2025-12-08
Horseshit
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Brussels nativity scene faces controversy over faceless characters
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Who has a right to the moon economy? Whoever gets there first
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Kitchen Dispatch: A Quest to Create the Perfect Pawpaw Ice Cream
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Tech hopefuls are listing SF in their online bios even if they don't live there
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Ford Recalls Almost 109,000 Escape SUVs After Ignoring an Issue for Four Years.
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My Mother-in-Law Is Torturing the Family with Her Beloved "Hobby."
celebrity gossip
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
Electric / Self Driving cars
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Waymo: Lots happening, but nothing has changed
The reality is nothing about Waymo’s scale-up trajectory has changed in the last month, except perhaps Waymo getting more serious about primping for an IPO or an additional investment round. Waymo will continue to expand, and they are entirely in control of the calculus of how much risk they subject other road users to as they do so. Waymo will continue to face new challenges as they scale up, because Waymo is nearer the beginning than they are to the end of their robotaxi scaling journey.
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
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Here’s the problem for the feminists busy sawing at the branch on which they sit: The same Christian ideas that grant feminism its moral force carry other implications. Though women are a vulnerable group by virtue of their being smaller and weaker than men, there is another group of human beings who are weaker still. A group with no ability to defend themselves against violence, or to proclaim their rights. The very smallest and weakest among us, in fact. Whether we like it or not, we cannot place the protection of the vulnerable at the heart of our ethical system without reaching the conclusion that the unborn child ought not to be killed. This presents a problem for feminism, because a prohibition on abortion places on women burdens that it does not place on men. And given the widespread practice of both abortion and infanticide, even in Christian cultures, it’s apparent that people struggle to abide by a moral principle that causes huge practical problems. Christianity only ever blended with paganism, rather than fully replacing it, because Christian teachings do cause huge practical problems for followers of the faith. It is difficult to be a good Christian; it is supposed to be.
The legal status of abortion is at the center of the contemporary culture war because it represents the bleeding edge of dechristianization. When pro-life and pro-choice advocates fight about the nitty-gritty of abortion policy, what they are really fighting about is whether our society ought to remain Christian.
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man’s Meta Smart Glasses on Subway
instead of coming to his support, the internet wholeheartedly rallied behind the alleged perpetrator, celebrating the woman as a folk hero — and perfectly highlighting how the public feels about gadgets like Meta’s smart glasses. “Good, people are tired of being filmed by strangers,” one user commented. “The fact that no one else on the train is defending him is telling,” another wrote. “She’s perfect,” another gushed. “I hope she called him a dork for wearing them before she broke them.” Others accused the man of fabricating details of the incident.
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Marketing by "persecution": Indie horror game Horses deserves to be played, even if it's not very good.
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My First Impressions of MeshCore Off-Grid Messaging
I originally started digging into the MeshCore source to understand the T-Deck UI, but I couldn’t find any code for it. I couldn’t find the source to the MeshCore Android or web apps either. And then I realized: it’s all closed-source. All of the official MeshCore client implementations are closed-source and proprietary. I still love the idea of MeshCore, but it doesn’t yet feel practical for communicating in an emergency. The software is too difficult to use, and I’ve been unable to send messages farther than five blocks
TechSuck / Geek Bait
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
Crypto con games
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Stablecoins Can Help Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions
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I wasted years of my life in crypto
This industry mentality is incredibly toxic, and I believe it will lead to the long-term collapse of social mobility for the younger generation. You already see this happening in real time, and I think it’s really up to us to find the courage in ourselves to resist the pull of worthless games.
Economicon / Business / Finance
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Dollar-stores overcharge cash-strapped customers while promising low prices
Red Baron frozen pizzas, listed on the shelf at $5, rang up at $7.65. Bounty paper towels, shelf price $10.99, rang up at $15.50. Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes, Stouffer’s frozen meatloaf, Sprite and Pepsi, ibuprofen, Klondike Minis – shoppers were overpaying for all of them. Pedigree puppy food, listed at $12.25, rang up at $14.75. All told, 69 of the 300 items came up higher at the register: a 23% error rate that exceeded the state’s limit by more than tenfold. Some of the price tags were months out of date.
