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"The Venezuelan people, already suffering under economic collapse and political repression, now face the prospect of becoming collateral damage in someone else’s power consolidation project."
Venezuela’s crisis is not an oil grab but a power grab | Donald Trump | Al Jazeera

Venezuela’s crisis is not an oil grab but a power grab
Trump has manufactured the Venezuela crisis, not to grab more oil but to expand his executive power.

"Cody Kociemba, the developer behind the Hack/House project, has taken it upon himself to maintain these aging devices. The solution is called "No Longer Evil," or “NLE” for short. It's an open-source project designed to give decommissioned Nest Thermostats a second life."
ht…

Google killed old Nest thermostats, but hackers are making them work again
A clever workaround restores lost functionality, but is it ready for prime time?

"Cyclones get names but deadly heatwaves don’t. Should Australia personalise severe weather?"
#Australia #Weather

Cyclones get names but deadly heatwaves don’t. Should Australia personalise severe weather?
We name severe cyclones and storms, but not heatwaves or floods. Why? Are there benefits to giving Australia’s climate-fuelled extreme weather a name?

Mick Shots: Simple but hard path into playoffs https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mick-shots-simple-but-hard-path-into-playoffs

This is very telling but my favorite super power would be to stop time. Not for any creepy reasons, but rather because I sometimes believe there's so much happening and I'd love to take the adequate time to respond to it all or process it. Just take one day and do everything I have been wanting to do and that has been piling up in my mind for years!
The biggest tragedy of life is that there will always be too little time for it all.

The most amazing but predictable thing in this story: some ultra-conservatives decry that "good immigrants" get deported but they blame Biden for it.
Shit for brains.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/12/refugee-deportation-idaho-trump

First gudgin of the season. We'll have kilos of them this year but the first are always a treat. They're mouth puckeringly sour but so deep in flavour (and extremely good forvyou). I'll make jam and sauce and dried powder later but these first 4 go in the fridge (seeds taken out) with a sprinkle of sugar overnight and onto my yoghurt tomorrow. #fromthegarden

I've seen many posts about headmates and plural personalities on fedi, and I get it, but my personal experience is dozens of identical Cats (me) all talking at the same time.
Maybe it's just my ADHD, but for me it's like being possessed by yourself (if that makes sense). Brain is always going 200% speed just not always in the direction I want. 😹

“It rained heavily last night.
Our clothes, blankets, mattresses, everything got soaked.
We were freezing… truly freezing.
Living in a tent has become unbearable… feels like a disaster every day.
We try to protect ourselves from the rain, but we still end up sitting in water inside the tent.
We are a family of seven and the tent can’t hold us but we keep trying.
We keep holding on.
Please, we need your help to move somewhere safer.”
–

I've played a bunch of roguelites and they are often fun, but I keep dropping off of them after a few hours usually. There's often somewhat interesting storytelling but at some point I'd prefer to just not go through the motions of "another run" and just not keep on playing. Happened with Hades and ond two and a bunch of others.

Google says Gemini will help power not only a more personalized version of Siri, but also future Apple Intelligence features (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/12/google-gemini-future-apple-intelligence-features/

Google Says Gemini Partnership With Apple Will Go Beyond Siri Revamp
Google today announced that its AI platform Gemini will help power not only a more personalized version of Siri, but a range of future Apple...

I have not updated my main Mac to the new OS. I have updated my laptop, and regret it. I am concerned about security updates but I believe Apple provides security updates for not-too-old versions.
This UI, though, I just do not feel comfortable with it. I am hoping I can skip this major version and that the next one will be more in line with Apple's historical attention to getting UIs right.
Please don't respond with discussion about the UI, but: please do respond if I am making a security mistake by holding off on the update.

So I have been using Twitter just for browsing for the last year or so, with little to no posting (mainly just replies)
I got prompted to re-roll my security keys (because they are killing off the old domain)
but it now keeps asking me to re-roll or verify my email but nothing works.
I sent a support ticket, but I doubt I will get a response (And if I do, I will get a 💩 emoji response), so I really believe that is me done with Twitter.

