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Was recently reminded of this short SF story I wrote a year ago today.
"Terminal Pacifism"
https://serd.es/2025/10/31/Terminal-Pacifism.html

The Association of Japanese Animations: Japan's anime industry revenue grew 15.8% YoY to a record $28.5B in 2025, with overseas revenue reaching ~$16B (Gavin Blair/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Japan’s Anime Industry Hits a Record High of $28 Billion in 2025
Anime saw growth in both foreign sales and the domestic market, driven in no small part by the huge global success of the latest 'Demon Slayer' movie

Seize & Desist - “The Leopard Song” (2025)
TIL there’s a modern punk version of Franchesca Ramsey’s song about never thinking the leopards would eat MY face
#music #covers #politics

What happens when Washington runs amok?
Ask a Native American
The late 19th and early 20th centuries were a time of rapid expansion for the United States.
Native Americans, and their claims to land and sovereignty, stood in the way.
In order to solve this “Indian problem” Washington sought to destroy tribes and tribalism.
It was an effort buoyed by moneyed interests who wanted to profit from tribal resources,
and by religiously minded folks who wanted …

Contributor: What happens when Washington runs amok? Ask a Native American
When forces unite with no care for the Constitution, the rule of law or anything you learned in civics class, you can end up with the entrenched overreach of the Plenary Power Doctrine.

Filing: Vancouver, WA-based Powerlattice, which makes a power delivery chiplet to reduce AI compute power needs by 50% , raised $86M, after raising $31M in 2025 (Kurt Schlosser/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/filing-chip-startup-pow…

Filing: Chip startup Powerlattice raises $86M to ease AI’s power crunch
The new funding nearly triples what the Vancouver, Wash.-based semiconductor startup had raised when it came out of stealth last year. Powerlattice says its tech can cut AI chip energy use by more than half.

Jazz Buskers Live at #HairyLarryLand on 2025-01-18
Celebrating the fact that "Ain't Misbehavin'" is now public domain 😊
https://archive.org/details/hl2025-01-18…

Describing a coworker as a "Hanlon's Law edge case"
#petty

A federal judge on Saturday dismissed Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal with prejudice, Reuters has reported.
The lawsuit accused the paper of defaming Trump in a July 2025 article that concluded Trump had signed a birthday book for Jeffrey Epstein, writing for the disgraced financier and sex offender a cryptic note accompanied by a drawing of a nude woman.

Starz reports Q3 revenue of $322.4M, vs. $319.5M est., a net loss of $34.8M, down from $52.6M in Q3 2025, and linear TV revenue of $95.8M, vs. $98.1M in Q3 2025 (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…

Starz Shrinks Loss, Grows Revenue in Third Quarter Amid Digital-Led Transformation
The now-solo premium cabler reiterated its 2026 outlook in key metrics as it charts a streaming TV future fueled by franchises like ‘Outlander’ and ‘Power.’

Packers' Micah Parsons eyeing Thanksgiving eve return vs. Rams, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/packers-micah-parsons-eyeing-thanksgiving-eve-return-rams/…

So here's #Greenpeace, responding to a data release by the Chinese government with...nothing but praise.
Zero mention of any issues related to #labor or #humanrights issues in

I just walked past a bus stop.
There is a guy strutting around in front of it in a sea captain's hat ⚓ with all his worldly belongings in a bag on the bench.
He has a lot to say (singing, in a nasal falsetto):
What do you mean 🎵
The brains of a pigeon 🎵
Highly intelligent 🎵
The brains of 🎵
Highly intelligent people 🎵
The brains of a 🎵 piiigeoon🎵
I have fallen into a gritty live-action remake of DON'T LET THE PIGEON DRIVE THE BUS

Spannende Recherche von ZEITonline zum Thema Bäume in der Stadt: Von den untersuchten Städten hat
Mannheim den geringsten Anteil Schatten durch Bäume (14%, vgl. Berlin: 32%) und dazu einen der höchsten Anteile an Versiegelung (61%). Wenig überraschend resultieren daraus die höchsten durchschnittlichen Oberflächentemperaturen im Sommer (37,8°C, vgl. Berlin 33,4°C). Fazit: Stadtgrün ist die beste Klimaanlage

@… I agree that it is horrible, but we’ve been in the streets over a lot of horrible things since January 2025.

