The board is being set. • Finland to join NATO

the Guardian

Finland to join Nato on Tuesday as Russia sounds border warning

Moscow threatens to bolster border defences if western military alliance deploys troops inside Finland

• 4 US bases to be set up in the Philippines

Al Jazeera

Philippines announces locations of 4 bases to be used by US army

One site is near the hotly disputed South China Sea and another not far from Taiwan.

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It almost happened .. again?

Dingo attacks young girl, tries to hold her underwater at K'gari-Fraser Island

A young girl has been flown to hospital after she was bitten on her head and hands by a dingo while swimming at Queensland's K'gari-Fraser Island.

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90’s Super Mario Brothers is better than any subsequent SMB film to date. L

In what is sure to be a clear case of self-defense, a man in the US who had his truck stolen, reported the theft to police before using Apple AirTags to track his truck, before shooting and killing the thief.

Fox News

Texas man uses Apple AirTag to track down person who stole his truck, then kills him: Police

San Antonio, Texas police say that a man decided to kill the person who allegedly stole his truck on Wednesday, fatally shooting him.

Insane how much money gets sloshed around in politics.

The Intercept

January 6 Funder Is Spending Millions on Wisconsin Supreme Court Election

The court stopped Donald Trump’s election challenge by a one-vote margin. Now a billionaire Republican election denier is spending to ensure a co...

Twitter’s algorithm has been made public, and the manipulation by Twitter of what users see is unsuprising.

Was this a “waste of resources”?

Los Angeles Times

A 9-year-old girl didn't want her goat slaughtered. California fair officials sent deputies after it

Jessica Long's 9-year-old didn't want her goat, Cedar, to be slaughtered at the county fair. Officials sent deputies with a search warrant to get i...

What’s good this week, Nostr?

Data Migration is made so easy with the Dropbox integration on Umbrel-based #Nextcloud.

“Nice Shirt!” - random pleb

Few hours up my sleeve to review.

I generally find people struggle with nuance, gravitating towards hyperbole, perhaps in an effort to avoid uncertainty. In the case of Bitcoin, it's not as simple as saying it's either an inflation hedge or it's not. Rather, it's a volatile inflation hedge, and its effectiveness in this regard can only be properly evaluated over a longer time frame.

⚠️ Russian media reported to have been rolling out pro-nuclear war programming, described as “softening” the public for nuclear strikes, and promoting the “washing away” of Britain, the US, and the West in general. Interesring times.

Trying out #Urbit.

Walking back after an Evening out.