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Why #Herefordshire was the perfect stand-in for Shakespeare’s Stratford in the new film of Hamnet | England holidays | The Guardian
https://www.
Why the Raiders Should Feel Optimistic This Offseason https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-should-feel-optimistic-this-offseason
This is of absolutely no importance whatsoever (which is why I’m mentioning it here, of course) but I’m wondering why Sports Illustrated magazine is obsessed with women’s swimming suits? I mean, I get why really, because you know, women wearing swim suits, but in the Apple News app it seems like every day there’s another article with a bunch of photos of women in swim suits. Do they even have articles about sports anymore? Should they just be honest and change the name of their magazine?
from my link log —
Why NUKEMAP isn't on Google Maps anymore.
http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2019/12/13/why-nukemap-isnt-on-google-maps-anymore/
saved 2019-12-14
Source: Paramount has no immediate plans to sweeten its $30/share, all-cash bid for WBD (Charles Gasparino/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/16/media/why-warner-bros-discovery-shareholders-shouldnt-count-on-a-holiday…
Spagnola: Playoffs highlight why they’re watching https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/spagnola-playoffs-highlight-why-they-re-watching
I think we can actually prove that this constraint is the *only* constraint that can preserve freedom:
1. There will exist actors in a system who will wish to take advantage of others. Evolution drives survival and one strategy for increasing survival in an altruistic society is to become a parasite.
2. Expecting exploitative dynamics, a system needs to have a set of rules to manage exploitation.
3. If the set of rules is static it will lack the requisite variety necessary to manage the infinite possible behavior of humans so the system will fail.
4. If the system is dynamic then it must have a rule set about how it's own rules are updated. This would make the system recursive, which makes the system at least as complex as mathematics. Any system at least as complex as mathematics is necessarily either incomplete or inconsistent (Gödel's incompleteness theorem). If the system is incomplete, then constraints can be evaded which then allow a malicious agent to seize control of the system and update the rules for their own benefit. If constraints are incomplete, then a malicious agent can take advantage of others within the system.
5. Therefore, no social system can possibly protect freedom unless there exists a single metasystemic constraint (that the system must be optional) allowing for the system to be abandoned when compromised.
Oh, you might say, but this just means you have to infinitely abandon systems. Sure, but there's an evolutionary advantage to cooperation so there's evolutionary pressure to *not* be a malicious actor. So a malicious actor being able to compromise the whole system is likely to be a much more rare event. Compromising a system is a lot of work, so the first thing a malicious actor would want to do is preserve that work. They would want to lock you in. The most important objective to a malicious actor compromising a system would be to violate that metasystemic constraint, or all of their work goes out the window when everyone leaves.
And now you understand why borders exist, why fascists are obsessed with maintaining categories like gender, race, ethnicity, etc. This is why even Democrats like Newsom are on board with putting houseless people in concentration camps. And this is why the most important thing anarchists promote is the ability to choose not to be part of any of that.
Why Renee Good Was, and Is, So Dangerous to Trump (Adrian Carrasquillo/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/why-renee-nicole-good-was-and-is-so-dangerous-to-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p55#a260116p55
Why NATO can’t survive a return to spheres of influence: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/14/why-nato-cant-survive-a.html
Claude Code represents a "ChatGPT moment repeated" and an "extinction-level event" for horizontal software companies focused on human-oriented consumption (Doug OLaughlin/Fabricated Knowledge)
https://www.fabricatedknowledge.com/p/the-death-of-soft…
Why don’t they capture these vessels and display what they were carrying?
Wouldn’t that be better PR?
Unless maybe it’s all a big scam.
-- @ambientheat.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/ambientheat.bsky.social/post/3lyvo6edkrk27
Re: discourse about #FediSoWhite
I'm a white man. Was on Twitter throughout #BLM and gained an awful lot of free education from Black folks on there. That was the start of me consciously following diverse folks which is a strategy that's improved my life immensely.
Back on Twitter before the Muskening, there was a lot of diversity. Black Twitter was a thing, and not just first-world (anyone else remember "O jewa ke eng?"). When I went looking for people to follow to diversify my feed, I found them in abundance.
That's why it's so clearly false to me when people claim that the fediverse is secretly diverse, and why anyone making that claim sounds suspect to me. Sure there are a ton of great Black and other POC folks you can find on here, if you look hard. But it's nowhere near the levels of diversity and community that were on Twitter. Which you would know had you been following those people before, so now I have to assume you weren't, and wonder why you feel qualified to make statements about diversity even though you haven't made an effort to engage with diverse voices before?
