That's my question. Are men ready to let women lead?

Did you scoff? Let's go with that.

I'm an American millennial neurodivergent woman.

Women in my family were lobotomized just two generations ago, in cases I know of. The missing and dead women of my family will always speak through me.

All my life, I've worked in male-controlled fields and areas. High level science; corporations; international affairs.

I've often dumbed myself down for the men around me, for my own safety.

It's like speaking a different language, learning their sycophantic and hierarchical norms and codes.

It's not the language of nature, of seasons and cycles and balance.

I learned a long time ago that I could foresee trouble, but I learned that sociopathic men don't want to prevent trouble.

Cassandra was cursed, but then Cassandra was trafficked and abused after her city was destroyed.

Non-sociopath men don't want any trouble. These are the "nice guys." They still speak the same language.

Yes, I know there are enabler women. The fear and self-hate of women are the tent poles of patriarchy.

Are men ready to accept that women are more closely tied to the cycles of nature, and thus to life?

That creating life is a literal metaphysical process that has not yet been fully explained by science, and women do it every day, often under extreme duress?

Are men ready to admit that their brains are limited by man-made constructions that cause violence to proliferate across humanity?

We can share the throne of this beautiful earth.

But are men ready to let us?

Cloudflare says DDoS crews ended 2025 by pushing traffic floods to new extremes, while Britain made an unwelcome leap of 36 places to become the world's sixth-most targeted location.…

As Zach recently posted, BYD's sales were down 30.7% in January. BYD sold 210,051 NEVs, which still put it in first place, well ahead of Geely with 124,252. Geely, however, also sells ICE vehicles, which saw significant sales growth to bring their total to 270,167. Due to selling primarily ICE ... [continued]

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Mark Ruffalo has taken to Threads to issue a brutal takedown of Kevin O'Leary after the billionaire mocked Billie Eilish's recent Grammy's speech in which she condemned ICE federal agents in the US.

O'Leary appeared on Fox News slating famous people who decide to 'get political'. However, the right-wing pundit might consider that their political decisions shape the lives of every citizen they govern, and that democracy demands people have a voice. Including celebrities.

Of course, it can't possibly be that the super-rich old white guy has vested interests in the current hostile immigration policy in the US:

Israel have been accused of spraying mysterious chemicals inside Lebanon.  Now the Lebanese PM and rights groups have called the attack a 'crime' after it emerged the chemicals were a potentially cancer-causing compound.

Prime minister Joseph Aoun called it an act of "aggression":

This is an environmental and health crime against Lebanese citizens and their land.

These dangerous practices that target agricultural lands and the livelihoods of citizens and threaten their health and environment require the international community and relevant United Nations organisations to assume their responsibilities to stop these attacks.

Unifil, the UN mission in Lebanon, said shortly after the attack that they'd been told about the airborne operation. They also said that it had stopped peacekeepers carrying out their duties:

Peacekeepers could not perform normal operations near the Blue Line along about a third of its length and were only able to resume normal activities after over nine hours.

The Blue Line is a 120km strip which marks the line of Israel withdrawal from south Lebanon in 2000. The UN and Lebanese army tested the chemicals. Those tests now seem to have come to a conclusion.

The Guardian said:

Lebanese authorities said that laboratory analysis identified that the spray contained glyphosate, a potent herbicide that was in 2015 classified by the World Health Organization as "probably carcinogenic to humans".

Lebanon's ministries of agriculture and the environment said some samples showed glyphosate at:

20 and 30 times higher than normal [use].

They said such high concentrations would:

damage vegetation in the targeted areas, with direct repercussions on agricultural production, soil fertility and ecological balance.

Others said this was another example of Israel's scorched earth policy.

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said the "deeply alarming" attack may constitute a war crime:

The deliberate targeting of civilian farmland violates international humanitarian law, particularly the prohibition on attacking or destroying objects indispensable to civilian survival.

They added:

Large-scale destruction of private property without specific military necessity amounts to a war crime and undermines food security and basic livelihoods in the affected areas.

