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Chinese humanoid robot startup Galbot raised over $300M led by China Mobile's industry investment fund at a $3B valuation, bringing its total funding to $800M (Eudora Wang/DealStreetAsia)
https://www.dealstreetasia.com/stories/galbot-raises-over-300m-467245

Chinese humanoid robot developer Galbot raises $300m at $3b valuation
The financing will accelerate the adoption of the robots across different use cases.

Eleanor Holmes Norton won't seek reelection as DC delegate (Nicholas Wu/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/25/eleanor-holmes-norton-retires-dc-delegate-00731986
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p27#a260125p27

UKRAINIAN DELEGATION IN ABU DHABI: Budanov, Umerov, Arakhamia #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/23/ukrainian-delegation-in-abu-dhabi.html

Nou, vooruit, voor één keertje dan:/Duizenden Limburgers in Amsterdam voor 'grootste dialectpopconcert ooit' -
https://nos.nl/l/2599625
> Het is het grootste Limburgse dialectpopconcert buiten de provincie tot nu toe en alle Prinsen Carnaval zijn uitgenodigd.

LED lighting (350-650nm) undermines human visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra (400-1500nm ) like daylight https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-35389-6

LED lighting (350-650nm) undermines human visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra (400-1500nm+) like daylight - Scientific Reports
Life evolved under broad spectrum sunlight, from ultraviolet to infrared (300–2500 nm). This spectrally balanced light sculpted life’s physiology and metabolism. But modern lighting has recently become dominated by restricted spectrum light emitting diodes (350–650 nm LEDs). Absence of longer wavelengths in LEDs and their short wavelength dominance impacts physiology, undermining normal mitochondrial respiration that regulates metabolism, disease and ageing. Mitochondria are light sensi…

just delighted to be back in albuquerque after a few years away for this year's grateful dead scholars' caucus at SWPACA, but already missing the hotel blue & its weird but undeniably cozy heat-optional electric fireplaces.
you can peep the whole conference program here, text search for "grateful dead" to check out this year's caucus presentations/papers/roundtables.

UPDATE: I am now seeing reports of Senators calling for the impeachment of Noem.
Good. Fine. Do that. Yay. Put a head on a pike.
My demand upthread doesn’t change. Having a different Trump appointee running ICE will not fix ICE. You can’t fix ICE. Scrap it. Abolish it. Shut it down. This deranged tyrant must not and cannot be allowed to have an unaccountable personal army.
Still, I’m delighted that Senators are scrambling to do something. Keep up the pressure. Keep them all scared.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
RAMP:
🎵 Daylight
#RAMP
https://ugeezycrates.bandcamp.com/track/ramp-daylight-dj-ugeezy-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/046uWC0EerkSTO78XYCl8G

YouTube dominates daytime TV streaming, with 6.3M viewers at 11am in October on average, above Netflix's 2.8M, per Nielsen; prime-time viewership is more even (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.c…

YouTube Has a Firm Grip on Daytime TV
YouTube’s big streaming lead over Netflix and other competitors stems in large part to its dominance during daylight hours.

Ukrainian, US delegates hold another round of talks as Russian team meets Americans in Miami: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/21/ukrainian-us-delegates-hold-another.html