This Person Stinks
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In my Black & White Sting Phase. Also, Recruiter, DC Sports Fan, and other.
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DOG AT THE OLYMPICS
FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS
FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS
February 18, 2026 at 1:26 PM
DOG AT THE OLYMPICS
FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS
FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS
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Mikaela Shiffrin wins the slalom gold medal by 1.50 seconds
If you add up the winning margins of the winners at the 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, and 2022 women's slalom, you get 1.51 seconds
If you add up the winning margins of the winners at the 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, and 2022 women's slalom, you get 1.51 seconds
February 18, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Mikaela Shiffrin wins the slalom gold medal by 1.50 seconds
If you add up the winning margins of the winners at the 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, and 2022 women's slalom, you get 1.51 seconds
If you add up the winning margins of the winners at the 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, and 2022 women's slalom, you get 1.51 seconds
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There's more:
Is Trump dangerous? 43% of Republicans have no opinion.
Honest? 44% have no opinion.
Corrupt? 43% have no opinion.
Out-of-touch? 49% have no opinion.
They know who he is. They just don't want to admit it.
Is Trump dangerous? 43% of Republicans have no opinion.
Honest? 44% have no opinion.
Corrupt? 43% have no opinion.
Out-of-touch? 49% have no opinion.
They know who he is. They just don't want to admit it.
February 18, 2026 at 1:19 AM
There's more:
Is Trump dangerous? 43% of Republicans have no opinion.
Honest? 44% have no opinion.
Corrupt? 43% have no opinion.
Out-of-touch? 49% have no opinion.
They know who he is. They just don't want to admit it.
Is Trump dangerous? 43% of Republicans have no opinion.
Honest? 44% have no opinion.
Corrupt? 43% have no opinion.
Out-of-touch? 49% have no opinion.
They know who he is. They just don't want to admit it.
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Colbert has truly had a great relationship with CBS, even after he was told his contract wasn’t going to be renewed. So let me say: It’s stunning to me that, as he explains here, nobody at CBS told Colbert about the statement today.
This is a must-watch: youtu.be/OQIljje2B_Q?...
This is a must-watch: youtu.be/OQIljje2B_Q?...
Why Everyone's Talking About Stephen Colbert, CBS, The FCC And James Talarico
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
youtu.be
February 18, 2026 at 5:37 AM
Colbert has truly had a great relationship with CBS, even after he was told his contract wasn’t going to be renewed. So let me say: It’s stunning to me that, as he explains here, nobody at CBS told Colbert about the statement today.
This is a must-watch: youtu.be/OQIljje2B_Q?...
This is a must-watch: youtu.be/OQIljje2B_Q?...
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Ukraine skeleton racer gifted $200,000 by Shakhtar Donetsk owner after Winter Olympics ban
Ukraine skeleton racer gifted $200,000 by Shakhtar Donetsk owner after Winter Olympics ban
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Football club donation equal to prize money Ukraine pays gold medallists
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Heraskevych barred from racing while wearing ‘helmet of memory’
The owner of Ukrainian football club Shakhtar Donetsk has donated more than $200,000 to skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych. The athlete was disqualified from the Milano Cortina Winter Games before competing over the use of a helmet depicting Ukrainian athletes killed in the war with Russia, the club said on Tuesday.
The 27-year-old Heraskevych was disqualified last week when the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation jury ruled that imagery on the helmet — depicting athletes killed since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 — breached rules on athletes’ expression at the Games. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 18, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Ukraine skeleton racer gifted $200,000 by Shakhtar Donetsk owner after Winter Olympics ban
My mother told me to fix YouTube because she’s not seeing the playlist. I played around and nothing is working. I turned off her tablet and turned it back on and didn’t work. She complained still. I looked and saw YouTube was down. She didn’t believe it. Then the playlist returned & said she did it
February 18, 2026 at 5:41 AM
My mother told me to fix YouTube because she’s not seeing the playlist. I played around and nothing is working. I turned off her tablet and turned it back on and didn’t work. She complained still. I looked and saw YouTube was down. She didn’t believe it. Then the playlist returned & said she did it
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BBC, Sky and ITV News all led their news with Jesse Jackson's passing, devoting 5+ minutes (even in half-hour shows) to his passing + context.
ABC, CBS, NBC all put the story in the middle of their b'casts, spending 2-3 minutes on it. CNN's The Lead + AC360 put his passing midway through, too
ABC, CBS, NBC all put the story in the middle of their b'casts, spending 2-3 minutes on it. CNN's The Lead + AC360 put his passing midway through, too
February 18, 2026 at 4:11 AM
BBC, Sky and ITV News all led their news with Jesse Jackson's passing, devoting 5+ minutes (even in half-hour shows) to his passing + context.
