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Were Israel to shoot a Western journalist, the journalist would be like “I guess I was Hamas, oh, well, I guess I’ll die.”
I use “journalist”, here, very loosely. @… https://

Assal Rad
Israel is the world’s leading killer of journalists, they killed one of your own, and you still use “Israel says” to try to justify it. What a shameful post.

Mews, which makes AI-powered hospitality management software, raised a $300M Series D led by EQT Growth at a $2.5B valuation (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/01/22/mews-raises-300m-to-accelerate-ai-powered-hospitality-operations/<…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
The Dumps:
🎵 Do The Dump
#TheDumps
https://acolourfulstorm.bandcamp.com/album/ahead-of-us-do-the-dump

The size of #3I/ATLAS from non-gravitational acceleration: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18341 -> "we find diameters between 820 meters and 1050 meters [...] reliable estimates of the mass loss rate at other stages of the comet's trajectory will substantially reduce the systematic uncertainty in this estimate."

En la región de Tiraršn, los vientos que vienen del mar Caribe, suben los volcanes de la Cordillera de Guanacaste dejando toda su humedad atršs y bajan secos con y acelerados al pasar entre colinas donde estšn los parques eólicos para generación eléctrica. Hay tanto viento que es común ver vegetación como šrboles corridos por completo hacia un lado como en la foto.
#Tilarán

reading a prelim paper on scaling up gpu-accelerated database query engines and feeling kinda gobsmacked at where that world is at
i remember when we built a “massive” memory machine at princeton with … i think it was 256 MB of RAM. (it sat idle except when ken thompson was logged in and building hash tables for chess endgames which was most of the time)

Scientists urge governments not to wait for global plastics treaty as pollution continues to grow https://phys.org/news/2025-12-scientists-urge-global-plastics-treaty.html

Scientists urge governments not to wait for global plastics treaty as pollution continues to grow
Scientists are urging governments to act immediately on plastic pollution, warning that waiting for a binding Global Plastics Treaty could mean years of damaging delay while plastic waste continues to accelerate worldwide.

The Safety Net Is Snapping: Satellites Reveal Accelerating Decay of “Doomsday Glacier”
https://scitechdaily.com/the-safety-net-is-snapping-satellites-reveal-accelerating-decay-of-doomsday-glacier/

Federato, which provides AI-powered insurance lifecycle software, raised a $100M Series D led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, taking its total funding to $180M (InsurTech Analyst)
https://insurtechanalyst.com/2025/11/18/federato-launches-ai-n…

Meta enters electricity trading to help accelerate the construction of new US power plants critical for its AI infrastructure buildout (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-21/meta-enters-power-trading-to-support-a…