2025-09-13 01:40:38
The War on Christmas continues https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/12/florida-air-force-base-christmas-decorations
AI video generation startup Higgsfield raised a $50M Series A led by GFT Ventures (Amit Chowdhry/Pulse 2.0)
https://pulse2.com/higgsfield-50-million-series-a-raised-to-transform-ai-video-creation/
What @… said.
My only complaint is that •we• have to live in that world too. https://dice.camp/@artemis/115192246195144243
Stumbled over this piece, that I wrote earlier this year* after last year's #AcWriMo, and reposting here in case it gives someone some motivation...
*Though it feels a lot longer ago. Man this year has gone fast...
#FediWriMo #AcWriMo25
https://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/01/25/just-one-thing/
Biggest corruption scandal of Zelensky’s presidency is in his own ranks: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/13/biggest-corruption-scandal-of-zelenskys.html
Newsmax refiles lawsuit v Fox News in Wisconsin - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/09/12/newsmax-refiles-lawsuit-v-fox-news-in-wisconsin/
The Horrors™ persist, but so do cats! :3
Trump shelves Chicago crackdown plans for now as advisers warn of legal headaches (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/12/politics/chicago-memphis-trump-national-guard
http://www.memeorandum.com/250912/p144#a250912p144
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It's #LetterboxdFriday, so that means it's time for #LastFourWatched. Strange mix. Watching Wish Upon a Star right now with wifey 😂 Finally saw American Werewolf in London (thanks, @…
Generating code via an LLM prompt at breakneck speed can, predictably, lead to less-than-stellar work.
Now, in an ironic twist, it seems that, having dispensed with more skilled coders for the cheap effectiveness of a chatbot-aided code monkey,
companies are having to hire additional contractors to fix the AI’s screw-ups.
wife: "Are you eating guacamole directly from the container?"
8yo: "Yes!"
wife: "You know, I caught daddy eating the [beet] salad directly from the container."
me [yelling from the other room]: "I LEARNED IT FROM THE KIDS"
@… I… don’t know what I’m looking at but I want to make a web site like this
bei mir auf arbeit wird jetzt anonym geschrottwichtelt
was würde stromberg jetzt tun
from my link log —
A Lisp interpreter implemented in Conway’s Game of Life.
https://woodrush.github.io/blog/posts/2022-01-12-lisp-in-life.html
saved 2025-12-12
Die #Kernfusionskollektoranlage hat heute 0,139 kWh Energie eingefangen.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: 58 Grad
Diese #Balkonsolaranlage wurde durch das Berliner SolarPLUS-Programm gefördert.
Einspeiseverlust: 4.85 %
Musste spicken...
#ciddle 2025-11-11 (66)
1. ❌ ⬆️ 69km
2. ✅
https://ciddle.winklerweb.net
"From concrete walls to living edges, here’s how riverside habitats are being restored along the Thames"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment
@axbom@axbom.meColdFusion
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
I think good leaders ask questions and listen. Others just tell you how things work.
"Another priority is the issue of free speech, which they regard as very important. The way to understand this, I think, is that it's mostly a question about moderation on social media and that they don't like that."
I think you are much too kind here, @… .
«As Disney enters the picture, I imagine the platform will become even more anodyne. Persistent people will slip through and generate videos of Goofy and Iron Man sucking and fucking, sure, but the vast majority of what’s coming will be safe corporate gruel that resembles a Marvel movie.»
I thought any Marvel movie is nothing more than safe corporate gruel. 😅
Disney Invests $1 Billion in the AI Slopification of Its Brand
https://www.404media.co/disney-invests-1-billion-in-the-ai-slopification-of-its-brand/
"Specialist" and "generalist" are surprisingly slippery categories— biology abhors a binary— but quantifying the shared evolutionary history of plants eaten by insects introduced to North America let these authors predict their plant-damaging impacts https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70083
<…Talking #water in Hsinchu: the biggest reservoir and cleanest stream here in the mid-north of #Taiwan is connected with the Science Park. It serves the #semiconductor industry. A bit is for agricu…
Barton Hall like you've never seen it -- since they haven't finished the new field hockey field they rolled out turf inside Barton! They had a game today but I missed it, not least because i didn't pack the right lens, but given that the bus broke down on the way home I should have been there!
https://en.wikiped…
in der #verschlagwortung diese woche: "Appropriated memory: the creation of a German post-memorial literature" (https://katalogplus.uni-muenster.de/pe
The trouble with Louis Armstrong's first movie is, well, there are two troubles, one is that it was widely considered dull, but beyond that while widely praised for the music, it is apparently missing.
I'm thinking, if anyone can find it, Fediverse can.
