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Big Tech got almost everything it wanted from President Trump, as he backs policies that allow the industry to grow unfettered, worrying some conservatives (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/technol<…

From A.I. to Chips, Big Tech Is Getting What It Wants From Trump
The president has backed policies that allow the industry to grow unfettered. The mutually beneficial alliance is causing concern among some conservatives.

David Brooks calling for a general strike or nonviolent civil disobedience 
was not on my bingo card.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/opinion/trump-harvard-law-firms.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Opinion | What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal.
It will take a concerted effort by every sector of our society to respond to Trumpism’s threat.

Apples iPhone-Geschäft läuft gut – aber welches kaufen?
Apple erwartet zum Weihnachtsgeschäft die bislang besten iPhone-Verkäufe aller Zeiten. Für Käufer wird es aber immer unübersichtlicher.
https://www.

Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/20

ライトユーザーだと、マストドン公式アプリ使ってる人が多いよね。
WebUIがアプリ並み（あるいはそれ以上）の機能を持っているということは知らないし、特に必要だと思ってない。
サードパーティーアプリが使えるということも、考えたこともない。

Data breach at Korean Air leaks 30,000 employee records
https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-12-29/business/industry/Data-breach-at-Korean-Air-leaks-30000-employee-records/2488168

Data breach at Korean Air leaks 30,000 employee records
A data breach involving the personal information of Korean Air employees was recently reported — the second such incident in the airline industry following a similar case at Asiana Airlines last week.

what the fuck does this diagram mean
what does it mean for two 128-bit values to "converge together"
edit: oh i guess they aren't 128-bit. but this isn't helping much
edit2: ohhh, they're making it possible to get less than 128 bits out in the last ciphertext block

Every now and then I find something that does not work in LibreWolf so I need to use Firefox... this time it's this gamepad tester.
There's probably some permission I need to set in LibreWolf but I haven't found it yet.
https://hardwaretester.com/gamepad

Microsoft is increasingly shrill in its desperation to get people to love it's 'AI' service, 'Copilot'... https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/11/28/you-heard-wrong-users-brutually-reject-microsof…

Upgrading Funkwhale from 1.4.0 to 2.0.0-rc5 on Debian: https://blog.rmendes.net/2025/12/29/upgrading-funkwhale-from-to-rc.html

A profile of Pablo Torre, whose podcast "Pablo Torre Finds Out" became a 2025 phenomenon for aggressive reporting that uncovered seismic stories in US sports (Ben Strauss/Washington Post)

Pablo Torre pushes buttons — and boundaries — to expose sports secrets
With scoops from the NFL, NBA and beyond, Torre’s hit show — and the way he makes it — is ruffling feathers across the sports landscape.

Saw something unremarked in the background of a YouTube video, spent 5 minutes in CAD, walked to the 3D printer and pushed the button. An hour later my life was just that little bit better.
I like that that is possible nowadays, much as I dislike so much else about the modern world.

Please Donate to the Internet Archive. $25 helps.... a lot.
Useful to Journalists,
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Collections growing at 150TBytes/day
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I‘m from West Germany, I never learned Russian or even how to read Cyrillic script. But since Russia‘s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 I must have had so much much exposure that I can now read this important message on a sign at #39C3. Learning through osmosis in times of crisis.

Why is bob ross juice a thing

Podcast-Episoden-Empfehlung:
#AuchDasNoch? #RicardaLang zu #SocialMedia-Beeinflussung: "Wir sind nicht wehrlos"

Sauron, the high-end home security startup for "super premium" customers, plucks a new CEO out of Sonos (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/28/from-sonos-to-sauron-new-ceo-takes-on-high-end-home-security-startup-still-in-development/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251228/p42#a251228p42

An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in
small as in great matters.
-- W. Churchill

In 2026, if you are shipping a physical product with a rechargeable battery, you'd better have a damned good reason for not using high power USB-C for the charger.
There are no doubt valid reasons but they're few and far between and the onus is on you to prove yours is.

Killer new self-titled EP by Sydney's BIG MODERN. Great guitar tone & lyrics, dynamics, it's tight, minimal sometimes.. there's some cool surprises on this one and I'm really digging it. And it's on Bandcamp AND Qobuz, which is cool - links below for both.
https://bigmodern.bandcamp.com/album/b

I found a good recipe for Beef Wellington for Thanksgiving dinner, and it worked out well. Pre cook beef, make mushroom duxelle (chopped and cooked to a paste) chill overnight then clingfilm and prosciutto, mushrooms and wrap around beef. Prosciutto keeps it together inside pastry.

