2025-12-31 13:28:58
“2025 In Review: The Year The US Changed Sides”
#usa
“2025 In Review: The Year The US Changed Sides”
#usa
By me
‘Change Everything’, Natalie Bennett’s Green Philosophy, a review | Steady State Manchester https://steadystatemanchester.net/2025/12/01/change-everything-natalie-bennetts-green-philosophy-a-review/
Steelers film review: Why Pittsburgh's high-priced defense is struggling https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6760441/2025/10/31/steelers-film-review-defense-struggles/
Vent-Axia Lo-Carbon Tempra single-room MHRV: Review - Learn how our Tempra MHRV helps keep humidity down in the kitchen and the air fresh, even when drying laundry in winter. #frugal #cutCarbon -
Las Vegas Review-Journal NFL Challenge picks — Week 9 https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/betting/las-vegas-review-journal-nfl-challenge-picks-week-9-3531488/
«if you have to choose a “pedia” to trust, you might choose the one assembled by a bunch of pedantic nerds saying “well, ACTUALLY” to each other until the heat death of the universe, over the one assembled by an LLM controlled by an insecure Nazi salute-throwing billionaire»
A Review of Grokipedia, Using Myself as Test Subject | Whatever
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/30/a-review-of-grokipedia-using-myself-as-test-subject/
Grokipedia content often closely mirrors Wikipedia except for some political topics but its use of AI makes it better than Wikipedia on obscure entries (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/grokipedia-elon-musk-wikipedia-ai-which…
The Trump administration will review frozen grants to universities ✅without using its controversial standards that discouraged gender, race and sexual orientation initiatives and vaccine research.
In a settlement agreement filed in Massachusetts federal court Monday, the National Institutes of Health and a group of Democratic attorneys general who’d challenged the new criteria for #grant
Japan Review 40 published
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‘Change Everything’, Natalie Bennett’s Green Philosophy, a review
Change Everything: How we can rethink, repair and rebuild society (second edition, 2025). by Natalie Bennett. Wilton Square Books, £10.99. Former Green Party leader and peer, Natalie Bennett has outlined her political philosophy in this book whose first edition appeared last year. She argues that there is a distinctive Green political philosophy, distinct from but sharing many characteristics with…
Raiders Biggest Fantasy Bust, Sleeper, MVP With 2025 In Review https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-biggest-fantasy-bust-sleeper-mvp-2025-review
On the SIKP 2000 A1 Portable Induction Hob: Review (2010) - See how easy this one-pan portable induction hob is to use! How does it compare with a built-in induction hob? #cleanAir #induction #cutCarbon
While a child can appreciate the privacy-first goals of an app like Ente, features like customer service by mail and collaborative albums are less of a priority.
https://theprivacydad.com/my-teenagers-review-of-entes-privacy-photo-app/
dutch_criticism: Dutch literacy criticism (1976)
A network of criticisms among Dutch literary authors in 1976. The directed edge (i,j) denotes that an author i passed judgment on author j's work in an interview or review.
This network has 35 nodes and 81 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://
Data driven approaches in nanophotonics: A review of AI-enabled metadevices
Huanshu Zhang, Lei Kang, Sawyer D. Campbell, Jacob T. Young, Douglas H. Werner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00283
Hello, In this video I will review a car. I will only talk about top trim features and will only mention the lowest trim price, a trim that may or may not ever be released.
In a pretrial ruling, a UK judge finds a review in The Observer was defamatory for calling Andy Ngo an alt-right agitator; the outlet's parent weighs next steps (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/guardian-pre-trial-libel-…
On a comprehensive review of a proof of L\"owner's theorem
Curt Healey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00121 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00121
I tried to put a stake in the ground for how I have used and will (not) use the collection of technologies loosely and collectively referred to as ‘AI’ for content on my blag-o-tron:
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/12/my-use-of-ai-on-this-site.html
Boring read…
Visual neurorestoration: An expert review of current strategies for restoring vision in humans https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/15/11/1170
Apparently they have never heard of the Neuralink Blindsight cortical implant nor The vOICe visual-to-auditory sensory substitution?
My only question is, seriously, "Why'd it take this long to investigate Trump & Hegseth's obvious war crimes?"