Euro-Med said they directly observed the spraying, which they considered part of

a systematic destruction of agricultural land.

The NGO warned:

This incident cannot be viewed in isolation from the scorched-earth policy pursued by the Israeli army.

Israel sprayed farmland with "pesticides of unknown composition in Syria in January 2026, causing:

widespread crop destruction, posing a serious threat to economic and food security and violating farmers' rights to work and to an adequate standard of living by destroying their primary sources of income without military justification.

Strip aways Zionist claims about birthright and indigeneity and you'll find nothing more mystical, historical or religiously motivated than an old-fashioned settler land grab. From Syria to Lebanon, Gaza to the West Back, the Israeli state will keep displacing locals and expanding its territory by whatever means it can, for as long as it can, until someone stops it.

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By Joe Glenton

Zack Polanski has called out Wes Streeting for his relentless social media attacks during an interview with The London Standard.

Polanski pointed out that, unlike Streeting, he's a gay man who is not willing to throw the trans community under a bus.

 

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In an interview with The London Standard, Polanski said:

Wes Streeting is attacking me every day on social media because I'm another gay man in politics who is not willing to throw the trans community under the bus and that exposes his abject immorality.

Polanski, a consistent vocal ally to trans communities, showed what sets him and the likes of right-wing brown-nosing cunt Streeting apart. He told the Evening Standard:

He must know what it's like to be othered but he's more bothered about power than protecting the other. It's disgraceful.

Of course, Streeting could use his lived experience of othering as a gay man in politics to recognise and challenge shared oppressions. Instead, he's sold out and used his privilege to demonise an already besieged group of people.

As Health Secretary, he's in the prime position to shape policies to improve healthcare access for trans people. Despite this, though, he's so far only surrendered to the transphobes.

Separately, Polanski also pointed out Streetings' links to Palantir, Peter Mandelson, and his lobbying company, as well as Palantir's new £330m NHS contract.

Respect. Zack Polanski on the urgent questions that need asking about Palantir, Peter Mandelson and his lobbying company, Wes Streeting and Palantir's £330 million NHS contract. https://t.co/MmZ0iviBBZ

— Andy Worthington (@GuantanamoAndy) February 5, 2026

Streeting's partner, Joe Dancey, also used to work as Peter Mandelson's assistant when he was an MP. He attempted to scrub that from his LinkedIn profile this week. Luckily, social media users have the receipts.

Then and now: Joe Dancey's LinkedIn profile on 18 Sept 2025 and today.
Spot the difference!

[Dancey is Wes Streeting's partner] pic.twitter.com/LCxQ2DwHFd

— Labour Right Watch (@LabourRightWtch) February 4, 2026

Previously, Polanski has also pointed out that Streeting has taken hundreds of thousands of pounds from private healthcare companies. Polanski has taken zero.

Murdering children is bad, Louis.

Wes Streeting may have taken over a quarter of a million pounds in private healthcare donations - but I haven't.

So it's quite simple to tell the truth. pic.twitter.com/RIgWEXmwgc

— Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski) January 22, 2026

The fact that Streeting feels the need to attack him on social media surely shows just how much the Green leader has him rattled.

From his vile transphobia to his links to Palantir and Epstein-pedo-bestie Peter Mandelson, Polanski is showing Streeting for the power-shielding wanker he is. We're very much here for it.

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By HG

Get The Art of Spending Money

From the bestselling author of The Psychology of Money, The Art of Spending Money explores the overlooked side of personal finance — arguing that true wealth isn't about what you accumulate, but how you use money to build freedom, meaning, and joy.

Wealth is not about luxury — it's about control. The highest form of wealth is the ability to wake up and do whatever you want. Money is a tool that buys you time, allows you to make choices about where and how you live, and provides peace of mind. As Housel puts it: "I'd rather wake up and be able to do anything I want than try to impress you with nice stuff."

There are two ways to use money: as a tool to live a better life, or as a yardstick to measure yourself against others. Many people aspire for the former but spend their lives chasing the latter. Spending to impress others rarely leads to happiness because there's always something more to strive toward — and disappointment is often the outcome.

