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USAGM is relocating from its current offices in Washington, DC, to a building apparently used by NASA; source: the old building is to be demolished (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/12/usagm-relocating-nasa-building-kari-lake/

Scoop: Kari Lake says USAGM to vacate studios, relocate to NASA building
USAGM will vacate its Washington, D.C. headquarters and relocate to a NASA-used building under cost-cutting ordered by President Trump.

Q&A with Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe on founding Rivian in 2009, production challenges, the VW partnership, autonomy, AI, EVs, chips, CarPlay, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2025/an-interv

An Interview with Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe About Building a Car Company and Autonomy
An interview with Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe about starting a car company, scaling, and building for an autonomous future.

Reminder: You can let Mozilla know what you think about AI and other stupid shit.
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/building-ai-the-firefox-way-shaping-what-s-next-together/td-p/109922
(Edited to fix li…

Building AI the Firefox way: Shaping what’s next together
Hi everyone, We recently shared how we’re approaching AI in Firefox with user choice and openness at the center of everything we build. We’ve heard from many of you who’d prefer not to have AI in your browser at all, and we get it: We will soon provide additional settings for you to control how AI i...

Urban Adventure 🏞️
城市探险 🏞️
📷Nikon FE
🎞️Fuijfilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Residential building in Russia's Ryazan Oblast hit in drone attack, media reports: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/16/residential-building-in-russias-ryazan.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
DJ Shadow:
🎵 Building Steam With a Grain of Salt
#DJShadow
https://apexaphelion.bandcamp.com/track/dj-shadow-building-steam-with-a-grain-of-salt-apex-aphelion-bootleg
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Ms0GKHCtr5Lpg4dKOhO2I

Two Years of Building AI in Firefox | Tarek Ziadé
https://blog.ziade.org/2025/12/05/two-years-of-ai-at-mozilla/?trk=feed_main-feed-card_feed-article-content

love to see this activated, but another bookstore 2 blocks from Dog Eared and a coffee shop 1/2 block from Ritual? 🤔
https://missionlocal.org/2026/01/sf-hibernia-bank-social-security-valencia-street/

Mysterious LLC wants to turn Mission’s old Social Security building into restaurant, bookstore and events space 
The new owners submitted an application with the Planning Department to turn the building into a restaurant, bookstore and event space.

from my link log —
Software architecture is overrated, clear and simple design is underrated.
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-architecture-is-overrated/
saved 2019-09-19

Software Architecture is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design is Underrated
I had my fair share in designing and building large systems. I've taken part in rewriting Uber's distributed payment systems [https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/distributed-architecture-concepts-i-have-learned-while-building-payments-systems/] , designing and shipping Skype on Xbox One and open-sourcing RIBs [https://github.com/uber/RIBs], Uber's mobile architecture framework. All of these systems had thorough

"This is a new reality that we are dreaming and weaving together."
This is either the last or second to last section of Kairos I'm writing. This is the most specific so far. After that it's editing and making it feel more like a single consistent text than a bunch of essays. I hope it's worth the read.
Feedback is always welcome, especially editing (typos, grammar, etc), and questions.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/a-solarpunk-fractal-creating-a-viable-system-91h5

“People want software that is fast, modern, but also honest about what it does.”
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo/
No, you muppet, people want tools that do what…

Mozilla’s Next Chapter: Building the World’s Most Trusted Software Company | The Mozilla Blog
Today, I step into the role of CEO of Mozilla Corporation. It is a privilege to lead an organization with a long history of standing up for people and buil

hey what the _actual fuck_ is mozilla doing? why is it building a first-party ad fraud engine by cashing in their remaining reputation? https://tabstack.ai/

I remember the outrage the copies of parliamentary acts would no longer be printed on vellum when stored in (what is effectively) a tinderbox of a building.
https://www.politico.eu/article/final-decision-on-fate-of-crumbling-uk-parliament-d…

Final decision on fate of crumbling UK parliament delayed to 2030s
It’s a fire-hazard that’s prone to tumbling masonry — but fear of a public backlash is again delaying repairs to the world famous building.

