36 years since the first international climate science report. 38 years since Dr. James Hansen warned congress. 60 years since President Johnson warned the public. 71 years since the fossil fuel industry knew. And existential heat-trapping pollution from fossil fuels is rising faster than ever. 💫

'We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.' www.marxists.org/archive/marx...

Fuck ICE

This image is from Birzeit University in the West Bank which was raided by Israel today using live ammunition and tear gas. Over 40 people were injured, mostly students. More than 8,000 students are trapped inside. But it’s controversial to talk about scholasticide.

Personally I think the problem is with the use of the term 'AI'. Probably better to use more specific terms so that computational researchers can be comfortable on here. Those that use LLMs for 'research' can get blocked, on the other hand.

'Vulkangruppe claimed that their action was "aimed at the common good" and was an "act of self-defense and international solidarity with all those who are defending the Earth and life".[22][19] Reporting in Der Tagesspiegel also associated the group's actions with an opposition to AI.[19]'

'Don't hate the player, hate the game' deployed with aplomb when it comes to the competition of profit-making, but completely reversed when it comes to the social institutions used by Trump.

Too many easily forget or ignore all of the Black organizers & activists from Ferguson who have been arrested, killed & "disappeared" over the years, not to mention the targeting of organizers around the Floyd protests & so many others. Even Black radicals who just help their commumities 👇

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He's a liar. He's not really going to eat you. 'He's not really going to eat you' is the new 'he's going to eat you'. He never said he was going to eat you. The eating of you is a metaphor for the pleasure he will give you. He only said it to invite investment in the country. The economy isn't edibl

Trump didn't do it for the oil. He did it to distract from the Epstein files. He did it to save the dollar. He did it because 'blood for oil' sounds cool. He did it to create macho 'war flavored' internet content. He did it because the oil companies didn't want the oil. He did it for my posts. He di

Colombian President Petro commenting on the US; “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil."

So you think you live in a liberal, constitutional democracy. If your government is not starting to prepare for war with the US today, it is naive. If it justifies the abduction, it is an auxiliary of fascism.

Glad we've got that cleared up.

Just finished watching 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised' (2003). Well worth it (it's easy to find as a torrent). m.imdb.com/title/tt0363...

Els gusanos que están celebrant a Sol el segrest de Maduro se'ls està quedant tremenda cara de votants del partit dels lleopards-menja-cares

Sounds like a grand scheme to me.

Again, an ideal moment to identify commitments and to unfollow as required.

"Mexico strongly condemns and rejects the military actions carried out unilaterally ... by armed forces of the United States of America against targets in the territory of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in clear violation of Article 2 of the [UN] Charter" www.gob.mx/sre/prensa/m...

Speaking of inexcusable: the EU out of the gate with a nonsensical statement.

Just a short walk away from the POTUS/SCOTUS moral panic.

One way to quell dissent and rebellion against acts of aggression is to carefully plan their timing. Waking up to this on the first Saturday of the year is not a contingent fortuity.

In 2025, the most read post on my blog Foluke's African Skies was the short essay I wrote in 2017 about one of the first institutions of higher learning on the continent. folukeafrica.com/timbuktu-sit...

Nunca olvidar.

Woke up to yet another illegal war of aggression.

Not sure why this dross, dated Dec 1, seems to be circulating now (and why it didn't cross my feed a month ago), but wow what a terrible essay. A few comments, in a short 🧵>> bigthink.com/the-present/...

@pipsish.bsky.social did you see this? The reddit thread also mentions driver's apps.

merit (n.)

Awesome.

Wishing you all a sunny start to the year.

What can the radar tell us? Well, just after midnight the radar ‘lights up’ because almost 400,000 (!!!) birds 🪶 immediately flee to the sky! Over about an hour, looking at the entire country, MILLIONS of birds are seriously disturbed by fireworks. Dive in right away? 🧪: doi.org/10.1002/fee....

We're here, and so are they, now just waiting for you. It's incredible, you'll love it.

Ed Muir told all of his graduate students that our job was to tell him and his generation why they were wrong. A field in which younger scholars aren't doing that is no longer a field. It's just a museum of itself.

It's the anglophone day of personal evaluation, in which we measure both our productive output and pleasurable consumption and grade ourselves between 1 and 10. This year I'll give myself a pass.

IIRC, the desire to convert software production from an essentially artisanal process to an automated, industrial one was broadcast in the early 00s, although I can't find any references to it.

sharp (adj.)

smart (adj.)

Read it!

I can't find any evidence of OpenAI dogfooding its own products for the on-development of them. Did OpenAI use GPT-4 to develop GPT-5, for instance?

Do the software engineers that design and code AI systems use AI to do so? That's what I want to know. Also: are the extremely high salaries touted for such engineers a sign of them using AI or not?

You FUCKED UP, your LEFTY politics have ALIENATED the BILLIONAIRES who run the CHILD BONE EXTRACTION FACTORIES and now they will do a MASS EXODUS from your STATE or CITY. Don’t CRY to ME when you no longer see their CHILD CATCHING VANS in your STATE or CITY, YOU IDIOT

Out and about with a friend in the hilly woods that fall into the sea. (the 'Puig de les Cols' ('Cabbage Mount') is at 416m (1365ft))

Today, the last day of week 52, this week, the last week of 2025.

Another pair of zero-drop shoes reaches end-of-life.

'(these lower-level processes are intelligible as the processes that they are only when intelligibility as such is opened up by living activity that divides itself from the non-living world)'

The Sorites of Scientific Truth: Considering Elgin’s ‘Felicitous Falsehoods’, Mark D. West Catherine Z. Elgin’s Epistemic Ecology (2025) presents a bold reconceptualization of epistemology that challenges the traditional spectatorial view of knowledge in favor of an agential, ecological approach…

'In outline, what this means is that Hegel presents the key tenets of his philosophy—for our purposes: Concept and Idea—​as manifesting a double form: life manifests the immediacy of Concept and Idea, an immediacy that contains the potential for the actualization of self-​conscious cognition.' ~ Ng

Shoulder-carrying culture, the carrying pole, human muscle power. In Chinese: 劳动

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