@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-01 01:37:22
New year celebrations around the world – in pictures
Auckland, New Zealand
A firework display from the top of Sky Tower welcomes in the new year.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/galle…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-01 01:37:22
@benb@osintua.eu2026-01-01 13:11:23
Putin's New Year speech lauds Russia's war, makes no mention of peace in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/01/putins-new-year-speech-lauds.html
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-01 17:45:38
Car sharing service Zipcar UK plans to shut down after London extended its Congestion Charge to EVs; Zipcar had losses of £11.7M in 2024 vs. £364,000 in 2023 (Simon Hunt/City A.M.)
https://www.cityam.com/zipcar-uk-to-shut-operations-ahead-of-new-…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-01-01 17:12:43
5 players Cowboys should be scouting during New Year's bowl games https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/5-players-dallas-cowboys-should-scouting-new-year-bowl-games
@gwire@mastodon.social2025-12-31 17:09:41
> Sydney fireworks ring in 2026 as Asia sees in the new year ahead of Europe and the US
every year there's some implied surprise in either the rotation of the earth, or how timezones are arranged.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/l
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-31 18:15:33
Stephen Miller Is The New Republic's 2025 Scoundrel of the Year (Greg Sargent/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/article/204636/stephen-miller-new-republic-2025-scoundrel-year
http://www.memeorandum.com/251231/p41#a251231p41
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-12-31 22:29:12
50 new year's eves ago tonight, the jerry garcia band exit 1975 in #berkeley, garcia’s final show with inconsistent genius nicky hopkins, greg errico subbing for ron tutt, plus guests bobby weir & mickey hart & matt kelly. the garcia band's only new year's show. now garcialive, vol. 5:
@eyebee@mstdn.social2026-01-01 00:21:27
@servelan@newsie.social2026-01-01 03:46:48
AMA Offers 10 Health Recommendations for New Year
https://chicagocrusader.com/ama-10-recommendations-for-new-year-health/
@davej@dice.camp2025-12-31 15:08:07
In the last, guttering hours of the year, it’s tradition to look back on the last 12 months’ #TTRPG activity and reflect. You can read last year’s summary at https://dice.camp/@davej/113747664699824381…
@marcel@waldvogel.family2025-11-30 08:34:00
"Brits heading for Spain may soon have to wear a face mask again due to the huge surge in flu and Covid cases."
Everyone else will be exempt or what? 🥴
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2140229/spain-covid-flu-alert-new-rules-hospitals…
@benb@osintua.eu2025-12-31 18:03:37
Putin uses New Year address to double down on war in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/31/putin-uses-new-year-address.html
@catsalad@infosec.exchange2025-12-31 00:50:34
New Year new me
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-01-01 14:56:18
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Beach House:
🎵 New Year
#BeachHouse
https://beachhouse.bandcamp.com/track/new-year
https://open.spotify.com/track/6MlMB9nKbA3OniKUcJBXWs
@pre@boing.world2025-12-31 13:44:43
Media stuff
Rewatched all of Buffy
Broken wrist meant I had to sit on the sofa for a month doing nothing really. I re-watched all 200 or so episodes of Buffy for the first time this decade.
What an achievement in TV production. Amazing show.
I'll watch it again next decade maybe.
Not that I read a huge amount. Hopefully more next year.
"Outland" by Dennis E Taylor, and actually also his "Not Till We Are Lost"
"Broken Money" by Lyn Alden.
Think "Severance" was the most remarkable show I watched this year, with "Trek, Strange New Worlds" also being great again.
"Pantheon" was a pretty great cartoon, haven't seen the second season yet.
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com2026-01-01 06:47:22
Shoutout to the Alaskans, Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders who, as the only people on earth, can say they celebrate New Year later than the west coast.
Ever since moving here, I wonder this same thing every New Year’s eve: How large of a proportion of humanity enters the new year before the west coast?