Cowboys answer at DC is busy building Seahawks defense into juggernaut https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/16/aden-durde-rising-defensive-coach-dallas-cowboys-slip-away/877902…

Congenitally blind user of The vOICe vision BCI: A look at building layers #noninvasive

A look at building layers
I was walking around in the gated community where I live. Checkout this interesting image I took. It primarily shows different buildings. I was on the upper deck of a swimmingpool area where there …

Trump has added tariffs on many components that comprise the building blocks of manufacturing,
including a 50 percent tax on steel, aluminum and copper.
And tariffs have hit autos to the tune of 25 percent — with many exceptions,
10 percent on lumber
and 25 percent on upholstered furniture and vanities.

Here’s what’s going on with Trump’s tariffs, prices and the Supreme Court
Here’s what tariffs are on, which are at risk and what’s happening with consumer prices.

Mutale Nkonde: Building the AI Future We Want to Live In
Event on December 5th at the Toronto Reference Library
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/mutale-nkonde-building-the-ai-future-we-want-to-live-in-tickets-178232…

at roulette, lee ranaldo & brian chase & david watson wander the silvery. delay pedal drums/percussion/electronics/piano building to/from epic/majestic blasts of guitar & full-spectrum bagpipe #drone. #nyc #brooklyn

Och FFS.
"#Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software."
"It will evolve into a modern AI #browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions."
One job. A browser has ONE. SINGLE. JOB.

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For those of you curious - the Nazis downtown are getting absolutely humiliated.
The big anti-Islam protest downtown currently consists of about 8 protesters and hundreds, maybe thousands, of counter protesters. The counter protesters are currently walking/pushing the protesters off of City Hall grounds. True Minnesota hospitality at its best.
Jake Lang [right-winger who organized the event] and a handful of other racists/RW propagandists are surrounded by about 50 cameras and some antifascists chanting him down. A banner the group arrived with has been broken.
Currently has only about 5 supporters, and is being drowned out by counter protesters
The group led by Jake Lang tried to get inside Minneapolis City Hall, but the building is closed, as it is every Saturday.
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(This is all gathered from a bunch of different online sources; sorry I can’t link back to all of them, haven’t been keep track properly as I gather, but you can find more primary sources and video, I’m sure)
2/

"Wintermute reported that the median crypto token price drop was around 54%, and more than 90% of tokens lost more than 10% of their value"
#Crypto is and always was a hungry scam that eats suckers. Don't be a sucker. Don't touch crypto.

Anatomy of a crypto meltdown
October 2025 brought the most dramatic crypto flash crash of all time, but it was only a dress rehearsal for the systemic crisis the industry is building toward.

anyone fancy giving me 800k? it's for a thing.
https://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/25623738.bradford-avon-former-hairdressers-sale-800k/

The joys of working on an open source project that interfaces to obscure, sometimes obsolete hardware: regression testing is almost impossible.
Sure, we can catch regressions in the GUI easily. But if a big fix to a driver breaks things for a different scope supported by that driver, there's no way to test without having one of those scopes around to validate things against.
And there's way too many models of instrument out there for building any kind of CI cluster to be …

"Where Science Meets Storytelling: Twelve Years of the Science Blogs Web Archive" an der Library of Congress:
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2025/12/where-science-meets-storytelling-twelve-years-of-the-scienc…

Raiders get to work building an offensive juggernaut in 3-round mock draft https://raiderramble.com/2026/01/14/raiders-get-to-work-building-an-offensive-juggernaut-in-3-round-mock-draft/

Approach to Rockefeller Hall, the Physical Sciences Building and Baker Hall in the fall
#photo #photography #landscape

Amsterdam Passes New Motion Building on Its Endorsement of the Plant Based Treaty https://vegconomist.com/politics-law/amsterdam-passes-new-motion-building-endorsement-plant-based-treaty/

Amsterdam Passes New Motion Building on Its Endorsement of the Plant Based Treaty - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
In January of last year, Amsterdam became the first EU capital city to endorse calls for a global Plant Based Treaty. Now, Amsterdam City Council has passed a

Appreciate the WSJ essay from Lauren Powell Jobs on Philanthropy/Giving https://www.wsj.com/us-news/laurene-powell-jobs-beware-of-philanthropists-who-want-control-in-exc…

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
FRANTON: Set foot outside this building and you'll be instantly infected.
ZELDA: But not dead. I can still -
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/463 B7B4

#SilentSunday St James, Ashurst #WestSussex

Pretty evening. Heading home.