Iran foreign minister says country ready for negotiations
but also ‘fully prepared for war’
Abbas Araghchi warns adversaries against ‘miscalculation’ as Trump mulls military response to protest crackdown

‘The streets are full of blood’: Iranian protests gather momentum as regime cracks down

Iranian student killed during protests was shot in head ‘from close range’

Unpredictable Trump weighs up Iranian pleas for help against calls for r…

Null is problematic, but why? Let's see why, and let that guide us to new alternatives. #PHP
https://peakd.com/hive-168588/@crell/much-ado-about-null

Ethan Mollick makes a good point on BlueSky:
I understand the fear and anger. But also:
1) It is connected to the belief that AI is fake and going to vanish, which means that critics who should be helping shape AI use through policy and collective work are sitting it out
2) Lumping all AI criticism/talk into us vs. "tech bros" doesn't help
#AI

Ethan Mollick (@emollick.bsky.social)
I understand the fear and anger. But also: 1) It is connected to the belief that AI is fake and going to vanish, which means that critics who should be helping shape AI use through policy and collective work are sitting it out 2) Lumping all AI criticism/talk into us vs. "tech bros" doesn't help [contains quote post or other embedded content]

New Mini-Gist: Power’s Walled Cities
A Democracy where politicians are in constant office, but do not respond to citizens’ wishes (or even just their own voters’ interests) but just advance the policies that suit monied lobbies is a disaffection machine.
https://www.thegist.ie/mini-gist-powers-wa

Mini-Gist: Power’s Walled City
Yesterday’s plan to control internet has already dwindled down to a pilot, with no MyGovID integration. This is the Gist.

Rams' Stafford has finger sprain, but 'good to go' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47590329/rams-matthew-stafford-index-finger-sprain-good-go

The US military has always had a massive global advantage against enemies by having bases all over the world. There are bases in every NATO country. This would appear to be a powerful threat to anyone willing to oppose American hegemon, and under normal conditions it would be.
But a lot of those kids serving on those bases joined, not because they love America but, because they needed a ticket out of poverty. They joined for the education, for the money, maybe a bit for the adventure, but, more than anything, to escape the ghetto or podunk backwater that trapped them. Under normal times, this is the best deal they could expect. Maybe they risk their lives, usually they sit around being bored for a few years, and they get to come out with respect and paid college.
But what they are being offered is normal in most of the countries they're stationed in. Free healthcare, cheap or free education, is just what citizens in a lot of countries have come to expect. If the US attacked a NATO country, how many would snap up citizenship if they were given a chance to defect? Bonus points for taking some hardware with you, I'm sure.
But there are some who love their country. There are some patriotic Americans on those bases. Some of them joined specifically to protect the US from all enemies, foreign *and* domestic. Given a chance to fulfill that oath or violate international law, what happens?
There are a good number of former military folks too who now are unsafe in the countries they served, who would do just about anything for citizenship in any EU country and almost any NATO ally. Some of those folks know things they swore an oath to never share, but the country they swore an oath to has betrayed them. Today there's no value in leaking those secrets, but in a war between the US and NATO allies things would be different. Some of those former military folks still believe in their oath, and know exactly who the real enemy is. What happens when there's a real threat of war, when they can use their knowledge to fulfill that oath to protect the US against those domestic threats?
There are a bunch of civilian tech workers who have become targets of the regime. Some of them had clearance, or know about the skeletons in the closet. They know about critical infrastructure, classified systems, all sorts of things that would be extremely valuable to an opponent. But the opponents of the US have always been a frightening *other*, never familiar societies these folks look up to, have visited, have thought about moving to, are trying to escape to.
All I'm saying here is that invading Venezuela and kidnapping the president has a very different calculus than does attacking Greenland. I don't know if Trump or his people are able to understand that, but if he and his folks aren't then I hope European leaders are. But more than that, I hope it never comes down to finding out.
But perhaps we should all think about what we would do to make sure things ended quickly if American leadership ever made such an incredible mistake.

Tell my whyyyyy
Ain’t nothing but a heartache
Tell me whyyy
Ain’t never but a mistake
Tell me why
I never wanna hear you say
„We sent you a magic link to login to this slack channel“

I'm a little behind with posting my recent photos. but here you see one of my favourite lokal "afternoon hills".
This is one of the RARE hills, where I often walk without camera. But that day the clouds were so low that I just brought it - hoping for some exceptional shots... Exceptional for the location - not wordlwide exceptional ;-)
Enjoy!
#photography

I have an expired credit card with a metal core that I want to destroy. I originally thought the core was an aluminum alloy, but it resisted scissors. With some bending and prying, I'm 99% sure the core is steel.
After a few minutes of work, I managed to peel some of the plastic off the mag-stripe side but cut a finger in the process.
The card had a pleasant heft and feeling of durability, but given the difficulty to destroy it, I really dislike it now.

