2025-12-15 17:02:48
The Plan Is to Make the Internet Worse. Forever.
https://novaramedia.com/2025/12/07/the-plan-is-to-make-the-internet-worse-and-big-tech-rich/
An interesting interview with Cory Doctorow.
The Plan Is to Make the Internet Worse. Forever.
https://novaramedia.com/2025/12/07/the-plan-is-to-make-the-internet-worse-and-big-tech-rich/
An interesting interview with Cory Doctorow.
Yesterday we attended this very cool show. Nice stories and fascinating photos and videos. A great start into the weekend.
"Europas Hoher Norden | Unterwegs mit unserer eigens konzipierten „Rollenden Almhütte“. Eine Erkundung der interessantesten Gebiete rund um den europäischen Polarkreis. Unser neuer Vortrag, live präsentiert!"
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Bill Would Ban AI-Driven "Dynamic" Grocery Pricing - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/12/bill-would-ban-ai-driven-dynamic-grocery-pricing/
This is pretty cool: Mayhem - Despair (Visualizer). Taken from the new album "Liturgy of Death", out February 6 th , 2026.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp2ApneFH6k&list=RDJp2ApneFH6k
JetBlue plane near Venezuela avoids 'midair collision' with US Air Force aircraft (Associated Press)
https://cnn.com/2025/12/14/politics/jetblue-venezuela-us-air-force
http://www.memeorandum.com/251214/p52#a251214p52
#Steady
Wer profitiert eigentlich von #Urheberrechtsstreitigkeiten zwischen KI-Firmen und #Medienriesen? Wenn große Namen aufeinandertreffen, hat man sich anschließend erst…
#Palantir-Aufständle bei den #GrueneBW abgeräumt. Strategisch wahrscheinlich klug, denn im Wahlkampf taugt #Datenschutz allenfalls als Feindbild. Haltung gibt's dann wieder ab 2030 (vielleich…
Goodbye Super Productivity – #superproductivity
Abgefahrene Temperaturmanipulationen im urbanen Raum
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000300154/wie-waermepumpen-und-tiefensonden-wohnungen-am-wiener-guertel-versorgen
Just thought this was kinda neat discussion on the work the put into the slang in Cyberpunk 2077
https://youtube.com/shorts/o8uwh63MA00?si=thPbIZ1sOzTXq4o5
Porträt - Mechthild von Lutzau (86), Engagement für #Frauen
https://www.hessenschau.de/kultur/kasseler-…
A concentração estš tão baixa que hoje estou fazendo pomodoros de apenas 15 minutos. E corrigir provas é tão chato. 😞
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Edent/115722513059279830
I prefer the harder ones
Clues by Sam - Dec 15th 2025
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@carlos@perceptiveconstructs.comat_migrations: Austrian internal migrations (2002-2022)
A network of migrations between municipalities in Austria, from 2002 to 2022. A weighted directed link from source to target indicates a migration flow from these two municipalities. Edges are annotated with migration volume (number of people), nationality, sex, and year.
This network has 2115 nodes and 2908569 edges.
Tags: Social, Economic, Travel, Weighted, Politlcal, Timestamps, Metadata
The carbon removal market is heating up fast.
This week alone saw major companies signing CDR purchase agreements, new breakthroughs in biogenic CO2 capture and storage, and over 1,000 companies tapping into market intelligence platforms.
Fresh research on biochar and weathering is out, plus a new legal framework report showing how serious the industry has become about scaling durable carbon removal.
5 unsung Cowboys who deserve Valentine's Day cards after 2025 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/02/14/5-unsung-cowboys-deserve-valentines-day-cards-2025/88663463007/
Voor de Palestijnen is er ondanks het zogenaamde staakt-het-vuren niets veranderd. Hun situatie is uitzichtloos en Israël gaat gewoon door met aanvallen met honderden doden binnen en buiten de ‘gele zone’ en met tegenhouden van voedsel, tenten, medische artikelen etc.