There are 3 fundamental freedoms outlined in Dawn of Everything:
(1) the freedom to move away or relocate from one’s surroundings;
(2) the freedom to ignore or disobey commands issued by others; and
(3) the freedom to shape entirely new social realities, or shift back and forth between different ones.
I think these can all be captured in one statement when reframed as a system constraint: for a system to be free, participation must be optional for all members.
People must be part of *some* system. Even individualistic survivalism is itself a system (if not a very good one). Then there is a corollary as well: any system that is not free, that is not optional, can turn optional systems into mandatory ones, and thus (adopted from the MLK quote) un-freedom anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere.
Edit:
I'm gonna drop the #Philosophy tag on here because apparently that's where I went with it. Challenges and push-back welcome.
Edit:
Aaaaand Its a blog post
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/an-algorithm-for-liberation
As usual, comments, typos, and questions are always welcome.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #LateJunction
Jack Vickridge:
🎵 Building Instruments (excerpt 1)
#JackVickridge

https://authoritarian-stack.info

The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

LFP267 – Building a fintech ground up – the playbook for launching an InsurTech, w/ Alistair Heggie https://londonfintechpodcast.com/lfp-276-lfp267-building-a-fintech-ground-up-the-playbook-for-launching-an-ins…

Widow of Officer Slain in Park Ave. Attack Sues Landlord Over Security https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/nyregion/didarul-islam-widow-lawsuit.html

Sources: General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning, is in late-stage talks to raise several hundred million dollars at a $2B valuation (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/a-new-world-model-startup-is-quietly

A new world model startup is quietly raising big money
General Intuition is building a general-purpose AI agent and world model.

Building Dreams With Virtue Homes
Be taken on a custom home building journey with the team behind Virtue Homes...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/building-dreams-with-virtue-homes/

Metropolitana VII - Markings 💮
城 VII - 印记 💮
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

First this...
"AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off."
And then this...
"Firefox will [...] evolve into a modern AI browser."
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/m…

Mozilla’s Next Chapter: Building the World’s Most Trusted Software Company | The Mozilla Blog
Today, I step into the role of CEO of Mozilla Corporation. It is a privilege to lead an organization with a long history of standing up for people and buil

This week, public power is stepping up.
Great British Energy is targeting 15 GW of wind, solar and storage by 2030. New York's NYPA is building 5.5 GW of renewables. Bolivia launched its first Indigenous protected area with forest monitoring. Tennessee turned a former farm into Middle Fork Bottoms State Park, reconnecting floodplains to reduce flooding.
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A man and lil girl from somewhere enter the vacant building beside the Smoketown Vapes every sunday at 12pm and arent seen till next time they enter from somewhere

Britain is building a ballistic missile for Ukraine
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/britain-is-building-a-ballistic-missile-for-ukraine/

Am building a shed which should fit my kayaks through the door at an angle.
So been trying, mainly for lols, to ask various AI if the stuff will fit and feeding them architect plans and dimensions of the kayak
My god it’s comical how bad it’s going.
Printed a model of the shed and kayak out instead.

We ended up building an “expo”, but for Godot:
https://zirk.us/@Eyelit/115547519055762618

Watching Cleaner and I'm like, damn. This is a hell of a dramatic workday for a window cleaner
#2025Films #2025Movies

Cleaner (2025)
When a group of radical activists take over an energy company's annual gala, seizing 300 hostages, an ex-soldier turned window cleaner suspended 50 storeys up on the outside of the building must save those trapped inside, including her older brother.

Q&A with Amazon's Prime Video Europe VP Andrew Bennett on a flurry of global partnership deals, including with free-to-air broadcasters, and other growth plans (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.

Behind Prime Video’s Global Partnership Deal Spree
Europe VP Andrew Bennett shares the logic for Prime's latest pacts in Spain and France, and why HBO Max is doubling down on its partnership.

Understanding #Docker Internals: Building a Container Runtime in Python
https://muhammadraza.me/2024/building-container-runtime-python/

'Tis the season of university administrators, who have failed to sufficiently support faculty over the past year, sending out holiday e-cards as if that's what's important for institutional community building and faculty morale.