Spend on things that either resist adaptation or that you can repeatedly rediscover. You adapt to your new couch almost immediately, but a meaningful trip creates memories that bring pleasure for years. The best spending often looks invisible — living in a modest home you love, cultivating friendships, preserving mental health — things you can't display but deeply feel.

The goal isn't extreme frugality — hoarding money for its own sake is another trap. Instead, spend extravagantly on the things you truly love while mercilessly cutting the things you don't. Think about spending in terms of minimizing future regret: no one gets a prize for dying with the highest account balance.

1. List your top 5 purchases from the past month. For each one, ask: "Did this bring me lasting satisfaction, or was it forgotten within days?"
2. Identify one recurring expense that doesn't actually improve your life. Cancel or reduce it this week.
3. Think of one thing you've been denying yourself that would genuinely increase your daily happiness. Permit yourself to spend on it.
4. Write down what "enough" looks like for you — the point where more money wouldn't meaningfully improve your life.
5. For your next purchase over $50, wait 48 hours and ask: "Am I buying this for me, or to impress someone else?"

"There are two ways to use money. One is as a tool to live a better life. The other is as a yardstick of status to measure yourself against others. Many people aspire for the former but spend their life chasing the latter."

I've been researching Yemen for a video I just made, and honestly I learned some pretty disturbing things that don't get talked about much.

The country was already running out of groundwater before the war even started.

By the early 2000s, experts were warning Sana'a could become the first capital city to physically run out of water.

Most of Yemen's water goes to agriculture, especially qat — a cash crop that's extremely water-intensive. Farmers grow it to survive, but it just accelerates the collapse.

Once water disappears, everything else follows — people move, hygiene breaks down, disease spreads, and whoever controls wells or water trucks gains power.

The war didn't cause this. The water crisis made Yemen fragile.

What's happening now isn't recovery — it's people adapting to permanent scarcity.

Yemen isn't unique because it's dry.

It's unique because it hit the wall first.

I made a short documentary-style video breaking this down if anyone's interested. Just wanted to share because this feels like one of those slow disasters we don't really notice until it starts showing up everywhere.

The Trump administration keeps demonstrating that it really hates affordable broadband. It particularly hates it when the government tries to make broadband affordable to poor people or rural school kids.

In just the last year the Trump administration has:

• Rewritten the infrastructure Act at the behest of telecom giants, ensuring that they can take $42.5 billion in taxpayer money without worrying about making sure the resulting broadband is affordable.
• Illegally threatened to withhold broadband grants from states that try to hold telecom monopolies accountable for overbilling or anti-competitive behavior.
• Destroyed a popular program that provided free broadband to poor rural school children.
• Tried relentlessly to destroy an FCC program that provides cheaper broadband to schools and rural communities (many of which voted for Trump).
• Dismantled the FCC's ability to stop telecom giants from ripping you off with hidden fees and usage caps.
• Illegally destroyed a law passed by Congress mandating the fair deployment of broadband to poor people and minority communities.
• Hijacked a program aimed at providing affordable fiber in order to slather Elon Musk with subsidies.

I'm sure I missed a few.

This week, the administration's war on affordable broadband shifted back to attacking the FCC Lifeline program, a traditionally uncontroversial, bipartisan effort to try and extend broadband to low income Americans. Brendan Carr (R, AT&T) has been ramping up his attacks on these programs, claiming (falsely) that they're riddled with state-sanctioned fraud:

"Carr's office said this week that the FCC will vote next month on rule changes to ensure that Lifeline money goes to "only living and lawful Americans" who meet low-income eligibility guidelines. Lifeline spends nearly $1 billion a year and gives eligible households up to $9.25 per month toward phone and Internet bills, or up to $34.25 per month in tribal areas."

For one, $9.25 is a pittance. It barely offsets the incredibly high prices U.S. telecom monopolies charge. Monopolies, it should be noted, only exist thanks to the coddling of decades of corrupt lawmakers like Carr, who've effectively exempted them from all accountability. That's resulted in heavy monopolization, limited competition, high prices, and low-quality service.