🦥 Long-term calorie restriction may slow normal brain aging
#diet …

Long-term calorie restriction may slow normal brain aging
As the brain ages, cells in the central nervous system experience metabolic dysfunction and increased oxidative damage. These cellular issues impair the ability to maintain the myelin sheath (the protective covering around nerve fibers), which leads to age-related white matter degradation.

The full Weekend Reads report is on vacation this week, it will return next week. But we don't want to leave you with nothing. Here is one piece that might have made it into the top 5:
* The Input Stack on Linux
https://venam.net/blog/unix/2025/11/27/input_device…

The Input Stack on Linux
Let's explore and deobfuscate the input stack on Linux. Our aim is to understand its components and what each does. Input handling can be divided into two parts, separated by a common layer. We’ll try to make sense of all this, one thing at a time, with a logical and coherent approach.

Kingston's Efficient Homes Show (2025-05) - Making our homes greener and boosting Kingston's green businesses! - https://m.earth.org.uk/Kingston-Efficient-Homes-Show-2025.html

Kingstons Efficient Homes Show (2025-05)
Making our homes greener and boosting Kingstons green businesses!

போகமுடியாதவர்களுக்காக

Morning walk with a mood befitting the end of the year...
#MorningWalk #MonochromeMonday #LandscapePhotography

Estoy escuchando por enésima 1 vez el "Different Class" de Pulp y cada vez me encanta mšs ese disco. ¡Cušnta genialidad en esa obra maestra de la cultura pop! Lo amo.
#Pulp #DifferentClass

The JWST has looked at #comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) again, in four filters yesterday and today: from the raw images - https://yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_latest_release.html - comes this false color image, https://www.flickr.com/photos/197464132@N05/55012773369/

Die #Kernfusionskollektoranlage hat heute 0,088 kWh Energie eingefangen.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: 58 Grad
Diese #Balkonsolaranlage wurde durch das Berliner SolarPLUS-Programm gefördert.
Einspeiseverlust: 4.81 %

Not sure if I want folks to watch, but they will be streaming the Road to re:Invent Bus hackathon and I'll be on the Khaki Team Bus.
I suspect it will be like a Reality TV show. Info in this article including links to the streaming options (Twitch or the re:Invent conference stream)
#AWS #reInvent
https://builder.aws.com/content/3515K374s531rNhcd2gu3HIV5BX/the-road-to-reinvent-hackathon-what-it-is-and-how-to-watch

Guten Morgen Hamburg!
#engelschicht #39c3

When you slept shorter than usual, because just before sleep you got an idea how to implement multiplication in https://nandgame.com.
Of course, when you actually went to bed, you figured out an ever better method, and with 32-bit output. But I suppose the old one is nice too, quite pedagogical.

Weil Bundesregierung und Bundestag untätig bis kooperierend zuschauen, können sich rechtsextreme Feinde Deutschlands als Partei professionalisieren und gesichert rechtsextreme Extremisten zu ihrem Führungspersonal machen.
Aber hey, in #Gießen konnte man heute sehen, wie Landesregierungen Parteiveranstaltungen schützen können, wenn es nicht die Grünen sind.

50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band at home in #berkeley, with prelude, a rare non-acoustic opening act. bob menke & louis falanga audience tape: https://archive.org/details/jg7…

Bi estatu, lore sorta bakarra
https://www.berria.eus/euskal-herria/bi-estatu-lore-sorta-bakarra_2150680_102.html

Bi estatu, lore sorta bakarra
Bi estatuburu elkartu ziren atzo goizean Gernikako Zallo hilerrian. Elkarren alboan zeuden, baina bata bestearengandik oso urrun era berean. Frank Walter Steinmeier Alemaniako presidentea eta Felip...

