2026-01-08 06:45:10
'US acted on Maduro, why not Kadyrov?' — Zelensky quips that additional pressure will make Putin 'think twice': https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/08/us-acted-on-maduro-why.html
'US acted on Maduro, why not Kadyrov?' — Zelensky quips that additional pressure will make Putin 'think twice': https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/08/us-acted-on-maduro-why.html
Why OpenAI is a prime example of the ethical limits of capitalism https://theconversation.com/why-openai-is-a-prime-example-of-the-ethical-limits-of-capitalism-270407
Why do I volunteer? - A small article to celеbrate the International Volunteers Day
#FOSS
from my link log —
Should CSS be a constraint system instead?
https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/why-css-bad.html
saved 2025-12-06 https://
Fine letter from Kate Macintosh on UK Labour Party's irrational retention of the Right to Buy council housing. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/06/why-labour-lacks-credibility-when-it-comes-to-housing
Why Klint Kubiak may be the lead candidate for the Raiders' HC job https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/01/07/why-klint-kubiak-may-be-the-lead-candidate-for-the-raiders…
Up to 1,800 flights a day could be disrupted by Trump's airport cuts;
California to be hard hit
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-06/why-california-could-be-so-hard-hit-by-airport-capacity…
Why each AFC playoff team will win the Super Bowl, and why they won’t https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6932205/2026/01/07/nfl-playoffs-super-bowl-afc-champion/
"Wind is now one of the world’s biggest electricity sources. So why are we switching turbines off?"
#WindTurbines #Energy #Renewables
"Among young men in the poll, former President Barack Obama had the highest favorability rating at 56%"
Why young men are cooling on Trump
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/1/7/2361894/-Why-young-men-are-cooling-on-Trump
Why some Republicans are sweating their party's redistricting plan (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/08/why-some-republicans-are-sweating-their-partys-redistricting-plan/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p69#a251208p69
Die neue Tech Won't Save Us episode ist @… Bait:
"Why We Need a War on Cars"
https://techwontsave.us/episod…
Fomo, a consumer crypto trading app, raised a $17M Series A led by Benchmark, bringing its total funding to $19M, and reports $20M-$40M in daily trading volume (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/06/why-benchmar…
⏰ Fear of desynchronization: Why doesn’t Europe abolish daylight saving time?
https://english.elpais.com/society/2025-10-24/fear-of-desynchronization-why-doesnt-europe-abolish-daylight-saving-time.html
Wow some people got mad at me. I feel like I’ve made significantly more negative posts about AI on here before - not sure why I upset people today in particular.
Genuinely don’t know why this particular post hits people the wrong way!
(For context: I’ve gotten direct messages and people announcing they are blocking me for this post and for being ignorant 😅)
In nur acht Jahren starben rund 62.000 Afrikanische #Pinguine vor der Küste #Südafrikas an #Nahrungsmangel.
Grund war das Zusammenspiel aus
Congrats! The @… team hit their initial “maintenance” goal. The next unlock is working on federated groups.
Help fund their campaign!
https://indieweb.social/@bonfire/11566
Neat article on why southern Australia has no cities. https://www.ryanjhite.com/2025/12/02/the-great-australian-void-why-an-entire-coastline-has-no-cities/
Mailbag: Why is the offense suddenly struggling? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-why-is-the-offense-suddenly-struggling
So why didn't any of you slackers tell me about the Vaio QR3????!
/ht https://bsky.app/profile/zlchxo.bsky.social/post/3m7gitx67vc2o
Why the sports column still matters — and why I'm still writing one https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6946845/2026/01/07/jerry-brewer-sports-columnist-introduction-the-athletic/
Their plan seems NOT to try and eliminate or at least minimize these ads, but rather to see if they can extract premium rates because the ads have been IDENTIFIED as scams.
JFC, why would anyone do business with this company. Why would functioning governments (this sadly excludes the US rn) allow this company to operate within its borders.
This is not a whoopsie. This is a deliberate corporate decision to allow users to be preyed upon and profit from it.
If you feel that Ukrainians need our help but Palestinians don’t, ask yourself why you’re a racist piece of shit.
If you feel Ukrainians don’t need our help either, congratulations, at least you’re an equal-opportunity piece of shit.