Wat ik me afvraag is waarom die al die ‘ja maar Hamas begon’ Nederlanders die 2 jaar lang vrijwel dagelijks meldden dat alles goed zou komen als Hamas de gijzelaars maar vrij zouden laten, nu zo stil zijn.
Top 10 NFL games of the 2025 season: Which NFC thriller ranked No. 1? https://www.nfl.com/news/top-10-nfl-games-of-the-2025-season-which-nfc-thriller-ranked-no-1
Person of interest in Brown University shooting served in Army, worked at Arlington National Cemetery (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/12/14/us/benjamin-erickson-brown-university-shooting?Date=20251215&Profile=CNN
http://www.memeorandum.com/251214/p50#a251214p50
Rule of Creative Research:
(1) Never draw what you can copy.
(2) Never copy what you can trace.
(3) Never trace what you can cut out and paste down.
ohje es ist auch St. Pauli Spiel - S-Bahn Hölle
135gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Short-Term Research Fellowships at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
https://ift.tt/U8Xf3oh
Mining the Logs: Sources on Blue Humor URL …
via Input 4 RELCFP https://
Late to the party but KPop Demon Hunters is pretty freaking rad, did not expect to enjoy it so much. I might have to watch again.
And damn sure I'm going to have that soundtrack on 🫡
Series D, Episode 02 - Power
VILA: Not too close. The gap is all connected with the thickness of the door. So what's the difference between Seskas and Hommiks?
PELLA: How do you know how thick it is?
VILA: By the stress pattern.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/402/132 B7B4
VC fund a16z crypto says it is expanding to Asia and opening an office in Seoul, calling South Korea the world's second-largest crypto market (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/12/10/a16z-cryp…
I may have “accidentally” bought a Bambino Plus #espresso machine and I’m finding all the skills I’ve developed with manual lever presses do not transfer.
First shot tasted fine but the puck was wet and now I’m in a rabbit hole I don’t need to be in.
A US appeals court upholds a contempt ruling in Epic v. Apple but says Apple can charge commissions on external links, with the rate to be set by a lower court (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-11/appl…
Instead of going to sleep, I just spent 2 hours writing up, for my own future reference, a random idea I had about how Pascal’s Wager is actually a negotiation.
Ironically, part of the writeup was about when it’s acceptable to prioritize short-term over long-term interests; it didn’t even occur to me I was doing exactly that by staying up late.
How Trinity Rodman’s Offer Could Be a Turning Point for NWSL Growth
#nwsl
AI / LLM sycophancy as a liability:
'A 2025 study by Fanous et al. tested GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet, and Gemini 1.5 Pro across math and medical domains. The results: these systems changed their answers nearly 60% of the time when challenged by users'
https://
Trotz Adventswochenende: ab heute Nachmittag bis Sonntagmittag findet in Ludwigsburg der grüne Landesparteitag #ldk25 statt - geht um unseren MP-Kandidaten für die Wahl, Cem Özdemir, um unser Wahlprogramm und um Gremienwahlen.
Give me your suggestions for "assassinated revolutionaries" missing from this #Wikipedia category.
#crowdsourcing
Super interesting pieceon the race between China and the US and damning on European weakness, but one can't help wondering whither the rest of the world?
I will certainly be reading the book next
https://danwang.co/2025-letter/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
"Die geopolitische Lage erzeugt eine Absetzbewegung von US-amerikanischen Anbietern. Das sind politische Entscheidungen, die sich erst nach und nach in der IT-Infrastuktur niederschlagen. Das geht nicht auf einen Schlag, aber wenn die Lawine erst mal rollt, dann ist sie nicht mehr aufzuhalten." @… in: Linux auf dem Desktop
Wird es wirklich dazu kommen? …
Police raid Unification Church leader's residence, multiple sites (The Korea Herald)
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10636347
http://www.memeorandum.com/251214/p49#a251214p49
#Steady-#Klimacrew
Wie sehr kann man sich beim Programmieren noch auf KI verlassen?
