Drake Maye's TD puts away Patriots' first playoff win since Super Bowl LIII: 'We were the better team tonight. We made plays when we had to.' https://www.nfl.com/news/drake-maye-s-td-p

If Trump believes we will roll over and allow him to take our freedoms, he is mistaken.
We are coming together again on March 28 because we know we can overcome his repression when we unite.
https://www.nokings.org/

No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power belongs to the people.

We need to stop calling Ukrainians resilient: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/11/we-need-to-stop-calling.html

Following federal cuts to history-focused organizations, the president of the Canadian Historical Association, Colin Coates, sent this letter to Marc Miller, the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture.
One thing might not be obvious: Coates's reference to Carney's recent Quebec City speech suggests Canadians' need for historical context right now. He doesn't agree with Carney's claims. In fact, most Canadian historians would dispute them.

We urgently need to overcome the capitalist law of value and democratise our economy, so that we can organise production around urgent social and ecological priorities. After all, we are the producers of the goods, the services, the technologies. It is our labour and our planet’s resources that are at stake. And so we must claim the right to decide what is produced, how, and for what purpose.

Was at a startup conference recently where one company said that they don't build cars - they build smart devices.
I agreed to the person next to me that in the end ..
* it's still a car that should bring me from A to B
* we don't like driving
* we can't afford having a driver so that we can enjoy the entertainment system
* we prefer to be on a bike anyways

We Are Explorers Podcast
This show celebrates the humans within Australia and New Zealand's adventure community...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/we-are-explorers/

So sad to loose James Van Der Beek so young who I really loved on Apt 23. The ability to parody yourself that hard takes real skill.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DUoR_x4EkTm/

Measuring Our Electrical Appliance Energy Consumption - Read how once we have bought a gadget, we measure what it uses, and work out how to use it efficiently. No vampires here please! - https://www.earth.org.uk/measuring-appliance-consumption.html

Measuring Our Electrical Appliance Energy Consumption
Read how once we have bought a gadget, we measure what it uses, and work out how to use it efficiently. No vampires here please!

A really surprising thing I learned from the (excellent) Many Minds podcast: we have found only about 300 Neanderthal skeletons in total. Amazing how we've constructed entire histories from so little data (but also how much we can't be sure about).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_

Why We’re Building Readino (And Why It Matters) – FBReader
https://fbreader.org/blog/why_we_are_building_readino

Why We’re Building Readino (And Why It Matters) – FBReader
An introduction to Readino — an open, independent ebook shop from the creators of FBReader. This post shares why we're building it, what makes it different, and how open standards like LCP make it possible.

“Of course we care about people, that’s why we promote privacy for … governments [and the police, military, etc.]” is one helluva take.
Let me break it down for those of you whose salaries depend on conflating people with corporations and governments because it isn’t hard:
Privacy is a human right.
Not a corporate right. Not a governmental right. Not a law enforcement right. Not a military right. A *human* right.
Corporations, governments, police departments, militari…

We need to inconvenience the right people about ICE
https://www.forwardky.com/we-need-to-inconvenience-the-right-people-about-ice/

Just finished "The Raven Boys," a graphic novel adaptation of a novel by Maggie Stiefvater (adaptation written by Stephanie Williams and illustrated by Sas Milledge).
I haven't read the original novel, and because of that, this version felt way too dense, having to fit huge amounts of important details into not enough pages. The illustrations are gorgeous and the writing is fine; the setting and plot have some pretty interesting aspects... It's just too hard to follow a lot of the threads, or things we're supposed to care about aren't given the time/space to feel important.
The other thing that I didn't like: one of the central characters is rich, and we see this reflected in several ways, but we're clearly expected to ignore/excuse the class differences within the cast because he's a good guy. At this point in my life, I'm simply no longer interested in stories about good rich guys very much. It's become clear to me how in real life, we constantly get the perspectives of the rich, and rarely if ever hear the perspectives of the poor (same applies across racial and gender gradients, among others). Why then in fiction should I get more of the same, spending my mental bandwidth building empathy for yet another dilettante who somehow has a heart of gold? I'm tired of that.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

An attacker rammed a vehicle into a synagogue in Michigan. Here's what we know. (Jordan Freiman/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/synagogue-shooting-michigan-what-we-know/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260312/p119#a260312p119

Spitzer HST parallaxes of 13 late T and Y dwarfs: #BrownDwarfs in the solar neighborhood (d < 20pc). By combining archival Spitzer data with our own Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations, we achieve parallax uncertainties typically around 10%. Using Spitzer and HST photometry we compare our targets with other known late T and Y dwarfs in the Solar neighborhood, confirming that there is large intrinsic scatter in the near- and mid-infrared absolute magnitudes and colors of this population, further highlighting the diversity observed spectroscopically by several James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) programs."