It did play Canada, including #Toronto in January 1931 and
Add highlighting to your quarto presentation using the RoughNotation library: #rstats
Grading all 32 first-round picks from 2025 NFL Draft: Which high-profile rookies have thrived? Flopped? https://www.nfl.com/news/grading-all-32-first-round-picks-from-2025-nfl-draft-which-high-profile-rookies-have-thrive…
Every book I checked (>6) that I used in computer networking classes I taught going back 25 years, except for one was found in this list.
https://ecoevo.social/@hydropsyche/115322277085213039
$25 Thrift Shop Purchase May be ‘Priceless’ Glasswork Belonging to Scottish King Robert the Bruce https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/25-thrift-shop-purchase-revealed-to-be-priceless-glasswork-belonging-to-king-robert-the-b…
over 2 years late to the raining in manila party :-) #Typical https://youtu.be/HtheP382nHg
#3GuteDingeDesTages
🙂 Sonntagspancakefrühstück am Sonnabend
🙂 aufgeräumt
🙂 Spaghetti alla Limone als Nachtessen
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheEarlyMusicShow
- The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at Acland Burghley School
Hannah French visits Acland Burghley School in north London to find out about its relationship with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, who are now resident there.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002kdgy
Im Januar geht es weiter mit unserer Web-Seminar-Reihe, zu der alle Organisationen der Sozialen und Solidarischen Ökonomie herzlich eingeladen sind:
Fit für Solawi
Infos zu den Terminen und Anmeldung
👉 https://www.solidarische-landwirtschaft.or
Pérou: la destitution de la présidente Boluarte «n'était qu'une étape» selon les protestataires
https://www.rfi.fr/fr/amériques/20251011-pérou-la-destitution-de-la-…
RE: https://mas.to/@seeingwithsound/115510086105712226
Brain-wide single-neuron bases of working memory for sounds in humans
Seit Vorwerk die #Neato Server abgeschaltet hat fährt unser Robbie hier jeden Morgen einfach planlos durch die Gegend so lange bis seine Batterie alle ist 🤷 Wenigstens saugt er dabei.
That is a little bit of environmental management and a whole lot of consulting
From: @…
https://mastodon.au/@politicalgadgets/1153592…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Yalla Miku:
🎵 Scarlett Chien سكارليت كلب
#YallaMiku
https://yallamiku.bandcamp.com/track/scarlett-chien
https://open.spotify.com/track/5SkmzJcxR50tDd83cM9App
Was wir 2025 die KI-Assistenten fragten
https://stohl.de/wordpress/?p=192499
#icfpsplash25 ... And now Satnam Singh @… with the first ICFP 2025 keynote.
I don't see it. These guys differ on so many starting points, together they are a force to be reckoned with ->
First Date Gone Wrong - Charlie Berens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0_hstUoB-8
"Those who objected could be divided into two categories: people who found the simpler and more flexible game to be bland; and people who didn’t like the game getting “woke.” This is a slippery term, but it often boils down to things not being quite as racist or sexist as they used to be."
https://www.…
well he's a pedophile, not a grammarphile
Copenhagen-based Teton.ai, which offers an AI companion to help nurses monitor patients and improve workflows, raised a $20M Series A led by Plural (Anthony Vecchione/Mobi Health News)
https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/tetonai-raises-20m-us-launch
SCIENCE WARRIORS: From Antarctica — STRAIGHT INTO BATTLE! Polar defenders showed their double front: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/13/science-warriors-from-antarctica-straight.html
Ken Paxton's newest mistress a married "Christian influencer" - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/09/12/ken-paxtons-newest-mistress-a-married-christian-influencer/
WYSIWYS
Freed From U.S. Detention, South Korean Workers Return Home to Tearful Cheers (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/world/asia/korean-workers-georgia-arrest.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250912/p146#a250912p146
The 13yo just told me to turn down my music. Kids these days!
(it was Metallica - For Whom The Bell Tolls)
Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.10.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1153689 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
@axbom@axbom.meHere's a photo that's a bit different from my usual style.
I took it with the tele lens on last weekend's hike. The inversion caused such a great sea of clouds with just some sole islands.
This kind of weather really offers such unique motives. And again: it was worth carrying the zoom lens up there :-D
Enjoy!
#photography
No too late to back this fascinating book, but only a few hours left! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bzotto/go-computer-now-the-story-of-sphere
Beijing-based AIsphere, the startup behind the AI video generator PixVerse, raised a $60M Series B led by Alibaba, and says PixVerse has 100M users globally (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/arti
Last Sunday I also went to the Ellis Hollow Fair which had a huge crowd
#photo #photography #ellishollow
from my link log —
How to build a personal webpage from scratch.
