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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

All I want for Christmas is a corpse in the White House…by natural causes, preferably.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/21/it/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBhrQ1fgMGo

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koala@todon.eu ("eri 🌿") wrote:

parece que vou a dar a miña primeira charla o mes que ven no FOSDEM, qué medo aaa :yell:

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/NJM3KB-mathml-core

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

My photography was in a bit of a slump from 2020-2022 (for obvious reasons) but I did have fun experimenting with processing old photos using geometry-matching algorithms

A bunch of lines that align to create a picture of somebody walking through a tunnel of thorns
A bunch of odd shapes forming an image of two birds flying in a grove

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

A couple of photos from 2023 #iceland #raven #bird

A black and white photo of a raven on a streetlight
The fence surrounding a cemetery in Iceland curves in a green landscape

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mathieui@piaille.fr wrote:

Opinion piece: fuck the future big tech is trying to sell us #blog
https://blog.mathieui.net/this-is-not-the-future.html

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

It's wild to hear Martin Wolf talking about inequality this seriously. Martin Wolf!

https://youtu.be/YSQ7LY0ca0o?si=JtjPgZFUxgrcdIpq

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Ed Zitron finally calls out Hank Green for his bullshit AI videos. Love to see it. I don’t think Hank has plausible deniability anymore. He’s seen the criticisms. He can do the research. And if any money was involved he can give it back.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-mythbusters/

#HankGreen

"We've Lost Control Of AI"&10;Let's start with a simple statement: Hank Green should be fucking ashamed of himself, because he put out a video titled "We've Lost Control of Al," which begins with several straight up falsehoods:&10;• "Al agents can now win gold at the International Math Olympiad"&10;• "Book your flight"&10;• "Code a functioning app from scratch."&10;None of these statements are true. Hank, a guy who people love for being "nice" and being one of those epic bacon Science Guys, should know far better than to put out this drivel, referring to both OpenAl and Google's models "achieving a gold-level performance in the International Mathematical Olympiad" and then I assume not looking much harder than that.

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ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:

"Four Waymos blocking traffic in all directions" (per scanner) 12/20/25 1939PT #SanFrancisco

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apilsetas wrote:

by Maurizio Fantini

#photography

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Catfish_Man ("David Smith") wrote:

Oddly furious about this Waymo* thing. Like, how the fuck is your disaster response plan “idk I guess we’ll distribute roadblocks randomly across the city, focusing on blocking high traffic areas”?

It’s a good thing this is just a power outage and not, say, a larger follow-up to the four minor earthquakes in the last 24 hours.

*for non-SF folks: power is out across much of the city and waymos cant navigate it

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gleick@mas.to ("James Gleick") wrote:

Epstein-Trump photos "disappear."
It's a mystery!
Whatever could have happened?

Or:

Justice Department Flouts Law,
Suppresses Evidence
Of Trump-Epstein Collusion

NY Times: Epstein Files Photos Disappear From Government Website, Including One of Trump A total of 16 photos were taken down at some point on Saturday from the website that the Justice Department created. One featured an open drawer containing other photos, including at least one of President Trump.

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Charles de Gaulle is elected President of France, 1958

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Benjamin Disraeli born, 1804

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

She has a history of choosing to work with the right-wing even when she was the leader of the left-greens, even her crime novels are written in collaboration with one of the more right-wing fiction writers in Iceland

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

The person who destroyed the left in Iceland is now running an ‘AI’ centre: ‘New Nordics AI’

https://www.visir.is/g/20252819768d/katrin-ordin-stjornar-for-madur

This thing: “New centre for artificial intelligence launched to promote use of AI in Nordics and Baltics”

https://www.norden.org/en/news/new-centre-artificial-intelligence-launched-promote-use-ai-nordics-and-baltics

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governa@fosstodon.org ("ricardo :mastodon:") wrote:

#Linux Apps Without Distro Lock-In? Explore This Lesser Known Snap and Flatpak Alternative

https://itsfoss.com/pkgforge/

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
monsieurvenus@masto.es ("Silvia 🎃🕸️🎄") wrote:

Me ha parecido bastante acertado

La imagen muestra un mapa de Europa codificado por colores, que representa las reacciones de las personas cuando alguien intenta hablar su idioma. Las reacciones varían desde "amistad instantánea desbloqueada" (España, Italia, Portugal) hasta un "por favor, NO lo hagas" (Francia), o "buen intento... pero ¿por qué molestarse? (Finlandia, Eslovenia, Polonia...), "qué mono pero mejor en inglés" (Suecia, Noruega, Alemania, Dinamarca...) o "sin reacción" (islas británicas), con diferentes colores asociados a cada reacción. Espero no haber puesto ningún país mal 🙈

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
iodomi@infosec.exchange ("io :anar:") wrote:

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#tor #privacy #anonymity #pastebin #foss #opensource #encrypted #OnionNote

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jwz wrote:

Now that PG&E has finally pulled their head out of their ass, let's see how Monkeybrains is doing....