“While being perfectly happy to support, pay and earn money from Nazis we think CSAM is the line we won’t cross” is not the flex you all websites and political parties seem to think it is.
We also saw how you all previously left X and went right back despite Dickhead in charge becoming an even bigger nazi.

Summit (aka Deft, aka ServerCentral):
"In our Elk Grove Village location, our CAM costs increased by 11% [...]  We will be passing this increase through [...]
We have also renewed our lease at Elk Grove Village resulting in increased costs of 30%. This renewal reflects the impact of high demand and increasing costs in the data center space.  This renewal is effective on July 1st, 2026 and we will be passing this increase through"

Just an unsolicited product plug, if you’re in Western Canada. The house we bought in late 2024 has Vinyltek windows, installed during a 2010-12 renovation, and a few of them were a bit twisted out of shape or had dysfunctional open/close/lock controls. So we called up and their guy came by and fixed them all in less than an hour, no charge. https://www.vin…

This, however, is not sufficient. We are under siege, and we need protection.
I don’t know the answers to any of the questions in this thread, but I do know this: There is no patience left here in Minneapolis.
Leaders had better take visible, concrete action to •actively defend• the city — especially schools — if they want this city to hold together.
10/

Quick note: About how when tech bros apply the morale from SciFi stories in a way that we find wrong, it's not cause they didn't read the book. It's cause they identify with other characters than you are.
https://tante.cc/2026/02/12/but-they-did-read-it/

But they did read it
It’s fun to see tech bros naming thins after SciFi books, films or shows: “The Metaverse” was not a utopia but a reaction to a world where the political, economic and ecological systems have collapsed just to give one example among oh so many others. And we often keep making jokes about the tech bros […]

Anthropic CCO Paul Smith says the company is focused on "growing revenue" rather than making "flashy headlines", calls the market selloff "hyperbole", and more (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/11/anthropic-vs-openai-ads-spendin…

Anthropic executive takes a thinly-veiled swipe at OpenAI over spending and ads
"We've made less flashy headlines than some, and we've been focused on growing revenue and winning business," Anthropic's chief commercial officer told CNBC.

So glad we spend more than 900 billion dollars on defense, so we can panic and shoot down a mylar party balloon with a high energy laser.
"After the shutdown was lifted, the New York Times reported the military was conducting tests of counter-drone technology.
The weapon…a high-energy laser, was used earlier in the week to target what turned out to be at least one mylar party balloon…"

You said: “It is simply because the ROI is much higher now because these tools enable a much less lossy compounding of knowledge.”
That is not a good reason. That is towing the narrative that if there is no ROI then there is no reason to do it. We dont know the impact if we had Written The Docs™.
I laude your position & I am grateful. But the words we choose to “justify” the choices of the past are important. “Because we didn’t value our fellow human” is clearer than “accoun…

The Page Isn’t Dead, Your Attention Is Under Siege
Every few years we are invited to attend the same funeral. Someone declares that nobody reads anymore, that the printed page is finished, that books are an aging technology destined to become a museum object while the living culture migrates to earbuds and short video. It is a tempting story because it flatters our sense that we are witnessing a clean break with the past, a decisive turn of the wheel.

The Page Isn’t Dead, Your Attention Is Under Siege | David Boles, Blogs
Every few years we are invited to attend the same funeral. Someone declares that nobody reads anymore, that the printed page is finished, that books are an aging technology destined to become a mus…

At @… we're running many linter-ish tools in CI that I'd like to have easy to apply (codespell, various indentation/sorting stuff, cargo clippy --fix). Are there existing tools that I can wrap those in, so that at the end of a PR's CI run, I get a neat set of "fixup!" #git

ci: common easy-to-apply workflow for lints · Issue #1800 · ariel-os/ariel-os
Description Recent discussion has shown that the lints we currently have are mostly accepted as important (could still need that documented, though), but we'd like to do better in terms of actionab...

