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I stumbled across this in a post here on mastodon.
It joins a lot of Epstein-Bannon dots.
Worryingly so.

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Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein – Byline Times

Nigel Farage was the figurehead and his partner Laure Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support
Peter Jukes (Byline Times)
@Anne Applebaum

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The faces of some truly ugly people and I am not just referring to their physical looks.

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Warner Music Group Names Eric Wong EVP of Recorded Music byteseu.com/1633855/ #Canada #EricWong #WarnerMusicCanada #WarnerMusicGroup
Warner Music Group Names Eric Wong EVP of Recorded Music

Warner Music Group Names Eric Wong EVP of Recorded Music

Eric Wong has been promoted to executive vice president of recorded music at Warner Music Group, expanding his leadership remit across the company’s global
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#canada #WarnerMusicGroup #ericwong #warnermusiccanada

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This is what you get when someone mistakenly thinks they are a genius.

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Karl Wassberg
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2025-3897
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#Wassberg #Herrljunga #photography #antique #collecting #MonochromePhotography #BWPhotography #CDV #CabinetPhotography

Karl Wassberg Herrljunga, Sweden 1903

2025-3897 – De Animorum Immortalitate

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#Photography #bwphotography #antique #collecting #monochromephotography #cdv #cabinetphotography #herrljunga #wassberg

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Man who said he'd been carjacked after fatal Vaughan hit and run sentenced to 5 years
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/vaughan-hit-and-run-9.7018136?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Toronto @toronto-cbcnews

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Louisville taking security precautions at menorah lighting in wake of Australia attack byteseu.com/1633853/ #AntisemiticAttack #Australia #AustraliaAttack #australiaaustralia #city #country #Event #greenberg #Hanukkah #HolidayTime #Louisville #menorah #people #SecurityPrecaution #Tuesday #wake
Louisville taking security precautions at menorah lighting in wake of Australia attack

Louisville taking security precautions at menorah lighting in wake of Australia attack

Louisville's mayor said the city is taking security precautions at a menorah lighting in the wake of the antisemitic attack in Australia.
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#people #country #Australia #event #city #tuesday #Louisville #Hanukkah #menorah #wake #Greenberg #holidayTime #antisemiticattack #australiaattack #australiaaustralia #securityprecaution

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Toronto police chief talks youth crime, bail reform in year-end interview
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7017971?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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"At the beginning of November, I ordered a 32GB DDR5 kit... and 3 weeks later those very same sticks of DDR5 are now listed for a staggering $330– a 156% increase in price from less than a month ago! ...how could this happen THIS quickly? Well, buckle up! I am about to tell you the story of Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal, or: How the AI bubble, panic, and unpreparedness stole Christmas"
mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-a…

#SamAltman #OpenAI #AI #Tech #Technology #News #Press #World #SouthKorea #US #USA

Headline and photo. Headline: Moore's Law Is Dead, Nov 24, 9 min read Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal Or: How the AI Bubble, Panic, and Unpreparedness Stole Christmas Written by Tom of Moore’s Law Is Dead Special Assistance by KarbinCry & kari-no-sugata Based on this Video: https://youtu.be/BORRBce5TGw Photo: Collage of Sam Altman in a tiny Santa hat laughing with a wide open mouth on the left, and memory chips on fire on the right.
#tech #AI #world #technology #News #USA #SouthKorea #US #press #openai #samaltman
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"So what happened? Well, it all comes down to three perfectly synergistic events:

1. OpenAI executed two unprecedented #RAM deals that took everyone by surprise.

2. The #secrecy and size of the deals triggered full-scale panic buying from everyone else.

3. The #market had almost zero safety stock left due to #tariffs, worry about decreasing RAM prices over the summer, and stalled equipment transfers."
mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-a…

