January 01, 2026
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Stewart Cheifet Obituary December 28, 2025 - Goldsteins FuneralStewart Douglas Cheifet, age 87, of Philadelphia, PA, passed away on December 28, 2025. Stewart was born on September 24, 1938, to Paul and Anne Cheifet in Philadelphia, where h... |
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U.S. removal of cemetery panels honoring Black World War II troops spurs anger in NetherlandsThe removal by a U.S. military cemetery in the Netherlands of two displays recognizing Black troops who fought in World War II has spurred anger there. |
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Major Milestone for Pancoronavirus Vaccines and More (Next Generation Covid Vax Update No 36) - Absolutely MaybeHilda BastianThis month, the first clinical trial for a pancoronavirus formulation of an existing Covid vaccine was registered. Although it’s just on the… |
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Page Not Found - NASANASA explores the unknown in air and space, innovates for the benefit of humanity, and inspires the world through discovery. |
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A roar of disgustsource: https://bsky.app/profile/catbus.phd/post/3mbbxzbvnvk2i May Werner Herzog never call you a loser. Happy New Year, Mltshp! |
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Cop City RICO Cases Dismissed Years After 61 Activists Charged as Criminal Conspiracy - UNICORN RIOTBy Sean Summers, Unicorn RiotAtlanta – Racketeering charges against 61 people indicted as co-conspirators in the Stop Cop City movement were dismissed yesterday, marking a significant victory for those facing prosecution in the years after the movement’s peak. The dismissal comes after more than two years of attempted prosecution that sought to convict protesters who opposed Atlanta’s sprawling police […] |
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Windows 11’s 2025 meltdown: bugs, bad updates, and fed‑up usersZac BowdenToo many bugs. Too many changes. Too little control. Windows 11's reputation might be at its lowest it's ever been as 2025 comes to a close. |
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A 2026 checklistA way to build a habit out of what's important. |
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Foreign tech workers are avoiding travel to the USIt's not just the Trump Administration’s H-1B visa overhaul that’s keeping people away from jobs and conferences in the US. |
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JVThe critical annual update revealing the latest trends in global carbon emissions |
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Histogram4 April 2010. Near Tracy, CA. Wind generators at Altamont Pass. Nikkor AF-S 400mm/2.8G VR lens (@ f/8), Nikon D3x camera (@ ISO 100). No emulsions were harmed in the making of this image. 1166 |
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Medical breakthroughs in 2025Saloni Dattani... and a happy new year. |
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Why Are These Sea Urchins Sporting Cowboy and Viking Hats?An aquarium owner noticed his sea urchins covering themselves with rocks and other objects, so he started 3D printing goofy hats. But a marine biologist confirms that sea urchins are making more than fashion statements. |
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This artist designs intricate suits of armor. The intended wearer? A humble mouseDeena PrichepJeff de Boer has made an entire career out of crafting tiny plate armor. He's compelled by the idea of the underdog finding an edge; something so small being so well-protected. |
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List of aid groups working in Gaza that Israel is suspendingIsrael says it's suspending humanitarian organizations that have failed to meet its new rules to vet international groups working in Gaza. |
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Zohran Mamdani is sworn in as mayor of New York City | CNN PoliticsGloria PazminoZohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist who campaigned on a promise to tackle the affordability crisis in one of America’s most expensive cities, was sworn in as New York City’s 112th mayor early Thursday. |
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Trump administration reportedly freezes all childcare payments to all statesCarter ShermanTrump official says funds will be released ‘only when states prove they are being spent legitimately’ |
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Glyph (@glyph@mastodon.social)I have never worried about the singularity because I had a single conversation in 2007 with a guy who worked in a chip fab, and learned just the tiniest bit about the physical, mechanical process that goes into actually manufacturing a microprocessor, and how much of it requires direct intervention of human hands despite everyone involved in the process having wanted to automate it all since 1980 |
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EargappingI don't like to talk in absolutes about security, but... my headphones are 100% immune from the latest exploit, via this One Weird Trick! Now hear me out... I call it "eargapping". I learned about it in my Intro to Antique Coding class. quat: vendor of bluetooth chip used in sony, bose, and everyone else's headphones leaves debugging protocol completely open with no authentication over ... |
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Billionaires added record $2.2tn in wealth in 2025Michael SainatoJust eight billionaires accounted for a quarter of the gains, led by Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison and Larry Page |
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The Curious Case of the Shallow Session SPAsBuried at the end of this year's instalment of my semi-annual series on network and device reality is a mystery: multiple, independent data sets from the Web Performance community indicate sites built as Single-Page Applications ("SPAs") receive, on average, only one (1) "soft navigation" for every |
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We need to reassess our relationship to digital techGetting off US tech led me to a wider questioning of digital convenience |
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Ed Wilk antifascist (@edwilk@mstdn.social)Attached: 1 image |
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Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social)Attached: 2 images lol at the difference between the headline and the story |
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Buddhist monks persist in peace walk despite injuries as thousands follow them on social mediaA group of Buddhist monks is persevering in their peace walk across much of the U.S. even after two participants were injured when a truck hit their escort vehicle. |
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Everything Elon Musk promised in 2025, but didn't deliver@mashableElon Musk made many 2025 promises that he couldn't keep. |
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Silicon Valley's Push Into Transportation Has Been a Miserable FailureRhett JonesThe titans of tech brought plenty of disruption to our broken transportation system but delivered little in the way of innovation. |