Bronx building Mamdani used to showcase new housing commish's talents has 200 violations -- after favored nonprofit ran it into the ground (Rich Calder/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/01/11/us-news/bronx-building-mamdani-highlighted-to-showcase-nycs-new-housing-commissioners-talents-has-nearly-200-violations/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260111/p67#a260111p67

Kiddo is happy to finally be able to play #Hytale by #HypixelStudios after years of waiting
https://hytale.com

In which I build Unicode character tables and fail to serialize large automata, “Losing 1½ Million Lines of Go“:
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/01/14/Unicode-Properties
(And in which I find myself sliding into the

The photography is by Arch-Exist.

How Close Can a PWA Get to a Native App? Closer Than You Think
I set out to see how far the web can go toward feeling native. Here’s what I found while building a PWA demo that might just make a full rewrite unnecessary.
📲 https://koolcodez.com/blog/how-close-can-a-…

How Close Can a PWA Get to a Native App? Closer Than You Think - Kool Codez
I set out to see how far the web can go toward feeling native. Here’s what I found while building a PWA demo that might just make a full rewrite unnecessary.

Luxembourg-based Hydrosat, which builds AI-based thermal infrared satellite tech to provide data for water resource management and more, raised a $60M Series B (Ingrid Lunden/Resilience Media)
https://resiliencemedia.co/hydrosat-rais…

Hydrosat raises $60M for its thermal satellite imaging tech
A startup building AI-based thermal infrared satellite technology to provide data for water resource management, public safety and defence applications

I loathe these supposed representatives of the people in @… who claim to work for the people while building the dystopian surveillance state we’ve been repeatedly warned about in literature. Clearly, politicians should read more books and fewer speeches since they are ignorant enough to keep coming up with these things.

me: *low whistles*
me: "Damn, check out THOSE bollards!"
8yo: "What?"
me: "These metal things. they're nice, aren't they? No drivers parking on this sidewalk!"
8yo: *lays down on one*
8yo: "Yeah, they're good, I guess."
#SafeStreets

Hydrangea in one of the many courtyards of the ILR school, a space that feels to me like a Japanese palace in a video game
#photo #photography #cornell

Drone reportedly hits apartment building in Russia's Tver, officials say 7 injured: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/12/drone-reportedly-hits-apartment-building.html

Amid concerns that he has failed to address a worsening affordability crisis,
with health insurance premiums about to spike dramatically for over 20 million Americans,
Donald Trump revealed on Sunday that his domestic policy chief’s main priority is -- building a triumphal arch for Washington DC.
Speaking at a White House holiday party, the president praised Vince Haley, his former speechwriter and a longtime aide to Newt Gingrich who now leads the White House Domestic Poli…

Es wird ernst auf dem Weg zurück zum Mond 🌕🚀: Die NASA startet in die finale Phase der Vorbereitungen für Artemis‑2.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11137593?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_sou…

Moody Urbanity - Odes II 🎶
情绪化城市 - 颂 II🎶
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Kentmere Pan 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

I remember a friend who worked at a company that made a popular browser, and complained that I didn't have any "skin in the game" when I constantly complained about the browser the company was building.
Great guy, but I could not accept "be quiet, you are not part of this" when I am a browser user, web user, former-web developer (1995-2010) and just a person who gives a shit about privacy, security, and enshittification in general.

~Everything on Apple TV( ) is underrated, but I really need to go to bat for PALM ROYALE because I want there to be a 3rd season so bad.
Think love child of White Lotus & Only Murders in the Building: Amazing actors with great chemistry having fun in delightful sets while solving mysteries. 11/10

#FotoVorschlag 'Adventliches' / Advent
My wife was gifted two #Lego sets. And this was one of it. It fits super cool to the season and into our appartement.
Happy third #advent if…

one of these days i'll stop building infrastructure [laugh track]

An interview with TPM's Josh Marshall on the political blog turning 25, lessons from being an outsider, staying independent, ads vs. memberships, and more (Liam Scott/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/the-interview/how-talking-po…

How Talking Points Memo lasted a quarter century.
Josh Marshall reflects on building “a tabloid for smart people” and how his politics blog survived in a “chaotic and unstable and bad business.”

