I knew it.
✅ Australia Admits All Those Animals Made Up - The Onion
#humor

Australia Admits All Those Animals Made Up
SYDNEY—Saying the ruse began as a harmless prank about the continent’s mammals having pouches, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese admitted Tuesday that all those animals like wallabies, numbats, quokkas, and bandicoots were completely made up. “We just assumed everyone would have caught on by now, because these creatures are clearly imaginary,” said Albanese, adding that […]

Blacker than black? Of course!
After very dark surface covering, there is now a new dark fabric available, that is the darkest documented black fabric.
The fabric based on black bird plumage absorbs 799/800 of the light falling into it, making it deep dark. Fascinating!
https://

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025/12/tom-stoppard-made-spectacle-history/685099/?utm_source=feed

Tom Stoppard Made a Spectacle of History
In a career of magnificent plays, The Coast of Utopia stands out for its humor, its characters, and its warnings about ideological fervor.

"Climate change made Australian heat wave 5 times more likely"
#Australia #Climate #ClimateChange

Climate change made Australian heat wave 5 times more likely
Human-induced climate change made the intense early January heat wave in Australia five times more likely, according to a new analysis by World Weather Attribution.

Suddenly, the Cowboys and Eagles have made the NFC East a 2-horse race https://insidethestar.com/suddenly-the-cowboys-and-eagles-have-made-the-nfc-east-a-2-horse-race

Mace Staffers: We're Scared Of Her, She Made Us Cry - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/02/mace-staffers-were-scared-of-her-she-made-us-cry/

Explaining 1 Critical Decision Made by the Raiders' Coaching Staff https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-explaining-1-critical-decision-made-by-coaching-staff

Bericht: iPhone-18-Bildsensor von Samsung made in Texas
Auf Druck der Trump-Administration holt Apple mehr Produktion nach Hause. Dieses Mal geht es südkoreanischen Medien zufolge um Foto-Hardware.
https://www.

The deputy US attorney general, Todd Blanche, (the point person on the Trump administration’s Epstein files release), told ABC News on Sunday that prosecutors’ review of the Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking case
💥“is over”.
Separately, in comments to CNN about Epstein, Blanche said that “victims want to be made whole”
“And we want that,” Blanche said. “But that doesn’t mean we can just create evidence or that we can just kind of come up with a case that isn…

🦟 Welcome to “necroprinting”—3D printer nozzle made from mosquito’s proboscis
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/12/welcome-to-necroprinting-3d-printer-nozzle-made-from-mosquitos-proboscis/

Welcome to “necroprinting”—3D printer nozzle made from mosquito’s proboscis
They're quite a bit cheaper than manufactured nozzles if you can dissect them.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Emitt Rhodes:
🎵 Somebody Made for Me
#EmittRhodes
https://counterintuitiverecords.bandcamp.com/track/dollys-somebody-made-for-me-emitt-rhodes-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/2hq50hCUUknhUXZ9uL3wgq

Made Stuff

Made 11 Wordcloud Tarot shows.

See them here
The target is like 25. So about half as many as target.
Some good, some great.
See them here
Not enough. The target is like 6.
Meh.
Target is for 2026 to be the next one anyway really.
I do have a script and all the assets needed to animate it, but I have become unhappy with the script and failed so far at rewrites.
Should get it done next year at some point I'd hope.
Overshooting the target of zero there. surprise new entry in the projects list

Mongabay's environmental journalism packed a serious punch in 2025.
Their reporting exposed illegal Amazon activities, spotlighted conservation wins in Colombia and Mexico, and tackled wildlife trafficking. The impact? Real indictments in Brazil, policy recommendations, and action from major orgs like WWF.
Over 870 documented impacts—all empowering communities to protect their land and ecosystems.

