@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-01-25 17:00:37
"2025 was third-warmest year on record, research shows"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https:/…
@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-01-25 17:00:37
@benb@osintua.eu2025-12-26 12:31:56
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-01-26 19:14:25
Source: Chargers, Tart reach 3-year extension https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47735842/source-chargers-teair-tart-agree-3-year-extension
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-24 16:53:23
For the last year, the nation has witnessed Trump’s rapid physical and mental decline.
The 79-year-old president has repeatedly lost track of his thoughts, his whereabouts, and even his grasp on the English language.
The New Republic’s breaking news team has put together a list of the president’s most senile moments in his first year in office
@ErikUden@mastodon.de2025-12-26 02:30:51
The year 2025 was the year I finally fulfilled my destiny and became a bureacrat — I couldn't be happier! White shirt, red tie, brown belt, mechanical in my approach to things. I love spreadsheets, files, book-keeping, accounting, finances.
Most of what I do in a day is read E-Mails, fill out forms, write documents, read documents, call and text people. I have a desk, a printer, get a tea in the morning.
All this with the added spice that I often write press releases, get cuttin…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-01-26 04:23:13
Tom Brady’s Raiders interview former Coach of the Year for HC vacancy https://bolavip.com/en/nfl/tom-bradys-raiders-interview-former-coach-of-the-year-for-hc-vacancy
@Dragofix@veganism.social2026-01-24 23:46:02
2025 was third-warmest year on record, research shows https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/01/2025-was-third-warmest-year-on-record-research-shows/
@servelan@newsie.social2025-12-26 21:02:02
Epstein's 13-Year-Old 'First Victim' Reportedly Names Trump In DOJ File Release | IBTimes UK
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/epsteins-13-year-old-first-victim-reportedly-names-trump-doj-file-release-1765813
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-11-26 20:59:41
What NFL games are on Thanksgiving this year? Start times, viewing information https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/what-nfl-games-are-thanksgiving-year-start-times-viewing-info…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-01-24 10:32:19
World peace? Universal food, water, shelter, and healthcare? No, capitalism knows what it is you really need: Lego Crocs.
Because fuck you, that’s why.
https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/news/2026/january/th…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-26 13:45:45
What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year? (Barry Petchesky/Defector)
https://defector.com/what-did-we-get-stuck-in-our-rectums-last-year-6
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p6#a251226p6
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-11-24 15:10:39
If I didn't need iOS 26 for testing, I’d have waited a few point releases. Fixing years of tech debt is good, but has to frustrate those who updated but might have wanted to wait.
“Apple to focus on ‘quality and underlying performance’ with iOS 27 next year: report”
https://
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2026-01-24 13:52:04
Trump’s First Year Sparks Popular Resistance in US
#Trump
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-25 06:55:49
Domain Name Stat: the number of .ai domains has surpassed 1M; data suggests Anguilla, the UK territory managing the domain, made ~$70M in fees in the past year (Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/now-more-on…
@unixviking@social.linux.pizza2025-12-26 20:25:08
Well, folks, I'm signing off for this year and taking a few days' vacation. I wish everyone a happy New Year and all the best for 2026! May the coming year be a good one for Linux, open source, and free software and services!
I don't usually express my political views here, but with the orange criminal becoming increasingly erratic and escalating his behavior:
May the spirit of insight enter the minds of responsible politicians in Europe and everywhere outside the Fa…
@publicvoit@graz.social2025-12-25 09:11:02
Merry Christmas to my followers!
This year, we're celebrating in the Alps and this is our view 🤩
Have some nice days with people you love. I wish all of you an upcoming year of good health.
@relcfp@mastodon.social2025-12-25 13:13:09
Fifty-Year Anniversary of the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136310/fifty-year-anniversary-nanzan-institute-religion-and-culture
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-01-26 15:18:22
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
The Mountain Goats:
🎵 This Year
#TheMountainGoats
https://themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/track/this-year
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Ujn6IgpJ2qJCbvXYlYx31
@privacity@social.linux.pizza2025-12-23 16:14:59
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…
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-11-25 17:53:43
That's a lot of dough
The FBI warned today of a massive surge in account takeover (ATO) fraud schemes and said that cybercriminals impersonating financial institutions have stolen over $262 million in ATO attacks since the start of the year.
https://www.
