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It's gonna be interesting to see how Ed Zitron's popularity will develop after that Wired article.
Most people will probably be pissed off about him doing PR for AI companies but I think the more relevant part is that his analysis is kinda ... shallow? Like he fully lives in "the computer is the machine that generates social progress" camp. Which ... doesn't hold too much water.
Which doesn't mean that he's not doing some good work digging through t…

The Bonfire team have met their first “maintenance” fundraising goal. The next stretch goal is designing and shipping federated groups.
There is lots of good writing in this post about the needs of different types of groups.
https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/why-<…

Why Community Matters: Groups as the Next Step for the Fediverse
Federated groups in Bonfire will be spaces where communities gather to organise, care, and coordinate across the fediverse. They'll live next to your personal feed, but each group having a specific purpose: a study circle, a lab team, an activist collective, a local mutual aid crew, a project team. Inside you’ll find posts, conversations, calendars, shared resources, and more. Crucially, groups will be portable and interoperable.

If you liked A Good Place then you will like Man on the Inside. Began watching it last night and really loving the series.

My usual sentiment for this US holiday: If you're observing it in some way, I hope it's a good day with family, or a friendsgiving if family isn't an option.
If you aren't, have a good Thursday. Ignore the doom for a day. Don't worry, it'll still be there tomorrow.
As for me, I'm going to the parent's where I will be avoiding most of the food (many thyroid surge triggers so I gotta be careful) and upgrading Dad's 8yr old Acer lappy with an SS…

Trying to build a nice Corsi-Rosenthal style air filter. We have Xiaomi ones but tbh are tbh a bit meh - ok not a surprise to anyone who spent more than 2 minutes googling this topic - been quite interesting.
Got some proper air testers etc. will soon know how it works.
Wonder if there is interest in a few good quality designs in some kind of open hardware project

Made mini-rúgbrauð in a mug at home. I used this recipe from King Arthur, but cut it in half and changed the bake temp and added a bain marie.
Flavor is very good, but needs to be more moist. Have ideas for the next attempt. Meanwhile, this will be dinner with some lax and butter!

Steelers' Aaron Rodgers says he will end his career 'with Green Bay' ahead of Sunday's showdown vs. Packers

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news…

The whole "peace process" is just Zelensky showing his good will, Russia will never agree, just stall while attacking and destroying Ukraine during the talks

Joe Eskenazi's @… column today speculates that Connie Chan and allies will run a doomed prop to close Sunset Dunes park, just to turn out voters for Chan.
But a good chunk of No on K voters are in congressional district 15, outlined, and can't vote for Chan. #sfpol<…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Sparklehorse:
🎵 Someday I Will treat You Good
#Sparklehorse
https://prfmonthlytributeseries.bandcamp.com/track/someday-i-will-treat-you-good-3
https://open.spotify.com/track/0NLmRimhANdc9HuqhG7JJm

@… Good. An economic turndown is the only thing that will get MAGA out of power.

If anything good comes out of the extreme makeover of the original Russian/American surrender proposal for Ukraine, it's of course unlikely that Putin will accept it. Increase the pressure, give Ukraine more military support.

After #Trump finally crashes and burns (I'm still saying I don't think he makes it to the mid terms, and I think it's more than possible he won't make it to the end of the year) we'll hear a lot of people say, "the system worked!" Today people are already talking about "saving democracy" by fighting back. This will become a big rally cry to vote (for Democrats, specifically), and the complete failure of the system will be held up as the best evidence for even greater investment in it.
I just want to point out that American democracy gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile, who, before being elected was already a well known sexual predator, and who made the campaign promise to commit genocide. He then preceded to commit genocide. And like, I don't care that he's "only" kidnaped and disappeared a few thousand brown people. That's still genocide. Even if you don't kill every member of a targeted group, any attempt to do so is still "committing genocide." Trump said he would commit genocide, then he hired all the "let's go do a race war" guys he could find and *paid* them to go do a race war. And, even now as this deranged monster is crashing out, he is still authorized to use the world's largest nuclear arsenal.
He committed genocide during his first term when his administration separated migrant parents and children, then adopted those children out to other parents. That's technically genocide. The point was to destroy the very people been sending right wing terror squads after.
There was a peaceful hand over of power to a known Russian asset *twice*, and the second time he'd already committed *at least one* act of genocide *and* destroyed cultural heritage sites (oh yeah, he also destroyed indigenous grave sites, in case you forgot, during his first term).
All of this was allowed because the system is set up to protect exactly these types of people, because *exactly* these types of people are *the entire power structure*.
Going back to that system means going back to exactly the system that gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile *TWICE*.
I'm already seeing the attempts to pull people back, the congratulations as we enter the final phase, the belief that getting Trump out will let us all get back to normal. Normal. The normal that lead here in the first place. I can already see the brunch reservations being made. When Trump is over, we will be told we won. We will be told that it's time to go back to sleep.
When they tell you everything worked, everything is better, that we can stop because we won, tell them "fuck you! Never again means never again." Destroy every system that ever gave these people power, that ever protected them from consequences, that ever let them hide what they were doing.
These democrats funded a genocide abroad and laid the groundwork for genocide at home. They protected these predators, for years. The whole power structure is guilty. As these files implicate so many powerful people, they're trying to shove everything back in the box. After all the suffering, after we've finally made it clear that we are the once with the power, only now they're willing to sacrifice Trump to calm us all down.
No, that's a good start but it can't be the end.
Winning can't be enough to quench that rage. Keep it burning. When this is over, let victory fan that anger until every institution that made this possible lies in ashes. Burn it all down and salt the earth. Taking down Trump is a great start, but it's not time to give up until this isn't possible again.
#USPol