#DDA Genauer hingeschaut! #Gleitaar brütet vermehrt in Deutschland. Hat sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten von Nordwestafrika über Iberien und Frankreich noch Norden ausgebreitet. 2025 gab es auch einen Brutversuch in Dänemark.

The Mega Meta settlement bundles the outstanding Cambridge Analytica lawsuits as well.

Please read this superb post by @deevybee.bsky.social
I agree with every word of it.
Science is endangered by the demand for speed and by AI slop.
https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-leap-into-future-or-off-cliff.html

Oh no I just found out that one of my favorite Buddhist teachers has just gone all AI grifter
Tara Brach, WYD this is not the dharma

https://lnkd.in/p/gcynwNDX

Drop by Drop Upon the Heart: On the Kennedy Center, the Kennedys’ Classics, and What a Nation Owes its Dead
On the afternoon of December 19, 2025, the board of the Kennedy Center voted to put a living president's name on a dead president's memorial....

Anthropic donates the Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation and says 70 platforms have integrated it, after donating MCP to the AAIF in 2025 (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-agent-skills-to-the-agentic-ai-foundation

Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation
We’re donating Agent Skills, the open standard that gives AI agents specialized knowledge and workflows, to the Agentic AI Foundation. More than 70 agent platforms, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and VS Code, have integrated Agent Skills since we published the standard in December 2025.

The Israeli poiltical mood as of December 2025… a handful facing the genocide, many more supporting escalation. https://woborders.blog/2025/12/27/israel-2025-video/

Late Night Listening: Wheelin’ And Dealin’ - Frank Wess/John Coltrane & Others - 1958
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l5OHNK4V1H4EFhSwvIESgZRw2_B0z782I&si=v8mpvkTiGR6Op_KR

Wheelin' And Dealin' (Remastered 2025)
Album • Frank Wess, John Coltrane, and Paul Quinichette

Jannik Kiesel wurde eben in den Vorstand der Deutschen Sportjugend gewählt. Er erzielte 84,1% der Stimmen. Jannik war bis 2025 Stellvertretender Vorsitzender der Deutschen Schachjugend und ist derzeit Vizepräsident beim Deutschen Schachbund. Nach Patrick Wiebe vor 26 Jahren ist Jannik der zweite DSJler im Vorstand der dsj. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 🎉
#schach

In Belgien endete im Dezember 2011 eine Phase von 541 Tagen ohne amtierende Regierung.
Spanien war zwischen Dezember 2015 und Oktober 2016 315 Tage ohne amtierende Regierung .
Deutschland ist seit dem 6. Mai 2025 ohne funktionierende Regierung. Das sind bis heute (23.09.26) 505 Tage.
Man sollte annehmen, dass allen klar ist, dass wir unsere Probleme (Klimakrise, Wohnraumknappheit, Armut, Gesundheitssystem) schnell lösen müssen.
Wir brauchen dringend eine Lösung, zur N…

Jährlich genehmigte #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 30.09.2026.
Genehmigt bedeutet noch nicht gebaut oder in Betrieb. Nicht alle Anlagen benötigen eine Genehmigung.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

When we start outsourcing thinking to AI and allow to lose accountability, bad things happen.
On July 14, 2025, Angela Lipps was babysitting in her Tennessee home when police arrested her for fraud. She was held in a local county jail until October, then moved to a Fargo jail until December 24, when a judge dismissed the charges. She was released into a frigid North Dakota winter with only the summer clothing she had been wearing when arrested in Tennessee.
It turned out she had …

AI Agnotology, Cognitive Surrender, and Policing Accountability | Stanford Law Review
Law enforcement agencies have increasingly employed artificial intelligence (AI) in their investigatory methods and technology. This usage, however, raises critical concerns regarding the accuracy and fairness of such practices. Additionally, this issue highlights the urgent need to identify accountability mechanisms and guardrails to protect against misuse and bias. In this Essay, Professor Jeffrey L.

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-10-29 12:15:51

SiriusXM reports Q3 revenue of $2.153B, down from $2.16B in Q3 2025, net income up 7% YoY to $317M, and net gain of 5K paid subscribers for a total of 33M (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/busine…

SiriusXM Q3 Revenue Edges Down, Subscriber Count Holds Steady at 33 Million
The satellite cable company saw its net income rise 7 percent to $317 million, or 94 cents a share for the third quarter.

