I check five of those six boxes so I guess I'm not visiting the USA any time soon …
Mastodon
LinkingDot:social (@linkingdot@mastodon.social)
«The target is those expressing “opposition to law and immigration enforcement; extreme views in favor of mass migration and open borders; adher...
#PennedPossibilities 875: Does your SC feel like they fit in with their community or culture? Jum and Tabitha are career criminals, grifters who sneaked into a hermit kingdom in order to rob it blind. Too late, they realized it was something else: now they're stuck impersonating natives and looking for escape (with a big haul on the way out, of course). So they know for an absolute fact that they don't fit in! They're just faking it for cold-blooded profit.
Betteridge's Law clearly applies: if this growth rate were to keep up for two decades the entire planet would be covered by a shell of red-hot glowing servers expanding at close to escape velocity.
Mastodon
Ricardo B�nffy (@rbanffy@mastodon.social)
How Sustainable Is This Crazy Server Spending? https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/12/15/how-sustainable-is-this-crazy-server-spending/
Boost for artists in AI copyright battle as only 3% back UK active opt-out plan Liz Kendall faces pressure from campaigners as she tells parliament there is no clear consensus on issue Kendall is lying: 88% of the public in consultation exercise wanted *stronger* copyright law, and 95% want AI companies to pay for training data.
the Guardian
Boost for artists in AI copyright battle as only 3% back UK active opt-out plan
Liz Kendall faces pressure from campaigners as she tells parliament there is no clear consensus on issue
Narcissistic personality disorder combined with dementia is a hell of a bad trip. And the tangerine tyrant is insistent on taking the rest of us along with him on his way down the drain.
Mastodon
Robert Reich (@rbreich@masto.ai)
Attached: 1 image Trump's response to the deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner says it all https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-response-to-the-d...
So, the Police Scotland helicopter out of Glasgow flew over Edinburgh today, following this rather peculiar route, then hot-footed it back to base … image
Just noting I have only ever owned stick shift cars; the most complicated in car electronics was a CD autochanger. Cruise control on my last car just maintained constant speed (with a manual tranny). I've never driven a hybrid or electric vehicle. And I learned to navigate using paper maps and a compass. No cellphones back then! I'm 61. All this automation came along in the 21st century.
The Pit
Peter (@peter@thepit.social)
Attached: 3 images as foretold by basically every critic of self-driving cars. and this is the case for all machine learning technologies. they ca...
Begs the question of who's going to milk the camel!
Mastodon
Glyn Moody (@glynmoody@mastodon.social)
Kazakh Scientists Develop Ice Cream and Yogurt Made From Camel Milk - https://astanatimes.com/2025/12/kazakh-scientists-develop-ice-cream-and-yogur...
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 14: Share how you tackle a first round of revisions. First, hate-read the edit letter, chanting "noNoNO!!!"—then put it away and sleep on it. That gets the defensive ego bullshit out of the way, so that in the morning I can re-read it with a clearer head and try to understand the editor's read on the story. (If an editor asks for a change, then it means they're see a problem. Their suggested change is not always the right one, but the problem needs fixing.)
The pub has a regular who drops in for dinner (pickled herring) #caturday image