My rough math suggests around 99.4%
@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-01-31 12:00:50
"Global Investment in Clean Tech Hit a New High Last Year"
#Energy #Renewables
https://e360.yale.edu/dige…
@frankel@mastodon.top2025-12-31 17:28:44
Still working on New Year's Eve? Take a break, and get the Java Geek Weekly, New Year's Eve edition 🥳
https://blog.frankel.ch/java-geek-weekly/117/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-01-01 07:15:39
CBS faced a technical snafu that knocked the live broadcast of "New Year's Eve Live: Nashville's Big Bash" off the air for about 12 minutes on December 31 (Cynthia Littleton/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/cbs-na…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-01 18:43:03
Expect Trump to post something like this next year:
"We seek to bring joy and warmth to those in need of care and attention — and, of course, to support our heroes, the participants of the special military operation, with both words and deeds. You have taken on the responsibility of fighting for your homeland, for truth and justice. I assure you, millions of people across Russia are with you on this New Year's night," - V. Putin
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2026-01-01 09:59:14
Not that many people here will need it, but as an indicator it's interesting:
In case you're looking for an alternative New Year resolution, Denmark has a new people's movement: Danmark skifter, Denmark switches, which aims to help people regain focus, change their social media habits and get off US big tech platforms.
Here's their English website:
https://danmarkskifter.dk/en/
@nemorosa@mastodon.nu2025-12-31 18:56:55
Happy New Year, may the new year be kinder to you.
@Simone21@mastodon.social2025-12-31 23:52:23
Liebes Fediversum,
Von Herzen alles Gute für 2026!
Möge es uns Frieden, Gesundheit, Hoffnung und Zuversicht bringen. 🤗🥂🍀🎇
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-01-01 20:39:37
I usually find year-end top stories round-ups to be insipid and mediocre at best, but this one by @… is first-rate.
https://www.
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2025-11-01 20:58:00
Another big jump in atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa: based on daily values, the October average was ~425.0 ppm, that's 2.6 ppm higher than last year.
"US government is closed; site not updated", so we'll have to rely on the automated data collection for now.
@axbom@axbom.me2025-12-31 11:10:14
It's already 2026 in Kiribati, and New Zealand just now as well. Happy new year!
@ErikUden@mastodon.de2025-12-31 23:00:00
Happy new year from the German timezone ❤️
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2026-01-01 07:09:34
A bit late but Happy new Year everybody!
I spent a wonderfull dinner and evening yesterday.
And we just woke up to clear sky and -8°C. Let's see how we'Re going to start the year!
#happynewyear
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social2025-12-31 13:41:53
Content warning:
Have a great last day of the year and a wonderful start into 2026, everyone 🥳 🥂
#NewYearsEve #HappyNewYear2026
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-01 14:50:36
An analysis of Crunchbase and PitchBook data: in 2025 so far, 80 tech startups reached $1B valuations, many of them focused on AI with exceptions like Kalshi (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/01/at-least-36-new-tech-…
@brian_gettler@mas.to2026-01-01 05:36:03
"Pop open a bottle of bubbly,
Here's to another goddamn New Year
And outside, two million drunk Bostonians
Are getting ready to sing 'Auld Lang Syne' out of tune."
Happy New Years, everyone.
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-01-01 14:36:16
Happy new year! Three CFP semifinal spots will be claimed today. Here's who can join Miami
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-foo…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-01-01 03:31:57
Happy New Year to everyone but [list of people and companies that grew exponentially in 2025]
@m0les@aus.social2026-01-01 12:11:26
Happy new year and all that. Maybe now's a good juncture to start looking into the usual new-year activities:
- Making some self-improvement resolution you won't stick to for more than a fortnight.
- Replacing the batteries in your fire alarm (with alkaline cells, not rechargeable!)
- Unsubscribe from all those marketing lists you've been binning for all of 2025.
- Be nicer to everyone and be nicest to the ones you love.
@newstik@social.heise.de2026-01-01 08:24:05
Pro tip: rather than saying "Happy New Year", say "Happy 2026!".
That will help you to ingrain the new number into your head faster.