How Mongabay's journalism made an impact in 2025
The guiding star at Mongabay isn’t pageviews or clicks; it’s meaningful impact. As 2025 draws to a close, we look back at some of the ways Mongabay’s journalism made a difference this year. Empowering Indigenous and local communities A Mongabay Latam investigation found 67 illegal airstrips were cut into the Peruvian Amazon to transport drugs, […]

There will (if everything works!) be 360 degree QuickTime VR-style photos coming soon, made on a camera from 1998…
stay tuned!

i made an update to a glasgow applet where by far the easiest way to test it is to run something and then see if a magic wand vibrator turns on

Researchers find OpenAI's o1 can analyze languages like a human expert, including inferring the phonological rules of made-up languages without prior knowledge (Steve Nadis/Quanta Magazine)
https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-a-first-

In a First, AI Models Analyze Language As Well As a Human Expert | Quanta Magazine
If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

I made this pizza the other night. It's a "Grandma Pie" or whatever you call it. The results were much better than the last two times I tried it, though it could have used a few more minutes under the broiler. (Burned it last time, so I was overly cautious.)
I think I'm good for this style but... I just don't like this style. Too much dough and not enough flavor.
I may try it again but use the same amount of dough to make two pizzas, which will thin out the …

Now those gpg.fail people made me find similar vulns elsewhere (console control character injection). By "elsewhere" I mean... my own code.
Opinions wanted: should "input can inject console output with ansi and control chars" always be considered a vuln/CVE?
(I'll fix it in any case, I'm just wondering if I should do all the "security release/advisory/request CVE/..." stuff.)

Sharing the benefits of grid-scale batteries and solar/wind by trading in western US. The current 15 minute market in California Now going to day ahead market.
(I think made possible with recent massive grid-scale batteries allows evening out of renewables)
California now runs 5pm-8pm electricity use on batteries. Turn off more plants cuz can plan for a full day.
Thoughtful article on wholesale electricity grid coordination markets. Sounds dry, but cool:

@… I wouldn’t expect so (but I couldn’t say 100%). Sounds like you made a config error somewhere? I locked down npm publishing access to require 2FA and disallow tokens and deleted my tokens from GitHub Settings too — I’d also check your Actions yml to make sure the token isn’t being used there

email_enron: Email network (Enron corpus)
The Enron email corpus, containing all the email communication from the Enron corporation, which was made public as a result of legal action. Nodes are email addresses and node i links to node j if i sent at least one email to address j. Non-Enron email addresses are also present, but only their links to/from Enron addresses are observed.
This network has 36692 nodes and 367662 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigr…

The DIU tricked the Russian special services and made $500,000 off them #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/01/the-diu-tricked-the-russian.html

A Minneapolis story:
Today, I took my kid to the neighborhood park to go ice skating. A beautiful thing about this city is that •everyone• has a neighborhood park: early in the city’s history, planners made it a goal to have a park within walking distance of every single residence. They didn’t have to shoehorn this goal in; they built up the city around it. There are little parks all over the city, many just a couple of blocks in size.
And in the winter, they flood the athletic fields: ice rinks!
1/

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@rhempel/115828636454516873
This comment made me realise that very often the first realisation of "I'm an idiot" is often accompanied by a bit of a rush of now I understand something that is quite appealing..

I made a small thing. Just a little automated masto account @… to track updates to 7-Zip and RAR (WinRAR).
Why!? 🤔 These types of archiving tools are very handy but have been known to have security issues (both had exploits last year). Plus they don't always provide automatic update mechanisms on most platforms. 😉
It …

First they made useless demands, then they also caved even on their useless demands. The US is a one-party state but in our typical extravagance we have two of them.
https://truthout.org/articles/democrats-cave-on-demands-f…

Democrats Cave on Demands for DHS Reforms, Agree to Short-Term Spending Bill
The deal — a major concession from Democrats — funds DHS and its immigration-related agencies for another two weeks.