@scott@carfree.city2025-10-27 03:57:17
@jake4480@c.im2025-11-26 12:52:31
I featured That Dog's 1997 masterpiece 'Retreat from the Sun' a year ago for #MusicWomenWednesday, but since I determined yesterday thanks to @…'s album of year posts that it's my favorite record of 1997, I'm re-upping it. I have it …
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info2025-12-24 19:26:38
I post a lot here and on Maker Forums Discourse, and have kind of not gotten around to blogging for a while. But today I had time to reflect on my first full year of #HamRadio — this new hobby has surprised me in a lot of (good) ways.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-11-25 14:50:44
Japan's 2026 Oscar entry Kokuho grosses more than $111M, breaking the country's 22-year-old box office record for a domestic live-action film (Mayumi Negishi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-25…
@kctipton@mas.to2026-01-24 15:51:09
US immigration agents detain two-year-old Minnesota girl: ‘depravity beyond words’ | Minneapolis | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/23/us-immigration-two-year-old-minnesota-girl
@mpsgoettingen@academiccloud.social2025-12-26 13:51:36
#MPSGoettingen wishes you happy holidays and a healthy and successful New Year 2026!
Featuring prominently on our season's greetings card: the first images of the Sun's south pole 🛰️ ☀️
During its flyby of the Sun at the end of March this year, the Solar Orbiter space probe had its first clear view of our star's poles. Solar Orbiter's trajectory has recentl…
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange2025-11-25 16:01:03
Yes! Well done nonprofit @… living your values! The #Union makes us strong.
#Utah #jouralism
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2025-12-24 22:23:27
You’ve been given free access to this article from The Economist as a gift. You can open the link five times within seven days. After that it will expire.
The Economist’s country of the year for 2025
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/12/18/the-economists-country-of-the-year-for-2025?giftId=YTQzMzkyMWYtZmUwMS00MGQ2LWJmM2QtMWVlYjg0YTg4OTc3&utm_campaign=gifted_article
@tokensane@mastodon.me.uk2026-01-24 12:37:24
@Jyoti@mas.to2025-11-23 03:37:14
Why I love The Year My Voice Broke:
https://bzangygroink.co.uk/archives/2025/11/23/the-year-my-voice-broke-1987/
@brichapman@mastodon.social2025-12-25 23:08:01
Massachusetts is about to see major savings from clean energy. A new analysis shows the state's SMART 3.0 solar-plus-storage program could save ratepayers $313 million annually by 2030.
The key? Pushing out inefficient natural gas plants, cutting reliance on fossil fuels during winter, and slashing 1.6 million metric tons of CO2 per year.
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social2025-12-25 23:13:04
(It's actually more like 5786, and 4723 now. But who's counting?) 😉
@Stomata@social.linux.pizza2025-11-24 17:42:33
Here you go again....
Malaysia may implement age verification..
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/24/malaysia-may-ban-users-under-16-from-social-media-starting-next-year
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-25 01:23:41
After the Devastation of Trump’s First Year,
Popular Rebellions Offer Hope
Elections,
labor,
mutual aid, and
local organizing wins in 2025
point to strategies that can work in the coming year.
In 2026, we the people can build power
and we can win significant victories if we:
🔸Show up for the most vulnerable in the face of federal government attacks and neglect;
🔸Push back on racism and misogyny, and support inclusivity;
🔸Call …
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-12-25 14:16:11
Weird how we build houses to escape the harshness and dangers of nature and then once a year we move trees inside the house
@paulwermer@sfba.social2025-11-23 22:11:04
Worth the read:
DNA reveals stone age teenager as chewer of 10,500-year-old ‘gum’
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/23/dna-reveals-stone-age-teenager-as-chewer-of-10500-year-old-gum?CMP…
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2025-11-23 22:11:04
Worth the read:
DNA reveals stone age teenager as chewer of 10,500-year-old ‘gum’
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/23/dna-reveals-stone-age-teenager-as-chewer-of-10500-year-old-gum?CMP…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-27 00:05:52
Trump transition team discloses donors one year after pledged release (Bridget Bowman/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-transition-team-discloses-donors-one-year-pledged-release-rcna246131
http://www.memeorandum.com/251126/p115#a251126p115
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-01-26 17:23:23
Seahawks, Raiders complete the cycle of a nightmare Geno Smith year https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/seattle-seahawks/news/seahawks-raiders-cycle-nightmare-geno-smith-year/0c736782020f94c7fb43fa32
@DiverDoc@mstdn.ca2025-11-24 22:25:20
Long COVID takes $1 trillion global economic toll each year, analysis suggests : (Maybe Musk would pick up the tab ...)