Why Brian Flores should be on the Raiders’ head-coaching short list https://raiderramble.com/2026/01/08/why-brian-flores-should-be-on-the-raiders-head-coaching-short-list/
Saw Zootopia 2 today because sure why not. I must say, the computer rendering of fur has come a long long way since Jim Kajiya's teddy bear.
How is Jim these days?
If you are listening to the "Fulltime #Nix Podcast", maybe reconsider that choice.
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-a…
The USA has only a million elevators, about as many as Italy, and they cost four times as in Switzerland.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250827193631/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/opinion/elevato…
Sunyaev–Zeldovich detection of hot intracluster gas at redshift 4.3: #GalaxyCluster in the early universe is 10 times hotter than it ought to be, which may reshape how we think these enormous structures formed.
Why Ukraine rejects Russia's 600,000 army cap demand: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/06/why-ukraine-rejects-russias-army.html
ok so the MHO98 logic analyzer is. not good. at all.
and the protocol decoders are basically not useful, i can see why they haven't bothered implementing even 10 of them (they only decode what's exactly on screen, like on the lower end models)
it's best understood as "logic analyzer attachment to orient you for where you want to see your analog traces" more so than a "logic analyzer" per se in any meaningful sense of the term
We need more folks who understand POSSE and why it's crucial to a) personal digital sovereignty, b) functional open (democratic) societies, and c) a free and open Internet: Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere.
canonical: https://indieweb.org/POSSE
popular media:
On the occasion of ice’s latest killing: Local police MUST engage, detain and arrest ice. There is no better option.
Here’s why in detail: https://stuff.davidaugust.com/local-law-enforcements-challenge-uphold-the-law-even-against-the-feds…
I’ve seen a lot of posts from afar to the effect of “Why aren’t people in Minneapolis / the US doing anything?? When will they take action???”
…and, well, running with the metaphor from that thread, I guess maybe they’re looking at the top of the bread and wondering why it’s not golden brown already.
I want you to know, I want the world to know: never in my life, not even after the murder of George Floyd, have I seen the amount of sustained daily action I’ve seen here these last few weeks.
Why AI Porn Sucks with Noelle Perdue by @…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eqMXBwWtkA
But... why?
I mean... it's just messages and me sending silly photos over there.
#Discord
This links to my post about Enter / Space behavior on a native button:
https://css-tricks.com/explaining-the-accessible-benefits-of-using-semantic-html-elements/
My post also reminds about WHCM.
Also, he cites a disabled state…
As Trump’s excuses for GOP losses worsen
he calls for rigging the midterms in response
A Democratic operative explains why his schemes could still be a problem—and how Democrats should respond
https://newrepublic.com/article/202852…
I think I just saw Kristen Bell, and a guy hit on me because he liked my shoulders
Straight people are usually scared of my shoulders when I wear sleeveless shirts, so I'm confused why suddenly people are being totally normal about my bare arms
Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--Europe needs to break free of American cybersecurity,
--The horrifying truth of those employment text scams,
--How Treasury's Cfius really doesn't protect national security,
--How hackers made Microsoft's Kinect cool,
…
... why?
"State file encryption and hardware attestation keys are no longer enabled by default."
#TailScale
LLMs are a fundamentally useless technology because their applications (supposedly) boil down to humans not having to think for themselves or do their own writing / drawing / filming.
But if you can do it on your own - why would you need a robot to do it? It’s, at best, a novelty.
That’s why this shit only resonates with executives and capital owners. “Get things done with fewer people and expenses” is at least an actual pitch. “Get things done faster for yourself” isn’t.
The individual angle really works for things you already were trying to avoid doing because you’re either disinterested or don’t have enough time to do things right.
“Avoid your work” as a value proposition doesn’t work when you’re dealing with intellectual labor rather than commodities. Not large scale, not long term.
