Tim Zee

@ilust606
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West Slavic-American, pro-democracy, pro-climate, pro-human rights, and other good stuff.
Coffee is good.
Game of Thrones & House of the Dragonhttps://westeroswisdom.tumblr.com/
Ukraine says the clearing of Russian forces in Kupyansk is nearing completion. Spokesman Viktor Trehubov said Russian troops remain in a few central areas but all attempts to break in from the north have failed. #Ukraine
15% of Kyiv residential buildings remain without heat after Russia's attacks, Mayor Klitschko says

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said 1,676 residential buildings - about 15% of the city’s housing stock - remained without heat after Russia’s latest strikes on critical infrastructure.

The Kyiv Independent

RE: https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUS/115953158119532894

Exercise is good for the brain. Bur it's probably way too late for Trump.

#TheBrain #BrainHealth #IntellectualExercise #DonaldTrump

With extreme cold and heavy snowfall affecting much of the US and Canada over the next few days, this article about the complexities of predicting such weather is interesting.

https://www.vox.com/climate/476117/arctic-blast-cold-snap-extreme-winter-storm-us-january

#winter #WinterWeather #snow #ExtremeCold #WetherForecasting #Meteorology #PolarVortex #ClimateChange

Why forecasters struggled to see this extreme winter storm coming

More than half of the United States is about to face one of the most sprawling and menacing winter storms in years.

Vox
Tiny falcons are helping keep the food supply safe on cherry farms
Their presence appears to lower the risk of food-borne illnesses from pathogens.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/tiny-falcons-are-helping-keep-the-food-supply-safe-on-cherry-farms/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
In 1993, web design didn't really exist — you couldn't even change the background color of your web page from grey. But Mosaic launched the first era of visual web design with the IMG tag, and soon after an MTV VJ (@adam) improbably created one of the first commercial websites. https://cybercultural.com/p/1993-mtv-internet/ #WebDesignHistory
1993: Web Browsers Add Multimedia and MTV.com Goes Online

Mosaic adds an image tag for HTML and becomes the first modern web browser in 1993. Soon after, MTV VJ Adam Curry builds one of the world's first commercial websites — not that his bosses care.

Cybercultural
Some internet history reading - 82MHz

Only goons, henchmen, and stooges would take orders from these bozos. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

You wouldn't use a navigation app that deliberately took you to the wrong address or a calculator that gave you the wrong answer - so why do we accept similar behavior from our social media feeds?

We follow our friends, family, local businesses, and the creators we are interested in to see when they post something new, but so often their posts are not shown to us and other content is inserted into our feeds instead.

https://frequency.leaflet.pub/3md26xqn3dk2m/l-quote/1_0-1_419#1_0

You vs. 1,000 Engineers - frequency social

Why Apps Are Designed Against You

Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure "intact mental health"
The onslaught includes LLMs finding bogus vulnerabilities and code that won't compile.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/overrun-with-ai-slop-curl-scraps-bug-bounties-to-ensure-intact-mental-health/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social