Has anyone making this feature actually asked any accessibility experts and any disabled people if this is a good idea?
Because in practice this will give you terrible results, because AI can’t know what you intent do communicate with the image.
Even if it would give good results (it doesn’t and never will) and you’re too lazy to write alt text yourself, it would be better to do this on the receiving end where the disabled person could fine-tune generative alt text to their specific needs.
https://mastodon.social/@MonaApp/115406286404369048

Good Morning #Canada
Good news... we've hit the low point of dark winter days and things will be much brighter going forward. I am referring to the Winter Solstice, which officially begins around 10am in these parts. This will be the longest night and shortest day of the winter and daylight will begin increasing tomorrow. So put away the snow shovels and slather on the tanning butter.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CelestialDays
https://www.insidehalton.com/news/ontario-canada-winter-solstice-2025/article_5adc2a0c-9ac6-50fd-9ef4-ca851ee6d6ce.html

WTF? Why don't you go like a good sized portion of the civilized world and dump the 'for profit' health care model? Of course the GOP, billionaires, companies that own hospitals and drug companies will scream... Tell them to take a very long off a short pier at the top of a 1,000 metre cliff.
https://flip.it/3sMmr6

It’s apparent to anyone with a bit of education in technological history that this sort of thing must be possible. We have waste streams with higher concentrations of key elements than the "ore" we derive them from.
This is part of why I religiously recycle plastics even though right now they don’t really get recycled. At some point, the piles of unrecycled plastics will be a better raw material for new plastics than the dregs of petroleum we have left.

Santa Barbara’s future vitality depends on making space for younger generations who want to build their lives here
— and a walkable, bike-friendly downtown offers immense value for renters, service workers, parents, and young professionals alike.
We cannot rely on big, national retail chains to anchor State Street
Bringing cars back will just bring back cruising, since parking has always been on nearby streets and in garages.
A walkable downtown supported by efficien…

Folks, I have a friend's internal hard drive here that is likely still good, but will not mount. There are family photos on it. What are good solutions for this, especially in the Seattle area? I'd like to hand-deliver if possible.

So, the new LLM from Zhipu, GLM 4.6, is about as good at coding as Anthropic's Sonnet 4.5. but roughly 8 times cheaper. It's impressive since, apparently, Zhipu has raised 13x less capital than Anthropic. Additionally, since GLM 4.6 is an open(ish) model, the inference costs will come down rapidly.
The beginning of the end for the #AI investment bubble?
#AIResearch #opensource

Super Bowl or bust: Biggest reason why these 11 contenders will miss out on hoisting the Lombardi Trophy

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/super-bowl-odds-contenders-rams-eagles/<…

Someone on here recommended "Saint-Piere" - which I can't find now of course. So I went through the contortions required for watching Gem on my tv and we have now seen the first episode of series 1. 2 will have to wait until 2026.
It is actually pretty good but the ads are really annoying
In the UK, BBC is not full of commercials like CBC is in Canada

Went to quilt club today. Its amazing how a little bit of time being creative, with genuinely kind and nice people can really make you feel good. This quilt is being donated to a soup kitchen. Next month we are making lap quilts for hospice.