"Wenn unsere politischen Führungsfiguren, auch jene Führungsfiguren bürgerlicher Parteien, andauernd den Eindruck vermitteln, alles sei fürchterlich und Deutschland ginge alsbald vor die Hunde, dann brauchen wir uns wirklich nicht wundern, wenn die rechtsextremen „Ausländer raus!“-Apokalyptiker von der AfD Stimmen hinzugewinnen, selbst wenn sie wenig bieten außer Menschenhass, Verschwörungstheorien und Untergangsstimmung." @JanSkudlarek |

Donald Trump has been using fictional figures to justify his controversial military strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean near Venezuela.
“Every boat kills about 25,000 people,” Trump said in a speech last week.
“Every one of those boats is responsible for the death of 25,000 American people, and the destruction of families,”
he said in a speech Sunday.
“Probably saved at least 100,000 lives, American lives
– Canadian lives
– by taking …

Fact check: Trump’s absurd claim that he saved 100,000 lives by attacking alleged Venezuelan drug boats
President Donald Trump has been using fictional figures to justify his controversial military strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean near Venezuela.

Russische Behörde droht WhatsApp mit kompletter Sperre
Seit Monaten melden Menschen in Russland Störungen bei WhatsApp. Behörden argumentieren mit angeblicher Kriminalität – und drohen mit vollständiger Sperre.
http…

@… 私はのえたん！（？）

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/29/ransomware-negotiations-extortion-cyber-attacks
“S-RM now claims the UK’s largest cyber-incident response team. Its first-responder service is comprised of about 150 experts world…

‘Why should we pay these criminals?’: the hidden world of ransomware negotiations
Cybersecurity experts reveal what they do for high-profile clients targeted by hackers such as Scattered Spider

When the UK's new nuclear power plant Hinkley Point C starts to produce power in 2030, its guaranteed 'strike price' will have risen to ~150 £/MWh (170 €/MWh). Average wholesale electricity prices will probably be around half of that, so that's a 50% subsidy.
At an annual production of 25 million MWh (3.2 GW in baseload), I'd say that's £1.9 billion per year in subsidies.

Ampere Analysis: UK streaming subscribers on ad-supported tiers will reach 26.5M by the end of 2025, surpassing the 23.1M ad-free subscribers for the first time (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/26/t…

Why SUV when you can LSV? (Low Speed Vehicles)
25mph max car! street legal in San Francisco.
Can drive on almost all roads in the city.
This one is not that great, imho (but try it at gocar). I want to see more LSVs. Amsterdam has many, and many types.
all roads w/ 35mph limits or less are ok, almost all roads in SF. Here are all limits on all roads in SF:

Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/world/americas/trump-pardon-honduras-hernandez.html?unlocked_article_code=1.408.Q4FQ.XiIovtejs1Pk&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251128/p63#a251128p63

Por um gesto julgamos um caršter; por um caršter julgamos um povo.
-- Eça de Queiroz

For all you nature lovers (especially herpetological sorts, i.e. lizards, and more specifically, geckos here in Aotearoa) get a load of this: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-strange-beautiful-lizard-at-the-bottom-of-the-world/ Stunning. I tried t…

⚡ Laser-assisted 3D printing can fabricate free-standing thermoset-based electronics in seconds
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-11-laser-3d-fabricate-free-thermoset.html

Laser-assisted 3D printing can fabricate free-standing thermoset-based electronics in seconds
Thermosets, such as epoxy and silicon rubbers, are a class of polymer (i.e., plastic) materials that harden permanently when they undergo a specific chemical reaction, known as "crosslinking." These materials are highly durable, heat-resistant with excellent electrical insulation in various applications such as in adhesives, coatings, and automotive parts.

Podcast-Episoden-Empfehlung:
#fairFemale mit #BarbaraHaas 226: Geht Angst durch Luft anhalten weg, #ChristianRedl?

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/paralysed-man-brain-implant-beer-b2044610.html

let me rephrase that title : Big Tech basically flipped their script and bowed to the King (other images come to mind but would be very vulgar)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/big-tech-basically-took-trumps-unpredicta…

Big Tech basically took Trump’s unpredictable trade war lying down
From Apple gifting a gold statue to the US taking a stake in Intel.

Are you having a good friday?

おはようございます（今日の分）

Crypto promoters saw Trump as their savior. Then reality set in
Trump has called for relaxing regulations on crypto...
So why are crypto prices plummeting?
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-11-28/the-crypt…

Hiltzik: Despite Trump, it's a bad year for crypto
Trump has called for relaxing regulations on crypto. So why are crypto prices plummeting?