▶️ Lawmakers on both sides support review of Trump administration's airstrikes
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rQOAAbJxEU8&si=wbFfd4t…
49ers offense sizzles while Seahawks' Sam Darnold sputters: Week 17 film review https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6922716/2025/12/30/49ers-sam-darnold-malik-willis-film-review/
Japan Review 40 published https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136358/japan-review-40-published
Oklahoma State Board of Education to 'reset' accreditation process, review social studies standards https://nondoc.com/2025/10/23/state-board-of-education-to-reset-accreditation-process-review-social-studies-standards/
These are the people who'll be first against the wall when the Collisons take over Ireland:
#mastodaoine
IA: Man against the machine…
Font licencing claims shake-down (Insanity Works)
https://www.insanityworks.org/randomtangent/2025/11/14/monotype-font-licencing-shake-down?utm_source=fediverse
@… And it’s actually the third revision, I didn't review the very first version.
I wrote an enthusiastic review the last time, but they’ve now conceptually recentered the proposal, and the same review would now cover only 50% of it.
@… And it’s actually the third revision, I didn't review the very first version.
I wrote an enthusiastic review the last time, but they’ve now conceptually recentered the proposal, and the same review would now cover only 50% of it.
Oh! The video games I played in October all begin with 'B':
The Biggleboss INCident; Blackwell Unbound; The Blackwell Convergence; The Blackwell Deception; Backpack Battles.
Yep, #pointandclick
I've started the last in the Blackwell series - I'm not finished yet. I know they're older, but maybe I'll write a review of the series when I'm done.
I also played #SteamNextFest Demos: Goblin Sushi (many hours' worth); Nighthawks; Atomic Age; Moon Garden Optimizer; Mystery of Silence; Servant of the Lake; Uncle Lee's Cookbook
There were 5 other demos I played, but I uninstalled them after 10 minutes' play - they weren't for me
CANI files a CA ballot measure to let an oversight board review and undo nonprofit conversions in science and tech since Jan. 2024, indirectly targeting OpenAI (Keach Hagey/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-complet
Es una religión
“It’s a religion. We believe in technology. Technology is God. It’s really hard to push back against it. People don’t want to hear it.”
How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time.
MIT Tech. Review:
https://www.
On the IKEA SMAKLIG Built-in Induction Hob: Review - Is an induction hob better than cooking with gas? How about health and carbon? #induction #cutCarbon #airQuality -
The headline should be: ❝AI vendor’s AI-generated analysis claims AI generated reviews for AI-generated papers at AI conference❞
To be clear, I give great credence to the claims of the humans in the article who thought they’d received an AI-generated review. I bet •they’re• correct. It’s Nature I’m coming after here.
A journalistic institution would investigate that claim, track down the reviewer in question, get to the bottom of the story. A PR outlet would just repeat some vendor’s product claims as fact and click “publish.”
Which one is Nature?
/end
Ballot Box Scotland 2025 in review: council by-elections
"remember the most important aspect of STV – that the nice simple language used for FPTP of “gain/loss/hold” isn’t as applicable here. Whoever vacated one of three or four seats is not always the same as the overall winner at the last election. It’s entirely possible for the vacating party, the party that had a first preference lead, and the party that would have won a single seat election ... to all be different"
The Trump administration is closing NASA’s largest research library on Friday,
a facility that houses tens of thousands of books, documents and journals
— many of them not digitized or available anywhere else.
Jacob Richmond,
a NASA spokesman, said the agency would review the library holdings over the next 60 days
and some material would be stored in a government warehouse
while the rest would be tossed away.
“This process is an established method th…
Adelaide Mail Week In Review
South Australia's Other Fake News Source (but if the courts ask, it's satire)...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/adelaide-mail-week-in-review/
BOGUS: Banal Overuse of Generic Useless Speech
Our new paper now under review
Among media stocks in 2025, WBD surged 172%, Fox jumped 47.3%, Paramount Skydance rose 29%, Netflix was up just 5.7%, and Disney was up 2.25%; Comcast fell ~20% (The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
Las Vegas Review-Journal NFL Challenge picks — Week 13 https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/betting/las-vegas-review-journal-nfl-challenge-picks-week-13-3588549/
Honestly this might be the first time in my whole life I’m leaving a bad review on Steam
Termination Shock https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4549701652?utm_medium=api
Nice blog from Phillips O Brien.