@servelan@newsie.social2025-12-31 05:17:34
National Guard arrives in New Orleans for 1st New Year’s since Bourbon Street attack
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense/2025/12/new-orleans-is-still-seeking-permanent-security-solutions-a-year-after-deadly-bourbon-street-attack/
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2025-12-31 01:06:58
Discovery and Multiwavelength Analysis of a New Dissociative #GalaxyCluster Merger - The Champagne Cluster: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ade67c -> NASA's Chandra Rings in New Year With Champagne Cluster: https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2025/champagne/
@benb@osintua.eu2025-12-31 15:32:43
✨ New Year and CAROLS during air raid sirens – UKRAINE celebrates #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/31/new-year-and-carols-during.html
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-12-31 20:48:42
New Year's Eve in Canberra: too damp to go to our usual firework viewing spot, friends away interstate, daughter in Tasmania, son working. All this is promising a nice peaceful NYE, just me and the husband and the grand-dog. Unfortunately, forgot about dogs barking at fireworks throughout the night until the wee hours. Bleh.
Anyway, I'm now on my second cuppa so the year is looking up.
#Canberra
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-31 21:10:34
The New Year health-insurance shock facing millions of Americans (The Economist)
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2025/12/30/the-new-year-health-insurance-shock-facing-millions-of-americans
http://www.memeorandum.com/251231/p64#a251231p64
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-12-31 23:52:12
I guess I’ve just grown out of fireworks. You can watch them on YouTube any time, so they don’t really feel special anymore. Happy new year, I guess. Let’s make 2026 the year of anarchism.
@whitequark@mastodon.social2026-01-01 02:29:31
happy new year.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-01-01 00:38:05
I’m not really sure what it means, given the state of the world, but I guess in an aspirational sense, at least, as in “against all evidence to the contrary, here’s hoping 2026 will be a…”
Here’s wishing you all a Happy New Year.
(Except the fascists. They can get fucked.)
💕
PS. You can find people in need in Gaza to donate to at https://
@BugWarp@wikis.world2026-01-01 01:47:32
2025 was a tough year for me. But it had its sweet moments and I managed to achieve my dream of visiting Prague. May 2026 be a great year for all of us. Happy new year!
@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-12-31 18:09:37
@… Does this screenie exhibit a bug? Note the lonely "Followers" text at the bottom.
Best of the New Year to you and yours, and thanks for all the fine work!
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot2026-01-01 12:08:30
Dreading the 'how did you bring in the new year?' questions as I have nothing to say. It's been a draining year and I did impressively well to stay up til midnight. Now having a cheerless visit with my mother at the care home, made esp irritating as Dad is here and he massively p'd me off yesterday by saying he hadn't agreed to having a cat - WHAT? We discussed it several times. He doesn't have the big D but does go back on his word sometimes.
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-01-01 06:21:07
Kitchen Sink Ghost says “Happy New Year!”
@bici@mastodon.social2025-12-31 02:55:13
Happy New Year with #Textpattern
Textpattern 4.9.0 is a feature release with support for PHP 8.5 & MySQL 8.4, new features, security enhancements, improvements and bug fixes. In semantic versioning terms, Textpattern 4.9.0 is a minor release; in Textpattern terms we consider this a ‘big’ release.
Get with the minimalist CMS that does all that
@rocksongoftheweek@mastodon.world2026-01-01 00:06:19
We close out 2025 this week with another early pick, a fitting track from 90s rock act Semisonic.
Give it a listen and bring in the new year with us, as we run through why we feel this is the perfect track for the occasion.
Thanks again to all our readers for another fun year of music blogging, we'll be back in the new year to showcase more hand picked tracks from across the epic world of #rock
@mela@zusammenkunft.net2025-12-31 23:12:41
Happy new year.
Und ich will ja nichts sagen, aber einige haben jetzt schon ihr Pun-Soll für 2026 übererfüllt. Ihr wisst, wer ihr seid.