#SamAltman #OpenAI #AI #Tech #Technology #News #Press #World

Text(edited for length): ...my RAM kit’s 156% jump in price isn’t a fluke or some extreme example of what's going on right now. ... I'd like to provide two more examples of how how impossible it is becoming to get ahold of RAM - these were provided by a couple of our sources within the industry: 1. One source that works at a US Retailer, stated that a RAM Manufacturer called them in order to inquire if they might buy RAM from them to stock up for their other customers. This would be like Corsair asking a Best Buy if they had any RAM around. 2. Another source that works at a Prebuilt PC company, was recently given an estimate for when they would receive RAM orders if they placed them now…and they were told December…of 2026! So what happened? Well, it all comes down to three perfectly synergistic events: 1. OpenAI executed two unprecedented RAM deals that took everyone by surprise. 2. The secrecy and size of the deals triggered full-scale panic buying from everyone else. 3. The market had almost zero safety stock left due to tariffs, worry about decreasing RAM prices over the summer, and stalled equipment transfers. Below, we’re going to walk through each of these factors — and then I’m going to warn you about which hardware categories will be hit the hardest, which products are already being cancelled, and what you should buy right now before the shelves turn into a repeat of 2021–2022...because this is doomed to turn into much more than just RAM scarcity...
#tech #AI #world #technology #News #ram #market #press #openai #secrecy #tariffs #samaltman
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"Here is the uncomfortable truth #SamAltman is always loath to admit... #OpenAI is worried about losing its lead. The last 18 months have seen competitors catching up fast — Anthropic, #Meta, xAI, and specifically Google’s #Gemini 3... Everyone’s chasing training capacity. Everyone needs memory. DRAM is the lifeblood... Cutting supply to your rivals is not a #conspiracy theory. It’s a #business tactic as old as business itself."
mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-a…

#AI #Tech #Technology #News #Press #World

Text(edited for length): And now time for the biggest twist of all, a twist that’s actually public information...: OpenAI isn’t even bothering to buy finished memory modules! No, their deals are unprecedentedly only for raw wafers — uncut, unfinished, and not even allocated to a specific DRAM standard yet. It’s not even clear if they have decided yet on how or when they will finish them into RAM sticks or HBM! Right now it seems like these wafers will just be stockpiled in warehouses – like a kid who hides the toybox because they’re afraid nobody wants to play with them, and thus selfishly feels nobody but them should get the toys! ... Here is the uncomfortable truth Sam Altman is always loath to admit in interviews: OpenAI is worried about losing its lead. The last 18 months have seen competitors catching up fast — Anthropic, Meta, xAI, and specifically Google’s Gemini 3 has gotten a ton of praise just in the past week. Everyone’s chasing training capacity. Everyone needs memory. DRAM is the lifeblood of scaling inference and training throughput. Cutting supply to your rivals is not a conspiracy theory. It’s a business tactic as old as business itself. And so, when you consider how secretive OpenAI was about their deals with Samsung and SK Hynix, but additionally how unready they were to immediately utilize their warehouses of DRAM wafers – it sure seems like a primary goal of these deals was to deprive the market, and not just an attempt to protect OpenAI's own supply…
#tech #gemini #AI #world #technology #News #business #conspiracy #press #meta #openai #samaltman

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Birdle 🇬🇧 16/12/2025

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Play Birdle UK, a daily bird guessing game. Learn about British birds in just 5 guesses.
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“President Trump to address nation Wednesday night”

Are we placing bets on his topic? Invading Venezuela? Nuclear strike? More tariffs? Fewer tariffs? Attacking a dead celebrity?

That’s the thing about having an actual psychopath as president - you just never know.

I suppose the networks will carry this live since they traditionally give presidents air time when asked.

But this is Trump, after all, so they should prepare to be hoodwinked.

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I'm going with a real longshot: After bloviating for a half hour about his imaginary accomplishments, he announces that he has pancreatic cancer and six months to live.

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You’ve got until the end of the week to get 10% off prints, postcards, and bookmarks! ✨

Shop: lindenshieldarts.com

#FantasyArt #NatureArt #ShopSmall #GiftIdeas #FediGiftShop #Forest #Nature #Mosstodon

A photo of a gouache painting, placed on a wooden desk and surrounded by leaves, dried flowers, and paint brushes. The painting features an angular, moss-covered rock, floating above mossy stone steps in a dark forest. Soft light is flooding the scene from above, gently illuminating the moss and the tiny white flowers growing in it.

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#nature #forest #mosstodon #fantasyart #natureart #giftideas #ShopSmall #fedigiftshop

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Popular UK Film Location Aims to Boost Off-Screen Appeal
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-12-16/how-uk-s-croydon-became-a-little-known-hollywood-backdrop-citylab-daily?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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‘Sinners,’ ‘Wicked: For Good,' ‘KPop Demon Hunters' advance in Oscars shortlists
https://apnews.com/article/oscars-2026-shortlists-5cab4a75cb09faa9cfc28d0c95b86284?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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What a shot. Seems to be real, and seems to not be a composite.
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251216.ht… "Explanation: What’s happening over that tree? Two very different things. On the left is the Andromeda galaxy, an object that is older than humanity and will last billions of years into the future. Andromeda (M31) is similar in size and shape to our own Milky Way Galaxy. On the right is a red sprite, a type of lightning that lasts a fraction of a second and occurs above violent thunderstorms. Red sprites were verified as real atmospheric phenomena only about 35 years ago. The tree in the center is a boab, which may live for as long as a thousand years. Boab trees grow naturally in Australia and Africa and are known for being able to store large amounts of water: up to 100,000 liters. The featured image was captured last month near Derby in Western Australia."
Andromeda galaxy, red sprite, a boab tree.

