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"The Horrors Persist, But So Do I"
@Meoralis put up an adorable photo of her as a baby for today's #fotovorschlag and it reminded me that I either looked possessed/done with everything in basically every photo. 😂 (And yes, I still look like this! 😂) ✨
Sorry about the quality, these are photos of photos!
ABA Task Force: AI Has Moved From Experiment to Infrastructure for the Legal Profession
Artificial intelligence is no longer an abstract or experimental technology for lawyers – it is rapidly becoming core infrastructure for law practice, courts, legal education and access-to-justice eff...LawSites
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UK Lawmakers Propose Mandatory On-Device Surveillance and VPN Age Verification
The UK wants every phone and tablet to ship with built-in spyware that scans photos, videos, and encrypted chats “for child safety”. In reality it ends privacy, kills encryption, and hardwires surveillance into daily life. They also want digital ID for VPNs 🤦🏻♂️
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#UK #privacy #surveillance #ChatControl #AgeVerification #VPN #technology #dystopia
UK Lawmakers Push Device Surveillance & VPN Age Checks
The UK flirts with an extreme future where every device is surveilled.Cindy Harper (Reclaim the Net)
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The same totalitarian shit is popping up in the EU as well.
I wonder whether this is coordinated, or just "in the air" right now.
Both would be equally bad 🙁
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I famosi progressi di Trump che sull'Ucraina tora la volata a Putin esattamente come sulla Palestina fa il gioco di Netanyahu con buona pace del diritto internazionale
La Russia rifiuta la tregua di Natale e insiste nel volere anche il Donbass ancora in mano ucraina
La Russia non farà alcuna concessione territoriale nei negoziati per porre fine alla guerra. Lo ha dichiarato il vice ministro degli Esteri Sergej Ryabkov, mentre Ucraina e Stati Uniti parlano di “grandi progressi” emersi dai colloqui di Berlino.globalist (Globalist.it)
MorphOS Storage : a webserver dedicated to MorphOS users
MorphOS-Storage : a webserver dedicated to MorphOS userswww.morphos-storage.net
Nearly 20 million affected by Prosper, 700Credit data breaches
Fintech company Prosper Marketplace and car dealership services provider 700Credit are the latest financial institutions to report data breaches affecting millions of Americans.Jonathan Greig (The Record)
Our 10 most popular editors' picks of 2025: longreads.com/2025/12/16/most-…
Featuring The New Yorker, New York, Intelligencer, Bloomberg Weekend, Texas Monthly, San Francisco Chronicle, Curbed, and Slate 🏆
#Longreads #Reading #Bestof2025 #Nonfiction #Journalism
Best of 2025: The Most Popular Editors’ Picks of the Year
These audience hits were the most-viewed picks on our site in 2025.Longreads
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This has got to be the most unholy union ever: Christian nationalism and network state tech bros.
It’s not surprising because all dominance hierarchy promote religion that legitimize and reinforce their social structure.
There’s one religious technology guy who wants to create AI ministry.. Jesus in the machine.. to hasten the second coming.
People of faith and pastors have got to speak against this
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Dudes. Listen to the actual Word. We don't know. It's not ours to try to steer.
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"Les magistrats de la Cour d’appel de Douai ont condamné le président de la Mel a dix-huit mois de prison avec sursis, 20 000 euros d’amende et, surtout, deux ans d’inéligibilité avec exécution immédiate. Il va devoir démissionner de la MEL qu’il
Condamné en appel, Damien Castelain va devoir quitter la présidence de la Métropole de Lille
Cette fois, c’en est fini pour le président de la Métropole européenne de Lille (MEL). La cour d’appel de Douai a confirmé - en tous points ou presque -, mardi 16 décembre 2025, les réquisitions du ministère public lors du procès d’appel qui s’était …Jacques Trentesaux (Mediacités)
Western carmakers reverse on EV plans amid China competition
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Western carmakers reverse on EV plans amid China competition
Ford dropped plans for an all-electric truck, while Volkswagen is expected to extend its investment in gas-powered cars.Tom Chivers (www.semafor.com)
And a final bonus Xmas update post (before our recoveries tomorrow) is on Crossroads - An ambitious 3D aerial combat shooter with strategy elements, in development at Jordan-based Nasson Entertainment for Xbox 360 and PC. A strong demo, a publisher and a planned 2008 release — until everything collapsed. What went wrong?
gamesthatwerent.com/2025/12/cr…
Crossroads - Games That Weren't
Crossroads was an ambitious 3D aerial-combat shooter infused with strategy elements that was once in development at the Jordan-based studio Nasson Entertainment.Yassine Bakrim (Games That Weren't)
So next year is the 30th anniversary of USB and the 10th anniversary of mass-market adoption of the USB-C connector.