Took a few minutes over lunch to iron out the last of the bugs in the happy path of PCIe link training.
There's no timeouts or fallback if there's problems but if the other side is happy, it will train up to L0 and then sit there ignoring all incoming traffic.
After a while, the link partner gets mad that it hasn't seen a single DLLP from me and drops the link. I don't implement recovery yet so things go downhill from there.

I'm no fan of the the U.S. prison industrial complex or its justice system, but I can't help but think how much better the world would be now if they'd just locked Tim Allen away for life all those years ago

UK PM Keir Starmer says he supports "a strong and independent BBC" but it must get its "house in order" as some people "would rather the BBC didn't exist" (Ian Youngs/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crre8gnzg10o

PM Keir Starmer says BBC must 'put house in order' over mistakes
Sir Keir Starmer says it "must uphold the highest standards" but supports "a strong, independent BBC".

One of the points Mr Masala made was that one of big requirements for democracies and free countries in Europe to be successful in resisting Russian and American imperialism is for societies to be resilient and cohesive. My comment there would be that we have seen a general reaction in Canada of common resolve against Trump’s comments and actions. I don’t have any doubt that if push came to shove, the Canadian population would be extremely united and resistant against any kind of attack by the USA. Likewise, I think Danish citizens are showing a similar reaction. But would Canada band together to send troops to protect and potentially die in Europe?
Maybe. But I am less sure.
@…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Depeche Mode:
🎵 But Not Tonight
#NowPlaying #DepecheMode
https://djpepusnik.bandcamp.com/track/depeche-mode-but-not-tonight-remix-2023
https://open.spotify.com/track/0mOAeFylUraa4kUB1B9QW3

#Linux question: I would like to have a shared partition, on a #DualBoot between Windows 11 and Ubuntu 24, which would be encrypted but still useable (read & write) from both OSes.
It seems that one way to do this is via "Veracrypt" (see

Encrypt partition for use in Ubuntu + Windows
I have a machine with dual boot Windows 10 / Ubuntu 20.04. I would like to set up a new HDD (1 partition) dedicated for documents and other data - which I would like to have have encrypted, but

{constructive} prints code that can be used to recreate R objects. Like dput, but better... #rstats

Display Idiomatic Code to Construct Most R Objects
Prints code that can be used to recreate R objects. In a sense it is similar to base

RE: https://phpc.social/@syntaxseed/115855415960085751
I have such conflicted thoughts on this.
What happened? Gross. It's very much a harm as a systemic effect of "AI"
But also _open source industry_ is in fact a thing I think has been deeply destructive and somewhat replaced the collectivist work done before. We could go back to that. That was good stuff.
But TailwindCSS is super popular.
I also think it's a bad technology, meant to undermine the foundations and design of CSS, leading us to technically worse places.
Also the business? It is selling themes and components.
That's a really hard business to be in. The time to buy a license comes in a project's lifecycle too early, so people avoid it. It's a weird business. Not one I think people should plan to have work.

Today's example of media and analysts actively disbelieving what's plain:
Why is the Trump regime so interested in Greenland? It doesn't make sense! There's no economic, military, or geopolitical explanation!
But what if there were? And what if it was territorial expansion for its own sake? What if it was, in a word, imperialism? Those on the radio this morning entertained all sorts of increasingly odd theories but, somehow, empire-building was a bridge too far.

🚨An email pops up: “Quick! Can you upload the contract here? My VPN’s down!”
It looks like your colleague. It feels urgent. But is it real? 👀
Smishing messages like these exploit trust and urgency, making us act before we think.
It’s easy to slip into autopilot when we’re busy.
But #digitalmindfulness means slowing down, even if for just a few seconds.
🔗 W…

I went and saw the "marcus mystery movie" last night. You don't find out what movie you're seeing until you see it. The movie started with two elderly people driving to their kids' house for a gender reveal party. One of them has terminal cancer but doesn't want the children to know, yet. It was around this point where I questioned if I made a good choice. 🤔
For what it's worth, I liked the movie. I never would have seen that otherwise but I liked it.

