Kick off your New Year with @jessharwoodart.bsky.social‘s brain-rot prevention training program, and get ready for a new start in 2026! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Australia’s online safety watchdog is investigating sexualised deepfake images which ‘digitally undress’ women and girls and are being posted on X by Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok.

“President Trump has made it well known that acquiring Greenland is a national security priority […] & of course, utilizing the US military is always an option” www.theguardian.com/...

“A tremendous amount of money will have to be spent (to increase oil production in Venezuela) and the oil companies will spend it, and then they’ll get reimbursed by us or through revenue,” Trump said. 🙃

As of January 5, 2026, I am not allowing any ICE or immigration agents to stay at my house. Please pass on this info to your coworkers that I am not allowing any immigration agents to house on my property.

The former OpenAI employee who released “AI 2027” last year — a scenario that envisions unchecked AI development, leading to the creation of a superintelligence which destroys humanity — has rolled back his timeline for AI doom, saying it will take longer than he predicted.

“I’m like, ‘mate, the roads are all cut off out here’. I said: ‘Dude, you’re ringing an old lady in outback Queensland asking for life advice.’”

What’s in the US criminal indictment against Nicolás Maduro? www.theguardian.com/...

Exclusive: Ashley St Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk’s sons, says she felt “horrified and violated” after fans of the billionaire used Grok to create fake sexualised images of her, and had even undressed a picture of her as a 14yo child

Are NYT and WSJ okay? “top three most important foreign policy victories of Mr. Trump’s second term” “Mexico is acting like an adversary to the US” 🤔

🙃 lulz in Australian The OECD secretary general, Mathias Cormann, described the agreement as a “landmark decision in international tax cooperation” that “enhances tax certainty, reduces complexity, and protects tax bases”

Come ON. María Corina Machado tells Sean Hannity she would share Nobel Peace prize with Donald Trump www.theguardian.com/...

"Several politicians and heads of state have engaged in the sort of feeble and contradictory statements they make when their kind of diplomacy collides with the reality that their allies are out of their minds."

The pardon for Hernandez makes an obvious & absolute mockery of each & every attempt to rationalise, or even justify, Trump's treatment of Maduro. I'm not sure this single, simple point can be stressed enough. Once again, he proves his critics right & reduces his supporters to epic moral corruption.

“I think there’s a mistaken idea that people join the far right because they believe in that ideology and want to meet like-minded people,” @drkondor.bsky.social said. “But that’s not how it works.

Check out this great article by @ashifakassam.bsky.social, featuring yours truly and the fab @gretajasser.bsky.social! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

ICYMI: Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is “altering images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed.” futurism.com/future-socie...

Trump in a single gaggle on Air Force One just threatened: -- a second strike against Venezuela -- Cuba -- Mexico -- Colombia -- Iran -- Greenland (which in turn would be an attack on the EU and Denmark)

greetings from hell

Reporter: If you had to sum up Operation Absolute Resolve, would you say that it was about oil or it was about regime change? Trump: It's about peace on earth. Reporter: How is it peace on earth?

Trump: “We do need Greenland, absolutely” Denmark’s PM: “It makes absolutely no sense to talk about the US needing to take over Greenland. The US has no right to annex any of the three countries in the Danish kingdom”

Three arrested at Sydney protest against US military’s forcible removal of Nicolás Maduro from #Venezuela

Protests erupt in US cities over Trump’s military intervention in #Venezuela

Just hours after the illegal US military operation in Venezuela, Stephen Miller's wife posted a map of Greenland draped in the stars and stripes with the caption: "SOON"

After Trump’s illegal Venezuela coup, there are two dangers: he is emboldened, but has no clue what comes next

Trump has expressed enthusiasm for taking radical action against Iran and Denmark, and added Cuba to the list of countries in his sights, saying it was “very similar” to Venezuela “in the sense that we want to help the people in Cuba” 🤔

A sold-out SCG crowd roared as Ahmed al-Ahmed and 14-year-old Chaya Dadon walked onto the pitch just before play began in the final Test of the Ashes series

Even if there was a legal justification for the US bombing of Venezuela (there is not) surely kidnapping a head of state is not justifiable any way you look at it?

Trump announcing anyone can invade another country on vibes. "We will run the country until […] we can do a safe,proper & judicious transition. We can’t take a chance that someone else takes over Venezuela who doesn’t have the interests of A̶m̶e̶r̶i̶c̶a̶ Venezuelans in mind”

Reddit is now UK’s 4th most visited social media service after overtaking TikTok. The Ofcom Onlne Nation 2025 report says Reddit's audience reach in UK is up 88% in 2yrs Largely attributed to what SEOs have known for a while, Reddit’s huge rise in Google search visibility

Donald Trump claims that Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife have been “captured and flown out of the country” after US bombing attack on Venezuela's capital, Caracas www.theguardian.com/...

BREAKING NEWS: At least seven explosions and low-flying aircraft have been heard in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, amid reports that Donald Trump had ordered strikes against the South American country

The US government "cultivating resistance" with racist far-right parties in Europe, including those with Nazi origins, has been a pretty clear signal in 2025 that the US is actively opposed to the rules and laws on which the international order – which they helped create – is based buff.ly/RHOocV1

"Toby Morton said he purchased the domain in August after predicting the president would change the name from the Kennedy Center to the Trump Kennedy Center after he installed himself as chair and stocked the board with loyalists" buff.ly/OTnocze

HNY! Been nice knowing you 🙃 "Bengio said giving legal status to […] AIs would be akin to giving citizenship to hostile extraterrestrials, [and] also expressed concern that AI models […] were showing signs of self-preservation, such as trying to disable oversight systems"

Iceland has hottest Christmas Eve ever with temperature of 19.8C recorded. Average December temperatures in Iceland are between -1C and 4C. buff.ly/fF9s045

"Crusadercore provides young men with a historically bastardized visual lexicon, one that gives new credence and religious authority to modern bigotry."

When the different factions here grift money they can’t repay without turning on one another, that’ll be them reenacting the Fourth Crusade.

Trump misuses Norman Rockwell’s work — like other cultural icons — to promote Gestapo tactics and nativist ideas. As his granddaughter puts it, “Norman Rockwell was antifa” — literally.

this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)

The case against the TikToker who was shot by US immigration agents was dismissed by a federal judge with prejudice, which means prosecutors cannot refile the same charges of assault against a federal agent

“You are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever,” is what a US Education Department spokesperson wrote to one of our reporters, @megomatz.bsky.social, after she repeatedly tried to get comment from the department and its officials. My column on the condemnation of good journalism.

Eventually this trend will just result in every techbrah naming their company something like “Anal Prolapse” and giving smug, tedious interviews about What It Means

Exclusive: Pauline Hanson flew to Florida with Gina Rinehart on the billionaire’s private jet to attend CPAC and is yet to declare it on parliamentary register. Hanson, One Nation, Rinehart and Hancock Prospecting did not respond to a request for comment. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“You guys, Hitler wants to see Poland succeed”

A survey of 15,000 of the world’s most popular YouTube channels – the top 100 in every country – found that 278 of them contain only AI slop. Those 278 channels have amassed more than 63bn views and 221m subscribers, generating about $117m in revenue each year https://buff.ly/cdbKiSH

2025 has been a year of tumult and uncertainty and a year in which the president of the U.S. has spent at least part of one in three days at his private businesses and one in four days playing golf.

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “Big tech has made their choice.” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/

Chicago resisted. Protests came with a price. Bruises from pepper balls and fits of sickness from the tear gas. But also the shattering of illusions and loss of faith that what they witnessed could not happen in America. It did and is happening in America www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...