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As Vance Takes on a Forceful New Role, His Positions Are Shifting (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/us/politics/jd-vance-shifting-positions.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251025/p5#a251025p5

Frohe Weihnachten ;-)
https://sh.itjust.works/post/52138124

TIL in 2006 a Putin loyalist wrote a "fictional" novel accurately predicting Russia's future assault on Ukraine. In the novel, this escalates to WWIII followed by the surrender of the U.S. and Europe - sh.itjust.works
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/52137801 [https://sh.itjust.works/post/52137801] > Originally Published in the Atlantic (March 2022) Article without paywall: > https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fideas%2Farchive%2F2022%2F03%2Fputin-kremlin-foreign-policy-strategy%2F629388%2F [https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fideas%2Farchive%2F2022%2F03%2Fputin-kremlin-foreign-policy-strategy%2F629388%2F] > > Put…

You all deserve a break; so for my last #freesoftwareadvent I suggest the game
'Frozen bubble':
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_Bubble

Frozen Bubble - Wikipedia

Sticking with Sequoia for the foreseeable future.
#IWeep6Colors @… https://ma…

A Minnesota church told kids to hug and forgive their abuser. Then he found more victims.
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/a-minnesota-church-told-kids-to-hug

Between February 12th and 15th, the U.S. sent 299 people—from countries such as Afghanistan, Cameroon, Somalia, and Iran—to Panama. On February 20th and 25th, the U.S. sent an additional 200 people, including 81 children, to Costa Rica. Soon afterward came third-country-deportation flights to Uzbekistan and El Salvador, where more than 250 non-Salvadoran immigrants were detained in the brutal Terrorism Confinement Center.

Disappeared to a Foreign Prison
The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries such as South Sudan, Ghana, and Eswatini, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled. Sarah Stillman reports.

Fahrspur verwechselt - Betrunkener rammt Auto mit Oma und Enkelkindern #News #Nachrichten

It is oft repeated that you can't solve social problems with technical solutions.
However, there's a flip side to this: you can actually create social problems via technical choices.
#FreeSoftware

#FreeSoftwareAdvent finale 2025! Without these free and open source projects our pipeline couldn't exist at all:
Python, the VFX world's favourite programming language. And of course... Linux itself 🥳
Happy Holidays!

And here's my wrap up of my list of #freesoftwareadvent entries.
https://www.treblig.org/daveG/advent2025.html
(Although I did wonder about ending on the…