Bookmarks 2026-01-09T23:49:34.269Z
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Bookmarks for 2026-01-09T23:49:34.269Z
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'ICE Watch' member Renee Nicole Good shot by federal agent in Minneapolis | Fox News Added: Jan 9, 2026
'ICE Watch' member Renee Nicole Good shot by federal agent in Minneapolis | Fox News
Deadly shooting highlights growing tensions as federal authorities investigate 'ICE Watch' groups accused of interfering with immigration enforcement.
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A Baffling Paradox Led Physicists to the Discovery of Particles of Light That Can Exist in 37 Different Dimensions - The Debrief
Added: Jan 9, 2026A Baffling Paradox Led Physicists to the Discovery of Particles of Light That Can Exist in 37 Different Dimensions
Site: The Debrief
An international team says they successfully demonstrated conditions under which photons appear to exist simultaneously in 37 dimensions.
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Why do I use Linux? It's the apps, and here are 7 of my favorites
Added: Jan 9, 2026Why do I use Linux? It's the apps, and here are 7 of my favorites
Site: How-To Geek
The best apps for me are the best apps for GNU.
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Flathub - Apps for Linux
Added: Jan 9, 2026Flathub - Apps for Linux
Site: Flathub - Apps for Linux
Find and install hundreds of apps and games for Linux. Enjoy Firefox, Telegram, RetroArch, GIMP and many more!
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I Love America News on X: "@ofcrdeonjoseph Useful idiots. Every Marxist movement needs useful idiots. https://t.co/Em4g4Koh1w" / X Added: Jan 9, 2026
Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness Of The Fourier Transform | Hackaday Added: Jan 9, 2026
The Unreasonable Effectiveness Of The Fourier Transform
Site: Hackaday
A talk, The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Fourier Transform, was presented by [Joshua Wise] at Teardown 2025 in June last year. Click-through for the notes or check out the video below the brea…
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Fourier Transform @ TEARDOWN 2025 - YouTube Added: Jan 9, 2026
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Fourier Transform @ TEARDOWN 2025
Site: YouTube
The core fundamental technology underpinning almost all modern radio telecommunications -- Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, or OFDM -- and I try t...
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Home Page | Joshua Wise's domain Added: Jan 9, 2026
Home Page
Site: Joshua Wise's domain
Hi. I'm Joshua Wise, and this is my web site. By trade, I am something of an all-purpose computer engineer, with interests ranging from digital logic design to system architecture to reverse engineer
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Zohran Mamdani's tenant advocate Cea Weaver breaks down crying when asked about hypocritical gentrification comments | New York Post Added: Jan 9, 2026
Zohran Mamdani’s woke, privileged tenant advocate Cea Weaver breaks down crying when asked about hypocritical gentrification comments
Site: New York Post
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s newly instated radical-left tenant advocate, Cea Weaver, broke down Wednesday as she dodged questions from reporters about her gentrification hypocrisy.
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What We Know About the ICE Agent Who Shot Renee Nicole Good - WSJ Added: Jan 9, 2026
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NEW VIDEO PROVES Woman STRUCK ICE Agent, Activist Says COME AT US | Timcast IRL
Site: YouTube
Ads Friday Jan 9: BAERSkin -- Tax Network USAText TIM to 36912 to get 60% off the BAERSkin Hoodie today! Or click: https://baer.skin/timCall 1-800-958-1000 o...
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Newsom losing BILLIONS as California fraud allegations IGNITE
Site: YouTube
California Post opinion editor Joel Pollak joins ‘Mornings with Maria’ to explain how red tape, fees and state inaction are stalling wildfire recovery.Subscr...
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‘A Long Game’ by Elizabeth McCracken | Book Review - WSJ Added: Jan 9, 2026
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The Rift That Refuses to Die: This Forgotten Fault Is Still Active, Pulling Africa and Asia Further Apart
Added: Jan 9, 2026The Rift That Refuses to Die: This Forgotten Fault Is Still Active, Pulling Africa and Asia Further Apart
Site: The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel
Beneath one of the world’s busiest trade routes, a long-forgotten tectonic fault is stirring back to life. New scientific evidence reveals unexpected underground shifts in a region once declared geologically dead.