Leaving Antarctica with computers full of data, notebooks full of notes numbers and just about as much kit as we brought ( some waste for correct disposal). Travelling out via the gobsmacking #WhiteDesert.
#Antarctica, you've been wonderful, who knows when we'll meet again... #iQ2300

Project Nightfall — Everything we know about the UK's ballistic missile program for Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/12/project-nightfall-everything-we-know.html

We continue to look at Wednesday’s contentious hearing of the House Judiciary Committee,
we spoke with Vermont Congressmember Becca Balint,
who walked out after Attorney General Pam Bondi accused her of supporting antisemitism.
Balint, who is Jewish and whose grandfather died in the Holocaust, had just asked Bondi to meet with survivors of Jeffrey Epstein
— a demand that Bondi repeatedly ignored during the hearing.
“It was just heartbreaking to watch the attorne…

“I Was Just So Disgusted”: Jewish Rep. Balint Walks Out of Hearing After Bondi Calls Her Antisemitic
As we continue to look at Wednesday’s contentious hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, we speak with Vermont Congressmember Becca Balint, who walked out after Attorney General Pam Bondi accused her of supporting antisemitism. Balint, who is Jewish and whose grandfather died in the Holocaust, had just asked Bondi to meet with survivors of Jeffrey Epstein — a demand that Bondi repeatedly ignored during the hearing. “It was just heartbreaking to watch the attorney general act in this wa…

Google completes acquisition of Wiz
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/infrastructure-and-cloud/google-cloud/wiz-acquisition/

Google completes acquisition of Wiz
Today, we announced we've closed the acquisition of Wiz.

Information from my (Dutch) grid operator Stedin: if you would like to upgrade your 1x25A (one-phase) connection to a 3x25A (three-phase) connection, that'll be €495.59.
And then "Oh wait, if we need to replace the connection cable we may add €1,786.82 to the bill"...
And no info on how to find out.

"We cannot schedule an appointment with that department online. Please call the office to schedule. We will not provide you with the phone number to do so on this screen, as it's more fun to make you guess."
I hate hospitals...
#Medical #AmericanHealthFail

#Anarchism

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Pete Seeger:
🎵 We Shall Overcome
#PeteSeeger
https://peteseeger.bandcamp.com/track/we-shall-overcome
https://open.spotify.com/track/2XKUNFRqUFg9ugFI3WWzWQ

"How green is your milk? We compare the environmental cost of dairy and plant-based options"
#Milk #Food #Environment

Kelda Roys is not my first choice for Governor of Wisconsin but at least she's a cyclist. (And ebike rider!)
I'm really hoping Wisconsin doesn't take the route of New Jersey with regards to ebike regulations.
We have some good bike advocacy here though (and Trek) so hopefully we're safe.
#wisconsin

A very important point about AI models that we need to remind ourselves
https://www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-talk-about-how-we-talk-about-ai/

We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI' | TechPolicy.Press
We share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie.

Look, just because container ships are being blown up doesn't mean it's time to panic. It's not like we import that much stuff here in the US! Plus, Trump helped curb our importing with all those tariffs, so we should be in a really good place now.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Bright Eyes:
🎵 We are nowhere and it's now
#NowPlaying #BrightEyes
https://brighteyes.bandcamp.com/track/we-are-nowhere-and-its-now
https://open.spotify.com/track/4RzgwNEhL2TxgK0RVmCRPf

Upgraded a server today from Windows 2019 to 2025. Also upgraded the MSSQL on it. Usually we find MSSQL 2019, occasionally MSSQL 2016 (ick) but we've been slowly bringing everything up to date and under IT management. The box we have on schedule for tomorrow? It is Windows 2019 but somehow running SQL Express 2005. 🤦 🤦 Double facepalm on that one.

Canal says it will "roll out a major evolution of the Canal App" using OpenAI's tech to "power content search and discovery", and signs a Google Cloud AI deal (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywood…

Canal+ Unveils Sky English-Language Drama Partnership, OpenAI and Google Cloud AI Deals
"We begin 2026 from a position of strength, clarity and confidence," says Canal+ CEO Maxime Saada. "We now move into the execution phase of our strategy."