Fun fact, USB4 is based on Thunderbolt and virtualizes USB connections over it, so Thunderbolt kind of won the hardware interface wars in the end. Modern peripheral connection hardware is bonkers.
How bonkers?
You can run DOOM on a 13 year old cable from Apple bonkers.
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Il Tre: «Sono caduto più volte. Oggi non voglio più far male a chi non lo merita. Una paura ce l’ho: rimanere da solo, non trovare una persona alla quale voler bene davvero»
https://www.vanityfair.it/article/il-tre-paura-rimanere-solo-amore-dipendenza-nuovo-album-anima-nera-concerti-milano-roma?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Il Tre: «Sono caduto più volte. Oggi non voglio più far male a chi non lo merita. Una paura ce l’ho: rimanere da solo, non trovare una persona alla quale voler bene davvero»
Reduce dal lancio di Anima Nera, suo terzo album in studio, e in vista dei concerti di Roma e Milano, il rapper ci racconta i suoi progetti, i suoi sogni e pure i suoi tormenti: «Mio papà mi dice sempre che…»Nicola Bambini (Vanity Fair Italia)
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Fratzenbuch des tages
So etwas passt ganz vorzüglich zur verurteilten kriminellen spämm- und schadsoftwäjhrklitsche fratzenbuch, die jetzt lieber „meta“ heißen möchte, weil der name noch nicht so verbrannt ist:
Meta hat 2024 über 3 Milliarden US-Dollar mit Abzocke-Werbung aus China verdient, die Betrug, Glücksspiel und Pornografie beinhaltet haben
Na, tarnkappe, zu viel vertrauen in kompjuterübelsetzungen und dem gnobbelmatsch aus angelernten neuronalen netzwerken? Oder ist es die ganz normale menschliche schlampigkeit und unaufmerksamkeit, die ich auch immer wieder mal hinkriege? 🤭️
Aber davon einmal abgesehen: ihr freut euch doch bestimmt auch alle schon darauf, wenn die so genannte „künstliche intelligenz“, weil sie kein anderes geschäftsmodell finden kann, demnäxt über möglichst nahtlos eingebettete reklame finanziert wird, je schwerer filterbar, desto besser. Das werden lustige dialoge. „Ich habe geldsorgen und weiß nicht mehr weiter“ — „Vielleicht solltest du gleich mal ins onlein-casino gehen. Ich habe dir mal eins rausgesucht, in dem jeder spieler gewinnt. Wenn du vierhundert euro einzahlst, bekommst du zweitausend euro gutgeschrieben, damit du noch viel mehr gewinnen kannst“. 😂️
#Facebook #FacebookIsEvil #Link #Tarnkappe #Werbung
Meta toleriert chinesische Abzocke-Werbung und verdient damit Milliarden
Meta hat 2024 über 3 Milliarden US-Dollar mit Abzocke-Werbung aus China verdient, die Betrug, Glücksspiel und Pornografie beinhaltet haben.Lars Sobiraj (TARNKAPPE.INFO)
Blue water, blue sand.
#photography #photographie #fotografie #fotografia
#Art #Abstract #landscape #Scotland
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here's the latest newsletter from the lajee centre, located in the aida refugee camp near beit jala.
it's good to see palestinian kids happy & just being, well, kids.
#palestine #lajeeCentre #lajeeCenter #aidaRefugeeCamp #aida #goodNews
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heise+ | Noise-Cancelling-Kopfhörer für 21 Euro: Das taugt der Ugreen HiTune Max5c
Der HiTune Max5c verspricht für schmales Geld aktive Geräuschunterdrückung, lange Laufzeiten, LDAC und Multipoint-Verbindung. Doch wie gut klingt der Kopfhörer?
