2025-11-28 16:29:07
The Convicted Criminal hands Ukraine to the Russian dictator. Fixed it for you Telegraph :-)
https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/115628188586255514
The Convicted Criminal hands Ukraine to the Russian dictator. Fixed it for you Telegraph :-)
https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/115628188586255514
this week on substack I'm sharing some thoughts about how accepting contradiction or paradox in our lives can allow us to grow our impact.
https://www.brichapman.com/p/the-gift-of-contradiction?r=1o5n19&utm_campaign=post&ut…
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Kevin Morby:
🎵 Gift Horse
#NowPlaying #KevinMorby
https://kevinmorby.bandcamp.com/album/gift-horse-b-w-i-was-on-time
Trump's Kennedy Center Honors went... comically poorly. Alexandra Petri reporting at the event.
✅ Trump’s Very Weird Night at the Kennedy Center Honors - The Atlantic
https://w…
Donald Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms Is Already Under Way - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/12/2026-midterms-trump-threat/684615/?gift=PUGLa-mGupQ6uJoaPKPPd65EXc-MxNID_GAqRhi85qY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Why Does Steve Witkoff Keep Taking Russia's Side? (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/steve-witkoff-ukraine-russia-deal/685081/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK34uS8vnHmY-1PCjWM3r9U_Y&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p19#a251127p19
Jefferies: Tether, which said it held 116 tons of gold in September, is "the largest holder of gold outside central banks", buying 26 tons in Q3 and 24 in Q2 (Bryce Elder/Financial Times)
Gefährliche Packerl - Fliegenpilz-Gift in beschlagnahmten Gummibärli #News #Nachrichten
In 2016, The Atlantic’s journalist
Shane Harris
made contact with a person claiming to work as a hacker for Iran’s intelligence,
where he claimed to have worked on major operations,
such as the downing of an American drone and the now-infamous hack against oil giant Saudi Aramco,
where Iranian hackers wiped the company’s computers.
Harris was rightly skeptical,
but as he kept talking to the hacker,
who eventually revealed his real name to him,…
I don't think I'm ever going to enjoy gifts.
I can get why people would give them to children. After all, children don't have their own budget. However, I'm talking about occasional gifts, not a new toy every second week, because "we must outcompete the other grandparents". But to adults?
Once I've heard that you should gift people with what they won't buy themselves. Well, that's won't work for me. I'm a minimalist. If I don't need something, I don't want to have it. Unnecessary junk is only emotional burden to me.
I can get why you'd enjoy something handmade. But something people bought? If I need something, I can buy it myself, when I need it. And I definitely don't need people to prove to me that they never cared to learn who I am, and just buy whatever they like or whatever is "fashionable"; which usually means exactly the opposite of what I'd prefer (i.e. something minimalistic). Or even worse, I don't need people manipulating me through gifts.
Sweets? Besides my diabetes, I don't really enjoy expensive shit that people generally buy because it's what's advertised. For the money they waste on it, I'd buy three times as much sweets I'd actually enjoy.
Gift cards? Oh yes, "you aren't supposed to give money, so let's just give the equivalent of money that's actually worth less than money". Actual money? And here we reach the true nonsense; we exchange the same amount of money, so it's just pointless gesture. Unless one of us gives less money…
What I'd really like, as a gift? Maybe that people would finally bother accepting me as who I am. The absolute minimum of caring that I hate consumerism, and not fueling it "for me".
#AntiCapitalism #minimalism #ActuallyAutistic
Black Friday 2025 deals on Las Vegas Raiders gift ideas https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/shopping/2025/11/25/black-friday-deals-las-vegas-raiders-gifts/87411269007/
Deze levendige flat in Ternopil doet na een Russische aanval denken aan een massagraf.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/11/25/deze-
As the BBC fights Trump's $10B lawsuit and ITV plans to combine its broadcasting business with Sky in 2026, a look at the slow death of the UK's TV channels (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
Watch out for the next issue of the journal I edit, a staid, sober, scholarly publication - the front cover will feature an 18th-century engraving of someone getting (and so someone else giving - the greatest gift of all) an enema.
I thought this was pretty funny. Awkward dinner parties.
Hopefully no paywall, gift article.
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/20
Pensioencompensatie: wie niet oplet loopt zó een groot bedrag mis
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/12/26/pensioencompensatie-wie…
A post from the archive 📫:
The gift of time
#musings
New Cowboys 2026 NFL mock draft gift wraps defensive stars for Dallas https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/new-dallas-cowboys-2026-nfl-mock-draft-gift-wraps-defensive-stars
Which instrument should you play?
#music #education
The judiciary's Christmas gift to Trump (Brian Karem/Salon)
https://www.salon.com/2025/12/26/the-judiciarys-christmas-gift-to-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p50#a251226p50
RE: https://mastodon.social/@warandpeas/115622653459844057
I bought a copy of "Hi, Earth" as a gift. The online shop lets you add a dedication and I even got a doodle and a sticker. Thanks, War and Peas!