Every time I see that mural showing what Scheels is going to have, I think that it is going to be a good addition to Mayfair.
"The city's Community Development Authority closed on a land transfer agreement on the parcel with the mall property owner Brookfield Properties, which will subsequently transfer the property to Scheels, the city said in a news release Dec. 19."
#Mayfair #Milwaukee #Tosa

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to
do and always a clever thing to say.
-- Will Durant

While this may be a good idea, I personally would not want to get anywhere near a so called "venture" backed by Vinod Khosla, not no way, not no how.
"One of America’s most dangerous volcanoes will soon power homes"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-sol…

One of America’s most dangerous volcanoes will soon power homes
Tapping energy from “superhot rock” could produce cheap, clean, constant energy almost anywhere — if drills and wells can survive infernal heat and pressure.

What Rob Leonard Said About the Raiders’ D-Line Will Fire Fans Up https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-rob-leonard-maxx-crosby-adam-butler

Thank God for the good and sane people defending their traditional territories in BC's north coast.
“As the Rights and Title Holders of the Central and North Coast and Haida Gwaii, we are here to remind the Alberta government, the federal government, and any potential private proponent that we will never allow oil tankers on our coast, and that this pipeline project will never happen,” Slett said."
#FirstNations #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Pipeline #ABPoli #BCPoli #CanPoli
https://globalnews.ca/news/11544657/bc-first-nations-dismiss-pipeline-mou/

Smartphone user experience designs still don't have decent intelligent graphical interfaces, speech interfaces, or text interfaces... though maybe a few things have changed since 2017. https://bookofadamz.com/when-will-smartphones-be-intelligent/

Good!
"NSW police officer who allegedly assaulted former Greens candidate Hannah Thomas charged with grievous bodily harm" | New South Wales | The Guardian
https://www.theguard…

George Pickens is making it harder for Jerry Jones to not sign him https://insidethestar.com/george-pickens-is-making-it-harder-for-jerry-jones-to-not-sign-him

"NOT everything that is worth reading is a book. A good programmer’s library (I will let you decide whether that is a good library owned by a programmer, or a library belonging to a good programmer) includes essays, scholarly articles, videos, magazines, blog posts, podcast episodes, and more. This month, we are going to read an Easter egg in a programming language."

Tim Peters
Not everything that is worth reading is a book. A good programmer's library (I will let you decide whether that is a good library owned by a programmer, or a library belonging to a good programmer) includes essays, scholarly articles, videos, magazines, blog posts, podcast episodes, and more. This month, we are going to read an Easter egg in a programming language.

Good Morning #Canada
Happy #BoxingDay to all Canadians, and good luck to the estimated 8.6M Canucks who will wade into this significant sales day looking for bargains. December 26th was traditionally a day when the nobility gave gifts and leftovers to their servants and staff. The practice was famously put to song when the Duke of Bohemia, patron saint of the Czech Republic, and inspiration for the Christmas carol "Good King Wenceslas," was known for feeding the poor after Christmas. His charitable nature didn't prevent his murder by his brother. Today it's known as a major shopping day, although less important than 10 years ago. Check out the attached article for a really boring look at recent retail Boxing Day trends. Summary: Boxing Day is more like a Week and shoppers are less impulsive and more focused on specific purchases that they delayed.
#CanadaIsAwesome #EverythingMustGo
https://retail-insider.com/retail-insider/2025/12/boxing-day-still-matters-for-canadian-retail-new-data-shows/

This applies to all of us #Researchers - why do we keep flying all around the world just to give (or watch) some talks that could have been given or watched online???
Yes, in-person conferences are slightly better for "networking"... but is this really worth destroying the planet?!
Quoting @…

Where does one go to buy a halfway decent machete that is made of good steel and will last a long time? I feel like something you find at a local big box store is probably going to be subpar quality.

Made another tool. Link Check will resolve any shortlink, including ones from LinkedIn.

This lets you see where a link leads you without clicking it, and helps you bypass any tracking that the shortlink engages in.