60 years ago tonight, the velvet underground at summit high school in new jersey, opening for the myddle class, both acts' 1st proper shows. sometimes called the VU's debut, rob norris’s classic scene report, “i was a velveteen” (from kicks #1) mentions they’d just been fired from cafe wha?, so maybe there was one earlier, too? some great local coverage, too!

'minicom' is a TUI serial comms program - ideal for when you're dealing with real serial devices and you need to play with baud rates, and the like. It's not fancy, and frankly hasn't changed much in ages - but it comes in handy. In the last year I've used it with an Apple ][c, JavaStation, and Epson-HX20 - but even more modern stuff sometimes has that emergency rescue serial shell.

Minicom / minicom · GitLab
Minicom is a serial communication program

EXCLUSIVE: Wes Moore Won a Key White House Post Claiming He Was 'Touted as a Foremost Expert' ... (Andrew Kerr/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/wes-moore-won-a-key-white-house-post-claiming-he-was-touted-as-a-foremost-expert-on-radical-islam-and-was-studying-for-an-oxford-phd-but-his-thesis-is-missing-and-theres-no-evidence/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p52#a251211p52

The Raiders Needed Answers vs. the Broncos — But Got Even More Questions https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/news/raiders-needed-answers-vs-broncos-even-more-questions-las-vegas

I kid you not, this is improving my French. Not just with rugby posts, but because I have the frame of reference I can get the gist so I do well with them. If I don't know a word I hit the translate button. Short posts like this and from other accounts are doing more than Duolingo ever did. I could clean up on Duolingo but not really properly learn much at all.
@… …

France | République française (@fr@pubeurope.com)
Attached: 1 image https://www.europesays.com/fr/594596/ Le deuxième-ligne sud-africain, Eben Etzebeth, explique sa version après sa suspension de 12 semaines – L'Équipe #FR #France #Rugby #RugbyFootball #Sports

We rush through days counting minutes. But what if we're using the wrong kind of time?
The Greeks knew two types: Chronos (clock time) and Kairos (soul time). One measures. One reveals openings.
When we stop racing, something shifts. Endings become doorways. Crisis becomes life reorganizing itself.
What if the future isn't running out but circling back?
Read more about relearning the rhythms of change:

Why Time Isn’t Running Out: Finding Kairos in an Age of Collapse
What if time isn’t running out but ripening? Learn how Chronos and Kairos reveal a new path through urgency, collapse, and renewal.

“Putin attacks but we will stand stronger with Ukraine!” British Defense Minister in Kyiv #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/09/putin-attacks-but-we-will.html

"What color is your function?" is a wonderful title. It's so good, the title alone could win the Sundance Festival.
But that post is about a JavaScript-specific limitation (not applicable to other languages), and some wishful bikeshedding about syntax (which turns out to be a leaky abstraction that makes locking ambiguous, very problematic in low-level languages).
But *color* is so catchy. It's not well defined that post, but you can't have "color"…

It looked better on TikTok but this will do

One pattern you can always count on: if you ever explain a technology by describing how the human and social aspects matter more than the obscure technical details, a certain cohort of dudes who are inept at socialization will lash out about their insecurities by trying to condescend. Who here thinks I wrote ~5000 words on Markdown but I don’t know what plain text files are?

Sonnet 139 - CXXXIX
O! call not me to justify the wrong
That thy unkindness lays upon my heart;
Wound me not with thine eye, but with thy tongue:
Use power with power, and slay me not by art,
Tell me thou lov'st elsewhere; but in my sight,
Dear heart, forbear to glance thine eye aside:
What need'st thou wound with cunning, when thy might
Is more than my o'erpressed defence can bide?
Let me excuse thee: ah! my love well knows <…

New Virtual Gear
'Tis the season of deals on softsynths and music plugins. Usually, a avoid these deals, but this year I splurged. I've been using U-he's Zebra 2 a lot in the past year, so when they offered Hive 2 and Diva at 50% off, I bought both of them. Then the developer of MT Power Drumkit ported it to Linux, so I bought that.

