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

Shame on OU.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/23/oklahomas-disgrace-continues/

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

It's easy to get swept up into the sensationalism of it all. We all do it from time to time. It doesn't make you a bad person. We're human!

It's a problem when we fool ourselves into believing there's virtue in the spectacle. That somehow this is marching us toward a more just society. It's not. It's a circus.

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

There's a thin line between helping bring justice for victims and participating in a spectacle. The #EpsteinFiles feels mostly like a political soap opera, with "stay tuned until next week" baked right into the script.

What is supposed to come of this? Other than more ad revenue, podcast subscribers, and sold merch?

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

Image of Trump with young girl emerged after #EpsteinFiles dropped. There’s no proof it’s real | Snopes.com:

"While Edwards' YouTube account used the image as the thumbnail for a video titled “The FBI forgot to redact this,” and he mentioned “one file they forgot to redact” involving Trump “and a 14-year-old girl” (at 0:22), Edwards did not show the thumbnail image during the 10-minute video, indicating it was likely ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/12/23/image-of-trump-with-young.html

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indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

The regime has announced two proposed rules intended to make it extremely difficult (if not impossible) for trans youth to receive the healthcare they need.

We expect robust legal challenges to these hate-filled proposals and are actively engaged with organizations on the frontlines of the fight about how best to respond. For now, the most important thing you can do is submit a public comment about the harm these rules would cause.

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

Premium - How The AI Bubble Bursts In 2026:

"I believe that 2026 is the year when everything begins to collapse."

Ed has refused to give a timeframe for the AI bubble burst since he’s been talking about it. This is the first time I’ve seen him provide a year. Shit is getting bad I guess. https://www.wheresyoured.at/premium-how-the-ai-bubble-bursts-in-2026/

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remixtures@tldr.nettime.org ("Miguel Afonso Caetano") wrote:

"There are a few common threads between all of these stories:

- OpenAI doesn't have cash.
- The Disney licensing deal? Paid for in stock.
- The AWS contract? Amazon has to give OpenAI $10 billion to pay for it, because OpenAI doesn't have the cash.
- Broadcom's deal with OpenAI? "not much" revenue in 2026, probably because OpenAI doesn't have the cash.
- The Money For Data Centers Is Running Out.
- Blue Owl is the loosest lender in the universe, and if it’s having trouble raising money, everybody will very soon.
- Investors are aggressively dumping Oracle because it keeps trying to build more data centers for OpenAI, a company that does not have the money to pay for its compute.
- AI Is Wearing Out Its Welcome, and the AI Bubble Narrative Is Impossible To Ignore

It used to be (back in September, at least) that you could announce a big, stupid deal with OpenAI and see a 40% stock bump. Now the markets are suddenly thinking "huh, how is it gonna pay that?"

Oracle's stock also got dumped because it increased capital expenditures in its latest quarter to $12 billion, on analyst expectations of $8.4 billion.

And the other key thread is the year 2026.

Next year is meant to be the year that everything changes. It was meant to be the year that OpenAI had a gigawatt of data centers built with Broadcom and AMD, and when Stargate Abilene's 8 buildings were fully built and energized. 2026 is meant to be the year that OpenAI opened Stargate UAE, too.

Here in reality, absolutely none of this is happening, and I believe that 2026 is the year when everything begins to collapse.

In today's piece, I'm going to line up the sharp objects sitting right next to an increasingly-wobbling AI bubble, and why everything hinges on a looming cash crunch for OpenAI, AI data centers, those funding AI data centers, and venture capital itself."

https://www.wheresyoured.at/premium-how-the-ai-bubble-bursts-in-2026/

#AI #GenerativeAI #OpenAI #Oracle #AIHype #AIBubble

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
anatudor ("Ana Tudor 🐯") wrote:

Split text with blended half shadow on @codepen https://codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/LYvdBQm?editors=1100

No text duplication whatsoever, no images other than #CSS gradients, no funky fonts* - all done with #SVG #filter magic! 🪄✨

*font used here is https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Rubik+Mono+One - you can see the effect isn't baked into it

#svgFilter #cssGradient #code #coding #web #dev #webDev #webDevelopment #textEffect #textEffects #frontend

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
5t3ph@front-end.social ("Stephanie Eckles") wrote:

Oh hey, come work with me!

We're seeking an earlier-career front-end dev who is able to work in-office (multiple US locations).

Check it out if you have interest and experience in: #designsystems #CSS #a11y #webcomponents

https://adobe.design/jobs/job-posts/prototyping-and-engineering/r163198-design-engineer

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

I wrote this having spent a lot of my internet time on TikTok, so these observations were through that lens.

I found this essay to be way too verbose and melodramatic to continue writing, so it laid in my drafts graveyard (where it probably should've stayed lol). Anyway, here's another of my unfinished essays.

https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/12/23/the-tragic-life-of-a.html

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

The tragic life of a content creator (late 2023)
Today I deleted my TikTok account. I had 57,000 followers, and 1.3mm likes. I published over one thousand videos over four years. I collected $430 from the TikTok creator fund. I made three friends.