Arctic sea ice extent is steadily decreasing. We're now at a record low for this time of the year.
https://zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-extentconcentration/
(That's @…

Arctic: Sea-Ice Concentration/Extent
Near real-time visualizations [Arctic Climate Seasonality and Variability] [Arctic Sea-Ice Extent and Concentration] [Arctic Sea-Ice Volume and Thickness] [Arctic Temperatures] [Antarctic Sea-Ice E…

Northwestern reaches $75M deal with Trump administration to get federal funding reinstated (Bianca Quilantan/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/28/northwestern-deal-trump-administration-federal-funding-00564286
http://www.memeorandum.com/251128/p67#a251128p67

今回のエリックサウス監修ビリヤニ（セブンイレブン／東京・埼玉・千葉・神奈川の地域限定らしい）、こんな感じだよ。
このご時世で、販売価格を598円に抑えているのは凄いね。
キーマカレーは食べやすいし、別になっているバターチキンの旨さと甘さも変化があって楽しいし、毎回買いたくなるぐらい美味しいよ。
#gochisou_photo

Theres room for a Haunted Mound type group of poser ass ug rapper white boys who call themselves ExquisiteCorpseGang and consistently drop surrealist lyrics and sample selection

Boiling oceans and compressional tectonics on emerging ocean worlds
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02713-5

Boiling oceans and compressional tectonics on emerging ocean worlds - Nature Astronomy
Several moons in the outer Solar System have oceans encased beneath an ice shell. If the ice shell thins, ocean pressure decreases. Modelling shows that on Mimas, Enceladus, and Miranda, the ocean can boil. On larger bodies, instead, compressional forces form tectonic features.

FBI deploys more resources to
‘dismantle fraud schemes’
in Minnesota
Cash Patel said the FBI believes
“this is just the tip of a very large iceberg”.
Some of those involved in the alleged scheme are being
“referred to immigrations officials for possible further #denaturalization and deportation proceedings where eligible”.
The Trump administration has por…

Drilling for 'cleaner' natural gas in the North Sea - with low methane leakage - will only reduce global greenhouse gas emissions if it keeps an equivalent amount of 'dirty' natural gas - e.g. US shale gas - in the ground. Which remains to be seen.

バブ曽根ちゃん #心

Trump pushes for more restrictions on Afghan refugees. Experts say many are already in place (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/national-guard-washington-shooting-suspect-afghan-national-kabul-aac0e1d5117d9b7aaa8ee12051a7b324
http://www.memeorandum.com/251128/p68#a251128p68

おはようございます（昨日の分）

One year into Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown,
construction firms in Louisiana are scrambling to find carpenters.
Hospitals in West Virginia have lost out on doctors and nurses who were planning to come from overseas.
A neighborhood soccer league in Memphis cannot field enough teams because immigrant children have stopped showing up.
America is closing its doors to the world,
sealing the border,
squeezing the legal avenues to entry
and sending n…

What America Might Look Like With Zero Immigration
The Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the foreign-born population are being felt in hospitals and soccer leagues and on Main Streets across the country, with hints of what’s to come.

Hegseth declines to comment on report that boat survivors were killed as a result of his orders to military (ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hegseth-declines-comment-report-boat-survivors-killed-result/story?id=127951385
http://www.memeorandum.com/251128/p66#a251128p66

Donald Trump has said he will grand a pardon to
Juan Orlando Hernšndez,
the former president of Honduras
who is serving a 45-year prison sentence in the US
on drug trafficking and weapons charges.
Hernšndez was convicted in 2024 of accepting millions in bribes to protect cocaine shipments

Trump says he plans to pardon former Honduran President Hernandez for 2024 drug trafficking sentence (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-hernandez-honduras-pardon-96ac8d1d44d438f64beb8b24ca54b651
http://www.memeorandum.com/251128/p65#a251128p65

If you’re fed up with Meta right now,
you’re not alone.
Google searches for deleting Facebook and Instagram spiked last week
after Meta announced its latest policy changes.
These changes, seemingly designed to appease the incoming Trump administration,
included loosening Meta’s hate speech policy to allow for the targeting of LGBTQ people and immigrants. 
If these changes
—or Meta’s long history of anti-competitive, censorial, and invasive practice…

Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect and profit from your personal data, here’s what you need to know.