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/long-covid-takes-1-trillion-global-economic-toll-each-year-analysis-suggests
@pbloem@sigmoid.social2026-01-25 12:30:25
What a year, huh?
Captain, it's 6.8%
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-12-24 15:50:16
NFL GMs, other executives vote on 2025 season awards: Who wins MVP? Coach of the Year? https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-gms-other-executives-vote-on-2025-season-awards-who-wins-mvp-coach-of-the-year
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org2025-11-26 19:37:03
US wine sales are way down, I have seen analyses saying it is people turning from alcohol,
but also Canadians dropped US wine almost completely (see graph). Pissing off your neighbors has consequences.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/a
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2025-11-25 15:54:37
The time I made a "DIY Mouthpiece Puller" for a stuck trumpet part...
#DIY
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-12-25 22:38:22
comfort food LP of the year: glorious gray area compilation of global/left-field beatles covers, from the space lady to mexican street bands. proud to say that at least 3 of these have been frow show faves over the years. ask your local record dealer! https://www.dustygroove.com/item/223483/Va
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-11-25 15:00:04
email_company: Manufacturing company email (2010)
A network of emails among employee email addresses at a mid-sized manufacturing company. Each directed edge represents an email sent from address i to address j. Edges are timestamped, and occurred over a 6 month period in an unspecified year.
This network has 167 nodes and 82927 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2026-01-24 08:15:10
If you are buying a new computer, there's no need to throw the old one away. I was really surprised last year how many items found another owner.
Nothing to get rich of, but avoid unnecessary e-waste
https://www.locked.de/how-i-gave-my-old-computer-parts-a-s…
@relcfp@mastodon.social2025-12-25 14:59:12
SYMPOSIUM> Fifty-Year Anniversary of the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136308/fifty-year-anniversary-nanzan-institute-religion-and-culture
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-11-25 14:00:44
"Six thousand year old data reveals Europe could face 42 extra days of summer by 2100"
#Europe #Climate #ClimateChange
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-23 18:01:25
Xbox had a terrible 2025: Microsoft canceled games and raised console and Game Pass prices, Costco stopped selling Xbox, and Valve's Steam Machine upstaged it (Devindra Hardawar/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/gaming/xbox/2025-was-the-year-xbox-died-130…
@jake4480@c.im2025-12-27 03:48:58
Wow, it's the last #LetterboxdFriday of the year. Been doing some weird horror shorts. This year I surpassed 2,000 total films seen in my life, according to Letterboxd stats, and yeah, I probably have a problem. But at least I'm in my house watching weird movies and not out prowling the dark streets.
#Letterboxd
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-24 23:45:52
More than 25,000 cases of vaccine preventable whooping cough were recorded this year
-- higher than pre-pandemic levels
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/25000-cases-whooping-cough-recorded-year-higher-pre/story?id=127831021
@benb@osintua.eu2026-01-23 11:44:30
2026 — year of Russia’s exhaustion: is the war entering its final phase?: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/22/year-of-russias-exhaustion-is.html
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-12-24 21:54:31
Bears, Patriots, Jaguars Reach Playoffs in Stunning 1st-Year Coaching Turnarounds https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/bears-patriots-jaguars-reach-playoffs-stunning-1st-year-coaching-turnarounds
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-24 11:50:52
Counterpoint: India smartphone shipments were flat YoY at ~153M; Apple shipped 14M iPhones, raising its share of shipments to a record 9%, up from 7% in 2024 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/appl
@jake4480@c.im2025-12-25 15:55:59
This week's #ThursDeath is DEATH TUNNEL, the members of which are natives from the nearby (to me) Salt River Reservation here in Arizona. Death Tunnel have been around since 2021, had an LP last year, and another this year, 'Predisposed to Decompose': https://
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social2025-12-24 18:45:08
Review: Truth in fantasy: what Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials taught us over its 30-year run
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/24/philip-pullman-his-dark-materials
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-01-24 13:24:15
How NFL players prepare for the coldest games of the year https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47601439/2026-nfl-playoffs-how-players-prepare-coldest-games-year
@publicvoit@graz.social2025-12-26 19:43:56
Large family on a table at Xmas.
