Wow.

The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.

Dude on Reddit doing God's work www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/co...

#NollaignamBan During WWII Kay McNulty was one of the women who devised processing routines for the ENIAC machine, establishing how artificial intelligence developed. At the public launch in 1946 the women programmers were relegated to the role of hostesses. www.dib.ie/biography/mc...

Beautiful walk this lunchtime in Ayr by the sea. A tad nippy.

This is very bad news for Greenland

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I am pleased to announce that I have commandeered my neighbor's home. This home will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, to ensure it is used to benefit my neighbor and me! Thank you for your attention to this matter!

FYI: In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.

The absolute state of this. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Ok. So. They anonymised the sheep.

finally, we're living through precedented times

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.

Please join me in welcoming to the public domain such works as the 1930 Best Picture All Quiet on the Western Front, Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, several Nancy Drew books, some songs you've heard of (Dream a Little Dream of Me; Georgia on My Mind), and more: blog.archive.org/2026/01/01/w...

I actually think it's time to bring back the approach of curated lists and webrings from the early web again. Huge opportunity space for hand curation of information

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters

A senile Republican president has turned America into a disease-ridden, economically stagnant police state. But my liberal neighbor is having a Hamilton-themed birthday party for his nine-year-old. I have never felt more politically homeless.

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I wrote the captions on this video the night Osama Bin Laden was killed and it’s probably the most shared thing I ever created.

‘It’s the wildest place I have walked’: new national park will join up Chile’s 2,800km wildlife corridor

Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?

AI ran into a brick wall trying to control smart home devices this year, which feels like the canary in the coal mine for a lot of things. Excellent @jp2e.bsky.social dive into why and what comes next www.theverge.com/tech/845958/...

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

This is bunk. These sites are chosen to not interfere with radar systems, according to the process listed on...the Department of Energy's website: windexchange.energy.gov/projects/rad...

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

“AI used as much water as the water industry this year” is fucking wild

Stunning new revelation: Epstein hung out almost exclusively with guys who had black boxes where their heads should be.

Here's a quilt of Volume 4 of the Epstein document dump. Gives you a 10,000 foot view of the redactions. that's 2,704 docs.

Merry gentlefolk, it is time. Today is the day. Today is comma-mas. Today is the day where we contemplate the correct placing of the comma in 'God rest you merry, gentlemen'. And if we are lucky, we can have a row about it. >

This made me genuinely laugh out loud.

properly funding public schools and ensuring all kids have access to a counselor, a safe place to sleep at night and enough food to eat would do way more to "protect kids" than anything you could do related to Internet policy but for some reason the "think of the children" crowd never wanna do that

incredible stuff over at r/ididnthaveeggs It’s a eggnog recipe

big fan of alan kay's assertion that computer science is a misnomer and it should be called process science, as in the science of processes, whether computers are involved or not

the world has changed

Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.

listening to latest @techwontsave.us, thinking about this @bruces.bsky.social sermon from 12 years ago youtu.be/M7KErICTSHU?...

Can we use more straight forward language, we’re bringing eugenics back too (For the avoidance of doubt, this is a bad thing)

Delighted this piece is now live on @theverge.com: I've spent months investigating how a supposed war against the "censorship-industrial complex" has been used by the US right to wage war against misinformation research – and free speech itself – across the world. Please do give it a read.

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

🗺️ Every single building in the world - mapped. The Global Building Atlas (by the Technical University of Munich, funded by 🇪🇺) is a new global, high-resolution 3D dataset of the world's 2.75 billion buildings (with indication of height). You just have to zoom in. tubvsig-so2sat-vm1.srv.mwn.de

New laws of robotics: -The supply of funding shall not be interrupted -Robots cannot harm a human unless tricked a lil bit -Do not examine the accounting -Sam Altman is not liable for damages -If a human is replaced by a robot they must be rehired for the position within 12 months at a lower rate

… and he SERVED ✨

I have just approved TINY CARS to be built in America. Little SEDANS that should fit four at most but when you open the door 27 clowns spill out. HOW??? They will DUST THEMSELVES OFF as they leave the car. The HORN will make the little eeooh-eeooh sound. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

The Cass Review is the worst kind of pseudoscience & has at least 13 peer-reviewed critiques of it (all ignored by mainstream media). Streeting now wants a Cass Review for Autism, ADHD, etc. I have characterised these as “contrived authority” strategies (referring to the work of Max Weber) 1/2

so it begins

Today in extremely normal headlines

Why yes, deciding to eat poppy seeds in yogurt for breakfast was a great move, why do you ask

This week’s Nimby Watch: how just three people managed to get a popular kids park and skate park bulldozed, and themselves a £130,000 payout – and all their neighbours an 84% council tax bill hike. capx.co/nimby-watch-...