some good climate/energy news: * 96% of new US power capacity was carbon-free in 2024 (56 gigawatts!) * 2025 included the first month ever when 51% of power on the U.S. grid was carbon-free * The golbal trend is overwhelming: The world is now investing more $ in clean energy than fossil fuels

From the Hamill House to your's: MERRY CHRISTMAS !!! 🎅 🎁 ☃️ 🎄 ❄️ ⛄ 🤶

I can't overstate how much I love this video. Doomerism is the enemy of progress. Documenting how things actually improved is crucial if you want to keep making incremental progress. @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social youtu.be/3eDqC87zpXU?...

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

This struck me too. As Anne Applebaum doesn’t mention, she wrote a classic history of the Gulag.

Breakthrough of the year? Renewable energy www.science.org/content/arti...

You don’t need the cloud to build useful agents. This cookbook shows how to run an agent fully offline: • local LLM (via Ollama) • local Python tools • read + write files on your machine Privacy-first by default. See the walkthrough: link.mozilla.ai/any-agent-lo...

Steam Winter Sale is live with Steam Awards 2025 open for voting #Steam #OnSale #PCGaming #Linux #SteamDeck

"free speech warriors"

Unite the divided - One more time! For a limited time, enjoy 60% off DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT as part of the Steam Winter Sale. This discount also applies to those upgrading from the base game. ❤️ https://505.games/DSDCSteamWinter25 #DeathStrandingDCPC #505Games

Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?

In English we know it as “Carol of the Bells,” but the melody arises from a Ukrainian folk tradition of songs welcoming the new year and summoning the forces of nature to meet human labor and bring prosperity. Do listen. I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...

Chief of Ukrainian Defense Intelligence Kyrylo Budanov:Russia is preparing to occupy the Baltics,accelerating its aggression plans to2027Russia views the Baltic states as a target for occupation,while Poland,under current plans,is considered a target for strikes without a full-scale takeover,he said

2 GPUs 1 Pi What I found surprised me. This isn't as insane as you think it is... youtube.com/watch?v=8X2Y...

Tapper: This is one of the documents the DOJ released. It’s 100 pages. It’s all black. That’s the transparency we’re getting.

Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.

Valve discontinuing the last Steam Deck LCD model #SteamDeckLCD #SteamDeck #SteamOS

In the 12th report in The Atlantic Council's (@atlanticcouncil.bsky.social) Russia Tomorrow series (Casey Mchel @cjcmichel.bsky.social deconstructs the myths and narratives the Kremlin has used to justify its illegal war of aggression against Ukraine. www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-seri...

If Ukrainian forces withdraw from certain areas, what prevents Russia from moving into the newly vacated territory under whatever pretense they come up with? … No Western army is going to storm a town in eastern Ukraine to evict Russian troops after the fact. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

These are our most impressive institutions and crucial for our survival as a people and a species.

GPT-5.2-Codex - SOTA in agentic cording - improved Windows support - improved vision - emphasis on cybersecurity openai.com/index/introd...

You voted - here are the winners 🏆 Find out if your favorite game took home a trophy in the PlayStation Blog Game of Year Awards: play.st/4pLqeGn

Big flashing warning sign right here: US spending on video game consoles fell 27% last month, marking the worst November in two decades as tariffs and rising component costs pushed prices to record highs. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 420 - December 14h, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

p.s. The Guardian's other Best Books of 2025 are here: www.theguardian.com/culture/ng-interactive/2025/dec/06/the-best-books-of-2025 p.p.s They also have three exclusive prints of my cartoons available here: www.guardianprintshop.com/pages/tom-gaulds-best-cultural-cartoons-of-2025

'My year end reading statistics' (originally for @theguardian.com books). p.s There's still time to pick up new book Physics for Cats at good bookshops and online www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

Here's my article on Gemini 3 Flash, with four pelicans (one for each of its thinking effort levels) plus an image gallery Web Component that I had Gemini 3 Flash build specially for this post simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/17/...

Microsoft has added two Fallout-themed Dynamic Backgrounds for Xbox Series S / X owners

Ever thought about writing #WebAssembly by hand? 🤔 Authors Patrick @dubroy.com and @marianoguerra.org think it's crucial for learning. They join #WasmAssembly host Thomas Steiner to discuss their ebook, "WebAssembly from the Ground Up" → goo.gle/3Ln67Pp

Per your request, please find enclosed…a new blog post! A WebAssembly interpreter (Part 1) → wasmgroundup.com/blog/wasm-vm... We build up a simple interpreter from scratch, in JavaScript, for a small subset of Wasm instructions (arithmetic and comparison).

If you're into compilers or interested in low-level programming, don't miss @matt.godbolt.org's Advent of Compiler Optimizations! I've learned a few new things every day…Saturday's post was no exception: xania.org/202512/06-di...

Are you sad that Advent of Code is already over, and looking for a new challenge to close out the year? Why not learn some #Wasm? Until Jan 7, you can get our book for 25% off! Just head to wasmgroundup.com and use the code HOLIDAY25.

Turns out my article on drones in Ukraine is ECFR’s most read commentary this year. Isn’t this nice! ecfr.eu/article/dron...

🤪 React Blender A custom reconcilier that translates React operations into Python commands to communicate with the Blender API. romanliutikov.com/blog/driving...

It's like on the eve of WWII we decided to stop funding R&D into weapons systems to develop advanced aircraft, ships, and tanks. Climate change is going to kick our butts if we lose NCAR (and NOAA) at a time when climate change is increasing extreme weather events capable of crashing the economy.

NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food. Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.

We now have access to AMD FSR Machine Learning Frame Generation in numerous titles, upgrading frame generation quality on RDNA 4 GPUs. Although it is higher quality, the frame-pacing still proves very problematic putting the whole feature in question. Find out in my video! youtu.be/n7bud6P4ugw

With the release of #GodotEngine 4.6 Inverse Kinematics (IK) have returned to Godot in a big way! No clue what IK or FK even are? Don't worry, we got you covered there too! gamefromscratch.com/inverse-kine... #gamedev #indiedev

My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :) www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap... I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".

Another look into PostgreSQL CTE materialization and non-idempotent subqueries www.shayon.dev/post/2025/12...

This blog deserves traction - are modern graphics APIs no longer reflecting the real HW underneath? Certain assumptions and hardware limitations shaped Vulkan, DX12 and Metal and 10+ years later are seeing the long term debt of that legacy. A very convincing read and idea by Sebbi here! DX13 plz🫠

It's time for the #UnrealEngine Fab #gamedev asset giveaway. 3 Free Unreal Assets + 1 #Unity3d (and FBX/OBJ so #GodotEngine, etc). Plus, a very nice bonus item for the holidays! gamefromscratch.com/unreal-engin...

New realistic 3D environment #UnrealEngine bundle from Scansmatter. Will hopefully have a video up tomorrow in the meanwhile here's the bundle link. Using this link helps support GFS: humblebundleinc.sjv.io/4G3GXo #gamedev #indiedev

Hot take with initial analysis - Ukrainian strike on Novorossiysk www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B1W...

Low-res SAR (syntrhetic appature radar) satelite image of Novorossiysk, taken 2025-12-15 15:18Z The location of the attacked submarine is (A). It's not possible at this reslution to determine damage. Note that the entrance (B) is closed. This image is after the attack, when the entrance was open

Because it's never been about "jobs jobs jobs." It's always been about power, and maintaining a class system between individuals and between nation-states.

This is what one of DTEK's Odesa region substations looks like after russian shelling. An attack on energy infrastructure is an attack on homes, hospitals, schools, and the normal lives of thousands of people. Help prevent this: u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...