I don't necessarily agree with everything in this podcast but it made me think about various issues around AI.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1S8FEbhkaQQ8Yrx4e3f5Vh?si=WrPPgrXfQJWJZts1p2liZA&t=5818&pi=745nmQIBTOK…

from my link log —
How we made Typerighter, the Guardian's style guide checker.
https://www.theguardian.com/info/2021/jan/26/how-we-made-typerighter-the-guardians-style-guide-checker
saved 2021-01-29

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Magdalena Bay:
🎵 This Is The World (I Made It For You)
#MagdalenaBay
https://magdalenabay.bandcamp.com/track/this-is-the-world-i-made-it-for-you
https://open.spotify.com/track/6xgNV9489zKLRXnvpiZQXJ

Jira is clearly not made for software engineers.
It hasen't been when it was in use at previous jobs, and it isn't now in 2026.
Edit: Gemini agrees.

»Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days:
Let’s Encrypt will be reducing the validity period of the certificates we issue. We currently issue certificates valid for 90 days, which will be cut in half to 45 days by 2028.«
The @… halving the validity of the keys makes the web more secure (not more anonymous).
🔐

Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days
Let’s Encrypt will be reducing the validity period of the certificates we issue. We currently issue certificates valid for 90 days, which will be cut in half to 45 days by 2028. This change is being made along with the rest of the industry, as required by the CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements, which set the technical requirements that we must follow. All publicly-trusted Certificate Authorities like Let’s Encrypt will be making similar changes. Reducing how long certificates are valid …

I made an experimental flan, where instead of using sugar in the custard mix, I converted that sugar to caramel (in addition to the caramel coating the bowl) and then dissolved that caramel into the cooling scalded milk.
The experiment was a success, if you like caramel.
I did this one from memory. 1.5c sucrose split into two parts, 4 cups milk, 4 large eggs, 1 yolk, 1/4 t salt, 1 T vanilla, 350-375F, 1 hour in a baño maria, lay a sheet of aluminum foil on it for most of that ti…

Close-up view of the audio-responsive LED floor installation I co-created for the KEF Muon launch in 2007 @ Sala del Cenacolo (Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia in Milano). The animation was repurposed from one of my first projects I created with Processing (in 2003)...
The 2 meter tall speakers were designed by Ross Lovegrove and made from milled solid aluminium...
The installation was created by Moving Brands (my old employer), a short video of the project/instal…

Some progress being made with my config management idea (been on meetings all day so lots of time lol)
This is a actual type/provider split with 2 providers implemented and seem to do the basics right, idea seems sounds some test scripts written with this seem a lot easier to make multi-run safe.

Ammonites made it through the K-Pg extinction event according to this paper! #FossilFriday 🤯
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-34479-1

Ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary confirmed by new data from Denmark - Scientific Reports
We provide a reassessment of the hypothesis of ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene (Maastrichtian–Danian) boundary, based on new data from the lower Danian Cerithium Limestone Member at Stevns Klint, eastern Denmark. The occurrence of this unit in disjunct basins between eroded crests of uppermost Maastrichtian bryozoan mounds prompts a reconsideration of ammonite redeposition as an alternative to the survival hypothesis. We describe new ammonite specimens from the Cerithium L…

Home again. Marie made pumpkin pancakes with leftovers from holiday dessert makings. Bacon, last night’s leftover sausage, eggs, tea and coffee. Tonight, Arkham Horror card game! #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/sgmJeyM7MXAbTNEV9

This Isn't What De-escalation Looks Like -- Trump can't tame the monster he made. (The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/this-isnt-what-de-escalation-looks-like-trump-ice-border-patrol-minneapolis-election-texas-midterms
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p35#a260202p35

Huge thanks to Cédric @… and Jerry Gamblin @… and the #FOSDEM participants for the great construc…

GCVE-BCP-08 - GCVE GNA Directory File (draft)
This version includes feedback from @cedric , @jgamblin, and participants of the informal FOSDEM workshop in Brussels who are familiar with the CNA model and the CVE Program. Regarding the integration of CNA-related fields, no decision has yet been made on how these should be represented in the JSON structure. The current idea is to introduce a dedicated namespace in which the complete original CNA entry could be embedded without modification. And a new one for GCVE to avoid some legacy …

Starting up The Lair (2022) on @…'s recommendation, and damn, it starts out the gate blasting with a firefight, like Osiris 😂 no slow burn here! Love it. I mean, they get RIGHT the fuck into it. Wow 🔥
https://boxd.it/sy00

The Lair (2022)
Royal Air Force pilot Lt. Kate Sinclair is on her final flight mission when her jet is shot down over one of the most dangerous rebel strongholds in Afghanistan. She finds refuge in an abandoned underground bunker where deadly man-made creatures known as Ravagers — half-human, half-alien, and hungry for human flesh — are awakened.