Here are some more links to other blogs, and the occasional message board, talking about things that interest me. Know more? Let us all know!
#witch #ttrpg #blog #osr #dnd
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Blogsphere Links: Witches on Other Blogs, Part 2
The Other Side Blog is a game design blog from Timothy S. Brannantheotherside.timsbrannan.com
Playing With Statues (12 Photos)
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"Which one is your favorite?
The post Playing With Statues (12 Photos) appeared first on STREET ART UTOPIA."
Internationaler Strafgerichtshof
Einspruch Israels gegen Ermittlungen abgelehnt
Der Internationale Strafgerichtshof hat eine Berufung Israels gegen die Ermittlungen zum Gazakrieg abgelehnt.
Auch die Haftbefehle gegen Ministerpräsident Netanjahu und den früheren Verteidigungsminister Gallant werden nicht ausgesetzt, wie aus einem Dokument des Gerichtshofs hervorgeht. Die Ermittlungen zu möglichen Kriegsverbrechen im Gazastreifen könnten somit fortgesetzt werden.
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Ok che tra il dire e il fare c'è di mezzo il baciare, però mi pare una buona notizia
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La Commissione europea approva il piano Casa, più aiuti per gli alloggi - La voce degli Eurodeputati - Ansa.it
Il commissario Ue Jorgensen: "Questo Natale non tutti potranno permettersi di riscaldare le proprie case: oltre 40 milioni di persone non riescono a farlo. Poi oltre un milione di europei è senza tetto. (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
POTUS: We have the best economy. We have the best employment numbers of any presidency ever.
Reality: Hold my light beer ...
Non vedo l'ora di tornare nel basso #Lazio e vedere quando grandi sono diventati gli #alberi che mi sono lasciato alle spalle. 🌳
Un piccola scia verde che mi segue da tanti anni ormai, ma che nei momenti bui mi consola e nei momenti più luminosi mi dà speranza nel futuro.
Ci vogliono più piantatori, e più fiducia.
"There is no bottom."
~ Lewis Grossberger
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"I agree, there's no bottom for him. How about for 'us?'"
~ Chitown Kev
#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner
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Racks of AI chips are too damn heavy
AI companies are racing to build more data centers partly because the latest racks of AI chips are too heavy for old data center infrastructure.Elissa Welle (The Verge)
Pimco Gathers $7 Billion for New Asset-Based Finance Strategy
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-16/pimco-gathers-7-billion-for-new-asset-based-finance-strategy?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Pulitzer Board Demands Trump’s Tax and Psych Records in Lawsuit Twist
Donald Trump isn’t going to be happy about this one.The New Republic
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Biotech Share Sales in US Deliver Biggest Quarter Since 2021
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-16/biotech-share-sales-in-us-deliver-biggest-quarter-since-2021?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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criirad.org/seances-de-dedicac…
"Le livre de Bruno Chareyron, conseiller scientifique de la CRIIRAD, est sorti le mercredi 23 avril en librairie, aux éditions Dunod. […]"
Autumnal River of the Scottish Highlands Catriona Roberts Nature Photography and Designs Print
Autumnal River of the Scottish Highlands - Catriona Roberts Nature Photography and Designs Printhttps://www.pictorem.com
Long-billed curlew, Vallejo CA
#photography #bird #BirdsOfMastodon #curlew #WildBirds #water #reflection #bnw #monochrome
The Guardian year end support drive.
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Help us deliver the independent journalism the world needs. Support the Guardian by making a contribution.Support the Guardian
EU Mulls Targeting Visas in Shadow Fleet Crackdown, Estonia Says
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Giovanni Ti Amo presenta l'album Coyote! con una playlist esclusiva
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Giovanni Ti Amo presenta l'album Coyote! con una playlist esclusiva
Leggi su Sky TG24 l'articolo Giovanni Ti Amo presenta l'album Coyote! con una playlist esclusivaRedazione Sky TG24 (Sky TG24)
Use our action center to tell lawmakers to stop the Trump administration from deporting Heng Guan, who helped journalists expose the horrors of Uyghur prison camps in Xinjiang, China.
His life could be at risk.
