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Israel Is Defending…Germany?!? – Zeihan on Geopolitics byteseu.com/1625113/ #Geopolitics



The political theory of "everyone is twelve now" really is undefeated. None of this propaganda makes any sense until you realize the target audience never intellectually or emotionally developed past middle school. Just picture a bunch of giddy kids clapping along like "haha the turtle has an RPG, and they've photoshop Santa hats onto the secret police". That's their voters.


Really bad food poisoning today. No idea what from. I've had stuff coming out of both ends all night, and now sitting delicately as I contemplate an entire day of desperately hoping I make it to the toilet on time.

How are things with you?

#WritersLife #writing #blergh #illness #sick #WritingCommunity



"If progressives are serious about expanding power ... then we need to broaden our idea of what electability looks like. Electability should be defined by voters, ... [a]nd they should recognize that when Black women like #JasmineCrockett run, they are doing more than campaigning for office. They are challenging norms, expanding possibilities, and unsettling comfortable assumptions about who deserves to represent us."

theblackwallsttimes.com/2025/1…

#USPol



“In the EU, they've had the GDPR – a big, muscular privacy law – for nine years, and all it's really done is drown the continent in cookie-consent pop-ups. But that's not because the GDPR is flawed, it's because Ireland is a tax-haven that has lured in the world's worst corporate privacy-violators, and to keep them from moving to another tax haven (like Malta or Cyprus or Luxembourg), it has to turn itself into a crime-haven.”
#Tech #Corruption
pluralistic.net/2025/12/13/unc…


In the past few days, I have shared:

✅ some essays on linguistics
✅ mastodon plushy photos
✅ a random selfie
✅ a music rec
✅ on woke activism
✅ unrelatable foreign language stuff in not-english
✅ and obscure gen z cultural trivia

I think I have earned one self-promo post without getting reported for being a porn bot for the bajillionth time



Three Americans killed by IS gunman in Syria, US military says byteseu.com/1625111/ #America #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USNews #USA #USANews


From Project Gutenberg:

Storia della decadenza e rovina dell'impero romano, volume 02

by Edward Gibbon

Get it at: gutenberg.org/ebooks/45216



Four years after our wedding and after a LOT of planning we are finally leaving for our honeymoon in New Zealand!

Rochester has decided to remind us why this was a good idea by looking like this:



1 with Senate GOP Leader Anthony Bucco byteseu.com/1625109/ #Politics


Another wishlist plant checked off the never ending list ✨ allforgardening.com/1537866/an… #philodendron #PhilodendronPlants


"Stuckey’s approach, and the approach of others on what has become a broader anti-empathy right, is disingenuous. But their blatant manipulation can tell us something about how empathy works, and how it doesn’t work."
therevealer.org/what-we-can-le…


That Guardian article on decoupling. I managed to split the thread into two.
Part 1: mstdn.social/@degrowthuk/11570…
And part 2:
mstdn.social/@degrowthuk/11570…
But fear not, there's a short response article coming soon.


People will be asking about this article. Some comments follow in a thread.
Economic growth no longer linked to carbon emissions in most of the world, study finds | Fossil fuels | The Guardian theguardian.com/environment/20… (delete cookies)

The #Guardian appears to have a po0icy of not linking the reports it cites. So here you are:
ca1-eci.edcdn.com/10YPP_Decoup…


reshared this



Netflix Is Reinventing Its Business Again. Could the Stock Be Heading Higher? byteseu.com/1625107/ #business #netflix #StreamingService #WarnerBros.


in reply to Pacomm

Oui génial on n'en voit pas si souvent ! J'adore le regarder marcher sous l'eau dans le courant, on se demande comment il fait...

in reply to Nonilex

#update

#Brown #ActiveShooter in custody

Police responded to an active shooter situation Saturday on campus at #BrownUniversity in #Providence, acc/to the school’s alert system. Officials said a suspect was in custody.

The #shooting was reported near the Barus & Holley building, a 7-story structure that houses the School of #Engineering & #Physics Dept.

#RhodeIsland #SchoolShooting #BlueCity #BlueState #GunViolence #GunControl #GunLaws #RedFlagLaws #law #Republicans
apnews.com/article/brown-unive…

in reply to Nonilex

Story is updated; unnamed university source says 2 are dead, unknown more injured, seems like shooter(s?) still at large.
in reply to Nonilex

Update

Law enforcement ofcls Monday urgently renewed their search for the gunman who killed 2 people at #BrownUniversity in #RhodeIsland over the weekend, after investigators released a person of interest because they could not find enough evidence connecting him to the shooting.

Mayor Brett Smiley of #Providence, RI, said Sunday night that officials had no way of knowing if the attacker, who killed at least 2 students & injured 9 on Saturday, was still in the city.

nytimes.com/live/2025/12/15/us…



IPv4 was first published as a standalone spec in 1982, and IPv6 was published in 1995

did you catch it? that's right, the legacy situation we're all still trying to move on from was only entrenched for 13 years before the replacement came out.... now the replacement has been here for 30, and we're still not fully onto it

in reply to Irenes (many)

slight counterpoint: getting people (vendors) to implement IPv4 (at all, then widely, then well) took most of that time, to the point where it was not entirely clear that it was entrenched until somewhere after those 13 when we actually started trying to move off it


Evaluating Alkami Technology (ALKT) After a Steep Pullback and Recent Share Price Rebound byteseu.com/1625106/ #DigitalBanking #GrowthProfile #RevenueGrowth #Technology #TotalShareholderReturn