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[OT, LinkedIn] The Napsterization of AI — and why it hits different https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/napsterization-ai-why-hits-different-brian-malone-yebqe On how Chinese AI labs aim to undercut U.S. tech giants by flooding the market with cheaper, …

The Napsterization of AI — and Why It Hits Different
Or: Why is this Nigerian prince asking me to help him combine statistical rigor with deep domain knowledge to design explainable foundation models for tabular data? Yesterday, Anthropic published something worth reading carefully: they caught three Chinese AI labs — DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax —

🔧 Antifragile Programming and Why AI Won’t Steal Your Job
#programming

Antifragile Programming and Why AI Won’t Steal Your Job
Whenever I say I dislike debugging and organize my programming habits around avoiding it, there is always pushback: “You must not use a good debugger.” To summarize my view: I want my software to be antifragile (credit to Nassim Taleb for the concept). The longer I work on a codebase, the easier it should become … Continue reading Antifragile Programming and Why AI Won’t Steal Your Job

3 Reasons Why Everyone Has "Something To Hide" - good article from @…
https://ghost.thenewoil.org/3-reasons-why-e…

Here's why Minneapolis reminds me of what I once saw in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/25/heres-why-minneapolis-reminds-me.html

Why Doubt Your Version of History?
Fragments of the past: every record tells a story, but none tells the whole story
https://edintone.substack.com/p/why-doubt-your-version-of-history @…

Why Doubt Your Version of History?
Fragments of the past: every record tells a story, but none tells the whole story

The persistence of the foreign film category at the Oscars feels increasingly misplaced as foreign films and shows are now mainstream viewing due to streaming (Jack Simpson/Monocle)
https://monocle.com/culture/why-the-academy-awards-should-…

Why the Academy Awards should get rid of its foreign-language category 
Film’s gilded night is drawing ever closer and today The Academy will shortlist the titles up for winning an Oscar...

Gen Zers have taken on their governments. From around the world, they tell us why. - CSMonitor.com https://www.csmonitor.com/World/2025/1124/Gen-Zers-have-taken-on-their-governments.-From-around-the-world-they-tell-us-why

Gen Zers have taken on their governments. From around the world, they tell us why.
From Nepal to Peru and from Madagascar to Morocco, Generation Z-led protests have rocked governments. The revolution has brushstrokes of youth, from the use of a gaming platform to organize it to a ubiquitous symbol – a Jolly Roger flag. Perhaps most extraordinary about the Gen Z protests: their interconnection. A global generation has spawned a global movement.

Why Mendoza Is a No Brainer for the Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-fernando-mendoza-is-no-brainer

Why isn’t rookie Shemar James starting for Dallas in 2025? https://insidethestar.com/why-isnt-rookie-shemar-james-starting-for-dallas-in-2025

”A MUST-READ FOR THIS ERA"
-- JAKE TAPPER
KIM WEHLE:
HOW TO READ THE CONSTITUTION
— AND WHY
https://kimberlywehle.com/how-to-read-the-constitution-and-why/

Whoever thought it would be a good idea to rely on a handful of companies from a single country to maintain the UK’s digital infrastructure?
Well, the government for one.
https://www.computing.co.uk/feature/2026/why-cloud-first-has-…

Why cloud-first has meant sovereignty last – and how to fix it
Whoever thought it would be a good idea to rely on a handful of companies from a single country to maintain the UK’s digital infrastructure?

Why I Quit Streaming And Got Back Into Cassettes https://www.404media.co/why-i-quit-streaming-and-got-back-into-cassettes/

“In the media, success is often reduced to the size of a company or the bank account of its founder. Can we just stop equating success with short-term economic growth? What if we used usefulness and longevity?”
Why there’s no European Google? https://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-euro…

Current ethnic cleansing in US is making some a lot of money, while destroying others.
“When ICE takes…person…system around them…built to swallow everything they ever touched.”
“Towing companies profit. State agencies profit. &…people who once lived in…homes & drove…cars & held…IDs are left w/nothing but…clothes on their backs. This is not a broken system.”
“…system functioning exactly as…designed.”

When ICE Takes a Person, Why Do Their Possessions Vanish Too?
An investigative expose. Forty-one percent of migrants say their belongings never returned from ICE custody, and the items left behind at the moment of arrest disappear just as quietly.