More #warmongering #MoreWarMongering
UK not as ready as we need to be for full-scale war, says Army chief - BBC News
https://www.

UK not as ready as we need to be for full-scale war, says Army chief
Sir Richard Knighton refuses to confirm the existence of a £28bn shortfall in defence spending plans.

One could think that we, engineers, are in the best position to know what tools we need and what tools we do NOT. When we need a licence, we know where to send an email and beg for that licence that we won't get. Who THE FUCK is asking for LLM? I certainly did not. And yet my previous CEO forced on us a 80€/month/employee LLM licence. That jackass.

Amateur diplomat time: I think what Australia is trying to do Schrödinger's support for Trump's (Netanyahu's) war on Iran.
We've almost always gone to war if USA asks. But Trump's *hated* here, so we're helping UAE instead. We've said no boots on the ground, so we're helping with planes/surveillance equipment.
Makes sense, we've recently signed an FTA & Emirates is a key transport link from here to Europe. Trump can't call Albo a 'loser' like Spain & the Australian media can't roast him for 'not doing anything'.

Packers-Bears on Wild Card Weekend Saturday: What We Learned from Chicago's 31-27 win https://www.nfl.com/news/packers-bears-on-wild-card-weekend-saturday-what-we-learned-chicago-win

Here's a wild stat: We could power every car and truck as electric vehicles just by putting solar panels on land we currently use for biofuels.
Solar is vastly more efficient than biofuels for energy generation. The real question is how we use our land—solar for transport, biofuels for aviation, or letting some return to nature.

Putting solar panels on land used for biofuels would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks to go electric
The world dedicates a Poland-sized area of land to liquid biofuels. Is there a more efficient way to generate energy?

Roman elites drank from leaded cups because it made water sweeter. Radiation was thought at one time to have healing properties, so people would add uranium to their drinking water. Glowing dishes are still a collectors item. After the discovery of x-rays, shoe stores started installing them and using them on kids feet to size shoes. Lead was added to gasoline to improve engine performance, and paint to make it whiter. We all know about asbestos and DDT.
We look back at all of this and think, "how could people have been so incompetent back then?" Some of these things caused irreparable harm in their generation, some continue to cause harm today almost 100 years later.
If you wonder that, look at the whole #LLM thing and you have your answer.

sp_colocation: Social co-locations (2018)
Network of colocations between peoople, based on the information on which RFID readers received information from the RFID tags. Namely, we define two individuals to be in co-presence if the same exact set of readers have received signals from both individuals during a 20s time window.
This network has 403 nodes and 1417485 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

“‘AI’ is not your friend. Nor is it an intelligent tutor, an empathetic ear, or a helpful assistant. It can not ‘make up’ facts, and it does not make ‘mistakes’. It does not actually answer your questions.”
https://www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-talk-about-how-we-talk-about-ai/

We are looking for motivated volunteers to help make #bbuzz a success! Whether you're interested in being a stage host, assisting with registration, or helping with build-up and break-down, we would love to have you on board.
Learn more about our volunteering options: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/helping-hands/

Foodies forgive us, though we know exactly what we do. We had so much garlic from the garden this year that now absolutely has to be late planted, eaten or stored that we have resorted to Jarlic. 🌱 #gardening #oklahoma

Why did the Ravens back out of Maxx Crosby trade? What we know so far https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/03/10/maxx-crosby-trade-why-ravens-backed-out-physical/89091757007/

Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
TARRANT: Yes, Vila. I take the point. You're obviously far cleverer than I.
VILA: Right.
TARRANT: [Examining a map] So - this is where we're going.
VILA: What? - Where are we going?
TARRANT: To destroy a computer.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/311/468

Exhaust pipe position affects how much air pollution we breathe, research finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/09/exhaust-pipe-position-affects-how-much-air-pollution-we-breathe-research-finds

From 350.org
We’re calling on governments to send ministers to the first-of-its-kind international summit in Colombia this April and turn words into concrete road maps that end fossil fuels for good. Public pressure can move the needle. Let’s make the transition to renewable energy inevitable so that even Trump and the oil lobby can’t save fossil fuels.

