2026-01-31 19:31:45
Bitcoin has fallen to ~$78K, down ~7% in 24 hours, over 12% in the past week, and down ~37% since its ATH in Oct. 2025; Ethereum dropped ~18% in the past week (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-31/bitcoi…
Bitcoin has fallen to ~$78K, down ~7% in 24 hours, over 12% in the past week, and down ~37% since its ATH in Oct. 2025; Ethereum dropped ~18% in the past week (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-31/bitcoi…
UFL Power Rankings: Which Week 1 winner tops the list, plus each team's MVP https://www.espn.com/united-football-league/story/_/id/48350506/ufl-week-1-power-rankings
Russia threatens Ukraine to use "retaliation weapons" next week, hinting on Nazi V-1, V-2 bombs that bombed London - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/01/31/russia-threatens-ukraine-to-use-retaliation-weapons-next-week-hinting-on-nazi-v-1-v-2-bombs-that-bombed-london/
sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 126 nodes and 28561 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_high_school_new#2011
Ridiculogram:
Dallas Cowboys 2026 NFL Schedule Leak Reveals Week 3 Opponent in Brazil https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-2026-nfl-schedule-leak-week-3-opponent-brazil
Hill: The question Raiders coach Klint Kubiak wouldn’t answer this week https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sports-columns/adam-hill/hill-the-question-raiders-coach-klint-kubiak-wouldnt-answer-this-week-3…
As the temperature in New York City dropped toward the single digits
and the death toll during the deep freeze rose to 14,
Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the opening of 50 new single-room shelter units for homeless people in Upper Manhattan.
The goal, Mr. Mamdani said in a news release on Saturday night, was
to remove “barriers that keep too many New Yorkers out in the cold.”
In the past week, nearly a foot of snow has blanketed New York City,
and a linger…
I am 36 years old, I have diabetes and for over a week I feel pain with every step since I've bumped my tailbone pretty hard. And yet seeing the youngsters these days, I feel like I'm surrounded by zombies; how can they be slow all the time?! And I'm not even even talking of smartphone zombies, just regular folk looking ahead and walking somewhere! Don't they have some trains to catch, or some cats waiting for them to get home?!
So far, listening while doing other work, this week's #ListeningClub has seemed like a death metal album that slowly morphed through milder and milder genres until we got to this delicate bit 🧚♀️
Celluloid Dreams
Each week, Evan, Gaby and Lewis bring you reviews, interviews and discussion covering new releases, film festivals and independent content...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/celluloid-dreams/
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RoundMidnight
- Fresh from DREAMSCAPES
Tonight on ‘Round Midnight, Thai drummer Salin returns to share her third 4/4 pick of the week, and Soweto spins a new release from the genre-blending ensemble DREAMSCAPES.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002t021
There’s a guy on Metro wearing a suit and has two fans to keep him cool. One of those over neck things and one strategically placed in his suit pocket to blow on his face.
He’s in for a rough week/month/year/existance.
Everything in the US politics points out to an actual Neo-Nazi government currently in power ->
S13 E07: Iran, Viktor Orbšn & National Parks Pass: 3/29/26: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MbCGYpIz0U
Sources: DeepSeek plans to release its multimodal model V4 next week and worked with Huawei and Chinese AI chipmaker Cambricon to optimize V4 for their products (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e3366881-0622-40a7-9c34-a0d82e3d573e
Weekly Climate Solutions Digest #20!! 💖🌊✨
https://www.forpeopleandpla.net/weekly-climate-solutions-digest-20/?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social&src=mstdn
Report: Cowboys to face Ravens in NFL's first-ever game in Rio https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/04/01/cowboys-report-ravens-rio-de-janiero-week-3/89424659007/
Senior Bowl winners by position: Which 2026 NFL Draft picks impressed scouts this week? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7010882/2026/01/31/nfl-draft-2026-senior-bowl-risers-prospects/
Seriously, it seems like every town got slammed and just gave up on
plowing sidewalks.
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/maybe-next-storm-city-can-concentrate-just-tad-more-crosswalks
⚡️ENERGY TRUCE! What lies behind the week-long "silence" and how will Kyiv respond?: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/30/energy-truce-what-lies-behind.html
From Translink
Pattullo Bridge closed in both directions for one week
Full closure needed to finish road connections on replacement bridge
Starting at 8pm on Friday February 6 there will be no vehicle access to the Pattullo Bridge for approximately one week because of ongoing construction and transition work on the new stalΕəwΓasəm (Riverview) Bridge. During the closure, the stalΕəwΓasəm Bridge will also be fully closed.
