Dennis Allen’s sidestepping aside, defense took drubbing vs. 49ers, has potential to be Bears’ undoing
https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears/2026/01/03/chicago-bears-defensive-coordinator-dennis-allen-lions-vikings-saints-paddy-driscoll-tj-edwards-nfl-playoffs?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Dennis Allen’s sidestepping aside, defense took drubbing vs. 49ers, has potential to be Bears’ undoing
The “on to Detroit” tack is an odd quirk for a coach who has spent 24 years in the NFL, including six seasons as a head coach, without winning six Super Bowls.Mark Potash (Chicago Sun-Times)
"We have become way too accustomed to the idea that the founders of this country did not foresee the damage that could be done by a madman serving as president."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#Trump #narcissism #MentalDecline #cruelty #lies #authoritarianism #media #disinformation #EconomicElites
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A very quick look at the year in sports in 2025
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2026/01/03/a-very-quick-look-at-the-year-in-sports-in-2025?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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A very quick look at the year in sports in 2025
There was some good, some bad and some ugly, but at least it was memorable.Scoop Jackson (Chicago Sun-Times)
experiment to run some day after never: going back and testing self organizing maps again.
i have the strangest feeling that they're just dimensionality compressors like word vectors are. i bet if you took the outputs and slapped them in HSNW it would work out. 
interestingengineering.com/spa…
China flags safety fears over Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite network
China warned at a UN Security Council meeting that rapidly expanding satellite networks like Starlink pose growing safety and security risks in space.Sujita Sinha (Interesting Engineering)
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"NIH Approves 100s of Grant Applications It Shelved or Denied."
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This follows the pillaging pattern of agency layoffs. Reckless cuts followed by partial rehires. Hack first, plan second.
#DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #NIH #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
NIH Approves 100s of Grant Applications It Shelved or Denied
Last year, the Trump administration widely rejected funding research it disfavors. But, just before 2026 began, one of its agencies agreed in court filings to take another look at proposals it sat on or turned down.Ryan Quinn (Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs)
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Es sieht so aus als hätten die #USA #Venezuela bombardiert und den Präsidenten gekidnappt
Die usa haben ca 35.000 soldat*innen in Deutschland. Viele politiker*innen haben das als Versicherung gegen russische Aggressionen angesehen, mir erscheint es immer mehr als Gefahr.
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US-Angriffe auf Venezuela - Maduro gefangen genommen
Die USA haben Venezuela angegriffen und nach Angaben von US-Präsident Trump den dortigen Staatschef Maduro und dessen Ehefrau gefangen genommen. Sie seien laut Trump ausgeflogen worden. Wo sich Maduro derzeit befindet, ist unklar.tagesschau.de
• een andere visie op cognitie
• een andere visie op leren
• een andere visie op bestuur en beleid" janbransen.nl/wp-content/uploa…
@JanBransen
Artist Stephen Fabian (1930-2025) was born on this day. Bibliography: isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1830
L, 1976; R, 1976
#scifi #sciencefiction #books #art #fantasy #artist
![[OC] ARC Raiders vs Battlefield 6 change in playerbase since launch](https://social.trom.tf/photo/preview/640/38745967 "[OC] ARC Raiders vs Battlefield 6 change in playerbase since launch")
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Dreaming of writing your novel this year? Rip up all the rules!
After 35 years of teaching fiction writing, the prize-winning author shares her wisdom. First tip? Don’t write what you know…Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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you have postgres you don't need mongo, stop that
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This year, Democrats gained 25 state Senate and House seats held by the GOP, out of 118 that were up for election. That’s a haul reminiscent of 2017, when Dems flipped 20 percent of GOP-held legislative seats in the run-up to the 2018 midterms.
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In 2025, Democrats Flipped 21 Percent of GOP-Held Legislative Seats - Bolts
The party secured strong gains reminiscent of 2017, our annual review of state legislative results shows. They won multiple new seats in New Jersey, Virginia, Iowa, and Mississippi.Daniel Nichanian (Bolts)
and now Republicans are bombing South America so that they can use the war powers act to cancel the 2026 midterms that they know they will lose widely.
Trump promised no more elections and he has now primed the pump to follow thru on that
William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"We were famously promised a second coming if Donald Trump was returned to power. A Trumpian 'golden age' was an article of faith for his supporters and the vast media apparatus devoted to affirming even the most ludicrous claims to waft from his constantly flapping lie hole."
~ Rick Wilson
#Trump #narcissism #MentalDecline #cruelty #lies #authoritarianism #media #disinformation #EconomicElites
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The Year of Failing Dangerously
Rick Wilson (Lincoln Square)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Instead, we got in the first year of Trump’s second term what anyone with more intellectual horsepower than the average planaria could have easily predicted: failure, destruction, chaos, misery, and humiliation, served daily, like prison cafeteria loaf, with a side of televised cruelty and fascist spectacle. We got Project 2025 goons and DOGE bros committing not reform but arson."
#Trump #narcissism #MentalDecline #cruelty #lies #authoritarianism #media #disinformation #EconomicElites
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"The lie at the center of MAGA has always been simple: Trump will hurt the people you hate, and you’ll finally get ahead. It was the promise that sold in 2016, fell short in 2020, and sold again in 2024.
