“Best wishes for an exciting 2026, but remember to keep that excitement out of your investing. Boring, and as low cost as possible, is best.” By ALLAN ROTH

When Code Actually Behaves🤣 #debugging #Softwaredevelopment #Developerlife #testing #Codequality https://programmerhumor.io/debugging-memes/when-code-actually-behaves-ruuh

“This has been a long time coming. This shift caps five years of sometimes-fierce debate over whether the memory-safe language belonged alongside C at the heart of the world’s most widely deployed open source operating system.” @sjvn.bsky.social

“Michele Bovino, 43, filed documents indicating his interest in becoming an American. Three years later, records show, the chain migration of the Bovinos took place.” By Dan Mihalopoulos | WBEZ and Lauren FitzPatrick

“Investors have a fundamental right to understand what they pay for investment management. The acquired fund fees and expenses line item exists precisely because layered investment structures can obscure true costs.” By JAMES LOCKE

A history of bubbles, of which the Tulip “Mania” was not one; the first tech bubble, which didn’t occur during the current or the last century, the relationship between market and fraud cycles, and much more! @RickFerri with Jamie Catherwood of the blog Investor Amnesia

“COMIC: Male cells must survive twisty passages, strong currents and immune attacks; millions enter, but only one can finish” By Amber Dance Illustrated by Maki Naro

“Animals take one of two routes with their offspring: They either have many and invest little in each, or they have few and invest significant energy caring for each. Humans fall into the latter category.” @aylinwoodward.bsky.social

“The new findings do more than clarify who is fixing carbon at depth. They also provide fresh insight into how the deep ocean's food web is structured and sustained.” @sciencedaily.com.web.brid.gy

“What’s happening across Sub-Saharan Africa right now is the most ambitious infrastructure project in human history... It’s being built by startups selling solar panels to farmers on payment plans. And it’s working.” @skandergarroum.bsky.social

“… despite some clever sales tactics, Tesla hasn’t been able to sell as many as it had once estimated — 500,000 a year — and has had to wind down its production.” @rani.bsky.social

“The psychological euphoria of complaining is freeing because it temporarily suspends your accountability. But eventually your mind becomes incapable of holding the weight of accountability that, ultimately, only you can hold. In order to hold it, you have to rewire your brain.” By KYLE HARRISON

“What’s driving silver’s upside explosion? A mix of factors, according to analysts, including stockpiling related to the growing demand for the metal in electronics, alternative energy applications, electric vehicles and artificial intelligence and data centers.” By James Picerno

“The medium or process of our time is money. Money is reshaping patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is the medium through which we think, speak, and belong. It is reflected in the language we use…” By Shreyas Hariharan

Randy Fine is the American version of Itamar Ben Gvir. A truly despicable and sick human being who doesn’t belong in elective office.

Bucs WR Mike Evans is off Injured Reserve and has been activated to play Thursday. So has WR Jalen McMillan. A big-time health update for Tampa Bay.

The book 'Frictionless' by Nicole Forsgren and Abi Noda is out - read two full chapters and the story behind (re)writing this book in today"s issue: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/frictionle...

kids should ban parents’ social media use.

“In this conversation with Mishal Husain, Rushdie talks about free speech, the family connection they both share and the places he’s called home, from India to Britain and the US.”

💰 Personal finance links: overseas housing unaffordability, three rules for gift giving, and how to handle a bonus at work. abnormalreturns.com/2025/12/10/p... image: www.pexels.com/photo/christ...

“In a region where gender-based violence remains pervasive, and where women’s labour, paid and unpaid, continues to be undervalued, the Kamla Bhasin Awards serve as both recognition and resistance. They honour ordinary citizens undertaking extraordinary work...” By Muhammad Junaid

When I post about RFK Jr. undermining vaccines, I’m noticing more and more comments saying things like “I am glad my state is part of a coalition that is not listening to him”. That’s great, but I ask you to bear in mind the following: 1. Pathogens don’t care about lines on a map

MacKenzie Scott has ramped up her charitable donations this year from $2.1B in 2023, $2.6B in 2024 to $7.1B in 2025, totaling $26.3B since 2019. I love that she just gives the money to charities without strings versus giving them conditions or establishing her own charity to work on pet projects.

🆓 Tuesday links: how to read a market strategist's report, how AI is boosting energy growth, and how sports betting puts leagues at risk. abnormalreturns.com/2025/12/09/t... image: www.capitalspectator.com/will-the-bon...

- Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, Afghanistan - Nayib Armando Bukele, El Salvador - John Lee, Hong Kong - Narendra Modi, India - Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel - Vladimir Putin, Russia - Samia Suluhu Hassan, Tanzania - Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey - Donald Trump, USA

Question. Like it or not, we are entering a world where computer systems are not fully deterministic. AI components are here to stay, and they're all probabilistic in nature. A lot of our practices, however, assume determinism. 1/3

The Nasdaq 100 has just 5 down years since 1995 Remarkably every one of those losses has been 30% or worse 2000: -36.1% 2001: -33.3% 2002: -37.4% 2008: -41.7% 2022: -32.4% awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/12/the-...

“Enter Spring AI and LangChain4j — two frameworks that bring LLMs (Large Language Models) into the Java ecosystem... I’ve spent the last few months exploring both, and here’s my deep dive into how they compare, when to use each, and how they can coexist.”

The creators of Mint have ensured that anyone can use the distro not just as an introduction to Linux, but as a full-time operating system.

🆓 Sunday links: the link between hedging and speculation, the common thread among degeneracy, and why Americans are tired of the news. abnormalreturns.com/2025/12/07/s... image: sherwood.news/markets/tech...

Seeing family for the holidays? Remember to help your loved ones install Privacy Badger to stop online trackers from following them around the web. privacybadger.org

The most depressing lesson of the Trump era is that scandals don’t matter if the perpetrator and their supporters don’t feel shame. Shamelessness is now a political superpower.

“People are feeling hopeful, and that’s a good thing” Can GLP-1 drugs help cut cravings for cigarettes, alcohol, and opioids - as well as food? go.nature.com/4pXfhBf

Google's Antigravity beats VS Code at its own game #ai #code #editor #google #ide #microsoft #vscode www.xda-developers.com/...

Interesting take on how Microsoft employees are resentful of AI because they're forced to use Copilot but it doesn't make them more productive and AI teams are rewarded while everyone else gets scraps & layoffs. It even claims a team lost their PM to layoffs due to their lack of AI proficiency.

“To provision a private network, the users must (in AWS’ words): - Specify the target cloud service providers, - Select the destination region on the other side, - Pick the required bandwidth.” @joabj.bsky.social

“…the breakthrough came in the form of a comparatively innocuous dataset: centuries’ old trees in Spanish Pyrenees. Each ring in a tree trunk tells the story of a particular year. Many of the rings hinted at unusually cold and wet summers in 1345 to 1347.” By Andrew Paul, @popsci.com

“Eich drew from several influences: The syntax looked like a trendy new programming language called Java to satisfy Netscape management, but its guts borrowed concepts from Scheme, a language Eich admired, and Self, which contributed JavaScript’s prototype-based object model.” @benjedwards.com

“Before a hectoring military judge, Xu calmly and unapologetically explains his decision. It is striking evidence that he possessed moral courage, and was not merely someone who backed the wrong horse amid political confusion.” 🙏🏽

Holy shit this rules

““What is a hot take?” Kellerman asked while explaning what the issue is with First Take. “A hot take is a counterintuitive conclusion.” @jimmytraina.bsky.social

“Sarah Newcomb, Ph.D., is a behavioral economist for Morningstar… Sarah has expertise in consumer psychology, economic decision-making, personal money management, and cognitive and social psychology.”

“She defended herself against the challenges of her era in ever new ways – by trying to understand them. One must “be completely present,” Arendt believed. That is an extremely compelling attitude in a confusing world like today’s.” By Tobias Rapp

From @learnlinuxtv

‘The tools to imagine solutions’: Science educator inspires Pakistani children

I believe she’s also using tour profits to fund the Transgender Law Center, very much ok with Sabrina Carpenter right now

“While the choice of characteristics to define style and methods for defining crossover stocks differ, this methodology creates a problem: both value and growth indices end up holding stocks that are neither truly value nor truly growth.“ @larryswedroe

December 2, 1993: Gary Payton lobs to Shawn Kemp on back-to-back trips down the floor for the SuperSonics at Washington. Payton finished with 18 PTS/6 AST, Kemp scored 12 PTS, Kendall Gill scored 18 PTS and Detlef Schrempf added 17 PTS in Seattle's 105-95 win over the Bullets.

“Together, Lizza and Nuzzi are keeping the fire of their incinerated reputations going. Rarely has scandal looked so much like performance art.” @michellegoldberg.bsky.social

By Jim Dahle