The Pattullo Bridge’s sidewalk will remai…
Our Weekend Reads and The Internet Last Week summary posts will be on vacation this weekend.
A MoffettNathanson chart showed Netflix delivered 48 cents of revenue per hour viewed in 2025, below competitors, giving it room for its price hike this week (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/why-netflix-hiked-prices-explained-char…
Japan, the Philippines and the United States held joint military drills near the Bashi Channel -- the waterway between the Philippines and Taiwan, for the first time earlier this week.
The naval and aerial exercises were conducted under the framework of the Multilateral Maritime Cooperative Activity (MMCA), and ran from Feb. 20 through Thursday.
On Tuesday, the Maritime Self-Defense Force took part in the drills, deploying a P-3C patrol aircraft for flight training alongside the…
NFL owners approve mandate that teams employ full-time mental health clinicians https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7161644/2026/03/31/nfl-mental-health-clinicians-mandate/
NFL owners approve mandate that teams employ full-time mental health clinicians https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7161644/2026/03/31/nfl-mental-health-clinicians-mandate/
On Wednesdays, I decide how much I can afford to give this week, and who to give it to. I've made my decisions for this week; it's hard, and I shall give more than i can really afford, because the need is so great.
But these are people I cannot give to, whom I feel guilty for not being able to give to. Please, if you can, do what I cannot. Help them.
#Gaza
Trump says Fed chair decision coming next week (Victoria Guida/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/29/trump-fed-chair-decision-00755086
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p92#a260129p92
Checked in on the solar stats after a week of nice weather when I wasn't home.
Total 1.1 MWH production YTD.
146 kWh in January but this is lower than the normal number since the array was down for a week or two between commissioning and final inspection.
393 kWh in February, the first full month of operation.
574 kWh in March to date and there's still a few days left, good chance I'll hit 600.
Best day so far was last Sunday the 22nd with 34.9 kWh o…
We're at the week's half-way mark and the infosec news machine is operating on overdrive.
Don't miss today's Metacurity for the most crucial developments you should know, including
--Ex-Trenchant exec gets 7 years for selling hacking tools to Russian zero-day broker,
--Rubio orders diplomats to fight against data sovereignty,
--UNC2814 breached 53 organizations,
--Anthropic PBC’s chatbot carried out attacks against Mexican government,
--DHS…
#USPolitics #USPol #WhoCouldHaveSeenThisComing
Amazing what can happen in a week.
Ref:
DeMeco Ryans on expectations for Tank Dell's Texans return: 'It's going to lift our team' https://www.nfl.com/news/demeco-ryans-on-expectations-for-tank-dell-s-texans-return-it-s-going-to-lift-our-team
Last week, tramping the Milford Track with my whānau (it was stunning), I ended up chatting with a lone fellow tramper from Switzerland. Got to practice my German quite a lot... turns out he's a recently retired heart surgeon, who primarily did heart transplants. 😲 Turns out he wants nothing more to do with his profession & is very pessimistic about the EU social situation heading rightward. He finds Aotearoa magical & inspiring & is busy doing as many Great Walks as he possi…
Just got an email from one of my Senators, Jon Ossoff, GA with some welcomed news:
Good afternoon,
On Sunday, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff demanded civil liberties protections before further funds are appropriated to ICE and announced he will oppose the measure scheduled for a vote this week.
(Full text of letter in the image alt-text)
#UsPol
Kennt ihr eigentlich die Fernsehserie „Halt and Catch Fire“? Falls nein: unbedingte Empfehlung, insbesondere auch für Menschen, die sich für Computer- und Hackergeschichte interessieren: https://www.sceneandheardnu.com/content/halt-and-catch-fire
27.03.2026
"We, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, are taking resolute steps with prioritizing our air defence development. However, recent incidents fuelled by Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, demonstrate the importance to further strengthen multi-layered air defence.
This week several foreign unmanned aerial vehicles have crossed NATO airspace in the Baltic states and struck our soil/struck or terittory. (...)"
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directs the DOD to designate Anthropic as a supply chain risk, barring military contractors from doing business with the company (@secwar)
https://x.com/secwar/status/2027507717469049070
A the press conference #ArtemisII launch after the WDR went so well - see also https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/19/nasa-begins-artemis-ii-launch-pad-ops-after-successful-fuel-test/ issued just after it had ended - but this will not be confirmed before the Flight Readiness Review late next week.
I'm afraid my students might not be pleased with one of tomorrow's assigned readings. Of course, I didn't read it ahead of time and threw it on the syllabus mainly because of the topic and the fit with this week's lecture. I should've known that the author, who writes mildly interesting but bone dry stuff now, wouldn't have written more interesting or less dry material in the past.
