The Economist, April 8th 1933. (The territorial dispute between Norway and Denmark over parts of #Greenland was decided in Denmark's favour by the International Court.)

“In 1943, the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun travelled to Germany and met with Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. After returning to Norway, he sent his Nobel medal to Goebbels as a gesture of thanks for the meeting.” Things I did not know. www.nobelpeaceprize.org/press/press-...

"We are somehow going the opposite way, creating the gods that could destroy us while housing them in the most nondescript, generic buildings imaginable." www.ft.com/content/7692...

“The reverse translation into Russian gives you a flawless text.” From another news report on the claim.

The leftist group “Vulkangruppe” which claims to have sabotaged Berlin’s power supply is oddly bad at proper German. One detail suggests it was translated from Russian with AI or some such. www.berlinstory.de/news/stromau...

„Die gesamte Geschichte der Zivilisation – also unsere gesamte Infrastruktur – wurde daher für das Klima der letzten 10.000 Jahre gebaut, das heute nicht mehr existiert. Jetzt beginnen wir, die Grenzen unserer gesamten Infrastruktur auszutesten.“ www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv You can never change or guilt it Just go find the guys who built it When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv

uh holy SHIT?

2026 is palindromic in bases 13 (11, 12, 11), 14 (10, 4, 10), 45 (1, 0, 1), 1012 (2, 2) and 2025 (1, 1). #mathsky oeis.org/A216840

The Best – and the Wurst – of Neon 2025.

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

©1976 by AVK Electronics From the AVK Universal Corporate Archives facebook.com/AVKUniversal

Merry Christmas, everyone!

#EU, be the EU 🇨🇳 experts think you are! "EU will continue to play a significant role in international affairs, drawing on its achievements in integration, its soft power in global governance, and, when pushed to the brink, its resolve to build hard power" www.pekingnology.com/p/chinas-ger...

Schéi Chrëschtdeeg 🎄 (That’s Merry Christmas in Luxembourgish)

Hey, let me know which screenshot from our paper you prefer! Happy holidays 😃!

"AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off." So general settings urgently need a button to completely disable AI features. No more fiddling around in about:config. #mozilla #firefox #ai blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...

“New Ways to Corrupt LLMs” open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

With feathers into the afterlife: New results on the Bad Dürrenberg shaman burial #archaeology phys.org/news/2025-12...

I’m but a simple country theoretical physicist, and I can say, in my professional capacity, “datacenters in space” is so colossally, monumentally stupid that it is difficult to know where to start with which laws of physics the idea is spitting in the face of the most.

Ungleiche Verteilung von Vermögen kennt Martyna Linartas aus ihrer Familie. Ein Gespräch über Erben und Gerechtigkeit, Wahnsinn, Neid und die AfD.

Micron is shutting down its Crucial consumer RAM business in 2026 after nearly three decades, citing heavy demand from AI data centers. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025... #AI #RAM

Arrests and killings of political opponents Natl Assembly shut down State control over media Protests banned Political parties and local councils suspended False accounts of past elections All could have happened in South Korea had the people and the parliament not blocked martial law one year ago.

„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Strictly speaking, it's not a façade that's cracking up at 432 Park Ave. in NYC; it's a "load-bearing, concrete exoskeleton." This makes the problem much harder to fix. The engineers called it back in 2012, but hubris and vanity overruled them. lloydalter.substack.com/p/schadenfre...

Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead. Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced. Safe bike-lanes mean business.

this is what will show up if you invite me to your ai & copyright law conference

The AI bubble has reached its ‘fried chicken’ phase ft.trib.al/VGyrH8K

I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]

»Das ist eine Revolution: China überrollt die Welt mit Erneuerbaren« »Teile der Union wissen aber nicht, wie sie moderne Energiepolitik machen sollen, ohne zu "grün" zu klingen. Also verkünden sie aus Trotz lieber das Gegenteil« www.n-tv.de/wirtschaft/D...

"Strömavbrottet sammanföll med en planerad uppdatering av Ellevios tjänst för att kommunicera om avbrott" www.svt.se/nyheter/loka...

when I visited korea last year I went to haeinsa temple to see the tripitaka koreana, a set of 80k+ wooden printing blocks for buddhist scriptures, made in the 13th century en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripita...

Startlingly good effects of LNP-mRNA vaccines when given to cancer patients receiving immune checkpoint therapy. More vaccine research please. More mRNA!

What is more, at the Nordic Tipping Week I‘m currently attending we learned that climate models that agree best with observations are the ones where #AMOC declines most by 2100 (as yet unpublished work).

A Rössler attractor rendered with Manim. Two initial states with a distance of 0.0025 diverge over time. #mathsky

Nexperia warns customers over chips made in China: FD www.dutchnews.nl?p=258863

Very interesting article discussing what might lurk behind the Nexperia controversy. bits-chips.com/article/lets...

Today I learnt that the significant portion on the internet that relies on AWS also happens to be the significant portion of the internet I seemingly avoid.

“The U.S. military demonstration that shot live-fire artillery rounds over Interstate 5 on Saturday dropped metal shrapnel on a California Highway Patrol vehicle…” https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-19/u-s-military-live-fire-demonstration-dropped-shrapnel-on-chp-vehicle

The floating French Tara Polar Research Station in Reykjavik harbor.

I can just about cope with the idea that the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has hit a new record -- it's what one would expect even if we were rapidly decarbonizing. But that the *rate of increase* has hit a new record is unbelievably depressing. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

this is one of the best articulations of the AI bear case I've read most of the AI companies are also massively wealthy and profitable hypercorps, but OpenAI specifically is a bomb planted at the heart of the American stock market helpfully labeled "this is a bomb" prospect.org/power/2025-1...

Kun AI:ta pyytää visualisoimaan tätä epäpyhää kokonaisuutta, sohaisee se kyllä asian ydintä, mutta hermostuksissaan sitten typottaa urakalla. En siis edes promptannut näitä Compute Credittejä tai tätä toista kiertotaloutta 😅

Now this is awesome! #hamr #hanradio

Flying cars are the perfect example of a point solution: trying to solve a systemic problem (traffic) with an individual product (fly over the traffic). But traffic is not a technology problem; it's a social problem. Remote work, congestion fees, and dense transit-connected housing solve it better.

Today is the 89th anniversary of The Battle of Cable Street when the people of the East End of London halted the march of Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts through Stepney.