Kyiv Independent launches holiday gift guide celebrating Ukrainian creativity: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/21/kyiv-independent-launches-holiday-gift.html
To frame #Grinch vs #Scrooge as a mere new-for-old replacement misses half the point of #AChristmasCarol: it’s not just a redemption story, but—like much of
One gift for struggling Lions? Who wins Ravens-Packers? NFL Week 17 roundtable https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6917438/2025/12/25/nfl-week-17-roundtable-lions-cowboys-chiefs/
As a little holiday gift from Canada to us, my reading of bill C-3 (https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2025/12/bill-c-3-an-act-to-amend-the-citizenship-act-2025-co…
i gave my son-in-law a battery daddy (fully populated), a scrub daddy set, and a gift certificate to fat daddy
#BatteryDaddy #ScrubDaddy #FatDaddy
Good Morning #Canada
Are you still looking for that perfect Christmas gift? Years ago I found myself shopping for my wife's Christmas present on December 23rd. Never again. For those of you still shopping it's inevitable that you're going to be standing in front of the Gift Card rack and mentally convincing yourself that the recipient will love a full gas tank or a Timmies coffee and donut. Canadians will buy close to $12 billion in Gift Cards in 2025, with a lot of that in the next 5 days. Recent changes to legislation have made it illegal to charge processing or activation fees on cards purchased with cash and there is no expiry date. That last point is important because companies are betting that a certain percentage of cards are never redeemed and it's estimated that approximately 40% of all cards are never used. I personally like getting a gift card as it allows me to choose something I want, and I always thank the gifter once I've used it.
#CanadaIsAwesome #GiftCards
»Data Poisoning bei LLMs—Feste Zahl Gift-Dokumente reicht für Angriff:
Eine neue Studie widerlegt eine alte Sicherheitsannahme. Nicht der prozentuale Anteil, sondern eine geringe, feste Anzahl an Gift-Daten kompromittiert LLMs.«
Einen weiteren Artikel um den leichtgläubigen Menschen zu zeigen wie giftig KI ist. Dies gilt im allgemeinen um Meinungen & Propaganda in den Konsumenten zu manifestieren.
🧪
My mother-in-law got “The Seashell Oracle” as a gift and I am dying here trying not to make puns about UNIX and databases to a room full of completely nontechnical people. Please send help before I break
moreno_taro: Papuan gift-giving (1970)
A network of gift-giving relationships (taro exchange) among households in a Papuan village. Data collected by survey c.1970.
This network has 22 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/moreno_ta…
A gift to the West Bank city of Nablus from Scottish firefighters has sat impounded in dock by the fascist Israeli authorities. They've sent a £16,000 bill to Nablus.
Another way in which Israel harms Palestinians and blocks solidarity.
Scottish fire engine destined for West Bank may return after 15-month Israeli seizure | Dundee | The Guardian
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Ronald Isley:
🎵 Isley Christmas (medley)
#RonaldIsley
https://new2udj.bandcamp.com/track/the-isley-brothers-ronald-isley-special-gift-no-intro-clean
A post from the archive 📫:
The gift of time
#musings
Q&A with Sportable co-founders Dugald Macdonald and Peter Husemeyer on their sensor-based sports tech that generates data for teams, leagues, and broadcasters (Samuel Agini/Financial Times)
You’ve been given free access to this article from The Economist as a gift. You can open the link five times within seven days. After that it will expire.
The Economist’s country of the year for 2025
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/12/18/the-economists-country-of-the-year-for-2025?giftId=YTQzMzkyMWYtZmUwMS00MGQ2LWJmM2QtMWVlYjg0YTg4OTc3&utm_campaign=gifted_article
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Data Poisoning bei LLMs: Feste Zahl Gift-Dokumente reicht für Angriff
After 20 years of Florida's gift ban, some would like to make a return (Gary Fineout/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/25/after-20-years-of-floridas-gift-ban-some-would-like-to-make-a-return-00704108
http://www.memeorandum.com/251225/p17#a251225p17
on my blog!
doubly dual shuffles
https://dotat.at/@/2025-12-25-shuffle.html
polishing a classic algorithm to a pearlescent sheen as a gift to you this winter holiday
i wrote three lines of code in four different ways, but i tried to highlight how similar the four vari…
The author, Rutger Bregman, said he had characterized Mr. Trump as the “most openly corrupt president in American history,” a line the BBC removed before the first of four in its annual Reith Lectures was broadcast on Tuesday. <-- go Rutger go !!
