Physicists prove the Universe isn’t a #simulation after all - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251110021052.htm "Using #Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, scientists found that reality requires “non-algorithmic understanding,” something no computation can replicate." exciting stuff
Celebrate the Public Domain with the Internet Archive in 2026!
#PublicDomainDay is nearly here. From first appearances of yet-to-be-named cartoon stars to landmark films and music, works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will soon be free to reuse.
Enter our film contest, join our events, and have a blast! All the details on our blog ⤵️
https://blog.archive.org/public-domain-day-2026/
I've written a summary of the year 2025 for powRSS.
It's a summary of the stats, milestones, costs, and history of this #indieweb project you have all helped me build.
Thank you!
@timnitGebru I LOVED the latest issue of your DAIR newsletter... especially the part about "Our Future is Self-Hosted." Congratulations!!! I hope many more organizations will follow your example 🙌
The Puerto Rico Social Solidarity Network is a platform that connects people and organizations to promote and foster the social solidarity economy. (ft. @ecosentido )
https://geo.coop/articles/puerto-rico-social-solidarity-economy-network
Disagreeing with the logic or strategy of BDS is fine, but it's always too obvious these critics have no understanding of the boycott: we don't claim that all Israelis as monsters, we simply know that Israeli academia is actively complicit in apartheid, and therefore should not be engaged with.
Full article: https://archive.ph/57SJS
Inside The #Trump Administration’s Man-Made Hunger Crisis - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/18/inside-the-trump-administrations-man-made-hunger-crisis/ "They began to starve, and many — mostly children — died because their malnourished bodies couldn’t fight off infections, ProPublica found while reporting in the camp. Mothers had to choose which of their kids to feed."
[Full-time] Team Lead for Project and Grant Management at Tor Project https://www.fossjobs.net/job/11590/team-lead-for-project-and-grant-management-at-tor-project/ #GetFediHired #fossjobs
Among the countless Trump deceits in his deranged speech the other day was the reality of the so-called bonus for military personnel: The money had already been promised to them, as part of another program.
With this regime, lies and the default.
“Do LinkedIn users understand how their data is getting used and what’s going to happen with it, and what protections they do and do not have under LinkedIn’s own terms of service?” EFF’s @cmcsherr mused to Bloomberg Law. “I suspect they don’t.” https://news.bloomberglaw.com/artificial-intelligence/linkedins-war-against-bot-scrapers-ramps-up-as-ai-gets-smarter
As we approach our 20th anniversary, the mortgage on our warehouse (the cornerstone of our operation) will jump dramatically.
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𝐄𝐔'𝐬 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐝 𝐓𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐂𝐮𝐭𝐬 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐆𝐮𝐭𝐬 𝐆𝐃𝐏𝐑 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬
Read here for a complete breakdown:
How the Non-Profit Industrial Complex keeps people quiet about genocide.
https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/items/ff4f7d06-ded6-42c5-92d0-90edc69c7418
Suggesting dumping money into the weapons industry will help the economic situation of the general public is suggesting trickle down economics works, all the evidence demonstrates it doesn't, it just consolidates wealth
Cutting green regulation leads to climate catastrophes that drive migration
War leads to catastrophes that drive migration
The feedback loop here should be obvio, I find it frustrating that its not
Spoke to a former colleague recently. Their employer monitors employee AI use and wants to see number go up.
Since the obligatory AI nannying, multiple product teams have fallen apart and they’ve stopped delivering new features of value while users are leaving.
A whole layer of middle management are destroying good products to make a Potemkin village of fake automation to justify their bosses buying crap enterprise software. It’s as if the entire industry had their heads kicked in by a donkey.
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa