WTAF Microsoft? Teams is your core chat app. And on mobile I can't share a link to a chat? Fuck off.

If the tight-knit Western military industrial complex and the associated Palantir-broligarchy, and the #israeli government they're helping to murder children and everyone else in #gaza, are allowed to just soldier on into the future without consequences; then we are stepping through a doorway […]

AI apparently DOES have some valid use cases after all.😆 https://abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pentagon-unveils-new-genai-platform-it-immediately-starts-flagging-pete-hegseths-war-crimes/ #ai #dod #warcrimes

Few times recently as I've come into younger son's room he's quickly closed a window on the PC. Fuck, I thought. Hope it's just porn, not some incel manosphere bullshit. He was too slow today and I saw what he's been watching - OBS optimisation YouTubes. Lil dude's just real self conscious […]

And isn't it ironic It's like a million CR2032s when all you need is a CR2025

Yo #ttrpg fedi, I'm after a one-shot scenario I can adapt into my #morkcyborg campaign, where there's between a 2:1 and 3:1 ratio of negotiating/sleuthing/npc-wrangling to combat (i.e., roleplying-heavy, combat-light, but still satisfies the murder-hobos in my group) ideally a morkborg or other […]

Elon Musk and X are once again proving why institutions should never rely on corporate-owned, centrally-controlled social media platforms to reach their people. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0589g0dqq7o

Today we are calling on institutions around the world to take control of their #digitalsovereignty, including their social accounts. Governments should communicate directly with their citizens on open platforms, not through the mouthpiece of a corporation […]

Me this morning: "damn, it's super dumb and annoying that SMS group chats can't be renamed. I'm gonna mix these two up..." Me at 10:15pm: "d'oh. Fuck!"

because i’ve seen some people posting clips from the lex fridmann interview with #Telegram CEO #PavelDurov where Durov explains why the #EU is falling apart i thought I would take a moment to share a meme reminding everyone who Pavel Durov is #eupol […] [Original post on universeodon.com]

evegreen #auspol

The two relics of exploding stars are black holes and neutron stars. Both were discovered by women. Jocelyn Bell discovered neutron stars, in the guise of “pulsars”, in 1967. Since then, three Nobel prizes have gone to male scientists for their work on pulsars, but none to Bell. Louise Webster […]

"Nuclear energy is still regarded with skepticism. But nuclear power’s critics wildly overstate its dangers, and preserving and expanding this energy source is essential to a just green transition." Matt Huber makes an excellent case from a socialist perspective […]

It is really very simple. Putin does not fear NATO (he has lived with it in Turkey for decades and knows that it is a purely defensive alliance), he hates the EU for spreading the idea of democracy and the rule of law (even if imperfectly) Silicon valley hates the EU for attempting to regulate […]

“It’s no use lassie, she won’t fuse” “What now?” “I’ve one more trick. Fetch me the yellow spray can from locker 12C” “Found it! What on Risa is ‘Warp ya Bastard’?” “I’ll swear ye to secrecy but it’s a suspension of Antidilithium in usquebaugh. Banned by spacefleet; shows what those big […]

Boomer mum went to sleep last night jetlagged after long flight, surfaced briefly this morning then we've back to bed. Me: *nok nok* you ok BM: Urgh, umm, come in so we can talk properly Me: *enters stuffy bedroom she's been sleeping in for 20 hours* how you doing? BM: Urgh, got flu, vomiting […]

I’m always amused when movies set in the present day have scene with a crowd of press photographers and use the whirring of 35mm film motor drives as a sound effect.

#frankgehry, Titan of #architecture, Has Died at 96 He burst onto the scene with an attention-getting renovation of his Southern California home before going on to design some of the world’s most recognizable buildings. #art […]

Who will be the lucky xmas recipient of this cursed off-brand card game

apes that see people's faces in the clouds and gods in the night sky and volcanoes should never have been trusted with talking sand

So close to a useful suggestion for the next word Gboard. So close.

DHS Tells Citizens to Report Illegal Neighbors to Get Affordable Housing The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has publicly encouraged citizens to report migrants without legal status in their area, framing the action as a potential pathway to more affordable housing […]

Came across an interesting term today, which neatly describes MAGA leadership and the faux populists who are attracted to this clique. Conflict entrepreneurs.

I retired from teaching 18 months ago, in part because it was becoming clear to me that the "AI" industry was undermining education in profound ways. This essay makes a convincing case that LLMs are a plague on learning -- and, not incidentally, higher education […]

this is the future they took from you

Seems worthy of some consideration.

So. AI, in its current form as a marketing term for LLMs and generative AI images, simply doesn't work. That's well established by now, and is the understanding that's consistent with theory a priori anyway. But there's another aspect to AI boosterism that gets to me. Even if AI *did* work […]

Technopoly:

@foosel @yournameisinvalid at some point I fully expect systems that actually support UTF to just fill question marks here and there because some LLM learned on broken encoding and made the connections that names should have question marks in it 🤣

You know what almost never has a kettle plug these days? Kettles.

Brexit robbed young people of countless opportunities - rejoining Erasmus is the right step to undo some of the damage. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/dec/01/uk-agreement-rejoin-erasmus-eu-student-exchange-scheme-brexit?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

The seminal paper that has been used for 25 years to justify that the use of #Glyphosate is safe has been retracted. RETRACTED: Safety Evaluation and Risk Assessment of the Herbicide Roundup and Its Active Ingredient, Glyphosate, for Humans www.sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Data centres planned in NSW alone will need enough power for 1m homes www.afr.com/policy/energ...

JFC!

Several Australian retailers have kept facial recognition technology (FRT) on despite the Australian Privacy Commissioner ruling Kmart and Bunnings’s use of the technology illegal, sparking concerns from computer scientists, unions and privacy advocates ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...

honestly shocked at the lack of wagon-circling around hegseth, though considering trump staffs his cabinet exclusively with rats duct-taped to kitchen knives I suppose it was inevitable they’d lunge at the first whiff of blood

More and more people are saying the solution to most of these problems is socialism

the rebellion will be tone policed

Die Glasmanufaktur Brandenburg, der letzte größere Hersteller von Solarglas in Europa schließt. 220 Menschen verlieren ihren Arbeitsplatz. https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/eu-verliert-letzten-groesseren-solarglas-hersteller-beschaeftigte-der-glasmanufaktur-brandenburg-pro-100.html

These people expected wind farms to cause a blackout every month but that did not happen, so they need something else to get extremely publicly excited about Seems like pouring a firehose of public cash into private corporations so they can run coal plants for extra decades does the trick --->>

Last #xmas with both kids at home. December 1st means tree up in this household. This year's bauble is a felt platypus with a festive scarf.

Doomering is just surrender. That brighter future, that light at the end of the tunnel, it doesn’t just HAPPEN. It’s fought for. Doomerism is just taking the easy way out and saying “what can be done?” Non-doomerism is saying “we may fail, but at least push for something better.”

The city of Lismore has a roundabout where each year they erect the municipal Xmas tree, and for the last ten years it's been made of a different recycled/reclaimed material each time. Xmas 2025 is bin lids, for a somewhat Rastafari effect.

I told my daughter that there are parts of the internet that will buy any old shit as long as there a cat or a reference to coffee on it, and she understood the assignment. https://monad.teemill.com/product/coffee-cats-womens/

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