Heading South
But not for the warmth.. Tomorrow I'm taking the first stage of the journey to Antarctica, ironically enough though, I'm heading south by first heading north, to Oslo, where the Norwegian Polar Institute have organised an almost direct flight from Oslo to Troll station with a short stopover in Cape Town. Bags almost packed and ready to go... I'm super excited and also suffering a little trepidation.
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/12/11/heading-south/

ok fine but can react server components show emotional vulnerability too

North Atlantic right whale birth rate is up but extinction still looms North Atlantic right whale birth rate is up but extinction still looms https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/01/north-atlantic-right-whale-birth-rat…

North Atlantic right whale birth rate is up but extinction still looms
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — One of the world’s rarest whale species is having more babies this year than in some recent seasons, but experts say many more young are needed to help stave off the possibility of extinction. The North Atlantic right whale’s population numbers an estimated 384 animals and is slowly rising after several years of […]

The remote option is great, but it’s not actually an answer to the school safety question. I would like to know:
What •action• are the schools, the city, and the state of MN taking to directly protect students? Who is defending our students and our educators? Is that part of this NG deployment — or is the community on their own?
4/

Still on X: "Yeah, but we need to communicate via the sewer, because all that shit needs some balance."

Went for a weekend walk in QE park; the colors of autumn are fading, but there are still treats for the eye.
#Photography #Vancouver

RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115873428590286252
This is also why I don't but do, but don't delete toots after 7 days. I want to keep a record of my thoughts so I can see how my brain patterns shift over time, but sometimes the chi…

What's the biggest story in the country today?
It's not Erika Kirk's town hall
but the CBS website already has at least 14 stories on it
and an entire special section on the home page.
https://bsky.app/profile/newsjennifer.bsky.social/pos…

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) (@newsjennifer.bsky.social)
What's the biggest story in the country today? It's not Erika Kirk's town hall but the CBS website already has at least 14 stories on it and an entire special section on the home page. www.cbsnews.com

Who will win NFL MVP? History says Drake Maye, but Matthew Stafford could break the mold https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6871354/2025/12/12/nfl-mvp-race-matthew-stafford-drake-maye/

Nice blog in the discussion about AI & coding,
"AI can replace most of programming, but programming isn’t the job.
Programming is a task. It’s one of many things you do as part of your work. But if you’re a software engineer, your actual job is more than typing code into an editor."
https://<…

AI Can Write Your Code. It Can’t Do Your Job.
The companies building AI are spending billions to acquire engineers, not replace them. Here’s why your job is safer than you think.

Stack Overflow recorded just 6,866 questions in Dec. 2025, about the same as in 2008; Stack Overflow now primarily makes money from enterprises and licensing (Claire Yubin Oh/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/stack-overflow-forum-dead-tha…

Stack Overflow’s forum is dead thanks to AI, but the company’s still kicking... thanks to AI
The platform is raking in millions of dollars in revenue, with AI an ironic new source of revenue.

If you've ever wanted to go out in the woods and have fun with some friends, but you can't figure out how to also make it about organizing, I have good news. It turns out that there are significant overlaps between a big outdoor gathering, houseless camp support, and disaster response.
Tell yourself you're practicing for the revolution, but also maybe practice some fun.
https://pnc.st/s/live-like-the-world-is-dying/9a40dfa9/organizing-outdoor-gathering-infrastructure/transcript

After reading a term paper that demonstrated nothing more than the "author's" brainless use of a brainless statistical model to brainlessly vomit brainless prose, I'm deeply grateful for the flawed result of human thinking that turned up second in the grading pile. It's not amazing but it's really not bad and, more importantly, it shows the student learned something. If nothing else, LLMs have given me a new appreciation for the imperfect but honest work we produce …

Ferguson questionable to play, but Cowboys confident in Plan BSF https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/12/cowboys-jake-ferguson-questionable-brevyn-spann-ford/87738389007/<…

A thread dumping some (non-obvious?) notes about #firewalld - I think I've got it doing what I want, but it's been a bit of a fight, and I made a bunch of wrong turns.
It's a layer on top of nftables or iptables; is XML based but you can just drive it from a command line tool firewall-cmd and avoid the XML.
It's main idea is a graph of 'zones' where a 'zo…

Unpopular opinion, but Star Wars is mid and not worth giving these creeps money for.
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115701913433617021

The Horrors™ persist, but so do cats! :3

The push to impeach,
-- in particular the current breakout push among Dems for #Noem
-- but also more generally,
⭐️is NOT just about taking the long shot of flipping a couple of Massie types to get it through now.
🔥It's also about creating and holding them to a pre-commitment to do it when Dems have the House.

Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social)
The push to impeach, in particular the current breakout push among Dems for Noem but also more generally, isn't just about taking the long shot of flipping a couple of Massie types to get it through now. It's also about creating and holding them to a pre-commitment to do it when Dems have the House.

