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Ukraine to share wartime battlefield data with allies to train AI air defenses: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/21/ukraine-to-share-wartime-battlefield.html

Chef von Battlefield 6 stirbt bei Autounfall https://mein-mmo.de/chef-von-battlefield-6-stirbt-bei-autounfall/

Chef von Battlefield 6 stirbt bei Autounfall
Vince Zampella (55), der Chef von Battlefield bei Electronic Arts, ist am Sonntag, dem 21. Dezember 2025, bei einem Autounfall gestorben.

It’s super cool this place is right down the road from me, even if I’m not really the target demographic.
“Co-owner Bryant Wilcox has turned a lifelong passion for gaming into a community hub where collectors, families and casual players all feel welcome.”
https://

Leveling up in Uptown: The Battlebox Video Games was built through community
Battlebox owner Bryant Wilcox reflects on how a lifelong love of video games grew into a community-rooted small business.

Zampella had a golden touch. A great and shocking loss.
https://www.theverge.com/news/849297/vince-zampella-dies-call-of-duty-titanfall-respawn-battlefield

A look at military tech startup Shield AI, recently valued at $5.6B, and its new CEO Gary Steele, who aims to grow annual revenue from $300M to $1B by 2028 (Jessica Mathews/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/21/shield-ai-ukraine-defense-tech-gary-steele/

Shield AI took its drones from the ‘Batcave’ to the battlefield. Now the $5.6 billion defense-tech startup’s new CEO says it’s at an inflection point
After eight months spent tweaking its surveillance drone in Ukraine, demand for Shield AI’s V-BAT is ramping up in Europe and Asia.

The great thing about R is that if it can't do what you want out of the box, you can program it.
So I've just put 2-3 hours into programming that should be basic functionality, but is only accessible piecemeal in a dozen different incompatible libraries.
Now n <- n 1 incompatible libraries.

Let me put it this way: Is Darth Trump still in his right mind?
Ich will es einmal bidlhaft ausdrücek: Hat Darth #Trump noch alle Latten im Zaun?

"selected from a database of Irish people who have agreed to take part in surveys"
I'm not saying the results aren't true, just that the methods used to arrive at them do not inspire any confidence at all
Surveyors *used to* try to collect representative samples

Almost one in 10 young Irish adults believe Holocaust is a ‘myth’
Survey finds 18 per cent believe number of people killed was greatly exaggerated

Everyday #Emacs #orgmode task: merge two tables
I'm grading, and want to merge the class list with the list of assignment submissions. Include the two lists as named tables, and a tiny R-snippet will produce a merged table (also named).

John Quiggin always has interesting takes: in the medium term, Trump is destroying America as the "indispensable nation". A lot of pain for much of the rest of the world in the short term, but it's a hostile takeover with asset stripping for the US.
https://crookedtimber.org…