Why the Lammy law change is a serious mistake
https://northwestbylines.co.uk/news/crime-and-justice/why-the-lammy-law-change-is-a-serious-mistake/

Why the Lammy law change is a serious mistake
Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy proposed increase of sentencing powers for magistrates may well damage our justice system

Kremlin teaches to kill! Why Russian teens are drawn to knives and violence: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/25/kremlin-teaches-to-kill-why.html

🖌️ Why You Should Embrace Abstract Photography
#photography

Why You Should Embrace Abstract Photography
Abstract Photography is a genre worth dabbling in, as you can learn a lot about your camera, composition and exposure from it.

Why We've Tried to Replace #Developers Every Decade Since 1969
https://www.caimito.net/en/blog/2025/12/07/the-recurring-dream-of-replacing-develop…

from my link log —
Why is the S combinator an S?
https://blog.plover.com/2021/08/28/
saved 2021-08-29 https://dotat.at/:/DITQG.html

Why is the S combinator an S?
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Timmy Thomas:
🎵 Why Can't We Live Together
#TimmyThomas
https://idri.bandcamp.com/track/timmy-thomas-why-cant-we-live-together-idris-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/5mBHcJ6yNXyYGLosWkuGqv

Why does Trump want Greenland? “National security.”
Why should Trump’s ballroom vanity project proceed? “National security.”
Why is Trump killing the wind energy industry? “National security.”
Why does #Trump hate the New York Times? “National security.”
The pattern is ... not subtle.
☑️ For the

For the White House, ‘national security’ is becoming the answer to every question
Donald Trump and his team have a go-to tactic intended to shut down debate over their goals. It's not working.

Jim Crow Era Was Not That Long Ago
https://www.theroot.com/proof-that-jim-crow-era-was-not-that-long-ago-and-why-t-2000091162

Over Half Of Canadians Want To Eat More Plant-Based Foods, But Not Why You Think https://plantbasednews.org/news/alternative-protein/canadians-eat-more-plant-based-foods/

Over Half Of Canadians Want To Eat More Plant-Based Foods, But Not Why You Think
More than half of Canadians want to eat more plant-based foods, and most cited cost as the most important motivator

I don't think I'm ever going to enjoy gifts.
I can get why people would give them to children. After all, children don't have their own budget. However, I'm talking about occasional gifts, not a new toy every second week, because "we must outcompete the other grandparents". But to adults?
Once I've heard that you should gift people with what they won't buy themselves. Well, that's won't work for me. I'm a minimalist. If I don't need something, I don't want to have it. Unnecessary junk is only emotional burden to me.
I can get why you'd enjoy something handmade. But something people bought? If I need something, I can buy it myself, when I need it. And I definitely don't need people to prove to me that they never cared to learn who I am, and just buy whatever they like or whatever is "fashionable"; which usually means exactly the opposite of what I'd prefer (i.e. something minimalistic). Or even worse, I don't need people manipulating me through gifts.
Sweets? Besides my diabetes, I don't really enjoy expensive shit that people generally buy because it's what's advertised. For the money they waste on it, I'd buy three times as much sweets I'd actually enjoy.
Gift cards? Oh yes, "you aren't supposed to give money, so let's just give the equivalent of money that's actually worth less than money". Actual money? And here we reach the true nonsense; we exchange the same amount of money, so it's just pointless gesture. Unless one of us gives less money…
What I'd really like, as a gift? Maybe that people would finally bother accepting me as who I am. The absolute minimum of caring that I hate consumerism, and not fueling it "for me".
#AntiCapitalism #minimalism #ActuallyAutistic

"Why does Sydney pump sewage into the ocean and put its famous beaches at risk of poo balls?"
#Australia #Sydnry #Oceans