I remember how childish Trek fans raged over S1-2 of TNG & S1-4 of DS9. Then yawned at Voyager & all of Enterprise.
Anyhoo... see you #StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy S2!
▶️ Paramount ’s unexpected sci-fi hit officially wraps season 2 very soon [exclusive]
What I learned from candid conversations with Taylen Green, T.J. Parker and others during Senior Bowl week
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/senior-bowl-game-2026-top-prospects/
Gutierrez: 3 takeaways from Combine week https://www.raiders.com/news/gutierrez-3-takeaways-from-2026-nfl-combine-john-spytek-klint-kubiak-maxx-crosby
Going to England later this week. Got a call from the hotel who wanted to know if I wanted to book dinner. I explained I was travelling for a family funeral so there’ll probably be a party afterwards.
English hotel lady: “…”
Anybody going to #IASEAI #IASEAI26 in Paris next week (@iaseai.bsky.social)? @fnieser.bsky.social and myself will be there if you want to talk about AI & education, #digitalhumanities, epi…
Sora and Metaverse going down inside a week, I guess I’ll allow it
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/115955939775613716
* Email: @… (as of last week)
* Search: NoAI.DuckDuckGo.com …
Congratulations to Paul Stroble ‘82 M.Div. on publication of his fourth full-length poetry collection, "Holy Week, 1847"! https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/holy-week-1847-by-paul-stroble/
#potd A week ago I was cycling over sandy piste in Senegal, now this. After de-icing the bike cycling to the office worked quite well, because the city of Vienna is very good at removing snow from bike paths and streets. The pavements are in a worse state, because removing the snow there is the job of each house owner.
A reporter writes about a visit from the FBI in 2020, following his story about a hack, and the long-term personal impact, along with eroding press freedoms (Zack Whittaker/~this week in security~)
https://this.weekinsecurity.com/fbi-ag
Bondi Hands St. Louis Prosecutor Nationwide Election Fraud Remit (Ben Penn/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/bondi-hands-st-louis-prosecutor-nationwide-election-fraud-remit
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p85#a260129p85
This week has been a rush to the head for the cybersecurity world, so check out Metacurity before you leave for the weekend to catch up on the critical developments you should know, including
--UK sanctions scam-supporting, $20B crypto marketplace Xinbi Guarantee,
--Judge issues preliminary injunction against DoD's Anthropic ban,
--EU rejects extension that would allow CSAM scanning,
--Drone maker TechEx claims SBU wiretapped its chief engineer,
--Dutch court…
This fan visited every NFL stadium this season to highlight wheelchair accessibility https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6999789/2026/01/31/nfl-fan-stadium-tour-wheelchair-accessibility/
I have no idea what's going around linkedin these days but I've now been contacted by *two* people in the last week or so convinced that they can build an ASIC SERDES IP with LLMs.
The total lack of understanding of the problem domain, much less potential solutions, is deafening.
Dear people in #Gaza
I know your situation is very bad, but there are many thousands of you.
I can afford to make only three gifts each week, and those will inevitably mostly go to people I already know. So no, I almost certainly cannot support you by sending you money.
If you send me private appeals, I can't share them. I am now receiving so many private appeals that I cannot…
The Republican-controlled US House on Wednesday
passed a new version of the SAVE Act,
a sweeping voter restriction bill that would require people to show citizenship documents to register to vote and strict forms of photo ID to cast a ballot, potentially disenfranchising tens of millions of Americans.
The House passage of the new bill, now called the SAVE America Act, comes roughly a week after President Trump called on Republicans to
“nationalize the voting” and
…
Plaid, which connects banks and fintechs, acquires This Week in Fintech, a newsletter with around 200K subscribers, as it seeks to broaden its products suite (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2026/03/25/plaid-media-this-week-in-f…
Falcons QB Michael Penix Jr. (ACL) aiming to be ready for Week 1 https://www.nfl.com/news/falcons-qb-michael-penix-jr-acl-aiming-to-be-ready-for-week-1
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#20thCenturyRadicals
- Alvin Lucier: Sounds unheard
Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century. This week, Kate explores the experimental sound environments of Alvin Lucier.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002rhrf
Week of action in honor of Alex Pretti, RN and all others killed by ice (National Nurses United)
https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/week-of-action-in-honor-of-alex-pretti-rn-and-all-others-killed-by-ice
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p122#a260126p122
Super Bowl expected to return to Las Vegas in 2029; vote coming next week https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/football/super-bowl/super-bowl-expected-to-return-las-vegas-in-2029-vote-coming-next-week-3729501/
Filings: Michael Saylor's Strategy has bought more than $3B in Bitcoin since January 5, marking its biggest two-week purchase since December 2024 (Melos Ambaye/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…
Niners GM John Lynch 'hopeful' TE George Kittle (Achilles) can return for Week 1 https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-gm-john-lynch-hopeful-te-george-kittle-achilles-can-return-for-week-1
About a week ago, I wrote a piece on how CISOs are going to have a hard time figuring out where Anthropic is across their enterprises if they have to deal with the Pentagon's ban of the AI technology.