Since many QR codes make use of shortlinks, this is a good companion for understanding where QR codes take you.

https://toolbox.axbom.com/linkcheck/

19:10 fixed a spelling mistake

I had thought we'd see Ekitike on the left, with Chiesa on the right. Slot, instead, puts Ekitike on the right and leaves Gakpo in.
Happy to see Jones make it into the midfield, as he's been good all year and a) Gravenberch needs to rest that ankle; and b) Mac Allister needs to rest period. Will be interested to see how far forward Szoboszlai plays.
Robbo and Frimpong make sense. I think Bradley has been better than the general perception, but Frimpong should get a run ou…

#Memphis: there’s a free brake light repair clinic this Saturday! Don’t be giving #Trump’s #tAsKfOrCe nazis a reason to pull you over; make sure your lights are good.
Volunteers will be replacing brake and…

Ravens QB Lamar Jackson (ankle) good to go Sunday vs. Jets https://www.nfl.com/news/ravens-qb-lamar-jackson-ankle-good-to-go-sunday-vs-jets

The GOP's 'nazi problem' is one of being too obvious...people good at nazi-ing would not reveal their true views. Laura Loomer hates Muslims with a passionso has a lot in common with the people she's calling out. Those that are not as obvious will become even less obvious as the purge of obvious nazis commences.

"chatbots over-rely on this kind of sensory-immaterial conjunction because[IT] impresses people passing superficially over a text--exactly the kind of fake-deep crowd-pleaser for which L.L.M. output is being fine-tuned."
(Original title: Will A.I. writing ever be good?)
https://maxread.substa…

Will A.I. writing ever be good?
Some notes on A.I. writing

quote tweeting with ivory on iOS
cc @… https://autistics.life/@joshsusser/115583984080301073

Too late for this trip: I was looking for a USB charger with an EU (Type F) plug. Seems selection is limited for products that will ship to the US. Any suggestions?
I’ve had good luck with Anker products, and found a charger I liked in their EU store, but when I went to check out that product (and most in their EU store) were not eligible to ship to a US address.
I’ll pick something up in Munich, but it won’t be exactly what I want. Surely there has to be a way to buy online and …

Railway is technically a PaaS (like Heroku). “serverless” because you don’t have to maintain the operating system. They have evolved buildpacks to Railpacks which will create containers on the fly.
OR you can use it as a Docker host
They are hosting their own bare metal servers. Recommended!
https://…

dan (@danabra.mov)
i'm highly enjoying using railway.app i think instead of starting with serverless, it would be good for many developers to start with Railway and then try serverless. i feel a lot more comfortable understanding the tradeoffs now https://railway.app

I love a good news story about agrivoltaics (farming under solar panels) - let's hope it does take off! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2en1yyp4d9o

Will farming under solar panels take off?
Farming under solar panels is still in the early stages in India, but will it catch on?

Saddened that they will lose what must be a treasured piece of religious art; please to see that they will have good use for the money.
(And wouldn't it be nice if the wealthy buyer maintained it in the current location?)
https://www.

Saddened that they will lose what must be a treasured piece of religious art; please to see that they will have good use for the money.
(And wouldn't it be nice if the wealthy buyer maintained it in the current location?)
https://www.

at the moment, everyone having a phone camera is good evidence for reality. you can have multiple angles of the same moment and check them for consistency. it's hard to synthesize that, because gen-AI is bad at continuity.
I expect this to change within 5y. it's expensive to get continuity in high-res video of a 3d scene, but it's achievable.
people will keep trying prompt-to-video, but that will never work as well as prompt-to-scene-file-to-renderer.

There is a cult of action at the heart of tech.
This cult says: don't mind that the systems are broken. Don't try and fix them. You can just do things, using you ubermensch will.
AI has plugged into this cult to promise 10x-ing your action. But instead your will becomes subservient to the machine.
Doing what is easiest is only going to make things worse. The only helpful course of action is to fix the system.

"Just doing things" is not a path to value
Action for the sake of action feels good, but the path of least resistance leads you to surrender your own agency.

This is a really good question from @…. The first thing I keep telling everyone in other cities who wonders how they can help, what they can do:
Get organized NOW. Meet your neighbors NOW. Get your neighbors set up with secure messaging NOW. Form multiple hyper-local neighborhood social groups NOW. Organize a block picnic or community craft night or repair workshop or whatever NOW. Get contact info for the human beings who physically show up for neighborhood events NOW.
Form all those local connections ASAP, so that they’re there when you need them. The hardest lines of communication to establish will be the ones with the people closest to you. If you get local lines open in advance, you’ll be in a far, far better place.
https://infosec.exchange/@mathaetaes/115731104851949153

Everybody in his administration bought stock on Friday when the market crashed.
Today there will be some magic good news pill that will take the market back up so they can sell and make more money.
Watch.
https://bsky.app/profile/jayfarrellarnold.bsky.so…

𝙹𝚊𝚢 𝙵 𝙰𝚛𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚍 (@jayfarrellarnold.bsky.social)
Everybody in his administration bought stock on Friday when the market crashed. Today there will be some magic good news pill that will take the market back up so they can sell and make more money. Watch.