I wrote this having spent a lot of my internet time on TikTok, so these observations were from that lens. I found this essay to be way too verbose and melodramatic to continue ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/12/23/the-tragic-life-of-a.html

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your merry 'net denizen"):
grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

The presents were very different that year. #grickledoodle #thething #johncarpenter #horror #holidays #santa #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your merry 'net denizen"):
mhoye wrote:

Bicycles for your mind are great and important but libraries are public transit for your mind and we need them too.

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

I had a similar problem with this winter scene from Parc Jarry. I LOVED the black and white version, personally, but most people I tested it on preferred the colour version, which I didn’t like. So I came up with a third version that accomplished much of the same as the black and white, but in colour. #montreal #photos #photography 5/6

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

In this case, I strongly prefer the monochrome version and found initial the colour versions using any of Fuji’s profiles to be substantially worse. So, I sat down and did a bit of thinking and came up with the approach I used in the third version. #montreal #photos #photography 4/6

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

So, what is the “trick” that helped me enjoy the colour photos more? Turns out, one of the basic approaches to colour in photography and cinematography for decades has been to use fewer, more distinct colours in frame at a time, irrespective of the saturation. The best time to handle this is obviously during capture, but it’s also a useful kind for post-processing 6/6

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

The second set of examples pretty much have to be in colour, OTOH, as the colours do a lot of heavy lifting in conveying the story #montreal #photos #photography 3/6

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

The first example has to be in black and white, because the whole point of the colouring of many animals is to break up the shape and make them a bit harder to spot. A few of the photos I’ve been posting lately have been in black and white for similar reasons #montreal #photos #photography 2/6

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

One of the things I’m trying to figure out with my impromptu photography retrospective over the past few days is a better understanding of how I can deal with colour. I’ve been trying to figure out when colour is necessary, when it adds, and when it detracts, how best to use it. 1/6

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your merry 'net denizen"):
SistaWendy@toot.cat ("Maura Hubbell") wrote:

I love a nerdy bumper sticker.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
rosie_108@toot.wales wrote:

In 2019 I decorated my christmas tree thusly to express my displeasure about the year.

I thought *2019* was a bad year for the world.

2019. 😆

Attachments:

• gifv: A Christmas tree, with flashing lights and light up letters spelling the word "fuck"

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your merry 'net denizen") wrote:

Obviously, this already made the rounds, but another example that brings me cheer. Perhaps UNIX V4 is not beloved exactly, but people care enough to preserve it. "UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again":

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/unix%5Fv4%5Ftape%5Fsuccessfully%5Frecovered/

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

Kristi, She-Wolf of the DHS, was sheltered by Weiss, the propagandist.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/23/put-bari-weiss-and-kristi-noem-in-cecot/

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
servo@floss.social ("Servo") wrote:

Highlights from last week:

- Fix caret never rendering following a newline
- Implement eviction in the HTTP cache using `quick_cache`
- Prescan byte stream to determine encoding before parsing document
- More progress on WebDriver and Web Crypto API

You can help support Servo, an independent web rendering engine, and the health of the web ecosystem by donating:

https://github.com/sponsors/servo
https://opencollective.com/servo

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your merry 'net denizen"):
CazimodoCreative@universeodon.com ("Cazimodo Creative") wrote:

Here's the final Xmas custom crochet toy I made this year. This is the second toy I have made for this little girl, who is an extremely talented young artist. Her designs are very clever 😊

#Crochet #Crocheting #Toys #Toy #ToyMaking #FibreCraft #FibreArt @crochet@a.gup.pe

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

Many of the women involved are also openly queer and, even though some of them are in heterosexual relationships, (“not that there’s anything wrong with that”, as they said on Seinfeld), the series are clearly personally important to quite a few of the people involved in their production.

And they seem to be growing in ambition. North Star has taken over production of the epic Four Elements, a four series interconnected “shared universe” project set to start airing next year 3/n

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

There’s no way of knowing how it’ll pan out long term. It may stall in terms of quality as you could argue has happened with BL series, but I think in terms of overall industry and audience dynamics, there’s a good chance that we’ll see a number of interesting productions in the meantime. 4/fin

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

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/115768373123932688

Given the structure and dynamics of most media industries, it was pretty likely that as soon as GL series (as in, centring queer women characters) became a viable TV subgenre, their quality was going to leap ahead of BL series (those that centre queer men), and I say that as a fan of BL series.

Basically, women generally have fewer opportunities in these industries and all of a sudden you have an entire genre where most positions require women. 1/n

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

So in only a couple of years after GAP had its breakout success, you got a number of women-led productions, many of them cast with industry veterans whose career opportunities in a male-led industry had dried up. And many of the leading GL production companies are founded and managed by women: Fabel Entertainment, Heart Pop Studio, North Star Entertainment, Mine Media, Motion Minds, Snur Entertainment and more were all founded or led by women 2/n

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justthepod@tenforward.social ("How Much for Just the Podcast?") wrote:

Here Comes Jeffrey Combs!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26H%5FxWocEss

This could not be more our jam.