Sorry for the rant, I saw some Notion ads on the subway and got irritated 😅
#AI #llm #LLMs
Why each NFC playoff team will win the Super Bowl, and why each won’t https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6932256/2026/01/08/nfl-playoffs-super-bowl-nfc-champion-bears-eagles-49ers/
🎉 How FOSS Won and Why It Matters
#software
Why the Raiders' Loss to the Broncos Was So Telling https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-loss-to-broncos-was-so-telling
Why Trump’s capture of Venezuela’s Maduro is both a blessing and a curse for Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/06/why-trumps-capture-of-venezuelas.html
from my link log —
Why ed(1)?
https://blog.thechases.com/posts/cli/why-ed1/
saved 2025-12-04 https://dotat.at/:/X2EXL.html<…
Like why would you spend hours or maybe even days or weeks on writing an essay or argument and refining it and agonize over the details and then you take a shit in the middle of it before you hit publish
Why the Cowboys should ignore Richard Sherman and do the right thing with George Pickens https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/why-cowboys-should-ignore-richard-sherman-an…
Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, said that he wouldn’t let Stephen Miller, Homeland Security advisor, watch his kids.
Miller had an explanation as to why that may be.
When speaking to Fox News host Jesse Watters,
Stephen Miller said,
“If I babysat his kids, he'd come back after a couple hours, and the kids would say,
'Daddy, why don't you send the military into Minnesota to help us with the Somali refugees?!'
Trump's Tariffs Are a Massive Money Grab. That's Why They Are in Trouble. (Greg Ip/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trumps-tariffs-are-a-massive-money-grab-thats-why-they-are-in-trouble-cc88c1a1
http://www.memeorandum.com/251106/p75#a251106p75
https://mastodon.social/@randahl/115507006485634894
This is why @… made the Gaza Verified Archive (e.g., see
Israeli data security startup Cyera raised a $400M Series F led by Blackstone Growth at a $9B valuation, up from $6B after raising $540M in June 2025 (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/08/cyera-c
"In 2025 I have spend some time to untangle my digital life from billionaire/fascist run platforms. So at the beginning of 2026 maybe it makes sense to talk a bit about what I did, why I went certain ways and what works and what doesn’t."
(Original title: Exiting the Billionaire Castle)
https://
I have a folder on my computer called "1-7-2026 ice murder number 1" and put some videos of events there to save them in case they vanish from online.
Why number 1? Because it was afternoon and there was no way to tell how many they'd commit before the day was done.
ice must face Justice.
#USpol
Two screenshots of the lock screen on my iPhone 17 Pro whose difference confounds me. In one the contrast is good and I can read the numbers on the pad, but the time and battery status are hidden. In the other, the key pad is pretty much invisible but I can see the time and battery. I have no idea how to trigger the contrastier one; it just sometimes does this.
Is this phenomenon known? Explicable? It's as if the new UI is sometimes ashamed to show how unreadable it is and compensates before hiding again.
Somebody made this happen. Any idea why?
the team behind material for mkdocs have built a new static site generator
i open their webpage and it lags my entire pc with, i think, this background animation of "moving lines". taking a screenshot took several seconds and chromium stopped rendering the ui at one point
any idiot can make an efficient static site. it takes pure brilliance to make it inefficient (why does it need 1 GB of GPU memory?!)
Other contenders called but Khalil Mack didn't answer: Why he returned to L.A. and how he's become a mentor https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47516782/los-angeles-chargers-khalil-mack-tuli-tuipulotu-nfl-playoffs
Why Trump’s cuts to scientific research are a big win for China: China is attracting American scientific talent, especially in STEM fields, partly due to funding cuts and immigration restrictions under President Donald Trump.
- The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/11/05/china-brain-gain-united-states-scientists/
Interesting and well-made , "The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next"
#geopolitics
It’s still unclear to me whether that incident was •targeting• the high school or merely •next to• the high school. I’ve heard conflicting reports from neighbors on that. One rumor is that school staff were abducted, but I don’t yet have solid confirmation on that I trust. I’ve also heard that Bovino was personally present at that raid / attack at the high school.
Either way…yeah, you can see why they’d cancel school.
RE: https://eupolicy.social/@NGICommons/115854202343051071
Maybe ask them why they haven’t supported our work on the Small Web with a single euro cent all these years.
(It doesn’t matter. The Small Web launches to a wider audience this year regard…
For example, with “AI” hypers will tell you that you’ll be “unemployable” and “get left behind” while doomers say “it will kill us all”.
Imagine them saying this about hammers.