And people keep being suprised by the regular genocides that *keep fucking happening*. And yes, call what ICE is doing what it is. It is a gencoide. Even if it's not killing millions of people (yet), the "genocide" doesn't mean "killing logs of people" it means "trying to wipe out a specific ethnic, racial, or religious group." What the fuck is ICE trying to do? They're carrying out ethnic cleansing. It's genocide.
Genocide in Gaza, genocide in Syria, genocide in Turkey, China, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Serbia... why the fuck does it keep happening? I'll tell you why. It's states.
People like to think of countries and ethnic reagions as the same thing, but they aren't. They never have been. There's never been clear divisions between ethnic groups. But the existence of the state depends on a shared identity. When the truth is more complicated, the state must find a way to fix that. The solution is genocide. You can't separate the two. There can be no state without genocide. The mechanism to carry ou the kind of mass murder and the incentive to do so are really not easy to put together without the state. The state makes genocide viable, and the state demands genocide to protect it's own existence.
Every election is a dice roll. Every state is on a clock, waiting for the luck to run out. And the worst people possible are just waiting for their chance to win and carry out those genocides in order to lock in their power.
Never again means nothing unless you are attacking the root of genocide: the state.

Itämeri on edelleen pilaantunut vuosikymmenten ravinteiden valumien ja niitä estävien tekojen takia, muttamiksi?
Why the Baltic Sea still chokes after decades of nutrient controls https://phys.org/news/2026-02-baltic-sea-decades-nutrient.html

Why the Baltic Sea still chokes after decades of nutrient controls
The Baltic Sea has been under pressure for decades: Although phosphorus and nitrogen river loads, the main cause for its eutrophication, have been significantly reduced, adverse effects such as algal blooms and oxygen depletion still massively occur, leading to further ecological problems. Scientists at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) have now published a comprehensive review showing how nutrient pollution, internal matter cycles and global warming interact, ther…

Why Sean Payton is giving up Broncos play-calling duties to new offensive coordinator Davis Webb

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/broncos-sean-payton-play-calling-davis-webb/

Why Javonte Williams avoided free agency: ‘Feeling the love in Dallas’ https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/why-javonte-williams-avoided-free-agency-feeling-the-love-in-dallas

"Nothing will happen if you play it safe and outsource all of your experiences to a content machine designed to make rich people richer."
https://www.404media.co/why-i-quit-streaming-and-got-back-into-cassettes/

why is the snowman bleeding, this seems odd. shouldn't his blood be just clear, anyway?

🌟 Why too much phosphorus in America’s farmland is polluting the country’s water
https://theconversation.com/why-too-much-phosphorus-in-americas-farmland-is-polluting-the-countrys-water-273326

Why too much phosphorus in America’s farmland is polluting the country’s water
Plants need phosphorus, and other nutrients, to grow. But soil tests can’t tell if there’s too much.

"Some are proud because they made a lot of money while cutting down a forest. Others are proud because they are planting trees that will produce the oxygen breathed by their grandchildren. What if success was not privatizing resources but instead contributing to the commons, to make it each day better, richer, stronger?" — @…
Why there’s no European Google?…

Why there’s no European Google?
Why there’s no European Google? par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

Why the Raiders Are Expected to Have an Eventful Week https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-are-expected-have-an-eventful-week

https://dev.to/laravel_mastery_ffd9d10ec/php-killed-dynamic-properties-heres-why-and-what-to-do-3knh

In Germany, genocide denial is a crime.
Unless it’s genocide against Palestinians.
How can that be? Easy. Because they don’t see Palestinians as human beings.
Why? Because they are racist fucks.
(And because they profit from the genocide as the world’s #2 arms dealer to Israel after the US.)
Makes me sick to my stomach. Gotta love those “European values” eh?
#germany

If you wish to defame me at least spell my name right

Sources: Nvidia's licensing deal with Groq, which has raised ~$1.8B, includes payouts to Groq's key execs and investors, including BlackRock and Tiger Global (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-struck-20-billion-megadeal-gro…

Why Nvidia Struck a $20 Billion Megadeal with Groq
Nvidia stunned Silicon Valley on Wednesday by agreeing to pay about $20 billion to license technology from Groq, one of the best-funded startups trying to challenge Nvidia’s dominance in chips for powering AI applications, known as inference computing, according to a person involved in the deal. ...

Days like today I miss Switzerland, I miss the people and scenery, and I miss having a six-figure, ideation-focused, two-hour-wine-lunch laptop job in a sensible, permissive country, far, far away from the Anglosphere. Why anybody willingly lives here is a mystery to me. Why I returned, even more so.

"Farage has already changed the UK (for the worse) more than any other living politician. What might the country look like after a period with him in office?" Which says it all on why it is important to try to improve the UK economy
How to get the UK out of its economic hole - https://on.ft.com/4iq4UmP

Why is scratching your head the universal sign of confusion?

