The reason that SpaceX is going public and announcing nonsense about data centers in space: 1. The outside client launch manifest is flat and becoming more competitive 2. The total TAM for starlink was never going to justify the valuation 3. Growth for commerical/residential Starlink is shrinking

Next up: Black Plague was a lab leak, dinosaur extinction was a lab leak, Big Bang was a lab leak.

I will say I *loathe* this lumping of long-standing tools (text-to-speech, speech to text, spell checker, etc) with "it's all AI" like we are toddlers and can't understand the nuance of all this. For the rest, only a fool would use AI to read their publishing contracts.

Le peu de médias qui évoquent le militantisme d'extrême-droite de Bardot essayent de confiner celui-ci à la "seconde partie de sa vie" (comme si c'était plus excusable). Et pourtant, il a toujours été là.

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

I can't really gloat over this one, because this is exactly the tragedy we were trying to avoid, and WHY we were angry at the people shilling this garbage... but, like, we *did* tell them. We told them over and over. And they didn't believe us.

When I read this I thought of our friend Mohammed. He is one of Gaza's farmers who now can't return to their land because of new lines drawn. The genocide is an ecocide destroying natural resources & threatening their keepers. @barleyfarm.bsky.social

Reminder that Henry Hoovers are made in Britain by a unionised workforce

PRO TIP ALT TEXT I think the best way to do it when you're writing alt text, is to describe the image as you would if talking to a friend on the phone who can't see the image. So, if the image is someone applauding and that's the point of the image...

The first thing ICE did when it was created was raiding meat processing plants in the Midwest and south to help quell labor disputes over safety violations and keep those who weren't detained from getting legal protections as many had kids who grew up locally and were citizens with political power.

Amateurs. I'm going round the care home with some pre-drafted wills and AI showing me as their grandson.

one of many reasons that the organized critique and refusal movement is overwhelmingly led by women (yes including women computer scientists, cognitive scientists, and engineers)

Completely correct; O'Callaghan has in reality achieved the square root of fuck all but he's done a lot of anti-migrant rhetoric and inside baseball bullshit so that'll do I guess? Also, "no obvious winners"? Catherine Connolly???

It's very telling that this discourse always puts the onus on the kids to tolerate their parents vile views and never asks the parents to moderate said views for the sake of their kids

The only thing ChatGPT ever does.

This year, Unite's energy report with some stark findings: Energy companies made £30 billion profit in 2024. £500 of the average household energy bill goes on pure profit, roughly a third. Bring energy back into public ownership.

And Big Tom, who *did* die

Replies calling it a red flag confuse me. Do you guys call everything that's unattractive a red flag? Being a slob is unattractive but it's not a red flag bc it's not symptomatic of potentially abusive behaviour

The genocide will continue until morale improves.

As many of us begin Christmas meal prep, allow me to share the advice that my ER nurse sister puts in the chat every year: A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.

No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.

Horrific and it never needed to happen. This is the results of Fortress Europe and people like Meloni, Starmer, Orban, Frederiksen and so many others. We need safe routes and to be open to any person who wants to live in democracy, liberty and freedom.

I’m a former church kid that was a scripture memorization champ for a few years in a row and I’ve *annihilated* people who identify as Christians in conversations about what they actually believe. Because according to the text, their deity, Jesus, left two commandments to follow. Two.

Right then, no one asked for it (everyone seems quite happy with last year's!) but here we are anyway, your #DuvetKnowItsChristmas 2025 bingo card! Some returning classics, some we missed last year and some new ones. Enjoy team, donation link below once Rhodri posts it!

This is the 15th year of #DuvetKnowItsChristmas, which is preposterous. Rules: if you find yourself dealing with unusual / claustrophobic / gaudy sleeping arrangements this Christmas Eve, share a picture with the world. Use the hashtag (with capitalisation) and cc me if you can be bothered.

Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

With Christmas approaching, celebrations in Haifa were met with chaos after Israeli police stormed the Wadi al-Nisnas neighbourhood, arresting and beating Christians in the area.

Capitalism, always more efficient eh?

The message that someone takes away from sci-fi tells you who they are. It's a Rorschach test.

The American right, including Jay Bhattacharya, is trying to weaponize free speech by crying censorship. But freedom of speech isn't freedom of reach. To fight back, scientific institutions should say that junk science is junk. New post from me: 1/

The moral panic about estrangement is all about shoring up patriarchal power over youth. Which is why gender criticals are so eager to join in.

Happy Holidays, friends. Is time for another Ask Me Anything, Palestinian folklore edition. I’ll do my best to answer, maybe even tell some folktales.

Turns out to be a pretty average flu year that started a bit earlier. NHS and Govt have a responsibility to communicate data responsibly and they failed this winter.

Haha someone has already blocked me for this take. Good! Fuck off! Also! The military is losing money! Public schools are losing money! The judiciary is losing money! FFS, people are such suckers for this idiotic argument.

It’s not “losing money” any more than air traffic controllers or public highways or street lights or fire departments are “losing money.” It is a government service. It’s not SUPPOSED to make money. It’s supposed to reliably deliver to anywhere in the US, even the unprofitable places.

Also while it's not SUPPOSED to make money because it's an essential service as Elly stated... it was until Trump & Co shit it the fuck up intentionally.

“Like prime, but with human beings”

Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.

if mary and joseph set off to bethlehem today they'd cross 15 israeli checkpoints and a 30ft wall

Best explanation of the liar's dividend that I've ever seen.

Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.

With that smug smile on the interviewer’s face, you’d barely know that this is about the kidnapping, torture, and sexual assault of innocent people.

Not mentioning once that this guy was an elected representative for the Tories is an interesting editorial choice www.independent.ie/world-news/b...

Mrs. Cratchit: so Bob, let me get this straight: your evil boss is at the door in the midst of a manic episode and has brought a 15kg uncooked turkey as a helpful gift shortly before I am about to serve Christmas dinner. Just great…

In the small Christian Palestinian village of Taybeh, Madees Khoury is busy bottling beers at her family’s microbrewery when I visit. www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...

You just know he (and by extension, we) got absolutely fleeced. Would love to be negotiating and this schlub strolls in.

If you're feeling a bit glum about the state of, well, everything, then the @positivenews.bsky.social 2025 roundup might help. www.positive.news/society/what...