@trochee@dair-community.social
2026-10-12 21:20:40

Content warning: Naked before god and the entire shiproom

I have been working on a Site Incident — and I'm the only one doing so in public
A PM gives me –2 min notice to represent the state of the incident to eng leadership of a 500-person team
So I had to say "yes I've been working to stop the bleeding but as far as I know it's still pretty bad"
And of course the EMs involved wanted to argue:
A: we agreed that B should fix it
B: actually we don't need a fix at all
C: I thought we agreed t…

@jtk@infosec.exchange
2026-10-26 21:44:23

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/117506866107269476
I've featured a few articles from @… in my Weekend Reads . They have produced significant and original long reads. A few recent examples:
* Taiwan's 6-year hunt for China's undercover chip labs
https://restofworld.org/2026/taiwan-china-chip-investigations/
* Myanmar's rare earth mines
https://restofworld.org/2026/myanmar-china-rare-earths-damage/
* Chinese whiz kids of Silicon Valley
https://restofworld.org/2026/chinese-ai-researchers-silicon-valley/
* World's hottest data centers
https://restofworld.org/2025/data-center-heat-map/
* U.S., India, and Starlink dealings
https://restofworld.org/2025/musk-starlink-trump-doge/

@filmfacts@social.tchncs.de
2026-10-04 11:13:08

Keine #Verpackungssteuer in #BadOeynhausen
In einer Umfrage waren von 2.007 Teilnehmenden 1.829 für die Einführung!
Leider beschloss die CDU mit den Stimmen der AfD genau entgegengesetzt. Schade, wieder eine Chance vertan und gegen das agiert, was die Menschen augensche…

Keine Verpackungssteuer in Bad Oeynhausen
Anfang 2025 haben wir in der Fraktion lange über die Einführung einer Verpackungssteuer in Bad Oeynhausen diskutiert und auch den Antrag bereits fertig – wir waren uns nur noch in einigen Formulierungen nicht einig. In der Situation ist uns die BBO „zuvor gekommen“ und hat ihrerseits im März 2025 einen …

Keine Verpacku…

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-10-29 05:35:50

Google's search revenue rose 12% YoY to $63.25B in Q3 2026, down from 14.5% in Q3 2025, with Google attributing the slowdown to "lower monetization" in AI Mode (Simon Sharwood/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026

Google struggling to make AI Mode searches pay
That’s a problem, cos it just spent $51 billion on infrastructure and still needs to rent compute from others to run its cloud

@teledyn@mstdn.ca
2026-10-31 07:46:09

A stolen moment from Halloween 2025
I'm told this evenings amazing #queenwest
costumes and dancers are all over IG for #EighthStreetOrchestra some of which I may repost if any trickle down my way 😊
Driving home, up Church, I think if we'd played THAT pre-Halloween party, we'd still be there. The Canadian Wilderness Who's Who down there tonight, and my heart goes out to musicians (such as our Matt) who must navigate gear in a vehicle through there on Saturday night!
https://www.tumblr.com/eighthstreetorchestra/831973964003852288/a-revisit-of-last-halloween-but-stay-tuned-for?source=share

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-10-22 18:41:20

Amazon issues refunds from a 2025 settlement, crediting "President Trump's Federal Trade Commission," the first time an FTC refund has been tied to a president (Alfred Ng/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/21/amazon-trump-midterms…

@schachjugend@schach.social
2026-10-20 20:47:30

Alexander ist elf Jahre alt, leidenschaftlicher Schachspieler und erfolgreicher Nachwuchsspieler: 2025 wurde er Vierter bei der DEM U10, 2026 erreichte er Platz 6 bei der DEM U12.
Doch jetzt steht er vor der schwersten Partie seines Lebens: Aufgrund einer Erkrankung des blutbildenden Systems benötigt er dringend eine Stammzellspende.
Alle gesunden Menschen zwischen 17 und 55 Jahren können sich bei der DKMS registrieren.
Jetzt registrieren:

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-10-23 12:40:44

Pathos AI, which uses AI to develop oncology drugs, raised a $237M Series E at a $3B post-money valuation, up from a $1.6B valuation in May 2025 (Katherine Davis/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/biotech-deals/2026/10/23/pathos-ai-raises-237m-3b-valuation…

Pathos AI says it raised $237M at $3B valuation
The round values Pathos AI at $3B.

