America vs. the World President Trump wants to return to the 19th century’s international order. He will leave America less prosperous—and the whole world less secure.

This really is the article to read.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Due to current events:

Werden deutsche Kommunen in 2026 mehr Investitionen tätigen, Ekaterina Jürgens?
Die Wirtschaftsprognosen unserer IMK Expert:innen für 2026: https://www.imk-boeckler.de/de/so-wird-2026-73211.htm
#Sowird2026 #IMK

Agreed. The bizarre thing about Trump is that he acts in a way that the worst US critics always accused the US of acting ("just take the natural resources").

LLMs are reshaping software dev. I don't buy "the end of software dev": Project ambition will grow dramatically.

Ancient Egyptians could build the Pyramids but not the Empire State Building.

Pre-LLM software will be viewed like we view the Pyramids.

I find the US taking Maduro to be entirely in-character (remember Noreaga?). The weird part is having just pardoned Hernandez after he did the same thing.

Baghdad would like to have a word ;)

No Blood For Oil vs. Exactly How Much Oil Are We Talking About?

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

"did you hear what happened to the Cubans?"

"no what did we do"

"blew their corners smoov off, they're Sphereans now"

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

I bought 1990 vintage cars used. They work great.

Crazy, eh?

In the same way there are kleptomaniacs that can't keep themselves from stealing stuff, I suffer from some form of debug-o-mania where I seem to subconsciously seek out life situations that make me spend time debugging in gdb or rr.

Declared inbox bancruptcy and archived 13k conversations. GMail is very very buggy when mass archiving stuff.

Sending good vibes.

Meaning that infrastructure like AWS is not something that Signal, or almost anyone else, could afford to just “spin up.” Which is why nearly everyone that manages a real-time service–from Signal, to X, to Palantir, to Mastodon–rely at least in part on services provisioned by these companies. 8/

I wonder why every LLM provider insists in having their own CLI agent. Can I have a merge between codex, Gemini-cli and Claude code with swappable models plz?

What happened? :)

Is There a Price Tag for the Louvre’s Stolen Jewels? As soon as the gems hit the black market they could be much less valuable, and their historic value drops.

The French crown jewels stolen from the Louvre are steeped in history — and priceless.

What happens when they make it to the black market?

Making a firm commitment to asking the question that reveals ignorance until said ignorance is gone

WhatsApp Inc. v. NSO Group Technologies Limited, 4:19-cv-07123 - CourtListener.com Docket for WhatsApp Inc. v. NSO Group Technologies Limited, 4:19-cv-07123 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.

3/ NSO also emerges from the WhatsApp v NSO case with just an absolute TON of their business splashed all over the court records..

Ouch

E.g. check out the filings from Sept 15th 2025:

www.courtlistener.com/docket/16395...

2/ Altho massive punitive damages jury award against NSO Group ($167m) got reduced by the court, as is expected in cases where it is so large (to 9x compensatory damages)...

This is likely cold comfort to NSO since I think the injunction seriously dims value of NSO's spyware product.

No, but a lot of the "weights are not derived from training data" hinges on arguments that individual works disappear in the larger training corpus.

#hexacon closing presentation from amnesty international about abuse of offensive tools in Serbia, Hungary, and the use of such tools by ICE. Strong choice, very good conference.

A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size Anthropic research on data-poisoning attacks in large language models

There's an argument to be made that this new security research from Anthropic also has copyright implications.
www.anthropic.com/research/sma...

(My mind was blown by the "more women are willing to undergo a hormonal cycle and surgery than men are willing to donate sperm" - that was just unimaginable to me previously)

According to the podcast the bottleneck is exactly that: An insufficient number of volunteers in France at least.

So my information is from a French podcast called "Les couilles sur la table" (episode here: www.binge.audio/podcast/les-...) and it had the most insane data point: Up until last year, there were more women willing to donate eggs than men willing to donate sperm in France.

Random bizarre data point btw: In France, there's a 10k waitlist for receiving a sperm donation, average waiting time is ~2 years. So in theory, any man could participate in procreation, if not in fatherhood. Would one get a tax rebate then?