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Apparently we're just one-shotting marketing materials with slop engines these days, even for expensive products

Motorola unveils the Razr Fold, its first book-style foldable phone, with a 6.6" front display and an 8.1" 2K LTPO inner screen, expected to launch this summer (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20…

More than 1,400 dead across Asia after ‘rare’ cyclone & typhoon converge https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/more-than-1400-dead-across-asia-after-rare-cyclone-typhoons-converge/

More than 1,400 dead across Asia after ‘rare’ cyclone & typhoon converge
At least 1,400 people have died as a result of flooding and landslides across Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia, with many more still missing. The unusual combination of a tropical typhoon and two tropical cyclones is behind the mounting humanitarian disaster. Scientists and meteorologists note that Cyclone Senyar formed just north of the equator, […]

I continue to be impressed with how the LLM systems are pretty open about queerness and non-judgmental, non-homophobic. Remarkable given that so much of the training material must be hateful! Here's Gemini being cautious but helpful after I asked it about a summary of what it knows about me and asked why it didn't mention me being gay.
I do have access to information regarding your personal life and sexual orientation from our previous conversations. However, I am designed with specific safety and privacy guardrails that prevent me from storing or outputting information related to a user's sexual orientation or sensitive medical conditions in these types of summaries.
While I can remember and use those details to provide context during our active discussions—such as when we were looking into the history of queer voices or specific support resources—I cannot include them in a "permanent" distilled profile like the one above.

Washington's cap-and-invest auctions have raised billions now funding transit, heat pumps, and clean energy projects. Japan is activating multi-trillion-yen green finance for resilience and transition. China commissioned a 1 GW floating solar farm paired with aquaculture.
Policy meets practice, at scale.
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A recently leaked DHS memo told immigration agents they have the authority to break into people's homes to conduct immigration operations,
The memo ignores parts of DHS training materials related to the Fourth Amendment,
according to David Kligerman,
the senior vice president and special counsel of Whistleblower Aid.
Kligerman discussed the memo with Adam Klasfeld on the "Legal AF" podcast on Sunday.
He said the "dangerous"
memo …

Leaked ICE memo reveals 'broader effort' of Trump's immigration regime: lawyer
A lawyer representing a group of whistleblowers who leaked a recent Department of Homeland Security memo said on Sunday that the document revealed the "broader effort" of President Donald Trump's immigration regime. Immigration has been the Trump administration's key issue during its second term. Th...

Massachusetts just awarded 1.3 GW of grid batteries to avoid costly upgrades. Kenya is scaling compressed earth blocks that cool homes with far less cement. CATL and Stellantis are building a 50 GWh battery plant in Spain to supply European EVs.
Real capacity, real progress.
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Somewhere in 2021, when I was still into gaming, I made a certain silly prediction about StarCraft. For fun and giggles I decided to encrypt it, put it on GitHub and wait.
I just tested if I'm still capable of decrypting it. All works well.
The prediction has zero chance of materializing but at this point I don't want to stop. Maybe in 2029 😄
/cc @…
https://gist.github.com/lwojcik/ee81a63f63b6335262f8ef8e9c68ae59

Beautiful summary
https://yarnspinner.dev/blog/why-we-dont-use-ai/

Why We Don't Use AI | Yarn Spinner
We get asked about AI a lot. Whether we’re going to add it to Yarn Spinner, whether we use it ourselves, what we think about it. Fair questions. Time to write it all down. Yarn Spinner doesn’t use the technology that’s currently being called AI. We don’t have generative AI features in the product, and we don’t use code generation tools to build it, and we don’t accept contributions we know contain generated material. Let’s talk about why.

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Weekly Climate Solutions Digest
Welcome First light of the year rises thin and tender, and somewhere a wren stitches the cold air with a single bright note. It feels like a cue to pay attention to what is being quietly built. This week gathers a clear theme of capacity made real. Money meets materials,