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A College Can’t Be Neutral. But Why Not Try? - WSJ Added: Jan 9, 2026
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Mentalist reveals 5-second trick to remember anyone's name - Upworthy
Added: Jan 9, 2026World-famous 'mindreader' reveals 5-second hack for remembering people's names
Site: Upworthy
Hint: Your visual memory is the strongest form of memory you have. Use it.
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Debian goes retro with a spatial desktop that time forgot • The Register Added: Jan 9, 2026
- Debian goes retro with a spatial desktop that time forgot
- Trixie plus a carefully configured MATE setup, and absolutely nothing else
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Wealth tax threat prompts at least six billionaires to cut ties with California, as about 20 more mull exit: report
Site: New York Post
David Lesperance told Bloomberg he personally helped four billionaires sever California residency before the proposal’s Jan. 1 cutoff date.
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I replaced my morning scroll with Gemini — and the results surprised me
Added: Jan 9, 2026
I replaced my morning scroll with Gemini — and the results surprised me
Site: Android Police
This simple habit changed my mornings
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Mamdani’s tenant-first crusade shows why New York needs an office for landlords | Fox News
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani faces criticism for appointing Cara Weaver, who calls homeownership "White supremacy," to lead tenant protection office.
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Quote of the day by George Orwell: 'Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it.' - The Economic Times Added: Jan 9, 2026
Quote of the day by George Orwell: 'Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it.' - The Economic Times
George Orwell, the famed writer, cautioned against the belief that each new generation is inherently superior. He highlighted that overconfidence, not ignorance, poses a significant danger. Orwell's insights suggest that while technology advances, human flaws like pride persist. Future generations will likely view our current beliefs with skepticism, a timeless lesson from Orwell's observations on power and self-deception.
This sharp, quietly unsettling line comes from George Orwell, a writer best remembered not for comfort, but for clarity. Orwell had a rare ability to notice patterns people prefer to ignore—and then phrase them so plainly that avoidance becomes impossible. This quote is one of those moments. It sounds almost casual, yet it carries a mirror.Who was George Orwell?Born Eric Arthur Blair in 1903, George Orwell was an English novelist, essayist, and critic whose work revolved around power, truth, language, and human self-deception. He is best known for 1984 and Animal Farm, but his essays are equally influential. Orwell did not see himself as a prophet; he saw himself as an observer. His writing was rooted in lived experience—colonialism, war, poverty, propaganda—and shaped by a deep distrust of absolute certainty, especially when it comes wrapped in moral superiority.Meaning of the quoteAt its core, this quote questions generational arrogance. Every new generation tends to believe it has finally “figured things out”—that it is more enlightened, more moral, more intelligent than those who came before. Orwell isn’t denying progress. He’s warning against smugness.The danger, he suggests, is not ignorance but overconfidence. When a generation assumes it is smarter by default, it stops listening. It dismisses history as outdated, mistakes past errors for stupidity rather than context, and overlooks the possibility that it, too, is shaped by blind spots. Orwell understood that technology changes faster than human nature. While tools evolve, flaws like pride, conformity, and self-justification remain stubbornly intact.In today’s world—where opinions are amplified instantly and certainty is rewarded—this quote feels especially relevant. Each era believes its information is better, its values purer, its judgments final. Orwell reminds us that future generations will likely look back at us with the same skepticism.Orwell’s other famous insightsMany of Orwell’s most quoted lines circle the same themes:“In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful.”“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”Together, these quotes form a single message: progress without humility is fragile. Intelligence without self-doubt is dangerous. Orwell doesn’t ask us to distrust the past blindly—or worship it. He asks us to pause, reflect, and consider that believing we are smarter might be the oldest mistake of all.