Oh.

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MLNow@sfba.social ("Mission Local") wrote:

Waymo halts service during massive S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams

Waymo said Saturday that it was stopping service across San Francisco after numerous online videos showed its autonomous vehicles snarling traffic during the citywide blackout. "We have temporarily suspended our ride-hailing services given the broad power outage in San Francisco," wrote Suzanne Philion, a company spokesperson, a little after 7 p.m. "We are focused on keeping our riders safe and ensuring emergency personnel have the clear access they need to do their work."

https://missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-waymo-halts-service-blackout/

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adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:

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GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai wrote:

@draNgNon @skinnylatte

If I recall correctly, when PG&E was partially privatized, which is to say badly, not that I think it should’ve ever been privatized, it was split into two divisions.

One division does all the power generation and the other division handles distribution.

The set up is similar to how private equity does this sort of thing all the maintenance in debt is pushed onto the distribution side and the assholes in the generation side line in their pockets

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fadersolo@sfba.social ("Scott McDowell") wrote:

SF’s is having a massive power outage. We ended up having to drive across SF to find a laundromat to dry our soaking wet laundry. Here’s my two observations: every third block is a traffic jam caused by a confused Waymo that doesn’t know how to handle these intersections with no power. Why are the Waymo’s even allowed to drive right now?

Also, considering how much of our city’s budget goes to the cops, why aren’t any of them directing traffic? I mean, it’s not like SFPD is busy solving crime…

#SanFrancisco #Waymo #AI #Doom edit: I’m adding #WayMogeddon

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

These Seven Democrats Voted for Pervy GOP Bill Allowing Strip Searches of Migrant Children:

"The House passed legislation Tuesday that would allow federal agents to conduct invasive body examinations of unaccompanied children as young as 12 — alone, without a parent or guardian present" https://migrantinsider.com/p/these-seven-democrats-voted-for-pervy

#ICE

The defectors: Reps. Henry Cuellar (Texas), Don Davis (N.C.), Laura Gillen (N.Y.), Jared Golden (Maine), Vicente Gonzalez (Texas), Adam Gray (Calif.), and Marie Glusenkamp Perez (Wash.) -

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kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("If You Add Popehat, That’s Extra") wrote:

Look if we just go around beating the absolute shit out of social media assholes there’s bound to be some sort of long-term theoretical negative externality or something Anyway be careful out there Nate Silver

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kjixfa7wudorsmbyyfios3kp/post/3mahilddqic2h

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MLNow@sfba.social ("Mission Local") wrote:

PG&E outage leaves 125,000 without power in San Francisco

125,000 people — about a third of PG&E's customers in San Francisco — were without power on Saturday from blackouts across city.

https://missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-power-outage-pge-electricity/

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netblocks ("NetBlocks") wrote:

⚠️ Confirmed: Internet outages have been registered in San Francisco, #California, corresponding to power cuts, as energy company Pacific Gas & Electric says it is working on repairs 🔌

Graph from NetBlocks showing network connectivity by region in United States from December 10, 2025, to December 21, 2025. The y-axis represents normalized connectivity, ranging from 0% to 100%, and the x-axis represents the dates.  The green line representing San Francisco, California's connectivity remains stable most of the time period, with a drop on the evening of December 20. The drop in connectivity aligns with power cuts. The minimum and current connectivity levels are indicated as 85% and 86%, respectively. The chart has a dark background with a red circle highlighting the decline at the end of the period.

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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

Jim Beam plans to stop making whiskey throughout 2026 because demand has fallen significantly following a fall in exports especially to Canada following Trump’s trade war.

Almost twice as many people voted for Trump than Kamala in Kentucky and this is the economy they chose.

#LeopardsAteMyFace

https://www.kentucky.com/news/business/article313847580.html