Portentious
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Hi friends, you may know me from my previous incantations as owning my own business, maps, GIS, tech, strategy, IT, green stuff and renewable energy. Glad to see familiar folk here! :)
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Naomi Klein
about 5 hours ago
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.
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WIRED
about 3 hours ago
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.”
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AWS CEO Matt Garman Doesn’t Think AI Should Replace Junior Devs
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.”
https://wrd.cm/49jiWU9
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Lotfi El Hamidi
about 5 hours ago
Hè, waarom moeten Wilders en Leon de Winter helemaal naar Texas toe?
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John Scalzi
about 4 hours ago
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
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Tom Flood
about 4 hours ago
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.
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Rev Abuelite Héctor Octavio [con acento] says it’s TamalesSeason
about 8 hours ago
Wishing y’all a mellow Winter Solstice. Found elsewhere, sharing here
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny!
about 6 hours ago
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
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Olena Halushka
about 5 hours ago
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.
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David Avallone
about 6 hours ago
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.
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Tade Thompson
about 6 hours ago
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...
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Dare Obasanjo
3 days ago
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.” 🤦🏾♂️
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Pa. high court rules that police can access Google searches without a warrant
In a decision that only affects Pennsylvanians but could have privacy implications elsewhere, the state's Supreme Court ruled that police did not need a warrant to access a rape suspect's Google searc...
https://therecord.media/google-searches-police-access-without-warrant-pennsylvania-court-ruling
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Ed Zitron
about 21 hours ago
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?
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Jamie McKelvie
about 9 hours ago
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".
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Jollytoadstool
about 8 hours ago
🐌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...
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Matthew Guariglia
about 10 hours ago
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.
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Michael Sheen spent his own money to write off $1.3 million of neighbors’ debts | CNN
Actor Michael Sheen has bought $1.3 million of his neighbors’ debts and written them off using $129,000 of his own money.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/10/entertainment/michael-sheen-write-off-neighbors-debts-intl-scli-gbr
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Leon Simons
about 11 hours ago
Merry solstice!
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Ian Carrillo
about 9 hours ago
"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."
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Dr. Michael MacKay
about 8 hours ago
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.
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Anton Gerashchenko
about 8 hours ago
"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.
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R Phelps
about 12 hours ago
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.
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Levi
about 12 hours ago
Hallo neonazi's
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Dr Paul Dorfman
about 16 hours ago
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.
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The Battery Boom Is Reshaping Power Markets | OilPrice.com
Utility-scale battery storage is expanding rapidly worldwide as falling costs and renewable growth drive investment, though uneven adoption threatens to slow the global energy transition.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Battery-Boom-Is-Reshaping-Power-Markets.html
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POLITICO Europe
about 12 hours ago
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
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Head Like A Hat
about 13 hours ago
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...
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China is racing towards a future powered by wind and solar | CNN
China is installing wind and solar power projects faster than any other country on the planet. As President-elect Donald Trump is likely to roll back on the US’ role as a global climate leader, expert...
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/18/climate/climate-china-solar-wind-dg
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Donna Williams More
about 13 hours ago
For
#CrochetAway
Julia Hart patterns from Ravelry. These went in family Christmas cards this year. 🧶
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Nicky Schwenzer
about 14 hours ago
“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
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The Guardian
about 14 hours ago
Cycling is changing at speed – but is Britain keeping pace?
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Cycling is changing at speed – but is Britain keeping pace?
Emulating the bike-friendly highways enjoyed by our continental neighbours will take a lot more money and political will
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/dec/21/cycling-changing-at-speed-britain-keeping-pace?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1766312581
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Christian Thiels
about 16 hours ago
"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
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US intelligence indicates Putin's war aims in Ukraine are unchanged
The reports present a starkly different picture from that portrayed by the U.S.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-intelligence-indicates-putins-war-aims-ukraine-are-unchanged-2025-12-19/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=694754cd12b0720001eb7961&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Nicky Schwenzer
about 14 hours ago
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
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Frostbitten Flamingo
about 15 hours ago
How awesome! [And please can this still be here till the 23rd.]
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Nicky Schwenzer
about 15 hours ago
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
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Nicky Schwenzer
about 15 hours ago
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🧵
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Anton Gerashchenko
about 15 hours ago
Russian tanks with shipping containers mounted on their roofs.
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Dr Karl Kruszelnicki
2 days ago
"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"
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Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy
Clean energy infrastructure is being deployed with unmatched scale and speed—and China is leading the way
https://www.science.org/content/article/breakthrough-2025?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ScienceAdviser&utm_content=distillation&et_rid=61392597&et_cid=5826447
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derek guy
about 17 hours ago
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.
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Prem Sikka
about 15 hours ago
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.
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Guido Eekhaut
about 16 hours ago
To err on the cautious side...
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Sathnam Sanghera
about 15 hours ago
It's almost as if people have contrived to turn immigration into an obsession
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You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
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Ketan Joshi
about 16 hours ago
Extremely evocative of stealing jpgs from the NFT people
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Durrell
1 day ago
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
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Glyn Moody
about 16 hours ago
we need more like this
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Rima I Anabtawi
about 18 hours ago
““Female bodies were currency.” Let that one sink in.”
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Daniel José Older
1 day ago
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.
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Benjamin Husstad-Nedberg
about 16 hours ago
"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"
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Mech0T1 💦🥩
about 23 hours ago
An old TTC ad from a while back
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Chris Baraniuk
about 16 hours ago
The longest night is almost over. Newgrange Winter Solstice live stream stats in five minutes here:
www.youtube.com/live/lRgumO6...
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Winter Solstice Live Streaming - 21 December 2025
YouTube video by Office of Public Works
https://www.youtube.com/live/lRgumO6vzu8?si=CHals0BvTfs97a5d
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Auschwitz Memorial
about 19 hours ago
21 December 1932 | A French Jewish boy, Samuel Goysenstein, was born in
#Hayange
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#Drancy
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#Auschwitz
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about 16 hours ago
Frida Hansen (1855-1931), Norwegian textile artist in the Art Nouveau style, known for her tapestry work
#WomensArt
#Solstice
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