Im Wettlauf zwischen Hype und Realität schwingt das Pendel. Die aktuelle Stimmung anno 2025 unter Entwickler*innen bei der Nutzung von KI-
Police expose criminal network that trafficked orphans abroad, exploited draft exemptions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/10/police-expose-criminal-network-that.html
Now the US has chosen an admirer of Putin as president, who subsequently halted aid to Ukraine, Europe stepped up, filling most of the gap.
https://www.kielinstitut.de/publications/news/ukraine-support-after-4-years-of-war-europe-steps-up/…
Teamchef gerät in Rage - Wolff teilt heftig aus: „Die sind einfach krank!“ #News #Nachrichten <…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/115699571708983759
😐💀 This orange clown 😐💀
There's a word for seizing tankers in high seas. Piralty? Pirany? Pira something... It's what those guys off the coast of Somalia did for many years, you know, the pirates?
Oh, yes, piracy. That's it. Piracy.
The most obvious tell of this sort of incident is the phone call.
The only IT or #infosec folks who will proactively call you about an attempt at hijacking an account are those of your employer or *maybe* your access provider.
Google, Microsoft,Apple, etc. are not calling everyone with suspicious activity on their accounts. There are not enough support agents on the planet to do that…
My colleague John F. Hughes (of graphics book fame) gave his last class on Monday. A chunk of faculty and staff invaded his class and sang a sea shanty to honor his sailing side, composed primarily by colleague James Tompkin. Check it out! Sing along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qx4QqZRE74
I think I took a picture of this Cosmos flower in the prairie garden at the bus stop in front of the Vet Research Tower
#photo #photography #flowers
i think we learned the wrong lessons from left-pad. maybe it would create a better world if any npm user could pull a "stop cord" for the entire silicon valley corporate environment
Yo camera manufacturers: put little ePaper displays on your batteries that show you which camera (make & model) it was last in, plus maybe charge level and battery health. It can’t be that hard or expensive to do this.
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I see from your bio that you operate telescopes at Lick. What telescopes do you operate?
I got a summer of some experience operating the 60 inch at Catalina observatory in Az.
@carlos@perceptiveconstructs.comBest Super Bowl-era team for every NFL franchise: 2025 Seahawks or the Legion of Boom?
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/best-nfl-team-every-franchise-super-bowl-era/
An inside look at a Myanmar online scam center that opened in 2024 with 3,500 workers from ~30 countries and closed in November 2025 after rebels captured it (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/world/a
The Washington Post's new Your Personal Podcast, which offers AI-generated customizable podcasts, was developed under a multiyear agreement with ElevenLabs (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/the-washington-post-debu…
wikiconflict: Wikipedia edit wars (2009)
A network representing editorial interactions among editors of the English Wikipedia. Nodes are editors, and an edge denotes an edit conflict between the two editors. Edge are timestamped and signed. A positive sign indicates the users have agreement on the edit, and the negative sign indicates a disagreement (a reversion) on the edit.
This network has 118100 nodes and 2917785 edges.
Tags: Social, Conflict, Signed, Timestamps
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Exactly where it belongs. https://noc.social/@todayilearned/115699073964279612
@carlos@perceptiveconstructs.comThe UN just honored five incredible climate leaders who are actually solving our biggest environmental challenges.
From Pacific Island students fighting for climate justice in court, to AI tools predicting Amazon deforestation, to sustainable cooling tech in India—these 2025 Champions of the Earth are proving innovation and determination can drive real change.
Eine Analyse von Carbonbrief zeigt, dass #China seine #CO2 Emissionen seit 21 Monaten auf einem stabilen oder leicht sinkenden Niveau hält.