Two, there's lots of fraud in telecom. Most of it, unfortunately, is conducted by our biggest companies with the tacit approval of folks like FCC boss Brendan Carr. AT&T, for example, has spent decades ripping off U.S. schools and various subsidy programs, and you'll never see Carr make a peep about that. Fraud is, in MAGA world, only something involving minorities and poor people.

The irony is that the lion's share of the fraud in the Lifeline program has involved big telecom giants, like AT&T or Verizon, which, time and time again, take taxpayer money for poor people that the just made up. This sort of fraud, where corporations are involved, isn't of interest to Brendan Carr.

In this case, Carr is alleging (without evidence) that certain left wing states are intentionally ripping off the federal government, throwing untold millions of dollars at dead people for Lifeline broadband access. Something the California Public Utilities Commission has had to spend the week debunking:

"The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) this week said that "people pass away while enrolled in Lifeline—in California and in red states like Texas. That's not fraud. That's the reality of administering a large public program serving millions of Americans over many years. The FCC's own advisory acknowledges that the vast majority of California subscribers were eligible and enrolled while alive, and that any improper payments largely reflect lag time between a death and account closure, not failures at enrollment."

Brendan Carr can't overtly admit this (because he's a corrupt zealot), but his ideal telecom policy agenda involves throwing billions of dollars at AT&T and Comcast in exchange for doing nothing. That's it. That's the grand Republican plan for U.S. telecom. It gets dressed up as something more ideologically rigid, but coddling predatory monopolies has always been the foundational belief structure.

This latest effort by Carr and Trump largely appears to be a political gambit targeting California Governor Gavin Newsom, suggesting they're worried about his chances in the next presidential election. This isn't to defend Newsom; I've certainly noted how his state has a mixed track record on broadband affordability. But it appears this is mostly about painting a picture of Newsom, as they did with Walz in Minnesota, as a political opponent that just really loves taxpayer fraud.

Again though, actually policing fraud is genuinely the last thing on Brendan Carr's mind. If it was, he'd actually target the worst culprits on this front: corporate America.

The latest news from Foxconn, BYD, and Nigeria shows that the transition to electric mobility is happening all around the world.

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Government plans to protect species by increasing woodland and removing greys, but campaigners say it needs to go further

When Sam Beaumont sees a flash of red up a tree on his Lake District farm, he feels a swell of pride. He's one of the few people in England who gets to see red squirrels in his back garden.

"I feel very lucky to have them on the farm. It's an important thing to try and keep a healthy population of them. They are absolutely beautiful," he said.

The Alaska, a simple mix of gin, yellow Chartreuse and orange bitters, hails from the beginning of the 20th century. The "delectable potion," as it was described in the 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book, has all the trappings of modern success: It's essentially a Martini riff, made with the liqueur everyone can't stop talking about. It looks both demure in a Nick & Nora and, thanks to its golden hue, a little playful in a V-shaped glass. Yet for all its appeal, it has taken nearly a century for the drink to finally get its due. Now it dots menus at top bars, and there's never been a better time to order one—or to make one at home. Here are some of our favorite recipes for the drink.

Back in stock just in time for Bandcamp Friday! A new run of the much-loved and previously out of print vol. 2 of South London Landscape History's South London Commons zines, focusing on Woolwich Common to Eltham Common.

Starting at Bostall Heath in the south-east and finishing at Putney Heath in the south-west, a chain of commons runs in a wide arc across the whole of South London.

This series of zines mixes history, ecology, psychogeography, architecture, poetry and memoir to unpack how, taken together, the commons provide the key to the South London landscape.

Written by landscape historian John Gray and featuring photographs by Woolwich-based photographer Sam Walton, this second zine in the series explores a pair of ancient commons. The cover is a cyanotype by artist Sally Gunnett, created using plants from Woolwich Common and evoking ancestral rights of common. The cyanotype was then Risograph printed by Lewisham's Page Masters, along with the rest of the publication.

