Over 500 Protesters Killed in Demonstrations in Iran

Heba Muraisi who is on day 71 of a hunger strike has told a friend: “I’m dying.” #supportthehungerstrikers www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Apple choisit Gemini, l’IA de Google, pour améliorer son assistant vocal Siri

Here's a new MIT-NO-AI license. Use it to make it clear that your code is open source but that it's not okay to steal it for training AI models. gist.github.com/fcrozatier/c... #opensource

Using tailwind as an example of „slow coding“ is quite a stretch. Disclaimer: I wouldn’t shed a single tear if tailwind finally died. But I think that the situation points to an older problem but similar problem. gehrmann-design.de/blog/2026-01...

This reminds me of a great book folks interested in the evolution of tech in prisons should check out

The #Tailwind / #LLM discussion this week, motivated me to write this plea for slow programming. In honour of Niklaus Wirth. Cc @kevinpowell.co. nwinos.blogspot.com/2026/01/slow...

A warning to the Irish Government from the UK on the likely impact of stricter immigration rules on the economy. TL; DR it’s a disaster.

A headline to sum up our times:

#Tailwind could disappear due to genAI. The thread 👇 seems to miss the point that AI training data (in this case, the Tailwind docs) aren't free (in cost of consequence) despite Adam Wathan's response. @kevinpowell.co - thoughts? github.com/tailwindlabs...

Tracks. I would have preferred to stay on iOS 18 TBH! I think we can agree that iOS 26 was definitely a misstep by #Apple. Hopefully, there'll be the chance to revert to the 18 UI in iOS 27. www.macrumors.com/2026/01/08/i...

AI mystics are in trouble 😂 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Do as we say, not as we do. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

From the FT.

Seems like ~90% of the ads on YouTube are AI generated.

still pisses me off that haiti had to pay reparations to france for its freedom, paying the equivalent of half a billion dollars from 1825 to its last payment in 1947... to suggest this plays no part in haiti's economy today would be childish (or colonialist). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian...

Saudi Arabia executed 356 people in 2025 and 338 people in 2024. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

@playingwithdust.bsky.social Did you see this? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...

Videos I would have chosen are already in the replies! A nice trip down memory lane on #nye 😀👇😀

Tried to get my road reduced from 50km/h to 30km/h and gave up. This was after a car rammed through a neighbour’s garden wall. Plus, there are primary schools at both ends of the road but you know 50km/h is grand. Granted there are speed ramps (far apart) but SUVs fly over them.

Stripe and some dude from The Free Press wish to fund/determine “the aesthetic of the twenty-first century”, in which they’re “neutral on the use of AI.” 🤦‍♂️ Cc: @eryk.bsky.social @bildoperationen.bsky.social newaesthetics.art

Horrific stuff from Riss at Charlie Hebdo. No need to repost. Instead engage with @rokhayadiallo.bsky.social work ✊. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Tyson Cole. #NewYorkerCartoons Sign up for our humor newsletter to get the Daily Cartoon right in your inbox: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/id1RS8

Photos of the year? The Vanity Fair shoot by Christopher Anderson.

I wish we pushed for research on the political economy of academia more. It's what takes us beyond "oh why did this one person cite a fake journal article?" into "why do we have a system that rewards people who do not engage with prior research and simply churn out pubs?"

A pretty perfect take on the AI in Education push.

This makes a lot of sense! Even if you're an introvert, knowledge-making puts you in conversations that can go many different ways. People can point you to what you are missing. LLM sycophancy is a social problem because it cannot be critical.

Professional societies keep beclowning themselves buying into a lie about what an LLM "summary" is. They are inherently counterfeit: not an epistemic product of the ideas in the source, but summary-shaped text linguistically based on *other* works (in the training corpus) that use related language.

“[S]port has always reflected society – boxing most of all – and we probably didn’t like what we saw in the mirror on Friday night.” www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...

Why do Apple’s software interface designers hate us? Today’s designers think you get extra cool points for hiding everything Stop hiding scrollbars for crying out loud! Snd put some information about storage and file numbers in the Finder. Just basic quality of life stuff

It's your birthday, Duane.

“What is health without freedom?” - Teuta Hoxha #supportthehungerstrikers www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

UN’s top court to hold Myanmar genocide hearings in January https://aje.io/tzf6iu

“He and his friends were tied to a tree and left there for two days until local villagers untied them and told them to run. Three survived and made it to the camp. Mustafa stayed in Oure Cassoni. His two friends went on to Libya.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/w...

The End of Herstory

Big Tech are renting AI data centre capacity to: 1. Spread the large financial risk across other companies, 2. Hedge against poor uptake of AI in the coming years & 3. Record data centres as an operating cost, not as debt. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/t...

Dans les Alpes françaises, «les glaciers pourraient disparaître bien plus vite que ce que nous avions estimé» ➡️ bit.ly/44wn8xi

Sanctuary Runners are absolutely right here 👏👏👏. I’d no idea the Minister promoted such a far right view but it does align with US foreign policy whichUS Embassies have been asked to promote. Did the Minister have discussions with them on stronger alignment with US/far right EU party policy? 🤔

Qesser Zuhrah and Amu Gib are on day 45 of their hunger strike, “one day less than Martin Hurson did before becoming the sixth of 10 IRA hunger strikers to die in 1982”. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... #supportthehungerstrikers

“UNHCR receives substantial funding from European governments, which critics say creates political pressure on the agency to avoid publicly criticising Egypt’s deportations”

Hunger Strike: Day 41: Qesser Zuhrah and Amu Gib Day 40: Heba Muraisi Day 37: Jon Cink Day 34: Teuta Hoxha Day 33: Kamran Ahmed Day 19: Lewie Chiaramello Day 9: Umer Khalid Five have been hospitalised. prisonersforpalestine.org #supportthehungerstrikers

Tomorrow's front page 📰 'The UK is letting these people die'

Forget about all those "Best 50 Albums of 2025" lists. @bandcamp.com has its "Best Field Recordings of 2025" and it's truly a gem. Recordings of Pine Trees anyone? Sublime. daily.bandcamp.com/best-of-2025...

In this case, farewell = death. All this needless death so the US gov can save 0.15% of GDP ($43b).

Note: Only 18,561 people applied for asylum in 2024. That’s 0.003% of the population. Which means 99.997% of the population are not asylum seekers. Remember this is a “record high”.

spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur... Hey y'all! We're breaking our schedule a bit to post this call from some comrades for a cultural and academic boycott of the UAE in solidarity with the people of Sudan. Please read it! We'll have a new original piece for y'all tomorrow.

So today I found out that my TED talk ‘This is What a Digital Coup Looks Like’ was TED’s most watched talk of the year. It’s sort of amazing & terrifying. Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...

🎉 And we're live! 🎉 We just launched CSS Wrapped 2025: our annual recap of all things CSS & web UI that landed in Chrome over the course of the year. 🚀 This is a big one! We highlighted 22 new features to help you build better on the web. Check out: chrome.dev/css-wrapped-2025