shark territory, killer whales now and then. Much more challenging to escape from than Alcatraz...

Zelensky says he will discuss territory with Putin as Ukraine signals readiness for unconditional peace talks with Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/19/zelensky-says-he-will-discuss.html

Random tangent: I heard recently that a native turtle in Florida has been found eating them as well, not by any sort of toxin avoidance, but because they have a genetic immunity to bufotoxin.
https://mathstodon.xyz/@gregeganSF/115033012119880479

150,000 Sq. Miles to Be Protected in Canada’s Northwest by Coalition of First Nations https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/150000-sq-miles-to-be-protected-in-canadas-far-northwest-by-coalition-of-first-nations/

150,000 Sq. Miles to Be Protected in Canada's Northwest by Coalition of First Nations
Over 12,000 members of various First Nations' people lived there as of 2021, making up over 40% of the territory's population. 

Why am I in the (#)Neurodiversity Community?
1. Why do I belong here and
2. Why do I choose to be here?
1. I'm always interested in going "deep"(as in "Deep Thinking" / "Deep Analysis") of anything I go into.
I think a bit extra before I delve into any territory.
I belong here because I've found a "Neurodiversity System" that is pretty bold and can lead to Neurodiverse understanding that hasn't happened yet.

China is undertaking a large-scale build-out of infrastructure along its eastern coast,
including air and naval sites that show its growing readiness for a potential conflict over Taiwan.
Satellite images and other open-source material examined by The Wall Street Journal illustrate how these facilities would strengthen China’s hand if it launched an invasion of the island democracy.
Beijing claims Taiwan as its territory and has pledged to take it, by force if necessary.

Everyone in the comments: these low results are weird. (Just yesterday I myself was shocked, and f-ing annoyed, to confirm that #CachyOS runs Star Wars: Outlaws 10-20% faster than Windows 11.)
Nonetheless, it's fascinating to watch the bigger gaming channels finding themselves in a completely new territory and struggling to learn the ropes.
Gaming on Linux hasn't been…

Zelenskyy hails US security vow — but rules out sacrificing uncaptured land  – POLITICO
https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-volodymyr-zelenskyy-russia-territory-wont-give-up-eu-trump-talk/

Russia occupied less than 1% of Ukraine's territory since November 2022, monitoring group says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/18/russia-occupied-less-than-of.html

Trump told Zelenskyy and allies he won't discuss territory divisions with Putin this week, sources say (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-told-zelenskyy-allies-wont-discuss-territory-divisions-putin-wee-rcna224894
http://www.memeorandum.com/250813/p103#a250813p103

Climate change and depopulation confirmed as main concerns affecting mountain areas in Europe https://phys.org/news/2025-06-climate-depopulation-main-affecting-mountain.html

Climate change and depopulation confirmed as main concerns affecting mountain areas in Europe
In Europe, mountain areas account for about 36% of the total territory and are home to 16% of the population, but they are crucial for the continent as a whole. The availability of basic commodities, like water, depends on them; they play a key role in carbon sequestration, and are areas of biodiversity.

Russia has occupied less than 1% of Ukrainian territory since 2024 #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/02/russia-has-occupied-less-than.html

Emmanuel Macron has criticised Donald Trump’s threats to take over Greenland
as he became the first foreign head of state to visit the vast, mineral-rich Arctic territory since the US president began making explicit threats to annex it.
“I don’t think that’s what allies do,”
Macron said as he arrived in the Danish autonomous territory for a highly symbolic visit aimed at conveying
“France’s and the EU’s solidarity” with Greenlandon his way to a summit of G7 leaders in …

Starve-attract-shoot-kill-repeat.
Western governments: "Israel has the right to defend itself."
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/officials-say-73-palestinians-killed-in-gaza-while-…

Officials say 73 Palestinians killed in Gaza while seeking aid as Israel widens evacuation orders
At least 73 Palestinians were killed while trying to reach aid at locations across Gaza on Sunday, the territory's Health Ministry said, in one of the deadliest days yet for aid-seekers in over 21 months of war.

Good time for Xi to create a crisis around Taiwan.
https://apnews.com/article/taiwan-china-planes-center-line-british-ship-b1618804e7a4bc66c411cb3cb171480a

China sends scores of planes across central line in Taiwan Strait
China has sent 74 warplanes toward Taiwan between late Thursday and early Friday, 61 of which crossed the central line in the Taiwan Strait unofficially dividing the sides. China considers Taiwan its own territory and uses such deployments to advertise its threat to encircle and possibly invade the self-governing island. It wasn't clear why so many planes were scrambled between late Thursday and early Friday, as tabulated by Taiwan's Defense Ministry. The planes were sent in two separate tranch…

The enemy only occupied 0.96% of Ukraine's territory — statistics are shocking #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/23/the-enemy-only-occupied-of.html

Kelsey is the queen of relationship truth. Especially her old boyfriend bit: Jesus, y'all have no idea how much gospel she is spittin'.
▶️ Dentists Can Tell What You Do In Bed | Mark Your Territory - Kelsey Cook
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2wRWSFF2JS8&si=3-rS…

““In response to the question of why they were fishing there then, the accused, Jack, answered, ‘because it’s my river’,” recounts court records from the case… the court supported Jack’s Aboriginal right to access fish”
The Hashilthsa newspaper from Nuuchanulth territory has produced a fantastic article detailing the history and current status of the relationship between DFO and First Nations.
It's still not great.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #DFO #FirstNations #IndigenousRights
https://www.hashilthsa.com/news/2025-06-27/relations-federal-department-indicate-clash-worldviews

"Also back in style is the tactic of using disinformation to manufacture consent for war, as with Netanyahu’s claims that Iran was right on the cusp of acquiring a nuclear weapon and intending to supply one to Yemen’s Ansarallah. We are entering territory so fantastical that the ‘dodgy dossier’ and ‘45-minute WMD’ seem almost quaint by comparison."
Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, Culmination — Sidecar

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, Culmination — Sidecar
Israel attacks Iran.

