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Guess what % of plastics have been #recycled? No prizes :(
Natürlich wäre es Musk lieber, sich mit kleinen Nationalstaaten, statt mit der EU-Kommission herumzuschlagen. Weil die EU als gemeinsamer Wirtschaftsraum ganz anders verhandeln &/ Regeln durchsetzen kann. Mit einem derart gigantischen Markt legen sich selbst die ganz Großen nicht so gerne an.🤷🏻♀️
Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros
Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/paramount-skydance-hostile-bid-wbd-netflix.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192459
I'm continuing to rip all my old DVDs, and now I can watch House M.D. as background noise. So, obviously, I am doing that.
It lands really differently than it did in 2004 (2004!? wtf!). And not in the ways you might expect. House's misogyny is a touch more grating than than it used to be, sure. But on the other hand, it's strangely utopian to imagine this world where people can just get healthcare. Everyone gets the tests, scans, medication, and surgeries they need. They get these things promptly, and without having to beg and plead with insurance companies.
This was obviously fantasy in 2004, but it would be entirely beyond belief, today.
Also, I've forgotten half the medical mysteries, so that's fun
@duncan__british_columbia@ca.fedimeteo.comDuncan - British Columbia - FediMeteo@duncan__british_columbia@ca.fedimeteo.comDuncan - British Columbia - FediMeteoViðtalið við Brynhildi Jenný sem Penninn gerði í tilefni nýju bókarinnar.
The interview with Brynhildur Jenný that the store Penninn did on the launch of her new book (which I published). I attempted to add English soft-subtitles, but I don't know if it took.
Original here: https://www.tiktok.com/@penninneymundsson/video/7576666782488857874?_r=1&_t=ZN-91hEf390yRi
Here's a version with quick and dirty English language hardsubs.
Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents
Link: https://www.trynia.ai/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46194828
Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1
Link: https://jepsen.io/analyses/nats-2.12.1
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196105
My cat hogs the space heater.
LB One of my favourite meme themes is cats being interviewed. Hilarious
途中おきだよ！全員集合！
My neighborhood has no HOA, which means I could install this on my roof if I wanted to
ヽ( ・∀・)ﾉ ｳﾝｺｰ
昨日地震あったのね。全然気がつかなかったわ 
Deep dive on Nvidia circular funding
Link: https://philippeoger.com/pages/deep-dive-into-nvidias-virtuous-cycle
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196076
A tech podcast that until now hasn’t put out an episode in years suddenly appeared in my Up Next list. Within minutes I heard “I know there’s a lot of ethical concerns about AI, but it helps me produce work faster, so…”.
Trace Line Clock Does It With Magnets
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/08/trace-line-clock-does-it-with-magnets/
HETERO WARNING!!!
GIRL X BOY ACTION!!!
DONT LIKE DONT WATCH
the issue is full of social commentary, especially given that it came out in 2017 when #metoo was happening, Ninja-G has to deal with both racism and sexism. She starts off in the Honeytrap program but refuses to be sexually touched by men and is moved to the Ninja program because she keeps stabbing dudes.
There's a mention that the only reason MI6 expanded the Ninja program to include women was because the Soviets were including women. The men of the program harass her and accuse her of sleeping her way to the top.
She refuses to kill IRA cells that aren't targeting civilians which makes MI6 mad.
And her handler is a white woman using her (a black woman) skills to get past the glass ceiling. And MI6 considers her handler expendable too despite that.
(cw: blood, death)
they weren't being subtle at all, and good on them
It really annoys me that we have "display names" and "handles" on social media that are displayed totally inconsistently. There should be a squircle / losenge presentation that includes handle, display name, and maybe profile pic in a few different sizes so that when a person is referenced, it always looks relatively similar
Quanta to publish popular math and physics books by Terence Tao and David Tong
Link: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/12/08/quanta-books-to-publish-popular-math-and-physics-titles-by-terence-tao-and-david-tong/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46195225
津波が大変なことになっているのですね……
I got that Big Nerd Energy
Craigslist founder signs the Giving Pledge, and his fortune will go to military families, fighting cyberattacks—and a pigeon rescue
https://fortune.com/2025/12/08/craigslist-founder-craig-newmark-signs-giving-pledge-pigeon-rescue-donation/
...and you're wasting even more of your life posting about your regrets at the Nazi bar. Still, they probably need to hear it most. Points for partial awakening. Hey, at least you made good money doing it, right?
"I wasted 8 years of my life in crypto"
"Over time however, I felt like I have lost my purpose in crypto. The initial siren songs of crypto’s transformative powers waned after working in the space full-time. I was disillusioned by my target customers and who I was really building for. I completely misunderstood what the actual users of crypto are v.s. just propaganda. Crypto purports that it helps decentralize the financial system, which I completely bought into, but in reality, it’s just a speculation and a gambling hyper-system that’s really just a mirror of what the economy is now."