What kind of deranged academic thinks that 800-word conference paper proposals are a good idea? Especially for a large international conference where the committee will need to go through at least several hundred of them. Who has this much time and why aren't they teaching my classes?

If anybody knows somebody at YouTube, make sure they get this message.
Otherwise, some McKinsey idiot will come in ignoring this fact and YouTube goes down the drain too.

Was talking to an acquaintance at church yesterday and she mentioned that things are not good with her job. She’s a secondary school biology teacher. She said more by what she didn’t say. She just clammed up and looked lost. Next time I see her, I want to tell her that it doesn’t have to be that way. That she has transferable skills and can find work that pays the bills without destroying her soul. That there are other places that will value and support her.

When did LinkedIn change its “Sign in” button to “Access account”?
And who thought that was a good idea?
Never use a short, simple, common phrase when a long one that makes everyone roll their eyes will do, I guess.

"Labour has also won every time the Senedd has been contested, as it will be again in May. Yet, if the most recent Wales-wide poll holds good, that is set to change. Plaid will instead be the largest party, just ahead of Reform UK, with Labour third. Though still a minority, Plaid would be in government. In Welsh terms, that would be a political earthquake. Perhaps in Britain-wide terms too"
#UKPol

Ah, good thing Ireland didn’t bet a major chunk of its economy on US Big Tech creating jobs or anything.
*phew!*
#BigTech #USA #AI

A big portion of EA's cash flow will go toward servicing the $20B debt from the $55B sale, which even the most bullish analysts expect will lead to big layoffs (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

Five positive trends that will continue: D'Andre Swift leads the way https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/46685687/fantasy-football-start-sit-trade-value-trends

Wes Streeting will be so disappointed
#ukpolitics #trans
https://goodlawproject.org…

EHRC withdraws interim guidance encouraging trans exclusion | Good Law Project
After six months of confusion and delay, the EHRC has taken down interim guidance rushed out in April. But the damage has already been done.

“Honestly, I feel like web developers are constantly being gaslit into thinking that complex over-engineered solutions are the only option. When the discourse is being dominated by people invested in frameworks and libraries, all our default thinking will involve frameworks and libraries. That’s not good for users, and I don’t think it’s good for us either.”
Mic drop by @…

Simplify
Reminding myself just how much you can do with CSS these days.

The good thing to know is even when I go senile one day, my love of cats will stay :3
That shit is programmed in my lowest brain functions.

Daisy.

Tired. Broken pipe section *and* failed pump *and* dodgy wiring replaced. So far no leaks in evidence, but it needs a good shakedown before I will trust my inner wall with it. In the words of the Hšvamšl:

me: "Yeah, this 'no screens' punishment thing isn't working."
A: "And [the 8yo] is using screens responsibly! Right now she's using an app to learn Korean."
8yo: "See? You should let me have screens."
me: "We need to come up with a better punishment! Maybe we should pull out her fingernails?"
8yo: "Hey!"
A: "But that will only work for 10 days"
me: "Oh yeah, good point"

Question for people who have more than one #HomeAssistant Voice PE: These things seem to have scary good microphones (mine will often hear me from two rooms over). That makes me a bit hesitant to add a second one to the mix.
Do they have some sort of de-conflicting in case more than one device can hear the wake word, the way iOS only activates one device when you have multiple devi…

« Eavesdropping on Internal Networks via Unencrypted Satellites »
Very good paper and research.
VSAT vendors used to love their walled gardens: pseudo-standard DVB-S2 implementations, broken encryption everywhere, and zero cooperation on security, all to protect their proprietary turf.
The high cost of VSAT-style infrastructure and GEO satellite capacity was another major reason vendors avoided investing in security and interoperability.
Will this change? I…