Avoiding gang territory so as to not run into actual criminals, wearing masks, no warrants, and:
ICE Tells Agents They Can Start Making Unjustified Arrests Again | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/20/ice-tells-agents-they-can-start-making-unjustified-arrests-again/

Belgium's King Filip speaks up for Gaza where "innocent citizens, jailed in their enclave, die from starvation and succumb to the bombs. This is a shame for humanity."
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/officia

Officials say 73 Palestinians killed in Gaza while seeking aid as Israel widens evacuation orders
At least 73 Palestinians were killed while trying to reach aid at locations across Gaza on Sunday, the territory's Health Ministry said, in one of the deadliest days yet for aid-seekers in over 21 months of war.

Breece Hall to the Cowboys: Trade Scenario, Stats, and 2025 Impact https://insidethestar.com/breece-hall-to-the-cowboys-trade-scenario-stats-and-2025-impact

It's terrible, while Putin invaded Ukraine, apparently Zelensky has to "choose for peace" according to Trump by giving up territory...
#trump #zelensky #putin

Foreign Ministry condemns Budapest for banning 3 Ukrainian military officials from Hungarian territory: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/18/foreign-ministry-condemns-budapest-for.html

Europe considering military buffer zone on Ukrainian territory, Politico reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/29/europe-considering-military-buffer-zone.html

TUVALU is preparing to carry out the first planned migration of an entire country in response to the effects of climate change.
Recent studies project that much of its territory could be submerged in the next 25 years due to rising sea levels, forcing its inhabitants to consider migration as an urgent survival measure.

The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway
The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.

I can imagine there is some diplomatic wiggle room in the recognition of russian occupied Crimea, surely not de jure but some de facto maybe... giving up not-occupied territory is complete madness, so will not happen. I am very curious what european diplomats will come up with and whether they can commit Trump to something that is good for Ukraine and Europe.
#Trump

U.S. law already makes clear that America cannot and will not recognize Russia’s land grabs.
2024 Omnibus Bill, Section 7047 (extended into 2025 CR): Prohibits funding for any action recognizing Russian claims over Crimea or other occupied territory.
2019 NDAA, Section 1241 (reaffirmed annually, most recently in the 2025 NDAA, Section 1303): Bars any Defense Department funds from supporting recognition of Russian sovereignty over Crimea. 1/2

'Borders must not be changed by force' — European leaders back Trump's peace effort but say Ukraine must decide its territory: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/borders-must-not-be-changed.html

Gaza is suffering man-made mass starvation
caused by the blockade of aid into the territory,
the head of the World Health Organization has said,
as more than 100 agencies urged Israel to let supplies in to alleviate the crisis.
“I don’t know what you would call it other than mass starvation,
and it’s man-made,
and that’s very clear,”
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual press conference from Geneva.
“This is because of [the] blockade.”

Rates of 🔥severe malnutrition
among children aged under five
at Médecins Sans Frontières’ Gaza City clinic
💥have tripled in the last two weeks,
the charity has said,
as starvation in the Israeli-besieged strip worsens.
The global aid community has sounded the alarm
as Gaza descends deeper into mass starvation,
with resulting deaths being reported daily
as Israel allows only a trickle of aid into the territory.
MSF said a quarter of …

LISTEN: The sounds of war we hear at night: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/27/listen-the-sounds-of-war.html

Zelensky has told European allies that he is open to halting hostilities and ceding to Russia de facto control over territory it already holds. So Putin can agree with a cease-fire anytime! That would freeze the situation for talks. But instead Putin, the agressor, chooses to continue attacking. Putin deeds illustrate his intentions, the complete destruction of Ukraine. Putin simply can't live with a prosperous Ukraine.

Across occupied Ukraine, Russia has caused a devastating water crisis it cannot fix: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/27/across-occupied-ukraine-russia-has.html

Russia's waves of airstrikes, particularly on sites close to NATO territory to the west of Ukraine,
have frequently pushed the alliance to scramble fighter jets.
Poland has scrambled fighters several times this month as Moscow carried out fresh strikes on Ukraine,
and Romania —which also borders Ukraine —has repeatedly reacted to drone attacks close to the border.
NATO members are collectively obliged to respond to attacks on other alliance nations under Article 5 …

NATO Scrambles Fighter Jets Amid 'Massive' Russian Attacks
Ukraine's air force said on Monday Russia had fired 426 drones and 19 cruise missiles at the country overnight, as well as five hypersonic ballistic missiles.

"Four days ahead of a summit with the Russian president to negotiate peace in Ukraine, the US president expressed frustration at the Ukrainian president's refusal to cede part of his country's territory to Russia."
Trump does not want Zelensky to attend his Alaska meeting with Putin
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/08/12/trump-does-not-want-zelensky-to-attend-his-alaska-meeting-with-putin_6744287_4.html

Russia redeploys troops for new push in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine's army chief says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/18/russia-redeploys-troops-for-new.html

Trump and Putin have landed in Alaska to meet and discuss the war in Ukraine
Talks are no longer one on one
— with four others joining
The American leader has touted economic incentives for Russia, saying Putin “wants a piece” of US wealth.
He also speculated that military aggression was in Putin’s “genes”
He insisted he wanted an immediate ceasefire but said no agreement on the transfer of territory would be made without Kyiv

Alaska summit live: Trump and Putin shake hands before meeting
Alaska summit live: Trump and Putin meeting latest news

Ukrainian drones hit key rail hub in Russia's Voronezh Oblast, HUR says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/17/ukrainian-drones-hit-key-rail.html