Brian Schottenheimer on Building the Future| Cowboys Huddle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syOatnrIiIM

Sources: Apple is in preliminary talks with India's CG Semi, which offers chip assembly and testing services, to assemble and package chips for the iPhone (Dia Rekhi/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

Domestic firms may chip in for the iPhone
Exploratory conversations have taken place between Murugappa Group-owned CG Semi, which is building an outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) facility in Sanand, Gujarat. It’s the first time Apple is evaluating the prospect of having certain chips assembled and packaged in India.

One of the things that made organizing a lot easier with the GDC was a thing called "GDC in a box." It was a zip file with all kinds of resources. There was a directory structure, templates for all kinds of things like meetings and paperwork you had to file (for legal reasons) and "read me" files.
We had all kinds of support. There were people you could talk to who had been there. There were people you could call to walk through legal paperwork (taxes). Centralized orgs are vulnerable and easy to infiltrate. They're easy for states to shut down. But there are benefits to org structures.
I think it's possible to have the type of support we had with the GDC, but without the politics of an org (even the IWW). I hope this most recent essay has some of the same properties. I hope that it makes building something new, something no one has really imagined before, easier.
This whole project is something a bit different. It's a collective vision and collective project, from the ground up. Some of it has felt like a brain dump, just getting things that have been swimming around in my head down somewhere. But I hope this feels more like an invitation.
Everything thus far written is all useless unless people do things with it. Only from that point does it become a thing that lives, a thing with its own consciousness that can't be controlled by any individual human.
Tech billionaire cultists want to bring a new era of humanity with AGI. That is definitely not possible with LLMs, and may not be possible at all. But there is a super intelligence that is possible, though it's been constrained by capitalism: collective human intelligence.
The grand vision of the tech dystopians is that of the ultimate slave that can then enslave all humans on their behalf. I think we can build a humanity that can liberate itself from their grasp, crush their vision, and build for itself a world in which people will never be enslaved again. Not only do I think it's possible, I think it's necessary. I think there are only two choices: collective liberation or death.
And that's what I plan to write about next time to wrap this whole project up. Today things often feel impossible. But people talked about the Middle Ages as though they were the end of the world, and then everything changed in unimaginable ways. Everything can, and will, change again.
"The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."

Why Rams' Mike LaFleur Makes Sense For Raiders Job https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-rams-mike-lafleur-makes-sense

Are you kidding me? Taking away the rule that gets us new street trees when sidewalks are being torn up anyway? Daniel Lurie is a cartoon villain. https://abc7news.com/post/san-francisco-considering-changes-building-code-require…

San Francisco considering changes to Public Works code that requires tree planting
San Francisco city officials are hoping to give builders the option to pay a fee instead of planting the required trees.

Metropolitana VI - Up Above and Down Under ⬆️⬇️
城 VI - 上面和下面 ⬆️⬇️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

After Neuralink, Max Hodak is building something even wilder https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/05/after-neuralink-max-hodak-is-building-something-stranger/ (heading for the Borg, Silicon Valley people indeed often sound as confident as LLMs, but …

After Neuralink, Max Hodak is building something even wilder | TechCrunch
"You could really, in a very fundamental sense, talk about redrawing the border around a brain," Hodak says, "possibly to include four hemispheres, or a device, or a whole group of people."

A labor-led coalition plans a protest outside the Edward J. Schwartz Federal Building Thursday to "demand an end to the bloodshed and inhumane treatment of immigrants by" Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.
The coalition gathers outside the federal building every Thursday, but the protest comes one day after the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old woman by an ICE officer in an immigration-related operation in Minneapolis.
"Protesters in San Diego are calling for an end…

Protest planned at downtown federal building following Minneapolis ICE shooting
A labor-led coalition plans a protest outside the Edward J. Schwartz Federal Building today to "demand an end to the bloodshed and inhumane treatment of immigrants by" Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.

