This is WILD. Power goes out in San Francisco and the robot cars, needing the lights to "self" drive, all stop at once, blocking streets and emergency vehicles - which are needed more than ever in a black out! We knew AI causes power outages. Turns out it also makes them worse by being stupid.

The head of Amazon Web Services has big plans to offer AI tools to businesses but says that replacing coders with AI is “a nonstarter for anyone who’s trying to build a long-term company.”

Hè, waarom moeten Wilders en Leon de Winter helemaal naar Texas toe?

Come on, we all know the Southern Hemisphere is a myth, Australia is in the San Fernando Valley, New Zealand is Peter Jackson' yacht with VFX artists chained below decks, Africa and South America are how Big Cartography sell maps to gullible chumps, and Antarctica is just a Beer Cave in Minnesota

Had to check if this was real and sorry for sharing here but this is the most fucked up country. These are official government accounts. Holy freaking hell.

Wishing y’all a mellow Winter Solstice. Found elsewhere, sharing here

Every democracy-loving American should be out protesting #ICE like the good folks of Minneapolis. This holiday season, take time to talk to your friends & family about what's going on so that no American can claim ignorance. If they don't believe #ICELawlessness, ask them what if questions.

This feels like three lives ago: the Christmas tree in Kyiv shone so brightly in 2021. Terrorussia may cut the lights in our homes, but the real source of light and power in Ukraine remains our people. #makerussiapay Photo Krasen Kyiv twitter.

I will keep saying this. If you bought a calculator and it EVEN ONCE told you 2+2=5, you’d throw it out and demand a refund. If you had an employee who lied confidently to you, and was easily caught, you’d fire them. LLMs are the untrustworthy calculator and the confident liar. Fire them.

The plagiarism-droid just wants to please you, and it will do that by inventing citations, which you will love because of confirmation bias. It's not a literature review if you haven't reviewed the fucking literature. Jeez...

Pennsylvania Supreme Court rules that the police don’t need a search warrant to request your Google search records because “it is common knowledge that websites, internet-based applications, and internet service providers collect, and then sell, user data.” 🤦🏾‍♂️

I don’t know how anyone can still talk about “the AI revolution” with a straight face. Reuters story about a railroad company that has sunk $300,000 into “developing AI products” and appears to have made…a chatbot that doesn’t work? archive.is/2025.12.17-0...

Your annual reminder that if you get this cracker joke and are confused by it, it's apparently because "ffi" is a special character in some fonts and when the typeface is changed to one that doesn't have it, those letters disappear. It's supposed to be "coffin medicine".

🐌Hurrah for Sunday Snailday & a local folk custom is to make a fruit cake at dusk on the winter solstice - before the cake leaves the oven, open & then firmly close the house door - the dark is now shut out, all inside is warmth & light & merriment, & that is the wish for all...

The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.

Merry solstice!

"I think refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future than the one that is telling us that the future is already settled and decided. That's my daring idea. Just say no."

The russian fascist invaders attacked across the border between Bilhorod region (RU) and Sumy region (UA), entering the village of Hrabovs'ke and hamlet of Vysoke.

"I find it hard to see NATO as an enemy," Putin stated in March 2000. At the beginning of his rule, Putin followed a pro-Western course and did not rule out Russia joining NATO. Today, NATO believes that Russia could be ready for a direct attack on Alliance countries within the next five years.

One thing about mad shit like this is, the Telegraph Ukraine podcast is reminding its listeners each day that the EU is the organisation keeping Ukraine's lights on, financially and increasingly militarily, while the US has casually thrown it under the bus.

Hallo neonazi's

Global battery storage deployment is accelerating, led by China and US. Cost of batteries fell 90% in last 15 years. BloombergNEF: cumulative energy storage capacity in 2035 to reach 2 terawatts, eight times higher than the level in 2025. oilprice.com/Energy/Energ...

Europe has faced withering attacks from U.S. President Donald Trump and tirades from X owner Elon Musk. But pro-EU memes are flowing thicker and faster than ever online. 🔗 politi.co/48UVziD 

Solar energy has now reached the point that economies that don’t have solar roofing on all new builds are heading towards failure. www.cnn.com/2024/11/18/c...

For #CrochetAway Julia Hart patterns from Ravelry. These went in family Christmas cards this year. 🧶

“I love my country enough to risk its wrath by drawing attention to the negative things we don't always want to see. And that can be risky and you have to pay for that.” Martin Sheen 🇺🇸 (born Ramón Estévez) Son of immigrants Spanish father/Irish mother Lithuania is Europe 🇪🇺 #DEFENDDEMOCRACY 4/5🧵

Cycling is changing at speed – but is Britain keeping pace?

"U.S. intelligence reports continue to warn that Russian President Putin has not abandoned his aims of capturing all of Ukraine and reclaiming parts of Europe that belonged to the former Soviet empire." @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on. This is your democracy. Hungary is Europe 🇪🇺 #DEFENDDEMOCRACY 3/5🧵

How awesome! [And please can this still be here till the 23rd.]

Continuous resistance, day 3️⃣8️⃣8️⃣ A rally from Tbilisi concert hall towards the parliament - day 388 of continuous resistance. Find a rally in your city or start one! Let's show we state united against tyranny & aggression! We are Europe🇪🇺 #StandWithGeorgia #StandWithUkraine #StandUpForDemocracy 2/5🧵

WHERE ARE THE PEOPLE!? Where is Congress? Where are they? I want to film this for my kids & my grandkids. I want them to see the day democracy died in Washington, D.C. Even George is upset 🦮 & we should all be shocked! No one is here to say this is wrong! I was born here. I'm Andrew Howard. 1/5🧵

Russian tanks with shipping containers mounted on their roofs.

"This year, renewables surpassed coal as a source of electricity worldwide, and solar and wind energy grew fast enough to cover the entire increase in global electricity use from January to June" www.science.org/content/arti...

One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.

Poorest Britons lose right to financial privacy. The Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 empowers the state to 24/7 snoop on the bank accounts of recipients of universal credit; employment and support allowance; state pension credit. No court order needed. No right of appeal.

To err on the cautious side...

It's almost as if people have contrived to turn immigration into an obsession

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?

Extremely evocative of stealing jpgs from the NFT people

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

we need more like this

““Female bodies were currency.” Let that one sink in.”

genAI is STOLEN WORK. Using genAI in *any* capacity is trafficking in stolen work, supporting the plunder. Period. These facts aren't even denied by the AI companies, they just find ways to make that plunder seem benevolent. Using their product enables that lie. Stop enabling the theft of our work.

"This is a story about money, leverage, bribery, and access — and how a collapsing Trump empire just stumbled into the most lucrative geopolitical choke point of the next century. Six billion dollars. That’s the price tag on the surprise merger between Trump Media & Technology Group"

An old TTC ad from a while back

The longest night is almost over. Newgrange Winter Solstice live stream stats in five minutes here: www.youtube.com/live/lRgumO6...

21 December 1932 | A French Jewish boy, Samuel Goysenstein, was born in #Hayange. During the war, he lived in Paris. He was deported from #Drancy to #Auschwitz where on 16 August 1942, he was murdered in a gas chamber.

Frida Hansen (1855-1931), Norwegian textile artist in the Art Nouveau style, known for her tapestry work #WomensArt #Solstice