CONTENTS: "How does landscape manifest as a system of memory?"—the topography of South London—Shooter's Hill—a love letter to Woolwich Common—walking its convoluted history—"part blasted heath, part great park"—Blue Danube—buried Blitz rubble—Nightingales in Woolwich—the house Bernadine Evaristo grew up in—echoes of imperialism inscribed in the landscape—colonial rabbits and colonial dogs—the South London Vernacular—the virtue of eclecticism out of the necessity of randomised destruction—Eltham Common and the old Dover Road—Kossowski's mural on the Old Kent Road, one of the jewels of South London—the common and the gallows—in defence of Mock Tudor—Peter Barber's Rochester Way: the best of contemporary architecture—the worst: Kidbrooke Village—not a place for walking free—Outer South London Vernacular, from Eltham to New Malden—an unremarkable scrap of grass.

Vol. 3 (One Tree Hill to Peckham Rye Common) is also still in stock!

CHANGAN Auto and CATL of China are the partners behind a new electric passenger car powered by sodium-ion batteries, with a range-extender option and battery swapping opportunities, too.

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The latest EV charging news in Massachusetts was about 105 new fast chargers to be installed for Boston Public Schools. Electric school buses have many public health and environmental benefits, so installing more chargers for them will be an advantage. Just a couple days later, the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center ... [continued]

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Most people wouldn't leave their phones behind when they so much as go for a drive, but NASA astronauts have had to leave their phones on Earth while they went to work 250 miles away at the International Space Station. That is, until now.

In a post on X, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman shared that the Crew-12 and Artemis II astronauts will be allowed to bring smartphones along for the journey to the ISS and beyond. "We are giving our crews the tools to capture special moments for their families and share inspiring images and video with the world," Isaacman said.

While these won't be the first smartphone images captured in space — that distinction belongs to a trio of miniature phone-based satellites sent into Earth orbit in 2013 which succeeded where the earlier British STRaND-1 project failed. But thanks to the upcoming Artemis II mission, we can look forward to the first smartphone images from the moon's orbit. The March (for now) launch will be the agency's first crewed moon mission since Apollo 17 in 1972.

The crews' personal devices will be far less cumbersome to use than the old Nikon DSLRs they were previously limited to for high-quality still images. Ideally, this means more spontaneous pictures that can be shared with friends and family back on Earth.

An enterprising engineer has evoked the spirit of Acorn's BBC Micro with a custom paintjob for a Raspberry Pi 500+ computer-in-a-keyboard and a natty set of replacement keycaps.…

A British supermarket says staff will undergo further training after a store manager ejected the wrong man when facial recognition technology triggered an alert.…

While nothing will ever top the picture-perfect selfie taken by a macaque with a stolen camera, a sled dog in Greenland is vying for at least the top five list of animal photography.

An Associated Press crew on a shoot in Ilulissat, Greenland, discovered that a 360-degree camera was missing. — Read the rest

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When it comes to reportage on terrible things, there are few journalists I trust more than Spencer Ackerman. He's been writing about the world working very hard to bleed itself to death since the early 2000s. The quality of his work has led to his being employed by Wired, The Daily Beast, and The Guardian to watch the politics and mechanisms that try very hard to do us dirty and to talk about them in a way we can understand. — Read the rest

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On the night of February 5, President Donald Trump shared an AI-generated video on Truth Social that depicts Barack and Michelle Obama with their faces superimposed on the bodies of apes in a jungle setting. The Obamas appear for a second or two near the end of a roughly one-minute clip that otherwise pushes false claims about 2020 election fraud, reports the New York Times. — Read the rest

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One more item, if I may, from Bobby Campbell's latest newsletter: 

"Wanted to make sure I mentioned this wonderful addition to the Illuminatus! canon, an excellently crafted spotlight on co-author Robert Shea. My enthusiastic review is enclosed below:

Meet Bob Shea! The legendary co-creator of Illuminatus!, Hodge to Robert Anton Wilson's Podge, a luminous man of letters, friendly suburban zen buddhist anarchist, and visionary creator of better tomorrows, that you are most welcome to enjoy today!

