I am disappointing by how few of us took the time and effort to celebrate the anniversary (January 30) of the execution of king Charles I.
Parliament of Charles' era certainly had a lot more "spirit" than does our spineless present day US Congress.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executio
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Power Trip:
🎵 Executioner’s Tax (Swing of the Axe)
#PowerTrip
https://yaborecords.bandcamp.com/track/part-1-side-a-drown-divine-apprehension-suffer-no-fool-soul-sacrifice-executioners-tax-crucifixation
https://open.spotify.com/track/1kbwEcixFWVj5dFO9Kso3J
💔 How occupiers destroy Ukrainians: child conscription, “widow villages,” executions: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/01/how-occupiers-destroy-ukrainians-child.html
Visual Studio now shows execution time and performance signals inline as you step through code during debugging. Click a Perf Tip to get Copilot optimization suggestions on the spot. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visuals
🔧 Cost-based query optimizer with full EXPLAIN / EXPLAIN ANALYZE support and table statistics via ANALYZE
📦 100 built-in functions across string, math, date/time, JSON and aggregate categories – batteries fully included
🛠️ Simple integration via Cargo with a single dependency: stoolap = "0.1" – plus a CLI tool for REPL or direct query execution
Polars is a lightning fast DataFrame library/in-memory query engine with parallel execution and cache efficiency. And now you can use is with the tidyverse syntax: #rstats
The States That Will Not Be Commanded
There is a class of human experience that answers to no direct order. You cannot tell yourself to fall asleep. The instruction arrives at a locked door. Sleep refuses the simple transaction of command and execution. Instead, it assembles itself once certain conditions are present, and those conditions include, strangely enough, the act of picturing yourself already inside the state you are trying to enter.