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Lawmakers demand audio and video of boat attack as follow-up strike raises concern on Capitol Hill (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/12/01/politics/congress-boat-strike-demand-answers-briefing
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p83#a251202p83

I came up with a comic strip but I won't be trying to achieve the level of a 5-year old drawing using their non-dominant handed with their eyes closed.
First frame: a journalist asks: "Does the presence of cat hair on the bed affect the children's DNA?"
Second frame: camera moves right. A scientist appears, wearing a white coat with pens in the pocket, eyeglasses, cat ears and tail. They answer: "No."
#DaddyJoke

Why I always go pick the food up myself. https://mastodon.social/@amirbkhan/115826283829344704

Amir Khan (@amirbkhan@mastodon.social)
Attached: 3 images Nothing like starting the year with a WHISTLEBLOWER confession from a BURNED-OUT, disgruntled - and rightfully ANGRY - Big Tech developer. Disgraceful Product strategy. Might be legal but screams immorality! This is Big Tech’s playbook: dehumanize workers, manipulate customers, and call it ‘disruption.’ I don’t care how “good” the service feels. As a consumer and a worker, it’s time to choose and redefine BETTER! Original Reddit post: https://www.reddit.c…

🌎 Detailed map reveals groundwater levels across the U.S.
#usa

Detailed map reveals groundwater levels across the U.S.
How much fresh water is in the United States? It's a tough question, since most of the water is underground, accessible at varying depths. In previous decades, it's been answered indirectly from data on rainfall and evaporation. Knowing how much groundwater is available at specific locations is critical to meeting the challenges of water scarcity and contamination.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jwz/115991430368350285
for some inscrutable reason, jwz gets a lot of people googling up answers for him like he doesn’t know what a web browser is…

🧁 Sugarcane hits the sweet spot for sustainable carbon
#carbon

Sugarcane hits the sweet spot for sustainable carbon
When anyone talks about the future of sustainable aviation fuel, one question dominates: how do we replace fossil carbon without compromising food security or biodiversity? Experience leads some researchers to believe the answer is sugarcane.

I love that so many Americans turned out to not just protest policies that hit personally,
but to rally in support of democracy writ large.
For many, it was their first time taking this kind of action,
and they were doing it in a way that expressed optimism and possibility rather than giving in to anger or despair

Commentary: America tried something new in 2025. It's not going well
Glow up or grow up? Times columnists Anita Chabria and Mark Z. Barabak look back and assess whether 2025 was good for America or an unmitigated disaster.

Ontology is shaping up to be the buzzword of 2026 because they are offering what #LLMs are lacking: formal grounding
LLMs offer creativity but need logical grounding. Ontologies provide this formal structure, anchoring meaning and unifying diverse data sources into a single semantic layer. They are essential for achieving precision and are one of the most reliable defense mechanisms against

Voice authentication???
I would not trust the basic competence of any org doing that. Facial recognition is bad enough.
Part of this is that I’m whatever the voice equivalent is to face-blindness. I don’t believe that such a thing as a “voice print” can exist. I can tell the difference between Neil Young and Bob Dylan, but any more similar and I’m lost.

Totally normal situation:
Ruh 🐱 is eating from the bowl. Mr Ek 🐱 comes through the window. He walks up to the bowl. She notices him and stops eating to sniff his snout. Ek uses the opportunity to start eating the food. Ruh looks at me surprised.
After a minute, Ruh shouts at him. He answers with a hiss, and continues eating.
#cat