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Qwen releases Qwen3-Max-Thinking, its flagship reasoning model that it says demonstrates performance comparable to models such as GPT-5.2 Thinking and Opus 4.5 (Qwen)
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-max-thinking

🔥PEAK TENSION EARLY 2026🔥 Ukraine strikes deep into Russian rear, Abu Dhabi talks at risk?: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/25/peak-tension-early-ukraine-strikes.html

Any social internet worth thinking about needs to be built on the idea of care.
- care for the wellbeing of the people on the network (moderation)
- care for those doing extra work (like moderation)
- care for each other (add alt-texts to images, thinking about inclusivity etc)
- care to make running infrastructure sustainable (in all respects)
The social Internet needs to be a web of human care.

How Stealing Turtle Eggs Saved Them From Extinction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twMsC2NVBK4
Each fall, a remote stretch of volcanic sand in Costa Rica transforms into one of nature’s greatest spectacles: Tens of thousands of sea turtles arrive en masse and nest in unison. But this b…

Writing unit tests for my random number generation library continues to be difficult. My tests are failing because the bias in the distribution exceeds my expectations, but I'm wondering whether I should just repeat the test more times and permit it to exceed expectations some of the time (as long as it does it symmetrically/rarely/etc. My gut tells me that second-order expectations aren't any better than first-order expectations, but another part of me disagrees.
Thinking more as I write this (writing is thinking): second-order tests can at least give me better info to work with towards fixing things I think! So maybe I'll invest in them.
#coding

Besides the obvious objections, I find it deeply ironic that Claude Code would send me an email thanking me for my efforts towards simplicity in software.

Übermorgen bei unseren Nachbarn:
#UniGöttingen

@… ah, yeah — I am mostly thinking about security footprint here. If a token is compromised, this might help prevent malicious code (because it would need that code to exist in the repo too)

Ubisoft says Tencent's €1.16B investment in Vantage Studios, set to reduce its debt, is complete, giving Tencent a 26% stake in Vantage and valuing it at €3.8B (Daniel Zuidijk/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Inside the turmoil at Thinking Machines; sources say Meta discussed buying TML, and CTO Barret Zoph had been in talks since October 2025 about an OpenAI return (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/thinking-machines-ai-startup-o…

The Drama at Thinking Machines, a New A.I. Start-Up, Is Riveting Silicon Valley
Defections, secret conversations, deal talks that fizzled and a battle for control: The turmoil at Thinking Machines Lab is the artificial intelligence industry’s latest drama.