“When I was in justice, my ultimate vision for that part of the criminal justice system was to achieve, by means of AI and technology, what Jeremy Bentham tried to do with his Panopticon. That is that the eyes of the state can be on you at all times.”
– Shabana Mahmood, Home Secretary of the UK
https://archive.ph/6fk8h
since i realize it might not be obvious, you can click on the "ylt" tag on my site & pull up a single text searchable page with all the yo la tengo hanukkah setlists (& other shows) i've tracked going back to 2005. https://jessejarnow.com/category/ylt/
RunPod, an AI app hosting service launched four years ago that raised a $20M seed in May 2024, says it has reached a $120M annual revenue run rate (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/16/ai-cloud-startup-runpod-h…
State Dept. nominee espoused antisemitic views, downplayed the Holocaust (Marc Rod/Jewish Insider)
https://jewishinsider.com/2025/12/jeremy-carl-state-department-antisemitism/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p32#a251220p32
With a $1.7B global box office, Disney's Zootopia 2 becomes the highest grossing animated film from a Hollywood studio, behind the Chinese hit Ne Zha 2 (Jeremy Fuster/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/zootopia-2-animation-bo…
The mustacho money guy will get a lot of flack for this article: https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2025/12/15/my-unexpected-journey-to-hormone-replacement-trt/
My wife, who is endocrinologists, gets a lot of patients seeking that "T&…
Endra, whose AI tools automate mechanical, electrical, and plumbing design for commercial buildings, raised a $20M seed led by Notion (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/18/endra-ai-startup-automating-mep-design…
#Metrolinx finally admits what everyone has been expecting, the Ontario Line will open later than 2031
It might also require closures of the DVP for some crucial engineering work (the line will go over the freeway)
Ankar, which develops LLM-powered AI tools to streamline the process of drafting patent applications for patent attorneys, raised a $20M Series A led by Atomico (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/17/exclusi