One amazing thing about 2025 is that, if you start up an Apple product, it forces you to choose between _three different_ window mangers, but if you start up a clean install of a current version of Linux, it just chooses good defaults for you.

Sonnet 134 - CXXXIV
So now I have confessed that he is thine,
And I my self am mortgaged to thy will,
Myself I'll forfeit, so that other mine
Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still:
But thou wilt not, nor he will not be free,
For thou art covetous, and he is kind;
He learned but surety-like to write for me,
Under that bond that him as fast doth bind.
The statute of thy beauty thou wilt take,
Thou usurer, that put'st forth …

What David said :) 💯
And more so, please remember that @… and I couldn’t hold the verification calls without @… and @…

what if ___ (good thing) but instead, ___ (worse thing)

Got to say a few words on "AI and Art" on the "Blaues Rauschen" Podcast. My main point: AI art will not only diminish what people using it can express but will also change people's acceptance of friction: If all you know if perfectly smooth slop, will you really accept anything but? Also: Decomputing.
https://

Pot lights are a mistake, an architectural foible that’s ubiquitous because it makes a place look glamorous when you’re walking through thinking of renting/buying it. Looks good in photos too. And they’re fine for cooking or reading because you’re looking down. But for activities like conversation or chilling in front of the screen, they glare annoyingly. Nice glass wall or ceiling light fixtures are way easier on the eyes.

Donald Trump has ordered U.S. special forces commanders to draw up a plan for the invasion of Greenland
-- but is being resisted by senior military figures.
Sources say that the policy 'hawks' around the US President,
led by political adviser #Stephen #Miller, have been so emboldened by the succe…

Donald Trump 'orders army chiefs to draw up plan to invade Greenland': US President emboldened by success of Maduro capture operation
Donald Trump has ordered his special forces commanders to draw up a plan for the invasion of Greenland - but is being resisted by senior military figu...

Wait, that's Hunt the Wumpus but with an LLM?

Trevon Diggs expects to play vs. Vikings, but Cowboys remain undecided https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6884720/2025/12/12/trevon-diggs-cowboys-vikings-injury-update/

I often here about social media being bad for your mental health, but I find the way I use it (Fedi only) is good for mine.
It's fun as heck here! :3

Having had a while to work with it, I think my big takeaway from the new windowing stuff on iPadOS is that… it pretty much _never_ does what I want with window management? It *should* work like MacOS, but it doesn’t, and it doesn’t in wildly unpredictable and surprising ways?

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…

Well, Apple, making Safari 26.0.1 run like a dog’s breakfast on macOS Sequoia while also *not* providing a download for Safari 18.6¹ is definitely a choice.²
No way I’m breaking nearly half the apps I rely on daily by upgrading to Tahoe just to fix Safari so I guess I’ll be making Chromium my default (I use Orion a lot, especially since I pay for Kagi, but it has its issues like 1Password not working, etc.) And don’t get me started on Firefox³.
So, Apple, how about a little less …

Progressive lawmakers are demanding that the Democrats use the upcoming government funding deadline to hopefully reduce the Department of Homeland Security’s ability to wreak further havoc.
“I just don’t understand how we provide votes for a bill that funds the extent of the depravity,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) told CNNThursday.
“I know we can’t fix everything in the appropriations bill but we should be looking at ways we can put some commonsense limitations on their ability to…

Schumer, Jeffries Refuse to Join Democrats' Growing Calls to Slash ICE Spending | Common Dreams
The killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent sparks outrage as Democrats debate funding for the agency. Should they use their power to rein in ICE's violence? Progressive lawmakers demand action, but top Democrats seem hesitant. Is it time for a change in leadership to hold ICE accountable? #ReinInICE #EndViolence

Raiders vs. Eagles prediction: Las Vegas battles, but Philadelphia bounces back to end losing streak

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/raiders-vs-eagles-where-to-watch-pick-od…

No too late to back this fascinating book, but only a few hours left! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bzotto/go-computer-now-the-story-of-sphere

RE: https://meow.social/@kris_of_pnictogen/115884449604414690
So I seldom quote-post people, but one of the times you have to do it is when people knowingly do shit like *conflating me and Curtis Yarvin*, when Yarvin has publicly targeted me, did so …

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

Rotisserie Chicken

Lamar Jackson injury: Ravens QB misses practice but knee 'should be OK' per coach John Harbaugh

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/lamar-jackson-injur…

Finally have Zaha back from the vet. She’s doing great but had to have all her teeth removed.
We had a cat like that before, who lived very happily with us for years afterwards.
(Cats don’t need their teeth for eating.)