A 18 year old woman who recently joined University seriously tells us that she can't imagine how to set an alarm clock without #Siri.
No, it wasn't metaphorical or something like that. She definitely has no clue how this could be accomplished without using Siri on her #iPhone
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-10-27 03:00:05
at_migrations: Austrian internal migrations (2002-2022)
A network of migrations between municipalities in Austria, from 2002 to 2022. A weighted directed link from source to target indicates a migration flow from these two municipalities. Edges are annotated with migration volume (number of people), nationality, sex, and year.
This network has 2115 nodes and 2908569 edges.
Tags: Social, Economic, Travel, Weighted, Politlcal, Timestamps, Metadata
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-12-26 20:12:51
housekeeping: i migrated my last dozen lists of year-end favorites to my site. less ranked best-ofs, more extended listening etc. journals so i don't forget. now tagged as "ginchy shit": https://jessejarnow.com/category/ginchy-shit/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-27 03:46:31
Protests intensified in Minnesota after federal immigration agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse who worked in the Minneapolis Veterans Health Care System, on Saturday.
Democracy Now!'s John Hamilton reports from the scene of Pretti's killing, where protesters clashed with federal agents.
“We’ve seen everything from people that are unconscious, that have fainted, tear-gassed, bruised, bloody noses, can’t breathe,”
said Melissa, a local resident.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-22 19:20:43
OpenAI rolls out Your Year with ChatGPT, a Spotify Wrapped-like feature, to Free, Plus, and Pro users in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/22/chatgpt-launches-a-year-end-review…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-12-24 11:04:43
Cowboys' Dak Prescott makes bold claim following franchise's disappointing year https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-dak-prescott-makes-bold-claim-following-franchise-disappointing-year
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-01-24 21:54:30
Las Vegas Raiders interview former Coach of the Year for open job https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/las-vegas-raiders-interview-former-coach-of-the-year-for-open-job-3611525/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-25 06:51:37
Alex Jeffrey Pretti’s
“care for others”
led the intensive care nurse
to protest immigration agents’ presence in Minnesota.
Federal agents shot and killed the 37-year-old man on Saturday morning in Minneapolis
-- prompting further clashes between law enforcement and protesters.
Pretti, worked as a nurse at the Veterans Affairs hospital in the city.
Pretti’s parents said that politicians were telling “sickening lies”,
adding: “Please get the trut…
@benb@osintua.eu2025-12-26 09:41:58
'A lot can be decided before New Year' — Zelensky says he and Trump plan to meet in 'near future': https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/26/a-lot-can-be-decided.html
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-12-26 21:44:50
i got a bit obsessed with the modern lovers this year & attempted to assemble a complete-as-possible 1970-1974 live chronology. it's far from complete, but found lots of fun stuff, including a setlist for what might be the 1st gig & ads for their shows in bermuda. https://jessejarnow.com/2025/12/the-mo<…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-25 13:07:30
Videos show a federal agent secured gun from Alex Pretti before agents fatally shot him
As many as eight agents were attempting to detain Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, videos show.
One emerged from the scrum holding Pretti’s gun, and less than a second later, the first of what appear to be 10 shots was fired.