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Apple's chief chip architect has reportedly talked to CEO Tim Cook about leaving
Left Angst
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For US Businesses, Tariff Complexity Is "Death by a Thousand Papercuts"
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Trump Thinks a $100k Visa Fee Would Make Companies Hire More Americans
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Three-year-old forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
Three-year-old Lucy approached the lawyer’s table wearing a multi-colored and floral dress and bright red pants. The child, barely old enough to talk, was one of 25 immigrant children forced to fight removal efforts by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) at the Pima County immigration courthouse in Tucson on Nov. 24. Unable to reach the chair on her own, Lucy was lifted into the seat by Ana Islas, a lawyer with the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project (FIRRP), a nonprofit providing legal services to immigrants. Islas pulled out a brown teddy bear to ease the toddler’s nerves while she faced Judge Irene C. Feldman. Islas is not formally representing Lucy, but provided Feldman with information regarding Lucy’s case due to her age and inability to understand immigration proceedings.
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U.S. Flips History by Casting Europe–Not Russia–As Villain in Security Policy
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FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
World
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Faith and Reform: is the religious right on the rise in UK politics?
Religion, specifically Protestant evangelism, has in recent decades been one of the defining elements of rightwing politics in the US. Its adherents form the bedrock of Donald Trump’s support. Is the UK starting to head down the same path? There are some links. Orr is sufficiently close to JD Vance that he has hosted the US vice-president at his family home. He is also involved in the National Conservatism movement, which has connections to the US religious-populism world.
- I can't keep up; are "women may not speak or be seen" Muslims part of the "religious right" we should worry about or not?
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UK tax system steers anyone living off capital to becoming an eccentric laird
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GPS interference in the Baltic Sea becoming more complex and stronger
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Researchers find critical backdoor in Swiss online voting system
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Nightclub blaze in India's Goa kills 25, including four tourists
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Belgium's Latest Pirate Site-Blocking Order Spares DNS Providers
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Are sperm banks in Denmark rejecting donors based on their IQ?
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French government plan to 'label' news outlets backfires spectacularly
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If you are surrounded by hostile powers, and if you don’t have the ability to guard yourself against those powers, no amount of historical greatness can save you from being subjugated. This is an important lesson for Europeans to remember right now, as they find their region under siege from Russia, China, and the United States all at once.
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Rape victims will no longer be depicted as serial liars in England and Wales
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A month before a child in Brandy Cooney and Becky Hamber’s care died, the couple texted about him falling, acting drunk and having unfocused eyes. They questioned whether he should go to a hospital and whether he might be “dying,” then agreed they should try to warm him up.
L.L. was 12 when he died in Hamber and Cooney’s care on Dec. 21, 2022. His brother J.L., is now 13. According to texts presented in court Wednesday, Cooney and Hamber mentioned killing L.L. or J.L. at least four times in 2022. In a Sept. 20 conversation about L.L. soiling himself, Cooney said, “I’m trying, I really just wanna murder.” On Nov. 1, Hamber texted her wife about one of the boys, saying, as if she were addressing him: “You are tired because you are malnourished because of your shitty choices.” She added to Cooney: “I’m gonna kill his whiney ass.”
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
China
Health / Medicine
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
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The Married Scientists Torn Apart by a Covid Bioweapon Theory - The New York Times
In 2020, a Chinese virologist fled to the United States, aided by allies of President Trump who sought to promote her unproven theories about the origins of Covid-19. Her husband still can’t find her.
Her plane ticket to the United States had been paid for by a foundation tied to Mr. Trump’s former strategist, Steve Bannon, and the exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui. They had placed her in a series of “safe houses” once she arrived and had arranged for her to meet some of the president’s top advisers. Later that summer, he watched in shock as Dr. Yan became a talking head on the MAGA media circuit in the United States, with repeated appearances on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News TV show promoting her origin theories. “The whole arc of the story and the counternarrative that we put out about Covid, a lot of it was because of Dr. Yan,” Mr. Bannon said in a recent interview. “She became a media star.”
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Spain probes whether swine fever outbreak was caused by lab leak