Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Today's news and jokes

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Interesting. I wonder if her husband's firm will continue to benefit from this $20M DHS contract. www.citizen.org/news/dhs-ass...

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— Noah Shachtman (@noahshachtman.bsky.social) February 17, 2026 at 8:23 AM
Actually, $220 million. So is there just an endless supply of stories like this until she's forced out?



















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— Todd Vaziri (@tvaziri.com) February 17, 2026 at 4:48 PM








“.. ‘many system vendors will go bankrupt or exit product lines due to a lack of memory. Mobile phone production will be reduced by 200-250 million units, and PC and TV production will be significantly reduced.’ Yikes.” @pcgamer.com #DRAM www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...

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— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) February 17, 2026 at 10:37 AM


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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— Mallory Moore (@sexabolition.blog) February 17, 2026 at 1:12 PM








South Dakota just approved its largest wind farm ever

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— Electrek (@electrek.co) February 17, 2026 at 3:16 PM








(This is an article from October about the Player's Way scandal)







CBS kept cameras rolling after Real Madrid-Benfica and some sort of pushing and shoving happened in the tunnel. A UEFA staffer kept trying to stop CBS from filming it but the camera person and their correspondent Guillem Balagué stayed put

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— Douglas Reyes-Ceron (@dreyesceron.bsky.social) February 17, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Racist comments







(Talking past each other per reports--he feels they didn't need a permit bc the owner said they could hold the event, and indeed does so all the time; the city says the owner has been told in the past to stop hosting unpermitted events)























There's no easy way to say this: isthmus

— weeder (@weeder.bsky.social) February 5, 2026 at 9:55 AM








I much prefer the significantly dumber PS2 version of V.I.P.

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— Sean Seanson (@seanseanson.bsky.social) February 5, 2026 at 3:22 PM








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