End Fossil Fuels Forever
Time is running out. Our planet is hitting record temperatures, while coal, oil and gas giants rake in billions, and our energy bills skyrocket. But we finally have a chance to break the cycle. Over 80 countries are joining forces to phase out coal, oil, and gas. This is a historic opportunity to end the fossil fuel era and ensure a transition away from dirty fuels that protects communities, workers and the planet. But to win, we need more world leaders on board. We’re calling on governments …

You can’t make this shit up.
https://www.wbir.com/article/news/politics/tennessee-congressman-calls-investigation-bad-bunny-super-bowl-performance-widespread-tw…

WBIR Channel 10
WBIR Channel 10 in Knoxville, Tennessee produces award-winning, community-centered content "Straight From The Heart" of East Tennessee. We strive to be good citizens, to do what is right, and to be fair and honest. We care.

❤️ https://artlung.com/blog/2026/02/08/we-are-in-a-web-renaissance-now/

I scream
you scream
we all scream

:neocat_scream:⁠:neocat_scream_stare:⁠:neocat_scream_angry:⁠:neocat_scream_scared:

Ukrainian soldiers: "What if we use fishing rod?" Two Russian drones later: It worked - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/01/12/ukrainian-soldiers-what-if-we-use-fishing-rod-two-russian-drones-later-it-worked/

Terence Tao, the famous mathematician, cited by @kityates.bsky.social, at https://kityates.substack.com/p/can-we-really-claim-to-know-what

"One thing we’ve learned from using AIs is that if you give them a goal, they will cheat like crazy to achieve the…

Can we really claim to ‘know’ what only a machine can prove?
The rise of AI proofs and the limits of human understanding

Progressive lawmakers are demanding that the Democrats use the upcoming government funding deadline to hopefully reduce the Department of Homeland Security’s ability to wreak further havoc.
“I just don’t understand how we provide votes for a bill that funds the extent of the depravity,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) told CNNThursday.
“I know we can’t fix everything in the appropriations bill but we should be looking at ways we can put some commonsense limitations on their ability to…

Schumer, Jeffries Refuse to Join Democrats' Growing Calls to Slash ICE Spending | Common Dreams
The killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent sparks outrage as Democrats debate funding for the agency. Should they use their power to rein in ICE's violence? Progressive lawmakers demand action, but top Democrats seem hesitant. Is it time for a change in leadership to hold ICE accountable? #ReinInICE #EndViolence

Isomorphic Labs, a Google DeepMind spinoff, unveils IsoDDE, a drug design system it says surpasses AlphaFold 3 in predicting biomolecular structures (Isomorphic Labs)
https://www.isomorphiclabs.com/articles/the-isomorphic-labs-drug-design…

The Isomorphic Labs Drug Design Engine unlocks a new frontier beyond AlphaFold - Isomorphic Labs
Today, we are excited to share an update on our progress towards a new frontier of drug design. We have unlocked a new paradigm of predictive accuracy in understanding our biomolecular world, allowing us to rationally design new medicines on a computer with unprecedented understanding and precision.

49ers-Eagles on Wild Card Weekend Sunday: What We Learned from San Francisco's 23-19 win https://www.nfl.com/news/49ers-eagles-on-wild-card-weekend-sunday-what-we-learned-from-san-francisco-s-23-19-win

Could the Minnesota National Guard take up a less-visible protective role around schools?
Is this what the Gov had in mind? Is it something we would want? Is it something we should demand?
8/

Really glad the US just decommissioned the four mine sweepers we’d had covering the Strait of Hormuz, and glad we live in such a peaceful world that we no longer need them there as they had been for the last 35 years. Phew.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz

Why the US Navy Is Decommissioning Its Minesweepers
A noteworthy fact about the Avenger-class minesweepers is that their hulls are constructed of wood—so as to avoid metal hull detection technology in modern naval mines.

We could defund ICE
OR
we could just bring them back to the funding levels of the 90s.