Huh, think I might've figured out why one (but only one) of my NextCloud instances loses contact with the OnlyOffice instance on the same host... Figured out it *might* be because of frequent polling that's resulted in the Mailcow instance (also on the host, as I'm trying to economise) is seeing it as making too many connections and is temporarily fail2banning it nightly. I've added the host's IP(v4&6) to the Fail2Ban whitelist... 🤞 it's still connected tomorrow!<…

What will people do when AI can handle most current white-collar tasks?
I don't know.
And that's the whole point.
Nobody knew what displaced agricultural workers would do, either,
-- until they did it.
The absence of a visible next chapter isn't evidence that there won't be one.
It's evidence that we're bad at predicting what humans will invent when constraints shift.

Everything is awesome (why I'm an optimist)
February is the month the internet decided we're all going to die. In the span of about two weeks, Matt Shumer's Something Big is Happening racked up over 80 million views on X with its breathless comparison of AI to the early days of COVID, telling his non-tech friends and

Very dumb question maybe, but why is the Minnesota National Guard not called up to protect the people or would that mean immediate civil war?
#minneapolis #minnesota #ice

I wonder why there isn't a "Build your own adventure/campaign" videogame where you can "just" create your own campaigns (using D&D or Pathfinder rules or whatever). That should not be terrible hard to do.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lobsters/115957432877042610
ATProto is decentralized in theory but with basically no working documentation that technical property is meaningless.
(Blacksky has put a lot of work in to fill the holes which is why we are s…

Just email someone. I always like it when people email me about some weird blog post or project I’ve done.
https://goodinternetmagazine.com/why-i-email-complete-strangers/

Why I email complete strangers
The first time I emailed a stranger, I swear my cursor hovered over Send for a full five minutes. I had plenty of justifiable reasons to remain hesitant. Not wanting to take up their time, feeling bothersome, worried my question was a silly one... A hundred disparate excuses leading back

Senator Alice Mary Higgins asked the Chairman of Ireland’s new Internet regulator, the CnaM why his organisation didn’t take action against Grok generating CSAM under the Irish Online Safety Code.
Apparently, it didn’t appear to them to be a breach of the code.
What , then, is it good for?

Every non-hype defense of #LLMs starts with "you must already understand your work really well." But the people vibe coding prototypes *don't*.
As a result they scale up thoughtlessness. "Bulking out" a slapdash idea with hallucinated details only displaces the real thinking that could have led to actual innovation. The very teams the tool was supposed to help instead…

Vibe prototyping isn't solving problems. It's creating new ones.
It's easy to prototype and so everyone is prototyping, without really knowing why they are doing it. The resultant noise drowns out thoughtful work.

💸 Why the price of coffee has skyrocketed: from Brazilian plantations to specialty coffee houses
https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-12-28/why-the-price-of-coffee-ha…

Why the price of coffee has skyrocketed: from Brazilian plantations to specialty coffee houses
Climate change, growing demand and the transformation of coffee into a commodity for speculation on the New York Stock Exchange have increased the value and the uncertainty around one of the most desirable products on the planet

🆔 Why join the GÉANT project’s Wallet subtask mailing list?
Digital identity wallets are becoming a reality across Europe, and the decisions made now will shape how students, researchers and institutions collaborate in the future.
Join the conversation, contribute R&E use cases, explore interoperability, and help ensure that the values of openness, trust, and collaboration remain at the heart of digital identity.
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Why Javonte Williams avoided free agency: ‘Feeling the love in Dallas’ https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/why-javonte-williams-avoided-free-agency-feeling-the-love-in-dallas

Why Raiders' Brock Bowers IR decision is bad news for Jets https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/new-york-jets/news/why-raiders-brock-bowers-ir-decision-bad-news-jets/e0cbea2e8817ce7dbe460122

#Paradromics: Why #AI can't overcome low-resolution #BCI data | AI is only as smart as the signals it's working with

Why AI can’t overcome low-resolution BCI data | AI is only as smart as the signals it's working with
Better algorithms can only take you so far. What happens when the data itself is the problem?

from my link log —
Why is CSS the way it is?
https://increment.com/frontend/ask-an-expert-why-is-css-the-way-it-is/
saved 2020-07-23

Ask an expert: Why is CSS . . . the way it is? – Increment: Frontend
A technical director of the W3C’s interaction domain unpacks the histories and mysteries.

Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail
https://lalitm.com/post/why-senior-engineers-let-bad-projects-fail/

Agent's Take: Why Seahawks' Jaxon Smith-Njigba should play the waiting game to land a record-breaking contract

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/agents-take-seahawks-jaxon-…

Why Trump’s tariffs are woke | Euractiv
https://www.euractiv.com/news/why-trumps-tariffs-are-woke/

In the first year of his second term, Trump bombed seven different countries:
Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Venezuela, Somalia, and Nigeria.
That’s not exactly a record of restraint, but it shows how he likes to operate.
NjjfThough Iran’s ballistic missiles and proxy groups are part of the official rationale,
Trump is focused on the country’s efforts to develop its nuclear capacity.
That’s why it’s so important to remember that we had an agreement with Iran that …

Trump is about to start a war he hasn't bothered to explain
It's not even clear he knows why he wants to bomb Iran.

As Microsoft accelerates its AI buildout in rural Wisconsin, one community's vocal opposition led the company to withdraw plans for a proposed data center site (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/25/microsoft-ai-data-center-rejection-vs-sup…

Why rural Wisconsin is blocking the AI data center boom: 'Horses are skittish'
Tech giants are increasingly facing community backlash as they select places to build mammoth AI data centers.

Just got these messages from @seengoals@mastodon.social, one of the members of Gaza Verified, basically accusing me of running a fundraiser for Gaza and keeping the proceeds (I have no fundraiser on any fundraising site anywhere) and extorting me to share his fundraiser or he’ll apparently go public with it.
So here’s what’s going to happening instead: Nabil has been removed Gaza Verified (

What it Would Take to Get Raiders to Open for Business https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-john-spytek-are-always-listening

"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

Sanctions AGAINST chaos: why Russian communications are BREAKING DOWN #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/22/sanctions-against-chaos-why-russian.html

Cowboys free agency: Why Brandon Aubrey's reported $10 million asking price is absurd but reasonable

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys-free-agency-brandon-aubrey-…

J.J. McCarthy Being Told Not to Do Griddy Only Made Him Want to Do It More https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/why-dallas-cowboys-could-be-wise-trade-george-pickens

Stanford Scientists Discover Why mRNA-Based COVID-19 Vaccines Can Cause Myocarditis
https://scitechdaily.com/stanford-scientists-discover-why-mrna-based-covid-19-vaccines-can-cause-myocarditis/

Charm.io: TikTok Shop reached $10B in US sales across 600K creators between January and October, up from $5B YoY; global sales are on par with eBay's (Emmett Lindner/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/business/media/tiktok-shop-black-frida…

Faux Jewels and Slimming Belts: Why Shopping on TikTok Is a Lot Like QVC
The popular app’s online marketplace is growing rapidly in the United States, driven by TikTok’s popularity and influencer advertisements that look a lot like TV infomercials.

What Cowboys Need to See From DeMarvion Overshown to Earn New Contract https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/why-dallas-cowboys-should-trade-all-pro-kicker-brandon-aubrey

NFL Week 17 picks: Why the Eagles and Titans are live road underdogs this weekend

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-17-picks-bets-predictions-underdogs/

🫥 Why are California's Indian truck drivers disappearing during the holiday rush?
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-12-01/why-are-californias-indian-truck-drivers-disappearing-during-holiday-rush…

Why are California's Indian truck drivers disappearing during the holiday rush?
Why are Punjabi Indian truck drivers disappearing during the holiday rush?

How Larry Ellison is helping his son David build a media empire, including making the case to Trump for why Paramount, not Netflix, should acquire WBD (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytime…

A Father and Son’s $108 Billion Hostile Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
Larry and David Ellison didn’t always have a close relationship. Now they’re one of the most intriguing partnerships in business.