Annual Review 2025: What I Got Wrong
Complete with quotes!
https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/annual-review-2025-what-i-got-wrong?utm_medium=ios
The Zoom #H1n #fieldRecorder has served me well so far, 5 years on.
https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Zoom-H1n-<…
Data Quality Taxonomy for Data Monetization
Eduardo Vyhmeister, Bastien Pietropoli, Andrea Visentin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00089 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…
Review of Samsung's Galaxy Z TriFold: sturdy but poor camera performance and has some unique design flaws that make it even less polished than regular foldables (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20
I now need to find all those online profiles where I have described myself as an "inactive" pilot and remove the word "inactive" from them. After a hiatus of a dozen years, I just passed both the ground and air work portions of a flight review, and once again have a current "license to learn."
#aviation
Just finished "It's Lonely at the Center of the Earth" by Zoe Thorogood.
CW: Frank/graphic discussion of suicide and depression (not in this post but in the book).
It feels a bit wrong to simply give it my review here as I would another graphic memoir, because it's much more personal and less consensual than the usual. It feels less like Thorogood has invited us into her life than like she was forced to put her life on display in order to survive, and while I selfishly like to read into the book that she benefited in some way from the process, she's honest about how tenuous and sometimes false that claim can be. Knowing what I've learned from this book about Thorogood's life and demons, I don't want her to feel the mortification of being perceived by me, and so perhaps the best thing I could do is to simply unread the book and pull it back out of my memories.
I did not find Thorogood's life relatable, nor pitiable (although my instinct bends in that direction), but instead sacred and unknowable. I suspect that her writing and drawing has helped others in similar circumstances, but she leaves me with no illusion that this fact brings her any form of peace or joy. I wonder what she would feel reading "Lab Girl" or "The Deep Dark," but she has been honest enough to convey that such speculation on my part is a bit intrusive.
I guess the one other thing I have to say: Zoe Thorogood has through artistic perseverance developed an awe-inspiring mastery of the comic medium, from panel composition, through to page layout and writing. This book wields both Truth and Beauty.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build its Surveillance AI https://www.404media.co/flock-uses-overseas-gig-workers-to-build-its-surveillance-ai/
FPF Year in Review 2025
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-year-in-review-2025/
@…
This year, FPF continued to broaden its footprint across priority areas of d…
Classical and Multiscale Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics
Miroslav Grmela, Michal Pavelka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00610 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00610…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport/115464070843837707
Reading this weeks atmosphere review, I got a sudden realization:
If it's true that Mastodon and the fediverse are getting some features bluesky implemented earlier, it's…
epinions_trust: Epinions trust network (2003)
A who-trusts-whom online social network of the general consumer review site Epinions.com. Members can decide whether to "trust" each other. These trust relationships are combined with review ratings to determine which reviews are shown to the user.
This network has 75888 nodes and 508837 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
Japan Review 40 published https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136359/japan-review-40-published
AI browsers can bypass some paywalls; OpenAI's Atlas seems to avoid content from companies suing OpenAI, providing summaries or alternate reporting instead (Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/how-ai-browsers-sneak-past-blockers-and-…
An in-depth look at TPUv7 Ironwood, the latest generation of Google's TPU, and how it positions Google as a serious challenger to Nvidia's AI chip dominance (Dylan Patel/SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/tpuv7-google-takes-a-swing-at-the
Big Blue Kickoff Live 12/29 | Giants vs Raiders Review https://www.giants.com/video/big-blue-kickoff-live-12-29-giants-vs-raiders-review
"Mothers, Fathers, Sisters, and Brothers need to show the battle lines are drawn, and stand together to fight for the future of victims.
Is protesting the answer? I dont know. But we’ve got to start somewhere.
To all survivors and those protesting. We stand with you in solidarity and know the fight is not over!"
-- It takes incredible courage to face down the sexual predators who have abused you.
Which is why WC, in this broken year, has selected a broken …
Sports card year in review: Jordan, Ohtani and the data that defined 2025 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6925624/2025/12/30/2025-sports-card-recap-jordan-ohtani-bryant/
A look at Middle East 24, a new project from right-wing X news aggregator Visegršd 24 that posts articles from anonymous authors and relies on crowdfunding (Ivan L. Nagy/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/gaza-rage-machine-po…
Vent-Axia Lo-Carbon Tempra single-room MHRV: Review - Learn how our Tempra MHRV helps keep humidity down in the kitchen and the air fresh, even when drying laundry in winter. #frugal #cutCarbon -
WATCH: Chargers wild tip drill INT vs. Raiders upheld after review https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/11/30/chargers-interception-tip-drill-raiders-tony-jefferson/87542412007/
What a great read and overview, recommended !