It is not clear from the video whether the other agents realized Pretti
— who local authorities believe had a permit to carry the weapon
— had…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-12-24 11:02:47
Cowboys' Dak Prescott makes bold claim following franchise's disappointing year https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-dak-prescott-makes-bold-claim-following-franchise-disappointing-year
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-11-26 20:01:56
Carnell Tate 2026 NFL Draft profile: Ohio State looking to place WR in first round for fifth straight year
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/carnell-tate-nfl-draft-pro…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2025-12-24 22:13:16
Bears, Patriots, Jaguars Reach Playoffs in Stunning 1st-Year Coaching Turnarounds https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/bears-patriots-jaguars-reach-playoffs-stunning-1st-year-coaching-turnarounds
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-26 05:10:24
LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky sees a lot of career advice on the site every day, but he doesn’t always agree with every piece that’s shared.
One common tip that Roslansky said is “a little bit outdated” is that
“you have to have a five-year plan,” he told content creator Erin McGoff in an interview for her YouTube channel AdviceWithErin.
In Roslansky’s view, having a five-year plan is “a little bit foolish,” he said:
given how rapidly technology and the workplace are ch…
@benb@osintua.eu2025-12-26 20:50:45
Zelenskyy and Trump meeting: everything could be decided before New Year?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/26/zelenskyy-and-trump-meeting-everything.html
@jake4480@c.im2025-12-25 16:36:15
My Steam end of year stats for 2025 (they're a pain in the dick to find and access, you gotta be logged in, use desktop version, and this link: https://store.steampowered.com/replay/my/2025). The genres are so weird, too. 'Gore'? 🤔 sure, okay. Played a lot of rodent games, and…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-27 01:06:10
The US Army signs a $5.6B, 10-year contract with Salesforce to speed up outdated practices; as part of the deal, military recruiters will get access to Slack (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-12-23 13:40:14
Can New Orleans Saints QB Tyler Shough win Offensive Rookie of the Year? https://www.nfl.com/news/tyler-shough-can-saints-qb-win-offensive-rookie-of-the-year
@jake4480@c.im2025-12-26 17:45:19
New Social D record next year (May 2026, no day announced yet)-- their first in 15 years. I've always kinda had a soft spot for the D. Hearing some of the new songs they've been playing live and I dig em. Supposedly the first single will come out next month (January).
I assume these will be on the record.
"Tonight" live in 2022: https://
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-26 00:50:55
Filing: OpenAI denies liability in a suit alleging ChatGPT gave info about suicide methods to a 16-year-old who died by suicide, arguing he misused the chatbot (Angela Yang/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ope
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-24 21:52:49
Agents shot and killed a 37-year-old US citizen at about 9am on Saturday,
with other observers watching and videotaping their actions,
in an area called Eat Street,
a corridor of largely immigrant-owned restaurants and businesses.
Footage appears to show the moment man is shot dead by federal agent in Minneapolis – video
It’s the second killing in the city after 37-year-old Renee Good was shot and killed by a federal agent in south Minneapolis on 7 January.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-26 23:20:58
Dell, HP, and other tech companies are warning of potential memory-chip supply shortages in the coming year due to demand from the buildout of AI infrastructure (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-26/te…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-26 05:02:00
MIT and Hugging Face study: the share of downloads of Chinese-made open AI models rose to 17% in the past year, surpassing US developers' 15.8% share, a first (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
https://on.ft.com/4ok6Sqb
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-24 23:15:48
Sources: Spotify plans to raise US subscription prices in Q1 2026, its first US price rise since July 2024, after increasing prices in other countries this year (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/fb490480-5d9a-495f-8c23-f34149bbcadb
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-27 05:07:30
Robert Reich, the former labor secretary, wrote recently that
“the great sleeping giant of America is awakening”,
just as it did after the Communist witch-hunt era in the 1950s
or during the Vietnam war protests
or during the Watergate scandal in the 1970s.
On those occasions, the listing ship eventually was righted.
Reich says he knows the signs of that awakening and sees it happening now.