Brutal similes
Using #AI is an ethical choice.
I know that there cases when an #LLM could make my job easier. Which doesn't mean I'll use one. Just like I won't be buying cheap junk gadgets that could help me with some random stuff a bunch of times before they'll end up on a trash pile.
Yes, sometimes I am curious what an LLM could come up with. But then, there are people who are curious how many donuts they can eat before throwing up. A waste of good donuts.
What world would you rather live in? One where you put a little more effort in your job? Or one where LLM helps with with your job, but you can't enjoy your free time anymore because the capitalists are using LLMs to turn every single aspect of your life into a nightmare, and eventually your employer just makes you do more and more until you're thrown out? But at least you will get a monthly trial of a statistical "friend" to "talk" about your trouble to.
Yeah, you can claim that training models does the most harm, and that's already happened, so not using them doesn't change much, and all the energy spent on it would be wasted. Or use the traditional "others" fallacy — others will use it anyway, others will fuel the vicious circle, so why renounce convenience. It's like when you learn that your dinner is human meat, and you decide to eat it anyway, because not eating it won't bring that human back to life, and if it's wasted, then their death will be for naught.
#AntiCapitalism

sometimes I will actually say "good shit good shit if I do say so myself I say so 100" out loud irl at things

There are good TV/video creations and then there are the truly awful ones that destroy brain cells.
I am wondering when Hulu will begin promoting a brain-cell-burning show about "The Real AIs of Santa Clara"?

The people who succeed in the new media environment
are the people who figure out how to work its mechanics,
which selects for skills that are only loosely correlated with genuine intellectual originality.
🔸You need to be good at social media,
🔸good at building a personal brand,
🔸good at identifying topics that will generate engagement.
These are real skills,
-- but they're not the same skills that lead to developing genuinely new ideas.

Allowing fair elections with the risk of losing is way too risky for the Trump administration, too many people will get jailed afterwards, so they won't let it happen. A good thing to realize.
#trump #usa #politics

Good Morning #Canada
I'm relaxing in front of a fireplace with some freshly brewed coffee and watching the Weather Network map animation loop endlessly showing the forecasted snow that will hit us in the next 24 hours. It's hypnotic and distracts you from thinking about the 25-30cm expected accumulation. If you love snow, Canada is the place to be. In fact, almost two-thirds (65%) of Canada's land mass has annual snow cover for more than six months of the year. I read that on the internet, so it's true. I'll be one of the 24% of Canadians who own a #SnowBlower throwing the white stuff everywhere, including back into my face. About half of Canadian households on the east coast own a Snow Blower versus 7% in British Columbia. Apparently, 51% of residents in Barrie use snow clearing machines, which is a statistic I should have paid attention to when we decided to move into this area.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Snowmageddon
https://www.statcan.gc.ca/o1/en/plus/2626-blowing-snow

It is amazing how much clutter accumulates over the decades. This year my wife and I have been going through our 'treasures'. We have gone 'if not used or worn in 18 months, donate'. Three large boxes yesterday and at least to more going out for donation today.
Next up, I will be going through our home offices for items we have not used for at least 18 months. There is a perfectly good laser I have not used in years as the inkjet is just good enough. Same goes fo…

Details of the MOU as reported by CBC. Hot Take:
It's a sh_t show of oil soaked hopeium and climate defeatism.
- Shovels in Ground by 2029 *(may this be forever extended)
- Tanker Ban will be lifted if the project is approved by MPO *(Coastal First Nations setting rhetorical fire to MPO in 3-2-1)
- July 1, 2026 deadline for submission to MPO *(OIL CANADA DAY)
- 75% methane emissions cut on 2014 levels from methane by 2035 *(*shaking head* We are VERY GOOD at hitting 10 year targets *shaking head*)
- "both sides commited to net-zero by 2050” (implied via CCS) *(carbon capture and storage? should be Carney Can't Stop -- Emissions)
- industrial carbon price of $130 -- down from $170
*(Oil Industry - Very Poor)
- Alberta exempt from fed O&G emissions cap and clean electricity regulation *(Woop Coal! Let's Mine the Rockies!)
- No private proponents have been announced. *(Hear No Evil)
- No pipeline path/route has been announced. *(See No Evil)
#TMX #EndFossilFuels #ClimateSellout #ClimateEmergency #CdnPoli #CanPoli #BCPoli #ABPoli
Since multiple Ottawa CBC reporters seem utterly incapable of understanding what First Nations groups are what in BC here are some facts about the Coastal First Nations. It has existed since 2003.
https://coastalfirstnations.ca/about/
"The Great Bear Initiative Society (a non-profit society under the BC Societies Act), also known as Coastal First Nations-Great Bear Initiative (CFN), is an alliance of First Nations on the North Pacific Coast that includes the Gitga’at, Gitxaała, Haida, Heiltsuk, Kitasoo Xai’xais, Metlakatla, Nuxalk and Wuikinuxv First Nations. " Their territories span on the mainland coast of BC from the top of Vancouver Island to the Alaska Border including Haida Gwaii.

