Starlink has been found to be providing connectivity to paramilitary death squads in Sudan: news.sky.com/story/elon-m...

My favorite meme for 2025. What’s yours? Perfect for that Magat in your circle:

Social media + Ai = the Matrix Prove me wrong

The book i got everyone for xmas:

What the world needs now, as the antidote to despair. 👇 this 👇

Something very much worth noting is that there is a lot of 'in between' stuff - degraded industrial land that is expensive to restore, often near good connection points. Environment groups are already on this case, eg www.nature.org/en-us/what-w...

The only possible way to achieve peace is to ensure that Russia can no longer continue this war. It is crucial for Europe to understand that the amount of time Ukraine can continue to bleed out while holding Russia back is limited. Time is working against us. And it may soon be too late.

It almost seems like a dream from the distant past, but this is still an important strategy to improve the odds of a habitable biosphere for our descendants.

NBC News actually published this: "While Trump’s peace plan appears to be holding, albeit with regular Israeli airstrikes, the crisis endures." Just imagine NBC framing it this way if Hamas engaged in "regular strikes against Israel?" This is how legacy media normalizes genocide & white supremacy.

During the Covid lockdown, if you had family over on Christmas, police would force entry to your home and make them go home. Does anyone know if this service is still available, and if you have to book?

The fact that zuch named his company Meta tells you everything you need to know

On Dec 26, 1862, the largest mass execution in US history took place under the orders of Abraham Lincoln. 38 Dakota warriors were hanged in Mankato, MN. Their people had been dispossessed by settlers and were starving. +2 more men were captured and killed later. #Dakota38+2

It’s astounding to me how quickly these nitwits pivoted on a tile from “AGI will outperform all human intellect within a few years” …to… “…but if you think about it, software doesn’t actually have to work, does it?”

the graduation of a cohort of gaza’s new medical professionals in front of the ruins of al shifa hospital. No words, really.

LOL. The new epitaph for the Ai true believers has arrived: Stupid; Smelly; Squishy

It’s not artificial intelligence - it’s artificial reality. And so we are becoming Narcissus: drowning in a pool of our own hubris.

The @theatlantic.com claims that Canadians will use "treachery" to make America and its media look "silly". No, we are a democratic people who hate thugs and their pusillanimous enablers. Deal with it.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

So long as congress-critters can ride these bubbles to amass fortunes, bubbles will continue to arise and immiserate millions when they pop.

Hmmm…

Remember when every leader wanted their picture taken with Greta? She is still that truth teller, they just can't face the truth of their crimes.

All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house. This is where America is now

0 for 2! I want a friggin spaceship!! At least a surveyor ship like Voyager. All I want for Christmas is an alien probe. Ok, not like that 😝

“this promise of an artificial intelligence future, is really just a collective anxiety that very wealthy, powerful people have about how well they’re gonna be able to control us.” Especially given that they cannot control the climate crisis, so this is the “solution”

@taniel.bsky.social How about a whole thread of “good news” in 2025 no less! bsky.app/profile/medi...

I spent almost my whole career working adjacent to SillyCon valley, trying to advance the positive side of tech. Why does it seem like the evil tech villains from every B movie have taken over?

The indomitable beauty of the human spirit

There’s no time like the present - especially when there is no Time. Oops.

Every act of refusal can help pave the way for others to refuse as well.

Tuskegee take II. The Nazis are in charge.

So called Ai is nothing more than automated grift. Stealing the work of humanity and shitting it out as mana from mechanized (insane) gods. All while using more energy than entire states, and hastening the destruction of the biosphere. What’s not to love?!

Pet peeve: “Suffice it to say” This malapropism is on par with overwrought contractions like “It’d” that are sneaking in the back door. Looking at you @newyorker. Where does this end!? Leetspeak as the cool new standard?

If Bluesky is a media ecosystem, how would you describe it’s flora and fauna?

It’s important to note that she is an indigenous rights lawyer, educator, and peace activist who walks the talk.

Wikipedia entry for confirmation bias can now be simply condensed to two words: See DNC

I read Sacred Instructions twice in rapid succession because it is so rich in exactly the shift in world view that we need at this moment. She delves into our disconnect from nature, each other, female and male - but not in s heavy-handed way. This conversation provides a taste of it.

Do read this. It’s by Brian Eno for @thenerve.news & it’s about this generation’s BandAid. Lullaby is based on a traditional Palestinian melody, all proceeds go to Gaza, it would be amazing for it to be Xmas no 1, but more than that, buying it is a political act 👊

Great setup for the perfect punchline RIP

This piece provides deep insight into the failings of not just the AI bubble, but the overall context of failed citation indexes and how it is accelerating both failures.

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Mohammed. Mohammed is just 18 years old. His family were farmers but their land and home have been destroyed. Mohammed has chronic migraines but is responsible for helping his whole family of including his little nephew Joud who is only 2.

An Israeli attack on her shelter caused the amputation of both of Nibal’s hands, forcing her to lose the thing she held most dear: the ability to hold her young daughter. Her story is one of hundreds of amputee women in Gaza. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/the-...

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Statement from the Lear Family on the death of Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner. Rob Reiner described Norman Lear as his second father.

Just watched Train Dreams with Joel Edgerton, and then this popped up, which felt like it could have been the soundtrack.

This is how universities commit suicide. By capitulating to corporate dictates (which are increasingly driven by nothing more than the latest bubble) credibility is thrashed and students ultimately pay the cost.

Wow. Some leaders showing actual leadership. “While some countries limit and restrict scientific research…” Cough, cough. Talk about turning the tables on the bully regime south of the 49th!

"Enough counting the morbid symptoms; the birth of the new world is overdue. Yet, for the last push, we need to conceive of a strong new heart to deliver the future of humanity." - @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social

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