Trump Bribing Honduran Voters To Restore Narcotrafficking Government to Power (José Luis Granados Ceja/Drop Site News)
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/honduras-election-trump-asfura-hernandez-casto-moncada-libre
http://www.memeorandum.com/251128/p64#a251128p64

❌Mobile Fortify,
the new app used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to use face recognition technology (FRT) to identify people during street encounters,
is an affront to the rights and dignity of migrants and U.S. citizens alike.
That's why a coalition of privacy, civil liberties and civil rights organizations are
🔥demanding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
shut down the use of Mobile Fortify,
release the agency's privacy anal…

Rights Organizations Demand Halt to Mobile Fortify, ICE's Handheld Face Recognition Program
Mobile Fortify, the new app used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to use face recognition technology (FRT) to identify people during street encounters, is an affront to the rights and dignity of migrants and U.S. citizens alike. That's why a coalition of privacy, civil liberties and...

Every few years, Democrats try to convince themselves they’ve found the one
– a candidate who can finally speak fluent rural, who looks and sounds like the voters they’ve lost.
In 2024, that hope was pinned on #Tim #Walz, the flannel-wearing, “Midwestern nice” governor whose small-town roots were supposed to unlock …

Why rural Maine may back Democrat Graham Platner’s populism in the Senate campaign − but not his party
Whether Maine’s Graham Platner wins or loses, his campaign to knock off longtime GOP Sen. Susan Collins already points to a deeper question: Can Democrats do more than rent rural authenticity?

GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
https://bsky.app/profi…

@jeffatwood.bsky.social
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In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shorts waiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour.
So when she came to town,
I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them.
I thought it'd be funny.
It turned out to be something else entirely.
https://bs…

Paul Scheer (@paulscheer.com)
In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.

Rural America is often talked about as if it’s one place with one story. It isn’t.
Rural demographers break down 6 commonly-held myths about rural America, and why getting them wrong has real consequences
@…

"Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right."
-- Donald Norman
https://www.fudco.com/chip/deconstr.html

Flynn proposes sending Obama “back to Africa”
and suggests we “prosecute” Somalis on welfare.
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:2g4ozpjxrwesjdog6eys44si/post/3mb2n3dozmk2l

The moment that will stick with me the most
—the video that still gives me chills
—came during an otherwise unremarkable baseball day early in the summer.
It was June 14, and the pop artist #Nezza was getting ready to sing the national anthem at Dodger Stadium.
A week earlier, ICE and DHS agents had descended en masse on Los Angeles work sites,
grabbing immigrants and U.S. citiz…

Defiance in a Time of Cowardice
She sang the national anthem in Spanish as deportation forces assaulted L.A. Now she’s headed to Sundance.

💰Trump’s wealth increased by about $2.5B since his reelection, to $6.9B
💰 Eric’s increased 10x, to $400M.
💰 Don Jr.’s 6x, to $300M.
💰 Barron, a college sophomore, is worth $150M.
"I’m sure that this is all based on merit and the value that each contributes to our society."
-- Heidi Kitrosser
https:/…

Zach Everson (@zacheverson.com)
💰Trump’s wealth increased by about $2.5B since his reelection, to $6.9B 💰 Eric’s increased 10x, to $400M. 💰 Don Jr.’s 6x, to $300M. 💰 Barron, a college sophomore, is worth $150M. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Hey, it’s Gov. Wes Moore.
I’m a veteran, author, father, and Maryland’s first Black governor.
⭐️𝗜𝗻 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗮 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵, 𝗜’𝗺 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗿𝗼𝗼𝘁𝘀 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀:
Maryland public officials like me are prohibited from fundraising and accepting donations while the state legislature is in session.
That means, from mid-January to April
– almost 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘳 months out of the year
– I’m not allowed to accept any grassroots support. 
We’ve already del…

In this final talk of the "Civilization" course, #Jiang #Xueqin explains the rise and fall of the American empire.
Thesis:
At the 1944 Bretton Woods conference, America proposed that the dollar should be the world's reserve currency.
In return for this "exorbitant privilege," Am…

A college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving
was instead deported to Honduras
in violation of a court order, according to her attorney.
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, 19,
had already passed through security at Boston Logan International Airport on Nov. 20
when she was told there was an issue with her boarding pass,
said attorney Todd Pomerleau.
The Babson College student was then detained by immigration off…

College freshman deported flying home for Thanksgiving surprise
A college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving was deported to Honduras in violation of a court order. That's according to an attorney for Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, a 19-year-old at Babson College. She was detained by immigration officials at Boston Logan International Airport on November 20. A federal judge issued an emergency order the day after her arrest prohibiting the government from removing her from Massachusetts for 72 hours. However, withi…

With the holidays upon us, it's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year:
smart speakers, video doorbells, bluetooth trackers, fitness trackers, and other connected gadgets are all very popular gifts.
But before you give one, think twice about what you're opting that person into.
One big problem with giving these sorts of gifts is that you're opting another person into a company's intrusive surveillance prac…

Think Twice Before Giving Surveillance for the Holidays
With the holidays upon us, it's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year: smart speakers, video doorbells, bluetooth trackers, fitness trackers, and other connected gadgets are all very popular gifts. But before you give one, think twice about...

