A former writer for South Park foresaw Trump's takeover of the Kennedy Center and had the foresight to register the domain names trumpkennedycenter dot org and dot com back in August. JFK's niece thanked him for doing so. Of course, the Trump-controlled board now wants their domain name and threatened legal action. His response is brilliant.
How does censorship of science fit into broader censorship efforts, and how did they play out overall this year?
Excellent op ed and report by @attorneynora
>> Over the past year, individual and communal acts of resistance have blunted the potency of Mr. Trump’s censorship campaign and contributed to his declining approval ratings. Unquestionably, more and more Americans are rejecting his overreach.
cc @pluralistic
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/opinion/trump-first-amendment-dissent.html
Nora writes: "Constitutional rights & democratic norms don’t disappear all at once; they erode slowly. The next three years will require a vigilant defense of free speech and open debate."
Importantly, as Nora outlines, the government can chill speech even if they lose cases: "these efforts work in concert in their frequency and volume... meant to overwhelm us and make us think twice about exercising our rights."
For more on chilling effects, see our panel:
https://knightcolumbia.org/events/the-science-of-chilling-effects
WhatsApp is the worst project management tool ever invented, bought (in 2014) by one of the worst companies ever invented.
tbf it wasn’t invented to do that, but people use it for that and then go…
“Well that’s just what everyone uses”
…Why are our comms so inefficient?
Hmm, maybe because you keep cramming everything into a never-ending flat chronology, with sporadic links to documents in the cloud which have disappeared in the timeline and, when re-upped, appear as islands emerging out of an ocean of fog where every other possibly related document is invisible?
Happy New Year #Fediverse and all the best wishes from a free and democratic #Taiwan
My home, the place where I belong to and probably one of the friendliest countries on this beautiful planet!
Molta gent avui a Palma per commemmorar la Diada de #Mallorca 
Molt per lluitar, tot per guanyar.
Nvidia, $NVDA, is up 0.45%.
Almost all analysts have abuy rating on it.
From somewhere at #39c3
I’m getting a Bad Gateway 502 error when I try to post to @Alice@gram.social on Pixelfed and I’m not sure if it's something wrong on my end, or with gram.social, or with Pixelfed altogether.
Is anyone else having trouble?
@Alice @Alice@gram.social @stux@gram.social @stux@mstdn.social This account was deleted for heresy.
We’re helping Putin win Ukrainian territory.
We’re holding Israel’s coat in its continuing genocide.
We’re telling Taiwan not to worry about China.
We’re attacking Venezuela.
We’re attacking Nigeria.
We’re attacking Yemen.
We’re threatening Greenland.
We’re snubbing Europe and Canada.
We’re getting really cozy with Saudi Arabia and Qatar and UAE.
This isn’t a foreign policy, it’s a protection racket
Two questions:
- What options do you have for UA? Nukes?
- Don’t you think, that people like v.d. Leyen an and Kaja Kallas (and Brussels in general) deserve better treatment?
How does censorship of science fit into broader censorship efforts, and how did they play out overall this year?
Excellent op ed and report by @attorneynora
>> Over the past year, individual and communal acts of resistance have blunted the potency of Mr. Trump’s censorship campaign and contributed to his declining approval ratings. Unquestionably, more and more Americans are rejecting his overreach.
cc @pluralistic
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/opinion/trump-first-amendment-dissent.html
Statements of the form "the AI bubble will crash but the *technology* will remain" are vacuous. Stop making them.
The useful tech is the transformer, which already existed and was useful.
Generative AI brings no new usefulness to the table, even in business terms, without a VC-funded bubble.
The same guys were making the same vacuous statement about bitcoin and blockchain.
No tech from blockchain dates later than 2001. Crypto added nothing.
Whether AI or crypto, it's a dumb statement shallow people make thinking it makes them sound smart.
and if you follow up with "but it's useful to meeeeeeeeee" I'll just block you. Assume I've heard your excuse and it's bad.
I can't think of a single excuse of the "AI is here to stay" form that survives the crash. Here's a catalogue: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/10/ai-is-here-to-stay-is-it-though-what-do-you-mean-stay/
even "the maths will remain" isn't for sure. ML as a research field has been heavily corrupted by LLM money, down to accepting spinning a roulette wheel in methodology. ML is headed for one doozy of a replication crisis, if they don't just throw out most of the past few years. Start over at 2022, maybe.
AI is a room full of VCs who've gone from wondering who's the bagholder to wondering if they're *all* the bagholders
meanwhile Jensen is driving off in a dumptruck filled with all their actual dollar money, whistling a jaunty tune.
@davidgerard Hard to imagine someone is going to keep a service online if it's not profitable.
@lowqualityfacts kill two birds with one stone and just go in for the eyeball lick the first time you meet someone, then do yourself. Better to know right off the bat.
What does the journalism of resisting fascism look like? Who is doing it? (Pls reply if you know and boost)
@otfrom Flatwater Free Press in Nebraska does a good job, focused on the impacts in Nebraska of state, federal, and local policymaking and place issues.
I'm here for it. Bring it on!
@TheBreadmonkey I'm hoping she goes traditional blues
that'd be awesome
I don't want to read into this too much, but when a coworker hearts my message in slack, does that mean they like me or LIKE like me?
@Alice They like you an HR-approved amount.
Why; were you thinking… like a GIF sticker of The Lady and the Tramp realizing they were slurping the same spaghetti noodle amount?
In that case, we have these forms for you both to fill out.
I have questions.
TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: I like the DU command in Dired https://taonaw.com/2025/12/31/i-like-the-du-command.html
You’re welcome! 😊🍻 HNY!
@infobeautiful Hmm... I have a hangover cure that works really well for me, but it contains a particular ingredient that doesn't seem to be in ANY of those. That ingredient is cysteine, which is apparently needed by the hung over body - and it's found in oats, hence porridge is an essential item in my cure :)
* Water
* Sweet hot tea
* Beans on toast
* Porridge
Simple. And can also quite easily be vegan, too.
TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: I like the DU command in Dired https://taonaw.com/2025/12/31/i-like-the-du-command.html
