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What’s amazing to me is that *anyone* still visits the US as a tourist.
“Hey, I know, let’s go to Fascistland… maybe we’ll get deported to fuck-knows-where and it’ll be a real adventure!” https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/115696148277070484

Mastodon Migration (@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)
Attached: 1 image Simply remarkable fall off in tourism to the United States. "The US is down at least $30 billion in tourism for 2025. International boycotts and a loss in appeal to visit due to Donald Trump has resulted in millions of trips canceled." source: Anonymous on Bluesky

Study: 15 TikTok accounts posting AI videos of sexualized underage girls have nearly 300K followers and 2M likes; TikTok says 14 accounts don't violate rules (Clare Duffy/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/tech/tiktok-ai-videos-children-report

Videos of sexually suggestive, AI-generated children are racking up millions of likes on TikTok, study finds
AI-generated videos showing what appear to be underage girls in sexualized clothing or positions have together racked up millions of likes on TikTok, even though the platform’s rules prohibit such content, according to new research from an online safety non-profit.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Pharoah Sanders:
🎵 Love will Find A Way
#PharoahSanders
https://pharoahsanders.bandcamp.com/track/love-will-find-a-way-radio-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/1jKQvm9mE1O1LlMZibkx0U

Ed Zitron offers 15K words on whether Nvidia is like Enron (or several other famous fraudsters) or not. It's amusing and erudite and most people just won't have time to plow through it. Which is a pity, because 80% of the way through there’s a section called:
“Is NVIDIA Shipping Millions Of GPUs And Putting Them In Warehouses? Where Are The 6 Million Shipped Blackwell GPUs?”
His findings are absolutely shocking. Tl;dr: That headline just above.

NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It?
If you enjoy this free newsletter, why not subscribe to Where's Your Ed At Premium? It's $7 a month or $70 a year, and helps support me putting out these giant free newsletters! At the end of November, NVIDIA put out an internal memo (that was leaked to Barron's reporter

"Five ways Joe Rogan misleads listeners about climate change "
#Climate #ClimateChange #Podcasts

Five ways Joe Rogan misleads listeners about climate change 
Rogan exposes millions to climate denial. Let’s break down his tactics. 

Bernie Sanders backs 5% billionaire wealth tax to keep hospitals and emergency rooms open and to prevent millions from losing coverage
https://bsky.app/profile/cabillionairetax.bsky.social/post/3mdgk2do26a2g

California Billionaire Tax Act (@cabillionairetax.bsky.social)
Worth remembering: the top marginal tax rate in the 1950s was 90%. (Pearls Before Swine, Stephan Pastis)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Milena Casado:
🎵 Yet I Can See
#MilenaCasado
https://open.spotify.com/track/4KDzAJbRpxbwzAVRafa0y7

Stack Overflow recorded just 6,866 questions in Dec. 2025, about the same as in 2008; Stack Overflow now primarily makes money from enterprises and licensing (Claire Yubin Oh/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/stack-overflow-forum-dead-tha…

Stack Overflow’s forum is dead thanks to AI, but the company’s still kicking... thanks to AI
The platform is raking in millions of dollars in revenue, with AI an ironic new source of revenue.

Australia's ban on social media for users aged under 16 comes into effect; platforms that do not comply risk fines of up to AU$49.5M (Josh Taylor/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/09/australia-u…

Sei partners with Xiaomi to pre-install its crypto wallet and discovery app on all new Xiaomi phones sold outside mainland China and the US, starting in 2026 (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/12/0…

Sei Wallets to Come Pre-Installed on Millions of Xiaomi Phones
The app will enable peer-to-peer payments, access to decentralized apps, and Web3 exploration, as well as stablecoin payments in retail stores.