Hello all - it's that time again - tomorrow evening, Tue 13 Jan, at 20:00 NZDT, we'll be having our Jan Libre/FOSS meeting at https://meeting.iridescent.nz - anyone welcome to join us. It'll be held on our BigBlueButton instance (thanks to Prodigi.nz for sponsored hosting infrastructure!). We'll …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
We Were Promised Jetpacks:
🎵 Quiet Little Voices
#WeWerePromisedJetpacks
https://longdissonance.bandcamp.com/track/we-were-promised-jetpacks-quiet-little-voices
https://open.spotify.com/track/4TQJGu7KoqOFvjvopA8fx2

I’ve seen a lot of articles and posts about AI that use the term “like it or not” as in “like it or not, AI is here, and we might as well get used to it” and that is such bullshit.
Like it or not, ableism is here… like it or not, racism is here… like it or not, fascism is here.
No, fuck that, I will resist. I will speak out. I will fight back.
You do not have to roll over and accept the shit corporations and the existing power structure try to force upon you.
We can …

We Grow
A podcast about community, planting trees, biodiversity and making a difference in your local area...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/we-grow/

The country I love doesn't look like Trump's America (Anthony L. Fisher/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/opinion/cbs-news-we-love-america-ice-dhs-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260111/p26#a260111p26

Chargers-Patriots on Wild Card Weekend Sunday: What We Learned from New England's 16-3 win https://www.nfl.com/news/chargers-patriots-on-wild-card-weekend-sunday-what-we-learned-from-new-england-s-16-3-win

sp_colocation: Social co-locations (2018)
Network of colocations between peoople, based on the information on which RFID readers received information from the RFID tags. Namely, we define two individuals to be in co-presence if the same exact set of readers have received signals from both individuals during a 20s time window.
This network has 100 nodes and 394247 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Dutch professor in war studies, former F-16 pilot, says it out loud:
"What we're seeing in the US, is the rise of neo-fascism"
https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/internationaal/10593949/wat-we-in-amerika-zien-is-de-opkomst-van-…

"The 13 clean energy stories we wish we wrote in 2025"
#Energy #Renewables
https://www.

The 13 clean energy stories we wish we wrote in 2025
Canary Media published a lot of articles last year. We wish we had published these ones, too.

‘No fascist USA!’:
Baltimore marches against ICE
https://therealnews.com/baltimore-marches-against-ice

‘No fascist USA!’: Baltimore marches against ICE
“Get your neighbors organized, get your friends organized… ‘cause we outnumber the fascists completely, and if we all stick together, we can really stop this from getting worse.”

Analysis: What we know about Zelensky’s 'opening' of Ukraine's drones, weapons exports: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/10/analysis-what-we-know-about.html

Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
TARRANT: Yes, Vila. I take the point. You're obviously far cleverer than I.
VILA: Right.
TARRANT: [Examining a map] So - this is where we're going.
VILA: What? - Where are we going?
TARRANT: To destroy a computer.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/311/468

Analysis: news organizations' open-source activity has fallen from a peak of 2,092 new public GitHub repositories in 2016 to 396 in 2025, an ~80% decline (Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/journalism-lost-its-culture-of-sharin…

Journalism lost its culture of sharing. Here’s how we rebuild it
The data are clear: The open-source culture that defined an earlier era of online journalism has collapsed.

When "we cannot have serious conversations about AI" is just a shorthand for "I want critics to overlook that none of the criticism has been answered and I need them to accept that AI is without alternative and forever" the problem lies not with the critics.

🥳 New Kitten release
The release I pushed a few minutes ago brings preliminary Web Numbers support to Kitten.
What are Web Numbers? Well, they’re just a friendlier name for IP Addresses, now that we can deploy secure sites at them. They’re also a cornerstone of how I’m implementing the Small Web.
https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-nu…

Web Numbers
Domains? Where we’re going, we don’t need domains! Until the end of this year, the only way to have a secure web site is to have it accessible via a domain name. That, however, is changing. And the design of the Small Web will be changing along with it. IP addresses are about to make a comeback on the web in a big (ok, small) way, thanks to upcoming support for security certificates for IP addresses by Let’s Encrypt.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
The Lumineers:
🎵 WHERE WE ARE
#TheLumineers
https://the-lumineers.bandcamp.com/track/where-we-are-intro
https://open.spotify.com/track/4MTmAFWHpvB9kPMSRgLFRp

Ravens GM Eric DeCosta on replacing center Tyler Linderbaum: 'We have a pretty good history of drafting centers' https://www.nfl.com/news/ravens-gm-eric-decosta-on-replacing-center-tyler-linderbaum-we-ha…

Donald Trump said that the US-Israel war in Iran will end “soon” because there is “practically nothing left to target” in a phone interview with Axios.
“Any time I want it to end, it will end,” the president told the outlet.
“The war is going great. We are way ahead of the timetable.
We have done more damage than we thought possible, even in the original six-week period.”
It’s the latest update in a series of inconsistent messages from the administration on the estima…

