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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EugeneMcParland@mastodon.ie ("Eugene McParland 🇺🇦") wrote:

#Ukraine is hitting russia where it hurts — energy money.

Kyiv has launched its most effective campaign yet against russian oil and fuel assets, with at least 24 strikes in December alone targeting refineries, tankers, pipelines, and maritime infrastructure.

🔗 https://united24media.com/latest-news/ukraine-sets-new-record-with-24-strikes-on-russian-oil-gas-sites-in-december-14671

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
UnterDruck@punkstodon.de ("UnterDruck Flensburg :UD:") wrote:

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115812058723304135

For all my #punx in North America, shipping from Europe would be too much a hassle I guess, so if there's some small #diy #screenprint workshop, collectiv or thelike, feel free do use the design, also contact me for the templates if necessary...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
augieray ("Augie Ray") wrote:

For a while, that works. Then, he gets injured because of the physical work, and he grows worried he can't continue to earn money this way. "My chatbot, with its relentless optimism, had failed to mention this possibility." Now, in pain, he's trying to avoid taking more of the prescription pain relievers his neighbor gave him. He sees the echoes of what happened to people who lost those factory jobs, then their purpose, and then their health.

2/3

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/opinion/artificial-intelligence-jobs.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.A1A.0K3g.gw0dekHs8TJ%5F&smid=url-share

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
augieray ("Augie Ray") wrote:

"In towns like mine, outsourcing and automation consumed jobs. Then purpose. Then people. Now the same forces are climbing the economic ladder."

A thoughtful editorial from a copywriter who saw factory jobs disappear and an opioid crisis rise in his small town but "rarely gave much thought to this crisis." Then, #AI came for his job, and believe it or not, he took its advice to buy a chainsaw so he could cut and trim trees for local homeowners. 1/3

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/opinion/artificial-intelligence-jobs.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.A1A.0K3g.gw0dekHs8TJ%5F&smid=url-share

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

Microsoft’s Nadella overhauls leadership as he plots AI strategy beyond OpenAI:

"“Satya is determined to support new recruits against Microsoft’s own culture,” said one Microsoft executive. “There is some jealousy internally. People are making more money in his unit, but that is a risk worth taking.”"

I remember when Microsoft was trying to unify its UI across the Office suite (2 decades ago?), and all ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/12/31/microsofts-nadella-overhauls-leadership-as.html

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

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

Today in History: First supersonic commercial flight by Tu-144, 1968

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

Today in History: St. Sylvester in Switzerland

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

my fabulous furry feline friend

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

Is there any reason to celebrate the end of this godawful year? Will 2026 be any better?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/31/im-ready-for-2025-to-end/

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

What a year it's been. This post includes my usual "things I enjoyed this year" list, but it's also an autobiographical look back at a wild ride of a year in my personal life.

https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/2025

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Happy new year !

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

A foggy respite: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/a-foggy-respite/

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

This my Threads Post of the Year of 2025, and it's a pretty good one if you ask me, and still true!

RE: https://www.threads.com/@jscalzi/post/DRCqbvQAK6t

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I'm pretty sure both Lilac by #Katatonia and Restless Boy by #PainOfSalvation are using a sample of a floppy disk drive and I find that interesting. It is a pleasant sound. Let me know if I'm mistaken...

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

such a pollyanna @CARROT

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

In the second she explains why didn't use a tablet or iPad to draw the graphic novel

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YT7dS%5FIqsus

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

I uploaded recently a couple of shorts-style videos where Brynhildur Jenný describes the approach she took to drawing the graphic novel "The Cat and I" (Kötturinn og ég). In Icelandic but with English subtitles.

The first is on the tools and styles

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vrUX-AvRDGc

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

These are probably the spookiest from the foggy walk the other day #photos #iceland #hveragerði #blackandwhite

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

Because I tend to underuse colour. #photos #iceland #hveragerði

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

These photos give you a little bit of a sense of how thick the fog was here the other day. #photos #iceland #hveragerði #blackandwhite

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

this piece nicely illuminates what will become a much-studied area in grad psych programs. as is true of so much about humanoids, the emerging patterns are complex & overdetermined & not what most folks (including me) would have expected/predicted .

people are wonderful, and IMHO it is better to observe new interactional systems & patterns than to pontificate predictions of absolute good or evil.

#AIBoyfriend

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736?i=1000743300165

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

So, because editing and rewriting is where the magic happens, I decided to rework yesterday's "signs in fog" photos. Made the colours a little bit less natural and more contrasty (still more natural than the average phone's defaults) #photos #iceland #hveragerði #iceland

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

Happy NY from NZ!

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

“Days Gone By”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/days-gone-by/

> I’m not sure I have the stamina right now to revisit the horrors of 2025 in detail

Hard same.

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

We bid adieu to 2025 with a post detailing how files are stored by Debusine.

Read about how abstractions for low-level file storage and object collections in Debusine allows storage to be scalable beyond a single filesystem and be highly available. It also goes into detail about how data duplication is minimized using content-addressed storage.

Learn more at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debusine-file-storage/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

#debusine #freexian #contentaddressable

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

2025 gave us new TUIs, new friends and a lot of lore to tell for years 🌆

I wrote a **blog post** about my year: https://blog.orhun.dev/2025-wrapped

Thank you so much to everyone who stuck around.
See you in 2026! 🚀🐀🌕

#blogpost #opensource #rustlang #ratatui #2025wrapped

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
noondlyt@hellions.cloud ("LAUREN") wrote:

I just realized why it wasn't called the iWatch

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

The problem with the world wide web is there are far too many markets, and far too few communities. Markets have monopolized our time and have turned our attention into wealthy empires. It's not because platforms were built on the wrong protocol.

We don't beat the techno-oligarchs with a decentralized system. The World Wide Web *is a decentralized system*.

We beat them by building more communities (and rebranding the ones we have that work).

More tomorrow(?) 😴