2025 sanken die #Emissionen insgesamt um 0,3 Prozent. Rückg…
Yield Sec: the top 10 pirate sports streaming sites in the UK, largely funded by ads from unlicensed gambling operators, had 1.6B views in H1 2025, up 33% YoY (Olivia Solon/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
The European Commission says Apple and Google's Android-iPhone data transfer tool, which will be available globally, is an example of the benefits of the DMA (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/09/iphone-android-switching-ios-26/
Putin does not want peace; he likes it when people ask him for it #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/07/putin-does-not-want-peace.html
@carlos@perceptiveconstructs.comThe Sleeper Issue That Could Destroy the Economy (Catherine Rampell/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-sleeper-issue-that-could-destroy-the-economy-federal-reserve-trump-powell
http://www.memeorandum.com/251212/p1#a251212p1
EssilorLuxottica says it sold over 7M Meta AI glasses in 2025, up from the 2M that the company sold in 2023 and 2024 combined (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/11/ray-ban-maker-essilorluxottica-triples-sales-of-meta-ai-gla…
Roku reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to $1.39B, vs. $1.35B est., and an $80.5M net income, vs. a $35.5M loss in Q4 2024; ROKU jumps 9% after hours (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/business/roku-earnings-q4-2025/
#Steady
Wie lassen sich #Wechselrichterdaten vom APsystems EZ1 lokal speichern?
Für statistische Auswertungen müssen alle Daten kontinuierlich gespeichert werden. Wie das mithilfe von #Python
Current and ex-CPJ staffers say the nonprofit scrapped its Global Impunity Index in 2025 because Israel would have been ranked near the top or first, for years (Ali Abunimah/The Electronic Intifada)
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/a
Infighting erupts as more Democrats go rogue on impeachment (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/11/impeachment-haley-stevens-rfk-democrats-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/251210/p137#a251210p137
Chinese AI startup Z.ai releases the GLM-4.6V series of vision models, with support for native function calling, available with 106B and 9B parameters (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/z-ai-debuts-open-source-glm-4-6v-a-n…
As the Price of Beef Soars, Restaurants Are in 'Code Red' Mode (Julie Creswell/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/business/beef-prices-steakhouses.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251210/p139#a251210p139
Sources: some OpenAI execs were surprised by WSJ's report that the company was targeting a Q4 2026 IPO; OpenAI hopes to triple its ~$13B 2025 revenue in 2026 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/technol
YouTube and the NFL's second annual Creator Flag Football game drew 14M live views around the world, up from 6M in 2025, as the NFL seeks to export the sport (Kayla Cobb/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/streaming/super-bo…
Calibri font banished as U.S. diplomacy returns to Times New Roman (Brianna Tucker/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/10/calibri-font-rubio-state-department/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251210/p136#a251210p136
Simular, which is building AI agents for Mac and Windows PCs, raised a $21.5M Series A led by Felicis; Simular has released its 1.0 version for macOS (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/02/simular-relea…
Feds bring woman to U.S. to face charges, then say she's here illegally (Salvador Rizzo/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/12/10/extradition-deportation-belarus-russia/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzY1MzQyODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzY2NzI1MTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjUzNDI4MDAsImp0aSI6IjMwOTQ1Y2FmLTU2ZWEtNGExZS04OGM1LTRkODczMWVmMGQzNiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9kYy1tZC12YS8yMDI1LzEyLzEwL2V4dHJhZGl0aW9uLWRlcG9ydGF0aW9uLWJlbGFydXMtcnVzc2lhLyJ9.SVULKQ4ubX7PaPpEnIzw9yJD1Kee_z5KDDh9w1ok0xs&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p2#a251211p2
Elon Musk accuses Ilhan Omar of treason over Somalia comments in viral social media post (Emma Bussey/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/elon-musk-accuses-ilhan-omar-treason-over-somalia-comments-viral-social-media-post
http://www.memeorandum.com/251210/p138#a251210p138
In recent months, several companies like Airtable, Handshake, and Opendoor have announced that they are "refounding", as they scramble to add new AI features (Lora Kelley/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/business/refounding-startups-ai.html…
The GOP's health care woes: From the Politics Desk (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/gops-health-care-woes-politics-desk-rcna248488
http://www.memeorandum.com/251210/p134#a251210p134
PermitFlow, which develops AI-powered workflow software for construction permitting, raised a $54M Series B led by Accel, a source says at a ~$500M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/the-prompt/2025/12/…
Trump says CNN should be sold as part of any Warner Bros. deal (Zoë Richards/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-cnn-warner-bros-discovery-netflix-paramount-rcna248518
http://www.memeorandum.com/251210/p135#a251210p135