220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/09/upshot/trump-workforce-cuts-table.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DFA.Y-Uo.a9yrh4xIr_wE

This part is especially important (emphasis added):
“If we have to destroy the stock market to save democracy, we need to accept that and, more importantly, •••the richest and the most powerful people in the world and in this country need to understand that that is a real possibility.••• There is no economic stability without democratic stability. If you take away our democratic stability, we will take away the economic stability.”
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sp_colocation: Social co-locations (2018)
Network of colocations between peoople, based on the information on which RFID readers received information from the RFID tags. Namely, we define two individuals to be in co-presence if the same exact set of readers have received signals from both individuals during a 20s time window.
This network has 242 nodes and 6594492 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
R.E.M.:
🎵 It’s the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)
#REM
https://mototembo.bandcamp.com/album/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-moto-tembo-edits
https://open.spotify.com/track/2oSpQ7QtIKTNFfA08Cy0ku

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 12 - Warlord
DAYNA: [V.O.] Happy landings. Out.
AVON: He's going to get here and discover that his daughter is nowhere to be found before we've even finished loading.
SOOLIN: Unless we get a move on.
https://

“We can smuggle even nukes”: Russian officers from the 291st Regiment and Vostok-Akhmat establish weapons smuggling channel through Crimea: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/10/we-can-smuggle-even-nukes.html

This is exactly the groundwork we need to be laying right now, and I’m delighted to hear it coming from a US Senator (!):
If Trump tries to prevent a fair election from happening, then we need “a true national strike in the sense that, if they do this, if they try to overthrow our democracy, if you are allied with democracy, do not go to work . If you’re a pilot, do not show up. If you drive a train, do not show up. If you’re a teacher, do not show up. We grind the country to a halt.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/06/donald-trump-voting-midterms-democrat-national-strike
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Justice vs Simian:
🎵 We Are Your Friends (Lee Cabrera’s ‘Lower East Side’ remix)
#JusticevsSimian
https://girldicks.bandcamp.com/track/justice-vs-simian-we-are-your-friends-girldick-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5f5RzlEgheGXEsYAvmYil8

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 12 - Warlord
DAYNA: [V.O.] Happy landings. Out.
AVON: He's going to get here and discover that his daughter is nowhere to be found before we've even finished loading.
SOOLIN: Unless we get a move on.
https://

House Democrats grilled the heads of ICE, CBP and USCIS at a hearing Tuesday
over their role in the Trump administration’s brutal campaign to carry out mass deportations.
“These three directors are responsible for what we are seeing around the country,
whether it’s in detention,
whether it’s in the streets
or even in the courts,”
says Illinois Congressmember Delia Ramirez,
who is calling for her fellow Democrats to suspend funding for the Department…

“De Facto Dictatorship”: Democrats Confront ICE, CBP Officials on Brutal Tactics
House Democrats grilled the heads of ICE, CBP and USCIS at a hearing Tuesday over their role in the Trump administration’s brutal campaign to carry out mass deportations. “These three directors are responsible for what we are seeing around the country, whether it’s in detention, whether it’s in the streets or even in the courts,” says Illinois Congressmember Delia Ramirez, who is calling for her fellow Democrats to suspend funding for the Department of Homeland Security unless Republi…

“Putin attacks but we will stand stronger with Ukraine!” British Defense Minister in Kyiv #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/09/putin-attacks-but-we-will.html

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
SOOLIN: That's just it, none of us are sure.
VILA: But they're maintaining a standard Federation patrol pattern.
[Main drive chamber]
AVON: We can't leave what we're doing.
[Scorpio flight deck]

Broncos not taking No. 1 seed for granted after uneven finish to regular season: 'We have to be sharper' https://www.nfl.com/news/broncos-not-taking-no-1-seed-for-granted-after-uneven-finish-to-regular-season-we-…

2026 NFL franchise tag primer: What we're hearing on top candidates and early tag decisions

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2026-nfl-franchise-tag-candidates-primer/

In wild Rams-Panthers playoff, we get a glimpse at both teams’ futures https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6960737/2026/01/10/rams-panthers-playoffs-matthew-stafford-bryce-young/