https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/1156…
Van trollenfabriek voor verspreiding van desinformatie en propaganda tot Poetin's 'wegwerpagenten' voor brand in een loods met hulpgoederen voor Oekraïne. Hoe Rusland verdeeldheid poogt te zaaien in de EU
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/12/22/voor-een-paar-duizend-euro-steken-wegwerpagenten-een-winkelcentrum-in-warschau-in-brand-of-een-loods-met-hulpgoederen-voor-oekraine-a4915900?gift_token=4915900~1767067086~8461zGC_TN2dSsAGxzbXqQ~znnEfAFz_-Ga1IO0I7zyGmFpd0NkHSWVXpAfv1bNzGQ
Sharing some thoughts about the complexities of living in alignment with your values! https://www.brichapman.com/p/the-gift-of-contradiction?r=1o5n19&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShar…
All I want for Christmas is ..
From: @…
https://www.threads.com/@laughingsquid/post/DSp1-Yhjkjm
Yes, I have. It’s nice.
Sex is MUCH better. Just you wait… @… https://infosec.exchange/@SecureOwl/115776592294961903
The Serviceberry – Robin Wall Kimmerer
https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-serviceberry/
FPF Holiday Gift Guide for AI-Enabled, Privacy-Forward AgeTech
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-holiday-gift-guide-for-ai-enabled-privacy-forward-agetech/
@…
Op deze vier fronten vecht Donald Trump tegen de wetenschap: van het verwijderen van datasets tot het stoppen van onderzoek naar mrna-vaccins
https://www.nrc.nl…
“AI zou een politieke topprioriteit moeten zijn “ https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/10/22/ai-zou-een-politieke-topprioriteit-moeten-zijn-a4909946?gift_token=49…
Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Data Poisoning bei LLMs: Feste Zahl Gift-Dokumente reicht für Angriff
AI toys for kids talk about sex and issue Chinese Communist Party talking points, tests show
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-toys-gift-present-safe-kids-robot-child-miko-grok-alilo-miiloo-rcna246956
One gift for struggling Lions? Who wins Ravens-Packers? NFL Week 17 roundtable https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6917438/2025/12/25/nfl-week-17-roundtable-lions-cowboys-chiefs/
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Kevin Morby:
🎵 Gift Horse
#NowPlaying #KevinMorby
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv
A post from the archive 📫:
The gift of time
#musings
Senator Mark Kelly Is in the Wrong Job (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/mark-kelly-military-trump/685065/?gift=_IXYI0Wrwnxuvm7JZ0fMfKKMsro3NkTZXHdLRHwQ0Sc&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p124#a251125p124
CeeDee Lamb has Brian Schottenheimer all smiles with perfect birthday gift https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/ceedee-lamb-brian-schottenheimer-all-smiles-perfect-birthday-gift
'Gift for Putin' — Czech public raises money for 1 Flamingo missile for Ukraine, Fire Point to provide 2: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/10/gift-for-putin-czech-public.html
Het vorige kabinet met VVD en BBB faalde op alle fronten mbt stikstof blijkt weer,
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/10/24/stiks
What is a Linux distribution?
Good question.
FreeBSD – up to position 26 (seen in this Linux Renaissance video) is:
― a distro
― a talking point
― a gift.
<https://youtu.be/G5lUyt3pM90?si=yRDYHcOMUaOpkp0o&t=75>
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Fink:
🎵 One Last Gift (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #Fink
https://finkmusic.bandcamp.com/track/one-last-gift
https://open.spotify.com/track/5yo3rL4CeUX5vYWoXF0txw
While researching gift cards this morning I learned that fraud has increased significantly and that the card balance can be drained before your recipient gets a chance to spend it. It's still relatively rare but possible.
#FraudAwareness
https://www.cbc.ca/news/gopublic/go-public-gift-cards-theft-organized-crime-1.7475283
Trump bedreigt het internationaal recht weer eens. Niet met een Haagse invasie, maar met sancties.
Wanneer kiezen Nederland (en de andere EU-lidstaten) voor strategische autonomie in ICT?
Stap 1: overname van DigiD en justitiesoftware blokkeren
Stap 2: binnen kwartaal actieplan om alle overheidsICT en vitale infrastructuur naar EU-cloud te krijgen zonder inmenging van buiten EU.
Stap 3: betalingssystemen losweken uit het Amerikaanse oligopolie
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/12/21/blijven-de-lidstaten-geloven-in-het-internationaal-strafhof-of-zullen-ze-wijken-trumps-intimidatie-a4915399?gift_token=4915399~1767002485~8461zGC_TN2dSsAGxzbXqQ~3uRfQQnVqArH0PuMKn6NxvxZ_vvPaRVr22AicMG6vjs
moreno_taro: Papuan gift-giving (1970)
A network of gift-giving relationships (taro exchange) among households in a Papuan village. Data collected by survey c.1970.