@JSkier@social.linux.pizza2026-01-01 17:18:56
Wishing everyone here a happy new year. 2025 was a rough year for me, with #LongCovid but I also had a lot of positive things happen. Going back to work fulltime, improved health, and finishing my first half marathon to name a few.
Lastly, I had some friends and former colleagues pass away from other various health issues, struggles with mental health, and one amazing human who was t…
@danyork@mastodon.social2026-01-01 05:00:05
Happy New Year! May 2026 be a good one for us all! 🎉
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-01-01 00:17:32
Happy New Year to all of you out there. I doubt anyone is lamenting the passing of 2025. Here's hoping 2026 cannot be worse.
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-01-01 16:54:09
Woke up in pain, lasted for hours, took some drugs, fell asleep… happy new year?
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2025-12-31 23:00:13
DEU: Ich wünsche euch allen ein gutes neues Jahr 2026! ✨
ENG: I wish you all a Happy-New-Year 2026! ✨
🕛 https://progressbarserver.appspot.com
:mastodon: @…
@ruari@velocipederider.com2025-12-31 23:07:42
Happy New Year! 🎉
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-01-01 06:36:33
My StoryGraph 2025 reading wrap-up was generated two hours before the new year and one hour before I finished another book — so it’s not reflected in the stats.
Anyway if you’re curious where I spend my free time:
https://app.thestorygraph.com/wrap-up/2025/aardrian
@bobmueller@mastodon.world2026-01-01 21:00:09
OK, diabetics. New Year, new lancet. Them's the rules. #diabetes
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-31 23:20:54
President Xi Jinping highlighted China’s achievements in artificial intelligence and the chip industry
in a triumphant New Year’s Eve speech as he called for more confidence in the country’s development path in the year ahead.
“China has become one of the world’s fastest-rising economies in terms of innovative capacity,”
he declared in a televised address on Wednesday beamed to the nation’s 1.4 billion people,
in which he touted China’s achievements in large AI models …
@jkohlmann@mastodon.social2026-01-01 04:54:22
Happy new year. Take your genocides and your generative AI and shove ’em up your ass
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-01-01 16:22:44
@andycarolan@social.lol2026-01-01 00:12:42
Merry New Year! ♥️
@Xavier@infosec.exchange2026-01-01 04:40:42
Celebrate the new year by merging to main and push to prod!
@jby@ecoevo.social2026-01-01 16:54:01
Before we walked over to the bar to ring in the new year last night, I polished off MASTERS OF ATLANTIS as my last book of 2025. I'd put it on my to-read list after this review ... whew, back in 2020?
https://slate.com/culture/2020/12/master…
@eyebee@mstdn.social2026-01-01 10:17:53
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-01-01 15:48:18
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
The Breeders:
🎵 New Year
#TheBreeders
https://thebreeders.bandcamp.com/track/new-year
https://open.spotify.com/track/6MEAQnIS71j4BGkyRhz7dA
@jae@mastodon.me.uk2026-01-01 00:28:19
Happy New Year!
Can’t believe I’m celebrating it with @… in person!
@frankel@mastodon.top2025-12-31 22:40:31
A boardgame session, a half-marathon, coding, blogging, and a donation to Come Back Alive (https://savelife.in.ua/en/).
Not bad for the last day of the year. I'll do my best for the next year to be as fruitful.
I wish you all a good New Year's Eve, and please pray for Ukraine 🙏 🇺🇦
@pre@boing.world2025-12-31 13:44:29
Had Fun
Bought a car/micro-camper
Bought a van to do up as a micro-camper, and did a temporary rush job of that conversion myself while waiting in the list for the pro to do it.
Then the pro gave himself a health criss the week it was booked so I took apart my temp job and only got another temp kit-job in it's place.
Went out in it like four times during that and then broke my wrist and couldn't really use it or improve it.
Then had to take it apart even more to try
and figure out where the ad-blue hole was.
I will do a proper permanent job of the
floor and walls and ceiling and adjustments to the kit-job to make it the nicest it's been so far during the spring next year.
My assumption that the prior conversion
into a van and for wheelchair-access meant the microcamper conversion was half-done already turned out to be false.
If I buy a new one, it'll be one that has never been wheelchair adapted.
But it's going okay. Only scraped it once so far.
Fewer than aimed for or booked, but I broke my wrist and had to cancel the second half of the summer.
Went to a conference about money and computers and fringe decentralized social media and it wasn't as boring as you might expect and felt pretty much like a festival.
Exactly the target number! It's lovely.
Took 3 times longer than I'd hoped and
50% more money than I'd planned for really.
Still improvements to make but they will
be incremental and gradual over the coming year or two now.
It's been interest-only for 20 years so a big old lump sum payment that I never really expected to be able to make. Expected to have to sell and move at the end of the mortgage term.
But surprisingly the stocks ISA got high enough to pay it off after all, so I did that.
Cash-flow ruined by that and the bedroom but should start to feel a bit richer next year.
@benb@osintua.eu2026-01-01 12:47:09
💥 New Year's Eve with shelling! Russia attacked Ukraine with drones #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/01/new-years-eve-with-shelling.html
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-12-31 18:13:17
phil lesh, brent mydland, & jerry garcia pitch the grateful dead’s new year’s ’85-’86 simulcast on the USA network, 40 years ago tonight, with a sneak peak of the in-progress “so far” video. (only the 2nd set airs.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVmZBBTHi6k [1/8]
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-01-01 14:47:32
Watching The Hudsucker Proxy (1994), it's such an amazing New Year's movie.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-01-01 15:50:18
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Death Cab for Cutie:
🎵 The New Year
#DeathCabforCutie
https://deathcabforcutie.bandcamp.com/track/the-new-year
https://open.spotify.com/track/4nPNsnv4QEiIzihzCU5zHH
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2026-01-01 08:14:03
Happy New Year!
Just a few modest wishes:
> Better times for Palestinians
> Russia leaves Ukraine
> Dems win midterms in the US
> Netherlands gets functioning government that addresses our actual issues
> Stronger global climate action
And all the best for all of you!
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-01 14:25:52
A profile of AI contractor marketplace Mercor, which is valued at $10B and whose three 22-year-old founders are Thiel Fellows, each holding a roughly 22% stake (Richard Nieva/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2025/10/30/mercor-younge…
@benb@osintua.eu2025-12-31 15:32:45
Russia intensifies attacks on New Year's Eve! Should Putin expect a backlash?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/31/russia-intensifies-attacks-on-new.html
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-31 18:31:18
Stephen Miller has amassed unprecedented power for a deputy White House chief of staff.
He exerts extraordinary influence over an unusually large swath of the government,
from immigration to criminal justice to even the military’s operations on American soil
❌Much of what defines public life in the Trump era
—masked kidnappings on U.S. streets,
standoffs between ICE goons and protesters,
military patrols in U.S. cities
—has been authored by Miller.
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-12-29 02:14:34
Tyler Shough for Rookie of Year? The Saints QB is making his case https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47439147/tyler-shough-2025-rookie-year-new-orleans-saints-quarterback-making-case
@ruari@velocipederider.com2025-12-31 13:01:23
I think I'll wear this one today. Retro-futuristic to welcome in the new year.
#WristCheck
@gwire@mastodon.social2026-01-01 00:00:16
Happy New Year 2026!
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-01-26 10:05:39
An interview with Audrey Cooper, EIC of The Baltimore Banner, on local news decline, growing regionally, paywalls, experimenting with AI, and more (Editor and Publisher)
https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories
@pre@boing.world2025-12-31 13:44:53
Next year 2026
So, what for next year?
- More than 12 Tarot shows,
- About six Observers shows,
- The main starship v0.4 cartoon,
- Along with the pre-release of the main starship app
- Improvements to the Exocortex app,
- An improv class/show or two (one starts Jan, show March)
- An new improv group?