How the Raiders Secondary Will Be Tested in Week 11 https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-secondary-tested-week-11

Cowboys Headlines: Good news on Quinnen Williams; CB room looking very thin https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/19/news-headlines-december-18-2025-quinnen-willi…

I know what the narrative will be, but it’s inaccurate. #LFC had 2.76 xG versus 1.26 for United. Gakpo hit the post three times. Salah missed a chance he never misses. The referee, I think reasonably, did not blow the play dead on a head injury, resulting in a goal. A handball in the box was correctly not given.
My point is that it took a lot of good fortune for United to win. It’s clear that LFC…

Saddened that they will lose what must be a treasured piece of religious art; please to see that they will have good use for the money.
(And wouldn't it be nice if the wealthy buyer maintained it in the current location?)
https://www.

Whatever happens to our democracy, history will remember our 3 good SCOTUS justices as a voice of clarity when civil society was unraveling around them.
Future generations will point to their writing and say, “Look at this. It’s not like people didn’t understand what was happening at the time. They knew perfectly well.”
EDIT: I said Sotomayor at first; this is Jackson!! “What would you do with a brain if you had one, Paul?” I’m sure I have no idea.
https://journa.host/@chrisgeidner/115504618482036124

The #IWW #GDC as an antifascist organization was always kind of a hack. It was a beautiful hack and it worked well for what it did.
In 2016, as Trump was rising, I found info from the Twin Cities GDC. They were super organized, building an amazing community defense organization. When we (Seattle) went to set up our chapter, following their lead, they were extremely supportive. When I got shot, Twin Cities folks were at my house keeping my partner safe. They literally flew people out to support us. They very much remain in my mind when I think about what mutual aid looks like.
Unionism is an important strategy of a larger fight. But it's important to realize that it's not the other way around. The GDC was built to defend the union, because there wasn't something larger to do that work. It filled a gap.
When we organized against Trump, we tried to make the GDC the greater thing. We tried to make the GDC into the vehicle for social revolution against the fascist threat... And it sort of worked. We were able to do a lot.
But that was never what it was built to do. It was always built as an appendage of the IWW. This contains its own problem. If Unionism is the revolutionary movement, then it becomes impossible to build a truly revolutionary society. Unionism centers "workers" which implicitly decenters those who can't work in the traditional sense (the young, the elderly, those physically or mentally able to work). It also decenters care labor that hasn't yet been widely commodified. Sure, there are all types of hacks to patch the holes, but the fundamental construction starts from the wrong assumptions.
It felt, for a while, like things could go another way. Like that our ability to bring members in could shift things a bit, maybe set the GDC on more equal footing with the core focus of the IWW. But that was always an illusion, far less important to think about than the crushing terror of the regime we were fighting.
Now, I will absolutely trash talk the IWW on occasion but in the end I do think they're doing good and important work. Any criticism I have should be taken with a grain of salt... And I know I do have a lot of salt. Again, Unionism is an important strategy. It's useful both in improving immediate material conditions and as part of the most powerful weapon we have against the capitalist system: the general strike. It's important, I can't say that enough. But it's not sufficient.
I've been thinking about this a bit recently, and I wonder if there are any other GDC organizers or former organizers who might be feeling the same. Feel free to DM me. I'd like to get some more perspectives and see if my understanding from several years ago deviates significantly from what other folks are feeling right now.
I'd also like to bounce some ideas around that come from my own organizing experience.

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Process creates friction, so we got rid of process. But that friction was necessary for holding workslop at bay.
Because without slowing down, we can't ask "is this good? is this right?" We can only ask "when will it be done?" And that's a world where #LLM outputs will always beat people.
Fortunately, an "optimized" process moves slowly, because prod…

The myth of "no design process"
Process can add friction, but trying to get rid of friction by getting rid of process dooms design to irrelevance.

We're eating good tonight! >:3

Google has one enormous advantage over all other AI players in the industry. It can offer "AI-modus" to the billions of people already using Google Search. And yes, AI-modus can be bad, full of faults, but it improves and gets better. For many questions it is "good enough" probably. Also it is just one-click away for most people on a site they already visit regularly. This way Google will create another unhealthy market dominance i am afraid.