As evidence, he cites the recent massive protests,
the…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-26 07:01:01
The top 10 US tech billionaires collectively added $550B to their combined net worth in 2025, reaching $2.5T by December 24, up from $1.9T at the year's start (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/9dcd770a-1ca7-4533-980c-08c5704c9670
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-26 21:58:33
Proposition 36, approved by voters last year, gave prosecutors the ability to charge people convicted of various third-time drug offenses with a so-called
treatment-mandated felony
– a choice between behavioral health treatment or up to three years in jail or prison.
https://bit.ly/3NiBX0r
📸 J.…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-26 22:56:03
StepFun, a Chinese AI startup that develops LLMs and has partnered with automaker Geely and smartphone brands like Oppo and Honor, raised a ~$717M Series B (Eudora Wang/DealStreetAsia)
https://www.dealstreetasia.com/stories/stepfun-series-b-round-470495/
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-27 05:08:53
President Trump took pardon abuse to a new level this year
with a string of dubious clemencies that together present a unique
case study in how this unfettered executive power can be used to degrade, corrupt and politicize the justice system.
The president pardoned one of his supporters, #Michele #Fiore, …
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-24 10:16:02
Chainalysis and TRM Labs estimate that $2.7B was stolen in crypto in 2025 in total, up from $2.2B in 2024; the biggest hack was the $1.4B breach at Bybit (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/23/hackers-stole-…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-26 01:26:49
Called the “crying horse” by online users, the toy was designed as a happy-faced Lunar New Year decoration,
but a manufacturing mistake turned its smile into a frown
As demand surged, Zhang decided to keep making the sad-faced version.
Some young white-collar workers in China say the horse's dour expression mirrors their long hours and workplace stress.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-24 22:16:00
Source: OpenAI mulls new tools to help business users understand the financial benefits of using its products and has made changes to its sales force strategy (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-aims-lure-businesses-anthropic<…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-26 21:48:07
Since the Trump administration launched high-intensity immigration sweeps this year,
federal agents have routinely countered protestors using crowd control weapons
— rubber bullets, flash-bang grenades, tear gas and pepper balls.
They’ve fired on American citizens and noncitizens alike in ways that some experts say might be criminal.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-27 02:21:00
Sources: ServiceNow is in advanced talks to buy corporate data management and security startup Veza for $1B in a deal as early as next week (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/servicenow-advanced-talks-buy-security…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-26 13:05:46
Chinese government data: shipments of foreign-branded mobile phones, primarily iPhones, rose 128.4% YoY in November 2025 to 6.93M units (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/foreign-bran…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-26 04:43:21
The gun lobby is spending millions to protect its power
while young people are fighting for their lives.
As the year ends, we need to meet this moment with real urgency.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗥𝗔 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝘀
— and gun violence won’t pause for the holidays.
Our movement can’t slow down either.
Your donation fuels rapid-response organizing,
expands our Action Hub,
and helps young people push for real accountability in 2026.
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@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-23 17:29:21
JD Vance on Thursday defended the detainment of a 5-year-old boy by federal agents
and said the Trump administration does not believe the Insurrection Act is needed amid unrest over immigration enforcement in Minnesota.
Vance's comments come as outrage swelled over Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents taking into custody four students under the age of 18 in the Minneapolis suburb of Columbia Heights.
School officials said Liam Conejo Ramos,
a preschooler, a…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-19 21:45:55
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/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-24 16:43:34
“I don’t think Jesus would ever ignore people being hurt,
-- especially by the federal government,”
said 17-year Ben Luhmann at the wheel, to a reporter in the back seat.
Sam, his 16-year old brother was pounding an energy drink with one hand,
scrolled through a lengthy list of group chats with the other,
scouring for reports of ICE and other federal immigration agents in their area.
Mornings like this have been typical in recent weeks for the Luhmann fam…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-25 16:33:52
The contrast between, on one hand,
♦️federal shock troops’ brutal, unjustified execution in Minneapolis on Saturday of Alex Pretti, a thirty-seven-year-old ICU nurse for the VA,
and, on the other,
⭐️Friday’s closures and a massive, peaceful demonstration and rally,
where “Tens of thousands gather[ed] in downtown Minneapolis for ‘ICE Out’ day”
(reportedly the largest union action in state history)
— attended by union members, business people, clergy, a…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-25 01:58:36
Dozens of immigrant families protested Saturday
behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where
a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week
after being detained in Minnesota.
Aerial photos taken by The Associated Press
showed children and parents at the
"South Texas Family Residential Center"
clad in jackets and sweaters,
some of them holding signs that included
“Libertad para los niños,”
or “Libe…