Turns out, a district court judge just gave companies that do business with the DoD or other federal agencies more time to figure out their AI supply chain situation by issuing a preliminary injunction against the Anthropic ban.
Anthropic wins reprieve against US DoD ban, buying…
Gateway Tunnel Work to Stop Next Week If White House Holds Funding (Michelle Kaske/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-27/gateway-tunnel-work-to-stop-next-week-if-white-house-holds-funding
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p46#a260127p46
Snap reaches an agreement to settle a social media addiction lawsuit, a week before the start of a trial in the first of several such lawsuits (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/technol
A Ukrainian arms company says it has modified one of its
ground robots to carry and launch
unjammable fiber-optic drones.
Ukrainian forces can put the drones in the air closer to the front without exposing pilots.
Ratel Robotics shared a video this week of its Ratel H model robot
equipped with a protected box.
In the clip, the launcher opens up and releases a small drone connected to a fiber-optic cable.
The uncrewed ground vehicle functions as a …
US memory chip stocks lost ~$100B in market value this week, led by Micron's 15% drop, after Google Research detailed its TurboQuant compression algorithm (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e4e15692-187e-4466-832e-ec267e792292
Mike Johnson: Gonzales allegations will 'play out' in primary next week (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/02/25/congress/speaker-watching-gonzales-primary-00797668
http://www.memeorandum.com/260225/p53#a260225p53
Cuba rejects U.S. Embassy request to bring in fuel, calls it ‘shameless’
The Cuban government this week refused a request by the U.S. Embassy in Havana
to import diesel fuel for its generators,
calling the ask “shameless,”
given the Trump administration’s fuel blockade on the island,
according to diplomatic cables reviewed by The Washington Post.
The denial could force the embassy to order nonessential staff to leave Cuba in May
or “possibly earlie…
ServiceNow reports Q4 revenue up 20.5% YoY to $3.57B, vs. $3.53B est., and subscription revenue up 21% YoY to $3.47B; NOW drops ~3% after hours (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/servicenow-now-q4-2025-earnings-report.html
NFL insider notebook: Jim Schwartz's future, Raiders and Cardinals coaching updates
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-insider-notebook-jim-s…
Klint Kubiak head coach rumor offers odds for Seahawks OC to take Raiders or Cardinals jobs https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/klint-kubiak-head-coach-rumor-odds-seahawks-…
This Week in Sports Trivia: March 26, 2026 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7146750/2026/03/26/this-week-in-sports-trivia-march-26-2026/
HBCU Legacy Bowl Week standouts: Seven 2026 NFL Draft prospects who impressed https://www.nfl.com/news/hbcu-legacy-bowl-week-standouts-seven-2026-nfl-draft-prospects-who-impressed
A Trump administration official says DeepSeek's new model, expected next week, was trained on Nvidia Blackwell chips, in a potential US export control violation (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas
Snap reaches an agreement to settle a social media addiction lawsuit, a week before the start of a trial in the first of several social media addiction lawsuits (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026…
UFL odds, picks: Expert makes best bets for Week 1 games, including D.C. vs. St. Louis, Columbus vs. Orlando
https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/ufl
2026 NFL mock draft: WRs fly off the board at a historic rate as combine week begins in Indianapolis
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2026-nfl-mock-draft-combine-week/
Cursor's recent experiment involved running hundreds of AI agents for nearly a week to build a web browser, writing 1M lines of code across 1,000 files (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/19/scaling-long-running-a…
A look at Clawdbot, an open-source personal AI agent that runs locally on the user's computer and integrates with multiple LLMs and messaging services (Federico Viticci/MacStories)
https://www.macstories.net/stories/clawdbot-sho…
Sources: Meta plans to debut two Ray-Ban smart glasses models next week intended for prescription wearers, to be sold mainly via prescription eyewear channels (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…
Paolo Ardoino says Tether now holds ~140 tons of gold, worth ~$23B, has been buying one to two tons a week, and plans to keep doing so for the next few months (Jack Ryan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…
Sources: Amazon is planning a second round of job cuts next week as part of its goal of trimming 30,000 corporate workers, after cutting 14,000 jobs in October (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-