Sunrun and HASI just launched a $500M fund to finance 40,000 rooftop solar and battery systems.
Hawaii is building a roadmap to zero-emission transportation by 2045.
Scientists are expanding storm tracking to improve flood forecasts and protect communities.
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Newsletter platform Beehiiv announces new features, including for AI website creation, podcast hosting, digital product sales, and real-time analytics (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/13/news

Newsletter platform beehiiv adds AI website building, creator tools in major expansion | TechCrunch
Newsletter platform beehiiv announced a massive expansion to its platform on Thursday, including offering real-time analytics and AI website creation.

There's a word at the beginning and end of Dawn of Everything that feels self-referential right now: Kairos.
> We began this book with a quote which refers to the Greek notion of kairos as one of those occasional moments in a society’s history when its frames of reference undergo a shift – a metamorphosis of the fundamental principles and symbols, when the lines between myth and history, science and magic become blurred – and, therefore, real change is possible. Philosophers sometimes like to speak of ‘the Event’ – a political revolution, a scientific discovery, an artistic masterpiece – that is, a breakthrough which reveals aspects of reality that had previously been unimaginable but, once seen, can never be unseen. If so, kairos is the kind of time in which Events are prone to happen.
> Societies around the world appear to be cascading towards such a point. This is particularly true of those which, since the First World War, have been in the habit of calling themselves ‘Western’. On the one hand, fundamental breakthroughs in the physical sciences, or even artistic expression, no longer seem to occur with anything like the regularity people came to expect in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet at the same time, our scientific means of understanding the past, not just our species’ past but that of our planet, has been advancing with dizzying speed. Scientists in 2020 are not (as readers of mid-twentieth-century science fiction might have hoped) encountering alien civilizations in distant star systems; but they are encountering radically different forms of society under their own feet, some forgotten and newly rediscovered, others more familiar, but now understood in entirely new ways.
Reading this as I write something very inspired by this work feels especially serendipitous, especially at this time. When they wrote the book, I think that kairos felt more serendipitous itself. But as the frequency of opportunity increases, the veil between realities feels more malleable... that perhaps we can poke a finger through and open a portal to a completely different future than the one we've felt locked into for such a long time.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/the-coordinated-swarm-lyhr

Serial entrepreneur Hamed Bahmani on early-stage building in neurotech https://www.neurofounders.co/post/serial-entrepreneur-hamed-bahmani-on-early-stage-building-in-neurotech

Serial Entrepreneur Hamed Bahmani on Early-Stage Building in Neurotech
Few people dare to start a company, and even fewer attempt it in a technically complex field like neurotechnology. Yet Dr Hamed Bahmani has now done it three times. After launching a clinical-stage company focused on myopia and another targeting Alzheimer’s through the visual system, he is doubling down on complexity. His latest venture has just emerged out of stealth, but early hints suggest it draws on decades spent at the forefront of neuro-innovation.Born in Iran, Bahmani studied engineer…

Mytra, which is building autonomous robots for warehouses that can move loads up to 3,000 pounds, raised a $120M Series C led by Avenir Growth (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/15/mytra-raises-120-million-series-c-scale-supply…

Exclusive: Mytra raises $120 million Series C to scale supply chain robotics amid industry boom
Mytra has raised a $120 million Series C, led by Avenir Growth, the company exclusively told Fortune.

oooof. this incumbent running for re-election to the SF Bike Coalition board is literally a landlord lawyer.
if you're a member, the voting details are here and there are 10 candidates for 8 seats. https://sfbike.org/news/meet-the-candidat…

MEET THE CANDIDATES FOR OUR 2026 BOARD OF DIRECTORS ELECTION
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition

Donald Trump has taken over the United States Institute of Peace building in Washington, D.C.,
and put his name on it,
even as the legal battle over who owns the building is ongoing.
Independent journalist Marisa Kabas posted about the visible signage on the building Wednesday showing “DONALD J. TRUMP” in block letters tacked to the building.
Kabas reports that Trump plans to use the building to host the signing of a peace agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic…

Trump Plasters His Own Name on U.S. Institute of Peace Headquarters
This is not Donald Trump’s building, but he’s certainly acting like it is.

Russia strikes Lviv playground, debris falls onto Kyiv residential building as drones attack Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/15/russia-strikes-lviv-playground-debris.html

🏜️ Death Valley plant yields blueprint for building heat-resilient crops
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Death Valley plant yields blueprint for building heat-resilient crops
In California's Death Valley, where summer temperatures regularly soar above 120 degrees Fahrenheit, life seems almost impossible. Yet among the cracked earth and blinding sunlight, one native plant not only survives—it thrives.