APOD: 2025 December 16 – Andromeda and Sprites over Australia

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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Manjaro-based Mabox Linux 25.12 introduces panel and menu improvements, a revamped update notifier, and completes the transition away from the aging GTK2 toolkit.
linuxiac.com/mabox-linux-25-12…

#linux #opensource

Manjaro-based Mabox Linux 25.12 introduces panel and menu improvements, a revamped update notifier, and completes the transition away from the aging GTK2 toolkit.

Mabox Linux 25.12 Released With Panel Improvements and GTK2 Removal

Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
#Linux #opensource

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Really wet mosses. It's interesting how one species gets wet, flops down and looks like algae, and the other two remain spiky and erect. There's a yellowish lichen off to the right
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #Mosses #Mosstodon #MossesOfMastodon #OurNeighborhood
Three kinds of green moss on a rock wall: a white tipped moss (Gray cushioned grimmia?) at the top left, a cat tail moss (electrified cat tail?) in the middle, and another species with spiky supersaturated leaves at the bottom right. The mosses have brown tipped sporangia rising above the cushions, some of which have collected a drop of water.
#Photography #mosstodon #mosses #seattlewashington #ourneighborhood #seattlewinter #mossesofmastodon

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Dezember 2024, Klimaprotest bei einem Erdgas-Lobbytreffen im Hotel Adlon in Berlin. Ich war als Beobachter vor Ort.

Obwohl die mutigen Aktivistinnen und Aktivisten nur friedlich auf dem Gehweg saßen, wurden sie von der Polizei gewaltsam mit Schmerzgriffen geräumt.

Auch Joris Verletzungen sind nach einem Jahr noch nicht verheilt - siehe „Hand-OP nach #Polizeigewalt - Lohnausfall und Anwaltskosten“.

Auf der folgenden Seite stehen Details - und eine IBAN, wenn ihr nicht wollt, dass Daten und Geld zu GoFundMe fließen:
gofund.me/34f6d995d

Und hier ist Joris Spendenseite:
gofundme.com/f/handop-nach-pol…

#Polizeigewalt

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RE: hci.social/@fasterandworse/115…

Firefox's killer feature is that it's not chromium. That's the pull. Nothing to do with tab grouping or UI design.

When your userbase is made of people who don't want bullshit, you are taking a risk with every new feature, especially the ultimate bullshit feature of AI

Stephen Farrugia

2025-12-16 20:25:55

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> Enzor-DeMeo spent 2025 racing to make Firefox a more compelling product, adding things like tab groups, while also trying to figure out how the browser should integrate with AI.

It's a web browser! It doesn't have to be compelling! It's for accessing compelling stuff!

theverge.com/tech/845216/mozil…

archive: archive.is/VCWZI



Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox

Anthony Enzor-DeMeo says he thinks Mozilla and Firefox still have a role to play in the web, even as things shift toward AI.
David Pierce (The Verge)

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I already had tab groups. They were called "windows". I'm more than a little confused by this feature and I've turned it off.
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@mcc I use it at work. I open groups of tabs related to separate but similar tasks, put them in a group and process them as I'm able to. Don't really use it at home, but I appreciate and like the organization they provide.
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Estère Touring Aotearoa New Zealand This Summer byteseu.com/1633851/ #Estere #EstèreTouringAotearoaNewZealandThisSummer #NewZealand
Estère Touring Aotearoa New Zealand This Summer

Estère Touring Aotearoa New Zealand This Summer

Estère achieved a coveted top twenty placing for the 2025 Silver Scroll Award with her luminous duet with Deva Mahal 'South Coast' (co-written by both
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#NewZealand #estere #esteretouringaotearoanewzealandthissummer

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How a Trump business deal with a crypto firm exposes potential conflicts of interest
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-a-trump-business-deal-with-a-crypto-firm-exposes-potential-conflicts-of-interest?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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How a Trump business deal with a crypto firm exposes potential conflicts of interest

Crypto.com was under siege — investigated by President Joe Biden's Democratic administration and told enforcement action was likely. Then Donald Trump won the 2024 election, and the company’s legal peril dissipated.
PBS News
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