It’s self-evident why they do this: you can’t sustain hype based on objectively looking at a thing that’s just not all that useful—and anything that’s overwhelmingly actually useful doesn’t need hype to be sustained.
Statcounter: four months after its release, iOS 26 is in use by only about 15% of iPhone users; in January 2025, about 63% of users were on iOS 18 (Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac)
https://www.cultofmac.com/news/ios-26-adoption-struggles-with-iphone-users
Okay, for those who want to switch Email providers and think about Fastmail (as I described in my article https://tante.cc/2026/01/05/exiting-the-billionaire-castle/ ):
This link gives you 10% off your first year. (It will give me 10 USD, too, so you can consider this a…
from my link log —
Why doesn’t Isabelle use dependent types?
https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io//2025/11/02/Why-not-dependent.html
saved 2025-11-02
Wealth Taxes Will Barely Slow Inequality.
So Why Do the Super-Rich Resist Them?
A 2 percent wealth tax is like shaving off a fraction of a spire from a large cathedral,
says economist Nancy Folbre
https://truthout.org/articles/wealth-t
"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
—Tim Curry
#acting
Gregg Nunziata: "Why Conservatives Must Defend Liberal Democracy," at the NYU Democracy Project - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=153405
Why isn't there a bigger Grok boycott? (Kat Tenbarge/Spitfire News)
https://spitfirenews.com/p/grok-deepfakes-x-advertisers-investors-take-it-down
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p124#a260108p124
Why Saints feel 'great' about moving forward with Tyler Shough as starting QB after strong rookie season
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/saints-tyler-shough-starting-…
US to triple Patriot interceptor missile output — this is why: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/07/us-to-triple-patriot-interceptor.html
A Hunger for Justice: Why SNAP Cuts Are a Feminist Public Health Issue - Ms. Magazine
https://msmagazine.com/2025/11/07/snap-cuts-feminist-new-deal-welfare-queen-work-requirements-black-women/
Why The Republican House Isn't Working (Nancy Mace/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/opinion/nancy-mace-congress-republicans.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p122#a251208p122
Why Sam Darnold's quiet performance could be a good sign for Seattle: Quick Outs https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6945134/2026/01/07/sam-darnold-seahawks-49ers-playoffs-quick-outs/
Why Colts QB Daniel Jones isn't to blame for all 5 turnovers vs. Steelers: Watch video https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6787396/2025/11/07/colts-daniel-jones-qb-turnovers-steelers-video/
Why the Most Vulnerable Senate Democrat Hasn't Flipped in the Shutdown Standoff (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/government-shutdown-jon-ossoff-senate-vote-f4113386
http://www.memeorandum.com/251108/p14#a251108p14
Why Expanding Raiders WR Tre Tucker's Role is the Answer https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-expanding--tre-tucker-role-answer
Ravens plan to interview Brian Flores: Why the respected DC has only one request so far
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ravens-interview-brian-flores-head-coach-search/…
Why the Raiders' Development is Primed to Stagnate for Another Week https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-development-primed-to-stagnate-for-another-week
'Little, scrappy' Keisean Nixon shows why he's important to Packers' success https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47245672/nfl-green-bay-packers-keisean-nixon-bears-caleb-williams-interception
AFC North playoff race, scenarios, odds: Why Steelers have major edge on Ravens with four weeks to go
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/afc-north-playoff-picture-steelers-r…
Colts place DeForest Buckner on injured reserve: Why DT's absence is major blow to NFL's most surprising team
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/colts-defores…
I played for Curt Cignetti. Yes, he’s never happy. Here’s why that’s a good thing https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6946280/2026/01/07/curt-cignetti-indiana-hoosiers-playoffs-cfp/
Why the Jakobi Meyers Trade is More Complicated Than You Think https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-jakobi-meyers-trade-complicated
Why the Broncos Loss Disappointed Pete Carroll Like No Other https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-broncos-loss-disappointed-pete-carroll
Why Every Sunday Feels Like Groundhog Day for the Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-every-sunday-feels-like-groundhog-day
Why Ashton Jeanty's Slow Rookie Season Is Becoming Increasingly Concerning https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-ashton-jeanty-slow-rookie-season-concerning