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Mozilla says it is building AI Window, a Firefox feature that will include an AI assistant and let users choose the model, but offers few additional details (Elissa Welle/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/820196/mozilla-firefox-ai-window-browser
…

Mozilla announces an AI ‘window’ for Firefox
Mozilla says it is building an AI window for its Firefox browser.

Rivian says it is building its own 5nm AI chip called the Rivian Autonomy Processor and a foundational "Large Driving Model", to enable fully autonomous driving (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/842213/rivian-ai-autonomous-chip-specs

Rivian is building its own powerful AI chips for autonomous driving
Rivian announced it was building its own AI chips for self-driving features. The company also plans on adding lidar to its upcoming R2 vehicles.

Berlin-based Mirelo, whose AI models can interpret video content to add matching sound effects, raised a $41M seed led by Index and a16z, after a $3M pre-seed (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/15/mirelo-raises-41m…

Mirelo raises $41M from Index and a16z to solve AI video's silent problem | TechCrunch
Mirelo, a German startup that is building AI to add synced sound effects to videos, has raised a $41 million seed round led by Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.

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The obvious result of making regulation so nakedly political
is that businesses respond by finding ways to butter-up the president
rather than building a case their deals serve the public interest
https://bsky.app/profile/economist.com/post/3m7snmxfri52h

The Economist (@economist.com)
The obvious result of making regulation so nakedly political is that businesses respond by finding ways to butter-up the president rather than building a case their deals serve the public interest https://econ.st/3KHKcm2

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-…

GPT 5.2 and useful patterns for building HTML tools
Plus a YouTube video, a podcast appearance and more

Time for a social experiment. I have 5 questions:
- What should we work towards as a society?
- What's one thing that doesn't exist now in your community but should?
- What's one action you could take in the coming year to align your life with that goal?
- What's one thing you could achieve in the coming year to get closer to making that thing exist?
- Imagine that we changed everything and you're living in the world you want to see exist. What does the world look like?
I've asked variations of these already (and am still getting great responses), but this time there's a catch. Get together some of your friends (3-5 people) and ask these questions of the group. Come up with *one* answer that everyone in the group agrees on and post it here, then write a bit about your experience.
If you don't know people locally (or otherwise can't do this in person), tag some folks in here or wherever your people are at digitally. Just add some info on if it's online or in person.
For anyone bold enough to actually do this, let me know if you'd be OK with me putting this in an upcoming entry (https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/).

Berlin-based Mirelo, whose AI models can interpret video content to add matching sound effects, raised a $41M seed led by Index and a16z, after a $3M pre-seed (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/15/mirelo-raises-41m…

Mirelo raises $41M from Index and a16z to solve AI video's silent problem | TechCrunch
Mirelo, a German startup that is building AI to add synced sound effects to videos, has raised a $41 million seed round led by Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.

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Zurich-based DeepJudge, which builds customized search indexes for law firms that plug into AI tools like ChatGPT, raised a $41M Series A at a $300M valuation (Alicia Park/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/aliciapark/2025…

Meet The Ex-Google Researchers Building AI Search For Law Firms
Legal tech startup DeepJudge has raised $41 million to build out customized search engines for law firms.

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Sources: Samsung raised the prices of some memory chips by 30%- 60% compared to September, amid shortages, adding to stress for companies building data centers (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/samsung-hikes-m…

Deepgram, which is building enterprise voice-recognition tech, raised a $130M Series C led by AVP at a $1.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $215M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/13/deepgram-raises-130m-at-1-3b-…

Deepgram raises $130M at $1.3B valuation and buys a YC AI startup | TechCrunch
Deepgram is raising its Series C round at a $1.3 billion valuation.

Austin-based webAI, which is building AI models that run locally on devices, raised "high double-digit" millions in a Series A at a $2.5B pre-money valuation (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/13/webai-sovereign-cloud-unicorn

Exclusive: webAI is now valued at over $2.5 billion
The idea is to run AI directly on devices, bypassing the cloud.