ABC, CBS, NBC all put the story in the middle of their b'casts, spending 2-3 minutes on it. CNN's The Lead + AC360 put his passing midway through, too
ABC, CBS, NBC all put the story in the middle of their b'casts, spending 2-3 minutes on it. CNN's The Lead + AC360 put his passing midway through, too
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Just one more example of the kind of reporting you don’t see from US news outlets.
'We're going to always be grateful' - Chicagoans mourn Jesse Jackson
'We're going to always be grateful' - Chicagoans mourn Jesse Jackson
The BBC's Gary O'Donoghue spoke with city residents about what the civil rights leader's passing means for the community shaped by his activism.
www.bbc.com
February 18, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Just one more example of the kind of reporting you don’t see from US news outlets.
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I continue to think a lot of the quality issues we see with AI art is less a deficiency of AI itself & more that the vast majority of people using it are uncreative hacks.
AI filmmaking is completely unserious.
You've got people with $30k begging the internet for ideas by next week because they have nothing of their own to say, it's just slop for the sake of slop. Embarrassing state of affairs.
You've got people with $30k begging the internet for ideas by next week because they have nothing of their own to say, it's just slop for the sake of slop. Embarrassing state of affairs.
February 17, 2026 at 5:08 PM
I continue to think a lot of the quality issues we see with AI art is less a deficiency of AI itself & more that the vast majority of people using it are uncreative hacks.
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looks like Mamdani is gonna get his rent freeze this year after all. big news on the housing beat from @smaldo.bsky.social:
Rent Board Resignation Clears Path for Mamdani Rent Freeze Promise
The new mayor is now able to appoint a majority to the Rent Guidelines Board, giving him the numbers for a signature campaign promise.
www.thecity.nyc
February 17, 2026 at 5:56 PM
looks like Mamdani is gonna get his rent freeze this year after all. big news on the housing beat from @smaldo.bsky.social:
Someone doesn’t know what each governing function does.
libs getting the chamber of commerce in the national divorce, sure, why not, welcome aboard
www.reuters.com/world/us-cou...
www.reuters.com/world/us-cou...
February 18, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Someone doesn’t know what each governing function does.
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The thing about Jesse Jackson is that his most profound political legacy is convincing a buttload of mostly black people to register and vote in the 80s.
And the thing about that is every Dem presidential primary from ‘92 on has been won by the candidate that is most acceptable to those voters.
And the thing about that is every Dem presidential primary from ‘92 on has been won by the candidate that is most acceptable to those voters.
February 18, 2026 at 2:18 AM
The thing about Jesse Jackson is that his most profound political legacy is convincing a buttload of mostly black people to register and vote in the 80s.
And the thing about that is every Dem presidential primary from ‘92 on has been won by the candidate that is most acceptable to those voters.
And the thing about that is every Dem presidential primary from ‘92 on has been won by the candidate that is most acceptable to those voters.
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This is how you live a life
February 17, 2026 at 2:32 AM
This is how you live a life
I’m going to stay out of the TX Senate primary race because it’s a legit tough decision between Talarico and Crockett, but why would the administration get involved in this? They accidentally made Talarico a household name. I don’t know who they want, but they need to focus on their own.
This may end up being a massive own goal for the Trump administration.
February 18, 2026 at 3:07 AM
I’m going to stay out of the TX Senate primary race because it’s a legit tough decision between Talarico and Crockett, but why would the administration get involved in this? They accidentally made Talarico a household name. I don’t know who they want, but they need to focus on their own.
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As kids, me & my friends after watching "Delirious" would go around saying "Jesse, you can win."
“I saw Jesse Jackson in the gym working out getting in shape when he ran for President."
“I saw Jesse Jackson in the gym working out getting in shape when he ran for President."
February 17, 2026 at 3:45 PM
As kids, me & my friends after watching "Delirious" would go around saying "Jesse, you can win."
“I saw Jesse Jackson in the gym working out getting in shape when he ran for President."
“I saw Jesse Jackson in the gym working out getting in shape when he ran for President."
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Like most problems with AI this too is not a problem with AI it's a problem with the mad gold rush around AI.
I have my issues with LLM and generative AI, but the really big problems are very much human behaviour, exploitation and public funding and regulatory capture by big capital.
I have my issues with LLM and generative AI, but the really big problems are very much human behaviour, exploitation and public funding and regulatory capture by big capital.
February 17, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Like most problems with AI this too is not a problem with AI it's a problem with the mad gold rush around AI.
I have my issues with LLM and generative AI, but the really big problems are very much human behaviour, exploitation and public funding and regulatory capture by big capital.
I have my issues with LLM and generative AI, but the really big problems are very much human behaviour, exploitation and public funding and regulatory capture by big capital.