Also, if you were actually following some of the excellent POC voices on here, you'd know that across different servers and interest groups, almost every group has had a discussion of #FediSoWhite at some point. If all the Black people you follow are independently talking about the lack of community and diversity here, you've either got to believe them or start putting on your clown makeup, and the later is absolutely a choice.
"Why global environmental negotiations keep failing—and what we can do about it"
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange
😰 It's end-of-year concert season. Why do some kids struggle with performance anxiety?
https://theconversation.com/its-end-of-year-concert-season-why-do-some-kids-struggle-with-performance-anxiety-271099
#matsodon , this is part of why your friends think it's too hard & everyone stays on X or Twitter or tries out BSky.
I *JUST* want to like someone's post. I just want to give them a small amount of happy-brain-chemicals & thank them for what they wrote. Why do I have to log in again? I'm already logged in!
Yes, if I wanted to quote their stuff, I see the dangers, I could be trying to do a pile on. But I just want to give them a ⭐️. Why make it so hard???
Colonial Plunder Didn’t Create Capitalism https://jacobin.com/2025/12/colonialism-transition-feudalism-capitalism-history-economy/
Why did Josh Allen throw up on sideline against Patriots? Bills QB says it 'basically happens every game'
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/buffalo-bills-josh-allen-qb-throw-up-ga…
So I just wasted a morning trying to debug why the Highlight.js syntax highlighting in Kitten suddenly began to fail only to realise that @… is stripping the hljs- prefixes from the class names.
You can see this for yourself if you have the 1password extension installed at:
Ok, so I thought that Mastodon just showed me posts from my follows. But now I see a post from someone I don't follow. Why? It was uncritical nonsense. Why do I see things like this?
Spagnola: Playoffs highlight why they’re watching https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/spagnola-playoffs-highlight-why-they-re-watching
Internal tests show WaPo launched its AI podcast feature despite 68% of generated scripts failed its standards, saying it would "iterate through" the issues (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/14/2025
"In summary, #AGI, as commonly conceived, will not happen because it ignores the physical constraints of computation, the exponential costs of linear progress, and the fundamental limits we are already encountering. Superintelligence is a fantasy because it assumes that intelligence can recursively self-improve without bound, ignoring the physical and economic realities that constrain all systems. …
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #WoPop
aja monet:
🎵 why my love?
#ajamonet
https://ajamonet.bandcamp.com/track/why-my-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/4qKQGEus6IEWqZYSqqhBqZ
Why the Raiders' Defense Has a Golden Oppurtunity https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-defense-has-golden-oppurtunity
Not that the New York Times has much credibility left, but here’s another one for their long list of fails:
Epstein Gave NY Times Journalist Tips About Trump. Why Did They Never Get Reported?
By Noah Hurowitz
Exchanges about Trump between a reporter and Epstein raise questions about what the New York Times knew and when.
Here's Why Trump's "50-Year Mortgage" is a Terrible Idea (Tahra Hoops/Home of the Brave)
https://newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/heres-why-trumps-50-year-mortgage
http://www.memeorandum.com/251115/p59#a251115p59
Beautiful summary
https://yarnspinner.dev/blog/why-we-dont-use-ai/
"Although Ecosia is a not-for-profit, they seem to be re-enacting the for-profit erosion of human knowledge and the active murder of the open web currently being orchestrated by Google and the other tech giants."
(Original title: Ecosia’s “Green AI”: false hope for corrosive tech)
https://
My partner: Why does my phone look stupid now!?
Me: You got Liquid Assed!
What @… says here — and it’s so reasonable, right? — is why I’m just astonished that nobody’s shot an ICE agent yet.
https://mastodon.social/@tropicalchaos/115902444835685276
@… @… I want to read a dissertation on why the design of those two overlapped 👀
As Microsoft EOLs Windows 10, I'm reminded of why Windows is fundamentally broken, by design. https://davelane.nz/windows-broken-design When you're a global platform monopoly, your existing users are your biggest competition. Your interests and those of your customers are diametricall…
Null is problematic, but why? Let's see why, and let that guide us to new alternatives. #PHP
https://peakd.com/hive-168588/@crell/much-ado-about-null
»8 Million Users' AI Conversations Sold for Profit by "Privacy" Extensions«
WTF?! Now don't tell me that this surprises you. Why do so many people still naively think to keep their privacy over VPN's for data-hungry big corporations?
🤷 https://www.koi.ai/blo…
"Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30?"