MAGA voters don’t want prosperity; they want punishment for anyone darker than clotted cream and who varies in even the slightest degree from their lane of populist, post-conservative culture-war Christianity."
#Trump #narcissism #MentalDecline #cruelty #lies #disinformation #EconomicElites
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"It may be the biggest irony in the history of American politics – if not the history of our country — that if Donald Trump wasn’t elected to a second term, he probably would be serving time in prison right now.
Instead, the president flat out got away with it."
~ Dan Rather
#Trump #narcissism #MentalDecline #cruelty #lies #authoritarianism #media #disinformation #EconomicElites #Jan6 #crime
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It’s Been a Long Time Coming
Dan Rather (Steady)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"And now he will never face federal criminal charges for trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election or removing highly classified documents from the White House and hiding them at his Palm Beach resort. …
Which brings us to another great irony: The man who the government believed committed one of the greatest crimes in our nation’s history now has the ability to seek revenge against those who tried to hold him accountable."
#Trump #narcissism #MentalDecline #cruelty #Jan6 #crime
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Trump Is the Jan. 6 President.
It was a day that should live in infamy. Instead, it was the day President Trump’s second term began to take shape. ...
That day was indeed a turning point, but not the one it first seemed to be. It was a turning point toward a version of Mr. Trump who is even more lawless than the one who governed the country in his first term."
~ New York Times
#Trump #Jan6 #crime #coup #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #corruption #immunity
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"It’s not quite a new year resolution, and it’s certainly not a prediction. Think of it instead as a hope or even a plea for the next 12 months. May the coming year see those leaders who have done so much damage to their own countries, and far beyond, at last be called to account. Let 2026 be a year of reckoning."
~ Jonathan Freedland
Trump, Netanyahu, Orbán, Farage...
#Trump #Jan6 #crime #coup #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #corruption #immunity
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theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
From Donald Trump to Benjamin Netanyahu, let 2026 be a year of reckoning
Jonathan Freedland (The Guardian)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Later in [Friday] morning, [Trump] posted one image of a dead bird near a windmill with the caption 'Eagles going down!' and another with birds near windmills saying: 'Killing birds by the millions!' MeidasTouch noted that the first image was a 2010 picture of a red kite in Spain and the other was a 2006 image from Taiwan."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #narcissism #MentalDecline
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January 2, 2026
Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Catherine Rampell of The Bulwark asked: 'What does it mean when your doctors keep insisting you redo the cognitive exam?'”
#Trump #narcissism #MentalDecline
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Strider Uwe 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽
in reply to William Lindsey • • •Beyond a shadow of a doubt, it's that your scores were so high that they can't believe it, they have to check and re-check!
🤡
Sane people all know what it means... they're monitoring his fairly rapid decline. His brain is turning to mush.
💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱
in reply to William Lindsey • • •William Lindsey
in reply to 💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱 • • •💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"also include all the hashtags from a previous connected posting" - so don't. That's the whole point. Anyone can click on that post and see the whole thread if they want
"different hashtags need to be used" - no problem. The problem is using the SAME hashtags in every post. You're forcing the entire thread into someone's feed who doesn't want to see the whole thread. 1 post is sufficient.
yunchtime
in reply to William Lindsey • • •Davie Duck
in reply to William Lindsey • • •Ross of Ottawa
in reply to William Lindsey • • •it's funny how old adages can suddenly become current and relevant – "When you come for the [criminal, wannabe] King, you'd better not miss."
I guess that's why they get repeated so often.
cognitively accessible math
in reply to William Lindsey • • •EndicottRoad59
in reply to William Lindsey • • •KChernecky For Democracy
in reply to William Lindsey • • •Davie Duck
in reply to William Lindsey • • •Truth Or Consequences ✅ 🇺🇦
in reply to William Lindsey • • •The crime spree has gone international. Venezuela now, Greenland and beyond next. It will not stop until he is stopped.
Daughter of Discord
in reply to William Lindsey • • •William Lindsey
in reply to Daughter of Discord • • •Daughter of Discord
in reply to William Lindsey • • •Yeah you keep telling yourself that.
The Founding Fathers were also rapists and pedophiles. They literally carried out a genocide.
Cmon now
William Lindsey
in reply to Daughter of Discord • • •Daughter of Discord
in reply to William Lindsey • • •Well, you post a bunch of links, so I am assuming you read them all.
I wrote this in 2017. Now I want to make something clear - I am an anarcho-communist. But what I WANT and what I think is actually realistic and doable are two different things.
This is my *realistic* solution to re-shaping our government to meet the needs of the people:
loonytimes.wordpress.com/2017/…
IT’S TIME TO THROW THE CONSTITUTION INTO THE DUMPSTER FIRE OF HISTORY
LoonyTimesWilliam Lindsey
in reply to Daughter of Discord • • •Nizami 🇺🇦
in reply to William Lindsey • • •William Lindsey
in reply to Nizami 🇺🇦 • • •@EvilK It has at the very same time been about all being created equal and all deserving to have their humanity and rights recognized.
Democracy in the US has been from the outset — as anyone with half a mind sees and has always said — flawed and aspirational.
But to say that in order to ditch the whole flawed experiment is one thing, and to say it in order to push for it finally to be realized is another thing entirely.