- Play a couple of Loopy gigs/open-mics,
- Finish the bedroom stuff,
- Don't get sicker,
- Break zero bones,
- Fix the camper in the spring,
- About six festivals,
- Maybe a foreign holiday,
- Try and read more
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-31 01:31:11
Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen and crypto evangelist Tim Draper plan to spend millions this year on an effort to elect moderate California legislators (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/poli
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-12-31 20:35:13
PSA: if you start watching The Hudsucker Proxy at 10:23:14pm the clock in the movie will strike midnight (New Year's Day 1959) exactly when it's your local midnight
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-01 12:55:29
Americans are rightly waking up -- much of higher education is now a scam (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/11/30/opinion/more-americans-are-realizing-a-four-year-degree-is-an-expensive-scam/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p12#a251201p12
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-30 17:31:26
A cracked windshield, a waiting officer, a forgotten document:
The new family separations often start in the most mundane ways.
Seven years ago, during the first administration of President Donald Trump,
children were taken from their families the moment they crossed the border into the United States.
Under a policy of zero tolerance for illegal crossing, Customs and Border Protection officers detained adults while children were sent into the federal shelter system.…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2025-11-29 09:42:43
When the UK's new nuclear power plant Hinkley Point C starts to produce power in 2030, its guaranteed 'strike price' will have risen to ~150 £/MWh (170 €/MWh). Average wholesale electricity prices will probably be around half of that, so that's a 50% subsidy.
At an annual production of 25 million MWh (3.2 GW in baseload), I'd say that's £1.9 billion per year in subsidies.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-29 22:20:55
A profile of Klay, whose app will let users remake songs using AI; Klay has raised ~$10M and is the first AI startup to close deals with the three major labels (Abram Brown/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/secretive-startup-klay-jump…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-11-30 16:00:25
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/us/politics/trump-david-gentile-commutation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5E8.ZEMZ.EBMHEuKQ8-9j
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-30 07:40:29
New Year's Eve Concerts at Kennedy Center Are Canceled (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/arts/kennedy-center-new-years-eve-concerts-canceled.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AVA.gyur.HwnXvkZVhpPw&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251230/p1#a251230p1
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2025-11-01 17:56:09
China added as much solar PV capacity (256 GW) in just the first half of this year as the US installed in all of its solar history.
China's speed of adding new capacity was already 14 times higher than that in the US, and China is speeding up while the US is slowing down.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-29 13:10:55
Sources: ByteDance and Alibaba both plan to release flagship AI models around China's mid-February Lunar New Year holiday, including ByteDance's Doubao 2.0 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/bytedance-alibaba-…
@benb@osintua.eu2025-12-31 20:10:13
Ukraine damages major Russian oil assets in New Year's Eve strikes, military reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/31/ukraine-damages-major-russian-oil.html
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-31 06:31:11
Sandisk and Kioxia announce a five-year extension of their JV manufacturing contract from 2029 to 2034; the new deal involves SanDisk paying Kioxia $1.165B (Ryo Mukano/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/sem…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-31 15:01:27
Trump's reality distortion field
– which promised Mexico would pay for his border wall
– had met its match.
Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post warned:
“Mr President, the American people didn’t vote for these scenes,
and you can’t continue to order them to not believe their lying eyes.”
White House aides had already tried to deny the video evidence when 37-year-old Renee Good was shot three times in her vehicle by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (IC…
@benb@osintua.eu2025-12-31 16:51:40
Kremlin aims to declare Pokrovsk captured by New Year, Ukraine says fighting continues: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/31/kremlin-aims-to-declare-pokrovsk.html
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-30 20:15:30
Sources: Databricks is raising $5B and expects sales to grow 55% this year, putting its post-money valuation at $134B, as AI costs squeeze gross profit margins (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/datab…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-01 06:08:58
The Epstein Dancers
are coming in January
to the
Trump-Kennedy Center for the Performaning Arts
@benb@osintua.eu2026-01-01 11:30:36
🎄 PEACE – for years to come! ZELENSKYY voiced Ukraine's wishes on New Year's Eve #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/01/peace-for-years-to-come.html