overstating the case somewhat but quite easy to imagine a future where American cars are a pitiful anachronism just like our trains are today. “oh look they’re still addicted to gasoline, isn’t that quaint. well I hope the Saudis are happy!”

Ach ja #x #bluesky #fediverse

LG Quietly Installs Microsoft Copilot on Its Smart TVs—And You Can't Delete It https://uk.pcmag.com/ai/162044/lg-quietly-installs-microsoft-copilot-on-its-smart-tvs-and-you-cant-delete-it LG TV owners are not happy about the AI app showing up unannounced, becoming a permanent fixture on their […]

🔘 John Scofield & Dave Holland - Mr. B (Dedicated to Ray Brown) • https://youtu.be/8QvuaV06TnA

“The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, appears to be a Bitcoiner.” (No wonder Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale is a fan.) 10/11/25… 1/ decrypt.co/343891/lates...

In other depressing IoT news, iRobot, the maker of the popular Roomba vacuums, files for bankruptcy and sells itself to Chinese company. Hello cameras and mics in bajillions of homes. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/irobot-bankruptcy-irbt-roomba-app-continue-to-operate/

luxuriating in pete frame's 1977 soft machine family tree from the "triple echo" liner notes.

#science #Scale-of-Things https://flowingdata.com/2025/12/11/scale-of-living-things/ text from Flowing Data: Neal Agarwal published another gift to the internet with Size of Life. It shows the scale of living things, starting with DNA, to hemoglobin, and keeps going up. The scientific […]

Earlier this year, Matt Yglesias and Hakeem Jeffries urged progressives to shut up about immigration and Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Yglesias said "bad groups" were pushing Dems left on immigration and would help Trump's numbers. How did they get this so wrong? www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...

New, from me: Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content Direct navigation — the act of visiting a website by manually typing a domain name in a web browser — has never been riskier: A new study finds the vast majority of “parked” domains — mostly […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Today's newsletter: The same machine that destroyed 600 lives over Charlie Kirk has nothing to say about Trump mocking Rob Reiner. www.readtpa.com/p/the-rules-...

🔘 Daniel Villarreal, Jeff Parker, Anna Butterss - Traveling With • https://youtu.be/bTMVNmkXe4g

"America, with its robust constitutional protections for speech of all varieties, stands apart. And it should continue to do so, even when its own symbols are under attack." Matt Cavedon on why flag burning should remain lawful in the U.S.

Miles Davis - Live at the Plugged Nickel: December 23, 1965, Second Set In anticipation of the complete set being released soon, this was released on RSDBF2025, and since I just saw the great Ron Carter, it seemed like the right thing to put on. This is part of the […] [Original post on mas.to]

🇺🇦 What person, country, or continent would invest, today, in “security guarantees” with the US? Volodymyr, remember the people in Atlantic City who signed contracts with Trump. Hold fast to your NATO ambition! “Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday voiced readiness to drop his […]

Just to be clear: should I have the terrible misfortune to be killed in a mass shooting, please feel free to politicize the hell out of it. And go ahead and do so immediately. No time will be “too soon”.

🇺🇦 “…though Prigozhin never got within 100km of the Russian capital, the Russian leader preferred to get out of town than stay and lead the counter-mutiny. As far as we know, Putin has never visited Russian frontline positions, probably because he fears his own troops more than the Ukrainians […]

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Nine former DoJ attorneys investigating University of California antisemitism have told The Los Angeles Times they felt pressured to conclude that campuses had violated the civil rights of Jewish students and staff […]

Steve #bannon and Noam #chomsky in the latest Epstein documents. I think I’ve seen everything in this world now…

Volodymyr sends Vlad a selfie, from ‘Russian-controlled’ Kupiansk, Kharkiv Oblast, UA, 12 December 2025. 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 📷 Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Reuters

Shortwave "Discone" Antenna, AT&T High Seas Transmitter Site, Ocean Gate, NJ, 2009. All the pixels, with operators available to assist you, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4141766569 #photography

🔘 A Certain Ratio - Do The Du (The Graveyard) • https://youtu.be/woP8XPChxrs

Beautiful light and mist from my backyard #landscape #naturephotography #winterscene #sunset #sunrise #goldenhour #mist

🎯 CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER @oliverma2026.bsky.social: “The detention centers are run by private prison companies (like @CoreCivic) — they make millions PER PERSON… that’s why they’re looking for anybody brown, so they can keep stealing from taxpayers.” *THIS IS NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH*