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-man-print-gimme-gimme-gimme-at-0030
Python Cryptography about the state of OpenSSL...
The weirdest thing is that it appears even the authors of one of the more important libraries using OpenSSL appear to not understand why OpenSSL is doing the things they do.
https://cryptography.io/en/latest/statements/stat…
A post from the archive 📫:
What is a photograph?
#artificialintelligence
Wait… why does Miro have a Recap?!
Also… it’s now filled with “AI!” - I don’t want a damn AI “sidekick”! Go away and let my do my work!
WHEN WILL IT STOP?!
#Miro
When people say they need hope about climate change, what are they really asking for?
New piece breaks down why hope collapses so easily and what stronger feelings can replace it.
Not prediction. Participation.
Read it here: [link]
https://www.b…
Donald Trump deeply misjudged his response to the deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner,
and he's incapable of understanding why.
https://bsky.app/profile/mirror.co.uk/post/3ma4h4dojyc26
Why put effort into writing your thesis when you can put in the same amount of effort into making it look as if you had written it?
#AcademicChatter
Why was Alien 3 so screwed up?
Michael "Hicks" Biehn shines a light on the atrocities committed by Hollywood studio egos & immoralities.
▶️ Michael Biehn on Hicks' Death in Alien 3 and How Everything Went Down Behind the Scenes
https://youtube.com/watch?v=P1J_utJFMg
All i ask is for reliable public transit, why is that too much to ask?
I'm not sure why it took them this long to stand up against the administration. His attacks against churches, hospitals, and schools isn't new.
"'We are troubled by threats against the sanctity of houses of worship and the special nature of hospitals and schools,' the bishops said in a special message, the first of its kind in 12 years."
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol
Why Cowboys may lose Javonte Williams, and how George Pickens factors in https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/why-cowboys-may-lose-javonte-williams-how-george-pickens-factors/d25732…
Why Bengals quarterback Joe Flacco is in 'heaven' when he eats alone https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46965970/nfl-cincinnati-bengals-quarterback-joe-flacco-eat-alone
Matt Daniels on Special Teams Impact, Why Will Reichard Is A Top Kicker in NFL, Ryan Wright's Season https://www.vikings.com/video/matt-daniels-on-special-teams-impact-why-will-reichard-is-a-top-kicker-in-nfl-ryan…
Why Recent Cowboys Return Dampers the Raiders' Hopes https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-recent-cowboys-return-dampers-hopes
Sources: xAI has created an enterprise AI sales group, but xAI's lack of experience in selling to big businesses is holding potential customers back (Theo Wayt/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/xai-uphill-battle-selling-grok-busine…
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115894798045761296
It should be noted that Ted Nelson here has a bit of a naive viewpoint, as the reasons for how a machine is designed and why it exists are because people made it and people literally always have an agenda.
In other words, a machine exists because it does something that a person actively decided it should—it is the embodiment of non-neutrality.
Explainer: Why Russia’s nuclear industry has escaped major sanctions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/12/explainer-why-russias-nuclear-industry.html
Should Cowboys bring back Javonte Williams? Why it's an easy answer https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/should-cowboys-bring-back-javonte-williams-why-its-easy-answer/dd2d3462d01…
Why Pete Carroll Is Refusing to Give Up on Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-pete-carroll-refusing-give-up
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Blackwater Holylight:
🎵 Heavy, Why?
#BlackwaterHolylight
https://blackwaterholylight.bandcamp.com/track/heavy-why
https://open.spotify.com/track/6QTpBulBNvADBWTakGfpPA
Clapping or 'hut-hut-hike!'? Why college football QBs are choosing one over the other https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6969752/2026/01/15/college-football-qb-cadence-clapping-hiking-beck-mendoza/
Why Rams' Mike LaFleur Makes Sense For Raiders Job https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-rams-mike-lafleur-makes-sense
3 Reasons Why Dak Prescott Can Reemerge in the MVP Conversation https://insidethestar.com/3-reasons-why-dak-prescott-can-reemerge-in-the-mvp-conversation
A cat's killing by a Waymo robotaxi sparked outrage in San Francisco, as some questioned why deaths caused by human drivers don't get the same level of concern (Heather Knight/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/us/waymo-san-francisco-kit-kat.htm…
A Korean scenario for Ukraine? Here’s why it’s a lie #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/15/a-korean-scenario-for-ukraine.html
Each NFL playoff team wins if ... plus why each could make the Super Bowl https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6978039/2026/01/16/nfl-playoff-predictions-rams-bears-bills-broncos-scoop-city/
The day after Democrats swept this month’s voting, a group of jubilant Democratic congressional candidates gathered on Capitol Hill to listen to Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colorado) explain how they could triumph in next year’s midterm elections, too.