Tom Jackson has crafted a perfect introduction to Robert Shea's literary labyrinth, a guided tour of his revolutionary ouvré, wherein Shea's unique voice delivers enlightening epiphanies as casually as an old friend discussing the weather.

Make no mistake, the mystic mystery of Illuminatus! continues right here and now!

More on the book here. 

In a comment on my recent post about the latest Hilaritas podcast, podcast host Mike Gathers said the podcast on the Shea book and the Vincent Murphy podcast were two highlights in the 2025 podcasts. I thought the Shea podcast was good, too --- not because I was on it, but because Mike Shea told so many wonderful stories about his father. 

The 2026 Winter Olympics are taking place in Italy this year, with all the action taking place in Milan and the Alpine city of Cortina. This year marks the fourth time Italy has hosted the Winter Games; most recently, Turin hosted in 2006. Of the 16 sports that will be featured at the Winter Olympics, there will be 15 returning favorites, including figure skating, Alpine skiing, curling, ice hockey, speedskating, snowboarding, freestyle skiing and ski jumping, and one entirely new sport, snow mountaineering. (Will it be as big a hit as the 2024 Summer Games' new addition, breaking? It remains to be seen.)

Live coverage of every event at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 will be available to stream on Peacock — though thanks to the time difference between Italy and the U.S., to watch many of the events live, you'll have to wake up (or stay up) until 2AM or 3AM ET. Primetime replays and select live coverage will air on NBC. The games officially kick off with the opening ceremony on Feb. 6, 2026.

Here's what else you need to know about watching the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Dates: Feb. 6 - Feb. 22

TV channel: NBC

Streaming: Peacock

The Winter Olympics officially begin with the opening ceremony on Feb. 6, although some events will start as early as Feb. 4). The Milano Cortina 2026 games will run through Feb. 22. The closing ceremony of the 2026 Winter Olympics will take place in the Arena di Verona on Feb. 22.

The 2026 Winter Olympics will be held in Northern Italy, primarily in Milan and also the Alpine mountain resort town of Cortina d'Ampezzo, where events like bobsled, skeleton, alpine skiing, curling, para snowboard, and more will take place.

The 2026 Winter Olympics will air on NBC and stream live on Peacock.

The Milano Cortina 2026 opening ceremony will be held on Feb. 6, 2026. Due to the time difference, the ceremony will kick off around 2PM ET/11AM PT.

This year's Olympic Games are in Italy, which is 6 hours ahead of U.S. Eastern Time. Meaning that some events will start bright and early for U.S. viewers, and live coverage will likely wrap up around 4PM ET each day. NBC will have primetime replays of the biggest moments each night.

All times Eastern.

Wednesday, Feb. 4 (early competition starts)

• Curling (round robin) - 2AM (Peacock - Live)

• Curling (round robin) - 8AM (Peacock - Live)

• Alpine skiing training - 3-6AM (Peacock - Live)

Thursday, Feb. 5

• Curling (round robin) - 2AM (Peacock - Live)

• Curling (round robin) - 8AM (Peacock - Live)

• Freestyle skiing qualifications - 4AM (Peacock - Live)

• Snowboard qualifications - 6AM (Peacock - Live)

Friday, Feb. 6 - opening ceremony

• Curling (round robin) - 2AM (Peacock - Live)

• Figure skating (team event short programs) - 6AM (Peacock - Live)

• Snowboard slopestyle qualifications - 6AM (Peacock - Live)

• Speedskating (early distances) - 8AM (Peacock - Live)

• opening ceremony - 2PM (Peacock - Live)

• opening ceremony - 8PM (NBC - Primetime)

Saturday, Feb. 7

• Alpine skiing (men's downhill) - 3AM (Peacock - Live)

• Snowboard slopestyle finals - 6AM (Peacock - Live)

• Speedskating medals - 7AM (Peacock - Live)

• Figure skating (team free programs) - 8AM (Peacock - Live)

• Hockey (group play begins) - 10AM (Peacock - Live)

Sunday, Feb. 8

• Alpine skiing (women's downhill) - 3AM (Peacock - Live)