https://rutar.org/writing/how-to-build-a-personal-webpage-from-scratch/
saved 2022-09-29
R doesnt need to be a hard and scientific tool 📈. You can use it to make art 🎨: #rstats
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https://www.pastpuzzle.de
It’s Never Too Soon For the Right to Blame Trans People – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/charlie-kirk-shooter-trans-ideology-false/
Mi mi mi mi mi mi mi
Mi mi mi only mi mi
Mi mi mi mi mi mi mi
Mi mi mi sexy mi :ablobcatrainbow:
🧊 From ANTARCTICA to DONBAS: a Ukrainian POLAR explorer's journey #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/13/from-antarctica-to-donbas-a.html
Left #Bluesky or thinking about it? Into #genealogy or #familyhistory but don't know where to start? Follow @…
The OpenAI deal gives Disney a fair amount of oversight and control over how its IP is used, including a joint steering committee to monitor user creations (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/11/openai-disney-sora
FBI Director Patel was at Rao's the night of posts about a person in custody in Kirk's shooting (Ryan J. Reilly/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/charlie-kirk-shooter-manhunt-live-updates-rcna230762/rcrd88305?canonicalCard=true
http://www.memeorandum.com/250912/p145#a250912p145
@axbom@axbom.meOh wow the thing hat everybody knew the whole time has been substantiated and it will have no consequences whatsoever
Federal agencies threaten, discipline employees for criticizing or mocking Charlie Kirk - Government Executive
https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/09/federal-agencies-threaten-discipline-employees-criticizing-or-mocking-charlie-kirk/408091/
"Europe's plan to conquer Russia" – new nonsense on Russian TV #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/12/ampquoteuropes-plan-to-conquer-russiaampquot.html
I love being radical 🤙
Little kids are gross (poop and snot and vomit and food smeared everywhere..), but then for a brief period they become not-gross... then they become teenagers and they become gross again ("hey dad, look at how much pus came out of this pimple I just popped!") 😩
Quarto Manuscript makes me almost want to write scientific articles again. This could potentially change the process quite a lot. But maybe there is also a good use for it in internal project reports. https://quarto.org/docs/manuscripts/
#3GuteDingeDesTages
🙂 Zopf zum Frühstück
🙂 weiter geräumt
🙂 Pasta Alfredo
Pete Hegseth tells Pentagon staff to hunt for negative Charlie Kirk posts by service members (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/hegseth-pentagon-staff-negative-charlie-kirk-posts-service-members-rcna230915
http://www.memeorandum.com/250912/p143#a250912p143
GPT-5.2 models match GPT-5 and 5.1 with a 400K context window and 128K max output tokens, but have a newer knowledge cutoff of Aug. 31, 2025 vs. Sept. 30, 2024 (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Newsletter)
https://simonw.substack.com/p/gpt-52-and-useful-patterns-for-…
(€) "Wie profitiert #Wiesmoor von einem eigenen #Windpark?
Die Stadt Wiesmoor will mit einem eigenen Windpark im Ortsteil #Hinrichsfehn die Energiewende mitgestalten – und neue Einnahm…
Speaking mildly ill of the dead is now punishable by deportation
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/12/2343050/-Speaking-mildly-ill-of-the-dead-is-now-punishable-by-deportation
Watch live: Charlie Kirk's widow speaks out after assassination (The Hill)
https://thehill.com/video-clips/5501788-watch-live-erika-kirk-charlie-kirk-killing/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250912/p142#a250912p142
#Kupferdiebstähle führen im Norden Deutschlands vermehrt zu Ausfällen öffentlicher #Ladesäulen.
Besonders in #Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein müssen zahlreiche
Fed Governor Lisa Cook claimed 2nd residence as 'vacation home,' undercutting Trump fraud claims | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/fed-governor-lisa-cook-claimed-2nd-residence-as-vacation-home-undercutting-trump-fraud-claims
December 10, 2025 -- Today is Human Rights Day, celebrated internationally in honor ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-10-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p32#a251211p32
#vereinfachteSprache
Bäume können beim Klimaschutz helfen, denn sie speichern Kohlendioxid. 🌲 Wälder schützen auch den Boden und fördern die Artenvielfalt. Aber Bäume wachsen langsam. Warum haben wir keine Zeit zu verlieren? Im Artikel ist erklärt, wie Treibhausgase wirken und wie wichtig Aufforstung ist.
Maybe it's just me, but if my husband died two days ago the last thing on my mind would be 'vowing to continue the movement he founded'
‘The movement my husband built will not die’: Charlie Kirk’s widow vows to continue slain activist’s work | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/charlie-kirk-widow-erika-first-address-b2825772.html
Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job (Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/10/10/barron-trump-tipped-top-tiktok-job/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251011/p44#a251011p44
School district bans trans athletes in defiance of state policy - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/school-district-bans-trans-athletes-in-defiance-of-state-policy/
Market sell-off: Trump post lops off $2 trillion from stocks in a single day (John Melloy/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/11/trump-post-costs-stocks-2-trillion-in-single-day.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251011/p43#a251011p43
Why Trump is Doomed to Lose the Affordability Fight (Dan Pfeiffer/The Message Box)
https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/why-trump-is-doomed-to-lose-the-affordability
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p31#a251211p31
Trump authorizes troop pay amid government shutdown (Alexandra Marquez/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-authorizes-military-pay-government-shutdown-rcna237049
http://www.memeorandum.com/251011/p55#a251011p55