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Petrol station coffee machines, a lot of "smart" vending machines, street side ATMs, most self service shop tills, the basic infrastructure of modern life is going to start to break and lack parts to fix it.
February 17, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Petrol station coffee machines, a lot of "smart" vending machines, street side ATMs, most self service shop tills, the basic infrastructure of modern life is going to start to break and lack parts to fix it.
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People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
Hyperscalers are tearing hard drives out of the hands of manufacturers. Prices are therefore also rising for SSDs.
www.heise.de
February 17, 2026 at 9:12 PM
People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.
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Pope Leo XIV has formally declined President Trump’s invitation to pay $1 bn and join Trump's Gaza “Peace Board” — the explanation for this decision was furnished by Cardinal Pizzaballa, who condemned the initiative as a pay-to-play exercise in neocolonialism.
Pope Leo Rejects Trump’s Gaza “Peace Board” Invitation
After his top Middle East envoy denounced the plan as a “colonialist operation,” the Vatican formally declined to participate in Trump’s pay-to-play Gaza “Peace Board.”
open.substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Pope Leo XIV has formally declined President Trump’s invitation to pay $1 bn and join Trump's Gaza “Peace Board” — the explanation for this decision was furnished by Cardinal Pizzaballa, who condemned the initiative as a pay-to-play exercise in neocolonialism.
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so are we also seeing massive capex in hardware manufacture or what’s up with that?
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
Hyperscalers are tearing hard drives out of the hands of manufacturers. Prices are therefore also rising for SSDs.
www.heise.de
February 17, 2026 at 9:05 PM
so are we also seeing massive capex in hardware manufacture or what’s up with that?
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Massie’s politics are moronic, the block headed nitwitery of extreme hardcore libertarianism. But he’s mostly consistent. He & his HS sweetheart at a tiny school in Appalachia both got in to MIT, married, invented a bunch of stuff, & made money. He lives off the grid. He’s just wired differently.
“If reputations mattered more in the United States, Howard Lutnick would already have resigned.” www.politico.com/news/magazin...
‘You’re Going to See More Defections’: Thomas Massie’s Ominous Prediction for the GOP
In a new interview, the Republican congressman opens up about Donald Trump, Mike Johnson and his strategy to dig even deeper into the Epstein files
www.politico.com
February 17, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Massie’s politics are moronic, the block headed nitwitery of extreme hardcore libertarianism. But he’s mostly consistent. He & his HS sweetheart at a tiny school in Appalachia both got in to MIT, married, invented a bunch of stuff, & made money. He lives off the grid. He’s just wired differently.
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How to protect democracy in two easy steps:
Step #1: Vote by mail or vote early in person as early as you can in the voting window.
Step #2: Volunteer as an election clerk, poll worker, phone banker, or canvasser in your home area or the nearest competitive jurisdiction to you!
Step #1: Vote by mail or vote early in person as early as you can in the voting window.
Step #2: Volunteer as an election clerk, poll worker, phone banker, or canvasser in your home area or the nearest competitive jurisdiction to you!
Instead of fear-mongering about ICE stealing the election people should be making plans for what they will do this fall—including driving to other states—to get out our vote. /7
February 17, 2026 at 7:33 PM
How to protect democracy in two easy steps:
Step #1: Vote by mail or vote early in person as early as you can in the voting window.
Step #2: Volunteer as an election clerk, poll worker, phone banker, or canvasser in your home area or the nearest competitive jurisdiction to you!
Step #1: Vote by mail or vote early in person as early as you can in the voting window.
Step #2: Volunteer as an election clerk, poll worker, phone banker, or canvasser in your home area or the nearest competitive jurisdiction to you!
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What should the Dems start doing now?
By me. (Podcast before paywall, transcript after.)
fallows.substack.com/p/what-shoul...
By me. (Podcast before paywall, transcript after.)
fallows.substack.com/p/what-shoul...
What Should the Dems Do to Win—And Then to Govern?
Building a positive version of Project 2025. An author explains how to start.
fallows.substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 10:49 PM
What should the Dems start doing now?
By me. (Podcast before paywall, transcript after.)
fallows.substack.com/p/what-shoul...
By me. (Podcast before paywall, transcript after.)
fallows.substack.com/p/what-shoul...
I know they been around for awhile, but HMart leads the way if this. Now they need to get a lot of turtles.
More 'see me' flags requested to promote Falls Church pedestrian safety
More ‘see me’ flags requested to promote Falls Church pedestrian safety | ARLnow.com
A Falls Church advisory panel is asking city leaders to embrace a low-tech but potentially effective tool to promote pedestrian safety. Discussion on providing orange flags at unsignalized street crossings...
www.arlnow.com
February 17, 2026 at 10:43 PM
I know they been around for awhile, but HMart leads the way if this. Now they need to get a lot of turtles.