This network has 22 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/moreno_ta…
“God gave us this incredible gift of an intellect and curiosity and an opportunity to explore how nature works,”
Dr Francis Collins, former director of National Institutes of Health said.
“And God gave us nature as well
and we get the chance through science to do that.
I think of science as glimpsing God’s mind.
Science is almost a form of worship because what you’re trying to do there is to be completely caught up in the awe of what we’ve been given in natu…
You’ll be spoiled for choice among aged sweet and spicy pecorino cheeses, cheeses obtained with a mixture of sheep and cow’s milk, provolette, creams, fresh and salted ricotta, to acquire and carry straight on your tables or to take as a tasty gift for your friends.
It is Judge Mark L. Wolf, who retired in protest, explaining why: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/federal-judge-resignation-trump/684845/?gift=Kjaw0NITl7f2TdiJgnhQhTU81T1TbxegoH4x33GvLqc
…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Gift of Gab:
🎵 Way of the Light
#GiftofGab
https://open.spotify.com/track/4MRspe267MPNFJ2csgb9pa
ICE’s ‘Athletically Allergic’ Recruits - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/10/ice-recruits-fitness-test-t…
Trump Is Suddenly Looking a Lot Smaller (Jonathan Lemire/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/12/president-donald-trump-diminished/685427/?gift=SCYx-5scVta3-cr_IlgTyYZrJ7bBArnxVyFyxq8T_So
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p43#a251224p43
Ik vind het verbazend hoe veel politici, overheden en organisaties nog op X blijven, het is echt niet meer te verantwoorden.
https://www.…
A gift to Putin! Controversial bill in the US congress could leave NATO without American support: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/10/a-gift-to-putin-controversial.html
Trump's pardon of CZ is a gift to the crypto industry, which has spent heavily to ease regulations and rewrite history to remove associations with criminality (Max Chafkin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters
wow as a hoarder er keeper of all the things :-) this is amazing
https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/115563308736409551
"Why is the Trump White House pushing Ukraine to accept a Russian plan that paves the way for another war? The document offers some hints, declaring that the U.S. would also somehow take charge of the $100 billion in frozen Russian assets, for example, supposedly to invest this money in Ukraine and receive “50% of the profits from this venture.” Europeans, whose banks actually hold most of these assets, would receive nothing."
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
The Feal:
🎵 Gift Horse
#TheFeal
https://thefealmusic.bandcamp.com/track/gift-horse
https://open.spotify.com/track/2t5Bibs4manXbXD52aiDdb
Trump to DOJ: Pay Up (Quinta Jurecic/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/trump-doj-corruption-shakedown-unitary-executive/684655/?gift=mTq34Ny-ZVr996jdTJS9TsGkXCINo5nFsHJyZtr6bU8&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251023/p3#a251023p3
Hier moet Bregman de BBC eigenlijk voor bedanken, veel gratis PR nu en de feitelijke boodschap die hij wilde overbrengen wordt nu overal herhaald, "Trump als meest openlijk corrupte VS-president"
Why Trump Turned to the Sewer (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/trump-no-kings-day-protest-ai-poop/684621/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK35delNKCGndW27iEDyVzf-o
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p129#a251020p129
Goede analyse in NRC, zonder drastische maatregelen is de Europese auto industrie ten dode opgeschreven.
Vooral voor Duitse auto’s hou je je hart vast https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/10…
The 'Anti-Woke' Tax That All Americans Are Paying (Adam Serwer/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/anti-woke-tax-tariffs-trump/684593/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8BhSIy9WuRXPBKFK4RwYWAE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p62#a251020p62
There's a 92 Percent Chance Trump Is Making It Up (Marie-Rose Sheinerman/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2025/12/trump-strikes-caribbean-military-number-venezuela/685348/?gift=5aCzJ5uvQf7qTzgohcYQndQC19L2dPiMosfQlXHXN40
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p43#a251220p43
A look at Tokyo-based neocloud provider Datasection, which sources say has a $1.2B contract giving Tencent access to a large share of its 15K Blackwell chips (Financial Times)
The Trump Steamroller Is Broken (Jonathan Lemire/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/11/trump-has-lost-control/684987/?gift=SCYx-5scVta3-cr_IlgTyZncL2s8p2dEZ2HmjVKgXdY
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p178#a251119p178
Zorgelijke situatie bij het OM qua ICT.
https://www.…
Trump Told a Woman, 'Quiet, Piggy,' When She Asked Him About Epstein (Isabel Fattal/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2025/11/trump-comments-denigrating-women-reporters-pattern/684974/?gift=UDCAY75CzHyGUPSsXwkpWpDKjo9lO0QGheIrD3glmdc
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p4#a251119p4
"Nederland liet zich voor karretje Microsoft spannen"
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/11/13/nederland-liet-zich-voor-het-karretje…