Why Myroslava, Nastia left Kyiv: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/21/why-myroslava-nastia-left-kyiv.html

Four years after the massacre of nine black church goers in Charleston, South Carolina;
two years after the murder of a white anti-fascist and anti-racist activist in Charlottesville, Virginia;
and days after the racially motivated massacre of 22 people who were targeted because their murderer wanted to kill Hispanics,
America has reached a crisis point where we finally have to talk about racism in our society.
But is the media approaching this conversation in an …

Why Corporate Media Doesn’t Talk Honestly About Racism
Media conversations about racism are rarely accurate, let alone honest, facilitating the status quo and hindering systemic change. A discussion between Dylan Rodriguez, Eddie Conway, and Jaqueline Luqman

Where are all the games? Why Christmas Eve historically lacks sports https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6918070/2025/12/24/christmas-eve-sports-games-hawaii-bowl/

Why Puka Nacua Loves Raiders Head Coaching Candidate Nate Scheelhaase https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-puka-nacua-loves-nate-scheelhaase

Why Stop with the Kennedy Center? Cabinet Officials add Hyphenated -Trump to their Names
https://www.juancole.com/2025/12/kennedy-officials-hyphenated.html

Why Chiefs are prime landing spot for Cowboys' star WR George Pickens https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/kansas-city-chiefs/news/why-chiefs-prime-landing-spot-cowboys-star-wr-george-pickens/70323…

Bengals QB Joe Burrow explains why he's returning from injury amid Cincinnati's brutal season

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bengals-quarterback-joe-burrow-injury-upd…

Why Eric Stokes is the Most Valuable Free Agent for the Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-eric-stokes-the-most-valuable-free-agent

A Marathon, Not a Sprint: Why Ukraine’s Strikes on Russian Refineries Are a Long Game: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/24/a-marathon-not-a-sprint.html

Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain why comets at the outskirts of our own solar system contain crystalline silicates, -- since crystals require intense heat to form and these “dirty snowballs” spend most of their time in the ultracold Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud.
Now, looking outside our solar system, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has returned the first conclusive evidence that links how those conditions are possible.
The telescope clearly showed for the first ti…

NASA Webb Finds Young Sun-Like Star Forging, Spewing Common Crystals
Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain why comets at the outskirts of our own solar system contain crystalline silicates, since crystals require

"ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that.""
Stephen Miller’s Database – Digby's Hullabaloo
https://digbysblog.net/2026/01/24/stephen-millers-database/

NFL betting picks, player props: Here's why Denver will cover https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6996000/2026/01/24/nfl-betting-picks-props-patriots-broncos-rams-seahawks/

🌍 EUROPE IS ALREADY AT WAR: Why aren't we noticing?: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/24/europe-is-already-at-war.html

We now know why Raiders' presumed No. 1 pick Fernando Mendoza isn't throwing at NFL Combine https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/we-now-know-why-raiders-1-pic…

This morning,
the CNN host Dana Bash referenced the footage in an interview with Bovino,
-- asking him why Pretti was shot after being disarmed.
“We’re not going to adjudicate that here on TV in one freeze frame,” Bovino replied.
⭐️ “It’s not a freeze frame,” Bash said.
“We’re showing a video of one of your agents taking the gun away.
And that happened before Pretti was shot.”
Minneapolis residents are risking their lives to document what is happ…

Believe Your Eyes
People are risking their lives to document agents in Minneapolis.

Dak Prescott explains why he wants to play in regular season finale for Cowboys https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/dak-prescott-wants-play-regular-season-finale-cowboys/542deaada790c1c238d19…

Overlooked by the Western canon: Why Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi matters now: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/26/overlooked-by-the-western-canon.html

Photos of a
Border Patrol agent
💥squirting pepper spray in the face of a man who was being pinned down by fellow officers
searingly captured why the ongoing immigration operation has been met with furious resistance
on the streets of Minneapolis.
Images of the episode drew millions of views online,
made the front page of The Minnesota Star Tribune and
elicited blistering condemnation from local officials

Pepper-Sprayed While Pinned Down: A Searing Scene Provokes Outrage
Images of a man getting pepper-sprayed at close range while being held down by Border Patrol agents fueled more tension in Minneapolis.

From Unranked to Champion: Why Mikail Kamara Fits the Cowboys https://insidethestar.com/from-unranked-to-champion-why-mikail-kamara-fits-the-cowboys

Why the Raiders Need More Help in the Run Game https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-need-more-help-in-run-game

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i think this attitude
— that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned
— is probably pervasive in the
White House
and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices
https://bsky.app/profile/jwmueller-pu.bsky.…

Jan-Werner Mueller (@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social)
Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.” Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.

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