Federation isn’t just a feature, it’s how we reject oppression by design. In the EU, Big Centralised Tech is facing fines for selling verification and hiding ads. At Mastodon, we’re building something different: a space where no one buys influence and there […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Last week, Health Secretary Kennedy’s handpicked advisers on a federal vaccine panel voted against universal hepatitis B shots for newborns, reversing 35 years of CDCguidance that all newborns receive the vaccine within 24 hours of birth. The Trump administration also recently altered the CDC’s […]

“The proposed map would have targeted Indiana’s two Democratic U.S. representatives to hand all 9 seats to the GOP. Around 45% of Indiana’s party-affiliated voters are Democrats. The upper chamber debated the bill for three hours ahead of the vote, with opponents […] [Original post on mstdn.io]

Hong Kong - X5826, Extra 1959. 1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format) Title: Toni Frissell's Sports Illustrated Assignment in Hong Kong Date: July 1959 Toni Frissell was an American photographer, best known for her work in sports […] [Original post on mastodon.ozioso.online]

“…Prediction markets pitch themselves as a corrective for the media and a replacement for punditry, toward which their proponents usefully and I think honestly perform contempt — hating the media is good marketing, making fun of the media is good politics, and trying to replace it is good […]

Today we are calling on institutions around the world to take control of their #digitalsovereignty, including their social accounts. Governments should communicate directly with their citizens on open platforms, not through the mouthpiece of a corporation […]

A federal judge in Maryland rules that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the immigrant wrongfully deported to El Salvador and then brought back to face criminal charges, should immediately be released from ICE custody […]

Before someone told me it was Alina Habba who said it, I just assumed “you can take the girl out of New Jersey but you cannot take New Jersey out of the girl” was from a Valtrex commercial

Pete Hegseth is urging members of the military to embrace GenAI.mil, a "secure generative AI platform for every member of the Department of War." I'm sure this will be fine. "I expect every member of the Department to log in, learn it, and incorporate it […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

“Every time I go to the supermarket I'm reminded of how scary the times are. People want to just live their lives, never has that been more understandable, but food prices are a constant reminder for everyone there's good reason to be scared. And if you want to really feel it, imagine what […]

DOJ Withheld Proof They Knew Their Assault of LaMonica McIver Was "Bad" before They Charged Her www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/09/d...

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

“I grew up on the sets of Robert Altman movies. My mom wrote Nashville. John Milius is a good friend…that was an amazing era full of really creative people. Half of the movies sucked, but occasionally they'd hit a home run. 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻'𝘁 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗳𝘆 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲! Milius […] [Original post on mstdn.io]

“…What we are seeing today in the Caribbean is not an isolated action; it is the extension of a militarized imperial model that treats entire regions as expendable. The next wars were always there because we never confronted the political and economic system that made endless wars a profitable […]

🔘 Ornette Coleman - Congeniality • https://youtu.be/UKQJkqBVk5U

Trump’s troops abducted a U.S. citizen for asking them a question. #minneapolis #minnesota ‘Tincher, a white woman in her mid-50s who stands 5 feet, 4 inches tall, insists she was at speaking distance from the agent and said that she did nothing to “impede” their actions. “Pretty soon they […]

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For decades, RSS has been a workhorse that connects systems on the timely web and ensures that publishers can syndicate and grow their reach. Here's why it matters more than ever. https://werd.io/why-rss-matters/

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has posted one of his most important pieces, in which he brings historical context to the ascendance -- and profound malignity -- of the ultra-wealthy who are on the verge of destroying us […]

Secretary of State Rubio has concluded Calibri is a DEI font and orders US diplomats to revert to Times New Roman in official communications. https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/politics/3725456-font-wars-times-new-roman-vs-calibri-in-us-diplomacy

🔘 Wolfgang Muthspiel & Brian Blade - Between The Beats • https://youtu.be/GUUlmjKwowE

Readers are not asking the New York Times to print propaganda or stump for Democrats. In my view, they simply want the Times to be more clear-eyed and honest about the depth of the crisis this country currently faces. presswatchers.org/2025/12/new-...

Scammers are poisoning AI search results to steer you straight into their traps - here's how AI tools like Google AI Overview and Perplexity Comet are being tricked into suggesting scam support numbers. www.zdnet.com/article/scam...

THE FOG LA Times: ‘Extreme’ cloud bank for 16 days and counting in Central Valley; record-cold December possible https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-09/persistent-fog-clouds-central-california-could-bring-record-cool-december #cawx #fog

a type of content that makes me want to launch myself into space and is huge part of why everything is so bad: TikToker goes down a “rabbit hole,” makes 9-minute video. The “rabbit hole” was she found an Eater article. The Eater journalist did all the work: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTruBS8cp/