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🔥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

@… is on a roll!
https://ghost.thenewoil.org/critical-thinking-101/

Tencent closed its TiMi Montréal studio after nearly five years, without ever releasing a game, as Chinese giants scale back funding for Western game studios (Stephen Totilo/Game File)
https://www.gamefile.news/p/tencent-timi-montreal-closed

Tencent closes TiMi Montreal game studio
The game industry's contraction is unrelenting.

POL-GÖ: (79/2026) Vor Imbiss am Wilhelmsplatz rassistisch beleidigt und angegriffen - 33-Jähriger durch Schlag im Gesicht verletzt, Tatverdächtiger flüchtig, Staatschutz ermittelt, Zeugen gesucht Göttingen (ots) - Göttingen, Burgstraße/Wilhelmsplatz Samstag, 7. März 2026, gegen 00.30 Uhr GÖTTINGEN (jk) - Vor einem Imbiss am Göttinger Wilhelmsplatz (Burgstraße) ist am 7. März (Samstag) gegen 00.30 Uhr ein 33 Jahre alter Passant von ...

I'm still thinking about a longer blog post about LLMs, and one of the things I keep thinking about them is how they not only cause direct harm to the community, but also make people more suspicious of one another. And then I've been pointed out this text:
"I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me."
"""
I am a writer. A writer who also happens to be Kenyan. And I have come to this thesis statement: I don't write like ChatGPT. ChatGPT, in its strange, disembodied, globally-sourced way, writes like me. Or, more accurately, it writes like the millions of us who were pushed through a very particular educational and societal pipeline, a pipeline deliberately designed to sandpaper away ambiguity, and forge our thoughts into a very specific, very formal, and very impressive shape.
"""
#AI #LLM

Catching up with Greg Townsend https://www.raiders.com/video/greg-townsend-raiders-morning-commute-nfl-2026

Over decades, people began to embrace new media (like film and television), sports, and an ever-quickening pace of life. Books were abridged or degraded to accommodate shorter attention spans.
— Wikipedia article on Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
— a direct quote from Frank Her…

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.

Steelers' McCarthy hire has everything to do with a QB, but not the one you're thinking of https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6996086/2026/01/24/mike-mccarthy-steelers-head-coach-aaron-rodgers-qb/

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.