Militant groups are experimenting with AI, and the risks are expected to grow
https://apnews.com/article/islamic-state-group-artificial-intelligence-deepfakes-ba201d23b91dbab95f6a8e7ad8b778d5?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Technology @technology-AssociatedPress

I'm looking to hire a woodworker to build an oak bookcase with a desk at the end in my house in Denver, CO. About 9' long by 7 1/2' tall. Budget of $12k. Must be insured and all that legal stuff.

Boost appreciated

#woodworking #fedihire

Internet erupts after Dem lawmaker's son pulled over by ICE - Raw Story

rawstory.com/ilhan-omar-267439…

#Trump #Omar #Somalis #ICE #Trump #Republicans #MAGA #racism #press

'Sickening world': Internet erupts after Dem lawmaker's son pulled over by ICE

A Democratic lawmaker said on Sunday that her son was pulled over by immigration agents, news that caused the internet to erupt with criticism toward the Trump administration. Rep.

^{Robert Davis (Raw Story)}

Moin! ☕️☕️☕️😊
Zu Weihnachten verschenke ich Kohle. Hat sich ein Neffe gewünscht. Der will wohl grillen!?
Sonst hat er sich immer Geld gewünscht. Endlich mal etwas anderes!

#moin #gutenmorgen #fun #humor #humour #fotografie #photography #photo #quote #myphoto #hamburg #hh #elbphilharmonie

Someone designed a Commodore 64 laptop.

At 8lbs, it is incredibly impractical.

Nevertheless, still cool.

youtu.be/H5QQ0ECfwyE

Ivory Coast Cocoa Regulator Mulls Buying Beans as Defaults Loom
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-15/ivory-coast-cocoa-regulator-mulls-buying-beans-as-defaults-loom?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Business @business-bloomberg

🌧⛈منخفضات جوية متتالية على قطاع غزة ...

◼️أنه الشتاء القارص والاصعب على الناس في خيام النزوح ...

◼️منخفض جديد نهار اليوم الاثنين
🌧⛈ Successive weather depressions hit the Gaza Strip... ◼️ It's the harshest and most difficult winter for people in displacement camps... ◼️ Another depression is expected today, Monday.
Please, we need your help to buy clothes and blankets and to repair the tent.

US has an absolute freedom of speech, as long as the speech compliant with today’s Trump’s mood 👌

The proposal says “the data element will require ESTA applicants, external to provide their social media from the last 5 years”, without giving further details of which specific information will be required.

I guess the matching response would be for EU to demand the same and then scan for anyone who posted “abolish the EU” - after all, what’s your point of coming to an economic zone you want to abolish? That is, if we wanted closely mirror MAGA’s logic here…

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1dz0g…

US could ask tourists for five-year social media history before entry

The plan would affect people from countries, including the UK, who can fill out a form in lieu of a visa.

^{James FitzGerald (BBC News)}

‘No work’: India’s Alang, the world’s largest graveyard of ships, is dying
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/15/no-work-indias-alang-the-worlds-largest-graveyard-of-ships-is-dying?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Asia News @asia-news-AlJazeera

‘No work’: India’s Alang, the world’s largest graveyard of ships, is dying

The Gujarati town accounts for nearly 98 percent of India’s total and about a third of the global ship recycling volume.

^{Anuj Behal (Al Jazeera)}

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The Guardian: Pilot narrowly avoids ‘midair collision’ with US air force plane near Venezuela

JetBlue pilot calls incident ‘outrageous’ and says US military refueling tanker didn’t have transponder turned on

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/d…

#aviation #JetBlue112

Pilot narrowly avoids ‘midair collision’ with US air force plane near Venezuela

^{Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)}

Au Chili, victoire du candidat d'extrême-droite José Antonio Kast, 35 ans après la fin de la sinistre dictature de Pinochet. Anti-IVG, homophobe, anti-migrants, il a fait campagne sur la promesse d'expulser massivement des réfugiés vénézuéliens et d'opérer des coupes budgétaires. Il a fait ses armes auprès d'un conseiller de l'ancien dictateur chilien. Une prise de pouvoir tout à fait légale, donc. Enfer...