@holger_moller@bildung.social
2026-10-05 10:03:16

Content warning: Mentale Erkrankung, Suizid

"Seit Oktober 2023 durchlebt Israel im Bereich psychische Gesundheit eine Krise von bislang unbekanntem Ausmaß. Einem Bericht des israelischen Staatsrevisors vom Februar 2025 zufolge leiden 39 Prozent der Israelis in mittlerem oder schwerem Ausmaß an posttraumatischen Symptomen, Depressionen, Ängsten oder einer Kombination dieser Beschwerden."
#Trauma

Israel: Psychische Gesundheit in der Krise
Mehr als ein Drittel aller Israelis zeigt Symptome psychischer Erkrankungen. Drei Jahre nach den Angriffen vom 7. Oktober ist das Gesundheitssystem noch immer mit den Folgen des Terrorangriffs überfordert.

@david@boles.xyz
2026-10-16 13:13:26

They Could Not Indict the Sandwich
Sean Dunn walked up to a line of federal agents at the corner of 14th and U Streets Northwest on the night of August 10, 2025....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/10/16/they-could-not-indict-the-sandwich/

@gfp@mastodon.trueten.de
2026-09-11 10:00:07

📰 „Einen Krieg in Europa werden wir nicht überleben“
#News

„Einen Krieg in Europa werden wir nicht überleben“
Über die aktuelle Entwicklung der Anti-Kriegs-Bewegung in Europa und die Rolle der Gewerkschaften in ihr sprach german-foreign-policy.com mit Ulrike Eifler. Eifler, Gewerkschaftssekretärin in Würzburg, setzt sich bereits seit Jahren für eine entschiedene Friedenspolitik der Gewerkschaften ein. Wie sie urteilt, haben die beiden Anti-Kriegs-Konferenzen in Paris (Oktober 2025) und London (Juni 2026) stark dazu beigetragen, „eine europaweite Bewegung gegen den Krieg aufzubauen“. Gleichzeiti…

@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social
2026-10-22 06:23:04

Die Arbeiterklasse ist nicht rechts: Zwei Drittel bis drei Viertel der Arbeiter haben 2025 nicht AfD gewählt. Trotzdem hält sich die Erzählung von der Arbeiterklasse, die nach rechts übergelaufen sei. Tarik Abou-Chadi und Linus Westheuser zerlegen sie: Wer als Arbeiter AfD wählt, wählte früher meist CDU oder gar nicht. @… #Arbeiterklasse #AfD #SPD https://www.republik.ch/2026/10/19/die-arbeiterklasse-ist-nicht-rechts

@david@boles.xyz
2026-10-08 11:46:19

What the Modem Was Saying
AOL ended its dial-up internet service on September 30, 2025. The company posted a short notice saying it routinely evaluates its products and had decided to discontinue dial-up, and that…...
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/10/08/what-the-modem-was-sa…

@bibbleco@infosec.exchange
2026-09-28 12:34:51

“I don’t think, from talking to pollsters and political scientists, that the ‘Nigel Farage is right, don’t vote for Nigel Farage’ strategy is going to work.”
- Enver Solomon on Labour's proposed new laws for people granted refugee status in the UK, November 2025 (a very old browser tab)
#refugees #ukMigrants #Reform #xenophobia

@DamonHD@mastodon.social
2026-10-19 16:56:01

16WW Heat Pump Sounds (2025) - How loud is it standing next to the fan? #heatpump #quiet - #EOU

@rasos@fairmove.net
2026-10-04 17:29:46

Will the #AI #investment #bubble burst? I say the 1 Trillion market deflates in 2027.
#Qwen 3.8 class models are al…

@ubuntourist@mastodon.social
2026-10-24 20:39:49

Proton now tracks Flock cameras
NOTE: The data is a snapshot from December 2025. Devices installed or removed since then won't be reflected.
#Proton #ProtonMail #Flock #cameras #surveillance #resist #news #resistance #privacy #PrivacyProtection