"The reality hit me like a fucking truck. I am NOT building a new financial system. I built a casino. A casino that does not call itself a casino, but it is the biggest, online, multi-player 24/7 casino our generation has ever concocted. Some part of me wants me to feel proud that I contributed at least my 20s building this casino out. Another part of me literally feels like I wasted my entire 20s in this space. I wasted my life on this, but at least I made good money from it."
Went to open the car door, pull the handle and it flies right off. Not something they warn you about when you become a car owner. In other news I learned tonight how to reattach a car door handle.
Corollary to my previous post:
The more you know about a type system, the more errors you recognize as type errors. Null references, misshapen objects, non-exhaustive conditional logic, subtly incompatible schemas… they’re all common, and they all can be prevented by a type system (as long as you’re holding it right.)
I see JS devs object to TS with arguments like “TS will prevent you from converting a number to a string by accident, but that basically never happens in practice”. And they’re right, but they’re also showing a serious lack of understanding of a type system’s functionality.
Talking about languages is hard, because criticizing something you don’t understand well can easily turn into flaunting one’s ignorance. On the other hand, learning a language well is a huge investment and engineers can’t afford to lear every language which they choose not to use. We constantly have to make technology choices from a place of partial ignorance.
https://social.treehouse.systems/@jnkrtech/115684500999332883
ABC: 6-year-old girl dies after being injured at Florida trampoline adventure park: Police
The European Commission's proposed "Digital Omnibus" package would gut GDPR protections under the guise of cutting red tape. This is a terrible idea that would undermine privacy rights across the EU. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/eus-new-digital-package-proposal-promises-red-tape-cuts-guts-gdpr-privacy-rights
Real woke kids use "unalive", Sasha.
#FollowForMoreSensitivyTipsForNeoNazis #euromeme #shitposting #EU #EuropeanUnion #Europe #Dugin
NYT - Alina Habba has resigned as US attorney in New Jersey after a panel of federal judges ruled last week that she was serving in the position unlawfully. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/nyregion/alina-habba-nj-us-attorney-resigns.html?searchResultPosition=1
The companies whose whole job is understanding the Real Cost Of The Finding Out Part do not want to play this game at all.
🎉 Some important #CrossBorderRail news! 🎉
After thinking about the idea for more than a decade (yeah, this is later than a DB train!) I am finally starting to plan building a railway organisation for lobbying work, and 
@patrickPatrick Dersjant RCX 
@partimMartin Hoffmann & 
@redjivesJ—dV are in from the start. We're sort of soft launching today
Details 👇
https://jonworth.eu/european-rail-passengers-union-lobbying-for-passengers-cross-border/
European Rail Passengers Union: lobbying for passengers, cross border
It has been something in the back of my mind for more than a decade: how could railway passengers be better represented to campaign for improvements in international rail? Here's a piece I wrote in 2014 about the topic. And the issue very much came to a head in 2021 [...]
jonworth.eu · Jon Worth
Link author: 
Jon Worth@jon@gruene.social
LB One of my favourite meme themes is cats being interviewed. Hilarious
I'm getting a LOT of new followers this weekend and today from mastodon.social that claim to be news aggregators. all created in the past 72 hours. Someone's spinning up a MONSTROUS propaganda/fake news campaign out there right now! I'm guessing it's a state level actor. Be cautious and double-check anything that sounds too good to be true or too outrageous to ignore!
#lightadvent2025 day 8
...Time for some more artificial light, and even one of our projects. This was happening in my early days as a lighting designer, but aside from taking photos and some focusing assistance, I wasn't particularly involved with this design, myself.
It's the Twin Sails Bridge, in Poole. When opening at night, red light floods along the the pedestrian walkways, and highlights the leading edge of each of the opening 'sails'.
More here, if you like: https://dave-morris.net/Twin-Sails-Bridge
My neighborhood has no HOA, which means I could install this on my roof if I wanted to
#NowPlaying
Track: snowfall
Album: snowfall
Artist: Øneheart
Die nächste #OSS #Spende geht von mir in diesem Monat an 
@Codeberg. Eine sehr gute GitHub Alternative (natürlich nicht der gleiche Funktionsumfang) und pfeilschnell 🙂. Mittlerweile habe ich meine neuen #Git Repositories da angelegt. Auch hier: vielen Dank für eure Arbeit! #donation https://www.codeberg.org
Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
Link: https://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-jailbroken-kindle
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46194337
How the Creator Economy Destroyed the Internet
Link: https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/810002/influencers-creator-economy-special-series
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46194302
기사 내용이랑 무관하게 궁금한 게 있는데 '1617만7757명'이라는 좋은 표기가 있고 '1,617만7,757명'까지는 용서가 되는데 왜 굳이 난잡하게 천을 넣어서 '1천617만7천757명'이라고 쓰는 거지?
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uabkr6tn7ru4b4e5e6udleuf/post/3m7ihn5lmbc2o
Stefano Marinelli
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
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