"Si au détour d'un chemin, tu rencontres un intellectuel brillant qui fait plus d'une conférence par an, tue-le".

(Ceci n'est pas un appel au meurtre mais une référence à une célèbre maxime bouddhiste)

(j'ai écrit puis ça découvert qu'il est en pleine tournée https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-09-30-enshittification-tour-moving-right-along-0105635b3191)

In Italia c'è talmente tanto odio che gli islamici sentono il bisogno di fare gli auguri di natale, e dimostrare che non sono tutti terroristi o esaltati proprio come noi non siamo tutti Breivik o Borghezio. Un grande abbraccio a tutte le vittime dell'odio, in tutte le sue declinazioni, e un grazie enorme a tutti quelli che si sforzano di superare le barriere religiose, culturali, nazionaliste, identitarie e tribali che ci tengono lontano da tati altri esseri umani.

@rolle Thank you for having started and maintaining one of the best instances in the Fediverse! 🙏

re https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-27/nelson-wetlands-green-energy-boom-planning-protections/106097868
"The turbines, she says, would mark a transition of the area from a very natural, wild place into something marred by industrialisation."
The turbines are going into a pine plantation. That is already incredibly industrial. Given that good orgs like BirdLife Australia are opposed to this development I'll certainly accept that it's a bad location. But it's hard to enter this culture war territory without emboldening the anti-environmental side
See their lies amplified here: industrialisation, preventing firefighting, impossible renewable energy targets. These lies are often wrapped in green rhetoric. "green energy threatens what it is meant to save" is the headline, but really it's just meant to provide emissions-free electricity.

I love listening to the #podcasting2_0 #Podcast with @dave and @adam. Such good conversations. Like being a fly on the wall during a good convo!

#Podcast #Podcasting #podcasting2

@reflex @trwnh awesome, will look into it

@chessert

I don't know any groups on those specific sports, but if anyone wants to set up groups they can do so at https://about.fedigroups.social

For anyone who does set up a group, let me know about it on my other account @FediFollows and I'll give it a shoutout 🙂

@realn2s

...die Kontakte leiern aus, so dass Schukostecker zwar noch ordentlich versorgt werden, die schmalen Euro Stecker aber keinen Kontakt bekommen, oder Wackelkontakt oder nur in bestimmten Winkel...

Die Zeit hat das schön recherchiert:

https://www.zeit.de/2025/39/deutsche-bahn-steckdosen-zug-technik

@herrbett

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/115635779318419465

"The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses."

And in this case the things they are using to kill it have radio transponders that regularly transmit their geolocation, and these can be looked up on sites that also generally track their Intended destination.

Frog suit Luigi jokes aside, I do feel like it would be possible to blockade some of these ships or at least make their stays in some ports uncomfortable. There are some problems with tracking boats to specific owners, but any giant yacht should probably just be resisted on principle.

I hope someone with more organizing time than me thinks about this a bit. It would definitely take international effort, but an international org like XR could actually probably pull something like that off... If they actually wanted to do something.

Russia says Zelensky’s 20-point peace plan is radically different from version discussed with the U.S.: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/26/russia-says-zelenskys-point-peace.html

Here's something cool to consider about Apple's upcoming support for Podcasting 2.0 cloud chapters: it means video podcasts can now have chapters in Apple Podcasts!

Mr. Beast: I'm giving two people $500,000.

Me: Wow, that's so generous.

Mr. Beast: ...if they stay in prison for 100 days.

Me: Oh. Is the dehumanizing part necessary?

Mr. Beast: Gotta go, I'm meeting with a chemo patient to see if they'll wear a wig made out of rat fur for $100,000.

I just added some AI resources and more tools to the great #podcasting deals list at https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/bfcm25

@fuzzyleapfrog
Längst erledigt!

@Daojoan this reveals a level of corruption and and systemic fragility that few knew about.

It didn’t take much.

I left/deleted #Tiktok in 2022 & never went back. Did you also delete Tiktok?
If so, what are some things you don't miss about Tiktok?

I have a pretty substantial list. I'll start with just a couple.

- Dangerous & ridiculous Tiktok challenges.
- Zero content warnings used on illicit/rampant hard drugs & alcohol drinking videos.
- Unfettered bullying/harassment with little to zero mods/admin help.
- minors being pimped by their parents for views.
- multiple shadow bans on POC folks political content.

#BitchList

Rob Pike got spammed by "AI Village", a poorly considered experiment in autonomous AI agents which has been sending out unsolicited emails to people (including NGOs and journalists) since April - I wrote up some notes on what happened and how it all works: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/26/slop-acts-of-kindness/

2 new features on PodChapters!

1. It's small, but we now have a site for our roadmap, feature requests, and update logs: https://roadmap.podchapters.com
2. Using Outline to Chapters™, AI suggestions, or importing will save each resulting version. Easily switch!

https://podchapters.com/

It's Christmas Eve, and instead of talking about #podcasting or goals for a new year, I want to share a special Christmas message:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd4Jhr04xRw