#Politique #Chilli #ExtremeDroite #Kast #IVG #Immigration #Amerique #Sud

Ruben Gallego emerges as key Democratic figure in Latino voter outreach
https://apnews.com/article/ruben-gallego-democrats-latino-senator-ab9b48c24fcdbc4eb54bcddc48a82a66?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into U.S. News @u-s-news-AssociatedPress

Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year is 'slop'
https://apnews.com/article/merriam-webster-dictionary-word-year-2025-slop-2dffb2379cac6001aa30e148669e3393?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into U.S. News @u-s-news-AssociatedPress

Bondi Beach Terror Attack Shocks Australia | Bloomberg: The Asia Trade 12/15/25
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-12-15/the-asia-trade-12-15-2025-video?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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"The most important thing is that you be a good person and you live by the golden rule of do unto others. If you live by that, that’s all I care about.”

• Rob Reiner (The Jewish Chronicle, Aug. 30, 2012)

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The Take: What does RSF capture of Heglig oilfield mean for Sudan’s war?
https://www.aljazeera.com/podcasts/2025/12/15/the-take-what-does-rsf-capture-of-heglig-oilfield-mean-for-sudans-war?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Middle East News @middle-east-news-AlJazeera

The Take: What does RSF capture of Heglig oilfield mean for Sudan’s war?

Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have pushed out Sudanese Armed Forces to take over Sudan’s largest oilfield.

^{Al Jazeera}

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#Dgar Now listening to:
Mr. Jones
~ Counting Crows

youtu.be/-oqAU5VxFWs

#DgarRadio #Music

‘Depraved Response to a Depraved Act’: Netanyahu Blames Attack on Australia Recognizing Palestine

“This is an atrocious downplaying of real antisemitism at a time when rampant #Jew hatred is killing people,” said an American congressional candidate and school shooting survivor.

commondreams.org/news/australi…

from #CommonDreams
Dec 14, 2025

“Obviously massacring unarmed men, women, and children at a #Hanukkah celebration is #antisemitic terror,” Nathaniel added in a separate thread. “Just like massacring unarmed men, women, and children in Gaza and the West Bank is anti-Palestinian terror. There are no moral exceptions regarding the slaughter of civilians.”

Electronic Intifada director Ali Abunimah said, “Basically #Netanyahu is saying that #Australia got what it had coming for not supporting his genocide in #Gaza even more than it already does.”

#FreePalestine
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSeaIsNotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Israel #Palestine
#news #politics

'Depraved Response to a Depraved Act': Netanyahu Blames Attack on Australia Recognizing Palestine

"This is an atrocious downplaying of real antisemitism at a time when rampant Jew hatred is killing people," said an American congressional candidate and school shooting survivor.

^{jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)}

I know it hurts right now.

I know it's tough right now.

Right now things seem hopeless.

But please... keep going. Keep pushing.

Find a way forward.

Find a way through.

#trans #transgender

Apparently, Rob Reiner has died. ...Rats, not Meatloaf!

*The other Meatloaf. The OG Meatloaf.

Remember all those Telegram chats leaked from high-ranking leaders of the Young Republicans—praising slavery, Hitler, and the Nazis? Last night was the NY Young Republican Club's Annual Gala They hosted 20 of the far-right AfD Nazi leaders, inc the Nazi deputy co-chair, who was the guest of honor

German far-right lawmaker call...

Honestly of my earlier attempts on my tablet...this wasn't bad. My spacey piece, "Dusk on an alien moon".

#art #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #alienlife #alienplanet #scifi #sciencefiction #nightsky #sky #skyscape

A band I grew up, and man... Ran Benson's voice is just magnificent. And I think the fact that a Jewish kid, from Philadelphia that went to Antioch... became the modern incarnation of Bob Wills... is just perfection.

youtube.com/watch?v=GgLk5kKLny…

»Und der Deutsche hat immer noch nicht – auch nach vier Kriegsjahren nicht – begriffen, daß der Apparat jeglicher Art doch nur ein Hilfsmittel ist, eine Maschine, die den Fortgang erleichtern soll, ein Mittel, aber kein Zweck. Der Apparat ist Selbstzweck geworden.« (Kurt Tucholsky als Ignaz Wrobel, 1918)

aus: tny.lv/fZPxs

#Tucho135