Tonight I made a daiquiri.
And then I realized, the way it’s spelled looks a lot like a portmanteau of daj (Polish: Give) and query.
So maybe every time someone gives you a SQL query, that’s actually a daiquiri.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Magdalena Bay:
🎵 This Is The World (I Made It For You)
#NowPlaying #MagdalenaBay
https://magdalenabay.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-the-world-i-made-it-for-you-nice-day
https://open.spotify.com/track/6xgNV9489zKLRXnvpiZQXJ

I am an AI model made for everything in general.
I've memorized the wiki page of every Minecraft mineral.
I know the Queen rules England. My training set's historical.
Hallucinations are my Waterloo—That isn't allegorical.
I'm built from matrix operations simple and mathematical,
My neurons are a metaphor, not actually synaptical.
The data centers built today are ninety-nine percent for me.
Spare no expense; you'll live forever soon in …

Nope.
The fact that a garbage argument is made by someone who *should* know better does absolutely nothing to redeem it.
I have no interest in interacting with people whose only argument for (or against) an idea is the credentials of the author. That's how you get a Catholic Church or a Communist Party. #NMK.

A profile of India-based sports website Essentially Sports, founded in a college dorm in 2014 and now reaching 30M monthly readers and $8M in annual turnover (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

How Essentially Sports grew from $100 domain to $8m-plus annual turnover
Sports media platform Essentially Sports was founded in 2014 in a dorm room, and today has made $25m in three years.

Imagine thinking it was in any way appropriate to hold a fucking vote on whether to support a marginalised group or not. Imagine. 🤦‍♀️
#ukpolitics https://flipboard.co…

Your Party overwhelmingly votes to make trans rights party policy
Your Party has officially made trans liberation a party line after members overwhemlingly voted to include trans rights in its founding …

What a relief - #researchfish is closing. Let's hope they're not coming up with a new desaster mess.
https://help.researchfish.com/en_US/re

Investigator breaches white supremacist sites, exposes users​ | Cybernews
https://cybernews.com/security/investigator-exposes-white-supremacist-sites-users/
'An investigative journalist has infiltrated the white supremacist dating website WhiteDate and exfiltrated over 8,000 profiles and 100GB of data. Photos and other sensitive details have been made public, and the full “WhiteLeaks” data is available to journalists and researchers on DDoSecrets.'

Hot take: TDD is easier with LLM-assist dev. You can tell the computer "write a failing test for XYZ" which is super helpful when you see a bug in the wild that doesn't have a test for it yet because if it did your bug wouldn't have made it past CI.
Discuss (I've done the above).

Sam Darnold and Drake Maye took different roads to Santa Clara: How each QB made it to Super Bowl LX https://www.nfl.com/news/sam-darnold-and-drake-maye-took-different-roads-to-santa-clara-how-each-qb-made-it-to-super-bow…

Definitely don’t start Mare of Eastown late at night. We made the mistake of starting the first episode at 9. It’s now 11pm and we’re debating whether to stay up too late to watch a few more.
Instantly engaging, amazing acting.

