US choking off Cuba's oil.
"…country is only able to produce about 40% of…energy it requires. Blackouts …become commonplace — …can last 10 to 15 hours & have even reached…Havana."
https://www.dw.com/en/cuba-oil-fuel-embarg
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Cousines like Shit:
🎵 Hair on Coffee
#NowPlaying #CousineslikeShit
https://seayou.bandcamp.com/album/cousines-like-shit-farce-hair-on-coffee
https://open.spotify.com/track/5hKBkozQZ6EykWJawhK5N0
Ranking all 32 NFL coaching jobs by tiers, from best (Chiefs) to worst (Raiders) https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/ranking-32-nfl-coaching-jobs-tiers-best-worst/af1e5ac86ab0eca4aa7c7bdd
Revealed: Epstein cultivated relationship with CBP officer, causing US investigation | Jeffrey Epstein | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/19/jeffrey-epstein-cbp-officer-st-thomas
Revealed: Epstein cultivated relationship with CBP officer, causing US investigation (Julia Carrie Wong/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/19/jeffrey-epstein-cbp-officer-st-thomas
http://www.memeorandum.com/260219/p106#a260219p106
"The IEA advised countries to promote public transport, give private cars access to city centres on alternate days, encourage efficient driving habits, avoid air travel where possible and switch to electric cooking."
This is actually sound advice from Faith Birol. But it should be the norm in the face of ecological overshoot and climate collapse.
Meanwhile UK ministers are beginning to panic.
"Don't panic!" they cry, in tribute to corporal Jones.
Probing the limits of #habitability - a catalogue of rocky exoplanets in the habitable zone: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/547/3/stag028/8526432?login=false -> The best places to look for alien life: https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/best-places-look-alien-life-scientists-identify-45-earth-worlds - scientists identify 45 Earth-like worlds to explore for a 'Project Hail Mary'.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Rusty Santos:
🎵 Helium chasms
#RustySantos
https://rustysantos.bandcamp.com/track/helium-chasms
https://open.spotify.com/track/729lP8jSQY0EbQYQssDNrQ
“No one knows right now what the right reference architectures or use cases are for their institution,” Dorian Smiley, CTO and founder of AI software engineering company Codestrap, told The Register.
“From the large language model perspective, people aren’t really addressing the fallibility of the underlying text,” CEO Connor Deeks added.
As software engineers continue to be put under pressure to use AI for…