Crow, dressed in jeans, boots and an open-necked shirt, urged them to campaign next year as if they were running for mayor:
Be local, be authentic, don’t listen too much to campaign consultants, he argued,
and be ready to separate f…
Why the redistricting fight is likely to stretch beyond the 2026 midterms (Jane C. Timm/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/redistricting-fight-likely-stretch-2026-midterms-rcna253075
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p32#a260115p32
Sources: an August vesting milestone gives Axios co-founders Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen the ability to cash out from their Cox deal and possibly exit (Natalie Korach/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/axios-cox-deal-jim-vandehei-mike-allen
Filing: Reddit says in its lawsuit against Australia's social media ban that it is "a collection of public fora" and social interaction isn't its "sole purpose" (Lauren Edmonds/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-leg…
The case for Arvell Reese as the No. 1 pick in 2026: In a year without a slam-dunk QB, he's the safest bet
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2026-nfl-mock-draft-a…
'Why is Sherrill DOGE-ing New Jersey?': Resignation letters to longtime government workers cause confusion (Daniel Han/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/15/sherrill-doge-new-jersey-union-00729507
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p29#a260115p29
Why Cowboys' Stephen Jones was using walkie talkie during Week 15 game vs. Vikings https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/why-cowboys-stephen-jones-using-walkie-talkie-week-15-g…
England's Esme Morgan on making America home and why she loves the Jacksonville Jaguars https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6715854/2025/10/17/esme-morgan-washington-spirit-nwsl-jacksonville-jaguars-nfl/
Why Florida is ground zero for coming ObamaCare storm (Lee Ann Anderson/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5640956-rising-healthcare-costs-florida-obamacare-subsidies/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p18#a251215p18
An Ai2 research scientist argues that AGI, as commonly conceived, will not emerge because it ignores, among other things, the physical realities of computation (Tim Dettmers)
https://timdettmers.com/2025/12/10/why-agi-will-not-happen/
Why Malik Davis, Hunter Luepke are running the ball for Cowboys, not Javonte Williams https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/why-malik-davis-hunter-luepke-running-ball-cowboys-…
Why Eagles are facing Kenny Pickett instead of Geno Smith in Week 15 vs. Raiders https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/philadelphia-eagles/news/why-eagles-facing-kenny-pickett-instead-geno-smith-…
Trevon Diggs wants to play, unsure why he isn't on the field https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/trevon-diggs-wants-to-play-unsure-why-he-isn-t-on-the-field
Why the Raiders' Defense Has a Golden Oppurtunity https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-defense-has-golden-oppurtunity
Trevon Diggs wants to play, unsure why he isn't on the field https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/trevon-diggs-wants-to-play-unsure-why-he-isn-t-on-the-field
Why Recent Cowboys Return Dampers the Raiders' Hopes https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-recent-cowboys-return-dampers-hopes
Why the NFL Offseason Now Runs Through Las Vegas https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/why-offseason-now-runs-through-las-vegas
Why the Raiders Need To Be Bold in the 2026 NFL Draft https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-need-bold-2026-draft
Trevon Diggs, Cowboys at odds over why star CB isn't playing https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/15/cowboys-trevon-diggs-week-15-postgame-quotes-brian-s…
Why Raiders' Schedule Will Be Significantly Easier in 2026 https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-schedule-will-be-significantly-easier-2026
Why Kenny Pickett is playing QB for Raiders today, not Geno Smith https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/why-kenny-pickett-playing-qb-raiders-today-not-geno-smith/cab31e05d22334ca57228…
Why the Raiders Are the Early Losers of Jakobi Meyers Trade https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-early-losers-jakobi-meyers-trade
Why Raiders' Loss to Eagles Was Historically Woeful https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-loss-eagles-was-historically-woeful
Why Fernando Mendoza Is Perfect Fit to be Raiders' Future https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-fernando-mendoza-perfect-fit-future
Why Chiefs’ Coach Says Chris Jones Is NFL’s ‘Best There Is’ https://www.si.com/nfl/chiefs/kansas-city-joe-cullen-chris-jones-las-vegas-raiders
Why Carroll's Assessment of Raiders' Blunder is Right and Wrong https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-carroll-assessment-blunder-right-wrong
Why the Raiders' Future is Attractive to Potential HC Hires https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-future-attractive-to-potential-hc-hires