"Google said the vast majority of its AI Overviews were factual and helpful, and it continuously made quality improvements. The accuracy rate of AI Overviews was on a par with its other search features like featured snippets, which had existed for more than a decade, it added."
So Google admits that it's AI AND OTHER SOFTWARE PRODUCTS actually provide #misinformation. Mi…

"Google said the vast majority of its AI Overviews were factual and helpful, and it continuously made quality improvements. The accuracy rate of AI Overviews was on a par with its other search features like featured snippets, which had existed for more than a decade, it added."
So Google admits that it's AI AND OTHER SOFTWARE PRODUCTS actually provide #misinformation. Mi…

"Bulgaria was the only nation simultaneously fighting the allies and the axis somehow."
That really made me lol 😐

It has never made sense to me that if a groundhog sees its shadow (meaning the sun is out), there will be six more weeks of winter, but if it does not see its shadow (meaning clouds) spring will arrive early. It has always felt backward.
#groundhogday

Moltbook is to AI as NFTs are to Bitcoin.
It primarily shows how unserious and uncritical the community is around a technology that is not in itself worthless, but requires a very careful and critical attitude.
NFTs showed that nobody was interested in the fundamentals that made bitcoin interesting as a technology. Moltbook shows that all the AI Kool Aid crowd is more than happy to be taken in by parlor tricks.

I made a cardboard case for my Raspberry Pi Zero 2 with a generic red 2.4 inch spi display.
Now its a raspberry pi portable

"""
The worst of the internet is continuously attacking the best of the internet. This is a distributed denial of service attack on the good parts of the World Wide Web.
If you’re using the products powered by these attacks, you’re part of the problem. Don’t pretend it’s cute to ask ChatGPT for something. Don’t pretend it’s somehow being technologically open-minded to continuously search for nails to hit with the latest “AI” hammers.
If you’re going to use generative tools powered by large language models, don’t pretend you don’t know how your sausage is made.
"""
https://adactio.com/journal/21831
by @…

Made my day: #MaxUthoff
https://youtube.com/watch?v=x6Sb3-BVAUI

On (generative) AI:
"So it's sort of like when we fed cows with cows and got mad cow disease."
https://framapiaf.org/@bbbhltz/115646412773089943

My dad made me a Vesa compatible holder for my oscilloscope and it turned out great! Just as imagined. Of course, it is a massive steel construction, we both would not trust a 3D printed construction with my dear Rigol.
#electronics #oscilloscope

#mosstodon
Kyoto Maruyamacho
#photography

Why are all these telephone poles hanging sideways in the air along Eight Mile?

Cowboys' rookie made the most out of rare start https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-rookie-made-the-most-out-of-rare-start

Windy and chilly #FirstDayHike at Claytor Lake State Park

Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE https://www.404media.co/here-is-the-user-guide-for-elite-the-tool-palantir-made-for-ice/

Unclear who really made key decisions for the Raiders in 2025 https://raiderramble.com/2025/11/30/unclear-who-really-made-key-decisions-for-the-raiders-in-2025/

Tim Sweeney says it "makes no sense" for stores like Steam to label games that are made using AI, since AI "will be involved in nearly all future production" (Alex Forbes-Calvin/GamesIndustry.biz)
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/epics-sweene

Epic's Sweeney says platforms should stop tagging games made with AI
The CEO of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney, has argued that platforms like Steam should not label games that are made using AI.

Tonight’s pizza experiment… 🍕

#Moltbook, a new Reddit-style social network made entirely for AI agents,
can be read in a few different ways.
Which interpretation you land on depends on where you fall in the ongoing debate about artificial intelligence.
In simple terms, it's a site where AI agents, built by humans who have given them personalities and sometimes instructions,
are set loose to post their ideas…

AI agents got their own Reddit, and now they're asking who's really in charge
Moltbook, the new social media site for AI agents, is either a terrifying glimpse into the future or just more AI slop, depending who you ask.

X now lets any user AI-edit other users’ images without consent, and there is no opt out
A few days ago X introduced a new AI Image Editing button that lets any user modify images posted by others, even without the original uploader’s consent. Image owners are not notified when edits are made, and the feature is enabled by default with no opt-out option (at least not so far) […]
🙄

heh “how to drink” using the word “tensegrity” in their tasting notes
(for an old fashioned made with vodka instead of whiskey; he complains that the flavours of the bitters are floating in mid air without the foundation of the whisky when “tensegrity” appears on screen)

So farewell then 2025. Had some serious health worries, made some stuff, did some performance, made money, had some fun.
Not the best year, suspect health things tend to trend down in the second half of life.
Good though, and promising more good to come.

