Ukrainian Parliament weighs wartime elections amid claims of a hidden bill: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/20/ukrainian-parliament-weighs-wartime-elections.html
Smartphonemarkt in Europa legte 2025 zu – 2026 droht ein Rückgang
Europas Smartphonemarkt wuchs 2025, angeführt von Apple und Samsung. Doch steigende Speicherpreise könnten 2026 zu einem Rückgang führen.
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Supreme Court weighs Trump's firing of the Fed's Lisa Cook by social media (Andrew Chung/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/supreme-court-weighs-trumps-firing-feds-lisa-cook-by-social-media-2026-01-20/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p48#a260120p48
RE: #AI
Last month I was trying to unstick a WCAG issue on contrast for disabled controls,where I was fine with disabled buttons passing 1.4.3:
https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/4874#issuecomment-3929263408
Today, someone is trying to unstick low-contrast disabled bu…
Metrolinx weighs removing UP Express luggage racks to add standing room: leaked document
Also standardize 3-car trains (existing fleet), and 4-car train (would require new purchase)
https://www.…
My car weighs about 2 tons, and yet I recently had a longer ride on the Autobahn where I drove 7.5 km/kWh, which is about 13.3 kWh/100 km. A liter of gas has about 9.5 kWh, a gallon of gas has 33.5 kWh.
So, that's about 156 miles per gallon, for the Americans, or 1.4 l/100km for the Europeans.
I had *totally* forgotten about “web units” in an early WCAG 2.0 Draft until Steve Green’s comment:
https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2026/01/16/last-week-in-wai-3/#comment-20950 (anchor)
Really, it was a thing:
PUTIN wages war and shows no remorse – PEACE NEGOTIATIONS – doomed? #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/17/putin-wages-war-and-shows.html
Trump Weighs Initial Limited Strike to Force Iran Into Nuclear Deal (Alexander Ward/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/trump-hints-at-10-day-window-for-decision-on-iran-6370e477?st=1gY4CC
http://www.memeorandum.com/260220/p3#a260220p3