Coming of age during war, where mistakes can cost a life: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/04/coming-of-age-during-war.html
"Where do you start when it comes to creating a brand image for what is arguably one of the most important milestones of your institution?" – "The Smathers Centennial" https://communications.uflib.ufl.edu/2026/01/20/design-diary-the-smather…
Morbid thought: potus & kegseth want a war w/Venezuela partly to get lithium that is in Venezuela.
You know where else there’s lithium? In potus & kegseth. Each has between 2mg & 7mg of lithium in their bodies.
Like some communist nightmare they use it willy nilly internally. Shall we stop them?
#USpol
Cybersecurity developments are coming fast and heavy right now, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the most crucial developments you should know, including
--Hot new social network Moltbook exposed 1 million credentials,
--Chinese state actors were likely behind Notepad hijacking,
--Bill to allow the Russian government to shut down comms networks moves forward,
--ICE uses app that accesses 1.2B facial images,
--Mountain View disables license plate ca…
Where are ICE and Border Patrol agents coming from? (pbump)
https://www.pbump.net/o/where-are-ice-and-border-patrol-agents-coming-from/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p113#a260202p113
What do people think about the "dark forest theory of the internet" ? https://www.ystrickler.com/dftrevisited/
Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
BLAKE: Open the door!
[Avon opens the door.]
LEYLAN: Hands on your heads. Stand where you are.
BLAKE: Raiker's switched off... Tell him we're coming out... And quickly!
[Leylan nods, and Artix runs off.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/423
(IEEE Spectrum) 11 Amazing engineering events in 2026: Brain chip helps blind people see https://spectrum.ieee.org/new-technology-2026 on Elon Musk and Neuralink Blindsight: "some experts worry he is overpromising on the quality of the brain-computer interface";
Do we have a groundhog aggregator? A site where one can consult all the predictions, perhaps with an option to weigh each in relation to its distance from a certain point on the Earth's surface (I want to know what's coming exactly where I live)? Perhaps one that would also account for non-traditional responses and their meanings: dead or AWOL animals, bitten handlers, extreme weather?
Russian war bloggers say Fedorov’s Starlink crackdown is crippling their battlefield communications: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/01/russian-war-bloggers-say-fedorovs.html