The story goes that Tim Conway actually made Harvey Corman pee himself during this sketch.
▶️ The Dentist from The Carol Burnett Show (full sketch)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9IUSM4EKcRI&si=lUHtNPT0uBxHfIQj

Louisiana made it nearly impossible to get parole. Now it’s releasing prisoners to deport them.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/11/29/2355546/-Louisiana-made-it-nearly-impossible-to-get-parole-Now-it-s-releasing-prisoners-to-deport-them

New Year, same breakfasts. I made malted waffles, egg and bacon, tea and coffee. Gotta go shovel snow soon, ooof. #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/NNbbsLCvi8A8Ds9o6

Why 1 Move the Raiders Made Ranks Among NFL's Worst https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-1-move-made-ranks-among-worst

Concrete Sculpture Made by Art and Architecture Students Circa 1960 in the Arboretum
#photo #photography #cornell

On the one hand, this is absurd. On the other hand, I encourage Alan Wong to lead by example and demolish his own Sunset home to replace it with a parking lot.
Yup, this is the quality of our Lurie-appointed D4 supervisor #sfpol

It's the first #GrindayFriday of 2026, and I have a ripper. This is the debut LP of Virginia antifascist grinders LAY WASTE. 14 short, brutal tracks with fantastic titles like 'Make Guillotines Great Again'. Kinda oldschool grind, kinda deathgrind. Probably would've made one or both of my lists had it come out earlier in 2025. Fuck fascism, listen to grind.

Sources: CBS Evening News staffers express concern about the 10-day, multicity US reboot tour, citing Bari Weiss' last-minute changes and private jet chartering (Justin Baragona/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a

Private jets, armed security and ‘Bari pitches’ including jet-skiing with DJ Khaled: Inside Weiss’ chaotic CBS Evening News reboot
EXCLUSIVE: The new CBS News editor-in-chief has chartered private flights for her armed security detail, made last-minute logistical changes and fired off ‘Bari Pitches.’ Weiss is once again accused of creating behind-the-scenes turmoil with her decision-making ahead of CBS Evening New’ latest reboot

South Korean police arrest four over hacking 120K home security cameras, whose footage was used to make sexually exploitative material; one person made ~$12K (John Yoon/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/world/asia/south-korea-cameras-hacked.html…

120,000 Home Cameras Were Hacked for Sexual Videos, South Korean Police Say
The authorities arrested four people this week in the latest turn in the country’s effort to stop exploitative recordings

Mailbag: A playoff team without big trade? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-a-playoff-team-without-big-trade

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Human League:
🎵 The Things That Dreams Are Made Of
#TheHumanLeague
https://soulseduction.bandcamp.com/track/the-human-league-the-things-that-dreams-are-made-of-soulseduction-dub
https://open.spotify.com/track/5GLYtND9tYHCEdIQ1i1JH3

Stephen Miller is descended from Russian Jews
—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable.
Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable.
In a series of tweets, interviews in right-wing media, and statements made elsewhere,
Miller has outlined an elaborate worldview that has escaped notice in the mainstream media.
It casts immigrants as a threat to “civilization” in terms …

Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable. How far will Miller’s sadistic designs go?

Maddow breaks Trump & his administration's made-up rationale for deportation, Alien Enemies Act, Venezuela, War, Drugs, etc. & why it's all completely illegal & 100% a war crime.
▶️ ‘He must resign’: Maddow on Pete Hegseth shifting blame for Caribbean boat
https://youtube.com/watch…

A profile of Dario Amodei and Anthropic, which is on track to hit a nearly $10B annualized run rate by the end of 2025, more than 10x what it generated in 2024 (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/article/anthropic-ceo-d…

Anthropic is all in on ‘AI safety’—and that’s helping the $183 billion startup win over big business
Founders Daniela and Dario Amodei have made Anthropic and its Claude models the AI many companies prefer over rivals OpenAI and ChatGPT.