• Freestyle skiing moguls finals - 6AM (Peacock - Live)

• Figure skating (pairs short program) - 8AM (Peacock - Live)

• Luge (singles runs) - 9AM (Peacock - Live)

• Hockey (group play) - 12PM (Peacock - Live)

Monday, Feb. 9

• Biathlon sprint - 5AM (Peacock - Live)

• Speedskating medals - 7AM (Peacock - Live)

• Figure skating (pairs free skate - medals) - 8AM (Peacock - Live)

• Curling (round robin) - 9AM (Peacock - Live)

• Skeleton (heat 1-2) - 11AM (Peacock - Live)

Tuesday, Feb. 10

• Alpine skiing (giant slalom) - 4AM (Peacock - Live)

• Snowboard halfpipe qualifications - 6AM (Peacock - Live)

• Figure skating (men's short program) - 8AM (Peacock - Live)

• Curling (round robin) - 10AM (Peacock - Live)

Wednesday, Feb. 11

• Nordic combined - 4AM (Peacock - Live)

• Freestyle skiing aerials finals - 6AM (Peacock - Live)

• Figure skating (men's free skate - medals) - 8AM (Peacock - Live)

• Speedskating medals - 11AM (Peacock - Live)

Thursday, Feb. 12

• Alpine skiing (slalom) - 4AM (Peacock - Live)

• Snowboard halfpipe finals - 6AM (Peacock - Live)

• Figure skating (ice dance rhythm dance) - 8AM (Peacock - Live)

• Curling (medal round qualifiers) - 10AM (Peacock - Live)

Friday, Feb. 13

• Biathlon pursuit - 5AM (Peacock - Live)

• Figure skating (ice dance free dance - medals) - 8AM (Peacock - Live)

• Skeleton finals - 10AM (Peacock - Live)

• Hockey (quarterfinals) - 12PM (Peacock - Live)

Saturday, Feb. 14

• Alpine skiing (team combined) - 4AM (Peacock - Live)

• Cross-country skiing distance race - 6AM (Peacock - Live)

• Figure skating (women's short program) - 8AM (Peacock - Live)

• Speedskating medals - 11AM (Peacock - Live)

Sunday, Feb. 15

• Snowboard cross finals - 6AM (Peacock - Live)

• Figure skating (women's free skate - medals) - 8AM (Peacock - Live)

• Luge relay - 11AM (Peacock - Live)

• Hockey (semifinals) - 1PM (Peacock - Live)

Monday, Feb. 16

• Freestyle skiing dual moguls - 6AM (Peacock - Live)

• Cross-country skiing team sprint - 8AM (Peacock - Live)

• Curling (medal games) - 10AM (Peacock - Live)

Tuesday, Feb. 17

• Biathlon relay - 5AM (Peacock - Live)

• Speedskating team pursuit - 7AM (Peacock - Live)

• Hockey (placement games) - 12PM (Peacock - Live)

Wednesday, Feb. 18

• Alpine skiing (final technical events) - 4AM (Peacock - Live)

• Freestyle skiing big air - 6AM (Peacock - Live)

• Curling (gold medal match) - 9AM (Peacock - Live)

Thursday, Feb. 19

• Cross-country skiing marathon - 6AM (Peacock - Live)

• Snowboard parallel events - 8AM (Peacock - Live)

• Hockey (bronze medal games) - 1PM (Peacock - Live)

Friday, Feb. 20

• Biathlon mass start - 6AM (Peacock - Live)

• Speedskating final medals - 8AM (Peacock - Live)

• Figure skating gala - 1PM (Peacock - Live)

Saturday, Feb. 21

• Men's hockey gold medal game - 12PM (Peacock - Live)

• Women's hockey gold medal game - 3PM (Peacock - Live)

• Men's hockey gold medal game - 8PM (NBC - Primetime)

Sunday, Feb. 22 - closing ceremony

• Cross-country skiing final event - 6AM (Peacock - Live)

• closing ceremony - 2PM (Peacock - Live)

• closing ceremony - 8PM (NBC - Primetime)

While Peacock is the best way to watch the Winter Olympics, there are other options if you restrict yourself to the NBC broadcasts. As our guide to the best live TV streaming services to cut cable notes, both YouTube TV and Hulu + Live TV are excellent options, but you'll want to skip Fubo until and unless the service resolves its contract dispute with Comcast, as NBC channels remain unavailable for now.  

