fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US

WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS

“One of our goals was to publish this huge database of African genomes. This resource would be avail to thousands of biomedical researchers in the US &globally. Now I don’t have money to pay to host the data or run an analysis.I have 200 terabytes of data that’s just sitting on a server in Quebec.”🧪

Flip both houses of Congress so we can defund ICE please.

Good. You're going to win. Be patient.

an annoying thing about realists insisting they're the no-nonsense reality-based group is that few of their predictions have been based in reality

India taking the lead in fighting child porn *even* if its distributed by billionaires which is considered a mitigating factor in the US and EU

Anti dei is just resegregation. Who knew

This is the "testing the waters" phase of the playbook. The GOP ecosystem targets groups like Somalis, Haitians, and trans people specifically because they've calculated that the average person's passive disapproval won't ever turn into active defense. They're exploiting public apathy.

uh holy SHIT?

How I mostly feel about podcasts

i think we killed their servers, email verification seems to be down, great work I'll try again tomorrow

Kevin Drum was the first journalist to really get into the ties between lead and crime rates (not just serial killers) and I think it is one of the most important articles we’ve ever done www.motherjones.com/environment/...

As of today, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library are open access. 🎉 @acm.org www.acm.org/publications...

Bougie. Yaaasssss

I’d read the fuck out of this op-ed

Lots of immigration is good. Lots if multiculturalism is good. Lots of free trade is good. (moderation in all things, including moderation)

Attacking a data center like it’s The Bastille, everyone fleeing with a bushels of RAM to desolder and resolder the chips. One peasant coded guy with a wheelbarrow of SFP+ modules. Manifesting this for 2026.

Still a few hours to go. 🤡 mashable.com/article/elon...

Happy New Year! 🎉 Walking into 2026 like Victor Laszlo ... 🗃️ #HATM www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOli...

Ah yes, the Dutch economic dialogue

A remarkable trend that will come as a shock to you if your only info about NYC is from this Fox News. Homicides in NYC... 1990: 2,262 1993: 1,927 1998: 629 2001: 649 2013: 335 2019: 320 2021: 488 2024: 382 2025 (as of 12/28): 302

Even made it onto SportsCenter, too. What a wonderful way to kick the year off.

Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research. A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans. futurism.com/health-medic...

Getting to Net Zero is cheaper than letting the planet burn. Twice as cheap in fact. If we do nothing, climate change will cost us 15% of global GDP. Getting to Net Zero limits those costs to 7%.

“Win32/linux”: loss32.org

This man lived a long and fruitful life within an iron lung and some careless people visited him without masking, giving him covid. He was an author, a lawyer. He died. The most vulnerable should not be something you’re willing to sacrifice because you refuse to mask www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

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

This, mofo, this (I, too, had good friends whose startups would have gone belly up, so I feel the problem)

Russia wanting Ukraine to succeed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ-2...

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

US Dominance: 70% of ALL the data centers in the world are in one country. The state of Virginia alone has more compute than Western Europe. FT's big new piece on "The AI power crunch" is staggering. ig.ft.com/ai-power/ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I especially like number two.

If anything the crime has been underplayed. They knew these men were mostly innocent. They knew they’d be tortured. They sent them to CECOT not out of recklessness but because they thought it would enjoyable for their supporters to see innocent Latinos tortured. An intentional crime of violence.

Hitler stan Stephen Miller has put the U.S. on an Economic suicide mission: “Immigrants are far more likely than U.S. citizens to start businesses; nearly half of this year’s Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or the children of immigrants.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/b...

This makes it seem like more people means more great things

The largest healthcare fraud in US history, according to DOJ, was perpetrated by Rick Scott of Florida. He was fined $1.7 billion, but escaped prison thanks to his powerful GOP connections within DOJ. Scott went on to become a leader in the Florida GOP and the state's senior senator.

Very, very close, definitely in the running

Go hard go correct

This was shared with me, and now I am sharing it with you. Merry Christmas! youtu.be/uMoql_RYVBQ

International capitalism, friends

It has always struck me that, despite the fact that it is allegedly anonymous money with no chargebacks, the pornography industry has barely shown any interest in crypto, which really impressed me what a dire payment system it must be.

There's a disconnect between "We're going to build city-sized data centers in remote, rural areas of TX" and "ICE will round up construction workers by the thousands and the state will send troopers to racially profile South Texas drivers and scare everyone away from job sites." 1/3

even if the Supreme Court says we can never touch Trump for any of this shit, the next admin should go after everyone involved in buying and selling pardons and they should do it loudly and aggressively

True

Italian Senate approves Meloni government's reform of the Italian Court of Auditors. The reform weakens the Court's powers to verify the legitimacy of public spending and reduces the penalties for public administrators who misspend public funds.

🇨🇦 🇺🇦Canada will provide Ukraine 2.5 billion Canadian dollars - funds intended to unlock financing from the IMF, World Bank, and EBRD to begin the reconstruction process. This was announced by Prime Minister Carney. He also condemned Russia’s overnight attack on Kyiv. Thank you Canada ❤️

Happy 14th anniversary to this youtube video