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Defend Whistleblowers
Whistleblowers and the journalists they work with should be celebrated, not punished.Freedom of the Press
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New on // foss.events: Nodes on a Web by Fedivariety on 19-20 March 2026 in Marinebasis Amsterdam in #Amsterdam, #Netherlands
Find out more on
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#foss #floss #freesoftware #opensource #events #europe #Fediverse
Nodes on a Web on // foss.events
Everything in a nutshell about Nodes on a Web on // foss.events// foss.events
🌌🚀 Astronomia e Fantascienza su Mastodon!
Questo starter pack è dedicato a chi ama guardare il cielo, immaginare altri mondi e discutere di scienza, spazio e fantascienza nel Fediverso:
Al suo interno trovi ricercatori, divulgatori, appassionati di astronomia, sci-fi, esplorazione spaziale e futuri possibili, che condividono notizie scientifiche, riflessioni, immagini spettacolari, libri, film e idee che vanno oltre l’orizzonte terrestre.
🔭 pubblicato su: @astronomia@diggita.com
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aggiunti ora allo starter pack sull'astronomia e SCI_FI:
@AVDA
benvenuti e grazie per il vostro contributo a mastodon:
Seguiteci anche nel gruppo astronomia: @astronomia@diggita.com
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Neue #RoteListe: #Tagfalter zunehmend gefährdet
Von den 207 in Deutschland etablierten Arten und Unterarten der Tagfalter und #Widderchen sind mittlerweile 103, also fast die Hälfte, bestandsgefährdet oder bereits ausgestorben. Das geht aus der neuen Roten Liste der Tagfalter und Widderchen hervor, die das Bundesamt für #Naturschutz (#BfN) gemeinsam mit dem Rote-Liste-Zentrum (#RLZ) veröffentlicht hat.
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Neue Rote Liste: Tagfalter zunehmend gefährdet - Rote-Liste-Zentrum Rote-Liste-Zentrum
Von den 207 in Deutschland etablierten Arten und Unterarten der Tagfalter und Widderchen sind mittlerweile 103, also fast die Hälfte, bestandsgefährdet oder bereits ausgestorben.Rote-Liste-Zentrum - Rote-Liste-Zentrum Rote-Liste-Zentrum
Microsoft Will Finally Kill Obsolete Cipher That Has Wrecked Decades of Havoc - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years following more than a decade of devastating hacks that exploited it and re…it.slashdot.org
Professor who says space object 3I/ATLAS may have ‘thrusters’ calls out experts for dismissing theories
When 3I/ATLAS was first spotted in July by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), the world was excited. The comet is the third known interstellar visitor recorded (something which originated outside our solar system) since 1I/Oumuamua (2017) and 2I/Borisov (2019). However, it sparked further curiosity as it has also defied the usual behaviour of a comet — which has led to some wild theories about aliens…(Picture: NASA/NASA/AFP via Getty Images)
Nasa’s train of thought goes that if it acts like a comet, then it must be a comet – but not everyone agrees. Harvard astrophysicist Professor Avi Loeb listed at least 13 anomalies on 3I/ATLAS, and called out Nasa officials for ignoring the anti-tail properties of 3I/ATLAS. He said: ‘Why are comet experts and Nasa officials so reluctant in displaying curiosity about the anti-tail or other anomalies of 3I/ATLAS?’ (Picture: NASA, ESA, David Jewitt)
In an interview, the professor referenced features from the sunward anti-tail of 3I/ATLAS to its unusual trajectory, but as his theory contradicts Nasa’s statement that 3I/ATLAS is a natural comet, he has faced backlash for spreading misinformation. However, the professor wrote in his blog: ‘The latest images from December 14 and 15, 2025 show a prominent anti-tail that extends out to half a million kilometers away from the nucleus of 3I/ATLAS towards the Sun. This length is larger than the average distance to the Moon: 384,400 kilometers. An anti-tail of this size had never been observed before for a comet.’ (Picture: Nasa)
He added: ‘To reach a scale of 500,000 kilometers over the past 45 days after perihelion, the sunward speed of the material in the anti-tail must be at least 130 meters per second relative to the nucleus of 3I/ATLAS. Whether this speed can be maintained by sublimated dust or gas from pockets of ice facing the solar wind and solar radiation pressure remains to be studied. The alternative is a jet from a technological thruster.’ (Picture: Gianluca Masi via AP)
