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Cowboys Weekend Headlines: Combine winners, losers, Jones apologizes https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/02/28/cowboys-weekend-headlines-combine-winners-losers-jones-apolo…

I'm way to deep in the research rabbit hole, went all the way to OG proceedings from 1888 because the sources in Wikipedia were questionable (random Time articles).
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Proceedings_of_the_American_Federation_of_Labor_1888_(IA_sim_american-federation-of-labor-proceedings_1888).pdf

While Wikimedia content is free, the infrastructure that serves it is not.
Thanks to improvements in bot detection, more than *2 billion* requests per day get currently blocked, which would have otherwise caused further strain on the infrastructure.
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Quo Vadis, Crawlers? Progress and what’s next on safeguarding our infrastructure
One year ago, the Wikimedia Foundation reported a significant increase in bot traffic to the Wikimedia projects, largely coming from crawlers who extract content to train generative AI systems. We …

it seems impossible I'm deeply curious what kids across ages and location do all day (after school and weekend). When my kids were younger I felt a lot of pressure to limit and monitor all technology use. Parents would brag about how they limit time.
But it's really hard to monitor your kids 24/7 because I want to do my own stuff. Also 24/7 monitoring sounds bad. But weekends are long and tech / videos / games can easily fill up so much time.
I've lost track on what i…

Charles Duhigg distinguishes "organizing" from "mobilizing" in a way I did not know before, then proceeds to classify a series of movements/campaigns as one or the other.
The real criterion seems to be how much decentralisation and local autonomy/focus a movement allows and fosters.
Reminds me of #Wikimedia chapters, which can be extremely varied and contain all sorts …

What MAGA Can Teach Democrats About Organizing—and Infighting
Republicans have become adept at creating broad coalitions in which supporting Trump is the only requirement. Democrats get tied up with litmus tests, Charles Duhigg writes.

I just had to explain to the 13yo HOW TO READ A NEWSPAPER. He disassembled the paper into individual pages! The articles spanned multiple pages, though...
#KidsTheseDays #WhyIsntItZooming?

I don't want this important news to go unnoticed: the National Library of Scotland's Access team have given names to collection trolleys including: Trolly Parton, George Orwheel, Wheeliam Shakespeare, Daphne du Trollier, Rene Descart, Cart Cobain, JRR Trollkein, Cart Vader, and Mary Wheelstonecraft.
Via @cawston.bsky.social's

In an interview with MS NOW’s Alex Witt over the weekend,
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland)
indicated that a nationwide
general strike might be the next thing needed in order to oppose
Donald Trump’s authoritarianism.
Raskin made clear to viewers of the program that he didn’t believe a general strike, on its own, could bring about huge changes,
but rather that it had to be done in conjunction with other actions.
“We’re not going to have one magic soluti…

Raskin says nationwide general strike may be needed to stop Trump
“I think the people of Minnesota have shown us…the direction we may need to go,” the Maryland Democrat said.

TikTok US says it is working to restore services after a power outage at a data center and any algorithm changes users noticed were likely due to the outage (Dan Whateley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-outage-data-cent…

TikTok says a power outage messed up users' feeds over the weekend
TikTok said a power outage at a US data center on Sunday impacted its services, including its For You feeds.