"The State Of LLMs 2025: Progress, Problems, and Predictions"
#AI
Amazon's $100 Echo Dot Max and $220 Echo Studio review: the devices run Alexa , which works well, and have good audio quality, but the Studio is underwhelming (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20
Japan Review 40 published
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Being too dependent on China has great risks. "Oslo tests reveal Chinese electric buses can be switched off remotely"
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/oslo-tests-reveal-chinese-electric-buses-can-be-switched-off-remotely/3…
On the Zanussi ZWF01483W washing machine: Review (2020) - Cold washes, 10kg capacity, quick and intensive cycles. - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-Zanussi-ZWF01483W-freestanding-washing-machine-REVIEW.html
The Trump administration orders review of 233,000 Biden-era refugees
This unprecedented move will reopen cases of thousands who sought U.S. protection
Critics call the review unnecessary and cruel
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-adm
An interview with Google DeepMind Nobel laureate John Jumper on the creative "off-label" uses for AlphaFold, combining AlphaFold's power with LLMs, and more (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyrev…
Ravens clarify change to Lamar Jackson's injury status ahead of game vs. Bears as NFL plans further review
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ravens-
Las Vegas Review-Journal NFL Challenge picks — Week 17 https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/betting/las-vegas-review-journal-nfl-challenge-picks-week-17-3600575/
Donal Trump On Women:
♦️"She brought her church into the World of politics in a very ungracious way. She was nasty in tone, and not compelling or smart … Apart from her inappropriate statements, the service was a very boring and uninspiring one. She is not very good at her job!"
– 👉Truth Social, 22 January 2025, on Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde’s inaugural sermon
♦️"Quiet. Quiet, piggy."
– 👉On Air Force One, 14 November 2025, when Bloomberg White House …
On Heated Insoles, Cool House, Warm Feet: Review - Learn how I got on with low-cost power-sipping heated insoles, warming my feet to cut my carbon footprint! - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-heated-insoles-REVIEW.html
2025 LLM Year in Review: shift toward RLVR, Claude Code emerged as the first convincing example of an LLM agent, Nano Banana was paradigm shifting, and more (Andrej Karpathy/karpathy)
https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/year-in-review-2025/
The UK government begins its review of the BBC's charter, set to expire in 2027, as ministers consider licence fee reforms and allowing more commercial revenue (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/bbc-charter-review-launched-1236649702/
Donald Trump On Race:
💥"And we just clean out that whole thing … I don’t know, something has to happen, but it’s literally a demolition site right now. Almost everything’s demolished, and people are dying there, so I’d rather get involved with some of the Arab nations and build housing in a different location where I think they could maybe live in peace for a change.
– 👉Suggesting Palestinian displacement onboard Air Force One, 25 January 2025
💥"Then it’s a group w…
iPad Pro (M5, 2025) review: amazing performance, hardware remains unbeaten, and iPadOS is getting more Mac-like, but still too pricey for a secondary computer (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/803105/apple-ipad-pro-2025-review-fast-fas…
NFL Week 18 betting trends: Edges for Seahawks-49ers, Ravens-Steelers https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/betting/nfl-week-18-betting-trends-edges-for-seahawks-49ers-ravens-steelers-3602749/
WBD's board says it will "carefully review and consider" Paramount's revised offer, which includes a full backstop personally guaranteed by Larry Ellison (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bus…
On the SIKP 2000 A1 Portable Induction Hob: Review (2010) - See how easy this one-pan portable induction hob is to use! How does it compare with a built-in induction hob? #cleanAir #induction #cutCarbon
MHRV (Mechanical Heat-Recovery Ventilation) and HR25H Review - Is MHRV right for you? Learn from our years with the Vent-Axia humidistat HR25. #frugal #cutCarbon -
Apple MacBook Pro 14 (M5) review: feels the same as M4 with a speed upgrade and still good value for money with great battery life, but only a modest update (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/803349/apple-macbook-pro-14-m5-2025-review…
Oakley Meta Vanguard review: the smart glasses combine headphones, sunglasses, and a camera, plus Garmin integration, but the camera specs aren't too impressive (Adrienne So/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/review/oakley-meta-vanguard-smart-glasses/
Apple Vision Pro M5 review: everything looks sharper, especially virtual desktop mode, and the Dual Knit band is comfortable, but the headset still costs $3,500 (Lance Ulanoff/TechRadar)
https://www.techradar.com/computing/virtua