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Ben Schorr :donor: (@bschorr@infosec.exchange)Attached: 1 image Nice way to think about this. #endorse #leadership |
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The Feds Keep Prosecuting Protesters Against ICE — and LosingNoah HurowitzProsecutors for the Trump administration have been quick to bring charges against ICE protesters. They've also been quick to lose the cases. |
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Trump Signs Defense Bill Prohibiting China-Based Engineers in Pentagon IT WorkRenee Dudley and Doris BurkeThe measure, which emerged in response to a ProPublica investigation, bars Microsoft engineers in China and other adversarial countries from servicing sensitive Pentagon cloud computing systems. |
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dansup (@dansup@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image You will soon be able to run your own federated, self-hosted TikTok alternative with first class support for ActivityPub and a rich API with a vibrant 3rd party ecosystem. https://loops.video #loops |
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Survey about legal and criminal threats experienced by journalists and security researchersResearchers who try to responsibly disclose leaks, vulnerabilities, and other security breaches or mishaps may face legal threats or lawsuits. Similarly, journalists may find themselves threatened with lawsuits or other legal consequences if they report on leaks or breaches. Both researchers and journalists also face threats by criminals ("threat actors") if they report on them in ways the threat actors find unflattering or harmful. In our many years of reporting on leaks, breaches, and crim... |
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Seven environmental wins across the US in 2025 despite Trump-era reversalsMaya YangEnvironmental advocates notched key wins at local and state levels this year despite Trump rollbacks |
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Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)Attached: 1 image Apparently, there is a sticker version, too. #39c3 ETA: https://punx.social/ |
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New EHRC chair tells trans people to 'judge me on what I do' after criticismAmelia HansfordThe EHRC's new chair Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson has asked trans rights groups to judge her on her actions following criticism. |
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Reasons for optimism at the turn of the year: reflections on the fediverses, the ATmosphere, and whatever comes nextThere really is a lot of exciting stuff happening! |
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Chris Trottier (@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)Country music is actually a big deal in Nigeria.Which confuses people who think genres only travel with flags attached. But it came in through English, radio, church, cassettes, cars. It stayed bec... |
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Flu cases are surging and rates will likely get worse, new CDC data showsJonathan LambertFlu season is off to a rough start this year, according to new CDC data. The virus is spreading faster than in previous years and the surge is likely to get worse. Here's what you need to know. |
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Recent booksOnce again it feels like I read more books than this, but the teetering tower of OSHA violations does not lie. Here are the books that I enjoyed this year, in desk-stack order: Damned -- Genevieve Cogman. Piranesi -- Susanna Clarke. When We Were Real -- Daryl Gregory. Ghost Station, Dead Silence, Cold Eternity -- SA Barnes. Foundryside, Shorefall, Locklands -- Robert Jackson Bennett. Letters ... |
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Tube❄Time (@tubetime@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image i fixed a computer this week. this is the 1960s IBM 1401 at the Computer History Museum in California. |
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Tube❄Time (@tubetime@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image i've built a reproduction chord keyboard (keyset)! this device was invented along with the computer mouse by Douglas Engelbart's team at SRI back in the 1960s. unlike the mouse, it never took off. files are here: https://github.com/schlae/engelbart-keyset |
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Trump administration orders aging Colorado coal plant to stay open, one day before closingThe move continues the Trump administration’s support of coal, but drew a furious response from environmental groups and Colorado officials. |
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David Revoy - Artist, Instructor, using only Free/Libre and Open-Source software since 2009.Website of David Revoy (aka Deevad), artist and instructor using only Free/Libre and Open-Source software since 2009. |
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States Tried to Censor Kids Online. Courts, and EFF, Mostly Stopped Them: 2025 in ReviewAaron MackeyLawmakers in at least a dozen states believe that they can pass laws blocking young people from social media or require them to get their parents’ permission before logging on. Fortunately, nearly every trial court to review these laws has ruled that they are unconstitutional.It’s not just courts... |
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From 2015, it’s uBeam — never mind reality, here’s the VCsDavid GerardToday’s a holiday special, and we’re not really doing AI at all. But we sort of are — this is about the AI venture capitalists, how they think, and how they were always like this. This is the story… |
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Atmospheric ComputingCloud computing has been extremely successful, but it lost the values that drove personal computing. We can solve this by evolving forward. |
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ICE plans $100m yearlong ‘wartime recruitment’ media blitz to attract new agentsAlexandra VillarrealCampaign will target rightwing ideologues to fill ranks to meet Trump deportation goals in 2026 |
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Impact of the 23andMe bankruptcy on preserving the public benefit of scientific data - Nature GeneticsThe bankruptcy of 23andMe was an inflection point for the direct-to-consumer genetics market. Although the privacy of consumer data has been highlighted by many as a concern, we discuss another key tension in this case: the corporate enclosure of scientific data that has considerable potential value for biomedical research and public health. |
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Instacart to halt 'item price tests' amid scrutiny of its AI tool for retailersNBCNewsInstacart is ending its "item price tests," following public criticism and questions from federal regulators about how prices are set on the platform. |
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Of Light and Air: Winslow Homer in Watercolor“You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors.” |
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