No-one knows what U.S. Senator Ron Wyden is referring to in his short letter to CIA director John Ratcliffe, but all agree that it's scary.

"I write to alert you to a classified letter I sent you earlier today in which I express deep concerns about CIA activities," is the entirety of the letter, but for pleasantries. — Read the rest

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Two comic books that cost a dime apiece in 1940 just sold for $13 million combined.

Heritage Auctions announced a private sale pairing the highest-graded Batman No. 1 (CGC 9.4) with the second highest-graded Superman No. 1 (CGC 8.5, Mile High pedigree). — Read the rest

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Bitcoin is edging up this morning, but after yesterday's rout has still lost all the gains of the second Trump administration. It's at $66,217, barely half of its october peak at $123,857. No, what's going on with Bitcoin?, asks CNN's, David Goldman. — Read the rest

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The Information reports that chip giant Nvidia is skipping a planned refresh of the 5000 series GPUs and delaying the next-gen 6000 series until 2027. With RAM in short supply and its own silicon essential to the AI boom, there simply isn't the capacity to get them on the shelves. — Read the rest

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With the very long-awated Baldur's Gate 3, a classic computer role-playing series not only took off again but went into orbit, scoring game of the year awards and a vast army of players and fans. So it's only natural the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy would head to the screen. — Read the rest

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What could be more romantic than those three little words: locally grown, seasonal? How to choose flowers that show you care - about both a Valentine and Australia's environment

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A dozen red roses may say "I love you", but many conventional bouquets carry an environmental price, having been imported by air, dipped in chemicals and wrapped in plastic.

Valentine's Day is second only to Mother's Day for sales of cut flowers, a popular choice for the millions of Australians planning to buy gifts for that special someone.

Uber must pay a passenger who accused one of its drivers of rape $8.5 million, a federal jury in Phoenix has ordered. The jury found Uber liable for its driver's misconduct, determining that the driver was an agent of the company. Part of Uber's defense was that it's not responsible for what its drivers do, as they are independent contractors. This decision is for but one of the 3,000 similar cases against Uber that have been consolidated in federal court. It was a bellwether trial meant to determine the possible outcomes of the other cases, as well as the possible settlements. As The Guardian explains, the results for this case could be used as a precedent for all the other pending lawsuits if the verdict is upheld by the appeals court.

The case chosen for the bellwether trial was filed by Jaylynn Dean, who said she was raped by her Uber driver in 2023. Dean said she was intoxicated when she ordered an Uber to take her back home from her boyfriend's apartment after celebrating passing a test for her flight attendant training. The driver allegedly stopped at a dark parking lot and raped her in the backseat.

Uber argued that the driver had no criminal history, had completed training and had excellent passenger feedback. The company's camp also presented its safety measures, including the development of a machine-learning tool that can assess the risk of potential rides. But Dean's lawyers showed evidence during the trial that she was tagged as high risk for a serious safety incident just before her ride arrived and that she wasn't notified about it. They also presented documents suggesting that Uber resisted introducing in-car cameras, because it would slow down growth. "Women know it's a dangerous world. We know about the risk of sexual assault," Dean's layer said in her closing arguments. "They made us believe that this was a place that was safe from that."

Despite the jury holding Uber liable for the incident, it determined that the company wasn't negligent when it comes to safety practices and its app's safety systems were not faulty. "This verdict affirms that Uber acted responsibly and has invested meaningfully in rider safety," an Uber spokesperson told The New York Times. He also said that Uber plans to appeal the jury's decision. In addition to the 3,000 lawsuits consolidated in federal court, Uber is also facing 500 similar cases in California state court. Last year, a California jury found that the company was not liable for a sexual assault that the plaintiff alleged her driver had committed back in 2016.