Last night was a very good night to be among fellow Democrats from across the county. Here is what we did:
Eileen Higgins blew out the Miami Mayor’s race, winning by 19 points, 59.5%-40.5%.
In the last two years we’ve flipped Florida’s two largest cities, Jacksonville and Miami, and Mayor-Elect Higgins will be the first Dem in this office in almost 30 years
In a Georgia state house special election our candidate Eric Gisler flipped a Trump 12 district, 51%-49%
Albuque…

Dems Have Another Very Good Night, Trump Is Dangerously Unwell, Rep. Haley Stevens Kicks Off Campaign to Remove RFK
Greetings from Los Angeles!

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
YES, I love giving and receiving Gift Cards
NO, I'm not happy when I have to buy or get a Gift Card

There are few good things to be said about US medical insurance or those awful Pharmaceutical Benefits Manager (PBM) companies.
However, the R's are pushing to create "savings" plans so that people can try to self-insure (probably many will buy some sort of additional "catastrophic" coverage.)
But there is at least one thing positive to say about existing medical insurers and PBMS - they have large numbers of people who go over doctor bills to see if they …

RE: https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/115719147481715249
Good decision by the GNOME project
Edit: It's not fully true. You can use AI but you will get your extension rejected if it does the usual AI generated code shenanigans.

Oh hey, good things do happen even in the darkest times. Yarvin is taking about fleeing the country.
The thinks that Trump's fascism is failing (which it is) and tha Trump is incapable of doing what it takes to actually hold power. He's afraid of vengeance, which is honestly unlikely given how completely useless the democrats actually are. But I'm glad he's afraid. I hope he runs away to Russia, gets drafted and deployed to Ukraine, and eats a drone.
I also hope he can somehow convince Thiel to be afraid, but I think that's unlikely.
The fact is that if Trump fails, which I think he will (and Yarvin thinks it could be soon), it won't be because of Democratic leadership. It will be because of antifascist organizing and community resistence. We will have, once again, kept ourselves safe while the DNC argued over how much of their values they should abandon and how much of the left to sacrifice to "get votes."
#USPol

Raiders Getting Major Reinforcements After the Bye Week https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-brock-bowers-jacksonville-jaguars-jakoibi-meyers

Christmas baking season starts this weekend. 7.5 pounds of dried and candied fruit with a cup of good brandy. Later today I will be baking fruit cakes. Then I will look at staring various tarts, and squares. Next week several dozen donuts for work.
Our cat was supervising me and making sure I didn't cut myself with the knife.
#christmasbaking

Statement on Ukraine which I guess will never be acceptable to Putin, it is a good proposal however...

Statement by Chancellor Merz, Prime Minister Frederiksen, President Stubb, President Macron, Prime Minister Meloni, Prime Minister Schoof, Prime Minister Støre, Prime Minister Tusk, Prime Minister Kristersson, Prime Minister Starmer, as well as President Costa and President von der Leyen

Online influencer Andrew Tate,
a self-described misogynist who has millions of young male followers,
was facing allegations of sex trafficking women in three countries
when he and his brother left their home in Romania to visit the United States.
“The Tates will be free,
Trump is the president.
The good old days are back,”
Tate posted on X before the trip in February
— one of many times he has sung the president’s praises to his fans.
But…

The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.

Good Morning #Canada
The month of December will typical put a dent in your paycheck, or January if you're using your credit cards, so it's tough to save any money. Canadians rank 21st worldwide with regards to how much of our salary we put into a savings account. According to World Population Review, we put away approximately 7% of our paycheck for a #RainyDay, far behind South Korea at 35%. I'm retired and therefore not a saver at this point, but even during my most successful earnings period I can't imagine I would have been able to put away a third of my salary.
I suspect the savings percentage is driven by a small group of high wage earners as individual Canadian debt has increased. According to Equifax, total consumer debt in Canada reached $2.56 trillion at the end of 2024, a 4.6 per cent increase over 2023.
#CanadaIsAwesome
https://www.equifax.ca/business/blog/all-news/-/story/stable-versus-struggling-canada-s-financial-divide-widens/

GM Schoen calls 2-11 Giants 'not good enough' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47180413/giants-not-good-enough-confident-coach-search

Kimi K2 is another Deepseek moment it seems, only not everybody is noticing it yet. It will be interesting to see what the stock market will do on monday.
#AI #KimiK2

The HRRR, a NOAA real-time 3-km resolution, hourly updated, cloud-resolving, convection-allowing atmospheric model, initialized by 3km grids with 3km radar assimilation,
predicts a whole lotta water will fall on coastal Southern California in the early morning https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/11555228330

AI6YR Ben (@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)
Attached: 1 image HRRR says... 5am. TBD if the forecast pans out, but HRRR usually is good. #rain #CAwx