Nobody is making serious money of AI but everyone is investing hundreds of billions in AI chips, which is why NVIDIA is still doing great…until the reality check finally happens and it all comes tumbling down. Don’t be the last one holding the bag.

'Nvidia is making money selling shovels in a gold rush. But one thing to bear in mind is this: the main reason that anyone remembers the shovel vendors of the late 1800s is that there didn’t turn out to be all that much gold in the end.' garymarcus.substack.com/p/nvidias-ea...

⚔ New comic: Fight to the McDeath ⚔

Grand opening, grand closing. X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.

Ukraine may have little choice accepting any deal, as its population freezes. newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/russia-...

First Sycamore Gap tree 'offsprings' to be planted. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I find this image remarkable. It's of the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, photographed by the ESA Rosetta spacecraft. That bright white plume is a jet of dust and water ice blasting from the nucleus—helping form the comet's long, dusty tail as it approaches the Sun.

Tehran now faces “catastrophe” as land in parts of the capital sinks by up to 30 centimeters a year (due the excessive groundwater extraction). Where are 10 million people going to go ? www.iranintl.com/en/202511209...

Saturn’s extremely thin rings seems to have disappeared as we are seeing it edge on from Earth, which happens every 13-15 years. The ‘disappearance’ of the rings mystified Galileo in the early 17th century when he viewed the planet with his primitive telescope.

One of the most exciting discoveries from JWST is "Little Red Dots": ultra-distant galaxies rapidly forming new stars & spawning a giant black hole They tell us that galaxies grew up a lot faster than we thought. We don't know how--but new observations offer clues. 🧪🔭 esawebb.org/news/weic2522/

read more deogie here!! tinyview.com/deogie/2025/...

Arc Raiders: Omg somebody died at the bottom of the lift shaft...what a stroke of luck...oooh he's got juicy loot ! Right, up the zipline we go * Two turrets are mounted at the top of the lift shaft. Surprised, I make a misstep and fall down the shaft to my death * Omg two people died here...

Arc Raiders: * Hears someone getting murdered near the locked door with good loot * * Finds a body in front of the now unlocked door * You know he's in there...but the loot is so juicy....I really shouldn't...he might have left already ?...well...maybe... * Goes in and gets murdered *

Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11...

Water reserves in Mashhad, Iran’s second-largest city and one of its most important religious centers, have fallen below 3 percent of capacity, putting the city’s 4 million residents on the brink of a major water emergency. www.newsweek.com/more-cities-...

Space adventurers Bepi, Mio and MTM have just one year to go until they reach Mercury. What have they been up to since their journey began in 2018? Watch episode 2 of 'The epic adventures of BepiColombo' here 👉 youtu.be/41EdqhlH3PQ 👀 🔭 #planetsci #BepiColombo

'Light Fantastic' 21,837 images across 18 time-lapse sequences photographed by Don Pettit & Butch Wilmore are repaired, remastered and retimed to create 3x real time video footage. Credit: Butch Wilmore / Don Pettit / ISS / NASA / ESRS / Seán Doran www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cKk...

In a world in which people with too much power and influence desperately need to be told and to understand when they are wrong, we are suddenly all inescapably drowning in sycophancy machines.

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.—Douglas Adams

EPIRBs xkcd.com/3169/

this is a lazy metaphor, the writers need to do better

watch out he's redpilled!

This is part of our universe. An area of sky about the size of a grain of sand held at arm's length. The spiked features are stars in the Milky Way. EVERYTHING ELSE IS A GALAXY.

It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer… I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...

Welcome to the era of opinion based science and the return of preventable high childhood mortality

INCREDIBLE CURVES

This is Link. His ball suddenly went missing and then reappeared trapped under his bed. He called his brother Otto in for backup, knowing they'd need all three of their collective brain cells to get it back. 12/10 for both (IG: thegoldenbruvs)

I wrote an obituary of celebrated game developer Rebecca Heineman for Ars Technica: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Webb has revealed for the first time that there are four shells of dust around this pair of Wolf-Rayet stars, which are known as Apep. Read more 👉 https://esawebb.org/images/wolf-rayet-apep/ 🔭

The Netherlands (under USA pressure) used a never before used trade law to take on mighty China in a trade row over Nexperia chips, but we have already caved in under Chinese pressure and reversed our decision. The Netherlands, in the middle of these giants, only loses nltimes.nl/2025/11/19/d...

The Distant Worlds 3 Science Team have smashed it out of the park. #DW3 #DistantWorlds #EliteDangerous #Exploration

got my hands on the first page of the newly released Epstein files. lots to dig into here.

Happy birthday to the Soviet linguist Yuri Knorozov who casually deciphered the Mayan script in 1952 and got pissed when editors removed his cat as co-author on papers or cropped her out of his author headshot (the only picture of himself he even liked)

Two ways to see this: - Corruption is still endemic in Ukraine - The system to root out the corruption is working, albeit barely It looks bad, but actually dealing with corruption is a big step forward for Ukraine www.bbc.com/news/article...

Two Ukrainians working for Russia behind rail sabotage, Polish PM says www.bbc.com/news/article...

If your co-workers suddenly lost the ability to do their job, it was because Cloudflare had an outage and ChatGPT was unreachable www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.

Trump vs The BBC. Love or loathe the BBC, recent events have put the UK's journalistic sovereignty in peril. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCMn...

AI-generated evidence is already showing up in court, with parties trying to pass off deepfakes as authentic. We spoke to 5 judges about the issue, who say it could just be the beginning of how AI will upend courts. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

even freaks have limits

Security services minister Tomasz Siemoniak said the probability of the acts being carried on orders of foreign intelligence services was “very high.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Beam Dump xkcd.com/3168/