The atmosphere of fear surrounding Trump’s cult of personality has kept Republicans from criticizing him
even when they think he’s wrong.
But consider the list of issues on which notable Republican officeholders and influencers are now breaking with Trump,
or at the very least fighting amongst themselves in ways that weaken his movement:
After months of resisting the release of the Epstein files, Trump faced a revolt from his own party in Congress,
where both ho…

Why MAGA is coming apart at the seams
Turns out they're not in it for Trump, they're in it for themselves.

Zi Teng Wang, a magician and molecular biologist in Missouri had the idea:
implant a computer chip in his hand and do magic tricks with it.
— Too bad he forgot the password.
It sounds like a joke but it really happened
https://futurism.com/future-society/los…

Man Loses Password to Chip Embedded Inside His Body
A magician in Missouri lost the password to an RFID microchip embedded in his hand and now he can't access the chip.

Come on TN,
your country needs you‼️
Vote Aftyn Behn‼️
https://bsky.app/profile/chariselee.bsky.social/post/3m6pzdcs7yk2k

Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 (@chariselee.bsky.social)
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Both Quikscript and Shavian were essentially the results of a design competition,
sponsored--posthumously--by playwright George Bernard Shaw,
who laid out the terms in his will.
Shaw wanted someone to create an ideal phonetic alphabet for English that trumped Pitman shorthand.
British designer Ronald Kingsley Read, a finalist in the 1960s competition, designed both Quikscript and Shavian, the latter being named in Shaw's honor

Here are 50 Different Written Languages. Can You Tell Which are Fake? - Core77
Below are examples of 50 different written languages. Unless you're Indiana Jones, I doubt you'll recognize more than a handful. However, of these 50 scripts, five of them are contrived 20th Century creations. Two of them are shorthand-style phonetic alphabets designed for English; one of them is an ideographic writing

Self-hosting is becoming popular among a certain kind of user,
-- say the typical readership of ItsFoss.
There is a simple explanation for this shift:
people want their data, dollars, and destiny back.
Centralized platforms optimized for engagement and extraction are colliding with real-world needs
— privacy, compliance, predictability, and craft.
Linux, containers, and a flood of polished open-source apps have turned what used to be an enthusiast’s pro…

Self-Hosting is Rising and Linux Users are Leading This Revolution
Self‑hosting isn’t anti‑cloud; it’s pro‑agency. It’s choosing the right locus of control for the things you care about.

Here is a White House website falsely asserting that military personnel CANNOT refuse illegal orders
And falsely accusing Democrats of asserting Trump has issued illegal orders -- in a video which doesn't mention Trump
The felon doth protest too much
https://www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/

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Donald Trump launched another attack against Federal Reserve chair #Jerome #Powell on Monday, calling the central banker a “fool” and once again suggesting he would like to fire him.
“I mean, Biden reappointed him. It’s too bad. You would have thought he wouldn’t have done that,” Trump said, without any acknowledgmen…

This is attributed to H.G. Wells:
'The work of woman in prehistoric communities, when carefully analyzed from the fossils with which archaeology, folklore, and philology provide us, assumes somewhat large proportions as compared with the work of men. '
https://skywriter.blue…

South Carolina already ranks 8th nationally in highest maternal mortality rate,
and MAGA extremists are vying to become #1.
Now, for the third time since 2023, MAGA Republicans in South Carolina have introduced
S 323, also known as
The Unborn Child Protection Act.
South Carolina Senate Bill 323 is one of the most extreme pieces of legislation we’ve seen.
It proposes changing the legal definition of the word “person” to include an unborn fetus.
Th…

S. Carolina RE-Intros Bill To Kill Women For Getting An Abortion
Here's what's in the bill, why it is so dangerous, and the meaningful steps you can take to fight back, support women's health, and help block this bill from becoming law