RE: https://meow.social/@kris_of_pnictogen/115884449604414690
So I seldom quote-post people, but one of the times you have to do it is when people knowingly do shit like *conflating me and Curtis Yarvin*, when Yarvin has publicly targeted me, did so …

Newly listed Chinese AI chipmakers Moore Threads, Biren, and MetaX had stellar stock market debuts, but none has sales above 10% of rival Cambricon (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f67a3a6a-d640-4b3f-bf06-dace3164d180

Warmest cat in the house

Jets vs. Jaguars prediction: Trevor Lawrence has Jags rolling, but will they cover that huge number?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jets-vs-jaguars-where-to-watch-pick-odds-p…

would it be unfair to some people who would have to resign even when it later comes to light that they’re innocent?
yes, but that absolutely doesn’t matter in any way—the chance that they’re guilty is a way bigger threat to the functioning of high offices and an ongoing distraction https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115537904470408038

Investigation: Google removed AI Overviews for two liver health queries after expert inaccuracy warnings, but slight keyword tweaks still trigger AI responses (Andrew Gregory/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/11…

Colts vs. Seahawks prediction: Seattle will cruise to victory, but all eyes are on Indianapolis' QB situation

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/colts-vs-seahawks-where-to-…

Rails Core are a bunch of hypocritical assholes.
They don’t care if their great leader is going off on yet another racist or transphobic tirade but if someone dares to criticize them for licking Nazi boots their fee-fees are hurt.

[Thread] Substack quietly added a feature that forced subscribers to download the app to read full newsletters but say they've rolled it back after complaints (Gergely Orosz/@gergelyorosz)
https://x.com/gergelyorosz/status/1999241496005066755

Emotional Schottenheimer on Kneeland's death: 'We don't move on, but we do move forward' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6801874/2025/11/12/brian-schottenheimer-marshawn-kneeland-death-cowboys/

And this is working, but it's slow progress.
Mastodon in particular has UX problems that will be very hard to overcome that prevent mass adoption, foremost is that actual conversations (aka replies) are unreliable and slow due to the way posts are distributed. Quote post support was a huge first step to remedy this. I hope we'll see more updates on it.
Bluesky got a big chunk of former Twitter users, especially in some niches like for scientists and activists; they have great performance, reliable threading and replies and really amazing featuers like fully custom feeds—but suffer from intransparent moderation and frankly insufferable leadership (still leagues better than Twitter or Facebook though).
(There's more than these, but these are what I use.)

Amazon Echo Show 8 ($180) and Echo Show 11 ($220) review: better hardware and software, and Alexa is an improvement, but no camera cover and ads in the future (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/818814/amazon-echo-show-11-8-alexa-…

5 things I love about Amazon’s new Echo Shows — and 3 things I don’t
Amazon’s Echo Show 8 and Echo Show 11 launch this week, here are my first impressions

LaFleur to keep calling plays but must 'look inward' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46945762/packers-coach-matt-lafleur-not-giving-playcalling-duties-push-do-better

Hands-on with Claude Cowork: looks well positioned to bring the powerful capabilities of Claude Code to a wider audience, but risks of prompt injections remain (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/12/claude-cowork/

First impressions of Claude Cowork, Anthropic’s general agent
New from Anthropic today is Claude Cowork, a “research preview” that they describe as “Claude Code for the rest of your work”. It’s currently available only to Max subscribers ($100 …

Coinbase plans to move its incorporation from Delaware to Texas, saying Delaware "once provided companies with consistency" but now has "unpredictable outcomes" (Ari Levy/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/12/coinbase-m

Coinbase moves incorporation to Texas from Delaware, following Musk's lead
Coinbase's legal chief wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that the crypto platform is moving its state of incorporation to Texas.

The UK plans to bring into force a law this week that will make it illegal to create non-consensual intimate images, as Ofcom investigates X (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq845glnvl1o

UK to bring into force law to tackle Grok AI deepfakes this week
It is currently illegal to share deepfakes, but the law against creating them has not yet come into force.