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

I watched A Christmas Carol (1951) for the first time. It’s wonderful. What a perfect Scrooge. Facial expressions alone, 10/10. https://archive.org/details/acfrma-A%5FChristmas%5FCarol%5F1951

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

Attachments:

• video: An interstitial scene in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, showing one of the house advent calendar doors being opened (December 24), revealing an image of a family seated near a Christmas tree.

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pelagikat@eigenmagic.net ("Dr Ms Kat") wrote:

@futzle
Ok, so I don't "write code" exactly, I use code to visualise things. And I thought one way to visualise the 12 days of Christmas lyrics was with a Sankey diagram. I am sorry, this is an abomination.

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alina@girldick.gay ("alina 🐾🏳️‍⚧️✨💖") wrote:

EVERYONE STFU

IT'S TGV TUESDAY

Attachments:

• video: a compilation of french TGV high speed trains with epic music

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nellie_m@autisticpri.de ("nellie-m") wrote:

@fromjason

If you haven’t come across this little thread yet - I think you’ll like it. Also, I have to follow you now because I want to see what you’re boosting 😊

https://mas.to/@derbadian/115764969717583191

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I'm trying to shift my perspective from "there was a glorious computer revolution that empowered the user and disrupted authority and we have fallen from the heights of its transcendental grace" and towards the more accurate "my formative years just happened to coincide with a period where a few technical innovations briefly conferred a small amount of power on individuals and labor, and capital has been efficiently reversing that small disruption ever since" but it sure doesn't *feel* like that

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derbadian@mas.to ("Craig G") wrote:

What do you mean you don't obsessively count the number of chocolates in a tub of Celebrations every year and put the results into an Excel spreadsheet!?

Anyway, the 2025 results are in:
Bounty x5
Galaxy x5
Galaxy Caramel x5
Maltesers x5
Mars x9
Milky Way x9
Snickers x9
Twix x7

The tub itself has gone down another 50g since 2024 (100g since 2023!)

Hard to believe that I used to give this content to Zuckerberg for free, you're welcome Fediverse!

#Christmas #Chocolate #Shrinkflation

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animalculum@scholar.social ("Lukas VFN 🇪🇺") wrote:

Scientists recreate the head of this ancient 9-foot-long bug
https://phys.org/news/2024-10-scientists-biggest-bug-earth.html

Head anatomy and #phylogenomics show the #Carboniferous giant #Arthropleura belonged to a millipede-centipede group https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adp6362

"The giant bug's topper was a round bulb with two short bell-shaped antennae, two protruding eyes like a crab, and a rather small mouth adapted for grinding leaves and bark"

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rustaceans ("Rust Bytes") wrote:

7. When Scope Lies: The Wildcard Pattern Drop Footgun in Rust reveals how _ wildcard in destructuring delays Drop calls, causing async shutdown leaks.
https://obeli.sk/blog/when-scope-lies/

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claytoncubitt.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Clayton Cubitt") wrote:

Greetings human friends

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Oh yes please! #darktable

With immense gratitude to https://build.opensuse.org/ for providing the package!

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paulrickards wrote:

Staying warm in front of the 1-bit glow of the Lisa and the Yule log with MacFLIM.

#RetroComputing #VintageApple #VintageMac #AppleLisaClone #AppleLisa

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• gifv: Loop of an Apple Lisa with an animation playing on the screen of a fireplace rendered in 1-bit black and white. The Lisa has tiny red lights around the front and a keyboard and track ball in front.

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

Debating if I should just keep my passport and birth certificate on me at all times. Should I cover my tattoos? Should I stop wearing a bandanna when I go for a jog? Should I just stay indoors?

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toroidalcore@masto.hackers.town ("ToroidalCore") wrote:

A quick little rendition of Vince Guaraldi's Linus and Lucy on bass I threw together last week, and present to you now on this Christmas Eve Eve.

#bass #jazz #LinusAndLucy #VinceGuaraldi

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• audio: The song Linus and Lucy by Vince Guaraldi, arrange for electric bass. The song consists of two parts, a bassline that mirrors the classic piano figure played in the left hand, and the melody overdubbed over it.

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

When I'm not feeling very well, when I'm feeling down or blue, I put on my headphones and listen to The XX. Their music is like medicine for my soul.

Here's Sunset, from their album Coexist. (Listen with headphones so the bass can massage your brain cells.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7r8J5rrPJA

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

This is what happens when you only recruit incompetent, stupid loyalists to be your underlings.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/23/a-conspiracy-of-absolute-morons/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7i9KdVTFR4

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

60 Minutes segment on CECOT / CBS pulled by white supremacist sympathizer, and enabler Bari Weiss, lives on the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/60minutes-cecotsegment

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vidak@social.solarpunk.au wrote:

books that changed my life forever:

"COMMON LISP: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation"

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/book.pdf

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

eSUN claims their TPE 83A is made of 97% Tetraphenylethylene. That seems highly unlikely and Is probably just a translation error? Does anyone know what it's actually made of?

https://www.esun3d.com/uploads/TPE-83A-filament-MSDS.pdf

#3dprinting

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

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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

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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