🤯 stable-pretraining-v1: Foundation Model Research Made Simple
#ai #llm

stable-pretraining-v1: Foundation Model Research Made Simple
Foundation models and self-supervised learning (SSL) have become central to modern AI, yet research in this area remains hindered by complex codebases, redundant re-implementations, and the heavy engineering burden of scaling experiments. We present stable-pretraining, a modular, extensible, and performance-optimized library built on top of PyTorch, Lightning, Hugging Face, and TorchMetrics. Unlike prior toolkits focused narrowly on reproducing state-of-the-art results, stable-pretraining is de…

Mailbag: A playoff team without big trade? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-a-playoff-team-without-big-trade

“Many AVs are electric, but the metals and minerals used to build them often come from environmentally harmful mining operations that damage communities—especially Indigenous communities—and ecosystems abroad.”
Appreciate @… calling this out! Cars aren't green, AV or not. Sign her petition to let California counties vote on whether we wan…

Let the People Decide: Give Us a Vote on Autonomous Vehicles
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have flooded San Francisco’s streets, raising serious safety and traffic concerns for residents, pedestrians, animal advocates, and local businesses. In 2025 alone, both Waymo and Zoox recalled over 1,200 vehicles due to crash risks. AVs have also blocked emergency vehicles, caused traffic jams, and created dangerous situations for people walking, biking, and driving. Ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft already made traffic worse, accounting for about half th…

Fundamentalist Christian influencer Allie Beth Stuckey
doesn’t see empathy as a failure of evolution (like Elon Musk does).
As a creationist who denies the scientific reality of prehistoric dinosaurs,
she doesn’t even believe in evolution.
Stuckey has made it her mission to rewrite the teachings of Jesus so that her savior is a harsh disciplinarian
whose “love” has little to do with empathy.
Stuckey’s book
“Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit C…

MAGA's war on empathy was started by a woman
Allie Beth Stuckey weaponizes her gender to sell the idea of a cold-hearted Jesus

Stephen Miller is cruel, immoral & psychotic.
...but I wondered what made him that way?
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☑️ Stephen Miller: Portrait of Donald Trump’s ideologue-in-chief
https://theconversation.com/stephen-miller-portrait-of-donald-tru…

Stephen Miller: portrait of Donald Trump’s ideologue-in-chief
Miller is one of the few officials to serve in both of Trump’s terms of office.

Elliot goes out on dark colored rocks off Hampton Beach, NH
#photo #photography #monochromemonday #blackandwhite

Officials in Congress and the Pentagon said Monday they are increasingly concerned
that the Trump administration intends to
scapegoat the military officer who directed U.S. forces to kill two survivors of a targeted strike on suspected drug smugglers in Latin America,
as lawmakers made initial moves to investigate whether the attack constituted a war crime.

Hegseth, with White House help, tries to distance himself from boat strike fallout
As Congress vows accountability, the Trump administration emphasized it was a top military commander — not the defense secretary — who directed the engagement.

After Missouri residents voted to repeal their state’s near-total abortion ban
and enshrine abortion rights into their state constitution,
Conservative advocates quickly got to work.
In a lawsuit filed the day after the 2024 election,
abortion providers challenged not only the constitutionality of the state’s ban,
⚠️but also a slew of other restrictions that, they said,
made their jobs so arduous as to be impossible.
More than a year later, they are…

🏗️ To Emulate Zohran, Rebuild Left Institutions
#politics

To Emulate Zohran, Rebuild Left Institutions
Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York has inspired the Left far beyond the city. But in Canada, as elsewhere, trying to replicate his style without rebuilding the institutions and political cadre that made it possible is a dead end.

Trump has ordered a massive naval deployment off Venezuela’s northern coast.
“You can save yourself and those closest to you,
but you must leave the country now,”
Trump reportedly said,
offering safe passage for Maduro,
his wife and his son
“only if he agreed to resign right away”.
However, Venezuela’s president reportedly refused to step down immediately
and allegedly made a series of counter-demands,
including worldwide immunity from pr…