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Jeffries not ruling out impeaching Kristi Noem if Democrats win House Added: Jan 9, 2026
Jeffries not ruling out impeaching Kristi Noem if Democrats win House
Site: The Hill
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that he has not ruled out impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem if Democrats take back the House after the 2026 midterm ele…
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that he has not ruled out impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem if Democrats take back the House after the 2026 midterm elections. "Yeah, we haven't ruled anything in or anything out in terms of the proper way to bring about accountability," Jeffries told "All In" host Chris Hayes on MS NOW. Jeffries said Democratic lawmakers will discuss possible options early next week. "But what's clear to me is Kristi Noem is deeply unqualified, deeply unserious and deeply dangerous," Jeffries told Hayes. "She's a complete and total disgrace. She should never have been confirmed by the Senate in terms of holding this position." Jeffries accused Noem of having "slandered" Renee Nicole Macklin Good, the 37-year-old woman who was killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday. Noem and other Trump administration officials accused Macklin Good of carrying out an act of "domestic terrorism" and claimed that she tried to run over an ICE officer with her car. "That agent should be criminally investigated to the full extent of the law," Jeffries continued. "And simultaneously, in Congress we need to decisively respond, and we will." He added that Congress needs to "limit or address decisively the lawlessness that the Department of Homeland Security has unleashed on the American people." "And we just have to continue to stay on the case on all of these things in order to begin the process of decisively ending this national nightmare in the United States," Jeffries said. Lawmakers on both sides criticized the shooting and Noem's handling of it. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said it was "unusual to have a senior law enforcement official ... draw a conclusion about an event where the scene was still being processed." "Either Secretary Noem has a lot of information that she will share with us in the coming days that formed a basis for advising the president, or she communicated too soon," Tillis said. House Homeland Security Committee Democrats called on their Republican colleagues to have Noem testify. In a letter to Chair Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.), the panel's top ranking Democrat, Rep. Bennie Thompson (Miss.), said that Republicans who do not act over the shooting "are as culpable as President Trump himself for the harm he is causing our great country." California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said Noem must resign. "Kristi Noem should resign — before more Americans are killed," Newsom's press office posted on social platform X. "She needs to be held to account." On Friday, the White House released video obtained by Alpha News showing the ICE officer's perspective before the shooting. Macklin Good has her window down as the officer walks around her car, and she is seen saying to him, "That’s alright dude, I’m not mad at you. I’m not mad at you." The officer circles the SUV as a woman heckles him and grabs the passenger-side door. Officers are then heard saying, "Get out of the car. Get out of the f‑‑‑king car." The video does not show the moments shots were fired, as the camera jostles and captures the sound of the shots. Her SUV can be seen careening down the road and captures the sound of her vehicle hitting a parked car. A man's voice can be heard in the video saying "F‑‑‑king b‑‑‑‑."
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Republicans need Susan Collins to win reelection. Trump keeps going after her. - POLITICO Added: Jan 9, 2026
Republicans need Susan Collins to win reelection. Trump keeps going after her.
Site: POLITICO
The Maine senator has consistently won reelection in a blue state thanks to support from independents and some Democrats.
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With Greenland push, Trump once again thinks he's got the cards
Site: POLITICO
The president's already gotten Europe to submit to him on NATO spending, Ukraine aid and tariffs.
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World’s Largest Beaver Dam - Wood Buffalo National Park Added: Jan 9, 2026
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It can be seen from space, is the equivalent to 8 football fields and could be 45 years old - but we have no idea how many families call it home... | Discover Wildlife Added: Jan 9, 2026
It can be seen from space, is the equivalent to 8 football fields and could be 45 years old - but we have no idea how many families call it home... | Discover Wildlife
Site: Discover Wildlife
The world’s biggest beaver dam is as long as the Burj Khalifa is tall
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Gut microbial ethanol metabolism contributes to auto-brewery syndrome in an observational cohort | Nature Microbiology Added: Jan 9, 2026
Gut microbial ethanol metabolism contributes to auto-brewery syndrome in an observational cohort - Nature Microbiology
Site: Nature
Gut microorganisms capable of producing ethanol cause alcohol intoxication, which can be corrected via faecal microbiota transplantation.
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Some People Get Drunk Without Drinking and Scientists Finally Know Why Added: Jan 9, 2026
Some People Get Drunk Without Drinking and Scientists Finally Know Why
Site: SciTechDaily
A hidden army of gut microbes can brew alcohol inside the body—and scientists may finally know how to stop it.
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NEW Video of ICE Shooting Destroys Left Narrative, Conan Slams Comics, w/ Jesse Kelly & Link Lauren
Site: YouTube
Megyn Kelly is joined by Jesse Kelly, host of “The Jesse Kelly Show,” to discuss the false narrative being pushed by leftists and media outlets about the ICE...