Dr Loeb said: ‘The orientation of the anti-tail flipped relative to the direction of motion at perihelion and is definitely not a matter of perspective, as is the case for some comets. Micrometer-scale, refractory dust particles would have been swept away from the Sun by the solar radiation and wind. The anti-tail must therefore contain something else.’ (Picture: NASA, ESA, STScI, D. Jewitt, M.-T. Hui. Image Processing: J. DePasquale (STScI))
Oxford astronomer Chris Lintott was quoted last week as saying: ‘Any suggestion that it’s artificial is nonsense on stilts, and is an insult to the exciting work going on to understand this object.’ Another astrophysicist, Adam Frank, called Dr Loeb’s essays in 3I/ATLAS as ‘musings’ rather than scientific research. (Picture: International Gemini Observatory)
Whatever it is, 3I/ATLAS makes its closest approach to Earth on Friday (December 19), offering astronomers a narrow window to observe the rare visitor from a different galaxy. Researchers say that it poses no danger to Earth or any other planets as it passes through the inner Solar System, and will give astronomers an exciting opportunity to study its coma. (Picture: Jewit et al) Add as preferred source
New images of Interstellar 3I/ATLAS comet 'with a heartbeat' released by Nasa
More images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS have been released by Nasa after it started brightening and dimming in a regular pattern.Jen Mills (Metro)
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Gli aiuti ai piccoli agricoltori aumenteranno da 2.500 euro a 3.000 mentre i campi agricoli saranno considerati tali anche se non verranno arati, coltivati o riseminati
Mini PAC, accordo dell'Eurocamera per più aiuti agricoltori
Aiuti ai piccoli agricoltori da 2.500 euro a 3.000 mentre i campi agricoli saranno considerati tali anche se non arati, coltivati o riseminatiEnrico Pascarella (Eunews)
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#BorderPatrol Boss #Bovino Back In #Chicago As Agents Target Southwest Side
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Bovino and about 200 Border Patrol agents have arrived in Chicago for more enforcement action, sources said.
Fragments: Illustrated guide to mainframe modernization, what the second value of code reviews means for LLMs, LLMs write and then port an HTML parser
Se si sostituiscono le parole "morta la mamma", "tintoria", "cavallette", ecc., con "sinistra", "Landini", "toghe rosse", sembra di assistere al comizio di #Meloni ad #atreju.
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#Otis #Billie #Bowie #Doerak #Guus #Izzy #cats #catsofmastodon #katzenliebe #katzenglück #photography #britishshorthair
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Yes, computer memory (#DRAM and #SSD) has become much more expensive. But there are much nastier reasons for this than one would think.
OpenAI already concluded extremely extensive partnership deals with the world's two largest manufacturers, Samsung and SK Hynix, in October. These deals alone account for around 40% of global DRAM production. Altman invested two years into preparing this haul.
SK Hynix now has no free capacity left for 2026.
However, OpenAI doesn't really need that much memory for itself: the main goal is to ensure that the competition gets much less of it, by separately and secretly luring manufacturers with incredible purchase quantities, as if they were each (!) Altman's only "one and only love".
And to mooreslawisdead.com's question, in the above article, end of November: “What other deals don't we know about?” the world's third-largest manufacturer micron, too, gave an answer just under a week later: We are switching and will only sell to "AI" from now on, no longer to consumers
So if you can only get memory upgrades and SSDs at exorbitant prices, you can thank the "#AI" companies whose bullshit generators get used by many people around you, enthusiastically.
Benzinga
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is reportedly meeting with executives from Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix in South Korea to discuss potential chip-making partnerships.Ananya Gairola (Benzinga)
My city passed a $50 cap on administrative fees for rentals last year, so now I have a new hobby: Reporting scummy landlords who try and put up to $500 fees in their house listings.
#affordablehousing
#fucklandlords
Empörung über Trump-Äußerungen nach Rob Reiners Tod
Hollywood-Regisseur Rob Reiner und seine Frau wurden Opfer eines Gewaltverbrechens. Nach seinem Tod wetterte US-Präsident Trump gegen den liberalen Aktivisten, nannte ihn "geistesgestört." Die Entrüstung folgte prompt.

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