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Beetles and other bugs by G. Baldassini from Volume One of the Italian art portfolio series ‘Modelli D’arte Decorativa,’ published by Bestetti and Tumminelli in the 1910s.

UW-Milwaukee Special Collections.

#beetleart #insectart #coleoptera

Palantir's Swiss Exit Highlights Global Data Sovereignty Challenge | NewsCase Switzerland's military has terminated its contract with Palantir Technologies Inc. following a security audit. The review concluded that U.S. intelligence ag

"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm"

www.newscase.com/palantirs-sw...

#R4Today

The key to learning a language is to accept that it’s not a dignified process

definitely signs of a healthy capitalist society that the most elite advertising event of the year is dominated by crypto and sports betting

Hang it in the Louvre

Acecdotally, when we called him on Thursday as part of a union action, the number was disconnected

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

No Reserve: 1981 Alfa Romeo 2000 Spider Veloce Bid for the chance to own a No Reserve: 1981 Alfa Romeo 2000 Spider Veloce at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #229,727.

1981 Alfa Romeo 2000 Spider Veloce at No Reserve

He Was Laid Off at The Washington Post After Working There 60 Years

Sixty years of excellent work at the Washington Post; a beloved figure there. The Bezos team just laid him off. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...

No Reserve: 1976 Honda CB360T Bid for the chance to own a No Reserve: 1976 Honda CB360T at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #229,714.

1976 Honda CB360T at No Reserve

This 2000 Honda Acty 4WD is a third-generation SDX example that was acquired by the seller and imported to the US in 2026. Showing ~23k miles, it's listed now with no reserve on BaT!

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2000-honda-acty-pickup/

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most

Map identifying the approximate regions where various Indigenous groups lived in North America in 1776.

The Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work. america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...

Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

VIl. CONCLUSION There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table. Secretary Noem, the record to-date shows, does not have the facts on her side or at least has ignored them. Does not have the law on her side or at least has ignored it. Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, she pounds X (f/k/a Twitter). Kristi Noem has a First Amendment right to call immigrants killers, leeches, entitlement junkies, and any other inapt name she wants. Secretary Noem, however, is constrained by both our Constitution and the APA to apply faithfully the facts to the law in implementing the TPS program. The record to-date shows she has yet to do that. By accompanying Order, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs' Renewed Motion for a Stay Under 5 U.S.C. § 705. Ana C. Reyes Date: February 2, 2026 ANA C. REYES United States District Judge

Judge Reyes’s conclusion: “There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table. … Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, [Noem] pounds X (f/k/a Twitter).”

the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability

Frederick Douglass quote from 1857: Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightening; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power conceded nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.

Anyway, good morning from this evergreen quote from a guy we teach the kids is a great American hero

congrats to maga for protecting and putting the entire epstein list into positions of power i guess

Deep-sea robots will search for source of mysterious ‘dark oxygen’ Scientists have launched a fresh effort to find out what could be producing oxygen at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

Deep-sea robots hunting for "dark oxygen," large amounts of the gas from a region in the ocean that's too deep for sunlight to power photosynthesis. The team have developed a suite of instruments that they’ll use to probe the sea floor.
www.nature.com/articles/d41... (paywalled)
#deepseamining 🧪 🌊 🦑

A sea turtle with 3 flippers swims free after Florida rehab, now followed by satellite A loggerhead sea turtle has returned to the Atlantic Ocean after rehabilitation at a Florida turtle hospital.

A loggerhead sea turtle has returned to the Atlantic Ocean after rehabilitation at a Florida turtle hospital.

Trump Names Eight New Appointees to US Holocaust Memorial Museum Board They will replace the board members appointed by former President Joe Biden, who Trump removed just a few days ago.

www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

on Holocaust Remembrance Day

The Economics of Attention (September 2025) - Attention is an important resource in the modern economy and plays an increasingly prominent role in economic analysis. We summarize research on attention from both psychology and e...

The Economics of Attention

Loewenstein & Wojtowicz, 2025

"We also identify promising new directions for research, including...the significant role that boredom, curiosity, and other motivational states play in determining how people allocate attention."

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

And what are they learning? Experts on the formation of internal security services in authoritarian regimes point to a sense of impunity as a warning sign. Regime officials abuse their power when they know they will be protected, and even praised, for doing so. Over the course of weeks and months, we have seen images of DHS officials abusing American citizens and immigrants alike, including killing them. What we do not hear is regime officials calling for credible investigations into such abuses, or even expressing any concerns. Renee Good’s killer was announced innocent, and both Good and her wife was instead the subject of an investigation, a perversion of justice so obvious that an FBI agent and half-dozen career Department of Justice prosecutors assigned to Minnesota resigned.

What we are watching is a paramilitary force learning that they can kill with impunity, that the regime will smear the victim and defend them. Unless politicians and the legal system exerts accountability, it will not stop. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...

Everyone giving goku energy from the spirit bomb

Every time there’s slightly irregular news from the White House.

Hello Kitty peacefully sleeping in her bed

"hey can you jump on a quick call?"

Much crazier is that the US has a lock on the way to beat the population loss threatening all rich nations, all those economic and geopolitical rivals, and has decided nah.

Trump's obsession with Greenland and erratic interventionism towards Venezuela are almost textbook case studies of a declining great power externalising its growing domestic instability into external imperial quagmires

2026 is seeing that the U.S. Army is mobilizing a unit specialized for winter conditions, but not knowing if the intended mission is violent repression of an American city or stealing territory from a U.S. treaty ally.